Because a lot of us (at least, a lot of people that I know) have gotten a GeForce when NVIDIA was 'on the right track' so to speak.
Funny that this article is posted just know, because I was just catching up on the linux-nvidia mailinglist. While I haven't followed all developments on this, it seems that NVidia does update their 'OS independent SDK' whatever that is. And yes, it's a bunch of obfuscated code, but there still are developers working on it.
Check the list archives for more.
The only thing we can do now is to hope NVidia will release a non-obfuscated version of that code I suppose. Even if they won't do anything else, it'd make my GeForce happy....
and then the reviewer goes on to describe a ~500k.DOC file becoming 224MB of data being sent to the printer.
Where I work, we have a lot of network printers. Those are being served by one of our servers, with queue limits of about 15MB per job. I haven't heard of a single complaint about the size of the queue before. So maybe although the memory requirements of ApplixWare seem modest, this is really unacceptable in our situation. In defense of the reviewer, he says it's "a complex, 10 page graphics-intensive document", but even then, most LaTeX files I've seen that include figures don't produce 100's of MB's of postscript.
Too bad, I'd really like to see a good Office suite for *nix (and no, StarOffice with its 1min+ startup time and 100MB memory requirements doesn't cut it for me either).
While I do appreciate the fact that 3Dfx is making the source available, it isn't the complete Glide library that older applications (such as Quake II) depend on. Rather, it is a subset of the Glide API that allows Mesa and their new OpenGL driver to access the Voodoo3.
I'd like to see the source for the complete Glide library so that my "old" Voodoo2 can also use Glide3X. But, 3Dfx probably isn't going to release this, and they are equally less likely to update Glide for Linux (at least, they haven't done so in ages - Daryll, any takes on this one?)
Oh well, I planned to go out and buy another 3D card for Q3Arena anyway...
Ping times are significantly faster with the Internet Gaming modem, allowing players to get their games started quicker than ever before.
Well, maybe it also starts faster but _if_ this is true it is more significant that you get a faster in-game experience. Indicates a non-techie non-gameplaying marketeer at work IMHO.
In fact, Henderson Communications Laboratories, an independent testing lab, concluded that the 3Com Internet Gaming modem achieved up to 43 percent faster weighted average ping times than five other competitor modems
Maybe if they put some test data online, I'd believe it.
Just another hype press release/hyped product IMO.
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To which I can only add a heartfelt "amen, brother".
--Fritti
Because a lot of us (at least, a lot of people that I know) have gotten a GeForce when NVIDIA was 'on the right track' so to speak.
Funny that this article is posted just know, because I was just catching up on the linux-nvidia mailinglist. While I haven't followed all developments on this, it seems that NVidia does update their 'OS independent SDK' whatever that is. And yes, it's a bunch of obfuscated code, but there still are developers working on it.
Check the list archives for more.
The only thing we can do now is to hope NVidia will release a non-obfuscated version of that code I suppose. Even if they won't do anything else, it'd make my GeForce happy....
--Fritti
I just couldn't figure this out:
.DOC file becoming 224MB of data being sent to the printer.
Application printing is also very well done
and then the reviewer goes on to describe a ~500k
Where I work, we have a lot of network printers. Those are being served by one of our servers, with queue limits of about 15MB per job. I haven't heard of a single complaint about the size of the queue before. So maybe although the memory requirements of ApplixWare seem modest, this is really unacceptable in our situation. In defense of the reviewer, he says it's "a complex, 10 page graphics-intensive document", but even then, most LaTeX files I've seen that include figures don't produce 100's of MB's of postscript.
Too bad, I'd really like to see a good Office suite for *nix (and no, StarOffice with its 1min+ startup time and 100MB memory requirements doesn't cut it for me either).
--Fritti
While I do appreciate the fact that 3Dfx is making the source available, it isn't the complete Glide library that older applications (such as Quake II) depend on. Rather, it is a subset of the Glide API that allows Mesa and their new OpenGL driver to access the Voodoo3.
I'd like to see the source for the complete Glide library so that my "old" Voodoo2 can also use Glide3X. But, 3Dfx probably isn't going to release this, and they are equally less likely to update Glide for Linux (at least, they haven't done so in ages - Daryll, any takes on this one?)
Oh well, I planned to go out and buy another 3D card for Q3Arena anyway...
--Fritti
Ping times are significantly faster with the Internet Gaming modem, allowing players to get their games started quicker than ever before.
Well, maybe it also starts faster but _if_ this is true it is more significant that you get a faster in-game experience. Indicates a non-techie non-gameplaying marketeer at work IMHO.
In fact, Henderson Communications Laboratories, an independent testing lab, concluded that the 3Com Internet Gaming modem achieved up to 43 percent faster weighted average ping times than five other competitor modems
Maybe if they put some test data online, I'd believe it.
Just another hype press release/hyped product IMO.
--Fritti