Duh, I found a widescreen 32" TV from Thomson in France for 5600 F (with VAT), which is about 500 UKP (no Dolby of 100 Hz at this price, but it is a quality brand and the screen is so big:)
Bah, I always use PNG in IMG tags, this always works fine, and it is the "normal" way to use PNG anyway (embed and object tags are not really good things...). The things is that you can just replace all your GIF with PNG and keep using the same IMG tag, and over 95% percent of users won't even notice the change (except for speed boost, PNG being 20-30% smaller)
What I find really amazing is that we are now able to have such powerfull physic studies, we can simulate big-bang situation in particules accelerator or "simply" design transistors of incredibly small sizes... biology and medecine looks so primitive in comparison. We are getting closer everyday to the master of time and space, and we still don't have a definitive cure against the flu, let alone AIDS or cancer.
PNG is fine, Internet Explorer support it since version 4 and Netscape since 4.04. This accounts for over 95% of browsers around there. Amongst those 5% are folks who use Lynx, so they don't care. Screw the others, they have to upgrade - period.
And anyway most HTML is made for 4.x generation browsers, and not tested anymore on older browsers. So supporting those older browser isn't even a modern issue.
Yeah, like there are no black or jews racists ! Might I remind you that the genocide in Rwanda was a black vs black mass killing, and that several Israelian guys like to shoot at palestinian (and the other way around). Some groups of non WMC or not just doing philosophical chats...
The fact is that there are bad peoples everywhere. It is way to easy to always blame the majority of harrassing the minority.
Is it just or is there something strange about all these replies being rated 0 while most of them deserve more than that ? Could it be censorship showing up in a debate about censorship ?
I agree on some points about Direct3D, but DirectX is not only Direct3D. DirectDraw allows you to control directly the graphic chipset and the video memory (onscreen and offscreen). You can control every operation of the 2D graphic accelerator directly. John Carmark is right about OpenGL and Direct3D, but 3D is not everything.
As a French that lived a few month in north America, I must say that US and Canadian doctors are far worse than French ones when it comes to antibiotics. They just look at your 5 minutes (after 3 hours of wait), give you a truckload of antibiotics and "good bye". Then when you come back 2 weeks later they start again with another antibiotics. The third time you come back with still the same problem they start digging and find that it has nothing to do with bacteria in the first place.... heck, I could be a US doctors too, prescribing antibiotics to every problem that shows up is well within my competence.
It is more than a faster X-Windows, it is about being able to create sprites and scrolling using the hardware, allocating memory buffers in the off-display video memory, accessing directly the Z-buffer or outputing hardware accelerated audio streams... a completely different goals and ways of programming compared to a spreadsheet with Corba objects !
We really need a game API on Linux. OpenGL is simply not enough, there is much more to games than plain 3D. Besides, the X-Windows layer is a real problem when you need SPEED. As far as I know DirectX talk straight to the graphic card thru the driver, and bypass all GDI and other UI stuff. We need something like that...
Is this the ultimate level of evolution ? Could it be that intelligence is not the ultimate point, but a step before artificial modification of our own species ? What is more darwinian than a species engineering itself to be even more adapted to its environment, instead of waiting for mother nature to do the job ?
What is really scary is what kind of modification your average US parents would pick... most of them would end up raising jocks, modified to be great football players or topmodels. Einstein would have not existed if his parents had choosen to raise a uber-mench.
Yup it is not quite huge, but that is the maximum speed you get out of SDRAM PC133 at peak bandwidth (133 Mhz x 64 bit = 1 Gb/s). The only way to increase this speed is to use Rambus or DDR RAM and/or increase the bus width.
Increasing bandwidth does make sense only if you need it, like if you have several CPU or huge graphic subsystem. A PC graphic chipset will hardly ever need 1 Gb/s of bandwidth right now (most of them don't even max out the 500 Mb/s of AGP 2x...)
Duh, I like Anandtech, but this site is not much better than the other : it keeps explaining in details the datasheets of products and running the benchmarks. Tom's hardware usually has some pretty technical stuff that you don't find anywhere else (I remember an article about Rambus a year ago that was pretty advanced, and that you won't see anytime soon on Anandtech).
Duh, I've been reading his comment about 3dfx and nVidia chipsets, and he is not biased against 3dfx and in favor of nVidia... the nVidia chipsets are way more modern - and better if not much faster. The Voodoo 3 is a faster Voodoo 2 which is basically two Voodoo 1 on the same board. If 3dfx likes to save on R&D by using the same cores again and again that's fine, but when the competition comes up with really new design I find it sad that they cry that reviewers are biased.
We are at the AGP 4x age and 3dfx is still using local texture, limited to a size of 256x256 pixels with no 32 bit rendering... this is not innovation and they don't deserve any compliments.
Hum, well, AGP is 64 bit and the 4x version runs at an effective equivalent speed of 266 Mhz... (making about 1 Gb/s of bandwidth, about as much as a PC133 SDRAM can churn out). So I don't see what's wrong with this bus.
GNUpg is available. Everybody, anywhere, has access to crypto algorithms and source code. Do they belive only high security US people know how to code an RSA encoder/decoder ? In my (French) engineering school crypto and RSA are part of the cursus, and coding them is part of the projects given to students. Heck, even if you are too lazy to code it yourself and need a sourcecode that is in the US just clic and 3s later you got the source code on your drive.
Like the US had some kind of monopoly on crypto research... this is not sad, this is ridiculous and stupid. But that keeps US crypto industries off our markets:-)
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Duh, I found a widescreen 32" TV from Thomson in France for 5600 F (with VAT), which is about 500 UKP (no Dolby of 100 Hz at this price, but it is a quality brand and the screen is so big :)
Bah, I always use PNG in IMG tags, this always works fine, and it is the "normal" way to use PNG anyway (embed and object tags are not really good things...). The things is that you can just replace all your GIF with PNG and keep using the same IMG tag, and over 95% percent of users won't even notice the change (except for speed boost, PNG being 20-30% smaller)
The land where even the most humbles have a chance and can make fortunes... suing each others
Yeah in French Nike means "fuck", but people pronounce it differently than in English so it doesn't sounds the same...
What I find really amazing is that we are now able to have such powerfull physic studies, we can simulate big-bang situation in particules accelerator or "simply" design transistors of incredibly small sizes... biology and medecine looks so primitive in comparison. We are getting closer everyday to the master of time and space, and we still don't have a definitive cure against the flu, let alone AIDS or cancer.
PNG is fine, Internet Explorer support it since version 4 and Netscape since 4.04. This accounts for over 95% of browsers around there. Amongst those 5% are folks who use Lynx, so they don't care. Screw the others, they have to upgrade - period.
And anyway most HTML is made for 4.x generation browsers, and not tested anymore on older browsers. So supporting those older browser isn't even a modern issue.
Do you mean English english or American English ? Or maybe some variation of them ?
Yeah, like there are no black or jews racists ! Might I remind you that the genocide in Rwanda was a black vs black mass killing, and that several Israelian guys like to shoot at palestinian (and the other way around). Some groups of non WMC or not just doing philosophical chats...
The fact is that there are bad peoples everywhere. It is way to easy to always blame the majority of harrassing the minority.
Is it just or is there something strange about all these replies being rated 0 while most of them deserve more than that ? Could it be censorship showing up in a debate about censorship ?
I agree on some points about Direct3D, but DirectX is not only Direct3D. DirectDraw allows you to control directly the graphic chipset and the video memory (onscreen and offscreen). You can control every operation of the 2D graphic accelerator directly. John Carmark is right about OpenGL and Direct3D, but 3D is not everything.
Ask the christians... they are the one who says "grow and populate the earth" (and I won't speak about their no-abortion, no-birth control policy)
As a French that lived a few month in north America, I must say that US and Canadian doctors are far worse than French ones when it comes to antibiotics. They just look at your 5 minutes (after 3 hours of wait), give you a truckload of antibiotics and "good bye". Then when you come back 2 weeks later they start again with another antibiotics. The third time you come back with still the same problem they start digging and find that it has nothing to do with bacteria in the first place.... heck, I could be a US doctors too, prescribing antibiotics to every problem that shows up is well within my competence.
It is more than a faster X-Windows, it is about being able to create sprites and scrolling using the hardware, allocating memory buffers in the off-display video memory, accessing directly the Z-buffer or outputing hardware accelerated audio streams... a completely different goals and ways of programming compared to a spreadsheet with Corba objects !
We really need a game API on Linux. OpenGL is simply not enough, there is much more to games than plain 3D. Besides, the X-Windows layer is a real problem when you need SPEED. As far as I know DirectX talk straight to the graphic card thru the driver, and bypass all GDI and other UI stuff. We need something like that...
There is a "funny" and simple explanation why there is not math Nobel prize : the wife of Nobel had an affair with a mathematician...
Yup privatization like the one of British Railway... that really helped things "work better".
Is this the ultimate level of evolution ? Could it be that intelligence is not the ultimate point, but a step before artificial modification of our own species ? What is more darwinian than a species engineering itself to be even more adapted to its environment, instead of waiting for mother nature to do the job ?
What is really scary is what kind of modification your average US parents would pick... most of them would end up raising jocks, modified to be great football players or topmodels. Einstein would have not existed if his parents had choosen to raise a uber-mench.
Yup it is not quite huge, but that is the maximum speed you get out of SDRAM PC133 at peak bandwidth (133 Mhz x 64 bit = 1 Gb/s). The only way to increase this speed is to use Rambus or DDR RAM and/or increase the bus width.
Increasing bandwidth does make sense only if you need it, like if you have several CPU or huge graphic subsystem. A PC graphic chipset will hardly ever need 1 Gb/s of bandwidth right now (most of them don't even max out the 500 Mb/s of AGP 2x...)
Duh, I like Anandtech, but this site is not much better than the other : it keeps explaining in details the datasheets of products and running the benchmarks. Tom's hardware usually has some pretty technical stuff that you don't find anywhere else (I remember an article about Rambus a year ago that was pretty advanced, and that you won't see anytime soon on Anandtech).
Duh, I've been reading his comment about 3dfx and nVidia chipsets, and he is not biased against 3dfx and in favor of nVidia... the nVidia chipsets are way more modern - and better if not much faster. The Voodoo 3 is a faster Voodoo 2 which is basically two Voodoo 1 on the same board. If 3dfx likes to save on R&D by using the same cores again and again that's fine, but when the competition comes up with really new design I find it sad that they cry that reviewers are biased.
We are at the AGP 4x age and 3dfx is still using local texture, limited to a size of 256x256 pixels with no 32 bit rendering... this is not innovation and they don't deserve any compliments.
Hum, well, AGP is 64 bit and the 4x version runs at an effective equivalent speed of 266 Mhz... (making about 1 Gb/s of bandwidth, about as much as a PC133 SDRAM can churn out). So I don't see what's wrong with this bus.
Would cards with hole be legal ? Then it could be usefull to save those cards readers on those old big Cobol programmed mainframes ;)
GNUpg is available. Everybody, anywhere, has access to crypto algorithms and source code. Do they belive only high security US people know how to code an RSA encoder/decoder ? In my (French) engineering school crypto and RSA are part of the cursus, and coding them is part of the projects given to students. Heck, even if you are too lazy to code it yourself and need a sourcecode that is in the US just clic and 3s later you got the source code on your drive.
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Like the US had some kind of monopoly on crypto research... this is not sad, this is ridiculous and stupid. But that keeps US crypto industries off our markets
At last some people concerned about performance ! I'm more than fed up with those bloated desktop environement.