Source, the engine behind Valve's games, is multithreaded, and I believe they have some articles about it . There are a couple major ways to break it down: Place large systems such as the game loop, sound, graphics, physics, etc in separate threads. The disadvantage is that some systems may take up a large portion of a core and use full advantage of the core, while others don't. This makes the l
[quote]An interesting read from someone who dealt with Spore's activation limit and EA's support.[/quote] And not an employee or representative in sight. In the meantime, we chat with the CEO quite often here [e digicons]:)[/e] .
[quote]Would a 64-bit binary for GC2 2.0 be too much to ask for? [/quote] Hard to say, depends on the flexibility of their development tools. It does appear that their future games will certainly have 64 bit binaries.
[quote]Why would the Philippine government and the Chinese government care about US intellectual property rights when the US itself only recognizes Philippine and East Asian intellectual property rights with barely heard lip service?[/quote] Okay - you've got a stalemate. Both sides refuse to work with each other and points to the other side, accusing the other side for all of the problems. This helps us fix piracy . . . how? Yeah, I would agree international law is qu
If they keep doing this, I'm gonna want a cut. Pixels aren't cheap, you know. $0.0004 per pixel sounds like a fair price. Perhaps they should be paying us to put ads on our screens :D.
[quote]Historical context is important.[/quote] Yes, you learn from the mistakes of the past, and apply them in the present as to prevent repeating the mistakes in the future. It's not so much the historical context I mind. It's the stereotyping and sweeping generalizations I mind. [quote]Many of the most sophisticated pirates reside in the Philippines and China.[/quote] If that's the case, then the Philippine and Chinese governments and legal systems should be
[quote]Without such discussion, unwarranted sympathies might arise concerning the chief perpetrators of DRM.[/quote] First, let's assume these chief perpetrators have names. SecuROM is the most controversial form of DRM. Second, let's not assume one side's guilt makes the other side totally innocent. Both sides share some blame. Last, let's figure out where and how we can take action. We can't take action with nebulous entities, and we won't achieve our objectives by m
[quote]To me it pretty much starts with Nixon.[/quote] Some people go as far back as Roosevelt. Why blame a party anyways? It's not as if the Republicans have been in power the whole time. From what I can tell, all of the factors that have made this possible have been accumulating under both Democratic and Republican leadership. It's not any party that is to blame, it's just that whoever was in power didn't see it coming. Which is sad, because I
Okaay - I had this problem for the longest time, but I had to search this forum to find the answer . . . Maybe Impulse should tell the user that they need to re-register free stuff . . .
[quote]How the hell did the Philippine war get into this thread?[/quote] Somebody decided that playing the blame game for the copyright and economic woes of other nations was more important than trying to figure out solutions.
[quote]America's middle class was all but ruined by a the past few republican presidents and congressional leadership.[/quote] Nah, this has been brewing for a long time, before Bush. I wouldn't blame a political party for this. It is kinda dissapointing that our stock market depends so much on psychology.
[quote]No Multiple SKU’s.[/quote] OR maybe just two: One for large businesses, one for everything else. [quote]Family Pricing. [/quote] Agreed. A single copy is very expensive, and multiple computers is becoming more common, epecially with laptops being so popular. [quote]64-bit Only.[/quote] Or at least make it the default on a new install. There's no real reason to be sticking with 32 bit as the default now. [quote]Focus
The whole idea that there should be limits on activation is just stupid anyways. I mean, really, how is it stopping any pirates? Truth is, it's not. It's just another thing to frustrate legitimate users. They shouldn't be trying to "improve" time limited forms of activation, they should just be making activation a one time deal and check the activation when you download updates. There is no reason to add a time limit or anything like that to it.
[quote]American history books prefer to refer to it as the "Philippine Insurrection" to imply that the US was the legitimate governing body of the islands at the period[/quote] Been a long time since I've taken a history class. I dunno if our current books really use that wording or not. I'm not really a history buff. I prefer programming, math, and science. My shelves are pretty much lined with programming, software engineering, and other stuff like that. So basically
[quote]but the core is always 32 bit... [/quote] Sigh . . . I gave a link to the documentation, and even gave you the page number for a 64 bit ADD instruction as an example. You are so focused on "winning" the conversation, you refuse to believe it may be possible you are wrong. Relax , I've been wrong before as well, and I'm pretty stubborn. We're not perfect. We're human, we make mistakes. It happens. You have to learn to take a step back and ask if i
[quote]EM64T and AMD64 are 32 bits with 64 bits memory access.... [/quote] The AMD64 has native 64 bit instructions as well. It has a "legacy" mode which supports 16 and 32 bit effective operand sizes and "long" mode which supports effective operand sizes up to 64 bit. In addition, you gain fifteen 64 bit registers in long mode. Yes, there are new instructions and new registers that support 64 bits. I'm staring at them in AMD's <a href="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Deve
[quote]Some have referred to those who manipulate and conspire to control such things - most likely as accurately as one can - as cartels.[/quote] If I am to place blame, I prefer it to be on a specific group of individuals rather than some vague entity. You can't influence a vague entity, but you can influence a specific group of individuals with the right resources. I'm not terribly fond of the vague "us" versus "them" mentality of conspiracy theorists. I prefer to keep my g
[quote]The books I've purchased with little magnetic tags in them beg to differ. Annoying little bastards, leaving an irritating bump in an otherwise pristine book[/quote] Well, if you truly bought the books, then go ahead and tear the magnetic tag out :). [quote]Seems music is almost that way now; I lost all my music when I got my new computer (I had NO idea it was specific to my computer only)[/quote] Well, there are oline stores selling MP3s now. In addition, I've b
[quote]The petro-dollar scheme is essentially the ongoing legal global market on oil and dollars. The US has enforced a system in which oilcan only be traded and bought in dollars, not in any other currency. [/quote] That's a strange thing to enact and enforce. Which organization is enforcing this? The UN? This does indeed sound like something I would be against. It's silly to ask other countries to pay for oil in somebody else's currency. [quote]This is not new stuff. Ever
[quote]What is called AMD64 and EM64T don't mean native 64-bit but mean that the processor have a 64 bits memory address... and same this is not fully true... by example, the AMD Athlon X2 has a 40 bit address bus and recognize only 48 bit of the 64 bit virtual address... the newer barcelona X4, has a 48 bit address bus and 48 bit of the 64 bit virtual address...[/quote] I'll be sure to note that when I buy a machine with 1 TB of RAM. Somehow, however, I doubt I'll be owning an AMD64
The TWiT podcasts I listen to are full of ads advertising Astaro and special deals for former Pix users.
[quote]we can talk about the petro-dollar scheme[/quote] Sure, go ahead. [quote]and the various "free trade" impositions the US is trying to impose, which has resulted in many poor farmers in developing countries being forced into even more abject poverty than they suffered before.[/quote] Such as? [quote]How about "quota" trade agreements and the Tydings-McDuffie Act?[/quote] From a Wikipedia description and a quick scan of the act itself, the Tydings-
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Yeah, the lack of terrain tends to be one of big weaknesses of space games - we all know how empty space really is, and it can be difficult trying to justify some sort of "terrain" in space. Problem is, terrain is one of those things that adds a lot more depth to a game. I really like games where I can choose to battle at choke points or open fields or with barriers of different types. So, yeah, I guess "lanes" does help strategy a bit by avoiding space being
[quote]Better to admit that it's hard to go on at any length *without* painting your prose with your heart's colors, and work on seeing where you agree, where you might be able to change your mind and agree, where someone else might change, and where change just ain't likely.[/quote] True, true. I have a bad habit of being a bit stubborn myself and not always seeing other points of view. Sometimes I need to step back and take a break. I doubt we'll ever find a "perfect" econom
[quote]Clearly, you have no idea why the US is the dominant economic power in the world, despite being its biggest consumer-driven market.[/quote] Clearly, you are very opinionated on this issue. In fact, I'm seeing a bit of a pattern: You are "disagreeing" with my opinions, yet we are sharing many of the same basic facts. It just seems that you prefer to paint them in a negative and anti-western light? [quote]They were poor before the piracy started.[/quote] I
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