I'm told that due to the joys of the analog electronics, the actual frequencies from a cd range up to 11, not 22 kHz (because the system takes for samples, not two). Therefore, there is a real benefit to the new-wave audio standards that are appearing - as the parent mentioned, most people can hear up to about 20kHz, so we're getting an extra 9kHz for our money's worth.
there's nothing in the gpl that says you can't write proprietary for it. software for gnu/linux doesn't actually have to be released under the gpl at all, so microsoft could quite legitimately pick up debian, and then write a proprietary installer,a proprietary gui base, and call it MS Linux.
And seeing as they know how it all works, they could/easily/ add full support for NTFS, produce a full office and all those other things that the open source community have spent years trying to do.
The parhelia was primarily a 2d card, and wasn't aimed at gamers all that much. I used one at work for a while (I work at a graphic design comapny) and the natively supported 1280*24@32bit on 3 monitors was beautiful, but the 3d performance wasn't much more impressive than my gf2mx at home.
Incidentally, the card didn't benchmark all that badly, given that it was released at about the same time as the first GeForce 3's
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I'm told that due to the joys of the analog electronics, the actual frequencies from a cd range up to 11, not 22 kHz (because the system takes for samples, not two). Therefore, there is a real benefit to the new-wave audio standards that are appearing - as the parent mentioned, most people can hear up to about 20kHz, so we're getting an extra 9kHz for our money's worth.
Honestly, who modded this insightful?
there's nothing in the gpl that says you can't write proprietary for it. software for gnu/linux doesn't actually have to be released under the gpl at all, so microsoft could quite legitimately pick up debian, and then write a proprietary installer,a proprietary gui base, and call it MS Linux. And seeing as they know how it all works, they could /easily/ add full support for NTFS, produce a full office and all those other things that the open source community have spent years trying to do.
The parhelia was primarily a 2d card, and wasn't aimed at gamers all that much. I used one at work for a while (I work at a graphic design comapny) and the natively supported 1280*24@32bit on 3 monitors was beautiful, but the 3d performance wasn't much more impressive than my gf2mx at home.
Incidentally, the card didn't benchmark all that badly, given that it was released at about the same time as the first GeForce 3's