Some weeks ago, for the first time in my life I bought an ATI card (9800Pro, 256MB) to go with my shiny new AMD64 system. Shortly after attaching the watercooling, I realized that I'd been badly burned concerning ATI's linux drivers... my fault, really, to believe that the very existence of linux drivers (which was all I checked prior to purchase) would enable me to at least play Tuxracer or similar under linux - but I did not reckon with ATI not supporting either 64-Bit systems (and AGPGART messing up with KT-800 Boards)... For some time now, only the fact that attaching the watercooler to a new 6800U (I do get into a sweat when doing that) would mean voiding the warranty on a ~$500 product kept me back. With these benchmarks now, however, I feel no reason not to return once again to nvidia (remember Homer getting his job back at SNPP?)...
How very true. And also, I think (without being able to reliably back that up) that the retinal part of the eye (which is in fact a prolonged part of the brain exposed to the light) is not merely connected to the brain, but an integral part of that complex system. As you mentioned neurotrophins, I'd like to remind here of the neurotrophic hypothesis that states that development of neurons is evolutionary controlled through neurotrophins that let active neurons survive. According to this, the retinal part could easily be not only a module of the brain with some cabling attached, but - I repeat myself - an integral part of the brain pattern; I tell you nothing new when I state that in the retina and the optic nerve the first processing and compression is already being done - we do not really know if this is not highly personalized due to this evolutionary process.
And I also was cheated by the title...
Greetings from an unusually sunny Germany, Skrface
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Some weeks ago, for the first time in my life I bought an ATI card (9800Pro, 256MB) to go with my shiny new AMD64 system. Shortly after attaching the watercooling, I realized that I'd been badly burned concerning ATI's linux drivers... my fault, really, to believe that the very existence of linux drivers (which was all I checked prior to purchase) would enable me to at least play Tuxracer or similar under linux - but I did not reckon with ATI not supporting either 64-Bit systems (and AGPGART messing up with KT-800 Boards)... For some time now, only the fact that attaching the watercooler to a new 6800U (I do get into a sweat when doing that) would mean voiding the warranty on a ~$500 product kept me back.
With these benchmarks now, however, I feel no reason not to return once again to nvidia (remember Homer getting his job back at SNPP?)...
ghaa... all the wasted money...
How very true. And also, I think (without being able to reliably back that up) that the retinal part of the eye (which is in fact a prolonged part of the brain exposed to the light) is not merely connected to the brain, but an integral part of that complex system. As you mentioned neurotrophins, I'd like to remind here of the neurotrophic hypothesis that states that development of neurons is evolutionary controlled through neurotrophins that let active neurons survive. According to this, the retinal part could easily be not only a module of the brain with some cabling attached, but - I repeat myself - an integral part of the brain pattern; I tell you nothing new when I state that in the retina and the optic nerve the first processing and compression is already being done - we do not really know if this is not highly personalized due to this evolutionary process.
And I also was cheated by the title...
Greetings from an unusually sunny Germany,
Skrface
"The company has posted on its Web site a software "patch" for users to download."
Now, where did i hear that kind of thing before? (...using this "La-ser"...)
So the trojan horse part of the M$ media squeaker was a bug all along?
Riiighhht...