You haven't named the Gamecube controller, which to me was a wonderful design that I still use to play emulators on my PC (using an adapter, of course).
Better picture maybe, but actually having better sound at home that at any decent cinema is damn difficult. Maybe you are rich and can afford a sound-proof room with big-ass speaker and amps, but most people can't.
I'm surprissed nobody mentioned VGA and Mode 13h yet. It was one of the first things I learnt to program as a kid. int 10h to set the graphics mode, ports 3c7, 3c8 and 3c9 to read/write the palette, and then writing pixels to segment A000h.
Most IT people, let alone normal people, don't have a clue who Brendan Eich is or what he did, nor care. The real reason Chrome is number one is because it's bundled with a lot of software nowadays, and Firefox isn't.
We all know Vulkan is the future of computer graphics, but OpenGL is far from dead. It's right now the standard API for Linux, Android and the web. Also, the new Doom uses OpenGL, and is probably the best performing game of 2016 (although the Vulkan version performs even better).
Number one reason would be to be able to run several virtual machines, to try different OSes and environments at the same time.
Number two would be that some of us code really memory intensive algorithms (robotics and machine vision in my case).
Take a look at this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c...
It's faster than even the latest i5-6600, and cheaper. Only the i7's are faster. And don't tell me about single core performance, it's 2017, any program I care about is multithreaded.
Now if you talk about energy consumption, you may have a point...
I'm still using my 8 years old Precision M4400. That thing is rock solid, and the battery still last 2 hours. If I ever buy another laptop, it will probably be a Precision.
I have an Adobe RGB capable display, and when properly calibrated is much better than sRGB. Obviously, you need source material encoded in it, but that's what I have my DSLR for.
Seriously, latvian connections are awesome. I visited some latvian friends this summer, and was amazed of how fast connections were. Faster and cheaper that here in Spain (luckily, we also don't have quotas).
Your analogy makes no sense. The video card doesn't have to care about what particular technology the display uses, only the range of vertical and horizontal frequencies it supports. The video signal is the same, whether you use a CRT, a LCD, o whatever.
I don't have a final solution quite yet (though I am working on it as a thought project), but the problem we need to solve is getting a new instruction set which is inherently capable of parallel operation, not on adding more cores and pushing the responsibility onto the programmers for multi-threading their programs.
Like the old Cray machines, or the new NEC SX series? After having studied them, I wonder why manufacturers don't add long vector instructions to current CPUs, they are much more flexible than short vectors (SIMD).
I recently bought a Precision M4400 with a Core 2 Duo T9400, 4 GB of RAM, Quadro 770M with 512 MB of dedicated RAM, 15" matte 1440x900 display, with white LED backlighting, a 200 GB, 7200 RPM hard-drive, and Vista Bussiness (I use Windows for games, I don't care what version it is). It cost me 1800 euros. At the time, a MacBook Pro with a similar configuration had a cost of 2500 euros. Now, this was in Spain, I have heard that in USA macs are cheaper.
PS: about having a big screen and HDD... I have it plugged to an external 22" display and a 500 GB eSATA drive. Plenty of space.
While they give a very natural style of compression on still images (JPEG-2000, etc), they do not translate well to moving sequences because, unlike all other current codecs, the image is not broken up into blocks that can then be tracked and diff'd in time.
You seem to be confusing motion estimation/compensation with residual coding. Dirac does break the image into blocks, using overlapped block motion compensation. However, the residual image is coded as a whole, thanks to wavelets. This should greatly reduce blocking artifacts.
If the list is empty, there is no need to sort it, so terminate.
If the list has at least and element x and a tail xs:
Create a list with all the elements lesser than x: lt = filter (<x) xs.
Create a list with all the elements greater or equal than x: gt = filter (x) xs.
Sort them recursively, and concatenate them with x in the middle: qsort lt ++ [x] ++ qsort gt.
That's all. You may not be familiar with Haskell's syntax, but Quicksort is a recursive algorithm, so it is natural that it is better expressed with a declarative language.
14.31818 MHz was used as the master frequency of NTSC sets, so those crystals were fairly common and cheap. Dividing it by 3 gives 4.77 MHz; other common dividers were 2, giving 7.15 MHz (as used in the Amiga and Atari ST), and 4, giving 3.58 MHz (used in lots of 8 bits computers).
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You haven't named the Gamecube controller, which to me was a wonderful design that I still use to play emulators on my PC (using an adapter, of course).
Better picture maybe, but actually having better sound at home that at any decent cinema is damn difficult. Maybe you are rich and can afford a sound-proof room with big-ass speaker and amps, but most people can't.
I'm surprissed nobody mentioned VGA and Mode 13h yet. It was one of the first things I learnt to program as a kid. int 10h to set the graphics mode, ports 3c7, 3c8 and 3c9 to read/write the palette, and then writing pixels to segment A000h.
Most IT people, let alone normal people, don't have a clue who Brendan Eich is or what he did, nor care. The real reason Chrome is number one is because it's bundled with a lot of software nowadays, and Firefox isn't.
We all know Vulkan is the future of computer graphics, but OpenGL is far from dead. It's right now the standard API for Linux, Android and the web. Also, the new Doom uses OpenGL, and is probably the best performing game of 2016 (although the Vulkan version performs even better).
If you really think 240p or 480p looks "good enough", either you have never seen a 1080p display or you are almost blind.
Number one reason would be to be able to run several virtual machines, to try different OSes and environments at the same time. Number two would be that some of us code really memory intensive algorithms (robotics and machine vision in my case).
Take a look at this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/c... It's faster than even the latest i5-6600, and cheaper. Only the i7's are faster. And don't tell me about single core performance, it's 2017, any program I care about is multithreaded. Now if you talk about energy consumption, you may have a point...
I'm still using my 8 years old Precision M4400. That thing is rock solid, and the battery still last 2 hours. If I ever buy another laptop, it will probably be a Precision.
I have an Adobe RGB capable display, and when properly calibrated is much better than sRGB. Obviously, you need source material encoded in it, but that's what I have my DSLR for.
The last paragraph is pure gold. You sir made my day, if I had mod points I would have given you a +1 Funny.
Well, I certainly do, if only because I have been living here my whole live :P
Seriously, latvian connections are awesome. I visited some latvian friends this summer, and was amazed of how fast connections were. Faster and cheaper that here in Spain (luckily, we also don't have quotas).
Your analogy makes no sense. The video card doesn't have to care about what particular technology the display uses, only the range of vertical and horizontal frequencies it supports. The video signal is the same, whether you use a CRT, a LCD, o whatever.
With a modern machine, a good setting is:
core=dynamic
cycles=auto
That way you don't have to manually adjust the cycles, and VGA games run quite smooth and fast.
In my experience, anti-depressants make you feel nothing, neither positive nor negative emotions.
Like the old Cray machines, or the new NEC SX series? After having studied them, I wonder why manufacturers don't add long vector instructions to current CPUs, they are much more flexible than short vectors (SIMD).
I recently bought a Precision M4400 with a Core 2 Duo T9400, 4 GB of RAM, Quadro 770M with 512 MB of dedicated RAM, 15" matte 1440x900 display, with white LED backlighting, a 200 GB, 7200 RPM hard-drive, and Vista Bussiness (I use Windows for games, I don't care what version it is). It cost me 1800 euros. At the time, a MacBook Pro with a similar configuration had a cost of 2500 euros. Now, this was in Spain, I have heard that in USA macs are cheaper.
PS: about having a big screen and HDD... I have it plugged to an external 22" display and a 500 GB eSATA drive. Plenty of space.
You seem to be confusing motion estimation/compensation with residual coding. Dirac does break the image into blocks, using overlapped block motion compensation. However, the residual image is coded as a whole, thanks to wavelets. This should greatly reduce blocking artifacts.
That's all. You may not be familiar with Haskell's syntax, but Quicksort is a recursive algorithm, so it is natural that it is better expressed with a declarative language.
Quicksort in C:
Quicksort in Haskell:
Now, tell me imperative version is easier to understand than the functional one.
14.31818 MHz was used as the master frequency of NTSC sets, so those crystals were fairly common and cheap. Dividing it by 3 gives 4.77 MHz; other common dividers were 2, giving 7.15 MHz (as used in the Amiga and Atari ST), and 4, giving 3.58 MHz (used in lots of 8 bits computers).