nVidia is facing a lot of competition now. AMD/ATI has come out with a lot of really good cards The 38xx, 48xx, and the new low end 46xx have all been really good cards and forced nVidia to drop their prices. Crossfire now seems to work better than SLI and Intel is supporting Crossfire in some of it's chip sets. Now they have what seems to be the nVidia version of the red ring of death. I hope that they get things going again. I am a pretty happy nVidia customer. I have a motherboard with an nVidia chipset that works great and my wife and I use nVidia graphics cards. But my next graphics card will probably be an ATI as will be the next motherboard I buy. That being said I do wish nVidia well. I am sure they can get their act back together.
Pretty much. I find it so amusing that so many people think that Google users are their customers. We have the same relationship with Google has cattle do with a rancher. They feed us and then sell us. I am sure that Google will hope to reach some customers in Africa as well. They will hope to sell ads there as well.
Umm what the heck are you doing in that mutex! Unless you have some big honking data structure that is very state sensitive that should never happen. Ideally you should mutex copy the data to a local var, free the mutex do what you need with the data, and then mutex and update the data structure. Just keep the mutexs as short as possible and write your code for threads from the start. Theads are hard and can produce some interesting bugs but they are just not that bad.
Okay now about not the most stable guy? I was trying to as nice as possible. Protest like most things can be good or bad. In this case it is a total waste of time. And yes I said that death threats where uncalled for and over the top.
1. That is one person. 2. They where Canadians which are technically Americans but not in the way you describe it. 3. The EU drove cars that used leaded fuel and didn't come close to meeting US pollution control standards for decades.
While calling for this guys death is over the top and uncalled for, Mark Dice is a to be kind not the nicest of people. And I am a go to church every Sunday kind of guy. He is way far to the right by my standards.
"Dice founded an organization,[1] variously called The Resistance,[2] The Christian Resistance or The Resistance for Christ, which espouses fundamentalist Christianity and professes conspiratorial beliefs about the Roman Catholic Church,[3] the Illuminati, freemasons, Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove, the 9/11 attacks and Satanism, and which has been reported to "flood the airwaves of call-in radio and television shows"[4] to promote them. His 450 page book, The Resistance Manifesto details these beliefs.
Dice's activities have been covered by national media outlets. His focus is primarily on political activism, culture jamming, boycotts, and pop culture criticism.
He has called for the Georgia Guidestones to be removed from public property,[4][5] protested a Jessica Simpson music video,[1] called for a boycott of the VeriChip,[1][6] called for Duke University to change the name of its sports team (the Blue Devils),[7] called for rapper 50 Cent to stop wearing a cross,[8] and claimed that Scientology is a satanic cult.[9]
He recently launched a boycott against Starbucks, calling the company "Slutbucks", after featuring a logo of a topless mermaid-type figure.[10][11] He also endorsed Ron Paul's candidacy for president in 2008.
Dice is featured in Alex Jones' film The 9/11 Chronicles, which documents the activities of the 9/11 truth movement."
If it makes you feel better most people in the US understand it is fiction. But from what I have seen the UK really is full of eccentrics. Oh and even educated people in the UK have the strangest ideas about people from the US. For instance when I told a gentleman that I really loved the Black Adder he was shocked. He said, " In the UK we believe that people in the US don't get sarcasm." I then explained why so many people in the US drove SUVs. In the US SUVs are cheap as was petrol. So a lot more people could afford to be stupid and buy big SUVs. In the UK you just have to have more money to be that silly. Your average soccer mom in the US could afford a Chelsea Tractor.
Take a look at the problems in Palm Beach county again. They lost over 3000 votes.
I swear that they do this just to get attention. Oh and before anybody makes any remarks about Florida or the south let me clue you. Very few people in Palm Beach county are from Florida or the south. It is New York south. It looks like this is going to a close election. Which means that the looser will without a doubt claim that they didn't and that somebody lost votes or rigged a machine. At this point I hope that it isn't close no matter who wins. Well since I am not fond of any of the candidates at this time.
"It may be enough to tip the atmosphere into a runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere." I suggest you check your facts. No real scientist believes that. Also yes there has been more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past. Fossil fuels are not the biggest carbon sink. A lot of it is stored in limestone and other rocks.
Anyone that is convinced by your data is an idiot. It is as bad as the worst creation science I have have ever seen. Heck I am even for cutting Greenhouse gasses but your little post is just so much garbage.
The H2 isn't typical of US cars thank goodness. Hummers are great if you need one. The problem is way to many people buy them when they really don't need them. I have a friend that would love a Hummer. Of course she is a geologist that does a good amount of field work. For her it is not completely silly. I have no need of one. Now if you want to see totally whacked out take a look at the Hummer H1! But as I said they are as useless as most Range Rovers. Don't they call them Chelsee tractors or some such thing in the UK?
Here is a link about the differences. Frankly the US and EU requirements are very close. The US frontal crash test is at a higher speed with a ridged barrier. It is a tougher test. The US lacks the pole test but is going to add it. The EU doesn't test without seat belts. The US has a higher speed for side impacts. The EU has a test for child safety seats in cars which the US lacks. So simply put the tests are different some US tests are harder and some EU tests are harder. They probably now work out about the same for cars.
1. The H2 isn't a car. It is considered a light duty truck. 2. Light duty trucks do not have the same saftey requirements as cars in the US. "I do think that is a mistake since way to many light duty trucks are used as cars in the US". The original post said US cars. So I limited my comments to cars. Also isn't the Mica actually a pretty safe auto? The limits on the H2 probably have a lot more to do with the risk of hitting other cars than risk to the H2 drivers. Anyone that drives an H2 or for that matter a Range Rover in the UK is more than just a little nuts IMHO. The roads are too small and frankly what one out 5000 users would ever need to take them off road. Silly waste for most people.
Ummm.. Actually US safety requirements tend to be greater than EU requirements. The reason that US cars tend not to be sold in the UK is the UK is too small of a market to build for. That RHD thing. US cars are not designed to be easy to convert. You can buy a few US cars in the UK. The Corvette for one. For the rest of the EU there is no real need to sell US cars there except for a few like the Corvette. Ford has is in Europe as is GM. Probably the big reason that US cars cost so much to insure in the EU is that they cost so much to repair. There are not that many so parts are expensive. Same as in the US. I can buy 3 alternators for a Ford or even a Toyota for the cost of one for my old Saab 9000.
For the longest time you didn't see many European cars in the US for the reasons you gave. The US for many years had much higher pollution and safety requirements than most of Europe.
Well they may be using a different liquid than water. Mainframes have been using water cooling for years. But even if they are using water we are talking about professionals here. They have been water cooling electrical devices that are far more dangerous than CPUs for many years. http://www.cobermuegge.com/details.asp?id=90 And here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Cooling
I really want this game but I will wait until a patch is available that turns off the DRM. Some would call it a crack but if I buy the game then I say it is a patch. A piece of code that improves the program is too my mind a patch.
I have have had more problems using DRM software that I have paid for than I would ever have hunting down pirated copies.
Companies have got to learn to stop treating paying customers and criminals.
In the 1970s it sure was. What is clearly evolutionary today would have been mind boggling science fiction in the 1970s. The cheapest PC you can buy today makes a high end workstation from the 80s look like a toy. In the 70s hard drives might have fit into the trunk of your car. If you had a big car. A megabyte of ram was what you may have in a super computer. The idea of compressing audio and storing gigabytes of data in your pocket? Just a little more practical than warp drive.
In the yearly 80s I was saving up for a Commodore 64. They had just been anounced and I decided that was the computer I really wanted. I got mine in November of 82. When I got it my friend that was in college asked me why I got it. He was taking programing and asked. "What will you ever do that takes 64k of memory?" So in the 70s yes it very well could have been patent-worthy.
You should read more than the wikipedia. "Contiki runs on a variety of platform ranging from embedded microcontrollers such as the MSP430 and the AVR to old homecomputers. Code footprint is on the order of kilobytes and memory usage can be configured to be as low as tens of bytes."
And running on a C64 isn't such a bad thing. You can get a C64 that fits on a FPGA. If you want a low end computer that will drive an NTSC monitor you could do worse than a C64. http://www.syntiac.com/fpga64.html Maybe there is a market for a single chip C64 with some flash, ethernet, and Contiki.
Not exactly accurate. The local EB carried software for the Amiga. In my small Florida town there where at least a dozen Amiga users. There was a couple of Amiga magazines as well. I would guess that there where at least as many Amiga users as Mac users. Where Amiga failed was getting into businesses. Same as Apple failed with the Mac. The Amiga at the time was better than any PC. It didn't get the press just as the Mac didn't get a lot of press for one simple reason. $$$ You can sell a lot more ads to PC makers than to Commodore. So yes I would say the Amiga reached critical mass. Technically the Amiga was better than the PC right until Win95 and or Windows NT rolled out. Just shows that marketing can beat tech.
Now now. PHP is a pain but a dang useful pain. Just like MySQL.
PHP and MySQL are both good but not great tools. What makes them useful is all the stuff that works with them. I would drop MySQL in a second for Postgres except that too many CMS and other packages use it. The same is true of PHP.
Not all government services suck. But some really do. I am not even opposed to the government providing internet service or infrastructure. I don't like government mandated monopolies like cable companies. I don't think the idea of free broadband is a good one since it will never be free somebody has to pay for it. Just as we never had free mail service to use one of your examples. Community fiber networks? That sounds like a good plan. Like power, water, and mail you pay a fair price for a vital service. Or the ISPs can set up and compete just like FexEx does with the USPO.
I do agree with your points but. This guy was using ReiserFS on his MythTV box. He may or may not be using it on other Linux boxes but that was not clear. Sounds to me like this is a hobbyist.
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nVidia is facing a lot of competition now. AMD/ATI has come out with a lot of really good cards The 38xx, 48xx, and the new low end 46xx have all been really good cards and forced nVidia to drop their prices.
Crossfire now seems to work better than SLI and Intel is supporting Crossfire in some of it's chip sets.
Now they have what seems to be the nVidia version of the red ring of death.
I hope that they get things going again. I am a pretty happy nVidia customer. I have a motherboard with an nVidia chipset that works great and my wife and I use nVidia graphics cards. But my next graphics card will probably be an ATI as will be the next motherboard I buy.
That being said I do wish nVidia well. I am sure they can get their act back together.
Pretty much. I find it so amusing that so many people think that Google users are their customers. We have the same relationship with Google has cattle do with a rancher.
They feed us and then sell us.
I am sure that Google will hope to reach some customers in Africa as well. They will hope to sell ads there as well.
Umm what the heck are you doing in that mutex!
Unless you have some big honking data structure that is very state sensitive that should never happen.
Ideally you should mutex copy the data to a local var, free the mutex do what you need with the data, and then mutex and update the data structure.
Just keep the mutexs as short as possible and write your code for threads from the start.
Theads are hard and can produce some interesting bugs but they are just not that bad.
Okay now about not the most stable guy? I was trying to as nice as possible.
Protest like most things can be good or bad. In this case it is a total waste of time.
And yes I said that death threats where uncalled for and over the top.
1. That is one person.
2. They where Canadians which are technically Americans but not in the way you describe it.
3. The EU drove cars that used leaded fuel and didn't come close to meeting US pollution control standards for decades.
While calling for this guys death is over the top and uncalled for, Mark Dice is a to be kind not the nicest of people.
And I am a go to church every Sunday kind of guy. He is way far to the right by my standards.
"Dice founded an organization,[1] variously called The Resistance,[2] The Christian Resistance or The Resistance for Christ, which espouses fundamentalist Christianity and professes conspiratorial beliefs about the Roman Catholic Church,[3] the Illuminati, freemasons, Skull and Bones, Bohemian Grove, the 9/11 attacks and Satanism, and which has been reported to "flood the airwaves of call-in radio and television shows"[4] to promote them. His 450 page book, The Resistance Manifesto details these beliefs.
Dice's activities have been covered by national media outlets. His focus is primarily on political activism, culture jamming, boycotts, and pop culture criticism.
He has called for the Georgia Guidestones to be removed from public property,[4][5] protested a Jessica Simpson music video,[1] called for a boycott of the VeriChip,[1][6] called for Duke University to change the name of its sports team (the Blue Devils),[7] called for rapper 50 Cent to stop wearing a cross,[8] and claimed that Scientology is a satanic cult.[9]
He recently launched a boycott against Starbucks, calling the company "Slutbucks", after featuring a logo of a topless mermaid-type figure.[10][11] He also endorsed Ron Paul's candidacy for president in 2008.
Dice is featured in Alex Jones' film The 9/11 Chronicles, which documents the activities of the 9/11 truth movement."
If it makes you feel better most people in the US understand it is fiction.
But from what I have seen the UK really is full of eccentrics. Oh and even educated people in the UK have the strangest ideas about people from the US. For instance when I told a gentleman that I really loved the Black Adder he was shocked. He said, " In the UK we believe that people in the US don't get sarcasm."
I then explained why so many people in the US drove SUVs. In the US SUVs are cheap as was petrol. So a lot more people could afford to be stupid and buy big SUVs. In the UK you just have to have more money to be that silly. Your average soccer mom in the US could afford a Chelsea Tractor.
Take a look at the problems in Palm Beach county again. They lost over 3000 votes.
I swear that they do this just to get attention. Oh and before anybody makes any remarks about Florida or the south let me clue you.
Very few people in Palm Beach county are from Florida or the south. It is New York south.
It looks like this is going to a close election. Which means that the looser will without a doubt claim that they didn't and that somebody lost votes or rigged a machine.
At this point I hope that it isn't close no matter who wins. Well since I am not fond of any of the candidates at this time.
Why not USB mass storage?
Or a Samba share?
Not Online. My ISP just isn't good enough.
"It may be enough to tip the atmosphere into a runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere."
I suggest you check your facts. No real scientist believes that.
Also yes there has been more CO2 in the atmosphere in the past. Fossil fuels are not the biggest carbon sink. A lot of it is stored in limestone and other rocks.
Anyone that is convinced by your data is an idiot. It is as bad as the worst creation science I have have ever seen.
Heck I am even for cutting Greenhouse gasses but your little post is just so much garbage.
The H2 isn't typical of US cars thank goodness.
Hummers are great if you need one. The problem is way to many people buy them when they really don't need them.
I have a friend that would love a Hummer. Of course she is a geologist that does a good amount of field work. For her it is not completely silly.
I have no need of one. Now if you want to see totally whacked out take a look at the Hummer H1!
But as I said they are as useless as most Range Rovers. Don't they call them Chelsee tractors or some such thing in the UK?
http://www.projo.com/projocars/content/ca_safetyconflict_08-31-08_SRBCU5F_v9.207b3f9.html
Here is a link about the differences.
Frankly the US and EU requirements are very close. The US frontal crash test is at a higher speed with a ridged barrier. It is a tougher test.
The US lacks the pole test but is going to add it.
The EU doesn't test without seat belts.
The US has a higher speed for side impacts.
The EU has a test for child safety seats in cars which the US lacks.
So simply put the tests are different some US tests are harder and some EU tests are harder.
They probably now work out about the same for cars.
1. The H2 isn't a car. It is considered a light duty truck.
2. Light duty trucks do not have the same saftey requirements as cars in the US. "I do think that is a mistake since way to many light duty trucks are used as cars in the US".
The original post said US cars. So I limited my comments to cars.
Also isn't the Mica actually a pretty safe auto? The limits on the H2 probably have a lot more to do with the risk of hitting other cars than risk to the H2 drivers. Anyone that drives an H2 or for that matter a Range Rover in the UK is more than just a little nuts IMHO. The roads are too small and frankly what one out 5000 users would ever need to take them off road. Silly waste for most people.
Ummm.. Actually US safety requirements tend to be greater than EU requirements.
The reason that US cars tend not to be sold in the UK is the UK is too small of a market to build for. That RHD thing. US cars are not designed to be easy to convert.
You can buy a few US cars in the UK. The Corvette for one.
For the rest of the EU there is no real need to sell US cars there except for a few like the Corvette. Ford has is in Europe as is GM. Probably the big reason that US cars cost so much to insure in the EU is that they cost so much to repair. There are not that many so parts are expensive. Same as in the US. I can buy 3 alternators for a Ford or even a Toyota for the cost of one for my old Saab 9000.
For the longest time you didn't see many European cars in the US for the reasons you gave. The US for many years had much higher pollution and safety requirements than most of Europe.
Well they may be using a different liquid than water. Mainframes have been using water cooling for years.
But even if they are using water we are talking about professionals here. They have been water cooling electrical devices that are far more dangerous than CPUs for many years.
http://www.cobermuegge.com/details.asp?id=90
And here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Cooling
I really want this game but I will wait until a patch is available that turns off the DRM.
Some would call it a crack but if I buy the game then I say it is a patch.
A piece of code that improves the program is too my mind a patch.
I have have had more problems using DRM software that I have paid for than I would ever have hunting down pirated copies.
Companies have got to learn to stop treating paying customers and criminals.
In 1950 landing a man on the moon would also be science fiction.
The science to make it real was already falling into place by then.
In the 1970s it sure was.
What is clearly evolutionary today would have been mind boggling science fiction in the 1970s.
The cheapest PC you can buy today makes a high end workstation from the 80s look like a toy. In the 70s hard drives might have fit into the trunk of your car. If you had a big car. A megabyte of ram was what you may have in a super computer. The idea of compressing audio and storing gigabytes of data in your pocket?
Just a little more practical than warp drive.
In the yearly 80s I was saving up for a Commodore 64. They had just been anounced and I decided that was the computer I really wanted. I got mine in November of 82.
When I got it my friend that was in college asked me why I got it. He was taking programing and asked. "What will you ever do that takes 64k of memory?"
So in the 70s yes it very well could have been patent-worthy.
You should read more than the wikipedia.
"Contiki runs on a variety of platform ranging from embedded microcontrollers such as the MSP430 and the AVR to old homecomputers. Code footprint is on the order of kilobytes and memory usage can be configured to be as low as tens of bytes."
And running on a C64 isn't such a bad thing. You can get a C64 that fits on a FPGA. If you want a low end computer that will drive an NTSC monitor you could do worse than a C64.
http://www.syntiac.com/fpga64.html
Maybe there is a market for a single chip C64 with some flash, ethernet, and Contiki.
Not exactly accurate.
The local EB carried software for the Amiga. In my small Florida town there where at least a dozen Amiga users. There was a couple of Amiga magazines as well.
I would guess that there where at least as many Amiga users as Mac users.
Where Amiga failed was getting into businesses. Same as Apple failed with the Mac.
The Amiga at the time was better than any PC. It didn't get the press just as the Mac didn't get a lot of press for one simple reason.
$$$
You can sell a lot more ads to PC makers than to Commodore.
So yes I would say the Amiga reached critical mass. Technically the Amiga was better than the PC right until Win95 and or Windows NT rolled out. Just shows that marketing can beat tech.
Okay Mr. Cranky Pants.
Now now. PHP is a pain but a dang useful pain. Just like MySQL.
PHP and MySQL are both good but not great tools. What makes them useful is all the stuff that works with them.
I would drop MySQL in a second for Postgres except that too many CMS and other packages use it. The same is true of PHP.
There happy now?
1. Yes.
2. I didn't.
3. I will CC: you next time.
Not all government services suck. But some really do.
I am not even opposed to the government providing internet service or infrastructure.
I don't like government mandated monopolies like cable companies.
I don't think the idea of free broadband is a good one since it will never be free somebody has to pay for it. Just as we never had free mail service to use one of your examples.
Community fiber networks? That sounds like a good plan. Like power, water, and mail you pay a fair price for a vital service.
Or the ISPs can set up and compete just like FexEx does with the USPO.
I do agree with your points but.
This guy was using ReiserFS on his MythTV box. He may or may not be using it on other Linux boxes but that was not clear.
Sounds to me like this is a hobbyist.