My guess is 4 cores in 2008, 4 cores in 2009, moving to 8 cores through 2010. We may move to a new uber-core model once the software catches up, more like 6-8 years than 2-4. I'm positive we won't "max out" at 64 cores, because we're going to hit a per-core speed limit much more quickly than we hit a number-of-cores limit.
You can get already 8 cores on current consumer hardware with dual quad core xenons. The Cell CPU is also 8 cores. And the most recent GPUs are running with 240 cores.
I am a scientist and so work with Kelvin all the time. However, I think that Fahrenheit is actually a more useful temperature scale for humans than Celsius. Basically, 0F is wicked cold and 100F is wicked hot. It makes sense for how _we_ relate to temperature rather than how water relates to temperature. That sounds like a very scientific explanation.
I still can't legally buy a Cuban cigar just because he nationalized a bunch of US-owned nightclubs and hotels and took the country socialist.
But you can probably get them illegally.
Same goes for Iran and restricted goods from the US. In fact its a lot easier for the Iran they simply order over a middleman sitting in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar or any other appropriate country. Once its out of sight for the US it can be shipped to Iran.
"In the book 1984, the government maintained a perpetual state of phoney war to distract the population. Today, the opposite is happening. We are in a real war with terrorist networks groups that swear they will kill us any way they can, yet the myopic deny reality and imagine that the war is phoney."
"war on terror" is the phony war. There are less then a few thousands killed by terrorists. But compare this to the people killed by starvation, getting no medication or exploiting third country workers.
Millions die every year to support the wealth of the first countries.
Unless we find a solution that wont kill poor countries people because of capitalism terrorism will not go away
A resonable experienced electronic engineer can design recording devices from scratch using standard components. Maybe not at the quality of a HD-DVD but at current technology level resonable enough. I guess if the DRM enforcment like this goes on we might get Open Source Consumer electronics very soon. Do they want to shut down trading of electronic components as well?
An what about independent media producers using semi-pro to pro equiment for recording. Will digital content production only tied to mega corps?
They cant stop individual use of media from personal use or have to ban digicams and every other personl recording device as well.
'Farwell for your wedding video not approved by MPAA'
Also, it's not Valve's technology. They've implemented it in the Source engine now, but they didn't invent it and I'm pretty sure they're not the first to use it.
Far Cry has done this befor in an actual game. And of course there have been tech demos around.
The best position to be a game designer is a level or map designer an not a programmer.
The map designer request features required to script and art assets to use and is responsible to actual gameplay and has to know to script/programm the game game engine.
Additional team working and organiziation is a must.
To be a good game desinger you still have to good programmers and artists available and know what its reasonably makable.
When I was around 14 or 15 there was no chance my parents would have me stopped watching porn or violent movies unless they locked me in their basement 24 hours a day and that was in times there was no internet available. Shure internet might give more easy access to it but it wasnt even difficult before in the 20th century. Even Baywatch is more erotic then watching some pixelated sex scene with full clothes on.
An teen mind is going to corrup as soon as they get teens and I bet almost everyone who think of its own past will agree. Parents cant protect them from everything, they need to educate their kids.
IANAL but the EULA is not valid in most european countries. You only have an contract with the retailer of the software but not with M$, and its unethical to force a contract which is not negotiable and can easily challenged.
On the other hand how can a company which advertise their software as secure and easy to use and maintain simply made not responsible for any damage it may cause by a simple click on 'I agree' on a sleazy agreement. Maybe someone in the US can make a lawsuite against M$ about misleading advertising.
There has been a desktop distro: Corel-Linux. It had 1 CD (maybe two, but I can't remember), great hardware detection, very easy installation. I don't know if was easier them Mandrake or Suse 8.0 because I never had installed on of those.
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In a business environment 99.9999% compatible isn't good enough. If a program can't open one file then there is no reason to switch.
Apparently you never had issues between different MS-Office versions. Its not even 99.9999% compatible to itself.
My guess is 4 cores in 2008, 4 cores in 2009, moving to 8 cores through 2010. We may move to a new uber-core model once the software catches up, more like 6-8 years than 2-4. I'm positive we won't "max out" at 64 cores, because we're going to hit a per-core speed limit much more quickly than we hit a number-of-cores limit.
You can get already 8 cores on current consumer hardware with dual quad core xenons. The Cell CPU is also 8 cores. And the most recent GPUs are running with 240 cores.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90jOYSfqG9I
Same goes for Iran and restricted goods from the US. In fact its a lot easier for the Iran they simply order over a middleman sitting in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Qatar or any other appropriate country. Once its out of sight for the US it can be shipped to Iran.
I'm happy to share my name John Doe and my card number 12345678 and my address Milky Way 1 and also my secret password "asdf"
"In the book 1984, the government maintained a perpetual state of phoney war to distract the population. Today, the opposite is happening. We are in a real war with terrorist networks groups that swear they will kill us any way they can, yet the myopic deny reality and imagine that the war is phoney."
"war on terror" is the phony war. There are less then a few thousands killed by terrorists. But compare this to the people killed by starvation, getting no medication or exploiting third country workers.Millions die every year to support the wealth of the first countries.
Unless we find a solution that wont kill poor countries people because of capitalism terrorism will not go away
Eve-Online is a free far all PvP game with some PvE elements.
An what about independent media producers using semi-pro to pro equiment for recording. Will digital content production only tied to mega corps?
They cant stop individual use of media from personal use or have to ban digicams and every other personl recording device as well.
'Farwell for your wedding video not approved by MPAA'
http://www.elspa.com/about/charts/charts.asp
Thats teh internet! Where the man are man and woman are man and kids are FBI agents.
You also forgot #5 Downloaders that cant get the stuff they want legaly otherwise, be it out of production media or crippled by region zones.
The best position to be a game designer is a level or map designer an not a programmer.
The map designer request features required to script and art assets to use and is responsible to actual gameplay and has to know to script/programm the game game engine.
Additional team working and organiziation is a must. To be a good game desinger you still have to good programmers and artists available and know what its reasonably makable.
When I was around 14 or 15 there was no chance my parents would have me stopped watching porn or violent movies unless they locked me in their basement 24 hours a day and that was in times there was no internet available. Shure internet might give more easy access to it but it wasnt even difficult before in the 20th century. Even Baywatch is more erotic then watching some pixelated sex scene with full clothes on. An teen mind is going to corrup as soon as they get teens and I bet almost everyone who think of its own past will agree. Parents cant protect them from everything, they need to educate their kids.
On the other hand how can a company which advertise their software as secure and easy to use and maintain simply made not responsible for any damage it may cause by a simple click on 'I agree' on a sleazy agreement. Maybe someone in the US can make a lawsuite against M$ about misleading advertising.
Another vendor I ahven't ssen here yo can find unter http://www.realworld.cc/
There has been a desktop distro: Corel-Linux. It had 1 CD (maybe two, but I can't remember), great hardware detection, very easy installation. I don't know if was easier them Mandrake or Suse 8.0 because I never had installed on of those.