It looks like the 2017 "revamp" got "bumped" to 2015.
The ODROID C1 looks interesting... Quad Core 1.5 GHz ARM A5; even includes a RTC. Benchmarks looks like it is about 8x.. not bad. I see a PSP emulator is available too.
While they made some pretty bone headed decisions in the past, i.e. flooding the market with too many TV's that consumers don't give a crap about, pouring billions of R&D into the PS3, and have never really recovered from Apple envy, they are slowly turning the Titanic around.
When a company is so big that they end up suing themselves they aren't going to disappear overnight.
Indeed, fuck the Hurry-up-and-Wait, aka pay-to-win.
Social Games, ironically, are neither social, nor games. The bigger problem however though is:
They have ZERO respect for your time OR your space.
i.e. Brave Frontier Units intentionally don't "stack", thus you are forced to waste gems to "unlock" more inventory space. Of corse you can RMT gems...
Hell, you're complaining about the CPU...... I'm still waiting for an cheap embedded GPU that doesn't suck for 3D shader performance and provides open access to registers instead of a binary blob.:-)
I'm not complaining because for $35 you are getting one hell of a deal !
After paying $1,000 for my GTX Titan I realize it is going to be about 15 years before we can see that level of performance in the embedded device space. That's OK -- gives me more time for R&D.:-) The only other practical hardware is the nVidia Shield Tablet, but for $300 that is 10x the cost.
My understanding is that the hardware IS open, so you if you think there is sufficient demand for a more powerful ultra-tiny learning computer, you're free to 'fork' it make a new model.
But yeah, hopefully in 2 years we'll get a major spec increase bump.
> Inline specifically means "export this as a weak symbol".
Oh gee, and here I thought it meant merge basic blocks. Do you know _anything_ how C++ compilers even work??
>> I can chose between Microsoft's __inline or GCC god-awful __attribute__((always_inline)) syntax. > Yes, but why are you trying to do that? You're fighting the optimizer and you're almost certain to lose.
You love to constantly make incorrect and incomplete assumptions.
1. I want to write ONE directive not clutter my code up with hacks PER compiler. _Why_ do standards exist ? To make everyone's live _easier_.
2. Gee, why do things like _Profiling_ exist. The *compiler* doesn't have access to *run-time* performance. The optimizer is dealing with a _subset_ of data. It doesn't know the "function temperature".
But go on keeping making excuses. You really don't have a clue.
> How many usable DirectX bindings do you know for Java? 1. And who's job is that to support DirectX? 2. If Microsoft was _serious_ about DirectX they would add D3D bindings to Java.
> they can as well rewrite Minecraft from the scratch in C++ That was _already_ done for the PS3 and XBox360 versions.
>> *"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++" > The C++ committee have their heads up their asses because they discuss a proposal submitted according to the correct procedure??
This is a solution in search of a problem.
Do you even _understand_ the term: Kitchen Sink or Over-engineering??
We already have graphics libraries, OpenGL / OpenGL ES, DirectX, etc. We don't need more shit in an already bloated language.
People like you are precisely part of the problem with C++.
1. Completely failing to understand _practical_ matters. 2. Continue to make excuses for why their tools are crap. 3. And then post blatantly false information that gets modded up to Insightful without a clue.
> I can't think of a single game today that uses OpenGL.
Uh, HELLO McFly; Minecraft. That "insignificant" game that "only" sold 54+ million copies. ~18 MILLION on PC.
> Why is that?
Because you didn't even be bothered to spend 2 seconds tolook
Gee, what is Valve using on OSX, and Linux !?!?... It sure as hell isn't Microsoft's Not-Inventered-Here RenderMorph's Reality Lab which they renamed to Direct3D
Babb won't explicitly say he's there for the Silk Road trial. He's cagey because jury nullification activists have a history of being sent to jail for jury tampering. Perhaps the most famous case came in 2011, when an 80-year-old retired chemistry professor named Julien Heicklin was jailed for standing outside a Manhattan court where he distributed jury nullification pamphlets.
Heicklin, whom Babb calls his personal hero, was eventually acquitted, with the judge remarking that it's only jury tampering if someone tries "to influence a juror's decision through a written communication 'made in relation to a specific case pending before that juror.' "
I'm sorry but the C++ committee has their head up their @$$es for *practical* matters:
* Standardized Name Mangling? * Standardized ABI so compiler A can call code compiled with compiler B * Standardized error messages * Standardized pragmas to enable/disable warnings for unused variables * Standardized forced inline, never inilne * A consistent grammar between forward declarations and function definitions to make it easier to copy/paste
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It looks like the 2017 "revamp" got "bumped" to 2015.
The ODROID C1 looks interesting ... Quad Core 1.5 GHz ARM A5; even includes a RTC. Benchmarks looks like it is about 8x .. not bad. I see a PSP emulator is available too.
* http://www.hardkernel.com/main...
* http://hardkernel.com/main/pro...
> The Raspberry Pi 3 in 2017 or so should be pretty amazing, ...
Link / details please?
I'm aware the register spec was open up -- sadly performance still sucks, and there are tons of bugs.
i.e.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wik...
/Oblg. The Birth and Death of Javascript
* https://www.destroyallsoftware...
Any language that requires a "use strict"; hack as the first line to turn on better error checking is fucking retarded.
Sony's bread and butter isn't electronics though; it is insurance !?
* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
While they made some pretty bone headed decisions in the past, i.e. flooding the market with too many TV's that consumers don't give a crap about, pouring billions of R&D into the PS3, and have never really recovered from Apple envy, they are slowly turning the Titanic around.
When a company is so big that they end up suing themselves they aren't going to disappear overnight.
Indeed, fuck the Hurry-up-and-Wait, aka pay-to-win.
Social Games, ironically, are neither social, nor games. The bigger problem however though is:
They have ZERO respect for your time OR your space.
i.e. Brave Frontier ...
Units intentionally don't "stack", thus you are forced to waste gems to "unlock" more inventory space. Of corse you can RMT gems
> while WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0
As in, you must declare a vertex + fragment shader, and roll your own matrix transformations.
Nah, 2Pi = Tau
Ergo, Raspberry Tau, FTFY.
Hell, you're complaining about the CPU ... ... I'm still waiting for an cheap embedded GPU that doesn't suck for 3D shader performance and provides open access to registers instead of a binary blob. :-)
I'm not complaining because for $35 you are getting one hell of a deal !
After paying $1,000 for my GTX Titan I realize it is going to be about 15 years before we can see that level of performance in the embedded device space. That's OK -- gives me more time for R&D. :-) The only other practical hardware is the nVidia Shield Tablet, but for $300 that is 10x the cost.
My understanding is that the hardware IS open, so you if you think there is sufficient demand for a more powerful ultra-tiny learning computer, you're free to 'fork' it make a new model.
But yeah, hopefully in 2 years we'll get a major spec increase bump.
The classic joke was:
I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out
> Inline specifically means "export this as a weak symbol".
Oh gee, and here I thought it meant merge basic blocks. Do you know _anything_ how C++ compilers even work??
>> I can chose between Microsoft's __inline or GCC god-awful __attribute__((always_inline)) syntax.
> Yes, but why are you trying to do that? You're fighting the optimizer and you're almost certain to lose.
You love to constantly make incorrect and incomplete assumptions.
1. I want to write ONE directive not clutter my code up with hacks PER compiler. _Why_ do standards exist ? To make everyone's live _easier_.
2. Gee, why do things like _Profiling_ exist. The *compiler* doesn't have access to *run-time* performance. The optimizer is dealing with a _subset_ of data. It doesn't know the "function temperature".
But go on keeping making excuses. You really don't have a clue.
Sadly that's an accurate summary of the problem caused by First-Past-the-Post voting.
One solution is run-off voting or the Alternative vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> they lose their IP to someone, and the name Ubisoft becomes a curseword...
You mean Ubisucks already isn't? :-)
When companies can "effectively" just "buy laws" (and/or Politicians) corruption knows no bounds for price gouging.
Great PS4 Link !
I shipped a few games on Wii; wrote an OpenGL implementation for it layering it on top of GX. Interesting that Wii U still uses GX !
> How many usable DirectX bindings do you know for Java?
1. And who's job is that to support DirectX?
2. If Microsoft was _serious_ about DirectX they would add D3D bindings to Java.
> they can as well rewrite Minecraft from the scratch in C++
That was _already_ done for the PS3 and XBox360 versions.
Do you _actually_ use different compiles on different platforms at all ????
'inline' is only a hint
I can chose between Microsoft's __inline or GCC god-awful __attribute__((always_inline)) syntax.
This the reason #define macro's haven't died. 100% guarantee inlining.
Do you even understand the point of having "standards" ??
You're constantly complaining about "breaking things." Gee, if only there was a way to migrate, mitigate, and deploy change ...
* http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/hi...
This isn't rocket science -- let alone basic computer science. A dead-line is set, we inform people, and we make the switch. It's not fucking hard.
>> Standardized error messages
> doing something that no one else has ever done.
Gee, why does Microsoft provide a _specific_ number for _each_ warning ???
* https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...
Do you even code in C++??
>> *"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++"
> The C++ committee have their heads up their asses because they discuss a proposal submitted according to the correct procedure??
This is a solution in search of a problem.
Do you even _understand_ the term: Kitchen Sink or Over-engineering??
We already have graphics libraries, OpenGL / OpenGL ES, DirectX, etc. We don't need more shit in an already bloated language.
People like you are precisely part of the problem with C++.
1. Completely failing to understand _practical_ matters.
2. Continue to make excuses for why their tools are crap.
3. And then post blatantly false information that gets modded up to Insightful without a clue.
/Oblg.
Rocks "Das Rad" -- "Human civilization from the rocks perspective"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
> I can't think of a single game today that uses OpenGL.
Uh, HELLO McFly; Minecraft. That "insignificant" game that "only" sold 54+ million copies. ~18 MILLION on PC.
> Why is that?
Because you didn't even be bothered to spend 2 seconds to look
Gee, what is Valve using on OSX, and Linux !?!? ... It sure as hell isn't Microsoft's Not-Inventered-Here RenderMorph's Reality Lab which they renamed to Direct3D
> OpenGL (or rather, some variants thereof) is the leading API for use on portable devices.
That is Open GL ES 2.x now 3.x. Even on the -desktop- we have WebGL which is basically OpenGL ES inside a browser.
For the MS fan-boys, let me know when I can write and run shaders in a browser.
I *love* ShaderToy. It is awesome for prototyping.
That would be interesting to get some "real data" on who is informed about the law.
http://www.vocativ.com/underwo...
Maybe if MS actually supported *gasp* older OS's with IE11 we might take it seriously.
No one gives a crap about IE11.
Chrome is the performance king, Firefox was the add-on king.
Us guys who have worked on C++ compilers have an old joke ...
There are only 2 problems with C++.
1. Its design,
2. Its implementation.
Fortunately most C++ compilers use the EDG front-end to handle all the crap of template parsing.
> But that doesn't mean it is a bad language.
It is when programmers blindly use OOP as a Silver Bullet (TM) and then wonder WTF they run into all sorts of performance problems ...
"Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming"
* http://research.scee.net/files...
I'm sorry but the C++ committee has their head up their @$$es for *practical* matters:
* Standardized Name Mangling?
* Standardized ABI so compiler A can call code compiled with compiler B
* Standardized error messages
* Standardized pragmas to enable/disable warnings for unused variables
* Standardized forced inline, never inilne
* A consistent grammar between forward declarations and function definitions to make it easier to copy/paste
* Multi-column debugging instead of the archaic line debugging
Gee, who would ever want that!
Yeah, lets ignore real world issues for the past 20 years and keep adding CRAP onto the language ...
"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++"
* http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/s...
For high performance games, most of the C++ features are *ignored*
"CppCon 2014: Nicolas Fleury "C++ in Huge AAA Games"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gee, why did Feynman call it "Cargo Cult Science"
Or Max Planck say "Science advances one funeral at a time."
I'm not delusional about:
"You can take the People out of Politics,
But you can't take the Politics out of People"
But then you if had read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" you wouldn't have this fallacy that the progress of science is linear.