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Our school linux lab runs Debian. There is zero speed difference between the 2.4Ghz Compaq machines and the 400mhz Celeron machines unless running 3D applications. They both do everything basically instantly. They log on within half a second to a fully working screen when using Fluxbox. In another lab, we have the same 400mhz Celeron machines running a stripped down version of XP. They take over 3 minutes to log in, and are sluggish as hell.
Just because Fedora Core and Gnome are bloated and slow, does not mean linux is bloated and slow.
Yeah, I did forget that. The yellow star deal isn't that major, and it fits the backstory. The production thing should be optionally disabled in GalCiv 2, IMO.
There are two types of "faster than human" AI. Age of Empires 2's AI on higher difficulty levels will actually research/build things faster than you, but is still beatable because its just as stupid as the Easy level AI. In the AoE 3 demo, as far as I've seen, the AI just does everything perfectly, like a tournament player, on high difficulty levels.
Cheating AIs are always lame. AIs that rely on doing things faster than humans could (see RTSs) are also lame.
A while back I played a game called Galactic Civilizations, a 4X game set in space (compare to Master of Orion). Its best show was the AI, which on the high difficulty levels is simply ingenious. It can spot when you're plotting to do something before you're even half ready to strike, and stop you, without cheating. It is very hard to distract the AI on hard difficulty levels using bait, or any of the classic anti-AI tricks. Even the old tried-and-true get-the-AIs-to-shoot-each-other-until-you-overpowe r-them trick does not work--they will notice that you're circling over the battling AIs like vultures, and team up to kill you.
Quality usually goes hand in hand with price. The best ones are usually the most expensive (PC Power and Cooling). The cheap ones do stupid crap like toss 400 watts onto the 5 volt rail and then call it a 650 watt power supply, when it might crash when you put in that 7800 GTX. Cheap supplies also often are very inefficient, dissipating huge amounts of perfectly good elecricity as heat. There are some exceptions to the rule, but in general I've found that the better ones tend to cost more.
Every time there is a wikipedia article on slashdot, there's a bunch of arrogant, stupid posts that get modded informative. They usually state something like "you can edit the article to change that, and prove you wrong!!!!11111" They also usually fail to mention the fact that there's a nice "permenant link button" that links you to the specific revision of the page, NOT the most recent page, eliminating any such possibility.
I've never had Mozilla *crash* when opening a PDF file, so I have no idea what you're talking about. It goes slow for about 3 seconds while it loads, but that is it.
Solution: Don't use PDF. That happens to me in internet explorer, Opera, and even in windows itself. Its Adobe's, not Mozilla's, fault. And adobe needs to die for it *rolls eyes*.
I've never had a tab load anything but instantly. I can open 20 new tabs before I can click on a button to open a 21st (using, say, right click on Latest Headlines and open in tabs). Sounds like you've got spyware. Having a borked Windows install or a Pentium 2 is not a reason to prefer Opera.
You could run any game out with max multisampling AA and AF on the 7800.
With two... you could run... two games at once... with max AA/AF... uh... yeah...;)
You know, how they could move an unlimited distance in any direction in a room under 10 meters wide. While they don't seem to have explained it in Star Trek, I guess now they've found a solution.
Technically the M-W isn't a primary source either, but as always you should trust a specialized source more than a general one. Also, the argument that Wikis are useless because they can be changed is moot due to the fact that history is saved, and any wiki page used as a source should always be linked to using the Permenant Link feature.
Considering the quality of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, and the expectations for Doom, I don't think he would want to spoil his career with a videogame->movie adaptation.
Your attempt to troll a valid source of information that is probably a billion times better than the New York Times has been removed. Please remember not to hit the door when you walk out.
I have 50 gigabytes of my main drive used for Windows and games. I then have 100 gigabytes of TV series, mainly scifi (firefly, SG1, etc), anime, family guy, etc. Then, I have about 50 gigabytes of ISOs that I made from all my CDs, so I don't have to swap them in and out. Then, my last 100 gigabytes is reserved for video editing, which often takes up 50 gigabytes per video in temporary uncompressed files. Add on to all of that my massive store of FRAPS...
Recently I scavenged my old computers to find a PCI card to use for my second monitor (my ATI 9700 Pro could only hardware accelerate one output at a time, leading to slow graphics, even on 2D applications like Firefox, on the second monitor). But, all my newer cards were AGP, even the one in my 266mhz Pentium II computer. So I went even farther back, to my Pentium 166mhz non-MMX. This was mistake #1.
The card in the machine was a 2MB Virge. Things I found out about the card over the next few minutes included:
1) It supported no resolution higher than 1024x768 60hz 16-bit color.
2) The output looked so bad even on 2D that looking at the monitor hurt my eyes.
3) The instant I dragged any 3D game window, even older ones, to the monitor with the Virge card, they started going at about 10 frames... per minute.
The Virge was the worst graphics card I have ever used. A while back I even tried to run Homeworld on it (as a primary card). Lowest detail levels--check. Lowest resolution--check. Lowest memory allocation--check. End result: D3D hardware acceleration mode goes slower than software mode, at about 2 frames per minute.
Back in the 90s, virus writing was a hobby, if a black-hat one. The most famous viruses--Melissa, ILOVEYOU, were all done for fun, not for profit. But as the internet went mainstream in the late 90s, the motivation changed--viruses are now merely a tool for a goal: criminal profit.
This has existed with software for ages--you cannot dissassemble or do basically anything to the software except what it says you can. It was only a matter of time before this was extended to physical objects.
I've found most of the games I play (in particular EVE Online) only play under Linux slowly, buggily, and through utterly hacky tricks. They have things like blank login screens, incredibly slow FPS, missing objects, etc.
The fact that ATI Linux drivers are nearly nonexistant doesn't help either.
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Our school linux lab runs Debian. There is zero speed difference between the 2.4Ghz Compaq machines and the 400mhz Celeron machines unless running 3D applications. They both do everything basically instantly. They log on within half a second to a fully working screen when using Fluxbox. In another lab, we have the same 400mhz Celeron machines running a stripped down version of XP. They take over 3 minutes to log in, and are sluggish as hell.
Just because Fedora Core and Gnome are bloated and slow, does not mean linux is bloated and slow.
Yeah, I did forget that. The yellow star deal isn't that major, and it fits the backstory. The production thing should be optionally disabled in GalCiv 2, IMO.
There are two types of "faster than human" AI. Age of Empires 2's AI on higher difficulty levels will actually research/build things faster than you, but is still beatable because its just as stupid as the Easy level AI. In the AoE 3 demo, as far as I've seen, the AI just does everything perfectly, like a tournament player, on high difficulty levels.
Cheating AIs are always lame. AIs that rely on doing things faster than humans could (see RTSs) are also lame.
e r-them trick does not work--they will notice that you're circling over the battling AIs like vultures, and team up to kill you.
A while back I played a game called Galactic Civilizations, a 4X game set in space (compare to Master of Orion). Its best show was the AI, which on the high difficulty levels is simply ingenious. It can spot when you're plotting to do something before you're even half ready to strike, and stop you, without cheating. It is very hard to distract the AI on hard difficulty levels using bait, or any of the classic anti-AI tricks. Even the old tried-and-true get-the-AIs-to-shoot-each-other-until-you-overpow
Here's to hoping google will be here for its next 7 years... and that it will still abide by its motto.... :)
Only in really, really low budget anime ;)
Quality usually goes hand in hand with price. The best ones are usually the most expensive (PC Power and Cooling). The cheap ones do stupid crap like toss 400 watts onto the 5 volt rail and then call it a 650 watt power supply, when it might crash when you put in that 7800 GTX. Cheap supplies also often are very inefficient, dissipating huge amounts of perfectly good elecricity as heat. There are some exceptions to the rule, but in general I've found that the better ones tend to cost more.
Every time there is a wikipedia article on slashdot, there's a bunch of arrogant, stupid posts that get modded informative. They usually state something like "you can edit the article to change that, and prove you wrong!!!!11111" They also usually fail to mention the fact that there's a nice "permenant link button" that links you to the specific revision of the page, NOT the most recent page, eliminating any such possibility.
I've never had Mozilla *crash* when opening a PDF file, so I have no idea what you're talking about. It goes slow for about 3 seconds while it loads, but that is it.
Solution: Don't use PDF. That happens to me in internet explorer, Opera, and even in windows itself. Its Adobe's, not Mozilla's, fault. And adobe needs to die for it *rolls eyes*.
I've never had a tab load anything but instantly. I can open 20 new tabs before I can click on a button to open a 21st (using, say, right click on Latest Headlines and open in tabs). Sounds like you've got spyware. Having a borked Windows install or a Pentium 2 is not a reason to prefer Opera.
Yes, he means one of these.
I, for one, prefer the four-legged kind.
You could run any game out with max multisampling AA and AF on the 7800. With two... you could run... two games at once... with max AA/AF... uh... yeah... ;)
You know, how they could move an unlimited distance in any direction in a room under 10 meters wide. While they don't seem to have explained it in Star Trek, I guess now they've found a solution.
Fire extinguisher. You know, for when the servers catch fire during the slashdotting.
Technically the M-W isn't a primary source either, but as always you should trust a specialized source more than a general one. Also, the argument that Wikis are useless because they can be changed is moot due to the fact that history is saved, and any wiki page used as a source should always be linked to using the Permenant Link feature.
Considering the quality of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil, and the expectations for Doom, I don't think he would want to spoil his career with a videogame->movie adaptation.
Dear Anonymous Coward:
Your attempt to troll a valid source of information that is probably a billion times better than the New York Times has been removed. Please remember not to hit the door when you walk out.
I have 50 gigabytes of my main drive used for Windows and games. I then have 100 gigabytes of TV series, mainly scifi (firefly, SG1, etc), anime, family guy, etc. Then, I have about 50 gigabytes of ISOs that I made from all my CDs, so I don't have to swap them in and out. Then, my last 100 gigabytes is reserved for video editing, which often takes up 50 gigabytes per video in temporary uncompressed files. Add on to all of that my massive store of FRAPS...
Recently I scavenged my old computers to find a PCI card to use for my second monitor (my ATI 9700 Pro could only hardware accelerate one output at a time, leading to slow graphics, even on 2D applications like Firefox, on the second monitor). But, all my newer cards were AGP, even the one in my 266mhz Pentium II computer. So I went even farther back, to my Pentium 166mhz non-MMX. This was mistake #1.
The card in the machine was a 2MB Virge. Things I found out about the card over the next few minutes included:
1) It supported no resolution higher than 1024x768 60hz 16-bit color.
2) The output looked so bad even on 2D that looking at the monitor hurt my eyes.
3) The instant I dragged any 3D game window, even older ones, to the monitor with the Virge card, they started going at about 10 frames... per minute.
The Virge was the worst graphics card I have ever used. A while back I even tried to run Homeworld on it (as a primary card). Lowest detail levels--check. Lowest resolution--check. Lowest memory allocation--check. End result: D3D hardware acceleration mode goes slower than software mode, at about 2 frames per minute.
Back in the 90s, virus writing was a hobby, if a black-hat one. The most famous viruses--Melissa, ILOVEYOU, were all done for fun, not for profit. But as the internet went mainstream in the late 90s, the motivation changed--viruses are now merely a tool for a goal: criminal profit.
This has existed with software for ages--you cannot dissassemble or do basically anything to the software except what it says you can. It was only a matter of time before this was extended to physical objects.
And its been done 1000 times already!
I've found most of the games I play (in particular EVE Online) only play under Linux slowly, buggily, and through utterly hacky tricks. They have things like blank login screens, incredibly slow FPS, missing objects, etc.
The fact that ATI Linux drivers are nearly nonexistant doesn't help either.