Videocard

Two weeks ago my Matrox Parhelia (128) burned out.
Start looking for another one or is there a better and/or cheaper
alternative?
BTW, it has to be a dual monitor card.

Thanks, Paul.

 

Virtually all cards except the super cheap no namers and limited edition
cards are dual monitor. Matrox has pretty much abandoned the videocard
business, switching to video processing. Shame because once upon a time
they were the leaders, but they couldn't keep up with the research and
development and manpower costs in the competitive videocard market.
Guess that's what happens when the French-language Nazis take over your
government.

 

ASUS EN7600GS TOP Silent/HTD/512 DDR2 (passive cooling)
ASUS EN7600GT/2DHT/256 DDR3
Matrox Parhelia 128MB (second hand)

These three cost all aprox. ? 145 that is aprox. $ 190.

The card's main task is to display and edit large 2D maps.
If you can choose one of these cards, wich one would you take?
And why?

Thanks, Paul.

 

What do you mean ?
Do you know what is a nazi ?

 

Yes, I know what a Nazi is. I'm Jewish (un maudit Juif) and lost
relatives to the Nazis. I never knew ANY of my grandparents due to them.
The province of Quebec was found by the world court to be racist when
they passed legislation that forbade the use of English in signs while
permitting any other language. They modified their laws, but still
permit and encourage the discrimination against Anglophones. They just
do it more carefully. French language ownership of a company gets them
preference in business with the Quebec government, even if the company
operates totally in French. Parents were forbidden to send their
children to English language schools unless both parents were educated
in English in Quebec (this may still be the case, but I'm not there to
see it any more.) Strikes me as a racist attempt to wipe out the use of
English in Quebec. My aunt lost her job because, even though she lived
in a totally English neighborhood in Montreal and never needed to speak
French in her job, having immigrated to Canada after WWII and having
lived in an English neighborhood she had never learnt French, and the
law mandated that she HAD to speak French to customers unless the
customer requested that she speak English.
Putting all this together and seeing the writing on the wall, I left
shortly after Levesque and the Parti-Quebecois came into power in Quebec.

 

its interesting, but i think you're excessive when comparing language
fanaticism to Nazism

You may not forget that roots of excess are past other inverse excess...

Bonne chance,
Gérald

 

I just find it amazing that only the French-Canadians (who don't even
consider themselves Canadians, but rather Quebecois) consider language
fanaticism to be an acceptable practice to the point where they outlaw
the use of English (but only English.) Prejudice and discrimination were
the root of Nazism and the first thing the Nazis did was legitimize
discrimination with legislation, which is exactly what the province of
Quebec did, in order to deprive the subject group of the ability to make
a living and therefore make a large percentage leave. Did the French in
Quebec go as far as the Nazis? No. But would they have gone as far if
they thought they could get away with it? It certainly looked that way.
Anglophones were routinely fired and replaced with francophones.

Is the U.S. moving in the same direction with making English the
"Official language?" To some degree, but they aren't outlawing the use
of Spanish or Creole or whatever other language the immigrant uses. They
are only insisting that the government does not have to operate in the
various other languages, and yet they still provide documents in
multiple languages. At the school where my wife teaches they issue
report cards, as necessary, in Spanish, Creole, and Portuguese for the
parents that don't speak English.