I have a friend with an ATI Radeon X800 card, he's had it a few weeks, and he bought it from some retailer, it's not a review or engineering sample, it's an actual card.
Apparently being really hard-to-find and expensive makes it vaporware.
I just spent like 300 bucks on a Radeon now I need an "Orson Scott" card.
Does linux have "Orson Scott" card support?
This is why consoles are so popular. Noone should have to buy new hardware every month just to play some crappy games.
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I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway? Unless you've got a REALLY fat pipe, there's a limit on how much pr0n you can process;^)
Photorealistic (or at least much better than the current high-end) rendering in real-time, I have some database apps that do a whole lot of number crunching, I have plenty of large projects that take 20 minutes to compile on a 3.06 P4 - CPU speed is the bottleneck on all of these.
A 10 Ghz CPU would probably bring with it 2GHz+ BUS and RAM.
You can never have too fast a CPU or GPU, too much RAM or too much HDD space.
A multicore CPU is great, but no substitute for raw speed. It's like comparing a bullet train to a fleet of honda escorts. The cars can move the same group of 1000 people, but the train does it so much faster and more efficiently.
We don't care about specs or technical details or abilities around here. This is slashdot, the people here aren't to up on the details of technology, just the philosophy.
All you need to know is that Intel is sucky and their processors suck! And AMD is awesome! The whole x86 architecture sucks and isnt as good as Apple G5 architecture used in the iPod. Intel may have wireless but AMD has bluetooth and AMD are WAY COOLER than Intel who are a bunch of jerks like Microsoft. AMD works better with linux and Apple.
It's hard to just whip my laptop out on a bus to watch spongebob for 10 minutes while I wait.
And I don't want to compromise laptop specs for convenience, ie; get one with a teensy screen just so it'll be easier to watch video. Plus this has no clamshell, etc, it's designed to be easy, quick and private.
I wouldnt buy one for the price, but give them a few years to get these under 200 bucks, and they'll have something.
Whatever, the CRT is going to be the dominant player in everything but the "high end" for a long, long time. A whole bunch of pie-in-the-sky type ideas, none of which have lead to cheap, high-def sets for the masses, but all have fizzled.
Only CRT's have delivered high-def sets that are anywhere close to the price range of the old, regular sets.
So much for next years big switch to all digital television.
All of which promise cheaper, higher definition pictures, using less energy, and do 0-500 mph in a quarter second.
Whatever. Go to fucking circuit city and notice that anything other than a "plain ole tv set" costs an order of magnitude more, and doesn't even boast a better image.
LCoS SED Plasma OLED LCD DLP SHOMORK
So lets take the buzzword of the day and rebadge it as "TV tech of teh futore".
As long as ISPs maintain old-school upstream bandwidth policies (ie; if you upload too much your disconnected), P2P will never really succeed in this way.
If the ISP's were OK with every customers connection using 100% of its upstream bandwidth all the time, it could work.
It could work within, say, Comcast's little corner of the 'net, to spread a ton of on-demand type content amongst a million or so set-top boxes.
The more popular a film, the more available.
But, in general it's contrary to the way the 'net is set up. You have to pay for the data you send. Too many people have such low upstream caps.
How fast do you think you can make a pound of metal spin with only a few watts of power, without falling apart or exploding, etc?
I don't know exactly what the mechanical problems are, but 10,000 RPM is pretty friggin fast. I remember years ago hearing that 4,800 was the absolute fastest speed they could go for some reason or another.
I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
Why don't you try running linux, which will ignore the BIOS and do it's own HDD geometry homework.
I know you need Windows because linux is hard for non-technical users, but all the drive makers have their own soft-bios utilities to support the larger drives on old hardware.
They have had these since the 2 gigabyte barrier.
There's also add-on controllers if you really need a new interface feature, like the next only-exists-on-paper UDMA speed.
It's an artificial shortage to drive up demand, silly.
Look how wildly popular the PS2 was when there weren't enough for it's christmas launch. The DS was the "hot item" this year.
You get all kinds of free publicity, every time some housewife is bludgeoned to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot, everyone watching the news thinks "now that's the perfect monetary expression of the christmas spirit! Must buy!"
Tickle-me-elmo's and Cabbage Patch dolls still sell well, based on Christmas shortages past alone. They get ingrained in the public mind as some sort of "gotta have it" perennial christmas favorite.
DVI will be encrypted, or any other digital means.
But high quality analog is fine with me. I don't see what the problem is with good quality captures off of a component video input.
Do any good HD capture cards have component inputs? I haven't had a chance to play with any of them.
This should be legal, and not "grey area" quasi-legal either. The supreme court said years ago that I can make analog copies for the purpose of timeshifting (broadcast flag or no broadcast flag), did they not?
What TiVo does is legal and I shouldn't have to deal with any kind of crap to extract and burn it to DVD (and TivoToGo is going to be a load of crap). It captures an analog signal. The problem is 1:1 digital copies, right?
Fuck it. Nowadays watching TV requires a lawyer. All this shit will kill the "entertainment" industry as it stands.
WinPCap is also automatically set up and installed by tons of worms and trojans. It's pretty much the main building block of the script kiddies backdoor script.
Unless you're doing something advanced like nmap or ethereal, you have no reason to be running it, and if it's there it's probably there to spy on/exploit your network.
OpenVPN uses it still, as does CoLinux, but let's face it, few people in this tool's audience use those.
XBConnect no longer uses it, IIRC, they have their own packet-capturing engine/scheme/whatever now.
At any rate, if you don't know what WinPCap is - it shouldn't be there, and certainly shouldn't be running.
Give the anti-MS stupidity a rest, you come off like a moron who knows nothing about computers.
We should be wondering why AdAware et al don't warn you about things like WinPCap. It exists to capture packets in promiscuous mode, it is by it's very definition spyware. It spies on every packet your PC sees.
They should also at least warn you about things like VNC, PCAnywhere, and other RDP servers - because plenty of people have RDP services running they don't know about, because they didn't put them there.
I guess that's the best title for what he does, but his position doesn't really fit the "manager" role to a T..
He's not anyones boss, he can't "fire" a kernel hacker, or direct them, he can just decide to accept or not accept patches.
That lack of "direction" is somewhat of a problem, noone knows where linux is headed. It seems to be veering away from the desktop to the server room, and locked down incarnations like TiVo.
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If you are targeting a younger (kids) audience, then image quality is pretty high on the list anyways.
You've never seen Pokemon, Dragonball, or any other kids "anime", have you?
Image quality my ass. A still of Goku's head against a flashing background for 15 minutes is "image quality"?
Kids would watch a Pitfall movie rendered on an Atari 2600, if you marketed it to them right.
I have a friend with an ATI Radeon X800 card, he's had it a few weeks, and he bought it from some retailer, it's not a review or engineering sample, it's an actual card.
Apparently being really hard-to-find and expensive makes it vaporware.
I need one of these now?
I just spent like 300 bucks on a Radeon now I need an "Orson Scott" card.
Does linux have "Orson Scott" card support?
This is why consoles are so popular. Noone should have to buy new hardware every month just to play some crappy games.
I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway? Unless you've got a REALLY fat pipe, there's a limit on how much pr0n you can process ;^)
Photorealistic (or at least much better than the current high-end) rendering in real-time, I have some database apps that do a whole lot of number crunching, I have plenty of large projects that take 20 minutes to compile on a 3.06 P4 - CPU speed is the bottleneck on all of these.
A 10 Ghz CPU would probably bring with it 2GHz+ BUS and RAM.
You can never have too fast a CPU or GPU, too much RAM or too much HDD space.
A multicore CPU is great, but no substitute for raw speed. It's like comparing a bullet train to a fleet of honda escorts. The cars can move the same group of 1000 people, but the train does it so much faster and more efficiently.
We don't care about specs or technical details or abilities around here. This is slashdot, the people here aren't to up on the details of technology, just the philosophy.
All you need to know is that Intel is sucky and their processors suck! And AMD is awesome! The whole x86 architecture sucks and isnt as good as Apple G5 architecture used in the iPod. Intel may have wireless but AMD has bluetooth and AMD are WAY COOLER than Intel who are a bunch of jerks like Microsoft. AMD works better with linux and Apple.
It's hard to just whip my laptop out on a bus to watch spongebob for 10 minutes while I wait.
And I don't want to compromise laptop specs for convenience, ie; get one with a teensy screen just so it'll be easier to watch video. Plus this has no clamshell, etc, it's designed to be easy, quick and private.
I wouldnt buy one for the price, but give them a few years to get these under 200 bucks, and they'll have something.
It is molester.
The guys an asshole and thinks molester is a funny pun.
It also helps that Israel gets 3-4 billion US taxpayer dollars per year with which to subsidize their economy.
The solution for the rest of the world is obvious, just wait for your handout from the US. What Americans are supposed to do is still up in the air.
You're a moron.
The "cost less" quip is marketspeak for "just as soon as someone invents a way to make nanotubes cheap!".
Or LCOS.
Or DLP a la the new slim light engine sets.
Or LCD
Or SED
Whatever, the CRT is going to be the dominant player in everything but the "high end" for a long, long time. A whole bunch of pie-in-the-sky type ideas, none of which have lead to cheap, high-def sets for the masses, but all have fizzled.
Only CRT's have delivered high-def sets that are anywhere close to the price range of the old, regular sets.
So much for next years big switch to all digital television.
All of which promise cheaper, higher definition pictures, using less energy, and do 0-500 mph in a quarter second.
Whatever. Go to fucking circuit city and notice that anything other than a "plain ole tv set" costs an order of magnitude more, and doesn't even boast a better image.
LCoS SED Plasma OLED LCD DLP SHOMORK
So lets take the buzzword of the day and rebadge it as "TV tech of teh futore".
Nanotubes.
WiFi Nanotubes, with iTunes.
As long as ISPs maintain old-school upstream bandwidth policies (ie; if you upload too much your disconnected), P2P will never really succeed in this way.
If the ISP's were OK with every customers connection using 100% of its upstream bandwidth all the time, it could work.
It could work within, say, Comcast's little corner of the 'net, to spread a ton of on-demand type content amongst a million or so set-top boxes.
The more popular a film, the more available.
But, in general it's contrary to the way the 'net is set up. You have to pay for the data you send. Too many people have such low upstream caps.
No, he was not convinced "everything was discovered". He was simply overwhelmed with applications and closed down while the backlog was cleared.
You can look it up on snopes for yourself.
If you're a home user going on the cheap, you buy two drives.
If you're running a datacenter and can spend a few bucks, you buy one of these
How fast do you think you can make a pound of metal spin with only a few watts of power, without falling apart or exploding, etc?
I don't know exactly what the mechanical problems are, but 10,000 RPM is pretty friggin fast. I remember years ago hearing that 4,800 was the absolute fastest speed they could go for some reason or another.
I think I've replaced more mobo's to handle larger drives than I have to support faster CPUs.
Why don't you try running linux, which will ignore the BIOS and do it's own HDD geometry homework.
I know you need Windows because linux is hard for non-technical users, but all the drive makers have their own soft-bios utilities to support the larger drives on old hardware.
They have had these since the 2 gigabyte barrier.
There's also add-on controllers if you really need a new interface feature, like the next only-exists-on-paper UDMA speed.
Actually the company wen't (or was going) bankrupt, the NGPC was it's last dying gasp. SNK is no more.
I'll take your NeoGeo pocket, they're actually pretty cool and really hackable (a blank cart and writer are pretty cheap).
It's an artificial shortage to drive up demand, silly.
Look how wildly popular the PS2 was when there weren't enough for it's christmas launch. The DS was the "hot item" this year.
You get all kinds of free publicity, every time some housewife is bludgeoned to death in a Wal-Mart parking lot, everyone watching the news thinks "now that's the perfect monetary expression of the christmas spirit! Must buy!"
Tickle-me-elmo's and Cabbage Patch dolls still sell well, based on Christmas shortages past alone. They get ingrained in the public mind as some sort of "gotta have it" perennial christmas favorite.
DVI will be encrypted, or any other digital means.
But high quality analog is fine with me. I don't see what the problem is with good quality captures off of a component video input.
Do any good HD capture cards have component inputs? I haven't had a chance to play with any of them.
This should be legal, and not "grey area" quasi-legal either. The supreme court said years ago that I can make analog copies for the purpose of timeshifting (broadcast flag or no broadcast flag), did they not?
What TiVo does is legal and I shouldn't have to deal with any kind of crap to extract and burn it to DVD (and TivoToGo is going to be a load of crap). It captures an analog signal. The problem is 1:1 digital copies, right?
Fuck it. Nowadays watching TV requires a lawyer. All this shit will kill the "entertainment" industry as it stands.
WinPCap is also automatically set up and installed by tons of worms and trojans. It's pretty much the main building block of the script kiddies backdoor script.
Unless you're doing something advanced like nmap or ethereal, you have no reason to be running it, and if it's there it's probably there to spy on/exploit your network.
OpenVPN uses it still, as does CoLinux, but let's face it, few people in this tool's audience use those.
XBConnect no longer uses it, IIRC, they have their own packet-capturing engine/scheme/whatever now.
At any rate, if you don't know what WinPCap is - it shouldn't be there, and certainly shouldn't be running.
Give the anti-MS stupidity a rest, you come off like a moron who knows nothing about computers.
We should be wondering why AdAware et al don't warn you about things like WinPCap. It exists to capture packets in promiscuous mode, it is by it's very definition spyware. It spies on every packet your PC sees.
They should also at least warn you about things like VNC, PCAnywhere, and other RDP servers - because plenty of people have RDP services running they don't know about, because they didn't put them there.
The funny thing is, that pretty much sums up most OSS projects. The final 5% is always missing or up to the user.
In fact, most of these rules apply to any given OSS project.
This is a deliberate setup.
They eat old people's medicine for fuel. And when they grab you in their metal claws, you can't escape because they're made of metal.
I guess that's the best title for what he does, but his position doesn't really fit the "manager" role to a T..
He's not anyones boss, he can't "fire" a kernel hacker, or direct them, he can just decide to accept or not accept patches.
That lack of "direction" is somewhat of a problem, noone knows where linux is headed. It seems to be veering away from the desktop to the server room, and locked down incarnations like TiVo.
To yoink someones's pizza than a laptop.
You know, the between felony theft and a crime so small it's likely the cops wouldn't be involved if I was caught.
"Gee, I thought it was garbage, I was going to throw it out before we got mice or ants!"
That's a thought, a maid chucking your 5 billion dollar mega-mac into the dumpster.