To my knowledge: FP24 is perfectly within DX9-spec, so is FP32. FP16 is NOT.
Ati uses FP24 which is perfectly OK for DX9. If NV uses FP16 it is NOT OK for DX9
Carmack does fine because he too writes specific codepath for NV-hardware! For some reason NV cards runs the standard codepath like crap! He needs to specially tweak the codepath to NV in order to get acceptable framerate.
Hell, every sinlge DX9-banchmark has shown that NV sucks! 3DMark03...
Didn't Gabe Newell say that he has noticed that some of the NV "optimizations" include things like post-processing screenshots (to show better image-quality than what's actually outputted by the vid-card during the game) and disabling fog on some levels. So it seems that NV's "The way it's meant...
And as to the claims that "these results are not reliable because Valve is in bed with Ati!": Have you ever considered that they might be working with Ati since their game works the best with Ati? They don't have to waste any time "optimizing" for Ati hardware, it just works.
They should legalize cannabis. It's about as harmful as tobacco is, and tobacco is legal. The problem right now is that the source of cannabis is often the same as the source of hard (cocaine, heroin etc.) drugs is. That can increase the number of people using hard drugs. Making cannabis legal...
Ummm, Renault is not behind this one. The interior shares it's basic idea with the current Nissan Primera (difference being that the interior of Primera looks OK), and it was done before Renault got involved
It's the Quest for crappiest interior ever!
Seriously,who designed that interior? Who came up with the idea of calling the car "Quest". How do they come up with those names?
The main benefit of RDS (IMO) is that in here, you have nationwide radio-stations, but their frequancy can change as you go through the country. With regural FM that would mean that the reception would get poorer and poorer, untill you re-tune the radio to pick the channel up on a stronger...
True, but the actual price (the sticker-price) of the product has not come down, even though the actual costs to make the product has come crashing down. you can't deny that. I would guess that price of manufacturing CD's has dropped by about 95% since 1985, yet consumers have not seen one dime...
You have not shown that CD have been getting cheaper. You just showed bunch of statistics from fed. Fact remians that CD's have been going up in price while costs to make CD's have come crashing down.
I'm talking about a link that shows that CD's have been getting cheaper.
And my reply to that was (in full)
So coule you PLEASE finally tell me what you are trying to say?
And wherre do you get your info from? You keep on saying stuff like "CD's have gone down in price", when fact is that they were expensive when they were introduced, and they remained expensive when they replaced cassettes and LP's.
Why hasn't the price of CD's come down? I mean, blank CD-R's cost a fraction what they used to. Just about all tech gets cheaper as they mature, why hasn't that happened to music-CD's?
I meant: do you have links supporting your claims that prices of CD's have been falling?
Well, my original post was about 200MB avi-file I have on my HD, but I assume that's not the post you are talking about. My second post was about the reasons why sales of CD's have been falling and how...
Do you have any links to support your claims?
My post was about reasons for falling CD-sales and how downloading music was not "stealing". RIAA claims that falling CD-sales are due to piracy, I said that that is not the case. Then you started your "they shouldn't have the music", when I merely...
It is not stealing. That is a fact. It would be stealing if I physically remove the actual CD from it's owner. Downloading music does not do that, the owner still has the original CD.
Well whoop-de-fvcking-do, have I claimed otherwise?
What post? Fact is that the price of the prodcut should have come down. It hasn't. It was priced high back when it was hi-end product. It's not hi-end anymiore, yet the price did not come down.
My original post was about how RIAA has handled the situation very, very badly and why people are...
No, it's a legal FACT
More fitting comparison: I notice that you have nice set of golf-clubs. I magically create an identical copy of your clubs, and take that copy, leaving you with the original,
Sure it is wrong and illegal, has anyone claimed otherwise? What we are disputing is the RIAA party-line that it's "stealing", when the fact is that it's not.
18 years ago CD's were hi-end niche-product with large-price-premium. Not anymore. The price should have come down considerably. It hasn't. It has gone up.
Of course, and that's why sales of CD's are falling since people are unwilling to buy them.
Have I said that you can "steal" music? NO I...
Why are they doing it? Because they think it will boost sales. Because they want to control the method of listening to music (by removing the ability to convert them to mp3's). If mp3's get more popular as a distribution-method, they will lose their stranglehold on the industry. They would no...
If I go to record-shop and shoplift a CD, I'm stealing (I'm "carrying away without permission"). If I download a song from the net, I'm NOT stealing, I'm committing a copyright infringment. Those two are two entirely different things. In one case I physically take a product, denying the seller a...
Piracy does not hurt sales. Copyprotection can hurt sales because people do not want to buy crippled discs. I don't care what their reasons are for doing it, all I know that:
1. The disc I buy may not work on my hardware
2. I'm being prevented to listen to the music I buy using the means of my...
Downloading mp3's is not stealing, it's copyright-infringment. If I went to record-shop, and shoplifted a CD, I would be stealing. But downloading songs from the net is not stealing.
It shows that the record-companies themselves are to blame for the drop in sales of CD's
Not really, I have...
Few facts:
1. Downloading mp3's from the net is not stealing
2. Record-companies have been found guilty of price-fixing
3. Cost of CD's has gone up faster than inflation
4. CD's are ridiculously overpriced. Hell, soundtrack of movie costs almost as much as the DVD of the movie!
5. There is no...
Video-clips are not illegal, mp3's are not illegal. Hell, I have a 200mb avi on my HD. It's a presentation regarding 3D-accelerators and it's perfectly legal. But according to your logic, since it's a video-clip, and it's so big, it MUST be illegal!
Nice Gestapo-tactics there.
Hmmmmm.....
I know that you think "my country, right or wrong", but fact is that USA is turning in to a police state. At least librarians seem to think so
The moment I saw that you posted to this thread, I knew you would post something like that. Did you even read the link I provided? They have already arrested people who haven't done anything and they are being held in a prison with no trial nor have they been accused of a crime.
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