Wow, 1000 thank yous for this info. The only thing I read did say around 1.2G which would have been competitive with todays greatest, but not tomarrows.
If they really do come a 2g they should 0wn.
Re:Tell that to 3Dfx.
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If I'm not mistaken 3dfx released a very very expensive (was it 700 dollors?) card that required external power, had obnoxious fans, terible 2d crispness, and performed only marginally better then the Gforce of the time?
I really don't think all of that was due to their building the boards themselves, but I could be wrong.
Nvidia obviously made the right choice, they were able to tighten up the market without themselves feeling the burn of the price war since they made a proffit on evercard sold no matter what. That is probably a big part of how they got on top, but I also think that this may give ATI the chance it neads to overtake them.
Either way Nvidia is still in a great place, #2 isn't really the first loser in a market big enough to support them.
Could it be that Nvidia's model of farming out the production as a way to sell shit really cheap allowed too much compatition on in the market?
They were able to offer the least expensive product (Nvidia) and not themselves worry about the selling at a loss part.
Nvidia's stradegy was great on paper, but it may bite them in the ass in the long run.
Having the largest supplier die at this moment could give ATI the boost it neaded to scream back on top. With the next generation of cards coming out so soon, and this likely to increase the cost of the Gforce cards.
We don't really know where the Hammer will be, but it will nead to REALLY outperform perclock to beat that. Like 2.5 times more effective per a clock if I am not mistaken (My understanding is they wanted a 1.2 Ghz release).
The test chip tht was benchmarked was a 800 Mhz and it did well per a clock, but I forget the specifics.
Funny, I have family traditions that are well under half a century, but be damned if they are missed. There is no age on a tradition, it is a matter of if it is a tradition or not.
Of course if you feel it truly is a bad tradition, you should break it. We don't sacrifice virgins to feed our crops anymore, no nead to sacrifice poor mine workers who see probably well under 5% of that money either.
My dad almost got my stepmom a non diamond ring (the kind of stone that reflects a star instead). But deicided the time wasn't right, and gave it to her as a birthday present instead. When they did get engaged it was a diamond ring she received (probably a life saver on his part too).
Come on, by the time that the project is finished hardware will probably be cheap enough that they can make money on the Xbox.
Also, they get a larger market share in all the statistics, which gives them more games, and then a better shot at larger market share in reality.
But mostly it's the first part I have issues with. I really find it hard to believe there will be a signifigent loss on the hardware in the not to long term future. Even right when it came out I think $350.00 US was supposed to be around breakeven (my not be true at all, just what I heard).
Good thing we'll both probably be alive in 15 years. Really, in the scheme of things burying a patent doesn't hurt anyone but the company that baught it. They spent money on this device, and now when it comes off patent they will still nead to compete against it, but lo and behold, not one manufacturer, but multiple. So as consumers we had to wait, but now when we here about the hypospray, we will simulteaniously be able to afford it. And for christ sake, we have had humanity with technology for at least 2500 years (grecco roman times?) what harm is 15 years of blocked progress?
It's not like they copyrighted them (that would be a disaster).
Humor aside, the point is not just that it must be hard to ecode, but it must reveal itself in a few years. Writing it down would be very easy to destroy.
I would imagine you could best do it by haxoring a computer on the internet that is very nlickly to get updated in the next few years.
You also could possibly make a worm that installed itself very slowly so that it would go relativle undetected, and hopefully there will still be a system with it running in 3 years, to aggressivly spew it to everyone.
You could also setup a small ccomputer with a spam program to start spewing out the info when you wanted. Again I would hide it on a corporate network where it will probably go unnoticed. A hacked Zaurous could be hidden in a plennum, or in some hole in the wall.
Lastly you could go with some machanical approach, and bury it somewhere with a rather constant rate of errosion, so that it would be exposed when you wanted it too. You would probably want to do it all over the place, so that if one of the people who doesnt want it descovered is the one that sees the capsule you burried, there are still others out there. This of course carries a high risk of someone discovering it in advnce.
Well, in Peru the "law" is really just a policy put down formally for all of the gavernment. And I could imagine how you would nead to very much formalize a major change like this.
It is a matter of telling people, hey we diecided this is better. Or based on the merits of free saftware, we want it used wherever possible. Only use nonfree software where you MUST do so.
If to make that a policy in your country it must be passed as a law, so what.
quote from the article--"ReBorn will be released as Open Source in the near future once the code is ready. That's the deal - take it or leave it. "
He probably doesn't want to release the code having it look like shit. If this is going to build this guys rep in the community and/or help him get a job, it should look nice and pretty. If I am not mistaken I have enven read someware that a project should not be opened until the beta at earliest, and there is nothing wrong with finishing everything you want before opening yourself to an onslaught of patches.
My understanding was that 32 bit was 24 bit with the alpha [-adding. The sole purpose of this was performance, since computers and find offsets and do calculations on powers of two a lot faster then on 24. This is because to multiply by a power of two it is a bit shift. not a multipication.
If you could in properly configured setup with good hardware make even WIN95 or DOS crash 26 times a day, I would be very impressed.
Unless you count letting crappy software crash the OS as an OS problem.
I used DOS for autocad and still do sometimes (version 12), and it is very stable, even when running a TSR cd player in the background.
Re:How do you rescind acceptance of the EULA?
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The EULA itself should tell you how to get out of it. Most likely deleting WMP would do, but they could very easily say "this contract is binding, blah blah you must delete all MS software to get out of it".
My warcraft III EULA says I must delete the program and destroy the media to rescind the contract after agreeing to it. Or before hand I can send them the unused media for a full refund.
The comment about RedHat was reffering to the fact that they will not let people sell RedHat Linux as such. You can download and sell it, but must give it a different name.
I think that the rebranding of a package with some plusses and minusis, is OK, of course in this the minuses WAY outway the plusses. The name Napster though makes the entire thing much more accessable which is a benifit.
After reading more of the posts though I will retract my statement that I think the company is OK, they reliscensed CDex, even if they do provide the source, they did not use the GPL.
As far as adding the spy/add ware I always thought part of the reason the GPL is used is because no matter what people do to the program, you can do anyone else can do whatever they want forever and forever.
As far as preying on the dumb, pretty much everybussiness out there does that to an extent. I work at a copy shop, we do work for large companies that could save money if they could get their act together and do work inhouse, that extra money is our profit.
Whatever, I really lost interest in this post by now.
Didn't Sony greatly exagerate the PS2's ability. If I am not mistaken the designers of Metal Gear Solid 2 had to really throttle back their expectations. And 3 million polygons a second?
Yeah, if they are all solid grey and the same triangle.
I will believe any claims they make when they have a real demo of it.
What moraly wrong about what they are doing. They are distributing the software for free as in beer. But want some money, so they add add and spyware. If it is made clear that there is spyware involved, then so what. Even if they distributed the exact same thing they may nead to change the name (see RedHat).
The original product is in no way tainted, and yet some more people get its functionality.
P.S. What is so wrong about addware? I love the Opera browser, and it is addware by my choice. Why is that so bad??? Also, there are plenty of pay for surf type volentary spyware, and again, so what.
I think that what we really nead is a new protocal. With the devices have 1k of ROM in reality (see other posts), the overhead of using ascii text to communicate, and store your data is a lot. Why not invent some new hyper pared down standard, and distribute a client. Or just enconde html in 8 bits and use that.
With 1k though, I would imagine using 4 bits worth of commands, and then all the syntax stuff encoded to be tighter would be worth it.
Re:Old games != easy to find
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Wow, I am realy impressed, you were able to find 10 garage sales a day, and still have time to eat, sleep, and presumably make enough money to survive?
Come on, if you are telling a story about ho hard it actually is to find games, don't use hyperbole, be honest.
" Er, you might want to consider electing moral officials in the future. Every vote cast for a Democrat is a vote for our country to slide right down into the sewer. "
I would argue that any vote for a politition will end in that result. If you really think voting for either of the parties that really stands a chance is better then the other, you are just wrong.
You are the lamest FP troll ever. For Christ's sake, already there are some posts on topic.
Anyway, if I were to try all the doors at the court house, find one that is routinly unlocked and goed to a restricded area, and then talk about it. I would imagine there would be some questions for me to answer in a room with a bright light.
It could also mean that any music purchase is optional. Many people here still buy CD's that they have already downloaded. But I have a hard time imagining them disagreeing with that statement. I buy a CD every other month, I could easily keep up with that buy downlaoding, but choose not to. That is to me more an example of ambiguously phrased question to get "shocking" results. I have a really hard time imagining that 1/5 of the population truley downloads instead of buying or listen to primarily independent bands. But most everyone I know would agree that they no longer HAVE to buy CD's because of the peer to peer revolution.
What I was actually thinking when reading through this is way randomize at all?
If only the aggregate is of interest, why not do research on how people falsify and as you said trashing the obvious lies. These people lieing after all are just noise (but probably not 100% random).
I have not seen a single post of someone here saying that this will help them tell the truth, so it would seam that applying the same theroies to already collected data but taking into account that the noise is not pure would be a much more effecient way to do it.
Of course that would not sound new, and would therefore not be marketable.
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Wow, 1000 thank yous for this info. The only thing I read did say around 1.2G which would have been competitive with todays greatest, but not tomarrows.
If they really do come a 2g they should 0wn.
If I'm not mistaken 3dfx released a very very expensive (was it 700 dollors?) card that required external power, had obnoxious fans, terible 2d crispness, and performed only marginally better then the Gforce of the time?
I really don't think all of that was due to their building the boards themselves, but I could be wrong.
Nvidia obviously made the right choice, they were able to tighten up the market without themselves feeling the burn of the price war since they made a proffit on evercard sold no matter what. That is probably a big part of how they got on top, but I also think that this may give ATI the chance it neads to overtake them.
Either way Nvidia is still in a great place, #2 isn't really the first loser in a market big enough to support them.
Could it be that Nvidia's model of farming out the production as a way to sell shit really cheap allowed too much compatition on in the market?
They were able to offer the least expensive product (Nvidia) and not themselves worry about the selling at a loss part.
Nvidia's stradegy was great on paper, but it may bite them in the ass in the long run.
Having the largest supplier die at this moment could give ATI the boost it neaded to scream back on top. With the next generation of cards coming out so soon, and this likely to increase the cost of the Gforce cards.
The P4 will be somewhere aound 3 Ghz probably
We don't really know where the Hammer will be, but it will nead to REALLY outperform perclock to beat that. Like 2.5 times more effective per a clock if I am not mistaken (My understanding is they wanted a 1.2 Ghz release).
The test chip tht was benchmarked was a 800 Mhz and it did well per a clock, but I forget the specifics.
or maybe he was being sarcastic, referring to the fact that with 10 times the entire market, there was still not enough business?
DUH
Is it really fair to watch a movie you payed to watch ounce as much as you want?
Funny, I have family traditions that are well under half a century, but be damned if they are missed. There is no age on a tradition, it is a matter of if it is a tradition or not.
Of course if you feel it truly is a bad tradition, you should break it. We don't sacrifice virgins to feed our crops anymore, no nead to sacrifice poor mine workers who see probably well under 5% of that money either.
My dad almost got my stepmom a non diamond ring (the kind of stone that reflects a star instead). But deicided the time wasn't right, and gave it to her as a birthday present instead. When they did get engaged it was a diamond ring she received (probably a life saver on his part too).
Come on, by the time that the project is finished hardware will probably be cheap enough that they can make money on the Xbox.
Also, they get a larger market share in all the statistics, which gives them more games, and then a better shot at larger market share in reality.
But mostly it's the first part I have issues with. I really find it hard to believe there will be a signifigent loss on the hardware in the not to long term future. Even right when it came out I think $350.00 US was supposed to be around breakeven (my not be true at all, just what I heard).
Good thing we'll both probably be alive in 15 years. Really, in the scheme of things burying a patent doesn't hurt anyone but the company that baught it. They spent money on this device, and now when it comes off patent they will still nead to compete against it, but lo and behold, not one manufacturer, but multiple. So as consumers we had to wait, but now when we here about the hypospray, we will simulteaniously be able to afford it. And for christ sake, we have had humanity with technology for at least 2500 years (grecco roman times?) what harm is 15 years of blocked progress?
It's not like they copyrighted them (that would be a disaster).
Humor aside, the point is not just that it must be hard to ecode, but it must reveal itself in a few years. Writing it down would be very easy to destroy.
I would imagine you could best do it by haxoring a computer on the internet that is very nlickly to get updated in the next few years.
You also could possibly make a worm that installed itself very slowly so that it would go relativle undetected, and hopefully there will still be a system with it running in 3 years, to aggressivly spew it to everyone.
You could also setup a small ccomputer with a spam program to start spewing out the info when you wanted. Again I would hide it on a corporate network where it will probably go unnoticed. A hacked Zaurous could be hidden in a plennum, or in some hole in the wall.
Lastly you could go with some machanical approach, and bury it somewhere with a rather constant rate of errosion, so that it would be exposed when you wanted it too. You would probably want to do it all over the place, so that if one of the people who doesnt want it descovered is the one that sees the capsule you burried, there are still others out there. This of course carries a high risk of someone discovering it in advnce.
Well, in Peru the "law" is really just a policy put down formally for all of the gavernment. And I could imagine how you would nead to very much formalize a major change like this.
It is a matter of telling people, hey we diecided this is better. Or based on the merits of free saftware, we want it used wherever possible. Only use nonfree software where you MUST do so.
If to make that a policy in your country it must be passed as a law, so what.
quote from the article--"ReBorn will be released as Open Source in the near future once the code is ready. That's the deal - take it or leave it. "
He probably doesn't want to release the code having it look like shit. If this is going to build this guys rep in the community and/or help him get a job, it should look nice and pretty. If I am not mistaken I have enven read someware that a project should not be opened until the beta at earliest, and there is nothing wrong with finishing everything you want before opening yourself to an onslaught of patches.
My understanding was that 32 bit was 24 bit with the alpha [-adding. The sole purpose of this was performance, since computers and find offsets and do calculations on powers of two a lot faster then on 24. This is because to multiply by a power of two it is a bit shift. not a multipication.
If you could in properly configured setup with good hardware make even WIN95 or DOS crash 26 times a day, I would be very impressed.
Unless you count letting crappy software crash the OS as an OS problem.
I used DOS for autocad and still do sometimes (version 12), and it is very stable, even when running a TSR cd player in the background.
The EULA itself should tell you how to get out of it. Most likely deleting WMP would do, but they could very easily say "this contract is binding, blah blah you must delete all MS software to get out of it".
My warcraft III EULA says I must delete the program and destroy the media to rescind the contract after agreeing to it. Or before hand I can send them the unused media for a full refund.
The comment about RedHat was reffering to the fact that they will not let people sell RedHat Linux as such. You can download and sell it, but must give it a different name.
I think that the rebranding of a package with some plusses and minusis, is OK, of course in this the minuses WAY outway the plusses. The name Napster though makes the entire thing much more accessable which is a benifit.
After reading more of the posts though I will retract my statement that I think the company is OK, they reliscensed CDex, even if they do provide the source, they did not use the GPL.
As far as adding the spy/add ware I always thought part of the reason the GPL is used is because no matter what people do to the program, you can do anyone else can do whatever they want forever and forever.
As far as preying on the dumb, pretty much everybussiness out there does that to an extent. I work at a copy shop, we do work for large companies that could save money if they could get their act together and do work inhouse, that extra money is our profit.
Whatever, I really lost interest in this post by now.
Didn't Sony greatly exagerate the PS2's ability. If I am not mistaken the designers of Metal Gear Solid 2 had to really throttle back their expectations. And 3 million polygons a second?
Yeah, if they are all solid grey and the same triangle.
I will believe any claims they make when they have a real demo of it.
What moraly wrong about what they are doing. They are distributing the software for free as in beer. But want some money, so they add add and spyware. If it is made clear that there is spyware involved, then so what. Even if they distributed the exact same thing they may nead to change the name (see RedHat).
The original product is in no way tainted, and yet some more people get its functionality.
P.S. What is so wrong about addware?
I love the Opera browser, and it is addware by my choice. Why is that so bad???
Also, there are plenty of pay for surf type volentary spyware, and again, so what.
I think that what we really nead is a new protocal. With the devices have 1k of ROM in reality (see other posts), the overhead of using ascii text to communicate, and store your data is a lot. Why not invent some new hyper pared down standard, and distribute a client. Or just enconde html in 8 bits and use that.
With 1k though, I would imagine using 4 bits worth of commands, and then all the syntax stuff encoded to be tighter would be worth it.
Wow, I am realy impressed, you were able to find 10 garage sales a day, and still have time to eat, sleep, and presumably make enough money to survive?
Come on, if you are telling a story about ho hard it actually is to find games, don't use hyperbole, be honest.
" Er, you might want to consider electing moral officials in the future. Every vote cast for a Democrat is a vote for our country to slide right down into the sewer. "
I would argue that any vote for a politition will end in that result. If you really think voting for either of the parties that really stands a chance is better then the other, you are just wrong.
You are the lamest FP troll ever. For Christ's sake, already there are some posts on topic.
Anyway, if I were to try all the doors at the court house, find one that is routinly unlocked and goed to a restricded area, and then talk about it. I would imagine there would be some questions for me to answer in a room with a bright light.
This sounds a lot like reverse engineering CSS so that the information in the movie may be used by someone?
Or is it that the DVD is not a computer program, so it is immune from the interoperability part?
It could also mean that any music purchase is optional. Many people here still buy CD's that they have already downloaded. But I have a hard time imagining them disagreeing with that statement. I buy a CD every other month, I could easily keep up with that buy downlaoding, but choose not to.
That is to me more an example of ambiguously phrased question to get "shocking" results. I have a really hard time imagining that 1/5 of the population truley downloads instead of buying or listen to primarily independent bands. But most everyone I know would agree that they no longer HAVE to buy CD's because of the peer to peer revolution.
What I was actually thinking when reading through this is way randomize at all?
If only the aggregate is of interest, why not do research on how people falsify and as you said trashing the obvious lies. These people lieing after all are just noise (but probably not 100% random).
I have not seen a single post of someone here saying that this will help them tell the truth, so it would seam that applying the same theroies to already collected data but taking into account that the noise is not pure would be a much more effecient way to do it.
Of course that would not sound new, and would therefore not be marketable.