3DFX focused on quality over frame rate - for the time being the 5500 will sit. (The GeForce 2 is in another box).
ATI is junk, the drivers are junk, they live off of OEM deals. The Kyro cards are nice, I would like them to gain traction.
Yes, Microsoft is again riding another company's technology wave to capitalize.
Yes, DX8 is the focus, the card will be hardware tuned for DX8. Who develops for OpenGL? I rarely see a game with a decent OpenGL 'option.' I do, however, recall playing several games in '3DFX' modes because changing the driver every thirty seconds as it is in NVidia land gets annoying. I think NVidia's products are decent. I think this XBOX is a monopolistic venture designed to stifle and kill off other markets. I used to game quite avidly and do so much less due to the defecit of decent things to play. (Deus Ex was tasty though...)
I don't shoot off at the mouth like you seem to think I do, its an opinion. I think NVidia is selling out. They bought out the competitoin and sold thier souls to Microsoft. Yes, I saw the DOOM 3/MAC/NVidia crap. BFD. Until a PPC becomes more PC and can be made from pieces it will sit in the corner. (I wish PPC would make its way into non-Apple boxes one of these days for LinuxPPC)
Case in point. The education here is as low as it could get without social collapse. Now strap on some leather and swig a beer on your harley, you PWT. If communism includes trying to educate everyone properly before profiteering/tax cutting/etc, even genetic molotons such as yourself, then communism is better than this.
"You can drive a car with yo' feet, but doesn't mean its to be done."
I watched S.W. EP1 in horror that night, at midnight, and realized Lucas and Nintendo are marketing whores. They both market to the kiddies. Lucas is already rich, but no, he has to pull the "infinity + 1," he is infinitly rich but he has to make more money by marketing to the minds of 8 year olds rather than creating another epic. (S.W. EP 4 & 5 are good movies.)
Historians aren't quite sure who invented the first rocket, but by the year 1250 AD, Chinese warriors were launching simple bombs using gunpowder for propulsion. For over 500 years, these simple rockets were used only for military purposes. They were crude, had no steering mechanism, and often blew up before they even got off the ground. Things started to improve in the early 1800's, however, when William Congreve, an English scientist, added a simple guidance system to his gunpowder fired rockets. With the addition of the first real launching pad, his "rockets' red glare" during the War of 1812 were made famous in the "Star Spangled Banner," the National Anthem of the United States.
It wasn't until the early 1900's that the analytical science of rocketry really came into its own. American scientist Robert Goddard studied how much thrust could be obtained from a variety of different fuels. In 1926, he launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, and the space age began.
So, Ass, an American did invent the first ~liquid~ feuled rocket, as clearly stated. America sucks today - I agree - its about hoarding cash not innovating (A LA HP), but anti-Americanism is lame by the same token.
I am biased against them because I worked in a bank, and dealing with that company was like pulling teeth. They are to me like part of the digital mafia, with thier fingers deep in pie. I personally have heard goog things about IBM POS, bad about NCR. I like Symbios based solutions in general. When I said failure I was referring to thier inability to market it to the end user. I use the word mafia to describe them because they do simplistic things to generate cash, eg, monpolize fish markets, concrete companies, garbage collection and they corner cash register market. Don't like them, I wish they would cease to exist, and thats an opinion.
Of course it doesn't work. I implemented several Lucent base stations here; they interefere with cordless phones, they work when they feel like it, and aliens could fly over and interrupt it at any time. I don't understand the wireless craze. Yeah copper sucks but at least it works most of the time. This new wireless stuff has a long way to go.
Boycotting NCR would be an effective boycott - they do suck and need it to be known. Ask any IT person who works at a bank how asininely expensive any of their 'crap' is. And that's exactly what it is. Companies pandering crap and having to use the last of their dwindling capital to send the dogs of hell (a.k.a lawyers) to try and scrape off of others inventions. Shame on NCR. And I hate ATM/MAC machine. Slow, beepy, cruddy looking now with banner ads. You know how much one of those cost? Over $100,000. Shame on a company who makes tons of money on thick metal boxes with a cruddy terminal system - oh, and those neat rubber wheels that actually fish out cash properly every time! Maybe HP should license the NCR rubber wheel technology for use in their printers. Has that been patented yet? Proper-paper-pinching-plastic-wheels?
Go away National Cash Register. (Failed in P.O.S. systems, failed at cash registers, failed at SCSI cards.)
I tried to go and fetch the video and I was brushed off by an automated message...
"The page requested was not found or may be restricted to GTI's website subscribers."
Interesting - it is located in a/pub/ directory.
Then I wrote to the web administrator using the provided email address and got in return a mail loop problem user not found error return to sender type message.
For people who develop a star wars laser with billions of dollars in government cheese and end up with an invention for the rapist Alaska destroying Bush subsidized oil companies and they can't even manage giving out a file via the web or receiving mail properly.
Initially, I felt good about seeing these spammers up for the jail time, but I cannot support the government in endeavors to incarcerate people when they have no knowledge of networking. Open relays are asking for it. While it would be nice to have them, when they get abused, they were shut down. I think there should be punishments doled out in a different fashion - more along the line of d-linking the spammers ISP - a la the G-line in IRC land. The is the same reason I don't support the death penalty - the government is "the people," the average person is dumb as a rock, and half the people you see are dumber than that, and a corrupt government cannot be allowed to execute its citizens - and the government cannot be allowed to imprison people until "the people" have a better understanding of technology in general.
The whole existence of RAMBUS is 'bogus.' They lie, cheat and steal better than most, with every drop of revenue undeserved. They are so good at it, they even victimized Intel and all the OEMs who have to contractually sell RAM-CRUD memory. Meanwhile, while this guy reams Micron, I can go buy a 256MB ECC CL=2 PC133 DIMM for 90 bucks from them. I love them. You can barely find a 256MB RIMM - and you will always pay over $350 for it, and it sucks. The good thing is now the OEMs are using ServerWorks wherever they can to screw Intel and RAMBUS, and to give the customer more memory for the money. (Even though they still enjoy a good raping, we get cheap memory.)
Maybe the Scientists and Engineers who thought 'Computers Sucked' should look up the Klehr kid who came up with a new Geometry theorem while doodling on a notepad in study hall. Perhaps the new discovery tool of choice will be crayons and standard rule paper? (Probably better than Windows on a PC anyway)
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I never thought it was fair to beat someone to the punch at the patent office. Most of the people who are the progenitors of new and useful things never reap the fiscal benefit of their creations. That's when the legalist rapists set in and collude together to prevent this new useful entity from ever being used again without some form of royalty being paid. If the patent system protected the little people and spanked the big boys around, I'd have less the say, unfortunately, the converse is true. It seems the larger companies leverage this system much better to even work against the people who actually should hold the patent. Hindsight is 20/20, but if some grubber thinks to patent the obvious he should be sent down with the same reckless abandon the patent was filed in.
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3DFX focused on quality over frame rate - for the time being the 5500 will sit. (The GeForce 2 is in another box).
ATI is junk, the drivers are junk, they live off of OEM deals. The Kyro cards are nice, I would like them to gain traction.
Yes, Microsoft is again riding another company's technology wave to capitalize.
Yes, DX8 is the focus, the card will be hardware tuned for DX8. Who develops for OpenGL? I rarely see a game with a decent OpenGL 'option.' I do, however, recall playing several games in '3DFX' modes because changing the driver every thirty seconds as it is in NVidia land gets annoying. I think NVidia's products are decent. I think this XBOX is a monopolistic venture designed to stifle and kill off other markets. I used to game quite avidly and do so much less due to the defecit of decent things to play. (Deus Ex was tasty though...)
I don't shoot off at the mouth like you seem to think I do, its an opinion. I think NVidia is selling out. They bought out the competitoin and sold thier souls to Microsoft. Yes, I saw the DOOM 3/MAC/NVidia crap. BFD. Until a PPC becomes more PC and can be made from pieces it will sit in the corner. (I wish PPC would make its way into non-Apple boxes one of these days for LinuxPPC)
I think this is very newsworthy:
3DFX effectivly dies.
NVidia no longer has competition. They start to proprietize around DirectX 8.
Now MacroShaft needs to deliver riding on someone else's coattails again. One would think NVidia could see the writing on the wall (Citrix style).
Now we will be subjected to a round of cards selling us features we don't need (shadowing) and they will only work better on one API, DirectX.
And now, even with a feather in the cap, Microsoft and the legion of marketing whores and MBAs have to engage in flat out lying to the public.
Sad times are these when ruffians walk about selling bullcrap to the masses....
Case in point. The education here is as low as it could get without social collapse. Now strap on some leather and swig a beer on your harley, you PWT. If communism includes trying to educate everyone properly before profiteering/tax cutting/etc, even genetic molotons such as yourself, then communism is better than this.
In the words of Chris Rock;
"You can drive a car with yo' feet, but doesn't mean its to be done."
I watched S.W. EP1 in horror that night, at midnight, and realized Lucas and Nintendo are marketing whores. They both market to the kiddies. Lucas is already rich, but no, he has to pull the "infinity + 1," he is infinitly rich but he has to make more money by marketing to the minds of 8 year olds rather than creating another epic. (S.W. EP 4 & 5 are good movies.)
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Historians aren't quite sure who invented the first rocket, but by the year 1250 AD, Chinese warriors were launching simple bombs using gunpowder for propulsion. For over 500 years, these simple rockets were used only for military purposes. They were crude, had no steering mechanism, and often blew up before they even got off the ground. Things started to improve in the early 1800's, however, when William Congreve, an English scientist, added a simple guidance system to his gunpowder fired rockets. With the addition of the first real launching pad, his "rockets' red glare" during the War of 1812 were made famous in the "Star Spangled Banner," the National Anthem of the United States.
It wasn't until the early 1900's that the analytical science of rocketry really came into its own. American scientist Robert Goddard studied how much thrust could be obtained from a variety of different fuels. In 1926, he launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, and the space age began.
So, Ass, an American did invent the first ~liquid~ feuled rocket, as clearly stated. America sucks today - I agree - its about hoarding cash not innovating (A LA HP), but anti-Americanism is lame by the same token.
I am biased against them because I worked in a bank, and dealing with that company was like pulling teeth. They are to me like part of the digital mafia, with thier fingers deep in pie. I personally have heard goog things about IBM POS, bad about NCR. I like Symbios based solutions in general. When I said failure I was referring to thier inability to market it to the end user. I use the word mafia to describe them because they do simplistic things to generate cash, eg, monpolize fish markets, concrete companies, garbage collection and they corner cash register market. Don't like them, I wish they would cease to exist, and thats an opinion.
Of course it doesn't work. I implemented several Lucent base stations here; they interefere with cordless phones, they work when they feel like it, and aliens could fly over and interrupt it at any time. I don't understand the wireless craze. Yeah copper sucks but at least it works most of the time. This new wireless stuff has a long way to go.
Boycotting NCR would be an effective boycott - they do suck and need it to be known. Ask any IT person who works at a bank how asininely expensive any of their 'crap' is. And that's exactly what it is. Companies pandering crap and having to use the last of their dwindling capital to send the dogs of hell (a.k.a lawyers) to try and scrape off of others inventions. Shame on NCR. And I hate ATM/MAC machine. Slow, beepy, cruddy looking now with banner ads. You know how much one of those cost? Over $100,000. Shame on a company who makes tons of money on thick metal boxes with a cruddy terminal system - oh, and those neat rubber wheels that actually fish out cash properly every time! Maybe HP should license the NCR rubber wheel technology for use in their printers. Has that been patented yet? Proper-paper-pinching-plastic-wheels?
Go away National Cash Register. (Failed in P.O.S. systems, failed at cash registers, failed at SCSI cards.)
I tried to go and fetch the video and I was brushed off by an automated message...
"The page requested was not found or may be restricted to GTI's website subscribers."
Interesting - it is located in a
Then I wrote to the web administrator using the provided email address and got in return a mail loop problem user not found error return to sender type message.
For people who develop a star wars laser with billions of dollars in government cheese and end up with an invention for the rapist Alaska destroying Bush subsidized oil companies and they can't even manage giving out a file via the web or receiving mail properly.
Initially, I felt good about seeing these spammers up for the jail time, but I cannot support the government in endeavors to incarcerate people when they have no knowledge of networking. Open relays are asking for it. While it would be nice to have them, when they get abused, they were shut down. I think there should be punishments doled out in a different fashion - more along the line of d-linking the spammers ISP - a la the G-line in IRC land. The is the same reason I don't support the death penalty - the government is "the people," the average person is dumb as a rock, and half the people you see are dumber than that, and a corrupt government cannot be allowed to execute its citizens - and the government cannot be allowed to imprison people until "the people" have a better understanding of technology in general.
The whole existence of RAMBUS is 'bogus.' They lie, cheat and steal better than most, with every drop of revenue undeserved. They are so good at it, they even victimized Intel and all the OEMs who have to contractually sell RAM-CRUD memory. Meanwhile, while this guy reams Micron, I can go buy a 256MB ECC CL=2 PC133 DIMM for 90 bucks from them. I love them. You can barely find a 256MB RIMM - and you will always pay over $350 for it, and it sucks. The good thing is now the OEMs are using ServerWorks wherever they can to screw Intel and RAMBUS, and to give the customer more memory for the money. (Even though they still enjoy a good raping, we get cheap memory.)
Maybe the Scientists and Engineers who thought 'Computers Sucked' should look up the Klehr kid who came up with a new Geometry theorem while doodling on a notepad in study hall. Perhaps the new discovery tool of choice will be crayons and standard rule paper? (Probably better than Windows on a PC anyway)
I never thought it was fair to beat someone to the punch at the patent office. Most of the people who are the progenitors of new and useful things never reap the fiscal benefit of their creations. That's when the legalist rapists set in and collude together to prevent this new useful entity from ever being used again without some form of royalty being paid. If the patent system protected the little people and spanked the big boys around, I'd have less the say, unfortunately, the converse is true. It seems the larger companies leverage this system much better to even work against the people who actually should hold the patent. Hindsight is 20/20, but if some grubber thinks to patent the obvious he should be sent down with the same reckless abandon the patent was filed in.