I agree with you, because we all know how many geeks that:
A) Have access to Walgreens B) Is a the breed of super-geek that solders electronics C) Has free smart-card sockets and other equipment so he's not spending more than the $10 you said D) Won't pay the $6.99 film development fee to get the pictures off the "normal" way E) Loves to Ski or Scuba Dive, oh wait, this involves going outside.. Are we still talking about geeks? F) Thinks his time soldering and using the free $50 smart-card sockets isn't worth $6.99 * X for the amount of times he would use the camera on his Ski or Scuba Diving trips.
So, if you fit THAT exact description, then please, by all means, take advantage of walgreens.
As Red would say, "You're all a bunch of DUMB-ASSES".
They put in saftey precautions into the driver wrapper so blue screens of death should only occur as little as 1/10th the times it does on a real windows machine.
Microsoft is like a black hole. They started as a bright star, shining and brilliant, but slowly grew and grew pulling in the mass of the surrounding planets (software companies)...
Now they've become a black hole, so large and massive they suck in anything even remotely close to them, endlessly gaining mass with internal hopes of consuming the entire universe until one day you eat a Microsoft TV dinner on wednesday night, and drive to work in your Microsoft XP300 SUV to work.
The problem is there is a theory that when a black hole reaches a critical mass point, it explodes.
I think this poll taken shows that the critical point might be getting close, and the BIG BANG might be comming close, or so we can all only hope.
Having no choice for a gaming desktop operating system on my PC fine... but I don't want to have NO choice when it comes to buying a new car or going out to one of the millions of Microsoft Fast Food chains.
There is a difference. If you've ever programmed OpenGL or DirectX and played with rendering settings, you'll notice rendering in Wire Frame mode is *extremely* slow on a consumer card, but blindingly fast on a Pro card like the Quadra.
3D modelers spend alot of time in this mode, so it only makes sense to spend extra transistors on this area versus in the consumer market.
> While GNU/Linux was nowhere nearly as useful as it is today, it could already do things MS Windows can't do today.
Yes, and MS Windows can do something Linux still can't do today, run Win32 software well. Don't even give me crap about WINE. WINE was crap in 1994 when I first looked at it, and it is crap now when I looked at it a few months ago. It was crap, is crap and will always be crap.
Oh, and if you don't like my smart ass remark, well, Windows can do network IO completion ports for high performance networking. Linux is stuck with select/poll still, which means wake up the thread, go in a FOR LOOP to check each socket, then do something... SLOW. And Linus still has something up his but with BSD style completion ports.
One of two things will occur. Either the rollercoaster will seemingly in our life times go up and down, or eventually sooner or later it will level out.
Obviously game development can't continually increase exponentially forever while the cost of the game remains the same and console costs reduces.
Games can't rise in price as people will not buy them.
Piracy on console games increases every day as people make it easier and easier to modify and steal games through the internet.
Eventually the bubble will BURST just like the stock market. Microsoft / Sony will get sick of not making any money. They are both fighting a nearly endless battle of trying to win all customers while loosing money intentionally just to fight eachother off. The problem is both companies have way too much money to fight with. So they need to actually make better products / games.. Well, the problem there is most games come out for both platforms... Well, then you can say better hardware, but we all know the hardware only tells a fraction of the story as Sony continues to stomp over Xbox... Regardless, new hardware from both companies comming out soon.
Internally both companies will say we have new innovative hardware that our competition will never have (PS3/Xbox2), but the truth is, that is bull-shit. You will never remain on top long enough to kill your competition in this seemingly endless moores-law technology craze where every 6 months you are much faster/cheaper etc than 6 months prior.
Getting back on the subject though, Small game developers will always be able to compete through making BETTER and more FUN games but not necessarily with all the fancy special effects of motion capture etc.
But you know, it is the small developers that innovate in game technology and game play ideas... All the big companies with million dollar budgets just spit out $20 million dollar games but the games don't innovate at all... Just another football/baseball/basketball game or another FPS.... "This time with __Fill_in_your_favorite_actor_ Right in the game!!!"
I introduced probability into my Intel CPU very easily. I overclocked it... Now I have a good probability of it doing funny things and executing code in an order no one can predict! Hmm, talk about true random numbers!
Sure, but you have to realize there are many methods of working around the GPL and LGPL licenses. Dynamically linking code at run-time etc.
I used to work for a company that made a "closed source" open source product based off of linux. I will not say which one, but trust me, the idea is this: "Release any unworthy crappy code back to the open source community to keep them quiet and make sure they don't think we are hiding anything, and everything else under the sun, dynamically link or do whatever you have to do so we don't have to show the world shit!".
You morons, this article is about manufacturing cheap diamonds. Yes, it will change computers as well, but it is going to effect a multi-billion dollar industry before it makes it into a diamond wafer manufacturing lab..
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I agree with you, because we all know how many geeks that:
A) Have access to Walgreens
B) Is a the breed of super-geek that solders electronics
C) Has free smart-card sockets and other equipment so he's not spending more than the $10 you said
D) Won't pay the $6.99 film development fee to get the pictures off the "normal" way
E) Loves to Ski or Scuba Dive, oh wait, this involves going outside.. Are we still talking about geeks?
F) Thinks his time soldering and using the free $50 smart-card sockets isn't worth $6.99 * X for the amount of times he would use the camera on his Ski or Scuba Diving trips.
So, if you fit THAT exact description, then please, by all means, take advantage of walgreens.
As Red would say, "You're all a bunch of DUMB-ASSES".
- Voxel
They put in saftey precautions into the driver wrapper so blue screens of death should only occur as little as 1/10th the times it does on a real windows machine.
If I get cancer, I am running down to the local stream in my backyard, taking some samples and injecting it into myself... Ahhhh...
Doctors? who needs doctors! I've got sewage water!
Microsoft is like a black hole. They started as a bright star, shining and brilliant, but slowly grew and grew pulling in the mass of the surrounding planets (software companies)...
Now they've become a black hole, so large and massive they suck in anything even remotely close to them, endlessly gaining mass with internal hopes of consuming the entire universe until one day you eat a Microsoft TV dinner on wednesday night, and drive to work in your Microsoft XP300 SUV to work.
The problem is there is a theory that when a black hole reaches a critical mass point, it explodes.
I think this poll taken shows that the critical point might be getting close, and the BIG BANG might be comming close, or so we can all only hope.
Having no choice for a gaming desktop operating system on my PC fine... but I don't want to have NO choice when it comes to buying a new car or going out to one of the millions of Microsoft Fast Food chains.
- Voxel
Zebra pens are really awsome. The gel-ink flows out super easy, you barely need any pressure at all.
I've tried hundreds of pens, and I like Zebra pens the best. They are like $25 for a pack of 12. Get them in any store like Office Depot.
- Voxel
Too Bad with the C64's 1mhz 6510 CPU at 56k modem speeds this almost causes a bottle neck in itself! :P
Over exaggerating! Me? No way!
"Die" means "The" in German fool.
There is a difference. If you've ever programmed OpenGL or DirectX and played with rendering settings, you'll notice rendering in Wire Frame mode is *extremely* slow on a consumer card, but blindingly fast on a Pro card like the Quadra.
3D modelers spend alot of time in this mode, so it only makes sense to spend extra transistors on this area versus in the consumer market.
Don't bother talking to AOL Zealots on Slashdot as they don't exist here.
Think about it... Do you really think an AOL user is the same user that signs into Slashdot? I don't think so.
Your efforts are wasted
- Voxel
> While GNU/Linux was nowhere nearly as useful as it is today, it could already do things MS Windows can't do today.
Yes, and MS Windows can do something Linux still can't do today, run Win32 software well. Don't even give me crap about WINE. WINE was crap in 1994 when I first looked at it, and it is crap now when I looked at it a few months ago. It was crap, is crap and will always be crap.
Oh, and if you don't like my smart ass remark, well, Windows can do network IO completion ports for high performance networking. Linux is stuck with select/poll still, which means wake up the thread, go in a FOR LOOP to check each socket, then do something... SLOW. And Linus still has something up his but with BSD style completion ports.
- Voxel
ALL YOUR COUNTRIES ARE BELONG TO US!
Yes, I typed all in caps, and I am yelling... Post Allowed! Woohoo.
"Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on and always live."
This should be now officially changed to:
"Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on, always live and always Slashdotted!"...
- Voxel
"Since we listen to so much music all the time, Eigenradio is always on and always live."
:)
And now officially "always Slashdotted"...
We should make sure they add that to the end of that scentence
- Voxel
This is life. Circular and rollercoaster like.
One of two things will occur. Either the rollercoaster will seemingly in our life times go up and down, or eventually sooner or later it will level out.
Obviously game development can't continually increase exponentially forever while the cost of the game remains the same and console costs reduces.
Games can't rise in price as people will not buy them.
Piracy on console games increases every day as people make it easier and easier to modify and steal games through the internet.
Eventually the bubble will BURST just like the stock market. Microsoft / Sony will get sick of not making any money. They are both fighting a nearly endless battle of trying to win all customers while loosing money intentionally just to fight eachother off. The problem is both companies have way too much money to fight with. So they need to actually make better products / games.. Well, the problem there is most games come out for both platforms... Well, then you can say better hardware, but we all know the hardware only tells a fraction of the story as Sony continues to stomp over Xbox... Regardless, new hardware from both companies comming out soon.
Internally both companies will say we have new innovative hardware that our competition will never have (PS3/Xbox2), but the truth is, that is bull-shit. You will never remain on top long enough to kill your competition in this seemingly endless moores-law technology craze where every 6 months you are much faster/cheaper etc than 6 months prior.
Getting back on the subject though, Small game developers will always be able to compete through making BETTER and more FUN games but not necessarily with all the fancy special effects of motion capture etc.
But you know, it is the small developers that innovate in game technology and game play ideas... All the big companies with million dollar budgets just spit out $20 million dollar games but the games don't innovate at all... Just another football/baseball/basketball game or another FPS.... "This time with __Fill_in_your_favorite_actor_ Right in the game!!!"
Enter the Matrix anyone?
- Voxel
Huh?
Thats what I do, I get a hard-on from imagining beowulf clusters of anything.. (UGH)
"Oh my, yes oh my" - Professor Farnsworth (Futurama).
I introduced probability into my Intel CPU very easily. I overclocked it... Now I have a good probability of it doing funny things and executing code in an order no one can predict! Hmm, talk about true random numbers!
- Voxel
Sure, but you have to realize there are many methods of working around the GPL and LGPL licenses. Dynamically linking code at run-time etc.
I used to work for a company that made a "closed source" open source product based off of linux. I will not say which one, but trust me, the idea is this: "Release any unworthy crappy code back to the open source community to keep them quiet and make sure they don't think we are hiding anything, and everything else under the sun, dynamically link or do whatever you have to do so we don't have to show the world shit!".
That is the way of the warrior.
- Vawskel!
I'm planning on building a fusion reactor on Neptune... I've got sketches on a napkin in front of me.
Put me on slashdot!
Whoa!!! Power goes out and lights go out!! FREAKY DEAKY!
- Voxel
Wierd.. yeah I didn't post to that article, I posted to the synthetic diamond article... I was wondering why ppl were saying OffTopic..
- Voxel
You morons, this article is about manufacturing cheap diamonds. Yes, it will change computers as well, but it is going to effect a multi-billion dollar industry before it makes it into a diamond wafer manufacturing lab..
Maybe the intel P7 will use it...
I just spent $2400 on a diamond for my future wifes engagement ring.
:P.
Does this mean I should take it back and wait for the $100 version of the same quality/clarity/weight/cut ?
Ugh...
Everyone, Keep hitting the URL every day or when-ever you get a chance!
Keep it slashdotted and they can't inform anyone of there precious new web-site..
Woohooo
Power to the slashdotters.
Imagine all the fun I could have by broadcasting to a station my neighbors were listening to!
... moron .. Go get a girlfriend.
It would be the best time I ever had in my life! Loads of fun.
- Voxel