You've obviously never done any 3D rendering:-) For such application, CPU = more pretty in half the time. I have been holding off upgrading for over a year now because I've been waiting for a solution that gives me 4 cores for less then $700. Looks like I'm getting close...
It's called google. For anyone old enough to remember, altavista, et al were very "dumb" searches; there were no heuristics involved other than popularity (the more instances of "string" on a page, the higher that page was ranked). Google changed that by adding page popularity (as well as other rules) to give more relevant results.
You need to watch out if you use a Marble Mouse -- I love them, they're the pants for FPS gaming, but I have gotten into the bad habit of leaning on it which has put undue pressure onto my wrist. And, guess what after 22 years of 105WPM, I'm starting to develop CTS.
The aforementioned advice is good for RSI, though: Change positions, take breaks.
MobyGames has been doing this with a custom interface specifically designed for game credits for over 7 years. Other sites like freshmeat.net have this covered for the OSS community. I don't really see the point of starting something like this... maybe half a decade ago, but not today.
"how will their new initiatives change your TV viewing experience?"
I hate to sound elitist, but for smart consumers, it changes nothing. Smart consumers have either built their own MythTV boxes, or use ReplayTV units, neither of which are affected by whatever the hell TiVo does. Both MythTV and ReplayTV boxen skip commercials without additional advertising (sometimes automatically), share shows with other units (sometimes over the internet), etc., etc...
If you lack curiousity to research other solutions, both free and commercial (pun not intended), then you deserve what you get. Sorry to sound pretentious...
Maybe in scope, but not in idea. There was a Dreamcast game (whose name escapes me right now) that did exactly the same thing: You started life as a lower organism, and evolved.
"1994: The computer scientist and game programmer Andre LaMothe writes the quintessential book on game programming, "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus". The book is dense with useful information, humor, and actual theory on game programming."
I hope you're kidding. Have you actually read the book? It may be hard to interpret 12 years later, but at the time it was published, it was a day late and a dollar short. It was state-of-the-art for 1992 -- a shame, since the book was published in 1994. It wasn't worthless, but it wasn't helpful.
Yes, and every single grandmother in the world who wants to do this has a tech-savvy grandson. Not.
It doesn't matter -- I am quite technically savvy and yet I still use the free Wordpress service because I don't want to pay a hosting company to have a blog.
Not to pimp my own product too heavily, but you can get a perfect version of this, with commentary from Future Crew themselves, on Mindcandy Volume 1. See www.mindcandydvd.com for details.
You can't use DMA to transfer mem-to-mem if you are using a Sound Blaster. DMA has two usuable channels on 8088, 0 and 1. DMA 0 is used for RAM refresh, so that leaves 1 -- and Sound Blaster Pro can only use DMA 1. So no, I didn't have the option of using DMA for the memory updates.
On a mixed benchmark of general instructions, integer math, register-to-memory, memory-to-memory, etc. operations, a 4.77MHz 8088 is generally 0.2 MIPs, not 1 MIPS.
To the other posters: Yes, you can do digitized sound via the PC Speaker, but it almost completely ties up the machine leaving no free cycles for video playback. You need at least 30fps for decent motion (our brain is generally more sensitive to frequency than amplitude when it comes to motion) so that was the standard I reverse-engineered from.
Because it's not spinning at a high enough rate. Most laptop drives aren't "high performance" due to size and power considerations. My Thinkpad drive has three modes, and even the "high performance" mode is only 4X DVD rate (verified with Nero CDSPEED tool).
But the more alarming question is, why are you deliberatly tilting your drive while it's in operation? To test the theory?? That's like saying "I've seen glass shatter; I know that hammers are strong and heavy; let me hit my car window with this hammer to see if a hammer is strong and heavy enough to shatter glass!"
"CD Walkmans are much less likely to scratch CDs because the CD is held in place parallel to the disc tray"
No, CD walkmans are less likely to scratch because they spin at 1.5 or 2X the rate needed to read the CD; very low RPMs. The Xbox360 spins at crazy RPMs for speed -- at that point, the disc+drive is a gryoscope. You remember what it felt like to try to move a gyroscope as a kid, right? The damn thing generates its own gravity.
Anyone stupid enough to move their console while the disc is spinning deserves to learn a lession from the experience and pay for the replacement fee.
Even if modern printers don't do LPT any more, my postscript printer of 10+ years is still chugging and I'm glad to be able to keep using it for quick preview/markup jobs. For this reason, I'm glad they haven't gone away. (Don't refer me to parallel-to-USB adapters, they're all crap, I've tried three from three different brands.)
"3) Virtual PC and WINE running under Linux do not use the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine."
Uh, hello? Virtual PC most certainly does. It's just a virtualized PC that runs all of WinXP, so it is most definitely vulnerable.
Of course, the worst that could happen is that your virtual disk image would be completely boffoed -- unless you're mounting filesystems between Virtual PC and *nix...
Faster processing, you maroon. 64-bit computing's advantages reach far beyond the additional memory space.
For the uninitiated: There are 64-bit instructions that can perform operations on 64-bit registers at the same number of cycles (or less!) as their 32-bit equivalents. It's an automatic speedup -- at the same clock speed -- for certain types of programming challenges that know to use those instructions if detected.
I upgraded my TiVo's 30 gig hard drive to two 120's, and installed a cachecard/network card combo from 9th Tee, which means I can do fun tricks like scheduling shows and season passes from the road, or watching shows in my bedroom on my XBOX.
Sheesh, I've been doing that on my ReplayTV 50x0 unit for 4 years now, and the only thing I had to touch was the new hard drive I put in. I honestly don't understand why ReplayTV units haven't dominated the planet by now. Poor marketing, maybe?
Is there a way to hack Tivo so that it produces standard D1 MPEG-2? (720x480) Because until it does, I won't buy one (transferring educational shows to DVD for my kids is something I do every month and I'm not going to re-encode Tivo's wacko resolution at a loss in quality)
Well, meet your long-lost clone. I too am a model M nut, and I too covet my trackball. However, I never got the model you like because I coulnd't play FPS games with it... instead I went for their el-cheap-o $29 model where my hand rests firmly on top of the ball.
At work, I managed to procure one of the Model Ms with the built-in trackpoint... I almost shot a load when I finally got my hands on it.:-) All day at work my hands NEVER LEAVE THE KEYBOARD. It's ludicrous how much faster I can work than my coworkers:-)
"I was pretty mad when they disabled my auto-commercial-skip that I enabled with the easy registry hack. That alone made me not want to recommend them to my friends anymore."
Oh, so you recommend the other DVR that *does* have auto-commercial-skip? Oh, wait, there isn't one.
"I don't think they are manufacturing them anymore... just selling the rest of their warehouse."
Rumor? Proof?
Yeah, I don't think negative word-of-mouth helps either. Thanks.
PS: Your 55xx units had a manual commercial skip even after the automatic one was disabled (just press right-arrow to jump to the next segment).
I have no idea why people don't mention ReplayTV -- in fact, I'm completely stymied as to why ReplayTV units aren't the dominant force out there. They have TiVo beat on features and capture quality (Replay's medium and high quality NTSC modes are 720x480, whereas TiVo's "high" quality is 480x480 and "best" quality is 544x480), and they have MythTV/homebrews beat on cost.
I seriously don't understand why ReplayTVs aren't in more homes. If anyone knows, please explain it to me.
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How do you use that phrase INcorrectly?
You've obviously never done any 3D rendering :-) For such application, CPU = more pretty in half the time. I have been holding off upgrading for over a year now because I've been waiting for a solution that gives me 4 cores for less then $700. Looks like I'm getting close...
It's called google. For anyone old enough to remember, altavista, et al were very "dumb" searches; there were no heuristics involved other than popularity (the more instances of "string" on a page, the higher that page was ranked). Google changed that by adding page popularity (as well as other rules) to give more relevant results.
You need to watch out if you use a Marble Mouse -- I love them, they're the pants for FPS gaming, but I have gotten into the bad habit of leaning on it which has put undue pressure onto my wrist. And, guess what after 22 years of 105WPM, I'm starting to develop CTS.
The aforementioned advice is good for RSI, though: Change positions, take breaks.
MobyGames has been doing this with a custom interface specifically designed for game credits for over 7 years. Other sites like freshmeat.net have this covered for the OSS community. I don't really see the point of starting something like this... maybe half a decade ago, but not today.
It's a DVR -- disk space a-plenty. Just record the news too :-)
"how will their new initiatives change your TV viewing experience?"
I hate to sound elitist, but for smart consumers, it changes nothing. Smart consumers have either built their own MythTV boxes, or use ReplayTV units, neither of which are affected by whatever the hell TiVo does. Both MythTV and ReplayTV boxen skip commercials without additional advertising (sometimes automatically), share shows with other units (sometimes over the internet), etc., etc...
If you lack curiousity to research other solutions, both free and commercial (pun not intended), then you deserve what you get. Sorry to sound pretentious...
"the increased resolution on DVDs (480p vs 480i)"
You're misinformed. 480 lines is 480 lines. There is not magically more resolution in DVDs now that you have better gear.
"It's really something new."
Maybe in scope, but not in idea. There was a Dreamcast game (whose name escapes me right now) that did exactly the same thing: You started life as a lower organism, and evolved.
"1994: The computer scientist and game programmer Andre LaMothe writes the quintessential book on game programming, "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus". The book is dense with useful information, humor, and actual theory on game programming."
I hope you're kidding. Have you actually read the book? It may be hard to interpret 12 years later, but at the time it was published, it was a day late and a dollar short. It was state-of-the-art for 1992 -- a shame, since the book was published in 1994. It wasn't worthless, but it wasn't helpful.
(once grandson has installed the backend)
Yes, and every single grandmother in the world who wants to do this has a tech-savvy grandson. Not.
It doesn't matter -- I am quite technically savvy and yet I still use the free Wordpress service because I don't want to pay a hosting company to have a blog.
That is indeed what a "seamonkey" (brine shrimp) looks like.
Not to pimp my own product too heavily, but you can get a perfect version of this, with commentary from Future Crew themselves, on Mindcandy Volume 1. See www.mindcandydvd.com for details.
You can't use DMA to transfer mem-to-mem if you are using a Sound Blaster. DMA has two usuable channels on 8088, 0 and 1. DMA 0 is used for RAM refresh, so that leaves 1 -- and Sound Blaster Pro can only use DMA 1. So no, I didn't have the option of using DMA for the memory updates.
On a mixed benchmark of general instructions, integer math, register-to-memory, memory-to-memory, etc. operations, a 4.77MHz 8088 is generally 0.2 MIPs, not 1 MIPS.
To the other posters: Yes, you can do digitized sound via the PC Speaker, but it almost completely ties up the machine leaving no free cycles for video playback. You need at least 30fps for decent motion (our brain is generally more sensitive to frequency than amplitude when it comes to motion) so that was the standard I reverse-engineered from.
Because it's not spinning at a high enough rate. Most laptop drives aren't "high performance" due to size and power considerations. My Thinkpad drive has three modes, and even the "high performance" mode is only 4X DVD rate (verified with Nero CDSPEED tool).
But the more alarming question is, why are you deliberatly tilting your drive while it's in operation? To test the theory?? That's like saying "I've seen glass shatter; I know that hammers are strong and heavy; let me hit my car window with this hammer to see if a hammer is strong and heavy enough to shatter glass!"
"CD Walkmans are much less likely to scratch CDs because the CD is held in place parallel to the disc tray"
No, CD walkmans are less likely to scratch because they spin at 1.5 or 2X the rate needed to read the CD; very low RPMs. The Xbox360 spins at crazy RPMs for speed -- at that point, the disc+drive is a gryoscope. You remember what it felt like to try to move a gyroscope as a kid, right? The damn thing generates its own gravity.
Anyone stupid enough to move their console while the disc is spinning deserves to learn a lession from the experience and pay for the replacement fee.
Uh... printers?
Even if modern printers don't do LPT any more, my postscript printer of 10+ years is still chugging and I'm glad to be able to keep using it for quick preview/markup jobs. For this reason, I'm glad they haven't gone away. (Don't refer me to parallel-to-USB adapters, they're all crap, I've tried three from three different brands.)
"3) Virtual PC and WINE running under Linux do not use the Microsoft Graphics Rendering Engine."
Uh, hello? Virtual PC most certainly does. It's just a virtualized PC that runs all of WinXP, so it is most definitely vulnerable.
Of course, the worst that could happen is that your virtual disk image would be completely boffoed -- unless you're mounting filesystems between Virtual PC and *nix...
Faster processing, you maroon. 64-bit computing's advantages reach far beyond the additional memory space.
For the uninitiated: There are 64-bit instructions that can perform operations on 64-bit registers at the same number of cycles (or less!) as their 32-bit equivalents. It's an automatic speedup -- at the same clock speed -- for certain types of programming challenges that know to use those instructions if detected.
I upgraded my TiVo's 30 gig hard drive to two 120's, and installed a cachecard/network card combo from 9th Tee, which means I can do fun tricks like scheduling shows and season passes from the road, or watching shows in my bedroom on my XBOX.
Sheesh, I've been doing that on my ReplayTV 50x0 unit for 4 years now, and the only thing I had to touch was the new hard drive I put in. I honestly don't understand why ReplayTV units haven't dominated the planet by now. Poor marketing, maybe?
Is there a way to hack Tivo so that it produces standard D1 MPEG-2? (720x480) Because until it does, I won't buy one (transferring educational shows to DVD for my kids is something I do every month and I'm not going to re-encode Tivo's wacko resolution at a loss in quality)
Well, meet your long-lost clone. I too am a model M nut, and I too covet my trackball. However, I never got the model you like because I coulnd't play FPS games with it... instead I went for their el-cheap-o $29 model where my hand rests firmly on top of the ball.
:-) All day at work my hands NEVER LEAVE THE KEYBOARD. It's ludicrous how much faster I can work than my coworkers :-)
At work, I managed to procure one of the Model Ms with the built-in trackpoint... I almost shot a load when I finally got my hands on it.
"Of course there's no pleasing the slashdot crowd."
Not when we've been around long enough to remember that mp3.com started as an "mp3 warez" site. Speaks volumes.
"You're right, they lost my endorsement when they disabled my auto-commercial-skip hack, manual commercial skip is lame."
You still didn't answer my question: If you're not recommending ReplayTV, what *are* you recommending?
"I was pretty mad when they disabled my auto-commercial-skip that I enabled with the easy registry hack. That alone made me not want to recommend them to my friends anymore."
Oh, so you recommend the other DVR that *does* have auto-commercial-skip? Oh, wait, there isn't one.
"I don't think they are manufacturing them anymore... just selling the rest of their warehouse."
Rumor? Proof?
Yeah, I don't think negative word-of-mouth helps either. Thanks.
PS: Your 55xx units had a manual commercial skip even after the automatic one was disabled (just press right-arrow to jump to the next segment).
I have no idea why people don't mention ReplayTV -- in fact, I'm completely stymied as to why ReplayTV units aren't the dominant force out there. They have TiVo beat on features and capture quality (Replay's medium and high quality NTSC modes are 720x480, whereas TiVo's "high" quality is 480x480 and "best" quality is 544x480), and they have MythTV/homebrews beat on cost.
I seriously don't understand why ReplayTVs aren't in more homes. If anyone knows, please explain it to me.