Now we just need more support from game developers.
The benefit games have is the 3D information was already there, even retroactively, so it could instantly work on a bunch of older titles.
It would be nice if NVidia would support OpenGL 3D-vision in games (again?). I've heard older drivers could do this but have never found any workable solution for current drivers.
Plus, although I wouldn't boast that, say, my tomatoes are world-class, they are a damn sight better than what the grocery store offers.
I thought this is why people grew their own in the first place. In my experience homegrown have a lot more flavor to them, store bought tomatoes taste bland in comparison after.
Or I suppose like yourself, actually enjoying it. I'd be more outcome driven about it myself, the work involved might not be completely proportional to the perceived increase in quality.
If I were to choose between a language with a shiny debugger and a language with well-chosen features that allow the programmer to write clean, readable code that works right the first time, I'd choose the latter. Additionally, I wouldn't need the debugger afterwards.
To each his own. I'm well past the illusion of "not needing a debugger", that is pure myth when dealing with significant complexity. I've had to deal with enough strange code other people have written. And when it's not your code then "works right the first time" doesn't mean a damn thing anyway. Congrats on getting to an autonomous position where you write (or rewrite?) everything.
Then check out Gambit-C debugger (an implementation of Scheme).
The garbage I've had to deal with lately is the Altera and Xilinx debuggers which are both hacked up versions of the gnu / gdb tool-chains. Like I said, you don't always have a choice. Sometimes the only thing available is terrible.
it is easier to learn- faster to compile- produces smaller.exes, runs much faster
Ok, lets talk about the debugging tools. Those are all nice things to have, and relatively important, but also probably not the main concern any longer, or at least not my main concern. Ever evolving hardware has managed to alleviate what may have been considered major feature points back in the day. I think ultimately when I'm "language shopping" debugging facilities would be my primary concern. Nobody is going to care about a language unless developers can produce working code in it.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, or using the wrong stuff, but Visual Studio pretty much dominates compared to a lot of debuggers I've been forced to use. Unfortunately in some cases there just isn't any other options available.
Awesome. Will it automatically spam all my Facebook friends every time I level up?
I'd almost be tempted to enable it. Would be a small slice of revenge for all the other pointless junk on there. Bonus points if Facebook also gets DDOS'd as a side effect of everyone doing it.
One of Blizzard's April Fools a while back was a Blackthorne sequel that would Facebook post (or maybe it was tweet) every single enemy you kill. That'd probably be enough to destroy either one of them.
And basically all that research and science was driven by the Cold War. Scientific research can't really justify the budget for this stuff based purely on potential for profit.
so that Office can appear to start up much faster than the competition
Ah yes, "the competition"... hmm, who exactly is that these days? Yeah, please don't say Libre/OpenOffice.
I'm not at all saying MSOffice is good, because in a lot of ways it's terrible, but honestly thinking there is real competition now is a bit outrageous.
First, the applications will actually go into the/Applications folder instead of being run from a mounted.dmg file.
Odd. In my experience most.dmg files I have downloaded have some auto popup showing you that you should be dragging the folder into/Applications (the unmount being assumed I suppose). Or even if the file didn't have the reminder what is stopping you?
Perhaps the programmers had the management-given task to replicate the game in every detail, noticed the bug and implemented it as well.
and I get a spec like "do it exactly like program X" very often
Reminds me of oddities related to Windows compatibility features. Sometimes what is required to make a program run "correctly" in newer versions of Windows is to replicate the previous broken API behavior because some program was designed around the way it previously "worked". Including buggy behavior can make sense in a certain context.
Also seen in other ways, like how OpenGL now passes an incomplete list of extensions to Quake so it doesn't crash on startup.
Got a link for more info? Not only have I never encountered a false positive from that tool, I've never seen it have any effect at all, even on obviously infected machines.
That tool is only designed to target a few very specific pieces of malware (ones known to be spreading that for some reason Microsoft has more interest in stopping). So unless you just happen to be infected with one of those, the normal effect it would have is nothing. It's not in any way intended to be a replacement for anti-virus software or anything like that.
Sennhieser 650 [sennheiserusa.com] - probably the best cost / performance headphone around.
+1 Accurate
When I started looking into getting higher end on my sound gear I researched the hell out of it and the HD650's is exactly the conclusion I reached. Anyone looking for serious quality should probably at least start there, and many will probably end there. I did recently replace my DAC & AMP with Bifrost & Asgard, and that's probably about as high as I'm willing to go. I played around with tubes for a while, but the solid state stuff really is up to the task these days. It really just comes down to personal preference. I did get a new cable from Moon Audio for the 650's, which is probably the only thing that could be considered questionable in my setup.
Using GPS data to determine "how well you make a turn" is BS
It's probably also BS for technology reasons as well. Unless TomTom is thinking about using high end GPS equipment with differential correction, something like how well a turn is taken just isn't going to show up. If they actually care about that, then TomTom should probably be looking at adding an accelerometer or two, perhaps even some other sensor (maybe they are, didn't RTFA). GPS will be useful for stuff like how far has this car driven over the past week or what routes does it take. I just don't see it being accurate enough for turn evaluation and still build something which is affordable for a typical car.
I can't run blender. Gnome 3 is very laggy when it works. I can't run Neverball for very long. Yet they think this driver needs OpenCL?
IMO, the motivation to have OpenCL working is completely separate from having functional accelerated video. Maybe it's just the people working on the driver are more interested in doing a compute project.
But they will be saying "why did they need so many damn servers?"
Reminds me of that story about how Facebook gets something like half the performance out of the same server hardware as Google. Too lazy to find link to it.
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Kinda weak overall, uninspiring and not very creative. IMO "inciting racial hatred" is rather generous considering the quality of his rhetoric.
Could easily find more offensive material in many competitive online games.
Now we just need more support from game developers.
The benefit games have is the 3D information was already there, even retroactively, so it could instantly work on a bunch of older titles.
It would be nice if NVidia would support OpenGL 3D-vision in games (again?). I've heard older drivers could do this but have never found any workable solution for current drivers.
Plus, although I wouldn't boast that, say, my tomatoes are world-class, they are a damn sight better than what the grocery store offers.
I thought this is why people grew their own in the first place. In my experience homegrown have a lot more flavor to them, store bought tomatoes taste bland in comparison after.
Or I suppose like yourself, actually enjoying it. I'd be more outcome driven about it myself, the work involved might not be completely proportional to the perceived increase in quality.
Overall it is very less violent than Harry Potter, except it brings up some very big real world things like Genocide.
As an added bonus, Card has also not attempted to retcon anyone into a homosexual. Card rips Rowling
If I were to choose between a language with a shiny debugger and a language with well-chosen features that allow the programmer to write clean, readable code that works right the first time, I'd choose the latter. Additionally, I wouldn't need the debugger afterwards.
To each his own. I'm well past the illusion of "not needing a debugger", that is pure myth when dealing with significant complexity. I've had to deal with enough strange code other people have written. And when it's not your code then "works right the first time" doesn't mean a damn thing anyway. Congrats on getting to an autonomous position where you write (or rewrite?) everything.
Then check out Gambit-C debugger (an implementation of Scheme).
The garbage I've had to deal with lately is the Altera and Xilinx debuggers which are both hacked up versions of the gnu / gdb tool-chains. Like I said, you don't always have a choice. Sometimes the only thing available is terrible.
it is easier to learn- faster to compile- produces smaller .exes, runs much faster
Ok, lets talk about the debugging tools. Those are all nice things to have, and relatively important, but also probably not the main concern any longer, or at least not my main concern. Ever evolving hardware has managed to alleviate what may have been considered major feature points back in the day. I think ultimately when I'm "language shopping" debugging facilities would be my primary concern. Nobody is going to care about a language unless developers can produce working code in it.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, or using the wrong stuff, but Visual Studio pretty much dominates compared to a lot of debuggers I've been forced to use. Unfortunately in some cases there just isn't any other options available.
Awesome. Will it automatically spam all my Facebook friends every time I level up?
I'd almost be tempted to enable it. Would be a small slice of revenge for all the other pointless junk on there. Bonus points if Facebook also gets DDOS'd as a side effect of everyone doing it.
One of Blizzard's April Fools a while back was a Blackthorne sequel that would Facebook post (or maybe it was tweet) every single enemy you kill. That'd probably be enough to destroy either one of them.
For the last 6, I've gone untreated.
consider that I drink 4 cups of caffeinated coffee daily at work
So not entirely untreated... unless you only consider prescription drugs to be treatment.
And they just launched the full edition on the Xbox
"Full edition"? That's a rather ambiguous term considering that the Xbox version will be several iterations behind the PC version on release.
Where is the line drawn for full exactly? Survival mode?
For those cables, I think that would be a Ferrite Bead.
And basically all that research and science was driven by the Cold War. Scientific research can't really justify the budget for this stuff based purely on potential for profit.
and the fact that its so damned hard to change is also a bug in the system
Working as intended? You might not like the system requirements, but that doesn't make it a bug.
Going out drinking 5-6 times a week? Dude, if the GP is doing that, then guess what- they have an alcohol problem.
Yes, a fairly serious problem at that, he might be sober 1 or 2 nights a week. Corrective action is clearly needed.
so that Office can appear to start up much faster than the competition
Ah yes, "the competition"... hmm, who exactly is that these days? Yeah, please don't say Libre/OpenOffice.
I'm not at all saying MSOffice is good, because in a lot of ways it's terrible, but honestly thinking there is real competition now is a bit outrageous.
First, the applications will actually go into the /Applications folder instead of being run from a mounted .dmg file.
Odd. In my experience most .dmg files I have downloaded have some auto popup showing you that you should be dragging the folder into /Applications (the unmount being assumed I suppose). Or even if the file didn't have the reminder what is stopping you?
Perhaps the programmers had the management-given task to replicate the game in every detail, noticed the bug and implemented it as well.
and I get a spec like "do it exactly like program X" very often
Reminds me of oddities related to Windows compatibility features. Sometimes what is required to make a program run "correctly" in newer versions of Windows is to replicate the previous broken API behavior because some program was designed around the way it previously "worked". Including buggy behavior can make sense in a certain context.
Also seen in other ways, like how OpenGL now passes an incomplete list of extensions to Quake so it doesn't crash on startup.
you were either with the child pornographers or with the government
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.
I refuse to use any program besides a browser that relies on web access.
So, how far has your clock drifted?
Got a link for more info? Not only have I never encountered a false positive from that tool, I've never seen it have any effect at all, even on obviously infected machines.
That tool is only designed to target a few very specific pieces of malware (ones known to be spreading that for some reason Microsoft has more interest in stopping). So unless you just happen to be infected with one of those, the normal effect it would have is nothing. It's not in any way intended to be a replacement for anti-virus software or anything like that.
Sennhieser 650 [sennheiserusa.com] - probably the best cost / performance headphone around.
+1 Accurate
When I started looking into getting higher end on my sound gear I researched the hell out of it and the HD650's is exactly the conclusion I reached. Anyone looking for serious quality should probably at least start there, and many will probably end there. I did recently replace my DAC & AMP with Bifrost & Asgard, and that's probably about as high as I'm willing to go. I played around with tubes for a while, but the solid state stuff really is up to the task these days. It really just comes down to personal preference. I did get a new cable from Moon Audio for the 650's, which is probably the only thing that could be considered questionable in my setup.
Using GPS data to determine "how well you make a turn" is BS
It's probably also BS for technology reasons as well. Unless TomTom is thinking about using high end GPS equipment with differential correction, something like how well a turn is taken just isn't going to show up. If they actually care about that, then TomTom should probably be looking at adding an accelerometer or two, perhaps even some other sensor (maybe they are, didn't RTFA). GPS will be useful for stuff like how far has this car driven over the past week or what routes does it take. I just don't see it being accurate enough for turn evaluation and still build something which is affordable for a typical car.
I can't run blender. Gnome 3 is very laggy when it works. I can't run Neverball for very long. Yet they think this driver needs OpenCL?
IMO, the motivation to have OpenCL working is completely separate from having functional accelerated video. Maybe it's just the people working on the driver are more interested in doing a compute project.
I like how you completely ignored Solaris yet still presented the comment as if it was a valid counterargument.
I also like how GP completely ignored Solaris. I just like the fact it is being ignored.
Assembly terrorist is clearly the biggest. You will probably know true terror after reading it.
But they will be saying "why did they need so many damn servers?"
Reminds me of that story about how Facebook gets something like half the performance out of the same server hardware as Google. Too lazy to find link to it.