I don't honestly know if it it can really be used to assist with the trajectory calculations of the interactive players tank or fighter plane or whatever, etc...
It won't unless you can get the data back from the card. It's useless for some calculations and I much prefer the way a dedicated card works that feeds the data back to a program.
Why? Well say you're running an MMOG server (or any server for that matter), you could have all sorts of crazy physics running on the server through a dedicated chip, or even an array of dedicated chips on some kind of physics server you could offload all the physics on to. You can't do that with physics on a graphics card because it's a one way pipeline, from your program to your monitor. So what we have to do today is run all the physics through the CPU and then send those calculations over to the players, slowing down the servers and limiting us to simple physics simulations.
Not only that, if physics on the graphics card is going to be Nvidia only it means you'd have code them twice. The Nvidia way and another way for everyone else. I think a chip on the motherboard would be much better option as a game programmer it leaves a lot more possibilities open in the future when everyone has them as standard then on the gfx card would.
But in this instance it was purely a question. Obviously you didn't want to answer that question so you come up with the "FUD" line and refuse to answer. Good trick.
It can be. As the saying goes, 40% of questions are statements in disguise.
To get back to my original point, that questions can be FUD, wouldn't you consider it FUD if MS made a press release titled "Can Your Company Really Afford the High Total Cost of Ownership of OOS?" I bet most Slashdotters would, despite it being phrased as a question.
You're right, questions can be FUD but not in the context of the originally mentioned title of the article.
Asking the question "Is Microsoft Office Adware?" is not the same as asking the question "Can Your Company Really Afford the High Total Cost of Ownership of OOS?".
In the first question there is doubt over the actual claims of Adware in office. In your example question the speaker is making the statement that ownership of OSS has a high total cost even though is may or may not be true.
A question of the same magnitude of "Is Microsoft Office Adware?" would have been "Is the total cost of OSS ownership high?". Both these questions seem reasonable from my point of view without the need to dismiss them as FUD.
Your bias opinion that attempts to reinforce the view that OO.org is shit on the other hand might be classed as FUD. If you had said, "Is OO.org shitty?" I might have taken a different point of view when writing this comment.
If you go by a strictly scientific viewpoint, such actions are defensible. Eugenics programs are immoral, but they do improve the gene pool.
No it's not. Logic / Science doesn't mean an abandonment of ethics.
I could say the same thing how religion leads to the same thing. Pro-life supporters bombing and killing doctors or an abortion clinic. If you go by a strictly religious viewpoint, such actions are defensible. Killing abortion doctors is immoral, but it does improve pregnancy rates.
Doesn't matter what browser you run, if you let anyone execute whatever code they want on your own machine via your browser it's the equivalent of running that trojan.exe you just downloaded from Messenger.
They are using standard buisiness practices to ensure market share.
After all the crap they pulled over trying to get OOXML standardised don't sit here and tell me they're using "standard practices". They used practically every dirty trick in the book!
Two mothers arguing over how children should be raised is very similar if not more vicious. Of course you would not call either side religious because of the methods they promote.
I assume your point was to try and discredit the side of the argument you don't like in a vain attempt to get people to agree with you because you don't actually have any points of your own to make.
I'm sure Google China employees also care about not getting put in jail, but lets just overlook that fact and scream "do no evil!" a few more times while completely ignoring Yahoo! was even mentioned..
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They pretty much say we won't bring a lawsuit on you unless you do it to us first.. You have a problem with this?
Same thing with the games industry. You first have to pay back all that money the publisher gave you as well as the cost for advertising and distributing your game before you can have your 10% of the royalties.
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How great is the pipeline?
If I have a server with example game running and it's calculating physics, can I then grab back that batch of models I sent off for physics and then send the updated coordinates to the players computers? Or is it just part of the graphics rendering pipeline?
They released Bazaar with a promise to release Launchpad later.
Why are you so upset? Launchpad is their private code, it disgusts me that you seem to think you have some god given right to take anything anyone writes on top of Linux.
Instead of praise for what they have done with sharing bug reports, translations, bzr and attempting to contribute back as much as possible.. no instead you scorn them because you didn't get your free lunch with launchpad.
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Why? Well say you're running an MMOG server (or any server for that matter), you could have all sorts of crazy physics running on the server through a dedicated chip, or even an array of dedicated chips on some kind of physics server you could offload all the physics on to. You can't do that with physics on a graphics card because it's a one way pipeline, from your program to your monitor. So what we have to do today is run all the physics through the CPU and then send those calculations over to the players, slowing down the servers and limiting us to simple physics simulations.
Not only that, if physics on the graphics card is going to be Nvidia only it means you'd have code them twice. The Nvidia way and another way for everyone else. I think a chip on the motherboard would be much better option as a game programmer it leaves a lot more possibilities open in the future when everyone has them as standard then on the gfx card would.
What a joke... the artists.. the artists, we all know this is about the publishers wanting more copyright not the artists.
Stop trolling and flamebaiting.
Can someone explain to me how this exploit will jump through my internets and kill my kernel?
It looks like proof of concept code which I have to compile and install myself before it works even works.
This thing seems a little overblown, it's hardly an exploit if I have to jump through hoops to get infected..
Asking the question "Is Microsoft Office Adware?" is not the same as asking the question "Can Your Company Really Afford the High Total Cost of Ownership of OOS?".
In the first question there is doubt over the actual claims of Adware in office. In your example question the speaker is making the statement that ownership of OSS has a high total cost even though is may or may not be true.
A question of the same magnitude of "Is Microsoft Office Adware?" would have been "Is the total cost of OSS ownership high?". Both these questions seem reasonable from my point of view without the need to dismiss them as FUD.
Asking questions isn't FUD.
Your bias opinion that attempts to reinforce the view that OO.org is shit on the other hand might be classed as FUD. If you had said, "Is OO.org shitty?" I might have taken a different point of view when writing this comment.
I could say the same thing how religion leads to the same thing. Pro-life supporters bombing and killing doctors or an abortion clinic. If you go by a strictly religious viewpoint, such actions are defensible. Killing abortion doctors is immoral, but it does improve pregnancy rates.
Doesn't matter what browser you run, if you let anyone execute whatever code they want on your own machine via your browser it's the equivalent of running that trojan.exe you just downloaded from Messenger.
Is there a NoScript for IE 7 and Opera?
After all the crap they pulled over trying to get OOXML standardised don't sit here and tell me they're using "standard practices". They used practically every dirty trick in the book!
So you're saying the company that bought votes in the international standards organisation shouldn't be under investigation?
Two mothers arguing over how children should be raised is very similar if not more vicious. Of course you would not call either side religious because of the methods they promote.
I assume your point was to try and discredit the side of the argument you don't like in a vain attempt to get people to agree with you because you don't actually have any points of your own to make.
I'm sure Google China employees also care about not getting put in jail, but lets just overlook that fact and scream "do no evil!" a few more times while completely ignoring Yahoo! was even mentioned..
Oh please, how ridiculous.. Go away troll
They pretty much say we won't bring a lawsuit on you unless you do it to us first.. You have a problem with this?
Just go away troll
Same thing with the games industry. You first have to pay back all that money the publisher gave you as well as the cost for advertising and distributing your game before you can have your 10% of the royalties.
How great is the pipeline?
If I have a server with example game running and it's calculating physics, can I then grab back that batch of models I sent off for physics and then send the updated coordinates to the players computers? Or is it just part of the graphics rendering pipeline?
They released Bazaar with a promise to release Launchpad later.
Why are you so upset? Launchpad is their private code, it disgusts me that you seem to think you have some god given right to take anything anyone writes on top of Linux.
Instead of praise for what they have done with sharing bug reports, translations, bzr and attempting to contribute back as much as possible.. no instead you scorn them because you didn't get your free lunch with launchpad.
Why do you need source code to a bug tracker? Just re-skin mantis if it's such a big deal to you.
or maybe you could stop whining about the smallest details and just call it Ubuntu or Ubuntu 8.04 if it's SUCH a big deal to you.
Where is the flying chair?! and the windows aren't broken too. : /
apt-get doesn't use a browser, what's your point?