I remember when Nvidia came into big production, and a lot of us Voodoo owners were skeptical at first that anyone could oppose the great Voodoo cards from 3dfx (the same cardies that revolutionized how we all play Quake). Smart business policy, quality hardware and lots of blood, sweat and tears have pushed Nvidia to where it is today. As a gamer, I welcome any new blood to the table, because it just means that the race for the mother of all graphics suites is getting that much more interesting... and the road is shorter when the competition is fierce!
Competition is the mother of invention, if necessity can't possibly be.:)
Seems that XGI is going after some odd designs, using the fabled 3dfx dual chip design as a way to get more bang for the buck. It's not a solution, as Tom's Hardware reveals that this results in more problems. The problem? Half-norm memory usage. *ouch*!
Still, this is the first line for XGI. I'm sure we'll see a lot more from them, if they don't go broke.
Ph34r my 74th level Filmaker character with Anti-Wachowski Shades of Speed. Perhaps then we can all get a Matrix sequel that doesn't suck. Knowing the Wachowski idiots, the game will take place before the Matrix is invented and you have to try and stop the war with the machines. (Terminator anyone?)
Calling Canada's drug prices evil is like calling Geroge Bush a saint -- it's just not true (not even his pundits believe it). The drug prices in Canada are usually reasonable. Sometimes, they are too expensive, but we can get total coverage for drugs in Canada at a reasonable insurance rate.
Americans come here for free surgery, and if they legally cross-border shop for our prescription drugs -- so be it. I don't think even Uncle Sam minds if that happens. Provincial Healthcare doesn't pay for prescriptions, FYI.
Are you telling me that Canada has bad medical coverage? Tell that to the millions of Americans that sneak over here and use it! I'm Canadian and I'm happy that I'm not having to auction my house for the surgery I had last week.
Politics can go back and forth like a ping pong match, but one side has to win eventually.:)
Justice and goodness will always prevail, in time.
They already started down the downward spiral. It's called evil. Pay for a complete upgrade when it should have been done right the first time? Think not. Each time I see a price on XP or Office, I think of how much money MS has already scammed.
They can run on fumes for a few more decades before they finally go broke or smarten up. I'll hedge bets on the former before I lay a dollar on the latter.
Before we get a whole bunch of people bitching about how this might be a kind of popularity contest, note this quote from the article: "Under plausible assumptions, the savings from reduced expenditures on copyrighted material would vastly exceed the cost of the AFV."
Public domain software saves everyone money. It's about time something like this AFV came along and hammered out the details on how to achieve it in a way that's cost effective.
I don't know about you, but my first voucher will go to the person who invented AFV.
From the article: "There would be two alternative mechanisms through which individuals could use their voucher. As one option they could have the funds paid directly by the government to the creative worker or intermediary of their choice, by indicating their selection on a tax form. Alternatively, they could pay an amount equal to the voucher directly to the creative worker or intermediary of their choice, and then file for a refundable credit on their tax return."
That's amazing. I hope Canada adpots this as law, and I will vote for any left-friendly politician who supports it.
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The movie title was released today. "Die Hard: Lies and Ties", starring Bruce Willis and Darl McBride of Frankenstien.
This move is surprising to me, but I wouldn't put much faith in what Matthew Szulik has to say about Windows or Linux for home use, considering he's changed the direction of Red Hat's policy regarding sales and distrobution. To me all this means is that Matthew Szulik has changed his company politics (done an about-face). It's in his interest to tell everyone to use Windows at home, because he doesn't want to have to listen to Linux users complain about him selling out, and he doesn't want another vendor to compete directly against him with the corporate guys. A Microsoft partnership at this time is very wise with Red Hat, but I'd bet dollars to donuts, Billygoat Gates slipped him a mickey or something to that effect.
Szulik likely realized that you can make twenty times more money working with big business than you can fielding techsup for home users. To me, this goes against the overall spirit of running Linux, and even the Open Source community, in general.
"No no, it's a perfectly natural, healthy thing for a star of his age to... want to experiment in self-gratification."
Your comparison to solar flares and masturbation made me laugh my ass off! Good job.:)
I can picture a couple of 1950's parents, and that announcer saying things like, "It's healthy and natural to want to express your sexuality, Sun, but please do it in your own private area, not where the WHOLE WORLD can see..."
"Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?"
I think it's better to watch a film in the language it's created in. Who knows if the translation is correct? Isn't it better to hear the real actors, and listen to the sounds they make, as opposed to some translated version?
A large piece of the meaning and fluidity of a film is lost in translation.
I can remember sitting around a table of French friends of mine, not knowing a word of French myself, and it was still interesting to listen to them, like a fly on a wall. You don't know what's being said, but the experience has it's own merits.
There's something really cool about watching anime in Japanese that gives a kind of simplicity to the plot and idea of the film. Because you have no idea what's being said, you can kind of guess, and that adds some of your immagination to the mix. It delivers a kind of Zen, IMHO. And with the visuals in the trailer of Ghost In the Shell 2, who cares what language it's in!! Gimmie!! Gimmie!!
From the site: Aurora Cam, which "shows the current extent and position of auroral activity in the northern hemisphere, based on measurements taken during the most recent polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite."
Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy? I mean... is it time for Bruce Willis to suit up again and save the planet? Nine X-class solar flares... eeeek. That has to be bad.
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5 2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English (I'll get a multi-button mouse if I can find one good for gaming, and a gamepad) SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) 8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Accessory kit Mac OS X - U.S. English APP for Power Mac (w/ or w/o display) - Enrollment Kit Klipsch ProMedia GMX 5.1 Speakers & Monster 2-meter Cable.Mac Promotional Bundle Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) iSight Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter DVD Studio Pro 2 Soundtrack Final Cut Pro 4.0 Shake 3 Mac OS X AppleWorks 6.2.7 Command and Conquer Generals BloodRayne Halo Masters Of Orion III Myth III - The Wolf Age Return to Castle Wolfenstein Star Trek Elite Force 2 Unreal Tournament 2003 WarCraft III WarCraft III: Frozen Throne Adobe Creative Suite - Premium Doom 3 (not included in price) Snak (not included in price) $22,089.35 Anything I'm missing?
From the article: "Precise digital 3D models of indoor environments are needed in several applications, eg, facility management, architecture, rescue and inspection robotics."
This made me chuckle, to think we'd be getting replacements for management, in the form of cute robots that can't talk.
I'm waiting for a robot I can fight martial arts with. Any chance of us getting one of those?
It's nice to hear things about stuff like Kurt3D. I remember when I used to think R2-D2 would be hela cool to have around as a buddy.
He could tweet and chirp away while I explained that moisture vaporators are not the same as carbon units.
I fell out of my chair when I read this! Nice!!!:)
But seriously... I'm guess that your hits on Jess in Action are more interesting and insightful! Nothing like a bit of grass-roots study to confirm what this reviewer is saying, eh?:P
"If I have any complaint about the organization, it's that the book could have been even more example-driven, abandoning (or shortening) the chapter on syntax and basic functions and introducing them only when used in an example; the rest could have been left to the appendix of Jess functions."
To me this says that O'Reilly's methods for writing programming books is favoured to other styles. Personally, I love how O'Relly's PHP Cookbook does just what this reviewer is looking for. You get a problem, a solution and examples to go with it. The zen of O'Reilly how-to books.
I'm not a Java programmer, but I might have a look at Jess. To me, Java is fairly redundant. I don't like it very much because it's not thin. I'm a bare-bones kinda programmer. Cut, cut, cut!:)
Using Java in college, you had to load all sorts of extra libs you might not use, which seemed wasteful to me. Don't get me started on web applets, which is what they taught at school. How to turn someone off Java? Applets!
Jess seems, at first glance, to be equally as redundant. Perhaps some of you could delve into the benefits of Jess, on my account?:)
The Napster kinks in licenses and stuff like that are only a sign of how the record industry still hasn't embraced this age of electronic media.
You'd think they'd be all into it, with the cost reduction for distrobution.
I would think I'm not the only person in the world who clicks OK whenever I see a contract or license. To me, that long-winded drivel has no hold on my time. If Napster is saying they will require my first born child as future payment for the services, then they'll have to come through me to get it, contract or not.
But that's not really what this is about. It's about record execs who haven't got the slightest idea how to integrate properly into a culture.
We are the culture... The people.
They (RIAA et al) are too busy trying to tell us that they are the culture, they are in control, when in fact that very notion of them having to tell people of this, is their undoing.
Each artist or group might have certain wishes to deal with Napster. Napster likely had to make concessions to appease the powers that be.
It's a side effect of a greater disorder. But does it make Napster bad? Prolly not.
You realize that by posting the New York Times article, this has become a story about Foresight, right?
Seven of Nine can't be the only thing sexy about Nanotech. It sounds wonderful, if you think about the possibilities of controlling the world at a molecular level. But what about the costing of Nanotech? This means that instead of charging for a lump sum of material, the manufacturers can charge by the molecule!
Talk about a get rich scheme!
So guys, how can we prevent this from getting out of hand?
Nanotech, appears to be all it's chalked up to be... a great new path for a new industrial revolution. Think of the ways we can help the environment, our bodies, our society. We could build pure substances, and refine better goods.
We could grow better fruits and vegetables.
We could clone better animals.:)
And what would it do to us? I think it's worth risking to find out.
Agreed. Quality is more than fast searches with top-notch results -- it's the experience. Look at the Google interface. It's simple. That was the reason Google becomes well liked, at first impression.
People liked going to the site and being served a fresh, simple design. After that, they were able to see for themselves how swift and accurate the results were.
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"People aren't ready to move beyond advertiser supported web content in droves. It's too early."
Too early? I think it's too greedy.
I remember when Nvidia came into big production, and a lot of us Voodoo owners were skeptical at first that anyone could oppose the great Voodoo cards from 3dfx (the same cardies that revolutionized how we all play Quake). Smart business policy, quality hardware and lots of blood, sweat and tears have pushed Nvidia to where it is today. As a gamer, I welcome any new blood to the table, because it just means that the race for the mother of all graphics suites is getting that much more interesting... and the road is shorter when the competition is fierce!
:)
Competition is the mother of invention, if necessity can't possibly be.
Seems that XGI is going after some odd designs, using the fabled 3dfx dual chip design as a way to get more bang for the buck. It's not a solution, as Tom's Hardware reveals that this results in more problems. The problem? Half-norm memory usage. *ouch*!
Still, this is the first line for XGI. I'm sure we'll see a lot more from them, if they don't go broke.
Gator is Spyware. n/t
Ph34r my 74th level Filmaker character with Anti-Wachowski Shades of Speed. Perhaps then we can all get a Matrix sequel that doesn't suck. Knowing the Wachowski idiots, the game will take place before the Matrix is invented and you have to try and stop the war with the machines. (Terminator anyone?)
Calling Canada's drug prices evil is like calling Geroge Bush a saint -- it's just not true (not even his pundits believe it). The drug prices in Canada are usually reasonable. Sometimes, they are too expensive, but we can get total coverage for drugs in Canada at a reasonable insurance rate.
Americans come here for free surgery, and if they legally cross-border shop for our prescription drugs -- so be it. I don't think even Uncle Sam minds if that happens. Provincial Healthcare doesn't pay for prescriptions, FYI.
Are you telling me that Canada has bad medical coverage? Tell that to the millions of Americans that sneak over here and use it! I'm Canadian and I'm happy that I'm not having to auction my house for the surgery I had last week.
:)
Politics can go back and forth like a ping pong match, but one side has to win eventually.
Justice and goodness will always prevail, in time.
They already started down the downward spiral. It's called evil. Pay for a complete upgrade when it should have been done right the first time? Think not. Each time I see a price on XP or Office, I think of how much money MS has already scammed.
They can run on fumes for a few more decades before they finally go broke or smarten up. I'll hedge bets on the former before I lay a dollar on the latter.
I'm guessing it wouldn't be Britney Spears.
"Can I use my voucher to support myself?"
That'd be less than a GST rebate. What's the point?
Before we get a whole bunch of people bitching about how this might be a kind of popularity contest, note this quote from the article: "Under plausible assumptions, the savings from reduced expenditures on copyrighted material would vastly exceed the cost of the AFV."
Public domain software saves everyone money. It's about time something like this AFV came along and hammered out the details on how to achieve it in a way that's cost effective.
I don't know about you, but my first voucher will go to the person who invented AFV.
From the article: "There would be two alternative mechanisms through which individuals could use their voucher. As one option they could have the funds paid directly by the government to the creative worker or intermediary of their choice, by indicating their selection on a tax form. Alternatively, they could pay an amount equal to the voucher directly to the creative worker or intermediary of their choice, and then file for a refundable credit on their tax return."
That's amazing. I hope Canada adpots this as law, and I will vote for any left-friendly politician who supports it.
The movie title was released today. "Die Hard: Lies and Ties", starring Bruce Willis and Darl McBride of Frankenstien.
This move is surprising to me, but I wouldn't put much faith in what Matthew Szulik has to say about Windows or Linux for home use, considering he's changed the direction of Red Hat's policy regarding sales and distrobution. To me all this means is that Matthew Szulik has changed his company politics (done an about-face). It's in his interest to tell everyone to use Windows at home, because he doesn't want to have to listen to Linux users complain about him selling out, and he doesn't want another vendor to compete directly against him with the corporate guys. A Microsoft partnership at this time is very wise with Red Hat, but I'd bet dollars to donuts, Billygoat Gates slipped him a mickey or something to that effect.
Szulik likely realized that you can make twenty times more money working with big business than you can fielding techsup for home users. To me, this goes against the overall spirit of running Linux, and even the Open Source community, in general.
Thank god Linus doesn't think this way, eh guys?
"No no, it's a perfectly natural, healthy thing for a star of his age to... want to experiment in self-gratification."
:)
Your comparison to solar flares and masturbation made me laugh my ass off! Good job.
I can picture a couple of 1950's parents, and that announcer saying things like, "It's healthy and natural to want to express your sexuality, Sun, but please do it in your own private area, not where the WHOLE WORLD can see..."
"Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?"
I think it's better to watch a film in the language it's created in. Who knows if the translation is correct? Isn't it better to hear the real actors, and listen to the sounds they make, as opposed to some translated version?
A large piece of the meaning and fluidity of a film is lost in translation.
I can remember sitting around a table of French friends of mine, not knowing a word of French myself, and it was still interesting to listen to them, like a fly on a wall. You don't know what's being said, but the experience has it's own merits.
There's something really cool about watching anime in Japanese that gives a kind of simplicity to the plot and idea of the film. Because you have no idea what's being said, you can kind of guess, and that adds some of your immagination to the mix. It delivers a kind of Zen, IMHO. And with the visuals in the trailer of Ghost In the Shell 2, who cares what language it's in!! Gimmie!! Gimmie!!
From the site: Aurora Cam, which "shows the current extent and position of auroral activity in the northern hemisphere, based on measurements taken during the most recent polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite."
Does this recent solar activity make any of you feel uneasy? I mean... is it time for Bruce Willis to suit up again and save the planet? Nine X-class solar flares... eeeek. That has to be bad.
Power Mac G5 Dual 2GHz .Mac Promotional Bundle
Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
2x250GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
Apple Keyboard & Apple Mouse - U.S. English (I'll get a multi-button mouse if I can find one good for gaming, and a gamepad)
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
8GB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 8x1GB
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Accessory kit
Mac OS X - U.S. English
APP for Power Mac (w/ or w/o display) - Enrollment Kit
Klipsch ProMedia GMX 5.1 Speakers & Monster 2-meter Cable
Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel)
iSight
Apple Cinema HD Display (23" flat panel) + Apple DVI to ADC Adapter
DVD Studio Pro 2
Soundtrack
Final Cut Pro 4.0
Shake 3 Mac OS X
AppleWorks 6.2.7
Command and Conquer Generals
BloodRayne
Halo
Masters Of Orion III
Myth III - The Wolf Age
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Star Trek Elite Force 2
Unreal Tournament 2003
WarCraft III
WarCraft III: Frozen Throne
Adobe Creative Suite - Premium
Doom 3 (not included in price)
Snak (not included in price)
$22,089.35
Anything I'm missing?
So basically, you're saying that Jess is a repair on Java, to make it more friendly?
From the article: "The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons.
:P
What do you bet that McDonald's will start using these tomatoes to make us all addicted to their salads and burgers?
From the article: "Precise digital 3D models of indoor environments are needed in several applications, eg, facility management, architecture, rescue and inspection robotics."
This made me chuckle, to think we'd be getting replacements for management, in the form of cute robots that can't talk.
I'm waiting for a robot I can fight martial arts with. Any chance of us getting one of those?
It's nice to hear things about stuff like Kurt3D. I remember when I used to think R2-D2 would be hela cool to have around as a buddy.
He could tweet and chirp away while I explained that moisture vaporators are not the same as carbon units.
I fell out of my chair when I read this! Nice!!! :)
:P
But seriously... I'm guess that your hits on Jess in Action are more interesting and insightful! Nothing like a bit of grass-roots study to confirm what this reviewer is saying, eh?
Fix the rating please. It's the same as the ISBN.
(1930110898)
"If I have any complaint about the organization, it's that the book could have been even more example-driven, abandoning (or shortening) the chapter on syntax and basic functions and introducing them only when used in an example; the rest could have been left to the appendix of Jess functions."
:)
:)
To me this says that O'Reilly's methods for writing programming books is favoured to other styles. Personally, I love how O'Relly's PHP Cookbook does just what this reviewer is looking for. You get a problem, a solution and examples to go with it. The zen of O'Reilly how-to books.
I'm not a Java programmer, but I might have a look at Jess. To me, Java is fairly redundant. I don't like it very much because it's not thin. I'm a bare-bones kinda programmer. Cut, cut, cut!
Using Java in college, you had to load all sorts of extra libs you might not use, which seemed wasteful to me. Don't get me started on web applets, which is what they taught at school. How to turn someone off Java? Applets!
Jess seems, at first glance, to be equally as redundant. Perhaps some of you could delve into the benefits of Jess, on my account?
The Napster kinks in licenses and stuff like that are only a sign of how the record industry still hasn't embraced this age of electronic media.
You'd think they'd be all into it, with the cost reduction for distrobution.
I would think I'm not the only person in the world who clicks OK whenever I see a contract or license. To me, that long-winded drivel has no hold on my time. If Napster is saying they will require my first born child as future payment for the services, then they'll have to come through me to get it, contract or not.
But that's not really what this is about. It's about record execs who haven't got the slightest idea how to integrate properly into a culture.
We are the culture... The people.
They (RIAA et al) are too busy trying to tell us that they are the culture, they are in control, when in fact that very notion of them having to tell people of this, is their undoing.
Each artist or group might have certain wishes to deal with Napster. Napster likely had to make concessions to appease the powers that be.
It's a side effect of a greater disorder. But does it make Napster bad? Prolly not.
You realize that by posting the New York Times article, this has become a story about Foresight, right?
:)
Seven of Nine can't be the only thing sexy about Nanotech. It sounds wonderful, if you think about the possibilities of controlling the world at a molecular level. But what about the costing of Nanotech? This means that instead of charging for a lump sum of material, the manufacturers can charge by the molecule!
Talk about a get rich scheme!
So guys, how can we prevent this from getting out of hand?
Nanotech, appears to be all it's chalked up to be... a great new path for a new industrial revolution. Think of the ways we can help the environment, our bodies, our society. We could build pure substances, and refine better goods.
We could grow better fruits and vegetables.
We could clone better animals.
And what would it do to us? I think it's worth risking to find out.
Agreed. Quality is more than fast searches with top-notch results -- it's the experience. Look at the Google interface. It's simple. That was the reason Google becomes well liked, at first impression.
People liked going to the site and being served a fresh, simple design. After that, they were able to see for themselves how swift and accurate the results were.