You forgot the fire and brimstone in Washington state, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the 3 or 4 hurricanes in Florida, and the locust plagues in Africa. The End is near! Flee!!!
Well put, but the thing that gets me is the penalty for violation. Some shop sells an M-rated game to a minor and get's it's business license revoked. A drug company makes and distributes a drug that it knows kills people and pays a settlement in civil court to the victims families and continues on as usual. If that doesn't strike people as odd then there is something very wrong with society.
..ever. Remember when you searched for "linux windows" and it only coughed up 16 sites, all of which were advocating switching FROM Linux TO Windows? I'll never use a search engine that censors it's results to the sole benefit of the company that owns it. Because then it's not a search engine, it's a propaganda tool.
Well, if you take a look at the graph they have in the article it looks like the percentage of spam rised at a constant rate right up a diagonal line. The only difference between Pre-CANSPAM and Post is they changed the color to indecate the different time frames, the rise in percentage stayed the same.
I agree, I'd also like to add the not so obvious to people that don't actually watch allot of subbed anime. That is, english subtitles are actually in proper english. Allot of times the fansubbed version has better translations than the official translations. I never found out why this is, but the amateurs have the pros patently beat on this allot of the time.
It just occured to me when you said how the requirements for decoding HD are so high without using the graphics card. Well, maybe you will need to upgrade to Tiger to use this online music store because you would only have the horsepower to easily do it if you were running Core Image to offload allot of the decoding and number crunching to the GPU. Apple cashes in massively and dominates the movie download market segment in one fell swoop!
I still think they Powerbook G5 will be released along Tiger. It only makes sense to release your shiny new 64bit OS with a shiny new 64bit laptop. The big software introduction (which has been proceeding in public) deserves a big hardware introduction to complement it.
In other news every Windows computer in China (and a few other countries) will be owned. It will be interesting to see an entire nation move away from Windows because of this.
They were sued for SUPER-heating their coffee so the customer would not have a chance to drink it and get a free refill before leaving, knowing full well that this was potentially hazardous.
But have comodity PC processors and graphics chips advanced to the point where they can emulate different architectures from just 4 years ago, even when in an optimized configuration? The answer is probably not. The Xbox2 seems to be a continuation and extension of the current design and architecture paradigms, so a drastic break away compared to previous performance is most unlikely.
Compare this to the drastic architectural shifts regarding the architecture used in the PS3. Like the guy says in the article here http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/23/023920 7&tid=126&tid=1 it's designed more like a Cray than a PC. It may be hell for those programing it at first, but the power is there. If Sony hadn't come up with a much more powerfull architecture for the PS2 would it have been powerfull enough to run PS1 games in emulation? Probably not as well. I run a 1.4Ghz Athlon 512MB RAM and GeForce 3 and when I run Playstation games on my PC in emulation they run at somewhere around 1 tenth the normal speed. Wipeout plays like a hot air balloon simulator.
The Xbox2 seems to be based on a trio of probably POWER5 derived processors and probably unified RAM (like the current Xbox)and a high end graphics chip. I don't really know much else but that sounds like an Xbox with 3x the processors on a new architecture and updated for the times.
The PS3 architecture just makes my head hurt (might be because I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in a year...). Here is the article that seems to explain it the best with minimal headache: http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.htm l (from the slashdot link). Sony IBM and Toshiba apparently didn't make many compromises in their pursuit of speed. This stuff should probably show up in one of IBM's supercomputers in the next couple of years, probably a petaflops machine.
I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that one has vastly more theoretical power and because of that can easily run it's predicessors games in emulation. It takes allot of horsepower to run things in emulation. They talk about this and more in the Cell article...
These nuts now have their own TV shows and followings in the millions. They go on about how Spongebob and Teletubbies are trying to turn American children "homosexual hedonists" or some other such nonsense.
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I think that acronym might actually be the name of an obscure African tribe...
'In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?'
Nothing if you would turn off your damn ringer you obnoxious bastard....
You're right, it's not a monopoly. It's a Trust. Think Anti-Trust...
I guess they are waiting for a single platter 40GB drive to introduce a $400 iPod photo to complete the roundup.
But I was talking about when spyware installs itself without your consent through a browser exploit just by visiting a site or though a popup add.
that remotely installed spyware that takes advantage of security holes is also illegal? If so why aren't people in jail?
And DRM still sucks.
You forgot the fire and brimstone in Washington state, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, the 3 or 4 hurricanes in Florida, and the locust plagues in Africa. The End is near! Flee!!!
I'm waiting for the topical version, I Can't Believe It's Not HIV Spray!
Wait, they're using salsa to cool Pentium 4's now?
That's what they all say, but what they really want to do is implement a DRM scheme in it!
Well put, but the thing that gets me is the penalty for violation. Some shop sells an M-rated game to a minor and get's it's business license revoked. A drug company makes and distributes a drug that it knows kills people and pays a settlement in civil court to the victims families and continues on as usual. If that doesn't strike people as odd then there is something very wrong with society.
..ever. Remember when you searched for "linux windows" and it only coughed up 16 sites, all of which were advocating switching FROM Linux TO Windows? I'll never use a search engine that censors it's results to the sole benefit of the company that owns it. Because then it's not a search engine, it's a propaganda tool.
Ten dollars to the company that makes the first tie-dye motherboard!
Isn't it called electron migration when the electrons actually jump from one channel to another?
Well, if you take a look at the graph they have in the article it looks like the percentage of spam rised at a constant rate right up a diagonal line. The only difference between Pre-CANSPAM and Post is they changed the color to indecate the different time frames, the rise in percentage stayed the same.
I agree, I'd also like to add the not so obvious to people that don't actually watch allot of subbed anime. That is, english subtitles are actually in proper english. Allot of times the fansubbed version has better translations than the official translations. I never found out why this is, but the amateurs have the pros patently beat on this allot of the time.
It just occured to me when you said how the requirements for decoding HD are so high without using the graphics card. Well, maybe you will need to upgrade to Tiger to use this online music store because you would only have the horsepower to easily do it if you were running Core Image to offload allot of the decoding and number crunching to the GPU. Apple cashes in massively and dominates the movie download market segment in one fell swoop!
I still think they Powerbook G5 will be released along Tiger. It only makes sense to release your shiny new 64bit OS with a shiny new 64bit laptop. The big software introduction (which has been proceeding in public) deserves a big hardware introduction to complement it.
In other news every Windows computer in China (and a few other countries) will be owned. It will be interesting to see an entire nation move away from Windows because of this.
They were sued for SUPER-heating their coffee so the customer would not have a chance to drink it and get a free refill before leaving, knowing full well that this was potentially hazardous.
But have comodity PC processors and graphics chips advanced to the point where they can emulate different architectures from just 4 years ago, even when in an optimized configuration? The answer is probably not. The Xbox2 seems to be a continuation and extension of the current design and architecture paradigms, so a drastic break away compared to previous performance is most unlikely.
0 7&tid=126&tid=1 it's designed more like a Cray than a PC. It may be hell for those programing it at first, but the power is there. If Sony hadn't come up with a much more powerfull architecture for the PS2 would it have been powerfull enough to run PS1 games in emulation? Probably not as well. I run a 1.4Ghz Athlon 512MB RAM and GeForce 3 and when I run Playstation games on my PC in emulation they run at somewhere around 1 tenth the normal speed. Wipeout plays like a hot air balloon simulator.
m l (from the slashdot link). Sony IBM and Toshiba apparently didn't make many compromises in their pursuit of speed. This stuff should probably show up in one of IBM's supercomputers in the next couple of years, probably a petaflops machine.
Compare this to the drastic architectural shifts regarding the architecture used in the PS3. Like the guy says in the article here http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/23/02392
The Xbox2 seems to be based on a trio of probably POWER5 derived processors and probably unified RAM (like the current Xbox)and a high end graphics chip. I don't really know much else but that sounds like an Xbox with 3x the processors on a new architecture and updated for the times.
The PS3 architecture just makes my head hurt (might be because I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in a year...). Here is the article that seems to explain it the best with minimal headache: http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.ht
I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that one has vastly more theoretical power and because of that can easily run it's predicessors games in emulation. It takes allot of horsepower to run things in emulation. They talk about this and more in the Cell article...
Above the arctic circle in winter.
And while we're at it, who ever said square keys were ergonomic?
These nuts now have their own TV shows and followings in the millions. They go on about how Spongebob and Teletubbies are trying to turn American children "homosexual hedonists" or some other such nonsense.