hell, I could dole out stuff BassHunter does from Modplug with a software synthesizer (i.e. I'd have to write a new feature that emulates a KORG or MOOG synth platform) easily, on a slow, latency encumbered system
Wouldn't it be much quicker and less painful simply to pour lava into your ears?
OpenAL looks nice on paper, but the only two options for it right now are the software driver (which has actually improved a lot recently) or a closed source train wreck for Creative's cards. If you thought fglrx was bad, you've seen nothing yet. You'll probably hear nothing too.
In an ideal world the OpenAL spec would be like OpenCL - designed to work with OpenGL so you could effectively say to the driver API "draw this room, oh and render this pcm sample at (x,y,z) and stream it to the sound card".
Don't worry, once people start realising higher DPI = less surface area = less backlight needed, there'll be another power efficiency war and we'll end up with the LCD equivalent of an Atom....I wish they'd hurry up and start fighting.
You can turn all the web2.0 bloat off in the prefs, you know. You're left with the previous version, which has visibly broken CSS, now requires javascript to display the friend icons(???), and takes you to the new layout if you click the wrong link, but there's still that option.
Why don't they (any OS) just add something onto the generic filesystem caching layer to keep executable bits in RAM as long as the input files stay the same? If it was done that way you could theoretically reuse it for interpreted code as well.
In the 16-bit era you could do processing in the hblank too, forget the vblank. Sega used it for better-looking water (palette swap), Amiga could do the same to get a huge amount of colours on screen, or even run two different horizontal resolutions at the same time.
Who here runs Linux on anything with more than 16 cores? Why should everyone else get the shitty end of the stick just because of maybe a dozen institutes with deep pockets?
If you only need 2D then why bother with an old card at all? I just got a cheap, fanless HD4350 and it'll run just about anything I throw at it now. The best part is it'll get faster and more useful the longer I keep it.
2D acceleration in Linux for most video drivers is shabby at best.
The biggest 2D performance hog I've ever used, KDE 4, has never given me a severe problem. So far I've used it on a Radeon 9250, an Intel i915, and a SiS 630. I've heard nightmare stories about it on nVidia cards with the proprietary driver though.
Flash, flash has never been usable. Standard-def youtube video will bring my Pentium 4 to its knees (if the video works at all), yet it plays fine when I plug the URL into mplayer.
Linux has less games. One out of three, well done.
Windows Vista broke the driver model leaving a lot of PCI and AGP cards unusable (most current Creative hardware included), and Windows has more software because 50% of it is designed for the sole purpose of keeping 40% of it off the computer.
How is that any worse than installing Windows for someone and then telling them the steps required to fix DLL Hell and virus infections? I'm not even going to attempt listing everything because I could be here all night.
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hell, I could dole out stuff BassHunter does from Modplug with a software synthesizer (i.e. I'd have to write a new feature that emulates a KORG or MOOG synth platform) easily, on a slow, latency encumbered system
Wouldn't it be much quicker and less painful simply to pour lava into your ears?
OpenAL looks nice on paper, but the only two options for it right now are the software driver (which has actually improved a lot recently) or a closed source train wreck for Creative's cards. If you thought fglrx was bad, you've seen nothing yet. You'll probably hear nothing too.
In an ideal world the OpenAL spec would be like OpenCL - designed to work with OpenGL so you could effectively say to the driver API "draw this room, oh and render this pcm sample at (x,y,z) and stream it to the sound card".
And in spite of it they've showed no signs of slowing down.
Only on Slashdot would you get a pissing contest to see who has the fewest inches... /me pulls out a six-inch, 800x480 eeePC
Don't worry, once people start realising higher DPI = less surface area = less backlight needed, there'll be another power efficiency war and we'll end up with the LCD equivalent of an Atom. ...I wish they'd hurry up and start fighting.
Well, like your .sig says...
You can turn all the web2.0 bloat off in the prefs, you know. You're left with the previous version, which has visibly broken CSS, now requires javascript to display the friend icons(???), and takes you to the new layout if you click the wrong link, but there's still that option.
All religions entrench the leadership in unchallengeable potions.
It puts the potion on its skin or else it gets the hose again?
Or FF + RequestPolicy (much more thorough and less bloated than NoScript). Or Konqueror's built-in Javascript whitelisting.
being a Linux user, my current choices are limited to Firefox and Opera
...is just another way of saying you're ignorant of any browser not explicitly pushed to you via advertising, like Konqueror and Arora.
Ignoring this just because it's "legal" is as stupid as destroying someone's life over "illegal" music listening.
Take the law with a grain of salt, especially in one of the most fucked up legal systems in the world.
Why don't they (any OS) just add something onto the generic filesystem caching layer to keep executable bits in RAM as long as the input files stay the same? If it was done that way you could theoretically reuse it for interpreted code as well.
you've already lost the power battle. Just leave a video card in it.
New is better up to a point.
In the 16-bit era you could do processing in the hblank too, forget the vblank. Sega used it for better-looking water (palette swap), Amiga could do the same to get a huge amount of colours on screen, or even run two different horizontal resolutions at the same time.
Not including HDMI I can agree with, but shipping consoles in the UK with RCA connectors instead of SCART is idiotic.
CFS can't even cope with a CPU-bound application.
Who here runs Linux on anything with more than 16 cores? Why should everyone else get the shitty end of the stick just because of maybe a dozen institutes with deep pockets?
With all due respect, Fuck COFF.
I find it hard to sympathise with them when I can't even read the official statement on their front page because it's in MS OOXML format.
they might want to number the version after 2.6.99 2.7.0 instead of 2.7.100, just to keep the numbers short.
In all likelihood, 5 years from today, the kernel will still be 2.6.x.
But only because at a rate of 1 release every 2 months, it'll be 2.6.91 by then.
If you only need 2D then why bother with an old card at all? I just got a cheap, fanless HD4350 and it'll run just about anything I throw at it now. The best part is it'll get faster and more useful the longer I keep it.
2D acceleration in Linux for most video drivers is shabby at best.
The biggest 2D performance hog I've ever used, KDE 4, has never given me a severe problem. So far I've used it on a Radeon 9250, an Intel i915, and a SiS 630. I've heard nightmare stories about it on nVidia cards with the proprietary driver though.
Flash, flash has never been usable. Standard-def youtube video will bring my Pentium 4 to its knees (if the video works at all), yet it plays fine when I plug the URL into mplayer.
Linux has less games. One out of three, well done.
Windows Vista broke the driver model leaving a lot of PCI and AGP cards unusable (most current Creative hardware included), and Windows has more software because 50% of it is designed for the sole purpose of keeping 40% of it off the computer.
How is that any worse than installing Windows for someone and then telling them the steps required to fix DLL Hell and virus infections? I'm not even going to attempt listing everything because I could be here all night.
That's a funny way for them to admit how much they fucked up...
AT&T got the iPhone exclusively because Verizon didn't want to compete or innovate.
That's the problem with these quantum computers - you can't be certain which universe they're decrypting data from.