BTW, more FLOPs is better. Not my fault coders don't know how to optimize for shit now days, both on the software and hardware sides.
If the 360 was so superior, why couldn't it ever really do games in full 1080p and had to resort to upscaling for most of them from half of the resolution?
Pal, I've written RAW ASM for both GPUs seeing whether or not they would be useful in running some of the embarrassingly parallel computations my research facility would use in every-day tasks.
"There's been some interesting results over at Valve lately with OGL on Linux performing better than D3D on Windows"
Again, D3D is HEAVILY CPU bound. Always has been since DX5.
My favorite example - Unreal Tournament '99. D3D required a 233MHz machine and a video card with 8MB VRAM minimum. Go to OpenGL or 3Dfx GLide, and you went down to 133MHz and a 4MB video card minimum, and it ran without issues, even under 32MB of RAM, and it looked THE EXACT SAME.
UT2K3/4 - same issue. Little hack to enable OpenGL renderer, you suddenly had way more FPS than D3D9 would ever provide on the same hardware.
"Playing devils advocate... For the same reason the court seemed to side with Sony about being able to remove features (e.g. Linux support), why wouldn't they also be allowed to remove other features (e.g. all of them), by bricking the whole thing, especially if it's out of warranty."
Because that would be intentional destruction of property and the lawsuit would destroy Sony in every country. It would be a lawsuit very much like what I went through with EA, except criminal charges would most definitely be filed.
"Which is exactly why any geek worth his or her salt would blow away that factory firmware and install 3rd party firmware that allows you to reach higher up into the channels that normally aren't used (at least in the US)."
Going to those frequencies in the router won't do jack shit for you if the transceiver in your wireless device can't use those frequencies.
So, if you run Windows or OSX, you're pretty much fucked.
For the HP DV7 (if you bought the version with the expansion dock on the bottom, hard to get as only one model carried it and that was a EU model I had to get shipped to USA.) It is a 12 cell extended battery that plugs right into the expansion port, for a total of 9+12=21 cell Li-Ion.
My three year old laptop outperforms this thing, has higher resolution, weighs about half a pound more, and I don't have to worry about needing internet connectivity to access EVERYTHING (since this thing comes with horrendously shitty local storage space.)
Weak, lame. No thanks.
Google has zero clue how to design much of anything. Failure after failure shows this.
Usually, no, they don't. If there's a chance of immune system compromise, they'll get transcutaneous external cardiac pacing, not an internal pacemaker.
*sigh* But you people keep on thinking you know anything about the medical industry. It's not like I haven't had half of my skeleton replaced with metal, my heart jumpstarted several times, and other fun shit in 30 years of life and the risks that come with it.
" The fatality comes when its realized that GPU's arent trying to do non-parallel calculations efficiently, and arent used for that purpose."
Want to know how I know you know nothing about CUDA or OpenCL?
"You seem to be missing the part where market forces are defining the physical architecture"
No, laws of physics are defining the architecture. Are you still in elementary school?
"and the physical architecture defines the available power envelope"
Nope again. That would be the efficiency of the comprising transistors and the ability to eliminate heat from the system which defines the available power envelope.
You come back when you've actually designed and fabricated semiconductor ICs and processors and LED Substrates, okay furry boi? Until you've done that, you can't hold a candle to me.
A quick check of your comment and submission history also shows that the majority of your comments/submissions are over-rated, binspam, stupid, and offtopic.
Try fixing that, and while you're at it, broaden your middle-school knowledge of electronics.
"Direct connection is a BAD idea. How do you propose to do that? Anything that penetrates the skin, particularly with a direct cardiac connection is a huge infection vector. And yes, I used to work for a class III medical device manufacturer."
Then maybe you need to go work for a body piercer, who has more than enough experience installing hardware into people without so much risk of infection.
Pretty sad a piercer would have more experience than someone that supposedly worked for a medical device manufacturer.
"GPU's are already far more energy efficient than CPU's, and thats using the term correctly. "
Wrong, because GPUs and CPUs are entirely different beasts. A CPU can stomp a GPU in non-parallel calculations. So much for your supposedly correct energy efficiency.
"In the real world, the computational capacity is limited by a desired power consumption."
Wrong again. Physical architecture plays more of a role than power consumption.
"There is no limit to desired computational capacity."
That statement violates thermodynamics.
"Laws which artificially restrict power consumption beyond market forces are laws which artificially restrict your access to computation."
You mean like the thermodynamics you so blatantly and stupidly ignore?
Oh, BTW, I work in the semiconductor field. Every word you've said is dead wrong and the mods that modded you doubly so.
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Almost every PS3 game I have is native 1080p, all the way up to Mortal Kombat.
Man you're a stupid one. Very likely under the age of 20 given the sheer lack of knowledge you possess, which is evident in your comment history.
"You wrote code for the 7800 and the X1800."
Considering neither supported CUDA or OpenCL (wasn't out at the time) You're pretty stupid in assuming so.
Try again when you know what architectures actually support what and when, child.
BTW, more FLOPs is better. Not my fault coders don't know how to optimize for shit now days, both on the software and hardware sides.
If the 360 was so superior, why couldn't it ever really do games in full 1080p and had to resort to upscaling for most of them from half of the resolution?
Pal, I've written RAW ASM for both GPUs seeing whether or not they would be useful in running some of the embarrassingly parallel computations my research facility would use in every-day tasks.
nVidia won.
Try again when you do this globally!
"There's been some interesting results over at Valve lately with OGL on Linux performing better than D3D on Windows"
Again, D3D is HEAVILY CPU bound. Always has been since DX5.
My favorite example - Unreal Tournament '99. D3D required a 233MHz machine and a video card with 8MB VRAM minimum. Go to OpenGL or 3Dfx GLide, and you went down to 133MHz and a 4MB video card minimum, and it ran without issues, even under 32MB of RAM, and it looked THE EXACT SAME.
UT2K3/4 - same issue. Little hack to enable OpenGL renderer, you suddenly had way more FPS than D3D9 would ever provide on the same hardware.
PS3 was a 7800 GeForce modified and had 256 MB dedicated memory.
360 was a shitty modified ATi X1800, with a shit 10MB dedicated RAM and had to share memory with the system.
Have you ever worked directly with the chips? That's what I thought. the 7800 kills the X1800.
Hi, I'm deep in the semiconductor industry.
AOL already implemented this with rate-limiting certain actions on AIM, and beefed it up even further with the warning system.
"Playing devils advocate... For the same reason the court seemed to side with Sony about being able to remove features (e.g. Linux support), why wouldn't they also be allowed to remove other features (e.g. all of them), by bricking the whole thing, especially if it's out of warranty."
Because that would be intentional destruction of property and the lawsuit would destroy Sony in every country. It would be a lawsuit very much like what I went through with EA, except criminal charges would most definitely be filed.
"The PS3 was not hacker-friendly or technologically superior"
Oh, but it was technologically superior. Hacker-friendly, no.
2 TFLOPS vs 360's 1 TFLOP.
Superior GPU.
"That's the beauty of OpenGL, you spend less time on silly things but DirectX is still more powerful"
Bullshit. DX is nowhere as extensible as OGL, and is bound mostly by by CPU whereas OGL is bound mostly by GPU.
"Which is exactly why any geek worth his or her salt would blow away that factory firmware and install 3rd party firmware that allows you to reach higher up into the channels that normally aren't used (at least in the US)."
Going to those frequencies in the router won't do jack shit for you if the transceiver in your wireless device can't use those frequencies.
So, if you run Windows or OSX, you're pretty much fucked.
Worse. Far worse. I have a severely compromised immune system due to immunosuppressants keeping my body from rejecting medical skeletal implants.
GeoIP location is absolute shit. I live in Riverside California, GeoIP says I'm in Nevada.
For the HP DV7 (if you bought the version with the expansion dock on the bottom, hard to get as only one model carried it and that was a EU model I had to get shipped to USA.) It is a 12 cell extended battery that plugs right into the expansion port, for a total of 9+12=21 cell Li-Ion.
"His "custom" battery most likely includes Li-ion cells from ebay and duct tape"
You must not have those nice notebooks with the bottom dock that allows for both power expansion plus workstation connectivity.
Do you even know those have existed for well over a decade?
Knowing AOL's prior shit security (Coach Account Access, anyone?) how long until this shit gets cracked and emails get stolen?
More like 9 hours since half of the weight is a custom battery, and it covers the bottom of the laptop in its entirety.
Anyone stupid enough to risk the security of their data to the outside world deserves to be an idiot with a Chromebook.
Especially in this world of privacy violations and shit security software.
My three year old laptop outperforms this thing, has higher resolution, weighs about half a pound more, and I don't have to worry about needing internet connectivity to access EVERYTHING (since this thing comes with horrendously shitty local storage space.)
Weak, lame. No thanks.
Google has zero clue how to design much of anything. Failure after failure shows this.
So much for all of those PhDs.
" these afficiondos don't go for the deep structures like the heart"
Go read you a BME magazine and tell me they don't go for deep structures. I've seen it from bone piercing to full-out surgical implants.
Usually, no, they don't. If there's a chance of immune system compromise, they'll get transcutaneous external cardiac pacing, not an internal pacemaker.
*sigh* But you people keep on thinking you know anything about the medical industry. It's not like I haven't had half of my skeleton replaced with metal, my heart jumpstarted several times, and other fun shit in 30 years of life and the risks that come with it.
If I'm ignorant, tell me all about the major piercings I have that not only go through muscle tissue but also bone, NOT just the epidermis.
Again, you know nothing.
Come back when you've got some pics on BME (that'd be Body Modification Extreme Magazine.)
" The fatality comes when its realized that GPU's arent trying to do non-parallel calculations efficiently, and arent used for that purpose."
Want to know how I know you know nothing about CUDA or OpenCL?
"You seem to be missing the part where market forces are defining the physical architecture"
No, laws of physics are defining the architecture. Are you still in elementary school?
"and the physical architecture defines the available power envelope"
Nope again. That would be the efficiency of the comprising transistors and the ability to eliminate heat from the system which defines the available power envelope.
You come back when you've actually designed and fabricated semiconductor ICs and processors and LED Substrates, okay furry boi? Until you've done that, you can't hold a candle to me.
A quick check of your comment and submission history also shows that the majority of your comments/submissions are over-rated, binspam, stupid, and offtopic.
Try fixing that, and while you're at it, broaden your middle-school knowledge of electronics.
"Direct connection is a BAD idea. How do you propose to do that? Anything that penetrates the skin, particularly with a direct cardiac connection is a huge infection vector. And yes, I used to work for a class III medical device manufacturer."
Then maybe you need to go work for a body piercer, who has more than enough experience installing hardware into people without so much risk of infection.
Pretty sad a piercer would have more experience than someone that supposedly worked for a medical device manufacturer.
"GPU's are already far more energy efficient than CPU's, and thats using the term correctly. "
Wrong, because GPUs and CPUs are entirely different beasts. A CPU can stomp a GPU in non-parallel calculations. So much for your supposedly correct energy efficiency.
"In the real world, the computational capacity is limited by a desired power consumption."
Wrong again. Physical architecture plays more of a role than power consumption.
"There is no limit to desired computational capacity."
That statement violates thermodynamics.
"Laws which artificially restrict power consumption beyond market forces are laws which artificially restrict your access to computation."
You mean like the thermodynamics you so blatantly and stupidly ignore?
Oh, BTW, I work in the semiconductor field. Every word you've said is dead wrong and the mods that modded you doubly so.
" Trying to keep a ten-year-old all-American auto on the road is a money pit."
My 1998 Ford Taurus would disagree with you. It has only needed a transmission replacement. I'm almost at 180K.
The money pit is the Gasoline.