IBM has contributed a lot LATELY, but let's not forget that they're almost singlehandedly responsible for putting Microsoft into the position that enabled them to get where they are today. They still have a lot of karmic debt to repay the OSS community...
Should develop smaller games. For every Grand Theft Auto 3, there's a Tetris.
The Big Hollywood style productions can be handled by the huge companies, while the smaller companies can do innovative things like games that actually have gameplay value as opposed to eyecandy value.
Gameplay value is timeless and largely not driven by technology. If need be, license the high end graphics from someone else rather than reinvent the wheel. But someone should be working on making games playable, re-playable, and fun.
A prime area for small-time, moderate budget development? AI. *Good* AI, that learns and adapts, for example, is something I'd like to see. AI that gets lazy and complacent and forgets sometimes, for that human feel, and to prevent things from getting too difficult.
You practically answered your own question -- re-read the last line.
Anytime someone asks you to do something, say you're willing to do it if it can be fit within the budget, or if you can obtain more budget. Internal business customers will bug you to no end if you don't bill them -- they start thinking about whether they really need something when you charge them.
If you can't directly charge them for your services, figure out a way around that. You can't take on any more projects until you get more budget for it -- and that budget might include salary for a new hire, new equipment, new software... etc.
Symantec can't even stop hackers from putting out new viruses that can compromise your computer without putting out a new virus defs file every few days -- what makes them think they can come up with a product activation scheme that won't be obsolete just as fast as their latest virus defs?
Let's face it, even if they could lick the virus problem once and for all, that would mean they'd be out of a job, now, wouldn't it? Now why would they go and do a thing like that?
Oh come on, you mean there's ANOTHER company out there that's also called NVIDIA, with the name in all caps? And this is a completely separate entity from nVidia? Because if not, you're just being pedantic.
True support... such as developing their own motherboard chipsets, like Intel, instead of farming the task out to VIA??
Don't get me wrong, AMD has done rather well relying on 3rd parties to develop mobo chipsets for them, but I'm not sure I'd call NOT having at least 1 in-house chipset solution "true support". If VIA and NVIDIA decided to dump AMD for some reason, they'd suddenly be in a pretty lousy position.
I love direct translations of strange foreign langauge idioms
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Zalman exhaustless PC
Preface:
Finally, infinite peace in the cardboard. It has for a long time to finally such a product in the mass-market appears lasted. The manufacturer will be able itself to hardly save from the many vorbestellungen. On the paper convincingly we wait technically already now on the first samples and price information. One might be now already clear however, the price far below all self's building Konstruktiuonen will lie, since Zalman is specialized in absolute mass production as well known. 6 Heatpipes for the CCU and 2 for the graphics map as well as 10 for the non removable disk might keep the system optimally cool. We are pleased on it and now already say ourselves tschuess your exhaust and Krachmacher! Hopefully is soon Christmas: -)
I remain natural at the ball...
Which one is to there still say, a piece of cream of the superlative. There I get damp eyes. Heatpipes (18 pieces!!) and radiator boxes up to decline.
Peace in completed form it a housing completely closed in itself is there. First PC the housing where one also the optical drive assemblies to dam and decouple can!
You click OK to the EULA that allows you to use Bill Gates's computer that he has so generously allows you to keep on your desk. Don't forget, it's their system, you just happen to sit in front of it. Yup yup!
The parents don't really care about the electricity bill. They just don't want their kid being exposed to all the pr0n and other evils on the internet for more than 2 hrs daily. He needs to get out and exercise, too.
I really liked Anandtech's article. It actually had a lot of information and was fairly thorough -- measuring performance in a variety of ways, including not just output wattages but also noise levels, heat buildup, and cost.
A bit more explaining the basics of what each different voltage rail is for and why x-level of performance is important would have been helpful. Along with some more basic stats, such as how long the power cables actually are -- surely people still build full-tower PCs, don't they?
If the book is dated soon after it is published, then good. It will have done its job, by shining a light on areas where Linux needs to be improved and pointing developers to where they can do the most good and are needed most.
Got somethign that needs improving? Then improve it! Then re-write the book and publish again a year or so down the road. Endless upgrade cycles can be good?
Ok, these are, technically, gains in marketshare for AMD and Transmeta, but they're so small that they are statistically insignificant, aren't they? Why is this article not saying that marketshare is more or less stagnant?
If there are several good ones? Isn't the beauty of slashdot that there are is a diverse variety of stances on whatever topic is being discussed?
Personally, I'd probably buy a different slashdot t-shirt for each moderation type, depending on the mood I'm in... Insightful or Interesting or Informative when I go to political rallies, Funny when I'm kicking around the house, Flamebait or Troll when I'm feeling obnoxious... Overrated when I go out on a first date.
It only makes sense to do up a different design fore each moderation category.
Smaller platters are necessary in order to offset the vibration. Smaller disks vibrate less. With lesser data densities, you can get away with a larger disk, because the less dense the media is the less difficult it is to correct for vibration.
If you significantly increase the density, however, unless you have some way of making the platter more rigid and less prone to vibrations, you won't be able to read the denser media on a larger disk because the vibration will be too great.
You could also spin the drive slower, I guess, but at the cost of access and seek times. You could compensate for the slower spin rate by adding more read-write heads, but this would make the drive more complex, more prone to failure, less reliable, and more expensive.
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OSS has its roots in the 60's and earlier. BSD? MIT?
IBM has contributed a lot LATELY, but let's not forget that they're almost singlehandedly responsible for putting Microsoft into the position that enabled them to get where they are today. They still have a lot of karmic debt to repay the OSS community...
Should develop smaller games. For every Grand Theft Auto 3, there's a Tetris.
The Big Hollywood style productions can be handled by the huge companies, while the smaller companies can do innovative things like games that actually have gameplay value as opposed to eyecandy value.
Gameplay value is timeless and largely not driven by technology. If need be, license the high end graphics from someone else rather than reinvent the wheel. But someone should be working on making games playable, re-playable, and fun.
A prime area for small-time, moderate budget development? AI. *Good* AI, that learns and adapts, for example, is something I'd like to see. AI that gets lazy and complacent and forgets sometimes, for that human feel, and to prevent things from getting too difficult.
You practically answered your own question -- re-read the last line.
Anytime someone asks you to do something, say you're willing to do it if it can be fit within the budget, or if you can obtain more budget. Internal business customers will bug you to no end if you don't bill them -- they start thinking about whether they really need something when you charge them.
If you can't directly charge them for your services, figure out a way around that. You can't take on any more projects until you get more budget for it -- and that budget might include salary for a new hire, new equipment, new software... etc.
Symantec can't even stop hackers from putting out new viruses that can compromise your computer without putting out a new virus defs file every few days -- what makes them think they can come up with a product activation scheme that won't be obsolete just as fast as their latest virus defs?
Let's face it, even if they could lick the virus problem once and for all, that would mean they'd be out of a job, now, wouldn't it? Now why would they go and do a thing like that?
Oh come on, you mean there's ANOTHER company out there that's also called NVIDIA, with the name in all caps? And this is a completely separate entity from nVidia? Because if not, you're just being pedantic.
True support... such as developing their own motherboard chipsets, like Intel, instead of farming the task out to VIA??
Don't get me wrong, AMD has done rather well relying on 3rd parties to develop mobo chipsets for them, but I'm not sure I'd call NOT having at least 1 in-house chipset solution "true support". If VIA and NVIDIA decided to dump AMD for some reason, they'd suddenly be in a pretty lousy position.
In Soviet Russia, the software frees YOU!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
You click OK to the EULA that allows you to use Bill Gates's computer that he has so generously allows you to keep on your desk. Don't forget, it's their system, you just happen to sit in front of it. Yup yup!
The parents don't really care about the electricity bill. They just don't want their kid being exposed to all the pr0n and other evils on the internet for more than 2 hrs daily. He needs to get out and exercise, too.
I really liked Anandtech's article. It actually had a lot of information and was fairly thorough -- measuring performance in a variety of ways, including not just output wattages but also noise levels, heat buildup, and cost.
A bit more explaining the basics of what each different voltage rail is for and why x-level of performance is important would have been helpful. Along with some more basic stats, such as how long the power cables actually are -- surely people still build full-tower PCs, don't they?
"Oh yeah? Well, the quality of the customers isn't very good, either!"
If the book is dated soon after it is published, then good. It will have done its job, by shining a light on areas where Linux needs to be improved and pointing developers to where they can do the most good and are needed most.
Got somethign that needs improving? Then improve it! Then re-write the book and publish again a year or so down the road. Endless upgrade cycles can be good?
You mean that there are people whose job it is to come up with these stupid acronyms?
Yup. I knew this guy, actually. His name was Agent Smith...
Ok, these are, technically, gains in marketshare for AMD and Transmeta, but they're so small that they are statistically insignificant, aren't they? Why is this article not saying that marketshare is more or less stagnant?
No, not really. I deliberately parsed a grammatically ambiguous sentence incorrectly to humorous effect, a classic AI geek tradition.
So the RIAA should sue me for not liking St. Anger? Man, talk about desperate marketing.
If there are several good ones? Isn't the beauty of slashdot that there are is a diverse variety of stances on whatever topic is being discussed?
Personally, I'd probably buy a different slashdot t-shirt for each moderation type, depending on the mood I'm in... Insightful or Interesting or Informative when I go to political rallies, Funny when I'm kicking around the house, Flamebait or Troll when I'm feeling obnoxious... Overrated when I go out on a first date.
It only makes sense to do up a different design fore each moderation category.
I didn't vote in the last election, I'm sorry to say, but I plan to make up for that by electronically voting 24,324,091 times in the next election.
They're after "Username" at kazaa.com! I better flee to Uruguay!
I have a '51 Chevy that seats a dozen and will do 13 knots with a good breeze.
your mission is clear: to maintain and repair those robots.
(ob. Simpsons reference)
Drive rails?
Or just enclosing the smaller disk in a standard 3.5" hard disk shell, like they're already doing.
Smaller platters are necessary in order to offset the vibration. Smaller disks vibrate less. With lesser data densities, you can get away with a larger disk, because the less dense the media is the less difficult it is to correct for vibration.
If you significantly increase the density, however, unless you have some way of making the platter more rigid and less prone to vibrations, you won't be able to read the denser media on a larger disk because the vibration will be too great.
You could also spin the drive slower, I guess, but at the cost of access and seek times. You could compensate for the slower spin rate by adding more read-write heads, but this would make the drive more complex, more prone to failure, less reliable, and more expensive.