I'm glad to see that someone (especially a slashdot user) respects the EULA and doesn't bitch and wine because they violated it and got what was coming.
Microsoft is getting burned on this because they are one of the first to take a proactive step in online cheating. Also because their OS hold a significant share of the desktop market and 1337 linux zealots are jealous. So instead of making a difference by writing a better OS these users spend the daylit hours on slashdot posting libel.
Woops, kind of went off on a tangent there.
Anyways, don't go disabling all the lights on your car (you OWN it so you have the right), and then bitch when the cop pulls you over.
What would happen? People on slashdot would bitch like there is no tomorrow. The rest of the world will carry on.
Either way, the standard 'linux beat by large corporation' hypothetical situation you posed here does not weaken Microsoft's right to do what they wish to their proprietary hardware and network. How about this wild hypothetical situation, the linux kernel comes to life and kills all the women and children of windows users. OOHHHH... linux is evil!!!
To any pro-linux/anti-microsoft user on slashdot, this whole Xbox Live thingy isn't an issue since you really shouldn't be owning an xbox. The 'lets make MS bankrupt' excuse for buying an xbox doesn't disguise your true lust for sexy microsoft hardware.
Im sorry to burst your bubble, but a $200 console can't play any of the xbox games at a frame locked 60 fps. Top end ($400+) video cards finally match the bandwidth that the XBox has for video memory. Remember that the XBox uses video memory for everything.
It's a kids systems that does stuff better than dads computer.
I have about 20 3.11 movies that would be useless.
Of course, you can always re-rip these movies since you DO own the DVDs. So its no big deal. Then again, why would you rip your DVDs to DivX to play on your DVD player?
I apologize if your movies are made legally from home video/backed up VHS/etc.. but I doubt thats the case.
I remember this IRC log from a while back. In a nutshell, they said that the PowerPC architechture (namely AltiVec) is well suited for RC5 since it has nice hardware bit rotates, and RC5 uses rotate A LOT.
[acidblood] More registers available (32 in the PowerPC versus 8 in MMX and SSE2), plus 128-bit wide registers (MMX is only 64-bit wide), and the existence of a hardware vector rotate instruction in Altivec, which isn't available in MMX and SSE2.
Is RC5 a useful benchmark if it mainly tests the bit rotate performance? Does Intel/AMD really care if their RC5 keyrate is low? Are you going decide which CPU to get next based on bit rotate performance?
...it is all from CDs that I personally own or have borrowed from friends
So in a nutshell, you pirate music.
I just thought it was strange that you needed to point that out, as if borrowing CDs from friends and ripping them is legal and within 'fair use'.
Its okay. I 'borrow' CDs from my 'friends' from all over they world. They are even kind enough to encode them and make them easily accessible over the internet so I don't have to pick up and return the CD to their houses.
For the people who don't hate nvidia...
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This would also mean that macro viruses that send emails to your entire address list will affect the average user much more than it does now.
Aside from macro viruses, people will surely find other ways to run up someones email bill, and this is probably the reason why there are no common pay-per use services over the internet.
There is nothing about current shaders that restrict them to only raster graphics. The current shaders can act like like a ray tracer if you create the mesh such that there is 1 (or more) vertices per pixel. If you really wanted to you could make a primitive raytracer using current video card shaders.
The most obvious flaw though, is that those images are raytraced, and this is not something that anyone is claiming to do in realtime yet
I didn't read anywhere that those images were rendered in realtime. Either way I wouldnt be suprised if those claims were made.
Those images are scaled duplicates that aren't changed a bit, and there is no way that an Nvidia card rendered them, because there is no way the reflections would be the same, but they are.
If the nv3x uses full precision floating point operations, then there is no reason why a reflection map would look different. The algorithm is very standard. Env mapping looks horrible in some games because the hardware uses 'good enough' calculations with very tiny env maps and poor surface detail.
There is also depth of field which is not impossible, but is improbable for now.
Realtime DOF for games may be improbable, but not for rendering a single image. You can simulate DOF using multipass rendering as explained in the OpenGL redbook.
Four - nVidia acquires exluna and uses a modified version of BMRT/Entropy to shade using nVidia hardware. They render images from previous image contests where the artists gave up ownership and had to submit the source files to prove the images were done with their software.
I'm sure nVidia and exluna have been working together on this for a while.
The guys at nVidia have some technology that translates RenderMan to something they know how to render.
Yes, probably a compiler. RenderMan is just a language and can be implemented on whatever you wish.
A better view of the layout is shown on the bottom right of this page, the purpose of the color coding appears to be for aesthetics. You know, for when godzilla rips the roof off the building.
Why not just shoot the thing at 5 in the morning and digitially chop out any people that may be hanging around the streets?
What happens if there is an accident (these things do happen). Then they would have to digitally chop out the chopped up people. It's a matter of safety.
If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry...
Since they used commercial (aka. evil) software, they were able to pass the blame to an entity other than themselves. Maybe they are trying to publicly state that they did nothing wrong (other than choose IBM). The airport was 100% overbudget so it would make sense to pass on the blame whenever possible.
If they had chosen oss, it doesn't mean that this so called technical glitch wouldn't have happened. No software is bug free.
Now they can bitch at Lockheed and perhaps get it fixed fast. If it was oss software, I doubt you would be guaranteed to get a team dedicated to fix a problem.
"Fix wha? I got an exam next week, sorry dudes gotta study."
- or -
"I have a big project at my real job. I'll fix it when I get around to it."
Until someone hacks yours (or your ISPs) DNS server, and adds a line to the hosts file that points kernel.org (for example) to their box. Then you're downloading and using their pathes and code with full trust... (not automatically, but hardcores probably download the latest and greatest quite often, and I doubt that they verify each line of code).
If you claim that you are immune to this because you only use IP addresses or go directly to the root DNS servers, then you deserve to use linux. Please stay in your moms basement updating your software and save the rest of the world from the horrors of encountering freaks like you.
MS uses certificates to verify that the patches are in fact from them. I'm not sure if there is any mechanism in place for linux kernel updates. You just gotta trust that kernel.org and the mirrors point to where they should be.
My digicam's jpeg photos have meta data in them and they can be viewed in Windows XP by going Properties -> Summary -> Advanced. The linux desktop environments will copy that feature soon (if they haven't already).
Things that are recorded (for my Sony DSC-F707) are:
- width/height
- horiz/vert res
- bit depth
- frame count
- equipment make
- camera model
- color representation
= flash mode
- focal length
- f-stop
- exposure time
- iso speed
- metering mode
- light source
- exposure program
- exposure compensation
- date/time taken
Slashdot Mirror
1. Collect names/addresses
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
I'm glad to see that someone (especially a slashdot user) respects the EULA and doesn't bitch and wine because they violated it and got what was coming.
Microsoft is getting burned on this because they are one of the first to take a proactive step in online cheating. Also because their OS hold a significant share of the desktop market and 1337 linux zealots are jealous. So instead of making a difference by writing a better OS these users spend the daylit hours on slashdot posting libel.
Woops, kind of went off on a tangent there.
Anyways, don't go disabling all the lights on your car (you OWN it so you have the right), and then bitch when the cop pulls you over.
What would happen? People on slashdot would bitch like there is no tomorrow. The rest of the world will carry on.
Either way, the standard 'linux beat by large corporation' hypothetical situation you posed here does not weaken Microsoft's right to do what they wish to their proprietary hardware and network. How about this wild hypothetical situation, the linux kernel comes to life and kills all the women and children of windows users. OOHHHH... linux is evil!!!
To any pro-linux/anti-microsoft user on slashdot, this whole Xbox Live thingy isn't an issue since you really shouldn't be owning an xbox. The 'lets make MS bankrupt' excuse for buying an xbox doesn't disguise your true lust for sexy microsoft hardware.
Score:-1, posting anything negative towards linux
Thats right, keep sending your dollars north of the border to ATI... MWAHAHAHAHAA
Im sorry to burst your bubble, but a $200 console can't play any of the xbox games at a frame locked 60 fps. Top end ($400+) video cards finally match the bandwidth that the XBox has for video memory. Remember that the XBox uses video memory for everything.
It's a kids systems that does stuff better than dads computer.
Don't forget the GEP gun.
180 and -90 with minimum power, and you can get a score of ZERO!!!
God damn.. how big are your keys?
You must be over 18.
I have about 20 3.11 movies that would be useless.
Of course, you can always re-rip these movies since you DO own the DVDs. So its no big deal. Then again, why would you rip your DVDs to DivX to play on your DVD player?
I apologize if your movies are made legally from home video/backed up VHS/etc.. but I doubt thats the case.
10^80
How much is that in terms of library of congress'.
...it is all from CDs that I personally own or have borrowed from friends
So in a nutshell, you pirate music.
I just thought it was strange that you needed to point that out, as if borrowing CDs from friends and ripping them is legal and within 'fair use'.
Its okay. I 'borrow' CDs from my 'friends' from all over they world. They are even kind enough to encode them and make them easily accessible over the internet so I don't have to pick up and return the CD to their houses.
...they also have a fast mirror.
This would also mean that macro viruses that send emails to your entire address list will affect the average user much more than it does now.
Aside from macro viruses, people will surely find other ways to run up someones email bill, and this is probably the reason why there are no common pay-per use services over the internet.
There is nothing about current shaders that restrict them to only raster graphics. The current shaders can act like like a ray tracer if you create the mesh such that there is 1 (or more) vertices per pixel. If you really wanted to you could make a primitive raytracer using current video card shaders.
The most obvious flaw though, is that those images are raytraced, and this is not something that anyone is claiming to do in realtime yet
I didn't read anywhere that those images were rendered in realtime. Either way I wouldnt be suprised if those claims were made.
Those images are scaled duplicates that aren't changed a bit, and there is no way that an Nvidia card rendered them, because there is no way the reflections would be the same, but they are.
If the nv3x uses full precision floating point operations, then there is no reason why a reflection map would look different. The algorithm is very standard. Env mapping looks horrible in some games because the hardware uses 'good enough' calculations with very tiny env maps and poor surface detail.
There is also depth of field which is not impossible, but is improbable for now.
Realtime DOF for games may be improbable, but not for rendering a single image. You can simulate DOF using multipass rendering as explained in the OpenGL redbook.
Four - nVidia acquires exluna and uses a modified version of BMRT/Entropy to shade using nVidia hardware. They render images from previous image contests where the artists gave up ownership and had to submit the source files to prove the images were done with their software.
I'm sure nVidia and exluna have been working together on this for a while.
The guys at nVidia have some technology that translates RenderMan to something they know how to render.
Yes, probably a compiler. RenderMan is just a language and can be implemented on whatever you wish.
12 cm is much more impressive..
Seperately buildable does not imply seperately runnable.
A better view of the layout is shown on the bottom right of this page, the purpose of the color coding appears to be for aesthetics. You know, for when godzilla rips the roof off the building.
Why not just shoot the thing at 5 in the morning and digitially chop out any people that may be hanging around the streets?
What happens if there is an accident (these things do happen). Then they would have to digitally chop out the chopped up people. It's a matter of safety.
Crack a password, save history.
Get a cable modem, go to jail. [slashdot.org].
What kind of crazy backwards world are we living in?
Ladies and Gentlemen of slashdot it does not make sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must acquit.
If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry...
Since they used commercial (aka. evil) software, they were able to pass the blame to an entity other than themselves. Maybe they are trying to publicly state that they did nothing wrong (other than choose IBM). The airport was 100% overbudget so it would make sense to pass on the blame whenever possible.
If they had chosen oss, it doesn't mean that this so called technical glitch wouldn't have happened. No software is bug free.
Now they can bitch at Lockheed and perhaps get it fixed fast. If it was oss software, I doubt you would be guaranteed to get a team dedicated to fix a problem.
"Fix wha? I got an exam next week, sorry dudes gotta study."
- or -
"I have a big project at my real job. I'll fix it when I get around to it."
Until someone hacks yours (or your ISPs) DNS server, and adds a line to the hosts file that points kernel.org (for example) to their box. Then you're downloading and using their pathes and code with full trust... (not automatically, but hardcores probably download the latest and greatest quite often, and I doubt that they verify each line of code).
If you claim that you are immune to this because you only use IP addresses or go directly to the root DNS servers, then you deserve to use linux. Please stay in your moms basement updating your software and save the rest of the world from the horrors of encountering freaks like you.
MS uses certificates to verify that the patches are in fact from them. I'm not sure if there is any mechanism in place for linux kernel updates. You just gotta trust that kernel.org and the mirrors point to where they should be.
My digicam's jpeg photos have meta data in them and they can be viewed in Windows XP by going Properties -> Summary -> Advanced. The linux desktop environments will copy that feature soon (if they haven't already).
Things that are recorded (for my Sony DSC-F707) are:
- width/height
- horiz/vert res
- bit depth
- frame count
- equipment make
- camera model
- color representation
= flash mode
- focal length
- f-stop
- exposure time
- iso speed
- metering mode
- light source
- exposure program
- exposure compensation
- date/time taken