Looks to me like people in the middle east, Jewish or Muslim, don't really have a problem with sacrificing their lives for their religious beliefs. I doubt anyone who had a religious and deeply ingrained aversion to pork could live with themselves having a pork heart beating away inside their chest. I was hoping some Jewish people could provide some insight.
Take into consideration all the medicines that have been created and successful over the last century or two. We're already on our way to overpopulation as the senior population grows by leaps and bounds. There are probably (I'm guessing) 10% more people surviving potentially life-threatening illnesses than there were 100 years ago. No more tuberculosis, polio, pneumonia doesn't kill (as often) and neither does influenza. The only two things that can potentially hit the reset switch on overpopulation is a massive world war or another plague with the same scope and devastation as the Black Plague which swept Europe.
I doubt this will change much. You can rest assured that this process will be available almost exclusively to the rich and powerful. I doubt it'll ever become affordable and convenient enough to affect the population at large.
Yeah, that's just Richard Stallman. You can safely ignore him.
You think you can ignore him until he starts singing the "Hackers" song. I'm still having nightmares from that. Watch The Code sometime..it's all over giFT.
We pay a premium for these already because they braodcast with few or no channels.
What? Few or no channels? I think you mean few or no commercials, and I agree. Pay tv is the way to go, 99% of 'network tv' sucks ass and there's nothing worth watching. I'll take a handful of cable channels with no ads over 100 free channels any day. Obviously Tivo owners agree.
I think Springsteen said it best "57 channels and nothin' on".
Sweet, apple.slashdot.org has it's own theme AND it's own set of moderators. I said what I said as a joke and got a -1 flamebait..which rules because I post at +2. Nice work guys, you really spotted that one AND caught the humor.
From the photograph it looks like they're using win2k. Probably really easy to get rid of the attacks, just run the sim for more than 12 hours straight without a reboot. Boom, no terrorists, just a BSOD>
the card never overheated (which is amazing, since the room it's in is usually 90-95 degrees in the summer
Umm...buddy, it looks like you've got your priorities ALL fuxed up. Given the choice between a window-mounted air conditioning unit and a new video card, I'd take the AC any day.
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all it would take is some slightly better technology to wipe them out.
Who has the cash flow to even come close to the Big Two (Nvidia and ATI)? Nobody. It takes buildings full of uber-geek engineers and tons of expensive hardware to even conceptualize what their next product will be and how it'll be manufactured. Nvidia GPU's are more complicated than p3 processors and have way more transistors..I'm sure ATI cards aren't much different from this perspective.
Then again there's always Bitboys OI! but until I see it on the shelf it's still irrelevant.
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Pci graphics cards will ALWAYS make sense until dual or triple agp slots become the rage. Multi-headed desktops require it unless you want some crap like the Parhelia slowing down your games. Don't even mention the Matrox cards _at all_. For real, manly multiheaded gaming nothing beats a pair of nvidia cards, one agp and one pci.
If I had worked there, I'd be moving some of those movable assets out the back door and into a Uhaul truck. Sure the company is extinct but with a slew of layoffs imminent, it would make for great unemployment benefits and Ebay beer money generation.
I hope Guillemot/Hercules gets back into the fray with Nvidia cards. My old TNT2 Ultra 32meg card which I donated to my brother is STILL running strong. I can't believe he beat Max Payne with it. That card is still loaded with features and fast with some older games and despite it's age it still does a damn fine job. Proof of Hercules' quality.
Apple: Pay us a little now and a little more next year and the year after that.
Microsoft: All your cash is belong to us from day one.
You ever price XP Pro retail? Jeeez-us. And of course since no OS is an island you're throwing down for Office XP also. Oh I just remembered why I like linux.
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IIRC the first-gen TNT cards had a few significant advantages over the 3dfx cards. I originally owned a Banshee but traded it to a friend for a TNT. Why?
1. Huge texture support. The Banshee could only render 256x256 textures while the TNT could render 1024x1024 textures (correct me if I'm wrong, it's been awhile).
2. 32 bit color. Remember when quake3 first came out? The voodoos left you with 16bit color ONLY. That and the small textures made quake3 look like ass.
3. Poor OpenGL ICD that hit the market pretty late in the 3dfx cards. They got a little too comfortable with Glide.
4. Bad 2d quality. While the Banshee was a step up from the other Voodoos in this respect, it still didn't render as cleanly in 2d as the TNT cards.
5. Splintered drivers. The TNT cards (starting way back then) only had one driver set. Upgrading was easy.
So yeah, 3dfx had a good product at the time but Nvidia already had them beat coming out of the gate with their first product. After awhile the friend that traded me the TNT wanted to trade back LOL.
I'm thinking PNY is a player too. My pny gf4 ti4200 is a screamer, overclocked or not. Since they're big boys in the industry (got started making good ram) they can probably afford to stay afloat despite market fluctuations. Visiontek suffered the ill fate of the typical american corporation: upper management bled them dry. Why don't american companies ever notice their greatest expeditures come from the TOP and not their products?
Alot of people depend on Photoshop for their livelihood, and have been using it since version 3 or lower. It's pretty hard to make the transition from Photoshop to Gimp...seems like everything is missing/works wrong. Trust me, I've wrestled with Gimp from time to time, but at the end of the day, I end up using Fireworks. I'll be sending Codeweavers a big wad of cash the day they have Codeweaver's Flash/Dreamweaver/Fireworks.
Don't forget that piece of crap Mercury Rising. The genre's not dead but it needs to be. Also there was Criminal, 1995; The Other Sister, 1999; Little Man Tate, 1991; Molly, 1999; The boy who could fly, 1986, The Innocent, 1994; House of Cards, 1993.
Don't look at me like that, I didn't really research all that hard.:) Google came up with this page: http://www.hunnybee.com.au/autism/autism-movies.ht ml
If you're going to get this elaborate, why not just build fancy liquid chip cooling systems that overclockers use all the time into the cases? You could have a whole rack of servers running off of one coolant box. Your datacenter would go from rack after rack of servers to 1 rack of servers, 1 rackspace taken by the cooler, etc. It'd be cheaper in the long run also, judging by HP's pricing scheme for their existing consumables like inkjet ink cartridges.
Oh and there's already a graffitti bot. He's over here!
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Looks to me like people in the middle east, Jewish or Muslim, don't really have a problem with sacrificing their lives for their religious beliefs. I doubt anyone who had a religious and deeply ingrained aversion to pork could live with themselves having a pork heart beating away inside their chest. I was hoping some Jewish people could provide some insight.
Take into consideration all the medicines that have been created and successful over the last century or two. We're already on our way to overpopulation as the senior population grows by leaps and bounds. There are probably (I'm guessing) 10% more people surviving potentially life-threatening illnesses than there were 100 years ago. No more tuberculosis, polio, pneumonia doesn't kill (as often) and neither does influenza. The only two things that can potentially hit the reset switch on overpopulation is a massive world war or another plague with the same scope and devastation as the Black Plague which swept Europe.
I doubt this will change much. You can rest assured that this process will be available almost exclusively to the rich and powerful. I doubt it'll ever become affordable and convenient enough to affect the population at large.
Is this gonna be kosher or not?
Yeah, that's just Richard Stallman. You can safely ignore him.
You think you can ignore him until he starts singing the "Hackers" song. I'm still having nightmares from that. Watch The Code sometime..it's all over giFT.
We pay a premium for these already because they braodcast with few or no channels.
What? Few or no channels? I think you mean few or no commercials, and I agree. Pay tv is the way to go, 99% of 'network tv' sucks ass and there's nothing worth watching. I'll take a handful of cable channels with no ads over 100 free channels any day. Obviously Tivo owners agree.
I think Springsteen said it best "57 channels and nothin' on".
Sweet, apple.slashdot.org has it's own theme AND it's own set of moderators. I said what I said as a joke and got a -1 flamebait..which rules because I post at +2. Nice work guys, you really spotted that one AND caught the humor.
Not half as reasonable as a free linux install :)
AHAHAHAHAHA!!! I can't believe these new drives are this slow.
My 16x10x40 Pacific Digital burner turns out full 700mb cd's in about 4 minutes. Suckers!
Don't forget the other two easy and convenient way to grab music and other copyrighted works:
IRC and binary newsgroups
Will the RIAA start requiring ISP's to block newsgroup access and irc ports on their network next? Where will they draw the line?
As someone famous once said, "greed knows no boundaries".
From the photograph it looks like they're using win2k. Probably really easy to get rid of the attacks, just run the sim for more than 12 hours straight without a reboot. Boom, no terrorists, just a BSOD>
the card never overheated (which is amazing, since the room it's in is usually 90-95 degrees in the summer
Umm...buddy, it looks like you've got your priorities ALL fuxed up. Given the choice between a window-mounted air conditioning unit and a new video card, I'd take the AC any day.
all it would take is some slightly better technology to wipe them out.
Who has the cash flow to even come close to the Big Two (Nvidia and ATI)? Nobody. It takes buildings full of uber-geek engineers and tons of expensive hardware to even conceptualize what their next product will be and how it'll be manufactured. Nvidia GPU's are more complicated than p3 processors and have way more transistors..I'm sure ATI cards aren't much different from this perspective.
Then again there's always Bitboys OI! but until I see it on the shelf it's still irrelevant.
Pci graphics cards will ALWAYS make sense until dual or triple agp slots become the rage. Multi-headed desktops require it unless you want some crap like the Parhelia slowing down your games. Don't even mention the Matrox cards _at all_. For real, manly multiheaded gaming nothing beats a pair of nvidia cards, one agp and one pci.
If I had worked there, I'd be moving some of those movable assets out the back door and into a Uhaul truck. Sure the company is extinct but with a slew of layoffs imminent, it would make for great unemployment benefits and Ebay beer money generation.
I hope Guillemot/Hercules gets back into the fray with Nvidia cards. My old TNT2 Ultra 32meg card which I donated to my brother is STILL running strong. I can't believe he beat Max Payne with it. That card is still loaded with features and fast with some older games and despite it's age it still does a damn fine job. Proof of Hercules' quality.
Just a business model difference.
Apple: Pay us a little now and a little more next year and the year after that.
Microsoft: All your cash is belong to us from day one.
You ever price XP Pro retail? Jeeez-us. And of course since no OS is an island you're throwing down for Office XP also. Oh I just remembered why I like linux.
IIRC the first-gen TNT cards had a few significant advantages over the 3dfx cards. I originally owned a Banshee but traded it to a friend for a TNT. Why?
1. Huge texture support. The Banshee could only render 256x256 textures while the TNT could render 1024x1024 textures (correct me if I'm wrong, it's been awhile).
2. 32 bit color. Remember when quake3 first came out? The voodoos left you with 16bit color ONLY. That and the small textures made quake3 look like ass.
3. Poor OpenGL ICD that hit the market pretty late in the 3dfx cards. They got a little too comfortable with Glide.
4. Bad 2d quality. While the Banshee was a step up from the other Voodoos in this respect, it still didn't render as cleanly in 2d as the TNT cards.
5. Splintered drivers. The TNT cards (starting way back then) only had one driver set. Upgrading was easy.
So yeah, 3dfx had a good product at the time but Nvidia already had them beat coming out of the gate with their first product. After awhile the friend that traded me the TNT wanted to trade back LOL.
I'm thinking PNY is a player too. My pny gf4 ti4200 is a screamer, overclocked or not. Since they're big boys in the industry (got started making good ram) they can probably afford to stay afloat despite market fluctuations. Visiontek suffered the ill fate of the typical american corporation: upper management bled them dry. Why don't american companies ever notice their greatest expeditures come from the TOP and not their products?
Or you can plug in the usb keyboard and mouse you already own. Standard usb ports are there along with iLink... look before you leap man.
Don't include the PS2 in your assumptions here. IT actually has a very nice usb keyboard and mouse, thank you very much.
Alot of people depend on Photoshop for their livelihood, and have been using it since version 3 or lower. It's pretty hard to make the transition from Photoshop to Gimp...seems like everything is missing/works wrong. Trust me, I've wrestled with Gimp from time to time, but at the end of the day, I end up using Fireworks. I'll be sending Codeweavers a big wad of cash the day they have Codeweaver's Flash/Dreamweaver/Fireworks.
Don't forget that piece of crap Mercury Rising. The genre's not dead but it needs to be. Also there was Criminal, 1995; The Other Sister, 1999; Little Man Tate, 1991; Molly, 1999; The boy who could fly, 1986, The Innocent, 1994; House of Cards, 1993.
:) Google came up with this page: http://www.hunnybee.com.au/autism/autism-movies.ht ml
Don't look at me like that, I didn't really research all that hard.
The phrase to remember here is "When it's ready...
Ah yes, the familiar mantra of coders everywhere.
Shit my html skillz are failing today.
Grafitti robot is here http://www.appliedautonomy.com/gw.html
If you're going to get this elaborate, why not just build fancy liquid chip cooling systems that overclockers use all the time into the cases? You could have a whole rack of servers running off of one coolant box. Your datacenter would go from rack after rack of servers to 1 rack of servers, 1 rackspace taken by the cooler, etc. It'd be cheaper in the long run also, judging by HP's pricing scheme for their existing consumables like inkjet ink cartridges.
Oh and there's already a graffitti bot. He's over here!