Yeah, you left out the part where Creative crushed Aureal by playing dirty and ate the technology to no useful end. Creative threatened to do almost the same thing to ID Software with the "carmack's reverse" fiasco. 3D sound positioning has stagnated because of Creative.
nVidia probably backed off SoundStorm because of either implicit or obvious threats from Creative.
In terms of Companies That Are Evil, I'd say Creative ranks right up there with Microsoft. I don't see why we should give them the time of day.
I've been using Mozilla since M9, or rather when the pain threshold of using it was lowered enough to warrant switching from NS4. It's no secret that it wasn't that great back then.
The Mozilla developers could have been less arrogant about accepting visual change and the FireFox devs could have been more receptive to good coding practice.
I recommend FireFox to most everyone, but I still think they messed up one good thing for another.
If he had worked with the SeaMonkey team to begin with to change buttons and such, we could both have our way if people like you (perhaps "They") had jumped up and down about "Usability! Usability! Usability!" for Mozilla and not when FireFox was forked. If it hadn't fallen victim to the Blake Ross ego trip, this might have been possible.
Instead, we have bizarro Mozilla Project, where the interface is more important than working properly and nasty remote exploits plague releases. Does this not sound like another web browser that most FireFox users widely decry?
I don't think the ends justified the means in this case.
This kid thinking he can beat the bloat of the Mozilla suite by starting his own little spinoff. Seemed like a good idea when he started it, but it still used XPCOM and XUL, making it take up the same amount of RAM that The Suite did and run the same speed. To make matters worse, it had less features. To this day, it still seems to be that way. I fired both of them up (1.0.6 and 1.7.11) navigated to Google and did a search and Firefox actually takes up a bit more memory...
So maybe it looks nicer and has the buttons where you want them, but it caused the Mozilla team to screw up what I thought was a pretty good software engineering process and throw out what was basically not broken.
FireFox only solved a UI design problem by making Mozilla look like a Windows app. It broke just about everything else that was good about Mozilla. I'm glad there are developers out there who think the same way and are doing the SeaMonkey project.
That sounds an awful lot like a DRM-style situation for the Internet. Imagine not being able to connect to an FTP server running on Windows, only because you're using Mozilla or the FreeBSD ftp client, and such non-Microsoft products are deemed "insecure".
What do you think TCPA "remote attestation" is for?
Look at the requirements on the tech specs page. Under "connectivity" it does not mention firewire. However, under Power and Battery it says: "Charging via USB or FireWire to computer system or power adapter"
Postgres DOES NOT do nested transactions. I like Postgres, but that's simply not true. 8.0 has something called "savepoints" in transactions where you can abort part of a transaction, but it doesn't do nested transactions.
However, experts say that while the security holes are unpatched and undisclosed, they put companies and individuals at risk. "We're making reverse engineering code illegal, but criminals don't follow the law. They reverse engineer code and find the holes," said Paller.
So, in that case, how in the hell is making reverse engineering illegal helping anyone?
Apple hasn't been keen on DRM until the music industry came along. OS X doesn't even have a key. In fact, i think Apple software has to cost $300 or more before they consider putting keys on it, even considering that the OS would be something everyone would want.
The more plausible situation is to have the Mac boot with OpenFirmware. No PCs with OpenFirmware == No Problem. They'll probably throw in a check for the UniNorth, where they connect all their I2C sensors, which is something nobody else would have.
I have yet to see the "new apple" do something that would indicate that they're going to "DRM" in the sense that you are thinking.
My point was that while USB is fantastic for things like mice, keyboards, and other dumb stuff that used to have their own proprietary low-speed connection (scanners, tablets), marketing USB2 as great for things like hard drives, video transfer, and other demanding applications is a stretch. FireWire was designed for those applications *and more* while USB was designed to replace the PS/2 connector.
As for costs associated with building it, that's a pretty ridiculous argument. The extra silicon needed per chip is miniscule in the grand scheme of things. The real reason it is expensive is because Intel didn't want to back it because FireWire devices didn't have to have a hugely profitable Intel CPUs to transfer data. USB is designed to be too stupid to be able to do that. If Intel joined the 1394 TA and shipped FireWire, there never would have been such a long "expensive period" that FireWire had to edure.
Camcorders had FireWire and DV because USB wouldn't cut it, not because it was exotic and expensive. Who wants to haul around a computer on your belt in addition to your hard drive to store your live DV feed.
* Increasing pipeline stages to boost clockspeed. Doing this confused customers into thinking P4s were that much faster than AMD's offerings. AMD had to come up with the PR ratings to keep mindshare.
* Killing Alpha in favor of Itanium. I like how the story poster didn't bother to factor in the Earth Simulator...
* Processor ID. Consumer-hostile.
* RAMBUS. Worse than DDR and was only because Intel had an invested stake in the company.
* Thinking USB2 is better than FireWire and pushing it to sell more CPUs when FireWire would be better for just about all of the applications that require the high speed interface. USB2 requires a "master" (aka intel CPU) and FireWire doesn't.
If you suddenly kill the fansubs and put everything on DVD, who knows what they're buying anymore. They just need a widely available Japanese tv channel already.
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Yeah, you left out the part where Creative crushed Aureal by playing dirty and ate the technology to no useful end. Creative threatened to do almost the same thing to ID Software with the "carmack's reverse" fiasco. 3D sound positioning has stagnated because of Creative.
nVidia probably backed off SoundStorm because of either implicit or obvious threats from Creative.
In terms of Companies That Are Evil, I'd say Creative ranks right up there with Microsoft. I don't see why we should give them the time of day.
It's even called the same thing and does the same thing. They might have been hesitant to acknowledge its existence.
I've been using Mozilla since M9, or rather when the pain threshold of using it was lowered enough to warrant switching from NS4. It's no secret that it wasn't that great back then.
The Mozilla developers could have been less arrogant about accepting visual change and the FireFox devs could have been more receptive to good coding practice.
I recommend FireFox to most everyone, but I still think they messed up one good thing for another.
If he had worked with the SeaMonkey team to begin with to change buttons and such, we could both have our way if people like you (perhaps "They") had jumped up and down about "Usability! Usability! Usability!" for Mozilla and not when FireFox was forked. If it hadn't fallen victim to the Blake Ross ego trip, this might have been possible.
Instead, we have bizarro Mozilla Project, where the interface is more important than working properly and nasty remote exploits plague releases. Does this not sound like another web browser that most FireFox users widely decry?
I don't think the ends justified the means in this case.
This kid thinking he can beat the bloat of the Mozilla suite by starting his own little spinoff. Seemed like a good idea when he started it, but it still used XPCOM and XUL, making it take up the same amount of RAM that The Suite did and run the same speed. To make matters worse, it had less features. To this day, it still seems to be that way. I fired both of them up (1.0.6 and 1.7.11) navigated to Google and did a search and Firefox actually takes up a bit more memory...
So maybe it looks nicer and has the buttons where you want them, but it caused the Mozilla team to screw up what I thought was a pretty good software engineering process and throw out what was basically not broken.
FireFox only solved a UI design problem by making Mozilla look like a Windows app. It broke just about everything else that was good about Mozilla. I'm glad there are developers out there who think the same way and are doing the SeaMonkey project.
http://playlistmag.com/reviews/2005/09/ipodnanoacc essories/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Stopped shipping is much different than stopped supporting. And charging via firewire cable is much different than firewire connectivity.
Look at the requirements on the tech specs page. Under "connectivity" it does not mention firewire. However, under Power and Battery it says: "Charging via USB or FireWire to computer system or power adapter"
So, who knows.
Postgres DOES NOT do nested transactions. I like Postgres, but that's simply not true. 8.0 has something called "savepoints" in transactions where you can abort part of a transaction, but it doesn't do nested transactions.
I fail to see how making the Mini smaller makes it more practical to people with larger music collections. Perhaps more attractive...
"I'm currently busy making really cool games at Rare"
Which might explain where he's using his DX talents...
I can do it in less letters.
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So, in that case, how in the hell is making reverse engineering illegal helping anyone?
thanks
trailers, screeners, etc... why all the hype and no theatrical release?
Apple hasn't been keen on DRM until the music industry came along. OS X doesn't even have a key. In fact, i think Apple software has to cost $300 or more before they consider putting keys on it, even considering that the OS would be something everyone would want.
The more plausible situation is to have the Mac boot with OpenFirmware. No PCs with OpenFirmware == No Problem. They'll probably throw in a check for the UniNorth, where they connect all their I2C sensors, which is something nobody else would have.
I have yet to see the "new apple" do something that would indicate that they're going to "DRM" in the sense that you are thinking.
I don't think bus vs p2p really matters, but ok.
My point was that while USB is fantastic for things like mice, keyboards, and other dumb stuff that used to have their own proprietary low-speed connection (scanners, tablets), marketing USB2 as great for things like hard drives, video transfer, and other demanding applications is a stretch. FireWire was designed for those applications *and more* while USB was designed to replace the PS/2 connector.
As for costs associated with building it, that's a pretty ridiculous argument. The extra silicon needed per chip is miniscule in the grand scheme of things. The real reason it is expensive is because Intel didn't want to back it because FireWire devices didn't have to have a hugely profitable Intel CPUs to transfer data. USB is designed to be too stupid to be able to do that. If Intel joined the 1394 TA and shipped FireWire, there never would have been such a long "expensive period" that FireWire had to edure.
Camcorders had FireWire and DV because USB wouldn't cut it, not because it was exotic and expensive. Who wants to haul around a computer on your belt in addition to your hard drive to store your live DV feed.
* Increasing pipeline stages to boost clockspeed. Doing this confused customers into thinking P4s were that much faster than AMD's offerings. AMD had to come up with the PR ratings to keep mindshare.
* Killing Alpha in favor of Itanium. I like how the story poster didn't bother to factor in the Earth Simulator...
* Processor ID. Consumer-hostile.
* RAMBUS. Worse than DDR and was only because Intel had an invested stake in the company.
* Thinking USB2 is better than FireWire and pushing it to sell more CPUs when FireWire would be better for just about all of the applications that require the high speed interface. USB2 requires a "master" (aka intel CPU) and FireWire doesn't.
I'm sure I could come up with some more....
Thanks for making "secure by default" less important.
Thanks for retarding IPv6 development.
Thanks for necessitating the invention of UPnP.
Thanks for screwing up peer to peer connections for legitimate things like videoconferencing and file transfers.
Thanks for continuing to allow ISPs to treat IP addresses like some sort of rare element.
Thanks for mangling things like FTP.
If you suddenly kill the fansubs and put everything on DVD, who knows what they're buying anymore. They just need a widely available Japanese tv channel already.
So, you're saying ATi's vapor is more pungent than nVidias because they used more believable magic?
What total bullshit... Can't you all just wait until the stuff becomes generally available before spouting off who's got the bigger dick? Sheesh.
You *don't* think there will be 7x00 offerings down that low? Cut some pipes, clockspeed, etc... instant 7200-TC.
Besides, the R520 isn't even out. None of this is a big deal until the dust settles on all the offerings.
The 7800 has it too.
/ nvidia_7800_gtx-04.html
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050622
and then realized that the whole survey was kinda messed up, and then decided that having my answer be a little messed up was ok :)
so yeah, I agree with you too