metadigital

Shhhh!

The death of English was preceded by the breathtakingly amazing idea by the weirdo hippies in the seventies that the whole language learning process needed to be revamped (not a bad idea in and of itself) by the removal of grammar and general sentence awareness/analysis from the syllabus (moronic). Add to this making languages (especially latin) elective, and the myopic and parochial view that English is/was THE dominant global language, and you see the result today. (Aside: English is the de facto language of science, currently, though, say, mathematics is a language unto itself.) I am not particularly concerned. The Spanish of meso-America is already diverging from the Iberian Peninsula, just as the English spoken in Singapore and German in Switzerland are diverging from their cognate forebears (as they must): nothing is constant except change. Just as the language of ancient Latium has diverged into modern French, Spanish, Portuguese and (with a broad Germanic base) English. Chinese is also an umbrella group of about 6-12 regional dialects, too, not to mention the similarity between the double-byte character sets. That actually represents an interesting creative tension: the incompatible alphabetical versus pictographical underpinnings (also Arabic is similar, too ... and there is a strong and growing user base there, too).

Rocky Balboa

Sounds like a bit of race-hate propaganda to me, based on conjecture: not much better than a spam chain letter.

Evidently there aren't as many wanting "in on that fat-money-cake known as The Gaming Industry" as you thought ...

Anyone seen A Scanner, Darkly? I was thinking of seeing it (based on a Philip K Dιck novel, good actors) but the plot sounds kinda lame.

Yes. And no. Yes I would, but No, I wouldn't need to, because I wouldn't have posted it.

Is that Joe Pantoliano?

That video looks pretty impressive, I must say. (I must.)

An small LAN of 286s, multiplexed together! Now I do. Actually, I did, but I didn't notice it as much until you mentioned it.

Spilt from: http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=43613 Who is Skeeter again?

Yeah, maybe the quad-core CPUs might make the PPU obsolete ... then again the PPU has to fight for PCI-e bandwidth: it might be a better performer if it were in a PCI-e(16). Anyways, I think it is still too early to write the epitaph; who knows, AMD-ATi might buy Aegis, too, and make a killer daughterboard ...

My word that is a particulary biased and misinformed opinion.

As long as the point was to poke fun at all the overuse of Wolverines. Why is this character so popular, I wonder?

If it were an advert, you would have deleted it yourself, right? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a free product.

Love is a serious mental disease. Plato (428-348BCE)

He never does.

So is he re-animated, or did he just escape death? This is an important philosophical issue.

That's a generic report telling you that the terminal error. you would need to either read through the memory dump, or send it to someone (tech support) to read it for you, to ascertain what the cause was. My best guess, based on the paucity of information supplied, is that you have a virus (more than one internet application being affected). You can also check the AIM/MSN/whatever website for any issues, but I use both protocols and have had no problems. It's a local issue, to your PC.

Nope. PPUs are different hardware. GPUs do a gazillion burst instructions on a texture (read-only, loads of bandwidth), whereas the PPU is a self-updating set of nested calculations (read/write, loads of bandwidth). Just because the GPU has loads more bandwidth (even several orders of magnitude more: the new ATi X1950 has DDR4 RAM, for example), it still isn't capable of completing the basic calculations PROPERLY.

The latest gen ATi use a lot more juice, so they do run hotter (larger die, as well, to nVidia). But they are faster, chip-for-chip (excluding the dual-GPU-on-a-single-card 7950GX2).

Depends how big the infinity is, I guess, too ... I mean, can you imagine trying to check the work? The monkeys 16869987339975 x 2^171960

Not to mention it has the coolest function EVA, being a hyperlink to the wikipedia for any word mentioned in the chat window! /not an advert