The Playstation has inferior horsepower. The DC is much faster and has a quicker and more refined graphics engine. PSX games do not compare to DC games when you look at the graphics.
What did you expect? The PSX came out in what, late 95/early 96? The DC benefits from all that 3D acceleration research that's gone on since then.
I heard that every search that turns up a result on your machine is like a DoS attack in disguise. I don't use it but those who do tell me that its architecture is not particularly efficient.
So what's the scoop? Does it just not have any central directory servers or what?
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How do you know it's not the hardware or bandwidth? Or the fact that posting comments relies on perl scripts, which eat CPU time?
I think the CoS' legal grounds might be a lot closer to a non-disclosure agreement (or NDA). I don't know for sure whether or not an e-meter has such a condition on its sale, but lots of specialized devices do, usually prototype units and the like.
I think it's interesting that they would do this less than a week after Microsoft announced new handhelds running considerably faster than any Palm (200MHz etc). I think they want to catch up to this so that they don't lose market share. Bravo.
I think you should rent "Apocalypse Now" and pay attention to the bit at the end. Marlon Brando's character was at the center of a cult. No god was involved and yet it was a cult, and therefore religious in nature. He was clearly their "living god."
The backwards swastika was also used in Scotland as a fertility symbol. Only the uninformed connect paganism with Satanism. After all, pagans don't believe in Satan.
One thing I HAVE to say about the D340-R is that if you go to the Image menu in the CAMEDIA Master software that comes with it, there's an "Instant Fix" option available when an image is loaded. This will make 29 out of 30 photos look MUCH better (brighter, crisper, sharper).
Our company has a $1,000,000+/year support contract with sun. That ain't cheap, and neither is their hardware. For an E10K to cost $70,000, it would have to be an empty box, maybe a power supply, and maybe assembled... maybe not.:) That support contract is great, though. We can RMA any hardware for any reason. One time someone mis-seated some RAM or a CPU or something in a "grey cube" server. Sun sent us replacement hardware, no questions asked. We can also send them core dumps and expect a reply/resolution in a reasonable amount of time. (I think that having a company with a full-time staff of people who can analyze core files is a major reason why Linux is not more popular in big corporations.)
Cisco hardware is popular but there's better hardware out there. Stuff from Juniper Networks is arguably better. I've heard engineers talk about how using a Cisco on the end of a DS3 is tantamount to throwing away 10% of that bandwidth (=2.8 DS1s), because the cards/backplane just don't have the throughput to handle it.
I think they are talking about the "ultimate dot" - the one panultimate dot. The one that's so big you can't even see it.
Those who have administered DNS servers using BIND know what I'm talking about. Zone files, baby. You don't specify (www.myserver.com), you specify (www.myserver.com.) --- see the dot at the end? That's the ultimate dot. It's so fucking 'reet it's even higher up in the tree than com, net, org, or any of the other top-level domains (TLDs).
I think just as important is the stipulation that you can't get over 128 kilobits. (Did I read that wrong?) 128 is good enough for some, but not for me. I dislike all the "artifacts" you get from a 128-kilobit stream. 160 is bare minimum.
Considerably less than that. Especially if s/he/it uses an actual Intel processor - they have the best FPUs, and floating-point math is very heavily used during encoding.
Don't forget the media. $3-$5 US for a disc that will hold up to 74 minutes of music. MP3 players kind of suck because they require that you buy solid-state media (i.e. flash ROM) to store music, unless you want to put your player in the cradle every day and re-flash the memory with whatever songs you think you will want to hear for the next interval where you'll be away from your computer.
Me, I like being able to throw 15 minidiscs into my backpack when I travel.:)
I'd really like to see a data minidisc-based MP3 player. You can get a good amount of data onto one of those.
10-megabit ethernet has been around since the early '80s. SLIP? Dunno, probably been around at least that long (the ARPAnet has been around since the '60s, and people were still using accoustic-coupler-type modems en masse as late as the '80s). IBM's RS/x machines have been around since the '80s. So has AIX.
That doesn't make any sense. Most cell phones are 14400 bps and deliver *okay* quality. You'd be lucky to deliver a hoarse screech at 2400 bits per second, even with monstrous compression.
For those who don't know, modern cell phones compress analog data into a digital stream, packetize it, and then broadcast it. This is why most cell phones can be used as "modems" by laptops with the use of a special cable that plugs into the bottom of the phone. (It is quite expensive, but it works.)
That was not even remotely intelligent, no one thinks you're funny (especially the lady from that car), and why don't you play hide and go fsck yourself?
Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was filled with what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car. And a voice was screaming, "Holy Jesus, what are these goddamned animals?"
WTF good is a compiler without a debugger? God. This isn't any good at all. How can you write anything except trivial stuff with no debugger? A compiler alone is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
He has a point though. Borland IS a faster compiler, and the installation doesn't take a million billion megs. I've installed and used both. Borland is easier to use.
> ~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~,'~-,'~ ,'~-,'~ > For advancement, for W2k. Down with 70's tech!
Just because technology is old, doesn't mean it isn't good anymore. Case in point: Automobiles, washing machines, and airplanes. What kind of loser opens an account called "Microsoft Rules" just to troll on a linux net-zine?
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What did you expect? The PSX came out in what, late 95/early 96? The DC benefits from all that 3D acceleration research that's gone on since then.
I heard that every search that turns up a result on your machine is like a DoS attack in disguise. I don't use it but those who do tell me that its architecture is not particularly efficient.
So what's the scoop? Does it just not have any central directory servers or what?
How do you know it's not the hardware or bandwidth? Or the fact that posting comments relies on perl scripts, which eat CPU time?
I think the CoS' legal grounds might be a lot closer to a non-disclosure agreement (or NDA). I don't know for sure whether or not an e-meter has such a condition on its sale, but lots of specialized devices do, usually prototype units and the like.
I think it's interesting that they would do this less than a week after Microsoft announced new handhelds running considerably faster than any Palm (200MHz etc). I think they want to catch up to this so that they don't lose market share. Bravo.
I think you should rent "Apocalypse Now" and pay attention to the bit at the end. Marlon Brando's character was at the center of a cult. No god was involved and yet it was a cult, and therefore religious in nature. He was clearly their "living god."
The backwards swastika was also used in Scotland as a fertility symbol. Only the uninformed connect paganism with Satanism. After all, pagans don't believe in Satan.
I think the electrodes those quacks like to strap to peoples' heads probably cause a lot more memory loss than tofu.
One thing I HAVE to say about the D340-R is that if you go to the Image menu in the CAMEDIA Master software that comes with it, there's an "Instant Fix" option available when an image is loaded. This will make 29 out of 30 photos look MUCH better (brighter, crisper, sharper).
Duh... paragraph, not bold... slap me for not previewing!
Our company has a $1,000,000+/year support contract with sun. That ain't cheap, and neither is their hardware. For an E10K to cost $70,000, it would have to be an empty box, maybe a power supply, and maybe assembled... maybe not. :) That support contract is great, though. We can RMA any hardware for any reason. One time someone mis-seated some RAM or a CPU or something in a "grey cube" server. Sun sent us replacement hardware, no questions asked. We can also send them core dumps and expect a reply/resolution in a reasonable amount of time. (I think that having a company with a full-time staff of people who can analyze core files is a major reason why Linux is not more popular in big corporations.)
Cisco hardware is popular but there's better hardware out there. Stuff from Juniper Networks is arguably better. I've heard engineers talk about how using a Cisco on the end of a DS3 is tantamount to throwing away 10% of that bandwidth (=2.8 DS1s), because the cards/backplane just don't have the throughput to handle it.
Those who have administered DNS servers using BIND know what I'm talking about. Zone files, baby. You don't specify (www.myserver.com), you specify (www.myserver.com.) --- see the dot at the end? That's the ultimate dot. It's so fucking 'reet it's even higher up in the tree than com, net, org, or any of the other top-level domains (TLDs).
I think just as important is the stipulation that you can't get over 128 kilobits. (Did I read that wrong?) 128 is good enough for some, but not for me. I dislike all the "artifacts" you get from a 128-kilobit stream. 160 is bare minimum.
Considerably less than that. Especially if s/he/it uses an actual Intel processor - they have the best FPUs, and floating-point math is very heavily used during encoding.
hooray for javascript that makes eight windows pop up when you close one
Me, I like being able to throw 15 minidiscs into my backpack when I travel. :)
I'd really like to see a data minidisc-based MP3 player. You can get a good amount of data onto one of those.
So why not?
For those who don't know, modern cell phones compress analog data into a digital stream, packetize it, and then broadcast it. This is why most cell phones can be used as "modems" by laptops with the use of a special cable that plugs into the bottom of the phone. (It is quite expensive, but it works.)
That was not even remotely intelligent, no one thinks you're funny (especially the lady from that car), and why don't you play hide and go fsck yourself?
Suddenly, there was a terrible roar all around us, and the sky was filled with what looked like huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car. And a voice was screaming, "Holy Jesus, what are these goddamned animals?"
WTF good is a compiler without a debugger? God. This isn't any good at all. How can you write anything except trivial stuff with no debugger? A compiler alone is about as useful as a screen door on a submarine.
He has a point though. Borland IS a faster compiler, and the installation doesn't take a million billion megs. I've installed and used both. Borland is easier to use.
> For advancement, for W2k. Down with 70's tech!
Just because technology is old, doesn't mean it isn't good anymore. Case in point: Automobiles, washing machines, and airplanes. What kind of loser opens an account called "Microsoft Rules" just to troll on a linux net-zine?
I say: Down with the OS that gets released with over sixty thousand known bugs. Now crawl back under Ballmer's table. You didn't finish your ballsacking session.