CUDA is beautifully designed. It is trivial to pick up -- the docs are great, there are plenty of examples, it is not verbose like OpenCL but concise and compact. Basically nVidia has supported CUDA significantly much better then AMD has with OpenCL.
At the end of the day, sure eventually both of them are feature-parity but you'll probably get up to to speed with CUDA faster. I keep checking out OpenCL from time to time and it is just easier to use CUDA.
For gamers they couldn't give a shit about that. The fact that Titan could also game was a bonus. It was never primarily targeted at gamers just budget scientific computing.both: Process 3 TB of data (so the extra 3 GB provides a nice bonus) AND game at 120+ Hz gaming.
I dispise MS and Facebook as much as the next guy but show me bug-free code and I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. However your point about the absymal lack of Quality Assurance is with merit considering the resources these have to do a better job of testing.
- Stop the us vs them mentality. People need to realize We ARE the government - Second start demanding accountability and openness. Any politician caught lying should be banned for 25 + yrs from politics - Third remove money from politics and stop buying the vote. ALL campaign contributions are distributed at the end of every month to ALL parties - Lastly replace the broken "First Past The Goalpost" with a run-off voting system.
It is not rocket science just basic logic & wisdom.
I would to love to be able to play all my games at 2560x1440 @ 120+ Hz using LightBoost on a single monitor but that is not realistically possible for another 10 years.
When a game includes real-life art such as famous paintings, music, or architecture, Ebert would of of argued that meta-art is not art which is retarded. He was a fracking idiot WRT games for completely failing to understand:
Art is independent of the medium.
(Something he never grokked) because he was too old to understand an entirely new medium. His closed-mindedness is exactly how film was ostracized by the plays at the time before "plays" (and playwrights) morphed into "screenplays" (and screenwriter).
Some of the best *works* of art in the *cinematography* category are:
* Baraka * Casablanca * Dances with Wolves / Avatar * Lawrence of Arabia * Matrix
Some of the best *works* of art in the *gaming* category are namely:
* Braid * Diablo 2 / Path of Exile * Ico * Limbo * Journey / Flower * Left for Dead * Mario Bros * Minecraft * Portal 2 * Team Fortress 2 * Ultima (4 and 7) * Uncharted series
Maybe if he had actually worked on a game he might understand the new craft instead of ignorant armchair theorycrafting.
1. You seem to be confused on the process of Science:
Science is NOT about adding truth, but about removing falsehood. i.e. You're can't prove a positive, but you can prove a negative.
At this time there is zero _physical_ proof for Dark Matter or Dark Energy -- it is only _implied_ by Mathematics. Now the equations themselves may be flawed but again there needs to be evidence that they are incomplete before embracing theories willy-nilly. Over time inaccurate understanding is slowly replaced with a more accurate understanding.
> The bigger issue is that religious people claim to have the answers.
2. Tossing out the baby with the bath water is just as ignorant.
Some religions have a better perspective on the nature of reality but I am not aware of any that claim to have "all" the answers. The only ones that _know_ are the Mystics (by definition.)
For example, Scienctists can _never_ answer the question:
"What happened 'before' the Big Bang?" or
"What is the nature of consciousness?" because the process of Science is constrained by time & space. True Religion is about development of the mind to its fullest potential which greatly surpasses the ignorance of Science. For example, humans will be _allowed_ to know that we are not alone in about 10 years, that the human form is a 'master' template, to eventually discover that there are 6 fundamental forces, that every black hole is paired with a white hole, that gravity is only 1/2 of the picture, etc. But just because a few people have glimpsed part of the Truth for thousands of years doesn't mean you toss out answers because you are too blind to see the bigger picture. Instead you AUGMENT deduction with intuition.
-- "You don't know The Source because you don't know yourself" -- Buddha
I concur 100% that 4K doesn't make ANY sense due to SMALL screen sizes. In order to have ~300 dpi @ 4K (3840 x 2160) your screen size would have to be 14.66 inches. http://isthisretina.com/
I want 300 dpi at 60 inches.
4K only starts to make sense when you want to scale up the picture to be wall size. Let's take an average (diagonal) 60" plasma at 1080p, and the viewer sits at the recommended THX viewing angle of 36 degrees. (The recommended THX viewing distance is 6.7 feet)
You would need to sit 6'8" (or 80 inches or 6.7 feet) to have a 36 degree viewing angle; the 36 DPI becomes retina at 94 inches, or 7'10". Most people don't sit that close, usually 8+ feet for something that size -- nowhere anything close to the recommended 6.7 feet.
With a 4K TV, while it has doubled the DPI at 73 dpi, it becomes retina at 47 inches. All 4K means is that you can sit closer and still see the same detail.
So if you sit closer then 7'10" then 4K would be an improvement; if your sit at the recommended THX viewing distance then it would be too; I seriously doubt most people pay THAT much attention to a "proper" visual setup.
Shovelware? Have you LOOKED at most of the DS and Wii games? MOST of them _are_ shovelware!
The quality of Nintendo's games have always been fantastic (technical, game design, etc.)
Nintendo chose Quality over Quantity, and with that, I would agree with your argument. The other consoles chose Quantity, knowing that it was a gamble -- with enough titles, eventually you will get enough "mega-hits".
Uh, you DO realize that lane-splitting is perfectly LEGAL and SAFE in California, right?
By riding in between the lanes you can see MUCH further ahead to get a gauge of what road traffic is like. Why do you think the California cops embraced it?
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CUDA is beautifully designed. It is trivial to pick up -- the docs are great, there are plenty of examples, it is not verbose like OpenCL but concise and compact. Basically nVidia has supported CUDA significantly much better then AMD has with OpenCL.
At the end of the day, sure eventually both of them are feature-parity but you'll probably get up to to speed with CUDA faster. I keep checking out OpenCL from time to time and it is just easier to use CUDA.
> Basically the Titan was a publicity stunt.
Right, you want to tell that to the World's #1 Super computer which has 18,688 Tesla K20X GPUs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(supercomputer)
Second, you are glossing over the fact that:
Titan = 6 GB VRAM, 780 Ti = 3 GB
Titan Float64 performance = 1/3 FP32, 780 Ti = 1:24 FP32
For gamers they couldn't give a shit about that. The fact that Titan could also game was a bonus. It was never primarily targeted at gamers just budget scientific computing.both: Process 3 TB of data (so the extra 3 GB provides a nice bonus) AND game at 120+ Hz gaming.
> voltage is not meaningless. It's the speed at which the electronic (sic) charge passes a given point.
Electric charge, or Coulomb, has dimensions: Amp*Sec
The units on Voltage are: kg*m^2/sec^3/Amp which decomposes to: T^2/S^3
Rewriting voltage in terms of Energy = (kg*m^2/s^2), we are left with:
Voltage = Energy / Coulomb
or even
Voltage = Watts/Amps = J/s/Amp = Amp*J/S
There is NO speed nor velocity in that definition.
If you are being pedantic and going to try to refer to the m/s such as:
V = (N*m) / (Amp*s) = N/Amp * m/s
The N/Amp is NOT equivalent to Coulombs.
Furthermore,
* The units on distance are: S
* The units on velocity are: S/T
* The units on acceleration are: S/T^2
Voltage is the analogous DUAL of acceleration.
Please do some basic dimensional analysis before spouting off such rubbish.
I've been tracking GPU $ & Performance since 2000. Every year you can buy the same the GPU power for ~ $100 cheaper.
My Titan GTX is NOT going to be competitive with any shitty mobile GPU for at least 5 years.
And digital WoW gold is tax avoiding too? Pull your head out of your arse. The government has NO valid jurisdiction over arbitrary digital currencies.
I dispise MS and Facebook as much as the next guy but show me bug-free code and I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. However your point about the absymal lack of Quality Assurance is with merit considering the resources these have to do a better job of testing.
The migration path is rather simple:
- Stop the us vs them mentality. People need to realize We ARE the government
- Second start demanding accountability and openness. Any politician caught lying should be banned for 25 + yrs from politics
- Third remove money from politics and stop buying the vote. ALL campaign contributions are distributed at the end of every month to ALL parties
- Lastly replace the broken "First Past The Goalpost" with a run-off voting system.
It is not rocket science just basic logic & wisdom.
Exactly. Also, Tomb Raider 2013.
I would to love to be able to play all my games at 2560x1440 @ 120+ Hz using LightBoost on a single monitor but that is not realistically possible for another 10 years.
For the last time some of us gamers want a guaranteed 120+ Hz @ 1080p with all the bells & whistles with LightBoost.
Check our nVidia's G-Sync if you want to learn more
www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/g-sync
Exactly.
Passwords are like keys. As an employee you are authorized to use the keys even though they are not your property.
Holding them for ransom is not the way to get "the man" to change.
Intel has never been competitive with discrete GPUs from nVidia, AMD.
Olbg. http://www.dvhardware.net/news/nvidia_intel_insides_gpu_santa.jpg
Touchee -- very nice :-)
1080p @ 120 Hz with V-Sync OFF for multiplayer FPS is the gold standard on my GTX Titan.
When a game includes real-life art such as famous paintings, music, or architecture, Ebert would of of argued that meta-art is not art which is retarded. He was a fracking idiot WRT games for completely failing to understand:
Art is independent of the medium.
(Something he never grokked) because he was too old to understand an entirely new medium. His closed-mindedness is exactly how film was ostracized by the plays at the time before "plays" (and playwrights) morphed into "screenplays" (and screenwriter).
Some of the best *works* of art in the *cinematography* category are:
* Baraka
* Casablanca
* Dances with Wolves / Avatar
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Matrix
Some of the best *works* of art in the *gaming* category are namely:
* Braid
* Diablo 2 / Path of Exile
* Ico
* Limbo
* Journey / Flower
* Left for Dead
* Mario Bros
* Minecraft
* Portal 2
* Team Fortress 2
* Ultima (4 and 7)
* Uncharted series
Maybe if he had actually worked on a game he might understand the new craft instead of ignorant armchair theorycrafting.
Movies are passive entertainment.
Games are active entertainment.
They are different but equal forms of fun.
Film at 11.
And I bet you complain about TV being short for television or ATM for Automated Teller Machine too?
Sure VG is lame-ass but if the mass populace is going to abbreviate it for convenience there is nothing really we can do.
Besides, we already have Urban Dictionary for all the hip new acronyms that replaced The Hacker's Dictionary.
Still bitter over "Cracker and Hacker" getting hijacked ...
--
"Get off my LAN" -- grumpy old geek on the internet
2 points:
1. You seem to be confused on the process of Science:
Science is NOT about adding truth, but about removing falsehood. i.e. You're can't prove a positive, but you can prove a negative.
At this time there is zero _physical_ proof for Dark Matter or Dark Energy -- it is only _implied_ by Mathematics. Now the equations themselves may be flawed but again there needs to be evidence that they are incomplete before embracing theories willy-nilly. Over time inaccurate understanding is slowly replaced with a more accurate understanding.
> The bigger issue is that religious people claim to have the answers.
2. Tossing out the baby with the bath water is just as ignorant.
Some religions have a better perspective on the nature of reality but I am not aware of any that claim to have "all" the answers. The only ones that _know_ are the Mystics (by definition.)
For example, Scienctists can _never_ answer the question:
"What happened 'before' the Big Bang?" or
"What is the nature of consciousness?"
because the process of Science is constrained by time & space. True Religion is about development of the mind to its fullest potential which greatly surpasses the ignorance of Science. For example, humans will be _allowed_ to know that we are not alone in about 10 years, that the human form is a 'master' template, to eventually discover that there are 6 fundamental forces, that every black hole is paired with a white hole, that gravity is only 1/2 of the picture, etc. But just because a few people have glimpsed part of the Truth for thousands of years doesn't mean you toss out answers because you are too blind to see the bigger picture. Instead you AUGMENT deduction with intuition.
--
"You don't know The Source because you don't know yourself" -- Buddha
Agreed. The price of vanity is high.
Considering it is named after an obsolete device from last century that computers made obsolete I find the comment to be quaint.
"... that Apple a number of tech companies ..."
should be:
"... that Apple and a number of tech companies ..."
Off topic ...
Holy crap, I thought your .sig was a joke ... "const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)" but sure enough it is real.
https://silvermoon.svn.codeplex.com/svn/Silvermoon/Silvermoon/OpenGL/Texture.cs
Sad that the noob programmer couldn't even use a descriptive name for texture coordinates in 16.16 fixed point format!
i.e.
instead of using whitespace and columns for alignment to make it more readable ...
Nice find!
At 4K you might be running into the "Uncanny Valley" symptom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I concur 100% that 4K doesn't make ANY sense due to SMALL screen sizes. In order to have ~300 dpi @ 4K (3840 x 2160) your screen size would have to be 14.66 inches.
http://isthisretina.com/
I want 300 dpi at 60 inches.
4K only starts to make sense when you want to scale up the picture to be wall size. Let's take an average (diagonal) 60" plasma at 1080p, and the viewer sits at the recommended THX viewing angle of 36 degrees. (The recommended THX viewing distance is 6.7 feet)
You would need to sit 6'8" (or 80 inches or 6.7 feet) to have a 36 degree viewing angle; the 36 DPI becomes retina at 94 inches, or 7'10". Most people don't sit that close, usually 8+ feet for something that size -- nowhere anything close to the recommended 6.7 feet.
With a 4K TV, while it has doubled the DPI at 73 dpi, it becomes retina at 47 inches. All 4K means is that you can sit closer and still see the same detail.
So if you sit closer then 7'10" then 4K would be an improvement; if your sit at the recommended THX viewing distance then it would be too; I seriously doubt most people pay THAT much attention to a "proper" visual setup.
References:
http://myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html
http://www.cultofmac.com/173702/why-retina-isnt-enough-feature/
Shovelware? Have you LOOKED at most of the DS and Wii games? MOST of them _are_ shovelware!
The quality of Nintendo's games have always been fantastic (technical, game design, etc.)
Nintendo chose Quality over Quantity, and with that, I would agree with your argument. The other consoles chose Quantity, knowing that it was a gamble -- with enough titles, eventually you will get enough "mega-hits".
Uh, you DO realize that lane-splitting is perfectly LEGAL and SAFE in California, right?
By riding in between the lanes you can see MUCH further ahead to get a gauge of what road traffic is like. Why do you think the California cops embraced it?
http://www.chp.ca.gov/programs/lanesplitguide.html
> In a city? No.
Bullshit. I biked in San Jose+ for a year without a helmet. 10 miles to work each way.
Some of the myths about bike helmets:
TEDx Copenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07o-TASvIxY