That's called workplace politics. A group of engineers and scientists entrench themselves in a company. Despite making little to no progress or just complete crap for years and millions of dollars, they always look good to the managers that can actually do something about them, because they play the politics. This is what the "other 90%" of engineering and science majors do to make their living.
Witnessing it firsthand is quite painful for a geek.
Unfortunately most of the people you are referring to are really semi-intelligent uninspired talentless hacks. Most people just want $$$ and a Dr next to their name. Please go to your local college library and skim through the thesis papers.
Those power connectors have always been the weakest part of any power supply, they often fail causing intermittent connections which result in lockups or worse. I find I have to crimp down each socket with some needle nose pliers if I remove them... and now there's TWO per connection..
I'm hoping more devices move to SATA style power, so far it seems to have far better contact.
I've been reading up on the user-experience with the F3-QAM on AVS Forum and so far it looks like the software supplied with the cards is terrible. How has it been for you? It seems it's also sensitive to the cable provider to which the card is connected. Until I start reading lots of postings from happy Fusion customers, I'm not about to drop 200 bucks on one of their cards.
It's gotten better with the newer releases. The problem most encountered is that if you try to tune to an encrypted channel it will crash the program, but you can work around this easily. The solution is in that thread. Otherwise it seems stable enough for casual viewing and recording. It even allows you to record all subchannels simultaneously (I'm not sure how other cards handle this) so you can literally record two or more shows with one tuner, depending on where they are located. I've used ATI's products before and I'd say it's on par with the 8.x MMC as far as stability goes. The decoder acceleration seems to work well, an athlon 1300 with a Geforce FX 5200 runs abut 40-50% cpu on a 1080i stream.
I can't comment on other cable providers but it seems to work fine with Comcast.
Of course I hope people just pressure them into speeding up linux driver development, so we don't need their app anymore - just directly record into MythTV:)
That is what you get. The ATI comes with a tuner that not only supports OTA but also QAM so you can plug your local cable company's line into the card and get a signal.
Not according to ATI, yes the NXT2004 chip does support QAM, but the card does not. The ExtremeTech review explains this.
The story and review reads like this is the first HDTV tuner card for the PC - ever. There are already quite a few, and in fact for $199 this is substandard to the Dvico Fusion III Gold QAM, which was released not to long ago.
This card allows you to intercept QAM modulated HDTV (in addition to 8VSB), which is what you get over cable TV. Regardless of what people say, if you can't literally see the transmitter from your location you are going to need some sort of antenna hardware above and beyond bunny ears, amplified indoor antenna's help - but not that much. Several stations actually protested the 8VSB standard because they understood that very few people were just going to be able to recieve a good signal with just indoor antennas.
With this card I simply plug into my cable, and most of my local HDTV channels are there at 100% signal. Also for the few stations that come in reliably OTA and I can easily switch inputs via software.
Also some representatives of this company have said that they are willing to aid in producing linux drivers, although I have been trying to get some specs and have not heard anything back recently:(
On it's way back from the duplication... How does this delay the game again? Was it the _only_ copy? How long does it take VS to crank out another build? Worried that people will download the warez copy before they can buy one? Simple, make it available for download by purchase.
Maybe they will delay the game for a year and claim it was because it got stolen. *cough* Half Life 2, but they actually had to do an internal investigation and security audit. That certainly didn't take a year.
Soon they will be blaming the loss of digital bits for cancer and terrorism (oh wait a sec....)
1. Get "free" hardware, cancel software subscription ASAP. 2. Run Linux. 3. Watch Microsoft and Sun dissappear or become miniscule custom software houses.
Their only way out is DRM, because regardless of propoganda and new legislation, software will always be free to copy, hardware will always involve labor to make. However no DRM can ultimately technically succeed.
Now it all makes sense why Intel wants to use model numbers, their newer (faster) cpu's will run at a lower clock rate. Looks like they let marketing run engineering when the produced the P4, and now it's come to resolution.
The question is: What can we do about it? The answer is: Unfortunately, not much. ...
The earth is a chaotic system, and chaotic systems for the most part are unpredictable. A variation of a few hundredths of a degree in one place in the world can be responsible for a hurricane in another.
First you say we are powerless over it because we have so little effect, and then you say a variation of a few hundreths of a degree can cause a hurricane. Of course it's so complex it also requires 'more study', and by the tone of you comments you seem to suggest that it will be impossible to predict nature.
Which is it? People: don't mistake this for anything other than it is, a bad ostrich immitation and an excuse to continue current habits because it is profitable - to the body and to the wallet.
Ever since our ancestors 10000 years ago stopped eating every fruit and seed they found, and started planting some of them in the ground and waiting half a year instead, life started getting more boring. The basis of civilization is the deferment of gratification.
Try looking up "panem et circenses". On the other hand, don't bother; it'll be too boring. How about this one: "Here we are now, entertain us". Interesting how you can go from Juvenal to Kurt Cobain, and see there is still nothing new under the sun.
For what it is worth, I have ADHD. I don't watch TV precisely because I get sucked in and suddenly I find it is three hours later and that's three hours I'm not getting back ever again. I don't need any further excuses for asocial behavior; I start out with enough of that without TV to boost it.
Farming != civilization. In a city you can more choices and quicker. American civilization is certainly not agricultural. The flashing signs and lights of Times Square define our modern civilization.
Yes, our ancestors have been in a never ending struggle to entertain themselves. Are you saying it is wrong? Because now you are debating the purpose and reason of life, whether there is god or no god. Perhaps this domain contains the assumptions of which I originally spoke, and is the reason they go unquestioned - because they cannot be questioned by those who have already "bet their chips"
Your personal disdain and real or imagined effect of TV on the way you think life is _supposed_ (look above, again) to be is of no value in this discussion.
Everyone is making a fundamental but somehow questioned assumption here: That the change in children is bad, and the lack of focus on rudimentary tasks is bad.
I see it the other way, we are more used to sensory input. As a result the mundane bores us more. Yes sometimes when I should be focusing I'm not, but that's because it's so _boring_. Nobody is measuring how many tasks I can pay attention to at once, and no one is measuring how well I can focus in these situations.
I've noticed this difference between generations between myself and my dad using a computer. He can't tolerate more than one window open at a time, just gets confused. On the other hand I have between 10-30 different windows running on at least two screens at all times, not including vnc sessions into other boxes.
However in the machine that the public school system is supposed to be - cranking out automatons that must be satisfied with their jobs no matter what - require people to pay attention to boring things. For example manufacturing and retail jobs. This is the philosophy that public schools have followed for a very long time. Perhaps the information overload at an early age is countering this conditioning, I like it.
1. Create Nachi variation that makes diebold machines all vote republican (or only a few percent extra), including the paper ticket the voter doesn't see.
2. Wait
3. World Domination.
Don't even need access to the machine, zero accountability, to the paper trail, to diebold, to the republican party, etc.
Does anyone still care about MIPS, MFLOPS, Dhrystone, Whetstone, or SPEC? Why do we want to rehash history with GPU's?
If you want a synthetic benchmark, the companies will make their product work well with the benchmark, a little else. When the inevitable happens (As it has with both major players) you should neither get upset nor demand a better benchmark, instead laugh when someone fronts a synthetic benchmark score.
So you want to know if a card you are going to buy will work well for a game that is going to come out in 6 months to a year. We'd all like to know the future as well, I'd prefer a crystal ball.
"and for overclockers hoping to squeeze 1 more cycle out of their CPUs."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but chips stop working completely at temperatures that cold. In fact chips for extraterrestrial use often need heaters to bring them up to operational temperatures.
Absolute zero is absolute because it means zero atomic movement; no electron movement; no Quake frames per second.
Sometimes when people say "The U.S. doesn't have any chemical or biological weapons", there's a guy who will snort and say "Oh yeah, they do, they just want you to THINK they don't!"
Well:
1) That would be a pretty massive freaking conspiracy, don't you think?
It's not a conspiracy, it's just not advertised. FYI the anthrax that was getting mailed to democrats and liberals (did no one in the mainstream media make this connection?) previously was made in a military facility located in Utah.
We have large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
Here is a non-classified breakdown by type and storage location in the US http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/cbw/cw.htm The Bush administration has restarted our NBC weapons program, and if they are allowed to continue on this path, they WILL use them.
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But no one 'sees fit', it just mutates, uncontrollably. The action of which you speak is not underway. The average english speaker is using a fraction of the vocabulary available, not to mention the mutation we are talking about is the degeneration of vocabulary, not it's amendment. I am not concerned about the next shakespeare forming an entirely new but necessary and proper word. If current language does not suit you, I suggest all the creative arts people have a global conference and engineer a completely new language with structure, purpose, and easy extensibility. Although the same process that I am talking about would be inflicted on it, and unless like sanskrit it is preserved by the elite it will quickly (relative) degenerate by the bastardization of the language by commoners. If you want to have an equitable society, it must be assured that near 100% of the population knows and speaks with proper diction. Relate this with the original post.
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The guardians of language are often the biggest opponents of it's development and modernization. Isn't that ironic?
No, that's a logical fallacy. Mutation of language is neither development nor modernization. It is bastardization. Look at sanskrit, a language that was engineered, and has been kept almost intact for over two thousand years, one reason being that the scholarly class of Hindus kept the language seperate from the common language, the word sanskrita means "refined" or "purified," and is the opposite of prakrita, meaning "natural" or "vulgar" which all the commoners spoke. (and no, it's not a dead language, you can still find places in India where this is the main language)
Whether modern english has enough merit to be preserved is another argument altogether, but you're just making communication harder by letting it change.
This is about rights that are no longer protected or respected by our government. Many people say in response to criticism of the patriot act and the atrophy of civil rights long before that "How are you less free now? What can't you do now because of xxx" - Well here it is. The bill of rights and could dissappear tomorrow, and america would be little different, except for the unlucky. You could be an unlucky one today.
Some of you may cite the fact that they are not citizens, but that is just a loophole considering anyone can be declared an enemy combatent.
We are in a critical period in our history, the age oil is peaking, and there is a single super power on the planet redefining itself - apparently into a extreme right fascist global empire. Pay close attention.
There are scientific studies done on this subject. WHERE did these 'stereotypes' get started? WHY does society 'perpetuate' them?. Many who think like you are unable to even approach these questions in any meaningful way.
It's like an alcoholic not admitting he has a problem. Don't deny human nature. Next you'll be telling us that if society didn't perpetuate the myth that women carry babies, we'd be seeing more pregnant men. (and of course some of you will want to say 'but but but that different we're still equal!!!') Only if we become a species of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites. To assume that the differences stop with hair, muscles, and genetalia is foolhardy.
For some reason you seem to equate women focusing on their external appearance with sexism. Don't tell me that, TELL THEM! Of course there are always exceptions to the rule, but we're not talking about exceptions, we're talking about a large majority. You pick a random 10 girls, and at least 9 of them will be wearing makeup.
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That's called workplace politics. A group of engineers and scientists entrench themselves in a company. Despite making little to no progress or just complete crap for years and millions of dollars, they always look good to the managers that can actually do something about them, because they play the politics. This is what the "other 90%" of engineering and science majors do to make their living.
Witnessing it firsthand is quite painful for a geek.
Unfortunately most of the people you are referring to are really semi-intelligent uninspired talentless hacks. Most people just want $$$ and a Dr next to their name. Please go to your local college library and skim through the thesis papers.
Those power connectors have always been the weakest part of any power supply, they often fail causing intermittent connections which result in lockups or worse. I find I have to crimp down each socket with some needle nose pliers if I remove them... and now there's TWO per connection..
I'm hoping more devices move to SATA style power, so far it seems to have far better contact.
"America... We're better than Saddam" - Jon Stewart 2004
Nothing offical, but if you search the forums like below you'll find some discussion.
http://www.avsforum.com/
I've been reading up on the user-experience with the F3-QAM on AVS Forum and so far it looks like the software supplied with the cards is terrible. How has it been for you? It seems it's also sensitive to the cable provider to which the card is connected. Until I start reading lots of postings from happy Fusion customers, I'm not about to drop 200 bucks on one of their cards.
:)
It's gotten better with the newer releases. The problem most encountered is that if you try to tune to an encrypted channel it will crash the program, but you can work around this easily. The solution is in that thread. Otherwise it seems stable enough for casual viewing and recording. It even allows you to record all subchannels simultaneously (I'm not sure how other cards handle this) so you can literally record two or more shows with one tuner, depending on where they are located. I've used ATI's products before and I'd say it's on par with the 8.x MMC as far as stability goes. The decoder acceleration seems to work well, an athlon 1300 with a Geforce FX 5200 runs abut 40-50% cpu on a 1080i stream.
I can't comment on other cable providers but it seems to work fine with Comcast.
Of course I hope people just pressure them into speeding up linux driver development, so we don't need their app anymore - just directly record into MythTV
That is what you get. The ATI comes with a tuner that not only supports OTA but also QAM so you can plug your local cable company's line into the card and get a signal.
Not according to ATI, yes the NXT2004 chip does support QAM, but the card does not. The ExtremeTech review explains this.
The story and review reads like this is the first HDTV tuner card for the PC - ever. There are already quite a few, and in fact for $199 this is substandard to the Dvico Fusion III Gold QAM, which was released not to long ago.
:(
This card allows you to intercept QAM modulated HDTV (in addition to 8VSB), which is what you get over cable TV. Regardless of what people say, if you can't literally see the transmitter from your location you are going to need some sort of antenna hardware above and beyond bunny ears, amplified indoor antenna's help - but not that much. Several stations actually protested the 8VSB standard because they understood that very few people were just going to be able to recieve a good signal with just indoor antennas.
With this card I simply plug into my cable, and most of my local HDTV channels are there at 100% signal. Also for the few stations that come in reliably OTA and I can easily switch inputs via software.
Also some representatives of this company have said that they are willing to aid in producing linux drivers, although I have been trying to get some specs and have not heard anything back recently
...but boo-hoo.
On it's way back from the duplication... How does this delay the game again? Was it the _only_ copy? How long does it take VS to crank out another build? Worried that people will download the warez copy before they can buy one? Simple, make it available for download by purchase.
Maybe they will delay the game for a year and claim it was because it got stolen. *cough* Half Life 2, but they actually had to do an internal investigation and security audit. That certainly didn't take a year.
Soon they will be blaming the loss of digital bits for cancer and terrorism (oh wait a sec....)
2. Run Linux.
3. Watch Microsoft and Sun dissappear or become miniscule custom software houses.
Their only way out is DRM, because regardless of propoganda and new legislation, software will always be free to copy, hardware will always involve labor to make. However no DRM can ultimately technically succeed.
Now it all makes sense why Intel wants to use model numbers, their newer (faster) cpu's will run at a lower clock rate. Looks like they let marketing run engineering when the produced the P4, and now it's come to resolution.
First you say we are powerless over it because we have so little effect, and then you say a variation of a few hundreths of a degree can cause a hurricane. Of course it's so complex it also requires 'more study', and by the tone of you comments you seem to suggest that it will be impossible to predict nature.
Which is it? People: don't mistake this for anything other than it is, a bad ostrich immitation and an excuse to continue current habits because it is profitable - to the body and to the wallet.
Farming != civilization. In a city you can more choices and quicker. American civilization is certainly not agricultural. The flashing signs and lights of Times Square define our modern civilization.
Yes, our ancestors have been in a never ending struggle to entertain themselves. Are you saying it is wrong? Because now you are debating the purpose and reason of life, whether there is god or no god. Perhaps this domain contains the assumptions of which I originally spoke, and is the reason they go unquestioned - because they cannot be questioned by those who have already "bet their chips"
Your personal disdain and real or imagined effect of TV on the way you think life is _supposed_ (look above, again) to be is of no value in this discussion.
Everyone is making a fundamental but somehow questioned assumption here:
That the change in children is bad, and the lack of focus on rudimentary tasks is bad.
I see it the other way, we are more used to sensory input. As a result the mundane bores us more. Yes sometimes when I should be focusing I'm not, but that's because it's so _boring_. Nobody is measuring how many tasks I can pay attention to at once, and no one is measuring how well I can focus in these situations.
I've noticed this difference between generations between myself and my dad using a computer. He can't tolerate more than one window open at a time, just gets confused. On the other hand I have between 10-30 different windows running on at least two screens at all times, not including vnc sessions into other boxes.
However in the machine that the public school system is supposed to be - cranking out automatons that must be satisfied with their jobs no matter what - require people to pay attention to boring things. For example manufacturing and retail jobs. This is the philosophy that public schools have followed for a very long time. Perhaps the information overload at an early age is countering this conditioning, I like it.
Welcome to the real world, neo.
1. Create Nachi variation that makes diebold machines all vote republican (or only a few percent extra), including the paper ticket the voter doesn't see.
:)
2. Wait
3. World Domination.
Don't even need access to the machine, zero accountability, to the paper trail, to diebold, to the republican party, etc.
Fight it like the plague
...repeat it
Does anyone still care about MIPS, MFLOPS, Dhrystone, Whetstone, or SPEC? Why do we want to rehash history with GPU's?
If you want a synthetic benchmark, the companies will make their product work well with the benchmark, a little else. When the inevitable happens (As it has with both major players) you should neither get upset nor demand a better benchmark, instead laugh when someone fronts a synthetic benchmark score.
So you want to know if a card you are going to buy will work well for a game that is going to come out in 6 months to a year. We'd all like to know the future as well, I'd prefer a crystal ball.
"and for overclockers hoping to squeeze 1 more cycle out of their CPUs."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but chips stop working completely at temperatures that cold. In fact chips for extraterrestrial use often need heaters to bring them up to operational temperatures.
Absolute zero is absolute because it means zero atomic movement; no electron movement; no Quake frames per second.
Many things are difficult, but they must be done. The cost is too great. You can't live in the moment, or you'll lose the future.
Yes it's a master terrorist plot by Dr. Evil bin laden. He will now demand one meeeeeeellion^H^H^H^H^H beeeeellion dollars to turn the power back on!
Me thinks people are too paranoid, and that's really something coming from a semi-conspiracy theorist.
It's not a conspiracy, it's just not advertised. FYI the anthrax that was getting mailed to democrats and liberals (did no one in the mainstream media make this connection?) previously was made in a military facility located in Utah.
We have large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.
Here is a non-classified breakdown by type and storage location in the US
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/cbw/cw.htm
The Bush administration has restarted our NBC weapons program, and if they are allowed to continue on this path, they WILL use them.
But no one 'sees fit', it just mutates, uncontrollably. The action of which you speak is not underway. The average english speaker is using a fraction of the vocabulary available, not to mention the mutation we are talking about is the degeneration of vocabulary, not it's amendment. I am not concerned about the next shakespeare forming an entirely new but necessary and proper word. If current language does not suit you, I suggest all the creative arts people have a global conference and engineer a completely new language with structure, purpose, and easy extensibility. Although the same process that I am talking about would be inflicted on it, and unless like sanskrit it is preserved by the elite it will quickly (relative) degenerate by the bastardization of the language by commoners. If you want to have an equitable society, it must be assured that near 100% of the population knows and speaks with proper diction. Relate this with the original post.
The guardians of language are often the biggest opponents of it's development and modernization. Isn't that ironic?
No, that's a logical fallacy. Mutation of language is neither development nor modernization. It is bastardization. Look at sanskrit, a language that was engineered, and has been kept almost intact for over two thousand years, one reason being that the scholarly class of Hindus kept the language seperate from the common language, the word sanskrita means "refined" or "purified," and is the opposite of prakrita, meaning "natural" or "vulgar" which all the commoners spoke. (and no, it's not a dead language, you can still find places in India where this is the main language)
Whether modern english has enough merit to be preserved is another argument altogether, but you're just making communication harder by letting it change.
This is about rights that are no longer protected or respected by our government. Many people say in response to criticism of the patriot act and the atrophy of civil rights long before that "How are you less free now? What can't you do now because of xxx" - Well here it is. The bill of rights and could dissappear tomorrow, and america would be little different, except for the unlucky. You could be an unlucky one today.
Some of you may cite the fact that they are not citizens, but that is just a loophole considering anyone can be declared an enemy combatent.
We are in a critical period in our history, the age oil is peaking, and there is a single super power on the planet redefining itself - apparently into a extreme right fascist global empire. Pay close attention.
There are scientific studies done on this subject. WHERE did these 'stereotypes' get started? WHY does society 'perpetuate' them?. Many who think like you are unable to even approach these questions in any meaningful way.
It's like an alcoholic not admitting he has a problem. Don't deny human nature. Next you'll be telling us that if society didn't perpetuate the myth that women carry babies, we'd be seeing more pregnant men. (and of course some of you will want to say 'but but but that different we're still equal!!!') Only if we become a species of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites. To assume that the differences stop with hair, muscles, and genetalia is foolhardy.
For some reason you seem to equate women focusing on their external appearance with sexism. Don't tell me that, TELL THEM! Of course there are always exceptions to the rule, but we're not talking about exceptions, we're talking about a large majority. You pick a random 10 girls, and at least 9 of them will be wearing makeup.