A good demonstration of another form of aim assist is Borderlands on the PC, it has "strafe assist" type aiming help, where it will keep you facing a target you have under your cross-hair while you strafe left or right, effectively letting any newbie circle strafe like a pro.
The reconstruction time ranged from 77 to 130 seconds on an NVIDIA Tesla C1060 GPU card, depending on the number of projections –-- an estimated 100 times faster than similar iterative reconstruction approaches, says Jia.
So in essence they have built a parallel optimised calculation system rather than an iterative one, and we all know the one thing CUDA and OpenCL do VERY well is parallel processing.
It seems the real win here is the new code, it could run on a TI-82 calculator and still require that level of radiation, its just that its very well suited to GPU to crunch.
1 Get your own blog 2 Whine on that 3 Leave this one alone 4... 5 Forget profit, I would love it if I could read one thread without anyone having to be modded off-topic or troll.
Well, on the plus side its only 6 times more lag than my mouse and keypad gives me, a lot better than consoles but still, not quite there yet:)
That and there's only so many games that support touch, let alone multi finger touch, but of course world of goo, crayola physics and plants vs zombies will be just as playable on this as on my little hp tablet.
Oh, and RTS of course, but keep a keyboard handy for shortcuts (sins of a solar empire comes to mind as the most "zomg this is the future" game you could show off with).
Oh and of course if its at home it backs up over the 802.11n:)
Of course the downside is that for its backups it needs to be left running, fortunately windows 7 and its S3 (suspend to ram) works perfectly for this.
If you find a laptop with a soldered in TPM that stores its BIOS passwords on it its perfect, the laptop will be a brick to anyone without that password.
Well, its a "required to boot" BIOS password, its more vindictive, it means (and I have checked with a service agent) that without that password the thing is a brick (even removal of the BIOS battery doesn't wipe it, its stored in the things soldered in TPM):)
As for the question about backups, I use Windows Home Server and a VPN, unless you have good broadband at both ends it sucks for performance, but it gets the job done and is perfect for laptops on the move (not to mention cheap). You could use something like Mozy or a similar online service if you don't want to run your own server.
Yeah, you were lucky in that instance, pretty much all internet connections here are behind a NAT firewall.
I know if my laptop is stolen its game over, so I just make sure its insured for full value, has a bios password and the drive is truecrypted and fully backed up every night, if the thing gets stolen, I get a free upgrade:)
My record is over 18 min I have handed the one telemarketer around to different staff members who keep "why did they forward you to us? we are HR/Billing/IT/whaterver. You will need to talk with Accounts, I will just put you through..." and forward the call to another co-worker and tell them to leave em on hold for 30sec and then answer and BS your way into getting them back onto hold:)
Wait, so how is having these sites that cannot be controlled (because I am betting if the police could shut them down without filtering, they would) filtered off the net so that no one has to see them or can a bad thing?
I am not saying, as you so vehemently (with prodigious use of capslock) say that I won't do more? I am not only morally obligated (both peer morality and my own) but legally required to stop child pornography and child abuse wherever I see it, and your comment is a slur on my person and all but accusing me of a crime I have no intention of committing.
I would consider legal action for slander but there's three things stopping me:
1. your a troll 2. this is just the comments page of a blog no one important reads 3. I am not an American and don't consider legal action as my every recourse
Yup, now its such a hot potato they are trying to patch up something to get the vote of the "think of the children" (anti-child porn, which lets face it, is not a bad thing to block) and the people who would have voted for them but the whole filter was a deal breaker.
I do a standard install of steam on my laptop, I tell it to download the games I generally play on that machine, I also load up a MMOG or two I play regularly, thats 400G (including windows).
Same deal on my PC, thats about 800G (although there are more games from steam that I have on PC than on laptop, obviously)...
And I agree, I have a windows home server with about 5TB used for my actual data.
Oh, and a further point, for 1TB or so of storage (bootable) you would need a raid0 or JBOD of 2x 500GB or 4x 250GB, both of which adding up to over $4000AU, now I agree that will be damn fast, however that much speed doesn't matter to me as much as spending all that cash on new video card/mobo/cpu/ram would.
No, the weight of a HDD, or multiple HDD AND an SSD is too much, assuming I am trying to use an affordable SSD with HDD mounted for the bulk storage.
The reason I don't use a SSD on my desktop machine is that a 1TB+ SSD typically isn't bootable and costs more than my PC, and complex "hybrid" setups are a pain and more trouble than they are worth.
On a side note when I was in uni we hooked a Bordot teletype machine to a Motorola 68000 based machine via rs232, and built some assembler text editors to talk to them (wasn't too bad, just made a lookup table to convert from ASCII to Bordot).
As for my desktop PC, I like to keep things simple, a single storage medium means less work when configuring backups (or rebuilding from backups) and makes the thing lighter to boot (don't go to many lan parties any more, maybe 1-2 a year, but its enough to want a light machine). I have done the whole "multi drive raid/complex mounted file-system" and frankly, its more trouble than its worth (I have used both on-board and card based "fake raid" as well as some good Areca and Adaptec cards, with IOP, and all of them just complicate any small matter with storage out of all proportion).
I have worked with some hybrid HDD/SSD setups, where some folders in C: were based off the SSD and some off the HDD, and again, lots of over-complication, and it turns out that most of the apps I wanted on the SSD were in fact the ones too large to fit on it (any and all my games).
Not to mention its completely dependant on the person using the machine. My HP Tablet PC could have an SSD in it sure, and I am sure windows seven would be much snappier on that, but when I install steam and load the cut-down list of games that will run on the thing, I reach about 400G used, at which point a new SSD of that size would be worth nearly 50% more than what I paid for the thing in the first place, so a 7200rpm 500G drive was put in as the "next best".
Similarly putting a SSD in my main PC would be nice, but it sits at 1.1TB used (thats mainly programs and a little fraps video) so an SSD for that, again, would likely be almost as expensive as the rest of the system.
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A good demonstration of another form of aim assist is Borderlands on the PC, it has "strafe assist" type aiming help, where it will keep you facing a target you have under your cross-hair while you strafe left or right, effectively letting any newbie circle strafe like a pro.
Pretty much.
So in essence they have built a parallel optimised calculation system rather than an iterative one, and we all know the one thing CUDA and OpenCL do VERY well is parallel processing.
It seems the real win here is the new code, it could run on a TI-82 calculator and still require that level of radiation, its just that its very well suited to GPU to crunch.
Moderation
50% Offtopic
50% Troll
Hehe, I should have seen that coming :)
Well played, Moderators, well played indeed.
And we all had to know this why?
1 Get your own blog ...
2 Whine on that
3 Leave this one alone
4
5 Forget profit, I would love it if I could read one thread without anyone having to be modded off-topic or troll.
I think both of you just need to chill, take a hit or whatever will calm you down, and just let Mr. Taco run his blog however the fuck he wants to :)
Nah, just those are the ones that work damn well on a touch screen.
Steam has made me into a "browser" so far as games go, any time there is a new indy deal I snap them up as fast as I can :)
Well, on the plus side its only 6 times more lag than my mouse and keypad gives me, a lot better than consoles but still, not quite there yet :)
That and there's only so many games that support touch, let alone multi finger touch, but of course world of goo, crayola physics and plants vs zombies will be just as playable on this as on my little hp tablet.
Oh, and RTS of course, but keep a keyboard handy for shortcuts (sins of a solar empire comes to mind as the most "zomg this is the future" game you could show off with).
Oh and of course if its at home it backs up over the 802.11n :)
Of course the downside is that for its backups it needs to be left running, fortunately windows 7 and its S3 (suspend to ram) works perfectly for this.
If you find a laptop with a soldered in TPM that stores its BIOS passwords on it its perfect, the laptop will be a brick to anyone without that password.
Just do not forget the password :)
Well, its a "required to boot" BIOS password, its more vindictive, it means (and I have checked with a service agent) that without that password the thing is a brick (even removal of the BIOS battery doesn't wipe it, its stored in the things soldered in TPM) :)
As for the question about backups, I use Windows Home Server and a VPN, unless you have good broadband at both ends it sucks for performance, but it gets the job done and is perfect for laptops on the move (not to mention cheap). You could use something like Mozy or a similar online service if you don't want to run your own server.
Yeah, you were lucky in that instance, pretty much all internet connections here are behind a NAT firewall.
I know if my laptop is stolen its game over, so I just make sure its insured for full value, has a bios password and the drive is truecrypted and fully backed up every night, if the thing gets stolen, I get a free upgrade :)
My record is over 18 min I have handed the one telemarketer around to different staff members who keep "why did they forward you to us? we are HR/Billing/IT/whaterver. You will need to talk with Accounts, I will just put you through..." and forward the call to another co-worker and tell them to leave em on hold for 30sec and then answer and BS your way into getting them back onto hold :)
Yeah, seems like the kinda person who reads a headline on The Onion and start telling everyone he knows that it "was on the news" :)
Really, your Iphone has 2 screens? Thats impressive!
RTFA
1986, GEOS for C64 :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Wait, so how is having these sites that cannot be controlled (because I am betting if the police could shut them down without filtering, they would) filtered off the net so that no one has to see them or can a bad thing?
I am not saying, as you so vehemently (with prodigious use of capslock) say that I won't do more? I am not only morally obligated (both peer morality and my own) but legally required to stop child pornography and child abuse wherever I see it, and your comment is a slur on my person and all but accusing me of a crime I have no intention of committing.
I would consider legal action for slander but there's three things stopping me:
1. your a troll
2. this is just the comments page of a blog no one important reads
3. I am not an American and don't consider legal action as my every recourse
Yup, now its such a hot potato they are trying to patch up something to get the vote of the "think of the children" (anti-child porn, which lets face it, is not a bad thing to block) and the people who would have voted for them but the whole filter was a deal breaker.
Its not data, its software...
I do a standard install of steam on my laptop, I tell it to download the games I generally play on that machine, I also load up a MMOG or two I play regularly, thats 400G (including windows).
Same deal on my PC, thats about 800G (although there are more games from steam that I have on PC than on laptop, obviously)...
And I agree, I have a windows home server with about 5TB used for my actual data.
Oh, and a further point, for 1TB or so of storage (bootable) you would need a raid0 or JBOD of 2x 500GB or 4x 250GB, both of which adding up to over $4000AU, now I agree that will be damn fast, however that much speed doesn't matter to me as much as spending all that cash on new video card/mobo/cpu/ram would.
No, the weight of a HDD, or multiple HDD AND an SSD is too much, assuming I am trying to use an affordable SSD with HDD mounted for the bulk storage.
The reason I don't use a SSD on my desktop machine is that a 1TB+ SSD typically isn't bootable and costs more than my PC, and complex "hybrid" setups are a pain and more trouble than they are worth.
A VT-100? LUXURY!
We communicated with rock tablets, a chisel and a catapult!
Guy above you beat it, he had a "steam punk" restored teletype machine hooked to a netbook.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1710194&cid=32821368
On a side note when I was in uni we hooked a Bordot teletype machine to a Motorola 68000 based machine via rs232, and built some assembler text editors to talk to them (wasn't too bad, just made a lookup table to convert from ASCII to Bordot).
In a 12" laptop/tablet, yes, yes I do.
As for my desktop PC, I like to keep things simple, a single storage medium means less work when configuring backups (or rebuilding from backups) and makes the thing lighter to boot (don't go to many lan parties any more, maybe 1-2 a year, but its enough to want a light machine). I have done the whole "multi drive raid/complex mounted file-system" and frankly, its more trouble than its worth (I have used both on-board and card based "fake raid" as well as some good Areca and Adaptec cards, with IOP, and all of them just complicate any small matter with storage out of all proportion).
I have worked with some hybrid HDD/SSD setups, where some folders in C: were based off the SSD and some off the HDD, and again, lots of over-complication, and it turns out that most of the apps I wanted on the SSD were in fact the ones too large to fit on it (any and all my games).
Not to mention its completely dependant on the person using the machine. My HP Tablet PC could have an SSD in it sure, and I am sure windows seven would be much snappier on that, but when I install steam and load the cut-down list of games that will run on the thing, I reach about 400G used, at which point a new SSD of that size would be worth nearly 50% more than what I paid for the thing in the first place, so a 7200rpm 500G drive was put in as the "next best".
Similarly putting a SSD in my main PC would be nice, but it sits at 1.1TB used (thats mainly programs and a little fraps video) so an SSD for that, again, would likely be almost as expensive as the rest of the system.
Sir you are understanding, level headed and giving a good suggestion, how did you get past security?