I havn't seen a $100 card yet that can play newish games like Doom3 or Halflife2 even at 1024*768, let alone my monitor's native 1920*1200 which my $400 6800 Ultra drives those games at easily.
At least in my house PC gaming wil last. Here's why:
1) I already have a PC for other reasons than gaming and I don't want to buy a console too.
2) Console games seem ludicrously expensive compared to PC games.
3) For anyone over 30, owning a console makes you look like an underdeveloped nerd.
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...but my new 24" Dell LCD does 1920x1200, has multple inputs including DVI, takes up far less desk space, has a much sharper image and doesn't flicker like CRT's do.
It seems the editor of NetworkWorld must have been asleep that day...Winn Schwartau isn't very well informed, nor do his points make much real sense:
Operating systems are complex... Patches sometimes install new functionality... some commercial software is badly written... expensive hardware is usually more reliable than cheap hardware.. Are any of these actually news to anyone?
My favourite of his issues is that not all Wintel machines have the same version of Bios. Wow. What a revelation. SO what? not all cars on the road are Ford Escorts either. The bottom line is most non-tech users never have a need to mess with the bios anyway.
The real indicator that he doesn't have a clue is that he could have saved $2000+ dollars by just installing Linux on his existing machine, rather than buying a new Mac.
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>> Once Linux can be a desktop OS...
WHy do people keep saying this? I guess they are pretty uninformed...
Linux IS ALREADY a very capable desktop OS, and its already MUCH better than Windows for most normal tasks.
I've been using RedHat as my only desktop OS for a couple of years, and its WAAAY better for nearly all tasks than any Microsofft 'solution'.
In fact most of the other cube-rats around me have switched too, as soon as they saw what it can do that XP/Office can't.
Flash read/write performance is terrrible compared to DRAM, and has a very limited number of possible rewrites, too. Depending on the flash technology:(NAND=100,000 NOR=10,000).
Other than for laptop use, I'd rather have a DRAM-based drive that optionally gets backed-up/restored to conventional HD at power-off/on. It would give much better performance than flash, last much longer and probably cost much less per Gb.
If you just used it for/temp and the swap partition, you'd get good performance gains and it wouldn't even need to be backed-up/restored. It would save wear on your conventional HD's too.
Unfortunately the only such drives I've found are ludicrously expensive.
I believe that even currently you're not legally allowed to re-sell a DVD/music CD/windows XP, as you don't actually own the material on the media you buy anyway, you're only buying an non-transferrable/non-resellable licence allowing personal usage only.
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I havn't seen a $100 card yet that can play newish games like Doom3 or Halflife2 even at 1024*768, let alone my monitor's native 1920*1200 which my $400 6800 Ultra drives those games at easily.
At least in my house PC gaming wil last. Here's why: 1) I already have a PC for other reasons than gaming and I don't want to buy a console too. 2) Console games seem ludicrously expensive compared to PC games. 3) For anyone over 30, owning a console makes you look like an underdeveloped nerd.
...but my new 24" Dell LCD does 1920x1200, has multple inputs including DVI, takes up far less desk space, has a much sharper image and doesn't flicker like CRT's do.
..not to mention the other benefits of having 6 high-voltage x-ray emitters pointed directly at your head.
I now own one of those Dell 1920x1200 24" monitors.
Eizo is traditionally the Rolls-Royce of monitors for image quality.
The image quality of My Dell 2405FPW is just as good if not better than my 19" Eizo L675 monitor that cost nearly $4000 a coupla years ago.
>> Play game with real HD graphics.
wooo. HD = 1920*1080
I already play UT2004, Doom3, Halflife2 etc at 1920*1200 silky smooth with just a single BFG 6800 ultra card.
>> If you can prove me that nobody nowhere made an advice for studsnts
:-)
Evidently you typed your reply in MS Word with the auto-correct "feature" enabled.
Bzzzzt. wrong.
It should be:
"In 2003 the school saved over $100,000 in the process,
>> Just because something comes up for legislative discussion doesn't mean it will pass.
Heh. Blair and his cronies will do whatever Bush asks.
The UK has always been the US's only real ally and backdoor into Europe.
Forcing it on the UK first would be a good first step to making the US ID system the global standard.
umm.. What freedom?
Is there a single advantage to choosing Netscape over Firefox?
I'm waiting for the 9xx series, because they support VT (Vanderpool) machine virtualization in hardware.
Bye-bye reboots to switch between Windows and Linux.
It seems the editor of NetworkWorld must have been asleep that day...Winn Schwartau isn't very well informed, nor do his points make much real sense:
Operating systems are complex... Patches sometimes install new functionality... some commercial software is badly written... expensive hardware is usually more reliable than cheap hardware.. Are any of these actually news to anyone?
My favourite of his issues is that not all Wintel machines have the same version of Bios. Wow. What a revelation. SO what? not all cars on the road are Ford Escorts either. The bottom line is most non-tech users never have a need to mess with the bios anyway.
The real indicator that he doesn't have a clue is that he could have saved $2000+ dollars by just installing Linux on his existing machine, rather than buying a new Mac.
>> Once Linux can be a desktop OS...
WHy do people keep saying this? I guess they are pretty uninformed...
Linux IS ALREADY a very capable desktop OS, and its already MUCH better than Windows for most normal tasks.
I've been using RedHat as my only desktop OS for a couple of years, and its WAAAY better for nearly all tasks than any Microsofft 'solution'.
In fact most of the other cube-rats around me have switched too, as soon as they saw what it can do that XP/Office can't.
Finding workarounds for its terrible design shortcomings has kept me employed for most of my career.
Flash read/write performance is terrrible compared to DRAM, and has a very limited number of possible rewrites, too. Depending on the flash technology:(NAND=100,000 NOR=10,000).
/temp and the swap partition, you'd get good performance gains and it wouldn't even need to be backed-up/restored. It would save wear on your conventional HD's too.
Other than for laptop use, I'd rather have a DRAM-based drive that optionally gets backed-up/restored to conventional HD at power-off/on. It would give much better performance than flash, last much longer and probably cost much less per Gb.
If you just used it for
Unfortunately the only such drives I've found are ludicrously expensive.
no.
this particular region of the brain is shown to be under-developed in most US citizens.
This is hardly avoiding death. A digitized copy of you may continue to exist, but your own perception is that you would still die.
If the the technology is available, and assuming it is a non-destructive copy process, why wait until you die?
You could be sunning yourself on the beach while your computer-brain works in the office 24 hours a day to pay the bills.
The drug companies DON'T WANT to cure cancer.
They want to keep selling drugs that mitigate the symptoms.
The 'charities' that are collecting money for a cancer cure don't want it either because then they'd have no reason to exist.
It makes you wonder how the same companies that claim they are losing billions through piracy happen to be announcing record profits this year too.
I believe that even currently you're not legally allowed to re-sell a DVD/music CD/windows XP, as you don't actually own the material on the media you buy anyway, you're only buying an non-transferrable/non-resellable licence allowing personal usage only.
If the US won't sell software to Cuba then why should anyone be surprised when Cuba stops using US-made OS's?
I expect Castro feels safer with Linux anyway as he's problaby concerned about all those NSA-mandated backdoors in Windows.