Only on/. can paranoid ill-informed tripe like this be modded up to +5 Insightful. Comparing MS to a genocidal maniac for giving away nearly $50M? Give your fuckin' heads a shake mods...
Did ya ever think if left to their own devices the powers that be may have chosen MS anyway? The US military did...it isn't inconceivable.
That's a concern in recording, where overdriving the preamp can create interesting effects; guitar players know all about this and many prefer tube amps for the pleasing distortion.
To be more specific - it's more in the production than the recording. And not *just* the preamp tubes - those 'valvestate' type amps with the tube pre and solid state power amp section still sound like ass compared to an all-tube beast like my JCM900 head. Don't bother trying to say I'm being elitist or whatever here, at volume there *is* indeed a diffrence between solid state and tubes in your guitar sound - especially after you've been playing for a while and the tubes are good and warmed up.
This argument is total BS - you would have a hard time convincing anyone that the only reason MS products were use in the situation was because there was no other choice. Yeah, MS sucks but they are not the cause of everything bad or stupid in this world. Yes, they may be after 100% market penetration IN THEIR MARKETS which control systems don't appear to be. This is the result of bad decision making by someone - probably not MS in this case.
So patents are ok as long as you're out to fuck Microsoft? That's the lamest thing I've heard today. So what happens if MS is in a position to buy a company such as this and they decide to go after everyone else? Is the patent a *good thing* then? These patents and the jokers who award them have to be dealt with - we're well on the way to having our thoughts policed.
We used Solaris for years with Ultras for heavys and tadpoles for lights.
Solaris w/ Ultras??...and how much did that cost in relation to what the author here claims MS soaked the taxpayer for? No less I'm betting. Right now the Army is probably thinking they got quite a deal with the MS boxen...
Why is it that every time an increase in computing performance is reported, Slashdot is full of people whining why they don't need it.
'Cuz they're just whiny beeyatches!
Why is it that everytime someone bitches about hardware speed being unnecessary someone else replies saying my Mom or some other female will enjoy doing video editing and other crap on it. I know a lot of Mom's - none of them do video editing. >8)
If you turn off this feature, it's really your own fault that you get hacked.
Yeah - whatever. I've recently finished reinstalling W2K Pro on two machines that were totally hosed by the last easy to install 'Windows Update'. I'm not a career MS basher but after my experiences in the last couple of weeks I'm going to be very careful in the future of applying MS's 'fixes'.
Uncensored Trailer Park Boys? You mean someone actually broadcasts a censored version? What the fuck would that sound like?? It'd be something like 15 mins. of bleeps....me goes back to my chicken fingers - the good ones, the $8 a box kind!!!
Yeah - that is in their 'review', which apparently needs a little fixing. Check out Hardware editor Evan Lieb's post on the forums here. They know something isn't right with their scores but they aren't yet saying what. Right now it looks as though the nVidia marks which were shown running Doom3 at high quality were actually running at medium quality. We'll see if Anandtech ever decide to publish WTF is going on with their benchmarks.
This 'all tastes the same' has already been identified as a problem by many wine purists. The Bordeaux flavour paradigm being copied by everyone from Oz to Chile to the US and on and on has brought on a homogenous affect to wine making. Not to mention the 'Parker effect' whereby taster/critic Robert Parker scores a wine well by his (impressive) palate and the wine immediately goes through the roof in terms of price. This has made wine makers all over the world scurrying to produce wines they hope will appeal to his taste thus enabling them to command great prices. Wine is already being mass produced everywhere - its not the quantity of grape that is so much the problem you appear to be referring to but the wine maker and the flavour he's targetting that are more of a problem for those who crave variety and maybe mor of the 'way things used to be'.
For crissakes if I read one more 'I played the alpha - the gameplay sux0r5 and the Xbox will never be able to play it at a decent framerate...' - I'll freakin' explode!! (yeah - I now parent said nothing derogatory re: gameplay...lots of others have) Look, you 'played' an unoptimized technology demo full of debug code. This is *exactly* why development shops hate this stuff leaking out - fools will make erroneous assumptions based on early unfinished product. With regards to the Xbox - do you really think id would sign up to release a product that runs like a piece of sh*t when the expectations for D3 will be huge? The Xbox version will be running at a fixed resolution and will be hella optimized for that specific platform - look at the mileage coders get out of platforms like the PS1 and PS2 years after they've been released; there's a lot that can be done in the way of optimization when you're working with a fixed platform. The Xbox architecture is a lot like that of a PC but there are some significant differences which can make a difference.
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The reason the industry is having such a damn fit isn't because we've all lost our morals and now think theivery is ok - it is because they see the writing on the wall and know they have no reason for existence. There was a whole industry based on there being one way to get music to people who will buy it - now that middleman isn't needed and they know it. IMHO this is capatalism at work. Another, more efficient, system of distribution has evolved and will eventually kill off the less efficient one. The parts that are necessary will be preserved because they have worth - those that aren't will be discarded.
I don't really understand why this is a problem for the film industry. Watching a semi-focused and shaking image of a movie with mono sound on my TV in no way substitutes for going to the theatre for a movie experience. Not to mention the time it takes to d/l from any p2p service. It is nothing like MP3 music which, although not perfect, at least provides comparable fidelity to the 'real thing' you can buy on CD.
I programmed with RPGIII for three years - and, no, it ain't pretty BUT it gets the job done and done very quickly. The '400 rarely crashes and RPG progs on it churn through database records very quickly. As it was mentioned previously - the AS/400 is a machine for work and it does it very well. When I left that shop I couldn't wait to get out away from RPG and CL and into the 'fun' stuff like JAVA and C. I've since been working in a client/server blended Windows/Solaris environment with Oracle and have come to appreciate the rock-solid reliability of the AS/400. Sure you don't get lots of pretty screen widgets to play with but the reliablilty of the '400 is hard to argue with.
I find it interesting how a lot of the/. crowd so far (~40 posts) seems to like the Line6 modelling amplifiers - it's solid state and techie so I suppose it is natural they're a hit here. Check out alt.guitar.amp, most of those guys aren't nearly as enthusiastic. I've yet to hear one so I can't make a judgment either way...but I do love my JCM900 for what it does best - pure overdriven tube sound at high volume (not practical for many I know).
But the fact is things *are* getting better on the driver front with ATi and people are still carping about their poor driver quality and how nVidia does wonderful things with their drivers. It's tough to live down a bad reputation.
Is it all that amazing? Yeah - the frame rates and such are impressive but I can't help but think nVidia finally dropped the ball with this product. It is several months later than the ATI product and doesn't perform that much better than the ATI part overall to justify the delay or cost. If you read some of the reviews you'll see there is a lot of questions around manufacturer's ability to actually hit the $399 price point nVidia has set due to memory, layered PCB design and heat management concerns. Not to mention the expected price drop ATI will put on their part now that they have competition at the high end. Doesn't seem to me that anyone but die hard nVidia fanboys will be too impressed by this release. Six months ago it would have been something else.
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Only on /. can paranoid ill-informed tripe like this be modded up to +5 Insightful. Comparing MS to a genocidal maniac for giving away nearly $50M? Give your fuckin' heads a shake mods...
Did ya ever think if left to their own devices the powers that be may have chosen MS anyway? The US military did...it isn't inconceivable.
That's a concern in recording, where overdriving the preamp can create interesting effects; guitar players know all about this and many prefer tube amps for the pleasing distortion.
To be more specific - it's more in the production than the recording. And not *just* the preamp tubes - those 'valvestate' type amps with the tube pre and solid state power amp section still sound like ass compared to an all-tube beast like my JCM900 head. Don't bother trying to say I'm being elitist or whatever here, at volume there *is* indeed a diffrence between solid state and tubes in your guitar sound - especially after you've been playing for a while and the tubes are good and warmed up.
(MSN)lets them set their display name 3 times a day so I cannot keep track of who they are unless I use Gaim or Jabber.
You could right-click on their name in your contact list and it'll show their e-mail addy thus letting you identify them regardless of display name.
This argument is total BS - you would have a hard time convincing anyone that the only reason MS products were use in the situation was because there was no other choice. Yeah, MS sucks but they are not the cause of everything bad or stupid in this world. Yes, they may be after 100% market penetration IN THEIR MARKETS which control systems don't appear to be. This is the result of bad decision making by someone - probably not MS in this case.
Ummmmm yeah - just like a spark to a blimp full of gasoline would have turned out much better. >8-/
So patents are ok as long as you're out to fuck Microsoft? That's the lamest thing I've heard today. So what happens if MS is in a position to buy a company such as this and they decide to go after everyone else? Is the patent a *good thing* then? These patents and the jokers who award them have to be dealt with - we're well on the way to having our thoughts policed.
We used Solaris for years with Ultras for heavys and tadpoles for lights.
...and how much did that cost in relation to what the author here claims MS soaked the taxpayer for? No less I'm betting. Right now the Army is probably thinking they got quite a deal with the MS boxen...
Solaris w/ Ultras??
Why is it that every time an increase in computing performance is reported, Slashdot is full of people whining why they don't need it.
'Cuz they're just whiny beeyatches!
Why is it that everytime someone bitches about hardware speed being unnecessary someone else replies saying my Mom or some other female will enjoy doing video editing and other crap on it. I know a lot of Mom's - none of them do video editing. >8)
If you turn off this feature, it's really your own fault that you get hacked.
Yeah - whatever. I've recently finished reinstalling W2K Pro on two machines that were totally hosed by the last easy to install 'Windows Update'. I'm not a career MS basher but after my experiences in the last couple of weeks I'm going to be very careful in the future of applying MS's 'fixes'.
Uncensored Trailer Park Boys? You mean someone actually broadcasts a censored version? What the fuck would that sound like?? It'd be something like 15 mins. of bleeps....me goes back to my chicken fingers - the good ones, the $8 a box kind!!!
Yeah - that is in their 'review', which apparently needs a little fixing. Check out Hardware editor Evan Lieb's post on the forums here. They know something isn't right with their scores but they aren't yet saying what. Right now it looks as though the nVidia marks which were shown running Doom3 at high quality were actually running at medium quality. We'll see if Anandtech ever decide to publish WTF is going on with their benchmarks.
This 'all tastes the same' has already been identified as a problem by many wine purists. The Bordeaux flavour paradigm being copied by everyone from Oz to Chile to the US and on and on has brought on a homogenous affect to wine making. Not to mention the 'Parker effect' whereby taster/critic Robert Parker scores a wine well by his (impressive) palate and the wine immediately goes through the roof in terms of price. This has made wine makers all over the world scurrying to produce wines they hope will appeal to his taste thus enabling them to command great prices. Wine is already being mass produced everywhere - its not the quantity of grape that is so much the problem you appear to be referring to but the wine maker and the flavour he's targetting that are more of a problem for those who crave variety and maybe mor of the 'way things used to be'.
For crissakes if I read one more 'I played the alpha - the gameplay sux0r5 and the Xbox will never be able to play it at a decent framerate...' - I'll freakin' explode!! (yeah - I now parent said nothing derogatory re: gameplay...lots of others have) Look, you 'played' an unoptimized technology demo full of debug code. This is *exactly* why development shops hate this stuff leaking out - fools will make erroneous assumptions based on early unfinished product. With regards to the Xbox - do you really think id would sign up to release a product that runs like a piece of sh*t when the expectations for D3 will be huge? The Xbox version will be running at a fixed resolution and will be hella optimized for that specific platform - look at the mileage coders get out of platforms like the PS1 and PS2 years after they've been released; there's a lot that can be done in the way of optimization when you're working with a fixed platform. The Xbox architecture is a lot like that of a PC but there are some significant differences which can make a difference.
The reason the industry is having such a damn fit isn't because we've all lost our morals and now think theivery is ok - it is because they see the writing on the wall and know they have no reason for existence. There was a whole industry based on there being one way to get music to people who will buy it - now that middleman isn't needed and they know it.
IMHO this is capatalism at work. Another, more efficient, system of distribution has evolved and will eventually kill off the less efficient one. The parts that are necessary will be preserved because they have worth - those that aren't will be discarded.
I don't really understand why this is a problem for the film industry. Watching a semi-focused and shaking image of a movie with mono sound on my TV in no way substitutes for going to the theatre for a movie experience. Not to mention the time it takes to d/l from any p2p service. It is nothing like MP3 music which, although not perfect, at least provides comparable fidelity to the 'real thing' you can buy on CD.
I programmed with RPGIII for three years - and, no, it ain't pretty BUT it gets the job done and done very quickly. The '400 rarely crashes and RPG progs on it churn through database records very quickly. As it was mentioned previously - the AS/400 is a machine for work and it does it very well. When I left that shop I couldn't wait to get out away from RPG and CL and into the 'fun' stuff like JAVA and C. I've since been working in a client/server blended Windows/Solaris environment with Oracle and have come to appreciate the rock-solid reliability of the AS/400. Sure you don't get lots of pretty screen widgets to play with but the reliablilty of the '400 is hard to argue with.
I find it interesting how a lot of the /. crowd so far (~40 posts) seems to like the Line6 modelling amplifiers - it's solid state and techie so I suppose it is natural they're a hit here. Check out alt.guitar.amp, most of those guys aren't nearly as enthusiastic. I've yet to hear one so I can't make a judgment either way...but I do love my JCM900 for what it does best - pure overdriven tube sound at high volume (not practical for many I know).
I thought the brown M&M thing was in a Van Halen rider not Ozzy?
Heh - I laughed out loud when I read this comment...wish I had some mod points.
But the fact is things *are* getting better on the driver front with ATi and people are still carping about their poor driver quality and how nVidia does wonderful things with their drivers. It's tough to live down a bad reputation.
The clueless part is more likely - I've had ATi powered video in all my laptops for the last 5 years and they've all worked fine.
Is it all that amazing? Yeah - the frame rates and such are impressive but I can't help but think nVidia finally dropped the ball with this product. It is several months later than the ATI product and doesn't perform that much better than the ATI part overall to justify the delay or cost. If you read some of the reviews you'll see there is a lot of questions around manufacturer's ability to actually hit the $399 price point nVidia has set due to memory, layered PCB design and heat management concerns. Not to mention the expected price drop ATI will put on their part now that they have competition at the high end. Doesn't seem to me that anyone but die hard nVidia fanboys will be too impressed by this release. Six months ago it would have been something else.
Pull the hook out of your lip dude...
Please tell me you didn't just recite that from memory...
Of course you're assuming this poster is American...what if he's German or from the UK? How would you like your crow served...baked or fried?