Permedia and GLint were chips from 3Dlabs. They were a british company, I remember working with these chips around 1996, so it's been a while. They are not in the graphics cards business anymore:
"On February 24th 2006, 3DLABS refocused its business and stopped developing its workstation graphics cards for the PC and announced it would focus on its new DMS(TM) low-power media-rich application processors."... http://www.3dlabs.com/content/Legacy/
"In women, the operation is performed mostly for advanced and invasive cases of endometrial, ovarian, vaginal, and cervical cancer; for aggressive prostate cancer in men; and rectal cancer in either sex."
Playing pyro was fun, especially when the map, like Fort, was crowded. Pyro was a class I would use when I would be tired of playing the others fun support classes like engineer and medic. I just loved to annoy these soldiers or snipers with rocket fire playing pick-a-boo. Great memories, almost ten years since TF on Quake, not getting any younger.
The Game industry is mature now and the players are known. The game industry, just like the movie and the music industry, tries to lower their risks or at least controls it because they are run by technocrats. The passionates or the craftsmans are not in control anymore, it's the technocrats' turn and they are trying to improve the bottom line by tuning the processes and sticking to things they know work (duplicating the same recipes).
Over time, new players will arrive to grab some part of the market left by the process standardization of theses industries but in the short term, expect the same kind of game, movie and music recipes.
Fricking consultants. By the "You get what you pay for" scale you'd think $125-an-hour would buy you more than a huge pain in the ass like this.
I'm sure you already know that but
This does not necessarily mean that the guy is getting 125$ an hour. It could mean that a consulting firm is paying someone in its staff pool 35$ an hour, making a nice profit from "consulting". That's about the ratio our consultants were getting at my previous job.
Being a consultant is one thing but being the owner of the consultant firm is were the money seems to be.
This coin is not rare at all.
The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.
Another very important subject about this false-espionnage coin:
The Defence Security Service disavowed its warning about spy coins after an international furor, but until now it has never disclosed the details behind the embarrassing episode. The U.S. said it never substantiated the contractors' claims and performed an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page published report about espionage concerns.
This is amazingly easy to verify... this is another embarrassing episode.
It's a thief's dream to get a hold of someone phone number, with some social engineering figure out his address and add them to his contact list.
Now wait for the person to leave his home. Take the time you need, you know he's not in range.
Reminds me of a movie called Louis 19. (EDtv was the American adaptation of the same screenplay for the US market) Where the guy is followed 24/7 by a TV crew. One night he comes back and his apartment was broken into and everything was stolen.
All the more reason NOT to have a publication ban.
the ban was only put in place so that their upcoming criminal trial could be fair with regards to the jury not being influenced by the comission. Since in a criminal trial, the defendent can refuse to testify while in a comission they have to answer by law. (that's why most of them are saying that they dont remember a thing...)
The ban will eventually be lifted once the trial is over and the citizens will be able to go back read what was said by these scumbags.
If a blog leaked it it's fine since the juries are not likely to have read it anyway since blogs are not as present in people's life as radio, newspaper and tv.
I'm sure you knew all that:)
CBC's The Hour last week made a joke about how tv coverage of the comission had more viewer than the Canadian Idol and that the ban will have an negative impact on the people's opinion as ban sounds like censorship in most people's mind.
India, China, and Brazil aren't involved in Kyoto.
until 2012 when they will have to comply based on the treaty. This mean that they wont be penalized for being late with their industrial revolution. China still rely on coal and are probably already trying to reduce that as China is already facing a pollution problem of their own.
the only two countries who haven't signed are Australia and the US. The US being the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas on the planet.
As of Russia, they are already well below their 1992 gas emission quota so it was less of a problem for them to sign the treaty even with some Russian economist not backing Putin. Russia wanted to please the European and reestablish commercial echanges.
What a joke. Hunting used to be to feed your family. What are they going to do, ship the deer overnight?
The concept of killing an animal just for the thrill and fun of it it totally foreign to me. How can someone look at a deer and kill it for the "sport" ? Population control is something but the sport of killing animals is very barbaric. And if you take into account the "techonology" of attracting animal and kill them half a mile away is ever more ludicrous.
Online gun triggered... a new meaning to "a hacker on a killing spree".
With its neverending quest to be able to search everything and anything, perhaphs you'll be able to search the surface of the earth for things in the future through google.
Like WMDs?
Mr. Google please help find direction from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500... to heu, North Korea?
First of all, since only about 50% of the population will vote, it's only about half of that 45% who will be voting for Bush.
There is something puzzling me. This is going to be one of the most important election of a lifetime. How could it be still undecided voters? Get informed people! It's your life too. It's your duty as citizen to get informed independently.
For the first election, everybody makes mistake but if you reelect him again it will be no mistake. It's because you mean it. The gap, in people's mind, between American citizen and the administration is closing quickly. If you reelect him, it means that you agree with his decision of pulling out of the Kyoto Agreement, going to Iraq, creating the PATRIOT Act, letting N. Korea get WMDs, running a record deficit, loosing more jobs than creating new ones, not willing to participate in a world criminal court, etc...
As for the argument of international opinions do not count, I believe, as some posts above said it, that the most powerful nation in the world needs to be trusted by not bullying other nation but by helping the smaller one express themselves and by helping them pull out of proverty. This is the way to foster freedom and to destroy rogue regimes. The best way to create terrorists is to ignore the majority and use force to do what your faith is telling you to do. The world is small and is getting smaller, we need to work as a team not bullying each other.
If you are not rallying the world around you, in 4 years it wont matter if you got a tax cut or not. The global economy will decide for you. Your lifestyle will be directly linked to how you represent your country to the world. As a world leader or as egotistical selfish bully?
With globalization, each nations are now linked to each other. Whatever is about security, environment or economy we are all in it together. I hope the american people will elect a world leader that can rally the other nations to give to our children a better place that it is right now on all front.
I wonder what would say the 25 millions native Spanish speaker living in the United States? What about the 6-7 Millions French speaking Quebecois?
English is not everything. You can treat whoever you want the way you want it in your own house but being an American is not a license to be obnoxious.
As for the parent post saying "and you have just earned yourself an enemy for life." I would have to disagree. Why would I get out of my way to help you if you are not even making the effort to recognize that I'm not your servant? If it turns out that I also speak your language great, but dont assume it.
A few years ago, I worked in Quebec in a gas station (with service) next to the Trans-Canada highway. I can tell you that I've seen everything, from the kids insulting me in front of their parent thinking I didn't speak English to the nice Amercian couple trying everything they learned in High School. When somebody speak to you in your native language, I feel I'm speaking to someone that value my culture and myself, even if it's a simple "Bonjour".
If someone is not speaking the same language as you, he is not less of an American for that.
They even claimed that they could make highend 3D dev systems that could blow the machines of that time away with super realtime rendering, etc
They were not talking about a standard PS2 but their GS cube with 16 PS2 inside one box. It was at Siggraph 2000 (I believe)
From the article, "I just don't see that Cell is revolutionary, except in its marketing impact," Glaskowsky said
The performance mentionned varies with how many Core you put in one dice. So it could be anything if they figure out how to put 256 core inside one Cell.
After trying for some time to invade the TV market with product like WebTV/MSN TV, Microsoft may now just be trying the get in the living room from the game industry instead of the TV broadcasting market?
XBox is just a new platform for their technologies, thus increasing their profit. The success of the first XBox in the game industry might be irrelevant at this point in time.
You guys seem to only argue about human responsibility on global warming. The planet is warming, everyone knows about it. Human are polluting, everyone knows about it too. But are we polluting enough to affect the weather?
If you look at the rate humans are consuming the resources of our planet ( Food, water, forests, fossil fuels, Materials,etc...) and the World population growth without mentioning pollution, I think that we can affect the weather and we can do something about it.
Having a product does not mean that you will be able to make it available to customer. If your business plan rely on on-line order there will be no problem. But if you want to follow other console marketing plan, you will need to have agreement with store like WalMard, Toys'R us, etc... you need TV ads that tell people, who don't knows about your company, that you exist. You need to rub it in their face, if you want to make money.
A console ( or a new computer ) will succeed if the software for this platform is great ( in this case, games ). Hardware does not matter, it's software. If you rely on independent software house with couple thousand dollar project to start the software base of your console I wish you good luck. Hopefully big game house will follow, I truly wish. But how will you compete against near millions dollars project that other console / PC have and will launch with?
I think that a great game is about gameplay and arts. So everybody can do that, no need to be a big game house.
Open Source is great. But when you work on your Open Source project, you will like to see the release when it ready. It takes more time but it's better.
The hardware for your console will be freeze for how many years? If I start a project, how long should I expect it to be running on your new platform. I rarely see good games been out before a year from the starting point. Arts consume a lot of time when making a game.
I don't mind paying 150$ more for your console, if I can burn ISO from the internet. 50$ a game is also a blocker. If an Open Source project give the bin away, I will consider it. But if it's another console with their 50$ games, I will look at the game choice/quality first.
Do you realize that this means we can shoot other people's satilites out of orbit?
I'm not familiar with the ISS but is it not supposed to be an internationnal space station? So who else might be the other people's satilites?
It's probably like "the World series" where only the North american teams fight for the championship;)
Am I correct if I say that only China is not participating in the ISS? Maybe Ernst Blofeld is not a fictionnal character after all and NASA know it...That will explain the need of a laser.
It sounds nice but what will happen if someone invent the "thumbnails". A web page fill with really small pictures (around 5k) that represent people(s) having sexual intercourse. This would be pretty useful for fast download and still be able to see the porn. Who knows? I may finally cashout a little on this one.
I always been disappointed with get rich quick scams, but I know I will get rich, quick, with this scam! [homer]
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Permedia and GLint were chips from 3Dlabs. They were a british company, I remember working with these chips around 1996, so it's been a while. They are not in the graphics cards business anymore:
"On February 24th 2006, 3DLABS refocused its business and stopped developing its workstation graphics cards for the PC and announced it would focus on its new DMS(TM) low-power media-rich application processors." ... http://www.3dlabs.com/content/Legacy/
Just think of Kyoto, anti-personnel mine and Non-Proliferation, etc... I'm sure this is one is even easier to enforce.
"In women, the operation is performed mostly for advanced and invasive cases of endometrial, ovarian, vaginal, and cervical cancer; for aggressive prostate cancer in men; and rectal cancer in either sex."
http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Ce-Fi/Exenteration.html
Reminded me of a Penny-Arcade strip for Empire Earth 2
http://www.empireearth2.com/images/pennyarcade.jpg
was hilarious.
"Behold! More gifts more the heavens"
Playing pyro was fun, especially when the map, like Fort, was crowded. Pyro was a class I would use when I would be tired of playing the others fun support classes like engineer and medic. I just loved to annoy these soldiers or snipers with rocket fire playing pick-a-boo. Great memories, almost ten years since TF on Quake, not getting any younger.
Exactly,
The Game industry is mature now and the players are known. The game industry, just like the movie and the music industry, tries to lower their risks or at least controls it because they are run by technocrats. The passionates or the craftsmans are not in control anymore, it's the technocrats' turn and they are trying to improve the bottom line by tuning the processes and sticking to things they know work (duplicating the same recipes).
Over time, new players will arrive to grab some part of the market left by the process standardization of theses industries but in the short term, expect the same kind of game, movie and music recipes.
my 2 cents.
Fricking consultants. By the "You get what you pay for" scale you'd think $125-an-hour would buy you more than a huge pain in the ass like this.
I'm sure you already know that but
This does not necessarily mean that the guy is getting 125$ an hour. It could mean that a consulting firm is paying someone in its staff pool 35$ an hour, making a nice profit from "consulting". That's about the ratio our consultants were getting at my previous job.
Being a consultant is one thing but being the owner of the consultant firm is were the money seems to be.
This coin is not rare at all.
The mint produced nearly 30 million such quarters in 2004 commemorating Canada's 117,000 war dead.
Another very important subject about this false-espionnage coin:
The Defence Security Service disavowed its warning about spy coins after an international furor, but until now it has never disclosed the details behind the embarrassing episode. The U.S. said it never substantiated the contractors' claims and performed an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page published report about espionage concerns.
This is amazingly easy to verify... this is another embarrassing episode.
It's a thief's dream to get a hold of someone phone number, with some social engineering figure out his address and add them to his contact list.
Now wait for the person to leave his home. Take the time you need, you know he's not in range.
Reminds me of a movie called Louis 19. (EDtv was the American adaptation of the same screenplay for the US market) Where the guy is followed 24/7 by a TV crew. One night he comes back and his apartment was broken into and everything was stolen.
Guess little Johnny isn't going to college now because of a childhood prank. That seems highly unfair.
It's Canada, everybody can go to College if they want to. That kid's generation will be making 100K a year soon enough.
All the more reason NOT to have a publication ban.
:)
the ban was only put in place so that their upcoming criminal trial could be fair with regards to the jury not being influenced by the comission. Since in a criminal trial, the defendent can refuse to testify while in a comission they have to answer by law. (that's why most of them are saying that they dont remember a thing...)
The ban will eventually be lifted once the trial is over and the citizens will be able to go back read what was said by these scumbags.
If a blog leaked it it's fine since the juries are not likely to have read it anyway since blogs are not as present in people's life as radio, newspaper and tv.
I'm sure you knew all that
CBC's The Hour last week made a joke about how tv coverage of the comission had more viewer than the Canadian Idol and that the ban will have an negative impact on the people's opinion as ban sounds like censorship in most people's mind.
India, China, and Brazil aren't involved in Kyoto.
until 2012 when they will have to comply based on the treaty. This mean that they wont be penalized for being late with their industrial revolution. China still rely on coal and are probably already trying to reduce that as China is already facing a pollution problem of their own.
the only two countries who haven't signed are Australia and the US. The US being the biggest emitter of greenhouse gas on the planet.
As of Russia, they are already well below their 1992 gas emission quota so it was less of a problem for them to sign the treaty even with some Russian economist not backing Putin. Russia wanted to please the European and reestablish commercial echanges.
hunters with disabilities.
What a joke. Hunting used to be to feed your family. What are they going to do, ship the deer overnight?
The concept of killing an animal just for the thrill and fun of it it totally foreign to me. How can someone look at a deer and kill it for the "sport" ? Population control is something but the sport of killing animals is very barbaric. And if you take into account the "techonology" of attracting animal and kill them half a mile away is ever more ludicrous.
Online gun triggered... a new meaning to "a hacker on a killing spree".
All so called sport hunters should become preys.
that's an hoax
The IQ's below cannot be verified, and have become a well publicized Internet hoax.
http://www.sq.4mg.com/IQstates.htm
here is the real data:
http://www.sq.4mg.com/stateIQ-income.htm
With its neverending quest to be able to search everything and anything, perhaphs you'll be able to search the surface of the earth for things in the future through google.
... to heu, North Korea?
Like WMDs?
Mr. Google please help find direction from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
First of all, since only about 50% of the population will vote, it's only about half of that 45% who will be voting for Bush.
There is something puzzling me. This is going to be one of the most important election of a lifetime. How could it be still undecided voters? Get informed people! It's your life too. It's your duty as citizen to get informed independently.
For the first election, everybody makes mistake but if you reelect him again it will be no mistake. It's because you mean it. The gap, in people's mind, between American citizen and the administration is closing quickly. If you reelect him, it means that you agree with his decision of pulling out of the Kyoto Agreement, going to Iraq, creating the PATRIOT Act, letting N. Korea get WMDs, running a record deficit, loosing more jobs than creating new ones, not willing to participate in a world criminal court, etc...
As for the argument of international opinions do not count, I believe, as some posts above said it, that the most powerful nation in the world needs to be trusted by not bullying other nation but by helping the smaller one express themselves and by helping them pull out of proverty. This is the way to foster freedom and to destroy rogue regimes. The best way to create terrorists is to ignore the majority and use force to do what your faith is telling you to do. The world is small and is getting smaller, we need to work as a team not bullying each other.
If you are not rallying the world around you, in 4 years it wont matter if you got a tax cut or not. The global economy will decide for you. Your lifestyle will be directly linked to how you represent your country to the world. As a world leader or as egotistical selfish bully?
With globalization, each nations are now linked to each other. Whatever is about security, environment or economy we are all in it together. I hope the american people will elect a world leader that can rally the other nations to give to our children a better place that it is right now on all front.
If you live here, speak "American" please!
I wonder what would say the 25 millions native Spanish speaker living in the United States? What about the 6-7 Millions French speaking Quebecois?
English is not everything. You can treat whoever you want the way you want it in your own house but being an American is not a license to be obnoxious.
As for the parent post saying "and you have just earned yourself an enemy for life." I would have to disagree. Why would I get out of my way to help you if you are not even making the effort to recognize that I'm not your servant? If it turns out that I also speak your language great, but dont assume it.
A few years ago, I worked in Quebec in a gas station (with service) next to the Trans-Canada highway. I can tell you that I've seen everything, from the kids insulting me in front of their parent thinking I didn't speak English to the nice Amercian couple trying everything they learned in High School. When somebody speak to you in your native language, I feel I'm speaking to someone that value my culture and myself, even if it's a simple "Bonjour".
If someone is not speaking the same language as you, he is not less of an American for that.
Cheers.
They want french+any_other_language on the sign.
I don't think they are forcing you to speak the language of moliere only.
big difference.
I would ask you read the parent post again. He's right on. The NDP offered an opt-out program for Canada. I would vote for that.
They even claimed that they could make highend 3D dev systems that could blow the machines of that time away with super realtime rendering, etc
They were not talking about a standard PS2 but their GS cube with 16 PS2 inside one box. It was at Siggraph 2000 (I believe)
From the article, "I just don't see that Cell is revolutionary, except in its marketing impact," Glaskowsky said
The performance mentionned varies with how many Core you put in one dice. So it could be anything if they figure out how to put 256 core inside one Cell.
After trying for some time to invade the TV market with product like WebTV/MSN TV, Microsoft may now just be trying the get in the living room from the game industry instead of the TV broadcasting market?
XBox is just a new platform for their technologies, thus increasing their profit. The success of the first XBox in the game industry might be irrelevant at this point in time.
If I were a judge, I'll treat an internet transaction just like a phone transaction.
You do business with a foreign company. Buy an illegal good; illegal where you live at least.
Are you suing the foreign company for selling illegal goods or you're suing your citizen for buying an illegal good?
Don't know, and I'll would like to know the answer.
You guys seem to only argue about human responsibility on global warming. The planet is warming, everyone knows about it. Human are polluting, everyone knows about it too. But are we polluting enough to affect the weather?
If you look at the rate humans are consuming the resources of our planet ( Food, water, forests, fossil fuels, Materials,etc...) and the World population growth without mentioning pollution, I think that we can affect the weather and we can do something about it.
It's always better to prevent than repair.
recommended reading:
Beyond the Limits
Having a product does not mean that you will be able to make it available to customer. If your business plan rely on on-line order there will be no problem. But if you want to follow other console marketing plan, you will need to have agreement with store like WalMard, Toys'R us, etc... you need TV ads that tell people, who don't knows about your company, that you exist. You need to rub it in their face, if you want to make money.
A console ( or a new computer ) will succeed if the software for this platform is great ( in this case, games ). Hardware does not matter, it's software. If you rely on independent software house with couple thousand dollar project to start the software base of your console I wish you good luck. Hopefully big game house will follow, I truly wish. But how will you compete against near millions dollars project that other console / PC have and will launch with?
I think that a great game is about gameplay and arts. So everybody can do that, no need to be a big game house.
Open Source is great. But when you work on your Open Source project, you will like to see the release when it ready. It takes more time but it's better.
The hardware for your console will be freeze for how many years? If I start a project, how long should I expect it to be running on your new platform. I rarely see good games been out before a year from the starting point. Arts consume a lot of time when making a game.
I don't mind paying 150$ more for your console, if I can burn ISO from the internet. 50$ a game is also a blocker. If an Open Source project give the bin away, I will consider it. But if it's another console with their 50$ games, I will look at the game choice/quality first.
Do you realize that this means we can shoot other people's satilites out of orbit?
;)
I'm not familiar with the ISS but is it not supposed to be an internationnal space station? So who else might be the other people's satilites?
It's probably like "the World series" where only the North american teams fight for the championship
Am I correct if I say that only China is not participating in the ISS? Maybe Ernst Blofeld is not a fictionnal character after all and NASA know it...That will explain the need of a laser.
Have you seen "You only live twice"?
It sounds nice but what will happen if someone invent the "thumbnails". A web page fill with really small pictures (around 5k) that represent people(s) having sexual intercourse. This would be pretty useful for fast download and still be able to see the porn. Who knows? I may finally cashout a little on this one.
I always been disappointed with get rich quick scams, but I know I will get rich, quick, with this scam! [homer]