For your second point, 10 levels of nesting is, IMHO, at least 7 too many. If you find yourself adding another level after three, it's probably time to look at your design.
This is the same kind of bullshit as saying goto is always evil.
So far, it is indeed better overall than the 9700Pro, but not enough for it's price.
Excellent drivers are priceless. I hope ATI will arrive at that point soon. At least two strong players are needed to create a competitive gfx card market.
You have confused the cause and effect of the "I have nicer feathers" sexual rituals.
You are unwilling to accept that many rituals are just games, nothing else.
Frog females choose best "singer", but alas best singer may be the worst swimmer. Copy that?
He claimed: Getting laid -> Artist
While it is: Artist -> Getting laid
What he missed is why art evolved in the first place. Getting laid is just an effect of being an artist, not the cause of its evolution.
It always sounds like there was a meeting millions of years ago, where all the members of that species got together and decided to do a little genetic manipulation to add features that may help them survive.
Well, I'd like to hear your interpretation of social insects evolution. Which evolutionary steps lead to 99.99% of female bees being sterile?
Sexual rituals of "I have nicer feathers" type do not at all enhance the success of species in the fight for life. In fact, they make no sense. Look at those millions of species (insect, fish) that have no sexual rituals at all and are equally or more successful. There was no reason to evolve for sexual rituals where force or other physical abilities of males are not involved. No matter if you get laid or not, you are confusing cause and effect.
A question for you. How did the woman body evolve?
The idea of a brain that could do a lot more than we ever used it for, by very simple means, is an evolutionary impossibility - it could never have evolved. The idea is absurd.
Yes. Of course, the idea is absurd. For Darwinists, that is.
Art - from the Darwinist point of view - is just a waste of energy and as such had no reason to evolve in our brain.
The theory of evolution is still basically the same. Gradual change over millenia produce speciation.
The problem is that Punctuated equilibirum is no gradual change over millenia, but instead discrete evolution or better said directed evolution. Look at history of computers for an example of what directed evolution means.
I read many complaints about $400 price tag too high for no GF4 killer. Think for a few more minutes before making a judgement.
What about triple head output? What about 10-bit per channel RAMDACs? What about 5th order output filter? What about jitter-free sync signals? What about 80mio transitor GPU?
Clearly the biggest transistor count among cards of this category. Hello? The transistors are there for something (and they cost)! They are not there for yesterdays games but for future ones. They do edge based antialiasing which means beautiful graphics and no blurred fonts or 2d images anymore. Hardware displacement maping sure also needs a lot of transistors.
See the Matrox SharkMark benchmark to see what the card is capable of, once the games start to use new technologies. ATI:91fps, NV:111fps, Matrox:166fps.
Also see benchs comparing best image quality performance (AA on). Q3 1600x1200x32: NV:37fps, Matrox:41fps (source for all benchs tomshardware.com).
But why should AMD garner the same sort of love and respect?
Because, my dear fellow, if it wasn't for AMD we would still buy P3@1100MHz for what.. 500 bucks? Try to dig CPU prices from 1999 and think for a while.
I don't think it's universal. Maxtor drives are definitely much more silent when I compare them with IBM drives. They've been in operation for about the same period of time.
What bothers me most about IBM drives is they get more and more noisy through time. When I bought their 40GB 5400rpm model I was pleased by its quiet operation. After six months I noticed the drive is somewhat noisy and later the noise became unbearable for me. The same happened to a 20GB. Can anyone confirm these problems? What about their newer drives?
It's just that the way a baby turns out is dependent on both genetics and the care it recieves in the womb.
This is obviously true.
Are you telling me that the embryo produces all the required hormones?
I'm telling you that male fetus produces testosterone to direct its own development. The fetus hormones even influence the mother. Womb is essentially the same as a chicken egg. The difference is that chicken egg has a fixed amount of resources.
Memory leaks ARE a problem, even in properly designed software. Loads of library calls
return pointers to memory areas that is YOUR responsibility.
Yes, if you are irresponsible, the memory leaks are a problem.
Of cource C++ is much more powerful than Java, but so is perl when processing large textfiles.
It's all about choosing the right tool for the job.
You miss the point. The C/C++ are the most powerful languages because you can control everything. No run-time checks ala Basic get in your way, no auto-zeroing of newly created variables, etc. You are responsible, you get the speed. Do you know what language was used to write Java or Perl? It was neither Pascal nor assembly nor Java. It was written in that obscure language that is considered "dirty" by those who dont understand it at all (Java crowd). Remember, power != ease of use.
For a long time I have not seen such a good post. I am tired of all the evolutionary-naive morons who think that all that is needed to create a brain is to "throw in a bunch of neurons and let it be". Quite often, they even think that brain has no pre-programmed centres - everything is learned - until you ask them "Who taught you how to see?".
It's all intertwined.
Exactly my thoughts. Brain is much more complex than what todays scientists are willing to admit (mainly to satisfy the rule: brain shows no signs of an intelligent design).
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For your second point, 10 levels of nesting is, IMHO, at least 7 too many. If you find yourself adding another level after three, it's probably time to look at your design.
This is the same kind of bullshit as saying goto is always evil.
So far, it is indeed better overall than the 9700Pro, but not enough for it's price.
Excellent drivers are priceless. I hope ATI will arrive at that point soon. At least two strong players are needed to create a competitive gfx card market.
You have confused the cause and effect of the "I have nicer feathers" sexual rituals.
You are unwilling to accept that many rituals are just games, nothing else. Frog females choose best "singer", but alas best singer may be the worst swimmer. Copy that?
He claimed: Getting laid -> Artist
While it is: Artist -> Getting laid
What he missed is why art evolved in the first place. Getting laid is just an effect of being an artist, not the cause of its evolution.
It always sounds like there was a meeting millions of years ago, where all the members of that species got together and decided to do a little genetic manipulation to add features that may help them survive.
Well, I'd like to hear your interpretation of social insects evolution. Which evolutionary steps lead to 99.99% of female bees being sterile?
Sexual rituals of "I have nicer feathers" type do not at all enhance the success of species in the fight for life. In fact, they make no sense. Look at those millions of species (insect, fish) that have no sexual rituals at all and are equally or more successful. There was no reason to evolve for sexual rituals where force or other physical abilities of males are not involved. No matter if you get laid or not, you are confusing cause and effect.
A question for you. How did the woman body evolve?
The idea of a brain that could do a lot more than we ever used it for, by very simple means, is an evolutionary impossibility - it could never have evolved. The idea is absurd.
Yes. Of course, the idea is absurd. For Darwinists, that is.
Art - from the Darwinist point of view - is just a waste of energy and as such had no reason to evolve in our brain.
Your post should be moderated (Score:5, OhSoTrue)
The theory of evolution is still basically the same. Gradual change over millenia produce speciation.
The problem is that Punctuated equilibirum is no gradual change over millenia, but instead discrete evolution or better said directed evolution. Look at history of computers for an example of what directed evolution means.
Punctuated Equilibirum is currently the only accepted scientific way to say: Darwin was wrong after all.
The Napoleonic code is used in Europe, and requires the defence to prove innocence
Nonsense. In Europe prosecution proves guilt.
I read many complaints about $400 price tag too high for no GF4 killer. Think for a few more minutes before making a judgement.
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What about triple head output?
What about 10-bit per channel RAMDACs?
What about 5th order output filter?
What about jitter-free sync signals?
What about 80mio transitor GPU?
Clearly the biggest transistor count among cards of this category. Hello? The transistors are there for something (and they cost)! They are not there for yesterdays games but for future ones. They do edge based antialiasing which means beautiful graphics and no blurred fonts or 2d images anymore. Hardware displacement maping sure also needs a lot of transistors.
See the Matrox SharkMark benchmark to see what the card is capable of, once the games start to use new technologies.
ATI:91fps, NV:111fps, Matrox:166fps.
Also see benchs comparing best image quality performance (AA on).
Q3 1600x1200x32: NV:37fps, Matrox:41fps (source for all benchs tomshardware.com).
OK, ready for the flames
and both offer better performance.
See benchmarks comparing the cards with best possible image quality (AA on). Now talk about better performance.
But why should AMD garner the same sort of love and respect?
Because, my dear fellow, if it wasn't for AMD we would still buy P3@1100MHz for what.. 500 bucks? Try to dig CPU prices from 1999 and think for a while.
I don't think it's universal. Maxtor drives are definitely much more silent when I compare them with IBM drives. They've been in operation for about the same period of time.
What bothers me most about IBM drives is they get more and more noisy through time. When I bought their 40GB 5400rpm model I was pleased by its quiet operation. After six months I noticed the drive is somewhat noisy and later the noise became unbearable for me. The same happened to a 20GB. Can anyone confirm these problems? What about their newer drives?
It's just that the way a baby turns out is dependent on both genetics and the care it recieves in the womb.
This is obviously true.
Are you telling me that the embryo produces all the required hormones?
I'm telling you that male fetus produces testosterone to direct its own development. The fetus hormones even influence the mother. Womb is essentially the same as a chicken egg. The difference is that chicken egg has a fixed amount of resources.
We could discover that we had improperly measured out the amount of hormones necesary to give the XY fetus male genitals.
The fetus itself produces required hormones.
Every peice of genetic code is only functional in the context of the mother's womb.
That's a nonsense.
True, it's not from "Daalder" but from medieval Czech currency "Tolar" (Germans named it "Thaler").
Works quite good for me.
Memory leaks ARE a problem, even in properly designed software. Loads of library calls return pointers to memory areas that is YOUR responsibility.
Yes, if you are irresponsible, the memory leaks are a problem.
Of cource C++ is much more powerful than Java, but so is perl when processing large textfiles. It's all about choosing the right tool for the job.
You miss the point. The C/C++ are the most powerful languages because you can control everything. No run-time checks ala Basic get in your way, no auto-zeroing of newly created variables, etc. You are responsible, you get the speed. Do you know what language was used to write Java or Perl? It was neither Pascal nor assembly nor Java. It was written in that obscure language that is considered "dirty" by those who dont understand it at all (Java crowd). Remember, power != ease of use.
Enums aren't needed in Java.
As are not templates, typedefs, operator overloading, etc. Right?
For a long time I have not seen such a good post. I am tired of all the evolutionary-naive morons who think that all that is needed to create a brain is to "throw in a bunch of neurons and let it be". Quite often, they even think that brain has no pre-programmed centres - everything is learned - until you ask them "Who taught you how to see?".
It's all intertwined.
Exactly my thoughts. Brain is much more complex than what todays scientists are willing to admit (mainly to satisfy the rule: brain shows no signs of an intelligent design).