This crap happens every time the words "linux" "games" and/or "graphics" are put together.
Joking aside, since I refuse to have Microsoft products in my house, all my gaming is done on Linux. (When I do play games... I mostly use my workstations for "work", and I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer - IMHO that's what consoles are for anyway.) I run WoW, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, etc etc and all my games work flawlessly with nvidia-glx. I've been in the market for a new card and have been considering another nvidia, but I think now I'll reconsider.
However, here are my probs in the past w/ ATI: 1. BAD DRIVERS. Baaaad bad drivers. Under Windows and especially under Linux - and this is using their (ATI) drivers, not community drivers. 2. Crappy support. The thing is, I'm kind of curious to see what it would be like to make a tech support call for a Linux-based system. I think I'd have to record that one for posterity. 3. Bad DVD playback unless you use ATI-pushed players. Is my crap going to chop when I use mplayer/kaffeine/etc?
I really like what they're doing with this, and I hope nvidia follows suit. I'd love to see someone else get this card and test and review the hell out of it, hopefully items 1 and 3 wont be a problem. #2, though - I don't see that going away.
"See, if it feels like an investment you are doing it wrong. I wish all you guys that think playing the game is "working for items" would just quit. Would cut down on the whiners, BG 'underperformers' and the raid slackers massively."
I don't see why anyone would want to invest the time into decking out their toon with s4 gear when WotLK is coming out soon, and it'll all be obsolete anyway. The race to 80 isn't going to be noticeably easier at all starting with a 70 that's got s3 vs s4 gear. Unless there's gonna be some sort of special "70's-only pvp bracket" for twinks.
Oh boy you just brought back a lot of memories. simtel... cdrom.com... I must have downloaded the great majority of all my shareware from those two sites. If I remember correctly simtel was hosted at the White Sands Missle Range on arpa.
I eventually ended up buying the CD collection of the entire archive from that company in Walnut Creek - I lived about 15 miles away from there. The whole thing went belly up mid-90's. Ahh the good old days.
"the Model 100 served as the portable computing workhorse of its day. Bill Gates' also ranks it as one of his favorite computers of all time, in large part because he and a friend wrote the firmware it uses."
And then on the 4th page: "Peeking in from the left is the reset button, which the user needs from time to time due to a few pesky bugs in the ROM code, reminding us that even non-Windows systems can crash."
Because I can waste more time "reading log files" by having to scroll right on every line.:)
(Whenever someone walks in my office I just go "hmmm......" and act like I'm seeing something interesting, then they leave and I go back to sipping my drink and daydreaming)
"Will Debian always suffer from existing at the hobbyist programmer level and its inherent proximity to the archetypal non-business-minded software engineer mentality?"
Suffer? 12 years of working with linux, and Debian has consistently been the only distribution I've seen that doesn't really "suffer" from anything at all. In fact, I'd say that the so-called "archetypal non-business-minded engineers" have time and again produced the creme de la creme of distros and done it right. There's no other distribution other than maybe Slack that I'm more comfortable with putting into production and knowing it will run day in, day out until the plug is finally pulled.
FUD
Besides - what's Shuttleworth going to run his stuff on if Deb goes down the tubes? Fedora? LOL
Android isn't "linux" just like Ubuntu isn't "linux".
Linux is and always has been just a kernel. Just because it's a kernel of an OS distribution doesn't make it any more "linux" than a device that has it as a kernel for a mobile OS distribution.
Ya I see "Bot Sex Frustrations" heading a question to Joel from MST3K and I started thinking "what the hell... I thought he left the show for other reasons."
My dad would log me into Compuserve (I wasn't allowed to gave any account info) and I'd get on British Legends which was just simply "MUD" in the UK - I think it ran on a DECsystem-10.
Actually - I just looked, looks like there is a version of the game still online at british-legends.com.
...they said a $50 laser from RadioShack)... forking over that much dough for a stupid laser pen to begin with, a $250,000 fine may ironically be appropriate...
Hey look at Radio Shack's page! They're on sale for 39.99 now!
The only two songs that I've been able to remember word for word in their entirety for my whole life have been the national anthem and the MST3K theme song.
The only two songs that I've been able to remember word for word in their entirety for my whole life have been the national anthem and the MST3K theme song.
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This crap happens every time the words "linux" "games" and/or "graphics" are put together.
Joking aside, since I refuse to have Microsoft products in my house, all my gaming is done on Linux. (When I do play games... I mostly use my workstations for "work", and I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer - IMHO that's what consoles are for anyway.) I run WoW, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, etc etc and all my games work flawlessly with nvidia-glx. I've been in the market for a new card and have been considering another nvidia, but I think now I'll reconsider.
However, here are my probs in the past w/ ATI:
1. BAD DRIVERS. Baaaad bad drivers. Under Windows and especially under Linux - and this is using their (ATI) drivers, not community drivers.
2. Crappy support. The thing is, I'm kind of curious to see what it would be like to make a tech support call for a Linux-based system. I think I'd have to record that one for posterity.
3. Bad DVD playback unless you use ATI-pushed players. Is my crap going to chop when I use mplayer/kaffeine/etc?
I really like what they're doing with this, and I hope nvidia follows suit. I'd love to see someone else get this card and test and review the hell out of it, hopefully items 1 and 3 wont be a problem. #2, though - I don't see that going away.
"See, if it feels like an investment you are doing it wrong. I wish all you guys that think playing the game is "working for items" would just quit. Would cut down on the whiners, BG 'underperformers' and the raid slackers massively."
So would you fall under the whiner category?
...has a giant cardboard cutout of Eric Schmidt in his office now to throw chairs at. Next to his mini methlab.
I don't see why anyone would want to invest the time into decking out their toon with s4 gear when WotLK is coming out soon, and it'll all be obsolete anyway. The race to 80 isn't going to be noticeably easier at all starting with a 70 that's got s3 vs s4 gear. Unless there's gonna be some sort of special "70's-only pvp bracket" for twinks.
Oh boy you just brought back a lot of memories. simtel... cdrom.com... I must have downloaded the great majority of all my shareware from those two sites. If I remember correctly simtel was hosted at the White Sands Missle Range on arpa.
I eventually ended up buying the CD collection of the entire archive from that company in Walnut Creek - I lived about 15 miles away from there. The whole thing went belly up mid-90's. Ahh the good old days.
From first page:
"the Model 100 served as the portable computing workhorse of its day. Bill Gates' also ranks it as one of his favorite computers of all time, in large part because he and a friend wrote the firmware it uses."
And then on the 4th page:
"Peeking in from the left is the reset button, which the user needs from time to time due to a few pesky bugs in the ROM code, reminding us that even non-Windows systems can crash."
Come on then. It's funny.
This post is now printed and hanging on my office bulletin board.
Because I can waste more time "reading log files" by having to scroll right on every line. :)
(Whenever someone walks in my office I just go "hmmm......" and act like I'm seeing something interesting, then they leave and I go back to sipping my drink and daydreaming)
80x25 white on black bash, baby.
"Will Debian always suffer from existing at the hobbyist programmer level and its inherent proximity to the archetypal non-business-minded software engineer mentality?"
Suffer? 12 years of working with linux, and Debian has consistently been the only distribution I've seen that doesn't really "suffer" from anything at all. In fact, I'd say that the so-called "archetypal non-business-minded engineers" have time and again produced the creme de la creme of distros and done it right. There's no other distribution other than maybe Slack that I'm more comfortable with putting into production and knowing it will run day in, day out until the plug is finally pulled.
FUD
Besides - what's Shuttleworth going to run his stuff on if Deb goes down the tubes? Fedora? LOL
Give it 5 years, folks.
Android isn't "linux" just like Ubuntu isn't "linux".
Linux is and always has been just a kernel. Just because it's a kernel of an OS distribution doesn't make it any more "linux" than a device that has it as a kernel for a mobile OS distribution.
[i]rather than the the 30-year-old burnt-out techies on /.[/i]
HEY. I resemble that remark.
Here here.
Nothing like a good "blunt n' poke". Just keep your poker out of Chinatown, man.
Off to Barnes and Noble I go. Can't wait to read and share with the local Microsoft fanboys.
Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I'd only wear a bluetooth headset if it came with a "Locutus Laser".
Will he reflex-kick me in the head?
Ya I see "Bot Sex Frustrations" heading a question to Joel from MST3K and I started thinking "what the hell... I thought he left the show for other reasons."
Did anyone else read "Bot Sex Frustrations"?
My dad would log me into Compuserve (I wasn't allowed to gave any account info) and I'd get on British Legends which was just simply "MUD" in the UK - I think it ran on a DECsystem-10.
Actually - I just looked, looks like there is a version of the game still online at british-legends.com.
...they said a $50 laser from RadioShack)... forking over that much dough for a stupid laser pen to begin with, a $250,000 fine may ironically be appropriate...
Hey look at Radio Shack's page! They're on sale for 39.99 now!
The only two songs that I've been able to remember word for word in their entirety for my whole life have been the national anthem and the MST3K theme song.
Does it contain a subliminal message?
I think the message is to protect open source software.
Sorry about that folks.
The only two songs that I've been able to remember word for word in their entirety for my whole life have been the national anthem and the MST3K theme song.
Does it contain a subliminal message?