For the $300 cards, the ATI has 512MB of memory, while the nVidia has 256MB. Well, I suppose they're comparing the price ranges, and not the closest products performance-wise....
Disable encryption. I'm guessing, and this could be a wild guess, but I'm thinking that Vista will support FAT32 and NTFS. If it's anything like Windows XP (Professional), encryption for NTFS is optional, and the last time I checked, it wasn't enabled by default. My guess is that Microsoft is going to act like they did for the Windows Firewall: They originally included the firewall, but originally hid it and left it disabled. The update will enable it by default.
I doubt this will be a problem for anyone dual-booting using Linux, the potential problem would be with people that want to use OSX and Vista, since the average OSX user is not as computer-savvy as someone that dual-boots Windows and Linux.
In the year 2000:
Dell: "Essentially, Dell was responsible for selecting, if not necessarily developing, many of the technologies in today's desktop computers and servers. Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking"
The PS2 is about 4.5 years old. Sony's plans were for it to have around a 9 year product life (give or take a year). I'm expecting the PS2 will still be around for a while....
Just like Department of Homeland Security.
Transcripts from the meeting:
Bush: What could we call someone to answer questions about the civil liberties these wack-jobs are complaining about?
Cheney: How about "Civil-Liberties Officer?"
Bush: Yeah, yeah, I like that! It fits right in with my strategery!
I thought I heard before that the latest video cards are making our computers CPU-bound, rather than GPU-bound. Hell, with the next round of nVidia cards, the physics are going to be outsourced from the CPU to the GPU, so I don't see how this will help that much....
For high output data rate, one must read holograms with many pixels per page in a reasonably short time. To read a megapixel hologram in about 1 ms with reasonable laser power and to have enough signal at the detector for low error rate, a diffraction efficiency around eta = 3 × 105 is required. To write such a hologram in 1 ms, to achieve input and output data rates of 1 Gb/s, the sensitivity for this example must be at least S'eta2 = 20 cm2/J.
...And earlier on: Since this hologram was retrieved using a readout pulse of 1 ms, this experiment implements the optical signal (but not the subsequent fast electronic readout) of a system with a readout rate of 1 Gb/s.
How about we explore something closer to home?
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Like possibly our oceans? I'd much rather have an underwater base, much like something that could be in a Bond film. In addition to being able to communicate with people in the base whenever, as well as much more quickly, it wouldn't take them 18 months to get from the sealevel down to the base.
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Lieberman, like Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum, is in the Senate, not Congress.
Since when was the Senate not part of Congress? I think you need to go back to middle-school social studies.
On the other hand, I'd say on a p4 3ghz desktop system with a very large software set, I'm probably averaging 2-3 hours a week of compiling for various updates, my debian and fc4 boxes spend more like 5-10 minutes a week downloading and unpacking them. But, if you're halfway decent at scheduling and don't have constant insanely-high demand everywhere, I'd say that update time isn't even a particularly big deal (after all, it's mostly non-interactive... fire it, forget it, come back when it's done).
I usually only compile programs in the background, while I'm doing other things like going to class, browsing the internet, etc. I guess my only complaint about Gentoo is that it can be a pain if you update a lot of packages at once and something gets broken, then revert to older versions. On the other hand, however, the same can be said for most other operating systems.
Like stated in a *-father post, the reason why I like Gentoo so much is because everything is compiled from source, so when I come across a rare application that doesn't have a pre-compiled binary, I'm not going to have to spend as much time fiddling with installing it as I did when running Slackware. Also, Slackware didn't fuck up my partition tables like one of the Fedora Core DVD's did.
The moral of any distribution article/flame-war, however, is just to use whatever makes you most comfortable for whatever situation you are in, and not to listen to the fanboys/biggots tell you what to do (with the exception of examples like this one, where we tell you to think for yourself. I think I just created a paradox or something....)
The official statement, issued today through Reuters, is that the meeting will be an event to announce the future of the PlayStation side of Sony's business, which is particularly vague, although if we consider Koei's comments, it is highly likely there will be some mention of the the PlayStation 3. Next week also sees the Game Developer Conference 2006 taking place in the US, where it's known some SCEA developers will be speaking.
Sony's announcement: Haha, tricked you! The truth is, there is no PS3. Sorry people, but you'll have to wait 6 more years for the PS4. Oh yeah, next week, we're having a conference about the PS4's capabilities
From the conference next week: The PS4, AKA "Deus ex Machina," will be 100% compatible with 3d projectors, and will use IBM's hologram data storage as its storage medium. Please stay tuned for further updates.
...this could really screw me over at school, since the housing contracts only allow us 5GB of data (upstream and downstream combined) for any 7 consecutive days.
I'm shopping for a card for a friend now, and have noticed that the midrange is good, but for high resolution play at 1600x1200 or 1920x1200, the midrange is barely cutting it now, so it becomes important to get the most bang for your buck, especially if you have an LCD with native high res and want to maintain quality. The new 7600 GT is about 15% faster than the 6800 GS, even w/ a 128 bit memory bus, and definitely hits a sweet spot at $190. It should run most popular titles comfortably at 1920x1200 and has next generation shader 3.0, unlike ATI's offerings below $200.
What about people like me, who bought a decent LCD monitor that's highest native resolution is 1280x1024? The highest resolution device I've hooked my computer up to is a big-screen high-definition TV, and its resolution isn't much higher. I'm thinking that in about 12-18 months, I should be able to afford a decent videocard that lets me play Pro Evo/Winning Eleven at high qualities at those resolutions. Until then, I'll stick with the X300SE that came with my computer and put up with the ultra-low settings that I use when I play for the 1-2 hours a week (if I even play that much, I seriously doubt it, maybe 2-3 hours a month.)
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How many more features can we expect to dwindle out of the program before it's released?
For the $300 cards, the ATI has 512MB of memory, while the nVidia has 256MB. Well, I suppose they're comparing the price ranges, and not the closest products performance-wise....
Too bad you weren't doing this about 4 years ago, when my family decided to finally get rid of the 3 Apple IIe's that were laying around my house.
Disable encryption. I'm guessing, and this could be a wild guess, but I'm thinking that Vista will support FAT32 and NTFS. If it's anything like Windows XP (Professional), encryption for NTFS is optional, and the last time I checked, it wasn't enabled by default. My guess is that Microsoft is going to act like they did for the Windows Firewall: They originally included the firewall, but originally hid it and left it disabled. The update will enable it by default. I doubt this will be a problem for anyone dual-booting using Linux, the potential problem would be with people that want to use OSX and Vista, since the average OSX user is not as computer-savvy as someone that dual-boots Windows and Linux.
In the year 2000: Dell: "Essentially, Dell was responsible for selecting, if not necessarily developing, many of the technologies in today's desktop computers and servers. Among standards for which he said Dell deserves credit are 802.11 wireless networking"
The PS2 is about 4.5 years old. Sony's plans were for it to have around a 9 year product life (give or take a year). I'm expecting the PS2 will still be around for a while....
Just like Department of Homeland Security. Transcripts from the meeting: Bush: What could we call someone to answer questions about the civil liberties these wack-jobs are complaining about? Cheney: How about "Civil-Liberties Officer?" Bush: Yeah, yeah, I like that! It fits right in with my strategery!
Whoops, did I say that?
I thought I heard before that the latest video cards are making our computers CPU-bound, rather than GPU-bound. Hell, with the next round of nVidia cards, the physics are going to be outsourced from the CPU to the GPU, so I don't see how this will help that much....
The talks for thing like holographic disks and videos were more for television stations being able to store HDTV content in more consolidated media, since prices are estimated to be $100,000 (http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/ 0,289521,sid5_tax404,00.html)
For high output data rate, one must read holograms with many pixels per page in a reasonably short time. To read a megapixel hologram in about 1 ms with reasonable laser power and to have enough signal at the detector for low error rate, a diffraction efficiency around eta = 3 × 105 is required. To write such a hologram in 1 ms, to achieve input and output data rates of 1 Gb/s, the sensitivity for this example must be at least S'eta2 = 20 cm2/J.
Since this hologram was retrieved using a readout pulse of 1 ms, this experiment implements the optical signal (but not the subsequent fast electronic readout) of a system with a readout rate of 1 Gb/s.
So how is being able to run "all sorts of scientific applications" going to help me get more FPS in Duke Nukem Forever?
Need I say more? Well, maybe Duck Hunt....
Like possibly our oceans? I'd much rather have an underwater base, much like something that could be in a Bond film. In addition to being able to communicate with people in the base whenever, as well as much more quickly, it wouldn't take them 18 months to get from the sealevel down to the base.
Since when was the Senate not part of Congress? I think you need to go back to middle-school social studies.
Hmm, so according to the specs, people can set these up in SLI. Wouldn't it be cheaper to go up to the next level (Possibly the 7600GS)?
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Nvidia solves Chaos Theory!
I usually only compile programs in the background, while I'm doing other things like going to class, browsing the internet, etc. I guess my only complaint about Gentoo is that it can be a pain if you update a lot of packages at once and something gets broken, then revert to older versions. On the other hand, however, the same can be said for most other operating systems.
Like stated in a *-father post, the reason why I like Gentoo so much is because everything is compiled from source, so when I come across a rare application that doesn't have a pre-compiled binary, I'm not going to have to spend as much time fiddling with installing it as I did when running Slackware. Also, Slackware didn't fuck up my partition tables like one of the Fedora Core DVD's did.
The moral of any distribution article/flame-war, however, is just to use whatever makes you most comfortable for whatever situation you are in, and not to listen to the fanboys/biggots tell you what to do (with the exception of examples like this one, where we tell you to think for yourself. I think I just created a paradox or something....)
The official statement, issued today through Reuters, is that the meeting will be an event to announce the future of the PlayStation side of Sony's business, which is particularly vague, although if we consider Koei's comments, it is highly likely there will be some mention of the the PlayStation 3. Next week also sees the Game Developer Conference 2006 taking place in the US, where it's known some SCEA developers will be speaking.
Sony's announcement:
Haha, tricked you! The truth is, there is no PS3. Sorry people, but you'll have to wait 6 more years for the PS4. Oh yeah, next week, we're having a conference about the PS4's capabilities
From the conference next week:
The PS4, AKA "Deus ex Machina," will be 100% compatible with 3d projectors, and will use IBM's hologram data storage as its storage medium. Please stay tuned for further updates.
I think that's why we have e^n'th different distributions, because people realized that somebody else's "One Size Fits All" didn't fit them.
...this could really screw me over at school, since the housing contracts only allow us 5GB of data (upstream and downstream combined) for any 7 consecutive days.
Iraq?
What about people like me, who bought a decent LCD monitor that's highest native resolution is 1280x1024? The highest resolution device I've hooked my computer up to is a big-screen high-definition TV, and its resolution isn't much higher. I'm thinking that in about 12-18 months, I should be able to afford a decent videocard that lets me play Pro Evo/Winning Eleven at high qualities at those resolutions. Until then, I'll stick with the X300SE that came with my computer and put up with the ultra-low settings that I use when I play for the 1-2 hours a week (if I even play that much, I seriously doubt it, maybe 2-3 hours a month.)