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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.
Linus "Titanium" Torvalds
"Thoughts are more powerful than any weapon, and I don't even let my people own guns." --Joseph Stalin
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I can understand gold and platinum, because they ARE valuable metals but titanium... it's like saying that "I've got a American Express Aluminum card".
The "Burcha" is also worn in some areas as an "advertisement" that the woman has been brutally circumcised according to ancient tribal customs. Her intimate "private zone" has become a flat featureless area like a "porcelain doll" with just a pen-size orifice comparable to reptiles or birds "cloacae". She is "less filth" with no remaining "pubic scalp" left after being circumcised and therefore eligible for traditional marriage.
Cold war's over, so it's no longer a rare "strategic metal".
That, and it's just cool.
"I consider myself to be very technically inclined having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming."
*insane peals of laughter*
The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic --Joseph Stalin
you are
egg troll's only contact with the Fortune 500 is as a male prostitute.
You see gold is for women and titanium is for all the manly-men out there.
How many men do you see wearing a gold wrist watch, for instance? Unless you're a nigger pimp or a faggot, you DON'T WEAR GOLD. Hot women, on the other hand, should only wear gold and nothing else.
Titanium means strength, virility and reliability. That's why it's for us men.
slashdot is archiving -1 comments... wtf?
"How many men do you see wearing a gold wrist watch, for instance? Unless you're a nigger pimp or a faggot, you DON'T WEAR GOLD. Hot women, on the other hand, should only wear gold and nothing else. "
Then what about all those rather rich people with gold watches? Oh right that disproves the little theory.
The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic --Joseph Stalin
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.
~ now you know
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.
IF  I  EVER  MEEPT  BEN  FUCKING  FRANKLIN,  I  WILL  KICK  HIS  GOAT!!!!
I mean it.
umm...some moderators have lost it. That was a joke...not interesting.
Way to not figure that out jackass.
I'd be an asshole and point you to a usenet FAQ or everything2 or something, but instead I'll just tell you.
You Have Been Trolled.
You have lost.
Have a nice day.
DUH!
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