Yeah but they never used it was the thing, it was just hype. I know the FX chip had huge potential, Starfox was awesome graphically for it's time. By the time that the FX and FX2 were coming to fruition, the N64 was well on it's way to market. Speaking of clock speeds for older consoles, isn't it amazing that an emulator runs very choppily on a gigahertz machine, while the original game runs fine on a 3.58 mhz chip?
This brings back memories of Sega's "blast processing" and Nintendo's "FX chip". Just a bunch of marketing, and a little smoke and mirrors added in for variety. Sort of like Intel's P4 "Expensive Edition" that does diddly squat in terms of performance gains.
Pardon me if I do not sympathize with this guy who can spoof his e-mail address, but can't tell Outlook (I assume) to not display HTML. If he had just sent them a polite note that said "this is broke, here's how I discovered it, what it does, etc., here is how to fix it", then I think the community could be outraged. This is nothing more than a common criminal act. Just because it was tech-related does not make it more romantic or noble. And while you may not agree with the technology, which sounds about as mysterious as spyware, it served its intended purpose this time, in the future who knows though.
Oh yeah? I dropped mine in a black hole, now I can't find it. What is that you say? I never had one? You could be right. I will hold off for the rumored 15 gig entry level one on the horizon.
Why is it time to rethink that IPO? Losing Yahoo as a paying customer will not hurt very much. There will just be another one to take their place. Google makes great search appliances for networks. They are gaudy yellow boxes, but they work very well. There is plenty of money in that. Look at all this other stuff they can sell. They can sell advertising, search appliances, they can let you use their engine to search your site, and they can park domains for you. How will losing one customer on one sector of their business hurt them (badly)? Their eggs are not all in one basket. That would be like everyone saying "Ford is dying!" when someone stops buying their air freshener.
This is the last thing that NASA needs right about now. No matter what the root cause of the leak is, it will still cast a negative shadow on the space agency. The public can be a fickle bunch.
I realize that both are electronic devices, but one is a measure of speed, one is a measure of density/capacity. It would be like comparing kph and kg.
Heh. I work for a company of fewer than 500 employees. 140 or so are in the building at any one time. I have dozens of various toner cartridges in my possession at any one time. Someone wants some toner, they e-mail me and let me know. I go put in the toner, perform preventative maintainance, and then order a new one. Total time=ten minutes. Oh plus I have to have US citizenship + clearance. I think I will be OK.
I saw the proverbial crap hitting the fan and started looking for a job that is "impossible" to outsource. For example, I am an on-site Network Administrator/Engineer/Hardware Tech/Telephone Tech/Help Desk/All Around Nice Guy. No way in hell someone from India can do that job. Sure, they can tweak scripts or change passwords, but can they replace a CPU fan or install RAM? I do all that stuff, and I bring in candy. What more can a company ask for? Well, unless you are a Diabetic that is.
Now if we could only get around U.S. law. You are legally allowed to make an archival backup copy for your own use. However, the DVD manufacturers do not have to make it possible for you to do so, and circumventing their copy-protection is a crime. So they are infringing on your rights, and if you assert them, they have big brother on their side.
Basically what the RIAA has been doing is comparing MD5 hashes, as well as ID3 tags. It is entirely possible to get the same MD5 hashes if you rip the exact same song in the same format using the same bitrate/settings. (The million monkeys, million typewriters argument). And ID3 tags, how different can those get?
I don't think I will get any arguments by mentioning the biggest bomb of all, SHOWGIRLS! My girlfriend had the gall to give me the DVD for Christmas last year, luckily it was a gag gift.
Knoppix is just plain awesome. That is a really good idea as well, bringing a self-booting Knoppix CD to test Linux compatibility. Now if we could just get around paying the MS tax.
This will do a whole lot of nothing to curb movie piracy. As is mentioned, most of the (quality) pirating jobs are insider jobs, ripped from screener-DVDs or digitally scanned with digital audio, at way better quality than a person video taping could do. Also, just because something is illegal, does not mean that it will magically stop occuring. Murder is illegal, and we see how deterring that law is.
I say pretty much whatever the hell I want, damn people's perceptions. I honestly don't give a crap. Then again, I don't go around saying any and everything that pops into my head. If I am asked, I answer honestly. For example, I am an atheist, but I don't go around professing my (lack of) beliefs to everyone within earshot.
Didn't even realize it was "the" Timothy. Holy crap, does this mean I live in close proximity to a/. editor? I don't know whether to be scared or proud. Just kidding. Those stickers always have seemed a little elitist to me. Like "I've been here and you haven't." Besides, abbreviating "ks" with "x" is too much like a teenage girl's lexicon to be taken seriously.
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Yeah but they never used it was the thing, it was just hype. I know the FX chip had huge potential, Starfox was awesome graphically for it's time. By the time that the FX and FX2 were coming to fruition, the N64 was well on it's way to market. Speaking of clock speeds for older consoles, isn't it amazing that an emulator runs very choppily on a gigahertz machine, while the original game runs fine on a 3.58 mhz chip?
This brings back memories of Sega's "blast processing" and Nintendo's "FX chip". Just a bunch of marketing, and a little smoke and mirrors added in for variety. Sort of like Intel's P4 "Expensive Edition" that does diddly squat in terms of performance gains.
I thought OS X was an operating system. I do not understand the confusion.
We are not a datacentre, we are a U.S. Government contractor.
How long until SCO claims that the code is theirs?
Pardon me if I do not sympathize with this guy who can spoof his e-mail address, but can't tell Outlook (I assume) to not display HTML. If he had just sent them a polite note that said "this is broke, here's how I discovered it, what it does, etc., here is how to fix it", then I think the community could be outraged. This is nothing more than a common criminal act. Just because it was tech-related does not make it more romantic or noble. And while you may not agree with the technology, which sounds about as mysterious as spyware, it served its intended purpose this time, in the future who knows though.
Oh yeah? I dropped mine in a black hole, now I can't find it. What is that you say? I never had one? You could be right. I will hold off for the rumored 15 gig entry level one on the horizon.
Why is it time to rethink that IPO? Losing Yahoo as a paying customer will not hurt very much. There will just be another one to take their place. Google makes great search appliances for networks. They are gaudy yellow boxes, but they work very well. There is plenty of money in that. Look at all this other stuff they can sell. They can sell advertising, search appliances, they can let you use their engine to search your site, and they can park domains for you. How will losing one customer on one sector of their business hurt them (badly)? Their eggs are not all in one basket. That would be like everyone saying "Ford is dying!" when someone stops buying their air freshener.
This is the last thing that NASA needs right about now. No matter what the root cause of the leak is, it will still cast a negative shadow on the space agency. The public can be a fickle bunch.
I really have not had a problem with fax spam in about...10 years, or more.
Agreed, but it is most often associated with raw speed, rather than transistor capacity. I am not saying it is right, I am just stating the way it is.
I realize that both are electronic devices, but one is a measure of speed, one is a measure of density/capacity. It would be like comparing kph and kg.
Heh. I work for a company of fewer than 500 employees. 140 or so are in the building at any one time. I have dozens of various toner cartridges in my possession at any one time. Someone wants some toner, they e-mail me and let me know. I go put in the toner, perform preventative maintainance, and then order a new one. Total time=ten minutes. Oh plus I have to have US citizenship + clearance. I think I will be OK.
I saw the proverbial crap hitting the fan and started looking for a job that is "impossible" to outsource. For example, I am an on-site Network Administrator/Engineer/Hardware Tech/Telephone Tech/Help Desk/All Around Nice Guy. No way in hell someone from India can do that job. Sure, they can tweak scripts or change passwords, but can they replace a CPU fan or install RAM? I do all that stuff, and I bring in candy. What more can a company ask for? Well, unless you are a Diabetic that is.
Content Scrambling System, not Cascading Style Sheets.
Oh can you? There is the little issue of CSS.
Now if we could only get around U.S. law. You are legally allowed to make an archival backup copy for your own use. However, the DVD manufacturers do not have to make it possible for you to do so, and circumventing their copy-protection is a crime. So they are infringing on your rights, and if you assert them, they have big brother on their side.
Basically what the RIAA has been doing is comparing MD5 hashes, as well as ID3 tags. It is entirely possible to get the same MD5 hashes if you rip the exact same song in the same format using the same bitrate/settings. (The million monkeys, million typewriters argument). And ID3 tags, how different can those get?
I don't think I will get any arguments by mentioning the biggest bomb of all, SHOWGIRLS! My girlfriend had the gall to give me the DVD for Christmas last year, luckily it was a gag gift.
Knoppix is just plain awesome. That is a really good idea as well, bringing a self-booting Knoppix CD to test Linux compatibility. Now if we could just get around paying the MS tax.
This will do a whole lot of nothing to curb movie piracy. As is mentioned, most of the (quality) pirating jobs are insider jobs, ripped from screener-DVDs or digitally scanned with digital audio, at way better quality than a person video taping could do. Also, just because something is illegal, does not mean that it will magically stop occuring. Murder is illegal, and we see how deterring that law is.
I say pretty much whatever the hell I want, damn people's perceptions. I honestly don't give a crap. Then again, I don't go around saying any and everything that pops into my head. If I am asked, I answer honestly. For example, I am an atheist, but I don't go around professing my (lack of) beliefs to everyone within earshot.
No surprise here. Pretty soon we will be hearing about Windows 2000 support being phased out, just when people get done migrating.
Didn't even realize it was "the" Timothy. Holy crap, does this mean I live in close proximity to a /. editor? I don't know whether to be scared or proud. Just kidding. Those stickers always have seemed a little elitist to me. Like "I've been here and you haven't." Besides, abbreviating "ks" with "x" is too much like a teenage girl's lexicon to be taken seriously.
I agree. The Outer Banks are cool and all, but a sticker? I like those stickers that say something like "STFU no one cares where you are from".