I think you just proved my point. All the games you mention are fighting and sports games... braindead joystick wiggling instead of anything tactical that requires thought.
But console games are brainless compared to PC games.
Theres no such thing as a good flight sim or a tactical game like Rome:Total War on a console. Thats the only reason Halo was so successful, because most other console games are lame.
On PC, Halo can't even compare to Doom3, Halflife 2 or Unreal Tournament.
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Unfortunately most specs out there just demonstrate how cpu-limited the 2 6800 Ultras in SLI are.
Even for a single 6800 ultra, the figures you see are *slightly* lower than ATI X800 in most benchmarks because the ATI deals *slightly* better with being CPU-limited. Those results have usually got nothing to do with maximum GPU performance because they often test at stupidly low res's like 640x400 or 800x600.
Instead, look at the figures at the highest resolutions, where Nvidia still creams ATI.
Actually the main reason I'm going to buy Nvidia (again) is that ATI still don't take Linux drivers seriously.
I disapprove of discrimination. Even positive discrimination, as that's someone elses's negative.
In my 25 years of experience as a software developer, I've never seen any female developers discriminated against purely on their gender.
On my CS degree course there were 4 women out of 30 students. 1 eventually got kicked off becuase she just didn't ever bother turning up. 1 got pregnant, took time off then came back, worked hard to catch up and still got a degree. The other two just flirted with the nerds and got them to do all their practical assignments.
*sigh* Its just a fragment of DUMMY code to underline my original point. As such, the names are arbitrary becuase most people wouldn't be anal enough to be concerned this would actually get copied and used somewhere.
I disgree. I think the first option is much clearer as it is more meaningful.
Consider: MyClass* instance = new(MyClass); if (!instance)....
Testing for "Not an instance" makes more readable sense to me than testing for the case that a pointer to my instance happens to equal a particular value (even NULL).
According to this story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/sc o_titani c/
Sco's total revenues are down 59% and their SCOSource revenues are down a staggering 99%. Sco are badly losing in court and now they are probably going to be delisted.
Isn't it amazing that Darl McBride gets a salary well in excess of $1m, a bonus of 750,000, plus thousands of shares and options.
How does Darl get away with it and how can a board of directors that pay him actually be THAT stupid?
> As it's already mentioned you don't have the right to use Windows Updater if you don't own Windows.
So what about me? I own a full version of Windows XP. Its not installed anywhere as I use Linux, but I presumably still have rights to download updates.
Furthermore there was nothing in my XP EULA that said I couldn't install XP in a virtual machine, or that I couldn't use only parts of it(say, the system DLLs), or that it has to be the controlling OS.
Microsoft would never be happy with being relegated to a middleware supplier.
Microsoft is maintaining dominance by deliberately cultivating Joe Average's misunderstanding that all PC's can only run Microsoft Windows. In fact from my eperience, most non-technical users don't even realise that Windows is a separate product from the PC itself.
Therefore its all about perception. That PC screen is prime real-estate and anything Microsoft does to allow non-microsoft logos on the screen directly undermines their core marketing approach of misdirection, misinformation and technical sounding doublespeak.
This is why the only way to fight Microsoft is by advertising the Linux name and getting Joe Public to realise that it can do everything that Windows can and more, it is more safe, stable and secure, and is truly free in all senses of the word.
> Seriously we are maybe 2 years away from being able to replicate 100% of the desktop functionality of WinXP using Linux.
2 years? what? Fedora 3 is better than windows already.
Replicate all the windows functionality? oh yeah... all the useful functionality has been in linux for a couple of years but they're just adding blue-screen support and a DLL-problem-emulator now.
Now that Microsoft have made it very clear to the masses that they can't re-use OEM versions of XP, I wonder if many people will start demanding OEMs to supply full versions?
At that point in time, people will realise how much Microsoft is charging for a full version of their crappy OS and probably go to Linux or Apple instead.
1) 30 minutes to reformat your windows partition to recover that mysterious dissapearing disk space that MS uses for hidden files. (I recovered over a gigabyte of disk space this way last time).
2) 1-2 hours on the phone arguing and finally getting your product reactivated.
3) 3 or 4 hours downlaoding/reinstalling/configuring all the drivers for all your hardware.
4) 3-5 days reinstlling all your apps becuase windows is so badly designed it allows/requires the istallstion of apps to modify the OS itself with registry settings/DLLs etc.
5) Several weeks re-downloading all the service packs etc.
But the all the processes you're talking about really don't consume much processor time.
Even on a single core system, the CPU load of running an os, firefox and an mp3 player would be pretty minimal, especially since firefox isn't usally doing anything unless its actually loading a page.
It seems to me that the real benefit of dual core is for continuous high-load applications, such as hardcore gaming or bulk-serving database queries or web pages. The latter is probably more likely a to be running on an SMP server box than a desktop anyway.
Unfortunately the forthcoming dual core cpus probably won't make much sense for gaming either as their clock speeds will be at lot lower than the bleeding edge single cores. Most game engines are still optimised for single core performance.
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Can someone explain the FCC's comment that the broadcast flag will ease transition to HDTV?
How can the FCC beleive that a technology designed only to prevent useability will be a benefit to end users in any way?
...or your ass headsplodes
I think you just proved my point. All the games you mention are fighting and sports games... braindead joystick wiggling instead of anything tactical that requires thought.
But console games are brainless compared to PC games.
Theres no such thing as a good flight sim or a tactical game like Rome:Total War on a console. Thats the only reason Halo was so successful, because most other console games are lame.
On PC, Halo can't even compare to Doom3, Halflife 2 or Unreal Tournament.
Unfortunately most specs out there just demonstrate how cpu-limited the 2 6800 Ultras in SLI are.
Even for a single 6800 ultra, the figures you see are *slightly* lower than ATI X800 in most benchmarks because the ATI deals *slightly* better with being CPU-limited. Those results have usually got nothing to do with maximum GPU performance because they often test at stupidly low res's like 640x400 or 800x600.
Instead, look at the figures at the highest resolutions, where Nvidia still creams ATI.
Actually the main reason I'm going to buy Nvidia (again) is that ATI still don't take Linux drivers seriously.
Linux appears to be way more popular than BSD these days, and there appear to be more apps and hardware drivers available for Linux than BSD.
So why would anyone consider BSD over Linux?
So what is he trying to sell now?.
There will be a microsoft product behind this, wait and see.
He will probably announce a home-schooling initiative over the internet (that obviously will require parents to pay some Microsoft fee ).
Actually that might be a pretty smart move, not only for the money but it ties the next gen. of kids into a Microsoft-only mentality.
I disapprove of discrimination. Even positive discrimination, as that's someone elses's negative.
In my 25 years of experience as a software developer, I've never seen any female developers discriminated against purely on their gender.
On my CS degree course there were 4 women out of 30 students. 1 eventually got kicked off becuase she just didn't ever bother turning up. 1 got pregnant, took time off then came back, worked hard to catch up and still got a degree. The other two just flirted with the nerds and got them to do all their practical assignments.
>Is Microsoft reinventing themselves, and are >they ready to learn the benefits of open source?
NO. Messages like the above only serve to confuse and distract. Microsoft's shared-source scheme is nothing like open-source.
*sigh* Its just a fragment of DUMMY code to underline my original point. As such, the names are arbitrary becuase most people wouldn't be anal enough to be concerned this would actually get copied and used somewhere.
A whole $5? well woop-de-doo.
That will just abot cover the cost of the phone call and stamps to write to them to claim the rebate...
I disgree.
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I think the first option is much clearer as it is more meaningful.
Consider:
MyClass* instance = new(MyClass);
if (!instance)
Testing for "Not an instance" makes more readable sense to me than testing for the case that a pointer to my instance happens to equal a particular value (even NULL).
Microsoft partners with other companies the way a shark partners with a fat juicy beefsteak.
According to this story:c o_titani c/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/s
Sco's total revenues are down 59% and their SCOSource revenues are down a staggering 99%. Sco are badly losing in court and now they are probably going to be delisted.
Isn't it amazing that Darl McBride gets a salary well in excess of $1m, a bonus of 750,000, plus thousands of shares and options.
How does Darl get away with it and how can a board of directors that pay him actually be THAT stupid?
> As it's already mentioned you don't have the right to use Windows Updater if you don't own Windows.
So what about me? I own a full version of Windows XP. Its not installed anywhere as I use Linux, but I presumably still have rights to download updates.
Furthermore there was nothing in my XP EULA that said I couldn't install XP in a virtual machine, or that I couldn't use only parts of it(say, the system DLLs), or that it has to be the controlling OS.
Microsoft would never be happy with being relegated to a middleware supplier.
Microsoft is maintaining dominance by deliberately cultivating Joe Average's misunderstanding that all PC's can only run Microsoft Windows. In fact from my eperience, most non-technical users don't even realise that Windows is a separate product from the PC itself.
Therefore its all about perception. That PC screen is prime real-estate and anything Microsoft does to allow non-microsoft logos on the screen directly undermines their core marketing approach of misdirection, misinformation and technical sounding doublespeak.
This is why the only way to fight Microsoft is by advertising the Linux name and getting Joe Public to realise that it can do everything that Windows can and more, it is more safe, stable and secure, and is truly free in all senses of the word.
Just turn off activex support in your browser and don't install flash.
> Seriously we are maybe 2 years away from being able to replicate 100% of the desktop functionality of WinXP using Linux.
2 years? what? Fedora 3 is better than windows already.
Replicate all the windows functionality? oh yeah... all the useful functionality has been in linux for a couple of years but they're just adding blue-screen support and a DLL-problem-emulator now.
Now that Microsoft have made it very clear to the masses that they can't re-use OEM versions of XP, I wonder if many people will start demanding OEMs to supply full versions?
At that point in time, people will realise how much Microsoft is charging for a full version of their crappy OS and probably go to Linux or Apple instead.
I can't wait.
Just the disadvantages of using a Microsoft command shell with its fixed-size window was enough to move me to Linux for bash :-)
3-5 minutes to reinstall windows?
How about this:
1) 30 minutes to reformat your windows partition to recover that mysterious dissapearing disk space that MS uses for hidden files. (I recovered over a gigabyte of disk space this way last time).
2) 1-2 hours on the phone arguing and finally getting your product reactivated.
3) 3 or 4 hours downlaoding/reinstalling/configuring all the drivers for all your hardware.
4) 3-5 days reinstlling all your apps becuase windows is so badly designed it allows/requires the istallstion of apps to modify the OS itself with registry settings/DLLs etc.
5) Several weeks re-downloading all the service packs etc.
Microsoft really ARE helping to support Linux!
Sounds like your problem there is the amount of disk I/O/bus contention going on rather than anything else....
It would be up to a court to decide if your own recorded silence was an original work or a version of their work.
Depending on the outcome of that, you may have to pay them a licence fee per public performance.
But the all the processes you're talking about really don't consume much processor time.
Even on a single core system, the CPU load of running an os, firefox and an mp3 player would be pretty minimal, especially since firefox isn't usally doing anything unless its actually loading a page.
It seems to me that the real benefit of dual core is for continuous high-load applications, such as hardcore gaming or bulk-serving database queries or web pages. The latter is probably more likely a to be running on an SMP server box than a desktop anyway.
Unfortunately the forthcoming dual core cpus probably won't make much sense for gaming either as their clock speeds will be at lot lower than the bleeding edge single cores. Most game engines are still optimised for single core performance.