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From the wiki:
"Scanline algorithms and other algorithms use data coherence to share computations between pixels, while ray tracing normally starts the process anew, treating each eye ray separately."
I don't see how this can be a categorical disadvantage of ray tracing. To me, the most impressive aspect is the well founded claim that ray tracing scales *nearly linearly with number of cores*. This is not true of other types of rendering. The degree of parallelism in raytracing will make it the rendering method of choice in the future, if you ask me. A high number of slower clock speed cores will become standard as more code is parallelized like this.
An average Subway Franchise makes more money in a day than airwave TV makes in a month off of ad revenues.
And it's not like a nationwide broadband wireless standard that can leverage off of existing infrastructure would help the economy or anything.
All I remember about my 8th-12th grade english classes were the hours wasted analyzing rhetoric.
As soon as I stepped foot in college, I took classes on technical communication, writing research papers, etc. In other words, learning to write without ambiguity. Without rhetoric.
If you want to do a service to science and math, encourage writing assignments with tangibles and applicability. Give assignments like writing useful instruction sets, targeting audiences (this is a big one) and targeting different cultures. There is zero value in analyzing Shakespeare. None.
...but I just can't see the point of asking a question like this. If there is one thing I've learned from experiencing years of online and real life creation/ID vs. evolution debate, it is that people are rarely swayed even by facts. Even if someone thinks of a great gotcha question for evolution, it doesn't escape the fact that some ridiculous percentage of Americans are evanglical christian and, thus, will immediately cast the question off as blasphemous and praise any response that includes the words "Jesus" or "The Lord" regardless of their scientific irrelevance.
We have already seen the Democratic meritocratic debate hosted by YouTube, and all we had to show for it afterwards was even more elegant political prancing around questions to give as neutral and ineffectual answers as possible. All I expect even from the best evolutionary question is more rhetoric. It would be better to save effort and breath and pose a question regarding the simulated and practical failures of a pluralist voting model, and if there will ever be action taken.
if she coins the term and a few communities popularize it then maybe we'll see some more enlightenment on the subject. Propagation of ideas has all to do with language.
The old incandescent bulb technology killed two birds with one stone. It took over the lighting market by being dirt cheap to produce and then consumed massive amounts of energy (guess where the profits show up from that? Back at GE obv.). Now that energy consumption is becoming a consumer criterion GE has to be competitive to stay in the lighting market because they realize efficiency will increase with or without GE's involvement. I'm sure there have been a bunch of lighting revolutions that GE has bought up and smothered not much unlike the shameless killing of the electric car.
The entertainment industry wholly gets way too much money by monopolizing content through artist contracts and vertical integration into movie theatres. I can think of about 3 recent movies worth 10 dollars and I can think of zero recent albums worth 17. This industry has been living with delusions of grandeur since the inception of media recording. The wave of novelty has crested and broke.
As far as software is concerned I see no reason to integrate DRM into any data format. The CD Key/watermark system has worked fine for the kind of software I support the production of.
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From the wiki: "Scanline algorithms and other algorithms use data coherence to share computations between pixels, while ray tracing normally starts the process anew, treating each eye ray separately." I don't see how this can be a categorical disadvantage of ray tracing. To me, the most impressive aspect is the well founded claim that ray tracing scales *nearly linearly with number of cores*. This is not true of other types of rendering. The degree of parallelism in raytracing will make it the rendering method of choice in the future, if you ask me. A high number of slower clock speed cores will become standard as more code is parallelized like this.
An average Subway Franchise makes more money in a day than airwave TV makes in a month off of ad revenues. And it's not like a nationwide broadband wireless standard that can leverage off of existing infrastructure would help the economy or anything.
All I remember about my 8th-12th grade english classes were the hours wasted analyzing rhetoric. As soon as I stepped foot in college, I took classes on technical communication, writing research papers, etc. In other words, learning to write without ambiguity. Without rhetoric. If you want to do a service to science and math, encourage writing assignments with tangibles and applicability. Give assignments like writing useful instruction sets, targeting audiences (this is a big one) and targeting different cultures. There is zero value in analyzing Shakespeare. None.
...but I just can't see the point of asking a question like this. If there is one thing I've learned from experiencing years of online and real life creation/ID vs. evolution debate, it is that people are rarely swayed even by facts. Even if someone thinks of a great gotcha question for evolution, it doesn't escape the fact that some ridiculous percentage of Americans are evanglical christian and, thus, will immediately cast the question off as blasphemous and praise any response that includes the words "Jesus" or "The Lord" regardless of their scientific irrelevance. We have already seen the Democratic meritocratic debate hosted by YouTube, and all we had to show for it afterwards was even more elegant political prancing around questions to give as neutral and ineffectual answers as possible. All I expect even from the best evolutionary question is more rhetoric. It would be better to save effort and breath and pose a question regarding the simulated and practical failures of a pluralist voting model, and if there will ever be action taken.
A scalable framework for frictionless flow of information.
if she coins the term and a few communities popularize it then maybe we'll see some more enlightenment on the subject. Propagation of ideas has all to do with language.
The old incandescent bulb technology killed two birds with one stone. It took over the lighting market by being dirt cheap to produce and then consumed massive amounts of energy (guess where the profits show up from that? Back at GE obv.). Now that energy consumption is becoming a consumer criterion GE has to be competitive to stay in the lighting market because they realize efficiency will increase with or without GE's involvement. I'm sure there have been a bunch of lighting revolutions that GE has bought up and smothered not much unlike the shameless killing of the electric car.
The entertainment industry wholly gets way too much money by monopolizing content through artist contracts and vertical integration into movie theatres. I can think of about 3 recent movies worth 10 dollars and I can think of zero recent albums worth 17. This industry has been living with delusions of grandeur since the inception of media recording. The wave of novelty has crested and broke. As far as software is concerned I see no reason to integrate DRM into any data format. The CD Key/watermark system has worked fine for the kind of software I support the production of.