While the task of figuring out which pixels go to which triangles isn't easily parallelisable, running pixel and vertex shaders is. THAT's what the stream processors are used for.
If you want games, you buy a console: Wii or PS3. The PS2 is still outselling Xbox. PS2 isn't (never did, assuming you mean the "xbox 360", not "xbox"), but PS3 is. When did THAT happen? Did they make a limited candy edition? It even outsold the Wii on the week ending 14th June 2008 (most recent data available on VGChartz.com).
He meant the highest factor except for the number itself. Otherwise it doesn't matter what number you put in, the highest factor is always that number.
No, don't be stupid. Any half-decent games engine nowadays does everything with parallel threads. They (cpu and gpu) still have to wait on each other if they finish early (to synchronise the frames), but they will spend at least 50% of their time both running at once. Ideally it would be 95%+, but games are often unbalanced in favour of graphics complexity these days.
And then there are the Universities advertising Java and Flash courses as "Computer Games Programming". It took me some digging to find a uni that actually taught C/C++ and 3D games programming.
Surprisingly it was in Middlesbrough. The University of Teesside. They taught me C, C++, Direct-X (3D, Input and Play), OpenGL, Linux programming, Windows programming, AI, procedural texture generation, vector/matrix/quaternion/boolean maths,...
You might notice that the entry requirements don't require A-Level or even GCSE IT, which is good as those courses are generally "how to use MS office" as you said.
Depends where in the world you are. It's midnight to midnight in Thailand. I think.
There's not really such a thing as a worldwide "day". Either you choose an arbitrary 24-hour period, or you use 00:00 to 24:00 UTC (i.e. an arbitrary 24-hour period).
Technically "partner" spam IS solicited. You agreed with one of their partners that THEIR partners (i.e. Amazon etc.) could send you advertisements by email.
Wrong. http://www.eve-online.com/download/linux.asp They provide.rpm,.deb and.tgz downloads. Technically it's built with Transgaming's "cider" windows api for linux (based on wine).
It's been said that the holodeck technology shares a lot in common with transporter/replicator tech, and as a result can produce real food and dispose of "waste" itself.
I've got a very wierd slightly pidgin-related problem.
It all stems from the fact that I have the EXACT same email address for my msn account (not hotmail, a bt email address registered with microsoft's passport) as for my yahoo account (yahoo im accounts aren't normally email addresses, but bt did a deal with yahoo for them to handle their email, and everyone got their @bt email address as a yahoo account). This would be fine, except that all messages that get sent via yahoo end up going to my msn account, even if I'm signed in to yahoo at the time. Even better, pidgin doesn't seem to receive yahoo->msn crossover IMs, so even though I'm signed into yahoo, and pidgin's idea of signed into msn, I don't receive any yahoo IMs until I sign into the official msn client.
The 9800 GX2's GPUs have 128 1.5GHz "shader processors". 8 of these is like having 1024 vector-processing-specialised processor cores at your command.
I could easily believe that it performed comparably to 300 2.4GHz Core 2 Duos (aka 600 "over 1.5x faster but not vector-specialised" cores).
Theoretical performance is 576 GFLOPS per 9800 GX2 GPU (4.608 TFLOPS total) vs 19.2 GFLOPS per Core 2 CPU (5.760 TFLOPS total). However in tests the Core 2 gets as low as 6 GFLOPS instead of it's 19 theoretical, and the 9800 GPU gets a lot closer to it's full power.
Vista includes a lot more drivers on the disk, because it's a new release, so the drivers actually existed when the disk was pressed. You can load drivers from cd or usb pen during the installer (no more needing a floppy drive!). It asks all the questions at the start. It doesn't spend years loading drivers for hardware that hasn't been used in 5 years before starting. You only boot once to install. It even installs faster than XP did.
I'm not surprised Windows ME bluescreened on you on it's first boot, it was a pile of crap.
Hunting down drivers for non-standard hardware you'll still have to do, but Microsoft includes a surprising number on the Vista disk and Windows update.
NOTE: Despite the much improved installer, MS hasn't lured me to actually installing Vista on my main pc. It took me ages to get XP set up to behave right, I'll be damned if I'll switch now.
If you get a good embedded sata controller like the one built in to modern nvidia nforce motherboards, each sata socket shows up as an standard IDE channel to the OS, allowing you to use it without specialist drivers (if you're not using raid).
XP's installer's insistence on floppy disks or slipstreaming for new drivers is a pain, but Vista's installer is a major improvement and takes drivers on any media during the installer.
and why a query *1*2*3* does not bring back any meaningful results (Google treats it like an arithmetic expression and gives you a '6' while many users expect '*' to be a wildcard). No? Google does treat it as a wildcard expression, though it's not much use. If you mean 1*2*3, then there's a link on the page for "Search for documents containing the terms 1*2*3." for when you don't want calculator interfering.
I'm going to keep my speeds below 100mph in future, because that's the speed that determines whether you face a fixed penalty or have to go to court in the UK.. Not true, I had the penalty for my 96mph ticket decided in court. I think the limit for a fixed penalty is actually 95mph. Either that or the speed varies depending on how many people they get in court... I didn't lose my license for any time for the 96mph ticket, and neither did I have to appear in court, I just had to submit a statement. It affected my car insurance pretty badly though.
An emulator manually interprets the original system's machine code, solving a hardware incompatibility, a compatibility layer only implements an API (in Wine's case the Windows API), solving an OS incompatibility. Technically an emulator doesn't have to be on different hardware to the original, but it's fairly pointless to do. Dosbox is technically both an emulator and compatibility layer, because it covers both hardware and OS changes, most emulators run the original hardware's OS (if it has one). The Java Runtime would be an emulator if it wasn't for the fact that there is no hardware that runs Java bytecode natively (or at least, it came after the Java Runtime).
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While the task of figuring out which pixels go to which triangles isn't easily parallelisable, running pixel and vertex shaders is. THAT's what the stream processors are used for.
He meant the highest factor except for the number itself. Otherwise it doesn't matter what number you put in, the highest factor is always that number.
No, don't be stupid. Any half-decent games engine nowadays does everything with parallel threads.
They (cpu and gpu) still have to wait on each other if they finish early (to synchronise the frames), but they will spend at least 50% of their time both running at once. Ideally it would be 95%+, but games are often unbalanced in favour of graphics complexity these days.
Don't forget futuristic shooters, futuristic rtss and driving games.
And then there are the Universities advertising Java and Flash courses as "Computer Games Programming". It took me some digging to find a uni that actually taught C/C++ and 3D games programming.
Surprisingly it was in Middlesbrough. The University of Teesside. They taught me C, C++, Direct-X (3D, Input and Play), OpenGL, Linux programming, Windows programming, AI, procedural texture generation, vector/matrix/quaternion/boolean maths, ...
See here if you're interested:
http://www.tees.ac.uk/Undergraduate_courses/Animation_Games_&_Visualisation/BSc_(Hons)_Computer_Games_Programming.cfm
They've also added "Computer Games Science" and "Games Graphics Programming" courses since I was there a few years ago, as well as having "Games Art" and "Games Design" courses.
You might notice that the entry requirements don't require A-Level or even GCSE IT, which is good as those courses are generally "how to use MS office" as you said.
I looked it up once, 40 rods to the hogshead is about the same as the space shuttle does.
Going straight up.
Depends where in the world you are. It's midnight to midnight in Thailand. I think.
There's not really such a thing as a worldwide "day". Either you choose an arbitrary 24-hour period, or you use 00:00 to 24:00 UTC (i.e. an arbitrary 24-hour period).
Normally it's a box you have to untick, or it's part of the terms of service (which you have to tick a box saying you agree to).
Sorry, you agreed to it somewhere.
Technically "partner" spam IS solicited. You agreed with one of their partners that THEIR partners (i.e. Amazon etc.) could send you advertisements by email.
You agreed to it.
You're missing a "<"
Wrong. .rpm, .deb and .tgz downloads.
http://www.eve-online.com/download/linux.asp
They provide
Technically it's built with Transgaming's "cider" windows api for linux (based on wine).
Well the easiest way to tell is because they're always in the same order. I've yet to meet someone who gets up and down the wrong way round :P
There's also the "stop no matter what, and go if the person behind me uses their horn" method. I've heard that that works quite well.
It's been said that the holodeck technology shares a lot in common with transporter/replicator tech, and as a result can produce real food and dispose of "waste" itself.
Or at least, the Faction Warfare expansion being released on Tuesday. See: http://www.eveonline.com/empyreanage/
See: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=577465&cid=23700981
For an insightful reply.
I've got a very wierd slightly pidgin-related problem.
It all stems from the fact that I have the EXACT same email address for my msn account (not hotmail, a bt email address registered with microsoft's passport) as for my yahoo account (yahoo im accounts aren't normally email addresses, but bt did a deal with yahoo for them to handle their email, and everyone got their @bt email address as a yahoo account).
This would be fine, except that all messages that get sent via yahoo end up going to my msn account, even if I'm signed in to yahoo at the time. Even better, pidgin doesn't seem to receive yahoo->msn crossover IMs, so even though I'm signed into yahoo, and pidgin's idea of signed into msn, I don't receive any yahoo IMs until I sign into the official msn client.
Wierd huh?
The 9800 GX2's GPUs have 128 1.5GHz "shader processors". 8 of these is like having 1024 vector-processing-specialised processor cores at your command.
I could easily believe that it performed comparably to 300 2.4GHz Core 2 Duos (aka 600 "over 1.5x faster but not vector-specialised" cores).
Theoretical performance is 576 GFLOPS per 9800 GX2 GPU (4.608 TFLOPS total) vs 19.2 GFLOPS per Core 2 CPU (5.760 TFLOPS total). However in tests the Core 2 gets as low as 6 GFLOPS instead of it's 19 theoretical, and the 9800 GPU gets a lot closer to it's full power.
In Soviet Russia, YOU shoot Soviet Shark with YOUR forehead laser.
How's that?
Vista includes a lot more drivers on the disk, because it's a new release, so the drivers actually existed when the disk was pressed. You can load drivers from cd or usb pen during the installer (no more needing a floppy drive!). It asks all the questions at the start. It doesn't spend years loading drivers for hardware that hasn't been used in 5 years before starting. You only boot once to install. It even installs faster than XP did.
I'm not surprised Windows ME bluescreened on you on it's first boot, it was a pile of crap.
Hunting down drivers for non-standard hardware you'll still have to do, but Microsoft includes a surprising number on the Vista disk and Windows update.
NOTE: Despite the much improved installer, MS hasn't lured me to actually installing Vista on my main pc. It took me ages to get XP set up to behave right, I'll be damned if I'll switch now.
Try installing Vista, most of your complaints have been addressed.
If you get a good embedded sata controller like the one built in to modern nvidia nforce motherboards, each sata socket shows up as an standard IDE channel to the OS, allowing you to use it without specialist drivers (if you're not using raid).
XP's installer's insistence on floppy disks or slipstreaming for new drivers is a pain, but Vista's installer is a major improvement and takes drivers on any media during the installer.
I didn't lose my license for any time for the 96mph ticket, and neither did I have to appear in court, I just had to submit a statement. It affected my car insurance pretty badly though.
An emulator manually interprets the original system's machine code, solving a hardware incompatibility, a compatibility layer only implements an API (in Wine's case the Windows API), solving an OS incompatibility. Technically an emulator doesn't have to be on different hardware to the original, but it's fairly pointless to do.
Dosbox is technically both an emulator and compatibility layer, because it covers both hardware and OS changes, most emulators run the original hardware's OS (if it has one).
The Java Runtime would be an emulator if it wasn't for the fact that there is no hardware that runs Java bytecode natively (or at least, it came after the Java Runtime).