I don't want to sound dismissive of your insider information, but trend has been that each console generation lasted longer than previous one, and previous generation lasted almost 10 years (360 came out in November 2005, PS3 in November 2006).
Because it's not the "latest 3d tech" that dictates the speed of game development and console technology, but the cost of development (both in terms of games and hardware) and the cost of hardware to end consumer.
Considering just how little speed improvement current GPU advancement has been bringing lately in comparison to old times and how game studios are screaming about increasing costs involved in making games, I would not be betting on this generation lasting less than previous one.
This isn't about organised bad guys at this stage. It's about control over normal individuals.
NSA methods of collecting data en masse and parsing it automatically for certain elements is becoming hugely widespread after Snowden's revelations, as you can only fight that kind of fire with similar fire on state level. And wide;y used encryption used encryption cripples NSA-style methods, as automatic parsing becomes unfeasible in light of computational/subversive power needed to crack the encryption.
More than two, as development for games started at least two years before console releases. But if you look at costs sunk into current consoles, and how long previous generation lasted, you'll understand that current generation is highly unlikely to start showing its age as long as it can perform fine in the handful of PC exclusives that will actually put it under serious load like Star Citizen.
Wait for Dutch investigators to come up with the actual evidence and then we will likely be able to have at least something to base . All you'll see before that is punditry.
Current body of evidence is entirely inconclusive on all points but #1, answer to which is "royalties in hard currency for a highly corrupt state".
There actually hasn't been any so far. All you had is punditry from various sides. Dutch investigators specifically avoided releasing any of their materials as to avoid pundits making it worse again. They want a solid case before they publish anything.
Russia has been late for pretty much every post Cold War new front party. Looks like they were late for this one as well. Israel's version of this was documented half a decade ago, and US version has been reported to be moving from using people to developing automated software back in 2011.
That would probably be because application doesn't get to make the choice in the first place.
Decision on what goes where is up to the driver. Unless you have some weird "down to the metal" GPGPU software. That's why Nvidia made 970 the way it is - it knows that no matter how shitty of a code devs write, it's their driver that decides when to go to 3.5 GB of fully featured VRAM, when to go to system RAM and when to go to that crippling 0.5 GB of separately mapped VRAM.
If you need a cheap double precision GPGPU, you need one of the older Titans (i.e. Titan Black). Titan X is just as crippled for it as gaming cards, unlike older titans that weren't.
Wikipedia has a pretty good list of all nvidia cards which includes among other things, GFLOPS/W performance by both single and double precision. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L....
That's not how GPU memory management works. When you max out GPU's onboard RAM, GPU starts calling to shared system memory located in system RAM. This limits performance a lot since PCI-E throughput is about 1/10 of GDDR5 speed, but it most certainly is not zero.
Regardless, TitanX, unlike previous Titan series is crippled for compute to the point where Nvidia itself officially recommended previous Titan cards for it over TitanX. It was clearly aimed at gamers who have more money than sense, and now that they collected that money, they are releasing a more sensibly priced card for the same weight class.
Not money. Blackmail. Remember, NSA has essentially entire communication history of everyone in US. No one is so clean that they cannot be blackmailed, especially in high political places.
Why else do you think Merkel doesn't even say anything about US criminal activity on its soil AFTER German media blows it all out in the open? There's a reason why they prioritised tapping her personal communications.
Ah yes, the infamous "pretty good" of non native scaling on LCD screens.
No thanks. Some of us have eyes that, while not being good enough to appreciate high DPI screens, are good enough to see the smudgy crap that comes out of such scalers.
Not to forget: phones with intentionally lower DPI for people who like to play games on their phones and understand that lower resolution means higher frames per second and more image quality improvements like better lighting and shaders with same GPU power.
You last point is heavily offset by the gender selection problems in countries that have more people in each of them than entire North American continent. I'm talking about China and India. They're looking at male:female ratios worse than 130:100 in edge cases and female life expectancy is not as high because of childbirth and sanitation issues.
Not arguing with your first points. Here in Nordics, we're traditionally far ahead in the matter of equality of sexes, my home country of Finland was the first one in the world to have women as members of parliament back in 1917, and we've already had a long period when both president and prime minister were women. And many of people who were pushing for equality of sexes, very much a woman-dominated field of study now heavily studies problems with boys and men that emerged when we hit as close to equality as we did. For example, in truly equal meritocracy based school system, boys are heavily disadvantaged in part due to biological difference from girls. By the time you need to pick between your choice of lyceum (high school equivalent which paves way to higher education) or vocational training which leads to blue collar low education job, girls are typically already past the rebellious age while boys are in the grips of it. That causes severely lower performance for boys, effectively pushing many out of higher education in an easily observable pattern. Then there are issues that you mention, as well as having army conscription mandatory for men but not women in our country.
Equality of sexes is very different from goals of feminism, and many of those who were pushing for equality of sexes while calling themselves feminist are now pushing for men's rights around here.
Local Hindu extremists a few hundred kilometres from that place do pretty much the same thing, only on village level. Wrong religion? Get hacked to death.
You just compared mercury, a bioaccumulating neurotoxin to CO2, the gas necessary to sustain life on the planet and one of the major components of biosphere.
Congratulations. You managed to go full hyperbole.
I recommend clicking the "advanced" part of the link and read the contents. They are hilarious. It's literally "US legislators have a really broad definition of pollutant, therefore we state that CO2 meets some of that criteria and is *legally* a pollutant".
Example of other equally funny and absurd legal definitions made for reasons of specific punditry: Corporation = person.
I'm sorry, but that is patently false. In addition to massive habitat change triggered by global warming that is wiping out countless species, we have a very well defined issue with acidification of large water habitats that are killing entire ecosystems, such as reefs.
Acidification that is a direct consequence of CO2 emissions.
And one last time. We are in fact emitting less CO2 than system absorbs. FAR less. The problem is that system itself also emits CO2 and is by design made in a way that adapts to exceptional events that emit large amounts of CO2 by absorbing even more. The problem however is that before CO2 is absorbed, it causes increased amount of thermal reflection back to the planet, which is what we call a greenhouse effect.
Normally CO2 emissions fluctuate with period, as ecosystems themselves work in different ways. Much of our current plant life for example would absolutely LOVE more CO2. Far more. That is why we have far more CO2 in greenhouses. It makes plants more efficient.
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Animals do it because, as long as they can digest it, it's a significant source of nutrition right after massive energy and biomass expenditure.
Humans do not suffer from lack of other sources for replenishment as animals do. There's no need to go hunting for prey to get food after birth.
I don't want to sound dismissive of your insider information, but trend has been that each console generation lasted longer than previous one, and previous generation lasted almost 10 years (360 came out in November 2005, PS3 in November 2006).
Because it's not the "latest 3d tech" that dictates the speed of game development and console technology, but the cost of development (both in terms of games and hardware) and the cost of hardware to end consumer.
Considering just how little speed improvement current GPU advancement has been bringing lately in comparison to old times and how game studios are screaming about increasing costs involved in making games, I would not be betting on this generation lasting less than previous one.
This isn't about organised bad guys at this stage. It's about control over normal individuals.
NSA methods of collecting data en masse and parsing it automatically for certain elements is becoming hugely widespread after Snowden's revelations, as you can only fight that kind of fire with similar fire on state level.
And wide;y used encryption used encryption cripples NSA-style methods, as automatic parsing becomes unfeasible in light of computational/subversive power needed to crack the encryption.
This is already the case?
More than two, as development for games started at least two years before console releases. But if you look at costs sunk into current consoles, and how long previous generation lasted, you'll understand that current generation is highly unlikely to start showing its age as long as it can perform fine in the handful of PC exclusives that will actually put it under serious load like Star Citizen.
They're probably past it, considering the original story on US moving to automated software to do this was published back in 2011.
Russia is way late if they're still using people for everything instead of automation.
Wait for Dutch investigators to come up with the actual evidence and then we will likely be able to have at least something to base . All you'll see before that is punditry.
Current body of evidence is entirely inconclusive on all points but #1, answer to which is "royalties in hard currency for a highly corrupt state".
There actually hasn't been any so far. All you had is punditry from various sides. Dutch investigators specifically avoided releasing any of their materials as to avoid pundits making it worse again. They want a solid case before they publish anything.
Russia has been late for pretty much every post Cold War new front party. Looks like they were late for this one as well. Israel's version of this was documented half a decade ago, and US version has been reported to be moving from using people to developing automated software back in 2011.
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
Looks like they're late once again.
That would probably be because application doesn't get to make the choice in the first place.
Decision on what goes where is up to the driver. Unless you have some weird "down to the metal" GPGPU software. That's why Nvidia made 970 the way it is - it knows that no matter how shitty of a code devs write, it's their driver that decides when to go to 3.5 GB of fully featured VRAM, when to go to system RAM and when to go to that crippling 0.5 GB of separately mapped VRAM.
Highly unlikely that it will because of how game development is linked to console generations.
If you need a cheap double precision GPGPU, you need one of the older Titans (i.e. Titan Black). Titan X is just as crippled for it as gaming cards, unlike older titans that weren't.
Wikipedia has a pretty good list of all nvidia cards which includes among other things, GFLOPS/W performance by both single and double precision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L....
That's not how GPU memory management works. When you max out GPU's onboard RAM, GPU starts calling to shared system memory located in system RAM. This limits performance a lot since PCI-E throughput is about 1/10 of GDDR5 speed, but it most certainly is not zero.
Regardless, TitanX, unlike previous Titan series is crippled for compute to the point where Nvidia itself officially recommended previous Titan cards for it over TitanX. It was clearly aimed at gamers who have more money than sense, and now that they collected that money, they are releasing a more sensibly priced card for the same weight class.
Not money. Blackmail. Remember, NSA has essentially entire communication history of everyone in US. No one is so clean that they cannot be blackmailed, especially in high political places.
Why else do you think Merkel doesn't even say anything about US criminal activity on its soil AFTER German media blows it all out in the open? There's a reason why they prioritised tapping her personal communications.
Do you understand that we're talking about screens where people claim being able to tell apart pixels that are so tiny, they shouldn't be able to?
These people will most certainly be able to tell that image is smoothed out by scaler. It's far, FAR easier to see that.
And in criminal law, strangling someone in their home intentionally is murder.
And in copyright law, transformative work is allowed.
Are we done comparing apples to oranges?
Ah yes, the infamous "pretty good" of non native scaling on LCD screens.
No thanks. Some of us have eyes that, while not being good enough to appreciate high DPI screens, are good enough to see the smudgy crap that comes out of such scalers.
Not to forget: phones with intentionally lower DPI for people who like to play games on their phones and understand that lower resolution means higher frames per second and more image quality improvements like better lighting and shaders with same GPU power.
If you find this funny, stop for a moment and consider WHY it is you find this funny.
Because it isn't in the slightest. Having this as the accepted reality of state formation in human society speaks volumes of us as species.
You last point is heavily offset by the gender selection problems in countries that have more people in each of them than entire North American continent. I'm talking about China and India. They're looking at male:female ratios worse than 130:100 in edge cases and female life expectancy is not as high because of childbirth and sanitation issues.
Not arguing with your first points. Here in Nordics, we're traditionally far ahead in the matter of equality of sexes, my home country of Finland was the first one in the world to have women as members of parliament back in 1917, and we've already had a long period when both president and prime minister were women. And many of people who were pushing for equality of sexes, very much a woman-dominated field of study now heavily studies problems with boys and men that emerged when we hit as close to equality as we did. For example, in truly equal meritocracy based school system, boys are heavily disadvantaged in part due to biological difference from girls. By the time you need to pick between your choice of lyceum (high school equivalent which paves way to higher education) or vocational training which leads to blue collar low education job, girls are typically already past the rebellious age while boys are in the grips of it. That causes severely lower performance for boys, effectively pushing many out of higher education in an easily observable pattern. Then there are issues that you mention, as well as having army conscription mandatory for men but not women in our country.
Equality of sexes is very different from goals of feminism, and many of those who were pushing for equality of sexes while calling themselves feminist are now pushing for men's rights around here.
3D printing is already among the primary means of prototyping.
Local Hindu extremists a few hundred kilometres from that place do pretty much the same thing, only on village level. Wrong religion? Get hacked to death.
You just compared mercury, a bioaccumulating neurotoxin to CO2, the gas necessary to sustain life on the planet and one of the major components of biosphere.
Congratulations. You managed to go full hyperbole.
I recommend clicking the "advanced" part of the link and read the contents. They are hilarious. It's literally "US legislators have a really broad definition of pollutant, therefore we state that CO2 meets some of that criteria and is *legally* a pollutant".
Example of other equally funny and absurd legal definitions made for reasons of specific punditry:
Corporation = person.
I'm sorry, but that is patently false. In addition to massive habitat change triggered by global warming that is wiping out countless species, we have a very well defined issue with acidification of large water habitats that are killing entire ecosystems, such as reefs.
Acidification that is a direct consequence of CO2 emissions.
And one last time. We are in fact emitting less CO2 than system absorbs. FAR less. The problem is that system itself also emits CO2 and is by design made in a way that adapts to exceptional events that emit large amounts of CO2 by absorbing even more. The problem however is that before CO2 is absorbed, it causes increased amount of thermal reflection back to the planet, which is what we call a greenhouse effect.
Normally CO2 emissions fluctuate with period, as ecosystems themselves work in different ways. Much of our current plant life for example would absolutely LOVE more CO2. Far more. That is why we have far more CO2 in greenhouses. It makes plants more efficient.