Back when I had my TNT2 and detonator3 first came out (this was Geforce2GTS era btw) my framerates went up about 20%. Plus I got DX7 and then 8 compatibility when they were released.
i use PNG for my homepage banner, I just had to make sure the background on my site matches the background on the image because IE doesn't do the transparencies properly (at all?). Still, I get a banner with lossless compression and 24-bit colour, which isn't possible otherwise. It would suck to see JPEG go though since PNG is insufficient for photographs.
I started listening to music from the 90s, and I still do - stuff like Tool, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden. That led me to study their influences (Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, The Pixies, in no particular order) which led me to study THEIR influences (Like the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors etc.) I find the whole evolution of Rock music fascinating, but my fascination doesn't go back past the late 60s because before that it wasn't really "rock" in the current sense at all. I find this "last-generation" music is still very relevant and actually increases my appreciation for current artists. I agree that we should promote our own generational culture, but we should also accept that it has a foundation in the one previous, and there is lots to be learned from it.
I don't know about VU&N but Pink Floyd's really early stuff sounds WAY better in Mono because the early stereo process was horrible and gimmicky. Its hard to find though - If they re-released their old stuff in original mono I would be all over it!
All of Bowie's classic (60, 70s and 80s) albums were re-released in 1999 by EMI and NONE of them have copy protection (trust me, I own most of them and they are all ripped to my hard-drive).
Cheers!
p.s. I'll be buying this special release for sure!
I'm sorry - a bit hazy on this. You are saying that Linux needs to come bundled with Evolution as it's default mail client or it doesn't matter that it's good? Linux isn't about "bundling things" like windows. You have a choice. No it is not part of KDE, and I don't want it to be. Linux is supposed to be modular. Besides, you are arguing that Evolution must be installed by default for it to be usefull?? You use eudora through wine!!!
um any explaination, or is that a troll? ext3 does metadata AND data journalling and is forwards/backwards compatible with ext2 - what makes it unstable?
I use ext3 in ordered mode for my "/" and "/usr" partitions for its data journaling, and reiserfs with -notail for my/tmp and/pub partitions (pub is an FTP/SMB fileserver, lots of activity). I think this is a good compromise between performance and non-corrupability (sp?)
I thought it was a good Kubrick movie horribly mamed by Speilburg, particularly the ending. Kubrick clearly envisioned an ending like 2001's, without the horrible naration explaining what we were watching onscreen because Speilburg didn't feel we were smart enough to figure it out on our own. Argh I hate that man, why couldn't he have died instead of Kubrick?
Ill definitely be checking this author out - P.K. Dick is my favorite author.
For those who don't know, Philip wrote the stories upon which "Blade Runner", "Total Recall" and "Minority Report" were based. And those are his weakest works in my opinion.
How is Java supposed to do something faster than C++ if the original Java source code to perform that function was in fact a C++ function? Java cannot be faster since it is still executing the same thing it would be were it native C++. See?
IE 6 and 5.5 look the same, but as a web developer 6 sure supports a lot more standard features (like CSS, DOM etc.)
This is what I and most slashdot readers are looking for - no more flash and bloat, but better support for industry standards.
I upgraded because it runs basically the entire backlibrary of games for 9x, while 2k can't. I also happen to like the new GUI over the plain old 2k one.
i would just have them spend an afternoon transitioning their skills to writing good PHP, since they are so similar.
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As i said in an above post, when you change major version numbers you are implying that backwards-compatibility could/will break. That is how versioning works, so with Perl6 we are getting arguably more than we should expect because it IS largely backwards compatible.
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Thats what major version numbers are for: designating versions that break compatibility with previous versions. Find me a program that didn't break compatibility with a major rev and I'll show you a program that doesn't follow protocol:)
no they don't, or at least the games don't. Games transmit tiny little packets with simply xyz coordinates and a bit of other data. You can have donzens of people gaming over a 10baseT network without problems. Now when you start swapping warez after the gaming stops, the gigabit starts to look pretty good!
100baseTX ethernet has a maximum distance of 100feet without repeaters, so it just wouldn't work without expensive amplifiers. You could do it with fiber (100baseFX) though.
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Back when I had my TNT2 and detonator3 first came out (this was Geforce2GTS era btw) my framerates went up about 20%. Plus I got DX7 and then 8 compatibility when they were released.
i use PNG for my homepage banner, I just had to make sure the background on my site matches the background on the image because IE doesn't do the transparencies properly (at all?). Still, I get a banner with lossless compression and 24-bit colour, which isn't possible otherwise. It would suck to see JPEG go though since PNG is insufficient for photographs.
I started listening to music from the 90s, and I still do - stuff like Tool, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden. That led me to study their influences (Depeche Mode, The Smiths, The Cure, The Pixies, in no particular order) which led me to study THEIR influences (Like the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Doors etc.) I find the whole evolution of Rock music fascinating, but my fascination doesn't go back past the late 60s because before that it wasn't really "rock" in the current sense at all. I find this "last-generation" music is still very relevant and actually increases my appreciation for current artists. I agree that we should promote our own generational culture, but we should also accept that it has a foundation in the one previous, and there is lots to be learned from it.
Jelous?
I don't know about VU&N but Pink Floyd's really early stuff sounds WAY better in Mono because the early stereo process was horrible and gimmicky. Its hard to find though - If they re-released their old stuff in original mono I would be all over it!
All of Bowie's classic (60, 70s and 80s) albums were re-released in 1999 by EMI and NONE of them have copy protection (trust me, I own most of them and they are all ripped to my hard-drive).
Cheers!
p.s. I'll be buying this special release for sure!
I'm sorry - a bit hazy on this. You are saying that Linux needs to come bundled with Evolution as it's default mail client or it doesn't matter that it's good? Linux isn't about "bundling things" like windows. You have a choice. No it is not part of KDE, and I don't want it to be. Linux is supposed to be modular. Besides, you are arguing that Evolution must be installed by default for it to be usefull?? You use eudora through wine!!!
um any explaination, or is that a troll? ext3 does metadata AND data journalling and is forwards/backwards compatible with ext2 - what makes it unstable?
I use ext3 in ordered mode for my "/" and "/usr" partitions for its data journaling, and reiserfs with -notail for my /tmp and /pub partitions (pub is an FTP/SMB fileserver, lots of activity). I think this is a good compromise between performance and non-corrupability (sp?)
If you read the raw "GET http/1.1" info for slashdot's main page you get a randomly generated simpson's quote as metadata.
As found on this very page:
Based on the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale".
I thought it was a good Kubrick movie horribly mamed by Speilburg, particularly the ending. Kubrick clearly envisioned an ending like 2001's, without the horrible naration explaining what we were watching onscreen because Speilburg didn't feel we were smart enough to figure it out on our own. Argh I hate that man, why couldn't he have died instead of Kubrick?
Ill definitely be checking this author out - P.K. Dick is my favorite author. For those who don't know, Philip wrote the stories upon which "Blade Runner", "Total Recall" and "Minority Report" were based. And those are his weakest works in my opinion.
How is Java supposed to do something faster than C++ if the original Java source code to perform that function was in fact a C++ function? Java cannot be faster since it is still executing the same thing it would be were it native C++. See?
good point.
IE 6 and 5.5 look the same, but as a web developer 6 sure supports a lot more standard features (like CSS, DOM etc.) This is what I and most slashdot readers are looking for - no more flash and bloat, but better support for industry standards.
I upgraded because it runs basically the entire backlibrary of games for 9x, while 2k can't. I also happen to like the new GUI over the plain old 2k one.
i would just have them spend an afternoon transitioning their skills to writing good PHP, since they are so similar.
As i said in an above post, when you change major version numbers you are implying that backwards-compatibility could/will break. That is how versioning works, so with Perl6 we are getting arguably more than we should expect because it IS largely backwards compatible.
Thats what major version numbers are for: designating versions that break compatibility with previous versions. Find me a program that didn't break compatibility with a major rev and I'll show you a program that doesn't follow protocol :)
suggesting that java is "orders of magnitude faster" at some things over C/C++ is patently obsurd because Java is written in C++.
could very well be, sorry.
no they don't, or at least the games don't. Games transmit tiny little packets with simply xyz coordinates and a bit of other data. You can have donzens of people gaming over a 10baseT network without problems. Now when you start swapping warez after the gaming stops, the gigabit starts to look pretty good!
100baseTX ethernet has a maximum distance of 100feet without repeaters, so it just wouldn't work without expensive amplifiers. You could do it with fiber (100baseFX) though.
no you're right, it wasn't justified, but it SHOULD have been expected, and you should expect it again.