It's extremely cool when someone VIOLATES the DMCA and could have potentially ruined their livelihood and end up in jail. Personally I don't understand how someone would be stupid enough to crack a program and release it non-anonymously. The way the laws are now, it's safer for someone to rape a 5-year-old boy and admit it then to crack a program.
Quake. In 1996, very few people could afford the pentium required to play this game. Yet ID software insisted on releasing a game with what was then ABSURDLY high requirements. I remember I bought a 486 in 1995 and was dumbfounded when a year later games were being released that couldn't run on it.
Duke Nukem 3d, on the other hand, ran great on my 486, and I played it instead of that badly programmed mess called quake (don't get me started on the music either!)
I had a 50 inch plasma television for a while but I had to return it. Whenever I watched it for more than a half hour I got a brutal migraine. I found out that plasma displays actually emit very high frequency soundwaves which can cause strain on some people.
If you have a cat or dog, it will normally leave the room if you turn on the plasma display, because they are even more sensitive to high frequency sound waves than we are. I would not recommend anyone buy these devices without testing it for a long period of time to make sure you are not suseptable to strain from watching it.
I hate to say it, but sgi hardware has been underpowered for years. Affortable bsd based solutions have made sgi's proprietary hardware obsolete.
The problem is the mips cpu. Even the new r16000 is much too little, too late. Clocking at only 700mhz, it does not stand a chance against the pentium4, athlon, and celeron chips of today which are clocked far above 1 ghz (even the g4 can probably run circles around it!). A good example of the failure of mips is to look at the nintendo64, a video game system developed which uses a mips processor. It was so slow and underpowered that the playstation, which has been out for 2 years before the n64, still had better and smoother graphics. The n64 should have been the final nail in sgi's coffin.
Sgi's main customer, hollywood, has steadily been moving to bsd based platforms for rendering and production. I doubt this new chip will solve the main problem assosiated with sgi: enourmous costs for the hardware as well as the support. SGI's proprietary OS, irix, is not common or standard and experts in irix are expensive and hard to come by.
PC's running bsd are still a far greater value than expensive sgi hardware.
How is this a score for linux if people are still using proprietary applications such as word and outlook? Linux isn't linux without the main software being open-source applications created for linux, not microsoft programs being "emulated' on the linux desktop.
Personally, I think this is more a score for microsoft, being able to market their proprietary products to more people.
The Washington Post wants to know your age, ZIP code and sex, and even provides you with hints on the first two
And yet slashdot still links to their site, as do you guys link to the new york times' site.
As a professional journalist, I can tell you that they use that information you input to profile you and sell it to advertisers. Try posting a google cache link next time instead.
I find it ironic that slashdot links to stories that are hosted on a company owned by microsoft.
If find it odd that Slashdot posts several anti-MS stories every day and yet then proceeds to post a story linked to MSNBC... Who's side are we on here? Maybe if slashdot was truly anti-microsoft they would refrain from linking to their news network. Then again I see MS ads all over this site, so I guesse it's hard to avoid microsoft if you actually want to make money.
It is a well known fact that America is controlled by corporations, such as Microsoft. Unfortunately we cannot do much about this, for it is the corporations that have made America what it is. If it wasn't for global corporations such as Microsoft, McDonnalds, Disney, ect... America wouldn't be the richest and most powerful country on the planet. Really, if you don't like it, there are more socialist countries such as Canada who have a living standard almost as high as USA's that you can move to.
On my sony audiophile setup, even 128kbit ogg's sound rather weak, 128kbit mp3's sound terrible, and 128k wma audio sounds good but there is still a noticable degration of sound.
Bitrate peeling is not a good idea because it seperates the audio signal, with hi frequency data being seperate from low and mid frequency data. On a fast connection, you would get the full spectrum while on a slow one, you would only get low and mid range frequencies. By chopping the frequencies into seperate bits of data, there is a high possibility that they won't be brought back together properly, causing even more artifacts than are in normal ogg audio. While this might make streams more accesible to low bandwidth users, the resulting sound quality would likely not be better than that of realaudio streams!
While this is a good idea in theory, in practice it would sound unbearably bad.
This Stippling effort wins best paper at IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?"
Lets see... ID is a company devoted to making games where you run around aimlessly killing and dismembering people.
the people who developed the strippling effect are hardworking professions trying to help mankind by developing technology that could help further medicine.
it is impossible for people to learn how to use open source if there is no standardized environment. How can you expect people to have courses teaching how to use an OS if there are 30 different window managers to learn? Look at windows.. ONE GUI. Look at mac OS X... ONE GUI. Those happen to be the two most popular desktop Os's, because they are standardized and easy to learn/use.
I am very glad that some people in the world are beginning to 'get it' when it comes to open source. Even if microsoft has crippling control over America, open-source still has a chance in other parts of the world.
Now it is our duty as an open-source community to create USABLE software that any Indian government official, or peruvian office worker, can use. Now that people are starting to see the light, we need to standardize a gui (I would say gnome is the most user friendly and usable one), standardize a web browser (mozilla anyone?), remove the need for archaic unix 'command prompts' and create a good suite of office tools that are on par with microsoft office.
Now is our chance to have open-source software become popular throughout the world, we just have to make sure that it can compete and is compatible with microsoft's products before people will make the big switch!
As much as I am a fan of cheap 'beowulf' custers, there is a certain issue which troubles me. In this case, the cluster in question cost less than 300,000$, a healthy sum, but much less than a large cray or sgi server would cost. Such clusters can be used for an array of activities, such as nucular bomb tests (one of the driving forces in pushing supercomputer technology is nucular weapons), or cracking encryption.
Supercomputers are controlled by USA export laws, but powerful beowulf clusters can be made by anyone with a reasonable amount of money and knowlage. Since the software is free and of the shelf components can be used... wouldn't it be possible for terrorists to use open-source software to create their own supercomputers to test nucular weapons, crack American law and millitary encryption, ect... ?
I believe this 'beowulf' techonology, as great as it is, could be possible dangerous to American interests. It is my hope that this software will soon be controlled by the American millitary and not be spread for free because I fear for the safety of my family and country (bless them both) if terrorists have access to supercomputing technology.
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the astro does have an integrated chipset. Transmeta is not a big enough company to have many different chipset models developed so they ussually go with the cheapest chipset model with the lowest power consumption.
agp 2x was chosen for power reasons, as 4x would have pushed the (relatively underpowered) chipset and cpu too far.
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I was fortunate enough to see this cpu in action at a press demo and I must say I was sadly dissapointed...
The lack of sse2 support greatly hindered this chip in any fps demo, where it was brutalized by the p4 (I'm sure even an amd athlon could beat it under those conditions!).
The 'code morphing' technology also uses an astonishing amount of ram, up to 64mb in some cases, so linux users who need all that ram for gnome should steer clear of this chip. I also noticed that compared to a p4 based system, it was quite unstable, requiring a reboot in windows98se after just 2 hours of demonstrations. I have also heard, from reliable sources, that boards using this chip can only run at agp 2x, which again can hinder game performance.
For power desktop use forget about using this chip, although I'm sure for student or 'dumb terminal' use this chip is suitable.
The reason why people pay so much for diamonds is because they do not know their REAL worth. If you know a thing or two about it you can shop around at different stores and you will notice huge differences in price. It's kind of like clothes... the prices can vary by alot and you need to have a keen eye!
With MS though, it's doesn't matter where you buy it, because you will always be getting ripped off!
Bad balence be damned! When I am a senior citizen I'll be driving around in one of those cool little cart things. Isn't that the whole reason to even grow old?
Unless a news story has to do with cloning, israel, murder, or some sort of celebrity getting charged with a crime, it won't be published. Sadly Journalism has devolved into the equivelent of a Fox special, displaying only quick thrills and eye catching (but unimportant) news and ignoring the more fundemental events in the world.
Don't worry though, we have slashdot to fill the gaping hole left by todays bad journalism!
As much as this would slash shipping costs, what are the chances that this melting of ice caps would cause widespread global destruction? It's hard to ship products when the city your warehouse was in is now underwater!
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It's extremely cool when someone VIOLATES the DMCA and could have potentially ruined their livelihood and end up in jail. Personally I don't understand how someone would be stupid enough to crack a program and release it non-anonymously. The way the laws are now, it's safer for someone to rape a 5-year-old boy and admit it then to crack a program.
Efficiant code doesn't run at 5fps on a year old system.
Quake was a hog in it's day, you couldn't even run it at 640 x 480 (without an accelerator) on the fastest 4000$ systems of the day.
<insert goddamn obvious BEOWULF reference here>
Quake. In 1996, very few people could afford the pentium required to play this game. Yet ID software insisted on releasing a game with what was then ABSURDLY high requirements. I remember I bought a 486 in 1995 and was dumbfounded when a year later games were being released that couldn't run on it.
Duke Nukem 3d, on the other hand, ran great on my 486, and I played it instead of that badly programmed mess called quake (don't get me started on the music either!)
I had a 50 inch plasma television for a while but I had to return it. Whenever I watched it for more than a half hour I got a brutal migraine. I found out that plasma displays actually emit very high frequency soundwaves which can cause strain on some people.
If you have a cat or dog, it will normally leave the room if you turn on the plasma display, because they are even more sensitive to high frequency sound waves than we are. I would not recommend anyone buy these devices without testing it for a long period of time to make sure you are not suseptable to strain from watching it.
I hate to say it, but sgi hardware has been underpowered for years. Affortable bsd based solutions have made sgi's proprietary hardware obsolete.
The problem is the mips cpu. Even the new r16000 is much too little, too late. Clocking at only 700mhz, it does not stand a chance against the pentium4, athlon, and celeron chips of today which are clocked far above 1 ghz (even the g4 can probably run circles around it!). A good example of the failure of mips is to look at the nintendo64, a video game system developed which uses a mips processor. It was so slow and underpowered that the playstation, which has been out for 2 years before the n64, still had better and smoother graphics. The n64 should have been the final nail in sgi's coffin.
Sgi's main customer, hollywood, has steadily been moving to bsd based platforms for rendering and production. I doubt this new chip will solve the main problem assosiated with sgi: enourmous costs for the hardware as well as the support. SGI's proprietary OS, irix, is not common or standard and experts in irix are expensive and hard to come by.
PC's running bsd are still a far greater value than expensive sgi hardware.
How is this a score for linux if people are still using proprietary applications such as word and outlook? Linux isn't linux without the main software being open-source applications created for linux, not microsoft programs being "emulated' on the linux desktop.
Personally, I think this is more a score for microsoft, being able to market their proprietary products to more people.
to remove or at least fix up outlook.
Worms spread thanks to outlook have caused the world millions of dollars in damage
I feel I do not need to be supporting the MPAA which is intent on removing our rights to fair use of media products.
I feel you should all do the same if you care about your rights at all.
The Washington Post wants to know your age, ZIP code and sex, and even provides you with hints on the first two
And yet slashdot still links to their site, as do you guys link to the new york times' site.
As a professional journalist, I can tell you that they use that information you input to profile you and sell it to advertisers. Try posting a google cache link next time instead.
I find it ironic that slashdot links to stories that are hosted on a company owned by microsoft.
If find it odd that Slashdot posts several anti-MS stories every day and yet then proceeds to post a story linked to MSNBC... Who's side are we on here? Maybe if slashdot was truly anti-microsoft they would refrain from linking to their news network. Then again I see MS ads all over this site, so I guesse it's hard to avoid microsoft if you actually want to make money.
It is a well known fact that America is controlled by corporations, such as Microsoft. Unfortunately we cannot do much about this, for it is the corporations that have made America what it is. If it wasn't for global corporations such as Microsoft, McDonnalds, Disney, ect... America wouldn't be the richest and most powerful country on the planet. Really, if you don't like it, there are more socialist countries such as Canada who have a living standard almost as high as USA's that you can move to.
On my sony audiophile setup, even 128kbit ogg's sound rather weak, 128kbit mp3's sound terrible, and 128k wma audio sounds good but there is still a noticable degration of sound.
Bitrate peeling is not a good idea because it seperates the audio signal, with hi frequency data being seperate from low and mid frequency data. On a fast connection, you would get the full spectrum while on a slow one, you would only get low and mid range frequencies. By chopping the frequencies into seperate bits of data, there is a high possibility that they won't be brought back together properly, causing even more artifacts than are in normal ogg audio. While this might make streams more accesible to low bandwidth users, the resulting sound quality would likely not be better than that of realaudio streams!
While this is a good idea in theory, in practice it would sound unbearably bad.
This Stippling effort wins best paper at IEEE Boston conference. Could real time medical rendering be whizzier than Id?"
Lets see... ID is a company devoted to making games where you run around aimlessly killing and dismembering people.
the people who developed the strippling effect are hardworking professions trying to help mankind by developing technology that could help further medicine.
How can you even compare these two?
A truly thoughtless comment.
it is impossible for people to learn how to use open source if there is no standardized environment. How can you expect people to have courses teaching how to use an OS if there are 30 different window managers to learn? Look at windows.. ONE GUI. Look at mac OS X... ONE GUI. Those happen to be the two most popular desktop Os's, because they are standardized and easy to learn/use.
I am very glad that some people in the world are beginning to 'get it' when it comes to open source. Even if microsoft has crippling control over America, open-source still has a chance in other parts of the world.
Now it is our duty as an open-source community to create USABLE software that any Indian government official, or peruvian office worker, can use. Now that people are starting to see the light, we need to standardize a gui (I would say gnome is the most user friendly and usable one), standardize a web browser (mozilla anyone?), remove the need for archaic unix 'command prompts' and create a good suite of office tools that are on par with microsoft office.
Now is our chance to have open-source software become popular throughout the world, we just have to make sure that it can compete and is compatible with microsoft's products before people will make the big switch!
As much as I am a fan of cheap 'beowulf' custers, there is a certain issue which troubles me. In this case, the cluster in question cost less than 300,000$, a healthy sum, but much less than a large cray or sgi server would cost. Such clusters can be used for an array of activities, such as nucular bomb tests (one of the driving forces in pushing supercomputer technology is nucular weapons), or cracking encryption.
Supercomputers are controlled by USA export laws, but powerful beowulf clusters can be made by anyone with a reasonable amount of money and knowlage. Since the software is free and of the shelf components can be used... wouldn't it be possible for terrorists to use open-source software to create their own supercomputers to test nucular weapons, crack American law and millitary encryption, ect... ?
I believe this 'beowulf' techonology, as great as it is, could be possible dangerous to American interests. It is my hope that this software will soon be controlled by the American millitary and not be spread for free because I fear for the safety of my family and country (bless them both) if terrorists have access to supercomputing technology.
the astro does have an integrated chipset. Transmeta is not a big enough company to have many different chipset models developed so they ussually go with the cheapest chipset model with the lowest power consumption.
agp 2x was chosen for power reasons, as 4x would have pushed the (relatively underpowered) chipset and cpu too far.
I was fortunate enough to see this cpu in action at a press demo and I must say I was sadly dissapointed...
The lack of sse2 support greatly hindered this chip in any fps demo, where it was brutalized by the p4 (I'm sure even an amd athlon could beat it under those conditions!).
The 'code morphing' technology also uses an astonishing amount of ram, up to 64mb in some cases, so linux users who need all that ram for gnome should steer clear of this chip. I also noticed that compared to a p4 based system, it was quite unstable, requiring a reboot in windows98se after just 2 hours of demonstrations. I have also heard, from reliable sources, that boards using this chip can only run at agp 2x, which again can hinder game performance.
For power desktop use forget about using this chip, although I'm sure for student or 'dumb terminal' use this chip is suitable.
The reason why people pay so much for diamonds is because they do not know their REAL worth. If you know a thing or two about it you can shop around at different stores and you will notice huge differences in price. It's kind of like clothes... the prices can vary by alot and you need to have a keen eye!
With MS though, it's doesn't matter where you buy it, because you will always be getting ripped off!
Bad balence be damned! When I am a senior citizen I'll be driving around in one of those cool little cart things. Isn't that the whole reason to even grow old?
Alice2: It's not profitable to speak in hypothetical terms.
Alice1: That seems a bit negative.
Alice2: A bit negative is a terrible thing to waste.
I'm going to have to remember that one for my own conversations!
I wouldn't be surprised if some corporation patented the laws of gravity and copying principia would be a violation of the dmca!
Unless a news story has to do with cloning, israel, murder, or some sort of celebrity getting charged with a crime, it won't be published. Sadly Journalism has devolved into the equivelent of a Fox special, displaying only quick thrills and eye catching (but unimportant) news and ignoring the more fundemental events in the world.
Don't worry though, we have slashdot to fill the gaping hole left by todays bad journalism!
As much as this would slash shipping costs, what are the chances that this melting of ice caps would cause widespread global destruction? It's hard to ship products when the city your warehouse was in is now underwater!