I've been waiting for something like this. SCO have been complete hypocrites about all of this. They claim they have IP rights on code that is being used in Linux/Unix. They wait MONTHS to produce the said code, and only by the order of a judge. Said code was stolen by SCO from ANOTHER COMPANY!!! They have no backing. Now, they are completely fucked, and I sit here in my chair and laugh.
They need to be put out of business... permanently.
That's great and all... if you don't plan on doing any gaming. Have you ever tried to game with a Matrox or XGI card? It doesn't work the greatest. Matrox's FASTEST video card pales in comparison to even a Geforce 2 Ultra in 3d performance, and I won't even start on XGI.
Not necessarily. As time goes on, it costs less and less to manufacture these. The video core, which is kind of a haggle between a Geforce 2 and a Geforce 3 (basically, an overpowered Geforce 2 w/ vertex and pixel shaders), was beyond what PC manufacturers had out at the time. Now, we are 2 cores BEYOND that, so manufacturing costs have dropped signifigantly. As far as the processor goes- it's a 700mhz Celeron, which costs practically nothing to manufacture now.
The 8GB hard drive they are using is now TINY comparatively.
In short, that's how they do it.
The first thing I'm going to say: they just don't care. They don't want to know. Especially on campuses that rely heavily on grants, IT workers, because their managers tell them to, just ignore illegal files. A good chunk of the people sharing files are actually professors and their assistants.
I think most people will miss the point entirely on this matter. MP3's of bands and music recordings, etc., will have absolutely no use for this tech. Where people will see the benefit is when ripping DVD's and encoding AVI files. The best, and smallest, format for AVI audio is MP3. This will enable people to encode MP3s at, say, 160kbps, and also have surround sound. I find this to be quite exciting. I know, I'm a dork.
"Recently there has been almost no inovation whatsoever. Every new game which comes out belongs to an already existing category (strategy, 3d fps, simulation, etc), with the only difference between them being slightly modified sprites."
True, there are no new genres being developed. But, that is because all the genres that could possibly be created have been already.
Also, video games use pixels, not point sprites. Where have you been for the last 8 years?
You don't take care of it.
I work for an ISP (I'll choose to remain anonymous, thanks).
AFAIK, what we do to monitor viral activity is, for the most part, to monitor outgoing mail connections. When we see that a certain IP address is attempting, say, 200 connections at once to our outgoing mail server, there's a very good chance that that user is infected with a mass mailing worm/virus. We shut down their cable modem, call them and tell them what the situation is, email them links to online virus scans and McAfee Stinger, and then turn their modem back on. If we still detect viral activity up to 12 hours of the modem being turned back on, they are shut off again.
Now, this is just what I know. I'm a lowly level 1 Tech Support guy. There might be other detection methods that I am not aware of.
Stargate:SG1- I know, mod me off topic, but this is a chance to promote my favorite show in the entire world.
This is the best show, ever, period, no questions asked, and no comparisons.
Samantha Carter=t3h Hawt!!!1! (aka Amanda Tapping)
The combination of action, humor and fantasy is just right. It's not too far out in left field, as most of what they discover and utilize as far as new technology goes is just an extension of current theories and devices.
Yay for Stargate!!!!
Are you completely retarded? Strip all attachments? That would piss every customer off, not to mention some obscure legal issues I bet that they could dig up. Mark this as flamebait, I don't care, but this is the most retarded idea I've ever heard.
The one major thing that I HATE about my job is dealing with all of the BS policies made by my company for the sole purpose of screwing our customers over.
There were but a very few benchmarks that the Xeons beat the Opterons on in the 2 way configuration. And even those were by a very small margin. And in the 4 way configs? It was a slaughter.
Why is it that so many titles are released exclusively for consoles, and never released for the PC? Do the game companies NOT realize that the most hardcore, high spending gamers use the PC as their primary gaming platform? Granted, there are a lot (A LOT) of PC titles that don't do so hot. But that is because the genious creative minds behing all the great console hits aren't creating them. PC exclusive games are usually buggy as hell upon release, with poor game play and even more poor acting. If we could get some of these top developers to start releasing their console exclusive hits on PC, I think they would notice that we, as PC gamers, are just starved for good content. Our market SUCKS.
HELLO!!! This is not even REMOTELY the same. For one, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air was made almost 50 years ago. Windows 98 was released in 1997- almost 7 years ago. That's a bit of a stretch, and you know it. Are you purposely trying to create flaimbait? If not, then please, go away- you know virtually nothing about the world of computers.
Nothing. But Microsoft has stopped releasing patches through the Windows Update system for: Windows 95 and Windows 98, which together make up about 30-35% of all machines out there. If any new security vulnerabilities pop up on these OS's, you're essentially screwed.
Up until recently, AMD has had to follow in Intel's footsteps. They have been forced to use Intel's extensions for years- until this (VERY) bold move by them. Now, the tables are turned, and Intel are backed into the corner instead of AMD.
I love it.
I work for an ISP. Every ISP has a limited amount of bandwidth that they pay for themselves, provided by a larger company. Now, we have about 6,000 users on this part of our network. We have an OC3 connection, which is capped at 52MB/s. If everyone on our network were to uncap, do you realized how detrimental that would be to us? NOONE would be able to get online. The users would just be screwing themselves.
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Damn... there goes my karma. They removed the parent.
Fuck off. C'mon mods, remove this post. This is trash. I hate this kind of spam.
It doesn't matter if it IS MS vs. IBM. They have no case (SCO). They WILL
I've been waiting for something like this. SCO have been complete hypocrites about all of this. They claim they have IP rights on code that is being used in Linux/Unix. They wait MONTHS to produce the said code, and only by the order of a judge. Said code was stolen by SCO from ANOTHER COMPANY!!! They have no backing. Now, they are completely fucked, and I sit here in my chair and laugh. They need to be put out of business... permanently.
Dude... I live like a half hour away from you...
That's great and all... if you don't plan on doing any gaming. Have you ever tried to game with a Matrox or XGI card? It doesn't work the greatest. Matrox's FASTEST video card pales in comparison to even a Geforce 2 Ultra in 3d performance, and I won't even start on XGI.
Not necessarily. As time goes on, it costs less and less to manufacture these. The video core, which is kind of a haggle between a Geforce 2 and a Geforce 3 (basically, an overpowered Geforce 2 w/ vertex and pixel shaders), was beyond what PC manufacturers had out at the time. Now, we are 2 cores BEYOND that, so manufacturing costs have dropped signifigantly. As far as the processor goes- it's a 700mhz Celeron, which costs practically nothing to manufacture now. The 8GB hard drive they are using is now TINY comparatively. In short, that's how they do it.
The first thing I'm going to say: they just don't care. They don't want to know. Especially on campuses that rely heavily on grants, IT workers, because their managers tell them to, just ignore illegal files. A good chunk of the people sharing files are actually professors and their assistants.
Blatant Teal'c reference satisfied. :)
I think most people will miss the point entirely on this matter. MP3's of bands and music recordings, etc., will have absolutely no use for this tech. Where people will see the benefit is when ripping DVD's and encoding AVI files. The best, and smallest, format for AVI audio is MP3. This will enable people to encode MP3s at, say, 160kbps, and also have surround sound. I find this to be quite exciting. I know, I'm a dork.
"Recently there has been almost no inovation whatsoever. Every new game which comes out belongs to an already existing category (strategy, 3d fps, simulation, etc), with the only difference between them being slightly modified sprites." True, there are no new genres being developed. But, that is because all the genres that could possibly be created have been already. Also, video games use pixels, not point sprites. Where have you been for the last 8 years?
You don't take care of it. I work for an ISP (I'll choose to remain anonymous, thanks). AFAIK, what we do to monitor viral activity is, for the most part, to monitor outgoing mail connections. When we see that a certain IP address is attempting, say, 200 connections at once to our outgoing mail server, there's a very good chance that that user is infected with a mass mailing worm/virus. We shut down their cable modem, call them and tell them what the situation is, email them links to online virus scans and McAfee Stinger, and then turn their modem back on. If we still detect viral activity up to 12 hours of the modem being turned back on, they are shut off again. Now, this is just what I know. I'm a lowly level 1 Tech Support guy. There might be other detection methods that I am not aware of.
Stargate:SG1- I know, mod me off topic, but this is a chance to promote my favorite show in the entire world. This is the best show, ever, period, no questions asked, and no comparisons. Samantha Carter=t3h Hawt!!!1! (aka Amanda Tapping) The combination of action, humor and fantasy is just right. It's not too far out in left field, as most of what they discover and utilize as far as new technology goes is just an extension of current theories and devices. Yay for Stargate!!!!
Are you completely retarded? Strip all attachments? That would piss every customer off, not to mention some obscure legal issues I bet that they could dig up. Mark this as flamebait, I don't care, but this is the most retarded idea I've ever heard.
English motherfucker, do you speak it?
The one major thing that I HATE about my job is dealing with all of the BS policies made by my company for the sole purpose of screwing our customers over.
Because of the new release of the 4MB L3 cache Xeon, you jackass, and because of the added support of AMDs 64 bit extension support.
There were but a very few benchmarks that the Xeons beat the Opterons on in the 2 way configuration. And even those were by a very small margin. And in the 4 way configs? It was a slaughter.
Why is it that so many titles are released exclusively for consoles, and never released for the PC? Do the game companies NOT realize that the most hardcore, high spending gamers use the PC as their primary gaming platform? Granted, there are a lot (A LOT) of PC titles that don't do so hot. But that is because the genious creative minds behing all the great console hits aren't creating them. PC exclusive games are usually buggy as hell upon release, with poor game play and even more poor acting. If we could get some of these top developers to start releasing their console exclusive hits on PC, I think they would notice that we, as PC gamers, are just starved for good content. Our market SUCKS.
HELLO!!! This is not even REMOTELY the same. For one, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air was made almost 50 years ago. Windows 98 was released in 1997- almost 7 years ago. That's a bit of a stretch, and you know it. Are you purposely trying to create flaimbait? If not, then please, go away- you know virtually nothing about the world of computers.
Nothing. But Microsoft has stopped releasing patches through the Windows Update system for: Windows 95 and Windows 98, which together make up about 30-35% of all machines out there. If any new security vulnerabilities pop up on these OS's, you're essentially screwed.
Up until recently, AMD has had to follow in Intel's footsteps. They have been forced to use Intel's extensions for years- until this (VERY) bold move by them. Now, the tables are turned, and Intel are backed into the corner instead of AMD. I love it.
As always, you are wrong. The TRUE answer is 42.
This is, quite honestly, ASTONISHINGLY stupid. No further comments necessary.
I work for an ISP. Every ISP has a limited amount of bandwidth that they pay for themselves, provided by a larger company. Now, we have about 6,000 users on this part of our network. We have an OC3 connection, which is capped at 52MB/s. If everyone on our network were to uncap, do you realized how detrimental that would be to us? NOONE would be able to get online. The users would just be screwing themselves.