With the current PC architecture, the CPU has to send data to the Physics card, read the data back, then finally send it down to the GPU. This would have to be done for things like character animation (ragdoll motion), particle systems for visual effects (bouncing off the scenery/characters). Ideally, you would want the Physics processor to have a direct path to the GPU. Then you could avoid two of these steps.
Thats assuming you run your main loop on either the GPU or physics card which doesnt seem like a sensible idea....but then i dont really have a clue about game programming.
That's a result of easy access to unaffordable credit which the middle class enjoys, the rationale is that the earning power of people in this group increases with time and therefore the credit risk is small even if the repayments are only just affordable (or unaffordable) in the short term.
Whereas the poor don't have such ready access to credit, often don't own porperty (with the associated mortgage), perhaps even living in state provided housing. If these people were to seel up they could well have a positive net worth.
Of course most people accept credit as a risk in order to improve their standard of living, and/or finance luxury items.
We have unbundlingin the UK now and what it results in is neither party taking ownership for faults resulting in horrendous customer service. We do have pretty cheap broadband though and a choice of which set of bangalore phone center cretins to argue futilely with as the wholeseller blames the isp and vice versa.
Ok well here's one for you there are 2 stories on the frontpage posted by soulskill with I dont beleive in imaginary property as the submitter. These are both linked to Iwouldn'tsteal.net . A quick whois revelas this is registered by Lasse Nilsson of Oderland Webbhotell AB. Make of that what you will.
Any mass information disemination is obviously a risk during national emergencies and there is no reason to beleive that if the press isn't controlled by the government then it is uncensored and uncontrolled. There are plenty of other organisations with huge media influence and their own agenda to push so you have to consider the view that its someone else's propaganda.
Treating the media as a risk isn't the same as taking away the freedoms of the media. The media and by extension the general public doesn't have a right or need to know intimate security details during a time of crisis. I dont see a problem with controlled release of information under the assumption that there is a long term transparency.
Absolutely spot on. Big businesses are *still* dealing with the fallout from when linux decided to break compatibility in glibc. SLES9 is still very much in support in many environments and uses the old example for instance, (and thus requires a separate build, quite annoying when you link to so many shared libraries).
What? why cant you get stereo (L+R) audio through USB? You know there is a whole plethora of USB audio interfaces right? they start at about £10 but the only bit of electronics you'd need in your dock would be the D/As which apple must use in their anyway.
why do western RPGS suck so bad on consoles? Seems like the eastern ones are real winners but theres always something missing in the translation to console for dice rolling style rpgs.
The PS1 did however pretty much kill SEGA turning the market into Nintendo v Sony, you may not recall but previously the master system, megadrive and mega CD were competitors to the NES and SNES respectively.
It managed to see off the dreamcast its 1.5th Generation competitor at a time when nintendo were only making money off pokemon. Sales of N64 were appalling. Further it managed to trade respectably against the xbox for a reasonable amount of time partly due to hype around the ps2.
Finally comparing the graphics quality of initial offering versus later offering you can see that the PS1 had quite a bit of potential and that developers really developed a skillset for that console.
Now arguably the NES was the breakthrough that got consoles into homes but the PS1 was far from uninfluential.
That said, between "We won't fix the browser because it'd break sites" and "We won't fix the pages because they work" I think the latter is easier to fix and new code would presumably be written to spec and work in all browsers.
I'd wager there is many orders of magnitude more lines of broken html on existing sites than there are in the source code of all the major vendors put together.
Besides Microsoft is doing exactly what the community wants in one respect in that they have an easy to enable standards compliance mode (assuming it is compliant of course). They have an obligation to their *customers* not to break existing intranet apps. The other major browsers to not, by and large, feel this pressure.
I'm so tired of people making such statements. You get ZERO new content for FREE. You pay a monthly subscription which funds new development, among other things. You PAID for the new content. It is not free!
The next, and qualifying, sentence was..
Compare this to something like old-school EverQuest where your money just kind of vanished and every single new addition was through a paid expansion pack.
That seems like a better than average value proposition in this field. Perhaps your anger actually stems from your difficulties with reading comprehension. You would feel more at home on digg.
Yes because its perfectly sensible for google to degrade the quality of its search in order support web developers constant bitching that IE isnt standards compliant.
Google should be ranking pages on content not presentation
Seems to me that is exactly what theyve done, only they have a designated place to take the trouble makers to.
From what ive read it doesnt seem like if you bring up controversial subjects in open debate, or write about them in essays youre suddenyl going to be lynched.
I don't get this it's so obviously more sensible to tax the fuel than the mileage because fuel consumption varies proportionally with mileage and also proportionally with engine size and efficiency.
OSS requires you to contribute changes to the licensed source code back to the collective good. Suggesting it is antiethical to DRM is incorrect (and certainly not insightful). This guy is celarly talking abaout applying DRM to managed documents. The resaon for this is so that enterprises can enforce policy, for example only managers can edit these files, it has to be approved twice before it can be moved onto a public facing site etc.
It's true that many people who are proponents of OSS are against DRM (either because the beleive a file they paid for should be theirs to decide how to use as they see fit, or because they just plain don't like paying for stuff) but in an enterprise the company owns all the documents anyway and actively chooses to restrict the rights on these files to certain employees. I think this is a perfectly reasonable idea and certainly doesn't conflict with the spirit or letter or any OSS licences with which I am familiar.
It (policy) is according to some people going to be the next big thing in enterprise computing so it would be good to have some OSS stack in this area. Typically for enterprise copmuting however projects are gifted into OSS by large vendors and since this whole policy management thing is relatively new it might be a few years before one of the big players contributes anything.
Perhaps this gives the submitter a perfect chance to gain a first mover advantage?
One big problem is that WOL is very difficult to get working on a corporate network (i beleive the magic packet has to be on the same class C network but that could just be anecdotal). Which means that if the office copmuters were to power down overnight i wouldnt be able to vpn onto the corporate net then ssh into a machine. Suddenly instead of a customer having a instant response when im on call they have to wait for me to get into the office. (and i have to shower get up in the middle of the night, go in etc).
Same deal if i want to work from home during the day, sure i can do a sandbox build over the network but it touches so many files that latency becomes a huge factor ramping up the time from about 20 mins to several hours. If i can ssh into my desktop i can do a build on the local network.
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Yuck ... HP-UX ... I feel for you!
Also no type on user so i predict it fails on line 1 rather than line 4.
Thats assuming you run your main loop on either the GPU or physics card which doesnt seem like a sensible idea....but then i dont really have a clue about game programming.
+1 ???/profit meme
+1 car analogy
+1 MS bashing
Great post!
That's a result of easy access to unaffordable credit which the middle class enjoys, the rationale is that the earning power of people in this group increases with time and therefore the credit risk is small even if the repayments are only just affordable (or unaffordable) in the short term.
Whereas the poor don't have such ready access to credit, often don't own porperty (with the associated mortgage), perhaps even living in state provided housing. If these people were to seel up they could well have a positive net worth.
Of course most people accept credit as a risk in order to improve their standard of living, and/or finance luxury items.
We have unbundlingin the UK now and what it results in is neither party taking ownership for faults resulting in horrendous customer service. We do have pretty cheap broadband though and a choice of which set of bangalore phone center cretins to argue futilely with as the wholeseller blames the isp and vice versa.
Ok well here's one for you there are 2 stories on the frontpage posted by soulskill with I dont beleive in imaginary property as the submitter. These are both linked to Iwouldn'tsteal.net . A quick whois revelas this is registered by Lasse Nilsson of Oderland Webbhotell AB. Make of that what you will.
Any mass information disemination is obviously a risk during national emergencies and there is no reason to beleive that if the press isn't controlled by the government then it is uncensored and uncontrolled. There are plenty of other organisations with huge media influence and their own agenda to push so you have to consider the view that its someone else's propaganda.
Treating the media as a risk isn't the same as taking away the freedoms of the media. The media and by extension the general public doesn't have a right or need to know intimate security details during a time of crisis. I dont see a problem with controlled release of information under the assumption that there is a long term transparency.
So they just sat around and fwd'ed email between each other? You could set up a perl script to do this. Hell the Bcc list would do.
I think its a bit of a stretch to call this a cyber storm wargame.
So americans aren't allowed to use one either, because the rest of the world knows that the correct spelling of "soccer" begins with an f.
Absolutely spot on. Big businesses are *still* dealing with the fallout from when linux decided to break compatibility in glibc. SLES9 is still very much in support in many environments and uses the old example for instance, (and thus requires a separate build, quite annoying when you link to so many shared libraries).
What? why cant you get stereo (L+R) audio through USB? You know there is a whole plethora of USB audio interfaces right? they start at about £10 but the only bit of electronics you'd need in your dock would be the D/As which apple must use in their anyway.
You forgot the quarterly self certification emails sent to all staff to ensure that they are up to date with any changes in bus avoidance guidelines.
why do western RPGS suck so bad on consoles? Seems like the eastern ones are real winners but theres always something missing in the translation to console for dice rolling style rpgs.
The PS1 did however pretty much kill SEGA turning the market into Nintendo v Sony, you may not recall but previously the master system, megadrive and mega CD were competitors to the NES and SNES respectively.
It managed to see off the dreamcast its 1.5th Generation competitor at a time when nintendo were only making money off pokemon. Sales of N64 were appalling. Further it managed to trade respectably against the xbox for a reasonable amount of time partly due to hype around the ps2.
Finally comparing the graphics quality of initial offering versus later offering you can see that the PS1 had quite a bit of potential and that developers really developed a skillset for that console.
Now arguably the NES was the breakthrough that got consoles into homes but the PS1 was far from uninfluential.
Not yet....but good point.....im off to patent a lock which beeps if you leave your keys in it for longer than a preset time interval.
I disagree
I have yet to find any posts at all supporting the statement "The white foreboding galosh on the table is full of jelly."
You are therefore clearly engaging in logical fallacy.
I'd wager there is many orders of magnitude more lines of broken html on existing sites than there are in the source code of all the major vendors put together.
Besides Microsoft is doing exactly what the community wants in one respect in that they have an easy to enable standards compliance mode (assuming it is compliant of course). They have an obligation to their *customers* not to break existing intranet apps. The other major browsers to not, by and large, feel this pressure.
Actually that is a very good point, Sun doesnt make much out of a LAMP stack but perhaps theyre aiming at pushing a solaris-tomcat-java-mysql stack
The next, and qualifying, sentence was
That seems like a better than average value proposition in this field. Perhaps your anger actually stems from your difficulties with reading comprehension. You would feel more at home on digg.
Yes because its perfectly sensible for google to degrade the quality of its search in order support web developers constant bitching that IE isnt standards compliant.
Google should be ranking pages on content not presentation
Seems to me that is exactly what theyve done, only they have a designated place to take the trouble makers to.
From what ive read it doesnt seem like if you bring up controversial subjects in open debate, or write about them in essays youre suddenyl going to be lynched.
I don't get this it's so obviously more sensible to tax the fuel than the mileage because fuel consumption varies proportionally with mileage and also proportionally with engine size and efficiency.
OSS requires you to contribute changes to the licensed source code back to the collective good. Suggesting it is antiethical to DRM is incorrect (and certainly not insightful). This guy is celarly talking abaout applying DRM to managed documents. The resaon for this is so that enterprises can enforce policy, for example only managers can edit these files, it has to be approved twice before it can be moved onto a public facing site etc.
It's true that many people who are proponents of OSS are against DRM (either because the beleive a file they paid for should be theirs to decide how to use as they see fit, or because they just plain don't like paying for stuff) but in an enterprise the company owns all the documents anyway and actively chooses to restrict the rights on these files to certain employees. I think this is a perfectly reasonable idea and certainly doesn't conflict with the spirit or letter or any OSS licences with which I am familiar.
It (policy) is according to some people going to be the next big thing in enterprise computing so it would be good to have some OSS stack in this area. Typically for enterprise copmuting however projects are gifted into OSS by large vendors and since this whole policy management thing is relatively new it might be a few years before one of the big players contributes anything.
Perhaps this gives the submitter a perfect chance to gain a first mover advantage?
One big problem is that WOL is very difficult to get working on a corporate network (i beleive the magic packet has to be on the same class C network but that could just be anecdotal). Which means that if the office copmuters were to power down overnight i wouldnt be able to vpn onto the corporate net then ssh into a machine. Suddenly instead of a customer having a instant response when im on call they have to wait for me to get into the office. (and i have to shower get up in the middle of the night, go in etc). Same deal if i want to work from home during the day, sure i can do a sandbox build over the network but it touches so many files that latency becomes a huge factor ramping up the time from about 20 mins to several hours. If i can ssh into my desktop i can do a build on the local network.