The Department of Homeland Security has a site entitled CAPPS II: Myths and Facts
Why don't they give it a proper name: CAPPS II: Brainwashing. That's all it is, it brainwashes everyone into agreeing into it.
The only way to get the "Myths and Facts" accurately is to have a third party with no interest into the success of the program post it.
These articles remind me of the Microsofts ad's running here. The ones which have a "third" party do a study into the price of running Windows vs Linux. These "third parties" were paid by MS and thus, have a vested interest in the study. Give me a study that uses a facts obtained by someone who's pocketbook is not lined with Microsoft's money.
I know what goes on inside. There's a lot done that a lot of people do not realize to stop this. However, imagine trying to manage the number of auctions taking place right now? Some slip through the cracks. These are the ones.For every 1 bad auction you see, there's been 9 taken down already that you never saw.
You know what. I play GTA. I love GTA. I've loved it since its incarnation. However, I'm 24 years old. I know right from wrong. This is definately not a game I let my young, impressionable daughter watch me play, or would suggest to any parent for their kids. This is a game for adults only. Period.
Half Life was one of the first games (that I can remember) that affected me enough to stop playing the game. I was so scared during certain parts of HL that I had to pause for a bit before I screamed or wet myself.
That's why Amazon is lagging so far behind eBay. eBay does, however, require credit cards for sellers as well as buyers who use an anonymous email service (hotmail, yahoo, etc).
Yes, IA64 was a big step, but one that was too big for most companies. Most people weren't too excited about recompiling their software to work as fast as Intel claimed they would. In the case of AMD, their making that step easier for people. Because you don't take a performance hit when running 32-bit software, more people will want to embrace it. And when the time comes to write your software to 64-bit's, you can do so and run it on the same chip. The simple fact is that Hammer makes the transition to 64-bit easier on companies already running 32-bit x86 software without a large performance hit AND allows for a 64-bit upgrade
I just got to thinking, you're not able to pirate TiVo from DirecTV. The reason: DirecTV sends TiVo your activation data, and TiVo takes care of the rest. None of the activation signals for tivo are sent through the satellite. So don't bother.
Do you think its really that smart to post something like this in a public forum? You just never know who is reading this. Hey, who knows, someone reading this may have links in DirecTV's Office of Signal Integrity (aka the DirecTV cops). *cough*.
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1. XBox was originally designed to use an Athlon. Politics dictated that the PIII would be used in the end.
or maybe they didn't want to have stability problems with the chip (athlon) overheating ?
or maybe AMD can't practically give their chips away like Intel is. AMD just doesn't make enough money and depends too much on its CPU biz to be able to sell its chips to MS at the same prices Intel could. Politics did play a part, but the whole heat issue is a nonissue with the XBox. Considering the timeframe for its launch, MS very well could have plopped in a Palomino, which runs much cooler than a Thunderbird does.
Ace's Hardware posted what I feel is the best review yet of the 760MP. Instead of benching games and business apps, they go for the true workstation-class pieces of software. Caligari TrueSpace, Maya, 3DStudio MAX, SPEC APC, Microstation and Visual C++. They also do a bit of video editing and encoding. But on top of the benchmarks, they also go into detail on the architecture behind the 760MP. They look at how AMD's use of point to point topology is better than Intel's use of a shared bus topology. There's a lot more stuff there, but in regards to space, I'll ley you all find out for yourself.
Who's to say the PS2/N64/Dreamcast weren't further along in development than the XBox is. And if I recall correctly, the earliest reports of the XBox came about August of last year. Lets assume development started a month prior. That would mean the XBox has been in development for less than a year. So it's very well possible the above mentioned consoles were further along in their development process than the XBox is.
This sounds oddly like that Win 98 demo a few years back when it blue screened after the guy plugged a USB scanner into it. Right in front of Billy Gates, also. Sure, everyone pointed fingers and laughed at the time. The video even made its rounds on the internet. But after a few months did anyone really care? No. And once the XBox is released in November and all the games are sitting at home happy will they care that it crashed during its first public showing? I don't think so.
Thats just fine and dandy that ASUS has a poll up, but the damage has already been done. It would be more timely for ASUS to put the poll up *before* they release the driver. Now, even if ASUS releases a new driver with the cheats disabled, there will still be people using the old drivers. Way to go ASUS, you're #1 in my book.
Just because they use the same socket format doesn't necessarily mean all motherboards will work with it. There's chipset compatibility to deal with, as well as voltage and BIOS support. So we may need a new motherboard anyways, even if they use the same socket.
I think that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is rather tech savvy. He has held several debates and forums about the Napster case and is definately vocal against the RIAA's case against Napster. But besides the Napster deal, I still feel that all around he is pretty tech savvy (even if he is rather old).
ThinkGeek (I think (hope)) has a nice April Fools page up right now. Up for sale are peices from Mir, caffeinated meatloaf, an Atari 2600, a set of black boxes and a Cisco 1000 (a dog).
They seem to have missed the most important tech person for the last decade. Better than Time Berners-Lee, better than Bill Gates. And yes, even better than Linus Torvalds. That would be Jeff Bezos, creator of the best "invention" of the 90's, One-Click(tm) shopping. I think we all owe it to ourselves to go and use One-Click(tm) shopping on as many sites as possible (specifically Amazon.com and Apple.com).
I hope everyone understands I'm not serious here. Just a bit of sarcasm on a Monday morning.
The least influential movie I've ever seen would have to be 'Bloodsucking Freaks'. A pseudo-porn flick I caught at the local art house theatre during Haloween. If you like midgets, doctors sucking the brains of a person with a straw and lots and lots of gratuitous nudity and blood, this is the movie for you. The movie's rights have been bought by Troma (makers of Tromio and Juliet and other "great" flicks), if that says anything. And the last I heard, you can even buy it on DVD. Huh.
It is related. The whole purpose of the Satellite Home Viewers Improvement Act (SHVIA from here on out cause I'm tired) was to allow satellite companies (namely the mini dish folks such as DirecTV and Dish Network) the legal right to rebroadcast transmissions of local TV signals into their local area.
Here's a brief history:
About two years ago, Dish Network began offering its customers the ability to recieve their local channels via their satellite. The local networks complained that the satellite companies broke the copyright laws in doing this because the satellite companies were not required to compensate the local networks for this. At the same time, DirecTV was offering distant networks to any subscriber who could answer three questions correctly. Again, the local networks (via the National Association of Broadcasters) bitched that they were A) violating their copyright and B) taking away from their viewership, causing them to lose advertising money. The bill gives the satellite companies the right to rebroadcast the local networks signals to customers in its local market, providing said satellite companies pay the local networks a copyright fee.
So really, the SHVIA is a copyright law, so something of that matter would be (somewhat) fitting into the bill, although it didn't have to do with satellite at all. My only assumption on why it was put it was because the RIAA wanted something like that on the books, but there were no other copyright-based laws going through at the time. Of course, I don't know this for sure and am really just talking out my ass on this. But thats my take on things.
I could talk about the SHVIA all day in regards to the satellite side, as I work (in a sense) for DirecTV and have for about 3 years. I've been through it all with the SHVIA (and its predessor, the Satellite Home Viewers Act of 1986 (I think thats the year).
The following remarks are those of mine, and not of my employer nor their client, which happens to be DirecTV, a company greatly affected by the SHVIA.
Is it just me, or does it seem most of the pictures are sideways and blurry? Perhaps our fellow photographers decided to hit the bottle a little early? But even at that, congrats to you. So I guess this means geeks *can* get chicks afterall. Well, you know what they say, chix dig UNIX.:-)
No, not really. But I did notice they put a little disclaimer at the top saying the used of the FreeBSD daemon was for a nice devil figure, not a way to connect FreeBSD and Rambus together.
I beg to differ. There are few things that should make the PS2 more popular than the Dolphin. First of all, you'll be able to get one in October. We don't even know when we'll be able to get a Dolphin. Secondly, you'll be able to play most of your old PS games on the PS2. Try playing your old N64 cart games on the disc-based Dolphin. It's not going to happen. About the only thing Nintendo has going for the Dolphin is the copper-based PowerPC and diehard Nintendo fanatics.
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Why don't they give it a proper name: CAPPS II: Brainwashing. That's all it is, it brainwashes everyone into agreeing into it.
The only way to get the "Myths and Facts" accurately is to have a third party with no interest into the success of the program post it.
These articles remind me of the Microsofts ad's running here. The ones which have a "third" party do a study into the price of running Windows vs Linux. These "third parties" were paid by MS and thus, have a vested interest in the study. Give me a study that uses a facts obtained by someone who's pocketbook is not lined with Microsoft's money.
I know what goes on inside. There's a lot done that a lot of people do not realize to stop this. However, imagine trying to manage the number of auctions taking place right now? Some slip through the cracks. These are the ones.For every 1 bad auction you see, there's been 9 taken down already that you never saw.
You know what. I play GTA. I love GTA. I've loved it since its incarnation. However, I'm 24 years old. I know right from wrong. This is definately not a game I let my young, impressionable daughter watch me play, or would suggest to any parent for their kids. This is a game for adults only. Period.
There, I finally gave my two cents worth.
Half Life was one of the first games (that I can remember) that affected me enough to stop playing the game. I was so scared during certain parts of HL that I had to pause for a bit before I screamed or wet myself.
That's why Amazon is lagging so far behind eBay. eBay does, however, require credit cards for sellers as well as buyers who use an anonymous email service (hotmail, yahoo, etc).
Drive a Lincoln Navigator 500 miles.
Yes, IA64 was a big step, but one that was too big for most companies. Most people weren't too excited about recompiling their software to work as fast as Intel claimed they would. In the case of AMD, their making that step easier for people. Because you don't take a performance hit when running 32-bit software, more people will want to embrace it. And when the time comes to write your software to 64-bit's, you can do so and run it on the same chip. The simple fact is that Hammer makes the transition to 64-bit easier on companies already running 32-bit x86 software without a large performance hit AND allows for a 64-bit upgrade
I just got to thinking, you're not able to pirate TiVo from DirecTV. The reason: DirecTV sends TiVo your activation data, and TiVo takes care of the rest. None of the activation signals for tivo are sent through the satellite. So don't bother.
Do you think its really that smart to post something like this in a public forum? You just never know who is reading this. Hey, who knows, someone reading this may have links in DirecTV's Office of Signal Integrity (aka the DirecTV cops). *cough*.
- 1. XBox was originally designed to use an Athlon. Politics dictated that the PIII would be used in the end.
or maybe they didn't want to have stability problems with the chip (athlon) overheating ?
or maybe AMD can't practically give their chips away like Intel is. AMD just doesn't make enough money and depends too much on its CPU biz to be able to sell its chips to MS at the same prices Intel could. Politics did play a part, but the whole heat issue is a nonissue with the XBox. Considering the timeframe for its launch, MS very well could have plopped in a Palomino, which runs much cooler than a Thunderbird does.Ace's Hardware posted what I feel is the best review yet of the 760MP. Instead of benching games and business apps, they go for the true workstation-class pieces of software. Caligari TrueSpace, Maya, 3DStudio MAX, SPEC APC, Microstation and Visual C++. They also do a bit of video editing and encoding. But on top of the benchmarks, they also go into detail on the architecture behind the 760MP. They look at how AMD's use of point to point topology is better than Intel's use of a shared bus topology. There's a lot more stuff there, but in regards to space, I'll ley you all find out for yourself.
Who's to say the PS2/N64/Dreamcast weren't further along in development than the XBox is. And if I recall correctly, the earliest reports of the XBox came about August of last year. Lets assume development started a month prior. That would mean the XBox has been in development for less than a year. So it's very well possible the above mentioned consoles were further along in their development process than the XBox is.
This sounds oddly like that Win 98 demo a few years back when it blue screened after the guy plugged a USB scanner into it. Right in front of Billy Gates, also. Sure, everyone pointed fingers and laughed at the time. The video even made its rounds on the internet. But after a few months did anyone really care? No. And once the XBox is released in November and all the games are sitting at home happy will they care that it crashed during its first public showing? I don't think so.
Thats just fine and dandy that ASUS has a poll up, but the damage has already been done. It would be more timely for ASUS to put the poll up *before* they release the driver. Now, even if ASUS releases a new driver with the cheats disabled, there will still be people using the old drivers. Way to go ASUS, you're #1 in my book.
Just because they use the same socket format doesn't necessarily mean all motherboards will work with it. There's chipset compatibility to deal with, as well as voltage and BIOS support. So we may need a new motherboard anyways, even if they use the same socket.
I think that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is rather tech savvy. He has held several debates and forums about the Napster case and is definately vocal against the RIAA's case against Napster. But besides the Napster deal, I still feel that all around he is pretty tech savvy (even if he is rather old).
ThinkGeek (I think (hope)) has a nice April Fools page up right now. Up for sale are peices from Mir, caffeinated meatloaf, an Atari 2600, a set of black boxes and a Cisco 1000 (a dog).
I hope everyone understands I'm not serious here. Just a bit of sarcasm on a Monday morning.
No. Its non-influential. It didn't influence my life in any way. Didn't make be a better or worse person. I consider that non-influential.
The least influential movie I've ever seen would have to be 'Bloodsucking Freaks'. A pseudo-porn flick I caught at the local art house theatre during Haloween. If you like midgets, doctors sucking the brains of a person with a straw and lots and lots of gratuitous nudity and blood, this is the movie for you. The movie's rights have been bought by Troma (makers of Tromio and Juliet and other "great" flicks), if that says anything. And the last I heard, you can even buy it on DVD. Huh.
Here's a brief history:
About two years ago, Dish Network began offering its customers the ability to recieve their local channels via their satellite. The local networks complained that the satellite companies broke the copyright laws in doing this because the satellite companies were not required to compensate the local networks for this. At the same time, DirecTV was offering distant networks to any subscriber who could answer three questions correctly. Again, the local networks (via the National Association of Broadcasters) bitched that they were A) violating their copyright and B) taking away from their viewership, causing them to lose advertising money. The bill gives the satellite companies the right to rebroadcast the local networks signals to customers in its local market, providing said satellite companies pay the local networks a copyright fee.
So really, the SHVIA is a copyright law, so something of that matter would be (somewhat) fitting into the bill, although it didn't have to do with satellite at all. My only assumption on why it was put it was because the RIAA wanted something like that on the books, but there were no other copyright-based laws going through at the time. Of course, I don't know this for sure and am really just talking out my ass on this. But thats my take on things.
I could talk about the SHVIA all day in regards to the satellite side, as I work (in a sense) for DirecTV and have for about 3 years. I've been through it all with the SHVIA (and its predessor, the Satellite Home Viewers Act of 1986 (I think thats the year).
The following remarks are those of mine, and not of my employer nor their client, which happens to be DirecTV, a company greatly affected by the SHVIA.
Is it just me, or does it seem most of the pictures are sideways and blurry? Perhaps our fellow photographers decided to hit the bottle a little early? :-)
But even at that, congrats to you. So I guess this means geeks *can* get chicks afterall. Well, you know what they say, chix dig UNIX.
I've created a page on my site that has links to all press releases, reviews and news bits regarding the Thunderbird. You can find this page here.
No, not really. But I did notice they put a little disclaimer at the top saying the used of the FreeBSD daemon was for a nice devil figure, not a way to connect FreeBSD and Rambus together.
I beg to differ. There are few things that should make the PS2 more popular than the Dolphin. First of all, you'll be able to get one in October. We don't even know when we'll be able to get a Dolphin. Secondly, you'll be able to play most of your old PS games on the PS2. Try playing your old N64 cart games on the disc-based Dolphin. It's not going to happen. About the only thing Nintendo has going for the Dolphin is the copper-based PowerPC and diehard Nintendo fanatics.