The trend in normal software development is to make things simpler by adding more abstraction and more building blocks that accomplish more with less. Graphics programming however is moving the other way around. Abstractions are removed and everything is moving towards putting the developer into direct control of the fundamentals. As an amateur OpenGL hobbyist I was shocked when they removed the fixed function pipeline - which is great in principle - but suddenly it was expected of me to write OpenGL shades to accomplish the most elementary things such as moving or texturing an object. This seemed like a huge step backwards to me, from an amateur developers efficiency point of view.
It seems to me that low level graphics programming has become so advanced and complex, it is firmly in the hands of specialists now. If you're an amateur or hobbyist, I guess people expect you to use existing 3D frameworks, or better, engines, to take care of your graphical needs.
It's fun to watch my "politically sensitive" posts move up and down as the earth rotates. As the east coast of the US wakes up, my posts are moderated up, then when the sun shines on the bible belt, they generally move downward again, and finally there is some more upward potential as the west coast starts to wake up, if my god-fearing friends have not already modded it into oblivion.:)
Even if the plant growth bonus were to be true, we are destroying hundreds of football fields worth of forests every day for palm oil production and other crops. So if the extra plant growth will help grow palms and crops faster it will be great for the businesses involved, but I don't see that solving our climate problems while we are actively destroying the enviroments where that extra plant growth could take place.
Is this the new spin from conservatives and the oil industry now? They realized they can no longer refute climate change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, so now they are trying to sell it as being good for us?
Thanks. I've actually been eyeing that for a while now, but it lists all the wonders and leaders DLC as requirements. I'm waiting for another Civ Steam sale to get them, as there's no way I'll pay 50 bucks to scrape all that DLC together.
Java also compiles critical paths to machine code. It's called HotSpot just-in-time compilation. That's the reason why Java can achieve performance comparable to C++ in some use cases.
A big part of it probably comes down to age. Python is 25 years old now. A large part of its users will be an older, calmer and wiser audience. Rust is a relatively new language, so its userbase will consist of many younger, more hot-headed "avant-gardists" types.
Oh yes please. Apart from the great, scientific achievement that would be, us Civ fanbois really need a somewhat competent Civ V AI to make the game suck less.
Taking advice from Greece on societal economics probably isn't that smartest choice.
Indeed. Wasn't this exactly was Greece was already doing with half of the population? By employing family and friends into clerk jobs, creating new positions as needed, handing out nifty paychecks and benifits for sitting around... Because of course there really wasn't any serious job to do for 80% of those positions.
That turned out pretty well... The EU had to bail them out and the Greeks blamed their misery on the Germans.
In all honesty, I see some sense in a strategy of basic income, if automation continues at the pace that it does. It's either that or mass unemployment and misery. But the question is, who's going to pay for it? Start taxing the rich folks and they'll just hide or move their money into places where it can't be touched. In Greece, nobody was paying for it, so the debt simply kept accumulating until it was not possible to deny it any longer.
I agree that the way the overall situation has been handled could have been much better. The problem was also that nobody was prepared for this as Europe was suffering from target fixation on the debt crisis. By the time people started to realize what was going on, the migration over eastern Europe had established itself and the mediterranean was firmly in the hands of traffickers.
But some of the blame also resides with many of our eastern EU neighbors and other European countries who resort to fear mongering, refuse to take any refugees at all and block needed laws and reforms that could have helped bend the situation for the better.
But yes, it's hard to shake the feeling that there is a lack of will and commitment on the part of politicians to deal with this crisis in a humane manner.
Oh, so you expect of every Syrian doctor to risk the lives of their families and kids for the greater good? I'm sure you would valiantly stay in a warzone and risk your kids being torn into pieces by a barrel bomb every day. But not everyone is as brave or as stupid as you, considering the Assad regime and its Russian allies have no qualms about leveling hospitals and ambulances from the sky.
Right, Germany should be "ashamed" of taking in doctors from Syria. We should force these people to go back into the war until they die.
Take Angela Merkel, of Germany, for rexample --- that broad single-headedly opened the floodgate allowing the flood of millions of moslem migrants into the European continent
Don't believe all the hyperbole you hear on the news or from Mr. Trump. We are not drowning in "millions of moslem" migrants. Germany is doing just fine. Also, there is no shame in helping people that are fleeing from the worst imaginable thing that can happen to you - war. Furthermore, despite what many xenophobes say, many refugees, especially Syrians, are educated workers, doctors, engineers, entrepeneurs. A short term investment in this people will bring long-term gains for a country struggling with an aging population. Religion is irrelevant. We are not at islamophobe here as people are in the US, and most understand that the average muslim is no different than you or me. He wants a job, opportunity, and a safe place to live for his family and find enjoyment in life.
That is the worst thing about the whole war in Iraq. All the bad precedents that were set. When you have the country that describes itself as the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world invading another country under false pretext and then torturing prisoners and indiscriminately murdering civilians, how can anyone still be surprised nobody in the middle east cares much for western "freedom" and "democracy"? Many people there see western Democracy as a farce and instead flock to their faith and religious extremism, which they perceive as the last remaining vestige of hope and stability.
The amount of damage the Bush administration has done with their heavy handed and misguided policies is insurmountable. ISIS and the catastrophe that is now Iraq and Syria would probably not have happened where it not for them. Under objective circumstances, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would deserve to be put in front of a war tribunal, but of course that is never going to happen, which is yet another sting of injustice that many people across the middle east won't easily forget.
And someone like Bill Clinton almost got impeached because he fucked his assistant. The US is messed up.
First, any gas is a green house gas. Hydrogen can be a greenhouse gas. Helium can be a greenhouse gas... and so on.
You know that most of our atmosphere is composed of Nitrogen and Oxygen, right? These are not greenhouse gases, whereas CO2 is a very effective greenhouse gas.
>Sun's total energy that hits the Earth surface is 25 000 Terawats of heat energy every year.
Exactly. And the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is a big factor in how much of that energy is captured in the atmosphere. Despite your parents unqualified personal opinions on what constitutes a greenhouse gas or what it even means. The two biggest components in our atmosphere, Oxygen and Nitrogen, are NOT greenhouse gases.
Methinks both Fallout 3 and NV are great. I like the setting of the capital wasteland better, and I think it has more memorable locations. But there is no question that the plot in F3 is badly written and borderline ludicrous, whereas NV has a good narrative and is way more interesting and gives the player more options in that regard.
I haven't played F4 yet, as I always wait for bugs to be squashed and all DLC to be released first. The ideal "new" Fallout would be with world design by Bethesda, and plot and writing by Obsidian.
Talking about conspiracy theories, I find it interesting that the "Panama Leaks" is making front page news on European news outlets, Aljazeera, and others, but I can't find anything about it on any of the major American news outlets like CNN, Fox or MSNBC.
It's important to be sceptical, check facts and keep asking questions. But the level of disinformation and denial taking place in the US is off the charts. I read about global warming in the news almost every day. The great barrier reef dying because the sea water is too warm. Ice sheets and glaciers melting away revealing the bare rock underneath where before everything was white. Plagues of jellyfish that thrive in the warmer waters while the rest of the fish are dying off. Huge summer fires and severe drought periods in California, Southern Europe, Russia, Africa. The evidence that something is happening is everywhere, and it's happening faster than ever before. It's so plain to see I don't even have to read the news. Where I live there has been snow twice only for a couple of days in the last 5 years. Before the winters where white for weeks. I'm sorry but you have to be an ignorant fool to disregard all of these massive changes that are taking place.
You are just pushing home on your ignorance. Back when the earth was still flat, there were no scientists. Mostly just monks, a few savants or scholars, and a lot of superstition. Basically like the US is today. The scientific method by which the rest of the world operates was mostly developed in the 17th century.
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The trend in normal software development is to make things simpler by adding more abstraction and more building blocks that accomplish more with less. Graphics programming however is moving the other way around. Abstractions are removed and everything is moving towards putting the developer into direct control of the fundamentals. As an amateur OpenGL hobbyist I was shocked when they removed the fixed function pipeline - which is great in principle - but suddenly it was expected of me to write OpenGL shades to accomplish the most elementary things such as moving or texturing an object. This seemed like a huge step backwards to me, from an amateur developers efficiency point of view.
It seems to me that low level graphics programming has become so advanced and complex, it is firmly in the hands of specialists now. If you're an amateur or hobbyist, I guess people expect you to use existing 3D frameworks, or better, engines, to take care of your graphical needs.
I won't believe your numbers unless I see some facts.
Other than that... chill bro. You're getting overly excited about this and your increased body temperature is contributing to global warming.
It's fun to watch my "politically sensitive" posts move up and down as the earth rotates. As the east coast of the US wakes up, my posts are moderated up, then when the sun shines on the bible belt, they generally move downward again, and finally there is some more upward potential as the west coast starts to wake up, if my god-fearing friends have not already modded it into oblivion. :)
Even if the plant growth bonus were to be true, we are destroying hundreds of football fields worth of forests every day for palm oil production and other crops. So if the extra plant growth will help grow palms and crops faster it will be great for the businesses involved, but I don't see that solving our climate problems while we are actively destroying the enviroments where that extra plant growth could take place.
We feel very sorried that the article has angried you. But if you were less touchied, your life would be pleasented greatly.
Is this the new spin from conservatives and the oil industry now? They realized they can no longer refute climate change in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, so now they are trying to sell it as being good for us?
Plant growth spikes won't do anything for us when we are destroying 200+ football fields worth of forests per day to plant palm oil
Thanks. I've actually been eyeing that for a while now, but it lists all the wonders and leaders DLC as requirements. I'm waiting for another Civ Steam sale to get them, as there's no way I'll pay 50 bucks to scrape all that DLC together.
Java also compiles critical paths to machine code. It's called HotSpot just-in-time compilation. That's the reason why Java can achieve performance comparable to C++ in some use cases.
A big part of it probably comes down to age. Python is 25 years old now. A large part of its users will be an older, calmer and wiser audience. Rust is a relatively new language, so its userbase will consist of many younger, more hot-headed "avant-gardists" types.
Oh yes please. Apart from the great, scientific achievement that would be, us Civ fanbois really need a somewhat competent Civ V AI to make the game suck less.
Taking advice from Greece on societal economics probably isn't that smartest choice.
Indeed. Wasn't this exactly was Greece was already doing with half of the population? By employing family and friends into clerk jobs, creating new positions as needed, handing out nifty paychecks and benifits for sitting around... Because of course there really wasn't any serious job to do for 80% of those positions.
That turned out pretty well... The EU had to bail them out and the Greeks blamed their misery on the Germans.
In all honesty, I see some sense in a strategy of basic income, if automation continues at the pace that it does. It's either that or mass unemployment and misery. But the question is, who's going to pay for it? Start taxing the rich folks and they'll just hide or move their money into places where it can't be touched. In Greece, nobody was paying for it, so the debt simply kept accumulating until it was not possible to deny it any longer.
I agree that the way the overall situation has been handled could have been much better. The problem was also that nobody was prepared for this as Europe was suffering from target fixation on the debt crisis. By the time people started to realize what was going on, the migration over eastern Europe had established itself and the mediterranean was firmly in the hands of traffickers.
But some of the blame also resides with many of our eastern EU neighbors and other European countries who resort to fear mongering, refuse to take any refugees at all and block needed laws and reforms that could have helped bend the situation for the better.
But yes, it's hard to shake the feeling that there is a lack of will and commitment on the part of politicians to deal with this crisis in a humane manner.
Oh, so you expect of every Syrian doctor to risk the lives of their families and kids for the greater good? I'm sure you would valiantly stay in a warzone and risk your kids being torn into pieces by a barrel bomb every day. But not everyone is as brave or as stupid as you, considering the Assad regime and its Russian allies have no qualms about leveling hospitals and ambulances from the sky.
Right, Germany should be "ashamed" of taking in doctors from Syria. We should force these people to go back into the war until they die.
Take Angela Merkel, of Germany, for rexample --- that broad single-headedly opened the floodgate allowing the flood of millions of moslem migrants into the European continent
Don't believe all the hyperbole you hear on the news or from Mr. Trump. We are not drowning in "millions of moslem" migrants. Germany is doing just fine.
Also, there is no shame in helping people that are fleeing from the worst imaginable thing that can happen to you - war.
Furthermore, despite what many xenophobes say, many refugees, especially Syrians, are educated workers, doctors, engineers, entrepeneurs. A short term investment in this people will bring long-term gains for a country struggling with an aging population.
Religion is irrelevant. We are not at islamophobe here as people are in the US, and most understand that the average muslim is no different than you or me. He wants a job, opportunity, and a safe place to live for his family and find enjoyment in life.
Who the fuck was still using Quicktime in 2016?!?
Off with their heads!
That is the worst thing about the whole war in Iraq. All the bad precedents that were set. When you have the country that describes itself as the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world invading another country under false pretext and then torturing prisoners and indiscriminately murdering civilians, how can anyone still be surprised nobody in the middle east cares much for western "freedom" and "democracy"? Many people there see western Democracy as a farce and instead flock to their faith and religious extremism, which they perceive as the last remaining vestige of hope and stability.
The amount of damage the Bush administration has done with their heavy handed and misguided policies is insurmountable. ISIS and the catastrophe that is now Iraq and Syria would probably not have happened where it not for them. Under objective circumstances, Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would deserve to be put in front of a war tribunal, but of course that is never going to happen, which is yet another sting of injustice that many people across the middle east won't easily forget.
And someone like Bill Clinton almost got impeached because he fucked his assistant. The US is messed up.
First, any gas is a green house gas. Hydrogen can be a greenhouse gas. Helium can be a greenhouse gas... and so on.
You know that most of our atmosphere is composed of Nitrogen and Oxygen, right? These are not greenhouse gases, whereas CO2 is a very effective greenhouse gas.
>Sun's total energy that hits the Earth surface is 25 000 Terawats of heat energy every year.
Exactly. And the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is a big factor in how much of that energy is captured in the atmosphere. Despite your parents unqualified personal opinions on what constitutes a greenhouse gas or what it even means. The two biggest components in our atmosphere, Oxygen and Nitrogen, are NOT greenhouse gases.
Methinks both Fallout 3 and NV are great. I like the setting of the capital wasteland better, and I think it has more memorable locations. But there is no question that the plot in F3 is badly written and borderline ludicrous, whereas NV has a good narrative and is way more interesting and gives the player more options in that regard.
I haven't played F4 yet, as I always wait for bugs to be squashed and all DLC to be released first. The ideal "new" Fallout would be with world design by Bethesda, and plot and writing by Obsidian.
Ever heard the term "obvious troll is obvious"?
I guess that excess 1% are the worms in the Apple.
Talking about conspiracy theories, I find it interesting that the "Panama Leaks" is making front page news on European news outlets, Aljazeera, and others, but I can't find anything about it on any of the major American news outlets like CNN, Fox or MSNBC.
It's important to be sceptical, check facts and keep asking questions. But the level of disinformation and denial taking place in the US is off the charts. I read about global warming in the news almost every day. The great barrier reef dying because the sea water is too warm. Ice sheets and glaciers melting away revealing the bare rock underneath where before everything was white. Plagues of jellyfish that thrive in the warmer waters while the rest of the fish are dying off. Huge summer fires and severe drought periods in California, Southern Europe, Russia, Africa. The evidence that something is happening is everywhere, and it's happening faster than ever before. It's so plain to see I don't even have to read the news. Where I live there has been snow twice only for a couple of days in the last 5 years. Before the winters where white for weeks. I'm sorry but you have to be an ignorant fool to disregard all of these massive changes that are taking place.
You are just pushing home on your ignorance. Back when the earth was still flat, there were no scientists. Mostly just monks, a few savants or scholars, and a lot of superstition. Basically like the US is today.
The scientific method by which the rest of the world operates was mostly developed in the 17th century.