The American Association for Artificial Intelligence AI Magazine Summer 2001 has a paper by John E Laird and Michael van Lent "Human-Level AI's Killer Application - Interactive Computer Games". The title says it all (and I don't want to get in trouble quoting bits of it).
In that book, set 10,000 years from now, the human interstellar calendar puts year 0 at Jan 1 1970 (which most people equate with the first landing on another planet). Yay!
Came to this thread late, but not everyone writes for karma. Mod this up, not for me, but for my Dad. My Dad, now dead, bought me a Meccano set when I was six. [I am likely twice as old as the average Slashodot reader, oh sod it, born 1956.] Sometimes I hated him for it, because he bought it for himself as much as me, big kid, and always I love him because otherwise I'd be stuck in some dead-end factory job up north p*ss*ng my time away on beer and betting but I'm not, because Meccano made me think, and thinking got me a career as a research scientist.
I had relatives who built armour out of Meccano and beat sh*t out of each other. I built a traction engine that could pull my weight, which will never happen with Lego. My dad built a grandfather clock, and due to the expense of building the counterweight from Meccano, instead melted lead on my mother's cooker in one of her saucepans and poured it into a baked bean can.
In the UK, Sky digital has two channels devoted more or less to games, Game Network (223) and dot-tv (567). There have been numerous shorts showing RtCW. Must say it looks fun - I like the guys who pick up the grenade you threw and throw it back.
Siggraph is -the- computer graphics conference (look it up) and is pro-active about computer graphics as art. 2 things I saw there: This wasn't GG, but it is art, whereas this is computer graphics, and art, and maths, and cute.
The book isSongs of Distant Earth, the first thing I thought of when I heard this on BBC Radio 4 (who needs/. when you have the Beeb). I'm quite relieved the events in the novel won't happen due to lack of neutrinos. There's a great throwaway line somewhere in the book, to the effect that after centuries of computer development, keyboards are still the best user interface.
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the current generation of PC architecture is at a dead end.
I sense a tone (not in your post, you provide the hook, thanks) that integrating somehow limits freedom to build a custom PC from components. So in 2010, will hardware hackers be building teeny weeny wearable PCs using tweezers and a magnifying glass? Of course not. We'll go through the single chip phase, then the cost will fall, then people will use entire computers as components.
Check out "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel C Dennett. I like Dennett's concept of who and who isn't looking for "skyhooks". Dennett really gets across the idea that you can't pick and choose which bits of evolutionary theory you apply, you have to ollow through all the way.
The business model is catching up to reality; just look at the downturn in phone manufacturing in Europe, the same phone that I bought for 30 quid late last year now costs 70 quid
I like to read about these things from the patents. I can't find the Gigapixel patents in the usual places using the usual keywords. [cringing, waits for abuse]
Distinguish between tile based rendering in general and the PowerVR2 as a pioneering early example (in consumer space, old hat for flight sim visuals).
Cards that have less fill-rate are going to do worse on scenes with more depth complexity.
Sabre understands. Fill rate measures ability to write to a frame buffer. If you only write to
each pixel exactly once, depth complexity doesn't come into it. Compared to a classic card, the overhead is the memory bandwidth associated with the bucket sorting. You can be clever and do some depth culling on the bucketed fragments to reduce their depth complexity (but this isn't too good as triangles decrease in size).
Actually, Videologic (I believe they were independant at this time. NEC... bought them outright)
Not so. NEC make the chips. Videologic is a division of Imagination Technologies, indeed they weren't taken over, they just changed their name. It's all on their site. Oh, they're a UK company too (yay!)
inefficient Myth. The bucket sorting is done in hardware, software doesn't see the overhead. Assuming that's what you were calling
inefficient. Care to back up your statement with a reason?
You're right and yes, I have. To 288 packages, each one an ASIC, over a volume of about one cubic foot. I more or less gave up doing hardware after that!
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The American Association for Artificial Intelligence AI Magazine Summer 2001 has a paper by John E Laird and Michael van Lent "Human-Level AI's Killer Application - Interactive Computer Games". The title says it all (and I don't want to get in trouble quoting bits of it).
In that book, set 10,000 years from now, the human interstellar calendar puts year 0 at Jan 1 1970 (which most people equate with the first landing on another planet). Yay!
Came to this thread late, but not everyone writes for karma. Mod this up, not for me, but for my Dad. My Dad, now dead, bought me a Meccano set when I was six. [I am likely twice as old as the average Slashodot reader, oh sod it, born 1956.] Sometimes I hated him for it, because he bought it for himself as much as me, big kid, and always I love him because otherwise I'd be stuck in some dead-end factory job up north p*ss*ng my time away on beer and betting but I'm not, because Meccano made me think, and thinking got me a career as a research scientist.
I had relatives who built armour out of Meccano and beat sh*t out of each other. I built a traction engine that could pull my weight, which will never happen with Lego. My dad built a grandfather clock, and due to the expense of building the counterweight from Meccano, instead melted lead on my mother's cooker in one of her saucepans and poured it into a baked bean can.
Thanks Dad.
Barney is best appreciated at a live gig. I have MS Barney (and now Slashdot) to thank for the 'everybody clean-up song' bouncing around my head.
I did :) - Ella
In the UK, Sky digital has two channels devoted more or less to games, Game Network (223) and dot-tv (567). There have been numerous shorts showing RtCW. Must say it looks fun - I like the guys who pick up the grenade you threw and throw it back.
Siggraph is -the- computer graphics conference (look it up) and is pro-active about computer graphics as art. 2 things I saw there: This wasn't GG, but it is art, whereas this is computer graphics, and art, and maths, and cute.
If you can get it via a library or someone who went to Siggraph, look up the Siggraph Electronic Art and Animation Catalog and show it to the people who aren't convinced.
The book isSongs of Distant Earth, the first thing I thought of when I heard this on BBC Radio 4 (who needs /. when you have the Beeb). I'm quite relieved the events in the novel won't happen due to lack of neutrinos. There's a great throwaway line somewhere in the book, to the effect that after centuries of computer development, keyboards are still the best user interface.
the current generation of PC architecture is at a dead end.
I sense a tone (not in your post, you provide the hook, thanks) that integrating somehow limits freedom to build a custom PC from components. So in 2010, will hardware hackers be building teeny weeny wearable PCs using tweezers and a magnifying glass? Of course not. We'll go through the single chip phase, then the cost will fall, then people will use entire computers as components.
homernym -d'oh!
Check out "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Daniel C Dennett. I like Dennett's concept of who and who isn't looking for "skyhooks". Dennett really gets across the idea that you can't pick and choose which bits of evolutionary theory you apply, you have to ollow through all the way.
Martin has some big ideas (though ones many people born after 1980 may think simply obvious)
I tend to miss these obvious things, too busy being incontinent, staring through cataracts and living in fear of my VCR.
The business model is catching up to reality; just look at the downturn in phone manufacturing in Europe, the same phone that I bought for 30 quid late last year now costs 70 quid
Some company did this a while back, it was on slashdot actually.
Link The Philips 3D LCD has a much wider sweet spot, several people can see the effect at once.
Print out the article, rotate through 90 degrees and squint to see a random dot stereogram of ...
I enjoyed this tutorial.
Another use for maths: 1120 dec == 460 hex if that's any comfort.
I like to read about these things from the patents. I can't find the Gigapixel patents in the usual places using the usual keywords. [cringing, waits for abuse]
Distinguish between tile based rendering in general and the PowerVR2 as a pioneering early example (in consumer space, old hat for flight sim visuals).
Cards that have less fill-rate are going to do worse on scenes with more depth complexity.
Sabre understands. Fill rate measures ability to write to a frame buffer. If you only write to each pixel exactly once, depth complexity doesn't come into it. Compared to a classic card, the overhead is the memory bandwidth associated with the bucket sorting. You can be clever and do some depth culling on the bucketed fragments to reduce their depth complexity (but this isn't too good as triangles decrease in size).
Actually, Videologic (I believe they were independant at this time. NEC ... bought them outright)
Not so. NEC make the chips. Videologic is a division of Imagination Technologies, indeed they weren't taken over, they just changed their name. It's all on their site. Oh, they're a UK company too (yay!)
inefficient Myth. The bucket sorting is done in hardware, software doesn't see the overhead. Assuming that's what you were calling inefficient. Care to back up your statement with a reason?
And your native cuisine...
Mmmm...
Maybe this new disk format is a way to use up all the scrap they have left after punching the holes in conventional CDs?
You're right and yes, I have. To 288 packages, each one an ASIC, over a volume of about one cubic foot. I more or less gave up doing hardware after that!