Software is cheap compared to hardware, I'd rather pay a little more in this department and get the best.
It is? Do you purchase your software? Microsoft Office XP Professional costs about $500. That's fully 50% of what you payed for the hardware and OS. And how much do OS updates cost?
Computer hardware keeps getting cheaper, while software is still expensive. Software is becoming a significant portion of the cost of a computer.
I still think that although Gollum was a cool effect, the character was over-acted. They were pandering to the masses. Just imagine if Boromir had scenes where he were talking to himself about how much he wants the ring. It would be utterly stupid.
There is a slight difference. The split persona is part of the character of Gollum. In the books he has a long argument with himself about whether to try and kill the hobbits or not. If you don't like that part of Gollum, blame Tolkien.
I'm not saying what nVidia did was right. My point is that with the millions of $$$ are at stake, why isn't a benchmark smart enough to detect this used.
Now you're talking about an arms race between the benchmark and the driver/hardware. Should Futuremark be putting their resources into trying to create a fair benchmark that is representative of the real world use of a video card? Or should they be tossing extra code into their benchmark that tries to detect cheats? Even if they are able to detect this cheat, what about the next one somebody comes up with?
The point is what nVidia did is dishonest. I don't blame the benchmark. I blame the company that intentionally inflates their benchmark scores and lies to the consumer.
Yoda didn't invert *all* of his sentences, which is something the script writers in I and II should have noticed. The lines in those episodes sound as if someone wrote a bunch of bland sentences and inverted them. His lines in Empire and Return of the Jedi, OTOH, reflected genuinely the concept of a character who is approaching English (or whatever their "common tongue" really is -- linguistics is rarely addressed in the Star Wars saga) as a second language.
Do you really believe that the writiers of the first Star Wars movies put in the thought and the effort to study linguistics? The original movies are a fun coming of age story. But dialog is not their strong point. How many lines from those movies are actually witty or creative?
While I'm not too intimate with the inner workings of window managers I often wonder if it's really that hard to make one wm that is well-designed, customisable, extendable, etc. so that you could mimick every other wm out there while relying on one source base.
Would this really help that much? Now you would have a window manager that can act like any other window manager out there. But to do this, imagine just how many config options there would be for this one window manager? Changing configs could completely change the usability of the window manager. It really wouldn't solve the problem of consistancy unless every linux vendor shipped with the same config.
This kind of thing is also what some linux desktops are moving away from. Gnome for example has done away with the millions of options in its window manager, opting for a few options and sane defaults.
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I think BitTorrent creates a semi-fair sharing structure that would be great for small downloads rather than large downloads. I think it's probably an excellent way to share patches, isos, and updates etc.
Actually, I think BT is best for large file transfers. With large transfers peers stay on the network for large periods of time, allowing them lots of time to upload as well as download.
Also, another drawback to large files is corruption.
Have you ever actually gotten a corrupted file from bittorrent? BT uses SHA-1 hashes on file chunks it downloads. If a file segment doesn't match the hash, that portion is downloaded again. If you download a corrupt file via bittorrent, chances are the original was corrupt.
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Computer hardware keeps getting cheaper, while software is still expensive. Software is becoming a significant portion of the cost of a computer.
The point is what nVidia did is dishonest. I don't blame the benchmark. I blame the company that intentionally inflates their benchmark scores and lies to the consumer.
This kind of thing is also what some linux desktops are moving away from. Gnome for example has done away with the millions of options in its window manager, opting for a few options and sane defaults.