Tessellation means to cover a polygon with smaller polygons. That's it.
Now whenever you google it, it turns up all this garbage from clueless gamers who think it's some kind of Crysis 3 feature. Now on top of that we have to deal with this?
how do you blowhard about how you want to play lawman and fire people for 'breaking the law' while you have an anarchist quote at the bottom of your comment?
this shit doesnt work, people keep saying it will replace everything.
they call anyone who challenges them purveyors of "fear uncertainty and doubt.
FEAR - im afraid it doesnt fucking work
uncertainty - im uncertain if i should spend 40 hours porting my shit to this 'next big thing, or ubuntu's MIR, or ubuntu phone's ShitFlinger or whatever teh fuck its called.
Doubt - I Doubt anyone will ever write a game for linux if this is the fucking situation with the graphics layer - 4 to 5 different subsyetems with incompatable versions and all of this hoopla and bullshit and douchebaggery.
its fucking irressponsible, its shit, its like taking a giant snowjob and blowing it all over the open source community.
i wrote a brilliant rant about how this shit doesnt work. you failed to appreciate it and chose to lecture me about some bizarre toy product that has nothing to do with my points.
i keep reaading articles about how apps dont look proper on retina displays -- because the allmighty display-PDF of Mac OSX doesnt really actually use vector graphics nor do its toolkits.
even in the walled garden, we can see the emperor's new clothes are a sham, and he is naked
if a program cannot build easily on a standard linux machine, its not going to be adopted by hundred of millions of people and its not going to topple an installed standard with a huge userbase
the 'user is wong' attitude is what doomed every display system before and will doom wayland just the same.
get the thing to compile out of the box or dont ship it. a simple philosophy. we have cmake, autoconf, scons, choose your poison
but have you ever tried to actually install one of them on your own machine and get a hello world program working?
this crap is, at best, alpha quality software. its just utter vapor ware.
i sound like a grumpy old man, but thats because i have been hearing about the "demise of X" since, oh, around 1997. There was SVGALIB, there was GGI, there was SDL, there was Cairo, there was Display Postscript and its various iterations, there was all sorts of stuff. And here we are, still with X.
In 2013.
That's 20 years since linux was created. 20 years and the only widely adoptd alternative to X is on Android, and i dont even know what its' called.
and, for future reference, when you lecture people with your ten paragraph manifesto when you cant be bothered to do 20 minutes of research, its annoying.
look, stealing is nothing different than a form of planned obsolescence. every business school teaches planned obsolescence and how to use it to maximize profit.
now, lets imagine that you have a product where there is lower planned obsolescence. is that good or bad for your profit? thats right, its bad.
now lets imagine a product that gets stolen a lot vs one that doesnt. which one is more like planned obsolescence? Thats right. the stolen product. its good for profits.
a corporation that is interested in making a profit is actually practicing mismanagement when it implements a high quality anti-theft system.
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Tessellation means to cover a polygon with smaller polygons. That's it.
Now whenever you google it, it turns up all this garbage from clueless gamers who think it's some kind of Crysis 3 feature. Now on top of that we have to deal with this?
still doesnt change the fact the guy is a prick.
how do you blowhard about how you want to play lawman and fire people for 'breaking the law' while you have an anarchist quote at the bottom of your comment?
instead of bitching about how crazy i am?
this shit doesnt work, people keep saying it will replace everything.
they call anyone who challenges them purveyors of "fear uncertainty and doubt.
FEAR - im afraid it doesnt fucking work
uncertainty - im uncertain if i should spend 40 hours porting my shit to this 'next big thing, or ubuntu's MIR, or ubuntu phone's ShitFlinger or whatever teh fuck its called.
Doubt - I Doubt anyone will ever write a game for linux if this is the fucking situation with the graphics layer - 4 to 5 different subsyetems with incompatable versions and all of this hoopla and bullshit and douchebaggery.
its fucking irressponsible, its shit, its like taking a giant snowjob and blowing it all over the open source community.
i wrote a brilliant rant about how this shit doesnt work. you failed to appreciate it and chose to lecture me about some bizarre toy product that has nothing to do with my points.
and then felt the need to lecture me about how i was wrong.
i want to run non-X hello world wayland on my PC.
that doesnt mean raspberry pi. it means my PC.
PC. the thing sitting on my desk.
my god man. could you have taken 2 seconds to google the name of the law?
your are describing managers who are incompetent and not qualified to run their business.
you have done what you can do. you arent the company president.
this is like dealing with a durg addict. you cant save them. you cant change them. they have to want to change, and they dont want to.
let them fail. let them go bankrupt.
make sure you cover your ass. keep documentation of their stupidity and your warnings.
and keep your resume updated.
i have ever read.
MIR and Wayland are both airy-fairy piles of shitty vaporware that a whole 12 people have managed to get installed and working.
you will scare the nutjobs who like to draw castles in their cheerios and tell you to go live there.
i keep reaading articles about how apps dont look proper on retina displays -- because the allmighty display-PDF of Mac OSX doesnt really actually use vector graphics nor do its toolkits.
even in the walled garden, we can see the emperor's new clothes are a sham, and he is naked
show me how to write OpenGL hello world programs for DirectFB on my desktop PC
i mean, we might as well discuss windows and directx
if a program cannot build easily on a standard linux machine, its not going to be adopted by hundred of millions of people and its not going to topple an installed standard with a huge userbase
the 'user is wong' attitude is what doomed every display system before and will doom wayland just the same.
get the thing to compile out of the box or dont ship it. a simple philosophy. we have cmake, autoconf, scons, choose your poison
if you spend 8 hours trying to make your computer show a triangle on the screen, and fail, obviously its your fault.
welcome to the pre-ubuntu linux asshole philosophy of user support.
which is why i said 'on my desktop PC'. which has a user base of, oh, several ten-million
not some niche little fad product with 512mb of RAM that has a month waiting list so hipsterss can pretend they are saving money
if you arent running without X, then you arent running without X.
you missed the whole point of my rant
congrats you missed the point
wayland, mir, etc are all fine in theory.
but have you ever tried to actually install one of them on your own machine and get a hello world program working?
this crap is, at best, alpha quality software. its just utter vapor ware.
i sound like a grumpy old man, but thats because i have been hearing about the "demise of X" since, oh, around 1997. There was SVGALIB, there was GGI, there was SDL, there was Cairo, there was Display Postscript and its various iterations, there was all sorts of stuff. And here we are, still with X.
In 2013.
That's 20 years since linux was created. 20 years and the only widely adoptd alternative to X is on Android, and i dont even know what its' called.
look up the Thomas Drake case
and, for future reference, when you lecture people with your ten paragraph manifesto when you cant be bothered to do 20 minutes of research, its annoying.
look, stealing is nothing different than a form of planned obsolescence.
every business school teaches planned obsolescence and how to use it to maximize profit.
now, lets imagine that you have a product where there is lower planned obsolescence. is that good or bad for your profit? thats right, its bad.
now lets imagine a product that gets stolen a lot vs one that doesnt. which one is more like planned obsolescence? Thats right. the stolen product. its good for profits.
a corporation that is interested in making a profit is actually practicing mismanagement when it implements a high quality anti-theft system.
i mean, it is actually prophetic. the military literally builds toys (video games) to teach kids to kill people.
what the hell, people have a really rosy view of the military in here.
when bush invaded iraq, which was clearly illegal in every possible way, the miliatry said nothing, did nothing, cared nothing.
instead they stacked CDs of the Dixie Chicks in a big pile and burned them.
those people would not blink an eye before shooting a crowd full of 'their fellow americans' if they were told to do it.
did you not see the Occupy Wall Street protests? they were spraying kids right in the face with pepper spray for no reason.
it also worked for Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Franco, Mussolini... shall i go on?
OK.
Hussein, Ho Chih Minh, King Il Sung, Idi Amin, PW Botha, the Afghan Communist Party, the people in Rwanda......