Being 18 (well, 19 in a few days), I missed out on the Era of Drive Ins...but there's one left about 20 minutes from my house, and out of curiousity, I went...
Turns out it's much better than my local theater for lots of things. 2 movies for $6 instead of 1 for $8.50. Only bad thing is the car stereo vs. Massive Sound System.
No, I'm just stating that "isn't all that much slower" matters to someone who wants 1GB of video RAM on their card. They want as fast as possible.
As far as 'not all that much' vs. 'a lot'...I don't claim to know everything about graphics cards, but here's my logic:
1. VRAM is faster than regular RAM. 2. regular RAM is a long way away when you compare it to on-card VRAM which is right there. 3. Slower RAM + farther away = pretty slow
Words like 'a little' and 'a lot' are very subjective...we're talking nanoseconds here, which are still pretty damn small regardless. What seems a lot to me could seem to be a little to someone else.
Why would you want a separate DIMM slot on your card when you could just add more RAM to the system itself, which you could use for other things when you're not running 3D apps, and which isn't all that much slower due to the Turbocache architecture.
Because making the graphics card go the whole way back to the system is a lot slower than just using RAM right on the card?
It may seem like admitting a misuse, but frankly, I didn't really know if it was 100% correct or not. That 'sounded right' for me to say, so I said it. I'm a CS major, not an English major...thanks for clearing it up.
I have actually...I'm more of the position that language is living and that if everyone says something, that's what it means. Language is intended to communicate, and even if something doesn't fall in the rigid confines of Standard American English or whatever, then it's achieving its goal.
Even though 'lol' isn't in the dictionary, I still use it from time to time.
Although acessing the files on an open network is illegal, it is not illegal to simply use the internet connection of an open wireless network, this is a common misunderstood concept. Most wardrivers do not in fact use services without authorization.
including one of the first people to ever be convicted of wardriving.
Can you be really convicted of wardriving, or just something you do illegally while you're wardriving?
According to the wikipedia article in the blurb: Although acessing the files on an open network is illegal, it is not illegal to simply use the internet connection of an open wireless network, this is a common misunderstood concept. Most wardrivers do not in fact use services without authorization.
Seems kind of like saying, "He was convicted for using the Internet" when someone gets convicted of cracking.
Another thing...so you can use the connection, but you can't use any files? What's the justification for that? If you leave the network open and allow it to be used and you leave files open on it, how can it be illegal to use them?
Check out the Stuff that's on newsstands right now. There's an insert with the 'Girls of Gaming'...apparently shes' in NFS2 or something like that, but the picture of her is effing hot as hell.
...was vastly better than NFL Quarterback Club '98 on the N64, and it didn't have the team license. I wonder if Sega (NFL2k) or Midway(NFLBlitz!) will be able to pull the same trick off.
Saying 'now based off of IE!' will give thier marketing something to play around with.
What makes this most interesting is all of the negative press that IE has gotten recently...is this going to help them with all of the grandmas (for lack of a better term) who say 'That's what I use!' or hurt them because of the group of people who avoid IE like the plague?
Personally, I'll go with door #1, because most people that would know enough to use Firefox on purpose would never sign up for AOL.
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Raven - It said my password wasn't long enough.:(
#10846
Saccy - My password is alpha numeric.
Strife - Well mine's a mixture of numbers ANDletters.
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Death - Hey, Jeff, how do you kill someone when they're on your nick?
Jeff - Oh, easy/ns ghost nick password
Death - Thanks.
Death - Die.
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As someone who is browsing this article on a PII 266, I take offense at this comment. Haha.
This computer has served me well, for the most part...can't beat $50 on eBay when it comes to a machine that's just used for mostly email and web browsing at college.
This leads me to why is the poster only interested in Professionals and talented amatures?
Well, do you want the opinion of someone with 30 years experience in their field or someone fresh out of High School who bought their first camera (in this case) a week ago?
There's a reason that professionals are able to be professionals...they're good at what they do and therefore are able to make a living at it.
This is why I don't consider the post I made to be offtopic...a pro would use (as someone else mentioned elsewhere in the thread) the right tool for the job, and as of right now, Photoshop is the right tool. Therefore, you get a Mac, and don't even look at Linux. Linux is awesome for some things, but in the graphics world, Apple has Linux beat as of now.
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I swear I've seen someone with the name 'Anonymous Coward' around here before...
Being 18 (well, 19 in a few days), I missed out on the Era of Drive Ins...but there's one left about 20 minutes from my house, and out of curiousity, I went...
Turns out it's much better than my local theater for lots of things. 2 movies for $6 instead of 1 for $8.50. Only bad thing is the car stereo vs. Massive Sound System.
I wish there were more of them around.
So it's kind of like 'deer?'
One deer, two deer, a million deer...
One tsunami, two tsunami, a million tsunami...?
It doesn't sound that bad...
...anyone else here a vidmaster?
I loved this stuff. I can still remember the first time I vid-ed the first level of Marathon 2...I played it more and before I played 1.
This depends on your tastes.
I got sick of Doom pretty quickly, but I still play Marathon today on my old Mac.
Nice try, but SuprNova's dead.
Ehh. You're just a wannabe cultist...
My name is already Steve. No need to name a cat here.
*shiver* It's like my parents figured it out before I was even born!!!
What happens when this market crashes, though?
Pregnancies?
No, I'm just stating that "isn't all that much slower" matters to someone who wants 1GB of video RAM on their card. They want as fast as possible.
As far as 'not all that much' vs. 'a lot'...I don't claim to know everything about graphics cards, but here's my logic:
1. VRAM is faster than regular RAM.
2. regular RAM is a long way away when you compare it to on-card VRAM which is right there.
3. Slower RAM + farther away = pretty slow
Words like 'a little' and 'a lot' are very subjective...we're talking nanoseconds here, which are still pretty damn small regardless. What seems a lot to me could seem to be a little to someone else.
Then you are not a 'gamer.' You are someone who likes to play games on their computer.
There is a difference.
Why would you want a separate DIMM slot on your card when you could just add more RAM to the system itself, which you could use for other things when you're not running 3D apps, and which isn't all that much slower due to the Turbocache architecture.
Because making the graphics card go the whole way back to the system is a lot slower than just using RAM right on the card?
It may seem like admitting a misuse, but frankly, I didn't really know if it was 100% correct or not. That 'sounded right' for me to say, so I said it. I'm a CS major, not an English major...thanks for clearing it up.
I have actually...I'm more of the position that language is living and that if everyone says something, that's what it means. Language is intended to communicate, and even if something doesn't fall in the rigid confines of Standard American English or whatever, then it's achieving its goal.
Even though 'lol' isn't in the dictionary, I still use it from time to time.
As I said in my post above:
From wikipedia:
Although acessing the files on an open network is illegal, it is not illegal to simply use the internet connection of an open wireless network, this is a common misunderstood concept. Most wardrivers do not in fact use services without authorization.
including one of the first people to ever be convicted of wardriving.
Can you be really convicted of wardriving, or just something you do illegally while you're wardriving?
According to the wikipedia article in the blurb:
Although acessing the files on an open network is illegal, it is not illegal to simply use the internet connection of an open wireless network, this is a common misunderstood concept. Most wardrivers do not in fact use services without authorization.
Seems kind of like saying, "He was convicted for using the Internet" when someone gets convicted of cracking.
Another thing...so you can use the connection, but you can't use any files? What's the justification for that? If you leave the network open and allow it to be used and you leave files open on it, how can it be illegal to use them?
Check out the Stuff that's on newsstands right now. There's an insert with the 'Girls of Gaming'...apparently shes' in NFS2 or something like that, but the picture of her is effing hot as hell.
Not if s/he went to my high school.
Oh wait, there was one token black boy and girl.
Bush is from the East Coast? Last time I checked, Texas was more to the middle than to a coast.
But it's not you running the search indexer as root, it's the over-privledged process that the virus is executing.
...was vastly better than NFL Quarterback Club '98 on the N64, and it didn't have the team license. I wonder if Sega (NFL2k) or Midway(NFLBlitz!) will be able to pull the same trick off.
Saying 'now based off of IE!' will give thier marketing something to play around with.
What makes this most interesting is all of the negative press that IE has gotten recently...is this going to help them with all of the grandmas (for lack of a better term) who say 'That's what I use!' or hurt them because of the group of people who avoid IE like the plague?
Personally, I'll go with door #1, because most people that would know enough to use Firefox on purpose would never sign up for AOL.
#136524 :(
/ns ghost nick password
Raven - I tried setting my hotmail password to penis.
Raven - It said my password wasn't long enough.
#10846
Saccy - My password is alpha numeric.
Strife - Well mine's a mixture of numbers ANDletters.
#198764
Death - Hey, Jeff, how do you kill someone when they're on your nick?
Jeff - Oh, easy
Death - Thanks.
Death - Die.
*** Signoff: Jeff (Killed (NickServ (GHOST command used by Death)))
As someone who is browsing this article on a PII 266, I take offense at this comment. Haha. This computer has served me well, for the most part...can't beat $50 on eBay when it comes to a machine that's just used for mostly email and web browsing at college.
This leads me to why is the poster only interested in Professionals and talented amatures?
Well, do you want the opinion of someone with 30 years experience in their field or someone fresh out of High School who bought their first camera (in this case) a week ago?
There's a reason that professionals are able to be professionals...they're good at what they do and therefore are able to make a living at it.
This is why I don't consider the post I made to be offtopic...a pro would use (as someone else mentioned elsewhere in the thread) the right tool for the job, and as of right now, Photoshop is the right tool. Therefore, you get a Mac, and don't even look at Linux. Linux is awesome for some things, but in the graphics world, Apple has Linux beat as of now.
I dont know, it seems that he's done quite well for himself.