Some interesting points in the article, but I'm unsure at how running tests that are hyper bandwidth-bottlenecked is any indication of the performance of DX10 features.
"OMG I can't push 30498230894384023984 pixels/sec through my DX10 card, DX10 sucks."
"Doom 3's minimum requirements are [...] and a DirectX 9.0 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card just to get the thing to even run."
People should learn to better research their stuff. Just because the iD website says it requires a DX 9.0b compatible card doesn't mean it requires a card with DX9 capabilities. The Doom 3 engine runs "fine" on GF3 Ti hardware.
A couple of months ago, John Buchanan, Director of Research at EA (Vancouver), gave a presentation for the people in my lab. Among other things, he mentionned that EA figures that 50% of games being played are pirate copies.
Now, John is a pretty cool guy, very un-EA like actually;), but still, maybe that figure can be taken with a grain of salt. Whatever, let's say 30%. That seems pretty reasonable if I look at what people around me are doing (myself included). That's a lot of money. Not that they're not making a lot as it is, but simply saying that piracy DOESN'T hurt sales is very simplistic. Unlike the movie industry, piracy probably does hurt sales, A LOT.
Everyone I know copies games. It's just a fact of life. Games are expensive and a lot of them are just plain crappy. I simply try to pay for the ones I enjoy, especially if they're from a smaller studio that actually needs my money.
I agree, I'm so sick and tired of that stupid comparison. Don't get me wrong, I think the sales figures for the gaming industry are truly impressive and they show that you have to take that industry very seriously.
However, I really wish people would stop using the games sales vs box-office figures to "show" that games generate more revenue than Hollywood. That kind of argument might work with the statistic-craving masses, but anyone even remotely informed will think you're a complete dumbass because Hollywood's revenue is so much more than just box-office (DVDs, derived merchandise, pay-per-view, movie rights, etc etc).
When you take everything into account, Hollywood is still *way* bigger than the gaming industry, especially if you consider worldwide stats and not just the US.
If I remember correctly, they got the tip from the Nintendo Gaming Hint Center (or something), after the tech there had helped them master *all* of the other games.:) Seems he'd played SMB3 before and offered the tip.
It's all kinda vague, but that should be somewhere near what really happened...;)
I've seen a lot of negative comments in this thread, and it saddens me.
I'll agree FF wasn't that great, in fact the storyline and characters just plained sucked. But saying they deserve to close and they don't deserve the chance to make another movie is going way too far.
In making FF they showed the world it could be done. Yes it sucked and cost too much money, but it looked (very) good doing it. Someone had to do it first, and they did. Granted, some other breakthrough movies managed to actually make money (e.g. the 100M$ Terminator 2), but they didn't. Too bad for them because they'll be gone soon, and too bad for us because someone needs to be pushing the envelope.
Although in some twisted fashion you can see it as being linear regarding the number to be factored, it is actually exponential considering the bits allowed for 'n', which is really what matters.
Regardless of what was said above, this doesn't destroy public key cryptography at all. The two biggest mathematical assumptions used in PK crypto are that:
a) Factoring large numbers is hard
b) Solving discrete log problems is hard
Mind you, these are *not* NP-Complete problems (at the moment). They are believe to be in NP, but that's another story completly. Finding a polynomial algo for an NP-complete problem does not give you an algo for factoring and/or solving DLP problems.
Now on the other hand, if you had a quantum computer, you could factor in quadratic time, and solve DLPs in cubic time. Now *that* would be somewhat bad.:)
> I can't help thinking that back when DES was new, they probably told us the same thing.
Actually it was developed with a relatively small key size so that the government would be able to break it if necessary. It was estimated at the time that someone with 10 million dollars could break a key in a couple of days.
In the early 90s, I think that went down to 100,000$ and a couple of hours.
AES is another story completly.
-JF.
AES - The only reason I know anything about finite fields.
Let's not forget that planned taxcuts in the US would pay our complete national debt 4 times over.
I'm also from QC, and I agree it's nice to see Canada look over the other side of the fence, but still, there's a reason why we make the arm, and not the space shuttle...
I'm personnally not paid for being on call. I simply get the hours I work on emergency off the next week, or something similar.
Being paid by the hour, it would only be appropriate that you are paid when you're on call, perhaps on a reduced $$/hour. That's what was happening at my previous place of employment.
It seems like more and more sites want to do the Linux thing, and more and more sites do it very badly.
Personnally, if I was choosing a new distro, I'd like to hear something more than: "It's harder to install" or "It includes this and this software".
And if you *are* gonna mention that the distro isn't bleeding edge and that you're gonna have a hard time upgrading everything, perhaps you should do a bit more research! (/etc/sources.list anyone?)
It's a pity that half the posts here are stil I-can't-and-won't-believe-it posts. Face it, in artificial ultra-high performace benchmarking, NT is just faster than Linux. Hopefully it'll change soon, but for now that's it. I'm not happy about it, but it won't stop me from using it in the real world, because it just works better.
So please just stop the same whining we've been hearing since the first Mindcraft benchmark, and go on with your happy Linux lives!
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Some interesting points in the article, but I'm unsure at how running tests that are hyper bandwidth-bottlenecked is any indication of the performance of DX10 features.
"OMG I can't push 30498230894384023984 pixels/sec through my DX10 card, DX10 sucks."
Wait until they come for you.
Jason Della Rocca, the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), is a clueless blogger?
This is actually modded +5 Interesting?!
Please...
(I will however agree that this is not *news* at all... Or even /. worthy.)
Like he actually *read* the article before ninja-flaming... Not unlike whoever modded him up I guess. *shrug*
"Doom 3's minimum requirements are [...] and a DirectX 9.0 64MB Hardware Accelerated video card just to get the thing to even run."
People should learn to better research their stuff. Just because the iD website says it requires a DX 9.0b compatible card doesn't mean it requires a card with DX9 capabilities. The Doom 3 engine runs "fine" on GF3 Ti hardware.
A couple of months ago, John Buchanan, Director of Research at EA (Vancouver), gave a presentation for the people in my lab. Among other things, he mentionned that EA figures that 50% of games being played are pirate copies.
;), but still, maybe that figure can be taken with a grain of salt. Whatever, let's say 30%. That seems pretty reasonable if I look at what people around me are doing (myself included). That's a lot of money. Not that they're not making a lot as it is, but simply saying that piracy DOESN'T hurt sales is very simplistic. Unlike the movie industry, piracy probably does hurt sales, A LOT.
Now, John is a pretty cool guy, very un-EA like actually
Everyone I know copies games. It's just a fact of life. Games are expensive and a lot of them are just plain crappy. I simply try to pay for the ones I enjoy, especially if they're from a smaller studio that actually needs my money.
I agree, I'm so sick and tired of that stupid comparison. Don't get me wrong, I think the sales figures for the gaming industry are truly impressive and they show that you have to take that industry very seriously.
However, I really wish people would stop using the games sales vs box-office figures to "show" that games generate more revenue than Hollywood. That kind of argument might work with the statistic-craving masses, but anyone even remotely informed will think you're a complete dumbass because Hollywood's revenue is so much more than just box-office (DVDs, derived merchandise, pay-per-view, movie rights, etc etc).
When you take everything into account, Hollywood is still *way* bigger than the gaming industry, especially if you consider worldwide stats and not just the US.
> I've still got my favorite stream
/.
;)
Great idea, post a link to a 150-listener station on
Now I'll have to listen to crappy music until it goes off the front page and I can get the stream back!
If I remember correctly, they got the tip from the Nintendo Gaming Hint Center (or something), after the tech there had helped them master *all* of the other games. :) Seems he'd played SMB3 before and offered the tip.
;)
It's all kinda vague, but that should be somewhere near what really happened...
Sigh, media bias... It couldn't possibly be because no one cares about farting, could it?
-JF.
I've seen a lot of negative comments in this thread, and it saddens me.
I'll agree FF wasn't that great, in fact the storyline and characters just plained sucked. But saying they deserve to close and they don't deserve the chance to make another movie is going way too far.
In making FF they showed the world it could be done. Yes it sucked and cost too much money, but it looked (very) good doing it. Someone had to do it first, and they did. Granted, some other breakthrough movies managed to actually make money (e.g. the 100M$ Terminator 2), but they didn't. Too bad for them because they'll be gone soon, and too bad for us because someone needs to be pushing the envelope.
Sorry, but you're basically wrong, and everyone here really needs a better understanding of complexity theory before posting.
Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
since NP-Complete problems are harder than NP-hard problems the other way around works
Huh huh... http://hissa.nist.gov/dads/HTML/nphard.html
Hummm, well not quite.
Although in some twisted fashion you can see it as being linear regarding the number to be factored, it is actually exponential considering the bits allowed for 'n', which is really what matters.
Factoring isn't known to be NP-complete, and thus would *not* be affected by the discovery of a polynomial algo for a NP-complete problem.
See my post somewhere else for more details.
Regardless of what was said above, this doesn't destroy public key cryptography at all. The two biggest mathematical assumptions used in PK crypto are that:
:)
a) Factoring large numbers is hard
b) Solving discrete log problems is hard
Mind you, these are *not* NP-Complete problems (at the moment). They are believe to be in NP, but that's another story completly. Finding a polynomial algo for an NP-complete problem does not give you an algo for factoring and/or solving DLP problems.
Now on the other hand, if you had a quantum computer, you could factor in quadratic time, and solve DLPs in cubic time. Now *that* would be somewhat bad.
> I can't help thinking that back when DES was new, they probably told us the same thing.
Actually it was developed with a relatively small key size so that the government would be able to break it if necessary. It was estimated at the time that someone with 10 million dollars could break a key in a couple of days.
In the early 90s, I think that went down to 100,000$ and a couple of hours.
AES is another story completly.
-JF.
AES - The only reason I know anything about finite fields.
Let's not forget that planned taxcuts in the US would pay our complete national debt 4 times over.
I'm also from QC, and I agree it's nice to see Canada look over the other side of the fence, but still, there's a reason why we make the arm, and not the space shuttle...
-JF.
I'm personnally not paid for being on call. I simply get the hours I work on emergency off the next week, or something similar.
Being paid by the hour, it would only be appropriate that you are paid when you're on call, perhaps on a reduced $$/hour. That's what was happening at my previous place of employment.
I'm still amazed every day at how ignorant people are, or maybe how ignorant they want/try to be.
Maybe this will open some eyes, and force all of this in the open. You can only hide from the truth for so long...
-JF.
Bah, the GT3 is almost as powerful, and lighter to boot. (not to mention illegal in North America :))
Under 300$
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Of course a PlayStation 2! =)
Over 300$ but still decent price
The Ultimate Geek "Tool" (heemm..), a Palm Vx (http://www.palm.com/products/pal mvx
In the YEAH-BABY-YEAH! category:
A 2000 Porsche 911 GT3 (http://www.us.pors che
It seems like more and more sites want to do the Linux thing, and more and more sites do it very badly.
Personnally, if I was choosing a new distro, I'd like to hear something more than: "It's harder to install" or "It includes this and this software".
And if you *are* gonna mention that the distro isn't bleeding edge and that you're gonna have a hard time upgrading everything, perhaps you should do a bit more research! (/etc/sources.list anyone?)
-JF.
Anyone else think CmdrTaco should lay off the antibiotics? :)
It's a pity that half the posts here are stil I-can't-and-won't-believe-it posts. Face it, in artificial ultra-high performace benchmarking, NT is just faster than Linux. Hopefully it'll change soon, but for now that's it. I'm not happy about it, but it won't stop me from using it in the real world, because it just works better.
So please just stop the same whining we've been hearing since the first Mindcraft benchmark, and go on with your happy Linux lives!
-JF
I'm sure there are alot of people out there who look up to you, and basically want to know how you got where you are.
How did you do it, meaning studies, previous jobs, encounter with ultra-intelligent beings from outer space?