I drove for UPS and will say I hope it works out. Any way to shave precious seconds off a delivery are welcomed.
However, having used the DIAD IV system, I can't see it working out too well. If you're not familiar with it, DIAD is the little brown LCD screen you sign whenyou get a package and has all the stops a driver makes in his day organized in an order that is suppose to be the easiest and quickest. The problem is very rarely is it done right. So you'll be driving on 4th, and the next stop will be on the same end of 3rd. The problem is 3rd is a one way and if you turn on it you'll be hitting oncoming traffic. So you either need to swing around the block (wasteful use of time) or deliver it later via a different route.
Fortunately nobody with half a brain relies on DIAD for their route info. A driver with enough experience will know their route and what stops to make when.
With that being said, it was easily the worst job I ever had. I ran all day and barely ate. In a 2-3 week period I lost 15 pounds.
We are discussing ATI, but if we are going to start bringing up 5 year old driving fudging in Windows drivers regarding AMD (yes, they own ATI now) saying they will try to improve open source support, then it's pretty much fair game.
My story to the letter. I joined up when the tech department was being transitioned to Geek Squad. Piss poor training, an always absent supervisor (his two hour lunch breaks were a delight), and a gigantic queue of backlogged machines that needed maintenacne (of which they expected a single person to take care of, *ahem*) made me quit that job after 4 weeks. Seriously, how bad can a job be where you have nightmares the first week of it?
Oh, and special mention to their database system STARS. What a worthless pile that was. Overly confusing, clunky and unresponsive, and it crashed CONSTANTLY.
A phenomenon that has been debunked. Check the following articles in the Skeptical Inquirer: "The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon" and "Watson and the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," by Ron Amundson, SI, Summer 1985, pp. 348-356; and SI, Spring 1987, pp. 303-304.
Yeah, you're still not making a case here. How does an Nvidia press release about their newest graphics card prove that the XBox 360 will not have similar (if not the same) HDR capabilities? Current HDR methods vary only a little in their implementation, and the end result is determined largely by the game maker, not the method.
Why exactly won't the XBox 360 have these lighting features? The GPU in the 360 is a next generation video card made by ATI, like nothing on the market right now. Do you have some insider knowledge that it won't have abilities of current DirectX 9 video cards?
I realize I'm setting myself up, but I have not RTFA yet. Do people that casually get into it count among those statistics? For example, a friend gave me an old 400mhz G3 iMac for free because he had no more use for it.
I just play with it to see how OSX works and use apps I wouldn't normally use on my PC. This is the most exposure to a Mac that I have had since the original 1984 Macs. Does that make me one of the "converted"?
So fans proclaiming he "kicks ass" is a qualification? On that note, I'd like to proclaim my love for Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly on their insightful political science knowledge.
Well licensing according to Nvidia says you do need a specialised SLI motherboard. DFI and some other manufactures got into a little trouble over this. DFI's Nforce 4 Ultra-D could orginaly be modifed to run in SLI mode without a SLI bridge. Nvidia quickly had DFI change that flaw in later revisions and blocked out the bridgeless "feature" in their later drivers.
Funnily enough, the block looks to have been disabled in the newest betas. Some speculate because of pressure from ATI's Crossfire.
At first glance that is always the conclusuon people draw. But Nvidia and ATI do different methods of anti-aliasing depending on the the level that is chosen. In Nvidia's case they use super-sampling, multi-sampling, and sometimes both. ATI uses multi-sampling only. The result is the same level of AA on each card will produce different visual results.
This article goes into depth about the FSAA issue between ATI and Nvidia. Look at page 12 and beyond for the full poop.
On one hand I understand the need for membership fees to certain commercial sites. Places like IGN and Gamespot rely on subscriptions to keep their services running. And to a lesser extent, Something Awful requiring a one time fee to be apart of the community. It can be argued that since the forums are for a magazine, the magazine subscription is your access to "premium" content.
But on the other hand, it's also a quick and dirty way to make a cheap buck. I doubt that forums are draining the resources of the magazine or diminishing it's prestige. I certainly wouldn't pay for it.
Oh well, either the people will accept it or reject it. This move will either generate more income for them and clean up the clientel, or it will be an act of biting the hand that feeds you and alienating your core fans.
Nothing in 64-bit yet. But there are games with 64-bit extensions that do give a nice performance increase. Fff the top of my head, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Chronicles of Riddick both have 64-bit extensions.
These cards are meant to be used for workstation uses like 3D editing and creation. These aren't gaming cards. I realize you bought your gaming card for far less, but these are a completely different product.
Lately I've been hearing complaints by people using Firefox of some sites having pop-ups come up again. The biggest complaint coming from people that visit The Drudge Report. I too have seen them.
However, ever since I started using the Adblock extension, as well as keeping an updated list of definitons, I haven't had these problems lately.
Nowehere in my posts did I say "crappy MSI". I said "lousy MSI issues". Issues with the K8N Neo 2 Platinum that are well documented and abundant. Issues involving the board not powering on, but running all devices.
Just a little preface. I am a Windows user. I probably always will be a Windows user. I like using it and am proficient in it's workings.
For years I've tried several distrobutions. Redhat (starting with 5), Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Suse, and I even managed a stage 1 Gentoo install once (with limited results). The problem is I would be able to "use" the systems I set these up on, but never as well as my Windows setups. I just had trouble learning how to walk again.
Four days ago, I started installing Ubuntu on a recommendation from someone. I had enough spare parts to whip up a competent PC (Athlon XP 2500+, 512mb RAM, 18gb 10,000 rpm scsi drive, Geforce 2 GTS).
I installed Ubuntu, and was absolutely shocked. This was a distro that a dumb lifelong Windows user could run, and have it do everything I wanted. Granted, any other distro could do the same, but this one made it simple for someone like me. I've had no trouble keeping my software installed an up to date, thanks to the use of apt-get and not having to worry about dependencies (always a big roadblock for me). I've been able to get all my hardware working (even my digital camera, amazing for me), play some of my Windows only games with Cedega, and even get proper video playback with my media player.
Being that this is Slashdot, many of the linux aficionados may say "So? all that is pretty trivial." The thing is, it was always a struggle for someone like me. Ubuntu has made me love linux, and even make it contend for my attention away from Windows.
And what seems like a little pinch of fate, my main Athlon 64 box just died (lousy MSI motherboard issues). Now I am "forced" to use my linux box as a primary computer. And now I'm even considering putting Ubuntu on my laptop!
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Yeah, if you see a fat UPS driver it means he probably has a cherry route and has had it for a long time.
I drove for UPS and will say I hope it works out. Any way to shave precious seconds off a delivery are welcomed.
However, having used the DIAD IV system, I can't see it working out too well. If you're not familiar with it, DIAD is the little brown LCD screen you sign whenyou get a package and has all the stops a driver makes in his day organized in an order that is suppose to be the easiest and quickest. The problem is very rarely is it done right. So you'll be driving on 4th, and the next stop will be on the same end of 3rd. The problem is 3rd is a one way and if you turn on it you'll be hitting oncoming traffic. So you either need to swing around the block (wasteful use of time) or deliver it later via a different route.
Fortunately nobody with half a brain relies on DIAD for their route info. A driver with enough experience will know their route and what stops to make when.
With that being said, it was easily the worst job I ever had. I ran all day and barely ate. In a 2-3 week period I lost 15 pounds.
Did you try... say... clicking the big shiny Office icon? All your file functions (and more) are right there.
We are discussing ATI, but if we are going to start bringing up 5 year old driving fudging in Windows drivers regarding AMD (yes, they own ATI now) saying they will try to improve open source support, then it's pretty much fair game.
Right, because no other vendor has ever been accused of that!
First to have online gameplay
Perhaps as a first party feature, but online gaming was available during the SNES/Genesis era. Xband was released in the US in 1994.
My story to the letter. I joined up when the tech department was being transitioned to Geek Squad. Piss poor training, an always absent supervisor (his two hour lunch breaks were a delight), and a gigantic queue of backlogged machines that needed maintenacne (of which they expected a single person to take care of, *ahem*) made me quit that job after 4 weeks. Seriously, how bad can a job be where you have nightmares the first week of it?
Oh, and special mention to their database system STARS. What a worthless pile that was. Overly confusing, clunky and unresponsive, and it crashed CONSTANTLY.
A phenomenon that has been debunked. Check the following articles in the Skeptical Inquirer: "The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon" and "Watson and the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon," by Ron Amundson, SI, Summer 1985, pp. 348-356; and SI, Spring 1987, pp. 303-304.
Yeah, you're still not making a case here. How does an Nvidia press release about their newest graphics card prove that the XBox 360 will not have similar (if not the same) HDR capabilities? Current HDR methods vary only a little in their implementation, and the end result is determined largely by the game maker, not the method.
Why exactly won't the XBox 360 have these lighting features? The GPU in the 360 is a next generation video card made by ATI, like nothing on the market right now. Do you have some insider knowledge that it won't have abilities of current DirectX 9 video cards?
I realize I'm setting myself up, but I have not RTFA yet. Do people that casually get into it count among those statistics? For example, a friend gave me an old 400mhz G3 iMac for free because he had no more use for it.
I just play with it to see how OSX works and use apps I wouldn't normally use on my PC. This is the most exposure to a Mac that I have had since the original 1984 Macs. Does that make me one of the "converted"?
So fans proclaiming he "kicks ass" is a qualification? On that note, I'd like to proclaim my love for Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly on their insightful political science knowledge.
Well licensing according to Nvidia says you do need a specialised SLI motherboard. DFI and some other manufactures got into a little trouble over this. DFI's Nforce 4 Ultra-D could orginaly be modifed to run in SLI mode without a SLI bridge. Nvidia quickly had DFI change that flaw in later revisions and blocked out the bridgeless "feature" in their later drivers.
Funnily enough, the block looks to have been disabled in the newest betas. Some speculate because of pressure from ATI's Crossfire.
At first glance that is always the conclusuon people draw. But Nvidia and ATI do different methods of anti-aliasing depending on the the level that is chosen. In Nvidia's case they use super-sampling, multi-sampling, and sometimes both. ATI uses multi-sampling only. The result is the same level of AA on each card will produce different visual results.
This article goes into depth about the FSAA issue between ATI and Nvidia. Look at page 12 and beyond for the full poop.
We're still going to Mars, right bitches?
Actualy, I did mention, albeit not directly.
It can be argued that since the forums are for a magazine, the magazine subscription is your access to "premium" content.
On second thought, it was directly.
On one hand I understand the need for membership fees to certain commercial sites. Places like IGN and Gamespot rely on subscriptions to keep their services running. And to a lesser extent, Something Awful requiring a one time fee to be apart of the community. It can be argued that since the forums are for a magazine, the magazine subscription is your access to "premium" content.
But on the other hand, it's also a quick and dirty way to make a cheap buck. I doubt that forums are draining the resources of the magazine or diminishing it's prestige. I certainly wouldn't pay for it.
Oh well, either the people will accept it or reject it. This move will either generate more income for them and clean up the clientel, or it will be an act of biting the hand that feeds you and alienating your core fans.
I'm betting on the latter.
Nothing in 64-bit yet. But there are games with 64-bit extensions that do give a nice performance increase. Fff the top of my head, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Chronicles of Riddick both have 64-bit extensions.
Gotta do something to fill the void of loneliness. And sometimes a steady regiment of Hotpockets, Mountain Dew, and cigarettes simply won't do.
Yes, we realize this...
Talk to the people a few topics above this one.
These cards are meant to be used for workstation uses like 3D editing and creation. These aren't gaming cards. I realize you bought your gaming card for far less, but these are a completely different product.
It was an example. Don't like the politics of Drudge? Don't visit the site. Ass.
Lately I've been hearing complaints by people using Firefox of some sites having pop-ups come up again. The biggest complaint coming from people that visit The Drudge Report. I too have seen them.
However, ever since I started using the Adblock extension, as well as keeping an updated list of definitons, I haven't had these problems lately.
Nowehere in my posts did I say "crappy MSI". I said "lousy MSI issues". Issues with the K8N Neo 2 Platinum that are well documented and abundant. Issues involving the board not powering on, but running all devices.
Just a little preface. I am a Windows user. I probably always will be a Windows user. I like using it and am proficient in it's workings.
For years I've tried several distrobutions. Redhat (starting with 5), Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, Suse, and I even managed a stage 1 Gentoo install once (with limited results). The problem is I would be able to "use" the systems I set these up on, but never as well as my Windows setups. I just had trouble learning how to walk again.
Four days ago, I started installing Ubuntu on a recommendation from someone. I had enough spare parts to whip up a competent PC (Athlon XP 2500+, 512mb RAM, 18gb 10,000 rpm scsi drive, Geforce 2 GTS).
I installed Ubuntu, and was absolutely shocked. This was a distro that a dumb lifelong Windows user could run, and have it do everything I wanted. Granted, any other distro could do the same, but this one made it simple for someone like me. I've had no trouble keeping my software installed an up to date, thanks to the use of apt-get and not having to worry about dependencies (always a big roadblock for me). I've been able to get all my hardware working (even my digital camera, amazing for me), play some of my Windows only games with Cedega, and even get proper video playback with my media player.
Being that this is Slashdot, many of the linux aficionados may say "So? all that is pretty trivial." The thing is, it was always a struggle for someone like me. Ubuntu has made me love linux, and even make it contend for my attention away from Windows.
And what seems like a little pinch of fate, my main Athlon 64 box just died (lousy MSI motherboard issues). Now I am "forced" to use my linux box as a primary computer. And now I'm even considering putting Ubuntu on my laptop!