No, it wouldn't. A 1-ton HVAC might run in a 2kW profile, but it'd leave you about 500-700W of leftover before you exceed the budget and go into brownout on the unit. 2kW is a minimum power level to keep maybe a fridge/freezer going or a small, small house's low-end consumption.
Considering that you find it present in the engine all the same (cylinders...)... I think someone could manage if it were just the heat that was a problem.
The reality is, how big are those fuel cells for 2kW of power? Your car typically does vastly MORE kW of energy output- somewhere between 25 and 367 kW of energy. And we won't even get into the mis-representation of 2kW being the average for a house...most of the larger appliances use 1-3kW apiece. (This doesn't get into the HVAC, regular or on-demand water heaters. It can be as high as many car's peak output.
It's not always driver bugs. Many of the fixes are things that tapdance around bad, buggy code within the game itself. Oftentimes the studio's devs play fast and loose with shader parameters or API compliance- and NVidia does it differently than AMD, etc.
Any time you see a "MAY" within a standards document, it really ought to be treated as a "SHALL" unless you know you're working on ONLY a target environment that the "MAY" doesn't affect you. Prime example would be something along the lines of VBO mapping to host addressing space. The spec says that it MAY stall the pipeline if you do this while you're in the middle of a rendering pass. Well...NVidia's implementation knows what VBOs are in-flight with a rendering pass and will stall only if it's known to be about to be used by the current pass in progress. AMD's drivers took the other, in fact, sensible approach because it's easier to implement and gains you performance overall if you don't have devs doing stupid things- they stalled ANY time you mapped any VBOs involved with the rendering pass in progress.
A major studio (Who shall not be named, nor shall the game...who knows, maybe you can guess the title...) did this in their GL code- they recycled VBOs, but did it intra-frame instead of inter-frame. The first is realtively safe, producing pretty good performance, the other's very much not so, based on the lead-in I gave just now. I should know, I've used it with some of the games I've done porting work on (Because the studio did the same thing in DirectX...which has the same restrictions here...). When you do it intra-frame, on NVidia, it slows the render pass down, but not unacceptably because it only stalls as long as needed to assure you're not corrupting the render pass. AMD, until they re-worked their VBO implementation would plummet to seconds per frame slide-show renderings on an X1950XTX card when it was THE hottest, fastest card out there- because it would stall the pipeline, taking milliseconds to recover, each and every time they re-mapped the VBO they were re-using to conserve on card memory on the frame's rendering pass.
Was it the driver's fault? Not even remotely close to the truth there. But...people will blame the driver, calling it "buggy". In fact, that's what happend, even.
It needs software tuned/em for it. It CAN do all of those things. Expect Flash to play? Sorry...Flash for Linux isn't even available on ARM from Adobe except as an embedded application you have to bundle if you're an embedded systems vendor.
There's more like that. The biggest problem YOU and others seem to have is what a PC really does and the like. A Pandaboard would've failed many of the review items that the Endgadget reviewer did. But...it's a dual-core A9 and it CAN do all those things...so long as you have applications. Lightspark might bring Flash to the R-Pi and other ARM devices...but you'll need to make it work with OpenGL ES before that'll happen.
But it can do browsing and other things. The Endgaget reviewer went and did several boneheaded things- whether out of ignorance or deliberation will be left as a determination by the reader...
XBMC does do what they're claiming it does. It DOES run Quake III:Arena. The thing is...you can't just nab any old Linux binary and run it. You have to code to leverage the GPU to get it to do many of the heavy load-lifting things and only the things they showcased before release have been made to work that way.
The biggest thing (and they never changed their tune...you lot may have not been paying attention...) is that they've said from the beginning that this was intended for computer science education, not as a general purpose computer (though you CAN make it that way with a bit of effort- effort, I might add, that's being done by several of the distributions working on producing a version of their project for the R-Pi...).
They're becoming available right now... If you were in the queue for one from Farnell at the release, you should be getting one by end of this month (My story...). After that they'll be fufilling orders for these as fast as they can crank them out and you can then pre-order them.
Quite simply, unless you know what you're doing, you're probably better off NOT trying to use/get one right at the moment. It's intended for technical and deep embedded type applications right at the moment. It COULD be a desktop replacement for some categories of things- but it's a bit raw for many of those uses right at the moment.
Hell, unless you get it "right" you're not going to be able to use a Beagleboard, Beaglebone, or Pandaboard for a desktop replacement. It's very possible to do this with the R-Pi or any of those boards- but the reviewers in the large have been idiots or jackasses trying to do things that they honestly knew better or should have.
No. It'd raise the price up past where they're at right now. A dual-core config with a similar sweetheart deal on the SoC's is available as the Pandaboard- and it's priced at $179- there's a hint in that that MANY are missing, especially the reviewers without a clue that make themselves and the site actually look bad.
Silence and white/brown noise don't shut up my "yammering little goblin in the back of my brain" (Nice metaphor, by the way...:-D) anywhere near as effectively as the noise-cancelling headphones and the MP3 tracklist I've got up at work. In fact, white/brown noise tends to cause me to drift off to the land of nod instead of making me productive.
I would beg to differ on that subject... Cause != correlation, for starters. Secondly, I spot all kinds of odd things in my and other people's code while listening to my chosen music. Do it better while listening even.
noun 1. something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present. 2. the act of giving. 3. something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned: Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift. 4. a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent: the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
verb (used with object) 5. to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with. 6. to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
"Gift" is possibly a verb. It is in the usage in question. So...how's that "cannot create a gerund from a noun" working out for you now?
Subscription for $50/month... Heh...might as well BUY it for that because you'll be in the ballpark in 1-2 years' time. It's not a step in the right direction. A step in the right direction would be $5/10 per month.
What makes it add up is that it's more something that'd be a good movie but the money people would consider too much of a risk because it doesn't fit any of their formulae for such movies.
The money people are more interested in strip-mining culture for all the money that they can and then changing the formulae for the movies so they can go do it again.
I think that's the point. In most cases, before they got the publisher involved, it was typically the producer's idea to begin with (The publisher had to be SOLD on the idea for them to buy it under contract...) - and many of the shows wouldn't be produced the way that they are right now if we had the ability to bankroll them ourselves.
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No, it wouldn't. A 1-ton HVAC might run in a 2kW profile, but it'd leave you about 500-700W of leftover before you exceed the budget and go into brownout on the unit. 2kW is a minimum power level to keep maybe a fridge/freezer going or a small, small house's low-end consumption.
2kW working out on a house is a lie.
Ah, but it consumes ~10-20kW being more efficient.
Considering that you find it present in the engine all the same (cylinders...)... I think someone could manage if it were just the heat that was a problem.
The reality is, how big are those fuel cells for 2kW of power? Your car typically does vastly MORE kW of energy output- somewhere between 25 and 367 kW of energy. And we won't even get into the mis-representation of 2kW being the average for a house...most of the larger appliances use 1-3kW apiece. (This doesn't get into the HVAC, regular or on-demand water heaters. It can be as high as many car's peak output.
It's not always driver bugs. Many of the fixes are things that tapdance around bad, buggy code within the game itself. Oftentimes the studio's devs play fast and loose with shader parameters or API compliance- and NVidia does it differently than AMD, etc.
Any time you see a "MAY" within a standards document, it really ought to be treated as a "SHALL" unless you know you're working on ONLY a target environment that the "MAY" doesn't affect you. Prime example would be something along the lines of VBO mapping to host addressing space. The spec says that it MAY stall the pipeline if you do this while you're in the middle of a rendering pass. Well...NVidia's implementation knows what VBOs are in-flight with a rendering pass and will stall only if it's known to be about to be used by the current pass in progress. AMD's drivers took the other, in fact, sensible approach because it's easier to implement and gains you performance overall if you don't have devs doing stupid things- they stalled ANY time you mapped any VBOs involved with the rendering pass in progress.
A major studio (Who shall not be named, nor shall the game...who knows, maybe you can guess the title...) did this in their GL code- they recycled VBOs, but did it intra -frame instead of inter -frame. The first is realtively safe, producing pretty good performance, the other's very much not so, based on the lead-in I gave just now. I should know, I've used it with some of the games I've done porting work on (Because the studio did the same thing in DirectX...which has the same restrictions here...). When you do it intra-frame, on NVidia, it slows the render pass down, but not unacceptably because it only stalls as long as needed to assure you're not corrupting the render pass. AMD, until they re-worked their VBO implementation would plummet to seconds per frame slide-show renderings on an X1950XTX card when it was THE hottest, fastest card out there- because it would stall the pipeline, taking milliseconds to recover, each and every time they re-mapped the VBO they were re-using to conserve on card memory on the frame's rendering pass.
Was it the driver's fault? Not even remotely close to the truth there. But...people will blame the driver, calling it "buggy". In fact, that's what happend, even.
Taken for what it is, actually. You pretty much nailed it in one.
Oh, but all they've got in the tank is meaningless drivel. People call it "research" but it's bunk.
Oh, don't confuse them with the facts...their minds are made up based off of their feelings.
Applied with a clue-by-four, no less.
It needs software tuned/em for it. It CAN do all of those things. Expect Flash to play? Sorry...Flash for Linux isn't even available on ARM from Adobe except as an embedded application you have to bundle if you're an embedded systems vendor.
There's more like that. The biggest problem YOU and others seem to have is what a PC really does and the like. A Pandaboard would've failed many of the review items that the Endgadget reviewer did. But...it's a dual-core A9 and it CAN do all those things...so long as you have applications. Lightspark might bring Flash to the R-Pi and other ARM devices...but you'll need to make it work with OpenGL ES before that'll happen.
But it can do browsing and other things. The Endgaget reviewer went and did several boneheaded things- whether out of ignorance or deliberation will be left as a determination by the reader...
XBMC does do what they're claiming it does. It DOES run Quake III:Arena. The thing is...you can't just nab any old Linux binary and run it. You have to code to leverage the GPU to get it to do many of the heavy load-lifting things and only the things they showcased before release have been made to work that way.
The biggest thing (and they never changed their tune...you lot may have not been paying attention...) is that they've said from the beginning that this was intended for computer science education , not as a general purpose computer (though you CAN make it that way with a bit of effort- effort, I might add, that's being done by several of the distributions working on producing a version of their project for the R-Pi...).
They're becoming available right now... If you were in the queue for one from Farnell at the release, you should be getting one by end of this month (My story...). After that they'll be fufilling orders for these as fast as they can crank them out and you can then pre-order them.
And run a browser properly? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWwUEPh9EI
Quite simply, unless you know what you're doing, you're probably better off NOT trying to use/get one right at the moment. It's intended for technical and deep embedded type applications right at the moment. It COULD be a desktop replacement for some categories of things- but it's a bit raw for many of those uses right at the moment.
Hell, unless you get it "right" you're not going to be able to use a Beagleboard, Beaglebone, or Pandaboard for a desktop replacement. It's very possible to do this with the R-Pi or any of those boards- but the reviewers in the large have been idiots or jackasses trying to do things that they honestly knew better or should have.
No. It'd raise the price up past where they're at right now. A dual-core config with a similar sweetheart deal on the SoC's is available as the Pandaboard- and it's priced at $179- there's a hint in that that MANY are missing, especially the reviewers without a clue that make themselves and the site actually look bad.
I'm suspecting you could power a major metripolitan area with that spin...
Silence and white/brown noise don't shut up my "yammering little goblin in the back of my brain" (Nice metaphor, by the way... :-D) anywhere near as effectively as the noise-cancelling headphones and the MP3 tracklist I've got up at work. In fact, white/brown noise tends to cause me to drift off to the land of nod instead of making me productive.
I would beg to differ on that subject... Cause != correlation, for starters. Secondly, I spot all kinds of odd things in my and other people's code while listening to my chosen music. Do it better while listening even.
You MIGHT want to look in the dictionary...
"Gift" is possibly a verb. It is in the usage in question. So...how's that "cannot create a gerund from a noun" working out for you now?
Then why even apply for it? Not that it's not another prime example of the overhaul needed and not gotten of late in the patent system.
They don't have a Lawyer, typically, doing the patent examinations...
What about patentability within the in re Bilski decision. It fails the Bilski test.
Subscription for $50/month... Heh...might as well BUY it for that because you'll be in the ballpark in 1-2 years' time. It's not a step in the right direction. A step in the right direction would be $5/10 per month.
What makes it add up is that it's more something that'd be a good movie but the money people would consider too much of a risk because it doesn't fit any of their formulae for such movies.
The money people are more interested in strip-mining culture for all the money that they can and then changing the formulae for the movies so they can go do it again.
Optomistic?
Blade Runner?
Alien? Aliens?
Sphere?
You keep using that word...I don't think it means what you think it means...
I think that's the point. In most cases, before they got the publisher involved, it was typically the producer's idea to begin with (The publisher had to be SOLD on the idea for them to buy it under contract...) - and many of the shows wouldn't be produced the way that they are right now if we had the ability to bankroll them ourselves.
We've managed to get as far as we have on it...
Besides...the gp poster was making a joke...you missed it.