I checked myself, it's 21.7mm x 21.3mm. Also, that article misused the power of 2 and the term "square millimeters". I call upon the wrath of Le Système Internationale!
In raw graphics performance, the chip can process 75 million polygons per second, has a pixel fill rate between 1.2 and 2.6 gigapixels/s and can draw 75 million polygons/s...
So what? The NV20 will probably be close to that when it's released, and will eventually beat it. Not to mention the NV20 is only a matter of months away, and this thing probably won't even live to see mass production.
For you non-metric people, 462 millimeters is 18.18 inches. Of course this thing will be near impossible to manufacture, it'll be impossible to shove it into any standard computer or game console! That leaves servers and insanely big workstations, and I doubt that Sony has those in mind for this.
However, if this is another stupid die-shrinking example, I strongly advise you to go to your local Sony representative, and slap him or her in the face.
Was it a forgettable stunt? A much-needed wake-up call for insecure e-commerce sites? Lame script kiddies giving hackers a bad name?
Lame script kiddies. All they had to do was download a DDoS proggy, then upload to many choice workstations (probably a school's computer labs). That wasn't hacking. Now DeCSS, THAT's hacking!
More like a rock of salt. My mobo has four IDE channels, and it is NOT IDE-RAID. Check the labels on the board next to the channels; if they read 1, 2, 3, 4, then it isn't RAID.
"What other kinds of online service would you want your doctor's office to offer? Instant messaging to your physician? A bulletin board for general medical questions? Chat groups? Video conferencing?"
How about improved communication between my physician and the ER so they don't amputate the right leg when they should've done the left one?
Consider AOL and its 27,000,000 customers. Of all those customers, about 17,000,000 are disillusioned and have seen the light of a decent ISP. The remaining 10,000,000 are as dumb as squirrels, romping from chatroom to chatroom.
If AOL were a consulting group, they'd all be out on the streets begging for quarters.
Basically, consultants tell company CEOs and CFOs what to do with the company. They don't actually do these things, and they're not tied to the company financially, so they couldn't care less if the plan goes bust. And so some consultants get cocky, and decide to make a company take a dive in what it thinks is a smart move.
"Content drives everything we do now, and that means building the infrastructure needed to bring media into the home and manage it," [Sonicblue CTO Andy] Wolfe said. "We had music with our Rio products and interactive data with our Internet appliances. And now we have video, which was always part of our plan."
Excuse me? You HAD video, but you squandered its potential! I remember about seven years ago when the S3 Vision 868/968 was a decent 2D chip for a video card (I personally owned one, the Number Nine 2MB card, and there's a S3 Vision 868 in my ancient Dell with a P90 in it). However, once 3D came along, S3 balked. The only 3D innovations that S3 developed were S3TC and MeTaL. MeTaL was a proprietary T&L system, and it was superceded by NVidia's implementation. As for S3TC, a lossy texture compression scheme, yes it's implemented in DirectX 8 and OpenGL (including Q3), but why use S3TC when the GeForce can handle raw textures faster than other cards can handle S3TC? For about a month, I thought that Q3 on my GeForce had become corrupt, when Paul Jaquays told me that it was S3TC doing stupid stuff with the textures.
However, Sonicblue entirely dropped the S3 video chipset part, giving it up entirely. They indirectly admitted that S3 chipsets sucked, support sucked, and there was nothing more to do on the PC side. And so Sonicblue proves the tried-and-true rule of the dot-com economy: "If you can't develop it, acquire it in a company takeover."
Even though their big money maker is the Rio, I feel that Sonicblue will make it to this list. A stupid name, their "lack of technical support" department, and their ventures that fail will just get them into trouble.
I saw the goto.com thing, and I thought, what if I just copy one of the top 10 links into the Address field of my browser, and then rest my.308 rifle round on the Enter key? That would put out thousands of clicks per minute! I think I'll do this right now while I go to the bathroom!
...but, unfortunately for this cause, I'm one of the fortunate few who doesn't get any spam. Or, at the very least, not yet. When I had Verizon DSL, I got spam daily, and I fed it to SpamCop religiously. However, since I'm more controlled about giving my e-mail address away, I haven't received any spam ever since my new DSL line first started working. If I do start getting spam, though, then I'll start using SpamCop again.
One half of Transmeta is working on high-end systems, while the other is working on low-end systems. Only time will tell if they snap, or if they merely stretch.
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...and you've got Nervrax
I checked myself, it's 21.7mm x 21.3mm. Also, that article misused the power of 2 and the term "square millimeters". I call upon the wrath of Le Système Internationale!
When it comes to *nix users, hell yes. The grayer and longer the beard, the better. Anecdotes of running programs off of punch cards also help.
So what? The NV20 will probably be close to that when it's released, and will eventually beat it. Not to mention the NV20 is only a matter of months away, and this thing probably won't even live to see mass production.
However, if this is another stupid die-shrinking example, I strongly advise you to go to your local Sony representative, and slap him or her in the face.
Once again, the morons over at butt-WIPO never cease to amaze me. At least they won't confuse my favorite Verizon sucks site with Verizon themselves.
Lame script kiddies. All they had to do was download a DDoS proggy, then upload to many choice workstations (probably a school's computer labs). That wasn't hacking. Now DeCSS, THAT's hacking!
I was searching for a plot to Q3, and I found it in the manual.
...I just broke the binding of my Q3 manual. :-(
Apollo guidance computer: 2.048MHz
Intel 8088: 4.77MHz
Intel 486: 66MHz
Intel Pentium 4: 1.5GHz
Intel Celeron A 300MHz running at 666MHz: priceless.
More like a rock of salt. My mobo has four IDE channels, and it is NOT IDE-RAID. Check the labels on the board next to the channels; if they read 1, 2, 3, 4, then it isn't RAID.
How about improved communication between my physician and the ER so they don't amputate the right leg when they should've done the left one?
No, because Auntie EULA forbids it, and she'll get uncle Bill and uncle Steve to watch over you if you even try.
What does SysReq do? It seems to do nothing in Windows and DOS, but what does it do in Linux?
If AOL were a consulting group, they'd all be out on the streets begging for quarters.
Want to see evidence of this? Here's all the evidence you need.
Did they sue Fiona Apple yet? Or did they buy her out?
And now this. Anyone think that this latest action is payback for when Apple lost the lost "look and feel" lawsuit to Microsoft?
Excuse me? You HAD video, but you squandered its potential! I remember about seven years ago when the S3 Vision 868/968 was a decent 2D chip for a video card (I personally owned one, the Number Nine 2MB card, and there's a S3 Vision 868 in my ancient Dell with a P90 in it). However, once 3D came along, S3 balked. The only 3D innovations that S3 developed were S3TC and MeTaL. MeTaL was a proprietary T&L system, and it was superceded by NVidia's implementation. As for S3TC, a lossy texture compression scheme, yes it's implemented in DirectX 8 and OpenGL (including Q3), but why use S3TC when the GeForce can handle raw textures faster than other cards can handle S3TC? For about a month, I thought that Q3 on my GeForce had become corrupt, when Paul Jaquays told me that it was S3TC doing stupid stuff with the textures.
However, Sonicblue entirely dropped the S3 video chipset part, giving it up entirely. They indirectly admitted that S3 chipsets sucked, support sucked, and there was nothing more to do on the PC side. And so Sonicblue proves the tried-and-true rule of the dot-com economy: "If you can't develop it, acquire it in a company takeover."
Even though their big money maker is the Rio, I feel that Sonicblue will make it to this list. A stupid name, their "lack of technical support" department, and their ventures that fail will just get them into trouble.
I saw the goto.com thing, and I thought, what if I just copy one of the top 10 links into the Address field of my browser, and then rest my .308 rifle round on the Enter key? That would put out thousands of clicks per minute! I think I'll do this right now while I go to the bathroom!
...but, unfortunately for this cause, I'm one of the fortunate few who doesn't get any spam. Or, at the very least, not yet. When I had Verizon DSL, I got spam daily, and I fed it to SpamCop religiously. However, since I'm more controlled about giving my e-mail address away, I haven't received any spam ever since my new DSL line first started working. If I do start getting spam, though, then I'll start using SpamCop again.
One half of Transmeta is working on high-end systems, while the other is working on low-end systems. Only time will tell if they snap, or if they merely stretch.
...and we're all playing it right now. Unless, of course, you're dead.
Not my homepage, but I totally agree with its stance on Verizon.