Why are we so worried ? Shouldn't it be possible to just crack or work around Palladium ? Heck, just emulate the Palladium opcodes or whatever it does, and "pretend" your system is running in secure mode.
1- no rewinding 2- the 'compact' in 'compact disc' 3- easy to produce
Lots of people like to burn their home movies to VCD, because it only costs a few pennies per copy and works like a charm in their 100$ DVD player. You can also shove 100 VCD's in a spindle that takes up about as much space as 4 VHS tapes. What ? Digging through 100 discs isn't convenient ? Digging through 100 tapes is worse, when you consider the piles you'll be building around yourself just to get to that gem in the far left corner of your TV cabinet.
And geezus.. why do I have to mention this : ANIME! Buckets of inexpensive Anime from the eastern markets.. stuff you'll never see on DVD for zillions of bullshit reasons. Try grabbing any of the Urotsukidoji series on DVD ? No go, too 'sick' to be granted a producer's license. So they release royalty-free VCDs and you get your tentacle-raping goodness without paying The Man.
Isn't this the same thing TLC's been showing every other week for the last four years now ? The one where they hit a spot where the stones have shifted and the step-up is too high for the poorly-designed truck to climb. I would have thought that a spider-like bot would have been better for this, since it would be able to walk across gaps n'stuff.
I mean, egyptian architecture is neat and all, but I don't think they had the tools and knowledge to properly build these things to 1/16th-of-an-inch precision.
If all the ISP's over there are government-run, then couldn't they theoretically order satellite service from america (or anywhere else), and bypass the gov't ? Sure, 200ms first hop would be killer, but it's still better than the pathetic mind-fucking experience the gov't calls "their internet".
2. He doesn't know shit about online auctions, can't even run his own webserver.
3. Did I mention he's a fucking _PATENT ATTORNEY_ ? Can you say "Conflict of Interest" three times fast ?
This is just a cornerstone that will solidify the state of legislative stupidity for decades to come. It's like me suing Sears because I think I might have invented the concept of putting products in a building with pricetags on them. I can just picture the judge laughing his toupee off right now. But since this is an "Internet-thing", everyone in power will just play stupid and let the sodomy continue.
Indeed, some people have a use for the added power. I have friends who spend their time ripping DVD's. For those, I'm sure they would love a quad-Athlon 2800.. but for _general use_, which is what these common market CPU's were built for, well, who gives a fuck ?! There have always been special-purpose processors for the power hungry, like Suns and Crays and SGI's. Cheap cluster computing has only recently struck mass popularity, so I feel most of these Athlon power plants will die a slow death running the same Bejeweled I play for hours a day on my workplace's 366mhz Celeron (I do nights in a video store - what else is there to do:)
There is room for everyone in this market, but you know they will be force-feeding these things to Auntie May, convincing her that her email will be faster and the internet will be more colorful with an Athlon 2800.
Does your Auntie May post to the F1 forum about how she's always rear-ending people in traffic with her MacLaren, and how the fuel economy sucks ? Maybe she'd be better suited in a Ford Taurus.
The beauty of this design is that they're selling you less hardware for more money. They're effectively removing the filter screen from the LCD, putting it into a pair of glasses, and charging 7x the normal price. The only smart thing about this gimmick is how they're screwing the rich ignorants of the world with their flawed privacy scheme.
Someone should open up the School of Cyber-fraud : Harnessing the power of high-tech misconceptions to extort money from the rich and stupid. Sign up within the next 15 minutes and save 395$ off regular tuition, only 5995$! Don't wait, Call now!
Quoth the intro: "we hope to directly manipulate light, guide it around corners with no losses"
Stupid scientists, always reinventing the wrong wheel. Rather than blow billion$ and years of research trying to make light turn corners, just get a fricking ruler and make those pathways straight! Do dragstrips run around in circles ? No, they're straight. Straight = fast. I don't care if my optical CPU core is 20 inches long and 2mm thick with a big protective slab of iron wrapped around it, as long as it puts out 20ghz of pixel-twaddling goodness.
It's about time someone woke up and did this, but why does it have to be Sony ? We know their interests lie elsewhere. Sony, creator of dozens of proprietary formats that never flew out of the mother's nest. Why would they suddenly turn around and start working with others ? And their cd-r track record is, well, pathetic. I remember using a 2x Spressa burner, which sucked goats even for its time. Then I tried a 12x, still badly crippled and lacking many current features and abilities.
Now what, they'll make a DVD burner that only burns on Sony media, and only lets you burn what it wants to burn ? I mean, these guys made the PS2, which is plagued by DVD-R backups (tee-hee:) Will this DVD-R unit be somehow protected from duplicating PS2 games ? It's a stretch, but coming from Sony I'm prepared for the worst.
I must be missing something big here. I've been happily chugging along with my year-old 1400mhz Athlon, and despite my 'power-user' status, I still think it's more than fast enough for anything I do, be it code, audio/video/photo editing, or any games. I'm trying very hard to justify another 300$ investment in a Geforce4, even though my GF2 suits me just fine.
It seems we've reached a transitional plateau, where we need to refocus and figure out where we're going with all this untapped bit-fiddling power. I'd much rather see hyper-cheap PCs, than yet another overpriced 5% mhz step-up. Give me a 500mhz basic box for 100$, and I'll get my whole extended family on the web playing Bejeweled day and night.
I'm glad I wasn't even considering the VisionTek cards. Don't ask me why, but I had a feeling they wouldn't last long. They came out of nowhere, took over every retail shelf spot with their overpriced underfeatured cards, and now they will vanish. My current card is an Asus GF2 Deluxe, and I'm on the verge of getting an Abit Siluro GF4 because it has the quietest cooler of its class. VisionTek was the noisiest! 46db at one foot, vs 34db.. that means four times the loudness!
This is no comparison, it's cheap advertising for Garage Games' engine. Just try to remember Tribes 2 and how it sucked compatibility-wise, and how it crashed often. The game itself was fantastic, but the code was awful. Quake 1-2-3 are decent games with rock-solid engines.. that's why they're selling for big bucks (and being modded beyond recognition).
I have been thinking of that exact same thing for over a year now, but can't find a decent source of swivel-arms. I just need one to hang my midi controller out of the way, so I don't need to shift my keyboard & mouse around when trying to make noise. Do you know where your boss got his kit ?
Geezus man, kill yourself now! The way you're talking, your life must suck goats. So much regret, so little pride. Haven't you done anything rewarding in the last ten years ?
Look see, he was running a video store, and for some reason did not know that selling home-made copies of copyrighted material such as games and movies, is piracy, thus illegal ?
Ignorance isn't an excuse for breaking the law, but it seems everyone on the planet is ignorant enough to try that play.
The law that was broken is copyright. Installing chips is in a gray area, mostly because of all the corporate gang-raping we're seeing lately. Where this guy went wrong, however, is that he was also selling CDR backups. That kind of business is piracy, no matter how you put it, and is inexcusable. I mean, this wasn't a 14 year old sharing copies of Quake3 with his mates, this is a 38 year old dude profitting from this RIGHT IN HIS VIDEO STORE! That's the fraud right there.
Oh come on! If you can get one display working, then adding a second is trivial. You just need a second RamDac reading a separate area of your display memory, and make sure your display driver plays nice with the OS. It certainly is beyond most of our capabilities, but then how many people have the knowledge and equipment to build their own video cards in the first place ? Not very many. But for those in the business, they know what they're doing, and they don't need to look over the other' shoulder to figure out simple problems like these.
Wouldn't this idea work better as "FoodForge" ? Where anyone can submit a new recipe, that is (almost) instantly available online, and others can comment/add variants to it ?
Yeah, nothing like receiving a good beating to relieve stress eh ?
Seriously, what about the plastic getting dehydrated thanks to the typical office's hyper-optimistic air conditioning system ? Dry things are typically more brittle than damp things. Sitting on a desk for months without being moved is bound to dry up the plastic after a while.
If we've learned anything from infomercians, it's that any 'breaking fact' that ends with "and more" is pure hogwash. It directly translates to "This thing is guaranteed to do absolutely nothing. If it does anything more, then consider yourself lucky."
Bacteria that eats carbon ? Come on, what do you think all living tissue is made of ? That's right kids, Carbon!
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Why are we so worried ? Shouldn't it be possible to just crack or work around Palladium ? Heck, just emulate the Palladium opcodes or whatever it does, and "pretend" your system is running in secure mode.
Why does VCD work ?
1- no rewinding
2- the 'compact' in 'compact disc'
3- easy to produce
Lots of people like to burn their home movies to VCD, because it only costs a few pennies per copy and works like a charm in their 100$ DVD player. You can also shove 100 VCD's in a spindle that takes up about as much space as 4 VHS tapes. What ? Digging through 100 discs isn't convenient ? Digging through 100 tapes is worse, when you consider the piles you'll be building around yourself just to get to that gem in the far left corner of your TV cabinet.
And geezus.. why do I have to mention this : ANIME! Buckets of inexpensive Anime from the eastern markets.. stuff you'll never see on DVD for zillions of bullshit reasons. Try grabbing any of the Urotsukidoji series on DVD ? No go, too 'sick' to be granted a producer's license. So they release royalty-free VCDs and you get your tentacle-raping goodness without paying The Man.
Isn't this the same thing TLC's been showing every other week for the last four years now ? The one where they hit a spot where the stones have shifted and the step-up is too high for the poorly-designed truck to climb. I would have thought that a spider-like bot would have been better for this, since it would be able to walk across gaps n'stuff.
I mean, egyptian architecture is neat and all, but I don't think they had the tools and knowledge to properly build these things to 1/16th-of-an-inch precision.
If all the ISP's over there are government-run, then couldn't they theoretically order satellite service from america (or anywhere else), and bypass the gov't ? Sure, 200ms first hop would be killer, but it's still better than the pathetic mind-fucking experience the gov't calls "their internet".
Ok let's run down the facts :
1. He's a _PATENT ATTORNEY_.
2. He doesn't know shit about online auctions, can't even run his own webserver.
3. Did I mention he's a fucking _PATENT ATTORNEY_ ? Can you say "Conflict of Interest" three times fast ?
This is just a cornerstone that will solidify the state of legislative stupidity for decades to come. It's like me suing Sears because I think I might have invented the concept of putting products in a building with pricetags on them. I can just picture the judge laughing his toupee off right now. But since this is an "Internet-thing", everyone in power will just play stupid and let the sodomy continue.
Indeed, some people have a use for the added power. I have friends who spend their time ripping DVD's. For those, I'm sure they would love a quad-Athlon 2800.. but for _general use_, which is what these common market CPU's were built for, well, who gives a fuck ?! There have always been special-purpose processors for the power hungry, like Suns and Crays and SGI's. Cheap cluster computing has only recently struck mass popularity, so I feel most of these Athlon power plants will die a slow death running the same Bejeweled I play for hours a day on my workplace's 366mhz Celeron (I do nights in a video store - what else is there to do :)
There is room for everyone in this market, but you know they will be force-feeding these things to Auntie May, convincing her that her email will be faster and the internet will be more colorful with an Athlon 2800.
Does your Auntie May post to the F1 forum about how she's always rear-ending people in traffic with her MacLaren, and how the fuel economy sucks ? Maybe she'd be better suited in a Ford Taurus.
The beauty of this design is that they're selling you less hardware for more money. They're effectively removing the filter screen from the LCD, putting it into a pair of glasses, and charging 7x the normal price. The only smart thing about this gimmick is how they're screwing the rich ignorants of the world with their flawed privacy scheme.
Someone should open up the School of Cyber-fraud : Harnessing the power of high-tech misconceptions to extort money from the rich and stupid. Sign up within the next 15 minutes and save 395$ off regular tuition, only 5995$! Don't wait, Call now!
1.4ghz is lowly now ? My gawd, I'd better order a vapochill and OC the latest Athlon XP2600 to 3500mhz.
Quoth the intro: "we hope to directly manipulate light, guide it around corners with no losses"
Stupid scientists, always reinventing the wrong wheel. Rather than blow billion$ and years of research trying to make light turn corners, just get a fricking ruler and make those pathways straight! Do dragstrips run around in circles ? No, they're straight. Straight = fast. I don't care if my optical CPU core is 20 inches long and 2mm thick with a big protective slab of iron wrapped around it, as long as it puts out 20ghz of pixel-twaddling goodness.
It's about time someone woke up and did this, but why does it have to be Sony ? We know their interests lie elsewhere. Sony, creator of dozens of proprietary formats that never flew out of the mother's nest. Why would they suddenly turn around and start working with others ? And their cd-r track record is, well, pathetic. I remember using a 2x Spressa burner, which sucked goats even for its time. Then I tried a 12x, still badly crippled and lacking many current features and abilities.
:) Will this DVD-R unit be somehow protected from duplicating PS2 games ? It's a stretch, but coming from Sony I'm prepared for the worst.
Now what, they'll make a DVD burner that only burns on Sony media, and only lets you burn what it wants to burn ? I mean, these guys made the PS2, which is plagued by DVD-R backups (tee-hee
I must be missing something big here. I've been happily chugging along with my year-old 1400mhz Athlon, and despite my 'power-user' status, I still think it's more than fast enough for anything I do, be it code, audio/video/photo editing, or any games. I'm trying very hard to justify another 300$ investment in a Geforce4, even though my GF2 suits me just fine.
It seems we've reached a transitional plateau, where we need to refocus and figure out where we're going with all this untapped bit-fiddling power. I'd much rather see hyper-cheap PCs, than yet another overpriced 5% mhz step-up. Give me a 500mhz basic box for 100$, and I'll get my whole extended family on the web playing Bejeweled day and night.
How about like the movie theatres ? Buy a 4$ bucket-o-pop, get free refills for the night.
I'm glad I wasn't even considering the VisionTek cards. Don't ask me why, but I had a feeling they wouldn't last long. They came out of nowhere, took over every retail shelf spot with their overpriced underfeatured cards, and now they will vanish. My current card is an Asus GF2 Deluxe, and I'm on the verge of getting an Abit Siluro GF4 because it has the quietest cooler of its class. VisionTek was the noisiest! 46db at one foot, vs 34db.. that means four times the loudness!
This is no comparison, it's cheap advertising for Garage Games' engine. Just try to remember Tribes 2 and how it sucked compatibility-wise, and how it crashed often. The game itself was fantastic, but the code was awful. Quake 1-2-3 are decent games with rock-solid engines.. that's why they're selling for big bucks (and being modded beyond recognition).
I have been thinking of that exact same thing for over a year now, but can't find a decent source of swivel-arms. I just need one to hang my midi controller out of the way, so I don't need to shift my keyboard & mouse around when trying to make noise. Do you know where your boss got his kit ?
Geezus man, kill yourself now! The way you're talking, your life must suck goats. So much regret, so little pride. Haven't you done anything rewarding in the last ten years ?
If you want nitrous kicks, just take a sip from your neighborhood honda fuckhead's nos bottle :)
Look see, he was running a video store, and for some reason did not know that selling home-made copies of copyrighted material such as games and movies, is piracy, thus illegal ?
Ignorance isn't an excuse for breaking the law, but it seems everyone on the planet is ignorant enough to try that play.
The law that was broken is copyright. Installing chips is in a gray area, mostly because of all the corporate gang-raping we're seeing lately. Where this guy went wrong, however, is that he was also selling CDR backups. That kind of business is piracy, no matter how you put it, and is inexcusable. I mean, this wasn't a 14 year old sharing copies of Quake3 with his mates, this is a 38 year old dude profitting from this RIGHT IN HIS VIDEO STORE! That's the fraud right there.
Oh come on! If you can get one display working, then adding a second is trivial. You just need a second RamDac reading a separate area of your display memory, and make sure your display driver plays nice with the OS. It certainly is beyond most of our capabilities, but then how many people have the knowledge and equipment to build their own video cards in the first place ? Not very many. But for those in the business, they know what they're doing, and they don't need to look over the other' shoulder to figure out simple problems like these.
Wouldn't this idea work better as "FoodForge" ? Where anyone can submit a new recipe, that is (almost) instantly available online, and others can comment/add variants to it ?
Yeah, nothing like receiving a good beating to relieve stress eh ?
Seriously, what about the plastic getting dehydrated thanks to the typical office's hyper-optimistic air conditioning system ? Dry things are typically more brittle than damp things. Sitting on a desk for months without being moved is bound to dry up the plastic after a while.
IT Professional ? That must have cracked them up good. If you want to sound scary and intimidating, tell them you're their boss.
"This is Mike Washimotojima from HR and I'm going to fire your ass if you don't fix this thing right now."
typing 8 hours/day .. your girlfriend uses a laptop..
so you're my long distance lover! ahh!
If we've learned anything from infomercians, it's that any 'breaking fact' that ends with "and more" is pure hogwash. It directly translates to "This thing is guaranteed to do absolutely nothing. If it does anything more, then consider yourself lucky."
Bacteria that eats carbon ? Come on, what do you think all living tissue is made of ? That's right kids, Carbon!