I think some one who knows what's firefox and knows how to download/install it is more knowledgable than common users thus they are unlikely to be lured for those useless links.
so the user base is different, software itself probably doesnot contribute to this issue as much, IMHO.
a processor is classified as RISC/CISC by its interface instruction set, yes, CISC processors actually contains a RISC core in it, that's what RISC designers were against, since CISC ones take complicated instruction, with internal optimization due to the instruction set. while RISC ones take simpler set but require compiler to do optimization.
SONY boasted about their emotion engine before, some people still claim EE is superior than xbox's 733MHz processor with nvidia videochip, but we all know the video quality comparison.
what I wanted to point out is that critical mass rules, not just the technology. as you said, 3 next-gen consoles are going to use it, at least so far they state so, so maybe this version processor from IBM will finally work. but RISC didnot work up to its claim, which was higher frequency due to simpler structure from simpler instruction set.:D
totally agree, also, you even get the chance to watch HDTV quality recording on your computer when you dont have a HDTV cable box.
some shows appear early some where else in the world, you get the chance to watch them earlier. at the same time, there are many shows you like that are not available on your local service providers any way.
I am using a dell precision 750 with dual xeon 2.4G, 1.5G RAM, I wonder if it is at all possible, how fast it will take for your job to run on my workstation?
I think cell processing meet exact same fate as those RISC processors, they will never be mainstream. back in the old days, IBM used the exact same boasting words for RISC processors, claiming simply structure will be able to make it in super high frequency, but critical mass spoke out loudly.
as far as I know, now we have CISC processors having RISC instructions within the processors, optimized by the core itself. also the CISC ones have achieved over 4GHz with water cooling OC. though RISC suppoters still claiming faster float point processing, I doubt it.
at the same time, multi-core same chip design has been adopted by both Intel and AMD, I dont see how could this cell processing be used by anybody but very few companies. if not cheap enough, why stack up a few more expensive and slower cell processors when you can stack up cheaper and faster PC boxes?
thanks for the advice, maybe I am not in the position of judging this game.
I played metroid prime for around 15 minutes and decided it's not something for me... the graphic, the style, there's nothing I like and I think that's enough judgement for myself...
first, there're websites like www.bf2004.net to let us know what to buy before the day,
second, there are deals year around if you check those deal web sites, some time the price is even cheaper than black friday ones.
third, when I got bestbuy late, I found a 160G hidden among 250Gs, apparently some one put them there earlier so that they can pick it up that day? never mind, I got it.:D
the story itself might have some 'horror' in it, but the gameplay I've seen so far is just a shiny robot type of person, even shooting or roll into a metal ball, in a shiny metallic environment, thus I dont see any horror from it.
you know what, I am thinking very differently, IBM has dropped the quality of T42 with the attempt to lower the price, but the quality drops faster than price...
I wish dell could have bought this part and make laptops just as good with half the price...
I dont know what lenovo would do with IBM's property though.
people are very different, personally I dont like the world/character settings of WoW. I perfer Guild Wars. On the other hand, i am pretty busy so I wont play WoW enough to justify the cost of $15/month.
I know some people who still play diablo2, they are just happy that they find some unique item after playing the same quest for years. they are differnet type of people, I cant tolerate that, so I cant enjoy that kind "fun" either.
bestbuy had the 160GB $30+tax AR blackfriday officemax had the 200GB $50+tax AR blackfriday outpost has 160GB $40 AR so it could be far less than $1200 to build a machine with 1T capacity not to mention the 400GB drives are out for barely $200 each or so
before GWBush is sentenced in international court for war crime, this is perfectly normal.
if you want to talk about crimes against humanity, check international news about the iraq war!!!!
HL2 comes with CS:S which is using the same engine but an upgrade versin of the most popular multi-player version online fps counter strike. I think most people just play CS:S. Maybe HL2:DM will utilize the beautifully rendered urban scene which is not part of CS:S.
vehicles in HL2 are not good in online fighting, IMHO, I guess I will try the DM part tonight (though I got mine updated this morning, but I had to go to work, no time to try)
not necessarily, even lack of content now, HDTV sales in USA is still booming, people buy those to watch DVD "better"... which might not be true, IMHO
but the fact is, a higher resolution video source is definitely needed, currently HDTV programming is poor at best and I think a good pool of vidoe resource in HD should help both the HDTV market and HD-video market.
also this new disc should not cost too much, so my personal vote is for normal D9 DVD and high resolution with better compression, instead of any expensive blue-ray stuff. only critical mass rules.
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c# is doing that now, well, java still cant do that smoothly. but IMHO, it's really convenient to do so, with the help of mouse, create the layout and everything, then double click or choose the events to handle, bang, you are done with the GUI part, now it's only the real handling for the content, instead of spending hours and hours to massage the GUI and the final lay out still doesnot look right. I've had that pain with old MFC windows application and java application. but back in the old days, I enjoyed the delphi so far, still look pascal, only if they didnot invent java or c# for the money's sake, pascal could have been the best thing since sliced bread. well, that's just me, somebody even wanted to hire me as I had experience in delphi, some kind of rare case in USA, maybe. I settled for a job in c++, then java, now c#. I dont care too much about language, but a convenient IDE and good library classes does make a hell lot of difference.
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or probably the part would be more expensive than a much faster server.
I think some one who knows what's firefox and knows how to download/install it is more knowledgable than common users thus they are unlikely to be lured for those useless links.
so the user base is different, software itself probably doesnot contribute to this issue as much, IMHO.
a processor is classified as RISC/CISC by its interface instruction set, yes, CISC processors actually contains a RISC core in it, that's what RISC designers were against, since CISC ones take complicated instruction, with internal optimization due to the instruction set. while RISC ones take simpler set but require compiler to do optimization.
:D
SONY boasted about their emotion engine before, some people still claim EE is superior than xbox's 733MHz processor with nvidia videochip, but we all know the video quality comparison.
what I wanted to point out is that critical mass rules, not just the technology. as you said, 3 next-gen consoles are going to use it, at least so far they state so, so maybe this version processor from IBM will finally work. but RISC didnot work up to its claim, which was higher frequency due to simpler structure from simpler instruction set.
this is absolutely false, in fact, a huge amount of "quality" IBM laptops are made in china as well.
the mere fact is that IBM PC business model sucks, DELL created a much better one.
totally agree, also, you even get the chance to watch HDTV quality recording on your computer when you dont have a HDTV cable box. some shows appear early some where else in the world, you get the chance to watch them earlier. at the same time, there are many shows you like that are not available on your local service providers any way.
I am using a dell precision 750 with dual xeon 2.4G, 1.5G RAM, I wonder if it is at all possible, how fast it will take for your job to run on my workstation?
I think cell processing meet exact same fate as those RISC processors, they will never be mainstream. back in the old days, IBM used the exact same boasting words for RISC processors, claiming simply structure will be able to make it in super high frequency, but critical mass spoke out loudly.
as far as I know, now we have CISC processors having RISC instructions within the processors, optimized by the core itself. also the CISC ones have achieved over 4GHz with water cooling OC. though RISC suppoters still claiming faster float point processing, I doubt it.
at the same time, multi-core same chip design has been adopted by both Intel and AMD, I dont see how could this cell processing be used by anybody but very few companies. if not cheap enough, why stack up a few more expensive and slower cell processors when you can stack up cheaper and faster PC boxes?
thanks for the advice, maybe I am not in the position of judging this game.
I played metroid prime for around 15 minutes and decided it's not something for me... the graphic, the style, there's nothing I like and I think that's enough judgement for myself...
first, there're websites like www.bf2004.net to let us know what to buy before the day,
:D
second, there are deals year around if you check those deal web sites, some time the price is even cheaper than black friday ones.
third, when I got bestbuy late, I found a 160G hidden among 250Gs, apparently some one put them there earlier so that they can pick it up that day? never mind, I got it.
the story itself might have some 'horror' in it, but the gameplay I've seen so far is just a shiny robot type of person, even shooting or roll into a metal ball, in a shiny metallic environment, thus I dont see any horror from it.
you know what, I am thinking very differently, IBM has dropped the quality of T42 with the attempt to lower the price, but the quality drops faster than price...
I wish dell could have bought this part and make laptops just as good with half the price...
I dont know what lenovo would do with IBM's property though.
it seems that most korean kids qualify to be old now. :D
on the other hand, I dont think mp3 will ever die, as long as it's free and the quality satisfy most people.
for the movie part, we already have AC3 codec, why use surround mp3?
I dont think either way would work that well, so there's no big difference.
I mean, there's no way to filter porno clearly and since it's international, it's impossible to make it illegal.
also, education never works that well for everybody. at least it didnot work for me.
what would be the horror of metroid? isnt there just robots fighting some robots etc?
I always hope they can release game play video in cheap price, so I can enjoy watching the game instead of playing it.
a few more sources as those news group might have it shared under some small subgroups.
you can search kazaa, ed2k, bt network to find a binary, some time.
and u might get a copy of XDK and compile one yourself.
people are very different, personally I dont like the world/character settings of WoW. I perfer Guild Wars. On the other hand, i am pretty busy so I wont play WoW enough to justify the cost of $15/month.
I know some people who still play diablo2, they are just happy that they find some unique item after playing the same quest for years. they are differnet type of people, I cant tolerate that, so I cant enjoy that kind "fun" either.
outpost one is available online, not BF deal
some one hides a 160G drive among the 250G ones, I got there late but I found that one and scored it.
well, I didnot get the 200G from officemax since I got there even later. I dont need that much storage space myself any way.
bestbuy had the 160GB $30+tax AR blackfriday
officemax had the 200GB $50+tax AR blackfriday
outpost has 160GB $40 AR
so it could be far less than $1200 to build a machine with 1T capacity
not to mention the 400GB drives are out for barely $200 each or so
before GWBush is sentenced in international court for war crime, this is perfectly normal. if you want to talk about crimes against humanity, check international news about the iraq war!!!!
HL2 comes with CS:S which is using the same engine but an upgrade versin of the most popular multi-player version online fps counter strike. I think most people just play CS:S. Maybe HL2:DM will utilize the beautifully rendered urban scene which is not part of CS:S.
vehicles in HL2 are not good in online fighting, IMHO, I guess I will try the DM part tonight (though I got mine updated this morning, but I had to go to work, no time to try)
well, I watched a lot DBZ, trust me, my reply is just what I thought, and this is the thread I happen to choose to put it to.
;)
sorry to make you confused.
this sounds really sweet, I definitely need to try the thumbpad then. any good NDS game you can recommend?
actually I ONLY post to slashdot from work, since I have so many FUN things to do at home, seriously.
not necessarily, even lack of content now, HDTV sales in USA is still booming, people buy those to watch DVD "better"... which might not be true, IMHO
but the fact is, a higher resolution video source is definitely needed, currently HDTV programming is poor at best and I think a good pool of vidoe resource in HD should help both the HDTV market and HD-video market.
also this new disc should not cost too much, so my personal vote is for normal D9 DVD and high resolution with better compression, instead of any expensive blue-ray stuff. only critical mass rules.
c# is doing that now, well, java still cant do that smoothly. but IMHO, it's really convenient to do so, with the help of mouse, create the layout and everything, then double click or choose the events to handle, bang, you are done with the GUI part, now it's only the real handling for the content, instead of spending hours and hours to massage the GUI and the final lay out still doesnot look right.
I've had that pain with old MFC windows application and java application.
but back in the old days, I enjoyed the delphi so far, still look pascal, only if they didnot invent java or c# for the money's sake, pascal could have been the best thing since sliced bread.
well, that's just me, somebody even wanted to hire me as I had experience in delphi, some kind of rare case in USA, maybe. I settled for a job in c++, then java, now c#. I dont care too much about language, but a convenient IDE and good library classes does make a hell lot of difference.