Sure, it means you really could get rid of all the other ports completely and use a breakout cable if necessary (only in the interim as other types of ports might just go away), making devices much smaller and simpler.
Perhaps, if you like the idea of having 8 different boxes on your desk and a rats nest of cables. Does that sound smaller and simpler?
All a geek should need to know is "externalize PCIe".
Exactly, there's nothing new to be excited about here. It's just the same old shit on an external port.
All the speed of an internal bus (and more) without having to physically put the card into the machine, and even being able to do it at a distance.
Which would make physical security of your system somewhat more difficult to ensure. Server cages are going to need a finer mesh to ensure that no one can stick a cable into a machine they don't own.
But apparently it's bad to have newer, better things, when we could just stick with the older, crappier. Right?
I like better, but newer doesn't necessarily mean better. The higher speed of Thunderbolt is nice, but it comes with too many drawbacks. I'll be disabling Thunderbolt on my devices just like I disable Firewire today.
Downloading 50 gigs and never listening to it might be better than downloading 50 gigs, listening to it cursorily, and failing to form any sort of relationship with any of it.
This kind of thing is a scam. Hold a contest for ideas, pay for only the best idea, and then you can use any of the losing ideas you want for free. It's not a "contest", it's an end run around labor laws.
It's in the Constitution actually. Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 reads in part "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they[Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place."
It's dishonest to present a theory as anything other than very well supported by evidence. If you want to challenge a theory, challenge the evidence it's built upon. If you don't have any evidence, STFU. This goes for everything from evolution to heliocentrism.
If I had my child in a Tennessee school and the Teacher started using tax payer money to advance creationism, I would be the first to line up to sue the school, and I hope that is exactly what happens.
The real travesty is that you can't individually sue the lawmakers who passed an obviously unconstitutional law. If the people who passed laws suffered when they were found unconsititutional we'd see fewer unconstitutional laws passed.
Those that *CAN* make sense, end up getting made anyway, and often making money anyway.
So Wasteland 2 would have gotten made in todays game industry without crowd sourcing? I think Brian Fargo would know if there was funding available for such a project. Or are you suggesting that Wasteland 2 is an infeasible project to begin with?
While journal access is costly, most researchers post PDF reprints of their papers on their lab website. Google Scholar is pretty good at finding them. Here is the PDF for this article. I expect this is not paywalled, but since I'm at an academic institution I can't be sure.
I'm requesting a magic auto-zoomer where if it sees a black donut with a pic in the middle then it eats the donut and autozooms.
What happens when a film fades in to a small but bright title/logo/whatever on a black background? Wouldn't your algorithm result in zooming in way too far on that image?
Running on bare metal is hardly feasible these days, as hardware is so varied.
A tiny demo that runs on exactly one piece of hardware is more impressive than a 100mb demo that runs on everything.
Or you can watch Amiga-demos from the same compo (some incredibly good stuff there as well), but remember that they're also "cheating", employing Denise, Paula and Agnus as they are. For shame, they probably even use the blitter instead of doing it in CPU!
That's hardware. Fair game.
Yes, they get a lot of 3d functionality from DirectX, but as the starting line is moved, so are the goal posts.
Then include the size of DirectX in the size of the demo.
If this is not impressive to you, you're incredibly jaded, or I could give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you probably didn't really consider it.
It is impressive, it's just not a 64KB demo.
Keep in mind that this is likely the *best 64KB demo in the world* right now.
I'm not arguing that it's not the best of its class. I'm just aruging that it's not really a 64K demo.
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Will we be able to plug in actual PCIe devices?
USB doesn't provide DMA access.
Sure, it means you really could get rid of all the other ports completely and use a breakout cable if necessary (only in the interim as other types of ports might just go away), making devices much smaller and simpler.
Perhaps, if you like the idea of having 8 different boxes on your desk and a rats nest of cables. Does that sound smaller and simpler?
All a geek should need to know is "externalize PCIe".
Exactly, there's nothing new to be excited about here. It's just the same old shit on an external port.
All the speed of an internal bus (and more) without having to physically put the card into the machine, and even being able to do it at a distance.
Which would make physical security of your system somewhat more difficult to ensure. Server cages are going to need a finer mesh to ensure that no one can stick a cable into a machine they don't own.
But apparently it's bad to have newer, better things, when we could just stick with the older, crappier. Right?
I like better, but newer doesn't necessarily mean better. The higher speed of Thunderbolt is nice, but it comes with too many drawbacks. I'll be disabling Thunderbolt on my devices just like I disable Firewire today.
And Firewire.
Switzerland where they ban architectural styles because of bigotry, and Iceland... I'm not sure it's safe to be male in Iceland.
I'd avoid telling anyone in academia that you think evolution is an "Earth genesis hypothesis".
The problem isn't that they're ending support after 14 years. The problem is that they haven't released anything better in all that time.
Hatred of America is understandable. (Being an American, it puzzles me
As an American, it doesn't puzzle me one bit. It can be summed up in one word, hubris.
Downloading 50 gigs and never listening to it might be better than downloading 50 gigs, listening to it cursorily, and failing to form any sort of relationship with any of it.
Good beer should taste good at room temperature. And watering down beer definitely ruins it.
This kind of thing is a scam. Hold a contest for ideas, pay for only the best idea, and then you can use any of the losing ideas you want for free. It's not a "contest", it's an end run around labor laws.
It's in the Constitution actually. Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 reads in part "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they[Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place."
It's dishonest to present a theory as anything other than very well supported by evidence. If you want to challenge a theory, challenge the evidence it's built upon. If you don't have any evidence, STFU. This goes for everything from evolution to heliocentrism.
If I had my child in a Tennessee school and the Teacher started using tax payer money to advance creationism, I would be the first to line up to sue the school, and I hope that is exactly what happens.
The real travesty is that you can't individually sue the lawmakers who passed an obviously unconstitutional law. If the people who passed laws suffered when they were found unconsititutional we'd see fewer unconstitutional laws passed.
I suppose so. But I still don't see any reason why this would be a higher priority than punishing the criminals who crashed the world economy in 2008.
Aren't eBooks cheap enough as it is? Doesn't the DoJ have bigger fish to fry? When can we expect RICO charges against Lloyd Blankfein?
Those that *CAN* make sense, end up getting made anyway, and often making money anyway.
So Wasteland 2 would have gotten made in todays game industry without crowd sourcing? I think Brian Fargo would know if there was funding available for such a project. Or are you suggesting that Wasteland 2 is an infeasible project to begin with?
Insanity is beliving that contacting a middle manager in the TSA is going to change anything.
What if it's live TV?
While journal access is costly, most researchers post PDF reprints of their papers on their lab website. Google Scholar is pretty good at finding them. Here is the PDF for this article. I expect this is not paywalled, but since I'm at an academic institution I can't be sure.
I'm requesting a magic auto-zoomer where if it sees a black donut with a pic in the middle then it eats the donut and autozooms.
What happens when a film fades in to a small but bright title/logo/whatever on a black background? Wouldn't your algorithm result in zooming in way too far on that image?
Running on bare metal is hardly feasible these days, as hardware is so varied.
A tiny demo that runs on exactly one piece of hardware is more impressive than a 100mb demo that runs on everything.
Or you can watch Amiga-demos from the same compo (some incredibly good stuff there as well), but remember that they're also "cheating", employing Denise, Paula and Agnus as they are. For shame, they probably even use the blitter instead of doing it in CPU!
That's hardware. Fair game.
Yes, they get a lot of 3d functionality from DirectX, but as the starting line is moved, so are the goal posts.
Then include the size of DirectX in the size of the demo.
If this is not impressive to you, you're incredibly jaded, or I could give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you probably didn't really consider it.
It is impressive, it's just not a 64KB demo.
Keep in mind that this is likely the *best 64KB demo in the world* right now.
I'm not arguing that it's not the best of its class. I'm just aruging that it's not really a 64K demo.
Yes, the executable. Running on what OS, with god knows how many megabytes of libraries? That's not a 64K demo.
The US has a tolerable record of not threatening, taunting, and insulting other countries.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Or do they use OS services like DirectX11, etc? When they say 64k, is it a 64k executable using up another dozen meg of OS DLLs?
That was exactly my question. If it's not 64K running on bare metal, it's cheating.