Next generation hybrids--such as the Lexus V6-hybrid SUV--will have the eletric motor running the rear wheels while the gas motor runs the front wheels. This should cut down on dangers as the motors will be quite isolated from each other.
However, in ANY car wreck, a badly mangled car is dangerous.
Hackel said Richard also impeded the investigation by the Macomb Area Computer Enforcement team, which seized Richard's computer and related records.
Richard lied to investigators by claiming he sold the domain name to a Virginia company, Hackel said.
Registrant: Fountainhead Media (MACOMBSHERIFF-DOM) 19950 Denby Portsmouth, VA 23708 US
I think customer satisfaction is a major issue in outsourcing. I remember a friend complaining non-stop about Dell's customer service being incomprehensible after Dell switched to outsourced call centers.
Where was this when I needed it about 3 months ago?! This is PERFECT for one of those Dedicated Server hosting providers that don't let you touch your box at all.
The Mitac Mio 8380 smartphone has a 200 MHz XScale processor in it. It is relatively bad on power consumption when compared to similar devices. I wonder how this phone in the article will do with a 400 MHz XScale in it. Not trying to be captain obvious but talk time is what a lot of consumers look at when considering a phone.
Hey! Not so fast! I run various flavors of BSD for all my *nix systems. I just stole this dmesg off of some random victim. My main system is actually, well:
$ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 MINIME 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
$99 each for Photoshop, Macromedia MX series, Visual Studio, MacOS X, Windows XP Home, and Codewarrior is quite reasonable. This is how much they cost at my institution. Office is the most pricey of all at $199.
A friend of mine used Grado SR80s with his iPod and complained about how distorted the sound became once the equalizer was switched on. Without the equalizer he claimed the sound was lacking. He had no similar trouble with his iRiver MP3 player using the same cans.
His iPod ended up on eBay a few days after he got them.
If they went to RackSaver (http://www.racksaver.com/shop/UserCustomize3.asp? lSystemID=70) they could have created a super computer with over 20 TFlops of peak performance for that same 5 million.
(Note: I own at least 5 NVidia cards and only one ATI card.)
While it is true that the DX9 minimum spec is more aligned with ATI's hardware rather than the higher precision NVIDIA hardware, the source code has exposed a good deal of the custom, ATI-written shader code that is in HL2.
It is also revealed there is a lot of NVidia specific code in there, too. They are optimizations just like the ATI specific shader code. Unfortunately, NVidia hardware is to blame for slow DX9 performance. The GeForce FX may have higher precision, but only 1/4th of its shader units are DirectX 9 shader units. The rest are DirectX 8 class only. It is amazing that Valve has squeezed as much performance as they have out of the GeForce FX. Carmack countered this in Doom III by switching on half precision shaders where precision was not neccessary. Being different beasts, Source may require high precision shaders in more places, but may have tried to use half precision shaders where they could.
This issue has been brought up over and over again; NVidia just needs to release newer hardware.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Everquest (Sony is butt buddies with NVIDIA in regards to this game) runs amazingly fast on my NVIDIA GeForce2MX 220 at 60 fps at 1280x1024 with a lot of details turned on, yet runs like garbage on my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro on a similarly configured system. Sometimes it even becomes a slideshow. I am not the only person to experience this as many other people have complained about it. The unfortunate side to this is that most people complain about the hardware rather than the software.
Now this issue is quite different. There was a write up recently on why NVIDIA hardware is so much slower than ATI hardware when using 2.0 pixel shaders. I don't remember the URL, so if anyone would be so kind to post it that would be great. Basically, it was stating that the Detonator 40 drivers needed to be rewritten to better take advantage of 2.0 pixel shaders. Detonator 50 drivers are a lot faster and fix this problem, but they do reduce image quality quite noticeably. This could be the reason that swayed Valve's decisions.
The fact of the matter is, we need next generation GeForce chips.
After all, LiveJournal is completely Open Source. Subscription only gives you added features, but the free version does not even have ad banners. The site is completely funded by subscriptions and donations. A few other sites have spun off thanks to the freely available code, including DeadJournal.
You are just a little bit off-topic. The comparison was between the FireGL X1 and the Quadro FX 2000. The FireGL 1 was a card from yesteryears. Declaring problems about the FireGL 1 is like telling people Datsun is a horrible car company in an article about Nissan cars.
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24.x.x.x = cable
And DSL... but, yes, this is cable.
What? All this talk about Puffin and no references to the delicious cereal?
Next generation hybrids--such as the Lexus V6-hybrid SUV--will have the eletric motor running the rear wheels while the gas motor runs the front wheels. This should cut down on dangers as the motors will be quite isolated from each other.
However, in ANY car wreck, a badly mangled car is dangerous.
That was actually from the movie.
Some lie...
I think customer satisfaction is a major issue in outsourcing. I remember a friend complaining non-stop about Dell's customer service being incomprehensible after Dell switched to outsourced call centers.
Where was this when I needed it about 3 months ago?! This is PERFECT for one of those Dedicated Server hosting providers that don't let you touch your box at all.
Oh, and "creep" not "creap."
The Mitac Mio 8380 smartphone has a 200 MHz XScale processor in it. It is relatively bad on power consumption when compared to similar devices. I wonder how this phone in the article will do with a 400 MHz XScale in it. Not trying to be captain obvious but talk time is what a lot of consumers look at when considering a phone.
A similar article is in 2600 as well. :)
A local community college is now teaching C#.
$99 each for Photoshop, Macromedia MX series, Visual Studio, MacOS X, Windows XP Home, and Codewarrior is quite reasonable. This is how much they cost at my institution. Office is the most pricey of all at $199.
A friend of mine used Grado SR80s with his iPod and complained about how distorted the sound became once the equalizer was switched on. Without the equalizer he claimed the sound was lacking. He had no similar trouble with his iRiver MP3 player using the same cans.
His iPod ended up on eBay a few days after he got them.
DEC, of course. ;)
If they went to RackSaver (http://www.racksaver.com/shop/UserCustomize3.asp? lSystemID=70) they could have created a super computer with over 20 TFlops of peak performance for that same 5 million.
I don't think anyone is gonna get the irony in that. ;)
Any troll knows, Linux blows and Windows is superior.
(Note: I own at least 5 NVidia cards and only one ATI card.)
While it is true that the DX9 minimum spec is more aligned with ATI's hardware rather than the higher precision NVIDIA hardware, the source code has exposed a good deal of the custom, ATI-written shader code that is in HL2.
It is also revealed there is a lot of NVidia specific code in there, too. They are optimizations just like the ATI specific shader code. Unfortunately, NVidia hardware is to blame for slow DX9 performance. The GeForce FX may have higher precision, but only 1/4th of its shader units are DirectX 9 shader units. The rest are DirectX 8 class only. It is amazing that Valve has squeezed as much performance as they have out of the GeForce FX. Carmack countered this in Doom III by switching on half precision shaders where precision was not neccessary. Being different beasts, Source may require high precision shaders in more places, but may have tried to use half precision shaders where they could.
This issue has been brought up over and over again; NVidia just needs to release newer hardware.
This isn't the first time something like this has happened. Everquest (Sony is butt buddies with NVIDIA in regards to this game) runs amazingly fast on my NVIDIA GeForce2MX 220 at 60 fps at 1280x1024 with a lot of details turned on, yet runs like garbage on my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro on a similarly configured system. Sometimes it even becomes a slideshow. I am not the only person to experience this as many other people have complained about it. The unfortunate side to this is that most people complain about the hardware rather than the software.
Now this issue is quite different. There was a write up recently on why NVIDIA hardware is so much slower than ATI hardware when using 2.0 pixel shaders. I don't remember the URL, so if anyone would be so kind to post it that would be great. Basically, it was stating that the Detonator 40 drivers needed to be rewritten to better take advantage of 2.0 pixel shaders. Detonator 50 drivers are a lot faster and fix this problem, but they do reduce image quality quite noticeably. This could be the reason that swayed Valve's decisions.
The fact of the matter is, we need next generation GeForce chips.
After all, LiveJournal is completely Open Source. Subscription only gives you added features, but the free version does not even have ad banners. The site is completely funded by subscriptions and donations. A few other sites have spun off thanks to the freely available code, including DeadJournal.
Is this method of finding and storing files patented?
Clicking through the Wired article reveals the complete list:
% 241%40news.cybercity.dk&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bie2ob%24tn7
Unfortunately, it gives little information other than names.
You are just a little bit off-topic. The comparison was between the FireGL X1 and the Quadro FX 2000. The FireGL 1 was a card from yesteryears. Declaring problems about the FireGL 1 is like telling people Datsun is a horrible car company in an article about Nissan cars.
Let us just hope it doesn't have a TCP/IP stack written in BASIC on a 6502 then. The doctor can't help the patient if they already croaked 30 seconds ago.