I'm still waiting for real time, on the fly DDS 5.1 encoding. As far as I know, the only chipset that supports this is part of nForce, and there will be no standalone graphics cards built around nForce.
The problem seems to be one of latency. Even with fast hardware acceleration, encoding AC3 takes long enough to introduce perceivable lag. Unless this could be compensated for, this would be a bit troublesome for games.
Oh well. Both Live and Audigy cna do AC3 passthrough, so I guess I'm OK for games. One of these days I _will_ have a single wire from my computer to my receiver instead of four. Ah, perchance to dream.
The ZoomTown (god I hate that name...) service in Cincinnati doesn't have this clause, but the way they've configured their NAT for residential clients "breaks" many VPN clients. The upgrade is, as stated in the article, about twice the cost.
SSH works fine, though, and a clever tunneling setup can bypass their silly MAT trap in a lot of cases.
That's why you use a series of them scattered over the equator. With a network of satellites that not only act as collectors and transmitters, but as RELAYS, you could beam power from those satellites that ARE in light to those that are NOT. You could then provide constant power planet-wide, even on the "dark" side.
It seems that everyone from my parents' generation believes that Kennedy's assasination was the "defining" point of their generation. Other notable events like Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, the Hindenberg, and the Apollo landing were important and extremely emotional events for other Americans of different generations. People from that time remember not only the events, but where they were, who they were talking to... even the clothes they were wearing and other seemingly unimportant details. We're all familar with the phenomenon. These events had impact.
For the "current" generation, those people that are children now, September 11th and Oklahoma City will likely be such defining events. The impact is staggering in the mind, and children today will realize the impact more heavily than those that are appreciably older or younger.
For me, that defining moment, that point that will always stick with me, was the Challenger disaster. I remember every detail of the moments surrounding the explosion, and even the briefest mention of those events brings those memories back in force.
That usenet posting, a simple pure description of what one person knew just moments after the explosion, brought it all back more clearly than ever before. Any footage I see today is part of a documentary, any account is a recollection by someone remembering something that happened 15 years ago. But that post was pure. There was no commentary before or after about what it meant, and it was untainted by reflection or further consideration. It just showed what one person knew.
I won't go on to talk about the importance of the internet or compare it to other media; there are other forums for that. But I can say only that I appreciate what google has done by capturing and bringing back a real history of the last 20 years.
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...a commercially produced portable PlayStation. In fact, a buddy of mine bought one. So what's special about this?
Wow, I remember back in the day when the toys rated to be dangerous ACTUALLY POSED SOME PHYSICAL THREAT. Little plastic guns to choke on, rivets that pop out and can hit you in the eye, Power Wheels batteries that explode, failed brakes on bicycles... What ever happened to Dan Akroyd and the Bag of Broken Glass, Bag of Rusty Nails, and Bag of Sulfuric acid? REAL dangerous toys.
Now we're afraid of words, pictures, and plastic icons. Oh, I get it! It's a biblical thing!
Really? I've been working with HP 9000 workstation and server support for several years, and have never had a problem. In fact, I've had to call on several separate issues today and each was resolved very quickly.
``If there was a layer of gold a foot thick floating over the earth at an altitude at which we could send up a shuttle to go up and collect, it wouldn't be worth doing it,''
Unfortunately, it's true. We still need a cheap, high efficiency delivery system before we can even think about profitability.
There is one interesting possibility, though. The "novelty" market. As the article points out, people are willing to pay $2200/mg for moon rock. I know I'd pay a decent amount. Would I pay more than the fragment's weight in gold? I don't know. But there are plenty of people that would. For the initial startups, which would be responsible for the R&D in to making "practical" missions (for materials rather than novelty,) practical, this may be a solution. Still, to make back $1.5 billion from 100 kilos of space rock, you need to sell the rock at $1.5 million/gram. Yeah. Right.
I have to agree. The first episode was quite weak, but the majority of the rest have been quite good as far as I'm concerned. I didn't much care for the episode in which the guy got pregnant, but the "Vulcans are spying on their neighbors" episode ended well. It really broke the ST mold, I thought.
I have to say that I'm a little disappointed by Red Hat's response. While it doesn't appear quite as slimy as the MS Seattlement, it still stinks slightly of opportunism to me. RH is aware that MS would never accept these terms; they're simply trying to make MS look bad as well as to make their red hats turn white.
If either company really appeared to care about helping poor children I'd probably feel differently, but both seem more concerned about public relations and court settlements.
Hence the problem; to be competitive now, one MUST know MS products. Knowing Linux and KDE in today's market won't get you anywhere because MS has squeezed out almost all opportunity for a competitor to make a dent in their (MS's) market share. Poorer school systems need to be very budget conscious, and OSS provides an excellent solution for little relative cost. MS, as we have seen in the past, makes no distinction between fortune 500 companies and inner city schools; they're just as likely to sick the BSA on Cincinnati Public as they are GM. They don't care, they're just after money.
But something happened; the public became aware of MS's policy towards schools, and MS ended up with a bit of egg on its corporate face as a result. This settlement, in which they donate software to schools, covers this fact up, and restores a part of MS's image in the eyes of the public.
In order for there to be competition, someone has to start using a competitor's product. OSS's penetration into "geek space" is almost to a saturation point. What's needed now are "joe user" types. Where better to start then in a school, where students haven't necessarily become accustomed to another product yet?
Ever wonder why software companies give deep discounts to educational institutions? It's not necessarily for philanthropic reasons. They want to get students, those people that will be in the workforce in a few years, accustomed to THEIR products, not their competitors.
OSS needs to take steps, but its purveyors have some serious competition in the form of The Beast. MS doesn't fight fair, and OSS is particularly vulnerable to not fighting fair because there's little with which to fight back. OSS has no marketing department, just a few companies with marketing departments geared towards their specific goals. OSS doesn't have deep pockets, either. They can't spend billions on R&D, nor can they pay to have their software bundled with everything under the Sun. OSS can't win huge court cases, OSS can't persuade congress, and OSS doesn't often patent new things. OSS is at the mercey of fair competition, and fair isn't a word MS knows.
Are they kidding? This doesn't solve anything; it makes it worse! By providing software _for free_ to such a large number of people, the software now becomes the defacto standard for yet another group of people. These students will grow up in Microsoft(TM) America and like so many people before them be hooked into software that they'll be reluctant to leave in the future.
And using poorer schools... that's good. These schools would have previously been a good "target market" for OSS... can't beat the price. Now MS gets three victories for the price of none... they get the plaintiffs off of their backs, they get the PR boost that always comes with helping poor children, and they get a win against OSS. And what does it cost them? A "virtual" $1.1 billion. They're giving software to people that probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place, and they're giving away a product based on its RETAIL value; it costs MS very little to give this software away. The realized cost to MS will probably be less than $100 million. Much less.
Another Seattlement, if you ask me. I think I'm going to give up and be a rice farmer now... until Microsoft (TM) Wheat pushes me out of the staple foods market.
See, that was my joke... I guess it wasn't that funny. Oh well. The Palomino core is a bit power hungry... dumps off a LOT of waste heat, and consumes a lot of power. It's also surprisingly expensive for an AMD solution...
Still holding my breath for a dual P4 board, and I'm starting to turn a little blue. From what I have learned, the P4s that exist today are not SMP capable, and only Xeons will support multiprocessor configurations. Pity. I was starting to get used to cheap dual systems.
Looks like I'll have to have the 440 line and room cooler installed in my den before I can have a dual AMD system...
I wouldn't say out of the water... price performance wise, maybe, but AMD has only slightly inched ahead in the performance race. Intel will leapfrog them again soon, and AMD will leapfrog Intel soon after that.
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I'm still waiting for real time, on the fly DDS 5.1 encoding. As far as I know, the only chipset that supports this is part of nForce, and there will be no standalone graphics cards built around nForce.
The problem seems to be one of latency. Even with fast hardware acceleration, encoding AC3 takes long enough to introduce perceivable lag. Unless this could be compensated for, this would be a bit troublesome for games.
Oh well. Both Live and Audigy cna do AC3 passthrough, so I guess I'm OK for games. One of these days I _will_ have a single wire from my computer to my receiver instead of four. Ah, perchance to dream.
Temperature is not the only problem; you also have to consider relative humidity. Opening a window may introduce more problems than it solves.
The ZoomTown (god I hate that name...) service in Cincinnati doesn't have this clause, but the way they've configured their NAT for residential clients "breaks" many VPN clients. The upgrade is, as stated in the article, about twice the cost.
SSH works fine, though, and a clever tunneling setup can bypass their silly MAT trap in a lot of cases.
That's why you use a series of them scattered over the equator. With a network of satellites that not only act as collectors and transmitters, but as RELAYS, you could beam power from those satellites that ARE in light to those that are NOT. You could then provide constant power planet-wide, even on the "dark" side.
Well, yes and no. I wasn't commenting about the event, really. I was commenting about the post.
It seems that everyone from my parents' generation believes that Kennedy's assasination was the "defining" point of their generation. Other notable events like Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, the Hindenberg, and the Apollo landing were important and extremely emotional events for other Americans of different generations. People from that time remember not only the events, but where they were, who they were talking to... even the clothes they were wearing and other seemingly unimportant details. We're all familar with the phenomenon. These events had impact.
For the "current" generation, those people that are children now, September 11th and Oklahoma City will likely be such defining events. The impact is staggering in the mind, and children today will realize the impact more heavily than those that are appreciably older or younger.
For me, that defining moment, that point that will always stick with me, was the Challenger disaster. I remember every detail of the moments surrounding the explosion, and even the briefest mention of those events brings those memories back in force.
That usenet posting, a simple pure description of what one person knew just moments after the explosion, brought it all back more clearly than ever before. Any footage I see today is part of a documentary, any account is a recollection by someone remembering something that happened 15 years ago. But that post was pure. There was no commentary before or after about what it meant, and it was untainted by reflection or further consideration. It just showed what one person knew.
I won't go on to talk about the importance of the internet or compare it to other media; there are other forums for that. But I can say only that I appreciate what google has done by capturing and bringing back a real history of the last 20 years.
...a commercially produced portable PlayStation. In fact, a buddy of mine bought one. So what's special about this?
Wow, I remember back in the day when the toys rated to be dangerous ACTUALLY POSED SOME PHYSICAL THREAT. Little plastic guns to choke on, rivets that pop out and can hit you in the eye, Power Wheels batteries that explode, failed brakes on bicycles... What ever happened to Dan Akroyd and the Bag of Broken Glass, Bag of Rusty Nails, and Bag of Sulfuric acid? REAL dangerous toys.
Now we're afraid of words, pictures, and plastic icons. Oh, I get it! It's a biblical thing!
Really? I've been working with HP 9000 workstation and server support for several years, and have never had a problem. In fact, I've had to call on several separate issues today and each was resolved very quickly.
I was just going to say "hand them over to me," but if you want to get all technical and long winded, be my guest.
Tough call. She blew him a kiss, though.
Oh yes, because an ansible would be SOOO useful to you right now. You could get your quake ping times down, I'll bet...
``If there was a layer of gold a foot thick floating over the earth at an altitude at which we could send up a shuttle to go up and collect, it wouldn't be worth doing it,''
Unfortunately, it's true. We still need a cheap, high efficiency delivery system before we can even think about profitability.
There is one interesting possibility, though. The "novelty" market. As the article points out, people are willing to pay $2200/mg for moon rock. I know I'd pay a decent amount. Would I pay more than the fragment's weight in gold? I don't know. But there are plenty of people that would. For the initial startups, which would be responsible for the R&D in to making "practical" missions (for materials rather than novelty,) practical, this may be a solution. Still, to make back $1.5 billion from 100 kilos of space rock, you need to sell the rock at $1.5 million/gram. Yeah. Right.
I have to agree. The first episode was quite weak, but the majority of the rest have been quite good as far as I'm concerned. I didn't much care for the episode in which the guy got pregnant, but the "Vulcans are spying on their neighbors" episode ended well. It really broke the ST mold, I thought.
Doubtful. If they had a battery pack powerful enough to shock a human being, they could use it to power the camera and transmitter easily.
Well, the fact that the money will be paid out as part of a settlement excludes the payment from tax exempt status.
I have to say that I'm a little disappointed by Red Hat's response. While it doesn't appear quite as slimy as the MS Seattlement, it still stinks slightly of opportunism to me. RH is aware that MS would never accept these terms; they're simply trying to make MS look bad as well as to make their red hats turn white.
If either company really appeared to care about helping poor children I'd probably feel differently, but both seem more concerned about public relations and court settlements.
Hence the problem; to be competitive now, one MUST know MS products. Knowing Linux and KDE in today's market won't get you anywhere because MS has squeezed out almost all opportunity for a competitor to make a dent in their (MS's) market share. Poorer school systems need to be very budget conscious, and OSS provides an excellent solution for little relative cost. MS, as we have seen in the past, makes no distinction between fortune 500 companies and inner city schools; they're just as likely to sick the BSA on Cincinnati Public as they are GM. They don't care, they're just after money.
But something happened; the public became aware of MS's policy towards schools, and MS ended up with a bit of egg on its corporate face as a result. This settlement, in which they donate software to schools, covers this fact up, and restores a part of MS's image in the eyes of the public.
In order for there to be competition, someone has to start using a competitor's product. OSS's penetration into "geek space" is almost to a saturation point. What's needed now are "joe user" types. Where better to start then in a school, where students haven't necessarily become accustomed to another product yet?
Ever wonder why software companies give deep discounts to educational institutions? It's not necessarily for philanthropic reasons. They want to get students, those people that will be in the workforce in a few years, accustomed to THEIR products, not their competitors.
OSS needs to take steps, but its purveyors have some serious competition in the form of The Beast. MS doesn't fight fair, and OSS is particularly vulnerable to not fighting fair because there's little with which to fight back. OSS has no marketing department, just a few companies with marketing departments geared towards their specific goals. OSS doesn't have deep pockets, either. They can't spend billions on R&D, nor can they pay to have their software bundled with everything under the Sun. OSS can't win huge court cases, OSS can't persuade congress, and OSS doesn't often patent new things. OSS is at the mercey of fair competition, and fair isn't a word MS knows.
Are they kidding? This doesn't solve anything; it makes it worse! By providing software _for free_ to such a large number of people, the software now becomes the defacto standard for yet another group of people. These students will grow up in Microsoft(TM) America and like so many people before them be hooked into software that they'll be reluctant to leave in the future.
And using poorer schools... that's good. These schools would have previously been a good "target market" for OSS... can't beat the price. Now MS gets three victories for the price of none... they get the plaintiffs off of their backs, they get the PR boost that always comes with helping poor children, and they get a win against OSS. And what does it cost them? A "virtual" $1.1 billion. They're giving software to people that probably wouldn't have bought it in the first place, and they're giving away a product based on its RETAIL value; it costs MS very little to give this software away. The realized cost to MS will probably be less than $100 million. Much less.
Another Seattlement, if you ask me. I think I'm going to give up and be a rice farmer now... until Microsoft (TM) Wheat pushes me out of the staple foods market.
I have only one consolation... web searches for "Scott Crosby" reveal pictures of a strange man in drag. My embarassment will be your own!
Damn it, Scott Crosby... give me my name back! Now I'm going to get your damn mail again and... grr.
See, that was my joke... I guess it wasn't that funny. Oh well. The Palomino core is a bit power hungry... dumps off a LOT of waste heat, and consumes a lot of power. It's also surprisingly expensive for an AMD solution...
Still holding my breath for a dual P4 board, and I'm starting to turn a little blue. From what I have learned, the P4s that exist today are not SMP capable, and only Xeons will support multiprocessor configurations. Pity. I was starting to get used to cheap dual systems.
Looks like I'll have to have the 440 line and room cooler installed in my den before I can have a dual AMD system...
I wouldn't say out of the water... price performance wise, maybe, but AMD has only slightly inched ahead in the performance race. Intel will leapfrog them again soon, and AMD will leapfrog Intel soon after that.
Well, looks like I've bought my last intel CPU. ;)