Chess is all about thinking about more plays than your opponent while thinking about the good ones first, if possible. A computer is really suited for this task and can explore graphs way faster than humans can, which makes them really good at chess. Of course, you need good heuristics to guide your search, in order to find good moves quickly.
The AI required for a machine to understand the current state of the game from sensor inputs is really hard to build, and making that machine learn from its mistakes is even more of a challenge. Learning the physics and coordination required to move the ball around with the plastic men also requires quite a bit of black magic.
When the number of comments reaches twice the number of abstract views... which must be 10% of the whole article views.. You just know slashdot has a problem:)
Temperature also depends a lot on case temperature... If you can cool your case correctly (without jet engines) then you can cool your cpu without jet engines. I have a 2000+ (1.67GHz) running at 1.80GHz, but with 5 silent thermaltake fan cases and a globalwin cpu fan I keep it around 35 C. My mobo is around 25 C.
To give you an idea of how much the fan cases matter, if I turn them all off, it takes 5 minutes for my system to crash under heavy load, as cpu temp. approaches 70C and mobo climbs to ~45. (I guess the overclocking is why it crashes at lower temperatures than it should)
Please note that this baby has a 6.4" screen which doesn't compete with any laptop in the market. Enough with the "my firewire device and 15 inch display laptop is better"... it obviously is, since this thing isn't made for every day work like a real laptop is.
Compare it to a lame 500$ camera that can record 10 secs of video on a memory stick and it sounds quite good.
While you might not be aware of this, cross-platform solutions have been used, are used and will continue to be used to develop games.
Will ALL Windows programming be done with.NET? no. A whole bunch of DirectX developers that use it because they don't know any better will probably move on to.NET gaming. Those who use DirectX because there is specific things in DirectX that they can't find elsewhere will move on to.NET. Others will realize that OpenGL is better than DirectX as an API for mostly anything (Don't flame me for the exceptions).
If games aren't developed with.NET and Microsoft is killing COM, then what future for games development on Windows?
For christ's sake... is developing games and DirectX now linked by some kind of godly power? Most of the good games out there (quake anyone?) have been built on multiple platforms and released on multiple platforms because their developers had a clue, which most developers don't. Having used Microsoft stuff for the past years is not a good point while trying to choose which library to base a project on. Finding the most portable and easy to use one is.
There was a discussion earlier this week about writing portable games here on slashdot. I believe you haven't read it so here it the main idea: * If you decide to write a game from scratch, pick portable libraries right at the beginning of the project * test that the project compiles and works on both platforms as it grows. * keep bad code and unportable code out of the source.
That way you can probably get rid of DirectX,.NET and COM programming in one step.
I can't see why portable code is so fscking hard
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Ok, I'm no professionnal game developer, but I've written SDL/OpenGL apps in the past (even recently) and by making sure everything does compile and work under both linux and windows as I add code, I end up with fully portable code. I mean, how hard is it to use portable libraries and code from the beginning? Why do companies choose to use DirectX instead of OpenGL? Even if you use DirectX, how hard is it to make that choice irrelevant to the rest of the implementation, and the switch to OpenGL transparent?
NVidia is doing a pretty good job at Linux graphics, as is Carmack. It must be possible for eevry company to build portable games and engines when they build them from scratch, shouldn't it?
As pointed out by others, in which year do you live? 500MHz CPU's haven't been sold to gamers for what.. 5 years now? You can't game on WinXP unless you have 256 or even 512 megs of RAM nowadays. 1-2 GB is the default install size for most games.
As for the video card, do you think XP will automagically convert your S3 4 meg video card to a gaming video card on the fly?
The machine mentionned is far from awful pricey... you should get out of your basement some time and see what's changed:-)
It is the idiots they are after, not us... give them a break!
First, please, get your facts straight before you tell the legions of kids building their computers here that arctic silver is an epoxy. there's the thermal paste AND the epoxy. You don't use epoxy on your cpu.
Second, if you use too much paste, you shouldn't cause any shorts since the die is really far away from anything, unless you put a whole tube on the die. The processor will likely just catch in fire;)
Third, please moderators, stop modding up stuff that you have no clue about just because it sounds smart to you. This post is fscking score:5 and doesn't even have the correct facts.
I'll grant you that there is no connection with printer manufacturers. As for how many replacement FANS I buy during a CPU's useful lifetime, I'd say at least 2. Dust gets caught inside fans, moving parts wear out and the first thing you know is that your fan makes weird noises or simply stops working. Cleaning fans often may make them last longer but eventually you have to change them. North bridge fans are even worse, IMHO, and they're usually harder to replace:(
Knoppix is used to boot Linux from a CD only, usually to use a computer without an OS installed or with a broken OS (e.g. when your grandpa clicked on too many 'make money fast' links the previous night and screwed his installation up). It doesn't require any installation to use, that's why its useful. It is not meant to be a linux distribution for every day use.
I'm surprised the editors didn't review this before approving it for posting. This is really pretty elementary to anyone who understands object code.
I'm surprised you didn't think one second that your grand knowledge of the scheme of things didn't include the knowledge required to understand this thing... you'd rather think everyone here is a fucktard and making up technically impossible stories?
Oh and btw.. anyone who thinks they understand object code and states that bytes inflate and deflate should go take Elementary Computing Principles I.
I wonder what kind of a crappy setup you have. I have a athlon 2000+ @ 1.82 and mozilla sucks up a big fat 31 megs of RAM and 1% of my CPU in XP with 13 tabs open (12 slashdot comment pages and the sink). Sure if you load 12 pages with flashy widgets it will get worse but that's with any browser.
A further problem is the noise level. The fan produces an incredible racket on par with a vacuum cleaner - there's simply no other way to describe it. You can hear the card even if you're in another room of the house.
As we all know focusing on profit and marketing always brought us more Good Things(TM). One only has to look at Microsoft to find the best example of innovation through good business practices.
What's better, a gazillionth copy of doom for the cube or cute games that are still a lot of fun to play?
funny.. just for comparison purposes too.. I downloaded the latest winrar and cs94_002.zip with maximum compression, the result here is: cs94_002.rar (Source) 14.7 Mb (15,433,517 bytes)
which is still better than winzip with cs94wzip.zip (Source) 15.7 Mb (16,480,984 bytes)
but equivalent to 7z: cs94_002.7z (Source) 14.7 Mb (15,456,639 bytes)
Go to CNN there is a poll on this issue (whether the judge was right or not) and it's 70% against 30% on the fact that he was wrong. Go vote! We have to win this poll:)
Slashdot Mirror
When are you people going to learn??!!?!
IT'S LUDACRIS.. for christ's sake.. LUDAC...
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Chess is a thinking game
Chess is all about thinking about more plays than your opponent while thinking about the good ones first, if possible. A computer is really suited for this task and can explore graphs way faster than humans can, which makes them really good at chess. Of course, you need good heuristics to guide your search, in order to find good moves quickly.
The AI required for a machine to understand the current state of the game from sensor inputs is really hard to build, and making that machine learn from its mistakes is even more of a challenge. Learning the physics and coordination required to move the ball around with the plastic men also requires quite a bit of black magic.
When the number of comments reaches twice the number of abstract views... which must be 10% of the whole article views.. You just know slashdot has a problem :)
Temperature also depends a lot on case temperature... If you can cool your case correctly (without jet engines) then you can cool your cpu without jet engines. I have a 2000+ (1.67GHz) running at 1.80GHz, but with 5 silent thermaltake fan cases and a globalwin cpu fan I keep it around 35 C. My mobo is around 25 C.
To give you an idea of how much the fan cases matter, if I turn them all off, it takes 5 minutes for my system to crash under heavy load, as cpu temp. approaches 70C and mobo climbs to ~45. (I guess the overclocking is why it crashes at lower temperatures than it should)
It is very stable with the fans on.
Please note that this baby has a 6.4" screen which doesn't compete with any laptop in the market. Enough with the "my firewire device and 15 inch display laptop is better"... it obviously is, since this thing isn't made for every day work like a real laptop is.
Compare it to a lame 500$ camera that can record 10 secs of video on a memory stick and it sounds quite good.
While you might not be aware of this, cross-platform solutions have been used, are used and will continue to be used to develop games.
.NET? .NET gaming. Those who use DirectX because there is specific things in DirectX that they can't find elsewhere will move on to .NET. Others will realize that OpenGL is better than DirectX as an API for mostly anything (Don't flame me for the exceptions).
.NET and Microsoft is killing COM, then what future for games development on Windows?
.NET and COM programming in one step.
Will ALL Windows programming be done with
no. A whole bunch of DirectX developers that use it because they don't know any better will probably move on to
If games aren't developed with
For christ's sake... is developing games and DirectX now linked by some kind of godly power? Most of the good games out there (quake anyone?) have been built on multiple platforms and released on multiple platforms because their developers had a clue, which most developers don't. Having used Microsoft stuff for the past years is not a good point while trying to choose which library to base a project on. Finding the most portable and easy to use one is.
There was a discussion earlier this week about writing portable games here on slashdot. I believe you haven't read it so here it the main idea:
* If you decide to write a game from scratch, pick portable libraries right at the beginning of the project
* test that the project compiles and works on both platforms as it grows.
* keep bad code and unportable code out of the source.
That way you can probably get rid of DirectX,
Ok, I'm no professionnal game developer, but I've written SDL/OpenGL apps in the past (even recently) and by making sure everything does compile and work under both linux and windows as I add code, I end up with fully portable code. I mean, how hard is it to use portable libraries and code from the beginning? Why do companies choose to use DirectX instead of OpenGL? Even if you use DirectX, how hard is it to make that choice irrelevant to the rest of the implementation, and the switch to OpenGL transparent?
NVidia is doing a pretty good job at Linux graphics, as is Carmack. It must be possible for eevry company to build portable games and engines when they build them from scratch, shouldn't it?
As pointed out by others, in which year do you live? 500MHz CPU's haven't been sold to gamers for what .. 5 years now? You can't game on WinXP unless you have 256 or even 512 megs of RAM nowadays. 1-2 GB is the default install size for most games.
:-)
As for the video card, do you think XP will automagically convert your S3 4 meg video card to a gaming video card on the fly?
The machine mentionned is far from awful pricey... you should get out of your basement some time and see what's changed
It is the idiots they are after, not us... give them a break!
;)
First, please, get your facts straight before you tell the legions of kids building their computers here that arctic silver is an epoxy. there's the thermal paste AND the epoxy. You don't use epoxy on your cpu.
Second, if you use too much paste, you shouldn't cause any shorts since the die is really far away from anything, unless you put a whole tube on the die. The processor will likely just catch in fire
Third, please moderators, stop modding up stuff that you have no clue about just because it sounds smart to you. This post is fscking score:5 and doesn't even have the correct facts.
I'll grant you that there is no connection with printer manufacturers. As for how many replacement FANS I buy during a CPU's useful lifetime, I'd say at least 2. Dust gets caught inside fans, moving parts wear out and the first thing you know is that your fan makes weird noises or simply stops working. Cleaning fans often may make them last longer but eventually you have to change them. North bridge fans are even worse, IMHO, and they're usually harder to replace :(
Knoppix is used to boot Linux from a CD only, usually to use a computer without an OS installed or with a broken OS (e.g. when your grandpa clicked on too many 'make money fast' links the previous night and screwed his installation up). It doesn't require any installation to use, that's why its useful. It is not meant to be a linux distribution for every day use.
I'm surprised the editors didn't review this before approving it for posting. This is really pretty elementary to anyone who understands object code.
I'm surprised you didn't think one second that your grand knowledge of the scheme of things didn't include the knowledge required to understand this thing... you'd rather think everyone here is a fucktard and making up technically impossible stories?
Oh and btw.. anyone who thinks they understand object code and states that bytes inflate and deflate should go take Elementary Computing Principles I.
I wonder what kind of a crappy setup you have. I have a athlon 2000+ @ 1.82 and mozilla sucks up a big fat 31 megs of RAM and 1% of my CPU in XP with 13 tabs open (12 slashdot comment pages and the sink). Sure if you load 12 pages with flashy widgets it will get worse but that's with any browser.
God. there's even THREE mp3's you can download to hear the sound of the FX in comparison to the 9700. RTFA. :)
r ce_fx-05.html
e s/geforcefx-3dmark-hq.mp3
From http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030127/gefo
A further problem is the noise level. The fan produces an incredible racket on par with a vacuum cleaner - there's simply no other way to describe it. You can hear the card even if you're in another room of the house.
Check out this for the noise level
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030127/imag
Oh yeah..
As we all know focusing on profit and marketing always brought us more Good Things(TM). One only has to look at Microsoft to find the best example of innovation through good business practices.
What's better, a gazillionth copy of doom for the cube or cute games that are still a lot of fun to play?
You're right.
Using yelp (the GNOME help application) you can browse info pages quite easily... it looks at least as good as if they were made in HTML.
Well, what about our poor fellows who browse the web with old monitors that don't go that high?
You don't have to look really hard to find 15" and 14" monitors that don't go above 640x480.
If you're not using stable series don't complain about missing options.
You could compile 2.4 kernels straight out of the tarballs and they would actually support your 9$ generic PS/2 keyboard.
funny.. just for comparison purposes too.. I downloaded the latest winrar and cs94_002.zip
with maximum compression, the result here is:
cs94_002.rar (Source) 14.7 Mb (15,433,517 bytes)
which is still better than winzip with
cs94wzip.zip (Source) 15.7 Mb (16,480,984 bytes)
but equivalent to 7z:
cs94_002.7z (Source) 14.7 Mb (15,456,639 bytes)
How did you get it down to 9 mb?
Go to CNN there is a poll on this issue (whether the judge was right or not) and it's 70% against 30% on the fact that he was wrong. Go vote! We have to win this poll :)
Guills