it's a very forward looking chip. nice to see interesting design features instead of brainless MHz increases. all the hardware sights have writeups of the new features. interesting to see how much the geforce3 is going into flexibility and programmability (vertex shaders). eventually we'll see cpu's that are flexible enough to handle 3d acceleration as a special case of parallel computing.
the reasons are many. we've found other planets far away...let them take over the job of sentient life. earth failed. just need a planet-sized asteroid to blow the thing up. just make sure to get the leftover humans on mars or orbiting the sun.
very interesting take on it. never thought of the insurance aspect. of course ip always seemed weird to me, just by its very nature--how the heck can you own an idea?
what's interesting is how ip will go. a major revolution would be some form of anarchy, so all the other laws go with it (i think this is just as inevitable). or it could just go slowly.
and that's all the degree is...3 letters. good to see someone working outside the system.
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a phd is just some words on paper. it is only relevant to a society that recognizes them. the laws of physics and mathematics will apply to anybody, regardless of their diploma.
no, that's not the answer. digital is very nice. look at lcd's that take analog in--they have all sorts of tweaking controls (scroll, expand, etc.). then look at a dvi lcd. power and brightness! digital video is cleaner and simpler than analog--and it's a shame if this dumb encryption gets in the way of it.
DVI is a digital spec, as opposed to the current analog VGA spec. a few vid cards have DVI-out, notably hercules and ATI cards. most DVI monitors are LCD, because they natively use the digital information, whereas a CRT has to put a DAC in it to use the DVI signal. they seem to want to encrypt it because this is then essentially a perfect signal that can be copied.
i basically agree with almost everything you say here (just disagree a bit on the details). this stuff will happen...it's really only a question of when. the massive paradoxes of capitalism can't hold out much longer.
well, the aliens would of course have words for 10-15, and thus words for 0x10-0xF0, of course. they'd probably be systematic, and thus much better. as for multiplication tables...oh well. i'd like to get my hex tables down, but i don't think it'll happen.
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hmm, i don't like that. the common moron shouldn't program. maybe that's why it has a rather demented pascal-like 'for' syntax.
oh well, i'll try to keep up with both p's. they each got their good points.
it's a very forward looking chip. nice to see interesting design features instead of brainless MHz increases. all the hardware sights have writeups of the new features. interesting to see how much the geforce3 is going into flexibility and programmability (vertex shaders). eventually we'll see cpu's that are flexible enough to handle 3d acceleration as a special case of parallel computing.
the reasons are many. we've found other planets far away...let them take over the job of sentient life. earth failed. just need a planet-sized asteroid to blow the thing up. just make sure to get the leftover humans on mars or orbiting the sun.
very interesting take on it. never thought of the insurance aspect. of course ip always seemed weird to me, just by its very nature--how the heck can you own an idea? what's interesting is how ip will go. a major revolution would be some form of anarchy, so all the other laws go with it (i think this is just as inevitable). or it could just go slowly.
and that's all the degree is...3 letters. good to see someone working outside the system.
a phd is just some words on paper. it is only relevant to a society that recognizes them. the laws of physics and mathematics will apply to anybody, regardless of their diploma.
no, that's not the answer. digital is very nice. look at lcd's that take analog in--they have all sorts of tweaking controls (scroll, expand, etc.). then look at a dvi lcd. power and brightness! digital video is cleaner and simpler than analog--and it's a shame if this dumb encryption gets in the way of it.
DVI is a digital spec, as opposed to the current analog VGA spec. a few vid cards have DVI-out, notably hercules and ATI cards. most DVI monitors are LCD, because they natively use the digital information, whereas a CRT has to put a DAC in it to use the DVI signal. they seem to want to encrypt it because this is then essentially a perfect signal that can be copied.
i basically agree with almost everything you say here (just disagree a bit on the details). this stuff will happen...it's really only a question of when. the massive paradoxes of capitalism can't hold out much longer.
well, the aliens would of course have words for 10-15, and thus words for 0x10-0xF0, of course. they'd probably be systematic, and thus much better. as for multiplication tables...oh well. i'd like to get my hex tables down, but i don't think it'll happen.
and with their simpler code and more useful radix, hopefully they'll destroy us decimal using humans.