In general when talking about the number of bits the processor uses (eg in registers, but especially in calculation) when talks about words. The term double word or long word is just there becs some architectures (notably x86) have a history of being backwards compatible towards their 16-bit ancestors. Since the processor is actually true 32-bit, you would normally mean 32 bits when saying a word, but in this context you can treat a word as having 16 bits, so that's where the term double word comes from.
The European Concept of not needing their rights is a luxury afforded at American Expense. Why don't you Europeans wake up, grow up and demand your rights properly and jelously protect them.
You mean, just like the americans protect their rights by registering to vote every 4 years? Right, didn't think so.
Actually, first of all, my government didn't lie to me about it. Since Belgium was one of the countries instigating a discussion of the matter in the first place and then abstained from the vote, they did pretty much what they could.
Second of all, this entire story is heavily overrated. The part on software patents was discussed and altered during the conference. There is again text in there that bans patents on software ideas, but pure software patents might have become possible. Most people here seem to be shouting "Germany betrayed us!" without thinking about why Germany voted for the directive.
And there is also the fact that this directive is going back to the european parliament before being approved, so I can assure you the fight is long from over.
I was just relating the marketspeak a bit. I don't know if their software works and I'm not a big fan of anti-virus software. If you need it, something is fundamentally wrong somewhere as far as I'm concerned. However the term "trojan" for this particular application is a bit over the top. The term "trojan" that I know means a bit of software that somehow gets surreptuously installed on your machine and tries to propagate by remaining hidden, possibly damaging your files, opening network ports etc.
A "program" that does rm -rf ~ is not what I would call a trojan. The hiding aspect really isn't there. Renaming something and putting an ms office icon on it doesn't make it a trojan to me.
It means that "if you use our software you are perfectly safe" (i.e. we assure you your money was well spent)
infection == being installed
really this is way too obvious, even for me.
If you have a newer card this won't work and you'll have to use the propietary drivers from ATI itself. So basically, there's no difference with nvidia.
About performance: certain extension that are in the ATI card aren't supported by the free drivers (not by fault of the author off course) which is why the "qualitative" performance is never as good as the speed. eg. you'll have some games which display lots of graphics glitches ( like big amounts of white ).
A third point I'd like to point out is that I also have an ATI card and I _never_ got the damn thing to work with my chipset (via kt400) for agp support which has been a known issue for months now and ATI still hasn't done anything about it (or not anything that I noticed). So yeah, when it comes to linux support, use nvidia.
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In general when talking about the number of bits the processor uses (eg in registers, but especially in calculation) when talks about words. The term double word or long word is just there becs some architectures (notably x86) have a history of being backwards compatible towards their 16-bit ancestors. Since the processor is actually true 32-bit, you would normally mean 32 bits when saying a word, but in this context you can treat a word as having 16 bits, so that's where the term double word comes from.
You mean, just like the americans protect their rights by registering to vote every 4 years? Right, didn't think so.
Actually, first of all, my government didn't lie to me about it. Since Belgium was one of the countries instigating a discussion of the matter in the first place and then abstained from the vote, they did pretty much what they could.
Second of all, this entire story is heavily overrated. The part on software patents was discussed and altered during the conference. There is again text in there that bans patents on software ideas, but pure software patents might have become possible. Most people here seem to be shouting "Germany betrayed us!" without thinking about why Germany voted for the directive.
And there is also the fact that this directive is going back to the european parliament before being approved, so I can assure you the fight is long from over.
I was just relating the marketspeak a bit. I don't know if their software works and I'm not a big fan of anti-virus software. If you need it, something is fundamentally wrong somewhere as far as I'm concerned. However the term "trojan" for this particular application is a bit over the top. The term "trojan" that I know means a bit of software that somehow gets surreptuously installed on your machine and tries to propagate by remaining hidden, possibly damaging your files, opening network ports etc.
A "program" that does rm -rf ~ is not what I would call a trojan. The hiding aspect really isn't there. Renaming something and putting an ms office icon on it doesn't make it a trojan to me.
It means that "if you use our software you are perfectly safe" (i.e. we assure you your money was well spent) infection == being installed really this is way too obvious, even for me.
If you have a newer card this won't work and you'll have to use the propietary drivers from ATI itself. So basically, there's no difference with nvidia. About performance: certain extension that are in the ATI card aren't supported by the free drivers (not by fault of the author off course) which is why the "qualitative" performance is never as good as the speed. eg. you'll have some games which display lots of graphics glitches ( like big amounts of white ). A third point I'd like to point out is that I also have an ATI card and I _never_ got the damn thing to work with my chipset (via kt400) for agp support which has been a known issue for months now and ATI still hasn't done anything about it (or not anything that I noticed). So yeah, when it comes to linux support, use nvidia.