Apple-manufactured tanks, made of polycarbonate and brushed alumninum rolling into Eastern Europe. That would make an awesome drawing. I suggest Apple-logo grenades, and maybe the enemy can be Microsoft, with their emblem some kind of swastika-shaped Windows logo. Then you've got the Linux faction with super-advanced stuff like mech-walkers, but who are few in number so they need to drive GPL propoganda trucks around the place to gain recruits. Ah yes, I can see it now!
I wonder, though, how the creation of freaky-ass-bug-eyed aliens would fit into the "God created man is his own image" idea. What usually seems to happen is, things that are obviously wrong or unpleasant slowly disappear from the belief system entirely, and are thought of as symbolic or metaphorical if at all.
I started to notice that in Half-Life 2, one of the first more realistic-looking games I got. People's heads are noticably wider on the edges of the screen and I wondered, how is that caused and how can it be fixed? Well, thanks for offering some insight.
Why be so condescending? I answered without malice.
Yes, of course it won't exercise the entire chip. No typical program does, so that wouldn't even be representative of what would happen. All that matters is that it's stable when you're using it under full load, and it so happens that the program serves as a reasonable estimation of that.
You could just as easily use a game like Crysis or whatever you please, since that would directly represent its stability in a certain situation. Prime95 was an example of the simple principle: see if it works.
You run it at 100% load for hours on end. For example, Prime95 overnight for CPU overclocking. If the computer hangs, it's not stable enough so you lower the clocks.
Yes, the problem is social. It's not just the spammers though - what about the people who actually make it profitable for them to spam? It boggles the mind, but there must be people who buy their wares or they wouldn't push them so hard. The stupid are always a problem.
Relatively less, perhaps. But isn't it going to be much slower overall just by virtue of using raytracing? We can get a lot more done with what we've got right now.
How is a raytracing renderer going to render the view through a portal with "no performance impact"? Magic? It still has to draw the view through the portal just like the render target method used in the normal renderer does, even if it might be more efficient. That isn't free.
The whole raytracing thing seems like empty hype to me. How is it going to be a significant step forward when we already have proven methods that're capable of graphics bordering on the photo-realistic? It's hard to move forward when you're already at the end of the line.
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It's in his interest to have 'PC' and 'Windows' be synonymous. So of course he would say that.
Didn't you hear? Ricer Realdoll mods are all the rage now.
Urge to draw, rising...
I don't know about being invalid, but it's, got a, few, too many, commas. William, Shatner, has a, Slashdot, account!
Maybe Microsoft can kindly provide the OS for that one too, for a mere 40% of the cost of the device.
Can they though? Ha! Bring it on.
Never. Now GTFO.
As always, a clever ploy... Inigo.
Wow. With Google's scale, that must take a gigantic amount of computational power.
Maybe a Beowu-OWEWOWEWOH cluster!
That movie sucked. No way I'm restoring it.
I, for one, welcome our new telescoping clusterlords.
I started to notice that in Half-Life 2, one of the first more realistic-looking games I got. People's heads are noticably wider on the edges of the screen and I wondered, how is that caused and how can it be fixed? Well, thanks for offering some insight.
Why be so condescending? I answered without malice.
Yes, of course it won't exercise the entire chip. No typical program does, so that wouldn't even be representative of what would happen. All that matters is that it's stable when you're using it under full load, and it so happens that the program serves as a reasonable estimation of that.
You could just as easily use a game like Crysis or whatever you please, since that would directly represent its stability in a certain situation. Prime95 was an example of the simple principle: see if it works.
But if true, doesn't that mean it's impossible for something to be impossible? Oh shit!
You run it at 100% load for hours on end. For example, Prime95 overnight for CPU overclocking. If the computer hangs, it's not stable enough so you lower the clocks.
Pretty easy, really.
As opposed to fake ones?
Spam is a social problem, not a technical one.
Yes, the problem is social. It's not just the spammers though - what about the people who actually make it profitable for them to spam? It boggles the mind, but there must be people who buy their wares or they wouldn't push them so hard. The stupid are always a problem.
He said global government co-operation, not a global government. He just meant for them to work together.
Sorry dude, but that wasn't tar...
Pfft. It's just one android.
Relatively less, perhaps. But isn't it going to be much slower overall just by virtue of using raytracing? We can get a lot more done with what we've got right now.
How is a raytracing renderer going to render the view through a portal with "no performance impact"? Magic? It still has to draw the view through the portal just like the render target method used in the normal renderer does, even if it might be more efficient. That isn't free.
The whole raytracing thing seems like empty hype to me. How is it going to be a significant step forward when we already have proven methods that're capable of graphics bordering on the photo-realistic? It's hard to move forward when you're already at the end of the line.
Oh god, you're one of those people who say "URL" like "hurl" aren't you.
I think we have reached one; some people are just really god damn stupid, let's not ruin it for the rest of us. The end.