'"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices," says group marketing manager Tom Gruver in leading a tour of the new facility.' Right. More chestnuts inside."
Dammit! Be quiet! You're gonna ruin it for the rest of us:P.
And if my boss asks, the GeForce4 card that I ordered makes my uhhh..programs compile faster.
That story was pretty interesting..although I was hoping to see a little more commentary about the Rush fiasco:p.
For me, 3dfx jumped the shark with the Voodoo Rush. Maybe I was just naive, but I figured that a card that came out after the Voodoo 2, would have similar performance (the Voodoo 1 was faster). They did make good by allowing Rush users to send in the 3d daughterboard and exchange it for a faster Voodoo 1 (which I did)...but that whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
I became an Nvidia convert shortly after that, as did quite a few other people who bought that card.
Which was way ahead of it's time IMO. Too bad app support sucked.:(
I know that there are still places that use OS/2 and have relatively new installs of it, but as a desktop OS I think it's safe to say that it is even more dead than linux.
Probably not exactly on topic, but since when did I give a shit about my karma:P.
I have found myself getting mad at multiplayer video games. Quake, UT, Tribes, AA.
My current video game outlet is Battlefield 1942. It seems to require quite a bit more skill than most "twitch" games, and the deaths can be pretty damn funny sometimes. When I die, I usually find myself congratulating the person who killed me, and/or laughing at the way I died. You still have the occasional CS kiddie on the games, but for the most part, the crowd seems to be a bit more cordial.
I think the main draw of the game for me is the challenge of coming up with new and funny ways of killing people. Usually when I turn the game off it's because I've stayed up way too late, and not because I am frustrated. It's somewhat violent, but its not overly gory (has a 'T' rating). This game is a perfect example of a game that doesnt need shock value to be appealing and fun.
Give me a break. This whole argument is based on the opinion that.NET is a competitor for java If we were talking about web server technology I might be more likely to buy this argument, but even then, the choice to use it is completely in the hands of the admins and developers. They are either extremely ignorant or just playing the FUD game and hoping that everyone else will be too stupid to notice that.NET does not implement Java.
This complaint would be like Borland bitching that Windows comes with msvc runtime.dlls.
However...if I had access to Apple parts at a savings from the component retail value of complete apple systems (think in line with x86 hardware prices), I would be veeeeery tempted to throw together a G4 system for myself to mess around with.
I realize that Apple will probably never do anything like this because you will have people buying parts, assembling machines, and reselling complete systems, while undercutting the Apple Store...but its an entertaining idea...at least for me.
This idea is hardly new. SafeDisc, SecuRom, Laserlock and friends are all crackable and copyable using widely available tools. Why should anyone believe that this is any different?
If the software that you are running on my computer can read this key to decrypt it's content, what is going to stop me from using a low level method to read the key on my machine? A license agreement that tells me not to reverse engineer? Guess what, the people cracking protected software probably dont have legal compliance at the top of their priority list. Give this what...a week before it's cracked?
Try familiarizing yourself with the details before jumping on the Microsoft propaganda bandwagon. WMP9 will play any content that it's predecessors play, free of restrictions.
In addition to that, it will be able to play restricted content. Good luck (legally) watching a premium movie streamed from the internet with another player. DRM services don't subtract any usability or functionality from WMP. What it ADDS is the ability for content providers to be able to offer media that was previously unavailable due to the inability to enforce licensing schemes. Microsoft has no interest in locking you out of your current stash of DivX movies or MP3s...they gain nothing from this. What they are doing is facilitating a business model that the entertainment industry has been asking for. If people could look past the paranoia they might see this. It's a win-win situation.
In all honesty, the first thought of DRM made me nervous, but now that I have educated myself about the implementation of DRM in WMP9, I am excited about the possibilities.
I remember reading a Wired article last year about this topic, and why we will never see it in the US.
The article also talks about a company that claims to be able to utilize powerlines in a different way that would let them transmit data up to 2.5Gb/s. I dont think their webpage has changed in over a year though, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
More competition is exactly what this market needs. I love Nvidia's products but they have had a stranglehold on the video chipset market for a while. Along with the potential for a price war, maybe we'll see some truly innovative ideas come about.
My money is on Nvidia since they seem to have Microsoft's blessing.
Yes apple is at the other end of that spectrum for sure.
While Visiontek sold High performance parts at extremely low prices Apple sells whole systems with a mediocre level of performance at ridiculously high prices. Oh...yeah I guess they have support if you need that sort of thing..but then again we're all geeks aren't we.
Go to Tools | Options | Copy Music in WMP. Now uncheck "Protect Content".
From the help file:
Protect content Specifies whether tracks copied from CDs in Windows Media Format are licensed files. Licenses help protect the copyrights of artists by preventing illegal distribution. Selecting this check box prevents you from playing the tracks on another computer.
Note You should back up your licenses to a floppy disk periodically. If you reinstall or upgrade your operating system, your licenses could be lost. For more information about how to back up licenses, see Related topics.
Try doing a little research before posting your arguments. I got a USB 2.0 CD writer from IOgear almost 2 months ago that happily writes CDs at 16x whereas it only works at 4x on a USB 1.0 port.
Though the devices may not be plentiful yet, they are out there.
Did I mention that the 220fps Athlon is only using one cpu vs the dual proc g4 benchmark? We're talking less than 1/3 of the price for more than 75% better performance. Thats just sick.
Wow, a whopping 25%. That number speaks for itself. It may be ready for your desktop, and the desktops of other people with copious free time that can be spent tweaking stuff. For the people that need to get real work done, we use windows and os x. Personally, I'd rather not spend 75% of my time answering support calls about why they can't open document x, or why some video can't be displayed or what this kernel message is that keeps popping up.
Like I said before, Linux owns on servers. I wont run anything but. You are seriously delusional if you actually think that KDE/Gnome/x comes anywhere close to the functionality/polish/ease of use enjoyed by Windows XP or OS X users.
While getting linux on the desktop is a noble cause it is so far behind the commercial alternatives that I doubt it will ever catch up. While perfectly adequate, Linux is making no innovations on the desktop, only playing catchup. Mind you, Im just talking about the user interface. Games on Linux are irrelevant. I have counted out linux on the desktop or as a gaming OS, but it's on the ropes.
1) Contacts - Read/only 2) Calendar 3) Storage 4) Cool new features - MP3 playback 5) Taking Notes
You aren't in the market for a PDA, you are in the market for a portable hard drive with a minimalist display and hardware mp3 playback. iPod sounds perfect for you.
I think when most people thing PDA, they think of something that is able to..you know...run programs and let them input stuff while mobile.
Can we please stop referring to the iPod as if it were something more than a glorified firewire harddrive?
"Serious question - If PowerPC is so fast, then why is OS X so slow? I'm not trying to incite a war, I really want to know."
Or better yet, if the PPC is so fast and advanced, why would people even think of switching? I mean, since a 1 ghz G4 is 2.5 times faster than a P4 chip according to some of the posters here, there should be no reason to switch since it is *obviously* the fastest cpu around.
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'"Surround sound is going to be increasingly important in future offices," says group marketing manager Tom Gruver in leading a tour of the new facility.' Right. More chestnuts inside."
:P.
Dammit! Be quiet! You're gonna ruin it for the rest of us
And if my boss asks, the GeForce4 card that I ordered makes my uhhh..programs compile faster.
That story was pretty interesting..although I was hoping to see a little more commentary about the Rush fiasco :p.
For me, 3dfx jumped the shark with the Voodoo Rush. Maybe I was just naive, but I figured that a card that came out after the Voodoo 2, would have similar performance (the Voodoo 1 was faster). They did make good by allowing Rush users to send in the 3d daughterboard and exchange it for a faster Voodoo 1 (which I did)...but that whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
I became an Nvidia convert shortly after that, as did quite a few other people who bought that card.
Which was way ahead of it's time IMO. :(
Too bad app support sucked.
I know that there are still places that use OS/2 and have relatively new installs of it, but as a desktop OS I think it's safe to say that it is even more dead than linux.
Probably not exactly on topic, but since when did I give a shit about my karma :P.
I have found myself getting mad at multiplayer video games. Quake, UT, Tribes, AA.
My current video game outlet is Battlefield 1942. It seems to require quite a bit more skill than most "twitch" games, and the deaths can be pretty damn funny sometimes. When I die, I usually find myself congratulating the person who killed me, and/or laughing at the way I died. You still have the occasional CS kiddie on the games, but for the most part, the crowd seems to be a bit more cordial.
I think the main draw of the game for me is the challenge of coming up with new and funny ways of killing people. Usually when I turn the game off it's because I've stayed up way too late, and not because I am frustrated. It's somewhat violent, but its not overly gory (has a 'T' rating). This game is a perfect example of a game that doesnt need shock value to be appealing and fun.
Give me a break. This whole argument is based on the opinion that .NET is a competitor for java If we were talking about web server technology I might be more likely to buy this argument, but even then, the choice to use it is completely in the hands of the admins and developers. They are either extremely ignorant or just playing the FUD game and hoping that everyone else will be too stupid to notice that .NET does not implement Java.
.dlls.
This complaint would be like Borland bitching that Windows comes with msvc runtime
I've been rabid anti-apple zealot.
However...if I had access to Apple parts at a savings from the component retail value of complete apple systems (think in line with x86 hardware prices), I would be veeeeery tempted to throw together a G4 system for myself to mess around with.
I realize that Apple will probably never do anything like this because you will have people buying parts, assembling machines, and reselling complete systems, while undercutting the Apple Store...but its an entertaining idea...at least for me.
1. Go to ClearChannel Exec's home.
2. Threaten his family and demand airtime.
3. ????
4. Profit
You dumbass....it's:
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Profit
echo 'N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N^N..\..\..\winnt \cmd.exe $destructive_command_here";
This idea is hardly new. SafeDisc, SecuRom, Laserlock and friends are all crackable and copyable using widely available tools. Why should anyone believe that this is any different?
If the software that you are running on my computer can read this key to decrypt it's content, what is going to stop me from using a low level method to read the key on my machine? A license agreement that tells me not to reverse engineer? Guess what, the people cracking protected software probably dont have legal compliance at the top of their priority list. Give this what...a week before it's cracked?
Try familiarizing yourself with the details before jumping on the Microsoft propaganda bandwagon. WMP9 will play any content that it's predecessors play, free of restrictions.
In addition to that, it will be able to play restricted content. Good luck (legally) watching a premium movie streamed from the internet with another player. DRM services don't subtract any usability or functionality from WMP. What it ADDS is the ability for content providers to be able to offer media that was previously unavailable due to the inability to enforce licensing schemes. Microsoft has no interest in locking you out of your current stash of DivX movies or MP3s...they gain nothing from this. What they are doing is facilitating a business model that the entertainment industry has been asking for. If people could look past the paranoia they might see this. It's a win-win situation.
In all honesty, the first thought of DRM made me nervous, but now that I have educated myself about the implementation of DRM in WMP9, I am excited about the possibilities.
I remember reading a Wired article last year about this topic, and why we will never see it in the US.
The article also talks about a company that claims to be able to utilize powerlines in a different way that would let them transmit data up to 2.5Gb/s. I dont think their webpage has changed in over a year though, so I wouldn't hold my breath.
More competition is exactly what this market needs. I love Nvidia's products but they have had a stranglehold on the video chipset market for a while. Along with the potential for a price war, maybe we'll see some truly innovative ideas come about.
My money is on Nvidia since they seem to have Microsoft's blessing.
Yes apple is at the other end of that spectrum for sure.
While Visiontek sold High performance parts at extremely low prices Apple sells whole systems with a mediocre level of performance at ridiculously high prices. Oh...yeah I guess they have support if you need that sort of thing..but then again we're all geeks aren't we.
Go to Tools | Options | Copy Music in WMP. Now uncheck "Protect Content".
From the help file:
Protect content
Specifies whether tracks copied from CDs in Windows Media Format are licensed files. Licenses help protect the copyrights of artists by preventing illegal distribution. Selecting this check box prevents you from playing the tracks on another computer.
Note You should back up your licenses to a floppy disk periodically. If you reinstall or upgrade your operating system, your licenses could be lost. For more information about how to back up licenses, see Related topics.
All I can say is...RTFM
Try doing a little research before posting your arguments. I got a USB 2.0 CD writer from IOgear almost 2 months ago that happily writes CDs at 16x whereas it only works at 4x on a USB 1.0 port.
Though the devices may not be plentiful yet, they are out there.
Did I mention that the 220fps Athlon is only using one cpu vs the dual proc g4 benchmark? We're talking less than 1/3 of the price for more than 75% better performance. Thats just sick.
You don't need to resort to the old mouse line just yet. A 1.67ghz Athlon pulls about 220 fps with the same video card at the same resolution.
Not that a normal human being could really discern the difference..it's more an indicator of raw power.
A little thrifty shopping and you could actually build that system for about $800.
Wow, a whopping 25%. That number speaks for itself. It may be ready for your desktop, and the desktops of other people with copious free time that can be spent tweaking stuff. For the people that need to get real work done, we use windows and os x. Personally, I'd rather not spend 75% of my time answering support calls about why they can't open document x, or why some video can't be displayed or what this kernel message is that keeps popping up.
Like I said before, Linux owns on servers. I wont run anything but. You are seriously delusional if you actually think that KDE/Gnome/x comes anywhere close to the functionality/polish/ease of use enjoyed by Windows XP or OS X users.
I love linux...on my servers.
While getting linux on the desktop is a noble cause it is so far behind the commercial alternatives that I doubt it will ever catch up. While perfectly adequate, Linux is making no innovations on the desktop, only playing catchup. Mind you, Im just talking about the user interface. Games on Linux are irrelevant. I have counted out linux on the desktop or as a gaming OS, but it's on the ropes.
1) Contacts - Read/only
2) Calendar
3) Storage
4) Cool new features - MP3 playback
5) Taking Notes
You aren't in the market for a PDA, you are in the market for a portable hard drive with a minimalist display and hardware mp3 playback. iPod sounds perfect for you.
I think when most people thing PDA, they think of something that is able to..you know...run programs and let them input stuff while mobile.
Can we please stop referring to the iPod as if it were something more than a glorified firewire harddrive?
Get the powerbook. I mean there is no subjective reason to switch, but at least you will fit in better at the gay bar.
"Serious question - If PowerPC is so fast, then why is OS X so slow? I'm not trying to incite a war, I really want to know." Or better yet, if the PPC is so fast and advanced, why would people even think of switching? I mean, since a 1 ghz G4 is 2.5 times faster than a P4 chip according to some of the posters here, there should be no reason to switch since it is *obviously* the fastest cpu around.
No No No! The Gamecube is a Powermac G4. Hell, plug an LCD into that and you have the new iMac.