Well, like it or not, real-time high framerate graphics are the primary use case for these cards. And immediate-mode API's are turning out to be too bus-heavy for that use case. Whether you like Microsoft or not, the programming model used in DX is an attempt to mitigate this. The proper response is to lobby the OpenGL ARB to add API features more amenable to modern graphics processing. They are making large steps with OpenGL 2.0 in this regard.
Given their history I'm willing to bet that nvidia would like to support OpenGL as well as they can. But OpenGL needs to keep up with the times.
The fun is that it eliminates the one flaw of an otherwise almost perfect (well, at the time) game.
And I didn't do it *every* time I played, of course. But it is a nice and logical checkpointing thing to do every few levels.
Damn. I want to play now. It's just an apt-get away too. Thanks man, now my week is shot:)
Consider nethack an early form of electronic advertising for the "cp" command.
Seriously, it took one death in nethack for me to figure out what to do. I pretended it was just part of the game.
Isaac Asimov wrote more nonfiction books than fiction... in the same witty style. Check out some of his nonfiction work, then his fiction, and see if you can generate assignments around some ideas he had.
First off, NP does not mean "non-polynomial", it means "nondeterministically polynomial". Which means, the set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time on a nondeterministic turing machine.
They are not reducing an NP problem to P here, which would require that their algorithm be executable on a deterministic turing machine in polynomial time. Rather, they are saying that if they effectively simulate a limited nondeterministic turing machine by increasing the number of compute units (in this case, photons) to effectively infinite numbers, then there is a polynomial solution. Which, since the travelling salesman problem is known to be in NP, is not surprising.
Or am I misreading this?
What IS cool is that they have found a way to actually effectively simulate a subset of a nondeterministic turing machine.
I could be wrong (insert obligatory "not a lawyer" here), but what it sounds like to me is that her lawyer is smart and is going for them in every way they exposed themselves, including the perceived lack of enforcement on their IP. The objective being, as you noted, settlement.
In other words, bend over RIAA, here comes some of your own treatment.
This is a really excellent point. It's been a really great year for PSP games. Also the direction you mention for the device totally makes sense to me.
Hardly anyone would be willing to pay for the ability to carry around a little 3 1/2" shopping buddy You've never been to Japan, have you?
and the shopping center would lose their shirt if they just handed them out (since many people would probably walk off with them) You've never been to Japan, have you?
Seems like beeming info to shopper' cellphones would be a much more marketable (and profitable) endeavour. this is totally true though.
Frankly, who cares? This is the DoD we're talking about; you want to use email to communicate with them, you play by their rules. Also, this is email we are discussing, not some kind of atomic database transaction. If it's important, you had better ensure the recipient got it via a reply or some other means.
Apparently the PS3 launch in Japan was pretty wildly successful. Complete sellthrough in less than an hour.
This is not particularly surprising really, but 80,000 units sold is a good start. It's up to you to decide if launch unit shortages is history repeating itself here.
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Bought Orange Box yet?
Soon he'll have too much time on his cellmate's hands.
Well, like it or not, real-time high framerate graphics are the primary use case for these cards. And immediate-mode API's are turning out to be too bus-heavy for that use case. Whether you like Microsoft or not, the programming model used in DX is an attempt to mitigate this. The proper response is to lobby the OpenGL ARB to add API features more amenable to modern graphics processing. They are making large steps with OpenGL 2.0 in this regard. Given their history I'm willing to bet that nvidia would like to support OpenGL as well as they can. But OpenGL needs to keep up with the times.
The fun is that it eliminates the one flaw of an otherwise almost perfect (well, at the time) game. And I didn't do it *every* time I played, of course. But it is a nice and logical checkpointing thing to do every few levels. Damn. I want to play now. It's just an apt-get away too. Thanks man, now my week is shot :)
Consider nethack an early form of electronic advertising for the "cp" command. Seriously, it took one death in nethack for me to figure out what to do. I pretended it was just part of the game.
Was about to post this myself.
Isaac Asimov wrote more nonfiction books than fiction... in the same witty style. Check out some of his nonfiction work, then his fiction, and see if you can generate assignments around some ideas he had.
(with apologies to the original author of that joke)
"Bluetooth: new device found (Airbus A380)"
Go for it! I just started my stopwatch.
First off, NP does not mean "non-polynomial", it means "nondeterministically polynomial". Which means, the set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time on a nondeterministic turing machine. They are not reducing an NP problem to P here, which would require that their algorithm be executable on a deterministic turing machine in polynomial time. Rather, they are saying that if they effectively simulate a limited nondeterministic turing machine by increasing the number of compute units (in this case, photons) to effectively infinite numbers, then there is a polynomial solution. Which, since the travelling salesman problem is known to be in NP, is not surprising. Or am I misreading this? What IS cool is that they have found a way to actually effectively simulate a subset of a nondeterministic turing machine.
I could be wrong (insert obligatory "not a lawyer" here), but what it sounds like to me is that her lawyer is smart and is going for them in every way they exposed themselves, including the perceived lack of enforcement on their IP. The objective being, as you noted, settlement. In other words, bend over RIAA, here comes some of your own treatment.
Don't forget helpful feedback like "No, I told you, it needs to look *cooler*".
You can't mod tags, but I wish I could mod the tag "njkewjdkewd" that someone added to this article as funny.
This is a really excellent point. It's been a really great year for PSP games. Also the direction you mention for the device totally makes sense to me.
This is a Gran Turismo game, after all. None of them have ever had crashes as far as I know.
Frankly, who cares? This is the DoD we're talking about; you want to use email to communicate with them, you play by their rules. Also, this is email we are discussing, not some kind of atomic database transaction. If it's important, you had better ensure the recipient got it via a reply or some other means.
I block html email myself simply because it is annoying and 90+% is spam anyway. Why is this a problem?
Apparently the PS3 launch in Japan was pretty wildly successful. Complete sellthrough in less than an hour. This is not particularly surprising really, but 80,000 units sold is a good start. It's up to you to decide if launch unit shortages is history repeating itself here.