Well, it sounds more like Microsoft was intending to patent the "Alternate Data Stream" feature of the NTFS file system. You know, the whole a file called filename.txt:stream.txt is not the same as filename.txt:hidden.txt thing. Also, it's really nice that you can't see the newly created Alternate Data Stream (ADS) files.
So using ADS it's a really nice way to hide stuff... even when running applications they will not show up as being a ADS executable (i.e. the executable will not be something like filename.txt and not filename.txt:foo.exe).
I'm not sure if a similar feature existed in prior OS or not, since I'm not familiar with the mainframe OSs of long ago, but, I think this feature has been a part of the NTFS file system since NT 3.1
Of course, the whole NTFS Alternate Data Stream (ADS) thing can be evil if it is misused. I mean you cant see ADS using DIR or Windows Explorer.
Well, instead of PSOne and PS/2 games on a PS/3 (that's pretty much a given) maybe Sony wants the emulation so they can emulate a PS/3 using already existing hardware?
I mean, Sony could want to get as many bugs and issues identified as soon as possible before go and start finalizing the hardware designs and making a bunch of prototypes. I imagine being able to emulate a PS/3 on existing X86 desktops or other already easily accessible existing hardware would be useful, especially OS developers.
I wonder if they care that I'm having a fight with my girlfriend and am calling your wife to make arrangements to stay over tonight
Well, if you happen to have any kind of security clearence, or you plan on getting such a clearance in the future. Or, if you happen to work for a company that works on certain government projects or for a subcontractor that do then yeah, maybe they care.
In Windows Explorer, there's no way to sort by extension
Uh... yes there is. Just click on the "Type" column and it will sort the files in the foler by their files type.
Once you've done that, you then select a file and while holding down the SHIFT key and use the DOWN ARROR key to to select the files that you want to copy.
Once you've selected them all, then Right-Click and select "Send To" and select the destination and it should copy them.
But yeah, sometimes the command prompt is the quickest way to do something.
Well, I always looked at the 3DMark benchmark as more of a way to test the architecture of the graphics controller since it doesn't have any card specific optimizations like "real world" applications would tend to have.
After all, if you care how fast Doom III, HalfLife 2 or whatever, will run using a card then I imagine you would test or look at reviews where they test using those specific applications you are interested in.
If the architecture is bad then that means you'll only get decent performance if the developers make the effort to add optimizations or workarounds for the limitations of the card.
Actually, I find GameSpot to be mostly useless and never visit that site since everything I want seems to require paying for at GameSpot and really I can get what I want from GameFAQs.
From what I've heard, Nvidia totally replaced the shader program with ones that they wrote.
All ATI did was re order some of the instructions in the shaders to "optimize" them. The optmized and the original shader programs were functionally evquivalent. Sort of what happens when a complier optimizes code.
The same can't be said for what Nvidia did.
Hey! Did you bother to contact Sony? They might have offered to fix it FOR YOU FOR FREE!
Course now that you've opened it I doubt that they will touch it...
Society puts far more pressure in women to toe the true line of how a woman should look. Any visit to a magazine shop should convince anybody that women are portrayed mainly as sex objects whose only tasks in life are to keep an eye on their weight and how to find their blue prince.
Men do not have to suffer such humiliation.
Sure we do. Look at all the hair replacement and growth commercials. As well, there are magazines that have guys on their covers, so it's not only good looking women that are on magazine covers. Of course, for a magazine to sell it has to "look good". Sure there might be more good looking women on magazine covers, but then I think that maybe more magazines are targted to women then men. Dunno.
As well, there is all this spam related to my size... so it's there.
Well, the requirements are the API that the driver implements, such as Direct3D or OpenGL.
So when my application says to clear the Z-Buffer or makes whatever driver calls I expect that that the driver really does what the API indicates it should be doning.
Here, they seem to have hardcoded various culling planes to remove polygons that are unseen, yet due to the manner and order in which the benchmarking application draws them, they end up still be rendered by the card.
So since they have these special culling planes their card doesn't actually render them and so saves time. Of course, if you deviate from the set camera path you will get visual errors.
Hardly something that could mistaken as a driver bug. It would seem to be an attempt at "corner-cutting" to achieve a higher score in a benchmark.
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An example is shown here HOWTO: Use NTFS Alternate Data Streams
I'm not sure if a similar feature existed in prior OS or not, since I'm not familiar with the mainframe OSs of long ago, but, I think this feature has been a part of the NTFS file system since NT 3.1
Of course, the whole NTFS Alternate Data Stream (ADS) thing can be evil if it is misused. I mean you cant see ADS using DIR or Windows Explorer.
I mean, Sony could want to get as many bugs and issues identified as soon as possible before go and start finalizing the hardware designs and making a bunch of prototypes. I imagine being able to emulate a PS/3 on existing X86 desktops or other already easily accessible existing hardware would be useful, especially OS developers.
Well, if you happen to have any kind of security clearence, or you plan on getting such a clearance in the future. Or, if you happen to work for a company that works on certain government projects or for a subcontractor that do then yeah, maybe they care.
Uh... yes there is. Just click on the "Type" column and it will sort the files in the foler by their files type.
Once you've done that, you then select a file and while holding down the SHIFT key and use the DOWN ARROR key to to select the files that you want to copy.
Once you've selected them all, then Right-Click and select "Send To" and select the destination and it should copy them.
But yeah, sometimes the command prompt is the quickest way to do something.
I think there are some girl gamers that use male avatars to get away from this kind of thing.
Well, I always looked at the 3DMark benchmark as more of a way to test the architecture of the graphics controller since it doesn't have any card specific optimizations like "real world" applications would tend to have. After all, if you care how fast Doom III, HalfLife 2 or whatever, will run using a card then I imagine you would test or look at reviews where they test using those specific applications you are interested in. If the architecture is bad then that means you'll only get decent performance if the developers make the effort to add optimizations or workarounds for the limitations of the card.
Actually, I find GameSpot to be mostly useless and never visit that site since everything I want seems to require paying for at GameSpot and really I can get what I want from GameFAQs.
From what I've heard, Nvidia totally replaced the shader program with ones that they wrote. All ATI did was re order some of the instructions in the shaders to "optimize" them. The optmized and the original shader programs were functionally evquivalent. Sort of what happens when a complier optimizes code. The same can't be said for what Nvidia did.
Has anyone contacted Sony support and been told that they have to pay to fix their PS/2 if it doesn't play / red dual layer DVD properly?
Hey! Did you bother to contact Sony? They might have offered to fix it FOR YOU FOR FREE! Course now that you've opened it I doubt that they will touch it...
Dunno. The last update seems to have been on 3/26/2003 according to the web site Spammunition. I'm not sure why you think it's not being maintained...
Men do not have to suffer such humiliation.
Sure we do. Look at all the hair replacement and growth commercials. As well, there are magazines that have guys on their covers, so it's not only good looking women that are on magazine covers. Of course, for a magazine to sell it has to "look good". Sure there might be more good looking women on magazine covers, but then I think that maybe more magazines are targted to women then men. Dunno.
As well, there is all this spam related to my size... so it's there.
Well, the requirements are the API that the driver implements, such as Direct3D or OpenGL. So when my application says to clear the Z-Buffer or makes whatever driver calls I expect that that the driver really does what the API indicates it should be doning. Here, they seem to have hardcoded various culling planes to remove polygons that are unseen, yet due to the manner and order in which the benchmarking application draws them, they end up still be rendered by the card. So since they have these special culling planes their card doesn't actually render them and so saves time. Of course, if you deviate from the set camera path you will get visual errors. Hardly something that could mistaken as a driver bug. It would seem to be an attempt at "corner-cutting" to achieve a higher score in a benchmark.