Grrr, I had saved up for a V56K and I was going to grab it as soon as it was available, but now I can't get one what should I get? I have a Voodoo 3 2000, and I have found the drivers very reliable, but having seen some dodgy driver issues with TNT2s I am reluctant to switch to a different card even though I want 32bit color, does anyone know how stable he GeForce2 drivers are, and will all my major games work well with the GeForce2? (Quake 3, counterstrike, Diablo2, Unreal Tournament and Ultima 9)
Can anyone tell me what the best card available at the moment is (price is not a factor), I want to upgrade and I'm hearing that the GeForce2 is the best, but will the Voodoo 5 6000 be better (when it comes out)?
Also if anyone knows the best DVD drive to get I'm looking to retire my CDROM, and the DVD controller which will be on the V56K is certainly going to be a plus.
Same with me, MS Optical rodent, hopefully there may be a fix for this (new drivers or something), but I don't think so. Also strange things occur if you try to use one of those holographic mousepads.
Hettinger says that a fitting reward for labour should be proportionate to the person's effort, the risk taken and moral considerations. This sounds all right - but it is not proportionate to the value of the results of the labour, whether assessed through markets or by other criteria. This is because the value of intellectual work is affected by things not controlled by the worker, including luck and natural talent. Hettinger says "A person who is born with extraordinary natural talents, or who is extremely lucky, deserves nothing on the basis of these characteristics."
I would disagree with the writer on this point, this argument displays immense cluelessness, could you imagine going to an employee and saying, "yes we know you did 5 times as much work as Joe Bloggs over there, but you are ten times as smart, so we are going to have to pay him twice as much as you." Certainly some valid points are raised, and IP has gone way to far, but to totally abolish IP would be ludicrous and would not encourage innovation. IP, like trade unions is a necessary evil.
Actually, spectral analysis is used to detemine what elements something is made out of, spectral analysis cannot detect if there is a chemical bond between the elements which are present. As far as I can tell this link isn't claiming to be using spectral analysis, as with spectral analysis it would only be possible to determine that Hydrogen, Oxygen and Carbon were present, but you could notdetermine they they were bonded into sugar.
Spectral Analysis is possible because as electrons drop from one energy level to a lower energy level they emit the difference in energy as EMR, each different element emits certain frequencies of light, thsi is why if you burn something with a high copper content you get a blue-green flame (I think it is blue-green).
That may sound like a very wrong idea, but then burning GIFs sounded very wrong until you looked at the reasons behind it, is there a free open source alternative to MP3? If not would someone like to volunteer to make one (I don't have the expertise to, but someone else might)
This may all sound good, but there are some problems.
The atmosphere of mars is extremely thin, resulting in greater amounts of harmful cosmic rays reaching the surface, add this to all the other problems a thin atmosphere has
AFIAK water does not exist as a liquid on the surface of mars, only as solid or gas, I think this is a result of both low gravity and low air pressure (low air pressure is most likely a result of low gravity also, but I couldn't be bothered finding the facts about this tho)
I don't know how low a pressure the human body can take, but I don't think you would want to be on Mars unprotected, I know they will use suits or something (no pun intended, although it would be amusing to get rid of a lot of managers...)
NASA will screw up anyway, we all know what NASA stands for....
Breaking down barriers is pretty useless if you starve to death, from what I have seen (from some photos taken by a friend who visited) poverty is a major concern, the internet is a VERY minor concern, sure it might be good for tourists, but AFAIK (if anyone knows correct me if I am wrong) trade in Indian villages is mainly by barter.
A year ago I bought a Voodoo3 2000 and while it was not the best card on the market at the time, and is becoming a bit obselete now. I have never had any serious driver issues with it, but I want to upgrade to another card to get access to various bonuses like 32 bit colour and a DVD controller thing, a TV-out would be an added bonus despite the fact I don't have a TV. What is the best Video card on the market at the moment, and how will it compare to the V5 6000? My main concerns are that it will work well immediatly, my V3 has never had any problems - ever, Q3, UT, Baldurs Gate, Ultima9, etc. Every game I have played with it has worked well and straight away, I have a friend who has a TNT2, he has had lots of problems with some games, when he gets them going they look really good, but it just seems that 3DFX works straight away. can enyone tell me what I would get instead of a V5, any why?
Reading your User Bio "My name is Matthew Priestley. I'm a cryptography tester at Microsoft Corporation. I have personally never crushed a competitor or illegally bundled an app. I *have* shipped several high-quality and standards-compliant releases of Microsoft Outlook. My ambition is to produce software that cracks open the High Holy Temple of the computer for the millions of people worldwide who are unfamiliar with technology and fear it. No other company in the world offers me that opportunity the way Microsoft does. " I'd think that with recent bad press on outlook you'd change that Bio of your before defending MS, this is a perfect example of why we want to see MS destroyed. Note: italics and to bold text were put in by me.
If you leave 2 buckets of water in the sun with one bucket being black and the other white, the black bucket will heat up quicker. but if you heat up 2 buckets of water to an equal temperature and store them both in the dark, the black one will cool down quicker, you can do an experiment to prove this if you like, but thats the way it works.
...are you stupid enough to run an attachment? No? OK then, is there anyone else at work stupid enough to run an attachment, and is your hard drive shared?
..I can fully understand why people would pirate windows, when I was studying I wouldn't have been able to afford windows, I couldn't afford a computer either, so pirating windows would have been fairly pointless, but I was commenting on the general philosophy of not paying for software which seems to be prevalent on slashdot
Costs about the cost of a blank CD (so what if its commercial, an interesting Slashdot poll would be "who has actually paid for Windows?", I imagine lots of people reading this have a windowspartition and haven't paid for their copy)
Thanks to all the people who replied to my original post, I couldn't figure out how to edit the/etc/X11/XF86Config file, but while reading thru it I saw this line about disabling "CTRL + ALT + -", the solution was pretty easy to find then...
OK, to start this off and burn lots of karma (if I had any to burn) - I am not a serious linux user. Whoa! look at that karma burn A few weeks ago I installed Linux mandrake on my computer 'cause a friend asked me to, I put the CD in, rebooted my computer, and much to my surprise IT WORKED INSTANTLY, all I had to do was say how I wanted my hard drive partitioned (4GB Linux, 128MB Swap, 16GB FAT32 (far all my Windows games)) yes, I use windows - there goes more karma - why do I use windows? because I want to be able to break things and kill people without having to learn more stuff about computers Anyway, back to the story, I partitioned my hard drive, said yeah, ok, I'll take the recommended install, and let it do its stuff, a while later it had detected and set up all my hardware, Voodoo3, Creative Sound card, Intel Network card, etc with no intervention from me, all I had to do was stuff around with my IP address, point it to our webserver and it was working, well it was working until about half an hour ago, I brought my computer into work (mainly to pick up the LOTR quicktime thingy I downloaded at work), and turned on my computer (with a few of the microsoft worshipers looking on) to show off the beauty of linux, I am running mandrake 7.0 (I think), I got just past the colorful ascii-art penguin which comes up just before it switches to GUI - then - the screen went blank, the litle orange light came on which means no signal input, after a few seconds I figured out why, the resolution had switched to 1600 X 1200, my 19" monitor at home can handle this, a puny 15" monitor can't, Linux didn't detect that there was a different monitor which windows would detect(much to my disgust, and Bills evil Acolytes delight (who were looking on)) How do I switch resolution without access to the GUI???? mandrakes reputation is at stake(at least to 2 or 3 people)!!!!
Does anyone know when Tokiens work becomes free of copywrite? Too bad about that rubbish that gets printed by his son, the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion were great books, but everyhing that has come out since has been IMNSHO pretty pathetic. BTW a scanner with OCR would be a great thing for Project Gutenburg
This problem may cause people who use multiple ISP's to stop using the other ISP because they can connect to AOL and not to the other ISP, AOL's help line says that its the other ISP's fault and the other ISP lose their irate customer. Lots of customers will change ISP's when they get poor service/connection, I know that I have several times. Besides the other ISP's being unfairly disadvantaged there is the issue of dailing banks to transfer an EFT, a large company can spend a VERY large amount of money to get things working when they can't pay their employees, there was a case here in Australia a month or two ago when the State Bank EFT transfer system when down for a day (on payday), I work supporting a payroll program and the phones where flat out all day with people trying to figure out what was wrong with our program when it was in fact the state banks problem (I know I suffered a great deal of abuse from Irate, computer illiterate payroll clerks). If AOL 5.0 kills your DUN settings and you don't find out until payday (which is bad enough without EFT problems) it could delay pays until the next day (if you miss the cutoff time for the EFT) this is a very bad thing, employees have lost there houses/cars/etc due to getting a late pay, AOL stuffing up DUN is NOT an inconveniance.
This may be slightly OT, but a few weeks (months?) ago there was a story on a robot (CYE?), this has always been a topic of interest to me and most geeks (most toys are of interest to geeks, and a robot is a very fun toy) I have wanted to fool around with robots for years, but seeing CYE gave me an idea, why make a robot, why not get a mobile computer with a wireless network card a digital video camera ect, I'm sure that you can see the potential, about this point I started researching wireless networking, I couldn't find much info on the internet, and the people at the local computer shops didn't know much, (there are only 3 or 4 shops here in Coffs Harbour, Australia), eventually I got the name "bluetooth" from someone at the local electronics shop but I couldn't find anything else. the entire concept is this, have a robot (on a mobile PC) connected across a wireless LAN th a gateway server (running Debian) connected to the Internet (the robots name will be HEX, after the computer in Terry Pratchetts Discworld books) unfortunatly I don't have any info on wireless networking, could someone point me in the right direction (ISA or PCI, not PCMCIA) as a final idea, equip the robot with one of those toy gun things (I think it was the Nerf Wildfire)
I don't think so, the ridiculous law imposed here (yes, I am in.au) are not (AFAIK) enforced, the laws were made to get the vote of some fool senator, the senator didn't vote for what they wanted anyway, also it's a it hard to enforce unenforcable laws.
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Grrr, I had saved up for a V56K and I was going to grab it as soon as it was available, but now I can't get one what should I get? I have a Voodoo 3 2000, and I have found the drivers very reliable, but having seen some dodgy driver issues with TNT2s I am reluctant to switch to a different card even though I want 32bit color, does anyone know how stable he GeForce2 drivers are, and will all my major games work well with the GeForce2? (Quake 3, counterstrike, Diablo2, Unreal Tournament and Ultima 9)
Also if anyone knows the best DVD drive to get I'm looking to retire my CDROM, and the DVD controller which will be on the V56K is certainly going to be a plus.
Same with me, MS Optical rodent, hopefully there may be a fix for this (new drivers or something), but I don't think so. Also strange things occur if you try to use one of those holographic mousepads.
I would disagree with the writer on this point, this argument displays immense cluelessness, could you imagine going to an employee and saying, "yes we know you did 5 times as much work as Joe Bloggs over there, but you are ten times as smart, so we are going to have to pay him twice as much as you."
Certainly some valid points are raised, and IP has gone way to far, but to totally abolish IP would be ludicrous and would not encourage innovation. IP, like trade unions is a necessary evil.
Spectral Analysis is possible because as electrons drop from one energy level to a lower energy level they emit the difference in energy as EMR, each different element emits certain frequencies of light, thsi is why if you burn something with a high copper content you get a blue-green flame (I think it is blue-green).
That may sound like a very wrong idea, but then burning GIFs sounded very wrong until you looked at the reasons behind it, is there a free open source alternative to MP3? If not would someone like to volunteer to make one (I don't have the expertise to, but someone else might)
Breaking down barriers is pretty useless if you starve to death, from what I have seen (from some photos taken by a friend who visited) poverty is a major concern, the internet is a VERY minor concern, sure it might be good for tourists, but AFAIK (if anyone knows correct me if I am wrong) trade in Indian villages is mainly by barter.
A year ago I bought a Voodoo3 2000 and while it was not the best card on the market at the time, and is becoming a bit obselete now. I have never had any serious driver issues with it, but I want to upgrade to another card to get access to various bonuses like 32 bit colour and a DVD controller thing, a TV-out would be an added bonus despite the fact I don't have a TV. What is the best Video card on the market at the moment, and how will it compare to the V5 6000? My main concerns are that it will work well immediatly, my V3 has never had any problems - ever, Q3, UT, Baldurs Gate, Ultima9, etc. Every game I have played with it has worked well and straight away, I have a friend who has a TNT2, he has had lots of problems with some games, when he gets them going they look really good, but it just seems that 3DFX works straight away. can enyone tell me what I would get instead of a V5, any why?
Reading your User Bio "My name is Matthew Priestley. I'm a cryptography tester at Microsoft Corporation. I have personally never crushed a competitor or illegally bundled an app. I *have* shipped several high-quality and standards-compliant releases of Microsoft Outlook. My ambition is to produce software that cracks open the High Holy Temple of the computer for the millions of people worldwide who are unfamiliar with technology and fear it. No other company in the world offers me that opportunity the way Microsoft does. " I'd think that with recent bad press on outlook you'd change that Bio of your before defending MS, this is a perfect example of why we want to see MS destroyed. Note: italics and to bold text were put in by me.
If you leave 2 buckets of water in the sun with one bucket being black and the other white, the black bucket will heat up quicker. but if you heat up 2 buckets of water to an equal temperature and store them both in the dark, the black one will cool down quicker, you can do an experiment to prove this if you like, but thats the way it works.
...are you stupid enough to run an attachment? No? OK then, is there anyone else at work stupid enough to run an attachment, and is your hard drive shared?
..I can fully understand why people would pirate windows, when I was studying I wouldn't have been able to afford windows, I couldn't afford a computer either, so pirating windows would have been fairly pointless, but I was commenting on the general philosophy of not paying for software which seems to be prevalent on slashdot
- An operating system
- Costs about the cost of a blank CD
Windows:- An operating system
- Costs about the cost of a blank CD (so what if its commercial, an interesting Slashdot poll would be "who has actually paid for Windows?", I imagine lots of people reading this have a windowspartition and haven't paid for their copy)
so using your logic Windows = LinuxThanks to all the people who replied to my original post, I couldn't figure out how to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, but while reading thru it I saw this line about disabling "CTRL + ALT + -", the solution was pretty easy to find then...
...you have a stange definition of flattering
OK, to start this off and burn lots of karma (if I had any to burn) - I am not a serious linux user. Whoa! look at that karma burn A few weeks ago I installed Linux mandrake on my computer 'cause a friend asked me to, I put the CD in, rebooted my computer, and much to my surprise IT WORKED INSTANTLY, all I had to do was say how I wanted my hard drive partitioned (4GB Linux, 128MB Swap, 16GB FAT32 (far all my Windows games)) yes, I use windows - there goes more karma - why do I use windows? because I want to be able to break things and kill people without having to learn more stuff about computers Anyway, back to the story, I partitioned my hard drive, said yeah, ok, I'll take the recommended install, and let it do its stuff, a while later it had detected and set up all my hardware, Voodoo3, Creative Sound card, Intel Network card, etc with no intervention from me, all I had to do was stuff around with my IP address, point it to our webserver and it was working, well it was working until about half an hour ago, I brought my computer into work (mainly to pick up the LOTR quicktime thingy I downloaded at work), and turned on my computer (with a few of the microsoft worshipers looking on) to show off the beauty of linux, I am running mandrake 7.0 (I think), I got just past the colorful ascii-art penguin which comes up just before it switches to GUI - then - the screen went blank, the litle orange light came on which means no signal input, after a few seconds I figured out why, the resolution had switched to 1600 X 1200, my 19" monitor at home can handle this, a puny 15" monitor can't, Linux didn't detect that there was a different monitor which windows would detect(much to my disgust, and Bills evil Acolytes delight (who were looking on)) How do I switch resolution without access to the GUI???? mandrakes reputation is at stake(at least to 2 or 3 people)!!!!
...obesity
NT = No Text
getting a scanner with OCR would be invaluble to the Gutenburg project
Does anyone know when Tokiens work becomes free of copywrite? Too bad about that rubbish that gets printed by his son, the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion were great books, but everyhing that has come out since has been IMNSHO pretty pathetic. BTW a scanner with OCR would be a great thing for Project Gutenburg
but honestly, if you don't like his posts DON'T READ THEM
This problem may cause people who use multiple ISP's to stop using the other ISP because they can connect to AOL and not to the other ISP, AOL's help line says that its the other ISP's fault and the other ISP lose their irate customer. Lots of customers will change ISP's when they get poor service/connection, I know that I have several times. Besides the other ISP's being unfairly disadvantaged there is the issue of dailing banks to transfer an EFT, a large company can spend a VERY large amount of money to get things working when they can't pay their employees, there was a case here in Australia a month or two ago when the State Bank EFT transfer system when down for a day (on payday), I work supporting a payroll program and the phones where flat out all day with people trying to figure out what was wrong with our program when it was in fact the state banks problem (I know I suffered a great deal of abuse from Irate, computer illiterate payroll clerks). If AOL 5.0 kills your DUN settings and you don't find out until payday (which is bad enough without EFT problems) it could delay pays until the next day (if you miss the cutoff time for the EFT) this is a very bad thing, employees have lost there houses/cars/etc due to getting a late pay, AOL stuffing up DUN is NOT an inconveniance.
This may be slightly OT, but a few weeks (months?) ago there was a story on a robot (CYE?), this has always been a topic of interest to me and most geeks (most toys are of interest to geeks, and a robot is a very fun toy) I have wanted to fool around with robots for years, but seeing CYE gave me an idea, why make a robot, why not get a mobile computer with a wireless network card a digital video camera ect, I'm sure that you can see the potential, about this point I started researching wireless networking, I couldn't find much info on the internet, and the people at the local computer shops didn't know much, (there are only 3 or 4 shops here in Coffs Harbour, Australia), eventually I got the name "bluetooth" from someone at the local electronics shop but I couldn't find anything else. the entire concept is this, have a robot (on a mobile PC) connected across a wireless LAN th a gateway server (running Debian) connected to the Internet (the robots name will be HEX, after the computer in Terry Pratchetts Discworld books) unfortunatly I don't have any info on wireless networking, could someone point me in the right direction (ISA or PCI, not PCMCIA) as a final idea, equip the robot with one of those toy gun things (I think it was the Nerf Wildfire)
I don't think so, the ridiculous law imposed here (yes, I am in .au) are not (AFAIK) enforced, the laws were made to get the vote of some fool senator, the senator didn't vote for what they wanted anyway, also it's a it hard to enforce unenforcable laws.