" If the cost of a one-way journey to Mars could be lowered to the "single-digit millions" of dollars, he said, "I think enough people would pay that to actually make the business plan quite viable. I think thousands of people a year would pay that."...that's right after smoking the purified crack cocaine in orbit, right?
it takes pictures, plays music, plays videos, browses the web.. everything that a midrange mobile phone would do. So why not just buy the phone and avoid carrying around excess gadgets?
If they allowed an easy way to program any key to do any function it would sort out a lot of problems. I write in English and Spanish and I don't have the ñ on my keyboard. If I could just reprogram caps lock key to be ñ. The keyboard language switch in Windows is too clumsy, becuase it changes all the keys and uses a stupid key combination which causes you're application to loose focus.
This is not "next generation" chip. Its just 4 cores on one chip, plus some upgrade of Hypertransport.... and Intel have 4 core at the end of this year (even if it wont be half as good because lack of Hypertransport)
They borrowed $2.5 billion to pay for ATI. This is top of all the other debt that they owe, they still haven't payed off the massive cost of the 2 fabs in Germany and they also own a lot of stock in Spansion which itself is heavly in debt. AMD has been loosing money for a lot of years (only in the last 2 years they started making profit) Now they have a price war with Intel and they have to compete with Conroe, so they can't even count on making any profit from the next few quarters. Looks like they are living on the knife edge.
Now that I look at the top tag closer, I see that it loads the frame into the whole window, in other words you wouldn't even be able to see the main menu, defeating the whole purpose of the execise.
_top only specified who the frame renders, not how it behaves. You still have the same problems
WC3 out of touch with the needs of users
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I always thought that the WC3 were concentrating on really complicated solutions that were not really needed, while ignoring the simple obvious stuff that was missing. Take the example of Frames. An awful lot of web sites consist of a number of pages which all have a common main menu. Now the problem is if you hardcode the HTML into each of your pages you have a maintence problem, because the main menu is going to change a lot over time. So there are 2 solutions to the problem, neither of them are ideal: 1) Use frames. Well, we all know the problem with frames. You loose functionality of the forward and back browser buttons, along with various other problems 2) Use server side scripts to create the pages dynamically. In my opinion, this is wrong. You shouldn't need to write code just to display simple static pages. You're introducing an unnesecary dependancy.
The obvious solution to the problem is to "fix" frames. In other words, introduce a standard for including webpages within other web pages where the browser treats the combined page as just one single entity. This would be a very effective and simple solution. This is just a example of a common problem with HTML, there are many others, which will probably never be addressed, just because they are to ordinary to merit the interest of the WC3
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Man, you said it. I used to use it, but eventually gave up when I realised that they were never going to fix the UI problems. My pet hate is open file dialog, which always hardcoded to the home directory (rather than the last directory used). When I tried to suggest that they improve this in the GIMP forum, I was told bruntly "That's the way the GIMP works and if you don't like use Photoshop". So I took them up on that advise;)
A lot of time I am doing very low-res work and just need a quick and dirty way to paint some texture on an object. A one-click method to fill a poligon with a colour is needed. I did used bodypaint (there's a m3ds max plug-in), but it doesn't have this feature. I thought Bodypaint 3d really was really too complicated for the simple stuff I was trying to do.
I tried an earlier version of Blender and liked it, but I had to switch to 3DS max because blender didn't support an export format that I needed. I like 3DS max as well, but it suffers from a big focus problem that Blender doesn't have. There are mouse shortcuts for zooming panning and rotating, but they only work when the window has focus and the main window is always loosing focus. The one gripe with both packages I have is why is it so difficult to paint texture on an object?
The artical is just reporting analysists opinions. The price war will probably have the opposite effect. Now that dual core processors are more affordable people have more a reason to upgrade. Of coarse, it will reduce AMDs and Intels profit margin as well.
Would AMD regain their lead simply by releasing their next processor with 4MB L2 cache? If you look carefully at some of the Conroe benchmarks at hothardware (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?artic leid=845&cid=1) you will see that the performance closely corrosponds to cache size. For example in PC WorldBench 5's Windows Media Encoder and Mozilla MT, you the conroe E6700 (4MB cache) scores 280, the Athlon 64 FX-62 (2MB cache) scores 314, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (1MB cache) scores 410. You see similar results with the WorldBench 5.0 benchmarks.
Speed might be part of it, but the real thing that stops it being used is development time. A game developer would be spending huge amounts of resources developing the graphical algorithms instead of spending time on the game itself.
Actually, if you read the artical you will see that they have the opertunity to appeal. I have a feeling that they will be able to weasel their way out of this one.
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Thanks for the link. I'm in Europe and don't get Fox news, but reading the news reports during the Iraq war was a real eye opener. By far the most biased channel was CNN. I think it's only during times of crisis you really see what way the deck is stacked. During peace time most news channels are okay to critised their government, but once the war broke out everyone toed the line.
It's not surprising that sales are down, considering this is always the weakest quarter and the huge price war. However according to Inquirer (http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=32880), server sales continue to improve.
Also there are no systems currently available for Woodcrest. Servers aren't sold by CPUs alown, the whole system is important. It will be a long while before IBM and HP have Woodcrest servers ready. The server market moves very slowly. We've seen how slow people were to move to AMD servers despite having the technical advantage for a number of years, so in the same way it's going to be a very long time before AMD server sales are affect by the Woodcrest.
I know it's off-topic, but I think it's important to point out that the previous slashdot artical about the Spanish outlawing unauthorised p2p is completely wrong and should be withdrawn, or amended. I searched the Spanish press and can see no reference to this story (although there is plenty about the CD tax). Also, look here: http://www.todoscontraelcanon.es/... there is no mention of making P2P illegal. Also try downloading the offical government document: http://www.todoscontraelcanon.es/index.php?body=pr ess_article&id_article=14&id_rubrique=11 and so a search for p2p... you won't find it anywhere. The document only covers the CD tax. Also, try finding any alternative source apart from the tmcnet artical anywhere. I don't think you will find any.
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" If the cost of a one-way journey to Mars could be lowered to the "single-digit millions" of dollars, he said, "I think enough people would pay that to actually make the business plan quite viable. I think thousands of people a year would pay that." ...that's right after smoking the purified crack cocaine in orbit, right?
No. because I don't have a US keyboard
it takes pictures, plays music, plays videos, browses the web.. everything that a midrange mobile phone would do. So why not just buy the phone and avoid carrying around excess gadgets?
If they allowed an easy way to program any key to do any function it would sort out a lot of problems. I write in English and Spanish and I don't have the ñ on my keyboard. If I could just reprogram caps lock key to be ñ. The keyboard language switch in Windows is too clumsy, becuase it changes all the keys and uses a stupid key combination which causes you're application to loose focus.
This is not "next generation" chip. Its just 4 cores on one chip, plus some upgrade of Hypertransport. ... and Intel have 4 core at the end of this year (even if it wont be half as good because lack of Hypertransport)
That's why this is for servers
Well, whatever your into. Personally I prefer my drinking water with zero amount of nuclear by-products
Just out of curiousity, what happens if you don't?
For you average tech savy user, using Win2000, firefox, openoffice, zonealarm
what planet are you living on?
It's hard to find a mid-range phone that doesn't play mp3s
They borrowed $2.5 billion to pay for ATI. This is top of all the other debt that they owe, they still haven't payed off the massive cost of the 2 fabs in Germany and they also own a lot of stock in Spansion which itself is heavly in debt.
AMD has been loosing money for a lot of years (only in the last 2 years they started making profit)
Now they have a price war with Intel and they have to compete with Conroe, so they can't even count on making any profit from the next few quarters.
Looks like they are living on the knife edge.
Now that I look at the top tag closer, I see that it loads the frame into the whole window, in other words you wouldn't even be able to see the main menu, defeating the whole purpose of the execise.
_top only specified who the frame renders, not how it behaves. You still have the same problems
I always thought that the WC3 were concentrating on really complicated solutions that were not really needed, while ignoring the simple obvious stuff that was missing.
Take the example of Frames. An awful lot of web sites consist of a number of pages which all have a common main menu. Now the problem is if you hardcode the HTML into each of your pages you have a maintence problem, because the main menu is going to change a lot over time. So there are 2 solutions to the problem, neither of them are ideal:
1) Use frames. Well, we all know the problem with frames. You loose functionality of the forward and back browser buttons, along with various other problems
2) Use server side scripts to create the pages dynamically. In my opinion, this is wrong. You shouldn't need to write code just to display simple static pages. You're introducing an unnesecary dependancy.
The obvious solution to the problem is to "fix" frames. In other words, introduce a standard for including webpages within other web pages where the browser treats the combined page as just one single entity. This would be a very effective and simple solution.
This is just a example of a common problem with HTML, there are many others,
which will probably never be addressed, just because they are to ordinary to merit the interest of the WC3
Man, you said it. ;)
I used to use it, but eventually gave up when I realised that they were never going to fix the UI problems.
My pet hate is open file dialog, which always hardcoded to the home directory (rather than the last directory used).
When I tried to suggest that they improve this in the GIMP forum, I was told bruntly "That's the way the GIMP works and if you don't like use Photoshop". So I took them up on that advise
A lot of time I am doing very low-res work and just need a quick and dirty way to paint some texture on an object. A one-click method to fill a poligon with a colour is needed. I did used bodypaint (there's a m3ds max plug-in), but it doesn't have this feature. I thought Bodypaint 3d really was really too complicated for the simple stuff I was trying to do.
I tried an earlier version of Blender and liked it, but I had to switch to 3DS max because blender didn't support an export format that I needed. I like 3DS max as well, but it suffers from a big focus problem that Blender doesn't have. There are mouse shortcuts for zooming panning and rotating, but they only work when the window has focus and the main window is always loosing focus.
The one gripe with both packages I have is why is it so difficult to paint texture on an object?
The artical is just reporting analysists opinions. The price war will probably have the opposite effect.
Now that dual core processors are more affordable people have more a reason to upgrade.
Of coarse, it will reduce AMDs and Intels profit margin as well.
Would AMD regain their lead simply by releasing their next processor with 4MB L2 cache?c leid=845&cid=1) you will see that the performance closely corrosponds to cache size.
If you look carefully at some of the Conroe benchmarks at hothardware (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?arti
For example in PC WorldBench 5's Windows Media Encoder and Mozilla MT, you the conroe E6700 (4MB cache) scores 280, the Athlon 64 FX-62 (2MB cache) scores 314, the Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (1MB cache) scores 410.
You see similar results with the WorldBench 5.0 benchmarks.
Speed might be part of it, but the real thing that stops it being used is development time. A game developer would be spending huge amounts of resources developing the graphical algorithms instead of spending time on the game itself.
It's a point defense system. I think the trekkies amounst us won't be amused by the mis-use of the term. I mean can it absorb phaser blasts?
Actually, if you read the artical you will see that they have the opertunity to appeal.
I have a feeling that they will be able to weasel their way out of this one.
Thanks for the link. I'm in Europe and don't get Fox news, but reading the news reports during the Iraq war was a real eye opener. By far the most biased channel was CNN. I think it's only during times of crisis you really see what way the deck is stacked. During peace time most news channels are okay to critised their government, but once the war broke out everyone toed the line.
It's not surprising that sales are down, considering this is always the weakest quarter and the huge price war.
However according to Inquirer (http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=32880), server sales continue to improve.
Also there are no systems currently available for Woodcrest. Servers aren't sold by CPUs alown, the whole system is important. It will be a long while before IBM and HP have Woodcrest servers ready. The server market moves very slowly. We've seen how slow people were to move to AMD servers despite having the technical advantage for a number of years, so in the same way it's going to be a very long time before AMD server sales are affect by the Woodcrest.
I know it's off-topic, but I think it's important to point out that the previous slashdot artical about the Spanish outlawing unauthorised p2p is completely wrong and should be withdrawn, or amended. ... there is no mention of making P2P illegal. Also try downloading the offical government document: http://www.todoscontraelcanon.es/index.php?body=pr ess_article&id_article=14&id_rubrique=11
I searched the Spanish press and can see no reference to this story (although there is plenty about the CD tax). Also, look here: http://www.todoscontraelcanon.es/
and so a search for p2p... you won't find it anywhere. The document only covers the CD tax.
Also, try finding any alternative source apart from the tmcnet artical anywhere. I don't think you will find any.