A monitor has among it's qualitys such things as gamut, color balance, contrast, etc. When you display a 16.7 million color square on your monitor, you can't see the gradations inbetween shades, but that monitor is not showing anywhere near _all_ the colors the human eye can see.
I would like to second your statment about motion blur. I find that an FPS or other fast paced game looks smoother on a LCD monitor with a little ghosting.
Even playing at 70fps on a crt you can still see stepping when things are moving fast.
This is going to come of sounding like an Apple evangelist, but ever notice how the stories of Mac software development tend to be much more interesting than the Windows world? Apple folk always seem to be much more idealistic and committed (and naive).
I'm sure the same phenomena exists in the linux world, but it seems to be drowned out in all the linux hype. Maybe 10 years from now we'll be hearing some fascinating tales of trials and tribulations in the OpenSource world.
The article postulates a pill that a soilder could take to remove feelings of guilt after the soilder does something that would normally leave him remorse ridden.
I don't get it. Does this mean the soilder's moral base rests on the fear of future remorse? He doesn't feel bad about tourture/slaughter/nastiness, but worries he will later?
IMO, most people function diffently.
Regardless, with the combination of training and drugs we could make pyscopathic soilders easily. Most grunt types seem pretty close already.
Gees Twirlip! You sure have all the answers! I've read at least 10 of your posts on this subject and I find myself agreeing with at least %90 of what you say. But really, what the hells wrong with tabs, anyway? People like them. I like them. The're usefull. It's kind of academic, no? The GUI should bend to us somewhere.
I'm also interested in your opinions about one button mice:-).
Ohhhhh. Poor thing.:-)
Just kidding, always glad to see another newbie. If you havn't tried Debian yet, you shoud,. Or any other dist that uses apt-get, debians package manager. Apt-get makes dependencies a thing of the past.
It will not help you with all the other linux details though. Sorry. Please keep in mind that making an industrial strength OS that is also easy for anyone to use is a tall order, and people are working on it as we speak.
During the Bernado trial I was living with a good friend of mine who happend to be Bernado's first cousin. Media ban or not, we would come home to find 10 messages on the machine from reporters and 2 camped out on the doorstep. The level of media attention was so huge they even wanted to interview the roomate of the cousin of Bernado. Jerks.
The amount of pain that family went through was massive. Thank God that the rights of the victims (and accused) outweigh the rights of the media.
I don't think you'll see that (no hardware accel) for 50 years.
Rendering realistic looking graphics fast is an extremly specialized domian. You basicly need to do the same equation, using highly accurate floating point math, millions of times a second.
Dedicated hardware will continue to do this better for a long time. Just look at the Nvidia demos they gave rendering scenes from Final Fantasy and Toy Story. Not realtime, of course, but it took Pixars renderfarm far longer.
I think you're right in predicting it will happen, though. I just don't see general purpose CPUs catching up to highly specialized GPU's anytime soon.
I have several computers. I have a G4 with OS X. I love OS X, but the G4 is a workstation, nothing more. For serving web pages, databases, games, etc, you get far more bang for the buck with a linux box. The G4 is slow and expensive.
But wow! What an enviroment. Everything 'just works'. The developer enviroment is slick as hell, and the bundled iApps + fink add up to huge value. Oh yeah, and Safari rocks.
Rendezvous holds some great promise in making SOHO networks a snap to set up. Apache (being a web server) isn't going to have anything to do with it. It really depends on how fully the rest of the industry accepts rendezvous, but that looks like a pretty sure bet.
I expect Apple will soon deliver a nice easy solution to your problem.
Final Fantasy in realtime? No problem. I think we'll see that level of rendering sooner than you think. All it takes is more textures per pass, and that number is going up quickly.
What I want is for the hardware to support a realistic and comprehensive physics model in said Final Fantasy universe.
This
is a k5 link with some interesting info on the subject. And the software was licensed perfectly legally, since the inclusion of the copyright notice satisfied the BSD license.
That statement is really funny when you realize he's talking about dissasembling the exec to see the notice.
Well, if you go beyond kernel hacking into user land, almost every programmer I know has mucked around in someone elses source code. I myself have tweaked drivers, etc. The kernel is a dangerous place to stick your finger, though.
All these statements about programmer productivity being ~10 lines a day are referencing several famous studies, most notably 'The Mythical Man Month' , by Frederick P. Brooks. This book, IIRC, was the first to document the huge variability in code productivity during software development. Brooks found that (programmer hours)/(lines of code in the final project) = (a stupidly low number)
The projects studied were things like unices, control systems, banking, etc. IOW, projects that got a huge amount of testing, review, QC, revisions, etc. Any programmer knows than they can write more than 10 lines of good code a day, and for many jobs might in fact do so. But a large company working on a mission critical app will see much lower levels of output.
You are right on all counts, but I will never give up my G4, and I own/use 5 different archs. I wish the Apple hardware was faster, I wish it was cheaper, but it still rocks.
PC's video hardware handles color differently, resulting in differences in color gamut and alpha. With the same attention to setup and hardware you would use in setting up a Mac for image work, a PC is entirely appropriate for color work. In the end, every printing press or other output path has a different gamut anyway, so it becomes a matter of proper calibration.
Seeing as your.sig (and previous posts) invite the criticism, I'd like to point out another advantage the Mac has. OS X has a built in spellchecker that checks as you type in web forms.
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I've upgraded in step with ID's releases for a long while now. Am I going to have to do that with my phone now?
When I'm in a submarine, I don't want anything exciting to happen.
This game has been in development a _long_ time.
And yes, Ich bin ien Berliner. ("I am a jelly donut")
A monitor has among it's qualitys such things as gamut, color balance, contrast, etc. When you display a 16.7 million color square on your monitor, you can't see the gradations inbetween shades, but that monitor is not showing anywhere near _all_ the colors the human eye can see.
Dude, just buy an SVGA card already.
Other monitors can be very nice, but for many applications you need a trinitron.
I would point out the higher education is very expensive in the US, and unavailable to many. In many coutries, university is much more accsesible.
Even playing at 70fps on a crt you can still see stepping when things are moving fast.
I'm sure the same phenomena exists in the linux world, but it seems to be drowned out in all the linux hype. Maybe 10 years from now we'll be hearing some fascinating tales of trials and tribulations in the OpenSource world.
I don't get it. Does this mean the soilder's moral base rests on the fear of future remorse? He doesn't feel bad about tourture/slaughter/nastiness, but worries he will later?
IMO, most people function diffently.
Regardless, with the combination of training and drugs we could make pyscopathic soilders easily. Most grunt types seem pretty close already.
well, the OT might be exaggerating, but not much. Even on Hawaii and Kauai you see much bad behavior from scooter types.
I'm also interested in your opinions about one button mice :-).
Just kidding, always glad to see another newbie. If you havn't tried Debian yet, you shoud,. Or any other dist that uses apt-get, debians package manager. Apt-get makes dependencies a thing of the past.
It will not help you with all the other linux details though. Sorry. Please keep in mind that making an industrial strength OS that is also easy for anyone to use is a tall order, and people are working on it as we speak.
The amount of pain that family went through was massive. Thank God that the rights of the victims (and accused) outweigh the rights of the media.
Rendering realistic looking graphics fast is an extremly specialized domian. You basicly need to do the same equation, using highly accurate floating point math, millions of times a second.
Dedicated hardware will continue to do this better for a long time. Just look at the Nvidia demos they gave rendering scenes from Final Fantasy and Toy Story. Not realtime, of course, but it took Pixars renderfarm far longer.
I think you're right in predicting it will happen, though. I just don't see general purpose CPUs catching up to highly specialized GPU's anytime soon.
But wow! What an enviroment. Everything 'just works'. The developer enviroment is slick as hell, and the bundled iApps + fink add up to huge value. Oh yeah, and Safari rocks.
I expect Apple will soon deliver a nice easy solution to your problem.
What I want is for the hardware to support a realistic and comprehensive physics model in said Final Fantasy universe.
This is a k5 link with some interesting info on the subject.
And the software was licensed perfectly legally, since the inclusion of the copyright notice satisfied the BSD license.
That statement is really funny when you realize he's talking about dissasembling the exec to see the notice.
Well, if you go beyond kernel hacking into user land, almost every programmer I know has mucked around in someone elses source code. I myself have tweaked drivers, etc. The kernel is a dangerous place to stick your finger, though.
The projects studied were things like unices, control systems, banking, etc. IOW, projects that got a huge amount of testing, review, QC, revisions, etc. Any programmer knows than they can write more than 10 lines of good code a day, and for many jobs might in fact do so. But a large company working on a mission critical app will see much lower levels of output.
You are right on all counts, but I will never give up my G4, and I own/use 5 different archs. I wish the Apple hardware was faster, I wish it was cheaper, but it still rocks.
If that's the case, and you are running OS X, I gotta try RH8.
I find your ideas fascinating and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Seeing as your .sig (and previous posts) invite the criticism, I'd like to point out another advantage the Mac has. OS X has a built in spellchecker that checks as you type in web forms.