And you don't see any problem comparing a 2-cpu machine compared to a single cpu machine? The single G5 got destroyed in everything, period. 147 FPS in Quake3 is absolutely rediculous. The single cpu G5 was the slowest in EVERY SINGLE benchmark. Yes, the G5 got destroyed.
Well that is just plain wrong. The article says the Radeon 9800 Pro was used for both and just the memory size has changed. This would mean core clock speeds are the same for both. As far memory speeds, they are most likely the same, but if anything, the 256MB version would use slower memory to cut costs.
For quake3, the performance difference between a 128MB and 256MB card is non-existant. Quake3 does not come close to using 128MB, much less 256MB. In fact, the 256MB card is more apt to perform slower because usually cheaper memory is used in the 256MB version. The G5 got beat in Quake3 because macs suck at games.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't the US government tell Microsoft to separate their OS and browser not too long ago? Now they are trying to integrate it even more on the next OS? I wish the laws were this lax on that no-seatbelt ticket I got.
Yea, blame Bush because local governments don't know how to manage their budgets. One program isn't the cause of the problems state governments are having. It's their lack of planning for a downturn in the economy.
The states dug their own graves. Some states, like New Mexico, are doing great. While others, like California, are in chaos and debt.
I think the adoption of BTX is going to come very slowly. For the 90% of computer users out there, a 3Ghz P4 is already a huge overkill to browse the net and check email. What are these BTX computers going to run that will make them appeal to current users.
Gamers, like usual, will be the biggest target for BTX. They are the only ones that will need the higher bandwidth bus for gfx and the faster cpus.
Violent games don't make violent kids. Violent kids latch on to whatever is violent around them. Whether it's the US bombing Iraq, the hundred of shootings you hear about on the news each year, or a game where you can shoot people. If GTA wasn't available it would have been something else. Video game makers are just considered an easy target.
As I see it, the RIAA is losing money and they are placing the blame squarely on file sharing. Even assuming that is true, how many people will look at a company suing a 12 year old girl or elderly man and say, "I want to buy their product?" No one I know.
The problem with their sales may very well be pirates, but while suing may deter people from pirating, common sense just tells me it won't get more people buying their product.
This has been said before I believe but, I download a lot more porn than I ever have music (no, not child porn like the RIAA claims is rampent), yet online porn sites are some of the most profitable out there.
People want music online, but for the last couple years there was no legal way to get it online legally. Porn was immediately available online. Sure, you could rip a CD, but that is not the easiest thing to do for the computer newb. If I were to ask my parents to rip me their Yanni CD, there would be zero chance of it getting done.
The RIAA missed the ball. Back when p2p networks (mainly Napster) were starting up and getting popular, THAT was when they needed online music services. Not years down the road after suing everyone and their 12 year old kids.
The people working on this are not getting salaries. That $1-2 million is only for parts and supplies. Also, all they are trying to build is a vehicle that can cary 3 people up a few million miles and right back down. A little different than the couple hundred a jet takes. Not too mention the lack of carry-on luggage space that is needed.
There a quote out there about some game that goes something like "an hour to learn, years to master." This is what game developers should be striving for.
Quake3 has done this. It is possible to get better and better at the game which takes only a few hours to get the basics down. That is what hooks people. Complex RPG games I find boring for the most part. They generally require reading the manual which sucks, and there is usually very little skill involved, just knowledge of how to do stuff.
Another poor sap that bought a Seagate or IBM ATA harddrive. I've killed 2 IBM harddrives and have since got a WD. I know Seagate makes good SCSI and it looks like they are making good SATA but their ATA drives suck.
This one line says it all:
"The problem: Unlike MP3 music tracks plucked from the Net from pirate sites such as Kazaa, music on BuyMusic is encoded in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format."
I won't ever, pay to download anything in WMA format just like I won't install Real player no matter how many porn sites need it. When will these companies learn from what the "pirate sites" have done right and allow people to download the songs in the most popular and compatible format out there. Or even better, let them pick.
What I really wonder is how much closed projects have benefited from open projects. I wonder if you were to analyze a closed source program from MS or another big company if any of the programmers took their code from open sources. The only difference is that you can't be sued for patent infringment if you can't see it is there.
As amazed as I would like to be by these claims I can't help but be a little aprehensive. Could Apple really have closed the over one year gap Intel has (or had) in technology? Going from Pentium 3 speeds to speeds surpassing the latest from Intel & AMD? I'm not going to swallow that claim until I see some independent benchmarks.
A friend of mine got rid of his land line, but there was a fairly serious (for him) consequence he didn't plan on. The local pizza places don't deliver to cell phones.
The RIAA takes very few of these questions head on:
We have asked [the p2p networks] that the infringements be filtered out of the system. By implementing these types of technological safeguards, those artists and copyright holders who want to distribute their works for free can do so, and those that would prefer not to do so have a choice as well.
This has been tried and failed miserably. The kids on the internet have more time and intelligence to beat any type of filter that has been put out to stop illegal file sharing yet not hurt legitimate file sharing.
The goal of copy protection in CDs is not to prevent individuals from making copies that they want to make for personal use, but rather to prevent individuals from distributing the recordings or making copies they don't have a right to make. Record companies don't want to lock music up -- after all, why would people buy it if they could not listen to it in the way that they wanted?
I could not believe this when I saw it. If only they could connect this statement with their declining sales maybe they would find the real reason why album sales have gone down.
As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours. As a practical matter, there is no reason to do it. It is easier these days to rip a recording from a CD than to download it. And, when you rip the CD, you do not open up your computer to all of the spyware and other viruses that are part and parcel of most illegal P2P services.
For one, if you have broadband downloading a digital version can be faster and easier than ripping. Second, see above question. It is your anti-copy technology that is forcing people to download the digital equivalent to it. Oh yea, and almost all those P2P services have counterparts with no spyware.
The DMCA Anti-Circumvention provision has specific provisions built into it that exempts true scientific research. Moreover, every three years, the United States Copyright Office reviews whether specific exemptions need to be added to the DMCA to address this issue.
Anytime a DMCA question comes up the RIAA doesn't address whether it is right or wrong, it just says that's congress' job.
I don't think that this will work well mainly because the people buying $200 computers won't pay $50 for something their computer already has, and more importantly, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Installing an operating system, which while isn't that hard, is not something that is not done by many people.
I only envision 2 groups of people buying these computers. Those that don't know much about computers, and those that know too much about computers. The first group would be even less likely to try to undertake installing an OS and the later would already own a license for Windows or be smart enough to install some other OS.
Reading this article I can't help but wonder what this group is thinking. Just because the outcome of the next roll is figured out ahead of time doesn't mean it wasn't randomly generated. It was just randomly generated earlier than anticipated.
ID's been doing this since Quake 1 (probably even earlier), and while no prizes have been given out for it, being part of a well developed mod, like threewave for Q3, is a good way to land a job making the games.
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The single cpu computer than beat the dual-cpu G5 in every benchmark had neither raid nor a 256MB video card.
And you don't see any problem comparing a 2-cpu machine compared to a single cpu machine? The single G5 got destroyed in everything, period. 147 FPS in Quake3 is absolutely rediculous. The single cpu G5 was the slowest in EVERY SINGLE benchmark. Yes, the G5 got destroyed.
Well that is just plain wrong. The article says the Radeon 9800 Pro was used for both and just the memory size has changed. This would mean core clock speeds are the same for both. As far memory speeds, they are most likely the same, but if anything, the 256MB version would use slower memory to cut costs.
And how is that different from any other popular game? Hence why the G5 and ALL macs suck at games.
Take a closer look at the numbers. The G5 got destroyed in the photoshop benchmarks. Read the part at the bottom, "LOWER is better."
For quake3, the performance difference between a 128MB and 256MB card is non-existant. Quake3 does not come close to using 128MB, much less 256MB. In fact, the 256MB card is more apt to perform slower because usually cheaper memory is used in the 256MB version. The G5 got beat in Quake3 because macs suck at games.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't the US government tell Microsoft to separate their OS and browser not too long ago? Now they are trying to integrate it even more on the next OS? I wish the laws were this lax on that no-seatbelt ticket I got.
Yea, blame Bush because local governments don't know how to manage their budgets. One program isn't the cause of the problems state governments are having. It's their lack of planning for a downturn in the economy. The states dug their own graves. Some states, like New Mexico, are doing great. While others, like California, are in chaos and debt.
You know it was the interns that thought this idea up.
I think the adoption of BTX is going to come very slowly. For the 90% of computer users out there, a 3Ghz P4 is already a huge overkill to browse the net and check email. What are these BTX computers going to run that will make them appeal to current users.
Gamers, like usual, will be the biggest target for BTX. They are the only ones that will need the higher bandwidth bus for gfx and the faster cpus.
Violent games don't make violent kids. Violent kids latch on to whatever is violent around them. Whether it's the US bombing Iraq, the hundred of shootings you hear about on the news each year, or a game where you can shoot people. If GTA wasn't available it would have been something else. Video game makers are just considered an easy target.
As I see it, the RIAA is losing money and they are placing the blame squarely on file sharing. Even assuming that is true, how many people will look at a company suing a 12 year old girl or elderly man and say, "I want to buy their product?" No one I know.
The problem with their sales may very well be pirates, but while suing may deter people from pirating, common sense just tells me it won't get more people buying their product.
This has been said before I believe but, I download a lot more porn than I ever have music (no, not child porn like the RIAA claims is rampent), yet online porn sites are some of the most profitable out there.
People want music online, but for the last couple years there was no legal way to get it online legally. Porn was immediately available online. Sure, you could rip a CD, but that is not the easiest thing to do for the computer newb. If I were to ask my parents to rip me their Yanni CD, there would be zero chance of it getting done.
The RIAA missed the ball. Back when p2p networks (mainly Napster) were starting up and getting popular, THAT was when they needed online music services. Not years down the road after suing everyone and their 12 year old kids.
The people working on this are not getting salaries. That $1-2 million is only for parts and supplies. Also, all they are trying to build is a vehicle that can cary 3 people up a few million miles and right back down. A little different than the couple hundred a jet takes. Not too mention the lack of carry-on luggage space that is needed.
There a quote out there about some game that goes something like "an hour to learn, years to master." This is what game developers should be striving for.
Quake3 has done this. It is possible to get better and better at the game which takes only a few hours to get the basics down. That is what hooks people. Complex RPG games I find boring for the most part. They generally require reading the manual which sucks, and there is usually very little skill involved, just knowledge of how to do stuff.
Another poor sap that bought a Seagate or IBM ATA harddrive. I've killed 2 IBM harddrives and have since got a WD. I know Seagate makes good SCSI and it looks like they are making good SATA but their ATA drives suck.
This one line says it all: "The problem: Unlike MP3 music tracks plucked from the Net from pirate sites such as Kazaa, music on BuyMusic is encoded in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format." I won't ever, pay to download anything in WMA format just like I won't install Real player no matter how many porn sites need it. When will these companies learn from what the "pirate sites" have done right and allow people to download the songs in the most popular and compatible format out there. Or even better, let them pick.
What I really wonder is how much closed projects have benefited from open projects. I wonder if you were to analyze a closed source program from MS or another big company if any of the programmers took their code from open sources. The only difference is that you can't be sued for patent infringment if you can't see it is there.
As amazed as I would like to be by these claims I can't help but be a little aprehensive. Could Apple really have closed the over one year gap Intel has (or had) in technology? Going from Pentium 3 speeds to speeds surpassing the latest from Intel & AMD? I'm not going to swallow that claim until I see some independent benchmarks.
A friend of mine got rid of his land line, but there was a fairly serious (for him) consequence he didn't plan on. The local pizza places don't deliver to cell phones.
The RIAA takes very few of these questions head on:
We have asked [the p2p networks] that the infringements be filtered out of the system. By implementing these types of technological safeguards, those artists and copyright holders who want to distribute their works for free can do so, and those that would prefer not to do so have a choice as well.
This has been tried and failed miserably. The kids on the internet have more time and intelligence to beat any type of filter that has been put out to stop illegal file sharing yet not hurt legitimate file sharing.
The goal of copy protection in CDs is not to prevent individuals from making copies that they want to make for personal use, but rather to prevent individuals from distributing the recordings or making copies they don't have a right to make. Record companies don't want to lock music up -- after all, why would people buy it if they could not listen to it in the way that they wanted?
I could not believe this when I saw it. If only they could connect this statement with their declining sales maybe they would find the real reason why album sales have gone down.
As a technical matter, it is illegal to download a recording from another that is not yours. As a practical matter, there is no reason to do it. It is easier these days to rip a recording from a CD than to download it. And, when you rip the CD, you do not open up your computer to all of the spyware and other viruses that are part and parcel of most illegal P2P services.
For one, if you have broadband downloading a digital version can be faster and easier than ripping. Second, see above question. It is your anti-copy technology that is forcing people to download the digital equivalent to it. Oh yea, and almost all those P2P services have counterparts with no spyware.
The DMCA Anti-Circumvention provision has specific provisions built into it that exempts true scientific research. Moreover, every three years, the United States Copyright Office reviews whether specific exemptions need to be added to the DMCA to address this issue.
Anytime a DMCA question comes up the RIAA doesn't address whether it is right or wrong, it just says that's congress' job.
Are you planning on trying to get a patent on it?.... On a more serious thought this sounds exactly like a small little convention called Quakecon
Not difficult but the idea of formating a harddrive is a daunting task for many people.
I don't think that this will work well mainly because the people buying $200 computers won't pay $50 for something their computer already has, and more importantly, they wouldn't know what to do with it. Installing an operating system, which while isn't that hard, is not something that is not done by many people. I only envision 2 groups of people buying these computers. Those that don't know much about computers, and those that know too much about computers. The first group would be even less likely to try to undertake installing an OS and the later would already own a license for Windows or be smart enough to install some other OS.
Reading this article I can't help but wonder what this group is thinking. Just because the outcome of the next roll is figured out ahead of time doesn't mean it wasn't randomly generated. It was just randomly generated earlier than anticipated.
ID's been doing this since Quake 1 (probably even earlier), and while no prizes have been given out for it, being part of a well developed mod, like threewave for Q3, is a good way to land a job making the games.