That's not my point. XoXus says 1280x960 was not (originally) feasible because 960 is not evenly divisible by 128.
However, none of the other very common resolutions we use, like 640x480, 800x600, 1152x864 or 1600x1200 (for those lucky enough:P) are divisible by 128, so his theory doesn't seem to make much sense.
You should read my electronics textbook. On the first couple pages they make a prediction on what will be in the rest of the book - AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM CAME TRUE!
Actually, the IRC client is pretty good. I've seen a lot worse, it's very useable. And it's an impressive example of what can be done with the XML/XUL/whatever base they've built into Mozilla.
Given the first one is dated around the time of the inital annoucement and the second applied for 3/7/00, that would seem to be the one referred to in the update (and give it some dating).
There's a small update from their venture capital firm:
Keele High Density Computer Memory: we have now started licensing negotiations with some of the world's largest computer companies - so far it all looks promising, but we have many important barriers to get over - at any one of these the project could fall-apart - but so-far-so-good! Additional patents are being filed now which moves the maximum capacity at credit card size to 10.8 TB
No date by this blurb but the overall page was last updated 4/7/00, and the blurb above it references July 13... so probably posted sometime early this year.
IBM's patent database shows they have filed for an obtained 2patents in Great Britain but the only data online is they are both for "High Density Storage Systems" ($3 each for copies)
There's also contact info. so you could try to get some news straight from the source.
For all you know he could have been saying these are the people they should be going after instead of the guys who want to play their legit DVD discs. He could have been pointing out how irrelevant this to "stopping piracy" is since most of the pirate movies there weren't even out on DVD.
Scour is actually a bit different. They make you download a little program that works with their website to actually download the content. Basically if you want to download you have to do it through their program.
I'll agree with that. The issue is CR addresses a general and wide variety of products, so it's not so much a PC review as a PC "system" review, in which case making a judgement like that is valid.
I would _LOVE_ to see a computer specific magazine that does what Consumer Reports does. I imagine as computers continue to gain more importance and acceptance into our lives and society Consumer Reports will begin to examine the specifics on computers in more detail beyond system comparisions or monitors. I would not be suprised if CR is already considering such a thing.
For my money, Anand's is the best place to go for these things, although Tom usually has better discussions of the details behind the hardware and features itself.
But, pornography aside, what is there of real historical value on the net? Sure there are any number of mindless geocities homepages full of drivel about people's pets, but sifitng through this would drive anyone mad and there are a lot more "insightful" sources already available about today's culture.
Unfortunately, our knowledge of history already has numerous gaps where things that, at the time, were thought to not any value. Leave the interpretation of value to future historians, and meanwhile, let's not make decisions about what isn't important enough to save.
Unfortunately the web as it stands at the moment shows the worst side of humanity rather than its best side - historians looking through terabytes of things like the anarchists cookbook, virulent anti-Christian diabtribes, terrorist manifestos and race hate sites will hardly pick up a balanced view of society will they?!
I am amazed if you think racism and hatred content is the overwhelming majority of the Internet. But that is completely irrelevant; even if this is true, embarressment of it is no good reason to censor historical records.
But unless it will be used as the basis for future studies then this project is a waste of time, so I don't think you have a valid point here.
Why do you think it won't? Why do you presume this information is, and always will be, useless trash? It is only by archiving without bias and censor that there can ever be an accurate historical record. Archive it all and let the historians sort it out.
In a recent interview I read (don't got a URL, sorry), nVidia specfically said issues with licensed technology restricts them from having fully open drivers.
Of course you can make the case for opening parts of the drivers, etc., but this is what they said.
There were good reasons to be suspicious of the original Mindcraft support, mainly that MS paid for the study and MS techs were consulted heavily to setup the MS box while the Linux box was setup without much (any?) external input.
This study is done by a independant party, and both the nearly identical computers were setup by Dell, in whose best interest it is to make _ALL_ their servers perform well.
Hmm, I could see some interesting possibilities here...
This way you could read your encrypted mail via a web-based email provider, just have the javascript do it on the client side... after all, you sure as hell don't want to be sending _ANYONE_ your private key
To me the article seemed to stress not broken links among your own page, but broken links from other people's pages to your own, thus causing you to lose out on visitors coming to your site from others.
However, this seems like it could also be done on the local side, by logging the http-referer so you can keep track of any pages that a lot of your visitors seem to be coming from and then notifying them if/when you change your URL's.
If you are concerned primarily with archiving your sound, there's a program I've seen being used by people trading bootlegged CD's called Shorten. It's a non-lossy compression that displays around a 2:1 ratio (there's also a lossy version but I don't know much about it, the ratio is less than MP3 though). There's a company called SoftSound that markets a commerical version for Windows/DOS but I believe there's other version.
I also came across the comp.speech FAQ which has a specific section regarding audio compression standards.
Me, I wouldn't buy it. I'm not endorsing it, I just mentioned it because the author of the message I responded to said he wasn't aware of a board with 2 RAMBUS channels.
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That's not my point. XoXus says 1280x960 was not (originally) feasible because 960 is not evenly divisible by 128.
:P) are divisible by 128, so his theory doesn't seem to make much sense.
However, none of the other very common resolutions we use, like 640x480, 800x600, 1152x864 or 1600x1200 (for those lucky enough
You should read my electronics textbook. On the first couple pages they make a prediction on what will be in the rest of the book - AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM CAME TRUE!
Okay, that's plausible... except it doesn't explain 640x480, 800x600, 1152x864 or 1600x1200.
Actually, the IRC client is pretty good. I've seen a lot worse, it's very useable. And it's an impressive example of what can be done with the XML/XUL/whatever base they've built into Mozilla.
Oops. Linked the second patent incorrectly.
Given the first one is dated around the time of the inital annoucement and the second applied for 3/7/00, that would seem to be the one referred to in the update (and give it some dating).
No date by this blurb but the overall page was last updated 4/7/00, and the blurb above it references July 13... so probably posted sometime early this year.
IBM's patent database shows they have filed for an obtained 2 patents in Great Britain but the only data online is they are both for "High Density Storage Systems" ($3 each for copies)
There's also contact info. so you could try to get some news straight from the source.
Good to know all the major players are all working so hard together to find new ways to restrict my privacy...
Honestly, if you want find a way for my unused clock cycles to feed someone, I would be happy to sign up...
For all you know he could have been saying these are the people they should be going after instead of the guys who want to play their legit DVD discs. He could have been pointing out how irrelevant this to "stopping piracy" is since most of the pirate movies there weren't even out on DVD.
Scour is actually a bit different. They make you download a little program that works with their website to actually download the content. Basically if you want to download you have to do it through their program.
I'll agree with that. The issue is CR addresses a general and wide variety of products, so it's not so much a PC review as a PC "system" review, in which case making a judgement like that is valid.
I would _LOVE_ to see a computer specific magazine that does what Consumer Reports does. I imagine as computers continue to gain more importance and acceptance into our lives and society Consumer Reports will begin to examine the specifics on computers in more detail beyond system comparisions or monitors. I would not be suprised if CR is already considering such a thing.
I'm surprised there was just Sharky's review. All of the sites normally come up with reviews when the NDA's expire:
AnandTech
Fast Graphics
FiringSquad
GamersDepot
GameSpot
GA-Hardware
HotHardware
PlanetHardware
Tom's Hardware
For my money, Anand's is the best place to go for these things, although Tom usually has better discussions of the details behind the hardware and features itself.
Also, 20 questions with ATI, mostly about Radeon.
No 3DFX card takes advantage of AGP's advanced features. By design. It's just used as a faster BUS.
NVIDIA has said before that parts of their code is under licensing agreements with other companies and cannot be open sourced, for what it's worth.
Right her e.
The NVIDIA Linux FAQ has been updated too. In particular, 0.94 Changes
Um... if you just use normally binary 12 bits is enough to get to 4096 Mhz. 16 bits is enough for up to 65536 Mhz.
Still doesn't solve the issue of just fscking with the BIOS to make it report whatever you want.
But, pornography aside, what is there of real historical value on the net? Sure there are any number of mindless geocities homepages full of drivel about people's pets, but sifitng through this would drive anyone mad and there are a lot more "insightful" sources already available about today's culture.
Unfortunately, our knowledge of history already has numerous gaps where things that, at the time, were thought to not any value. Leave the interpretation of value to future historians, and meanwhile, let's not make decisions about what isn't important enough to save.
Unfortunately the web as it stands at the moment shows the worst side of humanity rather than its best side - historians looking through terabytes of things like the anarchists cookbook, virulent anti-Christian diabtribes, terrorist manifestos and race hate sites will hardly pick up a balanced view of society will they?!
I am amazed if you think racism and hatred content is the overwhelming majority of the Internet. But that is completely irrelevant; even if this is true, embarressment of it is no good reason to censor historical records.
But unless it will be used as the basis for future studies then this project is a waste of time, so I don't think you have a valid point here.
Why do you think it won't? Why do you presume this information is, and always will be, useless trash? It is only by archiving without bias and censor that there can ever be an accurate historical record. Archive it all and let the historians sort it out.
In a recent interview I read (don't got a URL, sorry), nVidia specfically said issues with licensed technology restricts them from having fully open drivers.
Of course you can make the case for opening parts of the drivers, etc., but this is what they said.
There were good reasons to be suspicious of the original Mindcraft support, mainly that MS paid for the study and MS techs were consulted heavily to setup the MS box while the Linux box was setup without much (any?) external input.
This study is done by a independant party, and both the nearly identical computers were setup by Dell, in whose best interest it is to make _ALL_ their servers perform well.
Hmm, I could see some interesting possibilities here...
This way you could read your encrypted mail via a web-based email provider, just have the javascript do it on the client side... after all, you sure as hell don't want to be sending _ANYONE_ your private key
You forgot:
(After Pentium II)
Xeon - Full speed on-die cache
They're probably not going to be GPLing anything, this is BSD!
To me the article seemed to stress not broken links among your own page, but broken links from other people's pages to your own, thus causing you to lose out on visitors coming to your site from others.
However, this seems like it could also be done on the local side, by logging the http-referer so you can keep track of any pages that a lot of your visitors seem to be coming from and then notifying them if/when you change your URL's.
If you are concerned primarily with archiving your sound, there's a program I've seen being used by people trading bootlegged CD's called Shorten. It's a non-lossy compression that displays around a 2:1 ratio (there's also a lossy version but I don't know much about it, the ratio is less than MP3 though). There's a company called SoftSound that markets a commerical version for Windows/DOS but I believe there's other version.
I also came across the comp.speech FAQ which has a specific section regarding audio compression standards.
Me, I wouldn't buy it. I'm not endorsing it, I just mentioned it because the author of the message I responded to said he wasn't aware of a board with 2 RAMBUS channels.