i dunno.. i think it'd be easier to get it to play all my divx files.. considering it could then use the windows codec through wine or something (similar to how xine does it, I believe.), which would really be nice. A little box that acts as a server, hooks up to a tv, relatively cheap, approximately the same power as my desktop, AND plays my divx files through my network. Mmm. And I can reboot it and play any of those wonderful xbox games. *cough*
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damn these hidden links.. it makes you vote on some stupid slashdot poll.. so don't click the link in the parent..
strange, on my computer going to plain http://slashdot.org/ comes up with my personal homepage.. asks me if I want to meta mod, has allt he slashboxes I want, etc.. might have something to do with your cookie setup? or mine?:) I dunno, it's always worked like this tho..
he said 'while the engine is running'.. I assume he knows that it charges while braking, but this would add yet another way to charge the battery while the engine is going, in addition to however it charges right now.. (as opposed to when braking, which charges the battery while the combustion engine is running, or if it's operating off of battery power.)
Actually, according to download.com, kazaa and morpheus (which are the same program/network, really..) are the top two most downloaded programs.. Which makes me wonder if it's just Kazaa that was ordered to cease and desist, or does musiccity have to comply also? It's the same p2p network, with decentralized servers (I believe? I don't know all that much about their network), unlike napster's centrally controlled server farms.
I dunno, I got one telemarketer to go through all his stuff, then he wanted to send me something, and asked for my address.. so I told him to send it to his own, he wasn't sure how that'd help me.. I told him that I wasn't interested in the literature, I thought he might since he spoke so highly of it. I then paused a second, and asked to be removed from their list. He started swearing at me and telling me he was going to come and kill me and my family and all this other stuff and hung up on me:)
twice as much? You mean I can buy these for $0.60? My cds cost me $30 or less for 100, and I'm not talking about crap brands either. Any of the music ones are always much, much, much higher just for a couple bits pressed into them and royalties to go to the RIAA (since how do they decide which artists get the cash?)
how would this be proven? I think the via possibility mathematics, it might be provable, but they don't take into account the nature of monkeys. First, the monkey would have to learn how to write. Knock down 99% of them right there, I'm sure they're more interested in eating the pencil/paper or humping it or something.. so that leaves 10 possible monkeys. 10 humans, who have READ the works of shakespeare I'm sure couldn't reproduce all of it, let alone 10 monkeys.
Anyway, wasn't the original hypothesis of infinite monkeys and infinite time?
there's a quote (i have no clue from who, this seems to be common knowledge) "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated". This was a reference to that, i'm sure.
Ok, maybe i'm being an idiot here.. but I run Mandrake 8.0, and my lilo is graphical.. is this because it installed XOSL or does lilo itself now have a graphical interface at startup?
because if they made the optimizations global, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one boycotting the card. If you read the article, it lowers quality quite a bit. Read the article or my previous posts for a general summary of a linked article from HardOCP to some german site analyzing it.. As it is now, all I'll have to do is quackify quake3 to get the quality back. Yea, quite annoying. And the fact that they don't say they did it is pretty lame.. but they aren't benchmarking (That i've seen), they release drivers that give people better speeds, and most won't notice the quality difference. OTHER people use benchmarks. If ATi started benchmarking and use quake3 as a benchmark, THEN i'd consider it cheating. now it's just really lame that they ignore the Q3 quality settings, and annoying that I'd have to dop something like this to fix it.
I think you're confusing variable names with variable contents.. a variable name does not exist after it's compiled. Thus..
main() {
char *blah="yomama";
cout << blah;
}
Once it's compiled, blah disappears. blah is meant only for the programmer, the application does not need to know this. However, yomama needs to be there at runtime, so it knows what to print out.
When compiled, all the code goes into one segment with 'relocatable addresses' into memory instead of the variable names. So blah disappears. However, these addresses point to the contents of the string, yomama. The reason these are probably in there is like what some other poster said, at startup when it refers to itself, or if it ever says "draw this text in this font here".. etc.
Yes and no.. Quake3 and Quake2 are quite different beasts. But that's a different story. ATi isn't optimizing anything, really. They basically take the settings you have in Quake3, discard them, and lower the quality to get the frame rate increase. It does this in Quake3, and Quake3 only. The screenshots seem to show that the texture bitdepth was dropped to 16bit, and bilinear mipmap filtering, along with a lower mipmap level were used. Thus, image quality suffers.. It's not OpenGL specific(generic?), it's Quake3 specific. Not Quake3 engine, Quake 3..
congratulations, you just figured out ATi's strategy. I am a big fan of ATi (probably because I have one), but I don't like this very much. According to some german article linked in the HardOCP article where they break down the difference between the screen shots.. it looks like ATi used 16bit textures, even though told to use 32, and worse mipmap/mipmap filtering options. The Quack version looks so much better.. tho of course, when you're playing you can't really notice it that much, it took some pointing out for me to see it, but once you know where to look.. ouch.
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wow, and here I thought I was the only one.. I can't do any work when i'm online, seriously.. I have to either remove myself from the computer, or remove the computer from the internet before I can do any work. Otherwise, i'm always checking out slashdot or conversatron or waiting for my next IM.. instead of studiying and weriting papers and doing real work.. even if it's not for a class, but like a personal coding project.. i have to disconnect myself.
Which sucks, because everything seems to be heading towards the always connected stage.. when I need to disconnect to do something, yet be online to get any sort of help documentation on an API (i.e. MSDN, yea. MS, oh well) or anything like that.. I can't imagine how i'll survive then.
Moore's law says every 18 months the number of transistors will double, not the processor speed/power. And this year, we're at 2GHz, though it doesn't act like it.
I should think animation would be worse.. animation tends to have harder, more sharply defined edges than real life, and no variation in the color around the edges would make this much more apparent.
Just think along the lines of JPEG style compression (I realize it's not the same, but work with me here).. it's optimized for real life, where there's a certain amount of blend between everything, there's no real hard defined edges as there is in animation, text, etc. Thus when you have sharp edges, it tends to screw them up a bit. yea, it's a compression artifact, but it tends to show that real life doesn't really have that many sharp edges.
I think i'd notice the pixelation on a sharp edge much more than on a slightly blurry/fuzzy/real one.
What I believe he was referring to was the many times the series addressed social issues, such as color distinction, etc. in a roundabout method, cleverly disguised. For example, the planet where the people are jet black on one half, and pure white on the other. There's a huge war (or at least tensions, I don't remember the episode all that well) going on between the people who are black on the left and white on the right, and the people who are white on the left and black on the right. I.e. the issue with race and color here on Earth.
Can you provide an example of how it's dying? It's evolving, that's what this whole article is about, one of the largest revisions/additions/etc. to the OpenGL specification since it was made (hence the major version # increase). If you're going solely by games, well, most develop for Windows. In Windows, drivers seem to be optimized for D3D. So games use D3D. Plus, they're using the rest of the DX suite for sound/input/etc. anyway, why not? These are the same people who don't care about portability.
So basically, You're just a troll. And I've been trolled. Damnit:)
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i dunno.. i think it'd be easier to get it to play all my divx files.. considering it could then use the windows codec through wine or something (similar to how xine does it, I believe.), which would really be nice. A little box that acts as a server, hooks up to a tv, relatively cheap, approximately the same power as my desktop, AND plays my divx files through my network. Mmm. And I can reboot it and play any of those wonderful xbox games. *cough*
damn these hidden links.. it makes you vote on some stupid slashdot poll.. so don't click the link in the parent..
strange, on my computer going to plain http://slashdot.org/ comes up with my personal homepage.. asks me if I want to meta mod, has allt he slashboxes I want, etc.. might have something to do with your cookie setup? or mine? :) I dunno, it's always worked like this tho..
he said 'while the engine is running'.. I assume he knows that it charges while braking, but this would add yet another way to charge the battery while the engine is going, in addition to however it charges right now.. (as opposed to when braking, which charges the battery while the combustion engine is running, or if it's operating off of battery power.)
Actually, according to download.com, kazaa and morpheus (which are the same program/network, really..) are the top two most downloaded programs.. Which makes me wonder if it's just Kazaa that was ordered to cease and desist, or does musiccity have to comply also? It's the same p2p network, with decentralized servers (I believe? I don't know all that much about their network), unlike napster's centrally controlled server farms.
Mandrake (at least 8.0, and I assume 8.1) also comes with ProFTPd instead of WuFTPd.. though there's an option to use Wu instead, pro is the default.
I dunno, I got one telemarketer to go through all his stuff, then he wanted to send me something, and asked for my address.. so I told him to send it to his own, he wasn't sure how that'd help me.. I told him that I wasn't interested in the literature, I thought he might since he spoke so highly of it. I then paused a second, and asked to be removed from their list. He started swearing at me and telling me he was going to come and kill me and my family and all this other stuff and hung up on me :)
Personally, I was thinking of how to get the divx codec on there, and have it play vids over my lan.. I might have to pick one of these up :)
twice as much? You mean I can buy these for $0.60? My cds cost me $30 or less for 100, and I'm not talking about crap brands either. Any of the music ones are always much, much, much higher just for a couple bits pressed into them and royalties to go to the RIAA (since how do they decide which artists get the cash?)
did you actually try it? In IE6 (WinXP RC2), I get: Created: Oct 31st 2001. Modified: Oct 31st 2001. Hmm.
how would this be proven? I think the via possibility mathematics, it might be provable, but they don't take into account the nature of monkeys. First, the monkey would have to learn how to write. Knock down 99% of them right there, I'm sure they're more interested in eating the pencil/paper or humping it or something.. so that leaves 10 possible monkeys. 10 humans, who have READ the works of shakespeare I'm sure couldn't reproduce all of it, let alone 10 monkeys.
Anyway, wasn't the original hypothesis of infinite monkeys and infinite time?
there's a quote (i have no clue from who, this seems to be common knowledge) "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated". This was a reference to that, i'm sure.
Ok, maybe i'm being an idiot here.. but I run Mandrake 8.0, and my lilo is graphical.. is this because it installed XOSL or does lilo itself now have a graphical interface at startup?
because if they made the optimizations global, I'm sure I wouldn't be the only one boycotting the card. If you read the article, it lowers quality quite a bit. Read the article or my previous posts for a general summary of a linked article from HardOCP to some german site analyzing it.. As it is now, all I'll have to do is quackify quake3 to get the quality back. Yea, quite annoying. And the fact that they don't say they did it is pretty lame.. but they aren't benchmarking (That i've seen), they release drivers that give people better speeds, and most won't notice the quality difference. OTHER people use benchmarks. If ATi started benchmarking and use quake3 as a benchmark, THEN i'd consider it cheating. now it's just really lame that they ignore the Q3 quality settings, and annoying that I'd have to dop something like this to fix it.
I think you're confusing variable names with variable contents.. a variable name does not exist after it's compiled. Thus..
.. etc.
main() {
char *blah="yomama";
cout << blah;
}
Once it's compiled, blah disappears. blah is meant only for the programmer, the application does not need to know this. However, yomama needs to be there at runtime, so it knows what to print out.
When compiled, all the code goes into one segment with 'relocatable addresses' into memory instead of the variable names. So blah disappears. However, these addresses point to the contents of the string, yomama. The reason these are probably in there is like what some other poster said, at startup when it refers to itself, or if it ever says "draw this text in this font here"
Yes and no.. Quake3 and Quake2 are quite different beasts. But that's a different story. ATi isn't optimizing anything, really. They basically take the settings you have in Quake3, discard them, and lower the quality to get the frame rate increase. It does this in Quake3, and Quake3 only. The screenshots seem to show that the texture bitdepth was dropped to 16bit, and bilinear mipmap filtering, along with a lower mipmap level were used. Thus, image quality suffers.. It's not OpenGL specific(generic?), it's Quake3 specific. Not Quake3 engine, Quake 3..
congratulations, you just figured out ATi's strategy. I am a big fan of ATi (probably because I have one), but I don't like this very much. According to some german article linked in the HardOCP article where they break down the difference between the screen shots.. it looks like ATi used 16bit textures, even though told to use 32, and worse mipmap/mipmap filtering options. The Quack version looks so much better.. tho of course, when you're playing you can't really notice it that much, it took some pointing out for me to see it, but once you know where to look.. ouch.
wow, and here I thought I was the only one.. I can't do any work when i'm online, seriously.. I have to either remove myself from the computer, or remove the computer from the internet before I can do any work. Otherwise, i'm always checking out slashdot or conversatron or waiting for my next IM.. instead of studiying and weriting papers and doing real work.. even if it's not for a class, but like a personal coding project.. i have to disconnect myself.
Which sucks, because everything seems to be heading towards the always connected stage.. when I need to disconnect to do something, yet be online to get any sort of help documentation on an API (i.e. MSDN, yea. MS, oh well) or anything like that.. I can't imagine how i'll survive then.
Plextor (and others) make 24x variable speed CD-R drives.. 16x in center, 20x in middle, 24x on outside.. 10x rewrite, 40x rip/read..
:)
500*150kb/s = 75,000 KB/sec = 73MB/sec . Yea, I'd like to see most hard drives hit that constant.
Moore's law says every 18 months the number of transistors will double, not the processor speed/power. And this year, we're at 2GHz, though it doesn't act like it.
I should think animation would be worse.. animation tends to have harder, more sharply defined edges than real life, and no variation in the color around the edges would make this much more apparent.
Just think along the lines of JPEG style compression (I realize it's not the same, but work with me here).. it's optimized for real life, where there's a certain amount of blend between everything, there's no real hard defined edges as there is in animation, text, etc. Thus when you have sharp edges, it tends to screw them up a bit. yea, it's a compression artifact, but it tends to show that real life doesn't really have that many sharp edges.
I think i'd notice the pixelation on a sharp edge much more than on a slightly blurry/fuzzy/real one.
a BBC article
seems to back him up, though I agree, I can't seem to find this information on the project's site.. didn't look too hard tho.
i was under the impression that one could only patent original work. copyright is something else.
Uhura I believe it was, but I'm not an expert.
What I believe he was referring to was the many times the series addressed social issues, such as color distinction, etc. in a roundabout method, cleverly disguised. For example, the planet where the people are jet black on one half, and pure white on the other. There's a huge war (or at least tensions, I don't remember the episode all that well) going on between the people who are black on the left and white on the right, and the people who are white on the left and black on the right. I.e. the issue with race and color here on Earth.
Can you provide an example of how it's dying? It's evolving, that's what this whole article is about, one of the largest revisions/additions/etc. to the OpenGL specification since it was made (hence the major version # increase). If you're going solely by games, well, most develop for Windows. In Windows, drivers seem to be optimized for D3D. So games use D3D. Plus, they're using the rest of the DX suite for sound/input/etc. anyway, why not? These are the same people who don't care about portability.
:)
So basically, You're just a troll. And I've been trolled. Damnit