The quote is referring to Quake 4. So they already can raytrace a semi-modern game at 90 FPS, and they have a graph that very clearly shows raytracing at a performance advantage as complexity increases. Just look at the damn graph (page three),
I don't have to look at the damn graph to tell you that what people are going to want is this
And, they should just be happy with this (which, is pretty awesome)
My point is that real time photorealistic rendering will never catch up with what people expect from their games. It will always be behind. If all you want is mirrors, then find a faster way to implement them at the expense of a bit of quality.
I get tired of hearing this talk about real time ray tracing. They might be able to get basic ray tracing at 15 frames per second or more. But it won't matter, the quality won't be as good as some of the high quality images that you see that take hours to render. Sometimes days.
See, the two are incompatible because the purpose is different. With games, the idea is "How realistic can we make something look at a generated rate of 30 frames per second". But with photorealistic rendering the idea is "How realistic can we make something look, regardless of the time it takes to render one frame."
And as time goes on and processors become faster and faster, the status quo for what people want becomes higher. Things like radiosity, fluid simulations and more becomes more expected and less possible to do in real time. So don't ever count on games looking like those still images that take hours to make. Maybe they could make it look like the pictures from 15-20 years ago. But who cares about that? Real time game texturing already looks better than that.
Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand?
This quote from the article is debatable and the reason why its not a good idea to allow zone transfers. A lot of times, information that you would rather not be public is in zone files. I've seen a some people put processor information in HINFO records. This is bad because there was a cryptographer in the 90s that discovered that its possible to determine random number generation sequences based on your processor model and frequency. So it wouldn't be good for that info to be public.
Its not a good idea to allow zone transfers. Although its useful when an ISP that you are transfering a zone from doesn't want to give you all the zone records.
I think Boeing or some aircraft company was one of the first company to run into Y2K problems because of how they plan their building schedule or something. So they might encounter Y2K38 problems.
I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11. It never seemed to be mentioned much. I'm not trying to make conspiracy theories, but its probably one few times that an apocalyptic-like event happened so close to a man made time scale.
Hasn't open source already gone through a few recessions? Wasn't Linux started in a recession? Of course I guess it depends on what Country you are talking about. The major apps have enough cross country development going on that I don't think it would matter much.
What pisses me off about this article is that this is PCWorld saying "The worst PC keyboards of all time", but then they show a bunch of what the status quo would now call non-PC computers. I hate that hypocrisy.
You're missing the point. Network solution's whois-server is the default in most command line tools. And most likely you're using it too?
Actually, you're missing the point. Its still not confirmed yet (although people have their suspicions) whether or not its their root server that is logging all queries including those from command line tools. All this article confirms is that they are tracking lookups through their web form, which is what a lot of registrars and websites on the internet are doing. There is a big difference in procedure and trust between using open source command line DNS tools and using some website that does the queries for you.
I wrote it a few months ago after these types of issues started coming up. I provide some transparency so that you can have confidence in trusting it. Of course, you can always use command line whois or DNS tools.
His cure is practiced by truckers and smart motorists it seems. Having driven around the country a lot, I think that it works sometimes, but then there are always jackasses that use that space you've created in front of you. From what I can tell, drivers have been getting more and more aggressive. When I took driver's ed 15 years ago, they told you about keeping 2-4 seconds between you and the person in front of you. That is probably based on driving in the 60s, but today that is nearly impossible. People generally drive about 1/2 second or less behind the person in front of them and better braking and tire traction have allowed this.
Here were my thoughts on it from 3 years ago. Several of the traffic backups I've gotten into on major interstates have not been the result of an accident but just people slowing down or changing lanes. I always wish that I could see a video from overhead.
Last month, we drove down to Florida and near Gainesville, there was a huge backup that would slow down for a while and nearly stop, then speed up, then a few miles later slow down. This was going on for like 10 miles. It turns out it was all because people on my side where slowing down to look at an accident that happened on the other side.
Actually, this is a good question. I'm a bit worried because Matthew is a "Linux person". I had the chance to meet him when he come to Bloomington and he has been with Red Hat since the mid 90s and has been a Linux user all this time. I doubt the same could be said for the Delta guy, but maybe not?
I imagine that it really is family reasons. That's too bad. He was really leading the company into global markets and was meeting with some very important people around the world.
I don't see a problem with it, I just wonder why put the / in the article name the way they do. I understand that its to make a kind of sub page, but why?
Actually, probably for the size of that thing, you could fit 1000 TB drives in the same volume, so you could fit a petabyte (and soon 5PB) in the same amount of space. So storage space per cubic whatever has increased by a billion times in 50 years.
One thing to keep in mind when determining the quality of your code is that other people will most likely criticize the quality of your code. Usually saying that it sucks, when usually its just the person having their own way of doing things. I don't know why this is, I think its just human nature.
I've seen time and time again programmers taking over for other programmers' code and saying that the previous person's code sucks. Its like a right of passage or something.
I've played the games again sometimes with Vice. But its the music that I still love. Reyn Ouwehand (who rocks) just released this video of him jammin out to Green Beret. I guess that was an arcade game too though. Still, some of the remixes are pretty good.
I tried to make one a few years back. Not quite good enough though.
I always wished that someone would do a good remake of the game Below the Root.
If there is one thing I've seen on The Linux Games Tome, its that it only takes a few people to build a MMORPG. If anything, they should just use the quarter of a million to mobilize some open source programmers around a game that is open source.
I was wondering, does anyone know of a website that has been keeping track of all the notable security breeches over the past several years? It would be useful to have that information when you need to show it to a manager, etc. Thanks.
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The quote is referring to Quake 4. So they already can raytrace a semi-modern game at 90 FPS, and they have a graph that very clearly shows raytracing at a performance advantage as complexity increases. Just look at the damn graph (page three),
I don't have to look at the damn graph to tell you that what people are going to want is this
And what they are going to get is this
And, they should just be happy with this (which, is pretty awesome)
My point is that real time photorealistic rendering will never catch up with what people expect from their games. It will always be behind. If all you want is mirrors, then find a faster way to implement them at the expense of a bit of quality.
I get tired of hearing this talk about real time ray tracing. They might be able to get basic ray tracing at 15 frames per second or more. But it won't matter, the quality won't be as good as some of the high quality images that you see that take hours to render. Sometimes days.
See, the two are incompatible because the purpose is different. With games, the idea is "How realistic can we make something look at a generated rate of 30 frames per second". But with photorealistic rendering the idea is "How realistic can we make something look, regardless of the time it takes to render one frame."
And as time goes on and processors become faster and faster, the status quo for what people want becomes higher. Things like radiosity, fluid simulations and more becomes more expected and less possible to do in real time. So don't ever count on games looking like those still images that take hours to make. Maybe they could make it look like the pictures from 15-20 years ago. But who cares about that? Real time game texturing already looks better than that.
Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand?
This quote from the article is debatable and the reason why its not a good idea to allow zone transfers. A lot of times, information that you would rather not be public is in zone files. I've seen a some people put processor information in HINFO records. This is bad because there was a cryptographer in the 90s that discovered that its possible to determine random number generation sequences based on your processor model and frequency. So it wouldn't be good for that info to be public.
Its not a good idea to allow zone transfers. Although its useful when an ISP that you are transfering a zone from doesn't want to give you all the zone records.
I think Boeing or some aircraft company was one of the first company to run into Y2K problems because of how they plan their building schedule or something. So they might encounter Y2K38 problems.
I always found it interesting that 1 billion seconds happened 2 days before 9/11. It never seemed to be mentioned much. I'm not trying to make conspiracy theories, but its probably one few times that an apocalyptic-like event happened so close to a man made time scale.
Hasn't open source already gone through a few recessions? Wasn't Linux started in a recession? Of course I guess it depends on what Country you are talking about. The major apps have enough cross country development going on that I don't think it would matter much.
What pisses me off about this article is that this is PCWorld saying "The worst PC keyboards of all time", but then they show a bunch of what the status quo would now call non-PC computers. I hate that hypocrisy.
I thought they were all personal computers?
besides DNS lookups don't necessarily go through NSI servers, or do they?
Some of them. NSI runs one of the root servers. I wonder if that will change after this fiasco.
Actually, I think its time for a Seinfeld reference. Anyone want to make one? I'm too disgruntled to think.
How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?
Hmmm, let's just get through today and I'll get back to you.
You're missing the point. Network solution's whois-server is the default in most command line tools. And most likely you're using it too?
Actually, you're missing the point. Its still not confirmed yet (although people have their suspicions) whether or not its their root server that is logging all queries including those from command line tools. All this article confirms is that they are tracking lookups through their web form, which is what a lot of registrars and websites on the internet are doing. There is a big difference in procedure and trust between using open source command line DNS tools and using some website that does the queries for you.
Here, use this:
http://support.suso.org/dns/saferdomainlookup.php
I wrote it a few months ago after these types of issues started coming up. I provide some transparency so that you can have confidence in trusting it. Of course, you can always use command line whois or DNS tools.
Makes sense, I mean they are into complimentary products.
Keyboard and Mouse
Xbox and games
Windows and this.
that nobody saw coming.....
His cure is practiced by truckers and smart motorists it seems. Having driven around the country a lot, I think that it works sometimes, but then there are always jackasses that use that space you've created in front of you. From what I can tell, drivers have been getting more and more aggressive. When I took driver's ed 15 years ago, they told you about keeping 2-4 seconds between you and the person in front of you. That is probably based on driving in the 60s, but today that is nearly impossible. People generally drive about 1/2 second or less behind the person in front of them and better braking and tire traction have allowed this.
Here were my thoughts on it from 3 years ago. Several of the traffic backups I've gotten into on major interstates have not been the result of an accident but just people slowing down or changing lanes. I always wish that I could see a video from overhead.
Last month, we drove down to Florida and near Gainesville, there was a huge backup that would slow down for a while and nearly stop, then speed up, then a few miles later slow down. This was going on for like 10 miles. It turns out it was all because people on my side where slowing down to look at an accident that happened on the other side.
Actually, this is a good question. I'm a bit worried because Matthew is a "Linux person". I had the chance to meet him when he come to Bloomington and he has been with Red Hat since the mid 90s and has been a Linux user all this time. I doubt the same could be said for the Delta guy, but maybe not?
I imagine that it really is family reasons. That's too bad. He was really leading the company into global markets and was meeting with some very important people around the world.
Have a fallout, closer to home. Toshiba Micro Nuclear.
I don't see a problem with it, I just wonder why put the / in the article name the way they do. I understand that its to make a kind of sub page, but why?
Three rights make a left. Ok, were's my check?
Actually, probably for the size of that thing, you could fit 1000 TB drives in the same volume, so you could fit a petabyte (and soon 5PB) in the same amount of space. So storage space per cubic whatever has increased by a billion times in 50 years.
One thing to keep in mind when determining the quality of your code is that other people will most likely criticize the quality of your code. Usually saying that it sucks, when usually its just the person having their own way of doing things. I don't know why this is, I think its just human nature.
I've seen time and time again programmers taking over for other programmers' code and saying that the previous person's code sucks. Its like a right of passage or something.
I've played the games again sometimes with Vice. But its the music that I still love. Reyn Ouwehand (who rocks) just released this video of him jammin out to Green Beret. I guess that was an arcade game too though. Still, some of the remixes are pretty good.
I tried to make one a few years back. Not quite good enough though.
I always wished that someone would do a good remake of the game Below the Root.
If there is one thing I've seen on The Linux Games Tome, its that it only takes a few people to build a MMORPG. If anything, they should just use the quarter of a million to mobilize some open source programmers around a game that is open source.
I was wondering, does anyone know of a website that has been keeping track of all the notable security breeches over the past several years? It would be useful to have that information when you need to show it to a manager, etc. Thanks.
Looks like someone hasn't watched Gattaca.
They may have a nice privacy statement, but that doesn't mean any thing if they aren't really enforcing it. Who knows?