Err, the equivalent nVidia software is $20 to $50, if you had read the article or other comments here. The base drivers are free, yes. The extra features are free on ATI's side, but not free on nVidia's side. Expect nVidia to fight back within a couple of months with better algorithms and free/cheaper software.
The same site gave nVidia the lead just earlier in the month, prior to these new drivers. Doesn't sound like they're paid off to me. The benchmark scores are how the benchmark defines them, and the site didn't make the benchmark. Your post is just a typical hysterical (and probably fanboy) overreaction that slanders a website that has put a lot of effort into showing what the latest drivers can provide for a user. Pretty sad, really.
Blame the benchmark. You get full scores for cadence detection if the card has detected it before the car gets to a certain point in the video. Being faster doesn't matter if the other card is still fast enough.
The site hasn't assigned arbitrary scores.
The benchmark is an industry standard one, btw. It's probably not perfect, but a couple of frames here and there wouldn't alter the scores significantly in the end if the scoring was finer grained.
Yes, but tens of thousands of people die in terrorist attacks every year in Australia!
Oh, wait.
No.
No-one does.
We've seen in Britain the abuse of new laws already - the pensioner arrested under anti-terrorism laws at the Labour party conference for example, because he heckled.
The fact is, the people who desire power (politicians and the police) are naturally going to be the people that create laws like those we've seen in the past 5 to 10 years. Instead of having politicians and police who do the job because they feel it is worthwhile and decent, they do it because they like the power.
I'd rather the billions were spent on road safety, or catching murderors, or improving health care. Things that will save more lives EVERY YEAR than terrorism will kill in a decade, a century even.
I want back to a world where governments represent the people. Where they are FULLY accountable to the people.
Not a government that seeks to control the people, keep them monitored in case they might overpower them, and so on. The modern governments we have around the world aren't democratic, indeed most of our electoral systems aren't democratic in how a true democracy would work... the age of the large political party should be over, they can't be representative of all their members and the minority in control of the party can do whatever they want. What we have is barely better than the middle ages, a feudal system where money or celebrity is power. And we're to blame for it.
I thought the text message got routed to their servers, and the receiver got a message with a link to the wap site. they'd then get sent to the wap site to see the text message, and the wap site would redirect or do something after 40 seconds to remove it from the viewer's screen. Standard http redirect?
Except the player is getting paid (a boatload) BY The Eagles.
The student is PAYING (a lot) the university.
Something is cranky in this situation if the students are paying to restrict things they've taken for granted before, such as being able to express their opinion of the service they've paid for. Probably an imbalance in the number of students and the number of universities/teachers.
Codes of conduct are fine - you are paying to be a representative of the university as well as be taught by them. Hell that might include what you wear. Very kinky, paying to be told what you can and cannot do!
And even in the case of dominatrixes, you can still say they sucked* afterwards.
Under your regime, if a bus driver didn't want an African Americian lady to board his bus, he would be quite within his rights to refuse her entry Or indeed, maybe something as unlikely as a pharmacist refusing to serve someone who wanted the morning after pill because of their religious beliefs.
Luckily that never happens. Right?
Indeed I think that both should have the right to do that, and then the parent company should have the right to fire them for not working in the company's best interests - that of making money by selling a product or service. However the company itself shouldn't be allowed to set those rules, it's a business and should be neutral when it comes to these things. Sadly we know that's not the case as well, but at least there are rules, regulations and responsibilities that businesses have to follow.
I believe that consumers can criticise a product or service they've bought if it isn't good. A student who pays for their education is buying a service. If they want to diss that service in public they can, as long as they're not lying (libel/slander/defamation laws). Most businesses would try to fix the problem that caused the complaints. Most purchasers would complain in person to the business first to get it fixed, before dissing it if the response was unsatifactory. Of course, if you were unhappy with the service you'd bought, you wouldn't want to continue with it, unlike this case.
I can't get enough news, of the conventional or computer industry kind.
I swear that if there weren't coworkers to scare me, I'd read the various sites repeatedly all day long. And then go home and if there wasn't a girlfriend there who demands attention I'd browse them until late at night.
It is the comments that gets me, I know I don't have to read everybody else's misinformed incorrect blather (unless their viewpoint agrees with mine), but I do. Can I just read an article? No, I've got to do the comments, and then comment myself, and then get into an online argument about something pointless.... hours later I feel bad because it was a waste of time.
Still, less harmful than some previous addictions I suppose...
And how much money has NTP lost by RIM implementing it?
NOTHING.
Because they didn't have their own implementation to protect - the 'inventor's monopoly' that a patent gives the inventor.
Patents should be enforceable, even though a patent on sending text (even if it is formatted in a particular way) to a pager (a device designed to show text) is clearly a waste of time.
But an idea is worth nothing until it is implemented. Maybe the idea then gains some worth, but all the effort, research, etc is the real value. The product is the real value.
So NTP should be awarded damages equal or greater than the loss they've incurred from loss of business because RIM used their patent. $1 billion is ridiculous, if I was on the board of RIM I'd just say 'sod it, hard work doesn't pay, shut it down, make everyone redundant, where's our list of patents anyway'... or at least remove the infringing product from the market that has the stupid patent law.
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Right, someone give Google g.com, or better still,.g!
Then I steal myself a gmail account username like gb (my initials) and then I can be gb@g.com or better, gb@g. g@g would be the ultimate however.
Not that it really matters. I'd be in favour of dropping.net and then enforcing.org for organisations only and.com for corporations only instead of creating more endings and forcing companies to 'protect' themselves in more namespaces.
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There is one KDE desktop.
And one Gnome desktop.
And one FVWM desktop. and so on.
Linux is just the kernel. X11 just a window manager. There are just several interfaces that run on top of these, and that is what the user or corporation selects, depending on their likes and dislikes.
People have their own preferences. Give them a choice. Anyway it isn't as if they are programming it for money, it's their own time, so let them do what they want.
Also probably a couple of years too early, given the non-gaming-specific hardware that mobile phones use. The fun that is playing a game on an old Gameboy, never mind a Gameboy advance or DS, is down to the hardware that makes it possible - the tiled graphics modes on the old Gameboy meant faster games, for example, than the ol' 4MHz Z80 could do on its own.
If the nGage had come with, say, 10-20 games built-in, where each game was an implementation of a classic game - space invaders, arkanoid, asteroids, pacman, tetris/columns, then many more people would have bought them. Even if these games had been £1.99 ($2.99) options to download from Nokia it would have been more tempting.
As it is, I have a gameboy emulator on my Motorola A1000, and whilst it garbles the audio it is still reasonably playable. All I need to do is get some Zelda games on it, and I'm good to go for months. I imagine I can get C64, Spectrum and CPC emulators for it as well - Uridium, Netherworld, New Zealand Story here I come (when I find the emulators anyway!).
I thought MODE 7 was a neat trick done by the graphics controller. The actual polygon is merely a 2D tiled map. However instead of the graphics controller outputting left-to-right through the map, it could output at any angle through the map (rotation) and you could alter the step as well (distance).
Moving around was achieved by altering the rotation (turning around) and altering the step and change-of-step (angle of view).
Of course, like all hardware, it was abused a lot to create some damn neat effects, MODE 7 games with textured 'hills' and so on. It was a very interesting feature to include.
It truly did - and at the time it was the last thing I needed. I was getting abusive phone calls from customers (well, a couple - I don't wish to exaggerate) who thought I was the other guy and had taken their money. That guy probably took a month off my life due to stress.
(since then I sold off the business and decided to go back to a job where I could do more of what I like doing - programming and being creative - and less of the paperwork. I'm a lot happier now, maybe I'll regain that month!)
You're probably a lot more intelligent than the average person. Also I think a lot of people are naive about these scams, nor do they know that details are so readily available. They think 'Ooh, a letter to me about my domain, must be legit'. Hence what must have been >10,000 people were scammed (if he took £1.6m at around £60 a pop).
Whilst unethical (and he sent out invoices, not advertising, I know that the company got a warning about that even before this stuff came up), if he'd at least done the work once getting the money and offered a service...
I dropped them, decided I didn't need a PO Box address. But quite some damage had been done - the number assigned was similar to mine as well. Also it appeared that they misdirected my mail to him on a couple of times.
Hmm, what about the £1,600,000 that the spam conned out of people.
It wasn't just the.eu 'pre-registration' scam he ran. It was the sending out paper renewal notices to domain owners from details he scraped from the whois. It turns out that many people forget who their registrar is, and simply followed the instructions. At £60+ a shot, that is around 20,000 people who got scammed.
That's what spamming does. What about the time wasted by Nominet, the other registrars who's customers suddenly came down on them for not renewing, the police, trading standards... that's not configurable by tweaking spamassassin.
There are obvious spams, and there are what this guy did.
Peter Francis-Macrae of Cambridgeshire was found guilty of fraudulent trading, concealing criminal property, threatening to destroy or damage property, making threats to kill and blackmail
Fraudulent Trading
via Spam - both postal and email
£1.6m (which is around $3m)... I wonder if he ever declared his VAT bill?
I'm sure it added a year or two onto his sentence.
Oh, and I hope he isn't released until he reveals where the money he scammed is - no parole for this particularly low-life scum.
He sent out fake renewal notices to people, using whois data. The notices asked for a renewal fee of around £60 for 2 years renewal.
I reported that company several times to trading standards, as my line of work was in the same area, and it was affecting my customers who would get in contact and ask about their renewal status, that they'd sent in the cheque a while ago... this happened dozens of times, and I was running a tiny internet company.
His response? He moved his company to a Mailboxes Etc (Regent Street, Cambridge, UK) that I also used, thus sullying my companies name. Mailboxes Etc were not interested in the fact that their customer was a scammer.
Actually the ribbon is designed to be consistent and provide full access to all commands in a clear and easy manner.
It gets rid of two of Microsoft's worst things - the toolbar list from hell, and the menu system that confuses.
Just think of this as a tabbed command system, which it is. Pretty much like Wordstar although that merely showed you what the keyboard shortcut was for a command, rather than letting you click on it. If people could use Wordstar 20 years ago, they can use this.
Meh. I think the Ribbon functionality, which is merely a 2005 version of the text help menus in Wordstar et al from the 80's, will actually remove a lot of the frustration of using Office for the casual user such as me.
The point in its favour are:
- no more crappy small icons on THIRTY possible toolbars - all commands are available in the ribbon - the ribbon scales to lower and higher resolutions - irrelevant crap is hidden until you active something that makes it relevant
It's probably the best item of UI engineering to come out of Microsoft ever, fixing the Office toolbar nightmare.
Is it ideal? Who knows. Maybe there is a better UI for providing access to a thousand possible commands within an application in a point-and-click manner, but nobody has bothered to implement it yet.
Ouch indeed. I imagine it is the same for all the other Sony $sys$rootkit DRM CDs?
Yeah, I imagine that with the amount of negative feedback all over Sony had no choice but to stop this scheme. Even so Sony are on a one year 'no purchase' ban personally, it may be extended depending on future behaviour.
I think the 770 is the early adopter "pay to beta test" platform. No mobile capability means that the mass market won't adopt it. Lots of geeks will buy one as a toy, or to develop on.
In one year's time you'll have a lot more software, the system will be way better tested, and Nokia will launch the follow up which adds the phone capability and $100 onto the price. That's where this product is going.
However some people seem to have an issue with the word 'tablet' - a tablet being something you can write/etch/etc upon. This meets that definition, even if it isn't a large laptop-sized PC tablet. It isn't trying to be that.
Maybe they'll move over to a HD-DVD drive next year to counteract the PS3 launch, but that'll piss off all the early adopters. It'll also increase the hardware costs, something that Microsoft won't want to do.
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Err, the equivalent nVidia software is $20 to $50, if you had read the article or other comments here. The base drivers are free, yes. The extra features are free on ATI's side, but not free on nVidia's side. Expect nVidia to fight back within a couple of months with better algorithms and free/cheaper software.
The same site gave nVidia the lead just earlier in the month, prior to these new drivers. Doesn't sound like they're paid off to me. The benchmark scores are how the benchmark defines them, and the site didn't make the benchmark. Your post is just a typical hysterical (and probably fanboy) overreaction that slanders a website that has put a lot of effort into showing what the latest drivers can provide for a user. Pretty sad, really.
Blame the benchmark. You get full scores for cadence detection if the card has detected it before the car gets to a certain point in the video. Being faster doesn't matter if the other card is still fast enough.
The site hasn't assigned arbitrary scores.
The benchmark is an industry standard one, btw. It's probably not perfect, but a couple of frames here and there wouldn't alter the scores significantly in the end if the scoring was finer grained.
Yes, but tens of thousands of people die in terrorist attacks every year in Australia!
... the age of the large political party should be over, they can't be representative of all their members and the minority in control of the party can do whatever they want. What we have is barely better than the middle ages, a feudal system where money or celebrity is power. And we're to blame for it.
Oh, wait.
No.
No-one does.
We've seen in Britain the abuse of new laws already - the pensioner arrested under anti-terrorism laws at the Labour party conference for example, because he heckled.
The fact is, the people who desire power (politicians and the police) are naturally going to be the people that create laws like those we've seen in the past 5 to 10 years. Instead of having politicians and police who do the job because they feel it is worthwhile and decent, they do it because they like the power.
I'd rather the billions were spent on road safety, or catching murderors, or improving health care. Things that will save more lives EVERY YEAR than terrorism will kill in a decade, a century even.
I want back to a world where governments represent the people. Where they are FULLY accountable to the people.
Not a government that seeks to control the people, keep them monitored in case they might overpower them, and so on. The modern governments we have around the world aren't democratic, indeed most of our electoral systems aren't democratic in how a true democracy would work
I thought the text message got routed to their servers, and the receiver got a message with a link to the wap site. they'd then get sent to the wap site to see the text message, and the wap site would redirect or do something after 40 seconds to remove it from the viewer's screen. Standard http redirect?
Except the player is getting paid (a boatload) BY The Eagles.
The student is PAYING (a lot) the university.
Something is cranky in this situation if the students are paying to restrict things they've taken for granted before, such as being able to express their opinion of the service they've paid for. Probably an imbalance in the number of students and the number of universities/teachers.
Codes of conduct are fine - you are paying to be a representative of the university as well as be taught by them. Hell that might include what you wear. Very kinky, paying to be told what you can and cannot do!
And even in the case of dominatrixes, you can still say they sucked* afterwards.
*No, not like that!
Under your regime, if a bus driver didn't want an African Americian lady to board his bus, he would be quite within his rights to refuse her entry
Or indeed, maybe something as unlikely as a pharmacist refusing to serve someone who wanted the morning after pill because of their religious beliefs.
Luckily that never happens. Right?
Indeed I think that both should have the right to do that, and then the parent company should have the right to fire them for not working in the company's best interests - that of making money by selling a product or service. However the company itself shouldn't be allowed to set those rules, it's a business and should be neutral when it comes to these things. Sadly we know that's not the case as well, but at least there are rules, regulations and responsibilities that businesses have to follow.
I believe that consumers can criticise a product or service they've bought if it isn't good. A student who pays for their education is buying a service. If they want to diss that service in public they can, as long as they're not lying (libel/slander/defamation laws). Most businesses would try to fix the problem that caused the complaints. Most purchasers would complain in person to the business first to get it fixed, before dissing it if the response was unsatifactory. Of course, if you were unhappy with the service you'd bought, you wouldn't want to continue with it, unlike this case.
Err, you don't seem to get the concept of the razor and razorblades model.
:p
Razor == cheap, Blades == expensive.
Or, in Sun-speak:
Software == cheap, Servers == expensive.
Which pretty much correlates with what Sun have been doing recently.
Amusingly, Sun also sell blades, of the server type
... but not to porn or games.
I can't get enough news, of the conventional or computer industry kind.
I swear that if there weren't coworkers to scare me, I'd read the various sites repeatedly all day long. And then go home and if there wasn't a girlfriend there who demands attention I'd browse them until late at night.
It is the comments that gets me, I know I don't have to read everybody else's misinformed incorrect blather (unless their viewpoint agrees with mine), but I do. Can I just read an article? No, I've got to do the comments, and then comment myself, and then get into an online argument about something pointless.... hours later I feel bad because it was a waste of time.
Still, less harmful than some previous addictions I suppose...
And how much money has NTP lost by RIM implementing it?
... or at least remove the infringing product from the market that has the stupid patent law.
NOTHING.
Because they didn't have their own implementation to protect - the 'inventor's monopoly' that a patent gives the inventor.
Patents should be enforceable, even though a patent on sending text (even if it is formatted in a particular way) to a pager (a device designed to show text) is clearly a waste of time.
But an idea is worth nothing until it is implemented. Maybe the idea then gains some worth, but all the effort, research, etc is the real value. The product is the real value.
So NTP should be awarded damages equal or greater than the loss they've incurred from loss of business because RIM used their patent. $1 billion is ridiculous, if I was on the board of RIM I'd just say 'sod it, hard work doesn't pay, shut it down, make everyone redundant, where's our list of patents anyway'
Oops, yes. I blame TooMuchJavaException.
Right, someone give Google g.com, or better still, .g!
.net and then enforcing .org for organisations only and .com for corporations only instead of creating more endings and forcing companies to 'protect' themselves in more namespaces.
Then I steal myself a gmail account username like gb (my initials) and then I can be gb@g.com or better, gb@g. g@g would be the ultimate however.
Not that it really matters. I'd be in favour of dropping
There is one KDE desktop.
And one Gnome desktop.
And one FVWM desktop. and so on.
Linux is just the kernel. X11 just a window manager. There are just several interfaces that run on top of these, and that is what the user or corporation selects, depending on their likes and dislikes.
People have their own preferences. Give them a choice. Anyway it isn't as if they are programming it for money, it's their own time, so let them do what they want.
Also probably a couple of years too early, given the non-gaming-specific hardware that mobile phones use. The fun that is playing a game on an old Gameboy, never mind a Gameboy advance or DS, is down to the hardware that makes it possible - the tiled graphics modes on the old Gameboy meant faster games, for example, than the ol' 4MHz Z80 could do on its own.
If the nGage had come with, say, 10-20 games built-in, where each game was an implementation of a classic game - space invaders, arkanoid, asteroids, pacman, tetris/columns, then many more people would have bought them. Even if these games had been £1.99 ($2.99) options to download from Nokia it would have been more tempting.
As it is, I have a gameboy emulator on my Motorola A1000, and whilst it garbles the audio it is still reasonably playable. All I need to do is get some Zelda games on it, and I'm good to go for months. I imagine I can get C64, Spectrum and CPC emulators for it as well - Uridium, Netherworld, New Zealand Story here I come (when I find the emulators anyway!).
I thought MODE 7 was a neat trick done by the graphics controller. The actual polygon is merely a 2D tiled map. However instead of the graphics controller outputting left-to-right through the map, it could output at any angle through the map (rotation) and you could alter the step as well (distance).
Moving around was achieved by altering the rotation (turning around) and altering the step and change-of-step (angle of view).
Of course, like all hardware, it was abused a lot to create some damn neat effects, MODE 7 games with textured 'hills' and so on. It was a very interesting feature to include.
It truly did - and at the time it was the last thing I needed. I was getting abusive phone calls from customers (well, a couple - I don't wish to exaggerate) who thought I was the other guy and had taken their money. That guy probably took a month off my life due to stress.
(since then I sold off the business and decided to go back to a job where I could do more of what I like doing - programming and being creative - and less of the paperwork. I'm a lot happier now, maybe I'll regain that month!)
You're probably a lot more intelligent than the average person. Also I think a lot of people are naive about these scams, nor do they know that details are so readily available. They think 'Ooh, a letter to me about my domain, must be legit'. Hence what must have been >10,000 people were scammed (if he took £1.6m at around £60 a pop).
...
Whilst unethical (and he sent out invoices, not advertising, I know that the company got a warning about that even before this stuff came up), if he'd at least done the work once getting the money and offered a service
I dropped them, decided I didn't need a PO Box address. But quite some damage had been done - the number assigned was similar to mine as well. Also it appeared that they misdirected my mail to him on a couple of times.
Hmm, what about the £1,600,000 that the spam conned out of people.
.eu 'pre-registration' scam he ran. It was the sending out paper renewal notices to domain owners from details he scraped from the whois. It turns out that many people forget who their registrar is, and simply followed the instructions. At £60+ a shot, that is around 20,000 people who got scammed.
... that's not configurable by tweaking spamassassin.
It wasn't just the
That's what spamming does. What about the time wasted by Nominet, the other registrars who's customers suddenly came down on them for not renewing, the police, trading standards
There are obvious spams, and there are what this guy did.
Fraudulent Trading
via Spam - both postal and email
£1.6m (which is around $3m)
I'm sure it added a year or two onto his sentence.
Oh, and I hope he isn't released until he reveals where the money he scammed is - no parole for this particularly low-life scum.
I think it was this guy.
He sent out fake renewal notices to people, using whois data. The notices asked for a renewal fee of around £60 for 2 years renewal.
I reported that company several times to trading standards, as my line of work was in the same area, and it was affecting my customers who would get in contact and ask about their renewal status, that they'd sent in the cheque a while ago... this happened dozens of times, and I was running a tiny internet company.
His response? He moved his company to a Mailboxes Etc (Regent Street, Cambridge, UK) that I also used, thus sullying my companies name. Mailboxes Etc were not interested in the fact that their customer was a scammer.
Actually the ribbon is designed to be consistent and provide full access to all commands in a clear and easy manner.
It gets rid of two of Microsoft's worst things - the toolbar list from hell, and the menu system that confuses.
Just think of this as a tabbed command system, which it is. Pretty much like Wordstar although that merely showed you what the keyboard shortcut was for a command, rather than letting you click on it. If people could use Wordstar 20 years ago, they can use this.
Meh. I think the Ribbon functionality, which is merely a 2005 version of the text help menus in Wordstar et al from the 80's, will actually remove a lot of the frustration of using Office for the casual user such as me.
The point in its favour are:
- no more crappy small icons on THIRTY possible toolbars
- all commands are available in the ribbon
- the ribbon scales to lower and higher resolutions
- irrelevant crap is hidden until you active something that makes it relevant
It's probably the best item of UI engineering to come out of Microsoft ever, fixing the Office toolbar nightmare.
Is it ideal? Who knows. Maybe there is a better UI for providing access to a thousand possible commands within an application in a point-and-click manner, but nobody has bothered to implement it yet.
Ouch indeed. I imagine it is the same for all the other Sony $sys$rootkit DRM CDs?
Yeah, I imagine that with the amount of negative feedback all over Sony had no choice but to stop this scheme. Even so Sony are on a one year 'no purchase' ban personally, it may be extended depending on future behaviour.
I think the 770 is the early adopter "pay to beta test" platform. No mobile capability means that the mass market won't adopt it. Lots of geeks will buy one as a toy, or to develop on.
In one year's time you'll have a lot more software, the system will be way better tested, and Nokia will launch the follow up which adds the phone capability and $100 onto the price. That's where this product is going.
However some people seem to have an issue with the word 'tablet' - a tablet being something you can write/etch/etc upon. This meets that definition, even if it isn't a large laptop-sized PC tablet. It isn't trying to be that.
But the 360 utilises a standard DVD drive.
Maybe they'll move over to a HD-DVD drive next year to counteract the PS3 launch, but that'll piss off all the early adopters. It'll also increase the hardware costs, something that Microsoft won't want to do.