Yeah, it is a pity the 2D & 3D performance is total crap. I would of loved to write/tweak the OpenGL ES drivers for it, but thanks to Broadcom for not exposing ANY of the low level registers.
Fry: Did you build the Smelloscope? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: No, I remembered that I'd built one last year. Go ahead, try it. You'll find that every heavenly body has its own particular scent. Here, I'll point it at Jupiter. Fry: Smells like strawberries. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Exactly. And now, now Saturn. Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus. Leela: I don't get it. Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Fry: Oh. What's it called now? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you. Fry: No, no, I, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
> at max or high settings at 1920x1080. Good luck getting 60+ Hz on a $200 video card with modern (2013) games - you'll most likely playing at a crappy 30 frame per second. i.e. Tomb Raider 2013, BF3, etc. all run good at Ultra settings.
I bought my Titan for a) Win & Linux CUDA, and b) to game at 120 Hz on the Asus VG248QE (the Asus VG278H is also good.) using LightBoost because I can tell instantly when the frame rate drops from 60 Hz down to 30 Hz.
./me *glares at Path of Exile*
Not everyone gives a shit about multi-monitor gaming.
> I've found that the "It's my party and no one else is invited" syndrome permeates all too many OSS projects.
In contradistinction to closed source where you can't even fix bugs even if you wanted to? And where they often don't provide any way to contact the team about bugs in the code, documentation, samples, etc.?/sarcasm Yeah, OSS sure has it "bad".
Now, _some_ OSS projects may have assholes, but at least I can read the source. The flaming "poster" boys Theo de Raadt and Linus Torvalds may _appear_ like jerks but I would rather they stand for something then fall for anything. At least they can _justify_ their opinions. There is nothing wrong with a healthy flame to get to the heart of the issue and put them ALL on the table.
The BIGGEST problem with OSS is lazy developers who can't even provide a fucking README.TO.COMPILE.TXT --/me glares at you ZFSonLinux (fortunately it was easy enough to compile)... There are many OSS projects that are too fucking complicated to even COMPILE. If I have to jump through hoops just to even compile the code I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure it out.
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> if they could port ZFS from FreeBSD they'd have a winner on their hands
Considering FreeNAS is based on TinyBSD, and ZFS is already available for Linux, http://zfsonlinux.org/ Not sure what issues you are having with NetBSD & ZFS.
ZFS for Linux was dead easy to get up and running...
1. Download spl
2. Download zfs
3../configure ; make
4. zpool import/dev/...
Just pulled in 4x 1.5 TB drives in a 2.3 TB Raid-Z2 pool with ZFSonLinux that had already been setup in FreeNAS.
Concur 100%. One really strong, long, and easy to use passphrase to unlock all the other passwords.
Ctrl-B (copy username to system clipboard) Alt-Tab Ctrl-V (paste username) Alt-Tab Ctrl-C (copy password to system clipboard) Alt-Tab Ctrl-V (paste password)
Fast, Simple, Easy. Can even copy the encrypted password database onto a thumb drive so if it is ever lost / stolen -- good luck "cracking" the master password.
> but stop pretending like the old Star Trek was some sort of masterpiece. It wasn't.
Bullshit. ST:TNG had some dam fine episodes:
11001001 Clues Darmok Frame of Mind Genesis Identity Crisis Lower Decks Parallels Relics Remember Me Ship in a Bottle Silicon Avatar Starship Mine The Drumhead The Measure of a Man The Mind's Eye Thine Own Self Time's Arrow
> Serious social issues were explored in an entertaining way.
Dam straight. ST:TNG was a good social commentary disguised as sci-fi. The original did a good job too.
That's what the heart of Science Fiction is: Exploring the social consequences, implications and ramifications of how technology effects people's lives. The "classic" Sci-Fi writers (Isaac) Asimov, (Robert) Heinlein, (Arthur) Clarke are some of the BEST _precisely_ because they explored these social issues at a deep level. Great Sci-Fi encourages and rewards deep thinking.
For any series that reboots / remakes / re-cash-grab one would expect a bit more BACK story in the first place. i.e. WHY did Star Fleet invent the Prime Directive in the first place? HOW did they come to that "non-interference" was the only "valid" choice. If you are going to invent artificial rules on xeno-politics then at least treat the viewer as having some intelligence. Hell, if ST:TNG could do it for 7 years, there is no reason why a movie can't. In about 10 years humans will finally meet aliens and we'll get to see some wildly different perspectives on intelligent species communication that will make ST look like a joke / toy in comparison.
Is the new Star Trek a sci-fi? Hell no, not even close.
Is it a decent action flick. Yeah. It was entertaining; if one ignores the one-dimensional characters, plots holes, then mildly yes. There is a time and a place for "dumb sci-fi". The ONLY credit I give to the new Star Trek is that it made it accessible to the general populace. "Coolness" should never depend on "popularity".
> The first amendment is the right to free speech. The second amendment is the right to bear arms.
Due to the 10th amendment those shouldn't even be needed in the _first_place. Thankfully the founding fathers knew that government corruption would screw the people out of the rights they ALREADY have in the first place and _explicitly_ listed them to give them a longer "shelf-life".
> Why do people buy video game consoles instead of PCs
Simple: Ease of use. You don't have to fart around with updating drivers, keeping all the software up-to-date, worry about viruses, performance tweaking, etc.
Remember computing generally falls into 2 camps:
Simplicity < - - - and - - - > Flexibility
Most costumers don't give a crap about flexibility - they just want something works and is easy to use, ala iOS. Which is a segue to my next point; Tech companies forget the biggest barrier to customers:
Out-of-box experience
Consoles _used_ to provide a Plug-n-Play experience, as in, just plug it in, and start playing. Once they started shipping with hard drives & broadband access the OEMs and Game Devs have gotten extremely sloppy with their mentality --- i.e. "We can always patch later on day 0."
PC's smoke consoles from a performance and flexibility use but consoles for the most part are just dumb gaming devices that almost anyone can just use; ala the success of the Wii with the older crowd.
> basically no manufacturer conforms to any sort of standardized test conditions when taking those measurements.
So basically they are too fucking lazy. Got it.
Gee, and the scientific community has error-bars and relative error for what reason? Oh that's right, to provide an _ballpark_ estimate for how accurate the data AND measurements are/ This isn't fricken rocket science when every stat such as temperature to the nearest millionth of a degree is required.
i.e. Bike weight: 19 lb +/- 2 lb.
Gee, is that so hard??
Any company that _refuses_ to provide technical specs only cares about thing: Conning potential suckers.
Technically the Blizzard North developers went to Flagship Studios and then to Runic Games (makers of Torchlight) and while Torchlight 1 & 2 copies some of the D2 mechanics IMHO PoE embodies the spirit of Diablo 2 far, far, more then any other ARPG.
i.e. There is NO gold in PoE. It uses a 100% barter multi-tiered currency system. It really is the next gen of in-game economies.
Now if we could only get the Guild Wars 2 Dynamic Events into PoE...
Well, IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses. That's enough for 2^128 addresse / 2^48 m^2 = 2^(128-48) = 2^80 IP addresses per square meter of the Earth!
Another way to look at how big that is, even with 7 billion people using 32 devices each, 2^33 * 2^5 = 2^(33+5) = 2^38 that still leaves room for 2^(128-38) = 2^90 IP addresses.
I seriously doubt we'll be running out IPV6 addresses anytime soon assuming my back of the napkin math is correct.:-)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth The surface area of earth is ~510 million km^2 = 510,000,000 km^2 = 510,000,000,000,000 m^2 ~=~ 2^9 x 10^12 = 2^48
Because most problems can be summed up in 2 reasons:
- Greed, - People are idiots. (i.e. Where there is no vision the people perish. )
If professors would actually WORK TOGETHER to produce ONE FREE textbook then students wouldn't actually be getting ripped off. It is not like the rules of Physics, Math, etc., have changed in the last few thousand years.
This is precisely why Wikpedia is shit. It had the potential to be WHOLISTIC:
Auction House Simulator, aka, Diablo 3, is boring.
Path of Exile is the true spiritual sucessor to Diablo 2, not that piece of garbage called Diablo 3 with cardboard cutout characters. The PoE designers understand the ONE word that made Diablo 2 fun: itemization.
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> If extraterrestrials really did visit Earth as often (and for as long) as you claim, btw, there would be actual hard evidence.
That is an assumption and a fallacy.
In about 10 years we'll finally be able to meet our "neighbors" and you will be able to find out WHY mass-contact was not _allowed_.
For gaming on a single GPU _ANY_ quad-core shows almost NO difference.
Obviously there are some exceptions such as Civ V which are heavily CPU bound, but 90% of all games are GPU bound.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6934/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-single-multigpu-at-1440p
Yeah, it is a pity the 2D & 3D performance is total crap. I would of loved to write/tweak the OpenGL ES drivers for it, but thanks to Broadcom for not exposing ANY of the low level registers.
It would of been a REAL nice board.
Of course. /oblg. Futurama
Fry: Did you build the Smelloscope?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: No, I remembered that I'd built one last year. Go ahead, try it. You'll find that every heavenly body has its
own particular scent. Here, I'll point it at Jupiter.
Fry: Smells like strawberries.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Exactly. And now, now Saturn.
Fry: Pine needles. Oh, man, this is great... hey, as long as you don't make me smell Uranus.
Leela: I don't get it.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all.
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Urrectum. Here, let me locate it for you.
Fry: No, no, I, I think I'll just smell around a bit over here.
This is nothing new.
In "classical" (sic.) music you missed Mozart's "Leck mich im Arsch" (literally "Lick me in the arse") canon in B-flat major.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mich_im_Arsch
> at max or high settings at 1920x1080.
Good luck getting 60+ Hz on a $200 video card with modern (2013) games - you'll most likely playing at a crappy 30 frame per second. i.e. Tomb Raider 2013, BF3, etc. all run good at Ultra settings.
I bought my Titan for a) Win & Linux CUDA, and b) to game at 120 Hz on the Asus VG248QE (the Asus VG278H is also good.) using LightBoost because I can tell instantly when the frame rate drops from 60 Hz down to 30 Hz.
. /me *glares at Path of Exile*
Not everyone gives a shit about multi-monitor gaming.
Well both parties are to blame.
Verizon - false advertising
Customer - breaking the Terms of Service (TOS)
You know that old cliche: "To every story there are 3 versions: his side, her side, the and the truth in the middle."
Agreed, I am not giving TOS enough credit. I didn't realize the impact of the influence it had until I read this ...
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/17/132942461/Star-Treks-Uhura-Reflects-On-MLK-Encounter
> I've found that the "It's my party and no one else is invited" syndrome permeates all too many OSS projects.
In contradistinction to closed source where you can't even fix bugs even if you wanted to? /sarcasm Yeah, OSS sure has it "bad".
And where they often don't provide any way to contact the team about bugs in the code, documentation, samples, etc.?
Now, _some_ OSS projects may have assholes, but at least I can read the source. The flaming "poster" boys Theo de Raadt and Linus Torvalds may _appear_ like jerks but I would rather they stand for something then fall for anything. At least they can _justify_ their opinions. There is nothing wrong with a healthy flame to get to the heart of the issue and put them ALL on the table.
The BIGGEST problem with OSS is lazy developers who can't even provide a fucking README.TO.COMPILE.TXT -- /me glares at you ZFSonLinux (fortunately it was easy enough to compile) ... There are many OSS projects that are too fucking complicated to even COMPILE. If I have to jump through hoops just to even compile the code I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure it out.
> if they could port ZFS from FreeBSD they'd have a winner on their hands
What are you talking about?
* http://wiki.netbsd.org/users/haad/porting_zfs/
* http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/zfs-port/
Considering FreeNAS is based on TinyBSD, and ZFS is already available for Linux,
http://zfsonlinux.org/
Not sure what issues you are having with NetBSD & ZFS.
ZFS for Linux was dead easy to get up and running ... ./configure ; make /dev/...
1. Download spl
2. Download zfs
3.
4. zpool import
Just pulled in 4x 1.5 TB drives in a 2.3 TB Raid-Z2 pool with ZFSonLinux that had already been setup in FreeNAS.
Do you understand the point and how
a) open-source, and
b) Public Key Encryption
even work?
Concur 100%. One really strong, long, and easy to use passphrase to unlock all the other passwords.
Ctrl-B (copy username to system clipboard)
Alt-Tab
Ctrl-V (paste username)
Alt-Tab
Ctrl-C (copy password to system clipboard)
Alt-Tab
Ctrl-V (paste password)
Fast, Simple, Easy. Can even copy the encrypted password database onto a thumb drive so if it is ever lost / stolen -- good luck "cracking" the master password.
> but stop pretending like the old Star Trek was some sort of masterpiece. It wasn't.
Bullshit. ST:TNG had some dam fine episodes:
11001001
Clues
Darmok
Frame of Mind
Genesis
Identity Crisis
Lower Decks
Parallels
Relics
Remember Me
Ship in a Bottle
Silicon Avatar
Starship Mine
The Drumhead
The Measure of a Man
The Mind's Eye
Thine Own Self
Time's Arrow
> Serious social issues were explored in an entertaining way.
Dam straight. ST:TNG was a good social commentary disguised as sci-fi. The original did a good job too.
That's what the heart of Science Fiction is: Exploring the social consequences, implications and ramifications of how technology effects people's lives. The "classic" Sci-Fi writers (Isaac) Asimov, (Robert) Heinlein, (Arthur) Clarke are some of the BEST _precisely_ because they explored these social issues at a deep level. Great Sci-Fi encourages and rewards deep thinking.
For any series that reboots / remakes / re-cash-grab one would expect a bit more BACK story in the first place. i.e. WHY did Star Fleet invent the Prime Directive in the first place? HOW did they come to that "non-interference" was the only "valid" choice. If you are going to invent artificial rules on xeno-politics then at least treat the viewer as having some intelligence. Hell, if ST:TNG could do it for 7 years, there is no reason why a movie can't. In about 10 years humans will finally meet aliens and we'll get to see some wildly different perspectives on intelligent species communication that will make ST look like a joke / toy in comparison.
Is the new Star Trek a sci-fi? Hell no, not even close.
Is it a decent action flick. Yeah. It was entertaining; if one ignores the one-dimensional characters, plots holes, then mildly yes. There is a time and a place for "dumb sci-fi". The ONLY credit I give to the new Star Trek is that it made it accessible to the general populace. "Coolness" should never depend on "popularity".
Ramen.
What, that isn't a valid pun for Amen? ;-)
> The first amendment is the right to free speech. The second amendment is the right to bear arms.
Due to the 10th amendment those shouldn't even be needed in the _first_place. Thankfully the founding fathers knew that government corruption would screw the people out of the rights they ALREADY have in the first place and _explicitly_ listed them to give them a longer "shelf-life".
> Why do people buy video game consoles instead of PCs
Simple: Ease of use. You don't have to fart around with updating drivers, keeping all the software up-to-date, worry about viruses, performance tweaking, etc.
Remember computing generally falls into 2 camps:
Simplicity < - - - and - - - > Flexibility
Most costumers don't give a crap about flexibility - they just want something works and is easy to use, ala iOS. Which is a segue to my next point; Tech companies forget the biggest barrier to customers:
Out-of-box experience
Consoles _used_ to provide a Plug-n-Play experience, as in, just plug it in, and start playing. Once they started shipping with hard drives & broadband access the OEMs and Game Devs have gotten extremely sloppy with their mentality --- i.e. "We can always patch later on day 0."
PC's smoke consoles from a performance and flexibility use but consoles for the most part are just dumb gaming devices that almost anyone can just use; ala the success of the Wii with the older crowd.
> basically no manufacturer conforms to any sort of standardized test conditions when taking those measurements.
So basically they are too fucking lazy. Got it.
Gee, and the scientific community has error-bars and relative error for what reason? Oh that's right, to provide an _ballpark_ estimate for how accurate the data AND measurements are/ This isn't fricken rocket science when every stat such as temperature to the nearest millionth of a degree is required.
i.e. Bike weight: 19 lb +/- 2 lb.
Gee, is that so hard??
Any company that _refuses_ to provide technical specs only cares about thing: Conning potential suckers.
Technically the Blizzard North developers went to Flagship Studios and then to Runic Games (makers of Torchlight) and while Torchlight 1 & 2 copies some of the D2 mechanics IMHO PoE embodies the spirit of Diablo 2 far, far, more then any other ARPG.
i.e. There is NO gold in PoE. It uses a 100% barter multi-tiered currency system. It really is the next gen of in-game economies.
Now if we could only get the Guild Wars 2 Dynamic Events into PoE ...
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_Studios
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_Games
* http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dynamic_event
Well, IPV6 uses 128-bit addresses. That's enough for 2^128 addresse / 2^48 m^2 = 2^(128-48) = 2^80 IP addresses per square meter of the Earth!
Another way to look at how big that is, even with 7 billion people using 32 devices each, 2^33 * 2^5 = 2^(33+5) = 2^38 that still leaves room for 2^(128-38) = 2^90 IP addresses.
I seriously doubt we'll be running out IPV6 addresses anytime soon assuming my back of the napkin math is correct. :-)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
The surface area of earth is ~510 million km^2 = 510,000,000 km^2 = 510,000,000,000,000 m^2 ~=~ 2^9 x 10^12 = 2^48
That's a darn good pseudo-quote!
Corollary: Only cowards use censorship.
> Why exactly are we doing that?
Because most problems can be summed up in 2 reasons:
- Greed,
- People are idiots. (i.e. Where there is no vision the people perish. )
If professors would actually WORK TOGETHER to produce ONE FREE textbook then students wouldn't actually be getting ripped off. It is not like the rules of Physics, Math, etc., have changed in the last few thousand years.
This is precisely why Wikpedia is shit. It had the potential to be WHOLISTIC:
* Layman's introduction
* Advanced discussion
* Tutorial
* Examples - including audio, video, textual
* Implementation Details & Caveats
* Reference
I'm still waiting for the day for someone to do an Uberpedia this is a combo textbook+reference ebook properly.
Corollary: You can either pay now or pay later to do it right.
Funny how this applies to retirement savings, exercise, etc.
Lazy programers with no foresight.
It is same reason people "assumed" a 32-bit IP address would be enough instead of just using 64-bit from the beginning.
There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over!
Agreed.
Auction House Simulator, aka, Diablo 3, is boring.
Path of Exile is the true spiritual sucessor to Diablo 2, not that piece of garbage called Diablo 3 with cardboard cutout characters. The PoE designers understand the ONE word that made Diablo 2 fun: itemization.