It was also a Roosevelt who said "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick." Sorry, but in every city where CCW is allowed, violent crimes plummet. Most gun owners are responsible and conscientious. At work, must run.
AND wireless NIC. That's the kicker. Dell was being a couple of asshats to my boss at work because he didn't want a damn Centrino laptop since the Intel Wireless NIC wasn't worth a damn to us.
Yeah, that's what I figured it was doing. As far as your comment to the effect that I didn't know what I was doing, well, yeah, I was new at JavaScript programming and this was just a little thing for me to learn it on my own (I don't program for a living), but I'm no n00b at programming. I was reading manual after manual and nowhere could I find it stated verbatim that the language takes numerical entries in a text field on a web page as literals, much less that the order of ops was parentheses, mult/div, string concatenation AND THEN numeric add/sub. That, to me, is dumb. Another example is how JavaScript overflows, if you watch an integer variable overflow, it doesn't overflow the MSW... That made the MD5 algo a real treat to program.
Hey, troll, I buy fucking records so I don't have to deal with the loss I CAN HEAR in CD "quality" audio. Seriously though, your internet "badass insult guy" persona is kinda funny, because I've got $50 that says that 10 seconds into a real argument with real people, you shut the fuck up and eat the shit you get, like worthless bitch you so desperately try to not be.
You, John Courtland, are example numero uno of know nothing piece of pretentious slashdot excrement.
Choke on a dick, fuckwad. You probably can't even count up to my IQ, let alone comprehend 50% of what I write here. Pretentious, sure, but that's becuase I understand things plebs like yourself can't fathom.
What happened, learned the word "lossy" and decided that it would be a great place to make this week's "holier than thou" stand around it?
Of course not, dumbass. If you check my previous posts, of which slashdot keeps a tidy record, I've been saying the same thing for well over a year. Therefore, STFU asshat.
blah blah blah... It's been tested and it's been proven.
I call bullshit, I know I can hear the difference in a CD recording and a vinyl recording. The extremes are very much more present in a vinyl recording while no amount of tinkering on a CD player can reproduce the tones I can even get on FM radio playback of the same song.
Stop being pretentious.
Same could be said to you, buddy. At least I don't hide behind some veil of anonymity. I do hope you reply, though, I haven't had fun like this on slashdot in ages.
(by the way, you're probably one of those shite for brains 'audiophiles' who pay for special gold speaker cables and other nonsense which is 100% complete rubbish that fails every double-blind test for any effectiveness whatsoever).
Nope. Copper is fine for me. To partially quote my favorite Fensler Film GIJoe PSA: "Nice try blanco nino, too bad your ass got saaaaacked."
But regardless of all that, I want the lossless audio so I can convert it to different formats without the inherent degradation that happens when you convert from one psychoacoustical compression to another. I prefer Ogg Vorbis audio. It sounds better, it is completely royalty free, and as a programmer, I like that I can toy with their code and do what I want with it. If I get only mp3's, what good is that to me? It isn't, and if I just get Ogg's then I can't convert to a better format in the future, should one arise. The point is that if I'm gonna blow money on music, it had damn well better be able to stand the test of time. For me, vinyl does that, but doesn't have the nice distribution, playback and storage capabilities of digital music, and converting vinyl to digital is a royal bitch.
Strong typing should be a damn requirement. Every language I use that doesn't allow strong typing seriously chaps my ass in a major way. The last time was when I was simply trying to implement a dumb calculator for RPM MPH for a car given gearing info and tire size. Simple function:
But javascript, when provided 16 as rim_diameter, returned some huge number (~5,000+), instead of what I expected (~84). Turns out JavaScript interpreted all the other numbers fine, but somehow wanted to make the 16 a literal, and added the damn thing right onto the end of the equation. That took me about an hour to figure out. I finally ended up getting Venkman and watched it fuck up. Then I tried implementing (and did get it to work, eventually with some code pinching) MD5 in JavaScript. Yeah, it's not worth it. Imagine if this were production work... VB (especially VB...) has done similar shit to me. To me, languages that do that are not languages, they're toys.
RISC vs CISC no longer applies to modern x86 architectures. The instructions you feed the x86 class processors are not exactly what are run on the execution core, there's a bit of translation to give RISC-style execution speed for commonly used ops (MOV, INC, ADD, etc) while retaining backwards compatibility.
As far as the bottleneck, I'd venture to guess that it's probably poor optimization. It MIGHT be driver related, nVidia might be behind in their Mac drivers. Eh, who knows...
I do believe the Gamecube raped the PS2 in Japan as far as units sold.
Regardless of all that, though, I would hypothesize the major causes of the delay are is this: proprietary media and lack of cheap dev support.
You can burn a standard DVD and make a PS2 readable disc, or install a hard disk on the PS2 itself, and the harddisk on the XBox is just an ATA drive with a FAT filesystem, so no magic there. I have no clue how to even begin making a GC disc, all I know is that it took a hack similar to how you could run z80 assembler on the TI-85 to run custom code on the GC.
The Yaroze for the PS2 wasn't prohibitively expensive (I think $700-ish, this was a figure I heard many years ago, so I am probably wrong) and there you have it. The XBox is DX9 running on stripped Windows running on x86 hardware - all dev tools are basically free. I don't even know if a dev environment exists for the GC. I know it's a Power chip and an ATi GPU, but as an individual that just takes a casual interest in console hacking, my take on the situation is that it's many times harder to dev on a GC than the other two based on availability of tools.
AMD had that whole package cracking issue with the heatsink, though. Not really to remove blame from AMD, since the packaging was pretty shitty, but I doubt most of those were silicon issues but rather physical damage.
I've seen my fair share of processors (far over 10,000) and I honestly can't remember a dead AMD. In fact, when I had a nasty power spike and lost 3 components and a mother board, and I had nearly cast my AMD off as fried silicon, I decided to test it on a backup board and lo and behold, it worked. Anecdotal, I know, but I think AMD makes fine silicon.
I think you'll see a good boost if a game was being written/compiled specifically for AMD's 64-bit extensions, solely because of the availability of more *visible* registers (there are masked ones on the current IA-32 processors, but you can't, as a programmer, access them, AFAIK). I think it quadruples the amount of general purpose regs (some can argue the IA-32 has 8, I say 4, because 4 of those "GP's" aren't really general) and adds quite a few floating point regs.
Even if your license is removed/revoked, you still have the ability to drive the car on private property without the manufacturer saying you cannot sell it.
Exactly, I knew I'd get pedantic-ed out, time to start being mre precise on this site... It's the power reqs of the electric motor. There are no doubt electric motors capable of moving 80,000lbs, but not ones as small as an ICE.
Trucks can't be electric because the sheer amount of torque needed to simply budge that 80,000 lbs of cargo. That's why they're diesel, deisel engines, liter for liter, produce more torque output than gasoline engines. They're also more efficient and cleaner (assuming this sulphur act passes(ed)).
I'd say that it's not "irrelevant", unless you're talking about the strict definition. Fascism IS the most efficient form of capitalism (so far experienced, at least), hands down. Look at how effectively the Nazis produced WHILE under "sanctions" before WW2.
Why is my comment flamebait? Again with the fucking moron moderation. I swear to god I could beat my dick against the keyboard and produce more useful moderation...
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It was also a Roosevelt who said "Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick." Sorry, but in every city where CCW is allowed, violent crimes plummet. Most gun owners are responsible and conscientious. At work, must run.
I have ~13,000 songs streamed privately in my house, non-stop. It tends to get annoying if it's the same band for a half a day, you know?
AND wireless NIC. That's the kicker. Dell was being a couple of asshats to my boss at work because he didn't want a damn Centrino laptop since the Intel Wireless NIC wasn't worth a damn to us.
I did not know that, thanks for the info.
Yeah, that's what I figured it was doing. As far as your comment to the effect that I didn't know what I was doing, well, yeah, I was new at JavaScript programming and this was just a little thing for me to learn it on my own (I don't program for a living), but I'm no n00b at programming. I was reading manual after manual and nowhere could I find it stated verbatim that the language takes numerical entries in a text field on a web page as literals, much less that the order of ops was parentheses, mult/div, string concatenation AND THEN numeric add/sub. That, to me, is dumb. Another example is how JavaScript overflows, if you watch an integer variable overflow, it doesn't overflow the MSW... That made the MD5 algo a real treat to program.
Choke on a dick, fuckwad. You probably can't even count up to my IQ, let alone comprehend 50% of what I write here. Pretentious, sure, but that's becuase I understand things plebs like yourself can't fathom. Of course not, dumbass. If you check my previous posts, of which slashdot keeps a tidy record, I've been saying the same thing for well over a year. Therefore, STFU asshat. I call bullshit, I know I can hear the difference in a CD recording and a vinyl recording. The extremes are very much more present in a vinyl recording while no amount of tinkering on a CD player can reproduce the tones I can even get on FM radio playback of the same song. Same could be said to you, buddy. At least I don't hide behind some veil of anonymity. I do hope you reply, though, I haven't had fun like this on slashdot in ages. Nope. Copper is fine for me. To partially quote my favorite Fensler Film GIJoe PSA: "Nice try blanco nino, too bad your ass got saaaaacked."
But regardless of all that, I want the lossless audio so I can convert it to different formats without the inherent degradation that happens when you convert from one psychoacoustical compression to another. I prefer Ogg Vorbis audio. It sounds better, it is completely royalty free, and as a programmer, I like that I can toy with their code and do what I want with it. If I get only mp3's, what good is that to me? It isn't, and if I just get Ogg's then I can't convert to a better format in the future, should one arise. The point is that if I'm gonna blow money on music, it had damn well better be able to stand the test of time. For me, vinyl does that, but doesn't have the nice distribution, playback and storage capabilities of digital music, and converting vinyl to digital is a royal bitch.
So in conclusion: chupame pinto, puta.
I'm with you, I will not pay for lossy audio.
RISC vs CISC no longer applies to modern x86 architectures. The instructions you feed the x86 class processors are not exactly what are run on the execution core, there's a bit of translation to give RISC-style execution speed for commonly used ops (MOV, INC, ADD, etc) while retaining backwards compatibility.
As far as the bottleneck, I'd venture to guess that it's probably poor optimization. It MIGHT be driver related, nVidia might be behind in their Mac drivers. Eh, who knows...
Read Karl Marx. Despite the whole "pinko" stigma, he was pretty bright, and envisioned what may come to pass when man obviates the economy.
I do believe the Gamecube raped the PS2 in Japan as far as units sold.
Regardless of all that, though, I would hypothesize the major causes of the delay are is this: proprietary media and lack of cheap dev support.
You can burn a standard DVD and make a PS2 readable disc, or install a hard disk on the PS2 itself, and the harddisk on the XBox is just an ATA drive with a FAT filesystem, so no magic there. I have no clue how to even begin making a GC disc, all I know is that it took a hack similar to how you could run z80 assembler on the TI-85 to run custom code on the GC.
The Yaroze for the PS2 wasn't prohibitively expensive (I think $700-ish, this was a figure I heard many years ago, so I am probably wrong) and there you have it. The XBox is DX9 running on stripped Windows running on x86 hardware - all dev tools are basically free. I don't even know if a dev environment exists for the GC. I know it's a Power chip and an ATi GPU, but as an individual that just takes a casual interest in console hacking, my take on the situation is that it's many times harder to dev on a GC than the other two based on availability of tools.
Yeah, of course, but the issue is that people weren't careful and kept wasting procs.
AMD had that whole package cracking issue with the heatsink, though. Not really to remove blame from AMD, since the packaging was pretty shitty, but I doubt most of those were silicon issues but rather physical damage.
I've seen my fair share of processors (far over 10,000) and I honestly can't remember a dead AMD. In fact, when I had a nasty power spike and lost 3 components and a mother board, and I had nearly cast my AMD off as fried silicon, I decided to test it on a backup board and lo and behold, it worked. Anecdotal, I know, but I think AMD makes fine silicon.
I think you'll see a good boost if a game was being written/compiled specifically for AMD's 64-bit extensions, solely because of the availability of more *visible* registers (there are masked ones on the current IA-32 processors, but you can't, as a programmer, access them, AFAIK). I think it quadruples the amount of general purpose regs (some can argue the IA-32 has 8, I say 4, because 4 of those "GP's" aren't really general) and adds quite a few floating point regs.
Even if your license is removed/revoked, you still have the ability to drive the car on private property without the manufacturer saying you cannot sell it.
Seriously? So your desire to work on a fusion reactor (the first, whatever) should trump the work getting done?
Exactly, I knew I'd get pedantic-ed out, time to start being mre precise on this site... It's the power reqs of the electric motor. There are no doubt electric motors capable of moving 80,000lbs, but not ones as small as an ICE.
Trucks can't be electric because the sheer amount of torque needed to simply budge that 80,000 lbs of cargo. That's why they're diesel, deisel engines, liter for liter, produce more torque output than gasoline engines. They're also more efficient and cleaner (assuming this sulphur act passes(ed)).
I'd say that it's not "irrelevant", unless you're talking about the strict definition. Fascism IS the most efficient form of capitalism (so far experienced, at least), hands down. Look at how effectively the Nazis produced WHILE under "sanctions" before WW2.
Why is my comment flamebait? Again with the fucking moron moderation. I swear to god I could beat my dick against the keyboard and produce more useful moderation...
Um, it's a question he's asking the creators of PA...
Also, the IRC client built into Opera is just great. I don't IRC very much, but the way it integrates into the tabbed browsing makes it very useful.
I wouldn't say so. You are free to write your own motherboard drivers, you are NOT free to port IE to another platform.
Agreed, 100%. I will never purchase a product that contains/requires Steam.
Tell that to GM :)