V - Spock's Beard
Awake - Dream Theater
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation
Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 - Liquid Tension Experiment
Nompkertompf - Mike Keneally
Now nearly everyone online using this tool is a slashdotter.:)
Jimmy: M$ r teh suk L1nus: amen brother! MSCE: sigh, ms bashing is soooo 90's karmawhore: in the 90's, russia bashes you! MSCE: ? reallagirl: ? dave: ? karmawhore: I mean karmawhore: that soviets bash YOU! In the 90's! cmdrtwato: +1 overrated l1nus: lol karmawhore: FU
In this case, it`s not so much a killer app - more of a killer infrastructure.
Metered WiFi access, provided by distribution companies who allow customers of any ISP to connect through them - much like the electricity industry in the UK. Companies are split by area, but can compete for customers in any of them, passing costs of distribution (re: bandwidth) wholesale.
IPv6 and higher bandwidth, higher power wireless networks will really release the potential of these machines.
Mobile phone networks could have provided much of this tech, but the prohibitive cost of licensing has fucked up and entire tech-generation.
Being guilty or not is, at a pedantic level, boolean.
Justice is far from Boolean however. Two people accused of the same crime may recieve different sentences (different 'justice') according to circumstance - because of judges.
Christ, even having Dredd would be better than no judges at all you twat.:)
They should take a leaf out of the way the electricity industry was deregulated in the UK.
One company may own a certain amount of cable (distribution), but any other company can compete to sell power over this distribution network to any customer.
It's a crazy system, but somehow (overpricing gripes aside) it all works very well.
It keeps the RIAA happy. (An unfortunate necessity in order to main catalogue diversity).
It still allows for a modicum of fair use.
The way I see it (and so do Apple I assume) is that when you are on the move, or away from your mac, you listen to your iPod. When you are at home / work (wherever your mac is), you can listen to whatever the hell you like, and if you like it, you can buy it and burn it.
Apple are setting the benchmark for this market now - if other companies join in and add more draconian DRM, they will fail.
Ok, so Apple have shown that on-line digital music sales can be successful. (Short-term anyway)
Academia is trying to protect their students while still throwing cash at the RIAA.
Is it any wonder they are unwilling to start any service of their own? I mean, they are soaking up cash for fun now, with people wanting to throw *more* at them?
1. Create cash cow.
2. Milk cash cow.
4. Profit!
What is happening here is: 3. Mangage to get other people to milk cow for you. FOR FREE!
It`s the topology of the CIA that is causing the problem.
Any organisation with so many unique elements will struggle to create a single IT framework to complement and aid information availability.
The best solution is to implement several, smaller-scale solutions, defined by the goals and interests of individual areas, and work towards integration at a time when these technologies are mature.
Economical and soundly-engineered methods are the only way to ensure long term functionality in the longer term.
Some cards will be better than other at these tasks, and some games will take advantage of differing ratios of these technologies.
The unreal engine has a reliance on poly-count and texture resolution, and it looks like the doom engine will tend to tax shader, and multitexture units more than the polygon throughput side of things.
In other words, gfx cards are now so flexible that their abilities in these individual areas must be assessed in isolation depending on your choice of game/engine/technology.
As little as 2 years ago all that mattered was fillrate, and this was essentially what the direct3d/opengl api's could stress in hardware.
IMO, price seems to be the most useful benchmark for the newest cards.
The bright side: the students who are enrolling are doing so because they love computers. Not like a few years ago when students were enrolling because they wanted to make a quick buck.
Man, I *loved* computers when I started university back in 1994, but even back then all I thought was:
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CD's I own with no filler:
V - Spock's Beard
Awake - Dream Theater
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Remedy Lane - Pain of Salvation
Passion and Warfare - Steve Vai
Liquid Tension Experiment 1 - Liquid Tension Experiment
Nompkertompf - Mike Keneally
and anything by Frank Zappa...
All new technology is irrelevant to the public until it is taken up by the public's imagination.
All new technology is irrelevant until it is taken up by the armed forces.
All new technology is irrelevant. My old toaster still works, dammit.
If these studies are based on sound logic, I think Natalie Portman's lawyers will be in touch with most of you reading this very shortly.
Now nearly everyone online using this tool is a slashdotter.
Jimmy: M$ r teh suk
L1nus: amen brother!
MSCE: sigh, ms bashing is soooo 90's
karmawhore: in the 90's, russia bashes you!
MSCE: ?
reallagirl: ?
dave: ?
karmawhore: I mean
karmawhore: that soviets bash YOU! In the 90's!
cmdrtwato: +1 overrated
l1nus: lol
karmawhore: FU
Oh the horror.
Over-rated?
At fucking ONE?!?
Looks like I gots me s...s...s..slashstalker.
All that's missing is a killer app.
In this case, it`s not so much a killer app - more of a killer infrastructure.
Metered WiFi access, provided by distribution companies who allow customers of any ISP to connect through them - much like the electricity industry in the UK.
Companies are split by area, but can compete for customers in any of them, passing costs of distribution (re: bandwidth) wholesale.
IPv6 and higher bandwidth, higher power wireless networks will really release the potential of these machines.
Mobile phone networks could have provided much of this tech, but the prohibitive cost of licensing has fucked up and entire tech-generation.
/rant
Woohoo! No more strawberry Slimfast shakes for me!
Being guilty or not is, at a pedantic level, boolean.
Justice is far from Boolean however. Two people accused of the same crime may recieve different sentences (different 'justice') according to circumstance - because of judges.
Christ, even having Dredd would be better than no judges at all you twat.
It's the automatically part I object to.
Accidentally slipping 1mph over the limit is overlooked by policemen/women checking speeds with their radars, but wouldn`t be by an automatic system.
It`s the idea that justice is a simple boolean issue that bothers me.
For what it's worth, I agree with you about driving like an arse
They should take a leaf out of the way the electricity industry was deregulated in the UK.
One company may own a certain amount of cable (distribution), but any other company can compete to sell power over this distribution network to any customer.
It's a crazy system, but somehow (overpricing gripes aside) it all works very well.
It's just another tool for increasing revenue for the police forces around the country.
They day will come when every motoring offence on any major road is recorded and dealt with automatically.
Break the speed limit 4 times in one day? Ker-ching! 4x£50 to your local copshop please.
It`s yet another example of the ongoing 'automatic-insta-justice' trend.
And no, I didn`t read the article.
SCO buy Microsoft!
Linus Torvalds in Olsen twins love triangle Shocka!
Geek poll results in: Not Enough Spam!
Britney's Hymen: Intact!
Their pricing of $.79 per song, vs. $.99 for Apple's songs, will *appear* competitive to many end-users, regardless of any per-month fee.
Yes Real suck. So what.
Anything that increases competition in this market can only be good for the consumer.
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Open up a shell and type: apt-get install hitthemonkey
K THX!
This is a fair move by Apple.
It keeps the RIAA happy. (An unfortunate necessity in order to main catalogue diversity).
It still allows for a modicum of fair use.
The way I see it (and so do Apple I assume) is that when you are on the move, or away from your mac, you listen to your iPod. When you are at home / work (wherever your mac is), you can listen to whatever the hell you like, and if you like it, you can buy it and burn it.
Apple are setting the benchmark for this market now - if other companies join in and add more draconian DRM, they will fail.
I, for one, welcome our new, fruity overlords.
Ok, so Apple have shown that on-line digital music sales can be successful. (Short-term anyway)
Academia is trying to protect their students while still throwing cash at the RIAA.
Is it any wonder they are unwilling to start any service of their own? I mean, they are soaking up cash for fun now, with people wanting to throw *more* at them?
1. Create cash cow.
2. Milk cash cow.
4. Profit!
What is happening here is: 3. Mangage to get other people to milk cow for you. FOR FREE!
It`s the topology of the CIA that is causing the problem.
Any organisation with so many unique elements will struggle to create a single IT framework to complement and aid information availability.
The best solution is to implement several, smaller-scale solutions, defined by the goals and interests of individual areas, and work towards integration at a time when these technologies are mature.
Economical and soundly-engineered methods are the only way to ensure long term functionality in the longer term.
The annoying thing about NT (4.0), is that now that it is almost rock-solid, MS no longer support it.
:)
Those years of public beta testing certainly paid off.
Different graphics cards have different strengths and weaknesses - much moreso than in previous years.
eg. Fillrate, Vertex manipulation, Texture rasterizer, Shader technology, Texture sampling techniques, Shadow buffering etc.. etc...
Some cards will be better than other at these tasks, and some games will take advantage of differing ratios of these technologies.
The unreal engine has a reliance on poly-count and texture resolution, and it looks like the doom engine will tend to tax shader, and multitexture units more than the polygon throughput side of things.
In other words, gfx cards are now so flexible that their abilities in these individual areas must be assessed in isolation depending on your choice of game/engine/technology.
As little as 2 years ago all that mattered was fillrate, and this was essentially what the direct3d/opengl api's could stress in hardware.
IMO, price seems to be the most useful benchmark for the newest cards.
The bright side: the students who are enrolling are doing so because they love computers.
...unfortunately, step 3 became:
Not like a few years ago when students were enrolling because they wanted to make a quick buck.
Man, I *loved* computers when I started university back in 1994, but even back then all I thought was:
1. Start computing degree course.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Step 2, as it turned out, mainly involved drinking, getting stoned, and watching The Simpsons.
3. Pick up minimum wage!
Oh well, I still love (cheap) computers.
There are plenty of hefty business machines out there in offices everywhere, which have nice cpu's (2ghz+) but no directx8 3d compatible gfx hardware.
Sure, not every business looks favourably on gaming at work, but hey, if it helps sell a couple of thousand more copies, it can only be a good thing.
...are best left forgotten.
:)
Blogs are bad enough as they are, containing the (mostly) inane drivel that the authors deem fit to record.
These same people, leaving open to scrutiny every facet of their lives, frankly, fills me with trepidation.
It`ll be like Big Brother for boring geeks.
I have been reduced to actually looking forward to doing the Times crossword at lunchtime with my cow-orkers.
In fact, it`s the highlight of our day.
Save yourselves while you still can.
Is it a coincidence that ninestein's nemesis zelda is actually albert einsten's mother?
I think not.