The PS3 will in fact be running an OS at all times. IIRC, it will always have one SPE, and game developers have give up another on request from the OS (of sorts). This could support stuff like transparent video chat overlays with friends playing other games. The XBox 360 also has an OS.
"a family, kids, and bills" Do you know what this means? Because your daddy went to night school doesn't mean it's possible for this guy to get a masters degree at the same time as he takes care of his responsibilities. Life is more complicated than 'Just do it.'
I was confused at first, but have come to the conlcusion the it's called the 'nunchuck' because it kinda looks like one, not because you're expected to swing it around making kung-fu sounds.
If you liked any of Civ/Sim City/The Sims, or even GTA for its openness, do yourself a favour and watch the GDC demo.
The video in this article looks more graphicly polished, the editor has more tools and now shows textures, and I belive some of the control mechanisims might have changed (UFO flight looks different).
Is the performance advantage of their specially designed physics processor so important that, say, an eight-core CPU in 2008 couldn't perform similarly"
Yes. In general, purpose built hardware can do its job orders of magnitude faster than a general purpose CPU. For example, the 3D performance of an old low end video card will still smoke the software renderer on a high end CPU.
The traditional PC players seem to be set on multiple copies of the same core. CPUs like the Cell, or KiloCore, are taking a middle path, mixing general purpose hardware with hardware that is less flexible, but much faster for certain tasks. I belive this aproach will deliver the most for consumers.
Dude. Lit-crit? I'm not going to go into a rant about femo-nazis and liberal pinkos, mostly 'cause I'm much further left than most posters on this site, but surely you realize that the humanities side of the campus has dug themselves a fair way down the rabbit hole.
Sigh.... Out of respect for you, I should come up with a well reasoned argument here, but it's in the same category as arguing ID for me.
I belive that a die shrink often involves changes in the physical layout of a chip, due to various electrical/thermal/spooky effects. But you're right in that the logic of the chip shouldn't change...
"What if someone could hack that to tell your car the maximum speed limit was 0 mph. Easy way to carjack someone."
My God! Hackers would no longer have to momentarily disable the ignition with a localized EMF pulse while scanning the IR keylock and forcing out the owner with body odour.
My brother insists it's safe to turn off a computer by pouring beer on the power supply. Everything I've ever read has been the exact opposite philosophy. Who is right?
You have a valid point, and every right to look at the source code.
The source of a commercial software product is vastly different than the programs we write at home or in school. Assuming you know some C, find main() first, and go from there. The easiest way to navigate it is to import the code tree into an IDE. Grep is also very useful. You're going to run into constructs and paradigms you haven't seen before, and these can be hard to figure out, but eventually things start falling into place.
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Thank you. Very imformative.
Can you (or anyone) describe what the 'staples' referred to are? It's kind of suprising to hear materials cost as important in the building of nanostructures.
MS has a market cap of 282 billion dollars, and 38,000+ employees..NET is hyped as easy and fast to develop in. Why is it unreasonable to expect them to rewrite explorer?
Apple seems hugely more productive in comparision.
The mouse/keyboard problem is solved with USB, or a hardware solution (PCI card).
The OS is any *NIX, of course, and your senario will not happen. This is not a multi headed display, it's many seperate displays. X has been doing this for a long time.
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The PS3 will in fact be running an OS at all times. IIRC, it will always have one SPE, and game developers have give up another on request from the OS (of sorts). This could support stuff like transparent video chat overlays with friends playing other games. The XBox 360 also has an OS.
"a family, kids, and bills" Do you know what this means? Because your daddy went to night school doesn't mean it's possible for this guy to get a masters degree at the same time as he takes care of his responsibilities. Life is more complicated than 'Just do it.'
I was confused at first, but have come to the conlcusion the it's called the 'nunchuck' because it kinda looks like one, not because you're expected to swing it around making kung-fu sounds.
The video in this article looks more graphicly polished, the editor has more tools and now shows textures, and I belive some of the control mechanisims might have changed (UFO flight looks different).
If by "FOSS advocates", you mean "FOSS advocates who still live in Moms basement". The GPL is about freedom, yes, but is not anti money.
Yes. In general, purpose built hardware can do its job orders of magnitude faster than a general purpose CPU. For example, the 3D performance of an old low end video card will still smoke the software renderer on a high end CPU.
The traditional PC players seem to be set on multiple copies of the same core. CPUs like the Cell, or KiloCore, are taking a middle path, mixing general purpose hardware with hardware that is less flexible, but much faster for certain tasks. I belive this aproach will deliver the most for consumers.
The effects were pretty cool, though.
Sigh.... Out of respect for you, I should come up with a well reasoned argument here, but it's in the same category as arguing ID for me.
Damit, the suspense is killing me, and I'm not about to install windows to find out. WTF does it do!?
He was trying to help, jerk.
I belive that a die shrink often involves changes in the physical layout of a chip, due to various electrical/thermal/spooky effects. But you're right in that the logic of the chip shouldn't change...
Can someone who knows more comment on this?
Who cares about linux on the desktop? We're talking about kernels, a very different thing from whatever desktop you're useing.
My God! Hackers would no longer have to momentarily disable the ignition with a localized EMF pulse while scanning the IR keylock and forcing out the owner with body odour.
No Mac user uses a 'MAC', and I'm not even a Mac user.
My brother insists it's safe to turn off a computer by pouring beer on the power supply. Everything I've ever read has been the exact opposite philosophy. Who is right?
Are you on crack? The music and film industries are tiny compared to the number of companies that need to keep secrets (all of them).
Maybe if she told him in the 50's.
Neutrons bad.
The source of a commercial software product is vastly different than the programs we write at home or in school. Assuming you know some C, find main() first, and go from there. The easiest way to navigate it is to import the code tree into an IDE. Grep is also very useful. You're going to run into constructs and paradigms you haven't seen before, and these can be hard to figure out, but eventually things start falling into place.
Can you (or anyone) describe what the 'staples' referred to are? It's kind of suprising to hear materials cost as important in the building of nanostructures.
Apple seems hugely more productive in comparision.
The OS is any *NIX, of course, and your senario will not happen. This is not a multi headed display, it's many seperate displays. X has been doing this for a long time.
You would lose. It's trivial.
Only in your time zone.