Tell someone who gives a shit, if you ship a product while still in beta phase and then cry about delays in shiping the fix patch maybe you shouldn't have shipped a half finished product in the first place.
If anybody wants to argue the beta phase point, a 50% speed increase sais it all.
Probably cause they want to see if it really is as shit as the PC guys say it its.
They download it, find the fact to be true and don't waste their money on it.
Hype = amount of piracy. Quality = amount of purchases.
I don't see what they are shocked at, unless they are under the illusion that they have a product that anybody would in their right mind play on anything but at 320x240 res (TV).
Contex switches are not much of a preformance slow down, since they mainly hit the lowest lvl cache and never get past that.
Also by increasing the number for threads running you also increase the number of context switches so you really dont gain anything.
If context switches were a bottle neck then increasing the time between switches would be the ideal solution not increasing the number of threads = number of context switches. As for this on a HT machine you would have one CPU trying to do the work of two in regards to context switches.
A problem that many undergrad students have is that context switchs are a significant slowdown, this is not that case and difficult to grasp.
HT is just another way to solve the very complex issue of CPU architecture and design.
HT is by no means a silver bullet but more of a simpler solution of optimization for super scalar pipelined processors.
Basically HT allow for more optimal use of the different subcomponents of the CPU when wastage is built into the design.
An analogy of how it works: Think of it as trying to do lots of 2 big math's equations, you have 10 people to give bits of the math's equation to work on and you also have some conditions in the equations that you need to wait for results before you can carry on. You start of by giving out as much as you can on the first equation and then any people left over you give them the second equation bits. As you work though each equation you may find you need to wait on someone before you can give out more bits and as such the other equation is given out more.
This is the basic concept of HT. To treat everything as subunits and optimize allocation.
Overall both equations take less time but each equation takes more time than if it were worked on on its own. It also means that a lower priority thread may eat into a higher priority thread (if the OS scheduler is not HT optimized [all OS's to date]), it also causes problems at the caching level which is much more of a performance bottle neck than the cpu ever will be.
HT is a very marketed term that is just one of many ways (and by no means the best way) to optimize a CPU architecture, its simplicity in CPU design makes it very appealing to integrated circuitry architects as it allows the sections of the CPU to be simplified at the cost of a more complex control unit.
Just my 2c.
But the guy doesn't really have a clue how HT works and its reflected all the way through the artical. His choice of benchmarks is one of the most obvouse flaws, like comparing an AMD vs Intel on a AMD optimizes codebase.
When playing Max Pain I found out about the adaptive AI the hard way.
I naturally adapt a one shot kill strategy in most games to be more efficient (less ammo wastage/less health wastage), unfortinatly in max pain this ended up with the first few level being very easy and then suddenly becoming impossible to complete.
Never the less max pane was religated to the dust bin as I was so fustrated and anoyed by this that I hardly felt like replaying half the game.
Just goes to show that Q&A testng is vital when implimenting a new tech as this should have most definilty been picked up.
Fat chance, if the first one is to go on I'm not even going to bother keeping it on the LAN server if someone uploads it, let alone download it, or gosh go watch it at the movies...
Piracy must be making no impact whatsoever in hollywood if the quality of shit thats produced is anything to go by. (Competition generaly brings lower cost with better quality).
Just like everything in a small market, you have a few big players and they set the market. Then they can either try and compet with each other = loss money, more customers; or work together = keep existing market share, milk it for all its worth.
Here in New Zealand we have major bank monopoly which results in 4 banks owning the market, with very excessive charges. But as a result ATM fraud is virtualy non-existant. But internet banking fraud is at an all time high. Go figure.
On another note, this is old news and has been around for years but it suprising its still so rampant, I guess the banks must be putting most of the cost on the customers as is indicitave of their inaction.
We need a 'Admin Apriciation Day', where all the admins pull the plug on the main systems and let the redundancies do their work. That way we can get maps of those too:).
Diablo II just won't go away. Especially with the v1.10 patch, time to dust off the CD after exams:). Got to love that game. Ohh I hate it and love it so much.
Can anybody recommend a firewall product that is not ZoneAlarm OR A RIP OFF/CLONE!
I'm sick of all the firewall software out there that is idiot centric. I don't want:
* Software that asks me if I want this that and every other fucking app to access the net in this and that way. * Software that lets me know that "SOMEONE IS BREAKING INTO YOUR COMPUTER TO STEAL YOUR CREDIT CARDS!" every fucking minute. * Gives me no real TCP and IP stack level control. * Tries to fuck up the network when you go to lan. (just give me OPEN 192.168.0.255:*!)
My current firewall (3 year old product that got brought up by McAfshit and converted into 'Not another ZoneAlarm') gets +300 hits a day in its logs. I wan't a prouct with a minimal resouce overhead, that works well that I just need to set up and forget.
Anybody cosidered that maybe young people have a mind of their own and wont put up with the crap that their parents did when there were no alternatives.
I have a phat pipe, If I _really_ wana watch something (very rare) I'll download it ad-aware free:) and watch it in my own time.
TV is for hooking your console in (if your that way inclined). I live in a little hole with single diget channels and more ads than content, why bother...
Give me a pay per view (at a reasonable price ie. less than my phat pipe costs me a month [its fucking expensive here]), digital, when I want, where I want option and I might just switch too it if has enought content (content IS important!!!). And don't even consider the one episode a week model, that shit don't work anymore.
My 2c, could make you a rich man, but then again, fear of change, and wanting to milk the cow till its dead means not in my life time.
Anybody think that maybe the higher number of purchases for nondemo page is due to demo downloaders coming back and buying the game (ie. repeat visitors)
On another note, it has been found that 64% of all statistics are meaningless...
I noticed that too. Anyway the numbers don't really matter, here is a realistic factual review:
$200 Video Card - Forget it, razor wire is more fun $300 Video Card - Forget it, slow and looks like shit $400 Video Card - Still slow and looks like shit. $500 Video Card - Looks like shit. $600 Video Card - Still looks like shit $700 Video Card - You have too much money!
I was really looking forward to Halo on the PC, what I got was a port worse than RedFaction2 (anybody who has seen it knows what I'm talking about), very very sad, glad it was not my money that paid for it.
* Looks like what it is, which is basically a bad dated console to PC port. I mean UT2k3 look a _lot_ better than it.
* Runs like shit, I mean for the graphics quality you get you would think it runs at +100 FPS on modern hardware, instead you get a measly frame rate that drops to nothing if you look in the wrong direction.
* Plays like a bad port, the FOV perception is fucked and the responsiveness is lagged.
Generally its just a really bad port with the guys who did the ports coming up with poor me excuses and blaming everything from the 'public perception of the xBox', to the PC industry, to PC users, to 'Having to wait for PC hardware to catch up'. Please, were not console morons, tell that crap to someone who gives a toss, you just did a shit job and you know it.
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Tell someone who gives a shit, if you ship a product while still in beta phase and then cry about delays in shiping the fix patch maybe you shouldn't have shipped a half finished product in the first place.
If anybody wants to argue the beta phase point, a 50% speed increase sais it all.
Probably cause they want to see if it really is as shit as the PC guys say it its.
They download it, find the fact to be true and don't waste their money on it.
Hype = amount of piracy.
Quality = amount of purchases.
I don't see what they are shocked at, unless they are under the illusion that they have a product that anybody would in their right mind play on anything but at 320x240 res (TV).
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Contex switches are not much of a preformance slow down, since they mainly hit the lowest lvl cache and never get past that.
Also by increasing the number for threads running you also increase the number of context switches so you really dont gain anything.
If context switches were a bottle neck then increasing the time between switches would be the ideal solution not increasing the number of threads = number of context switches. As for this on a HT machine you would have one CPU trying to do the work of two in regards to context switches.
A problem that many undergrad students have is that context switchs are a significant slowdown, this is not that case and difficult to grasp.
Think before you post please
HT is just another way to solve the very complex issue of CPU architecture and design.
HT is by no means a silver bullet but more of a simpler solution of optimization for super scalar pipelined processors.
Basically HT allow for more optimal use of the different subcomponents of the CPU when wastage is built into the design.
An analogy of how it works:
Think of it as trying to do lots of 2 big math's equations, you have 10 people to give bits of the math's equation to work on and you also have some conditions in the equations that you need to wait for results before you can carry on.
You start of by giving out as much as you can on the first equation and then any people left over you give them the second equation bits. As you work though each equation you may find you need to wait on someone before you can give out more bits and as such the other equation is given out more.
This is the basic concept of HT. To treat everything as subunits and optimize allocation.
Overall both equations take less time but each equation takes more time than if it were worked on on its own. It also means that a lower priority thread may eat into a higher priority thread (if the OS scheduler is not HT optimized [all OS's to date]), it also causes problems at the caching level which is much more of a performance bottle neck than the cpu ever will be.
HT is a very marketed term that is just one of many ways (and by no means the best way) to optimize a CPU architecture, its simplicity in CPU design makes it very appealing to integrated circuitry architects as it allows the sections of the CPU to be simplified at the cost of a more complex control unit.
Just my 2c. But the guy doesn't really have a clue how HT works and its reflected all the way through the artical. His choice of benchmarks is one of the most obvouse flaws, like comparing an AMD vs Intel on a AMD optimizes codebase.
When playing Max Pain I found out about the adaptive AI the hard way.
I naturally adapt a one shot kill strategy in most games to be more efficient (less ammo wastage/less health wastage), unfortinatly in max pain this ended up with the first few level being very easy and then suddenly becoming impossible to complete.
Never the less max pane was religated to the dust bin as I was so fustrated and anoyed by this that I hardly felt like replaying half the game.
Just goes to show that Q&A testng is vital when implimenting a new tech as this should have most definilty been picked up.
Fat chance, if the first one is to go on I'm not even going to bother keeping it on the LAN server if someone uploads it, let alone download it, or gosh go watch it at the movies...
Piracy must be making no impact whatsoever in hollywood if the quality of shit thats produced is anything to go by. (Competition generaly brings lower cost with better quality).
Just like everything in a small market, you have a few big players and they set the market. Then they can either try and compet with each other = loss money, more customers; or work together = keep existing market share, milk it for all its worth.
most arnt by law, just the way it happens here.
Here in New Zealand we have major bank monopoly which results in 4 banks owning the market, with very excessive charges. But as a result ATM fraud is virtualy non-existant. But internet banking fraud is at an all time high. Go figure.
On another note, this is old news and has been around for years but it suprising its still so rampant, I guess the banks must be putting most of the cost on the customers as is indicitave of their inaction.
Better than the USA, at least there they let you go eventualy. :P
Ohh the HUMANITY!
We need a 'Admin Apriciation Day', where all the admins pull the plug on the main systems and let the redundancies do their work. That way we can get maps of those too :).
64% of all statistics are meaningless.
Ohh and in completly unrelated news acording to the yourafuckingsucker.com survey the stats are:
100% YourAFuckingSuckerWebServer
-10% Apache
666% IIS
Diablo II just won't go away. Especially with the v1.10 patch, time to dust off the CD after exams :). Got to love that game. Ohh I hate it and love it so much.
Tell the poor me to some one else, we know your just as guilty as 'the enemey'....
Dood!
You REALY need to get out more!
Can anybody recommend a firewall product that is not ZoneAlarm OR A RIP OFF/CLONE!
I'm sick of all the firewall software out there that is idiot centric. I don't want:
* Software that asks me if I want this that and every other fucking app to access the net in this and that way.
* Software that lets me know that "SOMEONE IS BREAKING INTO YOUR COMPUTER TO STEAL YOUR CREDIT CARDS!" every fucking minute.
* Gives me no real TCP and IP stack level control.
* Tries to fuck up the network when you go to lan. (just give me OPEN 192.168.0.255:*!)
My current firewall (3 year old product that got brought up by McAfshit and converted into 'Not another ZoneAlarm') gets +300 hits a day in its logs. I wan't a prouct with a minimal resouce overhead, that works well that I just need to set up and forget.
Anybody cosidered that maybe young people have a mind of their own and wont put up with the crap that their parents did when there were no alternatives.
:) and watch it in my own time.
I have a phat pipe, If I _really_ wana watch something (very rare) I'll download it ad-aware free
TV is for hooking your console in (if your that way inclined). I live in a little hole with single diget channels and more ads than content, why bother...
Give me a pay per view (at a reasonable price ie. less than my phat pipe costs me a month [its fucking expensive here]), digital, when I want, where I want option and I might just switch too it if has enought content (content IS important!!!). And don't even consider the one episode a week model, that shit don't work anymore.
My 2c, could make you a rich man, but then again, fear of change, and wanting to milk the cow till its dead means not in my life time.
Anybody think that maybe the higher number of purchases for nondemo page is due to demo downloaders coming back and buying the game (ie. repeat visitors)
On another note, it has been found that 64% of all statistics are meaningless...
I noticed that too. Anyway the numbers don't really matter, here is a realistic factual review:
$200 Video Card - Forget it, razor wire is more fun
$300 Video Card - Forget it, slow and looks like shit
$400 Video Card - Still slow and looks like shit.
$500 Video Card - Looks like shit.
$600 Video Card - Still looks like shit
$700 Video Card - You have too much money!
There, a review Guide to Halo for PC.
I was really looking forward to Halo on the PC, what I got was a port worse than RedFaction2 (anybody who has seen it knows what I'm talking about), very very sad, glad it was not my money that paid for it.
* Looks like what it is, which is basically a bad dated console to PC port. I mean UT2k3 look a _lot_ better than it.
* Runs like shit, I mean for the graphics quality you get you would think it runs at +100 FPS on modern hardware, instead you get a measly frame rate that drops to nothing if you look in the wrong direction.
* Plays like a bad port, the FOV perception is fucked and the responsiveness is lagged.
Generally its just a really bad port with the guys who did the ports coming up with poor me excuses and blaming everything from the 'public perception of the xBox', to the PC industry, to PC users, to 'Having to wait for PC hardware to catch up'. Please, were not console morons, tell that crap to someone who gives a toss, you just did a shit job and you know it.
The artical which seems to ramble on about stealing this stealing that ommited to mention, ITS ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE AMERICA!
Also, other limitations are:
* Media Player v7.1+ required
* Win2k/XP only
* Only RIAA lables (use this support em), little guys get fuck all.
Sounds like a honey pot to me :).
So they plan on giving everyone a really fat pipe and doing a multicast download as soon as the file gets slipped onto the net?
:).
Ohhh how generus of them!
Hope the know that most people like it in DivX/XVid/Ogg fomats