Recent content by Sc4freak

I agree, and it seems to happen a lot. A lot of people hate Vista, but few are able to say why they hate it. And out of those who do have justifications for why they think Vista is fundamentally flawed, many of their arguments are invalid or just plain wrong... as evidenced by some posters in...

That's the idea. Perhaps it would have been clearer if I had said "using a boolean variable as a sentinel". bool timeToExit = false; for(int i = 0; i < 10; ++i) { for(int j = 0; j < 10; ++j) { if(...) { timeToExit = true; break; } }...

With regards to GOTO, I think it's acceptable in C but not C++. In C, it's used frequently for handling errors. There's really no other elegant solution for handling cleanup at the end of a function in the event of an error. In C++, you should be using RAII which is a far superior solution to...

Try assert(true). If that still fails, I suggest curling up into a ball and sobbing. :smile:

I have a Studio XPS 1340 with the 9500G. It's not a single card - it's a hybrid-SLI solution. I have no idea why Nvidia called this a "9500G". It comes with a 9400M IGP, and a discrete 256MB 9200GS. When running in power saving mode, Hybrid-SLI is turned off and it runs on the IGP (which is...

Semi-related obligatory XKCD.

The article says that it's a prototype, which would explain why it doesn't look like the official black Xbox 360 devkit machines.

I think most good network cards would push the packet decoding/encoding to dedicated hardware anyway. But even if it doesn't, and it uses software, you can enable jumbo frames to cut down on the processing (which I think you should do anyway). Default packet size is ~1.5K data I believe...

Don't get sucked into that kind of sales pitch. Type of cable will make little difference. While cat6 is ideal (and is what I use), the choice of cable is very unlikely to be the culprit here. Cat5 cable can carry gigabit as well. More likely, the problem is the fact that the router you linked...

In reality, it depends on your network. Many cheap gigabit switches can't sustain full gigabit speeds, and I presume the same would apply for cheap gigabit network cards/chips as well. That said, I have a Netgear GS108T managed gigabit smart switch here, and transferring a large file over the...

It looks like somebody hit a bunch of imageshack servers and replaced the images with this: I uploaded that image, somewhat ironically, to imageshack. Considering the number of images hosted at imageshack, I can imagine that this is going to be annoying for the next few days.

Latency is really quite a subjective thing. I have 2 Dell 2408WFP's sitting on my desk. I use them for development and for occasional gaming - and although the response time on these monitors are supposed to be horrendous (according to tests I've seen online), I've never noticed a problem. Then...

Increasing resolution and DPI is essentially the same as using SSAA. Lower resolution + MSAA will always be preferred over higher resolution/DPI because lower-res + MSAA is significantly cheaper.

If you do something in OpenGL that isn't supported by hardware, it'll automatically fall back to software mode, I believe. I think it was meant to be a feature, but it sounds more like a gotcha if you ask me.

So... just like Crysis in other words?