Please post a list of all the music you don't listen to so that I may go out and enjoy some music. Please ensure none of the music you do listen to makes it on said list.
I'm sure I speak for the majority of slashdotters when I say we appreciate you filtering the wholesome stuff out of the list for us.:P
Looks like the RIAA is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's looking more and more like a train.
Obviously they are trying to keep their distribution model valid (read crappy CDs), but everywhere they turn, they're losing... so... they decide to jack up the price of distrubtion rights so high that they will either force the companies to stop distributing anything other than CDs, or will pay the insane prices for the right, and the RIAA will continue to be fat and rich.
Unfortunetly for them, they will eventually fall with this tactic, and fall hard.
Geforce Geforce 2 Geforce 3 Geforce 4Ti Geforce 5600 ... OR... Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows ME Windows XP Windows Vista
I'm simply trying to point out that nothing makes sense in the computer industry anymore... Hell my Dell Dimension 8100 PC is crappier than my Dell Dimension 4600. Explain that to me.
A lossless file system? Good lord... I most certainly hope all the exisiting file systems out there are not lossy. I have hundreds of gigabytes of data that I don't want to lose.
Or is this filesystem somehow able to recover data once the hard drive crashes? That would be neat...
How do you balance great game play with actually creating a product and shipping it within a reasonable time frame? More to the point, how do you create an entertaining game without falling into the 'duke nukem forever' release schedule?
We want to make life easier by giving only one update a month... then a few months later... we want to ensure timely security patches, so we will release them as soon as we make them...
I think they're trying to please too many people at the same time... this is called 'impossible'...;)
There's something wrong about selling a device to do something, and later limiting the ability of the device to do what it was designed to do.
My car can 'theoretically' go up to 240km/h. The damned thing has a governor/limiter installed in it that won't let the car go faster than 180km/h. Solution, get rid of the governor.
Why can't we do the same with the TIVO? It might be a gray area, but it's your device since you purchased it (not renting it), so you can modify it... or am I missing something?
You're talking almost 30 miles to go around the perimeter of this thing. That would take an entire day to walk around. And that's considered small? I'd have to disagree, but I guess it's all relative.
Nope, you hit the nail on the head. That's exactly how it works. Games won't take a performance hit if you use a native ICD, but the desktop will not be so pretty. When was the last time someone played an OGL video game in a window?
What are people going to bitch about next? My DVD burner doesn't burn 4 gigs of data when I put a CD in it? Obviously! D3D doesn't co-exist with OGL on a single graphics card without some sort of software wrapping. You can either slow down both D3D and OGL by serialising the graphics calls, or you can force one API to wrap onto the other, giving one Native access to the hardware and the other a nice wrapper layer. Rockets science people! If you wanna bitch at someone, bitch at graphics card manufacturers for crappy single context cores that require constant flushing if you try and render two or more contexts at once. There's the real reason for all this.
For those of you who have never worked with graphics drivers on windows, let me fill you in on why it doesn't work. Direct3D wants/needs full access to the graphics hardware for it to use hardware acceleration. Ever wonder why two windowed D3D apps run like crap compared to one single full screen D3D app? There's your answer, whenever D3D doesn't have full access, it has to go through a software layer to serialise video card hardware access... that translates to slower performance.
Now, throw in OpenGL and you have a huge mess. You have a full screen D3D app (the windows UI), and now you want to run OpenGL via direct hardware access on it in a window? There is no way that the OGL ICD and the D3D drivers are going to nicely co-exist. One is going to have to translate their calls into the other driver's native API. Microsoft made the decision to force OGL to get translated into D3D calls to allow its desktop UI to run natively (ensuring all of windows runs nice and quick) and makes the OGL app take the performance hit. It's not some conspiracy, it's how they got things to work, and trust me, I know first hand how it works. The solution is actually pretty damned good considering the SHIT that graphics card manufacturers do to their cards from a hardware point of view. ATI and Nvidia require their entire pipelines to be flushed everytime you'd switch windows from OGL to D3D, that KILLS perfomrance. Throguh my many years of OGL and D3D experience I can assure you taht there is NO other way of doing this, except by forcing D3D apps to go through a translation layer that maps them to OGL calls, doing the exact same thing except in the other direction. And it makes no sense to give the graphics speed priority to a single app, when all other non-graphics apps will suffer (all standard windows programs will now be rendered using D3D), just think of how pissed people are when a single app hangs in windows today, and other apps are slugish to respond to minimize or restore commands... amplify that ten fold if they would have serialised OpenGL and D3D instead of forcing OGL to go through a translation layer and continue to run D3D natively.
MS is evil. Sure, but this is truely the fault of Graphics card manufacturers, NOT MS. They could have made their hardware support both quite easily, but choose to do as little in the hardware as possible, and force the drivers to pick up the slack, well in this case, there is nothing the drivers can do that won't absolutely kill performance, so MS did the logical thing.
And one last thing, on OSX they'd have the same problem if they had some sort of alternate 3D api. On windows, 90% of the stuff is D3D, or available in D3D versions. Just from a marketing point of view, their solution works at 100% the original speed 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time, it can run UP TO 50% slower, in practice it's usually about 15% slower. La-dee-dah... my old ATI 9200 compared to my newer X800 is at least 15% slower anyway, there's the 'performance difference'...
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Dude, you don't even need to RTFA... just look at the summary... they add oxygen to adjust the color... different amounts causes the color to change...
Rogers located in Canada is one of these vertical monopolies. I've had a few issues with some of their services (related to billing), but overall they are a lot better than telus (my old wireless provider), Golden Triangle (my old DSL provider), and Bell Expressvu (Old Sat tv provider).
Yes, because we defined it as such. Right or wrong, we've defined it as a planet, therefore it is a planet. Stop debating and arguing over the status of the hunk of rock. It's not like if we define it as something else it will change or cease to physically exist. We are simply categorizing it. We could call it a comet, it fits into that category too.
Any lawyers out there? The reason I ask, is although the parent post makes a very valid point, he just admitted to illegally downloading music.
I'm just genuinely curious if posting stuff like this could end up screwing yourself over a few months/years down the road when some big corporation wants to make an example of you to the public.
A more appropriate way of getting your point across would have been saying something like:
"Yahoo somehow managed to time travel back in time to steal Google's great new innovative idea... those bastards!"...
It has elements of sci-fi, our beloved time travel, and it implies Yahoo is evil (even though they are not), since only evil people travel back in time to gain an advantage. That, and the fact that it still gets the point across that Yahoo did it first...;)
What are you new here? Google is good. Everyone else is bad... I don't care about facts that say otherwise... Google is the innovator dammit! (This is slashdot for crying out loud, you practically did the equivilent of praising Microsoft... no one in their right mind does that on slashdot...)
When will the Americans learn that there is no freedom and civil liberty, it's all just an elaborate illusion setup by the government to control the population...
Of course being a Canadian, I know what real freedom is... I can watch anything I want on TV, so long as it's Canadian. I can listen to anything I want on the Radio, so long as it's Canadian. I can smoke anywhere I want, so long as it's not inside or near a building, other than my own house (for now at least). And don't even get me started about this DST crap!
Ah yes... all these great freedoms... screw terrorists, our own governments are herding us around like cattle... we're so desensitized to it that we just don't notice anymore... and when we do notice a huge change, we blame it on it being a necessary thing to defend against the great unknown (aka terrorists)...
I'm now waiting for the men in black to show up at my door for some mandatory brain washing... err... I mean re-integration with normal society... time for some behaviour modifying pills to be crammed down my throat!
Has this guy tried to write a device driver for windows recently? Any idea how many things can break on windows if you don't do it exactly right? Same bull goes for Linux. If you don't know what you're doing, you can hose the OS and 'break' it.
Add to that the fact that writing an application on linux that misbehaves is less likely to cause as much trouble as a windows app that misbehaves. It's just that in linux the lower layers are more visible, and most people tend to poke their noses in it a lot more than with windows, where everything is hidden pretty well, so you're stuck in win32api world. But if you dig down in windows, just as in linux, you can make things go boom real easy if you don't know what you're doing, or make a mistake.
This may be slightly off topic, but I have to say that most of the clothing that I get from the good ol' US of A, seems to be lacking in quality. Yes I get tons of crap from overseas as well. But when it comes to paying $20+ for a T-Shirt, the 'crap' I get from overseas seems way better than the Made in America shirts of the same price (Look at the crap coming from places like ThinkGeek). And at the end of the day, I don't care where it's made, so long as I get the best bang for my buck.
Now whether this is simply the end retailer jacking up the price of cheap shirts to maximize profits, or if there is just no demand for relatively inexpensive high quality when it comes to American made clothing (I'm talking average, not top of the line designer stuff), I'd take my chances waiting for something to ship from overseas.
I'm all for not supporting child labour, etc. But I'm also for not being screwed over, and when I pay more for something that's of worse quality, I know I wouldn't feel to patriotic if I was an American. I think the auto industry was seeing the same sort of trend, cheaper better imports... they seem to have started to adapt, but I don't see clothing manufacturers following their path...
Non-reusable energy? Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it simply is transferred around. What does non-reusable mean exactly? Do they mean non-renewable?
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Please post a list of all the music you don't listen to so that I may go out and enjoy some music. Please ensure none of the music you do listen to makes it on said list.
:P
I'm sure I speak for the majority of slashdotters when I say we appreciate you filtering the wholesome stuff out of the list for us.
Yes, radio is analog with noise and static... Satelite radio is digital and a perfect (in theory) reproduction.
Looks like the RIAA is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's looking more and more like a train.
Obviously they are trying to keep their distribution model valid (read crappy CDs), but everywhere they turn, they're losing... so... they decide to jack up the price of distrubtion rights so high that they will either force the companies to stop distributing anything other than CDs, or will pay the insane prices for the right, and the RIAA will continue to be fat and rich.
Unfortunetly for them, they will eventually fall with this tactic, and fall hard.
They don't have to make sense...
...
Geforce
Geforce 2
Geforce 3
Geforce 4Ti
Geforce 5600
OR...
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows ME
Windows XP
Windows Vista
I'm simply trying to point out that nothing makes sense in the computer industry anymore... Hell my Dell Dimension 8100 PC is crappier than my Dell Dimension 4600. Explain that to me.
A lossless file system? Good lord... I most certainly hope all the exisiting file systems out there are not lossy. I have hundreds of gigabytes of data that I don't want to lose.
Or is this filesystem somehow able to recover data once the hard drive crashes? That would be neat...
How do you balance great game play with actually creating a product and shipping it within a reasonable time frame? More to the point, how do you create an entertaining game without falling into the 'duke nukem forever' release schedule?
We want to make life easier by giving only one update a month... then a few months later... we want to ensure timely security patches, so we will release them as soon as we make them...
;)
I think they're trying to please too many people at the same time... this is called 'impossible'...
There's something wrong about selling a device to do something, and later limiting the ability of the device to do what it was designed to do.
My car can 'theoretically' go up to 240km/h. The damned thing has a governor/limiter installed in it that won't let the car go faster than 180km/h. Solution, get rid of the governor.
Why can't we do the same with the TIVO? It might be a gray area, but it's your device since you purchased it (not renting it), so you can modify it... or am I missing something?
You're talking almost 30 miles to go around the perimeter of this thing. That would take an entire day to walk around. And that's considered small? I'd have to disagree, but I guess it's all relative.
Nope, you hit the nail on the head. That's exactly how it works. Games won't take a performance hit if you use a native ICD, but the desktop will not be so pretty. When was the last time someone played an OGL video game in a window?
What are people going to bitch about next? My DVD burner doesn't burn 4 gigs of data when I put a CD in it? Obviously! D3D doesn't co-exist with OGL on a single graphics card without some sort of software wrapping. You can either slow down both D3D and OGL by serialising the graphics calls, or you can force one API to wrap onto the other, giving one Native access to the hardware and the other a nice wrapper layer. Rockets science people! If you wanna bitch at someone, bitch at graphics card manufacturers for crappy single context cores that require constant flushing if you try and render two or more contexts at once. There's the real reason for all this.
For those of you who have never worked with graphics drivers on windows, let me fill you in on why it doesn't work. Direct3D wants/needs full access to the graphics hardware for it to use hardware acceleration. Ever wonder why two windowed D3D apps run like crap compared to one single full screen D3D app? There's your answer, whenever D3D doesn't have full access, it has to go through a software layer to serialise video card hardware access... that translates to slower performance. Now, throw in OpenGL and you have a huge mess. You have a full screen D3D app (the windows UI), and now you want to run OpenGL via direct hardware access on it in a window? There is no way that the OGL ICD and the D3D drivers are going to nicely co-exist. One is going to have to translate their calls into the other driver's native API. Microsoft made the decision to force OGL to get translated into D3D calls to allow its desktop UI to run natively (ensuring all of windows runs nice and quick) and makes the OGL app take the performance hit. It's not some conspiracy, it's how they got things to work, and trust me, I know first hand how it works. The solution is actually pretty damned good considering the SHIT that graphics card manufacturers do to their cards from a hardware point of view. ATI and Nvidia require their entire pipelines to be flushed everytime you'd switch windows from OGL to D3D, that KILLS perfomrance. Throguh my many years of OGL and D3D experience I can assure you taht there is NO other way of doing this, except by forcing D3D apps to go through a translation layer that maps them to OGL calls, doing the exact same thing except in the other direction. And it makes no sense to give the graphics speed priority to a single app, when all other non-graphics apps will suffer (all standard windows programs will now be rendered using D3D), just think of how pissed people are when a single app hangs in windows today, and other apps are slugish to respond to minimize or restore commands... amplify that ten fold if they would have serialised OpenGL and D3D instead of forcing OGL to go through a translation layer and continue to run D3D natively. MS is evil. Sure, but this is truely the fault of Graphics card manufacturers, NOT MS. They could have made their hardware support both quite easily, but choose to do as little in the hardware as possible, and force the drivers to pick up the slack, well in this case, there is nothing the drivers can do that won't absolutely kill performance, so MS did the logical thing. And one last thing, on OSX they'd have the same problem if they had some sort of alternate 3D api. On windows, 90% of the stuff is D3D, or available in D3D versions. Just from a marketing point of view, their solution works at 100% the original speed 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time, it can run UP TO 50% slower, in practice it's usually about 15% slower. La-dee-dah... my old ATI 9200 compared to my newer X800 is at least 15% slower anyway, there's the 'performance difference'...
Dude, you don't even need to RTFA... just look at the summary... they add oxygen to adjust the color... different amounts causes the color to change...
that's right, YOU don't get the copyright, the mega-worldwide-super-uber-dooper big ass company bent on world domination that you work for does.
Rogers located in Canada is one of these vertical monopolies. I've had a few issues with some of their services (related to billing), but overall they are a lot better than telus (my old wireless provider), Golden Triangle (my old DSL provider), and Bell Expressvu (Old Sat tv provider).
Yes, because we defined it as such. Right or wrong, we've defined it as a planet, therefore it is a planet. Stop debating and arguing over the status of the hunk of rock. It's not like if we define it as something else it will change or cease to physically exist. We are simply categorizing it. We could call it a comet, it fits into that category too.
If that is the case, I'm truly going to reconsider posting any sort of personal experiences on slashdot... just doesn't seem to be worth the risk.
Any lawyers out there? The reason I ask, is although the parent post makes a very valid point, he just admitted to illegally downloading music.
I'm just genuinely curious if posting stuff like this could end up screwing yourself over a few months/years down the road when some big corporation wants to make an example of you to the public.
A more appropriate way of getting your point across would have been saying something like:
;)
"Yahoo somehow managed to time travel back in time to steal Google's great new innovative idea... those bastards!"...
It has elements of sci-fi, our beloved time travel, and it implies Yahoo is evil (even though they are not), since only evil people travel back in time to gain an advantage. That, and the fact that it still gets the point across that Yahoo did it first...
What are you new here? Google is good. Everyone else is bad... I don't care about facts that say otherwise... Google is the innovator dammit! (This is slashdot for crying out loud, you practically did the equivilent of praising Microsoft... no one in their right mind does that on slashdot...)
...now take your $480/year savings and buy something nice for the wife
Umm... terribly sorry, but I don't have a wife... would $480 buy me one? I'm very lonely...
When will the Americans learn that there is no freedom and civil liberty, it's all just an elaborate illusion setup by the government to control the population...
Of course being a Canadian, I know what real freedom is... I can watch anything I want on TV, so long as it's Canadian. I can listen to anything I want on the Radio, so long as it's Canadian. I can smoke anywhere I want, so long as it's not inside or near a building, other than my own house (for now at least). And don't even get me started about this DST crap!
Ah yes... all these great freedoms... screw terrorists, our own governments are herding us around like cattle... we're so desensitized to it that we just don't notice anymore... and when we do notice a huge change, we blame it on it being a necessary thing to defend against the great unknown (aka terrorists)...
I'm now waiting for the men in black to show up at my door for some mandatory brain washing... err... I mean re-integration with normal society... time for some behaviour modifying pills to be crammed down my throat!
Has this guy tried to write a device driver for windows recently? Any idea how many things can break on windows if you don't do it exactly right? Same bull goes for Linux. If you don't know what you're doing, you can hose the OS and 'break' it.
Add to that the fact that writing an application on linux that misbehaves is less likely to cause as much trouble as a windows app that misbehaves. It's just that in linux the lower layers are more visible, and most people tend to poke their noses in it a lot more than with windows, where everything is hidden pretty well, so you're stuck in win32api world. But if you dig down in windows, just as in linux, you can make things go boom real easy if you don't know what you're doing, or make a mistake.
With them moving to a whole new chipset for 'power' reasons, why not wait till they get the intel based laptops out?
This may be slightly off topic, but I have to say that most of the clothing that I get from the good ol' US of A, seems to be lacking in quality. Yes I get tons of crap from overseas as well. But when it comes to paying $20+ for a T-Shirt, the 'crap' I get from overseas seems way better than the Made in America shirts of the same price (Look at the crap coming from places like ThinkGeek). And at the end of the day, I don't care where it's made, so long as I get the best bang for my buck.
Now whether this is simply the end retailer jacking up the price of cheap shirts to maximize profits, or if there is just no demand for relatively inexpensive high quality when it comes to American made clothing (I'm talking average, not top of the line designer stuff), I'd take my chances waiting for something to ship from overseas.
I'm all for not supporting child labour, etc. But I'm also for not being screwed over, and when I pay more for something that's of worse quality, I know I wouldn't feel to patriotic if I was an American. I think the auto industry was seeing the same sort of trend, cheaper better imports... they seem to have started to adapt, but I don't see clothing manufacturers following their path...
Non-reusable energy? Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it simply is transferred around. What does non-reusable mean exactly? Do they mean non-renewable?