The problem is that 90% (that # is pulled out of my ass) of Slashdot's userbase knows NOTHING about actual computer hardware. Don't you know how 100 "overclocking is stupid, doesn't gain you anything, and just shortens the life of your CPU" posts show up every time a story on overclocking is posted?
Never put it past Slashdot readers to display their ignorance.:)
A panacea is a 'cure-all'. A placebo is a fake cure for something. Sure, this guy probably thinks the service is fake, but I believe he was trying to say that this service considers ittself a cure-all for plagiarism.
I've been message board hopping, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure the Gnutella network needs to worry about a usage spike.
Almost all of the messages I saw posted were complaints about the new Morpheus ranging from "All of my downloads are ass slow!" and "I can't connect to any servers? What's a node?" to "This piece of shit won't even install".
Most people on almost every message board I saw had a negative comment for the new Morpheus. Hell, I didn't see a single positive one. Most people were planning on migrating to Kazaa, and this was a group of tech-savvy people who know about the spyware in Kazaa.
It's too bad this had to happen to Morpheus, because the Gnutella network appears to just be an all around poor method of sharing files. Sure, flame me. The ideology behind it is fine, but it's execution is less than stellar.
You don't deserve the one 'insightful' comment you got. You see, Hammer has recently started sampling to AMD's big customers, and AMD, VIA, and SiS have all announced chipsets for the hammer.
Hammer's not nearly as far away as you seem to assume.
It'll be difficult to convince people to go out and buy VHS tapes now that DVD has already been billed as the 'totally better' replacement for tapes, even if D-VHS is better.
As for the media, how many people have bought a VHS player recently enough for it to have the "D-Theater" ability? People aren't going to go out and buy another VCR when they just shelled out 200$ or more on their DVD player.
They need to fix a few things before they charge
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There are currently some problems with online games, but most people are willing to put up with them due to the fact that they're getting things for free.
The most obvious problem is cheating. Right now, people as a community can harass and ban cheaters to keep them out of servers, but people still manage to cheat. I'm willing to put up with this in an occasional Quake 3 netgame, but I won't be if I'm paying someone to play on servers.
Servers brings up a new issue. If I'm paying to play, I expect a healthy amount of low ping and well populated servers. And I shouldn't have to use any third party program to find the best servers. This is the biggest problem with free games that aren't insanely popular. There aren't very many servers, the few that are out there are slow/high ping, and you often have to use a crappy third party program to hunt them down.
The idea of paying to play any game online besides something like an RPG seems foreign to me, and it will to many other gamers unless the providers can up the standards of online servers greatly.
Where did you get this idea? Are you one of those people that thinks raw Mhz == Actual Performance? The 1.2ghz Duron beats the 1.3ghz Celeron in almost any and all benchmarks, so I don't understand where you got the idea that they have been "falling behind in the race..."
I dare you to think about what you say before you say it, next time.
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The optimization for WinXP is just marketing bullcrap. When AMD upgraded from their Thunderbird core (Plain old athlon) to their palimino core (Athlon XP), all they did was change around some transistors to decrease heat generated and add in data prefetch.
The inclusion of prefetching SHOULD boost performance in any OS. As a matter of fact, check the XPs SpecINT scores at Ace's Hardware and compare them to a regular Athlon at the same clock speed. Isn't SpecINT run under some form of Unix? You'll notice the XP scores higher than the regular.
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It's certainly not any Geforce series card. My geforce3 for one, isn't zbuffering or something in Tux racer, so the courses look like crap.
GLTron segfaults before it even starts, but I blame mandrake 8.1 for that, not my video card. In short, I think that if you get ANY 3d card and you want any sort of good 3d performance from it, you'll have to download some official drivers, or get 3rd party ones (not included with X).
Well, when AOL bought Netscape, Netscape was incredibly popular.
Kinda ruins your parallel to Redhat.;)
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Man rhymes with LAN.
The only thing person rhymes with is... the first have or mercenary, and "The Million Person Mercen" just sounds like a name for a large orgy. I guess...
I did until someone that knows a good deal more about Linux than I do walked me though it. Want the opinion of a newbie/casual Linux user? It wasn't worth it.
There are no noticeable performance differences, and a few things work WORSE than before (MouseDev went *poof*). Granted, it's not very difficult, and now that I've been shown the process, it would be easy for me to repeat, but it doesn't mean I was any less happy running the kernel that comes standard with Mandrake 8.1 than I am now running the "latest and greatest 2.2.17".
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This is such an obvious troll, but it seems like the moderators are too stupid to figure this out.
For an explanation of the low framerate, just look at the reply to the parent, right above my post. This guy know's whats going on.
WRITING TO DISK DURING A BENCHMARK MAKES THE SYSTEM STUTTER! Mod the parent down!
The problem is that 90% (that # is pulled out of my ass) of Slashdot's userbase knows NOTHING about actual computer hardware. Don't you know how 100 "overclocking is stupid, doesn't gain you anything, and just shortens the life of your CPU" posts show up every time a story on overclocking is posted?
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Never put it past Slashdot readers to display their ignorance.
Give it a few days. Most of the moderators still aren't over the April Fools Day idiot moderating.
I think you meant "even more quickly". A little bit of grammar goes a far way.
I doubt they went through ALL of that trouble to install win2k on those machines.
I'm thinking they're still REALLY running BSD.
Nevermind, I'm pathetically stupid. It gave my last comment a +1 bonus.
This comment had me laughing out loud. I feel honored to be able to mod it +1 by replying to it.
So, Disney's NOT evil this week?
Are they convinced the way to expand their membership is to make enemies with... everyone?
Damn dude, I post this exact information right before you, and YOU get modded up to +5 insightful. It's a conspiracy!
Eh, whatever.
I wonder if they mean panacea.
A panacea is a 'cure-all'. A placebo is a fake cure for something. Sure, this guy probably thinks the service is fake, but I believe he was trying to say that this service considers ittself a cure-all for plagiarism.
I've been message board hopping, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure the Gnutella network needs to worry about a usage spike.
Almost all of the messages I saw posted were complaints about the new Morpheus ranging from "All of my downloads are ass slow!" and "I can't connect to any servers? What's a node?" to "This piece of shit won't even install".
Most people on almost every message board I saw had a negative comment for the new Morpheus. Hell, I didn't see a single positive one. Most people were planning on migrating to Kazaa, and this was a group of tech-savvy people who know about the spyware in Kazaa.
It's too bad this had to happen to Morpheus, because the Gnutella network appears to just be an all around poor method of sharing files. Sure, flame me. The ideology behind it is fine, but it's execution is less than stellar.
You don't deserve the one 'insightful' comment you got. You see, Hammer has recently started sampling to AMD's big customers, and AMD, VIA, and SiS have all announced chipsets for the hammer.
Hammer's not nearly as far away as you seem to assume.
John Katz has made some first-rate action stuff.
What action stuff has Jon Katz been involved in besides the occasional "Jerk off to Pr0n", "Lift food to mouth" and "scratch itchy butt" routine?
I hear cringely doesn't give out hardware until the 4th date, but he might make exceptions if you're cute.
Well, other big companies as well as horrible, inept executives. *coughenroncough*
It'll be difficult to convince people to go out and buy VHS tapes now that DVD has already been billed as the 'totally better' replacement for tapes, even if D-VHS is better.
As for the media, how many people have bought a VHS player recently enough for it to have the "D-Theater" ability? People aren't going to go out and buy another VCR when they just shelled out 200$ or more on their DVD player.
There are currently some problems with online games, but most people are willing to put up with them due to the fact that they're getting things for free.
The most obvious problem is cheating. Right now, people as a community can harass and ban cheaters to keep them out of servers, but people still manage to cheat. I'm willing to put up with this in an occasional Quake 3 netgame, but I won't be if I'm paying someone to play on servers.
Servers brings up a new issue. If I'm paying to play, I expect a healthy amount of low ping and well populated servers. And I shouldn't have to use any third party program to find the best servers. This is the biggest problem with free games that aren't insanely popular. There aren't very many servers, the few that are out there are slow/high ping, and you often have to use a crappy third party program to hunt them down.
The idea of paying to play any game online besides something like an RPG seems foreign to me, and it will to many other gamers unless the providers can up the standards of online servers greatly.
Where did you get this idea? Are you one of those people that thinks raw Mhz == Actual Performance? The 1.2ghz Duron beats the 1.3ghz Celeron in almost any and all benchmarks, so I don't understand where you got the idea that they have been "falling behind in the race..."
I dare you to think about what you say before you say it, next time.
The optimization for WinXP is just marketing bullcrap. When AMD upgraded from their Thunderbird core (Plain old athlon) to their palimino core (Athlon XP), all they did was change around some transistors to decrease heat generated and add in data prefetch.
The inclusion of prefetching SHOULD boost performance in any OS. As a matter of fact, check the XPs SpecINT scores at Ace's Hardware and compare them to a regular Athlon at the same clock speed. Isn't SpecINT run under some form of Unix? You'll notice the XP scores higher than the regular.
It's certainly not any Geforce series card. My geforce3 for one, isn't zbuffering or something in Tux racer, so the courses look like crap.
GLTron segfaults before it even starts, but I blame mandrake 8.1 for that, not my video card. In short, I think that if you get ANY 3d card and you want any sort of good 3d performance from it, you'll have to download some official drivers, or get 3rd party ones (not included with X).
I wish you the best of luck though.
Well, when AOL bought Netscape, Netscape was incredibly popular.
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Kinda ruins your parallel to Redhat.
Man rhymes with LAN.
The only thing person rhymes with is... the first have or mercenary, and "The Million Person Mercen" just sounds like a name for a large orgy. I guess...
Especially with no speed throttle on the chess programs, I would imagine a normal game could be over in a few seconds.
I did until someone that knows a good deal more about Linux than I do walked me though it. Want the opinion of a newbie/casual Linux user? It wasn't worth it.
There are no noticeable performance differences, and a few things work WORSE than before (MouseDev went *poof*). Granted, it's not very difficult, and now that I've been shown the process, it would be easy for me to repeat, but it doesn't mean I was any less happy running the kernel that comes standard with Mandrake 8.1 than I am now running the "latest and greatest 2.2.17".