These were 6 months apart. geForce3 in the spring, geForce3 Ti in the fall. i know this because i got my geForce3 a little over a year ago (when they first came out) and the geForce4 has only been out a few months.
the geForce4 Ti doesn't have significant features over the geForce3, but it is a *different architecture* and there is a very large speed difference, much more than the geForce3 Ti 500 over the geForce3. the geForce4 uses a different core. of of the geForce3 cards use the same core. this is different than the geForce2, which was basically just a geForce with a higher clock.
is releasing a redigned chip in august? traditionally, nvidia has been releasing new chips in the spring and then introducint a beefed up version of the same chip in the fall. This year they are introducing a "fundamentally new architecture" only 6 months after they anounced the geforce4. my guess is that they had a feeling that ruling OpenGL 1.3 and DX8.1 isn't enough and that this next chip will keep them competative with upcoming chips like this new one from 3d labs.
i don't think it is about putting people out of work. i can only speak for myself, but i think it is good that people can code for a living. i don't think open source is going to kill the programming profession.
your quote doesn't prove that most people who code write commercial software. but it does say that people who write commercial software are included in the largest group of professional coders, the computer and data processing services industry. this could also include tech support, firmware, and companies like SAP that basically write customer specific code for each application. so there is both consumer and corporate level programming in this "largest concentration."
i think the fuss about MS Office is that it is very expensive ($500.00 to buy it outright - not the upgrade). it is expensive because most people in the business world have to use it. if your software is not compatible, you have deviated from the standard in the business world. demand increases value.
also, Sun does plan to make money on this. Sun will soon be releasing Star Office 6.0. Star Office will cost money. though there was community input into Open Office, Sun also paid people to work on it. Sun is paying people to write the extra code going into Star Office. this strategy builds community support, gives you a great free alternative, and produces a quality commercial product. it may not be perfect, but it is a fairly elegant compromise of making money and supporting open source and the community in general (even outside open source).
i think it is less intrusive because ad-aware doesn't try to fool you into thinking it is a media player. its purpose is to remove programs that annoy you. it's a totally different story if a media player sneaks extra "features" in that violate your privacy.
it seems this sort of thing is frequently bundled with media players. i guess that's the one thing that people are most likely to install as they are surfing.
so has anybody heard of these spyware media players being necessary for the file format on the site, or is it just that media players seem innocuous to the average web surfer?
thanks again. spelling and gender/case problems. (i just realized that even if it were a "der" word, "der" would still have been wrong.) bit by bit i'll get it.
it is so frustrating. my german just keeps getting worse. used to be i spoke german like a 5 year old. now it's more like a 2 year old. i need to find an outlet where i can practice my german before i forget everything.
and to think this all started because i thought to myself "hmm. i need a.sig. what was that german tongue twister again?" i guess maybe i should switch my.sig to something in my native language. i can usually speak english at an adult level.
tut mir Leid. ich bunuetze Deutsch selten, und ich hab' sehr viel vergessen.
and i never knew swiss german. i see swiss and i give up trying to say it the swiss way. i saw it in swiss german and took my best stab at putting it into Hochdeutsch. swiss german wasn't taught in my school. only the german german.
but thanks for the spelling correction. (like the.sig also says, i'm an idiot.)
that MS keeps talking about the damage to MS and the PC ecosystem.
MS was found to be a monopoly that abused its monopoly status to further its business. why should business that was illegally obtained be protected. it's as though they should be let off of the hook since they got away with it for so long. this is similar to a person stealing a car, getting caught after a year, and then being allowed to keep the stolen car because he'd already had it for a year.
as far as the PC ecosystem is concerned, it is just as ridiculous. MS probably did have a lot to do with standardizing a PC platform way back in the infancy of desktop PC use. but now they are saying innovation will stop and things will be set back if people are allowed to use things other than Windows to do Windows tasks. this is not necessarily the case. if companies are allowed to make emulators/interpreters/compatibilty programs, all of the existing software out there would still work. people would have the choice of using native software or the generic Windows software on their systems. the only ones hurt in this scenario is Microsoft. letting more (non-MS) software interact with Windows would make things even more compatible than they are now. People just wouldn't have to depend on a single OS / Office vendor to provide compatibility.
other companies should not have to help cover MS's r&d expense for MS Office. MS talks about this like they are the only ones who ever thought of making word processor and spreadsheet programs. the only secrets that would be unveiled would be the wacky MS file formats.
in spite of all of this, i think MS will come out of this trial with a slap on the wrist and monopolistic business practices will continue
no need for apologies. if i'm wrong i guess that's just how it goes. (it's a fact that this is my opinion)
the only way i could see this being beneficial to MS in the long run is if MS gets some sort of residual income. it just doesn't seem like it fits their business model to sell something as a one time payment that does not lead to some sort of ongoing charge for products or services.
all of the examples you give lead to other revenue sources, or are support for those revenue sources. i doubt that when MS liscensed source to DOS, they were hoping to help port anything to the latest version of solaris or macOS. They wanted to make it easier to use Windows. (which is logical, since that is what they sell.) networking protocols, printer drivers, file systems, etc all help ensure the use of an MS platform for these activities (can't use a Windows box for printing if you don't have the drivers).
to more accurately say what i meant before... i find it highly implausible that MS would be willing to sell a package of that size without some promise of future income or control. i also believe MS would be counting on feature creep if this took off so that more than just the government would become dependent on passport.
but you never know. it could just be that i'm very suspicious of microsoft, but that all they want to do is make customers happy, even when the customers are large governments.
i keep reading comments saying that the article says "passport technology" not "microsoft passport." they are the same thing. when is the last time you remember microsoft liscensing technology to someone to make their own product? it won't happen.
i do hear microsoft talk about windows technology and such. this doesn't mean they are making it easier for people to duplicate windows. this means that they consider the software to be a technology. if they make it sound impressive by calling it technology, people are more likely to buy it.
microsoft has not ever created a 'technology' without the intent of using it to control/dominate sales of their own products. yes, this even applies to.Net. if they use what they have to leverage it in, they can dominate yet another segment (now java-space).
i am not arguing. it may sound like it. i have seen articles about the magnetic field strengthening, weakening, and reversing polarity, but not about it dissappearing entirely. i would be interested in reading some if you have any. again, i'm not arguing with you. i just think this sort of thing is fascinating, which is of course, why i read/.
According to this article on cnet/news.com, Sanders did ask for a favour from MS in return for his testimony. He wants MS to support the Hammer architecture ahead of a "competing architecture" from Intel. Sanders also admits in the article that he did not read the State's proposed settlement, but that good old Bill Gates told him it was bad.
plate tectonics are also very slow on the human timescale. but they are sited in the article as an important factor.
i don't know the significance of a magnetic field, but it shouldn't be written off without examination. a magnetic field that changes might even be more important than one that doesn't.
places do regularly flood. you are so clever to have given me this piece of information.
the sun regularly rises and sets. every day, in fact. this has as much to do with what i said as your point about flooding being a worldwide phenomena.
i was simply pointing out that similar great flood stories all over the world does not prove that there were many smaller great floods any more than it proves that there was one all-encompassing flood. it just means they had experience with floods.
it could be based on a history of a great flood, or it could just be an exaggeration of a normal activity. it *proves* neither. that is my point.
i enjoy your overly pompous attitude. i especially appreciate it because i don't think you are necessarily wrong. neither did i say that the "multiple small flood theory" was wrong. i don't have archeological data or personal memory of these events to prove or disprove this theory. but i think you're right that if someone disagrees with you even a little, the best course of action is to be condescending. then restate your opinion. it will look like you have aquired more factual back-up for your statements.
i don't know enough to argue about what happened; i'm just following the logic. it doesn't mean that there was one large flood or that there were lots of little floods. but it does mean that there was flooding in many areas.
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Ti is also what was used to cover the new guggenheim in bilbao, spain. Frank Gehry is a genius. originally he was going to use stainless steel. but it didn't catch the light quite the right way. then he saw titanium and was sold. he was worried that it costs 2x as much as stainless, but it was ok because it only had to be 1/2 as thick.
i love the total lack of right angles in that building. simply beautiful.
I noticed C|Net has posted their own lukewarm review of the Zaurus. They give it a 6 out of 10. Interesting that cnet readers give it around a 92% good. Maybe their readers are more technically inclined than they think.
i still have not seen on up close. i'd like to see one before i decide if i should get it.
apart from the entirely different argument about whether *BSD or linux is better, the biggest threat to Microsoft on servers is linux. If something is a big enough competitor, MS does not care what license it uses. MS only cares that every machine running a competing OS is not running Windows (or exclusively Windows).
In Microsoft's leaked emails they don't talk about letting BSD slide because of the license. they don't mention the GPL as the reason that linux must be outsold. They only mention that they want to work especially hard to win those accounts.
people mentioning Apple's OSX as a threat miss the point. though Darwin is open source, OSX is not. If it were, i'd be running it on my PC architecture. Microsoft lets Apple slide because they have been confined to a niche market (though personally, i wouldn't be surprised if OSX reverses that trend.) as it stands, OSX only runs on proprietary Apple hardware.
The point is that MS focuses its efforts on its largest immediate threats. Not threats to licensing or IP, but threats to market share. As soon as BSD gets a big enough install base, MS will go after BSD.
Also there's the idea that GPL does not allow the MS tried and true formula, embrace, extend, extinguish. MS likes BSD because it can do anything it likes with the code. They'll toss code out there if it allows people to develop for their own proprietary platform. It is not contributed because MS thinks that it would like to help make BSD a better OS.
Anyone who thinks that Microsoft's final goal is something other than total market domination in every area related to technology is fooling themselves.
"Innovation is what drives the software industry," says David Stutz, a Microsoft group program manager. "We would be foolish not to invest in the place that a lot of this innovation comes from, which is the academic sphere."
So if MS isn't participating in all of this innovation, could it possibly mean that someone else is innovating? I don't understand. I thought that all of that open-source activity on college campuses was only for the purposes of piracy and making clones of innovative MS products.
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new: geForce3
bump: geForce3 Ti 500
These were 6 months apart. geForce3 in the spring, geForce3 Ti in the fall. i know this because i got my geForce3 a little over a year ago (when they first came out) and the geForce4 has only been out a few months.
the geForce4 Ti doesn't have significant features over the geForce3, but it is a *different architecture* and there is a very large speed difference, much more than the geForce3 Ti 500 over the geForce3. the geForce4 uses a different core. of of the geForce3 cards use the same core. this is different than the geForce2, which was basically just a geForce with a higher clock.
No problem. the schedule is not flipped.
is releasing a redigned chip in august? traditionally, nvidia has been releasing new chips in the spring and then introducint a beefed up version of the same chip in the fall. This year they are introducing a "fundamentally new architecture" only 6 months after they anounced the geforce4. my guess is that they had a feeling that ruling OpenGL 1.3 and DX8.1 isn't enough and that this next chip will keep them competative with upcoming chips like this new one from 3d labs.
but that's speculation.
it has the extras your other replies mention, and Star Office can also do database stuff (silimar to MS Access).
i don't think it is about putting people out of work. i can only speak for myself, but i think it is good that people can code for a living. i don't think open source is going to kill the programming profession.
your quote doesn't prove that most people who code write commercial software. but it does say that people who write commercial software are included in the largest group of professional coders, the computer and data processing services industry. this could also include tech support, firmware, and companies like SAP that basically write customer specific code for each application. so there is both consumer and corporate level programming in this "largest concentration."
i think the fuss about MS Office is that it is very expensive ($500.00 to buy it outright - not the upgrade). it is expensive because most people in the business world have to use it. if your software is not compatible, you have deviated from the standard in the business world. demand increases value.
also, Sun does plan to make money on this. Sun will soon be releasing Star Office 6.0. Star Office will cost money. though there was community input into Open Office, Sun also paid people to work on it. Sun is paying people to write the extra code going into Star Office. this strategy builds community support, gives you a great free alternative, and produces a quality commercial product. it may not be perfect, but it is a fairly elegant compromise of making money and supporting open source and the community in general (even outside open source).
and steve gibson from the shack is supposed to get a weekly slot. i hope he is as funny in person as he is on his web site.
i imagine he is not the only one from the web community that will end up on this station.
from the article...
Either side could appeal the judge's ruling.
...and either side will.
i think it is less intrusive because ad-aware doesn't try to fool you into thinking it is a media player. its purpose is to remove programs that annoy you. it's a totally different story if a media player sneaks extra "features" in that violate your privacy.
it seems this sort of thing is frequently bundled with media players. i guess that's the one thing that people are most likely to install as they are surfing.
so has anybody heard of these spyware media players being necessary for the file format on the site, or is it just that media players seem innocuous to the average web surfer?
thanks again. spelling and gender/case problems. (i just realized that even if it were a "der" word, "der" would still have been wrong.) bit by bit i'll get it.
.sig. what was that german tongue twister again?" i guess maybe i should switch my .sig to something in my native language. i can usually speak english at an adult level.
it is so frustrating. my german just keeps getting worse. used to be i spoke german like a 5 year old. now it's more like a 2 year old. i need to find an outlet where i can practice my german before i forget everything.
and to think this all started because i thought to myself "hmm. i need a
tut mir Leid. ich bunuetze Deutsch selten, und ich hab' sehr viel vergessen.
.sig also says, i'm an idiot.)
and i never knew swiss german. i see swiss and i give up trying to say it the swiss way. i saw it in swiss german and took my best stab at putting it into Hochdeutsch. swiss german wasn't taught in my school. only the german german.
but thanks for the spelling correction. (like the
that MS keeps talking about the damage to MS and the PC ecosystem.
MS was found to be a monopoly that abused its monopoly status to further its business. why should business that was illegally obtained be protected. it's as though they should be let off of the hook since they got away with it for so long. this is similar to a person stealing a car, getting caught after a year, and then being allowed to keep the stolen car because he'd already had it for a year.
as far as the PC ecosystem is concerned, it is just as ridiculous. MS probably did have a lot to do with standardizing a PC platform way back in the infancy of desktop PC use. but now they are saying innovation will stop and things will be set back if people are allowed to use things other than Windows to do Windows tasks. this is not necessarily the case. if companies are allowed to make emulators/interpreters/compatibilty programs, all of the existing software out there would still work. people would have the choice of using native software or the generic Windows software on their systems. the only ones hurt in this scenario is Microsoft. letting more (non-MS) software interact with Windows would make things even more compatible than they are now. People just wouldn't have to depend on a single OS / Office vendor to provide compatibility.
other companies should not have to help cover MS's r&d expense for MS Office. MS talks about this like they are the only ones who ever thought of making word processor and spreadsheet programs. the only secrets that would be unveiled would be the wacky MS file formats.
in spite of all of this, i think MS will come out of this trial with a slap on the wrist and monopolistic business practices will continue
is awesome.
no need for apologies. if i'm wrong i guess that's just how it goes. (it's a fact that this is my opinion)
the only way i could see this being beneficial to MS in the long run is if MS gets some sort of residual income. it just doesn't seem like it fits their business model to sell something as a one time payment that does not lead to some sort of ongoing charge for products or services.
all of the examples you give lead to other revenue sources, or are support for those revenue sources. i doubt that when MS liscensed source to DOS, they were hoping to help port anything to the latest version of solaris or macOS. They wanted to make it easier to use Windows. (which is logical, since that is what they sell.) networking protocols, printer drivers, file systems, etc all help ensure the use of an MS platform for these activities (can't use a Windows box for printing if you don't have the drivers).
to more accurately say what i meant before...
i find it highly implausible that MS would be willing to sell a package of that size without some promise of future income or control. i also believe MS would be counting on feature creep if this took off so that more than just the government would become dependent on passport.
but you never know. it could just be that i'm very suspicious of microsoft, but that all they want to do is make customers happy, even when the customers are large governments.
i keep reading comments saying that the article says "passport technology" not "microsoft passport." they are the same thing. when is the last time you remember microsoft liscensing technology to someone to make their own product? it won't happen.
.Net. if they use what they have to leverage it in, they can dominate yet another segment (now java-space).
i do hear microsoft talk about windows technology and such. this doesn't mean they are making it easier for people to duplicate windows. this means that they consider the software to be a technology. if they make it sound impressive by calling it technology, people are more likely to buy it.
microsoft has not ever created a 'technology' without the intent of using it to control/dominate sales of their own products. yes, this even applies to
don't worry...it's an opinion (it's a fact).
i am not arguing. it may sound like it. i have seen articles about the magnetic field strengthening, weakening, and reversing polarity, but not about it dissappearing entirely. i would be interested in reading some if you have any. again, i'm not arguing with you. i just think this sort of thing is fascinating, which is of course, why i read /.
According to this article on cnet/news.com, Sanders did ask for a favour from MS in return for his testimony. He wants MS to support the Hammer architecture ahead of a "competing architecture" from Intel. Sanders also admits in the article that he did not read the State's proposed settlement, but that good old Bill Gates told him it was bad.
plate tectonics are also very slow on the human timescale. but they are sited in the article as an important factor.
i don't know the significance of a magnetic field, but it shouldn't be written off without examination. a magnetic field that changes might even be more important than one that doesn't.
it's a self extracting zip file.
.exe file.
even if you get it from a "more legitimate" source, it will still be an
I got my copy from article on Shacknews which links to fileshack on this page.
places do regularly flood. you are so clever to have given me this piece of information.
the sun regularly rises and sets. every day, in fact. this has as much to do with what i said as your point about flooding being a worldwide phenomena.
i was simply pointing out that similar great flood stories all over the world does not prove that there were many smaller great floods any more than it proves that there was one all-encompassing flood. it just means they had experience with floods.
it could be based on a history of a great flood, or it could just be an exaggeration of a normal activity. it *proves* neither. that is my point.
i enjoy your overly pompous attitude. i especially appreciate it because i don't think you are necessarily wrong. neither did i say that the "multiple small flood theory" was wrong. i don't have archeological data or personal memory of these events to prove or disprove this theory. but i think you're right that if someone disagrees with you even a little, the best course of action is to be condescending. then restate your opinion. it will look like you have aquired more factual back-up for your statements.
i don't know enough to argue about what happened; i'm just following the logic. it doesn't mean that there was one large flood or that there were lots of little floods. but it does mean that there was flooding in many areas.
Ti is also what was used to cover the new guggenheim in bilbao, spain. Frank Gehry is a genius. originally he was going to use stainless steel. but it didn't catch the light quite the right way. then he saw titanium and was sold. he was worried that it costs 2x as much as stainless, but it was ok because it only had to be 1/2 as thick.
i love the total lack of right angles in that building. simply beautiful.
I noticed C|Net has posted their own lukewarm review of the Zaurus. They give it a 6 out of 10. Interesting that cnet readers give it around a 92% good. Maybe their readers are more technically inclined than they think.
i still have not seen on up close. i'd like to see one before i decide if i should get it.
secure digital is a lot like compact flash. it is also used in the zaurus, though the zaurus also has a compact flash slot.
that is right on.
apart from the entirely different argument about whether *BSD or linux is better, the biggest threat to Microsoft on servers is linux. If something is a big enough competitor, MS does not care what license it uses. MS only cares that every machine running a competing OS is not running Windows (or exclusively Windows).
In Microsoft's leaked emails they don't talk about letting BSD slide because of the license. they don't mention the GPL as the reason that linux must be outsold. They only mention that they want to work especially hard to win those accounts.
people mentioning Apple's OSX as a threat miss the point. though Darwin is open source, OSX is not. If it were, i'd be running it on my PC architecture. Microsoft lets Apple slide because they have been confined to a niche market (though personally, i wouldn't be surprised if OSX reverses that trend.) as it stands, OSX only runs on proprietary Apple hardware.
The point is that MS focuses its efforts on its largest immediate threats. Not threats to licensing or IP, but threats to market share. As soon as BSD gets a big enough install base, MS will go after BSD.
Also there's the idea that GPL does not allow the MS tried and true formula, embrace, extend, extinguish. MS likes BSD because it can do anything it likes with the code. They'll toss code out there if it allows people to develop for their own proprietary platform. It is not contributed because MS thinks that it would like to help make BSD a better OS.
Anyone who thinks that Microsoft's final goal is something other than total market domination in every area related to technology is fooling themselves.
"Innovation is what drives the software industry," says David Stutz, a Microsoft group program manager. "We would be foolish not to invest in the place that a lot of this innovation comes from, which is the academic sphere."
So if MS isn't participating in all of this innovation, could it possibly mean that someone else is innovating? I don't understand. I thought that all of that open-source activity on college campuses was only for the purposes of piracy and making clones of innovative MS products.