Ray tracing is currently slower, but once CPU's, GPU's or RPU's (Raytracing Processing Unit's - I just made that up) are fast enough to reach critical mass, then ray tracing a scene with triangles becomes faster using ray tracing than rasterisation.
Currently you need 20 quad cores or someting to ray trace a game. Given the fact that More's Law still applies you'll need 10 CPU's in a year, 5 CPU's in two years and (2,5=)3 CPU's in three years. However, with the increase in the amount of cores every year, you'll be having it in about three years with a single CPU;
20cpu*4core=80 CPU cores in year=current
80core/2=40 CPU cores in year=1
8cpu*6core=42 CPU cores in year=1
40core/2=20 CPU cores in year=2
3cpu*8core=24 CPU cores in year=2
20/2=10 CPU cores in year=3
1cpu*10core=10 GPU cores in year=3
So in 3 years you could play software ray tracing at standard definition resolution If operating systems don't slow down any further and if cores(t)=4+2*t, where t=years applies.
Well, Crysis (Crytek) has it's own renderer, yet it calls Direct3D. Same goes for ET:QW RT; Intel made a ray tracing renderer from the ground on up that calls the OpenRT lib.
I for one think it's fscking awesome. It is probably the best GUI that I have ever used.
It has so much potential, but it is not finished yet. The reason that the 4.2 release is called 4.2 and not 4.0 beta is because they didn't want KDE4 to turn into E17, the UI the Linux client of Duke Nukem Forerver will support.
But for all you whiners: KDE 3.5 has just recieved an update not too long ago, so just keep using 3.5.x and in not too much time KDE4 will be ready for prime time... mark my words.
Microsoft has dominated the industry by making stuff that people liked. That is why they copied anything from the Apple Finder to the KDE sticky notes 1:0,99. They have not tried to create the best OS, but an OS that had anything people wanted.
So what's up right now? Microsoft has made major investments into Windows, so they are not going write a new Windows completely from scratch. As Microsoft has said before the internet came too fast for them. Internet was their priority #6 at the time it became mainstream. Now onto my point -> people now like security more than ever before. Microsoft can not deliver that with their current codebase. Stuff get's added to it and little ever gets removed. Add to that the fading vendor lock-in and BINGO!
What I was trying to say is that "The guy" is one of the "people" I "know" and people that I talked with about gaming and downloading.
I hitted submit without thoroughly reading my own post. I usualy have this problem when I want to say thing right away and just write down my entire 'though train'. I have this problem in my native language too. There is no language that seems to match my thinking logic.
Dude, I happen to know people that download and upload Barbie Horseride adventure games just because they can. The guy is only running Linux (Gentoo to be more precise) on all his 4 computers and server. He doesn't have Windows and the only he played was Unreal Tournament 2004.
Are all of his downloads lost sales? No, just one of them.
And by the way, how many people download games and by them a week later so they can play it online if they realy like the game? How about all these people that later on buy the game out of respect? [Valve entering the building]
Have you even read my post? I do buy music CD's and computer games. I have bought the new fscking $65 (euro -> dollar) costing Prince of Persia. I DO BUY.
I don't realy mind CD's costing $25-30, because I can enjoy the music for the rest of my life. Games also have a large value as I don't realy care about the graphics so great replay value here.
However watching a 1,5 hour lasting motion picture, fulled with DRM and commercials and other crap... for $30 dollars?! No they should realy lower it to $5 in order for me to buy it. I don't watch a lot of movies (maybe one per month) so buying a $5 movie is completely fair.
I dont think that DVORAK is any better than QWERTY.
I don't type blind. What I do is that I keep my eyes on the keyboard. I have two hands and for every keystroke my brain is constantly looping the process of "Which finger is closest to the next key to press? Would this be effiencent for the next keys to press? If so then allocate an apropriate finger. Now repeat the process untill all the cashed caracters in my brains have been typed and look at the screen.".
Because I dont spread my 2*5 fingers over 2*1 halfs of the keyboard you can imagine why DVORAK is living hell. You'd understand why after even half a year of DVORAK my typing was still slower then on QWERTY. Because I don't make much errors this way I am almost always faster than a person who types blindly (========== "ah fsck" ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H).
I remember watching an interview on channel 9 (I have no idea what kind of website that is (and I don't care to know what it is), but a google search got me there) with the Vista kernel team and one of the questions was how they felt about the registry and one guy awnsered that he had wished it would have never been invented. Removing it obviously causes dropping backwards compatibility so it will not be dropped.
You'd also be out on the streets if everyone decides to stop buying your products because of the totaly unnesecary copy-'protection' (which doesn't pretect shit).
I have been pirating and copying my ass of in the past when I was still young and could save about 55 dollars a year. I had saved money for three years to be able to buy a Playstation. A mod chip and copying were the only way I could have my own console. It was back in the day that copy protection was a buffer underrun.
Right now I am twenty years old and I have money for games and music. I buy original games because I have money, because I don't have to worry about malware (cracks, etc) and because the multiplayer will just work. At least that just working was dead with the rise of SecuROM. I now do not buy these games. I bought a shitload of games lately and wanted more. When I got in the store I was like `Hey GTAIV:-D... ow wait games for Windows and Live crap. Damn... Hey Dead Space:-)... Requires internet acces to instal, eh? Damn.:-("
I buy music because of the superior music quality and because I could always reformat the.wav files into the newest, best format.
I don't buy movies because I am forced to watch those stupid commercials and restricted crap. Not only that, but a 20 dollar movie only entertains me for 1,5 hours because I never watch it again after seen it once. Either make these movies 5 dollars, I'll keep pirating.
You have to realise that there is no such thing as copy protecting. There is only such thing as pissing off the customers that pay you.
It's not the pirates, it's you that is making your own sales drop. Big fscking period!
Indeed! A team of IT admins should just lay down a system that doesn't allow it to be used otherwise. Just encrypt all information on any device and computer and give the boss the password on a piece of paper. Make sure all newly bought IT devices passes through the IT department before it gets into anyones hands in order to 'prepare all technology for safe and secure use'. Take care of the rest of all the problems the same way. Now get some superior/boss to allow you to set up an IT helpdesk 'in order to increase effiency and security and speed up the problem solving process'. After that's done you'll inform the IT helpdesk personell of everything they need to know on how to 'help users in fixing computer issues' *cough*how to change their password so they can login again after four months*cough*.
If you feel so smart and intelligent then find a smart and intelligent way of dealing with 'dumb' issues.
I plan to wait, as it's only a matter of time before you will be switching to either Linux or a Macintosh. Can't you tell by Microsofts tactics? I don't know if you have been following the developments in the Apple and Linux world (I bet you didn't) but the future for Microsoft is not so bright...
'Anti-virii'(-whatever...) is a complete waste of resources and your money. If you are getting virusses then you should look at the cause of the problem in the first place. THAT is the only real anti-virus solution. Wheter it's a missing firewall, insecure settings, your OS, whatever...
If this works on Linux than I would want one. I have bought a Wiimote for my desktop but it is far from precise and just works like shit.
In order for these kind of controllers, or any other new controller for that matter, to be usable and adopted in games we would need a new kind of API that can integrate in games.
This input API should have the following basics:
-Buttons (for remotes, controllers and keyboard)
-Fixed directions with limited range (for example unlimited amount of x and y axises for analog sticks and joysticks)
-Fixed directions with continuous/unlimited range (like x, y and z axis (x and y for the mouse and x, y and z for Wii-like controllers))
Only then would game designers and developers be able to use this kind of technology.
Then, the future is now, and so far no one seems to be complaining or being affected much. Which doesn't really help your stance that DRM could hurt/hinder people in a significant manner.
No the future is not now given the fact that nobody is really affected yet, or as in the 'potential' of DRM for companies hasn't yet been reached. Today it doesn't hinder anyone is out of the question: it hurts severely hurts competitors like the FLOSS movement in making hardware drivers and Windows application compatibility (take a look at what Wine needs to do to even start getting Vista support and what there has to be done to get copyprotection like SecuROM working). How about the next generation of instant-on BIOS technologies which put a vendor in total control of you entire hardware through the web. Just installing another OS is out of the question as that will be ran on top of the instant-on-OS-shit.
tw, what do you mean by "TCPA?" Google gives me "Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991," and I'm almost positive that's not what you mean.
"Frankly I don't see how Vists's DRM, or any DRM will usher in a era of "TCPA-laden hardware."
Computers these day are already full of it. The reason AMD, for example, doesn't disclose full specs for their graphics cards is mainly because they are afraid that people will reverse engineer the DRM and therefore will find out ways to brake DRM on Windows Vista and beyond, which would result in MS revoking AMD's key(s) which results in AMD not being able to make Windows hardware (see Phoronix.com). How about the future of media? Ever heared of what companies need to do with hardware in order to be allowed to play anything related to HDMI and Bluray?
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ThereÂs one caveat to your caveat and thatÂs that memory reads arenÂt free when using rasterisation either.
Yes, ofcource, rasterisation is currently done on dedicated graphic cards and ray tracing is currently done on general purpose hardware...
Ray tracing is currently slower, but once CPU's, GPU's or RPU's (Raytracing Processing Unit's - I just made that up) are fast enough to reach critical mass, then ray tracing a scene with triangles becomes faster using ray tracing than rasterisation.
Currently you need 20 quad cores or someting to ray trace a game. Given the fact that More's Law still applies you'll need 10 CPU's in a year, 5 CPU's in two years and (2,5=)3 CPU's in three years. However, with the increase in the amount of cores every year, you'll be having it in about three years with a single CPU;
20cpu*4core=80 CPU cores in year=current
80core/2=40 CPU cores in year=1
8cpu*6core=42 CPU cores in year=1
40core/2=20 CPU cores in year=2
3cpu*8core=24 CPU cores in year=2
20/2=10 CPU cores in year=3
1cpu*10core=10 GPU cores in year=3
So in 3 years you could play software ray tracing at standard definition resolution If operating systems don't slow down any further and if cores(t)=4+2*t, where t=years applies.
Art and realism are two different things.
Wolfenstein was ray casting and doom was affine texture mapping
Well, Crysis (Crytek) has it's own renderer, yet it calls Direct3D. Same goes for ET:QW RT; Intel made a ray tracing renderer from the ground on up that calls the OpenRT lib.
I for one think it's fscking awesome. It is probably the best GUI that I have ever used.
It has so much potential, but it is not finished yet. The reason that the 4.2 release is called 4.2 and not 4.0 beta is because they didn't want KDE4 to turn into E17, the UI the Linux client of Duke Nukem Forerver will support.
But for all you whiners: KDE 3.5 has just recieved an update not too long ago, so just keep using 3.5.x and in not too much time KDE4 will be ready for prime time... mark my words.
Microsoft has dominated the industry by making stuff that people liked. That is why they copied anything from the Apple Finder to the KDE sticky notes 1:0,99. They have not tried to create the best OS, but an OS that had anything people wanted.
So what's up right now? Microsoft has made major investments into Windows, so they are not going write a new Windows completely from scratch. As Microsoft has said before the internet came too fast for them. Internet was their priority #6 at the time it became mainstream. Now onto my point -> people now like security more than ever before. Microsoft can not deliver that with their current codebase. Stuff get's added to it and little ever gets removed. Add to that the fading vendor lock-in and BINGO!
Well it's not feature bloat, unless you considder all bugs features :-), but a performance hog.
If you think of bloat as in slow, then what's up with HURD?
Idiot friendlyness? The current state of Wine, OpenOffice.org and Firefox? Etc, etc, etc?
Well I sure didn't. Google has it's own text ads. Eat your own dog food anyone?
What I was trying to say is that "The guy" is one of the "people" I "know" and people that I talked with about gaming and downloading.
I hitted submit without thoroughly reading my own post. I usualy have this problem when I want to say thing right away and just write down my entire 'though train'. I have this problem in my native language too. There is no language that seems to match my thinking logic.
Dude, I happen to know people that download and upload Barbie Horseride adventure games just because they can. The guy is only running Linux (Gentoo to be more precise) on all his 4 computers and server. He doesn't have Windows and the only he played was Unreal Tournament 2004.
Are all of his downloads lost sales? No, just one of them.
And by the way, how many people download games and by them a week later so they can play it online if they realy like the game? How about all these people that later on buy the game out of respect? [Valve entering the building]
Have you even read my post? I do buy music CD's and computer games. I have bought the new fscking $65 (euro -> dollar) costing Prince of Persia. I DO BUY.
I don't realy mind CD's costing $25-30, because I can enjoy the music for the rest of my life. Games also have a large value as I don't realy care about the graphics so great replay value here.
However watching a 1,5 hour lasting motion picture, fulled with DRM and commercials and other crap... for $30 dollars?! No they should realy lower it to $5 in order for me to buy it. I don't watch a lot of movies (maybe one per month) so buying a $5 movie is completely fair.
I dont think that DVORAK is any better than QWERTY.
I don't type blind. What I do is that I keep my eyes on the keyboard. I have two hands and for every keystroke my brain is constantly looping the process of "Which finger is closest to the next key to press? Would this be effiencent for the next keys to press? If so then allocate an apropriate finger. Now repeat the process untill all the cashed caracters in my brains have been typed and look at the screen.".
Because I dont spread my 2*5 fingers over 2*1 halfs of the keyboard you can imagine why DVORAK is living hell. You'd understand why after even half a year of DVORAK my typing was still slower then on QWERTY. Because I don't make much errors this way I am almost always faster than a person who types blindly (========== "ah fsck" ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H).
I remember watching an interview on channel 9 (I have no idea what kind of website that is (and I don't care to know what it is), but a google search got me there) with the Vista kernel team and one of the questions was how they felt about the registry and one guy awnsered that he had wished it would have never been invented. Removing it obviously causes dropping backwards compatibility so it will not be dropped.
You'd also be out on the streets if everyone decides to stop buying your products because of the totaly unnesecary copy-'protection' (which doesn't pretect shit).
I have been pirating and copying my ass of in the past when I was still young and could save about 55 dollars a year. I had saved money for three years to be able to buy a Playstation. A mod chip and copying were the only way I could have my own console. It was back in the day that copy protection was a buffer underrun.
Right now I am twenty years old and I have money for games and music. I buy original games because I have money, because I don't have to worry about malware (cracks, etc) and because the multiplayer will just work. At least that just working was dead with the rise of SecuROM. I now do not buy these games. I bought a shitload of games lately and wanted more. When I got in the store I was like `Hey GTAIV :-D... ow wait games for Windows and Live crap. Damn... Hey Dead Space :-)... Requires internet acces to instal, eh? Damn. :-("
I buy music because of the superior music quality and because I could always reformat the .wav files into the newest, best format.
I don't buy movies because I am forced to watch those stupid commercials and restricted crap. Not only that, but a 20 dollar movie only entertains me for 1,5 hours because I never watch it again after seen it once. Either make these movies 5 dollars, I'll keep pirating.
You have to realise that there is no such thing as copy protecting. There is only such thing as pissing off the customers that pay you.
It's not the pirates, it's you that is making your own sales drop. Big fscking period!
Indeed! A team of IT admins should just lay down a system that doesn't allow it to be used otherwise. Just encrypt all information on any device and computer and give the boss the password on a piece of paper. Make sure all newly bought IT devices passes through the IT department before it gets into anyones hands in order to 'prepare all technology for safe and secure use'. Take care of the rest of all the problems the same way. Now get some superior/boss to allow you to set up an IT helpdesk 'in order to increase effiency and security and speed up the problem solving process'. After that's done you'll inform the IT helpdesk personell of everything they need to know on how to 'help users in fixing computer issues' *cough*how to change their password so they can login again after four months*cough*.
If you feel so smart and intelligent then find a smart and intelligent way of dealing with 'dumb' issues.
http://digg.com/
I plan to wait, as it's only a matter of time before you will be switching to either Linux or a Macintosh. Can't you tell by Microsofts tactics? I don't know if you have been following the developments in the Apple and Linux world (I bet you didn't) but the future for Microsoft is not so bright...
Light is a combination of mass and energy.
'Anti-virii'(-whatever...) is a complete waste of resources and your money. If you are getting virusses then you should look at the cause of the problem in the first place. THAT is the only real anti-virus solution. Wheter it's a missing firewall, insecure settings, your OS, whatever...
First they ignore you, then laugh at you and then hate you. Then they fight you and then you win. When the truth dies, very bad things happen...
- After a song by Robbie Williams
If this works on Linux than I would want one. I have bought a Wiimote for my desktop but it is far from precise and just works like shit.
In order for these kind of controllers, or any other new controller for that matter, to be usable and adopted in games we would need a new kind of API that can integrate in games.
This input API should have the following basics:
-Buttons (for remotes, controllers and keyboard)
-Fixed directions with limited range (for example unlimited amount of x and y axises for analog sticks and joysticks)
-Fixed directions with continuous/unlimited range (like x, y and z axis (x and y for the mouse and x, y and z for Wii-like controllers))
Only then would game designers and developers be able to use this kind of technology.
Then, the future is now, and so far no one seems to be complaining or being affected much. Which doesn't really help your stance that DRM could hurt/hinder people in a significant manner.
No the future is not now given the fact that nobody is really affected yet, or as in the 'potential' of DRM for companies hasn't yet been reached. Today it doesn't hinder anyone is out of the question: it hurts severely hurts competitors like the FLOSS movement in making hardware drivers and Windows application compatibility (take a look at what Wine needs to do to even start getting Vista support and what there has to be done to get copyprotection like SecuROM working). How about the next generation of instant-on BIOS technologies which put a vendor in total control of you entire hardware through the web. Just installing another OS is out of the question as that will be ran on top of the instant-on-OS-shit.
tw, what do you mean by "TCPA?" Google gives me "Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991," and I'm almost positive that's not what you mean.
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing_Platform_Alliance (talking about nerd//. cred...)
"Frankly I don't see how Vists's DRM, or any DRM will usher in a era of "TCPA-laden hardware."
Computers these day are already full of it. The reason AMD, for example, doesn't disclose full specs for their graphics cards is mainly because they are afraid that people will reverse engineer the DRM and therefore will find out ways to brake DRM on Windows Vista and beyond, which would result in MS revoking AMD's key(s) which results in AMD not being able to make Windows hardware (see Phoronix.com). How about the future of media? Ever heared of what companies need to do with hardware in order to be allowed to play anything related to HDMI and Bluray?