What about scenarios (like massive asteroid impact) where the danger isn't what state the Earth will be left in, but rather the problem of surviving the event itself?
It not about the Earth becoming less hospitable than the moon. It about there being nobody left to enjoy the still-more-hospitable-than-the-moon planet.
It also eliminates the possibility of getting a decent seat by waiting in line or being lucky.
Only if Ticketmaster has a monopoly or it catches on with all the other competitors. Without most of the players in that market colluding to act in unison, the ones trying it won't have much luck because people will just take their business elsewhere.
BTW: Are ink cartridges more expensive than they used to be? I was talking to a friend about collusion, and she corrected me and said no they didn't used to be cheaper. Really? (I've never owned a printer.) Is there a better contemporary example?
Maybe Microsoft sees Nintendo as an Apple for the console market. A token competitor so nobody can say MS has a total monopoly. Someone they can watch be different and take risks, and then copy the ideas that appear to work. Nintendo beware, cooperate with MS and you'll find yourself in a 5%-marketshare niche!
Seriously though, I think MS is just repeating the "get a 360 and a Wii for the price of a PS3" line to reinforce the idea that the PS3, their more direct competitor, is expensive. Maybe it is too expensive (I'm not saying it's not), MS just wants to remind everybody of that.
I tried to post earlier, but I got a message about slashdot.org's database server being down for maintenance. At the time, the top three stories on the main page had zero comments, so I guess it was down for a while.
Now adays, we have cold Fusion. When Pons/Stanley? first announced it, Physicists stated that it could not happen (as well as unable to duplicate it). The 2 were basically ruined professionally. Now, a number of groups are doing it, including the navy, and it is being thought of as not being impossible.
The Navy is already using cold fusion? I thought none of the people doing it had managed to make it produce enough power to use.
Can you post a link for those of us behind the times on cold fusion?
From my experience the nvidia drivers aren't very stable.
That's odd. What card(s)/motherboard(s)/kernel version(s)/nVidia driver version(s)?
They've always been perfectly stable with my GeForce 4 MX and GeForce FX 5700. A motherboard with Via AGP and an nForce 2 motherboard (all nVidia chipsets, nVidia AGP etc). Stable on Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux, kernels compiled with GCC 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and now 4.1 beta, and stable with both the kernel's AGP driver and the nVidia driver's built in driver.
The only trouble I remember was console framebuffer not working on the 4 MX, and nVidia drivers at the time (not a problem now) not being compatible with the 4K stacks option introduced in kernel 2.6.6.
What if I'm a Linux user, how do I benchmark my card? I see glxgears scores posted on forums sometimes, but somebody always comes along to say that's not a valid benchmark, because it varies with display bit-depth etc.
Is there a free portable graphics card benchmarking tool suitable for comparing two card's Linux performance or for comparing a single card's Linux vs Windows performance?
I tried to look up "volatize" and "sterine", and discovered they were misspelled: "Rub it briskly with a woollen cloth, my son. For friction generates heat which quickly volatilizes the stearine matter."
WinRK may have won only because he used the fast compression setting on all the compressors he tested. Results for default setting and best compression settings are TBA.
I thought all this was is: 1. Google pays AOL $1 billion 2. AOL pays a tiny percentage of it's profits to Google 3. Google gets a say (a 5% say?) in AOL's policies etc
So how could this possibly hurt Google? It's not like this is a merger...
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What about scenarios (like massive asteroid impact) where the danger isn't what state the Earth will be left in, but rather the problem of surviving the event itself?
It not about the Earth becoming less hospitable than the moon. It about there being nobody left to enjoy the still-more-hospitable-than-the-moon planet.
That was probably captive-ntfs. The benchmarks show how much faster this is comparaed to captive.
Have you looked at D?
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/index.html
Compiles native as fast as C, but has all the safety and convenience features of Java/Python - garbage collected, bounds-checked, etc.
It also eliminates the possibility of getting a decent seat by waiting in line or being lucky.
Only if Ticketmaster has a monopoly or it catches on with all the other competitors. Without most of the players in that market colluding to act in unison, the ones trying it won't have much luck because people will just take their business elsewhere.
BTW: Are ink cartridges more expensive than they used to be? I was talking to a friend about collusion, and she corrected me and said no they didn't used to be cheaper. Really? (I've never owned a printer.) Is there a better contemporary example?
Maybe Microsoft sees Nintendo as an Apple for the console market. A token competitor so nobody can say MS has a total monopoly. Someone they can watch be different and take risks, and then copy the ideas that appear to work. Nintendo beware, cooperate with MS and you'll find yourself in a 5%-marketshare niche!
Seriously though, I think MS is just repeating the "get a 360 and a Wii for the price of a PS3" line to reinforce the idea that the PS3, their more direct competitor, is expensive. Maybe it is too expensive (I'm not saying it's not), MS just wants to remind everybody of that.
There has yet to be a game that spans more than 1 DVD
Star Ocean for PS2 - 2 DVDs.
I tried to post earlier, but I got a message about slashdot.org's database server being down for maintenance. At the time, the top three stories on the main page had zero comments, so I guess it was down for a while.
Books plural. It went on past 2001.
I don't get it. Is the planet's name scheduled to be changed in 2620?
Is it a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey? I don't remember anything happening to Uranus in the books...
Now adays, we have cold Fusion. When Pons/Stanley? first announced it, Physicists stated that it could not happen (as well as unable to duplicate it). The 2 were basically ruined professionally. Now, a number of groups are doing it, including the navy, and it is being thought of as not being impossible.
The Navy is already using cold fusion? I thought none of the people doing it had managed to make it produce enough power to use.
Can you post a link for those of us behind the times on cold fusion?
That is, open such javascript links in a tab.
That is, they'll either stop doing it when IE7 comes out, or IE7 will be able to open such javascript links.
- Why are none of the 'links' on the page actual links? If you use Javascript links like that, middle-click to open in new window/tab doesn't work.
They do the same with hotmail. But you can bet it won't interfere with IE7's tabbed browsing.
Except VOIP depends on internet service, which is provided by the phone company competing with that VOIP...
A commenter above posted this link:
Intel and Skype Exclude AMD
"litigious bastards" goes where it should.
It even has a calculator: 2 + 2, but no unit conversion. Very limited constant support: "pi" works, but "pi + 2" doesn't.
Almost seems faster, but that could just be because it's more AJAXish than Google search.
I think the way Google presents results is cleaner, but maybe I'm just accustomed to it.
From my experience the nvidia drivers aren't very stable.
That's odd. What card(s)/motherboard(s)/kernel version(s)/nVidia driver version(s)?
They've always been perfectly stable with my GeForce 4 MX and GeForce FX 5700. A motherboard with Via AGP and an nForce 2 motherboard (all nVidia chipsets, nVidia AGP etc). Stable on Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux, kernels compiled with GCC 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and now 4.1 beta, and stable with both the kernel's AGP driver and the nVidia driver's built in driver.
The only trouble I remember was console framebuffer not working on the 4 MX, and nVidia drivers at the time (not a problem now) not being compatible with the 4K stacks option introduced in kernel 2.6.6.
Here's a good place for nVidia Linux driver help:
NVIDIA Linux Forum @ NVnews.net
So what would I recommend? Well, if you're using Linux, I can think of at least ten things better
That page is old: "Last Updated 8 Apr 2000" and some of the links are broken.
Wikipedia has a nice media player comparison with an "Operating system support" table showing which ones run on Linux.
Maybe not, but ReactOS is.
What if I'm a Linux user, how do I benchmark my card? I see glxgears scores posted on forums sometimes, but somebody always comes along to say that's not a valid benchmark, because it varies with display bit-depth etc.
Is there a free portable graphics card benchmarking tool suitable for comparing two card's Linux performance or for comparing a single card's Linux vs Windows performance?
(Sorry if this is a little off topic)
Why would MS create a vulnerability to run whatever code they wanted on Windows computers when they already have Windows Update for that?
By being only one computer where two would otherwise be needed to run all three OSs.
I tried to look up "volatize" and "sterine", and discovered they were misspelled:
"Rub it briskly with a woollen cloth, my son. For friction generates heat which quickly volatilizes the stearine matter."
Also, I don't get the joke... can you explain?
WinRK may have won only because he used the fast compression setting on all the compressors he tested. Results for default setting and best compression settings are TBA.
I thought all this was is:
1. Google pays AOL $1 billion
2. AOL pays a tiny percentage of it's profits to Google
3. Google gets a say (a 5% say?) in AOL's policies etc
So how could this possibly hurt Google? It's not like this is a merger...