"If you're dealing with massive graphics / CAD or something than lots of memory is a big help,"
I remember doing massive graphics/CAD on a 400MHz Pentium 2 with 256MB of PC-133 back in high school. Stuff today looks almost THE EXACT SAME BUT SEEMS TO RUN MUCH SLOWER.
Because the programmers have NO CLUE on how to optimize their code and make it streamlined.
"Now go try editing 21MP digital images from your camera and see how 1, 2, 4 even 6GB fares."
I do just fine editing HUGE images with 2GB of RAM, even RAW format. Don't get jack for disk swapping, because virtual memory is disabled in Windows XP.
Yea, right. It's only not enough for those that can't custom-build a machine for a specific purpose.
412MHz Celeron with 224 megs of PC-133 just for Cool Edit and DOS/3Dfx gaming. Yep, I still own two SLI Voodoo2 cards. They still work - both 12MB Voodoo2 Creative blasters.
Only n00bs think they need more hardware to accomplish a task.
I've burned out 486 cores. Try running Shadow Warrior with all of the 3D options on a 486/33. Despite the low power usage, they could get quite hot if you overloaded them, and that passive cooling wasn't all that good.
"Christ the slashdot crowd can hold a fucking grudge."
Had this been an individual, and not a corporation that made the rootkit, they would be sitting on bankruptcy and likely federal criminal charges.
Which means they'd only be about 1/4 of the way through their sentence, after four years. In the meantime, this company gets to continue business as usual and fuck people over. Damn right I'm going to hold a grudge against this sort of inequality.
"They apologized and offered up replacement discs for people who got shafted in this mess."
That's not acceptable to me, who had to go through FIVE optical drives because of their rootkit. As far as I'm concerned Sony still owes me five optical drives and since the ones they broke were brand-new top of the line, I fully expect the exact same thing in return.
"Compare this to Microsoft. Owning a major segment of the OS market means never having to say you're sorry."
Nope, instead they have to face constant anti-trust suits and regulations. Does nobody remember United States vs Microsoft?
I'm still using my 412MHz Celeron with 224MB PC-133 and Windows 98 for pure Cool Edit and old DOS gaming. Supplied with the proper hardware, a Celeron will do the job just fine, IF YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW TO USE IT.
"If we cut the physical fiber cables, how else will my cell phone call reach your cell phone?"
You underestimate the powers of microwave transmission, particularly that of shortwave. I used to pick up broadcasts from China and Russia on my old shortwave radio, and those aren't using very powerful transmitters nor particularly precise receivers.
A cell mesh network would be more than feasible. We have the hardware capable of doing it, the phone makers just don't have the software, or aren't releasing it. Well, I take that back, Skype had the option as functioning as a routing node at one time, I don't know if it still has that now.
I was born and alive in the 80s. I used Apple then, it sucked. A few years back I had a job working as an Apple laptop repair tech. Guess what? They STILL sucked. I had never seen so many failure rates. Hel, most of the refurbished machines would kernel panic, requiring several different repairs to get in working order again. Let's not even get into the pain of trying to reimage the laptops. That froze up half of the time because the Apple Image Server SUCKED BALLS yet it had more hardware than I could piss on.
I registered Legend Of the Red Dragon for my BBS online back in 1989 when I used Prodigy as my online access provider. Don't know if that counts, as you're not stating whether or not the key needs internet access to constantly verify the validity of the key or otherwise default to trialware.
Yup, it's the same 100 people using proxies in Canada to post to slashdot!
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You call an aerodynamic bike a death trap as if the other vehicles around you weren't deathtraps in themselves. Please, think about that for just a moment. When you step out of your door, hell you don't even have to do that, you're at risk for being hit by a vehicle.
"It sounds very much like an organization that has never had to deal with this type of application submission situation, and is still working out the kinks in what what would naturally be a complicated process"
Complicated process? BULLSHIT.
Dev: Hey I have an app.
Palm:Make it free, prove you're serious by giving a totally unrelated company your bank account, never release a 1.0 version, and here while we're discussing this we need to you sign some NDAs.
It isn't a naturally complicated process. In fact I can make this so simple it'd make your head spin.
Dev: Hey, I've got an app.
Me: Alright, just send it and the source our way for testing, give us two days to allow one of us to tinker with the program and make a report on how it functions (to ensure functionality as advertised,) and if all is in order you'll have your software up on day three. All future improvements you make will be placed in a repository with all older versions of your software, for your posterity. No paypal or NDA needed, my friend. Spread the word and draw attention to our platform!
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Solids have definite shape and structure and volume. Glass is amorphous, has no definite shape or structure.
Solids have a melting point. Liquids do not. Glass has no melting point.
"If you're dealing with massive graphics / CAD or something than lots of memory is a big help,"
I remember doing massive graphics/CAD on a 400MHz Pentium 2 with 256MB of PC-133 back in high school. Stuff today looks almost THE EXACT SAME BUT SEEMS TO RUN MUCH SLOWER.
Because the programmers have NO CLUE on how to optimize their code and make it streamlined.
"Now go try editing 21MP digital images from your camera and see how 1, 2, 4 even 6GB fares."
I do just fine editing HUGE images with 2GB of RAM, even RAW format. Don't get jack for disk swapping, because virtual memory is disabled in Windows XP.
Your software probably sucks - quit using Adobe.
"Unfortunately 2 GBs *ain't* enough for anybody,"
Yea, right. It's only not enough for those that can't custom-build a machine for a specific purpose.
412MHz Celeron with 224 megs of PC-133 just for Cool Edit and DOS/3Dfx gaming. Yep, I still own two SLI Voodoo2 cards. They still work - both 12MB Voodoo2 Creative blasters.
Only n00bs think they need more hardware to accomplish a task.
I've burned out 486 cores. Try running Shadow Warrior with all of the 3D options on a 486/33. Despite the low power usage, they could get quite hot if you overloaded them, and that passive cooling wasn't all that good.
"Christ the slashdot crowd can hold a fucking grudge."
Had this been an individual, and not a corporation that made the rootkit, they would be sitting on bankruptcy and likely federal criminal charges.
Which means they'd only be about 1/4 of the way through their sentence, after four years. In the meantime, this company gets to continue business as usual and fuck people over. Damn right I'm going to hold a grudge against this sort of inequality.
"They apologized and offered up replacement discs for people who got shafted in this mess."
That's not acceptable to me, who had to go through FIVE optical drives because of their rootkit. As far as I'm concerned Sony still owes me five optical drives and since the ones they broke were brand-new top of the line, I fully expect the exact same thing in return.
"Compare this to Microsoft. Owning a major segment of the OS market means never having to say you're sorry."
Nope, instead they have to face constant anti-trust suits and regulations. Does nobody remember United States vs Microsoft?
Actually nVidia is just a lying company.
First off, they claim their "Universal driver architecture." This means if you have at least a GeForceFX card or higher, one set of drivers will work.
This is not the case. I had to modify the .INF to get the 8600 recognized under XP.
Then they pull the "If there's any other card in your system acting as display, no PhysX for you!" despite original claims.
Now it's this.
NVIDIA is just a lying sack of shit company and there's a good potential for an anti-trust suit against them.
"{hasn't developed its own comparable libraries,"
And there's where I know you're full of shit.
Bullet Physics. Look it up. Pixelux+AMD.
Cathode Ray Tubes produce X-Ray radiation.
Show me an LCD capable of handling maximum resolution at greater than 60Hz.
Don't worry, I can wait a couple of decades for them to catch up.
I'm still using my 412MHz Celeron with 224MB PC-133 and Windows 98 for pure Cool Edit and old DOS gaming.
Supplied with the proper hardware, a Celeron will do the job just fine, IF YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW TO USE IT.
The article loaded just fine for me just this moment. I don't see why everybody is having issues accessing it directly.
As another poster mentioned, it's a 60GB classic PS3, which has hardware PS2 support and sure as hell runs Linux.
So yes, it CAN be a laptop.
"If we cut the physical fiber cables, how else will my cell phone call reach your cell phone?"
You underestimate the powers of microwave transmission, particularly that of shortwave. I used to pick up broadcasts from China and Russia on my old shortwave radio, and those aren't using very powerful transmitters nor particularly precise receivers.
A cell mesh network would be more than feasible. We have the hardware capable of doing it, the phone makers just don't have the software, or aren't releasing it. Well, I take that back, Skype had the option as functioning as a routing node at one time, I don't know if it still has that now.
I was born and alive in the 80s. I used Apple then, it sucked. A few years back I had a job working as an Apple laptop repair tech. Guess what? They STILL sucked. I had never seen so many failure rates. Hel, most of the refurbished machines would kernel panic, requiring several different repairs to get in working order again. Let's not even get into the pain of trying to reimage the laptops. That froze up half of the time because the Apple Image Server SUCKED BALLS yet it had more hardware than I could piss on.
Now they're just sucking even more.
Sapphires are transparent aluminum. It already exists in nature.
Glass is a liquid. Any glassblower and scientist that makes their own labware can tell you this. It has INSANE viscosity.
I registered Legend Of the Red Dragon for my BBS online back in 1989 when I used Prodigy as my online access provider. Don't know if that counts, as you're not stating whether or not the key needs internet access to constantly verify the validity of the key or otherwise default to trialware.
"How did you get through school without an armed forces recruiter hitting you up?"
Same way I did, probably - I hit the armed forces recruiter first!
"Name one TV show where the family lives in a house or an apartment realistic for what the income level for their job should be."
Good Times.
The Jeffersons.
You're obviously too young. Sanford and Son.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
"No, it doesn't count. How often does Homer go to work? How often has he been fired?"
How often have you actually watched the show? I can think of at least five separate times Homer has been fired from the Nuclear Plant.
Yup, it's the same 100 people using proxies in Canada to post to slashdot!
You call an aerodynamic bike a death trap as if the other vehicles around you weren't deathtraps in themselves. Please, think about that for just a moment. When you step out of your door, hell you don't even have to do that, you're at risk for being hit by a vehicle.
The same way anythign else changes the world - SLOWLY.
"It sounds very much like an organization that has never had to deal with this type of application submission situation, and is still working out the kinks in what what would naturally be a complicated process"
Complicated process? BULLSHIT.
Dev: Hey I have an app.
Palm:Make it free, prove you're serious by giving a totally unrelated company your bank account, never release a 1.0 version, and here while we're discussing this we need to you sign some NDAs.
It isn't a naturally complicated process. In fact I can make this so simple it'd make your head spin.
Dev: Hey, I've got an app.
Me: Alright, just send it and the source our way for testing, give us two days to allow one of us to tinker with the program and make a report on how it functions (to ensure functionality as advertised,) and if all is in order you'll have your software up on day three. All future improvements you make will be placed in a repository with all older versions of your software, for your posterity. No paypal or NDA needed, my friend. Spread the word and draw attention to our platform!