Re:Massive processor, not much for graphics though
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The Xbox 360 Unveiled
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The polygon performance of the Xbox 360 is as high as 500 million triangles per second, which means the Xbox 360 can process aproximately 1.2 billion vertices per second. In comparison, the GeForce 6800 Ultra can process 600 million vertices per second. Want more numbers? The Xbox 360 has a pixel fillrate of 16 gigasamples per second using 4X multisampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) and a shader performance of 48 billion shader operations per second.
Quote is from teamxbox.xom. Personally, I don't call twice as fast as a 6800 Ultra "not much for graphics". This thing is going to fly.
Xenon is the internal codename for the project. All the released/leaked photos so far show the name as Xbox 360 and the marketing materials heavily feature circles. If it's not called Xbox 360, I'll eat my wavebird controller.
And BBC World isn't paid for from the license, as it's intended for those outside of the UK. Which you can guess from the name.
Re:Would this ever happen without the licence fee?
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BBC Launches APIs
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Yes, cable gives you more choice, but speaking as a British ex-pat, BBC America != "the BBC channels". For one thing much of the content on BBC America isn't even produced by the BBC (they license material from other British networks like ITV and Channel 4), and for another most of the good stuff is either completely absent or very delayed.
RTFA, the major problem is that they're using undocumented sun-only features, almost as if they're deliberately breaking it on Kaffe etc
I did RTFA, and it mentions NOTHING about "undocumented sun-only features". It DOES mention that there were problems running it on GCJ, because GCJ doesn't yet support the full spec. Well, I'm sorry, but that's a problem for GCJ not Sun. Stallman even says as much in his document "The Java Trap" - he uses the words "sun only feature" to mean things which the free implementations don't yet support.
Really - there's no conspiracy here. The only significant stuff that the source isn't available for from Sun is the JVM itself and stuff under sun.* packages. The JVM is a free spec which others are welcome to implement (s.g. GCJ etc al), and no app in it's right mind should be directly calling sun.*, for obvious reasons. If you find code in OO which does, then maybe there will be cause for complaint.
Well I'm British, and unlike the fairly smooth sailing I experienced in the UK, when I moved to New York it took me over 2 weeks and 3 or 4 aborted attempts to get a working phone line in my apartment. Note that this was an apartment in a luxury high rise building, and the previous tenant had no phone problems at all. Go figure - I still don't understand the problem to this day. Verizon. however, will never again have me as a customer.
Big utility companies screw up. It happens everywhere. As for the broadband systems being "uselessly fucked up" - I really didn't notice much difference.
WTF has O'Gara being a money grabbing slimeball got to do with her being "liberal" or otherwise? What has any of this got to do with Abu Gharab? Or your apparent xenophobia? This is about journalistic ethics and personal decency. She is not being criticized for reporting her opinion, she's being criticized for publishing a personal attack complete with personal details and even a home address!
Newspapers would be very boring indeed if all they contained were hard facts. Some informed opinion is what turns a dry list of times & events into something worth reading, and worth thinking about.
I'm sure they already know all about his issues with them. This is making it public, putthing THEM on the spot for their behaviour. As he says, he's making it clear to the community at large that he doesn't want to be associated with them/her. How better to do that than in public?
How does it make society safer for law abidding citizens if we keep the current loose and un-uniform standards of identification?
It doesn't. Neither does all this ID card junk. However, those proposals will cost money, restrict previously existing freedoms and (almost inevitably) lead to mistakes, identity theft, etc.
I live in New York - have done for over 18 months (I moved here from the UK). I got my NY drivers license a couple of weeks ago. So I, for one, survived perfectly well without one for a year and a half. I finaly got a drivers license, because (shock horror) I wanted to be able to drive. Most of the time I didn't carry any ID beyond credit cards or maybe my work ID. I never found myself in a situation where that was an issue.
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother. Particle accelerator runs will never hint that we all have it within us to put an end to petty bickering, violence, and even earth-shattering wars.
From what I can see around me, and looking back into history, Religon has done a pretty crappy job at that too. I fail to see how science can do any worse.
The Bonjour Setup Wizard makes setting up a printer under Windows as easy as Mac OS X
Having spent the last 2 weeks trying (and failing) to setup my printer on my girlfriend's iBook, that's a slightly sore point right now:(
Yes Canon should provide network compatible drivers, no Apple should not advertise they are compatible with Windows printing when several major manufacturers' devices simply don't work. *GRRRR* End result is I either buy a new printer of the GF has to go back to Windows to print. Oh well.
Just as a clarification - the PSP already supports playing games from sticks, it's just that no-one has released one yet. I'm guessing there's some packaging and signing that has to happen rather than just mounting an ISO.
I can get a movie on a 512mb stick, which costs around $50. Sure, it would be nice to have lots of rips on a hard drive, but what the PSP lacks in being the ultimate video player it makes up for (IMHO) by also playing games.
I can easily fit a movie on my 512mb memory stuck, which cost something like $50. Not a big deal IMHO. Picture quality is fantastic. Of course if you want multiple movies you'll either need multiple cards, or more compression. I'm happy with my PSP and use it every day on the commute to/from work.
Of course, if Bob is selling PCs he doesn't need to include the retail version, he can sell the OEM which is much cheaper (full version is like $140).
Re:Too many fronts for Microsoft
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Gates on Google
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I may be wrong, but I think Sony make more than just PS2s (computers, home entertainment, music, movies). Apple also do more than just music (hardware, retail, os development), and Google seem to be trying to get their finger in every pie they can find. I don't think the "do one thing well" approach is popular at many of these organizations.
HTTP/1.1 persistent connections have already vastly reduced the overhead associated with a typical page request. I also don't understand your point about prefetching images within a page - according to the HTTP spec most browsers limit the number of connections to a server. This can of course lead to a slow down in some cases (typically where bandwidth is high but connection latency is also high). But the browser would have to limit the connections to google's cache in the same way, and for google to be a good internet citizen it would have to limit it's connections to the original host too. I really don't see any dramatic savings coming out of all this.
So? When you do something like Union Carbide did, you have a responsibility. If you get bought out by some other company (Dow in this case) they just bought that responsibility. They should not be allowed to wash their hands of the whole mess just by selling the plant and then selling the company.
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The polygon performance of the Xbox 360 is as high as 500 million triangles per second, which means the Xbox 360 can process aproximately 1.2 billion vertices per second. In comparison, the GeForce 6800 Ultra can process 600 million vertices per second. Want more numbers? The Xbox 360 has a pixel fillrate of 16 gigasamples per second using 4X multisampling anti-aliasing (MSAA) and a shader performance of 48 billion shader operations per second.
Quote is from teamxbox.xom. Personally, I don't call twice as fast as a 6800 Ultra "not much for graphics". This thing is going to fly.
Xenon is the internal codename for the project. All the released/leaked photos so far show the name as Xbox 360 and the marketing materials heavily feature circles. If it's not called Xbox 360, I'll eat my wavebird controller.
Well it is running at about a quarter the resoloution...
And BBC World isn't paid for from the license, as it's intended for those outside of the UK. Which you can guess from the name.
Yes, cable gives you more choice, but speaking as a British ex-pat, BBC America != "the BBC channels". For one thing much of the content on BBC America isn't even produced by the BBC (they license material from other British networks like ITV and Channel 4), and for another most of the good stuff is either completely absent or very delayed.
That's "spark plugs" and "horn", FWIW.
Yuck...that is bad. Using sun.* is not only bad because of tieing you to the sun jvm, it also ties you to a very specific version of it. Bad bad bad.
RTFA, the major problem is that they're using undocumented sun-only features, almost as if they're deliberately breaking it on Kaffe etc
I did RTFA, and it mentions NOTHING about "undocumented sun-only features". It DOES mention that there were problems running it on GCJ, because GCJ doesn't yet support the full spec. Well, I'm sorry, but that's a problem for GCJ not Sun. Stallman even says as much in his document "The Java Trap" - he uses the words "sun only feature" to mean things which the free implementations don't yet support.
Really - there's no conspiracy here. The only significant stuff that the source isn't available for from Sun is the JVM itself and stuff under sun.* packages. The JVM is a free spec which others are welcome to implement (s.g. GCJ etc al), and no app in it's right mind should be directly calling sun.*, for obvious reasons. If you find code in OO which does, then maybe there will be cause for complaint.
Well I'm British, and unlike the fairly smooth sailing I experienced in the UK, when I moved to New York it took me over 2 weeks and 3 or 4 aborted attempts to get a working phone line in my apartment. Note that this was an apartment in a luxury high rise building, and the previous tenant had no phone problems at all. Go figure - I still don't understand the problem to this day. Verizon. however, will never again have me as a customer.
Big utility companies screw up. It happens everywhere. As for the broadband systems being "uselessly fucked up" - I really didn't notice much difference.
WTF has O'Gara being a money grabbing slimeball got to do with her being "liberal" or otherwise? What has any of this got to do with Abu Gharab? Or your apparent xenophobia? This is about journalistic ethics and personal decency. She is not being criticized for reporting her opinion, she's being criticized for publishing a personal attack complete with personal details and even a home address!
Newspapers would be very boring indeed if all they contained were hard facts. Some informed opinion is what turns a dry list of times & events into something worth reading, and worth thinking about.
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I'm sure they already know all about his issues with them. This is making it public, putthing THEM on the spot for their behaviour. As he says, he's making it clear to the community at large that he doesn't want to be associated with them/her. How better to do that than in public?
Hah. Right. So the USA was founded by....
a) Native Americans who lived here all along
b) Illegal Immigrants
Answers on a postcard please.
How does it make society safer for law abidding citizens if we keep the current loose and un-uniform standards of identification?
It doesn't. Neither does all this ID card junk. However, those proposals will cost money, restrict previously existing freedoms and (almost inevitably) lead to mistakes, identity theft, etc.
I live in New York - have done for over 18 months (I moved here from the UK). I got my NY drivers license a couple of weeks ago. So I, for one, survived perfectly well without one for a year and a half. I finaly got a drivers license, because (shock horror) I wanted to be able to drive. Most of the time I didn't carry any ID beyond credit cards or maybe my work ID. I never found myself in a situation where that was an issue.
Science will never present us with a peer-reviewed study proving once and for all that you should be good to your fellow man, and treat him like a brother. Particle accelerator runs will never hint that we all have it within us to put an end to petty bickering, violence, and even earth-shattering wars.
From what I can see around me, and looking back into history, Religon has done a pretty crappy job at that too. I fail to see how science can do any worse.
That was remarkably Douglas Adams-esque :)
The Bonjour Setup Wizard makes setting up a printer under Windows as easy as Mac OS X
:(
Having spent the last 2 weeks trying (and failing) to setup my printer on my girlfriend's iBook, that's a slightly sore point right now
Yes Canon should provide network compatible drivers, no Apple should not advertise they are compatible with Windows printing when several major manufacturers' devices simply don't work. *GRRRR* End result is I either buy a new printer of the GF has to go back to Windows to print. Oh well.
Just as a clarification - the PSP already supports playing games from sticks, it's just that no-one has released one yet. I'm guessing there's some packaging and signing that has to happen rather than just mounting an ISO.
I can get a movie on a 512mb stick, which costs around $50. Sure, it would be nice to have lots of rips on a hard drive, but what the PSP lacks in being the ultimate video player it makes up for (IMHO) by also playing games.
I can easily fit a movie on my 512mb memory stuck, which cost something like $50. Not a big deal IMHO. Picture quality is fantastic. Of course if you want multiple movies you'll either need multiple cards, or more compression. I'm happy with my PSP and use it every day on the commute to/from work.
Of course, if Bob is selling PCs he doesn't need to include the retail version, he can sell the OEM which is much cheaper (full version is like $140).
I may be wrong, but I think Sony make more than just PS2s (computers, home entertainment, music, movies). Apple also do more than just music (hardware, retail, os development), and Google seem to be trying to get their finger in every pie they can find. I don't think the "do one thing well" approach is popular at many of these organizations.
HTTP/1.1 persistent connections have already vastly reduced the overhead associated with a typical page request. I also don't understand your point about prefetching images within a page - according to the HTTP spec most browsers limit the number of connections to a server. This can of course lead to a slow down in some cases (typically where bandwidth is high but connection latency is also high). But the browser would have to limit the connections to google's cache in the same way, and for google to be a good internet citizen it would have to limit it's connections to the original host too. I really don't see any dramatic savings coming out of all this.
So? When you do something like Union Carbide did, you have a responsibility. If you get bought out by some other company (Dow in this case) they just bought that responsibility. They should not be allowed to wash their hands of the whole mess just by selling the plant and then selling the company.