OO.o doesn't always open.ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
The only reason I can justify buying a 512mb video card for gaming (the workstation benefits should be far greater, but this is not a workstation card) is to run Doom 3 at the ultra setting without SLI. The textures in ultra mode are larger than 256mb, so a card without that much memory gets drastic performance penalties. If firingsquad wanted to show off the capabilities of the card, they should have shown that in Doom 3, at ultra graphics settings, with one card, the performance gain for the 512mb card should actually be something to talk about.
Nonetheless, even if you justified buying the card on the grounds that you don't need SLI, chances are you still have to upgrade your motherboard to PCI-E, and you still spend $1000 on video cards without the gain in performance achieved with two graphics processors.
I don't get how some of these comments are being tagged as "Insightful" or "Informative" if they're just the 5487235th time someone pointed out that CowboyNeal was misleading in his post. A big part of the reason I come to/. is to read intelligent and sometimes funny additions to the articles that are posted, not to read 50 flames that somehow scored high. Let's talk about the morals of open source development and Linus, not CowboyNeal's mistake.
There's a reason this was submitted under Anonymous Coward...
Explain to me again how we ruin it for the rest of you? If you're going to buy all your digital media "legitimately" you have nothing to worry about, so don't ever preach to me about what to do and what not to do. If you claim never to use P2P programs in the first place I fail to see how you are affected by this in any way.
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OO.o doesn't always open .ppt documents fine; my physics lecture notes are always PowerPoint presentations, but OpenOffice.org can sometimes misinterpret the symbols. Nothing's worse than studying for an exam and wondering why the derivative of airplane over star equals hand.
The only reason I can justify buying a 512mb video card for gaming (the workstation benefits should be far greater, but this is not a workstation card) is to run Doom 3 at the ultra setting without SLI. The textures in ultra mode are larger than 256mb, so a card without that much memory gets drastic performance penalties. If firingsquad wanted to show off the capabilities of the card, they should have shown that in Doom 3, at ultra graphics settings, with one card, the performance gain for the 512mb card should actually be something to talk about.
Nonetheless, even if you justified buying the card on the grounds that you don't need SLI, chances are you still have to upgrade your motherboard to PCI-E, and you still spend $1000 on video cards without the gain in performance achieved with two graphics processors.
But hey, at least you're ready for Half-Life 3.
Major in math, not business.
Where's the x86_64 version? SuSE seems to have an iso for every other architecture but mine. Guess I'll just keep waiting...
Ya-who?
I don't get how some of these comments are being tagged as "Insightful" or "Informative" if they're just the 5487235th time someone pointed out that CowboyNeal was misleading in his post. A big part of the reason I come to /. is to read intelligent and sometimes funny additions to the articles that are posted, not to read 50 flames that somehow scored high. Let's talk about the morals of open source development and Linus, not CowboyNeal's mistake.
There's a reason this was submitted under Anonymous Coward... Explain to me again how we ruin it for the rest of you? If you're going to buy all your digital media "legitimately" you have nothing to worry about, so don't ever preach to me about what to do and what not to do. If you claim never to use P2P programs in the first place I fail to see how you are affected by this in any way.