When that time comes around you'll be more worried about your new shiny graphics card not having the right slot in your motherboard or the lack of USB5.0 in your desktop.
Device Manufacturers will support an OS as long as there is a market behind it.
My big question is, "So what?" You can still find drivers for any new product for Windows XP and that's getting pretty long in the tooth too.
Last I checked all the new Nvidia/ATI drivers come out for Windows first.
Again, last time I checked the latest version of UGS NX is certified for Windows before it is certified for Linux.
Not to mention the fact that all of my games work on Windows before they ever have a chance of running on Linux.
Let's not forget that the vast majority of NEW consumer devices being released are designed to work with Windows not Linux.
Oh wait, what exactly are you referring to? As far as I can tell you speak in an ideological tone which has no bearing on the real world. Ideally it could be better, realistically? No.
Hah, angry Linux zealot to the rescue of his dear OS.
I'll have you know that Windows 7 downloads all of the appropriate drivers automatically from the internet via Windows Update, at least it did for me on my new PC that I built.
Also, while you're right that the frequent release cycle means that linux drivers aren't much older than the OS, most linux drivers are crap to begin with. It's gotten a lot better over the past decade, but I still have random driver issues.
And no, I'm not a Gentoo flagellent, it was a joke, don't pop a vein.
You think ATI is any better? They abandon support after 3 years too, to the point where you better not bother even trying to install newer drivers on your system.
a) 5670 or GT240 if you can find one cheap enough... However depending how British pounds convert, the true budget card is a gt 220 or a 4670. b) 5770 or GTX260 216 core c) Radeon 5870 or 5970 if you can afford it.
Wrong, the 5670 can NOT run shattered horizons smoothly at high resolutions, In fact I bet it has trouble at 1280x1024. Heck my GTX 275 barely can run it at 1920x1200 maxed out and only gets ~20-25fps. Also Shattered Horizons is a DX10 game not a DX11 game.
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When that time comes around you'll be more worried about your new shiny graphics card not having the right slot in your motherboard or the lack of USB5.0 in your desktop.
Device Manufacturers will support an OS as long as there is a market behind it.
My big question is, "So what?" You can still find drivers for any new product for Windows XP and that's getting pretty long in the tooth too.
Har har har, most things tend to compile quite quickly on my 4ghz Core i7 920.
Lagging behind in what?
Last I checked all the new Nvidia/ATI drivers come out for Windows first.
Again, last time I checked the latest version of UGS NX is certified for Windows before it is certified for Linux.
Not to mention the fact that all of my games work on Windows before they ever have a chance of running on Linux.
Let's not forget that the vast majority of NEW consumer devices being released are designed to work with Windows not Linux.
Oh wait, what exactly are you referring to? As far as I can tell you speak in an ideological tone which has no bearing on the real world. Ideally it could be better, realistically? No.
Hah, angry Linux zealot to the rescue of his dear OS.
I'll have you know that Windows 7 downloads all of the appropriate drivers automatically from the internet via Windows Update, at least it did for me on my new PC that I built.
Also, while you're right that the frequent release cycle means that linux drivers aren't much older than the OS, most linux drivers are crap to begin with. It's gotten a lot better over the past decade, but I still have random driver issues.
And no, I'm not a Gentoo flagellent, it was a joke, don't pop a vein.
Yes, and you pay how much for it?
I pay $69.99 for my Palm Pre's plan with unlimited data/texting and unlimited mobile-mobile(Carrier agnostic) and 450 minutes for landlines.
Windows is harder to install than linux?
As someone who has been using Linux since 2000, I find this statement amusing.
I'd reply with a witty retort but I'm compiling my gentoo kernel right now.
WOOOSH.
I meant "odd headline" of course, and replace Druapl with Drupal... I'm on a roll today!
Did anyone else read this as "Druapl Creator Dies, Buytaert on Drupal 7."
What an odd summary.
Give it 10 years, there's no such thing as a couple that doesn't fight. The GP was mentioning there does not exist a perfect woman.
Increasing the bus size has the effect of increasing the perimeter of the chip. Which drives up costs because of the increased die area.
You think ATI is any better? They abandon support after 3 years too, to the point where you better not bother even trying to install newer drivers on your system.
Sounds like you're still too young and naive to realize.
Yes well, most forums tend to be filled with what I coin Intelligent-Idiots. Especially ones that focus on gaming.
You're right however, I did state it wrong.
28nm isn't on the roadmap for Global Foundries for production until 2011 at the earliest.
You're picking apart at Semantics here.
a) 5670 or GT240 if you can find one cheap enough... However depending how British pounds convert, the true budget card is a gt 220 or a 4670.
b) 5770 or GTX260 216 core
c) Radeon 5870 or 5970 if you can afford it.
No, the GPU can execute native C++ code now. It's one of the big new features of Fermi for GPGPU.
No one knows what the power draw actually is for Fermi except for engineers at Nvidia, 280W is highly suspect.
Also, Semiaccurate? Come on, all that site does is bash Nvidia because of the writers grudge against them.
Remember when G80 was being released and Charlie said it was "Too hot, too slow, too late." Yeah that turned out real well didn't it...
GF100 is the name of the chip. The cards will be called the GT300 series.
Yes, but you can get a faster 9800GT for the same price as the 5670.
Wrong, the 5670 can NOT run shattered horizons smoothly at high resolutions, In fact I bet it has trouble at 1280x1024. Heck my GTX 275 barely can run it at 1920x1200 maxed out and only gets ~20-25fps. Also Shattered Horizons is a DX10 game not a DX11 game.
A lot of games will struggle on this card significantly. It's about as powerful as a 3870 from 2+ years ago.
A Rocket on the projectile?
BMW makes a lot of their cars in the USA. Particularly the Z series coupes.
Also a lot of Toyotas are produced in the USA.