Don't think of sizes in terms of pixels -- think of them in inches. The current thing on your screen that takes up 10 inches of space, wouldn't you like it to have twice the detail, while staying at 10 inches? I'd love for my text to have twice the detail, becoming easier to read. Maybe websites could start using serif fonts, which are generally regarded as more legible but also tough to use on most present-day monitors because of the low DPI. That's what high DPI is for -- more detail, not to make things smaller.
You're doing it wrong. You should be increasing the DPI setting in your operating system, which will let you increase the size of things but will let them have far more detail. This should lead to a better browsing experience because the text will be more legible.
When Windows Vista added better support for high DPI and scRGB for 16-bit-per-component color with higher gamuts, I was really looking forward to some awesome screens. Given that screens stopped being able to compete with response times and contrast, it seemed like the next thing for them to go for. Unfortunately, it's basically just been ignored.
Indeed -- the Linux binaries in Left 4 Dead were merely for dedicated servers. There was no news there, and the summary makes it seem like Phoronix had greater insight than they really did. Nearly every multiplayer game that runs on Windows has also included dedicated server binaries for Linux, including old Valve titles like Half-Life and Counter-Strike. They just extended that to include a command-line auto-updater that worked through Steam.
That said, if they are porting their games to OS X, it seems like it should not be very hard to go one small step farther and make it work for Linux. Once they've got the OpenGL renderer done and have ported the code to work with GCC, all they need to worry about is the relatively small windowing, audio, and input code which shouldn't take a seasoned developer more than a week to hack up.
You either get payed $X and get to bill $Y certs to the business, or you get payed $X + $Y and get to handle paying for $Y certs yourself. If $X isn't high enough for you, don't work there.
Some dumb teacher probably just left their admin password laying around on a post-it note, or hell even left some admin interface open unattended, and doesn't want to admit it. Therefor, "hacking"!
A great engine is actually quite doable in Open Source -- it's all about tools and assets. Developers first need to make a choice: use existing formats, or create their own next-gen one. Usually the former wins because they would rather focus on the engine and game than on a map editor and export plugins for model editors. And the existing formats they can pick from are usually a bit older because the current-gen ones aren't always documented.
Then you have trouble of finding people that can make good models and textures -- they tend to be pretty rare and, in my experience, resistant to creating Open Source assets.
"Bribed" is so negative -- are these kids really getting corrupted? Has anyone actually done a study to find the effects of getting incentives for your work early, as opposed to shouting from their armchairs? Oh right -- this Harvard guy. Probably not you.
While I disagree wholeheartedly with Chris's statement, I also think that Greg's comparison was not a very good one. The only thing he compared was a computer-generated, low-motion, pristine and lossless source. How many of those have have you seen on YouTube? Where is the noisy, poorly-lit video of some kid complaining about his life? Where's the shaky video someone shot on their cell phone? Where's the re-re-re-encoded video from people who re-uploaded the same video other people uploaded? Where's the TV captures and music videos? No, it was not representative at all.
I'm guessing that he assumes the key to one video might unlock various other things, and not just that single video.
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Everyone I've discussed the video with has agreed that it does look like the guy was preparing to fire an RPG from around the corner. It's really unfortunate if it was actually a camera with a telephoto lens, but I still think it was a reasonable assumption to make.
It's the second half of that video -- the part that seems to be ignored by that website of yours -- that baffles me. A van rides up to recover the last limping guy -- both the van and him showing no signs of hostility -- and the guys still beg their superiors for an OK to fire.
Sort of. It's a little higher-level and integrates better with the languages.
The real equivalents for Windows are being introduced with Visual Studio 2010 with the Concurrency Runtime for VC++ and the Parallel Framework for.NET. From what I've seen of GCD, these go a few steps past it and provide a pretty extensive set of operations that easily differentiate it from simple thread pooling.
What he is trying to do is get enough cores on a CPU so that each thread or process can run on it's own core. He essentially wants to remove the scheduler from the OS, so that there would be no time slices -- stuff would just run straight with no context switching. This is entirely different from GCD, which is an implementation of task-based parallelism backed by thread pools.
This would really only work on CPUs with a few thousand cores, and even then the CPUs would need to have some very intelligent power management for cores that aren't being used, or are in use but waiting on something like I/O.
I just bought DRM-free FLAC files of a new album from The Whigs, who belong to a sub-label of Sony. The music industry is slowly but surely starting to modernize and correct how they sell music. I'm sure we'll eventually see the movie industry do the same and start offering high-quality DRM-free stuff online. If anything, infrastructure upgrades like this router will just help that come sooner because their bandwidth costs will go down. I'm sure they're not happy about changing, but they don't really have a choice and I think they're finally beginning to realize that.
(Not to say I condone any of their lawsuits, privacy invasions, or other malicious shenanigans -- I wrote PeerGuardian for frak's sake.)
Exactly. Let someone else do it. I don't know if Amazon is the right place, but the answer is still the same: Let someone else do it.
Why do we see questions like this so often? Why aren't people going to existing services with guaranteed availability that let you store a generic blob? Pass the buck -- they're probably going to do it better anyway.
They've been giving high MTBFs on these SSDs for a while, and have discussed how they achieve it (wear leveling) ad nauseam. I don't think anyone has forgotten -- it's just not an important question any more for most people, because they've already got an answer that is good for them.
I'd be interested to see the comments you alluded to. If you see sub-standard or blurry video, you need to ask for help (you might be doing something wrong) or file a bug report. Any issues I've seen with CoreAVC have been fixed quickly -- there is a small community of experts who expect nothing less than excellent quality.
Resolution is merely one factor, and is relatively unimportant compared to the others.
My netbook (Atom N280) can decode 720p, but the bitrate needs to be pretty low (think less than 4mbit -- which is fine for a lot of movies, but really bad for others). If CAVLC (as opposed to CABAC) is used I can get away with a little higher bitrate.
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As the number of cores in your computer increases, and with things like NUMA starting to take hold, I suspect many of the skills learned in horizontal scaling will start to become very important.
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Yes, Microsoft is implementing the WOFF standard, along with all the other browsers.
It is called Deep Color.
Don't think of sizes in terms of pixels -- think of them in inches. The current thing on your screen that takes up 10 inches of space, wouldn't you like it to have twice the detail, while staying at 10 inches? I'd love for my text to have twice the detail, becoming easier to read. Maybe websites could start using serif fonts, which are generally regarded as more legible but also tough to use on most present-day monitors because of the low DPI. That's what high DPI is for -- more detail, not to make things smaller.
You're doing it wrong. You should be increasing the DPI setting in your operating system, which will let you increase the size of things but will let them have far more detail. This should lead to a better browsing experience because the text will be more legible.
When Windows Vista added better support for high DPI and scRGB for 16-bit-per-component color with higher gamuts, I was really looking forward to some awesome screens. Given that screens stopped being able to compete with response times and contrast, it seemed like the next thing for them to go for. Unfortunately, it's basically just been ignored.
Indeed -- the Linux binaries in Left 4 Dead were merely for dedicated servers. There was no news there, and the summary makes it seem like Phoronix had greater insight than they really did. Nearly every multiplayer game that runs on Windows has also included dedicated server binaries for Linux, including old Valve titles like Half-Life and Counter-Strike. They just extended that to include a command-line auto-updater that worked through Steam.
That said, if they are porting their games to OS X, it seems like it should not be very hard to go one small step farther and make it work for Linux. Once they've got the OpenGL renderer done and have ported the code to work with GCC, all they need to worry about is the relatively small windowing, audio, and input code which shouldn't take a seasoned developer more than a week to hack up.
That's what I get for replying after staying up all night to code -- right after I clicked submit I noticed :)
You either get payed $X and get to bill $Y certs to the business, or you get payed $X + $Y and get to handle paying for $Y certs yourself. If $X isn't high enough for you, don't work there.
Some dumb teacher probably just left their admin password laying around on a post-it note, or hell even left some admin interface open unattended, and doesn't want to admit it. Therefor, "hacking"!
A great engine is actually quite doable in Open Source -- it's all about tools and assets. Developers first need to make a choice: use existing formats, or create their own next-gen one. Usually the former wins because they would rather focus on the engine and game than on a map editor and export plugins for model editors. And the existing formats they can pick from are usually a bit older because the current-gen ones aren't always documented.
Then you have trouble of finding people that can make good models and textures -- they tend to be pretty rare and, in my experience, resistant to creating Open Source assets.
"Bribed" is so negative -- are these kids really getting corrupted? Has anyone actually done a study to find the effects of getting incentives for your work early, as opposed to shouting from their armchairs? Oh right -- this Harvard guy. Probably not you.
While I disagree wholeheartedly with Chris's statement, I also think that Greg's comparison was not a very good one. The only thing he compared was a computer-generated, low-motion, pristine and lossless source. How many of those have have you seen on YouTube? Where is the noisy, poorly-lit video of some kid complaining about his life? Where's the shaky video someone shot on their cell phone? Where's the re-re-re-encoded video from people who re-uploaded the same video other people uploaded? Where's the TV captures and music videos? No, it was not representative at all.
I'm guessing that he assumes the key to one video might unlock various other things, and not just that single video.
Everyone I've discussed the video with has agreed that it does look like the guy was preparing to fire an RPG from around the corner. It's really unfortunate if it was actually a camera with a telephoto lens, but I still think it was a reasonable assumption to make.
It's the second half of that video -- the part that seems to be ignored by that website of yours -- that baffles me. A van rides up to recover the last limping guy -- both the van and him showing no signs of hostility -- and the guys still beg their superiors for an OK to fire.
Sort of. It's a little higher-level and integrates better with the languages.
The real equivalents for Windows are being introduced with Visual Studio 2010 with the Concurrency Runtime for VC++ and the Parallel Framework for .NET. From what I've seen of GCD, these go a few steps past it and provide a pretty extensive set of operations that easily differentiate it from simple thread pooling.
What he is trying to do is get enough cores on a CPU so that each thread or process can run on it's own core. He essentially wants to remove the scheduler from the OS, so that there would be no time slices -- stuff would just run straight with no context switching. This is entirely different from GCD, which is an implementation of task-based parallelism backed by thread pools.
This would really only work on CPUs with a few thousand cores, and even then the CPUs would need to have some very intelligent power management for cores that aren't being used, or are in use but waiting on something like I/O.
I just bought DRM-free FLAC files of a new album from The Whigs, who belong to a sub-label of Sony. The music industry is slowly but surely starting to modernize and correct how they sell music. I'm sure we'll eventually see the movie industry do the same and start offering high-quality DRM-free stuff online. If anything, infrastructure upgrades like this router will just help that come sooner because their bandwidth costs will go down. I'm sure they're not happy about changing, but they don't really have a choice and I think they're finally beginning to realize that.
(Not to say I condone any of their lawsuits, privacy invasions, or other malicious shenanigans -- I wrote PeerGuardian for frak's sake.)
How is this any different from sitemaps? Sitemaps are by major search engines and have been in use for years now.
Exactly. Let someone else do it. I don't know if Amazon is the right place, but the answer is still the same: Let someone else do it.
Why do we see questions like this so often? Why aren't people going to existing services with guaranteed availability that let you store a generic blob? Pass the buck -- they're probably going to do it better anyway.
They've been giving high MTBFs on these SSDs for a while, and have discussed how they achieve it (wear leveling) ad nauseam. I don't think anyone has forgotten -- it's just not an important question any more for most people, because they've already got an answer that is good for them.
I'd be interested to see the comments you alluded to. If you see sub-standard or blurry video, you need to ask for help (you might be doing something wrong) or file a bug report. Any issues I've seen with CoreAVC have been fixed quickly -- there is a small community of experts who expect nothing less than excellent quality.
Resolution is merely one factor, and is relatively unimportant compared to the others.
My netbook (Atom N280) can decode 720p, but the bitrate needs to be pretty low (think less than 4mbit -- which is fine for a lot of movies, but really bad for others). If CAVLC (as opposed to CABAC) is used I can get away with a little higher bitrate.
As the number of cores in your computer increases, and with things like NUMA starting to take hold, I suspect many of the skills learned in horizontal scaling will start to become very important.
Does he sue neighbors for nuking food too? What about talking on cordless phones? Using bluetooth headsets or wireless console controllers?
Were either Betamax or VHS a standard? When I saw "standards wars", I thought of ODF vs OOXML.