Linux has support for a large number of TV cards. I stuck a couple of WinTV Nova-Ts in my machine - hardly "obscure" cards - before even checking driver support and I got them working with MythTV with no issues (which is more than I can say for Win2K, which didn't work at all)
But then if the parent is trying to build a PVR with an ATi card (which IIRC lack even a tuner), perhaps that explains the lack of knowledge in this area?
I wouldn't mind the DVD price, except they hardly ever repeat the really great shows like Blackadder or Red Dwarf on the TV, despite having 2 extra channels. Presumably this is so they can sell more DVDs, and that really does take the piss.
And is it just me, or are they really still using BSP trees? BSP was obsolete in glQuake!
Clearly you don't actually have a clue what a BSP tree actually is, but don't let that stop you ranting inanely on the subject. I mean you're a dedicated gamer, so obviously that means you understand the details of spatial partitioning techniques...
FYI Doom 3 uses BSP trees (in addition to portals). Most 3D shooters use them to some extent. They are far from obselete.
Only if you are comparing Linux on a self-install to a box that came preloaded with Windows. I recently reformatted this box and dual-booted both WinXP and SuSE 9.1. I have actually had more trouble and spent more time hunting down drivers in windows than in SuSE. It didn't even have a driver for the Nvidia nic integrated into the motherboard for godsakes....but SuSE did! I had a LOT more headaches in windows.
Your experience is not typical. Let's face it, if you throw linux a remotely non-standard piece of hardware, it's going to take some work to get the drivers working if they exist at all.
You don't want to know the number of times I recompiled my kernel just to get my MythTV box up and running, and I still don't have a working remote (it's looking like I'll have to write the IR driver myself).
Any company selling Linux pre-loaded on a pc will
make sure that all drivers are there. This is a non-issue...or at the very least, no more of an issue in Linux than it is in Windows.
That's nice, but what about when Jo(e) Bloggs wants to plug in the USB scanner/modem/soundcard (s)he just bought from PC world? Will it work?
The linux desktop is not about applications; it's about drivers, it's about compatibility, it's about hardware and software just *working* when you go to use it. These things are hard to achieve, and realistically, Linux is nowhere near that stage yet, especially on the hardware side.
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Yes well we're not all flag-waving fanboys. From a practical point of view, anything that increases the popularity of Mozilla-based browsers is a good thing. The more people who use Mozilla (in whatever form), the more web developers who'll have to design their sites properly. All of this reduces the dominance of IE.
Strange. In the UK at least, we count all the votes before working out who has won, and then if the results are close, we count them again. What a warped system you have in the US.
You're not susceptible to auto-diallers maybe, but with an always on connection, you're a lot more susceptible to viruses generally. Using a router with DSL or cable is a good idea, if only for the hardware firewall.
Compared to Iraq and the issues of WMD, Fox hunting has had hardly any airtime. Yes, we have some crap newspapers (many of which, like Fox in the US, are owned by a certain rich Australian), but there are some good newspapers too, and the main terrestrial TV news is pretty good. Of the 5 terrestrial TV channels, all do a pretty good job of reporting the important issues, particularly Channel 4 news the BBC. I think in general the UK media has a healthy skeptisism of government, which perhaps the US media lacks.
Obviously my experience of the US media is limited, but I do my best to keep up with it, if only to find out how likely it is that Bush is voted out in November.
In the UK the news media is vastly different to yours. Reading the coverage on CNN and other US news sources, it's hard to see any real analysis of issues that matter. Week in, week out, all I've seen is pointless tripe about various candidates' vietnam war records, and what the dems and republicans are saying about each other.
What about questioning one particular candidate's very recent war record? What about questioning whether the US (and the world) really is a safer place after Bush attacked a foreign country without justification in a war which most (including the UN) say is illegal. How Bush came out of this relatively unscathed is beyond me.
The UK democratic system is far from perfect, but the media do a pretty good job of getting to the issues. As a result, Blair is suffering at the polls. For a country with probably the most liberal libel laws in the world, your media do a poor job of questioning the government on anything.
If you're going to go with 2 batteries, it's best to have them both in at the same time, so you don't have to swap them around. You can get clip-in 2ndary batteries with Dell Inspiron 8600s. Mine gives me about 5-6 hours of battery life total (~2 hours on the 2ndary and 3-4 on the primary). The Pentium M chip also helps.
The only disadvantage of Dell's setup is the 2nd battery uses the drive bay, so you can't use it while using the CD drive. This is less of a problem than you might think, since it drains the secondary battery completely before switching to the primary one, so you can always swap it out and still have power.
F-buffer is not currently available via OpenGL or Direct3D, since ATi have not provided any interface for it. In effect, the 9800 is no better than a 9700.
[i]GLSL was implemented in ATI's Catalyst 4.1 driver set (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_41_Release_N otes.html), which means January of this year. You used the qualifier "fully" which might make a difference, but the fact is GLSL support is there.[/i]
Not sure what point you're trying to make here. Actually the GLSL compiler has been available in beta form since Cat 3.10s, and I've been using it since then. Like I said, it doesn't support the GLSL fully. It emulates conditional branching, and it breaks when you try to use certain language features.
I don't know much about the PS3.0 spec, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there, but conditional branching is a very important feature for truly advanced effects, as is decent shadow mapping support. Next gen games will use these features.
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Linux has support for a large number of TV cards. I stuck a couple of WinTV Nova-Ts in my machine - hardly "obscure" cards - before even checking driver support and I got them working with MythTV with no issues (which is more than I can say for Win2K, which didn't work at all)
But then if the parent is trying to build a PVR with an ATi card (which IIRC lack even a tuner), perhaps that explains the lack of knowledge in this area?
1 and 3 are mutually exclusive. If the customer really has cheaper/better choices, Microsoft loses.
I wouldn't mind the DVD price, except they hardly ever repeat the really great shows like Blackadder or Red Dwarf on the TV, despite having 2 extra channels. Presumably this is so they can sell more DVDs, and that really does take the piss.
Yes, the download-breaking bug is annoying. I'm surprised they think this is a good thing.
That was just part 1, and didn't conclude what you seem to think it did. But hey, don't let that stop your inane ranting.
And is it just me, or are they really still using BSP trees? BSP was obsolete in glQuake! Clearly you don't actually have a clue what a BSP tree actually is, but don't let that stop you ranting inanely on the subject. I mean you're a dedicated gamer, so obviously that means you understand the details of spatial partitioning techniques... FYI Doom 3 uses BSP trees (in addition to portals). Most 3D shooters use them to some extent. They are far from obselete.
Only if you are comparing Linux on a self-install to a box that came preloaded with Windows. I recently reformatted this box and dual-booted both WinXP and SuSE 9.1. I have actually had more trouble and spent more time hunting down drivers in windows than in SuSE. It didn't even have a driver for the Nvidia nic integrated into the motherboard for godsakes....but SuSE did! I had a LOT more headaches in windows. Your experience is not typical. Let's face it, if you throw linux a remotely non-standard piece of hardware, it's going to take some work to get the drivers working if they exist at all.
You don't want to know the number of times I recompiled my kernel just to get my MythTV box up and running, and I still don't have a working remote (it's looking like I'll have to write the IR driver myself). Any company selling Linux pre-loaded on a pc will make sure that all drivers are there. This is a non-issue...or at the very least, no more of an issue in Linux than it is in Windows. That's nice, but what about when Jo(e) Bloggs wants to plug in the USB scanner/modem/soundcard (s)he just bought from PC world? Will it work?
The linux desktop is not about applications; it's about drivers, it's about compatibility, it's about hardware and software just *working* when you go to use it. These things are hard to achieve, and realistically, Linux is nowhere near that stage yet, especially on the hardware side.
Yes well we're not all flag-waving fanboys. From a practical point of view, anything that increases the popularity of Mozilla-based browsers is a good thing. The more people who use Mozilla (in whatever form), the more web developers who'll have to design their sites properly. All of this reduces the dominance of IE.
Hey well at least it crashes gracefully. Apparently it even presses the submit button for you if it crashes while you're typing.
I just memorise all the bits.
Strange. In the UK at least, we count all the votes before working out who has won, and then if the results are close, we count them again. What a warped system you have in the US.
You're not susceptible to auto-diallers maybe, but with an always on connection, you're a lot more susceptible to viruses generally. Using a router with DSL or cable is a good idea, if only for the hardware firewall.
As Douglas Adams put it, "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
Compared to Iraq and the issues of WMD, Fox hunting has had hardly any airtime. Yes, we have some crap newspapers (many of which, like Fox in the US, are owned by a certain rich Australian), but there are some good newspapers too, and the main terrestrial TV news is pretty good. Of the 5 terrestrial TV channels, all do a pretty good job of reporting the important issues, particularly Channel 4 news the BBC. I think in general the UK media has a healthy skeptisism of government, which perhaps the US media lacks.
Obviously my experience of the US media is limited, but I do my best to keep up with it, if only to find out how likely it is that Bush is voted out in November.
In the UK the news media is vastly different to yours. Reading the coverage on CNN and other US news sources, it's hard to see any real analysis of issues that matter. Week in, week out, all I've seen is pointless tripe about various candidates' vietnam war records, and what the dems and republicans are saying about each other. What about questioning one particular candidate's very recent war record? What about questioning whether the US (and the world) really is a safer place after Bush attacked a foreign country without justification in a war which most (including the UN) say is illegal. How Bush came out of this relatively unscathed is beyond me. The UK democratic system is far from perfect, but the media do a pretty good job of getting to the issues. As a result, Blair is suffering at the polls. For a country with probably the most liberal libel laws in the world, your media do a poor job of questioning the government on anything.
Or even test it with no software firewall at all - a lot of people have routers these days.
No, it really was the first time I'd encountered the term. Thanks for the link, it's interesting reading.
Is that American for GMT?
No offense, but that's just because you're crap.
If you're going to go with 2 batteries, it's best to have them both in at the same time, so you don't have to swap them around. You can get clip-in 2ndary batteries with Dell Inspiron 8600s. Mine gives me about 5-6 hours of battery life total (~2 hours on the 2ndary and 3-4 on the primary). The Pentium M chip also helps.
The only disadvantage of Dell's setup is the 2nd battery uses the drive bay, so you can't use it while using the CD drive. This is less of a problem than you might think, since it drains the secondary battery completely before switching to the primary one, so you can always swap it out and still have power.
F-buffer is not currently available via OpenGL or Direct3D, since ATi have not provided any interface for it. In effect, the 9800 is no better than a 9700.
Programmable pipelines are now. Ever heard of far cry? Doom 3? Halflife 2? Hell, even Neverwinter Nights used shaders to some extent.
[i]GLSL was implemented in ATI's Catalyst 4.1 driver set (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_41_Release_N otes.html), which means January of this year. You used the qualifier "fully" which might make a difference, but the fact is GLSL support is there.[/i]
Not sure what point you're trying to make here. Actually the GLSL compiler has been available in beta form since Cat 3.10s, and I've been using it since then. Like I said, it doesn't support the GLSL fully. It emulates conditional branching, and it breaks when you try to use certain language features.
I don't know much about the PS3.0 spec, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make there, but conditional branching is a very important feature for truly advanced effects, as is decent shadow mapping support. Next gen games will use these features.