Gimp can do almost everything that Photoshop can. It's GUI is everey bit as intuitive (not that either are particulary so) as PS, and much more modern looking. My god, Adobe cranked those damn toolbars out in the MacOS 6 days and never updated them. Sick.
So just where does Gimp actually fail and PS suceed? Nay-sayers are always picking on Gimp, including many people who work with PS alot. Yet when it comes to specific criticisms, no one says a damn thing. You think the Gimp team wouldn't mind some honest criticisms? You could expect fixes within weeks.
Most people that rant about it, are simply pissed that they've learned to work around Adobe's cruddy flaws for years, and that experience would be useless if they switch to Gimp. Boo fucking Hoo.
And Gimp isn't even a particularly good example for OSS. If I were choosing unfairly, I could find many more favorable examples.
Tad William's Dragonbone Chair is... words abandon me. The whole trilogy, is excellent. There are things I'm sure I never did pick up on, it had many levels of subtley.
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is the name of it, should you ever want to read something good.
If you mean LoTR, the books, yes, they ended rather well. Though, I'm pretty sure even Tolkien wouldn't have said that was the "end" of that story... the man invented an entire world, with a history so complex, that nothing compares, except maybe our own (real) world. The movie? Haven't seen it yet. Not sure I want to.
I'm not laughing. I own a Vax. There were some volcanologist graduate students, that were poking around the neighborhood last summer, they thought that they had discovered some unknown thermal vent on an obscure satellite heat map. They were disappointed when I explained it was just the trusty MicroVax. I felt kinda bad, to tell the truth.
For instance, we have a really bad screenplay, that is acted really poorly for a really bad movie (so they say).
Then, we find a really bad writer (Salvatore).
The book will be really _________. (Fill in the blank).
I've always liked fantasy as much as scifi, and when I have nothing else to read, I'll even tolerate the mediocre stuff. The Tracy Hickman, Marg Weiss D&D books, for instance.
So, I've ran out of all those books, and used book are only 50 cents, right? So I pick up a bunch of Salvatore's books. Bad mistake. His books aren't worth the toilet paper that they could have turned that pulp into.
I think, and don't take this as gospel, Salvatore wrote down the synopsis of all his D&D games that he (aged 9 or so) played with his cocker spaniel puppy because no one else would play with him. Then, stretching all those notes into 400 page long manuscripts, he somehow blackmailed a publisher into turning them into real books. I mean, goddamn, I didn't expect it to be the the Dragonbon Chair or anything like that, but this was absolutely unreadable. It was, and still is, the only good excuse for illiteracy. *BARF* Should have let those memories remain repressed.
How, on fucking earth, did they manage to let him novelize this? They had their pick, even some first rate authors might have wanted to do this. If nothing else, Alan Dean Foster always did a tolerable job of novelizations (though the best, probably was Orson Scott Card's "The Abyss"). The only thing I can figure, he (Salvatore) has photographic evidence of Lucas getting blowjobs from 9 yr old Thai children in return for handing over USA Top Secret military documents to a chinese agent (both on the same pic).
These are property rights. We bought (or leased, depending on how you look at it) the internet access, and them skimming away parts they thought we wouldn't notice violates those rights.
Then, on top of that, we have creative rights to our usenet posts. Copyright, for instance. For them to edit this, without our approval, is another violation of our rights. They can't even make the claim that it is a technical necessity.
Just how is it trolling to describe the rumored Matrox card as "kick ass". I'm trying to imagine a way in which this could be construed as crapflooding, insulting (which would technically be flamebait), or insincere.
I suppose I'm glad, in a way, that the crackmoderators chose to -2 me, since I can shrug that off easily... they could just as easily modded down a relevant AC, or a particularly insightful newbie. No rhyme nor reason. Upon consideration, yes, strangely, I'm honored to be the lightning rod that protects the innocents from the never-ending threat of crackmoderation. Still, like that lightning rod out on top of the barn that keeps it from burning down... after the thunderstorm "OUCH!".
Again, let me say it. Even if the new card is only so-so 3d performance-wise, triple monitor built into a single card is undebatably KICKASS. What more needs to be said?
Well, I can think of one thing, maybe. For instance, maybe Taco needs to consider some minor changes to the moderation system. Nothing major, but it would be nice if maybe moderators were forced to leave a small message(70 chars, maybe even less) in addition to the moderation label. Nothing canned either, make them type something out. Hell, it doesn't even have to be publically visible, only allow the comment owner to see it, and the meta-moderators. Give me some damn feedback just how they think I should be posting. For all I know, I just had the bad luck to be slammed by the only two people in the world that have kickassaphobia.
Why would Taco want to do this? Well, for one, it would allow me the sincere, mostly non-trolling poster to know what it is that the moderators are actually thinking, so that I can alter my behavior and place less of a burden on them, so they can mod down all the crapflooders. And it would weed abusive moderators out alot quicker, if the m2ers can see that they were just saying "fuck off, I don't like you". They'd either be forced to think up something semi-plausible (not so easy), give away their true sentiments (just modbombing), or move on to something else (not worth the trouble). This is win/win.
Final note: triple port video cards kick ass. They put nice big dark blue bruise on those butt cheeks. They lift you off the ground, with each and every well placed foot. Single port video cards cry for mercy. THAT KIND OF ASSKICKING.
I have legimate copies of every game/expansion pack they've ever produced, on up to Diablo II. Full retail price, too, not bargain bin or second hand. They _were_ the one company that you could be sure I would buy a game from, maybe not the day it was released, but I'd get it eventually.
As I remember it, this news hit the very day that I couldn't hold out any longer for D2. Strangely, I'd never heard of bnetd until then. Being able to play on a server I could control though, would only have encouraged me even more, to buy their games. I had only played Diablo I on Battlenet once or twice, and not been at all happy... nice idea, but too many assholes. To think that I could fix that problem without extending several dozen ipxtunnels, etc... that is kickass.
They should have hired these guys, not sued them. That would have been a cheaper way to stall bnetd, they would have gotten more for their money, and they wouldn't have pissed people like me off.
Fuck you, Blizzard.
To everyone on the bnetd team, keep kicking ass, and the best of luck to you.
I've been working on truly bilingual code for a few years now. Machine code. That will run on both PPC and x86. Now, if only the damn elf header didn't cause one cpu to reject it, even though the binary is valid...
Same with x86 machine code that is clever enough to determine if it's running inside of linux or windows... even though the code itself is valid, the elf vs..EXE headers aren't even close. Oh well.
What a retarded thing to say. For one thing, there will soon be ipv6 TCP, is this the tcp you're referring to, or ipv4's version?
There are too many legacy systems and apps out there, for me to have to worry if the replacement nic is going to try and outsmart me. That's something that happens all too often in windows, and I'll be damned if it happens in hardware without me bitching up a storm.
I regularly see NetBEUI, DECnet, and IPX on the systems I work with, and even something stranger from time to time. That was undoubtedly one of ethernet's core strengths, the ability to be protocol agnostic. On every other physical/logical protocol, you always had to jump through hoops to use a different protocol, but ethernet just doesn't care.
I do care about more than just TCP/IP. If you weren't a fool, you would too.
Suggestion to moderator: Flamebait, yes. Troll, no. If you are too stupid to see the difference, then I'm sure the meta-moderator won't be.
To accelerate the entire universe very nearly to lightspeed for about 10 seconds, with the exception of the site containing the waste. We'd age it oh, I dunno, 10 million years or so, and it would be harmless.
Yes, I've patented this process. Check IBM's archive, if you don't believe me.
HP doesn't have their own protocol, that I'm aware of. Plus, DECnet is a rather full featured protocol suite, rivaling IP in it's complexity.
Wangnet... god, don't even remind me of that. There is more banyan vines info on the net, than there ever was wangnet docs printed on paper. And that's not saying much, VINES amounts to 3 or 4 unique pages on the web.
Hmm, I should be able to name all the mini vendors from DEC's heydays. Quite a few seemed to use IP, which while superior in many ways, is the wimpy way out of the problem. Apollo didn't have their own protocol, though I think they got bought by HP also. Whatever happened to the likes of CDC? Data General doesn't have their own protocol either, that I'm aware of. I've had exactly 3 hours sleep, or I'd be able to name more, but the list isn't that long, and DEC is on it. It also has the notable exception of being one of the few for which linux has a decent implementation (IP, IPX, netatalk, DECnet, and to a lesser extent, SNA). Then again, I could just be pissed that Jay Schuler is working on linux/SNA instead of fixing the damn localtalk pc driver.
meant for. DNS isn't designed to rope all the porn sites into a.sex, nor was it ever designed to be a secure communications channel for doctors, lawyers and accountants.
It's not even a good use of a TLD, if they artificially limit it to a really small class of users. The idea, is to choose enough TLD's, that everyone can have as many as they need, while still allowing people to categorize them enough to make a little sense. In effect they are pulling a "two tld system" where one is.only-Jack-Valenti-can-use-this-TLD and.everyone-else-has-to-use-this-one.
That's an exaggeration, but it makes the point, doesn't it? It's just not an efficient use of TLD's.
Bullshit. Anyone that time travels back that far, for M$, damn well better be doing so to asassinate B Gates. What you suggest, would be like traveling back to 1935, just so you could enjoy hawaiian beaches before commercialization. Sure, it's pretty, but awfully fucking selfish.
Ok, I think I can answer this, though no idea if I've got it right. I started out as a winslave user, and taught myself a little programming, a little of everything. Enough, that soon I got a job as a pc tech, and have been moving up from there. About 3 years ago, I started having enough spending money to blow on dumb stuff, and found myself buying vintage computers, learning all the trivia and history. Everyone in the industry has something that they can claim credit for, but DEC's reads like something that would be hard to believe if I didn't know it to be true.
UNIX, and C, simultaneously invented on the PDP.
And for whatever reason that unix wasn't good enough, they went out and wrote their own oddball OS, that in many ways is every bit as powerful. Bizarro Unix, from a parallel dimension. I'm still not sure if it's folly or genius.
Intel gives us x86 cpu crud. DEC gave us a beatifully clean PDP cpu, which later inspires the MC68k cpu family. Not sure if they can claim credit for a Motorola chip, but deserves a mention.
DEC didn't invent ethernet either. But they had sense enough to recognize it for what it was, when Metcalfe told them about it. DEC was the "D" in the DIX alliance, after all.
They fielded their own risc CPU, for christ's sake. And not just any, but an alpha... I literally lusted after these, when I was still a winslave. (Wanted to run NT on them, but I've since wised up). Alpha. That alone should land them in the Computing Hall of Fame.
Their own networking protocol. Some of the big names can claim this, but can HP?
And you just don't know how big circuit boards can be, until you've held a unibus card in your hands...
Hell, they were around challenging IBM in the 1950's, half a century ago with the PDP series. The PDP-1 debuted at a price of $100,000 or so, a tenth of anything IBM offered.
And this is the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, mind you. There are all sorts of obtuse little technical things, that I'm not sure everyone could appreciate. Vax clustering, some funky per-thread security architectures, etc.
Then again, I could just be the proud owner of PDP-11/04, VaxStation 4000/90, DECstation 5000/120, and a mosix cluster of 2 Prioris 5100 XL's. Only need a Rainbow, and an Alphastation, and my collection will be reasonably complete.
And please, if anyone else knows something interesting, help out. I'd love to hear something I don't already know...
Thought that DEC's first unix ran on pdp/vax/decstation's as ULTRIX. Then, with the HP/IBM alliance, it became OSF, and finally TRU64. Or do I have it screwed up?
Microsoft has developed a very similar distributed simulation software package. Last I heard, it would only take 3-5 months to recieve the results, too. A savings of 3 or more months. Rumor is, they plan on using it so that a person can run Office XP. Finally enough cpu power to run it quickly... I'm sorta jealous.
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Gimp can do almost everything that Photoshop can. It's GUI is everey bit as intuitive (not that either are particulary so) as PS, and much more modern looking. My god, Adobe cranked those damn toolbars out in the MacOS 6 days and never updated them. Sick.
So just where does Gimp actually fail and PS suceed? Nay-sayers are always picking on Gimp, including many people who work with PS alot. Yet when it comes to specific criticisms, no one says a damn thing. You think the Gimp team wouldn't mind some honest criticisms? You could expect fixes within weeks.
Most people that rant about it, are simply pissed that they've learned to work around Adobe's cruddy flaws for years, and that experience would be useless if they switch to Gimp. Boo fucking Hoo.
And Gimp isn't even a particularly good example for OSS. If I were choosing unfairly, I could find many more favorable examples.
Wait, you said something worth hearing, and you have a -1 ? Whoa. Shocker. *grin*
Tad William's Dragonbone Chair is... words abandon me. The whole trilogy, is excellent. There are things I'm sure I never did pick up on, it had many levels of subtley.
Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is the name of it, should you ever want to read something good.
If you mean LoTR, the books, yes, they ended rather well. Though, I'm pretty sure even Tolkien wouldn't have said that was the "end" of that story... the man invented an entire world, with a history so complex, that nothing compares, except maybe our own (real) world. The movie? Haven't seen it yet. Not sure I want to.
I'm not laughing. I own a Vax. There were some volcanologist graduate students, that were poking around the neighborhood last summer, they thought that they had discovered some unknown thermal vent on an obscure satellite heat map. They were disappointed when I explained it was just the trusty MicroVax. I felt kinda bad, to tell the truth.
Yes, I have the right to buy something. I paid, yet RR doesn't deliver.
The way you view things, every right would be reduced to a privilege. I don't care to play semantic games.
I've not read Brooks, to be honest. But even so, I can say without any uncertainty whatsoever, he would have been a far better choice.
If this one is really just "really bad" then Salvatore has improved more than should be possible.
I'm sorry, that is unfair. But after Ep. 1, can you really blame me if I'm less than enthusiastic?
For instance, we have a really bad screenplay, that is acted really poorly for a really bad movie (so they say).
Then, we find a really bad writer (Salvatore).
The book will be really _________. (Fill in the blank).
I've always liked fantasy as much as scifi, and when I have nothing else to read, I'll even tolerate the mediocre stuff. The Tracy Hickman, Marg Weiss D&D books, for instance.
So, I've ran out of all those books, and used book are only 50 cents, right? So I pick up a bunch of Salvatore's books. Bad mistake. His books aren't worth the toilet paper that they could have turned that pulp into.
I think, and don't take this as gospel, Salvatore wrote down the synopsis of all his D&D games that he (aged 9 or so) played with his cocker spaniel puppy because no one else would play with him. Then, stretching all those notes into 400 page long manuscripts, he somehow blackmailed a publisher into turning them into real books. I mean, goddamn, I didn't expect it to be the the Dragonbon Chair or anything like that, but this was absolutely unreadable. It was, and still is, the only good excuse for illiteracy. *BARF* Should have let those memories remain repressed.
How, on fucking earth, did they manage to let him novelize this? They had their pick, even some first rate authors might have wanted to do this. If nothing else, Alan Dean Foster always did a tolerable job of novelizations (though the best, probably was Orson Scott Card's "The Abyss"). The only thing I can figure, he (Salvatore) has photographic evidence of Lucas getting blowjobs from 9 yr old Thai children in return for handing over USA Top Secret military documents to a chinese agent (both on the same pic).
Yes, he is that bad.
Neighbor: "Hey WasterDave, we just got our new gas furnace installed, which is good because it's nearly winter!"
WasterDave: "Yeh, they say it will be a cold one too.."
Neighbor: "Yeh, my wife and I were wondering, how do you and the Mrs. WasterDave heat your home? Gas, electric?"
WasterDave: "Um, no."
Neighbor: *confused look* "You burn wood?"
WasterDave: "Um, no."
Neighbor: *really confused look* "You burn coal?"
WasterDave: "Um, no."
Neighbor: *annoyed* "How then?"
WasterDave: "Computers. Lots of computers."
Um, yeh.
These are property rights. We bought (or leased, depending on how you look at it) the internet access, and them skimming away parts they thought we wouldn't notice violates those rights.
Then, on top of that, we have creative rights to our usenet posts. Copyright, for instance. For them to edit this, without our approval, is another violation of our rights. They can't even make the claim that it is a technical necessity.
Or are these just privileges?
Just how is it trolling to describe the rumored Matrox card as "kick ass". I'm trying to imagine a way in which this could be construed as crapflooding, insulting (which would technically be flamebait), or insincere.
I suppose I'm glad, in a way, that the crackmoderators chose to -2 me, since I can shrug that off easily... they could just as easily modded down a relevant AC, or a particularly insightful newbie. No rhyme nor reason. Upon consideration, yes, strangely, I'm honored to be the lightning rod that protects the innocents from the never-ending threat of crackmoderation. Still, like that lightning rod out on top of the barn that keeps it from burning down... after the thunderstorm "OUCH!".
Again, let me say it. Even if the new card is only so-so 3d performance-wise, triple monitor built into a single card is undebatably KICKASS. What more needs to be said?
Well, I can think of one thing, maybe. For instance, maybe Taco needs to consider some minor changes to the moderation system. Nothing major, but it would be nice if maybe moderators were forced to leave a small message(70 chars, maybe even less) in addition to the moderation label. Nothing canned either, make them type something out. Hell, it doesn't even have to be publically visible, only allow the comment owner to see it, and the meta-moderators. Give me some damn feedback just how they think I should be posting. For all I know, I just had the bad luck to be slammed by the only two people in the world that have kickassaphobia.
Why would Taco want to do this? Well, for one, it would allow me the sincere, mostly non-trolling poster to know what it is that the moderators are actually thinking, so that I can alter my behavior and place less of a burden on them, so they can mod down all the crapflooders. And it would weed abusive moderators out alot quicker, if the m2ers can see that they were just saying "fuck off, I don't like you". They'd either be forced to think up something semi-plausible (not so easy), give away their true sentiments (just modbombing), or move on to something else (not worth the trouble). This is win/win.
Final note: triple port video cards kick ass. They put nice big dark blue bruise on those butt cheeks. They lift you off the ground, with each and every well placed foot. Single port video cards cry for mercy. THAT KIND OF ASSKICKING.
Stringed instrument
has no strings for you to pluck:
how incredibly Zen.
Kick ass.
I have legimate copies of every game/expansion pack they've ever produced, on up to Diablo II. Full retail price, too, not bargain bin or second hand. They _were_ the one company that you could be sure I would buy a game from, maybe not the day it was released, but I'd get it eventually.
As I remember it, this news hit the very day that I couldn't hold out any longer for D2. Strangely, I'd never heard of bnetd until then. Being able to play on a server I could control though, would only have encouraged me even more, to buy their games. I had only played Diablo I on Battlenet once or twice, and not been at all happy... nice idea, but too many assholes. To think that I could fix that problem without extending several dozen ipxtunnels, etc... that is kickass.
They should have hired these guys, not sued them. That would have been a cheaper way to stall bnetd, they would have gotten more for their money, and they wouldn't have pissed people like me off.
Fuck you, Blizzard.
To everyone on the bnetd team, keep kicking ass, and the best of luck to you.
I've been working on truly bilingual code for a few years now. Machine code. That will run on both PPC and x86. Now, if only the damn elf header didn't cause one cpu to reject it, even though the binary is valid...
.EXE headers aren't even close. Oh well.
Same with x86 machine code that is clever enough to determine if it's running inside of linux or windows... even though the code itself is valid, the elf vs.
Aren't you supposed to say this in haiku or limerick form?
Besides, if AMD discovers that you've stole their trade secrets, they'll sue you into the ground.
What a retarded thing to say. For one thing, there will soon be ipv6 TCP, is this the tcp you're referring to, or ipv4's version?
There are too many legacy systems and apps out there, for me to have to worry if the replacement nic is going to try and outsmart me. That's something that happens all too often in windows, and I'll be damned if it happens in hardware without me bitching up a storm.
I regularly see NetBEUI, DECnet, and IPX on the systems I work with, and even something stranger from time to time. That was undoubtedly one of ethernet's core strengths, the ability to be protocol agnostic. On every other physical/logical protocol, you always had to jump through hoops to use a different protocol, but ethernet just doesn't care.
I do care about more than just TCP/IP. If you weren't a fool, you would too.
Suggestion to moderator: Flamebait, yes. Troll, no. If you are too stupid to see the difference, then I'm sure the meta-moderator won't be.
To accelerate the entire universe very nearly to lightspeed for about 10 seconds, with the exception of the site containing the waste. We'd age it oh, I dunno, 10 million years or so, and it would be harmless.
Yes, I've patented this process. Check IBM's archive, if you don't believe me.
HP doesn't have their own protocol, that I'm aware of. Plus, DECnet is a rather full featured protocol suite, rivaling IP in it's complexity.
Wangnet... god, don't even remind me of that. There is more banyan vines info on the net, than there ever was wangnet docs printed on paper. And that's not saying much, VINES amounts to 3 or 4 unique pages on the web.
Hmm, I should be able to name all the mini vendors from DEC's heydays. Quite a few seemed to use IP, which while superior in many ways, is the wimpy way out of the problem. Apollo didn't have their own protocol, though I think they got bought by HP also. Whatever happened to the likes of CDC? Data General doesn't have their own protocol either, that I'm aware of. I've had exactly 3 hours sleep, or I'd be able to name more, but the list isn't that long, and DEC is on it. It also has the notable exception of being one of the few for which linux has a decent implementation (IP, IPX, netatalk, DECnet, and to a lesser extent, SNA). Then again, I could just be pissed that Jay Schuler is working on linux/SNA instead of fixing the damn localtalk pc driver.
meant for. DNS isn't designed to rope all the porn sites into a .sex, nor was it ever designed to be a secure communications channel for doctors, lawyers and accountants.
.only-Jack-Valenti-can-use-this-TLD and .everyone-else-has-to-use-this-one.
It's not even a good use of a TLD, if they artificially limit it to a really small class of users. The idea, is to choose enough TLD's, that everyone can have as many as they need, while still allowing people to categorize them enough to make a little sense. In effect they are pulling a "two tld system" where one is
That's an exaggeration, but it makes the point, doesn't it? It's just not an efficient use of TLD's.
Did I not say that this was still missing from my collection?
Bullshit. Anyone that time travels back that far, for M$, damn well better be doing so to asassinate B Gates. What you suggest, would be like traveling back to 1935, just so you could enjoy hawaiian beaches before commercialization. Sure, it's pretty, but awfully fucking selfish.
Ok, I think I can answer this, though no idea if I've got it right. I started out as a winslave user, and taught myself a little programming, a little of everything. Enough, that soon I got a job as a pc tech, and have been moving up from there. About 3 years ago, I started having enough spending money to blow on dumb stuff, and found myself buying vintage computers, learning all the trivia and history. Everyone in the industry has something that they can claim credit for, but DEC's reads like something that would be hard to believe if I didn't know it to be true.
UNIX, and C, simultaneously invented on the PDP.
And for whatever reason that unix wasn't good enough, they went out and wrote their own oddball OS, that in many ways is every bit as powerful. Bizarro Unix, from a parallel dimension. I'm still not sure if it's folly or genius.
Intel gives us x86 cpu crud. DEC gave us a beatifully clean PDP cpu, which later inspires the MC68k cpu family. Not sure if they can claim credit for a Motorola chip, but deserves a mention.
DEC didn't invent ethernet either. But they had sense enough to recognize it for what it was, when Metcalfe told them about it. DEC was the "D" in the DIX alliance, after all.
They fielded their own risc CPU, for christ's sake. And not just any, but an alpha... I literally lusted after these, when I was still a winslave. (Wanted to run NT on them, but I've since wised up). Alpha. That alone should land them in the Computing Hall of Fame.
Their own networking protocol. Some of the big names can claim this, but can HP?
And you just don't know how big circuit boards can be, until you've held a unibus card in your hands...
Hell, they were around challenging IBM in the 1950's, half a century ago with the PDP series. The PDP-1 debuted at a price of $100,000 or so, a tenth of anything IBM offered.
And this is the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, mind you. There are all sorts of obtuse little technical things, that I'm not sure everyone could appreciate. Vax clustering, some funky per-thread security architectures, etc.
Then again, I could just be the proud owner of PDP-11/04, VaxStation 4000/90, DECstation 5000/120, and a mosix cluster of 2 Prioris 5100 XL's. Only need a Rainbow, and an Alphastation, and my collection will be reasonably complete.
And please, if anyone else knows something interesting, help out. I'd love to hear something I don't already know...
All that, and more, is why DEC kicked(s) ass.
Thought that DEC's first unix ran on pdp/vax/decstation's as ULTRIX. Then, with the HP/IBM alliance, it became OSF, and finally TRU64. Or do I have it screwed up?
Microsoft has developed a very similar distributed simulation software package. Last I heard, it would only take 3-5 months to recieve the results, too. A savings of 3 or more months. Rumor is, they plan on using it so that a person can run Office XP. Finally enough cpu power to run it quickly... I'm sorta jealous.