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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22243 |  larsig (780) Oct 24, 2009 - 08:30 am
| | Yeah, all I gotta say is wow. If there is little to no performance hit on this... it's like night and day. People are gonna freaking love dx11 cause it gives much for of an immediate and obvious difference, which dx10 didn't offer too much of. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22214 | larsig (780) Oct 14, 2009 - 10:26 pm
| In other words:
We accomplished nothing cause aside from getting them to fly us to their offices they would have done all that crap already. But since we made such a big deal lets make it looks like we did something by claiming credit. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22209 | larsig (780) Oct 13, 2009 - 11:05 pm
| Those are multi-data instructions, not true 128 bit instructions. If you included those as true 128 bit, then you might as well include almost all (If not all, absolutes tend to bite you in the ass) mainstream cpu's the past decade. The multi-data instuctions basically allow you to do operations on multiple values at once.
EE was a 32 bit MIPS cpu with a custom ISA that included 128 bit SIMD instructions. There is a distinction.
In short, yes, this would probably be the first true 128 bit cpu for consumers if not ever. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22201 | larsig (780) Oct 12, 2009 - 05:11 am
| Eh? what're you talking about? We have a lot of 64bit apps, many of them games. Why don't we see more? mostly cause there are few applications that would benefit from it - in the average consumer market anyway... And there are still a lot of 32bit comps out there. No reason to eliminate that market if you dont need to.
Besides, it's not exactly hard to build a 64bit app... Literally all you need to do is set a compiler flag (C++ anyway) and there you go... you got a 64bit app. Other languages, like java, holds no difference, hell you don't even need to build a separate version for 64bit. So I got no idea where you're going with your assertion that there are no 64bit apps out there. There are plenty, people are just ignorant to their presence. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22201 | larsig (780) Oct 09, 2009 - 12:55 pm
| yup.... 2^64
Personally I think a 128 bit os, and probably anything larger until we hit something monumental like true AI, would be used more for security than anything else.
For raw computation for everyday users, 32bit was sufficient. For quicker delivery of large amounts of content (ie games) 64bit is more than sufficient. Anything above doesn't deliver too much for anything that will be available for everyday consumers for the next few years.
Not to say we shouldn't advance - any progress is good. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22197 | larsig (780) Oct 07, 2009 - 07:16 pm
| Damn it man, stop making me feel old. I was still a naive and innocent *snigger* high schooler back then.
Christian Science is a news source. just like Fox news and Mass Effect sex simulator (roflmfao) they just want to provoke people to make money. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22146 | larsig (780) Sep 17, 2009 - 05:05 pm
| | or free to cs and cs-related majors :) Ah, the love microsoft shows to the developers of the next generation. Too bad apple has yet to follow suit with anything. Instead they brick a student's developer iphone with a faulty firmware update Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22144 | larsig (780) Sep 17, 2009 - 09:53 am
| | I like how he stresses using the gfx card for purposes other than graphics, making it more like the old fpu units back in the day where it ran alongside the cpu. Even funnier is that dx11 does allow for something like that with the computational shaders (or whatever it was called). Usual marketing drivel to make the other party look bad. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22135 | larsig (780) Sep 15, 2009 - 09:39 pm
| It's a feature!
Internal CS joke - Label a bug as a feature cause the customer/consumer usually doesnt know any better. ie an MMO made in one of my classes had a bug that caused your client to crash when you died. It was a feature to deter you from getting shot, it was the ultimate death.
g or n... dont think it matters much unless you plan on streaming hd video to your 360 over wireless, which is generally a bad idea anyway. Ignoring costs of the components, if you think about it Microsoft's use of components isn't a bad idea (hd-dvd drive... wireless adapter). You can pick up whatever components you want/need. Now if they would cut both the 360 price and the accessory prices.. cause $100 wireless adapter is just a ripoff. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22136 | larsig (780) Sep 15, 2009 - 09:29 pm
| So your life consists of bragging about your hardware here and post pictures of it on Tom's Hardware? Wow, I wish I had your life instead of hanging out with my friends getting drunk while playing Halo 3
Fine, my 2 cents on this:
The power consumption is atrocious, definitely hope they have a lower power mode when you are doing non-gaming or otherwise gfx card heavy stuff. Believe it or not I actually do work on my computer, not only play games. And when I say low power, I mean really low power % wise to bring the actual power consumption to the range of mid-low end cards of earlier gens. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22122 | larsig (780) Sep 11, 2009 - 10:14 am
| Maybe because of this realization amd will launch a campaign of overpricing their hardware and marketing it as more user friendly and stable than Intel's couterparts to falsely lead unwary consumers to think AMD is better than Intel. Then they will pounce on any perceived weakness and exploit and spread rumors against Intel CPU's to permanently damage the reputation of Intel's processors, deserved or not.
(Note - I don't consider AMD inferior in any way to Intel, both turn out great CPU's. My last two machines were AMD, my current one is Intel mostly due to the fact I got the CPU at a bargain) If you don't get the reference, you deserve to die the same way as Alan Turing (Suspected anyway). If you STILL don't get it with the power of the internet behind you, I fear for the future of humanity.
Back on track... maybe they think dropping the price now wont be of any benefit? Those with the money to spare to get a new CPU right now would probably pay the current prices. Lowering the prices may not draw in enough consumers to make up for lower profits. Might be their thought process right now. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22114 | larsig (780) Sep 09, 2009 - 09:48 am
| It's hardly bad for gamers. Without xbox live we wouldn't have nearly the online support from the other two that we have now. Of course that's not saying much, their services are still shitty in comparison. Just becaues you have to pay for something doesn't mean that its ruining gaming...
Pay $6-7 or so for hours of more gameplay, what is wrong with that? If all games stayed at $50 on release with no alternate revenue streams (no adds, no dlc etc) then the games and services we see now would be much worse off. Companies would have no incentive to invest money in something of questionable profitability, and as it stands they barely have any initiative.
True there are exceptions like Blizzard and valve of course, but consider how many companies like that exist. Activision/Blizzard has a cash cow and established name, they can afford to toss money around. Valve, they are an established name and know that whatever games they make will have a good chance of doing well. The other major publishers, EA, THQ and so on are in a bad spot even with the current model of dlc and so on. You may say they should just come out with better games, but think why are there bad games? Is it because the developers and publishers set out to make a bad game? Think about that. No one in the software industry wants their projects to fail, but it happens for various reasons, preventable and otherwise.
You can go on your rantings and crusades about cheaper games and free additional content all you like. You can boycott all these games/systems all you want. But this is reality, the real world. No one is altruistic at the core, we're all greedy bastard (Not necessarily in a monetary sense). For a company, to be truly altruistic (For the sake of others and not caring about consequences to one's self, good or bad) is financial suicide and contrary to the very nature of a corporation.
All those developers, artists, etc that spent thousands of man-hours on creating content, and they need to feed themselves and their families. To these corporations, they need to keep their employees and stockholders happy. How can they do this if gamers expect their main source of income to be cheaper (while cost of production increases) and provide free additional features? True valve is passing this content for free out to customers, but consider that this content is being distributed over Live, which wile is not additional content is a service like your internet and power. It takes a lot of time to develop for and maintain, do the people working on these projects not deserve to be compensated?
The next time you ask for something free, consider the people working on the products/services. Do they deserve to be paid? Do they deserve to have their living sustained at a level fitting for their skill and knowledge? Free is only an illusion, it is being paid for somehow, either by people working or the customer. I prefer the customer take the hit. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22102 | larsig (780) Sep 06, 2009 - 01:58 pm
| it doesn't look that old, and it definitely doesn't play like an old game. People keep insulting the source engine saying its old blah blah... But in reality, that was how the Source engine was designed. To be extensible and updatable to match changing technology. Really its quite a brillaint engine, think about how much less time they have to devote to writing an engine for every game and how much more time they have to make a good game.
Other than that, I wish this was an expansion rather than a full new game, but I'm sure a lot of people wish it too. Not angry enough at Valve to boycott the game though, it's still gonna be amazing and I would not want to miss out. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 | larsig (780) Sep 02, 2009 - 06:28 am
| | I was referring to the companies that are mostly pc-based. Being able to hack those systems (Given they would have higher security than most consumers) offers greater rewards than any particular person's computer. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22073 | larsig (780) Aug 31, 2009 - 12:06 pm
| Totally agree. Microsoft has invested a lot in Live. And contrary to what most people think, it takes work to maintain and develop for it. It takes several people thousands of hours of hard work to do it.
When you go to work do you get paid? I would hope so (otherwise its slavery). Contrary to what appears to be everyone's belief now, NOTHING is free. Everything takes money in one form or another. Just because you get something for "free" doesn't mean you're not sacrificing something for that, be it quality, or possibly ads, or the infamous hidden costs (like higher initial costs of products).
While altruism is great in theory and all, we're all greedy bastards and want reimbursement for our time and hard work. And corporations by their law and nature are the greediest and least altruistic of all people. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22039 | larsig (780) Aug 30, 2009 - 06:39 am
| You're still not getting it... that extra data that gets pushed to the page file does not get used while you're in high demand for memory... Yes there is an initial hit when the memory is getting allocated but after that it *should* stop paging. If its still paging, then you are consuming too much memory for your system (Your first example with xp + photoshop).
Don't think those of us who know enough about vista's memory usage and paging don't know that hdd operations are slow as balls. We know how this stuff is being used. When the memory is used by a low priority task then that means it's not being used when something with higher priority demands it. That memory is not being cycled in and out of the page file while you're for example playing bf2, it sits in the page file and stays there until the memory is freed up. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 | larsig (780) Aug 27, 2009 - 08:40 pm
| There in lies the problem... Most people are stupid as hell when it comes to common sense. I can list millions of examples, and no amount of education is going to help the vast majority of people. Is coffee hot? will it burn if I spill it all over my lap? well, I remember one time touching my hot stove and that was rather unpleasant, but that was metal. this is just hot coffee, what can it do?
Yes, I am rather pessimistic and whatever, but just look around. People do stupid shit all the time, and I have to at least try to believe that after millions of years of evolution we would have common sense down. Apparently it is more difficult than we thought. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22073 | larsig (780) Aug 27, 2009 - 08:34 pm
| | i thought you said it was outdated a year ago a year ago? does that mean you're perpetually stuck in a time loop? cause that'd be awesome. While you're playing crysis on your outdated crappy computer we'd all be connected directly to the computer playing super realistic games that get rendered right in our heads. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 | larsig (780) Aug 26, 2009 - 05:49 pm
| | Or you can hack into windows and get access to trillions of dollars in assets and intellectual property. Which makes the jucier target? There's a reason Microsoft invests so much money into improving security (aside from widespread use), to a point where Apple's security isn't even funny, it's just pitiful. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22069 | larsig (780) Aug 26, 2009 - 09:22 am
| omg... just die already apple. Spreading misleading information to the ignorant masses is not a way to improve humanity for the better.
All you're doing is wasting money gotten from overpriced hardware. At least Microsoft is doing something with their money with research into various fields, not all of which will turn a profit. What have you done for computer science apple? a 1 button mouse? Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=22039 | larsig (780) Aug 26, 2009 - 08:32 am
| | Memory use is pointless to monitor if you only look at the values rather than what it is using it for. Vista reports 1.5gigs of memory use when nothing is running, but guess what? most of it is low priority data that gets pushed to the pagefile when the system demands it. I've seen my memory usage go from the full 2 gigs on a system down to 400 megs after closing a memory intensive application, and in a matter of minutes fill back up to 1.5gigs when idle. What does that tell you? Flag this | Edit this post |
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