Yeah, the problem is pause and minimize might take a while on slower PC's, so we will probably go with a jpeg or gif. Should not take more then 3 hours to code and I am sure many will appreciate it:).
I am soon to start working on a First Person Shooter for a new company. In fact one of the things I purposefully put in design mode was a panic button for single player mode. Not sure whether to have it pop up a screenshot on screen, or pause and minimize(the screenshot would be customizable, and it would probably be faster *shrugs*) anyhoo, just letting you know your concerns are heard;-).
Now another god knows how many years until it comes. I am all for quality software, but I'll take a few bugs to frag now:)(I am impatient, but hey who isn't).
Oh please, get over it, I voted for Gore, we got somewhat screwed, move on. If gore had not lost his 15% advantage in the polls from july we would not be having this discussion. Now to be honest, you bring up one example and say democracy is crap, we have no say, because of that one fallacy(Which to be honest was a close election, separated by maybe 200,000 popular votes.) We still vote in senators and house representatives, they make the laws, can impeach, and hence checks and balances sorta work. I will stick to my guns, no one in power would have their positions without voters, if something totally screws over a majority or a decently sized minority, you bet they'll think twice about passing a law like that.
I dislike the slippery slope arguement, because quite frankly you can make anything out to be bad. (Don't sell food, because then the goverment can put cocaine in it, and we will then have to rely on only that food. Ok, terrible analogy, I am tired:)). I think if we simply control how it's used, and pass laws that give very strong boundarys to the power of this card, then we probably will not have a problem.
It seems a bit ridiculous that it is 170 GFlops which is faster then quite a few supercomputers and is about 70 or so times faster then the nearest desktop processor. Do they mean something else? or is this really a supercomputer?
Oh and I'll throw in the customary, imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
Not really, first of all these cards are at most with a 500-600mhz CPU. Now this CPU is very specialized towards the graphics card itself. In fact the whole architechture is what makes the graphics card fast. The problem is, that architechture is written specifically for graphics, so they can make lot's of design choices intel cannot. So while yes, it's good for it's purposes it won't ever be a processor.
With their whole DMCA lawsuit thing, and now all these petty lawsuits like this one against Macromedia, one begs to ask the question, is Adobe as evil as Microsoft? Do remember they have basically a monopoly with Illustrator/Photoshop. Just something to think about I suppose.
I wonder who will be the first to write apache for a wireless phone, and then have that phone get slashdotted. At the current rates for 3G, he will have to sell 2 or 3 of his kids to pay his bandwith bill.
It's called the early adopter tax, those that adopt early, have to have the technology at any cost, so they'd rather milk that market for a year or two then move their pricing to near reasonable.
A) It was 600 people
B) It was not by Ariel Sharon, and far from being ordered by Ariel Sharon. Christian paramilitaries operating under Israeli command in lebanon went into a settlement with around 200 suspected terrorists, the bad blood between these 2 groups ensued and they killed 600 civilians. A commision out to get blood found Ariel Sharon partially responsible because he did not forsee this happening. So please, go spread your FUD elsewhere. And might I add, he has every right to visit muslim holy places. Just like Israel allows anyone to visit the wailing wall.
They should reimburse end users for processing time, from the money they earn doing so. And of course, this must be strictly opt-in.(Yet I wouldn't run it strictly for the fact that it's disgusting business practices.)
He uses the example of there being no windows CE handhelds under 350$. That is not because of microsoft radically overcharging for CE or PocketPC(its around 20$). Palm charges 10$ for its license too. It is because windows CE machines have faster processor/larger memory etc etc then their palm buddies. My feelings on the desktop issue though have 2 parts.
#1 I do not think PC prices will drop below 350$ on average, computers just have too many parts that are being speedbumped for that to happen. In addition, the average computer sold is probably a 900$ Dell. Even though dell has offerings at 500$.
#2 I think that Microsoft can afford a massive price drop on their OS should computer prices drop that much.
Even though some books do not last long, they make plenty of money for the authors. Apress publishes.NET books and seem to be doing well (Mr Dan Appleman, a friend of mine in fact wrote the best selling book in the companies history with his VB.NET beta 2 book).
That's utter bullshit, they are asking microsoft to give SUN their IP? I am sorry, I am all for open source to an extent, but when a company makes a program, it has every right to keep whatever they want private, have special protocols, whatever.
I think it is just a rumor, for gods sake the man gave 15 billion dollars to his foundation, that counts for something no? He also gave 150million or more to harvard. I'd say again thats a rumor, say whatever you want about Gates, but he is philantrophic.
Documentation? I hate to sound like a microsoft fanboy but I have been doing.NET development lately. Visual Studio.NET comes with around a cd of documentation. msdn.microsoft.com has excellent articles and documentation, well organized and structured. With VB 6 it was a bit worse, but VB 6 is a bit more complex then PHP(especially when it comes to COM and API's).
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How is it compared to Linux? What about BSD? The real question for me is how user friendly is the install. :)
Yeah, the problem is pause and minimize might take a while on slower PC's, so we will probably go with a jpeg or gif. Should not take more then 3 hours to code and I am sure many will appreciate it :).
I am soon to start working on a First Person Shooter for a new company. In fact one of the things I purposefully put in design mode was a panic button for single player mode. Not sure whether to have it pop up a screenshot on screen, or pause and minimize(the screenshot would be customizable, and it would probably be faster *shrugs*) anyhoo, just letting you know your concerns are heard ;-).
Now another god knows how many years until it comes. I am all for quality software, but I'll take a few bugs to frag now :)(I am impatient, but hey who isn't).
Oh please, get over it, I voted for Gore, we got somewhat screwed, move on. If gore had not lost his 15% advantage in the polls from july we would not be having this discussion. Now to be honest, you bring up one example and say democracy is crap, we have no say, because of that one fallacy(Which to be honest was a close election, separated by maybe 200,000 popular votes.) We still vote in senators and house representatives, they make the laws, can impeach, and hence checks and balances sorta work. I will stick to my guns, no one in power would have their positions without voters, if something totally screws over a majority or a decently sized minority, you bet they'll think twice about passing a law like that.
I dislike the slippery slope arguement, because quite frankly you can make anything out to be bad. (Don't sell food, because then the goverment can put cocaine in it, and we will then have to rely on only that food. Ok, terrible analogy, I am tired :)). I think if we simply control how it's used, and pass laws that give very strong boundarys to the power of this card, then we probably will not have a problem.
It seems a bit ridiculous that it is 170 GFlops which is faster then quite a few supercomputers and is about 70 or so times faster then the nearest desktop processor. Do they mean something else? or is this really a supercomputer? Oh and I'll throw in the customary, imagine a beowulf cluster of these.
Not really, first of all these cards are at most with a 500-600mhz CPU. Now this CPU is very specialized towards the graphics card itself. In fact the whole architechture is what makes the graphics card fast. The problem is, that architechture is written specifically for graphics, so they can make lot's of design choices intel cannot. So while yes, it's good for it's purposes it won't ever be a processor.
With their whole DMCA lawsuit thing, and now all these petty lawsuits like this one against Macromedia, one begs to ask the question, is Adobe as evil as Microsoft? Do remember they have basically a monopoly with Illustrator/Photoshop. Just something to think about I suppose.
I wonder who will be the first to write apache for a wireless phone, and then have that phone get slashdotted. At the current rates for 3G, he will have to sell 2 or 3 of his kids to pay his bandwith bill.
It's called the early adopter tax, those that adopt early, have to have the technology at any cost, so they'd rather milk that market for a year or two then move their pricing to near reasonable.
Which are well overpriced and hard to find. 6,000$ USD last time I saw.
It's pretty clear why this is from the from the hell-freezes-over-news-at-5 dept. All those pigs make quite a bit of cold air.
A) It was 600 people B) It was not by Ariel Sharon, and far from being ordered by Ariel Sharon. Christian paramilitaries operating under Israeli command in lebanon went into a settlement with around 200 suspected terrorists, the bad blood between these 2 groups ensued and they killed 600 civilians. A commision out to get blood found Ariel Sharon partially responsible because he did not forsee this happening. So please, go spread your FUD elsewhere. And might I add, he has every right to visit muslim holy places. Just like Israel allows anyone to visit the wailing wall.
They should reimburse end users for processing time, from the money they earn doing so. And of course, this must be strictly opt-in.(Yet I wouldn't run it strictly for the fact that it's disgusting business practices.)
Your boycotting slashdot? Then what the hell are you still doing posting.
He uses the example of there being no windows CE handhelds under 350$. That is not because of microsoft radically overcharging for CE or PocketPC(its around 20$). Palm charges 10$ for its license too. It is because windows CE machines have faster processor/larger memory etc etc then their palm buddies. My feelings on the desktop issue though have 2 parts. #1 I do not think PC prices will drop below 350$ on average, computers just have too many parts that are being speedbumped for that to happen. In addition, the average computer sold is probably a 900$ Dell. Even though dell has offerings at 500$. #2 I think that Microsoft can afford a massive price drop on their OS should computer prices drop that much.
Firewire isn't faster then any ATA spec, it can only transfer 400MEGABITS/Second while ata/133 can transfer 133MEGABYTES/Second :).
pathetically, I still dont know how to quit vi, hence I use pico :).
Even though some books do not last long, they make plenty of money for the authors. Apress publishes .NET books and seem to be doing well (Mr Dan Appleman, a friend of mine in fact wrote the best selling book in the companies history with his VB.NET beta 2 book).
That's utter bullshit, they are asking microsoft to give SUN their IP? I am sorry, I am all for open source to an extent, but when a company makes a program, it has every right to keep whatever they want private, have special protocols, whatever.
I hiiighly doubt this, especially considering that with their IL you are basically shipping your source code with the product(a la java!).
5Mb actually
I think it is just a rumor, for gods sake the man gave 15 billion dollars to his foundation, that counts for something no? He also gave 150million or more to harvard. I'd say again thats a rumor, say whatever you want about Gates, but he is philantrophic.
Documentation? I hate to sound like a microsoft fanboy but I have been doing .NET development lately. Visual Studio.NET comes with around a cd of documentation. msdn.microsoft.com has excellent articles and documentation, well organized and structured. With VB 6 it was a bit worse, but VB 6 is a bit more complex then PHP(especially when it comes to COM and API's).