I noticed that too, there's a whole rack of computers in the background of this pic: http://members.cox.net/richw/3lego6.jpg
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the "gloom and doomers" are only saying what will happen if we don't change. they're right, it will be bad... if we dont do anything to change energy sources.
but hopefully, people will realize that's stupid, and move on to a more sustainable kind of source.
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Of course there are, they're named CmndrTaco, Hemos, CoyboyNeal, etc....
On the other hand, isn't the term "polo t-shirt" basically part of common usage, like Kleenex? It's becoming a generic style of shirt, not just a brand name.
I suspect (but obviously cannot present much evidence, given as these Apples aren't shipping yet), that the new high bandwidth architecture of the G5 would make it rather competitive in certain tasks against that Dell.
Yeesh, who am I kidding? I must be firmly entrapped in that Reality Distortion Field. Apple has never been very competitive on the low end. Drop to a $1500 or $1000 price point, and they're even less so.
Yeah, too bad about their unique, thousand year old culture that the Chinese are doing their best to utterly destroy. Banning Buddhism, importing Chinese immegrants...
Culture is at least as important as economic prosperity.
Obviously those screenshots are heavily anti-aliased, and would require and absolute monster of a desktop machine to run decently... but still, that is the state of the art of real time graphics on the PC desktop, and it looks pretty damn good, I think. If and when your gaming machine ever does deliver realtime photorealistic graphics, it won't be done with the exact same algorithms as Renderman et al use... because those are designed for quality, not speed. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to look good enough.
I think games that look just about as good as today's movies might be sooner than you think. Consider how far the state of graphics has come in 10 years... What will things look like 10 years from now? Rather impressive I hope!
Good reason? I suspect the changes the poster is referring to are not things like Tom Bombadil's exclusion (no one cared about him anyway), but instead rather large modifications of important characters.
Case in point, Saruman. In the Fellowship movie he was made out to be under Sauron's control, which is simply wrong - Saruman didn't want to be Sauron's first leiutenant, he wanted to overthrow Sauron and take his place. I don't consider that to be a nitpick, but instead a pretty major plot deviation that obviosly has repercussions.
I am neither illiterate nor cave-dwelling, so please enlighten me on what I am missing.
Except that when nvidia flopped on the geforce fx, ati stepped up and delivered radeons that were cheaper, faster, and only takes up 1 pci slot. in short, why buy an fx? nvidia got completely shafted this round.
In somewhat the same vein as GNN, I recommend www.indymedia.org. They specifically aim to provide a voice to those who do not get coverage in the mainstream media. Whether or not that coverage is neutral is up to you to decide, however, I believe the best way to form an educated opinion is to consult as many sources as possible, so take it as you will.
Hah, my college has 4 g4 933's with scanners staring right back at the compaqs, both in the same room. They must entrust image manipulation to macs for a reason, eh? (hmm... maybe i am bolstering the poster's argument, in that macs are creative computers and nothing else, oh well, i love 'em anyway)
Hell yeah, I've been saying this for years. I've also been saying that China is gonna eclipse the US as the major superpower in the next 50-100 years, correlation...? perhaps.
The issue at hand is the p2p network's ability to find the one or two people on the entire network that have the file you want (and as an added bonus, to find those people and their files even if they are offline, and to queue the download until they come online... eDonkey and its variants do this afaik). As I understand it, a GnutellaNet client requires progressively more bandwidth (a very expensive resource) to search a larger portion of the network. KaZaA, with it's more centralized design, can search the entire network easily with far less of a bandwidth cost (correct me if I'm wrong in some way on this differentiation). This searchability/bandwidth consumed ratio seems to be pretty important to the usefulness of a p2p client, and is one of the reasons why I think Gnutella kinda sucks.
serial experiments lain is another amazing anime that deals with very similar issues. the series' creators ask us to imagine what reality would be like if the real world and the "wired" world became connected, with no hardware interface required. Mind blowing to say the least.
I'm not exactly sure how he does it, but a friend of mine plugs his iPod into his car stereo and listens to music from there. Good bye to carrying around that massive cd binder.
if game related stuff is your bag, mirror fileplanet.com, or the good old cdrom.com (there are still some mirrors around, try planetmirror.com i think)
It's actually pretty interesting to note what's happened. For years, nVidia has been running on their "new product every 6 months" philosophy, a development speed that ATi has found pretty tough to keep up with. But with the GeForce FX, nVidia stumbled for one reason or another. If ATi does indeed introduce a new card in March, a mere two months away, you can bet your panties it'll be faster than the FX. So why on earth would anybody buy a massive, roaring, power hungry beast of a graphics card when something that will probably be smaller and faster is right around the corner?
Suddenly, ATi finds themselves in a favorable position and nVidia needs to play some catch up.
Would it damage your geek-manliness if your OS of choice was actually easy to use? Irrespective of technical skill, I find it ridiculous that anyone would prefer a difficult to use OS instead of a difficult one.
Sure, maybe it doesn't bother you that you have to spend a day or five manually configuring every little thing that doesn't work... but wouldn't it be nice if things actually Just Worked?
Furthermore, wouldn't it be nice if our beloved rock-solid Linux Just Worked in many ways that it currently doesn't?
Obviously none of this matters if the only way you use Linux is without X, on a server, where you probably want to hand-configure everything. But oddly enough, people want to use linux in more roles than that. Saying that people who aren't good enough to use linux in its current semi-usable state just shouldn't bother, is ridiculous and elitist.
In case you don't know, he's the guy who made Snood. He taught my introductory programming class last semester. Great guy.
Yes, despite the very decent money he surely makes from his game, Dobson still teaches Computer Science and Geology (if you really care at what college, look up his webpage, I'm sure he mentions it). I thought he was a great teacher too: his passion for programming, and his in-class examples, come from the field of games, which are a wonderful teaching tool. The components of a fairly simple game (like, say, Space Invaders) make a great introduction to the various concepts of programming. You have graphics, game logic, user interface, possibly networking, etc.
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I noticed that too, there's a whole rack of computers in the background of this pic: http://members.cox.net/richw/3lego6.jpg
the "gloom and doomers" are only saying what will happen if we don't change. they're right, it will be bad... if we dont do anything to change energy sources.
but hopefully, people will realize that's stupid, and move on to a more sustainable kind of source.
Of course there are, they're named CmndrTaco, Hemos, CoyboyNeal, etc....
On the other hand, isn't the term "polo t-shirt" basically part of common usage, like Kleenex? It's becoming a generic style of shirt, not just a brand name.
why is this not modded higher?
I suspect (but obviously cannot present much evidence, given as these Apples aren't shipping yet), that the new high bandwidth architecture of the G5 would make it rather competitive in certain tasks against that Dell.
Yeesh, who am I kidding? I must be firmly entrapped in that Reality Distortion Field. Apple has never been very competitive on the low end. Drop to a $1500 or $1000 price point, and they're even less so.
Yeah, too bad about their unique, thousand year old culture that the Chinese are doing their best to utterly destroy. Banning Buddhism, importing Chinese immegrants...
Culture is at least as important as economic prosperity.
this is true... but have you seen nvidia's demo's for their latest cards?
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http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/4889/SUPP/large3.
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/4917/SUPP/large2.
Obviously those screenshots are heavily anti-aliased, and would require and absolute monster of a desktop machine to run decently... but still, that is the state of the art of real time graphics on the PC desktop, and it looks pretty damn good, I think. If and when your gaming machine ever does deliver realtime photorealistic graphics, it won't be done with the exact same algorithms as Renderman et al use... because those are designed for quality, not speed. It doesn't have to be perfect, it has to look good enough.
I think games that look just about as good as today's movies might be sooner than you think. Consider how far the state of graphics has come in 10 years... What will things look like 10 years from now? Rather impressive I hope!
Good reason? I suspect the changes the poster is referring to are not things like Tom Bombadil's exclusion (no one cared about him anyway), but instead rather large modifications of important characters.
Case in point, Saruman. In the Fellowship movie he was made out to be under Sauron's control, which is simply wrong - Saruman didn't want to be Sauron's first leiutenant, he wanted to overthrow Sauron and take his place. I don't consider that to be a nitpick, but instead a pretty major plot deviation that obviosly has repercussions.
I am neither illiterate nor cave-dwelling, so please enlighten me on what I am missing.
Can we register it in Sealand then? :P
There is a mac version of the soundblaster live, however last i heard it had pretty shoddy drivers...
Except that when nvidia flopped on the geforce fx, ati stepped up and delivered radeons that were cheaper, faster, and only takes up 1 pci slot. in short, why buy an fx? nvidia got completely shafted this round.
In somewhat the same vein as GNN, I recommend www.indymedia.org. They specifically aim to provide a voice to those who do not get coverage in the mainstream media. Whether or not that coverage is neutral is up to you to decide, however, I believe the best way to form an educated opinion is to consult as many sources as possible, so take it as you will.
Hah, my college has 4 g4 933's with scanners staring right back at the compaqs, both in the same room. They must entrust image manipulation to macs for a reason, eh? (hmm... maybe i am bolstering the poster's argument, in that macs are creative computers and nothing else, oh well, i love 'em anyway)
Hell yeah, I've been saying this for years. I've also been saying that China is gonna eclipse the US as the major superpower in the next 50-100 years, correlation...? perhaps.
haha, everybody told you to screw off, but they never gave any calculations... you never know right?
The issue at hand is the p2p network's ability to find the one or two people on the entire network that have the file you want (and as an added bonus, to find those people and their files even if they are offline, and to queue the download until they come online... eDonkey and its variants do this afaik). As I understand it, a GnutellaNet client requires progressively more bandwidth (a very expensive resource) to search a larger portion of the network. KaZaA, with it's more centralized design, can search the entire network easily with far less of a bandwidth cost (correct me if I'm wrong in some way on this differentiation). This searchability/bandwidth consumed ratio seems to be pretty important to the usefulness of a p2p client, and is one of the reasons why I think Gnutella kinda sucks.
serial experiments lain is another amazing anime that deals with very similar issues. the series' creators ask us to imagine what reality would be like if the real world and the "wired" world became connected, with no hardware interface required. Mind blowing to say the least.
I'm not exactly sure how he does it, but a friend of mine plugs his iPod into his car stereo and listens to music from there. Good bye to carrying around that massive cd binder.
if game related stuff is your bag, mirror fileplanet.com, or the good old cdrom.com (there are still some mirrors around, try planetmirror.com i think)
It's actually pretty interesting to note what's happened. For years, nVidia has been running on their "new product every 6 months" philosophy, a development speed that ATi has found pretty tough to keep up with. But with the GeForce FX, nVidia stumbled for one reason or another. If ATi does indeed introduce a new card in March, a mere two months away, you can bet your panties it'll be faster than the FX. So why on earth would anybody buy a massive, roaring, power hungry beast of a graphics card when something that will probably be smaller and faster is right around the corner?
Suddenly, ATi finds themselves in a favorable position and nVidia needs to play some catch up.
"Fringe" scientists and researchers have been selling their books and videos over the net at exorbitant prices for years, it's nothing all that new.
Would it damage your geek-manliness if your OS of choice was actually easy to use? Irrespective of technical skill, I find it ridiculous that anyone would prefer a difficult to use OS instead of a difficult one.
Sure, maybe it doesn't bother you that you have to spend a day or five manually configuring every little thing that doesn't work... but wouldn't it be nice if things actually Just Worked?
Furthermore, wouldn't it be nice if our beloved rock-solid Linux Just Worked in many ways that it currently doesn't?
Obviously none of this matters if the only way you use Linux is without X, on a server, where you probably want to hand-configure everything. But oddly enough, people want to use linux in more roles than that. Saying that people who aren't good enough to use linux in its current semi-usable state just shouldn't bother, is ridiculous and elitist.
In Gnutella at least, your IP is viewable on the network, and I imagine that holds true for other networks as well.
In case you don't know, he's the guy who made Snood. He taught my introductory programming class last semester. Great guy.
Yes, despite the very decent money he surely makes from his game, Dobson still teaches Computer Science and Geology (if you really care at what college, look up his webpage, I'm sure he mentions it). I thought he was a great teacher too: his passion for programming, and his in-class examples, come from the field of games, which are a wonderful teaching tool. The components of a fairly simple game (like, say, Space Invaders) make a great introduction to the various concepts of programming. You have graphics, game logic, user interface, possibly networking, etc.
Yeah, Dave's a good teacher.