Last year, John Carmack made a good post about why award shows like this simply do not fit for video games. I'd like to repost that comment, because it's still as true today as it was last year.
I did the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards show a few years ago -- I was inducted into the hall of fame one year, then the next year I inducted Will Wright.
I hated it, but it is a big industry, and there is a broad range of people involved. Honestly, I'm almost certainly in the minority. One developer that I was talking to backstage was very bullish about how important it was to legitimize the industry with events like this, but I just don't have any empathy for what I perceive as "Hollywood envy".
Some award show issues are just a result of stupidity -- I felt so bad watching Hironobu Sakaguchi of Squaresoft, a non-native english speaker, being forced to read a long speech written by some PR type about me. I threw out what they gave me to say about Will, and wrote something more to the point myself.
I do feel that there is a rather fundamental mismatch with big awards shows for game development, because game development isn't a performing art. You expect actors and musicians to show well, because that is what they do. Why aren't awards for authors the same glamorous events that the movie / TV / music ones are? Game developers are much closer to authors than actors.
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Nothing has changed about these award shows, they're still just as bad as last year.
This is an NV42 chip, not NV45. It doesn't have 4 quads, just 3, not to mention it's made on the 110nm process. Nvidia is selling this because a 110nm chip with 3 quads is a good deal cheaper than a 130nm chip with 4(the 6800GT).
Under whose radar? Blizzard announced that they were going to be doing this near the beginning of this year, and they've been reasonably upfront about it. There have been multiple forum postings as well.
The Warden was activated in patch 1.6.1, at which point Blizzard did not mention that they had implemented it either in their patch notes or any other form of official communique. That's under the radar. People were running it without ever knowing that it was put in the game.
Am I the only one that finds a certain sense of subtle irony in a search engine company searching space itself? Now if only I could use Google to find my car keys...
There were two official digital pads released for the Saturn, much like the Xbox's Controller and Controller-S. The first release was what you link to as the "actual one," whereas the second release was almost exactly like the Lik-Sang pad in TFA. As can be inferred by Lik-Sang's copying of the second pad, the second design was much more popular than the first.
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Keep in mind, AnandTech's previous search systems were all on the DB end, so it only counted each article once. Google Mini on the other hand counts the normal view of an article, the print view, etc. It is a very important consideration if you're moving from DB-based searching.
Valve is an independent, they have no masters. Freeman Day(the day they severed all ties with VU) was August 31st. That said, there's no guarantee that Valve will still be around in 15 years, but none the less I trust them enough to believe they'd do the right thing in the end, a thing we're going to need 15 years to test.
As far as I'm concerned, all the chatter about "SoundStorm is returning" may as well be end-user fantasy until someone figures out how Nvidia is supposed to compete with Creative's patent portfolio. Since the original SoundStorm went in to design for the Xbox1, Creative has acquired both Aureal, and then in 2003 picked up Sensaura, the company responsible for providing most of the audio technologies/techniques that the SoundStorm used. This also means that Creative currently owns all 3 major 3D audio technologies, which translates in to patents on a broad spectrum of different methods to accomplish proper 3D audio.
Really, the only way for Nvidia to compete is for them to re-engineer everything from the bottom up on their own, a task compounded by the fact that Creative likely already owns the patent on the easy way of doing something. Now is Nvidia capable of this? Yes. But is it going to be worth all their efforts to re-invent 3D audio, then spend a couple of years in court with Creative arguing over patents and accusations of copying the Sensaura stuff Nvidia already saw? For Nvidia, the answer is no. Creative is perfectly willing to play hardball(just look at what they did to John Carmack), and the rewards for Nvidia just don't justify the efforts.
What truly makes this a sad occasion is that it marks the passing of the company/entity that's responsible for MP3 players being legal devices at all. When Diamond Multimedia released the Rio PMP300 in 1998(their first player and the first mass-market player), the RIAA sued claiming that such devices were illegal under the Audio Home Recording Act, which stated that digital recording devices(which were limited to DAT tapes at the time of writing, 1992) are subject to royalties(among other things) due to their ability to perfectly copy music, none of which Diamond was following.
Largely speaking, it was the MP3 equivalent of the Betamax case, and the RIAA lost in 1999 after it was ruled that the PMP300 was an audio playback device and not a recording device, meaning it was allowed to exist as-was under fair use and the precedent of the Betamax case. Diamond/Rio may have never made the breakaway device that solidified the market like the iPod, but as they were willing to stand up to the RIAA and fight for user rights(and admittedly a nice profit), it's a shame to see the company finally wind down.
You're close, but a bit off in how S3 and DiamondMM became one. It wasn't Diamond who bought S3, it was S3 who bought Diamond, a deal that was far better for S3 than for Diamond.
I would flip 3 and 4 due to the fact that it was 98 that including the first real support for USB. It took 98SE before there was support for USB storage devices(e.g. USB memory sticks), but USB was a major change in the computing landscape eventually, and that goes hand-in-hand with 98.
I'd imagine 1.4KW is a worst-case scenario. PSU effeciency can vary depending on load and temp, so at a really high load and temp(on the verge of melting down the PSU), an efficiency rate of 70%(for 980W output) is perfectly realistic. I'd expect however that for most cases it would be above 80%, so the total load would be under 1.25KW in that case.
Almost since the introduction of the Mac, Apple users have lamented the lack of game support provided to the platform as compared to its Wintel brethren
Umm, no. Mac gaming was alive and well throughout the 80's and in to the 90's. It wasn't until the utter PC/Wintel domination around the time that Win3.1(1993) came out that Mac gaming started to become noticably weaker. This is by no means a market that has always been weak.
Just so we're clear here, by the time the article was posted on Slashdot, it was corrected as to be a proper writeup on the game itself, instead of being a false article based on the game. You can see the original viral entry from the article's history however if you want to see what the initial fuss was about.
Actually, our Uni had the same problem until we picked up a product called DyKnow and refit our labs to use it. It's basically a virtual whiteboard application, but with some degree of lecturer control, and it works surprisingly well even for CS classes.
Though it can be used some number of ways, most profs end doing their notes on the system, the students' systems get copies of those notes with the option to write down more stuff(the monitors in the labs are all special Wacom screens), and one of the ink colors is invisable to students, so that if it's an important item the students can still be forced to draw it if they want it, while it's still visible on the front projector(i.e. this is the closest thing to traditional note taking).
It's the best thing that's ever happened to me as a CS student, I'm surprised more Unis haven't picked it up.
No, his point is that there's a design flaw; when the system is completely powered off(i.e. no wake-on power is provided), the card uses less power than when it's removed entirely - or to put it in the GP's terms, the power usage is higher when the card is removed. The card suffers from a design flaw, it should not be doing that.
http://www.musicrebellion.com/">Music Rebellion already tried this a year ago already; they've more or less folded now. Realistically, it's doesn't seem to be a very popular option with the college audience.
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You'll get it anyhow, QVC will pay for placement.
Last year, John Carmack made a good post about why award shows like this simply do not fit for video games. I'd like to repost that comment, because it's still as true today as it was last year.
Nothing has changed about these award shows, they're still just as bad as last year.
AFAIK the current working theory is that those are strings the program is searching for, not that it's built with parts of LAME in it.
Yes. It's the same Hook from id, 3dfx, and all those other gaming-related companies. His bio has more details.
This is an NV42 chip, not NV45. It doesn't have 4 quads, just 3, not to mention it's made on the 110nm process. Nvidia is selling this because a 110nm chip with 3 quads is a good deal cheaper than a 130nm chip with 4(the 6800GT).
The Warden was activated in patch 1.6.1, at which point Blizzard did not mention that they had implemented it either in their patch notes or any other form of official communique. That's under the radar. People were running it without ever knowing that it was put in the game.
Am I the only one that finds a certain sense of subtle irony in a search engine company searching space itself? Now if only I could use Google to find my car keys...
Most non-Crossfire cards have 1 DVI and 1 VGA connector - ATI hasn't forced OEMs to provide dual-DVI connectors on their boards, so most haven't.
The same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world!
There were two official digital pads released for the Saturn, much like the Xbox's Controller and Controller-S. The first release was what you link to as the "actual one," whereas the second release was almost exactly like the Lik-Sang pad in TFA. As can be inferred by Lik-Sang's copying of the second pad, the second design was much more popular than the first.
Keep in mind, AnandTech's previous search systems were all on the DB end, so it only counted each article once. Google Mini on the other hand counts the normal view of an article, the print view, etc. It is a very important consideration if you're moving from DB-based searching.
Valve is an independent, they have no masters. Freeman Day(the day they severed all ties with VU) was August 31st. That said, there's no guarantee that Valve will still be around in 15 years, but none the less I trust them enough to believe they'd do the right thing in the end, a thing we're going to need 15 years to test.
Really, the only way for Nvidia to compete is for them to re-engineer everything from the bottom up on their own, a task compounded by the fact that Creative likely already owns the patent on the easy way of doing something. Now is Nvidia capable of this? Yes. But is it going to be worth all their efforts to re-invent 3D audio, then spend a couple of years in court with Creative arguing over patents and accusations of copying the Sensaura stuff Nvidia already saw? For Nvidia, the answer is no. Creative is perfectly willing to play hardball(just look at what they did to John Carmack), and the rewards for Nvidia just don't justify the efforts.
Largely speaking, it was the MP3 equivalent of the Betamax case, and the RIAA lost in 1999 after it was ruled that the PMP300 was an audio playback device and not a recording device, meaning it was allowed to exist as-was under fair use and the precedent of the Betamax case. Diamond/Rio may have never made the breakaway device that solidified the market like the iPod, but as they were willing to stand up to the RIAA and fight for user rights(and admittedly a nice profit), it's a shame to see the company finally wind down.
You're close, but a bit off in how S3 and DiamondMM became one. It wasn't Diamond who bought S3, it was S3 who bought Diamond, a deal that was far better for S3 than for Diamond.
It should be noted that EB bought out Gamestop a bit ago, so this is really EB just finding another way to market a more expensive bundle.
I would flip 3 and 4 due to the fact that it was 98 that including the first real support for USB. It took 98SE before there was support for USB storage devices(e.g. USB memory sticks), but USB was a major change in the computing landscape eventually, and that goes hand-in-hand with 98.
I'd imagine 1.4KW is a worst-case scenario. PSU effeciency can vary depending on load and temp, so at a really high load and temp(on the verge of melting down the PSU), an efficiency rate of 70%(for 980W output) is perfectly realistic. I'd expect however that for most cases it would be above 80%, so the total load would be under 1.25KW in that case.
Umm, no. Mac gaming was alive and well throughout the 80's and in to the 90's. It wasn't until the utter PC/Wintel domination around the time that Win3.1(1993) came out that Mac gaming started to become noticably weaker. This is by no means a market that has always been weak.
Just so we're clear here, by the time the article was posted on Slashdot, it was corrected as to be a proper writeup on the game itself, instead of being a false article based on the game. You can see the original viral entry from the article's history however if you want to see what the initial fuss was about.
Even if it didn't need a valid login, doesn't the SP2 firewall block port 445?
Though it can be used some number of ways, most profs end doing their notes on the system, the students' systems get copies of those notes with the option to write down more stuff(the monitors in the labs are all special Wacom screens), and one of the ink colors is invisable to students, so that if it's an important item the students can still be forced to draw it if they want it, while it's still visible on the front projector(i.e. this is the closest thing to traditional note taking).
It's the best thing that's ever happened to me as a CS student, I'm surprised more Unis haven't picked it up.
Keep in mind that while importing may bring the total cost up to MSRP for you, Sony is sure getting less than if you bought it from Sony Europe.
No, his point is that there's a design flaw; when the system is completely powered off(i.e. no wake-on power is provided), the card uses less power than when it's removed entirely - or to put it in the GP's terms, the power usage is higher when the card is removed. The card suffers from a design flaw, it should not be doing that.
http://www.musicrebellion.com/">Music Rebellion already tried this a year ago already; they've more or less folded now. Realistically, it's doesn't seem to be a very popular option with the college audience.