I see it among non tech-savy people. I have friends coming and asking me if i've tried it; in the cybercafe i work it's installed on every PC and something like 7 out of 10 clients choose it over IE.
I'm very happy to see this. I still like Opera better, but Firefox is a terrific browser. And the price is right.
No, bin Laden truly believes that the US is meddling in affairs where it does not belong. The way he goes about acting upon his beliefs is somewhat less than proper, of course. But they are, at least in his twisted mind, well founded
Thing is, the US ARE pissing outside the toilet. This doesn't excuse BL actions, by any means, but he makes a simple point: what goes arround comes arround. You can't expect screwing with the middle east (economically, militarly, or whatever) and not alienatng people. 9/11 didn't just happen in the vaccum, the US foreign policy had much to do with it.
Anyway, like a previous poster said, this is a political speech; the man is crazy/evil, but he certainly is not stupid. Take it with a grain of salt. What frightens me a bit it's that it makes more sense than some of the rhetoric i heard Bush spitting lately.
It surprised me how painless the SLI setup process was described. Writting GPU drivers is complex enough without having to handle multiple accelerators, never mind having optimal performance AND making the install painless.
nVidia does their homework with their drivers, and it shows. GPU drivers are 50% of their perfomance. It sucks for ATI, because they have the better hardware, but their drivers suck (and pretty much always did).
And Penny Arcade. Yeah, I am *really* sure they were *scared* of that one.
Why, of course they are. A site visited regularly by a lot of gamers - most between 15 and 30 years old? Sounds like potential Nintendo customers to me...
It was a PR move, of course, but they made it right. They deserve some credit.
Just what i thought. They did something perfectly understandable, fucked up in the process, realized it *and* apologized promptly. And make up for the hassle with a game system, which you might think (or not) that it's cheap, but again, no one forced them.
... but that's nitpicking. I'm fucking impressed. The guy not only ported the game, he also coded his own assembler, library routines AND the hardware to develop it!
Brian, you're the man. I hope you're reading this; congratulations.
So, the worst filmmaker in history left a PORNO movie which never saw daylight until now. I honestly don't know if i want to see it desperately or steer away from it completely.
He might have made lousy movies, but porn is porn!
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Two wrongs don't make a right. If you think arresting people and bypassing constitutional rights is fine, well, you're entitled to. Shit like that happening elsewere is no justification.
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Yeah, as soon as they're released from arrest without due process for suspected terrorisim. Serves them right, the sneaky bastards!
Once again, Minidiscs are a whole different beast. Minidisc players have insanely long battery life, but because the power consumption is kept to a minimum. Ever wondered why portable Minidiscs take a couple of seconds to start playing after you press play? The drive motor is powered just enough so it can be kept running by inertia and minimal electrical power, so the spinup is very slow.
Also, Minidiscs read in bursts (slow ones, i might add) and stores the track information on memory instead of spinning constantly. This also helps a lot, as the rest of the device doesn't eat as much juice as the drive, not to mention it basically eliminates skipping. None of this translates well to a gaming console.
My MD plays for over 11 hours with a single rechargeable AA battery. They hitted the nail in the head with that design; i'd love to see Sony giving Minidiscs a better chance instead of killing them like they did with the Memory Stick.
He was great in "Knockarround guys", his only movie i really liked next to "Pitch black".
I don't hate Diesel; but The Rock actally did quite good in movies like "Scorpion King", "Mummy Returns" and "Walking tall". He has the potential to be one hell of an action movie star. I think he could work in the Doom movie.
Well, he still has "Event horizon" in his resume. That one was a hell of a sci-fi terror flick.
*SPOILERS FOR AvP - LOOK AWAY IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT*
I saw AvP the past week, and i didn't think of much about it until i got home and realized it had quite a lot of action and very very impressive fight scenes, which was of course what everyone wanted to see.
What ruined it a bit for me was the female "look-i'm-soo-Lt-Ripley" hero. C'mon, she should have died 10 minutes into the movie by slipping on a bannana in the ship. We came to see Aliens figthing Predators, not a woman doing impossible stunts and fraternizing with an alien.
Thermal pastes are actually quite lousy heat conductors (compared to other substances, of course). Their main use it's to ensure there's absolutely zero air trapped in the interface between the emmiting surface and the sink, like in non-flat areas of the surface, and specially in their microscopic holes and scratchings.
I always die a bit when i see people mounting PCs and smearing thermal paste on their CPUs like it's syrup. The right amount is about the size of a rice bean right in the middle of the die, so it spreads nice, evenly and thin between the surfaces, maximizing heat transfer.
that is not true. they said you would need steam for updates and online play, but if you wanted to just play the single player game out of the box then you wouldn't need a net connection(this would be the sensible thing, as some don't have net even).
Which is logical, i might add: if you're not interested in online play, it probable your system won't even have an internet connection - my first thought were laptops. Asking for online activation on what's mainly a single player game is retarded.
I wonder if something like that could be used to make very high capacity unpolarized capacitors, just like the regular foil ones (an isolator sandwiched by two conductor sheets and rolled into a can). The only way to get high capacitances practically (above 1uF) is to use electrolytics, which have quite a share of disadvantages.
Trade secret my bollocks. If there's IP protected features that can't be used, fine, give us the source code for the rest of the features. Can't / don't want to release code? Allright, specs would be just fine, thank you.
The importance of drivers internals is overrated; there's only so much you can steal from a design just by analyzing drivers, even complex ones like video cards'. My guess is companies are reluctant to release drivers (not only for graphics cards - others too, notably wireless adapters) because their hardware might have functionality disabled or crippled by software. I remeber that the old nVidia Quadro line were regular GeForces with an extra resistor on the board; don't be surprised if you could get it working with a driver mod. ATI had a Radeon model that could double it's performance via software, unlocking pipelines that weren't suposed to be there.
Years ago, whenever you brough hardware, most of the times the specifications were right there in the friggin' manual. When it wasn't, a trip to Internet, a few questions in Fidonet, or a couple of e-mails would get you everything you need to make your paid-for hardware work. I remember having a lot of fun with a Citizen dot-matrix color printer i recieved the techincal specifications for.
Today? You must beg so your damn network adapter works with your OS of choice. And this is not something that happens in *nix only, good luck finding current drivers for older versions of Windows.
Anyway... nVidia is the less evil of both, because they actually seem to care about the Linux consumers, providing up-to-date drivers with excellent performance. For that, they get my money. Good luck trying to get an ATI card running on anything but a Mac or Windows.
Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.
IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link:
"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."
Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards:)
This sounds like the comment of someone to who "Internet" means the same as "My favorite homepage". Just because the WWW is currently flooded with advertising doesn't mean the rest of the Internet isn't doing pretty well, thank you very much.
Oh, c'mon. No one is overlooking the huge impact he made on moviemaking, and particularly in SFX, but the fanboys are right. Just because it's "his story" doesn't make it right that he changes it at will - minor details, given, but if you want to see what dazzled you as a kid in DVD, why can't you get it instead of "the original vision of the creator"? I'm not sure, but i'm pretty positive you can't even find the original, unedited trilogy in DVD.
I mean, c'mon, Star Wars is what, 30, 35 years old now? He is woking on EP3, is it really necesary to go back and rework what came before just because it doesn't connect as well with the new trilogy? Simply having a quality digitalization of the original film would've been enough.
Linux 2.6 is *MUCH* better in this regard; the improved scheduler and preemptive kernel patches really make the machine much more responsive, even under heavy load.
I can have my machine at 99% CPU usage and wouldn't be able to tell except for programs loading slower. Also, whenever i have "memory runaway" (programs that start eating more and more memory), the system stays responsive.
Anyway, if you haven't tried it, it's well worth the upgrade.
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I see it among non tech-savy people. I have friends coming and asking me if i've tried it; in the cybercafe i work it's installed on every PC and something like 7 out of 10 clients choose it over IE.
I'm very happy to see this. I still like Opera better, but Firefox is a terrific browser. And the price is right.
No, bin Laden truly believes that the US is meddling in affairs where it does not belong. The way he goes about acting upon his beliefs is somewhat less than proper, of course. But they are, at least in his twisted mind, well founded
Thing is, the US ARE pissing outside the toilet. This doesn't excuse BL actions, by any means, but he makes a simple point: what goes arround comes arround. You can't expect screwing with the middle east (economically, militarly, or whatever) and not alienatng people. 9/11 didn't just happen in the vaccum, the US foreign policy had much to do with it.
Anyway, like a previous poster said, this is a political speech; the man is crazy/evil, but he certainly is not stupid. Take it with a grain of salt. What frightens me a bit it's that it makes more sense than some of the rhetoric i heard Bush spitting lately.
And that would be because....?
Well, atleast the terrorists got what they deserved. I mean, the guys who stole the WMD. I mean, Sadaam, who's evil and wants to conquer the world.
War sucks. Unjustified wars even more.
...and thanks for all the porn! (drops a tear)
It surprised me how painless the SLI setup process was described. Writting GPU drivers is complex enough without having to handle multiple accelerators, never mind having optimal performance AND making the install painless.
nVidia does their homework with their drivers, and it shows. GPU drivers are 50% of their perfomance. It sucks for ATI, because they have the better hardware, but their drivers suck (and pretty much always did).
And Penny Arcade.
Yeah, I am *really* sure they were *scared* of that one.
Why, of course they are. A site visited regularly by a lot of gamers - most between 15 and 30 years old? Sounds like potential Nintendo customers to me...
It was a PR move, of course, but they made it right. They deserve some credit.
Just what i thought. They did something perfectly understandable, fucked up in the process, realized it *and* apologized promptly. And make up for the hassle with a game system, which you might think (or not) that it's cheap, but again, no one forced them.
Kudos to Nintendo.
Brian, you're the man. I hope you're reading this; congratulations.
So, the worst filmmaker in history left a PORNO movie which never saw daylight until now. I honestly don't know if i want to see it desperately or steer away from it completely.
He might have made lousy movies, but porn is porn!
Two wrongs don't make a right. If you think arresting people and bypassing constitutional rights is fine, well, you're entitled to. Shit like that happening elsewere is no justification.
Yeah, as soon as they're released from arrest without due process for suspected terrorisim. Serves them right, the sneaky bastards!
...smartass mode on...
...smartass mode off...
Actually, you're reffering to "The Mummy returns".
Anyway, you're right. Still, he has quite a screen presence, and does a fine work in action flicks. I found Diesel much less enjoyable in such roles.
Once again, Minidiscs are a whole different beast. Minidisc players have insanely long battery life, but because the power consumption is kept to a minimum. Ever wondered why portable Minidiscs take a couple of seconds to start playing after you press play? The drive motor is powered just enough so it can be kept running by inertia and minimal electrical power, so the spinup is very slow.
Also, Minidiscs read in bursts (slow ones, i might add) and stores the track information on memory instead of spinning constantly. This also helps a lot, as the rest of the device doesn't eat as much juice as the drive, not to mention it basically eliminates skipping. None of this translates well to a gaming console.
My MD plays for over 11 hours with a single rechargeable AA battery. They hitted the nail in the head with that design; i'd love to see Sony giving Minidiscs a better chance instead of killing them like they did with the Memory Stick.
He was great in "Knockarround guys", his only movie i really liked next to "Pitch black".
I don't hate Diesel; but The Rock actally did quite good in movies like "Scorpion King", "Mummy Returns" and "Walking tall". He has the potential to be one hell of an action movie star. I think he could work in the Doom movie.
Well, he still has "Event horizon" in his resume. That one was a hell of a sci-fi terror flick.
*SPOILERS FOR AvP - LOOK AWAY IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT*
I saw AvP the past week, and i didn't think of much about it until i got home and realized it had quite a lot of action and very very impressive fight scenes, which was of course what everyone wanted to see.
What ruined it a bit for me was the female "look-i'm-soo-Lt-Ripley" hero. C'mon, she should have died 10 minutes into the movie by slipping on a bannana in the ship. We came to see Aliens figthing Predators, not a woman doing impossible stunts and fraternizing with an alien.
Other than that, i througly enjoyed it.
Thermal pastes are actually quite lousy heat conductors (compared to other substances, of course). Their main use it's to ensure there's absolutely zero air trapped in the interface between the emmiting surface and the sink, like in non-flat areas of the surface, and specially in their microscopic holes and scratchings.
I always die a bit when i see people mounting PCs and smearing thermal paste on their CPUs like it's syrup. The right amount is about the size of a rice bean right in the middle of the die, so it spreads nice, evenly and thin between the surfaces, maximizing heat transfer.
that is not true. they said you would need steam for updates and online play, but if you wanted to just play the single player game out of the box then you wouldn't need a net connection(this would be the sensible thing, as some don't have net even).
Which is logical, i might add: if you're not interested in online play, it probable your system won't even have an internet connection - my first thought were laptops. Asking for online activation on what's mainly a single player game is retarded.
I enjoyed the picture of the badass sphere machine in a green, calm field. Subtle parody, i've seen quite a site with similar images in their "investors" links.
I wonder if something like that could be used to make very high capacity unpolarized capacitors, just like the regular foil ones (an isolator sandwiched by two conductor sheets and rolled into a can). The only way to get high capacitances practically (above 1uF) is to use electrolytics, which have quite a share of disadvantages.
Trade secret my bollocks. If there's IP protected features that can't be used, fine, give us the source code for the rest of the features. Can't / don't want to release code? Allright, specs would be just fine, thank you.
The importance of drivers internals is overrated; there's only so much you can steal from a design just by analyzing drivers, even complex ones like video cards'. My guess is companies are reluctant to release drivers (not only for graphics cards - others too, notably wireless adapters) because their hardware might have functionality disabled or crippled by software. I remeber that the old nVidia Quadro line were regular GeForces with an extra resistor on the board; don't be surprised if you could get it working with a driver mod. ATI had a Radeon model that could double it's performance via software, unlocking pipelines that weren't suposed to be there.
Years ago, whenever you brough hardware, most of the times the specifications were right there in the friggin' manual. When it wasn't, a trip to Internet, a few questions in Fidonet, or a couple of e-mails would get you everything you need to make your paid-for hardware work. I remember having a lot of fun with a Citizen dot-matrix color printer i recieved the techincal specifications for.
Today? You must beg so your damn network adapter works with your OS of choice. And this is not something that happens in *nix only, good luck finding current drivers for older versions of Windows.
Anyway... nVidia is the less evil of both, because they actually seem to care about the Linux consumers, providing up-to-date drivers with excellent performance. For that, they get my money. Good luck trying to get an ATI card running on anything but a Mac or Windows.
Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.
:)
IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link:
"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."
Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards
This sounds like the comment of someone to who "Internet" means the same as "My favorite homepage". Just because the WWW is currently flooded with advertising doesn't mean the rest of the Internet isn't doing pretty well, thank you very much.
Oh, c'mon. No one is overlooking the huge impact he made on moviemaking, and particularly in SFX, but the fanboys are right. Just because it's "his story" doesn't make it right that he changes it at will - minor details, given, but if you want to see what dazzled you as a kid in DVD, why can't you get it instead of "the original vision of the creator"? I'm not sure, but i'm pretty positive you can't even find the original, unedited trilogy in DVD.
I mean, c'mon, Star Wars is what, 30, 35 years old now? He is woking on EP3, is it really necesary to go back and rework what came before just because it doesn't connect as well with the new trilogy? Simply having a quality digitalization of the original film would've been enough.
Linux 2.6 is *MUCH* better in this regard; the improved scheduler and preemptive kernel patches really make the machine much more responsive, even under heavy load.
I can have my machine at 99% CPU usage and wouldn't be able to tell except for programs loading slower. Also, whenever i have "memory runaway" (programs that start eating more and more memory), the system stays responsive.
Anyway, if you haven't tried it, it's well worth the upgrade.