CEO John McHale says in that announcement: "We plan to reposition Netpliance from a direct consumer Internet appliance service provider to an enabling infrastructure and managed services company."
When their CEO can't even get past the "buzzword phase" how does Netpliance expect to even dream of coming up with a useful product?
Can anyone even decipher what the above quote even means???
Well, if your only connection to the Asian population is spam email, this should make your isolationism even more simple: the standard uses a standard prefix for RACE-encoded domain names; block those and you're in arrogant English/USian bliss.
Blah. Spare us your arrogant anti-English/US attitude.
Fact is, it is conveniant to be able to block certain top-level country codes at the business gateway (or ISP) in order to cut down on spam.
Incidentally, someone's connection to the Asian population is most likely NOT through spam, since most spam coming from asian top-levels is actually just U.S. spam--either routed through someone elses mail system, or with spoofed headers.
Of course the article is going to be biased. As you pointed out, it's on Segaweb!
Basically, this guy's argument boils down to: The PS2 is hard to program for, so therefore it's inferior. I won't defend either console, because I think they are both a huge waste of money. You get more features for the price on a $700 PC.
I don't know why he thinks that the GS's VRAM limits the poly count. Most graphics architectures I'm familiar with do not use on-chip ram for geometry data (it's all just DMA'ed over). Although 4MB is still a little skimpy, it can easily accomodate the frame buffer and textures for a single game. Sega's claims of 66M polys/sec probably refers to the system's bus bandwidth, and represents an ideal upper limit.
I'm not familiar enough with the PS2 architecture to comment on the possibility of storing texture data in system RAM, but if it's anything like PCI or AGP on a PC, then you always can store textures there.
He then goes on to bash the PS2's texturing. Out of all the factors dealing with texturing that he could discuss (number and speed of the TMU's, available texture modes, the impact of texturing on the speed of the rendering pipeline) he picks the one that the PS2 just doesn't have: texture compression. OK, that's just ONE aspect. Let's see a more thorough analysis, pal.
"The sad fact is that only a few development houses like EA have been able to extract reasonable next-generation performance out of the PS2 architecture."
Probably because it's NEW hardware.
This is just pro-Dreamcast FUD everyone. We're bound to see lots of pro-Dreamcast and pro-PS2 FUD in the months before christmas. Just skimming through these "articles", it is clear that the authors don't seem to know what they are talking about.
Ahh, Tom's Hardware--the bastion of unbiased tech reviews. I just love reading one of his "comparisons" where one product is rated the highest, and coincidentally the same product is being ADVERTISED in a banner on top of the page.
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I know you need to do it for PSM. There is a bug opened about it.
Basically, any user who runs mozilla needs to be able to write to mozilla/psm/components/xpdi.dat Yes, it's a bad bug. And it looks like the mozilla guys are still arguing about whether it should be fixed!
...doesn't a system like this already exist in the form of Gnutella? What's the difference between Freenet and Gnutella, and why do we need both?
It's good to see that there are people working on systems like Gnutella and Freenet, and it would be nice to see some functional results. Unfortunately most of the Gnutella clients I have tried were pretty much in the very early stage of development. Some didn't even include basic sharing functionality (but hey, at least they were THEMABLE!!!). How complete is Freenet's functionality? Is there no motivation to get a single solution out that works well?
Call me flamebate, but it looks to me like a case of "too many chefs in the kitchen".
Just dont use it:) I've always wondered why C compilers included such foul beasts. Sprinkling one's code with machine-specific assembly is probably the easiest way to make sure code is impossible to maintain, and never ported to another platform!
Obviously your flippant attitude towards this multi-billion dollar effort called 'Win98' suggests advocacy of alternative OSs. Since you are probably not a billionaire software success,
Yup. Obviously if it cost a lot of money to make, and can make other people lots of money, it _must_ be good!
Just imagine the rate of technological development we would have if technology was available for everyone to develop, and not controled by the few who benefit from IP law.
From your comments, its obvious that you haven't worked on programming for any large or medium-sized project.
Just as you can paint a picture a million ways, and tell a story a million ways, you can design a system in a million ways. A coder is an artist in the purest sense because he (or she!) is not limited by the medium. Code can be made simple, elegant, robust, and/or portable. Code can be ugly, orderly, confused, structured... A single program can be written in hundreds of ways using many different languages.
Certainly my code is governed by mathematical laws, no different than the laws which hold paint to a canvas, or the laws that allow two notes to harmonize. Just because something is governed by laws does not make it less expressive.
Coding is not a process. It doesn't follow a procedure. It has commonly used methods and practices, but common in the way that most painters use their hands instead of their feet to create.
They are cramming all that CPU power/bus bandwidth/fill rate into their system but are still limiting the color depth to a pitiful 32 bits per pixel (8bits per channel)??
Really, besides the enormous amount of CPU and bus bandwidth, there really isn't anything here that can't be found on the average 1999-2000 consumer PC hardware.
Would it be a better world if everyone spent years learning enough about car mechanics to be able to strip down and rebuild an engine?
ACtually, a better analogy would be:
"Would it be a better world if everyone spent weeks learning enough about a car to operate it safely without bumping into other cars/inanimate objects?"
Of course, the answer to this is, YES!
It truely is an ideal world where people have a solid understanding of computers, how they function, and how they are operated. Unfortunately we don't live in that world. We live in a world full of people driving minivans off the road and into telephone poles.
Advertising exists because many people are suggestable. I've taken hipnosis courses. I'm not all that good at it, but if you were sitting, just casually talking to me, I bet I could embed a few suggestions without you even knowing it. It's such a powerful tool.
Some people are not as suggestable as others, but MOST people are. It doesn't have anything to do with how smart you are or how skeptical or cynical you are. If I just straight out told you "Buy Pepsi!" it wouldn't sink in. But after years and years of seeing Pepsi commercials, Pepsi signs, Pepsi shirts, Pepsi watches, Pepsi cans, and the Pepsi challenge, it does sink in, and the suggestion that Pepsi is what you want to drink becomes a part of people's lives. I bet you feel thirsty now:)
We're only dismissive because it's basically finished. Let's see: lpr and Postscript. and smb if you need to use Windoze. Everything else is window-dressing.
...they have an overall benefit to society. There's nothing in the constitution that says a company has a right to make money. Patent and copyright law is supposed to further the arts and sciences, presumably not for a single corporation, but for society. A patent that fails to do this is not in the spirit of the law. Remember the ability to patent something is a privilege granted by the law, and not some god-given right... Because of this it should be subject to the law.
Hey, if someone's willing to buy hacking insurance instead of securing their systems, then they deserve to make these insurance companies rich.
What I wonder is, when one of these companies gets cracked, will the insurance provider pay off if it was due to negligence? I mean, most insurances only apply to accidents. If I buy flood insurance for my home, and I leave all the windows and doors open during a flood/hurricane, I can't make a claim. I don't believe drunk drivers can collect from claims on their auto policy either. Same with this situation--what insurance provider will pay up if you leave your box sitting totally unsecured on the Internet?
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If true, this would basically leave NVidia and ATI as the remaining major 3D graphics players.
Not to toot my former employer's horn, but don't count Matrox out!
CEO John McHale says in that announcement: "We plan to reposition Netpliance from a direct consumer Internet appliance service provider to an enabling infrastructure and managed services company."
When their CEO can't even get past the "buzzword phase" how does Netpliance expect to even dream of coming up with a useful product?
Can anyone even decipher what the above quote even means???
Well, if your only connection to the Asian population is spam email, this should make your isolationism even more simple: the standard uses a standard prefix for RACE-encoded domain names; block those and you're in arrogant English/USian bliss.
Blah. Spare us your arrogant anti-English/US attitude.
Fact is, it is conveniant to be able to block certain top-level country codes at the business gateway (or ISP) in order to cut down on spam.
Incidentally, someone's connection to the Asian population is most likely NOT through spam, since most spam coming from asian top-levels is actually just U.S. spam--either routed through someone elses mail system, or with spoofed headers.
Journalistic integrity at its best I see.
I find it interesting that when you lie to someone's face it's called a "lie" but when you lie via a news site it's called "hype".
Of course the article is going to be biased. As you pointed out, it's on Segaweb!
Basically, this guy's argument boils down to: The PS2 is hard to program for, so therefore it's inferior. I won't defend either console, because I think they are both a huge waste of money. You get more features for the price on a $700 PC.
I don't know why he thinks that the GS's VRAM limits the poly count. Most graphics architectures I'm familiar with do not use on-chip ram for geometry data (it's all just DMA'ed over). Although 4MB is still a little skimpy, it can easily accomodate the frame buffer and textures for a single game. Sega's claims of 66M polys/sec probably refers to the system's bus bandwidth, and represents an ideal upper limit.
I'm not familiar enough with the PS2 architecture to comment on the possibility of storing texture data in system RAM, but if it's anything like PCI or AGP on a PC, then you always can store textures there.
He then goes on to bash the PS2's texturing. Out of all the factors dealing with texturing that he could discuss (number and speed of the TMU's, available texture modes, the impact of texturing on the speed of the rendering pipeline) he picks the one that the PS2 just doesn't have: texture compression. OK, that's just ONE aspect. Let's see a more thorough analysis, pal.
"The sad fact is that only a few development houses like EA have been able to extract reasonable next-generation performance out of the PS2 architecture."
Probably because it's NEW hardware.
This is just pro-Dreamcast FUD everyone. We're bound to see lots of pro-Dreamcast and pro-PS2 FUD in the months before christmas. Just skimming through these "articles", it is clear that the authors don't seem to know what they are talking about.
Ahh, Tom's Hardware--the bastion of unbiased tech reviews. I just love reading one of his "comparisons" where one product is rated the highest, and coincidentally the same product is being ADVERTISED in a banner on top of the page.
I know you need to do it for PSM. There is a bug opened about it.
Basically, any user who runs mozilla needs to be able to write to mozilla/psm/components/xpdi.dat Yes, it's a bad bug. And it looks like the mozilla guys are still arguing about whether it should be fixed!
...doesn't a system like this already exist in the form of Gnutella? What's the difference between Freenet and Gnutella, and why do we need both?
It's good to see that there are people working on systems like Gnutella and Freenet, and it would be nice to see some functional results. Unfortunately most of the Gnutella clients I have tried were pretty much in the very early stage of development. Some didn't even include basic sharing functionality (but hey, at least they were THEMABLE!!!). How complete is Freenet's functionality? Is there no motivation to get a single solution out that works well?
Call me flamebate, but it looks to me like a case of "too many chefs in the kitchen".
Just dont use it
Disclamer: I work for Matrox
I don't know what you mean by Matrox not having a "full" ICD. Can you explain what isn't "full" about the one available on their web site?
Why don't you just shut your pie hole.
There is nothing wrong with finding and posting useful information. Isn't that the point of allowing people to post here?
I don't use this user account for trolling.
Hell, I have plenty of Karma to burn... Check out today's User Friendly. Us trolls will love it!
Obviously your flippant attitude towards this multi-billion dollar effort called 'Win98' suggests advocacy of alternative OSs. Since you are probably not a billionaire software success,
Yup. Obviously if it cost a lot of money to make, and can make other people lots of money, it _must_ be good!
Go home, Microserf.
Stealing music? Give me a break. This can only be moderated as "funny".
Just imagine the rate of technological development we would have if technology was available for everyone to develop, and not controled by the few who benefit from IP law.
From your comments, its obvious that you haven't worked on programming for any large or medium-sized project.
Just as you can paint a picture a million ways, and tell a story a million ways, you can design a system in a million ways. A coder is an artist in the purest sense because he (or she!) is not limited by the medium. Code can be made simple, elegant, robust, and/or portable. Code can be ugly, orderly, confused, structured... A single program can be written in hundreds of ways using many different languages.
Certainly my code is governed by mathematical laws, no different than the laws which hold paint to a canvas, or the laws that allow two notes to harmonize. Just because something is governed by laws does not make it less expressive.
Coding is not a process. It doesn't follow a procedure. It has commonly used methods and practices, but common in the way that most painters use their hands instead of their feet to create.
They are cramming all that CPU power/bus bandwidth/fill rate into their system but are still limiting the color depth to a pitiful 32 bits per pixel (8bits per channel)??
Really, besides the enormous amount of CPU and bus bandwidth, there really isn't anything here that can't be found on the average 1999-2000 consumer PC hardware.
Hahah, If this was a troll, well hell I'll bite.
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Win2K doesn't need to work on four dozen different processors; it's got a good one already,
So you tout Windows's lack of portability as a strong point?! Makes you wonder how bad the weak points are... LOL!
Win2K has solved the stability issue. It's got superior SMP support to most variants of UNIX (vastly superior to Linux and BSD).
Let's see some facts... Let's hear some numbers. Still, half way into your spewage we only have mindless blathering and opinion.
UNIX with working SMP is grossly overpriced compared to Win2K.
As long as you don't consider Linux to be a UNIX, then yes you are correct.
Golly gee, Win2K is cheaper, more powerful, just as stable . .
Again, where are the numbers? Where are the facts?
Yea now that I think about it, it looks like I was just trolled. Oh well sometimes its fun to feed you guys. Carry on!
Would it be a better world if everyone spent years learning enough about car mechanics to be able to strip down and rebuild an engine?
ACtually, a better analogy would be:
"Would it be a better world if everyone spent weeks learning enough about a car to operate it safely without bumping into other cars/inanimate objects?"
Of course, the answer to this is, YES!
It truely is an ideal world where people have a solid understanding of computers, how they function, and how they are operated. Unfortunately we don't live in that world. We live in a world full of people driving minivans off the road and into telephone poles.
Advertising exists because many people are suggestable. I've taken hipnosis courses. I'm not all that good at it, but if you were sitting, just casually talking to me, I bet I could embed a few suggestions without you even knowing it. It's such a powerful tool.
Some people are not as suggestable as others, but MOST people are. It doesn't have anything to do with how smart you are or how skeptical or cynical you are. If I just straight out told you "Buy Pepsi!" it wouldn't sink in. But after years and years of seeing Pepsi commercials, Pepsi signs, Pepsi shirts, Pepsi watches, Pepsi cans, and the Pepsi challenge, it does sink in, and the suggestion that Pepsi is what you want to drink becomes a part of people's lives. I bet you feel thirsty now
Hmm I don't think I mentioned anything about communism. You may want to calm down and re-read what I posted.
We're only dismissive because it's basically finished. Let's see: lpr and Postscript. and smb if you need to use Windoze. Everything else is window-dressing.
A fool and his money are easily parted...
Hey, if someone's willing to buy hacking insurance instead of securing their systems, then they deserve to make these insurance companies rich.
What I wonder is, when one of these companies gets cracked, will the insurance provider pay off if it was due to negligence? I mean, most insurances only apply to accidents. If I buy flood insurance for my home, and I leave all the windows and doors open during a flood/hurricane, I can't make a claim. I don't believe drunk drivers can collect from claims on their auto policy either. Same with this situation--what insurance provider will pay up if you leave your box sitting totally unsecured on the Internet?