Someone's math is a little off here on how long it's been since the last S3 video card. The last card they produced(not counting numerous mobile parts) was the Savage2000, a DX7 class card designed to compete with the GeForce256 in late 1999/2000. The S2K of course had its infamous issues(defective T&L unit, S3/Diamond was accepting S2K's in trade for TNT2U's), but the point is that it has barely been 4 years, not 5.
While I applaud DownHillBattle for their efforts, their efforts seem to be largely composed of swinging a big mase around, hoping they hit something they should, and hoping no one notices when they hit something they shouldn't. DHB is correct, for example, in that the iTMS is built on the RIAA's terms, and helps the RIAA a bit in that way, but they also make several arguable/incorrect statements about things such as AAC compression, and how Apple gets such a large share of the sale(remember, Apple isn't making any money on the iTMS, their share pays for the bandwidth, the CC transaction, and just barely supporting the store itself). Their "solution" isn't doing their cause much good either, asking Apple to list the artist's share of the sale(something not possible, Apple has agreements with the label, not the artist; the label gets to dicate the share and doesn't have to tell a soul), and encouraging users to instead using things like Poisioned(an OSS Kazaa client) to acquire their music instead.
I can't fault DHB for trying, but I can fault them for not trying hard enough. The site seems built more on FUD than facts, and a little bit of something resembling backmail is there too(That could really change the industry. (and we promise we'll take down the iTunes iSbogus page)).
You're right of course, it's not a traditional drive, but the fact of the matter is that retailers and consumers alike are calling them "Pen Drives", so that's the name that's going to stick. "Memory stick" would probably be a better term, but since Sony owns that term, and produces a memory stick product which is nothing like these USB sticks, that name is out of the question.
Realisiticly speaking, there has only been 1 date ever mentioned: 2003 - it was on banners advertising Doom 3 at E3 2002. It has been in development for a while, but id has never said anything besides 2003(and no one has resonably expected it before that), so it has only slipped 1 time.
The grandparent isn't talking about a virtual crime, he's talking about a player "confessing" to beating their sister in the real world, which is a real crime.
Agreed. I mean, it's not even a real comparison; the "M-Gage" looks like the N-Gage, and that's about it, they aren't even close in features. Is it a slow news day or something?
I have to agree with the Parent here. Intel hasn't even managed to ramp up the 90nm process to reasonable levels yet, with adiquate results for commercial chips not coming until Q1 2004(which will be the Prescott launch). This will be a hair more than 2 years after the launch of the 130nm Northwood P4, which isn't even Intel's first 130nm chip(that honor belongs to the low voltage P3 for laptops).
65nm is going to be even harder than the 130nm or 90nm processes, taking longer than either of those, pushing Intel's 65nm products in to at least Q1 2006, if not later. And this is the arena where Intel is king: no one can mass produce a chip on a new process faster than they can, meaning that Sony's best hope isn't even Q1, it's at least Q2 2006. Sony's either going to have to: wait for 65nm to mature, eat the cost on a fully featured 90nm version(if the chip can even be made on that scale), or downgrade something to make 90nm reasonable; a 2005 Cell is out of the question.
For those too lazy to read, in the end they sued and just about lost to Diamond Multimedia(makers of the Rio, the first consumer portable MP3 player), effectively doing for MP3 players what happened to VCRs 20 years earlier. Sadly, between these legal costs and poor management from S3/SonicBlue, Diamond still bit the dust, although a couple years later than the RIAA would have hoped.
Interplay definately seems to be squirming, or working on some larger plan to redefine/close themselves. When you considering the sheer number of good games and titles they own, the fact that they're having trouble is staggering: Freespace(the best space sim, ever), Kingpin, Icewind Dale, MDK, and Descent(I mean, who hasn't played Descent?). They could make so many great games if they tried, or at least sell these licences to other parties and admit they need the cash, but they're unwilling to do either. The real loss however is to the gamers; all of these great titles have been lost in time to Interplay.
Your list is correct in terms of games ported to other OS's, but not correct in terms of graphics used. Most of those games(The Sims, Age of Empires, etc) were originally built using Direct3D, and then ported to OpenGL for the Mac release, the only notable exceptions I know of being the id games and Blizzard's games.
That would make sense... if Spamcop wasn't one of the targets. Check Symantec's advisory; SpamCop is on the list. The only reason SpamCop isn't being phased too badly is because they've been Akamai-ized, thanks to IronPort paying for it. Now, this isn't to say that IronPort did all of that to cover their tracks, but by no means is SpamCop being spared by the spammers.
Just as an FYI, as part of Spamcop's acquisition by IronPort, IP helped Spamcop get "akamai-ized", so that the entire RBL is mirrored accross several of Akamai's servers, as noted in the parent. While I'm not trying to jinx Spamcop here(knock on wood), such an effort should basically protect them from any DDoS attack(not counting Blaster 2.0 attacking of course). P2P is still a nice idea for securing systems, but Akamai distributing seems to be more than enough, if not still a bit expensive.
Reading Symantec's Advisory, they list disney.go.com as one of the 8 random targets for the DDoS attacks. I'm sorry, but have the spammers lost their marbles here?! I mean, if you're going to attack someone at least do something you can accomplish; attacking Disney is going to be like trying to attack a tank with a butterknife, it's just not going to work. I swear, these spammers are getting sleezier and stupider at the same time.
At this point, without some sort of additional chip technology(SOI, tri-gates, etc), it seems very likely that power consumption will definately stay even, if not go up entirely. Every new scale of technology is a bigger problem to make work, as the (known) laws of physics aren't moving with it, posing a very absolute barrier. Whereas 350nm, 250nm, and even 180nm went off without a hitch(with companies even manging to stick some Cu in there), 130nm was a big problem for AMD and TSMC(makers of Nvidia's GPU's prior to the IBM), and even Intel was having problems depending on who you ask.
Currently, 90nm is looking especially difficult, as Intel has had to push P4's based on the technology back twice from when they originally intended to release them, putting us currently at Q1 2004. That introduction isn't looking very pretty either, with the Prescott being dubbed the "100wt monster"; a new cooler design is nessisary in most cases for Prescott CPU's, along with the new BTX case standard(repositions the CPU for better cooling) for later on in the 90nm cycle, and all of this is for a chip that runs hotter than its 130nm counterpart(Prescott only adds another 512KB of L2 cache and SSE3, along with general core fixes; this shouldn't have resulted in a net gain against the overall power use unless the shrink didn't drop consumption significantly).
Either way, Intel is going to be able to pull off 65nm, but without the aid of other technologies, all they're going to end up with is a very hot chip that will have little chance at a major clockspeed ramp-up in its lifetime.
Because if you don't tip her, she'll make sure to glare if she catches you, and have the chef add "special sauce" next time you're in, and make sure you suffer for that, encouraging you to leave a nice tip. The music industry can't do these kind of tactics directly, so partically no one "leaves a tip," ergo they can't trust you, because you've proven untrustable.
There are times when I wish we could mod stories down, so that stories like this could be killed. For anyone that reads the article, it talks about what MS told the EU about what they insist are the ramifications of removing WMP from Windows, but the title is "Microsoft Defies EU Commission". Please tell me where it states that MS isn't complying with the EU, or otherwise doing something that is defying the EU(other than the monopoly issue at hand). This is a disagreement with the EU, perhaps even a strong one, but for MS to defy the EU they must either act when they shouldn't, or not act when they should; you can't defy the EU when the action in question never left the proposal stage.
Agreed. You can't have a serious history piece without also including S3(and the world's first 3D decelerator) and Rendition. The article pooped out before I got to page 3, but I'm willing to bet they've also managed to skip the Intel i740, another decent but notable product.
I don't mean to sound like a fanboy here, but have you even tried Nvidia's recent cards? Sure, the 5800 leafblower edition was a disaster(even Nvidia admitted this), but a lot has changed in the last 10-12 months. The 5950 is still 2 slots big, but the cooler they use doesn't have any of the noise problems the 5800 had, and according to the temperature readings from 5950 and the NV control panel, it seems to be doing a good job. This applies to the 5900, the 5600, and the new 5700 just as well; all implement quiet coolers(as far as GPUs go), and the temp readings are far below the critical level. The cards even slow down the core in 2D more, which keeps down the heat and is something even the 5800 had.
Nvidia is not perfect mind you, they still are hurting from the whole FP24/HLSL ordeal, but they do deserve credit where credit is due. Your comment is possibly a good +5 Funny, but definitely not +5 Insightful.
FYI, Diamond is not S3 any more. S3's core graphics division(i.e. the chip engineers) was merged with VIA, and the rest of S3 was sold piecemeal. Best Data bought the remainder of the graphics division(the names, the card designs, etc) and are relaunching Diamond MultiMedia as a video card company making ATI and Nvidia cards.
While you probably don't agree with me on this, I don't believe that Red Hat is being nearly as hypocritical as you make it sound like. Bluecurve was a very good job at trying to unify the ugliness that is the concept of multiple window mangers, but in the end, there's only so much Red Hat could do, and it wasn't enough.
Even though the reports may go in to a black hole, it's still a good idea to keep reporting. Spamcop is partially "user controled" in that it decides what to block in some cases based on how many complaints have come in for that mail server; if there are a lot of complaints, the server will be added to the blacklist, and future messages will be caught. Even this isn't 100% effective mind you, but it's about as close as you're going to get considering it's impossible for anything to be 100% effective.
It certainly wouldn't be surprising if this were happening, although the Samsung case is certainly one of the biggest I've ever seen. This has been rumored to have been happening in the general hardware communities for years, with CPUs, memory, and video cards that are the cream of the crop, capible of overclocking far higher than normal chips. Unfortunately, it's rather hard to avoid, since even the obvious solution, buying products off the shelf, can resultin a product that could be better or worse than normal.
The best thing a consumer can do is to hang around the hardware communities, and see what people are actually getting quality-wise at the store, taking the average from there; reviews will never be 100% trustworthy, most of the time due to conditions out of the reviewer's control.
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Someone's math is a little off here on how long it's been since the last S3 video card. The last card they produced(not counting numerous mobile parts) was the Savage2000, a DX7 class card designed to compete with the GeForce256 in late 1999/2000. The S2K of course had its infamous issues(defective T&L unit, S3/Diamond was accepting S2K's in trade for TNT2U's), but the point is that it has barely been 4 years, not 5.
While I applaud DownHillBattle for their efforts, their efforts seem to be largely composed of swinging a big mase around, hoping they hit something they should, and hoping no one notices when they hit something they shouldn't. DHB is correct, for example, in that the iTMS is built on the RIAA's terms, and helps the RIAA a bit in that way, but they also make several arguable/incorrect statements about things such as AAC compression, and how Apple gets such a large share of the sale(remember, Apple isn't making any money on the iTMS, their share pays for the bandwidth, the CC transaction, and just barely supporting the store itself). Their "solution" isn't doing their cause much good either, asking Apple to list the artist's share of the sale(something not possible, Apple has agreements with the label, not the artist; the label gets to dicate the share and doesn't have to tell a soul), and encouraging users to instead using things like Poisioned(an OSS Kazaa client) to acquire their music instead.
I can't fault DHB for trying, but I can fault them for not trying hard enough. The site seems built more on FUD than facts, and a little bit of something resembling backmail is there too(That could really change the industry. (and we promise we'll take down the iTunes iSbogus page)).
You're right of course, it's not a traditional drive, but the fact of the matter is that retailers and consumers alike are calling them "Pen Drives", so that's the name that's going to stick. "Memory stick" would probably be a better term, but since Sony owns that term, and produces a memory stick product which is nothing like these USB sticks, that name is out of the question.
Realisiticly speaking, there has only been 1 date ever mentioned: 2003 - it was on banners advertising Doom 3 at E3 2002. It has been in development for a while, but id has never said anything besides 2003(and no one has resonably expected it before that), so it has only slipped 1 time.
The grandparent isn't talking about a virtual crime, he's talking about a player "confessing" to beating their sister in the real world, which is a real crime.
Agreed. I mean, it's not even a real comparison; the "M-Gage" looks like the N-Gage, and that's about it, they aren't even close in features. Is it a slow news day or something?
I have to agree with the Parent here. Intel hasn't even managed to ramp up the 90nm process to reasonable levels yet, with adiquate results for commercial chips not coming until Q1 2004(which will be the Prescott launch). This will be a hair more than 2 years after the launch of the 130nm Northwood P4, which isn't even Intel's first 130nm chip(that honor belongs to the low voltage P3 for laptops).
65nm is going to be even harder than the 130nm or 90nm processes, taking longer than either of those, pushing Intel's 65nm products in to at least Q1 2006, if not later. And this is the arena where Intel is king: no one can mass produce a chip on a new process faster than they can, meaning that Sony's best hope isn't even Q1, it's at least Q2 2006. Sony's either going to have to: wait for 65nm to mature, eat the cost on a fully featured 90nm version(if the chip can even be made on that scale), or downgrade something to make 90nm reasonable; a 2005 Cell is out of the question.
For those too lazy to read, in the end they sued and just about lost to Diamond Multimedia(makers of the Rio, the first consumer portable MP3 player), effectively doing for MP3 players what happened to VCRs 20 years earlier. Sadly, between these legal costs and poor management from S3/SonicBlue, Diamond still bit the dust, although a couple years later than the RIAA would have hoped.
Interplay definately seems to be squirming, or working on some larger plan to redefine/close themselves. When you considering the sheer number of good games and titles they own, the fact that they're having trouble is staggering: Freespace(the best space sim, ever), Kingpin, Icewind Dale, MDK, and Descent(I mean, who hasn't played Descent?). They could make so many great games if they tried, or at least sell these licences to other parties and admit they need the cash, but they're unwilling to do either. The real loss however is to the gamers; all of these great titles have been lost in time to Interplay.
Your list is correct in terms of games ported to other OS's, but not correct in terms of graphics used. Most of those games(The Sims, Age of Empires, etc) were originally built using Direct3D, and then ported to OpenGL for the Mac release, the only notable exceptions I know of being the id games and Blizzard's games.
That would make sense... if Spamcop wasn't one of the targets. Check Symantec's advisory; SpamCop is on the list. The only reason SpamCop isn't being phased too badly is because they've been Akamai-ized, thanks to IronPort paying for it. Now, this isn't to say that IronPort did all of that to cover their tracks, but by no means is SpamCop being spared by the spammers.
Just as an FYI, as part of Spamcop's acquisition by IronPort, IP helped Spamcop get "akamai-ized", so that the entire RBL is mirrored accross several of Akamai's servers, as noted in the parent. While I'm not trying to jinx Spamcop here(knock on wood), such an effort should basically protect them from any DDoS attack(not counting Blaster 2.0 attacking of course). P2P is still a nice idea for securing systems, but Akamai distributing seems to be more than enough, if not still a bit expensive.
Reading Symantec's Advisory, they list disney.go.com as one of the 8 random targets for the DDoS attacks. I'm sorry, but have the spammers lost their marbles here?! I mean, if you're going to attack someone at least do something you can accomplish; attacking Disney is going to be like trying to attack a tank with a butterknife, it's just not going to work. I swear, these spammers are getting sleezier and stupider at the same time.
At this point, without some sort of additional chip technology(SOI, tri-gates, etc), it seems very likely that power consumption will definately stay even, if not go up entirely. Every new scale of technology is a bigger problem to make work, as the (known) laws of physics aren't moving with it, posing a very absolute barrier. Whereas 350nm, 250nm, and even 180nm went off without a hitch(with companies even manging to stick some Cu in there), 130nm was a big problem for AMD and TSMC(makers of Nvidia's GPU's prior to the IBM), and even Intel was having problems depending on who you ask.
Currently, 90nm is looking especially difficult, as Intel has had to push P4's based on the technology back twice from when they originally intended to release them, putting us currently at Q1 2004. That introduction isn't looking very pretty either, with the Prescott being dubbed the "100wt monster"; a new cooler design is nessisary in most cases for Prescott CPU's, along with the new BTX case standard(repositions the CPU for better cooling) for later on in the 90nm cycle, and all of this is for a chip that runs hotter than its 130nm counterpart(Prescott only adds another 512KB of L2 cache and SSE3, along with general core fixes; this shouldn't have resulted in a net gain against the overall power use unless the shrink didn't drop consumption significantly).
Either way, Intel is going to be able to pull off 65nm, but without the aid of other technologies, all they're going to end up with is a very hot chip that will have little chance at a major clockspeed ramp-up in its lifetime.
Because if you don't tip her, she'll make sure to glare if she catches you, and have the chef add "special sauce" next time you're in, and make sure you suffer for that, encouraging you to leave a nice tip. The music industry can't do these kind of tactics directly, so partically no one "leaves a tip," ergo they can't trust you, because you've proven untrustable.
True, the Xbox has been cracked, but try going online with a cracked Xbox; it won't work.
There are times when I wish we could mod stories down, so that stories like this could be killed. For anyone that reads the article, it talks about what MS told the EU about what they insist are the ramifications of removing WMP from Windows, but the title is "Microsoft Defies EU Commission". Please tell me where it states that MS isn't complying with the EU, or otherwise doing something that is defying the EU(other than the monopoly issue at hand). This is a disagreement with the EU, perhaps even a strong one, but for MS to defy the EU they must either act when they shouldn't, or not act when they should; you can't defy the EU when the action in question never left the proposal stage.
Agreed. You can't have a serious history piece without also including S3(and the world's first 3D decelerator) and Rendition. The article pooped out before I got to page 3, but I'm willing to bet they've also managed to skip the Intel i740, another decent but notable product.
That was spun off some time ago(2000 or so) as HomeLAN.
I don't mean to sound like a fanboy here, but have you even tried Nvidia's recent cards? Sure, the 5800 leafblower edition was a disaster(even Nvidia admitted this), but a lot has changed in the last 10-12 months. The 5950 is still 2 slots big, but the cooler they use doesn't have any of the noise problems the 5800 had, and according to the temperature readings from 5950 and the NV control panel, it seems to be doing a good job. This applies to the 5900, the 5600, and the new 5700 just as well; all implement quiet coolers(as far as GPUs go), and the temp readings are far below the critical level. The cards even slow down the core in 2D more, which keeps down the heat and is something even the 5800 had.
Nvidia is not perfect mind you, they still are hurting from the whole FP24/HLSL ordeal, but they do deserve credit where credit is due. Your comment is possibly a good +5 Funny, but definitely not +5 Insightful.
FYI, Diamond is not S3 any more. S3's core graphics division(i.e. the chip engineers) was merged with VIA, and the rest of S3 was sold piecemeal. Best Data bought the remainder of the graphics division(the names, the card designs, etc) and are relaunching Diamond MultiMedia as a video card company making ATI and Nvidia cards.
Wait? Isn't that backwards? Wouldn't it be easier to base the tax on the location of the seller, since they only have to keep 1 set of codes on hand?
While you probably don't agree with me on this, I don't believe that Red Hat is being nearly as hypocritical as you make it sound like. Bluecurve was a very good job at trying to unify the ugliness that is the concept of multiple window mangers, but in the end, there's only so much Red Hat could do, and it wasn't enough.
Even though the reports may go in to a black hole, it's still a good idea to keep reporting. Spamcop is partially "user controled" in that it decides what to block in some cases based on how many complaints have come in for that mail server; if there are a lot of complaints, the server will be added to the blacklist, and future messages will be caught. Even this isn't 100% effective mind you, but it's about as close as you're going to get considering it's impossible for anything to be 100% effective.
It certainly wouldn't be surprising if this were happening, although the Samsung case is certainly one of the biggest I've ever seen. This has been rumored to have been happening in the general hardware communities for years, with CPUs, memory, and video cards that are the cream of the crop, capible of overclocking far higher than normal chips. Unfortunately, it's rather hard to avoid, since even the obvious solution, buying products off the shelf, can resultin a product that could be better or worse than normal.
The best thing a consumer can do is to hang around the hardware communities, and see what people are actually getting quality-wise at the store, taking the average from there; reviews will never be 100% trustworthy, most of the time due to conditions out of the reviewer's control.