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Ray Tracing To Debut in DirectX 11
crazyeyes writes "This is breaking news. Microsoft has not only decided to support ray tracing in DirectX 11, but they will also be basing it on Intel's x86 ray-tracing technology and get this ... it will be out by the end of the year!
In this article, we will examine what ray tracing is all about and why it would be superior to the current raster-based technology. As for performance, well, let Intel dazzle you with some numbers. Here's a quote from the article: 'You need not worry about your old raster-based DirectX 10 or older games or graphics cards. DirectX 11 will continue to support rasterization. It just includes support for ray-tracing as well. There will be two DirectX 11 modes, based on support by the application and the hardware.'"
If one's thing sure. Pity DirectX11 will work on so few platforms.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Or maybe just obvious to anyone in the industry. Since clock speeds are bounded and not getting any faster and you can only lower voltages so much before signals get lost in the noise, the only way forward is in parallelism and ray tracing is wondrously parallelifyable (is that a real word?).
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
DX10 is Vista-only. I'm going to guess DX11 will be the same. Which means I'll never see it in action, as I will switch to Linux before I switch to Vista.
Shit. That reminds me that I'm going to have to ignore Slashdot tomorrow because it'll be full of unfunny-because-they're-trying-too-hard stories.
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This is very obviously a lie or joke for early April fools. I didn't know Slashdot fell for them. Did anyone actually read the last page?
That's how it used to be before the OMG PONIES era...
I got nothin'
TFA states I don't know where these guys get their information, but even Microsoft does planning ahead of time for products they create - especially if it's to be released the same year! The absurdity climaxes at the third page...do yourself a favor and read it for a little laugh.
Service Pack 2? Sure, SP1 wasn't an improvement and SP2 might be needed - but, again, plans for this would have been more well announced or planned by Microsoft.
Sorry guys, article is simply BS.
Even that would be passe at this point -- years ago Google announced GMail on April 1 and with the claim that they would offer 1GB of storage a lot of people were tricked into thinking it was an April Fool.
At this point the obvious creative thing to do would be to skip April 1 and make everyone think that Slashdot had changed their ways, and there would be much rejoicing... then have a hideously annoying gag the next day.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Is it just me or is this a stupid April fools joke? It's not funny, it's like it's just trying to get your hopes up.
Ugh.. Get ready for a whole day of hilariously deceptive articles like this..
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They're in Malaysia (as stated in the Microsoft's comment bit), which is quite a bit ahead of Europe and the US in terms of time zone. If you look at the date on the article, its '01 April 2008'. So this isn't a pre-April Fool's April Fool's, it just seems like it.
A joke? There is definite possibility of an almost maybe that this is true.
Actually God didn't create anything. Adam, Eve, Steve and all the others CREATED God. Big Difference! And, forgive me if I ask, what is a Gay Agenda and in which bookstore can I find one? I asked my gay friends but they said they stopped using agendas once they graduated from school, now they use laptops. Gateway, Dell and HP don't have Gay Laptops so I'm assuming these people are using generic ones.