-- "It is far easier to destroy then to create -- which is why everyone on the internet bitches about somebody else's work instead of making their own 'masterpiece'."
Holy shit someone needs to mod the parent down as over-rated for their trolling...
Many of us older/. folk DO remember Michael Abrash from his "Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition)". "... the FDIV to calculate the reciprocal of 1/z is overlapped with drawing 16 pixels, taking advantage of the Pentiumâ(TM)s ability to perform floating-point in parallel with integer instructions, so the FDIV effectively takes only one cycle." * http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch70/70-04.html
Can you name one programmer who has open sourced their games MORE then Carmack? Yeah,I thought so.
WinQuake was replaced with glQuake which supported the 3Dfx Voodoo pretty much the day it came out. How did that S3 ViRGE decelerator work out for you again? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_ViRGE
Carmack has always pushed the technical boundaries. While he doesn't understand what makes a FUN game he certainly as hell know how to a TECHNICAL game. He has inspired many generations of programmers.
What have *you* done for the graphics and gaming community Mr. AC aside from bitching about someone's "mistakes" ???
-- "It is far easier to destroy then to create -- which is why everyone on the internet bitches about somebody else's work instead of making their own masterpiece."
Unfortunately you won't find civilian documents as that information is classified.
One of my best friends used to work for the Army. He observed that their tech was constantly about 20+ years ahead of the available civilian technology. i.e. When civilians had 1 MHz CPUs the Army was _already_ using 100 MHz CPUs; when civilians were using 100 MHz the Army was already on 1 GHz. My friend also mentioned they had MASSIVE (and expensive) cooling to drive the temperature down as low as possible in order to achieve high speeds. The sky is pretty much the limit when you have access to near "unlimited" R&D funds.
The army abandoned Silicon for high-speed computing decades ago primarily due to the 5 GHz "Wall". *That* is the primary reason Intel and AMD stopped talking about the "GHz wars" because they didn't want to expose the white elephant in the room. So not very practical (or affordable) from a consumer's point of view but similar to how the "enthusiast" will overclock a desktop CPU that normally craps out at ~ 5 GHz to hit 8.429 GHz long enough to run CPUZ and take a screenshot. It is entirely possible to push "conventional" electronics WAY beyond their means when you dive deep down into near absolute zero temperature.
No "technology conspiracy theorists" required -- just 2nd information based on facts. Go to an Army surplus store sometime; you will find various gear (especially Night Vision) that used to be outlawed at the civilian level at one point but is now available.
Technology marches forward -- for some, just a little faster and sooner then others.:-)
Why do those in Authority have a problem with Accountability?
Authority without Accountability leads to Anarchy. Authority without Accountability leads to abuse of Totalism. Accountability without Authority leads to Bureaucracy. The proper balance of Authority + Accountability = efficient functioning of the system.
If they are following the law then they have nothing to hide, right?
Public Servants "conveniently" keep forgetting that:
a) They are Public -- their actions are Accountable to the public
b) Their purpose is to Serve the greater good of the public -- they have the Authority to carry out the law.
> but you and all the other people on Slashdot genuinely angry about the issue are a *much* smaller and less important proportion of the potential customers
You are forgetting that we also give ANTI-recommendations to friends and family. Namely:
Never Buy Sony Ever Again.
All Sony devices have been banned from my house aside from the one PS3 that is used for Blu-ray + NetFlix player. Sony's devices are not worth wasting the money on. Here's why...
* One of my friends 2 yr old Sony TV has a thin blue line all the way down the TV. Sony's response? Buy a new TV. * Another friend had a system firmware update brick his PS3. (This was a year *before* the 4.45 firmware debacle) Sony's response? Buy another console.
And this is on top of of the root kit, the PSN security leak, the OtherOS bait-n-switch, the intentional HD vs BluRay war, proprietary formats(1) every time they turn around, the fact that a user can *brick* their TV while updating it, etc.
Now why should I reward psychopath behavior with Stockholm syndrome again???
So a lot of geeks say "Fuck-you Sony" for good reason. Sony used to understand:
1) Hardware; they are OK with
2) Software; they still don't have a fucking clue about
3) User Experience.
I'm not singling out Sony here, Microsoft sucks just as bad.
- BetaMax/VHS (VHS crushed beta) - NT casette/microcasette (nobody remembers NT casettes), - MiniDisc/Flash (held on in Asia, but flash and HDD and CDs(2) won), - DAT/CD (DAT never made it beyond professional use), - MMCD/SD (MMCD abandonned, SD became DVD) - VCD/DVD (VCDs saw some use, but DVD came out two years later and started killing it) - MemoryStick/MMC/SD/CF/Xd/etc (SD won, even some Sony products use SD rather than MS, CF only sees some professional use), * ATRAC/MP3 (ATRAC never saw much adoption outside of MiniDisc) - SACD/DVD-Audio (made irrelevant by digital distribution)
(2) Sony was hedging their bets as they also co-developed the CD.
Note: My 2nd desktop is Linux 3.5 + GTX Titan + 16 GB @ 2560x1440 and love it for development.
You are missing one thing:
*BSD's pf focuses on getting it right instead of Linux always re-inventing some half-assed packet filtering every few years. I find *BSD to focus on stability and Linux to focus on flavor-of-the-month re-implementation of features. i.e. Leading Edge vs Bleeding Edge.
My Win7 box has been reduced to just gaming (aka Steam) but I prefer OSX or Linux for development and CUDA research.
Just wanted to say "Thanks for the very interesting sci-fi read!"
Having read it yesterday there are some fundamental differences with our future and the one described in the book:
1. Our Pleiadian parents are humanoid (not devils as in CE) 2. No one is going to magically make the Earth an utopia as they did in CE. In a few hundred years we will be much closer to achieving it BUT only because we as an entire collective species CHOSE it; the same way WE DECIDED _NOT_ to have World War 3. 3. The Free Will Earth Experiment results are watched very close by MANY aliens. 4. Science will not stagnate like it did in CE but flourish. Eventually scientists will discover our 12-strand DNA learn how to decode ALL of it. By knowing that there IS a solution to FTL but without knowing the details it will encourage research. 5. We'll eventually discover/invent true Actual Intelligence that is silicon based not carbon based.
What I found interesting were some of the parallels:
1. Our Human Destiny is much, much greater then we realize. 2. The next generation of Homo Spiritus has already started. 3. Science will eventually be expanded to include Meta-Physics (such as all the tele-* )
Sorry never heard of it. Oooh, Arthur C. Clarke. Ah! So that is/was what 2001 was based on. Thanks for the new reading material!
Our future is quite different from Sci-Fi. Namely, that no one else is going to save us from ourselves or do it for us. We have to do the work ourselves. All our parent aliens will simply give us is options and a different perspective on how we could do things differently, as they are not allowed to violate our free will.
We as a species have demonstrated that we are not interesting in obliterating ourselves (aka the celebration of the 2012 marker); the challenge remains how to work together... if certain people such as the OP wish to remain blind how we have changed they need to wake up and smell the coffee.
I can't help you if you are unable to read & continue to ignore basic facts:
Does the planet as a whole...
* still practice slavery? * stil have children working in mines? * still only allow men to vote? * still horde science/technology/knowledge such as fire, computers etc or do we share it with others?
Lastly, how many countries are in the U.N. compared to 200 years ago?
Is the system perfect? No. Are we working towards making it better? Yes.
These are just some of the many examples of the evolution of consciousness. Getting hung up on one of them demonstrates you just toss the baby out with the bath water.
> Nothing has changed because basic human nature is the same. This is the way it will always be.
Total pessimistic nonsense. In less then 10 years humans will be "forced" (technically willed) to be part of a cosmic event in person and the last of their selfish myopic perspective will _start_ to change. Can you even comprehend what will happen to people when we ALL KNOW that we are not alone in the universe???
Part of the problem is that our average age forces us to focus on the short-term gain instead of long-term sustainability. If the average lifespan was 1,000 years don't you think our perspective & relationships with children, school, work, parents, would change too?
Does the planet as a whole...
* still practice slavery? * stil have children working in mines? * still only allow men to vote? * still horde science/technology/knowledge such as fire, computers etc or do we share it with others?
*Together* we have come to realize that we CAN treat everyone else better -- that we can pool our knowledge, etc. The problem is that there are still a few people (in power) that never got the memo. Cooperation is a BETTER (more efficient) long term goal then Competition.
The consciousness of people, country, and the planet IS slowly spiritually maturing. We as a species have _already_ changed your are just too focused on the old dead tree to see the new living forest.
It is not only import to motivate people but ALSO to NOT DE-Motivate people. For some reason management always seems to gloss over that 2nd point which is just as important.
Some of the best teams I've worked on have been highly self-motivated. We all take pride in doing a job well. The shitty employees don't give a crap -- all they want is a paycheck.
Some member will argue it was a long time ago after Rob got married, others would say right around the time Dice bought/. and every week the stories are recycled:
* Apple _x_ * Microsoft _y_ * Bitcoin _z_ * Google / Blackberry / Snowden / Congress-Politics
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly, the AC is talking out of his ass.
glQuake WAS the killer 3D app !
--
"It is far easier to destroy then to create -- which is why everyone on the internet bitches about somebody else's work instead of making their own 'masterpiece'."
Holy shit someone needs to mod the parent down as over-rated for their trolling ...
Many of us older /. folk DO remember Michael Abrash from his "Graphics Programming Black Book (Special Edition)". "... the FDIV to calculate the reciprocal of 1/z is overlapped with drawing 16 pixels, taking advantage of the Pentiumâ(TM)s ability to perform floating-point in parallel with integer instructions, so the FDIV effectively takes only one cycle."
* http://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch70/70-04.html
Can you name one programmer who has open sourced their games MORE then Carmack? Yeah,I thought so.
WinQuake was replaced with glQuake which supported the 3Dfx Voodoo pretty much the day it came out. How did that S3 ViRGE decelerator work out for you again?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_ViRGE
Hell, there is even an algorithm named after him: Carmack's Reverse
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_volume
Carmack has always pushed the technical boundaries. While he doesn't understand what makes a FUN game he certainly as hell know how to a TECHNICAL game. He has inspired many generations of programmers.
What have *you* done for the graphics and gaming community Mr. AC aside from bitching about someone's "mistakes" ???
--
"It is far easier to destroy then to create -- which is why everyone on the internet bitches about somebody else's work instead of making their own masterpiece."
Unfortunately you won't find civilian documents as that information is classified.
One of my best friends used to work for the Army. He observed that their tech was constantly about 20+ years ahead of the available civilian technology. i.e. When civilians had 1 MHz CPUs the Army was _already_ using 100 MHz CPUs; when civilians were using 100 MHz the Army was already on 1 GHz. My friend also mentioned they had MASSIVE (and expensive) cooling to drive the temperature down as low as possible in order to achieve high speeds. The sky is pretty much the limit when you have access to near "unlimited" R&D funds.
The army abandoned Silicon for high-speed computing decades ago primarily due to the 5 GHz "Wall". *That* is the primary reason Intel and AMD stopped talking about the "GHz wars" because they didn't want to expose the white elephant in the room. So not very practical (or affordable) from a consumer's point of view but similar to how the "enthusiast" will overclock a desktop CPU that normally craps out at ~ 5 GHz to hit 8.429 GHz long enough to run CPUZ and take a screenshot. It is entirely possible to push "conventional" electronics WAY beyond their means when you dive deep down into near absolute zero temperature.
No "technology conspiracy theorists" required -- just 2nd information based on facts. Go to an Army surplus store sometime; you will find various gear (especially Night Vision) that used to be outlawed at the civilian level at one point but is now available.
Technology marches forward -- for some, just a little faster and sooner then others. :-)
We've had Silicon Germanium cpus that can scale to 1000+ GHz for years. Graphene is also another interesting possibility.
The question is that "At what price can you make the power affordable?"
For 99% of people, computers are good enough. For the other 1% they never will be.
Edit: Anarchy = No Authority + No Accountability.
Agreed.
Why do those in Authority have a problem with Accountability?
Authority without Accountability leads to Anarchy.
Authority without Accountability leads to abuse of Totalism.
Accountability without Authority leads to Bureaucracy.
The proper balance of Authority + Accountability = efficient functioning of the system.
If they are following the law then they have nothing to hide, right?
Public Servants "conveniently" keep forgetting that:
a) They are Public -- their actions are Accountable to the public
b) Their purpose is to Serve the greater good of the public -- they have the Authority to carry out the law.
This is a perfect example that proves why I say:
Only Cowards use Censorship.
> but you and all the other people on Slashdot genuinely angry about the issue are a *much* smaller and less important proportion of the potential customers
You are forgetting that we also give ANTI-recommendations to friends and family. Namely:
Never Buy Sony Ever Again.
All Sony devices have been banned from my house aside from the one PS3 that is used for Blu-ray + NetFlix player. Sony's devices are not worth wasting the money on. Here's why ...
* One of my friends 2 yr old Sony TV has a thin blue line all the way down the TV. Sony's response? Buy a new TV.
* Another friend had a system firmware update brick his PS3. (This was a year *before* the 4.45 firmware debacle) Sony's response? Buy another console.
And this is on top of of the root kit, the PSN security leak, the OtherOS bait-n-switch, the intentional HD vs BluRay war, proprietary formats(1) every time they turn around, the fact that a user can *brick* their TV while updating it, etc.
Now why should I reward psychopath behavior with Stockholm syndrome again???
So a lot of geeks say "Fuck-you Sony" for good reason. Sony used to understand:
1) Hardware; they are OK with
2) Software; they still don't have a fucking clue about
3) User Experience.
I'm not singling out Sony here, Microsoft sucks just as bad.
(1) Sony has lost every format war they have ever fought except for Blu-Ray. From an old /. post:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2559450&cid=38276024
- BetaMax/VHS (VHS crushed beta)
- NT casette/microcasette (nobody remembers NT casettes),
- MiniDisc/Flash (held on in Asia, but flash and HDD and CDs(2) won),
- DAT/CD (DAT never made it beyond professional use),
- MMCD/SD (MMCD abandonned, SD became DVD)
- VCD/DVD (VCDs saw some use, but DVD came out two years later and started killing it)
- MemoryStick/MMC/SD/CF/Xd/etc (SD won, even some Sony products use SD rather than MS, CF only sees some professional use), * ATRAC/MP3 (ATRAC never saw much adoption outside of MiniDisc)
- SACD/DVD-Audio (made irrelevant by digital distribution)
(2) Sony was hedging their bets as they also co-developed the CD.
Bad analogy, and not really funny.
Linux on the desktop doesn't cost $$ anything except my time and even then as long as you have reasonable expectations it just works.
At least you don't have to worry about bricking your system like PS3 4.45
https://www.google.com/search?q=ps3+system+update+brick
Note: My 2nd desktop is Linux 3.5 + GTX Titan + 16 GB @ 2560x1440 and love it for development.
You are missing one thing:
*BSD's pf focuses on getting it right instead of Linux always re-inventing some half-assed packet filtering every few years. I find *BSD to focus on stability and Linux to focus on flavor-of-the-month re-implementation of features. i.e. Leading Edge vs Bleeding Edge.
My Win7 box has been reduced to just gaming (aka Steam) but I prefer OSX or Linux for development and CUDA research.
Agreed. Chicken and Egg.
Consumer: not enough 4K native content to justify 4K TV.
Content makers: Not enough 4K TVs to justify making 4K content.
It's real easy ... pick your budget and your tier will follow.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html
Mod parent up.
Reminds me of that old joke ...
Q. Why do we have two ears and one mouth?
A. Not so that we can only tell half as much as hear, but so we can listen twice as much as we talk.
At 480p the text is kind of hard to read ...
Interesting to see their testing methodology and how their massive code base broke a lot of build systems!
/sarcasm But it has web-scale !
. /Oblg. "Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
Agreed.
Copyright keeps culture "hostage". No one is allowed to enjoy unless they pay-to-play. Short-term profit over long-term benefits to society.
Just wanted to say "Thanks for the very interesting sci-fi read!"
Having read it yesterday there are some fundamental differences with our future and the one described in the book:
1. Our Pleiadian parents are humanoid (not devils as in CE)
2. No one is going to magically make the Earth an utopia as they did in CE. In a few hundred years we will be much closer to achieving it BUT only because we as an entire collective species CHOSE it; the same way WE DECIDED _NOT_ to have World War 3.
3. The Free Will Earth Experiment results are watched very close by MANY aliens.
4. Science will not stagnate like it did in CE but flourish. Eventually scientists will discover our 12-strand DNA learn how to decode ALL of it. By knowing that there IS a solution to FTL but without knowing the details it will encourage research.
5. We'll eventually discover/invent true Actual Intelligence that is silicon based not carbon based.
What I found interesting were some of the parallels:
1. Our Human Destiny is much, much greater then we realize.
2. The next generation of Homo Spiritus has already started.
3. Science will eventually be expanded to include Meta-Physics (such as all the tele-* )
Reading. You might want to try it sometime ...
Sorry never heard of it. Oooh, Arthur C. Clarke. Ah! So that is/was what 2001 was based on. Thanks for the new reading material!
Our future is quite different from Sci-Fi. Namely, that no one else is going to save us from ourselves or do it for us. We have to do the work ourselves. All our parent aliens will simply give us is options and a different perspective on how we could do things differently, as they are not allowed to violate our free will.
We as a species have demonstrated that we are not interesting in obliterating ourselves (aka the celebration of the 2012 marker); the challenge remains how to work together ... if certain people such as the OP wish to remain blind how we have changed they need to wake up and smell the coffee.
I can't help you if you are unable to read & continue to ignore basic facts:
Lastly, how many countries are in the U.N. compared to 200 years ago?
Is the system perfect? No. Are we working towards making it better? Yes.
These are just some of the many examples of the evolution of consciousness. Getting hung up on one of them demonstrates you just toss the baby out with the bath water.
> Nothing has changed because basic human nature is the same. This is the way it will always be.
Total pessimistic nonsense. In less then 10 years humans will be "forced" (technically willed) to be part of a cosmic event in person and the last of their selfish myopic perspective will _start_ to change. Can you even comprehend what will happen to people when we ALL KNOW that we are not alone in the universe???
Part of the problem is that our average age forces us to focus on the short-term gain instead of long-term sustainability. If the average lifespan was 1,000 years don't you think our perspective & relationships with children, school, work, parents, would change too?
Does the planet as a whole ...
* still practice slavery?
* stil have children working in mines?
* still only allow men to vote?
* still horde science/technology/knowledge such as fire, computers etc or do we share it with others?
*Together* we have come to realize that we CAN treat everyone else better -- that we can pool our knowledge, etc. The problem is that there are still a few people (in power) that never got the memo. Cooperation is a BETTER (more efficient) long term goal then Competition.
The consciousness of people, country, and the planet IS slowly spiritually maturing. We as a species have _already_ changed your are just too focused on the old dead tree to see the new living forest.
Could you summarize what the heck this TRON project is/was and the context for the problem that it was trying to solve please?
Thanks
Funny but so sad because it is true.
Agreed.
It is not only import to motivate people but ALSO to NOT DE-Motivate people. For some reason management always seems to gloss over that 2nd point which is just as important.
Some of the best teams I've worked on have been highly self-motivated. We all take pride in doing a job well. The shitty employees don't give a crap -- all they want is a paycheck.
> when did this site jump the shark?
Some member will argue it was a long time ago after Rob got married, others would say right around the time Dice bought /. and every week the stories are recycled:
* Apple _x_
* Microsoft _y_
* Bitcoin _z_
* Google / Blackberry / Snowden / Congress-Politics