Mmm, thanks for the heads up! I heard about 2.1 and 3.0 at an interview with one of the gfx card companies, and didn't know where to look for the actual documentation. These tidbits are hard to come by without being in a company that is a part of the review board/process (even when OGL is much, much more open than DX).
Wow, I smell so much sour grapes that I think I'm in a bad wine factory or something. Look, if I, representing a company, were to profit/cut costs because of Universal Suffrage (e.g. more labor supply means lower labor costs), would you mock my company for supporting such an ideal? I doubt it...so why do you care if Google retains a few billion dollars while slamming this bill?
Note: I understand that the statement "If you aren't with me then you're against me" is a logical fallacy. My example is just to illustrate that having business interests aligned with social/political-ideals is not necessarily something wrong. It's only wrong when the interests are aligned with the wrong ideals.
And where does Slashdot rank? How about Wikipedia (and as one sibling poster said, other user groups)? As far as I can tell, those (and this) sites are decently democratic if you ignore Walmart and "news for nerds, everyone else go away."
I don't know man...I have this book on my table called "Ten Things the Bible Doesn't Want You To Know." I think I believe that book more than your so called "Bible."
Wow, by your "logic," who designed the designer? And who designed the designer of the designer? And...ad infinitum. Oh, that's right, you have something called "faith," and that's your sole excuse that you don't have to prove anything. But given all things, we assume the null position. The scientists make claims (note that whomever makes a claim has the burden of proof) and they back that up with testable hypothesis, which make their claims real arguments. Whereas the religious make claims, yet don't offer any testable hypothesis or proofs whatsoever, which make their claims nothing more than just wishful thinking at best.
Remember, a difference makes no difference is no difference. And your religious hypothesis makes no difference. (by the way, if you're correct in your beliefs, please prove that Islam/Buddhism/Flying Spaghetti Monster/etc... are incorrect, otherwise your view on the one and only God is also incorrect =)
That's where your logic fails. A "chicken egg" doesn't have to be laid by a chicken. Assuming that there is a hard speciation boundary, then the genetic differentiation can only happen between generations. I.e. during the production of genetic materials for the offspring, which in this case is the egg. Your argument is vaguely analogous to "God created human, so God must be human."
I think what you're referring to is the hardcore role-players. Sure, you may claim that MMORPGs indicate role-playing, but in reality, that is just a moniker used by the marketing department or for any games that have the "level up" system. "Role-playing" and "role-playing games" aren't really synonymous anymore (although they do oftentimes overlap).
With that, then you realize using the words "hardcore-only game" to represent "hardcore role-playing" is a little misleading. There are various types of hardcore players that aren't quite into role-playing itself. I personally know a lot of min-maxers who aren't into role-playing, but are still considered hardcore players. I also know a lot of "hardcore fun gamers" who're really into playing games that're fun to them (IIRC, we never did sit around for 30 minutes making hoof noises while traveling from one city to another in Pen and Paper D&D). At the end of the day, it all boils down to doing what you like. And the name "hardcore gamer" really just means "knowing a lot about and spending a lot of time on your game." Therefore, I'm sorry for bursting your bubble about how you feel that you're some sort of representative of hardcore gamers. You may be representative of hardcore role-players, but not hardcore players. And even then, it's just hardcore role-playing, not hardcore (MMO)RPG gamers.
That's interesting. Over here, I've had lines on my statement with something like "Due to increased costs, we're increasing premiums for everyone." All the while, my driving record was clean, so I suppose this was across the board and not some ploy directed at me.
Furthermore, when I went to check out other places such as Allstate and Statefarm, the former said "You'd have to pay $2000/yr even with your clean driving record and over 25, better try Royal Bank since they just started their insurance program and doesn't know how costly the insurance business really is." This is considering that I'm paying $1500/yr at my current insurance company (expensive inherited car I have). The latter said "Sorry, we're not accepting any new applicants for car insurance due to increased costs 'this season,' so try back next season"...for 2 years straight. And last I checked, "capitalism" doesn't quite mean "eat the costs for the benefit of your customers."
I mean, I can understand that I may be some fluke minority here...but at least these were my experiences.
1.) I don't know about health insurance, since I live in Canada. As a middle income worker, I will never trade my OHIP plan for your American "tax cuts." So yes, maybe your government fubared health care, but that doesn't mean government meddling doesn't work.
2.) Proof of rising trend in car insurance? Oh yeah, I see that right in my car insurance bill (and no, I haven't gotten into an accident/caught speeding/etc., yet).
Remember, capitalism only works when there is a lot of competition. When your 3 local hospitals are the only ones around, that's not a lot of competition. You'd just end up with another "Diamonds Are Forever" (c? tm? whatever...).
What you're saying is actually a generalizing statement. It's similar to saying that because (so far) the Conroe is better than the K8 (this is the general overview), the integrated memory controller on the K8 is worthless and Intel shouldn't copy it (then you specify that the specifics aren't worthwhile because of the general overview argument, and this is flawed). There's a good portion of the DeltaChrome system that performs better than its ATi or nVidia counterparts. And revealing the driver source will reveal how they designed these parts of the system. If S3 Graphics did open source their drivers, they'd lose every bit of advantage they can use to "level" the playing field.
Actually, S3 does have a Linux driver team. And Mac drivers are built by Apple, not by the vid card manufacturers (the vid card manufacturers provide the specs). So worry not, it'll be there in due time.
By your reasoning, then why bother writing OSX programs in the first place? The point is that people write programs for OSX because they want to, not because they're somehow stuck with a Mac and can't write something for the PC. This is giving people who use program Y that was never "ported" to the Mac platform (and thus can't switch over) a reason to switch over. Of course, this is also giving a lot of convenience to long-time Mac users who just can't seem to get any games.
Now, only if I can plug in any PCIE gfx card and be able to get the OSX drivers for them, I'll be all set....
I agree with you, and I think the attitude of the GP is the part of the main stigma of the Linux community. If you just look at the front page of Linux HA, you'll realize that it's trying to appeal to the masses and gain acceptance. However, attitudes like the GP totally serve in the opposite direction. No wonder people ask why Linux isn't gaining acceptance: it's because of people like the GP and the ones in the channel. At least with OSes like Windows, I get support and the software works out-of-the-box.
On the other hand, I've had good experiences with certain distros myself (free, that is). The help channel was nice and didn't end each sentence with "RTFM, noob." The people there actually pointed to some forum topics for my particular problem (as well as updating the docs). But even then, keep in mind that one bad experience is all that's need to drive a user and his/her friend away for a long time, especially if it's an uphill battle like an OS switch.
You mean the software (or more specificially source code, in this case) is made available as required by the license?
Also, if the "free support" you get doesn't work 100% of the time or results in being klined from the support channel, I think that's hardly an incentive for a user to pay for "real support."
Sorry about the bold, but I forgot to use the slash in the closing tag. But either way, the 4.5M came from the parent to my original post, not my own numbers. And even then, it just further shows that Blizzard is sitting on a gold mine, pretty much literally-speaking.
You mean, 4.5M players * $12.95/month/player * 12months/year = $699.3M per year.
But yeah, they're definitely sitting on an excessive-excessive surplus.
This is a very big problem overall. One of the points of these reviews is to give the consumer a better idea of how a product overclocks (the point of whether or not this is above rated spec is irrelevant nowadays). The memory manufacturers have all caught on to this, which is why some memory manufacturers even give warranties of "you won't void your memory's warranty as long as you don't go above 3.1V," even when you only need
Furthermore, if you look at it from an overclocking perspective, it's not just "50MHz" anymore. The memory's spec is actually 333MHz, so the difference is 421 - 333 = 88MHz versus 471 - 333 = 138MHz, an approximately 57% increase (this is mainly directed at what others posters are calling "10%"). As you can see, when a product is being advertised (since this sample was sent to Tom's for review in the first place) as "enthusiast" or "performance" part, this then is classified as deceptive practice on the memory manufacturers' end. Moreover, from reported user experience (just keep up with the user forums on overclocking at sites like Tom's, Anand's, or [H]ardOCP), the differences between the review and what people buy off the shelves should not be this large.
Even more so: cell phones. A lot of them already use the ARM architechture. Now it's just making sure all the components work together with the asynchonous chip.
I don't know about you, but when I heard about the news yesterday, of the 4 friends I spoke to since then (yes, I have friends, har har, joke's been beaten to death and raised for another beating, for a slashdotter), two wants to get a MacBook Pro (they are currently PC users), one started thinking about it, and the fourth told me two of his friends considered, and who himself is already a Mac user. So, if that and the $10 surge in stock price (14% gain) since yesterday morning isn't indicative enough of the popularity of the move, then at least Apple will gain an expected 2.5 more customers (assuming 50% chance of each of these people, including myself, switching over).
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Mmm, thanks for the heads up! I heard about 2.1 and 3.0 at an interview with one of the gfx card companies, and didn't know where to look for the actual documentation. These tidbits are hard to come by without being in a company that is a part of the review board/process (even when OGL is much, much more open than DX).
Wow, I smell so much sour grapes that I think I'm in a bad wine factory or something. Look, if I, representing a company, were to profit/cut costs because of Universal Suffrage (e.g. more labor supply means lower labor costs), would you mock my company for supporting such an ideal? I doubt it...so why do you care if Google retains a few billion dollars while slamming this bill?
Note: I understand that the statement "If you aren't with me then you're against me" is a logical fallacy. My example is just to illustrate that having business interests aligned with social/political-ideals is not necessarily something wrong. It's only wrong when the interests are aligned with the wrong ideals.
And where does Slashdot rank? How about Wikipedia (and as one sibling poster said, other user groups)? As far as I can tell, those (and this) sites are decently democratic if you ignore Walmart and "news for nerds, everyone else go away."
...and how would predictability imply design?
I don't know man...I have this book on my table called "Ten Things the Bible Doesn't Want You To Know." I think I believe that book more than your so called "Bible."
Wow, by your "logic," who designed the designer? And who designed the designer of the designer? And...ad infinitum. Oh, that's right, you have something called "faith," and that's your sole excuse that you don't have to prove anything. But given all things, we assume the null position. The scientists make claims (note that whomever makes a claim has the burden of proof) and they back that up with testable hypothesis, which make their claims real arguments. Whereas the religious make claims, yet don't offer any testable hypothesis or proofs whatsoever, which make their claims nothing more than just wishful thinking at best.
Remember, a difference makes no difference is no difference. And your religious hypothesis makes no difference. (by the way, if you're correct in your beliefs, please prove that Islam/Buddhism/Flying Spaghetti Monster/etc... are incorrect, otherwise your view on the one and only God is also incorrect =)
if you're only considering 32-bit floating point numbers and don't need full IEEE-754 compliance.
Nevermind, I should read your post more carefully. =)
That's where your logic fails. A "chicken egg" doesn't have to be laid by a chicken. Assuming that there is a hard speciation boundary, then the genetic differentiation can only happen between generations. I.e. during the production of genetic materials for the offspring, which in this case is the egg. Your argument is vaguely analogous to "God created human, so God must be human."
I think what you're referring to is the hardcore role-players. Sure, you may claim that MMORPGs indicate role-playing, but in reality, that is just a moniker used by the marketing department or for any games that have the "level up" system. "Role-playing" and "role-playing games" aren't really synonymous anymore (although they do oftentimes overlap).
With that, then you realize using the words "hardcore-only game" to represent "hardcore role-playing" is a little misleading. There are various types of hardcore players that aren't quite into role-playing itself. I personally know a lot of min-maxers who aren't into role-playing, but are still considered hardcore players. I also know a lot of "hardcore fun gamers" who're really into playing games that're fun to them (IIRC, we never did sit around for 30 minutes making hoof noises while traveling from one city to another in Pen and Paper D&D). At the end of the day, it all boils down to doing what you like. And the name "hardcore gamer" really just means "knowing a lot about and spending a lot of time on your game." Therefore, I'm sorry for bursting your bubble about how you feel that you're some sort of representative of hardcore gamers. You may be representative of hardcore role-players, but not hardcore players. And even then, it's just hardcore role-playing, not hardcore (MMO)RPG gamers.
I can't wait for the 25 million announcement!
capital offence? you mean like this?
That's interesting. Over here, I've had lines on my statement with something like "Due to increased costs, we're increasing premiums for everyone." All the while, my driving record was clean, so I suppose this was across the board and not some ploy directed at me.
Furthermore, when I went to check out other places such as Allstate and Statefarm, the former said "You'd have to pay $2000/yr even with your clean driving record and over 25, better try Royal Bank since they just started their insurance program and doesn't know how costly the insurance business really is." This is considering that I'm paying $1500/yr at my current insurance company (expensive inherited car I have). The latter said "Sorry, we're not accepting any new applicants for car insurance due to increased costs 'this season,' so try back next season"...for 2 years straight. And last I checked, "capitalism" doesn't quite mean "eat the costs for the benefit of your customers."
I mean, I can understand that I may be some fluke minority here...but at least these were my experiences.
1.) I don't know about health insurance, since I live in Canada. As a middle income worker, I will never trade my OHIP plan for your American "tax cuts." So yes, maybe your government fubared health care, but that doesn't mean government meddling doesn't work.
2.) Proof of rising trend in car insurance? Oh yeah, I see that right in my car insurance bill (and no, I haven't gotten into an accident/caught speeding/etc., yet).
Remember, capitalism only works when there is a lot of competition. When your 3 local hospitals are the only ones around, that's not a lot of competition. You'd just end up with another "Diamonds Are Forever" (c? tm? whatever...).
What you're saying is actually a generalizing statement. It's similar to saying that because (so far) the Conroe is better than the K8 (this is the general overview), the integrated memory controller on the K8 is worthless and Intel shouldn't copy it (then you specify that the specifics aren't worthwhile because of the general overview argument, and this is flawed). There's a good portion of the DeltaChrome system that performs better than its ATi or nVidia counterparts. And revealing the driver source will reveal how they designed these parts of the system. If S3 Graphics did open source their drivers, they'd lose every bit of advantage they can use to "level" the playing field.
Actually, S3 does have a Linux driver team. And Mac drivers are built by Apple, not by the vid card manufacturers (the vid card manufacturers provide the specs). So worry not, it'll be there in due time.
By your reasoning, then why bother writing OSX programs in the first place? The point is that people write programs for OSX because they want to, not because they're somehow stuck with a Mac and can't write something for the PC. This is giving people who use program Y that was never "ported" to the Mac platform (and thus can't switch over) a reason to switch over. Of course, this is also giving a lot of convenience to long-time Mac users who just can't seem to get any games.
Now, only if I can plug in any PCIE gfx card and be able to get the OSX drivers for them, I'll be all set....
I agree with you, and I think the attitude of the GP is the part of the main stigma of the Linux community. If you just look at the front page of Linux HA, you'll realize that it's trying to appeal to the masses and gain acceptance. However, attitudes like the GP totally serve in the opposite direction. No wonder people ask why Linux isn't gaining acceptance: it's because of people like the GP and the ones in the channel. At least with OSes like Windows, I get support and the software works out-of-the-box.
On the other hand, I've had good experiences with certain distros myself (free, that is). The help channel was nice and didn't end each sentence with "RTFM, noob." The people there actually pointed to some forum topics for my particular problem (as well as updating the docs). But even then, keep in mind that one bad experience is all that's need to drive a user and his/her friend away for a long time, especially if it's an uphill battle like an OS switch.
You mean the software (or more specificially source code, in this case) is made available as required by the license?
Also, if the "free support" you get doesn't work 100% of the time or results in being klined from the support channel, I think that's hardly an incentive for a user to pay for "real support."
Sorry about the bold, but I forgot to use the slash in the closing tag. But either way, the 4.5M came from the parent to my original post, not my own numbers. And even then, it just further shows that Blizzard is sitting on a gold mine, pretty much literally-speaking.
You mean, 4.5M players * $12.95/month/player * 12months/year = $699.3M per year. But yeah, they're definitely sitting on an excessive-excessive surplus.
Argh, didn't notice the parsing problem. Meant to say: "...even when you only need less than 3V to run it at spec."
This is a very big problem overall. One of the points of these reviews is to give the consumer a better idea of how a product overclocks (the point of whether or not this is above rated spec is irrelevant nowadays). The memory manufacturers have all caught on to this, which is why some memory manufacturers even give warranties of "you won't void your memory's warranty as long as you don't go above 3.1V," even when you only need
Furthermore, if you look at it from an overclocking perspective, it's not just "50MHz" anymore. The memory's spec is actually 333MHz, so the difference is 421 - 333 = 88MHz versus 471 - 333 = 138MHz, an approximately 57% increase (this is mainly directed at what others posters are calling "10%"). As you can see, when a product is being advertised (since this sample was sent to Tom's for review in the first place) as "enthusiast" or "performance" part, this then is classified as deceptive practice on the memory manufacturers' end. Moreover, from reported user experience (just keep up with the user forums on overclocking at sites like Tom's, Anand's, or [H]ardOCP), the differences between the review and what people buy off the shelves should not be this large.
Even more so: cell phones. A lot of them already use the ARM architechture. Now it's just making sure all the components work together with the asynchonous chip.
I don't know about you, but when I heard about the news yesterday, of the 4 friends I spoke to since then (yes, I have friends, har har, joke's been beaten to death and raised for another beating, for a slashdotter), two wants to get a MacBook Pro (they are currently PC users), one started thinking about it, and the fourth told me two of his friends considered, and who himself is already a Mac user. So, if that and the $10 surge in stock price (14% gain) since yesterday morning isn't indicative enough of the popularity of the move, then at least Apple will gain an expected 2.5 more customers (assuming 50% chance of each of these people, including myself, switching over).