Ditto for me. I'm running KDE on a Pentium 3 866MHz and it runs so smoothly I don't see the need to upgrade. In fact, I've had an athlon 1.8GHz chip and board sitting in a closet for over a year now and there just hasn't been a compelling reason to switch.
I hate that sort of attitude, because if you follow it back you then assume that donations are impossible. Because doing things "out of the goodness of your heart" really ends up being, doing things so that you feel good about helping. So you're doing it to feel good. So you're doing it for yourself. In the end, they're doing something to improve the lot of others, and they don't seem to be going about it in a half assed way and so I approve.
Many if not all yellow pages include a section for "escorts". And outside of Holland, Germany, and Nevada I don't know any places where that's legal. So why not sue them for enabling people to solicit?
This makes it look worse! A major company is seizing a domain and linking it to someone they've sponsored? What's next, changing it so I can't access sites of other net providers?
If I recall correctly it's runtime tuneable. So us power users with 1+ gig can tune swapping down, and desktop distros can tune it up. That's my favorite part about linux, I can just cat 0 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness and I have instant control as to the performance of my machine. In fact... I could even write wrappers to specific programs so that they can tune the system's swappiness to better suit them. I.E. Programs that use huge ammounts of memory, less swappy, programs with repetetive disk access more swappy... Is swappy even a word?
Actually, it was my girlfirend's three year old nephew who got me started. He's obsessed with trucks and insists on checking every truck he sees for a trailer hitch...
Well, that would require them to have trailer hitches, and the VAST majority of SUVs I've seen in parking lots around here don't. I can understand where it'd be usefull living out in a rural area, but I'd be happy to wager that the majority of SUVs never leave their urban/suburban environments. It really is a waste, but if you're willing to pay more in gas, etc. then it's your choice. I'm just happy that my government taxes gas so heavily.
I think this was one of the most compelling reasons for getting a zip drive back in the day. Quick, cheap backup of 100 megs. Or with modern drives 250Megs. The media is cheap ($20 per disk), the drives are relatively cheap ($100) and they've never failed me. Except for the paralell drive that got the click of death, but the media didn't get corrupted.
According to their website they distribute with the card the sources for the V4L driver and the modified version of xine they talk about. Although they do talk about optionaly using NVidia cards to accelerate things, so they may encourage the use of NVidia's binary drivers. But either way, those are optional optimizations so...
Looks like a very nice card... If I had HDTV service I'd definately think about buying one.
Not nessecarily, they do have their own Unix, which they've just released a new version of. Maybe they've got some strange hope that if they kill linux they can regain some market share.
SCO says that they're keeping the linux source code available on their FTP site for support contracts. If the GPL is invalid, then they obviously can't continue their distribution, no matter how much buisness it'll cost them. Which makes one wonder, how much are those "support contracts" worth?
I knew two girls who had the same first and last names, and their middle names started with the same letter. And somehow they were assigned "random" student numbers 1 appart. The trouble that caused for Profs...:)
Unless I'm mistaken, XRender is utilizing the 2D acceleration features of a graphics card for scaling, alpha blending, anti-aliasing, etc. It's not trying to do 2D graphics over 3D. Although if you think linux shouldn't be doing that then you really shoulod look at Microsoft, they're moving to an entirely 3D desktop for longhorn.
Slashdot Mirror
Ditto for me. I'm running KDE on a Pentium 3 866MHz and it runs so smoothly I don't see the need to upgrade. In fact, I've had an athlon 1.8GHz chip and board sitting in a closet for over a year now and there just hasn't been a compelling reason to switch.
I hate that sort of attitude, because if you follow it back you then assume that donations are impossible. Because doing things "out of the goodness of your heart" really ends up being, doing things so that you feel good about helping. So you're doing it to feel good. So you're doing it for yourself. In the end, they're doing something to improve the lot of others, and they don't seem to be going about it in a half assed way and so I approve.
Many if not all yellow pages include a section for "escorts". And outside of Holland, Germany, and Nevada I don't know any places where that's legal. So why not sue them for enabling people to solicit?
Oh my god! Someone shot JFK?!?!?
If that was the case there wouldn't be a glut of N64's available now.
As soon as titles aren't being released actively for a system people will get rid of it.
This doesn't explain the longevity of the Dreamcast, but that's a different story entirely.
This makes it look worse! A major company is seizing a domain and linking it to someone they've sponsored? What's next, changing it so I can't access sites of other net providers?
What do you mean? I pre-ordered it three years ago. I'm fully expecting it to come out any day now.
You were planning on doing an emerge --sync first right?
<SARCASM>
Wait...
I think you missed a major version of unix there. In fact the only *real* unix, SCOWare. They even own the copyright on "UNIX".
</SARCASM>
If I recall correctly it's runtime tuneable. So us power users with 1+ gig can tune swapping down, and desktop distros can tune it up. That's my favorite part about linux, I can just /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
cat 0 >
and I have instant control as to the performance of my machine. In fact... I could even write wrappers to specific programs so that they can tune the system's swappiness to better suit them. I.E. Programs that use huge ammounts of memory, less swappy, programs with repetetive disk access more swappy... Is swappy even a word?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of those!
Meager ti4200? I'm still running an MX200...
Ah! I get it. Since they went to all the trouble of catagorizing each room in the hotel the hotel should have to pay. Makes perfect sense me me.
Actually, it was my girlfirend's three year old nephew who got me started. He's obsessed with trucks and insists on checking every truck he sees for a trailer hitch...
Well, that would require them to have trailer hitches, and the VAST majority of SUVs I've seen in parking lots around here don't. I can understand where it'd be usefull living out in a rural area, but I'd be happy to wager that the majority of SUVs never leave their urban/suburban environments. It really is a waste, but if you're willing to pay more in gas, etc. then it's your choice. I'm just happy that my government taxes gas so heavily.
But that would preclude me from patenting perpetual motion and then making a bundle once someone figures out how to make it work!
I think this was one of the most compelling reasons for getting a zip drive back in the day. Quick, cheap backup of 100 megs. Or with modern drives 250Megs. The media is cheap ($20 per disk), the drives are relatively cheap ($100) and they've never failed me. Except for the paralell drive that got the click of death, but the media didn't get corrupted.
But they said that it has V4L support, ergo mplayer supports it. :)
The beauty of a generalized video input interface...
According to their website they distribute with the card the sources for the V4L driver and the modified version of xine they talk about. Although they do talk about optionaly using NVidia cards to accelerate things, so they may encourage the use of NVidia's binary drivers. But either way, those are optional optimizations so...
Looks like a very nice card... If I had HDTV service I'd definately think about buying one.
Right... That's called a lynching. I think it's about time to gather the posse together and get our lynch on.
Not nessecarily, they do have their own Unix, which they've just released a new version of. Maybe they've got some strange hope that if they kill linux they can regain some market share.
SCO says that they're keeping the linux source code available on their FTP site for support contracts. If the GPL is invalid, then they obviously can't continue their distribution, no matter how much buisness it'll cost them. Which makes one wonder, how much are those "support contracts" worth?
I knew two girls who had the same first and last names, and their middle names started with the same letter. And somehow they were assigned "random" student numbers 1 appart. The trouble that caused for Profs... :)
Unless I'm mistaken, XRender is utilizing the 2D acceleration features of a graphics card for scaling, alpha blending, anti-aliasing, etc. It's not trying to do 2D graphics over 3D. Although if you think linux shouldn't be doing that then you really shoulod look at Microsoft, they're moving to an entirely 3D desktop for longhorn.
How about if I used some Microsoft template included in Word for writting my novel? Would that be copyright infringment?