I believe his LMHOSTS comment was supposed to mean to enable profiles across the universe. WINS servers don't work across the net in practice (not that anyone would really try), but with an LMHOSTS files, one could have a domain controller and profiles accessible from anywhere.
Is it the small percentage that RAMBUS gets as a royalty, or the painfully low yields that results in astronomic RIMM pricing?
I for one, think Rambus's cut is negligible, even if their cut for DDR SDRAM is 2x that of RIMMS, DDR SDRAM is still going to be waaaaaaay cheaper when it comes out.
But on the other hand I have seen stuff by Tim O'Reilly where he kicks himself for not doing Greg Lehey's FreeBSD book when he had the chance, and he mentions how he was still open to doing a FreeBSD book if the opportunity came along.
The EP is a fairly liberal institution, as there is a high correlation with liberalism and support of spreading the European integration project. The EP, of any institution at the EU or US level is most likely to be concerned about the privacy ramifications.
DVDs clearly will have a longer shelf life than games, so that comparison isn't really valid.
The DVD market is completely different than the VHS market. DVDs are purchased, not rented, and therefore it makes a lot more sense to make them futureproof.
DVD players are also wildly different in quality, manufacturors have been doing about a good of a job of implementing the complete dvd spec as MS does implemented RFC's (I am a MCSE, so this isn't a troll). Some players even have trouble keeping audio and video in sync, others have trouble with layer changes. Pan n Scan on the fly would probably be a mess.
If it isn't letterboxed, you lose 43% of the picture when films are panned and scanned.
Properly made DVD's (anamorphic letterboxed) are future proofed for HDTV, which *will* become ubiquitous (thank you FCC). Most movies are shot at 1.85, so they will look just nifty at 1.78 (16/9, current tvs are 4/3 (1.33).
Even with HDTV, some classics like Chinatown (2.35) and Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia ( both 2.66 or so) will still be letterboxed because they were shot for the 70mm and other wider ratio formats.
If you want to see the whole picture, you need leterboxing. Or, accept 43% less film, and watch cable.
you didn't happen to work at a *very* large insurance firm that is in the process of demutualizing, did you?
matt
Re:The Strange Case Of The Video Card Industry
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N9 was doomed when the street price for a 128 -II was 400ish, and a Matrox Mill 2 was 200. THe Mill 2 was a better card, as it was comparable business wise, and for 2d DOS games it was far superior. Game over, out of touch, good luck and god bless
If you put your existing ads into/ads on your boxen, then Akamai should be able to let you serve yours from/ads as well. Evolve or die. Slow ass ad servers are a plague, and Akamai seems to be representative lately.
Dude, what is going to stop Junkbuster from releasing Junkzilla 1.0 this summer? SOmeone very may well release such a Mozilla based browser with blocking features, and if it is stable as Netscape 6, it could easily take off.
Of course, given the number of idiots running AllAdvantage, it probably won't.
The new chip is the VSA-100, it is basically infinitely SMP-able. The Voodoo 4 4500 card has one processor, and will only perform like existing Voodoo 3 cards. The Voodoo 5 5x00 cards have dual chips, with either 32 or 64 mb of ram (in pci and agp incarnations, respectively. Ram is divided between the chips, so the 64 meg version is basically 32 per chip, so it isn't exactly a quantum leap for sotring textures.
Forthcoming is the Voodoo 5 6000 with 4 cpu, 128mb and an external power supply. MSRP 600 bucks. Ouch.
The big feature they are touting in full screen antialiasing, reducing jaggies on polygons and textures, etc. 3dfx, like Matrox, is holding off on hardware transform and lighting until MSFT releases DirectX 8, this fall. Hardware TnL is what nVidia claims will make your dick hard, your hair grow back,etc.
These cards can do 2x and 4x FSAA, 2x is rendering each frame twice, and displaying the blend, 4x is four times.. you get the picture. This kills fill rate, which is brutal on Quake 3 Arena frame rate.
So, on games that aren't dependent on raw brutal fill rate, like car and flying sims, the FSAA is probably a great feature for you. For a basically a Quake 3 only player like myself, its not the be all end all. For q3, the new Voodoos are an incremental advancement, not revolutionary.
Personally, I am goingto wait for the Matrox g450 (quicker g400 max) and nVidia's stuff to come out before purchasing. The nVidia NDA expire tomorrow on their new chip, the n15. The new Matrox stuff should be out this quarter, with their monstra g800 probablyh 6 months away.
The WinTV-d only support 480i, the lowest of the low HDTV resolutions, in fact, so low that that res it typically referred to as D(igital)TV, cuz the rez aint all that high. Hauppauge is going to have a full out, ahve you cake and eat it too, completely HDTV card within the year, but this sure aint it.
What OS are you running? On my WIn2k desktop, I have the Logitech SW installed, so I am not surprised that the wheel on ym Mouse Man + works fine. But on a WIn95 box, the wheel didn't work on a MS mouse, and that was probably due to the old crappy MS wheel mouse software, which originally did not work in many application, just MS ones (surprise!).
Following a link to a link to a link, the box is 650 quid, which is over a grand US. Which means that you just paid over a grand for a 64 mb ramm, 5.7 gig drive, cd rom, floppy system. Sooooo not worth it. For 1k these days you are looking at some serious CPU horsepower on an Intel platform, because since this thang is in an ATX case, it doesn't over anything sizewise over Wintel hardware.
If the Justice department screws this up due to lack of backbone, the European Union could get involved. Until now they have been holding back, as is par for the course, as they generally have a much poorer opinion of unilateral action.
The EU is still completely within their rights to go after MS, but the question remains if the justice dept. doesn't have enough backbone to go after MS, does the EU?
I am a BSD user (Open on my firewall, Free on my laptop), but I think someone ought to note that just today there was a FreeBSD ports exploit on bugtraq. Sure, a user may or may not have elected to install that port, but nonetheless, drop the holier that thou attitude and help others out on security issues.
Christ, if we spent as much time worrying about security as we did about OS holy wars, we'd be soooooo much better off.
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I believe his LMHOSTS comment was supposed to mean to enable profiles across the universe. WINS servers don't work across the net in practice (not that anyone would really try), but with an LMHOSTS files, one could have a domain controller and profiles accessible from anywhere.
Is it the small percentage that RAMBUS gets as a royalty, or the painfully low yields that results in astronomic RIMM pricing?
I for one, think Rambus's cut is negligible, even if their cut for DDR SDRAM is 2x that of RIMMS, DDR SDRAM is still going to be waaaaaaay cheaper when it comes out.
But on the other hand I have seen stuff by Tim O'Reilly where he kicks himself for not doing Greg Lehey's FreeBSD book when he had the chance, and he mentions how he was still open to doing a FreeBSD book if the opportunity came along.
matt
Does anyone really think they would invoke questioning of their integrity by aligning themselves with a particular OS?
O'reilly: the religious texts of agnostic geeks the wolrd over
The EP is a fairly liberal institution, as there is a high correlation with liberalism and support of spreading the European integration project. The EP, of any institution at the EU or US level is most likely to be concerned about the privacy ramifications.
So Euros, call your MEP!!!!!!!!
ostiguy
The man pages in BSD are generally of a much higher quality than Linux's. Best to ahve the documentation on the box rather than on random web sites.
matt
Why bother with CAT 3 at all?
matt
DVDs clearly will have a longer shelf life than games, so that comparison isn't really valid.
The DVD market is completely different than the VHS market. DVDs are purchased, not rented, and therefore it makes a lot more sense to make them futureproof.
DVD players are also wildly different in quality, manufacturors have been doing about a good of a job of implementing the complete dvd spec as MS does implemented RFC's (I am a MCSE, so this isn't a troll). Some players even have trouble keeping audio and video in sync, others have trouble with layer changes. Pan n Scan on the fly would probably be a mess.
matt
If it isn't letterboxed, you lose 43% of the picture when films are panned and scanned.
Properly made DVD's (anamorphic letterboxed) are future proofed for HDTV, which *will* become ubiquitous (thank you FCC). Most movies are shot at 1.85, so they will look just nifty at 1.78 (16/9, current tvs are 4/3 (1.33).
Even with HDTV, some classics like Chinatown (2.35) and Ben Hur and Lawrence of Arabia ( both 2.66 or so) will still be letterboxed because they were shot for the 70mm and other wider ratio formats.
If you want to see the whole picture, you need leterboxing. Or, accept 43% less film, and watch cable.
Matt
you didn't happen to work at a *very* large insurance firm that is in the process of demutualizing, did you?
matt
N9 was doomed when the street price for a 128 -II was 400ish, and a Matrox Mill 2 was 200. THe Mill 2 was a better card, as it was comparable business wise, and for 2d DOS games it was far superior. Game over, out of touch, good luck and god bless
matt
If you put your existing ads into /ads on your boxen, then Akamai should be able to let you serve yours from /ads as well. Evolve or die. Slow ass ad servers are a plague, and Akamai seems to be representative lately.
matt
Dude, what is going to stop Junkbuster from releasing Junkzilla 1.0 this summer? SOmeone very may well release such a Mozilla based browser with blocking features, and if it is stable as Netscape 6, it could easily take off.
Of course, given the number of idiots running AllAdvantage, it probably won't.
matt
A game whose time has come!
matt
The new chip is the VSA-100, it is basically infinitely SMP-able. The Voodoo 4 4500 card has one processor, and will only perform like existing Voodoo 3 cards. The Voodoo 5 5x00 cards have dual chips, with either 32 or 64 mb of ram (in pci and agp incarnations, respectively. Ram is divided between the chips, so the 64 meg version is basically 32 per chip, so it isn't exactly a quantum leap for sotring textures.
,etc.
Forthcoming is the Voodoo 5 6000 with 4 cpu, 128mb and an external power supply. MSRP 600 bucks. Ouch.
The big feature they are touting in full screen antialiasing, reducing jaggies on polygons and textures, etc. 3dfx, like Matrox, is holding off on hardware transform and lighting until MSFT releases DirectX 8, this fall. Hardware TnL is what nVidia claims will make your dick hard, your hair grow back
These cards can do 2x and 4x FSAA, 2x is rendering each frame twice, and displaying the blend, 4x is four times.. you get the picture. This kills fill rate, which is brutal on Quake 3 Arena frame rate.
So, on games that aren't dependent on raw brutal fill rate, like car and flying sims, the FSAA is probably a great feature for you. For a basically a Quake 3 only player like myself, its not the be all end all. For q3, the new Voodoos are an incremental advancement, not revolutionary.
Personally, I am goingto wait for the Matrox g450 (quicker g400 max) and nVidia's stuff to come out before purchasing. The nVidia NDA expire tomorrow on their new chip, the n15. The new Matrox stuff should be out this quarter, with their monstra g800 probablyh 6 months away.
matt
0 -55 C.
My 400mhz dualies at 450mhz on a BP6 are doing 34c at 99% idle. They hit 48-9C after Quake 3 (non smp, i run win2k sans nvidia card).
I'd love to see how they'd keep a box with a passive planar with 6 of these cards with 12 celerons at 500+mhz, or more cool.
matt
The WinTV-d only support 480i, the lowest of the low HDTV resolutions, in fact, so low that that res it typically referred to as D(igital)TV, cuz the rez aint all that high. Hauppauge is going to have a full out, ahve you cake and eat it too, completely HDTV card within the year, but this sure aint it.
matt
What OS are you running? On my WIn2k desktop, I have the Logitech SW installed, so I am not surprised that the wheel on ym Mouse Man + works fine. But on a WIn95 box, the wheel didn't work on a MS mouse, and that was probably due to the old crappy MS wheel mouse software, which originally did not work in many application, just MS ones (surprise!).
matt
What on *EARTH* are you talking about?
Go to www.imdb.com, and see the second headline:
Over $100 million in VHS sales in its first two days of release!
This is ridiculous. This is informative?
matt
Following a link to a link to a link, the box is 650 quid, which is over a grand US. Which means that you just paid over a grand for a 64 mb ramm, 5.7 gig drive, cd rom, floppy system. Sooooo not worth it. For 1k these days you are looking at some serious CPU horsepower on an Intel platform, because since this thang is in an ATX case, it doesn't over anything sizewise over Wintel hardware.
matt
I am definitely a DBA, but is there any hope to use MS's stuff to migrate access files for use on SQL? Is that any more cross platform?
matt
If the Justice department screws this up due to lack of backbone, the European Union could get involved. Until now they have been holding back, as is par for the course, as they generally have a much poorer opinion of unilateral action.
The EU is still completely within their rights to go after MS, but the question remains if the justice dept. doesn't have enough backbone to go after MS, does the EU?
matt
Yeah, all these judicial system employees will be getting Rolexes if this goes MS's way. Brilliant insight.
matt
I am a BSD user (Open on my firewall, Free on my laptop), but I think someone ought to note that just today there was a FreeBSD ports exploit on bugtraq. Sure, a user may or may not have elected to install that port, but nonetheless, drop the holier that thou attitude and help others out on security issues.
Christ, if we spent as much time worrying about security as we did about OS holy wars, we'd be soooooo much better off.
matt
Does anyone else find the body of that message, in conjunction with the sig, very very funny? Mod up!
matt