Opera may be a niche on the desktop market, but I seem to recall them dominating the mobile and embedded browser market.
The cool thing is that you get pretty much the same Opera no matter which platform you're on. They keep it small and fast from the get go and don't have to butcher it just to make it run well on a PDA or cell phone.
I think you're referring to the 'fast forward' button which is supposed to automagically enumerate for things like image galleries. It's the double forward arrow.
I have a fast computer and I still just like the way Opera feels. Then again, I've been using it since version 3 or so. They've just never given me a reason to look back. The best new features are usually implemented first in Opera (Integrated pop-up blocker, tabs, crash recovery) and as you say, everything is very refined and integrated seamlessly. There's no need to construct Frankenbrowser from a dozen plug-ins just to get to where Opera was years ago.
Of course, a lot of people find the ad supported version annoying so I usually end up recommending FireFox as an IE replacement like you do. But when I can, I try to get people to at least try Opera.
I'm running Gentoo on an AMD64 and Opera runs just as well as it did when I was in a 32-bit environment.
Does it give you any error messages when you try to start it up? Maybe there's an environment setting or something that isn't set up right in FC. Check out the Opera ( http://my.opera.com/forums/ )forums, maybe there are people with similar problems there that can be of help.
They're the ones who tried to use the DMCA to stifle competition in the aftermarket toner cartridge market. Take advantage of the recall to make them lose more money, but please don't ever buy another Lexmark printer!
Stuff like a Linux kernel patch can weigh in at nearly 3MB now. The whole 2.6.7 kernel is over 30MB bzipped. Even Firefox is over 8MB, light as it may be. Background downloading sucks because it easily saturates your bandwidth and leaves you virtually unable to browse. And you're *really* screwed if you want to do an on-line update for your entire system which, if running a modern GNU/Linux distro like Debian Sarge, Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, etc. which can require hundreds of megabytes to be downloaded.
I had to live on dial-up until just two years ago when it became available in my area. I've never looked back, I'd simply go nuts waiting for stuff to download. When I'm ready to patch my kernel or whatever, I want to do it right then and there. I don't want to run a download overnight or waste a CD to burn a few files from my computer at work. It just seems crazy to me. And though I still frequent many sites with a simple layout, do IRC, and other simple tasks, there are many situations such as on-line shopping where I simply lose patience with long loading times. Music downloading (Legal, of course) is a huge benefit of broadband as well. I don't want to start listening to an artist off Magnatune, decide I like a track, and have to wait another 10 minutes before hearing the next one. Internet radio is nice, too.
Oh well, guess I've just been spoiled by my broadband connection. Broadband availability has become a selling point in my selection for places to rent, even. Not everyone uses the internet the same way I do, and that's fine. It just seems silly to me that any Slashdotter would honestly argue in favor of dial-up over broadband if broadband is affordable and available (And yes, I know that's a pretty big if).
You don't necessarily have to SLI two of the same card. Unlike the old 3dfx Voodoo implementation, nVidia's can balance a load between two cards. What this does is allows you to buy a SLI-capable card now (6600), then if you decide you need some extra horsepower a year from now to then you can buy a 6800 or whatever you can afford and have the newer card render more of the screen.
If you need 6800 power now and can afford it, then by all means get the 6800.
Your CPU and system memory play an important role as well. I went from a Ti4600 to a 6800GT (That's 6800, not 6600) with a 2.1GHz Athlon64 and 512MB low-latency RAM and the performance is night and day--Superior image quality with double (Sometimes quadruple) the framerate. I suspect you'll still get great performance with the 6600, but it might not be worth it unless you play a lot of games and/or don't care much for extremely high visual detail and anti-aliasing+anisotropic filtering.
That's what I ultimately decided. $400 is a hefty price for a video card, no doubt about that, but since I intend on playing a lot of Doom 3 (In GNU/Linux, of course!) and not upgrading for another two years, the 6800GT just seemed like the best chioce for prolonged gaming pleasure.
Couple that with fantastic Linux support from nVidia, and the 6800GT is definitely a winner.
Not necessarily. Making a good shot in pool requires more than just lining up a shot and hitting the cue ball into another ball. The cue ball often times needs to be hit with the proper left/right/top/bottom spin ("English") so that it rolls into a spot where there is another shot. The best place to hit the cue ball would be very difficult to calculate with an overhead view.
If you watch professionals play, you'll notice their stance is such that their chins are almost touching their cue stick, and the stick is usually as level with the table as possible (Unless a special rail or masse shot is taken). This is because triangulating the coordinates of where you wish to hit the ball, especially with english, is extremely difficult. While maybe not so difficult for a robot with a computer that can perform such calculations accurately to a few decimal places, it certainly does complicate the math involved. That, and an overhead view would make it difficult to accurately hit the cue ball on the bottom to draw it back after striking the target ball.
Just curious. My guess is that Intel keeps pumping money into SGI to get Altix systems out and those who have them (LLNL and...?) got them at practically no charge to run Linpack and look good on the Top500 list.
Unfortunately, nearly 100% of all laptops have the BIOS chip soldered on thus making it difficult to test an experimental BIOS like LinuxBIOS on such a machine:(
Nanos came in at a time when things were kind of getting lax in terms of security and safety practices. He's got a tough job ahead of him--Making 10,000+ employees follow the rules all at once with virtually zero margin for error is not an easy task. That's like expecting Microsoft to ensure that all copies of Windows are secured so that there are no more worms/trojans/viruses--It's a nearly impossible task given the numbers no matter how many resources are available. I think Nanos' attitude is right on--people tend to think that they can just get away with disregarding the rules and procedures, and it's time to weed out these people before UC loses the contract.
On a side note, the stand-down on Friday was due to a safety incident (One major injury, no fatalities) that actually occured Wednesday afternoon after Nanos' all-hands meeting.
>> If it doesn't contain any data that can be used to endanger national security, WHY is it classified?
Who ever said the data couldn't be used to threaten national security? There are other ways to threaten security other than just weapons data; infrastructure information, intelligence reports, and even science that nobody is quite sure what to make of at this point.
It might worth noting that the nVidia drivers used in the Anandtech benchmark are from January. nVidia released new 6xxx drivers for both IA32 and AMD64 on June 30.
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Opera may be a niche on the desktop market, but I seem to recall them dominating the mobile and embedded browser market.
The cool thing is that you get pretty much the same Opera no matter which platform you're on. They keep it small and fast from the get go and don't have to butcher it just to make it run well on a PDA or cell phone.
I think you're referring to the 'fast forward' button which is supposed to automagically enumerate for things like image galleries. It's the double forward arrow.
I have a fast computer and I still just like the way Opera feels. Then again, I've been using it since version 3 or so. They've just never given me a reason to look back. The best new features are usually implemented first in Opera (Integrated pop-up blocker, tabs, crash recovery) and as you say, everything is very refined and integrated seamlessly. There's no need to construct Frankenbrowser from a dozen plug-ins just to get to where Opera was years ago.
Of course, a lot of people find the ad supported version annoying so I usually end up recommending FireFox as an IE replacement like you do. But when I can, I try to get people to at least try Opera.
I'm running Gentoo on an AMD64 and Opera runs just as well as it did when I was in a 32-bit environment.
Does it give you any error messages when you try to start it up? Maybe there's an environment setting or something that isn't set up right in FC. Check out the Opera ( http://my.opera.com/forums/ )forums, maybe there are people with similar problems there that can be of help.
>>Why no speeches of how downloaders are taking the very food out of porn star's mouths?
Because they have enough in their mouths as it is.
They're the ones who tried to use the DMCA to stifle competition in the aftermarket toner cartridge market. Take advantage of the recall to make them lose more money, but please don't ever buy another Lexmark printer!
Stuff like a Linux kernel patch can weigh in at nearly 3MB now. The whole 2.6.7 kernel is over 30MB bzipped. Even Firefox is over 8MB, light as it may be. Background downloading sucks because it easily saturates your bandwidth and leaves you virtually unable to browse. And you're *really* screwed if you want to do an on-line update for your entire system which, if running a modern GNU/Linux distro like Debian Sarge, Gentoo, Redhat, SuSE, etc. which can require hundreds of megabytes to be downloaded.
I had to live on dial-up until just two years ago when it became available in my area. I've never looked back, I'd simply go nuts waiting for stuff to download. When I'm ready to patch my kernel or whatever, I want to do it right then and there. I don't want to run a download overnight or waste a CD to burn a few files from my computer at work. It just seems crazy to me. And though I still frequent many sites with a simple layout, do IRC, and other simple tasks, there are many situations such as on-line shopping where I simply lose patience with long loading times. Music downloading (Legal, of course) is a huge benefit of broadband as well. I don't want to start listening to an artist off Magnatune, decide I like a track, and have to wait another 10 minutes before hearing the next one. Internet radio is nice, too.
Oh well, guess I've just been spoiled by my broadband connection. Broadband availability has become a selling point in my selection for places to rent, even. Not everyone uses the internet the same way I do, and that's fine. It just seems silly to me that any Slashdotter would honestly argue in favor of dial-up over broadband if broadband is affordable and available (And yes, I know that's a pretty big if).
Do you ever patch your kernel or upgrade your web browser?
Looooooooonix?
At least he didn't compare software to sex.
Oh wait...
"I have never been more confident that there will be a Doom movie in the next 18 months," he said.
When has a movie based on a video game lived up to the game itself? Perhaps Tomb Raider? I'm really drawing a blank here.
You don't necessarily have to SLI two of the same card. Unlike the old 3dfx Voodoo implementation, nVidia's can balance a load between two cards. What this does is allows you to buy a SLI-capable card now (6600), then if you decide you need some extra horsepower a year from now to then you can buy a 6800 or whatever you can afford and have the newer card render more of the screen.
If you need 6800 power now and can afford it, then by all means get the 6800.
Doom 3 does. They recommend 512MB for 'ultra' quality, though it will run pretty well with 256MB.
It won't just be Doom 3 though, it will also be many games based off the Doom 3 engine that take advantage of extra video RAM.
Your CPU and system memory play an important role as well. I went from a Ti4600 to a 6800GT (That's 6800, not 6600) with a 2.1GHz Athlon64 and 512MB low-latency RAM and the performance is night and day--Superior image quality with double (Sometimes quadruple) the framerate. I suspect you'll still get great performance with the 6600, but it might not be worth it unless you play a lot of games and/or don't care much for extremely high visual detail and anti-aliasing+anisotropic filtering.
That's what I ultimately decided. $400 is a hefty price for a video card, no doubt about that, but since I intend on playing a lot of Doom 3 (In GNU/Linux, of course!) and not upgrading for another two years, the 6800GT just seemed like the best chioce for prolonged gaming pleasure.
Couple that with fantastic Linux support from nVidia, and the 6800GT is definitely a winner.
Not necessarily. Making a good shot in pool requires more than just lining up a shot and hitting the cue ball into another ball. The cue ball often times needs to be hit with the proper left/right/top/bottom spin ("English") so that it rolls into a spot where there is another shot. The best place to hit the cue ball would be very difficult to calculate with an overhead view.
If you watch professionals play, you'll notice their stance is such that their chins are almost touching their cue stick, and the stick is usually as level with the table as possible (Unless a special rail or masse shot is taken). This is because triangulating the coordinates of where you wish to hit the ball, especially with english, is extremely difficult. While maybe not so difficult for a robot with a computer that can perform such calculations accurately to a few decimal places, it certainly does complicate the math involved. That, and an overhead view would make it difficult to accurately hit the cue ball on the bottom to draw it back after striking the target ball.
Just curious. My guess is that Intel keeps pumping money into SGI to get Altix systems out and those who have them (LLNL and ...?) got them at practically no charge to run Linpack and look good on the Top500 list.
Incompatible licensing.
I think the only truly GPL x86 BIOS project out there is LinuxBIOS ( http://www.linuxbios.org ).
Unfortunately, nearly 100% of all laptops have the BIOS chip soldered on thus making it difficult to test an experimental BIOS like LinuxBIOS on such a machine :(
Nanos came in at a time when things were kind of getting lax in terms of security and safety practices. He's got a tough job ahead of him--Making 10,000+ employees follow the rules all at once with virtually zero margin for error is not an easy task. That's like expecting Microsoft to ensure that all copies of Windows are secured so that there are no more worms/trojans/viruses--It's a nearly impossible task given the numbers no matter how many resources are available. I think Nanos' attitude is right on--people tend to think that they can just get away with disregarding the rules and procedures, and it's time to weed out these people before UC loses the contract.
On a side note, the stand-down on Friday was due to a safety incident (One major injury, no fatalities) that actually occured Wednesday afternoon after Nanos' all-hands meeting.
>> If it doesn't contain any data that can be used to endanger national security, WHY is it classified?
Who ever said the data couldn't be used to threaten national security? There are other ways to threaten security other than just weapons data; infrastructure information, intelligence reports, and even science that nobody is quite sure what to make of at this point.
It might worth noting that the nVidia drivers used in the Anandtech benchmark are from January. nVidia released new 6xxx drivers for both IA32 and AMD64 on June 30.
The 9600 models never needed a molex connector, though the 9800 model did and all products based off the newer cores from ATi.
It's an old part.
Now if only there was a model based off a newer core (X800) and ATi's driver support for Linux weren't so pitiful.
Did someone say "dual core (G)CPUs?