Not to nit-pick, but I'll be damned if it's illegal for you as an American citizen to smoke a Cuban cigar in France, or wherever. The laws of the United States do not apply to the United States citizen while in another country - the laws present in the country you are apply to you. If you commit a crime against an American or the property of an American while in another country, the US courts can then request to try you for it in the US, or let the country you are in at the time try you, if it is in fact a crime in that nation. I could go to the Dominican Republic and smoke cuban cigars all damn day long and the United States could do NOTHING about it because it is NOT illegal to smoke Cuban cigars there! The second I take that cigar back with me to the U.S., though, is when I'd run into problems - ON U.S. soil.
Call me paranoid, but with all likelihood, none of the aforementioned analyses of this situation are worth a damn. Like in China, the United States government probably still commands quite a bit of sway over what the media releases to their respective public audiences. So any view of this story is most likely grossly skewed as opposed to what actually happened over there. At this point, the only people who know exactly what is going on and what is being said behind closed doors know the seriousness or direct implications of this situation. With any luck, they'll have it hammered out peacefully in not too long, but you can bet there's a lot more political maneuvering going on than even what we all see now.
Have you ever played a HL-derived game on an 810 family chipset? Hell, I wouldn't play Pong on an 810 chipset....they even manage poor 2d image quality ; the 810 on my cheapie backup machine at home pissed me off to the point where I dug up a GeForce2 MX PCI (!!) and slapped it in. Aahhhhhh. Respectable display properties once again.
Novell! Funny how easy Micorsoft always had it laid out to "adapt" a Novell network into an NT network, with using only one user license for an entire NT network to log into a Novell Server, thus making having to buy Novell user licenses redundant!
Maybe a little hyped ; I thought the article seemed a little bit optimistic about the card, myself. However, I also thought about it this way:
The KyroII may win some and lose some....but so does the GeForce Ultra. From this perspective, it's not so obvious that the GeForce 2 Ultra is the ultimate 3D accelerator. It actually gets beaten in more than a couple of these tests!
However, I will have to see it to believe it myself. How about image quality? Availability? Most importantly, is it glitchy with Counter-Strike and HalfLife?
Man, this card has a severe Pentium 4 dysfunction. By the time anything (game titles) comes out that actually supports the additional features that are built onto this card, it will not be worth the $500 to $600 you paid for it six months earlier - NVIDIA will have released something even more insane by then, anyway (in keeping with their apparent policy of releasing new 3D cards every six months or so.) These will come along, but it takes time, and in the mean time, I'll enjoy my fully-supported, much less expensive GeForce 2 MX.
The economic situation - maybe so. However, I know for a fact this is one of the primary reasons so many computing fans have NOT migrated to *nix systems - in the realm of good 3D support and games, Linux (unfortunate as it may be), simply gets skunked by my version of Windows 98 (icky!). New developments (at any rate) with Linux gaming is very exciting and is just the chance for many, many people (as myself) to stop pirating copies of Windoze 98, etc. and get a real OS.
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Not to nit-pick, but I'll be damned if it's illegal for you as an American citizen to smoke a Cuban cigar in France, or wherever. The laws of the United States do not apply to the United States citizen while in another country - the laws present in the country you are apply to you. If you commit a crime against an American or the property of an American while in another country, the US courts can then request to try you for it in the US, or let the country you are in at the time try you, if it is in fact a crime in that nation. I could go to the Dominican Republic and smoke cuban cigars all damn day long and the United States could do NOTHING about it because it is NOT illegal to smoke Cuban cigars there! The second I take that cigar back with me to the U.S., though, is when I'd run into problems - ON U.S. soil.
is 'obsoleted' a real verb? Just wondering...
Call me paranoid, but with all likelihood, none of the aforementioned analyses of this situation are worth a damn. Like in China, the United States government probably still commands quite a bit of sway over what the media releases to their respective public audiences. So any view of this story is most likely grossly skewed as opposed to what actually happened over there. At this point, the only people who know exactly what is going on and what is being said behind closed doors know the seriousness or direct implications of this situation. With any luck, they'll have it hammered out peacefully in not too long, but you can bet there's a lot more political maneuvering going on than even what we all see now.
Have you ever played a HL-derived game on an 810 family chipset? Hell, I wouldn't play Pong on an 810 chipset....they even manage poor 2d image quality ; the 810 on my cheapie backup machine at home pissed me off to the point where I dug up a GeForce2 MX PCI (!!) and slapped it in. Aahhhhhh. Respectable display properties once again.
Novell! Funny how easy Micorsoft always had it laid out to "adapt" a Novell network into an NT network, with using only one user license for an entire NT network to log into a Novell Server, thus making having to buy Novell user licenses redundant!
Maybe a little hyped ; I thought the article seemed a little bit optimistic about the card, myself. However, I also thought about it this way: The KyroII may win some and lose some....but so does the GeForce Ultra. From this perspective, it's not so obvious that the GeForce 2 Ultra is the ultimate 3D accelerator. It actually gets beaten in more than a couple of these tests! However, I will have to see it to believe it myself. How about image quality? Availability? Most importantly, is it glitchy with Counter-Strike and HalfLife?
Man, this card has a severe Pentium 4 dysfunction. By the time anything (game titles) comes out that actually supports the additional features that are built onto this card, it will not be worth the $500 to $600 you paid for it six months earlier - NVIDIA will have released something even more insane by then, anyway (in keeping with their apparent policy of releasing new 3D cards every six months or so.) These will come along, but it takes time, and in the mean time, I'll enjoy my fully-supported, much less expensive GeForce 2 MX.
The economic situation - maybe so. However, I know for a fact this is one of the primary reasons so many computing fans have NOT migrated to *nix systems - in the realm of good 3D support and games, Linux (unfortunate as it may be), simply gets skunked by my version of Windows 98 (icky!). New developments (at any rate) with Linux gaming is very exciting and is just the chance for many, many people (as myself) to stop pirating copies of Windoze 98, etc. and get a real OS.