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Geforce GTX 1060 Thread: faster than RX 480, 120W, $249

I didn't check all the french e-tailers, but I could not find a 1060 in stock at those prices the last 3-4 days [1] (all cards are of of stock, bar one model available but 350+) No difficulties to find a reference 480 under 300, and no model at all over 300, however. [2] (no sign of the...
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- Post #1,486
- Jul 21, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

First, my apologies for scheming in this heated discussion. In Mathematics, some conjectures are widely considered as truths (some are even considered axioms), but have been proven unprovable (i.e. someone actually expressed a mathematical proof showing that the said conjecture could never be...
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- Post #494
- Nov 29, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

You seemed to imply that scripted, biased physics were significantly worse than "true" physics (and cited as an example GPU PhysX). I merely responded to that assertion, saying that scripted physics weren't necessarily a bad thing (be it on CPU or GPU). No mention whatsoever of CPU graphics (you...
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- Post #341
- Nov 24, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

In my humble scientific opinion, what you call a scripted destruction/animation and dynamic destruction are just the same kind of physics approximation, but on a different precision/scale/bias ... And to continue with my analogy with RT, current games (with raster engines) are often more...
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- Post #268
- Nov 22, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

Note : Apologies for digging this quote from this long running thread. That's exactly why I said this whole argument seems very similar to what I heard in raster/raytrace debates. Some ray tracing proponents argue raster engines are not rendering "real" graphics (read "unbiased"), but are...
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- Post #262
- Nov 22, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Batman Arkham City, no physics at all if you don't use physx ?

There has been quite similar debates regarding raster engines and raytracing engines : raster engines are known for the need of lots of careful tweaking, tricks and artwork adaptations in order to look ok whereas any good RT engine require much less special attentions on shaders, artwork nor...
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- Post #118
- Oct 21, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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iD Software Rage Video Card Requirements & (Fermi) OpenGL

Looks like it was a motivated change (which I do not agree with) : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GeForce_400_Series&action=historysubmit&diff=441441943&oldid=441321748 I think the whole section could be re-added if backed up by some "tier 1" review websites links, and maybe those...
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- Post #37
- Sep 28, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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SQL GROUP BY query dilemma/question

You cannot have TRANSACT-SQL in a view definition. You can use a table function or a view instead to build your @CodeTable. CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fn_SEQUENCE] ( @START float, @NB int, @STEP float ) RETURNS @SEQUENCE TABLE (SEQ float) AS BEGIN DECLARE @V float DECLARE @C int SET @V...
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- Post #23
- Jun 15, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Which languages do you feel most comfortable in?

C, C++, PHP, C#, JavaScript (basically most C-based languages). Others : SQL (a lot), XSLT, SVG, HTML, CSS and Pascal I also feel confident in VB, but I don't like it so much anymore (I played a lot with it, but always ended using Win APIs directly within VB, so I switched to C++). Re...
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- Post #29
- May 20, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Intel HD 3000 vs GT 520m

Also, don't forget that Sandy Bridge's QuickSync is probably as good as the 520m for video processing (if not better, if you take power consumption into account). I don't remember if the latest Optimus iteration is able to use QuickSync or if it's constrained to the discrete GPU for video...
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- Post #22
- May 9, 2011
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Javascript Question - Adding potential matches to search results on form field

Not so easy as it seems : you'd have to tackle this with AJAX and server-side search (you DON'T want to ship the N friends names with your page and compute the matches in javascript). So : - on key press, verify if you're beyond a threshold (say, 3 chars ; important for performance reasons ...
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- Post #2
- Apr 18, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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What is wrong with my code/logic?

Huh, didn't see your code, so I can't make hard assumptions, but keep in mind you must not move the 4s, just other numbers. EDIT : Oh yeah, I think I wrongly understood you wanted to append all the 4s and 5s at the start, but nothing prevents you to allocate the whole resulting array and copy...
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- Post #11
- Apr 11, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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CSS Help

Also, keep in mind that there are discrepancies in font-metrics between GDI (FF3.6, Chrome, etc.) and DirectWrite (FF4) rendering. IE9 seems to compensate a bit for these discrepancies (in order to obtain the same line height with or without hardware acceleration) and Mozilla is considering...
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- Post #6
- Apr 6, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Which is more readable?

Also, the two options have a kind of different feeling : - the first would enumerate all items in this.SmartFiles and call ExtractInfoFromFilePayload on them - whereas the second one will enumerate only the FileSortCell items in this.SmartFiles and call ExtractInfoFromFilePayload on them...
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- Post #5
- Mar 28, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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firefox 4 released

Kerning should theoretically be better due to sub-pixel positionning in DirectWrite (i.e. the text rendering backend used with D2D with HW on). With GDI, letters were "snapped" to pixel boundaries. I think we just have to get used to it. I also hope DW rendering will be improved by MS as more...
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- Post #113
- Mar 23, 2011
- Forum: Windows
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Getting DIV content to left left.

Your CSS rule "position: relative; top: -14px;" displace the span 14px upward, but as the "position: relative;" spec says, the browser renders content as if the span was still there. You should use "position: relative;" on the containing div (to make sure subsequent absolute positioning is...
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- Post #6
- Mar 14, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Floating a DIV and wrapping text around it?

AFAIK, you *cannot* achieve what you want if the floating element is not defined directly above the concerned paragraph. I just tried with the float at the beginning of the document (and with a positive top margin) and the whole space above the space (the said margin) is left blank. I also...
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- Post #7
- Mar 14, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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CSS- Where to start and is this the best way to go?

+1 CSS Zen Garden +1 Firebug I found the Mozilla Developer Network (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs) quite helpful too (well written, with a lot of examples, etc.)
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- Post #6
- Jan 6, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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What card is the best bang for your buck now

Amusingly enough, in France, 6850s are (in general) cheaper than 460s (1GB) by a few bucks (but not much). Nowhere near this $40 discrepancy in favor of the 460. However, 460 768MB are almost the same price than 5770s 1GB (~150€ for 460 vs ~140€ for 5770)
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- Post #85
- Nov 18, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Reading from XLS

If you just need to read the data in the XLSs, I think you can use the Microsoft Jet Engine with an Excel provider (IIRC, there is a standalone provider). The is some caveats with this method (for example : only the first 8 lines are used to determine if the string columns are varchar(255) or...
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- Post #8
- Oct 20, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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SQL Server db size, name, version query

No prob.
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- Post #7
- Aug 19, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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SQL Server db size, name, version query

I think you're missing some select statements in your subqueries. That should be something like that (not tested on my side) : create table #GEventTemp (dbname varchar(50), sxversion varchar(10), dbsize decimal(10,2), tablename varchar(100), numberofrows varchar(100), reservedsize...
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- Post #5
- Aug 18, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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SQL Server db size, name, version query

You cannot juxtapose a select statement and an exec statement. To keep track of the database name, you could do something like that : create table #GEventTemp (dbname varchar(50), tablename varchar(100), numberofrows varchar(100), reservedsize varchar(50), datasize varchar(50), indexsize...
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- Post #3
- Aug 18, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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what script runs in a browser?

As said before, if you do not want to make-it a web service (the sole reason I can think of would be bandwidth), then you are stuck with client-side JavaScript (I'm not sure VBScript runs in all browsers). Alas, you will have to fight against browser inconsistencies (especially with...
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- Post #15
- Aug 18, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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LINQ / SQL question.

+1 for flagging. I sometimes implement a kind of trash (flag first, and then allow the admin/super-admin to delete / clean the trash). This is also useful when implemented for important/precious data, or like companies (clients), bills, etc. : you can then keep trace of the "delete" command...
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- Post #3
- Aug 18, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Programming interview questions

Well, I'm definitely in #1 category (and even more so when I was hired 6 years ago, for my first job). I cannot stress enough how difficult it can be to handle someone like me (very highly technical, but no administrative skill whatsoever, and average communication skills). I made great...
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- Post #12
- Aug 17, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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what script runs in a browser?

I would also suggest to create a web service (written in Perl). That would ensure you two things (+1 bonus) : - All the aggregation mechanism is hosted on the server, allowing some easy data caching, easy maintenance (no compatibility headaches between browsers and such), easy throttling if...
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- Post #3
- Aug 17, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Timestamp SQL date field with PHP time

If all of your data is available in your query (all data is in fields), then it is quite trivial to calculate the needed values in SQL. Alas, I do not really know what you want to do, and thus cannot provide you specific code snippets. What is the difficulty : adding your (integer ?) offset to...
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- Post #7
- Aug 17, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Timestamp SQL date field with PHP time

If I understand your problem well, you could always code your SQL query for it to return normalized strings (ODBC : yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss.mmm or ISO : yyyy-mm-ddThh:mi:ss.mmm) that you would parse in PHP code in order to convert them back to timestamps. This would also ensure database agnosticism...
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- Post #5
- Aug 16, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Need to write a messaging\alert app which language should I use\learn C# or VB.Net?

Gah ! Delphi's not so bad (in fact, the creator of Pascal is one of the main creators of C# IIRC). You can even code with brackets instead of begin..end ...
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- Post #34
- Aug 16, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Need to write a messaging\alert app which language should I use\learn C# or VB.Net?

I do think C# is a better language to learn (mostly because of the C/C++ resemblance). But obviously the more known languages the better ... I think VB.NET improved leaps and bonds with VS2008 and VS2010, but I remember VB.NET in VS2003 (.NET 1.1) and it was not pretty. VB was so much more...
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- Post #23
- Aug 13, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Why would you not want to document your source code?

Sure, but I still think one would have to include some reference/link to a description of the said algorithm (or better yet, include it in the function header comment, and comment again tricky areas in the code, such as mathematical assumptions/proofs where needed). If there is a unexpected...
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- Post #55
- Aug 13, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Microsoft visual studios... Where do you get it?

If you do not qualify for those, you can always use the Express version of VS2010 ... Edit : Nm, can't read (already addressed by OP) ...
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- Post #9
- Aug 13, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Need to write a messaging\alert app which language should I use\learn C# or VB.Net?

Did not know that. Yup, that's what I referred as auto-casing (and I think identifier casing corrections were performed since VB6, but I'm not sure - I did not really code in VB since that time, so if I remember it, it must have been in VB5 or VB6). Though I can't remember if auto-casing...
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- Post #11
- Aug 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Why would you not want to document your source code?

Back to topic, I probably am one of those that would comment "too much" (some code analyser app once told me ther was up to 40% of comment lines in my code) ... Some snippets of my code might thus be a good argument for NOT commenting your code ;) ... NOTE : In my defence, I...
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- Post #52
- Aug 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Need to write a messaging\alert app which language should I use\learn C# or VB.Net?

VS2010 (and VS2008 before that) pops up an list of classes (along with keywords and existing variables) when typing the first char of an instruction (the first word of the instruction is likely to be a keyword or a variable declaration). And like previously said, intellisense is just as good in...
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- Post #9
- Aug 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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"PhysX hobbled on CPU by x87 code"

Now I kinda understand. We have the same problem with incoherent rays (successive bounces keep splitting packets). Some clever implementations solve this by resorting rays into groups when packets don't contain enough rays (or by casting all rays of a particular level, then sort bounces, then...
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- Post #78
- Jul 9, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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"PhysX hobbled on CPU by x87 code"

Based on Scali's tests on Bullet, it seems physics are not so much computation heavy, but rather bandwidth constrained or something. There is no way a massively parallel computation heavy algorithm cannot benefit from good SSE implementation if there is not another bottleneck somewhere (memory...
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- Post #76
- Jul 9, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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"PhysX hobbled on CPU by x87 code"

@Scali : I think we agree, then : SSE optimisation is possible and within their means (though not trivial nor cheap), but would not necessarily bring any major gain to the table (I still think they could squeeze some 1.5x if it scales even half as good as ray tracing with SSE), hence it is...
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- Post #43
- Jul 8, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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"PhysX hobbled on CPU by x87 code"

I am inclined to believe nVidia when they state they did some research and found non-SSE code would be faster than SSE code (I find it hard to swallow, given how parallel physics computations are *edit: said to be*, but I certainly don't have their expertise on the matter). However, I don't...
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- Post #41
- Jul 8, 2010
- Forum: Graphics Cards

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