Agree. The Donald is a raging, manic-obsessive attention whore. He doesn't even believe half of what he says himself. He's just happy to have everyone talking about him.
I agree. It's too late for Microsoft to defeat Steam with their Windows Store. People will switch to SteamOS before giving up Steam in favor of Windows.
Meanwhile, conservative America still has its head up its ass insisting that climate change is a liberal conspiracy and evolution the thing of the devil.
Now there's something Saudi Arabia and the US have in common. Love for oil, religious nutjobs and ignorance towards scientific evidence.
The HTC Vive uses a different technology, I don't remember what it was called, but it seems to be more effective at preventing nausea, as I read in many reviews that people tend to experience less nausea using the Vive for long periods than with Oculus.
I own a Vive, and when playing Elite I usually get between 45 and 55 frames per seconds, yet the experience seems entirely smooth to me and I don't get any nausea at all. I find no perceivable difference to playing a game running at 90 FPS.
You are assuming the right-wing is interested in the Economy. They are not. They are interested in nationalism, isolationism, racism, traditional "christian values" and gun ownership.
Read the news at who is celebrating. Le Pen, Wilders, Donald Trump. All the idiots.
The value drop in oil, stocks and currencies is a short term panic reaction the markets are known for. Global demand for oil will not change because Britain exits the EU. In a short time (mostly) everything will recover to pre-crash values, with the big exception of the stocks of the British banking sector, who will be hit the hardest.
I do have to wonder why not try to setup a base on the moon first. That should net you plenty of experience, it's orders of magnitude easier to get there, and it could be used as a launching pad for the missions further beyond.
The next step should perhaps be to establish a couple of space stations or supply depots in the orbit between Earth and Mars, perhaps every 90Â. These can be navigated to in the case of emergency and used as facilitators for communications.
Then there should probably be a space station of some sort in orbit around Mars, before actually landing on the planet. Some kind of backup that people will be able to return to if things go awry on the surface.
Aiming for planetfall on Mars directly seems like a jump in at the deep end.
The nuclear industry has a serious PR problem and there doesn't seem to be any attempt to improve that. Just more lies, obfuscations and braindead decisions.
Not just a PR problem. Radiation is bad for you, a nuclear chain reaction is inherently unsafe, and the nuclear waste is a irrefutable long-term problem. All of these problems amplified by the risks of terrorism, sabotage, natural disasters and more often than not, just plain old corporate greed and the desire to make cuts wherever possible.
We have much better, safe and natural means of acquiring energy these days, and they are getting better by the year.
Really? I think he is one of the best presidents the US ever had, considering he had to navigate the country across a mess of unfinished wars, economic depression and a probably unprecedented, uncompromising blockade of Republicans in congress (wouldn't surprise me if that was because he was 1/2 black, vague outsider - I guess that rubbed many rich, white boys in the GOP with ambitions the wrong way).
But everyone is entitled to their opinion, fortunately.
you think liberty was alive in a country that had clintons, bushes, obama, etc running it for decades? no wonder you live in movie delusions.
What's your problem with Obama? It's not like he's from a political family dynasty.
Quite the contrary. If a black guy named "Barack Hussein Obama" who had a muslim father can become the president of the United States, it gives me hope that freedom and democracy are alive and well in the US.
I believe the reason for the different awareness of WW2 atrocities committed by Germany and Japan amount mainly to cultural differences, but also the generally higher focus and interest in Europe as opposed to the far east, coupled with a well organized Jewish community that naturally has a high interest in clearing up and highlighting the events that took place.
If you had to describe German culture in one word, it would have to be "pragmatic".In the face of overwhelming evidence on the atrocities committed by the Nazis (which many Germans where blissfully unaware of), the only way forward was to accept the facts for what they were, soak in all the guilt and make the best possible thing of it by keeping the memory alive and doing the very best that something similar never happens again. Now it has relaxed somewhat, but throughout the 80's and 90's there were critical documentaries about WW2 and the atrocities on the Nazis in German TV practically every week, and this was also a big topic for all students in German schools.
Japan on the other hand, as most other far-east cultures, has this very important cultural theme of upholding hohor and not losing face. Even when it is irrefutably clear that mistakes are made or something is not right, the Japanese way is to ignore it as much as possible and do business as usual, so that nobody has to lose face (least of all the Japanese culture itself). This is essential, as losing honor, in traditional Japanese interpretation, would basically mean that you should kill yourself. While Japan has westernized and modernized over the last decades, there are still many nationalist elements in Japanese society that do their best trying to silence any voices about Japanese WW2 atrocities while at the same time promoting the theme of the "honorable" and "brave" soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the Japanese Empire.
So obviously, we have two very different ways of dealing with the past here. Then, as I said earlier, there was also the Jewish community actively working to promote awareness for the atrocities committed by the Nazis, something which was lacking in Asia for the Japanese atrocities. The Chinese and Koreans, the main candidates for this endeavor, where too busy with their own problems after WW2.
My C++ code _with_ comments is ~400 Lines of code.
This.
And you are seriously calling me too lazy to do that? Of course I can figure all of that out and just do it once. But that's not the point. Previously I could quickly hack an OpenGL application together in an hour. Since OpenGL 3 I would have to invest several days in figuring out how the new programmable shader pipeline works, with all the intricacies involved, learn a new programming language, and then I would have to actually type those 400 lines of code and debug all of my newbie errors, all of which might take me a dedicated week. By the time I finally get a triangle on screen I will have cursed 5000 times and probably lost interest in whatever simple thing it was I originally wanted to do.
The video capturing software would have interfered with the benchmarking. It almost certainly would have eaten up quite a few of those FPS, so if you want to demonstrate raw power, you can't be running video capturing software at the same time.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't wish someone death on the Internet.
It's not a nice thing to do.
Also, if they do die, their ghosts might come back to haunt you.
Agree. The Donald is a raging, manic-obsessive attention whore. He doesn't even believe half of what he says himself. He's just happy to have everyone talking about him.
Yeah, this figure also sparked a WTF moment in me.
I'm not basing my post on the "single data point", but on these:
were hit by heatwaves that have become more frequent over the last half-century
Earth is fresh off the hottest six months on record
the warmest June in the modern history and also the 14th consecutive month of unprecedented hotness
Gee, did you not even read the freaking summary?
I agree. It's too late for Microsoft to defeat Steam with their Windows Store. People will switch to SteamOS before giving up Steam in favor of Windows.
Meanwhile, conservative America still has its head up its ass insisting that climate change is a liberal conspiracy and evolution the thing of the devil.
Now there's something Saudi Arabia and the US have in common. Love for oil, religious nutjobs and ignorance towards scientific evidence.
What is the potential of AR?
Because, to be honest, I can't really see it.
Just wait for Virtual Girlfriend 1.0
The HTC Vive uses a different technology, I don't remember what it was called, but it seems to be more effective at preventing nausea, as I read in many reviews that people tend to experience less nausea using the Vive for long periods than with Oculus.
I own a Vive, and when playing Elite I usually get between 45 and 55 frames per seconds, yet the experience seems entirely smooth to me and I don't get any nausea at all. I find no perceivable difference to playing a game running at 90 FPS.
But the German public transportation system is so much better than in any US state.
In addition to the customer payments, Volkswagen will pay $2.7 billion for environmental cleanup and $2 billion to promote zero-emission vehicles.
Oh, so -now- the US -is- interested in the environment. When its about being at the receiving end, caring for the environment is just dandy, ain't it?
Sure, go ahead. mod me troll
You are assuming the right-wing is interested in the Economy. They are not. They are interested in nationalism, isolationism, racism, traditional "christian values" and gun ownership.
Read the news at who is celebrating. Le Pen, Wilders, Donald Trump. All the idiots.
The value drop in oil, stocks and currencies is a short term panic reaction the markets are known for. Global demand for oil will not change because Britain exits the EU. In a short time (mostly) everything will recover to pre-crash values, with the big exception of the stocks of the British banking sector, who will be hit the hardest.
Well, at least Vladimir Putin and all the new far-right groups in Europe (that are partly funded by Russia) are happy about the outcome.
European destabilization program phase #1, successful.
Well done, Britain.
*GASP* No! Say it ain't so!
XD
In the far-right and the wrong direction.
I guess its time for the US to steal high-tech from China.
I do have to wonder why not try to setup a base on the moon first. That should net you plenty of experience, it's orders of magnitude easier to get there, and it could be used as a launching pad for the missions further beyond.
The next step should perhaps be to establish a couple of space stations or supply depots in the orbit between Earth and Mars, perhaps every 90Â. These can be navigated to in the case of emergency and used as facilitators for communications.
Then there should probably be a space station of some sort in orbit around Mars, before actually landing on the planet. Some kind of backup that people will be able to return to if things go awry on the surface.
Aiming for planetfall on Mars directly seems like a jump in at the deep end.
The nuclear industry has a serious PR problem and there doesn't seem to be any attempt to improve that. Just more lies, obfuscations and braindead decisions.
Not just a PR problem. Radiation is bad for you, a nuclear chain reaction is inherently unsafe, and the nuclear waste is a irrefutable long-term problem. All of these problems amplified by the risks of terrorism, sabotage, natural disasters and more often than not, just plain old corporate greed and the desire to make cuts wherever possible.
We have much better, safe and natural means of acquiring energy these days, and they are getting better by the year.
Really? I think he is one of the best presidents the US ever had, considering he had to navigate the country across a mess of unfinished wars, economic depression and a probably unprecedented, uncompromising blockade of Republicans in congress (wouldn't surprise me if that was because he was 1/2 black, vague outsider - I guess that rubbed many rich, white boys in the GOP with ambitions the wrong way).
But everyone is entitled to their opinion, fortunately.
you think liberty was alive in a country that had clintons, bushes, obama, etc running it for decades?
no wonder you live in movie delusions.
What's your problem with Obama? It's not like he's from a political family dynasty.
Quite the contrary. If a black guy named "Barack Hussein Obama" who had a muslim father can become the president of the United States, it gives me hope that freedom and democracy are alive and well in the US.
I believe the reason for the different awareness of WW2 atrocities committed by Germany and Japan amount mainly to cultural differences, but also the generally higher focus and interest in Europe as opposed to the far east, coupled with a well organized Jewish community that naturally has a high interest in clearing up and highlighting the events that took place.
If you had to describe German culture in one word, it would have to be "pragmatic".In the face of overwhelming evidence on the atrocities committed by the Nazis (which many Germans where blissfully unaware of), the only way forward was to accept the facts for what they were, soak in all the guilt and make the best possible thing of it by keeping the memory alive and doing the very best that something similar never happens again. Now it has relaxed somewhat, but throughout the 80's and 90's there were critical documentaries about WW2 and the atrocities on the Nazis in German TV practically every week, and this was also a big topic for all students in German schools.
Japan on the other hand, as most other far-east cultures, has this very important cultural theme of upholding hohor and not losing face. Even when it is irrefutably clear that mistakes are made or something is not right, the Japanese way is to ignore it as much as possible and do business as usual, so that nobody has to lose face (least of all the Japanese culture itself). This is essential, as losing honor, in traditional Japanese interpretation, would basically mean that you should kill yourself. While Japan has westernized and modernized over the last decades, there are still many nationalist elements in Japanese society that do their best trying to silence any voices about Japanese WW2 atrocities while at the same time promoting the theme of the "honorable" and "brave" soldiers who sacrificed themselves for the Japanese Empire.
So obviously, we have two very different ways of dealing with the past here. Then, as I said earlier, there was also the Jewish community actively working to promote awareness for the atrocities committed by the Nazis, something which was lacking in Asia for the Japanese atrocities. The Chinese and Koreans, the main candidates for this endeavor, where too busy with their own problems after WW2.
My C++ code _with_ comments is ~400 Lines of code.
This.
And you are seriously calling me too lazy to do that?
Of course I can figure all of that out and just do it once. But that's not the point. Previously I could quickly hack an OpenGL application together in an hour. Since OpenGL 3 I would have to invest several days in figuring out how the new programmable shader pipeline works, with all the intricacies involved, learn a new programming language, and then I would have to actually type those 400 lines of code and debug all of my newbie errors, all of which might take me a dedicated week. By the time I finally get a triangle on screen I will have cursed 5000 times and probably lost interest in whatever simple thing it was I originally wanted to do.
The video capturing software would have interfered with the benchmarking. It almost certainly would have eaten up quite a few of those FPS, so if you want to demonstrate raw power, you can't be running video capturing software at the same time.