That piece of shit was not a new architecture. It was a new fab process.
Well, partially new. That's why they were all defective. That's why the early 200 series parts (aside from the 280) were defective. That's why all 8800 parts aside from the GTX and Ultra were defective.
End users are having their internet service fucked over because competing services their ISP offers get special treatment.
Choosing how to prioritize traffic should N O T take into account the source or destination. Prioritizing Skype over Hulu is fine. Prioritizing Skype over Vonage is not fine. Prioritizing the ISPs own voice service over Skype or Vonage is not fine.
Just because they are on different bands doesn't mean their isn't prioritization going on. The frequency ranges dedicated to voice, net, video, etc. are adjusted and prioritized in relation to each other - the pipe is finite.
Whether prioritization comes in the form of allowing/blocking, moving things ahead/back in a queue, allocating more/less frequency space to different services, negotiating contracts with other ISPs, broadcasters, etc., it doesn't matter.
Choking out the internet and not choking out your own services is bullshit. There's a reason COX sends weekly flyers about "LAST CHANCE" bundles for their voice service. There's also a reason why my internet was shit for 3 months (huge packet loss, pings, disconnections, etc) immediately after their voice service was rolled out.
They oversold, choked out their net frequencies to make room for their voice service, and refused to admit it. Everyone had shit internet service. These are the plebes, the technically challenged. The issue was big enough for them to recognize it as more than just "it's slow...", and big enough for them to call and complain, en masse.
They had people going out to houses in my neighborhood to "test the lines" all day, every day, for over a month. Every one of them got the story that their lines were old and the building needed to be rewired.
After fighting with them (and failing) to get them to at least admit the problem, I called bullshit. I threatened to paper the neighborhood with fliers detailing the true story, and contacted various consumer reporting agencies.
I then got a call from a field tech telling me that they know of a problem in the area, Motorola was going to be installing new equipment soon, and that shit should be fixed.
He (indirectly) confirmed the information I had obtained elsewhere: that they had oversold like fucking crazy and the nodes in my neighborhood were FUCKED because of their recent voice service addition.
Shit got fixed, eventually. But it's bullshit. I got my money back for the months of useless service, but no one else in my neighborhood did. They still pimp their voice service non stop, and the networks fine, but they fight tooth and nail to keep from upgrading capacity to support what they claim it does. The first thing to get choked off is the net (and thus, all their competitors for voice and video). The next thing is HD - compress it some more, why don't you? The last thing they'll ever impact is their voice service, since it's their biggest cash cow, it competes with Vonage and Skype, and uptake will continue to grow as people continue to drop land lines.
Yup. If you don't have the capacity, don't advertise like you do. Fucking around with choking people is a dead end, all it does is put off the "Maybe we'll upgrade..." date further and further.
Summary: "I've got no other viable option, so even though I do not like the terms in the contract, I must accept them in order to obtain this increasingly-critical service. I will then bitch about it because they're jerks, and because I fucking can."
Exactly. The voice and video services may be on a different band than the net service, but it's still the same pipe, and they're still competing for limited bandwidth.
Call it pipe neutrality if you want to be pedantic. Fuck this article.
Let's assume a 6-month release cycle for hardware and games (pretty close to reality - these things do tend to come in batches around twice a year), and average the performance out over 4 years of ownership.
At 1 year old, your shit is at 71% of the new, hot shit. At 1.5 years old, your shit is at 59%. At 2 years old, your shit is at 50%. At 2.5 years old, your shit is at 42%. At 3 years old, your shit is at 35%. At 3.5 years old, your shit is at 30%. At 4 years old, your shit is at 25%. At 4.5 years old, your shit is at 21%. At 5 years old, your shit is at 18%.
That's an average (over your 4 years of ownership) of 39%.
If you buy brand new shit:
Brand new, your shit is at 100% of the new, hot shit. At.5 years old, your shit is at 84%. At 1 years old, your shit is at 71%. At 1.5 years old, your shit is at 59%. At 2 years old, your shit is at 50%. At 2.5 years old, your shit is at 42%. At 3 years old, your shit is at 35%. At 3.5 years old, your shit is at 30%. At 4 years old, your shit is at 25%.
That's an average (over your 4 years of ownership) of 55%.
If you plan 4 years of ownership (plus some slight overlap at the end) then waiting a year is beneficial if you can save just 29% on the price.
I chose to use specific points and average them since moore's law doesn't apply to retail prices smoothly, nor does the desire for performance (that tends to line up with hardware and software releases).
For ATi, we're looking at: 9800 Pro / XT 2400 Pro 4850
Anything else is binning, marketing, or slapping two on one card. ALWAYS get the flagship. For nVidia, this means buy the one with the most 8s in the name. The same holds true for their chipsets.
Nothing science has put forth even attempts to explain why I have a sense of me.
We can observe all we want, and fully map out the behavior of the human brain, and end up proving people are just complex machines. We'd still be left with the question of what our consciousness is.
Should the brain end up being nothing more than a complex machine (and I believe it is), we'll eventually figure it out completely. Once this happens, we'll hit a wall until we can define ourselves (or maybe the rest of you are all machines, and I'm the only "real" person!).
If we manage to figure that one out, the next step would be to explain why anything exists at all.
Is it sad that humans try hardest when survival is on the line? Or is it merely logical?
When an artist innovates and then their shit is downloaded instead of purchased, that's not as encouraging as if everyone (or some percentage) of those who downloaded it were to buy it.
The act of downloading, INSTEAD of buying, IS in fact discouragement.
Slashdot Mirror
"Will be interesting to see what malware creators do to get around this ..."
I bet $20 that you can just set the booktype to DVD-ROM and have it work.
That piece of shit was not a new architecture.
It was a new fab process.
Well, partially new.
That's why they were all defective.
That's why the early 200 series parts (aside from the 280) were defective.
That's why all 8800 parts aside from the GTX and Ultra were defective.
But it's fixed now. Honest.
You're idiotic.
End users are having their internet service fucked over because competing services their ISP offers get special treatment.
Choosing how to prioritize traffic should N O T take into account the source or destination. Prioritizing Skype over Hulu is fine. Prioritizing Skype over Vonage is not fine. Prioritizing the ISPs own voice service over Skype or Vonage is not fine.
Just because they are on different bands doesn't mean their isn't prioritization going on. The frequency ranges dedicated to voice, net, video, etc. are adjusted and prioritized in relation to each other - the pipe is finite.
Whether prioritization comes in the form of allowing/blocking, moving things ahead/back in a queue, allocating more/less frequency space to different services, negotiating contracts with other ISPs, broadcasters, etc., it doesn't matter.
Choking out the internet and not choking out your own services is bullshit. There's a reason COX sends weekly flyers about "LAST CHANCE" bundles for their voice service. There's also a reason why my internet was shit for 3 months (huge packet loss, pings, disconnections, etc) immediately after their voice service was rolled out.
They oversold, choked out their net frequencies to make room for their voice service, and refused to admit it. Everyone had shit internet service. These are the plebes, the technically challenged. The issue was big enough for them to recognize it as more than just "it's slow...", and big enough for them to call and complain, en masse.
They had people going out to houses in my neighborhood to "test the lines" all day, every day, for over a month. Every one of them got the story that their lines were old and the building needed to be rewired.
After fighting with them (and failing) to get them to at least admit the problem, I called bullshit. I threatened to paper the neighborhood with fliers detailing the true story, and contacted various consumer reporting agencies.
I then got a call from a field tech telling me that they know of a problem in the area, Motorola was going to be installing new equipment soon, and that shit should be fixed.
He (indirectly) confirmed the information I had obtained elsewhere: that they had oversold like fucking crazy and the nodes in my neighborhood were FUCKED because of their recent voice service addition.
Shit got fixed, eventually. But it's bullshit. I got my money back for the months of useless service, but no one else in my neighborhood did. They still pimp their voice service non stop, and the networks fine, but they fight tooth and nail to keep from upgrading capacity to support what they claim it does. The first thing to get choked off is the net (and thus, all their competitors for voice and video). The next thing is HD - compress it some more, why don't you? The last thing they'll ever impact is their voice service, since it's their biggest cash cow, it competes with Vonage and Skype, and uptake will continue to grow as people continue to drop land lines.
You know what else fixes touchscreens?
Real buttons.
Yup. ..." date further and further.
If you don't have the capacity, don't advertise like you do.
Fucking around with choking people is a dead end, all it does is put off the "Maybe we'll upgrade
Simply host the patch on your servers so your customers can get it extra fast.
Call up Blizzard and they'll likely help you out.
Or you know, just tell your employees to leave the Blizzard Downloader running while they play, to help out.
Summary: "I've got no other viable option, so even though I do not like the terms in the contract, I must accept them in order to obtain this increasingly-critical service. I will then bitch about it because they're jerks, and because I fucking can."
Exactly.
The voice and video services may be on a different band than the net service, but it's still the same pipe, and they're still competing for limited bandwidth.
Call it pipe neutrality if you want to be pedantic.
Fuck this article.
Let's use ye olde law of Moore:
Let's assume a 6-month release cycle for hardware and games (pretty close to reality - these things do tend to come in batches around twice a year), and average the performance out over 4 years of ownership.
At 1 year old, your shit is at 71% of the new, hot shit.
At 1.5 years old, your shit is at 59%.
At 2 years old, your shit is at 50%.
At 2.5 years old, your shit is at 42%.
At 3 years old, your shit is at 35%.
At 3.5 years old, your shit is at 30%.
At 4 years old, your shit is at 25%.
At 4.5 years old, your shit is at 21%.
At 5 years old, your shit is at 18%.
That's an average (over your 4 years of ownership) of 39%.
If you buy brand new shit:
Brand new, your shit is at 100% of the new, hot shit. .5 years old, your shit is at 84%.
At
At 1 years old, your shit is at 71%.
At 1.5 years old, your shit is at 59%.
At 2 years old, your shit is at 50%.
At 2.5 years old, your shit is at 42%.
At 3 years old, your shit is at 35%.
At 3.5 years old, your shit is at 30%.
At 4 years old, your shit is at 25%.
That's an average (over your 4 years of ownership) of 55%.
If you plan 4 years of ownership (plus some slight overlap at the end) then waiting a year is beneficial if you can save just 29% on the price.
I chose to use specific points and average them since moore's law doesn't apply to retail prices smoothly, nor does the desire for performance (that tends to line up with hardware and software releases).
The 7900 and 8800 GTS are by no means high end.
Recent high-end nVidia cards:
6800 GT / Ultra
8800 GTX/Ultra
GTX 280
For ATi, we're looking at:
9800 Pro / XT
2400 Pro
4850
Anything else is binning, marketing, or slapping two on one card.
ALWAYS get the flagship. For nVidia, this means buy the one with the most 8s in the name. The same holds true for their chipsets.
Crysis is shit.
It's a shitty game.
It has shitty AI.
It's buggy as fuck.
And it's so demanding because it's so unoptimized.
Benchmarking your computer against Crysis is like seeing how much feces your new blender can handle.
They don't allow you to have bees in here.
My brain is telling WHO that WHO has a sense of myself?
Illusion? Sure. Like I said, I do believe it's all a complex (deterministic) machine. (We just haven't figured out quantum mechanics fully.)
That doesn't explain why I perceive the illusion, or what I am.
It's a perfectly valid question. If we could get an answer to it, I seriously doubt there would be anything meaningless about it.
The version of XP you get in this case is XP SP3, presumably with up-to-date hotfixes.
Gartner?
Analyst?
The option to download a free XP license and VM with linked desktops is a BAD thing? Really?
FUCK.
I'd support putting a company that hasn't been relevant in ages out of it's misery and getting it's corpse out of my sight.
Nothing science has put forth even attempts to explain why I have a sense of me.
We can observe all we want, and fully map out the behavior of the human brain, and end up proving people are just complex machines. We'd still be left with the question of what our consciousness is.
Should the brain end up being nothing more than a complex machine (and I believe it is), we'll eventually figure it out completely. Once this happens, we'll hit a wall until we can define ourselves (or maybe the rest of you are all machines, and I'm the only "real" person!).
If we manage to figure that one out, the next step would be to explain why anything exists at all.
Yeah, seriously, was gonna post the same thing.
WTF is this shit?
Asside.
LOL.
So this is one of them newfangled holodrives, eh?
Can't wait to pop this baby in and fire it up.
OH SHIT WAIT DON'T OPEN THE BOX! You can't expose these to light! FUCK!
To get to the other side.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
When?
Where?
How?
I'm sure there have been Jeopardy! "questions" that needed to be started with each of the interrogatives.
Or just give a gentle tug.
It doesn't have to be financial.
Food, water, land, disease, war.
Is it sad that humans try hardest when survival is on the line? Or is it merely logical?
When an artist innovates and then their shit is downloaded instead of purchased, that's not as encouraging as if everyone (or some percentage) of those who downloaded it were to buy it.
The act of downloading, INSTEAD of buying, IS in fact discouragement.
Gee, what is the PURPOSE of a copyright?
Could it be guaranteeing the right to copy something to holder? That's fucking absurd and unnatural!
If I were a stockholder, I would support this move.
Can we do the same with GM and Chevy a year ago?
What about Yahoo?