I'd heard from a friend who works at a Toyota/Lexus dealership that they are hardcore price gougers. They get the same parts for the Toyota's and the Lexus's, then two sets of stickers. If you're fixing a Toyota, you get a Toyota part and a Toyota sticker. If you're fixing your Lexus, you get a Toyota part and a Lexus sticker, with the price nearly doubled.
Extending this to 802.11 will be trivial. So then you're also going to have to register your cordless phones....ah and your microwaves too....all those devices that run on 2.4GHZ...?
But hey, some people like the feeling of empowerment that comes from wasting lots of time modifying scripts and tweaking config files to gain mediocre results.
You are right, some people DO like to "waste their time" and whatnot because
A) some people enjoy doing that
B) you gain knowledge for next time you want to stream a different format
C) you have complete control over what your application is doing, it's not a closed source binary that might phone home or come packaged with some spyware or something like that
will it make 3D games, especially FPS ones, any less tedious?
Exactly, this is the most importand aspect in my mind, especially with the current generation of high-requirement games (ala BF2, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter). These games are designed to be visually stunning, but Ghost Recon plagued my 256MB GeForce 6800 Ultra. I paid $850 for that card only 18 months ago. While im not debating the price, I bought that card figuring that it would perform at least "well-enough" for the next-gen games.
The only thing that makes GRAW even playable was the driver upgrade I had to perform. Before the game ran around 10fps with EXTREME input-lag. With the driver upgrade, the game has the bad performance for about 5 seconds before jumping up to around 40fps.
All I'm saying is that game developers should not only push the envelope for graphics quality but also go back and try to optimise rendering of current features (current texture sizes, current post effects such as bloom)
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I'd heard from a friend who works at a Toyota/Lexus dealership that they are hardcore price gougers. They get the same parts for the Toyota's and the Lexus's, then two sets of stickers. If you're fixing a Toyota, you get a Toyota part and a Toyota sticker. If you're fixing your Lexus, you get a Toyota part and a Lexus sticker, with the price nearly doubled.
At 30,000 feet, only Chuck Norris hears your scream!
A) some people enjoy doing that
B) you gain knowledge for next time you want to stream a different format
C) you have complete control over what your application is doing, it's not a closed source binary that might phone home or come packaged with some spyware or something like that
The only thing that makes GRAW even playable was the driver upgrade I had to perform. Before the game ran around 10fps with EXTREME input-lag. With the driver upgrade, the game has the bad performance for about 5 seconds before jumping up to around 40fps.
All I'm saying is that game developers should not only push the envelope for graphics quality but also go back and try to optimise rendering of current features (current texture sizes, current post effects such as bloom)
spend all that time making it a microkernel and just call it linux-2.8.1-titanic-r3