Blackly said: Though design documents can be useful tools that help organize a team's efforts, Blackley feels that often times they're a hindrance to creativity. Design docs help publishers set milestones for the developers, which shifts the focus from making a novel game to reaching a milestone to ensure payment. He also noted that the documents themselves have become bloated pieces of work that inhibit innovation. "A 300 page design document is not a very good way to be creative. Design documents actually discourage quality," says Blackley.
What a load of crap. I would think just about _every_ project has milestones...it's the damn _schedule_ that forces early shipping, kills innovation, etc.
As for discouraging quality...if the document includes QA design, then it is quite the opposite.
I guess I could do the research, but just wondering: is 3D Mark really a good indicator? For example, if the games you're playing involve larger textures or more polygons (etc) than those used in 3D Mark, you may not see nearly such a speed-up from just the software mod.
benchmark scores twice as well != games run twice as fast (or even noticeably faster)
Then again, I guess a software mod is a lot easier to undo;)
Worth trying I suppose, but keep in mind the usual caveats when using synthetic benchmarks to compare performance.
from http://bit.sit.ac.nz/olsen/kenny/Season14.html:
The Simpsons style of animation is changing from episode The Great Louse Detective (EABF01) onwards, as the show will now being using computer digitised animation from then on. The reason: Because it's hard to find professionals who still use the old medium. The show will still keep the same consistant look, and will hopefully be improved slightly. There will also be a piece of digital animation in the "Send in the Clones" segment in the upcoming Treehouse of Horror XIII (DABF19).
This company/game might have to deal with the same thing the Sims Online might hit: what happens when enough people develop "real" relationships only to find out that IRL their friend is not the sex they present online.
I've been waiting for a Sims Online ad for that: Sims character bustles around, then heads out the exit door, a swirl of colors, and suddenly the real person appears and is the opposite sex of their online character.
Will this intrigue or disgust the mainstream audience?
Intel is preparing to move to produce 0.09nm chips, while this article claims IBM's will do 0.10nm (although I suspect they meant 0.13nm, as this is a more "standard" size and is mentioned later in the article).
Even if a dual Mac G4 comes out, affordability is a major issue. Anyone remember that comparo that had a 500MHz Mac at twice the price of an 600MHz Athlon? Add a dual mobo and another CPU and you've got a machine more than twice the price that is very unlikely to give even close to twice the performance. Dual G4's will serve to strengthen Apple's tiny strongholds in publishing and education. I for one would rather have two fast Athlon machines than one dual Mac... The good side is that with a single company making the CPU, chipset, and mobo, reliability should be great.
Remember that older slashdot article about building something that would allow actual walking to control virtual movement, but people complained the "sense of motion" would be wrong? Viola.
These complaints of "only a 33% increase over dual 550 Celeron" and "what about the electric bill" seem a little picky to me. As to the former, an OC'd Celery has exactly no warranty, whereas the Kryotech system has full warranty even at 1000Mhz. And everyone knows that high-end purchases suffer from diminishing returns syndrome, but if you want the fastest you gots to pay the mostest. As for the electric bill thing, I wish that was the bottleneck in budgeting my money. It seems to me OC'ing is about testing the limits of manufacturing processes, discovering quirks of BIOS settings, etc. As for the HD being the true bottleneck, depends on the app; 256Mb PC100 with an Athlon ought to give a pretty decent throughput even for 3D processing apps. One more thing: when the Athlon 1000 comes out, you'll be able pop it into your Kryotech setup and run it at 1200 or 1300 or something, i.e. while expensive, it does offer some upgrade room.
I agree AMD wants to go to copper and SOI quickly, but Austin will use 0.18um first, then Dresden will start producing on 0.18um, then Dresden will get copper. The improvement in Austin will let AMD crank out 500Mhz+ K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs for the low end while K7 continues to wait on motherboards thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan (see "Taiwain Quake Hurts Graphics, AMD Chipsets" at my site)
Zuo says, "Understanding bonding in copper oxides is the key to solving the biggest unsolved problem in solid state theory--the nature of high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides."
Does this have anything to do with the Copper interconnect process being used by IBM, Motorola, and (next year) AMD?
Which Slot1 mobo is it? Check the voltage range. I think the current 600Mhz PIII runs at about 2.05v, but is designed for 1.8v. Coppermine and subsequent revsions thereof could use 1.8v at first and go lower, so your upgrade options would be limited in part by your mobo/sloket voltage range. The MSI-6905 is the best from what I've read for SMP and having voltage adjustment, but I'm not sure of the range, and how a slotket's voltage range might be limited by the mobo's voltage. Anybody?
These speech-enabled PDA's will be bought in volume by workers (and companies) in the mid-upper range, as a work-related expense. Such people don't need the kind of multitasking you speak of. Nonetheless, the server could multitask your queries, etc and deliver MP3 music of your choice while you wait.
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I couldn't even make through half the posts here. Much bitching about how the system can't possibly do true real-time, accurate translation from any given language to any other. Duh. The point here is these people are setting up a focused, usable system for use by perhaps two groups: high-level diplomats who probably speak more than one language apiece and thus can tweak their use of colloqialisms as needed, and tourists who will not be using the system to get the latest guffaw local stories but rather to find food, shelter, and locations of interest. Such applications tend to restrict the vocab needed and countries involved.
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Right now many of us are still stuck on 56K (and slower) modems. When broadband ramps up I assume spammers will begin to attach/embed pix and movie files in their emails. Assuming I've got two or three of those waiting on the server, next time I check my email I could be waiting 5, 10, or even 30 minutes just to get through to the legitimate emails. I'm not quite sure of the best remedy, but the unsolicited spam fines seems like a good start.
Maybe, but IDT just announced more details on Winchip4. Why would they let all those investment dollars go to waste? Supposedly the W4 will hit 400Mhz+ this year with an improved FPU. The K7 will likely hit 800Mhz by the end of the year, but that's the extreme high-end where IDT has no intention of competing.
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Blackly said:
Though design documents can be useful tools that help organize a team's efforts, Blackley feels that often times they're a hindrance to creativity. Design docs help publishers set milestones for the developers, which shifts the focus from making a novel game to reaching a milestone to ensure payment. He also noted that the documents themselves have become bloated pieces of work that inhibit innovation. "A 300 page design document is not a very good way to be creative. Design documents actually discourage quality," says Blackley.
What a load of crap. I would think just about _every_ project has milestones...it's the damn _schedule_ that forces early shipping, kills innovation, etc.
As for discouraging quality...if the document includes QA design, then it is quite the opposite.
What a moron this guy is.
i wonder did anyone bother submitting this idea to the Mozilla people instead of to /. ?
hmmmm, this works in Opera 7 too.......the other about:{this} things didn't seem to work
For some people, more eye candy and smoother frames = more complete immersion in the game world.
Was Unreal 2 a bore because it's a bad game, or because your system can't run it full-on?
I guess I could do the research, but just wondering: is 3D Mark really a good indicator? For example, if the games you're playing involve larger textures or more polygons (etc) than those used in 3D Mark, you may not see nearly such a speed-up from just the software mod.
;)
benchmark scores twice as well != games run twice as fast (or even noticeably faster)
Then again, I guess a software mod is a lot easier to undo
Worth trying I suppose, but keep in mind the usual caveats when using synthetic benchmarks to compare performance.
supporting evidence courtesy of Google:
from http://bit.sit.ac.nz/olsen/kenny/Season14.html:
The Simpsons style of animation is changing from episode The Great Louse Detective (EABF01) onwards, as the show will now being using computer digitised animation from then on. The reason: Because it's hard to find professionals who still use the old medium. The show will still keep the same consistant look, and will hopefully be improved slightly. There will also be a piece of digital animation in the "Send in the Clones" segment in the upcoming Treehouse of Horror XIII (DABF19).
This company/game might have to deal with the same thing the Sims Online might hit: what happens when enough people develop "real" relationships only to find out that IRL their friend is not the sex they present online.
I've been waiting for a Sims Online ad for that: Sims character bustles around, then heads out the exit door, a swirl of colors, and suddenly the real person appears and is the opposite sex of their online character.
Will this intrigue or disgust the mainstream audience?
WalMart sells guns to adults for their big game/hunting interest
M rated games are of prurient interest
very different:
in areas like mine, the same people who buy the guns probably also disapprove of M-rated games, so there's no conflict:
WalMart is serving their main customers
(offtopic)
regarding your sig...
do you mean discretion rather than discression?
...and you're no precog.
Intel is preparing to move to produce 0.09nm chips, while this article claims IBM's will do 0.10nm (although I suspect they meant 0.13nm, as this is a more "standard" size and is mentioned later in the article).
Even if a dual Mac G4 comes out, affordability is a major issue. Anyone remember that comparo that had a 500MHz Mac at twice the price of an 600MHz Athlon? Add a dual mobo and another CPU and you've got a machine more than twice the price that is very unlikely to give even close to twice the performance. Dual G4's will serve to strengthen Apple's tiny strongholds in publishing and education. I for one would rather have two fast Athlon machines than one dual Mac... The good side is that with a single company making the CPU, chipset, and mobo, reliability should be great.
Remember that older slashdot article about building something that would allow actual walking to control virtual movement, but people complained the "sense of motion" would be wrong? Viola.
I hadn't heard about those cases. Any idea where they might be documented?
These complaints of "only a 33% increase over dual 550 Celeron" and "what about the electric bill" seem a little picky to me. As to the former, an OC'd Celery has exactly no warranty, whereas the Kryotech system has full warranty even at 1000Mhz. And everyone knows that high-end purchases suffer from diminishing returns syndrome, but if you want the fastest you gots to pay the mostest. As for the electric bill thing, I wish that was the bottleneck in budgeting my money. It seems to me OC'ing is about testing the limits of manufacturing processes, discovering quirks of BIOS settings, etc. As for the HD being the true bottleneck, depends on the app; 256Mb PC100 with an Athlon ought to give a pretty decent throughput even for 3D processing apps. One more thing: when the Athlon 1000 comes out, you'll be able pop it into your Kryotech setup and run it at 1200 or 1300 or something, i.e. while expensive, it does offer some upgrade room.
hah :)
Agreed regarding clear decisions, but also Apple would be hurting if people bought $1300 iMacs instead of $2300 G3s.
I agree AMD wants to go to copper and SOI quickly, but Austin will use 0.18um first, then Dresden will start producing on 0.18um, then Dresden will get copper. The improvement in Austin will let AMD crank out 500Mhz+ K6-2 and K6-3 CPUs for the low end while K7 continues to wait on motherboards thanks to the earthquake in Taiwan (see "Taiwain Quake Hurts Graphics, AMD Chipsets" at my site)
Zuo says, "Understanding bonding in copper oxides is the key to solving the biggest unsolved problem in solid state theory--the nature of high temperature superconductivity in copper oxides."
Does this have anything to do with the Copper interconnect process being used by IBM, Motorola, and (next year) AMD?
Which Slot1 mobo is it? Check the voltage range. I think the current 600Mhz PIII runs at about 2.05v, but is designed for 1.8v. Coppermine and subsequent revsions thereof could use 1.8v at first and go lower, so your upgrade options would be limited in part by your mobo/sloket voltage range. The MSI-6905 is the best from what I've read for SMP and having voltage adjustment, but I'm not sure of the range, and how a slotket's voltage range might be limited by the mobo's voltage. Anybody?
These speech-enabled PDA's will be bought in volume by workers (and companies) in the mid-upper range, as a work-related expense. Such people don't need the kind of multitasking you speak of. Nonetheless, the server could multitask your queries, etc and deliver MP3 music of your choice while you wait.
Possibly K7 mobos will be available in mid-late August for DIY channel. Check out JC's excellent K7 motherlode.
I couldn't even make through half the posts here. Much bitching about how the system can't possibly do true real-time, accurate translation from any given language to any other. Duh. The point here is these people are setting up a focused, usable system for use by perhaps two groups: high-level diplomats who probably speak more than one language apiece and thus can tweak their use of colloqialisms as needed, and tourists who will not be using the system to get the latest guffaw local stories but rather to find food, shelter, and locations of interest. Such applications tend to restrict the vocab needed and countries involved.
Right now many of us are still stuck on 56K (and slower) modems. When broadband ramps up I assume spammers will begin to attach/embed pix and movie files in their emails. Assuming I've got two or three of those waiting on the server, next time I check my email I could be waiting 5, 10, or even 30 minutes just to get through to the legitimate emails. I'm not quite sure of the best remedy, but the unsolicited spam fines seems like a good start.
Maybe, but IDT just announced more details on Winchip4. Why would they let all those investment dollars go to waste? Supposedly the W4 will hit 400Mhz+ this year with an improved FPU. The K7 will likely hit 800Mhz by the end of the year, but that's the extreme high-end where IDT has no intention of competing.