Visual Studio.Net actually has the ability to automatically insert bounds checking into your C++ code (even 'unmanaged' code). The solution is fast enough to use for most applications even in release builds, but obviously it is still a speed hit and not right for every situation.
Nobody buys a PC just to run AOL. They want useful apps and games. Linux has no useful apps or games because it was written by a bunch of stupid communists.
Anyway, having a game show it's full potential (!)only(!) with a GeFore 4 sucks!:(
Well, there are certain things a GF4 can do that older Radeons, etc, just can't do. They don't have the feature set. In that case, I don't mind so much if they use those features and then say "best with GF4" or something. But if they go out of their way to use pixelshaders on the GF4 and not support the equiv functionality on the Radeon 9700, for instance, that's just fucking shitty and people should boycott Square and Nvidia if that comes to pass. The last thing we need is another 3dfx Glide situation where games are pretty much card-specific.
BTW, how come someone hasn't set up a P2P network that allows me to stream music from my buddy's computer. Wouldn't this be the same as listening to music at a friend's house? Would the RIAA shut this down?
When you saw look better are you referring to the lower resolution that console games run at, or the lower refresh rate? As far a rendering speeds, a gf4 kicks the shit out of anything in any console right now. It's not some outrageous claim as you imply, it's fact.
Get real.
While true, how many games out right now take advantage of the GeForce4? Whereas every XBOX game can assume that the player has a set bit of hardware (roughly equiv. to a GF3), virtually all PC games out now only assume the player has at least a TNT2. A couple throw in some extra shader goodies if DO have a better card, but mostly this is just simple superficial effects.
On the other hand, a year from now when GF4s are the low end and people are playing Doom3, PCs will have the obvious graphical advantage until the next batch of consoles come out..It goes like that in cycles.
Consoles are getting all of the peripherals that pcs are getting. Consoles have modems (DSL and ordinary), hard-drives, mice, keyboards, usb connections, etc - I expect to see webcams at the rate we're going.
Actually you can hook USB webcams up to the PS2, and there's even one Virtua-Cop style gun game that came out in Japan that capture images from the webcam to determine when the player had 'ducked' which would cause his/her in-game character to duck!
I am not aware of many (any?) games that can take advantage of more than 64MB of texture RAM, and while games that *may* take advantage of >64MB are on the horizon, the big news for games is vertex/pixel shaders, rather than the ability to texture map hundreds of megabytes of pixel data per frame.
Where do you think those vertex/pixel shaders are stored (or should be if you don't want crawling framerates)? That's right, in VRAM! And while an individual pixel/vertex shader is clearly smaller than your average texture map by a couple orders of magnitude, they really add up when you have seperate shaders attached to each polygon (not that uncommon a situation since there's no branching logic available in pixel shaders on currently available hardware).
Ti-4200 (2): High price, great features, slowest out of all 4 thanks to memory speeds, will handle BF1942 and UT2003, 128 MB limit, 7.1 GB/s memory bandwidth, 444 MHz memory clock.
The Ti 4200 128 costs, on average, $20 more than the 64 MB version. That is NOWHERE NEAR double the price. And while most games out today will run just fine in 64 MB (some running a bit faster on the 64 due to the increased clock speed), the games of tomorrow with heavy polygons, large frame buffers and pixel/vertex shaders fighting for VRAM will run MUCH better on the 128, even with the slightly lower clock speed (which, as has been noted by others, can be overclocked pretty extensively).
TH epost isn't about source code control, it is about content manamgement systems. You are comparing CVS type software to slashcode and phpnuke. They are totally different pieces of software for totally different purposes.
The underlying check-in/check-out mechanism of different open source SCC systems can be (and often are..*cough* cvs *cough*) wildly different. Any attempt at an 'open' standard runs the risk of being extremely complex (to cover all these SCC types) or extremely watered down (least common denominator).
Its possible, I think, to agree on a workable standard, but it would be a LOT of hard work!
I wouldn't think twice about pirating PS, because I don't like the idea of either buying reasonably priced crippleware OR shelling out a grand so I can edit digital photos and put dogs heads on people.
That's why you can buy Photoshop Elements for next to nothing. It even comes free with lots of OEM deals. If all you're doing is basic digital image manipulation you don't need all of the power of PS, so why are you pirating it YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD, HORSE FUCKER?
I agree, that even a pirated copy of MS software is just another brick in the MS-Palace. But let's also not forget, that the empire was built mainly by completely removing any kind of alternative option BUT Microsoft, even in the event where the user made it clear that s/he did NOT want MS-anything. They, MS, still got paid the same amount of money from the OEM although the hard drive was left blank as they did if MS-everything was installed. Check the contracts MS had with OEM-companies and I show you some people who should just like mobsters be life-long in jail for criminal extortion!!
Uh, chicken and egg. Obviously Microsoft would have been in no position to be a "heavy" on OEMs until they already owned the market. So maybe you're dumb!
To some degree you are right that these issues are getting handled, but its still going to take a long time for the perception of things to catch up with the reality. Consider that as a Windows programmer, the UI code you wrote back in 1995 still works unchanged with updated look and feel if you used the standard Windows control APIs. The same code under UNIX/Linux was likely using a long-since abandoned widget API and to keep it looking up to date would have gone through multiple UI rewrites.
Gnome and KDE are both great projects, but its going to take a couple more years before they are as attractive a platform to developers as Win32 is.
In the Windows world, though, there are so many potential paying customers that the cheapskate theives can get lost in the noise.
Given just raw numbers, every desktop Linux user who steals software (for example, using a stolen-serial Opera) is equal to about 10000 (at least, maybe more) Windows users using stolen software.
If Linux users want more support the community is going to have to hold itself to a higher standard.
in my opinion, if they have the webcam, the should also have the blog [blogger.com], so that we would be able to read their comments about their experience in space! =)
Considering NASA's funding problems they might as well become complete CAM WHORES and post a wishlist URL of gifts that their admiring fans could give them.
Like Sun with Java on the desktop, the GPL tries to tightly regulate what can and can't be done source code. Like Java on the desktop the GPL will eventually whither and die because who wants to deal with that bureaucratic BULLSHIT?
Either code is free (BSD) or it isn't. Restricting developer's freedoms to use the source code how they see fight is wrong.
Hell, if rape victims can sue, why can't GPL programmings!?
Comparing a GPL violation to RAPE? How could that be? Oh, I get it..You're a linux user, you've never even been around a female let alone tried to understand the seriousness of rape.
I hope a terrorist flies a plane into your house, fuckwad.
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I'd post an Ask Slashdot. Surely those helpful Slashdot people would give me a useful answer.
You also get Windows XP. A fine OS.
Dirty!
Visual Studio .Net actually has the ability to automatically insert bounds checking into your C++ code (even 'unmanaged' code). The solution is fast enough to use for most applications even in release builds, but obviously it is still a speed hit and not right for every situation.
Nobody buys a PC just to run AOL. They want useful apps and games. Linux has no useful apps or games because it was written by a bunch of stupid communists.
Well, there are certain things a GF4 can do that older Radeons, etc, just can't do. They don't have the feature set. In that case, I don't mind so much if they use those features and then say "best with GF4" or something. But if they go out of their way to use pixelshaders on the GF4 and not support the equiv functionality on the Radeon 9700, for instance, that's just fucking shitty and people should boycott Square and Nvidia if that comes to pass. The last thing we need is another 3dfx Glide situation where games are pretty much card-specific.
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While true, how many games out right now take advantage of the GeForce4? Whereas every XBOX game can assume that the player has a set bit of hardware (roughly equiv. to a GF3), virtually all PC games out now only assume the player has at least a TNT2. A couple throw in some extra shader goodies if DO have a better card, but mostly this is just simple superficial effects. On the other hand, a year from now when GF4s are the low end and people are playing Doom3, PCs will have the obvious graphical advantage until the next batch of consoles come out..It goes like that in cycles.
Actually you can hook USB webcams up to the PS2, and there's even one Virtua-Cop style gun game that came out in Japan that capture images from the webcam to determine when the player had 'ducked' which would cause his/her in-game character to duck!
Where do you think those vertex/pixel shaders are stored (or should be if you don't want crawling framerates)? That's right, in VRAM! And while an individual pixel/vertex shader is clearly smaller than your average texture map by a couple orders of magnitude, they really add up when you have seperate shaders attached to each polygon (not that uncommon a situation since there's no branching logic available in pixel shaders on currently available hardware).
So you still need the vram! Sucka!
The Ti 4200 128 costs, on average, $20 more than the 64 MB version. That is NOWHERE NEAR double the price. And while most games out today will run just fine in 64 MB (some running a bit faster on the 64 due to the increased clock speed), the games of tomorrow with heavy polygons, large frame buffers and pixel/vertex shaders fighting for VRAM will run MUCH better on the 128, even with the slightly lower clock speed (which, as has been noted by others, can be overclocked pretty extensively).
So? What's your point?
Jackass.
Its possible, I think, to agree on a workable standard, but it would be a LOT of hard work!
Some of us log in to more than one website, and have trouble keeping track of unique passwords on each. You stupid fuckhead!
shameless karma whoring perhaps?
That's why you can buy Photoshop Elements for next to nothing. It even comes free with lots of OEM deals. If all you're doing is basic digital image manipulation you don't need all of the power of PS, so why are you pirating it YOU FUCKING SHITHEAD, HORSE FUCKER?
I have, so I've cancelled you out.
Fag!
or MOHAA, Or Q3A.
Quake3 engines, including Q3A and MOHAA, don't even have D3D rendering layers. Dumbass.
Uh, chicken and egg. Obviously Microsoft would have been in no position to be a "heavy" on OEMs until they already owned the market. So maybe you're dumb!
Gnome and KDE are both great projects, but its going to take a couple more years before they are as attractive a platform to developers as Win32 is.
Given just raw numbers, every desktop Linux user who steals software (for example, using a stolen-serial Opera) is equal to about 10000 (at least, maybe more) Windows users using stolen software.
If Linux users want more support the community is going to have to hold itself to a higher standard.
Considering NASA's funding problems they might as well become complete CAM WHORES and post a wishlist URL of gifts that their admiring fans could give them.
Sounds like a bunch of hippie bullshit.
Like Sun with Java on the desktop, the GPL tries to tightly regulate what can and can't be done source code. Like Java on the desktop the GPL will eventually whither and die because who wants to deal with that bureaucratic BULLSHIT? Either code is free (BSD) or it isn't. Restricting developer's freedoms to use the source code how they see fight is wrong.
Comparing a GPL violation to RAPE? How could that be? Oh, I get it..You're a linux user, you've never even been around a female let alone tried to understand the seriousness of rape.
I hope a terrorist flies a plane into your house, fuckwad.