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GeForce3 Titanium Reviews
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Tom's and Anandtech's respective reviews of the new NVIDIA GeForce3 Titanium series.
DX8.1 compatibility (What is that anyway?), Shadow Buffers, 3D Textures, assorted other stuffs.
Hey, but why is everything 'Titanium' now anyway? Laptops. Batteries. Video cards. I wonder if I can get titanium plating.
VB is an interpreted language... meaning it NEEDS an interpreter to run it. so by definition it CAN'T BE KERNEL CODE
Visual Basic has been a compiled language for several versions now.
Yeah, offtopic, but I hate to see incorrect info.
Remember when the Big Bertha Titanium driver came out? It was a sensation, everybody bought one, then all of the sudden everything golf related was "titanium." Titanium core balls, titanium putters, titanium umbrellas... it just didn't stop. Of course they never sold anything useful like titanium golf spikes, but hey that's marketing. So now I guess it's spread over to computers and probably everything else. Hell I even got a credit card advertisement for a Titanium Visa. That doesn't really make sense to me, I mean I get the Silver, Gold, Platinum - precious metals that are rare and valuable, but Titanium is widely available, more renowned for it's strength than value...
Anyway, I'm sure this video card is really great but I have to admit calling it "Titanium" lowers my level of interest in buying it. It's like if I tried to sell you a "Titanium" watermelon... doesn't really make sense.
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I hate to sound like a dolt (no flames on that one, please), but why is this comment "funny"?
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
Well if I look at my left wrist I see a nice Longines VHP in titanium and gold which I got eleven years ago, guess I'm ahead of the pack as always...
Nice pic of the watch here
The watches use 2 seperate oscillators (one 32.768 KHz the other 2MHz) in a closed-loop and temperature compensation to acceive the highest precision timekeeping ever in a quartz watch, so it does have geek qualifications before I get marked as off topic.
Any sufficiently advanced man is indistinguishable from God
I sympathize with you; Access VBA is horrible. Using Access for anything is horrible... but Access is not the same thing as VB. There is no redeeming feature to Microsoft Access, now that MSDE (Microsoft's free (beer) SQL database engine) is available.
I write top notch code in VB, and reach for C++ when I can't make the VB version work fast enough. In the last three years, that's happened once - I needed a fast way to concatenate an array of strings, so I wrote a one-function DLL. Part and parcel of this is profiling, and I found that if I used the same algorithm, there were NO improvements gained by writing in C. All benefits came from using pointer arithmetic techniques that were not easily available in VB.
Since I can write fewer lines in VB, compile faster, debug more easily, and so forth, I produce more results in less time. The downside: people who see my stuff don't believe it's written in VB, and when they do find out, go language-bigot apeshit. Summing up: VB is a real compiled language. Access VBA sucks giant ass. Your experience with bad VB code does not make the language bad. Have a nice day.
-- Jeff Paulsen