This is great news. I purchased a TNT a few months ago because it was the best and there were signs of linux drivers. Then nVidia pulled the source back. The public spoke and full drivers are available now! I knew nVidia would kickass.
Bruce, I agree. I'm buying a Trident 4DWAVE-NX based soundcard next Monday when the vendor (hoontech.com) gets their secure ordering back online. Trident was excellent enough to give their tech specs to the ALSA team. I only wished more card makers would use this chipset.
This is in response to DaBuzz, the comment preview has it screwed up.
Also, redundancy in opinion does not invalidate those opinions and does not make it a contest of who's best with words when it comes to who should be read. If you invite me to comment on a story, the fact that I agree with everyone should not be grounds for penalizing me.
I don't think the original poster is invalidating the 100 "me too"s. The idea is to pick the best one for those who set their score to see the 10 best articles. I don't see how you are being penalized. Your score is not going down, a better[*] post is moved up. You both are still in the default scorelevel. Are you upset that you won't have the best[*] post? Its called being in a meritocracy.
Most people feel that personal expression is suppressed due to fear of what one would say... is that what's driving this? I don't think it is but without starting all at the lowest common denominator and letting the people decide from ALL the variables, it surely looks like it is truly fear driving this "moderation".
No, it is not fear. I think this has been driven by crap. If there was no crap, there would be no need for filtering.
Rob has already stated that abuse of moderator status will result in dismisal. What do you have to fear? I'm relatively certain if a moderator picks on you without reason, Rob or someone will remove them.
Brian [*] Better is subjectively determined by peer review. (so is crap)
I hope all the registry keys are kept in a common directory like/etc/sysconfig. It'd be basically the same thing we have now, if it works.
I'm really wondering about their packaging system. I wish the website said if they're using RPM or some new nonstandard system. Something nonstandard would suck major ass.
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This is great news. I purchased a TNT a few months ago because it was the best and there were signs of linux drivers. Then nVidia pulled the source back. The public spoke and full drivers are available now! I knew nVidia would kickass.
Brian
Bruce, I agree. I'm buying a Trident 4DWAVE-NX based soundcard next Monday when the vendor (hoontech.com) gets their secure ordering back online. Trident was excellent enough to give their tech specs to the ALSA team. I only wished more card makers would use this chipset.
Brian
I like to take all of those recepies and replace the 7-up with Mt. Dew. Yummy!
Red Hat does a decent job at sticking to the FSSTAND. What are you talking about?
Also, redundancy in opinion does not invalidate those opinions and does not make it a contest of who's best with words when it comes to who should be read. If you invite me to comment on a story, the fact that I agree with everyone should not be grounds for penalizing me.
I don't think the original poster is invalidating the 100 "me too"s. The idea is to pick the best one for those who set their score to see the 10 best articles. I don't see how you are being penalized. Your score is not going down, a better[*] post is moved up. You both are still in the default scorelevel. Are you upset that you won't have the best[*] post? Its called being in a meritocracy.
Most people feel that personal expression is suppressed due to fear of what one would say ... is that what's driving this? I don't think it is but without starting all at the lowest common denominator and letting the people decide from ALL the variables, it surely looks like it is truly fear driving this "moderation".
No, it is not fear. I think this has been driven by crap. If there was no crap, there would be no need for filtering.
Rob has already stated that abuse of moderator status will result in dismisal. What do you have to fear? I'm relatively certain if a moderator picks on you without reason, Rob or someone will remove them.
Brian
[*] Better is subjectively determined by peer review. (so is crap)
> He has a syntax error, but the following is definitely legal C:
> char data[20];
> for ( char* iter = data; iter != data+20; ++iter )
>;
You obviously don't know C.
You can't declare a variable in the for arguments. Declarations must come before statements.
I hope all the registry keys are kept in a common directory like /etc/sysconfig. It'd be basically the same thing we have now, if it works.
I'm really wondering about their packaging system. I wish the website said if they're using RPM or some new nonstandard system. Something nonstandard would suck major ass.
Those calling Red Hat "MS Linux" better appologize right now. Theres a new kid on the block -- complete with registry.