I have a GTX Titan and it is still TOO SLOW: I want to run my games at 100 fps @ 2560 x 1440. I prefer 120 Hz on a single monitor using LightBoost. Tomb Raider 2013 dips down below 60 fps which makes me mad.
And before you say "What?", I started out with the Apple ][ with 280x192; even ran glQuake at 512x384 res on a CRT to guarantee 60 fps, so I am very thankful for the progress of GPUs.;-)
But yeah, my other 560 Ti w/ 448 cores runs 1080p @ 60 Hz is certainly "good enough" but we we are QUITE a ways away from the end of GPUs for the forseeable future. There is a still a demand for real-time CG photorealism.
> Skeumorphism is just a thing, if done right it is great, if done poorly, it is bad.
As a 3D, UI, & UX expert I concur 100%.
Skeumorphism is like spice. A little kicks it up a notch. Not having any is TOO plain; having too much and that is worse then not having any.
IMO the BIGGER problem is OSX 10.9 and iOS 7 completely desaturating and removing all 3d shading -- THAT is the hideous UI crime. The UI designers should be forced to use Windows 1.x for their stupidity.
Government's are the biggest hypocrites around. i.e. When a government employee kills 160 people they are given a medal.* When someone else does it they are charged for manslaughter.
* "When someone kills 160 other humans and becomes a National Hero for it, it just proves... Earth: The Insane Asylum of the Universe - nowhere else could things be this messed up."
-- Hobie1dog
> Actually that kind of emphasizes the point. Where you had Kodak, Polaroid, etc, actively employing hundreds of thousands, t
Incorrect.
Technology forces people to change jobs. Maybe _you_ like digging ditches but we have technology to help with mundane tasks such as backhoes. As they say, "Better living through chemistry". Technology allows us to scale up the labor.
i.e. Who invents the tools? Who makes all the new tech-tech tools/gadgets? Who maintains them? Who fixes them?
Comments should comment WHY, as in "work-around X because commit #123 made assumption Y" If I want to know HOW the code works you should be able to read the code. (Barring "tricky" optimizations of course.)
I would also _proper_ naming of variables, not everything abbreviated without any vowels that won't make any sense in 6 months.
Take the time to do it RIGHT the first time. 90% of the time on a job you are maintaining code, not writing new code.
Considering that hard disk sectors have ALWAYS been a power-of-2 even though the encoding of them may not, using a power of 10 was pure marketing bullshit.
> You're not confusing gigabytes with gibibytes are you? That stupid term was invented years after the fact of common usage. You can piss off with that retarded term.
> Do you also complain that 100mbit ethernet is not 100*1024*1024 bits per second? That includes meta-data such as parity, error detecting, etc. There is NO confusion because it has always been "How many bits can I send over the wire reliably knowing full well that I'm going to get LESS then N/8 bytes out."
Sticking your head in the sand over facts is not "irrelevant." There are 5 categories of fans:
1) Will pay for it, will never pirate it 2) Will pay for it, but might ALSO pirate it so they don't have to transcode it 3) Might pay for it, might pirate it 4) Will never pay for it, and pirate it 5) Will never pay for it, and go without
The goal is to _understand_ how those in (3) move to the other categories.
In this day and age consumers are EXTREMELY sensitive to pricing. I don't need to remind you that Valve saw over 2000% (yes, 2000%) increase in Steam sales when they lowered the prices of L4D.
However even if the the product is FREE it doesn't mean people want it such as group (1). Conversely, there ARE some countries where downloading isn't a crime, so stop with your rhetoric that piracy == stealing.
At the end of the day its all bits. Claiming pseudo-ownership over a certain order/representation of them is insane but it is the current system we have, for better, or worse.
Understanding the value of something AND its relationship to money is extremely important as we move towards free energy.
True, but the people with the money lobby for laws so they can think so.
Ownership is an intellectual hurdle we as a species in general haven't gotten over yet aside from a few fringe cases as Public Domain, Artists giving away their music, etc.
I don't buy that else they would ban reading, sudoku, sleeping, or even looking out the window (I've done all of them on different flights.) Most of the time more then half if the passengers don't care -- this isn't their first flight, they've heard the exact same script on the last flight.
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Oblg. You own a car, not the road.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JFnHSdz8ESc/UKOh5Zm3DWI/AAAAAAAABAQ/NctBNmWUu68/w448-h720-no/you+own+the+car.jpg
Save the kinky sex for the bedroom.
> How much more is enough?
Uhm, never.
I have a GTX Titan and it is still TOO SLOW: I want to run my games at 100 fps @ 2560 x 1440. I prefer 120 Hz on a single monitor using LightBoost. Tomb Raider 2013 dips down below 60 fps which makes me mad.
And before you say "What?", I started out with the Apple ][ with 280x192; even ran glQuake at 512x384 res on a CRT to guarantee 60 fps, so I am very thankful for the progress of GPUs. ;-)
But yeah, my other 560 Ti w/ 448 cores runs 1080p @ 60 Hz is certainly "good enough" but we we are QUITE a ways away from the end of GPUs for the forseeable future. There is a still a demand for real-time CG photorealism.
Yup, have to agree!
The Xerox Phaser solid ink is awesome. Sure takes a minute or 2 to warm up, but with CYMK sticks do a fantastic job with B a good job on color.
Emacs is OK; I would rank it #2. I prefer Vim over Emacs though. Vim feels more like an extension of my mind.
> Skeumorphism is just a thing, if done right it is great, if done poorly, it is bad.
As a 3D, UI, & UX expert I concur 100%.
Skeumorphism is like spice. A little kicks it up a notch. Not having any is TOO plain; having too much and that is worse then not having any.
IMO the BIGGER problem is OSX 10.9 and iOS 7 completely desaturating and removing all 3d shading -- THAT is the hideous UI crime. The UI designers should be forced to use Windows 1.x for their stupidity.
I know.
Used to use Dev Studio 6 heavy back in the day. Each Visual Studio just gets more and more bloated. :-(
Switched to Vim couple years back. One of the best text editors I have every used. (Note: They _all_ suck in some ways.)
At least, I'm freed from the Microsoft's VisualStudio & Apple's XCode lock-in now.
You're seriously going to use IE6 as a bastion of standards?!?!
The concept of the wheel has been around for *thousands* of years. The *implementation* is what has been modified and improved upon.
> and backup wants to see your papers, he's going to see your papers.
Bullshit. If more people weren't pussies and actually stood up for the rights maybe people would learn to stop giving their power away.
DHS Checkpoint - Being Detained Because of the Constitution!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAydKSR7GMM&feature=player_detailpage#t=65
Government's are the biggest hypocrites around.
i.e.
When a government employee kills 160 people they are given a medal.*
When someone else does it they are charged for manslaughter.
* "When someone kills 160 other humans and becomes a National Hero for it, it just proves ...
Earth: The Insane Asylum of the Universe - nowhere else could things be this messed up."
-- Hobie1dog
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Kyle
> Even the 10 commandments are at least 50% garbage.
Not sure how you reckon that. They are a good _starting_ point. http://biblia.com/books/niv2011/Mt22.34-40
Heck, 90% of them comes straight out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Spell 125.
True, thanks for the correction of the enumeration!
Maybe it should be made into a 2D matrix?
Purchase - Pirate
0. Y-Y
1. Y-M
2. Y-N
3. M-Y
4. M-M
5. M-N
6. N-Y
7. N-M
8. N-N
Legend:
Y = Yes
M = Maybe
N = No / Never
> Actually that kind of emphasizes the point. Where you had Kodak, Polaroid, etc, actively employing hundreds of thousands, t
Incorrect.
Technology forces people to change jobs. Maybe _you_ like digging ditches but we have technology to help with mundane tasks such as backhoes. As they say, "Better living through chemistry". Technology allows us to scale up the labor.
i.e.
Who invents the tools? Who makes all the new tech-tech tools/gadgets? Who maintains them? Who fixes them?
> If we are a simulation, we may be able to discern exactly what we're simulating, and why.
As a mystic the reason is quite simple: The growth and evolution of consciousness.
There is one primary reason the [physical] universe exists: Relationships.
What, you thought human consciousness was the only kind !? There is NO-THING BUT consciousness.
See Peter Russel's excellent talk:
The Primacy of Consciousness - Peter Russell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d4ugppcRUE
Comments should comment WHY, as in "work-around X because commit #123 made assumption Y"
If I want to know HOW the code works you should be able to read the code. (Barring "tricky" optimizations of course.)
I would also _proper_ naming of variables, not everything abbreviated without any vowels that won't make any sense in 6 months.
Take the time to do it RIGHT the first time. 90% of the time on a job you are maintaining code, not writing new code.
Uh, why aren't you using a password manager and adding a note about the fake data in the notes/extra info field??
Agreed!
Especially for long-tail content. I can't even BUY certain old TV shows / movies so if you want them you are forced to pirate them.
Considering that hard disk sectors have ALWAYS been a power-of-2 even though the encoding of them may not, using a power of 10 was pure marketing bullshit.
> You're not confusing gigabytes with gibibytes are you?
That stupid term was invented years after the fact of common usage. You can piss off with that retarded term.
> Do you also complain that 100mbit ethernet is not 100*1024*1024 bits per second?
That includes meta-data such as parity, error detecting, etc. There is NO confusion because it has always been "How many bits can I send over the wire reliably knowing full well that I'm going to get LESS then N/8 bytes out."
> But whether it increases sales is irrelevant.
Sticking your head in the sand over facts is not "irrelevant." There are 5 categories of fans:
1) Will pay for it, will never pirate it
2) Will pay for it, but might ALSO pirate it so they don't have to transcode it
3) Might pay for it, might pirate it
4) Will never pay for it, and pirate it
5) Will never pay for it, and go without
The goal is to _understand_ how those in (3) move to the other categories.
In this day and age consumers are EXTREMELY sensitive to pricing. I don't need to remind you that Valve saw over 2000% (yes, 2000%) increase in Steam sales when they lowered the prices of L4D.
However even if the the product is FREE it doesn't mean people want it such as group (1). Conversely, there ARE some countries where downloading isn't a crime, so stop with your rhetoric that piracy == stealing.
At the end of the day its all bits. Claiming pseudo-ownership over a certain order/representation of them is insane but it is the current system we have, for better, or worse.
Understanding the value of something AND its relationship to money is extremely important as we move towards free energy.
Also see this excellent related TED talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
True, but the people with the money lobby for laws so they can think so.
Ownership is an intellectual hurdle we as a species in general haven't gotten over yet aside from a few fringe cases as Public Domain, Artists giving away their music, etc.
If law officers can't figure out the difference between Office and OpenOffice/LibreOffice I *think* there might be bigger issues to worry about. :)
If they need to send stuff out of house, that's what PDF is for. When was the last time they needed out-of-house Office editing??
n/t
I don't buy that else they would ban reading, sudoku, sleeping, or even looking out the window (I've done all of them on different flights.) Most of the time more then half if the passengers don't care -- this isn't their first flight, they've heard the exact same script on the last flight.
There is an old joke: The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Exactly.
Can we mod the article as: -1, Overblown Knee-Jerk Reaction
Who gives a shit about the *opinion* of some businessman.