Except that the situation with nVidia = good and ATi = bad has existed for more than 1.5 years in the past, and will likely continue.
The funny thing is that your analogy is irrelevant anyway because generally you replace video cards between 1 and 2 years anyway. You can pick nvidia now and have good drivers, and in 1.5 years if ATi has good drivers you can switch then. Candy now and forever.
Unless you don't use them for gaming, in which case both brands and driver variants (ATi, nVidia, binary and OSS) all work fine and it doesn't matter which one you pick.
Why would you care? Why does it even matter, compared to GPU load vs idle power consumption? Are you one of those terminally retarded morons that plays nex-gen games on a laptop with the graphics settings all the way up on battery?
And, for a desktop, why power usage of DX11 vs DX9 enter into your buying decisions at all? You already know the computer is going to suck tons of power while rendering. The only thing that matters is how much power it draws when it's not being used.
You're a big man, you called me a fagot! Wow! Did it bother you to get called out?
Called out, wait, what?
Get out a bit more and you'll find more people actually do get bugged by this because they don't limit their computing to a box on a table.
Ignoring your first implication, I've never heard any of this. Why? Because people don't actually care. It's just you. Additionally, are you implying that laptops use different USB receptacles than desktops? I have news for you: they're all Type A, and USB Type A is not a confusing port.
But we should just lay down and let the manufactures make us all just buy yet another useless connecter except when we want to do what computer are great at and maybe communicate.
Trying to read around your mangling of the English language, I beleve that you are implying that there is something that can stop manufacturers from making pointlessly proprietary ports. Enlighten us as to your plan, then. Oh, that's right, all you know how to do is bitch and moan.
Great solution you have there; add more dongles.
I'd ask you to fail harder, but I don't think you can.
The connectors on the case, or the I/O plate, you helpless faggot. Literally nothing will stop manufacturers from making their own randomly shaped shit.
If you are one of the eight people in the world that is truly bothered by this, you can go buy a pack of adapters on eBay for $0.49 USD.
Mice: used to be serial or ps/2; now: USB. Keyboards: serial, ps/2, AT; now: USB. External CD drives: used to be SCSI or whatever; now: USB. External HDDs, the same, even if some enthusiasts also use eSATA.
And I'll bet you have nothing at all to say about the hundreds of other little thing that use USB. Phones, flash drives, webcams, tv tuners, wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, and SO MANY MORE things I can't even remember much less have seen before.
USB promised to "replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector" and succeeded.
I love how you think that this is a new thing. For any and all types of P2P, especially the illegal kind, this has always been the case. And for all types of P2P, all the people that use it actually have the attention span and patience to filter out the garbage. I myself don't even notice it, it's completely natural. It's only your fault that you can't figure out how to use the system.
You were lied to. Additionally, you are attributing vastly more responsibility to your CPU for the performance of all of these games. Why don't you underclock your CPU and see how much effect it has on your framerates? Yes, even to 2GHz and below.
The HD 3870 was released in October 2007, Fallout 3 was released in November 2008. Those other games, around the same time. Barely a year apart, those games were designed to run on those exact games: not the 4870 which was released barely months before.
On top of that, the 3870 was almost the top of the line card for the 3000 series. It's no surprise that it can handle those games. The people that develop them are not stupid. They do not expect people to buy a new graphics card just to play their game. It will run on the cards released not even a year ago, and it will run well. Expecting it not to is foolishness.
I don't recommend clicking on that link. It's rather broken and quite unhealthy for your browser. At least Firefox. NoScript will prevent it from maxing out a core, though. A remarkable number of errors... Posting anon because I modded the comment down.
Back in the day, cd-rom drives already had a "play" button. they had next and previous buttons too. They used these to play music cds, and I assume pass the signal through the audio card. (ever notice a 4-pin header on the back of the drive? even new cd-roms have this, even though it's pretty much useless now)
A second play button would only confuse the user. And make the hardware protocol more complicated needlessly, since that feature can be executed in software soooooooooo much more easily.
And, in case you didn't know, you can disable autorun and still keep the "doubleclick on drive icon -> autorun" functionality in windows.
You can print a thin hologram out using a laser printer and transparencies. You can even display a hologram on a TFT.
I like how you conveniently forget that you have to buy a highly specialized laser printer and transparencies to accomplish that. And the "display a hologram on a TFT is completely ridiculous. I assume you're talking about this A few nvidia supercomputers running 65 projectors into a screen? Yup, feasible.
never seen it before
2.2ghz
i have noscript installed, but it does not block slashdot.org, only the non-/. scripts on the/. homepage (google-analytics.com, jobthread.com, and doubleclick.net)
the homepage takes about a quarter second to load
Slashdot Mirror
Intel CPUs are almost always more tolerant of heat than that. 95-105C is closer to their thermal auto-off switch in reality.
This has been a feature since microsoft introduced NTFS. Which is long before vista.
...first post? There must be a mistake.
The plan you're talking about is called "Prepaid," FYI.
Google is amazing
http://crackberry.com/adobe-flash-now-arriving-blackberry-second-half-2010
I'm sure if you press F5 fast enough it'll eventually load.
Except that the situation with nVidia = good and ATi = bad has existed for more than 1.5 years in the past, and will likely continue.
The funny thing is that your analogy is irrelevant anyway because generally you replace video cards between 1 and 2 years anyway. You can pick nvidia now and have good drivers, and in 1.5 years if ATi has good drivers you can switch then. Candy now and forever.
Unless you don't use them for gaming, in which case both brands and driver variants (ATi, nVidia, binary and OSS) all work fine and it doesn't matter which one you pick.
Oh, god, why?
Why would you care? Why does it even matter, compared to GPU load vs idle power consumption? Are you one of those terminally retarded morons that plays nex-gen games on a laptop with the graphics settings all the way up on battery?
And, for a desktop, why power usage of DX11 vs DX9 enter into your buying decisions at all? You already know the computer is going to suck tons of power while rendering. The only thing that matters is how much power it draws when it's not being used.
No prob.
I'm sorry it took so long to do the convincing, and for the language.
First of all, good job replying to my flamebait.
You're a big man, you called me a fagot! Wow! Did it bother you to get called out?
Called out, wait, what?
Get out a bit more and you'll find more people actually do get bugged by this because they don't limit their computing to a box on a table.
Ignoring your first implication, I've never heard any of this.
Why? Because people don't actually care. It's just you. Additionally, are you implying that laptops use different USB receptacles than desktops? I have news for you: they're all Type A, and USB Type A is not a confusing port.
But we should just lay down and let the manufactures make us all just buy yet another useless connecter except when we want to do what computer are great at and maybe communicate.
Trying to read around your mangling of the English language, I beleve that you are implying that there is something that can stop manufacturers from making pointlessly proprietary ports. Enlighten us as to your plan, then.
Oh, that's right, all you know how to do is bitch and moan.
Great solution you have there; add more dongles.
I'd ask you to fail harder, but I don't think you can.
The connectors on the case, or the I/O plate, you helpless faggot. Literally nothing will stop manufacturers from making their own randomly shaped shit.
If you are one of the eight people in the world that is truly bothered by this, you can go buy a pack of adapters on eBay for $0.49 USD.
Except that no, you're wrong.
Why have you so quickly forgotten USB?
Mice: used to be serial or ps/2; now: USB.
Keyboards: serial, ps/2, AT; now: USB.
External CD drives: used to be SCSI or whatever; now: USB.
External HDDs, the same, even if some enthusiasts also use eSATA.
And I'll bet you have nothing at all to say about the hundreds of other little thing that use USB. Phones, flash drives, webcams, tv tuners, wifi, ethernet, bluetooth, and SO MANY MORE things I can't even remember much less have seen before.
USB promised to "replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector" and succeeded.
The hell are you talking about?
It clearly says the touchscreens are OLED. Where is this 1996 coming from?
I wouldn't worry about this test if I were you.
You will obviously use any justification to keep using Safari over any other browser.
Just ignore this and all other benchmarks and you will continue to be happy.
I love how you think that this is a new thing.
For any and all types of P2P, especially the illegal kind, this has always been the case. And for all types of P2P, all the people that use it actually have the attention span and patience to filter out the garbage. I myself don't even notice it, it's completely natural.
It's only your fault that you can't figure out how to use the system.
Batteries are heavy.
Figure out why they didn't make one part of the glove yourself.
Apologize.
surely the user agent switcher works?
You were lied to.
Additionally, you are attributing vastly more responsibility to your CPU for the performance of all of these games. Why don't you underclock your CPU and see how much effect it has on your framerates? Yes, even to 2GHz and below.
The HD 3870 was released in October 2007, Fallout 3 was released in November 2008. Those other games, around the same time. Barely a year apart, those games were designed to run on those exact games: not the 4870 which was released barely months before.
On top of that, the 3870 was almost the top of the line card for the 3000 series. It's no surprise that it can handle those games. The people that develop them are not stupid. They do not expect people to buy a new graphics card just to play their game. It will run on the cards released not even a year ago, and it will run well. Expecting it not to is foolishness.
Sheesh
I don't recommend clicking on that link.
It's rather broken and quite unhealthy for your browser.
At least Firefox. NoScript will prevent it from maxing out a core, though. A remarkable number of errors...
Posting anon because I modded the comment down.
If you're smart enough to disable autorun, then you're not dumb enough to not notice multiple "Open" and "Explore" entries. Give up.
Don't be talking about "Back in the day"
Back in the day, cd-rom drives already had a "play" button. they had next and previous buttons too. They used these to play music cds, and I assume pass the signal through the audio card. (ever notice a 4-pin header on the back of the drive? even new cd-roms have this, even though it's pretty much useless now)
A second play button would only confuse the user. And make the hardware protocol more complicated needlessly, since that feature can be executed in software soooooooooo much more easily.
And, in case you didn't know, you can disable autorun and still keep the "doubleclick on drive icon -> autorun" functionality in windows.
And finally, lrn2paragraphs.
You can print a thin hologram out using a laser printer and transparencies. You can even display a hologram on a TFT.
I like how you conveniently forget that you have to buy a highly specialized laser printer and transparencies to accomplish that.
And the "display a hologram on a TFT is completely ridiculous. I assume you're talking about this A few nvidia supercomputers running 65 projectors into a screen? Yup, feasible.
never seen it before /. homepage (google-analytics.com, jobthread.com, and doubleclick.net)
2.2ghz
i have noscript installed, but it does not block slashdot.org, only the non-/. scripts on the
the homepage takes about a quarter second to load
wow, what's your cpu clock speed? that is hilarious