Yes! Everyone raves about the nvidia drivers, but I tried loading them on a fresh fedora install, and I couldn't get it working either. Granted I'm a total noob for troubleshooting problems in linux, so it could be something easilly fixed, but it's still frustrating... I'm really wanting to give linux on the desktop a shot, but this kind of stuff pushes me away. Normally I'd just not bother with the driver, but it seems the vesa driver doesn't support 1600x1200, and I'm spoiled.:)
It does work. You fill out offers from three companies and wait. In my case, two visa's and AOL. Once the iPod came AOL was cancelled (under the no billing time) and the visa's were cancelled. I used a P.O. Box from a company that would accept packages from ups and fedex (MBE). After I had gotten two iPods, the MBE account, AOL, temp hotmail address and Visa cards were cancelled.
Word of caution: be careful about signing up for credit cards and cancelling them. The number of credit cards you own and have ever owned make up a part of your credit rating. Two credit cards you sign up for and cancel probably aren't going to do much... But if you go to get a mortgage and you've had 20 different cards, it could raise some eyebrows.
Sorry. You're wrong.Steam takes seconds to start. In all the time I've been using Steam (in various beta versions for well over a year) Steam has *never* taken more than several seconds to start up and authenticate.
Why do people suddenly become so condescending when they jump on the internet? I see so many posts on so many topics where people bash others who are having problems. "It works for me, you must be doing something wrong/be an idiot/have a crappy PC/etc."
Does it ever occur to you people that PCs vary greatly, and a normal, function PC might behave differently from a different, normal, functioning PC? And what exactly is an "incorrect configuration"? If every other game runs fine, but HL2 doesn't, is it the user's fault? Maybe, just maybe some of the blame lies on Valve for creating a system that's relatively frail?
(Disclaimer: I am quite aware that steam is technically H2O (gaseous) and air is actually a mixture of gasses. Please do not let scientific accuracy interfere with the intended humourous value of the preceding comment.)
Seriously though, the one good thing I can think of about all this ridiculous IP litigation is that it actually can drive a good 'lone coder' to really innovate as opposed to create the same old mouse trap in a different way.
Which, of course, is kind of the whole point of patents in general.;)
$30 in the next couple of days?!?! AMD is trading at $18 now. Merrill Lynch set their target for AMD to hit $22 NEXT YEAR.
So no, I doubt AMD will double in a week. Their stock has been doing pretty well this year tho.
I agree that $30 is a bit optomistic for the next week, but AMD broke 21 today in trading, already edging close to Merrill Lynch's target price, so they could do pretty well in the coming weeks. In all likelihood, though, there will be a bit of a sell-off on Monday since the stock did so well today, but I think it's going to keep going up over-all.
I'd have to agree here. The reason this setup makes money for insurance companies is that they have millions in the bank and can afford to pay for a catastrophe, knowing that it pays out in the long run. But if you don't have lots and lots of money to begin with, that catastrophe can bankrupt you.
Most people can afford to put away money for the occasional accident, broken bone, minor surgery, etc. But something major can really mess things up, especially if the catastrophe happens earlier in life before you have saved up. It sucks pissing away all that money to the insurance companies (and it's horrible when they try to weasle their way out of paying), but I think it's worth it in the end.
I think the general point is that any benchmark measuring frames per second is really giving you average frames per second. So that may mean a constant, smooth 60, or it could mean half the time it's 90, half the time it's 30, which would definitely be noticeable. The quest for frames per second is to get the average high enough so that your minimum meets or exceeds that sweet spot.
I'm about to upgrade to a new PC, and it seems SMP is even harder to buy now...
I can testify to this... This summer I built a new gaming desktop and wanted to try out SMP. So I decided on a dual opteron setup. Finding dual opteron boards is not a problem. What is a problem, unfortunately, is finding a desktop class board, ie. one that doesn't have 64-bit pci, onboard SCSI, 8 banks of RAM, and a price tag of $400...
Ultimately, I only found 2 boards in the $200 range that were dual capable and had AGP: MSI and Tyan. And both were fairly difficult to get ahold of. But it was worth the hassle in the end, as I'm extremely happy with the new system.
Why should people not be able to get the best medical care only because it is not available in their homeland?
It's not that people shouldn't be allowed to seek healthcare elsewhere, it's that our system shouldn't be so f'ed up that people would want to go elsewhere.
My download directory in Windows is my desktop. Have you seen my desktop? It's a fairly old screenshot, too - it's only got worse since then. My iBook's equally bad, except everything's just randomly strewn around the place...
That is, without a doubt, the most organized 194-icon desktop I've ever seen.
Bush has been good for the environment! Under his watch the ozone is actually shrinking. And since correlation always equals causation, clearly this is due to Bush's leadership!
If he had signed the Kyoto Treaty, how much bigger would the ozone be now? I shudder to think about it...
God I wish this was an effective strategy. I really do. But it just seems (to me) that the one who can most effectively sling mud is the one most likely to win.
If you've got candidate #1 playing it good, never attacking, promoting their platform, etc, and candidate #2 discrediting and attacking #1, people will say, "Well, I don't know about #2, but it sure sounds like I don't want #1 in office..." So #1 has to fire back and make sure #2 looks bad too.
This seems to be the unfortunate reality, and it applies to both sides of the political fence.
Conversely, though, it might be that Gentoo actually has good documentation that tells you WHY things work as opposed to just a list of key commands. If that's the case, however, why do I actually need the distro? Can't I just read the Gentoo documentation, learn about Linux's innerworkings, and then just apply that to whatever distro I see fit
From my small experience with gentoo, this is actually the case. The docs are really good, in that they tell you what to do, why you're doing it, and what effect it will have.
And with regards to just reading the doc and applying it to another distro, it's really more of a walkthrough of manually installing gentoo. I guess theoretically you could read it and get just as much benefit without doing anything, but by the same logic, you could become college-educated by simply buying the books for all the classes and reading them yourself...
Doom 3 may be shiny, but by all accounts you could write a game with the same gameplay as Doom 3 (but less prettiness) that would run on a P3/Geforce2.
The key being how you define "modern". As a not-at-random example, City of Heroes will not work with a ATI 7500 -- a card less than three years old. I'll grant the 7500s are far from state-of-the-art. But if you're defining "modern" as "less than 18 months on the market", I believe you've been hanging out with Humpty Dumpty too long.
You can't expect PC hardware to be able to run current games forever, especially when that hardware started as a value/midrange card.
But this is really more an issue of a new game not supporting older cards as well as it should, rather than a game being written for nvidia or ati and excluding other cards...
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Yes! Everyone raves about the nvidia drivers, but I tried loading them on a fresh fedora install, and I couldn't get it working either. Granted I'm a total noob for troubleshooting problems in linux, so it could be something easilly fixed, but it's still frustrating... I'm really wanting to give linux on the desktop a shot, but this kind of stuff pushes me away. Normally I'd just not bother with the driver, but it seems the vesa driver doesn't support 1600x1200, and I'm spoiled. :)
In fact the same company could offer both services and call itself Rent-a-Ride...
I hope you don't use linux then... :P
Word of caution: be careful about signing up for credit cards and cancelling them. The number of credit cards you own and have ever owned make up a part of your credit rating. Two credit cards you sign up for and cancel probably aren't going to do much... But if you go to get a mortgage and you've had 20 different cards, it could raise some eyebrows.
You said it. If I get one more call from Terminix I'm going to scream!
Why do people suddenly become so condescending when they jump on the internet? I see so many posts on so many topics where people bash others who are having problems. "It works for me, you must be doing something wrong/be an idiot/have a crappy PC/etc."
Does it ever occur to you people that PCs vary greatly, and a normal, function PC might behave differently from a different, normal, functioning PC? And what exactly is an "incorrect configuration"? If every other game runs fine, but HL2 doesn't, is it the user's fault? Maybe, just maybe some of the blame lies on Valve for creating a system that's relatively frail?
Score:-1, Excessive ass-covering
I believe there's a word for all this: overthinking. ;)
Which, of course, is kind of the whole point of patents in general. ;)
Wouldn't that violate the "seperation of shitty music and state" clause in the constitution?
I agree that $30 is a bit optomistic for the next week, but AMD broke 21 today in trading, already edging close to Merrill Lynch's target price, so they could do pretty well in the coming weeks. In all likelihood, though, there will be a bit of a sell-off on Monday since the stock did so well today, but I think it's going to keep going up over-all.
Only if you consider your "worth" while alive to consist only of how much money you bring into the household, which I certainly hope is not the case.
Most people can afford to put away money for the occasional accident, broken bone, minor surgery, etc. But something major can really mess things up, especially if the catastrophe happens earlier in life before you have saved up. It sucks pissing away all that money to the insurance companies (and it's horrible when they try to weasle their way out of paying), but I think it's worth it in the end.
Or another way to put it: rot at the core spreads outward.
Only a total n00b spells n00b "newb". Come on, this is day 1 stuff here people.
I think the general point is that any benchmark measuring frames per second is really giving you average frames per second. So that may mean a constant, smooth 60, or it could mean half the time it's 90, half the time it's 30, which would definitely be noticeable. The quest for frames per second is to get the average high enough so that your minimum meets or exceeds that sweet spot.
I can testify to this... This summer I built a new gaming desktop and wanted to try out SMP. So I decided on a dual opteron setup. Finding dual opteron boards is not a problem. What is a problem, unfortunately, is finding a desktop class board, ie. one that doesn't have 64-bit pci, onboard SCSI, 8 banks of RAM, and a price tag of $400...
Ultimately, I only found 2 boards in the $200 range that were dual capable and had AGP: MSI and Tyan. And both were fairly difficult to get ahold of. But it was worth the hassle in the end, as I'm extremely happy with the new system.
It's not that people shouldn't be allowed to seek healthcare elsewhere, it's that our system shouldn't be so f'ed up that people would want to go elsewhere.
That is, without a doubt, the most organized 194-icon desktop I've ever seen.
If he had signed the Kyoto Treaty, how much bigger would the ozone be now? I shudder to think about it...
Four more years!
If you've got candidate #1 playing it good, never attacking, promoting their platform, etc, and candidate #2 discrediting and attacking #1, people will say, "Well, I don't know about #2, but it sure sounds like I don't want #1 in office..." So #1 has to fire back and make sure #2 looks bad too.
This seems to be the unfortunate reality, and it applies to both sides of the political fence.
From my small experience with gentoo, this is actually the case. The docs are really good, in that they tell you what to do, why you're doing it, and what effect it will have.
And with regards to just reading the doc and applying it to another distro, it's really more of a walkthrough of manually installing gentoo. I guess theoretically you could read it and get just as much benefit without doing anything, but by the same logic, you could become college-educated by simply buying the books for all the classes and reading them yourself...
They did. It was called Doom 2.
You can't expect PC hardware to be able to run current games forever, especially when that hardware started as a value/midrange card.
But this is really more an issue of a new game not supporting older cards as well as it should, rather than a game being written for nvidia or ati and excluding other cards...