Sony is trying to appeal to the programmers who were initially outraged at the PS2 because it was the physical manifestation of everything they oppose (the DMCA, the MPAA, shameful capitalism, and so on). And now they announce a form of BASIC for the console, as though that's going to be useful for anything.
My suggestion? Either get a Dreamcast or avoid console systems altogether. By buying a Sony product which has semiconductors in it, you are supporting their crusade to proprietarize the world and become a tech monopoly.
a truly quadrophonic sound API which is cross-platform. No more of this EAX crap. The angle of the speakers would be one critical set of cvars so that the sound positioning would be correct. Perhaps I can find a way to have A3D emulated to this.
Seriously, that could be retooled into one standardized control panel. In other OSes, t is not necessary to enter in the horizontal refresh rate if you already know the vertical refresh rate; the horizontal refresh rate can be calculated if you know the vertical.
Also, it would be nice to be able to adjust the resolution of X while actually in X. When you tweak with the XF86Config in vim and then try to start X, only to have it terminate because it doen't like one line, it just becomes so exasperating.
In short, Windows has a GUI display control panel, MacOS has a GUI display control panel, so why doesn't Linux have one yet? They've only had about five years to make one, so there's no excuse.
In two years, I'll be taking a class on microcontroller design. Does this all mean that soon I'll have to pay a Rambus tax just to buy my textbook? I hope not, because I want to build a better sound card (and hopefully oust Creative from their monopolistic throne), and I don't want to have Rambus leeching from my funds.
All I can do right now is hope that the combined wrath of Intel, AMD, and VIA will send Rambus into the pits of hell (or maybe the front page of f*ckedcompany.com).
At least Microsoft makes an attempt at making better software (and with Win2K, succeeded). All that Rambus does right now is play the court market. Judge shopping, heavy interpretation, blatant greed; will it never end?
File patents that would apply in almost every microcontroller design, attempt to make a better RAM technology, and when that fails, start filing patent infringement lawsuits.
I hope that these morons get beaten at their own game. There's no nullification quite like having a judge call your company a legion of whining carpetbaggers.
Think about it. 3dfx tried to pimp their multi-processor Voodoo 5 cards, yet the NVidia GeForce series still outpaced them. V5 went so sour that the 6000 was ditched, as the speed improvement paled in comparison to the astronomical price of such a card.
And now, an unnamed company exec says, "It's possible that some of our sales force overstated the benefits of dual-capable CPU systems, unfortunately, by being overly critical of single-CPU-capable systems."
Paul Otellini, the exec VP and GM of Intel's Architecture Group, reported on the workstation performance of the P4: "The Pentium 4 processors that we're announcing Monday have the highest performing floating point of any PC processor that's out there. And, in fact, [they] compare very favorably to a lot of RISC microprocessors which for so long have been resident in things like workstations. That's one of the reasons you'll see on Monday that there are workstations also being introduced with Pentium 4." I'd like to see the quantitative results of some tests to back this up. Intel just might steal the FPU crown from AMD, and a good thing too: as it stands now, the AMD Athlon series has been shunned by C/C++/assembly programmers due to the fact that their projects will not compile with a 100% compatibility guarantee. The general rule for the last ten years has been: "If you're programming for the PC, use Intel."
Intel is still making the BX chipset, just like ATI is still making the Rage IIC, just like 3dfx is (well, was) still making the Voodoo 2.
Despite the new developments, there is still demand for the BX, in reliable SMP chipsets. With proper cooling the BX chipset can run at 133MHz (Soyo is selling BX boards that advertise 133MHz readiness). The VIA chipsets still have driver updates more often than Mozilla gets updated, and AMD hasn't churned out a single chipset that can be recommended to run 24/7 under a reputable NOS (NT4/5, BSD, etc.). Once Intel makes a nice DDR chipset (and gets it all right the first time!), then there might be a reason to retire the BX.
Still, you must admire the longevity of the 82443BX. It has outlasted its first PII companion (the 350MHz) by over 2 years, and it's still being manufactured for boards.
No, not another GIS, my DSL isn't up yet!!
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Great. I can't enjoy Geeks in Space in its full 24kbps splendor. I guess I'll have to contact my new DSL ISP and get them moving on the account toute de suite.
P.S.: The key ingredient to an excellent Bloody Mary is real blood.
...and let each user decide which e-mail client they want to use. Outlook can handle both POP and IMAP.
This entire argument might be due to moronic executives:
PointyHaired Boss: "I want you to order an SQL Server."
Dilbert (thinks to self):Hmm, does he know what he's talking about or has he been reading those IT magazines again? (asks PHBoss a question): In what color would you like that server?
PointyHaired Boss: "I think that mauve has the most RAM."
What are most of the SMP machines around the world right now? Right, Intel P3 Katmai/Coppermine with SDRAM/ECC in them. Sure, AMD is trying to release an SMP board for the Athlon, but it won't succeed unless it can be proven to be as stable as a 440BX with 2 processors. Of course, the 31337 H4X0R5 will jump into the Athlon SMP bandwagon once it's released, but it won't be accepted by legitimate users until its stability is proven.
Gnutella will never improve.
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Gnutella was originally devised by Justin Frankel of Nullsoft, and was open-sourced. Later on, Frankel stopped development on it. From that point on, Gnutella had many clone browsers made.
Due to the fact that there is no unified authority which holds jurisdiction over the direction of Gnutella, it will probably never improve. Linux has kernel updates because Linus is tweaking them. However, Frankel gave up and left Gnutella at the mercy of the open-source vultures.
When I say that Gnutella will never improve, I am challenging someone to prove me wrong. Go ahead, prove me wrong, make Gnutella better. Either way, I win.
Re:When in doubt, stick with what works.
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Good old FTP. So standardized, so defined, that there is no beta client; they're all above 1.0 (okay, except for those Linux programmers who are reinventing the wheel). Also, it's so easy to serve; just get a copy of Serv-U, or Apache (of course), or even get Microsoft FTP warezed (please don't do this, not because it's Microsoft, but because MSFTP doesn't handle the REST command).
I think that peer to peer music will be dead until someone can come up with a stable interface/protocol, and not get into trouble with the law. So far, the other P2P music programs has succumbed to one of these two requirements.
I've never used Napster, Scour, etc.
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Yeah, that's right. Never. Never, never, never. For my MP3s, I find an FTP site with an operator generous enough to give leech. If that's impossible, then I find a good ratio and start transferring. I've dabbled around with Gnutella, but I've only used it for downloading. I can't stand the interface, and all I ever see is junk, junk, junk (and that's after filtering out flatplanet.net, all the porn, metallica, nelson, warrant, et cetera).
Re:I have the Tron DVD.
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Go get it. $20 at a brick-and-mortar store. It's the highest quality rendering of Tron (short of getting the source files for the 3D rendering and overlaying the humans).
Re:I'm not sad seeing Scour shut down for good.
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So you need to right-click, properties, settings, slidethingy-apply to change you resolution?
Well, yes, if I ever did, but I don't, so no. I'm quite content with 1024x768x32bpp@75Hz. As for control panels, there's devmgmt.msc, control.exe, compmgmt.msc, and so on.
Scour in terms of Napster
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Scour != Napster
Napster + ability to share any file - quality control + heavily Flash-rendered home website - proper software development ethics (get it out of the alpha stage!) = Scour.
Strange, I thought that the bond/bail for a misdemeanor never tops $10,000. They obviously have a bias against 2600, and are holding him guilty until proven innocent. I say, despite the pathetic sentence of a sub-$200 fine and three months probation, go ahead and appeal. Put the system on trial.
When Skylab entered the atmosphere, there were fragments which survived the heat of re-entry. In fact, one visiting American tourist teenager returned to the States from Australia with a chunk of wreckage.
Mir didn't set a precedent in space travel. It defined how the Russian space agency would torture its cosmonauts for the next 14 years. And finally, there is an eternal reprieve, as the cosmonauts will get re-assigned to the International Space Station. At least the water is clean and the air is fresh there; the smell of a football player's sweaty sock would smell pleasant to one of the Mir inhabitants in comparison to his prison's stench.
I'm not so hopeful that the space fungus will burn up in the atmosphere. Remember the scenario in the Andromeda Strain, where just one pebble of that stuff contaminated an entire swath of a desert town.
Of course, they are planning to have it enter "into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean". And so what island/archipelago/ship/tanker will be contaminated upon this splashdown? Bimini is already contaminated by nuclear tests from back in the 1950s. Other islands in the Pacific have been the host of other, more recent nuclear tests.
However, I'm glad that Mir will be gone soon. I'm getting sick of these incessant episodes of "This Old Mir".
Ugh, I hate those new acronyms.
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LLC, PLC, LLP, etc.
Enough! When they devised those three about two years ago, every single new company used them (Saitek PLC, Iridium LLC, etc.). This only goes to show that when moronic executives get their hands on obscure acronyms, chaos ensues.
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My suggestion? Either get a Dreamcast or avoid console systems altogether. By buying a Sony product which has semiconductors in it, you are supporting their crusade to proprietarize the world and become a tech monopoly.
a truly quadrophonic sound API which is cross-platform. No more of this EAX crap. The angle of the speakers would be one critical set of cvars so that the sound positioning would be correct. Perhaps I can find a way to have A3D emulated to this.
Also, it would be nice to be able to adjust the resolution of X while actually in X. When you tweak with the XF86Config in vim and then try to start X, only to have it terminate because it doen't like one line, it just becomes so exasperating.
In short, Windows has a GUI display control panel, MacOS has a GUI display control panel, so why doesn't Linux have one yet? They've only had about five years to make one, so there's no excuse.
All I can do right now is hope that the combined wrath of Intel, AMD, and VIA will send Rambus into the pits of hell (or maybe the front page of f*ckedcompany.com).
Hehe, it's like a chihuahua yapping away at Godzilla. Once that overgrown lizard sees the little cur, STOMP! Rambus pancake!
At least Microsoft makes an attempt at making better software (and with Win2K, succeeded). All that Rambus does right now is play the court market. Judge shopping, heavy interpretation, blatant greed; will it never end?
I hope that these morons get beaten at their own game. There's no nullification quite like having a judge call your company a legion of whining carpetbaggers.
And now, an unnamed company exec says, "It's possible that some of our sales force overstated the benefits of dual-capable CPU systems, unfortunately, by being overly critical of single-CPU-capable systems."
Paul Otellini, the exec VP and GM of Intel's Architecture Group, reported on the workstation performance of the P4: "The Pentium 4 processors that we're announcing Monday have the highest performing floating point of any PC processor that's out there. And, in fact, [they] compare very favorably to a lot of RISC microprocessors which for so long have been resident in things like workstations. That's one of the reasons you'll see on Monday that there are workstations also being introduced with Pentium 4." I'd like to see the quantitative results of some tests to back this up. Intel just might steal the FPU crown from AMD, and a good thing too: as it stands now, the AMD Athlon series has been shunned by C/C++/assembly programmers due to the fact that their projects will not compile with a 100% compatibility guarantee. The general rule for the last ten years has been: "If you're programming for the PC, use Intel."
Despite the new developments, there is still demand for the BX, in reliable SMP chipsets. With proper cooling the BX chipset can run at 133MHz (Soyo is selling BX boards that advertise 133MHz readiness). The VIA chipsets still have driver updates more often than Mozilla gets updated, and AMD hasn't churned out a single chipset that can be recommended to run 24/7 under a reputable NOS (NT4/5, BSD, etc.). Once Intel makes a nice DDR chipset (and gets it all right the first time!), then there might be a reason to retire the BX.
Still, you must admire the longevity of the 82443BX. It has outlasted its first PII companion (the 350MHz) by over 2 years, and it's still being manufactured for boards.
P.S.: The key ingredient to an excellent Bloody Mary is real blood.
This entire argument might be due to moronic executives:
PointyHaired Boss: "I want you to order an SQL Server."
Dilbert (thinks to self):Hmm, does he know what he's talking about or has he been reading those IT magazines again?
(asks PHBoss a question): In what color would you like that server?
PointyHaired Boss: "I think that mauve has the most RAM."
I fear that the next move by Corel will be a cancellation of a product line; perhaps WordPerfect (since the deal with Microsoft, that seems logical).
If you see an 8-year-old girl holding a Quantum Physics book, AIM FOR THE HEAD!
What are most of the SMP machines around the world right now? Right, Intel P3 Katmai/Coppermine with SDRAM/ECC in them. Sure, AMD is trying to release an SMP board for the Athlon, but it won't succeed unless it can be proven to be as stable as a 440BX with 2 processors. Of course, the 31337 H4X0R5 will jump into the Athlon SMP bandwagon once it's released, but it won't be accepted by legitimate users until its stability is proven.
Due to the fact that there is no unified authority which holds jurisdiction over the direction of Gnutella, it will probably never improve. Linux has kernel updates because Linus is tweaking them. However, Frankel gave up and left Gnutella at the mercy of the open-source vultures.
When I say that Gnutella will never improve, I am challenging someone to prove me wrong. Go ahead, prove me wrong, make Gnutella better. Either way, I win.
I think that peer to peer music will be dead until someone can come up with a stable interface/protocol, and not get into trouble with the law. So far, the other P2P music programs has succumbed to one of these two requirements.
Yeah, that's right. Never. Never, never, never. For my MP3s, I find an FTP site with an operator generous enough to give leech. If that's impossible, then I find a good ratio and start transferring. I've dabbled around with Gnutella, but I've only used it for downloading. I can't stand the interface, and all I ever see is junk, junk, junk (and that's after filtering out flatplanet.net, all the porn, metallica, nelson, warrant, et cetera).
Go get it. $20 at a brick-and-mortar store. It's the highest quality rendering of Tron (short of getting the source files for the 3D rendering and overlaying the humans).
Well, yes, if I ever did, but I don't, so no. I'm quite content with 1024x768x32bpp@75Hz. As for control panels, there's devmgmt.msc, control.exe, compmgmt.msc, and so on.
Napster + ability to share any file - quality control + heavily Flash-rendered home website - proper software development ethics (get it out of the alpha stage!) = Scour.
There. I finally said it. I'm happy.
Strange, I thought that the bond/bail for a misdemeanor never tops $10,000. They obviously have a bias against 2600, and are holding him guilty until proven innocent. I say, despite the pathetic sentence of a sub-$200 fine and three months probation, go ahead and appeal. Put the system on trial.
When Skylab entered the atmosphere, there were fragments which survived the heat of re-entry. In fact, one visiting American tourist teenager returned to the States from Australia with a chunk of wreckage.
Mir didn't set a precedent in space travel. It defined how the Russian space agency would torture its cosmonauts for the next 14 years. And finally, there is an eternal reprieve, as the cosmonauts will get re-assigned to the International Space Station. At least the water is clean and the air is fresh there; the smell of a football player's sweaty sock would smell pleasant to one of the Mir inhabitants in comparison to his prison's stench.
Of course, they are planning to have it enter "into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean". And so what island/archipelago/ship/tanker will be contaminated upon this splashdown? Bimini is already contaminated by nuclear tests from back in the 1950s. Other islands in the Pacific have been the host of other, more recent nuclear tests.
However, I'm glad that Mir will be gone soon. I'm getting sick of these incessant episodes of "This Old Mir".
Enough! When they devised those three about two years ago, every single new company used them (Saitek PLC, Iridium LLC, etc.). This only goes to show that when moronic executives get their hands on obscure acronyms, chaos ensues.