There is one thing...
fame, thats pretty much the only thing those journals can provide.
But I agree, the journal system is dreadful and the publishers
are mostly crooks ripping the universities off after they
bascially have done all the work themselves, they only
are overpriced printing presses and fame donators (well the big
journals are, the small ones are just printing presses)
But only because US companies push a lot of money into the political chains to push the broken patent system
of gentech and software upon the rest of the world.
It is a shame what is going on here in Europe, the affected polticians dont even try to hide
on who's paylist they indirectly are.
Not really, dunno which cars you have in the US, but here in Europe diesel cars are quite common,
and Audi and other german manufacturers started to produce low fuel consumption diesel cars
10-12 years ago.
The noise problem is pretty much non existent anymore, european diesel cars have excellent noise blockers around the engine, so no difference there, but the main difference is
that I drive in the city where there is more consumption on fuel with around
6-7 litres per 100 km, which is rougly 1,3 gallons per 80 miles;-).
If I go along the highways, I need way less.
Actually those hardware upgrades in consoles are quite common, Sony did that almost every year with the playstation, the core engine remaind the same, but changes in form factors, added features etc....
Nintendo does that with the gameboy and DS line, and probably is moving towards it in the Wii realm as well,
as long as it is not an entire machine upgrade so that no new games come out for your old console, this is a perfectly viable way.
None of those games came even close to the standards Ultima 7 or Fallout have layed out.
Sorry to say that, but I am in both worlds, gameplaywise console games on the average still use game mechanics of 1982 while the PC games have evolved.
Only one thing has been improved over the decades in console gaming, that is the graphics.
Actually I do not think it is very bad, almost 2-3 titles seem to come out every week (although I admit, a game like Cars is hardly a title, worth buying)
and for those of us who never had a gamecube there is tons of stuff worth buying used.
There are lots of Cube only games.
But I admit the situation might look different for people who had a cube.
Actually Excite Truck is excellent it is mario kart on steroids, also
Trauma Center is highly recommended. Kororinpha is coming this weekend,
and also check out some really excellent gamecube titles,
there are tons of them which never appeared on other consoles.
I am quite happy with my Wii, but my scarce time is divided currently
between Gamecube stuff 60%, Wii Stuff 40%.
I really like Windwaker btw. (probably one of the few who likes the Windwaker
Cell Shade style)
It really depends on the use case, you basically run into the classical statically compiled vs. dynamically runtime optimized problem.
The fact alone, that java is able to render its own ui at very good speeds nowadays, is proof enough, that java is not as slow as people constantly shout, sheesh, have you even ever seen any java program on a modern vm or are you still stuck with the Microsoft VM!
Java had this jump twice, once when the vm went from purely interpretet to jit compilers, the second one was when the vm went from jit compilers to runtime optimization + jit.
Must have games:
Zelda (obviously), Rayman Raving Rabbits, Excite Truck (although it got mediocre reviews this game is awesome), Trauma Center
from the futuer lineup the next 1-2 weeks Sonic and the secret Rings looks good, also Tiger Woods should be out soon and the usual Nintendo stuff.
then add from the Cube Lineup all Classics (which is a lot) if you havent had a Cube, the cube had many titles which never appeared on other consoles like Killer 7 or the usual Nintendo Lineup like Windwaker, Metroid Prime.
overall the lineup of really good games is not too shabby for a console just 3 months in existence, I am currently playing a lot of cube games and 5-6 new games.
No the problem is more along the lines of wizardry was the first of its kind.
Problem is we have passed around 25 years since then,
and many games still have this game mechanic which is not very suitable towards modern tastes.
Pure level grinding works well for a few times but not for 25 years. One of the reasons why I hate final fantasy and all its jrpg offsprings, they basically game mechanicwise still are at the level of wizardry one and ultima 1.
Western rpgs have passed that stage a long time ago, and that a different approach to roleplay works better show games like planetscape torment or fallout or the late ultimas.
I was rather sad to see that western rpg makers have rowed back also again game mechanicwise, and try to paint over the lack of gameplay via good graphics. KOTOR instantly comes to my mind which feels more like a jprg than anything else.
I personally think, capitalism in the sense of the strongest will survive,
is destined to destroy itself, just as communism was.
It just will take longer, but the signes of its destruction are all over the place.
This will not be the end of capitalism but the end of capitalism without borders.
No, but after reading this thread, I came to the conclusion that most people in here are completely clueless about multiprozessing and multithreading and that is what it is all about.
If you dump one thread on a single core machine and on a multicore machine you probably will get better results at the single core machine,
if you raise the thread number, the single core machine will relatively early reach its peak while the multicore machine will reach its performance peak way later, and that is all about. Of course this horizontal increase in performance will not go linearily up due to other factors, like memory, bus bandwith collisions in mem access (programwise often marked as critical regions or semaphores in the code), physical disk access (always the performance killer #1) but it will increase way more and will max out way later than a single core machine.
This is highly interesting for scientific computing, where data often can be split into different domains which can be calculated at the same time, normally the limiting factor in this area often is network or bus bandwidth.
Ahem you have to see it differently, you can launch way more programs parallely without having a huge impact on performance.
Multicores can go a long way, especially if you do vm stuff and java development where you have to juggle threads by the dozends...
Ok thanks for the interesting result, an IBM Power5 would be more interesting in this comparison.
But your core Duo Opteron comparison is somewhat flawed in the logic, you compare basically single core performance of those processors, if you split the problem up in multiple threads
then the results will look entirely different, and that is what multiple cores are about, as many threads and processes as possible without significant slowdown. Given modern operating systems hosting 20-100 processes each of them having several threads multicore can make an impact, also for scientific computing, although I think good vectorization units willl go a longer way.
C is a neat system language, by the time C++ came out it however was in a server need for an overhaul.
Back then it was a time of opportunity, a nice systems language needed OO extensions,
two camps basically back then existed (to some degree still today) ObjectiveC a nice minimalistic extension just solving one problem and solving it really well, giving C a good OO extension.
And C++ backed by AT&T back then and developed after the construct, lets push every OO theory of the year up to the point 1990 into one single language and let developers fight with it.
Well C++ won, developers fought with it, projects went into the ground due to the wrong language choice and the rest is history.
At some point Smalltalk which in 1996 already was at the state of java in 2001 (not anymore java has surpassed it since then) could have won, but thanks to the infighting in the Smalltalk camp around the mid 90s the vendors drove the language into the ground.
Ahem fud..
a) most websites nowadays run on java and your browser does not freeze, you only can see that effect via applet loading once when the vm starts, but applets are really dead nowadays, java is not
But java on the server, reacts like any other webserver!!!
b) langauge and vm are not really married to each other, the vm just has close structures to the language, there are dozends of other languages runnin on top of the java vm happily, and jdk6 added enhancements to ease that process, via predefined language binding interfaces and code weaving which helps interpreted dynamic languages out which can alter themselves on the fly.
c) Is fud spun from the people for nearly a decade, while it is not, if it was slow, would webervers run on java, databases, office suites and entire ides?
Java is as fast as any other dynamically compiled and dynamically optimized vm language, and those are a little bit slower than C++ but fast enough for modern machines.
Learn history, Star Office indeed is very old, around 88 or 1990, it in fact was the first office suite ever written in C++, and way ahead of its time, it was the first office which had a well working
component model, unlike OLE, and it had an excellent spin off cross platform C++ library which was one of the big three libraries back then you could use for that language.
The problem was, it did not have a chance on Windows once MFC was pushed via pure marketforce into the C++ market so the Star division pulled it off the market (same as Borland back then) and left all people with the utter garbage the MFC is.
The class library derived out of Star office was called Star View Library.
The funny thing is, openoffice did some mistakes and KDE basically was a project started by also former bunch of star division guys to make a full desktop but to avoid the OO structure mistakes openoffice had.
Ahem, sorry to correct you, having games through the early adventures, this style of split screen games with images on top was quite common in the early adventure days,
Level 9 (never played those), Scott Adams SAGA adventures, Later infocom adventures,
Sands of Egypt other Brotherbound stuff, and do not forget about the Magnetic Scrolls games which were basically the last spark of those games.
Those games were called graphic adventure games in those days, but then the Sierra style took over and those text input/graphic games were abandoned.
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There is one thing... fame, thats pretty much the only thing those journals can provide. But I agree, the journal system is dreadful and the publishers are mostly crooks ripping the universities off after they bascially have done all the work themselves, they only are overpriced printing presses and fame donators (well the big journals are, the small ones are just printing presses)
But only because US companies push a lot of money into the political chains to push the broken patent system of gentech and software upon the rest of the world. It is a shame what is going on here in Europe, the affected polticians dont even try to hide on who's paylist they indirectly are.
Not really, dunno which cars you have in the US, but here in Europe diesel cars are quite common, and Audi and other german manufacturers started to produce low fuel consumption diesel cars 10-12 years ago. The noise problem is pretty much non existent anymore, european diesel cars have excellent noise blockers around the engine, so no difference there, but the main difference is that I drive in the city where there is more consumption on fuel with around 6-7 litres per 100 km, which is rougly 1,3 gallons per 80 miles ;-).
If I go along the highways, I need way less.
Actually those hardware upgrades in consoles are quite common, Sony did that almost every year with the playstation, the core engine remaind the same, but changes in form factors, added features etc.... Nintendo does that with the gameboy and DS line, and probably is moving towards it in the Wii realm as well, as long as it is not an entire machine upgrade so that no new games come out for your old console, this is a perfectly viable way.
None of those games came even close to the standards Ultima 7 or Fallout have layed out. Sorry to say that, but I am in both worlds, gameplaywise console games on the average still use game mechanics of 1982 while the PC games have evolved. Only one thing has been improved over the decades in console gaming, that is the graphics.
Actually I do not think it is very bad, almost 2-3 titles seem to come out every week (although I admit, a game like Cars is hardly a title, worth buying) and for those of us who never had a gamecube there is tons of stuff worth buying used. There are lots of Cube only games. But I admit the situation might look different for people who had a cube.
Actually Excite Truck is excellent it is mario kart on steroids, also Trauma Center is highly recommended. Kororinpha is coming this weekend, and also check out some really excellent gamecube titles, there are tons of them which never appeared on other consoles. I am quite happy with my Wii, but my scarce time is divided currently between Gamecube stuff 60%, Wii Stuff 40%. I really like Windwaker btw. (probably one of the few who likes the Windwaker Cell Shade style)
It really depends on the use case, you basically run into the classical statically compiled vs. dynamically runtime optimized problem. The fact alone, that java is able to render its own ui at very good speeds nowadays, is proof enough, that java is not as slow as people constantly shout, sheesh, have you even ever seen any java program on a modern vm or are you still stuck with the Microsoft VM!
Java had this jump twice, once when the vm went from purely interpretet to jit compilers, the second one was when the vm went from jit compilers to runtime optimization + jit.
Must have games: Zelda (obviously), Rayman Raving Rabbits, Excite Truck (although it got mediocre reviews this game is awesome), Trauma Center from the futuer lineup the next 1-2 weeks Sonic and the secret Rings looks good, also Tiger Woods should be out soon and the usual Nintendo stuff. then add from the Cube Lineup all Classics (which is a lot) if you havent had a Cube, the cube had many titles which never appeared on other consoles like Killer 7 or the usual Nintendo Lineup like Windwaker, Metroid Prime. overall the lineup of really good games is not too shabby for a console just 3 months in existence, I am currently playing a lot of cube games and 5-6 new games.
virtual console display problems on many tvs with component input, and no fix from Nintendo for now: http://www.wiichat.com/nintendo-wii-virtual-consol e/6464-video-turns-off-when-playing-virtual-consol e-games-4.html#post243020
not quite what we are used from Nintendos customer service :-(
No the problem is more along the lines of wizardry was the first of its kind. Problem is we have passed around 25 years since then, and many games still have this game mechanic which is not very suitable towards modern tastes. Pure level grinding works well for a few times but not for 25 years. One of the reasons why I hate final fantasy and all its jrpg offsprings, they basically game mechanicwise still are at the level of wizardry one and ultima 1. Western rpgs have passed that stage a long time ago, and that a different approach to roleplay works better show games like planetscape torment or fallout or the late ultimas. I was rather sad to see that western rpg makers have rowed back also again game mechanicwise, and try to paint over the lack of gameplay via good graphics. KOTOR instantly comes to my mind which feels more like a jprg than anything else.
This is called guerilla marketing.
Actually SMB not even is Microsofts invention it was once an open protocol under the umbrella of IBM. Microsoft blatantly stole it!
I personally think, capitalism in the sense of the strongest will survive, is destined to destroy itself, just as communism was. It just will take longer, but the signes of its destruction are all over the place. This will not be the end of capitalism but the end of capitalism without borders.
Has ruined every medium so far it has touched... This is the rule not the exception!
No, but after reading this thread, I came to the conclusion that most people in here are completely clueless about multiprozessing and multithreading and that is what it is all about. If you dump one thread on a single core machine and on a multicore machine you probably will get better results at the single core machine, if you raise the thread number, the single core machine will relatively early reach its peak while the multicore machine will reach its performance peak way later, and that is all about. Of course this horizontal increase in performance will not go linearily up due to other factors, like memory, bus bandwith collisions in mem access (programwise often marked as critical regions or semaphores in the code), physical disk access (always the performance killer #1) but it will increase way more and will max out way later than a single core machine. This is highly interesting for scientific computing, where data often can be split into different domains which can be calculated at the same time, normally the limiting factor in this area often is network or bus bandwidth.
Ahem you have to see it differently, you can launch way more programs parallely without having a huge impact on performance. Multicores can go a long way, especially if you do vm stuff and java development where you have to juggle threads by the dozends...
Ok thanks for the interesting result, an IBM Power5 would be more interesting in this comparison. But your core Duo Opteron comparison is somewhat flawed in the logic, you compare basically single core performance of those processors, if you split the problem up in multiple threads then the results will look entirely different, and that is what multiple cores are about, as many threads and processes as possible without significant slowdown. Given modern operating systems hosting 20-100 processes each of them having several threads multicore can make an impact, also for scientific computing, although I think good vectorization units willl go a longer way.
C is a neat system language, by the time C++ came out it however was in a server need for an overhaul. Back then it was a time of opportunity, a nice systems language needed OO extensions, two camps basically back then existed (to some degree still today) ObjectiveC a nice minimalistic extension just solving one problem and solving it really well, giving C a good OO extension. And C++ backed by AT&T back then and developed after the construct, lets push every OO theory of the year up to the point 1990 into one single language and let developers fight with it. Well C++ won, developers fought with it, projects went into the ground due to the wrong language choice and the rest is history. At some point Smalltalk which in 1996 already was at the state of java in 2001 (not anymore java has surpassed it since then) could have won, but thanks to the infighting in the Smalltalk camp around the mid 90s the vendors drove the language into the ground.
Ahem fud.. a) most websites nowadays run on java and your browser does not freeze, you only can see that effect via applet loading once when the vm starts, but applets are really dead nowadays, java is not But java on the server, reacts like any other webserver!!! b) langauge and vm are not really married to each other, the vm just has close structures to the language, there are dozends of other languages runnin on top of the java vm happily, and jdk6 added enhancements to ease that process, via predefined language binding interfaces and code weaving which helps interpreted dynamic languages out which can alter themselves on the fly. c) Is fud spun from the people for nearly a decade, while it is not, if it was slow, would webervers run on java, databases, office suites and entire ides? Java is as fast as any other dynamically compiled and dynamically optimized vm language, and those are a little bit slower than C++ but fast enough for modern machines.
Learn history, Star Office indeed is very old, around 88 or 1990, it in fact was the first office suite ever written in C++, and way ahead of its time, it was the first office which had a well working component model, unlike OLE, and it had an excellent spin off cross platform C++ library which was one of the big three libraries back then you could use for that language. The problem was, it did not have a chance on Windows once MFC was pushed via pure marketforce into the C++ market so the Star division pulled it off the market (same as Borland back then) and left all people with the utter garbage the MFC is. The class library derived out of Star office was called Star View Library. The funny thing is, openoffice did some mistakes and KDE basically was a project started by also former bunch of star division guys to make a full desktop but to avoid the OO structure mistakes openoffice had.
Windows Gulag...
Ahem, sorry to correct you, having games through the early adventures, this style of split screen games with images on top was quite common in the early adventure days, Level 9 (never played those), Scott Adams SAGA adventures, Later infocom adventures, Sands of Egypt other Brotherbound stuff, and do not forget about the Magnetic Scrolls games which were basically the last spark of those games. Those games were called graphic adventure games in those days, but then the Sierra style took over and those text input/graphic games were abandoned.
Yes basic premise in the western world, that you should be able to read, once you are seven years old.