I stick by my earlier statement that the name makes it sound like digital Kotex. However, it mus be noted that Steve Jobs may have his first Edsel on his hands.
Seriously, the ASUS Eee PC T91MT gives you more of a computer for a bit less than the cost of this iPad (I chuckle every time I read or type that). REAL applications, REAL OS (not a "gadget" os), REAL everything! It's a tablet and a netbook at once. Approx $450 gets you 32GB SSD, 1GB RAM, and Win 7 all in a small package with a proven processor underneath it all.
$50 more get's you less drive space, an unknown amount of RAM, and a gadget OS running on what appears to be a 2010 version of the Cyrix MediaGX processor.
Steve needs to take some time off and rethink this one.
I mean, really though... they couldn't come up with a better name??? iPad sounds like digital Kotex...
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"For a high speed game like Quake even 60fps is totally unplayable"
that's crazy talk.
The original Quake was VERY playable at less than 30fps. I know I was a menace in Quake and ESPECIALLY Quakeworld while running a Cyrix 200MX w/32MB of RAM with Win95b.
Quake 2 was good at 30 and typically good under 30. At it's release, I didn't have hardware that would run it at 30 (intel i740 and Permedia2, AMD K6-2 300MHz), but had no problem playing it well.
Quake 3 was the first time I could actually say that, while 30 was playable, 60 or more would have been better.
Quake 4 is also good at 60.
The only reason I see to specifically target a sustained 60fps is while some areas of the game may be less graphically intense (resulting in higher frame rates), others, especially in the heat of battle, can tax the hell out of a video card and processor. If a machine running a graphically intense game can maintain 60fps even under the most extreme conditions, the game will be quite playable when being played "normally".
Problem: desktop user downloads email attachment "Happy Birthday from Nigerian Banker.exe", virus/trojan is unleashed on your network and attempts to spread.
Solution: In a VMWare View/thin client environment, you take any infected user's virtual desktop offline and push a fresh, clean version to them. Reprimands will be in order for the person resposible, but work stoppage will be reduced to a minimum AND the effort can be handled by one person instead of a team of people to clean up the aftermath.
... but didn't the tobacco industry tell us for years that smoking poses no cancer risk?
For this reason, I'll remain skeptical about a position of denial taken by an industry that stands to lose billions should a link between their product and harm caused to the general public be found.
For the record, I don't support either stance yet, but I do remember the old-school phones from the late 80's to early 90's being differentiated by power and proximity to a person for safety reasons (I sold phones from 1990 to 1996 in a car audio shop). IIRC, ratings were.6W for hand-held phones, 1.3W for transportables (bag phones), and a full 3W for phones mounted in-car, with the tranciever, ideally, located in the trunk of the car.
If something like this works like I think it should, there probably wouldn't be a need for a GPU at all, just a rasterizer. Everything would be done on the host CPU, likely with power to spare.
"The web has always been the reverse of TV, where the ad/content bandwidth is about 1:4 or even 1:5. It's not far different from some magazines, though, where I swear there are 3 pages of ads for every page of content."
Try looking at an "urban"-type magazine. There's typically 10-15 pages of ads BEFORE the table of contents!
People have often complained of all the advertising online, be it pop-ups or inline with content, but the advertisers have only gotten more brazed with serving up ads. In the last few years, there's pop-ups that aren't REALLY pop-ups in the old sense, but they still cover page content with whatever it is they're trying to sell you (they usually have a little 'x' to close the ad). Usually, any article you read anywhere online is almost NEVER done in a single page format because taking an article and breaking it into 20 pages means 20x the number of chances at ad revenue.
Slow ad servers, however, make browsing many sites a frustrating ordeal, especially since most browsers REFUSE to display a page as it loads, opting to display a page when most or all of the content has been cached. In the old days, you could at least READ text on a page while the images and animations are loading, now you no longer have that option. Throw in a few slow-as-molassess ad servers pushing crap to your browser and you end up with pages that take as long to load as they did in the 56K days.
In fact, the old Gnome/Enlightnement desktop paradigm is what originally convinced me to try Linux back in 2000 after hearing a bunch of "linux doesn't even have a desktop!" talk by coworkers. I tried it out and eventually learned that I could run with just Enlightenment and did that and never looked back. I've run AfterStep, Windowmaker, Black/Fluxbox, and a number of other WM's, but will always manage to come back to Enlightenment.
These days, when I bring up new linux installs, the number one task on my list is to get Enlightenment DR16 up and running if it wasn't installed by default.
a few years ago, I came across a 486 motherboard on ebay. It was an FIC job with PCI slots on it. I had wondered what, if anything, could run on it in 2005. I picked it up for next to nothing, grabbed a 486 100MHz chip and went about building this frankenmonster machine.
In retrospect, I wish I had that time back.
I had 128MB of ram on this thing, an 8MB Matrox Millenium II, a pair of 4.3GB UWSCSI drives and an Adaptec 2940UW card. Networking came from an old 3Com ISA slot 10base Nic I had (and, oddly, still have to this very day!). Win98? yup. NT4? yep, 2000??? Absolutely. RH7.3 and 9? You betcha...
Then it got old, I longed for something that could actually do stuff. It was cute for the moment, but overall a gigantic waste of my time.
My day job has me as a Linux/Unix/Win32 admin/architecht. I fiddle around with the stuff all day long.
On my lunch hour, some evenings and weekends, I work on music.
My primary PC/DAW has a Fedora 10 install on it. I have Ardour, Jack, Rosegarden, and LMMS installed, configured, tweaked to hell, and working... Yet I NEVER use it. The sheer effort it took to get all of that stuff talking to one another PLUS getting a handfull of my VST's working under LMMS was Herculean. Then I realized... I can't make much music with this stuff. I tried LMMS... I REALLY wanted to get my head around it 'cause it's multi platform, so whatever I make while under Linux, I can pull over to the WinXP side and work on it some more. Sadly, it never panned out that way. Ardour, for all it's good, still suffers from a lack of a sequencer, making it the rough equivalent of ProTools 3 or 4 (we're at 8 now). I'm not productive at all with this stuff. When I'm in "musician" mode, I don't want to tweak ANYTHING. I just want to sit down and create. I don't want to screw with jack to get stuff flowing from LMMS to Ardour. In fact, I don't want to have to run them both at the same time at all. While in WinXP, I pull up FL Studio, create, and I'm done. When it's time to master it, I open up SoundForge, drop in T-Racks or my SSL plugins and make it happen from there. If the mood calls for it, I pull up Sonar 7 and compose from there. I have dozens of plugins from freebie VST's to good Waves and NI plugins I paid for. I don't have this under Linux.
I think it's good that someone is trying to bring this stuff to Linux, but until I see the ability to use my apps and plugins, I'll pass.
My generation, GenX, got out of college and pounded the pavement for a job, we didn't wait for the college to find a job (we also started looking for a job BEFORE graduation). While in high school, not everyone got a trophy for sports, not everyone got an award. Everyone didn't make the team; hell I was cut from basketball tryouts and it didn't crush my ambitions, I just tried harder the next year. The current generation is handed everything, they're coddled and praises for waking up in the morning. I've noticed it a lot over the years, where the new guy on the job expects praise for showing up to the job and expects everyone to hold his hand. When I got into IT, they pointed at the datacenter said "The file servers run NT4 and half of the print servers run Solaris 8... one of the print servers is down and two file servers need to be bounced, go fix it". You can't do that with these new people, you have to hold their hand for at least a month before they're ready to do something on their own.
We need to stop coddling these kids and teach them the reality of the world. Not everyone makes the team, and you need to get up off your lazy asses and do for self.
.. to take my origianl copy of Dave Brubeck's "Time Out". It just turned 50 a couple of months ago, I suspect these guys will show up to revoke my license to own my copy... right???
In 2009, I find it amazing at how many people simply cannot read a map. Not only can they not read a map, they can't even guesstimate their orientation based on landmarks and/or the position of the sun. As far as orientation goes, out here in Phoenix, Arizona, most people seem to get that due to the way the metro area is laid out and the fact that everyone gets "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west".
SATNAV makes us lazy... VERY lazy, like most modern gadgets, it takes away the need to know the basics about anything. It goes along with kids now being REQUIRED to use a calculator in jr high school math. They're not learning the basics, so when the gadget that does a function is taken away (in this case your Garmin or other GPS device), you're left helpless, unable to do anything because your gadget is no longer in arms reach. To make this more relevant to the Slashdot crowd, think of life without your current favorite IDE of the moment, be it Eclipse, NetBeans, or what have you. Imagine having to code in JUST a text editor, without all the fancy features you rely on. Imagine building a website without Dreamweaver or somethig like that. You now exist in a world that I come from. While I appreciate the ease in which things can be done, I can still hand-code HTML, and can still write code with nothing more than VI or even ed if it came to that. Same thing for GPS and though I don't own one, I can see where it could be handy but since I can read a map, it's simply not necessary.
Maybe it's a generational thing too. A lot of my generation (Gen X) has these basic skills intact even though a lot of us embrace technology; we can live with it or witout it. The current gen knows nothing of a world without this technology, so to NOT have it would be near catastrophic. At the same time, there are those who precede my genreation that dove in head first with technology, yet still enjoys life without that tech.
I was a die-hard 800XL user for many years. At some point during the 80's or very early 90's, I remember an article in either Analog or Antic magazine that detailed how to get S-Video out of the XL's composite output. I built the connector with parts from Radioshack, but for no reason as I didn't have a single TV or VCR with an s-video input to try it out on.
Apparently, the article's author is SOL since he's using a 1200XL. He should "upgrade" to the 800XL like I had and get an s-video cable for it. Then all will be good.
... 'cause, as we all know, the best games come from one or two guys in a garage.... don't know what they're DOING in the garage, but best believe the games that come out of it are awesome.
While the loss of neopets items and whatnot might be a bummer to your kid, losing your banking info would be worse to the family on a whole.
For this reason, my kids have their own machines... All 4 of them. They range in age from 5 to 15 and they all use old P3-850 machines. If something happens to one of their boxes I simply reimage it and they're up and running again. Their accounts on those machines are also restricted "User" accts, so anything that needs to be installed has to go by me first. This cuts down on infections, but doesn't eliminate them 100%. However, it keeps any potential infection from ever reaching MY PC's since they're never on my machines to begin with.
"... And even the MPAA itself recommends using a camcorder pointed at a TV as a way to make fair use copies, creating another analog hole.'"
The MPAA doesn't really realize just how many people will do something like this. I'm pretty sure there's guiys out there still making VHS copies of whatever the latest DVD release is because there's still a market for VHS movies (though quite small). Those people that still cling to VHS, and to a far lesser degree Beta and Hi8, are interested in watching the movie. They could care less about the "extras", or THX surround sound or anything of the sort. They wanna watch the movie; that's it.
So, if all that's left for pirates is to point a video camera at a TV playing the movie, then that's what they're going to do. People will still buy those bootlegs, they'll still download them from the net irregardless of how inferior the picture and sound quality is. They just want to watch the movie; that's it. Many will be fine with it.
I have 4 kids age 5 through 15. We've had kids missing for a bit (usually the oldest), but always found them safe and sound. No worries over here.
I grew up in Saginaw, MI and lived as a teenager in Detroit. Out of all of my friends and family, only ONE person has ever had anything happen to them as a kid and they're alive and still doing quite well. Saginaw is a hell hole, the only place in the country scarier is Oakland, CA, yet I have very young cousins that walk the street without incident on a regular basis.
Some of us didn't. I did, and you did, but some people died who could have been saved by modern safety standards and today's technology.... And yet, some of us STILL won't even with a GPS device, under skin implanted biochip, cellular transmitting heart monitor triggered by a rapid rise in heart rate, and ocular implant video transmitter and listening aparatus so we can see exactly what the child sees and hear what they hear.
It takes less than a few minutes for some deranged pedophile to snatch, rape, and kill a kid. FAR faster than any amount of technology can react.
Dude... you're playing word games and can't accept that you're wrong.
At it's heart it may be a crippled Voodoo2, but it's not a proper Voodoo2. There was ONLY one PROPER Voodoo2, with a pass-through like EVERY OTHER Voodoo2 card, ever made and that's the Obsidian S-12. The Banshee is not a V2 proper. You know what I mean, don't play stupid. You were horribly wrong about the S3 Virge and MeTaL and now you wanna try to redeem yourself here???
Matrox Mystique 220 w/Rainbow Runner Capture card Matrox Millenium G200 (8MB) - NLX form factor Matrox G450 AGP (16MB) x3 - NLX form factor Matrox G450 Dual Head AGP (32MB) Matrox G450 Dual Head PCI (16MB) ATi Rage Pro Turbo 2 AGP (8MB) NLX form factor Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D (4MB on motherboard) Nvidia Quadro AGP (64MB) NLX form factor Nvidia Geforce 2MX AGP (32MB) Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP (256MB)
I keep the NLX form boards around 'cause all of my kids' PC's require it for AGP use (IBM 300PL's, 2 towers and i desktop). One of them has the Quadro, but only for a game that the two of us play together online. The other three rarely every use 3D so the G450's work fine for them. I have two more machines that also use the NLX form factor. One has a Rage in it, the other the G200. My wife uses the G450 DH, though she's only using one display. Eventually, I'll upgrade them all to 64MB Quadro cards (Elsa Gloria II's) since they're so cheap these days.
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ok, that was f_ckin funny.
...was a bigger iPod Touch.
I stick by my earlier statement that the name makes it sound like digital Kotex. However, it mus be noted that Steve Jobs may have his first Edsel on his hands.
Seriously, the ASUS Eee PC T91MT gives you more of a computer for a bit less than the cost of this iPad (I chuckle every time I read or type that). REAL applications, REAL OS (not a "gadget" os), REAL everything! It's a tablet and a netbook at once. Approx $450 gets you 32GB SSD, 1GB RAM, and Win 7 all in a small package with a proven processor underneath it all.
$50 more get's you less drive space, an unknown amount of RAM, and a gadget OS running on what appears to be a 2010 version of the Cyrix MediaGX processor.
Steve needs to take some time off and rethink this one.
I mean, really though... they couldn't come up with a better name??? iPad sounds like digital Kotex...
"For a high speed game like Quake even 60fps is totally unplayable"
that's crazy talk.
The original Quake was VERY playable at less than 30fps. I know I was a menace in Quake and ESPECIALLY Quakeworld while running a Cyrix 200MX w/32MB of RAM with Win95b.
Quake 2 was good at 30 and typically good under 30. At it's release, I didn't have hardware that would run it at 30 (intel i740 and Permedia2, AMD K6-2 300MHz), but had no problem playing it well.
Quake 3 was the first time I could actually say that, while 30 was playable, 60 or more would have been better.
Quake 4 is also good at 60.
The only reason I see to specifically target a sustained 60fps is while some areas of the game may be less graphically intense (resulting in higher frame rates), others, especially in the heat of battle, can tax the hell out of a video card and processor. If a machine running a graphically intense game can maintain 60fps even under the most extreme conditions, the game will be quite playable when being played "normally".
Problem: desktop user downloads email attachment "Happy Birthday from Nigerian Banker.exe", virus/trojan is unleashed on your network and attempts to spread.
Solution: In a VMWare View/thin client environment, you take any infected user's virtual desktop offline and push a fresh, clean version to them. Reprimands will be in order for the person resposible, but work stoppage will be reduced to a minimum AND the effort can be handled by one person instead of a team of people to clean up the aftermath.
... but didn't the tobacco industry tell us for years that smoking poses no cancer risk?
For this reason, I'll remain skeptical about a position of denial taken by an industry that stands to lose billions should a link between their product and harm caused to the general public be found.
For the record, I don't support either stance yet, but I do remember the old-school phones from the late 80's to early 90's being differentiated by power and proximity to a person for safety reasons (I sold phones from 1990 to 1996 in a car audio shop). IIRC, ratings were .6W for hand-held phones, 1.3W for transportables (bag phones), and a full 3W for phones mounted in-car, with the tranciever, ideally, located in the trunk of the car.
... after all, Linux has been ported to pretty much every device under the sun. Why shouldn't a printer have it's own distro too?
If something like this works like I think it should, there probably wouldn't be a need for a GPU at all, just a rasterizer. Everything would be done on the host CPU, likely with power to spare.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223_05_mistake.gif
This is your second wall-o-text... maybe take a hint?
"The web has always been the reverse of TV, where the ad/content bandwidth is about 1:4 or even 1:5. It's not far different from some magazines, though, where I swear there are 3 pages of ads for every page of content."
Try looking at an "urban"-type magazine. There's typically 10-15 pages of ads BEFORE the table of contents!
People have often complained of all the advertising online, be it pop-ups or inline with content, but the advertisers have only gotten more brazed with serving up ads. In the last few years, there's pop-ups that aren't REALLY pop-ups in the old sense, but they still cover page content with whatever it is they're trying to sell you (they usually have a little 'x' to close the ad). Usually, any article you read anywhere online is almost NEVER done in a single page format because taking an article and breaking it into 20 pages means 20x the number of chances at ad revenue.
Slow ad servers, however, make browsing many sites a frustrating ordeal, especially since most browsers REFUSE to display a page as it loads, opting to display a page when most or all of the content has been cached. In the old days, you could at least READ text on a page while the images and animations are loading, now you no longer have that option. Throw in a few slow-as-molassess ad servers pushing crap to your browser and you end up with pages that take as long to load as they did in the 56K days.
In fact, the old Gnome/Enlightnement desktop paradigm is what originally convinced me to try Linux back in 2000 after hearing a bunch of "linux doesn't even have a desktop!" talk by coworkers. I tried it out and eventually learned that I could run with just Enlightenment and did that and never looked back. I've run AfterStep, Windowmaker, Black/Fluxbox, and a number of other WM's, but will always manage to come back to Enlightenment.
These days, when I bring up new linux installs, the number one task on my list is to get Enlightenment DR16 up and running if it wasn't installed by default.
a few years ago, I came across a 486 motherboard on ebay. It was an FIC job with PCI slots on it. I had wondered what, if anything, could run on it in 2005. I picked it up for next to nothing, grabbed a 486 100MHz chip and went about building this frankenmonster machine.
In retrospect, I wish I had that time back.
I had 128MB of ram on this thing, an 8MB Matrox Millenium II, a pair of 4.3GB UWSCSI drives and an Adaptec 2940UW card. Networking came from an old 3Com ISA slot 10base Nic I had (and, oddly, still have to this very day!). Win98? yup. NT4? yep, 2000??? Absolutely. RH7.3 and 9? You betcha...
Then it got old, I longed for something that could actually do stuff. It was cute for the moment, but overall a gigantic waste of my time.
My day job has me as a Linux/Unix/Win32 admin/architecht. I fiddle around with the stuff all day long.
On my lunch hour, some evenings and weekends, I work on music.
My primary PC/DAW has a Fedora 10 install on it. I have Ardour, Jack, Rosegarden, and LMMS installed, configured, tweaked to hell, and working... Yet I NEVER use it. The sheer effort it took to get all of that stuff talking to one another PLUS getting a handfull of my VST's working under LMMS was Herculean. Then I realized... I can't make much music with this stuff. I tried LMMS... I REALLY wanted to get my head around it 'cause it's multi platform, so whatever I make while under Linux, I can pull over to the WinXP side and work on it some more. Sadly, it never panned out that way. Ardour, for all it's good, still suffers from a lack of a sequencer, making it the rough equivalent of ProTools 3 or 4 (we're at 8 now). I'm not productive at all with this stuff. When I'm in "musician" mode, I don't want to tweak ANYTHING. I just want to sit down and create. I don't want to screw with jack to get stuff flowing from LMMS to Ardour. In fact, I don't want to have to run them both at the same time at all. While in WinXP, I pull up FL Studio, create, and I'm done. When it's time to master it, I open up SoundForge, drop in T-Racks or my SSL plugins and make it happen from there. If the mood calls for it, I pull up Sonar 7 and compose from there. I have dozens of plugins from freebie VST's to good Waves and NI plugins I paid for. I don't have this under Linux.
I think it's good that someone is trying to bring this stuff to Linux, but until I see the ability to use my apps and plugins, I'll pass.
My generation, GenX, got out of college and pounded the pavement for a job, we didn't wait for the college to find a job (we also started looking for a job BEFORE graduation). While in high school, not everyone got a trophy for sports, not everyone got an award. Everyone didn't make the team; hell I was cut from basketball tryouts and it didn't crush my ambitions, I just tried harder the next year. The current generation is handed everything, they're coddled and praises for waking up in the morning. I've noticed it a lot over the years, where the new guy on the job expects praise for showing up to the job and expects everyone to hold his hand. When I got into IT, they pointed at the datacenter said "The file servers run NT4 and half of the print servers run Solaris 8... one of the print servers is down and two file servers need to be bounced, go fix it". You can't do that with these new people, you have to hold their hand for at least a month before they're ready to do something on their own.
We need to stop coddling these kids and teach them the reality of the world. Not everyone makes the team, and you need to get up off your lazy asses and do for self.
.. to take my origianl copy of Dave Brubeck's "Time Out". It just turned 50 a couple of months ago, I suspect these guys will show up to revoke my license to own my copy... right???
In 2009, I find it amazing at how many people simply cannot read a map. Not only can they not read a map, they can't even guesstimate their orientation based on landmarks and/or the position of the sun. As far as orientation goes, out here in Phoenix, Arizona, most people seem to get that due to the way the metro area is laid out and the fact that everyone gets "The sun rises in the east and sets in the west".
SATNAV makes us lazy... VERY lazy, like most modern gadgets, it takes away the need to know the basics about anything. It goes along with kids now being REQUIRED to use a calculator in jr high school math. They're not learning the basics, so when the gadget that does a function is taken away (in this case your Garmin or other GPS device), you're left helpless, unable to do anything because your gadget is no longer in arms reach. To make this more relevant to the Slashdot crowd, think of life without your current favorite IDE of the moment, be it Eclipse, NetBeans, or what have you. Imagine having to code in JUST a text editor, without all the fancy features you rely on. Imagine building a website without Dreamweaver or somethig like that. You now exist in a world that I come from. While I appreciate the ease in which things can be done, I can still hand-code HTML, and can still write code with nothing more than VI or even ed if it came to that. Same thing for GPS and though I don't own one, I can see where it could be handy but since I can read a map, it's simply not necessary.
Maybe it's a generational thing too. A lot of my generation (Gen X) has these basic skills intact even though a lot of us embrace technology; we can live with it or witout it. The current gen knows nothing of a world without this technology, so to NOT have it would be near catastrophic. At the same time, there are those who precede my genreation that dove in head first with technology, yet still enjoys life without that tech.
I was a die-hard 800XL user for many years. At some point during the 80's or very early 90's, I remember an article in either Analog or Antic magazine that detailed how to get S-Video out of the XL's composite output. I built the connector with parts from Radioshack, but for no reason as I didn't have a single TV or VCR with an s-video input to try it out on.
A quick check of Google reveals this - http://www.8bitclassics.com/vmchk/Other/TI-99/Peripherals/5-Pin-DIN-to-S-Video-RCA-AV-Cable-6-Ft-New.html
Apparently, the article's author is SOL since he's using a 1200XL. He should "upgrade" to the 800XL like I had and get an s-video cable for it. Then all will be good.
... 'cause, as we all know, the best games come from one or two guys in a garage. ... don't know what they're DOING in the garage, but best believe the games that come out of it are awesome.
While the loss of neopets items and whatnot might be a bummer to your kid, losing your banking info would be worse to the family on a whole.
For this reason, my kids have their own machines... All 4 of them. They range in age from 5 to 15 and they all use old P3-850 machines. If something happens to one of their boxes I simply reimage it and they're up and running again. Their accounts on those machines are also restricted "User" accts, so anything that needs to be installed has to go by me first. This cuts down on infections, but doesn't eliminate them 100%. However, it keeps any potential infection from ever reaching MY PC's since they're never on my machines to begin with.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=344967&no_d2=1&cid=21179919
^^^ That reply was one of my responses to this article - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/2034242
"... And even the MPAA itself recommends using a camcorder pointed at a TV as a way to make fair use copies, creating another analog hole.'"
The MPAA doesn't really realize just how many people will do something like this. I'm pretty sure there's guiys out there still making VHS copies of whatever the latest DVD release is because there's still a market for VHS movies (though quite small). Those people that still cling to VHS, and to a far lesser degree Beta and Hi8, are interested in watching the movie. They could care less about the "extras", or THX surround sound or anything of the sort. They wanna watch the movie; that's it.
So, if all that's left for pirates is to point a video camera at a TV playing the movie, then that's what they're going to do. People will still buy those bootlegs, they'll still download them from the net irregardless of how inferior the picture and sound quality is. They just want to watch the movie; that's it. Many will be fine with it.
I have 4 kids age 5 through 15. We've had kids missing for a bit (usually the oldest), but always found them safe and sound. No worries over here.
I grew up in Saginaw, MI and lived as a teenager in Detroit. Out of all of my friends and family, only ONE person has ever had anything happen to them as a kid and they're alive and still doing quite well. Saginaw is a hell hole, the only place in the country scarier is Oakland, CA, yet I have very young cousins that walk the street without incident on a regular basis.
Some of us didn't. I did, and you did, but some people died who could have been saved by modern safety standards and today's technology. ... And yet, some of us STILL won't even with a GPS device, under skin implanted biochip, cellular transmitting heart monitor triggered by a rapid rise in heart rate, and ocular implant video transmitter and listening aparatus so we can see exactly what the child sees and hear what they hear.
It takes less than a few minutes for some deranged pedophile to snatch, rape, and kill a kid. FAR faster than any amount of technology can react.
Dude... you're playing word games and can't accept that you're wrong.
At it's heart it may be a crippled Voodoo2, but it's not a proper Voodoo2. There was ONLY one PROPER Voodoo2, with a pass-through like EVERY OTHER Voodoo2 card, ever made and that's the Obsidian S-12. The Banshee is not a V2 proper. You know what I mean, don't play stupid. You were horribly wrong about the S3 Virge and MeTaL and now you wanna try to redeem yourself here???
log off.
that's a fairly rare card. I've seen a couple, but never thought to buy one 'cause I had heard that drivers were crap on it.
I'm currently running nothing but old cards..
Matrox Mystique 220 w/Rainbow Runner Capture card
Matrox Millenium G200 (8MB) - NLX form factor
Matrox G450 AGP (16MB) x3 - NLX form factor
Matrox G450 Dual Head AGP (32MB)
Matrox G450 Dual Head PCI (16MB)
ATi Rage Pro Turbo 2 AGP (8MB) NLX form factor
Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D (4MB on motherboard)
Nvidia Quadro AGP (64MB) NLX form factor
Nvidia Geforce 2MX AGP (32MB)
Nvidia Geforce 6200 AGP (256MB)
I keep the NLX form boards around 'cause all of my kids' PC's require it for AGP use (IBM 300PL's, 2 towers and i desktop). One of them has the Quadro, but only for a game that the two of us play together online. The other three rarely every use 3D so the G450's work fine for them. I have two more machines that also use the NLX form factor. One has a Rage in it, the other the G200. My wife uses the G450 DH, though she's only using one display. Eventually, I'll upgrade them all to 64MB Quadro cards (Elsa Gloria II's) since they're so cheap these days.