The GeForce4 was announced early Feb 2002, and the GeForceFX was announced mid December. That's still 10 months. However, the GeForceFX isn't due to ship in quantity until around March, which is around when the GeForce4 started to become available.
But the GeForce4 is a year old now and the GeForceFX won't ship for some time. The Radeon 9000 series came out a little more than a year after the Radeon 8500.
What do you mean by recently? While I could agree that the UK seems to be making a good effort w.r.t. silly laws, I don't think we've managed to produce such works of art to rival the PATRIOT Act yet, and we've managed to hold off the EUCD for the time being (But 2003 doesn't look good for that). There was also a huge outcry against extending the RIP Act beyond its already silly boundries (Why the hell should the Food Standards Agency be able to spy on me just because they feel like it?!), which resulted in the government backing off for the time now.
However, the US unfortunately seems all too willing to destroy the village to save it.
Well, when I load IE, the UI comes up quickly, but then once it starts to load a page, the browser stops to load the rendering engine. If you take that into account, I've found Phoenix has a comparable load time to IE on my system.
Why do you people never pay attention? With an average framerate of 90, you're likely to get points where the framerate could drop quite low, even into the teens. Also, what map runs at 90FPS? What if you want to play a bigger map?
Do you have any idea the amount of work that has to be done during a game? With the advent of somewhat realistic physics and the need for better and better AI, it's no surprise games need more and more CPU power.
Now, lets look at graphics hardware. Have you ever sat down and calculated how much CPU would be needed to match even a TNT2 in terms of applying even bilinear filtering to a scene? Forget things like anisotropic filtering or pixel shader effects. Hell, Vertex shaders alone suck up a lot of CPU power if done in software. Plus the memory bandwidth required puts using the CPU out the window.
The original Babylon 5 plot was only intended to last 5 years. The original story-line *finished* but IIRC somehow they were convinced to do a 6th season, which didn't really work.
I think he's wrong. There's plenty of Windows software that doesn't work on Windows 95 these days, especially if it doesn't have things like IE5 on it.
While you may be correct about Mozilla's table widths (Although the bugs I know of are quite old, so they may have been fixed), in nearly every CSS case where IE and Mozilla differ, Mozilla's following the spec whereas IE isn't.
There have been a number of threads in the Arstechnica forums where somebody thought they found a bug in Mozilla simply because it differed from IE, such as the way that Mozilla handles IMG objects in tables. It turns out that IE was incorrectly treating the IMG as a block object whereas it should be inline.
They certainly aren't. The system's "idle loop" these days often involves use of the HLT instruction, which powers down most of the CPU until it recieves an interrupt.
Not exactly. Their kernel module contains a very large binary and some code to act as an interface between the kernel and the big binary file. This allows them to keep the source closed while allowing people to compile it for newer kernels as they come out.
I'll tell you why, it's because the cable is fucking annoying, especially on the mouse. As for the battery issue, I suggest you look at the latest cordless mice, they have a basestation they can recharge on.
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Insightful? I'm a Linux user and the only reason I didn't buy an iPod over the summer was because it doesn't support Ogg. I won't replace my Minidisc player until a good MP3/Ogg player comes along.
I've got an Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz), and it can do better than 4 units a day. Hell, a 1600+ and a Celeron 366 are capable of putting in 8 units per day when completely unloaded.
I have bad news, it's not. Well, unless you take rendering speed above all else, in which case I recommend Dillo. Anyhow, Opera 6s DOM support is next to useless and IIRC Gecko has better CSS support too.
A few things: 1) I hate having my task/icon bar anywhere but the bottom of the screen. This harks back to my RISC OS days. 2) I have a lot of applets and a 1024*768 screen. The tab-bar is very handy. It also allows me to change to another "window" in one click instead of 2 (Click on taskbar icon->click on menu item). 3) I don't normally run as memory intensive things as Photoshop, but I rarely run out of memory, and I have a lot of stuff running at once. Now that I think about it, I can't remember my last OOM problem, and if I do, I'll probably just add a new swap partition.
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Sorry, I'm talking out of my arse, I meant to say November for the GeForceFX.
Also, I'm not sure about the March date. NVNews say Jan/Feb, but I remember reading that the ship date had slipped a month.
The GeForce4 was announced early Feb 2002, and the GeForceFX was announced mid December. That's still 10 months. However, the GeForceFX isn't due to ship in quantity until around March, which is around when the GeForce4 started to become available.
But the GeForce4 is a year old now and the GeForceFX won't ship for some time. The Radeon 9000 series came out a little more than a year after the Radeon 8500.
What do you mean by recently? While I could agree that the UK seems to be making a good effort w.r.t. silly laws, I don't think we've managed to produce such works of art to rival the PATRIOT Act yet, and we've managed to hold off the EUCD for the time being (But 2003 doesn't look good for that). There was also a huge outcry against extending the RIP Act beyond its already silly boundries (Why the hell should the Food Standards Agency be able to spy on me just because they feel like it?!), which resulted in the government backing off for the time now.
However, the US unfortunately seems all too willing to destroy the village to save it.
" Given the nutty laws i've been hearing coming out of Australia, i think we'll pass on this idea."
As opposed to the nutty laws coming out of the US and UK?
But some of us use an O(1) scheduler so it doesn't make a difference ;)
Well, when I load IE, the UI comes up quickly, but then once it starts to load a page, the browser stops to load the rendering engine. If you take that into account, I've found Phoenix has a comparable load time to IE on my system.
Why do you people never pay attention? With an average framerate of 90, you're likely to get points where the framerate could drop quite low, even into the teens. Also, what map runs at 90FPS? What if you want to play a bigger map?
Do you have any idea the amount of work that has to be done during a game? With the advent of somewhat realistic physics and the need for better and better AI, it's no surprise games need more and more CPU power.
Now, lets look at graphics hardware. Have you ever sat down and calculated how much CPU would be needed to match even a TNT2 in terms of applying even bilinear filtering to a scene? Forget things like anisotropic filtering or pixel shader effects. Hell, Vertex shaders alone suck up a lot of CPU power if done in software. Plus the memory bandwidth required puts using the CPU out the window.
But people do not have the right to connect to a server using any software they choose...
I do love Evolution, which defaults to not showing images...
SMP in Q3 has been broken for a long time.
The original Babylon 5 plot was only intended to last 5 years. The original story-line *finished* but IIRC somehow they were convinced to do a 6th season, which didn't really work.
Well, it appears he was killed by being sucked into space through that GAPING BIG HOLE IN THE BRIDGE rather than by an exploding console.
I think he's wrong. There's plenty of Windows software that doesn't work on Windows 95 these days, especially if it doesn't have things like IE5 on it.
Err...what? IE6 doesn't support PNGs alpha channel correctly, so that cut-off time is still far, far away.
While you may be correct about Mozilla's table widths (Although the bugs I know of are quite old, so they may have been fixed), in nearly every CSS case where IE and Mozilla differ, Mozilla's following the spec whereas IE isn't.
There have been a number of threads in the Arstechnica forums where somebody thought they found a bug in Mozilla simply because it differed from IE, such as the way that Mozilla handles IMG objects in tables. It turns out that IE was incorrectly treating the IMG as a block object whereas it should be inline.
They certainly aren't. The system's "idle loop" these days often involves use of the HLT instruction, which powers down most of the CPU until it recieves an interrupt.
Not exactly. Their kernel module contains a very large binary and some code to act as an interface between the kernel and the big binary file. This allows them to keep the source closed while allowing people to compile it for newer kernels as they come out.
I'll tell you why, it's because the cable is fucking annoying, especially on the mouse. As for the battery issue, I suggest you look at the latest cordless mice, they have a basestation they can recharge on.
Insightful? I'm a Linux user and the only reason I didn't buy an iPod over the summer was because it doesn't support Ogg. I won't replace my Minidisc player until a good MP3/Ogg player comes along.
I've got an Athlon XP 1600+ (1.4GHz), and it can do better than 4 units a day. Hell, a 1600+ and a Celeron 366 are capable of putting in 8 units per day when completely unloaded.
I have bad news, it's not. Well, unless you take rendering speed above all else, in which case I recommend Dillo. Anyhow, Opera 6s DOM support is next to useless and IIRC Gecko has better CSS support too.
A few things:
1) I hate having my task/icon bar anywhere but the bottom of the screen. This harks back to my RISC OS days.
2) I have a lot of applets and a 1024*768 screen. The tab-bar is very handy. It also allows me to change to another "window" in one click instead of 2 (Click on taskbar icon->click on menu item).
3) I don't normally run as memory intensive things as Photoshop, but I rarely run out of memory, and I have a lot of stuff running at once. Now that I think about it, I can't remember my last OOM problem, and if I do, I'll probably just add a new swap partition.
"it does everything that IE can do"
I didn't realise they'd released the new rendering engine yet. Tell me, what's its DOM support like? I hope its better than Opera 6s.