Actually, I am guessing that someone at Intel has been taking the "imagine a beowulf of those" jokes on slashdot too serious, and decided to put it on one chip.
Tho is *seems* that if the OS was written specifically for 80 cores (ie: 64 bit, one bit per core or something) then *if* they synced up nicely, you could do some cool stuff with games at the least. My guess is that getting the OS to work with 80 cores in near real time is going to produce some serious overhead, however. For what it is worth, $10 says it will run Linux before it runs Windows, but that prediction isn't exactly going out on a limb.
I think part of it is that NO card is "the best", as they are all different kinds of good. As confusing as comparing CPUs, it depends on what you are doing. I DID agree with the assessment of the "Best PCIe Card For ~$140 - Geforce 7600 GT" however.
I just did a month of research and bought this exact card about 1 month ago, put it on an older i3.2ghz/HT w/1GB ram, and it does acceptionally well. The PNY unit I bought runs most games at the highest or near highest settings (HL2, etc) and have two dvi out, and included two dvi/vga adapters, svideo cable and more. For those of us who love gaming but won't afford a $400 card, this is the next best thing. Think I paid $135 at buy.com w/free shipping and have been extremely pleased with the results.
Hmmm, that commercial doesn't do anything for me. blah blah blah blah....
The purpose of the *fake* commercial was NOT to give you a chubby. It was to compare the differences in the two systems, using "Apple" methods, in a fun way. IE: let you decide which girl (game system) was more fun to be with, the overly complex and bloated PS3 or the "peppy and cute" Wii.
But perhaps that is too complicated for you, like logging in with a user name. That or you are suffering from what is ailing many slashdotters in the last few months: an abject lack of imagination and sense of humor, combined with the inability to understand sarcasm. Go smoke a joint or something. Really, I am saying this with love, man. Pop open a six pack or whatever works for you. Relax, the whole world isn't literal.
Last time I checked it had an optional flag to ignore it, and would further do lots of other fun things like insert random pauses between page requests
Since your IP doesn't change, that isn't exactly hidding from detection. It IS, however, much nicer to a small server (T1 or less), rather than running curl or wget at full tilt and swamping it.
I think your first point is the main point: A site should not be able to take action against a search engine if they are not using a robots.txt file that prohibits caching and indexing. It only takes two lines of text to make Google go away:
But what if you could charge a laptop battery with it? With two of them you could charge the main battery and the spare and never run dry!
I am working on a photovoltaic module that fits over the entire LCD on your laptop to recharge the batteries while the laptop is on, so it never needs recharging again. I am sure with a little venture capital, I can work the bugs out.
I will say this, there are *some* exceptions to your "same gameplay as last year, but shinier graphics" concept, but only if you wait a long time between releases. The best example I know is the PC game TFC (and TF2 to be released Q1/2007), a mod of half life.
It started as a mod to Quake, then released as a 1.5 upgrade (ported) to the Half Life engine. They have been working on a 2.0 version since 2000, including radically changing the game to make it more realistic. As the "real warfare" genre has become flooded, they ended up reverting back to the basic concept because it was no longer Team Fortess, and was instead just another WW2 game. The original, 1.5 and the future 2.0 aren't realistic, the physics are not the same as in our world, the characters are more cartoonish. You can do rocket jumps, etc. and other things you can't do in real life without dying. The players classes are EXACTLY the same as before, just tweaked in minor ways. The main difference IS the shinier graphics, and a bit more humor in the look of the characters.
In this case the difference is between 1999 graphics and 2007 graphics, which is huge, not just a one year leap. (4mb video cards vs. 256mb, for instance). They also have a better engine, Source, which couldn't have run on the old hardware anyway. TF2/TFC is an example where the basic gameplay was already excellent, as well as the basic concept of team play (cap the flag, capture territory, etc). Hell, I still have a couple of TFC servers and the game is still fun to play, just dated graphically.
Now, as you say, if they just released an update with shinier graphics every year, it would be not worthwhile, but since they have waited long enough that the technological advances in graphics *mean* something, it will work and it is worthwhile.
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Until somebody comes out with a standard DC power connector, the answer to your question is "yes".
Ha! I can show you two dozen different standard DC power connectors here in my desk drawer...
Just tested in IE6 and Firefox, works great, loads super fast. Name of the video is "PS3 vs. Wii - Apple Style!" Google video insists on using Flash (9 i think), which may be your problem.
Thanks. I just wasted an hour working and searching all the details out for that;) I won't spoil it for everyone else tho. Very, very weird stuff.
Saw on a forum how 'maybe' this is the organization that G-man belongs to, and the portal guns are not necessary, thus how he gets around. ie: the organization that was 'storing' Gordon for 20 years. Odd. We might find out by Episode 3. Maybe.
If you read below, Valve will sometimes support developers if they already have a decent prototype. DoD started out as a completely independent mod to HL1, and valve basically bought them out. Also, developing a game for steam, if it used the Source engine or not, is less expensive because the return is so much higher for the game maker. You don't have to sell a million copies to break even. Nothing to print, no stores to stock (which is always on consignment...), no disks to press.
The real beauty of this is that Valve demostrated that as a platform/publisher/creator of games, their 'open' method is profitable. I remember reading somewhere that over 80% of online PC gamers are playing a Steam/Valve game. Where everyone else wants to sue people for modding their games, Valve gives away the SDK and tools for free. And is laughing all the way to the bank.
I am salivating after seeing the trailers for TF2 and Portal, which will be bundled with HL2/Episode 2. I didn't even care about Portal until I saw the trailer. Looks very different than other games, and appears to be a total mind screw, forcing you to forget what you know about physics and learning to think extra dimensionally. They said pricing for Ep2 will be between normal Episode prices and full game prices ($20 and $60) but I don't think even full price will slow down the purchases, just for Team Fortress 2.
Although there are plenty of people who hate Steam, I think what Valve has done ever since Half Life originally came out has contributed. By making a good game that is easy to mod, they have opened the door for thousands of future game makers. Not only do mods create a platform to create lots of games, some good, some not, but their method of distribution allows the good mods to be further developed into viable commercial products. And I can just download them and they run in a few minutes.
Not everything I have bought I really liked (Sin Episodes, for example...) but for less money, hassle and installation concerns than traditional games, they have made trying new games out much easier, and increased the total number of good games on the market.
Actually, some very intelligent people I know were all worried about gas prices, until I set down and did some quick math for them. As a percentage of their income, it wasn't even on the radar. Intellegent people can get caught up in the hype just as easily as the "average Joe" (who is NOT as dumb as you might think...) No matter who you are, it is often difficult to NOT get caught up in something if you are totally surrounded by it. The Lemming effect.
I get about 13mpg and drive about 18,000 miles a year, but my driving habits won't change even if it goes to $6 a gallon. It isn't like I spend my spare time just driving for the fun of it.
You're thinking 2004. In 1984, it would be Emmanual Goldstein, and last I checked, he was running 2600.com. His last act of terrorism was linking to DeCSS, something which even the New York Times did, but they appear to have better lawyers.
I will second that. I had it for 3 years, until my wife got enough people in the area to sign a petition and they run cable out to the area. My average latency was 800 at that time. Keep in mind, this was several years ago when it was pretty new, and you still used dialup to SEND packets, and satalite to receive them. I had what was a pretty good box (at the time), and was using the first of the "new" pci adapters that Hughes offered.
We have a sister company that uses the satalite still because they can't get anything else. Other than they have a permanant IP address, it pretty much sucks to deal with. 400+ pings, making web apps/cgi a royal pain.
At that time, playing HL and later TFC was impossible, so I would just use the dialup service, which gave me 150ms pings...not great but usable. Download of files were pretty good once they got started, but downloading lots of small stuff was not very fast, including webpages. Add 1 second latency for everything. Seems like you are on a rollercoaster at times.
In the program, I guess you could assign $x as the value of the highest known prime, but I think the average 32 bit Linux installation would have run out of precision before it got to that value.
However, once one person has paid the $1000 for a copy of the program, there is then nothing to stop that person from distributing the same program for $10 {they'll break even after selling 100 copies} -- or even for nothing.
What is what I meant and said in the parent with:
Of course, you would be free to give it to anyone or sell it for any price you could get, as long as you complied with the GPL.
You can use it anyway you like. However, when it comes to distributing it (for personal gain), you don't have carte blanche. Bear in mind that you got it for free.
Not trying to be nitpicky, but you missed two points. One: The GPL doesn't differentiate between distributing it for free or profit. Distribution is distribution. The GPL doesn't care if you make money or not. (See the preamble of the GNU/GPL)
And not all GPL software is "free" as in price. I can make a software package under the GPL (independently or a derived package), but not distribute it to anyone but you for $1000. As long as I give you the source code along with the binaries, I am complying with Section 3a) of the GPL and do not need to provide it to any 3rd party 3b). Thus, it was always "free as in speech" but was never "free as in beer". Of course, you would be free to give it to anyone or sell it for any price you could get, as long as you complied with the GPL.
It may sound minor, but these are major points in the GPL. "Free" just happens to mean 2 things in English. In the GPL, free refers to freedom, not cost or profit. The GPL isn't simple at first glance, but it makes good sense for a lot of projects. The GPL is FOR making money, not against.
I never got around to moderating with D2, because I kinda found it more irritating than useful, so disabled it after about an hour. This was a while back, and not sure what they have added since then. (I have never subscribed, but I have been able to test it for months now...i dunno)
But I agree that moderation is something that should be done thoughtfully, and being able to give someone literally instant Karma, is going to lead to a lot more Unfair Metamoderation.
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Actually, I am guessing that someone at Intel has been taking the "imagine a beowulf of those" jokes on slashdot too serious, and decided to put it on one chip.
Tho is *seems* that if the OS was written specifically for 80 cores (ie: 64 bit, one bit per core or something) then *if* they synced up nicely, you could do some cool stuff with games at the least. My guess is that getting the OS to work with 80 cores in near real time is going to produce some serious overhead, however. For what it is worth, $10 says it will run Linux before it runs Windows, but that prediction isn't exactly going out on a limb.
I think part of it is that NO card is "the best", as they are all different kinds of good. As confusing as comparing CPUs, it depends on what you are doing. I DID agree with the assessment of the "Best PCIe Card For ~$140 - Geforce 7600 GT" however.
I just did a month of research and bought this exact card about 1 month ago, put it on an older i3.2ghz/HT w/1GB ram, and it does acceptionally well. The PNY unit I bought runs most games at the highest or near highest settings (HL2, etc) and have two dvi out, and included two dvi/vga adapters, svideo cable and more. For those of us who love gaming but won't afford a $400 card, this is the next best thing. Think I paid $135 at buy.com w/free shipping and have been extremely pleased with the results.
Hmmm, that commercial doesn't do anything for me. blah blah blah blah....
The purpose of the *fake* commercial was NOT to give you a chubby. It was to compare the differences in the two systems, using "Apple" methods, in a fun way. IE: let you decide which girl (game system) was more fun to be with, the overly complex and bloated PS3 or the "peppy and cute" Wii.
But perhaps that is too complicated for you, like logging in with a user name. That or you are suffering from what is ailing many slashdotters in the last few months: an abject lack of imagination and sense of humor, combined with the inability to understand sarcasm. Go smoke a joint or something. Really, I am saying this with love, man. Pop open a six pack or whatever works for you. Relax, the whole world isn't literal.
Last time I checked it had an optional flag to ignore it, and would further do lots of other fun things like insert random pauses between page requests
Since your IP doesn't change, that isn't exactly hidding from detection. It IS, however, much nicer to a small server (T1 or less), rather than running curl or wget at full tilt and swamping it.
I think your first point is the main point: A site should not be able to take action against a search engine if they are not using a robots.txt file that prohibits caching and indexing. It only takes two lines of text to make Google go away:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
I still say they did this in response to Nintendo's new commercial comparing the Wii to the PS3... ;)
If that doesn't sell more Wiis, nothing will.
But what if you could charge a laptop battery with it? With two of them you could charge the main battery and the spare and never run dry!
I am working on a photovoltaic module that fits over the entire LCD on your laptop to recharge the batteries while the laptop is on, so it never needs recharging again. I am sure with a little venture capital, I can work the bugs out.
Interested?
I will say this, there are *some* exceptions to your "same gameplay as last year, but shinier graphics" concept, but only if you wait a long time between releases. The best example I know is the PC game TFC (and TF2 to be released Q1/2007), a mod of half life.
It started as a mod to Quake, then released as a 1.5 upgrade (ported) to the Half Life engine. They have been working on a 2.0 version since 2000, including radically changing the game to make it more realistic. As the "real warfare" genre has become flooded, they ended up reverting back to the basic concept because it was no longer Team Fortess, and was instead just another WW2 game. The original, 1.5 and the future 2.0 aren't realistic, the physics are not the same as in our world, the characters are more cartoonish. You can do rocket jumps, etc. and other things you can't do in real life without dying. The players classes are EXACTLY the same as before, just tweaked in minor ways. The main difference IS the shinier graphics, and a bit more humor in the look of the characters.
In this case the difference is between 1999 graphics and 2007 graphics, which is huge, not just a one year leap. (4mb video cards vs. 256mb, for instance). They also have a better engine, Source, which couldn't have run on the old hardware anyway. TF2/TFC is an example where the basic gameplay was already excellent, as well as the basic concept of team play (cap the flag, capture territory, etc). Hell, I still have a couple of TFC servers and the game is still fun to play, just dated graphically.
Now, as you say, if they just released an update with shinier graphics every year, it would be not worthwhile, but since they have waited long enough that the technological advances in graphics *mean* something, it will work and it is worthwhile.
Until somebody comes out with a standard DC power connector, the answer to your question is "yes".
Ha! I can show you two dozen different standard DC power connectors here in my desk drawer...
Just tested in IE6 and Firefox, works great, loads super fast. Name of the video is "PS3 vs. Wii - Apple Style!" Google video insists on using Flash (9 i think), which may be your problem.
If Nintendo would use the commercial I found on Google Video, then they couldn't build them fast enough... ;)
Funniest. Apple ripoff. Ever.
Would have been helpful if the submitter included a link to a PICTURE of the robot, which the article didn't either...
I found it here. And in English.
Thanks. I just wasted an hour working and searching all the details out for that ;) I won't spoil it for everyone else tho. Very, very weird stuff.
Saw on a forum how 'maybe' this is the organization that G-man belongs to, and the portal guns are not necessary, thus how he gets around. ie: the organization that was 'storing' Gordon for 20 years. Odd. We might find out by Episode 3. Maybe.
If you read below, Valve will sometimes support developers if they already have a decent prototype. DoD started out as a completely independent mod to HL1, and valve basically bought them out. Also, developing a game for steam, if it used the Source engine or not, is less expensive because the return is so much higher for the game maker. You don't have to sell a million copies to break even. Nothing to print, no stores to stock (which is always on consignment...), no disks to press.
The real beauty of this is that Valve demostrated that as a platform/publisher/creator of games, their 'open' method is profitable. I remember reading somewhere that over 80% of online PC gamers are playing a Steam/Valve game. Where everyone else wants to sue people for modding their games, Valve gives away the SDK and tools for free. And is laughing all the way to the bank.
I am salivating after seeing the trailers for TF2 and Portal, which will be bundled with HL2/Episode 2. I didn't even care about Portal until I saw the trailer. Looks very different than other games, and appears to be a total mind screw, forcing you to forget what you know about physics and learning to think extra dimensionally. They said pricing for Ep2 will be between normal Episode prices and full game prices ($20 and $60) but I don't think even full price will slow down the purchases, just for Team Fortress 2.
Although there are plenty of people who hate Steam, I think what Valve has done ever since Half Life originally came out has contributed. By making a good game that is easy to mod, they have opened the door for thousands of future game makers. Not only do mods create a platform to create lots of games, some good, some not, but their method of distribution allows the good mods to be further developed into viable commercial products. And I can just download them and they run in a few minutes.
Not everything I have bought I really liked (Sin Episodes, for example...) but for less money, hassle and installation concerns than traditional games, they have made trying new games out much easier, and increased the total number of good games on the market.
Actually, some very intelligent people I know were all worried about gas prices, until I set down and did some quick math for them. As a percentage of their income, it wasn't even on the radar. Intellegent people can get caught up in the hype just as easily as the "average Joe" (who is NOT as dumb as you might think...) No matter who you are, it is often difficult to NOT get caught up in something if you are totally surrounded by it. The Lemming effect.
I get about 13mpg and drive about 18,000 miles a year, but my driving habits won't change even if it goes to $6 a gallon. It isn't like I spend my spare time just driving for the fun of it.
You're thinking 2004. In 1984, it would be Emmanual Goldstein, and last I checked, he was running 2600.com. His last act of terrorism was linking to DeCSS, something which even the New York Times did, but they appear to have better lawyers.
How ironic to think that 1984 took place in London
It is Oceania, and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
I will second that. I had it for 3 years, until my wife got enough people in the area to sign a petition and they run cable out to the area. My average latency was 800 at that time. Keep in mind, this was several years ago when it was pretty new, and you still used dialup to SEND packets, and satalite to receive them. I had what was a pretty good box (at the time), and was using the first of the "new" pci adapters that Hughes offered.
We have a sister company that uses the satalite still because they can't get anything else. Other than they have a permanant IP address, it pretty much sucks to deal with. 400+ pings, making web apps/cgi a royal pain.
At that time, playing HL and later TFC was impossible, so I would just use the dialup service, which gave me 150ms pings...not great but usable. Download of files were pretty good once they got started, but downloading lots of small stuff was not very fast, including webpages. Add 1 second latency for everything. Seems like you are on a rollercoaster at times.
In the program, I guess you could assign $x as the value of the highest known prime, but I think the average 32 bit Linux installation would have run out of precision before it got to that value.
What is what I meant and said in the parent with:
You can use it anyway you like. However, when it comes to distributing it (for personal gain), you don't have carte blanche. Bear in mind that you got it for free.
Not trying to be nitpicky, but you missed two points. One: The GPL doesn't differentiate between distributing it for free or profit. Distribution is distribution. The GPL doesn't care if you make money or not. (See the preamble of the GNU/GPL)
And not all GPL software is "free" as in price. I can make a software package under the GPL (independently or a derived package), but not distribute it to anyone but you for $1000. As long as I give you the source code along with the binaries, I am complying with Section 3a) of the GPL and do not need to provide it to any 3rd party 3b). Thus, it was always "free as in speech" but was never "free as in beer". Of course, you would be free to give it to anyone or sell it for any price you could get, as long as you complied with the GPL.
It may sound minor, but these are major points in the GPL. "Free" just happens to mean 2 things in English. In the GPL, free refers to freedom, not cost or profit. The GPL isn't simple at first glance, but it makes good sense for a lot of projects. The GPL is FOR making money, not against.
I never got around to moderating with D2, because I kinda found it more irritating than useful, so disabled it after about an hour. This was a while back, and not sure what they have added since then. (I have never subscribed, but I have been able to test it for months now...i dunno)
But I agree that moderation is something that should be done thoughtfully, and being able to give someone literally instant Karma, is going to lead to a lot more Unfair Metamoderation.