This article is not a "history of video cards". At best it's an "overview of two popular 3d accelerators". There are a whole bunch of 3d accelerators missing, and there is no mention of the long history of 2d cards either. S3, Hercules and Matrox should have been covered, but aren't.
You're even more gullible than I thought if you believe that marketing hype. First of all, if the pixel shift is "imperceptible", then that means that it has no visual effect, therefore has no effect on the intensity of pixels, therefore has no effect whatsoever on burn-in. But let's suppose that they actually do move the pixels. Explain this to me, Mr. Research: if I have a block of 10x10 white pixels on a black background, how the hell is shifting the pixels by a half-pixel going to do anything at all for the 8x8 block of pixels in the middle, which will always be white even if the image is shifted? Well? So in answer to your question: yes, they are lying. I can see why you post as an anonymous coward...
... most annoying was the lack of manual zoom and focus
All modern digital cameras have manual zoom and focus, you just need to press buttons instead of turning a ring on the lens barrel in most cases. Several digital cameras even have a mechanism whereby you control zoom by turning a ring on the lens barrel.
Makes perfect sense to ask slashdot...
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I predict the supreme court will rule that it is not unconstitutional. The reason I think that is that it is becoming increasingly clear that the united states of america are becoming a christian fundamentalist nation, with a religious fanatic currently at the helm. This is a very dangerous situation and will increase tension between "east" and "west" even further.
Most states have laws requiring the pledge to be recited every day as a class activity
Two things to note here:
- in all cases I know of, people who do not want to recite the pledge do not have to
- the fact that these state laws exist seems to be somewhat of a public secret, and is rarely, if ever, mentioned in connection to this case
I get the impression that they may have chips, but not ready-to-use boards for PCs, and that *those* are the prototypes they speak of. Other than that, this just sounds like the old "Transputer" idea recycled.
The two MIT researchers behind the project face
one serious problem: how to protect themselves against legal
action should any of the postings prove false. The answer, they
say, is to borrow a technique from the underground music-swapping community.
Instead of storing the data in one place, they plan to distribute it around the internet in
a similar way to the notorious Napster software
That's not going to protect them from legal action, it's just going to ensure that any such false postings stay online forever, eventually turning this system into the most unreliable source of news there is.
The open source community is not portrayed in
positive light so you might want to skip reading this
Why? Can't the open source community take criticism? The article makes some very good points, such as that companies might turn away from using open source for the reasons given in the article. If you ignore these facts, you're dooming open source software to a fringe existence.
Farscape did not influence this. The "farscape-1 module" is the "half-cone lifting body" mentioned in the article. Lifting bodies have been around for a long time.
People get nausea from playing or watching first-person shooters even at low resolutions, so the fact that some people in the audience reported feelings of nausea does not say anything about how "ultra realistic" this video was.
Here's a potential loophole: the new bill talks about "california email addresses". What does that mean?
Is someuser@hotmail.com a California email address?
How about if the owner of that address lives in California?
Is someuser@provider.nl a Californian or a Dutch email address, if its owner lives in California?
Spammers could argue in court that only *.ca.us addresses are California addresses. While that may be enough to keep the governor and his officials spam-free, it won't help the rest of us at all.
You are talking about illegal immigrants. What does that have to do with H-1B visas and outsourcing?
Anyone wishing to work here?
Anyone wishing to work here and meeting certain minimum requirements; a certain level of education or work experience, no criminal history, things like that. I'm not saying let anybody in, but let people in that can help your economy, and give them a greater incentive by allowing them to stay in the country that they're helping build. And no, you don't have to leave, there's plenty of room for everyone. It's kinda ironic that a group of people that are descended from immigrants are now trying so hard to keep immigrants out...
a large share of their paychecks go to their families that are still in Mexico.
"a large share" perhaps, but not ALL of it. These workers are still paying for food and housing, and are paying taxes. When you outsource overseas, ALL of the money goes overseas. This is why I think that H-1B workers are better than outsourcing overseas.
I think it would be even better to not have temporary visas like H-1B, but to grant permanent visas (like green cards, but without the typical 3-4 year wait associated with those). Temporary visas only lead to people leaving, and taking all their savings with them. Instead, those people should stay, spend their money here, and continue contributing to the economy.
And again, H-1B workers are only a small fraction of the total workforce, and are not the reason for current unemployment highs. The reason unemployment is high is because the dot-com bubble burst and the economy is in shambles.
Whenever this subject comes up on slashdot, the people that are most vocal and most anti-immigration, anti-visa, and anti-globalization, are the people that have been unemployed for some time. At the same time, many of these people seem to be lacking some basic skills. When people post comments that include words like "thier", "ousourcing", "uneployed", "countrys", "deparment", "ultimatly", "beleive", etcetera, they should be taking a long hard look at their resume-writing skills, instead of blaming their prolonged unemployment on H-1B workers...
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The *last* thing you want is for Stallman to be called to the stand. He's not exactly know for his tact and calm demeanor...
This article is not a "history of video cards". At best it's an "overview of two popular 3d accelerators". There are a whole bunch of 3d accelerators missing, and there is no mention of the long history of 2d cards either. S3, Hercules and Matrox should have been covered, but aren't.
In power?
And the reason they're announcing this so early is of course that Nokia is scared that the Zodiac will lure people away from them.
Indeed...
You're even more gullible than I thought if you believe that marketing hype. First of all, if the pixel shift is "imperceptible", then that means that it has no visual effect, therefore has no effect on the intensity of pixels, therefore has no effect whatsoever on burn-in. But let's suppose that they actually do move the pixels. Explain this to me, Mr. Research: if I have a block of 10x10 white pixels on a black background, how the hell is shifting the pixels by a half-pixel going to do anything at all for the 8x8 block of pixels in the middle, which will always be white even if the image is shifted? Well?
So in answer to your question: yes, they are lying.
I can see why you post as an anonymous coward...
I don't know where you get this stuff, but it's not true...
All modern digital cameras have manual zoom and focus, you just need to press buttons instead of turning a ring on the lens barrel in most cases. Several digital cameras even have a mechanism whereby you control zoom by turning a ring on the lens barrel.
... instead of the people who would really know.
Microsoft's comments are especially ironic considering this.
I predict the supreme court will rule that it is not unconstitutional. The reason I think that is that it is becoming increasingly clear that the united states of america are becoming a christian fundamentalist nation, with a religious fanatic currently at the helm. This is a very dangerous situation and will increase tension between "east" and "west" even further.
Two things to note here:
- in all cases I know of, people who do not want to recite the pledge do not have to
- the fact that these state laws exist seems to be somewhat of a public secret, and is rarely, if ever, mentioned in connection to this case
Linus left Transmeta about 4 months ago.
I get the impression that they may have chips, but not ready-to-use boards for PCs, and that *those* are the prototypes they speak of. Other than that, this just sounds like the old "Transputer" idea recycled.
That's not going to protect them from legal action, it's just going to ensure that any such false postings stay online forever, eventually turning this system into the most unreliable source of news there is.
Why? Can't the open source community take criticism? The article makes some very good points, such as that companies might turn away from using open source for the reasons given in the article. If you ignore these facts, you're dooming open source software to a fringe existence.
This story was in Businessweek three days ago...
Farscape did not influence this. The "farscape-1 module" is the "half-cone lifting body" mentioned in the article. Lifting bodies have been around for a long time.
People get nausea from playing or watching first-person shooters even at low resolutions, so the fact that some people in the audience reported feelings of nausea does not say anything about how "ultra realistic" this video was.
Here's a potential loophole: the new bill talks about "california email addresses". What does that mean?
Is someuser@hotmail.com a California email address? How about if the owner of that address lives in California?
Is someuser@provider.nl a Californian or a Dutch email address, if its owner lives in California?
Spammers could argue in court that only *.ca.us addresses are California addresses. While that may be enough to keep the governor and his officials spam-free, it won't help the rest of us at all.
"peice", "usless"...?
You'd be laughable, if you weren't so pathetic...
You are talking about illegal immigrants. What does that have to do with H-1B visas and outsourcing?
Anyone wishing to work here?
Anyone wishing to work here and meeting certain minimum requirements; a certain level of education or work experience, no criminal history, things like that. I'm not saying let anybody in, but let people in that can help your economy, and give them a greater incentive by allowing them to stay in the country that they're helping build. And no, you don't have to leave, there's plenty of room for everyone. It's kinda ironic that a group of people that are descended from immigrants are now trying so hard to keep immigrants out...
"a large share" perhaps, but not ALL of it. These workers are still paying for food and housing, and are paying taxes. When you outsource overseas, ALL of the money goes overseas. This is why I think that H-1B workers are better than outsourcing overseas.
I think it would be even better to not have temporary visas like H-1B, but to grant permanent visas (like green cards, but without the typical 3-4 year wait associated with those). Temporary visas only lead to people leaving, and taking all their savings with them. Instead, those people should stay, spend their money here, and continue contributing to the economy.
And again, H-1B workers are only a small fraction of the total workforce, and are not the reason for current unemployment highs. The reason unemployment is high is because the dot-com bubble burst and the economy is in shambles.
And you, my dear CrashPanic, will need to work on your social skills should you ever find yourself in need of a job.
Whenever this subject comes up on slashdot, the people that are most vocal and most anti-immigration, anti-visa, and anti-globalization, are the people that have been unemployed for some time. At the same time, many of these people seem to be lacking some basic skills. When people post comments that include words like "thier", "ousourcing", "uneployed", "countrys", "deparment", "ultimatly", "beleive", etcetera, they should be taking a long hard look at their resume-writing skills, instead of blaming their prolonged unemployment on H-1B workers...