All you stupid fucks are missing the point. NVidia is really, really smart in both technical design and MARKETING. Never in my wildest dreams would I see people buying two fucking identical video cards and daisy chaining them up for 3/8th's more performance. I speak of this right now as a GNU+Linux user, with a all nvidia setup, I got like tons of green logos all throughout my computer guts........I like the colour scheme........ See I got the 8800 GTS, weren't any of you wondering when the 8xxx series was (harD)released, why we didnt have the GT to begin with? I was the previous owner of a bfg 6800 GT, and 7900 GT> Both the great cards like the 8800 gt is. actually the 8800 gt is considerably more valuable then the previous cards. This is a gift from nvidia, right on the heels of mofuggin' Crysis! That game is so fucking dope shit. It's unreal. Anyways.. they didn't release a gt part because they were stuck on the 90nm fab. I remember seeing pre-release picks of the 8800 GTX, and thinking it was really large, and it ended being just as large, and people bought it. Once they got to 65nm they could release a GT part, a strong performer. With people like evga selling like DOZENS OF SKUS, all with weird-ass confusing clocks and in-box contents, it's nice to have a baseline to go with, x(8/9)00 GT please? Frankly I think nviida should have called this the 8900 GT, like the bump from the 7800 cards to the much better (AND CHEAPER!!!) 7900 series, i think impacts more nerds in a marketing perspective.
The 8800 GT is FUCKING SLEAK. Crysis on high at 1280x960 (4:3) would be the absoulute lowest resoultion you should have to go with a conroe. With everything on high. Fuck Direct3d 10, it's a buzzword. If you're any good a gpu overclocker (I volt modded my 7900 GT EASILY) you could make this play at 1600x1200. fuck you, I like 4:3.
I'm surprised some fat anime fag didn't want this to get put into "your rights online" because he pretends to live a secret Internet life as a Japanese girl.
Just for your information, the GLORIOUS wine project will eventually have a reverse-engineered implementation of the DX10 API, for all the UNIX flavours it supports, AS WELL AS WINDOWS. Check it out... http://winehq.com/?issue=325#DirectX%2010%20For%20 SoC?
Short quote: "Jokes aside, there aren't any dx10 apps yet, except some demo apps. The first one to be expected is Halo 2 on April 24th afaik. The only thing is that MS has created some hype around dx10 recently. It would give us some nice publicity if the Halo 2 box states "Runs on Windows Vista and higher" and winehq.org says "Runs Halo 2 on Linux, MacOS, Windows XP and earlier"
speakingas a 100 % linux zealot, i say ms should just buy out avg antivirus, and offer at least the standard guts of the code as freely available in all denomintions of vista. shit Im so scared of apple now I like how the awkward and stupid vista keeps more compeptitinvess in the os arena
Yet clock increases, if done correctly, and if stability is achieved, is still a VERY good thing. The whole MARKET is about performance per watt, and that's definately a good thing, but you still get justifiable speed increases by overclocking. Plus its fun as hell.
As far as I can tell, both AMD and INTEL release chips that very much can run at much higher clock speeds with no problem, albeit probably with some extra voltage. My quess is they don't really want to keep brining out new chip 'names' to what is basically the same thing all round, even if new batches of chips (usually after a new fab process sits in) can run faster, they might very well have the same moniker as chips before it. Well, as far as AMD goes that's true. Their work-in-progress 65nm chips are all named after previous prodcuts, sometimes for the THIRD time, Alot of the athlon x2 chips are spread out across 90nm socket 939, am2, and now 65nm am2.
Overclocking really isnt crazy, or even dangerous really. At the bare minimum, you can get a good oveclocking mainboard, many times at sub 100 prices, so not much more than other motherboards.
Don't buy cheap motherboards, even if your setting up a mail server for a book club, dont buy shit. VIA chipsets are great too, unless you want to go SLI with the latest NVIDIA, but then you'd be running Windows, and I'm afraid that's the end of th e line for me.
I've my athlon 64 4000 s939 90nm chip running +600 (3000) with a slight adjustment to voltage (and a good cooler of course). Its kinda like a single cored athlon 74 (or whatever), for like 60 bucks.
Pointless? American technology is giving enemies of American easy means to strike at our servicemen (and women). It's pretty predictable that a fat nerd at *home* mashing his keyboard for hours on end will defend Google.
That whole 'carmakers' thing is crap. Cars which can, indeed, run over people and be turned into bombs, cost money, and in the hands of the insurgents are just as much a war expense as ammunition. Google Earth however is MORE than a fancy map, it's a freely available, self updating representation of the entire earth's surface. To say that it should be allowed to be turned into war intelligence against our own military is treasonous bunk.
Assuming the article is unbiased. If this information is true, I saw we black out those area's of the map.
I tell ya, if I got a story each time one of MY forum posts was deleted, slashdot would become quite clogged and full of obscenities.
But in all truthiness, I think the fact that this rather mundane story got through is simple: whether or not we admit it, or even concisouly know it, we all hate Apple.
The current state of things is such that Gates is known to the general public as the current leader of all the computers and crap. Without the recent surge in Apple's prominence, GNU had a pretty much clear path to the win(dows). Now, however, it looks like their could very much be an "Apple future".
NOT ON MY WATCH! Hell no!! I won't use that stupid OS, and I wont have others I know using it! The UI is fucking retarded! Everything is in it's own stupid place. People buy macs to "be differant", but the fact of the matter is, their paying extra for a stupid white box, running a DRMed os that rapes the free/opensource base it uses.
If small children stop calling me "the next bill gates", and start calling me "the next steve jobs", I'll go beserk. I HATE HIM SO MUCH! Smug fuck...
To all those who run Mac, moderators included, and you think this is a flame, you're wrong.
Linux on x86/x86_64, I am right, everybody else is wrong. God has told me this.
Low voltage, low power, low noise, and low heat really seem to be catching on. Even on the high end, where its still proportional, IF a motherboard design that is interopable with existing standards can be pulled off and show even more gains, I'd very much wager it'll do better than BTX. If it also has designed for the high end market (dual cpus, and gpus) I think people will take to it. Plus, while I am an AMD fanboy (or at least until I can make my next purchase and reevaluate), I very much trust AMD, and their strategy of creating open standards, so that will also probably help their cause.
I gave 6, no 5 fellow college students, whose computer experiance was nil, Slackware with some kind of gnome to replace their spyware invested windows installations. They never looked back, and when I they needed to upgrade, and I lazily said "yeah ill put windows on it" they insisted they be given the latest linux.
Chances are they'll NEVER be able ot know how to parition a hardrive or fix a file, but really all these people need is g(aim), and a web browser. The only thing holding linux back in the usability department is the lack of heavily adopted distrubtion-inspecific package management suite, with a GUI front end. Maybe just a gui that handles the differances between all the package management suites would be even better. (I wonder whether or not autopackage will ever catch on, could be nice.)
Linux isn't hard to ****USE**** in ANY capacity.
Slackware, as well as other distros, that make it a simple, easy process to compile a kernel from source, also makes it much easier to deal with hardware support issues I find.
Holy shit I got a mod point, and I didn't even have to make a corny, old, esoteric cowboyneal joke that nobody REALLY gets.
In reality, most all disitrubtions try to make themselves easy to use. "It's a PAIN in the ass!" is rarely a catch phrase you'll see when your scouting out for an ISO. I'd be really hard pressed to find someone who started as a newbie on say, Ubuntu, for a while (but didnt quite get beyond the newbie stance), and found fedora, mandrake, pclinuxos, suse, etc hard to use.
Sound crazy, but with very little work on the part of the guru, it can be set up with something like KDE, and from there they can use the system no problem, however, since it's slackware, when it comes time to fix something or get into the bowelsof the system, the easyness of the internals in slackware should really help the user not only fix the problem, but also learn about Linux system adminstartion due to the fact that Slackware is the least distributiuon specific disitrubtion out there.
Install slack, bump up to a 2.6 kernel (ck preferably), and use either the slack-supplied KDE, or install Dropline Gnome. Flip iniitab to runlevel 4, and your set.
What WOULD make a distro easier? GUI tools? If your telling me netconfig is hard to use, I'll shoot myself in...hmm...the left ankle.
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It was me. How you folks liking the product?
boo yah?
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=eben+moglen&hl=en&sitesearch=
that shit is funny.
I think the chance well get a good deus ex is just bad.
All you stupid fucks are missing the point. NVidia is really, really smart in both technical design and MARKETING. Never in my wildest dreams would I see people buying two fucking identical video cards and daisy chaining them up for 3/8th's more performance. I speak of this right now as a GNU+Linux user, with a all nvidia setup, I got like tons of green logos all throughout my computer guts........I like the colour scheme........ See I got the 8800 GTS, weren't any of you wondering when the 8xxx series was (harD)released, why we didnt have the GT to begin with? I was the previous owner of a bfg 6800 GT, and 7900 GT> Both the great cards like the 8800 gt is. actually the 8800 gt is considerably more valuable then the previous cards. This is a gift from nvidia, right on the heels of mofuggin' Crysis! That game is so fucking dope shit. It's unreal. Anyways.. they didn't release a gt part because they were stuck on the 90nm fab. I remember seeing pre-release picks of the 8800 GTX, and thinking it was really large, and it ended being just as large, and people bought it. Once they got to 65nm they could release a GT part, a strong performer. With people like evga selling like DOZENS OF SKUS, all with weird-ass confusing clocks and in-box contents, it's nice to have a baseline to go with, x(8/9)00 GT please? Frankly I think nviida should have called this the 8900 GT, like the bump from the 7800 cards to the much better (AND CHEAPER!!!) 7900 series, i think impacts more nerds in a marketing perspective.
The 8800 GT is FUCKING SLEAK. Crysis on high at 1280x960 (4:3) would be the absoulute lowest resoultion you should have to go with a conroe. With everything on high. Fuck Direct3d 10, it's a buzzword. If you're any good a gpu overclocker (I volt modded my 7900 GT EASILY) you could make this play at 1600x1200. fuck you, I like 4:3.
This is crazy, this guy is crazy! Shut up, let me talk!
DOA my butt.
I'm surprised some fat anime fag didn't want this to get put into "your rights online" because he pretends to live a secret Internet life as a Japanese girl.
Just for your information, the GLORIOUS wine project will eventually have a reverse-engineered implementation of the DX10 API, for all the UNIX flavours it supports, AS WELL AS WINDOWS. Check it out... http://winehq.com/?issue=325#DirectX%2010%20For%20 SoC?
Short quote:
"Jokes aside, there aren't any dx10 apps yet, except some demo apps. The first one to be expected is Halo 2 on April 24th afaik. The only thing is that MS has created some hype around dx10 recently. It would give us some nice publicity if the Halo 2 box states "Runs on Windows Vista and higher" and winehq.org says "Runs Halo 2 on Linux, MacOS, Windows XP and earlier"
speakingas a 100 % linux zealot, i say ms should just buy out avg antivirus, and offer at least the standard guts of the code as freely available in all denomintions of vista. shit Im so scared of apple now I like how the awkward and stupid vista keeps more compeptitinvess in the os arena
Yet clock increases, if done correctly, and if stability is achieved, is still a VERY good thing. The whole MARKET is about performance per watt, and that's definately a good thing, but you still get justifiable speed increases by overclocking. Plus its fun as hell.
As far as I can tell, both AMD and INTEL release chips that very much can run at much higher clock speeds with no problem, albeit probably with some extra voltage. My quess is they don't really want to keep brining out new chip 'names' to what is basically the same thing all round, even if new batches of chips (usually after a new fab process sits in) can run faster, they might very well have the same moniker as chips before it. Well, as far as AMD goes that's true. Their work-in-progress 65nm chips are all named after previous prodcuts, sometimes for the THIRD time, Alot of the athlon x2 chips are spread out across 90nm socket 939, am2, and now 65nm am2.
Overclocking really isnt crazy, or even dangerous really. At the bare minimum, you can get a good oveclocking mainboard, many times at sub 100 prices, so not much more than other motherboards.
Don't buy cheap motherboards, even if your setting up a mail server for a book club, dont buy shit. VIA chipsets are great too, unless you want to go SLI with the latest NVIDIA, but then you'd be running Windows, and I'm afraid that's the end of th e line for me.
I've my athlon 64 4000 s939 90nm chip running +600 (3000) with a slight adjustment to voltage (and a good cooler of course). Its kinda like a single cored athlon 74 (or whatever), for like 60 bucks.
Pointless? American technology is giving enemies of American easy means to strike at our servicemen (and women). It's pretty predictable that a fat nerd at *home* mashing his keyboard for hours on end will defend Google.
That whole 'carmakers' thing is crap. Cars which can, indeed, run over people and be turned into bombs, cost money, and in the hands of the insurgents are just as much a war expense as ammunition. Google Earth however is MORE than a fancy map, it's a freely available, self updating representation of the entire earth's surface. To say that it should be allowed to be turned into war intelligence against our own military is treasonous bunk.
Assuming the article is unbiased. If this information is true, I saw we black out those area's of the map.
That's from Billy Madison.
But in all truthiness, I think the fact that this rather mundane story got through is simple: whether or not we admit it, or even concisouly know it, we all hate Apple.
The current state of things is such that Gates is known to the general public as the current leader of all the computers and crap. Without the recent surge in Apple's prominence, GNU had a pretty much clear path to the win(dows). Now, however, it looks like their could very much be an "Apple future".
NOT ON MY WATCH! Hell no!! I won't use that stupid OS, and I wont have others I know using it! The UI is fucking retarded! Everything is in it's own stupid place. People buy macs to "be differant", but the fact of the matter is, their paying extra for a stupid white box, running a DRMed os that rapes the free/opensource base it uses.
If small children stop calling me "the next bill gates", and start calling me "the next steve jobs", I'll go beserk. I HATE HIM SO MUCH! Smug fuck...
To all those who run Mac, moderators included, and you think this is a flame, you're wrong.
Linux on x86/x86_64, I am right, everybody else is wrong. God has told me this.
Low voltage, low power, low noise, and low heat really seem to be catching on. Even on the high end, where its still proportional, IF a motherboard design that is interopable with existing standards can be pulled off and show even more gains, I'd very much wager it'll do better than BTX. If it also has designed for the high end market (dual cpus, and gpus) I think people will take to it. Plus, while I am an AMD fanboy (or at least until I can make my next purchase and reevaluate), I very much trust AMD, and their strategy of creating open standards, so that will also probably help their cause.
Yeah, but I bet you I could kick his ass in Quake...
I gave 6, no 5 fellow college students, whose computer experiance was nil, Slackware with some kind of gnome to replace their spyware invested windows installations. They never looked back, and when I they needed to upgrade, and I lazily said "yeah ill put windows on it" they insisted they be given the latest linux.
Chances are they'll NEVER be able ot know how to parition a hardrive or fix a file, but really all these people need is g(aim), and a web browser. The only thing holding linux back in the usability department is the lack of heavily adopted distrubtion-inspecific package management suite, with a GUI front end. Maybe just a gui that handles the differances between all the package management suites would be even better. (I wonder whether or not autopackage will ever catch on, could be nice.)
Linux isn't hard to ****USE**** in ANY capacity.
Don't be stupid. The guru would be doing these things, not the user.
It's probably the funnest thing to do to your computer, other than building it.
Slackware, as well as other distros, that make it a simple, easy process to compile a kernel from source, also makes it much easier to deal with hardware support issues I find.
In reality, most all disitrubtions try to make themselves easy to use. "It's a PAIN in the ass!" is rarely a catch phrase you'll see when your scouting out for an ISO. I'd be really hard pressed to find someone who started as a newbie on say, Ubuntu, for a while (but didnt quite get beyond the newbie stance), and found fedora, mandrake, pclinuxos, suse, etc hard to use.
Sound crazy, but with very little work on the part of the guru, it can be set up with something like KDE, and from there they can use the system no problem, however, since it's slackware, when it comes time to fix something or get into the bowelsof the system, the easyness of the internals in slackware should really help the user not only fix the problem, but also learn about Linux system adminstartion due to the fact that Slackware is the least distributiuon specific disitrubtion out there.
Install slack, bump up to a 2.6 kernel (ck preferably), and use either the slack-supplied KDE, or install Dropline Gnome. Flip iniitab to runlevel 4, and your set.
What WOULD make a distro easier? GUI tools? If your telling me netconfig is hard to use, I'll shoot myself in...hmm...the left ankle.
Everybody stop bitching. Unless your posting to slashdot with webtv, sell off your stupid console and get an nvidia GPU.
That was a good one.