Did you try dslreports.com yet? Check to see if it gets your zip code right. However, when I visit the site at the college computer lab, it doesn't have a clue (the IP of every machine is users.nat.wit.edu).
IP addresses can be just as revealing as emblazoning your hometown's name and your home phone number on your chest. Banner ad agencies use IP address databases to use regional ads on the page you're viewing (go to DSL Reports, and if your IP address is specific, then it determines your zip code and shows you an ad for a regional ISP).
So remember this when you're browsing. The websites can calculate your physical position right down to a 2-mile radius. That's more than close enough for an ICBM!
Big Brother is watching you, and he doesn't like what he sees...
Uh oh, Creative already patented the "Nomad" name for their "portable PDE systems" (Personal Digital Entertainment). I sense an impending lawsuit or doctored settlement with Creative Technologies, Ltd., LLC, CRAP, etc.
The icon for the "Games" topic in Slashdot is a picture of the N64 controller. However, it is widely known that most Slashdotters are biased towards the PlayStation and the PS2. Why haven't I heard other people complain about this? (No, apathy is not a legitimate reason.)
...you know, similar to the Dorothy experiment in the movie "Twister"? Now that'd really need remote telemetry, though 100 12-bit samples per second might not be enough.
JonKatz never gives up, despite having his stories flooded with over 350 comments every time. It will be a good day when JonKatz retires; of course, when he does, his farewell story will be flooded with comments like "Good Riddance JonKatz, you moron!"
Quite a few people complained to me why I was running Pentium 4 at 100 MHz bus clock, although the right bus clock of Pentium 4 would be 400 MHz. This is of course WRONG! Pentium 4's bus clock is 100 MHz! Add Intel's marketing machine to that and suddenly it becomes 400 MHz, because Intel considers the people out there as too dumb to understand that the bus is indeed 100 MHz, but quad-pumped, which enables it to transfer four times as much data per clock than what previous Intel processors were able to do.
Well, marketing silliness or not, it's all AMD's fault. They're the ones who called the Athlon a 200MHz FSB CPU, when in fact, the dual pipeline equated to 2 x 100MHz. It's no different with the P4: 4 x 100MHz. Though, given a DDR chipset selection for both, I'd pick the P4 over the "baffle-on" anyday.
You don't need lots of RAM, 'cause you can stream textures from main memory every frame.
Look who's accusing who of spreading FUD.
Intel said the same thing when they developed AGP to share texture memory with the video card. Then, NVidia slapped 16MB, and then 32MB on their cards. Now, NVidia puts 64MB on their cards. With more memory available exclusively to the video system, performance is higher. Obviously, Sony didn't learn from NVidia's achievements, which is probably why NVidia is doing the XBox and not the PS2.
actually, I meant to imply the little number that follows jokes; you know, two sharp snare hits followed by a cymbal hit. I thought that rimshot was the right one, oh well.
Is this not of any value to you? Or do you somehow feel entitled to all of these features for free or a mere $100? And if, so, why?
I can understand charging big bucks for Pantone support and the automatic re-rasterization and anti-aliasing of vector components. But ever since the release of Quake 3, alpha channels have become commonplace. I became overjoyed when I opened my HUD font targas (the afore-mentioned 32x32 TGAs resized from 32x48) with Photoshop 6: instead of "#4", the channels were named, "Alpha1". Adobe recognized the convention made popular by Id Software.
However, charging $700 just to be able to edit an alpha channel is nonsense. An augmentation patch for LE would have been more forthright, but you know Adobe's mantra when it comes to customers: "Cough it up! Cough it up!"
...though it uses a COM port for the sensor. It worked pretty well for our junkyard seismometer. I remember stomping on the ground and starting a sine wave with a 13-second period.
I just have to ask: why does the PC have to be so far away? Are these experiments dealing with strong electromagnetic phenomenon? If so, then I'd understand, but otherwise, several hundred feet would seem paranoid.
Back in 1992, when I was in the fifth grade, I had sent a letter to Applix (as part of a class project) asking if they had any used sheets of copy paper with only one side used. I got a reply in the form of a three-foot tall box filled with half-used copy paper, a bag of about 50 Applix Aster*x pencils, and a sweatband. For the next five months, all of our class assignments had parts of a software manual on the back; I do remember that it was some program for the Macintosh (was 1992 before or after System 7?).
Unfortunately, I don't have anything left over from that experience. However, I still marvel at their overwhelming contribution to our class.
They were nonprofit until Andover bought out their asse[t]s. Now there's an ad banner adorning the top and the sidepanes all point to Andover/OSDN sites. Pathetic.
They're using the Cabbage Patch Kid effect (now known as the Tickle Me Elmo effect) to push the bottom line of Rambus, the DMCA, the RIAA, the MPAA, and the animé artists. How much more pathetic can it get? Oh yeah, SquareSoft could start making pr0n games for the PS2.
From a technical standpoint, the PS2 is pathetic. How much video RAM did the original PlayStation have? 512K? 1MB? Either way, it was okay back in 1994, but it just plain stinks now. And with the release of the PS2, the amount of RAM takes a meteoric rise to [drumroll].....
4 megabytes. [rimshot]
And now there's talk that the 4MB of VRAM will limit the amount of polygons that the PS2 can display at one time. Perhaps the PS2 wouldn't render Q3DM12 correctly if Q3 was made for the PS2. Too bad for those complex UT maps like dm-liandri and ctf-face, they'll all look terrible.
How do you propose that these people (who create the tools that I need to make my living) make their living if Adobe just starts giving away their crown jewels?
Well, here's one for the Linux zealots: how do you propose that the employees of (who create the tools that I need to make my living) make their living if Microsoft just starts giving away their source code?
Worth every penny? Yeah, right. How many times have you used a Pantone color index? How many times have you had to make something that was primarily vector-based? Probably only a few times, if not never (unless you do desktop publishing or something). Basically, all I had to do was add an alpha channel to 11 32x48 Targa files. Then I had to resize all of them to 32x32 with anti-aliasing. I got Photoshop LE for $100, and guess which feature they left out of it? Right, channel editing. Therefore, I got full 6.0 JUST SO I COULD DO THE STINKING ALPHA CHANNELS!
Yes, you may say "Why didn't you just give the files to someone with full Photoshop so they could do the alpha channels?" Well, I did do that, until I found out that I had to tweak with the files once again, which would mean that I'd have to send the files over again. And my only option was to shell out $700 just so I could do the alpha channels. Instead, I got Photoshop 6 on a burned disc with other things. Yay. I'm happy, except for one thing: how the hell does a 41K TGA file take up 1.5MB in memory? BLOATWARE!!! That's how!
If I were on the Adobe development team, I'd put RGB channel editing in the LE feature list. At least LE isn't such a memory hog, but then, that's because there aren't as many features that non-professionals don't need (CMYK, Pantone, Java rollovers, GIF optimizations, et cetera).
I loathe the idea of an autobiography of Linus Torvalds because the book's primary topic would inevitably revolve around how Linus tweaked with Unix, made it work (marginally), and released the source code for free. Furthermore, there's an almost 100% chance that the text would be peppered with megalomaniacal remarks, making this autobiography reminiscent of Mein Kampf.
Furthermore, the combination of a megalomaniacal mentality with a slapdash work ethic is disastrous. You shouldn't be able to take over the world with a folly, but Linus has proven that he can. One example is a quote from Linus himself:
"Testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good, if it boots up, it is perfect."
That line alone makes me hate Linus and fear his creation. If Nikita Khruschev had that same sense of pig-headed ethics, then we wouldn't be here. The Earth would be a cratered mass stuck in nuclear winter due to certain events which took place in October 1962.
ReplayTV was offering their service for free, and was building the ReplayTV boxes, so they didn't have a continuous revenue stream like TiVo did. So they licensed the hardware design to other companies to build, and are leeching off of the companies' revenues. Hey, it's better than sucking dry the wallets and coffers of the consumers.
As far as which is better, keep in mind that TiVo is currently succumbing to the arrogance of power. Sony chose TiVo for its box; that alone should imply something. TiVo is now advertising in sports events. All the signs of a bloated company about to explode from its own, self-inflicted infestation. The "TiVo runs Linux" issue seems to be the only beneficial aspect of TiVo; the rest reeks of the capitalist status quo.
Despite these other people siding with Rambus, I agree with you. I was okay with USB, but FireWire? Come on. 400Mbps is only worth it if there's less than three devices connected. If you go over that, performance is cut drastically due to the same reason as why you shouldn't connect ANYTHING off of the same USB port as a CD-RW drive: High speed scalable serial connections (like USB and IEEE 1394) drop drastically when you stick more devices on. Meanwhile, you can have a chain of umpteen drives on Ultra-SCSI all running at the same speed: maximum speed. If money was no object, then it'd be no contest over which drive connection when it comes to speed.
The key Rambus argument is that the 16-bit bus at 800MHz will be faster. But when PC2100 and PC2133 64-bit DDR SDRAM (200MHz and 266MHz, respectively, effectively) came along, it was no contest: DDR wins. Add the latency due to the Rambus proprietary packet structure, and Rambus becomes even more the loser. And the "serial is more effective because there's less wires to cause loss" argument is moot; seriously, how far is it from the RAM sockets to the chipset? A maximum of 12 inches travelled along the line. You could set up a 256-bit RAM pipeline and not worry about signal loss!
I've already begun a boycott of Rambus. I'm not buying a P4 system until they make the DDR chipset. I'm not buying a PS2. If there was a "sucks" site for Rambus, I'd visit often. However, it's not enough to boycott Rambus, but hopefully Intel will be able to pound them into the ground when those morons of the RAM industry try to litigate.
...profit. Releasing FrameMaker for Linux won't get them any profit. Forcing people to buy full Photoshop for $699.99 will.
I say get your pirated copy. Get it, and tell your friends to get it. The Photoshop 6 install files only take up about 100MB, which equates to $7 per megabyte; however, Adobe includes "examples", "templates", and "free trial versions of other Adobe products" (blatant bloatware). Once the black market demand for Photoshop becomes stronger than the white market demand, then Adobe will probably break down and reduce the price.
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From runcom to unix to DOS to Linux to the Quake console. What a long, strange trip it's been.
Did you try dslreports.com yet? Check to see if it gets your zip code right. However, when I visit the site at the college computer lab, it doesn't have a clue (the IP of every machine is users.nat.wit.edu).
So remember this when you're browsing. The websites can calculate your physical position right down to a 2-mile radius. That's more than close enough for an ICBM!
Big Brother is watching you, and he doesn't like what he sees...
Uh oh, Creative already patented the "Nomad" name for their "portable PDE systems" (Personal Digital Entertainment). I sense an impending lawsuit or doctored settlement with Creative Technologies, Ltd., LLC, CRAP, etc.
Rob (or Hemos), get back to that terminal and fix that!
The icon for the "Games" topic in Slashdot is a picture of the N64 controller. However, it is widely known that most Slashdotters are biased towards the PlayStation and the PS2. Why haven't I heard other people complain about this? (No, apathy is not a legitimate reason.)
...you know, similar to the Dorothy experiment in the movie "Twister"? Now that'd really need remote telemetry, though 100 12-bit samples per second might not be enough.
Does it link to Jenny?
JonKatz never gives up, despite having his stories flooded with over 350 comments every time. It will be a good day when JonKatz retires; of course, when he does, his farewell story will be flooded with comments like "Good Riddance JonKatz, you moron!"
Well, marketing silliness or not, it's all AMD's fault. They're the ones who called the Athlon a 200MHz FSB CPU, when in fact, the dual pipeline equated to 2 x 100MHz. It's no different with the P4: 4 x 100MHz. Though, given a DDR chipset selection for both, I'd pick the P4 over the "baffle-on" anyday.
Look who's accusing who of spreading FUD.
Intel said the same thing when they developed AGP to share texture memory with the video card. Then, NVidia slapped 16MB, and then 32MB on their cards. Now, NVidia puts 64MB on their cards. With more memory available exclusively to the video system, performance is higher. Obviously, Sony didn't learn from NVidia's achievements, which is probably why NVidia is doing the XBox and not the PS2.
actually, I meant to imply the little number that follows jokes; you know, two sharp snare hits followed by a cymbal hit. I thought that rimshot was the right one, oh well.
I can understand charging big bucks for Pantone support and the automatic re-rasterization and anti-aliasing of vector components. But ever since the release of Quake 3, alpha channels have become commonplace. I became overjoyed when I opened my HUD font targas (the afore-mentioned 32x32 TGAs resized from 32x48) with Photoshop 6: instead of "#4", the channels were named, "Alpha1". Adobe recognized the convention made popular by Id Software.
However, charging $700 just to be able to edit an alpha channel is nonsense. An augmentation patch for LE would have been more forthright, but you know Adobe's mantra when it comes to customers: "Cough it up! Cough it up!"
I just have to ask: why does the PC have to be so far away? Are these experiments dealing with strong electromagnetic phenomenon? If so, then I'd understand, but otherwise, several hundred feet would seem paranoid.
Unfortunately, I don't have anything left over from that experience. However, I still marvel at their overwhelming contribution to our class.
Or is it not? This is one of the few times which I'd prefer to be proven wrong.
They were nonprofit until Andover bought out their asse[t]s. Now there's an ad banner adorning the top and the sidepanes all point to Andover/OSDN sites. Pathetic.
From a technical standpoint, the PS2 is pathetic. How much video RAM did the original PlayStation have? 512K? 1MB? Either way, it was okay back in 1994, but it just plain stinks now. And with the release of the PS2, the amount of RAM takes a meteoric rise to [drumroll].....
And now there's talk that the 4MB of VRAM will limit the amount of polygons that the PS2 can display at one time. Perhaps the PS2 wouldn't render Q3DM12 correctly if Q3 was made for the PS2. Too bad for those complex UT maps like dm-liandri and ctf-face, they'll all look terrible.
Well, here's one for the Linux zealots: how do you propose that the employees of (who create the tools that I need to make my living) make their living if Microsoft just starts giving away their source code?
Yes, think about it.
Yes, you may say "Why didn't you just give the files to someone with full Photoshop so they could do the alpha channels?" Well, I did do that, until I found out that I had to tweak with the files once again, which would mean that I'd have to send the files over again. And my only option was to shell out $700 just so I could do the alpha channels. Instead, I got Photoshop 6 on a burned disc with other things. Yay. I'm happy, except for one thing: how the hell does a 41K TGA file take up 1.5MB in memory? BLOATWARE!!! That's how!
If I were on the Adobe development team, I'd put RGB channel editing in the LE feature list. At least LE isn't such a memory hog, but then, that's because there aren't as many features that non-professionals don't need (CMYK, Pantone, Java rollovers, GIF optimizations, et cetera).
I loathe the idea of an autobiography of Linus Torvalds because the book's primary topic would inevitably revolve around how Linus tweaked with Unix, made it work (marginally), and released the source code for free. Furthermore, there's an almost 100% chance that the text would be peppered with megalomaniacal remarks, making this autobiography reminiscent of Mein Kampf.
Furthermore, the combination of a megalomaniacal mentality with a slapdash work ethic is disastrous. You shouldn't be able to take over the world with a folly, but Linus has proven that he can. One example is a quote from Linus himself:
That line alone makes me hate Linus and fear his creation. If Nikita Khruschev had that same sense of pig-headed ethics, then we wouldn't be here. The Earth would be a cratered mass stuck in nuclear winter due to certain events which took place in October 1962.
As far as which is better, keep in mind that TiVo is currently succumbing to the arrogance of power. Sony chose TiVo for its box; that alone should imply something. TiVo is now advertising in sports events. All the signs of a bloated company about to explode from its own, self-inflicted infestation. The "TiVo runs Linux" issue seems to be the only beneficial aspect of TiVo; the rest reeks of the capitalist status quo.
The key Rambus argument is that the 16-bit bus at 800MHz will be faster. But when PC2100 and PC2133 64-bit DDR SDRAM (200MHz and 266MHz, respectively, effectively) came along, it was no contest: DDR wins. Add the latency due to the Rambus proprietary packet structure, and Rambus becomes even more the loser. And the "serial is more effective because there's less wires to cause loss" argument is moot; seriously, how far is it from the RAM sockets to the chipset? A maximum of 12 inches travelled along the line. You could set up a 256-bit RAM pipeline and not worry about signal loss!
I've already begun a boycott of Rambus. I'm not buying a P4 system until they make the DDR chipset. I'm not buying a PS2. If there was a "sucks" site for Rambus, I'd visit often. However, it's not enough to boycott Rambus, but hopefully Intel will be able to pound them into the ground when those morons of the RAM industry try to litigate.
I say get your pirated copy. Get it, and tell your friends to get it. The Photoshop 6 install files only take up about 100MB, which equates to $7 per megabyte; however, Adobe includes "examples", "templates", and "free trial versions of other Adobe products" (blatant bloatware). Once the black market demand for Photoshop becomes stronger than the white market demand, then Adobe will probably break down and reduce the price.