Worse... reading specs, I see that NONE of the new iPhones does 120Hz display, or what Apple calls “ProMotion” which they do for their iPad PRO models.
I took the effort of making my apps 120Hz capable, but that seems wasted on the new iPhones.
Real Time Ray Tracing with one primary ray and one shadow ray for each pixel, was viable last year as well (at 1080p.) But this will not render indirect light, thus no Global Illumination.
You may be referring to Real Time Path Tracing, where you need to shoot a lot of rays for every pixel. This is currently not possible, and also not possible in this year's GDC demos: I think most of the demos were hybrids (rasterizing+tracing), and definitely not full Global Illumination.
>just spent their "Hour of Code" playing Minecraft.
This is absolute bull. My 6yo daughter enjoyed code.org sessions, PROGRAMMING minecraft characters with for loops, if statements and such. Not playing it. There is a difference.
The minecraft lessons were really well done, with intermezzo's of Mojang programmers explaining stuff in videos. It get's a thumbs up from this parent, at least.
The funding should be a piece of cake. Imagine what the TV rights would go for the reality-tv series of life updates from the Mars pioneers. Bigger money than the Olympics Television rights!
Nah... the sweet spot is still on the 750Ti, which is a nice 60W GPU that has plenty oompf and costs just $180,- Why would you want to heat your office with an extra 0.25KWatt heater if you don't live in Alaska? Top Tip: Pass on this one, and take the 750Ti.
People are overly concerned about nuclear fission due to radioactive waste. Nuclear fusion, on the other hand produces no or little waste, and yields much more energy to boot.
We've done fusion before, with hydrogen bombs. All we have to do is contain it in a powerplant, and all the worlds energy problems are over.
I think the quantum eraser experiment is a strong indication that our universe is (lazy) computed.
A photon shot at double slit is a wave. But only if you do not measure which slit was taken. Or if you do measure: only if you destroy the measurement result.
I think the universe does lazy evaluation on which slit is taken. If the result turns out to be 'not used' then the computation is skipped, and the light is approximated with a wave.
So not only is it a sim, the extra dimensional higher order entity running the sim cares about speed of computation.
The same will happen to the Ouya android based game console. That $8M kickstarter money will be picked to the bone by IP vultures. If you are a backer: there goes your money.
We can't do fusion with net energy gain on earth. So why would we be able to do this in space? First build a working fusion reactor that generates energy on the ground. And only then take it to the skies and stars.
Why not reuse the cell design: use the exact same chip, but manufacture it with current lithography technology, smaller structures, higher clockrate, more SPUs. It may do the trcik, and there is no new learning curve for devs. I have programmed SPUs, and they can do wonders if used correctly.
When I did my investigation, I based it on the different device names people gave to their iPhone/iTouch. Believe me, the ratio between paying and pirating really are that bad. http://ps3computing.blogspot.com/2009/07/iphone-piracy-cold-hard-figures.html
Hmm.... I use my ps3 for cell development, video streaming and playing games. Sony is forcing me to choose between games or development. Well... that means I've bought my last ps3 game. I choose my ps3linux over the next call of duty.
Rasterization is good enough for 0% of all rendering that requires a full solution to the rendering equation. Primary rays are handled efficiently in ray tracing. Both primary and secondary rays are pretty much independent of geometry complexity. Ray tracing scales efficiently with geometry, rasterizing does not.
Also... for the last 20yrs, our screen resolution has been between 1 and 2 Mpixel: it does not change. In the last 20yrs, polycount went up enormously. In the end, ray tracing will prevail.
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Yeah, half hearted approach to 3D touch indeed.
Worse... reading specs, I see that NONE of the new iPhones does 120Hz display, or what Apple calls “ProMotion” which they do for their iPad PRO models.
I took the effort of making my apps 120Hz capable, but that seems wasted on the new iPhones.
Lemme guess... ms windows?
Maybe a shop like that should always run an industrial strength OS?
(Read: Unix)
Be careful with your terminology.
Real Time Ray Tracing with one primary ray and one shadow ray for each pixel, was viable last year as well (at 1080p.)
But this will not render indirect light, thus no Global Illumination.
You may be referring to Real Time Path Tracing, where you need to shoot a lot of rays for every pixel.
This is currently not possible, and also not possible in this year's GDC demos: I think most of the demos were hybrids (rasterizing+tracing), and definitely not full Global Illumination.
The guy will get caught for sure.
He got paid for making swat calls.
I am pretty sure that this money can be tracked.
Once the police have a client, they will find him.
If you live to an old age, you are less likely to suffer from many illnesses.
If you have little illness, you are more likely to spend time outside.
But extra terrestrial? Nope.
Why are there government computers running windows at all?
Wake up and smell the coffee, people.
Computers do not need to run virus scanners.
STEP 1:
Ban all MS Windows computers from government use
STEP 2:
There is no step 2.
>just spent their "Hour of Code" playing Minecraft.
This is absolute bull.
My 6yo daughter enjoyed code.org sessions, PROGRAMMING minecraft characters with for loops, if statements and such.
Not playing it.
There is a difference.
The minecraft lessons were really well done, with intermezzo's of Mojang programmers explaining stuff in videos.
It get's a thumbs up from this parent, at least.
I'm extremely proud of setting the right example with this:
https://twitter.com/BramStolk/status/421750337750327296
In 2011, this was already a rare feat: two of the top100 apps pulled this off, including mine.
The funding should be a piece of cake.
Imagine what the TV rights would go for the reality-tv series of life updates from the Mars pioneers.
Bigger money than the Olympics Television rights!
Nah... the sweet spot is still on the 750Ti, which is a nice 60W GPU that has plenty oompf and costs just $180,-
Why would you want to heat your office with an extra 0.25KWatt heater if you don't live in Alaska?
Top Tip: Pass on this one, and take the 750Ti.
People are overly concerned about nuclear fission due to radioactive waste.
Nuclear fusion, on the other hand produces no or little waste, and yields much more energy to boot.
We've done fusion before, with hydrogen bombs.
All we have to do is contain it in a powerplant, and all the worlds energy problems are over.
I think the quantum eraser experiment is a strong indication that our universe is (lazy) computed.
A photon shot at double slit is a wave.
But only if you do not measure which slit was taken.
Or if you do measure: only if you destroy the measurement result.
I think the universe does lazy evaluation on which slit is taken.
If the result turns out to be 'not used' then the computation is skipped, and the light is approximated with a wave.
So not only is it a sim, the extra dimensional higher order entity running the sim cares about speed of computation.
This shows you what mission statements are worth.
(Less than used toilet paper)
"To continuously enrich the end-user experience of high quality mobile software."
http://www.s4bb.com/about/
The same will happen to the Ouya android based game console.
That $8M kickstarter money will be picked to the bone by IP vultures.
If you are a backer: there goes your money.
"...up to $50 or more..."
This makes no sense at all.
Please put a little bit more effort into editing submitted stories.
We can't do fusion with net energy gain on earth.
So why would we be able to do this in space?
First build a working fusion reactor that generates energy on the ground.
And only then take it to the skies and stars.
Why not reuse the cell design: use the exact same chip, but manufacture it with current lithography technology, smaller structures, higher clockrate, more SPUs. It may do the trcik, and there is no new learning curve for devs. I have programmed SPUs, and they can do wonders if used correctly.
When I did my investigation, I based it on the different device names people gave to their iPhone/iTouch.
Believe me, the ratio between paying and pirating really are that bad.
http://ps3computing.blogspot.com/2009/07/iphone-piracy-cold-hard-figures.html
Just wondering.
What makes Canada special among these 48 countries?
This would be a good time then, to re-enable OtherOS again.
Universities that buy ps3 farms would no longer hurt them, but help them instead.
So how does it handle those (most) apps that use mouse-over? It does not work with a touch screen. Jobs is right.
And if you want flash for the vector graphics and animation: you should not. SVG has both, and is an open standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg
If you watch the video, you will see that it does not walk like a human.
During every moment in his stride, his stance is stable.
The hard part of bipedal robots is make it walk like a human does: the stance of a human halfway through each step is an instable pose.
Hmm....
I use my ps3 for cell development, video streaming and playing games.
Sony is forcing me to choose between games or development.
Well... that means I've bought my last ps3 game.
I choose my ps3linux over the next call of duty.
Rasterization is good enough for 0% of all rendering that requires a full solution to the rendering equation.
Primary rays are handled efficiently in ray tracing. Both primary and secondary rays are pretty much independent of geometry complexity. Ray tracing scales efficiently with geometry, rasterizing does not.
Also... for the last 20yrs, our screen resolution has been between 1 and 2 Mpixel: it does not change. In the last 20yrs, polycount went up enormously. In the end, ray tracing will prevail.