Recomputing the Sky

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 16, 2010 @01:31AM from the magic-glasses dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has unveiled the largest and clearest image of the night sky ever assembled. This so-called 'TeraPixel' sky map was generated with the help of some of Microsoft's latest HPC and parallel software assets. Quoting: 'Compared to the old sky image, the TeraPixel version is much more refined. With all the artifacts, seams and inconsistencies processed away, it looks like a true unified image of the sky above. It's like going from Super Mario Brothers on 1985-era Nintendo consoles to Halo 2 on Xbox 360s.'" You can view the image at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope site — it requires the Silverlight plugin for Windows or Mac. No word at the site about Linux or whether Moonlight works there.

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Is a trap! by Tei · 2010-07-16 01:45 · Score: -1, Redundant

I was reading the post, like all others, amazed that Microsoft can do something actually interesting for us geeks. Then reading the silverlight part has been like a bomb. Muahahaha... Microsoft, you breaks me up.
At least, make a canvas based version, or something COMPATIBLE with other stuff? /golfclap

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Re:Even Baking Ads Into Their Analogies by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-16 01:55 · Score: -1, Redundant

.if you're gonna be a pain in the ass piece of shit troll, at least troll right. Windows 1.0 was visually superior to the 8 Bit Nintendo by a significant amount
GP said "gaming on Windows 1.0" and what games were those?

And Google will advertise using HTML5, they didn't get any sort of public funding to create it, which is especially obvious since they didn't create the spec at all.
Um, what?