Considering all the 3D CGI movies this year have been unmitigated disasters (Dinosaur cost 200 million to make and only made $100 million at the box office, Rocky and Bullwinkle was a much-deserved bomb) I'd say studios should be _more_ wary of them than traditional animation.
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I've done 50-minute.wav files with my K7-750 in about 4 minutes, and even mpeg encoding is realtime nowadays with the fastest CPUs out there. There'd have to be a demonstrable increase in performance for something *incredibly* complex (by today's processing standards) to convince people to purchase this card. MP3 and even mpeg isn't all that hard to do anymore.
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Well, it *went* back further. They pulled all the older articles for a while, according to their support staff. Once they've upgraded their server farm, the older articles will be back online:
As of May 15, all messages posted approximately a year ago or more have become temporarily inaccessible via Deja.com. We will be taking this opportunity to reconfigure the service that provides messages posted prior to September, 1999. Therefore, these messages will not be accessible on the site for some time, possibly a few months. Have no fear: We're committed to bringing these messages back online as soon as possible. We request your patience as moving our server bed to a new facility will greatly increase our reliability and performance.
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If I make a format that's better than DVD and isn't region encoded, it won't get the backing of major motion picture studios. Therefore, no movies will be available for it.
If I release movies for it, I will be breaking copyright law. I will go to jail and probably become the love slave of some 400 pound guy named "Sunflower".
If, however, I make a regionless DVD player, I have broken no laws and, were I to be taken to court over it, I could probably prove collusion in the movie industry, could probably countersue for damages, and would probably win both suits.
(VHS, by the way, won for a reason, and its popularity was artificial at first. There was a time in which there were as many Beta movies on video store shelves as there were VHS movies. Then the MPAA decided which format it liked best, not consumers.)
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Apparently the in-game performance of the tool is "really bad", meaning any advantage you may get by seeing where your opponents are beforehand is immediately nullified (and perhaps then some) by the fact that it slows down your reaction time.
In other words: Is that a rocket coming at m--**BLAM**.
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Why in God's name is Intel still releasing stuff in 33 MHz increments? Like some moron somewhere is really gonna pay a premium for a 1133 MHz chip as opposed to 1100 MHz.
What'll happen is this: They'll release an 1100, an 1133, an 1150, an 1166, and a 1200 (eventually), which will just confuse the hell out of people and get more people to buy AMD stuff. At least AMD got smart and pledged to release in 100 MHz increments after 1 GHz.
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Sorry, I don't give a crap how fast the thing is in Photoshop. A 500 MHz G4 simply CAN NOT outrun a 1 gigahertz x86 machine. No way, no how. If they'd stick a fan on the damned CPU maybe they could get it to run a little faster, hey?
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The Register claimed MacOS Rumors was getting hassled because of leaked info about the rumored multi-cpu G4s, not the cube. It makes sense: why haven't other sites been hassled?
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Tonight, in a no-holds-barred tag-team cage match, the Power Mac Multi G4 goes up against an HP Kayak 6-Pentium server! Who will win? Who will lose? WHO WILL TASTE BLOOD?
Stay tuned!!!
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I won't touch IDE in any new system I'm building. It's just too flaky and unpredictable. The Ultra 5s we have at school use IDE -- the first workstation I've ever seen without SCSI -- and the performance is absolutely hideous. Sure, drives cost about 5 dollars per gigabyte, but I'd rather spend twice that on SCSI and reap the benefits of faster, more sustainable IO and 15 devices on a single chain.
Oh, plus none of this phony software IDE RAID crap: I'd like something reliable, thanks.
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Um, with Saudi Arabia's recent pledge to produce 500,000 more barrels of oil for us greedy, whiny Americans (gas is STILL cheaper than it's ever been for us -- remember the 1980s?), gas prices have fallen in the past couple of weeks. Prices are now well under $30 a barrel according to the Financial Times.
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You think Microsoft won't spend money convincing some of the Big Name sites out there to start using their special tags? Remember how they *almost* got broadcast.com to switch entirely to Ass-Suck Format (.asf) for streaming, kicking RealPlayer out of the running entirely? Sure, _that_ didn't work, but this seems much more insidious. Add a feature here, another there. Take some functionality of the sites and move it to the proprietary IE 5.5 technology. Suddenly people begin to realize they NEED IE 5.5 to really enjoy espn.com or their favorite streaming video site.
It'll happen; give it time. I'm already seeing sites I can't view thanks to pap like shockwave (which works horribly on my Linux system, thank you very much) and full-blown Java (which is garbage.)
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Actually, marijuana and prostitution _are_ illegal in Amsterdam, at least according to the laws on the books. Fortunately (or not, depending how brainwashed you've been by the anti-drug movement), the laws are all but overlooked by the police there.
Technically, though, it's incorrect to say marijuana is legal there, because, legally, it isn't.
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Slashdot Mirror
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All they do is decode SETI units. Nothing more.
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Jesus.
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As of May 15, all messages posted approximately a year ago or more have become temporarily inaccessible via Deja.com. We will be taking this opportunity to reconfigure the service that provides messages posted prior to September, 1999. Therefore, these messages will not be accessible on the site for some time, possibly a few months. Have no fear: We're committed to bringing these messages back online as soon as possible. We request your patience as moving our server bed to a new facility will greatly increase our reliability and performance.
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If I release movies for it, I will be breaking copyright law. I will go to jail and probably become the love slave of some 400 pound guy named "Sunflower".
If, however, I make a regionless DVD player, I have broken no laws and, were I to be taken to court over it, I could probably prove collusion in the movie industry, could probably countersue for damages, and would probably win both suits.
(VHS, by the way, won for a reason, and its popularity was artificial at first. There was a time in which there were as many Beta movies on video store shelves as there were VHS movies. Then the MPAA decided which format it liked best, not consumers.)
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In other words: Is that a rocket coming at m--**BLAM**.
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Has a nice ring to it.
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What'll happen is this: They'll release an 1100, an 1133, an 1150, an 1166, and a 1200 (eventually), which will just confuse the hell out of people and get more people to buy AMD stuff. At least AMD got smart and pledged to release in 100 MHz increments after 1 GHz.
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Oops, that's not covered in the warranty.
Oops.
What a dumb place for a vent.
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Stay tuned!!!
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Oh, plus none of this phony software IDE RAID crap: I'd like something reliable, thanks.
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Of course, by the time this gets affordable, I'll have about 200 CDs full. . .
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Two words: Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Killed by Chevron (along with however many dozens of his countrymen in Nigeria) for the sake of cheap gasoline.
(Good troll, btw.)
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It'll happen; give it time. I'm already seeing sites I can't view thanks to pap like shockwave (which works horribly on my Linux system, thank you very much) and full-blown Java (which is garbage.)
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Technically, though, it's incorrect to say marijuana is legal there, because, legally, it isn't.
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