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This issue has been bothering me since Matrox's G200 and Rendition's V2000 (or something like that) series. A lot of benchmarks put these cards near the bottom of the heap for various reasons, but one thing that was attractive about these cards was the fact that their visual quality was second to none.
As time went on, we saw real powerhouses from NVida which put the competition to shame, performance wise. Now we are being flooded by enourmous framerates (who remembers BitBoys claims of 200fps at 1600x1200 in Q3?), GPU's, quad texel pipelines, DDR ram, and so on and so forth.
However, has anyone considered visual quality? Having millions upon millions of polygons drawn per second may seem a real treat, but if they look ugly, then what's the point (remember the Riva 128)? Not many games are taking true advantage of all the power available, and there's always going to be a bottleneck somewhere, so I think it's time to relax, acknowledge that we don't need 200fps, and hope to see some beautful images explode onto our monitors sometime soon.
I think a database such as this is an absolute necessity.
I mean, do you have any idea how hard it is to find a public toilet of respectable quality and cleanliness? In all my years of living in Melbourne, I've only been in one, truly classy public toilet, the rest are abysmall in comparison.
I though my ISP was merely going through a bad patch, but when it takes one hour to learn that the Pentium 4 was designed with Quake3 in mind, then you know something's wrong.
Not to start a flame war, but services aside, what's Nautilus got that Konqueror doesn't? I've been using Konqueror for quite some time, and each time I use it, I'm amazed by it. Just the other day I turned on image preview mode, and woulnd't you know it, it gave a preview of the text files as well!
It seems that Nautilus may be too little too late. Had it been released before KDE 2, then matters might be different.
Hello everyone. I have been fanning a slight interest in the current US presidential elections. I am from Australia, and our electoral system is very different to the scheme currently running in the US. For starters, it is actually compulsory to vote. Though some may see this as somewhat un-democratic, it is actually very beneficial from the societal perspective as it gives us the right to complain, or congratulate our polititions. In a system where you don't have to vote, well you really don't have the jurisdiction to complain if the outcome is not in your favour.
Another interesting thing is the type of candidate we get. Our federal elections, though on the outside may appear to be a personality conest, in the end, our citizens do vote for the person who can get the job done. Our current Prime Minister (John Howard), is deemed by many to be pretty much a joke. Gosh knows how many times he's embarrased himself, yet he gets the job done. The opposition leader (Kim Beazley), on the other hand, is the most cuddly, adorable person in politics, yet, in the end, he lost an unlosable election (the main issue was tax reform, during which the opposition campainged a whole lot of FUD, yet when the system came into place this year, the general verdict was, 'hey, it's actually pretty good!').
I think it's a shame that the US elections are a personality contest. Clearly Gore is the right man for the job. Though he may appear robotic in exterior, he doesn't seem to be the sort of person who'll muck things up. Being the most powerful country in the world, the US simply cannot afford having a person with little expertise at the helm. I also think that it's an even bigger shame that there will be some people who won't take advantage of the opportunity to vote simply because the weather may not be in their favour, hence potentially jeapordising the outcome. if I'm not mistaken, the average turnout is about 50%. That really is an appalling figure. For a nation of people renouned for their patriotism, it is quite sad that half of them don't care who's in charge.
Not to sound naive, but even though this may not be an immediate threat to the entire planet, a 1-3 megaton impact will still cause a lot of damage and kill a lot of people, especially if it were to land in a populous area.
Though the odds are 500 to 1, that still means there's a 500 to 1 chance that millions of lives could be lost. Sure millions aren't billions, but they are lives, and even if a tiny number of lives are lost, it will still a catastrophe. Of course, with the population explosion in full force, chances are that any potential life loss will be dramatic.
Of course, should this 500 to 1 object land in a non poplulous area, at least it will open the eyes to world governments that there are threats other than those immediately on earth.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather the 10 or so packages required for a fully functional KDE dekstop (KOffice, network stuff, multimedia etc), as opposed to the plethora of packages required to get the same functionality out of GNOME.
The KDE team have done a wonderful job keeping KDE together. I salute you!
I love my NES. I can't bring myself to get rid of it, and frankly, I'm glad I've kept it. I now have a 5 year old niece learning to play video games, and it's great watching her play classic games such as Mario, and Zelda.
It seems that the majority of complaints with RedHat 7 are to do with the compiler. In all honesty, these complaints are unjustified. If your Linux knowledge is at such a level that you are compiling programs rather than using RPM's, and can actually differentiate between compilers, then build your own! That is the beauty of OpenSource.
When I first started using Linux it took some 3 months until I was actually compiling programs from their source with confidence. However, I am not every other Linux user. Chances are that a lot of the new converts, have converted because they want a change from more mainstream OS's. These people will probably never compile a program in their life, and probably don't even know what GCC is. They'll be content using RPM's for all their Linux life, and though they may never enjoy the satisfaction that comes from compiling a program from its source, they will know the joy of using an open, and reliable OS that does what it's supposed to do, when it's supposed to do it.
What is everyone complaining about? I recently installed RH7 on a freinds computer, and it was the most pleasant and painless installation I've ever gone through. It's great!
Best distro ever!
I'm just wondering how stable this arrangments going to be, and how long it can last. I mean, what's going to stop one Microsoft from bying the other, once again leaving one company?
I think you lot should go easy on Mozilla, remember these are "snapshots", not official releases. Though it's true that it is a bit slow, the latest builds are a hell of a lot faster than the older builds, and in only a few days use, I can honestly say that Mozilla rocks!
So where does this discovery leave gravity? I'm not studying physics (yet), but I do read a lot of books on the subject. One of the things I thought was considered as dogma, was the fact that gravity was a consequence of the curvature of the universe.
I remember reading of a rumor not too long ago, the Lucas was planning to realease TPM on DVD only. Strange that. Glad he retracted on the one or we'd be waiting a very long time.
Desmond, I'm going to miss you. You always lit up my day (or evening) with your quick wit and brilliant gadgets. John Cleese? Good luck, you have big shoes to fill.
Everyone's been posting about downloads, and gripes with drivers, but has anyone actually played the game? I've got good performance with my G400, but I want to know if the latest build is actually faster.
I've tried out XFCE a few times, and of all the window manager I've used, it is the fastest, most stable one out there. Unlike others which take a short while to Load (ie, KDE), this one is ready within seconds. It's not as customisable or as functional as KDE or Gnome, but with a bit of effort and tinkering, it is definitely the best window manager out there.
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As time went on, we saw real powerhouses from NVida which put the competition to shame, performance wise. Now we are being flooded by enourmous framerates (who remembers BitBoys claims of 200fps at 1600x1200 in Q3?), GPU's, quad texel pipelines, DDR ram, and so on and so forth.
However, has anyone considered visual quality? Having millions upon millions of polygons drawn per second may seem a real treat, but if they look ugly, then what's the point (remember the Riva 128)? Not many games are taking true advantage of all the power available, and there's always going to be a bottleneck somewhere, so I think it's time to relax, acknowledge that we don't need 200fps, and hope to see some beautful images explode onto our monitors sometime soon.
I mean, do you have any idea how hard it is to find a public toilet of respectable quality and cleanliness? In all my years of living in Melbourne, I've only been in one, truly classy public toilet, the rest are abysmall in comparison.
I though my ISP was merely going through a bad patch, but when it takes one hour to learn that the Pentium 4 was designed with Quake3 in mind, then you know something's wrong.
President Bush, in order to maintain relations with our allies, you will be required to visit Australia next week.
The reply:
Australia? I've always wanted to see Vienna!
All I've been hearing is .NET this, .NET that, .NET is revolutionary, but not a thing on what it is!
It seems that Nautilus may be too little too late. Had it been released before KDE 2, then matters might be different.
Another interesting thing is the type of candidate we get. Our federal elections, though on the outside may appear to be a personality conest, in the end, our citizens do vote for the person who can get the job done. Our current Prime Minister (John Howard), is deemed by many to be pretty much a joke. Gosh knows how many times he's embarrased himself, yet he gets the job done. The opposition leader (Kim Beazley), on the other hand, is the most cuddly, adorable person in politics, yet, in the end, he lost an unlosable election (the main issue was tax reform, during which the opposition campainged a whole lot of FUD, yet when the system came into place this year, the general verdict was, 'hey, it's actually pretty good!').
I think it's a shame that the US elections are a personality contest. Clearly Gore is the right man for the job. Though he may appear robotic in exterior, he doesn't seem to be the sort of person who'll muck things up. Being the most powerful country in the world, the US simply cannot afford having a person with little expertise at the helm. I also think that it's an even bigger shame that there will be some people who won't take advantage of the opportunity to vote simply because the weather may not be in their favour, hence potentially jeapordising the outcome. if I'm not mistaken, the average turnout is about 50%. That really is an appalling figure. For a nation of people renouned for their patriotism, it is quite sad that half of them don't care who's in charge.
Not to sound naive, but even though this may not be an immediate threat to the entire planet, a 1-3 megaton impact will still cause a lot of damage and kill a lot of people, especially if it were to land in a populous area.
Though the odds are 500 to 1, that still means there's a 500 to 1 chance that millions of lives could be lost. Sure millions aren't billions, but they are lives, and even if a tiny number of lives are lost, it will still a catastrophe. Of course, with the population explosion in full force, chances are that any potential life loss will be dramatic.
Of course, should this 500 to 1 object land in a non poplulous area, at least it will open the eyes to world governments that there are threats other than those immediately on earth.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather the 10 or so packages required for a fully functional KDE dekstop (KOffice, network stuff, multimedia etc), as opposed to the plethora of packages required to get the same functionality out of GNOME.
The KDE team have done a wonderful job keeping KDE together. I salute you!
I know it's late, but I'll post anyway =)
How many times has Micro$oft claimed that Linux is NOT competition? Numerous times methinks, and yet they advertise about it.
It truly is the lowest for of advertising when you're slandering your non competitor.
I love my NES. I can't bring myself to get rid of it, and frankly, I'm glad I've kept it. I now have a 5 year old niece learning to play video games, and it's great watching her play classic games such as Mario, and Zelda.
It seems that the majority of complaints with RedHat 7 are to do with the compiler. In all honesty, these complaints are unjustified. If your Linux knowledge is at such a level that you are compiling programs rather than using RPM's, and can actually differentiate between compilers, then build your own! That is the beauty of OpenSource.
When I first started using Linux it took some 3 months until I was actually compiling programs from their source with confidence. However, I am not every other Linux user. Chances are that a lot of the new converts, have converted because they want a change from more mainstream OS's. These people will probably never compile a program in their life, and probably don't even know what GCC is. They'll be content using RPM's for all their Linux life, and though they may never enjoy the satisfaction that comes from compiling a program from its source, they will know the joy of using an open, and reliable OS that does what it's supposed to do, when it's supposed to do it.
What is everyone complaining about? I recently installed RH7 on a freinds computer, and it was the most pleasant and painless installation I've ever gone through. It's great!
Best distro ever!
You think you know someone...
Does Stallman have anything better to do than bitch about licensing issues associated with quiality programs?
I'm just wondering how stable this arrangments going to be, and how long it can last.
I mean, what's going to stop one Microsoft from bying the other, once again leaving one company?
I think you lot should go easy on Mozilla, remember these are "snapshots", not official releases.
Though it's true that it is a bit slow, the latest builds are a hell of a lot faster than the older builds, and in only a few days use, I can honestly say that Mozilla rocks!
So where does this discovery leave gravity?
I'm not studying physics (yet), but I do read a lot of books on the subject.
One of the things I thought was considered as dogma, was the fact that gravity was a consequence of the curvature of the universe.
Now what?
I remember reading of a rumor not too long ago, the Lucas was planning to realease TPM on DVD only.
Strange that. Glad he retracted on the one or we'd be waiting a very long time.
Why is almost everyone under the mis-understanding that the X-box will be a good product?
Just something I thought was pretty cool: Running Quake3 on Mandrake 6.1 yeilds a 0.3fps boost over RedHat 6.1!
Desmond, I'm going to miss you. You always lit up my day (or evening) with your quick wit and brilliant gadgets. John Cleese? Good luck, you have big shoes to fill.
You know what? The thing flies!
Everyone's been posting about downloads, and gripes with drivers, but has anyone actually played the game? I've got good performance with my G400, but I want to know if the latest build is actually faster.
I've tried out XFCE a few times, and of all the window manager I've used, it is the fastest, most stable one out there. Unlike others which take a short while to Load (ie, KDE), this one is ready within seconds. It's not as customisable or as functional as KDE or Gnome, but with a bit of effort and tinkering, it is definitely the best window manager out there.