This is like TiVo for people without TiVo... or for people with PCs without vid capture cards.
You know, if some service were available that allowed me to subscribe to certain shows, and download them on demand, I might consider dropping cable. (This is where somebody replies with "What, you haven't heard of _______?")
Alright, I'm going to try and break this down... there are actually 3 entirely seperate things people are talking about here: simulation frame rate, rendering frame rate, and monitor refresh rate.
'Hurtz' or 'hz' are a universal term that just means "X whatevers per second", so having 60FPS means your card is rendering at 60hz.
Now, in the post Carmack says nothing about monitor refresh rate, so that really isn't anything to worry about. Your monitor will still refresh at whatever you want it to refresh at, within it's capabilities. The other two things, the simulation rate and the rendering rate are both going to be locked at 60hz/FPS.
Let me try an analogy. Let's say you are in a room, and next door there is a chess match. The frequency at which the chess pieces are moved is the simulation or game rate. Now if you have someone taking a polaroid snapshot at a certain rate, that is the rendering rate, what everyone knows as FPS. If someone else is taking those photographs and bringing them to you, that is like your monitors refresh rate.
This isn't a perfect analogy, but it's good enough to illustrate the point: if the chess pieces only move once per minute, no matter how often someone takes a picture of it, it will always look the same.
60hz is a big leap for the games simulation rate though, if i recall correctly quake 3 ran at around 20 to 25 by default, but you would see inbetween stuff due to a trick called interpolation. The statement in the article seems to imply that doom 3 won't be doing any interpolation, which I think is the most interesting aspect of the comment.
Security Director at Unisys UK Speaks
on
RFID Explained
·
· Score: 1, Informative
Be sure to read this interesting reply to this story by a security director at Unisys UK.
Java Programmers: Take a look at the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), available in the Java Web Services Developer Pack V 1.1 (see article here). From my basic understanding of it, it "binds" XML to a set of Java content classes, saving you the time and effort of traversing a DOM tree or dealing with SAX. I have yet to use it, but it looks perfect for my application, which uses an XML-based configuration file.
Actually, I'd be interested if anybody here has used this yet? Is it ready for prime time?
3) Easy to use disc cartridge: An easy to use optical disc cartridge protects the optical disc's recording and playback phase from dust and fingerprints.
Caddies were a great idea when CD-ROM first appeared, but then disappeared. What happened?
You want a flame?
on
SuSE 7.3 vs XP
·
· Score: -1, Flamebait
The ideas you describe in your paper seem, to me at least, like common sense (e.g., moving data closer to the nodes where it is demanded the most; culling information that is infrequently accessed).
Why do you think that Adaptive Networks haven't been implemented before now, at least on the scale that you're suggesting?
Slashdot Mirror
This is like TiVo for people without TiVo... or for people with PCs without vid capture cards.
You know, if some service were available that allowed me to subscribe to certain shows, and download them on demand, I might consider dropping cable. (This is where somebody replies with "What, you haven't heard of _______?")
During the period 0.5 percent of IE users clicked on ads compared to 0.11 percent of Firefox users.
Since Firefox 0.10 > 0.9, 0.11 percent > 0.5.
Thus, Firefox users click on more ads than IE users.
QED.
The previous company I worked for had a part in developing The Living Dictionary at least three years ago now. Sun's site has a short piece on it.
Be sure to read this interesting reply to this story by a security director at Unisys UK.
I've got that song in my head right now! I loved that cinematic.
Don't you guys find it hard to read posts where every other word is a link?
Java Programmers: Take a look at the Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), available in the Java Web Services Developer Pack V 1.1 (see article here). From my basic understanding of it, it "binds" XML to a set of Java content classes, saving you the time and effort of traversing a DOM tree or dealing with SAX. I have yet to use it, but it looks perfect for my application, which uses an XML-based configuration file.
Actually, I'd be interested if anybody here has used this yet? Is it ready for prime time?
From the press release:
3) Easy to use disc cartridge:
An easy to use optical disc cartridge protects the optical disc's recording and playback phase from dust and fingerprints.
Caddies were a great idea when CD-ROM first appeared, but then disappeared. What happened?
This should be good for some flame wars.
No it shouldn't. You suck!
;-)
Bar... Bar... BSOD?!?
Device specs, more pictures, etc.
http://more.sbc.co.jp/slj/index.asp
Guy 1: "Why don't we just walk in and look at the code?"
Guy 2: "I don't think Bob would like that."
Or was I just on crack? :)
What's that green ball for? Is it a trackball?
Hmmm... I wonder how that comment about those HP CD-R drives relates to Napster? Mysteries abound! :)
Why do you think that Adaptive Networks haven't been implemented before now, at least on the scale that you're suggesting?