Thank goodness someone has the balls to take a stand for free speech. Its as simple as that. All the nay-saying comment posters should try living in China for a while before posting their whiney crap.
>> they are going to discover that they need to spend millions every year on scrubbers just to keep themselves below the EPA limits on the pollution, heavy metals and other nasty stuff from getting into the air.
Bush thinks every environmental scientist and leader in the world are wrong. God has told him pollution != Global Warming. So he will give them a waiver to vent it striaght out and save megabucks on their profit line.
A) They got the wrong guy in the first place b) They have no evidence C) Because A) and B) are true, they need time to scour this guy's life to find something, anything, to pin on him so the RIAA don't look stupid (again).
Ahh... you mean like: CardSystems in Tucson, who lost 40 million Visa and Mastercard account records. CardSystems is one of several companies that process transactions for banks and merchants.
>> the company believes the tapes were destroyed at a landfill.
Like they'd have bothered to find out for sure if it got trashed or where every item in their trash goes.
Read: we really don't know where it is but no-one seems to have used the data yet, so we're going to say some non-commital 'we beleive' bullshit to make you feel happier.
Even his 5 best things about Vista are all things I hate:
5) Windows ReadyBoost Using a USB key to speed up your machine. This has to be the dumbest idea ever. Flash typicallaly has a 100k rewrite lifetime. Also, your cheap-enough-not-to-care usb key is still only 256 or 512Mb which limits your swap file size. If you're gonna buy a big enough key then it'll cost maybe $100+ which is more than you'd need to spend to add another 1 or 2Gb of main system memory instead which would give you much better performance returns.
4) Integrated Search In short, even more layers of click-through internet/media/people crap that gets in your way when you're just trying to find where windows hid your file on your local hard drive.
3) Media Center Can you say DRM?...and now even more bloated with internet-based service crap that you have to fight with just to not buy anything online. If you just want a simple player to play your locally stored unprotected mp3 file without it assuming it must scan your whole drive and waste space on an unwanted list of all your media then compare it all with online imdb databases, you're screwed.
2) Windows Photo Gallery Yes, even more redundant bloatware that should never be a part of an operating system. If I want this crap I'll buy it. Windows photo editor has traditionally made simple jobs hard and hard jobs impossible. it also unavoidably 'automatically adjusts the quality' (read: corrupts) your picture if you just want to simply rotate it 90 degrees, for example.
1)Setup To save about 2 minutes of autmated install time, Windows Vista's interactive Setup skips half the steps you used to perform in XP Setup. Wow thats intelligent *NOT*. It means that hour or two you used to spend fiddling with a newly (re)installed XP before you could use it just got longer.
Whats the point of holding a chair? Chairs are designed to sit on.
I'm surprised even Isaac Newton didn't figure this out. He seemed pretty bright otherwise.
Diebold have been the butt-end of so many serious security failures its not funny any more. Its obvious they don't have a clue about security and aren't likely to get a clue anytime soon judging from their ongoing record.
Why are we still using this company's products? How many more times are the government going to allow Diebold to screw up?? Is there no-one else that makes a better system?
Because thats what my Garmin GPS uses. It (and I) have never heard of NDGPS so I hope WAAS doesn't get phased out. given that it also makes sennse to have a single standard, it makes sense to me for NDGPS to go away.
STOP TREATING US LIKE WE'RE STUPID. WE DON'T WANT YOUR DRM.
>>> Neither format is selling well or at the level I had expected. I had expected early adopters to step up and other retailers have had the same experience," said Bjorn Dybdahl, president of San Antonio, Texas-based specialty store Bjorn's.
>> Set swap to whatever the maximum capacity of your computer is, and you'll be fine.
Uhh how did you come up with that logic? its entirely down to what you use your PC for. I'm surprised with 4GB ram you actually need to use swap at all, but maybe you're a graphic artist working on very hi-res pics or soemthing.
>> a peice of hardware that can be "programmed" to perform specialized tasks, especially sequental ones, at faster speeds than software on a general purpose CPU.
>>> ' A report by Intel about Ray Tracing shows that a single P4 3.2Ghz is capable of 100 million raysegs, which gives a comfortable 30fps'
Thats a bogus comment, as raytracing time (hence framerate) is totally dependent on the complexity of the scene being rendered.
E.g. A few simple cubes would raytrace MUCH faster than a forest scene with reflective water and multiple trees, leaves, and blades of grass etc.
Unfortunately, for gaming, the latter scenario is much more likely.
It still makes sense to offload rendering/raytracing to a dedicated graphics processor ( read GPU ) as it has closer ties to video ram. If done by the CPU, you'd swamp the sytem bus with billions of (slow) graphics memory writes. Also it leaves the CPU free to do other stuff like game AI, speech recognition, physics, dowloading pr0n etc.
The question this article should have asked is if real-time raytracing is so doable, when will nVidia/ATI start using raytracing in their GPU's and drivers? Don't forget even an average GPU still kills even the best Intel CPU in terms of floating point operations.
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You've never lived in a country filled with secret police before, have you?
Thank goodness someone has the balls to take a stand for free speech. Its as simple as that.
All the nay-saying comment posters should try living in China for a while before posting their whiney crap.
55 million is a lot of money. I can't believe one guy got all that from 419 scams.
Is there anything that says this came from 419 scams? He could have been a drug lord, Mafia boss or something else too.
If this did all come from 419 scams then it just goes to show how many stupid people there are in the world. No wonder spam works.
>> they are going to discover that they need to spend millions every year on scrubbers just to keep themselves below the EPA limits on the pollution, heavy metals and other nasty stuff from getting into the air.
Bush thinks every environmental scientist and leader in the world are wrong. God has told him pollution != Global Warming. So he will give them a waiver to vent it striaght out and save megabucks on their profit line.
A) They got the wrong guy in the first place
b) They have no evidence
C) Because A) and B) are true, they need time to scour this guy's life to find something, anything, to pin on him so the RIAA don't look stupid (again).
Ahh... you mean like:
+ million+accounts/2100-1029_3-5751886.html
CardSystems in Tucson, who lost 40 million Visa and Mastercard account records. CardSystems is one of several companies that process transactions for banks and merchants.
http://news.com.com/Credit+card+breach+exposes+40
>> the company believes the tapes were destroyed at a landfill.
Like they'd have bothered to find out for sure if it got trashed or where every item in their trash goes.
Read: we really don't know where it is but no-one seems to have used the data yet, so we're going to say some non-commital 'we beleive' bullshit to make you feel happier.
Even his 5 best things about Vista are all things I hate:
...and now even more bloated with internet-based service crap that you have to fight with just to not buy anything online. If you just want a simple player to play your locally stored unprotected mp3 file without it assuming it must scan your whole drive and waste space on an unwanted list of all your media then compare it all with online imdb databases, you're screwed.
5) Windows ReadyBoost
Using a USB key to speed up your machine.
This has to be the dumbest idea ever. Flash typicallaly has a 100k rewrite lifetime. Also, your cheap-enough-not-to-care usb key is still only 256 or 512Mb which limits your swap file size. If you're gonna buy a big enough key then it'll cost maybe $100+ which is more than you'd need to spend to add another 1 or 2Gb of main system memory instead which would give you much better performance returns.
4) Integrated Search
In short, even more layers of click-through internet/media/people crap that gets in your way when you're just trying to find where windows hid your file on your local hard drive.
3) Media Center
Can you say DRM?
2) Windows Photo Gallery
Yes, even more redundant bloatware that should never be a part of an operating system. If I want this crap I'll buy it. Windows photo editor has traditionally made simple jobs hard and hard jobs impossible. it also unavoidably 'automatically adjusts the quality' (read: corrupts) your picture if you just want to simply rotate it 90 degrees, for example.
1)Setup
To save about 2 minutes of autmated install time, Windows Vista's interactive Setup skips half the steps you used to perform in XP Setup. Wow thats intelligent *NOT*. It means that hour or two you used to spend fiddling with a newly (re)installed XP before you could use it just got longer.
Summary:
Linux just keeps looking better.
is all the DRM.
The only reason I'd want to run Vista is for games that use DirectX10, which currently is exactly 0.
The minute my favourite games work under linux, and with equal or better performance than windows I'm moving to a Linux-only PC.
Whats the point of holding a chair? Chairs are designed to sit on. I'm surprised even Isaac Newton didn't figure this out. He seemed pretty bright otherwise.
They'd consider opensourcing their IRIX stuff, so that anything not currently available under Linux could get ported.
>> XPSP2, MSRC got taken seriously
Yeah sure it did. Keep smoking the doobie.
Bush must have shares in Diebold or something.
Diebold have been the butt-end of so many serious security failures its not funny any more. Its obvious they don't have a clue about security and aren't likely to get a clue anytime soon judging from their ongoing record.
Why are we still using this company's products? How many more times are the government going to allow Diebold to screw up?? Is there no-one else that makes a better system?
Because thats what my Garmin GPS uses. It (and I) have never heard of NDGPS so I hope WAAS doesn't get phased out. given that it also makes sennse to have a single standard, it makes sense to me for NDGPS to go away.
STOP TREATING US LIKE WE'RE STUPID. WE DON'T WANT YOUR DRM.
>>> Neither format is selling well or at the level I had expected. I had expected early adopters to step up and other retailers have had the same experience," said Bjorn Dybdahl, president of San Antonio, Texas-based specialty store Bjorn's.
Revenge of the Plutons: This Time it's Personal.
>> Set swap to whatever the maximum capacity of your computer is, and you'll be fine.
Uhh how did you come up with that logic? its entirely down to what you use your PC for.
I'm surprised with 4GB ram you actually need to use swap at all, but maybe you're a graphic artist working on very hi-res pics or soemthing.
..my power budget is 1.21 jiggawatts.
>> I'd probably buy an "AI Coprocessor" if it meant better AI in games...
No that really is a much better use than graphics for that 2nd ( or 3rd or 4th) core in your cpu.
128-processor SGI box ran demos at around 20hz
:-)
Jeez and I thought those things were fast. Even my old Amiga ran at 4 Mhz or something.
>> a peice of hardware that can be "programmed" to perform specialized tasks, especially sequental ones, at faster speeds than software on a general purpose CPU.
So just like, say, a 3D graphics card then?
>>> ' A report by Intel about Ray Tracing shows that a single P4 3.2Ghz is capable of 100 million raysegs, which gives a comfortable 30fps'
Thats a bogus comment, as raytracing time (hence framerate) is totally dependent on the complexity of the scene being rendered.
E.g. A few simple cubes would raytrace MUCH faster than a forest scene with reflective water and multiple trees, leaves, and blades of grass etc.
Unfortunately, for gaming, the latter scenario is much more likely.
It still makes sense to offload rendering/raytracing to a dedicated graphics processor ( read GPU ) as it has closer ties to video ram. If done by the CPU, you'd swamp the sytem bus with billions of (slow) graphics memory writes. Also it leaves the CPU free to do other stuff like game AI, speech recognition, physics, dowloading pr0n etc.
The question this article should have asked is if real-time raytracing is so doable, when will nVidia/ATI start using raytracing in their GPU's and drivers? Don't forget even an average GPU still kills even the best Intel CPU in terms of floating point operations.
I claim prior art on 'Drag and Drop Ghetto Tagging'.
Ahh but we don't have muggers. They're uncivilised. Thats for you wild colonial types ;-)
tell that to the IRA and the Basques.