emanem - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The RAM is the issue. (Score 1) 371

by emanem on Saturday September 01, 2012 @03:47AM (#41198151) Attached to: Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

Don't want to spoil the game for you, but for example there's a level where you're ou a boat and the boat is procedurally moved by a simulated sea, and at one point it capsizes 90 dynamically and all the geometry changes. That is quite complex imho.

Comment Re:The RAM is the issue. (Score 1) 371

by emanem on Friday August 31, 2012 @05:38PM (#41194855) Attached to: Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

When I run HoN on Linux 64, with ps I can see it uses 91-95% of RAM... and I've got 2 GB so....

Comment Re:The RAM is the issue. (Score 1) 371

by emanem on Friday August 31, 2012 @11:54AM (#41191017) Attached to: Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

But that's the thing, you know? What I'm really wondering is all the artwork, textures, models and so on, how the hell do they fit all of that in only 256+256? have you seen Uncharted 3? :-) Like, HoN doesn't have the graphical complexity of Uncharted 3 but sucks up 1.9 GB of RAM....

Comment Re:The RAM is the issue. (Score 1) 371

by emanem on Friday August 31, 2012 @11:26AM (#41190627) Attached to: Bethesda: We Can't Make Dawnguard Work On the PS3

Can you believe? Was playing a game on Linux (Heroes of Newerth) and alone that one sucks ~2GB of RAM (plus some other chunk of VRAM)... Otoh I just finished Uncharted 3 on the PS3. Awesome game, great graphics and everything else. How the hell did they manage to fit it in only 256+256 MBytes of RAM?!?!?!

Submission + - The History of the Floppy Disk (hp.com)

Submitted by

Esther Schindler

on Monday August 27, 2012 @12:17PM

Esther Schindler writes: "Ready for a nostalgic trip into the wayback? We had floppy disks long before we had CDs, DVDs, or USB thumb-drives. Here’s the evolution of the portable media that changed everything about personal computing.
According to another story from Jimmy Adkisson, a Shugart engineer, “Jim Adkisson and Don Massaro were discussing the proposed drive's size with Wang. The trio just happened to be doing their discussing at a bar. An Wang motioned to a drink napkin and stated 'about that size' which happened to be 5 1/4-inches wide.”
"

Comment The world is full of sharks... (Score 1) 161

by emanem on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @03:47AM (#37916992) Attached to: 'Free' Games Dominate Top-Grossing Game List On App Store

...just watch out you and your cubs don't swim too far away form the reef.

Cheers!

Submission + - Cryptic codes in Oslo-terrorist manifest (no.net)

Submitted by repvik on Saturday August 06, 2011 @02:04PM

repvik writes: The 1500 page manifest of terrorist that killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya two weeks ago, contains a series of seemingly encrypted URLs. There are 46 of them, and the initial part of the URLs appear to be GPS coordinates. An effort to analyze the codes have been launched.

Submission + - United States loses AAA credit rating 1

Submitted by oxide7 on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:13PM

oxide7 writes: The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world's largest economy. S&P cut the long-term U.S. credit rating by one notch to AA-plus on concerns about the government's budget deficits and rising debt burden. The move is likely to raise borrowing costs eventually for the American government, companies and consumers.

Comment Re:The worying bit is (Score 1) 410

by emanem on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:47AM (#36959104) Attached to: Swede Arrested For Building Nuclear Reactor

Even catholic fundamentalists...

Comment Stop this american madness, fight patents! (Score 1) 361

by emanem on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @02:50PM (#36673824) Attached to: Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone

Stop this american madness... Samsung should start not paying and stop this madness of software patents!
Do it in a court or elsewhere but please please stop this human stupidity against progress!

Cheers,

Comment Re:Linux gaming may suffer (Score 1) 136

by emanem on Saturday June 04, 2011 @04:43AM (#36336156) Attached to: Microsoft and Nvidia Have Acquisition Pact

That's my fear too... Hope this won't happen! Cheers!

Comment Re:I have but two questions: (Score 1) 106

by emanem on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @02:21PM (#36299886) Attached to: StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Details Released

I've been playing on Linux since it came out. Apart setting the shaders "low" (which is beneficial for multiplayer) never had any issue at all. Cheers!

Comment Re:Honestly... (Score 1) 196

by emanem on Friday May 27, 2011 @05:56PM (#36267990) Attached to: What Makes Parallel Programming Difficult?

Fair play mate!

I guess you won't be explaining the cache line size issue and memory alignment too, right? :-)
As I said, thumbs up at least for the effort!

Cheers!

Ps. Questions for Java experts, how does the JVM (the best implementation btw) deal with cache line size and memory alignment issues? Is there any optimization in this area?

Comment Honestly... (Score 1) 196

by emanem on Friday May 27, 2011 @05:15PM (#36267586) Attached to: What Makes Parallel Programming Difficult?

...very simple article...was expecting something more technical!
Anyway, cheers for the effort to write it!

Ps. Looks like he discovered an open secret :-P

Comment Re:If not experience, then what? (Score 1) 948

by emanem on Sunday May 08, 2011 @11:18AM (#36063380) Attached to: Why the New Guy Can't Code

During interview we use:
- Computer science knowledge
- Analytical thinking
- Communication skills
And so on so forth...
Cheers,

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