Actually one of ATi's lead developer's explained that they are simply taking advantage of some of the properties of the new memory controller in the X1000 series. They have optimizations (I would guess) specific to some types of memory calls, and it seems that they just now had time to perfect them in driver. As I understand it, you won't see these performance gains with older Radeons.
Where are my mod points. It pains me to see the parent post sitting there as "Interesting" when the simple explanation is right underneath it, unmodded.
Or the fact that good quality video encoding still takes many hours and leaves your desktop near-unusable in the process. Or Photoshopping, that can always use a horsepower boost. With the prevailance of high-power computing, tasks that were once reserved for server-farms can be done on my desktop. For example, my mechanical engineering friends are running CAD software on their laptops. And I would've never thought about making xvid backups of all my dvds on a 500mhz processor. You can stay far away from gaming and still come up with plenty of programs that can use lightening-fast CPUs.
I ultimately have the choice of what to buy. The format who's specification makes it easiest for me to backup and encode the content it contains is going to get my dough. Moreover, if I can't put a DVD in all it's players and watch the ~60 movies I already own, I won't consider it for quite some time.
It's not that people are stupid. Everyone around here likes to use this excuse to seperate themselves from the masses. Americans are not stupid. They are simply uninformed. There is a huge difference there.
This is the reason we have elected officials. Not every American can research and be informed of everything that is needed to run a country. Select a smaller portion of the country to do this full-time and then you can have one body making which both invokes national laws and policies on trade, for example. It would take a huge time commitment for the average working citizen to make good decisions on the variety of topics our government deals with.
The problem with all-in-one push one button to encode type applications is that they usually result in horrible quality videos. Encoding video is a very, VERY delicate process to result in a good looking video. Forget bit rate issues, you can have a 2mbps video that looks crappy because of issues with interlacing, telecining, rainbowing, blended field effects, color fields, etc, etc. There's just no way to build an all-in-one app to do video encoding properly.
Well, I'm sure we'll find out right here. I am fairly certain the intersection of the set of people who run Linux and the set of people who want watch this video is a subset of the people who post at Slashdot. Just a little set theory to brighten an otherwise gloomy Friday night for those unfortunate Linux users.
While I agree with the majority of your comments (which are much more reasonable than both sides of argument I've seen about the movie), I do take issue with your strict definition of entertainment. This is a common theme among Slashdot posters, that you think it takes a seriously spiritual and intellectual script to make a good movie. I don't think this is necessarily true. While it can help a movie to be as ambitious as Bladerunner, it does not mean that another movie which does not preach the same level of values is to be written off so easily. You, and others like you, may seek intellectual persuits in every facet of your life; but some, like myself, enjoy forms of entertainment that don't require deep textual analysis.
Serenity and Bladerunner are both great movies, but I don't think they reach the same goals as to be ranked on just one scale.
I had never really thought about it before, but the idea of a think tank being paid by a company or industry wishing to know or explore something seems a bit flawed. In order to stay in business this think tank isn't going to say their client is wrong in their thinking. If this group told the RIAA "Your method of expanding your business is ass-backwards. Here is a better way." they would never find work again. Can you really trust the "impartial" finding of a think tank?
In that light, it doesn't surprise me to see their mission statement, or whatever it is you quoted. No doubt, your comments are spot-on.
Buy an X850XT. It's just about as fast as the fastest cards out in most cases, plus it should see a bit of a price drop into the $300 territory in the next few months. If you are so interested in dropping $500 for the latest video card, maybe a $75 PCIE motherboard wouldn't be too much for you to consider.
See those ads all over the place? The sites authors don't display those out of charity, you know. Hardware review sites get a lot of traffic, thus, many ad-links. Also they very frequently keep review kits. For free? No. Impartial? Is that really possible in any field?
...who incidentally isn't producing AGP versions of their cards either. The way it stands, ATI has the fastest (and highest number of) AGP cards to offer.
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Can't believe no one posted this yet.
And Joe Smoe. That show rocked!
Well, it has achieved something throughout its "lifetime" not many other games have.
Actually one of ATi's lead developer's explained that they are simply taking advantage of some of the properties of the new memory controller in the X1000 series. They have optimizations (I would guess) specific to some types of memory calls, and it seems that they just now had time to perfect them in driver. As I understand it, you won't see these performance gains with older Radeons.
Where are my mod points. It pains me to see the parent post sitting there as "Interesting" when the simple explanation is right underneath it, unmodded.
Perhaps it wasn't mentioned becasue AMD has cut it from their lineup. See the current offical lineup here.
Or the fact that good quality video encoding still takes many hours and leaves your desktop near-unusable in the process. Or Photoshopping, that can always use a horsepower boost. With the prevailance of high-power computing, tasks that were once reserved for server-farms can be done on my desktop. For example, my mechanical engineering friends are running CAD software on their laptops. And I would've never thought about making xvid backups of all my dvds on a 500mhz processor. You can stay far away from gaming and still come up with plenty of programs that can use lightening-fast CPUs.
Isn't this the sad truth. It's really disheartening to see the patent sytem working against it's intended purpose in this way.
It's ok. It's hard to create a new buzzword these days. Acronymns are old news. For example, which sounds better: PIN or Perdenum? I rest my case.
Why not come up with something like "H-Fizzle to DV-doubleDizzle". That'll make it waaaaaaaaay cooler!
I ultimately have the choice of what to buy. The format who's specification makes it easiest for me to backup and encode the content it contains is going to get my dough. Moreover, if I can't put a DVD in all it's players and watch the ~60 movies I already own, I won't consider it for quite some time.
This is the reason we have elected officials. Not every American can research and be informed of everything that is needed to run a country. Select a smaller portion of the country to do this full-time and then you can have one body making which both invokes national laws and policies on trade, for example. It would take a huge time commitment for the average working citizen to make good decisions on the variety of topics our government deals with.
The problem with all-in-one push one button to encode type applications is that they usually result in horrible quality videos. Encoding video is a very, VERY delicate process to result in a good looking video. Forget bit rate issues, you can have a 2mbps video that looks crappy because of issues with interlacing, telecining, rainbowing, blended field effects, color fields, etc, etc. There's just no way to build an all-in-one app to do video encoding properly.
Well, I'm sure we'll find out right here. I am fairly certain the intersection of the set of people who run Linux and the set of people who want watch this video is a subset of the people who post at Slashdot. Just a little set theory to brighten an otherwise gloomy Friday night for those unfortunate Linux users.
Serenity and Bladerunner are both great movies, but I don't think they reach the same goals as to be ranked on just one scale.
In that light, it doesn't surprise me to see their mission statement, or whatever it is you quoted. No doubt, your comments are spot-on.
Funny stuff, but remember Google brings up page results. This survey counts entire sites (ie, multiple pages per site).
I've been waiting for the upgraded version of my pet rock. "Pet Brick, now with buttons!".
Of the 17.5 million new sites, 17.3 million are blogs about the sad life of a suburban middle-class teenager.
"Slashdot, Speculation For Nerds."
Stuff that might matter.
Buy an X850XT. It's just about as fast as the fastest cards out in most cases, plus it should see a bit of a price drop into the $300 territory in the next few months. If you are so interested in dropping $500 for the latest video card, maybe a $75 PCIE motherboard wouldn't be too much for you to consider.
See those ads all over the place? The sites authors don't display those out of charity, you know. Hardware review sites get a lot of traffic, thus, many ad-links. Also they very frequently keep review kits. For free? No. Impartial? Is that really possible in any field?
...who incidentally isn't producing AGP versions of their cards either. The way it stands, ATI has the fastest (and highest number of) AGP cards to offer.
What are you linux folk doing that requires these over-engineered graphics cards?