Yes, CPU can be used for physics, netcode, and other nifty things.
For something like DOOM 3, though, they won't be. You'll be GPU bound.
As for BSPs and what not, my understanding is that more ram will do you better than more proc, as you can load more of the tree into memory and parse it fairly quickly. Could be mistaken on that, though.
Outlook, remember, is designed to be an Exchange client, and it works just great for that. Log into any machine on the domain, and there's your email. Or just use OWA.
Using WinNT's remote profiles should work just fine, but myself's not had any experience using them.
Sure it does; with XP, and a reasonablly intelligent mail client, your mail files will wind up in the docs and settings subtree, which, if properly permissioned, won't allow other people to access.
Couple that with proper logout discipline, and you're reasonably golden.
In Outlook Express:
Pull down the Tools menu, select Options.
Select the 'maintenance' tab.
Clicky the button labelled 'store folder.'
Clicky the button labelled 'change.'
Point it at the ultra-secure, mounted, encrypted, case explodes when exposed to open air file server that's also holding up that corner of the couch; you know, Jimmy knocked the leg out when he was drunk that night, and was trying to do the worm dance, he thought it would impress that redhead with the peircing green eyes...yeah, that one, the one you slipped off with while he was unconcious after the couch clipped his temple..man, that was a wild night. Anywho, people wanted to sit on the couch, so you crammed the server under there, it worked great, and it helps keep your feet warm. Sweet.
Click OK as many times as necessary.
Now, just make sure that your mounting the drive properly, and you should be good.
Humans have the advantage over computers, I think, because we're capable of seeing qualities, not properties.
A human, for example, can grasp the essential 'chairness' of a given object, whereas a computer can look for a seat, four legs, and a back. We, however, can see a chair in a rock, the floor, and so on.
Similarly, we can see a face in the clouds, a rock on Mars, a hint of shadow. A computer, on the other hand, can look for two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
We also have the uncanny ability to 'fill in the blanks.' Analog (i.e. values other than 'yes' or 'no') processing coupled with intuitive leaps; I don't know if it would be possible to simulate these.
But what you say also applies in the other direction. Ask any detective, and they'll tell you that criminals are generally caught because they either did something spur-of-the-moment, and left evidence, or, they talked their own way right into prison.
People love to brag, love to discuss. Hackers (good version) especially; information wants to be free, and all that.
Hence, using the offer of a reward to get somebody to step forward with something they might have overheard. Usually, just one little fact starts knocking everything over like dominos.
Besides, reward-for-information has been used, quite successfully, for quite a while. Just becase Microsoft has started using it, doesn't make it a bad idea.
I've always thought that, as with many many Japanese films, if you imagine that it's a message about America, (weather or not it's actually intended to be) you'll get an interesting viewpoint.
Funny you say that, because one of the strikes against D&D back in the day was a student who got hisself killed exploring the steam tunnels under, I believe, Madison University (that's what's coming to mind, at least) while doing something or other D&D related.
TOS was one of the first TV series released onto DVD, and they followed the VHS model. Better models have no evolved, so they're using the better model.
Well, I tend to wait for games to drop in price myself, unless of course it's the kind of game one JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR, but as far as I'm concerned, Ninja Gaiden, for example, was well worth 70 bucks CDN.
If you get ten hours of enjoyment out of a fifty hour game, you've just paid 5 bucks per hour. You'll pay a hell of a lot more than that to go to a movie, say.
Books can be cheaper, as they're the result of one or two guys banging on a keyboard, somebody editing it, and somebody printing it.
DVDs are an anomoly; it's often easy to find the full blown DVD of a given movie for less than the CD soundtrack. Also, consider that Laserdiscs tended to be $100+.
I can take a GPL'd program, modify it, and then require you to buy a CD if you want it. However, along with that CD, I must give you the source code, and you can do as you will with it, within the bounds of the GPL.
Hence, Red Hat doesn't have to give you shit for free, if they don't want to. However, once you buy thier shit, they have to give you the source to any of it which is GPL'd.
If you don't buy it, they don't have to give you the source for anything under the GPL. You can, however, get it from somebody who *has* bought it, and Red Hat can't do a damn thing about it.
Actually, what you'd do in this case, if you're really worried about it, is break the password, crypto key, whatever, into two or more chunks, and leave each chunk with somebody (company executives, safety deposit box, or lawyer, if you're really worried) with instructions that all the pieces be assemebled, in the event of your death.
The attitude I refer to, is the one which states that the user will take what they're given, and they'll like it, or they're a bunch of whiney little bastards who shouldn't be using computers in the first place.
The users want a standard Mac style UI? Then they'll go with the software that gives that to them. Saying that they should be happy with an X style UI, so that's what they get, means you don't get users.
Slashdot Mirror
"Hey! Quit thinking in Japanese! My eva is configured for German! Oh, fine, I'll switch it..."
Paraphrased from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Yes, CPU can be used for physics, netcode, and other nifty things.
For something like DOOM 3, though, they won't be. You'll be GPU bound.
As for BSPs and what not, my understanding is that more ram will do you better than more proc, as you can load more of the tree into memory and parse it fairly quickly. Could be mistaken on that, though.
Great Scott, son, we're talking 1.21 JIGGA-watts here!
What is so good about having two procs waiting on the GPU, rather than one?
Your headphone jack doesn't have eight slender contact points, idiots trying to plug in their phone cord, lock tabs breaking off, and so on.
Well, you've got two options.
Outlook, remember, is designed to be an Exchange client, and it works just great for that. Log into any machine on the domain, and there's your email. Or just use OWA.
Using WinNT's remote profiles should work just fine, but myself's not had any experience using them.
Sure it does; with XP, and a reasonablly intelligent mail client, your mail files will wind up in the docs and settings subtree, which, if properly permissioned, won't allow other people to access.
Couple that with proper logout discipline, and you're reasonably golden.
In Outlook Express:
Pull down the Tools menu, select Options.
Select the 'maintenance' tab.
Clicky the button labelled 'store folder.'
Clicky the button labelled 'change.'
Point it at the ultra-secure, mounted, encrypted, case explodes when exposed to open air file server that's also holding up that corner of the couch; you know, Jimmy knocked the leg out when he was drunk that night, and was trying to do the worm dance, he thought it would impress that redhead with the peircing green eyes...yeah, that one, the one you slipped off with while he was unconcious after the couch clipped his temple..man, that was a wild night. Anywho, people wanted to sit on the couch, so you crammed the server under there, it worked great, and it helps keep your feet warm. Sweet.
Click OK as many times as necessary.
Now, just make sure that your mounting the drive properly, and you should be good.
Remember, after all, that a big player in the Watergate affairs was 'Deep Throat.'
Thanks for the reference; I'll add it to my Mighty List of Things To Read.
Humans have the advantage over computers, I think, because we're capable of seeing qualities, not properties.
A human, for example, can grasp the essential 'chairness' of a given object, whereas a computer can look for a seat, four legs, and a back. We, however, can see a chair in a rock, the floor, and so on.
Similarly, we can see a face in the clouds, a rock on Mars, a hint of shadow. A computer, on the other hand, can look for two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
We also have the uncanny ability to 'fill in the blanks.' Analog (i.e. values other than 'yes' or 'no') processing coupled with intuitive leaps; I don't know if it would be possible to simulate these.
But what you say also applies in the other direction. Ask any detective, and they'll tell you that criminals are generally caught because they either did something spur-of-the-moment, and left evidence, or, they talked their own way right into prison.
People love to brag, love to discuss. Hackers (good version) especially; information wants to be free, and all that.
Hence, using the offer of a reward to get somebody to step forward with something they might have overheard. Usually, just one little fact starts knocking everything over like dominos.
Besides, reward-for-information has been used, quite successfully, for quite a while. Just becase Microsoft has started using it, doesn't make it a bad idea.
I've always thought that, as with many many Japanese films, if you imagine that it's a message about America, (weather or not it's actually intended to be) you'll get an interesting viewpoint.
Actually, to your average American, if you're not toeing the party line, you ARE being actively anti-American.
Ironic, really.
Soviet Union, eh?
I'd hazard a guess that he means Zionist.
And no, he's not talking about a bunch of sweater-wearing rave goers who think that the machines somehow can't find them.
Funny you say that, because one of the strikes against D&D back in the day was a student who got hisself killed exploring the steam tunnels under, I believe, Madison University (that's what's coming to mind, at least) while doing something or other D&D related.
TOS was one of the first TV series released onto DVD, and they followed the VHS model. Better models have no evolved, so they're using the better model.
Well, I tend to wait for games to drop in price myself, unless of course it's the kind of game one JUST CAN'T WAIT FOR, but as far as I'm concerned, Ninja Gaiden, for example, was well worth 70 bucks CDN.
Faugh, I say!
If you get ten hours of enjoyment out of a fifty hour game, you've just paid 5 bucks per hour. You'll pay a hell of a lot more than that to go to a movie, say.
Books can be cheaper, as they're the result of one or two guys banging on a keyboard, somebody editing it, and somebody printing it.
DVDs are an anomoly; it's often easy to find the full blown DVD of a given movie for less than the CD soundtrack. Also, consider that Laserdiscs tended to be $100+.
Nope.
I can take a GPL'd program, modify it, and then require you to buy a CD if you want it. However, along with that CD, I must give you the source code, and you can do as you will with it, within the bounds of the GPL.
Hence, Red Hat doesn't have to give you shit for free, if they don't want to. However, once you buy thier shit, they have to give you the source to any of it which is GPL'd.
If you don't buy it, they don't have to give you the source for anything under the GPL. You can, however, get it from somebody who *has* bought it, and Red Hat can't do a damn thing about it.
No, but 60/72/100 FPS, i.e. monitor sync, and motion blur, will result in much better looking games.
And to answer the parent post, 3dfx already tried, and it wound up putting them out of business.
Actually, what you'd do in this case, if you're really worried about it, is break the password, crypto key, whatever, into two or more chunks, and leave each chunk with somebody (company executives, safety deposit box, or lawyer, if you're really worried) with instructions that all the pieces be assemebled, in the event of your death.
The attitude I refer to, is the one which states that the user will take what they're given, and they'll like it, or they're a bunch of whiney little bastards who shouldn't be using computers in the first place.
The users want a standard Mac style UI? Then they'll go with the software that gives that to them. Saying that they should be happy with an X style UI, so that's what they get, means you don't get users.
And here we see the attitude that keeps Linux from becoming a serious player in the desktop market.