Looks like someone in India is trying to improve their "standards of living". Now either people in India/China/etc get paid more or there is just going to be more people stealing.
In other words, "the jig is up".
I'm not saying "people from India are criminals". I'm saying someone [anywhere] who is paid like shit to do a job is likely going to try and supplement their income. This could [and has] just as easily happen in Canada or the states.
At that res you can tell the graphics are better than [say] UT2K4 just by the detail.
But even if the game was fun I wouldn't invest the money into a leafblower-based GPU.
There are more ways to make a game interesting outside of adding "more pixels". How many games let you actually interact with your environment more than a "push the button" scenario?
Halo2 is a fun game because you can mess with everything.
GTA:SA is another example. The graphics in it are good but really what makes me [at least] like the game is that it's a huge map with lots of detail. They clearly spent a lot of time on that and not just on "upping the texels/sec" ratios.... That and it takes like >20 mins to drive from one corner to the other... that's just nuts... hehehehe
1. It's an open source browser written by a group of people who want nothing more than to bring high quality tools to people for low to no cost. The more commercial entities like us support them the more financial backing the developers can get through employement, grants and donations to continue the work.
2. People who are progressive and sick of paying high premiums for low quality software.
3. You should care because it's more modern, standards compliant and secure. Also see #1.
I agree that profiling is definitely required. Just randomly throwing wifi equipment around isn't a good use of money.
But there are definitely "hotspots" that most cities don't cover such as malls and most libraries.
Sure the malls could install it themselves, except it would cost 15$ an hour [min one hour]. I'd rather pay an extra 1$ a month in tax then 15$ an hour to get net access at the mall.
Most malls go out of their way to make them pleasant to sit in [except for huge hubs like Syracuse]. So it would be nice to have that and some/.;-)
What you mean moving from one thermonuclear device to another [that is slower even!] isn't a good move up for Intel?
At the very least they should have considered AMD in the picture. The AMD64 [while still clinging to the x86 ISA] gets a much higher IPC than the P4 design.
And barring that Apple should have pushed for an EM64T based PentiumM. That core is at least more cycle efficient than the P4 cores [and draws way less power].
You may think it's funny to say "oh read books, nothing new is new..." etc...
When's the last time your public library was stocked with papers out of Korea or China or Denmark or Austria or France or ? Things like citeseer are invaluable for the academic as they basically make local journals obsolete [while costing less at the same time].
Where I live the only non-children academic library that would even stock journals would be at the University of Ottawa which is a 20 minute car ride away and costs to attend.
What a local library does have that is handy are desks and the occasional references.
So if that means libraries 20 years from now are 80% computers, 20% physical books... so be it. I think we're benefitting tremendously from it.
That's right up there with the "free value added bonus" crap that companies try to pawn on people...
Though in this case, it costs X dollars to have a Y bits/sec network running.
You could have I subscribers pay X/I dollars to have it run and not likely use Y/I bits/sec each
OR....
You could have J taxpayers pay X/J dollars to have it run and likely hit the Y/J bits/sec average. The trick here is J is probably much larger than I.
Obviously I think as a community some control should be put on it. I'd say it's great if kids could be doing work/research while at the library or mall or outside somewhere and not have to be tethered. I'd find it enjoyable myself to be able todo that as well. Some form of packet shaping could make the system well contained and avoid abusers.
Though I agree with your sentiment. Things like wifi campaigns ought to be voted on by the people who are going to actually pay for it.
they do what? I use the MSI FX 5200 on my 17" LCD and it looks just fine.
Maybe I'm not videophile enough but it's crisp enough to edit source code/papers [with odd fonts and symbols] and yet coo enough to handle a bttv device and run 3d games...
Yes, they'll find a way to restrict low quality re-hashed sitcoms to only authorized viewers...
Maybe these protection methods would make more sense if they had something really worth protecting.
And before anyone gets all "well people do actually watch Friends, tom". That's simply a product of not having a choice. After decades of decreasing quality television people assume that they're getting what they actually want/need/crave/desire.
So I say go for the whole shebang. Cancel analogue television and make it all $5/min for viewing for all I care. When it comes down to it outside of the odd good cartoon or documentary there isn't much to miss.
Tom
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That's just his way of deflecting the fact that the game sucks ass to "oh your card is not good enough".
People tried that in the mid/early 90s saying you'd need 16MB of ram and a 90Mhz 586 to play a certain game or two. People didn't go for that then... why are they going for it now?
Of course I question the use of these cards and think that their mass production is just a pain of society in terms of wasted power. When people can render a game at 500FPS and still not enjoy it... will they finally see the light that CONTENT is just as important as presentation?
100watts for a graphics card isn't "low power". It's about 2/3rds of what an average desktop currently takes [when idle]. That's an insane amount of power.
" was just pointing out that it was an error to say that the Z80 only had 256 instructions thats all..."
You're right it had a bit more than 256 instructions. The basic opcode was 8-bits but there were "shift" opcode bytes that would change the meaning of the next byte. So roughly there are at most around 1024 instructions though not all shifted opcodes are valid [or documented].
Amount of MSFT software I personally run at home: Zero.
Why? Don't need it. Can we get over this MSFT bashing already? It's so f'ing weak.
Wanna show how good OSS is? Write good open source software. Because when it comes down to it the quality of your software is what influences people, not how much you can mouth off.
It's the same thing with BSD vs. Linux and the other distro wars. Mouthing off is just fine, but when I have no desire for your OS over my OS I won't be switching.
It isn't that the USA is the worst. It's that your shit stinks just like the rest of us. This holier than thou attitude is exactly my point.
Example: What we call murder you call "collateral damage". What we call violating the geneva convention you call "Operation Iraqi Liberation", etc, etc, etc...
To say the USA does nothing good is stupid. They do plenty of good [and often more than Canada for instance].
The point, if you care to follow, is that you do shit that you ought to be ashame of. Window dressing it up as "the cost of war on terror" is just asinine.
How is it ironic? I've been to the US and France. I've been to the east coast and the west coast. That's more than I can say for the average "god save america" American.
So really, in what way is my post ironic? Do you even know what the word means?
I've talked with enough Americans to know when they're in "God Save America" mode...
Don't get me wrong. I get along with many Americans just fine. But when they start their nonsense about how their shit don't stink and they're society is the "bestest" [without actually understanding others] is just fucking annoying.
Like many americans think that privatization is the only way to make things cheap and effective. Yet they totally ignore that they have quite a few socialism ideals in place and take for granted.
Another recent shotdown was the R&D market. I was in Long Island visiting family and the topic of generic drugs came up. One person said "don't you find it unfair that we do all the research and you reap all the benefits?" I then asked them how their GSM phones and smartcards were working out for them.
I'm not saying all Americans are close minded but it is a huge tendency to have no idea how neighbouring countries live.
I mean my family [in LI] were amazed we got there and all, given that it's two interstates to long island I find that funny [it's a long but otherwise easy drive].
Here's a quick way to solve this problem. Sometime in your life before you hit 24 fly to another country [preferably one that doesn't speak English] and see how they live.
First off, you will see there are MANY similarities. So you'll knock that superiority bullshit off your shoulder.
Second you'll see they do many things you don't. Then you'll say "why don't we do that back home". You'll also see things you're glad you don't do at home... however the point is EXPERIENCE THE DAMN WORLD.
The point was that Americans are often too quick to judge when you yourselves don't have the best record to stand on.
So instead of going around like your shit don't stink think twice about what you're doing. I mean for instance, look at the Vietnam war. It killed millions of Vietnam civillians and for what? The "evil communists" still won anyways. If you just left them be they'd probably be much better off.
But think of it this way, when America was being settled you had the British come and try to force their government on you. You fought back and now you're all proud that you whooped some ass.
All the while [I might add] you were slave owning, indian murdering savages.
Now you look at Vietnam and you see the "evil communists" and their crimes. Then you think "oh we're justified in trying to send our troops out there to force our way of life and government on them."
So in what way are you not the Britains trying to quash the rebellion?
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Looks like someone in India is trying to improve their "standards of living". Now either people in India/China/etc get paid more or there is just going to be more people stealing.
In other words, "the jig is up".
I'm not saying "people from India are criminals". I'm saying someone [anywhere] who is paid like shit to do a job is likely going to try and supplement their income. This could [and has] just as easily happen in Canada or the states.
Tip of the iceberg...
Tom
You mean a BFCB... Big Foam Clue Bat.
Tom
At that res you can tell the graphics are better than [say] UT2K4 just by the detail.
... That and it takes like >20 mins to drive from one corner to the other... that's just nuts ... hehehehe
But even if the game was fun I wouldn't invest the money into a leafblower-based GPU.
There are more ways to make a game interesting outside of adding "more pixels". How many games let you actually interact with your environment more than a "push the button" scenario?
Halo2 is a fun game because you can mess with everything.
GTA:SA is another example. The graphics in it are good but really what makes me [at least] like the game is that it's a huge map with lots of detail. They clearly spent a lot of time on that and not just on "upping the texels/sec" ratios.
Tom
1. It's an open source browser written by a group of people who want nothing more than to bring high quality tools to people for low to no cost. The more commercial entities like us support them the more financial backing the developers can get through employement, grants and donations to continue the work.
2. People who are progressive and sick of paying high premiums for low quality software.
3. You should care because it's more modern, standards compliant and secure. Also see #1.
Tom
I agree that profiling is definitely required. Just randomly throwing wifi equipment around isn't a good use of money.
/. ;-)
But there are definitely "hotspots" that most cities don't cover such as malls and most libraries.
Sure the malls could install it themselves, except it would cost 15$ an hour [min one hour]. I'd rather pay an extra 1$ a month in tax then 15$ an hour to get net access at the mall.
Most malls go out of their way to make them pleasant to sit in [except for huge hubs like Syracuse]. So it would be nice to have that and some
Tom
What you mean moving from one thermonuclear device to another [that is slower even!] isn't a good move up for Intel?
At the very least they should have considered AMD in the picture. The AMD64 [while still clinging to the x86 ISA] gets a much higher IPC than the P4 design.
And barring that Apple should have pushed for an EM64T based PentiumM. That core is at least more cycle efficient than the P4 cores [and draws way less power].
Tom
You may think it's funny to say "oh read books, nothing new is new..." etc...
... so be it. I think we're benefitting tremendously from it.
When's the last time your public library was stocked with papers out of Korea or China or Denmark or Austria or France or ? Things like citeseer are invaluable for the academic as they basically make local journals obsolete [while costing less at the same time].
Where I live the only non-children academic library that would even stock journals would be at the University of Ottawa which is a 20 minute car ride away and costs to attend.
What a local library does have that is handy are desks and the occasional references.
So if that means libraries 20 years from now are 80% computers, 20% physical books
Tom
That's right up there with the "free value added bonus" crap that companies try to pawn on people...
Though in this case, it costs X dollars to have a Y bits/sec network running.
You could have I subscribers pay X/I dollars to have it run and not likely use Y/I bits/sec each
OR....
You could have J taxpayers pay X/J dollars to have it run and likely hit the Y/J bits/sec average. The trick here is J is probably much larger than I.
Obviously I think as a community some control should be put on it. I'd say it's great if kids could be doing work/research while at the library or mall or outside somewhere and not have to be tethered. I'd find it enjoyable myself to be able todo that as well. Some form of packet shaping could make the system well contained and avoid abusers.
Though I agree with your sentiment. Things like wifi campaigns ought to be voted on by the people who are going to actually pay for it.
Tom
I still won't watch it.
.mpg or an AVI using MPEG1 and MAYBE I'd consider watching it.
You know why?
"This video has been optimized for windows media player 9."
Fuck that, release a URL to a
Short of that I'll just read news.google.com and watch CNN [among others] when I get home.
Tom
If you can afford a 1900x1200 screen you can afford a better video card.
;-)
That said, that may be the case but the FX5200 suits most peoples needs.
Oh and it has drivers that operate in linux... on an AMD64
Tom
I have played doom3 on it. The performance at 640x480 was decent and I got bored of the game long before the occasional framedrop annoyed me.
Tom
they do what? I use the MSI FX 5200 on my 17" LCD and it looks just fine.
Maybe I'm not videophile enough but it's crisp enough to edit source code/papers [with odd fonts and symbols] and yet coo enough to handle a bttv device and run 3d games...
Tom
Yes, they'll find a way to restrict low quality re-hashed sitcoms to only authorized viewers...
Maybe these protection methods would make more sense if they had something really worth protecting.
And before anyone gets all "well people do actually watch Friends, tom". That's simply a product of not having a choice. After decades of decreasing quality television people assume that they're getting what they actually want/need/crave/desire.
So I say go for the whole shebang. Cancel analogue television and make it all $5/min for viewing for all I care. When it comes down to it outside of the odd good cartoon or documentary there isn't much to miss.
Tom
That's just his way of deflecting the fact that the game sucks ass to "oh your card is not good enough".
... will they finally see the light that CONTENT is just as important as presentation?
People tried that in the mid/early 90s saying you'd need 16MB of ram and a 90Mhz 586 to play a certain game or two. People didn't go for that then... why are they going for it now?
Of course I question the use of these cards and think that their mass production is just a pain of society in terms of wasted power. When people can render a game at 500FPS and still not enjoy it
100watts for a graphics card isn't "low power". It's about 2/3rds of what an average desktop currently takes [when idle]. That's an insane amount of power.
Tom
It's called compromise.
... but it's also only 100 bucks and doesn't make noise ;-)
An MSI FX5200 has no moving parts, gets ~30-45FPS at 800x600 or so [1024x768x16bpp works fine too] in games like UT2K4.
Yeah, sure it isn't 1600x1200 with 16xAA and 78-bit colour
Tom
The question is whether they need the tool and is it appropriate?
If all it was, was static images and the sort then simple PNG and text would have sufficed and they would hit a larger audience.
Now because I can't see the joke and their site bothers me I'll never come back. No ad revenue from this visitor.
Tom
Yeah seriously.... stupid people and their use of flash [when it's not openly available].
Oh well, I imagine their site was funny but I can't tell.
Tom
" was just pointing out that it was an error to say that the Z80 only had 256 instructions thats all..."
You're right it had a bit more than 256 instructions. The basic opcode was 8-bits but there were "shift" opcode bytes that would change the meaning of the next byte. So roughly there are at most around 1024 instructions though not all shifted opcodes are valid [or documented].
Tom
Serious guys. You're getting on my nerves now.
Amount of MSFT software I personally run at home: Zero.
Why? Don't need it. Can we get over this MSFT bashing already? It's so f'ing weak.
Wanna show how good OSS is? Write good open source software. Because when it comes down to it the quality of your software is what influences people, not how much you can mouth off.
It's the same thing with BSD vs. Linux and the other distro wars. Mouthing off is just fine, but when I have no desire for your OS over my OS I won't be switching.
Tom
Question, how else do you design an UI that lists a genre, artist, album and song? It kinda makes sense [e.g. is obvious] to lay it out that way.
Might as well patent the alphabetical order CD shops use to place their music!!
Sure they may have a patent on that UI but it shouldn't be upheld. It's a junk patent and ought to be tossed out.
[And I'm not even a Mac-fan of any sort...]
Tom
Again you missed the fucking point.
It isn't that the USA is the worst. It's that your shit stinks just like the rest of us. This holier than thou attitude is exactly my point.
Example: What we call murder you call "collateral damage". What we call violating the geneva convention you call "Operation Iraqi Liberation", etc, etc, etc...
To say the USA does nothing good is stupid. They do plenty of good [and often more than Canada for instance].
The point, if you care to follow, is that you do shit that you ought to be ashame of. Window dressing it up as "the cost of war on terror" is just asinine.
Tom
How is it ironic? I've been to the US and France. I've been to the east coast and the west coast. That's more than I can say for the average "god save america" American.
So really, in what way is my post ironic? Do you even know what the word means?
Tom
I'm fairly certain the Z80 only had 8-bit opcodes. You can have multi-byte instructions but the actual opcode is 1 byte.
Even if it did have 512 instructions [which I don't think it does] that's still not hard to handle.
Again, the actual challenge is the timing of sound/video/timers. Since they have to be in sync for gameplay to be enjoyable...
Tom
I've talked with enough Americans to know when they're in "God Save America" mode...
... however the point is EXPERIENCE THE DAMN WORLD.
Don't get me wrong. I get along with many Americans just fine. But when they start their nonsense about how their shit don't stink and they're society is the "bestest" [without actually understanding others] is just fucking annoying.
Like many americans think that privatization is the only way to make things cheap and effective. Yet they totally ignore that they have quite a few socialism ideals in place and take for granted.
Another recent shotdown was the R&D market. I was in Long Island visiting family and the topic of generic drugs came up. One person said "don't you find it unfair that we do all the research and you reap all the benefits?" I then asked them how their GSM phones and smartcards were working out for them.
I'm not saying all Americans are close minded but it is a huge tendency to have no idea how neighbouring countries live.
I mean my family [in LI] were amazed we got there and all, given that it's two interstates to long island I find that funny [it's a long but otherwise easy drive].
Here's a quick way to solve this problem. Sometime in your life before you hit 24 fly to another country [preferably one that doesn't speak English] and see how they live.
First off, you will see there are MANY similarities. So you'll knock that superiority bullshit off your shoulder.
Second you'll see they do many things you don't. Then you'll say "why don't we do that back home". You'll also see things you're glad you don't do at home
Tom
As a typical idiot you missed the point.
The point was that Americans are often too quick to judge when you yourselves don't have the best record to stand on.
So instead of going around like your shit don't stink think twice about what you're doing. I mean for instance, look at the Vietnam war. It killed millions of Vietnam civillians and for what? The "evil communists" still won anyways. If you just left them be they'd probably be much better off.
But think of it this way, when America was being settled you had the British come and try to force their government on you. You fought back and now you're all proud that you whooped some ass.
All the while [I might add] you were slave owning, indian murdering savages.
Now you look at Vietnam and you see the "evil communists" and their crimes. Then you think "oh we're justified in trying to send our troops out there to force our way of life and government on them."
So in what way are you not the Britains trying to quash the rebellion?
Tom