Assuming games can scale based on what the system has available, then if a game like Doom 3 that uses up to 500MB in texture memory per level, but not all at once, encounters this video card then the overall performance for the user should improve as memory will be swapped less frequently.
It's kind of obvious, but you're right. Most designers will try to design games that run well with a system that has a lower rather than a higher amount of VRAM.
Just do what many other people do (including myself.) Buy a reliable video card and a nice (and often cheap) conexant based ADC (aka a TV tuner with analog inputs.) Then you would have both of what you want: A reliable graphics card and a TV tuner.
Off topic: The older BT8x8 chips seem to have a problem with noise.
The best way to deal with it is to cut off the infected machines and have their users fix their systems. Someone here also had a nice idea. Instead of cutting off all access, have any transactions on port 80 redirected to an internal server that explains why they can't use the network and how they can go about fixing it.
Then again, if audio isn't important the onboard sound isn't much worse than anything mady by CL IMHO!
Damn right. I ejected my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 because its faulty WDMs were giving me major issues in Windows XP. It was really more than I ever needed. My integrated Realtec audio codec does everything I want and does it right.
Well now, this isn't a critical evaluation of the operating system itself. The link goes to a page filled with screen shots. Sure, we could talk all day about how Microsoft's actions might be wrong, odd, or whatever.. But.. Pictures!
Is it just me or are the windows boot screen logos getting more bland and uninspired? The 9x series had those nice and colorful 256 color x mode screens. The NT systems have the high resolution 16 color screens. 2000 was pretty bad; too much white. XP and 2003 have pretty decent logos. Ok, but look at this. I know it's a beta, but something tells me that this largely monochrome logo will make it into the final version. They didn't even add color to the windows logo; it's just a silhouette.
Open Source solution = Can be a good solution. Closed Source Solution = Cannot be a good solution.
That depends really. Some closed source software can still be very good. The reason why I like free software (most of which happens to be open source) is that.. It's free. The only paid for software on my system are Visual C and some games. Every other application is either free and closed or free and open. Most of the time though it just seems completely stupid to be paying for certain types of software.
I don't totally agree with your general statement about closed software, but it is certainly bad when some closed software that you like and use a lot doesn't have a feature you want. With open source projects I can obviously just go into the project and make the changes myself, which I have done quite a few times, but with closed source software, you're pretty much out of luck. You can try bugging the developer, but that usually doesn't work so well.
That's exactly why I'm staying with version 5.0 of the reader for now. I was totally horrified that something as a document viewer that only views one type of document could take up 96MB of disk space (Acrobat Reader 7.0.) 5.0 still takes a while to load.
Yeah, 96MB isn't a lot, but what's it being used on anyway?
I have a USB 2.0 Attache device from PNY. I also have their USB 1.1 version, which ends up having some significant differences. Their latest revision uses cheap plastic with a somewhat fugly color scheme. The plastic is so thin that when the drive's LED turns on the light bleeds through. It works just fine and I've had the older version for about a year now, but I do have to say that I'm disappointed in the direction that has been taken (durable casing, tasteful design -> cheap casing, not as pleasing to look at.) The one thing they DID get right in the USB 2 version is they included a hole at the bottom of the device that is large enough to put it onto a standard key chain. The original had to be threaded first.
Aside from the obvious attempt to get attention, this CEO will no doubt back down even if the number of downloads meets or exceeds the goal. That is, unless he's some sort of boat that's powered by only a few cups of hot chocolate.
Maybe it's not that bad after all. With dual core systems becoming mainstream, maybe more application developers will try to stretch the design of their software so that more parallelism is introduced to get more performance out of systems with these setups. Remember that the majority of normal consumers have single processor systems at the moment.
Show the RIAA that we are not sheep. Show them that we don't need to see the latest Keanu Reeves travesty. Show them we're tired of their shit. Don't see their movies. Don't pirate their movies. Don't have anything to do with their movies. If enough of us shake off the yoke, it will make a difference.
Ha I'm already one step ahead of you. I've had basically no interest in the large majority of movies or most other time wasters since years ago. The only movies I own are MST3K episodes, and those are worth every penny.
You should probably consider other aspects of this type of storage like.. Is it more reliable than current hard drives? Is it faster? Capacity should come after those two in my opinion. It probably won't take them very long to increase the size of this device after they release their first version anyway.
But something will definitely replace incandescent light bulbs in the future. They generate too much heat, they most certainly burn your fingers when you touch them, and I've seen a light bulb fracture and spit part of itself across the room when someone accidently dropped a bit of cold water on it. Oops.
"Now they want to do this other stuff, like adware blocking and trying to this get anti-virus thing: but I'm trying to stay away from it and everybody I know is staying away from it, because I don't need to be patching anti-virus programs and things like that."
It might be a statement about not wanting to install even more Microsoft updates, but it also sounds like this person and his friends don't want to be bothered with things like anti-virus protection and updating that protection, which seems completely lazy and careless to me.
I completely agree with you, and it would be nice if more manufacturers of most electronic equipment (wireless APs would be another example) started to make their stuff more secure by default. The major problem is that they're trying to give users "ease of use" over "more security," which has already been proven to be an approach that's flawed.
I'm not familiar with this particular handheld OS, but it would be funny if someone tried to write a virus for the PalmOS, because it largely wouldn't work.
"Please execute this program to destroy your system" is what the approach would have to be and doing a hard reset of all of the memory and hotsyncing it would completely wipe the thing out of the system. This is where volatile memory and a somewhat restrictive setup will benefit the user.
There was something on cybernetics on public TV that was broadcast around the 90s I think. They had the eye chip and glasses setup that was mentioned. The resolution wasn't so great from what I saw of their approximated simulations though.
It's an emulator much like QEMU is. PearPC emulates a PowerPC based machine including the processor and some of the important hardware.
There's no way to boot into another operating system from Linux like you are suggesting unless you play around with the kernel's source. And even so, if you don't want a virtual environment to play in, why not just go for the real thing?
So yes, you're "stuck" with having to run the application in X and emulating it on the host system.
GIMP does have an alpha channel. If you want to enable it you can add it in the channel view if you want to play with it directly, use the masks if you want to apply it indirectly, or save an image with translucent parts without a background to a PNG.
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It's kind of obvious, but you're right. Most designers will try to design games that run well with a system that has a lower rather than a higher amount of VRAM.
Just do what many other people do (including myself.) Buy a reliable video card and a nice (and often cheap) conexant based ADC (aka a TV tuner with analog inputs.) Then you would have both of what you want: A reliable graphics card and a TV tuner.
Off topic: The older BT8x8 chips seem to have a problem with noise.
The best way to deal with it is to cut off the infected machines and have their users fix their systems. Someone here also had a nice idea. Instead of cutting off all access, have any transactions on port 80 redirected to an internal server that explains why they can't use the network and how they can go about fixing it.
Then again, if audio isn't important the onboard sound isn't much worse than anything mady by CL IMHO!
Damn right. I ejected my Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 because its faulty WDMs were giving me major issues in Windows XP. It was really more than I ever needed. My integrated Realtec audio codec does everything I want and does it right.
Maybe we can get the same team who had to write "oops" on all the crunch berry boxes
Well now, this isn't a critical evaluation of the operating system itself. The link goes to a page filled with screen shots. Sure, we could talk all day about how Microsoft's actions might be wrong, odd, or whatever.. But.. Pictures!
Is it just me or are the windows boot screen logos getting more bland and uninspired? The 9x series had those nice and colorful 256 color x mode screens. The NT systems have the high resolution 16 color screens. 2000 was pretty bad; too much white. XP and 2003 have pretty decent logos. Ok, but look at this. I know it's a beta, but something tells me that this largely monochrome logo will make it into the final version. They didn't even add color to the windows logo; it's just a silhouette.
Open Source solution = Can be a good solution.
Closed Source Solution = Cannot be a good solution.
That depends really. Some closed source software can still be very good. The reason why I like free software (most of which happens to be open source) is that.. It's free. The only paid for software on my system are Visual C and some games. Every other application is either free and closed or free and open. Most of the time though it just seems completely stupid to be paying for certain types of software.
I don't totally agree with your general statement about closed software, but it is certainly bad when some closed software that you like and use a lot doesn't have a feature you want. With open source projects I can obviously just go into the project and make the changes myself, which I have done quite a few times, but with closed source software, you're pretty much out of luck. You can try bugging the developer, but that usually doesn't work so well.
Yeah, 96MB isn't a lot, but what's it being used on anyway?
On a windows xp-like machine: format e: convert e: /fs:ntfs /x
I have a USB 2.0 Attache device from PNY. I also have their USB 1.1 version, which ends up having some significant differences. Their latest revision uses cheap plastic with a somewhat fugly color scheme. The plastic is so thin that when the drive's LED turns on the light bleeds through. It works just fine and I've had the older version for about a year now, but I do have to say that I'm disappointed in the direction that has been taken (durable casing, tasteful design -> cheap casing, not as pleasing to look at.) The one thing they DID get right in the USB 2 version is they included a hole at the bottom of the device that is large enough to put it onto a standard key chain. The original had to be threaded first.
Aside from the obvious attempt to get attention, this CEO will no doubt back down even if the number of downloads meets or exceeds the goal. That is, unless he's some sort of boat that's powered by only a few cups of hot chocolate.
Maybe it's not that bad after all. With dual core systems becoming mainstream, maybe more application developers will try to stretch the design of their software so that more parallelism is introduced to get more performance out of systems with these setups. Remember that the majority of normal consumers have single processor systems at the moment.
Ha I'm already one step ahead of you. I've had basically no interest in the large majority of movies or most other time wasters since years ago. The only movies I own are MST3K episodes, and those are worth every penny.
You should probably consider other aspects of this type of storage like.. Is it more reliable than current hard drives? Is it faster? Capacity should come after those two in my opinion. It probably won't take them very long to increase the size of this device after they release their first version anyway.
I have a 2x CD-ROM drive from the 90s when the Pentium was first introduced that works just fine. It's just a bit slow these days.
But something will definitely replace incandescent light bulbs in the future. They generate too much heat, they most certainly burn your fingers when you touch them, and I've seen a light bulb fracture and spit part of itself across the room when someone accidently dropped a bit of cold water on it. Oops.
It might be a statement about not wanting to install even more Microsoft updates, but it also sounds like this person and his friends don't want to be bothered with things like anti-virus protection and updating that protection, which seems completely lazy and careless to me.
I know my Conexant CX2388x based video decoder has a specific register called "macrovision timing" to defeat the macrovision scheme so how about that.
I completely agree with you, and it would be nice if more manufacturers of most electronic equipment (wireless APs would be another example) started to make their stuff more secure by default. The major problem is that they're trying to give users "ease of use" over "more security," which has already been proven to be an approach that's flawed.
"Please execute this program to destroy your system" is what the approach would have to be and doing a hard reset of all of the memory and hotsyncing it would completely wipe the thing out of the system. This is where volatile memory and a somewhat restrictive setup will benefit the user.
There was something on cybernetics on public TV that was broadcast around the 90s I think. They had the eye chip and glasses setup that was mentioned. The resolution wasn't so great from what I saw of their approximated simulations though.
There's no way to boot into another operating system from Linux like you are suggesting unless you play around with the kernel's source. And even so, if you don't want a virtual environment to play in, why not just go for the real thing?
So yes, you're "stuck" with having to run the application in X and emulating it on the host system.
Do you think this tatic will work with organizations such as Microsoft or Apple? I doubt they would go quietly.
GIMP does have an alpha channel. If you want to enable it you can add it in the channel view if you want to play with it directly, use the masks if you want to apply it indirectly, or save an image with translucent parts without a background to a PNG.