Maybe McBride saw his company going down under soon, so he thought out a masterplan to sue IBM with a FUD case, hoping that IBM would just buy them off. Well, that didn't seem work out, so now they are going wild demanding money from everyone, hoping that some people would actually be stupid enough to buy those licenses before the truth that there is no code comes out.
The heat is on, and they cant just say "Hehe, we were just kidding with the big blue, there is no code after all." anymore.
I cant read the article since it seems to be slashdotted, but in my opinion the RPM's and DEB's etc. seem all equally good, the difference comes from how easily you can get them and whatever the package depends on. I wouldn't care if my Debian box would use RPM's, as long as I could still use apt-get to grab them and the dependencies.
For a person that uses his printer alot, one ink cartridge lasts quite a long time compared to how long a champagne bottle lasts for someone who drinks alot.
Only thing GIF has what PNG does not is animation support... PNG wins in everything else.
And most of the GIF animations I have seen do nothing else than annoy so i'm not sure if the lack of it in PNG is a good or bad thing after all.
So, ATI results drop from this new patch too? Doesn't this mean that ATI is also cheating? If so, then how do we know that there isn't more cheats ATI is using, as this new patch is only made to exploit the nVidia ones. ATI has access to the developer version of 3D mark, so they could hide their cheats much more efficiently.
I would suspect something like this too... I'm not a 3D card expert, but from what I understood the way the "cheating" was found was by stopping the whole scene, freezing everything going on (including all processing of culling information). When you then start rotating the camera around, you are supposed to get rendering anomalities, since the scene is optimised to be viewed from a different angle. Why this happens with the geforce only I dont know, but I would guess that its because nvidia and ati drivers and cards work very differently since they are designed by very different people.
Though of course, it is possible that nvidia would be "cheating" in driver level, but before doing that kind of accusations they should get solid proof, and especially let nvidia give their own explanation first. Then again, if this is a feature, happening because of some advanced optimization in the card/drivers nvidia propably doesnt want to give an accurate explanation since that would reveal the method for its competitors to use.
You could get a dynamic dns hostname for your ip like what no-ip.com offers, and if you ever start getting millions of hits per second just change it to resolve to 127.0.0.1 or something. You could even write your own little script that does this automatically if you are not watching the server all the time.
I have a 2 GHz Celeron here, overclocked to 2,6 GHz using the retail fan with 7 volts (12v default). Although its not the best numbercruncher out there, its definately worth the money I paid for it plus the heat generation is so low that it allows me to overclock it and still run the retail fan with a lower voltage than default to keep my system very silent.
Comparing to my old 566 Mhz Celeron which I ran at 850 Mhz its fast; using a software called PiFast to calculate 4194304 digits of pi took about 85 seconds with the old CPU and now it takes about 39 seconds with this CPU, although the biggest difference in this benchmark propably comes from the increased memory bandwidth, thanks to the DDR memory.
I do some gaming with it too, and im happy with it.
I thought they said there was nothing the shuttle crew could have done. If I remember correctly, NASA examined the foam incident and came to the conclusion that it was not harmful and that it was safe to do the re-entry. Surely they would have not done that if it they would have known it was not safe, I also remember a nasa representative saying in some interview that in case of an emergency they can prepare and launch another shuttle in a few weeks to which the existing shuttle crew could move to.
I have Windows 1.01 archived on some cd... I tried it once and it actually ran from Windows 2000 command prompt:) It hung though after I tried to open some directories.
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Maybe McBride saw his company going down under soon, so he thought out a masterplan to sue IBM with a FUD case, hoping that IBM would just buy them off. Well, that didn't seem work out, so now they are going wild demanding money from everyone, hoping that some people would actually be stupid enough to buy those licenses before the truth that there is no code comes out. The heat is on, and they cant just say "Hehe, we were just kidding with the big blue, there is no code after all." anymore.
I cant read the article since it seems to be slashdotted, but in my opinion the RPM's and DEB's etc. seem all equally good, the difference comes from how easily you can get them and whatever the package depends on. I wouldn't care if my Debian box would use RPM's, as long as I could still use apt-get to grab them and the dependencies.
SP4 does nothing else but fix bugs. Kernel 2.6 adds quite alot of new features so its not really that much of a valid comparsion.
For a person that uses his printer alot, one ink cartridge lasts quite a long time compared to how long a champagne bottle lasts for someone who drinks alot.
At least it will make the geeks go back inside.
"Logo programming for dummies"?
Only thing GIF has what PNG does not is animation support... PNG wins in everything else. And most of the GIF animations I have seen do nothing else than annoy so i'm not sure if the lack of it in PNG is a good or bad thing after all.
Would make a nice floating hotel, change the insides into apartments, put a few pools on the deck and maybe a go kart track or something :P
So, ATI results drop from this new patch too? Doesn't this mean that ATI is also cheating? If so, then how do we know that there isn't more cheats ATI is using, as this new patch is only made to exploit the nVidia ones. ATI has access to the developer version of 3D mark, so they could hide their cheats much more efficiently.
I would suspect something like this too... I'm not a 3D card expert, but from what I understood the way the "cheating" was found was by stopping the whole scene, freezing everything going on (including all processing of culling information). When you then start rotating the camera around, you are supposed to get rendering anomalities, since the scene is optimised to be viewed from a different angle. Why this happens with the geforce only I dont know, but I would guess that its because nvidia and ati drivers and cards work very differently since they are designed by very different people. Though of course, it is possible that nvidia would be "cheating" in driver level, but before doing that kind of accusations they should get solid proof, and especially let nvidia give their own explanation first. Then again, if this is a feature, happening because of some advanced optimization in the card/drivers nvidia propably doesnt want to give an accurate explanation since that would reveal the method for its competitors to use.
You could get a dynamic dns hostname for your ip like what no-ip.com offers, and if you ever start getting millions of hits per second just change it to resolve to 127.0.0.1 or something. You could even write your own little script that does this automatically if you are not watching the server all the time.
I have a 2 GHz Celeron here, overclocked to 2,6 GHz using the retail fan with 7 volts (12v default). Although its not the best numbercruncher out there, its definately worth the money I paid for it plus the heat generation is so low that it allows me to overclock it and still run the retail fan with a lower voltage than default to keep my system very silent. Comparing to my old 566 Mhz Celeron which I ran at 850 Mhz its fast; using a software called PiFast to calculate 4194304 digits of pi took about 85 seconds with the old CPU and now it takes about 39 seconds with this CPU, although the biggest difference in this benchmark propably comes from the increased memory bandwidth, thanks to the DDR memory. I do some gaming with it too, and im happy with it.
I thought they said there was nothing the shuttle crew could have done. If I remember correctly, NASA examined the foam incident and came to the conclusion that it was not harmful and that it was safe to do the re-entry. Surely they would have not done that if it they would have known it was not safe, I also remember a nasa representative saying in some interview that in case of an emergency they can prepare and launch another shuttle in a few weeks to which the existing shuttle crew could move to.
I have Windows 1.01 archived on some cd... I tried it once and it actually ran from Windows 2000 command prompt :) It hung though after I tried to open some directories.