Re:Don't Underestimate nVidia's [Alleged] "Cheatin
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The Age of Nvidia
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Inflated financials
Interesting how you're ignoring the fact that they adjusted their net income upwards to the benefit of $1.3 million over three years. link and another
Enjoy your game of turok, and I hope you get over your bitterness at TDFX death soon.
Re:Don't Underestimate nVidia's [Alleged] "Cheatin
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The Age of Nvidia
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Second, much like Enron, nVidia (allegedly) inflated their financial statements in a very unethical manner in order to draw in more investment due to steadily rising stock prices during the investment bubble.
After the IPO, any increase in the stock price had no direct benefit to Nvidia the corporate entity - other than as leverage for possible acquisitions. Shareholders of course benefited - some of whom are employees of the company. Which brings us onto the SEC investigation.
Then why did there need to be an SEC probe into their financial (mis)statements? Again, if not for the funding attracted by reputedly "too optimistic" financials, nVidia could never have pulled off the quick incremental development cycles which kicked 3Dfx's ass.
The SEC investigation was triggered by material discovered during an investigation into some insider trading by a couple of engineers. As it turned out, this resulted in a restatement of earnings upwards. Here's my source.
As for 3dfx' failure, that was as much their own doing as nvidia's. But then you'd know that if you'd read the salon article, with particular attention to Brian Hook's comments.
Remember the furor over the H1 visa program? Remember how some American programmers were up in arms because the H1 program provided a "cheap" pool of labour to US companies? Those jobs (and the tax income they generate) are now moving offshore, along with the chance that American programmers could fill those positions.
You're ignoring the reality that framerates of games from this century are much lower than Q3A. With UT2003 and Doom3 coming out this year, I'd be surprised if an average 100 fps & 1024x768x32 is going to be achievable on currently available hardware. Hell, even currently available games like MOH:AA and Dungeon Siege don't manage that.
Anyone else consistently get crashes in games under Windows 2000 after running Moz? Running a game without having launched Mozilla beforehand works fine. Running (and closing) Moz results in the machine locking up a few minutes into a game. This has affected UT, Dungeon Siege, MOH:AA, RTCW and AOE2.
Quick launch is off, nvidia drivers 27.20, DirectX8.1
Re:Mozilla employs security through obscurity....
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Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out
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Such a short memory....
Netscape 4 had a bug a while ago where it was possible to access the users profile due to a predictable path. This is a reasonably elegant way of avoiding that.
Hmmn, lots of talk about buying Square, Sega etc. But no mention of MS purchasing the company that developed the "alien shooter with the compelling story".
Typical puff-piece. Lots of breathless "insider" moments, but short on substance.
From the rant: I think that one of the things you get when you add to the pool, so to speak, is a certain amount of respect. you don't just take, you give as well. The net lends itself well to new ways that people can provide things to the collective pool.
Remind you of a various software development projects?
Nvidia's OpenGL drivers are my "gold standard", and it has been quite a while since I have had to report a problem to them, and even their brand new extensions work as documented the first time I try them. When I have a problem on an Nvidia, I assume that it is my fault. With anyone else's drivers, I assume it is their fault. This has turned out correct almost all the time. I have heard more anecdotal reports of instability on some systems with Nivida drivers recently, but I track stability separately from correctness, because it can be influenced by so many outside factors.
Read the rest of the plan for yourself to see his comments on ATI's drivers. Note the comment about anecdotal reports of instability.
Just because the testers didn't use two sticks of memory doesn't mean you can't.
However, you may need to be careful about which two memory slots you're using. Originally, nforce boards would go into "superstability" mode (i.e. slow) if you had memory in any bank other than 1 & 3.
I know that MSI have since issued a BIOS update that allows all three slots to be used with no performance penalty.
Mention "google" and "sponsored links" in the same slashdot story. All of a sudden, your google ads get a lot more views - and maybe even the odd click through.
You ought to spend some time in the US. TV stations there have a tendency to repeat episodes of programmes that were shown barely six weeks before. At least the BBC shows an entire season in one run before repeating it a few months later.
Then there's the advertising. Watching a nominal hour long programme consists of about 45 minutes of actual material, interspersed with a minimum of six commercial breaks. They even bracket the title sequence and credits with commercials!
In case you hadn't noticed, the subjects of GWB aren't exactly keen on any form of Government intervention. Until broadband availability is seen as an issue equivalent to national security, there will be no support amongst the citizenry.
Without that, the politicians will quite happily bow before the power of the mega media corporations and continue to ignore the issue.
Yes, at least those three "franchises" have maintained their cachet. Post-TNG Trek has devolved into mediocrity to the point where I don't get upset about missing an entire season.
As noted elsewhere, the suit was filed on Crayon's behalf by an ambulance chaser (not the company itself). This yahoo story has more background. Regardless, the suit only affected distribution in Germany of SuSE.
To be fair, you don't need a Hotmail account to get a Zone account. However, you are automatically signed up as a MSN user. I also had to logon to MSN before I could logon to the Zone to play Age of Empires.
Heh. While it has less capacity than the Nomad, it's also substantially smaller (and lighter). That 5GB would be enough for my current collection. Price it low enough, and I'd buy one. It would make a good substitue for my CD/MP3 player and a pile of CD's.
Sidenote - As a firewire drive, I'm assuming it should be pretty straightforward to hook it up to whatever your hardware religion is.
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Inflated financials
Interesting how you're ignoring the fact that they adjusted their net income upwards to the benefit of $1.3 million over three years. link and another
Enjoy your game of turok, and I hope you get over your bitterness at TDFX death soon.
Second, much like Enron, nVidia (allegedly) inflated their financial statements in a very unethical manner in order to draw in more investment due to steadily rising stock prices during the investment bubble.
After the IPO, any increase in the stock price had no direct benefit to Nvidia the corporate entity - other than as leverage for possible acquisitions. Shareholders of course benefited - some of whom are employees of the company. Which brings us onto the SEC investigation.
Then why did there need to be an SEC probe into their financial (mis)statements? Again, if not for the funding attracted by reputedly "too optimistic" financials, nVidia could never have pulled off the quick incremental development cycles which kicked 3Dfx's ass.
The SEC investigation was triggered by material discovered during an investigation into some insider trading by a couple of engineers. As it turned out, this resulted in a restatement of earnings upwards. Here's my source.
As for 3dfx' failure, that was as much their own doing as nvidia's. But then you'd know that if you'd read the salon article, with particular attention to Brian Hook's comments.
Remember the furor over the H1 visa program? Remember how some American programmers were up in arms because the H1 program provided a "cheap" pool of labour to US companies? Those jobs (and the tax income they generate) are now moving offshore, along with the chance that American programmers could fill those positions.
Welcome to the global economy.
You're ignoring the reality that framerates of games from this century are much lower than Q3A. With UT2003 and Doom3 coming out this year, I'd be surprised if an average 100 fps & 1024x768x32 is going to be achievable on currently available hardware. Hell, even currently available games like MOH:AA and Dungeon Siege don't manage that.
Anyone else consistently get crashes in games under Windows 2000 after running Moz? Running a game without having launched Mozilla beforehand works fine. Running (and closing) Moz results in the machine locking up a few minutes into a game. This has affected UT, Dungeon Siege, MOH:AA, RTCW and AOE2.
Quick launch is off, nvidia drivers 27.20, DirectX8.1
Such a short memory....
Netscape 4 had a bug a while ago where it was possible to access the users profile due to a predictable path. This is a reasonably elegant way of avoiding that.
Now that the IPaq is to be rebranded "HP IPaq", I'm sure there will be plenty of programs to provide it with the same functionality.
Hmmn, lots of talk about buying Square, Sega etc. But no mention of MS purchasing the company that developed the "alien shooter with the compelling story".
Typical puff-piece. Lots of breathless "insider" moments, but short on substance.
This thread on the arstechnica forums goes into details about how IRQ sharing works under Win2K and XP. Look for a post by PeterB.
Somewhat more informative than the party line.
The ananova story is a strangely stilted summary of this Observer story
You really don't get it do you?
From the rant:
I think that one of the things you get when you add to the pool, so to speak, is a certain amount of respect. you don't just take, you give as well. The net lends itself well to new ways that people can provide things to the collective pool.
Remind you of a various software development projects?
Quote from John Carmack's recent .plan entry:
Nvidia's OpenGL drivers are my "gold standard", and it has been quite a while
since I have had to report a problem to them, and even their brand new
extensions work as documented the first time I try them. When I have a
problem on an Nvidia, I assume that it is my fault. With anyone else's
drivers, I assume it is their fault. This has turned out correct almost all
the time. I have heard more anecdotal reports of instability on some systems
with Nivida drivers recently, but I track stability separately from
correctness, because it can be influenced by so many outside factors.
Read the rest of the plan for yourself to see his comments on ATI's drivers.
Note the comment about anecdotal reports of instability.
Just because the testers didn't use two sticks of memory doesn't mean you can't.
However, you may need to be careful about which two memory slots you're using. Originally, nforce boards would go into "superstability" mode (i.e. slow) if you had memory in any bank other than 1 & 3.
I know that MSI have since issued a BIOS update that allows all three slots to be used with no performance penalty.
They actually said their ECS board wouldn't run stably at CAS 2. In other words, YMMV.
Mention "google" and "sponsored links" in the same slashdot story. All of a sudden, your google ads get a lot more views - and maybe even the odd click through.
You ought to spend some time in the US. TV stations there have a tendency to repeat episodes of programmes that were shown barely six weeks before. At least the BBC shows an entire season in one run before repeating it a few months later.
Then there's the advertising. Watching a nominal hour long programme consists of about 45 minutes of actual material, interspersed with a minimum of six commercial breaks. They even bracket the title sequence and credits with commercials!
Am I to educate myself on every fucking thing the gov't does?
What was the level of participation in the last presidential election?
Evidently you're not the only one who doesn't give a damn.
It's good to know my alter ego still has hordes of adoring fans ;)
In case you hadn't noticed, the subjects of GWB aren't exactly keen on any form of Government intervention. Until broadband availability is seen as an issue equivalent to national security, there will be no support amongst the citizenry.
Without that, the politicians will quite happily bow before the power of the mega media corporations and continue to ignore the issue.
Yes, at least those three "franchises" have maintained their cachet. Post-TNG Trek has devolved into mediocrity to the point where I don't get upset about missing an entire season.
As noted elsewhere, the suit was filed on Crayon's behalf by an ambulance chaser (not the company itself). This yahoo story has more background. Regardless, the suit only affected distribution in Germany of SuSE.
To be fair, you don't need a Hotmail account to get a Zone account. However, you are automatically signed up as a MSN user. I also had to logon to MSN before I could logon to the Zone to play Age of Empires.
http://news.bbc.co.uk
What's that? It's not in my geek dictionary. ;)
Heh. While it has less capacity than the Nomad, it's also substantially smaller (and lighter). That 5GB would be enough for my current collection. Price it low enough, and I'd buy one. It would make a good substitue for my CD/MP3 player and a pile of CD's.
Sidenote - As a firewire drive, I'm assuming it should be pretty straightforward to hook it up to whatever your hardware religion is.