seems like your numbers are decent, 50GB/90 = 611MB per minute /60 (seconds)= 10.2 MB per second (At this point it is 10x DVD size) /24 (fps) = 425k/frame not shabby at all 2048x1536x24 bit= 8.9M so you would have to have about 25:1 compression, sure
this is hardly a stretch for MPEG. I imagine this is similar to DVD-quality compression, scaled up in resolution
I'm waiting for when this is available in the home:) screw DVDs if I could get a movie playable at 2kx1.5k or 4kx3k
Security ratings are on total hardware setups, not on operating systems. Don't be fooled by the hype - just because someone certified an NT machine without ethernet in a locked, secured room with lots of EM shielding doesn't mean that you can buy a $999 compaq, pop that NT4 disk in and have the security of the Pentagon.
I'm sure everybody (except Rambus Inc.) is pleased that it looks like it's heading towards a spectacular failure as it would drive the price of memory up for no good engineering reason.
There are many, many good engineering reasons to switch to Rambus. It has a higher maximum bandwidth and uses less pins. RDRAM isn't as cheap as SDRAM, but guess what - that doesn't suddenly eliminate the benefits of RDRAM.
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there is a difference between "currently only ported to the Intel (x86) architecture" and "designed from the ground up for intel architecture"
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I think Tanenbaum was right.. not to say Torvolds was wrong...
Open folder "My Pictures" Select All Open by clicking should the machine be unusable because the user accidently double-clicked rather than dragging to the destination folder?
There was a high-quality release of outlook? wow, is it sold in stores? Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 crash 80% of the time for me when trying to open an IMAP mail store. It just deadlocks.. and... sits..
It is almost like nobody bothered to test if IMAP worked, four machines with three different sets of Outlook 98 or 2000 and Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5 beta, and none can pull in ten new messages from IMAP
Capitalism is not a negative feedback system. Within bounds, it is fair, but after a certain point the large just keep getting bigger regardless of the quality or the price of their competition.
While government regulation sucks, I really would like to hear another way to accomplish the same goals. Picketing outside Fortune 500 companies until they decide they will stop using Word and Powerpoint?
Intel did <b>not</b> decide to take it on the chin immediately. They were perfectly happy to let the existing shipped processors be used, until about a month of news stories and IBM stating they would no longer use Intel-brand processors changed their minds.
An "almost" useful scripting feature? Sorry, it does not even come close to useful. My productivity is not enhanced by visual basic programs sent through email and automatically run on receipt, which perform administrative functions. There is no godly reason that something like Outlook, which can receive files from anywhere, would allow ANY type of executable content to run. Least of all, if there was a reason, there should be a warning. A nice sandbox-type environment where the user actually has to give it permission to LOOK at the hard disk, let alone overwrite existing files would suffice But I would really like to hear you state ONE possible, productive use for embedding executable scripts in email. Be it VBScript sent to someone running outlook, or a perl script sent to someone running a unix email proggy.
Hardware texturing in current 3D drivers is atrocioius. They cache textures on the card using a Least Recently Used algo (look it up if you don't know what it is).
What this comes down to is if you render the level in the same order on every frame, you will end up having 100% cache MISSES if your scene uses more texture memory than the card has. Textures on the second pass will push textures needed later on the second pass right out of the cache, so you end up not using texture cache memory at all.
Whether he wants to have no repeat textures or not (just not combining the vis'd lightmap at runtime, mostly), changes in the way they handle textures is desparately needed for all games using more texture than they have memory on the card.
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hardware accumulation buffer, not hardware motion blur. All it does is let you put several 'snapshots' in one frame - it really doesn't give you any benefit because it is just a 'mouse trail' type of repeated, dimmed image - not a real 'blur'
Yeah, they also said they planned to support linux like what, two years ago? Gotten a lot to show for it so far.
On the other hand, about five pages worth of docs on specific areas of the TNT2 would get it up to 95% working on linux. I'm sure NVidia is way too busy trying to make their high quality linux drivers have an engineer stop for an hour and write those and send them off to utah-glx, so about 50,000 of their customers don't have the current crappy,slow 3D support.
NVidia's problem is after two years of trying, they STILL believe they can provide better support under linux than the linux developer community. It is possible, but their work so far makes me doubt their ability to pull it off.
find me a study that actually shows a cause-effect rather than a simple link. I firmly believe (as I suspect many people on this forum do) that a person with agressive behavior finds more interest in Violent entertainment.
More passive personalities aren't drawn to quake/FPS type games!
So maybe you should use an interest in shoot-em-up movies as an indicator someone may go wacko later on. Don't think that someone before they went in and saw (for instance) Robocop were innocent pacifists though - they knew what they were walking in to and were interested in. If they didn't know this, you can probably tell by the look on their face when they leave the theatre that they didn't enjoy themselves.
one alternative would be to switch to something like Jabber (www.jabber.org) en-mass:) Systems like it do things like obscure both people's real identities and their machine IP addresses - making traditional script-kiddy denial attacks impossible.
Part of the problem is also just the power-model of IRC. Three levels of users, with each being able to do more than the level before (+v'd users can talk on a moderated channel, +o users can pretty much take over and ban everyone on a channel). Making each channel 'owned' by someone above all else would make things like channel takeover through flooding impossible.
In my opinion, it is these flood wars on users that cause things to escillate(sp?) up to full scale DDoS attacks.
from the LiViD project I've seen that the problem is not technological as far as DVDs - there is already a mechanism for the movies to be played. The problem has been in the video output. While the 'open' players out there are not completely optimized, their biggest problem comes from things like the video color-space conversion. If X servers do not have support for things like overlays for subtitles and blitting a non-RGB buffer to the screen, things will be very painful (I can't watch movies on my P3-500).
I don't see how a closed-source player, even with the 'technology' licensed from the DVD consortium, will be able to get around the lack of sufficient video support in XFree. Maybe this is why they haven't released yet?
X11 runs in the userspace, so misconfiguration (or just switching your video card or screen) doesn't lock up the system
X11 can crash the system just as bad as if it was kernel space, i.e. on NT. The actual X server, which controls the hardware, runs setuid root. Indeed, with the new Direct Rendering Architecture it is not possible to use the direct access modes without being root.
If this was a microkernel and the X server used a kernel interface for controlling the hardware, it would be one thing - but XFree is directly banging on the hardware, and has the ability to bang anywhere in memory. A bad pointer can still lock the machine, as can a bad PCI setup.
XFree 4.0 has many highend features which framebuffer-based GUIs will lack: multihead support, truetype support, modular drivers, 3D/OpenGL etc.etc.
Windows CE has truetype font support, some have video output - and they are framebuffer devices.
Some even have DirectX support
X11 is GUI toolkit agnostic. You can run KDE, Gnome, GNUstep, Tk, Motif... apps under one X11 desktop, which you can't on a framebuffer-based desktop
You can too! There is absolutely no reason why you wouldn't be able to do this - try it out with the X framebuffer server!
The reason you would not be able to do this is because having the same application loaded in memory three times and using three different functionally equivelant library sets is dumb. The only reason this happens is because X is toolkit agnostic, and spent twenty years without ever having a decent toolkit. So you have a native X protocol version of biff, a xaw version, an xaw3d version, an openwindows enhanced version, a version packaged with enlightenment, gnomebiff, kbuff, etc etc.
...except it is a virtualizer, meaning it is using the actual processor to run instructions and not some emulation layer - so on an Alpha or PPC it would never be able to run, since the processor doesn't have an x86 instruction set.
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seems like your numbers are decent,
:) screw DVDs if I could get a movie playable at 2kx1.5k or 4kx3k
50GB/90 = 611MB per minute
/60 (seconds)= 10.2 MB per second
(At this point it is 10x DVD size)
/24 (fps) = 425k/frame
not shabby at all
2048x1536x24 bit= 8.9M
so you would have to have about 25:1 compression, sure
this is hardly a stretch for MPEG. I imagine this is similar to DVD-quality compression, scaled up in resolution
I'm waiting for when this is available in the home
that was truely bad.
do not ever, EVER go
and spout crap again
Security ratings are on total hardware setups, not on operating systems. Don't be fooled by the hype - just because someone certified an NT machine without ethernet in a locked, secured room with lots of EM shielding doesn't mean that you can buy a $999 compaq, pop that NT4 disk in and have the security of the Pentagon.
There are many, many good engineering reasons to switch to Rambus. It has a higher maximum bandwidth and uses less pins. RDRAM isn't as cheap as SDRAM, but guess what - that doesn't suddenly eliminate the benefits of RDRAM.
there is a difference between "currently only ported to the Intel (x86) architecture" and "designed from the ground up for intel architecture"
I think Tanenbaum was right.. not to say Torvolds was wrong...
Open folder "My Pictures"
Select All
Open by clicking
should the machine be unusable because the user accidently double-clicked rather than dragging to the destination folder?
There was a high-quality release of outlook? wow, is it sold in stores? Outlook 98 and Outlook 2000 crash 80% of the time for me when trying to open an IMAP mail store. It just deadlocks.. and... sits..
It is almost like nobody bothered to test if IMAP worked, four machines with three different sets of Outlook 98 or 2000 and Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5 beta, and none can pull in ten new messages from IMAP
Capitalism is not a negative feedback system. Within bounds, it is fair, but after a certain point the large just keep getting bigger regardless of the quality or the price of their competition.
While government regulation sucks, I really would like to hear another way to accomplish the same goals. Picketing outside Fortune 500 companies until they decide they will stop using Word and Powerpoint?
To be completely fair to Microsoft:
Intel did <b>not</b> decide to take it on the chin immediately. They were perfectly happy to let the existing shipped processors be used, until about a month of news stories and IBM stating they would no longer use Intel-brand processors changed their minds.
An "almost" useful scripting feature? Sorry, it does not even come close to useful. My productivity is not enhanced by visual basic programs sent through email and automatically run on receipt, which perform administrative functions. There is no godly reason that something like Outlook, which can receive files from anywhere, would allow ANY type of executable content to run. Least of all, if there was a reason, there should be a warning. A nice sandbox-type environment where the user actually has to give it permission to LOOK at the hard disk, let alone overwrite existing files would suffice But I would really like to hear you state ONE possible, productive use for embedding executable scripts in email. Be it VBScript sent to someone running outlook, or a perl script sent to someone running a unix email proggy.
how does one who really does not suck convey that in conversation then?
moron
has anyone EVER beaten Contra without the 30 man code?
"For pennies a day, you can end the suffering"
Hardware texturing in current 3D drivers is atrocioius. They cache textures on the card using a Least Recently Used algo (look it up if you don't know what it is).
What this comes down to is if you render the level in the same order on every frame, you will end up having 100% cache MISSES if your scene uses more texture memory than the card has. Textures on the second pass will push textures needed later on the second pass right out of the cache, so you end up not using texture cache memory at all.
Whether he wants to have no repeat textures or not (just not combining the vis'd lightmap at runtime, mostly), changes in the way they handle textures is desparately needed for all games using more texture than they have memory on the card.
hardware accumulation buffer, not hardware motion blur. All it does is let you put several 'snapshots' in one frame - it really doesn't give you any benefit because it is just a 'mouse trail' type of repeated, dimmed image - not a real 'blur'
Yeah, they also said they planned to support linux like what, two years ago? Gotten a lot to show for it so far.
On the other hand, about five pages worth of docs on specific areas of the TNT2 would get it up to 95% working on linux. I'm sure NVidia is way too busy trying to make their high quality linux drivers have an engineer stop for an hour and write those and send them off to utah-glx, so about 50,000 of their customers don't have the current crappy,slow 3D support.
NVidia's problem is after two years of trying, they STILL believe they can provide better support under linux than the linux developer community. It is possible, but their work so far makes me doubt their ability to pull it off.
find me a study that actually shows a cause-effect rather than a simple link. I firmly believe (as I suspect many people on this forum do) that a person with agressive behavior finds more interest in Violent entertainment.
More passive personalities aren't drawn to quake/FPS type games!
So maybe you should use an interest in shoot-em-up movies as an indicator someone may go wacko later on. Don't think that someone before they went in and saw (for instance) Robocop were innocent pacifists though - they knew what they were walking in to and were interested in. If they didn't know this, you can probably tell by the look on their face when they leave the theatre that they didn't enjoy themselves.
one alternative would be to switch to something like Jabber (www.jabber.org) en-mass :) Systems like it do things like obscure both people's real identities and their machine IP addresses - making traditional script-kiddy denial attacks impossible.
Part of the problem is also just the power-model of IRC. Three levels of users, with each being able to do more than the level before (+v'd users can talk on a moderated channel, +o users can pretty much take over and ban everyone on a channel). Making each channel 'owned' by someone above all else would make things like channel takeover through flooding impossible.
In my opinion, it is these flood wars on users that cause things to escillate(sp?) up to full scale DDoS attacks.
right - nobody has stolen those tapes yet
from the LiViD project I've seen that the problem is not technological as far as DVDs - there is already a mechanism for the movies to be played. The problem has been in the video output. While the 'open' players out there are not completely optimized, their biggest problem comes from things like the video color-space conversion. If X servers do not have support for things like overlays for subtitles and blitting a non-RGB buffer to the screen, things will be very painful (I can't watch movies on my P3-500).
I don't see how a closed-source player, even with the 'technology' licensed from the DVD consortium, will be able to get around the lack of sufficient video support in XFree. Maybe this is why they haven't released yet?
haha that is cool!
did you do that on purpose?
(or was that a goof?)
X11 runs in the userspace, so misconfiguration (or just switching your video card or screen) doesn't lock up the system
X11 can crash the system just as bad as if it was kernel space, i.e. on NT. The actual X server, which controls the hardware, runs setuid root. Indeed, with the new Direct Rendering Architecture it is not possible to use the direct access modes without being root.
If this was a microkernel and the X server used a kernel interface for controlling the hardware, it would be one thing - but XFree is directly banging on the hardware, and has the ability to bang anywhere in memory. A bad pointer can still lock the machine, as can a bad PCI setup.
XFree 4.0 has many highend features which framebuffer-based GUIs will lack: multihead support, truetype support, modular drivers, 3D/OpenGL etc.etc.
Windows CE has truetype font support, some have video output - and they are framebuffer devices.
Some even have DirectX support
X11 is GUI toolkit agnostic. You can run KDE, Gnome, GNUstep, Tk, Motif... apps under one X11 desktop, which you can't on a framebuffer-based desktop
You can too! There is absolutely no reason why you wouldn't be able to do this - try it out with the X framebuffer server!
The reason you would not be able to do this is because having the same application loaded in memory three times and using three different functionally equivelant library sets is dumb. The only reason this happens is because X is toolkit agnostic, and spent twenty years without ever having a decent toolkit. So you have a native X protocol version of biff, a xaw version, an xaw3d version, an openwindows enhanced version, a version packaged with enlightenment, gnomebiff, kbuff, etc etc.
where do you think the windows TCP/IP stack came from? BSD, maybe? There is a huge amount of BSD code in 9x/NT
the BSD license lets you use code without redistributing source code. They have already taken all the parts of it they want
...except it is a virtualizer, meaning it is using the actual processor to run instructions and not some emulation layer - so on an Alpha or PPC it would never be able to run, since the processor doesn't have an x86 instruction set.