I'll name the bugs since I'm one of the main people providing fixes.
Sound-loop buzzing - can only be fixed by turning your audio acceleration down to Basic or None - SAME WITH OBLIVION.
Audio/Framerate sync stuttering - No fix, Present in Oblivion and FO3. Seems dependent upon combinations of Older sound cards and newer graphics hardware for it to be triggered.
Framerate dropping - Timing issue in the OBLIVION ENGINE which was NEVER PATCHED.
You want more? Give me two more weeks of hacking through the code with my friends. There's even a problem like Oblivion had keeping floor and ground textures loaded (desert sands look like a sand-colored block, heavily pixelated. LOD issue, just like Oblivion had.)
"If you go down to the retail sheet music store and buy a piece of sheet music, you are legally not allowed to photocopy that sheet music any more than you're legally allowed to copy a CD or downloaded MP3 or any other book for that matter."
FAIR USE. I can photocopy that fucker, put it up on an opaque overhead projector, and TEACH about the scale or chord progression as it relates to music theory. Just like I can use an audio recording snippet of the same sheet music for an audio reference. As long as I'm not plagarizing the whole or a significant portion of the work, and as long as I do not distribute the actual copy, I can copy to my heart's content. I'm also allowed to ARCHIVE my purchased sheet music. As long as I do not attempt to DISTRIBUTE the actual copied work, they can't do JACK.
I've been in and out of the music industry for well over 15 years. What you say is not how it works.
My mother and her old band produced several albums. I've seen the inner workings of the RIAA's operation upfront while being with her during recording sessions. The sheer amount of crap legalese they toss on you is just insane, and it's no wonder my mother started producing her own stuff after I taught her how to record, mix, and master her own tracks.
She still makes a decent bit of cash from her music when she's not writing for a magazine.
For ID Tech5 based games, textures take up nearly JACK. The megatexture idea is quite nice, you only need about 24 megs of RAM to texture a whole level and the entities residing within it.
That answer is obvious. Wait until you actually READ the article. These computer specs look like you just let some kid loose in a candy store with a platinum credit card. No benchmarks, either, which is what is important for "ULTIMATE Gaming Rig."
That being said their Ultimate top-tier offering I can build for almost half the price.
Just kids that know nothing. Nothing to see there, I suggest we move along to something more important.
My solution further down in the comments eliminates the need for algorithms altogether. Why not just use a simple compressible table for referencing known leap years? As it is I can rattle off the next 50 leap years without thinking. Reference the table, if year = known leap year then February = 29 days. Most consumer-level software, hell most COMMERCIAL software won't last through 50 leap years.
You don't need some complicated and flawed algorithm to do something that damned simple, do you?
Yes, they're handy, but this is just fucking ridiculous.
If year = (input year here) Then February has 29 days.
Forget trying to calculate it out. I can rattle off the leap years without thinking. Make a list. Knowing how most software lasts (consumer anyways,) you only need to account for maybe 12 leap years, if your software even lasts that long to begin with.
Doing things the complicated way when a simple list and table would've sufficed is just beyond me.
Probably why I don't program, either. At least, not for any business purposes.
Vista for internet. My webcam under Vista comes with nice features, and the programs I use for videochat don't work under Linux, not even with WINE. For SECURE internet, I know I'll get slammed for this, FUCK LINUX. I use MinuetOS booted from a write-locked SD card. Have fun trying to screw with my computer while I'm running that!
The nVidia driver from nVidia's site under vista sees the card just fine. It does not recognize the card at all in XP. This isn't HP's problem, it's nVidia's all the way. Simply modifying the.INF with the card's hardware ID info instantly makes it recognized by the nVidia driver setup under XP.
I used laptopvideo2go as well for this, several months ago when I first bought the laptop (then sent it back finding out the hardware was faulty to begin with.) I still had the same performance gains even with faulty hardware under XP.
I should have mentioned XP is SP2 32-bit and Vista is SP1 64-bit, sorry about that. All drivers are udpated as much as possible (especially given there is no actual XP driver for the card in XP even though nVidia is supposed to have a universal driver architecture for their GPUs.)
HP DV9825NR 1.83 GHz T5550 Intel 4GB DDR-800 320GB SATA 512MB GeForce 8600M GS RealTek HD Audio
I had to hack drivers to get the video card to be seen under XP.
Used for audio production, I made a quick multi-tracked setup using CoolEdit under both Vista and XP, then tested mixdown/encoding from.WAV to MP3.
XP beat Vista - 13 seconds in XP vs 28 seconds in Vista, for the same minute and a half of music.
For gaming, even with my hacked driver to get the video card recognized, playing Fallout 3 in Vista at 1280x720, medium details, gives me an average of 32 FPS. In XP, same detail settings and resolution, I average 40, following the same path, same difficulty. In XP I also lose the stuttering issue in Fallout 3 that Vista users seem to be getting, which seems to be caused by the audio subsystem, as turning audio acceleration to Basic stops about 90% of the crashes, and fixes several noise loop issues.
So, Vista SUCKS. My laptop is dual-booted with it and XP, and I only use the Vista partition for internet stuff, webcam, skype audio chat, etc. Games and any WORK gets done in XP.
Having run through dozens of different audio setups, Vista is CRAP. i can do ten times better and faster using an old 1.8 GHZ P4, 512 megs of RAM, and a soud Blaster Live in XP, and destroy anything vista does.
For one - Vista doesn't come with a full compliment of guitar effects, like auto-wah, delay, echo, reverb, chorus, pitch-shifter, flanger, ring modulator, etc, and Creative's latest audio offering for Vista computers doesn't even come close to the same functionality. XP with SBLive! destroys Vista in audio production, most gaming, and most music listening, hands-down.
And if you want some HARDCORE audio - get the kX and ASIO drivers for LIVE! under XP. I've built my own quad-tap chorus. Vist adoesn't even let you do that with the SBLive, you only get basic functionality. And with those same kX drivers, goodbye audio hiss from the line-in (though most people forget to re-ground the damned jack to another part of the computer case to begin with. Dual grounds always for audio production.)
Also,Vista's audio control panel is nowhere near as good as XP.
Most OSX Kernel panics, just like Linux and now Vista, are usually caused by faulty RAM.
Default procedure for any Kernel panic at an Apple Repair Depot is to pull all system memory and replace with known good - 95% of the time this is the issue.
At least, that's how it was when I worked Flex several years ago.
Sorry, no. That site is advertising the exact same bullshit that's sold all over the net. The LEDs they use are absolutely substandard. Each one never gets past 2 watts. That's not enough PPFD at all, at bare MINIMUM you need 5-10 watt LEDs in the proper spectra, and even then those LEDs start putting out heat, requiring a heatsink several times larger than the LED itself.
It'll be fine for growing little herbs like basil, rosemary, thyme, but when it comes to LARGE plants and canopy penetration, you're going to end up with scraggly plants. I tried growing a Roma tomato under one of those advertised UFO grow lights - absolutely crap results, my T5HO did easily 400% better in yield than the UFO.
I've known about NASA using LEDs for awhile, and so far they've only tested it on small leafy greens like lettuces and such. That doesn't require canopy penetration.
Simply put 400w of LED still doesn't compare with 400w HID. Growth of the plant is fine, but yield is drastically reduced in any plant which you have to fruit.
I grow tons of shit in my closet - LEDs are for small herbs, and the dwarfed Thai pepper I have going. Lemon Cucumber? Suffered very much under LED lighting, put under T5HO and now it's half my height in a month.
Neither does T5HO. In fact FLIR cameras won't work unless your house is poorly insulated and sealed to begin with. And FLIR is illegal anyways to use on a person's home without their knowledge.
I see fourth amendment tag, but no fifth amendment? I must've spoken so much about the 4th amendment you guys got that stuck in your head and forgot all about good ol' #5.
It's simple - photon flux density in an LED is just far inferior to that output by a CFL. Add in inverse law and you know why people prefer fluorescent or HID for growing plants.
Disclaimer: I grow herbs using LEDs. Small ones like thyme and basil are just fine, trying to get anything fruiting is an entirely different story.
"If a book has something like "the car was crushed like a can," that cannot make the conversion."
Yes, it can. you watch a car get crushed by something much larger than it, and it's flattened. That sort of translation happens all the time and is accurate. you don't need a character to state the obvious if the book already stated it, you just have to make it SEEM like it was crushed like a can.
As for showing what a character is thinking - that's called inner monologue, and can be done rather easily as well. It's all in the presentation as to how effective the conversion is.
The Militia Act would get that nonsense stricken down if taken to court. Access to arms currently in use for warfare, and all that stuff.
And if you think nobody's going to buy a tank, I point you to Master P, who has a fully functional gold and platinum plated tank. Yes, it works and fires and drives. I point you to Arnold, who has a military Humvee (I think he was the first to own one as well.) Several people have bought fighter jets.
A ban on assault weapons when people can own city-leveling hardware makes no sense according to the Militia Act.
The problem with putting things in the ground is you'll have to dig them up later if something bad happens, say a water main bursting or gas line exploding.
Maintanance costs and upgrades to infrastructure become less costly and easier when you don't have to dig so much.
This is why telephone service poles are still all across the desert in the southwestern USA - can you imagine having to go out into that heat to dig something up to locate a problem or upgrade the infrastructure?
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Nope, I quit working the hub long ago. I got tired of seeing 1 cubic foot boxes that were labeled government property and took four people to lift.
Always wondered what the hell they were shipping. Must be gold or something.
I'll name the bugs since I'm one of the main people providing fixes.
Sound-loop buzzing - can only be fixed by turning your audio acceleration down to Basic or None - SAME WITH OBLIVION.
Audio/Framerate sync stuttering - No fix, Present in Oblivion and FO3. Seems dependent upon combinations of Older sound cards and newer graphics hardware for it to be triggered.
Framerate dropping - Timing issue in the OBLIVION ENGINE which was NEVER PATCHED.
You want more? Give me two more weeks of hacking through the code with my friends. There's even a problem like Oblivion had keeping floor and ground textures loaded (desert sands look like a sand-colored block, heavily pixelated. LOD issue, just like Oblivion had.)
Did Mr. Brennan pay any money at all to defend himself, even if he did not show up? Even retaining a lawyer?
He should be reimbursed if so. I never showed up in any court, I always had my lawyer do it.
The easiest way I've found to file share and not get sued is to hold RIAA family members hostage under threat of death.
"If you go down to the retail sheet music store and buy a piece of sheet music, you are legally not allowed to photocopy that sheet music any more than you're legally allowed to copy a CD or downloaded MP3 or any other book for that matter."
FAIR USE. I can photocopy that fucker, put it up on an opaque overhead projector, and TEACH about the scale or chord progression as it relates to music theory. Just like I can use an audio recording snippet of the same sheet music for an audio reference. As long as I'm not plagarizing the whole or a significant portion of the work, and as long as I do not distribute the actual copy, I can copy to my heart's content. I'm also allowed to ARCHIVE my purchased sheet music. As long as I do not attempt to DISTRIBUTE the actual copied work, they can't do JACK.
I've been in and out of the music industry for well over 15 years. What you say is not how it works.
My mother and her old band produced several albums. I've seen the inner workings of the RIAA's operation upfront while being with her during recording sessions. The sheer amount of crap legalese they toss on you is just insane, and it's no wonder my mother started producing her own stuff after I taught her how to record, mix, and master her own tracks.
She still makes a decent bit of cash from her music when she's not writing for a magazine.
For ID Tech5 based games, textures take up nearly JACK. The megatexture idea is quite nice, you only need about 24 megs of RAM to texture a whole level and the entities residing within it.
Quad-core i7 with quad SLI and 16GB ram under Vistax64?
Betcha it would.
That answer is obvious. Wait until you actually READ the article. These computer specs look like you just let some kid loose in a candy store with a platinum credit card. No benchmarks, either, which is what is important for "ULTIMATE Gaming Rig."
That being said their Ultimate top-tier offering I can build for almost half the price.
Just kids that know nothing. Nothing to see there, I suggest we move along to something more important.
My solution further down in the comments eliminates the need for algorithms altogether. Why not just use a simple compressible table for referencing known leap years? As it is I can rattle off the next 50 leap years without thinking. Reference the table, if year = known leap year then February = 29 days. Most consumer-level software, hell most COMMERCIAL software won't last through 50 leap years.
You don't need some complicated and flawed algorithm to do something that damned simple, do you?
Yes, they're handy, but this is just fucking ridiculous.
If year = (input year here) Then February has 29 days.
Forget trying to calculate it out. I can rattle off the leap years without thinking. Make a list. Knowing how most software lasts (consumer anyways,) you only need to account for maybe 12 leap years, if your software even lasts that long to begin with.
Doing things the complicated way when a simple list and table would've sufficed is just beyond me.
Probably why I don't program, either. At least, not for any business purposes.
Vista for internet. My webcam under Vista comes with nice features, and the programs I use for videochat don't work under Linux, not even with WINE. For SECURE internet, I know I'll get slammed for this, FUCK LINUX. I use MinuetOS booted from a write-locked SD card. Have fun trying to screw with my computer while I'm running that!
The nVidia driver from nVidia's site under vista sees the card just fine. It does not recognize the card at all in XP. This isn't HP's problem, it's nVidia's all the way. Simply modifying the .INF with the card's hardware ID info instantly makes it recognized by the nVidia driver setup under XP.
I used laptopvideo2go as well for this, several months ago when I first bought the laptop (then sent it back finding out the hardware was faulty to begin with.) I still had the same performance gains even with faulty hardware under XP.
I should have mentioned XP is SP2 32-bit and Vista is SP1 64-bit, sorry about that. All drivers are udpated as much as possible (especially given there is no actual XP driver for the card in XP even though nVidia is supposed to have a universal driver architecture for their GPUs.)
How about this.
HP DV9825NR
1.83 GHz T5550 Intel
4GB DDR-800
320GB SATA
512MB GeForce 8600M GS
RealTek HD Audio
I had to hack drivers to get the video card to be seen under XP.
Used for audio production, I made a quick multi-tracked setup using CoolEdit under both Vista and XP, then tested mixdown/encoding from .WAV to MP3.
XP beat Vista - 13 seconds in XP vs 28 seconds in Vista, for the same minute and a half of music.
For gaming, even with my hacked driver to get the video card recognized, playing Fallout 3 in Vista at 1280x720, medium details, gives me an average of 32 FPS. In XP, same detail settings and resolution, I average 40, following the same path, same difficulty. In XP I also lose the stuttering issue in Fallout 3 that Vista users seem to be getting, which seems to be caused by the audio subsystem, as turning audio acceleration to Basic stops about 90% of the crashes, and fixes several noise loop issues.
So, Vista SUCKS. My laptop is dual-booted with it and XP, and I only use the Vista partition for internet stuff, webcam, skype audio chat, etc. Games and any WORK gets done in XP.
I want to try 7 on this laptop.
No, not even close.
Having run through dozens of different audio setups, Vista is CRAP. i can do ten times better and faster using an old 1.8 GHZ P4, 512 megs of RAM, and a soud Blaster Live in XP, and destroy anything vista does.
For one - Vista doesn't come with a full compliment of guitar effects, like auto-wah, delay, echo, reverb, chorus, pitch-shifter, flanger, ring modulator, etc, and Creative's latest audio offering for Vista computers doesn't even come close to the same functionality. XP with SBLive! destroys Vista in audio production, most gaming, and most music listening, hands-down.
And if you want some HARDCORE audio - get the kX and ASIO drivers for LIVE! under XP. I've built my own quad-tap chorus. Vist adoesn't even let you do that with the SBLive, you only get basic functionality. And with those same kX drivers, goodbye audio hiss from the line-in (though most people forget to re-ground the damned jack to another part of the computer case to begin with. Dual grounds always for audio production.)
Also,Vista's audio control panel is nowhere near as good as XP.
Most OSX Kernel panics, just like Linux and now Vista, are usually caused by faulty RAM.
Default procedure for any Kernel panic at an Apple Repair Depot is to pull all system memory and replace with known good - 95% of the time this is the issue.
At least, that's how it was when I worked Flex several years ago.
Sorry, no. That site is advertising the exact same bullshit that's sold all over the net. The LEDs they use are absolutely substandard. Each one never gets past 2 watts. That's not enough PPFD at all, at bare MINIMUM you need 5-10 watt LEDs in the proper spectra, and even then those LEDs start putting out heat, requiring a heatsink several times larger than the LED itself.
It'll be fine for growing little herbs like basil, rosemary, thyme, but when it comes to LARGE plants and canopy penetration, you're going to end up with scraggly plants. I tried growing a Roma tomato under one of those advertised UFO grow lights - absolutely crap results, my T5HO did easily 400% better in yield than the UFO.
I've known about NASA using LEDs for awhile, and so far they've only tested it on small leafy greens like lettuces and such. That doesn't require canopy penetration.
Simply put 400w of LED still doesn't compare with 400w HID. Growth of the plant is fine, but yield is drastically reduced in any plant which you have to fruit.
I grow tons of shit in my closet - LEDs are for small herbs, and the dwarfed Thai pepper I have going. Lemon Cucumber? Suffered very much under LED lighting, put under T5HO and now it's half my height in a month.
Neither does T5HO. In fact FLIR cameras won't work unless your house is poorly insulated and sealed to begin with. And FLIR is illegal anyways to use on a person's home without their knowledge.
I see fourth amendment tag, but no fifth amendment? I must've spoken so much about the 4th amendment you guys got that stuck in your head and forgot all about good ol' #5.
It's simple - photon flux density in an LED is just far inferior to that output by a CFL. Add in inverse law and you know why people prefer fluorescent or HID for growing plants.
Disclaimer: I grow herbs using LEDs. Small ones like thyme and basil are just fine, trying to get anything fruiting is an entirely different story.
"AMD will be releasing sanitized documentation for these new ATI GPUs in the coming weeks."
And as we know sanitized documentation generally tends to lead to under-developed code, thus rendering this somewhat useless for some things.
"If a book has something like "the car was crushed like a can," that cannot make the conversion."
Yes, it can. you watch a car get crushed by something much larger than it, and it's flattened. That sort of translation happens all the time and is accurate. you don't need a character to state the obvious if the book already stated it, you just have to make it SEEM like it was crushed like a can.
As for showing what a character is thinking - that's called inner monologue, and can be done rather easily as well. It's all in the presentation as to how effective the conversion is.
The Militia Act would get that nonsense stricken down if taken to court. Access to arms currently in use for warfare, and all that stuff.
And if you think nobody's going to buy a tank, I point you to Master P, who has a fully functional gold and platinum plated tank. Yes, it works and fires and drives. I point you to Arnold, who has a military Humvee (I think he was the first to own one as well.) Several people have bought fighter jets.
A ban on assault weapons when people can own city-leveling hardware makes no sense according to the Militia Act.
The problem with putting things in the ground is you'll have to dig them up later if something bad happens, say a water main bursting or gas line exploding.
Maintanance costs and upgrades to infrastructure become less costly and easier when you don't have to dig so much.
This is why telephone service poles are still all across the desert in the southwestern USA - can you imagine having to go out into that heat to dig something up to locate a problem or upgrade the infrastructure?
Money, money, money.