why does the announcement of a $600 board from nVidia render a $400 from ATi obsolete? When Mercedes announces a new S-Class does it render the BMW 3 Series obsolete? WTF are you on about?
some crazy Swede or Finn nerd scientist modding an old Saab into a sauna is EXACTLY the kind of story that Slashdot should be doing. Rather this story that made me smile than yet another tedious DMCA squabble between idiot teen "hackers" and the occasional rational adult.
if Apple allowed iCommune to trun iTunes into a pseudo p2p clinet for mp3 files then Apple would be indirectly supporting copyright theft, which they've always warned against in the past. Turning YOUR OWN Cds into mp3s so that you can enjoy them in a more convenient form is one thing, "broadcasting" them to god knows who is NOT fair use - and you play right into the tiaa's hands if you think it is.
"Fuck Apple, I'm so pissed I bought this over price pile of shit I could scream."
Sell it then, retard. One thing Apple's have going for them is that they retain their value MUCH better than PCs do. If you bought a copmputer that you hate, guess who's fault it is?
"Limiting what the user can do? Try booting your OS in single user mode without losing your dual monitor setup. Try making a direct copy of your OS onto CD, so you can use a FULL, UNHINDERED system image to do work on if your internal hard drive is having problems."
Amen - the only shame is that OSX can't be pushed onto a RAM disk a la OS9 for HD diagnose and repair procedures.
That's REALLY not fair to Apple - throughout the late 80's and early to mid 90's Apple did an extraordinary amount of great work on human interface. It was Apple's hard work on the MacOS interface that turned Xerox PARC's ideas about human computer interaction into usable fact. I remember when I first started using Macs (coming from Win 3.1 and Workbench 3) I was amzed at the amount of interface crap I had to UNlearn - after about a week I was sold on the MacOS. Imagine a file system so inherently organised that you actually KNOW where everything is and don't have to worry about creating shortcuts and playing with filename extensions etc etc etc.
if Apple had 95% of the desktop market, they'd be the biggest company in the world. I believe that Apple have behaved more reasonably than MS in the past and do so to this day, but absolute power corrupts absolutely...
software sweatshop morelike (clue - he's reading/.). When your corporate pigopolist tech employer outsources the last programming job to Bangalore, be sure to turn off the light on the way out of the building.
yep, "licensed to" by France Telecom. Hutchinson set up Orange, sold it for a great fortune, and is now investing that fortune is 3G networks. Smart company.
I think it would be more accurate to say "American cellphone providers are shit" rather than "SMS is unreliable". I have been sending at least 10 messages a day for the last what? 4, 5 years? In that time I've recieved TWO spam messages and NEVER known a message to not be delivered. Of course, if you've got no signal, you can neither send or recieve... but that's wireless for ya!
I'm in the UK and I can't say I've EVER known an SMS to disappear. However, around 10% do seem to suffer from delays of up to an hour or more. Most are virtually instataneous. This sounds like someone's got an anti GSM agenda to me...
Ahh - CIF and QCIF. CIF is the Common Interchange Format, but it's not really Common at all because it defines different sizes for PAL and NTSC. PAL CIF is 352 x 288 @25fps (yep, Video CD) and NTSC is 352 x 240 @ 29.97fps. Weirdly, those same sizes are sometimes referred to as QCIF (Quarter CIF, although that could logically also mean 176 x 144 etc), implying that the 704 x 576 and 704 x 480 formats are the actual CIF sizes. These non-square pixel sizes are very much designed with MPEG1 and 2 in mind, and are still moderately well used today, despite Windows' inability to display non-square formats correctly now.
not to mention that the Romans got by pretty well without recourse to the US constitution. The funny thing about the USC is that Americans seem so enamoured by it they forgive the grotesque charade that is there political system. Any beauty in the USC is pretty quickly negated by your hereditary presidency and delightful electoral nepotism college systems. Just look at Canada, they are tremendously disadvantaged by geography compared to the US, but their parliamentary system seems to have produced a more livable society than the US'.
surely, even if you knew absolutely NOTHING about the next generation of AMD chips you could ASSUME that - since the current Athlon XP offers 80-110% of the performance of the P4 depending on application - the next generation will be AT LEAST as fast as the existing P4. If you add to that the various preview tests that have appeared and the MPF discussions, there's every reason to believe that the Athlon 64 / Opteron will be a very capable device.
way to go with the anti-AMD trolling - I might have to add your techiniques to my uber-troll database, better to aid my quest for the perfect troll post!
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why does the announcement of a $600 board from nVidia render a $400 from ATi obsolete? When Mercedes announces a new S-Class does it render the BMW 3 Series obsolete? WTF are you on about?
hey, you're either with 'em or against 'em.
I'm against 'em.
why let facts get in the way of a long post?
Saabs and Jags aren't abnormaly expensive motors in Europe, I'd hope I could at LEAST afford either at 30-35 years old.
some crazy Swede or Finn nerd scientist modding an old Saab into a sauna is EXACTLY the kind of story that Slashdot should be doing. Rather this story that made me smile than yet another tedious DMCA squabble between idiot teen "hackers" and the occasional rational adult.
if Apple allowed iCommune to trun iTunes into a pseudo p2p clinet for mp3 files then Apple would be indirectly supporting copyright theft, which they've always warned against in the past. Turning YOUR OWN Cds into mp3s so that you can enjoy them in a more convenient form is one thing, "broadcasting" them to god knows who is NOT fair use - and you play right into the tiaa's hands if you think it is.
"Fuck Apple, I'm so pissed I bought this over price pile of shit I could scream."
Sell it then, retard. One thing Apple's have going for them is that they retain their value MUCH better than PCs do. If you bought a copmputer that you hate, guess who's fault it is?
"Limiting what the user can do? Try booting your OS in single user mode without losing your dual monitor setup. Try making a direct copy of your OS onto CD, so you can use a FULL, UNHINDERED system image to do work on if your internal hard drive is having problems."
Amen - the only shame is that OSX can't be pushed onto a RAM disk a la OS9 for HD diagnose and repair procedures.
That's REALLY not fair to Apple - throughout the late 80's and early to mid 90's Apple did an extraordinary amount of great work on human interface. It was Apple's hard work on the MacOS interface that turned Xerox PARC's ideas about human computer interaction into usable fact. I remember when I first started using Macs (coming from Win 3.1 and Workbench 3) I was amzed at the amount of interface crap I had to UNlearn - after about a week I was sold on the MacOS. Imagine a file system so inherently organised that you actually KNOW where everything is and don't have to worry about creating shortcuts and playing with filename extensions etc etc etc.
if Apple had 95% of the desktop market, they'd be the biggest company in the world. I believe that Apple have behaved more reasonably than MS in the past and do so to this day, but absolute power corrupts absolutely...
can you imagine the SMELL? the flabby white bodies? the sheer number of belt-mounted gadgets.
holy crap, what a nightmare.
yeah, right
/.). When your corporate pigopolist tech employer outsources the last programming job to Bangalore, be sure to turn off the light on the way out of the building.
software sweatshop morelike (clue - he's reading
arsefucker
yep, "licensed to" by France Telecom. Hutchinson set up Orange, sold it for a great fortune, and is now investing that fortune is 3G networks. Smart company.
Orange isn't Hutchinson and hasn't bee for AGES. 3 is Hutchinson, Orange is owned by France Telecom.
Me? I'm still using Rabbit! It rocks!
PS Err... no it doesn't.
wow, people in your cuntry still use PAGERS?
holy fuck! you'll be telling me your FAX number next!
I think it would be more accurate to say "American cellphone providers are shit" rather than "SMS is unreliable". I have been sending at least 10 messages a day for the last what? 4, 5 years? In that time I've recieved TWO spam messages and NEVER known a message to not be delivered. Of course, if you've got no signal, you can neither send or recieve... but that's wireless for ya!
I'm in the UK and I can't say I've EVER known an SMS to disappear. However, around 10% do seem to suffer from delays of up to an hour or more. Most are virtually instataneous. This sounds like someone's got an anti GSM agenda to me...
Ahh - CIF and QCIF. CIF is the Common Interchange Format, but it's not really Common at all because it defines different sizes for PAL and NTSC. PAL CIF is 352 x 288 @25fps (yep, Video CD) and NTSC is 352 x 240 @ 29.97fps. Weirdly, those same sizes are sometimes referred to as QCIF (Quarter CIF, although that could logically also mean 176 x 144 etc), implying that the 704 x 576 and 704 x 480 formats are the actual CIF sizes. These non-square pixel sizes are very much designed with MPEG1 and 2 in mind, and are still moderately well used today, despite Windows' inability to display non-square formats correctly now.
not to mention that the Romans got by pretty well without recourse to the US constitution. The funny thing about the USC is that Americans seem so enamoured by it they forgive the grotesque charade that is there political system. Any beauty in the USC is pretty quickly negated by your hereditary presidency and delightful electoral nepotism college systems. Just look at Canada, they are tremendously disadvantaged by geography compared to the US, but their parliamentary system seems to have produced a more livable society than the US'.
you missed the atrocious spelling of "essentially" there...
surely, even if you knew absolutely NOTHING about the next generation of AMD chips you could ASSUME that - since the current Athlon XP offers 80-110% of the performance of the P4 depending on application - the next generation will be AT LEAST as fast as the existing P4. If you add to that the various preview tests that have appeared and the MPF discussions, there's every reason to believe that the Athlon 64 / Opteron will be a very capable device.
erm, I don't think that Intel is actually BASED in the UK. It's an American company you know...
amen to that
actually, you can add US movies, food, fashion, music, TV, constitution, business, law and education to that, too.
way to go with the anti-AMD trolling - I might have to add your techiniques to my uber-troll database, better to aid my quest for the perfect troll post!
ha ha ha ha ha ha!
he he he he he he!
ho ho ho ho ho ho!
SUV??
Sports (as in Sports Car, like a three ton sports car....)
Utility (like a truck, excepting that any pick up, roof rack or normal station wagon has much better load carrying ability)
Vehicle