You wouldn't have been happy if you bought the Audigy LS when it was new and then Creative didn't make drivers that worked with XP SP2 until Vista was released. Not to mention the fact that after those drivers came out, it wasn't compatible with 2.1 speakers in hardware mode; it would only do surround sound.
Repeated contact with Creative changed nothing; their only answer was reseat the card, reinstall drivers and so forth. I did all of that many times, and they never cared to do anything about it.
Now I have an Audigy 2 ZS platinum which is for the most part a decent card, but it does not live up to the features it's supposed to have. One of the things I was looking forward to was the fiber optic input. Turns out NOBODY can get that input to work. Also, it doesn't sample as quickly as it claims, or do 24-bit properly.
It's pretty fascinating how the company that appears to be the market leader is also the worst in terms of actually delivering a good sound card. Then again, maybe it shouldn't surprise me since they're also the biggest liars. I got bitten twice.
You've got him all wrong. He's a twelve year old with a PhD that reads and understand every line of code before he allows it to execute on his own hardware.
The structure is very simple, but that's part of what makes me feel like the language is not very expressive. Also, I can read a Spanish sentence and have a good idea what it means even if I've never seen half the words before.
When I was getting my BS in Computer Science (class of 08!), I took 3 semesters of Spanish and 1 Chinese. Taking foreign languages forces you to think in new ways, which is what problem solving is all about. Also, Spanish and Chinese are both fairly similar to English, but Spanish was fun for me while Chinese was just a pain in the ass since very few of the words are cognates.
"Can't have fags and pot smoking hippies ruining our country for all us real Americans, can we?"
"Join the military; it's the greatest service you can possibly do for you country."
Independence day and the focus on the military gets me a little riled up. I have a (college educated) friend who works full time for Americorps building houses for poor people. He gets paid $600 a month for hard full-time work when he could be making 10x that much at a "real" job. He makes a difference at home instead of projecting hard power abroad against the will of the people. How's that for serving your country?
McCain and Clinton think torture is OK. Obama does not.
I believe the USA should be a beacon of hope and civilization, not a crowd of barbarians that so much of the world as been for so long. That issue alone is enough to decide who I vote for.
Fortunately, Nvidia provides a CUDA version of the basic linear algebra subprograms, so even if your software is hard to port, you can speed it up considerably if it does some big matrix operations, which can easily take a long time on a CPU.
I guess this is probably a joke, but the sections of code that run on the GPU should work on any platform supported by CUDA (which is probably what they're using, didn't read TFA) with little or no modification. Unless they're modifying structures created by D3D, that is....
The GPU's are better at floating point than integer; if I remember correctly it takes 4 cycles on current GPU's to do a float operation, but it takes 16 to do an int. No, I don't understand why.
Also, the "multiply" and "add" instructions exist in a "madd" opcode which essentially doubles the theoretical floating point performance, even if you don't use "madd" very often.
It is possible to solve non-graphics problems on graphics cards nowadays, but the hardware is still very specialized. You don't want the GPU to run your OS or your web browser or any of that; when a SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) problem arises, a decent computer scientist should recognize it and use the tools he has available. Also, this stuff isn't as mature as normal C programming, so issues that don't always exist in software that's distributed to the general public will crop up because not everyone's video card will support everything that's going on in the program.
By what benchmark is eight of the NVIDIA GPUs in the 9800 GX2 more powerful than 300 2.4 GHz C2Ds? By any SIMD problem. For reference, fire up a game that's capable of using a software renderer and do some sort of benchmark, then use the 3D hardware on the same benchmark. That's the difference between SIMD on hardware that is designed to do SIMD and SIMD on hardware that's designed to do everything (or in the case of the Duo, multitasking).
I imagine the security checkpoint creates enough of a bottleneck that a bomb detonated right in the middle of it would kill as many people as a bomb on board an airplane.
I frequently attend minor league baseball games with my fiance. They check her purse for bombs, but they have no idea about the 5 inch hunting knife that's in my pocket. Or that her DD breasts are not in fact bombs.
That's a pretty grim outlook. I thought it was just ineptitude. I was serious about asking about the worst article ever, though. We should come up with a top/bottom 10 list of Slashdot stories on a slow news day.
If this isn't the worst posting ever, what is? I've probably read 80% of the posts on this site for the last 7 or 8 years, and this one really stuck out for some reason. Just overwhelming misuse of already annoying (nearly meaningless) buzzwords combined with no link.
Oh, I get it. This is Web 2.0 hardware setup because users can add and modify servers as they see fit! Wait, the users have no control over the hardware?
Sounds pretty stupid, but maybe Tom's hardware guide has a good explanation...wait, there's no link to the article, or anything at all! At least we'll get some good discussion going because this is Slashdot, right?
This is probably the worst article I've ever seen on Slashdot.
I've a WRT54G with stock firmware in it. It has QoS in it from the factory. What's the problem here? What's with all this DD-WRT stuff? My default firmware is easy to use and works every time.
It really is out of control. Me on 3 beers probably blows over the limit, but I'm walking, talking, and driving just fine. Why not charge people for reckless driving if they're driving poorly instead of trying to blame bad driving or bad decisions on a chemical?
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It's like the difference between an onboard video setup and a "real" one. People who need more features always have to pay a little more for them.
You wouldn't have been happy if you bought the Audigy LS when it was new and then Creative didn't make drivers that worked with XP SP2 until Vista was released. Not to mention the fact that after those drivers came out, it wasn't compatible with 2.1 speakers in hardware mode; it would only do surround sound.
Repeated contact with Creative changed nothing; their only answer was reseat the card, reinstall drivers and so forth. I did all of that many times, and they never cared to do anything about it.
Now I have an Audigy 2 ZS platinum which is for the most part a decent card, but it does not live up to the features it's supposed to have. One of the things I was looking forward to was the fiber optic input. Turns out NOBODY can get that input to work. Also, it doesn't sample as quickly as it claims, or do 24-bit properly.
It's pretty fascinating how the company that appears to be the market leader is also the worst in terms of actually delivering a good sound card. Then again, maybe it shouldn't surprise me since they're also the biggest liars. I got bitten twice.
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You've got him all wrong. He's a twelve year old with a PhD that reads and understand every line of code before he allows it to execute on his own hardware.
The structure is very simple, but that's part of what makes me feel like the language is not very expressive. Also, I can read a Spanish sentence and have a good idea what it means even if I've never seen half the words before.
When I was getting my BS in Computer Science (class of 08!), I took 3 semesters of Spanish and 1 Chinese. Taking foreign languages forces you to think in new ways, which is what problem solving is all about. Also, Spanish and Chinese are both fairly similar to English, but Spanish was fun for me while Chinese was just a pain in the ass since very few of the words are cognates.
Freenet is really pretty good these days; I first used it 5 or 6 years ago and I 've kept a close eye on it.
The biggest problem it seems to have now is that there's no good reading material!
Don't forget about moral values.
"Can't have fags and pot smoking hippies ruining our country for all us real Americans, can we?"
"Join the military; it's the greatest service you can possibly do for you country."
Independence day and the focus on the military gets me a little riled up. I have a (college educated) friend who works full time for Americorps building houses for poor people. He gets paid $600 a month for hard full-time work when he could be making 10x that much at a "real" job. He makes a difference at home instead of projecting hard power abroad against the will of the people. How's that for serving your country?
Maybe we could believe them a little more when Saudi Arabia stops executing rape victims. Good thing they're on our side fighting terrorism!
McCain and Clinton think torture is OK. Obama does not.
I believe the USA should be a beacon of hope and civilization, not a crowd of barbarians that so much of the world as been for so long.
That issue alone is enough to decide who I vote for.
Fortunately, Nvidia provides a CUDA version of the basic linear algebra subprograms, so even if your software is hard to port, you can speed it up considerably if it does some big matrix operations, which can easily take a long time on a CPU.
I guess this is probably a joke, but the sections of code that run on the GPU should work on any platform supported by CUDA (which is probably what they're using, didn't read TFA) with little or no modification. Unless they're modifying structures created by D3D, that is....
The GPU's are better at floating point than integer; if I remember correctly it takes 4 cycles on current GPU's to do a float operation, but it takes 16 to do an int. No, I don't understand why.
Also, the "multiply" and "add" instructions exist in a "madd" opcode which essentially doubles the theoretical floating point performance, even if you don't use "madd" very often.
It is possible to solve non-graphics problems on graphics cards nowadays, but the hardware is still very specialized. You don't want the GPU to run your OS or your web browser or any of that; when a SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) problem arises, a decent computer scientist should recognize it and use the tools he has available.
Also, this stuff isn't as mature as normal C programming, so issues that don't always exist in software that's distributed to the general public will crop up because not everyone's video card will support everything that's going on in the program.
VLC is GPL. Check the website. Actually, so is mplayer. Where have you been?
All righty! Sounds like time for a free-speech testing open source RTS/puzzle game to me! We could make GTA look like Sunday school.
I imagine the security checkpoint creates enough of a bottleneck that a bomb detonated right in the middle of it would kill as many people as a bomb on board an airplane.
I frequently attend minor league baseball games with my fiance. They check her purse for bombs, but they have no idea about the 5 inch hunting knife that's in my pocket. Or that her DD breasts are not in fact bombs.
That's a pretty grim outlook. I thought it was just ineptitude. I was serious about asking about the worst article ever, though. We should come up with a top/bottom 10 list of Slashdot stories on a slow news day.
If this isn't the worst posting ever, what is? I've probably read 80% of the posts on this site for the last 7 or 8 years, and this one really stuck out for some reason. Just overwhelming misuse of already annoying (nearly meaningless) buzzwords combined with no link.
Oh, I get it. This is Web 2.0 hardware setup because users can add and modify servers as they see fit! Wait, the users have no control over the hardware?
Sounds pretty stupid, but maybe Tom's hardware guide has a good explanation...wait, there's no link to the article, or anything at all! At least we'll get some good discussion going because this is Slashdot, right?
This is probably the worst article I've ever seen on Slashdot.
We all knew that Bush and GINA go together pretty plainly!
Get it? GINA as in vagina!
I've a WRT54G with stock firmware in it. It has QoS in it from the factory. What's the problem here? What's with all this DD-WRT stuff? My default firmware is easy to use and works every time.
It really is out of control. Me on 3 beers probably blows over the limit, but I'm walking, talking, and driving just fine. Why not charge people for reckless driving if they're driving poorly instead of trying to blame bad driving or bad decisions on a chemical?