Why dont they just not RENDER the pretty shadows or highlights?
If XWindows can 'copy' the look of aqua using standard rendering, which makes it 90% close but not the same, then why cannot apple just grow a brain cell and let people choose NOT TO USE 50% of the cpu to render pretty shadows which ARE NOT NEEDED.
OSX desktop should NOT BE SLOW on todays fast cpus, even if it is 100% cpu and no GPU. Because geez even quake1 using 100% software renderer in 1024 is darn faster than OSX doing 100x more complex rendering, including shadows.
So either OSX on PURPOSE makes it slow so people buy better HW or they are just bad coders.
Lets pretend that real optimized (made by uber cool 35yo hackers) desktop in 100% software is as fast as GPU hardware, even on 600mhz machines. Then why would anyone upgrade? There is less compellingness reasons to upgrade.
Even if its by sly tricks - like assigning the software renderer to the 'not most experienced' programmers. Im sure Id software could make a soft-rendered to do OSX effects on windows/buttons using 10% cpu in 60fps in 1600x1280 resolution. (The only GPU requirements are line draws and rect blits/rect fills).
Ever run linux/X on a slow mac? its funny how its 10x faster than OSX.
1000 million data points are better than just 1000 testing stations.
I mean, look at mars, constant sat photos and IR maps etc... thats more accurate than just 2 robots taking temps.
Those scientists are damn lazy to not design more remote weather stations powered by solar and sat comms. ohhh is it too expensive? then get SOME OTHER scientists to design a cheap system, rather than out sourcing it to a supplier at 100x build cost. Oh the uni dean wont let you? you have protocols and procedures?
So one fusion test lab with 300million degrees can affect the global tempterature average, because that one spike in 10000 locations will skew the data.
Averages tell you little. Its like using a 8x8 pixel camera, very little information.
Do those sort of people still exist today in the corporate world, knocking down good decent people for their own career gains?
Is the church a fraud that has billions of gold hidden in the vatican or hidden alien treasures? Are they really the one true original one world government neocons? Is the church like the ORI from stargate?
This is the basic human fundamental fight.... individualism vs collectivsm.... the bee hive vs the wasps....
Just let it be, do both, dont kill each other... and lets see how colonizes mars/moon first.... Communists or Capitalists.
The cyberdyne system failed, so they instead choose to grow it in china and build it there, where later they will mass produce lots of terminator 4 versions all chineese, made by chineese and being 5ft tall and kick like Jackie Chan.
Too much laws and criminality will eventually be the downfall of society because everyone will be made a criminal.
Maybe every parent should not let their child out of their house, and lock the doors then.
The lesson here is... Keep things more secret, dont tell anyone, cover your tracks, dont trust even your parents or the law. Tough laws really worked in the soviet union didnt they.
When i saw two christian dudes on the train sitting next to me, I was thinking... maybe I should say, "what did the spanish do to the latins 600 years ago?" Was that very christian?
Maybe I should have asked, is the bible a future prediction text, or is it a manual instructing the political powers at be how to rule the world?
But to wait two years for one, you loose far more intel in two years.
There is nothing wrong with a cheap devices that can be replaced VERY quickly...
Gone are the days of expensive manufacturing and long time to delivery.
Today if its broke, we can deliver a new one in 24hrs. In that case, if its cheap, have 5 spares in the boot of the car.
Why have one device thats 10x the cost that CAN BREAK, its better to have 10 devices and 1/10th the cost that might last if taken care of.
So a pentagon devices might cost $30000, because of 2 years dev cost and built by the most expensive factories in down town San Fran. A $400 device with some hacks and leather casing could last long enough, and you just buy 10 of them, $4000 bucks.
If you want it water proof, build a casing for it, you can buy digital camera underwater casings far cheaper than Pentagon prices;)
1999... We have a new driver model, its the best in the world and its perfect, Embrace Win2000 NOW... then it takes years for people to write decent drivers.
2003... XP uses same model, drivers keep working
2006... VSTA changes to new model, oh sorry, yeah we got some new coders and they say the last drivers were crap, and written by coders who dont comment their code. We need something new, that uses DRM and needs billions of new man hours in redevelopment.
Oh and what happened to rewriting 90% of the interface/desktop in.net because.net is soooo coool and fast.... oh it didnt work, was too slow used too much ram!! ah go back to MFC/C++ . If MS wont use it, why would the rest of the world. Again remind me, what MS application or OS component uses.Net ? OR is it just a feature to kill Java and annoy sun.
How qualified was bill gates at age 24? He would have never been hired by anyone, but was smart enough to run a 'slightly suspect business model', ie the true business way, screw partners to the wall to earn a good profit.
People might be generally 75% qualified, they just might lack the 'required 5 years experience' though I fail to see how many indians in india could have that too. Did they have the internet in 1992 in india? NO, so I dont think there are many old school guys there that grew up with computers when they were 14.
Someone who learns to program at the age of 14-15 is going to be a far more natural programmer I think. Just like many 'prodigys' in arts and sports, they start early, or your too old to be learning it.
The policy could be that, text is easy to change and edit. But a scanned image of an email (perhaps with a crc) is harder to 'change' and alter. Its as close to an original paper document you can find.
They both just have to BOYCOTT drivers for Vista, they are not required by law or contract to make drivers.
They can just say, NO, until we can do it OUR WAY.
Vista will sell like ZERO sales.... MS will force NO DRM on FUIA.
So who else is the choice besides these two for good 3d? nothing, absolutely nothing, matrox? no not really...
They hold the cards, either make buggy drivers, and MSs DX10 vista scheme will die, or just dont support vista, due to less than 50m install base marketing idealogy.
MS holds no power, their DX10 + DRM is useless with no supported 3d cards apart from intels chipsets which are crap.
I hate managers/owners who are just so analy stingy, I mean they cannot see the benefit of giving someone a 10-15% commission. They make you a million, and you pay them $1000. Wow thats fair, I can see that manager/owner would rather have it all for himself, but what they fail to realise is that $1mill * 10 years LESS is much worse than $100k * 10 years loss by giving a commission.
If someone makes you rich, share in the wealth. Otherwise they could make someone else rich.
Taking 99% of all money and then having a 3% growth in your company is not smart, taking 85% of all money and then having a 20% growth is a better yield curve, but then again, I guess a lot of old school managers left school at age 14 and have not a clue about compound growth.
Seriously.... people leave for many reasons, they could be 58 and retiring and still put in 100% for the last 2 months.
They could be leaving to another city but still will finish their work and document everything.
People dont work in prison camps, they have the right to leave, same as CEOs they can resign and still put out their last 3 months at 100%.
Often if the person was important, its good to keep them there to finish documenting everything they did or finish things off.
Oh and btw, no one puts in 100% every week. Every CEO that plays 3hrs gold on friday, thats 5% off from a 60hr week. Not every human on earth is 100% healthy 52weeks/year none stop.
I know they deny it, but denying it is the plan to SHOCK Sony!
I bet they already are making 10000/week to fill the oil tankers!
The group of companies behind HDDVD should be damn scared of the ps3, and they should be willing to pay MS $250m to get hddvd out there to compete. Im sure they can subsidise MS down to dvd prices and get it out there pronto together with the hdmi + 60gig HD.
Seriously, how much can a HDDVD cost with the casing/cables and just bare bones internal.
I said over a year ago MS will make an itunes style store to sell music/videos on xbox live and they have. If MS wastes millions on a crappy zune player, they cannot let hddvd just sit there not being 'standard' in the xbox.
They are already in the black on making the xbox360s, they can either drop the price or increase features.
This format war is BIG and long term... It might as well be the 'last format war' since theres no need for anything past this except tiny star trek crystals.
Many games do 60fps easy, now a gui using 3d video card features, doesnt do much and it too can be fast.
Whats slow is stupid code with lots of lots of wait states, and endless refresh for each tiny update.
raw plain widgets are fast, but if you stard adding procedural generated textures with shadows and lighting, its gona slow down.
Sometimes things are too fast that coders do not see their inefficiencies, it would be smart of them to slow down a gui app to 1/100th speed to see where the inefficiencies are in wasted redraws.
1. ps3 wasnt ready 12 months early... if it was, then they would have had time to do a soft emu of the ps2 in combination with hardware acccel wrappers. Instead the ps2 is there as 2 chips.
2. The bluray drive is over costed, its really cheaper than it seams if you count raw manufacturing cost alone, and bound to drop real fast as they ramp up the factories.
3. This is a long term venture, the ps3 will have a 2006 to 2015 life time. If bluray is not here now, its a missed boat because of hddvd competing. They need the numbers out there. which I think will force Toshiba to give MS a massive discount or even loss on making the hddvd drive for the next xbox360 revision as standard. If its only $50 more costs, toshiba will wear it otherwise its got no chance.
4. japan apartments are tiny, they need a computer + game machine + media machine in one. Everyone hates 5 machines with 5 remotes. All it needs now are small usb-hdtv dongles to watch tv.
5. it runs linux, and if Sony had the balls, they would open the GPU to be used under linux to kick in more sales.
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47000 yet for 20gig ver in Japan ($520AU)
$999 for 60gig in Australian.
As if sony doesnt have their own boats they cannot use? hell use those Whale Ships!
Why dont they just not RENDER the pretty shadows or highlights?
If XWindows can 'copy' the look of aqua using standard rendering, which makes it 90% close but not the same, then why cannot
apple just grow a brain cell and let people choose NOT TO USE 50% of the cpu to render pretty shadows which ARE NOT NEEDED.
OSX desktop should NOT BE SLOW on todays fast cpus, even if it is 100% cpu and no GPU. Because geez even quake1 using 100% software renderer
in 1024 is darn faster than OSX doing 100x more complex rendering, including shadows.
So either OSX on PURPOSE makes it slow so people buy better HW or they are just bad coders.
Lets pretend that real optimized (made by uber cool 35yo hackers) desktop in 100% software is as fast as GPU hardware, even on 600mhz machines.
Then why would anyone upgrade? There is less compellingness reasons to upgrade.
Even if its by sly tricks - like assigning the software renderer to the 'not most experienced' programmers. Im sure Id software could make a soft-rendered to do OSX effects on windows/buttons
using 10% cpu in 60fps in 1600x1280 resolution. (The only GPU requirements are line draws and rect blits/rect fills).
Ever run linux/X on a slow mac? its funny how its 10x faster than OSX.
1000 million data points are better than just 1000 testing stations.
I mean, look at mars, constant sat photos and IR maps etc... thats more accurate than just 2 robots taking temps.
Those scientists are damn lazy to not design more remote weather stations powered by solar and sat comms. ohhh is it too expensive? then get SOME OTHER scientists to
design a cheap system, rather than out sourcing it to a supplier at 100x build cost. Oh the uni dean wont let you? you have protocols and procedures?
So one fusion test lab with 300million degrees can affect the global tempterature average, because that one spike in 10000 locations will skew the data.
Averages tell you little. Its like using a 8x8 pixel camera, very little information.
Why did they arrest him? What did it gain them?
More whores or virgins? more book sales?
Common, what did it gain them.... bigger dicks?
Do those sort of people still exist today in the corporate world, knocking down good decent people for their own career gains?
Is the church a fraud that has billions of gold hidden in the vatican or hidden alien treasures? Are they really the one true original
one world government neocons? Is the church like the ORI from stargate?
This is the basic human fundamental fight.... individualism vs collectivsm.... the bee hive vs the wasps....
Just let it be, do both, dont kill each other... and lets see how colonizes mars/moon first.... Communists or Capitalists.
The cyberdyne system failed, so they instead choose to grow it in china and build it there, where later they will mass produce
lots of terminator 4 versions all chineese, made by chineese and being 5ft tall and kick like Jackie Chan.
We didnt do this 50 years ago so why now?
Too much laws and criminality will eventually be the downfall of society because everyone will be made a criminal.
Maybe every parent should not let their child out of their house, and lock the doors then.
The lesson here is... Keep things more secret, dont tell anyone, cover your tracks, dont trust even
your parents or the law. Tough laws really worked in the soviet union didnt they.
When i saw two christian dudes on the train sitting next to me, I was thinking... maybe I should say, "what did the spanish do to the latins 600 years ago?"
Was that very christian?
Maybe I should have asked, is the bible a future prediction text, or is it a manual instructing the political powers at be how to rule the world?
Stargats ORI remind me of the bible bashers!
But to wait two years for one, you loose far more intel in two years.
;)
There is nothing wrong with a cheap devices that can be replaced VERY quickly...
Gone are the days of expensive manufacturing and long time to delivery.
Today if its broke, we can deliver a new one in 24hrs. In that case, if its cheap, have 5 spares in the boot of the car.
Why have one device thats 10x the cost that CAN BREAK, its better to have 10 devices and 1/10th the cost that might last if
taken care of.
So a pentagon devices might cost $30000, because of 2 years dev cost and built by the most expensive factories in down town San Fran.
A $400 device with some hacks and leather casing could last long enough, and you just buy 10 of them, $4000 bucks.
If you want it water proof, build a casing for it, you can buy digital camera underwater casings far cheaper than Pentagon prices
1999... We have a new driver model, its the best in the world and its perfect, Embrace Win2000 NOW... then it takes years for people to write decent drivers.
.net because .net is soooo coool and fast.... oh it didnt work, was too slow used too much ram!! ah go back to MFC/C++ . .Net ? OR is it just a feature to kill Java and annoy sun.
2003... XP uses same model, drivers keep working
2006... VSTA changes to new model, oh sorry, yeah we got some new coders and they say the last drivers were crap, and written by coders who dont comment their code. We need something new, that uses DRM and needs billions of new man hours in redevelopment.
Oh and what happened to rewriting 90% of the interface/desktop in
If MS wont use it, why would the rest of the world. Again remind me, what MS application or OS component uses
IN australia, every city has 10s of chineese computer shops that sell anything and everything, especially PCs with nothing on them optionally.
www.istore.com.au
www.cworld.com.au
How qualified was bill gates at age 24? He would have never been hired by anyone, but was smart enough
to run a 'slightly suspect business model', ie the true business way, screw partners to the wall to earn a good profit.
People might be generally 75% qualified, they just might lack the 'required 5 years experience' though I fail to see how
many indians in india could have that too. Did they have the internet in 1992 in india? NO, so I dont think
there are many old school guys there that grew up with computers when they were 14.
Someone who learns to program at the age of 14-15 is going to be a far more natural programmer I think.
Just like many 'prodigys' in arts and sports, they start early, or your too old to be learning it.
What a joke....
99% of software runs on xp/win2k, very little of it is vista only, and it cannot offer anything exclusive.
just buy the cheapest bare ass PC, with no KB/monitor and use it via VNC.
Pay for vista, what a joke, just use OEM pcs with xp.
The policy could be that, text is easy to change and edit. But a scanned image of an email (perhaps with a crc) is harder
to 'change' and alter. Its as close to an original paper document you can find.
Finally maybe MS will have made DRM useful to themselves, and make all notes and emails drmed so that they cannot be used in court.
GO read the history of how ibm started and how it blew of NCR in the typewritter days.
To sell new type writers they bought up every 2nd hand stores, and shut them down.
Bill gates mother used to work for IBM. I bet she mentoured him on all the tricks of IBMs evil ways
since 1890 onwards when Thomas ruled.
it just hated seeing every employee with a damn APPLE logo on their desk and installing itunes.
So now all employees have a free zune, and itunes is removed by admins as spyware.
They both just have to BOYCOTT drivers for Vista, they are not required by law or contract to make drivers.
They can just say, NO, until we can do it OUR WAY.
Vista will sell like ZERO sales.... MS will force NO DRM on FUIA.
So who else is the choice besides these two for good 3d? nothing, absolutely nothing, matrox? no not really...
They hold the cards, either make buggy drivers, and MSs DX10 vista scheme will die, or just dont support vista, due
to less than 50m install base marketing idealogy.
MS holds no power, their DX10 + DRM is useless with no supported 3d cards apart from intels chipsets which are crap.
I hate managers/owners who are just so analy stingy, I mean they cannot see the benefit of giving
someone a 10-15% commission. They make you a million, and you pay them $1000. Wow thats fair, I can see
that manager/owner would rather have it all for himself, but what they fail to realise is that $1mill * 10 years
LESS is much worse than $100k * 10 years loss by giving a commission.
If someone makes you rich, share in the wealth. Otherwise they could make someone else rich.
Taking 99% of all money and then having a 3% growth in your company is not smart, taking 85% of all money and then
having a 20% growth is a better yield curve, but then again, I guess a lot of old school managers left school at age 14
and have not a clue about compound growth.
Seriously.... people leave for many reasons, they could be 58 and retiring and still put in 100% for the last 2 months.
They could be leaving to another city but still will finish their work and document everything.
People dont work in prison camps, they have the right to leave, same as CEOs they can resign and still
put out their last 3 months at 100%.
Often if the person was important, its good to keep them there to finish documenting everything they did or
finish things off.
Oh and btw, no one puts in 100% every week. Every CEO that plays 3hrs gold on friday, thats 5% off from a 60hr week.
Not every human on earth is 100% healthy 52weeks/year none stop.
If you have a house fire or a tornado or a horroricane, or theft, or damage...
what will you replace it with.... DVD or HDVD? insurance company pays... choose hd.
RAW PCM audio helps too, no more compressed dolby/thx.
I know they deny it, but denying it is the plan to SHOCK Sony!
I bet they already are making 10000/week to fill the oil tankers!
The group of companies behind HDDVD should be damn scared of the ps3, and they should be willing to pay MS $250m to get
hddvd out there to compete. Im sure they can subsidise MS down to dvd prices and get it out there pronto together with
the hdmi + 60gig HD.
Seriously, how much can a HDDVD cost with the casing/cables and just bare bones internal.
I said over a year ago MS will make an itunes style store to sell music/videos on xbox live and they have. If MS wastes millions on a crappy
zune player, they cannot let hddvd just sit there not being 'standard' in the xbox.
They are already in the black on making the xbox360s, they can either drop the price or increase features.
This format war is BIG and long term... It might as well be the 'last format war' since theres no need for anything past this except tiny star trek crystals.
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware _how_to
Many games do 60fps easy, now a gui using 3d video card features, doesnt do much and it too can be fast.
Whats slow is stupid code with lots of lots of wait states, and endless refresh for each tiny update.
raw plain widgets are fast, but if you stard adding procedural generated textures with shadows and lighting, its gona slow down.
Sometimes things are too fast that coders do not see their inefficiencies, it would be smart of them to slow down a gui app to 1/100th speed
to see where the inefficiencies are in wasted redraws.
1. ps3 wasnt ready 12 months early... if it was, then they would have had time to do a soft emu of the ps2 in combination with hardware acccel wrappers. Instead the ps2
is there as 2 chips.
2. The bluray drive is over costed, its really cheaper than it seams if you count raw manufacturing cost alone, and bound to drop real fast as they ramp up the factories.
3. This is a long term venture, the ps3 will have a 2006 to 2015 life time. If bluray is not here now, its a missed boat because of hddvd competing. They need the numbers out there.
which I think will force Toshiba to give MS a massive discount or even loss on making the hddvd drive for the next xbox360 revision as standard. If its only $50 more costs, toshiba will wear it otherwise its got no chance.
4. japan apartments are tiny, they need a computer + game machine + media machine in one. Everyone hates 5 machines with 5 remotes. All it needs now are small usb-hdtv dongles to watch tv.
5. it runs linux, and if Sony had the balls, they would open the GPU to be used under linux to kick in more sales.
6. competition is good