The Summary Judgement was vacated because it was felt that a trial would have been more appropriate as the APA is vague enough that establishing what rights SCO needed to be able to carry out its tasks is not clear. It basically went back to "GO!"
At least we know that he has some understanding of were we are coming from. COMPUTE! was a great magazine! What Sony needs to realize is that this is not a "want" but a "need" from the independent development community. The PS3 bring totally new technology (the CELL) to the entire development community and people are eager to to exploit its features but a main feature is locked away. The CELL is not enough to satisfy the "need" (if there were dual CELLs maybe:)). Independent developers need access to the GPU too. It's like programming a game on the C64 with no access to the SID chip (or the sprites.) It is just not enough. Sony needs to rectify this situation.
So do you think that the bandits and other just sit there and wait for you to come back at your leisure to kill them? Or do they also go about their business while you go about yours and learn where to get better stuff and get their levels up just as you do? They are intelligent too! Too much of the old methods of dragons that are smarter than you, bigger than you, stronger than you, wiser than you, getting defeated by you because you went away and level up. That did never make sense to me and I was glad when D20 changed this perception for tabletop games. Now that Orc that you left to go level up has also gained level because he lives in the wild and untamed wilderness so it would be smart of him to do so. I think what they have done in Oblivion is the right thing and if you are having difficulty just change the level of difficulty and vice-versa. If you are too lazy to do that, then please continue to be lazy and not post gripes about easily correctible "features" and keep it to yourself. Most of the gripes I am seeing are either game option correctable or a misunderstanding of what is required by the game to do what it does. People will upgrade their computer with graphics cards, memory, etc. for Doom, Quake, HL, Fear, etc. which are mostly in enclosed environments but think it hard to upgrade for Oblivion with the same or better graphics but has a massive outdoor environment wherein which you can see the actual mountains, building, etc. that are miles away but still expect it to render flawlessly on their weak graphics cards. Get real people, this game is most likely the most graphically intensive game there is in terms of vectors and shaders and they pulled it off. I have nothing but praise for their skills and choices.
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Actually IMHO I would use the local store primarily for instructions and stream the data DMA which at 25GBs should be more than enough bandwith for data. 256KB plus fast access to the memory of the other SPUs (~2MB +/- 256KB) should be enough for a decent program(s) to run efficiently.
Re:"cell" architecture is all about local memory
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IBM Releases Cell SDK
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I think too much emphasis is being placed on "slow" access to system memory for the CELL processor when is is "slow" only relative to access to local memory of the SPUs. Please remember that system memory for the CELL is about 8 times faster than the memory in todays high end PCs with lower latency. XDR is by far the best memory type available unfortunately nobody like RAMBUS the company. So please when you are speaking about access to system memory keep in mind that the CELL processor has about the same memory bandwith has top of the line Graphics cards and probably lower latency. Don't you wish your PC had the bandwith of top of the line Graphics cards?
SPUs on the CELL processor are not SIMD units but fully fledged VECTOR processors. Don't confuse the two. Whatever gave you the impression that the SPUs cannot do loops? Don't let the fact that they are IN-ORDER processors confuse you. That was a space saving issue, not an instruction limitation. Sure you would like to unroll loops just as you would like to not write code with lots of branches for a P4, a matter of efficiency for a particular processor but you don't have to. Especially if it is going to make you code unreadable.
I have only one question. When are we going to see 16:9 aspect ratio monitors? What good is a HDTV receiver without the proper aspect ratio display device? (Well, that was two questions:))
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The Summary Judgement was vacated because it was felt that a trial would have been more appropriate as the APA is vague enough that establishing what rights SCO needed to be able to carry out its tasks is not clear. It basically went back to "GO!"
At least we know that he has some understanding of were we are coming from. COMPUTE! was a great magazine! What Sony needs to realize is that this is not a "want" but a "need" from the independent development community. The PS3 bring totally new technology (the CELL) to the entire development community and people are eager to to exploit its features but a main feature is locked away. The CELL is not enough to satisfy the "need" (if there were dual CELLs maybe :)). Independent developers need access to the GPU too. It's like programming a game on the C64 with no access to the SID chip (or the sprites.) It is just not enough. Sony needs to rectify this situation.
So do you think that the bandits and other just sit there and wait for you to come back at your leisure to kill them? Or do they also go about their business while you go about yours and learn where to get better stuff and get their levels up just as you do? They are intelligent too! Too much of the old methods of dragons that are smarter than you, bigger than you, stronger than you, wiser than you, getting defeated by you because you went away and level up. That did never make sense to me and I was glad when D20 changed this perception for tabletop games. Now that Orc that you left to go level up has also gained level because he lives in the wild and untamed wilderness so it would be smart of him to do so. I think what they have done in Oblivion is the right thing and if you are having difficulty just change the level of difficulty and vice-versa. If you are too lazy to do that, then please continue to be lazy and not post gripes about easily correctible "features" and keep it to yourself. Most of the gripes I am seeing are either game option correctable or a misunderstanding of what is required by the game to do what it does. People will upgrade their computer with graphics cards, memory, etc. for Doom, Quake, HL, Fear, etc. which are mostly in enclosed environments but think it hard to upgrade for Oblivion with the same or better graphics but has a massive outdoor environment wherein which you can see the actual mountains, building, etc. that are miles away but still expect it to render flawlessly on their weak graphics cards. Get real people, this game is most likely the most graphically intensive game there is in terms of vectors and shaders and they pulled it off. I have nothing but praise for their skills and choices.
Actually IMHO I would use the local store primarily for instructions and stream the data DMA which at 25GBs should be more than enough bandwith for data. 256KB plus fast access to the memory of the other SPUs (~2MB +/- 256KB) should be enough for a decent program(s) to run efficiently.
I think too much emphasis is being placed on "slow" access to system memory for the CELL processor when is is "slow" only relative to access to local memory of the SPUs. Please remember that system memory for the CELL is about 8 times faster than the memory in todays high end PCs with lower latency. XDR is by far the best memory type available unfortunately nobody like RAMBUS the company. So please when you are speaking about access to system memory keep in mind that the CELL processor has about the same memory bandwith has top of the line Graphics cards and probably lower latency. Don't you wish your PC had the bandwith of top of the line Graphics cards?
SPUs on the CELL processor are not SIMD units but fully fledged VECTOR processors. Don't confuse the two. Whatever gave you the impression that the SPUs cannot do loops? Don't let the fact that they are IN-ORDER processors confuse you. That was a space saving issue, not an instruction limitation. Sure you would like to unroll loops just as you would like to not write code with lots of branches for a P4, a matter of efficiency for a particular processor but you don't have to. Especially if it is going to make you code unreadable.
Would this make it easier for terrorist to find out you are American? This would make it impossible to hide your passport! Bad move!
I have only one question. When are we going to see 16:9 aspect ratio monitors? What good is a HDTV receiver without the proper aspect ratio display device? (Well, that was two questions :))
Come get some for free!! iPhone!!!!
How about when you write HTML 4 code? How does it compare with the ease-of-use( or not) with IE code?