mouse acceleration works... goes slow when you go slow, but if you speed it up quick, it moves across the screen really fast with a small flick of the wrist
The question is if it is better to point your finger to move something on your screen, or the mouse. Using your finger requires more effort and arm movement (which could tire some people out), yet using the mouse only requires a flick of the wrist... which to me would be 10x faster than pointing with my finger...
Total sales last year were about $13 billion, unchanged from 2000.
Sales have been hurt largely by a surge in piracy, which the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates has cost the music business $4.2 billion in lost revenue last year.
How is this big news? Just because the word "LINUX" is in it??? Unix environments have been used in hollywood before. Remember the tons of unix boxes used to render FF?
So what? They ported some 3d software along with other video production tools to linux, and wow, they found out that unix environments utilize processor threads and multitask very well, and they got a boost in performance... this isn't news, it's just good sense...
but yea.... ya gotta please the l33t0r h4x0rs who get excited every time they see anything related to linux out there because they're 95% of your hits... I mean, you need to banner clicks from someone, right?
A while back i stumbled across a company called AC Propulsion. They built an electric car that has better acceleration than a farrari, porche, and others.... and it's funny that this new car looks just like it, but with tiny body kit...
The new Ford Rouge Plant in Michigan that is being built will have a totally organic roof (besides the support). It will be covered in grass, trees, etc, and will provide much better cooling, better heat capture, and will lower the cost/energy consumption used in the heating and cooling process... It also helps scrub the air of the waste gas given off during the car production process...
I have comcast cable, and my next-door neighbor doesnt have "cable", but the cable internet. He can get the channels.... just not all of them... say... not 20-65.
who must "be shot because they have no scientific knowledge
thanks for the twist on words... replacing a single word does have an effect on the meaning...
so you don't think the article you linked to is right?...or no?
The Detroit News' logically shaky headline does not an arguement make.
.....wha?
So you do or do not believe that the worlds oil supply is infinite (inexhaustible)?...if so... you have a horrible concept of even the basics of math... and yes... the researchers who believe the the world oil suppy is inexhaustable are pretty damn stupid...
....Uh, exactly where did I say you said that? Oh yea, I didn't
if you actually read that headline to the article you linked to and backed up you would realise that you are backing up that statement... unless you are a complete moron, you obviously believe in a statement that you are backing up...
you're a fucking moron if you believe that "Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible"... the researchers who stated that should be shot because they have no scientific knowledge...
...is when the people in charge of the government hear that. They won't realise that the true figure is the 12%, and not the 57 "unpaid for" software which is simply shareware or freeware... they're ignorant, and the BSA is milking it.
Another example is 3D Studio Max 4.2 That i have which i didn't pay for..... I got it through the First Robotics Competition for free (i can license it to myself with no problem... it's what im supposed to do), and that will fall under that 12%... yet again, the government "decision makers" won't know the difference, and legislation will be passed on numbers which don't tell a bit of the truth...
the point to be made (which no one got) was that in standard applications there are certian ones that are "optimised" for intel chipsets... its almost like when ATI had the driver cheat which gave them better fps on quake3... lots of people thought it was a dirty trick...
I can finally get some nice Quake III framerates with an RDRAM-based board. That extra memory bandwidth sure is nice.
AMD TBird 900, 640mb PC133 SDRAM, RADEON 8500 and I get 70fps+ on quake3 with the graphic settings on max. Tune it down just at bit and easily 100+ (even with anisotrophic filtering)
...get a good graphics card and then you'll be able to get good fps... its not your ram's bandwidth...
Actually they dont.... if it was advertised like that, then blame the morons at the company you bought it from.... or blame yourself for not knowing what you were buying... how is it false advertising when "XP 1800+" says NOTHING about the clock speed???
Obviously you don't know much about processors if you think that the 2.2ghz is 50% faster than the 1.5 because of the clock speed... when speed really has nothing to do with that. Take a G4, for example, at 1ghz (which does a gigaflop...::drooll::)... the P4 is over %200 "faster", yet the G4 performs twice as good in bechmarks...
yea, most people don't really think about their heatsink just falling off.... I really don't worry about that when buying a processor....
it's odd that they're actually going to make them pay more for using their pre-determined capacities... you already are leasing the bandwidth to them, and now you want them to pay more just because they're using what they paid for??
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mouse acceleration works... goes slow when you go slow, but if you speed it up quick, it moves across the screen really fast with a small flick of the wrist
which to me would be 10x faster than pointing with my finger...
well not 10x, but it would be less tiring, and with the mouse pointer, you can select smaller objects a lot easier than your relatively fat finger...
The question is if it is better to point your finger to move something on your screen, or the mouse. Using your finger requires more effort and arm movement (which could tire some people out), yet using the mouse only requires a flick of the wrist... which to me would be 10x faster than pointing with my finger...
www.pricewatch.com....... great site. Lowest prices all over the web...
From the article:
Total sales last year were about $13 billion, unchanged from 2000.
Sales have been hurt largely by a surge in piracy, which the National Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimates has cost the music business $4.2 billion in lost revenue last year.
...now that is some darn good journalism...
...FIBER!!
How is this big news? Just because the word "LINUX" is in it??? Unix environments have been used in hollywood before. Remember the tons of unix boxes used to render FF?
So what? They ported some 3d software along with other video production tools to linux, and wow, they found out that unix environments utilize processor threads and multitask very well, and they got a boost in performance... this isn't news, it's just good sense...
but yea.... ya gotta please the l33t0r h4x0rs who get excited every time they see anything related to linux out there because they're 95% of your hits... I mean, you need to banner clicks from someone, right?
A while back i stumbled across a company called AC Propulsion. They built an electric car that has better acceleration than a farrari, porche, and others.... and it's funny that this new car looks just like it, but with tiny body kit...
e . tm
...what do you think?
http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_hom
....OpenBSD..... you know you want it.....
Since when does Windows use Root for its superuser account???
Stop mixing windows and linux lingo!
The new Ford Rouge Plant in Michigan that is being built will have a totally organic roof (besides the support). It will be covered in grass, trees, etc, and will provide much better cooling, better heat capture, and will lower the cost/energy consumption used in the heating and cooling process... It also helps scrub the air of the waste gas given off during the car production process...
I'd say that's a big step in the right direction.
I have comcast cable, and my next-door neighbor doesnt have "cable", but the cable internet. He can get the channels.... just not all of them... say... not 20-65.
well... you get what you pay for...
*BZZZZ* Wrong. Thank you for playing.
...or no?
...if so... you have a horrible concept of even the basics of math... and yes... the researchers who believe the the world oil suppy is inexhaustable are pretty damn stupid...
...what game am I playing?
who must "be shot because they have no scientific knowledge
thanks for the twist on words... replacing a single word does have an effect on the meaning...
so you don't think the article you linked to is right?
The Detroit News' logically shaky headline does not an arguement make.
.....wha?
So you do or do not believe that the worlds oil supply is infinite (inexhaustible)?
too bad simple text doesn't convey the emotion behind the sarcasm...
im a fucking moron, aren't i?
....Uh, exactly where did I say you said that? Oh yea, I didn't
if you actually read that headline to the article you linked to and backed up you would realise that you are backing up that statement... unless you are a complete moron, you obviously believe in a statement that you are backing up...
you're a fucking moron if you believe that "Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible" ... the researchers who stated that should be shot because they have no scientific knowledge...
you're a dick...
"i'm not gonna be around, so you can nuke the whole god-damn planet for all i care after I die... I don't care"
...is when the people in charge of the government hear that. They won't realise that the true figure is the 12%, and not the 57 "unpaid for" software which is simply shareware or freeware... they're ignorant, and the BSA is milking it.
Another example is 3D Studio Max 4.2 That i have which i didn't pay for..... I got it through the First Robotics Competition for free (i can license it to myself with no problem... it's what im supposed to do), and that will fall under that 12%... yet again, the government "decision makers" won't know the difference, and legislation will be passed on numbers which don't tell a bit of the truth...
I thought that buckyball carbon bonding was totally different from the type of bonding in diamonds...... so what the hell is going on here??
the point to be made (which no one got) was that in standard applications there are certian ones that are "optimised" for intel chipsets... its almost like when ATI had the driver cheat which gave them better fps on quake3... lots of people thought it was a dirty trick...
I can finally get some nice Quake III framerates with an RDRAM-based board. That extra memory bandwidth sure is nice.
AMD TBird 900, 640mb PC133 SDRAM, RADEON 8500 and I get 70fps+ on quake3 with the graphic settings on max. Tune it down just at bit and easily 100+ (even with anisotrophic filtering)
...get a good graphics card and then you'll be able to get good fps... its not your ram's bandwidth...
Actually they dont.... if it was advertised like that, then blame the morons at the company you bought it from.... or blame yourself for not knowing what you were buying... how is it false advertising when "XP 1800+" says NOTHING about the clock speed???
::drooll::)... the P4 is over %200 "faster", yet the G4 performs twice as good in bechmarks...
Obviously you don't know much about processors if you think that the 2.2ghz is 50% faster than the 1.5 because of the clock speed... when speed really has nothing to do with that. Take a G4, for example, at 1ghz (which does a gigaflop...
yea, most people don't really think about their heatsink just falling off.... I really don't worry about that when buying a processor....
too bad that you have to specially make the program for the chip for it to actually start to "shine".... intel sucks....
this has been discussed numerous times before.... its no biggy...
it's odd that they're actually going to make them pay more for using their pre-determined capacities... you already are leasing the bandwidth to them, and now you want them to pay more just because they're using what they paid for??