They won't dump it towards R&D. Those extra profits will go right into their pockets. As it is, megacorps get tons of tax breaks. They don't need any more. How about giving me a tax break instead of bill gates since I net about 12k/year?
I know, instead of trying to band-aid the problem with a hack that does nothing but weaken the peer to peer concept of the net even more, how about getting microsoft the fix the crux of the problems in the first place?
if I recall, ut2k3 (And the original UT) had opengl renderer dlls as well.. Why not try these? I have found them to be much faster than the d3d renderer.
A grand design? I guess I don't see what makes the ipod better than any other similarly priced player other than the outlandish marketing campaign. The fact that its a pain in the ass to replace the battery is quite a mark against it in my opinion. Having to send it back (and still have to pay $99) is a damned ripoff as far as I'm concerned. I wonder which bonehead at apple decided that $499 is 'throwaway' money.
How about we take all these people all over the world who want their country to have WMD and place them on the moon with a nice stockpile to kill each other with?
Voting? give me a break. Voting doesn't do shit and you know it. All the important selections and choices have already been made by the time the avg citizen is allowed to 'vote.'
Yay, let the social acceptance of 'hackerdom' as he puts it, begin! Any real hacker would not want to be associated with an emblem or symbol of any kind, especially one that signifies 'chic'ness of any kind. It would find it downright offensive. Let the 'culture' stay counter, kthx.
I think that most people underestimate this problem or are mis-informed about it thanks to all the propaganda floating around. While I do believe that 'trusted' computing in general could be useful, there are too many power hungry people out there who just want to abuse it (ie its biggest proponents). Unfortunately, I have to agree with walker wholeheartedly. The internet WILL slowly grow into something like this as there's too much money involved for it not to be. It is too bad. While anonymity (limited or otherwise) isn't a guaranteed right in the constitution, I'm beginning to think it should be. If anonymity wasn't important, no one would object to having a vid camera in every room of his house, or having GPS devices installed in his car etc etc. The old counter-argument of "if you've got nothing to hide.." doesn't hold up.
In addition, a system like this will always have a back door, somewhere. Who holds the root keys (I'm sorry you can't tell me there won't be any)? How can we 'trust' them? How do we know they won't abuse their power? How do we be sure the keys embedded in various hardware haven't been compromised by the vendors themselves? The more power you give to someone, the more likely it is they'll end up abusing it, either intentionally or accidentally. Sure, you might be granted 'conditional' anonymity, but I submit that that shouldn't be considered anonymity at all.
Well that is open to debate. The ISP provision was NOT intended to be used in the way it was. I'm sure there are a lot of 'good ole boys' in the FBI who have this corrupt mentality.
Irrelevant. This article does not go into whether he is guilty or innocent. It is the process by which the prosecution is going about collecting and controlling evidence/information that is at issue. Allowing the FBI to manhandle reporters is just another step towards creating the corporated sponsored police state the powers that be want. The patriot act needs to die a quick and painful death...along with its supporters.
Fuck business. They can go make their own network where they can apply whatever rules they want. Give me back my politically unencumbered network please.
The issue isn't whether this would work, because it would, the issue is mainly about how ISPs will view a 'raw' connection as a 'premium' service and charge more for it, and probably snort the hell out of it. All of this just to 'protect' a bunch of idiots who cannot/willnot secure their systems? If you leave your BMW parked in Harlem or the bronx with the car doors wide open, who's fault is it really if you get robbed? The cops/gov't? Rofl. Users need to take responsibility for their computer's security just as they take responsibility for the security of their house/car and other property.
That's what the --deep option is for;) you're missing quicktime support? np just add it to your USE var and then rebuild the media player ebuild with -du. Sure, you still have to rebuild, but its automated at least.
A lot of distros ship applications with features missing, so I end up rebuilding half the system after install anyway(happened to me with slackware). With gentoo, I do it once, and that's it.
What portage does need is a USE var checking feature which would be run after a new value was added or removed (like nptl for instance). It would then scan the list of pkgs you have installed, and rebuild any that have nptl as a USE flag. This way, features can be easily 'turned on or off' with one simple change in make.conf.
Of course, if you sample at too low a volume, you lose resolution and hence accuracy in the sound. Need a happy middle ground. It'll be nice when 24 bit 96/192khz becomes standard outside the studio:).
No, the net is not private and having that expectation is very foolish. however, all that is being stated by freeuser is that normal due process be applied to the accused as would be done for other crimes. I don't see how stealing music warrants such harsh treatment. Come on, its just MUSIC. Its not like people are being accused of 20 counts of 1st degree murder.
As far as I'm concerned, I do not have to open my door for ANY lawyer, whether hired by my neighbor, or by the RIAA, no matter how much hot air they blow out of their asses. Its all posturing until I have my day in court.
What does a cornered dog do? it bites. Who's to blame? the dog? or the kids that teased and threw rocks at it for the last 8 years?
I realize that in our system, the dog would be put down, and that's REALLY FUCKED UP. DONT tease the dog, and it won't have to get violent. Same thing applies here. People who bully are sticking their hands in a tinder box (someone's mind) they know little about and striking matches to see what burns. In the case of Columbine, I guess some people have already found out. Darwin in action, I love it. If you don't like someone, LEAVE him ALONE. GET a god damned clue already, people.
Fine, let them sue the students directly instead, individually bearing all costs. Suing the net admins is wrong. Why not go ahead and sue dell, gateway, compaq, microsoft, linus torvalds, samba, adaptec, sony(yes some of their own are guilty too, using your/their logic), fraunhaufer and MPEG group for their part in 'copyright infringement'.
It is not the creation/operation/creator of the tool that should be prosecuted, it should be the user of the tool that is executing the infringement. When are people going to get this?
I agree concerning the FPS/RTS games, but I also play fighting games on the keyboard quite well, probably better than I do with a joystick these days. Of course, you're right, sharing it is no fun and being limited to 4 keys (if you're lucky) active at once sucks too.
1. So does Opengl. In fact, the testing for the opengl drivers is usually a LOT more extensive than those for D3D (though nowadays, most are integrated into one driver). D3d has 'extensions' too, but they're just called as new major revs. If it is so backwards compatible, why do most DX6 applications crap out in winxp and certain patchlevels in win2k? 3dmark99 comes to mind as does NFS4 and few others. DX5 apps work fine however...go figure.
2. Regardless of the API, any acceleration, whether it be matrix calculations or lighting, can only be done 'in hardware' if the video card supports it. Otherwise, if d3d falls back to software refresh for that feature, its generalized code will probably be a lot slower than what you could produce on your own (despite any SIMD enhancements it may have).
3. I'm sure at this point, both APIs can do this. Just a guess though..
4. blah..whatever. If it works and does what you want well, why change it?
5. This is because if d3d is forced to use the software RGB emulation, it switches off most, if not all, of the texture filtering bilinear/triliear/anisotropic etc) as well as alpha blending (watch Final Reality in software mode). Opengl will go ahead and render them in software anyway (I believe GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST (bilinear) is the default in the software renderer). The reason for this is that D3D was designed for gaming while Opengl has its roots in professional 3D graphics. Of course, this doesn't prevent your program from shutting off the filtering if it detects software refresh.
6. Agreed.:)
7. This depends on your coding style and mindset. 'State machines' force you to think your logic through carefully. I guess, to me, state machines make a lot of sense. To you, they may not. Maybe I am just weird, haha.
8. Once again, agreed.:)
9. Because of direct and indirect pressure from MS rather than technical excellence. They push support for their API on the hardware vendors, and of course, they market it aggressively to gamers and developers so the demand is there.
10. While I am not familiar with the latest SDK, the one for DX6 and 7 was a disaster. I just wanted to be able to create a buffer to draw pixels to and it required a TON of setup code. The opengl equivilent was a lot cleaner. What is DX9's SDK like?
While not complete by any means, why not just benchmark UT2 in d3d and opengl rendering modes? The game supports both under windows (edit your ini). I found, on my machine anyway, that the opengl render runs much faster than the d3d renderer.. try it out. I did my test on the UT demo under windows. I found this to be true for the original UT as well.
I guess if you need that kind of performance, that's your only option. Just because the cheaper-is-better method works for YOU, does not automatically mean it is good enough for others..
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They won't dump it towards R&D. Those extra profits will go right into their pockets. As it is, megacorps get tons of tax breaks. They don't need any more. How about giving me a tax break instead of bill gates since I net about 12k/year?
I know, instead of trying to band-aid the problem with a hack that does nothing but weaken the peer to peer concept of the net even more, how about getting microsoft the fix the crux of the problems in the first place?
if I recall, ut2k3 (And the original UT) had opengl renderer dlls as well.. Why not try these? I have found them to be much faster than the d3d renderer.
A grand design? I guess I don't see what makes the ipod better than any other similarly priced player other than the outlandish marketing campaign. The fact that its a pain in the ass to replace the battery is quite a mark against it in my opinion. Having to send it back (and still have to pay $99) is a damned ripoff as far as I'm concerned. I wonder which bonehead at apple decided that $499 is 'throwaway' money.
Irrelevant since most of the best windows uptimes are based on idle machines as well.
Frankly, I think comparing OSs on average uptimes is about the same as comparing cars strictly on their maximum sustainable engine RPM.
How about we take all these people all over the world who want their country to have WMD and place them on the moon with a nice stockpile to kill each other with?
Voting? give me a break. Voting doesn't do shit and you know it. All the important selections and choices have already been made by the time the avg citizen is allowed to 'vote.'
Yay, let the social acceptance of 'hackerdom' as he puts it, begin! Any real hacker would not want to be associated with an emblem or symbol of any kind, especially one that signifies 'chic'ness of any kind. It would find it downright offensive. Let the 'culture' stay counter, kthx.
I think that most people underestimate this problem or are mis-informed about it thanks to all the propaganda floating around. While I do believe that 'trusted' computing in general could be useful, there are too many power hungry people out there who just want to abuse it (ie its biggest proponents). Unfortunately, I have to agree with walker wholeheartedly. The internet WILL slowly grow into something like this as there's too much money involved for it not to be. It is too bad. While anonymity (limited or otherwise) isn't a guaranteed right in the constitution, I'm beginning to think it should be. If anonymity wasn't important, no one would object to having a vid camera in every room of his house, or having GPS devices installed in his car etc etc. The old counter-argument of "if you've got nothing to hide.." doesn't hold up.
In addition, a system like this will always have a back door, somewhere. Who holds the root keys (I'm sorry you can't tell me there won't be any)? How can we 'trust' them? How do we know they won't abuse their power? How do we be sure the keys embedded in various hardware haven't been compromised by the vendors themselves? The more power you give to someone, the more likely it is they'll end up abusing it, either intentionally or accidentally. Sure, you might be granted 'conditional' anonymity, but I submit that that shouldn't be considered anonymity at all.
Well that is open to debate. The ISP provision was NOT intended to be used in the way it was. I'm sure there are a lot of 'good ole boys' in the FBI who have this corrupt mentality.
Irrelevant. This article does not go into whether he is guilty or innocent. It is the process by which the prosecution is going about collecting and controlling evidence/information that is at issue. Allowing the FBI to manhandle reporters is just another step towards creating the corporated sponsored police state the powers that be want. The patriot act needs to die a quick and painful death...along with its supporters.
Fuck business. They can go make their own network where they can apply whatever rules they want. Give me back my politically unencumbered network please.
The issue isn't whether this would work, because it would, the issue is mainly about how ISPs will view a 'raw' connection as a 'premium' service and charge more for it, and probably snort the hell out of it. All of this just to 'protect' a bunch of idiots who cannot/willnot secure their systems? If you leave your BMW parked in Harlem or the bronx with the car doors wide open, who's fault is it really if you get robbed? The cops/gov't? Rofl. Users need to take responsibility for their computer's security just as they take responsibility for the security of their house/car and other property.
That's what the --deep option is for ;)
you're missing quicktime support? np
just add it to your USE var and then rebuild the media player ebuild with -du. Sure, you still have to rebuild, but its automated at least.
A lot of distros ship applications with features missing, so I end up rebuilding half the system after install anyway(happened to me with slackware). With gentoo, I do it once, and that's it.
What portage does need is a USE var checking feature which would be run after a new value was added or removed (like nptl for instance). It would then scan the list of pkgs you have installed, and rebuild any that have nptl as a USE flag. This way, features can be easily 'turned on or off' with one simple change in make.conf.
Of course, if you sample at too low a volume, you lose resolution and hence accuracy in the sound. Need a happy middle ground. It'll be nice when 24 bit 96/192khz becomes standard outside the studio :).
No, the net is not private and having that expectation is very foolish. however, all that is being stated by freeuser is that normal due process be applied to the accused as would be done for other crimes. I don't see how stealing music warrants such harsh treatment. Come on, its just MUSIC. Its not like people are being accused of 20 counts of 1st degree murder.
As far as I'm concerned, I do not have to open my door for ANY lawyer, whether hired by my neighbor, or by the RIAA, no matter how much hot air they blow out of their asses. Its all posturing until I have my day in court.
What does a cornered dog do? it bites. Who's to blame? the dog? or the kids that teased and threw rocks at it for the last 8 years?
I realize that in our system, the dog would be put down, and that's REALLY FUCKED UP. DONT tease the dog, and it won't have to get violent. Same thing applies here. People who bully are sticking their hands in a tinder box (someone's mind) they know little about and striking matches to see what burns. In the case of Columbine, I guess some people have already found out. Darwin in action, I love it. If you don't like someone, LEAVE him ALONE. GET a god damned clue already, people.
Fine, let them sue the students directly instead, individually bearing all costs. Suing the net admins is wrong. Why not go ahead and sue dell, gateway, compaq, microsoft, linus torvalds, samba, adaptec, sony(yes some of their own are guilty too, using your/their logic), fraunhaufer and MPEG group for their part in 'copyright infringement'.
It is not the creation/operation/creator of the tool that should be prosecuted, it should be the user of the tool that is executing the infringement. When are people going to get this?
And this comment must have been written by some debian douchebag using his mom's computer....
Give me a break..
Puyo Puyo is not an FPS. You can't compare the two like that.
Of course it doesn't. But what cash strapped 14 year old player's actually going to care about the law?
I agree concerning the FPS/RTS games, but I also play fighting games on the keyboard quite well, probably better than I do with a joystick these days. Of course, you're right, sharing it is no fun and being limited to 4 keys (if you're lucky) active at once sucks too.
I'm not sure, but it probably has to do with the inductance effects on the longer cables.
Well, at least we can get rid of those hard-to-route ribbon cables. That alone is worth the switch, IMHO.
1. So does Opengl. In fact, the testing for the opengl drivers is usually a LOT more extensive than those for D3D (though nowadays, most are integrated into one driver). D3d has 'extensions' too, but they're just called as new major revs. If it is so backwards compatible, why do most DX6 applications crap out in winxp and certain patchlevels in win2k? 3dmark99 comes to mind as does NFS4 and few others. DX5 apps work fine however...go figure.
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2. Regardless of the API, any acceleration, whether it be matrix calculations or lighting, can only be done 'in hardware' if the video card supports it. Otherwise, if d3d falls back to software refresh for that feature, its generalized code will probably be a lot slower than what you could produce on your own (despite any SIMD enhancements it may have).
3. I'm sure at this point, both APIs can do this. Just a guess though..
4. blah..whatever. If it works and does what you want well, why change it?
5. This is because if d3d is forced to use the software RGB emulation, it switches off most, if not all, of the texture filtering bilinear/triliear/anisotropic etc) as well as alpha blending (watch Final Reality in software mode). Opengl will go ahead and render them in software anyway (I believe GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_NEAREST (bilinear) is the default in the software renderer). The reason for this is that D3D was designed for gaming while Opengl has its roots in professional 3D graphics. Of course, this doesn't prevent your program from shutting off the filtering if it detects software refresh.
6. Agreed.
7. This depends on your coding style and mindset. 'State machines' force you to think your logic through carefully. I guess, to me, state machines make a lot of sense. To you, they may not. Maybe I am just weird, haha.
8. Once again, agreed.
9. Because of direct and indirect pressure from MS rather than technical excellence. They push support for their API on the hardware vendors, and of course, they market it aggressively to gamers and developers so the demand is there.
10. While I am not familiar with the latest SDK, the one for DX6 and 7 was a disaster. I just wanted to be able to create a buffer to draw pixels to and it required a TON of setup code. The opengl equivilent was a lot cleaner. What is DX9's SDK like?
While not complete by any means, why not just benchmark UT2 in d3d and opengl rendering modes? The game supports both under windows (edit your ini). I found, on my machine anyway, that the opengl render runs much faster than the d3d renderer..
try it out. I did my test on the UT demo under windows.
I found this to be true for the original UT as well.
I guess if you need that kind of performance, that's your only option. Just because the cheaper-is-better method works for YOU, does not automatically mean it is good enough for others..