Not to insult the chimps, but to expect intelligent humans to fall prey to impulsively stabbing at the word representing what they want like a chimp hitting a banana shaped button when they want something is sad.
There are large, seemingly irrelevant, chunks of grey matter in most beings with largish craniums that can greatly enhance ones life if people:
A. Are given a reason to. (hey monkey! this is just a description, theres prolly a trigger near by!) and B. Don't succumb to fear and curl up into a ball of ignorance-loving terror. (Its not human! Its rejecting my psychic demands! We're all doomed to perish under the rule of machines who by their initial, untested, appearances and anthromorphization hate us all!!!)
I try to avoid giving the tsunami of technological devolution any more inertia than it already has. I wish others would consider it too.:-)
Remember, most users are no more interested in their computers than they are in their televisions. They just want them to do what they want them to do in the way they're used to doing that.
It might, not, for the 1/80th of a second it takes to dump the harddrive cache, because of it having an ATA step with a very hard to reach maximum speed.
Nifty, if you walk the line inbetween the Gypts and Babs its only off from the real Pi by ~.001154! More accurate than 292/93 (~.0018077 differential).
Neither of them are easier or more accurate than remembering 3.141 though...
Oh! 355/113 is only off by ~.00000027, competing with 3.1415926.
Do you think the person doing the strip search knows that they have cancer? Is there anyway to tell?
A good tipoff is when the person says they have cancer and took radiation treatment for it. Unless the person who tripped the detector is immediately gagged while being dragged off to be violated.
Fully floating point pixel pipelines. Carmack was asking for 64-bit floating-point point pipelines a while ago. While this doesn't quite get there (it's 32-bit floating point) it is a major step,
Its 32 bit per channel, or 128 bit.
I don't think Carmack is crying about not getting an extra 1.8E19 shades per channel (4+ billion should be enough, we're used to 256 ya know).
I'm disgusted with the overabundance of hype with this launch. That's what this launch is. Of course there's no real substance because there's no shipping product!
I have yet to see any ATI demos, let alone anything like Dawn (still needs work, but I'w finally becoming happy with the state of graphics rendering).
Hell, all I see when I go to ATIs site are "desktop solutions", and my ATI capture card sucks software wise, and now I'm ranting.
In any case I see more substance to the NV30 chip than I do to ATIs latest release, which is diisappointing, I'd like to see competition (and not just imagine it, like I have to do now).
3D driver install hassle. (nVidia, should be fairly easy right?)
E-Mail is not easy to move cross platform. (What is a good flexible YAM/PocoMail type mailer for Linux anyways?)
X configuration is confusing. (Oh how I miss Picasso 96 style screenmode editing...)
Hardware support for my video capture card (ATI TV Wonder VE) and my Intel "webcam" are unknown to me.
Various other little excuses to boot Windows and a 24/7 poweron tendancy. (I only have one non-Amiga PC, so I'm kinda stuck in the mud. And my DSL plan doesn't allow for much dialup time, so net is locked into the AMD box for now.)
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whEeEEEEEERRRRRrrRRRRRRRrrrr.....
.... mop .... saw
splatter - gulch
WHOOMP, HACK --- plop
*BANG* *BANG*
saw, saw, saw
HOPPITY (splurt!)
HOPPITY (splurt.)
HOPPITY! (pfflurbt.....)
splash, splash, pour. (lights match)
WHOOOSH!
Marshmellow, marshmellow, mmmmm!
BEEP BIPPITY BLOOP! ("Nuclear detonation sequence activated.")
(bright lights, end of Dr. Strangelove)
(godly voice, "Oh me...")
(sun grows dim, implodes, crushes solar system, then explodes wrecking small portion of galaxy)
Not to insult the chimps, but to expect intelligent humans to fall prey to impulsively stabbing at the word representing what they want like a chimp hitting a banana shaped button when they want something is sad.
:-)
There are large, seemingly irrelevant, chunks of grey matter in most beings with largish craniums that can greatly enhance ones life if people:
A. Are given a reason to. (hey monkey! this is just a description, theres prolly a trigger near by!)
and
B. Don't succumb to fear and curl up into a ball of ignorance-loving terror. (Its not human! Its rejecting my psychic demands! We're all doomed to perish under the rule of machines who by their initial, untested, appearances and anthromorphization hate us all!!!)
I try to avoid giving the tsunami of technological devolution any more inertia than it already has. I wish others would consider it too.
Remember, most users are no more interested in their computers than they are in their televisions. They just want them to do what they want them to do in the way they're used to doing that.
I wish my television did what I want it to...
Yeah, who would think to actually press the button instead of pressing the text next to the button?
Though its nice to have a way around it for people who can't see the metaphor.
Gotta make a 3-D font and a 3-D console first...
It might, not, for the 1/80th of a second it takes to dump the harddrive cache, because of it having an ATA step with a very hard to reach maximum speed.
I hope they don't count my extra half CD burner against me...
Ikillyou!
2.5 minutes = 150 seconds.
700 megabytes * 1024 / 150 = ~4779KB/sec.
4779 K/sec / 150 K/sec = ~32X speed.
Wake me up when we get 40x burners...
Nifty, if you walk the line inbetween the Gypts and Babs its only off from the real Pi by ~.001154! More accurate than 292/93 (~.0018077 differential).
Neither of them are easier or more accurate than remembering 3.141 though...
Oh! 355/113 is only off by ~.00000027, competing with 3.1415926.
Do I get a cookie?
Do you think the person doing the strip search knows that they have cancer? Is there anyway to tell?
A good tipoff is when the person says they have cancer and took radiation treatment for it. Unless the person who tripped the detector is immediately gagged while being dragged off to be violated.
Be funny watching them form an atomic pile. :-)
You may be on to something here...
Nevermind the a robopsychologist trying to figure out the motivation behind "getting jiggy with it".
Don't tell your mom about it then, why does she care?
Pen that works in zero-gee, 1 million dollars.
Mental midget that lost election becoming commander in chief of the most powerful military force on Earth, priceless.
How about the time I went to Amazon and it told me how people who bought Babylon 5 season 1 also bought a guide to enjoying anal sex for women?
Wish I still had that pic...
The 64 bit HCF must be pretty powerful.
(though I really am a bit sad to hear such well purposed hardware combust)
Fully floating point pixel pipelines. Carmack was asking for 64-bit floating-point point pipelines a while ago. While this doesn't quite get there (it's 32-bit floating point) it is a major step,
Its 32 bit per channel, or 128 bit.
I don't think Carmack is crying about not getting an extra 1.8E19 shades per channel (4+ billion should be enough, we're used to 256 ya know).
But how many Jurassic Park t-shirts can it render at 100FPS?
How many pixels can it fit on the head of a pin?
Can it realistically render pouring hot grits?
I'm disgusted with the overabundance of hype with this launch. That's what this launch is. Of course there's no real substance because there's no shipping product!
I have yet to see any ATI demos, let alone anything like Dawn (still needs work, but I'w finally becoming happy with the state of graphics rendering).
Hell, all I see when I go to ATIs site are "desktop solutions", and my ATI capture card sucks software wise, and now I'm ranting.
In any case I see more substance to the NV30 chip than I do to ATIs latest release, which is diisappointing, I'd like to see competition (and not just imagine it, like I have to do now).
Queue the vertex shading jokes...
What benchmarks?
I knew Verio was trouble when they absorbed my local ISP and turned it into poop.
3D driver install hassle. (nVidia, should be fairly easy right?)
E-Mail is not easy to move cross platform. (What is a good flexible YAM/PocoMail type mailer for Linux anyways?)
X configuration is confusing. (Oh how I miss Picasso 96 style screenmode editing...)
Hardware support for my video capture card (ATI TV Wonder VE) and my Intel "webcam" are unknown to me.
Various other little excuses to boot Windows and a 24/7 poweron tendancy. (I only have one non-Amiga PC, so I'm kinda stuck in the mud. And my DSL plan doesn't allow for much dialup time, so net is locked into the AMD box for now.)