The ones you see online are typically from the best professors and/or the best schools in the nation. Might not be that representative of your average state university.
Of course, if you can learn on your own and have good self-initiative, the US higher education system does have a lot of flexibility with internships, and buddying up with the research or interesting projects going on at your school, or even just pushing your own learning & exploration in general. It's not great at all for people who just want to slot in to job training. (Besides, that's what trade schools & colleges are supposed to be for, but everybody wants "university" education.)
Both sides suck, and are paid off by the same corporate interests, maybe with slightly different flavorings on each end. Partisan support is the most stupid, destructive, and completely asinine mindset you can possibly have at this point in time.
And furthermore, how does "open access and sharing" give you millions of dollars to do research into advanced rare materials property research, or construct testing facilities? At some point, you need a good amount of money to actually progress past the current cutting edge. Sure, there are some simple ingenious ideas from somebody in their garage, but those are milestone events, not the majority of continual tech progress.
Now that's a retarded gamble. Why would you possibly want "that game" on your resume before it's made? It could turn out to be an industry laughing stock, and even if you did a great job on your part, it would be a stain on your resume if you included it. If an employee "tolerates" those conditions for that, they deserve it.
This is about standing on principles, not about betting against the house in misguided longshots at success.
If you like an apartment building, but don't like the landlord, you're just as stuck as if you like the geographical area, but not the government of it. Landlords have a monopoly over the building they own.
Governments are geographical divisions. Choosing to live in a certain geography is no different than choosing an apartment, it's just a different distance scale.
I've always been curious about this. Are people honestly taught to try to create brand recognition first, and then try to add some sort of perceived value to that brand? It seems very backwards, as if there's value, then the source of that value becomes worth knowing. At least, that's how I and everybody I know seem to work. Just being aware of that a brand exists in passing doesn't affect purchasing or attention decisions.
Those systems all had very particular video chips tailored to hardware acceleration of sprites, scaling, playfield layering, tiled & paletted graphics, etc, so the CPU didn't have to do that much heavy lifting. If all this thing has is a hi|true-color framebuffer, then no it's not overpowered. Plus, it's supposed to be better than those existing systems anyway, but in the same vein of resolution & 2d-ness.
But having read a bit more about the guy behind this, it's just the vapor ramblings of a drama queen anyway.
Have you ever plugged a 320x200|240 noninterlaced 4:3 signal into a modern HD television? I'd rather look at the little native-resolution, native-aspect builtin screen.:-P
especially in rich media your building your brand.
Oh no you're not. You're not building ANYTHING with the "geek" audience unless you've got real content. The only times when "brand" matters is when there is a history of meritocratic justification to warrant name recognition, in many of the circles that are being discussed here. You can't just magically 'brand" yourself when aspie-level focus is being applied to what you do.
Are you saying that any dumpy/weird looking person can become pageant material just by applying strong personal maintenance & grooming effort? Seriously?
Sure, good looking people work hard to manage their physical appearance in certain looks-based careers (modeling, acting, etc), but especially in pageantry, there's some lines you just don't get to cross if you don't have some highly attractive fundamental structure.
Um, adding in vector graphics & SVG would make things even more resource-intensive, but there's no reason they wouldn't technically _work_. Plus, those bring in even greater need to deal with antialiased graphics at those resolutions, with the additional issue of doing the antialiasing in realtime instead of prebaked in your bitmap graphics.
Without a modern GPU in it, I seriously doubt the SoC they use will have hardware OpenVG-ish vector support. That tends to be more related to 3d hardware than 2d, and basic 2d acceleration tends to be related to bitmap caching and pixel-for-pixel blitting which would help even less in dynamic vector situations (rotation, scaling, masking, colorspace transforms, etc).
RIght, it's in a class to emulate some of that stuff. But if this is going to take the 16-bit style of gameplay "to the next level", even 400MHz will start to be pretty weak once you're pushing giant layers of transparency around with the CPU. And at low resolution, alpha and antialiasing are very important.
Wow. Anybody who doesn't 100% agree with you gets your magic dismissive hate label, huh? Grow up.
Your singling out one particular instance. Over the course of all nuclear sites, and the course of all non-nuclear sites in similar time frames, which have caused more pollution? Which have caused more deaths or illnesses related to their processing (discounting typical construction-type accidents)? Which have yielded the most power for the least hassle?
Yes, I'm no expert in the numbers, and I'm no nuclear absolutionist. I think we'll have a broad range of power generating solutions once certain fields mature. But you're just being an alarmist about this. Maybe you're close to the area, and that's understandable. But building clean, new, properly maintained nuclear reactors with modern (or modern enough) designs is a really good direction for the forseeable term until those other models are ready for big time use.
A serious problem right now is that the nuke people are too concerned about dotting checklists to make regulators happy instead of actually focusing on properly running and maintaining their plants for the long term. But much of that is the result of politics and scare mongering that formed that way of working in that field, due to the public thinking nuclear == mushroom cloud.
Even 2d acceleration of some sort? They harp on having a faster CPU than a DS, but that doesn't really matter that much for fast fun 2d gaming; pushing pixels is what matters.
The Pandora might be a few hundred bucks, but I think I'd rather have an open handheld computer than an open handheld gaming system.
Windows is FAR better than Linux in the run-the-GUI-with-keyboard-only department. Sure, Linux has a better console environment, but these keyboard jockeys utterly failed at keyboard jockeying their graphical programs.
I liked the Amiga's solution: Holding down one of the Amiga keyboard buttons turned the cursor keys into a virtual mouse, with Enter or Space or something representing the mouse buttons. A very simple solution when some program didn't have a keyboard shortcut and it wasn't worth grabbing the rodent.
We need power, or else civilization collapses. Period.
Making consistent power in the places we need it involves some dangerous processes, the most efficient of which deal with very high power density fuels. Nuclear power seems to be one of the lowest risk, cleanest, highest-output means of generation so far in sum total.
Of course risks exist, with any practical form of large-scale power generation we have. They seem to be quite acceptable with nuclear power, all things considered.
Not to mention that the USA was founded on a clear and open distrust of government, with the right to bear arms, "overthrow this if it gets out of hand" verbage, and checks & balances.
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The ones you see online are typically from the best professors and/or the best schools in the nation. Might not be that representative of your average state university.
Of course, if you can learn on your own and have good self-initiative, the US higher education system does have a lot of flexibility with internships, and buddying up with the research or interesting projects going on at your school, or even just pushing your own learning & exploration in general. It's not great at all for people who just want to slot in to job training. (Besides, that's what trade schools & colleges are supposed to be for, but everybody wants "university" education.)
Or make representation a lottery system, like jury duty. It'd get true random sampling of the citizenship.
Both sides suck, and are paid off by the same corporate interests, maybe with slightly different flavorings on each end. Partisan support is the most stupid, destructive, and completely asinine mindset you can possibly have at this point in time.
And furthermore, how does "open access and sharing" give you millions of dollars to do research into advanced rare materials property research, or construct testing facilities? At some point, you need a good amount of money to actually progress past the current cutting edge. Sure, there are some simple ingenious ideas from somebody in their garage, but those are milestone events, not the majority of continual tech progress.
My 5298p display is truer and has more dynamic presence, because I go the extra step and hang magic rocks from my wooden knobs. Amateur.
Component video is great for long runs with cheap cable and very little analog degradation.
Now that's a retarded gamble. Why would you possibly want "that game" on your resume before it's made? It could turn out to be an industry laughing stock, and even if you did a great job on your part, it would be a stain on your resume if you included it. If an employee "tolerates" those conditions for that, they deserve it.
This is about standing on principles, not about betting against the house in misguided longshots at success.
If you like an apartment building, but don't like the landlord, you're just as stuck as if you like the geographical area, but not the government of it. Landlords have a monopoly over the building they own.
Governments are geographical divisions. Choosing to live in a certain geography is no different than choosing an apartment, it's just a different distance scale.
I've always been curious about this. Are people honestly taught to try to create brand recognition first, and then try to add some sort of perceived value to that brand? It seems very backwards, as if there's value, then the source of that value becomes worth knowing. At least, that's how I and everybody I know seem to work. Just being aware of that a brand exists in passing doesn't affect purchasing or attention decisions.
Those systems all had very particular video chips tailored to hardware acceleration of sprites, scaling, playfield layering, tiled & paletted graphics, etc, so the CPU didn't have to do that much heavy lifting. If all this thing has is a hi|true-color framebuffer, then no it's not overpowered. Plus, it's supposed to be better than those existing systems anyway, but in the same vein of resolution & 2d-ness.
But having read a bit more about the guy behind this, it's just the vapor ramblings of a drama queen anyway.
Have you ever plugged a 320x200|240 noninterlaced 4:3 signal into a modern HD television? I'd rather look at the little native-resolution, native-aspect builtin screen. :-P
especially in rich media your building your brand.
Oh no you're not. You're not building ANYTHING with the "geek" audience unless you've got real content. The only times when "brand" matters is when there is a history of meritocratic justification to warrant name recognition, in many of the circles that are being discussed here. You can't just magically 'brand" yourself when aspie-level focus is being applied to what you do.
Are you saying that any dumpy/weird looking person can become pageant material just by applying strong personal maintenance & grooming effort? Seriously?
Sure, good looking people work hard to manage their physical appearance in certain looks-based careers (modeling, acting, etc), but especially in pageantry, there's some lines you just don't get to cross if you don't have some highly attractive fundamental structure.
I think they're referring to the 16-bit era of gaming, SNES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafx (sp?), etc. As in expect that level of gameplay & graphics.
Um, adding in vector graphics & SVG would make things even more resource-intensive, but there's no reason they wouldn't technically _work_. Plus, those bring in even greater need to deal with antialiased graphics at those resolutions, with the additional issue of doing the antialiasing in realtime instead of prebaked in your bitmap graphics.
Without a modern GPU in it, I seriously doubt the SoC they use will have hardware OpenVG-ish vector support. That tends to be more related to 3d hardware than 2d, and basic 2d acceleration tends to be related to bitmap caching and pixel-for-pixel blitting which would help even less in dynamic vector situations (rotation, scaling, masking, colorspace transforms, etc).
RIght, it's in a class to emulate some of that stuff. But if this is going to take the 16-bit style of gameplay "to the next level", even 400MHz will start to be pretty weak once you're pushing giant layers of transparency around with the CPU. And at low resolution, alpha and antialiasing are very important.
Wow. Anybody who doesn't 100% agree with you gets your magic dismissive hate label, huh? Grow up.
Your singling out one particular instance. Over the course of all nuclear sites, and the course of all non-nuclear sites in similar time frames, which have caused more pollution? Which have caused more deaths or illnesses related to their processing (discounting typical construction-type accidents)? Which have yielded the most power for the least hassle?
Yes, I'm no expert in the numbers, and I'm no nuclear absolutionist. I think we'll have a broad range of power generating solutions once certain fields mature. But you're just being an alarmist about this. Maybe you're close to the area, and that's understandable. But building clean, new, properly maintained nuclear reactors with modern (or modern enough) designs is a really good direction for the forseeable term until those other models are ready for big time use.
A serious problem right now is that the nuke people are too concerned about dotting checklists to make regulators happy instead of actually focusing on properly running and maintaining their plants for the long term. But much of that is the result of politics and scare mongering that formed that way of working in that field, due to the public thinking nuclear == mushroom cloud.
Isn't $500 the premium upsell jump-the-line price? I thought they were $300-$330 when I ordered them (two years ago :-P) and hadn't gone up.
Even 2d acceleration of some sort? They harp on having a faster CPU than a DS, but that doesn't really matter that much for fast fun 2d gaming; pushing pixels is what matters.
The Pandora might be a few hundred bucks, but I think I'd rather have an open handheld computer than an open handheld gaming system.
Windows is FAR better than Linux in the run-the-GUI-with-keyboard-only department. Sure, Linux has a better console environment, but these keyboard jockeys utterly failed at keyboard jockeying their graphical programs.
I liked the Amiga's solution: Holding down one of the Amiga keyboard buttons turned the cursor keys into a virtual mouse, with Enter or Space or something representing the mouse buttons. A very simple solution when some program didn't have a keyboard shortcut and it wasn't worth grabbing the rodent.
We need power, or else civilization collapses. Period.
Making consistent power in the places we need it involves some dangerous processes, the most efficient of which deal with very high power density fuels. Nuclear power seems to be one of the lowest risk, cleanest, highest-output means of generation so far in sum total.
Of course risks exist, with any practical form of large-scale power generation we have. They seem to be quite acceptable with nuclear power, all things considered.
What?
Not to mention that the USA was founded on a clear and open distrust of government, with the right to bear arms, "overthrow this if it gets out of hand" verbage, and checks & balances.
Oh wait, nobody uses those anyway.
Smells like he might have gotten his idea from this recent SMBC Theater video. (NSFW)