I hope they don't fall down when they walk past a microwave oven. I know my bt headset drops info while talking around my microwave. I hope the final devices are a bit more robust.
You just have to look in the right places. I imagine the top of the wish list at bondage.com is a Vista laptop with 512MB of ram. The sadomasicists must be eager to buy themselves this beautifully painful gift.
So my impression so far is that Valve doesn't care enough about the PS3 to do the port themselves, or to carefully track EA progress on the contracted port or to step up after this horrible PR snafu and promise that everything will be smoothed out before release.
So far I am not impressed with Valve and their commitment to anything besides MS platforms.
Does everyone think that Walmart and every other large retailer doesn't track the purchases made with the same credit/debit card? When you use a single identifiable item for so many things, it makes your behavior very easy to predict and to take advantage of. Say hello to Big Visa.
My laptop came with Vista and installed Ubuntu right after purchase. I use Ubuntu much more than my legally purchased windows copy, probably about 10:1 in favor of linux because vista pops up dialog boxes for way too much stuff. For instance, every boot creates about 10 dialog boxes that need to be confirmed. My cpu monitoring app, norton antivirus, etc... all have to be given permission to run, it really pisses me off. I haven't found a way to give permanent permission to those apps without turning UAE off, which strips out some very necessary protection. FU Microsoft.
Everyone knows, once you go Pirate you never go back. Free lovin' of something ( even as bad as windows vista) makes it hard to go back to payin' for it... Thats why I love Linux, versions range from expensive business server to cheap and loose floozy, your choice!:)
Seriously though, how is this position not monopoly abuse by MS? Can other software companies adopt this position and still survive? Letting people steal your software, knowing about it, and then getting them to agree to a contract to keep using the stolen version. This must make people that have been busted by MS and the BSA feel pretty mad. When can they expect refunds of the fines they had to pay? And a public apology too?
My PS3 spends a bunch of time Folding@Home and also runs Ubuntu pretty well if you setup swap space. Under linux, it works well for playing media types that Sony doesn't want to support, like xvid, divx and ogg vorbis files.
Yeah, I RTFA, it's where the quote came from. I really hate relying on the mysterious future to maybe eventually get to play against my friends without an explicit promise to ever allow it.
I think it will make sense for me to wait and see what they will actually commit to supporting before buying any version. By that time I'll just get a used copy and save some cash.:)
Well, in past releases, the linux client didn't get the same priority as the windows version and the releases lagged a bit. That is the reason I made the distinction between linux and windows versions and wondered if Epic was going to allow them to interplay but leave the console players on their own little deserted island.
I'm hoping that they just make it optional for interplay between all of the platforms so the server maintainer can allow or disallow consoles instead of just creating a permanent barrier.
I thought it was more widely known that the PS3 version will support keyboard and mouse play. One of the reasons I finally bought a console for gaming.
Since they already announced KB/mouse support for the PS3 version, I was planning to play that way. One reason I bought a PS3 ( my first game console) was the ease of playing games without jumping through the Windows (and sometimes Linux) hoops of driver version hell. Now that I don't rely on windows for gaming, I run linux only systems except for my dual boot laptop.
I'm not confused about what Sony requires, I also expect MS to have similar requirements for the 360. Part of my point was that the stated reason for not letting different platforms play against each other is pretty artificial. Simply let them play together once the platforms are the same version.
So, does this mean that they don't "have a lengthy certification process" for PC patches? What is the real problem anyway? If they need feature and update parity between PC and console versions, then just keep doing what they already do: don't let systems with different versions play each other, but if users (Xbox360, PS3 and PC) have the same version, then let them play! Also, they plan a linux client version. Will linux users not be able to play against PC users either?
The proposed brick wall between the different platform users would make this a pointless purchase for me because I would want to play against some friends that use consoles. I wonder if this would also mixed prevent lan play?
If you now have a cell tower within range, wouldn't cell phone based broadband be a possibility? Not the fastest, but much better than an analog modem.
Just in case you are not just trolling, none of the clients are "useless". The GPU and PS3 clients produce completed work units, no further processing required. Just to pull some meaningless numbers out of thin air, consider that the x86 or PPC clients can be used to crunch on 100% of the available work units. The PS3 may be able to process ~75% and the GPU client possibly 50%. You will be able to get answers to all of your questions here.
The GPU client is indeed much faster than the PS3 or quad core cpu at the moment. It is also less generic or versatile with the calculations it can perform. The x86 CPU is the most generic and versatile, then the PS3 and then the GPU client which has the least versatility. The last F@H 1.2 update for the PS3 added some more generic calculation ability and added performance enhancements.
Best is relative to what is needed here. The current research needed at any given moment seems to determine which method will produce the best and most useful results.
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Not quite right. There is a big difference between PPD and actual work produced, scoring varies for cpu, ps3 and gpu results.
The actual process is much more involved than just figuring out the order of the RGB info.
And would be about a perfect match for Wikipedia, unobtrusive and topical. I say go forward and earn enough to keep the doors open and grow.
Sorry officer, but every time you zap me with your radar gun, my leg floors the gas pedal..
I hope they don't fall down when they walk past a microwave oven. I know my bt headset drops info while talking around my microwave. I hope the final devices are a bit more robust.
And now she is finding that she lusts after herself.
We could just make a maze of these plants as the entrance to every law school! Voilà, no more law-rats...
I'm just wondering when the first robot will enroll in to law school now that they have developed the necessary skills...
You just have to look in the right places. I imagine the top of the wish list at bondage.com is a Vista laptop with 512MB of ram. The sadomasicists must be eager to buy themselves this beautifully painful gift.
The site is already very slow, so posting the actual links.
http://www.sagemath.org
http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage
http://modular.fas.harvard.edu/sage
http://www.opensourcemath.org/sage/
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/sage
http://sage.apcocoa.org
http://echidna.maths.usyd.edu.au/sage
http://sage.scipy.org/sage
So my impression so far is that Valve doesn't care enough about the PS3 to do the port themselves, or to carefully track EA progress on the contracted port or to step up after this horrible PR snafu and promise that everything will be smoothed out before release.
So far I am not impressed with Valve and their commitment to anything besides MS platforms.
Does everyone think that Walmart and every other large retailer doesn't track the purchases made with the same credit/debit card? When you use a single identifiable item for so many things, it makes your behavior very easy to predict and to take advantage of. Say hello to Big Visa.
My laptop came with Vista and installed Ubuntu right after purchase. I use Ubuntu much more than my legally purchased windows copy, probably about 10:1 in favor of linux because vista pops up dialog boxes for way too much stuff. For instance, every boot creates about 10 dialog boxes that need to be confirmed. My cpu monitoring app, norton antivirus, etc... all have to be given permission to run, it really pisses me off. I haven't found a way to give permanent permission to those apps without turning UAE off, which strips out some very necessary protection. FU Microsoft.
Everyone knows, once you go Pirate you never go back. Free lovin' of something ( even as bad as windows vista) makes it hard to go back to payin' for it... Thats why I love Linux, versions range from expensive business server to cheap and loose floozy, your choice! :)
Seriously though, how is this position not monopoly abuse by MS? Can other software companies adopt this position and still survive? Letting people steal your software, knowing about it, and then getting them to agree to a contract to keep using the stolen version. This must make people that have been busted by MS and the BSA feel pretty mad. When can they expect refunds of the fines they had to pay? And a public apology too?
Yeah, I RTFA, it's where the quote came from. I really hate relying on the mysterious future to maybe eventually get to play against my friends without an explicit promise to ever allow it.
:)
I think it will make sense for me to wait and see what they will actually commit to supporting before buying any version. By that time I'll just get a used copy and save some cash.
Well, in past releases, the linux client didn't get the same priority as the windows version and the releases lagged a bit. That is the reason I made the distinction between linux and windows versions and wondered if Epic was going to allow them to interplay but leave the console players on their own little deserted island.
I'm hoping that they just make it optional for interplay between all of the platforms so the server maintainer can allow or disallow consoles instead of just creating a permanent barrier.
I thought it was more widely known that the PS3 version will support keyboard and mouse play. One of the reasons I finally bought a console for gaming.
Since they already announced KB/mouse support for the PS3 version, I was planning to play that way. One reason I bought a PS3 ( my first game console) was the ease of playing games without jumping through the Windows (and sometimes Linux) hoops of driver version hell. Now that I don't rely on windows for gaming, I run linux only systems except for my dual boot laptop.
I'm not confused about what Sony requires, I also expect MS to have similar requirements for the 360. Part of my point was that the stated reason for not letting different platforms play against each other is pretty artificial. Simply let them play together once the platforms are the same version.
So, does this mean that they don't "have a lengthy certification process" for PC patches? What is the real problem anyway? If they need feature and update parity between PC and console versions, then just keep doing what they already do: don't let systems with different versions play each other, but if users (Xbox360, PS3 and PC) have the same version, then let them play! Also, they plan a linux client version. Will linux users not be able to play against PC users either?
The proposed brick wall between the different platform users would make this a pointless purchase for me because I would want to play against some friends that use consoles. I wonder if this would also mixed prevent lan play?
Hmmm, I don't think he can remotely manage his servers with a library book.
If you now have a cell tower within range, wouldn't cell phone based broadband be a possibility? Not the fastest, but much better than an analog modem.
Just in case you are not just trolling, none of the clients are "useless". The GPU and PS3 clients produce completed work units, no further processing required. Just to pull some meaningless numbers out of thin air, consider that the x86 or PPC clients can be used to crunch on 100% of the available work units. The PS3 may be able to process ~75% and the GPU client possibly 50%. You will be able to get answers to all of your questions here.
The GPU client is indeed much faster than the PS3 or quad core cpu at the moment. It is also less generic or versatile with the calculations it can perform. The x86 CPU is the most generic and versatile, then the PS3 and then the GPU client which has the least versatility. The last F@H 1.2 update for the PS3 added some more generic calculation ability and added performance enhancements.
Best is relative to what is needed here. The current research needed at any given moment seems to determine which method will produce the best and most useful results.