Unfortunately, a company that cannot be beat by anyone. Combine NVidia's better technology with 3DFX's better and more experienced marketing division (they managed to sell Voodoo 5's on decent print ads alone) and you have a killer combination.
Big problem though: with only one large company the market will disappear. It's as if Intel bought AMD.
One could argue that creation is a process that turns something out of nothing (as I argue -- imagination itself is a miracle). Then copyright law would not apply to the media being used, but the content one wishes to represent.
Also, you could never get a computer program to simulate every song ever to be created. That goes against infinity and Goedl's theroum. That is, no system is ever fully complete. You can create what you think is every song in existence, but I could easily create a song that doesn't fit the ones you already made (point to be taken: there's no such thing as reaching infinity).
Read G.E.B. for interesting takes on infinity, the mind and thelogy.
According to the article there's not much performance decrease that can be directly tied to the design changes (they mention 5% loss for cutting the chip's area nearly in half. I'll take that).
The real reason for the chip's inherent "performance losses" is the running-string that's slowly being pulled to its breaking point -- that is, the x86 architecture. Hopefully Itanium will change all that.
Considering how much memory XMMS uses every time it is invoked, permentantly for the length of the XMMS, I think this is a small price to pay to see the developers credits temporarily.
When I once worked at a CompUSA I noticed a "war room" in the business sales divison. They had a blackboard with lines drawn on it and an actual army helmet with the words "$1 billion in sales by 2000".
They never did make that goal, or so it would seem. They appeared to be at war not with other computer sellers but the customers.
All of this stuff is good news, but when will we get hardware that supports it? Palm put 256-color compatibility into their OS over a year before the iiic came out, and that's still their only true color model.
In addition, anyone notice that Palm's software scheme is a little.. backwards? Every other technological advance starts with hardware first, OS and software support second (for example, new video card support in X). Palm starts with software support first, hardware second.
While this may seem forebearing, isn't this shooting themselves in the foot if their end hardware model becomes drastically different?
OK, I've got a question. Why do these relatively low-level sites get hit while sites like Amazon go virtually untested? Better security through better paid employees (or software)?
Can't say I've had those problems at all. I even fucked around inside the box swapping drives and memory along with the video card, and the system detected all the changes beautifully.
P.S. Service Pack 1 installed without a hitch. Didn't really need it though.
I can definitely see the point some copyright holders would have when people assume their games "abandoned". The article pretty succinctly states that copyrights last for 75 years without being renewed, and that would presumably work with everything from computer games to novels.
On the other hand, I do know some lawyers can be absolute industry bitches. I remember working as an intern in high school a few years ago at a law firm, whose one client was Hasbro. Basically, this guy decided to scan sites like download.com and search for anything looking remotely like Hasbro-owned games. Extremely changed versions of Battleship were one good example. And often the software owners were giving their software out as freeware.
I remember when he asked me if I knew "any other sites that might be doing this", as he was a technical idiot. I just shook my head and told him no. Better one less law idiot roams free than Hasbro makes millions off of lawsuits on minor programmers.
What would it take to send a few rockets out and nudge the satelites in the other direction; e.g. out into space. We've already put a ton of space junk up in and around Earth's orbit, but I would hate to see someone die simply because we couldn't push these things out into the limitless infinity of space.
It's not so much they're "closed" systems as stable ones. The original PS architecture, at this point, is known inside out. It never changes. Developers can use existing tools to shell out a game in months, not years -- even though the processor is less than 100mhz. Paltry by today's standards.
It still amazes me that the PS and N64 can produce reasonable (but pixelated and blurry respectively) 3D on = 100 mhz systems.
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Big problem though: with only one large company the market will disappear. It's as if Intel bought AMD.
Competition in graphic cards, we hardly knew ye.
Also, you could never get a computer program to simulate every song ever to be created. That goes against infinity and Goedl's theroum. That is, no system is ever fully complete. You can create what you think is every song in existence, but I could easily create a song that doesn't fit the ones you already made (point to be taken: there's no such thing as reaching infinity).
Read G.E.B. for interesting takes on infinity, the mind and thelogy.
Oh I get it. You get modded +3 automatically when you write something against MS.
The real reason for the chip's inherent "performance losses" is the running-string that's slowly being pulled to its breaking point -- that is, the x86 architecture. Hopefully Itanium will change all that.
Funny, I'm typing this on a PIII Speedstep laptop. They make excellent mobile chips for machines.
One problem: what major OEM is using BeOS solutions?
The first university to be taken to the Supreme Court for aiding and abetting a corporation.
Considering how much memory XMMS uses every time it is invoked, permentantly for the length of the XMMS, I think this is a small price to pay to see the developers credits temporarily.
They never did make that goal, or so it would seem. They appeared to be at war not with other computer sellers but the customers.
By contrast, the credits screen for Quake II took somewhere around 140K. (iD fixed this for Quake III Arena, using just text on a 3D background)
He makes a good point about ANSI defining the standard, however...
Also, there must be a reason why children are taught the Macintosh GUI in schools.
In addition, anyone notice that Palm's software scheme is a little.. backwards? Every other technological advance starts with hardware first, OS and software support second (for example, new video card support in X). Palm starts with software support first, hardware second.
While this may seem forebearing, isn't this shooting themselves in the foot if their end hardware model becomes drastically different?
Uhhh... couldn't Handspring's devices do this a while ago?
By the way, can we say FUD?
A famous adage states: "old hardware doesn't necessarily good hardware make", particularly when it comes to e-commerce.
OK, I've got a question. Why do these relatively low-level sites get hit while sites like Amazon go virtually untested? Better security through better paid employees (or software)?
P.S. Service Pack 1 installed without a hitch. Didn't really need it though.
You're joking right? I haven't had to reboot my box since I installed it (barring a video card upgrade once).
On the other hand, I do know some lawyers can be absolute industry bitches. I remember working as an intern in high school a few years ago at a law firm, whose one client was Hasbro. Basically, this guy decided to scan sites like download.com and search for anything looking remotely like Hasbro-owned games. Extremely changed versions of Battleship were one good example. And often the software owners were giving their software out as freeware.
I remember when he asked me if I knew "any other sites that might be doing this", as he was a technical idiot. I just shook my head and told him no. Better one less law idiot roams free than Hasbro makes millions off of lawsuits on minor programmers.
What would it take to send a few rockets out and nudge the satelites in the other direction; e.g. out into space. We've already put a ton of space junk up in and around Earth's orbit, but I would hate to see someone die simply because we couldn't push these things out into the limitless infinity of space.
Who said they would still be soldering parts together with lead? What about another material?
I would prefer a utility that created a crying advertiser sound every time my proxy server nailed an incoming cookie.
It still amazes me that the PS and N64 can produce reasonable (but pixelated and blurry respectively) 3D on = 100 mhz systems.