Another computer "problem" for the average user and another excuse for incompetent or crooked repair people to say
"I'll have to rearrange the encryption scheme on your drive because you screwed it up"
or
"we don't cover the drive's warranty because you did something illegal for it to be in that state"
or anything similar..
That pisses me off, i *KNOW* that kind of stuff will be a nightmare for technicians or support staff... Oh well, get a crack, crack it, that's what's gonna happen.
Great, after BIOS for the CD-rs, Mobo, hacked firmware for the cell phones, this and that and that, we'll probably have firmware upgrades for the drives as well (well I hope so, people will crack the god damn thing:) )
Not to mention the codec to compress kills the quality, etc etc...
Can't wait to see benchmarks to compare it with current Geforce2, all the renders of doom3 were looking nice but we didn't know the resolution it was being rendered at, neither the average number of polygons in the scene we looked at.
Anyways it's gonna kick butt (and drive the price of the Geforce2gts to an acceptable level:) )
You mean, like somebody was stupid enough to give all his info when opening an account with napster? well da hell when 'em newbies, they deserve to be arrested:)
Simple, with all that media franzy going on (Napster trial even got 1st page covering in my local newspaper) it's a big-scale advertisement for MP3. Yes Napster has a userbase of 60 Million so using the argument that it's only specific individuals that are doing it is wrong, but if that story made it in my local newspaper (and we could see a mention for gnutella too), guess how many people that didn't know about it or napster will be curious to try different services out.
Now there will be media coverage (other than internet) mentionning other alternatives like IRC, Gnutella, search engines, etc etc, this is really a stupid move... not counting the many people that is going to be pissed off at RIAA and stop buying CDs.
RIAA should have worked closely with napster to bring a decent buisness model instead of bashing on them, they might have actually profited from that. They've shown how many "copyright material" were leeched every second (around 10,000) but did they show EVIDENCE that their sales decreased DUE to napster? no, they didn't have to, but if they would have, things wouldn't be that way. You bet after napster shuts down, their sales will decrease, I, for a start, will not buy anymore CDs.
I hope a company picks on big artists for digital distribution and doing something like stephen king, a buck a download, money would go STRAIGHT to them and the record label would stop it's own piracy (i.e. ripping many artists off and taking the public for complete morons).
For now Gnutella will do for most people, and if people SHARE, maths or not, it will work, not as nicely as napster did, but there will be a bunchload of alternatives if gnutella isn't doing the job.
This reminds me about that movie with a terrorist living a normal life and his neighbour suspecting him, what was it called.... Arlington Road... there was one good point comming out of it: People needs to point at something tangible and do something about it to feel for their mind to rest. They arrest the terrorist, you feel more secure, but you forget that he had a message and some others will follow.
Still following? I could apply the same concept with these people trying to shut down any exposure to violence. They're trying to find real world "guilty" hobbies that supposely promotes violence, without doing any research, without answering the question on HOW is, a game for example, affecting one's judgement. I play Quake (too many) hours a week, am I gonna go out and shoot someone? Hell no.
It's sooooo easy for parents with violent kids to say "video games and TV fucked my child", not looking at themselves, the way they raised their kids, the value they teached. Parents or victims need to find guilty people, but they are never the cause of the problem of course. That's just plain hypocrite.
School shootout for example, why would a normal tenn go out and kill specific people? because normally these specific people pissed them off beyond repair. Do you honnestly think that anyone "normal" would just happen to turn violent at specific individuals for absolutely no reason? without thinking about the consequences? c'mon.
They try to find causes, but they are looking at the wrong place. That "violent" example, show me why a game would give him that idea, and after that explain to me how different from, let's say, building a snow castle and having snowball fights is that explanation and justification.
My point is: stop being hypocrite and blaming games tv beggars and heavy metal music for your failure, that's just plain pathetic.
Of course it's not always a parent's fault, there's always people and another universe around the teen, that can influence him/her good or bad. but then again, vigilant people would see this and try to seek help.
And of course there are nuts everywhere that don't even think about acting, but will we stop our hobbies because of a few nutsacks? is our liberty threatened by a minority of people?
The guy has a point, a tesselated mesh isn't a nurb:).
And how would you calculate rendering in nurbs? JFYI 3D programs converts subpatch/nurbs to polygons before rendering. The more detail you want, the more it will "add polygons (normally triangles)" to mimic the nurb curve.
The point is alternatives are always a good thing, and If you have to choice to developpe let's say on WinCE and you don't know it, and you know very well linux, you'll have fun doing your projects on an environment on which you are already familiar. I can't beleive people are bitching when there are alternatives, and these same people are bitching on monopolies... oh well.
This is ridiculous.... sue for a GUI? I Mean, if their GUI is the only thing that would make people go to OS-X, I'm sorry but, GUI might be a part of the OS but in my case, certainly not the MAIN part. If they plan on losing sells because something like OS-x, probably they are not that confident about what's under the hood.
Anyways we've all seen: companies that launches lawsuits for stupidities are normally showing earning weaknesses, non-competitive technologies, or soon are to be out of the game. It's the Kamikaze of the modern industry...
Go apple, sue the people that give a tribute to one part of your OS, waste all that money and energy for running after ghosts... heck most of the stuff out there about it is freeware...And when you'll have wasted enough time, effort and money, instead of investing it in better products and/or ways to market it and/or improvement, don't cry to your shareholders that competition stole your ideas, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
Face it, you *WON'T* get rid of skin programs and eventually another person is gonna make/distribute the "Aqua" "skins" or look-alike, this is a lost case like DeCSS, if people want it, they'll get it or do it themselves. Do something that can't be easily copied (well intellectually property speaking:) ), like a GOOD and STABLE OS, with unique features, instead of running after ghosts that use a skin on another "inferior" OS.
Sorry if you've seen this twice, my network was blocking cookies and it got posted under anonymous coward.
Since when adding another CPU will do more than 100%? heck, just when I read 142% increase, I was like.. "anybody can make a story print it on a web site, and people will go for it".... man I can't beleive the amount of crap being posted on web sites (and them being actually LINKED to).
I don't want to troll, but this makes no sense, the only way you could do more than 100% increase is if the compiler is optimised for dual processor systems and not for single (which wouldn't make sense at all) OR the guy obviously changed a key/switch in the benchmark tests from a system to another. Which voids the benchmark in the first place.
Linux compile is an okay benchmark, but how about something with less confusion, where you can't play with settings too much and the application is both single and dual CPU capable?
I personnaly use Lightwave3D a lot, so I benchmark using this software, it gives a good idea on a system to system basis and supports up to 8 threads. There are already scenes that are standard on the CD for benchmarking so people can see if their system is better than another or the increase of performance. Yes I know, Lightwave doesn't run on linux, but the point is it's a benchmark that can be run cross platform and people can rely on the numbers, I want a dual Athlon system, everybody wants one or almost, but I don't want "overjoy" to overrate de numbers, we have enough of Intel's marketting dept for that sort of bs.
If amiga is dead, how come I can use recent technologies (cable modem, cd-rw, etc etc) on it?
If amiga is dead, how come I can run linux on it?
If amiga is dead, how come my 4 systems are still up and running?
oh well... I don't know what scares you the most, the fact that you KNOW it was superior in late 80s and early 90s and it didn't get noticed, and this time it's ran by better people so it might have a chance to succeed (and maybe even more than linux??) or are you just scared of something you don't even know?
If such a thing would exist, it would have made way much more noise in the other medias (tv, printed). Ericsson, nokia, or Motorolla would have bought the technology because such a thing could take a big bite off their phone market.
10$, including wireless controllers/ICs, antenna, control logic, and battery? Oh yeah and they have to make a little markup on each devices, plus the resellers has to make a nominal markup... I don't dig this. Plus the web site has way too vague (if not) information about it (technical, specifications, digital? etc). Again, prolly the next big hoax that you'll read only on the internet but not in the "real news". Hey if it's written somewhere and it has a web site, it must be real huh?:).
You should consider what YOU want more than comparing to grids, does 50$ sounds good enough for you to move out and maybe isolate yourself for x time? Is the project interresting? Are you motivated or you're seeking motivation? (if it's the second, I'd suggest you stop right there)
It's okay to work for money, but the job has to be interresting as well, especially when you move to another country for a while, think also about the social issues, Cost of life in that specific area, also the fact that you'll have no friends or family exept (at first) the people you'll be working with. So if the salary is good, and you like what's being offered, and the extra pay covers the "sacrifice" part, you say hell yeah, if not, you say no.
You can always compare to other people or job titles or whatever, but in the end, I'd personnally take something that is challenging and refreshing from which I'll get a good experience or feel like actually doing something, even if it pays a bit less than that "other job" that has huge bonuses but the job or managers sucks. It's not directly replying to your question but it's other points to consider.
Just wondering, you linux guys using a GUI... you don't have that yet in any packages? each and every time I used linux I only used it as a shell. I'm wondering, I thought when you had drivers that worked for X, the hardware features would work as well (3d, antialiasing, etc) no?
People that are plugued 24h/day on their cell phone will probably end up having problems, human body can adapt and most studies shows that little exposure (few minutes a day) can't hurt. Anyways, we're exposed to a lot of radiation, sunshine, radio waves, etc etc.
The technology is good, and here to stay, but like everything, abuse isn't good, well in this case. It's kinda like smoking... smoking 1 cig a day won't give you cancer unless you're really weak or prone to get cancer, but smoking a pack or more a day, well good luck:) Same applies to a cellular, and that's why I don't run my buisness on it, but rely on it for quick calls and use a pay-per-minute scheme instead of a monthly fee.
As for the secondary exposure, it's totally lame, the energy level halves at ^2 of the distance, so a few watts becomes milliwatts only a few feets away, you get more standing near your microwave watching food cooking.
Most "mainstream people" think that linux is about free... why would you install linux (as a mainstream joe not a serious programmer or nerd). It's free, it's the new hype thing, bla bla bla... truth is it's not as easy as window for the average joe to setup for playing, AND mainstream joe is used to the concept of everything on that platform is free, why the heck would he shell out $$ for an alternative OS that he probably doesn't even use as a main one.
Look at what happened with Quake 3, the linux port was quoted not to give the results as expected. Don't get me wrong, an alternative is good, and it's good news, and linux is gaining support, that undeniable, but talking about it beeing a huge success and making a big deal out of it is a bit exagerating, I know a load of gamers, none of them even tried or considered shelling C$60 for a linux game if there's no advantages (performance, etc etc). It's hard to brake into an established market. Microsoft tried very hard since win95, and they've succeeded. They took years to do it, they've built strong support with hardware developpers, and on top of all, they are influencing the hardware buisness with "what's to come" (you want to be fully directX compliant these days else it looks bad against the competition, right?).
Anyways, there's one BIG positive aspect though, the linux community has a much higher average IQ than the windows crowd, (not a flame, an AVERAGE), so I guess the die-hard linux crowd, getting more and more by days, will know that they'll have to act if they want it to continue that way. that means *buying* software in the top of the list.
Makes me think when my amiga was "good only for games, wasn't a serious platform" and now you see linux striving to get the "gaming" tag the amiga had that was so negative... it's sad in a way to see linux stuck conceptually like the amiga was...
I'm waiting for a linux kernel with an amiga-like ease of use and frontend before committing myself to linux, right now, windows 2000 with 2 cpus is the best thing I ever ran since my miggy. But I am always opened to alternatives, as long as It doesn't take me 10 megs of help files and over-configuration to start a simple gui, which is also what mainstream joe wants. Call me stupid, but remember, gaming market is about gaming, not messing around an OS hours to make a game work or this or that... of course there's consoles for that matter too. Oh and all the different configs and linux setups out there, it must be hard to "standardise" everything in a stable fashion for games to run, so again, it's not for the average kid who wants to pop in a cd and play.
I would be cool tho if linux would have a performance edge in any way, but microsoft tweaked it's os and manufacturers the drivers tied to windows really good for that matter so I don't see linux taking over MS in the next year in the gaming area. But still, progress IS good news.
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I don't count a 32mb board as a graphic board, look at 2_gts_64_ddr. :)
Another computer "problem" for the average user and another excuse for incompetent or crooked repair people to say
:) )
"I'll have to rearrange the encryption scheme on your drive because you screwed it up"
or
"we don't cover the drive's warranty because you did something illegal for it to be in that state"
or anything similar..
That pisses me off, i *KNOW* that kind of stuff will be a nightmare for technicians or support staff... Oh well, get a crack, crack it, that's what's gonna happen.
Great, after BIOS for the CD-rs, Mobo, hacked firmware for the cell phones, this and that and that, we'll probably have firmware upgrades for the drives as well (well I hope so, people will crack the god damn thing
Not to mention the codec to compress kills the quality, etc etc...
:) )
Can't wait to see benchmarks to compare it with current Geforce2, all the renders of doom3 were looking nice but we didn't know the resolution it was being rendered at, neither the average number of polygons in the scene we looked at.
Anyways it's gonna kick butt (and drive the price of the Geforce2gts to an acceptable level
CED
:) Nothing comes close to CED
amiga ruled
Now you've done it, you probably gave an errection to all the mac people around here to jump on you and punch you to death :)
My amiga2000 with a fusion forthy had memory interleaving too :)
:)
(oh and it was emulating mac 100%)
Sorry I had to say it
You mean, like somebody was stupid enough to give all his info when opening an account with napster? well da hell when 'em newbies, they deserve to be arrested :)
Simple, with all that media franzy going on (Napster trial even got 1st page covering in my local newspaper) it's a big-scale advertisement for MP3. Yes Napster has a userbase of 60 Million so using the argument that it's only specific individuals that are doing it is wrong, but if that story made it in my local newspaper (and we could see a mention for gnutella too), guess how many people that didn't know about it or napster will be curious to try different services out.
Now there will be media coverage (other than internet) mentionning other alternatives like IRC, Gnutella, search engines, etc etc, this is really a stupid move... not counting the many people that is going to be pissed off at RIAA and stop buying CDs.
RIAA should have worked closely with napster to bring a decent buisness model instead of bashing on them, they might have actually profited from that. They've shown how many "copyright material" were leeched every second (around 10,000) but did they show EVIDENCE that their sales decreased DUE to napster? no, they didn't have to, but if they would have, things wouldn't be that way. You bet after napster shuts down, their sales will decrease, I, for a start, will not buy anymore CDs.
I hope a company picks on big artists for digital distribution and doing something like stephen king, a buck a download, money would go STRAIGHT to them and the record label would stop it's own piracy (i.e. ripping many artists off and taking the public for complete morons).
For now Gnutella will do for most people, and if people SHARE, maths or not, it will work, not as nicely as napster did, but there will be a bunchload of alternatives if gnutella isn't doing the job.
This reminds me about that movie with a terrorist living a normal life and his neighbour suspecting him, what was it called.... Arlington Road... there was one good point comming out of it: People needs to point at something tangible and do something about it to feel for their mind to rest. They arrest the terrorist, you feel more secure, but you forget that he had a message and some others will follow.
Still following? I could apply the same concept with these people trying to shut down any exposure to violence. They're trying to find real world "guilty" hobbies that supposely promotes violence, without doing any research, without answering the question on HOW is, a game for example, affecting one's judgement. I play Quake (too many) hours a week, am I gonna go out and shoot someone? Hell no.
It's sooooo easy for parents with violent kids to say "video games and TV fucked my child", not looking at themselves, the way they raised their kids, the value they teached. Parents or victims need to find guilty people, but they are never the cause of the problem of course. That's just plain hypocrite.
School shootout for example, why would a normal tenn go out and kill specific people? because normally these specific people pissed them off beyond repair. Do you honnestly think that anyone "normal" would just happen to turn violent at specific individuals for absolutely no reason? without thinking about the consequences? c'mon.
They try to find causes, but they are looking at the wrong place. That "violent" example, show me why a game would give him that idea, and after that explain to me how different from, let's say, building a snow castle and having snowball fights is that explanation and justification.
My point is: stop being hypocrite and blaming games tv beggars and heavy metal music for your failure, that's just plain pathetic.
Of course it's not always a parent's fault, there's always people and another universe around the teen, that can influence him/her good or bad. but then again, vigilant people would see this and try to seek help.
And of course there are nuts everywhere that don't even think about acting, but will we stop our hobbies because of a few nutsacks? is our liberty threatened by a minority of people?
The guy has a point, a tesselated mesh isn't a nurb :).
And how would you calculate rendering in nurbs? JFYI 3D programs converts subpatch/nurbs to polygons before rendering. The more detail you want, the more it will "add polygons (normally triangles)" to mimic the nurb curve.
Oh that's why all those doom clone on my palmpilot sucks, dang...
The point is alternatives are always a good thing, and If you have to choice to developpe let's say on WinCE and you don't know it, and you know very well linux, you'll have fun doing your projects on an environment on which you are already familiar. I can't beleive people are bitching when there are alternatives, and these same people are bitching on monopolies... oh well.
This is ridiculous.... sue for a GUI? I Mean, if their GUI is the only thing that would make people go to OS-X, I'm sorry but, GUI might be a part of the OS but in my case, certainly not the MAIN part. If they plan on losing sells because something like OS-x, probably they are not that confident about what's under the hood.
:) ), like a GOOD and STABLE OS, with unique features, instead of running after ghosts that use a skin on another "inferior" OS.
Anyways we've all seen: companies that launches lawsuits for stupidities are normally showing earning weaknesses, non-competitive technologies, or soon are to be out of the game. It's the Kamikaze of the modern industry...
Go apple, sue the people that give a tribute to one part of your OS, waste all that money and energy for running after ghosts... heck most of the stuff out there about it is freeware...And when you'll have wasted enough time, effort and money, instead of investing it in better products and/or ways to market it and/or improvement, don't cry to your shareholders that competition stole your ideas, you're shooting yourself in the foot.
Face it, you *WON'T* get rid of skin programs and eventually another person is gonna make/distribute the "Aqua" "skins" or look-alike, this is a lost case like DeCSS, if people want it, they'll get it or do it themselves. Do something that can't be easily copied (well intellectually property speaking
Sorry if you've seen this twice, my network was blocking cookies and it got posted under anonymous coward.
Since when adding another CPU will do more than 100%? heck, just when I read 142% increase, I was like.. "anybody can make a story print it on a web site, and people will go for it".... man I can't beleive the amount of crap being posted on web sites (and them being actually LINKED to).
I don't want to troll, but this makes no sense, the only way you could do more than 100% increase is if the compiler is optimised for dual processor systems and not for single (which wouldn't make sense at all) OR the guy obviously changed a key/switch in the benchmark tests from a system to another. Which voids the benchmark in the first place.
Linux compile is an okay benchmark, but how about something with less confusion, where you can't play with settings too much and the application is both single and dual CPU capable?
I personnaly use Lightwave3D a lot, so I benchmark using this software, it gives a good idea on a system to system basis and supports up to 8 threads. There are already scenes that are standard on the CD for benchmarking so people can see if their system is better than another or the increase of performance. Yes I know, Lightwave doesn't run on linux, but the point is it's a benchmark that can be run cross platform and people can rely on the numbers, I want a dual Athlon system, everybody wants one or almost, but I don't want "overjoy" to overrate de numbers, we have enough of Intel's marketting dept for that sort of bs.
If amiga is dead, how come OS3.9 just got out?
If amiga is dead, how come I can use recent technologies (cable modem, cd-rw, etc etc) on it?
If amiga is dead, how come I can run linux on it?
If amiga is dead, how come my 4 systems are still up and running?
oh well... I don't know what scares you the most, the fact that you KNOW it was superior in late 80s and early 90s and it didn't get noticed, and this time it's ran by better people so it might have a chance to succeed (and maybe even more than linux??) or are you just scared of something you don't even know?
If such a thing would exist, it would have made way much more noise in the other medias (tv, printed). Ericsson, nokia, or Motorolla would have bought the technology because such a thing could take a big bite off their phone market.
:).
10$, including wireless controllers/ICs, antenna, control logic, and battery? Oh yeah and they have to make a little markup on each devices, plus the resellers has to make a nominal markup... I don't dig this. Plus the web site has way too vague (if not) information about it (technical, specifications, digital? etc). Again, prolly the next big hoax that you'll read only on the internet but not in the "real news". Hey if it's written somewhere and it has a web site, it must be real huh?
my 2c.
You should consider what YOU want more than comparing to grids, does 50$ sounds good enough for you to move out and maybe isolate yourself for x time? Is the project interresting? Are you motivated or you're seeking motivation? (if it's the second, I'd suggest you stop right there)
It's okay to work for money, but the job has to be interresting as well, especially when you move to another country for a while, think also about the social issues, Cost of life in that specific area, also the fact that you'll have no friends or family exept (at first) the people you'll be working with. So if the salary is good, and you like what's being offered, and the extra pay covers the "sacrifice" part, you say hell yeah, if not, you say no.
You can always compare to other people or job titles or whatever, but in the end, I'd personnally take something that is challenging and refreshing from which I'll get a good experience or feel like actually doing something, even if it pays a bit less than that "other job" that has huge bonuses but the job or managers sucks. It's not directly replying to your question but it's other points to consider.
Just wondering, you linux guys using a GUI... you don't have that yet in any packages? each and every time I used linux I only used it as a shell. I'm wondering, I thought when you had drivers that worked for X, the hardware features would work as well (3d, antialiasing, etc) no?
I would bake some pillsburry with a "fuck off" sign in their 2 hands and mail them back with their original cease and desist letter.
Oh wait, did someone trademark "fuck off" yet?
Nanobots, transform and er... move out! :)
Imagine the fighting it will bring inside the company on who's gonna be the lucky ass playing quake after-hours on that baby :)
People that are plugued 24h/day on their cell phone will probably end up having problems, human body can adapt and most studies shows that little exposure (few minutes a day) can't hurt. Anyways, we're exposed to a lot of radiation, sunshine, radio waves, etc etc.
:) Same applies to a cellular, and that's why I don't run my buisness on it, but rely on it for quick calls and use a pay-per-minute scheme instead of a monthly fee.
The technology is good, and here to stay, but like everything, abuse isn't good, well in this case. It's kinda like smoking... smoking 1 cig a day won't give you cancer unless you're really weak or prone to get cancer, but smoking a pack or more a day, well good luck
As for the secondary exposure, it's totally lame, the energy level halves at ^2 of the distance, so a few watts becomes milliwatts only a few feets away, you get more standing near your microwave watching food cooking.
Right, DirectX emulation, you'll always be a version behind by the time you finish the emulation, if not 2 :) Really not an option.
Sorry, posting from hospital on my laptop and I am on strong medication... (thanks netzero and phonelines hehehe).
Most "mainstream people" think that linux is about free... why would you install linux (as a mainstream joe not a serious programmer or nerd). It's free, it's the new hype thing, bla bla bla... truth is it's not as easy as window for the average joe to setup for playing, AND mainstream joe is used to the concept of everything on that platform is free, why the heck would he shell out $$ for an alternative OS that he probably doesn't even use as a main one.
Look at what happened with Quake 3, the linux port was quoted not to give the results as expected. Don't get me wrong, an alternative is good, and it's good news, and linux is gaining support, that undeniable, but talking about it beeing a huge success and making a big deal out of it is a bit exagerating, I know a load of gamers, none of them even tried or considered shelling C$60 for a linux game if there's no advantages (performance, etc etc). It's hard to brake into an established market. Microsoft tried very hard since win95, and they've succeeded. They took years to do it, they've built strong support with hardware developpers, and on top of all, they are influencing the hardware buisness with "what's to come" (you want to be fully directX compliant these days else it looks bad against the competition, right?).
Anyways, there's one BIG positive aspect though, the linux community has a much higher average IQ than the windows crowd, (not a flame, an AVERAGE), so I guess the die-hard linux crowd, getting more and more by days, will know that they'll have to act if they want it to continue that way. that means *buying* software in the top of the list.
Makes me think when my amiga was "good only for games, wasn't a serious platform" and now you see linux striving to get the "gaming" tag the amiga had that was so negative... it's sad in a way to see linux stuck conceptually like the amiga was...
I'm waiting for a linux kernel with an amiga-like ease of use and frontend before committing myself to linux, right now, windows 2000 with 2 cpus is the best thing I ever ran since my miggy. But I am always opened to alternatives, as long as It doesn't take me 10 megs of help files and over-configuration to start a simple gui, which is also what mainstream joe wants. Call me stupid, but remember, gaming market is about gaming, not messing around an OS hours to make a game work or this or that... of course there's consoles for that matter too. Oh and all the different configs and linux setups out there, it must be hard to "standardise" everything in a stable fashion for games to run, so again, it's not for the average kid who wants to pop in a cd and play.
I would be cool tho if linux would have a performance edge in any way, but microsoft tweaked it's os and manufacturers the drivers tied to windows really good for that matter so I don't see linux taking over MS in the next year in the gaming area. But still, progress IS good news.
Damn gimme lightwave on linux