They can't possibly hope to create something better than what the corporations have come up with... And how are you supposed to fabricate one in any vaguely cost effective manner? Another amazing story of people wasting their time
I wouldn't call it a waste of time. It would be an incredible learning experience and loads of fun, too. Note that the authors are recent grads (or are about to graduate). Starting a project like this will definitely help them along. You're right, though, this project has a very small chance of success in competing in the video card industry, but it could grow into something cool nevertheless.
The best example of how this can be used is the subwoofer channel. It could sound better than just using a crossover on the user end.
Many musicians will record as many as 8 guitar tracks. Sounds great in stereo, but what kinds of effects would you get if you sent different guitars to 4 speakers? Then there's electronic music. There's so much that can be done.
This is actually something I've thought about doing. Maybe recording an audio-only DVD that incorporates this. Next time I record with my band I'll see what I can do:)
Though I admit, I don't see a lot of artists doing anything like this any time soon. But it may catch on at some point.
....the minute you buy something the price drops! I have spent a lifetime battling this. AND, if you wait....the technology will change.....arrghghghghg!
So true, but the best way to go is to stay behind in technology (for consumers anyone, not business). That's why I'm still running on a K6-2+. I basically set a price at which I'm willing to buy something, and I set it very low. For example, for the last year I waited for an 80 gig EIDE hard drive to hit $100, and when it did, I bought it. Similarly I'm waiting for a good $100 motherboard and processor combo to come a long.
Granted, I feel the difference when I use faster PCs. But hey, I'll have that same speed when the time comes, and I'll have it cheaper!
To me RSI feel much more like a product of bad work habits and popular hysteria than a real problem that can be engineered/designed out.
RSI can also be a product of prior injury. Say you have whiplash, years later you can develop RSI regardless of work habits. Or you strain/sprain your wrist (even mildly), then go and type for eight hours. A lot of people have RSI due to minor injuries in combination with typing.
Re:My mistake. I should have said dried beans.
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I guess "beans" is too general a term.
I've tried food combination myself, and some of it works, some of it doesn't really make a difference. The mixing carbs and proteins rule didn't really didn't make a difference for me, and I've found plenty of "health experts" who contradicted the rule and said it was fallacious. To eat all meals completely devoid of either carbs or protein doesn't make sense to me. I would be malnourished if I did this. Even the vegatables I typically eat have both protein and carbs.
There are some parts of food combining that are true for me. For example, if I eat bananas and oranges together (sweet fruits and acid fruits), I usually have indigestion.
I guess whatever works for you. Everyone's diet needs are different. I just can't imagine life without beans.
5 or 6 years in LinuxLand is a LONG time. Check out a current Linux distro and then post back.
Well, I do use current Linux distros, I just don't pay much attention to security, because I'm no longer an admin. However, looking at recent CERT advisories, looks like not much has changed. The only difference is they report many more Windows vulnerabilities than before.
I think the point is to integrate the PC into the TV setup. You want the TV and the "assload of speakers" but you also want a PC in there. Imagine web browsing, gaming, etc on a 65" HDTV. If you got a big-screen TV, why shouldn't you have a PC hooked up to it?
Beans alone break the first rule of food combining; Don't eat carbs and proteins together.
I'm familiar with the "rules of food combining" ideas, though I don't really think it works. But in any case, you're misinterpreting it. Let me quote directly from A Complete Guide to Nature Cure's chapter on food combining:
"The most important rule for combining foods is to avoid mixing protein and carbohydrate concentrated foods. Although every food contains some protein , those regarded as protein concentrated foods demand the longest digestive time."
By these rules, what you are avoiding is meals where you are eating both protein concentrated and carbohydrate concentrated foods. Key word is "concentrated." Beans aren't protein concentrated. They have high carbs and are low in protein. They don't "rot" inside your body. They are in general a great source of carbs and very good for you.
It sounds to me like you read a lot of questionable information and took it as truth. Don't believe everything you read. Give beans a try again, they really are good foods.
I never have gas because of any kind of beans, even refried beans. I usually eat raw vegatables (spinach, carrots, lettuce, etc) with my meals which seems to help digestion. Just out of curiosity, what is your diet like?
BTW That nature cure book I linked to has a chapter on amino acids.
OTOH, Linux and other Unices, the administrator (root) is strongly discouraged to be the 'user'. And the 'user' has no direct access to the machine. He can hurt himself, but not the machine.
Still, once you compromise a user on the system, its sometimes trivial to acquire root access. Also, with Linux/UNIX there are daemons/services running as root which can be exploited. Maybe security has gotten a little better over the years, but just 5 or 6 years ago, UNIX and Linux were hackers playgrounds of sorts. There were many many exploitable systems out there. Of course a lot of this was admins who left holes open and were slow in applying patches. I haven't been into security since then, so I can't really say what the state of UNIX/Linux security is. All I can say is that it wasn't always very secure. Linux used to be well known for being full of vulnerabilities, a new one being discovered every week it seemed.
And since it is open source, the fixes are much more likely to come sooner and be better done.
Very true... This is what makes the difference. 5 or 6 years ago I didn't hear much of Windows machines getting cracked (maybe because I wasn't interested in Windows security). This may be because of "security through obscurity." While people were looking at GNU/Linux's source and exploiting the crap out of it, the Windows vulnerabilities were hiding out, hoping that no one would discover them. Linux ended up getting a very thorough security inspection, and thus resulted in a more secure OS (in theory anyhow). Still, I don't believe in absolute security and believe there are plenty of holes in Linux yet to be discovered (and some new ones that may be created later).
I can't really say whether Linux and UNIX are more secure than Windows. We can only speculate. However, open source is a huge advantage in terms of maintaining security.
Although I agree $500 is insane. I like to ignore the overclocking issue, and just look at cooling. Getting your CPU as cool as possible is a good thing (especially when your ambient temps are high like in my case 81-85F).
Although this particular device is overkill and too costly, things like basic water cooling are good even for the non-overclocker. I want a well-cooled quiet machine, and that's what water-cooling does for you.
Spending a little of money on cooling is generally a good investment. Because you can reuse your cooling setup with each new processor you purchase. The only probably may occur if your new processor and heatsink/waterblock aren't compatible. But Socket A has been going for a while..
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Let me get this straight: I say that IE is pretty damn unstable and buggy. You reply: "I agree, change your OS to Win 2k".
Nowhere in my message did I say "change your OS." All I was saying is that IE isn't universally unstable, with the right OS it is very stable. Nor did I say you shouldn't use Mozilla. By all means, use it! Its a great browser, I use it in Linux, and if I was somehow forced to use Win98 (IMHO a truly awful OS) I'd probably be using Mozilla on it as well.
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And IE redefines the terms "instable" and "buggy". It is a horrible piece of software, that crashes everytime. And when it crashes, it brings the whole OS down
I used to feel the same way, but that was when I was running Win98se. Under Win2000 SP2 I've had almost no problems. However under 98se (and probably 95 and ME), IE crashes all over the place, I never ran IE until I switched to Win2k and realized it wasn't that bad.
I'm trying out RC3 right now. I do like where Mozilla is going.
Um, then why do tapes cost half as much. All the mumbo jumbo you mentioned is in the prep costs. CDs cost less than $1 each to make; tapes cost more than that. Now if tapes cost $20 when CDs cost $18, then your theory would make sense.
Great point, I want to add that records generally cost less than CDs too.
True that. Everyone is acting like the computer field is dead. My mom tells me I should've done something else. I don't get it. I guess its because of the dot-com crash that people have this impression. I'm an comp eng grad (c/o 2000) and I've got a great job. Going to get a masters degree now.
I went into the movie on Thursday intending to like it. Wanting to like it. And I'm sad (as I was after TPM) that I can't like it
I went to see AotC today, expecting it to be a bad movie (from what I saw in the trailers), and well it was better than I expected, I was entertained. When I went to Spiderman, I was expecting to see a masterpiece (after being fed all the hype), but only saw a movie that "good" but not "great." I guess a person's expectations kind of play into the overall impression of a movie. Its best when you have no expectations, for example when I went to see Fight Club, I knew nothing about the film, hadn't even seen a trailer, I just went and saw it because a friend said I might like it, and now its on my list of favorite movies of all time.
They should do a comparison between ATA/33 and ATA/133. They might possibly find a difference there, but I sort of doubt it, unless they're using high end drives.
There is definitely a difference. I was using my onboard ATA33 controller with an ATA66 (Maxtor DiamondMax) and an ATA100 drive (Seagate Barracuda IV). I recently bought a SIIG ATA133 controller I found on sale. According to SiSoft Sandra's benchmarks, there was an 85% increase in performance for the ATA66 and a 70% increase for the ATA100. Granted SiSoft's drive benchmarks aren't really precise, but nevertheless the improvements were pretty significant.
I played Netrek as well.. Great gameplay and the strategies were pretty interesting. I was just thinking about it the other day, and wondering how much better it would be over cable modem (most of my gameplay was done at 14.4k or 28.8k though occassionally I'd play it at a lab on campus). Definitely one of the most fun and addicting multiplayer games..
Well download speeds aren't the problem I think (I'm assuming that's what you were talking about). I have Roadrunner and max out at 300 kbytes/s, I don't even know if its capped. But my upstream speed maxes out at 30 kbytes/s. These people are more concerned about changing the upstream caps, not downstream. You won't see me uncapping my modem like an idiot, though, since you basically lose your service a few days later. And 30 kbytes/s is pretty decent anyways. I'll get business class if it ever becomes an issue.
We shouldn't blame the guy who wrote the virus, right? just like we shouldn't blame the script kiddies that DDoS our web sites...
Well, blaming the guy who wrote the virus is like blaming the security expert who discovered a vulnerability and posted a sample script to exploit the vulnerability.
But in this particular case, the guy pleaded guilty to actually sending out the virus (as well as computer theft). So I think the courts ruling was fair enough.
I don't know that the issue is whether they are pirating Microsoft software, but that coming up with the licenses will be a pain (even if all licenses are legal). The article also states that they had a lot of donated hardware which may have already had MS software installed. Do they have licenses for this software? Was the ownership of the software transfered when the hardware was donated? I guess that is the question. Granted if they didn't get the licenses along with hardware they should have wiped the hard drives clean (and installed free OS of choice)...
This interesting, though maybe not directly relavent: Overture has a direct comparison between their ad service and Google's ad service on their web page.
Also do a search for Overture on Google and you'll find both a link to Overture's advertising info page (that's I found the above comparison) and also at the top a news alert saying Overture is suing Google.
I've got the older All-In-Wonder 128, and the TV quality is much better than a regular TV. A few problems: I've tried running it dual monitor with another video card and the TV functions don't work when running dual monitor. Its no Tivo, I don't really expect it to be, its ability to record video is restricted by my old hardware.
I think I'd go for the Xtasy Everything (review here) even though its only a GeForce2. It has dual monitor support, meaning you can attach two computer monitors to the card, or one monitor and one tv (and possibly other combinations). I like the idea of watching TV on one monitor and using my PC on the other. A PC monitor is simply the best thing to watch TV through IMHO. It'll be even better when there are some good HDTV tuner cards.
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They can't possibly hope to create something better than what the corporations have come up with... And how are you supposed to fabricate one in any vaguely cost effective manner? Another amazing story of people wasting their time
I wouldn't call it a waste of time. It would be an incredible learning experience and loads of fun, too. Note that the authors are recent grads (or are about to graduate). Starting a project like this will definitely help them along. You're right, though, this project has a very small chance of success in competing in the video card industry, but it could grow into something cool nevertheless.
The best example of how this can be used is the subwoofer channel. It could sound better than just using a crossover on the user end.
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Many musicians will record as many as 8 guitar tracks. Sounds great in stereo, but what kinds of effects would you get if you sent different guitars to 4 speakers? Then there's electronic music. There's so much that can be done.
This is actually something I've thought about doing. Maybe recording an audio-only DVD that incorporates this. Next time I record with my band I'll see what I can do
Though I admit, I don't see a lot of artists doing anything like this any time soon. But it may catch on at some point.
My guess is that they'll throw her in as a hologram recording.
....the minute you buy something the price drops! I have spent a lifetime battling this. AND, if you wait....the technology will change.....arrghghghghg!
So true, but the best way to go is to stay behind in technology (for consumers anyone, not business). That's why I'm still running on a K6-2+. I basically set a price at which I'm willing to buy something, and I set it very low. For example, for the last year I waited for an 80 gig EIDE hard drive to hit $100, and when it did, I bought it. Similarly I'm waiting for a good $100 motherboard and processor combo to come a long.
Granted, I feel the difference when I use faster PCs. But hey, I'll have that same speed when the time comes, and I'll have it cheaper!
To me RSI feel much more like a product of bad work habits and popular hysteria than a real problem that can be engineered/designed out.
RSI can also be a product of prior injury. Say you have whiplash, years later you can develop RSI regardless of work habits. Or you strain/sprain your wrist (even mildly), then go and type for eight hours. A lot of people have RSI due to minor injuries in combination with typing.
I guess "beans" is too general a term.
I've tried food combination myself, and some of it works, some of it doesn't really make a difference. The mixing carbs and proteins rule didn't really didn't make a difference for me, and I've found plenty of "health experts" who contradicted the rule and said it was fallacious. To eat all meals completely devoid of either carbs or protein doesn't make sense to me. I would be malnourished if I did this. Even the vegatables I typically eat have both protein and carbs.
There are some parts of food combining that are true for me. For example, if I eat bananas and oranges together (sweet fruits and acid fruits), I usually have indigestion.
I guess whatever works for you. Everyone's diet needs are different. I just can't imagine life without beans.
5 or 6 years in LinuxLand is a LONG time. Check out a current Linux distro and then post back.
Well, I do use current Linux distros, I just don't pay much attention to security, because I'm no longer an admin. However, looking at recent CERT advisories, looks like not much has changed. The only difference is they report many more Windows vulnerabilities than before.
I think the point is to integrate the PC into the TV setup. You want the TV and the "assload of speakers" but you also want a PC in there. Imagine web browsing, gaming, etc on a 65" HDTV. If you got a big-screen TV, why shouldn't you have a PC hooked up to it?
Beans alone break the first rule of food combining; Don't eat carbs and proteins together.
I'm familiar with the "rules of food combining" ideas, though I don't really think it works. But in any case, you're misinterpreting it. Let me quote directly from A Complete Guide to Nature Cure's chapter on food combining:
"The most important rule for combining foods is to avoid mixing protein and carbohydrate concentrated foods. Although every food contains some protein , those regarded as protein concentrated foods demand the longest digestive time."
By these rules, what you are avoiding is meals where you are eating both protein concentrated and carbohydrate concentrated foods. Key word is "concentrated." Beans aren't protein concentrated. They have high carbs and are low in protein. They don't "rot" inside your body. They are in general a great source of carbs and very good for you.
It sounds to me like you read a lot of questionable information and took it as truth. Don't believe everything you read. Give beans a try again, they really are good foods.
I never have gas because of any kind of beans, even refried beans. I usually eat raw vegatables (spinach, carrots, lettuce, etc) with my meals which seems to help digestion. Just out of curiosity, what is your diet like?
BTW That nature cure book I linked to has a chapter on amino acids.
OTOH, Linux and other Unices, the administrator (root) is strongly discouraged to be the 'user'. And the 'user' has no direct access to the machine. He can hurt himself, but not the machine.
Still, once you compromise a user on the system, its sometimes trivial to acquire root access. Also, with Linux/UNIX there are daemons/services running as root which can be exploited. Maybe security has gotten a little better over the years, but just 5 or 6 years ago, UNIX and Linux were hackers playgrounds of sorts. There were many many exploitable systems out there. Of course a lot of this was admins who left holes open and were slow in applying patches. I haven't been into security since then, so I can't really say what the state of UNIX/Linux security is. All I can say is that it wasn't always very secure. Linux used to be well known for being full of vulnerabilities, a new one being discovered every week it seemed.
And since it is open source, the fixes are much more likely to come sooner and be better done.
Very true... This is what makes the difference. 5 or 6 years ago I didn't hear much of Windows machines getting cracked (maybe because I wasn't interested in Windows security). This may be because of "security through obscurity." While people were looking at GNU/Linux's source and exploiting the crap out of it, the Windows vulnerabilities were hiding out, hoping that no one would discover them. Linux ended up getting a very thorough security inspection, and thus resulted in a more secure OS (in theory anyhow). Still, I don't believe in absolute security and believe there are plenty of holes in Linux yet to be discovered (and some new ones that may be created later).
I can't really say whether Linux and UNIX are more secure than Windows. We can only speculate. However, open source is a huge advantage in terms of maintaining security.
Although I agree $500 is insane. I like to ignore the overclocking issue, and just look at cooling. Getting your CPU as cool as possible is a good thing (especially when your ambient temps are high like in my case 81-85F).
Although this particular device is overkill and too costly, things like basic water cooling are good even for the non-overclocker. I want a well-cooled quiet machine, and that's what water-cooling does for you.
Spending a little of money on cooling is generally a good investment. Because you can reuse your cooling setup with each new processor you purchase. The only probably may occur if your new processor and heatsink/waterblock aren't compatible. But Socket A has been going for a while..
Let me get this straight: I say that IE is pretty damn unstable and buggy. You reply: "I agree, change your OS to Win 2k".
Nowhere in my message did I say "change your OS." All I was saying is that IE isn't universally unstable, with the right OS it is very stable. Nor did I say you shouldn't use Mozilla. By all means, use it! Its a great browser, I use it in Linux, and if I was somehow forced to use Win98 (IMHO a truly awful OS) I'd probably be using Mozilla on it as well.
My main point is: IE isn't unstable, Win98 is!
If Microsoft were really on the ball about this, they'd publish the APIs to their DLLs
You mean like this: Windows API
And IE redefines the terms "instable" and "buggy". It is a horrible piece of software, that crashes everytime. And when it crashes, it brings the whole OS down
I used to feel the same way, but that was when I was running Win98se. Under Win2000 SP2 I've had almost no problems. However under 98se (and probably 95 and ME), IE crashes all over the place, I never ran IE until I switched to Win2k and realized it wasn't that bad.
I'm trying out RC3 right now. I do like where Mozilla is going.
Um, then why do tapes cost half as much. All the mumbo jumbo you mentioned is in the prep costs. CDs cost less than $1 each to make; tapes cost more than that. Now if tapes cost $20 when CDs cost $18, then your theory would make sense.
Great point, I want to add that records generally cost less than CDs too.
True that. Everyone is acting like the computer field is dead. My mom tells me I should've done something else. I don't get it. I guess its because of the dot-com crash that people have this impression. I'm an comp eng grad (c/o 2000) and I've got a great job. Going to get a masters degree now.
I went into the movie on Thursday intending to like it. Wanting to like it. And I'm sad (as I was after TPM) that I can't like it
I went to see AotC today, expecting it to be a bad movie (from what I saw in the trailers), and well it was better than I expected, I was entertained. When I went to Spiderman, I was expecting to see a masterpiece (after being fed all the hype), but only saw a movie that "good" but not "great." I guess a person's expectations kind of play into the overall impression of a movie. Its best when you have no expectations, for example when I went to see Fight Club, I knew nothing about the film, hadn't even seen a trailer, I just went and saw it because a friend said I might like it, and now its on my list of favorite movies of all time.
They should do a comparison between ATA/33 and ATA/133. They might possibly find a difference there, but I sort of doubt it, unless they're using high end drives.
There is definitely a difference. I was using my onboard ATA33 controller with an ATA66 (Maxtor DiamondMax) and an ATA100 drive (Seagate Barracuda IV). I recently bought a SIIG ATA133 controller I found on sale. According to SiSoft Sandra's benchmarks, there was an 85% increase in performance for the ATA66 and a 70% increase for the ATA100. Granted SiSoft's drive benchmarks aren't really precise, but nevertheless the improvements were pretty significant.
I played Netrek as well.. Great gameplay and the strategies were pretty interesting. I was just thinking about it the other day, and wondering how much better it would be over cable modem (most of my gameplay was done at 14.4k or 28.8k though occassionally I'd play it at a lab on campus). Definitely one of the most fun and addicting multiplayer games..
Well download speeds aren't the problem I think (I'm assuming that's what you were talking about). I have Roadrunner and max out at 300 kbytes/s, I don't even know if its capped. But my upstream speed maxes out at 30 kbytes/s. These people are more concerned about changing the upstream caps, not downstream. You won't see me uncapping my modem like an idiot, though, since you basically lose your service a few days later. And 30 kbytes/s is pretty decent anyways. I'll get business class if it ever becomes an issue.
We shouldn't blame the guy who wrote the virus, right? just like we shouldn't blame the script kiddies that DDoS our web sites...
Well, blaming the guy who wrote the virus is like blaming the security expert who discovered a vulnerability and posted a sample script to exploit the vulnerability.
But in this particular case, the guy pleaded guilty to actually sending out the virus (as well as computer theft). So I think the courts ruling was fair enough.
Maybe so but people are more likely to pay for software from a company who is willing to stand up and fight against the DMCA.
I don't know that the issue is whether they are pirating Microsoft software, but that coming up with the licenses will be a pain (even if all licenses are legal). The article also states that they had a lot of donated hardware which may have already had MS software installed. Do they have licenses for this software? Was the ownership of the software transfered when the hardware was donated? I guess that is the question. Granted if they didn't get the licenses along with hardware they should have wiped the hard drives clean (and installed free OS of choice)...
This interesting, though maybe not directly relavent: Overture has a direct comparison between their ad service and Google's ad service on their web page.
Also do a search for Overture on Google and you'll find both a link to Overture's advertising info page (that's I found the above comparison) and also at the top a news alert saying Overture is suing Google.
I've got the older All-In-Wonder 128, and the TV quality is much better than a regular TV. A few problems: I've tried running it dual monitor with another video card and the TV functions don't work when running dual monitor. Its no Tivo, I don't really expect it to be, its ability to record video is restricted by my old hardware.
I think I'd go for the Xtasy Everything (review here) even though its only a GeForce2. It has dual monitor support, meaning you can attach two computer monitors to the card, or one monitor and one tv (and possibly other combinations). I like the idea of watching TV on one monitor and using my PC on the other. A PC monitor is simply the best thing to watch TV through IMHO. It'll be even better when there are some good HDTV tuner cards.