Somehow Internet has made people to forget that creating quality content costs money. Often a lot of money. Often with these kind of things I'm really surprised at how dumb nerdy people can be too. You know, us who should know better and not be those stupid sheeps who are happy have a "mindless" job and then watch tv for rest of the evening and still enjoy it, even if theres no mentally requiring tasks involved.
Question... Since you mentioned TV....
Should I be forced to not be able to change the channel or get up from my seat when a commercial is on?
Not that I mind entertaining commercials, but I'm kind of tired of watching those Sunsetter Retractable Awnings for the 50th time or am I stealing money from Adult Swim when I go use the bathroom.
Before they were self publishing, their publisher required them to have DRM in the store release, but the lead Dev patched it out in an official patch a few months later.
Now they self-publish and host Gamersgate, which beyond the download check, the game itself is completely copyable without any DRM whatsover.
Does that mean people pirate their games? Yes, they do, but players like myself have basically spent hundreds of dollars on their games because:
1. They have no DRM 2. The developers are active with speaking directly with users on the forums 3. They have open beta patches with registered users to test bug fixes with the gaming community rather than throwing stuff out there.
Yes, being a successful gaming company can be done without DRM.
Just FYI. If you go with Windows Vista, it tends to not be as friendly when letting say when and where it applies the updates.
I had often found it would attempt to reboot the computer which when playing a full screen game, would not show the automatic warning where you could hit cancel.
But there is a way modify the registry so it would not reboot automatically without your intervention.
Wouldn't this be similar to 'offering a function alreday available' a la iTunes movie rentals? While it would stream where the iTunes won't, it still will directly compete against Apple's iTune movie rentals.
What we need is power efficient processors that have enough processing capacity to do what we need and nothing more. Unless you are a Gamer or doing some serious GPGPU calculations in CUDA or OpenCL what on earth is the need to have a graphics card like the Nvidia GeForce GT 340 with around 380 GFLOPs of floating point processing. It's ridiculous.
But you are missing a major issue. Gaming is a lot more prevassive than it was even 5 years ago.
Until your Xbox or Playstation can render graphics that are indistinguishable from real life, then the demand for better graphics cards and cpus will increase.
And that's why the US can not "win" this war. The reason Japan surrendered is not that the allies were defeating their armies down to the very last man, but because we were firebombing and nuking entire cities. When the suffering became too great, the persons in charge knew the war had to end.
That is kind of an American bias, and I say that because a few days before the last a-bomb was dropped on Japan the Soviets invaded Manchuria and wiped out the Japanese 3 million man army basically overnight.
The Japanese had lost more men and material to the Tokyo firebombings anyways and could most likely weather a few more a-bomb strikes but the fact they lost their standing army with little effort most likely made them consider that they should use the bombings as a pre-text to surrender to the Americans before the Soviets got involved.
At the most fundamental level, war is still human beings killing other human beings...usually human beings who've never met. One of the damping feed-backs in the war loop is the ugliness and brutality of it.
This is a lie repeated over and over again.
Had your statement been true. WWI would have ended in 6 months.
And the Germans and Soviets would have called it a true in 1942 at Stalingrad.
Truth is... Humans can be made to murder each other under the worst possible circumstances possible.
I remember reading a few German, Russian, and American soldier memoirs and the explicitly state that after about a year on the front line, you stop thinking about the dead bodies or who you are killing after a while.
Truth is humans can be a lot worse than machines when it comes to reprisal murders. Germans did it. Russians did it. Americans did it. (in vietnam a lot. Thats where the term Frag came from when a friendly soldier went beserk and threw a grenade at his own troops or civilians)
Take the soldier out of the battlefield and he'll be less likely to murder someone at random simply because he has stress issues.
i call bullshit. you've never even used vista if your claiming it nags you to run word everytime.
I actually don't doubt him but its because I have a suspicion that he has some version of Adobe Acrobat installed. Not really directly MS's fault but still problematic.
Well if they pay bottom dollar and and only hire the cheapest most underpaid flunky they can get to save a few buck, and they get pwned, I should care....why exactly?
The internet is one good way of connecting with people but still being secluded and feeling empty. I mean, being "friended" on facebook, a number tons of people promote, ends up being a good illustration on the tons of superficial relationships typical of online life -- making depression even worse. (To be sure, there are sites that facilitate sociality like meetup groups and dating sites...)
I disagree. I've been more social in person ever since Facebook. Mostly because I get invited to random things and see events that happen in the local area and friends I haven't seen in ages will send me a message asking if I want to hang out.
These students don't actually know English, Shakespeare did, the comparison is false.
I don't know. At the time of Shakespeare, there really wasn't an exact set of English grammatical rule books.
Or that many books that were in the English vernacular in a sense compared to today (books were rare and almost worth their weight in silver and even then they were usually in Latin or French) in so much that Shakespeare could take quite a liberty in "making up words".
In that regards, he was a master and would have made any modern day grammar nazi cringe.
The menus for an application over-write the menus for the OS. Other than the Apple menu at the end, you either have the applications menus or the systems menus. On Windows, KDE and Gnome the applications menus are tied to the window, so not only can you use both system and application menus, but the menus are also visually tied to the application, giving a more obvious link to application functions
That was intentional and if you think about it logically, then it makes sense.
The file menu is always in the same place no matter what or where your window is. So you almost can memorize the location of the menu rather than looking for it. So no matter where you moved the window (especially if you have dual monitors), the file menu is always in the same exact place.
Another thing to worry about is that in 10+ years we will have a whole generation of games (not just MMOs) that will no longer be able to be played on emulators, etc. because the networks they connect with will be gone.
Have you gone back and tried playing a lot of your 10 year old games?
No seriously... Everytime I install and play an old game I become sorely disappointed and scratch my head wondering what happened to this game that I had so many fond memories of.
I mean, I kind of agree with you, many people shouldn't be driving and we pay a 55,000 person a year toll in deaths from accidents. But what's the alternative?
Solution: Ignore the phone while driving and call back when at your destination.
I used to work for a company where management would get hostile if they had to leave a voice mail , but then again they also would fire people for not driving in the snow to work at the risk of life and limb.
Did I mention they have really good lawyers to fight employee retaliation and love fight unemployment benefits?
Then again... I suppose there is a reason I don't work for them anymore.
Because terrorists that hide behind civilians and refuse to obey the laws of war aren't entitled to the same treatment as soldiers who fight under a flag and officers?
Wrong. Nazi officers were tried and executed for war crimes of killing non-uniformed French and Soviet partisans and civilians for reprisal killings.
Of course it was more or less Germans just rounding up anyone who they thought my be a non-uniformed resistance fighter and shot them on the spot, but it was a still a sticking point.
Can someone elaborate on why you'd want 48 full processors, rather than a processor with two (dual) or four (quad) "cores" (I'm presuming core in this case == FPU in the article). Supposedly Win7's SMP support becomes much more effective at the 12-16 core thresehold.
The first thought comes to mind if video processing and CGI animations because those applications are embarrassingly parallel.
And those companies usually have the money to spend on top of the line hardware.
Eventually this will trickle down to consumer level as always and people at home can now do real time movie quality CGI on their home computers in 10 years.
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It will improve gaming performance if you happened to be running something like Quakes Wars in ray tracing.
Intel put together a demo on a workstation system with two Nehalem quad-core CPUs getting about 15 - 20 fps.
Since ray tracing is embarrassingly parallel, all one needs to do to improve performance is to throw more cores at it.
Keep in mind ray tracing is much more cpu intensive than gpu intensive...
Somehow Internet has made people to forget that creating quality content costs money. Often a lot of money. Often with these kind of things I'm really surprised at how dumb nerdy people can be too. You know, us who should know better and not be those stupid sheeps who are happy have a "mindless" job and then watch tv for rest of the evening and still enjoy it, even if theres no mentally requiring tasks involved.
Question... Since you mentioned TV....
Should I be forced to not be able to change the channel or get up from my seat when a commercial is on?
Not that I mind entertaining commercials, but I'm kind of tired of watching those Sunsetter Retractable Awnings for the 50th time or am I stealing money from Adult Swim when I go use the bathroom.
BULL SHIT
I say this because I know one company who sells tons of games and they use no DRM:
Paradox Interactive
Before they were self publishing, their publisher required them to have DRM in the store release, but the lead Dev patched it out in an official patch a few months later.
Now they self-publish and host Gamersgate, which beyond the download check, the game itself is completely copyable without any DRM whatsover.
Does that mean people pirate their games? Yes, they do, but players like myself have basically spent hundreds of dollars on their games because:
1. They have no DRM
2. The developers are active with speaking directly with users on the forums
3. They have open beta patches with registered users to test bug fixes with the gaming community rather than throwing stuff out there.
Yes, being a successful gaming company can be done without DRM.
In other words, we're boned either way.
No. It means stop buying or pirating their shit til they are out of business.
IMO pirating a game garners some amount of game attention to a company (word of mouth sales) than just not buying it.
Then save spend your money on game companies that actually don't use DRM. They are a good deal out there.
Just FYI. If you go with Windows Vista, it tends to not be as friendly when letting say when and where it applies the updates.
I had often found it would attempt to reboot the computer which when playing a full screen game, would not show the automatic warning where you could hit cancel.
But there is a way modify the registry so it would not reboot automatically without your intervention.
Wouldn't this be similar to 'offering a function alreday available' a la iTunes movie rentals? While it would stream where the iTunes won't, it still will directly compete against Apple's iTune movie rentals.
Depends...
On how much Netflix slips Apple under the table.
Is the drink mentioned in the article available for purchase or is there equipment that you can use to oxygenate your own liquor?
What we need is power efficient processors that have enough processing capacity to do what we need and nothing more. Unless you are a Gamer or doing some serious GPGPU calculations in CUDA or OpenCL what on earth is the need to have a graphics card like the Nvidia GeForce GT 340 with around 380 GFLOPs of floating point processing. It's ridiculous.
But you are missing a major issue. Gaming is a lot more prevassive than it was even 5 years ago.
Until your Xbox or Playstation can render graphics that are indistinguishable from real life, then the demand for better graphics cards and cpus will increase.
Old fogies who say 640K is enough be damned...
Wouldn't it just be easier to rent a truck or strap explosives on your chest?
These articles are acting like terrorists are jumping at the chance to use drones, yet they don't seem to be using the old fashioned methods?
Why?
Because there aren't any terrorists around that want to blow stuff up on a daily basis.
And that's why the US can not "win" this war. The reason Japan surrendered is not that the allies were defeating their armies down to the very last man, but because we were firebombing and nuking entire cities. When the suffering became too great, the persons in charge knew the war had to end.
That is kind of an American bias, and I say that because a few days before the last a-bomb was dropped on Japan the Soviets invaded Manchuria and wiped out the Japanese 3 million man army basically overnight.
The Japanese had lost more men and material to the Tokyo firebombings anyways and could most likely weather a few more a-bomb strikes but the fact they lost their standing army with little effort most likely made them consider that they should use the bombings as a pre-text to surrender to the Americans before the Soviets got involved.
To be fair during the revolutionar period they did hi jack a plane, but the tactics and ethics were different.
At the most fundamental level, war is still human beings killing other human beings...usually human beings who've never met. One of the damping feed-backs in the war loop is the ugliness and brutality of it.
This is a lie repeated over and over again.
Had your statement been true. WWI would have ended in 6 months.
And the Germans and Soviets would have called it a true in 1942 at Stalingrad.
Truth is... Humans can be made to murder each other under the worst possible circumstances possible.
I remember reading a few German, Russian, and American soldier memoirs and the explicitly state that after about a year on the front line, you stop thinking about the dead bodies or who you are killing after a while.
Truth is humans can be a lot worse than machines when it comes to reprisal murders. Germans did it. Russians did it. Americans did it. (in vietnam a lot. Thats where the term Frag came from when a friendly soldier went beserk and threw a grenade at his own troops or civilians)
Take the soldier out of the battlefield and he'll be less likely to murder someone at random simply because he has stress issues.
i call bullshit. you've never even used vista if your claiming it nags you to run word everytime.
I actually don't doubt him but its because I have a suspicion that he has some version of Adobe Acrobat installed. Not really directly MS's fault but still problematic.
Well if they pay bottom dollar and and only hire the cheapest most underpaid flunky they can get to save a few buck, and they get pwned, I should care....why exactly?
Because those pwned computer send you spam.
Note:
When something is sold as "infinite" or "forever" it doesn't actually have to meet its claims.
It just has to last longer than the person who paid for it.
The person who inherits its will think its quaint and let their kids break it.
The internet is one good way of connecting with people but still being secluded and feeling empty. I mean, being "friended" on facebook, a number tons of people promote, ends up being a good illustration on the tons of superficial relationships typical of online life -- making depression even worse. (To be sure, there are sites that facilitate sociality like meetup groups and dating sites...)
I disagree. I've been more social in person ever since Facebook. Mostly because I get invited to random things and see events that happen in the local area and friends I haven't seen in ages will send me a message asking if I want to hang out.
These students don't actually know English, Shakespeare did, the comparison is false.
I don't know. At the time of Shakespeare, there really wasn't an exact set of English grammatical rule books.
Or that many books that were in the English vernacular in a sense compared to today (books were rare and almost worth their weight in silver and even then they were usually in Latin or French) in so much that Shakespeare could take quite a liberty in "making up words".
In that regards, he was a master and would have made any modern day grammar nazi cringe.
The menus for an application over-write the menus for the OS. Other than the Apple menu at the end, you either have the applications menus or the systems menus. On Windows, KDE and Gnome the applications menus are tied to the window, so not only can you use both system and application menus, but the menus are also visually tied to the application, giving a more obvious link to application functions
That was intentional and if you think about it logically, then it makes sense.
The file menu is always in the same place no matter what or where your window is. So you almost can memorize the location of the menu rather than looking for it. So no matter where you moved the window (especially if you have dual monitors), the file menu is always in the same exact place.
A population of old people supported by a few young workers isn't going to be particularly viable either. It's a balancing act.
Japan isn't doing that bad. In fact, they are a prime example of why a shrinking under-population is better than an growing over-population.
Another thing to worry about is that in 10+ years we will have a whole generation of games (not just MMOs) that will no longer be able to be played on emulators, etc. because the networks they connect with will be gone.
Have you gone back and tried playing a lot of your 10 year old games?
No seriously... Everytime I install and play an old game I become sorely disappointed and scratch my head wondering what happened to this game that I had so many fond memories of.
Nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be.
I mean, I kind of agree with you, many people shouldn't be driving and we pay a 55,000 person a year toll in deaths from accidents. But what's the alternative?
Automated cars like Stanley.
Solution: Ignore the phone while driving and call back when at your destination.
I used to work for a company where management would get hostile if they had to leave a voice mail , but then again they also would fire people for not driving in the snow to work at the risk of life and limb.
Did I mention they have really good lawyers to fight employee retaliation and love fight unemployment benefits?
Then again... I suppose there is a reason I don't work for them anymore.
Because terrorists that hide behind civilians and refuse to obey the laws of war aren't entitled to the same treatment as soldiers who fight under a flag and officers?
Wrong. Nazi officers were tried and executed for war crimes of killing non-uniformed French and Soviet partisans and civilians for reprisal killings.
Of course it was more or less Germans just rounding up anyone who they thought my be a non-uniformed resistance fighter and shot them on the spot, but it was a still a sticking point.
Can someone elaborate on why you'd want 48 full processors, rather than a processor with two (dual) or four (quad) "cores" (I'm presuming core in this case == FPU in the article). Supposedly Win7's SMP support becomes much more effective at the 12-16 core thresehold.
The first thought comes to mind if video processing and CGI animations because those applications are embarrassingly parallel.
And those companies usually have the money to spend on top of the line hardware.
Eventually this will trickle down to consumer level as always and people at home can now do real time movie quality CGI on their home computers in 10 years.
Any OS is susceptible to malware
Yes, but the question is "by default"?
Take the default OS for the iPhone. It is basically impossible to get malware on there.
A jailbroken iPhone on the other hand... Well... Thats not Apple's fault.