Boss: Simon, i was reading this book about Information technology, and it said i have to open a program called 'Command prompt', but when i clicked on the blue button on the left, it didn't turn green as it usually does, but erm.. you know... it kinda hit the bottom and now i have this blue error and can't do anything.
Simon: Oh... does the mouse work?
Boss: erm... no
Simon: oh, this looks very much like a Dual-Homed Configuration Bug Signal.
Boss: eh?
*DUMMY MODE ON*
PFY: cmd.exe probably caused an partial topology exhaustion on the dual-home input device controller, leading to obvious reduntant systems destabilization problem you are experiencing.
Boss: oh... yeah, looks like it.
Simon: luckily, there is something you can do about it! so you have a a paperclip around? Oh, and pocket-knife or something sharp? Can you see the black cord that connects your computer to the wall? ....
prices of computer components are already insanely high here in germany, for example the sharp zaurus sl5500 costs EUR 599 here (yeah, the old 5500, not the 5600). put another 16% and EUR 13 on it, and it'll cost 707 EUR! cool... for that money it would be cheaper to fly to the states and get it from there.
it was micro$o~1 that stole the idea and look of the recycle bin directly from macos. apple sued them, but (in my oppinion: unrightfuly) lost
i think that apple are simply trying to make sure to the maximum possible extent that micro$~1 (or anyone else) doesn't steal that again.
the cool look of macos x is what sells a lot of apples, they paid a lot of money for the design, i doubt they want anyone copying it off for free.
To date, Sony has only talked in vague terms about Blu-ray recorders becoming available in 2003 and an April launch is a surprise, not only because Sony had given no hints that it was close to a commercial product but also because high-definition broadcasting, for which it was designed, has yet to take hold in Japan or anywhere else in the world. The BDZ-S77 has a built-in tuner for Japan's direct-to-home satellite broadcasting service which carries a high definition channel.
and:
Sony has no plans to launch the recorder overseas, Yanagisawa said.
first it travelled 1000km in the luggage compartment of a bus. no problem for it, since it's 5 years old and has proved itself as very reliable.
then, one cloudy stormy day, it had the thrilling experience of being struck by lightning. there were power surges in the power cables and in the network cables. i was just working when i suddenly heard a loud explosion right next to me, and a bright light
then i realized that it was a lighning bolt, and frantically moved the mouse around hoping that i was dreaming or something.
ofcourse the box had frozen, so i pulled the plug (all plugs for that matter) and after the storm passed (i was too scared to boot it again during the storm) i brought it back up... or tried to.
it seems that the mobo didn't like the processor anymore, or atleast it didn't recognize it. to my suprise though, when i rebooted, the box started as though nothing had happened.
everjoyed, i immediately started testing the components to see if anything had burnt. the pci and isa bus weren't working. but, again, in a few days time the isa bus suddent came back from the dead (and after a _lot_ of hotplugging my soundcard).
after a lot of changing stuff, i found out that the pci bus (the only thing that still hadn't recovered) worked if i put the mobo in another box. so i swapped mobos.
later i decided to upgrade my cpu, and it wouldn't be me if i didn't overclock the cpu with 50%. ofcourse, i forgot to plug the fan in, which i noticed after several hours and a couple of kernel panics. and well... that was one month ago.
the soundcard (which is 7 years old) is doing weird things from time to time, but that's about it.
and that is only a tiny fraction of the things that have happened to this box (surely vacuum cleaning it every week while it's on, as i've removed [read:lost] the covers doesn't count).
there's simply no space on slashdot to post a full story of the ordeals of my poor computer.
it should be so, but alas, the new geforce performs very badly when the shader code isn't optimized for it. also the is the other color-depth issue.
basically if you want the geforcefx to run as fast as it is capable of, then you have to optimize code for it.
i haven't seen any head-to-head 3dmark results of the new geforce versus radeon, but i assume that the geforce will be trailing with an unrealistic margin, considering what it can really do.
having an open source benchmark would mean that you could modify it yourself in your favor, compile it, and then come up with the killer score. a very important feature of 3dmark is that, if you wish, it will send your (non-tampered-with) benchmark results to the database that you can view on the website. if you had read the article on thg you would know that this database is very important because many computer manufacturers use it as a statistic on the current trends in the industry.
what bothers me is that the geforceFX, being very slow with unoptimized code, needs code specially rewritten so it works fast. directx was created with the idea that it will be the standard 3D engine, eliminating the need of a each game developing its own.
now nvidia are introducing a new factor in the equation: now you have to write different code for each videocard. just as there used to be 3dfx-only games.
isn't this against the idea of directx? seems very counterproductive to me, and an attempt by nvidia to monopolize the gaming industry.
mac os interface has always been very user-friendly, and it has always been the only other popular full-blown-100%-point-n-click interface. but you are right, tras^H^H^H^H recycle bin from mac os, start menu from os/2, and the rest from next... ah well, that _is_ innovative, stealing the best from the competitors and getting away with it...
and about opteron/itanuim, itanium did get support, it's only opteron. that is why i am pissed. maybe i'm paranoid, maybe it was intentional, but either way it's very bad for amd.
i really hope that what they say in the interview about microsoft investing more into helping the computer industry and boosting promising technologies like tablet pc.
unfortunately microsoft have always had the habit of promising much and doing nothing.
look at intel, they also dominate the CPU market, but they introduced hyperthreading to the mass market, now they are trying to make wireless lan a standard. in comparison, the latest major two innovations microsoft made (kinda) was ripping off mac os's user interface in windows95, and using the NT kernel on desktop computer (yaay, a stable os, what a great breakthrough)
atleast we get to read another interview with bill gates, and again he leaves the impression that he is simply a geek living his dream.
ah well, let's hope that in his view of the future some good news comes from microsoft, for a change, and they start using all that money and influence for something useful, instead using it to control the computer market, as we saw today as microsoft didn't bring out the opteron version of windows.
I'm bot willing to comment on the security aspects of having so much information stored by computers, but security is always achievable by compromizing on features.
But indeed, this house seems rather more like a geekish dream than something Joe Average would want. After all, not all people are willing to devote countless hours of their lives on learning to operate computers, and are even less willing to spend times for time on fixing them. after all, it's nice having a computer with a large screen in your room, you can write emails and play games on it. but the last thing i would want is a mechanical voice chanting that i need to buy diet coke when i go into the kitchen, because i'm overweight. or, for that matter, having a pda all the time around me. each time i go out, i start searching for my phone, mp3player, watch, the photo camera that gets attached to the phone, etc... and what luck! they all have batteries! so now, before i go out, i have to check if i have replacement batteries for everything with me, because, say, my mp3player's battery _ought_ to be changed in about an hour. same thing with this house: taking care of all the equipment is much more stress than benefits. after all, as i'm a geek, i'd be happy to have all that stuff. but it's nothing more than geek toys. at the moment you have a computer that doesn't infest your private life, if you want to search the net, you sit in front of the computer and do so. in this apartment, when i search the net, there'll be a mechanical voice chasing me from room to room telling me how long the search took. if i want information, i'll devote some time searching for it. having screens in every room and a voice-controlled computer won't change that. if i can't take my time and concentrate on an activity, then it will inevitabely fail, no matter how many smart computer screens there are in the room.
and, ofcourse, what happens if something goes wrong with this utopia? i wait 5 minutes for the lights to go on because my kid is playing quake?
i work on a similar project and we use mpeg4ip (mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net) to capture input from a tv tuner and compress it in realtime to mpeg4 video and aac audio. there also is a program called 'streamer' that comes with xawtv.
In the 80's Veljko Milutinovic invented the first 200MHz risc computer (which would just about be the price of a CSIRAC would have been 30 years earlier) so Moore's "law" still was in effect.
next thing nVidia will think of is connecting your freezer and your vacuum cleaner to the intake/exhaust vents respectively. but hey, its not that bad, its only that when you power Quake up, the lights in the whole street go dim...
oooh, the geforcemx sure looks nice, i would like to see a demo with more than one ogre/dawn though, i wonder if the card will be able to render more than one character in such detail:)
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Simon: Oh... does the mouse work?
Boss: erm... no
Simon: oh, this looks very much like a Dual-Homed Configuration Bug Signal.
Boss: eh?
*DUMMY MODE ON*
PFY: cmd.exe probably caused an partial topology exhaustion on the dual-home input device controller, leading to obvious reduntant systems destabilization problem you are experiencing.
Boss: oh... yeah, looks like it.
Simon: luckily, there is something you can do about it! so you have a a paperclip around? Oh, and pocket-knife or something sharp? Can you see the black cord that connects your computer to the wall?
prices of computer components are already insanely high here in germany, for example the sharp zaurus sl5500 costs EUR 599 here (yeah, the old 5500, not the 5600). put another 16% and EUR 13 on it, and it'll cost 707 EUR! cool... for that money it would be cheaper to fly to the states and get it from there.
you're new here, aren't you?
it was micro$o~1 that stole the idea and look of the recycle bin directly from macos. apple sued them, but (in my oppinion: unrightfuly) lost
i think that apple are simply trying to make sure to the maximum possible extent that micro$~1 (or anyone else) doesn't steal that again.
the cool look of macos x is what sells a lot of apples, they paid a lot of money for the design, i doubt they want anyone copying it off for free.
yeah, great, download it, then post the link on slashdot so you can sell your copy for money cause the animatrix server has been slashdotted.
sorry for the bold, i suck at html tags. must have missed an 'r' in
first it travelled 1000km in the luggage compartment of a bus. no problem for it, since it's 5 years old and has proved itself as very reliable.
then, one cloudy stormy day, it had the thrilling experience of being struck by lightning. there were power surges in the power cables and in the network cables. i was just working when i suddenly heard a loud explosion right next to me, and a bright light then i realized that it was a lighning bolt, and frantically moved the mouse around hoping that i was dreaming or something.
ofcourse the box had frozen, so i pulled the plug (all plugs for that matter) and after the storm passed (i was too scared to boot it again during the storm) i brought it back up... or tried to.
it seems that the mobo didn't like the processor anymore, or atleast it didn't recognize it. to my suprise though, when i rebooted, the box started as though nothing had happened.
everjoyed, i immediately started testing the components to see if anything had burnt. the pci and isa bus weren't working. but, again, in a few days time the isa bus suddent came back from the dead (and after a _lot_ of hotplugging my soundcard).
after a lot of changing stuff, i found out that the pci bus (the only thing that still hadn't recovered) worked if i put the mobo in another box. so i swapped mobos.
later i decided to upgrade my cpu, and it wouldn't be me if i didn't overclock the cpu with 50%. ofcourse, i forgot to plug the fan in, which i noticed after several hours and a couple of kernel panics. and well... that was one month ago.
the soundcard (which is 7 years old) is doing weird things from time to time, but that's about it.
and that is only a tiny fraction of the things that have happened to this box (surely vacuum cleaning it every week while it's on, as i've removed [read:lost] the covers doesn't count).
there's simply no space on slashdot to post a full story of the ordeals of my poor computer.
basically if you want the geforcefx to run as fast as it is capable of, then you have to optimize code for it.
i haven't seen any head-to-head 3dmark results of the new geforce versus radeon, but i assume that the geforce will be trailing with an unrealistic margin, considering what it can really do.
having an open source benchmark would mean that you could modify it yourself in your favor, compile it, and then come up with the killer score. a very important feature of 3dmark is that, if you wish, it will send your (non-tampered-with) benchmark results to the database that you can view on the website. if you had read the article on thg you would know that this database is very important because many computer manufacturers use it as a statistic on the current trends in the industry.
now nvidia are introducing a new factor in the equation: now you have to write different code for each videocard. just as there used to be 3dfx-only games.
isn't this against the idea of directx? seems very counterproductive to me, and an attempt by nvidia to monopolize the gaming industry.
i can't believe noone has made an xbox-powered vacuum cleaner yet...
mac os interface has always been very user-friendly, and it has always been the only other popular full-blown-100%-point-n-click interface. but you are right, tras^H^H^H^H recycle bin from mac os, start menu from os/2, and the rest from next... ah well, that _is_ innovative, stealing the best from the competitors and getting away with it... and about opteron/itanuim, itanium did get support, it's only opteron. that is why i am pissed. maybe i'm paranoid, maybe it was intentional, but either way it's very bad for amd.
ah, but there is, you ignorant linux user.
unfortunately microsoft have always had the habit of promising much and doing nothing.
look at intel, they also dominate the CPU market, but they introduced hyperthreading to the mass market, now they are trying to make wireless lan a standard. in comparison, the latest major two innovations microsoft made (kinda) was ripping off mac os's user interface in windows95, and using the NT kernel on desktop computer (yaay, a stable os, what a great breakthrough)
atleast we get to read another interview with bill gates, and again he leaves the impression that he is simply a geek living his dream.
ah well, let's hope that in his view of the future some good news comes from microsoft, for a change, and they start using all that money and influence for something useful, instead using it to control the computer market, as we saw today as microsoft didn't bring out the opteron version of windows.
another url is http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-985265.html check it out
not only that, the spam is personally addressed to you.
i'd say the three nerds from The X Files atleast looked and behaved the way a true geek does.
I'm bot willing to comment on the security aspects of having so much information stored by computers, but security is always achievable by compromizing on features. But indeed, this house seems rather more like a geekish dream than something Joe Average would want. After all, not all people are willing to devote countless hours of their lives on learning to operate computers, and are even less willing to spend times for time on fixing them. after all, it's nice having a computer with a large screen in your room, you can write emails and play games on it. but the last thing i would want is a mechanical voice chanting that i need to buy diet coke when i go into the kitchen, because i'm overweight. or, for that matter, having a pda all the time around me. each time i go out, i start searching for my phone, mp3player, watch, the photo camera that gets attached to the phone, etc... and what luck! they all have batteries! so now, before i go out, i have to check if i have replacement batteries for everything with me, because, say, my mp3player's battery _ought_ to be changed in about an hour. same thing with this house: taking care of all the equipment is much more stress than benefits. after all, as i'm a geek, i'd be happy to have all that stuff. but it's nothing more than geek toys. at the moment you have a computer that doesn't infest your private life, if you want to search the net, you sit in front of the computer and do so. in this apartment, when i search the net, there'll be a mechanical voice chasing me from room to room telling me how long the search took. if i want information, i'll devote some time searching for it. having screens in every room and a voice-controlled computer won't change that. if i can't take my time and concentrate on an activity, then it will inevitabely fail, no matter how many smart computer screens there are in the room. and, ofcourse, what happens if something goes wrong with this utopia? i wait 5 minutes for the lights to go on because my kid is playing quake?
i work on a similar project and we use mpeg4ip (mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net) to capture input from a tv tuner and compress it in realtime to mpeg4 video and aac audio. there also is a program called 'streamer' that comes with xawtv.
i was very pleasantly surprised by someone finally giving John Atanasoff the credit for inventing computers.
In the 80's Veljko Milutinovic invented the first 200MHz risc computer (which would just about be the price of a CSIRAC would have been 30 years earlier) so Moore's "law" still was in effect.
next thing nVidia will think of is connecting your freezer and your vacuum cleaner to the intake/exhaust vents respectively. but hey, its not that bad, its only that when you power Quake up, the lights in the whole street go dim...
oooh, the geforcemx sure looks nice, i would like to see a demo with more than one ogre/dawn though, i wonder if the card will be able to render more than one character in such detail :)