kangol69 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The VERO Customer Support is terrible!!! (Score 2, Informative) 124

by kangol69 on Saturday March 21, 2009 @12:36AM (#27277023) Attached to: eBay Describes the Scale of Its Counterfeit Goods Problem

Monavie has no "Resellers". When someone wants to buy Monavie they have to sign up to be a "Distributor" of Monavie Inc. Basically it's just a pyramid scheme system and you have to sign up to get Auto Shipped Monavie every month. But here's the dirty part. I am a "Distributor of Monavie" and I had pictures of the receipt for the Monavie Active on my auction listing. What else could I possibly do to prove that it's real? I'm selling the real stuff because of the "Auto Ship" I have just too much of the stuff laying around and it's got an expiration date. At $200 a case I'd rather sell it cheap then let it rot.

Comment Re:The VERO Customer Support is terrible!!! (Score 3, Interesting) 124

by kangol69 on Saturday March 21, 2009 @12:30AM (#27277005) Attached to: eBay Describes the Scale of Its Counterfeit Goods Problem

Why do they have the ability to say that I can't sell their product? I bought it directly from them and it's an authentic product. That's like some company telling me I can't sell my old stuff at my own garage sale. By monopoly I meant that they are the only seller of their product. Monopoly was the wrong word. They don't have any resellers of their product so the only way to get it is directly from them. Therefore they lose money if someone buys it off of ebay because to order it from them you have to sign up to be in their pyramid scheme. Also I did contact Monavie and all I got was a sarcastic "We're Sorry" email.

Comment The VERO Customer Support is terrible!!! (Score 5, Interesting) 124

by kangol69 on Friday March 20, 2009 @10:43PM (#27276551) Attached to: eBay Describes the Scale of Its Counterfeit Goods Problem

I was selling some Monavie Active on ebay. Monavie Active is basically a health juice drink that is sold exclusively by Monavie Inc. so it is in Monavie's interest to stop people from selling Monaive active on ebay because they have a monopoly over the product. So they report every listing they find on ebay as Infringing on their copyright and ebay automatically takes it down. Now this wouldn't be so bad if ebay had good support but ebay in my opinion is lacking in that area. You can do the whole live chat thing but the reps on that have no influence over the VERO program. You have to reach them by a hidden form on their site and then you get an email address (rswebhelp@ebay.com) All you'll get from talking to them is that you have to contact the company that filed the infringement (Monavie) to resolve it. Now remember Monavie has a monopoly over their product and so their is no way they'll resolve this with me peacefully. Now I admit that ebay is just trying to play nice with everybody but they should really do more to support the little guy when he starts getting squished by the big Corps.

New Graphics Firm Promises Real-Time Ray Tracing 136

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 13, 2009 @07:11PM from the can-render-vaporware-in-no-time-flat dept.

arcticstoat writes "A new graphics company called Caustic Graphics reckons it's uncovered the secret of real-time ray tracing with a chip that 'enables your CPU/GPU to shade with rasterization-like efficiency.' The new chip basically off-loads ray tracing calculations and then sends the data to your GPU and CPU, enabling your PC to shade a ray-traced scene much more quickly. Caustic's management team isn't afraid to rubbish the efforts of other graphics companies when it comes to ray tracing. 'Some technology vendors claim to have solved the accelerated ray tracing problem by using traditional algorithms along with GPU hardware,' says Caustic. However, the company adds that 'if you've ever seen them demo their solutions you'll notice that while results may be fast — the image quality is underwhelming, far below the quality that ray tracing is known for.' According to Caustic, this is because the advanced shading and lighting effects usually seen in ray-traced scenes, such as caustics and refraction, can't be accelerated on a standard GPU because it can't process incoherent rays in hardware. Conversely, Caustic claims that the CausticOne 'thrives in incoherent ray tracing situations: encouraging the use of multiple secondary rays per pixel.' The company is also introducing its own API, called CausticGL, which is based on OpenGL/GLSL, which will feature Caustic's unique ray tracing extensions."

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