We are not talking about faster stuff. GTO is a stripped down version (made slower on purpose) and I was pointing out that there are X700 which where top-of-the-line some time ago (or whatever was previous line of ATi cards, I'm not following their developement) which have pretty same performance and features like this low-end versions of X1800 cards.
Makes me wonder if it was Starforce guys that released this torrents just to sell their product. Looking at how did they behave recently (threatening people, etc) I would bet some money on this.
If it wasn't for the fact that Ubuntu is synchronized with Gnome releases I wouldn't mind the delay. But now they would have to either rush the next release, be late with it or completly skip Gnome 2.16. I hope they'll find some good solution because many users are preferring Ubuntu to other distros because of fairly nice bleeding-edgeness. With this step they could lose major selling point to causal Linux geeks.
The recent theme changes are not a step in good direction too. It looks abysymal and burns my eyes. Even tough I didn't like brown theme the new one made me miss it.
I wonder what's the point of releasing such cards. They usually cost about the same that previous-generation cards with very similar performance. The only reason for me to get a new crippled card would be to unblock some features but I can't come up with a way how is this profitable for the manufacturer.
The fact that new games have very high demands isn't not the thing that bugs me the most. I'm more angry with the fact that new games on lowest details look worse than Pong.:\
I think there are some hacks that allow use of Safe Sleep on supposedly unsupported Macs. It doesn't work on everything but there are certainly other Macs that can use Safe Sleep.
The price gap between CRT and LCD is too big to cover electricity consumption difference. And I wouldn't call them easier on eyes, it depends but 85hz refresh rate is quite comfortable and possible on every normal monitor. Also, there are other benefits of CRT monitors, for example I can't stand poor colours on LCDs compared to even cheapest CRTs. And you can get CRT monitors for much lower price, I've bought my 19' flat CRT (NEC) for less than 100$, sure, it's second hand, it's old, but it beats every LCD I've seen in terms of image quality and supports 1280x1024 which is more than adequate for my needs. LCDs look nicer tough but it's a budget box.
You could check before buying if your hardware was fully supported. Spending >1000$ without research is stupid. It took me few minutes to check if notebook I was going to buy works well with Ubuntu and when I've installed it later everything worked out of the box, including hibernation and wifi.
Tango) icons will be default in Gnome 2.16, they were supposed to get into 2.14 but they aren't complete yet. As for window drawing technologies - I'm using Xgl on my desktop right now and I'm in love with it. I think I'm going to marry Xgl.:)
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I tought I was using the bleeding edge apps when I have installed 6.04. You are ahead of your times, sir:)
Linux substitutes for "most wanted" Windows-only software
DesktopLinux.com has reported recently on Novell Inc.'s survey of the "most wanted" Windows/MacOS-only applications among Linux users. As a result of over 14,000 votes and comments that have been registered since the beginning of January, some useful suggestions about good Linux substitutes have come to the fore.
Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, and Macromedia Dreamweaver continue to run 1-2-3 in the balloting, according to the online survey currently in progress on Novell's CoolSolutions community website.
"All the feedback and participation has been great thus far. As the survey continues, I wanted to share some of the suggestions that people have made regarding the top-requested applications. They have been both impressive and helpful," CoolSolutions site editor Scott Morris said.
"The more people we can expose to the survey, the more the independent software vendors (ISVs) will listen," he added. "For right now, there appears to be an abundance of software available that we can use while we are waiting for our favorites to be ported to Linux. Take a look and see if you can't find something that fits your needs."
By a good margin, Adobe Photoshop is the one application that most people want ported to Linux, Morris said. Free and open-source software (FOSS) already available for Linux that have similar feature sets to Photoshop include:
* Pixel Image Editor
* The GIMP
* Krita (Part of Koffice)
* Photoshop also works with WINE
"So, if you're looking to get Photoshop ported to Linux, you might give these suggestions a try [in the meantime]," Morris said.
Many suggestions were listed as replacements for Autodesk AutoCAD, including:
* VariCAD, which has a version specifically designed for SUSE Linux
* LinuxCAD
* arcad
* Cycas
* Synergy
"After checking these applications out a little, some of them look pretty slick. If you need a CAD app, check these out," Morris said.
Macromedia has a couple of applications on this Top 10 Most Requested list, Morris said. Two suggestions for what to use in place of a Linux version of Dreamweaver are:
* Nvu
* Windows Dreamweaver, via WINE
"There were a handful of great suggestions for iTunes (replacements)," Morris said. They include:
* AmaroK
* gtkpod
* Syncpod
* Yamipod
Fifth on the list is Macromedia Flash. "Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux," Morris said. Those are:
"There are quite a few people taking advantage of making their opinions known," Morris said. "Let's see how many people we can get to take this survey, so the ISVs will pay attention and start porting their products to Linux."
Information without context is worthless. Information consisting of ~20 letters is not worth a lot too.
My bet: serious (it's 50/50:))
Do I win 10 euro?
I'm taking it further. I've bought PSX few months after PS2 was released, now I'm waiting for PS3 to come and to do the same (I consider Xbox and Gamecube tough). If the games are good enough they will be fun even with prev-gen graphics.
ODF is being adopted in many public institutions in Poland. I don't know what's the fuss about Massachussets, there are hundreds of places that already switched and you don't read about them on Slashdot everyday.
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We are not talking about faster stuff. GTO is a stripped down version (made slower on purpose) and I was pointing out that there are X700 which where top-of-the-line some time ago (or whatever was previous line of ATi cards, I'm not following their developement) which have pretty same performance and features like this low-end versions of X1800 cards.
But it's based off Sid which doesn't really have any release date :)
Makes me wonder if it was Starforce guys that released this torrents just to sell their product. Looking at how did they behave recently (threatening people, etc) I would bet some money on this.
If it wasn't for the fact that Ubuntu is synchronized with Gnome releases I wouldn't mind the delay. But now they would have to either rush the next release, be late with it or completly skip Gnome 2.16. I hope they'll find some good solution because many users are preferring Ubuntu to other distros because of fairly nice bleeding-edgeness. With this step they could lose major selling point to causal Linux geeks.
The recent theme changes are not a step in good direction too. It looks abysymal and burns my eyes. Even tough I didn't like brown theme the new one made me miss it.
I wonder what's the point of releasing such cards. They usually cost about the same that previous-generation cards with very similar performance. The only reason for me to get a new crippled card would be to unblock some features but I can't come up with a way how is this profitable for the manufacturer.
The fact that new games have very high demands isn't not the thing that bugs me the most. I'm more angry with the fact that new games on lowest details look worse than Pong. :\
I think there are some hacks that allow use of Safe Sleep on supposedly unsupported Macs. It doesn't work on everything but there are certainly other Macs that can use Safe Sleep.
Some Intel GMAs have memory (64mb) and take more (another 64mb) if they are in need AFAIK.
Only old people in Dell use Linux? o_O
Yes, I get what I pay for. And I don't pay for marketing :)
The price gap between CRT and LCD is too big to cover electricity consumption difference. And I wouldn't call them easier on eyes, it depends but 85hz refresh rate is quite comfortable and possible on every normal monitor. Also, there are other benefits of CRT monitors, for example I can't stand poor colours on LCDs compared to even cheapest CRTs. And you can get CRT monitors for much lower price, I've bought my 19' flat CRT (NEC) for less than 100$, sure, it's second hand, it's old, but it beats every LCD I've seen in terms of image quality and supports 1280x1024 which is more than adequate for my needs. LCDs look nicer tough but it's a budget box.
You could check before buying if your hardware was fully supported. Spending >1000$ without research is stupid. It took me few minutes to check if notebook I was going to buy works well with Ubuntu and when I've installed it later everything worked out of the box, including hibernation and wifi.
I can't find it, I probably misread it, altough I'm pretty sure Ubuntu will use Tango in the future.
Tango) icons will be default in Gnome 2.16, they were supposed to get into 2.14 but they aren't complete yet. As for window drawing technologies - I'm using Xgl on my desktop right now and I'm in love with it. I think I'm going to marry Xgl. :)
I tought I was using the bleeding edge apps when I have installed 6.04. You are ahead of your times, sir :)
This article does not include monty-pythonish foot, am I missing something?
Linux substitutes for "most wanted" Windows-only software
DesktopLinux.com has reported recently on Novell Inc.'s survey of the "most wanted" Windows/MacOS-only applications among Linux users. As a result of over 14,000 votes and comments that have been registered since the beginning of January, some useful suggestions about good Linux substitutes have come to the fore.
Adobe Photoshop, Autocad, and Macromedia Dreamweaver continue to run 1-2-3 in the balloting, according to the online survey currently in progress on Novell's CoolSolutions community website.
"All the feedback and participation has been great thus far. As the survey continues, I wanted to share some of the suggestions that people have made regarding the top-requested applications. They have been both impressive and helpful," CoolSolutions site editor Scott Morris said.
"The more people we can expose to the survey, the more the independent software vendors (ISVs) will listen," he added. "For right now, there appears to be an abundance of software available that we can use while we are waiting for our favorites to be ported to Linux. Take a look and see if you can't find something that fits your needs."
By a good margin, Adobe Photoshop is the one application that most people want ported to Linux, Morris said. Free and open-source software (FOSS) already available for Linux that have similar feature sets to Photoshop include:
* Pixel Image Editor
* The GIMP
* Krita (Part of Koffice)
* Photoshop also works with WINE
"So, if you're looking to get Photoshop ported to Linux, you might give these suggestions a try [in the meantime]," Morris said.
Many suggestions were listed as replacements for Autodesk AutoCAD, including:
* VariCAD, which has a version specifically designed for SUSE Linux
* LinuxCAD
* arcad
* Cycas
* Synergy
"After checking these applications out a little, some of them look pretty slick. If you need a CAD app, check these out," Morris said.
Macromedia has a couple of applications on this Top 10 Most Requested list, Morris said. Two suggestions for what to use in place of a Linux version of Dreamweaver are:
* Nvu
* Windows Dreamweaver, via WINE
"There were a handful of great suggestions for iTunes (replacements)," Morris said. They include:
* AmaroK
* gtkpod
* Syncpod
* Yamipod
Fifth on the list is Macromedia Flash. "Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux," Morris said. Those are:
* SWF Tools
* KToon
* Blender3D (Available directly from YAST)
* SoftImage|XSI
"There are quite a few people taking advantage of making their opinions known," Morris said. "Let's see how many people we can get to take this survey, so the ISVs will pay attention and start porting their products to Linux."
You would scrub music from the mp3 too.
Information without context is worthless. Information consisting of ~20 letters is not worth a lot too. My bet: serious (it's 50/50 :))
Do I win 10 euro?
I'm taking it further. I've bought PSX few months after PS2 was released, now I'm waiting for PS3 to come and to do the same (I consider Xbox and Gamecube tough). If the games are good enough they will be fun even with prev-gen graphics.
It is about how much power does it take.
Do you think that Microsoft is worried about that? :)
This shows how great Wine is. It even emulates exploits and being late with the patches! Hurray for Wine!
Why was it rated funny? It's informative! (I had one of those too :))
ODF is being adopted in many public institutions in Poland. I don't know what's the fuss about Massachussets, there are hundreds of places that already switched and you don't read about them on Slashdot everyday.