NVIDIA's 21.83 drivers were very nice IMHO. However, the 23.11 drivers are awful. Many, many people have complained of infinite loop errors and blue screens. The 27.xx series are rather poor at the moment, but they are beta. I tried them and promptly removed them when Dark Age of Camelot would refuse to load with them.
I'm still using the 21.83 drivers and will continue to do so until I hit a problem in a game that is fixed by a later driver.
Actually, Transgaming have said they do want to release their COM implimentations, but they don't want to release the current code because it's a messy hack. They have stated that they wish to clean it up before they release it.
I'm certain I read this in a Kernel Traffic a while back, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I recieved the e-mail and filled it out to the best of my ability. The survey seemed pretty fair, although I had difficulty filling it out because a lot of my answers were "neither here nor there".
There are a number of advantages:
1) Software libraries. By using the GPL, you get to use code from lots of other projects using the GPL. Of course, by doing that, you are locking yourself into the GPL (Something I have been experiencing lately, although it turns out what I wanted had a very good LGPL implimentation).
2) People can't rip you off. Somebody can't just take your code, add stuff to it and then release it as closed source software. Anybody who does either has to repent or loses all rights to even use your software.
3) Good will. I'm more likely to contribute to a GPL project, and I'm sure the same is true of many people.
Alan would get to keep his self respect. It seems you don't value such a thing, but some of us do. How could Alan seriously say that the DMCA is evil while working for a company that helped bring it into existance?
Remember every journey starts with a single step. If everyone had your attitude, then nothing would ever get done, simply because everyone would look around and go "Oh, I'm just one person, what good can I do?"
" Sure would be convinient in some circumstances. I don't know what the status of this is on ICQ, but I've NEVER in over 7 years had a need for such a feature. Maybe I'm not a 'power' user?"
I take it you don't dual boot, or use IM on any computer other than your own, or want to switch to a different client (Like, say, Trillian).
Oh the joys of apathy. It reminds me of all those people who voted Labour into a second term and then turn around and start bitching that Labour are doing exactly what they were doing before the election. "I can change, I can change" springs to mind.
I seriously pity you for your lack of self respect.
There is code that is contributed by people outside of Red Hat in an awful lot of Red Hat's programs. If they decide to change the license, they have to rip out virtually all code that is owned by people who won't let them change the license. I can't imagine many people who contribute to GPL code who would be willing to let Red Hat suddenly close it up.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that, the servers I play on nearly always have no HPBs on them. It's even worse when they don't kill you. You walk round a corner and are pulled back by an HPB trying to kill you. It's very difficult to deal with the disorentation of just being pulled somewhere by an imaginary force.
Hmm...you often don't play against really good CS players. In CS, if you have a high enough lag, you can die before you see your killer jump round the corner. He'll see you, aim and shoot you down leaving you wondering where that shot came from. Camping (Which is perfectly legit even if some people complain about it) is impractical on a ping higher than 150, for pretty much the same reasons.
Funny you should mention Star Trek, because that is a good example of how (character and plot) evolution affects the outcome of the series so much.
In DS9, the characters and the story evolved in really good ways. The dominion, the whole war, characters like Quark (Who started as a comedy character, but ended up being a really good secondary character) and Garak and the inner strife in the Federation. They stretched some things a bit much, but overall it worked really well.
However, in Voyager, nothing really changed. After the first couple of seasons the characters stopped evolving and just became really dull. They even ruined the doctor, who I thought was the best character by far early on, but then they just sort of, well, lamed him.
The only evolving that took place was where Seven went from an emotionless sex object to a semi-emotional sex object and the Borg, who went from fearsome "Oh my God, we're near Borg space" people to "Let's single handedly take on the hardest Borg ship we've ever seen" people. Come on, the tactical cube in Unimatrix Zero should have ripped them to shreds in a matter of seconds.
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NVIDIA's 21.83 drivers were very nice IMHO. However, the 23.11 drivers are awful. Many, many people have complained of infinite loop errors and blue screens. The 27.xx series are rather poor at the moment, but they are beta. I tried them and promptly removed them when Dark Age of Camelot would refuse to load with them.
I'm still using the 21.83 drivers and will continue to do so until I hit a problem in a game that is fixed by a later driver.
I have, it's useless.
If you want that, use the ROX filer.
Maybe he should have said "usefull help". I don't know about you, but I don't know anyone who has been able to sort out a problem using Windows Help.
There is an addon for Mozilla that does this. IIRC it's called Optimoz.
Here we go:
http://optimoz.mozdev.org/index.html
It's certainly created less blood-shed in its name.
Old times?! I'm having to develop to it now. Of course, it is a hardware assessment, but it's got some god-awful quirks to it.
The problem with a lot of perl problems seems to be the theory that "if you can't obfuscate it, it's not worth doing" ;)
Actually, Transgaming have said they do want to release their COM implimentations, but they don't want to release the current code because it's a messy hack. They have stated that they wish to clean it up before they release it.
I'm certain I read this in a Kernel Traffic a while back, but I can't for the life of me find it now.
I recieved the e-mail and filled it out to the best of my ability. The survey seemed pretty fair, although I had difficulty filling it out because a lot of my answers were "neither here nor there".
There are a number of advantages:
1) Software libraries. By using the GPL, you get to use code from lots of other projects using the GPL. Of course, by doing that, you are locking yourself into the GPL (Something I have been experiencing lately, although it turns out what I wanted had a very good LGPL implimentation).
2) People can't rip you off. Somebody can't just take your code, add stuff to it and then release it as closed source software. Anybody who does either has to repent or loses all rights to even use your software.
3) Good will. I'm more likely to contribute to a GPL project, and I'm sure the same is true of many people.
While I don't use ICQ on Windows, I've seen my housemate use it. There seem to be ads for various things, including Netscape 6.2.
Err...I actually think the OS X rendering is worse than the Xft one.
The problem is the Athlon XP can compete with the P4. It takes a 2.2GHz P4 to oust an Athlon XP 2000+.
Alan would get to keep his self respect. It seems you don't value such a thing, but some of us do. How could Alan seriously say that the DMCA is evil while working for a company that helped bring it into existance?
Remember every journey starts with a single step. If everyone had your attitude, then nothing would ever get done, simply because everyone would look around and go "Oh, I'm just one person, what good can I do?"
" Sure would be convinient in some circumstances. I don't know what the status of this is on ICQ, but I've NEVER in over 7 years had a need for such a feature. Maybe I'm not a 'power' user?"
I take it you don't dual boot, or use IM on any computer other than your own, or want to switch to a different client (Like, say, Trillian).
Oh the joys of apathy. It reminds me of all those people who voted Labour into a second term and then turn around and start bitching that Labour are doing exactly what they were doing before the election. "I can change, I can change" springs to mind.
I seriously pity you for your lack of self respect.
There is code that is contributed by people outside of Red Hat in an awful lot of Red Hat's programs. If they decide to change the license, they have to rip out virtually all code that is owned by people who won't let them change the license. I can't imagine many people who contribute to GPL code who would be willing to let Red Hat suddenly close it up.
I'd recommend Trillian (www.trillian.cc) as a good replacement for ICQ. It also supports AIM, MSN and Yahoo IM.
Apps can use XRender right now.
We British do get your jokes, its just they aren't funny.
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that, the servers I play on nearly always have no HPBs on them. It's even worse when they don't kill you. You walk round a corner and are pulled back by an HPB trying to kill you. It's very difficult to deal with the disorentation of just being pulled somewhere by an imaginary force.
Hmm...you often don't play against really good CS players. In CS, if you have a high enough lag, you can die before you see your killer jump round the corner. He'll see you, aim and shoot you down leaving you wondering where that shot came from. Camping (Which is perfectly legit even if some people complain about it) is impractical on a ping higher than 150, for pretty much the same reasons.
While it's not as easy, under Linux you just print to a PS file and run it through ps2pdf. Not exactly rocket science.
Funny you should mention Star Trek, because that is a good example of how (character and plot) evolution affects the outcome of the series so much.
In DS9, the characters and the story evolved in really good ways. The dominion, the whole war, characters like Quark (Who started as a comedy character, but ended up being a really good secondary character) and Garak and the inner strife in the Federation. They stretched some things a bit much, but overall it worked really well.
However, in Voyager, nothing really changed. After the first couple of seasons the characters stopped evolving and just became really dull. They even ruined the doctor, who I thought was the best character by far early on, but then they just sort of, well, lamed him.
The only evolving that took place was where Seven went from an emotionless sex object to a semi-emotional sex object and the Borg, who went from fearsome "Oh my God, we're near Borg space" people to "Let's single handedly take on the hardest Borg ship we've ever seen" people. Come on, the tactical cube in Unimatrix Zero should have ripped them to shreds in a matter of seconds.