FTA:"The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential. It may sound illogical, but redrawing the same image over and over again can put just as much stress on a graphics processor as running a game like Crysis with everything cranked up."
This doesn't make a whole lot of sense, still sounds illogical to me.
My understanding of video cards is they see changes on the screen and renders the changes. This is why first person shooters, where the entire screen has to be rendered every frame because when you move the entire scene changes, requires a much better video card then a real time strategy like Starcraft, where the entire map would be static except for the few people that are moving around.
Now they're saying a static screen, essentially a menu screen, is causing video cards to go nuts and heat up because they're trying to render the few things that are moving around? I understand that there's no framerate cap, so it's just going nuts trying to redraw a blinking light, but that's still just a small 20x20 pixel blinking light compared to the 1980x1200 screen that Crysis requires redrawing with every step, 50 times a second.
Maybe these are very old cards that are having issues because modern cards will lower the GPU clock speed if they see nothing going on so there's even less of a chance of overheating.
"Even if the car is electric, they still will not save money in terms of the total cost of ownership, over buying a regular old car that's fuel efficient.
Look at things like the Chevy Volt versus a Toyota Corolla. Even assuming no gas, ever, the Corolla is still more affordable."
Prius mpg = 51/48 = 49.5 mpg average
Corolla mpg = 26/34 = 30 mpg average
195,000 miles / 49.5mpg x $3 average per gallon = $11,818 dollars
195,000 miles / 30mpg x $3 average per gallon = $19,500 dollars
$19,500 - $11,818 = $7682.
So basically, you'd have to drive 195,000 miles in a Prius to break even compared to the price of a Corolla. Until you surpass 195,000 miles the Corolla would have saved money.
In summary, the new Corolla will always be better than the new Prius. Of course this is assuming you're deciding between the two cars comparing gas prices only, not size of vehicle, status, smugness, etc.
I've never heard of them and I doubt my customers have either.
I see from their website that they offer a online payment gateway which is nice but I actually don't want customers to enter credit cards on my website.
I know that sounds strange, but the reason is no one trusts the internet unless you're Walmart.com, Amazon.com, etc. If you're JackAndJillsStore.com they're not going to want to put their credit card number on your website no matter what great price or product you offer. By using Paypal or Google Checkout or Amazon Payments I'm sending the customers to a website they do trust and they are familiar with and they will give them their credit card number.
They're the only ones that offer:
1) easy website integration
2) thousands of programmers know how to setup advanced shopping carts thanks to the developer network 3) customers that trust them (that's very important)
and I thought of some more:
4) instant access to funds using the Paypal debit card.
5) 800 number where I can speak to a real person when I have a problem. Doesn't happen often but when the account is frozen (again) I want a real live person to tell me why ASAP
someone mentioned Amazon Payments which might be a great alternative since everyone's heard of Amazon and Amazon's fees are the exact same as Paypal's fees, 0 to $3,000.00 USD = 2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction
I'll check out their API and see if we can use it.
and you're an idiot for trusting a fake wiki like "wikia.com"
wikipedia.org: "Because much of the court's ruling was based on the original licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft for Windows 1.0, it made the case more of a contractual matter than of copyright law, to the chagrin of Apple. This also meant that the court avoided a more far-reaching "look and feel copyright" precedent ruling. However, the case did establish that the analytic dissection (rather than the general "look and feel") of a user interface is vital to any copyright decision on such matters.
In 1997, five years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's "QuickTime piracy" lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer their default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement."
See the "Microsoft also purchased"? Wasn't really part of the lawsuit, it just "also" happened in 1997 "helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time". Apple was a sinking ship and Microsoft rescued them.
What's wrong with Microsoft helping Apple? Why can't anyone just admit what really happened? The newsconfirms it.
"I've had what I consider a very bad experience with Paypal and now I only use them begrudgingly if I have no other alternative."
I've had more "very bad experiences" with Paypal than you can shake a stick at, watching them steal thousands of my dollars over the years using various excuses, and of course they won't provide any evidence as to why I owed them the money. Unfortunately I still use them because they are the only ones. They have the easiest website integration, thousands of programmers know how to setup advanced shopping carts and customers trust them. There's nothing I can do.
I seriously considered google shopping cart but apparently there's just as many complaints again them and there's no 800 number for customer service, everything is by email.
If anyone knows an alternative to Paypal that customers trust please let me know.
you can throw your links at me all day and I can throw my news articles right back, but the point is the same: Apple was broke and M$ gave them $150 million. M$ and Apple have been suing each other since the 80s, nothing new there, and everyone sues both of them. Everyone just settles eventually.
Point is reliable sources ("the news") have stated the $150 million was to help Apple out of their serious financial problems. Apple also agreed to drop all lawsuits and make IE the default browser.
Microsoft didn't have to pay a dime, they could have just sat back and watched Apple crumble, M$ could have dragged the lawsuits on another 20 years but Apple couldn't, they didn't have the money, so M$ bailed them out.
I know the moderators today are apple fanbois but it's the truth, and when i'm a moderator again (probably tomorrow, lately I've been getting it constantly) I'll be sure to moderator the apple fanbois appropriately:)
"Because you're not quoting the actual legal case [wikia.com] where Apple and Microsoft reached a settlement deal after Quicktime source code was found in Video For Windows. "The news" isn't always accurate.** You're the Troll because you know this."
And now it's blank, because it's a wiki article that anyone can edit, including you... or me, and make it say anything you want it to say. How is an article that anyone can edit or vandalize or delete more accurate than reporters and newspapers? OH let me guess, it's accurate because it has links... links to the news!?
**[citation needed]
You do know what "citation needed" means, right?"provide a reliable source for the claim." So what's a reliable source?"Reliable sources may therefore be published materials with a reliable publication process; they may be authors who are regarded as authoritative in relation to the subject in question; or they may be both."
So yes, the news is a reliable source, you can take off your tin-foil hat now.
These were impressive many years ago because someone had to build the hardware and write the software to do this, but now they sell kits.
Please/., don't post a story when they reach 78 gigapixel or 83 gigapixel or 92 gigapixel or whatever,/. already did stories on 8.6 GP, 26 GP, and now we have a story on 70 GP. Just tell me when we reach 100, then 500, and 1000.
"Steve Jobs didn't turn to Bill Gates and ask for $150 million in stocks. Microsoft was required to as part of a settlement deal after getting caught stealing Quicktime code...."
DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE NEWS http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/tec081097.html "Jobs asked Gates to pledge $150 million in purchases of Apple stock. Gates agreed, but only after getting the deal on sharing trade secrets and the agreement that Apple would promote the Microsoft Web browser. "
There was no settlement deal, no Quicktime code stealing. Stop making stuff up.
"If you read the linked article in TFA, you will find that she BOUGHT HIM A LAPTOP AND MAILED IT TO INDIA! wtf woman"
And she was dating him online http://www.rgj.com/article/20100729/NEWS13/100729021/1321/news "Following the initial technical call, conversations between Fitzgerald and Shaikh quickly turned personal. Fitzgerald admitted being flattered by the attention from the Indian support tech, whose MySpace page identifies him as being 24 years old. "He's very charming and he knew exactly what to say. It warmed my heart," she said."
Sorry lady, the guy might have stolen your photos and called you a bitch (hence bitchtara.com) but you started dating him online and gave him your credit card and bought him gifts.
"I really doubt you can find them because that's all complete bullshit.
MS bought a small (150M, I think) as part of a settlement deal, to prevent Apple cleaning their clock in court - MS had been caught ripping off Apple's code and selling it as their own."
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Where were you in 1997? This was huge news. MS BITES INTO APPLE "During a year of corporate reshuffling and job cuts, Apple's stock has fallen more than 50 percent... For right now, though, a $150 million investment really does keep Apple going...$150 million gets Apple a little new lease on life."
Microsoft's gorilla knocks on Apple's door "Apple's stock had been falling steadily over the years. Despite occasional surges, the stock kept sliding down. Apple was losing the confidence of investors..... So Steve Jobs turned to Bill Gates, the $36 billion man....Jobs asked Gates to pledge $150 million in purchases of Apple stock. Gates agreed, but only after getting the deal on sharing trade secrets and the agreement that Apple would promote the Microsoft Web browser.... The $150 million in pledges....gave Apple stock a sudden boost, from a low of $13.68 a share in early July to a high of $26.31 a share (in August)"
Here let me break it down for you: Jobs: Oh mighty Gates! A poor beggar I be! My company is failing, please won't thou shine ye mighty billions down onto my brow!
Gates: I hear you poor beggar Jobs. I shall grant you $150 million if you agree that all your base are belong to us.
Jobs: Oh bless you all powerful and mighty Gates! Bless you!!
"You're the smartest man in a theater. While the rest of the audience enjoys their dumb comedy, you're shouting "Stop laughing! Can't you all see the plot is nonsensical?!". There is a problem, but it isn't with the rest of the audience."
I must be the audience because I have an iPhone and have no complaints about AT&T and I love to complain ( I'm on/., aren't i?;-) )
"I have yet to meet a single person from the left mistake Onion with real news.... seems like a whole lot of people on the right have been duped."
Poster is saying Republicans are idiots, someone explain how this is "Insightful" and not Flamebait? I marked him as flamebait but apparently too many people have modded him as insightful already.
"Figuring out something means finding about it by yourself."
Finding about it by yourself how? By magic? Hate to break it to you but nothing is named right. Larger engines don't always mean more hp, smaller engines don't guarantee better mpg, higher mhz CPU doesn't mean faster computer, etc.
The sooner you realize you should research everything before buying it the better off you'll be.
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FTA: "The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential. It may sound illogical, but redrawing the same image over and over again can put just as much stress on a graphics processor as running a game like Crysis with everything cranked up."
This doesn't make a whole lot of sense, still sounds illogical to me.
My understanding of video cards is they see changes on the screen and renders the changes. This is why first person shooters, where the entire screen has to be rendered every frame because when you move the entire scene changes, requires a much better video card then a real time strategy like Starcraft, where the entire map would be static except for the few people that are moving around.
Now they're saying a static screen, essentially a menu screen, is causing video cards to go nuts and heat up because they're trying to render the few things that are moving around? I understand that there's no framerate cap, so it's just going nuts trying to redraw a blinking light, but that's still just a small 20x20 pixel blinking light compared to the 1980x1200 screen that Crysis requires redrawing with every step, 50 times a second.
Maybe these are very old cards that are having issues because modern cards will lower the GPU clock speed if they see nothing going on so there's even less of a chance of overheating.
"Even if the car is electric, they still will not save money in terms of the total cost of ownership, over buying a regular old car that's fuel efficient. Look at things like the Chevy Volt versus a Toyota Corolla. Even assuming no gas, ever, the Corolla is still more affordable."
Same could be said about the Prius but look how well they're selling.
2010 Prius MSRP = $22800 to $28070
2010 Corolla MSRP = $15,450 to $20,150
Price difference = $7350 to $7920 = $7635 average
Prius mpg = 51/48 = 49.5 mpg average
Corolla mpg = 26/34 = 30 mpg average
195,000 miles / 49.5mpg x $3 average per gallon = $11,818 dollars
195,000 miles / 30mpg x $3 average per gallon = $19,500 dollars
$19,500 - $11,818 = $7682.
So basically, you'd have to drive 195,000 miles in a Prius to break even compared to the price of a Corolla. Until you surpass 195,000 miles the Corolla would have saved money.
This also doesn't figure the interest you could make on $7,682 while you're driving your Prius to reach 195,000 miles. If it takes 10 years to reach 195,000 miles that $7,682 at 5% interest would be $12,513.17.
In summary, the new Corolla will always be better than the new Prius. Of course this is assuming you're deciding between the two cars comparing gas prices only, not size of vehicle, status, smugness, etc.
I've never heard of them and I doubt my customers have either.
I see from their website that they offer a online payment gateway which is nice but I actually don't want customers to enter credit cards on my website.
I know that sounds strange, but the reason is no one trusts the internet unless you're Walmart.com, Amazon.com, etc. If you're JackAndJillsStore.com they're not going to want to put their credit card number on your website no matter what great price or product you offer. By using Paypal or Google Checkout or Amazon Payments I'm sending the customers to a website they do trust and they are familiar with and they will give them their credit card number.
They're the only ones that offer:
1) easy website integration
2) thousands of programmers know how to setup advanced shopping carts thanks to the developer network
3) customers that trust them (that's very important)
and I thought of some more:
4) instant access to funds using the Paypal debit card.
5) 800 number where I can speak to a real person when I have a problem. Doesn't happen often but when the account is frozen (again) I want a real live person to tell me why ASAP
someone mentioned Amazon Payments which might be a great alternative since everyone's heard of Amazon and Amazon's fees are the exact same as Paypal's fees, 0 to $3,000.00 USD = 2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction
I'll check out their API and see if we can use it.
" Whoever modded you up is equally idiotic."
and you're an idiot for trusting a fake wiki like "wikia.com"
wikipedia.org:
"Because much of the court's ruling was based on the original licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft for Windows 1.0, it made the case more of a contractual matter than of copyright law, to the chagrin of Apple. This also meant that the court avoided a more far-reaching "look and feel copyright" precedent ruling. However, the case did establish that the analytic dissection (rather than the general "look and feel") of a user interface is vital to any copyright decision on such matters. In 1997, five years after the lawsuit was decided, all lingering infringement questions against Microsoft regarding the Lisa and Macintosh GUI as well as Apple's "QuickTime piracy" lawsuit against Microsoft were settled in direct negotiations. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer their default browser, to the detriment of Netscape. Microsoft agreed to continue developing Microsoft Office and other software for the Mac over the next five years. Microsoft also purchased $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time. Both parties entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement."
See the "Microsoft also purchased"? Wasn't really part of the lawsuit, it just "also" happened in 1997 "helping Apple in its financial struggles at the time". Apple was a sinking ship and Microsoft rescued them.
What's wrong with Microsoft helping Apple? Why can't anyone just admit what really happened? The news confirms it.
"I've had what I consider a very bad experience with Paypal and now I only use them begrudgingly if I have no other alternative."
I've had more "very bad experiences" with Paypal than you can shake a stick at, watching them steal thousands of my dollars over the years using various excuses, and of course they won't provide any evidence as to why I owed them the money. Unfortunately I still use them because they are the only ones. They have the easiest website integration, thousands of programmers know how to setup advanced shopping carts and customers trust them. There's nothing I can do.
I seriously considered google shopping cart but apparently there's just as many complaints again them and there's no 800 number for customer service, everything is by email.
If anyone knows an alternative to Paypal that customers trust please let me know.
you can throw your links at me all day and I can throw my news articles right back, but the point is the same: Apple was broke and M$ gave them $150 million. M$ and Apple have been suing each other since the 80s, nothing new there, and everyone sues both of them. Everyone just settles eventually.
:)
Point is reliable sources ("the news") have stated the $150 million was to help Apple out of their serious financial problems. Apple also agreed to drop all lawsuits and make IE the default browser.
Microsoft didn't have to pay a dime, they could have just sat back and watched Apple crumble, M$ could have dragged the lawsuits on another 20 years but Apple couldn't, they didn't have the money, so M$ bailed them out.
I know the moderators today are apple fanbois but it's the truth, and when i'm a moderator again (probably tomorrow, lately I've been getting it constantly) I'll be sure to moderator the apple fanbois appropriately
"Because you're not quoting the actual legal case [wikia.com] where Apple and Microsoft reached a settlement deal after Quicktime source code was found in Video For Windows. "The news" isn't always accurate.** You're the Troll because you know this."
And now it's blank, because it's a wiki article that anyone can edit, including you... or me, and make it say anything you want it to say. How is an article that anyone can edit or vandalize or delete more accurate than reporters and newspapers? OH let me guess, it's accurate because it has links... links to the news!?
**[citation needed]
You do know what "citation needed" means, right? "provide a reliable source for the claim." So what's a reliable source? "Reliable sources may therefore be published materials with a reliable publication process; they may be authors who are regarded as authoritative in relation to the subject in question; or they may be both."
So yes, the news is a reliable source, you can take off your tin-foil hat now.
You're the troll because you know this.
Agreed, and remember anyone can do this with 9 grand worth of Sony A900 digital cameras and a $1000 robotic camera mount.
/., don't post a story when they reach 78 gigapixel or 83 gigapixel or 92 gigapixel or whatever, /. already did stories on 8.6 GP, 26 GP, and now we have a story on 70 GP. Just tell me when we reach 100, then 500, and 1000.
These were impressive many years ago because someone had to build the hardware and write the software to do this, but now they sell kits.
Please
"Steve Jobs didn't turn to Bill Gates and ask for $150 million in stocks. Microsoft was required to as part of a settlement deal after getting caught stealing Quicktime code...."
DIRECT QUOTE FROM THE NEWS
http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/tec081097.html
"Jobs asked Gates to pledge $150 million in purchases of Apple stock. Gates agreed, but only after getting the deal on sharing trade secrets and the agreement that Apple would promote the Microsoft Web browser. "
There was no settlement deal, no Quicktime code stealing. Stop making stuff up.
"do you really think that 150 million made a difference to a company that had billions in the bank?"
They didn't have "billions" in the bank at the time, and according to the news $150 million kept Apple from going out of business or being bought out.
How come I'm the one quoting news articles with all this proof and I'm the Troll and you state your opinion and you're marked as Interesting?
"You're a really bad troll. Try harder."
Those are direct quotes from the article, I'm a troll for quoting the news?
Those are direct quotes from the article, I'm a troll for quoting the news?
"If you read the linked article in TFA, you will find that she BOUGHT HIM A LAPTOP AND MAILED IT TO INDIA! wtf woman"
And she was dating him online
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100729/NEWS13/100729021/1321/news
"Following the initial technical call, conversations between Fitzgerald and Shaikh quickly turned personal. Fitzgerald admitted being flattered by the attention from the Indian support tech, whose MySpace page identifies him as being 24 years old. "He's very charming and he knew exactly what to say. It warmed my heart," she said."
Sorry lady, the guy might have stolen your photos and called you a bitch (hence bitchtara.com) but you started dating him online and gave him your credit card and bought him gifts.
"I really doubt you can find them because that's all complete bullshit. MS bought a small (150M, I think) as part of a settlement deal, to prevent Apple cleaning their clock in court - MS had been caught ripping off Apple's code and selling it as their own."
You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Where were you in 1997? This was huge news.
MS BITES INTO APPLE
"During a year of corporate reshuffling and job cuts, Apple's stock has fallen more than 50 percent... For right now, though, a $150 million investment really does keep Apple going...$150 million gets Apple a little new lease on life."
Microsoft's gorilla knocks on Apple's door
"Apple's stock had been falling steadily over the years. Despite occasional surges, the stock kept sliding down. Apple was losing the confidence of investors..... So Steve Jobs turned to Bill Gates, the $36 billion man....Jobs asked Gates to pledge $150 million in purchases of Apple stock. Gates agreed, but only after getting the deal on sharing trade secrets and the agreement that Apple would promote the Microsoft Web browser.... The $150 million in pledges....gave Apple stock a sudden boost, from a low of $13.68 a share in early July to a high of $26.31 a share (in August)"
Here let me break it down for you:
Jobs: Oh mighty Gates! A poor beggar I be! My company is failing, please won't thou shine ye mighty billions down onto my brow!
Gates: I hear you poor beggar Jobs. I shall grant you $150 million if you agree that all your base are belong to us.
Jobs: Oh bless you all powerful and mighty Gates! Bless you!!
This happened in 1997, a year before the announcement of the iMac, so it's safe to say without Microsoft there would be no iMac, iPod, iPhone or iPad
" Unidentified man, in unidentified car leaps out pointing a gun at you? YES, you are within your rights to SHOOT HIM IN THE FACE."
At first I have to admit, I thought that sounded a bit nuts, but after watching the video where he jumps out of a old Malibu and gets out a gun yelling "GET OFF THE MOTORCYCLE!" I'd have to agree with you, I think if I was that motorcycle driver I would have got out of there quick.
Look at this photo and tell me you're not thinking "ROAD RAGE/CARJACK"
let me guess, he's the "socially awkward mathematician who won the lottery even knowing the odds".
I think his brain was also in a theta wave state when he decided he invented spam filtering and would sue the world.
"a website/server chat board with archived postings that are updatable"
Which is no doubt patented by this guy and we'll probably hear about it when he sues every message board in 5-10 yrs.
"You're the smartest man in a theater. While the rest of the audience enjoys their dumb comedy, you're shouting "Stop laughing! Can't you all see the plot is nonsensical?!". There is a problem, but it isn't with the rest of the audience."
/., aren't i? ;-) )
I must be the audience because I have an iPhone and have no complaints about AT&T and I love to complain ( I'm on
Robert Uomini of Kensington CA already won a $22 million dollar lottery in 1995. And yes, it's the same person, because the patent application's name and city matches and this article says he's a mathematician and his linkedin says he has a Ph.D in Mathematics. Here's his real software website, notice anything familiar? Yep, the design is exactly the same, no doubt about it this is our guy.
Here's his facebook if you want to leave him a message
He's right. We should all switch to VB and bitch and moan when it's too slow and uses too much ram.
Could be worse, this is "Hello World!" in brainfuck.
++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+... Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
can i buy it without the squirrel?
i remember it too.... 10 years ago.
Probably a reason why no email client has included this feature in 10 years....
Wonder how long before Eudora sues?
"I have yet to meet a single person from the left mistake Onion with real news.... seems like a whole lot of people on the right have been duped."
Poster is saying Republicans are idiots, someone explain how this is "Insightful" and not Flamebait? I marked him as flamebait but apparently too many people have modded him as insightful already.
"Figuring out something means finding about it by yourself."
Finding about it by yourself how? By magic? Hate to break it to you but nothing is named right. Larger engines don't always mean more hp, smaller engines don't guarantee better mpg, higher mhz CPU doesn't mean faster computer, etc.
The sooner you realize you should research everything before buying it the better off you'll be.