Hahaha, does anyone thing this sounds like a leak from Intel in an attempt to dampen the tide of people eyeing the Atlon 64 FX? "Hey! Don't buy our competition's superior product. We'll have something that might be as good or better ready in.. er.. half a year! And we'll try to have it on the market in quantity... er... maybe in a year if everything goes perfect! What, things have never gone perfect? Sssssh.
A bird in hand is worth two in bush. Intel, you will now pay for your complacency. You did not believe the consumer market needed the 64-bit processor; it was cheaper to milk your enchanced Pentium Pro core a little bit longer. AMD had other ideas. Well, well, well.
Yeah, you make a fair point. The piracy advocates and the media owners are going to be at two extremes. Somewhere in the middle is the typical consumer who buys stuff but will accept recommendations from friends with copies included.
I never really got how piracy hurt X. There's a large segment of pirating acts that occur largely because the pirates aren't going to purchase something. If they aren't going to buy it, or they aren't going to buy it but still pirate it-- either way, the net income is exactly the same. If consumers can afford something, won't they typically go out of their way to own it? A DVD or CD album is always nicer to have on your shelf than a DVD-R or CD-R copy, after all.
Er.. Why is writing an emulator a pointless geek endeavour? This claim suggests you either don't fully understand what emulation is and does, or you don't think that preserving human culture is important. After all, why should we waste our time collecting books in libraries, artifacts and cultural works in museums, and plants in arboretums? Why do we waste our time learning from our prior experiences in schools and universities? Why do we attempt to preserve the knowledge of ancient music, instruments, and how to perform same?
Emulation taps into the same set of goals as all these activities: making human creation accumulative rather than transitory. It's about grasping for a kind of immortality. Sheesh. And you presume to call them geeks.
Yawn. You can sell a new product, you can call it Amiga, but if there's no continuity, it seems like a misnomer. Yeah, I can release a new computer and name it after an old discontinued line, but why? Anyone got dibs on the Apple IVne (Nostalgia Exploiter)?
Insightful and inciteful point. Skewed sense of priority? Maybe they think that, unlike iRL (in Real Life) they can actually stand a chance of making a difference in an online gaming context. This is perhaps just another symptom of the US public education system failing to produce citizens.
Take some spam with an 'opt-out' option from another address and 'opt-out' from the target address. That should add you to spam lists quickly as spammers will have confirmation of 'a live one' e-mail address!
Well, your anecdotal account is not really conclusive. 10hz is merely near-infrasound. 1hz, or far-infrasound, is apparently considered the bottom end. Also, there's a question of amplitude and duration. If there were loud infrasound in your living room for hours on end, it might begin to change your affect in a way a brief exposure mightn't. Of course, this is all conjecture.
This page at noaa.gov mentions some of the environmental sources on infrasound: earthquakes, avalanches, meteors, large ocean waves, severe weather systems, and volcanos. Negative emotional responses to those sounds could well have been a survival trait in mankind.
This article (PDF, 8mB) provides a nice overview and discussion of atmospheric infrasound.
Well. The commercial artist of which you speak is not the majority. Most bands start out with a bunch of folks and instruments creating music and playing out. They are somewhere between the garage and regional bar/club touring stage of growth and are rooted in the creative/expressive talent of its members.
Sure the MTV and Top40 artists might work that way, but I give a rat's rear end about them anyway, and wouldn't buy _or_ download their muzak. Music's gotta have street cred, y'know?
It's mission spanned three decades? Uhm. 1989-2003 = 14 years. Three decades = 30 years. Galileo was active is less than half of three decades, and its useful mission was even less of that. Yeah, 1989-2003 technically means 80's, 90's, and 00's, but calling that "three decades" is assinine, misleading, and vaguely dishonest.
Settlement is all fine and well, but US$23.50M isn't exactly going to motivate fair competative practice from Microsoft. Where are the crippling government fines MS deserves? A US$10 billion crime would probably give MS pause, and it'd help the US Budget crunch, too!:)
This makes as little sense as the flying car. It sounds good until you realize that any large number of these running around would be a disaster. There'd be a car boat at the bottom of some river and another car plane would nosedive into the earth or through somebody's ceiling every week.
I guess this would make living on an inland island's seclusion more convienient...
Uhm. I'm sorry, but I think your childhood memories must be a bit broken already if it only takes a twisted fan site to shatter them. Get a grip and hit the back arrow if you stumble upon something on the 'net that offends you. Everything out there offends somebody on the 'net.
This is a pretty cool idea, especially if it means I can set up real time television streaming a la shoutcast. We've got a ways to go on bandwidth is most places to make this ubiquitous, though. It'd suck if it just turned into an alternate closed delivery scheme for digital cable.
Well, it seems what Adobe has actually done is a bit less inflammatory than what the headline suggests. On the hyperlinked page, they simply display the results from a performance benchmark that indicate a 3.06Ghz P4 outperforms a dual 1.25Ghz G4 by a wide margin on some tests, which is a little confusing as the article said the P4 was a 2.53Ghz. Whatever.
This changes very little and seems hardly worth the effort sensationalizing.
This is mostly interesting because of it's unusual way of decoding digitally transmitted satellite data. The idea of using a sound card and a short wave receiver to decode satellite imagery is... quaint.
But why play around with that when you tap into the freely-accessible C-band T-1 National Weather Service downlink, NOAAPORT and get all the international surface obs data, text products, rawinsonde (weather balloons), Nexrad doppler radar, and supercomputing forecast model data for free?
Well, okay, this approach is less appealing as you need a high-speed RS-422 serial controller, a satellite demodulator, a dedicated Linux system, and a C-band 3.5m dish.:) But it's not as if any of this data is particularly... restricted, or secret.
Had the same thing happen to my IIgs. Never got it completely clean from the smoke damage, but it did manage to evade the heat. I recall needing to clean the heads in the 3.5" floppy drive, but after that it worked as well as ever. Smelled like soot for a year or so.
This article, despite bearing the date 'Feb 16, 2003,' is apparently old news. It mentions an "up and coming" series Vision of Escaflowne and how Disney may soon distribute Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro. Er... these things happened years ago.
It's still a good history, don't get me wrong. But it's probably about three years out of date.
Urban Exploration, sometimes known on college campuses as vadding, is the activity of exploring major manmade engineering works, urban and industrial ruins, and other large-scale structures that are accessible. Sometimes this is done without permission per se and other times it's done in blatent violation of trespassing signs, but it should always be done without vandalism or theft.
Aw, I was almost getting excited as I read the article. This technology appears to be a long way from being a post-silicon circuit alternative for CPUs.
It's "exceedingly slow," according to the article. Still, maybe some kind of niche exists for it to be useful. Then again, maybe they'll implement the NOT gate and get this puppy running near the frequency of 500nm light or something.
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Hahaha, does anyone thing this sounds like a leak from Intel in an attempt to dampen the tide of people eyeing the Atlon 64 FX? "Hey! Don't buy our competition's superior product. We'll have something that might be as good or better ready in.. er.. half a year! And we'll try to have it on the market in quantity... er... maybe in a year if everything goes perfect! What, things have never gone perfect? Sssssh.
A bird in hand is worth two in bush. Intel, you will now pay for your complacency. You did not believe the consumer market needed the 64-bit processor; it was cheaper to milk your enchanced Pentium Pro core a little bit longer. AMD had other ideas. Well, well, well.
I love competition!
Yeah, you make a fair point. The piracy advocates and the media owners are going to be at two extremes. Somewhere in the middle is the typical consumer who buys stuff but will accept recommendations from friends with copies included.
I never really got how piracy hurt X. There's a large segment of pirating acts that occur largely because the pirates aren't going to purchase something. If they aren't going to buy it, or they aren't going to buy it but still pirate it-- either way, the net income is exactly the same. If consumers can afford something, won't they typically go out of their way to own it? A DVD or CD album is always nicer to have on your shelf than a DVD-R or CD-R copy, after all.
LOL. Apparently I mis-read the second line. Wow, open mouth, insert foot.
Er.. Why is writing an emulator a pointless geek endeavour? This claim suggests you either don't fully understand what emulation is and does, or you don't think that preserving human culture is important. After all, why should we waste our time collecting books in libraries, artifacts and cultural works in museums, and plants in arboretums? Why do we waste our time learning from our prior experiences in schools and universities? Why do we attempt to preserve the knowledge of ancient music, instruments, and how to perform same?
Emulation taps into the same set of goals as all these activities: making human creation accumulative rather than transitory. It's about grasping for a kind of immortality. Sheesh. And you presume to call them geeks.
Interesting. Is this a bid for re-election, then? Darned good one, if you ask me. :)
Yawn. You can sell a new product, you can call it Amiga, but if there's no continuity, it seems like a misnomer. Yeah, I can release a new computer and name it after an old discontinued line, but why? Anyone got dibs on the Apple IVne (Nostalgia Exploiter)?
Well well well. I've gone from having no sympathy for VeriSign to having less than no sympathy for VeriSign. Let the war begin.
Insightful and inciteful point. Skewed sense of priority? Maybe they think that, unlike iRL (in Real Life) they can actually stand a chance of making a difference in an online gaming context. This is perhaps just another symptom of the US public education system failing to produce citizens.
Take some spam with an 'opt-out' option from another address and 'opt-out' from the target address. That should add you to spam lists quickly as spammers will have confirmation of 'a live one' e-mail address!
Well, your anecdotal account is not really conclusive. 10hz is merely near-infrasound. 1hz, or far-infrasound, is apparently considered the bottom end. Also, there's a question of amplitude and duration. If there were loud infrasound in your living room for hours on end, it might begin to change your affect in a way a brief exposure mightn't. Of course, this is all conjecture.
This page at noaa.gov mentions some of the environmental sources on infrasound: earthquakes, avalanches, meteors, large ocean waves, severe weather systems, and volcanos. Negative emotional responses to those sounds could well have been a survival trait in mankind.
This article (PDF, 8mB) provides a nice overview and discussion of atmospheric infrasound.
Well. The commercial artist of which you speak is not the majority. Most bands start out with a bunch of folks and instruments creating music and playing out. They are somewhere between the garage and regional bar/club touring stage of growth and are rooted in the creative/expressive talent of its members.
Sure the MTV and Top40 artists might work that way, but I give a rat's rear end about them anyway, and wouldn't buy _or_ download their muzak. Music's gotta have street cred, y'know?
It's mission spanned three decades? Uhm. 1989-2003 = 14 years. Three decades = 30 years. Galileo was active is less than half of three decades, and its useful mission was even less of that. Yeah, 1989-2003 technically means 80's, 90's, and 00's, but calling that "three decades" is assinine, misleading, and vaguely dishonest.
Settlement is all fine and well, but US$23.50M isn't exactly going to motivate fair competative practice from Microsoft. Where are the crippling government fines MS deserves? A US$10 billion crime would probably give MS pause, and it'd help the US Budget crunch, too! :)
This makes as little sense as the flying car. It sounds good until you realize that any large number of these running around would be a disaster. There'd be a car boat at the bottom of some river and another car plane would nosedive into the earth or through somebody's ceiling every week.
I guess this would make living on an inland island's seclusion more convienient...
Uhm. I'm sorry, but I think your childhood memories must be a bit broken already if it only takes a twisted fan site to shatter them. Get a grip and hit the back arrow if you stumble upon something on the 'net that offends you. Everything out there offends somebody on the 'net.
This is a pretty cool idea, especially if it means I can set up real time television streaming a la shoutcast. We've got a ways to go on bandwidth is most places to make this ubiquitous, though. It'd suck if it just turned into an alternate closed delivery scheme for digital cable.
$ cat Farscape_4x22.mpg | vidcast -v -dtv dig_tv &
Woo.
Well, it seems what Adobe has actually done is a bit less inflammatory than what the headline suggests. On the hyperlinked page, they simply display the results from a performance benchmark that indicate a 3.06Ghz P4 outperforms a dual 1.25Ghz G4 by a wide margin on some tests, which is a little confusing as the article said the P4 was a 2.53Ghz. Whatever.
This changes very little and seems hardly worth the effort sensationalizing.
This is mostly interesting because of it's unusual way of decoding digitally transmitted satellite data. The idea of using a sound card and a short wave receiver to decode satellite imagery is... quaint.
:) But it's not as if any of this data is particularly... restricted, or secret.
But why play around with that when you tap into the freely-accessible C-band T-1 National Weather Service downlink, NOAAPORT and get all the international surface obs data, text products, rawinsonde (weather balloons), Nexrad doppler radar, and supercomputing forecast model data for free?
Well, okay, this approach is less appealing as you need a high-speed RS-422 serial controller, a satellite demodulator, a dedicated Linux system, and a C-band 3.5m dish.
Cool hack, nonetheless.
Had the same thing happen to my IIgs. Never got it completely clean from the smoke damage, but it did manage to evade the heat. I recall needing to clean the heads in the 3.5" floppy drive, but after that it worked as well as ever. Smelled like soot for a year or so.
Doesn't Microsoft only receive a small number of bug-related calls because they charge for telephone support?
This article, despite bearing the date 'Feb 16, 2003,' is apparently old news. It mentions an "up and coming" series Vision of Escaflowne and how Disney may soon distribute Kiki's Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro. Er... these things happened years ago.
It's still a good history, don't get me wrong. But it's probably about three years out of date.
Urban Exploration, sometimes known on college campuses as vadding, is the activity of exploring major manmade engineering works, urban and industrial ruins, and other large-scale structures that are accessible. Sometimes this is done without permission per se and other times it's done in blatent violation of trespassing signs, but it should always be done without vandalism or theft.
Two great starting points are the Infiltration webring and Panic!'s Urban Adventure site.
Aw, I was almost getting excited as I read the article. This technology appears to be a long way from being a post-silicon circuit alternative for CPUs.
:)
It's "exceedingly slow," according to the article. Still, maybe some kind of niche exists for it to be useful. Then again, maybe they'll implement the NOT gate and get this puppy running near the frequency of 500nm light or something.
I'd be excited by that.