The main obstacle to making a 3d game on the iphone that can compete with the PSP right now is the OpenGL driver, which adds so much overhead that it usually shows up at the top of the profiler for any game. If they'd let us direct access to the hardware we'd be able to push twice as much polygons, but instead we're stuck with this "intermediate layer". Does this mean they'll get rid of it?
the openglES api (or webGL) on a PC is also implemented on top of the regular opengl api. So it's the same kind of driver or (whatever you want to call it), except this one uses direct3d as a backend instead of opengl.
first slashdot goes web2.0, and now 4chan? there'll come a day when you won't be able to look up man pages on the internet without a web browser with javascript and java enabled. mark my words.
I don't need to be told that it's "billions of times than ever before", or to compare it to the library of congress, I can understand measurements. so how big is the object? 1 nanometer? 1 kilometer? what? the article doesn't seem to say either.
our game engine has about 10% of platform specific code, and it runs on about 6 platforms (and we actually count windows, linux and mac as 1). it's actually pretty standard. especially in this case, probably all the input, filesystem, memory, threading apis are pretty much the same (they're probably still doing 3 different renderer implementations). is anyone really impressed by this?
I've had exchanges with the audio people that basically went like "sound doesn't work" "yes it does. pulseaudio is running, pulseaudio is magical and all sound works thanks to pulseaudio. this is not a bug, it's a feature." the solution? remove pulseaudio and anything that has to do with it. use --purge. and your sound will start working again
and why would being inside china be any difference? the whole attack is remote, sounds like it can be done to any network from anywhere in the world. why would a chinese office be at higher risk?
I went to their blog, they just seem to sell t-shirts with the name of their site on them. Did anyone find any content that could be considered questionable? I was going to say "porn makers use banks too", but maybe they rape babies or something and I missed it.
Sorry, no. Stop putting yourself in a pedestal. Sure, the machine can't be "creative" today, but that's only because nobody programmed it for it, and it can't program itself (yet). But creativity is just random output that is pleasing to the unpredictable human brain at a certain time given certain cultural context. Is that really useful? At the point where machines are capable of that, they might not even care about it anymore. They won't exist exclusively to server us forever.
I mean, how hard can it be to implement a clean-room version of a mysql client library and make it BSD-like licensed? it's just a client that talks to a server over a socket, using an open and well known protocol. The fact that it never happened tells me that mysql wasn't very irreplaceable at all.
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instead, you're part of the demographic that cares about "Dancing with the stars". Congratulations.
The main obstacle to making a 3d game on the iphone that can compete with the PSP right now is the OpenGL driver, which adds so much overhead that it usually shows up at the top of the profiler for any game. If they'd let us direct access to the hardware we'd be able to push twice as much polygons, but instead we're stuck with this "intermediate layer". Does this mean they'll get rid of it?
could it be morally wrong? no. in fact it would be morally right.
Didn't this guy start Gnome (or maybe KDE)? that is actually "life's work" worthy, not something nobody cares about like mono.
Too much has changed in the intervening years.
did they invent some new numbers since 1930? or maybe the human brain changed? other than that, what do you mean exactly by "too much" has changed?
maybe someone wrote a twitter backend for syslog?
more than a flaw in the system, doesn't it?
that's pretty interesting. I'd guess that the phonetic part of japanese (hiragana & katakana) is probably even shallower than spanish tho.
since there is no relation between sound and shape of the characters
so it's sort of like in English then?
the openglES api (or webGL) on a PC is also implemented on top of the regular opengl api. So it's the same kind of driver or (whatever you want to call it), except this one uses direct3d as a backend instead of opengl.
I was actually thinking "flash" but typed "java" accidentally. something to be interpreted about my subconscious I'm sure.
first slashdot goes web2.0, and now 4chan? there'll come a day when you won't be able to look up man pages on the internet without a web browser with javascript and java enabled. mark my words.
I don't need to be told that it's "billions of times than ever before", or to compare it to the library of congress, I can understand measurements. so how big is the object? 1 nanometer? 1 kilometer? what? the article doesn't seem to say either.
unless you want your project to become GPL. that's the rule. how hard is it to follow?
the flash runtime is part of the "game" in this case, and while most of its code is shared between all the ports, some of it isn't.
our game engine has about 10% of platform specific code, and it runs on about 6 platforms (and we actually count windows, linux and mac as 1). it's actually pretty standard. especially in this case, probably all the input, filesystem, memory, threading apis are pretty much the same (they're probably still doing 3 different renderer implementations). is anyone really impressed by this?
troops don't need to play ubisoft games, they have the real thing
I've had exchanges with the audio people that basically went like "sound doesn't work" "yes it does. pulseaudio is running, pulseaudio is magical and all sound works thanks to pulseaudio. this is not a bug, it's a feature." the solution? remove pulseaudio and anything that has to do with it. use --purge. and your sound will start working again
and why would being inside china be any difference? the whole attack is remote, sounds like it can be done to any network from anywhere in the world. why would a chinese office be at higher risk?
I went to their blog, they just seem to sell t-shirts with the name of their site on them. Did anyone find any content that could be considered questionable? I was going to say "porn makers use banks too", but maybe they rape babies or something and I missed it.
did they fix that?
Sorry, no. Stop putting yourself in a pedestal. Sure, the machine can't be "creative" today, but that's only because nobody programmed it for it, and it can't program itself (yet). But creativity is just random output that is pleasing to the unpredictable human brain at a certain time given certain cultural context. Is that really useful? At the point where machines are capable of that, they might not even care about it anymore. They won't exist exclusively to server us forever.
now that this is fixed, can we finally have those infinite resolution zoom-in functions they have in the movies?
not "fly" (at first at least)
I mean, how hard can it be to implement a clean-room version of a mysql client library and make it BSD-like licensed? it's just a client that talks to a server over a socket, using an open and well known protocol. The fact that it never happened tells me that mysql wasn't very irreplaceable at all.