Taco, please tell me, because I'm confused. How can you think The Who is the greatest band of all time, and still like (or even listen to) Eminem? WTF?
1. Run svideo or composite cable from your GeForce to your TV/VCR.
2. Run audio cable from your soundcard to your stereo.
3. Play movie full-screen, on your TV.
Fuck! Fourth!
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It's on a hard disk. It's just a matter of time until a device or hack comes along that lets you either a) copy it to a CD / DVD, or b) stream it across the net. And wow, we have the MP3 wars all over again.
The problem is that to allow 'fair use' in the digital age, you also have to allow 'piracy' (crappy term, but I'll use it here for the sake of clarity). I can't see how the two can be separated.
The content producers and distributors are fighting this by attempting to thwart 'fair use' as it's currently accepted. What they *should* be doing, IMHO, is a) understanding the situation b) accepting the situation, and c) finding new ways of generating revenue. Just like the MPAA did when VCRs came along.
Excellent article. I agree this is the way things should be heading, but the biggest problem is going to be defining standards for the information. The largest information providers will be trying hard to hold on to, and control access to, their so-called intellectual property.
The semantic web depends on universal open standards for access to this information. MS's solution, hailstorm, already tells you what they think of that idea. Let's hope that we can avoid another browser (agent) war...
Commercials influence you, whether you think you pay attention to them or not. And the most annoying ones are the most effective. Think about that for a second.
Dude, as someone who has worked in the laser-print and mail-processing industry, let me tell you that people don't see normal barcodes, either. Or micronumbers, or OMR marks, or any of the technology that's added to the printed document to enable it to be processed / tracked automatically. If it's not human readable and obvious, your average person just doesn't process it.
I always notice this stuff, because I'm attuned to it. None of my non-industry friends do. If I ever happen to point it out, the reaction is always "Hey, wow, I never noticed that before". It's not an intelligence thing, either. I've got some smart friends, but that sort of stuff is just filtered out of the image by your brain if it doesn't mean anything to you.
That's the weakest argument I've seen yet. Gee, the folder looks like a folder, the magnifying glass looks like a magnifying glass, the off button looks like an off button. Apart from the duck, they're both simply copying real-world items to use as metaphors for system features.
Excellent. I agree 100%. I mean, I don't seem to have an problems using a computer, I'm not plagued by software configuration problems as are some of my friends and family, and I'm pretty sure the reason for that is because I know what the fuck I'm doing.
Some people are never going to be able to use a computer, regardless of how much eye-candy you put on the screen. You expect to have to train for just about everything else, why should computers be any different?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I can move my hand much quicker and with greater precision than my head. Less mass, less momentum, and much more muscle control in my wrist than my neck. This'd HURT playing Quake.
Interesting. See the article said "It is so efficient in fact, that the $149 Kyro II card clocked at 175MHz is able to outperform a GeForce2 Ultra with considerably more power and around 3X the cost of the Kyro II card."
I don't call slightly faster results in a distinct minority of the benchmarks vs. much slower results in the rest 'outperforming'.
Hmm, let's just look at the benchmarks, shall we? Lines in bold, with ***'s on them are the ones that the Kyro II came top in. In all other benchmarks, the winner was the GeForce2 Ultra.
Every time you reinstall Windows, you'll need a new code. R. Kinner is already prepared to join a class action lawsuit against Microsoft: "If I, as a home user, am forced over the course of a year to reinstall XP five times, and MS refuses me a sixth code, they are the ones breaking the commerce contract that was begun when I purchased the software." Call off the lawyers! You can reinstall Windows or Office XP an unlimited number of times on the same hardware. The activation will be automatic.
This has to be bullshit. If I reformat and reinstall, how could Office possibly know that I already have an activation code? Where, exactly, is Office storing the activation code? On the hard drive I just formatted?
Ditto if I upgrade the hard drive. Am I missing something here?
This might be slightly offtopic, but why put the power supply inside the box? If you're going to run a bunch of these in a rack, why not have a larger, dedicated power supply that can feed 12v/5v straight to the boxes? Does anyone do this? It'd be another way to reduce heat inside the case, too.
If you print screenshots, what do you expect? And who would print screenshots full of text to get a readable hardcopy of that text anyway?
Why don't you just choose the 'Print' option from the application, rather than capturing the screen and then printing it? That way you'll get output correctly formatted for the device you're writing to (e.g. the printer).
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Taco, please tell me, because I'm confused. How can you think The Who is the greatest band of all time, and still like (or even listen to) Eminem? WTF?
1. Run svideo or composite cable from your GeForce to your TV/VCR.
2. Run audio cable from your soundcard to your stereo.
3. Play movie full-screen, on your TV.
How hard is that?
Not to mention:
-1 Stupid
-1 Lame humor attempt
-2 Groupthink
-3 Content free
-5 Obviously didn't read article
-9 Whiny bitch
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Interestingly, this only works if you have the preview pane switched on.
Hmm, and in the board game, Japan almost always wins... Scary.
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It's on a hard disk. It's just a matter of time until a device or hack comes along that lets you either a) copy it to a CD / DVD, or b) stream it across the net. And wow, we have the MP3 wars all over again.
The problem is that to allow 'fair use' in the digital age, you also have to allow 'piracy' (crappy term, but I'll use it here for the sake of clarity). I can't see how the two can be separated.
The content producers and distributors are fighting this by attempting to thwart 'fair use' as it's currently accepted. What they *should* be doing, IMHO, is a) understanding the situation b) accepting the situation, and c) finding new ways of generating revenue. Just like the MPAA did when VCRs came along.
Excellent article. I agree this is the way things should be heading, but the biggest problem is going to be defining standards for the information. The largest information providers will be trying hard to hold on to, and control access to, their so-called intellectual property.
The semantic web depends on universal open standards for access to this information. MS's solution, hailstorm, already tells you what they think of that idea. Let's hope that we can avoid another browser (agent) war...
If you're interested, he's talking mainly about MS and IBM adding WSDL to the SOAP spec. The original userland article is here: http://davenet.userland.com/2001/03/29/unstallingS oap
Commercials influence you, whether you think you pay attention to them or not. And the most annoying ones are the most effective. Think about that for a second.
That might be true of Xerox, but it sure isn't for a number of spin-offs, including Fuji Xerox. The broken X will survive in one form or another.
Dude, as someone who has worked in the laser-print and mail-processing industry, let me tell you that people don't see normal barcodes, either. Or micronumbers, or OMR marks, or any of the technology that's added to the printed document to enable it to be processed / tracked automatically. If it's not human readable and obvious, your average person just doesn't process it.
I always notice this stuff, because I'm attuned to it. None of my non-industry friends do. If I ever happen to point it out, the reaction is always "Hey, wow, I never noticed that before". It's not an intelligence thing, either. I've got some smart friends, but that sort of stuff is just filtered out of the image by your brain if it doesn't mean anything to you.
It's a high-density barcode. That's it. Move along. Nothing to see here.
That's the weakest argument I've seen yet. Gee, the folder looks like a folder, the magnifying glass looks like a magnifying glass, the off button looks like an off button. Apart from the duck, they're both simply copying real-world items to use as metaphors for system features.
Excellent. I agree 100%. I mean, I don't seem to have an problems using a computer, I'm not plagued by software configuration problems as are some of my friends and family, and I'm pretty sure the reason for that is because I know what the fuck I'm doing.
Some people are never going to be able to use a computer, regardless of how much eye-candy you put on the screen. You expect to have to train for just about everything else, why should computers be any different?
I don't know about anyone else here, but I can move my hand much quicker and with greater precision than my head. Less mass, less momentum, and much more muscle control in my wrist than my neck. This'd HURT playing Quake.
Interesting. See the article said "It is so efficient in fact, that the $149 Kyro II card clocked at 175MHz is able to outperform a GeForce2 Ultra with considerably more power and around 3X the cost of the Kyro II card."
I don't call slightly faster results in a distinct minority of the benchmarks vs. much slower results in the rest 'outperforming'.
Hmm, let's just look at the benchmarks, shall we? Lines in bold, with ***'s on them are the ones that the Kyro II came top in. In all other benchmarks, the winner was the GeForce2 Ultra.
Quake III Arena Performance
'Normal' Settings - 640x480x32
'Normal' Settings - 1024x768x32
'Normal' Settings - 1600x1200x32
MDK2 Performance
Default Settings (T&L enabled) - 640x480x32
Default Settings (T&L enabled) - 1024x768x32
Default Settings (T&L enabled) - 1600x1200x32
UnrealTournament Performance
Minimum Frame Rate - 640x480x32 ***
Average Frame Rate - 640x480x32 ***
Minimum Frame Rate - 1024x768x32
Average Frame Rate - 1024x768x32
Minimum Frame Rate - 1600x1200x16
Average Frame Rate - 1600x1200x16
Serious Sam Performance - Fill Rates
Serious Sam Test 2 Single Texture Fillrate
Serious Sam Test 2 Multitexture Fillrate
Serious Sam Performance - Game Play
Serious Sam Test 2 640x480x32
Serious Sam Test 2 1024x768x32 ***
Serious Sam Test 2 1600x1200x32 ***
Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing Performance
All options enabled - 640x480x32
All options enabled - 1024x768x32
All options enabled - 1600x1200x32
FSAA Image Quality and Performance
Serious Sam Test 2 640x480x32 (4 Sample FSAA) ***
Serious Sam Test 2 1024x768x32 (4 Sample FSAA) ***
You can draw your own conclusions, but I think I'll keep saving for that GeForce.
Read the quote again, specifically The activation will be automatic.
Call me stoopid, but I can't see how this would work without Office storing the code on the HDD somewhere.
Speculation is welcome as to why NT sysadmins don't install service packs for known vulnerabilities
Because apt-get update;apt-get upgrade doesn't seem to work on my NT boxen...
From the TechRepublic article:
Every time you reinstall Windows, you'll need a new code.
R. Kinner is already prepared to join a class action lawsuit against Microsoft: "If I, as a home user, am forced over the course of a year to reinstall XP five times, and MS refuses me a sixth code, they are the ones breaking the commerce contract that was begun when I purchased the software." Call off the lawyers! You can reinstall Windows or Office XP an unlimited number of times on the same hardware. The activation will be automatic.
This has to be bullshit. If I reformat and reinstall, how could Office possibly know that I already have an activation code? Where, exactly, is Office storing the activation code? On the hard drive I just formatted?
Ditto if I upgrade the hard drive. Am I missing something here?
This might be slightly offtopic, but why put the power supply inside the box? If you're going to run a bunch of these in a rack, why not have a larger, dedicated power supply that can feed 12v/5v straight to the boxes? Does anyone do this? It'd be another way to reduce heat inside the case, too.
If you print screenshots, what do you expect? And who would print screenshots full of text to get a readable hardcopy of that text anyway?
Why don't you just choose the 'Print' option from the application, rather than capturing the screen and then printing it? That way you'll get output correctly formatted for the device you're writing to (e.g. the printer).