I guess you missed the part about the new consoles being positioned as media centers. That doesn't just mean downloading HD content (currently not that practical for most people). It means TiVo like DVR functionality. On HD that takes a huge piece of disk space. If their aim is convergence around their respective platforms then they need to provide DVR in HD.
The current Forceware drivers for Vista are the buggiest, worst performaing drivers that Nvidia has ever put out. Take a look at their forums sometime; they are trying very hard to alienate their customers.
It doesn't matter how great these cards sound on paper. Without at least decent drivers they are worthless.
I don't see much R&D going into it, just engineering improvements (i.e. smaller stuff) of existing technology. Most of the real work will be creating a good UI.
TFA says nothing about any new laws. The ISPs are apparantly cooperating with the music industry on this. It's got nothing to do with any new laws or government.
Yes I know, I actually read the article. I must be new here?
That's funny, last time I checked I was a registered Independant who has voted Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian in his life. Maybe you should save the ad hominem attacks for where they are most deserved.
Sure, but spending a couple of hours or so doing reasearch and due dilligence would probably be more productive than asking Slashdot. Just my opinion...his milage may vary. Then again it never hurts to get the opinions of geeks on technical matters and emerging technology.
I propose that you get a clue. It's hard to place a value on science like this, but the advancement of knowledge and working towards getting off this rock are both highly valuable fields of endeavor.
As for your 'proposal'...did you just pull those numbers out of your ass? If anything costs increase over the years due to rising wages and inflation. $220 million was *dirt cheap* by space mission standards.
We waste far more money on subsidies and entitlements in the US than we spend on science like this.
Sales tax in the US is a State (sometimes with an additional % or two for the county) tax. The IRS is in charge of Federal Income Tax. You are comparing apples to oranges.
However, I do agree that our whole tax code is messed up. A flat or consumption based tax would reduce the size of the IRS by an order of magnitude, save taxpayers billions spent on accountants and tax software, and probably bring in more overall revenue than the current system.
The Tax Code is more about power and control than it is about money.
Your long winded and totally offbase reply aside, where did I say I claimed to do no evil? I didn't, yet you erroneously ascribed moral superiority to my statement nonetheless. I merely pointed out that the 'do no evil' motto was nothing more than PR with no substance. Obviously I hit a nerve with that factual statement.
I read Camus when you were probably still in diaper, by the way. Of course I could be wrong, but your post smacks of someone with too much education and not enough sense or experience.
I can't believe I even wasted 2 minutes of my life replying.
They'd be doing this regardless of who is in office. It's what the IRS does...it goes after people who avoid paying taxes on income. As for your gratuitous statement about who will and won't pay the taxes, you do know that 79% of the tax burden is carried by the top 20% of income earners, right?
Maybe for once we should stop being partisan and take a good honest look at these issues rather than using them as a soapbox to attack one side or the other on the political spectrum.
As for the topic...as long as our tax code doesn't get fixed this is entirely correct of them to do. And as for those selling MMOG goods, I hope they all get audited. I pay my taxes, and a healthy amount of them. Why should some guy making $50,000 a year selling Ultima Online gold (for example) not pay any?
"Do no evil", if it was ever anything other than clever PR, went away the moment they caved to China. It actually probably went away, again if it ever was even a real credo, long before that.
Meh, I'm often too lazy to post links as well. Still, the idea of using existing hardware that is up there already as a weapon has me intrigued...*goes off to edit his master Evil Overlord project plan*
I for one welcome our new plasmatic tungsten overlords.
There isn't always a compelling reason an application needs to run on a desktop
There are even fewer compelling reasons to run most applications via the web though. Frankly, I think web based apps are more at home on the Intranet than the Internet. The data security will *never* be quite good enough for me to trust any even remotely sensitive data to a Data Center not under the control of my organization, be it family or corporation.
It would probably be easier to bring it down on a city rather than try to match vectors with a small, rapidly moving object like the Shuttle. Of course I don't know that much would survive reentry, but it would be an easier thing to do.
Heck, even just bringing down/disabling them would be considered an attack.
You do know that you're supposed to stop on yellow if it's safe to do so. Speeding up on yellow to get through before it turns red will get you a ticket with real police too, not just cameras.
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The designer of the M-16 saw combat in WW2. And this was modded up +5?
I guess you missed the part about the new consoles being positioned as media centers. That doesn't just mean downloading HD content (currently not that practical for most people). It means TiVo like DVR functionality. On HD that takes a huge piece of disk space. If their aim is convergence around their respective platforms then they need to provide DVR in HD.
Maybe, but have you SEEN property values in Florida? They are still sky high. That mansion isn't going to build itself you know!
No kidding. You can't even buy ONE congresscritter for that these days, unless they are cheap or desparate.
I run them on XP as well, yes, and Linux. I referenced Vista because the topic is DX 10 related, and the cards are built for DX 10.
The current Forceware drivers for Vista are the buggiest, worst performaing drivers that Nvidia has ever put out. Take a look at their forums sometime; they are trying very hard to alienate their customers.
It doesn't matter how great these cards sound on paper. Without at least decent drivers they are worthless.
I don't see much R&D going into it, just engineering improvements (i.e. smaller stuff) of existing technology. Most of the real work will be creating a good UI.
Common practice is to use the NT tree, since that's what we're talking about. The 9x tree died with ME thankfully.
TFA says nothing about any new laws. The ISPs are apparantly cooperating with the music industry on this. It's got nothing to do with any new laws or government.
Yes I know, I actually read the article. I must be new here?
That's funny, last time I checked I was a registered Independant who has voted Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian in his life. Maybe you should save the ad hominem attacks for where they are most deserved.
Sure, but spending a couple of hours or so doing reasearch and due dilligence would probably be more productive than asking Slashdot. Just my opinion...his milage may vary. Then again it never hurts to get the opinions of geeks on technical matters and emerging technology.
Please elaborate on how the Internet is 'broke'? Is it perfect? Not by a long shot, but it's certainly nowhere near be broken.
I haven't read all the links, but 10 seconds with Google turned up quite a bit.
I propose that you get a clue. It's hard to place a value on science like this, but the advancement of knowledge and working towards getting off this rock are both highly valuable fields of endeavor.
As for your 'proposal'...did you just pull those numbers out of your ass? If anything costs increase over the years due to rising wages and inflation. $220 million was *dirt cheap* by space mission standards.
We waste far more money on subsidies and entitlements in the US than we spend on science like this.
Sales tax in the US is a State (sometimes with an additional % or two for the county) tax. The IRS is in charge of Federal Income Tax. You are comparing apples to oranges.
However, I do agree that our whole tax code is messed up. A flat or consumption based tax would reduce the size of the IRS by an order of magnitude, save taxpayers billions spent on accountants and tax software, and probably bring in more overall revenue than the current system.
The Tax Code is more about power and control than it is about money.
Your long winded and totally offbase reply aside, where did I say I claimed to do no evil? I didn't, yet you erroneously ascribed moral superiority to my statement nonetheless. I merely pointed out that the 'do no evil' motto was nothing more than PR with no substance. Obviously I hit a nerve with that factual statement.
I read Camus when you were probably still in diaper, by the way. Of course I could be wrong, but your post smacks of someone with too much education and not enough sense or experience.
I can't believe I even wasted 2 minutes of my life replying.
Do you really believe what you wrote there? If so I am sad for you. Moral relativism is a fiction born of post modernist (crap)thought.
Frankly the US government is just as evil as Google for even dealing with China at all.
They'd be doing this regardless of who is in office. It's what the IRS does...it goes after people who avoid paying taxes on income. As for your gratuitous statement about who will and won't pay the taxes, you do know that 79% of the tax burden is carried by the top 20% of income earners, right?
Maybe for once we should stop being partisan and take a good honest look at these issues rather than using them as a soapbox to attack one side or the other on the political spectrum.
As for the topic...as long as our tax code doesn't get fixed this is entirely correct of them to do. And as for those selling MMOG goods, I hope they all get audited. I pay my taxes, and a healthy amount of them. Why should some guy making $50,000 a year selling Ultima Online gold (for example) not pay any?
"Do no evil", if it was ever anything other than clever PR, went away the moment they caved to China. It actually probably went away, again if it ever was even a real credo, long before that.
Meh, I'm often too lazy to post links as well. Still, the idea of using existing hardware that is up there already as a weapon has me intrigued...*goes off to edit his master Evil Overlord project plan*
I for one welcome our new plasmatic tungsten overlords.
There isn't always a compelling reason an application needs to run on a desktop
There are even fewer compelling reasons to run most applications via the web though. Frankly, I think web based apps are more at home on the Intranet than the Internet. The data security will *never* be quite good enough for me to trust any even remotely sensitive data to a Data Center not under the control of my organization, be it family or corporation.
The tungsten rod idea isn't actually original. I think the Pentagon has actually talked about this as a future orbit-to-surface weapon.
Exactly, and most of the people in that target group are savvy enough to buy a DVD and rip it for their own use rather than use DRM encumbered iCrap.
AppleTV might not be stillborn, but it was born with serious birth defects and disabilities.
It would probably be easier to bring it down on a city rather than try to match vectors with a small, rapidly moving object like the Shuttle. Of course I don't know that much would survive reentry, but it would be an easier thing to do.
Heck, even just bringing down/disabling them would be considered an attack.
You do know that you're supposed to stop on yellow if it's safe to do so. Speeding up on yellow to get through before it turns red will get you a ticket with real police too, not just cameras.