Don't assume the only market for a 3d-capable video is gamers, then. Don't assume that all 'joe blows' do what you think either. Hell, or that all games require good 3d performance.
I have a PC by the side of my TV based around a Duron and an nForce board to get me a very quiet system (no extra VGA fan, no southbridge fan) to run through my TV. The 3d is used for some gaming (yes, mainly Q3A and similar), but also for some set-top box multimedia applications I'm writing, which use the 3d too.
If what you say is true, all 'normal consumers' would still be buying a Tseng Labs ET4000 for their Pentium 200 MMX, because they don't need anything more. Obviously that isn't the case.
The fat geek who dies told you - they're Connection Machines CM5s. Also seen in a few other movies (I wanted to say wargames, but I don't think it was - it played the part of some other pentagon/norad computer anyway).
The LEDs are the state for all the processor boards - CM5s used a whole heap of massively parallel microprocessors. Here's a pic of a 512-node one. According to this the processors are Sparcs. I vaguely remember an article in Omni (a long time ago) that said they were with 6502s or Z80s - maybe that was a previous model, or a strange dream.
I'm sure I remember reading once that when Cray were still selling the Cray-1 (early-mid-80's?), you could have that in any colour you wanted. It was your $9m after all.
While sitting at my desk looking into our comms room I've often thought there'd be a market for blinkenlights cards for chassis-based network kit like Cisco 7500, Nortel CVX 1800, PM4's and so on.
how may car races have you seen where there are two opposing lanes of traffic???
You need to try Burnout then - LOTS of oncoming traffic, cross-traffic, semi trucks and so on. The only way to win is to take risks in oncoming traffic and in the gaps between lanes.
It has the same sort of feel as the car chases in movies like Ronin, or the final city part of the newer Gone In 60 Seconds.
For instance, soemody from India cant afford the prices in the US, so they have their own zone, with cheaper prices... But this idea (that doesnt sound bad at first)
In other words, US DVDs are deliberately overpriced because there are enough suckers who will pay the price? How does this idea not sound bad straight away? It sounds to me like you pay too much for your crack too.
How many of them are actually using imports? In 99% of all cases, the mod chip is used to play pirated games.
Actually, in the case of the PS2 there are huge delays between a game's release in the US and other markets... Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Ico are all games I would play as imports, since I still can't buy them in the UK even though they came out in the US last year. I don't give a rat's arse about DVD playback, since I have a perfectly decent DVD player that doesn't require a game pad, and is already multi-region.
Your argument that DVD imports stop the studio from arbitrarily delaying the release of movies is at best circular, by the way. Harry Potter and LOTR both show that studios can release simultaneously worldwide if they want to.
After it was mentioned a couple of times on Penny Arcade, I got into Bejewelled, first the Java version, and then the Windows one on my laptop. It has the same sort of evil 'one more go' deal that tetris and freecell have.
Other things that have had the same effect for shorter periods are: SSX, Wipeout (all three), Cannon Fodder, Mr Do!
I think there'd be some amusement to be had from/. releasing (anonymised) moderation logs for a chunk of time - say January 2002 - with the moderation reason, the previous state, whether it was an editor or a user (that old chestnut), and whether the post being moderated was a logged in user. An afternoon with Perl and Gnuplot would probably be quite interesting with that data.
I always got the impression the IP-banning business was more to do with how many negative mods you recieved in a short space of time...
Since 'they' can't moderate a comment twice, and since 'they' don't actually know who each other are, or meet in smoky rooms plotting your downfall, who do you suppose this happens?
When I used to moderate, I certainly didn't give a rats arse what it made other moderators look like. The only moderators that even mightslashdot editors.
As far is I know, speech isn't legally protected in the UK. The 'preoccupation' is that the constitution of the US is one of very few constitutions that works by restricting the government rather than the people, as I understand it (I'm neither an American or a political scientist) - this make it interesting, and worth following.
Similar things do happen in the UK, and what happens is everyone grumbles about it for a while but not enough for things to change. Witness the handful of privacy/freedom restricting ("criminal justice/public order") laws of the last 10 years or so.
They didn't. They started at 3.1, presumably because the current desktop Windows at the time was also 3.1.
It's not that unusual for MS to do this sort of thing... there were no versions of Word between 2 and 6 (to sync it with the Excel version number), and no SQL Server before 4.2 (the last version Sybase produced, I think - Sybase & MSSQL share their ancestry). From memory, VC++ went from 2.0 to 5.0 too, again to sync with the Visual Basic version numbers when they were both packaged in Visual Studio.
Actually PS/2 is a line of PCs made by IBM around 1989/90. They had a new bus architecture called MCA except for a few low-end machines, and if I remember correctly, the PS/2 model 70 was the first available 486 from any major manufacturer (IBM were still seen as a PC market leader then).
Linux wasn't supported for quite a while on MCA-based machines. That said, MCA wasn't supported for that long by PC manufacturers, either.
They also had keyboards and mice that used a smaller mini-DIN plug, replacing the earlier 5-pin DIN made standard by IBMs AT computer.
There are documents listed in the archive that are apparently the first proposals for the Star Wars arcade game, at that stage a First Person Spacewar. The documents (from Nov 1979) predate Battlezone (1980, referred to as 'Future Tank' and 'First Person Tank' in the proposals), and the Star Wars game didn't appear until 1983, according to the KLOV. You get a nice insight into how much they were pushing what could be done with the hardware they had, and also into how early the name of the game is decided (i.e not at all).
Either that, or Lucasfilm agreed a license with Atari who then dusted off some 3 year-old junk to make a tie-in game...
How often do you really USE scene selection on a DVD?
All the time... when I am eating alone, I'll put on a chunk of (say) Ferris, Princess Bride, or whatever, rather than whatever happens to be on TV.
Also, consider the "one-handed" movie watcher. Porn drove the success of VHS (apparently), and the only DVDs I know of that actually use features like multiple-angles for something other than director commentary are from people like Digital Playground (warning - not a work-friendly link!). I suspect it's pretty cheesy most of the time, but that's true of most porn, too.
So it's OK as long as you're not the only people doing it? I don't care how easy it is to fix - a car with the possibility of steering failure acknowledged by the manufacturer has not got 'impeccable safety' (the original posters words).
No, what he's saying is that all those things together make him a minority, as if just being an American wasn't enough to do the trick. Contrary to (apparently) popular belief, the USA is not the most populous country in the world.
Redhat ships with a database, not a fs-database-fs bridge. The Oracle IFS is a bit more than just a database. It seems to me to be a way to justify the ridiculous amount you just spent on an Oracle license by making it your fileserver too, but that's probably just me being cynical - it does have some interesting features which aren't all available together elsewhere.
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Don't assume the only market for a 3d-capable video is gamers, then. Don't assume that all 'joe blows' do what you think either. Hell, or that all games require good 3d performance.
I have a PC by the side of my TV based around a Duron and an nForce board to get me a very quiet system (no extra VGA fan, no southbridge fan) to run through my TV. The 3d is used for some gaming (yes, mainly Q3A and similar), but also for some set-top box multimedia applications I'm writing, which use the 3d too.
If what you say is true, all 'normal consumers' would still be buying a Tseng Labs ET4000 for their Pentium 200 MMX, because they don't need anything more. Obviously that isn't the case.
The fat geek who dies told you - they're Connection Machines CM5s. Also seen in a few other movies (I wanted to say wargames, but I don't think it was - it played the part of some other pentagon/norad computer anyway).
The LEDs are the state for all the processor boards - CM5s used a whole heap of massively parallel microprocessors. Here's a pic of a 512-node one. According to this the processors are Sparcs. I vaguely remember an article in Omni (a long time ago) that said they were with 6502s or Z80s - maybe that was a previous model, or a strange dream.
I'm sure I remember reading once that when Cray were still selling the Cray-1 (early-mid-80's?), you could have that in any colour you wanted. It was your $9m after all.
While sitting at my desk looking into our comms room I've often thought there'd be a market for blinkenlights cards for chassis-based network kit like Cisco 7500, Nortel CVX 1800, PM4's and so on.
What an idiot. Mod that sucker down if you please. I can't believe I linked to the proof I was wrong :)
how may car races have you seen where there are two opposing lanes of traffic???
You need to try Burnout then - LOTS of oncoming traffic, cross-traffic, semi trucks and so on. The only way to win is to take risks in oncoming traffic and in the gaps between lanes.
It has the same sort of feel as the car chases in movies like Ronin, or the final city part of the newer Gone In 60 Seconds.
No, it's 1 in 20 will spend some time in prison during their life at current rates of imprisonment.
Apparently, the USA isn't the world (despite the World Series being called ... that.)
While I agree with the sentiment, the World Series is named after a newspaper called the New York World who were the original sponsor.
For instance, soemody from India cant afford the prices in the US, so they have their own zone, with cheaper prices... But this idea (that doesnt sound bad at first)
In other words, US DVDs are deliberately overpriced because there are enough suckers who will pay the price? How does this idea not sound bad straight away? It sounds to me like you pay too much for your crack too.
How many of them are actually using imports? In 99% of all cases, the mod chip is used to play pirated games.
Actually, in the case of the PS2 there are huge delays between a game's release in the US and other markets... Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Ico are all games I would play as imports, since I still can't buy them in the UK even though they came out in the US last year. I don't give a rat's arse about DVD playback, since I have a perfectly decent DVD player that doesn't require a game pad, and is already multi-region.
Your argument that DVD imports stop the studio from arbitrarily delaying the release of movies is at best circular, by the way. Harry Potter and LOTR both show that studios can release simultaneously worldwide if they want to.
After it was mentioned a couple of times on Penny Arcade, I got into Bejewelled, first the Java version, and then the Windows one on my laptop. It has the same sort of evil 'one more go' deal that tetris and freecell have.
Other things that have had the same effect for shorter periods are: SSX, Wipeout (all three), Cannon Fodder, Mr Do!
Fair enough - my bad. I should read betterer. :)
/. releasing (anonymised) moderation logs for a chunk of time - say January 2002 - with the moderation reason, the previous state, whether it was an editor or a user (that old chestnut), and whether the post being moderated was a logged in user. An afternoon with Perl and Gnuplot would probably be quite interesting with that data.
I think there'd be some amusement to be had from
I always got the impression the IP-banning business was more to do with how many negative mods you recieved in a short space of time...
Since 'they' can't moderate a comment twice, and since 'they' don't actually know who each other are, or meet in smoky rooms plotting your downfall, who do you suppose this happens?
When I used to moderate, I certainly didn't give a rats arse what it made other moderators look like. The only moderators that even mightslashdot editors.
Read the damn article! It is entirely a discussion about why Kleinrock believes it was not Davies, but he, who invented packet-switching.
I challenge anyone to find a video game with advertisements in it older than that.
Tapper (1983) has you serving Budweiser to fickle customers. From memory, the C64 port did not have the tie-in, even though it was also made by Bally.
As far is I know, speech isn't legally protected in the UK. The 'preoccupation' is that the constitution of the US is one of very few constitutions that works by restricting the government rather than the people, as I understand it (I'm neither an American or a political scientist) - this make it interesting, and worth following.
Similar things do happen in the UK, and what happens is everyone grumbles about it for a while but not enough for things to change. Witness the handful of privacy/freedom restricting ("criminal justice/public order") laws of the last 10 years or so.
They didn't. They started at 3.1, presumably because the current desktop Windows at the time was also 3.1.
It's not that unusual for MS to do this sort of thing... there were no versions of Word between 2 and 6 (to sync it with the Excel version number), and no SQL Server before 4.2 (the last version Sybase produced, I think - Sybase & MSSQL share their ancestry). From memory, VC++ went from 2.0 to 5.0 too, again to sync with the Visual Basic version numbers when they were both packaged in Visual Studio.
Actually PS/2 is a line of PCs made by IBM around 1989/90. They had a new bus architecture called MCA except for a few low-end machines, and if I remember correctly, the PS/2 model 70 was the first available 486 from any major manufacturer (IBM were still seen as a PC market leader then).
Linux wasn't supported for quite a while on MCA-based machines. That said, MCA wasn't supported for that long by PC manufacturers, either.
They also had keyboards and mice that used a smaller mini-DIN plug, replacing the earlier 5-pin DIN made standard by IBMs AT computer.
Or you can install apt-rpm, and then you can apt-get things.
There are documents listed in the archive that are apparently the first proposals for the Star Wars arcade game, at that stage a First Person Spacewar. The documents (from Nov 1979) predate Battlezone (1980, referred to as 'Future Tank' and 'First Person Tank' in the proposals), and the Star Wars game didn't appear until 1983, according to the KLOV. You get a nice insight into how much they were pushing what could be done with the hardware they had, and also into how early the name of the game is decided (i.e not at all).
Either that, or Lucasfilm agreed a license with Atari who then dusted off some 3 year-old junk to make a tie-in game...
Whats the model number of this gizmo? I'm stuck with a car I can't modify and no CD player currently... (company lease)
Is it the CPA-9C?
How often do you really USE scene selection on a DVD?
All the time... when I am eating alone, I'll put on a chunk of (say) Ferris, Princess Bride, or whatever, rather than whatever happens to be on TV.
Also, consider the "one-handed" movie watcher. Porn drove the success of VHS (apparently), and the only DVDs I know of that actually use features like multiple-angles for something other than director commentary are from people like Digital Playground (warning - not a work-friendly link!). I suspect it's pretty cheesy most of the time, but that's true of most porn, too.
So it's OK as long as you're not the only people doing it? I don't care how easy it is to fix - a car with the possibility of steering failure acknowledged by the manufacturer has not got 'impeccable safety' (the original posters words).
No, what he's saying is that all those things together make him a minority, as if just being an American wasn't enough to do the trick. Contrary to (apparently) popular belief, the USA is not the most populous country in the world.
Redhat ships with a database, not a fs-database-fs bridge. The Oracle IFS is a bit more than just a database. It seems to me to be a way to justify the ridiculous amount you just spent on an Oracle license by making it your fileserver too, but that's probably just me being cynical - it does have some interesting features which aren't all available together elsewhere.
Agreed about the barratry.
I think it's funny that you didn't notice that it was me correcting my own post. It takes all sorts to make a world, doesn't it? :)
[if it were someone else, I'd agree however]