Second, let us think a moment about the SilkRoad, a road of trade between China and Europe during the MiddleAges. No Chinese people were coming to Europe, and no Europeans were doing business in China. Who else was then doing the trade and the exchange of products between Europe and China? It was the Arabs, who were a veryadvanced civilization at the time.
It is however very possible that Islamic traders of the Middle East, Anatolia, etc were of European descent. The Ottoman empire for instance contained people of many ethnicities, and in fact "imported" TONS of Europeans (circassians, Armenians, slavs, etc) for government positions, positions within the janissary corps, etc.
The Truscans (tuscany, the area where the ancient Etruscans lived) is an area in Italy. The Etruscans predated the Romans. There language is still yet to be deciphered--it is not of European or Indo-European root. The Etruscans are believed to have come from the East--mongolia, the steps, etc. They seem to have definitely oriental characteristics, and representations are showing having slanted eyes.
I don't count radeon much of a threat--there is still the problem of the name ATI that many people simply do not like. I just don't see at their current level of play that ATI is much of a threat right now. Nvidia is encroaching (or already conquered) on every single territory that Ati used to dominate.
as for kyro...again we'll see.
don't forget things like HSR--there are lots of tricks left to reduce bandwidth, but agreed, that is the major bottleneck right now.
I own an Nvidia GeForce2 right now. I used to own a 3dfx. 3dfx had great support under linux ad was easy to use. There's no doubt 3dfx hasn't been a serious contender for awhile, however don't forget that even in the months leading directly up to 3dfx shutting their doors, 3dfx cards dominated in retail. They made popular cards, their failure was primarily OEM and volume based.
while you are right to a point, the GeForce3 does have new features. A good number of these features simply need developer support.
That being said, I think 3dfx getting killed was about the worst thing that could happen to the 3D industry. Competition is much less now, and 3dfx always showed a very strong commitment to Open source.
A question I have is why do people think it's ok to be able to use AIM servers for free? The AIM windows client has a tiny advertisement on it. I imagine this makes up the money they spend on servers.
What do the open source clones give to AOL? Why do they DESERVE to access AOL's server? AIM servers do cost money to run, it's not free to operate.
Why don't the clones make some sort of advertising agreement with AOL--similiar to in the windows client. I would not be surprised if AOL would accept this, and it seems reasonable to me. Of course given the nature of most OSS users, i imagine the advertisements would be hacked out in seconds, and then the castrated version would be distributed--maybe that's why this option hasn't come up?
What I don't understand is why so many people say that this is clearly the US's fault, and that the US should clearly apologize? From just about every news source I have read, military experts from around the world say that the chinese scenario of the EP suddently swerving into the smaller and faster chinese jet is ridiculous.
The pilot of the particular jet has even had a history of doing hotshot manuevers such as coming up from beneath the splyplanes directly in front of them, giving them a jolt--a move perfected by the soviets originally. So we have a slow lumbering jet on AUTO-PILOY! and a small, limber, and fast jet being flown by a hot-shot--where do you think the fault lies?
The US has offered to help look for the downed pilot--the offer of help has indeed been extended several times, and has been rejected several times by the Chinese government. If they really cared about the downed pilot, wouldn't they want all the help they could get--I know I would? Instead they criticize the US government being too cowardly to apologize. Apparently having the US kowtow to Beijing is more important than the life of their downed man. But of course they also work the Chinese public up to frenzy over him, thanks to the Xinhua government owned news agency and other propaganda machines.
So in short, I see no reason for the US to apologize for an accident that almost definitely wasn't their fault, and especially to a government whose actions reek of insincerity and sheer politicing as much as those of the communist chinese do.
I'm inclined to agree with those that say the only reason Gnutella receives so much coverage here is because it's got "GNU" in the title.
Talking to people at school, everyone who has EVER tried gnutella (including myself) absolutely hates it. It's hard to use....files RARELY actually download...it's slow, etc.
What's the big deal? Why not post articles on winmx or imesh or other file sharing programs like these that are actually popular and work, and are in the process of replacing napster.
By refusing the promotion, you're basically saying that you don't want to accept managerial responsibility, and want to continue on grunt work.
To a company, grunt work is easier to find than managerial talent. Managerial talent is what makes money, what makes the company work. By refusing the promotion, it looks to the company like you'll forever be a gruntworker--a dead end investment if you will. What in 5 years would make you worth more to the company? nothing. in fact, you'll probably be worth signifigantly less due to loss of knowledge and skill compared to the "young" crop of that time.
As a manager, you might have been good, you might have continually been promoted, and have been a great aid to making the company work--which would have been worthwhile, thus the promotion. As is, like I said, little chance of you personally increasing the companies value.
my condolences on your job if you do get fired, this situation is not right, though I do think I see where the company is coming from
If machine recounts are more accurate than hand recounts, why was there a difference of 1400 votes after the second machine recount? Sure as hell doesn't sound like "two votes in a million" to me.
If you watched the 3 people in broward, you would realize they were not counting votes, they were casting votes. Time and time again it was heard "it's only slightly indented, not detached at all, it's got to be a no vote--overruled, vote for gore". That's how the dems votes increased, what amounts to out right cheating.
If hand recounts are less accurate than machine recounts, why are hand recounts ordered by law in case in dispute in both Florida and Texas, as well as most of the other states?
Laws that never were expected to deal with these punch cards. As a side, isn't it interesting that all of the republican counties use the inifinitely more reliable optical scanners? Kinda wierd that the counties where the dems are counting on votes from also have dem control and maximum potentional for fraud.
How easy is it to stuff the ballot box when you're in a roomful of extremely partisan observers from the other side? Do you think the Dem's are ripping out chads right under the Republicans noses?
Well, considering there's good evidence it happened, not hard.
How can Gore have "clearly lost" the hand recount when the recount wasn't allowed to finish? Do you think shipping in goons to harass election canvassing boards into calling off recounts is an acceptable outcome in a Western democracy?
That counties board voted not to continue. Plain and simple--the recount so far and test recounts had uncovered no discrepancies either.
The woman who certified this vote, and who has consistently attempted to block all attempts at hand recounts, is Bush's co-campaign chair in Florida. How can this be allowed to happen? Do they not have conflict of interest laws in Florida? Further, her job is due to be slated out of existence at the end of her term, which means she's looking for work. She'll get a plum appointment in a Bush administration, maybe even an Ambassadorship. Is this the way we do elections in America? Sounds more like one of those new Russian states making it's first attempt at democracy.
And the state supreme court that illegally changed standards in the middle of the counting has how many democrats? 6? 7? No conflict of interest there.
Why are most of the optical counting machines in Florida in Republican areas, where the shitty old punchcard systems are in place in Democratic strongholds?
See my above fraud response. I hate to say this, but down the line, democrats in the US have a horrible history of cheating. From the most horrid examples such as the Nixon election (where he honorably conceded) to this president election with it's democrat manufactured votes to where dems were giving away cigarettes to homeless people.
Ever wonder why dems misvote more than republicans? (it's historical and verified). I say it's due to dems pulling people to polling places and telling them to vote for. If you don't believe this happens (and I've seen it often) then you need to get out more.
pray tell, if Bush's credentials (Yale,Harvard MBA, successful business, Governor) aren't enough to be president, then what is? Clinton was a governor too. As was Reagan, the best president of the 20th century.
Don't forget, this guy is also one of the big defenders of Al Gore's claims to have been instrumental in the development of the Internet. So he's obviously right about this as well!
Would anyone here care if the poster said "Help help! My school requires me to use emacs and g++. Personally I'd rather use MS Visual Studio, what can I do? Slashdot commentary: Excellent point, is this forcing of using the g++ compiler and other open source tools, blah blah blah"
I doubt it.
Secondly, you're at school to learn, not to do things you already know. School is supposed to open you to new things--if you haven't used MS Visual Studio, LEARN it, it'll probably come in handy one day, and heaven forbid, you may even find you like it.
AFAIK MS hasn't even announced if they would port Windows to Sledgehammer. This could be a clear area where Linux truly (no questions asked) beats MS to the punch. If Linux can be ported in a timely manner, and the Sledgehammer also is released in a timely manner, this really could be one hell of a blow to both Microsoft and Intel.
This article suprised me as well. I really thought MySQL stacked up better. At least it seems to be getting new features rapidly (such as replication). Missing subselects have annoyed me at times for sure!
I for one though, am VERY excited about Interbase coming open source. Go Borland!
Absolutely! The Voodoo5 is an excellent solution. Price/Performance (the epensive GeFarce's do beat V5 true, and they can boast a $150 more expensive price tag too) is better than the GeFarce, it's got fully open drivers using the DRI, 3dfx has dedicated employees working on linux/unix (dri is for example being worked on in freebsd) drivers and everything including their api (glide) is totally open.
And Voodoo5 wipes the floor with any Nvidia card ever visual-quality wise. The Voodoo5 has totally unparalled visual quality.
I'll admit to being biased, I don't like Nvidia as a company, and I do like 3dfx as a company. I make no effort to hide my views.
I would like to see benchmarks of the DRI drivers that are more crossplatform (work being done on FreeBSD for example) as well as open and supported by vendors like ATI,Matrox, and 3dfx.
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Second, let us think a moment about the SilkRoad, a road of trade between China and Europe during the MiddleAges. No Chinese people were coming to Europe, and no Europeans were doing business in China. Who else was then doing the trade and the exchange of products between Europe and China? It was the Arabs, who were a veryadvanced civilization at the time.
It is however very possible that Islamic traders of the Middle East, Anatolia, etc were of European descent. The Ottoman empire for instance contained people of many ethnicities, and in fact "imported" TONS of Europeans (circassians, Armenians, slavs, etc) for government positions, positions within the janissary corps, etc.
But these mummies predate this time, do they not?
Scott
The Truscans (tuscany, the area where the ancient Etruscans lived) is an area in Italy. The Etruscans predated the Romans. There language is still yet to be deciphered--it is not of European or Indo-European root. The Etruscans are believed to have come from the East--mongolia, the steps, etc. They seem to have definitely oriental characteristics, and representations are showing having slanted eyes.
scott
I don't count radeon much of a threat--there is still the problem of the name ATI that many people simply do not like. I just don't see at their current level of play that ATI is much of a threat right now. Nvidia is encroaching (or already conquered) on every single territory that Ati used to dominate.
as for kyro...again we'll see.
don't forget things like HSR--there are lots of tricks left to reduce bandwidth, but agreed, that is the major bottleneck right now.
I own an Nvidia GeForce2 right now. I used to own a 3dfx. 3dfx had great support under linux ad was easy to use. There's no doubt 3dfx hasn't been a serious contender for awhile, however don't forget that even in the months leading directly up to 3dfx shutting their doors, 3dfx cards dominated in retail. They made popular cards, their failure was primarily OEM and volume based.
Scott
while you are right to a point, the GeForce3 does have new features. A good number of these features simply need developer support.
That being said, I think 3dfx getting killed was about the worst thing that could happen to the 3D industry. Competition is much less now, and 3dfx always showed a very strong commitment to Open source.
Scott
A question I have is why do people think it's ok to be able to use AIM servers for free? The AIM windows client has a tiny advertisement on it. I imagine this makes up the money they spend on servers.
What do the open source clones give to AOL? Why do they DESERVE to access AOL's server? AIM servers do cost money to run, it's not free to operate.
Why don't the clones make some sort of advertising agreement with AOL--similiar to in the windows client. I would not be surprised if AOL would accept this, and it seems reasonable to me. Of course given the nature of most OSS users, i imagine the advertisements would be hacked out in seconds, and then the castrated version would be distributed--maybe that's why this option hasn't come up?
Scott
Right, my fault--thanks for the catch.
scott
oh woops, sorry about the typo!
scott
What I don't understand is why so many people say that this is clearly the US's fault, and that the US should clearly apologize? From just about every news source I have read, military experts from around the world say that the chinese scenario of the EP suddently swerving into the smaller and faster chinese jet is ridiculous.
The pilot of the particular jet has even had a history of doing hotshot manuevers such as coming up from beneath the splyplanes directly in front of them, giving them a jolt--a move perfected by the soviets originally. So we have a slow lumbering jet on AUTO-PILOY! and a small, limber, and fast jet being flown by a hot-shot--where do you think the fault lies?
The US has offered to help look for the downed pilot--the offer of help has indeed been extended several times, and has been rejected several times by the Chinese government. If they really cared about the downed pilot, wouldn't they want all the help they could get--I know I would? Instead they criticize the US government being too cowardly to apologize. Apparently having the US kowtow to Beijing is more important than the life of their downed man. But of course they also work the Chinese public up to frenzy over him, thanks to the Xinhua government owned news agency and other propaganda machines.
So in short, I see no reason for the US to apologize for an accident that almost definitely wasn't their fault, and especially to a government whose actions reek of insincerity and sheer politicing as much as those of the communist chinese do.
Scott
considering i don't use them yet, not a whole lot. how much of a kickback are people like you getting from pimping a terrible product like gnutella.
thanks for playing
scott
I'm inclined to agree with those that say the only reason Gnutella receives so much coverage here is because it's got "GNU" in the title.
Talking to people at school, everyone who has EVER tried gnutella (including myself) absolutely hates it. It's hard to use....files RARELY actually download...it's slow, etc.
What's the big deal? Why not post articles on winmx or imesh or other file sharing programs like these that are actually popular and work, and are in the process of replacing napster.
scott
>I just gotta say you kind of choosen the wrong forum for your opinions.
hah, you are exactly correct. This is the wrong forum for his opinion--contrary opinions and slashdot don't mix.
Scott
By refusing the promotion, you're basically saying that you don't want to accept managerial responsibility, and want to continue on grunt work.
To a company, grunt work is easier to find than managerial talent. Managerial talent is what makes money, what makes the company work. By refusing the promotion, it looks to the company like you'll forever be a gruntworker--a dead end investment if you will. What in 5 years would make you worth more to the company? nothing. in fact, you'll probably be worth signifigantly less due to loss of knowledge and skill compared to the "young" crop of that time.
As a manager, you might have been good, you might have continually been promoted, and have been a great aid to making the company work--which would have been worthwhile, thus the promotion. As is, like I said, little chance of you personally increasing the companies value.
my condolences on your job if you do get fired, this situation is not right, though I do think I see where the company is coming from
Scott
If hand recounts are less accurate than machine recounts, why are hand recounts ordered by law in case in dispute in both Florida and Texas, as well as most of the other states?
Laws that never were expected to deal with these punch cards. As a side, isn't it interesting that all of the republican counties use the inifinitely more reliable optical scanners? Kinda wierd that the counties where the dems are counting on votes from also have dem control and maximum potentional for fraud. How easy is it to stuff the ballot box when you're in a roomful of extremely partisan observers from the other side? Do you think the Dem's are ripping out chads right under the Republicans noses?
Well, considering there's good evidence it happened, not hard.
How can Gore have "clearly lost" the hand recount when the recount wasn't allowed to finish? Do you think shipping in goons to harass election canvassing boards into calling off recounts is an acceptable outcome in a Western democracy?That counties board voted not to continue. Plain and simple--the recount so far and test recounts had uncovered no discrepancies either.
The woman who certified this vote, and who has consistently attempted to block all attempts at hand recounts, is Bush's co-campaign chair in Florida. How can this be allowed to happen? Do they not have conflict of interest laws in Florida? Further, her job is due to be slated out of existence at the end of her term, which means she's looking for work. She'll get a plum appointment in a Bush administration, maybe even an Ambassadorship. Is this the way we do elections in America? Sounds more like one of those new Russian states making it's first attempt at democracy.And the state supreme court that illegally changed standards in the middle of the counting has how many democrats? 6? 7? No conflict of interest there.
Why are most of the optical counting machines in Florida in Republican areas, where the shitty old punchcard systems are in place in Democratic strongholds?See my above fraud response. I hate to say this, but down the line, democrats in the US have a horrible history of cheating. From the most horrid examples such as the Nixon election (where he honorably conceded) to this president election with it's democrat manufactured votes to where dems were giving away cigarettes to homeless people.
Ever wonder why dems misvote more than republicans? (it's historical and verified). I say it's due to dems pulling people to polling places and telling them to vote for. If you don't believe this happens (and I've seen it often) then you need to get out more.
pray tell, if Bush's credentials (Yale,Harvard MBA, successful business, Governor) aren't enough to be president, then what is? Clinton was a governor too. As was Reagan, the best president of the 20th century.
This is so typical. Who's heard of Dick Hermann? He's a nobody. Who's heard of George Bush? Everybody. I'd probably be as jealous as this liberal too.
Assuming discoveries are made, and funding is provided, what does the motivation matter? Isn't it the end result that matters the most?
OMG, are you serious?? This is one of the more disturbing messages I've ever read on slashdot.
Don't forget, this guy is also one of the big defenders of Al Gore's claims to have been instrumental in the development of the Internet. So he's obviously right about this as well!
Would anyone here care if the poster said "Help help! My school requires me to use emacs and g++. Personally I'd rather use MS Visual Studio, what can I do? Slashdot commentary: Excellent point, is this forcing of using the g++ compiler and other open source tools, blah blah blah"
I doubt it.
Secondly, you're at school to learn, not to do things you already know. School is supposed to open you to new things--if you haven't used MS Visual Studio, LEARN it, it'll probably come in handy one day, and heaven forbid, you may even find you like it.
Scott
it turns out that Batman is an emacs user, while Robin uses pico. That would certaintly explain a lot!
hey!!!! You copied me from Apache Bigger Longer uncut!
I'm learnding the way slashdot moderation works!!
AFAIK MS hasn't even announced if they would port Windows to Sledgehammer. This could be a clear area where Linux truly (no questions asked) beats MS to the punch. If Linux can be ported in a timely manner, and the Sledgehammer also is released in a timely manner, this really could be one hell of a blow to both Microsoft and Intel.
This article suprised me as well. I really thought MySQL stacked up better. At least it seems to be getting new features rapidly (such as replication). Missing subselects have annoyed me at times for sure! I for one though, am VERY excited about Interbase coming open source. Go Borland!
Absolutely! The Voodoo5 is an excellent solution. Price/Performance (the epensive GeFarce's do beat V5 true, and they can boast a $150 more expensive price tag too) is better than the GeFarce, it's got fully open drivers using the DRI, 3dfx has dedicated employees working on linux/unix (dri is for example being worked on in freebsd) drivers and everything including their api (glide) is totally open.
And Voodoo5 wipes the floor with any Nvidia card ever visual-quality wise. The Voodoo5 has totally unparalled visual quality.
I'll admit to being biased, I don't like Nvidia as a company, and I do like 3dfx as a company. I make no effort to hide my views.
I would like to see benchmarks of the DRI drivers that are more crossplatform (work being done on FreeBSD for example) as well as open and supported by vendors like ATI,Matrox, and 3dfx.