DVCS (was Re: Moving to D)

[retard]

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:22:59 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.571.1294806486.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> Notice the smiley face -> :D
>>
>> Yeah I didn't check the price, it's only 30$. But there's no telling if
>> that would work either. Also, dirt cheap video cards are almost
>> certainly going to cause problems. Even if the drivers worked
>> perfectly, a year down the road things will start breaking down. Cheap
>> hardware is cheap for a reason.
> 
> Rediculous. All of the video cards I'm using are ultra-cheap ones that
> are about 10 years old and they all work fine.

There's no reason why they would break. Few months ago I was 
reconfiguring an old server at work which still used two 16-bit 10 
megabit ISA network cards. I fetched a kernel upgrade (2.6.27.something). 
It's a modern kernel which is still maintained and had up-to-date drivers 
for the 20 year old device! Those devices have no moving parts and are 
stored inside EMP & UPS protected strong server cases. How the heck could 
they break?

Same thing, can't imagine how a video card could break. The old ones 
didn't even have massive cooling solutions, the chips didn't even need a 
heatsink. The only problem is driver support, but on Linux it mainly gets 
better over the years.