IBM's hardware is so powerful, that there beowoulf CPU's will write the script and story itself!
They just punch in the title of the movie, and it renders not only all the animation, but the story too:P
That day will come.. You tell the computer "Tell me a story", and it generates a computer rendered image complete with computer rendered story and voices.
John is scared HL2 will outsell Doom 3 and he won't be able to buy 1,000 more Ferarri's next year? instead only 800 more Ferarri's with the spare change profit?
The cable I CAN plug into my "box", is DVI. I have a new ATI All In Wonder Radeon. it has DVI OUT. Imagine that.
Also, there is a reason to stay digital as LONG as possible. You want the analog distance to be kept SHORT.
If you do have to have a D->A->D process, keep the A part SHORT. Use lots of long digital wires if you need to, you'll get a better picture in the end.
Take it to the extreme... Send an analog signal around the world on a copper pair.... Look at the result... Now send a digital signal around the world on a copper pair (or anything else), look at the result.. Ohhh, Digital is pretty picture.
Of course he says the IP is sound... Do you really think even if he knew it wasn't sound, he would say "Well, I don't know for sure, it could be bad, Linux might be in big trouble".
Another un-news worthy post from Slashdot. Congradulations, you win again.
This is so lame. Why oh why do people spend countless hours performing stupid mundane projects just so they can get praise from their super-geeky friends?
This is so sad. I for one am sick and tired of Slashdot posting stupid-a$$ articles about projects NOBODY cares about except for maybe 30 year old virgin adults with 3" thick glasses that live in their parents basement still.
Oh wait! I take it all back! I forgot CmdrTaco was in this group!!!:-P
Apple has like 5% of the desktop market relative to the windows desktop market.
Apple can do anything they want, there is no competition. Microsoft will continue to be "behind" in OS sophistication yet *AHEAD* in all the important ways (revenue, money, popularity etc etc etc).
- Voxel "Bite my shiny metal ass." - Bender from Futurama.
Too many to spell out here.. Search google, LOTS of people sell bandwidth at X mbits/s with a BURST to x mbit/s.
You figure our how much you will estimate you will use as a total per month, and you pay for that. You cruise at 2mbit/s mostly, then you explode to 145mbit/s and at the end of the month you average out to 6mbit/s.
The idea is you BUY your peak speed, but pay for a low average..
EVERYONE does this now, call around... It was kind of silly for you to ask Slashdot how to do this. UGH.
One of these days, some scientist is going to make something like this similar to this story and instead of just being able to see the results on a electron-microscope, he is going to destroy either A) The planet earth, B) Our entire soloar system, C) Our entire Galaxy or D) He'll destroy the entire universe.
It'll go somethin like this..
Scientist at Black Mesa - "Hemmmm, I wonder if I tweak this and try to fuse these two quarks togeth.." *****BOOOOOOM****** **SHWOOOOOSH*** BILLIONS OF GALAXIES destroyed in PICO-SECONDS.
When it all comes "down to it". One could argue if there is anything WRONG with this anyways.
The point of optimizing drivers is just to do that, to optimize them. So if that means optimizing so that specific areas run much faster than normal, and hence specific applications run much faster... So be it.
If you continue "optimizing" enough, eventually you'll have all areas covered and you will maybe have a much better/faster card.
The things I think are morally wrong is when a driver (Ahem ATI!) checks for a file called "Quake.exe" running in memory, then suddenly quality degrades just so this one game will get a faster FPS...
Optimizing for a benchmark, FINE, but don't degrade quality just to get a faster FPS... If you can do it without degrading quality, I am all for it.
This has been done for many years, even the last decade. A good friend of mine works and has worked for almost every major video card company in the buisness for the last decade. What is his job? Make sure THEIR video card gets the best scores on the latest and greatest video cards.
I am sorry to tell you all, but just because Nvidia was CAUGHT this time, doesn't mean they haven't been "cheating" (by optimizing for a specific benchmark) for the last 6 years.
I would bet every driver release contains code to help out benchmarks and even specific games. Why do you think Nvidia just said with there latest driver release " *Up to 30% faster frame rates ( *With Unreal Tournament 2002)".
Its just once in a great while someone notices a performance jump TOO big, or just wants some news worthy-ness and decides to put out a nice PDF file.
"Another computer maker, Apple Computer Inc., has also released devices using the 802.11g standard -- and has promised that its customers will also be able to upgrade to the final standard once it's in place. "
More like, Apple promised that its customers will be able to DOWNGRADE to the final standard... WOOHOO!
I already told everyone that the Nvidia beta drivers would run "faster".
Look at the post I made from a few days ago: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64007&cid=5941 659
You can cut corners, get the performance numbers, and if there are any problems, you have the safety net of "Hey, these are BETA drivers on BETA hardware.. so sue us if there are "bugs"".
Superfly is a character Romero made in his previous game, Diakatana or whatever. Superfly was an anoying side kick that everyone hated as you had to keep him alive while playing or the game was over, and his AI was poor so he always got himself into trouble.
The parent post to this one should be marked Funny: 1, not Offtopic: 1.
It is a funny comment! Where is Superfly in the latest game?:P
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You get 2 pizzas every 3 days by hanging out near dumpsters?
No thanks, I'd rather not get my pizza out of dumpsters.. I prefer my pizza with cheese not encrusted with fly's.
- VOxel
IBM's hardware is so powerful, that there beowoulf CPU's will write the script and story itself!
:P
They just punch in the title of the movie, and it renders not only all the animation, but the story too
That day will come.. You tell the computer "Tell me a story", and it generates a computer rendered image complete with computer rendered story and voices.
- Voxel the Troll.
The pizza you bought to get that pizza box cost at least $10... More like $20 :P
- Voxel
John is scared HL2 will outsell Doom 3 and he won't be able to buy 1,000 more Ferarri's next year? instead only 800 more Ferarri's with the spare change profit?
- Voxel
The cable I CAN plug into my "box", is DVI. I have a new ATI All In Wonder Radeon. it has DVI OUT. Imagine that.
Also, there is a reason to stay digital as LONG as possible. You want the analog distance to be kept SHORT.
If you do have to have a D->A->D process, keep the A part SHORT. Use lots of long digital wires if you need to, you'll get a better picture in the end.
Take it to the extreme... Send an analog signal around the world on a copper pair.... Look at the result... Now send a digital signal around the world on a copper pair (or anything else), look at the result.. Ohhh, Digital is pretty picture.
- Voxel.
Of course he says the IP is sound... Do you really think even if he knew it wasn't sound, he would say "Well, I don't know for sure, it could be bad, Linux might be in big trouble".
Another un-news worthy post from Slashdot. Congradulations, you win again.
Troll me all you want! Bring it on..
Troll: -75
Quality News from Slashdot: -400
If you were a better programmer you could do it QUICK & PROPER... Oh what a concept.. Learn to code.
This is so lame. Why oh why do people spend countless hours performing stupid mundane projects just so they can get praise from their super-geeky friends?
:-P
This is so sad. I for one am sick and tired of Slashdot posting stupid-a$$ articles about projects NOBODY cares about except for maybe 30 year old virgin adults with 3" thick glasses that live in their parents basement still.
Oh wait! I take it all back! I forgot CmdrTaco was in this group!!!
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Stop wasting news space!
- Voxel
Yep, I basically did fail 9th grade math.
:-).
:P
Now I understand why
I wasn't quite sure if they were to be the same, and I didn't feel like figuring it out.
Makes sense... so the apple display is a mere 12.4% smaller.
I hope I did THAT math right
- Jeff
Just the aspect ratio is different, so you end up with a LONGER screen, but the surface area is the SAME.
Yeah, and linux has 5% of
You work it all out and as time progresses, Mac still only has 5%.
Apple has like 5% of the desktop market relative to the windows desktop market.
Apple can do anything they want, there is no competition. Microsoft will continue to be "behind" in OS sophistication yet *AHEAD* in all the important ways (revenue, money, popularity etc etc etc).
- Voxel
"Bite my shiny metal ass." - Bender from Futurama.
I dont' remember that game in the warez releases... hmmm. Walnut Creek .. Sounds kinda boring.
Too many to spell out here.. Search google, LOTS of people sell bandwidth at X mbits/s with a BURST to x mbit/s.
You figure our how much you will estimate you will use as a total per month, and you pay for that. You cruise at 2mbit/s mostly, then you explode to 145mbit/s and at the end of the month you average out to 6mbit/s.
The idea is you BUY your peak speed, but pay for a low average..
EVERYONE does this now, call around... It was kind of silly for you to ask Slashdot how to do this. UGH.
- Voxel
One of these days, some scientist is going to make something like this similar to this story and instead of just being able to see the results on a electron-microscope, he is going to destroy either A) The planet earth, B) Our entire soloar system, C) Our entire Galaxy or D) He'll destroy the entire universe.
It'll go somethin like this..
Scientist at Black Mesa - "Hemmmm, I wonder if I tweak this and try to fuse these two quarks togeth.." *****BOOOOOOM****** **SHWOOOOOSH*** BILLIONS OF GALAXIES destroyed in PICO-SECONDS.
It was running on a dreamcast and the site op fired up GCC..
and the fact the baloon has a fiber cable tied to it, so the signal going down from the "bird" is much more reliable.
Yes, ATI does it as well.
When it all comes "down to it". One could argue if there is anything WRONG with this anyways.
The point of optimizing drivers is just to do that, to optimize them. So if that means optimizing so that specific areas run much faster than normal, and hence specific applications run much faster... So be it.
If you continue "optimizing" enough, eventually you'll have all areas covered and you will maybe have a much better/faster card.
The things I think are morally wrong is when a driver (Ahem ATI!) checks for a file called "Quake.exe" running in memory, then suddenly quality degrades just so this one game will get a faster FPS...
Optimizing for a benchmark, FINE, but don't degrade quality just to get a faster FPS... If you can do it without degrading quality, I am all for it.
Go ATI, GO Nvidia!
- Jeff
This has been done for many years, even the last decade. A good friend of mine works and has worked for almost every major video card company in the buisness for the last decade. What is his job? Make sure THEIR video card gets the best scores on the latest and greatest video cards.
I am sorry to tell you all, but just because Nvidia was CAUGHT this time, doesn't mean they haven't been "cheating" (by optimizing for a specific benchmark) for the last 6 years.
I would bet every driver release contains code to help out benchmarks and even specific games. Why do you think Nvidia just said with there latest driver release " *Up to 30% faster frame rates ( *With Unreal Tournament 2002)".
Its just once in a great while someone notices a performance jump TOO big, or just wants some news worthy-ness and decides to put out a nice PDF file.
- Jeff
The best bomb creators make the best bomb technitions.
:)
I'll take anti-virus software from the most "evil" virus creating minds in the industry over some programming wannabe's anti-virus software.
This is granted that these "evil" virus creating minds arn't too "evil" and put back-doors in their anti-virus software
- Jeff
"Another computer maker, Apple Computer Inc., has also released devices using the 802.11g standard -- and has promised that its customers will also be able to upgrade to the final standard once it's in place. "
More like, Apple promised that its customers will be able to DOWNGRADE to the final standard... WOOHOO!
- Jeff
We are only human. No one is perfect. Not even "god", if you beleive in that sort of thing.
Besides.. Most of the time its the hardware that is crap, and the software has to "support" the crappy hardware. I know from experience.
I already told everyone that the Nvidia beta drivers would run "faster".
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Look at the post I made from a few days ago: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=64007&cid=594
You can cut corners, get the performance numbers, and if there are any problems, you have the safety net of "Hey, these are BETA drivers on BETA hardware.. so sue us if there are "bugs"".
- Jeff
P.S. I'm pissed off.
Superfly is a character Romero made in his previous game, Diakatana or whatever. Superfly was an anoying side kick that everyone hated as you had to keep him alive while playing or the game was over, and his AI was poor so he always got himself into trouble.
:P
The parent post to this one should be marked Funny: 1, not Offtopic: 1.
It is a funny comment! Where is Superfly in the latest game?
They do recall older bills. The Fed Gov. will recall bills from all banks, so all new cash given out will be the new bills.
Eventually MOST money goes through a bank. Over time, little original bills will exist.
What does the Gov do with the current bills? They burn them of course... Big heaping pile of burning money. Must be emotional to watch that happen...
- Jeff