It smacks of Big Brother. Personally I do not tend to be (overly) paranoid, but If this can be adapted on a lrger basis, I can see different Government authorities just itching to abuse it. It is good for the Corporate level (until they own us all) for now, but I do not like the implications of it.
IT is nice that they are making the most effective use of technology for thier animation, now, if they could actually start doing things like
1) Shading in thier Characters. That 2d cutesy look just isn't good
2) Develop a script to write a script! While I will admit that the animation is of a good quality, they haven't had a script since The Black Cauldron, just more of thier nonsensical talking animal films. If I want talking animals, I'll watch Princess Mononoke
3) NO MORE MASS MARKETING CAMPAIGNS!!!! I think that is the most annoying thing about EVERY Disney Movie.
While the consumer market PC may be going the way of the Dodo, I think there will still be a high demind for general use PCs in the Corporate secter, for myriad reasons. One is applications. The reason these are referred to as general use is they are just that, you can have internet acces, E-Mail, AutoCAD, programming and development tools, and scads of other goodies, all in one package, instead of multiple, specialized devices that will ultimately probably cost more.
Another is Worker productivity and happiness. Lets face it, workers are happier if they are able to send off a few quick e-mails while they are working. And a hppy worker is a more productive worker. Try to take away thier PCs and put them back on thin clients, and you are almost guaunteeing a worker revolt.
Anyhow, I think there will still be a merket for general use PCs, it is more a question of whether or not they are going to be highly proprietary systems (Think PS/2)
I especially like how he states that Fair Use is vital to our First Amendment rights. Corporations and Governmetn are time and time agian trying to limit the access people have to information (Mandatory Censorware, etc.). This guy almost makes me want to move to Virginia so I can vote for him. Regardless, he now gives us a precedent to write to our congressional leaders to ignore thier corporate paychecks and actually stand up for us for once.
Just what we need in the Ram world with DRAM prices being what they are, another Micro$oft. You think these companies would learn agfter Big Brother Bill got raked over the coals by the DOJ, but no, in the typical I'm a greedy American Corporation tradition, they are going to suck us, the consumers, for every penny we are worth on an integral part of computer tech.
Mac is my preferred platform (especially with OSX) , Just because I prefer Macs doesn't mean I don't know my stuff, as I have supported Unix (BSD and System V), OS/2, Windows flavors, AND Macs.
It does cut down on the practice of buying a book, reading it, and then returning it. Basically, I do not agree with this practice, as if it is a bad product, you should be able to take it back, but in a state with UCITA, practices such as these will allow publishers to make substandard texts and then not take a loss from returns.
As the Managers are going to say "Not So!", but I know plenty of people that can say it as true. There is a shortage, but a lot of managers (especially here in the midwest) tend to place more value on appearance than actual skill and merit. I am a male with long hair, and actually have not gotten jobs that I was more than qualified for, mainly because of that. The employers that have taken that chance have not been sorry however.
*Sigh*/. Was such a nice place before it became fanboy/girl heaven
Moderators, learn your roots. Cherish them. Don't waste moderation points on Trolls, Flamers, or jokes you just don't get, save them for people that deserve them. Ignore the trolls, and they will go away and we can have a nice forum finally.
Oh this is cute. I try to intersperse a little bit of humor into a comment field littered with WTF type posts, and I get modded down. Cute. And I wondered why I hardly ever posted.
Primitive, yet promising...
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especially in that, given the different types of thes printers, some use metal, some use plastic, you could feasably use these to build induvidual parts of a more complex item, and then assemble said Item. Granted, you are going to be building any high end electronice with it, but look how these would affect the manufacturing sector. Use your High Impact Plastic printer to make lawn funiture, use the ceramic one to make your own fine china or just everyday cookware, ditto to the metal one. You could concievably use a large metal printer to build cars, although assembly woul be by hand and they would lack sophisticated electronics. Some of these things could easily be designed from scratch by the average user and wreack havoc on a lot of industries, where other industries that use more specialized componants, can sell said components along with the patterns needed to make the rest of the object. This,c oncievably, could be the next industrial revolution, but benefiting the consumer more and more, or it could be used by you average money hungry corporations to corner markets. Either way, it will be interesting to watch.
Especially since the PS/2 isn't exactly cutting edge technology. Come on! IBM quit making them YEARS ago. What makes Sony think they can bring them back to overwhelming demand?
OS/2 for PS/2, Half an operating system for half a computer.
Another way of helping out thier faltering technology? 3Dfx is already lagging behind in raw performance, maybe this is thier way of using thier name to expand further into the *NIX gaming market to help boost what may soon be sagging sales.
How much you are willing to do. You could always institute a moderation system similar to what is going on her at/., but, as anyone can see, there are flaws inherent in this, or any other such system. You can review and moderate induvidual submissions mailing list style, although if you are getting thousands of submissions a day, it is hardly feasable. As far as copyright of induvidual articles, let the induvidual authors claim them. Thatr should avoid any disputes over who owns them, in being that they own thier articles, you provide the forum for said articles. IANAL however, so all of this is merely supposition, but it is my $0.02 US.
As much as I have liked 3DFX products in the past, that they have made a few (fatal?) errors on this product. One, reading the review, you get the defenite impression that this product was cobbled together quickly with many shortcuts that affect the overall quality, and then rushed to market in order to keep afloat against NVIDIA. The product almost has an air of desperation about it. While they do have a few good ideas, like being able to daisy-chain the processors in future products, I would bet heat and power considerations will limit this in the future. Overall, it is almost as if 3DFX is trying to cheat thier customers with a holding action while they, hopefully, deliver a once more superior product in the future.
And this isn't meant as flamebait, but I am sure they will ensue...
Apparently, you were one of the initial employees at Apple. What were your thoughts at the time on what you were doing, where it was going, and did you have any inkling whatsoever that the PC revolution would become what it has today?
This is a classic example of a large monolithic institution trying to make an example so others will fall into line, the thing is, it is not going to work. Anyone with an IRC client can go to various channels to find MP3s they want, then there is Napigator, which can hook up your napster client to servers in no way affiliated with Napster, not to mention the Dozen or so more Napster clones such as OpenNap that are floating around out there. With CuteMX anyone can set up an FTP server to serve out MP3s. The options are effectively endless, and basically, all the RIAA is doing is swatting the biggest roach in the kitchen, not to mention that there are hundreds more lurking just under the refrdgerator that are going to dart out into the open if Napstwer Dies. The RIAA is just creating thier own monster that they will never have any hope of controlling.
great, first we had silicon breast implants, now this? I can see it now. "Look at the eyes on that one, whooee!"
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If any of you have not read a book called the Forever War, do so. Written in the 70's. it details a war that is fought over interstellar distances, and follows culture from the 90's (which the author (sorry, I cannot remember his name, it has been a while) predicted pretty accurately in regards to culture) Through the next few centuries. The main character, being a soldier and subject to space travel at near realativistic speeds, basically ends up living for thousands of years in real time while only aging in regards to the realativistic time that he is so accustomed to, and has to readjust to a culture that does not wait for him to come home. By the end of the story, humankind has perfected itself and reproduces by cloning, while he and the sodiers that were off protecting humankind are viewed as throwbacks and are more or less relegated to thier own planets. It is an interesting thesis, and bears thought in light of the Genome being (mostly) mapped.
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How long until they go ahead and implement these features into the standard Kernel???
Until they will sell me a mobile satellite uplink for broadband internet service. Then those satellites will be worth it.
It smacks of Big Brother. Personally I do not tend to be (overly) paranoid, but If this can be adapted on a lrger basis, I can see different Government authorities just itching to abuse it. It is good for the Corporate level (until they own us all) for now, but I do not like the implications of it.
IT is nice that they are making the most effective use of technology for thier animation, now, if they could actually start doing things like
1) Shading in thier Characters. That 2d cutesy look just isn't good
2) Develop a script to write a script! While I will admit that the animation is of a good quality, they haven't had a script since The Black Cauldron, just more of thier nonsensical talking animal films. If I want talking animals, I'll watch Princess Mononoke
3) NO MORE MASS MARKETING CAMPAIGNS!!!! I think that is the most annoying thing about EVERY Disney Movie.
While the consumer market PC may be going the way of the Dodo, I think there will still be a high demind for general use PCs in the Corporate secter, for myriad reasons. One is applications. The reason these are referred to as general use is they are just that, you can have internet acces, E-Mail, AutoCAD, programming and development tools, and scads of other goodies, all in one package, instead of multiple, specialized devices that will ultimately probably cost more.
Another is Worker productivity and happiness. Lets face it, workers are happier if they are able to send off a few quick e-mails while they are working. And a hppy worker is a more productive worker. Try to take away thier PCs and put them back on thin clients, and you are almost guaunteeing a worker revolt.
Anyhow, I think there will still be a merket for general use PCs, it is more a question of whether or not they are going to be highly proprietary systems (Think PS/2)
I know this, I just thought it was a humorous aside.
I especially like how he states that Fair Use is vital to our First Amendment rights. Corporations and Governmetn are time and time agian trying to limit the access people have to information (Mandatory Censorware, etc.). This guy almost makes me want to move to Virginia so I can vote for him. Regardless, he now gives us a precedent to write to our congressional leaders to ignore thier corporate paychecks and actually stand up for us for once.
Sad to see that division go, but as long as they keep on cranking out the good books, I am behind them 100%.
Although one wonders if they will be coming out with "Downsizing in a Nutshell" any time soon...
It is just some prank that an undergrad pulled.
At least it would be cool as hell if that were the case.
Just what we need in the Ram world with DRAM prices being what they are, another Micro$oft. You think these companies would learn agfter Big Brother Bill got raked over the coals by the DOJ, but no, in the typical I'm a greedy American Corporation tradition, they are going to suck us, the consumers, for every penny we are worth on an integral part of computer tech.
Ever Hear of Graphics design?
Or Desktop publishing?
Mac is my preferred platform (especially with OSX) , Just because I prefer Macs doesn't mean I don't know my stuff, as I have supported Unix (BSD and System V), OS/2, Windows flavors, AND Macs.
It does cut down on the practice of buying a book, reading it, and then returning it. Basically, I do not agree with this practice, as if it is a bad product, you should be able to take it back, but in a state with UCITA, practices such as these will allow publishers to make substandard texts and then not take a loss from returns.
As the Managers are going to say "Not So!", but I know plenty of people that can say it as true. There is a shortage, but a lot of managers (especially here in the midwest) tend to place more value on appearance than actual skill and merit. I am a male with long hair, and actually have not gotten jobs that I was more than qualified for, mainly because of that. The employers that have taken that chance have not been sorry however.
Most likely, it IS an old joke....
/. Was such a nice place before it became fanboy/girl heaven
*Sigh*
Moderators, learn your roots. Cherish them. Don't waste moderation points on Trolls, Flamers, or jokes you just don't get, save them for people that deserve them. Ignore the trolls, and they will go away and we can have a nice forum finally.
Oh this is cute. I try to intersperse a little bit of humor into a comment field littered with WTF type posts, and I get modded down. Cute. And I wondered why I hardly ever posted.
especially in that, given the different types of thes printers, some use metal, some use plastic, you could feasably use these to build induvidual parts of a more complex item, and then assemble said Item. Granted, you are going to be building any high end electronice with it, but look how these would affect the manufacturing sector. Use your High Impact Plastic printer to make lawn funiture, use the ceramic one to make your own fine china or just everyday cookware, ditto to the metal one. You could concievably use a large metal printer to build cars, although assembly woul be by hand and they would lack sophisticated electronics. Some of these things could easily be designed from scratch by the average user and wreack havoc on a lot of industries, where other industries that use more specialized componants, can sell said components along with the patterns needed to make the rest of the object. This,c oncievably, could be the next industrial revolution, but benefiting the consumer more and more, or it could be used by you average money hungry corporations to corner markets. Either way, it will be interesting to watch.
Especially since the PS/2 isn't exactly cutting edge technology. Come on! IBM quit making them YEARS ago. What makes Sony think they can bring them back to overwhelming demand?
OS/2 for PS/2, Half an operating system for half a computer.
Another way of helping out thier faltering technology? 3Dfx is already lagging behind in raw performance, maybe this is thier way of using thier name to expand further into the *NIX gaming market to help boost what may soon be sagging sales.
How much you are willing to do. You could always institute a moderation system similar to what is going on her at /., but, as anyone can see, there are flaws inherent in this, or any other such system. You can review and moderate induvidual submissions mailing list style, although if you are getting thousands of submissions a day, it is hardly feasable. As far as copyright of induvidual articles, let the induvidual authors claim them. Thatr should avoid any disputes over who owns them, in being that they own thier articles, you provide the forum for said articles. IANAL however, so all of this is merely supposition, but it is my $0.02 US.
As much as I have liked 3DFX products in the past, that they have made a few (fatal?) errors on this product. One, reading the review, you get the defenite impression that this product was cobbled together quickly with many shortcuts that affect the overall quality, and then rushed to market in order to keep afloat against NVIDIA. The product almost has an air of desperation about it. While they do have a few good ideas, like being able to daisy-chain the processors in future products, I would bet heat and power considerations will limit this in the future. Overall, it is almost as if 3DFX is trying to cheat thier customers with a holding action while they, hopefully, deliver a once more superior product in the future.
And this isn't meant as flamebait, but I am sure they will ensue...
Anyone see the Irony in this and the lawsuit Apple had against E-Machines for thier e-One a few months back?
Anyone see the Irony in this post?
Apparently, you were one of the initial employees at Apple. What were your thoughts at the time on what you were doing, where it was going, and did you have any inkling whatsoever that the PC revolution would become what it has today?
This is a classic example of a large monolithic institution trying to make an example so others will fall into line, the thing is, it is not going to work. Anyone with an IRC client can go to various channels to find MP3s they want, then there is Napigator, which can hook up your napster client to servers in no way affiliated with Napster, not to mention the Dozen or so more Napster clones such as OpenNap that are floating around out there. With CuteMX anyone can set up an FTP server to serve out MP3s. The options are effectively endless, and basically, all the RIAA is doing is swatting the biggest roach in the kitchen, not to mention that there are hundreds more lurking just under the refrdgerator that are going to dart out into the open if Napstwer Dies. The RIAA is just creating thier own monster that they will never have any hope of controlling.
great, first we had silicon breast implants, now this? I can see it now. "Look at the eyes on that one, whooee!"
If any of you have not read a book called the Forever War, do so. Written in the 70's. it details a war that is fought over interstellar distances, and follows culture from the 90's (which the author (sorry, I cannot remember his name, it has been a while) predicted pretty accurately in regards to culture) Through the next few centuries. The main character, being a soldier and subject to space travel at near realativistic speeds, basically ends up living for thousands of years in real time while only aging in regards to the realativistic time that he is so accustomed to, and has to readjust to a culture that does not wait for him to come home. By the end of the story, humankind has perfected itself and reproduces by cloning, while he and the sodiers that were off protecting humankind are viewed as throwbacks and are more or less relegated to thier own planets. It is an interesting thesis, and bears thought in light of the Genome being (mostly) mapped.