Didn't they license their tech from the Joo-Janta corporation? Instead of being peril sensitive, whenever you view anything you don't have a license to display the screen goes black?
Actually, the original quote was about "Toy Story", and like everything else Mr. Gates does, he appropriated the original quote added the 2 on it to innovate. The actual prize goes to the CEO of Nvidia himself, Jen-Hsun Huang, who said it before the release of Geforce3 line of cards around 2001. Since then its been re-quoted and mis-quoted time and time again to the point it's impossible to find a good reference on google.
I can see where Billy G would use it since he did partner with Nvidia on the first Xbox. But over at Beyond 3D we've been asking "Are we there yet?(re: Toy Story Graphics)" with each new generation of Nvidia graphics chips for quite a number of years now.
Somehow people keep repeating this quote as a Bill Gates quote. I don't know why. I don't blame you - its very common.
I kept a 1.0A Tualatin Celeron overclocked to 1.33Ghz for over 4 years running 24/7. (100Mhz FSB set @133). The only downtime was for cleaning/dusting of components. In order to get my overclock I, of course, had to crank the voltage up. But I had no problems with it running for so long on nothing more than a mundane aluminium Volcano7 HSF.
With todays procs such an overclock might get a stifiled yawn from most people. But at the time that was pretty significant. I was limited from pushing it further only by the type of RAM I was running. In retrospect exotic ram and cooling would have probably let me push it alot further.
The Tualatins were the most hardy and mature of the P3 line. Their life in the marketplace was cut short by the fact that clock for clock they could run circles around the first gen of Pentium4's running RDRam. Intel saw the writing on the wall, and not wanting to compete with itself, plans to take the Tualatins all the way to 2Ghz using DDR-Ram (rumored) were scrapped.
In the end its not the processor that failed but the motherboard. Seems that pushing a system so far for so long does has its limitations. I was in the middle of transferring files from that computer over to another when the Tualatin system critical BSOD'd on me. Upon reboot I could still get into bios, but I quickly discovered it was a fatal BSOD, as both my IDE channels were gone. I could have easily got a non-Intel based replacement mobo, but there was no point in it as I was entrenched into the Athlon craze and had moved on several generations by that point.
I ended up harvesting and parting out all the usable components, except for the processor itself, and old blue (named for its clear blue case) now resides, collecting dust, in my parents basement.
They offer an alternative torrent download for demos, patches, in game video, and other goodness. They have been doing this for several years now AFAIK.
Sounds like My Wife and I could easily be those family members.
Same thing here, bought an X-Box and ended up buying nearly 20 games for it looking for something Fun and simple to play. Found all the same faults in the system and games as you describe. Too many single-player centric, wayy too complex to get into casually games.
In the end, we had the X-Box for 89 days exactly because a 90day return policy is golden. Returned it for a Gamecube, traded all the Boxen games at the local swap shop for Cubed ones and have enjoyed playing games together immensily ever since.
No wonder NASA won't take you up on your experiment, it completly does away with the slice of buttered toast, there goes all your credibility right there. Sheesh.
You must be too young to remember 45 rpm vinyl "singles". They were called singles because they were produced to sell 1 song, with the bonus of having a b-side.
They have been selling single songs via reduced media since the earliest days. It morphed into the Cassingle (cassette tape with limited length) in the mid 80's and the maxi-single (mini-cd) in the 90's.
The record companies know whats up, they have been pushing "single" songs on us for years, even selling you entire bloated albums based off of one song, they are the masters of this. What's giving them fits, is that with todays digital downloads they cannot control the media anymore.
Just look at the media over the years; warpable, breakable vinyl. Unreliable, degradeable, magnetic tape. Discs that are rendered useless by a single scratch. They don't want us to abandon our tired fragile media in favor of something more robust that can be backedup with a mouse click.
Same difference tho, really, considering it would be more efficent to tunnel for oxy/ore and use tunnels for living space vs surface quarrying for same materials.
The fallacy tho is that earth mined tunnels can have tons upon metric tons of earth above them, which lead them to eventually collapse. But on the moon, the weight is not as much.
My previous post was all in good fun. And I believe you are right on detonating explosives to create habitats on the moon was the reason it was breaking apart in the movie.
I was thinking more along the lines of the recent remake of HG Wells Time Machine movie. The one scene where the moon is breaking to pieces and deorbiting, couls possibly have been from mining the subsurface to extract oxygen. Mountain sides that have been tunneled into extensively from mining operations have a tendency to eventually collapse in upon themselves making a crater of sorts. If you continously mine the moon for minerals/oxygen and tunnel for habitat there's a chance it could one day collapse in upon itself splitting it asunder and hurtling pieces of itself into earths atmosphere.
The night i posted my original post i was in the beginnings of a massive chest cold and was hopped up on DM, PsuedoE, and could hardly breathe.I could have clarified my post better but mostly you are splitting hairs and you missed the context entirely of what I posted.
1. Not all tars are the same. The road grade asphalt used today is a product of oil refining. Naturally occuring tars are not of the same grade as refined asphalt tar. Also without refining there would be little source for the quantity of asphalt needed to pave over a million miles of road. My use of discovery of asphalt was in the context of its being a different grade/type better suited for construction and of its newfound mass availability.
2. I wasn't talking about Interstate Expressways in my post nor the 1954 act that created the interstate boom. I was referring to earlier projects since automobiles did exsist before the 50's. US Highway projects like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Highway_41 were started back in the 20's. Over the years many of these Highways have been integrated into current expressway systems. And the point stands that its possible the roads you ride on today are some of those original roads.
3. My final point may be over simplified but is far from innaccurate. Before paved roads only dirt roads and railways existed in rural and most of urban America. The first machines used in mass construction of automobile use roads were of the concrete variety since it was a durable material, readily available, easy to prepare and use and many of the right specialized machines already exsisted. And the first attempts at creating asphalt roads, especially in northern climes was as I described. Better tehniques had to be re-discovered and more specialized machinery built to facilitate asphalt road construction. You back up my point that in certain situations concrete was a better choice since it was a simpler use material as i was trying to explain.
You would have done better adding context to my post rather than trying to prove it inaccurate.
Concrete was the first material that was used in the construction of mass use roadways back in the early days of the automobile as asphalt hadn't been discovered yet. Theres a very good chance that the concrete roads you drive on today were laid back in the 40s and early 50s. But concrete was always expensive to use, and required extensive preperation of the ground in order to pour it. So it was a slow and tedious proces, and not many cities could not afford to have more than one crew going at a time.
When it was discovered that Asphalt, a by-product of oil refining, could be mixed with a small sized aggregate *gravel* and basically smooshed ontop of any roughly prepared surface to create a roadway, well that was the end of using concrete. Most concrete projects were abandoned overnight and roads started being laid at a fraction of the price and at triple the speed.
The one caveat is that in Northern Areas it was discovered that asphalt roadways were not holding up as long as their concrete breathern. Many asphalt roads were having to be torn up and replaced every other year due to extensive freeze damage. Many cities went back to using concrete for their roads, until better techniques of preparing the roadbeds were discovered. Which were to compress and smooth the roadbed as much as possible, then lay a barrier layer of aggregate *gravel* on top of that to help with drainage and settling, then to finally slope the finished road from the middle to the edges for increased water run-off.
Is it time for a new Re-interpertation of the bible? Merging what science knows about creation and evolution with more proper and understood translations of the orginal books. Perhaps maybe spin off a more forward-looking and agreeable type.
It could just very well start with;
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!", and the Universe was born. Many years passed where order was brought from chaos, this was the first age.
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Didn't they license their tech from the Joo-Janta corporation? Instead of being peril sensitive, whenever you view anything you don't have a license to display the screen goes black?
Just admit it, being a geek, you've never really seen a box of Trojans.
"Ribbed, for her pleasure."
Yeah.. Someone might get a Ninja Gaiden gamecart shoved up their ass and decide to use the controller as Nun-chucks..
You know, if my friend had had this controller years back he might not walk so funny these days.
Gets to skip Nintendo thumb, and go straight to Nintendo wrist.
Orthopedic Surgeons everywhere, rejoice!
Defendant: A 1,000 hours of Windows?? No thanks Judge, I would prefer Death..
Magistrate: Okay then, Death By Windows!!
Actually, the original quote was about "Toy Story", and like everything else Mr. Gates does, he appropriated the original quote added the 2 on it to innovate. The actual prize goes to the CEO of Nvidia himself, Jen-Hsun Huang, who said it before the release of Geforce3 line of cards around 2001. Since then its been re-quoted and mis-quoted time and time again to the point it's impossible to find a good reference on google.
I can see where Billy G would use it since he did partner with Nvidia on the first Xbox. But over at Beyond 3D we've been asking "Are we there yet?(re: Toy Story Graphics)" with each new generation of Nvidia graphics chips for quite a number of years now.
Somehow people keep repeating this quote as a Bill Gates quote. I don't know why. I don't blame you - its very common.
And people still wonder why I drive around in my Yugo.
I kept a 1.0A Tualatin Celeron overclocked to 1.33Ghz for over 4 years running 24/7. (100Mhz FSB set @133). The only downtime was for cleaning/dusting of components. In order to get my overclock I, of course, had to crank the voltage up. But I had no problems with it running for so long on nothing more than a mundane aluminium Volcano7 HSF.
With todays procs such an overclock might get a stifiled yawn from most people. But at the time that was pretty significant. I was limited from pushing it further only by the type of RAM I was running. In retrospect exotic ram and cooling would have probably let me push it alot further.
The Tualatins were the most hardy and mature of the P3 line. Their life in the marketplace was cut short by the fact that clock for clock they could run circles around the first gen of Pentium4's running RDRam. Intel saw the writing on the wall, and not wanting to compete with itself, plans to take the Tualatins all the way to 2Ghz using DDR-Ram (rumored) were scrapped.
In the end its not the processor that failed but the motherboard. Seems that pushing a system so far for so long does has its limitations. I was in the middle of transferring files from that computer over to another when the Tualatin system critical BSOD'd on me. Upon reboot I could still get into bios, but I quickly discovered it was a fatal BSOD, as both my IDE channels were gone. I could have easily got a non-Intel based replacement mobo, but there was no point in it as I was entrenched into the Athlon craze and had moved on several generations by that point.
I ended up harvesting and parting out all the usable components, except for the processor itself, and old blue (named for its clear blue case) now resides, collecting dust, in my parents basement.
They offer an alternative torrent download for demos, patches, in game video, and other goodness. They have been doing this for several years now AFAIK.
Sounds like My Wife and I could easily be those family members.
Same thing here, bought an X-Box and ended up buying nearly 20 games for it looking for something Fun and simple to play. Found all the same faults in the system and games as you describe. Too many single-player centric, wayy too complex to get into casually games.
In the end, we had the X-Box for 89 days exactly because a 90day return policy is golden. Returned it for a Gamecube, traded all the Boxen games at the local swap shop for Cubed ones and have enjoyed playing games together immensily ever since.
And we be the Pirates of the Crater-bbian. Yarrr!
No wonder NASA won't take you up on your experiment, it completly does away with the slice of buttered toast, there goes all your credibility right there. Sheesh.
http://www.pornstar3d.com/home.htm
Just wait until BF2 comes out, and all those BF1 problems will be fixed..
wait..
oh..
* (they have to do something with the shells, after all)* In Soviet Florida, they pave the roads with them.
Look it up in Google Groups.
It's nice and all but still doesn't hold a candle to the Self-Microwaving Bavarian Creme Dog.
Bzz-Zowp!
Mmmmmmmmmm...
You must be too young to remember 45 rpm vinyl "singles". They were called singles because they were produced to sell 1 song, with the bonus of having a b-side.
They have been selling single songs via reduced media since the earliest days. It morphed into the Cassingle (cassette tape with limited length) in the mid 80's and the maxi-single (mini-cd) in the 90's.
The record companies know whats up, they have been pushing "single" songs on us for years, even selling you entire bloated albums based off of one song, they are the masters of this. What's giving them fits, is that with todays digital downloads they cannot control the media anymore.
Just look at the media over the years; warpable, breakable vinyl. Unreliable, degradeable, magnetic tape. Discs that are rendered useless by a single scratch. They don't want us to abandon our tired fragile media in favor of something more robust that can be backedup with a mouse click.
*Boggles*
This is about the most insightful comment I have ever read on this matter.
Same difference tho, really, considering it would be more efficent to tunnel for oxy/ore and use tunnels for living space vs surface quarrying for same materials.
The fallacy tho is that earth mined tunnels can have tons upon metric tons of earth above them, which lead them to eventually collapse. But on the moon, the weight is not as much.
My previous post was all in good fun. And I believe you are right on detonating explosives to create habitats on the moon was the reason it was breaking apart in the movie.
I was thinking more along the lines of the recent remake of HG Wells Time Machine movie. The one scene where the moon is breaking to pieces and deorbiting, couls possibly have been from mining the subsurface to extract oxygen. Mountain sides that have been tunneled into extensively from mining operations have a tendency to eventually collapse in upon themselves making a crater of sorts. If you continously mine the moon for minerals/oxygen and tunnel for habitat there's a chance it could one day collapse in upon itself splitting it asunder and hurtling pieces of itself into earths atmosphere.
I have the notches in my bedpost that says the potential rewards for owning a motorcycle grossly outweighs the price.
The night i posted my original post i was in the beginnings of a massive chest cold and was hopped up on DM, PsuedoE, and could hardly breathe.I could have clarified my post better but mostly you are splitting hairs and you missed the context entirely of what I posted.
1. Not all tars are the same. The road grade asphalt used today is a product of oil refining. Naturally occuring tars are not of the same grade as refined asphalt tar. Also without refining there would be little source for the quantity of asphalt needed to pave over a million miles of road. My use of discovery of asphalt was in the context of its being a different grade/type better suited for construction and of its newfound mass availability.
2. I wasn't talking about Interstate Expressways in my post nor the 1954 act that created the interstate boom. I was referring to earlier projects since automobiles did exsist before the 50's. US Highway projects like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Highway_41 were started back in the 20's. Over the years many of these Highways have been integrated into current expressway systems. And the point stands that its possible the roads you ride on today are some of those original roads.
3. My final point may be over simplified but is far from innaccurate. Before paved roads only dirt roads and railways existed in rural and most of urban America. The first machines used in mass construction of automobile use roads were of the concrete variety since it was a durable material, readily available, easy to prepare and use and many of the right specialized machines already exsisted. And the first attempts at creating asphalt roads, especially in northern climes was as I described. Better tehniques had to be re-discovered and more specialized machinery built to facilitate asphalt road construction. You back up my point that in certain situations concrete was a better choice since it was a simpler use material as i was trying to explain.
You would have done better adding context to my post rather than trying to prove it inaccurate.
Concrete was the first material that was used in the construction of mass use roadways back in the early days of the automobile as asphalt hadn't been discovered yet. Theres a very good chance that the concrete roads you drive on today were laid back in the 40s and early 50s. But concrete was always expensive to use, and required extensive preperation of the ground in order to pour it. So it was a slow and tedious proces, and not many cities could not afford to have more than one crew going at a time.
When it was discovered that Asphalt, a by-product of oil refining, could be mixed with a small sized aggregate *gravel* and basically smooshed ontop of any roughly prepared surface to create a roadway, well that was the end of using concrete. Most concrete projects were abandoned overnight and roads started being laid at a fraction of the price and at triple the speed.
The one caveat is that in Northern Areas it was discovered that asphalt roadways were not holding up as long as their concrete breathern. Many asphalt roads were having to be torn up and replaced every other year due to extensive freeze damage. Many cities went back to using concrete for their roads, until better techniques of preparing the roadbeds were discovered. Which were to compress and smooth the roadbed as much as possible, then lay a barrier layer of aggregate *gravel* on top of that to help with drainage and settling, then to finally slope the finished road from the middle to the edges for increased water run-off.
Is it time for a new Re-interpertation of the bible? Merging what science knows about creation and evolution with more proper and understood translations of the orginal books. Perhaps maybe spin off a more forward-looking and agreeable type.
It could just very well start with;
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!", and the Universe was born. Many years passed where order was brought from chaos, this was the first age.