"You can obtain an RMA for your board through Tech Support. Just make sure that you have registered your Matrox board on our web site http://www.matrox.com/mga/registration/home.cfm and have selected the option 'Obtain your tech support client id number...' [snip]
That's the way Matrox's tech support procedures have been since the days of the g200. After you go through their faq, you'll find a tech support e-mail address, where you can ask for support. After it's been determined that the problem is not a result of user error, the techie(who responds from his/her own address within Matrox) can then give you a RMA number.
They're not trying to make anybody jump through hoops, they're ensuring that the user has done everything they can to get the card working before tying up their resources by processing an unnecessary RMA.
Super Mario Bros. 1-3 & Super Mario World 1-2 good
No, more like Rocket Arena 3 3rd person view mode after you die, or even better, Team Fortress demo style arena viewing. Imagine being able to spectate on the interaction between multiple players from a distance, instead of watching the game from a single player's perspective.
This could be easily scripted in Q3, just make a script allowing the camera man to be invisible and invincible, and have him follow gamers around in arenas.
Dunno how easily done it could be in other games though.
The calcium carbonate is then heated to yield pure carbon dioxide and quicklime, which is recycled back into the extractor.
In which case we have carbon dioxide and quicklime, which is exactly what we started with. So.... we still have the carbon dioxide, which was never eliminated, only "stored". Where does it go now?
After reading the article, two issues immediately spring to mind...
1. What do they plan on doing with all the calcium carbonate? That stuff isn't going to go away, as opposed to carbon dioxide, which will go away, if not as quickly as we can produce it. 2. Reclaiming the CO2 won't replenish fossil fuels, and if there are no risks in using them anymore, you can be certain there won't be any more legislation calling for restrictions on emissions. Eventually, we will run out.
While this would be a solution for removing atmospheric carbon dioxide, they're still not offering a solution about how to reduce the depletion of our fossil fuels.
Yes they brutally kill and eat their own, I wouldnt consider that friendship.
OK, I'll bite.
1. A housecat is NOT a lion. They're not even _that_ closely related.
2. Lions do NOT kill their own offspring, they kill the offspring fathered by competing male lions. To kill your own would mean removal of your contribution to the gene pool, which kinda defies natural selection, wouldn't you say?
Now, following your lion analogy, how do you account for the huge (10-20 member) prides of lions, usually a great number of adult lionesses, a few immature males, and a single adult male? While they may not be _friends_, they do stick together for survival's sake.
This is a somewhat dangerous trend, IMHO. CNN Headline news gives us blurbs...soundbites...with no substance. "Israelis shot Palestinians" or vice versa on a daily basis.
Newsblaster doesn't do that. What it does is grab news stories from a selection of different sites, searches through the stories for certain words, phrases, or sentences, and then creates a summary of the story, puts it in a heading under the "hits" it made, and provides the link.
This actually unseated/. from its throne as my home page. =]
This makes it a "homebrew" radio which is legal to transmit onto the FM band. It works great around the house.
There are plenty of pre-made FM transceivers on the market, even Radio Shack sells one. They are also often used in car stereos not equipped with RCA outputs, for the use of hooking up CD changers and the like. Broadcasting on any band is legal, so long as it doesn't go beyond a certain range (I've never seen one do more than 20 or 30 feet).
What advantages do they gain by sticking with what they have?
Two reasons:
1) They have a system now that's worked for them since they opened shop way back in the early 90s. 2) An open and interoperable protocol would make it more difficult for AOL to secure the extra revenue they need to ensure that they stay "#1". With people dialing straight into their PRIs through RAS or chat, they lose money from all the extra advertising and affiliates that pay them for all the eyeballs viewing the numerous popups from within the AOL software itself.
As it is, they do "kind of" use RAS and dial-up networking to connect to AOL's networks, and I believe they have since 5.0. It's just more of a wrapper than anything else though.
You're defending a guy's right to sponge off of public money
It's not public money, it's money taken out of our own paychecks and "put away" by the US Gov't so they can keep operating normally, and to give the unemployed a cushion so they don't have to live out of their cars until they find a new job. If you don't put the money in, you don't get the money back. What did you think the purposes of taxes were?
Watch the RAMBUS litigation machine swing into overdrive, now that they can't even pretend to make things...
Fortunately, given the results of their lawsuit with Infineon, and the disclosure of the Rambus internal memo that gave evidence of Rambus not disclosing information the the JEDEC, the standards committee they were supposed to be participating in, they don't have much of a litigious leg to stand on anymore.
And they do actually make things, they just happen to suck(arguably). PC2400 (266MHz) DDR absolutely smokes 800MHz RDRAM, and it's cheap, too.
Can anyone offer some insight on who's getting greedy here?
I'll try.
Most commercial web sites on the internet used to generate revenue by joining in partnerships with ad companies and affiliates. These companies would pay the website by giving a certain denomination of money for every click that was logged from their site. As time went one, viewers stopped noticing the ads, because they're on every page, there's no requirement to view them (unlike the case of TV, where if you want to keep watching the show, you either sit through the commercials, or change the channel and go back in 3 minutes), and people just got used to seeing a 40 pixel bar at the top of their browsing window, and started ignoring the ads. Gradually, ad companies started noticing that they weren't getting so many click-throughs, and the ones they were getting weren't resulting in a sale for whatever service was being peddled. Thusly, the ad companies decided to bring down the value of a click-through. This complicated the issue for the web sites, not only because users weren't clicking as much on the ad banners, due to their desensitization to it, but because the site now isn't making as much money from the users that do click.
Now webmasters can't pay the bills purely by traditional banner advertising anymore, ad companies aren't paying enough per click to cover the costs of content and bandwidth, and sites need to figure out new ways of generating revenue so they can keep offering the content and services that draw users to click their ads, and make them money.
In short, it's not so much that anybody's getting greedy (although I'm sure that might have motivated it to an extent), it's simply the fact that ad banners aren't the "gold mine" that everybody thought would keep the net "paying for itself".
There was recently a study for some New York state department in charge of services for low income families, with the aim of determining what it would take to survive on minimum wage. The study concluded that a family consisting of 2 adults and a minor, living in a 2 bedroom apartment, would require that each adult would need to work 90 hours a week making minimum wage to support the very basics of living.
Nice argument for raising minimum wage (or not living in NY).
Aren't the ads served from elsewhere, though? I would expect that the guy running the site doesn't have to worry about the bandwidth consumed by the ads.
You're right, the ads usually are hosted by another provider, but the problem arises when the user viewing the page gets so flooded by all the ad banners being downloaded that he/she can't get what he/she wanted in a timely fashion. Personally, if I can't view content in 30 seconds, I give up. Many people are a lot less patient than I am.
Phat? Sorry. Not everyone who reads Slashdot is a 12-17 year old kiddie. Not everyone shares your habit of clicking on 'phat' ads.
If you'd checked the recent/. poll on education level completed, you would have seen that the two largest groups participating have 1) completed high school (very much into tech products, second largest source of disposable income), or 2) Completed college (fresh into the job market, largest source of disposable income). So even though you didn't click the link, I would venture that it's pretty safe to say that a great many people here do.
(and dual channel RDRAM is the fastest RAM platform out there).
Speed isn't everything... RDRAM has a great deal more latency than DDR. In many cases, RDRAM performs significantly worse than even SDRAM.
Besides that, there's the evil factor, considering Rambus believed more in the policy of suing for royalties as a revenue model instead of producing and selling a decent product.
Did anyone else notice the linked the changelog to/.? Either the author was link-whoring, he got a little confused, or maybe that's SlashDot's answer to the Smart Tag.
Just because you personally don't grow something doesn't mean that there are many, many people out there doing it for you.
Very few motile species produce their own food for consumption. There is a little thing called the food chain.
Humans actually are the only species that cultivate our own food for consumption. There's a whole market out there with just such a purpose.
Furthermore, there isn't a single species of animal that works singularly to produce or cultivate their own food. Man wasn't meant to do the same. What we do happen to be very good at is supporting the entire species by delegating specific tasks to specific members of the species. The agriculture industry exists for just such the purpose of growing our food for us.
A little thought about your comments would do you much better than a kneejerk reaction.
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That's the way Matrox's tech support procedures have been since the days of the g200. After you go through their faq, you'll find a tech support e-mail address, where you can ask for support. After it's been determined that the problem is not a result of user error, the techie(who responds from his/her own address within Matrox) can then give you a RMA number.
They're not trying to make anybody jump through hoops, they're ensuring that the user has done everything they can to get the card working before tying up their resources by processing an unnecessary RMA.
As far as bump-mapping goes, Matrox was the first. It's nothing new to them.
No, more like Rocket Arena 3 3rd person view mode after you die, or even better, Team Fortress demo style arena viewing. Imagine being able to spectate on the interaction between multiple players from a distance, instead of watching the game from a single player's perspective.
This could be easily scripted in Q3, just make a script allowing the camera man to be invisible and invincible, and have him follow gamers around in arenas.
Dunno how easily done it could be in other games though.
In which case we have carbon dioxide and quicklime, which is exactly what we started with. So.... we still have the carbon dioxide, which was never eliminated, only "stored". Where does it go now?
1. What do they plan on doing with all the calcium carbonate? That stuff isn't going to go away, as opposed to carbon dioxide, which will go away, if not as quickly as we can produce it.
2. Reclaiming the CO2 won't replenish fossil fuels, and if there are no risks in using them anymore, you can be certain there won't be any more legislation calling for restrictions on emissions. Eventually, we will run out.
While this would be a solution for removing atmospheric carbon dioxide, they're still not offering a solution about how to reduce the depletion of our fossil fuels.
OK, I'll bite.
1. A housecat is NOT a lion. They're not even _that_ closely related.
2. Lions do NOT kill their own offspring, they kill the offspring fathered by competing male lions. To kill your own would mean removal of your contribution to the gene pool, which kinda defies natural selection, wouldn't you say?
Now, following your lion analogy, how do you account for the huge (10-20 member) prides of lions, usually a great number of adult lionesses, a few immature males, and a single adult male? While they may not be _friends_, they do stick together for survival's sake.
What. a. bunch. of. clowns.
Heh heh heh... How does it keep up with the news like that?
Paraphrasing is legal under copyright law, so long as the sources are cited and it's not just a cut-and-paste of the entire selection.
Newsblaster doesn't do that. What it does is grab news stories from a selection of different sites, searches through the stories for certain words, phrases, or sentences, and then creates a summary of the story, puts it in a heading under the "hits" it made, and provides the link.
This actually unseated /. from its throne as my home page. =]
There are plenty of pre-made FM transceivers on the market, even Radio Shack sells one. They are also often used in car stereos not equipped with RCA outputs, for the use of hooking up CD changers and the like. Broadcasting on any band is legal, so long as it doesn't go beyond a certain range (I've never seen one do more than 20 or 30 feet).
Two reasons:
1) They have a system now that's worked for them since they opened shop way back in the early 90s.
2) An open and interoperable protocol would make it more difficult for AOL to secure the extra revenue they need to ensure that they stay "#1". With people dialing straight into their PRIs through RAS or chat, they lose money from all the extra advertising and affiliates that pay them for all the eyeballs viewing the numerous popups from within the AOL software itself.
As it is, they do "kind of" use RAS and dial-up networking to connect to AOL's networks, and I believe they have since 5.0. It's just more of a wrapper than anything else though.
If you hadn't posted it, I would have. Grammar nazis unite!
It's not public money, it's money taken out of our own paychecks and "put away" by the US Gov't so they can keep operating normally, and to give the unemployed a cushion so they don't have to live out of their cars until they find a new job. If you don't put the money in, you don't get the money back. What did you think the purposes of taxes were?
Fortunately, given the results of their lawsuit with Infineon, and the disclosure of the Rambus internal memo that gave evidence of Rambus not disclosing information the the JEDEC, the standards committee they were supposed to be participating in, they don't have much of a litigious leg to stand on anymore.
And they do actually make things, they just happen to suck(arguably). PC2400 (266MHz) DDR absolutely smokes 800MHz RDRAM, and it's cheap, too.
I'll try.
Most commercial web sites on the internet used to generate revenue by joining in partnerships with ad companies and affiliates. These companies would pay the website by giving a certain denomination of money for every click that was logged from their site. As time went one, viewers stopped noticing the ads, because they're on every page, there's no requirement to view them (unlike the case of TV, where if you want to keep watching the show, you either sit through the commercials, or change the channel and go back in 3 minutes), and people just got used to seeing a 40 pixel bar at the top of their browsing window, and started ignoring the ads. Gradually, ad companies started noticing that they weren't getting so many click-throughs, and the ones they were getting weren't resulting in a sale for whatever service was being peddled. Thusly, the ad companies decided to bring down the value of a click-through. This complicated the issue for the web sites, not only because users weren't clicking as much on the ad banners, due to their desensitization to it, but because the site now isn't making as much money from the users that do click.
Now webmasters can't pay the bills purely by traditional banner advertising anymore, ad companies aren't paying enough per click to cover the costs of content and bandwidth, and sites need to figure out new ways of generating revenue so they can keep offering the content and services that draw users to click their ads, and make them money.
In short, it's not so much that anybody's getting greedy (although I'm sure that might have motivated it to an extent), it's simply the fact that ad banners aren't the "gold mine" that everybody thought would keep the net "paying for itself".
It's an awful conundrum, isn't it?
You ride it.
Nice argument for raising minimum wage (or not living in NY).
You're right, the ads usually are hosted by another provider, but the problem arises when the user viewing the page gets so flooded by all the ad banners being downloaded that he/she can't get what he/she wanted in a timely fashion. Personally, if I can't view content in 30 seconds, I give up. Many people are a lot less patient than I am.
This is a no-no. Read the portion of the FAQ regarding caching.
HAND.
Yeah, arguing about grammar tends to have that effect, considering our benevolent leader still has trouble differentiating between "then" and "than".
Nobody's willing to waste anymore mod points on this discussion anyway.
If you'd checked the recent /. poll on education level completed, you would have seen that the two largest groups participating have 1) completed high school (very much into tech products, second largest source of disposable income), or 2) Completed college (fresh into the job market, largest source of disposable income). So even though you didn't click the link, I would venture that it's pretty safe to say that a great many people here do.
Speed isn't everything... RDRAM has a great deal more latency than DDR. In many cases, RDRAM performs significantly worse than even SDRAM.
Besides that, there's the evil factor, considering Rambus believed more in the policy of suing for royalties as a revenue model instead of producing and selling a decent product.
They would remove all the "incriminating evidince" and even call up magazine companies to cancel subscriptions.
It was a sketch on the Man Show. Thank you for providing proof of your IQ with your post. HAND.
Just because you personally don't grow something doesn't mean that there are many, many people out there doing it for you.
Very few motile species produce their own food for consumption. There is a little thing called the food chain.
Humans actually are the only species that cultivate our own food for consumption. There's a whole market out there with just such a purpose.
Furthermore, there isn't a single species of animal that works singularly to produce or cultivate their own food. Man wasn't meant to do the same. What we do happen to be very good at is supporting the entire species by delegating specific tasks to specific members of the species. The agriculture industry exists for just such the purpose of growing our food for us.
A little thought about your comments would do you much better than a kneejerk reaction.