Although in this case, I'm sure a number of the bottle necks were in the system and drivers which Valve apparently worked with hardware manufacturers to fix. That's a good thing for everyone.
What I found interesting was how much an improvement this is from their initial port.
Their very first version ran at a full six frames per second (167ms/frame). They've now gotten it up to 315 fps (3.17ms/frame).
That's some pretty impressive work.
That happens on nearly every Engine port. For example - Mortal Kombat on the Playstation VITA Handheld Console.
I worked on the team porting Unreal from PS3 / XBOX 360 to PS Vita at Netherrealm Studios (which we did in house separate from Epic's efforts). We ported over a NULL driver and then got the basic graphics up and running. Our initial port ran at 6 FPS. The shipped game ran at 60FPS with frame syncing and 80-90FPS at Speed-of-Light (frame syncing off).
You write a lot of code quickly to just get things working and once they are, you figure out the bottle necks and optimize code and assets from there.
I'm saving about $70 a month with netflix and basic internet over basic internet + expanded basic HD cable (without any premium channels).
The drawback is that most of the stuff on netflix is a little older. However, it's so much easier to watch stuff on demand, I actually end up using it more.
It's a cool project but it'd be more cool if it didn't require manual intervention (turning a crank per card). How hard would it be to add a servo controlled motor to turn that crank so the entire process could be automated?
The Apple Connector has been around since the original iPod although it didn't support USB until the 3rd Gen iPod. Still, it's been very close to a "standard" since 90% of MP3 players, 90% of tablets, 30% of smart phones currently in use the same connector.
I've never liked Aero, or the ME or Vista interfaces or bloated junk like the OSX interface.
I actually like Aero/Vist interfaces. What I don't like is some of the dumbification of Windows 7 -- Like removing the ability to let the taskbar not be "always on top" and removing the ability to remember size and placement of individual explorer windows by their root.
The taskbar is an annoying issue because it's a permanent waste of screen-space. Then again, Android Honeycomb on up permanently waste screen-space on the system bar which is just as stupid.
Bear Ride, talking with BuzzFeed, said today, "We consider Tam a member of the family."
And, I hope the GLBT community feels the same," Bear Ride, who identifies as gay, said.
"I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them," she added.
The aritcle seems to imply that Sally's sister Bear is gay as well.
I found out reading her obituary that she had a partner of 27 years, a fact that - despite her status as an American Hero - was not publicly announced until after her death.
so go prepaid. you can get "unlimited" data for $30 a month if you're willing to buy your own phone. and with the iphone about to have its 6th generation released there isn't much different every year so it's not like you have to run out and buy a new phone every year to keep up with specs
Once the iPhone 5 comes out, you will be able to buy used iPhone 4S very cheap. The question is can you use a used Sprint iPhone 4S on Virgin Mobile for prepaid?
Seriously. And since it's Android powered they don't even have the advantage of recouping costs via games. Ultimate failure. Google sucks.
It uses a QuadCore Tegra 3 which integrates a GPU. The price for this chip is between $15-25 depending on quantity purchased and the contract terms with NVidia. Still it's seems like an extremely lean margin given development costs and other physical devices as well as a game controller.
This "crippled piece of shit" can, among thousands of other things, run XBMC and output 1080p video, turning and dumb TV into a smartTV. Not too shabby for $25.
Yeah but for $10 more, you can have one with Ethernet and an extra USB port. Really is $35 too much for a computer nowdays?
Isn't it interesting that Jobs, a California resident, was able to get a transplant in Tennessee? Bypassing all those sick little children and other in that state who were on the list before him, btw.
Organ transplants are managed regionally, not nationally, and some regions have a relatively greater supply of donors than needy recipients. Registering on a hospital's transplant list requires an expensive series of tests, and Medicare and most insurance only cover listing with one hospital. However, wealthy people like Jobs can pay to be listed at multiple hospitals in multiple regions, as well as afford to travel cross country on short notice if an organ becomes available. Steve Jobs was able to send medical samples to multiple locations and pay for the necessary tests and he even flew around the country to register at a number of major hospitals in person where required. The end result was he was registered with every major organ donor region in the US so he had a much higher than normal chance of receiving an organ.
In other news, ex-VP Dick Cheney got preferential treatment to receive a heart despite the fact that he is 71 years old and has had five heart attacks.
But...all my fans get a layer of dust on each fan blade. What are they doing differently that will stop this?
If you watch the video, one of the heatsink's designers specifically says that when the device is spinning quickly (at 2,000 RPM), any dust particles that land on the device get flung off by centrifugal force.
Just one point... HyperDrive is slower (even though it's RAM) than many SSD's simply because it's not evolving as quickly: 175MB/s Read rate + 145MB/s Write rate + 65,000 IOPS
The price point puts it above Vertex 4 with much more storage capacity: 550 MB/s Read Rate + 465-475 MB/s Write Rate + 120,000 MAX IOPS
The Vertex 4 is just a lot faster. There's no reason we can't have a fast hardware RAM drive but unfortunately, the Hyperdrive doesn't seem to provide much if anything over a smaller and more rugged SSD. Also, a number of the higher end and nearly all the enterprise SATA SSD's now come with a super-capacitor on-board to allow completion of all writes in the cache if power is lost.
The lesson is you don't make games in HTML or Flash. You do it the correct way in C++.
You can't run C++ from a browser using any sort of standards... and Flash is pretty much installed on enough machines to be considered a standard (heck it's even built-in to Chrome).
As long as they don't sell it. Once they sold their products to millions of user, they are also responsible for that what they are selling has no built-in secrets what so ever.
Ummm... no, millions of people buy stuff with built-in secrets on a daily basis. For example, 11 secret herbs and spices. Don't like secrets? Then fry your own chickens.
148 PCs * 21 days is around ten years of PC time. Not much in the grand scheme of things.
10 years of today's computer time. If Moore's law holds, 10 years from now, it will be 1 month (~36 days) of computer time. And in 10 more years, it will be 8.5 hours.
The technology was proposed as a next-generation standard, which means it will take 3-5 years to be adopted as the standard. It'd be nice to have a standard that held up more than another 3-5 years.
It's DDR3L SDRAM - that L stands for low-power. If you can even find a high-speed DDR3L sodimm, you will pay more for it than for the Apple memory. What do you get with that L? Maybe about an hour more battery life with 16GB installed. Is 17% longer battery life worth the $100 premium? Probably to most people spending $3K or more on a laptop already.
The software supposedly infringes on over 100 patents. It sounds like Prentke Romich Company (PRC) and Semantic Compaction Systems -- the makers of the original software -- put a lot of time and development into the original expensive product. Along comes a small company ( Heidi LoStracco and Renee Collender) that duplicates much of their work and design in a lighter device (iPad) and sells it at a price that vastly undercuts them. The original sellers have to charge more because they are actually making a licensed medical device, working through channels to get approved by insurance and hospitals, and dealing with all the legal nightmares involved with that while the smaller company just uploads an app to the AppStore. The medical device for children has to survive drop tests and other ruggedization tests that an iPad doesn't (so it's bulkier) and because it's not manufactured in bulk in China (so it costs a lot more).
Now, if we had mandatory FRAND licensing for software or for medical devices, perhaps they could offer their software on the iPad if they paid the licensing costs for those patents. However, the "fair price" for the cost of developing "approved" medical technology in the US is pretty huge and might drive the app cost up to $5000-10000. It sounds like the patent system is working to protect the original property rights owners from someone copying their technology and skirting around all the work they did in complying with the system.
Does anyone find it funny that the link in the submitted story about security causes Chrome to display a warning banner reading "This page has insecure content" and blocking that content by default unless you foolishly choose to allow it to dowload the insecure content???
Here's the thing -- I pretty much have to use two monitors at work for development. I don't really have the deskspace for multiple 27" monitors. I'd like to use 2 21" (roughly) monitors with "retina" resolution -- or at least a lot higher than 1080P.
Seriously, phones and tablets are getting ~1080P screens but most of the laptops on the market are stuck with the crappy 1366x768 even though they're MUCH larger and it would make a visible and FUNCTIONAL difference.
I'd like to see larger resolutions on desktop LCD Panels as well. You used to be able to get 1600X1200 21" 4:3 monitors everywhere. Now nearly all consumer grade LCD's are 1920X1080 / 16:9. For coders that's a bad thing to lose 120 vertical pixels (it's probably 6-10 lines less code you can see).
An iPad can do on 2048x1536 on 1 9.7" display. It's sad when you get 50% more pixels in the short dimension on a tablet with a screen 1/2 as big.
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Although in this case, I'm sure a number of the bottle necks were in the system and drivers which Valve apparently worked with hardware manufacturers to fix. That's a good thing for everyone.
What I found interesting was how much an improvement this is from their initial port.
Their very first version ran at a full six frames per second (167ms/frame). They've now gotten it up to 315 fps (3.17ms/frame).
That's some pretty impressive work.
That happens on nearly every Engine port. For example - Mortal Kombat on the Playstation VITA Handheld Console.
I worked on the team porting Unreal from PS3 / XBOX 360 to PS Vita at Netherrealm Studios (which we did in house separate from Epic's efforts). We ported over a NULL driver and then got the basic graphics up and running. Our initial port ran at 6 FPS. The shipped game ran at 60FPS with frame syncing and 80-90FPS at Speed-of-Light (frame syncing off).
You write a lot of code quickly to just get things working and once they are, you figure out the bottle necks and optimize code and assets from there.
I'm saving about $70 a month with netflix and basic internet over basic internet + expanded basic HD cable (without any premium channels).
The drawback is that most of the stuff on netflix is a little older. However, it's so much easier to watch stuff on demand, I actually end up using it more.
It's a cool project but it'd be more cool if it didn't require manual intervention (turning a crank per card). How hard would it be to add a servo controlled motor to turn that crank so the entire process could be automated?
The Apple Connector has been around since the original iPod although it didn't support USB until the 3rd Gen iPod. Still, it's been very close to a "standard" since 90% of MP3 players, 90% of tablets, 30% of smart phones currently in use the same connector.
If you have Dock-Based Peripherals, you should still be able to use them in the future with a "Pear" Device (Bluetooth to Apple Dock Converter)..
I've never liked Aero, or the ME or Vista interfaces or bloated junk like the OSX interface.
I actually like Aero/Vist interfaces. What I don't like is some of the dumbification of Windows 7 -- Like removing the ability to let the taskbar not be "always on top" and removing the ability to remember size and placement of individual explorer windows by their root.
The taskbar is an annoying issue because it's a permanent waste of screen-space. Then again, Android Honeycomb on up permanently waste screen-space on the system bar which is just as stupid.
Bear Ride, talking with BuzzFeed, said today, "We consider Tam a member of the family."
And, I hope the GLBT community feels the same," Bear Ride, who identifies as gay, said.
"I hope it makes it easier for kids growing up gay that they know that another one of their heroes was like them," she added.
The aritcle seems to imply that Sally's sister Bear is gay as well.
I found out reading her obituary that she had a partner of 27 years, a fact that - despite her status as an American Hero - was not publicly announced until after her death.
so go prepaid. you can get "unlimited" data for $30 a month if you're willing to buy your own phone. and with the iphone about to have its 6th generation released there isn't much different every year so it's not like you have to run out and buy a new phone every year to keep up with specs
Once the iPhone 5 comes out, you will be able to buy used iPhone 4S very cheap. The question is can you use a used Sprint iPhone 4S on Virgin Mobile for prepaid?
Seriously. And since it's Android powered they don't even have the advantage of recouping costs via games. Ultimate failure. Google sucks.
It uses a QuadCore Tegra 3 which integrates a GPU. The price for this chip is between $15-25 depending on quantity purchased and the contract terms with NVidia. Still it's seems like an extremely lean margin given development costs and other physical devices as well as a game controller.
This "crippled piece of shit" can, among thousands of other things, run XBMC and output 1080p video, turning and dumb TV into a smartTV. Not too shabby for $25.
Yeah but for $10 more, you can have one with Ethernet and an extra USB port. Really is $35 too much for a computer nowdays?
CLI is the defacto interface for Google searches.
By your definition (typing at a prompt), hitting the combo Windows-Key+R brings up a CLI.
Actually, on later versions of Windows (Vista / 7), you can just hit the Windows Key and start typing any command so Windows is a "CLI".
Isn't it interesting that Jobs, a California resident, was able to get a transplant in Tennessee? Bypassing all those sick little children and other in that state who were on the list before him, btw.
Organ transplants are managed regionally, not nationally, and some regions have a relatively greater supply of donors than needy recipients. Registering on a hospital's transplant list requires an expensive series of tests, and Medicare and most insurance only cover listing with one hospital. However, wealthy people like Jobs can pay to be listed at multiple hospitals in multiple regions, as well as afford to travel cross country on short notice if an organ becomes available. Steve Jobs was able to send medical samples to multiple locations and pay for the necessary tests and he even flew around the country to register at a number of major hospitals in person where required. The end result was he was registered with every major organ donor region in the US so he had a much higher than normal chance of receiving an organ.
In other news, ex-VP Dick Cheney got preferential treatment to receive a heart despite the fact that he is 71 years old and has had five heart attacks.
But...all my fans get a layer of dust on each fan blade. What are they doing differently that will stop this?
If you watch the video, one of the heatsink's designers specifically says that when the device is spinning quickly (at 2,000 RPM), any dust particles that land on the device get flung off by centrifugal force.
Just one point... HyperDrive is slower (even though it's RAM) than many SSD's simply because it's not evolving as quickly: 175MB/s Read rate + 145MB/s Write rate + 65,000 IOPS
The price point puts it above Vertex 4 with much more storage capacity: 550 MB/s Read Rate + 465-475 MB/s Write Rate + 120,000 MAX IOPS
The Vertex 4 is just a lot faster. There's no reason we can't have a fast hardware RAM drive but unfortunately, the Hyperdrive doesn't seem to provide much if anything over a smaller and more rugged SSD. Also, a number of the higher end and nearly all the enterprise SATA SSD's now come with a super-capacitor on-board to allow completion of all writes in the cache if power is lost.
The lesson is you don't make games in HTML or Flash. You do it the correct way in C++.
You can't run C++ from a browser using any sort of standards... and Flash is pretty much installed on enough machines to be considered a standard (heck it's even built-in to Chrome).
As long as they don't sell it. Once they sold their products to millions of user, they are also responsible for that what they are selling has no built-in secrets what so ever.
Ummm... no, millions of people buy stuff with built-in secrets on a daily basis. For example, 11 secret herbs and spices. Don't like secrets? Then fry your own chickens.
148 PCs * 21 days is around ten years of PC time. Not much in the grand scheme of things.
10 years of today's computer time. If Moore's law holds, 10 years from now, it will be 1 month (~36 days) of computer time. And in 10 more years, it will be 8.5 hours.
The technology was proposed as a next-generation standard, which means it will take 3-5 years to be adopted as the standard. It'd be nice to have a standard that held up more than another 3-5 years.
There is no such thing devolution
Convergence into the form of a 70's band?
I'm sure that if any tablet violates 100 Apple Patents that Apple will take them to court.
It's DDR3L SDRAM - that L stands for low-power. If you can even find a high-speed DDR3L sodimm, you will pay more for it than for the Apple memory. What do you get with that L? Maybe about an hour more battery life with 16GB installed. Is 17% longer battery life worth the $100 premium? Probably to most people spending $3K or more on a laptop already.
The software supposedly infringes on over 100 patents. It sounds like Prentke Romich Company (PRC) and Semantic Compaction Systems -- the makers of the original software -- put a lot of time and development into the original expensive product. Along comes a small company ( Heidi LoStracco and Renee Collender) that duplicates much of their work and design in a lighter device (iPad) and sells it at a price that vastly undercuts them. The original sellers have to charge more because they are actually making a licensed medical device, working through channels to get approved by insurance and hospitals, and dealing with all the legal nightmares involved with that while the smaller company just uploads an app to the AppStore. The medical device for children has to survive drop tests and other ruggedization tests that an iPad doesn't (so it's bulkier) and because it's not manufactured in bulk in China (so it costs a lot more).
If it wasn't for the "Think of the Children" aspect, most of the time Slashdot comes down pretty heavy against app cloners.
Now, if we had mandatory FRAND licensing for software or for medical devices, perhaps they could offer their software on the iPad if they paid the licensing costs for those patents. However, the "fair price" for the cost of developing "approved" medical technology in the US is pretty huge and might drive the app cost up to $5000-10000. It sounds like the patent system is working to protect the original property rights owners from someone copying their technology and skirting around all the work they did in complying with the system.
Does anyone find it funny that the link in the submitted story about security causes Chrome to display a warning banner reading "This page has insecure content" and blocking that content by default unless you foolishly choose to allow it to dowload the insecure content???
Here's the thing -- I pretty much have to use two monitors at work for development. I don't really have the deskspace for multiple 27" monitors. I'd like to use 2 21" (roughly) monitors with "retina" resolution -- or at least a lot higher than 1080P.
Seriously, phones and tablets are getting ~1080P screens but most of the laptops on the market are stuck with the crappy 1366x768 even though they're MUCH larger and it would make a visible and FUNCTIONAL difference.
I'd like to see larger resolutions on desktop LCD Panels as well. You used to be able to get 1600X1200 21" 4:3 monitors everywhere. Now nearly all consumer grade LCD's are 1920X1080 / 16:9. For coders that's a bad thing to lose 120 vertical pixels (it's probably 6-10 lines less code you can see).
An iPad can do on 2048x1536 on 1 9.7" display. It's sad when you get 50% more pixels in the short dimension on a tablet with a screen 1/2 as big.