Hell, try driving UT2004 at 1920x1080 on your widescreen computer monitor with less than a Geforce FX5900!
Yes, but this is rendering in 3d. Here we're just talking about lugging a bunch of pixels around - completely different question. Mind you, you still have to decompress them...
It's good fun telling people who come down here to visit (New Zealand) that the twists in our cat 5 go the other way - because the earth's magnetic field is reversed.
Made all the better when they discover that southern hemisphere monitors actually *are* different for exactly the same reason.
You can do either of the serious sam games in a weekend if you've a reasonably serious FPS past. Bloody good games too, I had a lot of (short lived) fun on them.
You got then grant *then* went shopping? Does all US academia work like this? Aren't you supposed to work out what you want to do, how to do it, how much and only then apply for the grant?
Kyle dropped a comment on the HardOCP forums that he has 2.3GB of data and will be doing a more substantial article later this week. I imagine he has mid-end stuff in droves.
Oh jesus, have you not been watching? WTF do you think the whole PS2 linux scene has been about? They sure as shit weren't planning on making any money from it. They were only vaguely hoping that it would produce some brilliant new games company for them to buy... a Polyphony or Psygnosis.
No. This has been so they can learn about developers. What developers like. What works in development environments. And, to be honest, if they get their shit together they'll end up with something almost identical to Visual C++. I would put even money on it being a modified eclipse based platform, actually.
Point is that Sony know they messed up from a developers point of view on at least the first two playstations. They appear to have held developer relations together in a much more solid fashion for the PSP project... They seem pretty determined to fix it.
I'll be interested to see how this whole PS3/Xbox2 think pans out actually. I won't be buying an XBox2, but I won't be convinced I'm backing the winning horse either.
Look, he's a loony. He's legally bankrupt. He's actually bankrupt too. He's a really really good backyard meddler, but he sure as shit wasn't about to make a cruise missile. He spent the late 90's building up a website called 7am.com (a news aggregator) and never had the sense to do some really basic business shit, like hanging onto receipts, or hiring an accountant *before* the IRD start kicking your door down.
Fucks sake. Huge numbers of people in New Zealand work very hard, in very high technology industries and have the shittiest time raising capital and generally being taken seriously. Bruce Simpson's backyard antics make the whole thing worse.
Jesus.
He pisses me off, like you couldn't tell.
Search google groups for Bruce Simpson. His rants on who should and should not be allowed to have children are particularly glorious
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=nz.general+bru ce +simpson+children&selm=7aqHc.8958%24LT3.340210%40n ews.xtra.co.nz&rnum=1
The "IRD picked on me" rants are also glorious, for those who revel in pointless conspiracy theories.
The terminal server's a big deal, I'll grant you that. Shame it, y'know, kicks off the currently logged in user but it is a big deal. The fact that it works well is a big deal too.
I wouldn't hold your breath. I've used intel's "auto vectorizing" compiler, and truth be told it doesn't auto vectorise shit. You need to write your loops in such a way that there's no way it can bail before the end of the loop, and... I can't remember... other stuff. Point is that I found it both easier and faster to use the built in MMX primitives (it was integer math) and go back to using gcc.
Altivec has another problem. The data structures *have* to be aligned on a 16 byte boundary. Note that this is not a "runs really slowly if it's misaligned" thing, this is a "comes to a complete screeching halt" thing. Moving between Altivec and scalar registers is also incredibly slow - it's necessary to write the data to memory then read it back in, meaning you need to move at least one cacheline in the process.
On the plus side, when you do get it right, Altivec f'kin screams along. You can do almost anything with it and be bandwidth limited on a G4. Dunno about a G5 - there are some _more_ limitations to using altivec on a G5 too.
Look into the gcc primitives, it's surprisingly easy.
I think you have a rose-tinted view of the 'good old days' though - the Natalie-Portman / Hot-Grits / fp / BSD-is-dead stuff has been around for years.
Sure, but I don't remember it being modded +5. I just think the moderation system needs an overhaul - either to go to +10, or halve the number of mod points that are around.
Ok. So, your post summarises exactly what is wrong with Slashdot that never used to be wrong with Slashdot.
We have hoardes and hoardes of "lighwave/maya/povray/myarse has had this for years" posts, some completely wrong understandings of MP3's, a few dozen soviet russia's and profit! posts then this.
Modded +5, like everything else, but actually *genuinely* insightful and written with a confidence and succintness that comes from knowing WTF you are talking about.
Jesus. Problem with Slashdot is that there's GOLD in them hills but it's a bastard to find.
they probably also do some perceptual stuff, but I'm not familiar with video perceptual coding
They do. Your eyes have better resolution when dealing with luminosity than colour, and also detect lower frequency changes better than high frequency ones. JPEG uses both these effects, as do all video compressors AFAIK.
I've actually been thinking of raising my rates just so I can get a little time off
Doesn't work. Your existing clients tell people they know "He used to charge $50 and now charges $100 - he's always done a good job and I knew he was good, but I didn't know *how* good".... and you'll get more work.
Likewise, I gave an interview via iChat AV from Wellington NZ to someplace in California.
However, I would say that iChat and VoIP are actually very different things. The point is (IIRC) that VoIP has to use much shorter frames and more or less *has* to run over H323 to be compatible with other bits of VoIP gear.
To those of you who say "well, to hell with VoIP and POTS numbers and all that, we'll use our modified IM networks and be DAMNED!!"... I can only suggest that, well, you're probably right.
'kay. Flamebait aside, I think I'll put this here so there is a chance of a future search engine finding it bailing someone in a similar position out of the poo.
Installing Tomcat on Debian/Sarge in some steps:
1. Go to José Fonseca's homepage and add his repository to sources like he says. 2. apt-get install j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 (I have no idea whether or not you need the sdk). 3. apt-get install tomcat4 tomcat4-webapps 4. Go into/etc/default/tomcat4 and set JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/j2se/1.4". 5. Probably do/etc/init.d/tomcat4 restart 6. Point a web browser at http://wherever:8180/ 7. Muse on bytecode languages, administration overhead and whether or not they are necessary if we assume the OS actually works.
Tomcat, for the beginners, is a Java servelet engine. It runs on Java. Sure, one can install it with "apt-get install tomcat4" but you then have the not minor task of telling tomcat where to get Java from. Do you use the Sun one? Do we download the IBM one? Do we use blackdown? None of the above are supported by Debian because of their (sole downside) fanatical belief in Free with a big F.
Anyway, so you google like there's no tomorrow, install a bunch of stuff and attempt to start Tomcat:
And that's it, except it doesn't appear. Nothing in ps faxu, no ports are opened, nothing in the syslog, it just does not work. And, since you were about to ask, 'which java' returns/usr/bin/java so we know that JAVA_HOME is set correctly.
FUD? What FUD? Fear? I'm not afraid of it, it's just crap. Uncertainty? No uncertainty either, it's definitely crap. Doubt? Nope. Definitely crap. Absolute shitfight. Fuck Java.
As soon as Apple make one, my PowerBook's for sale.
You listening? Are you? It simplifies the battery life problem, it simplifies the 'supply of large LCDs' problem, I don't care that the performance is not all that good (provided it's still a G4). I want one. I will give you money for it.
Consider C++ with STL. Most compilers support it properly now, and the STL implementations have basically become complete across the board. You can also bind C++ onto pretty well anything provided the interfaces themselves aren't templated.
Example 1: When I am writing: "printf("Hello %d\n", "world");" I want a red line under "world", with a mouse-over stating: "Integer, not string expected in printf format string". I want this to happen while i type.
Yeah, agreed, it would be savage. I'm busy, so you go code it up and I'll buy it. A plug in to XCode would be wonderful, thanks, and while you're at it do *something* to make all the other pop ups work properly.
Gawd, all the shit about CASE tools, you would have thought someone like Rational would be all over this at $1k a seat.
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Hell, try driving UT2004 at 1920x1080 on your widescreen computer monitor with less than a Geforce FX5900!
Yes, but this is rendering in 3d. Here we're just talking about lugging a bunch of pixels around - completely different question. Mind you, you still have to decompress them...
Dave
It's good fun telling people who come down here to visit (New Zealand) that the twists in our cat 5 go the other way - because the earth's magnetic field is reversed.
Made all the better when they discover that southern hemisphere monitors actually *are* different for exactly the same reason.
Dave
You can do either of the serious sam games in a weekend if you've a reasonably serious FPS past. Bloody good games too, I had a lot of (short lived) fun on them.
Dave
...f'ked. Like, seriously arse backwards.
You got then grant *then* went shopping? Does all US academia work like this? Aren't you supposed to work out what you want to do, how to do it, how much and only then apply for the grant?
Dave
Kyle dropped a comment on the HardOCP forums that he has 2.3GB of data and will be doing a more substantial article later this week. I imagine he has mid-end stuff in droves.
Dave
Oh jesus, have you not been watching? WTF do you think the whole PS2 linux scene has been about? They sure as shit weren't planning on making any money from it. They were only vaguely hoping that it would produce some brilliant new games company for them to buy ... a Polyphony or Psygnosis.
... They seem pretty determined to fix it.
No. This has been so they can learn about developers. What developers like. What works in development environments. And, to be honest, if they get their shit together they'll end up with something almost identical to Visual C++. I would put even money on it being a modified eclipse based platform, actually.
Point is that Sony know they messed up from a developers point of view on at least the first two playstations. They appear to have held developer relations together in a much more solid fashion for the PSP project
I'll be interested to see how this whole PS3/Xbox2 think pans out actually. I won't be buying an XBox2, but I won't be convinced I'm backing the winning horse either.
Dave
Not Bruce Simpson, again.
u ce +simpson+children&selm=7aqHc.8958%24LT3.340210%40n ews.xtra.co.nz&rnum=1
Look, he's a loony. He's legally bankrupt. He's actually bankrupt too. He's a really really good backyard meddler, but he sure as shit wasn't about to make a cruise missile. He spent the late 90's building up a website called 7am.com (a news aggregator) and never had the sense to do some really basic business shit, like hanging onto receipts, or hiring an accountant *before* the IRD start kicking your door down.
Fucks sake. Huge numbers of people in New Zealand work very hard, in very high technology industries and have the shittiest time raising capital and generally being taken seriously. Bruce Simpson's backyard antics make the whole thing worse.
Jesus.
He pisses me off, like you couldn't tell.
Search google groups for Bruce Simpson. His rants on who should and should not be allowed to have children are particularly glorious
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=nz.general+br
The "IRD picked on me" rants are also glorious, for those who revel in pointless conspiracy theories.
Dave >:(
The terminal server's a big deal, I'll grant you that. Shame it, y'know, kicks off the currently logged in user but it is a big deal. The fact that it works well is a big deal too.
But compared to OSX upgrades?
Dave
2k to XP was big? How'd you figure that?
Dave
I wouldn't hold your breath. I've used intel's "auto vectorizing" compiler, and truth be told it doesn't auto vectorise shit. You need to write your loops in such a way that there's no way it can bail before the end of the loop, and ... I can't remember ... other stuff. Point is that I found it both easier and faster to use the built in MMX primitives (it was integer math) and go back to using gcc.
Altivec has another problem. The data structures *have* to be aligned on a 16 byte boundary. Note that this is not a "runs really slowly if it's misaligned" thing, this is a "comes to a complete screeching halt" thing. Moving between Altivec and scalar registers is also incredibly slow - it's necessary to write the data to memory then read it back in, meaning you need to move at least one cacheline in the process.
On the plus side, when you do get it right, Altivec f'kin screams along. You can do almost anything with it and be bandwidth limited on a G4. Dunno about a G5 - there are some _more_ limitations to using altivec on a G5 too.
Look into the gcc primitives, it's surprisingly easy.
Dave
Of course, his real accomplishment was to get everyone to agree on it.
Yeah, exactly. Took him a year or so of top class diplomacy, he got a ten million dollar bonus for having done it.
He should get with the programme - companies employ you so *they* can make money. Not you.
Dave
Hoardes are places where things are being hoarded
It's a fair cop, gov.
I think you have a rose-tinted view of the 'good old days' though - the Natalie-Portman / Hot-Grits / fp / BSD-is-dead stuff has been around for years.
Sure, but I don't remember it being modded +5. I just think the moderation system needs an overhaul - either to go to +10, or halve the number of mod points that are around.
Dave
Ok. So, your post summarises exactly what is wrong with Slashdot that never used to be wrong with Slashdot.
We have hoardes and hoardes of "lighwave/maya/povray/myarse has had this for years" posts, some completely wrong understandings of MP3's, a few dozen soviet russia's and profit! posts then this.
Modded +5, like everything else, but actually *genuinely* insightful and written with a confidence and succintness that comes from knowing WTF you are talking about.
Jesus. Problem with Slashdot is that there's GOLD in them hills but it's a bastard to find.
Dave
they probably also do some perceptual stuff, but I'm not familiar with video perceptual coding
They do. Your eyes have better resolution when dealing with luminosity than colour, and also detect lower frequency changes better than high frequency ones. JPEG uses both these effects, as do all video compressors AFAIK.
Cheers,
Dave
I've actually been thinking of raising my rates just so I can get a little time off
.... and you'll get more work.
Doesn't work. Your existing clients tell people they know "He used to charge $50 and now charges $100 - he's always done a good job and I knew he was good, but I didn't know *how* good"
Dave
Likewise, I gave an interview via iChat AV from Wellington NZ to someplace in California.
... I can only suggest that, well, you're probably right.
However, I would say that iChat and VoIP are actually very different things. The point is (IIRC) that VoIP has to use much shorter frames and more or less *has* to run over H323 to be compatible with other bits of VoIP gear.
To those of you who say "well, to hell with VoIP and POTS numbers and all that, we'll use our modified IM networks and be DAMNED!!"
Dave
'kay. Flamebait aside, I think I'll put this here so there is a chance of a future search engine finding it bailing someone in a similar position out of the poo.
/etc/default/tomcat4 and set JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/j2se/1.4". /etc/init.d/tomcat4 restart
Installing Tomcat on Debian/Sarge in some steps:
1. Go to José Fonseca's homepage and add his repository to sources like he says.
2. apt-get install j2re1.4 j2sdk1.4 (I have no idea whether or not you need the sdk).
3. apt-get install tomcat4 tomcat4-webapps
4. Go into
5. Probably do
6. Point a web browser at http://wherever:8180/
7. Muse on bytecode languages, administration overhead and whether or not they are necessary if we assume the OS actually works.
Dave
Yeah, I thought we'd see one of these.
/etc/init.d/tomcat4 start /usr/bin: #
/usr/bin/java so we know that JAVA_HOME is set correctly.
Tomcat, for the beginners, is a Java servelet engine. It runs on Java. Sure, one can install it with "apt-get install tomcat4" but you then have the not minor task of telling tomcat where to get Java from. Do you use the Sun one? Do we download the IBM one? Do we use blackdown? None of the above are supported by Debian because of their (sole downside) fanatical belief in Free with a big F.
Anyway, so you google like there's no tomorrow, install a bunch of stuff and attempt to start Tomcat:
#
Starting Tomcat 4.0 servlet engine using Java from
And that's it, except it doesn't appear. Nothing in ps faxu, no ports are opened, nothing in the syslog, it just does not work. And, since you were about to ask, 'which java' returns
FUD? What FUD? Fear? I'm not afraid of it, it's just crap. Uncertainty? No uncertainty either, it's definitely crap. Doubt? Nope. Definitely crap. Absolute shitfight. Fuck Java.
Dave
I'm a kinda, moderate Debian admin. It's just taken me ... an hour? to *not* get Tomcat (A Java servelet engine) up on a box here.
Fuck Java, honestly.
Dave
As soon as Apple make one, my PowerBook's for sale.
You listening? Are you? It simplifies the battery life problem, it simplifies the 'supply of large LCDs' problem, I don't care that the performance is not all that good (provided it's still a G4). I want one. I will give you money for it.
Dave
3GHz G5's wouldn't be a surprise. What would be a surprise would be if anyone was actually able to buy one before 2005.
Dave
1. Invest in SCO.
2. ?
3. Loss!
Sorry,
Dave
Exactly what I was going to say. (ob AOL - me too).
Still, RH seem to be doing everything they can to break their business up these days. Oh well.
Dave
Consider C++ with STL. Most compilers support it properly now, and the STL implementations have basically become complete across the board. You can also bind C++ onto pretty well anything provided the interfaces themselves aren't templated.
Dave
Example 1: When I am writing: "printf("Hello %d\n", "world");" I want a red line under "world", with a mouse-over stating: "Integer, not string expected in printf format string". I want this to happen while i type.
Yeah, agreed, it would be savage. I'm busy, so you go code it up and I'll buy it. A plug in to XCode would be wonderful, thanks, and while you're at it do *something* to make all the other pop ups work properly.
Gawd, all the shit about CASE tools, you would have thought someone like Rational would be all over this at $1k a seat.
Seriously, get on with it. I'm busy.
Dave