There has to be something that can stop Rambust from consuming the entire computer world with its cursèd hands. Perhaps there should be a litigation against them that their patents should be null and void due to their vagueness. Any lawfirms game enough to undertake this would certainly get my stamp of approval.
Seriously, only 18 people from the entire human race have visited the moon so far. Sure, maybe there's an extra Saturn V or two locked up in Area 51 or something, but other than that, how the hell will we ever get there again?
Seriously, a moon base will not be born into fruition until someone starts visiting again.
I think that this is a move in the right direction. We already have enough stinking bargain chips (now that VIA is starting up the damned Cyrix series again with the CyrixIII, that puts the total of cheap-ass CPUs from 2 [Intel Celeron and K-6 x] to 3). Maybe now the Intel hardware designers can work on a chipset that doesn't suck, like a DDR chipset for the P4, or maybe a new 440BX-esque chip for the Coppermine series. I'm sick of VIA dominating the chipset market with their "0.25 micron crap on PCB" strategy.
They hacked in, and then they closed up the security hole; that's awfully nice of them. Let's hope that the hackers that crack the SDMI's DMAT aren't so nice (or greedy).
"Lots of interesting stuff to think about in there (despite the fact that he says its designed for windows)."
Yeah, and I suppose that we should only support new technology and programs that aren't wearing the Microsoft fetters, right? This bible-thumper's bias is going a little too far. It seems that on Slashdot, any idea, however promising it may be for the future, is shunned if it doesn't run on Linux. And I suppose that Rob's gonna say that the next DOOM will suck because it's being designed on Windows 2000. Open your mind and take those blinders off!
No, I didn't warez it. I won it at the Microsoft RoadShow, just for attending. I like Winodws 2000, but I would never pay $1000 for a workstation version. As far as Windows ME goes, I think the Windows team went a little too egotistical with that one (get it?!?! Okay, there's the corny nerd humor of the day). Considering that the DOS boot disk is dead, and that every current version of Windows isn't just a GUI overlay for DOS now, the Windows sector might be doomed to repeat the mistakes of other "innovators."
On a slightly offtopic note, I managed to execute seven windows of Quake3. It took up a whopping 1200780 kilobytes (yes, nearly 1.2 GIGAbytes) of memory (320 MB of that being physical). So THAT will be the absolute limit of my system. Stuff like that is nice to know.
Their tactics were as unethical as an ex post facto law, but it's the other way around, chronologically. Here, they were creating a patent before a system could be invented to run the subject of the patent. I think that there should be a rule for new patent applicants that the subject of the patent in question should be demonstrated somehow, be it a prototype or otherwise. If a rule like this already exists, then I'd at least be happy for that.
I don't know exactly what micromanagement is (thankfully!), but I think it's when your boss is watching your activity down to the lowest detail. One quote I like from Dilbert regarding this is: "I think, therefore I am. But I'm micromanaged, therefore, I'm not."
Too true about the "Machines" part; one of IBM's specialty products, their POS system (Point of Service, as in cash registers, but I prefer the other definition) runs on Java (Virtual "Machine", get it?).
Also, if they will support Linux across their entire hardware line, doesn't that also include the Aptiva series? It'd be hard to even RUN Linux on one of those, there's so much WinHardware in them!
The PS2 uses Rambus (kinda figures, Sony embraces new, unproven technology like a straitjacket on a psychopath). Does the Rambus boycott factor into this at all?
I thought that Avery Brooks was IBM's chief Linux analyst! Oh wait, no, he's the chief Linux Marketeer! (notice the similarity to racketeer?)
"IBM sees linux as a disrupting technology of the same class as the internet: an OS that can run on many platforms and that nobody owns: something that can fundementally change the landscape of computing."
This is a good point: IBM hates Linux as much as it hates the Internet because it can't profit from it. However, big blue can do something to Linux that it can't do to the internet: package it and slap on it's hyper-rasterized logo. Looks like we can expect this "pig-iron" version of Linux very soon!
Re: Glad to see someone else who hates Mesa.
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"If anything, Glide has also been easier to set up and configure than Mesa/OpenGL is currently (I've spent the last week attempting to get XFree86 4.0.1 to talk to my GeForce2 GTS, and it's been a bit of a hassle, to say the least)."
You think that's bad, in Quake 2 on my dual voodoo2 setup, I saw rainbow-colored light bursts whenever the shotgun fired. Now that's messed up. Also, in GLQUAKE the rendering speed was really bogged down (sub-25 FPS, should be at least 35 on a single V2). I'm starting to wonder if Mesa is coded in Java, cause that's the only explanation for the loading lag. My GeForce2 on my Win2k machine runs beautifully; anything that wants OpenGL (even the Microsoft screensavers!) gets the hardware drivers.
I applaud you in returning the Voodoo5 - it is truly a folly of a 3d accelerator. 3dfx is staying with a 128-bit 2D accelerator when the world has moved onto 256-bit. Alex Leupp should really take his blinders off sometime; he would probably pee his pants once he saw how far behind 3dfx really is.
3dfx is doing this a little too late.
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Seriously, NVidia has been on ARB ever since their early days (NVidia, not ARB). I've had the GL_ARB_MULTITEXTURE extension in my original GeForce ever since I first got it (I upgraded to the GF2 sometime around April). 3dfx should at least be castigated for their 8-bit texture compression scheme. Who the hell wants Q2-style texturing in Quake 3?
Also, since 3dfx refuses to adapt dot-product bump mapping (also known as dot-3 bump mapping) and still refuses to update to cube environment mapping, their position in the 3d market has dropped further. Even ATI is ahead of them in the feature list right now. All that 3dfx has right now is a FSAA routine that jitters the tris; kinda creepy knowing that the framework of a 3d scene is NEVER actually standing still.
...by replacing it with a RED screen of death. This would be similar to Microsoft replacing the "General Protection Fault" in Windows 3.1 with the "Fatal Exception Error" in Windows 95.
My favorite BSOD is a strange one in Windows 2000 during startup: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". How is that possible? If a memory space is not paged yet, then how can it have a page fault? Shouldn't it then be a "non-page fault"?
One things for sure: I can certainly administrate the DSL network much better than they are doing now. Last night and last week, the PPPoE server was down. They should really learn sometime.
I think that CmdrTaco yielded to the numerous complaints that there were too many CueCat stories. I'm surprised, cause I submitted a story about The Register's take on the CueCat. It was rejected, and they accepted this vaguely terse piece of FUDcrud? That's pathetic.
Remember the follies that the Russian space program made. Like forcing a cosmonaut to manually navigate a Progress freighter by only using a faulty camera system. This situation ended in near-catastrophe; it took out an entire module of Mir, not to mention that it killed a large swath of solar cells and depressurized said module, making it useless.
NASA's competition should be well-practiced in standard procedure. It's bad enough having those Russian "Jacks-of-all-trades" up there nearly giving the Earth a new asteroid belt of space junk.
In IE5, clicking the Search button brings up a side panel where you can type in your entry. Notice, though, that below the entry field, it says "Brought to you by MSN Search." The first choice is ALWAYS MSN. Surprisingly, it DOES log the Slashdot pages; I did a search for "CmdrTaco" and it turned up a buttload of/. pages. Good to know that MS isn't too biased.
This is reminiscent of when 3dfx sued NVidia over a multitexturing patent, and then NVidia sued 3dfx over five controller design patents. Are these tactics becoming standard practice in business ethics? This is funny and pathetic at the same time: "They sued us for WHAT?!?! Well, then, you file lawsuits against them over infringing patents X, Y, and Z!!!"
"I ordered my DSL way back at the end of July and was told "6 weeks" by the company that's offering DSL in my area. Of course, it's now nearing the end of September and although I was promised that Bell-Atlantic (now Verizon) would make the necessary connections last Friday. It's Tuesday and nary a Verizon truck in site with my line.
Between the time I ordered my DSL and when the signal was activated, I didn't see a truck either. I tested out the DSL modem before the signal was supposed to be on, and it looked like it was actually connecting! Trouble was, the server for setting up an account was down. So I called Verizon and set up an account. The surprising part is, I called during the second day of the IBEW strike! Nice to know that there actually are Verizon workers who don't succumb to greed.
I have 640K ADSL through Verizon (though the end of my e-mail address is still bellatlantic.net), and it's not that bad. Availability was a no-brainer, as I'm only three miles away from the substation. I even downloaded the infamous Daikatana patch and the Elite Force demo, but that's where the good parts end.
Lately, my connection's been dropping at the damndest times (usually while searching for or while connected to a Counter-Strike server). It seems that Verizon has done the price yo-yo: originally, the price per month was $39.99, then $29.99. About three weeks later, I saw their ad which said "Connect for the low price of $39.99!" Hello, that's higher! I found out why though: new users don't have to buy a DSL modem; that's worse, since that could be a contract stipulation which could get you in the end. I bought my modem through them, and feel happy that I can just sign up with Covad or Concentric if they start screwing around. Which reminds me, there's been one day of downtime per month; in August, a problem with Qwest's network, then in September, the PPPoE server died.
This is starting to make me think back to that GameSpy spoof article, "Top Ten Reasons for Lag." Number 8: Covad technicians on crack.
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There has to be something that can stop Rambust from consuming the entire computer world with its cursèd hands. Perhaps there should be a litigation against them that their patents should be null and void due to their vagueness. Any lawfirms game enough to undertake this would certainly get my stamp of approval.
Seriously, a moon base will not be born into fruition until someone starts visiting again.
Well, they told him where the hole was and how to fix it, so that's just as good as fixing it themselves.
I think that this is a move in the right direction. We already have enough stinking bargain chips (now that VIA is starting up the damned Cyrix series again with the CyrixIII, that puts the total of cheap-ass CPUs from 2 [Intel Celeron and K-6 x] to 3). Maybe now the Intel hardware designers can work on a chipset that doesn't suck, like a DDR chipset for the P4, or maybe a new 440BX-esque chip for the Coppermine series. I'm sick of VIA dominating the chipset market with their "0.25 micron crap on PCB" strategy.
They hacked in, and then they closed up the security hole; that's awfully nice of them. Let's hope that the hackers that crack the SDMI's DMAT aren't so nice (or greedy).
Yeah, and I suppose that we should only support new technology and programs that aren't wearing the Microsoft fetters, right? This bible-thumper's bias is going a little too far. It seems that on Slashdot, any idea, however promising it may be for the future, is shunned if it doesn't run on Linux. And I suppose that Rob's gonna say that the next DOOM will suck because it's being designed on Windows 2000. Open your mind and take those blinders off!
No, I didn't warez it. I won it at the Microsoft RoadShow, just for attending. I like Winodws 2000, but I would never pay $1000 for a workstation version. As far as Windows ME goes, I think the Windows team went a little too egotistical with that one (get it?!?! Okay, there's the corny nerd humor of the day). Considering that the DOS boot disk is dead, and that every current version of Windows isn't just a GUI overlay for DOS now, the Windows sector might be doomed to repeat the mistakes of other "innovators."
On a slightly offtopic note, I managed to execute seven windows of Quake3. It took up a whopping 1200780 kilobytes (yes, nearly 1.2 GIGAbytes) of memory (320 MB of that being physical). So THAT will be the absolute limit of my system. Stuff like that is nice to know.
Their tactics were as unethical as an ex post facto law, but it's the other way around, chronologically. Here, they were creating a patent before a system could be invented to run the subject of the patent. I think that there should be a rule for new patent applicants that the subject of the patent in question should be demonstrated somehow, be it a prototype or otherwise. If a rule like this already exists, then I'd at least be happy for that.
I don't know exactly what micromanagement is (thankfully!), but I think it's when your boss is watching your activity down to the lowest detail. One quote I like from Dilbert regarding this is: "I think, therefore I am. But I'm micromanaged, therefore, I'm not."
Also, if they will support Linux across their entire hardware line, doesn't that also include the Aptiva series? It'd be hard to even RUN Linux on one of those, there's so much WinHardware in them!
As far as that Beanie goes, DC has already won it hands down.
The PS2 uses Rambus (kinda figures, Sony embraces new, unproven technology like a straitjacket on a psychopath). Does the Rambus boycott factor into this at all?
This is a good point: IBM hates Linux as much as it hates the Internet because it can't profit from it. However, big blue can do something to Linux that it can't do to the internet: package it and slap on it's hyper-rasterized logo. Looks like we can expect this "pig-iron" version of Linux very soon!
You think that's bad, in Quake 2 on my dual voodoo2 setup, I saw rainbow-colored light bursts whenever the shotgun fired. Now that's messed up. Also, in GLQUAKE the rendering speed was really bogged down (sub-25 FPS, should be at least 35 on a single V2). I'm starting to wonder if Mesa is coded in Java, cause that's the only explanation for the loading lag. My GeForce2 on my Win2k machine runs beautifully; anything that wants OpenGL (even the Microsoft screensavers!) gets the hardware drivers.
I applaud you in returning the Voodoo5 - it is truly a folly of a 3d accelerator. 3dfx is staying with a 128-bit 2D accelerator when the world has moved onto 256-bit. Alex Leupp should really take his blinders off sometime; he would probably pee his pants once he saw how far behind 3dfx really is.
Also, since 3dfx refuses to adapt dot-product bump mapping (also known as dot-3 bump mapping) and still refuses to update to cube environment mapping, their position in the 3d market has dropped further. Even ATI is ahead of them in the feature list right now. All that 3dfx has right now is a FSAA routine that jitters the tris; kinda creepy knowing that the framework of a 3d scene is NEVER actually standing still.
My favorite BSOD is a strange one in Windows 2000 during startup: "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA". How is that possible? If a memory space is not paged yet, then how can it have a page fault? Shouldn't it then be a "non-page fault"?
...the one which hates Javascript. Here's our homepage. Do the viewers of your webpages a favor, and don't use frivolous Javascript!
you currently have a karma of -29. You're still heading in that direction.
One things for sure: I can certainly administrate the DSL network much better than they are doing now. Last night and last week, the PPPoE server was down. They should really learn sometime.
I think that CmdrTaco yielded to the numerous complaints that there were too many CueCat stories. I'm surprised, cause I submitted a story about The Register's take on the CueCat. It was rejected, and they accepted this vaguely terse piece of FUDcrud? That's pathetic.
NASA's competition should be well-practiced in standard procedure. It's bad enough having those Russian "Jacks-of-all-trades" up there nearly giving the Earth a new asteroid belt of space junk.
In IE5, clicking the Search button brings up a side panel where you can type in your entry. Notice, though, that below the entry field, it says "Brought to you by MSN Search." The first choice is ALWAYS MSN. Surprisingly, it DOES log the Slashdot pages; I did a search for "CmdrTaco" and it turned up a buttload of /. pages. Good to know that MS isn't too biased.
This is reminiscent of when 3dfx sued NVidia over a multitexturing patent, and then NVidia sued 3dfx over five controller design patents. Are these tactics becoming standard practice in business ethics? This is funny and pathetic at the same time: "They sued us for WHAT?!?! Well, then, you file lawsuits against them over infringing patents X, Y, and Z!!!"
Between the time I ordered my DSL and when the signal was activated, I didn't see a truck either. I tested out the DSL modem before the signal was supposed to be on, and it looked like it was actually connecting! Trouble was, the server for setting up an account was down. So I called Verizon and set up an account. The surprising part is, I called during the second day of the IBEW strike! Nice to know that there actually are Verizon workers who don't succumb to greed.
Lately, my connection's been dropping at the damndest times (usually while searching for or while connected to a Counter-Strike server). It seems that Verizon has done the price yo-yo: originally, the price per month was $39.99, then $29.99. About three weeks later, I saw their ad which said "Connect for the low price of $39.99!" Hello, that's higher! I found out why though: new users don't have to buy a DSL modem; that's worse, since that could be a contract stipulation which could get you in the end. I bought my modem through them, and feel happy that I can just sign up with Covad or Concentric if they start screwing around. Which reminds me, there's been one day of downtime per month; in August, a problem with Qwest's network, then in September, the PPPoE server died.
This is starting to make me think back to that GameSpy spoof article, "Top Ten Reasons for Lag." Number 8: Covad technicians on crack.