Anyone read the "Chung Kuo" series written by David Wingrove? After the Chinese conquered the world, the Emperors had a device that kept track of all the memories and experiences from the previous generations. In short, they'd continue the ancestor worship by "capturing" the personality within a portrait that could speak to you...
Interesting idea for those into ancestor worship, but I can't find a "real world" application for this technology. Actually, I could try porting my pets.:P That'd probably be more productive.;)
My guess would be that the companies involved would "like to see" what he has to say. It's similar to how PR people usually need to run things by their higher-ups. One slip could mean major probs for these corp-types. Of course, after "looking over" his work, they're free to edit it as they see fit as long as he's under contract to them. Therefore, he might have had more to say than was let through. Doubtful, but it's still a minor possibility.
That would depend on what brand of TNT2 you were looking for. I purchased my non-expensive TNT2 for $199 from Sunway Graphics, Inc., received my TNT2 on the 30th of April, too. It's a Leadtek S320 II with 32M of RAM -- it isn't a TNT2 Ultra, but I didn't mind too much since the card didn't last long in my system anyhow.;)
When it comes right down to it, I'm sticking with 3dfx (even using my V3 3K as we speak). I like what Matrox is doing, but I'm reserving judgement until the G400 is released -- besides, they could just switch to the dreaded binary-only support.;) That's just me being silly, in case there're extra-serious folk reading this.
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Anyone read the "Chung Kuo" series written by David Wingrove? After the Chinese conquered the world, the Emperors had a device that kept track of all the memories and experiences from the previous generations. In short, they'd continue the ancestor worship by "capturing" the personality within a portrait that could speak to you...
:P That'd probably be more productive. ;)
Interesting idea for those into ancestor worship, but I can't find a "real world" application for this technology. Actually, I could try porting my pets.
My guess would be that the companies involved would "like to see" what he has to say. It's similar to how PR people usually need to run things by their higher-ups. One slip could mean major probs for these corp-types. Of course, after "looking over" his work, they're free to edit it as they see fit as long as he's under contract to them. Therefore, he might have had more to say than was let through. Doubtful, but it's still a minor possibility.
That would depend on what brand of TNT2 you were looking for. I purchased my non-expensive TNT2 for $199 from Sunway Graphics, Inc., received my TNT2 on the 30th of April, too. It's a Leadtek S320 II with 32M of RAM -- it isn't a TNT2 Ultra, but I didn't mind too much since the card didn't last long in my system anyhow. ;)
;) That's just me being silly, in case there're extra-serious folk reading this.
When it comes right down to it, I'm sticking with 3dfx (even using my V3 3K as we speak). I like what Matrox is doing, but I'm reserving judgement until the G400 is released -- besides, they could just switch to the dreaded binary-only support.