They think they've got SO's, they don't. I have yet to meet a 16 year old that really had an SO. Heck, I have yet to meet someone that started a relationship @ 16 years of age that latest even 10 years. For that matter, most I know that started relationships even in their early 20s didn't last 10 years. It has to do with maturity and the fact that you don't reach it until much later. Ever wonder why you have to be a minumum of 35 to be president and 30 to be a senator?
Basically, your SO should be someone that's more than a fleeting bit of your life. While my arbitrary 10 years above may qualify, the point is that until someone becomes a significant part of your life, they can't really be a SO, no matter how important they are to you right this second. Those are called crushes, puppy love, whatever, and gee, isn't it cute?
Consider that in the next 12 months we will have 2 new chip releases: Intel's slapped together quad and AMD's next gen quad on 65 nm near as I can tell. The next gen chip will also be coupled with a new socket (AM3) which, according to AMD, will be socket compatible with AM2.
So, buy a cheap AM2 CPU now, with RAM, or go budget and get a 939, skip the RAM (I have 2GB on my desk) and update in 6-12 months. Intel's approach appears to have some issues - the Mac Pro's seems to have memory limitations from the first reviews I've seen, which indicate that the slapped together quads will suffer the same flaws, since those 4 cores will share 1 FSB.
Well, let's say I was sitting down at a computer in 1980. There weren't many computers, so I should have been able to trademark "Computer" and then sue everyone everywhere?
your argument is flawed. Website, or web sites, followed the same common naming convention as gopher sites and ftp sites, both of which predate 1994 by quite a bit. Matter of fact, from the WWW mail archives:
Marc Andreessen started working on the Mosaic web browser in 1992.
and also Google's search result comments indicate that WWW and W3 were already in use. The archives also indicate that Mosaic 1.2 was released by Apr 93, thus they had to have something to connect it to, unfortunately I was unable to access the mail archives, and thus could not ascertain what they called the server and documents and collections of documents they connected to at that time. I can't trust 13 year old memories as to whether we called it a "site" back then, but I seem to recall lots of references to ftp sites and such, so it would only be natural (Simtel was a big one in the day).
The thought has crossed my mind that if I were in the position of SG-1, and I got ahold of that weapon to wipe out Ascended beings, that the rational thing to do may be to wipe out both the Ancients and the Ori and start fresh.
IIRC, the "weapon" just disrupts the energy being, removing their ability to influence in the area of effect. Nothing definitive so far states that it will "kill" them. I'm sure we'll be seeing the Asgard again to actually effectively fire this weapon.
Supposedly they already know pretty much everything they need to about ascension - recall the Anubus clone storyline? Don't forget Daniel ascended twice, and seems to remember more than he thinks. Which begs the question, is Daniel, and Jack for that matter, so much more advanced than the regular human race?
We've been introduced to the Asgard and the Ancients, what happened to the Furlings whom we've never seen and what of the Nox? Why aren't the Nox and the Asgard ascending since they're so much more developed than humans, as the primary ascension mechanism according to the Anubus clone episode is higher brain function? The Nox certainly seem to be there.
As for the storyline, Earth hasn't really gotten any really good technical stuff (the 303 aside). It'd be neat if they accelerated tech on Earth to Tollan levels, they could explore all sorts of interesting things along that storyline. Plus the Furlings, of course. But to return to innocent exploration? They're beyond that at this point.
These were created by the Ancients 10K years ago. They are like "Replicators" but were not related to the original Replicators created by the girl from whatever planet in the Milky Way.
The Ori vs the Wraith could happen, or SG-1 ascends on their own with Daniel's help and battle the Ori? (After all, if he does it on his own, he won't be subject to the ancient's rules....)
Personally, I'll bet more on the Ancients come to their senses and actively remove Ori influences in "our" galaxy, but Atlantis in Pegasus won't have that luxury, and they'll show up there (the Ori haven't visited there either, evidently, which puts a whole lie to the Ancients protecting earth's galaxy, but that's another story.) So, they get to continue a really nice storyline with the Ori since the Supergate has been disabled, removing earth and earth's galaxy from the equation.
And where are those rascally genetic expert Asgard who couldn't help against the Prior plagues? 10,000 years of genetics mastery should have made it easy for them to defeat that issue. Seems some storyline consistency has been dropped when they introduced the Ori. (Their absence earlier was explained due to their battle with the Replicators, but they were completely defeated at the end of the 8th season, or so we're supposed to think)
Arrgh!!! Now what am I to do on Friday nights?!?!?!?!?
Season 8 was a great series ending season. I agree that when Don Davis left, followed more recently by Richard Dean Anderson, that the show lost something. Occassional episodes are still quite funny: episode 200 made me laugh out loud, but it was a horrible episode as far as the series went. Claudia Black was a welcome addition with a great dynamic, and would have helped make the show even better if she'd been in it earlier. Beau Bridges? Just doesn't have the "right" feel, Don Davis was so much better.
Ep 200 made lots of funny comments about the series changes of personnel, it was hilarious from that perspective.
IIRC, the framers of the Constitution were originally reluctant about agreeing to the Bill of Rights because they were afraid that enumerating certain rights would imply that others were not protected.
This is *not* one of those situations. This is the system doing exactly what it was supposed to, protect the guys who genuinely invented something unique.
You nicely sidestepped the remainder of my post where I asked about that very issue. I don't believe Tivo was revolutionary, innovative, nor new as the basis for the DVR was first done in 1965. Margi built the first video/audio capture card in 1995. ATI produced it's first AIW in 1996. The original TiVo product was proposed in 1997.
The first DVR was tested on July 8, 1965, when CBS explored the possibilities of instant freeze-frame and rewind for sporting event broadcasts. Ampex released the first commercial hard disk video recorder in 1967. The HS-100 recorded analog video onto a digital hard disk and could store a maximum of only 30 seconds.
So, exactly how is Tivo unique? Their software? Everything else seems obvious and logical extensions from earlier and certainly expired by now patents. So, given that the mechanics are obvious, and the software of Tivo is stated to be "vastly superior" to Dish, and that Dish offers what ATI etc offer prior to Tivo's conception even, how is Tivo the little good guy here? Seems like one of those blasted patent trolls to me, especially since "time-shifting" and rewind on a hard drive based system existed in 1965 for crying out loud.
They're faster, but not necessarily cheaper, certainly not when combined with a motherboard.
Power usage is comparable, from the tests I've seen, with the Core 2 using a little less power at full load, but more power idling. Do note that this is against 3 year old tech.
many many times. How many different implementations exist for this truly trivial technology? Yes, it's trivial - it's nothing more than capturing a stream and writing it to disk with some meta data, and perhaps a GUI to look at meta-data from both the recorded info and future info (guide).
If Dish infringes on Tivo's "patents", then Tivo probably infringes on some cable company's patent for the "guide" feature.
I'm not rooting for Tivo, and never have. Tivo does things I don't like. It requires a subscription. It talks back to the mothership. It records crap I don't want.
I like how Dish's DVR works, although the documentation could be a little better. If you know all the commands, it's actually a pretty nice system. With the exception of a seldom download of crap I don't want (Dish's marketing blah blah blah) the system does precisely what I tell it to. It doesn't phone home either (no phone attached) so that alleviates that issue.
What I don't like is the PITA of ripping things off the HD. Considering the usually abysmal quality of said rips (the original stream is so compressed that what's normally 1 GB on a DVD is about 80MB as transmitted by Dish, Cable isn't any better from what I've heard) that I'm finally taking the step of building my own HTPC, with HD capabilities, that's not subject to any of these moronic limitations.
My question would be: if that is all true, then why is Tivo's product supposedly so "superior". (I happen to be one of those folks who like their DVR to do exactly what its told, and nothing more - Dish's DVR can be configured to work that way)
Also, how does this affect ReplayTV, SageTV, BeyondTV, MS MCE, DirecTV's new non-Tivo DVR, etc etc etc. Are any of those predating Tivo? What about the statements out of MS and others long ago that talked about the convergence of media and PCs? Prior art there? Patenting something everyone is already talking about when you innovate nothing is the classic definition of a patent troll. (Rambus anyone? Amazon's 1-click?)
I don't know about that. Merely point out that the NSA can listen in on their 1-900-hotlips conversations without a warrant, and they'll change their tune.
mods and mod points and karma, who cares? Seriously? It's not a contest, and/. karma doesn't translate into personal success (ok, maybe for some it does, there's rubber rooms for them)
I wish the trolls would go away as much as anyone, maybe if you don't have good karma, your postings would be delayed for 10 or 20 minutes? (Allowing them to be pushed down in sequence). It would also ameliorate all those stupid GNAA and goat.se postings.
In any case, unless you have bad posting habits, one redundant posting isn't going to affect your karma.
I understand your points, and they're valid given the current programming practices in the gaming community.
However, such tactics are common in a subset of the business world (especially the paging/load function - it's common in the OS world as well). Rendering/Loading a segment separately isn't hard, it just requires some knowledge of parallelism and concurrency. Considering that what we're discussing is somewhat analogous to "lazily loading" a cache, it's not very difficult in concept.
About stressing the memory subsystem, that's the entire point of these new CPUs, they're bigger, they're better, and they should no longer be limited to a mere 2GB. That aside, the "rendering" aspect will allow for very small in memory games to exist, provided you can render the necessary surroundings fast enough. This would require some predictive algorithm, but nothing overly complicated.
I think we'll see a change for games when they render their graphics instead of coming on 5 DVDs. Per another/. article I'm too lazy to go get at the moment. Imagine being able to start your game while other core(s) render the parts of the game you can't see. Imagine no more load waits for levels, they can be loaded in separate processes.
There's lots of things games could benefit from by removing some of the wait time from games, and by allowing scalable graphics. It could allow for RT mods to render within the game too, which would open up realms many will probably run shrieking from.
In the USA the ban has more to do with (A) the cotton lobby, and (B) with a good dose of government hypocrisy and putting up a jolly good "war on drugs" show.
In the US, it actually has everything to do with a little company called DuPont, and a media mogul named Hearst.
* Photoshop
* Gimp
* CAD
* FEM solutions packages
* Rendering packages
* Video editing packages
* Compression utilities
And, of course, you could add things like the OS itself, multiple applications (although 2 cores are probably enough for that for most folks) or AV software, especially if you're running McAfee or Norton.
I carefully avoided that particular scenario. Many of the companies that I personally worked with buy large portions of their hardware for a variety of reasons. Leasing eq creates a completely different equation wherein eq rotates out of your datacenter on a regular basis.
As for support contracts, that depends upon what type of hardware you buy. PC hardware generally comes with a 3 year "warranty" if you buy it, depending upon vendor (or used to just a couple of years ago, it's been a while since I bought PC hardware). As for other hardware, leasing can make a lot of sense.
Your DEC system is obsolete by any standard, especially considering DEC died 6 or so years ago.;)
Since Intel's 2x2 only shares the FSB, I would think theoretically they could test the cores. My guess is that they will build the full chip, and those that have a bad CPU will be sold as dual core chips with the bad core disabled.
And yes, I own a PPro still. It's sitting in the corner, disassembled, but it's still there.:)
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They think they've got SO's, they don't. I have yet to meet a 16 year old that really had an SO. Heck, I have yet to meet someone that started a relationship @ 16 years of age that latest even 10 years. For that matter, most I know that started relationships even in their early 20s didn't last 10 years. It has to do with maturity and the fact that you don't reach it until much later. Ever wonder why you have to be a minumum of 35 to be president and 30 to be a senator?
Basically, your SO should be someone that's more than a fleeting bit of your life. While my arbitrary 10 years above may qualify, the point is that until someone becomes a significant part of your life, they can't really be a SO, no matter how important they are to you right this second. Those are called crushes, puppy love, whatever, and gee, isn't it cute?
Consider that in the next 12 months we will have 2 new chip releases: Intel's slapped together quad and AMD's next gen quad on 65 nm near as I can tell. The next gen chip will also be coupled with a new socket (AM3) which, according to AMD, will be socket compatible with AM2.
So, buy a cheap AM2 CPU now, with RAM, or go budget and get a 939, skip the RAM (I have 2GB on my desk) and update in 6-12 months. Intel's approach appears to have some issues - the Mac Pro's seems to have memory limitations from the first reviews I've seen, which indicate that the slapped together quads will suffer the same flaws, since those 4 cores will share 1 FSB.
Umm, they're 16. They don't have SOs. They have crushes. Mostly.
And an open door is a good thing. Like Open Source. (Just to tie it back to geek-dom)
Well, let's say I was sitting down at a computer in 1980. There weren't many computers, so I should have been able to trademark "Computer" and then sue everyone everywhere?
your argument is flawed. Website, or web sites, followed the same common naming convention as gopher sites and ftp sites, both of which predate 1994 by quite a bit. Matter of fact, from the WWW mail archives:
Marc Andreessen started working on the Mosaic web browser in 1992.
and also Google's search result comments indicate that WWW and W3 were already in use. The archives also indicate that Mosaic 1.2 was released by Apr 93, thus they had to have something to connect it to, unfortunately I was unable to access the mail archives, and thus could not ascertain what they called the server and documents and collections of documents they connected to at that time. I can't trust 13 year old memories as to whether we called it a "site" back then, but I seem to recall lots of references to ftp sites and such, so it would only be natural (Simtel was a big one in the day).
IIRC, the "weapon" just disrupts the energy being, removing their ability to influence in the area of effect. Nothing definitive so far states that it will "kill" them. I'm sure we'll be seeing the Asgard again to actually effectively fire this weapon.
Supposedly they already know pretty much everything they need to about ascension - recall the Anubus clone storyline? Don't forget Daniel ascended twice, and seems to remember more than he thinks. Which begs the question, is Daniel, and Jack for that matter, so much more advanced than the regular human race?
We've been introduced to the Asgard and the Ancients, what happened to the Furlings whom we've never seen and what of the Nox? Why aren't the Nox and the Asgard ascending since they're so much more developed than humans, as the primary ascension mechanism according to the Anubus clone episode is higher brain function? The Nox certainly seem to be there.
As for the storyline, Earth hasn't really gotten any really good technical stuff (the 303 aside). It'd be neat if they accelerated tech on Earth to Tollan levels, they could explore all sorts of interesting things along that storyline. Plus the Furlings, of course. But to return to innocent exploration? They're beyond that at this point.
These were created by the Ancients 10K years ago. They are like "Replicators" but were not related to the original Replicators created by the girl from whatever planet in the Milky Way.
The Ori vs the Wraith could happen, or SG-1 ascends on their own with Daniel's help and battle the Ori? (After all, if he does it on his own, he won't be subject to the ancient's rules....)
Personally, I'll bet more on the Ancients come to their senses and actively remove Ori influences in "our" galaxy, but Atlantis in Pegasus won't have that luxury, and they'll show up there (the Ori haven't visited there either, evidently, which puts a whole lie to the Ancients protecting earth's galaxy, but that's another story.) So, they get to continue a really nice storyline with the Ori since the Supergate has been disabled, removing earth and earth's galaxy from the equation.
And where are those rascally genetic expert Asgard who couldn't help against the Prior plagues? 10,000 years of genetics mastery should have made it easy for them to defeat that issue. Seems some storyline consistency has been dropped when they introduced the Ori. (Their absence earlier was explained due to their battle with the Replicators, but they were completely defeated at the end of the 8th season, or so we're supposed to think)
Arrgh!!! Now what am I to do on Friday nights?!?!?!?!?
Season 8 was a great series ending season. I agree that when Don Davis left, followed more recently by Richard Dean Anderson, that the show lost something. Occassional episodes are still quite funny: episode 200 made me laugh out loud, but it was a horrible episode as far as the series went. Claudia Black was a welcome addition with a great dynamic, and would have helped make the show even better if she'd been in it earlier. Beau Bridges? Just doesn't have the "right" feel, Don Davis was so much better.
Ep 200 made lots of funny comments about the series changes of personnel, it was hilarious from that perspective.
IIRC, the framers of the Constitution were originally reluctant about agreeing to the Bill of Rights because they were afraid that enumerating certain rights would imply that others were not protected.
It appears they were right.
You nicely sidestepped the remainder of my post where I asked about that very issue. I don't believe Tivo was revolutionary, innovative, nor new as the basis for the DVR was first done in 1965. Margi built the first video/audio capture card in 1995. ATI produced it's first AIW in 1996. The original TiVo product was proposed in 1997.
So, exactly how is Tivo unique? Their software? Everything else seems obvious and logical extensions from earlier and certainly expired by now patents. So, given that the mechanics are obvious, and the software of Tivo is stated to be "vastly superior" to Dish, and that Dish offers what ATI etc offer prior to Tivo's conception even, how is Tivo the little good guy here? Seems like one of those blasted patent trolls to me, especially since "time-shifting" and rewind on a hard drive based system existed in 1965 for crying out loud.
They're faster, but not necessarily cheaper, certainly not when combined with a motherboard.
Power usage is comparable, from the tests I've seen, with the Core 2 using a little less power at full load, but more power idling. Do note that this is against 3 year old tech.
I'll be eagerly awaiting next year's releases.
many many times. How many different implementations exist for this truly trivial technology? Yes, it's trivial - it's nothing more than capturing a stream and writing it to disk with some meta data, and perhaps a GUI to look at meta-data from both the recorded info and future info (guide).
If Dish infringes on Tivo's "patents", then Tivo probably infringes on some cable company's patent for the "guide" feature.
I'm not rooting for Tivo, and never have. Tivo does things I don't like. It requires a subscription. It talks back to the mothership. It records crap I don't want.
I like how Dish's DVR works, although the documentation could be a little better. If you know all the commands, it's actually a pretty nice system. With the exception of a seldom download of crap I don't want (Dish's marketing blah blah blah) the system does precisely what I tell it to. It doesn't phone home either (no phone attached) so that alleviates that issue.
What I don't like is the PITA of ripping things off the HD. Considering the usually abysmal quality of said rips (the original stream is so compressed that what's normally 1 GB on a DVD is about 80MB as transmitted by Dish, Cable isn't any better from what I've heard) that I'm finally taking the step of building my own HTPC, with HD capabilities, that's not subject to any of these moronic limitations.
My question would be: if that is all true, then why is Tivo's product supposedly so "superior". (I happen to be one of those folks who like their DVR to do exactly what its told, and nothing more - Dish's DVR can be configured to work that way)
Also, how does this affect ReplayTV, SageTV, BeyondTV, MS MCE, DirecTV's new non-Tivo DVR, etc etc etc. Are any of those predating Tivo? What about the statements out of MS and others long ago that talked about the convergence of media and PCs? Prior art there? Patenting something everyone is already talking about when you innovate nothing is the classic definition of a patent troll. (Rambus anyone? Amazon's 1-click?)
I don't know about that. Merely point out that the NSA can listen in on their 1-900-hotlips conversations without a warrant, and they'll change their tune.
mods and mod points and karma, who cares? Seriously? It's not a contest, and /. karma doesn't translate into personal success (ok, maybe for some it does, there's rubber rooms for them)
I wish the trolls would go away as much as anyone, maybe if you don't have good karma, your postings would be delayed for 10 or 20 minutes? (Allowing them to be pushed down in sequence). It would also ameliorate all those stupid GNAA and goat.se postings.
In any case, unless you have bad posting habits, one redundant posting isn't going to affect your karma.
shouldn't we link to VirtualDub, Sourceforge and its download links a few thousand times?
I understand your points, and they're valid given the current programming practices in the gaming community.
However, such tactics are common in a subset of the business world (especially the paging/load function - it's common in the OS world as well). Rendering/Loading a segment separately isn't hard, it just requires some knowledge of parallelism and concurrency. Considering that what we're discussing is somewhat analogous to "lazily loading" a cache, it's not very difficult in concept.
About stressing the memory subsystem, that's the entire point of these new CPUs, they're bigger, they're better, and they should no longer be limited to a mere 2GB. That aside, the "rendering" aspect will allow for very small in memory games to exist, provided you can render the necessary surroundings fast enough. This would require some predictive algorithm, but nothing overly complicated.
What are these 'quarterly salary reviews' you speak of? Annual is the best I've seen.
I think we'll see a change for games when they render their graphics instead of coming on 5 DVDs. Per another /. article I'm too lazy to go get at the moment. Imagine being able to start your game while other core(s) render the parts of the game you can't see. Imagine no more load waits for levels, they can be loaded in separate processes.
There's lots of things games could benefit from by removing some of the wait time from games, and by allowing scalable graphics. It could allow for RT mods to render within the game too, which would open up realms many will probably run shrieking from.
In the US, it actually has everything to do with a little company called DuPont, and a media mogul named Hearst.
Single user apps that would benefit:
* Photoshop
* Gimp
* CAD
* FEM solutions packages
* Rendering packages
* Video editing packages
* Compression utilities
And, of course, you could add things like the OS itself, multiple applications (although 2 cores are probably enough for that for most folks) or AV software, especially if you're running McAfee or Norton.
I carefully avoided that particular scenario. Many of the companies that I personally worked with buy large portions of their hardware for a variety of reasons. Leasing eq creates a completely different equation wherein eq rotates out of your datacenter on a regular basis.
;)
As for support contracts, that depends upon what type of hardware you buy. PC hardware generally comes with a 3 year "warranty" if you buy it, depending upon vendor (or used to just a couple of years ago, it's been a while since I bought PC hardware). As for other hardware, leasing can make a lot of sense.
Your DEC system is obsolete by any standard, especially considering DEC died 6 or so years ago.
Since Intel's 2x2 only shares the FSB, I would think theoretically they could test the cores. My guess is that they will build the full chip, and those that have a bad CPU will be sold as dual core chips with the bad core disabled.
:)
And yes, I own a PPro still. It's sitting in the corner, disassembled, but it's still there.