Read some of the tom's hardware guides. The REAL response time is rarely related to the RATED (black->white) response time. So even some 8ms models do more badly than some 20ms models.
My $200 dollar 16ms LCD (Acer AL1703) does not ghost. They are already at poised to replace CRTs...they're just not quite cheap enough, and people haven't quite noticed that the new LCDs do not, in fact, suck at gaming.
It's a complete scam. $22/month per dial up? Another $8 will buy you DSL in many places.
The PC is nothing special, it's just like any of the other bullshit lies we're fed by advertisers on a daily basis. Whatever you save on your cheap POS system will be paid to earthlink, at $22/month for what is for many people a free service.
This is going to be a typical scene of geek masturbation, with a single common theme in mind:
It worked for me, therefore it must be perfect for everyone in the world
So it worked for this school. Good for them. Advising the students to use it is questionable, and the inevitable posts in this thread marking any Office user as a hopeless moron are more damaging to OpenOffice's reputation than helpful.
Those fools. Everybody knows that you can't just coat your house with it -- microwaves can still tunnel through. It's necessary to wear an actual hat at all times.
Given what I've experienced of the net in certain circles (counter strike and IRC in general being major offenders), I'm not sure I want to know what other people are bookmarking.
Seriously. $2000? I built an Athlon64 computer with a GeForce 6, 200GB SATA hard drive, WinXP, gigabit ethernet, Wifi-g, sound card, and speakers for less than that, and I can guarantee you, it plays all sorts of media.
Apple and Microsoft are both persuing imaging models that heavily leverage GPU processors and VRAM to avoid pushing large numbers of bits through the bottleneck interfaces to video cards.
You mean the bottleneck that has just been alleviated, if not removed, by PCI Express?
Well, this pricing is standard for professional level cards (the Quadro FX), but that's not because of the extra RAM...which btw is useless.
This card is nothing more than a rich kid's toy.
What's interesting is the utter irrelevance of the slashdot posting to the book excerpt. Slashdot talks as if it's a detailed article on the internals of Darwin, which is the OSX kernel, NOT MACH. Darwin is based on Mach, yes, but it's not Mach.
And the article never once mentions OSX, or Apple, or Macs. One must seriously wonder...is the ability to read included in the job requirements for a slashdot editor?
I forgot to mention that they've made a lot of heavy modifications to Doom 3's engine. It's not like a Doom 3 mod. There's been seriously major changes just in the technology...I won't be specific since I don't know exactly where NDA boundaries lie, but the Q4 engine sounds like it stands to be even more powerful, capable, and beautiful than Doom 3.
And it'll be less dark from time to time. That's always nice.
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Read some of the tom's hardware guides. The REAL response time is rarely related to the RATED (black->white) response time. So even some 8ms models do more badly than some 20ms models.
My $200 dollar 16ms LCD (Acer AL1703) does not ghost. They are already at poised to replace CRTs...they're just not quite cheap enough, and people haven't quite noticed that the new LCDs do not, in fact, suck at gaming.
"Big Brother Tries to Muscle ISPs "
I have to admit, I like the Wired title much better than the Slashdot one.
Stallman is pissed off at somebody.
So what the hell else is new? Stallman is always pissed off. Always.
Actually, on a Linux/Apache system with Mono installed, a lot of ASP.NET web apps run just fine...this was actually a major goal of Mono, iirc.
What's this "prove you are not a script" thing all about?
Perhaps the Linux zealots (most of whom might even read this post) should also take note.
It's a complete scam. $22/month per dial up? Another $8 will buy you DSL in many places. The PC is nothing special, it's just like any of the other bullshit lies we're fed by advertisers on a daily basis. Whatever you save on your cheap POS system will be paid to earthlink, at $22/month for what is for many people a free service.
This is going to be a typical scene of geek masturbation, with a single common theme in mind:
It worked for me, therefore it must be perfect for everyone in the world
So it worked for this school. Good for them. Advising the students to use it is questionable, and the inevitable posts in this thread marking any Office user as a hopeless moron are more damaging to OpenOffice's reputation than helpful.
Yes, but will it wash the dishes?
Oh, I guess it will.
All that fuss to say it's a simple derivative of NT, in its second generation of console-ness.
That was certainly a surprise. Oh wait, no it wasn't.
Those fools. Everybody knows that you can't just coat your house with it -- microwaves can still tunnel through. It's necessary to wear an actual hat at all times.
I'm so confused:
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Given what I've experienced of the net in certain circles (counter strike and IRC in general being major offenders), I'm not sure I want to know what other people are bookmarking.
Porn dialers inside! See hot girl on girl action! Also includes all Microsoft virus updates! Keep your computer safe, with hot girl on girl action!
Unfortunately, I have a 64 bit Gentoo Linux install on there that I use every so often. Yes, I said "unfortunately".
Seriously. $2000? I built an Athlon64 computer with a GeForce 6, 200GB SATA hard drive, WinXP, gigabit ethernet, Wifi-g, sound card, and speakers for less than that, and I can guarantee you, it plays all sorts of media.
Apple and Microsoft are both persuing imaging models that heavily leverage GPU processors and VRAM to avoid pushing large numbers of bits through the bottleneck interfaces to video cards.
You mean the bottleneck that has just been alleviated, if not removed, by PCI Express?
Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that you need to register to see their explanation of why you need to subscribe?
Well, this pricing is standard for professional level cards (the Quadro FX), but that's not because of the extra RAM...which btw is useless. This card is nothing more than a rich kid's toy.
I just have one question.
What took so long? This was overdue the day video streaming over the net became possible.
What's interesting is the utter irrelevance of the slashdot posting to the book excerpt. Slashdot talks as if it's a detailed article on the internals of Darwin, which is the OSX kernel, NOT MACH. Darwin is based on Mach, yes, but it's not Mach. And the article never once mentions OSX, or Apple, or Macs. One must seriously wonder...is the ability to read included in the job requirements for a slashdot editor?
As a guess (i.e. I do not know), I'd say that a Linux port is likely...eventually. Near the release date? As if that ever happens.
AFAIK everything he's told me is not NDAed. But I don't feel like dancing with the line.
I forgot to mention that they've made a lot of heavy modifications to Doom 3's engine. It's not like a Doom 3 mod. There's been seriously major changes just in the technology...I won't be specific since I don't know exactly where NDA boundaries lie, but the Q4 engine sounds like it stands to be even more powerful, capable, and beautiful than Doom 3.
And it'll be less dark from time to time. That's always nice.