I see a lot of posts about how the camera looked like an RPG especially if you didn't already know it etc. That is no excuse. We are watching a low resolution b/w video, yet from the soldier comments it is obvious they can see details that are not visible to us, i.e. they can see pretty well and I would think they would be in a much better position than us to recognise weaponry (soldiers get some training in weapons, right?). From their actions later in the video (saying a van stopped to pick up weapons) it is quite obvious to me that the trigger-happy immoral hicks on that hellicopter were simply making things up to get permission to shoot. It was mass murder, not war.
The superscript "2" that was next to km was "eaten" by the slashdot comment engine, I was talking about the surface to be covered, although the distance is also a factor of the power requirement.
A warning system that requires GW of power (we are talking about making light visible over several km, right?) and people have to be looking at it (and having an unobstructed view to the sky)... I suspect the power requirement would only be sort of manageable during night time, but that is when people sleep and a laser would not go far in waking them. Now, if it was SHARKS with lasers...
The second line should read: I am actually an iphone developer right now (not exactly my choice, our CEO thought it was a good idea), and I can't see how any real geek would like the overpriced fashion accessory.
PS. To make it clear, I do like the platform as a developer - Obj-C and the sdk are nice and I can do the things Apple will let me nice and fast. My problem is how much it limits me as a user.
So, Windows Vista was developed by "engineers" who like the shiny - no, you can't do that - apple phone. Now I get it...
I am actually an iphone developer right now (not exactly my choice, our CEO thought it was a good idea), and I can't see how any real get overpriced fashion accessory.
Don't tell me there are no geek oriented devices, let any decent geek spend an hour with something like the N900, and observe the results! (mainly because, well, yes, it will run linux)
This one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4326 for $13 shipped has decent reviews... It might be on par with the ~$50 hunting ones, and if it doesn't work for you, well, you're out just $13;)
Authentic Intel Core i7 processors contain a number of innovative technologies to improve performance. Core i7 chips have an integrated triple-channel memory controller. They also replace the archaic front-side bus architecture with Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect system, and use hyperthreading to turn the Core i7's four physical processor cores into eight virtual cores.
A fake processor would most likely not have these cutting edge advantages, resulting in inferior performance compared with the authentic Intel processor.
Apparently for some people the difference between an i7 and a piece of scrap metal is some innovative technologies that improve performance!
My primary machine is of course Linux and it is running SuSE/KDE with Xinerama dual-monitor just fine on an older low end AMD card. Are the problems you describe when you try gaming on linux? Perhaps then Linux is not the best gaming platform? I am only saying this because nVidia fell behind this generation so I can't exactly recommend an "equivalent". But if you had bad experiences with AMD/ATI simply get the nVidia card that fits your budget and you'll be fine;)
Huh? I don't get it. I did not mention laptops, is there some reasoning you have that puts $5k laptops within the $300 desktop $5k server space that I talked about? In case I was not clear, no, I do not build laptops, nor would I recommend it and it is a rather OT issue.
Wow, what nonsense! I personally build almost all my family's and my company's PC's, from simple $300 desktops to $5000 servers and the only cases where I have bought pre-built (hence the "almost all") were towards the latter ($5k) category. I find it much more important to built a cheap pc yourself, because you control exactly where the limited budget goes and you end up with a much better pc for your intended use for the money.
Radeon 4790? Where do you suggest he finds that? I assume you mean Radeon 4890, which is at around $200 although at limited availability. Still, I would suggest he gets the cheaper but more future-proof Radeon 5770. He might want to run DX11 in the future, or eyefinity. Actually, if he really means Oblivion-level games only, and does not expect to start playing any newer stuff, even the 5770 is overkill and he should go for the $80 Radeon 5670 I see on NewEgg right now, or lower still... Next on, your answer suggest that you don't consider sub-$200 processors as a valid market. Sorry to have to wake you up, but for most people (e.g. those wanting to run Oblivion and output to 1080p) an Athlon II X3 or X4 at under $100 is more than enough. In fact, the entire pc that fits OP's description should cost around $300-.
I am a proud owner of a N900 for a week now. It is the first time a phone truly amazes me, and that is of course all thanks to the OS. I am a mobile developer, so I have so far developed for and owned BREW, Symbian and iPhone OS devices. I liked developing for the iphone, hated the other two, but from a user standpoint I did not enjoy any device, since even browsing was painful (no, I don't consider the iphone's ultra low res usable), and they wouldn't let me do much more than that. Enter the N900. Android is not a unix machine in your pocket, it is a jvm running java apps on top of a unix kernel, when Maemo is a full debian based distro. Things like opening several browser windows, running apt-get install in the background and switching (kind of expose-style) between them is easy on the device. With an 800x480 res and a full browser (Mozilla based with flash and everything) it is the first time I can browse from a phone (as I am doing right now). As a developer I really appreciated that I could do "apt-get install subversion", sync with my svn server and edit my code with vim. Don,t get me wrong, I also like android and usually recommend something like a nexus one to nom-power users, but I am sure the average slashdotter would really get excited with Maemo, not android.
When you say "more widely used", you mean as a percentage of published code? Where have you seen stats with current usage being a peak? Perl is actually my personal favorite language to code with, and it certainly is not dead or dying, however the decline is, unfortunately, real. Why do you think all the above posters forgot what the "P" really stands for?;)
There is no "blurriness", the movie is as blurry (at out of focus sections of the screen) as any other movie. Without the glasses it looks "blurry" as it is two superimposed images, but separating them is simply a function of the polarizing glasses - it doesn't involve your brain. Also the particular movie does not really use 3D as a "gimmic" with things flying towards the audience etc, it is just used for enhancing the user experience, so it doesn't really distract. Moreover, you say you can't get the 3D effect and then you cite the Muppet Vision 3D, I have to tell you that I have enjoyed dozens of Imax 3D movies, yet I got very horribly dizzy at the Muppet movie's lame attempt at 3D. Looking at wikipedia it seems to be a 20 year old movie, and I bet it wasn't state of the art even then (it is a fun show though, esp. if you like the muppets). My point is, if you haven't given Imax 3D a chance, don't completely write-off 3D. And what better movie to test whether you like Imax 3D than Avatar!
PS. Obviously if you have very bad or no vision from one eye, disregard the above, as no 3D technology will help.
Actually, the P in Lamp is supposed to be "Perl/PHP/Python". And yeah, Perl has seen better times. As for Apache being destroyed by being touched by MS... what a slashdot thing to say!;)
Instead of VOIP phones dialing out of POTS, you can also get the features the OP wants by going the opposite way. For example I have simple DECT phones hooked on a Thomson VOIP DSL router, which router can have a unified address book, call logs etc. Obviously this is solution is dependent on having a DSL+VOIP provider in your area.
I don't know what airline you are flying; I still get soda and pretzels for free on the flights I'm on; and they are all steerage (or as they say, "economy") class flights.
GP is a plutonium medallion member on Stromboli Airlines.
Not a good example, as the internet elders have declared the Internet free for everyone all over the world. Plus, even if it was invented in the US, it is now in the hands of the British (on top of the Big Ben for good reception as you probably know).
You are correct. The Verite had better quality from its first generation than anything out there (including 3dfx, which was definitely faster though, and with decent enough quality). At that time nVidia did not have any real products. Some time later ATI released the Rage Pro which had great visual quality, comparable to the second gen Verite with which it was competing then, and better speed at least in Direct 3D (but the ATI drivers were buggy in some games), while nVidia released the Riva 128 which was even faster than the Rage Pro, but as you say, at a rather "crappy" image quality. As those were the 3D technology "infant" years, benchmarks were all that seemed to matter to people, hence the Riva 128 sold more than the rest thanks to those numbers. But the fact that the Verite needed its own API to shine certainly did not help, along with delays developing their third generation. As you know ATI survived even though it also lagged in benchmarks. In another perspective, perhaps all Rendition needed to do was to cheat in benchmarks, then it would have sold big and more companies would have used its API (although proprietary API's is not the way to go);)
PS. I have to say that at that time I bought my first ATI card (to replace an aging S3), mainly because it was the only card capable of DVD playback on my 233 MHz CPU (thanks to hardware MC) and had the best TV-out (by a long shot as I found out later after trying other solutions). So for me it was neither fps nor 3D image quality that mattered in the end... but I am not much of a gamer...
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I see a lot of posts about how the camera looked like an RPG especially if you didn't already know it etc. That is no excuse. We are watching a low resolution b/w video, yet from the soldier comments it is obvious they can see details that are not visible to us, i.e. they can see pretty well and I would think they would be in a much better position than us to recognise weaponry (soldiers get some training in weapons, right?).
From their actions later in the video (saying a van stopped to pick up weapons) it is quite obvious to me that the trigger-happy immoral hicks on that hellicopter were simply making things up to get permission to shoot. It was mass murder, not war.
The superscript "2" that was next to km was "eaten" by the slashdot comment engine, I was talking about the surface to be covered, although the distance is also a factor of the power requirement.
A warning system that requires GW of power (we are talking about making light visible over several km, right?) and people have to be looking at it (and having an unobstructed view to the sky)...
I suspect the power requirement would only be sort of manageable during night time, but that is when people sleep and a laser would not go far in waking them. Now, if it was SHARKS with lasers...
Take that people with beautiful wives! Go on living in fear, while slashdotters enjoy the safety of their mother's basement ;)
The second line should read:
I am actually an iphone developer right now (not exactly my choice, our CEO thought it was a good idea), and I can't see how any real geek would like the overpriced fashion accessory.
PS. To make it clear, I do like the platform as a developer - Obj-C and the sdk are nice and I can do the things Apple will let me nice and fast. My problem is how much it limits me as a user.
So, Windows Vista was developed by "engineers" who like the shiny - no, you can't do that - apple phone. Now I get it...
I am actually an iphone developer right now (not exactly my choice, our CEO thought it was a good idea), and I can't see how any real get overpriced fashion accessory.
Don't tell me there are no geek oriented devices, let any decent geek spend an hour with something like the N900, and observe the results! (mainly because, well, yes, it will run linux)
This one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4326 for $13 shipped has decent reviews... It might be on par with the ~$50 hunting ones, and if it doesn't work for you, well, you're out just $13 ;)
Wait... you mean netcraft does not confirm it?
Oh, man... you will love this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100308/tc_pcworld/fourreasonstobewarefakeintelcpus
Authentic Intel Core i7 processors contain a number of innovative technologies to improve performance. Core i7 chips have an integrated triple-channel memory controller. They also replace the archaic front-side bus architecture with Intel's new QuickPath Interconnect system, and use hyperthreading to turn the Core i7's four physical processor cores into eight virtual cores.
A fake processor would most likely not have these cutting edge advantages, resulting in inferior performance compared with the authentic Intel processor.
Apparently for some people the difference between an i7 and a piece of scrap metal is some innovative technologies that improve performance!
My primary machine is of course Linux and it is running SuSE/KDE with Xinerama dual-monitor just fine on an older low end AMD card. Are the problems you describe when you try gaming on linux? Perhaps then Linux is not the best gaming platform? I am only saying this because nVidia fell behind this generation so I can't exactly recommend an "equivalent". But if you had bad experiences with AMD/ATI simply get the nVidia card that fits your budget and you'll be fine ;)
Huh? I don't get it. I did not mention laptops, is there some reasoning you have that puts $5k laptops within the $300 desktop $5k server space that I talked about?
In case I was not clear, no, I do not build laptops, nor would I recommend it and it is a rather OT issue.
Wow, what nonsense!
I personally build almost all my family's and my company's PC's, from simple $300 desktops to $5000 servers and the only cases where I have bought pre-built (hence the "almost all") were towards the latter ($5k) category. I find it much more important to built a cheap pc yourself, because you control exactly where the limited budget goes and you end up with a much better pc for your intended use for the money.
Radeon 4790? Where do you suggest he finds that?
I assume you mean Radeon 4890, which is at around $200 although at limited availability.
Still, I would suggest he gets the cheaper but more future-proof Radeon 5770. He might want to run DX11 in the future, or eyefinity.
Actually, if he really means Oblivion-level games only, and does not expect to start playing any newer stuff, even the 5770 is overkill and he should go for the $80 Radeon 5670 I see on NewEgg right now, or lower still...
Next on, your answer suggest that you don't consider sub-$200 processors as a valid market. Sorry to have to wake you up, but for most people (e.g. those wanting to run Oblivion and output to 1080p) an Athlon II X3 or X4 at under $100 is more than enough. In fact, the entire pc that fits OP's description should cost around $300-.
I am a proud owner of a N900 for a week now. It is the first time a phone truly amazes me, and that is of course all thanks to the OS. I am a mobile developer, so I have so far developed for and owned BREW, Symbian and iPhone OS devices. I liked developing for the iphone, hated the other two, but from a user standpoint I did not enjoy any device, since even browsing was painful (no, I don't consider the iphone's ultra low res usable), and they wouldn't let me do much more than that.
Enter the N900. Android is not a unix machine in your pocket, it is a jvm running java apps on top of a unix kernel, when Maemo is a full debian based distro. Things like opening several browser windows, running apt-get install in the background and switching (kind of expose-style) between them is easy on the device. With an 800x480 res and a full browser (Mozilla based with flash and everything) it is the first time I can browse from a phone (as I am doing right now). As a developer I really appreciated that I could do "apt-get install subversion", sync with my svn server and edit my code with vim.
Don,t get me wrong, I also like android and usually recommend something like a nexus one to nom-power users, but I am sure the average slashdotter would really get excited with Maemo, not android.
It's not fantasy, it's SCIENCE FICTION you insensitive clod!
When you say "more widely used", you mean as a percentage of published code? Where have you seen stats with current usage being a peak? ;)
Perl is actually my personal favorite language to code with, and it certainly is not dead or dying, however the decline is, unfortunately, real.
Why do you think all the above posters forgot what the "P" really stands for?
There is no "blurriness", the movie is as blurry (at out of focus sections of the screen) as any other movie. Without the glasses it looks "blurry" as it is two superimposed images, but separating them is simply a function of the polarizing glasses - it doesn't involve your brain.
Also the particular movie does not really use 3D as a "gimmic" with things flying towards the audience etc, it is just used for enhancing the user experience, so it doesn't really distract.
Moreover, you say you can't get the 3D effect and then you cite the Muppet Vision 3D, I have to tell you that I have enjoyed dozens of Imax 3D movies, yet I got very horribly dizzy at the Muppet movie's lame attempt at 3D. Looking at wikipedia it seems to be a 20 year old movie, and I bet it wasn't state of the art even then (it is a fun show though, esp. if you like the muppets). My point is, if you haven't given Imax 3D a chance, don't completely write-off 3D. And what better movie to test whether you like Imax 3D than Avatar!
PS. Obviously if you have very bad or no vision from one eye, disregard the above, as no 3D technology will help.
Actually, the P in Lamp is supposed to be "Perl/PHP/Python". And yeah, Perl has seen better times. ;)
As for Apache being destroyed by being touched by MS... what a slashdot thing to say!
Except you already made the choice, when you bought the iPhone... Too late now! ;)
For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat .....
Well, the world is not flat, but it USED to be. Then, the ancient Greeks found a way to inflate it.
Instead of VOIP phones dialing out of POTS, you can also get the features the OP wants by going the opposite way. For example I have simple DECT phones hooked on a Thomson VOIP DSL router, which router can have a unified address book, call logs etc. Obviously this is solution is dependent on having a DSL+VOIP provider in your area.
What you say !!
I don't know what airline you are flying; I still get soda and pretzels for free on the flights I'm on; and they are all steerage (or as they say, "economy") class flights.
GP is a plutonium medallion member on Stromboli Airlines.
Not a good example, as the internet elders have declared the Internet free for everyone all over the world. Plus, even if it was invented in the US, it is now in the hands of the British (on top of the Big Ben for good reception as you probably know).
You are correct. The Verite had better quality from its first generation than anything out there (including 3dfx, which was definitely faster though, and with decent enough quality). At that time nVidia did not have any real products. Some time later ATI released the Rage Pro which had great visual quality, comparable to the second gen Verite with which it was competing then, and better speed at least in Direct 3D (but the ATI drivers were buggy in some games), while nVidia released the Riva 128 which was even faster than the Rage Pro, but as you say, at a rather "crappy" image quality. As those were the 3D technology "infant" years, benchmarks were all that seemed to matter to people, hence the Riva 128 sold more than the rest thanks to those numbers. But the fact that the Verite needed its own API to shine certainly did not help, along with delays developing their third generation. As you know ATI survived even though it also lagged in benchmarks. In another perspective, perhaps all Rendition needed to do was to cheat in benchmarks, then it would have sold big and more companies would have used its API (although proprietary API's is not the way to go) ;)
PS. I have to say that at that time I bought my first ATI card (to replace an aging S3), mainly because it was the only card capable of DVD playback on my 233 MHz CPU (thanks to hardware MC) and had the best TV-out (by a long shot as I found out later after trying other solutions). So for me it was neither fps nor 3D image quality that mattered in the end... but I am not much of a gamer...