I don't usually reply to Anonymous Coward posts, but I will in this case because the poster is incorrect.
The PVR would need to tell the digital box to tune to a particular channel, and this isn't possible right now.
This is not true, in fact. My digital cable box has a serial port that the TiVo can connect to and change the channel via. Interesting technology. Now, if only the TiVo could get the channel lists via this port (but that would lose them subscription dollahs, wouldn't it?)
Well, dselect is Wrong, but it's just slightly Wrong. It's wrong like black is black on a monochrome screen. If it were one bit more, it would be Right.
I'd like to see dselect redone -properly-. Perhaps I would even like to do this, if I knew what the hell I was doing.
Oh well. Apt works most of the time, dselect works most of the rest.
Normally, I'd agree with you, but every time I install Debian and then run dselect, there's always a huge list of packages (including emacs, ugh) that is marked as 'to be installed'.
Probably if I never used dselect, I would never know, and many would say it serves me right, but there -is- a default installation set by Debian maintainers. It sucks, and should never be used, but it's there.
Friday and Saturday, there's nothing on. Most other days, there's all of an hour of TV.
There are also TV shows I watch when I'm bored, or nothing else is on, or I'm paging through the channel list and see them, and nothing else is on, or are on every day.
Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, Relic Hunter, CounterSpin, the CBC National news.
The thing is, these are really good shows, but are not good enough to justify rearranging my schedule. Likewise with the X-Files, which I just stopped caring about.
If I had a DVR, I would record these TV shows when they were on (during the day, middle of the night, etc); as well I would record movies that were on Movie Central (there are quite a few good movies on this month, but never when I want to watch them, it seems).
After I had them recorded, I could then watch them whenever I wanted. Lazy days off, while working at home, when my favourite shows are pre-empted by hockey games, and so forth.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to convert some things to MPEG-2/DivX and store them long-term, but the vast majority of things I would do this for are CounterSpin (like CrossFire on CNN or HardTalk on BBC, only better), and the national news.
I honestly don't think the CBC, which is largely funded by my tax dollars anyway, would object to me storing news for the long-term. It's not exactly a hot trading item on IRC fservs, and it won't get me any accounts on hotline, to be sure.
Also, I would like to use such a feature to store television shows that I -cannot- buy seasons of on DVD. I'd rather buy a season on DVD than record, encode, and store (on hard drive or via iDVD), but if necessary, I would buy an 80 gig hard drive (or three, and RAID them) to store these episodes.
It would also be nice if they stopped charging so much for the damned DVDs. I mean, they cost me more than VHS tapes and they probably cost about $0.50 to press. Come on, cut me some slack here!
the wu-ftpd developers weren't even aware that there was a bug present until the day the rh advisory went out.
Come on, this is WU-FTPd we're talking about here. EVERYONE is aware there's LOTS of bugs. It's a given.
What you should have said was 'the wu-ftpd developers weren't aware of this bug'.
I mean, really, every time I bash WU-FTPd, someone tells me that 'WU-FTPd is no worse than proftpd'. C'mon guys, even if ProFTPd is as bad, at least it's not incredibly well known for being as bad. Let's pick a decent FTP daemon and stop defaulting to crap.
Wu-FTPd is in the Debian package lists, but it is not the default FTP daemon. The default is a piddly little thing that only allows users to log in. It's quite functional, but bare-bones, and likely very secure.
1) All their episodes lately have been for charity
2) For charities, they get celebrities, which people are more likely to watch (they had one for wrestling fans the other week, tonight is Star Trek, etc)
3) The money they give to charity is tax-deductable
The network's not losing ANY money, except what it costs to pay Anne and to actually run the show.
Man, that's just evil. Then again, better charities than the IRS.
Also, don't forget that on Jeopardy, you don't have to answer any question you don't want to, (except the Daily Doubles, and Final Jeopardy).
What I was thinking is something like... You start off with a lower scale - say, from $100-$5000, in the first round. The questions are also easier.
In the next round, it's shifted up - so instead of $100, $200, $400, it's $200, $400, $1000, or whatever - and the questions are harder.
It's a brilliant idea. You have a show where one person a week wins $12000, instead of people on Millionaire who get up to $125,000. You always have 8 people on, but no one ever gets money that the network can't afford to burn. They probably spend more per year on the host than they give away.
The network is laughing. Quiz-show giveaway that costs absolutely nothing, but brings in viewers, why on earth would they want to change it?
You fail to see that his model is freedom. There is no contradiction. Understand this.
Freedom with restrictions is not freedom. Just like you cannot say 'you have freedom of speech, but don't talk bad about the government', you can't say 'this software is Free as in speech, but you can't do this or this or this or this or...'
His vision of freedom is not freedom for all, but rather control for the developer. If he really believed that Free Software was better than closed source, then it wouldn't matter who used Free code for any project, commercial or not, because Free software would win out. He obviously does not feel that confident about the realities of life, or his flagship license would not place so many restrictions.
My idea of freedom is that anyone can do with my code what they wish, if they give credit. His idea of freedom is dictating what people can and can't do, not just on a practical level, but on a philosophical one. The artificial restriction of copyright law does not apply in either case.
Sadly, I cannot agree with you that his model is freedom.
Say what you will about his goals, but at least he's perfectly honest and up-front about them (and everything else), even going so far as to admit that he hasn't been following the GNOME development.
Yes, I'll give him credit for that, sure. Honesty is good. Then again, do you want someone running GNOME even though they admit they know nothing about it, haven't been on the mailing lists, and only want to commandeer the software for a political purpose?
Stallman wants GNOME to do different things than the people using and writing GNOME want. They want a desktop environment. He wants a GNU project.
He has an idealistic but narrow vision of the world, and he's trying to reshape the world according to his vision. The GNOME project is already a little off-track (it's getting slow and bloated, imho), and the last thing it needs is to be redesigned from a desktop environment into a political statement.
However, you can purchase Microsoft Rights XP Serf Edition for something like $149 ($199 in Canada). If you go to Future Shop, they have a sale on now too, 20% off, for the Christmas rush.
Installing Rights XP on your Windows XP system will prevent disillusionment when you discover that your country is being run by a cluster of politicians running Microsoft Political Agenda XP Government Edition (I think that's the one without concern for the public's rights, I always get them confused).
Microsoft's online service, MSN Lawyer, has this to say about the situation:
It's odd, you know. I'm used to software being released AFTER it's been tested, not before. In fact, in my experience, that's been the case.
I don't think it's 'high standards' to expect your filesystem to stay intact after unmounting it. I don't care how new the kernel is, it's just the sort of thing people expect.
Admittedly, important servers shouldn't be upgraded to the latest new kernel, but we should have clearly defined branches of 'stable' and 'testing'. 2.2.x is monstrously old, but still being updated, supposedly. So is 2.4.x, and now we hav 2.5.x to worry about too? Which is stable? Which is unstable?
Debian can divide thousands of packages into these categories, why can't the kernel developers divide their kernel into them and make it obvious? I used to trust 2..x releases, because I was told they weren't devel. I didn't know that !devel didn't mean !going to corrupt your drive.
I'm assuming you mean kinetic force, and the kinetic force applied to the recieving end of the laser varies inversely (according to some formula) with the reflectivity of the surface the laser is hitting and the distance between the objects (maybe), and it's only really noticable when you get into the gigawatt ranges.
--Dan
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This is a good idea, but a plugin interface might be more than you need if the interface is going to be your only plugin.
A better idea might be to use #defines and #ifdefs and other magical compiler directives, write some wrapper functions if necessary, and then at compile time, decide which toolkit you're compiling for.
#define TOOLKIT gtktk
#include
Or something of the sort.
--Dan
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> QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
So?
QT is OO by design. GTK-- is OO by kludge.
> QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
Why?
To make it easier to build database-driven applications without having to twiddle between two libraries.
> QT comes with a very good interface builder.
Use vim.
> With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
Use Vim.
Look, I love g/vim as much as (or more than) the next guy, but it is not an IDE designed for QT, and it is NOT an interface builder at all.
> QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
Opinionated
An opinion many people, myself included, share. GTK feels sluggish, slow, laggy. QT actually feels like you're interacting with the program.
> Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
Maybe, maybe not.. and if so, who cares? Maybe some people like to have a lot of options/power at their disposal.
It's not a matter of options/power, it's a matter of more code to do the exact same thing for no reason. GTK is godawful ugly. I can't speak for QT, but everyone I talk to who's used it agrees. You can do more with less and better.
Gtk is more commonly used then any other brand.
That's because when QT started out, it wasn't Free as in Speech, so GTK was used instead. Now, GTK is ugly, bloated, and slow, and QT is fast. KDE still sucks, but QT works, and well.
Sure it sucks, but it sucks less.
No, it just sucks in more places at once. MS is more commonly used than GTK, doesn't mean it's better, just that it's more common. Same with GTK. It's better than a lot of options, but it's still #2 in my book.
Don't get me wrong, I love GTK and I hate KDE, but QT just feels nicer and works nicer, and as much as I'm loathe to, I have to admit that.
You set up the system to dump memory to a tempfile and then reboot automatically. My last NT4 Server install did this out of the box, I assume that W2K Server does this as well. If not, it should be configured to do so.
So your argument is basically that IT attracts non-descriminately from all peronality types? Oh, yes, that would be why 50% of computer programmers are women then.
First, he never said that. Second, there's nothing about IT that forces people to be loners. In fact, in a lot of cases, you need to work well with people in order to keep your job. You need to have social skills, and making friendships is a good habit too.
Being alone is fine for some people, but not for all of them, no matter the field.
Who's voting? Me? No... You are... Blame it on yourselves...
I got karma to burn, mod me down into oblivion if you want, but you(collectively) are still responsible for what's bad (as well as what's good) so don't start saying "yeah, but others have an easier time" and move your arse.
Alright, then I propose that the reason this hasn't been done is one of the following:
Americans are, on the whole, lazy and unmotivated, and don't do anything they don't have to
Americans are, on the whole, greedy and self-centred, and don't do anything that won't make them money, or, in the case of politicians, that won't get them elected - and since politicians are elected based on how much money they spend on their campaign, and corporate dollars fund the bureaucracy, there's no reason to help out the average person.
Perhaps you are costing them $100 that they can afford to lose, but you're also helping their sales figures. If 1200 geeks bought X-Boxen and turned them into X terminals, that's $120,000 they already budgeted to lose, and can afford to lose, and it's 1200 more sales than they would have made.
Also, one could point out that if no one buys the X-Box, they lose even more money than just $100 each, but since people are likely to buy them anyway, it doesn't really matter.
Well, with all due respect, if you're going to drop $400 ($600 in Canada) on hardware for a remote X terminal, I'm sure you can do better than to support Microsoft in order to buy a game console, and then, instead of using it for its intended purpose, using it as a display.
There should be some better options for dumb terminals out there, don't waste your money supporting MS to run OSS.
They'd probably say that that was unfair competition, and I'd say that it was stupid.
ATi products are quality products - sure, the drivers are less than perfect, but for the price/performance ratio, and the feature set, it's great, and the support is excellent (I always feel like I'm dealing with a five-person company, but at least it feels like those five people really know what they're doing).
Hell, I got an All-In-Wonder Pro when it was still a $180 card, for something like $120, just by agreeing to send them in my old video card. I figured, I had a spare one lying around, I could send that one - but no, they told me, you don't have to send US a card until you get yours.
ATi provides quality mobile chips, and they provide video cards for all situations - I've seen AGP video cards (decent chipsets too) for less than $100 CDN, and I've seen AIW Raedons for $589, and everything in between.
They're a good company, they've just always been a little bit behind nVidia. The Raedon was a leap, but they're only in second place now.
Anyway, their new drivers were apparantly released, and the performance is better in all Quake3-based apps, AND the image quality is comparable to the GeForce cards.
Why would id software piss off the second-biggest video card maker on the planet? Why burn bridges you don't have to, just to be an asshole? You don't get anywhere by stepping on toes.
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I don't usually reply to Anonymous Coward posts, but I will in this case because the poster is incorrect.
The PVR would need to tell the digital box to tune to a particular
channel, and this isn't possible right now.
This is not true, in fact. My digital cable box has a serial port that the TiVo can connect to and change the channel via. Interesting technology. Now, if only the TiVo could get the channel lists via this port (but that would lose them subscription dollahs, wouldn't it?)
--Dan
Well, dselect is Wrong, but it's just slightly Wrong. It's wrong like black is black on a monochrome screen. If it were one bit more, it would be Right.
I'd like to see dselect redone -properly-. Perhaps I would even like to do this, if I knew what the hell I was doing.
Oh well. Apt works most of the time, dselect works most of the rest.
--Dan
Normally, I'd agree with you, but every time I install Debian and then run dselect, there's always a huge list of packages (including emacs, ugh) that is marked as 'to be installed'.
Probably if I never used dselect, I would never know, and many would say it serves me right, but there -is- a default installation set by Debian maintainers. It sucks, and should never be used, but it's there.
--Dan
Here's what I watch, and why I want a DVR:
Monday: Stargate SG-1
Tuesday: 24
Wednesday: Enterprise, The Amazing Race
Thursday: Survivor
Friday: whatever
Saturday: whatever
Sunday: Stargate SG-1 repeats, Simpsons
Friday and Saturday, there's nothing on. Most other days, there's all of an hour of TV.
There are also TV shows I watch when I'm bored, or nothing else is on, or I'm paging through the channel list and see them, and nothing else is on, or are on every day.
Earth: Final Conflict, Andromeda, Relic Hunter, CounterSpin, the CBC National news.
The thing is, these are really good shows, but are not good enough to justify rearranging my schedule. Likewise with the X-Files, which I just stopped caring about.
If I had a DVR, I would record these TV shows when they were on (during the day, middle of the night, etc); as well I would record movies that were on Movie Central (there are quite a few good movies on this month, but never when I want to watch them, it seems).
After I had them recorded, I could then watch them whenever I wanted. Lazy days off, while working at home, when my favourite shows are pre-empted by hockey games, and so forth.
Ideally, I'd like to be able to convert some things to MPEG-2/DivX and store them long-term, but the vast majority of things I would do this for are CounterSpin (like CrossFire on CNN or HardTalk on BBC, only better), and the national news.
I honestly don't think the CBC, which is largely funded by my tax dollars anyway, would object to me storing news for the long-term. It's not exactly a hot trading item on IRC fservs, and it won't get me any accounts on hotline, to be sure.
Also, I would like to use such a feature to store television shows that I -cannot- buy seasons of on DVD. I'd rather buy a season on DVD than record, encode, and store (on hard drive or via iDVD), but if necessary, I would buy an 80 gig hard drive (or three, and RAID them) to store these episodes.
It would also be nice if they stopped charging so much for the damned DVDs. I mean, they cost me more than VHS tapes and they probably cost about $0.50 to press. Come on, cut me some slack here!
--Dan
the wu-ftpd developers weren't even aware that there was a bug present until the day the rh advisory went out.
Come on, this is WU-FTPd we're talking about here. EVERYONE is aware there's LOTS of bugs. It's a given.
What you should have said was 'the wu-ftpd developers weren't aware of this bug'.
I mean, really, every time I bash WU-FTPd, someone tells me that 'WU-FTPd is no worse than proftpd'. C'mon guys, even if ProFTPd is as bad, at least it's not incredibly well known for being as bad. Let's pick a decent FTP daemon and stop defaulting to crap.
--Dan
Wu-FTPd is in the Debian package lists, but it is not the default FTP daemon. The default is a piddly little thing that only allows users to log in. It's quite functional, but bare-bones, and likely very secure.
# ant-get update
# apt-get install proftpd (or ftpd)
And you can rid yourself of wu-ftpd on Debian.
--Dan
Oh, and I forgot to point out...
1) All their episodes lately have been for charity
2) For charities, they get celebrities, which people are more likely to watch (they had one for wrestling fans the other week, tonight is Star Trek, etc)
3) The money they give to charity is tax-deductable
The network's not losing ANY money, except what it costs to pay Anne and to actually run the show.
Man, that's just evil. Then again, better charities than the IRS.
--Dan
Also, don't forget that on Jeopardy, you don't have to answer any question you don't want to, (except the Daily Doubles, and Final Jeopardy).
What I was thinking is something like... You start off with a lower scale - say, from $100-$5000, in the first round. The questions are also easier.
In the next round, it's shifted up - so instead of $100, $200, $400, it's $200, $400, $1000, or whatever - and the questions are harder.
It's a brilliant idea. You have a show where one person a week wins $12000, instead of people on Millionaire who get up to $125,000. You always have 8 people on, but no one ever gets money that the network can't afford to burn. They probably spend more per year on the host than they give away.
The network is laughing. Quiz-show giveaway that costs absolutely nothing, but brings in viewers, why on earth would they want to change it?
--Dan
I think the distinction lies in what specifically they want.
Stallman wants something to say 'look, here's a GNU project'. his primary concern is political.
The GNOME project team wants a usable, popular (ideally), functional desktop environment.
At least, this is my take on it.
--Dan
You fail to see that his model is freedom. There is no contradiction. Understand this.
Freedom with restrictions is not freedom. Just like you cannot say 'you have freedom of speech, but don't talk bad about the government', you can't say 'this software is Free as in speech, but you can't do this or this or this or this or...'
His vision of freedom is not freedom for all, but rather control for the developer. If he really believed that Free Software was better than closed source, then it wouldn't matter who used Free code for any project, commercial or not, because Free software would win out. He obviously does not feel that confident about the realities of life, or his flagship license would not place so many restrictions.
My idea of freedom is that anyone can do with my code what they wish, if they give credit. His idea of freedom is dictating what people can and can't do, not just on a practical level, but on a philosophical one. The artificial restriction of copyright law does not apply in either case.
Sadly, I cannot agree with you that his model is freedom.
--Dan
Say what you will about his goals, but at least he's perfectly honest and up-front about them (and everything else), even going so far as to admit that he hasn't been following the GNOME development.
Yes, I'll give him credit for that, sure. Honesty is good. Then again, do you want someone running GNOME even though they admit they know nothing about it, haven't been on the mailing lists, and only want to commandeer the software for a political purpose?
Stallman wants GNOME to do different things than the people using and writing GNOME want. They want a desktop environment. He wants a GNU project.
He has an idealistic but narrow vision of the world, and he's trying to reshape the world according to his vision. The GNOME project is already a little off-track (it's getting slow and bloated, imho), and the last thing it needs is to be redesigned from a desktop environment into a political statement.
--Dan
Installing Rights XP on your Windows XP system will prevent disillusionment when you discover that your country is being run by a cluster of politicians running Microsoft Political Agenda XP Government Edition (I think that's the one without concern for the public's rights, I always get them confused).
Microsoft's online service, MSN Lawyer, has this to say about the situation:
Hope this helps people.
--Dan
It's odd, you know. I'm used to software being released AFTER it's been tested, not before. In fact, in my experience, that's been the case.
I don't think it's 'high standards' to expect your filesystem to stay intact after unmounting it. I don't care how new the kernel is, it's just the sort of thing people expect.
Admittedly, important servers shouldn't be upgraded to the latest new kernel, but we should have clearly defined branches of 'stable' and 'testing'. 2.2.x is monstrously old, but still being updated, supposedly. So is 2.4.x, and now we hav 2.5.x to worry about too? Which is stable? Which is unstable?
Debian can divide thousands of packages into these categories, why can't the kernel developers divide their kernel into them and make it obvious? I used to trust 2..x releases, because I was told they weren't devel. I didn't know that !devel didn't mean !going to corrupt your drive.
--Dan
Almost none.
I'm assuming you mean kinetic force, and the kinetic force applied to the recieving end of the laser varies inversely (according to some formula) with the reflectivity of the surface the laser is hitting and the distance between the objects (maybe), and it's only really noticable when you get into the gigawatt ranges.
--Dan
This is a good idea, but a plugin interface might be more than you need if the interface is going to be your only plugin.
A better idea might be to use #defines and #ifdefs and other magical compiler directives, write some wrapper functions if necessary, and then at compile time, decide which toolkit you're compiling for.
#define TOOLKIT gtktk
#include
Or something of the sort.
--Dan
> QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
So?
QT is OO by design. GTK-- is OO by kludge.
> QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
Why?
To make it easier to build database-driven applications without having to twiddle between two libraries.
> QT comes with a very good interface builder.
Use vim.
> With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
Use Vim.
Look, I love g/vim as much as (or more than) the next guy, but it is not an IDE designed for QT, and it is NOT an interface builder at all.
> QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
Opinionated
An opinion many people, myself included, share. GTK feels sluggish, slow, laggy. QT actually feels like you're interacting with the program.
> Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
Maybe, maybe not.. and if so, who cares? Maybe some people like to have a lot of options/power at their disposal.
It's not a matter of options/power, it's a matter of more code to do the exact same thing for no reason. GTK is godawful ugly. I can't speak for QT, but everyone I talk to who's used it agrees. You can do more with less and better.
Gtk is more commonly used then any other brand.
That's because when QT started out, it wasn't Free as in Speech, so GTK was used instead. Now, GTK is ugly, bloated, and slow, and QT is fast. KDE still sucks, but QT works, and well.
Sure it sucks, but it sucks less.
No, it just sucks in more places at once. MS is more commonly used than GTK, doesn't mean it's better, just that it's more common. Same with GTK. It's better than a lot of options, but it's still #2 in my book.
Don't get me wrong, I love GTK and I hate KDE, but QT just feels nicer and works nicer, and as much as I'm loathe to, I have to admit that.
--Dan
You set up the system to dump memory to a tempfile and then reboot automatically. My last NT4 Server install did this out of the box, I assume that W2K Server does this as well. If not, it should be configured to do so.
--Dan
I use Mozilla on my mac exclusively for pr0n, because the default browser on this (MacOS) box is Internet Explorer, so no one ever sees my history.
I used to tout Mozilla as a superior browser so that everyone else would use it. I've stopped doing that now. =;>
--Dan
Not to sound insensitive towards my employer's position, but if I got hit by a bus, my company is the last thing on my mind.
--Dan
So your argument is basically that IT attracts non-descriminately from all peronality types? Oh, yes, that would be why 50% of computer programmers are women then.
First, he never said that. Second, there's nothing about IT that forces people to be loners. In fact, in a lot of cases, you need to work well with people in order to keep your job. You need to have social skills, and making friendships is a good habit too.
Being alone is fine for some people, but not for all of them, no matter the field.
--Dan
Mountain bicycling is the bridges all social gaps.
Invite them go to North Shore biking with you. No one will ever find the bodies, and they'll certainly never pin it on you if they do.
--Dan
I got karma to burn, mod me down into oblivion if you want, but you(collectively) are still responsible for what's bad (as well as what's good) so don't start saying "yeah, but others have an easier time" and move your arse.
Alright, then I propose that the reason this hasn't been done is one of the following:
Yeah, I've got karma to burn too.
--Dan
Perhaps you are costing them $100 that they can afford to lose, but you're also helping their sales figures. If 1200 geeks bought X-Boxen and turned them into X terminals, that's $120,000 they already budgeted to lose, and can afford to lose, and it's 1200 more sales than they would have made.
Also, one could point out that if no one buys the X-Box, they lose even more money than just $100 each, but since people are likely to buy them anyway, it doesn't really matter.
--Dan
Well, with all due respect, if you're going to drop $400 ($600 in Canada) on hardware for a remote X terminal, I'm sure you can do better than to support Microsoft in order to buy a game console, and then, instead of using it for its intended purpose, using it as a display.
There should be some better options for dumb terminals out there, don't waste your money supporting MS to run OSS.
--Dan
They'd probably say that that was unfair competition, and I'd say that it was stupid.
ATi products are quality products - sure, the drivers are less than perfect, but for the price/performance ratio, and the feature set, it's great, and the support is excellent (I always feel like I'm dealing with a five-person company, but at least it feels like those five people really know what they're doing).
Hell, I got an All-In-Wonder Pro when it was still a $180 card, for something like $120, just by agreeing to send them in my old video card. I figured, I had a spare one lying around, I could send that one - but no, they told me, you don't have to send US a card until you get yours.
ATi provides quality mobile chips, and they provide video cards for all situations - I've seen AGP video cards (decent chipsets too) for less than $100 CDN, and I've seen AIW Raedons for $589, and everything in between.
They're a good company, they've just always been a little bit behind nVidia. The Raedon was a leap, but they're only in second place now.
Anyway, their new drivers were apparantly released, and the performance is better in all Quake3-based apps, AND the image quality is comparable to the GeForce cards.
Why would id software piss off the second-biggest video card maker on the planet? Why burn bridges you don't have to, just to be an asshole? You don't get anywhere by stepping on toes.
--Dan