It only means you can't sell them to the unsuspecting; many people here on Slashdot would have little problem buying a Duke iPod(consider it a limited edition collector's item even), especially if it were pawned off as something the "owner" didn't want.
Let's not forget that in there attempts to dominate, they've become partially responsible for the current environment of the government trying to regulate games. When Night Trap for the SegaCD was released and the whole world went to hell, Nintendo used that opportunity to try to hurt Sega, and provided Sen. Liberman(yes, that Liberman) with video(specifically, a cut of the worst scenes in Night Trap) and other evidence for his dog & pony show. While Nintendo isn't the same company that they were 12 years ago, I still can't forgive them for not only failing to try to help the industry, but instead using events to screw everyone over for their own benefit.
Why is there only a small window? I can understand the small window for moving physical goods of course, but why can't they just pop up a satellite in geosync orbit over the South Pole area, point some dishs at it, and call it a day?
There are a couple of ways to do it, hence the BB tech was probably being safe about the brand recommendation. Linksys for example, uses a different tech that doesn't use channel bonding, whereas Super-G products do. At this point it doesn't matter though, we'll have 802.11n products by this time next year.
That $1 million may be profit on paper, but it's ultimately being used to recover Apple's initial R&D costs and fund future expansion(which everyone else just copies), and that's why Apple doesn't want Real selling songs.
The time advantage isn't even 8 seconds; with Windows XP, it doesn't do write caching on USB devices by default, so you can yank the drive out without doing the "safely remove the hardware" step, the only cavet being that you need to make sure that nothing is being written(which is why these drives have an indicator light). That brings the USB drive down to 5 seconds total, or 3 seconds longer than the floppy disk.
In this case, there's really nothing wrong with a gaming console being a DVD player; unlike the DVR idea, these devices already have all the technology they need, such as the DVD drive and the decoder(for in-game FMV), so it might as well be used as a selling point to sell more of these things and allow users to skip getting a stand-alone DVD player. Now the PS2 DVR on the other hand isn't close to being like this, as it's more like a DVR with a PS2 built on(and not sharing too many resources in the process), and hence it's a "bad thing."
Damn straight; it was a gimmick, and there's no denying that, but Super Sonic(and then Hyper Sonic) allowed you to go even faster, reach higher, and otherwise go insane, and that's always a blast. I can't think of another console final boss battle that was that fun.
I think your timeline is a bit off; if I recall correctly, Sonic The Hedgehog was introduced in 1991, the same time the SNES was released; the system didn't have competition for 2 years, but it didn't gain popularity until Sonic either. That said, I would call the Genesis the 2nd place console(dude to Donkey Kong Country in the end), but it certainly wasn't a failure either.
This is only good against dynamically calculated hashes; if you pre-hash the english dictionary or something like that, then once everyone has the hash table, we're back to square one when it comes to poor passwords.
It may have been a failed gimmick performance wise, but it puts AMD in an odd situation. AMD had the Athlon FX line positioned against the P4EE's, while the high-end A64's went against the normal P4's(the 3800+ is priced similar to the 3.6ghz P4, etc), and now the P4EE line isn't there. AMD is going to need to do some repositioning of the FX line, otherwise it will fall in between the consumer A64, and the workstation/server Opteron 1xx line.
UT only runs better on Linux because the OpenGL renderer doesn't have a couple of eye-candy options that the D3D renderer does. Take the time to try the Windows version with OpenGL(on an Nvidia card), and you'll see a similar speed-up.
Realistically, there's no way to automatically run such tool, and have it work right 100% of the time. For anyone that's worked on de-spywaring a lot of machines, you should be familiar with removing something, rebooting, having to remove it again, etc. It's still a very interactive process, even if it's only to make a couple of key decisions.
It's certainly not light on the CPU, but thanks to the functionality offered by modern GPUs such as IDCT(inverse discrete cosine transform) and other decoding acceleration technqiues, you shouldn't need the full CPU speed to do decoding, hence the oddness.
Under my 12" PB, "DVD Playback" most certainly spins down the hard drive, and it's been that way on other Apple products as long as I can remember. Now, everything else is cranked up(including the processor, oddly enough), but the hard drive is turned down, which is what allows it to run the DVD drive without such a large power hit.
Or they could be doing it to keep from getting owned in court again by someone else, such as in the Eolas suit. Patents can work both ways, just just in offense.
Realisticly speaking, you won't be able to run Doom 3 on a Win9x system anyhow due to a couple of reasons. First and foremost, ATI stopped driver development for Win9x after the Catalyst 4.3 drivers, so if there are any bugs in those drivers in D3, you're stuck with them, along with the lower performance than whatever their forthcomming "Doom 3" drivers offer. You also have to deal with the 512MB RAM "limitation" which keeps you below what HardOCP thought was the comfortable place as far as a high-performance system went.
I wouldn't consider the current public beta a fair look at WinXP64 at all, considering that it's nearly a year old. Microsoft didn't even have theming(the stuff that makes WinXP look like WinXP) in at the time, let alone have things optimized or have a decent collection of drivers. Things have supposedly changed a lot in that last year, and the devs have said that they're trying to get a new public beta released to show that.
It does have a 64bit math library however, which exposes the most important functions of the 64bitness of the G5. Full 64bit isn't as important on the G5, since unlike x86-64, there's not an inheriant speed benefit due to more registers or anything like that.
Truthfully, it depends on what you want to do. As of right now, no 3rd party sound card supports anything about EAX1/2, which is a big deal because Creative implemented some pretty significant changes in EAX3/HD that result in "better" 3D sound, although not nessisarily realistic. While you can certainly stick to EAX1/2, a lot of people in doing nForce/Audigy comparisons seem to agree that the Audigy holds an edge because of EAX3, and that means that Creative isn't out of the game quite yet. Discrete sound also holds a slight SnR advantage(on-board tends to top out at 85dB or so, while hearing tests seem to peg ~95dB as "perfect sound, and the Audigy can do 108dB), which is the other holdup as far as on-board sound goes.
Now, you don't have to use EAX as your 3D sound API, but there isn't any other viable API at this point, and most studios can not do their own custom 3D sound engine, although id did exactly that. With that said, if someone does write a new API/engine, even if current cards can't do it in hardware, I think the fact that id did it shows that hardware acceleration isn't critical for at least "good" 3D sound at this point, so current on-board solutions once corrected for SnR would be able to make the Audigy irrelivant.
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It only means you can't sell them to the unsuspecting; many people here on Slashdot would have little problem buying a Duke iPod(consider it a limited edition collector's item even), especially if it were pawned off as something the "owner" didn't want.
But only because he is the Ted Kennedy; if he had not been the famous Senator, I'm not sure he would have had the same luxury.
Let's not forget that in there attempts to dominate, they've become partially responsible for the current environment of the government trying to regulate games. When Night Trap for the SegaCD was released and the whole world went to hell, Nintendo used that opportunity to try to hurt Sega, and provided Sen. Liberman(yes, that Liberman) with video(specifically, a cut of the worst scenes in Night Trap) and other evidence for his dog & pony show. While Nintendo isn't the same company that they were 12 years ago, I still can't forgive them for not only failing to try to help the industry, but instead using events to screw everyone over for their own benefit.
Why is there only a small window? I can understand the small window for moving physical goods of course, but why can't they just pop up a satellite in geosync orbit over the South Pole area, point some dishs at it, and call it a day?
There are a couple of ways to do it, hence the BB tech was probably being safe about the brand recommendation. Linksys for example, uses a different tech that doesn't use channel bonding, whereas Super-G products do. At this point it doesn't matter though, we'll have 802.11n products by this time next year.
That $1 million may be profit on paper, but it's ultimately being used to recover Apple's initial R&D costs and fund future expansion(which everyone else just copies), and that's why Apple doesn't want Real selling songs.
The time advantage isn't even 8 seconds; with Windows XP, it doesn't do write caching on USB devices by default, so you can yank the drive out without doing the "safely remove the hardware" step, the only cavet being that you need to make sure that nothing is being written(which is why these drives have an indicator light). That brings the USB drive down to 5 seconds total, or 3 seconds longer than the floppy disk.
In this case, there's really nothing wrong with a gaming console being a DVD player; unlike the DVR idea, these devices already have all the technology they need, such as the DVD drive and the decoder(for in-game FMV), so it might as well be used as a selling point to sell more of these things and allow users to skip getting a stand-alone DVD player. Now the PS2 DVR on the other hand isn't close to being like this, as it's more like a DVR with a PS2 built on(and not sharing too many resources in the process), and hence it's a "bad thing."
Damn straight; it was a gimmick, and there's no denying that, but Super Sonic(and then Hyper Sonic) allowed you to go even faster, reach higher, and otherwise go insane, and that's always a blast. I can't think of another console final boss battle that was that fun.
I think your timeline is a bit off; if I recall correctly, Sonic The Hedgehog was introduced in 1991, the same time the SNES was released; the system didn't have competition for 2 years, but it didn't gain popularity until Sonic either. That said, I would call the Genesis the 2nd place console(dude to Donkey Kong Country in the end), but it certainly wasn't a failure either.
I don't see why the SEC is concerned, I know plenty well you guys don't buy them for the articles; but then again, neither do I.
This is only good against dynamically calculated hashes; if you pre-hash the english dictionary or something like that, then once everyone has the hash table, we're back to square one when it comes to poor passwords.
It may have been a failed gimmick performance wise, but it puts AMD in an odd situation. AMD had the Athlon FX line positioned against the P4EE's, while the high-end A64's went against the normal P4's(the 3800+ is priced similar to the 3.6ghz P4, etc), and now the P4EE line isn't there. AMD is going to need to do some repositioning of the FX line, otherwise it will fall in between the consumer A64, and the workstation/server Opteron 1xx line.
UT only runs better on Linux because the OpenGL renderer doesn't have a couple of eye-candy options that the D3D renderer does. Take the time to try the Windows version with OpenGL(on an Nvidia card), and you'll see a similar speed-up.
Realistically, there's no way to automatically run such tool, and have it work right 100% of the time. For anyone that's worked on de-spywaring a lot of machines, you should be familiar with removing something, rebooting, having to remove it again, etc. It's still a very interactive process, even if it's only to make a couple of key decisions.
Ahh, I found the problem, they're requiring VoIP to be tappable. I guess it's a hate day afterall.
So does this mean this is a "love the FCC" day, or do we still get to hate them?
It's certainly not light on the CPU, but thanks to the functionality offered by modern GPUs such as IDCT(inverse discrete cosine transform) and other decoding acceleration technqiues, you shouldn't need the full CPU speed to do decoding, hence the oddness.
Under my 12" PB, "DVD Playback" most certainly spins down the hard drive, and it's been that way on other Apple products as long as I can remember. Now, everything else is cranked up(including the processor, oddly enough), but the hard drive is turned down, which is what allows it to run the DVD drive without such a large power hit.
Or they could be doing it to keep from getting owned in court again by someone else, such as in the Eolas suit. Patents can work both ways, just just in offense.
Realisticly speaking, you won't be able to run Doom 3 on a Win9x system anyhow due to a couple of reasons. First and foremost, ATI stopped driver development for Win9x after the Catalyst 4.3 drivers, so if there are any bugs in those drivers in D3, you're stuck with them, along with the lower performance than whatever their forthcomming "Doom 3" drivers offer. You also have to deal with the 512MB RAM "limitation" which keeps you below what HardOCP thought was the comfortable place as far as a high-performance system went.
Having played with the beta of XP64 on my laptop
I wouldn't consider the current public beta a fair look at WinXP64 at all, considering that it's nearly a year old. Microsoft didn't even have theming(the stuff that makes WinXP look like WinXP) in at the time, let alone have things optimized or have a decent collection of drivers. Things have supposedly changed a lot in that last year, and the devs have said that they're trying to get a new public beta released to show that.
It does have a 64bit math library however, which exposes the most important functions of the 64bitness of the G5. Full 64bit isn't as important on the G5, since unlike x86-64, there's not an inheriant speed benefit due to more registers or anything like that.
Truthfully, it depends on what you want to do. As of right now, no 3rd party sound card supports anything about EAX1/2, which is a big deal because Creative implemented some pretty significant changes in EAX3/HD that result in "better" 3D sound, although not nessisarily realistic. While you can certainly stick to EAX1/2, a lot of people in doing nForce/Audigy comparisons seem to agree that the Audigy holds an edge because of EAX3, and that means that Creative isn't out of the game quite yet. Discrete sound also holds a slight SnR advantage(on-board tends to top out at 85dB or so, while hearing tests seem to peg ~95dB as "perfect sound, and the Audigy can do 108dB), which is the other holdup as far as on-board sound goes.
Now, you don't have to use EAX as your 3D sound API, but there isn't any other viable API at this point, and most studios can not do their own custom 3D sound engine, although id did exactly that. With that said, if someone does write a new API/engine, even if current cards can't do it in hardware, I think the fact that id did it shows that hardware acceleration isn't critical for at least "good" 3D sound at this point, so current on-board solutions once corrected for SnR would be able to make the Audigy irrelivant.