Nope. The most stressful video application most users do is DVD playback, and even that is loooooong past the point where hardware-assistance is needed.
The video card market has gotten absolutly rediculous in the last 2 years. Its strange, when Intel and AMD fight it out, prices plummet. While nVidia and ATI have been fighting it out prices have skyrocketed. Sure, so have features, but they're so random and game or api dependant that most people don't even know how to turn them on in different games or in the drivers advanced settings.
Up until UT2K3 it was completely absurd, because anything with DDR could play any game just fine. Now with the new crop its even worse because modern cards still can't play the very-new and upcoming games well. So buying a high-end card now is overkill for older games, and underpowered for upcoming games.
Its all about the drivers. Modern OS's are extremely stable, modern hardware is very high quality. The gap between them, the drivers, are the weak link.
Thats one of the primary reasons nVidia dominates ATI. Hardware wise ATI gets ahead once in a while, but their drivers might as well be copied and pasted out of a slashdot discussion thread.
Its interesting to see how Intel and Sparc are moving toward explicit paralellism and extremely "wide" superscalar designs. And alpha, pa-risc are goners in favor of Intels designs.
And yet here we have the last man standing in the "RISC turned hopelessly complex" generation, the Power970. When you look at this things design they threw everything and the kitchen sink in there! Most interesting is that batch parallelism where an instruction for every type of execution unit is queued up and when they're all ready to go they're executed in parallel. It will be interesting to see if that can scale given the latency it introduces, and the likelyhood that you won't always be able to fill every unit.
Regardless of the nitpickign we could all do, whats important to realize is that the day has finnaly arrived when you can have a standards compliant and cross-user-agent accessible site, and look good!.
Whats important now is to keep moving forward! Don't let your self, friends, family, clients, company, etc put up any new sites that don't at least try to validate. They don't have to be perfect, just at least try and put some effort into it.
For those of us who learned HTML in the 2.0 & 3.x days, it takes a little bit of relearning in terms of how you approach markup, but it really is worth it.
Go run your homepage through validator.w3.org. Fix 5 things. Make it a goal one weekend to make your site validate with less than 5 errors. It really is remarkably easy, we're talking about markup and stylesheets here people.
Actually "Wi-Fi" is not the name of the technology, even though many use Wi-Fi and 802.11 interchangably.
The "fidelity" in Wi-Fi is because it is a certification of adherence to the 802.11 standard, and therefore more compatable and interoperable with other Wi-Fi certified equipment.
I would think that loading the whole thing into memory wouldn't be a problem for the 'to the iron' guys he mentions. The best use I can think of there are configuration files, in which case you want the whole thing anyway, and you usualy only load it once at startup.
If they GPL'd the engine could you imagine a GTA MMORPG? Each and every one of those hookers and bums you ran over would be a real person! The Yardie Lobos would be like a clan, the cops would be a little smarter and really work to hunt you down, the mafia vs. cartel vs. yakuza could be a giant game plot with thousands of bit-roles.
I thought the whole point of mapping objects to a RDBMS was so that when your webserver catches on fire one of your other webservers can pickup where it left off because the data it needs to continue the session/whatever is on a seperate machine.
Not quite as good as your thinking.
The Helix Producer is only capable of producing only Real codec content.
Helix Server can however serve/work with encoders for real, windows media, and quicktime.
This will help consolidate your servers (good thing) but you will still need multiple encoding platforms.
bart
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. The most stressful video application most users do is DVD playback, and even that is loooooong past the point where hardware-assistance is needed.
The video card market has gotten absolutly rediculous in the last 2 years. Its strange, when Intel and AMD fight it out, prices plummet. While nVidia and ATI have been fighting it out prices have skyrocketed. Sure, so have features, but they're so random and game or api dependant that most people don't even know how to turn them on in different games or in the drivers advanced settings.
Up until UT2K3 it was completely absurd, because anything with DDR could play any game just fine. Now with the new crop its even worse because modern cards still can't play the very-new and upcoming games well. So buying a high-end card now is overkill for older games, and underpowered for upcoming games.
The one where copying and pasting between two different programs works "more often than not"?
Thats one of the primary reasons nVidia dominates ATI. Hardware wise ATI gets ahead once in a while, but their drivers might as well be copied and pasted out of a slashdot discussion thread.
Cuz I didn't read about it on every other tech-news site four days ago. lets do the time warp again...
And yet here we have the last man standing in the "RISC turned hopelessly complex" generation, the Power970. When you look at this things design they threw everything and the kitchen sink in there! Most interesting is that batch parallelism where an instruction for every type of execution unit is queued up and when they're all ready to go they're executed in parallel. It will be interesting to see if that can scale given the latency it introduces, and the likelyhood that you won't always be able to fill every unit.
Prompting male's everywhere to chant...
I am so smart! I am so smart! S - M - R - T, I mean S - M - A - R - T!
Its funny how almost often you see people reference Simpsons as "the only thing worth watching" on TV.
Nearly all of them fail. Those who don't fail to make it visually appealing fail to make it cross-browser and accessible/usable.
Time Travel. Its the automatically-get-to-break-any-rule panacea for sequels.
eventually one of them will get magnetic powers and lead a revolt of the GMs.
Ah you gotta love people who zip movies after they encode them with some ultra-compressed codec like mpeg4.
They're saving a solid 1%
Whats important now is to keep moving forward! Don't let your self, friends, family, clients, company, etc put up any new sites that don't at least try to validate. They don't have to be perfect, just at least try and put some effort into it.
For those of us who learned HTML in the 2.0 & 3.x days, it takes a little bit of relearning in terms of how you approach markup, but it really is worth it.
Go run your homepage through validator.w3.org. Fix 5 things. Make it a goal one weekend to make your site validate with less than 5 errors. It really is remarkably easy, we're talking about markup and stylesheets here people.
When the whole world starts looking like slashdot to you, its time to check into a clinic.
The "fidelity" in Wi-Fi is because it is a certification of adherence to the 802.11 standard, and therefore more compatable and interoperable with other Wi-Fi certified equipment.
The Wi-Fi Alliance's website
The people behind this book also run an excellent website on web-development:
www.sitepoint.com
I would think that loading the whole thing into memory wouldn't be a problem for the 'to the iron' guys he mentions. The best use I can think of there are configuration files, in which case you want the whole thing anyway, and you usualy only load it once at startup.
What's going to stop me from buying "WS" for $300 and using it as a server? Will WS refuse to download certian RPMs from up2date or something?
Massivly scalable SMP kernel, or instantly responsive desktop kernel... make up your mind leenux, you're confusing me!
buddha
I thought the whole point of mapping objects to a RDBMS was so that when your webserver catches on fire one of your other webservers can pickup where it left off because the data it needs to continue the session/whatever is on a seperate machine.
Dell wants Linux on Intel to beat Unix on 'big iron' because DELL MAKES INTEL MACHINES.
Dell wants people to focus on adopting new infrastructure rapidly because DELL SELLS INFRASTRUCTURE.
You gotta be kidding me
sendmail
Not quite as good as your thinking. The Helix Producer is only capable of producing only Real codec content. Helix Server can however serve/work with encoders for real, windows media, and quicktime. This will help consolidate your servers (good thing) but you will still need multiple encoding platforms. bart