Those are great resources, but honestly, saying Bush isn't the US president makes you sound like you're in denial. Bush was elected because of how the political system here was designed, not because he 'cheated'. You should gripe about the system behind his victory, not some imaginary crime committed by his campaign. And pretending he's not the president isn't going to keep him from being re-elected, so I suggest focusing on the legitimate reasons to dislike him instead of imaginary ones. For example, his appointment of ashcroft. Who would want to re-elect bush if they knew a man came with him who is trying to create a police state? That's the kind of arguments you need to make to win people like me over, otherwise you're just preaching to the choir.
Is there anything nanotubes CAN'T do? It seems like new uses are being discovered for them every day.
Though the idea of using a material that burns when exposed to a camera flash, for storage, is a little unnerving... Anyone know how they plan to address that and other problems/inherent properties of nanotubes?
Linux almost takes over the desktop Slashdot almost never posts dupes Windows almost doesn't suck anymore Trolls almost never post on slashdot anymore Slashdot almost never posts dupes RIAA almost makes an intelligent decision ??? Profit!... Er, wait, wrong list.
More seriously, 'almost' isn't a very exact term. While we're basing size on objects, what type of paper are we talking about? Are these lcd's as thick as toilet paper? Construction paper?
And hey, I thought the size problem with lcd's wasn't the lcd but the controller and backlight, anyway...?
Can you honestly say that in this day and age, the entire country of South Korea is 'forced' to buy and use Microsoft Windows? Hardly. This isn't fair, or reasonable. This is a bunch of south korean businesses that were hit hard by their stupidity/negligence (not patching), trying to recoup their losses by ripping off a company in court. If they were suing Apple or Red Hat, you'd be singing a different tune, I bet.
In this case at the very least, there are two major differences: 1. Everyone knows Windows is buggy. Everyone knows software is buggy; especially Microsoft software. 2. You essentially agree not to hold a company liable for bugs when you install their software and agree to the click-through EULA. (This is not true of all software; but is definitely true of MS software.) IANAL, but technically, this lawsuit is a violation of the EULA, which makes it even more preposterous.
You buy the software, you choose to use it, YOU DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
True, Slammer was bad, but it's not like MS intentionally added it, and they DID agree to a EULA when they installed it. Of course software companies should be responsible, but it's not like MS isn't trying (though they're not doing a terribly good job.) Idiotic lawsuits like this set a bad precedent.
I don't know. That's a great price, but it's a Creative product so I have a feeling it's not as good as it sounds.
See, I've used Creative audio products since the days of the original SoundBlaster... and Creative really doesn't do as good of a job as they used to. These days they have horrible drivers, false advertising, and practically nonexistent tech support. They release a new driver update around every six MONTHS, even when there are dozens of outstanding bugs to fix; and cards like the Audigy barely did half of the things they advertised on the box and on websites.
So anyway, this thing sounds cool... but if I were you, I wouldn't buy one without finding out a LOT about it and making sure I'm really getting my money's worth. You really can't trust Creative anymore.
IPv6 is also available for Win2k, which doesn't make it such an unbelievable proposition... anyone running anything less than Win2k (that is, if they're running Windows) has to be out of their mind. (That or tied to old hardware and OSes by shitty software)
I wouldn't be suprised if SCO DDos'ed themselves. How hard would it be? I mean, it's not like anyone could find out, the only evidence would be *their* server logs.
That's right folks, I think SCO is trying to give itself martyr status. "those nasty linux thieves will stop at nothing! Also buy sco products."
If you skip over the assembly instruction that causes the exception in a debugger, everything works fine. So if anyone pulls this trick on you, just open the debugger and skip the instruction.:) That, or get a better browser.
Is it really emulation or does it convert x86 assembly so it can run on the Itanium? If you can get 1.5ghz worth of performance out of EMULATION on the Itanium, then I need a new processor.
Nytimes.com is freaking out on me... did we actually slashdot the new york times? It said something about server errors and now i'm getting garbled pages and broken pages.
Time is money. If the cheapskates already have windows, chances are they won't want to spend time (and possibly money) moving to linux, learning linux, and porting any custom software.
Sure, linux is free, but it's not quite that simple for some people...
Shut up. You are free to do whatever you choose in this 'dictatorship' and the only people stopping you are the corrupt senators/etc YOU elected. The bills that allow this were written by senators being paid off by special interest groups, not some imaginary evil dictator sitting in the oval office.
How about getting out of mom and dad's basement for a while and living in the real world?
I've never heard of Christians giving money to jews to move back to israel. Anyone who tells you that's a 'requirement' for Christ to come back has obviously not read a bible enough.;)
I'm a Christian, but I personally don't see the logic behind anything like that, and I always laughed when I saw ads for 'The Holy Land Experience' in some of the magazines I read. We're not all nutcases.
For those who keep talking about how windows has been 3d accelerated for ages or whatever, that's untrue. Windows did not care about 3d acceleration before Win2k, and I *believe* it still uses all 2d rendering for the new layered window stuff in 2k/XP (but I could be wrong - I know that there is a hardware accelerated alpha blit function available on every windows platform from 98 on). However, the new layered window stuff *does* buffer windows in offscreen 'textures' instead of rendering them directly to the display. But as anyone who's tried resizing a large transparent window knows, it's nothing to write home about.
Aqua, if memory serves, stores all windows and bitmaps in offscreen texture buffers, does almost all primitive rendering with hardware primitives, and then composites it all onscreen using quads (or triangles, whatever) and applies various rendering effects to it.
This system seems to simply buffer individual windows in VRam, render to them in software, and composite them in realtime using the hardware, instead of just rendering everything directly to the front-buffer. Unless they get most primitives rendered in hardware (especially bitmaps/icons), it's going to be ass-slow.
How would you test that? I can't think of any easy way to actually test that much RAM. What would you do, load 8GB of random data into RAM and compare it byte-by-byte with the original data?
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Those are great resources, but honestly, saying Bush isn't the US president makes you sound like you're in denial. Bush was elected because of how the political system here was designed, not because he 'cheated'. You should gripe about the system behind his victory, not some imaginary crime committed by his campaign. And pretending he's not the president isn't going to keep him from being re-elected, so I suggest focusing on the legitimate reasons to dislike him instead of imaginary ones. For example, his appointment of ashcroft. Who would want to re-elect bush if they knew a man came with him who is trying to create a police state? That's the kind of arguments you need to make to win people like me over, otherwise you're just preaching to the choir.
Reminds me of the original BeBox, which ran on around 7 40mhz processors if I remember. (One for audio, one for video, etc.)
But mommy! I'm scared of the dark, and packet loss!
Is there anything nanotubes CAN'T do? It seems like new uses are being discovered for them every day.
Though the idea of using a material that burns when exposed to a camera flash, for storage, is a little unnerving... Anyone know how they plan to address that and other problems/inherent properties of nanotubes?
Imagine the bragging rights you'd have making an intelligent post on slashdot.
Whoa.
Linux almost takes over the desktop ... Er, wait, wrong list.
Slashdot almost never posts dupes
Windows almost doesn't suck anymore
Trolls almost never post on slashdot anymore
Slashdot almost never posts dupes
RIAA almost makes an intelligent decision
???
Profit!
More seriously, 'almost' isn't a very exact term. While we're basing size on objects, what type of paper are we talking about? Are these lcd's as thick as toilet paper? Construction paper?
And hey, I thought the size problem with lcd's wasn't the lcd but the controller and backlight, anyway...?
Can you honestly say that in this day and age, the entire country of South Korea is 'forced' to buy and use Microsoft Windows? Hardly. This isn't fair, or reasonable. This is a bunch of south korean businesses that were hit hard by their stupidity/negligence (not patching), trying to recoup their losses by ripping off a company in court. If they were suing Apple or Red Hat, you'd be singing a different tune, I bet.
In this case at the very least, there are two major differences:
1. Everyone knows Windows is buggy. Everyone knows software is buggy; especially Microsoft software.
2. You essentially agree not to hold a company liable for bugs when you install their software and agree to the click-through EULA. (This is not true of all software; but is definitely true of MS software.) IANAL, but technically, this lawsuit is a violation of the EULA, which makes it even more preposterous.
You buy the software, you choose to use it, YOU DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES.
True, Slammer was bad, but it's not like MS intentionally added it, and they DID agree to a EULA when they installed it. Of course software companies should be responsible, but it's not like MS isn't trying (though they're not doing a terribly good job.) Idiotic lawsuits like this set a bad precedent.
I don't know. That's a great price, but it's a Creative product so I have a feeling it's not as good as it sounds.
See, I've used Creative audio products since the days of the original SoundBlaster... and Creative really doesn't do as good of a job as they used to. These days they have horrible drivers, false advertising, and practically nonexistent tech support. They release a new driver update around every six MONTHS, even when there are dozens of outstanding bugs to fix; and cards like the Audigy barely did half of the things they advertised on the box and on websites.
So anyway, this thing sounds cool... but if I were you, I wouldn't buy one without finding out a LOT about it and making sure I'm really getting my money's worth. You really can't trust Creative anymore.
See it before mindlessly bashing? But it's tuesday! Isn't tuesday mindless bashing day?
IPv6 is also available for Win2k, which doesn't make it such an unbelievable proposition... anyone running anything less than Win2k (that is, if they're running Windows) has to be out of their mind. (That or tied to old hardware and OSes by shitty software)
I wouldn't be suprised if SCO DDos'ed themselves. How hard would it be? I mean, it's not like anyone could find out, the only evidence would be *their* server logs.
That's right folks, I think SCO is trying to give itself martyr status. "those nasty linux thieves will stop at nothing! Also buy sco products."
If you skip over the assembly instruction that causes the exception in a debugger, everything works fine. So if anyone pulls this trick on you, just open the debugger and skip the instruction. :) That, or get a better browser.
Winamp3 has had the same ducking problem for ages now on some hardware configurations. They still haven't figured out what causes it.
Is it really emulation or does it convert x86 assembly so it can run on the Itanium? If you can get 1.5ghz worth of performance out of EMULATION on the Itanium, then I need a new processor.
Nytimes.com is freaking out on me... did we actually slashdot the new york times? It said something about server errors and now i'm getting garbled pages and broken pages.
Time is money. If the cheapskates already have windows, chances are they won't want to spend time (and possibly money) moving to linux, learning linux, and porting any custom software.
Sure, linux is free, but it's not quite that simple for some people...
Shut up. You are free to do whatever you choose in this 'dictatorship' and the only people stopping you are the corrupt senators/etc YOU elected. The bills that allow this were written by senators being paid off by special interest groups, not some imaginary evil dictator sitting in the oval office.
How about getting out of mom and dad's basement for a while and living in the real world?
I've never heard of Christians giving money to jews to move back to israel. Anyone who tells you that's a 'requirement' for Christ to come back has obviously not read a bible enough. ;)
I'm a Christian, but I personally don't see the logic behind anything like that, and I always laughed when I saw ads for 'The Holy Land Experience' in some of the magazines I read. We're not all nutcases.
For those who keep talking about how windows has been 3d accelerated for ages or whatever, that's untrue. Windows did not care about 3d acceleration before Win2k, and I *believe* it still uses all 2d rendering for the new layered window stuff in 2k/XP (but I could be wrong - I know that there is a hardware accelerated alpha blit function available on every windows platform from 98 on). However, the new layered window stuff *does* buffer windows in offscreen 'textures' instead of rendering them directly to the display. But as anyone who's tried resizing a large transparent window knows, it's nothing to write home about.
Aqua, if memory serves, stores all windows and bitmaps in offscreen texture buffers, does almost all primitive rendering with hardware primitives, and then composites it all onscreen using quads (or triangles, whatever) and applies various rendering effects to it.
This system seems to simply buffer individual windows in VRam, render to them in software, and composite them in realtime using the hardware, instead of just rendering everything directly to the front-buffer. Unless they get most primitives rendered in hardware (especially bitmaps/icons), it's going to be ass-slow.
Just my 0.02c.
Now all we need are mobile PDA/phones for the deaf... oh, wait.
You forgot 1000MB/s over CAT-5/CAT-5E cable.
Nice karma whore though. It's almost on-topic.
I think you're thinking of another slashdot story. Perhaps one about crossplatform programming languages, BASIC, or John Romero?
How would you test that? I can't think of any easy way to actually test that much RAM. What would you do, load 8GB of random data into RAM and compare it byte-by-byte with the original data?