This is a load of crap. The ideas of superscalar out-of-order processors came from IBM, CDC, Cray, and the academic literature years before either DEC or Intel ever implemented one. Yet when Intel came out with the out-of-order Pentium Pro, all the DEC guys were screaming and hollering.
Who mentioned out-of-order? Digital didn't release an out of order processor until quit a long time after Intel. Intel's Pentium Pro (out-of-order) was about on par with the Alpha 21164 (strictly in order, but clocking very high for its silicon technology). The Alpha 21264 was out-of-order but suffered severe delays and I don't thnk the program EVER recovered. I don't recall Digital staking a claim to originating out-of-order. They did claim to be doing it better with unbeatable low-level circuit designs.
The best way to deal with something like this is to pretend that it is real (in game of course) and deal with it the way that the game world would. How about bounty hunting? How about military/mafia recruiting players to hunt him down? Keep it a game. If people fall for a scam in a game, get back at him in the game. Don't suspend his account. That's just lame. I'm sure that not many people would continue to risk their characters' well being and those that do have it coming.
Agreed. Here's an account of an early MMORPG (of a sort) where both strategies were tried. The "in-game" solution was much better :
So if they bundled everything you list (anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, etc.) into the operating system, you don't think they'd be accused of illegally leveraging their monopoly advantage? Just look what happened when they integrated a web browser into the OS a few years ago.
I think you have a point to the extent that if they did that, they would probably do it the "Microsoft way" and permanently weld all those things into a single monolithic edifice, which would be bad.
This is a real issue, and I know that other vendors have to face it too. Sun for example has been growing ever bigger "stacks" of software all integrated together and sold as a single thing to "reduce integration time" etc. However I think the crucial difference is that the design of such stacks is intended to be a collection of "bundled but replaceable" items.
I can't say if they succeed completely, but I know that they do try. For example, in their longstanding development environment package, they have long offered things like integrated IDEs, debugger shells, GUI builders and so on and so forth. At a demo of one iteration of this (quite a long time ago - it was still called "SPARCWorks" in those days) the Sun guys told me the individual components are expected to integrate with each other through sane APIs that Sun takes very seriously so that if some customer replaces a module with a different but same-purpose module it will not only work today but have a good chance of continuing to work. This works pretty well if the APIs can actually be formal standards, since at least for Sun if their stuff dosn't follow the standard they generally do try to fix their stuff.
Apple also appears to try in this area. For example their Bonjour network services stuff is actually an open IETF-submitted standard (google zeroconf, multi-cast DNS).
If Windows came with anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, firewall, packet filter etc etc all integrated but designed to be invidually replaceable, that would be a fantastic service to the great mass of humanity, since it might (just might) gradually start to remove some of the compromised Windows machines on the net wreaking widespread havoc.
IBM is just full of it. If OpenSolaris were not for real do you think they would have gone to the trouble of changing their source code control system from the in-house Teamware stuff to Mercurial (see this
).
No, that is the kind of wrenching and disruptive change that you do if you're really serious about pulling in developers outside the corporate WAN. If it were a facade they could have built a more impressive facade much more quickly.
Progress is slow on OpenSolaris because unlike Linux in 1991, Solaris is already a mission-critical operating system in many enterprises, and because they are trying to pull in non-employee contributions whilst maintaining quality. This is actually difficult.
Disclaimer: I was on the invite-only OpenSolaris pilot program and got some free t-shirts (none of which fit).
I run XP 64 on a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 cores and 8GB RAM. It's mostly awesome, however there are a few issues here and there, predominantly with 3d party stuff. Radia, Exceed, some biometric devices have issues. I also find the Visual Studio debugger relatively slow on this platform compared to everything else (considering it's a dual dual core 2.4GHz athlon machine).
Purify and Quantify are fairly horrible on it too. I'm not sure if that's 64-bit, or just because those apps are SO sensitive to compilers and whatnot anyway.
Some issues are just our own silly fault - I had problems mapping a printer and the tech said the name of my driver conflicts with the 32-bit one. I guess the 64-bit driver needs to be renamed and that causes issues (I don't fully understand the issue myself clearly)
Fantastic. Great work Intel. This puts your products in a different, more positive light for me personally. This could be really good for X11. I worked with it for about 10 years and have been very despondent about its chance in a world of proprietary drivers from ATI and NVIDIA being the only way to use modern graphics hardware. Maybe there's a chance for open source desktop after all.
Your post is misleading. ZFS is only available on Solaris 10. The only driver available from Coraid for Solaris 10 is in beta and it does not support x86.
Sorry if you found it misleading, but I don't agree. I was talking to Solaris -developers- about this protocol. It was a forward-looking prospect. At the time ZFS was not even released, but I liked the sound of it for some future time, and I also like the sound of AoE so I figured the two might combine nicely. If I had the time I'd get the dev hardware, the beta driver and have a go myself (which is of course possible now that Solaris is open source). Sadly I don't, but I still think it's an intriguing project (not product, not solution, development project - work to be done).
I like the look of this technology. The great thing it has going for it is that most of the non-hard-disk infrastructure (switches and cabling) leverages the tremendous investment in ethernet. That is great.
The thing that needs work, in my view, is that the bit that links the disks and the rest isn't cheap enough. In fact what would be awesome here is if, say, Seagate provided disks with native ATAoE connectors built-in. They might have to buy Coraid for that to happen.
In case anyone thinks I'm out of my mind here, don't forget that disks can already be had with ATA interface, SCSI interface, FCAL interface, SATA, SAS - that's five and there are probably more. Yes they might be a bit more expensive, but if they come in under the combined price of "regular ATA disk" + Coraid ATAoE disk adapter then you'd come out ahead. Someone like Seagate would, I think, have the industry-wide clout and respect to succeed in making this an open standard. Something that will be a challenge for Coraid for a long time (I have nothing against them, btw, they are friendly and their mailing list didn't spam me when I signed up).
When I was on the OpenSolaris pilot project I tried to get people interested in using this with Solaris. I think it might be great for ZFS, for example. At that point the real storage wizards were more interested in iSCSI, but I respectfully disagree, OpenSolaris + ZFS + cheap storage = awesome file server. Emphasis on the cheap. As Sun people will admit, their previous attempts at RAID were more like RAVED (Redundant Array of Very Expensive Disk). Coraid does have a Solaris driver, so this is definitely feasible.
I wonder if the publicist was trying to be funny...
Years ago, before spam filters and very serious spam problems, friends of mine sent emails with subjects like "Make Money Fast" or "hot nekkid chiks". Ho ho ho, how very droll we thought.
Then fairly recently when spam started to show basic programmers errors like "Dear %name_of_recipient" I also got this deliberately typed into emails as yet another sly dig at the morons at the bottom of the programming food chain trying and failing to emit randomised english text.
So I can't help wondering if this publicist was just trying to get a laugh out of prospective customers - the first reaction is "more godamm spam" but the real message is "Tired of this sh1t? We can help".
It's a theory anyway.
this is a perspective that many of us in the "target demographic" cannot enjoy due to lack of resources.
I don't have the luxury of not caring about price
Sure, I understand the projected $600 price will be significant to many people, let alone the $1200 made up figure I mentioned. For me $600 is hardly trivial, but I will forego expenditure on other things to get a new games console because alternatives end up even more expensive, or are less justified. For example, I have a two year old digital SLR - it's still fine, and my wife has a digital small point-and-shoot. I'd like my own small camera too, but it's just a convenience argument, because if I plan ahead to need a camera I can carry my SLR, else I can borrow hers in many cases. A good digital point and shoot might be around the same price as a PS3, so I'll probably wait a bit, get the PS3 (which gives me access to content unavailable elsewhere e.g. PS3 games and blueray dvds), and then hope to have the cash for my own small camera maybe next year.
There seems to be a lot of concern in this discusssion to pick a winner, and then for a winner be an early adopter, but for a loser never ever buy it.
I think that's fine, I've done that myself, however for PS3 here is how it will work for me :
I will buy it - I decided a long long time ago and I don't particularly care what other peoples expectations of its features, value or prospects look like. Whether it's $600, or $1200, doesn't particularly matter to me. They last me for many years and I get a lot of fun out of them - PS2 was a particularly good deal, but if PS3 can save me buying an expensive separate dedicated blu-ray player it might also turn out to be a bargain.
I wont queue up or pay deposits or try really hard to get one early. I will simply wait until I happen to be in a store that has a pile of them and then I'll just pick one up.
I'll buy a few games - Jak and Daxter, Gran Turismo, Ratchett and Clank, maybe Pitfall. I'm sure a few wll be wicked and I'll love them. A few I'll play for an hour and give up on.
If PS3 takes off and starts to have even more awesome games, I'll buy a few more. If it's a failure, well, that's fine, I'm not too worried. Hey, maybe I'll buy an xbox 360 too. Several high-end consoles and some games works out a lot cheaper per hour of entertainment than, say, getting a babysitter and going out to the movies over and over. In a few years I'll let my daughter play some carefully chosen games from time to time.
I'm not going to pick a winner, and I'm not completely on one "side" or the other. Unless you count the side that says if I had enough money I'd have all the consoles and all the games and I also wouldn't have to work and would actually complete the odd game!
I think you're oversimplfying. I've seen plenty of films where the film grain imposes noise on flat featureless areas of the image. Noise that moves around. Noise that does indeed mess with mpeg compression. Ok so maybe these are low-budget or Indy films, or films where the director chose the film stock deliberately to be grainy, but that is certainly a valid artistic choice.
One example is where some footage is meant to look like old footage (for example "JFK" with its fake Zapruder-movie style Kennedy assasination sequences). Deliberately shot in the early 90s on cheap super-8 for the grain and lurid colors.
I'd like to have a go at these issues, not to argue, but because it is fun to speculate and I'm sure Ridley wont reply...
For the story to work, he needs to be human. Otherwise all kinds of plot problems open up. Like if he was a replicate, how come he sucks so much in a fight? All the other models kick the shit out of him--including the so called pleasure models.
Clearly the military models are stronger and deadlier than the other models, so he is not going to win against the male replicants. The pleasure model was Pris (Darryl Hannah) and he blows her away with his gun whereas she resorts to gymnastics, so he is smarter and better with weapons, but she is more... athletic. That seems to fit. Similarly, Zhora is an assassin model, nearly strangling him with a surprise attack using his tie - not too unrealistic
And does not explain if he escaped with the other models on the spaceship, why don't they know him? And if he is a special model like Rachel, why the hell does Tyrell not know this?
Tyrell knows Rachel is special, but doesn't let her know, he plays along with the pretense that the "replicant test" is being tested first on a negative (i.e. human) subject. So it is not a big stretch that he's playing mindgames with Deckard too. Perhaps he has only recently let both Rachel and Deckard out into the world with their implanted memories. He wants to reinforce that he knows they are human, so he has Deckard come to test Rachel (letting Deckard, therefore, believe he is human) and conspicuously asserts that Rachel is also human by using her as the negative subject.
This IS important, slashdot worthy news, and the reissue most likely WILL be worth buying.
Blade Runner has been practically MIA for years. The DVD was extremely poorly made, and had very few if any extras, meanwhile a ton of extras exist on various VHS and laserdisc editions. Not to mention an archival quality definitive digital film transfer that was made for this project several years ago but not released due to legal issues. And of course the original vs. the Director's Cut are such different movies they both have their merits. A lot of people like the voiceover and "happy ending" in the original cinematic release. To have both in one disc set softens the contentious "which is best" issue - now it's a question of which version are you going to select from the DVD menu this time.
Very nice! I just had a quick go and it seems like a very nice little diagram editor. What are the plans for the future - pay version? Advertising on the site? In the diagrams?
Quality was OK, but not great. I noticed a lot of MPEG artefacts in Spider Man 2 - distracting at times, and some even in House of Flying Daggers. I still found the quality good enough to watch (the screen is BEAUTIFUL), but not good enough to justify the price of the movies.
The last movie I bought was Time Bandits and I never even watched it. I love that film but the time and place to have a good movie watching experience on PSP is basically a quiet dark room by yourself. As a father and husband that isn't any good to me.
I only bought one game (Ape Attack - not that good), I got part way through that and for games it is an ok device, but still after that basically my PSP went in the cupboard.
I got it out to try the software upgrade to add a browser. It was nifty getting it all working, but then I had a handheld computer with no keyboard or mouse and fairly small screen. Crap for Internet basically.
Back in the cupboard. Not even sure quite where it is to be honest.
It's not pocket sized. It drains its battery when left on pause. It picks up fingerprints and has horrible reflection problems on the screen. It only has one joystick etc etc.
I have to basically agree it's crap. Lovely device, in many ways but I just don't use it. Bejewelled on my Palm has given me 10X more gaming pleasure on the subway!
CHiRP stood for, approximately, "awesome hardware platform which surely will wipe out PCs". So did PReP, but just spelled differently. Sadly, they were wrong both times.
f it doesnt consume 1KW, why does it need a 1KW psu
My guess is the designers want to ensure excellent peak current capability. Maybe when the board switches on the transient power draw troubles lesser power supplies that nominally cover the steady state power demand. Certainly if what I've read about hi-fi amps is at all representative you are better off with plenty of headroom when trying to drive speakers with a spiky signal (that is, music), and so it seems to me a server would enjoy better reliability if the power supply was more than adequate for even worst case power draw.
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This is a load of crap. The ideas of superscalar out-of-order processors came from IBM, CDC, Cray, and the academic literature years before either DEC or Intel ever implemented one. Yet when Intel came out with the out-of-order Pentium Pro, all the DEC guys were screaming and hollering.
Who mentioned out-of-order? Digital didn't release an out of order processor until quit a long time after Intel. Intel's Pentium Pro (out-of-order) was about on par with the Alpha 21164 (strictly in order, but clocking very high for its silicon technology). The Alpha 21264 was out-of-order but suffered severe delays and I don't thnk the program EVER recovered. I don't recall Digital staking a claim to originating out-of-order. They did claim to be doing it better with unbeatable low-level circuit designs.
The operators of the Lava facility were Unix users. The self-destruct button is unguarded, just like the rm(1) command.
That's what I've been trying to tell you kid, there are no original negatives left, they've been completely blown away.
The best way to deal with something like this is to pretend that it is real (in game of course) and deal with it the way that the game world would. How about bounty hunting? How about military/mafia recruiting players to hunt him down? Keep it a game. If people fall for a scam in a game, get back at him in the game. Don't suspend his account. That's just lame. I'm sure that not many people would continue to risk their characters' well being and those that do have it coming.
Agreed. Here's an account of an early MMORPG (of a sort) where both strategies were tried. The "in-game" solution was much better :
The Lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat
If you don't know what you're talking about, why post?
You're new around here, aren't you?
So if they bundled everything you list (anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, etc.) into the operating system, you don't think they'd be accused of illegally leveraging their monopoly advantage? Just look what happened when they integrated a web browser into the OS a few years ago.
I think you have a point to the extent that if they did that, they would probably do it the "Microsoft way" and permanently weld all those things into a single monolithic edifice, which would be bad.
This is a real issue, and I know that other vendors have to face it too. Sun for example has been growing ever bigger "stacks" of software all integrated together and sold as a single thing to "reduce integration time" etc. However I think the crucial difference is that the design of such stacks is intended to be a collection of "bundled but replaceable" items.
I can't say if they succeed completely, but I know that they do try. For example, in their longstanding development environment package, they have long offered things like integrated IDEs, debugger shells, GUI builders and so on and so forth. At a demo of one iteration of this (quite a long time ago - it was still called "SPARCWorks" in those days) the Sun guys told me the individual components are expected to integrate with each other through sane APIs that Sun takes very seriously so that if some customer replaces a module with a different but same-purpose module it will not only work today but have a good chance of continuing to work. This works pretty well if the APIs can actually be formal standards, since at least for Sun if their stuff dosn't follow the standard they generally do try to fix their stuff.
Apple also appears to try in this area. For example their Bonjour network services stuff is actually an open IETF-submitted standard (google zeroconf, multi-cast DNS).
If Windows came with anti-virus, anti-spam, encryption, firewall, packet filter etc etc all integrated but designed to be invidually replaceable, that would be a fantastic service to the great mass of humanity, since it might (just might) gradually start to remove some of the compromised Windows machines on the net wreaking widespread havoc.
IBM is just full of it. If OpenSolaris were not for real do you think they would have gone to the trouble of changing their source code control system from the in-house Teamware stuff to Mercurial (see this ).
No, that is the kind of wrenching and disruptive change that you do if you're really serious about pulling in developers outside the corporate WAN. If it were a facade they could have built a more impressive facade much more quickly.
Progress is slow on OpenSolaris because unlike Linux in 1991, Solaris is already a mission-critical operating system in many enterprises, and because they are trying to pull in non-employee contributions whilst maintaining quality. This is actually difficult.
Disclaimer: I was on the invite-only OpenSolaris pilot program and got some free t-shirts (none of which fit).
I run XP 64 on a Sun Ultra 40 with 4 cores and 8GB RAM. It's mostly awesome, however there are a few issues here and there, predominantly with 3d party stuff. Radia, Exceed, some biometric devices have issues. I also find the Visual Studio debugger relatively slow on this platform compared to everything else (considering it's a dual dual core 2.4GHz athlon machine).
Purify and Quantify are fairly horrible on it too. I'm not sure if that's 64-bit, or just because those apps are SO sensitive to compilers and whatnot anyway.
Some issues are just our own silly fault - I had problems mapping a printer and the tech said the name of my driver conflicts with the 32-bit one. I guess the 64-bit driver needs to be renamed and that causes issues (I don't fully understand the issue myself clearly)
Fantastic. Great work Intel. This puts your products in a different, more positive light for me personally. This could be really good for X11. I worked with it for about 10 years and have been very despondent about its chance in a world of proprietary drivers from ATI and NVIDIA being the only way to use modern graphics hardware. Maybe there's a chance for open source desktop after all.
Your post is misleading. ZFS is only available on Solaris 10. The only driver available from Coraid for Solaris 10 is in beta and it does not support x86.
Sorry if you found it misleading, but I don't agree. I was talking to Solaris -developers- about this protocol. It was a forward-looking prospect. At the time ZFS was not even released, but I liked the sound of it for some future time, and I also like the sound of AoE so I figured the two might combine nicely. If I had the time I'd get the dev hardware, the beta driver and have a go myself (which is of course possible now that Solaris is open source). Sadly I don't, but I still think it's an intriguing project (not product, not solution, development project - work to be done).
I like the look of this technology. The great thing it has going for it is that most of the non-hard-disk infrastructure (switches and cabling) leverages the tremendous investment in ethernet. That is great.
The thing that needs work, in my view, is that the bit that links the disks and the rest isn't cheap enough. In fact what would be awesome here is if, say, Seagate provided disks with native ATAoE connectors built-in. They might have to buy Coraid for that to happen.
In case anyone thinks I'm out of my mind here, don't forget that disks can already be had with ATA interface, SCSI interface, FCAL interface, SATA, SAS - that's five and there are probably more. Yes they might be a bit more expensive, but if they come in under the combined price of "regular ATA disk" + Coraid ATAoE disk adapter then you'd come out ahead. Someone like Seagate would, I think, have the industry-wide clout and respect to succeed in making this an open standard. Something that will be a challenge for Coraid for a long time (I have nothing against them, btw, they are friendly and their mailing list didn't spam me when I signed up).
When I was on the OpenSolaris pilot project I tried to get people interested in using this with Solaris. I think it might be great for ZFS, for example. At that point the real storage wizards were more interested in iSCSI, but I respectfully disagree, OpenSolaris + ZFS + cheap storage = awesome file server. Emphasis on the cheap. As Sun people will admit, their previous attempts at RAID were more like RAVED (Redundant Array of Very Expensive Disk). Coraid does have a Solaris driver, so this is definitely feasible.
They said most people in India would never adopt cellphones either.
I wonder if the publicist was trying to be funny...
Years ago, before spam filters and very serious spam problems, friends of mine sent emails with subjects like "Make Money Fast" or "hot nekkid chiks". Ho ho ho, how very droll we thought.
Then fairly recently when spam started to show basic programmers errors like "Dear %name_of_recipient" I also got this deliberately typed into emails as yet another sly dig at the morons at the bottom of the programming food chain trying and failing to emit randomised english text.
So I can't help wondering if this publicist was just trying to get a laugh out of prospective customers - the first reaction is "more godamm spam" but the real message is "Tired of this sh1t? We can help". It's a theory anyway.
The PS 3 is currently being sold in Japan. Wow, I thought I'd been living under a rock. The PS 3 was part of Sony's Blu-Ray launch in June after E3.
Perhaps I'm ignorant of recent news on this, but please cite your sources. I do not believe PS3 is available for sale anywhere in the world.
I've noticed that there are several problems with the PS3's currently being sold in Japan.
Can you explain this a bit? I thought PS3 hadn't launched anywhere yet? If it hasn't launched, just what is being sold in Japan?
this is a perspective that many of us in the "target demographic" cannot enjoy due to lack of resources.
I don't have the luxury of not caring about price
Sure, I understand the projected $600 price will be significant to many people, let alone the $1200 made up figure I mentioned. For me $600 is hardly trivial, but I will forego expenditure on other things to get a new games console because alternatives end up even more expensive, or are less justified. For example, I have a two year old digital SLR - it's still fine, and my wife has a digital small point-and-shoot. I'd like my own small camera too, but it's just a convenience argument, because if I plan ahead to need a camera I can carry my SLR, else I can borrow hers in many cases. A good digital point and shoot might be around the same price as a PS3, so I'll probably wait a bit, get the PS3 (which gives me access to content unavailable elsewhere e.g. PS3 games and blueray dvds), and then hope to have the cash for my own small camera maybe next year.
There seems to be a lot of concern in this discusssion to pick a winner, and then for a winner be an early adopter, but for a loser never ever buy it.
I think that's fine, I've done that myself, however for PS3 here is how it will work for me :
I will buy it - I decided a long long time ago and I don't particularly care what other peoples expectations of its features, value or prospects look like. Whether it's $600, or $1200, doesn't particularly matter to me. They last me for many years and I get a lot of fun out of them - PS2 was a particularly good deal, but if PS3 can save me buying an expensive separate dedicated blu-ray player it might also turn out to be a bargain.
I wont queue up or pay deposits or try really hard to get one early. I will simply wait until I happen to be in a store that has a pile of them and then I'll just pick one up.
I'll buy a few games - Jak and Daxter, Gran Turismo, Ratchett and Clank, maybe Pitfall. I'm sure a few wll be wicked and I'll love them. A few I'll play for an hour and give up on.
If PS3 takes off and starts to have even more awesome games, I'll buy a few more. If it's a failure, well, that's fine, I'm not too worried. Hey, maybe I'll buy an xbox 360 too. Several high-end consoles and some games works out a lot cheaper per hour of entertainment than, say, getting a babysitter and going out to the movies over and over. In a few years I'll let my daughter play some carefully chosen games from time to time.
I'm not going to pick a winner, and I'm not completely on one "side" or the other. Unless you count the side that says if I had enough money I'd have all the consoles and all the games and I also wouldn't have to work and would actually complete the odd game!
I think you're oversimplfying. I've seen plenty of films where the film grain imposes noise on flat featureless areas of the image. Noise that moves around. Noise that does indeed mess with mpeg compression. Ok so maybe these are low-budget or Indy films, or films where the director chose the film stock deliberately to be grainy, but that is certainly a valid artistic choice.
One example is where some footage is meant to look like old footage (for example "JFK" with its fake Zapruder-movie style Kennedy assasination sequences). Deliberately shot in the early 90s on cheap super-8 for the grain and lurid colors.
I'd like to have a go at these issues, not to argue, but because it is fun to speculate and I'm sure Ridley wont reply...
For the story to work, he needs to be human. Otherwise all kinds of plot problems open up. Like if he was a replicate, how come he sucks so much in a fight? All the other models kick the shit out of him--including the so called pleasure models.
Clearly the military models are stronger and deadlier than the other models, so he is not going to win against the male replicants. The pleasure model was Pris (Darryl Hannah) and he blows her away with his gun whereas she resorts to gymnastics, so he is smarter and better with weapons, but she is more ... athletic. That seems to fit. Similarly, Zhora is an assassin model, nearly strangling him with a surprise attack using his tie - not too unrealistic
And does not explain if he escaped with the other models on the spaceship, why don't they know him? And if he is a special model like Rachel, why the hell does Tyrell not know this?
Tyrell knows Rachel is special, but doesn't let her know, he plays along with the pretense that the "replicant test" is being tested first on a negative (i.e. human) subject. So it is not a big stretch that he's playing mindgames with Deckard too. Perhaps he has only recently let both Rachel and Deckard out into the world with their implanted memories. He wants to reinforce that he knows they are human, so he has Deckard come to test Rachel (letting Deckard, therefore, believe he is human) and conspicuously asserts that Rachel is also human by using her as the negative subject.
This IS important, slashdot worthy news, and the reissue most likely WILL be worth buying.
Blade Runner has been practically MIA for years. The DVD was extremely poorly made, and had very few if any extras, meanwhile a ton of extras exist on various VHS and laserdisc editions. Not to mention an archival quality definitive digital film transfer that was made for this project several years ago but not released due to legal issues. And of course the original vs. the Director's Cut are such different movies they both have their merits. A lot of people like the voiceover and "happy ending" in the original cinematic release. To have both in one disc set softens the contentious "which is best" issue - now it's a question of which version are you going to select from the DVD menu this time.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
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by vidog (83824) Alter Relationship on Monday May 22, @10:57PM (#15385157)
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Our web based diagram editor:
http://www.gliffy.com/gliffy/
Very nice! I just had a quick go and it seems like a very nice little diagram editor. What are the plans for the future - pay version? Advertising on the site? In the diagrams?
Thanks
Chris
Quality was OK, but not great. I noticed a lot of MPEG artefacts in Spider Man 2 - distracting at times, and some even in House of Flying Daggers. I still found the quality good enough to watch (the screen is BEAUTIFUL), but not good enough to justify the price of the movies.
The last movie I bought was Time Bandits and I never even watched it. I love that film but the time and place to have a good movie watching experience on PSP is basically a quiet dark room by yourself. As a father and husband that isn't any good to me.
I only bought one game (Ape Attack - not that good), I got part way through that and for games it is an ok device, but still after that basically my PSP went in the cupboard.
I got it out to try the software upgrade to add a browser. It was nifty getting it all working, but then I had a handheld computer with no keyboard or mouse and fairly small screen. Crap for Internet basically.
Back in the cupboard. Not even sure quite where it is to be honest.
It's not pocket sized. It drains its battery when left on pause. It picks up fingerprints and has horrible reflection problems on the screen. It only has one joystick etc etc.
I have to basically agree it's crap. Lovely device, in many ways but I just don't use it. Bejewelled on my Palm has given me 10X more gaming pleasure on the subway!
Someone call Theo De Raadt.
CHiRP stood for, approximately, "awesome hardware platform which surely will wipe out PCs". So did PReP, but just spelled differently. Sadly, they were wrong both times.
My guess is the designers want to ensure excellent peak current capability. Maybe when the board switches on the transient power draw troubles lesser power supplies that nominally cover the steady state power demand. Certainly if what I've read about hi-fi amps is at all representative you are better off with plenty of headroom when trying to drive speakers with a spiky signal (that is, music), and so it seems to me a server would enjoy better reliability if the power supply was more than adequate for even worst case power draw.