The trend with graphics boards is to make them way too big and bulky. It's ridiculous.
Considering the fact that it has it's on GPU, a significant amount of onboard RAM, it's own BUS and all that, and multiple outputs... AND cooling systems (heatsink, fans)... it's really not all that big. It's smaller, most likely, than your motherboard, and has almost the same features. And with the newer cards with their crazy GPU specs, heat production, onboard RAM, outputs AND inputs, etc... it's really not that big and bulky.
I suppose it is in comparison to the old 4mb 2D video cards, but..:)
I looked into this a little bit. It looks like it's more or less the same performance as my 512mb 8800 GT. Anyone else confirm that? So this is mainly just a power and price thing...
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I did mean RHEL, my mistake. I refer to it as RH by default, hehe.
Most people do not go home and automatically "fact check" everything they see. As a subsequent poster stated, Michael Moore and Al Gore have "documentaries" that at the very least have statements and facts proven to be untrue, and plenty of people believe them.
Besides. People are pretty funny. Sure, it's a fictional movie, but doesn't everyone today say that "everything" has some truth in it, or whatever?
The point I'm really trying to make is that being ok with people committing suicide over a misunderstanding, no matter how stupid it is, seems really degrading and callous to me. Some people are ignorant. Some people are stupid. But, in my book, all human life has worth, no matter how ignorant or stupid. And if your worldview somewhere states that it's ok for stupid people (or, at least, "really" stupid people - who decides that, by the way? isn't getting a bunch of girls pregnant stupid, too? or beating your wife? or...) to commit suicide just because they are stupid, then I think that is a worldview that is scarily similar to worldviews of people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, etc... who all thought that some people's lives simply aren't worth living or are actually "bad." Usually, I guess, for political reasons. But I see little difference between wanting someone to die for political reasons and wanting (or "being okay" with) someone to die for intellectual reasons...
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Doesn't always work. I've had this issue with RedHat Linux as well. Sometimes USB just doesn't work very well (RH4/RH5). Haven't run into any version of SuSE/SLES that has the problem, so it's not always the BIOS.
Admittedly, though, I haven't had it with recent versions, only older versions (e.g., RH 4.6 or something).
I'm not a.NET developer... but I seem to remember having to run.NET applications with the.NET framework on my local machine?
I'm not sure how much Microsoft gains by keeping.NET closed-source. Perhaps that's a good question, too: why not open source it. I don't think you have to pay anything to do.NET development, do you? So may as well get any free improvements from the open source community.;)
Define "simulate" in this context. Processing power? Creativity? Originality? Ingenuity? I didn't think any number of cores could "cause" creativity... aside from a "brute force" method. Try-every-possibility-and-see-if-one-works.
What if it WAS a mistake? What if Microsoft didn't check the code/programmer claimed it wasn't GPL/whatever?
Because if it was a mistake, they appeared to have been doing the right thing. Furthermore, they weren't even selling this, nor was anyone else. If anything, it was a violation of GPL not copyright stuff.
I had no idea GPL people were so like the RIAA that they would want to "crucify" a company for possibly accidentally using (stealing? slashdot will call using GPL code against GPL license [and giving the result away for free]"stealing" but slashdot won't call downloading songs/movies stealing?) open source code without releasing the resulting open source. Sounds... very progressive. Encourages people to use GPL. "Hey, use our free software and code! It's great! Use it however you want! But if you don't follow the GPL you are a horrible, horrible company, even worse than people that illegally download copyrighted materials."
I like open source and GPL and all that. I also enjoy MS products. And I don't like double standards. If they knowingly took GPL code, that's bad. I don't like "guilty until proven innocent" nor comparisons of copyright to GPL...
This was a USB/DVD burning tool offered on by Microsoft to help people install Windows 7 by burning the iso to USB/DVD. As far as I know, it is not included in Windows 7.
a USB/DVD burning tool could hardly be analogized to an accelerator system in a car.
It'd be more equivalent to... I don't know... a cigarette lighter or something. This is just a utility that MS released to help people be able to burn a Windows 7 iso onto USB/DVD. Especially for use in netbooks and the like, I suppose.
The interesting question now is if they will retain this tool going forward, or replace it with another that is not GPL'd. It certainly sounds like an accident, so I am curious if good production code has any chance of trumping internal politics.
Why not retain it? It was offered for free in the first place.
[sarcasm] Oh, whatever. You know very well that your kids need parties and alcohol in order to get proper social interaction skills! Because once they get to the business world, they need to know how to interact with people while getting drunk! Or something like that. [/sarcasm]
(I agree with the "good father" bit, by the way. thanks for being one of the few...)
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Well... how about same "practical" performance; e.g., fps. :)
The trend with graphics boards is to make them way too big and bulky. It's ridiculous.
Considering the fact that it has it's on GPU, a significant amount of onboard RAM, it's own BUS and all that, and multiple outputs... AND cooling systems (heatsink, fans) ... it's really not all that big. It's smaller, most likely, than your motherboard, and has almost the same features. And with the newer cards with their crazy GPU specs, heat production, onboard RAM, outputs AND inputs, etc ... it's really not that big and bulky.
I suppose it is in comparison to the old 4mb 2D video cards, but.. :)
I looked into this a little bit. It looks like it's more or less the same performance as my 512mb 8800 GT. Anyone else confirm that? So this is mainly just a power and price thing...
I did mean RHEL, my mistake. I refer to it as RH by default, hehe.
I prefer the performance graphs/comparisons at Tom's Hardware.
theyve fixed pulseaudio while they were at it.
fixed that for you. :)
First, I didn't admit to anything... :)
Most people do not go home and automatically "fact check" everything they see. As a subsequent poster stated, Michael Moore and Al Gore have "documentaries" that at the very least have statements and facts proven to be untrue, and plenty of people believe them.
Besides. People are pretty funny. Sure, it's a fictional movie, but doesn't everyone today say that "everything" has some truth in it, or whatever?
The point I'm really trying to make is that being ok with people committing suicide over a misunderstanding, no matter how stupid it is, seems really degrading and callous to me. Some people are ignorant. Some people are stupid. But, in my book, all human life has worth, no matter how ignorant or stupid. And if your worldview somewhere states that it's ok for stupid people (or, at least, "really" stupid people - who decides that, by the way? isn't getting a bunch of girls pregnant stupid, too? or beating your wife? or ...) to commit suicide just because they are stupid, then I think that is a worldview that is scarily similar to worldviews of people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, etc... who all thought that some people's lives simply aren't worth living or are actually "bad." Usually, I guess, for political reasons. But I see little difference between wanting someone to die for political reasons and wanting (or "being okay" with) someone to die for intellectual reasons...
Doesn't always work. I've had this issue with RedHat Linux as well. Sometimes USB just doesn't work very well (RH4/RH5). Haven't run into any version of SuSE/SLES that has the problem, so it's not always the BIOS.
Admittedly, though, I haven't had it with recent versions, only older versions (e.g., RH 4.6 or something).
You mean to say that you have never been convinced of something based on what you saw or heard, and later found out it wasn't true?
Then Obama shouldn't have promised it, should he?
The government can't control what they think
They think they can, though.
Not all Swedes live in Sweden! ;)
Anyone have good ideas for authentication mechanisms
Genome scans and very large automatic rifles!
I think you might have Mono.
I'm not a .NET developer... but I seem to remember having to run .NET applications with the .NET framework on my local machine?
I'm not sure how much Microsoft gains by keeping .NET closed-source. Perhaps that's a good question, too: why not open source it. I don't think you have to pay anything to do .NET development, do you? So may as well get any free improvements from the open source community. ;)
generally more easily employable than people.
And haven't formed labor unions. ;)
More people using .NET would be a gain, wouldn't it?
Including full screen applications? Seems like that would be a lot of GPU power usage...
+1 Obscure Electronic Instrument Reference. :)
Define "simulate" in this context. Processing power? Creativity? Originality? Ingenuity? I didn't think any number of cores could "cause" creativity... aside from a "brute force" method. Try-every-possibility-and-see-if-one-works.
What if it WAS a mistake? What if Microsoft didn't check the code/programmer claimed it wasn't GPL/whatever?
Because if it was a mistake, they appeared to have been doing the right thing. Furthermore, they weren't even selling this, nor was anyone else. If anything, it was a violation of GPL not copyright stuff.
I had no idea GPL people were so like the RIAA that they would want to "crucify" a company for possibly accidentally using (stealing? slashdot will call using GPL code against GPL license [and giving the result away for free]"stealing" but slashdot won't call downloading songs/movies stealing?) open source code without releasing the resulting open source. Sounds ... very progressive. Encourages people to use GPL. "Hey, use our free software and code! It's great! Use it however you want! But if you don't follow the GPL you are a horrible, horrible company, even worse than people that illegally download copyrighted materials."
I like open source and GPL and all that. I also enjoy MS products. And I don't like double standards. If they knowingly took GPL code, that's bad. I don't like "guilty until proven innocent" nor comparisons of copyright to GPL...
This was a USB/DVD burning tool offered on by Microsoft to help people install Windows 7 by burning the iso to USB/DVD. As far as I know, it is not included in Windows 7.
a USB/DVD burning tool could hardly be analogized to an accelerator system in a car.
It'd be more equivalent to... I don't know ... a cigarette lighter or something. This is just a utility that MS released to help people be able to burn a Windows 7 iso onto USB/DVD. Especially for use in netbooks and the like, I suppose.
The interesting question now is if they will retain this tool going forward, or replace it with another that is not GPL'd. It certainly sounds like an accident, so I am curious if good production code has any chance of trumping internal politics.
Why not retain it? It was offered for free in the first place.
[sarcasm] Oh, whatever. You know very well that your kids need parties and alcohol in order to get proper social interaction skills! Because once they get to the business world, they need to know how to interact with people while getting drunk! Or something like that. [/sarcasm]
(I agree with the "good father" bit, by the way. thanks for being one of the few...)