Would anyone else who actually WENT to the GDC like to comment? Here's what I saw at the Sun booth...
A Granbd Prix racer that looks as good as EA's latest , was cross paltform compatable with Win32, Linux and Solaris, and ran at better then 60fps on 1.4gig AMD witha GF3 GTS.
An FPS, equally portable, that ran at 145 FPS on the same kind of box.
A poster sized copy of the PC Gamer reveiw of Roboforge, a commerical game from Liquid Edge. PC Gamer gave it an "Excellent" rating (87%, which is very high in their scale.)
A 3D fighting game with real interactive shadows that ran at 60 fps on the 1.4Gig/GF3GTS box.
A MMOLRPG that looked terrific (better then EQ or DAOC, at least that's what pothers around me looking at it said) that apparently also runs on Win32, Linux and Soalris./ theyd eveloerps told us it took them a total of 2 hours fro mwhen theyw ere first handed a Soa\laris box til they had it running. (See their GDC report at www.cosm-game.com)
An internet "Smash breothers" type game in 3D that looked and palyed terrific on both Win32 and a OSX Mac.
**sigh**
>>> flame on
Ya gotta love the internet. Its the only medoum I know of which so freely allwos thsoe who knwo nothing to inform those who knwo less. And slash tends to be the internet in microcosm.
Open your minds to new ideas and its amazing what "impossible" thinga you will discover are already happening.
Its an application of inter-frame interpolation. They've been doing it for years.
Everytime you watch a movie and it starts with that little stop watch symbol next to text that says something like "This movie has been modified for time" its in use.
How MSNBC has a big story on how one of MS's cheif comeptitors lost a lawsuit whiel everyoen else is running the story that XP lets pirates take over your entoire computer?
Not.
MSNBC == MS PR + NBC's journalistic integrity bought and paid for.
From the lead paragraph ie xprcted a lsit of toys with small prts that coudl coem opf and choke a child, etc.
When did we get to the poitn that "child safety" included sticking to a prescribed politically correct politicla and social agenda?
According to their descriptions, NONE of these toys are "dangerous" in the sense of toy safety.
Skip such web-pap and read Consumer Reports if you are concerned about toys harming your child.
Oh and hears an idea, why don't YOU try teaching your children right from wrong rather then expecting toy, videogame and TV program makers to do I for you??
If you were evre realy excited about CCS, the excitement will come back. Your just burned out on school. Get the heck out and find an inetresting project to join.
Thats is, unless your whole motivation really was "at least it pays well"{ in which cvase your finding out to olate that you went into the wrong field. Don't do things 'for the monmey', you will be bad at them. Do them for love and money will find you because you will be great at them.
If THIS is the case, I'd suggest you fiure out what you REALLY like to do and get a masters that wil let you do that for a living.
As last suggestion, you will hit the doldrums at variosu times in your career for various rasons. Whats always pulled me through are side projects of my own that keep my excited and learnign new things.
Well... that or to a consulting vendor who sells support for the Open Source ackage if youa re convinced they can do the job and will be in business as long as you need the support.
This is the basis of Open Source software-- there IS no software vendor so either you support it yourself or pay a third parrty to do that support.
(1) You work for the government, there are special laws regarding govt activities and security may well be par tof them.
(2) Some wise jurist ocne poinetd out the approximate observation that "During war, the law is suspended." I am afraid that, whetehr you've realized it ro not, you are at Ground Zero. We are beign attacked with disease, the national health infrastructure is thus a very strategic target.
(3) Given that yo uare at ground zero, if Iw ere you I'd be HAPPY about the tightened security. Would you rather have your private self and private posiessiosn blown to private-bits by a bomb someone snuck in?
This is a terrorist war. They don't march up in pretty unfirms and say "okay, pleas esend your amry otu to fight." They hit by stealth wherever they think it will most harm our infrastructure.
Writing OpenSource:
You don't own your IP. Anyone can come along and make a whole lot of money just by slickly selling what you've created without giving you a cut. (Witness all the Linux compnies that sprang up. How much of that do you think Torvalds or the GNU foundation gets back?)
In a sense open soruce end s up meaning that marketing is valued but engineering isn't. A backwards situation if you ask any engineer;)
Using Open Source
If you base your business on any sofwtare you need to ask yourself serious questiosn about support. Do you want to make supporting your sofwtare base an integral part of your business/ If so then Open Soruce is good because you can. If not however it puts you in the ahdns of comapneis with no real vested inetrest in the software. If demand falls low enough they may well abandon what you are relying on fto promote another Open Source solution.
Personally, I believe in freeware as a way of promoting learning and sharing the grutn work of coding, but I don't believe that there is any good finanacial model to suggest that any form of free ware (incl "Open Source") makes sense as a final business product or as something to base your business on.
My unscientific observation suggests that most often today commercial companies use "Open Source" as an excuse/mechanism for a comapny to dump support of a flagging product line. (So called "abandonware">)
Career wise, sure. "Architects" gte paid mreo in many firms.
OTOH I have little respect for Archietcs who don't code (and eys I've done Architect duty). Its too easy to design theoreticly pure stuff that won't work in the real world unless aprt of your brain is actively engaged in "how will I build this" kidns of thoughts.
Pure architects IMO are useless for much more then spewing marekting documents. Keep your hands in the code to soem degree and make celar to management that this is the only way to getr eal value out of you.
Unelss you WANT to become a "Marketecht". Some of those guys get paid very well by large firms, but I dunno how they can loo kthemselevs in the mirror in the morning...
There are lots of web pages with poinetrs to corss compilers for the Game Boy Advanced and development information. As I understant it, you can get a writable flash-cartridge for it for about $175.00
So if you already have a PC to run the tolsl on thats about $275.00-- right in your budget range.
I built soemthign like this in college out of a big old black and white set and a lense from a Xerox machine.
The problem was brightness, it was basicly unviewable except in pitch black. You can up the brightenss by putting a tube transformer in the set but it reduces your picture tube life. (You can also up the brightness by getting a scotchlite screen, but they are serious bucks.)
As a moderate socialist I RESENT the sugegstion that Slashdot represents socialist views.
The children here frustrate me as much as you.
I'd suggest you read a bit on what Socialism really is. Thsi isn't the cold-war anymore and you don't have to hate it just because its connected to our msot powerful rival. (Who, btwm, wre communists mreo then they were socialists and even their band of communism was tainted and wrong. Marx hismelf predicted the fall of the USSR because he said that COmmuniosm could happen correctly only AFTER a capitalistr phase.)
You're never to old to widen your world-view and learn somethign new:)
ALL belief systems taken to extremes are dangerous, and non more so then the poster's beleif system.
Read between the lines and the poster is saying "All beliefs but MINE are evil and dangerous and must be destroyed."
How is this different from that which he claims to decry?
Extremists of any kind are dangerous not just in thmeselves but because they justify extremists of the opposite point of view.
Chrsitinaity practoiced b yman is a relkigio nof lvoe a tolerance but practiced by extremeists it is a hate-filled thing that leads to the shooting of doctors and beating of gay men to death. In the apst it has been an excuse for the most horrendous of crimes (see "the Crusades" and "the inquisition.")
So Islam practiced by the majority is a religion of love and respect and I've known many such muslim personally. (I,btw, am Jewish.) Practiced by the extremists though it ebcomes as dangerous as any other extreme.
Actually Hydrogen is lighter then helium. It was the preferred gas for Blimps.... and why the Hindenburgh made such a BIG ball of fire when it went up.
We can kick all of the users off who aren't at Unviersties or government reserach sites and finally get the discourse back up above the level of a 10 year old...
Or is thsi not what you had in mind? This IS in fact what the "Inetrnet was intended for" not to mention origanlly funed for-- academic research.
Be careful what you wish for.
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Actually the reverse is probably true. The cost of running a compouter site is in the upkeep not the initial hardware cost. See m yTCo explainatio nabove.
The good thing about Intel based render farms is that theya re cheap. The bad thing is... theya re cheap.
Intel based hardware does NOT have great MTBF (Mean Time Between Faiulre) unfortunately but inevitably as Intel boxes are commodities built for least possible expense. As a result large Intel farms mean near constant maintainence. Soem machine is always on the verge of failure.
In contrast so much horse power in a highly reliable box means both fewer machiens to fai lAND much lower MTBF per machine.
The Washington post needs to be hit with a wet herring a few times. Then their reporter needs to be sent back to school.
Not ONLY did she misrepresent him but her whoel poitnis rediculous. It only takes the NSA slightly longer to crack a message encoded with PGP then a message econded with ROT13. Thats why its called "Pretty Good Privacy." It will stand up to casual cracking attempts but not serious professionals with serious equiptment.
How can she walk into an inertveiw knowning that LITTLE about her subject matter? Sheesh.
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I find the /ignorance almsot amusing.
Would anyone else who actually WENT to the GDC like to comment? Here's what I saw at the Sun booth...
A Granbd Prix racer that looks as good as EA's latest , was cross paltform compatable with Win32, Linux and Solaris, and ran at better then 60fps on 1.4gig AMD witha GF3 GTS.
An FPS, equally portable, that ran at 145 FPS on the same kind of box.
A poster sized copy of the PC Gamer reveiw of Roboforge, a commerical game from Liquid Edge. PC Gamer gave it an "Excellent" rating (87%, which is very high in their scale.)
A 3D fighting game with real interactive shadows that ran at 60 fps on the 1.4Gig/GF3GTS box.
A MMOLRPG that looked terrific (better then EQ or DAOC, at least that's what pothers around me looking at it said) that apparently also runs on Win32, Linux and Soalris./ theyd eveloerps told us it took them a total of 2 hours fro mwhen theyw ere first handed a Soa\laris box til they had it running.
(See their GDC report at www.cosm-game.com)
An internet "Smash breothers" type game in 3D that looked and palyed terrific on both Win32 and a OSX Mac.
**sigh**
>>> flame on
Ya gotta love the internet. Its the only medoum I know of which so freely allwos thsoe who knwo nothing to inform those who knwo less. And slash tends to be the internet in microcosm.
Open your minds to new ideas and its amazing what "impossible" thinga you will discover are already happening.
flame off
Its an application of inter-frame interpolation. They've been doing it for years.
Everytime you watch a movie and it starts with that little stop watch symbol next to text that says something like "This movie has been modified for time" its in use.
"The genre, already succesful on the PC, has yet to be tested on a console audience, "
Um, can anyone say "Phantasy Star Online."
Is Lindows just a fancy marketing campaign for Linux + WINE or is there more to it?
How MSNBC has a big story on how one of MS's cheif comeptitors lost a lawsuit whiel everyoen else is running the story that XP lets pirates take over your entoire computer?
Not.
MSNBC == MS PR + NBC's journalistic integrity bought and paid for.
From the lead paragraph ie xprcted a lsit of toys with small prts that coudl coem opf and choke a child, etc.
When did we get to the poitn that "child safety" included sticking to a prescribed politically correct politicla and social agenda?
According to their descriptions, NONE of these toys are "dangerous" in the sense of toy safety.
Skip such web-pap and read Consumer Reports if you are concerned about toys harming your child.
Oh and hears an idea, why don't YOU try teaching your children right from wrong rather then expecting toy, videogame and TV program makers to do I for you??
We alreayd have such a network. Its called milnet and is used by the US millitary who funded the original inetrnet research.
As soon as the internet was working they built their own, secure network, and got the hell off of the publicly acessible one.
Maybe Colin won't let Georgie play with his toys, so Georgie wants his own....
If you were evre realy excited about CCS, the excitement will come back. Your just burned out on school. Get the heck out and find an inetresting project to join.
Thats is, unless your whole motivation really was "at least it pays well"{ in which cvase your finding out to olate that you went into the wrong field. Don't do things 'for the monmey', you will be bad at them. Do them for love and money will find you because you will be great at them.
If THIS is the case, I'd suggest you fiure out what you REALLY like to do and get a masters that wil let you do that for a living.
As last suggestion, you will hit the doldrums at variosu times in your career for various rasons. Whats always pulled me through are side projects of my own that keep my excited and learnign new things.
The years of life lost by Japanese Americans to the WWII prision camps.
Not to mention all the buinesses they owned that were lost or ruined.
My God, Micrsoft IS Big Brother. (If you don't understand, its time to reread Orwell's classic science fiction novel 1984.)
Try "anti-trust." If it doesn't produce an entry then I'd definately call this double-plus ungood.
Well... that or to a consulting vendor who sells support for the Open Source ackage if youa re convinced they can do the job and will be in business as long as you need the support.
This is the basis of Open Source software-- there IS no software vendor so either you support it yourself or pay a third parrty to do that support.
(1) You work for the government, there are special laws regarding govt activities and security may well be par tof them.
(2) Some wise jurist ocne poinetd out the approximate observation that "During war, the law is suspended." I am afraid that, whetehr you've realized it ro not, you are at Ground Zero. We are beign attacked with disease, the national health infrastructure is thus a very strategic target.
(3) Given that yo uare at ground zero, if Iw ere you I'd be HAPPY about the tightened security. Would you rather have your private self and private posiessiosn blown to private-bits by a bomb someone snuck in?
This is a terrorist war. They don't march up in pretty unfirms and say "okay, pleas esend your amry otu to fight." They hit by stealth wherever they think it will most harm our infrastructure.
Please no flames back. He asked the question.
;)
Writing OpenSource:
You don't own your IP. Anyone can come along and make a whole lot of money just by slickly selling what you've created without giving you a cut. (Witness all the Linux compnies that sprang up. How much of that do you think Torvalds or the GNU foundation gets back?)
In a sense open soruce end s up meaning that marketing is valued but engineering isn't. A backwards situation if you ask any engineer
Using Open Source
If you base your business on any sofwtare you need to ask yourself serious questiosn about support. Do you want to make supporting your sofwtare base an integral part of your business/ If so then Open Soruce is good because you can. If not however it puts you in the ahdns of comapneis with no real vested inetrest in the software. If demand falls low enough they may well abandon what you are relying on fto promote another Open Source solution.
Personally, I believe in freeware as a way of promoting learning and sharing the grutn work of coding, but I don't believe that there is any good finanacial model to suggest that any form of free ware (incl "Open Source") makes sense as a final business product or as something to base your business on.
My unscientific observation suggests that most often today commercial companies use "Open Source" as an excuse/mechanism for a comapny to dump support of a flagging product line. (So called "abandonware">)
Career wise, sure. "Architects" gte paid mreo in many firms.
OTOH I have little respect for Archietcs who don't code (and eys I've done Architect duty). Its too easy to design theoreticly pure stuff that won't work in the real world unless aprt of your brain is actively engaged in "how will I build this" kidns of thoughts.
Pure architects IMO are useless for much more then spewing marekting documents. Keep your hands in the code to soem degree and make celar to management that this is the only way to getr eal value out of you.
Unelss you WANT to become a "Marketecht". Some of those guys get paid very well by large firms, but I dunno how they can loo kthemselevs in the mirror in the morning...
That the first sign of the impending death of any tehnology company is when they start paying lawyers rather then engineers.
Something to think about.
There are lots of web pages with poinetrs to corss compilers for the Game Boy Advanced and development information. As I understant it, you can get a writable flash-cartridge for it for about $175.00
So if you already have a PC to run the tolsl on thats about $275.00-- right in your budget range.
I built soemthign like this in college out of a big old black and white set and a lense from a Xerox machine.
The problem was brightness, it was basicly unviewable except in pitch black. You can up the brightenss by putting a tube transformer in the set but it reduces your picture tube life. (You can also up the brightness by getting a scotchlite screen, but they are serious bucks.)
Hey!!!
:)
As a moderate socialist I RESENT the sugegstion that Slashdot represents socialist views.
The children here frustrate me as much as you.
I'd suggest you read a bit on what Socialism really is. Thsi isn't the cold-war anymore and you don't have to hate it just because its connected to our msot powerful rival. (Who, btwm, wre communists mreo then they were socialists and even their band of communism was tainted and wrong. Marx hismelf predicted the fall of the USSR because he said that COmmuniosm could happen correctly only AFTER a capitalistr phase.)
You're never to old to widen your world-view and learn somethign new
UM meta-moderation -- unfair.
,btw, am Jewish.) Practiced by the extremists though it ebcomes as dangerous as any other extreme.
This is not informative, rather it is a troll.
ALL belief systems taken to extremes are dangerous, and non more so then the poster's beleif system.
Read between the lines and the poster is saying "All beliefs but MINE are evil and dangerous and must be destroyed."
How is this different from that which he claims to decry?
Extremists of any kind are dangerous not just in thmeselves but because they justify extremists of the opposite point of view.
Chrsitinaity practoiced b yman is a relkigio nof lvoe a tolerance but practiced by extremeists it is a hate-filled thing that leads to the shooting of doctors and beating of gay men to death. In the apst it has been an excuse for the most horrendous of crimes (see "the Crusades" and "the inquisition.")
So Islam practiced by the majority is a religion of love and respect and I've known many such muslim personally. (I
And as dangerous the poster.
Actually Hydrogen is lighter then helium. It was the preferred gas for Blimps.... and why the Hindenburgh made such a BIG ball of fire when it went up.
We can kick all of the users off who aren't at Unviersties or government reserach sites and finally get the discourse back up above the level of a 10 year old...
Or is thsi not what you had in mind? This IS in fact what the "Inetrnet was intended for" not to mention origanlly funed for-- academic research.
Be careful what you wish for.
Actually the reverse is probably true. The cost of running a compouter site is in the upkeep not the initial hardware cost. See m yTCo explainatio nabove.
The good thing about Intel based render farms is that theya re cheap. The bad thing is... theya re cheap.
Intel based hardware does NOT have great MTBF (Mean Time Between Faiulre) unfortunately but inevitably as Intel boxes are commodities built for least possible expense. As a result large Intel farms mean near constant maintainence. Soem machine is always on the verge of failure.
In contrast so much horse power in a highly reliable box means both fewer machiens to fai lAND much lower MTBF per machine.
The result is much lower Total Cost of Ownership.
The Washington post needs to be hit with a wet herring a few times. Then their reporter needs to be sent back to school.
Not ONLY did she misrepresent him but her whoel poitnis rediculous. It only takes the NSA slightly longer to crack a message encoded with PGP then a message econded with ROT13. Thats why its called "Pretty Good Privacy." It will stand up to casual cracking attempts but not serious professionals with serious equiptment.
How can she walk into an inertveiw knowning that LITTLE about her subject matter? Sheesh.
Journalism is dead, so it goes.
Those comparing this to other cards should keep in mind that MX is the cheap version of the nVidia cards.
A real graphics speed test should be done v. a Geforce2 GTS.
I don't udnertand why nVidia made this card with an MX unelss they were trying to keep its cost down.