Perhaps you should look into some safety tips before sleeping on an unheated waterbed. Last I heard, doing that can either KILL you - or cause long-term bad effects. And at the very least, it would be incredibly uncomfortable. As a (former) waterbed sleeper, un-heating the bed is NOT recommended.
--I dunno, maybe it was just the weird feeling I got after discovering that all these PS2's are running ancient Kernel *2.2.1*... Couldn't they at least have upgraded to the last 2.2 kernel rev?
> their stock went up 40% (!) yesterday on the MS news. It also was about double from when the lawsuit silliness started *before* yesterday. So SCO stockholders are making money, that's for sure.
--Just goes to show you, there are plenty of IDIOTS on Wall Street. Think about it for a second - every headline that I've seen leads me to the conclusion that SCO is Bad Business.
--If their stock went up 40%, that's insane. The market overall is in such a slump, people must be grasping at straws. Look for it to fall - I'd guess to under $10 a share within two weeks, but that's just a Wild-Ass Guess.
--Not to mention all those "cages" keep getting in the way of my motorcycle...
--Seriously, everybody that can, should learn how to ride a MC - and better yet, ride to work. It makes you a better and more careful driver, and increases your enjoyment of the trip (for the most part.)
--The info that I'm getting on the street is that Win2000Pro is better than XP. Just my unsolicited opinion; I'm still running 98SE and Knoppix, dual-boot.
--Actually I thought the scene was pretty tasteful, if rather a bit too long. You never even see Trinity's breasts, only her bare right leg. If you walked out over THAT, you need to reexamine your GeekFactor. And stop posting to Slashdot so much, you'll go blind.;b
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--LOL; I agree that IPV6 is largely overcomplex and unnecessary, but here's some food for thought: it's a 10-series Class A network - which means it's INTERNAL. You don't need IPV6 for internal LANs.;-)
> I've long thought that the machines actually have a deep seated command to do no harm to humans and are simply trying to work their way around it.
--This is demonstrably false if you think about it. Why do you think some chars aren't around from the 1st movie anymore? THEY DIED. They bled, they hurt, and they died. (I miss the blond chick, the one who said "Not like this..." as she decoupled.)
--What I'd like to see personally (solely based on me being impressed with the excellence of Hugo Weaving's acting) is for Neo and Smith to team up against a common enemy, and Smith to find happiness without killng Neo. But that will never happen.
--Yep, seems to me like ET is spreading crap about NVidia and assuming bad intentions. I don't think NV would do something like this intentionally, seems like an honest driver bug.
From the article:
>The problem is that, because a given workload is identical from run to run, hardware vendors can carefully study it and make optimizations to maximize performance, some legitimate, and others unsavory. In these types of deterministic tests, the camera movement is essentially "on a rail," (think of the opening credits sequence in Half-Life where you ride the tram into the depths of the base). And because the camera's every move is a known quantity, hardware vendors are able to figure out exactly what will, and won't be visible to the camera. This is where vendors can look for places to cut corners.
--Here's the places in the article that *I* find suspicious: (emphasis mine)
> A developer version of 3DMark03 version 3.2 allows the tester to pause playback, and then move freely through the scene -- in much the same way you'd move through a first-person shooter like Unreal Tournament 2003. nVidia, because they are not a member of FutureMark's beta program, did not have access to that developer version when testing the 5900 Ultra with 3DMark2003.
--And:
> During our analysis of Game Test 4, we paused the benchmark, went into the free-look mode, and moved "off the rail" in the 3D scene. Once we did that, serious drawing errors were readily apparent. We interpreted these results to indicate that nVidia was adding static clip planes into the scene. These static clip planes reduce the amount of sky that the GPU has to draw, thus reducing the pixel shader workload and boosting performance.
--I see no reason why NV would add optimizations for specific benchmarks into their drivers - it wouldn't make sense in the long run.
--My advice is to kindly suspend judgement on Nvidia on the basis of this so-called "evidence", at least until they come up with a driver upgrade.
> unlike reiser, ext3, and UFS2, it's proven and widely deployed...
--Oh, be quiet. I bet there are more systems out there running reiserfs and ext3 than ntfs. I can say for a fact that you are spreading FUD about reiserfs - SuSE has it as their default filesystem, I use it everywhere myself, and have never had a problem with it.
--Yep. Attention all DVD burner manufacturers: Please get your shit together and settle on ONE STANDARD this time before you start churning out incompatible drives!
--Yep, I have a feeling that a lot of HWood execs are going to read this study and try to use it for making movies - which means more formulaic *crap* coming out.
--Soon as they think they have the "magic formula", Creativity goes by the wayside and gets mugged.
--Seriously, could you please post a link to where we can find dual-processor motherboards that will run at 600MHz or better, for cheap? Plus the chips to populate them? I'm not being sarcastic, just would like to find an inexpensive way to build a MP machine.
--Is there anything like an Xbox-controller-to-USB converter? Truly I would pay $20 for something like that, xbox has the best controllers I've ever used. Not a troll, just my preference.
--I used to work with IBM s390 mainframes. I've thought about this for a while, and would love to see something like this:
o IBM builds a dedicated mainframe running VM and Linux o IBM offers accounts on the machine for $10/month o Machine is REALLY FAST, with 512MB RAM and 8Gig of disk space per account
o Gentoo users download and compile their Gentoo system on IBM's fast box, then download their completed distro over broadband to their local box.
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--Dude, you just made my Friends list. :)
Thanks for the tip.
--Character from the movie "The Princess Bride", one of the greatest classics of all TIME. Rent it, watch it, love it. :b
Perhaps you should look into some safety tips before sleeping on an unheated waterbed. Last I heard, doing that can either KILL you - or cause long-term bad effects. And at the very least, it would be incredibly uncomfortable. As a (former) waterbed sleeper, un-heating the bed is NOT recommended.
...with hot grits all over her, no less.
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Sicko.
--I dunno, maybe it was just the weird feeling I got after discovering that all these PS2's are running ancient Kernel *2.2.1*... Couldn't they at least have upgraded to the last 2.2 kernel rev?
> their stock went up 40% (!) yesterday on the MS news. It also was about double from when the lawsuit silliness started *before* yesterday. So SCO stockholders are making money, that's for sure.
--Just goes to show you, there are plenty of IDIOTS on Wall Street. Think about it for a second - every headline that I've seen leads me to the conclusion that SCO is Bad Business.
--If their stock went up 40%, that's insane. The market overall is in such a slump, people must be grasping at straws. Look for it to fall - I'd guess to under $10 a share within two weeks, but that's just a Wild-Ass Guess.
--SCO deserves to fail - and fall HARD.
--Not to mention all those "cages" keep getting in the way of my motorcycle...
--Seriously, everybody that can, should learn how to ride a MC - and better yet, ride to work. It makes you a better and more careful driver, and increases your enjoyment of the trip (for the most part.)
--I agree, this is one of the coolest hacks I have ever seen. They "root"ed the virus! :) BFG - talk about being hoist on your own petard!
--The info that I'm getting on the street is that Win2000Pro is better than XP. Just my unsolicited opinion; I'm still running 98SE and Knoppix, dual-boot.
> are we alone on this opinion?
:P
;b
--The answer is yes... Yes, you are.
--Actually I thought the scene was pretty tasteful, if rather a bit too long. You never even see Trinity's breasts, only her bare right leg. If you walked out over THAT, you need to reexamine your GeekFactor. And stop posting to Slashdot so much, you'll go blind.
--LOL; I agree that IPV6 is largely overcomplex and unnecessary, but here's some food for thought: it's a 10-series Class A network - which means it's INTERNAL. You don't need IPV6 for internal LANs. ;-)
> I've long thought that the machines actually have a deep seated command to do no harm to humans and are simply trying to work their way around it.
--This is demonstrably false if you think about it. Why do you think some chars aren't around from the 1st movie anymore? THEY DIED. They bled, they hurt, and they died. (I miss the blond chick, the one who said "Not like this..." as she decoupled.)
--What I'd like to see personally (solely based on me being impressed with the excellence of Hugo Weaving's acting) is for Neo and Smith to team up against a common enemy, and Smith to find happiness without killng Neo. But that will never happen.
--Yep, seems to me like ET is spreading crap about NVidia and assuming bad intentions. I don't think NV would do something like this intentionally, seems like an honest driver bug.
From the article:
>The problem is that, because a given workload is identical from run to run, hardware vendors can carefully study it and make optimizations to maximize performance, some legitimate, and others unsavory. In these types of deterministic tests, the camera movement is essentially "on a rail," (think of the opening credits sequence in Half-Life where you ride the tram into the depths of the base). And because the camera's every move is a known quantity, hardware vendors are able to figure out exactly what will, and won't be visible to the camera. This is where vendors can look for places to cut corners.
--Here's the places in the article that *I* find suspicious: (emphasis mine)
> A developer version of 3DMark03 version 3.2 allows the tester to pause playback, and then move freely through the scene -- in much the same way you'd move through a first-person shooter like Unreal Tournament 2003. nVidia, because they are not a member of FutureMark's beta program, did not have access to that developer version when testing the 5900 Ultra with 3DMark2003.
--And:
> During our analysis of Game Test 4, we paused the benchmark, went into the free-look mode, and moved "off the rail" in the 3D scene. Once we did that, serious drawing errors were readily apparent. We interpreted these results to indicate that nVidia was adding static clip planes into the scene. These static clip planes reduce the amount of sky that the GPU has to draw, thus reducing the pixel shader workload and boosting performance.
--I see no reason why NV would add optimizations for specific benchmarks into their drivers - it wouldn't make sense in the long run.
--My advice is to kindly suspend judgement on Nvidia on the basis of this so-called "evidence", at least until they come up with a driver upgrade.
--Where did you get those numbers for XP? Oh that's right, you pulled them out of your ass.
--You SERIOUSLY underestimate the number of Linux users out there. And you have nothing to back up your claims. Go away, troll.
> unlike reiser, ext3, and UFS2, it's proven and widely deployed...
--Oh, be quiet. I bet there are more systems out there running reiserfs and ext3 than ntfs. I can say for a fact that you are spreading FUD about reiserfs - SuSE has it as their default filesystem, I use it everywhere myself, and have never had a problem with it.
--I'm all for cartridges to protect the media, but I hope the backwards-compatible format wins out.
--I have a couple of DVDs that are "flipper" type, one side is fullscreen (blech) and the other side is widescreen.
> the moral power of virginity to read the data off the disc
--Welcome to Slashdot, the site where you will *never* run out of that particular power!
--Yep. Attention all DVD burner manufacturers: Please get your shit together and settle on ONE STANDARD this time before you start churning out incompatible drives!
--I wouldn't mind if they WERE for a change... I had a look at the new $20 bill picture and thought "MAN that's ugly!!"
It's only your imagination... (gestures with hand) "You don't need to see my Slashdot ID. I am not the droid you're looking for."
--Yep, I have a feeling that a lot of HWood execs are going to read this study and try to use it for making movies - which means more formulaic *crap* coming out.
--Soon as they think they have the "magic formula", Creativity goes by the wayside and gets mugged.
--Seriously, could you please post a link to where we can find dual-processor motherboards that will run at 600MHz or better, for cheap? Plus the chips to populate them? I'm not being sarcastic, just would like to find an inexpensive way to build a MP machine.
--Is there anything like an Xbox-controller-to-USB converter? Truly I would pay $20 for something like that, xbox has the best controllers I've ever used. Not a troll, just my preference.
--I used to work with IBM s390 mainframes. I've thought about this for a while, and would love to see something like this:
o IBM builds a dedicated mainframe running VM and Linux
o IBM offers accounts on the machine for $10/month
o Machine is REALLY FAST, with 512MB RAM and 8Gig of disk space per account
o Gentoo users download and compile their Gentoo system on IBM's fast box, then download their completed distro over broadband to their local box.
--Comments?