I wanted to go with 64 bit processor to run CFD codes.
It may well be enough for the job at 32bit. My PhD was on application of CFD to cardiac flows, so it was 3d time dep. The boundaries were non-compliant but I used a dual P2 300MHz machine and I could complete simulation of an entire heart beat in 6-12 hours. As you are aware, code efficiency is the key since non-linear solvers are still improving. I hand coded the solver so I gained alot that way.
Anyway don't disregard lower spec machines for this compute intensive work. A lot of useful research is done on low end spec boxes and many academics are used to squeezing the last cycle out of them even though it seems from the news that all universities have access to Blue Gene class machines.
OK, lets agree. If VU holds the game, without comment on the suitability as an RC beyond the holiday season optimum (Dec 11th in case you were wondering) then they are holding onto it for leverage. They would be fools to release before as sales would be hit by things like Halo 2, and to release after would miss the market by miles.
Until then all else is speculation and nowhere near fact.
A candidate. Your understanding of software release terminology is feeble at best. Are you saying, you have firm knowledge that the candidate released to VU is of Release Quality and that VU can with all certainty bet the farm on it going gold?
Yes, over a GB of code
If D3 is anything to go by, the final RC will be of the order of 1.5G - 2.0G. Anyway, do you actually read the news items with the pre-loads? It has so far been audio and static texture data. I saw no mention of maps etc.
I suppose it's only 1/4 finished or something
Ahh, you have a crude command of rhetoric - this is I believe called a straw man - creation of a ludicrous postulate - putting the words into the mouth of the questioner and then attempting to use this 'straw man' as a target for ridicule. Note: the attempts to call later comments 'straw men' is I'm afraid incorrect.
[the contract issues and VU holding HL2] I am merely stating that they are doing so
You have put supposition on top of postulation. You have no firm evidence that they are doing that. Again, you assert that your supposition is fact. I state that it is supposition.
Finally, about is being a game, you declare that as a straw man, well it would be if it was an argument in defence of VU actually delaying the game. It is, in fact a statement that games are not that important in the greta spectrum of life. If you want to take it as an argument that VU are not holding HL2 then I can't stop you but it is rather silly.
As for your 'libel' take, you are wrong. I did not defame or harm VUG in any way [..]If VUG would care to take me to court
Did you actually read the definition I posted? A libel is merely a statement that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression . It's legal actionability is... guess what? a straw man! Congratulations! You've finally used one!
Sure, sure. They're not withholding the game. That's why it's on store shelves, right?
Valve released a candidate to VU. Any publisher would be insane if they just let it hit the CD publishers, a run of say 100,000 with full materials and not care if there was a show stopper bug (can you say Frontier Developments?). In addition I would expect a minimum of 3 weeks between approved RC and it being boxed, ready to go.
My opinion may or may not be correct, but I do have the right to hold it and express it. It represents the truth, as far as I can tell
I am merely contesting your notion of truth. No need to be so prickly. I never deny people their opinions, but when they say their opinions are truth, then I'd say they have a Messiah complex.
Read more by Jacob Bronowski and his opinion of people who belived they knew the truth 'with no test in reality'.
even though the code has been preloaded for weeks
some of the code has been preloaded for weeks. I'm on Steam too you know.
My conclusion is not unreasonable.
It is actually reaching a heck of a distance. I prefer to wait and look. In addition I also see that VU and Valve have a contract. Valve seems to have reneged on part of it and is trying to re-negotiate another part. Hey VU isn't an angel, but I do respect contractual obligations.
Finally - remember VU & Valve have no duty to release HL2 - it isn't like some basic human right to play HL2 - it's a game, untwist your underwear and relax. And look up the definition of 'libel' - a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression . Until your 'truth' becomes more than an opinion (and you said your truth is just that) then your comments were libel.
Microsoft is not withholding the release of Halo 2 as a punitive action againt Bungie, as VUG is doing with Half-Life 2
VU has the legal, contractual right to delay release of HL2. They have not, at this time availed themselves of this right. Your statement above is both wrong and libellous. Congratulations.
versus a schmuck in a wheelchair who was willing to kill 400,000 of his countrymen
Note: Dr Strangelove was not real
More seriously, which World War 2 were you at? I don't seem to remember the one with lesbians. Perhaps you were looking at the Russ Meyer - Debbie does Berlin version.
If I loaded any new OS replacing the one on my machine at work (which is the property of my workplace) it would be, in all likelyhood, a disciplinary offence and quite rightly I'd have my ass handed to me on a plate.
That's a pretty fundamental flaw for a program that is supposed to be essentially an Outlook replacement.
Have you tried making appointments in Outlook for a date in BST while you are in GMT? It's a matter of luck if anyone turns up to the meeting. Time zone changing in a country as you move from summer to winter time? - Naaaah, never happens.
I'm sure VU aren't saints, but lets just point out that, at least in terms of completion %ages and release dates, Valve have, shall we say, a flexible notion of the truth.
The 6600 may be affordable and fast, but it isn't much use if the affordable and fast card has production volumes so low that availability is an academic consideration.
In addition to that the few places that do sell these cards are in the US and they only ship to US, Canada and USFPO.
Not always. Here in the good old U of K we have wondrous arrays of 'Creative Names' of companies that changed from well known descriptive names to corporate bollox creative names. Royal Mail changed to, well, something beginning with C and after 2 years realised that being known as 'Wotsit, you know, what used to be the Royal Mail. I'm sure it begins with S or was it C - I know, Clitoris - is that right?' wasn't achieving their corporate aim and so changed back to their old name.
It would be nice not to be constrained by this whole 186,000 miles per second thing:)
I can say without a shadow of a doubt, or fear of contradiction, that I have never been 'constrained by this whole 186,000 miles per second thing'. I can assure you that my car has never responded to me pushing the accelerator pedal with a light on the dashboard illuminating a sign reading '186,000 miles per second limit thing reached' nor on a plane ride has the pilot ever said 'Ladies and Gentlemen the flight will take 2 hours today due to the '186,000 miles per second thing'.
It reminds me of a TV series from years ago in the UK (I have a feeling it was Only Fools & Horses but...) they build a nuclear prrof shelter and it has all the filtration systems etc etc and at the end of the program the camera has a shot of the outside of the building, it zooms out showing the location of this refuge - on top of a 15 storey towerblock in London...
Reading the AP article regarding the fallen rocket there is a photo with the caption: "A rocket similar to this was used to launch Alan Shepard on the first unmanned suborbital mission.
If I look up Novelette in Merriam Webster it links to the definition of Novella. Is this some way of the Hugo staff giving 2 awards for short stories or is it a sideways proof that Sci-Fi as a genre is more suited to 20-30 pages of prose and that when it hits the 300-400 page region it is less saleable to the general public?
Not entirely. You could just wait. Buy the box with the activation code and CD. Plug in the code to Steam and then the preloaded HL2 is activated by the CD key rather than the one bought over Steam. You have HL2 and the CD and the manual.
All a bit pointless really.
I'm getting HL2 but I have a wife, house and
work so I'll probably start playing HL2 some weeks after you have finished it.
It depends on which police authority you are in when you are caught speeding in the UK. In Suffolk they send the photo with the request to pay the fine. Where I live, they send the fine and only allow you to see the evidence if you go to court where the minimum penalty is greater than the fine and license points you would have incurred had you just given in and paid and accepted the 3 penalty points.
It annoys me that the police, who are meant to be impartial providers of evidence to the CPS, take sides so readily and are, depending on authority, willing to withold evidence from the accused in collusion with the justice system.
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It may well be enough for the job at 32bit. My PhD was on application of CFD to cardiac flows, so it was 3d time dep. The boundaries were non-compliant but I used a dual P2 300MHz machine and I could complete simulation of an entire heart beat in 6-12 hours. As you are aware, code efficiency is the key since non-linear solvers are still improving. I hand coded the solver so I gained alot that way.
Anyway don't disregard lower spec machines for this compute intensive work. A lot of useful research is done on low end spec boxes and many academics are used to squeezing the last cycle out of them even though it seems from the news that all universities have access to Blue Gene class machines.
OK, lets agree. If VU holds the game, without comment on the suitability as an RC beyond the holiday season optimum (Dec 11th in case you were wondering) then they are holding onto it for leverage. They would be fools to release before as sales would be hit by things like Halo 2, and to release after would miss the market by miles.
Until then all else is speculation and nowhere near fact.
A candidate. Your understanding of software release terminology is feeble at best. Are you saying, you have firm knowledge that the candidate released to VU is of Release Quality and that VU can with all certainty bet the farm on it going gold?
Yes, over a GB of code
If D3 is anything to go by, the final RC will be of the order of 1.5G - 2.0G. Anyway, do you actually read the news items with the pre-loads? It has so far been audio and static texture data. I saw no mention of maps etc.
I suppose it's only 1/4 finished or something
Ahh, you have a crude command of rhetoric - this is I believe called a straw man - creation of a ludicrous postulate - putting the words into the mouth of the questioner and then attempting to use this 'straw man' as a target for ridicule. Note: the attempts to call later comments 'straw men' is I'm afraid incorrect.
[the contract issues and VU holding HL2] I am merely stating that they are doing so
You have put supposition on top of postulation. You have no firm evidence that they are doing that. Again, you assert that your supposition is fact. I state that it is supposition.
Finally, about is being a game, you declare that as a straw man, well it would be if it was an argument in defence of VU actually delaying the game. It is, in fact a statement that games are not that important in the greta spectrum of life. If you want to take it as an argument that VU are not holding HL2 then I can't stop you but it is rather silly.
As for your 'libel' take, you are wrong. I did not defame or harm VUG in any way [..]If VUG would care to take me to court
Did you actually read the definition I posted? A libel is merely a statement that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression . It's legal actionability is... guess what? a straw man! Congratulations! You've finally used one!
Valve released a candidate to VU. Any publisher would be insane if they just let it hit the CD publishers, a run of say 100,000 with full materials and not care if there was a show stopper bug (can you say Frontier Developments?). In addition I would expect a minimum of 3 weeks between approved RC and it being boxed, ready to go.
My opinion may or may not be correct, but I do have the right to hold it and express it. It represents the truth, as far as I can tell
I am merely contesting your notion of truth. No need to be so prickly. I never deny people their opinions, but when they say their opinions are truth, then I'd say they have a Messiah complex. Read more by Jacob Bronowski and his opinion of people who belived they knew the truth 'with no test in reality'.
even though the code has been preloaded for weeks
some of the code has been preloaded for weeks. I'm on Steam too you know.
My conclusion is not unreasonable.
It is actually reaching a heck of a distance. I prefer to wait and look. In addition I also see that VU and Valve have a contract. Valve seems to have reneged on part of it and is trying to re-negotiate another part. Hey VU isn't an angel, but I do respect contractual obligations.
Finally - remember VU & Valve have no duty to release HL2 - it isn't like some basic human right to play HL2 - it's a game, untwist your underwear and relax. And look up the definition of 'libel' - a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression . Until your 'truth' becomes more than an opinion (and you said your truth is just that) then your comments were libel.
VU has the legal, contractual right to delay release of HL2. They have not, at this time availed themselves of this right. Your statement above is both wrong and libellous. Congratulations.
Note: Dr Strangelove was not real
More seriously, which World War 2 were you at? I don't seem to remember the one with lesbians. Perhaps you were looking at the Russ Meyer - Debbie does Berlin version.
If I loaded any new OS replacing the one on my machine at work (which is the property of my workplace) it would be, in all likelyhood, a disciplinary offence and quite rightly I'd have my ass handed to me on a plate.
Woooooo! Bring back the 70's and 15" collars!
Have you tried making appointments in Outlook for a date in BST while you are in GMT? It's a matter of luck if anyone turns up to the meeting. Time zone changing in a country as you move from summer to winter time? - Naaaah, never happens.
says Doug Lombardi. Totally impartially. Riiiight.
I'm sure VU aren't saints, but lets just point out that, at least in terms of completion %ages and release dates, Valve have, shall we say, a flexible notion of the truth.
It's going to be a lively contest even without a bunch of holier-than-thou Euros running around.
All those 'belittling, holier-than-thou' Euros have been invited you slaptard.
In addition to that the few places that do sell these cards are in the US and they only ship to US, Canada and USFPO.
Not always. Here in the good old U of K we have wondrous arrays of 'Creative Names' of companies that changed from well known descriptive names to corporate bollox creative names. Royal Mail changed to, well, something beginning with C and after 2 years realised that being known as 'Wotsit, you know, what used to be the Royal Mail. I'm sure it begins with S or was it C - I know, Clitoris - is that right?' wasn't achieving their corporate aim and so changed back to their old name.
See the result here
Didn't you see that academic paper? 'Hermeneutics and the Narrative Discourse in Donkey Kong Country - A Feminist Perspective'.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt, or fear of contradiction, that I have never been 'constrained by this whole 186,000 miles per second thing'. I can assure you that my car has never responded to me pushing the accelerator pedal with a light on the dashboard illuminating a sign reading '186,000 miles per second limit thing reached' nor on a plane ride has the pilot ever said 'Ladies and Gentlemen the flight will take 2 hours today due to the '186,000 miles per second thing'.
It reminds me of a TV series from years ago in the UK (I have a feeling it was Only Fools & Horses but...) they build a nuclear prrof shelter and it has all the filtration systems etc etc and at the end of the program the camera has a shot of the outside of the building, it zooms out showing the location of this refuge - on top of a 15 storey towerblock in London...
Reading the AP article regarding the fallen rocket there is a photo with the caption: "A rocket similar to this was used to launch Alan Shepard on the first unmanned suborbital mission.
If I look up Novelette in Merriam Webster it links to the definition of Novella. Is this some way of the Hugo staff giving 2 awards for short stories or is it a sideways proof that Sci-Fi as a genre is more suited to 20-30 pages of prose and that when it hits the 300-400 page region it is less saleable to the general public?
All a bit pointless really. I'm getting HL2 but I have a wife, house and work so I'll probably start playing HL2 some weeks after you have finished it.
It annoys me that the police, who are meant to be impartial providers of evidence to the CPS, take sides so readily and are, depending on authority, willing to withold evidence from the accused in collusion with the justice system.
just my 2p
Last time I looked 'enquire' and 'inquire' were both permissable spellings. See Merriam-Webster
How were you disenfranchised by an IPO? Enquiring minds want to know.
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