Nice trolling. I guess that's why you post as an AC. There's a program for examining the possibility of switching over to OSS entirely in government institutions here in Sweden that is just as far along as the Danish and Norwegian projects.
The corporate side is another matter though.
Or is your issue just that they are looking into BSD also, instead of only Linux?
There's another big issue too: Too many persons in the OS community are only willing to build on other people's previous work, and if someone gets some ideas about trying to write something from scratch and mentions it on public forums, a lot of idiots flame him/her, telling him/her "Why don't you just use x or y that z or zy wrote?"
And for games development, money as a reason usually is the result of the time it takes to develop a good game nowadays, especially if you're trying to create something that is somewhat inventive or competitive.
Games development with OS creates another problem for multiplayer: Rampant cheating. Yes, most of it can be solved through the server not trusting the clients, but that requires more CPU cycles, and can easily affect latency. And if it requires a beefier server, fewer persons will host servers for the game, so it won't be as popular
The problem is, decent-sized particle simulations require lots of memory, something that can often lead to slowdowns on x86-clusters. Thanks to some friends at NSC(National Supercomputer Centre) in Sweden, I had the opportunity to try out some particle and airflow simulations on some of their computers during a calm period with low usage. I got to use 16 CPU's and 16GB RAM on the Origin 3800, and it was about twice as fast on my problem as the 32-node Beowulf, with each node a Thunderbird 900MHz and 512MB RAM/CPU, SCI interconnects. If it was just the CPU crunching power that mattered, the Beowulf cluster should have left the Origin nodes I could use in the dust.
On the desktop, I've used a dual Xeon box, with 2GB RAM, and I constantly max out the memory. =(
Oh well, both the Origin and the Beowulf cluster finished in less than an hour what takes my home box over a week to do... =(
First of all, on x86 PC's, that's theoretical bandwidth, practical bandwidth is lower, much lower. An Octane or even an O2 can handle bandwidth-demands that would choke a x86 PC. Some examples are compositing, or handling large images. Playing 1280x1024*32bit uncompressed and doing post-processing in real-time is just one example I've seen.
The difference? The SGI is a single system image, i.e one single computer, that can be used as a server. With the RLX solution, you need to configure it as a cluster, with all it's inherent troubles, to be able to do roughly the same thing, and still not have shared memory etc.
Actually, Maya took 9 years from the start of the project to the release of Maya 1.0. For the first 4 years, no code other than pseudo-code was made, everything was planned, designed and researched during those 4 years, then 4 years for coding, and 1 year of beta testing, which included ILM, D2 etc testing it out.
I had the opportunity to talk to a few persons from the development team during a pre-release demonstration, and I learned the above from them. And the team wasn't that small. Heck, it included over 20 programmers. And they got lots of outside help in the way of ideas that had been really thought through etc.
Maya is probably one of the best examples of why actually spending time doing the general design, UI workflow process etc before starting the coding is a Really Good Thing. And no, UI workflow process is not only about the GUI.
And I just gotta say that I love MEL, and the ability to rewrite large parts of the GUI through it =)
Yeah, but Ariel Sharon isn't surrounded with the same glorification as both Menachim Begin and Yitzhak Shamir are. Another curious thing is how Sharon stopped the inquiry into the IDF methods that was started by the Israeli Defence Minister...
I'm gonna buy that book someday. Gotten it recommended to me from several persons, one of the persons recommending it is a Lieutenant in the IDF reserves, who is protesting against the Israeli methods.
"So far as the body count goes rather more Palestinian than Israeli civilians have wound up dead. Also often ignored or skirted around in Western (and especially US) news is that there is also terrorism from groups of Israelis. The current situation actually starting from a terrorist attack on a Palestinian school."
So true. And then consider the fact that two Israeli Prime Ministers were terrorists, Menachim Begin being part of the leadership of the Irgun gang(He's even admitted to having given the order to bomb King Davids Hotel, killing over 200 people. Read his book The Revolt, story of the Irgun), and Yitzhak Shamir, who led the Stern gang.
Nowadays, the Palestinians have to live in Ghettos surrounded by razor wire, and have special ID's identifying them as palestinians. Anyone other than me that is reminded of Warzaw?
And no, I don't have anything against Jews, that's why I use the term Israelis, since not all Israelis are Jews.
My regards go to all those in the region who do their best to stop the violence and barbaric actions perpetrated by both sides in the conflict. I hope for your sake that you succeed some day.
If the Hoover Dam was opened fully, then the effects wouldn't just be noticeable for the next kilometer.... We're talking several hundreds of kilometers that will be flooded.
Wrong. Kendo is a strictly formalized and minimalized version of Kenjutsu, and it was intended as a sport for the nobles in 19th century japan. The various Kenjutsu traditions are the real sword fighting schools in Japan.
Clueless editors.... *Grumbles and swears* Both Mad Cat and Timber Wolf are correct designations. Mad Cat is the Inner Sphere designation, while Timber Wolf is the Clan designation for that particular Omnimech.
It's a matter of psychology. An area where too many geeks are COMPLETELY, UTTERLY clueless. Most people who are in a scary situation and are trying to hide will react instinctively and whisper etc etc. It's instinctive. Some people don't have that instinct of self-preservation, but I can assure you that most military people have it, either naturally, or by dint of training. Heck, people are even crouching in their chairs etc when watching horror movies and such, which would be even more ridiculous according to you.
"Life, as it is, is fluent "infinite FPS". When you capture life on video, you capture everything in that 1/30 of a second, including all movement.
If u look on a frame in a movie, u see that everything is blurry, but when it's all running, it's clear.
Computer graphics are created frame by frame, "like life", so to get the maximum fluidity, like in real life, you need this infinite FPS."
There is a much better solution, and 3DFX was attempting to introduce that, namely Motion Blur. It's one of the most heavily used functions when doing special effects, to make things seem more natural
I would definitely say YES to the question if there are programs out there that can use all the performance that the current crop of cards have. Maya, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Autocad, SolidWorks etc may not use all features, but they definitely run better the more powerful GFX card you use. And this new card IS aimed at the pro market. A decent quality scene for animation or architectural visualization can easily have 200k+ polys on screen at any given time, especially if you're using highly complex NURBS-geometry, since NURBS are later converted to polys.
Games don't push many polys in comparison, and the old comment that games care more for fill rate is still true.
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First, the thickness of the material in my frame was about 2mm.
As for tolerances, there are alu alloys that have tolerances that are high enough to come close to good Cro-Mo steel alloys. 7005 and 8005 are two of them. 7005 and 8005 are frequently used in airplanes, bike frames, subs, weapons and other things that need quite high tolerances, but you still need low weight.
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Take a look at the SR-71. Large parts of the SR-71 is made out of titanium.
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Considering that titanium has been used in mountainbike frames for at least 8 years, and in quite a thin layer, especially compared to the steel/cro-mo frames, and have proven themselves to be just as durable, you are quite wrong. I used to compete in mountainbiking, and I had a titanium frame. Me and another biker smashed into a rock at about 45km/h, with our bikes hitting the rock instead of us hitting it, and his alu 8005 frame got warped, his upper tube bending, while my titanium frame barely got scratched.
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Nice trolling. I guess that's why you post as an AC. There's a program for examining the possibility of switching over to OSS entirely in government institutions here in Sweden that is just as far along as the Danish and Norwegian projects.
The corporate side is another matter though.
Or is your issue just that they are looking into BSD also, instead of only Linux?
There's another big issue too:
Too many persons in the OS community are only willing to build on other people's previous work, and if someone gets some ideas about trying to write something from scratch and mentions it on public forums, a lot of idiots flame him/her, telling him/her "Why don't you just use x or y that z or zy wrote?"
And for games development, money as a reason usually is the result of the time it takes to develop a good game nowadays, especially if you're trying to create something that is somewhat inventive or competitive.
Games development with OS creates another problem for multiplayer: Rampant cheating. Yes, most of it can be solved through the server not trusting the clients, but that requires more CPU cycles, and can easily affect latency. And if it requires a beefier server, fewer persons will host servers for the game, so it won't be as popular
Both Red Hat and Caldera are members.
The problem is, decent-sized particle simulations require lots of memory, something that can often lead to slowdowns on x86-clusters. Thanks to some friends at NSC(National Supercomputer Centre) in Sweden, I had the opportunity to try out some particle and airflow simulations on some of their computers during a calm period with low usage. I got to use 16 CPU's and 16GB RAM on the Origin 3800, and it was about twice as fast on my problem as the 32-node Beowulf, with each node a Thunderbird 900MHz and 512MB RAM/CPU, SCI interconnects. If it was just the CPU crunching power that mattered, the Beowulf cluster should have left the Origin nodes I could use in the dust.
On the desktop, I've used a dual Xeon box, with 2GB RAM, and I constantly max out the memory. =(
Oh well, both the Origin and the Beowulf cluster finished in less than an hour what takes my home box over a week to do... =(
First of all, on x86 PC's, that's theoretical bandwidth, practical bandwidth is lower, much lower. An Octane or even an O2 can handle bandwidth-demands that would choke a x86 PC. Some examples are compositing, or handling large images. Playing 1280x1024*32bit uncompressed and doing post-processing in real-time is just one example I've seen.
The difference? The SGI is a single system image, i.e one single computer, that can be used as a server. With the RLX solution, you need to configure it as a cluster, with all it's inherent troubles, to be able to do roughly the same thing, and still not have shared memory etc.
No thanks. I don't want to see neat hardware be badly crippled by running Linux+GCC on it.
Actually, Maya took 9 years from the start of the project to the release of Maya 1.0. For the first 4 years, no code other than pseudo-code was made, everything was planned, designed and researched during those 4 years, then 4 years for coding, and 1 year of beta testing, which included ILM, D2 etc testing it out.
I had the opportunity to talk to a few persons from the development team during a pre-release demonstration, and I learned the above from them.
And the team wasn't that small. Heck, it included over 20 programmers. And they got lots of outside help in the way of ideas that had been really thought through etc.
Maya is probably one of the best examples of why actually spending time doing the general design, UI workflow process etc before starting the coding is a Really Good Thing. And no, UI workflow process is not only about the GUI.
And I just gotta say that I love MEL, and the ability to rewrite large parts of the GUI through it =)
Yeah, but Ariel Sharon isn't surrounded with the same glorification as both Menachim Begin and Yitzhak Shamir are. Another curious thing is how Sharon stopped the inquiry into the IDF methods that was started by the Israeli Defence Minister...
I'm gonna buy that book someday. Gotten it recommended to me from several persons, one of the persons recommending it is a Lieutenant in the IDF reserves, who is protesting against the Israeli methods.
"So far as the body count goes rather more Palestinian than Israeli civilians have wound up dead. Also often ignored or skirted around in Western (and especially US) news is that there is also terrorism from groups of Israelis. The current situation actually starting from a terrorist attack on a Palestinian school."
So true. And then consider the fact that two Israeli Prime Ministers were terrorists, Menachim Begin being part of the leadership of the Irgun gang(He's even admitted to having given the order to bomb King Davids Hotel, killing over 200 people. Read his book The Revolt, story of the Irgun), and Yitzhak Shamir, who led the Stern gang.
Nowadays, the Palestinians have to live in Ghettos surrounded by razor wire, and have special ID's identifying them as palestinians.
Anyone other than me that is reminded of Warzaw?
And no, I don't have anything against Jews, that's why I use the term Israelis, since not all Israelis are Jews.
My regards go to all those in the region who do their best to stop the violence and barbaric actions perpetrated by both sides in the conflict. I hope for your sake that you succeed some day.
If the Hoover Dam was opened fully, then the effects wouldn't just be noticeable for the next kilometer.... We're talking several hundreds of kilometers that will be flooded.
Some 3D-apps have had them for a long time. SoftImage and PowerAnimator had them when I first saw them, in 1995, Maya has similar menus etc
100 miles? That's only 160km.... 2 days if you only need to carry your clothes and your wallet. 3 days if you need to carry some other things
The personal number is tied to the name
Also, the ID-cards have 2 other numeric strings to verify that it's not a forgery also, one 8-digit string and one 11-digit string.
Wrong. Kendo is a strictly formalized and minimalized version of Kenjutsu, and it was intended as a sport for the nobles in 19th century japan. The various Kenjutsu traditions are the real sword fighting schools in Japan.
Would you perhaps be a fellow Shadowrun player, considering your nickname?
The editor should have corrected the error
Clueless editors.... *Grumbles and swears*
Both Mad Cat and Timber Wolf are correct designations. Mad Cat is the Inner Sphere designation, while Timber Wolf is the Clan designation for that particular Omnimech.
As another posted stated:
It's a matter of psychology. An area where too many geeks are COMPLETELY, UTTERLY clueless. Most people who are in a scary situation and are trying to hide will react instinctively and whisper etc etc. It's instinctive. Some people don't have that instinct of self-preservation, but I can assure you that most military people have it, either naturally, or by dint of training. Heck, people are even crouching in their chairs etc when watching horror movies and such, which would be even more ridiculous according to you.
"Life, as it is, is fluent "infinite FPS". When you capture life on video, you capture everything in that 1/30 of a second, including all movement. If u look on a frame in a movie, u see that everything is blurry, but when it's all running, it's clear. Computer graphics are created frame by frame, "like life", so to get the maximum fluidity, like in real life, you need this infinite FPS." There is a much better solution, and 3DFX was attempting to introduce that, namely Motion Blur. It's one of the most heavily used functions when doing special effects, to make things seem more natural
I would definitely say YES to the question if there are programs out there that can use all the performance that the current crop of cards have. Maya, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave, Autocad, SolidWorks etc may not use all features, but they definitely run better the more powerful GFX card you use. And this new card IS aimed at the pro market. A decent quality scene for animation or architectural visualization can easily have 200k+ polys on screen at any given time, especially if you're using highly complex NURBS-geometry, since NURBS are later converted to polys.
Games don't push many polys in comparison, and the old comment that games care more for fill rate is still true.
First, the thickness of the material in my frame was about 2mm.
As for tolerances, there are alu alloys that have tolerances that are high enough to come close to good Cro-Mo steel alloys. 7005 and 8005 are two of them. 7005 and 8005 are frequently used in airplanes, bike frames, subs, weapons and other things that need quite high tolerances, but you still need low weight.
Take a look at the SR-71. Large parts of the SR-71 is made out of titanium.
Considering that titanium has been used in mountainbike frames for at least 8 years, and in quite a thin layer, especially compared to the steel/cro-mo frames, and have proven themselves to be just as durable, you are quite wrong. I used to compete in mountainbiking, and I had a titanium frame. Me and another biker smashed into a rock at about 45km/h, with our bikes hitting the rock instead of us hitting it, and his alu 8005 frame got warped, his upper tube bending, while my titanium frame barely got scratched.