We don't need to regulate it. Just do what I do and say at the end of my voicemail, "press * to leave a message". This varies from carrier to carrier so you'll need to find out what yours is. Sprint is 1 IIRC, others might be #, etc.
The key is just learning to hear/read things without getting frustrated at the anonymous person. I used to get all irritated about it all, but now I just accept that the world/people is/are broken, that this is especially clear on the internet, and move on. It's not worth losing your blood pressure over.
GTA4 is a fluke, no other games besides Crysis (not even Crysis Warhead) need a Core i7. Quad core, maybe. I think what GP is referring to is more likely the DX10/11 render path-- Grab commands from game in user mode, enter kernel mode and check them to make sure those commands won't overwrite anything they're not supposed to (and crash the game/computer), hand them off to the driver, driver renders them in user mode, then outputs to display.
This handoff and switching between kernel/user mode seems to take a lot of CPU power and perhaps CPU cache.
And if Linux/the graphics card isn't seeing the correct resolutions for my second display? It thinks the max I can do is 1290x960; it actually does 1600x1200@75.
The commands to put into your config for dualview have changed, and/or the location of where I'm supposed to put them has changed. It's becoming difficult to figure out what exactly to do seeing as google indexes posts on ubuntu Forums from 5 years ago just like they do posts from 2 months ago...I've given up, just don't care that much. Still can't play new games on Linux easily; Windows 7 + Firefox is still faster than Linux + Fasterfox (heck even Linux + Wine + Firefox.exe is faster)...I just don't care anymore, I've gotten over the ideological bias.
I just want it to feel fast, and Linux doesn't, even on my Quad Core + 9800GT + 8GB RAM. There's something funky with Compiz and Nvidia cards; it only renders the composition at 25FPS (it _can_ render faster if I start the benchmark for Compiz). Really laggy feeling. Meh, I'll come back in 3 years, or when I have an AMD/ATI card, and see if it's better.
Crysis has most definitely not improved 30fps. On my rig, I averaged 30fps in Vista and 36fps in XP.
I still average 30fps in Windows 7. Performance in UT3 is down from XP to Windows 7 just like XP to Vista-- I believe due to the DX10 render path, which even with config.ini tweaking can't be disabled (the "Enable D3D10 = False" option does not work).
I would not be surprised to find 95% of the claims of "better gaming performance" was just clever marketing on Microsoft's part. We'll have see what the majority of review sites find-- 1 or 2 claiming better FPS than XP or Vista or whatever is not proof at this point in time.
Regardless, Vista/7 are a big enough jump for me to use them in spite of loss in performance. Simply having all programs precached is very nice.
Franchise had a great future. All the UT99 folk were excited, to say the least, about the gameplay in the demo. When they found out the demo was basically what the full game was going to be like (UI, to be specific) they completely lost interest.
It was Epic's chance to get all the UT99 folks onto the latest and greatest.
I myself still play UT3 just for the iCTF. But not much else.
I envision something more like hosting a chunk of, or the whole, file; while using aggressive caching to keep the next 100MB of the file in my RAM. I've got 8GB, so why not? With slightly more computation-intensive tracking, I could seed that 100MB to 100 people, instead of seeding bits of 10GB to the cloud.
I'd love for Netflix streaming and this company to get together. Have 15 people host a movie, and 3 to 5 could be watching it at once. My computer would coordinate with other seeders' computers and I'd send 5MB, he'd send 3MB and someone else would send 4MB; and we'd all complete sending that in 1 minute, but combined it would be enough video for 2-3 minutes (or something).
This company can manage a native port of this great sounding game and engine, but WTF happened to UT3 and when are Bethesda going to port Fallout 3 and DLCs to GNU eh? Never that's when!
Seems like only the little companies are preapred to dispense with the BS and try something truly original, UT2004 was ported when EPIC was still allowed to, then ATARI got in there and just like the old days of the 80's, they suits decided that they not going to support some Mickey Mouse hippy type O/S!
Ughh!
UT3's not even worth porting, there's still countless gameplay bugs that keep any serious teams from competing; you can't even access the server browser from the game (you have to disconnect, wait 8 seconds for loading, navigate through the server browser, then connect), and they've done nothing but alienate players with "additions" like in patch 2.0 counting bots as real players in the server player count (probably so that when people took screenshots of the "new server browser improvements" it would look like hundreds of people were playing-- UT3 from the getgo has struggled to attract any meaningful number of players) making it a nightmare to find a server with any _real_ players. They reneged in 2.1 but the damage was already done. [note-- Flight Sim 2006 has more players than UT3. What the heck is Flight Simulator 2006???] Epic fail for Epic.
Making some bold assumptions, in the U.K. with electricity at 12 p per kWh and with average annual wind strengths of 8 mph a 1kW unit would push out about 600kWh in a year. This means a £2000 wind turbine installed would take 27 years to pay back. The average wind strength you get affects the mathematics dramatically. This is because electrical output is a cube function of the wind speed. If the wind speed doubles for example, the turbine output goes up by a factor of 8. If your average wind is just 20% stronger at say 10 mph the break even comes down to about 14 years.
Right...laughably ridiculous... ----
Because we're not talking about DC transmission...[DC] transmission is actually much cheaper/more efficient than AC for long hauls.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still absurdly expensive. Yet again, much better to put that money into nuclear.
Because there is none.
Haha, right. Prove it. You see, in my opinion, there's no impact to the environment if we just burn lots of coal.
As usual, the hip-and-green crowd gets modded up without proving a thing. Slashdot, you're better than this. Parent is a prime example of how environmentalism is a blinding religion. Even GLOBALWARMINGALLIANCE.com says it takes 15-30 years to break even energy wise on windmills.
Hides the process, monitors the memory for stuff, blocks calls to Direct X and the Windows API, places hooks into dlls , sometimes breaks in Win7, breaks Google Chrome, SpeedFan, Eclispe, various drivers, Steam, anti-rootkits(but that was expected). Oh, and a security problem to top it all off.
The bright side is that Aion works on Win7.
And I expected something this bad to come from EA first.
Confused-- why would they need DRM for an online subscription game?
Ever notice that the obesity rates started trending up the moment we adopted the food pyramid? Grains and pastas should NOT be the majority of our calories. No high-glycemic index food should be.
Yes we all are different. I am not as smart as most of the other guys in my class. I go to one of the top 5 engineering schools and am enrolled in the supposedly first-or-second-most-difficult-engineering major there.
However, it's still my responsibility to pass and learn the material. Am I going to tell the job recruiter "well they're smarter than me, I'm just not that way, but you should hire me anyways"?
At the end of the day, there are people starving in Africa, and there are people who not only can't control themselves enough to restrict intake, they try to pass the blame by saying it's not possible and that they're genetically deficient.
I am responsible for me. You are responsible for you.
I'm not doing 2hrs/day of excercise, I only work out about 2x a week for ~an hour. It's more a hang out time really.
If you can eat less for about a week, it becomes exponentially easier. I use to eat so much-- I'm 22, and started getting the love handles. Now I just eat a PB&J sandwitch for lunch (with a lot of peanut butter, on whole grain/high fiber bread-- protein and fat and fiber are filling and stay with you) and smaller portions for dinner. It was hard for about 3 days. Your stomach lining replaces itself every 3 days-- if you can keep up the eating less for a week or two, it will take less to make you feel full. The stomach shrinks. It's harder to eat like I used to.
When you eat the high protein and fiber stuff and start eating less of it, you can fill up on water to deal with some of the emptiness feeling that's there for the first few days.
That's nice. I'm using the RC and can assure you it is most definitely not faster than Vista. It is slower. Vista64 vs 7-64; both much slower than XP.
It's mainly the new drive model, switching between kernel and user mode and back to get, check, and hand off commands (make sure they won't crash the system) from the game to graphics card.
Difference is ~800points in 3dmark06 at ~13800 for me, and significantly slower framerates (60 to 45-48) in certain ares of levels in games (UT3-- no DX10 stuff in it, just DX9).
Possibly-- or they want to move on to the next MMO. Ever wondered why the patches and class balance and new content have been coming slower and slower?
It's entirely possible they don't want people to become MMO'd out. Too much of a good thing... My guess-- next is World of Starcraft, with not two, but THREE factions. That will make it very interesting. Timing would be perfect, too, they could release it just one or two years after the last Starcraft 2 Campaign is released, and just ride the wave of that marketing blitz.
I don't know, man. It's like finishing my plate of food-- mom always made me finish it before I could have dessert. The OCD in me must finish whatever page I'm on. Having the page infinitely expand is not conducive to productivity...
That "some other mechanism" is phonons-- lattice vibrations. The lattice vibrations temporarily turn it into a direct band gap semiconductor).
Even after all these years of research, it's still largely inefficient to have to create the phonons (heat) so that you can create the photons (the laser).
I know there is a largely CS-dominated crowd on this site, but many of us are intelligent EEs and did have some programming in college. If you could explain why doing it this way is so bad, or different, and why they might be doing it that way, that would great.
Fine, run after your society that has no morals; 25 years down the road your country will be on the brink of disaster as corporate greed-without-restraint and political spending-without-discretion leave your country in a heap of political constituent-pandering and a financial wreck that's only half done* when you think it's nearly over...
Oh, wait...
Also, before you mention that the guys who deregulated the banks, and dropped our rates to bubble-creating-levels-- that these people were those who claimed to be representing the Christian America, keep in mind many (all) of us, who are aware of what occurred, are immensely frustrated (to say the least) with what they did. If I call myself a Christian and do evil things, does that disprove Christianity? No, it proves I'm evil. For an example of Christianity, look to the life of love Jesus lived, not to the life of sin many Christians live...
*(Only halfway through; with the Option ARM recasts coming up we'll have _at least_ just as many defaulting on their Option ARMs as we did on their subprimes. 80-90% of these negatively-amortizing loans originated in 2005-2007 were Option A...guess when the monthly payment people make recasts and resets? Four and a half to 5 years from origination...)
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We don't need to regulate it. Just do what I do and say at the end of my voicemail, "press * to leave a message". This varies from carrier to carrier so you'll need to find out what yours is. Sprint is 1 IIRC, others might be #, etc.
The key is just learning to hear/read things without getting frustrated at the anonymous person. I used to get all irritated about it all, but now I just accept that the world/people is/are broken, that this is especially clear on the internet, and move on. It's not worth losing your blood pressure over.
GTA4 is a fluke, no other games besides Crysis (not even Crysis Warhead) need a Core i7. Quad core, maybe.
I think what GP is referring to is more likely the DX10/11 render path-- Grab commands from game in user mode, enter kernel mode and check them to make sure those commands won't overwrite anything they're not supposed to (and crash the game/computer), hand them off to the driver, driver renders them in user mode, then outputs to display.
This handoff and switching between kernel/user mode seems to take a lot of CPU power and perhaps CPU cache.
And if Linux/the graphics card isn't seeing the correct resolutions for my second display? It thinks the max I can do is 1290x960; it actually does 1600x1200@75.
The commands to put into your config for dualview have changed, and/or the location of where I'm supposed to put them has changed. It's becoming difficult to figure out what exactly to do seeing as google indexes posts on ubuntu Forums from 5 years ago just like they do posts from 2 months ago...I've given up, just don't care that much. Still can't play new games on Linux easily; Windows 7 + Firefox is still faster than Linux + Fasterfox (heck even Linux + Wine + Firefox.exe is faster)...I just don't care anymore, I've gotten over the ideological bias.
I just want it to feel fast, and Linux doesn't, even on my Quad Core + 9800GT + 8GB RAM. There's something funky with Compiz and Nvidia cards; it only renders the composition at 25FPS (it _can_ render faster if I start the benchmark for Compiz). Really laggy feeling. Meh, I'll come back in 3 years, or when I have an AMD/ATI card, and see if it's better.
Crysis has most definitely not improved 30fps.
On my rig, I averaged 30fps in Vista and 36fps in XP.
I still average 30fps in Windows 7.
Performance in UT3 is down from XP to Windows 7 just like XP to Vista-- I believe due to the DX10 render path, which even with config.ini tweaking can't be disabled (the "Enable D3D10 = False" option does not work).
I would not be surprised to find 95% of the claims of "better gaming performance" was just clever marketing on Microsoft's part. We'll have see what the majority of review sites find-- 1 or 2 claiming better FPS than XP or Vista or whatever is not proof at this point in time.
Regardless, Vista/7 are a big enough jump for me to use them in spite of loss in performance. Simply having all programs precached is very nice.
The only part that bothers me is the "Preview Post" lag lasting for 20-35 seconds. I love everything else about the navigation on the site, though.
This is the great thing about low interest rates. If there's any potential to break even and possibly make a profit, it gets funding.
Franchise had a great future. All the UT99 folk were excited, to say the least, about the gameplay in the demo. When they found out the demo was basically what the full game was going to be like (UI, to be specific) they completely lost interest.
It was Epic's chance to get all the UT99 folks onto the latest and greatest.
I myself still play UT3 just for the iCTF. But not much else.
I envision something more like hosting a chunk of, or the whole, file; while using aggressive caching to keep the next 100MB of the file in my RAM. I've got 8GB, so why not? With slightly more computation-intensive tracking, I could seed that 100MB to 100 people, instead of seeding bits of 10GB to the cloud.
I'd love for Netflix streaming and this company to get together. Have 15 people host a movie, and 3 to 5 could be watching it at once. My computer would coordinate with other seeders' computers and I'd send 5MB, he'd send 3MB and someone else would send 4MB; and we'd all complete sending that in 1 minute, but combined it would be enough video for 2-3 minutes (or something).
This company can manage a native port of this great sounding game and engine, but WTF happened to UT3 and when are Bethesda going to port Fallout 3 and DLCs to GNU eh? Never that's when!
Seems like only the little companies are preapred to dispense with the BS and try something truly original, UT2004 was ported when EPIC was still allowed to, then ATARI got in there and just like the old days of the 80's, they suits decided that they not going to support some Mickey Mouse hippy type O/S!
Ughh!
UT3's not even worth porting, there's still countless gameplay bugs that keep any serious teams from competing; you can't even access the server browser from the game (you have to disconnect, wait 8 seconds for loading, navigate through the server browser, then connect), and they've done nothing but alienate players with "additions" like in patch 2.0 counting bots as real players in the server player count (probably so that when people took screenshots of the "new server browser improvements" it would look like hundreds of people were playing-- UT3 from the getgo has struggled to attract any meaningful number of players) making it a nightmare to find a server with any _real_ players. They reneged in 2.1 but the damage was already done. [note-- Flight Sim 2006 has more players than UT3. What the heck is Flight Simulator 2006???] Epic fail for Epic.
Lets just hope the corn lobby doesn't catch wind of this...
Because that's a bogus claim that's laughably ridiculous.
Oh really?
4 Cost versus Payback
Making some bold assumptions, in the U.K. with electricity at 12 p per kWh and with average annual wind strengths of 8 mph a 1kW unit would push out about 600kWh in a year. This means a £2000 wind turbine installed would take 27 years to pay back. The average wind strength you get affects the mathematics dramatically. This is because electrical output is a cube function of the wind speed. If the wind speed doubles for example, the turbine output goes up by a factor of 8. If your average wind is just 20% stronger at say 10 mph the break even comes down to about 14 years.
Right...laughably ridiculous...
----
Because we're not talking about DC transmission...[DC] transmission is actually much cheaper/more efficient than AC for long hauls.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still absurdly expensive. Yet again, much better to put that money into nuclear.
Because there is none.
Haha, right. Prove it. You see, in my opinion, there's no impact to the environment if we just burn lots of coal.
As usual, the hip-and-green crowd gets modded up without proving a thing. Slashdot, you're better than this. Parent is a prime example of how environmentalism is a blinding religion. Even GLOBALWARMINGALLIANCE.com says it takes 15-30 years to break even energy wise on windmills.
Blah blah blah.
It obviously has nothing to do with the 15-30 year window before you reach 1:1 parity with energy invested::energy harvested.
Or with the cost of DC transmission.
Or with the potential impact on the weather.
You're right, it has to be Big %insert something you hate here%.
BTW--whatever happened to people complaining about Big GOVERNMENT, hmm? Nobody's complaining about Obama throwing around $800B, spending 20% of it, then claiming it was successful. Or Tim Geithner being willing to continue throwing money at banks for new derivatives that are being issued today.
There are much bigger things to worry about at the moment than "Big Coal".
*Looks at the wikipedia entry*:
Hides the process, monitors the memory for stuff, blocks calls to Direct X and the Windows API, places hooks into dlls , sometimes breaks in Win7, breaks Google Chrome, SpeedFan, Eclispe, various drivers, Steam, anti-rootkits(but that was expected). Oh, and a security problem to top it all off.
The bright side is that Aion works on Win7.
And I expected something this bad to come from EA first.
Confused-- why would they need DRM for an online subscription game?
Ever notice that the obesity rates started trending up the moment we adopted the food pyramid? Grains and pastas should NOT be the majority of our calories. No high-glycemic index food should be.
Yes we all are different. I am not as smart as most of the other guys in my class. I go to one of the top 5 engineering schools and am enrolled in the supposedly first-or-second-most-difficult-engineering major there.
However, it's still my responsibility to pass and learn the material. Am I going to tell the job recruiter "well they're smarter than me, I'm just not that way, but you should hire me anyways"?
At the end of the day, there are people starving in Africa, and there are people who not only can't control themselves enough to restrict intake, they try to pass the blame by saying it's not possible and that they're genetically deficient.
I am responsible for me. You are responsible for you.
I'm not doing 2hrs/day of excercise, I only work out about 2x a week for ~an hour. It's more a hang out time really.
If you can eat less for about a week, it becomes exponentially easier. I use to eat so much-- I'm 22, and started getting the love handles. Now I just eat a PB&J sandwitch for lunch (with a lot of peanut butter, on whole grain/high fiber bread-- protein and fat and fiber are filling and stay with you) and smaller portions for dinner. It was hard for about 3 days. Your stomach lining replaces itself every 3 days-- if you can keep up the eating less for a week or two, it will take less to make you feel full. The stomach shrinks. It's harder to eat like I used to.
When you eat the high protein and fiber stuff and start eating less of it, you can fill up on water to deal with some of the emptiness feeling that's there for the first few days.
That's nice. I'm using the RC and can assure you it is most definitely not faster than Vista. It is slower. Vista64 vs 7-64; both much slower than XP.
It's mainly the new drive model, switching between kernel and user mode and back to get, check, and hand off commands (make sure they won't crash the system) from the game to graphics card.
Difference is ~800points in 3dmark06 at ~13800 for me, and significantly slower framerates (60 to 45-48) in certain ares of levels in games (UT3-- no DX10 stuff in it, just DX9).
Possibly-- or they want to move on to the next MMO. Ever wondered why the patches and class balance and new content have been coming slower and slower?
It's entirely possible they don't want people to become MMO'd out. Too much of a good thing...
My guess-- next is World of Starcraft, with not two, but THREE factions. That will make it very interesting. Timing would be perfect, too, they could release it just one or two years after the last Starcraft 2 Campaign is released, and just ride the wave of that marketing blitz.
I don't know, man. It's like finishing my plate of food-- mom always made me finish it before I could have dessert. The OCD in me must finish whatever page I'm on. Having the page infinitely expand is not conducive to productivity...
That "some other mechanism" is phonons-- lattice vibrations. The lattice vibrations temporarily turn it into a direct band gap semiconductor).
Even after all these years of research, it's still largely inefficient to have to create the phonons (heat) so that you can create the photons (the laser).
how would the switching times of these lasers compare to that or a wire trace though?
Switching time is great; it's the photo-detection on the other end where the real expense is (for high speed at least).
I know there is a largely CS-dominated crowd on this site, but many of us are intelligent EEs and did have some programming in college. If you could explain why doing it this way is so bad, or different, and why they might be doing it that way, that would great.
Fine, run after your society that has no morals; 25 years down the road your country will be on the brink of disaster as corporate greed-without-restraint and political spending-without-discretion leave your country in a heap of political constituent-pandering and a financial wreck that's only half done* when you think it's nearly over...
Oh, wait...
Also, before you mention that the guys who deregulated the banks, and dropped our rates to bubble-creating-levels-- that these people were those who claimed to be representing the Christian America, keep in mind many (all) of us, who are aware of what occurred, are immensely frustrated (to say the least) with what they did. If I call myself a Christian and do evil things, does that disprove Christianity? No, it proves I'm evil. For an example of Christianity, look to the life of love Jesus lived, not to the life of sin many Christians live...
*(Only halfway through; with the Option ARM recasts coming up we'll have _at least_ just as many defaulting on their Option ARMs as we did on their subprimes. 80-90% of these negatively-amortizing loans originated in 2005-2007 were Option A...guess when the monthly payment people make recasts and resets? Four and a half to 5 years from origination...)
It does work the other way, you're completely right. How this got past the /. editors is beyond me.