What sickens me here is far more serious offenses than this go ignored if reported by your average citizen. I know countless people who've been the victims of theft or internet fraud, and even with names and addresses of the perps they haven't had any action taken, just another report going in the file bin.
Graphics cards which can rival their desktop equivilents have been the main bottleneck to laptop gaming. They've come a long way over the last few years though.
I have personally just hit the threshold where I'm prepared to give up my desktop gaming for the convenience of a laptop - I just purchased a Dell XPS M170 which includes a GeForce 7800 Go. It benchmarks at 87fps on Doom 3, high quality, 1024x768, 4xAA, which is on par with higher end desktops.
"In a few years, there will be no real benefit to the GPU"
Nonsense - we're actually going in the other direction, we need more general purpose massively parallel processing units to go beyond current hardware limitations. Dual CPUs do not come close to the level of parallelism we have on GPUs. Rendering a 1600x1200 4X AA scene with full filtering on a top tier dual core system would yield perhaps 1fps with an optimized software path. That gives you an idea of the order of magnitude you gain in performance with parallelizing these tasks on the GPU.
"[GPUs] need data structures and pointers mixed with fast math - preferably double precision. You'll end up wanting a MMU"
Nonsense. GPUs already do everything you need for raytracing. There are demos on the internet. Raytracing is ideally suited to GPUs - there's so much you can parallelize.
"Actually at that point it makes a lot of sense to move to raytracing "
Nonsense. You're off by orders of magnitude. Maybe they just haven't seen your fast code... *rolls eyes*
It was even worse than this. Around 97-98 there was a huge loophole in the Internic registration process whereby you could transfer the DNS servers without being the owner, via their "I've changed email" online forms for the technical contact. The only caveat was that the owner got an email telling them their account details had been changed. If the owner missed it (and usually they did), two days later the DNS swapped over.
At the time I was in high school, and being the little brat I was I transferred DNS on some large sites to certain other obscene sites because it was funneh. However, seems I could be living in a Tijuana mansion right now if I'd been a bit smarter.
What I'm most amazed about is nobody else seemed to catch on to this exploit, as it had the capacity to cripple the Internet in the wrong hands.
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What sickens me here is far more serious offenses than this go ignored if reported by your average citizen. I know countless people who've been the victims of theft or internet fraud, and even with names and addresses of the perps they haven't had any action taken, just another report going in the file bin.
Graphics cards which can rival their desktop equivilents have been the main bottleneck to laptop gaming. They've come a long way over the last few years though.
I have personally just hit the threshold where I'm prepared to give up my desktop gaming for the convenience of a laptop - I just purchased a Dell XPS M170 which includes a GeForce 7800 Go. It benchmarks at 87fps on Doom 3, high quality, 1024x768, 4xAA, which is on par with higher end desktops.
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"In a few years, there will be no real benefit to the GPU" Nonsense - we're actually going in the other direction, we need more general purpose massively parallel processing units to go beyond current hardware limitations. Dual CPUs do not come close to the level of parallelism we have on GPUs. Rendering a 1600x1200 4X AA scene with full filtering on a top tier dual core system would yield perhaps 1fps with an optimized software path. That gives you an idea of the order of magnitude you gain in performance with parallelizing these tasks on the GPU. "[GPUs] need data structures and pointers mixed with fast math - preferably double precision. You'll end up wanting a MMU" Nonsense. GPUs already do everything you need for raytracing. There are demos on the internet. Raytracing is ideally suited to GPUs - there's so much you can parallelize. "Actually at that point it makes a lot of sense to move to raytracing " Nonsense. You're off by orders of magnitude. Maybe they just haven't seen your fast code... *rolls eyes*
It was even worse than this. Around 97-98 there was a huge loophole in the Internic registration process whereby you could transfer the DNS servers without being the owner, via their "I've changed email" online forms for the technical contact. The only caveat was that the owner got an email telling them their account details had been changed. If the owner missed it (and usually they did), two days later the DNS swapped over. At the time I was in high school, and being the little brat I was I transferred DNS on some large sites to certain other obscene sites because it was funneh. However, seems I could be living in a Tijuana mansion right now if I'd been a bit smarter. What I'm most amazed about is nobody else seemed to catch on to this exploit, as it had the capacity to cripple the Internet in the wrong hands.