Wake me up when Microsoft comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps in Silverlight with the same ease that you can with Flash.
Wake me up when Adobe or Microsoft (or anyone, for that mater) comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps that don't take up huge amounts of bandwidth, don't run like drunk turtles, and don't reinvent ever UI widget under the sun (including label text.)
Wake me up when everyone else wakes up. Can't wait to wipe the drool off my pillow and start coding to that dream API!
By the way, isn't this "Wake me up" business backwards? You should be fully awake now, struggling with Flash and Silverlight. You'll get more sleeping time when the fictional brain-reading compiler comes out.
Are there any video cards that support the extra colors?
Good question. Here's what I know about it anyway. Since about 2001 both ATI and nVIDIA have had 10 bit DACs so on a CRT you could see fine, low-contrast gradients by manipulating the gamma lookup table in your app using low level graphics API calls. For example, load up the 3 (RGB) gamma tables such that 0-255 maps to 384-639. This gives you fine gradients, but 1) on an analog CRT via the VGA connector, not via DVI to your LCD and 2) you cant see 0-1023 at the same time, just a 256 subset as described. Problem (1) is partially solved by having this new LCD on the other side (perhaps that's all that's needed-- dual-link DVI supports 10 bis per channel I think) but there's also (2)-- which requires that the OS support 10-10-10-2 pixel formats (thats R-G-B-A with only 2 bits of transparency to maintain 32-bit pixels). OpenGL defines this pixel format and some that are > 32 bits as well, but the driver / os would have to support it.
So even if the video card had an internal 10-bit per channel pipeline (which again I think ATI and nVIDIA have had for awhile) the video card would have to output all 10 sig bits out DVI/HDMI and the monitor would have to accept that-- perhaps it only works with some of those high-end studio digital interfaces which would indeed require a special video card.
And, at the end of the day, the standard pixel formats wouldn't support it, so it would have to be in some fullscreen app-specific mode.
if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day
probably because most of those people would either try to eat the calculator or sell it for food and medicine
the roadrunner always wins, so it no surprise it topped this "petaflop mark" guy (yeesh, what a name).
and roadrunner's always been cel-based, at least in the modern era. i bought one of those cels from the warner bros. store before they went under, nice one too with his tongue sticking out
What Makes a Programming Language Successful? I'm going to go with a high rate of user adoption. Until programming languages get smart and stop depending on humans to adopt them. A really successful language would destroy code written in other languages and spread itself everywhere.
Way deep inside
Hard drive
You nneed me!
BUM, BUM!
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa...a...a..
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERM!
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERM!
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERMmmmmmm
Slashdot Mirror
Wake me up when Microsoft comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps in Silverlight with the same ease that you can with Flash.
Wake me up when Adobe or Microsoft (or anyone, for that mater) comes up with a tool that allows non-coder graphic designers or animators to create entire apps that don't take up huge amounts of bandwidth, don't run like drunk turtles, and don't reinvent ever UI widget under the sun (including label text.)
Wake me up when everyone else wakes up. Can't wait to wipe the drool off my pillow and start coding to that dream API!
By the way, isn't this "Wake me up" business backwards? You should be fully awake now, struggling with Flash and Silverlight. You'll get more sleeping time when the fictional brain-reading compiler comes out.
"Playah...."
notice that the launch date is january 27... same day as the rumored apple tablet unveiling.
Increase efficiency by hand-cranking while surfing porn sites!
Fear Uncertainty Cloud (your judgement)
Slashdot male:
"Words cannot express how many times..."
* The rollable water container...
wee!
* The little heater...
woo!
* The huge and incredible mobile phone informal/illegal repair subculture...
er, woo hoo I guess!
* The solar furnace...
yeah baby!
* The indian project to use harvested stomach bacteria to process recycled food into gas for cooking
MOMMMY!
Forgot why tho
Good question. Here's what I know about it anyway. Since about 2001 both ATI and nVIDIA have had 10 bit DACs so on a CRT you could see fine, low-contrast gradients by manipulating the gamma lookup table in your app using low level graphics API calls. For example, load up the 3 (RGB) gamma tables such that 0-255 maps to 384-639. This gives you fine gradients, but 1) on an analog CRT via the VGA connector, not via DVI to your LCD and 2) you cant see 0-1023 at the same time, just a 256 subset as described. Problem (1) is partially solved by having this new LCD on the other side (perhaps that's all that's needed-- dual-link DVI supports 10 bis per channel I think) but there's also (2)-- which requires that the OS support 10-10-10-2 pixel formats (thats R-G-B-A with only 2 bits of transparency to maintain 32-bit pixels). OpenGL defines this pixel format and some that are > 32 bits as well, but the driver / os would have to support it.
So even if the video card had an internal 10-bit per channel pipeline (which again I think ATI and nVIDIA have had for awhile) the video card would have to output all 10 sig bits out DVI/HDMI and the monitor would have to accept that-- perhaps it only works with some of those high-end studio digital interfaces which would indeed require a special video card.
And, at the end of the day, the standard pixel formats wouldn't support it, so it would have to be in some fullscreen app-specific mode.
except maybe something popping up behind me from another 'verse. Oooo, that hurts!
which encourages cyberbullying of other nations
probably because most of those people would either try to eat the calculator or sell it for food and medicine
and roadrunner's always been cel-based, at least in the modern era. i bought one of those cels from the warner bros. store before they went under, nice one too with his tongue sticking out
oh forgot to say, i'd use it for my twitter postings
me too, but only if i'm the only male member
set up a huge array of mirrors that turns the lit side of the moon into a display surface
but how about "NCLB: Crazy Mall Shopper" where you have to keep up with Mom in a sea of clothes racks? That'll learn ya!
how do we know the printer wasn't framed by another printer?
I'd like to try out this new BitTorrent-based DOS. I'm still using MS-DOS 5 and it takes too long to copy files.
Greedy capitalists, share your idle cycles! Power to the people!
Reminds me of a tune...
Way deep inside
Hard drive
You nneed me!
BUM, BUM!
AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa...a...a..
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERM!
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERM!
You wanna whole lotta bytes!
ERMmmmmmm
You can't have a beer during afternoon conference calls.
When I can say "I have a lotta yottabytes"