The problem with this kind of discussion is that everything really remains to be seen. But from my own research, and of course, like yours, this has to be based on very beta cards and drivers, I'm convinced the FX will pull ahead in both regions. The FX goes beyond compliance with DirectX 9, and is overqualified in many areas while the 9700 for the most part sticks to spec.
I think it speaks volumes that despite that release date difference most people are still holding off their purchase decision until nVidia's card is out.
nVidia has one hell of a reputation to maintain, I don't think they'd let it drop for no reason.
It is entirely possible they screwed up the FX of course. If so, they're going to have to explain some devastating returns to accounting.
The driver optimizations have similar effects on game performances. It's why nVidia's drivers are so highly praised. The benchmark optimization is retarded, but everyone does it. But nVidia gets it with the games too.
these figures look more realistic than the figures Nvidia told when the card was announced!
This is true. Marketing is evil. Evil evil evil.
this card will probably not be much more than 20-25% faster than an radeon 9700
When DirectX 9 is out the door, it will not only be faster, but look better. Much better. I suppose I'll catch flack for buying into the hype, but I've been blown away every time.
Besides - who cares about those $400+ gfx cards?
You're right about that last part. For me, it's just about keeping track of who's leading the industry and what technology my next card will have, when I buy it in a year for $120:)
The early beta is probably the reason nVidia wouldn't release this before. They don't want to see numbers I like this out in the public before they're ready.
I'll still bet money the GF FX will be the dominant card come final release.
O'Reilly books were just IT when it comes to learning new stuff. DNS and Bind and Linux in a Nutshell sold me on those "weird books with animals on the cover".
We even ran O'Reilly WebSite for a number of years with no complaints. Take that Microsoft! No IIS for us!
Congrats and Well Done to an icon of the industry.
Pop-Ups are also vigourously protested against by site users, and more and more blocked by software, even as a standard feature for Earthlink users. Mainstream sites can't hope to use popups for any period of time without repurcussions.
The basis of earth for life in convenient, since we've never proven much life with any other basis. Water especially. And an earth sized/composed planet. Anything too wildly removed from life on earth (Plutonium Based, Ammonia Breathing life forms for instance) while altogether possible "outside the box" are just too far removed to guess about.
As more and more of the pac man generation grows up and continues to play video games well into their mature life, and games are developed for their more mature tastes, it's going to be necessary to keep them out of the hands of kids.
Distribution control however might be a bit much. Only allowing sales in certain stores? Better that the stores enforce their own sale-to-minor policies, although it was proven over the christmas season they do not. (A figure in the high 80% range of how often underage kids were stopped when buying ESRB 18+ games)
Hopefully DeCSS will be one more in a series of flops that will lead the media industries to more reasonable, consumer based, less technologically heavy handed solutions.
I wonder how much marketing all these court cases from the MPAA and the RIAA could have bought, how much talent could have been found and promoted.
Not so long ago, I remember seeing a special about diamond production on Discovery. Several companies now make perfect gem quality diamonds. The gem is indistiguishable from a cultured diamond except through some VERY specialized tests, many of which involve destroying the diamond. Most of these companies advertise their products as artificial, and indeed consider it a selling point. Some claim their diamonds are completely indisitinguishable, even under these tests.
A russian company is referenced often in relation to high quality synthetic diamonds.
Anything that makes anime just that more mainstream can only be good for hardcore anime fans. Anything that makes the market grow means more anime, faster, for less, whether it's subbed or dubbed. I doubt we'll see subtitled anime on TV in the near future, but developing the market can only be a good thing.
My vision is set on the $15 Anime DVD that sell hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies. Maybe I'll even still be alive to see it.
... there's nothing like dozens of high yeild nuclear warheads.
All of these theories are very interesting, but scientists must still acknowledge the power and effectiveness of the nuclear weapon. Faced with being wiped out entirely, vs using ANYTHING, I think it's fair to say any credible asteroid threat to earth would be met with the full resources of the planet, and as such, all but most rediculously large asteroids could be disentegrated. These might be so large as to alter orbits in the solar system anyway, no way to stop that.
Some of these methods require a precision that might be difficult to test, harder to master, and just too darn risky to try when there's an ateroid hurtling towards you. Unless it was detected by the Planetary Base on Pluto with enough time for trial and error.
What I think it comes down to is the real threat of the issue. If we were hit by small and medium impacts regularly you can bet there would be an advanced meteor stopping system in place. While I agree that the threat is obvious, how BIG a threat it is is still argued, and personally I'd feel safer with a more impact tolerant car than an orbital asteroid deflecting heat ray.
Regardless of the hype, the Segway generates buzz and has interest. This is it's first real opportunity to generate sales since the auction early this year reached 6 figures ($160,000 was the highest paid), and another (possibly fake) auction on ebay reached $14,000 before it was shut down.
It'll be interesting to see how it does, like it or hate it.
What makes this practical is the fact that each major chip has 4 or more different iterations, allowing you to wait a bit for results and such (routinely impressive, a bit of an oxymoron) allow the price to come down with the different card releases, and still be able to get the new technology features early on.
I'm in the low $100 range for video cards. I had to wait longer than I wanted for my first GeForce, and the GF 2 came out very shortly after. I did however snap up the GF 3 Ti 200 last year for a little over $120 and have been looking forward to the GF5 since the Radeon came out;) This will give my GF3 a lifespan of about 18 months, something I'm very comfortable with given the price.
It's not even this industry. It's the way business is done. At this moment, I'm watching a full length news article hyping a new birth control pill that's ALSO a weight control pill, and making it sound like the bees knees, they haven't mentioned any side effects, which any hormone pill has.
nVidia, with heavier competition from ATI than they had with the GF2 or 3, needs to have a strong launch of the NV30. Marketing is innevitable. We know they're evil. But get past it and look for what yer interested in. If yer not interested in it, move on.
I don't have any flames for you, but I think yer overreacting to a constant of doing business.
I'm ecstatic that the NV30 has been released. Now I'll wait til about June to upgrade my GF3, when the GF5 "MX" equivalent (as long as it's not like the crappy GF4 MX's, and IS an actual NV30) or the lower of the "Ti" equivalents that are a reasonable price is out.
My take is that the odd numbered GeForces are the ones to buy, major technological jumps over the even numbered ones, which are basically optimizations and ramping up clock speeds without any actual new technology. And with a decent computer, you can get the 2nd best video card of a new odd release and be set for at least a year, even an early adopter like I consider myself to be.
No one listened when I said 3dfx was doomed! You laughed at my TNT! I told you so! Who's laughing now huh?!
Sounds like the unprepared ISP market 4 years ago when it boomed. I'm sure the cell companies will get their act together and beef up.
The non stop aggressive advertising for cell services and the general status of a cell phone in daily life no doubt caused an explosion they weren't ready for. The constant rate wars make it harder and harder for them to invest heavily in infrastructure. A rates increase (timed charges? yay!) is probably the only thing that will pull the industry up again.
Would you pay a bit more for a better service, or will you always go for the most minutes?
The ACTIV glass operates on a completely different principle. In the context of the article, glass is not a practical coating surface for the BASF spray application at this time.
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That said, in its current form, the spray may affect the colour of dark surfaces as its layers are slightly opaque. The coating can also be mechanically unstable on smooth surfaces. But BASF is working to overcome these problems.
Glass isn't in the market yet, but looks like it'd made a great varnish. No more coasters!
I've had to shut down two mail accounts because of the enormous volume of spam they get. Enough to make even using spam filters a bandwidth problem on my dial up. They were unfortunate enough to be linked with mailto: on a medium traffic site before the harvesting craze began and within a couple weeks were effectively unusable.
ISPs need to realise that if they're not going to do anything about it, they'll be blocked. This happened to us years ago when the ORDB started, and we fixed the problem immediately. We didn't think they were being nasty to us, we realised we had a problem, and we set about fixing it. When ISPs get globally klined from IRC networks, their customers want to know why, and put pressure on the ISP. They listen and respond.
This is no different. If yer gonna be a spammy host, prepare to be blacklisted. Reponsible, rigid, no nonsense, targetted policies are the only thing that will have ANY effect, and even they won't STOP all spam. But it sure helps.
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The problem with this kind of discussion is that everything really remains to be seen. But from my own research, and of course, like yours, this has to be based on very beta cards and drivers, I'm convinced the FX will pull ahead in both regions. The FX goes beyond compliance with DirectX 9, and is overqualified in many areas while the 9700 for the most part sticks to spec.
nVidia has one hell of a reputation to maintain, I don't think they'd let it drop for no reason.
It is entirely possible they screwed up the FX of course. If so, they're going to have to explain some devastating returns to accounting.
these figures look more realistic than the figures Nvidia told when the card was announced!
This is true. Marketing is evil. Evil evil evil.
this card will probably not be much more than 20-25% faster than an radeon 9700
When DirectX 9 is out the door, it will not only be faster, but look better. Much better. I suppose I'll catch flack for buying into the hype, but I've been blown away every time.
Besides - who cares about those $400+ gfx cards?
You're right about that last part. For me, it's just about keeping track of who's leading the industry and what technology my next card will have, when I buy it in a year for $120 :)
I'll still bet money the GF FX will be the dominant card come final release.
We even ran O'Reilly WebSite for a number of years with no complaints. Take that Microsoft! No IIS for us!
Congrats and Well Done to an icon of the industry.
*votes to change RTFM to RTFO'Reilly Book*
Not bad for a guy in his backyard. Wonder if he spies on his neighbours like that.
Pop-Ups are also vigourously protested against by site users, and more and more blocked by software, even as a standard feature for Earthlink users. Mainstream sites can't hope to use popups for any period of time without repurcussions.
The basis of earth for life in convenient, since we've never proven much life with any other basis. Water especially. And an earth sized/composed planet. Anything too wildly removed from life on earth (Plutonium Based, Ammonia Breathing life forms for instance) while altogether possible "outside the box" are just too far removed to guess about.
1 in 4 might be good for balls of rock, but it doesn't quite match "Earth".
Distribution control however might be a bit much. Only allowing sales in certain stores? Better that the stores enforce their own sale-to-minor policies, although it was proven over the christmas season they do not. (A figure in the high 80% range of how often underage kids were stopped when buying ESRB 18+ games)
Hopefully DeCSS will be one more in a series of flops that will lead the media industries to more reasonable, consumer based, less technologically heavy handed solutions. I wonder how much marketing all these court cases from the MPAA and the RIAA could have bought, how much talent could have been found and promoted.
A russian company is referenced often in relation to high quality synthetic diamonds.
Some references:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2703diamo nd.html
http://sdiamond.50megs.com/
http://www.lucentdiamonds.com/article_list.htm
My vision is set on the $15 Anime DVD that sell hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies. Maybe I'll even still be alive to see it.
All of these theories are very interesting, but scientists must still acknowledge the power and effectiveness of the nuclear weapon. Faced with being wiped out entirely, vs using ANYTHING, I think it's fair to say any credible asteroid threat to earth would be met with the full resources of the planet, and as such, all but most rediculously large asteroids could be disentegrated. These might be so large as to alter orbits in the solar system anyway, no way to stop that.
Some of these methods require a precision that might be difficult to test, harder to master, and just too darn risky to try when there's an ateroid hurtling towards you. Unless it was detected by the Planetary Base on Pluto with enough time for trial and error.
What I think it comes down to is the real threat of the issue. If we were hit by small and medium impacts regularly you can bet there would be an advanced meteor stopping system in place. While I agree that the threat is obvious, how BIG a threat it is is still argued, and personally I'd feel safer with a more impact tolerant car than an orbital asteroid deflecting heat ray.
It'll be interesting to see how it does, like it or hate it.
I'm in the low $100 range for video cards. I had to wait longer than I wanted for my first GeForce, and the GF 2 came out very shortly after. I did however snap up the GF 3 Ti 200 last year for a little over $120 and have been looking forward to the GF5 since the Radeon came out ;) This will give my GF3 a lifespan of about 18 months, something I'm very comfortable with given the price.
nVidia, with heavier competition from ATI than they had with the GF2 or 3, needs to have a strong launch of the NV30. Marketing is innevitable. We know they're evil. But get past it and look for what yer interested in. If yer not interested in it, move on.
I don't have any flames for you, but I think yer overreacting to a constant of doing business.
My take is that the odd numbered GeForces are the ones to buy, major technological jumps over the even numbered ones, which are basically optimizations and ramping up clock speeds without any actual new technology. And with a decent computer, you can get the 2nd best video card of a new odd release and be set for at least a year, even an early adopter like I consider myself to be.
No one listened when I said 3dfx was doomed! You laughed at my TNT! I told you so! Who's laughing now huh?!
Has he ever had such feelings?
Has he realised how easy it is to make the transition, particularly having acting as someone named "The Big Giant Head"?
Will Mr Shatner comment on the lusty look in his eyes in this picture?
The non stop aggressive advertising for cell services and the general status of a cell phone in daily life no doubt caused an explosion they weren't ready for. The constant rate wars make it harder and harder for them to invest heavily in infrastructure. A rates increase (timed charges? yay!) is probably the only thing that will pull the industry up again.
Would you pay a bit more for a better service, or will you always go for the most minutes?
The ACTIV glass operates on a completely different principle. In the context of the article, glass is not a practical coating surface for the BASF spray application at this time.
Glass isn't in the market yet, but looks like it'd made a great varnish. No more coasters!
Just what we need, putting more people out of work by making them redundant. tsk.
ISPs need to realise that if they're not going to do anything about it, they'll be blocked. This happened to us years ago when the ORDB started, and we fixed the problem immediately. We didn't think they were being nasty to us, we realised we had a problem, and we set about fixing it. When ISPs get globally klined from IRC networks, their customers want to know why, and put pressure on the ISP. They listen and respond.
This is no different. If yer gonna be a spammy host, prepare to be blacklisted. Reponsible, rigid, no nonsense, targetted policies are the only thing that will have ANY effect, and even they won't STOP all spam. But it sure helps.