Actually it used to be a fairly nice OS for developers to run. Stable, light, and easy as hell to install and keep running. Now it's just a windows vista knock-off. I've since swapped to arch, but even it cannot recapture what ubuntu 8.10 was.
Oh. Well I'm kinda into video editing and all that stuff, but probably the biggest reasons are ripping dvds, and re-encoding ripped videos for finicky multimedia players.
That point's not. It's referring to software patents, not copyrights. If you come up with an idea for a program independently that's been patented, quite likely given the seeming abandonment of the obviousness exclusion, you're not allowed to write your program without the express permission of the patent holder. Software patents aren't like patenting actual physical inventions, they're more like patenting plot elements in a book.
Forgot to mention that it gets worse in (I believe) an exponential fashion for resolutions over 1080p. Re-encoding long screencasts from my 2960x1050 setup is usually an overnight job.
Very very processor intensive activity. My computers are somewhat obsolete, but if it brings both cores of my Pentium D rig (@ 3.5GHz!) to their knees... well, you get the idea. That, compiling, and dwarf fortress have me considering an investment in a Phenom II 1100 or 1090T and a decent water cooling system. I wanted to wait until bulldozer, but since it looks to be shaping up to be inferior to not only intel's offerings, but previous processors by AMD... well, I think I'll just buy that Phenom II. Don't want to fork over any additional money to intel, plus it's a pretty stable overclocking platform.
Perhaps because there wasn't a market for it? Sorry, but Athlon was better than pentium 4. I'm a fanboy for stating this? I freely admit that core is a superior architecture to anything that AMD's released since '06.
DF is CPU heavy, but I doubt that it's really going to be much more than a 10% difference between the two, if that. I'm still playing it on a Pentium D, so deal with it.
Are you retarded? Athlon was insurmountably better than all netburst architecture chips. The clock was lower, but it greatly outperformed all the pentium 4s in every area, including power consumption, while still costing less. Intel only got ahead through marketing, even then were already losing nearly 50% of the market to AMD, and they only caught up to AMD after the core architecture was released in '06, which was actually a really solid design.
Kinda sounded like something from the Cubert episode. "Pffft, nothing can go faster than the speed of light." "That's why in 2233, scientists increased the speed of light!"
Well, perhaps not a pentium II, but this will help immensely on both AGP era boards (this is much more powerful), and later boards that were too cheap to even include more than a few PCI slots- in fact, I have such a 775 board like that. With vdpau, though, I think this brings HD video into the realm of the Pentium III or even, possibly, the Pentium II. I'll probably buy a few for older machines I work on, hell, this may even allow for compiz.
But the performance would be less because it's not at the kernel level, and even if not, are you seriously thinking of running windows on a server? That's got to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Even 70% of the suits know that linux is better for the server.
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Actually it used to be a fairly nice OS for developers to run. Stable, light, and easy as hell to install and keep running. Now it's just a windows vista knock-off. I've since swapped to arch, but even it cannot recapture what ubuntu 8.10 was.
Oh. Well I'm kinda into video editing and all that stuff, but probably the biggest reasons are ripping dvds, and re-encoding ripped videos for finicky multimedia players.
That point's not. It's referring to software patents, not copyrights. If you come up with an idea for a program independently that's been patented, quite likely given the seeming abandonment of the obviousness exclusion, you're not allowed to write your program without the express permission of the patent holder. Software patents aren't like patenting actual physical inventions, they're more like patenting plot elements in a book.
Yes. And?
We? Speak for yourself.
Xbox360 is PowerPC, not x86.
Forgot to mention that it gets worse in (I believe) an exponential fashion for resolutions over 1080p. Re-encoding long screencasts from my 2960x1050 setup is usually an overnight job.
Very very processor intensive activity. My computers are somewhat obsolete, but if it brings both cores of my Pentium D rig (@ 3.5GHz!) to their knees... well, you get the idea. That, compiling, and dwarf fortress have me considering an investment in a Phenom II 1100 or 1090T and a decent water cooling system. I wanted to wait until bulldozer, but since it looks to be shaping up to be inferior to not only intel's offerings, but previous processors by AMD... well, I think I'll just buy that Phenom II. Don't want to fork over any additional money to intel, plus it's a pretty stable overclocking platform.
Perhaps because there wasn't a market for it? Sorry, but Athlon was better than pentium 4. I'm a fanboy for stating this? I freely admit that core is a superior architecture to anything that AMD's released since '06.
Oh, start encoding HD video, it'll kick up usage really fast.
DF is CPU heavy, but I doubt that it's really going to be much more than a 10% difference between the two, if that. I'm still playing it on a Pentium D, so deal with it.
Are you retarded? Athlon was insurmountably better than all netburst architecture chips. The clock was lower, but it greatly outperformed all the pentium 4s in every area, including power consumption, while still costing less. Intel only got ahead through marketing, even then were already losing nearly 50% of the market to AMD, and they only caught up to AMD after the core architecture was released in '06, which was actually a really solid design.
Tips? Trine's still throwing sound errors.
[insert invisible hand joke here]
Dwarf fortress is right up there with morrowind and nethack for best game of all time.
Whoops. Had the karma dial turned up ...
So you can play in linux, BSD, et al without wine?
AC you make me sad.
Kinda sounded like something from the Cubert episode.
"Pffft, nothing can go faster than the speed of light."
"That's why in 2233, scientists increased the speed of light!"
We heard you like the cloud, so we put the cloud in your cloud so you can swear while you disconnect!
Well, perhaps not a pentium II, but this will help immensely on both AGP era boards (this is much more powerful), and later boards that were too cheap to even include more than a few PCI slots- in fact, I have such a 775 board like that. With vdpau, though, I think this brings HD video into the realm of the Pentium III or even, possibly, the Pentium II. I'll probably buy a few for older machines I work on, hell, this may even allow for compiz.
But the performance would be less because it's not at the kernel level, and even if not, are you seriously thinking of running windows on a server? That's got to be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Even 70% of the suits know that linux is better for the server.
That's what I was hoping they meant by translation... oh well. Can't be too terribly much work to port it over from the OS X build can there?
The guy who asked maybe? Idiot.
Konqueror can handle ogg and webM at the moment.