WHY is this at +4, idiot moderators? There are 8 bits to a byte, not 2. 256/8 = 32. Jesus fucking Christ.
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Just replying to make a small correction to one point you made...
"First its a horrible directory name to try and navigate to from within a cmd shell."
That would be if you don't have directory and filename completion, easily enabled with the Win2k TweakUI tool from MS, or by manipulating a registry key.
You don't need to reboot after installing those programs. Windows development companies just seem to have a blind compulsion to tell you you need to at the end of an install, when 99% of the time it's BS. Pull your head out of your ass, stop being a luser and mindlessly following instructions from some company's installer.
If you're going to continue to try and appeal to the intellectual midgets who go for a sensationalist headline, don't be surprised maybe a year from when them and the first post trolls are the only people left reading this site.
Some of us don't like finding that 9 out of 10 headlines are misleading, or worse, completely untrue. Some of us even have no qualms about not coming back to a site that's becoming so consistently dishonest.
Don't do this to yourself Slashdot. You're worth more than just another trashy "news" site that creates bullshit headlines to pull in clicks on the banner ads.
That's true, what with 3dfx's drivers being open source etc., but nVidia's drivers are *better*. In some resolutions in Linux providing up to 99% of the framerate you get under Windows...whereas 3dfx's drivers give all round poor performance (this is supported my the numbers, not just my opinion).
Sure, they're open source, but when you're not getting the performance out of the card you paid for, what's the point?
Fortunately the full GeForce2 MX cards for PCs already run so cool that the nVidia reference board didn't have any cooling onboard and still worked fine.
If as this article says the laptop variant uses even lower power, there shouldn't be any heat problems.
After having the beta installed for a couple of weeks, I'd have to say that was mostly cosmetic enhancements (in the form of a nice new theming system that means Windows users don't have to be embarassed when compared to the purdyness of X) it really, honestly could have been and should have been Win2k service pack 2.
Whister is just more needless moneygrubbing from Microsoft.
Could moderators please start modding down the illiterate intellectual midgets that are posting as though this email is real, and obviously didn't read the whole article (in which case they wouldn't have seen the line admitting the whole thing was just satire) before losing control and rushing off to Slashdot to flame Microsoft?
This discussion has done more to damage my belief in the basic intelligence of people than anything on Slashdot yet.
Er...so the fact that their Linux drivers work extremely well (producing numbers close to Windows scores), and the 3dfx drivers for Linux produce performance as though you were running on a card from 3 years ago doesn't matter, because they're not open source? I admire your logic.
I would've considered this a decent post if you hadn't gone troll at the end with that idiotic third point.
Er....Norman Kirk continued in popularity until the day he died of natural causes in hospital in 1974, two years into yet another term of office...got a point?:)
Oops, left out part of that post (Hey, it's late, I'm tired).
The Wellington CC website is a matter of some local embarassment, as well as being out of date I believe some errors were mentioned on it, which would explain the discrepencies in population figures - if one of them is right, the other must be wrong, since Wellington (the capital city) has a much larger population than Christchurch.
Your statistics are incorrect. Wellington is substantially larger than Christchurch, which is one of the most minor of the "large" (relatively speaking) citys in the country, being in the south island (which also contains the significantly lower portion of the population compared to the North). I suggest you check your sources.
And your point about those being towns in most countries is something I agree with, but it's also irrelevent to the point I was making, which was that there *is* anonymity in a city of several hundred thousand - people don't all know each other in a town unless you're talking about some hick shanty of about 10,000 people at most.
Um, dude, in a relative sense when comparing to major world cities I suppose you could say the major cities in NZ were towns, but don't take it too literally. 600,000 people (in Wellington, close to the same in Christchurch) is WAY too big for everyone to know each other as you seem to be suggesting with your "no anonymity" comment.:P
I find it slightly hard to beleive the point that the article makes about American English being the most common form of English. I mean, come on. The US may have the most dominant *culture* in the western world, but it doesn't have the population to be able to say that US English is the most commonly spoken.
Then again...more and more kids around me (in New Zealand) are starting to say "mom" instead of mum...:\
I blame TV.:)
Well if, as you claim, you're against suicide (although you're hardly showing it here) then it's not aimed at you at all is it?
Seeing as you're now talking bollocks and aren't even willing to take responsibility for claims you made only a few minutes ago, I think it's time I left you to your delusions.
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WHY is this at +4, idiot moderators? There are 8 bits to a byte, not 2. 256/8 = 32. Jesus fucking Christ.
"First its a horrible directory name to try and navigate to from within a cmd shell."
That would be if you don't have directory and filename completion, easily enabled with the Win2k TweakUI tool from MS, or by manipulating a registry key.
You don't need to reboot after installing those programs. Windows development companies just seem to have a blind compulsion to tell you you need to at the end of an install, when 99% of the time it's BS. Pull your head out of your ass, stop being a luser and mindlessly following instructions from some company's installer.
Some of us don't like finding that 9 out of 10 headlines are misleading, or worse, completely untrue. Some of us even have no qualms about not coming back to a site that's becoming so consistently dishonest.
Don't do this to yourself Slashdot. You're worth more than just another trashy "news" site that creates bullshit headlines to pull in clicks on the banner ads.
What a lame post. If you're going to try and disguise your attempt at first post, at least put some effort into it next time.
Sure, they're open source, but when you're not getting the performance out of the card you paid for, what's the point?
TNT2 even... OK this is getting lame, I think I'll go hide my face in a paper bag now. :(
Er, the TNT I replaced WITH IT...stupid brain...
My nVidia GF2 MX is smaller than the TNT2 I replaced it with, which is turn was smaller than the original TNT it replaced.
If as this article says the laptop variant uses even lower power, there shouldn't be any heat problems.
Er, moderator, do you have something against first posts? This is most definitely NOT offtopic, you intellectual midget.
Which would seem a little dubious, since the OS itself refers to itself as a beta. Fucking idiot.
Not a lie in the slightest. I might direct your attention to the IRC channel #warezguild on EFnet, where I obtained it. :)
Whister is just more needless moneygrubbing from Microsoft.
This discussion has done more to damage my belief in the basic intelligence of people than anything on Slashdot yet.
I would've considered this a decent post if you hadn't gone troll at the end with that idiotic third point.
Monitors' refresh rates are in Hz, not MHz, you freak.
Er....Norman Kirk continued in popularity until the day he died of natural causes in hospital in 1974, two years into yet another term of office...got a point? :)
The Wellington CC website is a matter of some local embarassment, as well as being out of date I believe some errors were mentioned on it, which would explain the discrepencies in population figures - if one of them is right, the other must be wrong, since Wellington (the capital city) has a much larger population than Christchurch.
Your statistics are incorrect. Wellington is substantially larger than Christchurch, which is one of the most minor of the "large" (relatively speaking) citys in the country, being in the south island (which also contains the significantly lower portion of the population compared to the North). I suggest you check your sources. And your point about those being towns in most countries is something I agree with, but it's also irrelevent to the point I was making, which was that there *is* anonymity in a city of several hundred thousand - people don't all know each other in a town unless you're talking about some hick shanty of about 10,000 people at most.
Um, dude, in a relative sense when comparing to major world cities I suppose you could say the major cities in NZ were towns, but don't take it too literally. 600,000 people (in Wellington, close to the same in Christchurch) is WAY too big for everyone to know each other as you seem to be suggesting with your "no anonymity" comment. :P
Can you say "ban on nuclear ships"? :)
Oh wait...it happens all the time anyway.
Gimp.
I find it slightly hard to beleive the point that the article makes about American English being the most common form of English. I mean, come on. The US may have the most dominant *culture* in the western world, but it doesn't have the population to be able to say that US English is the most commonly spoken. Then again...more and more kids around me (in New Zealand) are starting to say "mom" instead of mum... :\
I blame TV. :)
Seeing as you're now talking bollocks and aren't even willing to take responsibility for claims you made only a few minutes ago, I think it's time I left you to your delusions.