See, I always said have patience and wait for the GameCube, it will be well worth it. I hear they're giving the Xbox out at Taco Bell though... yet another high quality product there...
I wonder if they're going to show the blue screen of death on their promotional commercials?
I think we need to keep the "old" games going so our kids and their kids will have something to look back on and say "that's where games used to be." I'd personally like to see an open source version of Tank Wars, remember that old ATARI game? There were like 100 different possible games and I remember playing them for hours... of course that was back when video games were something the adults did after dinner, they wouldn't let the kids play because we beat them too badly. Anyway, kudos to whoever is doing this, and EA: kiss my ass! (referring to the following)
Trouble is, rights for the games are held by one of the biggest companies in the industry, Electronic Arts, which isn't too happy about grassroots revivals.
I guess Microsoft has joined the likes of the gas gougers and the T-shirt companies charging $25 for a "God bless America" shirt. I'm sick of everyone cashing in on the worst tragedy America has seen recently, possibly ever. Computer viruses should be considered a crime and should definitely be against the law, but it's ridiculous to try and compare them to terrorism.
This is a good move for Intel considering I've never even heard of an intel digital camera, and as I'm semi "wired" I would assume that means that the majority of people haven't heard of them either. Intel should stick to what they're good at: being second to PPC.
It seems from the article that all they are doing is making a chip that will be compatible with systems that are also compatible with the P4. All they mean by "P4 Clone" is that you can use it interchangeably with a P4. The only other similarity mentioned in the articles is the 18 stage pipeline, but there are so many ways of implementing such a pipeline that I doubt VIA's will be exactly the same. All in all, I say this is good competition, although it probably won't amount to much.
There are still plenty of gurus, but they no longer know everything about everything, they just know absolutely everything about a couple of things. Team development sets up an environment where those that aren't gurus can in fact contribute, but the gurus are still very useful and important.
It seems to me that most Linux users on normal PC's like to have a dual boot system so that when the dreaded instance comes up that you HAVE to run Windows, you can reboot and do what you have to do. Does anybody know if it's possible to setup a dual boot on a PPC? (Linux and MAC OS) If so, any reccomendations?
I have decided that the Windows ME OS I got with my last computer purchase will be the last Windows I use. I'm going to install a dual boot Linux system with Windows ME as the secondary OS. Eventually, I'll probably just get rid of Windows all together, and for the sake of the world I hope I'm not the only one.
As a computer engineer, I'm glad to see that some electronics engineering is now featuring women. Granted, this particular one could have been more attractive, but the point is we see innovation, and we see a woman as part of it, and that's good. I remember in school we had 4 women in the entire class of about 150 computer engineers. 1 of those was non-Indian, and displayed attractive qualities like not having body odor and not having a beard. Maybe if more stories like this come out, more women will do Comp E and future Comp E's can enjoy the presence of attractive females while in college (without spending all of their money downtown.)
Work on better propulsion. Trans-warp drives or whatever you want to call them, we should get better vehicles before we worry about doing anything else in space. Once we have such means of transportation, all of our missions will be much easier, faster, and we will be able to to so much more.
The problem with this is that ever single component on the motherboard that uses the bus will need a redesign in order to communicate over a fiber bus. It's something that definitely can and will be done, but it's not going to be "soon." It also won't be cheap. Why do you think they keep making new RAM that's not backwards compatible? Becuase the old stuff is almost as good and is dirt cheap. When they start making fiber ready hard drives and such, they are going to charge an arm and a leg. One positive: the normal stuff will then go dirt cheap, but they'll probably stop makign it after a few months or so.
Then: Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Gregg strode onto the Senate floor and called for a global prohibition on data-scrambling products without backdoors for government surveillance.
Now: "We are not working on an encryption bill and have no intention to," spokesman Brian Hart said in an interview.
It's obvious what happened. Somebody from the CIA phoned the senator and said "hey dumbass, we already can descramble all the encrypted messages, shut up about it already." At least that's my take on things.
OK, so I don't know if that picture is a hoax or not, but for a game requiring text input I don't see why this is such a big joke. Has anyone seen those keyboards that are coming with the new set tops for interactive TV? They are basically the same thing (interactive buttons on left, remote control buttons on right, keyboard in middle.) Of course I wouldn't use this controller much, if at all, but I usually stick to sports and shoot 'em up games. I think people who like games that include chat or other text interaction could really use such a controller.
Characteristics:
1) Responds to human movement/emotions
2) Has feelings and desires, and its personality will adjust to its owner
3) Remembers its name and acknowledges its name when called
4) Synthetic fur gives it a feline appearance, so it feels natural to treat it like a cat, stroking and hugging it
So what happens if you kick it? The poster is right, it looks like it would get mad and eat your face off or something. They must be running out of food over there on technology island... it seems like if someone is willing to pay that much for a fake killer cat then feeding a real cat must be expensive!
How exactly are these people going to identify the song swappers? The article says:
...one method uses software to masquerade as a file-swapper online. Once the software has found a computer offering a certain song, it attempts to block other potential traders from downloading the song.
So, how are they going to define these "certain songs." Think about it: how many bands have played "My Girl" for example? If I have MyGirl.mp3 on my share list, do I get a DoS attack? What if that's an mp3 I actually made using a music production application? How in the world can they accurately say "this person is offering pirated music?" Are we going to be guilty until proven innocent, and at the whims of the RIAA have our sharing shutdown until we justify every song? This will never last, at least I hope it never does.
Why does this professional audio person want to stay away from macs? It's been understood for as long as I can remember that Macintosh is the leader in multimedia computing. Photoshop set the standard, and titles like Director and others keep the tradition going. Open source would be much cheaper, you can't get less expensive than free. However, staying away from Macintosh isn't all that smart. I would recommend finding the best Open Source stuff out there to see if it has all you need, then if it doesn't get a Mac.
I recommend remaining with your choice of the gamecube. Go to the Nintendo GameCube website and check out the CubeClubs. Basically these are events in select cities where you can go play the GameCube with a lot of different games. I went to the one in Atlanta, GA a few weeks ago and I have to say that Star Wars is absolutely breathtaking. I felt like I was actually in the movie controlling the X-wing. You can do many different missions though, and use a lot of different vehicles. Another one I really liked was Madden 2002. I've been a fan of Madden ever since it was Madden 64. I have played Madden 2002 for PS2 at a friend's house and I thought the graphics were really great but the play was unresponsive. Well, for GameCube, as expected, that is fixed. The players respond immediately to what you press on the controller. Oh, and that reminds me, the controller for GameCube is really cool. I was skeptical at first sight on cube.ign.com but when I held it in my hand it just felt right. They've really outdone themselves with this system, trust me... or go to a Cube Club.
... now when I pay my $2 to play a 30 second fighting game I'll be about 10 seconds in and get the infamous Microsoft "blue screen of death." I guess I'll just have to stay at home with my GameCube and big screen HDTV, accompanied by the good old dolby digital stereo system.
I'm glad they decided not to go forward. Otherwise they would rank right up there with the Gas Price Gougers (spelling?) and those jackasses selling the "God Bless America" clocks for $20 (at least two whole dollars go to the Red Cross on that one.)
Has anyone seen commercials advertising a "privacy service" by your local phone company? I have BellSouth here in Atlanta, GA and I think it's very interesting that BS offers this service where during certain times of day they will have an automated system screen your calls and give you the option of taking the call or playing a pre-recorded decline message. That is a great idea, but they want to charge an arm and a leg every month for you to have the service, so they'll be making money charging you and making money selling your phone number to the telemarketers... what a great racket!
You could have one multifunction button on your phone, similar to the way most "send" buttons work presently. This one big button could have one of these special sensors and could be used in an endless variety of ways. Thumb for voice dial, index for phone book, middle for missed calls, ring for.... plus every menu, instead of having options 1-5, could have options based on your fingers. After a little getting used to, people would love this technology, I predict. It will be sort of like the function buttons on Scientific Calculators.
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See, I always said have patience and wait for the GameCube, it will be well worth it. I hear they're giving the Xbox out at Taco Bell though... yet another high quality product there...
I wonder if they're going to show the blue screen of death on their promotional commercials?
I think we need to keep the "old" games going so our kids and their kids will have something to look back on and say "that's where games used to be." I'd personally like to see an open source version of Tank Wars, remember that old ATARI game? There were like 100 different possible games and I remember playing them for hours... of course that was back when video games were something the adults did after dinner, they wouldn't let the kids play because we beat them too badly. Anyway, kudos to whoever is doing this, and EA: kiss my ass! (referring to the following)
Trouble is, rights for the games are held by one of the biggest companies in the industry, Electronic Arts, which isn't too happy about grassroots revivals.
I guess Microsoft has joined the likes of the gas gougers and the T-shirt companies charging $25 for a "God bless America" shirt. I'm sick of everyone cashing in on the worst tragedy America has seen recently, possibly ever. Computer viruses should be considered a crime and should definitely be against the law, but it's ridiculous to try and compare them to terrorism.
This is a good move for Intel considering I've never even heard of an intel digital camera, and as I'm semi "wired" I would assume that means that the majority of people haven't heard of them either. Intel should stick to what they're good at: being second to PPC.
It seems from the article that all they are doing is making a chip that will be compatible with systems that are also compatible with the P4. All they mean by "P4 Clone" is that you can use it interchangeably with a P4. The only other similarity mentioned in the articles is the 18 stage pipeline, but there are so many ways of implementing such a pipeline that I doubt VIA's will be exactly the same. All in all, I say this is good competition, although it probably won't amount to much.
There are still plenty of gurus, but they no longer know everything about everything, they just know absolutely everything about a couple of things. Team development sets up an environment where those that aren't gurus can in fact contribute, but the gurus are still very useful and important.
Great info, I appreciate it.
It seems to me that most Linux users on normal PC's like to have a dual boot system so that when the dreaded instance comes up that you HAVE to run Windows, you can reboot and do what you have to do. Does anybody know if it's possible to setup a dual boot on a PPC? (Linux and MAC OS) If so, any reccomendations?
I have decided that the Windows ME OS I got with my last computer purchase will be the last Windows I use. I'm going to install a dual boot Linux system with Windows ME as the secondary OS. Eventually, I'll probably just get rid of Windows all together, and for the sake of the world I hope I'm not the only one.
Hey, I was expressing my concern for future engineers, never said anything about me. Don't worry though, I do just fine, thanks.
As a computer engineer, I'm glad to see that some electronics engineering is now featuring women. Granted, this particular one could have been more attractive, but the point is we see innovation, and we see a woman as part of it, and that's good. I remember in school we had 4 women in the entire class of about 150 computer engineers. 1 of those was non-Indian, and displayed attractive qualities like not having body odor and not having a beard. Maybe if more stories like this come out, more women will do Comp E and future Comp E's can enjoy the presence of attractive females while in college (without spending all of their money downtown.)
Work on better propulsion. Trans-warp drives or whatever you want to call them, we should get better vehicles before we worry about doing anything else in space. Once we have such means of transportation, all of our missions will be much easier, faster, and we will be able to to so much more.
The problem with this is that ever single component on the motherboard that uses the bus will need a redesign in order to communicate over a fiber bus. It's something that definitely can and will be done, but it's not going to be "soon." It also won't be cheap. Why do you think they keep making new RAM that's not backwards compatible? Becuase the old stuff is almost as good and is dirt cheap. When they start making fiber ready hard drives and such, they are going to charge an arm and a leg. One positive: the normal stuff will then go dirt cheap, but they'll probably stop makign it after a few months or so.
Then:
Two days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Gregg strode onto the Senate floor and called for a global prohibition on data-scrambling products without backdoors for government surveillance.
Now:
"We are not working on an encryption bill and have no intention to," spokesman Brian Hart said in an interview.
It's obvious what happened. Somebody from the CIA phoned the senator and said "hey dumbass, we already can descramble all the encrypted messages, shut up about it already." At least that's my take on things.
I really am speechless. My only thoughts are: How can MS continue to have policies like this and not be sued into bankrupcy?
... oh yeah, they already tried that, it's amazing the lawyers you can get when you're the richest company out there...
OK, so I don't know if that picture is a hoax or not, but for a game requiring text input I don't see why this is such a big joke. Has anyone seen those keyboards that are coming with the new set tops for interactive TV? They are basically the same thing (interactive buttons on left, remote control buttons on right, keyboard in middle.) Of course I wouldn't use this controller much, if at all, but I usually stick to sports and shoot 'em up games. I think people who like games that include chat or other text interaction could really use such a controller.
Characteristics:
1) Responds to human movement/emotions
2) Has feelings and desires, and its personality will adjust to its owner
3) Remembers its name and acknowledges its name when called
4) Synthetic fur gives it a feline appearance, so it feels natural to treat it like a cat, stroking and hugging it
So what happens if you kick it? The poster is right, it looks like it would get mad and eat your face off or something. They must be running out of food over there on technology island... it seems like if someone is willing to pay that much for a fake killer cat then feeding a real cat must be expensive!
How exactly are these people going to identify the song swappers? The article says:
...one method uses software to masquerade as a file-swapper online. Once the software has found a computer offering a certain song, it attempts to block other potential traders from downloading the song.
So, how are they going to define these "certain songs." Think about it: how many bands have played "My Girl" for example? If I have MyGirl.mp3 on my share list, do I get a DoS attack? What if that's an mp3 I actually made using a music production application? How in the world can they accurately say "this person is offering pirated music?" Are we going to be guilty until proven innocent, and at the whims of the RIAA have our sharing shutdown until we justify every song? This will never last, at least I hope it never does.
Why does this professional audio person want to stay away from macs? It's been understood for as long as I can remember that Macintosh is the leader in multimedia computing. Photoshop set the standard, and titles like Director and others keep the tradition going. Open source would be much cheaper, you can't get less expensive than free. However, staying away from Macintosh isn't all that smart. I would recommend finding the best Open Source stuff out there to see if it has all you need, then if it doesn't get a Mac.
Dude, you're wrong. Face it.
I recommend remaining with your choice of the gamecube. Go to the Nintendo GameCube website and check out the CubeClubs. Basically these are events in select cities where you can go play the GameCube with a lot of different games. I went to the one in Atlanta, GA a few weeks ago and I have to say that Star Wars is absolutely breathtaking. I felt like I was actually in the movie controlling the X-wing. You can do many different missions though, and use a lot of different vehicles. Another one I really liked was Madden 2002. I've been a fan of Madden ever since it was Madden 64. I have played Madden 2002 for PS2 at a friend's house and I thought the graphics were really great but the play was unresponsive. Well, for GameCube, as expected, that is fixed. The players respond immediately to what you press on the controller. Oh, and that reminds me, the controller for GameCube is really cool. I was skeptical at first sight on cube.ign.com but when I held it in my hand it just felt right. They've really outdone themselves with this system, trust me... or go to a Cube Club.
... now when I pay my $2 to play a 30 second fighting game I'll be about 10 seconds in and get the infamous Microsoft "blue screen of death." I guess I'll just have to stay at home with my GameCube and big screen HDTV, accompanied by the good old dolby digital stereo system.
I'm glad they decided not to go forward. Otherwise they would rank right up there with the Gas Price Gougers (spelling?) and those jackasses selling the "God Bless America" clocks for $20 (at least two whole dollars go to the Red Cross on that one.)
Has anyone seen commercials advertising a "privacy service" by your local phone company? I have BellSouth here in Atlanta, GA and I think it's very interesting that BS offers this service where during certain times of day they will have an automated system screen your calls and give you the option of taking the call or playing a pre-recorded decline message. That is a great idea, but they want to charge an arm and a leg every month for you to have the service, so they'll be making money charging you and making money selling your phone number to the telemarketers... what a great racket!
You could have one multifunction button on your phone, similar to the way most "send" buttons work presently. This one big button could have one of these special sensors and could be used in an endless variety of ways. Thumb for voice dial, index for phone book, middle for missed calls, ring for.... plus every menu, instead of having options 1-5, could have options based on your fingers. After a little getting used to, people would love this technology, I predict. It will be sort of like the function buttons on Scientific Calculators.