What this means is that this chip will accelerate more things. Take for example the GeForce and TNT2. the Geforce has built in T&L and if a game takes advantage of the OpenGL call that enable T&L, it's gonna be much faster than a TNT2 but is a game doesen't take advantage of the GeForce's T&L acceleration, it won't be much more fast than the TNT2.
I don't know if you ever noticed but windows is comprised of a few hundred different files. Do you really think the whole shébang is compiled at once?? Of course not! You compile DLLs, EXEs one at a time.
Relax. Not everything Microsoft does is a conspiracy. There's a DLL on Win32 called opengl32.dll that is developped by MS. It's the equivalent of Mesa and it's used by games, renderers and programs like Softimage 3D to make calls to your hardware.
They are only a voting member on the ARB, nothing more. OpenGL is a part of Windows so they care to influence it's direction in the best way possible and that's what they've been doing all along. MS *needs* OpenGL, not the other way around.
I would doubt that NVIDIA would revive the Aureal3d sound cards because Creative Labs(PC sound card monopoly) is one of their biggest costumer for graphics chip.
I'd be very surprised if SOF supported T&L considering that it uses the Q2 engine. I know MDK2 was the first game I heard about that supports T&L. Tribes 2 and Doom 3 will both support it... and they're both comming out for Linux too!!:-)
You're not seing a great difference with today's games because most of them (including Quake 3) don't use the GPU's acceleration of transform and lighting. Right now, I think MDK2 is the only game on the maket that uses it and many more are to follow suit real soon. The GeForce 1 is still ahead of it's time with today's games.
The theme builder app is not made by the mozilla team but by a company named AlphaNumerica. It's written right up there in the first sentence of the post.
That's exactly my case. I've had ADD all my Life and only recently (I'm 24) discovered it's existence. Ritalin is really changing my life. All my childhood I was labeled as a slow and not so smart kid. the worst part was that other kids felt my "difference" and I have live most of my life as an outcast.
People really are ignorant about Ritalin. It's not such a big drug. I don't feel stoned or anything. You just feel in control of your focus. I understand that some children may have been diagnosed with ADD wrongly but I'm sure the bad press it got makes it look much more common than it really is. I can't imagine how great my life would have been if I had been diagnosed at an early age.
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What this means is that this chip will accelerate more things. Take for example the GeForce and TNT2. the Geforce has built in T&L and if a game takes advantage of the OpenGL call that enable T&L, it's gonna be much faster than a TNT2 but is a game doesen't take advantage of the GeForce's T&L acceleration, it won't be much more fast than the TNT2.
I don't know if you ever noticed but windows is comprised of a few hundred different files. Do you really think the whole shébang is compiled at once?? Of course not! You compile DLLs, EXEs one at a time.
Hmm, isn't that what M$ did with C# and the .Net runtime? I know they submitted C# to ECMA but I'm not so sure about the Common Runtime.
They are only a voting member on the ARB, nothing more. OpenGL is a part of Windows so they care to influence it's direction in the best way possible and that's what they've been doing all along. MS *needs* OpenGL, not the other way around.
I would doubt that NVIDIA would revive the Aureal3d sound cards because Creative Labs(PC sound card monopoly) is one of their biggest costumer for graphics chip.
I'd be very surprised if SOF supported T&L considering that it uses the Q2 engine. I know MDK2 was the first game I heard about that supports T&L. Tribes 2 and Doom 3 will both support it... and they're both comming out for Linux too!! :-)
You're not seing a great difference with today's games because most of them (including Quake 3) don't use the GPU's acceleration of transform and lighting. Right now, I think MDK2 is the only game on the maket that uses it and many more are to follow suit real soon. The GeForce 1 is still ahead of it's time with today's games.
Mod me up scotty!
Fruit case is more like it...
Such rudeness is offensive
This is disgusting
You seem to be a Troll
The theme builder app is not made by the mozilla team but by a company named AlphaNumerica. It's written right up there in the first sentence of the post.
People really are ignorant about Ritalin. It's not such a big drug. I don't feel stoned or anything. You just feel in control of your focus. I understand that some children may have been diagnosed with ADD wrongly but I'm sure the bad press it got makes it look much more common than it really is. I can't imagine how great my life would have been if I had been diagnosed at an early age.
Ho well..
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what's a Troll?
Give me the modney!
Did I mention I afree?
I agree with you
I agree with you. Although I think that "For Idiots" is a bit too agressive.
Except GTK+...
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Too bad I'm not a moderator today.
You *did* know that StarOffice is on it's way to become GPL'ed Bonobo components integrated with GNOME didn't you?
Well duh, if you can't stand 2 weeks of "trashing out", how do you expect to learn anything intellectually challeging?
Hmmm
I'm so insightfull baby!