Never have you ever

[Obsydian]

Also, the Powerman 5000 singer is the brother of Rob Zombie who is also a singer.

Damn... all these years listening to both and I never knew that. I'm a terrible fan.

 

[Obsydian]

Thanks! I tried to post it as a gif. But I grandpa'ed it and can't get it to work. Got it resized and down to 50kb but it won't show the animation unless you click on it. Dunno what I'm doing wrong. So I gave up on it and just use the still image.

No offense, but this beats your previous avatar by far.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I also like game music:

 

[Enoch07]

She may or may not look at it, but I'll check it out... It looks like my kinda movie. (Re-Animator is my favorite movie of all time.

Nightbreed is one of my favorites. Its campy, but I loves it.

The zipper on his face reminds me of a gump suit, though. (Not saying that's a bad thing.)

Not gonna spoil it but he is a serial

Btw, you mentioned you.had a Sega Saturn, right? What games did you have on it?

Hmm

Nights into Dreams
Panzer Dragon series all of them
Shining Force 3
And a couple others I can't remember.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

This song scarred me for life:

May it scar you also.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

So within the next 3-12 months if things improve even more for me, I plan on making my way back into the IT industry, and hopefully be recognized enough where I can get in a position where I can pitch and work on a IBM Cell-style CPU with many cores, say 32, that rather than having the additional block that is a graphics processor on one big chip, causing the two longer distance lanes of communicating with each other, the CPU itself, some of the CPU cores, actually will process all the graphics, with the actual graphics card being just a picture display unit. I don't even care if my posting here leads people to steal my idea, as I've got plenty of ideas, and it will just lead to a better world of computing. One of the ways such an invention can beat other chips is by a large, high-bandwidth cache that can also be used for graphics.

There existed a time where the CPU WAS mostly used for graphics rendering, but multicore CPUs had not become mainstream, so things started getting offloaded into dedicated graphics cards.

People will start comparing raw numbers and saying that graphics cards can't be ran on CPUs, but it's mainly because software is written to be highly parallel and ran each pixel for graphic cards, so you end up needing a ton of horsepower to do a graphics effect and needing the raw numbers, when the right CPU and right software can probably do the same effect at half to one-third the raw numbers.

Anyway, this is mostly theory, right now.

Also, those charts saying that a great graphics card can do things at 20 times the speed of a good CPU? It's flawed testing as they're intentionally or unintentionally coding/optimizing it to be graphics card favored.

Anyway, imagine what 4-8 of these CPUGPU cores could do for mobile devices? We're talking probably 30% more battery life on the same battery, and better allocation of CPU/GPU when needed.

 

[Enoch07]

So within the next 3-12 months if things improve even more for me, I plan on making my way back into the IT industry, and hopefully be recognized enough where I can get in a position where I can pitch and work on a IBM Cell-style CPU

Excellent, I gave ya a like and quoted just to there because the rest of what you said might as well be in Chinese for me.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Excellent, I gave ya a like and quoted just to there because the rest of what you said might as well be in Chinese for me.

I'm just a little overenthusiastic right now because I'm getting back to my old self, the kind of person who was one of the first to discover a bug in one of the Phenom II processors, and not the person I was post-health issues where I struggled to tie my shoes for a whole year.

 

[Obsydian]

This song scarred me for life:

May it scar you also.

Scar me? Pfft. That sounds similar to the music I listen to everyday.

 

[Obsydian]

Nightbreed is one of my favorites. Its campy, but I loves it.



Not gonna spoil it but he is a serial



Hmm

Nights into Dreams
Panzer Dragon series all of them
Shining Force 3
And a couple others I can't remember.

Nights into Dreams??

Marry me. Right here, right now.

I bought a Sega Saturn just for that game after playing it at Toys R Us. It's the most unique game I've ever played, and it's right up there with Sonic 2 for me. It had a great analog controller, too.

Also, I don't mind spoilers at all.

 

[Obsydian]

So within the next 3-12 months if things improve even more for me, I plan on making my way back into the IT industry, and hopefully be recognized enough where I can get in a position where I can pitch and work on a IBM Cell-style CPU with many cores, say 32, that rather than having the additional block that is a graphics processor on one big chip, causing the two longer distance lanes of communicating with each other, the CPU itself, some of the CPU cores, actually will process all the graphics, with the actual graphics card being just a picture display unit. I don't even care if my posting here leads people to steal my idea, as I've got plenty of ideas, and it will just lead to a better world of computing. One of the ways such an invention can beat other chips is by a large, high-bandwidth cache that can also be used for graphics.

There existed a time where the CPU WAS mostly used for graphics rendering, but multicore CPUs had not become mainstream, so things started getting offloaded into dedicated graphics cards.

People will start comparing raw numbers and saying that graphics cards can't be ran on CPUs, but it's mainly because software is written to be highly parallel and ran each pixel for graphic cards, so you end up needing a ton of horsepower to do a graphics effect and needing the raw numbers, when the right CPU and right software can probably do the same effect at half to one-third the raw numbers.

Anyway, this is mostly theory, right now.

Also, those charts saying that a great graphics card can do things at 20 times the speed of a good CPU? It's flawed testing as they're intentionally or unintentionally coding/optimizing it to be graphics card favored.

Anyway, imagine what 4-8 of these CPUGPU cores could do for mobile devices? We're talking probably 30% more battery life on the same battery, and better allocation of CPU/GPU when needed.

I would rate this as informative, but my universal translator seems to be malfunctioning.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Thumbs up for Powerman 5000. I bought the 'Tonight the Star Revolt!' on CD when it came out in '99. (Two decades ago, jeez... old.)

More good 90's bands not yet mentioned:

Rage Against the Machine
System of a Down
Stabbing Westward
Static X
Bush
Everclear
Hole

I mentioned Stabbibg Westward. And I rejoiced when they got back together.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Force 3

I loved Shining Force. The second one was ok. I havent played the third one though.

 

[Enoch07]

Nights into Dreams??

Marry me. Right here, right now.

I bought a Sega Saturn just for that game after playing it at Toys R Us. It's the most unique game I've ever played, and it's right up there with Sonic 2 for me. It had a great analog controller, too.

Also, I don't mind spoilers at all.

Hehe that's exactly what I did. Except I played the demo at a Best Buy. Ponied up the money and came home with a Sega Saturn hehe.

 

[Enoch07]

I loved Shining Force. The second one was ok. I havent played the third one though.

I love all the Shining Force, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Total War type games. Love really sinking my teeth into some deep strategies. Is it bad that I read Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" so that I could better play a game called Romace of the Three Kingdoms 2. I mean it did help haha.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I forgot about playing console games in toy and department stores until this thread. Ocarina of time is one of the last ones I remember getting to play.

 

[Obsydian]

I mentioned Stabbibg Westward. And I rejoiced when they got back together.

Damn, I thought I read every post. Must have skipped over that name. I only had Darkest Days; bought that one at 18, which somehow disappeared over the years. Anyway, I never listened to any of their stuff beyond that CD. They're described as an industrial band... I should check them out again.

 

[Obsydian]

Hehe that's exactly what I did. Except I played the demo at a Best Buy. Ponied up the money and came home with a Sega Saturn hehe.

Did you get all A's?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Damn, I thought I read every post. Must have skipped over that name. I only had Darkest Days; bought that one at 18, which somehow disappeared over the years. Anyway, I never listened to any of their stuff beyond that CD. They're described as an industrial band... I should check them out again.

Darkest Days is a good one. Ungod and Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel are also pretty good. They are industrial, and started doing a wee bit before Trent Reznor/NIN.

 

[Enoch07]

Did you get all A's?

I don't even remember lol. That was still in the drug fueled days. I'd play a little Sega Saturn, then smoke a blunt, fix some snacks and watch.
The Nutty Nut (1995) then laugh myself until I passed out.