As another poster mentioned, nvidia are branching out, the GFFX may well be a failure (or not even turn up according to this article) but the NForce2 is already a big success, they have a contract with M$ to supply the GPU for the XBox.
I may be a little biased, just finished building my new compy with an NForce2 based mobo and quite simply it rocks.
Will it ?, games are almost entirely played on home desktop PC's, how many home PC's run Linux ?. I would be shocked if it's even 1%. Game manafacturers are not going to a make games for a platform which the vast majority of their potential customers don't use, why would they ?.
Get Linux on the desktop (how long have people been trying to do that ?), then the games will follow.
Epox 8RDA+, great mobo, just finished builing my new system on it. NForce 2 chipset, on board lan and audio (lets face it, unless your a proper audiophile you don't need a £100 sound card).
Can not recomend it highly enough and AFAIK Epox aren't one of the mobo manafacturers linked to exploding capacitors.
The floppy drive is quite possibly the one component inside a computer that most users trust the most.
I don't know about that, I have found that floppy disks these days tend to be a lot less reliable than they used to be, prolly cause they have got so cheap. Optical media is a better because once its burned you don't have to worry so much about the quality of the disk and the data degrading.
There is nothing you can do with a floppy disk that you can't theoretically do with a cd, it's just a case of getting mobo manafacturers to to add the support.
The net is pretty flexible, these worms are a part of a cycle of security.
I am certain that there is a proportional relationship to the size of the impact of a worm and the time till the next big virus/worm outbreak. Basically after a worm strikes people suddenly become a lot more security conscious but this wears of after about 6 months (which is why we get roughly 1 or 2 of these events a year).
I also can't help thinking that a massive attack capable of bringing about a "virtual net shutdown" (something that hasn't really happened yet) would cause so much trouble that security would become such a focus that measures would be taken to ensure that worms can't flourish on the net (mandatory use of firewalls ?, OS's that update themselves ?).
Google News has been very slow on picking this up, only just put it on the front page and it's not even top billing (that goes to a WMD Terrorism story).
I'm watching the BBC, I don't think they are war mongering, they acknowledge the fact that there was an Israeli onboard because it was made a big deal of before the the shuttle took off. They have also had a nasa bloke on the phone who has said that he thinks it is very unlikely that it could be a terrorist attack.
The fact that there was an Israeli onboard does mean that terrorism is a significantly more likely cause than it would be if there wasn't. The news people would be incompetent if they didn't acknowledge this fact.
4. Survival is possible... space shuttle was relatively slow, already mostly throught the atmosphere the crew may have been able to bail out, and they do have parachutes.
Relative to what ?, everything I have read says that it was travelling at several times the speed of sound.
There is a great article in this month's edge magazine (in the UK) that goes through the history of the Saturn. You are indeed right, it was modified at the last minute to try and handle 3D as well, as with all these things tho ultimately you can put it down to bad management.
Bear in mind that the Saturn was incredibly popular in Japan where 2D games (mainly fighting games like Street fighter 2) continued to be extremely popular long after the 3D revolution took over the west. The edge article also talks about it's apeal to the retrogaming community now.
Most record companies are now taking the stance that as long as they stay close to the artists they will be able to make money. Even in these technological times it is still difficult to make a professional sounding recording without the use of a proper (read expensive) recording studio.
Also, while the sales overall may have dipped in the last couple of years, manafactured bands (pop idol, american idol, etc.) have been quite succesfull. Even if they are only around for a short time they do make money for the record companies.
Interesting, there must be some kind of precedent as SNK produced versions of the Neo Geo specifically for Hotels. I'm guessing your right, public performance laws don't apply.
The TNT generation was their real first success, the aim of graphics cards companies is to produce cards that are eventually incorporated into average or budget systems. TNT and TNT2 (more so) became a kind of standard video card and was a precursor to the nvidia on mother-board video card (the nforce chipset).
I don't think that Kazaa will fold to this lawsuit. But it absolutley amazes me that an american court is sanctioning a lawsuit against a company outside of it's juristiction. America thinks it owns the whole world doesn't it ?, if american multinationals are so quick to move labour out of the country (so they can pay desperate people low rates of pay without having to worry about western laws on health, safety and pensions) then they shouldn't be surprised to see other people use the technique agaisnt them.
And someone else made the point that a p2p app is a tool and it has legitimate uses. You don't sue a car manafacturer because someone used a car to perpetrate an illegal act.
If the californian court is going to sue anyone then it should be the users.
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just out of interest, what OS was used before by the studios ?.
Was it windows ?, it is possible to vreate open source software which runs on a Win32 platform, so why is Linux better ?
As another poster mentioned, nvidia are branching out, the GFFX may well be a failure (or not even turn up according to this article) but the NForce2 is already a big success, they have a contract with M$ to supply the GPU for the XBox.
I may be a little biased, just finished building my new compy with an NForce2 based mobo and quite simply it rocks.
I am sure that will change soon enough.
Will it ?, games are almost entirely played on home desktop PC's, how many home PC's run Linux ?. I would be shocked if it's even 1%. Game manafacturers are not going to a make games for a platform which the vast majority of their potential customers don't use, why would they ?.
Get Linux on the desktop (how long have people been trying to do that ?), then the games will follow.
Epox 8RDA+, great mobo, just finished builing my new system on it. NForce 2 chipset, on board lan and audio (lets face it, unless your a proper audiophile you don't need a £100 sound card).
Can not recomend it highly enough and AFAIK Epox aren't one of the mobo manafacturers linked to exploding capacitors.
a swim ?
I need to some rocket fuel as well, for purely "extra curricular" purposes, could the /. readership help me out too ?
The floppy drive is quite possibly the one component inside a computer that most users trust the most.
I don't know about that, I have found that floppy disks these days tend to be a lot less reliable than they used to be, prolly cause they have got so cheap. Optical media is a better because once its burned you don't have to worry so much about the quality of the disk and the data degrading.
There is nothing you can do with a floppy disk that you can't theoretically do with a cd, it's just a case of getting mobo manafacturers to to add the support.
The net is pretty flexible, these worms are a part of a cycle of security.
I am certain that there is a proportional relationship to the size of the impact of a worm and the time till the next big virus/worm outbreak. Basically after a worm strikes people suddenly become a lot more security conscious but this wears of after about 6 months (which is why we get roughly 1 or 2 of these events a year).
I also can't help thinking that a massive attack capable of bringing about a "virtual net shutdown" (something that hasn't really happened yet) would cause so much trouble that security would become such a focus that measures would be taken to ensure that worms can't flourish on the net (mandatory use of firewalls ?, OS's that update themselves ?).
Google News has been very slow on picking this up, only just put it on the front page and it's not even top billing (that goes to a WMD Terrorism story).
I'm watching the BBC, I don't think they are war mongering, they acknowledge the fact that there was an Israeli onboard because it was made a big deal of before the the shuttle took off. They have also had a nasa bloke on the phone who has said that he thinks it is very unlikely that it could be a terrorist attack.
The fact that there was an Israeli onboard does mean that terrorism is a significantly more likely cause than it would be if there wasn't. The news people would be incompetent if they didn't acknowledge this fact.
4. Survival is possible... space shuttle was relatively slow, already mostly throught the atmosphere the crew may have been able to bail out, and they do have parachutes.
Relative to what ?, everything I have read says that it was travelling at several times the speed of sound.
There is a great article in this month's edge magazine (in the UK) that goes through the history of the Saturn. You are indeed right, it was modified at the last minute to try and handle 3D as well, as with all these things tho ultimately you can put it down to bad management.
Bear in mind that the Saturn was incredibly popular in Japan where 2D games (mainly fighting games like Street fighter 2) continued to be extremely popular long after the 3D revolution took over the west. The edge article also talks about it's apeal to the retrogaming community now.
dude Quake 3 is out already, wake up and get with the times ! ;-)
You didn't use the word "fookin" or the phrase "mad fer it", othewrwise I would of modded you up.
...that thought this was bollocks.
Most record companies are now taking the stance that as long as they stay close to the artists they will be able to make money. Even in these technological times it is still difficult to make a professional sounding recording without the use of a proper (read expensive) recording studio.
Also, while the sales overall may have dipped in the last couple of years, manafactured bands (pop idol, american idol, etc.) have been quite succesfull. Even if they are only around for a short time they do make money for the record companies.
Interesting, there must be some kind of precedent as SNK produced versions of the Neo Geo specifically for Hotels. I'm guessing your right, public performance laws don't apply.
The TNT generation was their real first success, the aim of graphics cards companies is to produce cards that are eventually incorporated into average or budget systems. TNT and TNT2 (more so) became a kind of standard video card and was a precursor to the nvidia on mother-board video card (the nforce chipset).
12. What do you mean by trust?
The ability to feel confident that the software environment in a platform is operating as expected.
Operating as expected by who ?, the owner of the bios ?.
but the new storage benchmark is the DVD. This is 47 DVD's in a square inch, or over 20KiloDVD's per square cubit
Well that may be the benchmark your using but I want all my vapourware data storage anoucements in Libaries Of Congress please.
Commence the in-flight porn jokes...
It's ok to have an Opinion.
It's not a Tolkien story, but rather inspired by his works.
Doesn't that describe the vast majority of fantasy novels ?
I don't think that Kazaa will fold to this lawsuit. But it absolutley amazes me that an american court is sanctioning a lawsuit against a company outside of it's juristiction. America thinks it owns the whole world doesn't it ?, if american multinationals are so quick to move labour out of the country (so they can pay desperate people low rates of pay without having to worry about western laws on health, safety and pensions) then they shouldn't be surprised to see other people use the technique
agaisnt them.
And someone else made the point that a p2p app is a tool and it has legitimate uses. You don't sue a car manafacturer because someone used a car to perpetrate an illegal act.
If the californian court is going to sue anyone then it should be the users.
and in other news... the Beatles have just split up!