Yea, I am a long time customer of MicroChip. I have had nothing but great experiences with them. And for what it's worth, you can get C, Pascal, and Basic compiler IDEs from mikroe.com optimized for all their microcontrollers.
No PVP at this time, however NASA will be announcing at NasaCon 2010 the much anticipated Moonbase Arena Season 1 where astronauts fight for fame, glory, and moondust.
Really, with the economy the way it is and so many states having huge budget deficits, I believe this is only the start of the crazy taxes politicians will come up with.
Perhaps the best solution that politicians should consider is cut spending instead of trying to pull more money out of the private sector. Isn't that what ordinary citizens are expected to do when they receive a pay cut? Aren't politicians representatives of us ordinary citizens?
Go to the Dept of Labor's website. Pull down the numbers for private sector jobs vs government jobs.
Jan 2008-Jan 2009 Government Jobs Created: 148,000 Civilian Jobs Lost: 3,648,000
When a CEO comes out and tries to use a legal dispute related to a contract as a pulpit to make a religious sermon, he knows he's wrong.
I might disagree with this. nVidia did not file suit, Intel did. I sincerely question that either company is 'scared' of the other. Fact is, Intel is the leader of CPUs and nVidia is the leader of GPUs. In some twisted fashion, they do need each other. No where does this article state that Intel won't sell a new license to nVidia. I am sure such a license is expensive and that is probably the reason why the two have disputed over it. Why pay for something that you think you already own?
The 'looser' of the case isn't going to go home crushed and start to ask for a bailout. Neither side is scared. Both have strong products and I do believe respect each other. Just typical business where the only people that profit are the lawyers.
Latency is and would be a huge factor. I truly don't think this would be meant for FPS. I could see it being used for local gaming on a phone, but not a multi player game at all. This is not a technology that will let you play Crysis on your crappy PC.
The whole idea, if I am not mistaken, is for 'mainframe', err 'cloud' GPU to render content that is beyond the capability of the device accessing it. So now, instead of just game data being transmitted over the network, now we are going to render graphics too and send it over the network. Giving Comcast and Verison all the more reason to justify content filtering to relieve their congested networks.
Perhaps such a solution could be used in a rendering farm for static content. Maybe it's just me, but this seems to be more of a solution looking for a problem.
When you purchase an object which contains copyrighted content, you purchased that object. Full stop, end of story. No license is involved.
Tell that to Microsoft or Blizzard. I am fairly certain they would disagree with you. If you tried to make the argument that you're not 'installing' the movie/music, they would counter that with, "You are copying it into the buffer of the playback device. Now send me a check please".
Not that I condone this interpretation of the law, however, I think this is reality.
I agree totally. When I shop for new hardware, the last thing I want to be thinking about is, "I wonder if I have to recompile my kernel to make this work" or "I wonder if all the features will work".
I am not going to knock linux itself. Hell, I have a Redhat 6.2 (zoot) box in the closet running hylafax that has been rebooted maybe twice in 7 years, and that was just to replace the batteries in the UPS.
For the desktop/home PCs, Mac and Windows are the only real options for someone that doesn't want to spend hours compiling, or searching forum posts on how to cobble together a way to get my new hardware to run. I use Vista for all my desktops (office and home). I have yet to purchase and install a piece of hardware that didn't 'just work'.
Again, I agree that vendors aren't going to spend much time or effort on driver support for a minority OS. I wouldn't. They are in the business of making money. Right or Wrong, its just the way it is.
Fanboy? I guess if you want to say that. Let's get the car analogy out of the way:-) I'll drive any make of car that 'works out of the box'. But I am not going to buy/drive one that doesn't do everything I want. Did I contribute to Ford or GM or Honda? (now, lets leave the bailout topic for another day:-) ) No, I did not contribute other than buying a product that 'just works' the way I want it to, nor do I care to contribute.
It's not too much to ask for. It should just work. That's what I am paying for.
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Yea, I am a long time customer of MicroChip. I have had nothing but great experiences with them. And for what it's worth, you can get C, Pascal, and Basic compiler IDEs from mikroe.com optimized for all their microcontrollers.
No PVP at this time, however NASA will be announcing at NasaCon 2010 the much anticipated Moonbase Arena Season 1 where astronauts fight for fame, glory, and moondust.
Really, with the economy the way it is and so many states having huge budget deficits, I believe this is only the start of the crazy taxes politicians will come up with.
Perhaps the best solution that politicians should consider is cut spending instead of trying to pull more money out of the private sector. Isn't that what ordinary citizens are expected to do when they receive a pay cut? Aren't politicians representatives of us ordinary citizens?
Go to the Dept of Labor's website. Pull down the numbers for private sector jobs vs government jobs.
Jan 2008-Jan 2009
Government Jobs Created: 148,000
Civilian Jobs Lost: 3,648,000
Anyone see an issue here?
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nVidia is NOT suing. Intel is.
When a CEO comes out and tries to use a legal dispute related to a contract as a pulpit to make a religious sermon, he knows he's wrong.
I might disagree with this. nVidia did not file suit, Intel did. I sincerely question that either company is 'scared' of the other. Fact is, Intel is the leader of CPUs and nVidia is the leader of GPUs. In some twisted fashion, they do need each other. No where does this article state that Intel won't sell a new license to nVidia. I am sure such a license is expensive and that is probably the reason why the two have disputed over it. Why pay for something that you think you already own?
The 'looser' of the case isn't going to go home crushed and start to ask for a bailout. Neither side is scared. Both have strong products and I do believe respect each other. Just typical business where the only people that profit are the lawyers.
Just what are the "other" impact hazards? I'm very curious about this.
Debris from colliding satellites
I'll club my neighbor and they can come get the other 40%
Latency is and would be a huge factor. I truly don't think this would be meant for FPS. I could see it being used for local gaming on a phone, but not a multi player game at all. This is not a technology that will let you play Crysis on your crappy PC.
The whole idea, if I am not mistaken, is for 'mainframe', err 'cloud' GPU to render content that is beyond the capability of the device accessing it. So now, instead of just game data being transmitted over the network, now we are going to render graphics too and send it over the network. Giving Comcast and Verison all the more reason to justify content filtering to relieve their congested networks.
Perhaps such a solution could be used in a rendering farm for static content. Maybe it's just me, but this seems to be more of a solution looking for a problem.
The benchmarks are dated Jan 2007. Another case of RTFA (brilliant!)
When you purchase an object which contains copyrighted content, you purchased that object. Full stop, end of story. No license is involved.
Tell that to Microsoft or Blizzard. I am fairly certain they would disagree with you. If you tried to make the argument that you're not 'installing' the movie/music, they would counter that with, "You are copying it into the buffer of the playback device. Now send me a check please".
Not that I condone this interpretation of the law, however, I think this is reality.
I agree totally. When I shop for new hardware, the last thing I want to be thinking about is, "I wonder if I have to recompile my kernel to make this work" or "I wonder if all the features will work".
I am not going to knock linux itself. Hell, I have a Redhat 6.2 (zoot) box in the closet running hylafax that has been rebooted maybe twice in 7 years, and that was just to replace the batteries in the UPS.
For the desktop/home PCs, Mac and Windows are the only real options for someone that doesn't want to spend hours compiling, or searching forum posts on how to cobble together a way to get my new hardware to run. I use Vista for all my desktops (office and home). I have yet to purchase and install a piece of hardware that didn't 'just work'.
Again, I agree that vendors aren't going to spend much time or effort on driver support for a minority OS. I wouldn't. They are in the business of making money. Right or Wrong, its just the way it is.
Fanboy? I guess if you want to say that. Let's get the car analogy out of the way :-) I'll drive any make of car that 'works out of the box'. But I am not going to buy/drive one that doesn't do everything I want. Did I contribute to Ford or GM or Honda? (now, lets leave the bailout topic for another day :-) ) No, I did not contribute other than buying a product that 'just works' the way I want it to, nor do I care to contribute.
It's not too much to ask for. It should just work. That's what I am paying for.