Wow... You got:
*First post
*The "been waiting for this" jaded thing going on
*The FreeBSD/weirdass OS nobody uses reference
*The word "proprietary"
*A reference to something about nforce thats obviously big news in everybodys world but mine
*The notion that you could actually spot the difference between two graphics cards using the same resolution
If I had modpoints I'd mod you through the roof, but I see you already have a well-deserved "Insightful".
Funny that you mention Switzerland; it actually isn't mentioned in the article. People living in Switzerland are called Swiss, people living in Sweden are called Swedish.
Both countries are in Europe though:)
Population density of Sweden: 20 citizens/square kilometer, USA: 33 citizens/square kilometer (CIA Factbook).
I have bredbandsbolaget as my ISP. Let me clear up some facts in your post: His 10mbit cable modem is a little over 3x as fast as...
The article is a bit unclear here, so it's understandable that you think he has a cable modem. In fact bredbandsbolaget delivers 10mbit ethernet to apartment houses, connected to an optical fiber connection. This means that they deliver 10mbit in both directions, which is significantly different from what any high-speed DSL/cable modems are capable of delivering.
We are also comparing Sweeden to the United States... I don't need to rehash the fact that the US is quite a bit larger than Sweeden and the population dense areas are quite a distance apart.
Population density, Sweden: 20 citizens/square kilometer.
Population density, USA: 33 citizens/square kilometer. (CIA Factbook)
As for population dense areas in US being quite a distance apart, you are probably right.
... I read this book six months ago and thought to myself "Damn, this would make a great movie".
PKD writes books that are easily adapted to film; the dialogue is of amazing quality, and the storyline is often short and sufficiently non-convoluted (well, except in the psychedelic sense:) to make a good screenplay.
Yet, that special sort of mood that are in PKD novels never really get through on the screen; all that's left is the sci-fi backstory.
Read the book and stay away from substance D:
FRECK: "Why do you say it's ten speeds when it's only got seven gears?"
BARRIS: "What?"
FRECK: "Look, five gears here, two gears here at the other end of the chain. Five and two..."
How can the army agree to spend money on a science fiction project like this?
I remember seeing a program on Discovery of the armys various failed attempts at creating fully autonomous high-altitude spy-planes. I mean seriously, why not use a remote-controlled aircraft? (which is actually what they use, to some extent)
The same applies for this; sure, you could use a weird million dollar dog to carry your equipment. Or you could use an ACTUAL LIVE DOG or a DAMN HORSE.
Next time the friend of a friend of a friend asks you to spend 2 hours fixing up their pieceofshit machinery (and yes, the '89 printer from hell must work as well), tell them this analogy:
Really?
I for one consider this an excellent initiative from SourceForge.
Project developers get a standardized solution for monetary support
and SourceForge gets money to support their servers and are able to provide better service.
Besides, in projects where the division of money
would prove difficult the decision would be easy
to just not join the program.
Also, we're talking pennies here. Open source
developers and their users are cheap SOBs:)
...they use a security enhancement and validation program which is remarkably unknown to a large part of the computer security community.
It's called "The Soprano Security Management Program", and can be summed up in the following simple decision-diagram:
1) Build a system
2) Make money
3) In case of a situation arises in step 2 which
is proving to be detrimental to the main objective of Making Money, two things can be done :
*) Fix bug in system. This is by experience detrimental to the Making Money objective since
there will always be bugs, and so this is the
wrong decision to make.
*) Find offending individual(s). Apply excessive and lethal violence. Loop to 2.
...how hard is this anyway?
There are a zillion weird diets like this:
Only eat fruit.
Only eat bacon.
Only eat eggs.
You've probably heard this before, but here goes:
Eat food that is low on fast carbs. This means vegetables, no refined grain products and definitely no sugar.
Eat meat which is low on saturated fats. This means fish and fat fish such as salmon, sea-food and other lean meats.
Excercise daily.
Now, I may not exactly follow these instructions
down to the last word myself, but I try to.
Think about it; the human species as a whole has probably evolved on a low-carb, low-fat diet and lots of movement. They didn't eat raw sugar 10 000 years ago, which is yesterday on an evolutionary timescale.
And they sure as hell didn't have a guy named Atkins tell them to eat bacon and eggs three times a day.
I call bullshit on this being a 'hackers diet'.
I'm a hacker, and to me this diet is like fixing a bug (ie. being fat) while having no understanding of the entire system (ie. the human body).
The Swedish house appliance manufacturer Electrolux has a model called Trilobite which has been around for a couple of years.
I haven't seen this sucker in action, but if memory serves me correctly it should be able to move around your home on flat surfaces, avoid obstacles and return to the power station.
I think Carmack is wrong - at least in a timeframe of, say 15 years.
Let's say you wanted to make a high-quality flight simulator. Could you use the Doom III engine for this?
No.
As for dynamic lighting; no disrespect to Carmack but pixel shaders etc. are Dirty Tricks.
It might look good, it might even seem realistic, but as far as a general purpose Ultimate Graphics Engine goes, it's still a dirty trick.
In a hundred years when we have gazillion THz processors and insanely fast memory, we'll use Monte Carlo methods for image generation and have an unlimited world-span. Then we can talk about general-purpose game-engines.
... In Sweden we have something called "Offentlighetsprincipen". This means that all documents used in federal administration (except those specifically tagged as "confidential") are publically available.
You can walk into any business governed by the state and ask to see any document.
...but why?
Why would I want to hide messages in my executable files?
Because I'm a secret little squirrel who just in general likes to hide stuff, like INSIDE other stuff?
"Considering the fact that this is a 2GHz Athlon-64 processor teamed up with a GeForce Ti 4600 we honestly expected a whole lot better. A 1.6GHz Pentium 4 with that very same GeForce Ti 4600 videocard would have no problems clocking in a similar score while running under Windows XP."
...Which you would expect if you were under the false impression that internal bus bandwidth, addressing mode and clock frequency have considerable impact on a 3D game-quality rendering system.
The graphics hardware does most of the work (ie. the computationally intensive rendering), the CPU is used for game logic, culling and feeding data to the graphics card.
I would say the bottleneck is AGP bandwidth and limited on-board high-speed memory on the graphics card.
...you're a Slashdot zealot:
3) Your leg twitches involuntarily every time someone says the word "linux"
2) You just changed telephone companies because the old one had a business agreement with Microsoft, which everyone knows mean that they spy on your calls
1) 50% of your calls are from telemarketers
Slashdot Mirror
Wow... You got:
*First post
*The "been waiting for this" jaded thing going on
*The FreeBSD/weirdass OS nobody uses reference
*The word "proprietary"
*A reference to something about nforce thats obviously big news in everybodys world but mine
*The notion that you could actually spot the difference between two graphics cards using the same resolution
If I had modpoints I'd mod you through the roof, but I see you already have a well-deserved "Insightful".
Word brother!
Funny that you mention Switzerland; it actually isn't mentioned in the article. People living in Switzerland are called Swiss, people living in Sweden are called Swedish. :)
Both countries are in Europe though
Population density of Sweden: 20 citizens/square kilometer, USA: 33 citizens/square kilometer (CIA Factbook).
I have bredbandsbolaget as my ISP. Let me clear up some facts in your post:
His 10mbit cable modem is a little over 3x as fast as...
The article is a bit unclear here, so it's understandable that you think he has a cable modem. In fact bredbandsbolaget delivers 10mbit ethernet to apartment houses, connected to an optical fiber connection. This means that they deliver 10mbit in both directions, which is significantly different from what any high-speed DSL/cable modems are capable of delivering.
We are also comparing Sweeden to the United States... I don't need to rehash the fact that the US is quite a bit larger than Sweeden and the population dense areas are quite a distance apart.
Population density, Sweden: 20 citizens/square kilometer.
Population density, USA: 33 citizens/square kilometer. (CIA Factbook)
As for population dense areas in US being quite a distance apart, you are probably right.
... I read this book six months ago and thought to myself "Damn, this would make a great movie". :) to make a good screenplay.
PKD writes books that are easily adapted to film; the dialogue is of amazing quality, and the storyline is often short and sufficiently non-convoluted (well, except in the psychedelic sense
Yet, that special sort of mood that are in PKD novels never really get through on the screen; all that's left is the sci-fi backstory.
Read the book and stay away from substance D:
FRECK: "Why do you say it's ten speeds when it's only got seven gears?"
BARRIS: "What?"
FRECK: "Look, five gears here, two gears here at the other end of the chain. Five and two..."
How can the army agree to spend money on a science fiction project like this?
I remember seeing a program on Discovery of the armys various failed attempts at creating fully autonomous high-altitude spy-planes. I mean seriously, why not use a remote-controlled aircraft? (which is actually what they use, to some extent)
The same applies for this; sure, you could use a weird million dollar dog to carry your equipment. Or you could use an ACTUAL LIVE DOG or a DAMN HORSE.
I hear you.
:
Next time the friend of a friend of a friend asks you to spend 2 hours fixing up their pieceofshit machinery (and yes, the '89 printer from hell must work as well), tell them this analogy
"If I was a gynecologist, would you ask me to..."
Really?
:)
I for one consider this an excellent initiative from SourceForge.
Project developers get a standardized solution for monetary support
and SourceForge gets money to support their servers and are able to provide better service.
Besides, in projects where the division of money
would prove difficult the decision would be easy to just not join the program.
Also, we're talking pennies here. Open source developers and their users are cheap SOBs
...they use a security enhancement and validation program which is remarkably unknown to a large part of the computer security community.
It's called "The Soprano Security Management Program", and can be summed up in the following simple decision-diagram:
1) Build a system
2) Make money
3) In case of a situation arises in step 2 which is proving to be detrimental to the main objective of Making Money, two things can be done :
*) Fix bug in system. This is by experience detrimental to the Making Money objective since there will always be bugs, and so this is the wrong decision to make.
*) Find offending individual(s). Apply excessive and lethal violence. Loop to 2.
...how hard is this anyway? There are a zillion weird diets like this:
Only eat fruit.
Only eat bacon.
Only eat eggs.
You've probably heard this before, but here goes:
Eat food that is low on fast carbs. This means vegetables, no refined grain products and definitely no sugar.
Eat meat which is low on saturated fats. This means fish and fat fish such as salmon, sea-food and other lean meats.
Excercise daily.
Now, I may not exactly follow these instructions
down to the last word myself, but I try to.
Think about it; the human species as a whole has probably evolved on a low-carb, low-fat diet and lots of movement.
They didn't eat raw sugar 10 000 years ago, which is yesterday on an evolutionary timescale.
And they sure as hell didn't have a guy named Atkins tell them to eat bacon and eggs three times a day.
I call bullshit on this being a 'hackers diet'.
I'm a hacker, and to me this diet is like fixing a bug (ie. being fat) while having no understanding of the entire system (ie. the human body).
The Swedish house appliance manufacturer Electrolux has a model called Trilobite which has been around for a couple of years.
I haven't seen this sucker in action, but if memory serves me correctly it should be able to move around your home on flat surfaces, avoid obstacles and return to the power station.
For the record:
:
//Viktor Lundström, Xazzon Lead Programmer
The game was reviewed during a 20 minute presentation.
Considering this, we selected to spend more time adding content and polish the game rather than optimize it.
Target platform for the game is at least a 1.0 GHz PC with Geforce 2 MX400.
Optimization in and of itself would be a waste of time considering these premises.
Some teams failed horribly by trying to create "The Ultimate" game engine.
You can download the game at
xazzon.com
You can also download the winning game here:
Xazzon
I think Carmack is wrong - at least in a timeframe of, say 15 years.
Let's say you wanted to make a high-quality flight simulator. Could you use the Doom III engine for this?
No.
As for dynamic lighting; no disrespect to Carmack but pixel shaders etc. are Dirty Tricks.
It might look good, it might even seem realistic, but as far as a general purpose Ultimate Graphics Engine goes, it's still a dirty trick.
In a hundred years when we have gazillion THz processors and insanely fast memory, we'll use Monte Carlo methods for image generation and have an unlimited world-span. Then we can talk about general-purpose game-engines.
... In Sweden we have something called "Offentlighetsprincipen". This means that all documents used in federal administration (except those specifically tagged as "confidential") are publically available.
You can walk into any business governed by the state and ask to see any document.
... YO MOMMAS ASS!
Hehe.
Dammit, I had to.
...but why?
Why would I want to hide messages in my executable files?
Because I'm a secret little squirrel who just in general likes to hide stuff, like INSIDE other stuff?
What will all the geeks that don't use deodorant wear now, huh?
Is it just me whose arm involuntarily clamps down on the armrest by the pure fucking geekyness every time I hear the word "blog"?
gAAAAH!
cut this shit out already
"Don't take shit."
Word!
"Considering the fact that this is a 2GHz Athlon-64 processor teamed up with a GeForce Ti 4600 we honestly expected a whole lot better. A 1.6GHz Pentium 4 with that very same GeForce Ti 4600 videocard would have no problems clocking in a similar score while running under Windows XP."
...Which you would expect if you were under the false impression that internal bus bandwidth, addressing mode and clock frequency have considerable impact on a 3D game-quality rendering system.
The graphics hardware does most of the work (ie. the computationally intensive rendering), the CPU is used for game logic, culling and feeding data to the graphics card.
I would say the bottleneck is AGP bandwidth and limited on-board high-speed memory on the graphics card.
If you're into abandoned airstrips, you should try trainspotting.
Now that's some truly exciting shit!
...you're a Slashdot zealot:
3) Your leg twitches involuntarily every time someone says the word "linux"
2) You just changed telephone companies because the old one had a business agreement with Microsoft, which everyone knows mean that they spy on your calls
1) 50% of your calls are from telemarketers
...they don't film the last three books.
That Gentry Lee dude is one perverted mother.
This memo states that Sun believes their Solaris implementation of Java to be flawed.
It states the flaws; ie. which flaws should be fixed.
So?
A REAL "shocking memo" would be one in which the company goes out of it's way to not criticize it's own product.