Recent content by nicolasb

The testing effort increases in practice, but it's wrong to suggest that OO requires more testing; it permits more testing and thus allows you to be more certain that it will work before the system goes live! This is a desirable feature, not a problem.

Speaking as a professional OO programmer, in a sense you're right that we don't know what's going on a lot of the time - but that's kind of the point. A well-written software component does what it is advertised to do, and you don't need to know how it does it. If you do need to know what's...

I get the impression it maximises power consumption while leaving performance unaffected....

I think that's just dissing LRB, isn't it?

Okay, this is a clueless-newbie question, but we're in the beginners' forum, so you're not allowed to roast me alive for asking!!! :razz: What exactly is the difference between DDR memory and GDDR memory?

The difference lies in who or what it is proprietary to. DirectX is proprietary to Microsoft, but not to any specific piece of hardware. Indeed, ATI and Nvidia hardware is actually designed to fit the DirextX API, not the other way around, and all hardware designers are therefore on an equal...

Direct3D vs Glide might be a better analogy.

Intel are going to design a CPU?! That's crazy talk!!! :roll:

From the originally linked article: Huh?! :shock:

FUDzilla: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11684&Itemid=1 This seems a shame, if true. From a power-usage perspective I liked the idea of being able to completely switch off the video card while in 2D mode.

I'm speaking from experience, not theory. I use a Lumagen video processor, which is generally reckoned to have about the best upscaling currently available in a consumer device - certainly better than you'll find in any upscaling DVD player. The difference what it and my TV can do is, at best...

What he said is that it "dramatically cuts the video quality advantage of BluRay". That simply isn't true. If he had said that it "cuts the video quality advantage of BluRay by an amount that is barely noticeable in normal usage" that would have been accurate. He's falling into the trap of...

Hmmm. From the original ZD article: What utter b*llocks! It's depressing enough that consumers think that "upscaling players" actually convert SD into HD. For a professional journalist to say it is beyond depressing. :(

Dual-GT200b card sampling in December, available in January: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10726&Itemid=1

According to FUDzilla (link) the GT200b GX2 has slipped from December to January.