It also had the first fly-by-wire system, and the next plane to have similar performance was a Soviet interceptor from the 80's. Way ahead of it's time.
Just some extra details on Canadian elections. I worked the last federal election both producing the voter list, and recording the results. Our voting is standardized, because of Elections Canada, which runs all the federal elections. In my riding, the voters list was broken up into chunks of about 400 people, based on geographic areas. Each of these chunks had their own poll, and at the end of polling, the ballots are counted right there. When the ballots are handed out for you to vote, they mark off that a ballot is gone, and keep all spoiled ballots. Basically, you can then total votes for each candidate, and spoiled ballots, which should equal the total ballots handed out. In this way, we get all the votes counted in one night, without some computerized system, and with a full trail of the votes. And in the end, everything goes back to elections canada, all the ballots cast. Pretty interesting experience overall, made me appreciate the work that is involved in getting to vote.
The thing is, when 3dfx died, Nvidia was the one going for speed; the big feature being pushed on the Voodoo4/5 was FSAA and it's higher image quality. Nvidia's card at the time was the Geforce2 which was totally about speed. ATI's last couple of generations have been pushing FSAA and usually outperform Nvidia once you turn it on.
It sounds much better than an unencrypted database, but it would need a much better password than a person's full name. If someone went to the trouble of getting a copy of this database from whatever government computer it's hidden on, they certainly aren't going to worry about getting some list of full names.
and other confusing concepts and they'll quickly go into Dummy mode and do whatever you tell them to. For this reason we should make it all more complex, so that those who understand will have an easier time controlling those who don't.
The VIA chipset you would really want to look at is the P4X266A; like the KT266A it performs much better than its predecessor. Despite this, some early benchmarks of the 845D look like it outperforms all other DDR solutions. The real advantage to this chipset will be major motherboard manufacturers picking up DDR P4 platforms, ie. ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte, etc. They wouldn't touch the P4X266A because of lawsuit threats.
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It also had the first fly-by-wire system, and the next plane to have similar performance was a Soviet interceptor from the 80's. Way ahead of it's time.
Just some extra details on Canadian elections. I worked the last federal election both producing the voter list, and recording the results. Our voting is standardized, because of Elections Canada, which runs all the federal elections. In my riding, the voters list was broken up into chunks of about 400 people, based on geographic areas. Each of these chunks had their own poll, and at the end of polling, the ballots are counted right there. When the ballots are handed out for you to vote, they mark off that a ballot is gone, and keep all spoiled ballots. Basically, you can then total votes for each candidate, and spoiled ballots, which should equal the total ballots handed out. In this way, we get all the votes counted in one night, without some computerized system, and with a full trail of the votes. And in the end, everything goes back to elections canada, all the ballots cast. Pretty interesting experience overall, made me appreciate the work that is involved in getting to vote.
I saw this earlier in the day. It's almost propehtic
I'm running XP Pro on an 866 Athlon and looking at a 14" CRT. Font smoothing looks pretty nice, and speed seems just as good as 98SE.
Come get me ;-)
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The thing is, when 3dfx died, Nvidia was the one going for speed; the big feature being pushed on the Voodoo4/5 was FSAA and it's higher image quality. Nvidia's card at the time was the Geforce2 which was totally about speed. ATI's last couple of generations have been pushing FSAA and usually outperform Nvidia once you turn it on.
I'm writing this from my res and all the people that like to share keep wondering why the P2P apps aren't working. Everythings locked down tight.
It sounds much better than an unencrypted database, but it would need a much better password than a person's full name. If someone went to the trouble of getting a copy of this database from whatever government computer it's hidden on, they certainly aren't going to worry about getting some list of full names.
and other confusing concepts and they'll quickly go into Dummy mode and do whatever you tell them to. For this reason we should make it all more complex, so that those who understand will have an easier time controlling those who don't.
The VIA chipset you would really want to look at is the P4X266A; like the KT266A it performs much better than its predecessor. Despite this, some early benchmarks of the 845D look like it outperforms all other DDR solutions. The real advantage to this chipset will be major motherboard manufacturers picking up DDR P4 platforms, ie. ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte, etc. They wouldn't touch the P4X266A because of lawsuit threats.