Actually, alot of times the "beta" hardware with the "beta" drivers runs FASTER than the final product.
Hardware: The problem lies in that the "beta" hardware is carefully crafted and selected so that it lies in a very high yield of the manufacturing build. Later on, when mass production starts you have to clock things down and tone things down in general so you get a nice output yield. Otherwise you will run into the problem Nvidia already did with the 5800 Ultra, they tried to make the cards run like the "Beta" cards did, and nearly got NO cards that worked when trying to manufacture.
Software Drivers: Beta drivers can generally run slower, usually when extra debug info is turned on. However, when drivers are going to pre-release sites, alot of times they are running as fast as they can and are even tweaked to be more unstable just to get better performance... Also tweaked to run on the "beta" hand-select hardware.
All in all, alot of times beta hardware/software is better than the final shipments off of mass production. How much does a "Beta" board cost to make? Well, a company I worked for previously made a $150 board in mass production, but our beta development boards cost $5000.00 a piece.
This isn't always the case though, sometimes Beta hardware is junk, clocked slow, and drivers are slowed down by debug messages... In this video idustry though, anything about to be reviewed and is "Beta" gives the company a chance to Tweak things all to hell without fear when going to mass production, because that was "Beta" performance...:)
I know we arn't all nerds here, but do nerds listen to Dr. Dre? Reminds me of the begining scene of the movie Office Space... Where the white-guy "nerd" is listening to hard core rap, and when a black guy walks by, he sheepisly puts his head down while turning down his radio at the same time... Halarious.
First of all, whether you use the 16:9 mode or the 4:3 mode doesn't matter, you are still wasting screen space on either format. Unless you don't care about aspect ratio.
If you go 16:9 TFT, then you are wasting screen space when using WinTV in 4:3 mode. Black bars on the side of the screen.
If the world were 16:9 and some 4:3 video came out, everyone would be bitching you can't buy a 4:3 TFT and they hate these bars on the sides of their screens.
Comming from a 4:3 screen, When you have a real 16:9 screen, and you watch 16:9 video, just pretend there are black bars above and blow the TV and you feel right at home. Whats the difference in a black bar, and "air" anyways?
On another note... your 2560x1024 is a screwed up aspect ratio anyways, basing off of 1280x1024, that is 5:4, not 4:3.. You are already in aspect-ratio incorrect land.
Lets face it.. DOOM was the "killer app"... But I definetly have to say Duke3D was damn close, and in many peoples books, much much better.
I was only 16 when Duke3D came out, but it was awsome!. I was in video game heaven.
I used to load up Kali to play 3 players IPX over TCP/IP with my friends, it was crappy, but we still dealt with the crappiness because it was worth it.
If someone makes a Win32 port of Duke3D, with TCP/IP capability.. I'll be loading that bad-boy up in no time flat. Get my old highschool friends over at my house and play all over again...
Actually, television is 60 fields per second, not frames per second.
The difference is it is 60 interlaced fields. When the video signal is comming from a game console, this usually means each field is simply doubled resulting in a true 30 flat frames per second. So, just to make your somewhat rude post more valid, a NTSC television will give you the end effect of a frame rate cap of 30 frames per second, which is fairly poor.
I know you are just trying to be funny. (Thats a laugh), but in all seriousness, there is a virus detector for many *NIX's, including linux. McAfee makes one of them.
I was suprised when opening v4.x of mcafee zip file I had, and unix virus scanners were there..
Not really. There are hundreds of applications on the system that are CHROOT'ed, that is have access as root when executed. If one of these hundreds of apps were to become infected (chances are fair to good), than you can kiss your entire system good-bye.
I was sitting in the theater last night watching Spider Man for the first time with my girlfriend. It was a quiet scene, nothing going on but dialog when all the sudden the theater started shaking. (AMC 20 by Great America in San Jose).
At first I was like damn, NICE BASS!!! Then I was like wait a minute, nothing is happening in the movie.
My next instinct was thinking "oooh shit a tornado is outside!" I am from Michigan, so thats why that makes sense. Then I thought wait a minute, I am in a concrete building reinforced with steel and it was not raining outside 30 minutes ago.
Then I realized what was going on and everyone in the theater was freaking out. A few people left.
The guy next to me nervously said "hey man.... was that an earthquake?". I wanted to say something smart assed like no, I just ripped a big one... but nothing came to me fast enough:P
This is a lame example of reasoning. Going to the moon was done because it was never done before. Writing a HTTP server for a gameboy is a waste of time because everyone knows how easy it is to do. Big deal you compiled some simple code with gcc for a different CPU than intel. It is sad this kind of news makes slashdot, and makes everyone get all excited. You might as well go watch television for 16 hours a day while you are at it. Then post that on slashdot because someone watched television for 16 hours straight. I guess in my book, accomplisments like this are "no big deal". I could of done it in a weekend.
GPL hasn't even been proven to be legal yet.
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The GPL license has yet to be brought to court. This is why companies are afraid of it because they don't know what would happen in a court of law. Until a company is brought to court, and they win, or loose, there is no confidence in GPL's ability to protect any source code.
Companies are afraid because they could legally have to open up ALL of their source code because even though they followed the GPL, they didn't quite interpret it correctly. If a companie wins, it could mean all source code out there is now up for grabs, then every company in the world would jump and essentially "steal" the worlds work under GPL.
When you buy the vinyl record, and you buy the CD of the same album, you are not getting the same thing. The CD is of a much higher quality. When you buy a DVD versus a VHS tape, the same analysis applies. You are not buying the rights to listen to that song, in any medium, you are buying the rights to listen to the song on the medium you paid for. If a DVD Audio disc comes out of an album comes out for a song with 5.1 audio, you will be buying it all over again, and now you can enjoy your 5.1 medium.
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Actually, alot of times the "beta" hardware with the "beta" drivers runs FASTER than the final product.
:)
Hardware: The problem lies in that the "beta" hardware is carefully crafted and selected so that it lies in a very high yield of the manufacturing build. Later on, when mass production starts you have to clock things down and tone things down in general so you get a nice output yield. Otherwise you will run into the problem Nvidia already did with the 5800 Ultra, they tried to make the cards run like the "Beta" cards did, and nearly got NO cards that worked when trying to manufacture.
Software Drivers: Beta drivers can generally run slower, usually when extra debug info is turned on. However, when drivers are going to pre-release sites, alot of times they are running as fast as they can and are even tweaked to be more unstable just to get better performance... Also tweaked to run on the "beta" hand-select hardware.
All in all, alot of times beta hardware/software is better than the final shipments off of mass production. How much does a "Beta" board cost to make? Well, a company I worked for previously made a $150 board in mass production, but our beta development boards cost $5000.00 a piece.
This isn't always the case though, sometimes Beta hardware is junk, clocked slow, and drivers are slowed down by debug messages... In this video idustry though, anything about to be reviewed and is "Beta" gives the company a chance to Tweak things all to hell without fear when going to mass production, because that was "Beta" performance...
- Jeff
News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I know we arn't all nerds here, but do nerds listen to Dr. Dre? Reminds me of the begining scene of the movie Office Space... Where the white-guy "nerd" is listening to hard core rap, and when a black guy walks by, he sheepisly puts his head down while turning down his radio at the same time... Halarious.
First of all, whether you use the 16:9 mode or the 4:3 mode doesn't matter, you are still wasting screen space on either format. Unless you don't care about aspect ratio.
If you go 16:9 TFT, then you are wasting screen space when using WinTV in 4:3 mode. Black bars on the side of the screen.
If the world were 16:9 and some 4:3 video came out, everyone would be bitching you can't buy a 4:3 TFT and they hate these bars on the sides of their screens.
Comming from a 4:3 screen, When you have a real 16:9 screen, and you watch 16:9 video, just pretend there are black bars above and blow the TV and you feel right at home. Whats the difference in a black bar, and "air" anyways?
On another note... your 2560x1024 is a screwed up aspect ratio anyways, basing off of 1280x1024, that is 5:4, not 4:3.. You are already in aspect-ratio incorrect land.
- Jeff
Come on, 165 grams is nothing. There is no way that would be enough pressure at all. Hardly a replacement for a human massage.
My cockatiel (little bird with a crest) weighs 120grams and he is nothing!
Lets face it.. DOOM was the "killer app"... But I definetly have to say Duke3D was damn close, and in many peoples books, much much better.
I was only 16 when Duke3D came out, but it was awsome!. I was in video game heaven.
I used to load up Kali to play 3 players IPX over TCP/IP with my friends, it was crappy, but we still dealt with the crappiness because it was worth it.
If someone makes a Win32 port of Duke3D, with TCP/IP capability.. I'll be loading that bad-boy up in no time flat. Get my old highschool friends over at my house and play all over again...
Actually, an encrypted file system won't protect you from having your hard drive removed either.
:P
Unless you know about some super-magical physical encryption that prevents that
oh, wait, no... it was the superior Atari 400/800XL... Poor C64..
Atari Rules!
8-bit Power!
I'm going to start putting UK gallons in my car then! This is great!
Big freaking deal. Every week someone puts up an 802.11 link. Just throw more power and bigger antenna, and thats it.
Why is this news-worthy at all?...
Who cares.
Actually, television is 60 fields per second, not frames per second.
The difference is it is 60 interlaced fields. When the video signal is comming from a game console, this usually means each field is simply doubled resulting in a true 30 flat frames per second. So, just to make your somewhat rude post more valid, a NTSC television will give you the end effect of a frame rate cap of 30 frames per second, which is fairly poor.
- Voxel
They need to release the source code! If they don't someone start sueing them please.
Everyone that reads this message, call Dish networks, and demand the modified GPL source code now.
Sounds like a whiney baby to me. lets all go play! and kick his ass if we see him.
Dumb asses, benchmarking CPU's for chess playing ability is done ALL THE TIME. Just because it is new to one geek doesn't mean it is news worthy.
I swear...
This is non-sense! I make approx 1000 - 1200 sightings every year just MYSELF!
I live here in the outskirts of Las Vegas, and me and my neighbors report sightings every day!
I think they are throwing out our reports because we are from Las Vegas, bastard goverment!
I know you are just trying to be funny. (Thats a laugh), but in all seriousness, there is a virus detector for many *NIX's, including linux. McAfee makes one of them.
I was suprised when opening v4.x of mcafee zip file I had, and unix virus scanners were there..
Not really. There are hundreds of applications on the system that are CHROOT'ed, that is have access as root when executed. If one of these hundreds of apps were to become infected (chances are fair to good), than you can kiss your entire system good-bye.
Thank you very much, drive thru, have a nice day.
I was sitting in the theater last night watching Spider Man for the first time with my girlfriend. It was a quiet scene, nothing going on but dialog when all the sudden the theater started shaking. (AMC 20 by Great America in San Jose).
:P
At first I was like damn, NICE BASS!!! Then I was like wait a minute, nothing is happening in the movie.
My next instinct was thinking "oooh shit a tornado is outside!" I am from Michigan, so thats why that makes sense. Then I thought wait a minute, I am in a concrete building reinforced with steel and it was not raining outside 30 minutes ago.
Then I realized what was going on and everyone in the theater was freaking out. A few people left.
The guy next to me nervously said "hey man.... was that an earthquake?". I wanted to say something smart assed like no, I just ripped a big one... but nothing came to me fast enough
This is a lame example of reasoning. Going to the moon was done because it was never done before. Writing a HTTP server for a gameboy is a waste of time because everyone knows how easy it is to do. Big deal you compiled some simple code with gcc for a different CPU than intel. It is sad this kind of news makes slashdot, and makes everyone get all excited. You might as well go watch television for 16 hours a day while you are at it. Then post that on slashdot because someone watched television for 16 hours straight. I guess in my book, accomplisments like this are "no big deal". I could of done it in a weekend.
The GPL license has yet to be brought to court. This is why companies are afraid of it because they don't know what would happen in a court of law. Until a company is brought to court, and they win, or loose, there is no confidence in GPL's ability to protect any source code.
Companies are afraid because they could legally have to open up ALL of their source code because even though they followed the GPL, they didn't quite interpret it correctly. If a companie wins, it could mean all source code out there is now up for grabs, then every company in the world would jump and essentially "steal" the worlds work under GPL.
There once was a network engineer, and he saw all of your faces, and jumped out at you and then he went BOOOOO!! MuahahaA!!!
When you buy the vinyl record, and you buy the CD of the same album, you are not getting the same thing. The CD is of a much higher quality. When you buy a DVD versus a VHS tape, the same analysis applies. You are not buying the rights to listen to that song, in any medium, you are buying the rights to listen to the song on the medium you paid for. If a DVD Audio disc comes out of an album comes out for a song with 5.1 audio, you will be buying it all over again, and now you can enjoy your 5.1 medium.