And I don't mean screenshots. I mean, in a variety of games, compared with it vs. without it. Not only does it eliminate "jaggies," but the Rotated Grid Super-Sampling method that is unique to 3dfx's FSAA (among consumer-level boards, that is) also eliminates moire patterns and texture shimmering that is also very common. Ever seen the way the textures shimmer in Diablo II? It fixes that as well.
I think you should go and actually look at FSAA in action yourself before you call it a "bullshit" feature.
I've learned this, from when I moved to Southern California from Texas. In Texas, it means "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Frequently, this means that a lot of things that ARE broken AREN'T fixed, but you never fear in Texas that a right you currently have will be removed. I think the better term is "libertarian." In Southern California, it means, "We must actively work to keep things from changing!" Pat Buchanan is the symbol of this kind of conservativism. I think the better term is "reactionary." The thing that scares me are Senator Feinstein's comments -- she is a California Democrat, but what she says is VERY REACTIONARY.
Vandalism is still just common vandalism. In order for breaking the law to be CD, it helps for the law your breaking to be either the law you're protesting or directly related to it. Destroying a business that is neither in the buying or selling of roquefort cheese is simple vandalism, and for JonKatz to put this guy up as a hero shows an incredible lack of thought on his part. It's one thing to support people who agree with you, but it's another thing to encourage random acts of criminal behavior done under the name of a cause; do you see me defending the Southern Baptist Convention or the Spanish Inquisition because I believe in Christ too? No, and you won't find me doing so. Crimes done in the name of a cause, ANY cause, are still crimes.
JonKatz -- Shame on you for doing your own cause this disservice.
Well, there is religion, and there are beliefs, and the two are separate and distinct. Many different religions (and sects within them) preach similar beliefs, and you will find extremely varied beliefs even within a single church/synagogue/mosque/whatever at times.
I used to wince at the thought of this distinction. Now, with fundamentalists kicking pretty much everyone who disagrees with them even slightly out of churches across the USA, including my family, I embrace it.
Well, there is religion, and there are beliefs, and the two are separate and distinct. Many different religions (and sects within them) preach similar beliefs, and you will find extremely varied beliefs even within a single church/synagogue/mosque/whatever at times. I used to wince at the thought of this distinction. Now, with fundamentalists kicking pretty much everyone who disagrees with them even slightly out of churches across the USA, including my family, I embrace it.
"T-shirts... good," Holland then quipped in the announcement.
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And worse than that, we won't get our Iridium flameballs if they save the system. I was looking forward to watching frying sattelites fall outta the sky...:(
I think the point is that humans are still the most effective fighting machines, but there's more to it than that.
If we have the ability to wage war without loss of life, what will prevent us from waging war? What motive will we have for not blasting entire civilizations into oblivion, if we can do so without losing any lives of our own, only dollars?
It has nothing to do with honor. If loss of life is no longer an issue for one side, then pacifism becomes a moral ideal with no tangible benefits. The reason WW3 didn't break out between the USA and USSR was -- and this is the truly terrifying thing -- "Mutually Assured Destruction" -worked- as a deterrent. We knew that if we struck first, they'd strike next. Since we both loved our own lives and our children's lives, it was worth it to not go fight a war.
But ask yourself this: Would we have avoided war if one side could destroy the other with impunity, with no repercussions?
The thought of what the USA is so near to achieving -- being able to fight a war with no casualties of its own -- may not be absolutely terrifying to every other nation out there, including our current allies, but it should be.
That's why I stopped working for the defense industry. I cannot support efforts that take the soldier away from the battlefield -- not just because the soldier is a more effective fighter than a machine, but because such a military would have too low of a cost not to use.
Yes, I actually do care just as much about the lives of people thousands of miles away from me as I do about my own.
"But I do also -- and this is one of the things that fascinates me about this whole thing -- I do also see things about the Internet being something that people I think taking for granted, that they're becoming so comfortable with it that the feel they have a right to any piece of information that comes to them through the Internet. The Internet is changing our perception about a lot of things, it's changing our perception about almost everthing around them in society."
Folks, this is the same logic by which totalitarian governments justify keeping information from people: The concept that access to information is a privelege, not a right.
We do have a right to the information we receive over the internet. We always had this right. The issue is that this right has been abused for so long, that people have adjusted to it.
I probably sound like one of those "internet extremists" Lars speaks of. So be it. I'm sorry, but freedom of information is how we protect ourselves against oppressive governments, monopolistic corporations, and bullies of any kind everywhere.
Lars is saying that information is a privilege, something someone earns because of their position or office held. I say that it is a basic human right.
Actually, the Voodoo5-6000 has a 1.2MPixel per second fill rate, as opposed to the 800MPixel per second fill rate of the Geforce 2 GTS. Also, because the memory bandwidth is double that of the Voodoo5-5500, it actually attains that speed, unlike the GF2, which has a huge memory bandwidth bottleneck despite using DDR RAM.
Also, you'll never see serious improvement in your game performance with a GF2 until games actually use T&L acceleration; even then, as HardOCP discovered, high-end (>700MHz) processors with SSE or 3dNow! are actually faster than the GeForce's T&L unit. So if you have a 750MHz Athlon, a GeForce with hardware T&L enabled will be a graphics decelerator.
Even after all the hot water the boys in Redmond have been in recently, why do they STILL persist in engaging in various types of manipulation of questionable legality? One would think they would think twice and three times about any moves they would make at this point.
Because it's part of the corporate culture. It is so much a part of the way Microsoft does business that they are incapable of thinking of a better way of doing it, as a collective. This way of thinking has been supported by years and years of profitability as a result of this model.
Now, Microsoft finds themselves in a position where, though they are yet a leader, they are no longer a corporation that dominates computing, and they really are grasping at straws.
We cannot expect the rest of society to change their use of the word "hacker." What we can do is, now that we are gaining our own group identity, give the press a different term other than "hacker" for us to use. We'll never be able to whitewash the term "hacker."
Consider "negro," "colored," "black." Once they essentially had the same connotation as "nigger," African-Americans asked to be referred to as "African-Americans." Or something else.
A better analogy is that for the press to refer to crackers as hackers is no different from referring to a Chinese person as a "Jap." Because the truth is, the media shouldn't even be using the term "hacker." It's a derogatory term, even if it's one we happen to like. It depersonalizes us, and makes us a lower-than-normal social class.
So, let's see to it that when referring to ourselves to non-hackers, we don't use the term "hacker." (I mean, an african-american can refer to his own kind as "nigga," can't he/she?)
Granted, a Metallica-style three-act show using a massive venue with thousands of watts of power, colored lights, explosions, flashy backgrounds, roadies to tune your guitars for you and ensure your equipment is set up, and the like isn't cheap, but most concerts aren't like that. Most of the time, a band throws together a demo tape and finds a different venu that pays for the artist to show up. Sometimes bars, sometimes restaurants, sometimes frat-boy parties. Most concerts are just you, your friends, everyone you know that you could drag to the show and everyone they know, and lots of spirit. Snobs Need Not Apply. All you need is a few power outlets and enough good songs to capture people's attention before the cops arrive or the next band has to play. Eventually, after doing this for a while, you get to be able to quit your day job. Of course, now, with the net, you can go to MP3.com and sell your music that way as well. Or sell CDs and T-shirts and other groovy merchandise. You think Metallica makes money only from their music? They also have merchandising up the wazoo. Anyhow...it's just like anything -- you start at the bottom and have to work your way up. The 80's dream of getting rich quick by being "discovered" was just that...a dream. The rest of us have to work at it.
Pretty much says it all, doesn't it? If the guy doesn't even have email, of course he has no clue what the internet is all about.
Yup, that's just what I was thinking when I saw that. I mean, I understand being a Luddite to a certain level, but even my MOM uses e-mail, and she's as bass-ackwards as anyone. She's thrilled with the ability to contact her friends and family, most of whom are spread all over the place.
That damned evil internet thing! It's even worse than those devilish choo-choo trains!
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And I don't mean screenshots. I mean, in a variety of games, compared with it vs. without it. Not only does it eliminate "jaggies," but the Rotated Grid Super-Sampling method that is unique to 3dfx's FSAA (among consumer-level boards, that is) also eliminates moire patterns and texture shimmering that is also very common. Ever seen the way the textures shimmer in Diablo II? It fixes that as well.
I think you should go and actually look at FSAA in action yourself before you call it a "bullshit" feature.
Ebert isn't god, but at least he knows good animation when he sees it. Occasionally.
The follow-up letter is extraordinary. I wish the people who'd posted the information would have read it.
I've learned this, from when I moved to Southern California from Texas. In Texas, it means "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Frequently, this means that a lot of things that ARE broken AREN'T fixed, but you never fear in Texas that a right you currently have will be removed. I think the better term is "libertarian." In Southern California, it means, "We must actively work to keep things from changing!" Pat Buchanan is the symbol of this kind of conservativism. I think the better term is "reactionary." The thing that scares me are Senator Feinstein's comments -- she is a California Democrat, but what she says is VERY REACTIONARY.
Vandalism is still just common vandalism. In order for breaking the law to be CD, it helps for the law your breaking to be either the law you're protesting or directly related to it. Destroying a business that is neither in the buying or selling of roquefort cheese is simple vandalism, and for JonKatz to put this guy up as a hero shows an incredible lack of thought on his part. It's one thing to support people who agree with you, but it's another thing to encourage random acts of criminal behavior done under the name of a cause; do you see me defending the Southern Baptist Convention or the Spanish Inquisition because I believe in Christ too? No, and you won't find me doing so. Crimes done in the name of a cause, ANY cause, are still crimes.
JonKatz -- Shame on you for doing your own cause this disservice.
I'd say something about the wolf being an excellent protector of sheep, but I'm not sure which one's the predator, and which one's the prey.
What we need is for a way for consumers to have power...like maybe by not buying everything we're sold.
Well, there is religion, and there are beliefs, and the two are separate and distinct. Many different religions (and sects within them) preach similar beliefs, and you will find extremely varied beliefs even within a single church/synagogue/mosque/whatever at times.
I used to wince at the thought of this distinction. Now, with fundamentalists kicking pretty much everyone who disagrees with them even slightly out of churches across the USA, including my family, I embrace it.
Well, there is religion, and there are beliefs, and the two are separate and distinct. Many different religions (and sects within them) preach similar beliefs, and you will find extremely varied beliefs even within a single church/synagogue/mosque/whatever at times. I used to wince at the thought of this distinction. Now, with fundamentalists kicking pretty much everyone who disagrees with them even slightly out of churches across the USA, including my family, I embrace it.
Please! I'm sure we on /. would really appreciate it.
Thanks for your insight!
REAL Neo-Luddites don't use digital cameras. They don't even use manual 35mm cameras.
They use paint.
I hear they're looking for new ways to put spin on the whole "Oh, well, we've got FSAA too" thing that 3dfx is really spanking them with.
"T-shirts... good," Holland then quipped in the announcement.
:)
I think the point is that humans are still the most effective fighting machines, but there's more to it than that.
If we have the ability to wage war without loss of life, what will prevent us from waging war? What motive will we have for not blasting entire civilizations into oblivion, if we can do so without losing any lives of our own, only dollars?
It has nothing to do with honor. If loss of life is no longer an issue for one side, then pacifism becomes a moral ideal with no tangible benefits. The reason WW3 didn't break out between the USA and USSR was -- and this is the truly terrifying thing -- "Mutually Assured Destruction" -worked- as a deterrent. We knew that if we struck first, they'd strike next. Since we both loved our own lives and our children's lives, it was worth it to not go fight a war.
But ask yourself this: Would we have avoided war if one side could destroy the other with impunity, with no repercussions?
The thought of what the USA is so near to achieving -- being able to fight a war with no casualties of its own -- may not be absolutely terrifying to every other nation out there, including our current allies, but it should be.
That's why I stopped working for the defense industry. I cannot support efforts that take the soldier away from the battlefield -- not just because the soldier is a more effective fighter than a machine, but because such a military would have too low of a cost not to use.
Yes, I actually do care just as much about the lives of people thousands of miles away from me as I do about my own.
I'm getting getting all misty-eyed and patriotic just thinking about it...in fact, I think I'll sing!
(Tue the tune of "America the Beautiful")
Oh beautiful for shotgun sights,
For butts in pure wood grain!
For purple mountains majesty
Where we go hunt our game!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee...
Where we can shoot
What won't reboot
And ev'ry dead P.C.!
Thank you, thank you, groupies always welcome...
(P.S. Yes, .nu is in the USA -- I have a shell account here in town, and the last letters of its extension are .nu...)
Folks, this is the same logic by which totalitarian governments justify keeping information from people: The concept that access to information is a privelege, not a right.
We do have a right to the information we receive over the internet. We always had this right. The issue is that this right has been abused for so long, that people have adjusted to it.
I probably sound like one of those "internet extremists" Lars speaks of. So be it. I'm sorry, but freedom of information is how we protect ourselves against oppressive governments, monopolistic corporations, and bullies of any kind everywhere.
Lars is saying that information is a privilege, something someone earns because of their position or office held. I say that it is a basic human right.
In which benchmarks? Every test and review I've seen has it absolutely blowing the GF2 away. Everyone who's seen it in action has said as much.
Also, you'll never see serious improvement in your game performance with a GF2 until games actually use T&L acceleration; even then, as HardOCP discovered, high-end (>700MHz) processors with SSE or 3dNow! are actually faster than the GeForce's T&L unit. So if you have a 750MHz Athlon, a GeForce with hardware T&L enabled will be a graphics decelerator.
Because it's part of the corporate culture. It is so much a part of the way Microsoft does business that they are incapable of thinking of a better way of doing it, as a collective. This way of thinking has been supported by years and years of profitability as a result of this model.
Now, Microsoft finds themselves in a position where, though they are yet a leader, they are no longer a corporation that dominates computing, and they really are grasping at straws.
We cannot expect the rest of society to change their use of the word "hacker." What we can do is, now that we are gaining our own group identity, give the press a different term other than "hacker" for us to use. We'll never be able to whitewash the term "hacker."
Consider "negro," "colored," "black." Once they essentially had the same connotation as "nigger," African-Americans asked to be referred to as "African-Americans." Or something else.
A better analogy is that for the press to refer to crackers as hackers is no different from referring to a Chinese person as a "Jap." Because the truth is, the media shouldn't even be using the term "hacker." It's a derogatory term, even if it's one we happen to like. It depersonalizes us, and makes us a lower-than-normal social class.
So, let's see to it that when referring to ourselves to non-hackers, we don't use the term "hacker." (I mean, an african-american can refer to his own kind as "nigga," can't he/she?)
Granted, a Metallica-style three-act show using a massive venue with thousands of watts of power, colored lights, explosions, flashy backgrounds, roadies to tune your guitars for you and ensure your equipment is set up, and the like isn't cheap, but most concerts aren't like that. Most of the time, a band throws together a demo tape and finds a different venu that pays for the artist to show up. Sometimes bars, sometimes restaurants, sometimes frat-boy parties. Most concerts are just you, your friends, everyone you know that you could drag to the show and everyone they know, and lots of spirit. Snobs Need Not Apply. All you need is a few power outlets and enough good songs to capture people's attention before the cops arrive or the next band has to play. Eventually, after doing this for a while, you get to be able to quit your day job. Of course, now, with the net, you can go to MP3.com and sell your music that way as well. Or sell CDs and T-shirts and other groovy merchandise. You think Metallica makes money only from their music? They also have merchandising up the wazoo. Anyhow...it's just like anything -- you start at the bottom and have to work your way up. The 80's dream of getting rich quick by being "discovered" was just that...a dream. The rest of us have to work at it.
Excuse me for saying so, but how the fsck did this get a score of 3?
Yup, that's just what I was thinking when I saw that. I mean, I understand being a Luddite to a certain level, but even my MOM uses e-mail, and she's as bass-ackwards as anyone. She's thrilled with the ability to contact her friends and family, most of whom are spread all over the place.
That damned evil internet thing! It's even worse than those devilish choo-choo trains!