This isn't just an issue with matrox, but the while video card industry.
Every card I have ever purchased has never come with a worthwhile driver. The Geforce 2 Ti I bought hasn't had even remotely good drivers until the last revision, and the card still occasionally causes a bsod under winxp.
I think that these companies need to get on top of writing better drivers for their cards because simply put, the card may be the l33test thing ever, but it won't beat an S3 trio off of the starting line w/o good drivers...
Get two computers with identical monitors. Make sure one has a card that pumps 70 fps and one has a GeForce 4 4600 Ti in it pumping 150 fps. You will see a very noticable difference in the smoothness.
Sure the human eye can see only 30 fps, but the higher the framerate the smoother motion will appear to be.
Like I said, just wait. The 5's should have the whole 'peripheral vision' thing too.
As for the low res/framerate thingy, that's why i think it will be a great card for workstations.
I don't think this card is garbage at all, it has some neat features. It just doesn't pump out the high res framerates/picture quality I'd want in my next gaming rig.
Then again, this is just the first run of this techology. In the current atmosphere of PC technology, in 6 months a newer version of this card may be the cat's meow.
It's an astronomy term given to the effect which occurs when water crystals in the upper atmosphere make it look like there is halo around the sun i believe, but it could also be when it makes it look like there are two suns.
I'm just bored, look on google. I might be right tho.
this card is not woth the asking price. It's nice to see Matrox trying to get back into the game, but the technology in the card is well... so last year.
I predict that this card may eventually be popular in high-end workstations, with matrox fans (if there are any), and with people who for one reason or another just don't like nVidia.
It may also take some market share away from ATi, but I don't suspect it will cause a huge dent.
The stats really just don't impress me. Then again, I'm a heavy Windows gamer, and from reading their white papers on this card they must not be trying for the gamer market.
I'm just gonna sit back and wait for the GeForce 5, just like I waited for the Voodoo 5500. Hopefully nVidia doesn't go out of business:P.
Clear-Channel puts SO MANY ADS on their lame ass radio stations, it must cost so much to put on a single because no one will listen to their damned sprint commercials all morning long.
Here's a tip for clear-channel: You want more listeners? PLAY MORE F*cking music and less DUMB DUMB DUMB RETARD LOVING CRICKET COMMERCIALS@!!!&^$!
This is good news. I was already thinking about buying an Xbox anyway, but now it has a TV recorder too. Now if I can play my DivX movies on it as well, the PS2 be damned!!
Isn't perl technically an interperted language like basic?
I'm not trying to troll, but I guess I should have stayed awake in my CS class because i was under the impression the 'scripting' languages were not compiled.
I guess that would be why it runs on a virtual machine, if I'm right (and I think i may be way outta whack).
Lets remember, XP is kinda like ME in the sense that it's just an interface update. The actual OS behind XP is essentially just Win2k. 'Whistler' AKA.NET is still in the works.
I'm actually interested in seeing what it's like, in all seriousness, I've heard M$ programmers refer to it as MS UNIX. I can only imagine what that means...
virtual machines are leet because you can test your virus code without actually damaging your own system. Unless you're clueless, in which case you'll probably infect yourself and the rest of the internet and get ass raped in prison.
When you get linux, you get a car in a box you have to assemble yourself. Some parts aren't right, don't function, or are currently unsupported. By the time you're done you have something that looks like a cross between a yugo and pinto and runs like colt vista.
1) 5% of the market doesn't count 2) Just because a server has a GUI doesn't mean it's a desktop system suitable for giving to say you grandmother. KDE, GNOME, et al, are all far to buggy, bloated, and user UNFRIENDLY. As a systems administrator I would NEVER subject my users to that sort of abuse. 3) OSX is cool, but is BSD based. That's a whole different can of worms. And it's mac only. Macs are goood for one thing: graphics. No one want to spend $3500 on a e-mail checking workstation.
Thanx for the flame, it was mildy entertaining to make fun of an AC.
Slashdot Mirror
or even better, "open vandalism"
I still haven't seen LoTR, SW:E2, or Spider-man.
I haven't been to a theatre in over 5 months. (last movie i saw was 'how high').
Boycott the MPAA.
This isn't just an issue with matrox, but the while video card industry.
Every card I have ever purchased has never come with a worthwhile driver. The Geforce 2 Ti I bought hasn't had even remotely good drivers until the last revision, and the card still occasionally causes a bsod under winxp.
I think that these companies need to get on top of writing better drivers for their cards because simply put, the card may be the l33test thing ever, but it won't beat an S3 trio off of the starting line w/o good drivers...
Get two computers with identical monitors. Make sure one has a card that pumps 70 fps and one has a GeForce 4 4600 Ti in it pumping 150 fps. You will see a very noticable difference in the smoothness.
Sure the human eye can see only 30 fps, but the higher the framerate the smoother motion will appear to be.
Like I said, just wait. The 5's should have the whole 'peripheral vision' thing too.
As for the low res/framerate thingy, that's why i think it will be a great card for workstations.
I don't think this card is garbage at all, it has some neat features. It just doesn't pump out the high res framerates/picture quality I'd want in my next gaming rig.
Then again, this is just the first run of this techology. In the current atmosphere of PC technology, in 6 months a newer version of this card may be the cat's meow.
It's an astronomy term given to the effect which occurs when water crystals in the upper atmosphere make it look like there is halo around the sun i believe, but it could also be when it makes it look like there are two suns.
I'm just bored, look on google. I might be right tho.
this card is not woth the asking price. It's nice to see Matrox trying to get back into the game, but the technology in the card is well... so last year.
:P.
I predict that this card may eventually be popular in high-end workstations, with matrox fans (if there are any), and with people who for one reason or another just don't like nVidia.
It may also take some market share away from ATi, but I don't suspect it will cause a huge dent.
The stats really just don't impress me. Then again, I'm a heavy Windows gamer, and from reading their white papers on this card they must not be trying for the gamer market.
I'm just gonna sit back and wait for the GeForce 5, just like I waited for the Voodoo 5500. Hopefully nVidia doesn't go out of business
Clear-Channel puts SO MANY ADS on their lame ass radio stations, it must cost so much to put on a single because no one will listen to their damned sprint commercials all morning long.
Here's a tip for clear-channel: You want more listeners? PLAY MORE F*cking music and less DUMB DUMB DUMB RETARD LOVING CRICKET COMMERCIALS@!!!&^$!
why is this funny?
This is off-topic.
damnit, the mods smoke low quality crack.
This is good news. I was already thinking about buying an Xbox anyway, but now it has a TV recorder too. Now if I can play my DivX movies on it as well, the PS2 be damned!!
Unless you're trying to learn how to code, in which case a lot of well documented code in a book such as this one can make all the difference.
Not like my CS text, which promptly introduced such concepts as templates before anyone in the class could even use a class in C++...
Ah well, I like code in books, that way I can compare my code to someone elses without having to use another terminal (ALT+F* baby)
Isn't perl technically an interperted language like basic?
I'm not trying to troll, but I guess I should have stayed awake in my CS class because i was under the impression the 'scripting' languages were not compiled.
I guess that would be why it runs on a virtual machine, if I'm right (and I think i may be way outta whack).
Someone throw me a bone here.
Well, not yet at least.
.NET is still in the works.
Lets remember, XP is kinda like ME in the sense that it's just an interface update. The actual OS behind XP is essentially just Win2k. 'Whistler' AKA
I'm actually interested in seeing what it's like, in all seriousness, I've heard M$ programmers refer to it as MS UNIX. I can only imagine what that means...
virtual machines are leet because you can test your virus code without actually damaging your own system. Unless you're clueless, in which case you'll probably infect yourself and the rest of the internet and get ass raped in prison.
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shouldn't that be GPRRS?
point being?
This is such a good flame.
:P
Teach me to flame liek you flame
now we're going to have to worry about people looking at porn while driving.
Only hands-free porn viewing allowed in Santa Fe.
Another expansion on the car thing:
When you get linux, you get a car in a box you have to assemble yourself. Some parts aren't right, don't function, or are currently unsupported. By the time you're done you have something that looks like a cross between a yugo and pinto and runs like colt vista.
Such as Linux.
You want something robust and Open source? Use BSD you lamers. You don't even know what you're missing out on.
OH NO THE TRUTH IS OUT!!!!
it's only evil because you're not the one making money off of it so STFU and post logged in bitch.
1) 5% of the market doesn't count
2) Just because a server has a GUI doesn't mean it's a desktop system suitable for giving to say you grandmother. KDE, GNOME, et al, are all far to buggy, bloated, and user UNFRIENDLY. As a systems administrator I would NEVER subject my users to that sort of abuse.
3) OSX is cool, but is BSD based. That's a whole different can of worms. And it's mac only. Macs are goood for one thing: graphics. No one want to spend $3500 on a e-mail checking workstation.
Thanx for the flame, it was mildy entertaining to make fun of an AC.
It doesn't sound like something a business analysts would say.
OSS is an economic nightmare.