A significant portion of those NV and ATI (and SGI and APPLE and etc) specific extensions have been promoted to cross-manufacturer standards when a EXT or ARB version of the extension is created. When DirectX gets a new feature added to the cards they get exposed in OpenGL as a (usually) NV extention first, and then when the next OpenGL version comes out there would be a EXT or ARB extention for it that will probably work on ATI cards by that time as well.
I think the point is most of their sales come in the first month. So they want to encourage sales during that time, with DRM. And then after that first month remove all the hassles of DRM from the good customers that bought it. And if some people pirate it after that first months its not as big a deal as piracy on release day is.
It helped encourage Comcast to fix a security issue. And all it cost was what, someone who wanted to sign up for cable service had to look up the phone number in the yellow pages instead?
Why isn't it? Because Comcast is big? If so, that sounds like one law for the rich and one for the poor. Comcast should be treated exactly the same as Bob's Online Pottery Store.
Because there are only 2 Satellite Radio FCC licenses out there, one to XM and one to Sirius. If they merge, they have a monopoly on Satellite Radio in the US. It would require new spectrum to be freed up for a new competitor to enter the market. The market might suck right now, which is why they want to merge, but 5 years from now it might swing up and it will be impossible, without FCC action, for someone new to enter the market.
The only way I could support this is if in 1 year, one of the licenses reverts back to the FCC and is up for bid again. That way the combined XM/Sirius company has 1 year to replace hardware (if needed) for the the license they are giving up, and in one years time it will be possible for someone new to step and compete.
Well, Intels similar product, IPP, is restricted to Intel CPUs. Both libraries do a cpuid check to find out if SSE2 and SSE3 and such are supported, but the Intel library also checks for the Intel manufacturer string, and if the result is anything but Intel's, it uses the dumb i386 implementations, even on modern AMD chips that support SSE3 just fine.
There have been no breakthroughs because no is allowed to experiment on them.
No ones murdering babies to get embryonic stem cells. The argument is all over already harvested, but frozen, cells that could theoretically be implanted into a surrogate mother and grow up. But theres no real reason for anyone to surrogate for those, when theres a zillion other ways to get pregnant out there.
Oh, and embryonic stem cells that can be harvested from the remains of an abortion. Thats going to happen anyway, might as well get some use from it.
The only thing they really trust the client for is player position. Now think about what making this server enforced would mean. There two ways to handle it.
1) The client sends "move left please" to the server. The server says OK, and responds with the new player position. The client displays this change. You have a full round trip to wait every time you press a movement button before the screen shows it.
2) The client sends the "move left please" to the server, and automatically updates the client assuming it will be accepted. Now throw in long chunk of lag, or dropped packets. The server will send a player position update that is out-of-date with what the client assumes. If the client shows this server-authenticated player position, the player will appear to suddenly warp backwards.
Both of those will provide absolute server-side positioning, but they also have horrible client-side interactivity problems. So for the player itself, it trusts the client...
One of those tiny things the Federal government is in charge of nowadays is micromanaging the States budgets, by means of collecting so much taxes that the States can't. And then the Feds turn around and give the money back to the states if the states are willing to do things the Feds way. If the states don't want to play ball they have the option of going bankrupt, or skipping the whole roads and education thing.
Giving them massive tax breaks as incentive to build such an infrastructure is functionally the same thing as taking the normal amount of tax, and then investing some of it back into the the telecoms, and that is what has happened most often.
Ya, but PS3 shipped with a Bluray drive for games. Xbox360 has that HD-DVD video addon, but it can't do games. The point of 'Hrm, maybe the game drive use one of the new, bigger formats' is still true.
Thats only if you do not have proper Video card drivers installed. If you have the proper drivers installed they basically override MS's OpenGL with their own, and then the OpenGL calls run as fast as ATI/Nvidia can make them run.
Yes. Its called OpenGL/SDL. Fancier sound requirements might want to look at OpenAL. Between those the entire range has been covered, and covered for Win/Mac/Linux.
No, the point is people are starting to care about the total power usage of their 500-zillion server colo facility, where even a 5% reduction in power usage can mean hundreds or thousands on the power bill.
Even for dirty power sources, like Coal, its easier to apply clean technologies, like sulfer scrubbers and carbon sequestration and capture to one big coal power plant, then to apply those same technologies to a million cars and trucks.
And a large power station makes more efficient use of the energy than your car. The gas->energy conversion in your car happens completely, but an awful lot of it is waste heat, and not actually used for propulsion. An insulated power plant turns much more of the heat into electricity.
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If fonts were properly scaled up, it wouldn't be an issue. It would be better because the fonts would be rendered in the same size, but smoother.
Is this a Terry Pratchett novel? Jingo?
A significant portion of those NV and ATI (and SGI and APPLE and etc) specific extensions have been promoted to cross-manufacturer standards when a EXT or ARB version of the extension is created. When DirectX gets a new feature added to the cards they get exposed in OpenGL as a (usually) NV extention first, and then when the next OpenGL version comes out there would be a EXT or ARB extention for it that will probably work on ATI cards by that time as well.
I think the point is most of their sales come in the first month. So they want to encourage sales during that time, with DRM. And then after that first month remove all the hassles of DRM from the good customers that bought it. And if some people pirate it after that first months its not as big a deal as piracy on release day is.
It helped encourage Comcast to fix a security issue. And all it cost was what, someone who wanted to sign up for cable service had to look up the phone number in the yellow pages instead?
Why isn't it? Because Comcast is big? If so, that sounds like one law for the rich and one for the poor. Comcast should be treated exactly the same as Bob's Online Pottery Store.
Because there are only 2 Satellite Radio FCC licenses out there, one to XM and one to Sirius. If they merge, they have a monopoly on Satellite Radio in the US. It would require new spectrum to be freed up for a new competitor to enter the market. The market might suck right now, which is why they want to merge, but 5 years from now it might swing up and it will be impossible, without FCC action, for someone new to enter the market. The only way I could support this is if in 1 year, one of the licenses reverts back to the FCC and is up for bid again. That way the combined XM/Sirius company has 1 year to replace hardware (if needed) for the the license they are giving up, and in one years time it will be possible for someone new to step and compete.
Fuck that, we sequence everything http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/mapview/mvhome/mvhome.cgi
Well, Intels similar product, IPP, is restricted to Intel CPUs. Both libraries do a cpuid check to find out if SSE2 and SSE3 and such are supported, but the Intel library also checks for the Intel manufacturer string, and if the result is anything but Intel's, it uses the dumb i386 implementations, even on modern AMD chips that support SSE3 just fine.
There have been no breakthroughs because no is allowed to experiment on them. No ones murdering babies to get embryonic stem cells. The argument is all over already harvested, but frozen, cells that could theoretically be implanted into a surrogate mother and grow up. But theres no real reason for anyone to surrogate for those, when theres a zillion other ways to get pregnant out there. Oh, and embryonic stem cells that can be harvested from the remains of an abortion. Thats going to happen anyway, might as well get some use from it.
Yes. It does. They can stop now and do something useful instead.
The only thing they really trust the client for is player position. Now think about what making this server enforced would mean. There two ways to handle it. 1) The client sends "move left please" to the server. The server says OK, and responds with the new player position. The client displays this change. You have a full round trip to wait every time you press a movement button before the screen shows it. 2) The client sends the "move left please" to the server, and automatically updates the client assuming it will be accepted. Now throw in long chunk of lag, or dropped packets. The server will send a player position update that is out-of-date with what the client assumes. If the client shows this server-authenticated player position, the player will appear to suddenly warp backwards. Both of those will provide absolute server-side positioning, but they also have horrible client-side interactivity problems. So for the player itself, it trusts the client...
This might come as a surprise to you, but the draft was in effect during WW2.
One of those tiny things the Federal government is in charge of nowadays is micromanaging the States budgets, by means of collecting so much taxes that the States can't. And then the Feds turn around and give the money back to the states if the states are willing to do things the Feds way. If the states don't want to play ball they have the option of going bankrupt, or skipping the whole roads and education thing.
Im pretty sure all States will issue non-drivers license 'State IDs'
Giving them massive tax breaks as incentive to build such an infrastructure is functionally the same thing as taking the normal amount of tax, and then investing some of it back into the the telecoms, and that is what has happened most often.
Ya, but PS3 shipped with a Bluray drive for games. Xbox360 has that HD-DVD video addon, but it can't do games. The point of 'Hrm, maybe the game drive use one of the new, bigger formats' is still true.
Then the first damn thing they teach security guards is what a real bomb looks like, instead of this "If you don't recognize it, its a bomb" crap.
Thats only if you do not have proper Video card drivers installed. If you have the proper drivers installed they basically override MS's OpenGL with their own, and then the OpenGL calls run as fast as ATI/Nvidia can make them run.
Yes. Its called OpenGL/SDL. Fancier sound requirements might want to look at OpenAL. Between those the entire range has been covered, and covered for Win/Mac/Linux.
No, the point is people are starting to care about the total power usage of their 500-zillion server colo facility, where even a 5% reduction in power usage can mean hundreds or thousands on the power bill.
Even for dirty power sources, like Coal, its easier to apply clean technologies, like sulfer scrubbers and carbon sequestration and capture to one big coal power plant, then to apply those same technologies to a million cars and trucks. And a large power station makes more efficient use of the energy than your car. The gas->energy conversion in your car happens completely, but an awful lot of it is waste heat, and not actually used for propulsion. An insulated power plant turns much more of the heat into electricity.