people who steal the movie as 'bad guys doesnt the word "steal" seem to you as the bad thing to do here. If I were Lucas and someone stole copies of my movie before I released it I would be plenty pissed off. Why do people on here have a fit any time legal sanctions are mentioned, I think some people are going too far on the whole open source thing. Unless Lucas makes Star Wars GNU then passing out free VCD copies of his movies is stealing.
about the legality of bootlegs and such. But say you were making a movie, and everyone is HIGHLY anticipating it's release. Do you really want to see pre release copies of itfloating around anywhere? I for one wouldn't. Lucas is paying for this movie out of pocket, while that doesnt in any way endanger his financial future, it is his idea and his movie. Geez you people cast him as Darth Vader and whatnot, HE CREATED DARTH VADER. No one could bitch about bootlegs of Star Wars if he didntfirst create it. I dont think people should bootleg movies that havent been released yet. Its just rude to show off someone's hard work before it's finished or before they want to show it off. Grow up people, Lucas doesnt HAVE to make these movies for us to all watch, he does because he enjoys it and wants to tell other people his stories. Show some respect.
Anonymous Cowards shouldnt go around bashing AMD or the people that happen to like AMD. And they also shouldnt go around showing off their ignorance of a subject. AMD has been in the microprocessor game for years, and recently only have they begun to make moves to overtake Intel,s market share. While they know they may never fully replace intel in the market place their quality products for a much reduced price is something that will make them very competitive.
Mindcraft's test was a bunch of BS, they were very favorable to NT and not to Linux. Anyone here have an MSCE? We could do our own linx/NT test with the exact same machine and see which one does better. And how about a real world test, Linux can support 200+ users on a network, NT has trouble with more than 40. I've seen NT networks drop where a linux network wouldnt have even noticed the work load.
I've ordered from LSL before and I was pleased. The shipping charges are for postal priority. You get the package in 2-3 days. LSL made me happy by replacing a defective CD-R I bought from them free of charge, I sent it back using regular postage which took about a week and only costs me the change in my pocket. Then they send it back postal priority, which is why it costs 8 bucks.
LSL doesnt use NT. If you paid attention to the url of the ordering place it's not LSL. It's a third party online ordering system. They are the ones that use NT, not LSL.
At lower temperatures electrons flow alot easier. So when you cool a chip it can run faster with less resistance. And when you run a chip fast it heats up. Anyone who's overclocked knows this...but if you cool the chip ALOT you can overclock it alot. Along with a smaller transistor size means you have a much faster chip.
OpenGL is starting to become a really bitchy standard, it isnt going away. Geez. OpenGL is going to be used with Q3:A in linux (which is a big boost for using OpenGL in linux) and is now the base standard for all 3D chip manufacturers. OpenGL is also being used in alot more scientific and engineering applications, not just games. With every other yahoo manufacturer is making Intel based workstations and making a killing at it SGI has to do their own evolving. The MIPS is a good processor structure that is very powerful, but making the workstation in question thousands of dollars more expensive than a comperable Intel based system means SGI does less business. SGI in no way makes inferior servers and workstations even when it DOES use Intel chips. Find me a PC workstation with a 64-bit PCI bus and a build in RAID controller. If you bought an SGI workstation and a Dell workstation with the same speed the SGI would work about 50% faster than the Dell machine. But I dont think they should have changed their logo to the new one, I really liked the old one. One logo held for many years gives owners and users a sense of stableness (so that isnt a real word, who cares) that you dont get with a company that changes it's logo every few years. I like how someone pointed out that the old logo was language and time independant, you could speak any language and see the SGI logo and know what it was. Sort of like the monolith from 2001: A Space Oddessy.
If I didn't have to install hundreds of megs worth of pictures and sounds and so forth and only had to power on my system in order to play the game, I would say this is an alright idea. Console games are easy to rent because they require no commitment from the user. A PC game on the otherhand requires me to put alot of resources into the game. Do you really want to get a Divx of Quake 3: Arena and only be able to play it for a trial period? And those of you who have thought it was a good idea...you can usually order a demo CD from the game manufacturer or download it just to try it out.
Ever been to Japan? If you had been there you could easily figure out why all console makers release everything there first. Almost everyone plays video games there. They are HUGE there. When a new game comes out (a highly anticipated game that is) it's like a big movie release here. Shit, FF7 had basically the same response to it that the Star Wars prequels have in the US. They make beacoup profits in the land of the rising sun. If games do really well there they can generally assume it will do well here. Lots of games that are released in Japan never make it here, thats how many come out there.
I don't care to make any format more popular, I'm more concerned with being able to view a certain file with my computer. Ever use Quicktime3 on a Windows box? It's so damned slow it's disgusting. Do I want a slow movie viewer slowing up my linux box? No. If they give out the codecs in a SDK I would be fine with that, at least then we could incorporate them into our own programs. If you REALLY want to make a format universal then make it viewable to absolutely everyone. Look at JPEG and MPEG, it's rare to find a modern graphical system that doesnt have some viewer for them. Being readable to almost every system and the release of the encoding scheme made them a standard AND more popular.
Dreamcast uses a special propriety CD that stores about 1 gig of data. This is not even half of a single DVD disk. I dont this PSX2 uses a DVD either. If they really wanted to be successful they should use a DVD player, this would give people more than one reason to buy the console. If it can play DVD (maybe Divx too) it would get a larger customer base. Lots of people now are looking into DVD because it's gaining in popularity and support so if they can buy a game console that can play DVD's they will buy it because it's a sounder investment. This also means bigger games for less money, 1 DVD can hold about 10 gigs which is 4 or so hours of MPEG-2 video or PLENTY of video game. I would kill for FF7 on DVD. The console should have a boot ROM onboard with either a custom OS or a unix OS so it could boot without a disk in the drive, or have the game in an alternate OS on the CD which it would boot from disk. They should also think about new processors, instead of just a revamped SGI chip like N64 uses get some new technology in there. VM Labs of Silicon Valley has a chip that gets about 15,000 MIPS and they are working towards 24,000 by the middle of this year. With a chip that powerful you could use raytrace rendering instead of the blocky polygons used in games up till now. So you could do Toy Story in real time. With about 32 megs of video memory and 8 megs of system memory you would have plenty to do complex graphics and games. The N64 suffers from a lack of memory, it only has 4 megs of RAM, you need to buy 50$ worth of expansion RAM in order to play some games to the fullest. These two features I think would make many console buyers happy, the DVD for the price wary parents and the super powerful chips for the technoids that care more about technical proficientcy than fun games.
It's sad that Linux didn't get the reresentation it needed to kick m$'s ass. We all know linux/unix can pound the hell out of NT, but only if it's used right. Linux can easily hold 200+ users on a single server at the same time while I know from experience NT can only handle at the most 50. NT server works alright as an intranet server...at least better than Novell. I have tweaked many NT servers before and one thing remains the same, it's not stable enough to act as a web server. It runs alright at 35-40 users...but if your website only has that many users you're in deep trouble. I always suggest switching to a BSD or Linux server when someone asks me about a website.
Life can pop up anywhere that the right conditions form. But there are a few general rules, there's only so many elements that can serve as the molecular base of a living creature. Carbon is one and silicon is another. Silicon based life forms could exist places carbon based animals would die very quickly. For each planet type there's only so many variations you're goingto get. On a terrestrial planet you've going to have creatures that in some way are like our own. Physiology may be different but mechanics are going to be similar. On gas giants such as Jupiter I would assume there could be animals that float in the atmosphere, sort of like arial jellyfish. Deep space or airless planetoids would likely be places silicon based life forms would spring up. There's plenty of possibilities, afterall life as we know it is only a few coherent patterns.
if you look in the back of several computer magazines you can find an ad for just such a computer. It's basically a laptop motherboard inside a keyboard. It has a hard drive, modem/NIC, video card and all that. You just plug it into a monitor and you're ready to go. They offer it with Windows 95 pre-installed but you could easily put linux on it.
Um..thats only if you're talking about ray trace rendering. Games are rendered using polygon rendering which is a much lower quality. Of course if you have the card to do it you can alpha dither the hell out of a frame and make it look smoother-Nintendo64 does this quite well-it serves it's purpose. An easy way to do a 3D X is to make it be able to view VRML files as the main screen. You could then have a 3D operating environment. Depending on the graphics card you had you could have some seriously kickass environments. An interface could be set up to allow you to run programs in window or some such. Theres tons of possibilities.
If you're going to spend hundred of dollars to sroe your MP3s or anything else you need random access to look into M/O drives. The newest ones have up to 6 megs continuous transfer and up to 13 megs burst transfer. The disks come is plenty of sizes. Or CD-RW or DVD-RAM. Theres a new 40x cd that can read the entire CD (yes the ENTIRE) CD at 40x. It uses a beam splitter and some other gadgets to do this but it does, I've seen it personally. So record your MP3s on your CD-RW or CD-R and read the entire thing at 40x wich is about 6 megs per secong. At a dollar apiece for CD-R you can afford 26 gigs for the price of one of their 30 gig tape drives.
As an addendum the server is the PowerEdge 6300 by dell. It uses a quad processor design that can support up to 4 Xeons per shelf. I would suppose you could do a lil hotwiring and get it to accept a regular PII.
PII does come in the 4-way flavor, I don't know where Dell got them but they introduced a rather new server with 4 PII's in parallel. Can you buy these motherboards? I have no idea. Thhe servers themselves come in very large racks with the mobos on shelves for easy access. I want one.
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people who steal the movie as 'bad guys doesnt the word "steal" seem to you as the bad thing to do here. If I were Lucas and someone stole copies of my movie before I released it I would be plenty pissed off. Why do people on here have a fit any time legal sanctions are mentioned, I think some people are going too far on the whole open source thing. Unless Lucas makes Star Wars GNU then passing out free VCD copies of his movies is stealing.
about the legality of bootlegs and such. But say you were making a movie, and everyone is HIGHLY anticipating it's release. Do you really want to see pre release copies of itfloating around anywhere? I for one wouldn't. Lucas is paying for this movie out of pocket, while that doesnt in any way endanger his financial future, it is his idea and his movie. Geez you people cast him as Darth Vader and whatnot, HE CREATED DARTH VADER. No one could bitch about bootlegs of Star Wars if he didntfirst create it. I dont think people should bootleg movies that havent been released yet. Its just rude to show off someone's hard work before it's finished or before they want to show it off. Grow up people, Lucas doesnt HAVE to make these movies for us to all watch, he does because he enjoys it and wants to tell other people his stories. Show some respect.
Anonymous Cowards shouldnt go around bashing AMD or the people that happen to like AMD. And they also shouldnt go around showing off their ignorance of a subject. AMD has been in the microprocessor game for years, and recently only have they begun to make moves to overtake Intel,s market share. While they know they may never fully replace intel in the market place their quality products for a much reduced price is something that will make them very competitive.
Mindcraft's test was a bunch of BS, they were very favorable to NT and not to Linux. Anyone here have an MSCE? We could do our own linx/NT test with the exact same machine and see which one does better. And how about a real world test, Linux can support 200+ users on a network, NT has trouble with more than 40. I've seen NT networks drop where a linux network wouldnt have even noticed the work load.
I've ordered from LSL before and I was pleased. The shipping charges are for postal priority. You get the package in 2-3 days. LSL made me happy by replacing a defective CD-R I bought from them free of charge, I sent it back using regular postage which took about a week and only costs me the change in my pocket. Then they send it back postal priority, which is why it costs 8 bucks.
LSL doesnt use NT. If you paid attention to the url of the ordering place it's not LSL. It's a third party online ordering system. They are the ones that use NT, not LSL.
At lower temperatures electrons flow alot easier. So when you cool a chip it can run faster with less resistance. And when you run a chip fast it heats up. Anyone who's overclocked knows this...but if you cool the chip ALOT you can overclock it alot. Along with a smaller transistor size means you have a much faster chip.
OpenGL is starting to become a really bitchy standard, it isnt going away. Geez. OpenGL is going to be used with Q3:A in linux (which is a big boost for using OpenGL in linux) and is now the base standard for all 3D chip manufacturers. OpenGL is also being used in alot more scientific and engineering applications, not just games. With every other yahoo manufacturer is making Intel based workstations and making a killing at it SGI has to do their own evolving. The MIPS is a good processor structure that is very powerful, but making the workstation in question thousands of dollars more expensive than a comperable Intel based system means SGI does less business. SGI in no way makes inferior servers and workstations even when it DOES use Intel chips. Find me a PC workstation with a 64-bit PCI bus and a build in RAID controller. If you bought an SGI workstation and a Dell workstation with the same speed the SGI would work about 50% faster than the Dell machine. But I dont think they should have changed their logo to the new one, I really liked the old one. One logo held for many years gives owners and users a sense of stableness (so that isnt a real word, who cares) that you dont get with a company that changes it's logo every few years. I like how someone pointed out that the old logo was language and time independant, you could speak any language and see the SGI logo and know what it was. Sort of like the monolith from 2001: A Space Oddessy.
If I didn't have to install hundreds of megs worth of pictures and sounds and so forth and only had to power on my system in order to play the game, I would say this is an alright idea. Console games are easy to rent because they require no commitment from the user. A PC game on the otherhand requires me to put alot of resources into the game. Do you really want to get a Divx of Quake 3: Arena and only be able to play it for a trial period? And those of you who have thought it was a good idea...you can usually order a demo CD from the game manufacturer or download it just to try it out.
Ever been to Japan? If you had been there you could easily figure out why all console makers release everything there first. Almost everyone plays video games there. They are HUGE there. When a new game comes out (a highly anticipated game that is) it's like a big movie release here. Shit, FF7 had basically the same response to it that the Star Wars prequels have in the US. They make beacoup profits in the land of the rising sun. If games do really well there they can generally assume it will do well here. Lots of games that are released in Japan never make it here, thats how many come out there.
I don't care to make any format more popular, I'm more concerned with being able to view a certain file with my computer. Ever use Quicktime3 on a Windows box? It's so damned slow it's disgusting. Do I want a slow movie viewer slowing up my linux box? No. If they give out the codecs in a SDK I would be fine with that, at least then we could incorporate them into our own programs. If you REALLY want to make a format universal then make it viewable to absolutely everyone. Look at JPEG and MPEG, it's rare to find a modern graphical system that doesnt have some viewer for them. Being readable to almost every system and the release of the encoding scheme made them a standard AND more popular.
Dreamcast uses a special propriety CD that stores about 1 gig of data. This is not even half of a single DVD disk. I dont this PSX2 uses a DVD either. If they really wanted to be successful they should use a DVD player, this would give people more than one reason to buy the console. If it can play DVD (maybe Divx too) it would get a larger customer base. Lots of people now are looking into DVD because it's gaining in popularity and support so if they can buy a game console that can play DVD's they will buy it because it's a sounder investment. This also means bigger games for less money, 1 DVD can hold about 10 gigs which is 4 or so hours of MPEG-2 video or PLENTY of video game. I would kill for FF7 on DVD. The console should have a boot ROM onboard with either a custom OS or a unix OS so it could boot without a disk in the drive, or have the game in an alternate OS on the CD which it would boot from disk. They should also think about new processors, instead of just a revamped SGI chip like N64 uses get some new technology in there. VM Labs of Silicon Valley has a chip that gets about 15,000 MIPS and they are working towards 24,000 by the middle of this year. With a chip that powerful you could use raytrace rendering instead of the blocky polygons used in games up till now. So you could do Toy Story in real time. With about 32 megs of video memory and 8 megs of system memory you would have plenty to do complex graphics and games. The N64 suffers from a lack of memory, it only has 4 megs of RAM, you need to buy 50$ worth of expansion RAM in order to play some games to the fullest. These two features I think would make many console buyers happy, the DVD for the price wary parents and the super powerful chips for the technoids that care more about technical proficientcy than fun games.
It's sad that Linux didn't get the reresentation it needed to kick m$'s ass. We all know linux/unix can pound the hell out of NT, but only if it's used right. Linux can easily hold 200+ users on a single server at the same time while I know from experience NT can only handle at the most 50. NT server works alright as an intranet server...at least better than Novell. I have tweaked many NT servers before and one thing remains the same, it's not stable enough to act as a web server. It runs alright at 35-40 users...but if your website only has that many users you're in deep trouble. I always suggest switching to a BSD or Linux server when someone asks me about a website.
Life can pop up anywhere that the right conditions form. But there are a few general rules, there's only so many elements that can serve as the molecular base of a living creature. Carbon is one and silicon is another. Silicon based life forms could exist places carbon based animals would die very quickly. For each planet type there's only so many variations you're goingto get. On a terrestrial planet you've going to have creatures that in some way are like our own. Physiology may be different but mechanics are going to be similar. On gas giants such as Jupiter I would assume there could be animals that float in the atmosphere, sort of like arial jellyfish. Deep space or airless planetoids would likely be places silicon based life forms would spring up.
There's plenty of possibilities, afterall life as we know it is only a few coherent patterns.
if you look in the back of several computer magazines you can find an ad for just such a computer. It's basically a laptop motherboard inside a keyboard. It has a hard drive, modem/NIC, video card and all that. You just plug it into a monitor and you're ready to go. They offer it with Windows 95 pre-installed but you could easily put linux on it.
Um..thats only if you're talking about ray trace rendering. Games are rendered using polygon rendering which is a much lower quality. Of course if you have the card to do it you can alpha dither the hell out of a frame and make it look smoother-Nintendo64 does this quite well-it serves it's purpose. An easy way to do a 3D X is to make it be able to view VRML files as the main screen. You could then have a 3D operating environment. Depending on the graphics card you had you could have some seriously kickass environments. An interface could be set up to allow you to run programs in window or some such. Theres tons of possibilities.
If you're going to spend hundred of dollars to sroe your MP3s or anything else you need random access to look into M/O drives. The newest ones have up to 6 megs continuous transfer and up to 13 megs burst transfer. The disks come is plenty of sizes. Or CD-RW or DVD-RAM. Theres a new 40x cd that can read the entire CD (yes the ENTIRE) CD at 40x. It uses a beam splitter and some other gadgets to do this but it does, I've seen it personally. So record your MP3s on your CD-RW or CD-R and read the entire thing at 40x wich is about 6 megs per secong. At a dollar apiece for CD-R you can afford 26 gigs for the price of one of their 30 gig tape drives.
Say no to tape.
As an addendum the server is the PowerEdge 6300 by dell. It uses a quad processor design that can support up to 4 Xeons per shelf. I would suppose you could do a lil hotwiring and get it to accept a regular PII.
PII does come in the 4-way flavor, I don't know where Dell got them but they introduced a rather new server with 4 PII's in parallel. Can you buy these motherboards? I have no idea. Thhe servers themselves come in very large racks with the mobos on shelves for easy access. I want one.