>> The CELL processor is significant because it is touted to utilize grid technology over broadband connections to make the graphics capabilities of the new Playstation many times greater than the competition."
I presume this is not what it sounds like otherwise you'd HAVE to be connected to broadband and get good throughput 100% of the time you're playing....and where on the net does the extra performance come from?
Speilberg will again warp the original story for the US audience so that the plot will now incorrectly have American heroes instead of Brits, a la U571, or worse still, American actors trying to do British accents.
>> Those foreigners can only do a few things with their dollars.
Umm nope: You forgot the big one: Most of them convert it to their local currency and send it home.
>> Dutch student found a formula to determine the roots of any polynomial equation. Does this conflict with Abel's proof that such a formula cannot exist?
If something exists, the fact that it can exist is irrefutable.
>> they'll shut off our ethernet if they detect it.
I'm assuming the only way they can detect your WAP is by war-walking the dorms with a laptop/wifi card and not just looking for any signal at 2.4 ghz because there are many other devices (walkie-talkies, garage door openers etc. at the same frequency).
So just set up you WAP so that it doesn't transmit an SSID, and filters on MAC adresses (will only reply to messages from known NICs).
That way they probably won't even be able to detect your WAP at all.
Thats funny, I was just thinking how they should have put some gaming benchmarks in this article.
Gaming behncmarks are good because leading-edge games really give the system a better work-out more than most other benchmarks, therefore represent real-world performance much better than synthetic benchmarks.
I'a a 25-year veteran of working as a software developer as both a permie and a consultant.
I know the politically-correct policy is to consider that programmers from countries such as India do reasonable work, but my experience is that it is just not true. I keep finding that the resultant source-code from outsourcing is abysmal.
I've worked on projects for several different companies where programming has been outsourced to India and Russia, and it has always cost way more money to put it right than outsourcing the project has saved.
I expect Microsoft will also find this out the hard way, and to the end-users disadvantage.
..if you brush up on your technical skills, you'd be able to replace your paranoia based on ignorance with a more healthy attitude based on relevant knowledge.
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>> The CELL processor is significant because it is touted to utilize grid technology over broadband connections to make the graphics capabilities of the new Playstation many times greater than the competition."
...and where on the net does the extra performance come from?
I presume this is not what it sounds like otherwise you'd HAVE to be connected to broadband and get good throughput 100% of the time you're playing.
It has probably been outsourced to India where it will be filmed in Hindi by Mr. Dalliwallispielbergi, then badly overdubbed into English.
US Copyright has nothing to do with a British author or his books.
It probably got outsourced to India where it will be filmed in Hindi by Mr. Dalliwallispielbergi, then badly overdubbed into English.
Speilberg will again warp the original story for the US audience so that the plot will now incorrectly have American heroes instead of Brits, a la U571, or worse still, American actors trying to do British accents.
Nope. LCD response time sucks.
Try playing any good FPS (first person shooter) on a flat panel then switch to a CRT.
Also, stay with the old RGB and avoid using Digital DVI as it is limited to 60hz refresh, apparently by the DVI 1.0 Spec.
>> Those foreigners can only do a few things with their dollars. Umm nope: You forgot the big one: Most of them convert it to their local currency and send it home.
WHAT???
How did the proposed legislation enforce your employer to allow you to work when you liked as long as you made the hours up ??
>> Dutch student found a formula to determine the roots of any polynomial equation. Does this conflict with Abel's proof that such a formula cannot exist?
If something exists, the fact that it can exist is irrefutable.
Old Mr. Smith?? the evil spammer?? Yikes!!!
Curses! if it wasn't for you meddling kids I would have got away with it...
>> they'll shut off our ethernet if they detect it.
I'm assuming the only way they can detect your WAP is by war-walking the dorms with a laptop/wifi card and not just looking for any signal at 2.4 ghz because there are many other devices (walkie-talkies, garage door openers etc. at the same frequency).
So just set up you WAP so that it doesn't transmit an SSID, and filters on MAC adresses (will only reply to messages from known NICs).
That way they probably won't even be able to detect your WAP at all.
...sounds to me like he's using the standard approach to building job-security...
That after all the fuss about security, microsoft would get it right, especially in the face of obviously superior security in Linux.
I can't believe that they they lack the expertise or resources, which only leaves the will to do it, which sounds like a bad conspiracy theory.
Does anyone know why they would persist with allowing XP to be insecure on purpose?
If the morons who actually buy stuff advertised by spam would stop, so would the spam.
So he's never heard of good programmers outside of Sun?
Well he can't have much real experience then so why should I care what he thinks?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if women chose not to do Computer Science, so what?
I mean, its not like there's a general shortage of Software Developers.
I don't think positive discrimination is ever the right answer.
>> they alway address gaming and multimedia
Thats funny, I was just thinking how they should have put some gaming benchmarks in this article.
Gaming behncmarks are good because leading-edge games really give the system a better work-out more than most other benchmarks, therefore represent real-world performance much better than synthetic benchmarks.
Those bloated MS APIs strike again.
They should have used linux.
I'a a 25-year veteran of working as a software developer as both a permie and a consultant.
I know the politically-correct policy is to consider that programmers from countries such as India do reasonable work, but my experience is that it is just not true. I keep finding that the resultant source-code from outsourcing is abysmal.
I've worked on projects for several different companies where programming has been outsourced to India and Russia, and it has always cost way more money to put it right than outsourcing the project has saved.
I expect Microsoft will also find this out the hard way, and to the end-users disadvantage.
This might mean an end to that cheesy muzak that you can't avoid no matter where you go...
Oh wait... I accidentally took my wife's I-pod.
Yet more blatant governmental greed...
At least it will be hard to enforce.
..if you brush up on your technical skills, you'd be able to replace your paranoia based on ignorance with a more healthy attitude based on relevant knowledge.
LOL, and the funny thing is, when you stop to think about it, Windows is just a glorified program-loader.
Dude ATI and Nvidia are the only manufacturers that make cards fast enough to run that puppy. Everyone else is waaay behind.
5900 is so 10 minutes ago...
get a 6800.