Of course you can break almost every problem into smaller subproblems. Of course there are things you cant do (markov chains?), but games arent one of them, 90% of game code can run in parallel (including physics, how else do you think GPU would compute physics? GPU is a MASSIVE array of small CPUs).
Exactly. Story about CCTV is bullshit, they would need HD cameras pointed a players back at specific angle to even make the cards out. This leads me to believe Casino security got compromised to the point of someone planting cameras in the room beforehand, maybe even Casino employees being on the scam.
Nvidia loses either way. They chose to lose market share over stretching manufacturing for marginal profits, this might turn out to be a shortsighted decision in few years.
Thats the thing - people concentrate on Nvidia and GPU in next gens, but overlook the bigger picture. AMD can laverage (I cant believe I just wrote that, I feel dirty) its strong cheap GPU (they might even be selling them at cost for nextgens) to prop their CPU division.
I really love how it all fits into place. AMD gets to supply GPUs. That in itself is ok, gives them a bigger market share and needed optimization. It even might of been a bad deal in its own like Nvidia claims (single digit percentage margins). If that was all it could be questionable.
Now add CPU into the mix. CPU that is great on the servers, very strong in multimedia, but lacking in IPC (Instructions per cycle) compared to Intel. CPU that struggles in games because Dev houses just dont bother optimizing for the hardware, they optimize for development cost. All of a sudden you get this free optimization out of next gen deal. This will force Intel to rethink OC locked 2 core CPUs, it will also make AMD CPUs mainstream again.
People concentrate on GPU too much. AMD in next gens will pull AMDs CPU division out of discount/fanboy bin into mainstream 'best for gaming' market. Desktop CPUs have been stuck at ~3GHz for over 10 years now, only way forward is multi threading, but dev houses are still reluctant because its cheaper to just throw something out there and count on people shelling out for >$300 CPUs. Intel dominates IPC, that lets them sell 2 core CPUs for the price of AMD 4 cores. This deal will change that.
Forget about AMD GPU optimization. Specific shaders optimization accounts for maybe 10%.
Think about future games being natively written with 8 cores in mind. No more buy 2 Nvidia cards to see some PhysX sparks, all games will use Havoc, Bullet or some other physics library computing on AMD GPUs.
if you get game developers in such numbers making games for YOUR video card on millions and millions of consoles for all games, which are ported to say PC, what do you think those games will be optimized for?
Forget GPU and think the end of Intel IPC ruling the CPU market. AMD just won CPU race in Gaming market sector. Games will be written for AMD 8 core arch from the grounds up, using every possible x86 extension AMD has to offer, and compiled with something other than Intel 'let me check if you run this on Genuine Intel so I can decide if Ill slow down the code" compiler.
AMD not only turned the tables on Nvidia optimized games. They also turned the tables for single thread optimized games favoring Intel. Just imagine - in 6-8 months EVERY single new game will be written with heavy multi threading in mind from the grounds up. Times of overpaying $300 for K series i5-i7 just to be able to OC >4.5GHz so retarded single threaded games run fast will be over.
Forgetting the fact that one of your two actual examples is not free (for commercial use). Yes, I would pay. Why? Time == money.
If the solution gets me a model in a usable form quickly (no futzing, converting etc), then it's worth money. $1000 buys maybe a half week of someone's time. So if I can save 3 days work it has paid for itself.
Maybe that doesn't apply to you, but you can't assume that's the same for others. Not all of us have time to mess around with open source solutions that only get us 90% of the way. Just like how some will buy a 3d printer and others will make one (for significantly less). If your time is worth nothing, or it's just a hobby, then sure spend the time and save a few bucks. If you actually need to use it in a business (e.g. rapid prototyping) then building one yourself is a false economy.
You would be right IF we were talking about military grade software here, not repackaged kinect bundled with free software. Its like in the 3D printer example you gave - people still believe its either building Prusa and tweaking it for a month, or spending $2K on makerbot, unpacking it and printing within minutes. Newsflash - I dont know a single person with a makerbot that doesnt complain and tweak almost every time they want to print something (our hackerspace has two, they are almost always permanently broken). 3D printers that dont need tweaking and just work start at $20K. Same with 3D scanning systems. If you dont want tweaking and playing around with settings forget about kinect based solutions (unless you shell out for a software capable of driving 2-3 Kinects at once).
Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!
Because you are paying for a platform not a Kinect camera. It's software and hardware that are guaranteed to work together (which is a lot easier to support than software alone).
Sure they could sell the software alone, but I'm assuming that's the majority of the cost anyhow. I'd expect to pay over a grand for that software (and it would pay for itself quickly). With the amount of kickstarter backers it's obvious there are more than a few people that think they can get value out of it for the price.
Its an Asus branded Kinect mounted in a box with a laptop/tablet. I cracked up when he said "create quality models" while showing something you would see in Playstation 2/XBOX game. The amount of bullshit about supercomputers was hard to listen:/
Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!
YT recently announced plans for "microtransactions". Paying for access to certain channels. Problem is they envision people paying over a dollar per channel per month. Even Valve doesnt understand micro, they charge couple of dollars for few pixels.
It's very possible that the Poles got swept up in that sentiment, though Polish immigration to the US really didn't kick into gear until decades later.
Yes. Im sure it was all because of people like Kociuszko (hint : Kociuszko's Monument in West Point)
I always thought it had something to do with the fact that Poland still had a horse-mounted cavalry at the beginning of WWII. Hitler famously staged a fake cavalry attack to justify invading Poland. I think that image of Polish cavalry charging across the border with their swords raised toward's Hitler's tanks has resonated through the ages.
Average 200GB (200 up, 200 down) per month this year. Average 39Kbit upload, 100Kbit download since december 2011 (basically >3TB), and I turn off my computer for the night.
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Of course you can break almost every problem into smaller subproblems. Of course there are things you cant do (markov chains?), but games arent one of them, 90% of game code can run in parallel (including physics, how else do you think GPU would compute physics? GPU is a MASSIVE array of small CPUs).
Good point, I totally forgot casinos use CCTV to look for cheats, not for post facto crime documentation.
Exactly. Story about CCTV is bullshit, they would need HD cameras pointed a players back at specific angle to even make the cards out.
This leads me to believe Casino security got compromised to the point of someone planting cameras in the room beforehand, maybe even Casino employees being on the scam.
Nvidia loses either way. They chose to lose market share over stretching manufacturing for marginal profits, this might turn out to be a shortsighted decision in few years.
I just pooped into my diaper made out of your country flag.
Thats the thing - people concentrate on Nvidia and GPU in next gens, but overlook the bigger picture. AMD can laverage (I cant believe I just wrote that, I feel dirty) its strong cheap GPU (they might even be selling them at cost for nextgens) to prop their CPU division.
I really love how it all fits into place. AMD gets to supply GPUs. That in itself is ok, gives them a bigger market share and needed optimization. It even might of been a bad deal in its own like Nvidia claims (single digit percentage margins). If that was all it could be questionable.
Now add CPU into the mix. CPU that is great on the servers, very strong in multimedia, but lacking in IPC (Instructions per cycle) compared to Intel. CPU that struggles in games because Dev houses just dont bother optimizing for the hardware, they optimize for development cost. All of a sudden you get this free optimization out of next gen deal. This will force Intel to rethink OC locked 2 core CPUs, it will also make AMD CPUs mainstream again.
There is no IF here, they will have to adapt to 8 parallel threads at 1.6GHz. You cant write modern game running on one 1.6GHz core.
People concentrate on GPU too much. AMD in next gens will pull AMDs CPU division out of discount/fanboy bin into mainstream 'best for gaming' market. Desktop CPUs have been stuck at ~3GHz for over 10 years now, only way forward is multi threading, but dev houses are still reluctant because its cheaper to just throw something out there and count on people shelling out for >$300 CPUs. Intel dominates IPC, that lets them sell 2 core CPUs for the price of AMD 4 cores. This deal will change that.
Forget about AMD GPU optimization. Specific shaders optimization accounts for maybe 10%.
Think about future games being natively written with 8 cores in mind. No more buy 2 Nvidia cards to see some PhysX sparks, all games will use Havoc, Bullet or some other physics library computing on AMD GPUs.
if you get game developers in such numbers making games for YOUR video card on millions and millions of consoles for all games, which are ported to say PC, what do you think those games will be optimized for?
Forget GPU and think the end of Intel IPC ruling the CPU market. AMD just won CPU race in Gaming market sector. Games will be written for AMD 8 core arch from the grounds up, using every possible x86 extension AMD has to offer, and compiled with something other than Intel 'let me check if you run this on Genuine Intel so I can decide if Ill slow down the code" compiler.
Also think end of PhysX.
Please tell me more about optimizing games to be properly multithreaded will only last few months and then be outdated.
AMD not only turned the tables on Nvidia optimized games. They also turned the tables for single thread optimized games favoring Intel. Just imagine - in 6-8 months EVERY single new game will be written with heavy multi threading in mind from the grounds up. Times of overpaying $300 for K series i5-i7 just to be able to OC >4.5GHz so retarded single threaded games run fast will be over.
You want to pay over grand for FREE software?
Forgetting the fact that one of your two actual examples is not free (for commercial use). Yes, I would pay. Why? Time == money.
If the solution gets me a model in a usable form quickly (no futzing, converting etc), then it's worth money. $1000 buys maybe a half week of someone's time. So if I can save 3 days work it has paid for itself.
Maybe that doesn't apply to you, but you can't assume that's the same for others. Not all of us have time to mess around with open source solutions that only get us 90% of the way. Just like how some will buy a 3d printer and others will make one (for significantly less). If your time is worth nothing, or it's just a hobby, then sure spend the time and save a few bucks. If you actually need to use it in a business (e.g. rapid prototyping) then building one yourself is a false economy.
You would be right IF we were talking about military grade software here, not repackaged kinect bundled with free software. Its like in the 3D printer example you gave - people still believe its either building Prusa and tweaking it for a month, or spending $2K on makerbot, unpacking it and printing within minutes. Newsflash - I dont know a single person with a makerbot that doesnt complain and tweak almost every time they want to print something (our hackerspace has two, they are almost always permanently broken). 3D printers that dont need tweaking and just work start at $20K. Same with 3D scanning systems. If you dont want tweaking and playing around with settings forget about kinect based solutions (unless you shell out for a software capable of driving 2-3 Kinects at once).
Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!
Because you are paying for a platform not a Kinect camera. It's software and hardware that are guaranteed to work together (which is a lot easier to support than software alone).
Sure they could sell the software alone, but I'm assuming that's the majority of the cost anyhow. I'd expect to pay over a grand for that software (and it would pay for itself quickly). With the amount of kickstarter backers it's obvious there are more than a few people that think they can get value out of it for the price.
You want to pay over grand for FREE software?
http://www.cs.nuim.ie/research/vision/data/rgbd2012/
http://reconstructme.net/
https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=kinect+motion+capture
Its an Asus branded Kinect mounted in a box with a laptop/tablet. :/
I cracked up when he said "create quality models" while showing something you would see in Playstation 2/XBOX game.
The amount of bullshit about supercomputers was hard to listen
Why pay $120 for Kinect when you can pay $1800 on Kickstarter!
YT recently announced plans for "microtransactions". Paying for access to certain channels. Problem is they envision people paying over a dollar per channel per month. Even Valve doesnt understand micro, they charge couple of dollars for few pixels.
Contiki Desktop!
still better than Ubuntu
The universe is truly nondeterministic. It really is a hugely complicated probability density function :)
This is just an artifact of compression/optimization functions used to run the emulation.
aww we have another oblivious one, re-draw where? in the corner of your eye? Google Glass DOESNT do video overlay,
awww how cute, you are one of those people perpetuating Google Glass lie about video overlay
THERE IS NO OVERLAY, there is small square in right top corner of your right eye.
Look at it this way - people still used Pagers recently (at least couple of years ago).
Most Patients think Doctors and Hospitals should charge less.
>England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain
= NHS = free health care
It's very possible that the Poles got swept up in that sentiment, though Polish immigration to the US really didn't kick into gear until decades later.
Yes. Im sure it was all because of people like Kociuszko (hint : Kociuszko's Monument in West Point)
I always thought it had something to do with the fact that Poland still had a horse-mounted cavalry at the beginning of WWII. Hitler famously staged a fake cavalry attack to justify invading Poland. I think that image of Polish cavalry charging across the border with their swords raised toward's Hitler's tanks has resonated through the ages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWezYFUTn-4
In polish, but you can tell by picture alone whats going on
basically myth is this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWezYFUTn-4&t=32s
reality looked more like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWezYFUTn-4&t=5m49s
Polish Army even had rifles what easily penetrated early German WW2 tanks armor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wz._35_anti-tank_rifle
Average 200GB (200 up, 200 down) per month this year.
Average 39Kbit upload, 100Kbit download since december 2011 (basically >3TB), and I turn off my computer for the night.
Lol at US, third world country.