I guess it would depend on the size of the company. Obviously a large company you have to set up a good chain of command, so everyone isn't running just to one person.
However, the company I work for, I suppose some would call it a dotcom startup, it seems that everyone, including the CTO and VPs, including myself, working only as a graphic designer, reports directly to the CEO(who is also President).
So in a situation with a small company, I can understand this, and it may even be a strength, as in such a situation, the CEO can get his goals directly to the people who will help create them, instead of filtered down through the ranks as will happen in most larger companies.
US astronauts shaking hands with Russian cosmonauts in a Russian craft 20 years ago would've been unheard of. Its nice to see that people have come together with a common goal and worked together to achieve it.
Uhm..... Russians and Americans did shake hands in space roughly 25 years ago, long before Mir, on the Apollo-Soyuz mission back in the mid-1970s.
Why not just make this into a downloadable movie? It'd make a much better presentation.
-Julius X
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I see the the usefulness of a 3D-GUI, but most people are just trying to use a 3D interface to replace what we have now. I don't see this as being particularly useful.
Although I'm a big fan of 3D, I love the two dimensional desktop I use now. I go into my 3D accelerated games and enjoy it, but as far as the way I work, I don't see any use for a 3D interface, it would just make things clumsy.
However, when you have 3D visualisation hardware instead of standard 2D hardware (such as 3D shutter glasses, HMDs, or applications such as CAVE technology), a 3D interface makes much more sense. But designing a GUI for that interface shouldn't necessarily be going in a different direction than 2D interfaces have already gone. Projects such as C3D would seem to work best in this type of environment, along with a three dimensional windowing system that would allow for the user to grab and move the windows in any plane and tilt as they need fit to hold them around themselves. (Imagine a zero-g desk where you could position the many books and papers and tools you are using anywhere, for you to see and read or use from where you sit).
To me, that seems to be the logical application for 3D interfaces. Once those types of hardware become readily available, I'm sure that 3D GUIs will become commmonplace. For now though, since most of us are still using good ol' CRTs or LCD displays in 2D without shutterglasses, I think we should stick to regular 2D GUIs.
A letter from 3dfx founder Scott Sellers about the sale
Its really a shame with all the problems that 3dfx has had that they couldn't pull it out of the gutter...they started out great, and made the best products back in the day...if they hadn't bought STB, I doubt this would have ever happened.
I'm just curious why Voodoo5 5500 went on the list. If we're going for true-geek, which means the fastest and best available, then why not go for the NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra? It's much faster than the 5500 and has onboard Transform & Lighting abilities.
Not only that, but you'd be secure that you're buying from a company that will definitely support its product....I'm not sure how long 3dfx is gonna be in the biz anymore....
Well....it states they could make a processor with ten times as many transistors.....OR....they could make the same processor ten times smaller! Why not do that?
Some people seem to be making the mistake of thinking that this was a planned re-entry as part of the supposed de-orbiting that was planned before Iridium Satellite LLC bought out what was left of the Iridium company a month or so ago.
This satellite was one of the satellites that had failed, two months after its launch in 1998. It never worked, and subsequently has been tumbling about in orbit around Earth without control nor function for the last two years. Just another piece of space junk, basically, which only now has reentered our atmosphre.
The functioning satellites are still planned to stay in orbit, and providing the service that they were originally designed for.
Its great to finally see some hard proof of real Crusoe-powered devices.
They all look very impressive, I personally am taking a bit of a liking to the NEC device. It looks to fit a fairly decent ultraslim formfactor, and has a reflective screen, which would quench my thirst for a laptop I could use in bright light, such as outside. The fact that it has an 11 hour battery life definitely doesn't hurt either.
I can't wait to see these make their way to retail.
The media nightmare that the election of the presidency has become is just insane. I read somewhere something that hit the nail on the head: The reason the election was so close was becuase we, the American Public, had been given two candidates who were nowhere near adequate to truly lead this country. Whomever comes out of this mess, the the current story is that Bush has it, will not be truly fit to do the job as it should be done.
That is why the election was so close. Not only in Florida, but all over this country, people saw the candidates being presented to them and did not know what to do. What does one do with two mediocre choices,
when there is no other worthy option? Most chose to find things they believed to be the better of two evils, the candidate with the least amount of undesirable characteristics. Others, out of desparation from being faced with such inadequacy, did the only thing that would seem right and choose the impossible, and nearly as mediocre, third or fourth candidate. Whatever the choice, we all will end up with one who in all truthfulness, shouldn't be in the
Oval Office.
I believe the source of this difficulty is not the lack of good candidates, but something else. The early race for the election saw some good candidates, and some good potential. But they all faded away, dropped out, and disappeared. It begs the question, why?! Perhaps it has something to do with the wide held belief that we live in a Democracy; that it is the majority who rules, and the government that shall rule us. This is a complete fallacy. This country, as you would hear in any Elementary or High School History class, is Republic. It was designed to be run, for the people, by the people, with a small government serving them, not the other way around. That is why goverment-business and property is always called public, becuase it belongs to the people. We are living in an age where the original goals of this country have been lost. The people no longer hold any control in this country; it is the government, the political machine, the media, and the corporations are the ones who control this country. (More info on why we live in a Republic, here.)
Then we have the media. They were so swayed by those in charge of the parties, that we had no choice but see the people that they chose us to see. The politicians don't campaign to the people anymore, they only campaign to the media. I'm sorry, but the media isn't the one in the voting both, it is the people. Those politicians who don't pay up the dues or the news anchors choose not to pay attention to get no coverage. Then, the best eople, those who by all rights would be the best leaders for our country, choose not to even attempt to run, in fear of what the media machine would do to their lives. It seems there is something critically wrong here
So now what? Well, for now, I think all we can do is put up with the ludicracy in front of us. But meanwhile, we need to begin to take back what was ours. This country was designed for the people, and only the people are the ones who will be able to take it back. If we do nothing, and expect the next guy to do it, well then, we deserve to be sucked into the media corporate madness that has evolved around us.
To clarify, people seemed to miss it. I did only cut it a very small amount, then pull the rest apart. But you still have to be VERY careful when you cut into the cable.
I saw a similar article to this a few months ago, and did it. It's not easy work. An hour or so sitting at my desk carefully splicing these cables with an exact-o-blade isn't exactly fun. I did end up cutting into a couple of the cables, and needed to spend about $15 in new cable, but its not that bad. You just have to be really careful that when you cut into the cable that you hit directly into the groove between the wires.
But in the end, it all turned out well, and my system looks a lot less cluttered on the inside as a result, and my graphics card temperature dropped by a few degrees (my IDE cables were sitting over my GeForce fan).
So if you have the patience, go for it. Its definitely worth it I think.
According to the sites referenced here, this card, although quite nifty, takes up two PCI slots, not to mentino the external plug for remote and soforth.
Doesn't this seem like a little much for a card that will function as at most, an addon? You don't expect something that isn't a system-critical function to take up this much.... and many people don't have two PCI slots free(including myself).
So why not just release a single card with say an external expansion like a breakout box, or something similar? In any case, this looks like a good card to have...now we know what ATI will be using for its next All-In-Wonder system:)
Its nice to see that Intel is realizing its mistakes. Perhaps they aren't quite the bumbling behemoth that we've seen them as for the last year or so. Realizing their mistakes is the first step, now they just have to remedy them.
The article makes a very proper assumption that Intel's partnership with Rambus has been a good part of its downfall. Its not enough that their processors are more expensive than their competitors', but if you pair that up with a system that is required to use Rambus RAM, the price of that system comes up quite a bit higher than its nearest AMD-equipped neighbor. No doubt if they had endorsed a more Open RAM standard such as DDR they would be in much better shape.
But its not only that, Rambus' lawsuit frenzy has shown badly on Intel as well, since they seemed to be the only one supporting the company in the entire industry. This is most likely why those other RAM companys signed up with Rambus to pay them royaltys--because they believed the Behemoth, Intel, wanted Rambus to be on top--and they didn't want to get on Intels bad side.
But the fact that Intels CEO has "badmouthed" Rambus shows that he may be more on top of the situation than we thought...and their may be hope for the future yet. Sure, its nice to see AMD catching up and giving Intel some definite competition, but I don't think any of us want to see them fall completely out of the race.
The only thing I wonder now is for the Pentium 4. The article states that they have an agreement to include "support" for Rambus with the processor...but does that mean that they cannot include support for other, better forms of ram, such as DDR? I suppose that will show how all of this will turn out.
Wouldn't LED clock be more accurate? LCD would indicate a Liquid Crystal Display, like a watch, but this device uses lights, so LED would be more like what it actually is, similar to a desktop alarm/clock type device.
The question I have is this.... Are they proposing that it would take 100 years to allow the temperature to rise enough for lichen to live on Mars, then 100,000 years for those lichen to create enough Oxygen for humans to live on?
Why not continue the influx of PFCs for another century, which would probably raise the temperature again by quite a bit so that more substantial plants, even so far as temporate or fairly tropical level forests could be raised. That would surely cause much more oxygen to be created then via millions of small lichen.
Besides, if they heated again for another century or two, we would be able to walk around Mars without a jacket on while we breath the fresh air:).
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I guess it would depend on the size of the company. Obviously a large company you have to set up a good chain of command, so everyone isn't running just to one person.
However, the company I work for, I suppose some would call it a dotcom startup, it seems that everyone, including the CTO and VPs, including myself, working only as a graphic designer, reports directly to the CEO(who is also President).
So in a situation with a small company, I can understand this, and it may even be a strength, as in such a situation, the CEO can get his goals directly to the people who will help create them, instead of filtered down through the ranks as will happen in most larger companies.
-Julius X
Ok guys....lets try this.
. htm
"State Takes Newborn Who Had Cocaine in System"
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/210971news12-28-00
Try and bill me people.
-Julius X
US astronauts shaking hands with Russian cosmonauts in a Russian craft 20 years ago would've been unheard of. Its nice to see that people have come together with a common goal and worked together to achieve it.
Uhm..... Russians and Americans did shake hands in space roughly 25 years ago, long before Mir, on the Apollo-Soyuz mission back in the mid-1970s.
-Julius X
Why not just make this into a downloadable movie? It'd make a much better presentation.
-Julius X
I see the the usefulness of a 3D-GUI, but most people are just trying to use a 3D interface to replace what we have now. I don't see this as being particularly useful.
Although I'm a big fan of 3D, I love the two dimensional desktop I use now. I go into my 3D accelerated games and enjoy it, but as far as the way I work, I don't see any use for a 3D interface, it would just make things clumsy.
However, when you have 3D visualisation hardware instead of standard 2D hardware (such as 3D shutter glasses, HMDs, or applications such as CAVE technology), a 3D interface makes much more sense. But designing a GUI for that interface shouldn't necessarily be going in a different direction than 2D interfaces have already gone. Projects such as C3D would seem to work best in this type of environment, along with a three dimensional windowing system that would allow for the user to grab and move the windows in any plane and tilt as they need fit to hold them around themselves. (Imagine a zero-g desk where you could position the many books and papers and tools you are using anywhere, for you to see and read or use from where you sit).
To me, that seems to be the logical application for 3D interfaces. Once those types of hardware become readily available, I'm sure that 3D GUIs will become commmonplace. For now though, since most of us are still using good ol' CRTs or LCD displays in 2D without shutterglasses, I think we should stick to regular 2D GUIs.
-Julius X
uhm...yes there is, look at my posted email address.
-Julius X
If you hadn't heard, S3 got out of the Graphics Accelerator market (except for the FireGL series), and changed their name to Sonic Blue.
-Julius X
Its really a shame with all the problems that 3dfx has had that they couldn't pull it out of the gutter...they started out great, and made the best products back in the day...if they hadn't bought STB, I doubt this would have ever happened.
-Julius X
1680mhz and 400mhz FSB....oooh...yummmy.....
...mommy can I get one of these for christmas?
.......puleeeeeze?
-Julius X
Ahem, NVidia Linux support? Try here.
They even have BeOS support finally, here.
-Julius X
I'm just curious why Voodoo5 5500 went on the list. If we're going for true-geek, which means the fastest and best available, then why not go for the NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra? It's much faster than the 5500 and has onboard Transform & Lighting abilities.
Not only that, but you'd be secure that you're buying from a company that will definitely support its product....I'm not sure how long 3dfx is gonna be in the biz anymore....
-Julius X
Well....it states they could make a processor with ten times as many transistors.....OR....they could make the same processor ten times smaller! Why not do that?
-Just a thought....
-Julius X
Some people seem to be making the mistake of thinking that this was a planned re-entry as part of the supposed de-orbiting that was planned before Iridium Satellite LLC bought out what was left of the Iridium company a month or so ago.
This satellite was one of the satellites that had failed, two months after its launch in 1998. It never worked, and subsequently has been tumbling about in orbit around Earth without control nor function for the last two years. Just another piece of space junk, basically, which only now has reentered our atmosphre.
The functioning satellites are still planned to stay in orbit, and providing the service that they were originally designed for.
Just thought I'd clear that up.
-Julius X
The article on Space.com has an animation of the satellite falling from orbit, just click on the "Multimedia" link in the arcticle.
-Julius X
For those who might still be complaining that we can't buy these things yet.... we can.
The Fujitsu Crusoe model (called the Loox), can be bought from here.
Remember this baby comes with an option for a built in DVD drive....I'll take two, anyone care to buy me one? *grin*
-Julius X
Its great to finally see some hard proof of real Crusoe-powered devices.
They all look very impressive, I personally am taking a bit of a liking to the NEC device. It looks to fit a fairly decent ultraslim formfactor, and has a reflective screen, which would quench my thirst for a laptop I could use in bright light, such as outside. The fact that it has an 11 hour battery life definitely doesn't hurt either.
I can't wait to see these make their way to retail.
-Julius X
The media nightmare that the election of the presidency has become is just insane. I read somewhere something that hit the nail on the head: The reason the election was so close was becuase we, the American Public, had been given two candidates who were nowhere near adequate to truly lead this country. Whomever comes out of this mess, the the current story is that Bush has it, will not be truly fit to do the job as it should be done.
That is why the election was so close. Not only in Florida, but all over this country, people saw the candidates being presented to them and did not know what to do. What does one do with two mediocre choices,
when there is no other worthy option? Most chose to find things they believed to be the better of two evils, the candidate with the least amount of undesirable characteristics. Others, out of desparation from being faced with such inadequacy, did the only thing that would seem right and choose the impossible, and nearly as mediocre, third or fourth candidate. Whatever the choice, we all will end up with one who in all truthfulness, shouldn't be in the
Oval Office.
I believe the source of this difficulty is not the lack of good candidates, but something else. The early race for the election saw some good candidates, and some good potential. But they all faded away, dropped out, and disappeared. It begs the question, why?! Perhaps it has something to do with the wide held belief that we live in a Democracy; that it is the majority who rules, and the government that shall rule us. This is a complete fallacy. This country, as you would hear in any Elementary or High School History class, is Republic. It was designed to be run, for the people, by the people, with a small government serving them, not the other way around. That is why goverment-business and property is always called public, becuase it belongs to the people. We are living in an age where the original goals of this country have been lost. The people no longer hold any control in this country; it is the government, the political machine, the media, and the corporations are the ones who control this country. (More info on why we live in a Republic, here.)
Then we have the media. They were so swayed by those in charge of the parties, that we had no choice but see the people that they chose us to see. The politicians don't campaign to the people anymore, they only campaign to the media. I'm sorry, but the media isn't the one in the voting both, it is the people. Those politicians who don't pay up the dues or the news anchors choose not to pay attention to get no coverage. Then, the best eople, those who by all rights would be the best leaders for our country, choose not to even attempt to run, in fear of what the media machine would do to their lives. It seems there is something critically wrong here
So now what? Well, for now, I think all we can do is put up with the ludicracy in front of us. But meanwhile, we need to begin to take back what was ours. This country was designed for the people, and only the people are the ones who will be able to take it back. If we do nothing, and expect the next guy to do it, well then, we deserve to be sucked into the media corporate madness that has evolved around us.
-Julius X
To clarify, people seemed to miss it. I did only cut it a very small amount, then pull the rest apart. But you still have to be VERY careful when you cut into the cable.
-Julius X
I saw a similar article to this a few months ago, and did it. It's not easy work. An hour or so sitting at my desk carefully splicing these cables with an exact-o-blade isn't exactly fun. I did end up cutting into a couple of the cables, and needed to spend about $15 in new cable, but its not that bad. You just have to be really careful that when you cut into the cable that you hit directly into the groove between the wires.
But in the end, it all turned out well, and my system looks a lot less cluttered on the inside as a result, and my graphics card temperature dropped by a few degrees (my IDE cables were sitting over my GeForce fan).
So if you have the patience, go for it. Its definitely worth it I think.
-Julius X
According to the sites referenced here, this card, although quite nifty, takes up two PCI slots, not to mentino the external plug for remote and soforth.
:)
Doesn't this seem like a little much for a card that will function as at most, an addon? You don't expect something that isn't a system-critical function to take up this much.... and many people don't have two PCI slots free(including myself).
So why not just release a single card with say an external expansion like a breakout box, or something similar? In any case, this looks like a good card to have...now we know what ATI will be using for its next All-In-Wonder system
-Julius X
Its nice to see that Intel is realizing its mistakes. Perhaps they aren't quite the bumbling behemoth that we've seen them as for the last year or so. Realizing their mistakes is the first step, now they just have to remedy them.
The article makes a very proper assumption that Intel's partnership with Rambus has been a good part of its downfall. Its not enough that their processors are more expensive than their competitors', but if you pair that up with a system that is required to use Rambus RAM, the price of that system comes up quite a bit higher than its nearest AMD-equipped neighbor. No doubt if they had endorsed a more Open RAM standard such as DDR they would be in much better shape.
But its not only that, Rambus' lawsuit frenzy has shown badly on Intel as well, since they seemed to be the only one supporting the company in the entire industry. This is most likely why those other RAM companys signed up with Rambus to pay them royaltys--because they believed the Behemoth, Intel, wanted Rambus to be on top--and they didn't want to get on Intels bad side.
But the fact that Intels CEO has "badmouthed" Rambus shows that he may be more on top of the situation than we thought...and their may be hope for the future yet. Sure, its nice to see AMD catching up and giving Intel some definite competition, but I don't think any of us want to see them fall completely out of the race.
The only thing I wonder now is for the Pentium 4. The article states that they have an agreement to include "support" for Rambus with the processor...but does that mean that they cannot include support for other, better forms of ram, such as DDR? I suppose that will show how all of this will turn out.
In any case...this is a start.
-Julius X
Wouldn't LED clock be more accurate? LCD would indicate a Liquid Crystal Display, like a watch, but this device uses lights, so LED would be more like what it actually is, similar to a desktop alarm/clock type device.
-Julius X
I watched Bush mention Columbine at the debate, and knew that instant that Katz would be all over it.
Good for Katz though, because this is definitely an issue that needs to be clarified...again.
-Julius X
The question I have is this.... Are they proposing that it would take 100 years to allow the temperature to rise enough for lichen to live on Mars, then 100,000 years for those lichen to create enough Oxygen for humans to live on?
:).
Why not continue the influx of PFCs for another century, which would probably raise the temperature again by quite a bit so that more substantial plants, even so far as temporate or fairly tropical level forests could be raised. That would surely cause much more oxygen to be created then via millions of small lichen.
Besides, if they heated again for another century or two, we would be able to walk around Mars without a jacket on while we breath the fresh air
-Julius X
Coming this Holiday Season....
Tony Tux - Pro Penguin
-Julius X