This is just a race for the ultra high end, this isnt where companies are made and broken.
I mean, Ferrari makes nicer cares than Mitsubishi, but guess who moves more of 'em?
nVidia definately has the upper hand on the lower-midrange side of things.
I just picked up a GeforceFX 5200 for 80 bucks. 128 megs of DDR, 250mhz clock, a great card for $100 bucks that plays everything just fine. I'm runnig GTA Vice City at 1024x768 and thats good enough for me.
ATIs comparable card, the Radeon 9000, is completely powerless. The 5200 beats it hands down - and this is coming from someone who's used and loved a lot of ATI products over the year.
Likewise, the 5200 Ultra, 5400, 5600 all give the radeon 9500, 9500 pro and 9700 a good run for their money.
It's only the cutting edge top of the line where ati comes out ahead.
They've reversed roles - it used to be GeForce was slightly faster, but ATI was a better buy for lower end cards.
Anyways, there's room enough in the world for both of them. In fact, I'd welcome more competition from S3 or Matrox or someone.
You can make the LCD screens much more intricate and complicated if you can put some invisible electronics on there.
Right now a transparent LCD (which exists) could only really be black. But you can have the circuits to do RGB integrated with the display and still keep it invisible.
I dunno. Who cares. I'll have been dead 100 years before anything like this was affordable.
Actually, HUDs are about the most practical use I can think for these things.
Not surfing pron, but having your speedometer, tach, oil pressure blah blah in front of you so you dont have to look away from the road to make sure you didnt speed past that cop.
Knowing how to write C/Pascal/Whatever was assumed in university. There were no "how to write in C" courses, only "how to design better software" courses and "how the hardware works" courses.
What if you dont know, or arent sure what you like? Most college/uni students are undecided on their major. Most dont know out of high shool what their "passion" is.
I was a CS major because I was into computers. I was never as super passionate as some, I mean I dont ejaculate in my pants when Linus enhances the linux kernel, or get all worked up about a new generation of CPUs.
I had easily a half dozen fields I was interested in. English? Music? Chemistry? Engineering? So I did eenie-meenie-miney-moe.
In retrospect, I chose well. I make good money (jobs are out there if you dont suck), and I like what I do.
I'd rather be a famous rock star touring around with a ton of groupies coked out of my head. I have the passion for music, but not the talent. But for me, it was more choosing what I was best at, not what I was most interested in.
You can recieve DirecTV all you want, but to decrypt you have to use stolen IP from Hughes (or whoever) in the form of the hacked keys on the smartcard.
IIRC, satellite is a microwave device and falls under the "shaped wave" clauses as well, I dunno, I ain't an FCC guy.
BTW, and American Idol is broadcast absolutely free on your local Fox affiliate. Help yourself.
I can buy a regular transmitter and modify it to transmit on a forbidden frequency.
No you cant. You can buy one and modify it, or build your own (as ham operators do).
You can buy a device to recieve whatever (ie; police scanners at radio shack), since public broadcasts are public property, but not to transmit over them.
"55 per cent were over 50, compared with fewer than 10 per cent of those with Unix or Windows NT server skills." Cobol programers, still needed for legacy applications, are mostly in their 40s. Help is on the way, though, thanks to IBM's use of Linux, which "freshens the labor pool" according to the article."
How does linux freshen the mainframe labor pool, and not the Unix/Windows NT pool?
Linux ain't System/36 or MPE or any other mainframe OS. And show me one linux app that's written in COBOL. (The language exists, but I've never seen it put to use).
This is a self correcting problem. A good admin/coder can pick up mainframe stuff when he needs to. All the 50+ year olds are still working the jobs they got when they were 30. When they die off/retire, younger folks will pick it up.
I mean, hell, I picked up enough about MPE and FORTRAN and COBOL to do my job inside of a week. And I got competent with S/36 and RPG at my last job.
It aint rocket science. It's like a skilled machinist learning to shoe horses.
What do the newspapers, and more likely magazines think of this?
Now the magazine rack at 7-11 will show up on Kazoom and all that.
I mean, comic books or "graphic novels" as the nerds call 'em already get traded freely, but that's because some joker with no life takes a day out of his life to scan and crop each page.
But if you could just take the magazines, stick 'em in this robot, then share 'em, it could hurt the publishing industry the way it's hurt the recording industry.
And everyone will justify it by saying "why should I buy a magazine when it only has one good article and the rest is crap!"
So what measures can we expect to see? Lighter inks, crazier fonts to screw with the robots OCR? Funny paper that makes it hard to flip pages?
Rather than ruin good, classic american characters with crap like the Batman sequels, Spiderman, X-Men, Daredevil and now the Hulk, they can focus on ruining crappy Japanese cartoons that noone knew about in the first place.
Actually I think they simply ran out of DC and Marvel superheroes.
Neither of my sibling posts are really "commandline" versions. If you dont have the GTK libraries, and a metric assload of X-specific libraries for Python and all this crap, it wont work.
I spent wayy too much time trying to get it working on a bare bones slackware box (no X or any other fancy gui crap). It needed this library, which needed that one, which needed another one.
After about 30 megs of bloat installed on my system to run a 6k script, I still wasnt close..
Giles looks at the crater and says he doesn' understand. How did that happen. Buffy says simply : "Spike." They walk toward the edge of the crater, smoke in front of her, and we see Sunnydale is a black crater. In front of it is a sign: WELCOME TO SUNNYDALE. After a beat, the sign creakingly topples back into the crater. We see everyone now, the girls milling about, the core group nearer the crater, and we push through the smoke to see them: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Xander, Willow, Faith coming out to join them. Keep pushing slowly in as the all look out at the end of Sunnydale...Faith says its looks like the Hellmouth is officially closed for business. Giles makes a comment how there is another Hellmouth in Cleveland (surprisingly all the demons were dumb enough to go to the Hellmouth in Cali....I hope this is a joke...) Xander says they saved the world and Willow says that they changed the world. She can feel them. All over..Slayers awakening. They talk about looking for them. We return to mall jokes when Giles says: "Yes, because the mall was actually in Sunnydale, so no hope of going there tomorrow..." Dawn says.."We destroyed the Mall? I fought on the wrong side..." Xander makes jokes about all the stores gone.....(am I the only one worried about Anya and Spike dying here?) CowboyNeal eats another tub of KFC.
They talk about how they have a lot of work ahead of them. Faith says she just wants to sleep for a week. (Yo..yo..yo..) Willow says the FE is scrunched (5 dollars to any who can crack that for me...) Willow asks what they are going to do now. Faith says that they are not the only chosen ones anymore. They could get a life.
Dawn asks Buffy again..and I will quote the exact end from here..
"Buffy looks at them, looks back at the crater, and we are in full close up as she considers the question, a small smile creeping onto her lips as she decides on her answer."
Slashbots spend countless hours whining about how lame the MPAA is and how all the movies are bad and not worth watching.
But when Star Trek Nemesis or the Matrix comes out, they cant laud enough praise on it. Just brilliant. The robots are really people? Wow. True shakespeare.
And now we're to believe that a TV show, from the Dubbya-Bee no less, about a teeny bopper girl who hunts boogeymans is somehow the 'best written show' on television?
It's a fucking live action Scooby Doo, with Sarah Michelle Gellar stepping in to play the dog.
AFAIK, they couldnt grasp abstract concepts. They could solve problems, but were completely pragmatic. They didnt decorate caves, wear jewelry, believe in gods (or anything that wasnt in front of them).
The ability to think creatively and in the abstract is what made sapiens rise above them.
Sun, like others, looks to be making the switch towards a more software and service oriented company, and less on the hardware. I've had no first hand experience, but from what I've heard, their support is second to none.
So these things are competitively priced, and if they come with useful support by people who actually know what they're selling and building (unlike Dell who no doubt has those moronic interns answering the phone), then they could definately make a go of it.
But the writing on the wall is that all of these specialized architectures are doomed to obsoletion. Commodity hardware is ever faster, fast enough to handle what were previously 'big iron' chores.
Well, I'll get my flamebait mods, but what a no shit article.
He finally concludes that memory clock speed has a significant effect on bandwidth, while CAS and other settings hardly have an effect at all. Something I've known intuitively all along, and anyone with a rudimentary understanding would know.
In other words, when all those "super dooper case-moddin' overclockin' nothing-knowin' computer experts" payed an extra hundred bucks for stick of CAS 2 ram instead of CAS 2.5, they got ripped off. No surprise. A fool and his money, after all.
God bless the kids who think they're super computer savvy, but are absolutely clueless and easily swayed by hype - they subsidize the industry for the rest of us.
If the patent/trade secret system didn't exist, you could look forward to "All your inventions are belong to MegaCorp".
Anything you think up, be it a physical device or piece of code or whatever, can be produced cheaper and marketted more effectively by a large corporation.
It's a good sign that it's little upstart nobodies running around suing each other. It's flawed, but it's better than one big company owning everything.
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This is just a race for the ultra high end, this isnt where companies are made and broken.
I mean, Ferrari makes nicer cares than Mitsubishi, but guess who moves more of 'em?
nVidia definately has the upper hand on the lower-midrange side of things.
I just picked up a GeforceFX 5200 for 80 bucks. 128 megs of DDR, 250mhz clock, a great card for $100 bucks that plays everything just fine. I'm runnig GTA Vice City at 1024x768 and thats good enough for me.
ATIs comparable card, the Radeon 9000, is completely powerless. The 5200 beats it hands down - and this is coming from someone who's used and loved a lot of ATI products over the year.
Likewise, the 5200 Ultra, 5400, 5600 all give the radeon 9500, 9500 pro and 9700 a good run for their money.
It's only the cutting edge top of the line where ati comes out ahead.
They've reversed roles - it used to be GeForce was slightly faster, but ATI was a better buy for lower end cards.
Anyways, there's room enough in the world for both of them. In fact, I'd welcome more competition from S3 or Matrox or someone.
You can make the LCD screens much more intricate and complicated if you can put some invisible electronics on there.
Right now a transparent LCD (which exists) could only really be black. But you can have the circuits to do RGB integrated with the display and still keep it invisible.
I dunno. Who cares. I'll have been dead 100 years before anything like this was affordable.
That already exists, its called smart glass, or electric glass.
If you're well-to-do you can have windows in your house that you can set anywhere from completely transparent to opaque by turning a dial.
It's basically just LCD tech. It's really expensive stuff, too.
I think everyone missed the point of the article.
This is different, actually having transparent transistors, so you could have an invisible CPU.
Actually, HUDs are about the most practical use I can think for these things.
Not surfing pron, but having your speedometer, tach, oil pressure blah blah in front of you so you dont have to look away from the road to make sure you didnt speed past that cop.
In my day, everyone was "self taught".
Knowing how to write C/Pascal/Whatever was assumed in university. There were no "how to write in C" courses, only "how to design better software" courses and "how the hardware works" courses.
What if you dont know, or arent sure what you like? Most college/uni students are undecided on their major. Most dont know out of high shool what their "passion" is.
I was a CS major because I was into computers. I was never as super passionate as some, I mean I dont ejaculate in my pants when Linus enhances the linux kernel, or get all worked up about a new generation of CPUs.
I had easily a half dozen fields I was interested in. English? Music? Chemistry? Engineering? So I did eenie-meenie-miney-moe.
In retrospect, I chose well. I make good money (jobs are out there if you dont suck), and I like what I do.
I'd rather be a famous rock star touring around with a ton of groupies coked out of my head. I have the passion for music, but not the talent. But for me, it was more choosing what I was best at, not what I was most interested in.
And the Open Source Initiative is supposed to be some sort of neutral third party?
Maybe they're right. Maybe they're wrong. Maybe they're the O.J. in this case, "the glove does not fit!"
Their word isnt gospel, just damage control, and won't affect the outcome of the case.
Proprietary drivers for embedded linux exists. What doesnt exist is a GPL'ed free-as-in-pigeon-turds driver for hobbyists.
You can recieve DirecTV all you want, but to decrypt you have to use stolen IP from Hughes (or whoever) in the form of the hacked keys on the smartcard.
IIRC, satellite is a microwave device and falls under the "shaped wave" clauses as well, I dunno, I ain't an FCC guy.
BTW, and American Idol is broadcast absolutely free on your local Fox affiliate. Help yourself.
Wires are where it's at.
No problem getting the specs. You want CAT5e? CAT6? RS-232? How about some coax?
Be it twisted pair, fibre optic, stranded, or even tin cans on a string, wires are the future.
I can buy a regular transmitter and modify it to transmit on a forbidden frequency.
No you cant. You can buy one and modify it, or build your own (as ham operators do).
You can buy a device to recieve whatever (ie; police scanners at radio shack), since public broadcasts are public property, but not to transmit over them.
How does linux freshen the mainframe labor pool, and not the Unix/Windows NT pool?
Linux ain't System/36 or MPE or any other mainframe OS. And show me one linux app that's written in COBOL. (The language exists, but I've never seen it put to use).
This is a self correcting problem. A good admin/coder can pick up mainframe stuff when he needs to. All the 50+ year olds are still working the jobs they got when they were 30. When they die off/retire, younger folks will pick it up.
I mean, hell, I picked up enough about MPE and FORTRAN and COBOL to do my job inside of a week. And I got competent with S/36 and RPG at my last job.
It aint rocket science. It's like a skilled machinist learning to shoe horses.
What do the newspapers, and more likely magazines think of this?
Now the magazine rack at 7-11 will show up on Kazoom and all that.
I mean, comic books or "graphic novels" as the nerds call 'em already get traded freely, but that's because some joker with no life takes a day out of his life to scan and crop each page.
But if you could just take the magazines, stick 'em in this robot, then share 'em, it could hurt the publishing industry the way it's hurt the recording industry.
And everyone will justify it by saying "why should I buy a magazine when it only has one good article and the rest is crap!"
So what measures can we expect to see? Lighter inks, crazier fonts to screw with the robots OCR? Funny paper that makes it hard to flip pages?
I couldnt be more excited!
Rather than ruin good, classic american characters with crap like the Batman sequels, Spiderman, X-Men, Daredevil and now the Hulk, they can focus on ruining crappy Japanese cartoons that noone knew about in the first place.
Actually I think they simply ran out of DC and Marvel superheroes.
Neither of my sibling posts are really "commandline" versions. If you dont have the GTK libraries, and a metric assload of X-specific libraries for Python and all this crap, it wont work.
I spent wayy too much time trying to get it working on a bare bones slackware box (no X or any other fancy gui crap). It needed this library, which needed that one, which needed another one.
After about 30 megs of bloat installed on my system to run a 6k script, I still wasnt close..
Giles looks at the crater and says he doesn' understand. How did that happen. Buffy says simply : "Spike." They walk toward the edge of the crater, smoke in front of her, and we see Sunnydale is a black crater. In front of it is a sign: WELCOME TO SUNNYDALE. After a beat, the sign creakingly topples back into the crater. We see everyone now, the girls milling about, the core group nearer the crater, and we push through the smoke to see them: Buffy, Dawn, Giles, Xander, Willow, Faith coming out to join them. Keep pushing slowly in as the all look out at the end of Sunnydale...Faith says its looks like the Hellmouth is officially closed for business. Giles makes a comment how there is another Hellmouth in Cleveland (surprisingly all the demons were dumb enough to go to the Hellmouth in Cali....I hope this is a joke...) Xander says they saved the world and Willow says that they changed the world. She can feel them. All over..Slayers awakening. They talk about looking for them. We return to mall jokes when Giles says: "Yes, because the mall was actually in Sunnydale, so no hope of going there tomorrow..." Dawn says.."We destroyed the Mall? I fought on the wrong side..." Xander makes jokes about all the stores gone.....(am I the only one worried about Anya and Spike dying here?) CowboyNeal eats another tub of KFC.
They talk about how they have a lot of work ahead of them. Faith says she just wants to sleep for a week. (Yo..yo..yo..) Willow says the FE is scrunched (5 dollars to any who can crack that for me...) Willow asks what they are going to do now. Faith says that they are not the only chosen ones anymore. They could get a life.
Dawn asks Buffy again..and I will quote the exact end from here..
"Buffy looks at them, looks back at the crater, and we are in full close up as she considers the question, a small smile creeping onto her lips as she decides on her answer."
BLACK OUT.
END OF SHOW.
Yeah, really.. How lame is that?
Slashbots spend countless hours whining about how lame the MPAA is and how all the movies are bad and not worth watching.
But when Star Trek Nemesis or the Matrix comes out, they cant laud enough praise on it. Just brilliant. The robots are really people? Wow. True shakespeare.
And now we're to believe that a TV show, from the Dubbya-Bee no less, about a teeny bopper girl who hunts boogeymans is somehow the 'best written show' on television?
It's a fucking live action Scooby Doo, with Sarah Michelle Gellar stepping in to play the dog.
Sheesh.
Pure what?
AFAIK, they couldnt grasp abstract concepts. They could solve problems, but were completely pragmatic. They didnt decorate caves, wear jewelry, believe in gods (or anything that wasnt in front of them).
The ability to think creatively and in the abstract is what made sapiens rise above them.
Sun, like others, looks to be making the switch towards a more software and service oriented company, and less on the hardware. I've had no first hand experience, but from what I've heard, their support is second to none.
So these things are competitively priced, and if they come with useful support by people who actually know what they're selling and building (unlike Dell who no doubt has those moronic interns answering the phone), then they could definately make a go of it.
But the writing on the wall is that all of these specialized architectures are doomed to obsoletion. Commodity hardware is ever faster, fast enough to handle what were previously 'big iron' chores.
Well, I'll get my flamebait mods, but what a no shit article.
He finally concludes that memory clock speed has a significant effect on bandwidth, while CAS and other settings hardly have an effect at all. Something I've known intuitively all along, and anyone with a rudimentary understanding would know.
In other words, when all those "super dooper case-moddin' overclockin' nothing-knowin' computer experts" payed an extra hundred bucks for stick of CAS 2 ram instead of CAS 2.5, they got ripped off. No surprise. A fool and his money, after all.
God bless the kids who think they're super computer savvy, but are absolutely clueless and easily swayed by hype - they subsidize the industry for the rest of us.
If the patent/trade secret system didn't exist, you could look forward to "All your inventions are belong to MegaCorp".
Anything you think up, be it a physical device or piece of code or whatever, can be produced cheaper and marketted more effectively by a large corporation.
It's a good sign that it's little upstart nobodies running around suing each other. It's flawed, but it's better than one big company owning everything.
Because I've got prior art.
Ask yo momma if you dont believe me.
Twelve years he was the tirshatha, or governor of Judea, under the same Artaxerxes that gave Ezra his commission.
The Ezra-T is the name of the chip Nehemiah is 'succeeding' (the sub 1 GHz model).
Maybe that has some sort of meaning, I guess.
I had no idea there were so many Jews in Hong Kong. (This is not a racial troll, I seriously have never seen a chinese Jew in my life)
99.99% of the MySQL 'implementations' would do just as well with cat, awk and grep.
I would love to know who's stupid enough to pay for the "commercial" license of it.