How is this a waste of time? How is this modded as insightful? It's using spare cpu cycles to do something that the computer owner considers important. What do you do with your spare cycles which makes you a "more productive citizen?" Some people prefer to help with cancer research, other people would love to make first contact. I don't think that productive citizenship factors in here at all.
Support the folks that regard as important the same ideals you regard as important. Amazon is not your friend. The Tattered Cover is. They are fighting the good fight, and at no small cost to themselves. You should thank them by sending them your business and your friends' business.
Someone please mod this up, I'm out of mod points atm.
How many of those people slamming microsoft for a monopoly will turn around and buy from Amazon, hmm?
Unfortunately there is virtually no recourse for musicians other than selling their souls. I mean yes, you can record and sell your own music, but it's a rare RARE band/talent who can actually make a decent living doing that.
I'll not go into my personal music industry experiences, but suffice it to say that even very good bands have a LOT of trouble if they want to stay independant and don't have a lot of money to begin with.
While I can see your point, I still think that this is a great step in the right direction. Yes, I wouldn't want my kids playing GTA3 in an arcade either, but at the same time do you really want the government to have a procedure in place to ban any game they felt like?
I think not.
I know, it's hard to click on that link, we're all guilty of it sometimes.
They're selling the plant, intact, to Micron who will continue to produce chips out of the plant, they'll just have a different name stamped on them.
The supply isn't going anywhere, and I doubt seriously that this sale will have any noticible impact on RAM sales.
$660 isn't bad?
Since you obviously don't mind a non-mainstream processor, pick up a cyrix laptop, 1ghz, 10GB HDD, 128MB RAM, WIN ME, 56k, 10/100 NIC, TV-out, 1yr Warranty for less than 800. pricewatch
Hmm... tough choice...
They'll never be on e-bay if no one buys them new.
Whoopdie frickin dodads.
Yes it's big, but I entirely fail to be impressed by this.
The website makes it out to be some monumental undertaking which will change the world of immersive AI.
umm... no?
1: this is bearly immersive. It's a 360 degree monitor with 8 shadowy corners. You can't move in it, you just sit there and point at things.
2: why not make it spherical, and put it on ball-bearings so that the user can actually move around?
3: I'll concede that from a software point of view it's pretty dang neat to be rendering the same scene from 6 angles and syncing them up.
All in all I don't think it's even a very useful system. The Sharper Image has been selling 10 foot curved screens that you sit in front of for awhile now if you've got the cash.
And until we manage holographic projectors I'll be content to use head-mounted VR glasses that at least present everything you need to see at once in 3d.
The BBC article is from the 15th and says that this is a very recent development. And that also sounds like general health, not picture quality.
Not sure this applies to the current problem.
Except that they're one of the most high profile and vocal groups in warez, and have been for years.
The Feds may not be stupid, but they are going to find the most obvious sources first.
Not saying DeCSS had nothing to do with it, just that it may not be the whole shebang here.
How painful.
The Lawyer's comment, however ugly, just underscores what people in this country really think about M$ if they even think about it at all.
Ugh.
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Low-cost?
I can see alternative, but low cost?
Let's see...
pricewatch: athlon XP 2000 with 512 ram, 484.
Cheapest apple G4: 1584.
Low-cost? Hot damn. Give me your paycheck.
All i could think of seeing that title was Steve Jobs naked.
*twitches repeatedly*
How is this a waste of time?
How is this modded as insightful?
It's using spare cpu cycles to do something that the computer owner considers important.
What do you do with your spare cycles which makes you a "more productive citizen?"
Some people prefer to help with cancer research, other people would love to make first contact. I don't think that productive citizenship factors in here at all.
to me this sounds like they (The Church of Scientology) wants uninformed zombies who will never question them instead of informed intelligent people.
Who tipped you off? John Travolta or Tom Cruise?
I guess it would make an easier move for a corporation to go from Unix to Linux, but imho Linux's real threat is MS/Unisys, not Unix.
Guess I'm just another anti M$ shashdotter though.
Support the folks that regard as important the same ideals you regard as important. Amazon is not your friend. The Tattered Cover is. They are fighting the good fight, and at no small cost to themselves. You should thank them by sending them your business and your friends' business.
Someone please mod this up, I'm out of mod points atm.
How many of those people slamming microsoft for a monopoly will turn around and buy from Amazon, hmm?
What an incredible first large-scale public step in gene therapy!
Hopefully this will only be the first of many such successes.
if only they could cure that itch right between my shoulder blades that I can never seem to reach...
Agreed.
I think one good post would have been much appreciated. A full day of bullsh|t is just pushing it.
See y'all tomorrow.
Interesting in that Internet Radio is having existance issues...
Next up:
Computer Component Radio!!!!!
I beg to differ, RealMedia IS that horrible.
Unfortunately there is virtually no recourse for musicians other than selling their souls.
I mean yes, you can record and sell your own music, but it's a rare RARE band/talent who can actually make a decent living doing that.
I'll not go into my personal music industry experiences, but suffice it to say that even very good bands have a LOT of trouble if they want to stay independant and don't have a lot of money to begin with.
While I can see your point, I still think that this is a great step in the right direction. Yes, I wouldn't want my kids playing GTA3 in an arcade either, but at the same time do you really want the government to have a procedure in place to ban any game they felt like?
I think not.
What kind of tea did they use????
I know, it's hard to click on that link, we're all guilty of it sometimes.
They're selling the plant, intact, to Micron who will continue to produce chips out of the plant, they'll just have a different name stamped on them.
The supply isn't going anywhere, and I doubt seriously that this sale will have any noticible impact on RAM sales.
$660 isn't bad?
Since you obviously don't mind a non-mainstream processor, pick up a cyrix laptop, 1ghz, 10GB HDD, 128MB RAM, WIN ME, 56k, 10/100 NIC, TV-out, 1yr Warranty for less than 800. pricewatch
Hmm... tough choice...
They'll never be on e-bay if no one buys them new.
Whoopdie frickin dodads.
Yes it's big, but I entirely fail to be impressed by this.
The website makes it out to be some monumental undertaking which will change the world of immersive AI.
umm... no?
1: this is bearly immersive. It's a 360 degree monitor with 8 shadowy corners. You can't move in it, you just sit there and point at things.
2: why not make it spherical, and put it on ball-bearings so that the user can actually move around?
3: I'll concede that from a software point of view it's pretty dang neat to be rendering the same scene from 6 angles and syncing them up.
All in all I don't think it's even a very useful system. The Sharper Image has been selling 10 foot curved screens that you sit in front of for awhile now if you've got the cash.
And until we manage holographic projectors I'll be content to use head-mounted VR glasses that at least present everything you need to see at once in 3d.
Just an opinion.
The BBC article is from the 15th and says that this is a very recent development. And that also sounds like general health, not picture quality.
Not sure this applies to the current problem.
Would this be dust that the probe has brought along with it for the ride that happened to settle on the wrong part?
dust doesn't really settle in zero G...
How freakin hard is it to use one measurement standard?
;o)
____
fp...
Except that they're one of the most high profile and vocal groups in warez, and have been for years.
The Feds may not be stupid, but they are going to find the most obvious sources first.
Not saying DeCSS had nothing to do with it, just that it may not be the whole shebang here.
*troll*
how has this NOT been moded down?
Grammar. ;o)
Nitwit.
How painful.
The Lawyer's comment, however ugly, just underscores what people in this country really think about M$ if they even think about it at all.
Ugh.
Sorry, posted at the same time I guess. ;o)
Oh, oh!
Ask him exactly how his immortality device works!