OK some of you might have not noticed but have you got any idea how many processes are realy running on your CPU? Might they not all need to be crammed into a que? Might you not want to endlessly run whatever you want to run on a reserved core?
Well, in case of a chess game then you are right, but uhm...
What would be the best graphical design for this game? Might that not be simplicity? Bevers and battleships with ambiant occlusion and all that isn't realy going to help the overal overview of the game itself and maybe, just maybe, make it a lot worse to play as you have to track a lot that is going on. The simpler, the better your play.
But then again... It can be mashed-up with POVray xD
Actualy, it's more like: "Choose UBUNTU if you do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS [, ever, no matter if it is your own computer]."
As in: "Ubuntu is not compatible with the Windows platform. Given the fact that you needed this website then you'd be so computer iliterate (I mean; you could have Googled it, dumbass!!!), and therefore stupid, that we would like to avoid a lawsuit from a moron who tried to install his ilegal Microsoft Office copy from his baseball buddy, because he needs that for doing *snif* MSXML filled with macro files-work on a 'grief card' in Microft Publisher because his wife died and now he can't do that because you didn't warn this *snif* poor guy, you evil Dell company!"
Empathy for the stupid... makes me kinda brilliant...
But let's face it: People that can actually get to that website first have to search for it and when they do then they already know what it is in the first place. So who cares?
Who cares what causes global warming? All we know is that it is there and if we don't do something about it we could be seriously fscked.
I personally don't believe all of this is caused by carbondioxide, but if we reduce it then we might reduce the effects a little.
All that matters is that the avarage temperatures need to stay the same. Tiny increases already show how bad that is for us humans; our society. Without it we are just instinctive trash.
Who cares about the environment? The environment adapts. It is our society and the way we live that we endanger.
In other words we screw ourselves if we don't reverse gobal avarage temperature increases...
Can you figure out chess by just looking at it? Do you care if your chess pieces have 1 trillion triangle detail and facial animation and cutscenes where the queen cries?
God forbid! Next thing you know somebody might actually make a GAME instead of an interactive movie! OMG!
It's the internet and the entertainment (games). Are you bored? Play a game!
Now creativity comes from boredome. You have to be creative to entertain yourself, think up new things and solve your problems yourself. Don' t know something? Just google it. Can' find the solution? Let other people solve it for you on forums. Are you alone and tired of gaming and watcing tv? Go to a porn site.
See? That' s stiffling creativity as it is no longer needed to train your brain to come up with something not thought of during normal cognition. No longer does it link parts of the brain because it doesn't need to.
Yeah duuuuuhhhhhh.... The reason CRTs get to be 120Hz is because the time you make the image in your head could niot sync with the monitor flicker and thus you get headaches. but this has nothing to do with the amount of times the framebuffer on your card gets updated,,,
That's motion blur. Maybe the TV creates extra frames but that's still motion blur in your head. No matter what way you look at it. Your brain just puts all these frames into one frame. That's how motion blur works in the first place.
And the reason games do not work like that is because that makes your view lag 1-2 frames behind, so all you're seeing is smoother frames, but not more than about 24 frames per second.
Now you can get a monitor that has the perfect response time that is able to view all these extra frames in 1/30 of a second but blurring, then that would be cool, OR it creates frames so fast that it reaches 100FPS in which case only your subconscious gets to see it but you will not process it.
OK even if you'd buy two 200 USD graphics cards every two years than you'll always be able to play the latest games and tech compared to one 1200 USD card every six years. 200*2 = 400... 400*3 years = 1200 USD.
Not to mention that you stay up to date with the latest OpenGL (currently version 4 if you missed it) and GLSL and DirectX
For video editing that is crucial so that you can get overlapping frames inside of that 24fps timeframe.
Games however do not work like this. They crank out as much frames per seconds and your HW can handle and then without vsync it is all hit and miss. Ask your movie expert and he'll tell you why that is.
Movies do just fine with motion blur and so does Crysis.
But if you are a pro online FPS gamer who gets loads of cash then the extra frame that half renders without vsync can make that tiny important difference between who shoots first in a crytical encounter.
But when you are not a pro FPS gamer playing for money on a LAN then higher than 30min - 60max FPS is totally bullshit.
Besides, all hardcore gamers play in a little less high res and everything but lightning, reflection and model detail is as much downscaled as possible. And then there are hardcore gamers who believe gameplay is so much more important than HD graphics.
Oh yeah sorry... I forgot to mention that that engine is actually used to make this commercial game that is comming to Linux:
http://www.primalcarnage.com/website/
Well it's true that we don't need it now. But we need to have these crazy "Why the hell is this useful?"-stuff so eventually people start adopting and companies will eventually support this when their older products run dry so to speak.
That there are always people that are too stupid to buy such a thing when you can get a great GPU for 100 dollars?
In other words parent explains why this card is totally useless...
As sweet as it sounds, do we really need more than 1920x1080?
Do we realy need 24bit colors? Do we realy need one gigabyte harddrives?! Do we...
So let me ask you a question: Why do you think anti-aliasing exists? Why do you think most people still print out their emails/letters/rapports before sending them?
Then there's something horribly wrong with your Windows 7. I have access to a Windows 7 workstation here and Windows 7 doesn't consume that much. On the other hand you can't tell me that you installed a full blown KDE SC 4.x. KDE3.5.x? Or you must be running something realy, realy stripped down... 200MB is almost impossible...
Don't critize that which you know nothing about, I guess?
FWIW; Fedora here eats up about 1.1GB and KDE4 is even harder to max out due to all the libs/data engines sharing. Mever exceeded the 2GB limit. SWAP has never been doing anything at all. I have 8GB of RAM, because it's drit cheap and because I wanted more RAM than I would ever need.
Task manager shows RAM in use, including cache, which is common knowledge.
Then the third question is also supposed to be dead obvious: Gentoo is nothing more buyt Lego. So what did you build with Gentoo? A bloated Ubuntu, a mean and lean, feature-less E17 machine... etc etc... How the hell can you compare Gentoo to Windows?!
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And that is because more core means more speed.
"Vincent, you're don't know WTF you're talking about. Two pregnant woman..."
OK some of you might have not noticed but have you got any idea how many processes are realy running on your CPU? Might they not all need to be crammed into a que? Might you not want to endlessly run whatever you want to run on a reserved core?
There you go...
Well, in case of a chess game then you are right, but uhm...
What would be the best graphical design for this game? Might that not be simplicity? Bevers and battleships with ambiant occlusion and all that isn't realy going to help the overal overview of the game itself and maybe, just maybe, make it a lot worse to play as you have to track a lot that is going on. The simpler, the better your play.
But then again... It can be mashed-up with POVray xD
Actualy, it's more like:
"Choose UBUNTU if you do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS [, ever, no matter if it is your own computer]."
As in:
"Ubuntu is not compatible with the Windows platform. Given the fact that you needed this website then you'd be so computer iliterate (I mean; you could have Googled it, dumbass!!!), and therefore stupid, that we would like to avoid a lawsuit from a moron who tried to install his ilegal Microsoft Office copy from his baseball buddy, because he needs that for doing *snif* MSXML filled with macro files-work on a 'grief card' in Microft Publisher because his wife died and now he can't do that because you didn't warn this *snif* poor guy, you evil Dell company!"
Empathy for the stupid... makes me kinda brilliant...
I agree. People who don't even know what Ubuntu, let alone Linux is in the first place, shouldn't use Linux. Period.
So this whole compare thing is just for the most stupid people. Most stupid people use Windows.
Although when I search for Linux on the Dutch Dell website, The first result I get is the logo Tux, with the text: "Dell | Linux - Life made simple" and when I click on it I get this English website:
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=nl&cs=nlgent1&l=nl&s=gen
But let's face it: People that can actually get to that website first have to search for it and when they do then they already know what it is in the first place. So who cares?
Who cares what causes global warming? All we know is that it is there and if we don't do something about it we could be seriously fscked.
I personally don't believe all of this is caused by carbondioxide, but if we reduce it then we might reduce the effects a little.
All that matters is that the avarage temperatures need to stay the same. Tiny increases already show how bad that is for us humans; our society. Without it we are just instinctive trash.
Who cares about the environment? The environment adapts. It is our society and the way we live that we endanger.
In other words we screw ourselves if we don't reverse gobal avarage temperature increases...
Can you figure out chess by just looking at it? Do you care if your chess pieces have 1 trillion triangle detail and facial animation and cutscenes where the queen cries?
God forbid! Next thing you know somebody might actually make a GAME instead of an interactive movie! OMG!
It's the internet and the entertainment (games). Are you bored? Play a game!
Now creativity comes from boredome. You have to be creative to entertain yourself, think up new things and solve your problems yourself. Don' t know something? Just google it. Can' find the solution? Let other people solve it for you on forums. Are you alone and tired of gaming and watcing tv? Go to a porn site.
See? That' s stiffling creativity as it is no longer needed to train your brain to come up with something not thought of during normal cognition. No longer does it link parts of the brain because it doesn't need to.
Yeah duuuuuhhhhhh....
The reason CRTs get to be 120Hz is because the time you make the image in your head could niot sync with the monitor flicker and thus you get headaches. but this has nothing to do with the amount of times the framebuffer on your card gets updated,,,
"But but but but but..."
That's motion blur. Maybe the TV creates extra frames but that's still motion blur in your head. No matter what way you look at it. Your brain just puts all these frames into one frame. That's how motion blur works in the first place.
And the reason games do not work like that is because that makes your view lag 1-2 frames behind, so all you're seeing is smoother frames, but not more than about 24 frames per second.
Now you can get a monitor that has the perfect response time that is able to view all these extra frames in 1/30 of a second but blurring, then that would be cool, OR it creates frames so fast that it reaches 100FPS in which case only your subconscious gets to see it but you will not process it.
Too bad so just get over it.
OK even if you'd buy two 200 USD graphics cards every two years than you'll always be able to play the latest games and tech compared to one 1200 USD card every six years. 200*2 = 400 ... 400*3 years = 1200 USD.
Not to mention that you stay up to date with the latest OpenGL (currently version 4 if you missed it) and GLSL and DirectX
For video editing that is crucial so that you can get overlapping frames inside of that 24fps timeframe.
Games however do not work like this. They crank out as much frames per seconds and your HW can handle and then without vsync it is all hit and miss. Ask your movie expert and he'll tell you why that is.
Movies do just fine with motion blur and so does Crysis.
But if you are a pro online FPS gamer who gets loads of cash then the extra frame that half renders without vsync can make that tiny important difference between who shoots first in a crytical encounter.
But when you are not a pro FPS gamer playing for money on a LAN then higher than 30min - 60max FPS is totally bullshit.
Besides, all hardcore gamers play in a little less high res and everything but lightning, reflection and model detail is as much downscaled as possible. And then there are hardcore gamers who believe gameplay is so much more important than HD graphics.
Oh yeah sorry... I forgot to mention that that engine is actually used to make this commercial game that is comming to Linux: http://www.primalcarnage.com/website/
Well it's true that we don't need it now. But we need to have these crazy "Why the hell is this useful?"-stuff so eventually people start adopting and companies will eventually support this when their older products run dry so to speak.
Crysis Warhead at 1680*1050 at max setting 'enthusiast' or something gives 30+ fps on Windows XP SP2 with my AMD Phenom 9950 X4, 8GB RAM, HD5770...
So you were saying?
Stupid troll... This OpenGL hotness runs on Linux: http://unigine.com/screenshots/ Crysis would whish it would come close to that, ROFL...
Slower than Windows 7: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part1&num=1
That there are always people that are too stupid to buy such a thing when you can get a great GPU for 100 dollars? In other words parent explains why this card is totally useless...
As sweet as it sounds, do we really need more than 1920x1080?
Do we realy need 24bit colors? Do we realy need one gigabyte harddrives?! Do we...
So let me ask you a question: Why do you think anti-aliasing exists? Why do you think most people still print out their emails/letters/rapports before sending them?
No they don't beacuse this iPhone 4 I'm posting this with i NO CARRIER
Ah I see... But I'm guessing you are not running preload? Or did you not count that as RAM usage?
L2Empathy people that speak a different language and do not feel like spell checking for internet forums.
Then there's something horribly wrong with your Windows 7. I have access to a Windows 7 workstation here and Windows 7 doesn't consume that much. On the other hand you can't tell me that you installed a full blown KDE SC 4.x. KDE3.5.x? Or you must be running something realy, realy stripped down... 200MB is almost impossible...
Don't critize that which you know nothing about, I guess?
FWIW; Fedora here eats up about 1.1GB and KDE4 is even harder to max out due to all the libs/data engines sharing. Mever exceeded the 2GB limit. SWAP has never been doing anything at all. I have 8GB of RAM, because it's drit cheap and because I wanted more RAM than I would ever need.
Task manager shows RAM in use, including cache, which is common knowledge.
Then the third question is also supposed to be dead obvious:
Gentoo is nothing more buyt Lego. So what did you build with Gentoo? A bloated Ubuntu, a mean and lean, feature-less E17 machine... etc etc... How the hell can you compare Gentoo to Windows?!