I have never needed to tinker with my audio for the last 8 years with Linux.
I've had a Pentium 2, an AMD 2800 and currently a Phenome 9950 X4. My Eee PC 900 (Celeron version) was also just working. An Pentium Dual Core Dell office pc and a Dell Precision with a Core 2 Duo...
Audio problems? Linux? I know some Alsa drivers are truly crappy. So crappy and buggy that PulseAudio doesn't work. But PulseAudio never failed me, except once with that Dell Precision for the first two Ubuntu releases that shipped PulseAudio but after that the driver got fixed.
I have been not installing drivers for all my computers in 8 years with Linux.
I suggest you always do your homework before you buy your new computer, instead of afterwards. Saves you a whooooooooole lot of trouble.
Dedicated Ray Tracer my fscking ass! That's a database card so data can be searched for realy fast. It's going to cost you a fortune to get that crapass, non-standard card.
"Licensed for AMD/Ati, nVidia and Intel"? ROFL they are using OpenCL for crying out loud!
How about removing the OpenCL layer and turn your GPU straight _INTO_ a ray tracing processing unit?
BTW that old tech is very slow. Realtime as in "Let's render this few frames like this first and then when the camera stands still enhance it slowly." Yeah from that perspective I can play Crysis under Wine on a Voodoo card on the highest settings...
The pattern that your brain likes to see in everything is actually cause and effect. Just because I write it down like a process doesn't _make_ it a process.
Will everyone please stop bitching about ilegal copies? And while you're at it, stop mixing up the term piracy with ilegal copying.
Start looking at how much money you are _MAKING_ and not at what money you are _NOT_ making. For fsck sake, the software industry is the only industry that is bitching about how much they didn't make. It's almost if they are all depressed.
The fun part is that they are even screwing themselves in the proces because piracy will always be around. DRM only exists just to block second hand sales and the industry bloody well knows that.
Now how about your customers then? The people who give you the money? Are you sure you want to screw _THEM_ over? That doesn't realy sound like a good idea to me, but it will bite you in the ass. But then it will be too late for you.
Did anyone take a look at the Humble Indie Bundle?:
>Humble update: open source extension (5/11/10) > >The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, 138,813 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,273,613. Of this, >contributors chose to allocate 30.85% to charity: $392,953 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. I have made a page for the full breakdown including the merchant >fees in a JSON format here (json). > >Now it's our turn to give back. As of 5/11/10, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture pledge to go open source. We are preparing the sources right now and will be releasing them >ASAP. We spent last night preparing Lugaru and it is available now. Update: All sources have been released! Aquaria, Gish, Penumbra, and Lugaru! > >Note, the games will be "free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'": see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week -- stay tuned. It is the underlying >code that will be made available to everyone. >
People are actually out there willing to pay for software. But if you screw them then they will screw you.
In the mean time you can all fsck of. Next weak I'm buying the DRM-free Penumbra Collection for $20 thruough PayPal, directly to the developpers. Linux release included. Who's with me?
"So I said 'Where's the dinosaurs?'" I don't believe in God, like I already said. Especialy not in any one of the religions out there. Better yet, if he would exist then I am going to seriously kick him very, very hard in the balls after I get passed that gate of heaven and if I won't get in I will break in. I'm that pissed of about certain things.
But thanks for the effort of blocking my effort to open the door to science for fierce legilious people.
Could be. Everything with religion can be mixed with science. Science is just there to try to understand what's there that is there.
If God does the selecting then you'd be talking about a devine plan (who gets to mate with who) and even that can be explaned with the Many Worlds Interpretation. Just as heaven and hell can be explained with multiple universes.
I do not believe in inteligent design, but I will also not deny other peoples believes, because who am I to claim the right to believe in what I believe if I deny others to have the right to belive in what they believe.
If you look at the top scientists, most of them believe in God:)
Microsoft isn't realy birght in that regard. They think: "Oh shit... Linux and Apple are kicking our ass with UNIX(y) operating systems!" And then they think: "Copy what they do!" And then it turns out to be half-Windows, half UNIX and fully nothing. Because let's face it: this doesn't have any purpose...
Windows 7 is what I considder the first non-sucking OS Microsoft has ever released, though. It is not always fast but OpenGL is now faster on Windows 7 with the nVidia proprietary driver then it is on Linux with the nVidia proprietary driver. That means they are no longer stabbing OpenGL. Good for us.
"I know you're just trolling, but I can't stand the stupidity of your comment." I love the lack of your contextual undrestanding.
The PC as it is today did start out as X86 IBM PC's. And I might be mistaking here but where exactly can one still buy non IBM-ish hardware today?
Oh wait... we were talking about the wether Apple computers can be regarded as PC's as well. Well then as the original poster was refering to PC Vs. Mac commercials, we can conclude this is not Apple versus the Comodore 64, or does it?
"Before IBM jumped on the bandwagon, the little computers people bought for themselves were known as personal computers" Realy, x86?
"Hey guys I'm having a Comodore 64 peesee!" -"You mean Comodore 64?" "No Comodore 64 PC!" -"Realy..."
Before Apple started shipping x86-64 CPU's nobody called them personal computers. Peronal computers were reffering to X86, legacy BIOS Intel computers in standard beige ATX cases and all the hardware that was compatible with AMD and Intel socket motherboards. C'mon.
I'm getting extensively tired from people who are saying that you get what you pay for, as if the lower the money an end-user like you would spend on it, the lower the amount of money is available to pay people to make it and thus somehow less hours are spend making it.
Wake the fsck up. Have you got any idea, whatsoever, who realy pays for Linux? How much does HP, IBM, Google, Nokia, Intel, AMD, etc. all spend on a yearly basis? Billions and billions of dollars. And then there is this concept of non-physical 'production' and volunteers and charity.
Please, for the love of whatever you believe in, make this shit-train stop at once. Thank you.
I don't know if you're sarcastic, but I can't stand the stupidity of your comment.
PC stands for Personal Computer, which was an IBM Personal Computer series model and it ran IBM_Cassette_BASIC.
Then later the IBM PC compatible clones came. Later on they stopped being hardware compatible, but since everything was written for DOS anyway, they became DOS compatible instead. Later on DOS turned to Windows and firmware turned to drivers.
All was written to run om Intel and AMD CPU's and finaly Apple trown in the towel and started to ship Intel powered computers.
So Apple computers powered by Intel CPU's are simply PC's too.
Many, many, many people who buy a new computer at least every six years are running a compositing drivern graphical user interface. You are following me, right? Good.
Wel then; a GPU is doing a bunch of things... all... the time. See? That wasn't so hard, right?
But now I am going to tell you something that might be a little bit difficult to understand. You see, in modern cards that are appearantly burning, there is no more 2D engine! OH MY GOD!
You see... it's all shaders cores now. A-hah. That's right. There is no such thing as fixed function anymore, hmkay?
Now what if I told you that there might be some naught, baaaaaad driiiivers. OH NO!
These drivers all do thermal management based on voltages, shit in the goddamned command que aaaaaaaand thermal readings! Ohhhhhhhhhhh, scary stuff.
Now if cards are overheating than the problem is either: 1. baaaaaaaaad drivers. 2. baaaaaaaaad overclockers, a-hah.
Naughty, naughty...
TL;DR: StarCraft is just being a part of all the general command ques and so these cards suffer from moron owners that overclock their cards. There is a reason cards are not clocked higher because if AMD and nVidia could do this in stiff competition then they would have already done that.
"Hey Google. Heh, you old search giant! Did you know-" -"Sue us and we'll make this court thing cost you way more money than you could possible make from the Pac-Man IP." "I was just about to tell you it was going to be a hot day today, so you might want to keep an eye on the airconditioning for your servers... Hey it's this late already? Geez gotta pick up my kids from school."
Well for some it's 'pokeing' their eyes twice a day versus social difficulties and inconveniences like going to the movies with someone or putting on a helmet if you have a bike, etc.
nVidia cards suck. That's because they use a design that not only works terrible with lots of triangles per pixel, but they also do not excel at higher resoultions. This design also results in higher power consumption.
If that didn't suck already, their drivers are already optimised to the max of the driver teams imagination and so only faster cards can bump the speed higher, whilst ATI is kicking their ass and their drivers have gone through a total rewrite two years or so ago and so new driver releases up the speed of your already bought cards much higher.
This al means that with the death of fixed function cards nVidia is losing. Take a look at their stock. nVidia might be going under unless they completely revamp their design, which they won't because that would mean zero optimisations for doing it from sqaure one.
Also AMD is releasing documentation for FLOSS drivers, with the exception of anything DRM related and some optimised circuitry. Although as I already told you the speed comes from optimising the drivers themselves, because the FLOSS drivers stress those cards to the near max already with much less FPS.
That's the point, moron! StarCraft is supposed to overheat at drawing a lot of low-detail scenes. Glxgears is the _PERFECT_ example of cranking out a rediculous amount of frame at the most totaly _BASIC_ scenery.
Now given that a lot of this shit does happen with _COMPOSITING_ all the time (Windows 7 Aero with blurey windows) and the fact that it _DOES NOT_ happen with _OPEN MUTHERFUCKING COMPUTE LANGUAGE_ then it might be the god damned _FRAME BUFFER_ you _TOTAL FUCKTARD_.
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I have never needed to tinker with my audio for the last 8 years with Linux.
I've had a Pentium 2, an AMD 2800 and currently a Phenome 9950 X4. My Eee PC 900 (Celeron version) was also just working. An Pentium Dual Core Dell office pc and a Dell Precision with a Core 2 Duo...
Audio problems? Linux? I know some Alsa drivers are truly crappy. So crappy and buggy that PulseAudio doesn't work. But PulseAudio never failed me, except once with that Dell Precision for the first two Ubuntu releases that shipped PulseAudio but after that the driver got fixed.
I have been not installing drivers for all my computers in 8 years with Linux.
I suggest you always do your homework before you buy your new computer, instead of afterwards. Saves you a whooooooooole lot of trouble.
Dedicated Ray Tracer my fscking ass! That's a database card so data can be searched for realy fast. It's going to cost you a fortune to get that crapass, non-standard card.
"Licensed for AMD/Ati, nVidia and Intel"? ROFL they are using OpenCL for crying out loud!
How about removing the OpenCL layer and turn your GPU straight _INTO_ a ray tracing processing unit?
BTW that old tech is very slow. Realtime as in "Let's render this few frames like this first and then when the camera stands still enhance it slowly." Yeah from that perspective I can play Crysis under Wine on a Voodoo card on the highest settings...
Create a Gallium3D state tracker and run your raytracing native on both Radeon and nVidia cards (although nVidia's Gallium driver is godawfuly slow.
You can currently only do that on Linux.
Escaping earths orbit, walking on the moon and then making it back alive is sort of somewhat of an evolution to me, but hey...
The pattern that your brain likes to see in everything is actually cause and effect. Just because I write it down like a process doesn't _make_ it a process.
Will everyone please stop bitching about ilegal copies? And while you're at it, stop mixing up the term piracy with ilegal copying.
Start looking at how much money you are _MAKING_ and not at what money you are _NOT_ making. For fsck sake, the software industry is the only industry that is bitching about how much they didn't make. It's almost if they are all depressed.
The fun part is that they are even screwing themselves in the proces because piracy will always be around. DRM only exists just to block second hand sales and the industry bloody well knows that.
Now how about your customers then? The people who give you the money? Are you sure you want to screw _THEM_ over? That doesn't realy sound like a good idea to me, but it will bite you in the ass. But then it will be too late for you.
Did anyone take a look at the Humble Indie Bundle?:
>Humble update: open source extension (5/11/10)
>
>The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, 138,813 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,273,613. Of this, >contributors chose to allocate 30.85% to charity: $392,953 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. I have made a page for the full breakdown including the merchant >fees in a JSON format here (json).
>
>Now it's our turn to give back. As of 5/11/10, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture pledge to go open source. We are preparing the sources right now and will be releasing them >ASAP. We spent last night preparing Lugaru and it is available now. Update: All sources have been released! Aquaria, Gish, Penumbra, and Lugaru!
>
>Note, the games will be "free as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'": see each license for the full, finalized details as they come out very hopefully this week -- stay tuned. It is the underlying >code that will be made available to everyone.
>
People are actually out there willing to pay for software. But if you screw them then they will screw you.
In the mean time you can all fsck of. Next weak I'm buying the DRM-free Penumbra Collection for $20 thruough PayPal, directly to the developpers. Linux release included. Who's with me?
"So I said 'Where's the dinosaurs?'"
I don't believe in God, like I already said. Especialy not in any one of the religions out there.
Better yet, if he would exist then I am going to seriously kick him very, very hard in the balls after I get passed that gate of heaven and if I won't get in I will break in. I'm that pissed of about certain things.
But thanks for the effort of blocking my effort to open the door to science for fierce legilious people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052801856.html
Could be. Everything with religion can be mixed with science. Science is just there to try to understand what's there that is there.
If God does the selecting then you'd be talking about a devine plan (who gets to mate with who) and even that can be explaned with the Many Worlds Interpretation. Just as heaven and hell can be explained with multiple universes.
I do not believe in inteligent design, but I will also not deny other peoples believes, because who am I to claim the right to believe in what I believe if I deny others to have the right to belive in what they believe.
If you look at the top scientists, most of them believe in God :)
Evolution isn't some process, it's a phenomenon.
Genes get mixed and mutate and everything turns to chaos.
What survives and duplicates gets to the next level. That which dies cannot duplicate and dies.
How simple do you want it? This is where you stop thinking, God or no god.
Microsoft isn't realy birght in that regard. They think:
"Oh shit... Linux and Apple are kicking our ass with UNIX(y) operating systems!"
And then they think:
"Copy what they do!"
And then it turns out to be half-Windows, half UNIX and fully nothing. Because let's face it: this doesn't have any purpose...
Windows 7 is what I considder the first non-sucking OS Microsoft has ever released, though. It is not always fast but OpenGL is now faster on Windows 7 with the nVidia proprietary driver then it is on Linux with the nVidia proprietary driver. That means they are no longer stabbing OpenGL. Good for us.
Wait a minute, wasn't Steve Jobs the guy who's alway testing it and sending it back and forth until he thinks it is OK?
So if the antenna sucks, then why did Steve Jobs approve it then?
I guess Steve was a bit angry and just took it out on the guy who designed the antenna. Good for him, though; now he can get a real Job.
"I know you're just trolling, but I can't stand the stupidity of your comment."
I love the lack of your contextual undrestanding.
The PC as it is today did start out as X86 IBM PC's. And I might be mistaking here but where exactly can one still buy non IBM-ish hardware today?
Oh wait... we were talking about the wether Apple computers can be regarded as PC's as well. Well then as the original poster was refering to PC Vs. Mac commercials, we can conclude this is not Apple versus the Comodore 64, or does it?
At least you tried...
"Before IBM jumped on the bandwagon, the little computers people bought for themselves were known as personal computers"
Realy, x86?
"Hey guys I'm having a Comodore 64 peesee!"
-"You mean Comodore 64?"
"No Comodore 64 PC!"
-"Realy..."
Before Apple started shipping x86-64 CPU's nobody called them personal computers. Peronal computers were reffering to X86, legacy BIOS Intel computers in standard beige ATX cases and all the hardware that was compatible with AMD and Intel socket motherboards. C'mon.
I'm getting extensively tired from people who are saying that you get what you pay for, as if the lower the money an end-user like you would spend on it, the lower the amount of money is available to pay people to make it and thus somehow less hours are spend making it.
Wake the fsck up. Have you got any idea, whatsoever, who realy pays for Linux? How much does HP, IBM, Google, Nokia, Intel, AMD, etc. all spend on a yearly basis? Billions and billions of dollars. And then there is this concept of non-physical 'production' and volunteers and charity.
Please, for the love of whatever you believe in, make this shit-train stop at once. Thank you.
I don't know if you're sarcastic, but I can't stand the stupidity of your comment.
PC stands for Personal Computer, which was an IBM Personal Computer series model and it ran IBM_Cassette_BASIC.
Then later the IBM PC compatible clones came. Later on they stopped being hardware compatible, but since everything was written for DOS anyway, they became DOS compatible instead. Later on DOS turned to Windows and firmware turned to drivers.
All was written to run om Intel and AMD CPU's and finaly Apple trown in the towel and started to ship Intel powered computers.
So Apple computers powered by Intel CPU's are simply PC's too.
Please die.
Hello geekoid, this is earth.
Many, many, many people who buy a new computer at least every six years are running a compositing drivern graphical user interface. You are following me, right? Good.
Wel then; a GPU is doing a bunch of things... all... the time. See? That wasn't so hard, right?
But now I am going to tell you something that might be a little bit difficult to understand. You see, in modern cards that are appearantly burning, there is no more 2D engine! OH MY GOD!
You see... it's all shaders cores now. A-hah. That's right. There is no such thing as fixed function anymore, hmkay?
Now what if I told you that there might be some naught, baaaaaad driiiivers. OH NO!
These drivers all do thermal management based on voltages, shit in the goddamned command que aaaaaaaand thermal readings! Ohhhhhhhhhhh, scary stuff.
Now if cards are overheating than the problem is either:
1. baaaaaaaaad drivers.
2. baaaaaaaaad overclockers, a-hah.
Naughty, naughty...
TL;DR:
StarCraft is just being a part of all the general command ques and so these cards suffer from moron owners that overclock their cards. There is a reason cards are not clocked higher because if AMD and nVidia could do this in stiff competition then they would have already done that.
"Hey Google. Heh, you old search giant! Did you know-"
-"Sue us and we'll make this court thing cost you way more money than you could possible make from the Pac-Man IP."
"I was just about to tell you it was going to be a hot day today, so you might want to keep an eye on the airconditioning for your servers... Hey it's this late already? Geez gotta pick up my kids from school."
A chair with motion blur :)
And for Apple you use Steve heil!
Well for some it's 'pokeing' their eyes twice a day versus social difficulties and inconveniences like going to the movies with someone or putting on a helmet if you have a bike, etc.
Might wanne keep that in mind.
nVidia cards suck. That's because they use a design that not only works terrible with lots of triangles per pixel, but they also do not excel at higher resoultions. This design also results in higher power consumption.
If that didn't suck already, their drivers are already optimised to the max of the driver teams imagination and so only faster cards can bump the speed higher, whilst ATI is kicking their ass and their drivers have gone through a total rewrite two years or so ago and so new driver releases up the speed of your already bought cards much higher.
This al means that with the death of fixed function cards nVidia is losing. Take a look at their stock. nVidia might be going under unless they completely revamp their design, which they won't because that would mean zero optimisations for doing it from sqaure one.
Also AMD is releasing documentation for FLOSS drivers, with the exception of anything DRM related and some optimised circuitry. Although as I already told you the speed comes from optimising the drivers themselves, because the FLOSS drivers stress those cards to the near max already with much less FPS.
That's the point, moron! StarCraft is supposed to overheat at drawing a lot of low-detail scenes. Glxgears is the _PERFECT_ example of cranking out a rediculous amount of frame at the most totaly _BASIC_ scenery.
Now given that a lot of this shit does happen with _COMPOSITING_ all the time (Windows 7 Aero with blurey windows) and the fact that it _DOES NOT_ happen with _OPEN MUTHERFUCKING COMPUTE LANGUAGE_ then it might be the god damned _FRAME BUFFER_ you _TOTAL FUCKTARD_.
Now get the _FUCK_ of my lawn...
In that case I am sorry :(
Only if more than two humans manage to have a completely differently behaving brain. So no...
con.... tacts.... ? What are those?