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OpenGL Coming to your Cellphone
Little Hamster writes "SGI and Nokia have signed an agreement to co-operate on the development of a 3D standard suitable for all embedded mobile terminals, based on OpenGL. This could be used for bringing real 3D Games to mobile devices, 3D global positioning systems, 3D representations of buildings or even creating entire interfaces in 3D.
You can also find the press release press release here."
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Anonymous posting community when IDC confirmed that on-topic Anonymous posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all comments. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashcode change which plainly forces Trolls To post Anonymously at 0 rather than at -1, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Anonymous posting is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Monotony Report comprehensive Karma Whoring test.
You don't need to be a Karma Whore to predict Anonymous posting's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Anonymous posting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Anonymous posting because Anonymous posting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Anonymous posting. As many of us are already aware, Anonymous posting Trolls continue to waste time. Mod points flow like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Jamie McCarthy states that there are 7000 Trolls. How many on-topic AC's are there? Let's see. The number of Troll posts versus on-topic comments posted at 0 is roughly in ratio of 50 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/50 = 140 on-topic AC's. AC's that get modded over +2 are about half of the volume of on-topic posts. Therefore there are about 70 slashbot AC's. A recent article put Crapflooders at about 80 percent of the Anonymous posting volume. Therefore there are (7000+140+70)*4 = 28840 Crapflooders. This is consistent with the number of -1 posts.
Due to the troubles of VA Software, abysmal sales and so on, OSDN went out of business and was taken over by AOL who run other troubled websites. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Anonymous posting has steadily declined in signal to noise ratio. Anonymous posting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Anonymous posting is to survive at all it will be among the slashdot janitors. Anonymous posting continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Anonymous posting is dead.
Fact: Anonymous posting is dying
and burn your bridges down...
oops! think i just did that with this post - oh well!
props to Nick Cave!
see ya in 24hrs!
Alternatively, you could stop being a lazy fucker and actually walk around until you find where you want to go.
- Fucky the Troll
How soon until Microsoft convinces their cellular 'interests' to support a forthcoming scaled-down/scalable version of Direct3D for embedded and mobile devices? What would be even better? How about a 3D version of .NET! I can see the headlines now, "Now you can use your 'MS Office 3D.NET.11 for Workgroups' applications on your cell phone while you're driving down the highway in your SUV!"
You're only as smart as your brain.
First of, call me troll if you want. I don't care.
Cell phones are for talking, at most instant messaging. If I want to play games on a portable, I'd do it with a GBA or something. It's novel, yes, and cool technology. But why would you want to try and play a REAL game on it? I just don't see the interest.
Sorry for the contrary opinion. If you disagree, tell me why.
Sent from your iPad.
This could be used for bringing real 3D Games to mobile devices, 3D global positioning systems, 3D representations of buildings...
...3D pr0n, 3D strip poker, 3D ecchi games.....
:)
.sig is wrong, so what?)
Cheers
(yeah, my
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