I bought the SB32 to upgrade the old SB8bit which seemed like a good idea at the time.
I bought the 3D Blaster because it was the ONLY 3D Accelerator out at the time I could afford (3dfx cards were twice the price and that didn't include the second 2d only card).
And I bought the SB Live because Aureal went out of business without ever releasing good W2K drivers. What are my other options? Yamaha? I don't think so. If there's one company I hate more than CL Yamaha might be it. What other chips are out there that are even competitive for the price? None, so I bought a Live card. Am I happy? I can't afford high end audio as much as I'd like to. No, but at least I have sound.
It's the same damn thing with Microsoft. I use Microsoft because I have to, not necessarily because I want to or enjoy it.
Now, if you're going to call me an idiot. At least have the balls to use your real name AC.
Creative truly IS a horrible company. Sure, the Sound Blaster cards run very well in Linux now a days... but way back in the day when Sound Blasters were new, programming them was a completely different thing. You see, even back then Creative was really obstinate in giving out information on how to use it's cards to the lowest common denominator developers, as such finding information on programming the SB cards was futile at best. Most of what you could find consisted of information that eventually tricked its way down from larger companies who Creative more happily worked with, or from library writers who made crappy generic sound libraries that never worked as well as they were intended.
Eventually the information got out though and people were programming the SB cards and they became the standard they are today, but Creative never really got better.
I've purchased a few cards from them since my first SB, and I've been dissapointed by everyone in some way. I won't even talk about the clusterfuck that was my 3D Blaster video card. That thing was a joke. But even the SB32 PNP is such a difficult card to get running on any machine. Hell, they don't even have good drivers for Windows 2000 for their SB8->SB32 line of cards!? Why not Creative? Do we *REALLY* owe you more money? Hell, the only reason you even innovated at all in the last four years was thanks to Aureal, Yamaha, and the other chip makers FORCING you to. What have you show us consumers that makes upgrading to SB Live cards really worth it?
Or maybe we're just spending time learning things that are more important or more abstract.
I mean, really, why do I have to remember the name of every person I met in college? Wouldn't remembering the name of every C++ function in the Standard Template Library be more usefull since I'm a programmer? That's a tough task, so who can blame me if my memory sets aside areas usually associated with information I can store in my PDA to remember the other stuff.
My brain is smart afterall! It does many things on it's own that I'm never even aware of.
Oh Thank God, this is good news. Usually reading Slashdot these days is SO DAMN depressing because it's always about Company (X) trying to screw over Consumers (ABC through Z and then some). Every once in awhile though, some ray of hope shines through. We can only hope we see more of this in the future!
Thank you Alan, it's people like you who are the key to the future.
Sorry man, Jikes has every other java compiler beat (yes, even Microsofts). As for VMs, that's still up in the air depending upon what you want your VM to do...
Hey, maybe cosmic rays are some really tightly encoded pulses of information being sent across the universe by other species? Maybe everytime a species figures out how to send out a cosmic ray pulse, they send their response then die out before ever getting a response back, therefore explaining the long periods between cosmic rays! Many species are constantly trying to communicate with each other all the time, they're just dying out before anybody actually can.:)
I fully support SETI@Home, however I don't think SETI@Home (or any of our current search techniques) are going to be successful.
A few quick assumptions:
1. We do not understand everything there is to understand about physics.
2. Any alien civilization out there capable of communicating beyond their planet is most likely far more advanced than us.
3. Any alien civilization far more advanced than us will have a better understanding of the laws of nature than us.
Leads me to believe that they would have developed a means of communication by now that we haven't even thought of. If they're capable of traveling faster than the speed of light (for all you UFO buffs out there), they must ALSO be capable of communicating faster than the speed of light.
That means they definitely are NOT communicating via radio waves.
So what could they be communicating with? Perhaps they open up mini wormholes and send signals through those. Perhaps there's yet some force of nature (specifically type of signal) we have not yet detected [insert Star Trek signal name here]. Or maybe they're using something like quantom entanglement (http://www.qubit.org/intros/entang/).
I imagine that IF these aliens exist, one day we might just suddenly open a floodgate by tapping into their version of the internet. We just haven't figured out how to do that yet. Or they don't exist, or they do exist and they're so far away and physics is so limiting we'll never find out they do.
Whatever it may be, I doubt radio is the source, but as someone said above, it'd be almost criminal to not look.
Why won't an EMP this powerfull effect humans? Aren't our nervous systems susceptible to this? What kind of physiological effects would an EMP like this have on a person?
I don't want to have ANYTHING to do with Distributed.NET. I put CPU cycles to Distributed.NET a few years ago, and it was a big waste to me. At least SETI@HOME is something I personally care about. The same thing goes for Fold@HOME. Is it usefull science? Sure. Is it more likely to get usefull results that SETI@HOME? Sure. But I don't care. SETI is something I care about, and I'm sick of the naysayers blasting the people who support it.
SETI is the search for the answer to the most fundamental question in the universe, and probably the most difficult question to answer, and I'm not stopping my support anytime soon.
Lower prices and great service. It forces SBC to remain honest. They may have a good service now, but they won't continue to have a good service if nobody is there for force them to keep having a good service.
Soul Caliber has the edge on TTT in everything except two player gameplay. Crisper brighter graphics, considerably better animation, and a hell of a lot more features for single player than TTT. Unfortunately, it degrades into a battle of who can hit forward and B the fastest when playing multiplayer (at least against my lamo friends who do nothing but use the same move over and over and over and overa again). Tekken is much better playing against your friends since they can't get away with that.
Both are good games, and both systems are good. I've got both so I don't care who wins. I'l aslo have a nintendo Dolphin, but I refuse to buy an X-Box!:)
I programmed in it for 3 years in college, taking all those stupid lower level Comp Sci course I could've tested out of in high school (I really never understood why I didn't test out of em).
EVIL EVIL EVIL, especially when you come from a c/c++ background.
Thank God, now if only the MPAA and DeCSS suffer a similar fate.
And FYI, Conntectix does NOT make Bleem. VGS was originally created as a Playstation emulator for Macintosh machines. Bleem was made by, well, Bleem, Inc. for PCs, although they did port it to Dreamcast.
I purchased a copy of Bleem a few months back. I have to say, it is a nice product, for some games. It has been ages since they updated it, and I've still got one game I specifically bought Bleem for that doesn't quite run right in it. The Dreamcast port is nice, but I wish it wasn't at the expensive of supporting the PC version.
I'm sure Sony makes plenty of money now. They won't make any money on the first few shipments of the Playstation 2, but don't forget, Console systems get cheaper with time just like PCs do (economies of scale). It's just, the prices don't drop off as sharply with the consoles as they do with PCs. The PC manufacturers have to sell their equipment just above cost, otherwise they won't survive long in the market. That's competition, and that's good. Console systems are mini-monopolies in a lot of ways and can price gouge all they want.
Why aren't people allowed to like whatever the hell they want to anymore? I don't really give a crap which is better. KDE does this blah blah blah. GNOME does this blah blah blah. Screw that. I use GNOME because I like it. I don't really give a crap what KDE has to offer or how they go about doing it. I like GNOME's programming model and interface better. I like GNOME's software better. It suits me perfectly. I wish KDE all the best, but I'm sick of people telling me I should be using it over GNOME. Screw that.
BTW: I love New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and if you have a problem with that all you Pearl Jam and Madonna lovin' weenies, you can suck my ass! See, it transcends just OS/Desktop boundaries.
Rock on Jupiter! It's good to know Jupiter is getting action and still making babies. Hey, that's more action than a lot of us geeks (myself included) have gotten latey!:)
Well Katz, that's the whole point of Magneto. He's not an evil person, his intentions are very good, they're just extremely misguided. He's supposed to be a complicated, difficult to understand characters. In fact, he often times has sided with the X-Men in the comic books and cartoon.
I might have to check this book out. The most interesting thing about it, is that I NEVER wear clothing that has any kind of labeling or branding on it unless I specifically WANT to advertise for that label, which basically means the only shirts I wear that have a label of any kind on it are concert rock t-shirts. You'll never catch me wearing an Old Navy shirt or anything like that. I still dress nice, I still look good, but I'm not going to advertise for other people unless they start paying me.
My friends and I always took our game systems everywhere we went. When I went out to our cottage for the weekend, you can be assured I either had my Genesis or Super Nintendo (and all the associated games) with me. If I went over my grandmothers? Well, usually I brought my Genesis or my cousin Louie brought his Nintendo or Playstation. When I went over Tony's house? Well, he had a Super Nintendo so I only took my Sega (same for Joe's house). This tradition continues to this day. Joe totes his Nintendo 64 around with him everywhere he goes while I bring my Dreamcast whenever possible. Sometimes we even trade systems for a few days (or weeks!). Right now I'm trying to figure out a way to efficiently pack my Dreamcast so I can take it home for the next two weekends (Joe's getting married!). Doesn't matter how old we get, some things will never change.
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Because I had no choice.
I bought the SB32 to upgrade the old SB8bit which seemed like a good idea at the time.
I bought the 3D Blaster because it was the ONLY 3D Accelerator out at the time I could afford (3dfx cards were twice the price and that didn't include the second 2d only card).
And I bought the SB Live because Aureal went out of business without ever releasing good W2K drivers. What are my other options? Yamaha? I don't think so. If there's one company I hate more than CL Yamaha might be it. What other chips are out there that are even competitive for the price? None, so I bought a Live card. Am I happy? I can't afford high end audio as much as I'd like to. No, but at least I have sound.
It's the same damn thing with Microsoft. I use Microsoft because I have to, not necessarily because I want to or enjoy it.
Now, if you're going to call me an idiot. At least have the balls to use your real name AC.
Creative truly IS a horrible company. Sure, the Sound Blaster cards run very well in Linux now a days... but way back in the day when Sound Blasters were new, programming them was a completely different thing. You see, even back then Creative was really obstinate in giving out information on how to use it's cards to the lowest common denominator developers, as such finding information on programming the SB cards was futile at best. Most of what you could find consisted of information that eventually tricked its way down from larger companies who Creative more happily worked with, or from library writers who made crappy generic sound libraries that never worked as well as they were intended.
Eventually the information got out though and people were programming the SB cards and they became the standard they are today, but Creative never really got better.
I've purchased a few cards from them since my first SB, and I've been dissapointed by everyone in some way. I won't even talk about the clusterfuck that was my 3D Blaster video card. That thing was a joke. But even the SB32 PNP is such a difficult card to get running on any machine. Hell, they don't even have good drivers for Windows 2000 for their SB8->SB32 line of cards!? Why not Creative? Do we *REALLY* owe you more money? Hell, the only reason you even innovated at all in the last four years was thanks to Aureal, Yamaha, and the other chip makers FORCING you to. What have you show us consumers that makes upgrading to SB Live cards really worth it?
Or maybe we're just spending time learning things that are more important or more abstract.
I mean, really, why do I have to remember the name of every person I met in college? Wouldn't remembering the name of every C++ function in the Standard Template Library be more usefull since I'm a programmer? That's a tough task, so who can blame me if my memory sets aside areas usually associated with information I can store in my PDA to remember the other stuff.
My brain is smart afterall! It does many things on it's own that I'm never even aware of.
Oh Thank God, this is good news. Usually reading Slashdot these days is SO DAMN depressing because it's always about Company (X) trying to screw over Consumers (ABC through Z and then some). Every once in awhile though, some ray of hope shines through. We can only hope we see more of this in the future!
Thank you Alan, it's people like you who are the key to the future.
Sorry man, Jikes has every other java compiler beat (yes, even Microsofts). As for VMs, that's still up in the air depending upon what you want your VM to do...
Hey, maybe cosmic rays are some really tightly encoded pulses of information being sent across the universe by other species? Maybe everytime a species figures out how to send out a cosmic ray pulse, they send their response then die out before ever getting a response back, therefore explaining the long periods between cosmic rays! Many species are constantly trying to communicate with each other all the time, they're just dying out before anybody actually can. :)
I fully support SETI@Home, however I don't think SETI@Home (or any of our current search techniques) are going to be successful.
A few quick assumptions:
1. We do not understand everything there is to understand about physics.
2. Any alien civilization out there capable of communicating beyond their planet is most likely far more advanced than us.
3. Any alien civilization far more advanced than us will have a better understanding of the laws of nature than us.
Leads me to believe that they would have developed a means of communication by now that we haven't even thought of. If they're capable of traveling faster than the speed of light (for all you UFO buffs out there), they must ALSO be capable of communicating faster than the speed of light.
That means they definitely are NOT communicating via radio waves.
So what could they be communicating with? Perhaps they open up mini wormholes and send signals through those. Perhaps there's yet some force of nature (specifically type of signal) we have not yet detected [insert Star Trek signal name here]. Or maybe they're using something like quantom entanglement (http://www.qubit.org/intros/entang/).
I imagine that IF these aliens exist, one day we might just suddenly open a floodgate by tapping into their version of the internet. We just haven't figured out how to do that yet. Or they don't exist, or they do exist and they're so far away and physics is so limiting we'll never find out they do.
Whatever it may be, I doubt radio is the source, but as someone said above, it'd be almost criminal to not look.
I don't speak legalese, so can someone please put into plain english what exactly is going on here?
Thanks!
The best test I've found so far for our system has been the motorcycle/truck chase scene in Terminator 2.
Still trying to find the best dialog test though.
Why won't an EMP this powerfull effect humans? Aren't our nervous systems susceptible to this? What kind of physiological effects would an EMP like this have on a person?
Don't you people realize that the SETI@HOME Screen Saver is NOT mandatory? There are console versions for Windows NT that you can run as a service.
You can also do the stupidly easy thing, turn your screensaver OFF and set SETI@HOME to run all the time.
I don't want to have ANYTHING to do with Distributed.NET. I put CPU cycles to Distributed.NET a few years ago, and it was a big waste to me. At least SETI@HOME is something I personally care about. The same thing goes for Fold@HOME. Is it usefull science? Sure. Is it more likely to get usefull results that SETI@HOME? Sure. But I don't care. SETI is something I care about, and I'm sick of the naysayers blasting the people who support it.
SETI is the search for the answer to the most fundamental question in the universe, and probably the most difficult question to answer, and I'm not stopping my support anytime soon.
Lower prices and great service. It forces SBC to remain honest. They may have a good service now, but they won't continue to have a good service if nobody is there for force them to keep having a good service.
Actually, that's really easy.
:)
Soul Caliber vs. Tekken TT
Soul Caliber has the edge on TTT in everything except two player gameplay. Crisper brighter graphics, considerably better animation, and a hell of a lot more features for single player than TTT. Unfortunately, it degrades into a battle of who can hit forward and B the fastest when playing multiplayer (at least against my lamo friends who do nothing but use the same move over and over and over and overa again). Tekken is much better playing against your friends since they can't get away with that.
Both are good games, and both systems are good. I've got both so I don't care who wins. I'l aslo have a nintendo Dolphin, but I refuse to buy an X-Box!
Oh good LORD ADA is evil!
I programmed in it for 3 years in college, taking all those stupid lower level Comp Sci course I could've tested out of in high school (I really never understood why I didn't test out of em).
EVIL EVIL EVIL, especially when you come from a c/c++ background.
Thank God, now if only the MPAA and DeCSS suffer a similar fate.
And FYI, Conntectix does NOT make Bleem. VGS was originally created as a Playstation emulator for Macintosh machines. Bleem was made by, well, Bleem, Inc. for PCs, although they did port it to Dreamcast.
I purchased a copy of Bleem a few months back. I have to say, it is a nice product, for some games. It has been ages since they updated it, and I've still got one game I specifically bought Bleem for that doesn't quite run right in it. The Dreamcast port is nice, but I wish it wasn't at the expensive of supporting the PC version.
I'm sure Sony makes plenty of money now. They won't make any money on the first few shipments of the Playstation 2, but don't forget, Console systems get cheaper with time just like PCs do (economies of scale). It's just, the prices don't drop off as sharply with the consoles as they do with PCs. The PC manufacturers have to sell their equipment just above cost, otherwise they won't survive long in the market. That's competition, and that's good. Console systems are mini-monopolies in a lot of ways and can price gouge all they want.
This is definitely not cool. If this goes through every Linux admin out there should declare war on Cisco.
*yawn*
Any program written in C or C++ could potentially suffer from the same problems...
And that INCLUDES Microsoft.
And that INCLUDES BeOS.
And that INCLUDES MacOS.
Big deal! In fact, this is probably one of the most uninformed articles I've read yet (unless I'm totally missing something).
Why aren't people allowed to like whatever the hell they want to anymore? I don't really give a crap which is better. KDE does this blah blah blah. GNOME does this blah blah blah. Screw that. I use GNOME because I like it. I don't really give a crap what KDE has to offer or how they go about doing it. I like GNOME's programming model and interface better. I like GNOME's software better. It suits me perfectly. I wish KDE all the best, but I'm sick of people telling me I should be using it over GNOME. Screw that.
BTW: I love New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and if you have a problem with that all you Pearl Jam and Madonna lovin' weenies, you can suck my ass! See, it transcends just OS/Desktop boundaries.
Rock on Jupiter! It's good to know Jupiter is getting action and still making babies. Hey, that's more action than a lot of us geeks (myself included) have gotten latey! :)
Well Katz, that's the whole point of Magneto. He's not an evil person, his intentions are very good, they're just extremely misguided. He's supposed to be a complicated, difficult to understand characters. In fact, he often times has sided with the X-Men in the comic books and cartoon.
I never understood the appeal of pinball, however... I am looking for a good price on a Standup version of Raiden if anybody has it! :)
I might have to check this book out. The most interesting thing about it, is that I NEVER wear clothing that has any kind of labeling or branding on it unless I specifically WANT to advertise for that label, which basically means the only shirts I wear that have a label of any kind on it are concert rock t-shirts. You'll never catch me wearing an Old Navy shirt or anything like that. I still dress nice, I still look good, but I'm not going to advertise for other people unless they start paying me.
My friends and I always took our game systems everywhere we went. When I went out to our cottage for the weekend, you can be assured I either had my Genesis or Super Nintendo (and all the associated games) with me. If I went over my grandmothers? Well, usually I brought my Genesis or my cousin Louie brought his Nintendo or Playstation. When I went over Tony's house? Well, he had a Super Nintendo so I only took my Sega (same for Joe's house). This tradition continues to this day. Joe totes his Nintendo 64 around with him everywhere he goes while I bring my Dreamcast whenever possible. Sometimes we even trade systems for a few days (or weeks!). Right now I'm trying to figure out a way to efficiently pack my Dreamcast so I can take it home for the next two weekends (Joe's getting married!). Doesn't matter how old we get, some things will never change.