As I recall, visual research indicates that humans can successfully discern fluid motion from frame based motion up until about 400fps. Of course, no one has a monitor that goes up that high, but still, the point stands.
I did try to find a cite, the closest I could find was this page which notes that framerates of 220fps have been proven distinguishable.
ATI is just the best all around. Modern Radeon series cards can render faster with better image quality than Geforce FX cards, regardless of API or rendering features in use.
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Not walking is what hackers do already. What do you think caused the calorie buildup?
Remember them? Manufacturer of the highest performance x86 processors available? An array of dual-Opteron systems could be built with dramatically lower price/performance ratio than any other platform, especially G5s or Intel Xeons.
You can get simple and cheap Serillel adapters, allowing you to plug IDE drives into SATA controllers. Thus, there's no reason to include a PATA controller or bridge on motherboards. Also, note that ISA did die a fairly quick, and total, death once PCI equivalents of ISA devices became available.
Valve's Steam content delivery service is going to become a P2P application at some point in the near future. This has been a feature planned from the get-go, it just has yet to be implemented. Much maligned though Steam is, this will dramatically affect load times, content updates, bug fixes for the better.
AVI DOES support VBR audio. I have and have made AVI files with VBR.
It most certainly does NOT. By exploiting a bug in the Microsoft video renderer, it is possible to play an AVI file with VBR audio straight through without loss of synch. However, you CANNOT seek within this file, it will not play in synch on other platforms, and is not a standards-compliant AVI.
As for the rest of your nonsensical points, fault tolerance is a function of how robust the format is. The Ogg container format has significantly lower overhead than AVI, and is MUCH more fault tolerant. Multiple audio streams have been covered elsewhere. So no, AVI won't do what he want, and it is pretty damn crappy. Nice troll, though.
AVI doesn't support VBR audio. AVI doesn't support seeking within the file well. AVI is bloated. AVI isn't very extensible. AVI isn't fault tolerant. AVI doesn't support very large files.
Wow, you sure are hostile for someone defending the rights of an entity with substandard infrastructure to defraud its paying customers.
A right is something you can get on your own, assuming another person doesn't stop you. You can't get internet access on your own. It is granted to you. As a privledge. And no, HTTP and EMail doesn't generate a tenth of what P2P traffic generates.
Priviledge my ass. It is something I've paid for, thus something owed to me by the terms of the contract. And why don't you ask the sites linked to by Slashdot about how much bandwidth HTTP uses? Anyway, P2P services are legitimate uses of bandwidth, thus it is unacceptable to block them no matter how much bandwidth they're using. Let me remind you, if the STUDENTS, the people PAYING FOR THE INTERNET ACCESS are consuming all the available bandwidth, then the university in question must BUY MORE. Period. You'll note that I'm not making unrealistic demands that a university magically create more bandwidth for free, I am simply requiring that they fullfil their obligation and provide the service that they are being paid for, charging more if necessary.
Why don't you read the terms of service for your internet connection? Is your contract guaranteeing you unfiltered internet access? Have you actually read the contracts?
Of course I have. As long as I do not commit illegal activities or suck down an extraordinarily huge amount of bandwidth, I'm in the clear. Furthermore, it says INTERNET access. Not WWW. Not E-mail. INTERNET. If an Internet application doesn't work because of their network misconfiguration, then I am not recieving the service that I am guaranteed.
It's painfully clear that you are still a student and don't understand how the real world business works of running an ISP, datacenter, or bandwidth arbitration.
Coming from someone who is obviously incapable of comprehending the simple concepts of providing adequate bandwidth and service to users, this comment is very amusing.
You aren't entitled to shit. You are given what they decide to give you. Until you own it, that's what you deal with. I doubt you will ever own an internet providor anyway, so just get used to taking what other people give you.
I am entitled to what the contract guarantees me. As the contract guarantees me working Internet access, I WILL recieve this, or I will be paid off. Failing this, the university will pay far more for legal fees in a contract dispute that I will inevitably win.
A university offering resnet access is legally an ISP, which is the way they want it. Furthermore, students are paying for their Internet access when they pay for their dorms.
How is a P2P filesharing app legitimate? It's copyright infringement 99% of the time. It's so they can grab music, porn, and movies off the internet.
P2P filesharing programs are tools, just like HTTP and E-mail. The fact that they CAN be used to commit illegal activities does not make it okay to block them. Usenet, anyone?
The difference is HTTP and EMail aren't used to exploit others copyrights with huge files. You don't have a "right" to internet access, anyway. You have a right to whatever the University says you have. Nothing more than that. You connect to their network, you are their bitch.
Bullshit. HTTP and E-mail can generate huge traffic loads, just like P2P. And yes, I DO have a right to Internet access. As a tenant of university housing, I have a contract guaranteeing me certain utilities in exchange for the large amount of money I'm plunking down. If the university wants to break this contract, they will begin refunding an appropriate portion of my payment. Landlord/tenant law applies here (to a varying degree depending on your state).
If usage has risen to the level that the school's internet connection can no longer cope, the solution is simple: get a faster Internet connection. $1 per student per quarter would easily pay for a few dozen additional megabits. As an ISP, the university has a duty to provide fast, uncrippled access to students, who ARE paying for this service. The fundamental problem here is that people are forgetting that P2P filesharing applications are a legitimate, important use of the resnet. It is no more acceptable to disable P2P access, much less suspend accounts, than it is to turn off HTTP or E-mail to save bandwidth.
Remember the SiS Xabre Series? Of course you don't, you repressed those memories because they were just too painful. The Xabre had simply the worst quality graphics ever in a contemporary mainstream card. XGI is a spinoff of the SiS division responsible for that travesty.
It is still possible, I suppose, that they'll produce a decent graphics chipset and become a contender. ATI managed to do it with the Radeon, after all. However, I'm not holding out much hope.
Everything is DirectX9 because it's the only standard available for advanced 3D graphics. OpenGL relies on extensions, but there is no spec defining what a graphics card HAS to have. DirectX9 requires advanced programmable pixel and vertex shaders, as well as other lovely features, implemented in hardware.
Actually, there's no disadvantage to the community when GFX card manufacturers implement DirectX features, as they are still accessible via OpenGL extensions. For example, Doom3 is an OpenGL game, but will make use of DirectX9 pixel and vertex shaders via OpenGL extensions. This is the best of both worlds; compatibility with open source operating systems as well as pretty graphics.
I really, really like the Belkin Enhanced USB line. They come in black and white, have the aforementioned USB interface, have good key feel (not too loud, but not impossible to press like those &*^#ing "quiet" keyboards), and best of all, put the \ key below Enter, next to Shift, which is As It Should Be. They also print the standard ctrl+ functions on the front of the keys (for example, P has "Print" written on the front of it).
They sell for under $20 in most office supply stores, which is cheap as USB keyboards go.
ATI was ALMOST the first to market with a DirectX8.0 card, the ATI Radeon, which supported programmable pixel and vertex shaders when all nVidia had was the Geforce2 GTS. Unfortunately, Microsoft dropped support for the version of the DirectX8.0 API ATI was using, thus dooming the Radeon to be a DirectX7 card and making the Geforce3 the first DirectX8.0 card to market.
ATI WAS the first to market with a DirectX8.1 solution, in the Radeon 8500. The Radeon 8500's Pixel Shader v1.4 was more advanced than any nVidia product until the release of the Geforce FX. The Geforce4 Ti only supported PS1.3, which is significantly less advanced.
ATI WAS the first to market with a DirectX9.0 solution, the Radeon 9700 Pro. nVidia still lags behind, with the Geforce FX offering well below average shader performance even when using their reduced accuracy shader programs.
The best proof of the R300+ platform's superiority is that nVidia's own, in-house developed DirectX9.0 demos run faster and look better on Radeon hardware than on the Geforce FX. If that isn't a damning indictment of the poor quality of the NV30 architecture, I don't know what is.
Steam includes an MP3 playback program, and indexing your MP3 files to make them available is probably one of its functions. The rest of the data can probably be explained by the file initialization issue mentioned in that forum thread.
You'd probably be surprised how many lamers set their skins to neon colors for better visibility, or used a custom AWP/Scout skin to get a crosshair back. People exploiting skin functionality to get a cheap advantage is what brought this about, not jerkishness on Valve's part.
Oh, and newer, higher resolution skins and models will be available from Valve officially, the rollout starting with CS v1.6 .
Actually, automatic installation of game updates and new content without the need for user interaction or maintaining an expensive file server network will significantly reduce support costs. No need to employ an army of support personnel just to say "that issue was fixed in the latest patch."
"22% reported more unusual experiences when infrasound was present in the music" is an ambiguous result. Depending on the exact makeup of the results, this could ALSO mean "78% reported LESS unusual experiences when infrasound was present," which would indicate that it has a mellowing effect.
Double-blind studies are necessary because the actions, subconscious or otherwise, of the experimenters can have an effect on the subjects, thus influencing results. I see no indications that this was a double-blind study.
You're right, I am relying on a media report on the study results. However, I still think having all the people in a room together is going to severely pollute the results. Assuming, of course, that any statistically valid results were actually obtained.
Poor research methodologies produce ambiguous results: Film at 11
First, the ambiguous results: 22% reported feeling odd when the infrasound was playing. Howabout when it wasn't playing? 78% also didn't notice ANYTHING. This doesn't really demonstrate anything. Can anyone reliably determine, in a double-blind study, when the infrasound is playing? That would be interesting.
Now, the poor research methodologies: This wasn't a double-blind study. Heck, they crammed all these people TOGETHER in a concert hall. Can you IMAGINE all the "Hey, do you feel funny? I feel funny!" discussion polluting the results? If this had been a one-at-a-time, double-blind study then I suppose the results might actually be meaningfull.
Pentium-M IS a Netburst-based CPU, just like the P4. What Intel did was to shorten the pipeline, thus increasing the IPC, making the CPU do more work per clock cycle. Thus, the Pentium-M is what the P4 SHOULD have been, had Intel not implemented a long pipeline to get higher clockspeeds for marketing purposes. It is a "P3-like" P4, but it's still a P4.
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The movie did a much better job getting accross the nature of their militaristic society. It's not just a screen adaptation of the book, at that it failed drastically. If you view it as an exaggerated parody, which it certainly is, it's actually quite insightful. The book, however, actually had characters with depth and feeling.
So, think of Starship Troopers as a movie about world government set during an epic interstellar war, and a book about people and interstellar conflict set upon a less exaggerated fascist government. A faithfull screen adaptation of the book would have been so difficult, I'm glad they didn't really try.
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As I recall, visual research indicates that humans can successfully discern fluid motion from frame based motion up until about 400fps. Of course, no one has a monitor that goes up that high, but still, the point stands.
I did try to find a cite, the closest I could find was this page which notes that framerates of 220fps have been proven distinguishable.
ATI is just the best all around. Modern Radeon series cards can render faster with better image quality than Geforce FX cards, regardless of API or rendering features in use.
Not walking is what hackers do already. What do you think caused the calorie buildup?
Remember them? Manufacturer of the highest performance x86 processors available? An array of dual-Opteron systems could be built with dramatically lower price/performance ratio than any other platform, especially G5s or Intel Xeons.
You can get simple and cheap Serillel adapters, allowing you to plug IDE drives into SATA controllers. Thus, there's no reason to include a PATA controller or bridge on motherboards. Also, note that ISA did die a fairly quick, and total, death once PCI equivalents of ISA devices became available.
Valve's Steam content delivery service is going to become a P2P application at some point in the near future. This has been a feature planned from the get-go, it just has yet to be implemented. Much maligned though Steam is, this will dramatically affect load times, content updates, bug fixes for the better.
AVI DOES support VBR audio. I have and have made AVI files with VBR.
It most certainly does NOT. By exploiting a bug in the Microsoft video renderer, it is possible to play an AVI file with VBR audio straight through without loss of synch. However, you CANNOT seek within this file, it will not play in synch on other platforms, and is not a standards-compliant AVI.
As for the rest of your nonsensical points, fault tolerance is a function of how robust the format is. The Ogg container format has significantly lower overhead than AVI, and is MUCH more fault tolerant. Multiple audio streams have been covered elsewhere. So no, AVI won't do what he want, and it is pretty damn crappy. Nice troll, though.
AVI doesn't support VBR audio. AVI doesn't support seeking within the file well. AVI is bloated. AVI isn't very extensible. AVI isn't fault tolerant. AVI doesn't support very large files.
Wow, you sure are hostile for someone defending the rights of an entity with substandard infrastructure to defraud its paying customers.
A right is something you can get on your own, assuming another person doesn't stop you. You can't get internet access on your own. It is granted to you. As a privledge. And no, HTTP and EMail doesn't generate a tenth of what P2P traffic generates.
Priviledge my ass. It is something I've paid for, thus something owed to me by the terms of the contract. And why don't you ask the sites linked to by Slashdot about how much bandwidth HTTP uses? Anyway, P2P services are legitimate uses of bandwidth, thus it is unacceptable to block them no matter how much bandwidth they're using. Let me remind you, if the STUDENTS, the people PAYING FOR THE INTERNET ACCESS are consuming all the available bandwidth, then the university in question must BUY MORE. Period. You'll note that I'm not making unrealistic demands that a university magically create more bandwidth for free, I am simply requiring that they fullfil their obligation and provide the service that they are being paid for, charging more if necessary.
Why don't you read the terms of service for your internet connection? Is your contract guaranteeing you unfiltered internet access? Have you actually read the contracts?
Of course I have. As long as I do not commit illegal activities or suck down an extraordinarily huge amount of bandwidth, I'm in the clear. Furthermore, it says INTERNET access. Not WWW. Not E-mail. INTERNET. If an Internet application doesn't work because of their network misconfiguration, then I am not recieving the service that I am guaranteed.
It's painfully clear that you are still a student and don't understand how the real world business works of running an ISP, datacenter, or bandwidth arbitration.
Coming from someone who is obviously incapable of comprehending the simple concepts of providing adequate bandwidth and service to users, this comment is very amusing.
You aren't entitled to shit. You are given what they decide to give you. Until you own it, that's what you deal with. I doubt you will ever own an internet providor anyway, so just get used to taking what other people give you.
I am entitled to what the contract guarantees me. As the contract guarantees me working Internet access, I WILL recieve this, or I will be paid off. Failing this, the university will pay far more for legal fees in a contract dispute that I will inevitably win.
Universities aren't ISPs nor do they try to be.
A university offering resnet access is legally an ISP, which is the way they want it. Furthermore, students are paying for their Internet access when they pay for their dorms.
How is a P2P filesharing app legitimate? It's copyright infringement 99% of the time. It's so they can grab music, porn, and movies off the internet.
P2P filesharing programs are tools, just like HTTP and E-mail. The fact that they CAN be used to commit illegal activities does not make it okay to block them. Usenet, anyone?
The difference is HTTP and EMail aren't used to exploit others copyrights with huge files. You don't have a "right" to internet access, anyway. You have a right to whatever the University says you have. Nothing more than that. You connect to their network, you are their bitch.
Bullshit. HTTP and E-mail can generate huge traffic loads, just like P2P. And yes, I DO have a right to Internet access. As a tenant of university housing, I have a contract guaranteeing me certain utilities in exchange for the large amount of money I'm plunking down. If the university wants to break this contract, they will begin refunding an appropriate portion of my payment. Landlord/tenant law applies here (to a varying degree depending on your state).
If usage has risen to the level that the school's internet connection can no longer cope, the solution is simple: get a faster Internet connection. $1 per student per quarter would easily pay for a few dozen additional megabits. As an ISP, the university has a duty to provide fast, uncrippled access to students, who ARE paying for this service. The fundamental problem here is that people are forgetting that P2P filesharing applications are a legitimate, important use of the resnet. It is no more acceptable to disable P2P access, much less suspend accounts, than it is to turn off HTTP or E-mail to save bandwidth.
So, are you enjoying your "source code"?
Remember the SiS Xabre Series? Of course you don't, you repressed those memories because they were just too painful. The Xabre had simply the worst quality graphics ever in a contemporary mainstream card. XGI is a spinoff of the SiS division responsible for that travesty.
It is still possible, I suppose, that they'll produce a decent graphics chipset and become a contender. ATI managed to do it with the Radeon, after all. However, I'm not holding out much hope.
Everything is DirectX9 because it's the only standard available for advanced 3D graphics. OpenGL relies on extensions, but there is no spec defining what a graphics card HAS to have. DirectX9 requires advanced programmable pixel and vertex shaders, as well as other lovely features, implemented in hardware.
Actually, there's no disadvantage to the community when GFX card manufacturers implement DirectX features, as they are still accessible via OpenGL extensions. For example, Doom3 is an OpenGL game, but will make use of DirectX9 pixel and vertex shaders via OpenGL extensions. This is the best of both worlds; compatibility with open source operating systems as well as pretty graphics.
I really, really like the Belkin Enhanced USB line. They come in black and white, have the aforementioned USB interface, have good key feel (not too loud, but not impossible to press like those &*^#ing "quiet" keyboards), and best of all, put the \ key below Enter, next to Shift, which is As It Should Be. They also print the standard ctrl+ functions on the front of the keys (for example, P has "Print" written on the front of it).
They sell for under $20 in most office supply stores, which is cheap as USB keyboards go.
Interesting stuff! Thanks for addressing our concerns.
ATI was ALMOST the first to market with a DirectX8.0 card, the ATI Radeon, which supported programmable pixel and vertex shaders when all nVidia had was the Geforce2 GTS. Unfortunately, Microsoft dropped support for the version of the DirectX8.0 API ATI was using, thus dooming the Radeon to be a DirectX7 card and making the Geforce3 the first DirectX8.0 card to market.
ATI WAS the first to market with a DirectX8.1 solution, in the Radeon 8500. The Radeon 8500's Pixel Shader v1.4 was more advanced than any nVidia product until the release of the Geforce FX. The Geforce4 Ti only supported PS1.3, which is significantly less advanced.
ATI WAS the first to market with a DirectX9.0 solution, the Radeon 9700 Pro. nVidia still lags behind, with the Geforce FX offering well below average shader performance even when using their reduced accuracy shader programs.
The best proof of the R300+ platform's superiority is that nVidia's own, in-house developed DirectX9.0 demos run faster and look better on Radeon hardware than on the Geforce FX. If that isn't a damning indictment of the poor quality of the NV30 architecture, I don't know what is.
Steam includes an MP3 playback program, and indexing your MP3 files to make them available is probably one of its functions. The rest of the data can probably be explained by the file initialization issue mentioned in that forum thread.
You'd probably be surprised how many lamers set their skins to neon colors for better visibility, or used a custom AWP/Scout skin to get a crosshair back. People exploiting skin functionality to get a cheap advantage is what brought this about, not jerkishness on Valve's part.
Oh, and newer, higher resolution skins and models will be available from Valve officially, the rollout starting with CS v1.6 .
Actually, automatic installation of game updates and new content without the need for user interaction or maintaining an expensive file server network will significantly reduce support costs. No need to employ an army of support personnel just to say "that issue was fixed in the latest patch."
"22% reported more unusual experiences when infrasound was present in the music" is an ambiguous result. Depending on the exact makeup of the results, this could ALSO mean "78% reported LESS unusual experiences when infrasound was present," which would indicate that it has a mellowing effect.
Double-blind studies are necessary because the actions, subconscious or otherwise, of the experimenters can have an effect on the subjects, thus influencing results. I see no indications that this was a double-blind study.
You're right, I am relying on a media report on the study results. However, I still think having all the people in a room together is going to severely pollute the results. Assuming, of course, that any statistically valid results were actually obtained.
Poor research methodologies produce ambiguous results: Film at 11
First, the ambiguous results: 22% reported feeling odd when the infrasound was playing. Howabout when it wasn't playing? 78% also didn't notice ANYTHING. This doesn't really demonstrate anything. Can anyone reliably determine, in a double-blind study, when the infrasound is playing? That would be interesting.
Now, the poor research methodologies: This wasn't a double-blind study. Heck, they crammed all these people TOGETHER in a concert hall. Can you IMAGINE all the "Hey, do you feel funny? I feel funny!" discussion polluting the results? If this had been a one-at-a-time, double-blind study then I suppose the results might actually be meaningfull.
This Urban Legend was definitively put to rest in 1998.
Pentium-M IS a Netburst-based CPU, just like the P4. What Intel did was to shorten the pipeline, thus increasing the IPC, making the CPU do more work per clock cycle. Thus, the Pentium-M is what the P4 SHOULD have been, had Intel not implemented a long pipeline to get higher clockspeeds for marketing purposes. It is a "P3-like" P4, but it's still a P4.
The movie did a much better job getting accross the nature of their militaristic society. It's not just a screen adaptation of the book, at that it failed drastically. If you view it as an exaggerated parody, which it certainly is, it's actually quite insightful. The book, however, actually had characters with depth and feeling.
So, think of Starship Troopers as a movie about world government set during an epic interstellar war, and a book about people and interstellar conflict set upon a less exaggerated fascist government. A faithfull screen adaptation of the book would have been so difficult, I'm glad they didn't really try.