Unfortunately, if you look at the "driver sources" carefully, it's just another shim to the real driver that does the heavy lifting. This implementation does not submit GPU instructions directly nor does it expose the shader compiler where someone can trace how shaders are being transformed into native instructions. In the end, it's just a layer that just submits user data to some specialized (probably proprietary) ioctl that exposes the functionality of the real driver implemented as a binary kernel blob and/or microcode running on the firmware.
Honestly unless you are playing Crisis they are getting pretty good. I played Portal 2 on IGP. That is two years old, but the laptop I played on was already a year old at that point.
You either don't know what you're talking about or just plainly trolling. The GPU specs that Intel opened is the CoreHD graphics series which is Intel's own GPU technology and is in no way related to ImgTech's PowerVR.
I am looking forward though to the real competition between ARM's latest and greatest with Intel's upcoming Haswell.
- Create a desktop kernel fork. Linus & co. are not in the business of writing/maintaining a desktop kernel. Their goals are larger (and smaller) than that. The desktop kernel can track the mainline kernel, but shouldn't adopt every latest ABI or other changeâ"just do a major update every 3-5 years.
What on earth would that achieve? And what is the difference between a "desktop kernel" and a "server kernel" or whatever.
One glaring example of this is the kernel scheduler. If you ever used the OSX / IOS notice how smooth the graphics is and well responding it is to touch events even under heavy load compared to Linux desktops / Android. Although there have been much improvements done in Linux recently especially Android stack that smoothes the UI experience, occasionally you will still encounter random hiccups in the UI (even with a quad-core CPU). Same is true with other Linux-based such as the Nokia N9 Harmattan, where although the graphics is pretty much smooth, the user sometimes encounters stuttering when swiping or scrolling windows.
As the GP pointed out, part of the problem here is that the Linux kernel have vested interests towards server infrastructures. The current scheduler, CFS (tries to) balances CPU utilization and user interactivity fairly. If Linux were to achieve a more smoother response we need a scheduler for extremely low latencies instead of fair prioritization.
There is a project to change the scheduler towards this low latency approach, but even the project author is not expecting it to be accepted in mainline soon - the reason why we need a fork.
...but insanely exciting missions: a robotic boat that would have floated on a methane lake on Saturn’s moon Titan and a comet explorer. I would prefer the robotic boat. You never know what lurks beneath those lakes (TMAs?). This is unfortunate though. Seems NASA has mastered the technical hurdles of Mars but rested on its laurels instead, sticking to tried and true approaches.
I once saw this concept videovideo at Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki more than 3 years ago. Too bad Nokia failed to capitalise it on time and now they are failing big time.
Seems? How can you say it is sluggish you haven't even tried it out personally? Or were you just judging the performance based on the videos. I have the prototype and it is extrememely fast and snappy indeed. Even Engadget which is biased towards Apple is impressed
Just the need to upgrade how Kwin uses OpenGL currently to do rendering. Right now its still using the old OpenGL 1.1 - style rendering (fixed-function rendering pipeline) to a programmable one using vertex and fragment shaders. This way, it'll be easier to port it on embedded devices that uses OpenGL 2.0 by default
I shudder to think of capturing the interest of geeky girls! No more geeky girls for me. When they like you, they tend to like you in a crazy manner! I had the experience of one trying to get my attention in every way. She would always try to understand the software projects that I am working on and even google the terminologies that I put in my blog. This is funny, but she asked me out lots of times, I tried to say no but is really persistent. She once caught me having dinner with friends in restaurant and in a very planned manner, went straight to our table talked to a couple of my friends behind my back and then went to me. She tends to approach love and relationships in a very calculated manner. I am already like that and NO I am not going to spend my life with a person who is just like me (why can't I attract the real girls)?:/
From what you are describing, it seems that you hate your workplace/work unfortunately. Still, that is not a reason that fun and work couldn't go together. I am only required to work 37.5 hours / week but still I go the office on Saturdays sometimes because I can't wait to finish that code that I have been working on Friday. Oh, I have a great office: quiet, cool, designer furniture, big glass windows, and a nice view of the sea. And I feel the sense of satisfaction that my code is going to be part of the lives of billions of people around the world. Money is really just the icing on the cake (disclaimer: I work for one of the largest corporations in the world).
True. There are cases where working on a secure office is absolutely a must. For example if you're writing embedded code for prototype hardware that your company doesn't want competitors to know about. How are you going to do just that in a coffee shop?
I just went to visit the ruins of ancient Rome last week! I didn't like the smell of candles and old churches though. I also almost got stuck in the place because of the Alitalia strike. Virtual tours should be better solution for those planning to go there physically:)
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Did anyone notice that the image recognition code is imported from a binary DLL? I was under the impression that the Russian hackers would provide the source for the recognition code as well. But then, the people who released this are only interested in generating as much spam. Why should you trust them? You would be foolish enough to _not_ execute your test program that imports this dll in a vmware instance instead of your actual machine. Anybody done a comprehensive strace to determine sockets/descriptors opened by using this dll?
Apple's Safari is a closed and proprietary program that is why they removed the Qt dependency in the fist place and replaced it with a small subset of Qt functionality called KWQ. Since Qt's license only allows GPL and requires payment for other versions, I wonder what this means for companies wanting to release a product based on WebKit but decide not to publish the source code - such as Safari itself. They may or may not like the idea of shelling out $3000/developer just to include Webkit.
I'm one of the developers of Wt. I would like to put some extra clarifications here. Although, it does use boost for date, time, regex, and some utility functions, it does not use the boost::signals component for the signal and slots event handling. It has a feature called stateless slots that is somewhat cumbersome to do in boost::signals. Instead it uses an in-house signal and slots library that follows closely Qt's signal and slots model to acheive this feature.
I've seen Userful's DiscoverStation and its a more complete and integrated non-thin client solution that is specifically designed for the problems inherent in public computing. Using standard PCs as a public computer invites this kinds of problems that is akin to making your home bathroom as a public restroom. DiscoverStation is a complete hardware and software solution that weathers this kind of public use.
Try Wt, its called the "Qt" of the web. It even uses signal and slots for event handling! Never has programming complex and highly-interactive web applications been this easier with this library. It is a C++ library and allows you to build high-performance AJAX web apps without ever writing a line of HTML, Javascript, XML, or even learning XmlHTTP. The library takes care of these complexities the same way Qt hides Xt/Xlib or Win32 primitives from the developer.
You may like Wt if you think programming web applications should be done in a straightforward manner like in normal desktop applications and not be _unecessarily_ complex with stupid buzzwords sprinkled here and there.
Here's a link to the actual company and its technology used. This technology could be extremely helpful for soldiers or people who lost their limbs in traumatic accidents.
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Unfortunately, if you look at the "driver sources" carefully, it's just another shim to the real driver that does the heavy lifting. This implementation does not submit GPU instructions directly nor does it expose the shader compiler where someone can trace how shaders are being transformed into native instructions. In the end, it's just a layer that just submits user data to some specialized (probably proprietary) ioctl that exposes the functionality of the real driver implemented as a binary kernel blob and/or microcode running on the firmware.
See https://github.com/raspberrypi/userland/blob/master/interface/khronos/glxx/glxx_client.c for example.
Honestly unless you are playing Crisis they are getting pretty good. I played Portal 2 on IGP. That is two years old, but the laptop I played on was already a year old at that point.
New Intel IGPs does handle Crysis with fluid framerates even with quality settings turned high.
You either don't know what you're talking about or just plainly trolling. The GPU specs that Intel opened is the CoreHD graphics series which is Intel's own GPU technology and is in no way related to ImgTech's PowerVR.
I am looking forward though to the real competition between ARM's latest and greatest with Intel's upcoming Haswell.
Hard drive heads ride on a cusion of air (or in this case, a gas of some kind) so that they don't crash against the drive.
Why a gas? Why not float it using an electromagnet instead?
- Create a desktop kernel fork. Linus & co. are not in the business of writing/maintaining a desktop kernel. Their goals are larger (and smaller) than that. The desktop kernel can track the mainline kernel, but shouldn't adopt every latest ABI or other changeâ"just do a major update every 3-5 years.
What on earth would that achieve? And what is the difference between a "desktop kernel" and a "server kernel" or whatever.
One glaring example of this is the kernel scheduler. If you ever used the OSX / IOS notice how smooth the graphics is and well responding it is to touch events even under heavy load compared to Linux desktops / Android. Although there have been much improvements done in Linux recently especially Android stack that smoothes the UI experience, occasionally you will still encounter random hiccups in the UI (even with a quad-core CPU). Same is true with other Linux-based such as the Nokia N9 Harmattan, where although the graphics is pretty much smooth, the user sometimes encounters stuttering when swiping or scrolling windows.
As the GP pointed out, part of the problem here is that the Linux kernel have vested interests towards server infrastructures. The current scheduler, CFS (tries to) balances CPU utilization and user interactivity fairly. If Linux were to achieve a more smoother response we need a scheduler for extremely low latencies instead of fair prioritization.
There is a project to change the scheduler towards this low latency approach, but even the project author is not expecting it to be accepted in mainline soon - the reason why we need a fork.
...but insanely exciting missions: a robotic boat that would have floated on a methane lake on Saturn’s moon Titan and a comet explorer. I would prefer the robotic boat. You never know what lurks beneath those lakes (TMAs?). This is unfortunate though. Seems NASA has mastered the technical hurdles of Mars but rested on its laurels instead, sticking to tried and true approaches.
I once saw this concept videovideo at Nokia Research Centre in Helsinki more than 3 years ago. Too bad Nokia failed to capitalise it on time and now they are failing big time.
Seems? How can you say it is sluggish you haven't even tried it out personally? Or were you just judging the performance based on the videos. I have the prototype and it is extrememely fast and snappy indeed. Even Engadget which is biased towards Apple is impressed
Looks like the lightsaber training ball used by Luke
Just the need to upgrade how Kwin uses OpenGL currently to do rendering. Right now its still using the old OpenGL 1.1 - style rendering (fixed-function rendering pipeline) to a programmable one using vertex and fragment shaders. This way, it'll be easier to port it on embedded devices that uses OpenGL 2.0 by default
I shudder to think of capturing the interest of geeky girls! No more geeky girls for me. When they like you, they tend to like you in a crazy manner! I had the experience of one trying to get my attention in every way. She would always try to understand the software projects that I am working on and even google the terminologies that I put in my blog. This is funny, but she asked me out lots of times, I tried to say no but is really persistent. She once caught me having dinner with friends in restaurant and in a very planned manner, went straight to our table talked to a couple of my friends behind my back and then went to me. She tends to approach love and relationships in a very calculated manner. I am already like that and NO I am not going to spend my life with a person who is just like me (why can't I attract the real girls)? :/
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FF7 / FFX? :)
From what you are describing, it seems that you hate your workplace/work unfortunately. Still, that is not a reason that fun and work couldn't go together. I am only required to work 37.5 hours / week but still I go the office on Saturdays sometimes because I can't wait to finish that code that I have been working on Friday. Oh, I have a great office: quiet, cool, designer furniture, big glass windows, and a nice view of the sea. And I feel the sense of satisfaction that my code is going to be part of the lives of billions of people around the world. Money is really just the icing on the cake (disclaimer: I work for one of the largest corporations in the world).
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True. There are cases where working on a secure office is absolutely a must. For example if you're writing embedded code for prototype hardware that your company doesn't want competitors to know about. How are you going to do just that in a coffee shop?
I just went to visit the ruins of ancient Rome last week! I didn't like the smell of candles and old churches though. I also almost got stuck in the place because of the Alitalia strike. Virtual tours should be better solution for those planning to go there physically :)
Did anyone notice that the image recognition code is imported from a binary DLL? I was under the impression that the Russian hackers would provide the source for the recognition code as well. But then, the people who released this are only interested in generating as much spam. Why should you trust them? You would be foolish enough to _not_ execute your test program that imports this dll in a vmware instance instead of your actual machine. Anybody done a comprehensive strace to determine sockets/descriptors opened by using this dll?
Apple's Safari is a closed and proprietary program that is why they removed the Qt dependency in the fist place and replaced it with a small subset of Qt functionality called KWQ. Since Qt's license only allows GPL and requires payment for other versions, I wonder what this means for companies wanting to release a product based on WebKit but decide not to publish the source code - such as Safari itself. They may or may not like the idea of shelling out $3000/developer just to include Webkit.
I'm one of the developers of Wt. I would like to put some extra clarifications here. Although, it does use boost for date, time, regex, and some utility functions, it does not use the boost::signals component for the signal and slots event handling. It has a feature called stateless slots that is somewhat cumbersome to do in boost::signals. Instead it uses an in-house signal and slots library that follows closely Qt's signal and slots model to acheive this feature.
I've seen Userful's DiscoverStation and its a more complete and integrated non-thin client solution that is specifically designed for the problems inherent in public computing. Using standard PCs as a public computer invites this kinds of problems that is akin to making your home bathroom as a public restroom. DiscoverStation is a complete hardware and software solution that weathers this kind of public use.
Try Wt, its called the "Qt" of the web. It even uses signal and slots for event handling! Never has programming complex and highly-interactive web applications been this easier with this library. It is a C++ library and allows you to build high-performance AJAX web apps without ever writing a line of HTML, Javascript, XML, or even learning XmlHTTP. The library takes care of these complexities the same way Qt hides Xt/Xlib or Win32 primitives from the developer.
You may like Wt if you think programming web applications should be done in a straightforward manner like in normal desktop applications and not be _unecessarily_ complex with stupid buzzwords sprinkled here and there.
Then why the hell are you using those reserved C++ keywords in your headers in the first place?
You're a fool. C++ can can compile C code!
Here's a link to the actual company and its technology used. This technology could be extremely helpful for soldiers or people who lost their limbs in traumatic accidents.