Another solution would be to have two benchmarks, one that was in the public domain that anyone can test, and then another from a benchmarking company. The difficulty would be in making sure the benchmarking company is unbias.
This way, the developers couldn't sit down with the program, reverse engineer it, and mess with their code to optimize to just that test.
Really even without that, they should just make the tests with completely random seeds, use the same seeds on two different cards, and then run the tests say 100 times, and then find a statistical average. That would be the fairest solution.
If I see "race" or "religion" options on forms for employment or other legal documents I just cross them off and don't answer them. It's absolutely no one's business what the answer to either of those two questions.
Those two questions are only used for political purposes and I refuse to play that kind of a game.
I was using a TNT2 video card for the longest time until I found a Geforce2 card that someone abandoned. Do a lot of people actually keep up with all the new video card technology by buying every new product release?
I totally agree. I've spent the last 4 hours trying to compile Xine, hunt down missing libraries, manually edit path settings, and halfway through I started to forget what I was even trying to compile.
You have to admit, installation wizards in Windows are a lot easier and reliable than trying to compile something yourself under linux.
Hmm... mabye I should have gone the RPM route, but those were not listed first on the Xine page.
So, is it now possible to play a MOV file in windows media player? Or is there now a generic codec that would allow that based on what Xine has done?
I find it very strange that quicktime doesn't let me save movies I downloaded. I found a trick though where I set my windows temp directory to a network drive, disconnect from the network, and then rename the TMP files quicktime creates. It's kind of silly that I have to do this just to save movie trailers to my computer.
This is so true, the old cartoons were about powerful protagonist against some evil force. Today, cartoons are about wimpy characters who learn how to get along with everyone. It's all about political correctness, there are no more heroes. It's mostly about making social statements now. You can't have guns or fighting childrens cartoons anymore.
Ah I recognize that as a U.S. Robotics 56K modem. Only the U.S. Robotics modem had the unique "boooong" sound. The Rockwell modems had kind of a graaabgragragraga instead.
Let's say you had a memory module with 8 new nanotube chips that had a surface area of 1cm^2 each. This would be equivalent to 1 Terabyte in a single memory module! Right now 2GB and 4GB memory modules are available, but rare and expensive. Given that it's non volatile, you wouldn't even need a hard drive at that point.
Who says the research going into creating this laser won't be used later for some secret military laser satelite? Just imagine if they could combine the capability of aiming within 10cm accuracy with a laser that could shoot through several meters of concrete. Something like that could make nuclear weapons obsolete.
I thought this was funny too. If you have the attitude that getting a job is up to chance, then you don't deserve that position anyway. How about "Job Opportunities" instead? See how much more positive that is?
It's not just about your technical experience, you need to have a positive attitude in the job search itself, otherwise you're not going anywhere.
Most projectors are PC resolution: 1024x768. So if you want to watch widescreen formatted movies you end up cutting down on the resolution quite a bit (1024x576 for 16:9) and wasting a lot of the useful pixels on the projector. Anyone know of any good widescreen projectors at a reasonable price? ($3,000).
You're working on that too? So far I've convinced 3 people to type in Dvorak. I think I have a few hundred more to people to convince my keyboard isn't all weird.
Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative
And yet, you think I would want to put all my trust the sanity of other world leaders to not fire nuclear weapons at the U.S.?
There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle. The key term here is "defence initiative". If the worst case scenerio happens that a weapon is fired at the U.S. at least there is some better chance of attacking the missle before it reaches the U.S. instead of sitting back watching the light show.
I don't understand why people doubt the technological capability of scientists and engineers to create a defensive system. With the amazing advancements in computers and science, this is just another advancement in technology.
I think that maybe you could figure out how to manufacture a cruise missle for about $50,000, but the cost of developing the technique to do so would be much greater, at least a few hundred thousand. It's not just about "buying parts at your local hardware store" because they won't have them. The proper testing equipment alone will be well over $5,000. Things like oscilliscopes, computer simulation software, etc.
In engineering you can only choose two of the three: development time is fast, the system is reliable and has quality, or it is produced at very low cost.
We have a few on our campus and quite a few of them are starting to wear out. I think this is mostly because people forget to turn them off and they end up running for a very long time.
One thing I notice is that some of them get like pink spots on them when displaying white backgrounds. Although the most common problem is that the image just starts flickering like it can't sync to the laptops video signal. Anyone know what causes this?
No, frames are part of the web browser. This is stupid, SBC is only going after the websites because they have the money. All the websites are doing is distributing HTML and some images. HTML has something like "Some other stuff" in it. Now if you can extort millions of dollars from a company for using the word "" then there is something REALLY messed up with the patent system in the U.S.
I mean really, small companies should not even have to bother going to court over something trivial like this! They should be able to ignore this frivilous lawsuit. If common people knew how dumb this was.
They are being sued for transmitting HTML tags! Just a few bytes of information! This is ridicules!
Oh and so I don't get sued, this is all my opinion and not fact.
The solution is simple: Build cellphone receivers on the airplanes themselves, and retransmitt at a safe frequency. Airlines should just accept that people want to use their cellphones. Especially during a long flight, they can't possibly imagine that in such a connected world as ours that people could spend 2-8 hours in flight without internet/phone service.
Actually, I just recently completed a lab where we have a warning like this:
"For your eye safety, do not look directly into the waveguides or Horn Antennas while power is being applied"
This is at a frequency of about 10GHz, and only 3 microWatts. I can imagine something transmitting much more power to be dangerous enough to kill a bird that just happens to fly in between the field.
Some of us have computer monitors. Most of those display resolutions higher than HDTV, so you wouldn't need to spend another $2,000 dollars to view your camcorder video.
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It's actually, 7,502,247,936 bytes for FOTR.
I have yet to found an easy way to compress it. I would actually prefer to keep the quality high though, so maybe I'll just get a larger HD.
I can't seem to get any other DVD to play as a vob file very well.
Another solution would be to have two benchmarks, one that was in the public domain that anyone can test, and then another from a benchmarking company. The difficulty would be in making sure the benchmarking company is unbias.
This way, the developers couldn't sit down with the program, reverse engineer it, and mess with their code to optimize to just that test.
Really even without that, they should just make the tests with completely random seeds, use the same seeds on two different cards, and then run the tests say 100 times, and then find a statistical average. That would be the fairest solution.
So does this mean the creators of grep have to pay royalties?
grep PO.* filename.txt
Is a clear violation of patent law!!!
If I see "race" or "religion" options on forms for employment or other legal documents I just cross them off and don't answer them. It's absolutely no one's business what the answer to either of those two questions.
Those two questions are only used for political purposes and I refuse to play that kind of a game.
I was using a TNT2 video card for the longest time until I found a Geforce2 card that someone abandoned. Do a lot of people actually keep up with all the new video card technology by buying every new product release?
I totally agree. I've spent the last 4 hours trying to compile Xine, hunt down missing libraries, manually edit path settings, and halfway through I started to forget what I was even trying to compile.
You have to admit, installation wizards in Windows are a lot easier and reliable than trying to compile something yourself under linux.
Hmm... mabye I should have gone the RPM route, but those were not listed first on the Xine page.
So, is it now possible to play a MOV file in windows media player? Or is there now a generic codec that would allow that based on what Xine has done?
I find it very strange that quicktime doesn't let me save movies I downloaded. I found a trick though where I set my windows temp directory to a network drive, disconnect from the network, and then rename the TMP files quicktime creates. It's kind of silly that I have to do this just to save movie trailers to my computer.
I don't think kids reading slashdot on a Saturday morning will become popular anytime soon.
This is so true, the old cartoons were about powerful protagonist against some evil force. Today, cartoons are about wimpy characters who learn how to get along with everyone. It's all about political correctness, there are no more heroes. It's mostly about making social statements now. You can't have guns or fighting childrens cartoons anymore.
Oh well.
Garfield of course! Actually, I didn't like the "and Friends" part of the show. It was really stupid, but Garfield was cool.
I still can't believe my parents let me have TMNT toys as a kid. What a waste of money.
Ah I recognize that as a U.S. Robotics 56K modem. Only the U.S. Robotics modem had the unique "boooong" sound. The Rockwell modems had kind of a graaabgragragraga instead.
Let's say you had a memory module with 8 new nanotube chips that had a surface area of 1cm^2 each. This would be equivalent to 1 Terabyte in a single memory module! Right now 2GB and 4GB memory modules are available, but rare and expensive. Given that it's non volatile, you wouldn't even need a hard drive at that point.
Who says the research going into creating this laser won't be used later for some secret military laser satelite? Just imagine if they could combine the capability of aiming within 10cm accuracy with a laser that could shoot through several meters of concrete. Something like that could make nuclear weapons obsolete.
I thought this was funny too. If you have the attitude that getting a job is up to chance, then you don't deserve that position anyway. How about "Job Opportunities" instead? See how much more positive that is?
It's not just about your technical experience, you need to have a positive attitude in the job search itself, otherwise you're not going anywhere.
They can't make the syntax easy to read. If they did, then it would be called Python.
Most projectors are PC resolution: 1024x768. So if you want to watch widescreen formatted movies you end up cutting down on the resolution quite a bit (1024x576 for 16:9) and wasting a lot of the useful pixels on the projector. Anyone know of any good widescreen projectors at a reasonable price? ($3,000).
Did anyone else feel really depressed after watching this? Machines taking over earth and all. Heheh...
You're working on that too? So far I've convinced 3 people to type in Dvorak. I think I have a few hundred more to people to convince my keyboard isn't all weird.
Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative
And yet, you think I would want to put all my trust the sanity of other world leaders to not fire nuclear weapons at the U.S.?
There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle. The key term here is "defence initiative". If the worst case scenerio happens that a weapon is fired at the U.S. at least there is some better chance of attacking the missle before it reaches the U.S. instead of sitting back watching the light show.
I don't understand why people doubt the technological capability of scientists and engineers to create a defensive system. With the amazing advancements in computers and science, this is just another advancement in technology.
I think that maybe you could figure out how to manufacture a cruise missle for about $50,000, but the cost of developing the technique to do so would be much greater, at least a few hundred thousand. It's not just about "buying parts at your local hardware store" because they won't have them. The proper testing equipment alone will be well over $5,000. Things like oscilliscopes, computer simulation software, etc.
In engineering you can only choose two of the three: development time is fast, the system is reliable and has quality, or it is produced at very low cost.
We have a few on our campus and quite a few of them are starting to wear out. I think this is mostly because people forget to turn them off and they end up running for a very long time.
One thing I notice is that some of them get like pink spots on them when displaying white backgrounds. Although the most common problem is that the image just starts flickering like it can't sync to the laptops video signal. Anyone know what causes this?
No, frames are part of the web browser. This is stupid, SBC is only going after the websites because they have the money. All the websites are doing is distributing HTML and some images. HTML has something like "Some other stuff" in it. Now if you can extort millions of dollars from a company for using the word "" then there is something REALLY messed up with the patent system in the U.S.
I mean really, small companies should not even have to bother going to court over something trivial like this! They should be able to ignore this frivilous lawsuit. If common people knew how dumb this was.
They are being sued for transmitting HTML tags! Just a few bytes of information! This is ridicules!
Oh and so I don't get sued, this is all my opinion and not fact.
The solution is simple: Build cellphone receivers on the airplanes themselves, and retransmitt at a safe frequency. Airlines should just accept that people want to use their cellphones. Especially during a long flight, they can't possibly imagine that in such a connected world as ours that people could spend 2-8 hours in flight without internet/phone service.
Actually, I just recently completed a lab where we have a warning like this:
"For your eye safety, do not look directly into the waveguides or Horn Antennas while power is being applied"
This is at a frequency of about 10GHz, and only 3 microWatts. I can imagine something transmitting much more power to be dangerous enough to kill a bird that just happens to fly in between the field.
Some of us have computer monitors. Most of those display resolutions higher than HDTV, so you wouldn't need to spend another $2,000 dollars to view your camcorder video.