Yup, I'll add my vote for Viewsonic. They're not the best available, but seem to be at the sweet spot for quality/price. I'm using a pair of G90Fs right now (about $240 on Pricewatch, or $10 more for the.21mm FB version) and am very happy with them.
Another tip: SparcStation IPCs make excellent monitor stands and cost less (mine were $5 or so each) than the flimsy plastic junk that is normally sold for that purpose.
In case you didn't notice, that was about 60 years ago. The *people* who did that are either dead, or sitting quietly in a corner drooling.
If you think that guilt is a hereditary condition, you should consider the history of your own country too. Germany's body-count is far from the highest in recorded history.
...a cost analysis between buying a bleeding edge graphics card to last you 2-3 years versus upgrading cheaply to last generation's greatest for much less every year or so?
My rule is "upgrade your vid card when you can get double the performance for $100."
Doesn't keep me anywhere near the latest and greatest, but is good enough for me, and conserves those valuable beer tokens for the use that God intended 'em for.
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... liberation apparently means "You owe me, I own you".
Besides, I thought that it was actually "we've owed you for winning our War of Independence for us, we've saved you from Hitler, now we're even". Still, selective memories are even more common in nations than they are in people.
The difference, however, being that Big Macs are expendable. Once you eat them, they're gone forever in their original form. Software on the other hand has the capability to be installed many times.
Hmm, actually, I'd say that Big Macs taste like they've been "installed" many times before getting to me.
I've had several games that I had to find a No CD crack for so I could play the game that I had just purchased. Typically I have the most trouble with Secure ROM protected games.
I like vi for quick & dirty, and i know emacs is all-powerful if you take the time to learn it, but I haven't yet seen a GUI X editor (like Pepper) that wasn't amatuerish or ugly, or counterintuitive, or only half finished.
Maybe if they chose a tile based graphics architecture, they wouldn't need to buy ludicriously expensive 100 gb/s RAM
Tile based architectures just move the problems to a different part of the system and make them a lot harder to control. Geometry data takes bandwidth to transfer as well, you know.
Wasn't RDRAM villified on PCs for gaming because the serial nature of the bus made for high latency?
The first generation of RAMBUS had abysmal latency and was next-to-useless for graphics hardware. After being traumatised by trying to get a circa-1995 RAMBUS-based graphics design working I've not looked at it since for graphics apps, but from what I hear from other people in the field the latency has improved a lot since the early devices.
Definitely worth checking out, however get the UK editions if you can. The US edition (at least the one I have) is missing the quotations at the beginning of each chapter (Milton, that sort of thing). It's also been very badly translated into US English - spelling changes are fine, but when you get English characters in a parallel England giving "golden dollars" to each other it not only detracts from the scene he's painting but insults the intelligence of the reader. (The original text is "golden crowns"). There are a lot of examples of this kind of thing and once you've started to spot them they break the flow of the text horribly.
Gah. Yeah, normally I don't care. If you'd bothered to check the context, you'd have seen that I was responding to someone else's grammar flame. Bad grammar does bug me, but not as much as hypocrisy - which is what I was really attacking.
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That applies to "English" (noun, name of a language), not the "English" (adjective, pertaining to England) "language".
Correction - I skimmed the Pricewatch listing. The FB version is the black case. Both are .21mm horizontal / .25mm diagonal pitch.
Yup, I'll add my vote for Viewsonic. They're not the best available, but seem to be at the sweet spot for quality/price. I'm using a pair of G90Fs right now (about $240 on Pricewatch, or $10 more for the .21mm FB version) and am very happy with them.
Another tip: SparcStation IPCs make excellent monitor stands and cost less (mine were $5 or so each) than the flimsy plastic junk that is normally sold for that purpose.
In case you didn't notice, that was about 60 years ago. The *people* who did that are either dead, or sitting quietly in a corner drooling.
If you think that guilt is a hereditary condition, you should consider the history of your own country too. Germany's body-count is far from the highest in recorded history.
My rule is "upgrade your vid card when you can get double the performance for $100."
Doesn't keep me anywhere near the latest and greatest, but is good enough for me, and conserves those valuable beer tokens for the use that God intended 'em for.
Another Samuri joined the group only for the love of the craft.
Too right. I'd rather hire one person who loves what they do than five monkeys who regard it as "just a job".
What the fuck did the french ever give us?
A victory in the American Revolution ?
i doubt that aol.com is going to be slashdotted.
We're working on it...
"The military is one entity. It will not be distributing secret binaries to anyone, thus will not need to distribute secret code."
;-)
Surely firing a missile with GPL-ed code inside it at someone counts as distribution ?
In correct textbook English, you default to the masculine form.
My OED disagrees with you and says that the plural can be used as the neuter, but notes that some people disagree with it.
Which to smash first ?
Besides, I thought that it was actually "we've owed you for winning our War of Independence for us, we've saved you from Hitler, now we're even". Still, selective memories are even more common in nations than they are in people.
The difference, however, being that Big Macs are expendable. Once you eat them, they're gone forever in their original form. Software on the other hand has the capability to be installed many times.
Hmm, actually, I'd say that Big Macs taste like they've been "installed" many times before getting to me.
Oh, god forbid you should have to restart before the OS patches take effect.
Or allow Microsoft to renegotiate their contract with you in any way they see fit before they will fix the product they "sold" you ?
Apart from that, I generally agree with what you had to say. At minimum, it was less far off the mark than the poster you were replying to.
If it's without your permission, that's up to a year inside in California, iirc.
I've had several games that I had to find a No CD crack for so I could play the game that I had just purchased. Typically I have the most trouble with Secure ROM protected games.
You need this.
NEdit, and it's apt-gettable.
Or the Knuth books where on the back Bill Gates is explicitly quoted that he'll hire you once you read'em.
Funny, I thought he said that he'd hire you once you'd understood'em.
Maybe if they chose a tile based graphics architecture, they wouldn't need to buy ludicriously expensive 100 gb/s RAM
Tile based architectures just move the problems to a different part of the system and make them a lot harder to control. Geometry data takes bandwidth to transfer as well, you know.
Wasn't RDRAM villified on PCs for gaming because the serial nature of the bus made for high latency?
The first generation of RAMBUS had abysmal latency and was next-to-useless for graphics hardware. After being traumatised by trying to get a circa-1995 RAMBUS-based graphics design working I've not looked at it since for graphics apps, but from what I hear from other people in the field the latency has improved a lot since the early devices.
Definitely worth checking out, however get the UK editions if you can. The US edition (at least the one I have) is missing the quotations at the beginning of each chapter (Milton, that sort of thing). It's also been very badly translated into US English - spelling changes are fine, but when you get English characters in a parallel England giving "golden dollars" to each other it not only detracts from the scene he's painting but insults the intelligence of the reader. (The original text is "golden crowns"). There are a lot of examples of this kind of thing and once you've started to spot them they break the flow of the text horribly.
Though I've seen posts on here on Slashdot about things that were shown on Tomorrows World weeks if not months earlier.
... I've seen posts on here on Slashdot about things that were shown on Slashdot weeks if not months earlier.
That's nothing
I wish I had a mod point for you for that one. Someone else, please do your duty...
Gah. Yeah, normally I don't care. If you'd bothered to check the context, you'd have seen that I was responding to someone else's grammar flame. Bad grammar does bug me, but not as much as hypocrisy - which is what I was really attacking.