As a point of order, if humanity occupies 2 planets, then humanity is about half as likely to be annihilated by asteroids, assuming the probablility of Mars being hit is the same as Earth. The probability of you and your family being annihilated remains unchanged.
Now, realistically, if I'm dead, what the hell do I care if humanity lives on? Furthermore, are we *really* so important in the universal sense that all our "advancements" being "lost" will matter even a bit to anything ever? An argument could and has been made by many that its all for "absolutely nothing" as it is.
Space travel is neat, but if you're really concerned about asteroids obliterating you, maybe you ought to try and get some more money spent on actually *detecting* asteriods.
But how is it ok for a business's name to be protected and *not* a person's name? That seems inconsistent to me. And really, I could see the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien having a somewhat legitimate claim that the name is their trademark.
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Unless it requires new iPod hardware to support, which I suspect it doesn't, I still don't understand. Its not like anyone's saying they should forget about AAC and MP3 and go all OGG all the time. Bottom line is, the more formats the player supports the more they'll sell. I'd probably buy one if it did ogg/flac, as would many other people. Will it make a huge, resounding difference in Apple's bottom line either way? No, probably not. But if all it takes is a quick firmware upgrade, as it does for the Neuros among others, then why the hell don't they do it? I fail to see how adding ogg/flac support will *hurt* Apple economically (its not exactly a massive project), and it can only increase their already enormous mindshare.
At this point, when I have the cash I will buy a Rio Karma, or maybe a Neuros, but if iPod had better format support, there'd be no way I could pass up its superior UI and general snazziness.
Unless I'm way off, this is what's called a Ball-Grid Array, and yeah, the concept's been around forever. My understanding is that its really hard to mass manufacture these things so that everything lines up and has good connection. And afaik, they're of dubious benefit versus the pin socket we all know and love. Maybe someone who knows more can explain what benefit this new socket has for Intel?
Hear, hear! Nintendo's still doing what they do best: putting together whole gaming experiences. I kind of think of them as the Apple of gaming (and not because of the PowerPC GameCube necessarily). Basically, they know exactly who their market is, what that market likes, and they design their system and their games around that. Mario, Zelda, and their offshoots are classics the moment they hit the shelves. As long as they're Nintendo-system-only, Nintendo *will* sell systems. And on the hardware front, I don't think Nintendo's been much better than they are now. I mean, from a technical standpoint, the PS2 is an older, slower design (load times are abominable), and the XBox, while powerful as all hell, and with a convenient hard disk, is enormous. It must weigh upwards of 10lbs, and god help you if you have those ridiculous first-generation controllers. The Gamecube, on the other hand, keeps good pace with the XBox on speed, is probably the first time I've ever seen consoles get physically *smaller* since forever, and has a controller far superior to the N64 at least (not to mention the kickass Wavebird!).
I guess from where I'm sitting, Nintendo's looking as good as they ever have, which is why I just bought a gamecube finally. First console I've been willing to pay for since the Sega Genesis.
Bleh, thats not necessarily true at all. A good race condition in a many-threaded program can quite easily look very much like a hardware problem, in that it is difficult to reproduce reliably.
Well, scanning the article quickly, this card doesn't seem to be any more powerful than the Radeon and Geforce its put up against, and all three are about $150. I don't see why anyone's going to buy this card over the other two.
I'd say that as far as you're just talking about games that work on Linux, the experience is great. If you're talking about selection of games, sure there's more for Windows, but I don't think that necessarily says anything about Windows vs Linux except marketshare and economics. I have a couple of Loki products, and they're fabulous under Linux, every bit as good from a technical does-this-game-work standpoint as anything under Windows. Same goes for the id games, RTCW, and UT. And NWN works pretty well too, now that its finally finished. In fact, I for one notice less copy-prevention BS in my Linux games than the ones that require Windows, and to me thats worth a lot in and of itself.
See, I would argue that their VM scheduler (loves to swap to disk), their file system (manual defragging required), the registry (come on!), are only a few among several technical failings in current Windows operating systems. For that matter, I can't prove it, but I'm convinced their disk I/O system sucks as well. I bog it down all the time.
Funny about that console wars bit... of course, afaik there's nothing 64-bit about the latest consoles (certanly not the xbox anyway, and I'd be surprised if the gamecube is either). Just funny how that whole marketing gimmick kinda disappeared after the N64. And now AMD wants people to buy into it. Not that I'm complaining about 64-bit cpu's as a concept, just that stupid marketing crap.
I don't like these soccer-hooligan and similar analogies. Soccer hooligans don't kill people carrying M-16 assault rifles, or Colt Carbines, or whatever they're using these days. I mean, how many street cops get killed on St. Patrick's Day?
To me it seems like you're *way* understating the significance of killing a US soldier. I mean, we invested tons of time and money into these people so they would kill and not be killed. Its hardly the equivalent of some dumbass getting drunk and getting beat up.
Mildly OT, but NT4 is awesome. A lot of people have been talking about old hardware and running windows 95 on it and whatnot. To them I say NT4! Once you get past the service pack bs, and god help you if you don't have one of those discs that comes with IE4 on it, you've got an OS whose UI is reasonably the same as any modern OS, only takes up like 125MB of disk space, and is damn near as stable as you'll get in the Wintel space. Its definitely *my* favorite for putting on really old machines that somebody wants to use as a basic desktop (publishing, web browsing, and whatnot). Heck, only downside is the serious lack of modern directx, but it'll play Starcraft just fine.
The costs are about the same now and the reasons to go LCD largely outweigh the reasons otherwise not to.
I suppose costs are the same order of magnitude, if thats what you mean... Even then, they're still not really. Hopping around newegg, it looks like LCDs are on average 3-4x more expensive than CRTs.
Nah, I think people rally to others who have the same opinion naturally anyway. Just because that opinion is posted on a website rather than in a newspaper or shouted from a streetcorner is irrelevant. Heck, in the absence of any media, you're still going to get your "world view" from the community around you, and thats probably a *less* representative sample of people.
Not everybody is rational about everything. Lots of people (myself included) sometimes only hear what they want to hear. Now, as before, the only thing you can do is police yourself. Try to seriously consider all sides of an issue. Thats all any of us can do.
Meh, after a while of hassling with fat32 drives and ro ntfs support, I just decided that I don't really care about whats on the windows drive. It pretty much just exists to run a few games, so I keep all the important stuff on an ext3 (gives me at least a little read support in windows), and just use Linux for most everything. If the windows drive explodes, or if the windows installation craps out, who cares? Just a bunch of game files which I can always bring back from cd.
Well lets see... devfs still works fine, for me anyway. I suspect it'll just probably disappear when they start up 2.7. It is a very nice system, and its a shame to see it go, but what can you do.
All that APIC stuff is still being ironed out I guess. I only had a problem with that in test7 and test8, but with my archaic hardware (i440BX) I'm thankfully less prone to weirdness then, say, people with VIA or NVidia motherboards.
I'd never heard of these preemption problems until test10, and I've certainly never had one. YMMV, but whats the worst that will happen, the machine crashes?
I bet your SCSI problems are gone. I've got 2x9GB disks on an AIC-7XXX doing software RAID-0, and I've never had a problem. Of course, I started with 2.6.0-test1.
I think they broke something with the scheduler in test10, because all of a sudden my XMMS skips again (not often, but 100x more often than in test1-test9), but otherwise for me its been a very good release. Seems like most of the people who are having troubles are running laptops or using pretty new motherboards/cpus.
I'm betting over time people start finding more or less the same workstations every day. Pretty soon it'll be almost like everyone has their own cube again. Its the same principle as in school when they stopped assigning seats. After a week or two, you knew where you wanted to sit anyway.
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As a point of order, if humanity occupies 2 planets, then humanity is about half as likely to be annihilated by asteroids, assuming the probablility of Mars being hit is the same as Earth. The probability of you and your family being annihilated remains unchanged.
Now, realistically, if I'm dead, what the hell do I care if humanity lives on? Furthermore, are we *really* so important in the universal sense that all our "advancements" being "lost" will matter even a bit to anything ever? An argument could and has been made by many that its all for "absolutely nothing" as it is.
Space travel is neat, but if you're really concerned about asteroids obliterating you, maybe you ought to try and get some more money spent on actually *detecting* asteriods.
Strangled, eh? I'd say they're strangled more by the form factor. Gotta ask yourself how many pixels you *really* want to squeeze into 12".
But how is it ok for a business's name to be protected and *not* a person's name? That seems inconsistent to me. And really, I could see the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien having a somewhat legitimate claim that the name is their trademark.
Unless it requires new iPod hardware to support, which I suspect it doesn't, I still don't understand. Its not like anyone's saying they should forget about AAC and MP3 and go all OGG all the time. Bottom line is, the more formats the player supports the more they'll sell. I'd probably buy one if it did ogg/flac, as would many other people. Will it make a huge, resounding difference in Apple's bottom line either way? No, probably not. But if all it takes is a quick firmware upgrade, as it does for the Neuros among others, then why the hell don't they do it? I fail to see how adding ogg/flac support will *hurt* Apple economically (its not exactly a massive project), and it can only increase their already enormous mindshare.
At this point, when I have the cash I will buy a Rio Karma, or maybe a Neuros, but if iPod had better format support, there'd be no way I could pass up its superior UI and general snazziness.
Unless I'm way off, this is what's called a Ball-Grid Array, and yeah, the concept's been around forever. My understanding is that its really hard to mass manufacture these things so that everything lines up and has good connection. And afaik, they're of dubious benefit versus the pin socket we all know and love. Maybe someone who knows more can explain what benefit this new socket has for Intel?
Not to mention the speed of flash memory...
Hear, hear! Nintendo's still doing what they do best: putting together whole gaming experiences. I kind of think of them as the Apple of gaming (and not because of the PowerPC GameCube necessarily). Basically, they know exactly who their market is, what that market likes, and they design their system and their games around that. Mario, Zelda, and their offshoots are classics the moment they hit the shelves. As long as they're Nintendo-system-only, Nintendo *will* sell systems. And on the hardware front, I don't think Nintendo's been much better than they are now. I mean, from a technical standpoint, the PS2 is an older, slower design (load times are abominable), and the XBox, while powerful as all hell, and with a convenient hard disk, is enormous. It must weigh upwards of 10lbs, and god help you if you have those ridiculous first-generation controllers. The Gamecube, on the other hand, keeps good pace with the XBox on speed, is probably the first time I've ever seen consoles get physically *smaller* since forever, and has a controller far superior to the N64 at least (not to mention the kickass Wavebird!).
I guess from where I'm sitting, Nintendo's looking as good as they ever have, which is why I just bought a gamecube finally. First console I've been willing to pay for since the Sega Genesis.
Bleh, thats not necessarily true at all. A good race condition in a many-threaded program can quite easily look very much like a hardware problem, in that it is difficult to reproduce reliably.
Well, scanning the article quickly, this card doesn't seem to be any more powerful than the Radeon and Geforce its put up against, and all three are about $150. I don't see why anyone's going to buy this card over the other two.
I'd say that as far as you're just talking about games that work on Linux, the experience is great. If you're talking about selection of games, sure there's more for Windows, but I don't think that necessarily says anything about Windows vs Linux except marketshare and economics. I have a couple of Loki products, and they're fabulous under Linux, every bit as good from a technical does-this-game-work standpoint as anything under Windows. Same goes for the id games, RTCW, and UT. And NWN works pretty well too, now that its finally finished. In fact, I for one notice less copy-prevention BS in my Linux games than the ones that require Windows, and to me thats worth a lot in and of itself.
See, I would argue that their VM scheduler (loves to swap to disk), their file system (manual defragging required), the registry (come on!), are only a few among several technical failings in current Windows operating systems. For that matter, I can't prove it, but I'm convinced their disk I/O system sucks as well. I bog it down all the time.
Bah, that only works if you're never on-call. Which, if thats the case, why the hell did the company give you a phone in the first place?
Funny about that console wars bit... of course, afaik there's nothing 64-bit about the latest consoles (certanly not the xbox anyway, and I'd be surprised if the gamecube is either). Just funny how that whole marketing gimmick kinda disappeared after the N64. And now AMD wants people to buy into it. Not that I'm complaining about 64-bit cpu's as a concept, just that stupid marketing crap.
I don't like these soccer-hooligan and similar analogies. Soccer hooligans don't kill people carrying M-16 assault rifles, or Colt Carbines, or whatever they're using these days. I mean, how many street cops get killed on St. Patrick's Day?
To me it seems like you're *way* understating the significance of killing a US soldier. I mean, we invested tons of time and money into these people so they would kill and not be killed. Its hardly the equivalent of some dumbass getting drunk and getting beat up.
Just another of those *really* stupid things about copyright law...
Mildly OT, but NT4 is awesome. A lot of people have been talking about old hardware and running windows 95 on it and whatnot. To them I say NT4! Once you get past the service pack bs, and god help you if you don't have one of those discs that comes with IE4 on it, you've got an OS whose UI is reasonably the same as any modern OS, only takes up like 125MB of disk space, and is damn near as stable as you'll get in the Wintel space. Its definitely *my* favorite for putting on really old machines that somebody wants to use as a basic desktop (publishing, web browsing, and whatnot). Heck, only downside is the serious lack of modern directx, but it'll play Starcraft just fine.
I suppose costs are the same order of magnitude, if thats what you mean... Even then, they're still not really. Hopping around newegg, it looks like LCDs are on average 3-4x more expensive than CRTs.
Nah, I think people rally to others who have the same opinion naturally anyway. Just because that opinion is posted on a website rather than in a newspaper or shouted from a streetcorner is irrelevant. Heck, in the absence of any media, you're still going to get your "world view" from the community around you, and thats probably a *less* representative sample of people.
Not everybody is rational about everything. Lots of people (myself included) sometimes only hear what they want to hear. Now, as before, the only thing you can do is police yourself. Try to seriously consider all sides of an issue. Thats all any of us can do.
I agree in spirit, but I defy you to make a quiet 15000W system. I bet you can't even burn all that power on a resistor quietly!
True enough. But they haven't done that yet, AFAIK, so I'm not sure why people don't just redistribute the ISOs.
Hey, thats big trouble. Thats like a paradox or something!
Meh, after a while of hassling with fat32 drives and ro ntfs support, I just decided that I don't really care about whats on the windows drive. It pretty much just exists to run a few games, so I keep all the important stuff on an ext3 (gives me at least a little read support in windows), and just use Linux for most everything. If the windows drive explodes, or if the windows installation craps out, who cares? Just a bunch of game files which I can always bring back from cd.
Well lets see... devfs still works fine, for me anyway. I suspect it'll just probably disappear when they start up 2.7. It is a very nice system, and its a shame to see it go, but what can you do.
All that APIC stuff is still being ironed out I guess. I only had a problem with that in test7 and test8, but with my archaic hardware (i440BX) I'm thankfully less prone to weirdness then, say, people with VIA or NVidia motherboards.
I'd never heard of these preemption problems until test10, and I've certainly never had one. YMMV, but whats the worst that will happen, the machine crashes?
I bet your SCSI problems are gone. I've got 2x9GB disks on an AIC-7XXX doing software RAID-0, and I've never had a problem. Of course, I started with 2.6.0-test1.
I think they broke something with the scheduler in test10, because all of a sudden my XMMS skips again (not often, but 100x more often than in test1-test9), but otherwise for me its been a very good release. Seems like most of the people who are having troubles are running laptops or using pretty new motherboards/cpus.
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I'm betting over time people start finding more or less the same workstations every day. Pretty soon it'll be almost like everyone has their own cube again. Its the same principle as in school when they stopped assigning seats. After a week or two, you knew where you wanted to sit anyway.