i did read the article, but i kinda think i'd need to see more than one source as well as hear comments about any flaws in the tests before accepting this as the new order.
unreal uses a java like scripting language, but its for gameplay code, not the actual rendering, however, i think that's as close as it comes right now. (the java like stuff is something like 20x as slow as the c++ code, cause of the overhead etc)
P.S. a lot of gameplay code is also in c++ and compiled into dll's (i believe), but mods dont have access to the headers to compile c++ code into the game readily.
another poster mentioned memory bandwidth as a bottleneck... the bandwidth between an agp card and the cpu has even less bandwidth, and the amount of memory on graphics cards is usually well below system ram, making the process nto really seem like the best way to do things currently...
When i was really young they still played videos, now its mainly BPP (bitchy people programming, real world etc)... since I couldn't find a reliable source of music there or from local radio I had to *gasp* look into the local music scene;) (radio here does have noise in the basement and local lix for area bands, and mandatory metallica etc which plays some decent stuff)
with the internet and a network of friends that are very into music, finding good stuff really isnt that hard. Of course, i'm into metal stuff thats kinda niche (soilwork, dark tranquility, etc) more than anything else, but talent/art is easy to see. Either way, I've found the underground metal scene is pretty nice, because there's not really an money there, all the bands are only together because they like the music. The upshot is that they're not well known, and most of the time, they love hanging out with fans and talking about music (but not the 4000 have you heard of... questions).
It takes a while to find what you like. I got lucky and found some nice russian mp3 servers when i was in seventh grade, got some at the gates and I could just tell that was the kinda of music I really liked.
The thing i see most of is that music is treated like a commodity and people dont want to spend a lot of time finding really good music, when they can have shit provided to them thats "good enough." That, and people seem inclined to idol worship, and it seems much easier when the subject can be seen (downside of a video, people spend more attention looking then listening).
19" with basically one tranparent back screen in front of another for 3D modelling type things... but that was more of an extension of those stupid red/blue 3d glasses things...
I'll be more impressed when actual demos and off-site reviews hit.
its used by mobil, i have one and i use it at the station up the street all the time for gas and the occasional snack... it really only saves about 10 seconds over using a credit card, but there really isnt a downside to it at this point... stays on keychain with the car keys... no fumbling through my 20 different cards... its not really super great, but its a small improvement;)
dumb terminals can be had for 20$, just add monitor, keyboard and mouse... optionally speakers... (the apps would run on app(s) servers, saving plenty of cash)...
again, techbargains + dell or powerenotebooks.com
sometimes its close to 50% alienware etc for the same gear (no paint job, but clevo is the actual maker of the laptops for alienwave and powernotebooks, and they sell the same models)
how is this high end?
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the lcd is only WXGA... you can get laptops with much higher pixel density from many non-high end manufacturers now... first step up is usually only like 50$ more (1680x1050), than 100$ or so for another step up (1920x1200)...
either way, i still can't believe they charge that much... maybe some people really love the paint job.
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powernotebooks sells a lot of high end laptops, and they'll pre-install linux for you;)
forgot to mention in my other post... mobile gfx drivers don't get updated very often, and while I like having a 15.4" screen most of the time, for gaming it makes things look streched, and i really wish i could just get black bars on the side so the games dont look warped (fps's, other games it isnt that noticeable)...
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Just cause it says 9700 pro doesn't mean that it is... the mobile cards go a good bit slower than the equivalently rated desktop parts...
techbargains.com + dell OR powernotebooks.com will save you a good bit over your voodoos and alienwares...
also busses/ram/hard drives tend to be slower in laptops as well, just a few things to remember. Laptops have come a long way, and now they'll even play the newest games at good res without freezing, but due to heat and size (and therefore monetary;) ) constraints, they're not gonna be as cool as the upper end desktops... but then again, that has always and will always remain true. On the plus side, they're easy to carry and the wifi is nice.
some suggested other countries be blocked in the past, but i believe over half of all spam originates from the US... i figure they probably should have tried to get the isp to kill the accounts sending the e-mails instead of blocking the country though... that seems kinda insane, cause you know once the kiddies see that they can get whole countries blocked, they'll jump right on it, and then the blacklist would be pretty worthless wouldn't it;)
a lot of people tend to have the "it works for me, so its good enough for anyone else" mentality;) but 3d modeling/CAD/AV production are very intensive, and most modern FPS's take over 350mb of memory when running (and obviously running 100% on RAM is faster than with swap files)...
I personally have a cubase plugin (the grand, uses lots of real piano samples (3gb+) to make midi sound not fake) which requires 512mb by itself (ontop of OS/cubase/whatever else) to run on the realistic setting...
anyways, most people are fine with 256mb, most gamers are fine with 512mb, but there are plenty of people who already have the need for 2gb as well. hope this doesnt come of as a rant or as insult;)
yeah, but if you want to get 512mb kingston pc2700, its still $50 after rebate most weeks at bestbuy/staples/office max... and compusa does the same basic deal with other brands...
i could run doom, quake, mechwarrior 2 etc on that thing... wow... maybe someone should steal some for clustering;)
be kinda cool to throw spare cycles from such things into a supercomputer... they'd have spare ram, cycles, and wireless, right? the streets themselves could help with some cumputations, though i imagine the overhead of the mesh network would kill its effectiveness, it's still kinda cool to think about how (in the future) a parking meter could help find a cure for cancer or whatever though...
unfortunately, if merchant's weren't responsible, than they'd have no reason not to take bogus orders, and i figure CC's would be out of business quick... I can't think of a way to make it work, even though it is unfair...
I mean, I could take my brother's card and leave the country, hit the limit, he could say it was stolen, he doesn't lose the money, I get to keep my stuff, the store would love the business, and the CC company would be bankrupt in two hours...
I think it was close to 1.5mill per show, and it was their second highest rated show... only stargate was rated higher, however, stargate is much cheaper per show (and its very apparent why if you've watch the special FX/ lack of non human looking races etc)...
i wouldn't say starred, but she's had a billion different parts... queen of the damned, some anime stuff, lords of everquest etc etc... probably missing a ton... other actors have also done boatloads too
I mean... does anyone remember DOS? it worked the same way... that was one of the things i hated when win95 came out, you couldnt just copy a directory and have a fully working program anymore... really didnt like that, anyways, glad to see people are looking into it again... its a much easier way to work, stop worrying about dependancies, and get back to whatever it is that you're really trying to get done.
I don't speak any other languages and i could pick out some of the different accents of the same langauge... living near washington DC gives pretty good grounds to learn, but i imagine german/french readers (among others) could tell the differences of location for their native tongue... ivory coast/canadian/louisiana/paris french sound fairly distinct, even when speaking english...
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jeffrey ross stand up routine, repeated endless on comedy central years ago ;)
1.5 hour commute... that'll move you about 20 miles if you're in northern VA/MD/washington D.C.
I really don't know anyone around here who DOESN'T spend at least 3 hours commuting every day... sucks, eh?
i did read the article, but i kinda think i'd need to see more than one source as well as hear comments about any flaws in the tests before accepting this as the new order.
unreal uses a java like scripting language, but its for gameplay code, not the actual rendering, however, i think that's as close as it comes right now. (the java like stuff is something like 20x as slow as the c++ code, cause of the overhead etc)
P.S. a lot of gameplay code is also in c++ and compiled into dll's (i believe), but mods dont have access to the headers to compile c++ code into the game readily.
another poster mentioned memory bandwidth as a bottleneck... the bandwidth between an agp card and the cpu has even less bandwidth, and the amount of memory on graphics cards is usually well below system ram, making the process nto really seem like the best way to do things currently...
When i was really young they still played videos, now its mainly BPP (bitchy people programming, real world etc)... since I couldn't find a reliable source of music there or from local radio I had to *gasp* look into the local music scene ;) (radio here does have noise in the basement and local lix for area bands, and mandatory metallica etc which plays some decent stuff)
... questions).
with the internet and a network of friends that are very into music, finding good stuff really isnt that hard. Of course, i'm into metal stuff thats kinda niche (soilwork, dark tranquility, etc) more than anything else, but talent/art is easy to see. Either way, I've found the underground metal scene is pretty nice, because there's not really an money there, all the bands are only together because they like the music. The upshot is that they're not well known, and most of the time, they love hanging out with fans and talking about music (but not the 4000 have you heard of
It takes a while to find what you like. I got lucky and found some nice russian mp3 servers when i was in seventh grade, got some at the gates and I could just tell that was the kinda of music I really liked.
The thing i see most of is that music is treated like a commodity and people dont want to spend a lot of time finding really good music, when they can have shit provided to them thats "good enough." That, and people seem inclined to idol worship, and it seems much easier when the subject can be seen (downside of a video, people spend more attention looking then listening).
sad but true.
19" with basically one tranparent back screen in front of another for 3D modelling type things... but that was more of an extension of those stupid red/blue 3d glasses things...
I'll be more impressed when actual demos and off-site reviews hit.
its used by mobil, i have one and i use it at the station up the street all the time for gas and the occasional snack... it really only saves about 10 seconds over using a credit card, but there really isnt a downside to it at this point... stays on keychain with the car keys... no fumbling through my 20 different cards... its not really super great, but its a small improvement ;)
dumb terminals can be had for 20$, just add monitor, keyboard and mouse... optionally speakers... (the apps would run on app(s) servers, saving plenty of cash)...
again, techbargains + dell or powerenotebooks.com sometimes its close to 50% alienware etc for the same gear (no paint job, but clevo is the actual maker of the laptops for alienwave and powernotebooks, and they sell the same models)
the lcd is only WXGA... you can get laptops with much higher pixel density from many non-high end manufacturers now... first step up is usually only like 50$ more (1680x1050), than 100$ or so for another step up (1920x1200)...
either way, i still can't believe they charge that much... maybe some people really love the paint job.
powernotebooks sells a lot of high end laptops, and they'll pre-install linux for you ;)
forgot to mention in my other post... mobile gfx drivers don't get updated very often, and while I like having a 15.4" screen most of the time, for gaming it makes things look streched, and i really wish i could just get black bars on the side so the games dont look warped (fps's, other games it isnt that noticeable)...
Just cause it says 9700 pro doesn't mean that it is... the mobile cards go a good bit slower than the equivalently rated desktop parts...
;) ) constraints, they're not gonna be as cool as the upper end desktops... but then again, that has always and will always remain true. On the plus side, they're easy to carry and the wifi is nice.
techbargains.com + dell OR powernotebooks.com will save you a good bit over your voodoos and alienwares...
also busses/ram/hard drives tend to be slower in laptops as well, just a few things to remember. Laptops have come a long way, and now they'll even play the newest games at good res without freezing, but due to heat and size (and therefore monetary
some suggested other countries be blocked in the past, but i believe over half of all spam originates from the US... i figure they probably should have tried to get the isp to kill the accounts sending the e-mails instead of blocking the country though... that seems kinda insane, cause you know once the kiddies see that they can get whole countries blocked, they'll jump right on it, and then the blacklist would be pretty worthless wouldn't it ;)
a lot of people tend to have the "it works for me, so its good enough for anyone else" mentality ;) but 3d modeling/CAD/AV production are very intensive, and most modern FPS's take over 350mb of memory when running (and obviously running 100% on RAM is faster than with swap files)...
;)
I personally have a cubase plugin (the grand, uses lots of real piano samples (3gb+) to make midi sound not fake) which requires 512mb by itself (ontop of OS/cubase/whatever else) to run on the realistic setting...
anyways, most people are fine with 256mb, most gamers are fine with 512mb, but there are plenty of people who already have the need for 2gb as well. hope this doesnt come of as a rant or as insult
yeah, but if you want to get 512mb kingston pc2700, its still $50 after rebate most weeks at bestbuy/staples/office max... and compusa does the same basic deal with other brands...
i could run doom, quake, mechwarrior 2 etc on that thing... wow... maybe someone should steal some for clustering ;)
be kinda cool to throw spare cycles from such things into a supercomputer... they'd have spare ram, cycles, and wireless, right? the streets themselves could help with some cumputations, though i imagine the overhead of the mesh network would kill its effectiveness, it's still kinda cool to think about how (in the future) a parking meter could help find a cure for cancer or whatever though...
unfortunately, if merchant's weren't responsible, than they'd have no reason not to take bogus orders, and i figure CC's would be out of business quick... I can't think of a way to make it work, even though it is unfair...
I mean, I could take my brother's card and leave the country, hit the limit, he could say it was stolen, he doesn't lose the money, I get to keep my stuff, the store would love the business, and the CC company would be bankrupt in two hours...
The load bar finishes and then i get a blue screen...
;)
what a great game
and with rebates, bestbuy/compusa have 160gb for 60-100$ depending on the week...
I think it was close to 1.5mill per show, and it was their second highest rated show... only stargate was rated higher, however, stargate is much cheaper per show (and its very apparent why if you've watch the special FX/ lack of non human looking races etc)...
i wouldn't say starred, but she's had a billion different parts... queen of the damned, some anime stuff, lords of everquest etc etc... probably missing a ton... other actors have also done boatloads too
I mean... does anyone remember DOS? it worked the same way... that was one of the things i hated when win95 came out, you couldnt just copy a directory and have a fully working program anymore... really didnt like that, anyways, glad to see people are looking into it again... its a much easier way to work, stop worrying about dependancies, and get back to whatever it is that you're really trying to get done.
I don't speak any other languages and i could pick out some of the different accents of the same langauge... living near washington DC gives pretty good grounds to learn, but i imagine german/french readers (among others) could tell the differences of location for their native tongue... ivory coast/canadian/louisiana/paris french sound fairly distinct, even when speaking english...