1. Nvidia cards are running the latest tests at 32 bit precision while ATI cards run at 24 bit precision. NV of course takes a speed penalty for this.
2. Even with Nv's new driver release (and its 'optimizations'), it's still obvious that a ATI 9700Pro/9800 beats out the 5800 Ultra, and the editors of any site which drew the conclusion that the 5800 was always faster than the 9800 were smoking crack. The 5900, however, is better than the 9800- albeit not by much.
3. The main advantage of the FX 5200/5600 over the GF4 line is higher precision, DX9/latest opengl extension support, and faster high level AA and aniso. Just comparing DX8 type rendering without high AA or aniso may show the GF4s being slightly faster than the lower FXs; that's to be expected.
My take- if anyone is looking at buying a $500 graphics card, they ought to wait until the newer buses like PCIExpress come out early next year, expanding the available bandwidth and removing the need for an extra power connector for the GPU. Plus, by then Intel's Prescott CPUs and Grantsdale chipset will have been released, removing lots of performance bottlenecks.
People who are extremely eager to pick something up sooner than that for Doom 3 should get either a 5600 Ultra or a 9700, depending on their budget.
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Just as the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. It ought to have been called the Profane Germanic Fiefdom, but that doesn't have the mass market appeal.
For news on this and a bunch of other ports to Linux and OS X, go directly to the source: the.plan of Ryan Gordon (AKA icculus). Former Loki employee, personally responsible for over half of the Linux ports of commercial games which have come out since Loki's demise. How the guy manages to do it all, I'll never know.
Wow. I haven't seen a more accurate parody of the direction Slashdot story postings are going. People seem to think that every post needs to inspire discussion- by flaming on some topic only slightly related.
I can't get to sleep at night without reading, and this used to really bother my roommate (who has a hard time getting to sleep if it's not dark). I got a LightWedge for Christmas, and it's helped a lot. It really doesn't noticeably illumine anything except the page. However, there are some caveats:
1. You need to keep the batteries fresh and the surface really clean, or you'll hurt your eyes trying to read with too little light. 2. It's inconvenient for books with a page surface larger than it or for books with extremely thin pages (I can't use it for my Bible because the very light pages stick to the wedge by static and end up creasing badly when I try to turn the page).
He who is good in his lifetime on Earth will become an angel after death (after a?) glance to the heavens you ask then why one cannot see them
refrain: Only if/when the clouds go to sleep can one see us in the heavens We are [anxious/afraid] and alone
God knows I don't want to be an angel:refrain
They live behind the shining sun Separated from us by an indefinite distance They have to clutch at the stars very firmly To keep from falling from the heavens
Phoenix, the bios company, makes an embeddable web browser accessible directly from BIOS. That is why Phoenix, the Mozilla project, had to change its name. FirebirdSQL does not make nor plan to make a web browser.
Firebird, being a generic name and dictionary word, is used by thousands of businesses in all sorts of different markets. It can only be protected as a trademark if use of the mark is liable to cause confusion due to the similarity of the products or services marketed. Mozilla, which is a unique and fabricated moniker, can, IIRC, be protected as a trademark regardless of the similarity or dissimilarity of the products involved.
I think that was the point. It was a joke based on the fact that so many of the AC posts start at 0 and end at -1 that if AC was an account it would have terrible karma.
Just because it's a fork doesn't mean it's incompatible. Sure, some of the extra extensions may end up being incompatible- but when it comes right down to it, they're still doing X11, just as tons of other nonrelated X servers are. MetroLink's Metro-X and XiG's Accelerated-X are good examples of 3rd-party X servers, and many of the proprietary Unix vendors have their own X servers. These servers are extremely different, but they all use the X11 protocol, so though extensions may be different, apps ought to run just fine under any of them. Keith Packard's xwin isn't going to try to invent some sort of X12 protocol- it's an X11 server and thus will be compatible.
I have a Brother HL-1440 and I'm constantly wishing I'd gotten the 1450 instead. It may be somewhat more expensive and the benefits may not be obvious based on a printer comparison by a consumer review site- but the extra memory, postscript, and truetype support- none of which I thought I would ever need- sure would come in handy these days. Geez, I wish I could trade my 1440 in.
Someone else said, "Here's my question: Companies are just collections of individuals. Name the individuals... who are directly reponsible." How much of the company is involved here? Is it just the new upper management?
Look people, this is the New York Times. They're putting their articles and content, which is their entire business, on the web for free, and all they ask is that you register with them. Unlike many other sites, you can really trust that the info you give the NYT will be confidential; they're not going to risk losing any of their reputation for a few lousy bucks. Privacy policy here.
In other words: If you're going to mooch their content, do it on their terms instead of using a stupid loophole in their system.
Hm. I'd still be willing to bet a good deal that the asker was ignorant of the fact that VNC can do windows to windows and the "education department is pro-MS" deal was to discourage people from saying "Use X11" because they don't want to switch to Linux (or even worse, try to run all the apps they want controlled under Cygwin/Xfree). If the department is so exceedingly pro-Microsoft that it won't use any programs by anybody else, even for windows, then he might as well have just browsed Microsoft's product catalog.
Once again- are you reducing color depth? Using 8-bit color depth may be ugly, but it should more than sufficient for controlling the machine (unless you're trying to do graphics-intensive apps remotely)- and it reduces the amount of data which has to be transferred significantly.
VNC works just fine in a windowswindows configuration. TightVNC compresses vnc pretty well. Remember to keep the color depth down as that can have huge impacts on performance over low bandwidth.
OpenOffice is a lot bigger than Abiword- but this piece of arguably-bloatware is not "worse than microsoft". MS Office 2K is a fair bit bigger than OpenOffice 1, and while I'm pretty sure MS Office XP is considerably bigger than MS Office 2K, Openoffice is working hard to reduce its code size. Comparing Openoffice to Abiword or koffice is rather unfair- neither Abiword nor koffice are within an order of magnitude of the featureset and complexity of openoffice.
My guess would also be that you've had a messed up gnome 2 installation or that the things you missed in gnome 2 were due to Metacity being the new default WM. Just switch back to sawfish and you've got all the config options you loved from the 1.4 days as well as the extremely improved performance of the Gnome 2 platform (going from the nautilus included in Gnome 1.4 to the latest nautilus ought to especially be an eye-opener- the version shipped with Gnome 2.0 was a heck of a lot faster than that in 1.4, and the latest version is a good deal faster than that).
That establishes that Gnome uses CORBA, which everybody knew. It does not establish that Gnome is bloated, which it isn't. Sure, Gnome is hard to build, has a weird network of dependencies, hasn't yet included c++ bindings by default, and has a community which often seems to believe that everybody is either an absolute newbie who has no idea what goes on with this magical beige box they just bought or an elite hacker- such complaints are legit- but Gnome is not bloated. [Gnome did have some bloat problems around 1.4- when people were trying to fit programs and libraries into it which were at the time big, ambitious, and buggy (nautilus, evolution, etc, etc).]
Furthermore, Gnome was not an "enraged response". Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena worked on Gnome before they knew anything about KDE or its licensing issues. A lot of Gnome's support near the beginning was the result of KDE's licensing issues, though- and that's why GNOME has been neck-and-neck with KDE despite KDE's 1 year head start.
As to the licensing issues- back in the bad old days, QT couldn't be linked to GPL'd software without infringing on the terms of the GPL. Now open source software can link to the Unix version of QT without any legal problems. However, it's still illegal to use the Mac or Win32 native versions of QT with GPL'd software.
The other part of the issue now is that you can't use QT for software under a non-GPL-compliant license without paying Trolltech. A lot of trolls on Slashdot say that it's ironic that people who favor GTK cite this reason now- "QT used to be too proprietary for them, now QT/Free is too free for them- you just can't please em'!" However, this is not the case. Most of the people backing GTK are interested in there being a toolkit people can choose no matter what license they use- a toolkit people can standardise on. The natural choice of license for such a toolkit is the LGPL.
Divert monetary flow from said studies/programs
Divert scientific/intellectual participation in said studies/programs
How about some specific examples of money or mindshare which was going to go into preservation of existing species but went into resurrecting extinct species instead? I don't think you have any. The two issues are not connected in those ways. It's like saying "Open source software should not be developed because there are people starving in Africa, and open source efforts are draining money and mindshare from efforts to feed the hungry."
Of course nobody expects this to bring back stable populations of the animals concerned. You'd have to resurrect a whole bunch of different specimens with enough genetic variation to prevent the typical inbred expression of all sorts of harmful recessive genes. You're attacking a position which to the best of my knowledge nobody holds, and which those involved in the project certainly do not hold. The same applies to your argument that it "Gives firepower to those who view preservation-in-a-jar as a viable way of keeping species 'present'" - who really thinks that? Nobody.
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Two things:
1. Nvidia cards are running the latest tests at 32 bit precision while ATI cards run at 24 bit precision. NV of course takes a speed penalty for this.
2. Even with Nv's new driver release (and its 'optimizations'), it's still obvious that a ATI 9700Pro/9800 beats out the 5800 Ultra, and the editors of any site which drew the conclusion that the 5800 was always faster than the 9800 were smoking crack. The 5900, however, is better than the 9800- albeit not by much.
3. The main advantage of the FX 5200/5600 over the GF4 line is higher precision, DX9/latest opengl extension support, and faster high level AA and aniso. Just comparing DX8 type rendering without high AA or aniso may show the GF4s being slightly faster than the lower FXs; that's to be expected.
My take- if anyone is looking at buying a $500 graphics card, they ought to wait until the newer buses like PCIExpress come out early next year, expanding the available bandwidth and removing the need for an extra power connector for the GPU. Plus, by then Intel's Prescott CPUs and Grantsdale chipset will have been released, removing lots of performance bottlenecks.
People who are extremely eager to pick something up sooner than that for Doom 3 should get either a 5600 Ultra or a 9700, depending on their budget.
Love has been gone from Caldera-SCO since before the name change.
Ransom Love may not have made the brightest business decisions, but if he were still in charge, I am pretty sure none of this would have happened.
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I can't believe this got posted.
Just as the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. It ought to have been called the Profane Germanic Fiefdom, but that doesn't have the mass market appeal.
For news on this and a bunch of other ports to Linux and OS X, go directly to the source: the .plan of Ryan Gordon (AKA icculus). Former Loki employee, personally responsible for over half of the Linux ports of commercial games which have come out since Loki's demise. How the guy manages to do it all, I'll never know.
Wow. I haven't seen a more accurate parody of the direction Slashdot story postings are going. People seem to think that every post needs to inspire discussion- by flaming on some topic only slightly related.
I can't get to sleep at night without reading, and this used to really bother my roommate (who has a hard time getting to sleep if it's not dark). I got a LightWedge for Christmas, and it's helped a lot. It really doesn't noticeably illumine anything except the page. However, there are some caveats:
1. You need to keep the batteries fresh and the surface really clean, or you'll hurt your eyes trying to read with too little light.
2. It's inconvenient for books with a page surface larger than it or for books with extremely thin pages (I can't use it for my Bible because the very light pages stick to the wedge by static and end up creasing badly when I try to turn the page).
See this comment.
I think getting the latest glibc from up2date ought to fix this.
He who is good in his lifetime on Earth
:refrain
will become an angel after death
(after a?) glance to the heavens you ask then
why one cannot see them
refrain:
Only if/when the clouds go to sleep
can one see us in the heavens
We are [anxious/afraid] and alone
God knows I don't want to be an angel
They live behind the shining sun
Separated from us by an indefinite distance
They have to clutch at the stars very firmly
To keep from falling from the heavens
God knows I don't want to be an angel
(refrain)
Phoenix, the bios company, makes an embeddable web browser accessible directly from BIOS. That is why Phoenix, the Mozilla project, had to change its name. FirebirdSQL does not make nor plan to make a web browser.
Firebird, being a generic name and dictionary word, is used by thousands of businesses in all sorts of different markets. It can only be protected as a trademark if use of the mark is liable to cause confusion due to the similarity of the products or services marketed. Mozilla, which is a unique and fabricated moniker, can, IIRC, be protected as a trademark regardless of the similarity or dissimilarity of the products involved.
I think that was the point. It was a joke based on the fact that so many of the AC posts start at 0 and end at -1 that if AC was an account it would have terrible karma.
Remember the mathematicians' toast, though: "Here's to pure mathematics! May it never be of any use to anybody!" I think it's attributed to GH Hardy.
Just because it's a fork doesn't mean it's incompatible. Sure, some of the extra extensions may end up being incompatible- but when it comes right down to it, they're still doing X11, just as tons of other nonrelated X servers are. MetroLink's Metro-X and XiG's Accelerated-X are good examples of 3rd-party X servers, and many of the proprietary Unix vendors have their own X servers. These servers are extremely different, but they all use the X11 protocol, so though extensions may be different, apps ought to run just fine under any of them. Keith Packard's xwin isn't going to try to invent some sort of X12 protocol- it's an X11 server and thus will be compatible.
I have a Brother HL-1440 and I'm constantly wishing I'd gotten the 1450 instead. It may be somewhat more expensive and the benefits may not be obvious based on a printer comparison by a consumer review site- but the extra memory, postscript, and truetype support- none of which I thought I would ever need- sure would come in handy these days. Geez, I wish I could trade my 1440 in.
Someone else said, "Here's my question: Companies are just collections of individuals. Name the individuals ... who are directly reponsible." How much of the company is involved here? Is it just the new upper management?
Look people, this is the New York Times. They're putting their articles and content, which is their entire business, on the web for free, and all they ask is that you register with them. Unlike many other sites, you can really trust that the info you give the NYT will be confidential; they're not going to risk losing any of their reputation for a few lousy bucks. Privacy policy here.
In other words: If you're going to mooch their content, do it on their terms instead of using a stupid loophole in their system.
In other words, things with patterns and redundancy compress better, so compression can be used to detect patterns and redundancy.
Now, what can we think of with lots of patterns and redundancy besides images of lifeforms? How about starting with...
SLASHDOT DUPES
Hm. I'd still be willing to bet a good deal that the asker was ignorant of the fact that VNC can do windows to windows and the "education department is pro-MS" deal was to discourage people from saying "Use X11" because they don't want to switch to Linux (or even worse, try to run all the apps they want controlled under Cygwin/Xfree). If the department is so exceedingly pro-Microsoft that it won't use any programs by anybody else, even for windows, then he might as well have just browsed Microsoft's product catalog.
Once again- are you reducing color depth? Using 8-bit color depth may be ugly, but it should more than sufficient for controlling the machine (unless you're trying to do graphics-intensive apps remotely)- and it reduces the amount of data which has to be transferred significantly.
I forgot that /. takes out the <---> in windows<--->windows by default.
VNC works just fine in a windowswindows configuration. TightVNC compresses vnc pretty well. Remember to keep the color depth down as that can have huge impacts on performance over low bandwidth.
OpenOffice is a lot bigger than Abiword- but this piece of arguably-bloatware is not "worse than microsoft". MS Office 2K is a fair bit bigger than OpenOffice 1, and while I'm pretty sure MS Office XP is considerably bigger than MS Office 2K, Openoffice is working hard to reduce its code size. Comparing Openoffice to Abiword or koffice is rather unfair- neither Abiword nor koffice are within an order of magnitude of the featureset and complexity of openoffice.
My guess would also be that you've had a messed up gnome 2 installation or that the things you missed in gnome 2 were due to Metacity being the new default WM. Just switch back to sawfish and you've got all the config options you loved from the 1.4 days as well as the extremely improved performance of the Gnome 2 platform (going from the nautilus included in Gnome 1.4 to the latest nautilus ought to especially be an eye-opener- the version shipped with Gnome 2.0 was a heck of a lot faster than that in 1.4, and the latest version is a good deal faster than that).
That establishes that Gnome uses CORBA, which everybody knew. It does not establish that Gnome is bloated, which it isn't. Sure, Gnome is hard to build, has a weird network of dependencies, hasn't yet included c++ bindings by default, and has a community which often seems to believe that everybody is either an absolute newbie who has no idea what goes on with this magical beige box they just bought or an elite hacker- such complaints are legit- but Gnome is not bloated. [Gnome did have some bloat problems around 1.4- when people were trying to fit programs and libraries into it which were at the time big, ambitious, and buggy (nautilus, evolution, etc, etc).]
Furthermore, Gnome was not an "enraged response". Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena worked on Gnome before they knew anything about KDE or its licensing issues. A lot of Gnome's support near the beginning was the result of KDE's licensing issues, though- and that's why GNOME has been neck-and-neck with KDE despite KDE's 1 year head start.
As to the licensing issues- back in the bad old days, QT couldn't be linked to GPL'd software without infringing on the terms of the GPL. Now open source software can link to the Unix version of QT without any legal problems. However, it's still illegal to use the Mac or Win32 native versions of QT with GPL'd software.
The other part of the issue now is that you can't use QT for software under a non-GPL-compliant license without paying Trolltech. A lot of trolls on Slashdot say that it's ironic that people who favor GTK cite this reason now- "QT used to be too proprietary for them, now QT/Free is too free for them- you just can't please em'!" However, this is not the case. Most of the people backing GTK are interested in there being a toolkit people can choose no matter what license they use- a toolkit people can standardise on. The natural choice of license for such a toolkit is the LGPL.
Of course nobody expects this to bring back stable populations of the animals concerned. You'd have to resurrect a whole bunch of different specimens with enough genetic variation to prevent the typical inbred expression of all sorts of harmful recessive genes. You're attacking a position which to the best of my knowledge nobody holds, and which those involved in the project certainly do not hold. The same applies to your argument that it "Gives firepower to those who view preservation-in-a-jar as a viable way of keeping species 'present'" - who really thinks that? Nobody.