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Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears
Oddscurity writes "According to The Inquirer someone managed to write a wrapper allowing DirectX 10 applications to run on platforms other than Vista. The Alky Project claims to have reverse-engineered Geometry Shader code, allowing Windows games to run on Windows XP, MacOSX and Linux. The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to ascertain whether or not it's a hoax."
I think it's a perfectly cromulent word.
Realistically, to run any likely dx10 app, you'd need at least 64 top of the line cpus to handle the software rendering load.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
"Cancel or allow?"
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Even if it did, XP (the primary OS this would be desired for tbh) doesn't have the necessary resource management necessary to fuel the power needed for the graphics processing that DX10 takes advantage of. Sure, you might get it working, but it would be slow as heck.
> The Inquirer is understandably cautious
Wow, now there's a sentence I never expected to see in print!
But this is slashdot. If we had a molecule of knowledge on the subject, we'd be working on it instead of here discussing it in very vague terms.
Oh damn now I made myself feel bad.
It's a lovely word, isn't it? I really think it's use embiggens the English language.
He said _useful_ projects.
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128 kB file sizes should be enough for anybody, you insensitive clod!
It's fun to screw with the D M C A!
now all we need is a cop, a construction worker, and those other ones...
Yeah yeah li-nux is just a kernel sure pass the buck onto someone else don't blame poor linux.
Ubuntu sux and its number 1 on the distrowatch and it all goes downhill from there. Its sad so many people want to pirate innovations made by Microsoft without paying for it.
"Free Software" is communism disguised as a nice free hippy movement. International Socialism. That and its brother National Socialism (bsd? when it is headed by german sounding name dude you wonder... notice the similarity of name bsd to lsd) causes all the problems in the world.
In support of my theory, I offer evidence that Microsoft has indeed entered the 'insane emperor' phase that invariably signals eminent collapse: the current CEO demonstrates his most placid, meditative and composed mood.
It only gets woooorrr
*ducks flying chair*
worse. Sorry, oh geeze I had no idea there was (oh crap) a developers' conference in town...
*loud noises, cringing*
oh shiiiiiiiii...
Why yes, I'm sure Microsoft is going to smack their foreheads say "Zounds, we didn't think of that! Well go ahead, have fun then!"
Sounds good. Tell me when you've finished protecting your code against, uh, solar flares. May I suggest using lots of comments? They absorb neutrinos.
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Don't see why this is funny... my 64 arrived today... using them to build a Gentoo Beowulf cluster so I can play UT2004!
Self-referential Sigs are cool on /. these days...
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"The Inquirer is understandably cautious about these claims, urging readers to investigate the releases themselves to ascertain whether or not it's a hoax." So much for the rigor of investigative journalism.