The Geforce Ti 500 is just an overclocked Geforce 3.
Looking at Anand's Geforce 3 roundup, all of the cards tested overclocked to the performance level of the GF Ti 500. Generally, the core speed was lower, but the memory was faster.
Existing "automatic" mechanical watches generate energy with an eccentric rotor, and store it using a spring. I don't see why the same tried and true storage can't be used.
How many albums you know use the full 78 (wasn't it 74?) minutes?
I think about 10% of my collection (of 300) are longer than 75 minutes. The one I was thinking of was Tool's recent album Lateralus, which would be very different without the 5 minute outro at the end.
Putting monopoly/copyright issues aside for a moment, requiring a WMA version means you lose at least 10% (at 128Kbit), which means that the maximal length would be more like 70min instead of 78min.
This would change the artists presentation of the music itself.
I'm really looking forward to this. Way back when, we evaluated various linux distros as desktop replacements for our sales staff. Corel Linux was way ahead of the curve (about 18 months ago) in terms of out of the box usability for the usual office drone. I had high hopes for version 2, but...
One thing I was thinking today is that if I had to choose, I would rather they had taken out the World Trade Center rather then the Empire State Building.
I had the same thought, only I was thinking about the Statue of Liberty.
The Jive Forum BBS software was hit by the bug as well, for the same reason as everybody else: the sort order changes when the values are stored in a character field. Here's a comment from one of the developers regarding the design decision:
Hey all,
Thought I would respond since I'm a Jive developer. There were quite a few reasons for the date to be stored as it is:
1) Java uses the millesecond values since 1970 as its native date format. However, unlike Unix, this value is stored as a 64 bit long instead of a 32 bit integer. Effectively, this means there will never be date overflow. In any case, using the millesecond value is very easy and fast in Java.
2) Database support for dates is horrible. Most db's have a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP column type. However, all databases seem to implement them differently. Further, support for 64 bit numbers is also poorly supported across many databases. Therefore, we were forced to go with our own encoding (millesecond values), and to use character columns instead of numeric ones. This lets Jive work with over 10 different databases instead of 1 or 2.
3) Yep, we never thought about the date rollover bug until about a month and a half ago. Adding a few padding 0's was a simple fix and was released on Aug 8th as Jive 2.0.
For example, consumers can now rent the 1995 film "World and Time Enough" for $4.95 directly from Strand Releasing's Web site for five days, after which the file will become inaccessible.
kind of ironic, when that's exactly what the original DIVX did
along the same lines, when do you give up support for browsers that can't render DHTML or CSS?
After a while your normally sensible and readable code becomes a nightmare spaghetti tangle of conditions, macros and multiple re-inventions of the wheel
this describes some of my javascript to handle multiple browsers to a tee
I thought it was interesting how SGI had a HUGE pavilion at last years LWCE, complete with lame emcee guy and flashy dog and pony show, yet had zero presence this year.
I wonder if they're reconsidering their linux strategy in view of the recent shift to linux from sgi in computing & rendering projects.
One problem I've had with MP3 is that I have yet to find any player that will play consecutive MP3 files with absolutely no break in the audio stream between files
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So the only people that this really affects are the casual copiers, and they will just go out and find a copy that someone else has ripped
Exactly. Now that Napster clones have reached a critical mass of their own, casual copiers don't need the original CD to burn a copy.
MLM == Multi Level Marketing??
This book is indeed spammer heaven!
The Geforce Ti 500 is just an overclocked Geforce 3.
Looking at Anand's Geforce 3 roundup, all of the cards tested overclocked to the performance level of the GF Ti 500. Generally, the core speed was lower, but the memory was faster.
Existing "automatic" mechanical watches generate energy with an eccentric rotor, and store it using a spring. I don't see why the same tried and true storage can't be used.
NTT DoCoMo is also cautious, expecting only one in every 10 subscribers to have a 3G phone in three years' time.
Wow, that statement really illustrates how Japanese think in the long term.
I hope, for their sake, that they can run legacy networks over the new backbone.
The first one I remember was This Mortal Coil's Blood, circa 1991.
I'd guess that they get the extra space by using Yellow Book Mode 2 (no ECC).
How many albums you know use the full 78 (wasn't it 74?) minutes?
I think about 10% of my collection (of 300) are longer than 75 minutes. The one I was thinking of was Tool's recent album Lateralus , which would be very different without the 5 minute outro at the end.
Putting monopoly/copyright issues aside for a moment, requiring a WMA version means you lose at least 10% (at 128Kbit), which means that the maximal length would be more like 70min instead of 78min.
This would change the artists presentation of the music itself.
I thought progressive output for compressed NTSC would be pretty silly, till I saw it was actually a VGA connector
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I'm really looking forward to this. Way back when, we evaluated various linux distros as desktop replacements for our sales staff. Corel Linux was way ahead of the curve (about 18 months ago) in terms of out of the box usability for the usual office drone. I had high hopes for version 2, but ...
One thing I was thinking today is that if I had to choose, I would rather they had taken out the World Trade Center rather then the Empire State Building.
I had the same thought, only I was thinking about the Statue of Liberty.
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The Jive Forum BBS software was hit by the bug as well, for the same reason as everybody else: the sort order changes when the values are stored in a character field.
Here's a comment from one of the developers regarding the design decision:
Hey all,
Thought I would respond since I'm a Jive developer. There were quite a few reasons for the date to be stored as it is:
1) Java uses the millesecond values since 1970 as its native date format. However, unlike Unix, this value is stored as a 64 bit long instead of a 32 bit integer. Effectively, this means there will never be date overflow. In any case, using the millesecond value is very easy and fast in Java.
2) Database support for dates is horrible. Most db's have a DATETIME or TIMESTAMP column type. However, all databases seem to implement them differently. Further, support for 64 bit numbers is also poorly supported across many databases. Therefore, we were forced to go with our own encoding (millesecond values), and to use character columns instead of numeric ones. This lets Jive work with over 10 different databases instead of 1 or 2.
3) Yep, we never thought about the date rollover bug until about a month and a half ago. Adding a few padding 0's was a simple fix and was released on Aug 8th as Jive 2.0.
-Matt
For example, consumers can now rent the 1995 film "World and Time Enough" for $4.95 directly from Strand Releasing's Web site for five days, after which the file will become inaccessible.
kind of ironic, when that's exactly what the original DIVX did
what will really be interesting will be the hacking projects.
:)
whether you can actually play games on it or not, Linux on the Xbox will be too cool (and spite MSFT like nothing other
along the same lines, when do you give up support for browsers that can't render DHTML or CSS?
After a while your normally sensible and readable code becomes a nightmare spaghetti tangle of conditions, macros and multiple re-inventions of the wheel
this describes some of my javascript to handle multiple browsers to a tee
I thought it was interesting how SGI had a HUGE pavilion at last years LWCE, complete with lame emcee guy and flashy dog and pony show, yet had zero presence this year.
I wonder if they're reconsidering their linux strategy in view of the recent shift to linux from sgi in computing & rendering projects.
Does anyone know if John Cash (ex-id) is working on this title?
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This should be changed as there are no static pages now, no?
Consequently, the goatse.cx posters are probably going to have to focus on finding alternate locations to host that pic. Beware of Geocities links!
one I know of is tacoinspector.com
be warned
I was picking up a 6000 Watt North Carolina FM station from near Philly
Duh. More solar radiation == a much stronger Ionosphere
I spent all that time looking, and ended up redundant. heh
had an excellent article about Verhoeven and Pendray in the Jan 2001 issue, but I can't find a good link on their website
One problem I've had with MP3 is that I have yet to find any player that will play consecutive MP3 files with absolutely no break in the audio stream between files
I find that Sonique does a good job at this.
My Aiwa car MP3 player does NOT and it's annoying.