I likely won't be buying a top of line card for at least 18 months. I'll most likely buy something midrange (ie: whatever is equivalent to the current FX5600 or R9600 line) in about 6 months so I'll be able to do some work in the meantime.
I agree with you, hardware sites in general tend to make way too big a deal out of minimal increases in performance. That said, I'll probably end up buying an FX series card eventually for one reason - DX9 support. (Almost all the cool new features are also supported as OGL extensions. See also: Doom 3). It's gonna suck for my wallet, but when you're attempting to get into graphics development, hey, it happens.:)
The Alanis Morisette song "Isn't it ironic" is often held up as the greatest example of the misuse of the word,
though really it's a great example of average everyday uses of the word.
Which is why people that have fits over the use of 'ironic' are nothing more than overly anal retentive in my eyes. While I'm all for language being spoken (and more so, written) properly, language is an amorphous thing, and common usage is what drives it. It's kind of like the english teachers at my school that would argue all day long that the word "forte" is properly pronounced "fort" in a non-musical context. Technically, they might be right, but if you pronounce it "fort" instead of "for-tay" in conversation with most people, you're going to be the one that ends up looking like an idiot. I do agree it's a shame so many people get basic usage wrong so often (ie: there/their/they're), but when it comes to word usage, I think people just need to get over it. Words gain and lose meanings over time, and it's general usage that drives that, not overly uptight language experts.
The difference is, over the life of the console as the manufacturing process improves, consoles generally eventually turn a profit. The GameCube, for example, while having a lower price point than the XBox, is already turning a profit while the XBox is not, despite the consoles being released at the same time. Yes, all consoles lose money... at first. It's the fact that MS's losses on each XBox are unusually long and sustained in comparison.
I agree with you in that most school IT people are morons, but "conservative" isn't the word to describe them. A truly conservative sysadmin would never let a wireless network in in the first place unless absolutely nessecary (which I don't see how it could have been in this case), let alone leaving it on all the default, wide-open security settings.
I wish to god I had modpoints to push you up above the "It's so hardware companies will keep making money" and "M$ are sloppy coders!!!!!!111!" Slashbots. As you said, the move away from assembly makes sense in this day and age. Sure, carefully hand coded assembly will lead to some gains, but the instant something changes, hours and hours of work can be equated to a total loss - let alone trying to port an application to another architechture (can you say complete rewrite?) or as you mentioned, maintenance of an existing project. But then again, that's a bit too logical an answer for some folks around here. =)
I've personally used both MDK9.1 and RH9 for a few months each, and while I had no problems finding my way around either, I wouldn't by any means consider myself the "average" user. I've got a couple of years playing with linux on and off under my belt, and there are still times I have to go digging to figure out what the hell needs to be done to get component XYZ working. And as my grandparent poster stated, until pretty much EVERY major setting can be easily changed without having to fire up VIM(or an equivalent) Linux isn't really ready for the general user.
I was under the impression that the entire point of COPA was to protect minors from things such as pornography and basically things that, if you want, would be 'R' rated and generally unsuitable for 'minors' (rotten.com anyone?).
Personally, I agree with the spirit of the law, but I disagree with the law itself - I've seen too many of these poorly implemented filter systems firsthand. Really, I think this is a perfect opportunity for the open source community to take control by developing a piece of software to do this, but work in conjunction with librarians to deem what is or isn't innapropriate.
Think about it - this is an opportunity to make these laws work for us, rather than against. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure the librarians would much rather use a piece of software that not only would they have real input to, but would have a zero impact on their already strained budgets as opposed to having to buy licenses for however many systems their branch has.
So, anyone interested? I'm willing to work on this if anyone else is willing to help me. This is probably suicide for my poor account, but if you're interested, contact me on ICQ - #16874163. I'm going to go see about setting up a sourceforge account now.
I'm sure glad you decided to emphasise every third word (especially "DUMB DUMB DUMB" at the end) by essentially shouting making it clear that you are, in fact, right, and everyone else is wrong.
The original poster has it correct in his reply to you - if it's so important, go out and do something about it. Very few users of public bussing take are able to use the wheelchair lifts built onto most modern busses - does that mean those self-centered wheel chair using bastards need to all pay for the damned lift themselves and leave my taxes out of it?
For the most part they did the equivelent of re-releasing Debian instead of creating a '.deb'.
And Mandrake started off as Redhat with a different installer and a custom set of packages rather than being written from scratch. Ambitious projects have to start somewhere, the beauty of the GPL being that the wheel doesn't have to be reinvented in order for that to happen. That is, unless you wrote your own kernel, but then carrying the name Linux Router Project wouldn't make very much sense, would it?
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Well, Apple isn't abusing an OS monopoly to prop up other divisions that are bleeding cash faster than most companies make it. Wasn't the case that MS could sell XP Pro for something like $40 a copy and still make an above average profit if they weren't using the money to push other (expensive) ventures like the X-Box? The difference is, Apple prices their product at a level that makes them money, but without abusing the customer. They simply can't afford to.
Personally, I've never seen the point in RDRAM. Sure, it performs a little better, but the cost is more than a little prohibitive compared to DDR. RDRAM is looking like it's going to go down in history as a gimic anyway - even Intel is slowly but surely abandoning it.
To give you an idea, neither nVidia or ATI own their own chip fab facilities - they both pay another company to make their chips because it's more economical. These are multi-billion dollar companies, so I'd say yeah, it's more than any non-established company can raise in investment capital. Micron can afford it because it's their business, and its re-investment of current revenue. The barrier to entry is just too high for any start up to be any kind of serious threat to an established monopoly in this case case, which is why the tariff is actually a good idea if Hynix is only able to support its current prices through MASSIVE bailouts from the Korean government.
I'm simply going to ask one thing - do you have any idea as to how expensive it is to build chip fab facilities that can output in high enough volume for mainstream consumer use?
To be honest, like I said, I was diagnosed fairly young, so I wasn't exactly at the age where I'd have done a lot of research into it, and since then, I just haven't had much reason to. It's kinda something you learn to live. Basically what I'm saying is, outside of the fact that the 'H' stands for "hyperactivity" and that ADD doesn't have it, I don't really know what the differences between the two are.:)
Thinking back on it though, I only know two people that are diagnosed just plain ADD - my dad and a friend from school - while I have several friends with diagnosed ADHD, and just thinking about their personalities, it may be that ADD is just less severe. Or I might just be speaking out of my ass here.
Really, I couldn't tell you much else, outside of the fact that the original poster is an atypical case in my experience. Then again, none of the people I know have been on the drug he mentioned, so that's another possible reason for it "not taking" for him. If nothing else, I've always found it amusing that in a backwards kind of way that they give you a stimulant for a disorder with "hyperactivity" in its name and the fact that it somehow works.:)
That does sound a lot like me. It's also worth noting that adderall and like drugs are stimulants, so that might be why caffeine seems to help you concentrate better. And yeah, the BS work sucks, but just making yourself do it is all you can do really. Between not being able to concentrate and basically blowing off the garbage since it pissed me off, I barely held onto a 3.0GPA. So you're already doing better than I did, although that wouldn't take much.:)
GRE = Gecko Rendering Environment
Ya know, the part that draws those pretty webpages.;)
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My personal experience is that the two may very well be interelated even though I've never bothered to research it. I'm diagnosed ADHD, but when I'm off medication for that, I do tend to exhibit a lot of the symptoms for manic depression. They're generally relatively mild, but I've had a few spells where it got REALLY bad. It just makes me wonder whether they're grouped in the same category of mental illnesses.
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And I believe this proves the Mozilla decision NOT to mask the user client to be a good one, at least in my eyes.
I likely won't be buying a top of line card for at least 18 months. I'll most likely buy something midrange (ie: whatever is equivalent to the current FX5600 or R9600 line) in about 6 months so I'll be able to do some work in the meantime.
I agree with you, hardware sites in general tend to make way too big a deal out of minimal increases in performance. That said, I'll probably end up buying an FX series card eventually for one reason - DX9 support. (Almost all the cool new features are also supported as OGL extensions. See also: Doom 3). It's gonna suck for my wallet, but when you're attempting to get into graphics development, hey, it happens. :)
The difference is, over the life of the console as the manufacturing process improves, consoles generally eventually turn a profit. The GameCube, for example, while having a lower price point than the XBox, is already turning a profit while the XBox is not, despite the consoles being released at the same time. Yes, all consoles lose money... at first. It's the fact that MS's losses on each XBox are unusually long and sustained in comparison.
I agree with you in that most school IT people are morons, but "conservative" isn't the word to describe them. A truly conservative sysadmin would never let a wireless network in in the first place unless absolutely nessecary (which I don't see how it could have been in this case), let alone leaving it on all the default, wide-open security settings.
This is understandable for an individual, but absolutely no excuse whatsoever for a network which contains students' private information.
I wish to god I had modpoints to push you up above the "It's so hardware companies will keep making money" and "M$ are sloppy coders!!!!!!111!" Slashbots. As you said, the move away from assembly makes sense in this day and age. Sure, carefully hand coded assembly will lead to some gains, but the instant something changes, hours and hours of work can be equated to a total loss - let alone trying to port an application to another architechture (can you say complete rewrite?) or as you mentioned, maintenance of an existing project. But then again, that's a bit too logical an answer for some folks around here. =)
Many, many hours of my childhood were wasted away with Burgertime on a TI 99 4/A :)
I've personally used both MDK9.1 and RH9 for a few months each, and while I had no problems finding my way around either, I wouldn't by any means consider myself the "average" user. I've got a couple of years playing with linux on and off under my belt, and there are still times I have to go digging to figure out what the hell needs to be done to get component XYZ working. And as my grandparent poster stated, until pretty much EVERY major setting can be easily changed without having to fire up VIM(or an equivalent) Linux isn't really ready for the general user.
I was under the impression that the entire point of COPA was to protect minors from things such as pornography and basically things that, if you want, would be 'R' rated and generally unsuitable for 'minors' (rotten.com anyone?).
:)
Personally, I agree with the spirit of the law, but I disagree with the law itself - I've seen too many of these poorly implemented filter systems firsthand. Really, I think this is a perfect opportunity for the open source community to take control by developing a piece of software to do this, but work in conjunction with librarians to deem what is or isn't innapropriate.
Think about it - this is an opportunity to make these laws work for us, rather than against. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure the librarians would much rather use a piece of software that not only would they have real input to, but would have a zero impact on their already strained budgets as opposed to having to buy licenses for however many systems their branch has.
So, anyone interested? I'm willing to work on this if anyone else is willing to help me. This is probably suicide for my poor account, but if you're interested, contact me on ICQ - #16874163. I'm going to go see about setting up a sourceforge account now.
See? This is what open source is all about.
I'm sure glad you decided to emphasise every third word (especially "DUMB DUMB DUMB" at the end) by essentially shouting making it clear that you are, in fact, right, and everyone else is wrong.
The original poster has it correct in his reply to you - if it's so important, go out and do something about it. Very few users of public bussing take are able to use the wheelchair lifts built onto most modern busses - does that mean those self-centered wheel chair using bastards need to all pay for the damned lift themselves and leave my taxes out of it?
Well, Apple isn't abusing an OS monopoly to prop up other divisions that are bleeding cash faster than most companies make it. Wasn't the case that MS could sell XP Pro for something like $40 a copy and still make an above average profit if they weren't using the money to push other (expensive) ventures like the X-Box? The difference is, Apple prices their product at a level that makes them money, but without abusing the customer. They simply can't afford to.
Personally, I've never seen the point in RDRAM. Sure, it performs a little better, but the cost is more than a little prohibitive compared to DDR. RDRAM is looking like it's going to go down in history as a gimic anyway - even Intel is slowly but surely abandoning it.
Not only that, but this guy breaks from established scientific convention, using the Tercel measurement rather than the accepted standard VW Bug!
Bob still lives through his bastard child Clippy. ;)
To give you an idea, neither nVidia or ATI own their own chip fab facilities - they both pay another company to make their chips because it's more economical. These are multi-billion dollar companies, so I'd say yeah, it's more than any non-established company can raise in investment capital. Micron can afford it because it's their business, and its re-investment of current revenue. The barrier to entry is just too high for any start up to be any kind of serious threat to an established monopoly in this case case, which is why the tariff is actually a good idea if Hynix is only able to support its current prices through MASSIVE bailouts from the Korean government.
I'm simply going to ask one thing - do you have any idea as to how expensive it is to build chip fab facilities that can output in high enough volume for mainstream consumer use?
*cough cough* A torch IS a flashlight outside the US.
To be honest, like I said, I was diagnosed fairly young, so I wasn't exactly at the age where I'd have done a lot of research into it, and since then, I just haven't had much reason to. It's kinda something you learn to live. Basically what I'm saying is, outside of the fact that the 'H' stands for "hyperactivity" and that ADD doesn't have it, I don't really know what the differences between the two are. :)
Thinking back on it though, I only know two people that are diagnosed just plain ADD - my dad and a friend from school - while I have several friends with diagnosed ADHD, and just thinking about their personalities, it may be that ADD is just less severe. Or I might just be speaking out of my ass here.
Really, I couldn't tell you much else, outside of the fact that the original poster is an atypical case in my experience. Then again, none of the people I know have been on the drug he mentioned, so that's another possible reason for it "not taking" for him. If nothing else, I've always found it amusing that in a backwards kind of way that they give you a stimulant for a disorder with "hyperactivity" in its name and the fact that it somehow works. :)
That does sound a lot like me. It's also worth noting that adderall and like drugs are stimulants, so that might be why caffeine seems to help you concentrate better. And yeah, the BS work sucks, but just making yourself do it is all you can do really. Between not being able to concentrate and basically blowing off the garbage since it pissed me off, I barely held onto a 3.0GPA. So you're already doing better than I did, although that wouldn't take much. :)
GRE = Gecko Rendering Environment Ya know, the part that draws those pretty webpages. ;)
My personal experience is that the two may very well be interelated even though I've never bothered to research it. I'm diagnosed ADHD, but when I'm off medication for that, I do tend to exhibit a lot of the symptoms for manic depression. They're generally relatively mild, but I've had a few spells where it got REALLY bad. It just makes me wonder whether they're grouped in the same category of mental illnesses.