Of course it's not vaporware. I can send you the blank file right now if you want.
just cut and paste it to "foo.c"
--> begin "foo.c"
-- end "foo.c"
see? I told you so.
Incredible flexibility and customization
options (like nothing ever done before).
Oh yeah? I hereby present my own mp3 player, the Foo(TM).
Where is it? Well, it's actually a blank text file. By offering you to program whatever you want into the program, it offers you incredible flexibility and customizations. One of the features that you can decide right away is "will it compile or not compile?" Foo can even be customized to be a word processing application if you want, or even an OS if you try really really hard.
I bet no other mp3 players offer THAT kind of flexibility. The sky's the limit yo!
In this entire article, there's nobody stealing copyrighted works, nobody hacking some company's software/hardware, no mention of Napster, DeCSS, CueCat, RIAA or the MPAA.
Slashdot editors: Are you guys sure this is a valid slashdot article? Come on! Stuff like this doesn't matter!
When a message containing TNEF information is received by a mail client that does not understand TNEF, there are
three common results:
The plain text version of the message is received and it contains an attachment named Winmail.dat. The Winmail.dat attachment
does not contain any useful information when opened since it is in the special TNEF format.
The plain text version of the message is received and it contains an attachment with a generic name such as ATT00008.dat or
ATT00005.eml. In this case the client is unable to recognize the TNEF part of the message, and is unable to recognize the
Winmail.dat file name, so it creates a file name to hold the TNEF information.
The plain text version of the message is received and the client ignores the Winmail.dat attachment. This is the behavior found in
Microsoft Outlook Express. Outlook Express does not understand TNEF, but it does know to ignore TNEF information. The result is
a plain text message.
There is NO MENTION anywhere that non-Outlook users will not get an e-mail. At worse, the message will be received as plain text. (Oh no!)
Actually, I HOPE that all those servers will strip out the TNEF information, because I'm sick of trying to parse HTML in my own head.
this could very well spell the end of 3dfx as we know it.
Don't worry - the Voodoo666 1.1G (short for 1100000000) will sport 2000 VSA-100 chips in parallel, and contain 32 gigabytes of RAM on the card. It will require a server rack to house the videocard, a basketball court to house the power supply, and liquid nitrogen cooling it at 62 gallons per minute.
Unfortunately, the architecture used is not unlike the V5 and V6's now, which means the 64 gigabytes of RAM are shared between all 2000 processors, and that equates to 16 megabytes per chip. Sorry, no big textures for you!
But Banshee was just basically a 3d/2d hybrid card that combines the Voodoo chip (not Voodoo1, but Voodoo chip architecture) together with a 2d chip. Voodoo3 just extended Banshee, like you said.
Isn't it time to fire the entire 3dfx R&D department, assuming they have one? I still find it very amusing that after 4 years (when I got my Diamond Monster 3d Voodoo1), 3dfx is still trying to squeeze the last drops out of the dying Voodoo architecture.
VSA-100 is probably their biggest creation for a long time, but simplicity of the chip, and it's need for parallelism for multiple VSA-100s which basically amounts to SLI on the same card is suggesting that 3dfx should spend less money on those dumb commercials and spend more on actually making something good.
Those little tricks don't work anymore when you're starting to become the underdog, with companies like nVidia and ATI nipping at your heels...
...is the point of running this story on Slashdot when it's already on another Slash-powered site (MacSlash)?
Why not?
Are we to post our comments on both MacSlash and Slashdot?
Last time I heard, it doesn't really matter. You can shut up too for either sites if you want.
Or post
reactions to the article on MacSlash and reactions to Slashdot's article on MacSlash's article here?
If you're that bored, and that's your cup of tea....
What's the point of providing two discussion forums for the same story?
So maybe just because/. links over there, we should shut down either sites' discussion forum, just because vertical-limit can't take the duality?
Maybe you haven't figured it out yet (ie you didn't bother to click the link), but the opinion article is IN MacSlash. It's not like MacSlash linked to some story, and Slashdot linked to MacSlash, just so users can find the link on MacSlash.
Why just Slash? Maybe we should exclude all ZDNet stories too from now on, and scurry over to their "Talkback" forums.
we really need to file this post together with the "but does it run linux?" and "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" under the cabinet of Generic posts that pop up again and again.
nobody said a 1.66 Ghz chip is targeted at consumers for speedier IMing or word processing.. think about it.
I call for Roozbeh and his Mighty Atomic Force Microscope for help.
H1B Visas? No problem! Roozbeh uses his psionic powers to make many many green cards!
Kuro5hin returns... to the closet
on
Kuro5hin Returns
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· Score: 3
Posted by Hemos on 12:09 PM September 18th, 2000 from the time-for-/.-to-drown-kuro5hin dept.
Roozbeh The Atomic Microscope writes "Kuro5hin is back down again, even with its new server from VA Linux. At 3pm(2pm EST) today, the site went dead from/.ing, after a hour or so of uptime." Congrats to the whole/. gang, and welcome back to/., Kuro5hin admins! (we figured that you're homeless again) *grin*
But what it really comes down to is the disclaimer I think I've seen on some net polling sites, which is something along the lines
of "These numbers are very unscientific, and if you use them for anything important, you're insane".
Ah yes. I remember I saw a similar disclaimer somewhere. It was some obscure site with some punctuation in its name.
Slashdot Poll: This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs,
firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
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Of course it's not vaporware. I can send you the blank file right now if you want. just cut and paste it to "foo.c" --> begin "foo.c" -- end "foo.c" see? I told you so.
Oh yeah? I hereby present my own mp3 player, the Foo(TM).
Where is it? Well, it's actually a blank text file. By offering you to program whatever you want into the program, it offers you incredible flexibility and customizations. One of the features that you can decide right away is "will it compile or not compile?" Foo can even be customized to be a word processing application if you want, or even an OS if you try really really hard.
I bet no other mp3 players offer THAT kind of flexibility. The sky's the limit yo!
No, it's scheme - I'm guess Dylan is also a variant of Lisp, like Scheme?
Slashdot editors: Are you guys sure this is a valid slashdot article? Come on! Stuff like this doesn't matter!
Please make a new "Copyright violations" /. topic icon, so I can filter all these junk pieces out.
Actually, I HOPE that all those servers will strip out the TNEF information, because I'm sick of trying to parse HTML in my own head.
Napster sucks! Piracy sucks!
Napster rules! Go, freedom of speech!
Can Napster get its own topic icon?
Aren't we having too many Napster posts?
shut the fuck up, boy.
speaking of which, I better finish it now.
You must be a pretty big loser.
And that fact that you cut and pasted the entire day two interview in your post makes you a karma whore too.
It actually would've been funny if you talked about the right person. Do not pass go! Do not collect two hundred dollars!
dohma - I meant 32gigabytes of RAM in the second paragraph.
Don't worry - the Voodoo666 1.1G (short for 1100000000) will sport 2000 VSA-100 chips in parallel, and contain 32 gigabytes of RAM on the card. It will require a server rack to house the videocard, a basketball court to house the power supply, and liquid nitrogen cooling it at 62 gallons per minute.
Unfortunately, the architecture used is not unlike the V5 and V6's now, which means the 64 gigabytes of RAM are shared between all 2000 processors, and that equates to 16 megabytes per chip. Sorry, no big textures for you!
Whoa dude, wrong article.
But Banshee was just basically a 3d/2d hybrid card that combines the Voodoo chip (not Voodoo1, but Voodoo chip architecture) together with a 2d chip. Voodoo3 just extended Banshee, like you said.
VoodooExtreme gets Slashdotted to the Extreme. Bye bye server.
Shut the fuck up troll.
VSA-100 is probably their biggest creation for a long time, but simplicity of the chip, and it's need for parallelism for multiple VSA-100s which basically amounts to SLI on the same card is suggesting that 3dfx should spend less money on those dumb commercials and spend more on actually making something good.
Those little tricks don't work anymore when you're starting to become the underdog, with companies like nVidia and ATI nipping at your heels...
Why not?
Are we to post our comments on both MacSlash and Slashdot?
Last time I heard, it doesn't really matter. You can shut up too for either sites if you want.
Or post reactions to the article on MacSlash and reactions to Slashdot's article on MacSlash's article here?
If you're that bored, and that's your cup of tea....
What's the point of providing two discussion forums for the same story?
So maybe just because /. links over there, we should shut down either sites' discussion forum, just because vertical-limit can't take the duality?
Maybe you haven't figured it out yet (ie you didn't bother to click the link), but the opinion article is IN MacSlash. It's not like MacSlash linked to some story, and Slashdot linked to MacSlash, just so users can find the link on MacSlash.
Why just Slash? Maybe we should exclude all ZDNet stories too from now on, and scurry over to their "Talkback" forums.
nobody said a 1.66 Ghz chip is targeted at consumers for speedier IMing or word processing.. think about it.
H1B Visas? No problem! Roozbeh uses his psionic powers to make many many green cards!
Posted by Hemos on 12:09 PM September 18th, 2000 /.ing, after a hour or so of uptime." Congrats to the whole /. gang, and welcome back to /., Kuro5hin admins! (we figured that you're homeless again) *grin*
from the time-for-/.-to-drown-kuro5hin dept.
Roozbeh The Atomic Microscope writes "Kuro5hin is back down again, even with its new server from VA Linux. At 3pm(2pm EST) today, the site went dead from
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I wouldn't be surprised if that came from 63,250 corporate IP addresses with signed up with the Microsoft Select plan.
Ah yes. I remember I saw a similar disclaimer somewhere. It was some obscure site with some punctuation in its name.
Slashdot Poll:
This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane.
So close, yet so far... ;)