Bah, google it. I'm talking about games I saw years ago, I don't memorize the URLs of every page I visit so I will have instant access to it many years down the road.
A quick google search turned up http://www.realstorm.com/ which is a realtime raytracing engine. A very impressive one might I add. It is able to render at 512x512 in realtime on a single machine, and looks better than Q3RT to boot.
Yes. So, and your statement agrees with this, what we should see is the card that IS plugged in changing it's rendering size. We should have seen the visible part growing and shrinking. Which would indicate that that videocard was being given larger and smaller parts to render based on the load balancing.
Instead we saw a fixed size, which indicates the card was always rendering the same size, meaning NO load balancing was being done.
The average write speed on this drive barely qualifies it as a 12x drive. Claiming this is a 16x drive is silly.
8x drives typically pull in average write speeds of 0.4 to 0.6 x lower than their rated spec (Like the 7.44x quoted in this article)... but THIS drive is pulling 4.7x lower than it's rated spec. It's burning at 11.32x... In my mind, that classifies this drive as a 12x, NOT a 16x.
But they'd be using supersampled AA... if they're doing true FSAA on every pixel, then the slowdown would be 4x.
They could be rendering it at nearly 1280x1024 at the same speed without AA... I'd take that over 512x512.
I've seen "games" that use realtime raytracing on ONE computer. If they need 20 computers to do the same thing, I have to wonder. Is their program just unoptimized/poorly coded? Or have they turned on many questionable quality gimmicks?
Anybody see the demo videos of this? If you did, you'd notice that when they're busy unplugging alternating video cables to show that only the top or bottom half of the screen is rendered, the size of the image never changes.
In other words, in their examples, which used quake 3, there was NO load balancing going on. If there was, when we saw, for example, the top half of the screen, the size of the top half should have been constantly changing.
I understand fully that we were seeing alpha or beta level stuff here, but perhaps they should have waited until they had a fully functional model before showing it off.
Jobs is BSing. I made a request (on the iPod suggestions page) when the first gen iPod came out for Vorbis support... And I doubt I am the only one who requested this.
Assuming standard DSL speeds in eastern Canada, that T-1 wouldn't even be enough to support ONE DSL user. DSL downstream here is 3mbit (~22$ US/mth), with "lite" 128kbit and "ultra" 4mbit packages available.
Now, I know US DSL is a bit slower than Canadian DSL, but 200 users on a single T1, and assuming you oversell it 10:1, you're talking about 77kbit DSL here.
Since you claim your friend's T-1 is very rarely saturated, he must be targetting web-surfing grannies as his customers.
My DSL ISP had an OC3 when they hit 1000 customers... it wasn't enough, and they had to buy another OC3. An OC3 is a HUNDRED TIMES FASTER than a T-1...
"There is some confusion about the proposed provisions and if they mean that ISPs will be legally required to monitor e-mail or simply assist in government and criminal investigations, as many other countries require."
Come on, this is a dictatorship we're talking about here, which one do YOU think?
Getting a backpack designed for a laptop can make it appear that you're not carrying a laptop at all, whereas a standard laptop case, while it might look similar to a tote bag, is usually pretty obvious.
Failing that, get something like the Halliburton metal laptop case. If worse comes to worse, you can swing the thing at a mugger's head and do a lot of damage to his head without damaging the laptop inside. You know, clonk him and run. Besides, a guy carrying a metal case (briefcase type) is probably less likely to get mugged than a guy carrying a leather laptop case:p
So Google has to do this as the page/email loads instead of in advance... Who cares? All this means is Google will have to put more power behind the service, which Google can certainly afford.
People are screaming bloody murder, but this doesn't affect them, so they really should shove it. The only people here who have the right to complain about this bill is Google, who will have to spend more money to operate their service.
Wouldn't that mean that if your call is routed over a TDM based T-1, that there's a minimum latency of 42ms, in addition to whatever latency is involved with getting the data to it's destination?
Look out for their old games? You mean like how it took them months (Years?) to make StarCraft compatible with the Windows NT TCP/IP stack (Win2K and WinXP affected)? Many patches went by without a fix for this huge problem, that as I recall, made 95% of games unreachable in the game browser.
Yes, they fixed it... eventually. But that doesn't exactly show the best support for their old games.
Now, find a critical bug like that in WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, and I'll bet you it'll get fixed damned fast.
40" is great and all, but while Epson plans to have their OLED out in 2007 (according to the linked article), Samsung is claiming we'll see their OLED next YEAR. 2005. Two years ahead of Epson.
Now, if Samsung can have a 17" OLED on the market by 2005, I'm sure by 2007 they'll have refined the technology enough to make a 40" OLED, and a better one than epson at that. Samson has the head start here, not Epson. Epson is just trying to steal some of Samsung's thunder by announcing a far-off technology to compete with Samsung's not-so-far-off technology.
War and Peace is a book, why save them as images? Text makes more sense.
I downloaded the text version off Project Gutenberg (3.12MB) and RAR'd it. Manually tweaking the compression settings I managed to get it down to 720KB. Throwing in a DOS self-extractor brings that up to 815KB.
I'm sure the remaining 625KB on a standard diskette would be enough for a barebones DOS, RAM disk executable (for extracting War and Peace to memory for viewing), text viewer, and file system overhead.
And there you have it. A portable diskette that turns any PC into a lean, mean, war-and-peace-presenting machine!
Sure, if a free viewer is available, and I receive a document in that format, why wouldn't I go get a viewer?
On the other hand, downloading all of OpenOffice isn't the same thing as downloading a small viewer. But I'm sure there's some minimum footprint install of OpenOffice I could get.
"What do other Slashdot readers do in this situation?"
That you should stop whining and go download Microsoft's free Word Viewer, or any number of other free programs that can view word documents. Nobody is forcing you to use Microsoft Word, every word processor on the market today supports the format. Get used to it.
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Bah, google it. I'm talking about games I saw years ago, I don't memorize the URLs of every page I visit so I will have instant access to it many years down the road.
A quick google search turned up http://www.realstorm.com/ which is a realtime raytracing engine. A very impressive one might I add. It is able to render at 512x512 in realtime on a single machine, and looks better than Q3RT to boot.
Yes. So, and your statement agrees with this, what we should see is the card that IS plugged in changing it's rendering size. We should have seen the visible part growing and shrinking. Which would indicate that that videocard was being given larger and smaller parts to render based on the load balancing.
Instead we saw a fixed size, which indicates the card was always rendering the same size, meaning NO load balancing was being done.
The average write speed on this drive barely qualifies it as a 12x drive. Claiming this is a 16x drive is silly.
8x drives typically pull in average write speeds of 0.4 to 0.6 x lower than their rated spec (Like the 7.44x quoted in this article)... but THIS drive is pulling 4.7x lower than it's rated spec. It's burning at 11.32x... In my mind, that classifies this drive as a 12x, NOT a 16x.
But they'd be using supersampled AA... if they're doing true FSAA on every pixel, then the slowdown would be 4x.
They could be rendering it at nearly 1280x1024 at the same speed without AA... I'd take that over 512x512.
I've seen "games" that use realtime raytracing on ONE computer. If they need 20 computers to do the same thing, I have to wonder. Is their program just unoptimized/poorly coded? Or have they turned on many questionable quality gimmicks?
Anybody see the demo videos of this? If you did, you'd notice that when they're busy unplugging alternating video cables to show that only the top or bottom half of the screen is rendered, the size of the image never changes.
In other words, in their examples, which used quake 3, there was NO load balancing going on. If there was, when we saw, for example, the top half of the screen, the size of the top half should have been constantly changing.
I understand fully that we were seeing alpha or beta level stuff here, but perhaps they should have waited until they had a fully functional model before showing it off.
Isn't it also possible that they simply have the cards render at odd resolutions (ex. 1024x384) and rendering different POVs?
I must admit though, your proposed solution is elegant in it's simplicity.
Jobs is BSing. I made a request (on the iPod suggestions page) when the first gen iPod came out for Vorbis support... And I doubt I am the only one who requested this.
Assuming standard DSL speeds in eastern Canada, that T-1 wouldn't even be enough to support ONE DSL user. DSL downstream here is 3mbit (~22$ US/mth), with "lite" 128kbit and "ultra" 4mbit packages available.
Now, I know US DSL is a bit slower than Canadian DSL, but 200 users on a single T1, and assuming you oversell it 10:1, you're talking about 77kbit DSL here.
Since you claim your friend's T-1 is very rarely saturated, he must be targetting web-surfing grannies as his customers.
My DSL ISP had an OC3 when they hit 1000 customers... it wasn't enough, and they had to buy another OC3. An OC3 is a HUNDRED TIMES FASTER than a T-1...
"There is some confusion about the proposed provisions and if they mean that ISPs will be legally required to monitor e-mail or simply assist in government and criminal investigations, as many other countries require."
Come on, this is a dictatorship we're talking about here, which one do YOU think?
Surely simply opening the case and showing that it is a laptop case is sufficient?
Those of us who live outside the US probably have a bit less to fear from airport security, however.
Getting a backpack designed for a laptop can make it appear that you're not carrying a laptop at all, whereas a standard laptop case, while it might look similar to a tote bag, is usually pretty obvious.
:p
Failing that, get something like the Halliburton metal laptop case. If worse comes to worse, you can swing the thing at a mugger's head and do a lot of damage to his head without damaging the laptop inside. You know, clonk him and run. Besides, a guy carrying a metal case (briefcase type) is probably less likely to get mugged than a guy carrying a leather laptop case
NS isn't deathmatch either, it's a team-based RTS/FPS hybrid.
And for anybody wondering what the hell we're talking about, follow the link to Natural-Selection.
Azureus' tracker measures in megabytes per second not megabits per second. The hint (on the tracker page) was "MB/s" as opposed to "Mb/s"
So Google has to do this as the page/email loads instead of in advance... Who cares? All this means is Google will have to put more power behind the service, which Google can certainly afford.
People are screaming bloody murder, but this doesn't affect them, so they really should shove it. The only people here who have the right to complain about this bill is Google, who will have to spend more money to operate their service.
Wouldn't that mean that if your call is routed over a TDM based T-1, that there's a minimum latency of 42ms, in addition to whatever latency is involved with getting the data to it's destination?
Look out for their old games? You mean like how it took them months (Years?) to make StarCraft compatible with the Windows NT TCP/IP stack (Win2K and WinXP affected)? Many patches went by without a fix for this huge problem, that as I recall, made 95% of games unreachable in the game browser.
Yes, they fixed it... eventually. But that doesn't exactly show the best support for their old games.
Now, find a critical bug like that in WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne, and I'll bet you it'll get fixed damned fast.
40" is great and all, but while Epson plans to have their OLED out in 2007 (according to the linked article), Samsung is claiming we'll see their OLED next YEAR. 2005. Two years ahead of Epson.
Now, if Samsung can have a 17" OLED on the market by 2005, I'm sure by 2007 they'll have refined the technology enough to make a 40" OLED, and a better one than epson at that. Samson has the head start here, not Epson. Epson is just trying to steal some of Samsung's thunder by announcing a far-off technology to compete with Samsung's not-so-far-off technology.
Nah, I don't think you could fit it. Though perhaps with compression... :p
War and Peace is a book, why save them as images? Text makes more sense.
I downloaded the text version off Project Gutenberg (3.12MB) and RAR'd it. Manually tweaking the compression settings I managed to get it down to 720KB. Throwing in a DOS self-extractor brings that up to 815KB.
I'm sure the remaining 625KB on a standard diskette would be enough for a barebones DOS, RAM disk executable (for extracting War and Peace to memory for viewing), text viewer, and file system overhead.
And there you have it. A portable diskette that turns any PC into a lean, mean, war-and-peace-presenting machine!
Wouldn't support for code-folding and J2SE 1.5 features be feature requests, and not bugs?
JPEG2000 is a much better format, maybe now we'll see some quick adoption.
If Microsoft added native JPEG2000 support to Internet Explorer, you can bet it would come into widespread usage extremely quickly.
Nope, the mirrors just don't load, at least in FireFox 0.8.
Don't load as in, open in new tab and nothing happens, click in main window and nothing happens.
Heck, in IE the mirrors produce a "The page cannot be displayed"
In that case, you have two options:
.doc in your linux word processor of choice, since they all support .doc
1) Open the
2) Get drunk you insensitive clod.
Sure, if a free viewer is available, and I receive a document in that format, why wouldn't I go get a viewer?
On the other hand, downloading all of OpenOffice isn't the same thing as downloading a small viewer. But I'm sure there's some minimum footprint install of OpenOffice I could get.
"What do other Slashdot readers do in this situation?"
That you should stop whining and go download Microsoft's free Word Viewer, or any number of other free programs that can view word documents. Nobody is forcing you to use Microsoft Word, every word processor on the market today supports the format. Get used to it.