I take it you have never worked with 3D, or blue screen techniques. Most of the shots in the original Matrix were blue screen. Besides the bullets and spoon, there weren't many 3D models used. Atleast not like star wars where entire cities were 3D. The morph scenes were normal morphs tweaked to make them look jumpy. Likewise, spiderman used a lot of actual footage composited with blue screen and some 3D to create the look and feel. The scenes where the action looks fake or less than real were all digital. Scenes in the first half of the movie where parker is jumping from roof top to roof top was mostly blue screen.
In the case of Star Wars, it's not practical or possible to build an entire city. Anyone that has done 3D knows how hard it is to make photoreal animation. Stills are easy to fake, but animation is very difficult. Even with all the advanced tools out there to insert imperfections into each frame, you still end up with a product that is less than real. Alot of the photoreal renders on the internet were retouched after the image was rendered. With a movie, that's too costly because you'd have to do that for thousands of frames.
like the matrix and watched a dozen times, but shutting down a whole city does seem a bit extreme. It's good they are thinking about people's safety and also secrecy, but is it really necessary.
I just hope the W brothers don't kill themselves in the process of trying to "out do" the original matrix. The two of them have already spent quite a few years to this effort. It's always tough when a director makes a really successful movie, because the expectation are set unrealitically high. If they manage to pull it off, they may become hollywood heavy weights. If they flop, it's going to be a costly blunder.
Since there isn't a whole lot of details about this technology and exactly when it will show up in store shelves, it's kind of hard to guess IBM's plans for this technology. How plausible is it that IBM has something totally knew to replace HD technology and this is just another related development. Whether this can/could/should/would replace HD is hard to say without real data, but it might provide a clue. IBM might have some other bleeding edge technology lined up for mass storage, which lead to the development of this product?
exactly! I see no problems with Xbox performance, so don't know how much longer Intel can keep running those stupid commercials showing P4 making music come alive.
I wonder if Intel realizes that line of advertising isn't going to work much longer. As each generation grows up, they are more tech savy than their parents. As some point, that line of marketing looks really stupid. Some people will buy into it because they're hardcore ghz freaks.
No one asked me, but I'll say it anyways. Learn to cook. When she starts to get annoyed with all the computer stuff, make a nice romantic dinner and redirect her attention. The reason I say this is because the computers are rarely the problem, but the symptom. Significant others are fine with computers as long as the purchases are reasonable and it doesn't result in less "quality time."
Of course you also run the risk of being food obsessed like I am, but the bitching ends as soon as the food hits the mouth. It's kind of hard to bitch at someone else when you're mouth is filled with delicious treats like pot stickers, scones, or any other home made treat.
is that when I am ready to buy a 1.5ghz system, it will be dirt cheap. People are much better off putting the money into tons of memory, better monitor, bigger HD, printer, scanner, digital camera, web cam or any other media device. I'm still running 400 & 450mhz systems and they are fast enough thank you.
Once CPU's passed 300mhz, I stopped looking at the number and more at the price. That's the only really important number to consumers now. Not counting hardcore gamers or people who need the fastest machines on earth. Now if only both of them would focus on lower heat, and quieter designs.
Of course if I ever get back into gaming, I might change my story and lust for the fastest system. Then again, by that time, I won't need anything faster than a 2ghz anyways. Especially with the way the video card are improving these days, CPU ceases to be a major factor in gaming. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing improvements in bus and bandwidth will do more for realism in 3D than CPU clock speed.
Not to be like Katz or anything, but I'm guessing researchers might be more likely to take the linux route with IA64 once GCC is optimized for IA64. Now if Intel were to release their compiler for IA64 free, that could do the trick for research market.
Right, PC's are trying to take over RISC application/hardware market, but I was thinking specifically about consumer products. Enterprise markets don't behave the same as consumer market, so whole other issues come into play. Things like redundancy, hot swappable power, cpu, hd and memory, scalability and modularity come into play. PC platform still has a long way to go to provide the level of reliability and recovery in current mainframe and high end unix market. That kind of reliability doesn't come over night and takes a lot of time, money and dedication to realize.
Whether IA64 can make it on just on enterprise market alone isn't something I've considered or really care to consider. In those markets being cheap is only a strength when performance and reliability is equal existing RISC option. If it's not equivalent, it's a really hard sell to the enterprise world.
The research field doesn't have the reliability requirements of financial applications, so Intel might make it on that alone. But then again, research facilities tend to use specialize applications. Whether companies and researchers will optimize their code for IA64 is beyond me. I don't claim to know answers, just asking questions. I doubt Intel would disappear, but the role they play in the future isn't totally clear either.
damn it beat the pentium 4 1.6ghz for Q3 by 1 frame per second
Intel is going to have to work much harder to get P4 performance up to par
when will programs and OS be optimized for P4?
what would be the point in optimizing consumer applications for P4 when AMD is offering a very attractive alternative?
Even though P4 is a bigger departure and theortically better for the future, will it get enough software support to live that long?
It's obvious computing needs and trends are changing rapidly. PC are no longer luxury items as they once were. They are now taken for granted and no one cares about the technology behind it anymore. With all the cheap PC's out there, the PC is becoming less high tech and more every day. Back when PC first started, it was new and different, but now it's just another appliance. With that kind of perception taking over the PC industry, no one gives a damn how many ghz a pc has.
Sure there's always gamers and programmers who want the newest/best system. But that will change in another year or two. Perhaps that's why Intel is starting to focus more on telecommunications and less on consumer CPU.
Not to be synical or trollish, but that's because big corporation is greasing the politicians to enforce their interests. Some politicians believe war is good and feel it's not preventable. Therefore, the only thing they can do is create jobs either artifically or through bad legislation. Confiscating "illegal" products creates jobs by increasing the number of staff required to police the policy and temporarily increasing corporate profits. Allowing military equipment to slip through allows wars to happen, which mean men and women are taken out of the work force, there by opening up positions and employing more citizens. In the end, the politicians gain more from acting on the interests of corporations.
Sure this argument has flaws, but it might not be too far from the truth.
the internet is populated with more junk than useful stuff, it's good to see china creaping towards democracy that is closer to the "ideal democracy". No country has the "ideal" democracy, but the current government is far from free. Especially when people are being put in jail for stating the obvious that everyone is thinking.
If noise really bothers you, then build a server closet! Computers need cooling and air, so short of using fanless cooling systems, noise is unavoidable.
One possible approach as other have mentioned is noise cancelling. Not noise damping with magic fleece or carpet. More like active noice cancelling technology, like the hellicopter whisper mode in the movies:)
Think critically for yourself. Don't trust think tanks, because "they must be smart" to work at a think tank. The only thing you're gauranteed to get from a think tank is too much thinking and clouded talk about obvious things. Think about what kind of person works at a think tank and why they are there.
Anyone who has a life wouldn't waste their time in a think tank. Anyone worth their salt with the brains and skills will be at a research facility building stuff, not needlessly thinking about what they might like to consider inventing, if they weren't so busy thinking.
The break throughs in the last two centuries WERE NOT made by people in "think tanks". They were created by "men of action" as Count Rugan would say from the Princess Bride. Look at men like benjamin franklin, edison, and the WOZ. Think tanks are for lazy people who would rather leach off society than get their hands dirty.
The only thing the article reveals is how little news is news today from Zdnet.
Nothing lasts forever. Whether this is really the beginning of the end of the old Microsoft is still unknown, but the computer world is changing. It's beyond the control of anyone company at this point. The most a company fights this gradual evolution the faster they will die.
Perhaps the most important thing about teaching isn't having a well thought out study plan. It's relating to the students and figuring out how they learn. This is where many instructors get it all wrong. Teaching isn't about theory or code, it's about taking a subject and making it approachable.
Some people prefer to read code. I definitely prefer reading code, because I think backwards and use non traditional techniques to learn programming principles. I prefer to deconstruct a piece of good code and work back to the theory that way. Some people prefer to understand the theory first and think about different approaches to apply it.
A good teacher is one who is able to adapt the study plan to the strengths and weaknesses of the students. People should stop thinking of teaching as a mechanical process. Teaching is a creative, organic process that changes both the teacher and student. There are many smart and talented people working as teachers, who can't teach worth a dime. There are great teachers who are terrible programmers. Finding some one who is great at both is difficult.
Perhaps you should be asking, "How do become a good teacher?" As Lao Tzsu taught, if a person wants to be a good teacher, first be a good student. The teacher has to be a student of the student to understand how and why a particular student fails, so that he can adapt the explanation/technique for that individual.
Credit to the guy for thinking of it. It could save a person the hassle of looking up all the address in mapquest. I've never had the need to do such a search on google, since it's easier to just do a yellowpage search. Most yellow page sites like superpages and switchboard already provide that kind of functionality. Google's directory search doesn't have search by distance yet, but I'm guessing it will be added in the future. They kinda have to considering the other directory sites have those features.
I have a Sony Vaio, which has a 900mhz celeron. For short trips it fine, but on the plane it was way too big for those little trays. The thing ran for 4 hours with 2 batters, but my flight was 6 hours long. If some one had to fly from US to Asia, you'd need 3 or more batteries.
Most people don't do that, but some do. Anyone know how long a laptop with transmeta chip will run in real life?
Not hypothetical PR bs, but from first hand experience.
I hope people will look past the C# code in the write up and look at the useful information. Now if some one would post a good article detailing the ins and outs of XSL and XPath, that would be good. If I wasn't lazy, I'd write one. But I'm way too lazy and have real work to do.
maybe/. should sponsor a MindStorm-athon. A bunch of geeks in the room, 24 hours and lots of caffiene. I'm sure Lego could be convinced to donate the lego's, since they could take those robots and use them for PR and other marketing related uses.
Here is an honest question, because I don't know the answer and want to know. Are there any 64bit applications for windows 2000 advanced server limited edition on the market? A quick search on google didn't turn up much. Only a bunch of old press releases about 3rd parties working on applications for 64bit, but no actually applications that I can find.
If anyone has first hand experience with 64bit applications on windows, please share your experience. I'm not trolling, just honestly curious about real world deployments of 64bit apps on windows.
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In the case of Star Wars, it's not practical or possible to build an entire city. Anyone that has done 3D knows how hard it is to make photoreal animation. Stills are easy to fake, but animation is very difficult. Even with all the advanced tools out there to insert imperfections into each frame, you still end up with a product that is less than real. Alot of the photoreal renders on the internet were retouched after the image was rendered. With a movie, that's too costly because you'd have to do that for thousands of frames.
I just hope the W brothers don't kill themselves in the process of trying to "out do" the original matrix. The two of them have already spent quite a few years to this effort. It's always tough when a director makes a really successful movie, because the expectation are set unrealitically high. If they manage to pull it off, they may become hollywood heavy weights. If they flop, it's going to be a costly blunder.
Since there isn't a whole lot of details about this technology and exactly when it will show up in store shelves, it's kind of hard to guess IBM's plans for this technology. How plausible is it that IBM has something totally knew to replace HD technology and this is just another related development. Whether this can/could/should/would replace HD is hard to say without real data, but it might provide a clue. IBM might have some other bleeding edge technology lined up for mass storage, which lead to the development of this product?
I wonder if Intel realizes that line of advertising isn't going to work much longer. As each generation grows up, they are more tech savy than their parents. As some point, that line of marketing looks really stupid. Some people will buy into it because they're hardcore ghz freaks.
Of course you also run the risk of being food obsessed like I am, but the bitching ends as soon as the food hits the mouth. It's kind of hard to bitch at someone else when you're mouth is filled with delicious treats like pot stickers, scones, or any other home made treat.
Once CPU's passed 300mhz, I stopped looking at the number and more at the price. That's the only really important number to consumers now. Not counting hardcore gamers or people who need the fastest machines on earth. Now if only both of them would focus on lower heat, and quieter designs.
Of course if I ever get back into gaming, I might change my story and lust for the fastest system. Then again, by that time, I won't need anything faster than a 2ghz anyways. Especially with the way the video card are improving these days, CPU ceases to be a major factor in gaming. I'm no expert, but I'm guessing improvements in bus and bandwidth will do more for realism in 3D than CPU clock speed.
Not to be like Katz or anything, but I'm guessing researchers might be more likely to take the linux route with IA64 once GCC is optimized for IA64. Now if Intel were to release their compiler for IA64 free, that could do the trick for research market.
that's a lot of dedication and persistence. I hope all the guys that are volunteering get good jobs else where.
Whether IA64 can make it on just on enterprise market alone isn't something I've considered or really care to consider. In those markets being cheap is only a strength when performance and reliability is equal existing RISC option. If it's not equivalent, it's a really hard sell to the enterprise world.
The research field doesn't have the reliability requirements of financial applications, so Intel might make it on that alone. But then again, research facilities tend to use specialize applications. Whether companies and researchers will optimize their code for IA64 is beyond me. I don't claim to know answers, just asking questions. I doubt Intel would disappear, but the role they play in the future isn't totally clear either.
It's obvious computing needs and trends are changing rapidly. PC are no longer luxury items as they once were. They are now taken for granted and no one cares about the technology behind it anymore. With all the cheap PC's out there, the PC is becoming less high tech and more every day. Back when PC first started, it was new and different, but now it's just another appliance. With that kind of perception taking over the PC industry, no one gives a damn how many ghz a pc has.
Sure there's always gamers and programmers who want the newest/best system. But that will change in another year or two. Perhaps that's why Intel is starting to focus more on telecommunications and less on consumer CPU.
now I don't have to find out who won. Not that it matters in any sense other than pure silly stupid entertainment.
Ever hear of a joke :)
Guess I should have put <sarcasm> around the whole, so idiots like you would realize it was a joke.
Sure this argument has flaws, but it might not be too far from the truth.
the internet is populated with more junk than useful stuff, it's good to see china creaping towards democracy that is closer to the "ideal democracy". No country has the "ideal" democracy, but the current government is far from free. Especially when people are being put in jail for stating the obvious that everyone is thinking.
One possible approach as other have mentioned is noise cancelling. Not noise damping with magic fleece or carpet. More like active noice cancelling technology, like the hellicopter whisper mode in the movies :)
Their poor servers are totally /.ed by geeks. You could have atleast left out the link to give them a few extra minute or two.
Anyone who has a life wouldn't waste their time in a think tank. Anyone worth their salt with the brains and skills will be at a research facility building stuff, not needlessly thinking about what they might like to consider inventing, if they weren't so busy thinking.
The break throughs in the last two centuries WERE NOT made by people in "think tanks". They were created by "men of action" as Count Rugan would say from the Princess Bride. Look at men like benjamin franklin, edison, and the WOZ. Think tanks are for lazy people who would rather leach off society than get their hands dirty.
The only thing the article reveals is how little news is news today from Zdnet.
Nothing lasts forever. Whether this is really the beginning of the end of the old Microsoft is still unknown, but the computer world is changing. It's beyond the control of anyone company at this point. The most a company fights this gradual evolution the faster they will die.
Some people prefer to read code. I definitely prefer reading code, because I think backwards and use non traditional techniques to learn programming principles. I prefer to deconstruct a piece of good code and work back to the theory that way. Some people prefer to understand the theory first and think about different approaches to apply it.
A good teacher is one who is able to adapt the study plan to the strengths and weaknesses of the students. People should stop thinking of teaching as a mechanical process. Teaching is a creative, organic process that changes both the teacher and student. There are many smart and talented people working as teachers, who can't teach worth a dime. There are great teachers who are terrible programmers. Finding some one who is great at both is difficult.
Perhaps you should be asking, "How do become a good teacher?" As Lao Tzsu taught, if a person wants to be a good teacher, first be a good student. The teacher has to be a student of the student to understand how and why a particular student fails, so that he can adapt the explanation/technique for that individual.
Credit to the guy for thinking of it. It could save a person the hassle of looking up all the address in mapquest. I've never had the need to do such a search on google, since it's easier to just do a yellowpage search. Most yellow page sites like superpages and switchboard already provide that kind of functionality. Google's directory search doesn't have search by distance yet, but I'm guessing it will be added in the future. They kinda have to considering the other directory sites have those features.
Most people don't do that, but some do. Anyone know how long a laptop with transmeta chip will run in real life?
Not hypothetical PR bs, but from first hand experience.
I hope people will look past the C# code in the write up and look at the useful information. Now if some one would post a good article detailing the ins and outs of XSL and XPath, that would be good. If I wasn't lazy, I'd write one. But I'm way too lazy and have real work to do.
Thanks for that info. What type of 64bit applications are being ported, if you don't mind answering?
maybe /. should sponsor a MindStorm-athon. A bunch of geeks in the room, 24 hours and lots of caffiene. I'm sure Lego could be convinced to donate the lego's, since they could take those robots and use them for PR and other marketing related uses.
If anyone has first hand experience with 64bit applications on windows, please share your experience. I'm not trolling, just honestly curious about real world deployments of 64bit apps on windows.