Sony didn't really answer you question. Sony had for a long while Linux running on PS2. We had a PS2 development kit at the job before the dev kits were normally available, and if I can remember right the guy who worked on it booted Linux and ran PS2 software on it. It was just a matter of time before releasing it. It's not like they had too much job left. A few tweak here and there, and it could be sold to the masses.
It's not the first time I read broadband-woes on/., but it's the first time I see something that bad. I dunno for the US, but in Canada's broadband internet is stronger than ever. Companies no more advertise for internet acces with 56.6 or 28.8 devices. The two broadband leaders in Quebec, Videotron (300 kbytes in download, 15k in upload ) and Bell Canada ( about 120kbytes in download, 15k in upload, soon to be 1000kbytes in download and 100kbytes in upload ), are getting more and more subscriptions each day, and it's cheap as ever. If you already have cable at home (which a lot of folks do), it's 30 bucks a month for broadband with Videotron (but you have to buy the 150$ modem though) and about 40$ a month with Bell (they don't sell it to you, but they'll replace it with a faster one at no charge when faster speeds will be achievable on their network). North of the border, BroadBand is more alive than ever. Hell, I don't know anyone who used old 56.6 or 28.8 modems anymore.
Wrong. Motherboard makes will have to hide the real megahertz setting, and Windows will too. Read the story on Tom's hardware and you'll see that AMD will only approve motherboards that show only the PR rating, nothing else.
I never used it, but Out of Band (OOB) IS supported under Win2k at least, but I never had time to try it out, nor the willingness. There's more info about OOB and Windows sockets in MSDN.
Just dropping in to let you know that TV is about 30 frames per second and 60 fields per second. A field is either all the odd or even lines of an image. 24 pictures per second is movie quality, and those a frames, not fields. TV quality is 30 frames. Movies are 24 because we like to see some nice blury effects in fast action scenes, and it gives a different look than regular TV shows.
Just droppin in to say that if that reply to the Carmack post is really humour, then it's a sad sad world we live in. All you guys who find this post funny really need to see a doctor or something, it's just plain dumb.
You are right on the spot. I know a few languages, c++, visual basic, java and LogoWritter (but who cares abou that last one heh?) and I totally agree with the statement that each programming language has it's advantages over another and each one is better at some task then the other.
Take VB for example. This is not only a great language to develop a database application fast and easily and that's pretty robust, it's also an easy language to learn (don't know about VB.net tough) I remember moving from qbasic to visual basic in about a week, understanding the concepts without even reading a book, just looking at samples coming with VB.
When I want to make something quick, I mostly use java. That's what I use often in my computer programming courses. It has already lot of support in forms of classes for UI, files, sockets, about anything you can shake a stick at, and then some.
When I want to make something from the ground up, expect the best performances and want to know exactly about every behaviour that my application can possibly have I use C++, since I design all the tools myself.
Personnally, I prefer C++, since it's the language I learned at school. VB would come second, but only because I started programming in qbasic 10 years ago and it brings back nice memories. Java would be third, but java's isn't just fast enough for what I do. It would probably come first though if you asked me what language is the more elegant and let's you make the job done faster. But developping somethign faster is not always the best case when at the end performance is critical to the application.
That said, I may be a c++ evangelist, I have no fear of using another language to do the work faster.
Come on, msot of you people will always be whining every time something you don't like happens and Microsoft is in whole or part involved. What do you want Microsoft to do? Delete your old messages because you are receiving new ones, or keep the old ones and flush the new ones, which might contain an important e-mail. I can't believe this post is taken seriously.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
It's people like you that give techies bad reputation. If you used your brains and read what I wrote in the first place, instead of feeling to be on a crusade of bullshiting everyone, you'd have understood, as a lot of other people did too, that I meant the i845 chipset with the SDRAM. So instead of jumping around and crying foulnames because you think you know stuff about hardware, go pick up a pair of glasses. Next time you'll be able to read what I wrote.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Instead of jumping all around, could you just read carefully what I wrote : I said that the SDRAM solution was dreadfully slow on the P4. I never said a thing about RDRAM. Sure, RDRAM has move bandwidth and bigger latency.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I went to see Planet of The Apes on opening night. Because I liked the original movies, but mostly because I'm a big Tim Burton fan : he's my favorite director. But in planet of the apes, Tim seems lost in all this technology and none of it bears the distinctive Burton mark that we have grown to love in Sleepy Hollow or the Batman series (I and II). It just didn't feel right. Sure, the jungle was nice, the city too. But everything else seemed out of place for a Butron movie. It seems to me that Burton maybe is not the director to choose for sci-fi movies, even tough he did he great job in Mars Attack. Mars Attack at that wackiest touch that Burton had always had fromt he caracters to the objects like the alien guns. In planet of the Apes, Burton seems to have fallen to the false premise that everything in the future has to be slick and white. The worst part of the film in my opinion is truly the beginning, and there's that time travelling thing that I really did buy at the beginning **** SPOLIER ALERT **** and that travelling back to his time trough the same portal at the end, seems too stupid to be coming from a Burton movie. This director makes intellingent movies. When a scene looks strange, it's because it's meant to. **** SPOLIER ALERT END **** The acting is good, but what I really missed in this movie was dialogue. Human dialogue. I know this movie isn't all about humans, mostly about apes, but I didn't feel there was much interaction betweem humans, except running away and fighting apes. I was exceping better from a Tim Burton movie. But at least, the ending, which has Tim Burton written EVERYWHERE on it, is probably the best part of the movie, only surpassed by the fact that I could finally get out of the theater and move on.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I've read a review about this a few weeks back. The performance of a 1.7Ghz P4 is pathetic to even a 1.2Ghz Athlon with DDR SDRAM. Intel execs must be on crack or something to release this chipset for the P4. It will seriously lower performance. The thing is P4 will be much faster with DDR memory than 'Rambust' and Intel is afraid to admit their mistake. Do yourself a favor and never buy a P4-Chipset845 combo, you'll be seriously sorry.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
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Come on, it's just a fricking movie!
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Am I the only one here who knows that for ta language to be pure object it has to support it's most basic types ( int, long, float ) in pure objects. Java has native bytes, chars, shorts, ints and longs. That's not pure to me, that's still Object Oriented. For it to be purely object you would have to code a bit like this :
Integer a,b;
a.equals(5);
b.equals(6);
a.add(b);
a.getValue();
This is pure object.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Well, I've been reading next-generation online for about a year before the staff moved to daily radar. I really liked NGO before because they had quality reviews. Now, with DailyRadar, they forgot about journalistic integrity and started bashing games or movies because they didn.t have enough violence, or praised another one because it showed (insert your favorite actress name here) breast and that the movie was good because of that. I'm not sorry that this web site had to close down. The content recently has been mediocre at best over at DailyRadar and I hope that these people get a grip on themselves, go back to NGO and go back to the great articles they wrote before.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Okay, sure some people don't have cable, and have to pay 40$ a month. Even tough you might not have cable (let's say you never watch TV), you can still sign up with Bell at 40$ a month. You'd get 150k/sec in download, and 15k/sec in upload (that's to prevent warez sites from popping up, and preventing too much bandwidth on the network. Anyway, you never really need 15k/sec for an upload anyway, unless you're up to no good.) It's fast, not too costly, you don't use your phone line and you can download as much as you want.
And about the "rumor" that Videotron slows down during the net "rush-hour", well, I've never stopped getting 300kb/s downloads at ANY time of the day. It may have been true in the past, but the fact is that now Videotron has the fastest consumer Internet access in Quebec with 325kb/sec bandwith in download (upload is still limited at 15k/sec for the same reasons as Bell) and have a decent reputation in customer service, as a survey done recently has shown, while Bell Canada took the last place, with about 70% of the users satisfied. Oh, and I forgot another thing about the speed wars that Videotron and Bell are having : even tough in some areas the cable modem may slow down during rush-hours, it is still pretty faster than Bell's offer.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I don't understand why americans can't get DSL and high speed internet access off the ground. I've had a cable connection at 29.95$ per months, for two years now. It is accessible to almost anyone in the province (Québec) and there is also a DSL connection which is about two times slower (about 150kbytes/sec), but still fast enough, and is promising to get even faster during the next year. I know you are ten times more in the US then in Canada, but man, are you lagging behind!
And for your question, well you could still of course sell them on eBay. But you could also use it to sell your current internet connection to your neighborhs.;-)
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Well, I think that people sure are more "open" (pardon me the bad choice of words) to violence, since we see so much of it in movies and hear about it in music, BUT I bet that each time each and one of you see someone who got killed on TV you tell yourself "What has our society come to?" or "What a hideous thing to do." Sure we may be less frightened to see someone be killed, but we never dissociate the fact that it's bad, except if we already had some problems in the head.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Okay then I have to admit it's appropriate sometimes. But I wonder if this protection mechanism kicks in often when I'm doing 3D rendering in 3DSMax (which does it's final rendering in software) or playing some top notch game in 1600x1200x32 with all lighting and physics effects at their full settings.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
The problem is that I don't see where is the advantage for the consumer. So far, it seems that AMD processors don't rely on this feature and they are great for your everyday computing needs. Why would Intel, the "king" (not anymore, but that's not relevant to the debate) of microprocessors, use such a tactic to lower the CPU temperature. After all, it doesn't serve any purpose to the user to have a CPU that halves it's performance when under extreme stress. If my CPU is under extreme stress, it's probably because it's running a heavy program and it needs all the cycles it can get. I'd rather have a better fan/heatsink to lower the temperature than lower the performance of my CPU.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I don't agree. This is bad faith from Intel, since the CPU doesn't run at full speed when you really need it. It's not a nice feature, it's a very bad one, because you don't get all the power you're told you should have.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
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Sony didn't really answer you question. Sony had for a long while Linux running on PS2. We had a PS2 development kit at the job before the dev kits were normally available, and if I can remember right the guy who worked on it booted Linux and ran PS2 software on it. It was just a matter of time before releasing it. It's not like they had too much job left. A few tweak here and there, and it could be sold to the masses.
It's not the first time I read broadband-woes on /., but it's the first time I see something that bad. I dunno for the US, but in Canada's broadband internet is stronger than ever. Companies no more advertise for internet acces with 56.6 or 28.8 devices. The two broadband leaders in Quebec, Videotron (300 kbytes in download, 15k in upload ) and Bell Canada ( about 120kbytes in download, 15k in upload, soon to be 1000kbytes in download and 100kbytes in upload ), are getting more and more subscriptions each day, and it's cheap as ever. If you already have cable at home (which a lot of folks do), it's 30 bucks a month for broadband with Videotron (but you have to buy the 150$ modem though) and about 40$ a month with Bell (they don't sell it to you, but they'll replace it with a faster one at no charge when faster speeds will be achievable on their network). North of the border, BroadBand is more alive than ever. Hell, I don't know anyone who used old 56.6 or 28.8 modems anymore.
And the priest's voice would be broadcasted in the church via a state of the art THX sound system . ;-)
Wrong. Motherboard makes will have to hide the real megahertz setting, and Windows will too. Read the story on Tom's hardware and you'll see that AMD will only approve motherboards that show only the PR rating, nothing else.
I never used it, but Out of Band (OOB) IS supported under Win2k at least, but I never had time to try it out, nor the willingness. There's more info about OOB and Windows sockets in MSDN.
Just dropping in to let you know that TV is about 30 frames per second and 60 fields per second. A field is either all the odd or even lines of an image. 24 pictures per second is movie quality, and those a frames, not fields. TV quality is 30 frames. Movies are 24 because we like to see some nice blury effects in fast action scenes, and it gives a different look than regular TV shows.
Just droppin in to say that if that reply to the Carmack post is really humour, then it's a sad sad world we live in. All you guys who find this post funny really need to see a doctor or something, it's just plain dumb.
You are right on the spot. I know a few languages, c++, visual basic, java and LogoWritter (but who cares abou that last one heh?) and I totally agree with the statement that each programming language has it's advantages over another and each one is better at some task then the other.
Take VB for example. This is not only a great language to develop a database application fast and easily and that's pretty robust, it's also an easy language to learn (don't know about VB.net tough) I remember moving from qbasic to visual basic in about a week, understanding the concepts without even reading a book, just looking at samples coming with VB.
When I want to make something quick, I mostly use java. That's what I use often in my computer programming courses. It has already lot of support in forms of classes for UI, files, sockets, about anything you can shake a stick at, and then some.
When I want to make something from the ground up, expect the best performances and want to know exactly about every behaviour that my application can possibly have I use C++, since I design all the tools myself.
Personnally, I prefer C++, since it's the language I learned at school. VB would come second, but only because I started programming in qbasic 10 years ago and it brings back nice memories. Java would be third, but java's isn't just fast enough for what I do. It would probably come first though if you asked me what language is the more elegant and let's you make the job done faster. But developping somethign faster is not always the best case when at the end performance is critical to the application.
That said, I may be a c++ evangelist, I have no fear of using another language to do the work faster.
Come on, msot of you people will always be whining every time something you don't like happens and Microsoft is in whole or part involved. What do you want Microsoft to do? Delete your old messages because you are receiving new ones, or keep the old ones and flush the new ones, which might contain an important e-mail. I can't believe this post is taken seriously.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
It's people like you that give techies bad reputation. If you used your brains and read what I wrote in the first place, instead of feeling to be on a crusade of bullshiting everyone, you'd have understood, as a lot of other people did too, that I meant the i845 chipset with the SDRAM. So instead of jumping around and crying foulnames because you think you know stuff about hardware, go pick up a pair of glasses. Next time you'll be able to read what I wrote.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Instead of jumping all around, could you just read carefully what I wrote : I said that the SDRAM solution was dreadfully slow on the P4. I never said a thing about RDRAM. Sure, RDRAM has move bandwidth and bigger latency.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Offtopic??? Wtf?
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I went to see Planet of The Apes on opening night. Because I liked the original movies, but mostly because I'm a big Tim Burton fan : he's my favorite director. But in planet of the apes, Tim seems lost in all this technology and none of it bears the distinctive Burton mark that we have grown to love in Sleepy Hollow or the Batman series (I and II). It just didn't feel right. Sure, the jungle was nice, the city too. But everything else seemed out of place for a Butron movie. It seems to me that Burton maybe is not the director to choose for sci-fi movies, even tough he did he great job in Mars Attack. Mars Attack at that wackiest touch that Burton had always had fromt he caracters to the objects like the alien guns. In planet of the Apes, Burton seems to have fallen to the false premise that everything in the future has to be slick and white. The worst part of the film in my opinion is truly the beginning, and there's that time travelling thing that I really did buy at the beginning **** SPOLIER ALERT **** and that travelling back to his time trough the same portal at the end, seems too stupid to be coming from a Burton movie. This director makes intellingent movies. When a scene looks strange, it's because it's meant to. **** SPOLIER ALERT END **** The acting is good, but what I really missed in this movie was dialogue. Human dialogue. I know this movie isn't all about humans, mostly about apes, but I didn't feel there was much interaction betweem humans, except running away and fighting apes. I was exceping better from a Tim Burton movie. But at least, the ending, which has Tim Burton written EVERYWHERE on it, is probably the best part of the movie, only surpassed by the fact that I could finally get out of the theater and move on.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I've read a review about this a few weeks back. The performance of a 1.7Ghz P4 is pathetic to even a 1.2Ghz Athlon with DDR SDRAM. Intel execs must be on crack or something to release this chipset for the P4. It will seriously lower performance. The thing is P4 will be much faster with DDR memory than 'Rambust' and Intel is afraid to admit their mistake. Do yourself a favor and never buy a P4-Chipset845 combo, you'll be seriously sorry.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Come on, it's just a fricking movie!
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Am I the only one here who knows that for ta language to be pure object it has to support it's most basic types ( int, long, float ) in pure objects. Java has native bytes, chars, shorts, ints and longs. That's not pure to me, that's still Object Oriented. For it to be purely object you would have to code a bit like this :
Integer a,b;
a.equals(5);
b.equals(6);
a.add(b);
a.getValue();
This is pure object.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
get a f%$%!"/* life!!!
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Humour? I don't see the humour in considering actress X as an object. Can you???
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Well, I've been reading next-generation online for about a year before the staff moved to daily radar. I really liked NGO before because they had quality reviews. Now, with DailyRadar, they forgot about journalistic integrity and started bashing games or movies because they didn.t have enough violence, or praised another one because it showed (insert your favorite actress name here) breast and that the movie was good because of that. I'm not sorry that this web site had to close down. The content recently has been mediocre at best over at DailyRadar and I hope that these people get a grip on themselves, go back to NGO and go back to the great articles they wrote before.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Okay, sure some people don't have cable, and have to pay 40$ a month. Even tough you might not have cable (let's say you never watch TV), you can still sign up with Bell at 40$ a month. You'd get 150k/sec in download, and 15k/sec in upload (that's to prevent warez sites from popping up, and preventing too much bandwidth on the network. Anyway, you never really need 15k/sec for an upload anyway, unless you're up to no good.) It's fast, not too costly, you don't use your phone line and you can download as much as you want.
And about the "rumor" that Videotron slows down during the net "rush-hour", well, I've never stopped getting 300kb/s downloads at ANY time of the day. It may have been true in the past, but the fact is that now Videotron has the fastest consumer Internet access in Quebec with 325kb/sec bandwith in download (upload is still limited at 15k/sec for the same reasons as Bell) and have a decent reputation in customer service, as a survey done recently has shown, while Bell Canada took the last place, with about 70% of the users satisfied. Oh, and I forgot another thing about the speed wars that Videotron and Bell are having : even tough in some areas the cable modem may slow down during rush-hours, it is still pretty faster than Bell's offer.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I don't understand why americans can't get DSL and high speed internet access off the ground. I've had a cable connection at 29.95$ per months, for two years now. It is accessible to almost anyone in the province (Québec) and there is also a DSL connection which is about two times slower (about 150kbytes/sec), but still fast enough, and is promising to get even faster during the next year. I know you are ten times more in the US then in Canada, but man, are you lagging behind! And for your question, well you could still of course sell them on eBay. But you could also use it to sell your current internet connection to your neighborhs. ;-)
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Well, I think that people sure are more "open" (pardon me the bad choice of words) to violence, since we see so much of it in movies and hear about it in music, BUT I bet that each time each and one of you see someone who got killed on TV you tell yourself "What has our society come to?" or "What a hideous thing to do." Sure we may be less frightened to see someone be killed, but we never dissociate the fact that it's bad, except if we already had some problems in the head.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
Okay then I have to admit it's appropriate sometimes. But I wonder if this protection mechanism kicks in often when I'm doing 3D rendering in 3DSMax (which does it's final rendering in software) or playing some top notch game in 1600x1200x32 with all lighting and physics effects at their full settings.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
The problem is that I don't see where is the advantage for the consumer. So far, it seems that AMD processors don't rely on this feature and they are great for your everyday computing needs. Why would Intel, the "king" (not anymore, but that's not relevant to the debate) of microprocessors, use such a tactic to lower the CPU temperature. After all, it doesn't serve any purpose to the user to have a CPU that halves it's performance when under extreme stress. If my CPU is under extreme stress, it's probably because it's running a heavy program and it needs all the cycles it can get. I'd rather have a better fan/heatsink to lower the temperature than lower the performance of my CPU.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"
I don't agree. This is bad faith from Intel, since the CPU doesn't run at full speed when you really need it. It's not a nice feature, it's a very bad one, because you don't get all the power you're told you should have.
"The answer to the Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is... 42"