Wow little did I know I was withing spitting distance of the World record on the Autobahn with a Passat TDI using biodiesel from a standard gas station. This is a weak record. The taureg v10 can do 230kph stock with bio diesel. And the Baja racing v12 with !!6X!! as much Horse power and half the weight of the standard edition (and 200% the horsepower of this 'record winner') would crush this record.
Yes because 250k is going to completely pay for 3 years of aviation and materials science work. Less than the cost of a single small assembly line built aircraft. We should have thought of this earlier. I am sure companies would be willing to put up a cool 2 million for passenger jets. We've been doing it wrong.
In Chernobyl 28 workers died of acute radiation poisoning within weeks. Within the first few years another 15 first responders died of direct effect cancers, thyroid cancer etc. 100,000 people were within the radiation zone and the rates of cancer among the population are 1% above normal. Of the 4000 people who died of cancer from the elevated radiation level population we can only attribute 30 of those deaths to the increased radiation level based on general population cancer rates.
So It was not a disaster in slow motion. The majority of the deaths from Chernobyl happened within the first week. Deaths in the first week in Japan, 0.
I was implying that as you progressed in your career you would learn more than your starting language and stop being confused by the different syntax's used. Once you pick up 5 or 10 and can filter what was once noise all functional languages start looking the same.
Blocks: I don't care how you denote them but DENOTE them. Seems that language developers these days are trying to reinvent fortran. Not exactly the model of fast error free programming.
For scanning speed I would prefer a single character bracket, quote, parenthesis whatever vs multi character tags. But as long as there is some opening and closing for which I can receive syntax errors rather than silent bugs I am happy.
You are not an RTS fan. You are a linux guy. Can you be both? I don't think you can, not in today's game market. Perhaps you were an rts fan years ago and still have nostalgia for the genre, but you have chosen to remove yourself from the evolution of the genre and the pc game playing playerbase in general. You can look down on us from your high, and game free ideological throne. But the pragmatic, actual game fans, have long since switched back to windows. Or at least dual boot. Or a hackintosh if you are willing to wait for your games and still want to make an OS statement.
The slot machine that the publishers keep pumping money into is the PC game industry. Developers want to release PC games, but doing so is just not profitable and piracy takes sales away from the SKUs that are actually profitable (consoles). If DRM fails they will just stop making PC versions.
This is a last ditch effort to save pc gaming. But pc gamers keep piling on the hate, trying to make this fail.
I think you are just waving farewell to pc gaming. Good going.
Ahh i see we have a liberatarian here. When the revolution comes we are going to remove the FDA. Instead we will make idiots like you line up to test all the canned food for botulism and meat for salmonella. You see this way we kill two birds with one stone.
Seriously though? how the hell do you think this would work? Regular people are not equipped to do testing of all their food. There are contaminents that are tasteless and don't kill for months or years. (iron, mercury etc.) And the concept of an anarcho-capitalist honor system is complete fantasy. In real life companies have only to change their names and move on. These rules are there for a reason.
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Well, template metaprograms are crap. They're nigh undebuggable, they produce unreadable error messages, they take forever to compile, and most C++ programmers don't know how to write (or even read) their implementations. They're an abomination.
You are describing STL not boost. Boost fixes the majority of these problems. C++ has evolved since STL was developed. Now these extensions can be written using readable, and debuggable code, and they have, in boost.
Any reasonably intelligent programmer should be able to understand most of the boost headers. And see why they are great. If you can't you should probably be working in another language. C++ is not C. Your arguments died over 20 years ago.
Idiot, Some isotopes proposed for this use have lifetimes longer than yours, making the battery and device containing it effectively permanent. In fact half the problem is finding ones that have a half-life short enough to give good power for say 10 years yet don't decompose into poisons or release gamma rays. Which isn't really a problem on interstellar space probes, but makes it difficult to develop consumer devices.
No superconductors do heat up, just not via resistance. They heat up as if they were a single molecule rather than at the point of heat generation. They will get just as hot in the long run if the other layers transfer their heat into the superconductor. In fact the superconductor will suck heat out of the other layers like a sponge. But imagine using the superconductor as an infinitely efficient heat pipe to the cooling fan. Just use existing chip technology to make a previously unfeasible multilayer chip interspersed with a grid of heat draining superconductors.
Call me uneducated, but cars running on air sound much less like marketing hype to me than electric cars. Ok, uneducated. You seriously believe that the proven technology in electric vehicles is more hype than this? This article is entirely hype, these guys have nothing to show except for estimates. They are looking for funding.
1. Unlike an electric car, you do not have an expensive, heavy battery that you have to figure out how to recycle when it is dead. You could cut the FUD crap with a knife.
The batteries for the Tesla roadster, an actual production vehicle, unlike this concept. Cost around $9000. And need replacing every 5 years. (This adds a fixed cost of around $0.12 a mile for my average driving, but I don't commute very far) Battery prices will probably drop to 1/4 this by the time they need replaced.
LI batteries must be drained to be disposed of or recycled. But the disposal process is relatively non-toxic. This should not be a major concern. Any retailer who sells batteries will dispose of used ones.
On the other hand, The air car requires a multi-stage compressor that can hit over 4000psi. These are usually gas powered, and incredibly loud. Most compressors are slow, low volume scuba systems. And the only commercial way to purchase air in the high volumes needed is high pressure nitrogen canisters specialty manufacturers. They are incredibly expensive, and dangerous. In addition to this, they have a speed limit set by thermodynamics. They can only fill as fast as you can dissipate the excess heat. In reality you are going to need to keep this disconnected from your house and use a giant tank so you can continously fill it. And your neighbors are going to just love the noise. Jet engine loud.
2. The internals of the car are likely much simpler than with an electric car. You have obviously never worked with pneumatic systems. They are complex and incredibly finicky. Throw in the element of danger, and the need to cycle the system repeatedly to find problems and you will not be able to get a regular mechanic to touch these.
3. No exploding batterys / hydrogen. This is just compressed air. If there is a hole in the tank, it leak air. The tank is designed to fail gracefully. LI batteries no longer explode. High energy car size power packs which have been crash rated are already in production for both the Tesla and Volt cars. (in addition to the numerous electric scooters and motorcycle kits)
A 4000psi carbon fiber air tank does NOT fail gracefully. If a fault ruptures the tank it will tear like paper! The explosion will only begin to regulate when the air around the car flash freezes. The freezing, high pressure air will cause burns across the passengers bodies. And they will never hear again. (lets counter fud with fud:) )
4. It's likely much easier to outfit a gas station to dispence air than hydrogen. No one is comparing this to hydrogen seriously. Hydrogen has been dead ever since batteries reached a higher energy density.
5. You can fill it at home if you want. See above, What they fail to mention is that the home compressor they sell will probably only fill the car fractionally compared to the industrial size one for filling stations. The energy goes up as the pressure increases. Realisticly they could probably hit 1500psi quickly on a large volume with standard consumer equipment. Which gives you less than 1/3rd of a full charge.
I appreciate your candidness snarfies. This comment will be dealt with in a clear and efficient matter which hopefully satisfies all parties. I am tentatively scheduling a get together for next thursday.
I Agree with Jeremy. The Wii is a blessing for MS.
People are buying the Wii rather than PS3. This is good for MS because the Wii is not setup for a lucrative product life.
A. The only profitable games on the Wii are 3 nintendo developed and one remake. Publishers are reluctant to spend big budgets on a platform with an average sell through of 4 games per console. Two of which come bundled. The casual market is simply not profitable for boxed games. Nintendo is piling the cash in vaults but the third party market is hurting.
B. The Wii is not a next-gen console. Given a choice between a Wii version of a game and a 360 version the consumer will pick the better looking one. Nintendo knows this and is encouraging wii exclusive games with motion control. Unfortunately they are getting a lot of ports. Which brings us to b2.
b2) wii has no franchise market. By nature the wii specific games are mostly new IP. All the big franchises are multi-platform and consumers will go with the real next-gen version.
C. (Speculative) The wii-mote clone. Being that games cost so much to develop any huge 3rd party hit for the wii is going to eventually be ported to the 360 and PS3. Someone is eventually going to bundle a 360 clone of the wii-mote pointer. Red Octane has proven that a controller bundle can be profitable. And you can see where it goes from here. Next-gen graphics + next gen controller = perfect love and harmony.
It sounds like your television is using a filter on the 360 output. Or you have the wrong output mode set up for the 360. Make sure your output mode matches the native tv resolution. These differences are a lot more obvious with games than with TV because of the many straight lines they use.
Sony also has a native library which is considerably faster than PSGL. Why would you bother? Its hard enough already to port to the ps3 without artificially limiting your poly setup speed.
Even with their impressive optimization they state that in the best case 32% of their total time is still spend waiting on memory. And this is ONLY sending the graph nodes.
Now imagine that rather than a simple search the algorithm is required to do something useful, like math transforms at each graph node. Such as for physics inverse kinemetics. Increasing the data size for each node would quickly saturate the bus. (even more than it already is).
I am not saying it is slow by any means, just saying that as with the PS2 the real world performance is orders of magnitude less than the theoretical/bragged about performance.
The problem is that while it may technically be feasible to feed 1 SPU as fast as it can process data. The round robin nature of the bus means that it is completely saturated doing a matrix operation on only 4 spus. In other words, without either more memory or more bandwidth to the SPUs the additional computation is useless (unless you are doing something exponentially more difficult than 4d matrix math. Which neither traditional game physics or graphics programming does.
Compare this with the 2 additional general purpose 3ghz processors 360 has, and you can see why people complain about development. Since they take the same amount of silicon and use the same processes developed by the same engineers even. The theoretical top speeds of both systems are comparable. There are no super elegant systems that would give the 2 fold increase in power on the same die that Sony was bragging about.
This is unbelievably good news. Now we will finally have a game with enemies!! This is possibly the most important news I have seen, in my entire life. There is a GOD!
Brilliant marketing too! First they announce a game, then show 1 level, then announce a revolutionary new feature for that level. We can only hope that next they will announce that one of their levels has points! or Buttons! or OMG The possibilities are practically endless for a company with this much raw brain power. Maybe they might even have a cut scene, wheww gotta stop, i am giving myself chills.
THQ event sounds like a lot of cool stuff, but the writer just didn't seem interested in talking about Games, like he couldn't even be bothered to pay attention, or remember the names of the games he mentioned.
On a side note, the Stuntman: Ignition demo is up on xbox live. Very cool!
I'm not a fanboy, but your post seemed the most bias on this entire story. Great false information there! I'm totally going to have more posts than you will as soon as my new keyboard comes back from repair. Stupid Caps-Lock of death! I dont know what you are doing here. But I like It... When beligerant fanboy reaction and dadism meet. Perfect reply to the previous message. Cute.
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Wow little did I know I was withing spitting distance of the World record on the Autobahn with a Passat TDI using biodiesel from a standard gas station. This is a weak record. The taureg v10 can do 230kph stock with bio diesel. And the Baja racing v12 with !!6X!! as much Horse power and half the weight of the standard edition (and 200% the horsepower of this 'record winner') would crush this record.
um wouldn't that just be an LED?
Yes because 250k is going to completely pay for 3 years of aviation and materials science work. Less than the cost of a single small assembly line built aircraft. We should have thought of this earlier. I am sure companies would be willing to put up a cool 2 million for passenger jets. We've been doing it wrong.
In Chernobyl 28 workers died of acute radiation poisoning within weeks. Within the first few years another 15 first responders died of direct effect cancers, thyroid cancer etc. 100,000 people were within the radiation zone and the rates of cancer among the population are 1% above normal. Of the 4000 people who died of cancer from the elevated radiation level population we can only attribute 30 of those deaths to the increased radiation level based on general population cancer rates.
So It was not a disaster in slow motion. The majority of the deaths from Chernobyl happened within the first week. Deaths in the first week in Japan, 0.
I was implying that as you progressed in your career you would learn more than your starting language and stop being confused by the different syntax's used. Once you pick up 5 or 10 and can filter what was once noise all functional languages start looking the same.
Blocks: I don't care how you denote them but DENOTE them. Seems that language developers these days are trying to reinvent fortran. Not exactly the model of fast error free programming.
For scanning speed I would prefer a single character bracket, quote, parenthesis whatever vs multi character tags. But as long as there is some opening and closing for which I can receive syntax errors rather than silent bugs I am happy.
No, all functional languages are basically the same.
Syntax is 5%.
95% of understanding a program is well labeled functions and data structures.
Syntax only matters early in your career when everything is still greek, even your own language.
There are more than 5 natively compiled languages. You lose.
You are not an RTS fan. You are a linux guy. Can you be both? I don't think you can, not in today's game market. Perhaps you were an rts fan years ago and still have nostalgia for the genre, but you have chosen to remove yourself from the evolution of the genre and the pc game playing playerbase in general.
You can look down on us from your high, and game free ideological throne. But the pragmatic, actual game fans, have long since switched back to windows. Or at least dual boot. Or a hackintosh if you are willing to wait for your games and still want to make an OS statement.
Your analogy is backwards.
The slot machine that the publishers keep pumping money into is the PC game industry. Developers want to release PC games, but doing so is just not profitable and piracy takes sales away from the SKUs that are actually profitable (consoles). If DRM fails they will just stop making PC versions.
This is a last ditch effort to save pc gaming. But pc gamers keep piling on the hate, trying to make this fail.
I think you are just waving farewell to pc gaming. Good going.
Ahh i see we have a liberatarian here. When the revolution comes we are going to remove the FDA. Instead we will make idiots like you line up to test all the canned food for botulism and meat for salmonella. You see this way we kill two birds with one stone.
Seriously though? how the hell do you think this would work? Regular people are not equipped to do testing of all their food. There are contaminents that are tasteless and don't kill for months or years. (iron, mercury etc.)
And the concept of an anarcho-capitalist honor system is complete fantasy. In real life companies have only to change their names and move on. These rules are there for a reason.
Well, template metaprograms are crap. They're nigh undebuggable, they produce unreadable error messages, they take forever to compile, and most C++ programmers don't know how to write (or even read) their implementations. They're an abomination.
You are describing STL not boost. Boost fixes the majority of these problems. C++ has evolved since STL was developed. Now these extensions can be written using readable, and debuggable code, and they have, in boost.
Any reasonably intelligent programmer should be able to understand most of the boost headers. And see why they are great. If you can't you should probably be working in another language. C++ is not C. Your arguments died over 20 years ago.
Idiot,
Some isotopes proposed for this use have lifetimes longer than yours, making the battery and device containing it effectively permanent.
In fact half the problem is finding ones that have a half-life short enough to give good power for say 10 years yet don't decompose into poisons or release gamma rays. Which isn't really a problem on interstellar space probes, but makes it difficult to develop consumer devices.
> But superconductors don't heat up
No superconductors do heat up, just not via resistance. They heat up as if they were a single molecule rather than at the point of heat generation. They will get just as hot in the long run if the other layers transfer their heat into the superconductor. In fact the superconductor will suck heat out of the other layers like a sponge.
But imagine using the superconductor as an infinitely efficient heat pipe to the cooling fan. Just use existing chip technology to make a previously unfeasible multilayer chip interspersed with a grid of heat draining superconductors.
You seriously believe that the proven technology in electric vehicles is more hype than this? This article is entirely hype, these guys have nothing to show except for estimates. They are looking for funding. 1. Unlike an electric car, you do not have an expensive, heavy battery that you have to figure out how to recycle when it is dead. You could cut the FUD crap with a knife.
The batteries for the Tesla roadster, an actual production vehicle, unlike this concept. Cost around $9000. And need replacing every 5 years. (This adds a fixed cost of around $0.12 a mile for my average driving, but I don't commute very far) Battery prices will probably drop to 1/4 this by the time they need replaced.
LI batteries must be drained to be disposed of or recycled. But the disposal process is relatively non-toxic. This should not be a major concern. Any retailer who sells batteries will dispose of used ones.
On the other hand, The air car requires a multi-stage compressor that can hit over 4000psi. These are usually gas powered, and incredibly loud. Most compressors are slow, low volume scuba systems. And the only commercial way to purchase air in the high volumes needed is high pressure nitrogen canisters specialty manufacturers. They are incredibly expensive, and dangerous.
In addition to this, they have a speed limit set by thermodynamics. They can only fill as fast as you can dissipate the excess heat. In reality you are going to need to keep this disconnected from your house and use a giant tank so you can continously fill it.
And your neighbors are going to just love the noise. Jet engine loud. 2. The internals of the car are likely much simpler than with an electric car. You have obviously never worked with pneumatic systems. They are complex and incredibly finicky. Throw in the element of danger, and the need to cycle the system repeatedly to find problems and you will not be able to get a regular mechanic to touch these. 3. No exploding batterys / hydrogen. This is just compressed air. If there is a hole in the tank, it leak air. The tank is designed to fail gracefully. LI batteries no longer explode. High energy car size power packs which have been crash rated are already in production for both the Tesla and Volt cars. (in addition to the numerous electric scooters and motorcycle kits)
A 4000psi carbon fiber air tank does NOT fail gracefully.
If a fault ruptures the tank it will tear like paper! The explosion will only begin to regulate when the air around the car flash freezes. The freezing, high pressure air will cause burns across the passengers bodies. And they will never hear again. (lets counter fud with fud
What they fail to mention is that the home compressor they sell will probably only fill the car fractionally compared to the industrial size one for filling stations. The energy goes up as the pressure increases. Realisticly they could probably hit 1500psi quickly on a large volume with standard consumer equipment. Which gives you less than 1/3rd of a full charge.
I appreciate your candidness snarfies. This comment will be dealt with in a clear and efficient matter which hopefully satisfies all parties. I am tentatively scheduling a get together for next thursday.
I Agree with Jeremy. The Wii is a blessing for MS.
People are buying the Wii rather than PS3. This is good for MS because the Wii is not setup for a lucrative product life.
A. The only profitable games on the Wii are 3 nintendo developed and one remake. Publishers are reluctant to spend big budgets on a platform with an average sell through of 4 games per console. Two of which come bundled. The casual market is simply not profitable for boxed games. Nintendo is piling the cash in vaults but the third party market is hurting.
B. The Wii is not a next-gen console. Given a choice between a Wii version of a game and a 360 version the consumer will pick the better looking one. Nintendo knows this and is encouraging wii exclusive games with motion control. Unfortunately they are getting a lot of ports. Which brings us to b2.
b2) wii has no franchise market. By nature the wii specific games are mostly new IP. All the big franchises are multi-platform and consumers will go with the real next-gen version.
C. (Speculative) The wii-mote clone. Being that games cost so much to develop any huge 3rd party hit for the wii is going to eventually be ported to the 360 and PS3. Someone is eventually going to bundle a 360 clone of the wii-mote pointer. Red Octane has proven that a controller bundle can be profitable. And you can see where it goes from here. Next-gen graphics + next gen controller = perfect love and harmony.
Regards,
It sounds like your television is using a filter on the 360 output. Or you have the wrong output mode set up for the 360. Make sure your output mode matches the native tv resolution. These differences are a lot more obvious with games than with TV because of the many straight lines they use.
Sony also has a native library which is considerably faster than PSGL. Why would you bother? Its hard enough already to port to the ps3 without artificially limiting your poly setup speed.
Even with their impressive optimization they state that in the best case 32% of their total time is still spend waiting on memory. And this is ONLY sending the graph nodes.
Now imagine that rather than a simple search the algorithm is required to do something useful, like math transforms at each graph node. Such as for physics inverse kinemetics. Increasing the data size for each node would quickly saturate the bus. (even more than it already is).
I am not saying it is slow by any means, just saying that as with the PS2 the real world performance is orders of magnitude less than the theoretical/bragged about performance.
The problem is that while it may technically be feasible to feed 1 SPU as fast as it can process data. The round robin nature of the bus means that it is completely saturated doing a matrix operation on only 4 spus. In other words, without either more memory or more bandwidth to the SPUs the additional computation is useless (unless you are doing something exponentially more difficult than 4d matrix math. Which neither traditional game physics or graphics programming does.
Compare this with the 2 additional general purpose 3ghz processors 360 has, and you can see why people complain about development.
Since they take the same amount of silicon and use the same processes developed by the same engineers even. The theoretical top speeds of both systems are comparable. There are no super elegant systems that would give the 2 fold increase in power on the same die that Sony was bragging about.
This is unbelievably good news. Now we will finally have a game with enemies!! This is possibly the most important news I have seen, in my entire life. There is a GOD!
Brilliant marketing too! First they announce a game, then show 1 level, then announce a revolutionary new feature for that level. We can only hope that next they will announce that one of their levels has points! or Buttons! or OMG The possibilities are practically endless for a company with this much raw brain power. Maybe they might even have a cut scene, wheww gotta stop, i am giving myself chills.
THQ event sounds like a lot of cool stuff, but the writer just didn't seem interested in talking about Games, like he couldn't even be bothered to pay attention, or remember the names of the games he mentioned.
On a side note, the Stuntman: Ignition demo is up on xbox live. Very cool!
No, what you are talking about is a grade-school book report. I think you need to look up the definition of criticism.
When beligerant fanboy reaction and dadism meet. Perfect reply to the previous message. Cute.