While going to a cheaper, state-run school is one option, it sounds like part of the problem is that he wants to go to a very specialized private school that is not yet established well enough to have much of an endowment. If this is the case, even chosing an established private school would be a better option, as many of them have the money to provide substantial scholarships. IE - if you get accepted to many of the bigger, prestigious universities, they'll bend over backwards finding money for you.
1) Unfortunately, with the large number of soon-to-be-unsupported 98 boxes out there, just waiting to be compromised & going unpatched, it's not just MSFT screwing customers of 98, they're hurting everyone.
2) Redhat is completely getting out of the market segment; MSFT has shown no signs of bailing from the desktop OS market.
Reminds me of that time I got a Ford Fiesta and it didn't have air-conditioning or a CD player! Can you imagine how pissed I was? I mean, I should be able to walk onto a car lot, point at the cheapest model, pick the color I want and be on my way with all the options I want.
Dump the woman and find somebody new; somebody that lives in your local calling area. Long-distance relationships are full of problems and this is just the beginning...
I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords.
I remember seeing a (webcasted) talk given by the Clay Institute about their $1M math prizes, in particular, the one about P=NP. In it, the speaker said that "if P=NP is proven, then all the others are going to fall in short time, making that solution worth $8M" (or $1M * the number of problems).
I was really hoping that that kind of money would get the P=NP results first...
Wired has never been about technical articles; the best they ever did was the one-page explainations of new tech (the 'geek page' or something), and they got rid of that in '96.
Generally, fast computers are used as an argument _for_ scripting languages; for a lot of things, shell scripts are still preferable to Perl/Python/etc 'cuz with shell, running external programs is very natural; there's no function calls and whatnot involved.
nVidia gives you binary-only drivers to enable 3D in X11; 2D can be done with XFree86's own drivers.
ATI's cards are a bit more complicated. XFree can do 2D on all the modern ones. The 9500+ require binary drivers to do 3D. The 9200 and below can do it with Free drivers.
Depending on your politics, there are different 'best' cards. If you're OK with non-free drivers, nVidia's cards work a lot better under Linux and perform as well as they do in Windows; ATI's drivers aren't quite as mature and don't perform as well as the Windows ones. If you want good 3D with free drivers, the Radeon 9200/9100/9000/8500 series are going to be your best bet (don't be confused by model numbers tho... higher numbers don't neccessarily reflect better performance).
It's called vertical sync / frame limiting. It can be enabled or disabled. When it's disabled, the card can start displaying a new frame at any point in the screen's refresh; when enabled, the card 'stalls' until the screen starts the next cycle.
Which is better comes down to personal preference.
Well, you can find these cards for $20 or so. The question is, why bother buying a card like this in the first place? Just make sure to get a motherboard with onboard video, which will outperform the Rage anyways, make your 3D screensavers look nicer, and only adds like $10-15 to the price of a high-end motherboard.
If you don't even want that level of performance, there's plenty of $50 motherboards out there that have low-end video chips integrated and perform at a Rage128 level.
Actually, for about $100 you can get a GeForce4 Ti4200, which was a one of the high end cards from the last generation. In a lot of older games (those without complex shaders like Quake3) it'll beat out some more modern cards (all but the high-end Radeon 9x00s and GeForce FXes).
For current generation cards, $100-150 is the sweet spot (the 'mainstream' cards : Radeon 9600 Pro/XT or maybe 9800SE, GeForce FX 5600 & 5700). While you might not be able to get the raw frame rates of the GF4 Ti4200 in older games, these cards will do some powerful image quality improvements (AA, AF) without a significant hit in performance. They also have the modern programmable shaders used by DirectX 9 and are capable of being used as a vector coprocessor.
So, while there are a number of good cards at the $150 point, there's still some very good deals at the $100 level (lowest pricewatch price for a 9600 (not the crippled SE version) is $92 shipped; the 9600 Pro starts at $107. nVidia has equivalent cards at similar price points.
Opteron is marketed towards high-end professional workstations, if you want some 64bit power at lower prices, check into the Athlon64 line. With the A64 line (not the A64 FX, which is just an Opteron with a new name) you get into consumer oriented product that have a much lower price tag.
While you can say that Angband primarily subsumes Moria, saying that Nethack is better can't really be done. They're both excellent & fill the same niche, but saying one is better is really more of vi/emacs thing...
I can't imagine paying for wi-fi in a public place. Here , in Albuquerque, there's plenty of public places like bars, restraunts and even a donut shop, that have free wireless. I can't see why somebody would pay $10 for -just- wireless when they could pay for food or a drink and get the wireless thrown in for free.
I can't imagine paying for wi-fi in a public place. Here , in Albuquerque, there's plenty of public places like bars, restraunts and even a donut shop, that have free wireless. I can't see why somebody would pay $10 for -just- wireless when they could pay for food or a drink and get the wireless thrown in for free.
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While going to a cheaper, state-run school is one option, it sounds like part of the problem is that he wants to go to a very specialized private school that is not yet established well enough to have much of an endowment. If this is the case, even chosing an established private school would be a better option, as many of them have the money to provide substantial scholarships. IE - if you get accepted to many of the bigger, prestigious universities, they'll bend over backwards finding money for you.
2 strikes against the IT ppl at your school :
1) somebody could change the password.
2) you could boot the machine off CD.
I'd hate to think what other kinds of problems they have...
2 points:
1) Unfortunately, with the large number of soon-to-be-unsupported 98 boxes out there, just waiting to be compromised & going unpatched, it's not just MSFT screwing customers of 98, they're hurting everyone.
2) Redhat is completely getting out of the market segment; MSFT has shown no signs of bailing from the desktop OS market.
Reminds me of that time I got a Ford Fiesta and it didn't have air-conditioning or a CD player! Can you imagine how pissed I was? I mean, I should be able to walk onto a car lot, point at the cheapest model, pick the color I want and be on my way with all the options I want.
Dump the woman and find somebody new; somebody that lives in your local calling area. Long-distance relationships are full of problems and this is just the beginning...
Hrmm..... smart money vs. $8M....
I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords. I, for one, welcome our new lameness filter overlords.
I remember seeing a (webcasted) talk given by the Clay Institute about their $1M math prizes, in particular, the one about P=NP. In it, the speaker said that "if P=NP is proven, then all the others are going to fall in short time, making that solution worth $8M" (or $1M * the number of problems).
I was really hoping that that kind of money would get the P=NP results first...
Wired has never been about technical articles; the best they ever did was the one-page explainations of new tech (the 'geek page' or something), and they got rid of that in '96.
Brilliant, yet absurd, observation.
I'd mod you up.
I have to wonder why the administrators in charge of this knew you well enough to make any sort of character judgements...
...that's why you have the option to test the media before installing. It's also why they give you MDs of the ISOs.
Generally, fast computers are used as an argument _for_ scripting languages; for a lot of things, shell scripts are still preferable to Perl/Python/etc 'cuz with shell, running external programs is very natural; there's no function calls and whatnot involved.
3" + 5GHz = 8"
Short answer :
nVidia gives you binary-only drivers to enable 3D in X11; 2D can be done with XFree86's own drivers.
ATI's cards are a bit more complicated. XFree can do 2D on all the modern ones. The 9500+ require binary drivers to do 3D. The 9200 and below can do it with Free drivers.
Depending on your politics, there are different 'best' cards. If you're OK with non-free drivers, nVidia's cards work a lot better under Linux and perform as well as they do in Windows; ATI's drivers aren't quite as mature and don't perform as well as the Windows ones. If you want good 3D with free drivers, the Radeon 9200/9100/9000/8500 series are going to be your best bet (don't be confused by model numbers tho... higher numbers don't neccessarily reflect better performance).
It's called vertical sync / frame limiting. It can be enabled or disabled. When it's disabled, the card can start displaying a new frame at any point in the screen's refresh; when enabled, the card 'stalls' until the screen starts the next cycle.
Which is better comes down to personal preference.
higher resolution.
more detailed effects.
better image quality.
never going below 60 FPS.
Well, you can find these cards for $20 or so. The question is, why bother buying a card like this in the first place? Just make sure to get a motherboard with onboard video, which will outperform the Rage anyways, make your 3D screensavers look nicer, and only adds like $10-15 to the price of a high-end motherboard.
If you don't even want that level of performance, there's plenty of $50 motherboards out there that have low-end video chips integrated and perform at a Rage128 level.
Actually, for about $100 you can get a GeForce4 Ti4200, which was a one of the high end cards from the last generation. In a lot of older games (those without complex shaders like Quake3) it'll beat out some more modern cards (all but the high-end Radeon 9x00s and GeForce FXes).
For current generation cards, $100-150 is the sweet spot (the 'mainstream' cards : Radeon 9600 Pro/XT or maybe 9800SE, GeForce FX 5600 & 5700). While you might not be able to get the raw frame rates of the GF4 Ti4200 in older games, these cards will do some powerful image quality improvements (AA, AF) without a significant hit in performance. They also have the modern programmable shaders used by DirectX 9 and are capable of being used as a vector coprocessor.
So, while there are a number of good cards at the $150 point, there's still some very good deals at the $100 level (lowest pricewatch price for a 9600 (not the crippled SE version) is $92 shipped; the 9600 Pro starts at $107. nVidia has equivalent cards at similar price points.
Opteron is marketed towards high-end professional workstations, if you want some 64bit power at lower prices, check into the Athlon64 line. With the A64 line (not the A64 FX, which is just an Opteron with a new name) you get into consumer oriented product that have a much lower price tag.
While you can say that Angband primarily subsumes Moria, saying that Nethack is better can't really be done. They're both excellent & fill the same niche, but saying one is better is really more of vi/emacs thing...
I can't imagine paying for wi-fi in a public place. Here , in Albuquerque, there's plenty of public places like bars, restraunts and even a donut shop, that have free wireless. I can't see why somebody would pay $10 for -just- wireless when they could pay for food or a drink and get the wireless thrown in for free.
I can't imagine paying for wi-fi in a public place. Here , in Albuquerque, there's plenty of public places like bars, restraunts and even a donut shop, that have free wireless. I can't see why somebody would pay $10 for -just- wireless when they could pay for food or a drink and get the wireless thrown in for free.
You didn't mention that 'evil sig' meant "spawns hundreds of windows that won't stop popping up.
Until you can buy 970s & boards without getting an Apple, it stays off the list.