Then why not add in something like Ogg Vorbis? I'm sure I'm not the only one to hink of this. Seriously though, wouldn't any available, comparable quality codec fill in instead of mp3?
I honestly couldn't care about ATI cards any more
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Not a troll, and not off topic, or at least, not intended to be.
Guess I've just been burned too many times by crappy drivers that don't do everything that was promised. And I'm talking Windows drivers here. Not quite complete OpenGL support, games not working correctly when they come out, games still not working correctly months after they come out because they are not big enough titles to get ATI's attention...
Now I'm not the world's greatest NVidia fan either. I'll complaign about their lack of innovation, the way they seem to just want to throw more hardware at the problem, rather than find a more elegant solution, whatever. But as long as their drivers manage to play the new games, and they keep the new drivers comming out that I can play the new games when they come out, I'll take their cards, even if they are slower.
A faster video card that doesn't play what I want it to, when I want it to, is of no use to me...
And to bring this a bit back on topic... This is basically a warning to prospective buyers, check out ATI's track record for drivers before making a purchase. I haven't heard too many problems with the Radeon card, so they may have finally turned their policies of not caring about you after you give them your money around. But lets be honest here, current correctly working drivers are more important than the gap from 120 fps to 150 fps...
I still have that same card in my system as well. However, with Microsoft releasing DirectX versions left and right, I have to keep turning down the "acceleration" for the sound card another notch every few weeks to be able to play the newest games. Honestly, there haven't been new drivers for the Vortex 2 chip since DirectX 6, and I like system stability and playing the new games as they come out.
So, honestly, my biggest concern for a new card is, will the company stay around and be there in a few years to offer me new drivers to work with DirectX version 14.2a so I can play new games?
I just can't bring myself to shell out the money to buy a console after spending so much money on my PC gaming machine. Of course, it probably doesn't help that my monitor is as big as my television.
Is why companies even try these days... All "copy protection" even accomplishes these days is to punish the legitimate customers, preventing honest people from making personal backups.
Need to copy a game? GameCopy World to the rescue. Just use a modified executable, and presto, no problems with using a copy.
Those of us that do "pirate" (I want an eye-patch and a cutlass if I get this title) software easily find a way around the protections. Except my mother, who somehow manages to keep damaging her game cds, is unable to make a personal backup because of the crazy restrictions. I honestly want to know if these companies realize that they are only punishing honest customers, and no one else.
Its late, so someone correct my math. But if I were limited to 3 GB a month, at my flat rate of $50, it would end up being about $0.01628/Mb.
Honestly, I would love to be able to pay $0.016 or even $0.02/Mb. It would mean my bill would fluctuate, but my phone bill already does, so I don't really see that as much of a problem. Turth be told, I just want a connection that is there when I need it, is fast when I want it, but doesn't cost me so much every month.
Of course, this would never happen, since ISPs would still require a large base fee for connection, then add on per Mb charges, if they ever went away from a flat rate. But honestly, why not make those who use the most pay the most?
Everyone seems to be talking about the obvious ads, rave visualizations, and blending into the wall, but what about schools?
If I could have my shirt sleeve display calculus equations, or biology terms, or whatever else I needed, college would have been so much easier. And if it could be turned off and on at will, then how would they ever be able to detect cheating like this? I mean, its kind of obvious when I pull out a palm in the middle of a test, that something is going on, but who's going to think anything if I look at my sleeve?
But I would be perfectly happy if the city offered these services. Hell, I'd be happy if they took over completely and the private businesses couldn't compete.
Why? Because at the end of the day, all I want is for it to work, and it to work well. Lets be honest, we've all probably had our isp go offline, the dsl go down, slow down, whatever. But aside from something big, how often does the power (talking L.A. here, with L.A. DWP) actually go out? I can remember a combined total of 1 blackout in the past 3 years. So obviously the city does something right.
Someone else pointed out that private services could still survive, like FedEx survives with the USPS. That is also a good thought. If the city can offer a nice good basic service, that just works when you want it to and is there to use (liek the psot office) and other businesses can provide better (faster, whatever) service, then that is also a good thing in my book.
Politics suck. Whoever runs things will do some stuff right and some stuff wrong. I just want it to work and be affordable.
Honestly, I had the idea for this a while ago while talking with a friend. I've been waiting for someone else to implement it. Its not that much different than those sites that collect and list internet deals, in the hopes that you'll follow their links and they'll get the referer fee, Like this one.
While I personally see this as a bad thing, since they do it behind the users back, I would probably have no objection to installing something similar for slashdot. I don't exactly feel the need to subscribe, but I would have no objection to them collecting a referrer fee off of my internet purchases.
Somehow, I don't think so. Already you see pages with a disclaimer at the bottom, "If you're using AOL this page won't display properly..." and "If you're using AOL then the graphics will be shrunk and compressed, switch to Netscape..."
Of course, this is all just my speculation here; but I somehow doubt that there will be that many web pages changed for AOL users. Its also entirely possible that I'm just a pessimist.
Any year that has the release of a new portable (Game Boy Advance), followed by the near simultaneous releases of 2 home consoles, (Game Cube and X Box) is bound to spark a large number of software sales.
The Game Boy has been basically the only portable on the market for years and I'm sure that there were plenty of people who ready to upgrade to a newer technology.
And I would think that Microsoft's gigantic marketing campaign, following September where we are all looking to stay home more caused a few consoles to be sold.
Additionally, TV is recorded at its specified frame rate, and motion blur is captured in each frame for fast moving objects. Since a computer will generate perfect still frames, you need a faster frame rate to make moving objects look right.
Where the line is drawn where it doesn't make sense to go faster is up for debate. But either games need a faster frame rate to not look choppy, or they need to add in the motion blur that is there in TV and film to be acceptable with a lower frame rate.
Except that tieing the nature of the video encoding to the media is what makes it possible for mass market introduction.
With one codec the decoding can be done entirely in hardware. This makes it affordable to mass produce cheap players using a single chip made for this purpose.
With one codec there is never the worry that some players won't be able (powerful enough, ram limitations, etc...) to play a new disc introduced with a new codec.
If I remember correctly (sorry, no links) Microsoft announced that 2K was going to be the first time that the NT kernel was going to be pure Intel. Also, from then on the plan was to only support Intel platform. This is why you can find PPC and RISC versions of NT, but not 2K or XP.
"when I want to print in colour, I can just change the print command used by the program from 'lpr' to something like 'lpt -Ptp0'"
In this instance, the same printer is set up to be represented as 2 different printers, each with their own settings. Hence, to change to color, just change to a different printer. Its the fastest way to switch between different commonly used configurations.
Alternatively, he could have changed the current configuration of one of the designated printers though the GUI. This would not require any command prompt changes, as the same printer would be used.
I love it when people post without actually making sure that they read the article correctly.
You do not have to give command line options to set printing modes, the author just decided it would be easier for him to enable different modes as different printers. If you simply want to change printing modes, you can use a graphical method similar to that used by Windows or Mac OS.
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Then why not add in something like Ogg Vorbis? I'm sure I'm not the only one to hink of this. Seriously though, wouldn't any available, comparable quality codec fill in instead of mp3?
Not a troll, and not off topic, or at least, not intended to be.
Guess I've just been burned too many times by crappy drivers that don't do everything that was promised. And I'm talking Windows drivers here. Not quite complete OpenGL support, games not working correctly when they come out, games still not working correctly months after they come out because they are not big enough titles to get ATI's attention...
Now I'm not the world's greatest NVidia fan either. I'll complaign about their lack of innovation, the way they seem to just want to throw more hardware at the problem, rather than find a more elegant solution, whatever. But as long as their drivers manage to play the new games, and they keep the new drivers comming out that I can play the new games when they come out, I'll take their cards, even if they are slower.
A faster video card that doesn't play what I want it to, when I want it to, is of no use to me...
And to bring this a bit back on topic... This is basically a warning to prospective buyers, check out ATI's track record for drivers before making a purchase. I haven't heard too many problems with the Radeon card, so they may have finally turned their policies of not caring about you after you give them your money around. But lets be honest here, current correctly working drivers are more important than the gap from 120 fps to 150 fps...
They don't spell check, you want them to grammer and punctuation check?
Am I the only one who thinks that acronyms that are normal words just confuse non-technical people?
I mean honestly, I've seen people get over RAM and SDRAM but when I tell them that there's a problem with the BEEP they are going to just flip out.
Just because its legal doesn't mean M$ won't come after you... Legal just means that you'll have a chance in court.
I still have that same card in my system as well. However, with Microsoft releasing DirectX versions left and right, I have to keep turning down the "acceleration" for the sound card another notch every few weeks to be able to play the newest games. Honestly, there haven't been new drivers for the Vortex 2 chip since DirectX 6, and I like system stability and playing the new games as they come out.
So, honestly, my biggest concern for a new card is, will the company stay around and be there in a few years to offer me new drivers to work with DirectX version 14.2a so I can play new games?
I still want FF IX and FF X on the PC.
I just can't bring myself to shell out the money to buy a console after spending so much money on my PC gaming machine. Of course, it probably doesn't help that my monitor is as big as my television.
Is why companies even try these days... All "copy protection" even accomplishes these days is to punish the legitimate customers, preventing honest people from making personal backups.
Need to copy a game? GameCopy World to the rescue. Just use a modified executable, and presto, no problems with using a copy.
Those of us that do "pirate" (I want an eye-patch and a cutlass if I get this title) software easily find a way around the protections. Except my mother, who somehow manages to keep damaging her game cds, is unable to make a personal backup because of the crazy restrictions. I honestly want to know if these companies realize that they are only punishing honest customers, and no one else.
I'm using IE 6 at home, and I got through just fine.
Its late, so someone correct my math. But if I were limited to 3 GB a month, at my flat rate of $50, it would end up being about $0.01628/Mb.
Honestly, I would love to be able to pay $0.016 or even $0.02/Mb. It would mean my bill would fluctuate, but my phone bill already does, so I don't really see that as much of a problem. Turth be told, I just want a connection that is there when I need it, is fast when I want it, but doesn't cost me so much every month.
Of course, this would never happen, since ISPs would still require a large base fee for connection, then add on per Mb charges, if they ever went away from a flat rate. But honestly, why not make those who use the most pay the most?
Everyone seems to be talking about the obvious ads, rave visualizations, and blending into the wall, but what about schools?
If I could have my shirt sleeve display calculus equations, or biology terms, or whatever else I needed, college would have been so much easier. And if it could be turned off and on at will, then how would they ever be able to detect cheating like this? I mean, its kind of obvious when I pull out a palm in the middle of a test, that something is going on, but who's going to think anything if I look at my sleeve?
Is figuring out which story is real, not which is the joke.
But I would be perfectly happy if the city offered these services. Hell, I'd be happy if they took over completely and the private businesses couldn't compete.
Why? Because at the end of the day, all I want is for it to work, and it to work well. Lets be honest, we've all probably had our isp go offline, the dsl go down, slow down, whatever. But aside from something big, how often does the power (talking L.A. here, with L.A. DWP) actually go out? I can remember a combined total of 1 blackout in the past 3 years. So obviously the city does something right.
Someone else pointed out that private services could still survive, like FedEx survives with the USPS. That is also a good thought. If the city can offer a nice good basic service, that just works when you want it to and is there to use (liek the psot office) and other businesses can provide better (faster, whatever) service, then that is also a good thing in my book.
Politics suck. Whoever runs things will do some stuff right and some stuff wrong. I just want it to work and be affordable.
Honestly, I had the idea for this a while ago while talking with a friend. I've been waiting for someone else to implement it. Its not that much different than those sites that collect and list internet deals, in the hopes that you'll follow their links and they'll get the referer fee, Like this one.
While I personally see this as a bad thing, since they do it behind the users back, I would probably have no objection to installing something similar for slashdot. I don't exactly feel the need to subscribe, but I would have no objection to them collecting a referrer fee off of my internet purchases.
Somehow, I don't think so. Already you see pages with a disclaimer at the bottom, "If you're using AOL this page won't display properly..." and "If you're using AOL then the graphics will be shrunk and compressed, switch to Netscape..."
Of course, this is all just my speculation here; but I somehow doubt that there will be that many web pages changed for AOL users. Its also entirely possible that I'm just a pessimist.
Am I the only one who considered for a moment which of my friends would, and which would not, play this with me?
If you're looking for a very small motherboard, try looking at flex ATX motherboards. They are alot smaller. Also here and here.
Seems these days, any article with the name Jack Valenti in it is likely to give me nightmares.
Gotta remember, for late night browsing; Online Comics good; Slashdot stories bad.
Atari 2600, Intellivision, N64, Dreamcast, PC here.
Any year that has the release of a new portable (Game Boy Advance), followed by the near simultaneous releases of 2 home consoles, (Game Cube and X Box) is bound to spark a large number of software sales.
The Game Boy has been basically the only portable on the market for years and I'm sure that there were plenty of people who ready to upgrade to a newer technology.
And I would think that Microsoft's gigantic marketing campaign, following September where we are all looking to stay home more caused a few consoles to be sold.
Additionally, TV is recorded at its specified frame rate, and motion blur is captured in each frame for fast moving objects. Since a computer will generate perfect still frames, you need a faster frame rate to make moving objects look right.
Where the line is drawn where it doesn't make sense to go faster is up for debate. But either games need a faster frame rate to not look choppy, or they need to add in the motion blur that is there in TV and film to be acceptable with a lower frame rate.
Except that tieing the nature of the video encoding to the media is what makes it possible for mass market introduction.
With one codec the decoding can be done entirely in hardware. This makes it affordable to mass produce cheap players using a single chip made for this purpose.
With one codec there is never the worry that some players won't be able (powerful enough, ram limitations, etc...) to play a new disc introduced with a new codec.
If I remember correctly (sorry, no links) Microsoft announced that 2K was going to be the first time that the NT kernel was going to be pure Intel. Also, from then on the plan was to only support Intel platform. This is why you can find PPC and RISC versions of NT, but not 2K or XP.
"when I want to print in colour, I can just change the print command used by the program from 'lpr' to something like 'lpt -Ptp0'"
In this instance, the same printer is set up to be represented as 2 different printers, each with their own settings. Hence, to change to color, just change to a different printer. Its the fastest way to switch between different commonly used configurations.
Alternatively, he could have changed the current configuration of one of the designated printers though the GUI. This would not require any command prompt changes, as the same printer would be used.
I love it when people post without actually making sure that they read the article correctly.
You do not have to give command line options to set printing modes, the author just decided it would be easier for him to enable different modes as different printers. If you simply want to change printing modes, you can use a graphical method similar to that used by Windows or Mac OS.