The difference is that an IP address is (relatively) anonymous. Cellular is more like tracking with a MAC address. You have your own unique ID number that follows you everywhere. If we could ensure that all ethernet connections have their own unique ID, then we could theoretically have Internet roaming, but the same technology that allows you to roam, would allow anyone to locate/identify you. That's why every stupid web site on the planet uses user+password identification. If we had roaming then any web site could read your UID and use that as a login credential.
The whole concept is very different from today's Internet.
If one were to establish a base cost per work unit, AMD would slap Intel purple. As a low-budget recovering hacker, I'd rather plop 200$ for the latest and greatest AMD64 chip, than 400$ for an overhyped P4EE "now fitting more useless features on one die". Now all I'm missing is a decent motherboard that's not designed like a Pinto.
Vonage is a beautiful thing and "it just works". We use them at work and it's great.
I just don't understand what this "new development" offers more than a conventional VoIP router and cordless phone ?
The concept of Hotspot VoIP is kind of dumb in my view. The magic of Vonage is that you just plug a regular phone into an IP router and it works out of the box. I don't see how they could do that in a wireless environment and I sure as hell don't feel like buying a hotspot-only vonage cell phone when my existing cell phone is relatively cheap and works anywhere.
Wireless Vonage is a pipe dream. The whole backbone of VoIP is of using the cheap, plentiful internet connectivity instead of nazified telco loops. Wireless VoIP would entail using some sort of GSM internet access which is a zillion times more expensive than voice.
That's because "software engineer" is a misnomer. There's designers, and then there's coders. Anything else is pure fluff invented by disgruntled bullshitters to artificially inflate their salary. Five years ago, the buzzword was "Consultant".. today it's "engineer". Can I be a blog engineer ?
We used to have this place called BMac that was slightly different, in that they were a store with a bunch of hippie dykes finger-painting the walls with vaginally inspired art, while you asked them PC-like tech questions to which they replied "This Mac does more stuff than that other Mac". They also had funky craft supplies taking up half the store. Yay, now I can buy a triple-priced hard drive and a jug of varsol in one seamless transaction:P
They were definitely "Apple" in the sense that you stepped into an alternate reality where everyone was a grammar nazi with multicolored hair. I went there often to gaze at the sexy Mac gear but never coaxed myself to buy anything, mainly because you could smell the markup in the expensive, spacious, pointlessly flashy store. Start selling Macs off the back of a truck like the asian PC liquidators and I'll gladly dispense my money, but I want no part in funding a bunch of Ashton Kutcher wanna-bes.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble (that's a lie, I really hate americans just because it's the hip thing to do up here).. you're going to pay taxes anyway! In order for a tax exemption to be valid, there must be proof of address, and that proof comes in the form of a physical shipment. You can't just wave an immigrant driver's licence and skirt the GST, you have to pay your crap, wait for a big brown box to arrive at your doorstep and pay the exorbitant courier fees.
Yes, it sucks. There's no such thing as a free lunch, especially not in Canada.
You DO realize the Quadro is just a Geforce with a different ID. The difference in quality came from the drivers prioritizing image purity over raw speed.
A GPU is a GPU is a GPU, the difference lies in how you make use of it.
If you're the kind of guy who has low testosterone and slams the brakes every twenty feet, then just don't drive.
No, seriously. There are too many drivers today and most of them suck. Just like we're not all good at painting or skiing or whatever.. but the government, DMV and auto makers want you to believe that anyone can be a safe driver, just so they can sell more cars/licenses/traffic tickets. UNTRUE! Take the friggin bus!
I can't even imagine how many ugly stupid accidents I would have been victim of, were it not for my gigabit reflexes and calm controlling attitude behind the wheel. Every day someone runs a red, jumps lanes without signalling, or some idiot pedestrian runs across a six-lane intersection DIAGONALLY. People don't seem to realize the danger inherent in a 3000lb hunk of aluminum.
Heck, I'd rather fly a jetplane. At least up there we have six degrees of freedom to avoid collisions.
Just stay wherever you are. Canada sucks for I.T., proven by the fact that I now earn a living assembling bargain Celeron systems for $7.50/hr, 75 hours a week. Oh, I'm a hotshot programmer BTW, but you wouldn't know by the way I wield that screwdriver... up until I fire up Debug.com and bang out a ghetto disk utility out of thin air. And then I go back to the screwdriver.
Canada sucks. All of us ex-dot-commies talk of moving to the states for some fast cash, then realize we can't even afford the bus ride because we haven't worked in five years. Don't waste your life.
Come on, there are tons of strong, busty, long-haired big-eyed dirtily-clad pouty-lipped fierce-legged babes in the world. They just happen to all live in Quebec:D/Parlez francais?
In a parallel dream universe, maybe. In reality, the big guys have their own R&D portfolio that they certainly won't just abandon in favor of this new amateur project and its geek cool. They wouldn't even consider it for a budget card, because it would undermine the sales of their existing budget lines which are really just a way to liquidate older and sub-spec GPUs. Remember the Celeron ? It used to be a Pentium-3 with bad cache mem. Cheaper Radeons are the same, a 9500 was really a 9700 with half its pixel pipes broken, but instead of throwing it in the garbage, they salvage the chip and sell it for $60 less.
So um, NO. Unless this somehow becomes a true mega OSS project where thousands of people contribute to the chip design, and I don't know how that could work unless we pull this thing onto FPGA's and deal with zillions of idiots on forums who can't fit the chip into their SD reader... welllll.. you get the picture. Open Source is a nice idea, but it has its place in society and this isn't it.
Exactly. That's like trying to build an open-source car. Yeah it'll work, but you don't benefit from billions of R&D investment like the other big names have. You have to go through the motions of trial and error and start from square one. In this day and age, I don't think I have the heart to go through that babysitting phase with another product.
Why not try and identify what's holding back ATI/NVidia from releasing open-source drivers, and targetting those niggles to make our system palatable to their driver teams ? These guys have years of experience doing nothing but graphics dev, they have insider info on current game projects so that when Doom 7 comes out, your Radeon32768 will be able to run it flawlessly.
Why should we be duplicating effort at all, just to satisfy the vanity of this OSS "community" ? We have two strong manufacturers that are constantly pushing the envelope and actively driving new related products like high-speed RAM and funky cooling solutions. Let's back them with our purchasing dollars and see how far these geeks can go.
I'm going to say all the bad things I can think of so we don't have to waste time rereading them all day.
1. The hardware will be underpowered because this group has little experience (if any) designing bleeding edge graphics hardware
2. The card will be overpriced because this group doesn't have the manufacturing clout of NVidia or ATI
3. The drivers will suck because nobody's going to buy this card and nobody will develop for it.
4. The drivers will suck MORE because of all the trans-gamers out there who dual boot, they won't get the card because it won't be supported in Windows (or just very weakly).
5. The company has no financial backing, so they will crash and burn early on and we will be stuck with abandoned hardware.
6. This time, effort and money would be better spent harassing the existing graphics card manufacturers into opening up their drivers, as least the non-trade-secret parts so we can do our magic on it.
7. (asbestos ON) I still don't think any Linux Distro in its current state should even be considered for desktop or gaming. But that's me being an elitist prick. Come up with a cleaner development model, make it "just work", and redo the whole windowing system into something that is NOT X, and maybe then we can start talking. The reason OSX works so well is because it does fifty backflips to almost completely hide the underlying Unix layer. It's not because I know Linux that I want to put up with its PMS all the time, sometimes it's nice to just click things with your brain switched off.
I'm not used to reading Microsoft dialect, but when they say "the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously" does that mean symlinks / hardlinks ?
When I think MP3, I think MPTrip. It's the first MP3 player I ever owned and holy frig did I check my mailbox often when I ordered that baby. It was a steaming hunk of junk but it played my MP3 cd's and that's all that mattered.
I still have it but it's all banged up from the intense wear I put it through during the first year or two, and then being stored and almost forgotten after moving three times, but I fired it up earlier this week and it still runs.
To me, it's a piece of history. It ain't going anywhere. That thing used to eat batteries like popcorn and I kept feeding it some more. It only got replaced by a laptop later on, after that I finally got my hands on a respectable MP3 deck for the car... but oh the memories!
The video industry forces us to sit through previews and commercials in our own homes. Do you really believe they will use flash memory with responsibility and give top priority to the user's experience ?
Yep. This is why WinXP is almost easy to use. You just plug in whatever and 10 seconds later it's installed. I just did that with an old gamepad I had lying around, didn't need to download a driver, didn't need to say "Next->Next->Finish", just plug in and go.
Some Linux distros have some infant form of autodetection, but it's mostly used at boot time and nowhere else. It's not like I can hot-plug NICs anyway, but it's still a bitch having to find the right driver for it sometimes. You'd think the PCI id would be enough to pick the right driver without a single user prompt.
Sony is doing this because people have been selling items "illegally" for a decade. Sony will do it through their online store so they can have a stronger defense against ebayers. And of course they're going to skim some money off the top, DUH. Now you will not only pay your monthly subscription, but you will pay a tax on everything.
In other words, Sony is turning into Canada. It sucks to be me.
How long does he have until we send an intern to orally stimulate him ? 9/11's aftermath was bad enough, now we have to put up with this tech hostility ? Even the goddamned bikers have more foresight than this.
If you've never maxed out the ATA bus, you need to upgrade that 200mhz PPro. One plain-jane IDE hard drive pushes 60+ MB/sec these days. Plug the slave in, you've got 120 MB/sec sustained coming down a 133 MB line. Throw in the awful ATA overhead and everything slows down to a crawl as your drive has to take two passes at the same cylinder just so your host can keep up.
If they came up with 800 MB/sec busses I would buy it up in a heartbeat. There's no fun having an IDE-Raid array when the limiting factor is the host controller. At least 300 MB/sec SATA is getting closer, and in my case I have four of those ctlrs on my board so I can get creative and rape my HyperTransport into oblivion:D
I wish I knew why fast disk interfaces are so hard to make. I know the spindles are the limiting factor for throughput, but if we can build blazing fast northbridges and memory controllers, why can't we do the same with the hard drive ? My previous board actually ran its SATA controller through the PCI bus (stealing precious bandwidth from my sound card). What's wrong with these designers ?
Yep it exists and it's called PlanetSide, and it gets really boring when you're one of the mechs guarding the friggin' reactor for 15 minutes with no enemies in a 15 mile radius.
I think the reason you were disappointed with Doom 3 is that you expected it to be Quake, which it clearly isn't. Doom isn't so much about twitch reflexes as it is about ambience. The reason the flashlight is so annoying is so it builds tension. When you encounter the first zombies in total darkness and they're literally inches from your throat you get nervous, and that's what the Doom experience is about.
Go back to Doom 1 and 2, and tell me if you see any shock surprises like that ? Walk past an invisible line and you hear the familiar "clunk-bzzz" of a door opening in the distance. You know something's coming after you, but you don't know what. Next thing you know, that room you just existed has been populated with a bunch of Barons and you just wasted all your rockets on a room full of Cacodemons. Panic sets in as you try to dodge the assault while your stupid shotgun reloads, when you see a stray fireball shoot from the side and you realize there's more hell coming down the hall.
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The difference is that an IP address is (relatively) anonymous. Cellular is more like tracking with a MAC address. You have your own unique ID number that follows you everywhere. If we could ensure that all ethernet connections have their own unique ID, then we could theoretically have Internet roaming, but the same technology that allows you to roam, would allow anyone to locate/identify you. That's why every stupid web site on the planet uses user+password identification. If we had roaming then any web site could read your UID and use that as a login credential.
The whole concept is very different from today's Internet.
Screw performance, what about cost ?
If one were to establish a base cost per work unit, AMD would slap Intel purple. As a low-budget recovering hacker, I'd rather plop 200$ for the latest and greatest AMD64 chip, than 400$ for an overhyped P4EE "now fitting more useless features on one die". Now all I'm missing is a decent motherboard that's not designed like a Pinto.
Vonage is a beautiful thing and "it just works". We use them at work and it's great.
I just don't understand what this "new development" offers more than a conventional VoIP router and cordless phone ?
The concept of Hotspot VoIP is kind of dumb in my view. The magic of Vonage is that you just plug a regular phone into an IP router and it works out of the box. I don't see how they could do that in a wireless environment and I sure as hell don't feel like buying a hotspot-only vonage cell phone when my existing cell phone is relatively cheap and works anywhere.
Wireless Vonage is a pipe dream. The whole backbone of VoIP is of using the cheap, plentiful internet connectivity instead of nazified telco loops. Wireless VoIP would entail using some sort of GSM internet access which is a zillion times more expensive than voice.
That's because "software engineer" is a misnomer. There's designers, and then there's coders. Anything else is pure fluff invented by disgruntled bullshitters to artificially inflate their salary. Five years ago, the buzzword was "Consultant".. today it's "engineer". Can I be a blog engineer ?
We used to have this place called BMac that was slightly different, in that they were a store with a bunch of hippie dykes finger-painting the walls with vaginally inspired art, while you asked them PC-like tech questions to which they replied "This Mac does more stuff than that other Mac". They also had funky craft supplies taking up half the store. Yay, now I can buy a triple-priced hard drive and a jug of varsol in one seamless transaction :P
They were definitely "Apple" in the sense that you stepped into an alternate reality where everyone was a grammar nazi with multicolored hair. I went there often to gaze at the sexy Mac gear but never coaxed myself to buy anything, mainly because you could smell the markup in the expensive, spacious, pointlessly flashy store. Start selling Macs off the back of a truck like the asian PC liquidators and I'll gladly dispense my money, but I want no part in funding a bunch of Ashton Kutcher wanna-bes.
I'm sorry to burst your bubble (that's a lie, I really hate americans just because it's the hip thing to do up here).. you're going to pay taxes anyway! In order for a tax exemption to be valid, there must be proof of address, and that proof comes in the form of a physical shipment. You can't just wave an immigrant driver's licence and skirt the GST, you have to pay your crap, wait for a big brown box to arrive at your doorstep and pay the exorbitant courier fees.
Yes, it sucks. There's no such thing as a free lunch, especially not in Canada.
You DO realize the Quadro is just a Geforce with a different ID. The difference in quality came from the drivers prioritizing image purity over raw speed.
A GPU is a GPU is a GPU, the difference lies in how you make use of it.
Simple solution:
If you're the kind of guy who has low testosterone and slams the brakes every twenty feet, then just don't drive.
No, seriously. There are too many drivers today and most of them suck. Just like we're not all good at painting or skiing or whatever.. but the government, DMV and auto makers want you to believe that anyone can be a safe driver, just so they can sell more cars/licenses/traffic tickets. UNTRUE! Take the friggin bus!
I can't even imagine how many ugly stupid accidents I would have been victim of, were it not for my gigabit reflexes and calm controlling attitude behind the wheel. Every day someone runs a red, jumps lanes without signalling, or some idiot pedestrian runs across a six-lane intersection DIAGONALLY. People don't seem to realize the danger inherent in a 3000lb hunk of aluminum.
Heck, I'd rather fly a jetplane. At least up there we have six degrees of freedom to avoid collisions.
Just stay wherever you are. Canada sucks for I.T., proven by the fact that I now earn a living assembling bargain Celeron systems for $7.50/hr, 75 hours a week. Oh, I'm a hotshot programmer BTW, but you wouldn't know by the way I wield that screwdriver... up until I fire up Debug.com and bang out a ghetto disk utility out of thin air. And then I go back to the screwdriver.
Canada sucks. All of us ex-dot-commies talk of moving to the states for some fast cash, then realize we can't even afford the bus ride because we haven't worked in five years. Don't waste your life.
Come on, there are tons of strong, busty, long-haired big-eyed dirtily-clad pouty-lipped fierce-legged babes in the world. They just happen to all live in Quebec :D /Parlez francais?
In a parallel dream universe, maybe. In reality, the big guys have their own R&D portfolio that they certainly won't just abandon in favor of this new amateur project and its geek cool. They wouldn't even consider it for a budget card, because it would undermine the sales of their existing budget lines which are really just a way to liquidate older and sub-spec GPUs. Remember the Celeron ? It used to be a Pentium-3 with bad cache mem. Cheaper Radeons are the same, a 9500 was really a 9700 with half its pixel pipes broken, but instead of throwing it in the garbage, they salvage the chip and sell it for $60 less.
So um, NO. Unless this somehow becomes a true mega OSS project where thousands of people contribute to the chip design, and I don't know how that could work unless we pull this thing onto FPGA's and deal with zillions of idiots on forums who can't fit the chip into their SD reader... welllll.. you get the picture. Open Source is a nice idea, but it has its place in society and this isn't it.
Exactly. That's like trying to build an open-source car. Yeah it'll work, but you don't benefit from billions of R&D investment like the other big names have. You have to go through the motions of trial and error and start from square one. In this day and age, I don't think I have the heart to go through that babysitting phase with another product.
Why not try and identify what's holding back ATI/NVidia from releasing open-source drivers, and targetting those niggles to make our system palatable to their driver teams ? These guys have years of experience doing nothing but graphics dev, they have insider info on current game projects so that when Doom 7 comes out, your Radeon32768 will be able to run it flawlessly.
Why should we be duplicating effort at all, just to satisfy the vanity of this OSS "community" ? We have two strong manufacturers that are constantly pushing the envelope and actively driving new related products like high-speed RAM and funky cooling solutions. Let's back them with our purchasing dollars and see how far these geeks can go.
I'm going to say all the bad things I can think of so we don't have to waste time rereading them all day.
1. The hardware will be underpowered because this group has little experience (if any) designing bleeding edge graphics hardware
2. The card will be overpriced because this group doesn't have the manufacturing clout of NVidia or ATI
3. The drivers will suck because nobody's going to buy this card and nobody will develop for it.
4. The drivers will suck MORE because of all the trans-gamers out there who dual boot, they won't get the card because it won't be supported in Windows (or just very weakly).
5. The company has no financial backing, so they will crash and burn early on and we will be stuck with abandoned hardware.
6. This time, effort and money would be better spent harassing the existing graphics card manufacturers into opening up their drivers, as least the non-trade-secret parts so we can do our magic on it.
7. (asbestos ON) I still don't think any Linux Distro in its current state should even be considered for desktop or gaming. But that's me being an elitist prick. Come up with a cleaner development model, make it "just work", and redo the whole windowing system into something that is NOT X, and maybe then we can start talking. The reason OSX works so well is because it does fifty backflips to almost completely hide the underlying Unix layer. It's not because I know Linux that I want to put up with its PMS all the time, sometimes it's nice to just click things with your brain switched off.
I'm not used to reading Microsoft dialect, but when they say "the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously" does that mean symlinks / hardlinks ?
That is some sexy hardware! I can't even build my own Via rig that cheaply.
My one gripe is that the LCD model would be better replaced with a notebook at that kind of pricing. Still damn sexy though.
This blasphemy!
You do realize you run the risk of voiding your warranty, blowing up your house and creating a tachyon distortion field the size of manhattan!
NOOOOOO you're supposed to buy the expensive Antec case with the ready-made fan-mount across your hard drive rack. Any other usage is terrorism!
Yelling aside, why do we need the internet to tell us how to do such trivial things as screwing a bracket to a fan ? Have we become that stupid ?
When I think MP3, I think MPTrip. It's the first MP3 player I ever owned and holy frig did I check my mailbox often when I ordered that baby. It was a steaming hunk of junk but it played my MP3 cd's and that's all that mattered.
I still have it but it's all banged up from the intense wear I put it through during the first year or two, and then being stored and almost forgotten after moving three times, but I fired it up earlier this week and it still runs.
To me, it's a piece of history. It ain't going anywhere. That thing used to eat batteries like popcorn and I kept feeding it some more. It only got replaced by a laptop later on, after that I finally got my hands on a respectable MP3 deck for the car... but oh the memories!
DivX anyone ? (by circuit city)
The video industry forces us to sit through previews and commercials in our own homes. Do you really believe they will use flash memory with responsibility and give top priority to the user's experience ?
I have this bridge I'd like to sell you.
Government ? HELLOO!
Imagine your pron searches falling into the hands of your live-in girlfriend.
Sheeeeeesh. That crazy bitch was already sniffing my browser history.
Yep. This is why WinXP is almost easy to use. You just plug in whatever and 10 seconds later it's installed. I just did that with an old gamepad I had lying around, didn't need to download a driver, didn't need to say "Next->Next->Finish", just plug in and go.
Some Linux distros have some infant form of autodetection, but it's mostly used at boot time and nowhere else. It's not like I can hot-plug NICs anyway, but it's still a bitch having to find the right driver for it sometimes. You'd think the PCI id would be enough to pick the right driver without a single user prompt.
Sony is doing this because people have been selling items "illegally" for a decade. Sony will do it through their online store so they can have a stronger defense against ebayers. And of course they're going to skim some money off the top, DUH. Now you will not only pay your monthly subscription, but you will pay a tax on everything.
In other words, Sony is turning into Canada. It sucks to be me.
How long does he have until we send an intern to orally stimulate him ? 9/11's aftermath was bad enough, now we have to put up with this tech hostility ? Even the goddamned bikers have more foresight than this.
If you've never maxed out the ATA bus, you need to upgrade that 200mhz PPro. One plain-jane IDE hard drive pushes 60+ MB/sec these days. Plug the slave in, you've got 120 MB/sec sustained coming down a 133 MB line. Throw in the awful ATA overhead and everything slows down to a crawl as your drive has to take two passes at the same cylinder just so your host can keep up.
:D
If they came up with 800 MB/sec busses I would buy it up in a heartbeat. There's no fun having an IDE-Raid array when the limiting factor is the host controller. At least 300 MB/sec SATA is getting closer, and in my case I have four of those ctlrs on my board so I can get creative and rape my HyperTransport into oblivion
I wish I knew why fast disk interfaces are so hard to make. I know the spindles are the limiting factor for throughput, but if we can build blazing fast northbridges and memory controllers, why can't we do the same with the hard drive ? My previous board actually ran its SATA controller through the PCI bus (stealing precious bandwidth from my sound card). What's wrong with these designers ?
Yep it exists and it's called PlanetSide, and it gets really boring when you're one of the mechs guarding the friggin' reactor for 15 minutes with no enemies in a 15 mile radius.
I think the reason you were disappointed with Doom 3 is that you expected it to be Quake, which it clearly isn't. Doom isn't so much about twitch reflexes as it is about ambience. The reason the flashlight is so annoying is so it builds tension. When you encounter the first zombies in total darkness and they're literally inches from your throat you get nervous, and that's what the Doom experience is about.
Go back to Doom 1 and 2, and tell me if you see any shock surprises like that ? Walk past an invisible line and you hear the familiar "clunk-bzzz" of a door opening in the distance. You know something's coming after you, but you don't know what. Next thing you know, that room you just existed has been populated with a bunch of Barons and you just wasted all your rockets on a room full of Cacodemons. Panic sets in as you try to dodge the assault while your stupid shotgun reloads, when you see a stray fireball shoot from the side and you realize there's more hell coming down the hall.
THAT's Doom.