For Nvidia, these have been 6800, 7800, 8800, 9800, 280, 480.
An Nvidia 250GTS *is* a 9800 with slightly less power consumption. If you can't afford a 280, a 250 is a reasonable purchase. Makes more sense than buying a 9800 today.
This is especially stupid since software has no moving parts to wear out, and is one reason I hate Windows and love Linux. When support stops for a Windows distro you're out of luck, but Linux support is always there.
Bitrot happens even on linux. Just try and use an old version of Linux from 2001 or so on period hardware. You won't be able to take advantage of linux's biggest advantage, the software repositories. Try and use them and you'll pull in an updated distro. You really do have to constantly update a Linux box, but the updates are free and automatic so it's not so onerous.
What's really bad is when you have an old piece of software that was written for an old version of GCC. Newer GCCs are more strict, so you may not be able to compile it with modern GCC without some serious hacking. And the libraries a binary needs are probably no longer in the repositories, so you may have to hunt them down, manually install them and do trickery with ld_library_path to get it to run.
As much as I prefer Linux to Windows, it has its share of backwards compatibility problems too.
I didn't see a scatter plot of price vs fps. Does this $200 card get you twice the fps of a $100 card? What do you get for the extra hundred that's actually worth an extra hundred?
The funny part is that copyright is actually a form of government control of markets that would feel right at home under Communism. Any other market and it's "oh no, the government can't regulate. That would be socialism!". Let's let the free market set a fair price for informational goods instead of propping up the industry with the threat of force.
Fiber makes you feel full too, and it's a very easy measure of whether a given carbohydrate-heavy food is healthy or not. If it's got less than 2g of fiber, it's almost guaranteed to be junk food.
True. Something like fried catfish isn't exactly health food. But it's mostly oil and protein which fill you up more quickly than carbs and keep you full longer.
Saying sugar is a carbohydrate is like saying trans-fat is a fat, therefore we shouldn't eat any fat. Sugar is a simple carbohydrate. That doesn't mean the high fiber complex carbohydrates humans have been eating as long as they've been around are suddenly bad for us.
Yes, as long as there's fiber in them. Starches are so readily converted to sugars that complex vs simple sugars almost doesn't matter. Nutritionally, when you're eating pasta or white bread you might as well be eating candy.
How do you measure calories in diet soda such that it's in 100% agreement with how the human body processes it?
Throw it in a bomb calorimeter and we have an absolute thermodynamic maximum for the number of calories the body can extract from it. It's negligible. The problem with diet soda is that people think they can supersize their fries because they got the diet coke.
Low-fiber foods that don't make you feel full? Sure.
Fat and protein make you feel full. What's left? Carbs.
Overly-refined foods packed with excessive sugar? Sure.
What do you think sugar is? It's a carbohydrate.
Beverages (including milk, but namely soda and "diet" soda) with as many calories as a meal? Sure.
Milk? If you're drinking half and half, sure.
Soda? It's sweetened with glucose and fructose. Carbohydrates.
Diet soda? How many calories are in a diet soda? Go ahead, look it up.
Anyay, carbohydrates aren't bad for you. But too many carbohydrates are. All these factors that you readily admit are contributing to the obesity epidemic are in fact directly related to the abundance of cheap carbs in the American diet.
Or read the opinion, which will obviate the need for figuring. She explains her justification for the damages figure (3 times the statutory minimum) quite thoroughly
When statutory damages are 750 times actual damages, the statutory damages are clearly unconstitutional. There's no explaining that.
If the defendant provably lied under oath, prosecute them for perjury. Tacking damages onto another judgment is wrong.
Ethics are not there just to be there, they are there because they make business sense
I think you have your causation reversed. Ethics don't exist because they make business sense. They exist because they're the right thing to do. Sometimes ethics make business sense, but only when people see that you're not doing the right thing. By and large it makes very good business sense to ignore ethics entirely, and apologize when you're caught.
Vaccines and antibiotics have never been more than a temporary measure against disease. Resistant HIV strains will become more common, just as resistant strains of Staph have. But if we can save millions of lives in the mean time, that's a good thing.
You might consider contributing to an existing project. There's no Apple joystick support in the retro adapter yet, and the whole project is open source. The adapters are pretty cheaply available for those who don't want to solder, and plans are available for those who do.
I've seen these, and similar devices elsewhere. One thing that bothers me is the potential for the introduction of input lag. I would really like to see some tests done to measure the time between when the adapter receives input and when it outputs a button press.
I have an X-arcade, and it's great for mid level arcade gaming. It works great for my purposes. However, people who compete in Street Fighter tournaments and go for high scores in Cave shmups complain about a small amount of lag, and difficulty hitting diagonals. The sticks aren't authentic arcade parts, and who knows what the PCB is doing. If I didn't find the X-arcade for real cheap, I would have built my own stick from Happ parts and an I-Pac. I don't think these issues affect play at my level, but it would be nice for peace of mind to know for sure they are not.
This fellow is in the Netherlands, where non-commercial use of patents is entirely legal. Any threats of legal action are uncalled for, and suggesting he take down his blog post when Shazam has published an even more detailed white paper is simply beyond the pale.
It is relevant, as it explains why we've had to wait until now for a mechanism to push events from the server, which is what the parent asked about. It also explains why the browser has so far sucked as an application platform. Hopefully web sockets will do something to alleviate that.
Personally, I deal with hundreds, sometimes over a thousand, of these notices per day. What is absolutely batshit crazy is that we don't know who the hell these people are and what their music is. Google's (YouTube) system has made thousands upon thousands of mistakes already with just the system I manage. All of the content that is being uploaded has fully licensed music in it. Fully Licensed. We have disputed it a couple dozen times and attached proof. We have yet to hear ANYTHING from Google or YouTube. Nothing. Completely Ignored. We already gave up a long time ago.
Are you filing DMCA counter notices? Is Google ignoring them? If so, sue Google.
Google will forward any DMCA notices to you. Those notices are signed. If they are falsely claiming rights over music you have licensed, take them to court.
It seems that it's not even fair use if you have express permission from the artist. My fiancée has had DMCA takedown notices from recording companies even after having express permission to use music on her blog from the artists themselves. The blog is a music blog reviewing bands, somehow using short clips of music attached to a positive review is seen as copyright infringement.
Did you file a counter notice? If you do, your provider *must* reinstate the work in question, or you can sue. Then it's between you and the label. If you actually had permission from the rights holder, whoever filed the DMCA notice is guilty of perjury.
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For Nvidia, these have been 6800, 7800, 8800, 9800, 280, 480.
An Nvidia 250GTS *is* a 9800 with slightly less power consumption. If you can't afford a 280, a 250 is a reasonable purchase. Makes more sense than buying a 9800 today.
This is especially stupid since software has no moving parts to wear out, and is one reason I hate Windows and love Linux. When support stops for a Windows distro you're out of luck, but Linux support is always there.
Bitrot happens even on linux. Just try and use an old version of Linux from 2001 or so on period hardware. You won't be able to take advantage of linux's biggest advantage, the software repositories. Try and use them and you'll pull in an updated distro. You really do have to constantly update a Linux box, but the updates are free and automatic so it's not so onerous.
What's really bad is when you have an old piece of software that was written for an old version of GCC. Newer GCCs are more strict, so you may not be able to compile it with modern GCC without some serious hacking. And the libraries a binary needs are probably no longer in the repositories, so you may have to hunt them down, manually install them and do trickery with ld_library_path to get it to run.
As much as I prefer Linux to Windows, it has its share of backwards compatibility problems too.
I didn't see a scatter plot of price vs fps. Does this $200 card get you twice the fps of a $100 card? What do you get for the extra hundred that's actually worth an extra hundred?
Funny thing is, you're probably safer at this point with Win98 than an old version of XP.
The funny part is that copyright is actually a form of government control of markets that would feel right at home under Communism. Any other market and it's "oh no, the government can't regulate. That would be socialism!". Let's let the free market set a fair price for informational goods instead of propping up the industry with the threat of force.
Fiber makes you feel full too, and it's a very easy measure of whether a given carbohydrate-heavy food is healthy or not. If it's got less than 2g of fiber, it's almost guaranteed to be junk food.
True. Something like fried catfish isn't exactly health food. But it's mostly oil and protein which fill you up more quickly than carbs and keep you full longer.
Saying sugar is a carbohydrate is like saying trans-fat is a fat, therefore we shouldn't eat any fat. Sugar is a simple carbohydrate. That doesn't mean the high fiber complex carbohydrates humans have been eating as long as they've been around are suddenly bad for us.
Yes, as long as there's fiber in them. Starches are so readily converted to sugars that complex vs simple sugars almost doesn't matter. Nutritionally, when you're eating pasta or white bread you might as well be eating candy.
How do you measure calories in diet soda such that it's in 100% agreement with how the human body processes it?
Throw it in a bomb calorimeter and we have an absolute thermodynamic maximum for the number of calories the body can extract from it. It's negligible. The problem with diet soda is that people think they can supersize their fries because they got the diet coke.
Low-fiber foods that don't make you feel full? Sure.
Fat and protein make you feel full. What's left? Carbs.
Overly-refined foods packed with excessive sugar? Sure.
What do you think sugar is? It's a carbohydrate.
Beverages (including milk, but namely soda and "diet" soda) with as many calories as a meal? Sure.
Milk? If you're drinking half and half, sure.
Soda? It's sweetened with glucose and fructose. Carbohydrates.
Diet soda? How many calories are in a diet soda? Go ahead, look it up.
Anyay, carbohydrates aren't bad for you. But too many carbohydrates are. All these factors that you readily admit are contributing to the obesity epidemic are in fact directly related to the abundance of cheap carbs in the American diet.
The decision seems to say that $2,250 is 3 times the "statutory minimum" of $750.
If 3 times the statutory minimum is 2 thousand times the actual damages, then the statute is clearly unconstitutional. What logic could justify that?
Or read the opinion, which will obviate the need for figuring. She explains her justification for the damages figure (3 times the statutory minimum) quite thoroughly
When statutory damages are 750 times actual damages, the statutory damages are clearly unconstitutional. There's no explaining that.
If the defendant provably lied under oath, prosecute them for perjury. Tacking damages onto another judgment is wrong.
No sir, I value my privacy. Glad to see you practice what you preach at least.
So, what's your real name?
Ethics are not there just to be there, they are there because they make business sense
I think you have your causation reversed. Ethics don't exist because they make business sense. They exist because they're the right thing to do. Sometimes ethics make business sense, but only when people see that you're not doing the right thing. By and large it makes very good business sense to ignore ethics entirely, and apologize when you're caught.
I thought it was because of exploding sharks.
I only noticed, nobody managed to cheat death yet, but think they will some day :-).
Abe Vigoda seems to be doing pretty well at it. If he ever does actually die, no one's going to believe it.
Vaccines and antibiotics have never been more than a temporary measure against disease. Resistant HIV strains will become more common, just as resistant strains of Staph have. But if we can save millions of lives in the mean time, that's a good thing.
And all of this is nothing compared to Washington accounting.
You might consider contributing to an existing project. There's no Apple joystick support in the retro adapter yet, and the whole project is open source. The adapters are pretty cheaply available for those who don't want to solder, and plans are available for those who do.
I've seen these, and similar devices elsewhere. One thing that bothers me is the potential for the introduction of input lag. I would really like to see some tests done to measure the time between when the adapter receives input and when it outputs a button press.
I have an X-arcade, and it's great for mid level arcade gaming. It works great for my purposes. However, people who compete in Street Fighter tournaments and go for high scores in Cave shmups complain about a small amount of lag, and difficulty hitting diagonals. The sticks aren't authentic arcade parts, and who knows what the PCB is doing. If I didn't find the X-arcade for real cheap, I would have built my own stick from Happ parts and an I-Pac. I don't think these issues affect play at my level, but it would be nice for peace of mind to know for sure they are not.
This fellow is in the Netherlands, where non-commercial use of patents is entirely legal. Any threats of legal action are uncalled for, and suggesting he take down his blog post when Shazam has published an even more detailed white paper is simply beyond the pale.
It is relevant, as it explains why we've had to wait until now for a mechanism to push events from the server, which is what the parent asked about. It also explains why the browser has so far sucked as an application platform. Hopefully web sockets will do something to alleviate that.
Because the hypertext transfer protocol was designed to transfer hypertext documents. It was not designed to be a remote application protocol.
That's a pretty poor simulation then. In real life, girls go for the jerks.
Personally, I deal with hundreds, sometimes over a thousand, of these notices per day. What is absolutely batshit crazy is that we don't know who the hell these people are and what their music is. Google's (YouTube) system has made thousands upon thousands of mistakes already with just the system I manage. All of the content that is being uploaded has fully licensed music in it. Fully Licensed. We have disputed it a couple dozen times and attached proof. We have yet to hear ANYTHING from Google or YouTube. Nothing. Completely Ignored. We already gave up a long time ago.
Are you filing DMCA counter notices? Is Google ignoring them? If so, sue Google.
Google will forward any DMCA notices to you. Those notices are signed. If they are falsely claiming rights over music you have licensed, take them to court.
It seems that it's not even fair use if you have express permission from the artist. My fiancée has had DMCA takedown notices from recording companies even after having express permission to use music on her blog from the artists themselves. The blog is a music blog reviewing bands, somehow using short clips of music attached to a positive review is seen as copyright infringement.
Did you file a counter notice? If you do, your provider *must* reinstate the work in question, or you can sue. Then it's between you and the label. If you actually had permission from the rights holder, whoever filed the DMCA notice is guilty of perjury.