People don't complain when the latest driver rev improves their Quake III performance.
Quake III is a much more respected benchmark than 3DMark, as it's actually a game.
Both programs are used as benchmarks.
If anything it tells me that NVidia engineers can optimize well for specific programs, which is part of their job. This is a good thing if I am comparing one driver rev to the next and deciding whether or not to use the new driver.
I don't see what the fuss is all about, unless one enjoys sitting watching becnhmarks run.
The amazing thing about it all is that in developed world, practicioners of the 'lost arts' make pretty decent money, whilst the artesans in the developing world make very little.
In Chile one can buy a 4 foot high handmade, hand painted earthernware flowerpot for all of 50 bucks. That same flowerpot in the US would probably cost (if you could find it), 300 dollars or more; all this because the artesan is practicing a 'lost art'.
Out in the country down here you can still find a 'smith' and a 'cooper'.
Knot tying is not so big here, but ohhh the cheese:)
Now is it actually doing all of the rendering? or is there a bunch of PRECALCULATED information? Remeber compiling a Quake 2 Map. It was pre compiled to get the shading and lighting done beforehand so that it could be 'played back' in realtime. I suspect something similar is going on here. If it's really 'realtime' then they should be able to move things around and change stuff, not just re-render a movie. Nothing mind-blowing here.
But good for everyone. There's going to be a big court case and I think this one has a much better chance than DeCSS. The full product does. They have taken a very public stance on the shoddiness of Adobe's work. One of the key failures in section xxx of the DMCA is the lack of a copyright holders' responsibilty for 'due diligence' in creating a secure product. The russian guy will be found guilty under the statute, but the appeal will succeed not on constituional grounds (as they were pushing for with DeCSS), but on standard claims for responsibility. The DeCSS case is difficult, because if the section being contested is found to be unconsitutional, it will be stricken from the books (Courts don't like to do that). This would allow a good precedent to be set (due diligence) while not requiring a rewrite of the existing law. Poor Russian guy though. Maybe Russia will start a war over this. Boom Boom.
The problem is you won't see the EFF or the ACLU unless there's an actual lawsuit. They may report it on there pages (haven't checked yet) but as far as action goes, nothing. Now if the RIAA, et al. decides to file a lawsuit against a publisher of the paper, expect to see them jump in. I don't expect a lawsuit because it is too likely to fail, causing a strong precedent against the DMCA and the program as speech point of view.
The value is in the data, not in the hardware and software that maintains it. Once your data is worth a few billion, you cannot afford to take even ONE chance that your database system isn't up to snuff. It totally depends on the value of your data and your need to protect that value.
first off, I'd like to point at this article on salon by Courtney Love about the money an artist makes. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ index.html
Now, if an artist or group foots the bill themselves and manages to get 2 bucks a CD while touring, are they gonna make more or less than a record deal if they handle all the promotion? How many CD's do they need to sell to turn a profit? IF they use Napster as a promotional tool, and give away some music they could easily recoup their investment and make some money by selling off a website. Once more musicians realise that self promotion can net them more dollars in the end, I suspect a lot of artists will ignore the big labels. College and Internet Radio are excellent promotional tools. To make money as an artist with a recording contract, you need to sell millions of copies. To do it without, you only need to sell thousands.
Back in 1995 or so, I seem to remember Scott McNealy talking about encryption. He said something to the effect of "To heck with U.S. made encryption, we buy all of our encryption from the Russians, after all, these are TRADE SECRETS we're talking about." Banning encryption in the US would never stop it's use. I'd say the US would be better off hiring some really good russian mathemeticians to create next generation encryption and codebreaking tech.
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People don't complain when the latest driver rev improves their Quake III performance.
Quake III is a much more respected benchmark than 3DMark, as it's actually a game.
Both programs are used as benchmarks.
If anything it tells me that NVidia engineers can optimize well for specific programs, which is part of their job. This is a good thing if I am comparing one driver rev to the next and deciding whether or not to use the new driver.
I don't see what the fuss is all about, unless one enjoys sitting watching becnhmarks run.
The amazing thing about it all is that in developed world, practicioners of the 'lost arts' make pretty decent money, whilst the artesans in the developing world make very little.
:)
In Chile one can buy a 4 foot high handmade, hand painted earthernware flowerpot for all of 50 bucks. That same flowerpot in the US would probably cost (if you could find it), 300 dollars or more; all this because the artesan is practicing a 'lost art'.
Out in the country down here you can still find a 'smith' and a 'cooper'.
Knot tying is not so big here, but ohhh the cheese
Sounds like a pyramid scheme.
Much like age discrimination; also illegal.
At least it would cut down on 'Stairway to Heaven' in every Music Shop.
I was browsing it when the permissions changed :(
To that man behind the curtain.
Now is it actually doing all of the rendering? or is there a bunch of PRECALCULATED information? Remeber compiling a Quake 2 Map. It was pre compiled to get the shading and lighting done beforehand so that it could be 'played back' in realtime. I suspect something similar is going on here. If it's really 'realtime' then they should be able to move things around and change stuff, not just re-render a movie. Nothing mind-blowing here.
But good for everyone. There's going to be a big court case and I think this one has a much better chance than DeCSS. The full product does. They have taken a very public stance on the shoddiness of Adobe's work. One of the key failures in section xxx of the DMCA is the lack of a copyright holders' responsibilty for 'due diligence' in creating a secure product. The russian guy will be found guilty under the statute, but the appeal will succeed not on constituional grounds (as they were pushing for with DeCSS), but on standard claims for responsibility. The DeCSS case is difficult, because if the section being contested is found to be unconsitutional, it will be stricken from the books (Courts don't like to do that). This would allow a good precedent to be set (due diligence) while not requiring a rewrite of the existing law. Poor Russian guy though. Maybe Russia will start a war over this. Boom Boom.
The problem is you won't see the EFF or the ACLU unless there's an actual lawsuit. They may report it on there pages (haven't checked yet) but as far as action goes, nothing. Now if the RIAA, et al. decides to file a lawsuit against a publisher of the paper, expect to see them jump in. I don't expect a lawsuit because it is too likely to fail, causing a strong precedent against the DMCA and the program as speech point of view.
The value is in the data, not in the hardware and software that maintains it. Once your data is worth a few billion, you cannot afford to take even ONE chance that your database system isn't up to snuff. It totally depends on the value of your data and your need to protect that value.
first off, I'd like to point at this article on salon by Courtney Love about the money an artist makes. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ index.html
Now, if an artist or group foots the bill themselves and manages to get 2 bucks a CD while touring, are they gonna make more or less than a record deal if they handle all the promotion? How many CD's do they need to sell to turn a profit? IF they use Napster as a promotional tool, and give away some music they could easily recoup their investment and make some money by selling off a website. Once more musicians realise that self promotion can net them more dollars in the end, I suspect a lot of artists will ignore the big labels. College and Internet Radio are excellent promotional tools. To make money as an artist with a recording contract, you need to sell millions of copies. To do it without, you only need to sell thousands.
Back in 1995 or so, I seem to remember Scott McNealy talking about encryption. He said something to the effect of "To heck with U.S. made encryption, we buy all of our encryption from the Russians, after all, these are TRADE SECRETS we're talking about." Banning encryption in the US would never stop it's use. I'd say the US would be better off hiring some really good russian mathemeticians to create next generation encryption and codebreaking tech. Just my 2 bits (when converted to US Funds, 1 bit; hope it's on)