So your saying basicaly sweeden doesn't want anyone just "visiting for a couple years", because when you went back to america you would be dog poor:P
Your high end puts a take-home of ~$25,000/yr. While this may be enough to live decently over there, returning to america would be a bitch(your savings would be worth quite abit less)
Yup, only on NVIDIA and 3dfx's hardware, doesn't that suck. All those people playing q3a on Matrox boards, and ATI boards should be told they dont have 3d accel in linux.
We should also remember that those enjoying their 3D acceleration on the Intel i810 chips canty use it, same with the GMX 2000boards(although i dont think anyone owns those:P)
Someone should let all these other people know that they dont really have openGL support
How in the world is EVAS machine-dependent? It uses the GLX protocol, and GLX is very non-machine dependant, its a spec thats been available for years.
Its because the average.asf is encoded at a lower bitrate. Its not specific, you CAN have high bitrate, microsoft mpeg-4 encoded.asfs, just noone makes them:P
I dunno what you watch . . . i see VCD's encoded at 384x288 (or something close to that, i forget the exact), that are still semi-blurry that fit 2 CD's (VCD is 80min/CD, and most movies need more than that). I can put a 720x480 divx on a single CD (700M), and i get better resolution, and alot less blurriness. I dunno what crack you smoke, but if you were to encode divx at that low resolution (384x288) you can really drop the bitrate and have VCD quality images, of course then you can almost(not quite) fit 2 movies on a CD . . .
If that were true then why didn't the orrigional 'One', that set the first of them free(Morpheus) do all that? Just because you are the one doesn't mean everything, maybee:)
According to AMD(i forget the link, its in their 760 FAQ), the 760 Chipset will only support DDR ram. Since thats their latest, and fastest chipset I'm pretty sure thats what sun would be using. Besides that it gives them an easier upgrade path to the 760-MP (same memory, etc.). DDR isn't much more expensive than normal SDRAM at all, and its been shown to give a 10-15% performance boost just by puting it in a system.
Now weather those benchmarks play true to the server market, i dunno. But increased memory bandwidth would have to be a good thing.
Besides that, another thing the AMD has going for it is the 266Mhz (on >850mhz chips) FSB(ok, 133 DDR). This again gives it just a little more speed.
Thats what makes debian the best distro, the morons are scared of it and the s/n ratio increases 10 fold. Maybee more. I like not being an idiot, and not having to deal with any idiots trying to do stuff they dont want to understand.
And of course, my "crappy" tapes can be left arround, used by the kids, and everything else, and still work fine 10 years later. No chance my DVD's would live half that long.
Theres a pretty decent comparison. For the price of a celeron 800, you can put a 1Ghz TBird,to compete with the Duron 850 you'd have to compare it with the 733Mhz Celeron. The 766 did pretty poorly compared to the 850, so i dont see why the 733 would have a chance. I wish someone would put together a Price comparison, compare a couple processors, only marked by price. Then at the end say which one they are. Choose a couple processors, PIII, Celeron, Duron, TBird all of the same price range, see who wins out.
Something like comparing: TBird 850, Duron 850, Celeron 733, and PIII - 550.
You should note you cant actualy buy a PIII that competes in price with the others . . .
thousands, large numbers? MS has a huge install base. I'm sure its over 100million. even if a 5 million people were 100% MS free (quite possible), thats 5%, i beleive anything over like 80% is a monopoly, there may be exact "government numbers" on this, but common sense says that 80% gives someone pretty much complete control, and the 90-95% which MS probably has gives it that much more
- the more i think about it, i figure that number is probably higher than 100million, but who knows. Between all the companys, home users, and international stuff its gotta be insanely high.
even just the install base of linux/bsd/etc couldn't possibly be 50million computers. I think numbers i saw said linux was on like 10-11million machines, and most of those i would bet arn't microsoft free. i'm sure linux doesn't account for half the "other-os" market, but probably does have 1/4 - 1/3
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the kernel mods are for 3d and AGP access. the agp access mostly uses the stock kernel agpgart, but i think it also has a bit of extra support for some chipsets.
nVidia provides them because all things that do 3d need to someway access the video card memory, it has been decided i guess that the way this will be done is a kernel level module that acts as an interface between the librarys, and the card.
You mean win2k's, i dont anti-alias normal fonts, but i actualy use very well "tip'd" fonts which can be used under any operating system, fonts dont also hurt your eyes? drop down the resolution, or take a screen shot and look close. No anti-aliasing there. They have it yes, for the smaller fonts and such, but please check
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p.s. Recently X added anti-alias'd fonts, but like i said its not needed too much.
Yea, miguel de icaza wants free software over usability, lets kick him off the evolution devel team !
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I mean, come on. This is a big part of open source, you get what the developers want. If miguel finds open source to be the most important thing to him, then thats what your going to get. You always get what the developer wants. OSS developers(not all, but ones like miguel) are doing this because they enjoy doing it, and because he wants to. Corporate companys do it because they are a slave to the dollar and do anything to make a buck.
So corporate america doesn't care, so what? While i like the ammount of applications and support linux is getting, and know that corporate america is where the "cash cow" of linux is, I really wouldn't mind if people started saying "Why do we need that, 99% of linux users dont want that, just corporate america, screw that and lets do something we want in our software."
I know this isn't the way to get linux "into every home/office/etc." So what? If your giving away your work, your doing it for a reason. His reason is because he beleives in OSS...
4. Finally, using Flash cheats yourself. You're kidding yourself if you think that you need to use Flash. I can't think of one instance of where Flash has made a site better. Just about every use I've seen has been gratuitous. People don't surf the web because they want a Rich Immersive Experience. They surf because they want to find solutions to their problems or find products and services that meet their needs and wants. Flash just gets in the way. So, do yourself a favor and learn what makes the Web work well -- HTML, XHTML, CSS, and their W3C-recommended friends. Then you can toss Flash in the trash. Do it. You'll be a better human for it.
Well, the very first thing that comes to mind is www.joecartoon.com
If you can think of a better way than flash to do that, please tell me. And contrary to popular belief, 9 out of 10 people i know (ranging from your average "adult", to college students) surf the web for the experience, for laughs from finding new hilarious things, for meeting up with friends that they otherwise couldn't. Most of these people LIKE flash, and thats why it exists. Because your average non-elitist web user(the ones that the web works for now, even if it wasn't designed for it) likes the "Rich Immersive Experience"
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It seems to me the hd makers would be killing their own market. Who is going to need an 80G drive, if not to store their mp3's, movies, and pr0n. The only things i know that manage that without the 3 above named things are corporate servers. Sure some users can stack up a bit of stuff. But really, media is what fills our drives today. And if they implement this to stop that, why will i need a bigger drive?
To quote the page providing the binaries:
"What we have here is a demonstration of 3dfx Interactive's "T-Buffer" being used to effect "Motion Blur" in the game Quake3Arena (or rather an earlier Q3Test version). It requires the use of 4sample Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing."
Yes, thats right, it says that it REQUIRES the use of 4xFSAA
unless you have a brain, in which you can automaticaly, through that given my nature, realize what context you are in, and automaticaly know that K is reference to kilbytes, and k references kilobits.
Too bad your average troll doesn't also have common sense.
No actualy, handspring gets the same ammount either way. The difference is your paying part, and the provider is paying the other part of your phone. If you dont like it talk the GSM providers in YOUR area into partialy-subsidising the phone.
I dunno about that. What i do know is i've never had a time when my cell phone (Verizon Wireless) didn't work. Except a few cases inside buildings when the signal gets weak. I travel from the san francisco/san jose area, to central california, down to other areas, and while i hardly leave the high ways or citys, coverage has always been just fine.
I dunno about your system, but my system never skips when scrolling windows, i do everything while playing mp3's and nothing ever makes it skip, not even opening my 12000 message mailbox's in mutt makes it skip. I've also just done a couple tests, scrolling mozilla up and down with my scroll button does nothing to playback, neither does taking a window and moving it arround . . . fast or slow. 8-10 mp3's? I could try(and just did), thing is i have no clue if its skipping or not, its just too much of a jumble do really hear it. I just played an entire metallica CD at the same time. The voices i can hear dont sound as if they are skipping, but who knows.
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What I dont understand, is why does not producing something for linux prevent people from still making it on linux?
After it has been made, if it wsa intelligently* seperated into kernel and user space parts, it should quite possibly be able to be ported to windows, or whatever the OS of the day is.
Thats very simple. Because all those people using linux beleive that other operating systems are less superior, and like things to not only be free, but stay that way.
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So your saying basicaly sweeden doesn't want anyone just "visiting for a couple years", because when you went back to america you would be dog poor :P
Your high end puts a take-home of ~$25,000/yr. While this may be enough to live decently over there, returning to america would be a bitch(your savings would be worth quite abit less)
Yup, only on NVIDIA and 3dfx's hardware, doesn't that suck. All those people playing q3a on Matrox boards, and ATI boards should be told they dont have 3d accel in linux.
We should also remember that those enjoying their 3D acceleration on the Intel i810 chips canty use it, same with the GMX 2000boards(although i dont think anyone owns those:P)
Someone should let all these other people know that they dont really have openGL support
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How in the world is EVAS machine-dependent? It uses the GLX protocol, and GLX is very non-machine dependant, its a spec thats been available for years.
You do realize that decss is the *only* reason those DVD->mpeg4 rippers work, right?
Its because the average .asf is encoded at a lower bitrate. Its not specific, you CAN have high bitrate, microsoft mpeg-4 encoded .asfs, just noone makes them :P
I dunno what you watch . . . i see VCD's encoded at 384x288 (or something close to that, i forget the exact), that are still semi-blurry that fit 2 CD's (VCD is 80min/CD, and most movies need more than that). I can put a 720x480 divx on a single CD (700M), and i get better resolution, and alot less blurriness. I dunno what crack you smoke, but if you were to encode divx at that low resolution (384x288) you can really drop the bitrate and have VCD quality images, of course then you can almost(not quite) fit 2 movies on a CD . . .
If that were true then why didn't the orrigional 'One', that set the first of them free(Morpheus) do all that? Just because you are the one doesn't mean everything, maybee :)
According to AMD(i forget the link, its in their 760 FAQ), the 760 Chipset will only support DDR ram. Since thats their latest, and fastest chipset I'm pretty sure thats what sun would be using. Besides that it gives them an easier upgrade path to the 760-MP (same memory, etc.). DDR isn't much more expensive than normal SDRAM at all, and its been shown to give a 10-15% performance boost just by puting it in a system.
Now weather those benchmarks play true to the server market, i dunno. But increased memory bandwidth would have to be a good thing.
Besides that, another thing the AMD has going for it is the 266Mhz (on >850mhz chips) FSB(ok, 133 DDR). This again gives it just a little more speed.
Makes you wish you could use a distro with an OPEN development model, doesn't it? Something like debian . . .
Unusable for a moron. This is a good thing.
Thats what makes debian the best distro, the morons are scared of it and the s/n ratio increases 10 fold. Maybee more. I like not being an idiot, and not having to deal with any idiots trying to do stuff they dont want to understand.
And of course, my "crappy" tapes can be left arround, used by the kids, and everything else, and still work fine 10 years later. No chance my DVD's would live half that long.
i dunno what kinda crack you smoke, heres some numbers from pricewatch, ranked by price:
TBird 1100 -- 217
Celeron 800 -- 202
TBird 1000 -- 173
TBird 950 -- 158
Celeron 766 -- 153
TBird 900 -- 133
Celeron 733 -- 113
Duron 850 -- 108
Tbird 850 -- 105
TBird 800 -- 103
Celeron 700 -- 79
Duron 800 -- 73
Duron 750 -- 62
Theres a pretty decent comparison. For the price of a celeron 800, you can put a 1Ghz TBird,to compete with the Duron 850 you'd have to compare it with the 733Mhz Celeron. The 766 did pretty poorly compared to the 850, so i dont see why the 733 would have a chance. I wish someone would put together a Price comparison, compare a couple processors, only marked by price. Then at the end say which one they are. Choose a couple processors, PIII, Celeron, Duron, TBird all of the same price range, see who wins out.
Something like comparing: TBird 850, Duron 850, Celeron 733, and PIII - 550.
You should note you cant actualy buy a PIII that competes in price with the others . . .
thousands, large numbers? MS has a huge install base. I'm sure its over 100million. even if a 5 million people were 100% MS free (quite possible), thats 5%, i beleive anything over like 80% is a monopoly, there may be exact "government numbers" on this, but common sense says that 80% gives someone pretty much complete control, and the 90-95% which MS probably has gives it that much more
- the more i think about it, i figure that number is probably higher than 100million, but who knows. Between all the companys, home users, and international stuff its gotta be insanely high.
even just the install base of linux/bsd/etc couldn't possibly be 50million computers. I think numbers i saw said linux was on like 10-11million machines, and most of those i would bet arn't microsoft free. i'm sure linux doesn't account for half the "other-os" market, but probably does have 1/4 - 1/3
the kernel mods are for 3d and AGP access. the agp access mostly uses the stock kernel agpgart, but i think it also has a bit of extra support for some chipsets.
nVidia provides them because all things that do 3d need to someway access the video card memory, it has been decided i guess that the way this will be done is a kernel level module that acts as an interface between the librarys, and the card.
You mean win2k's, i dont anti-alias normal fonts, but i actualy use very well "tip'd" fonts which can be used under any operating system, fonts dont also hurt your eyes? drop down the resolution, or take a screen shot and look close. No anti-aliasing there. They have it yes, for the smaller fonts and such, but please check
Journey
p.s. Recently X added anti-alias'd fonts, but like i said its not needed too much.
Yea, miguel de icaza wants free software over usability, lets kick him off the evolution devel team !
...
<rant>
I mean, come on. This is a big part of open source, you get what the developers want. If miguel finds open source to be the most important thing to him, then thats what your going to get. You always get what the developer wants. OSS developers(not all, but ones like miguel) are doing this because they enjoy doing it, and because he wants to. Corporate companys do it because they are a slave to the dollar and do anything to make a buck.
So corporate america doesn't care, so what? While i like the ammount of applications and support linux is getting, and know that corporate america is where the "cash cow" of linux is, I really wouldn't mind if people started saying "Why do we need that, 99% of linux users dont want that, just corporate america, screw that and lets do something we want in our software."
I know this isn't the way to get linux "into every home/office/etc." So what? If your giving away your work, your doing it for a reason. His reason is because he beleives in OSS
</rant>
4. Finally, using Flash cheats yourself. You're kidding yourself if you think that you need to use Flash. I can't think of one instance of where Flash has made a site better. Just about every use I've seen has been gratuitous. People don't surf the web because they want a Rich Immersive Experience. They surf because they want to find solutions to their problems or find products and services that meet their needs and wants. Flash just gets in the way. So, do yourself a favor and learn what makes the Web work well -- HTML, XHTML, CSS, and their W3C-recommended friends. Then you can toss Flash in the trash. Do it. You'll be a better human for it. Well, the very first thing that comes to mind is www.joecartoon.com If you can think of a better way than flash to do that, please tell me. And contrary to popular belief, 9 out of 10 people i know (ranging from your average "adult", to college students) surf the web for the experience, for laughs from finding new hilarious things, for meeting up with friends that they otherwise couldn't. Most of these people LIKE flash, and thats why it exists. Because your average non-elitist web user(the ones that the web works for now, even if it wasn't designed for it) likes the "Rich Immersive Experience" Journey-
It seems to me the hd makers would be killing their own market. Who is going to need an 80G drive, if not to store their mp3's, movies, and pr0n. The only things i know that manage that without the 3 above named things are corporate servers. Sure some users can stack up a bit of stuff. But really, media is what fills our drives today. And if they implement this to stop that, why will i need a bigger drive?
Maybee more people should read . . .
To quote the page providing the binaries:
"What we have here is a demonstration of 3dfx Interactive's "T-Buffer" being used to effect "Motion Blur" in the game Quake3Arena (or rather an earlier Q3Test version). It requires the use of 4sample Rotated-Grid Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing."
Yes, thats right, it says that it REQUIRES the use of 4xFSAA
Journey
unless you have a brain, in which you can automaticaly, through that given my nature, realize what context you are in, and automaticaly know that K is reference to kilbytes, and k references kilobits.
Too bad your average troll doesn't also have common sense.
No actualy, handspring gets the same ammount either way. The difference is your paying part, and the provider is paying the other part of your phone. If you dont like it talk the GSM providers in YOUR area into partialy-subsidising the phone.
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I dunno about that. What i do know is i've never had a time when my cell phone (Verizon Wireless) didn't work. Except a few cases inside buildings when the signal gets weak. I travel from the san francisco/san jose area, to central california, down to other areas, and while i hardly leave the high ways or citys, coverage has always been just fine.
Journey
I dunno about your system, but my system never skips when scrolling windows, i do everything while playing mp3's and nothing ever makes it skip, not even opening my 12000 message mailbox's in mutt makes it skip. I've also just done a couple tests, scrolling mozilla up and down with my scroll button does nothing to playback, neither does taking a window and moving it arround . . . fast or slow. 8-10 mp3's? I could try(and just did), thing is i have no clue if its skipping or not, its just too much of a jumble do really hear it. I just played an entire metallica CD at the same time. The voices i can hear dont sound as if they are skipping, but who knows. Journey
What I dont understand, is why does not producing something for linux prevent people from still making it on linux?
After it has been made, if it wsa intelligently* seperated into kernel and user space parts, it should quite possibly be able to be ported to windows, or whatever the OS of the day is.
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* This is sometimes incredibly hard . . .
Thats very simple. Because all those people using linux beleive that other operating systems are less superior, and like things to not only be free, but stay that way.