NVIDIA got where they are today by beating 3dfx on their own turf: high-end gaming performance. Remember when 3dfx released the Voodoo 4 & 5? More expensive than the GeForce256 but not decisively better performance. Now I'm hearing similar things about the GeForceFX vs. ATI's three month old Radeons. NVIDIA is getting bigger but they still aren't a huge company. Can they really afford to lose the lucrative high-end sales right now?
One thing NVIDIA does seem to have going well is their motherboard chipsets. The new nForce2 really kicks ass by all accounts. I remember a while back hearing about an ATI mobo chipset based on tech they acquired from ArtX, but apparently end-user mobo chipsets aren't ATI's plan.
Good luck, NVIDIA. Hope y'all can keep up the pace.
So basically, they're going to help flood the programming world with young, ambitious "game" programmers that won't know how to or want to do anything but make video games...
It's not like they're manufacturing more people who want to make video games. They're taking the existing people who already want to make games and actually teaching them something about what game development really means. Some of the wannabes might actually pick up some valuable skills. Isn't that a good thing?
Articles like this that are trumpeted by pro life groups tend to leave out some key points:
Neural tissue is the big holy grail of stem cell research since it is pretty much impossible to transplant adult neurons. Unfortunately in most cases the neuron-like cells grown from bone marrow stem cells do not seem able to transmit nerve impulses.
And don't forget that embryonic stem cells have other uses. By watching how these cells differentiate, scientists can track how initial flaws in the development process can lead to tumor growth.
Bone marrow stems cells are definitely useful and deserve a lot more study. But recent research on embryonic stem cells has been much more promising in the realm of treatment for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
DRM is about preserving the rights of content creators. Period.
Now, unfortunately, taking options away from users is a side-effect of most of the DRM schemes out there.
What a load of industry bullshit. How did this drivel get modded Insightful?
Under copyright law I have certain rights in civil and criminal court. If I use my media in a way the publishers don't like, it is their responsibility to prove that what I did was wrong.
Under DRM schemes, anything not expressly permitted by the publisher is disallowed. Legal use is redefined to mean "whatever the publisher says is OK". Then additional laws are passed to make any DRM circumvention illegal.
Giving content creators more rights == taking rights away from users. One does not happen without the other.
Considering that Die Another Day might only just barely break even, seeing the $80-million Nemesis flop is not going to look good on the 2002 bottom line. So much for getting fat off the big franchise sequels.
Throughout the proceeding [defense counsel] Manshaus has been extremely brief, trying to get the prosecution to concentrate on what he feels are the actual charges and presenting his counter-arguments far more quickly.
What, has he got a hot date? What's the rush here? I hope in his haste he's not missing anything that could exonerate his client.
I guess lawyers in Norway aren't paid by the hour.
Now, let us suppose that a civilization with a similar technology to ours was located on a planet around Proxima Centauri, and let us suppose they did exactly as we did in our transmissions at Arecibo. Would that signal have been found by SETI@Home?
SETI isn't looking for a person-to-person call necessarily, just for some scrap of evidence of intelligent life. By that criteria our planet has been spewing out transmissions like crazy for the last 70 years or so. If we find someting like that, then we at least know where to start looking for a "Hello, World!", or where to start sending our own.
What were their old ones? In most circumstances 30 days notice to the vendor is the only responsible way to go. Most companies are responsible enough to turn around a fix in that time.
Once I spent a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand visiting a girl I was dating. When I got there they had just started building a new small restaurant near her dorm. It was finished and open for business by the time I left. I was amazed at how quickly you can build something when you don't have silly things like construction codes and inspections to worry about.
If any GrepLaw admins are reading, please consider a higher default threshold for comments. At zero the "page widening troll" has made the story unreadable. I could register and set my own default, but it's easier to just forget about it. Other potential members probably feel the same.
We create an index of all incoming resumes and search on keywords. That's why it's important for job-seekers to repeat the major skills multiple times in their resume.
WTF is this? It's bad enough having to compete for a job with people who flat-out lie. Now am I going to lose out just because some dickhead spammed more buzzwords around his resume?
We bid aggressively to get them to underwrite our own efforts to build this code, which we plan to resell again and again. That is the basis for our company.
This is your business model, and yet you haven't figured out how you should license the source?
There's a "Step 3) PROFIT!!!" joke in here somewhere.
Sounds just like the MetaVerse from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. A lot of the ideas in the book must have sounded far fetched when he wrote it, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Snow Crash was 1992... VR wasn't so far-fetched "back then".
The big difference between this and Snow Crash is that the Sims is just a game. Stephenson's MetaVerse was a lot more "real". He mentions Japanese businessmen being comfortable doing deals in Da5id's bar in the MetaVerse, because the avatar graphics were detailed enough to pick up nuances of facial expression. Unfortunately this violates the #1 rule of doing anything important online: Never trust data from the client.
So yeah, a nice thought, but SimAnything won't replace the real world anytime soon.
I remember when a new state-of-the-art supermarket opened near my house. They even had calculators on every shopping cart (actually not a bad idea).
One year later, good luck finding one that still worked. Electronic crap breaks, and it's not worth the constant cash outflow for a store to keep 500 gadget-laden carts in good repair.
I've had SprintPCS for the last 2.5 years with no problems. The one time my service started to drop off I went to their service center and they gave me a firmware update. They said this was to update the codes in my phone to let it talk to their newest towers. Sure enough, I've had great service since.
I have a wireless phone instead of a land line and I will never go back. I like having all the features and long distance included in the single monthly fee. My local telco monopoly (Ameritech) tacks on a dozen extra "service fees" and has shitty customer service to boot.
Oh, and here's the best part: No telemarketers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 bans calls to cellphones if they are made by automatic dialers or use recorded messages.
so do we have any proof that if a human baby is given no "input", they will grow up to be intelligent?
We do have proof that a human baby can develop language skills with only very fragmentary language input. This probably happens because the human brain is genetically hardwired to learn language the same way it is hardwired to instantly recognize facial features. By contrast, ALICE is a very large, very sophisticated catalog that correlates stimulus with response. Unfortunately stimulus-response is a staggeringly inefficient way to learn language. ALICE has already had thousands of times more language training than any infant receives. So by that standard, no, the bot isn't very intelligent.
Step 1: L33t. Step 2: Convince someone official that L33t is an ethnic dialect and I should get a government grant to teach L33t in middle class white suburban schools. Step 3: PROFIT!!!
Natalie Portman's navel is now copyright 2002, Lucasfilm, Ltd. You'll have to wait at least 70 years after Natalie's death for said navel to enter the public domain.
If you use anti-banner software you are effectively cheating the webmaster into providing you his service, without paying for it. It's like going to a restaurant and not paying because you didn't want to see the ads on the inside cover of the menu.
This comparison is absolutely ridiculous. A restaurant owns their property and can do what they want with it. They can put ads on their walls, their tables, their floors and their menus, and if I don't like it I can simply not enter their property. But you want to tell me that after I download your web page and it exists as 1's and 0's on my computer, you still have a say in how I can view it.
Advertising doesn't work on some implied social contract bullshit, it works because it works. Because for most people it's more trouble to block unwanted ads than to simply ignore them. No one is obligated to even look at the ads on your page but advertisers pay based on a well-calculated model of how many people will look. As technology makes it easier to block ads, more people will choose to do so. Advertisers and websites will have to get more subtle, more entertaining, and more creative about how they get viewers' attention.
You asked the people to come to your site, now find the best way to make money off of them. Don't treat them like theives just because they didn't agree to your implied terms.
Synthetic gemstone made of silicon carbide. Similar to a diamond in toughness and beauty, so much so that many trained jewelers can't tell the difference. Also costs about 1/10 as much.
Rumors say that some jewelry stores will literally throw you out if you ask about Moissanite. DeBeers sure as hell doesn't sell it, but a quick Google search turns up many retailers who do.
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NVIDIA got where they are today by beating 3dfx on their own turf: high-end gaming performance. Remember when 3dfx released the Voodoo 4 & 5? More expensive than the GeForce256 but not decisively better performance. Now I'm hearing similar things about the GeForceFX vs. ATI's three month old Radeons. NVIDIA is getting bigger but they still aren't a huge company. Can they really afford to lose the lucrative high-end sales right now?
One thing NVIDIA does seem to have going well is their motherboard chipsets. The new nForce2 really kicks ass by all accounts. I remember a while back hearing about an ATI mobo chipset based on tech they acquired from ArtX, but apparently end-user mobo chipsets aren't ATI's plan.
Good luck, NVIDIA. Hope y'all can keep up the pace.
So basically, they're going to help flood the programming world with young, ambitious "game" programmers that won't know how to or want to do anything but make video games ...
It's not like they're manufacturing more people who want to make video games. They're taking the existing people who already want to make games and actually teaching them something about what game development really means. Some of the wannabes might actually pick up some valuable skills. Isn't that a good thing?
Articles like this that are trumpeted by pro life groups tend to leave out some key points:
Neural tissue is the big holy grail of stem cell research since it is pretty much impossible to transplant adult neurons. Unfortunately in most cases the neuron-like cells grown from bone marrow stem cells do not seem able to transmit nerve impulses.
And don't forget that embryonic stem cells have other uses. By watching how these cells differentiate, scientists can track how initial flaws in the development process can lead to tumor growth.
Bone marrow stems cells are definitely useful and deserve a lot more study. But recent research on embryonic stem cells has been much more promising in the realm of treatment for diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
DRM is about preserving the rights of content creators. Period.
Now, unfortunately, taking options away from users is a side-effect of most of the DRM schemes out there.
What a load of industry bullshit. How did this drivel get modded Insightful?
Under copyright law I have certain rights in civil and criminal court. If I use my media in a way the publishers don't like, it is their responsibility to prove that what I did was wrong.
Under DRM schemes, anything not expressly permitted by the publisher is disallowed. Legal use is redefined to mean "whatever the publisher says is OK". Then additional laws are passed to make any DRM circumvention illegal.
Giving content creators more rights == taking rights away from users. One does not happen without the other.
Becuase Bond is MGM. Go me.
Considering that Die Another Day might only just barely break even, seeing the $80-million Nemesis flop is not going to look good on the 2002 bottom line. So much for getting fat off the big franchise sequels.
From the article:
Throughout the proceeding [defense counsel] Manshaus has been extremely brief, trying to get the prosecution to concentrate on what he feels are the actual charges and presenting his counter-arguments far more quickly.
What, has he got a hot date? What's the rush here? I hope in his haste he's not missing anything that could exonerate his client.
I guess lawyers in Norway aren't paid by the hour.
Now, let us suppose that a civilization with a similar technology to ours was located on a planet around Proxima Centauri, and let us suppose they did exactly as we did in our transmissions at Arecibo. Would that signal have been found by SETI@Home?
SETI isn't looking for a person-to-person call necessarily, just for some scrap of evidence of intelligent life. By that criteria our planet has been spewing out transmissions like crazy for the last 70 years or so. If we find someting like that, then we at least know where to start looking for a "Hello, World!", or where to start sending our own.
Just for fun, I googled the 1977 "Wow" signal mentioned in the article and every so often in SETI news. Found this good BBC article on the subject.
This blatant karma whoring is brought to you by the letters "ET".
What were their old ones? In most circumstances 30 days notice to the vendor is the only responsible way to go. Most companies are responsible enough to turn around a fix in that time.
BTW, the ISS press release is here.
Once I spent a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand visiting a girl I was dating. When I got there they had just started building a new small restaurant near her dorm. It was finished and open for business by the time I left. I was amazed at how quickly you can build something when you don't have silly things like construction codes and inspections to worry about.
If any GrepLaw admins are reading, please consider a higher default threshold for comments. At zero the "page widening troll" has made the story unreadable. I could register and set my own default, but it's easier to just forget about it. Other potential members probably feel the same.
Trying to get the pool down to a manageable level, that sort of thing.
Then let him filter on a spelling/grammar check. That ought to prune out at least 50% of the chaff.
Or maybe he should hire more HR staff if he really wants to find the right fits for such high profile positions.
From the article:
We create an index of all incoming resumes and search on keywords. That's why it's important for job-seekers to repeat the major skills multiple times in their resume.
WTF is this? It's bad enough having to compete for a job with people who flat-out lie. Now am I going to lose out just because some dickhead spammed more buzzwords around his resume?
We bid aggressively to get them to underwrite our own efforts to build this code, which we plan to resell again and again. That is the basis for our company.
This is your business model, and yet you haven't figured out how you should license the source?
There's a "Step 3) PROFIT!!!" joke in here somewhere.
Sounds just like the MetaVerse from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. A lot of the ideas in the book must have sounded far fetched when he wrote it, but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
Snow Crash was 1992... VR wasn't so far-fetched "back then".
The big difference between this and Snow Crash is that the Sims is just a game. Stephenson's MetaVerse was a lot more "real". He mentions Japanese businessmen being comfortable doing deals in Da5id's bar in the MetaVerse, because the avatar graphics were detailed enough to pick up nuances of facial expression. Unfortunately this violates the #1 rule of doing anything important online: Never trust data from the client.
So yeah, a nice thought, but SimAnything won't replace the real world anytime soon.
George Lucas to Tech Industry: Join Me, and We Will Rule the Galaxy As Father and Son!
I remember when a new state-of-the-art supermarket opened near my house. They even had calculators on every shopping cart (actually not a bad idea).
One year later, good luck finding one that still worked. Electronic crap breaks, and it's not worth the constant cash outflow for a store to keep 500 gadget-laden carts in good repair.
Remember, this is NVIDIA. They "launched" their nForce2 chipset almost two months ago and production boards are only just now showing up.
But at least this should drive down current card prices.
I've had SprintPCS for the last 2.5 years with no problems. The one time my service started to drop off I went to their service center and they gave me a firmware update. They said this was to update the codes in my phone to let it talk to their newest towers. Sure enough, I've had great service since.
I have a wireless phone instead of a land line and I will never go back. I like having all the features and long distance included in the single monthly fee. My local telco monopoly (Ameritech) tacks on a dozen extra "service fees" and has shitty customer service to boot.
Oh, and here's the best part: No telemarketers. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 bans calls to cellphones if they are made by automatic dialers or use recorded messages.
so do we have any proof that if a human baby is given no "input", they will grow up to be intelligent?
We do have proof that a human baby can develop language skills with only very fragmentary language input. This probably happens because the human brain is genetically hardwired to learn language the same way it is hardwired to instantly recognize facial features. By contrast, ALICE is a very large, very sophisticated catalog that correlates stimulus with response. Unfortunately stimulus-response is a staggeringly inefficient way to learn language. ALICE has already had thousands of times more language training than any infant receives. So by that standard, no, the bot isn't very intelligent.
Step 1: L33t.
Step 2: Convince someone official that L33t is an ethnic dialect and I should get a government grant to teach L33t in middle class white suburban schools.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!
Ebonics, anyone?
Natalie Portman's navel is now copyright 2002, Lucasfilm, Ltd. You'll have to wait at least 70 years after Natalie's death for said navel to enter the public domain.
If you use anti-banner software you are effectively cheating the webmaster into providing you his service, without paying for it. It's like going to a restaurant and not paying because you didn't want to see the ads on the inside cover of the menu.
This comparison is absolutely ridiculous. A restaurant owns their property and can do what they want with it. They can put ads on their walls, their tables, their floors and their menus, and if I don't like it I can simply not enter their property. But you want to tell me that after I download your web page and it exists as 1's and 0's on my computer, you still have a say in how I can view it.
Advertising doesn't work on some implied social contract bullshit, it works because it works. Because for most people it's more trouble to block unwanted ads than to simply ignore them. No one is obligated to even look at the ads on your page but advertisers pay based on a well-calculated model of how many people will look. As technology makes it easier to block ads, more people will choose to do so. Advertisers and websites will have to get more subtle, more entertaining, and more creative about how they get viewers' attention.
You asked the people to come to your site, now find the best way to make money off of them. Don't treat them like theives just because they didn't agree to your implied terms.
I'm surprised I haven't seen this one mentioned yet.
Moissanite
Synthetic gemstone made of silicon carbide. Similar to a diamond in toughness and beauty, so much so that many trained jewelers can't tell the difference. Also costs about 1/10 as much.
Rumors say that some jewelry stores will literally throw you out if you ask about Moissanite. DeBeers sure as hell doesn't sell it, but a quick Google search turns up many retailers who do.