Starship Troopers...a classic sci-fi novel turned into a B movie
Heh. But Starship Troopers was a pretty good movie when they released it as "Aliens". And the whole mobile suit thing has certainly held its own in the visual medium...
Well, I knew someone would say that, that's why I chose a link from each side. The second one says the *scientific* link is fabricated, not the Australian lawsuit, which is what the post I replied to was claiming.
From the pro-choice site: Raising the stakes even higher, a dubious lawsuit was settled in Australia in September 2001... More lawsuits like the Australia case are on the way...
The pro-choice site does not question that there was a lawsuit and that the plaintif received a settlement. The grandparent post made a factually correct statement about the lawsuit (saying nothing about the underlying science) and was quickly modded troll. In light of this article's topic, don't you find that mildly ironic?
This guy's for real, and this is the answer, so please mod him up, if you have points
That said, Derek, if you didn't know there was a linux port of your video/audio toolkits available, why did the designers ever think there would be a simultaneous port? I don't mean to flame, but it is a legitimate question.
Also, (I'm sure you've heard this before) can you make sure there's some easy way for linux users to register the fact that they bought just for linux support on your site? If there were unanticipated problems this time, it might help convince the skeptics in management it's really worth the trouble, next time around.
You work for them right? The Telocity modem/fake routers that we haev to use.. can you hitn me how to mod it so I cna use the routing capabilities? I am goign to assuem they will let me keep it. what is yoru input on this?
My take on this post is that you need to cut back on caffiene;-) Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
Let me get this straight. They watch the anime Serial Experiments Lain, take the most superficial view of it and go away to make the Hollywood perspective on this, with appropriately enormous budget and pretty-boy lead.
Lain was first aired July 1998. The Matrix began shooting March 1998. On the net, you can find draft scripts from 1996.
The Wachowski's proudly admit to dipping into the common pool of anime ideas for inspiration for their movie. The similarities you found with Lain strongly suggest that its authors did likewise. Animes frequently borrow from each other and play off ideas and themes found in other animes. Why does it suddenly become exploitation when a Westerner does it? Is the pool marked "Japanese Only"?
Everyone missuses the term "Moore's Law," and thinks that it means computers get twice as fast ~18 months. It doesn't mean that. It never did.
Except that when Moore made the statement, transistor count was shorthand for speed in the same way MHz is now. So while your correction serves very well to enhance your feelings of smug superiority, it is of no semantic value.
I've just been thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, there are a couple of competing standards out there now: DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first, DVD-RAM, seems to have no future that I can see, and is apparantly a superclass for several different standards. Apple's DVD writers are the second kind and probably have the largest installed base. But it looks like the big players are going for the third ("+"). In addition, one of the -RW format's big supporters was Compaq and HP supports +RW. I'm assuming that Compaq will switch camps, leaving Apple more or less isolated. That has me leaning toward +RW.
One thing to watch out for -- the "first generation" of +RW drives can't handle write-once media. They're RW only, and the disks are more expensive. HP, for one, is releasing a second-generation writer (maybe called the 200i?) this month, that can do the write-once archival thing.
If I really needed it now, I'd go for a newer +RW format. But it would probably be less risky to wait 6-12 months to see how things shake out.
Well, for the adventurous there is now a hack to mod a tualatin chip to fit a slotket. The great thing is that you can use it with the 1 or 1.1 GHz Tualatin Celeron, which is at 100MHz FSB (and about $70). Since these Celerons are a.13 mu part, they can easily be overclocked by setting your bus to 133MHz.
I was just about to do this, but found *another* catch: all the cheapo RAM uses these new 64x4 chips, but my BX only handles the 16x8 kind, which is twice as much at the low end. So the gap is narrowed. Of course, for all the time I've spent mooning over the options, I could've worked flipping burgers and earned enough to buy two new PCs. Trapped again.
Yup. The only way I could tell that was supposed to be a big revelation was by the clock.
We only learned what we've known for years: the X-Files is a great tease, but a terrible lover. They should've kept their secrets.
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Yeah, I was watching them forever, too. They actually just started selling here (US), after months and months of "Coming Soon". Since the original specs called for a processor at 1GHz, I think they got trapped in that whole TMTA-TSMC debacle of last year.
To be honest, it took them so long that my enthusiasm for the product waned quite a lot. It's released at the price they said 1.5 years ago and the specs have actually gone down since then (at least the processor). That just doesn't seem right in the computer industry.
What I'd like to see now is a standard ultralight notebook with the two-hinge design replaced by a single central hinge that can rotate 180 degrees. Flip it over, it's a webpad, flip it back it's a notebook. You could carry it on your rounds as a webpad and sit down and type whereever you want -- no extra keyboard piece to carry around and walk off without it. Plus, at least on early models, the Paceblade's wireless keyboard was prone to crosstalk if several were in the same room, and who needs that.
Now I jut have to wait for someone to make it. Apple? Dell? Anyone?
I agree that Tom's Rambus reversal isn't based on some kind of payoff, but if it's based on technical reasons, he has yet to share them with us. His article on the topic was just shoddy.
In particular, he kept comparing his custom P2200 - 2600s to an XP 2000+ and blaming the difference on memory bandwidth. Well, the name XP 2000+ *means* "about as fast as a P4 2000". If the speed goes up on the P4, of course the XP will lag. So if in "MPEG-2 video encoding, the Pentium 4/2666 is approximately 25% ahead of the AMD Athlon XP 2000+", well, 2666 is approximately ahead of 2000. Where does memory bandwidth fit in? The rest of his benchmarks are similarly unsurprising and misattributed.
Also strange was the fact that in his review of the uninspiring performance of the KT-333, Tom failed to take advantage of MSI's 166MHz fsb option to see what the chipset was like when driven to it's full capacity. He could've just taken one of his custom unlocked chips and adjusted the multiplier to match the speed of the normal chips at 133MHz fsb. Maybe it wouldn't make any difference, but it seems a pretty glaring oversight. Wouln't you at least check?
It's too melodramatic to argue that he's on the take. But given his previous opinions, I wonder why he's so desperate to read more good things about Rambus into his data than are really there.
Intel Corp. in the second half of this year will drop its final Direct Rambus DRAMs support in new computer products
The 850 and 860 will continue to support RDRAM as planned. But following those on the roadmap are Placer and Granite Bay, both DDR only. Your quote only indicates a phase-out. Maybe if there was some huge upsurge in demand for the 133 MHz releases of the 8[56]0 they'd change their minds, but for now, RDRAM is off Intel's map.
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Starship Troopers...a classic sci-fi novel turned into a B movie
Heh. But Starship Troopers was a pretty good movie when they released it as "Aliens". And the whole mobile suit thing has certainly held its own in the visual medium...
Or roughly a billion megabits (125 million megabytes)
Wow. I guess 64 KLOCs ought to be enough for anyone.
Well, I knew someone would say that, that's why I chose a link from each side. The second one says the *scientific* link is fabricated, not the Australian lawsuit, which is what the post I replied to was claiming.
From the pro-choice site:
Raising the stakes even higher, a dubious lawsuit was settled in Australia in September 2001...
More lawsuits like the Australia case are on the way...
The pro-choice site does not question that there was a lawsuit and that the plaintif received a settlement. The grandparent post made a factually correct statement about the lawsuit (saying nothing about the underlying science) and was quickly modded troll. In light of this article's topic, don't you find that mildly ironic?
Google abortion "breast cancer" Australia lawsuit.
Mentioned here and here.
I reckon that in a tech-oriented locale such as /., people would have at least learned to check Google before calling someone a "lying troll".
Jordan has even bigger geek creds: King Abdullah had a cameo on Star Trek! Okay, so it was Voyager, but still.
And some of Indy III was shot there. They're almost guaranteed to switch.
This guy's for real, and this is the answer, so please mod him up, if you have points
That said, Derek, if you didn't know there was a linux port of your video/audio toolkits available, why did the designers ever think there would be a simultaneous port? I don't mean to flame, but it is a legitimate question.
Also, (I'm sure you've heard this before) can you make sure there's some easy way for linux users to register the fact that they bought just for linux support on your site? If there were unanticipated problems this time, it might help convince the skeptics in management it's really worth the trouble, next time around.
"readying for?" Heroes 4 was released back in March or April. Where did you plagiarise this piece from?
From a reader review in PC Game Review. Too bad, too. It was a nice try. But maybe sputnik73 and RayG from KY work in the same department?
In Soviet Russia, DSL company signs 1-year contract with you!
You work for them right? The Telocity modem/fake routers that we haev to use.. can you hitn me how to mod it so I cna use the routing capabilities? I am goign to assuem they will let me keep it. what is yoru input on this?
My take on this post is that you need to cut back on caffiene ;-) Either that or teach you left hand to keep up with your right hand.
I thought it just meant he was a Welshman.
Or...
Fin Fet: Can fit inside a human hair
Boba Fett: Uses disintigration, so you can fit inside a human hair.
Let me get this straight. They watch the anime Serial Experiments Lain, take the most superficial view of it and go away to make the Hollywood perspective on this, with appropriately enormous budget and pretty-boy lead.
Lain was first aired July 1998. The Matrix began shooting March 1998. On the net, you can find draft scripts from 1996.
The Wachowski's proudly admit to dipping into the common pool of anime ideas for inspiration for their movie. The similarities you found with Lain strongly suggest that its authors did likewise. Animes frequently borrow from each other and play off ideas and themes found in other animes. Why does it suddenly become exploitation when a Westerner does it? Is the pool marked "Japanese Only"?
Everyone missuses the term "Moore's Law," and thinks that it means computers get twice as fast ~18 months. It doesn't mean that. It never did.
Except that when Moore made the statement, transistor count was shorthand for speed in the same way MHz is now. So while your correction serves very well to enhance your feelings of smug superiority, it is of no semantic value.
I may be misremembering this, but my favorite new tool for perl obfuscation has got to be user-defined operators...in Unicode!
"Well of course 'object1 [seated scribe] object2' means copy. It's a scribe..."
I've just been thinking the same thing. Unfortunately, there are a couple of competing standards out there now: DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD+RW. The first, DVD-RAM, seems to have no future that I can see, and is apparantly a superclass for several different standards. Apple's DVD writers are the second kind and probably have the largest installed base. But it looks like the big players are going for the third ("+"). In addition, one of the -RW format's big supporters was Compaq and HP supports +RW. I'm assuming that Compaq will switch camps, leaving Apple more or less isolated. That has me leaning toward +RW.
One thing to watch out for -- the "first generation" of +RW drives can't handle write-once media. They're RW only, and the disks are more expensive. HP, for one, is releasing a second-generation writer (maybe called the 200i?) this month, that can do the write-once archival thing.
If I really needed it now, I'd go for a newer +RW format. But it would probably be less risky to wait 6-12 months to see how things shake out.
Also sad: Proof that a cool car doesn't make you look any less geeky...
Well, for the adventurous there is now a hack to mod a tualatin chip to fit a slotket. The great thing is that you can use it with the 1 or 1.1 GHz Tualatin Celeron, which is at 100MHz FSB (and about $70). Since these Celerons are a .13 mu part, they can easily be overclocked by setting your bus to 133MHz.
I was just about to do this, but found *another* catch: all the cheapo RAM uses these new 64x4 chips, but my BX only handles the 16x8 kind, which is twice as much at the low end. So the gap is narrowed. Of course, for all the time I've spent mooning over the options, I could've worked flipping burgers and earned enough to buy two new PCs. Trapped again.
Yup. The only way I could tell that was supposed to be a big revelation was by the clock.
We only learned what we've known for years: the X-Files is a great tease, but a terrible lover. They should've kept their secrets.
Yeah, I was watching them forever, too. They actually just started selling here (US), after months and months of "Coming Soon". Since the original specs called for a processor at 1GHz, I think they got trapped in that whole TMTA-TSMC debacle of last year.
To be honest, it took them so long that my enthusiasm for the product waned quite a lot. It's released at the price they said 1.5 years ago and the specs have actually gone down since then (at least the processor). That just doesn't seem right in the computer industry.
What I'd like to see now is a standard ultralight notebook with the two-hinge design replaced by a single central hinge that can rotate 180 degrees. Flip it over, it's a webpad, flip it back it's a notebook. You could carry it on your rounds as a webpad and sit down and type whereever you want -- no extra keyboard piece to carry around and walk off without it. Plus, at least on early models, the Paceblade's wireless keyboard was prone to crosstalk if several were in the same room, and who needs that.
Now I jut have to wait for someone to make it. Apple? Dell? Anyone?
everyone has decided that april fools day stories are neither funny nor clever.
Too bad they didn't have you write them all, Chuckles.
Of course it's a fake. They traced it to Rik van Riel's IP.
Bah!
Your cheesy scheme is no match for an infinite number of typing monkeys.
They decided that having pirates chasing women in Pirates of the Caribbean wasn't PC anymore so they have them chasing men now!
And next year the ride will show Pirates chasing divx movies on usenet!
Uh, dude, the Death Star doesn't have an edge... it's a globe!!!
OMG! I suddenly know where the Second Foundation *really* is.
I agree that Tom's Rambus reversal isn't based on some kind of payoff, but if it's based on technical reasons, he has yet to share them with us. His article on the topic was just shoddy.
In particular, he kept comparing his custom P2200 - 2600s to an XP 2000+ and blaming the difference on memory bandwidth. Well, the name XP 2000+ *means* "about as fast as a P4 2000". If the speed goes up on the P4, of course the XP will lag. So if in "MPEG-2 video encoding, the Pentium 4/2666 is approximately 25% ahead of the AMD Athlon XP 2000+", well, 2666 is approximately ahead of 2000. Where does memory bandwidth fit in? The rest of his benchmarks are similarly unsurprising and misattributed.
Also strange was the fact that in his review of the uninspiring performance of the KT-333, Tom failed to take advantage of MSI's 166MHz fsb option to see what the chipset was like when driven to it's full capacity. He could've just taken one of his custom unlocked chips and adjusted the multiplier to match the speed of the normal chips at 133MHz fsb. Maybe it wouldn't make any difference, but it seems a pretty glaring oversight. Wouln't you at least check?
It's too melodramatic to argue that he's on the take. But given his previous opinions, I wonder why he's so desperate to read more good things about Rambus into his data than are really there.
Hmmm. Did you read your own link?
Intel Corp. in the second half of this year will drop its final Direct Rambus DRAMs support in new computer products
The 850 and 860 will continue to support RDRAM as planned. But following those on the roadmap are Placer and Granite Bay, both DDR only. Your quote only indicates a phase-out. Maybe if there was some huge upsurge in demand for the 133 MHz releases of the 8[56]0 they'd change their minds, but for now, RDRAM is off Intel's map.