What are ATI drivers like these days? When I think of what they used to be like... But I read somewhere they were ok these days, can anyone confirm this?
I always gathered that ATI was best for DirectX, and NVIDIA best for OpenGL, though that might be wrong. Surely though regardless of what is easy to program for, simple raw performance under GL/DX is pretty important, for all the apps that dont optimise for the major graphics cards?
Yep I agree, for my main PC (for games) I'd like a lot of speed, but for a linux/bsd server I don't need any speed at all, and would prefer to have it quieter and more economical. Though I'd need a quiet PSU then as well...
Can anyone provide any info on this end of things?
I have to say I agree. Having looked at Halo, I don't see why anyone who has ever played a decent FPS would be so amazed by it. Was it solely the fact of it being a good FPS for a console?
Surely this will also be a problem as if the USB pendrive (Im guessing thats what you mean) isnt flushed then shutting down unexpectedly might well cause corruption.
Yes it does seem to be bad code design. Judging from the post, the problem seems to be caused by some combination of premature rounding to integers (performance optimisation?) and also only being able to measure the time in milliseconds which seems to cause a distinction between 60 FPS (1000/60 rounded is 17), and say 61 FPS (1000/61 rounded is 16).
I thought windows now measured time in better intervals than that using its high-performance timers (using QueryPerformanceCounter) so I'd say this looks more like bad coding than insufficient hardware. It was fixed in a later patch I gather so looks very likely...
I recommend:
PS1='\u@\h \[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[0m\]: '
Makes the working directory go red:) I'm sure most people would change the : back to a $ though...
Interesting... There are only five big banks here in the UK, but boy do they seem to go after people! Every month I get a credit card offer in with my bank statement, and if I just signed and returned it I'd get one, even when I was unemployed and well into my overdraft. But Canada always did seem like a good place:)
My post made no mention of the United States, even if the parent had. The United States could invade Cuba to make their life easier but they don't as you point out. Your argument could also apply to a lesser extent to many countries who could invade smaller countries to solve their troubles with them, but this doesn't usually happen, which proves my point that countries don't act purely in their own interests.
Who modified this as insightful? It is opinions like that which cause problems in the first place!
Countries have to protect their own interests yes but that doesn't mean they all act out of total selfishness to the point of invading whoever they like. Otherwise why would international aid exist (corrupt as it is)? Why would countries have signed the Kyoto agreement?
The interesting thing about the original comment on GPS and so on is that most (if not all) countries in the world use the GPS system so where would be the advantage of shooting it down? It would only be as a terrorist action, which is a threat that the US is already well aware of
You're lucky if you haven't seen an IE-only page in a while - they haven't disappeared just yet, try
googling for them. At least it's less than a few years ago though...
I know someone who bought a clie, used it as he normally would (taking notes, looking up addresses etc), and it died within 2 days, losing data since the last hotsync.
And I've lost count of the amount of people I know whose nokia's now have only 2 days of battery life (with little call usage) due to the battery degrading over time.
I'm not trying to get on my high horse against you here, it just frustrates me that manufacturers put more effort into the shiny attractive features than battery life which is surely one of the most important things in portable electronics.
Rant over, apologies...
What about battery life? As with phones, PDAs, and other portable devices it always worries me that all the latest bells and whistles come with about 2 days battery life (in real terms, not manufacturers quoted figures), in which a pad of paper is better for me, as it won't lose my information or stop working!
Anyone got any figures on battery life for recent fancy PDAs?
In a similar vein (but taken further), there is a dangerous trend of American revisionism in films, especially related to the second world war. I just wonder if Americans will ever rename their language to "American"...
I have heard from some people involved in the grid that it is a triumph of PR over substance, and that it is not going to be as well-used and participated in as the press releases suggest...
While I am generally a fan of traditional paper books, at my uni on the CS course most of the lecturers made their notes (powerpoint, pdf etc) available electronically and for a lot of courses these sufficed -- maybe you should ask about this as well?
Rijndael, an OPEN algorithm developed outside the United States.... by the NSA. Rijndael is authorized for encryption of 'highly sensitive' and some forms of 'classified' data.
While/. is USA-centric, surely what the NSA says doesn't bother the rest of the world... Quite handy that the NSA are open with information about these algorithms in fact;-)
From the article:
Microsoft's software is considered "closed" because application developers and other programmers don't have free access to the blueprints.
Microsoft blueprint: 1. Make money!
I don't think I've ever seen source code/standards called that before...
We believe that they are unbiased, and therefore trust their results.
This is part of a general trend on the internet. TO quote someone or other "the internet will all become about trust" - whose reviews you trust, whose security you trust, along with more low-level problems like trusting the From field of an e-mail (i.e. you don't).
It's all very interesting, and relates to why we buy from/visit certain (often well-known and quite large) firms/sites - because we believe we can trust them more than a dodgy-seeming site offering the same thing...
Just thoughts:)
Kids are the only ones who are as self-serving and bullying as the RIAA so it would seem to suit well - kids are the only ones who might sympathise with the RIAA...
I agree that is totally unacceptable. Given that the EU and UN seem to be introducing various human rights laws, and I remember that one of them prevented your employer contacting you at home or somesuch, I wonder if these agreements might violate one of those laws? I know IP isn't usually the domain of human rights but you never know what the laws can be applied to..
I don't know...as the old saying goes "I don't do windows."
But more to the point, what you'd really want for doing this is a programming language.
True. My windows box is just the one with the speakers linked up to it.... But yes programming in direct is an option though Ive seen editors in the past (usually trial-period bleurgh) that allow you to play with these equations - provides easy instant listening rather than waiting for a compile!
Thanks for all the help (from everyone)
Sounds like you could start a webpage on this! On a side note is there a good free (as in beer, and preferably as in freedom) sound editor out there for Windows that could let me do this?
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I always gathered that ATI was best for DirectX, and NVIDIA best for OpenGL, though that might be wrong. Surely though regardless of what is easy to program for, simple raw performance under GL/DX is pretty important, for all the apps that dont optimise for the major graphics cards?
Can anyone provide any info on this end of things?
I have to say I agree. Having looked at Halo, I don't see why anyone who has ever played a decent FPS would be so amazed by it. Was it solely the fact of it being a good FPS for a console?
Surely this will also be a problem as if the USB pendrive (Im guessing thats what you mean) isnt flushed then shutting down unexpectedly might well cause corruption.
In 1989, a company called Incredible Technologies of Arlington Heights invented Golden Tee.
Did they mean 1999 or has it evolved?
Who said he was in the US? ;-)
Depends if you're an albums or a singles man I guess :)
I thought windows now measured time in better intervals than that using its high-performance timers (using QueryPerformanceCounter) so I'd say this looks more like bad coding than insufficient hardware. It was fixed in a later patch I gather so looks very likely...
I recommend: PS1='\u@\h \[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[0m\]: ' Makes the working directory go red :) I'm sure most people would change the : back to a $ though...
Interesting... There are only five big banks here in the UK, but boy do they seem to go after people! Every month I get a credit card offer in with my bank statement, and if I just signed and returned it I'd get one, even when I was unemployed and well into my overdraft. But Canada always did seem like a good place :)
My post made no mention of the United States, even if the parent had. The United States could invade Cuba to make their life easier but they don't as you point out. Your argument could also apply to a lesser extent to many countries who could invade smaller countries to solve their troubles with them, but this doesn't usually happen, which proves my point that countries don't act purely in their own interests.
Who modified this as insightful? It is opinions like that which cause problems in the first place! Countries have to protect their own interests yes but that doesn't mean they all act out of total selfishness to the point of invading whoever they like. Otherwise why would international aid exist (corrupt as it is)? Why would countries have signed the Kyoto agreement? The interesting thing about the original comment on GPS and so on is that most (if not all) countries in the world use the GPS system so where would be the advantage of shooting it down? It would only be as a terrorist action, which is a threat that the US is already well aware of
You're lucky if you haven't seen an IE-only page in a while - they haven't disappeared just yet, try googling for them. At least it's less than a few years ago though...
I know someone who bought a clie, used it as he normally would (taking notes, looking up addresses etc), and it died within 2 days, losing data since the last hotsync. And I've lost count of the amount of people I know whose nokia's now have only 2 days of battery life (with little call usage) due to the battery degrading over time. I'm not trying to get on my high horse against you here, it just frustrates me that manufacturers put more effort into the shiny attractive features than battery life which is surely one of the most important things in portable electronics. Rant over, apologies...
What about battery life? As with phones, PDAs, and other portable devices it always worries me that all the latest bells and whistles come with about 2 days battery life (in real terms, not manufacturers quoted figures), in which a pad of paper is better for me, as it won't lose my information or stop working! Anyone got any figures on battery life for recent fancy PDAs?
In a similar vein (but taken further), there is a dangerous trend of American revisionism in films, especially related to the second world war. I just wonder if Americans will ever rename their language to "American"...
I have heard from some people involved in the grid that it is a triumph of PR over substance, and that it is not going to be as well-used and participated in as the press releases suggest...
While I am generally a fan of traditional paper books, at my uni on the CS course most of the lecturers made their notes (powerpoint, pdf etc) available electronically and for a lot of courses these sufficed -- maybe you should ask about this as well?
Rijndael, an OPEN algorithm developed outside the United States. ... by the NSA. Rijndael is authorized for encryption of 'highly sensitive' and some forms of 'classified' data.
While /. is USA-centric, surely what the NSA says doesn't bother the rest of the world... Quite handy that the NSA are open with information about these algorithms in fact ;-)
From the article: Microsoft's software is considered "closed" because application developers and other programmers don't have free access to the blueprints. Microsoft blueprint: 1. Make money! I don't think I've ever seen source code/standards called that before...
We believe that they are unbiased, and therefore trust their results. This is part of a general trend on the internet. TO quote someone or other "the internet will all become about trust" - whose reviews you trust, whose security you trust, along with more low-level problems like trusting the From field of an e-mail (i.e. you don't). It's all very interesting, and relates to why we buy from/visit certain (often well-known and quite large) firms/sites - because we believe we can trust them more than a dodgy-seeming site offering the same thing... Just thoughts :)
Kids are the only ones who are as self-serving and bullying as the RIAA so it would seem to suit well - kids are the only ones who might sympathise with the RIAA...
I agree that is totally unacceptable. Given that the EU and UN seem to be introducing various human rights laws, and I remember that one of them prevented your employer contacting you at home or somesuch, I wonder if these agreements might violate one of those laws? I know IP isn't usually the domain of human rights but you never know what the laws can be applied to..
But more to the point, what you'd really want for doing this is a programming language. True. My windows box is just the one with the speakers linked up to it.... But yes programming in direct is an option though Ive seen editors in the past (usually trial-period bleurgh) that allow you to play with these equations - provides easy instant listening rather than waiting for a compile! Thanks for all the help (from everyone)
Sounds like you could start a webpage on this! On a side note is there a good free (as in beer, and preferably as in freedom) sound editor out there for Windows that could let me do this?