Since I had never, EVER heard of Starz before this article, I thought it was rather trivial. Interesting to know how many licenses they apparently own.
Heck, the first version of NT back in 1990-whatever even put the graphics driver in usermode: if your graphics driver crashed, the system would just restart it.
I actually experience this with ATI drivers on Windows. It's quite useful to be able to keep working even if the graphical system crashes.
Yes. Yes, it matters. I have a dual core 1.2Ghz laptop and some HTML5 (and actually Flash too) games still run like shit. They're just simple game, I know they have to perform better.
Oh, and page loading isn't too great either. Especially when I have many tabs opened.
I answer with a more important question: does it need to run Noscript?
Chrome for example can block individual scripts all by itself. No extension required. Of course, something to handle clickjacking and those kinds of tricks would still be nice.
Mandriva also stays updated, though, unlike DOS 6.0 or Windows NT. So it's just been around longer. It's kind of like comparing C++, an old but more or less still living language, to COBOL, a much older but more or less dead language.
Use it because you have the balls to stray from your mundane little group of popular branded products, unlike Ubuntu users.
Don't judge entire groups of people like that. There's plenty of people who used to use Ubuntu and now use something else (me included). And I couldn't care less about popular branded products.
Rather than 3D, you could say it's specialized support for these technologies is fazed out. It's not like they won't be usable anymore, though, as has been said. They'll just use the more general methods that provide less to no specialized acceleration.
This is news because the devs of a rather large important piece of software made an announcement regarding a wide range of old hardware. Seems newsworthy enough to me. Might not be to you, but it certainly piqued my interest.
Are they supposed to switch? They bought an expensive graphics package, for crying out loud.
No, the GIMP is more useful for people who like me, who don't even want to think about cashing out too much cash for something that is ultimately only marginally better than the GIMP.
Personally, I tried it for a few weeks. It's almost workable enough, but there were some big flaws that now make me use something else. Until they fix it. Which apparently they're trying to do now.
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Since I had never, EVER heard of Starz before this article, I thought it was rather trivial. Interesting to know how many licenses they apparently own.
That sounds like a sufficient amount of Doom if you ask me.
What if the joke was actually funny enough to some to have them thumb it up? I smiled...
Heck, the first version of NT back in 1990-whatever even put the graphics driver in usermode: if your graphics driver crashed, the system would just restart it.
I actually experience this with ATI drivers on Windows. It's quite useful to be able to keep working even if the graphical system crashes.
Are you kidding? FF 6 starts in half the time of previous releases on my 5-year old laptop.
He left, so how would he know?
Only one of them runs adblock and noscript...
Maybe two years ago. ;)
Addressing their memory? :P
Yes. Yes, it matters. I have a dual core 1.2Ghz laptop and some HTML5 (and actually Flash too) games still run like shit. They're just simple game, I know they have to perform better.
Oh, and page loading isn't too great either. Especially when I have many tabs opened.
I answer with a more important question: does it need to run Noscript?
Chrome for example can block individual scripts all by itself. No extension required. Of course, something to handle clickjacking and those kinds of tricks would still be nice.
Every year is the year of the Linux Desktop for me... :)
Mandriva also stays updated, though, unlike DOS 6.0 or Windows NT. So it's just been around longer. It's kind of like comparing C++, an old but more or less still living language, to COBOL, a much older but more or less dead language.
Use it because you have the balls to stray from your mundane little group of popular branded products, unlike Ubuntu users.
Don't judge entire groups of people like that. There's plenty of people who used to use Ubuntu and now use something else (me included). And I couldn't care less about popular branded products.
$25? $35? REALLY?! Holy cow, that's cheaper than most video games!
Minetest is written in C++ I believe, and really, it's not that much faster.
Exactly this, until it either breaks down or no longer serves your purposes, of course.
Rather than 3D, you could say it's specialized support for these technologies is fazed out. It's not like they won't be usable anymore, though, as has been said. They'll just use the more general methods that provide less to no specialized acceleration.
The code might have had to be maintained to avoid breaking them with some new releases... Who knows? They probably do.
This is news because the devs of a rather large important piece of software made an announcement regarding a wide range of old hardware. Seems newsworthy enough to me. Might not be to you, but it certainly piqued my interest.
Or Optifine.
http://partha.com/ has Windows builds for the GIMP. You don't have to keep 2.6.11 because single-window mode has to be turned on by the user.
But also more bugs.
Are they supposed to switch? They bought an expensive graphics package, for crying out loud.
No, the GIMP is more useful for people who like me, who don't even want to think about cashing out too much cash for something that is ultimately only marginally better than the GIMP.
And since it's in the works, you can count on it existing when the whole caboodle becomes more stable and accepted.
Personally, I tried it for a few weeks. It's almost workable enough, but there were some big flaws that now make me use something else. Until they fix it. Which apparently they're trying to do now.
You sound like you're a character from Beneath a Steel Sky, with all those RANDOMLY capitalized WORDS.