I know its taboo to respond to oneself, but I forgot to mention the recent release of the GL books (red and orange) adequately display the state that GL is in. They STILL do not have geometry shaders in the standard, and its freaking 2010! Yes, you can use those shaders via extensions, but anyone who recommends that path has not been personally burned by vendors supporting extensions to different levels. Writing code that uses extensions that only work on Nvidia and not ATi (or vice versa) is NOT what GL is about!
As a former OpenGL developer, I am not too fond of GL anymore.
Khronos really disappointed a lot of people when they announced the GL3 specs. They had promised SO much and delivered SO little. Khronos claimed that it didn't want to piss of the CAD community, which is heavily GL based. They basically chose to please the CAD community instead of the gaming community.
"I would really enjoy if another search engine would join this field that was as innovative as Google, or had the resources of Microsoft, then a real good fight could happen, and the winner would be the end user."
You mean like Yahoo? Thanks everyone, I'll be here all week!
I've been writing GL code for 6 years now. My original post was more of a frustration with the ARB/Khronos' sluggish adoption of the extensions. Yes, I know its always been that way. But still...
"Sure, maybe it's your body and life and you want to kill yourself using weed... but I don't particularly want to get killed by people, say, on LSD that think they're traveling through a wormhole when in fact they are actually driving a tractor through my house."
That can happen regardless of the legality of LSD. Outlawing drugs does nothing to prevent their usage. We are 40 years and a trillion dollars in the red over this war on drugs, and drugs are more available and used than ever before.
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AT&T already spent their all of their money on marketing against Verizon's map ads...
I'd much rather be a freelance decker than work for a megacorps...
" a house with no outside signals getting in sounds amazingly peaceful."
You must have big ears!
those sneaky basterds...
I've heard that the first C compiler was written in C.
He's 'undecided' because he hasn't been observed yet.
Thanks, I'll be here all week...
Interesting, the hardware had it YEARS ago.
I would mod you up, but I've already posted. I agree with everything you have said.
I know its taboo to respond to oneself, but I forgot to mention the recent release of the GL books (red and orange) adequately display the state that GL is in. They STILL do not have geometry shaders in the standard, and its freaking 2010! Yes, you can use those shaders via extensions, but anyone who recommends that path has not been personally burned by vendors supporting extensions to different levels. Writing code that uses extensions that only work on Nvidia and not ATi (or vice versa) is NOT what GL is about!
As a former OpenGL developer, I am not too fond of GL anymore.
Khronos really disappointed a lot of people when they announced the GL3 specs. They had promised SO much and delivered SO little. Khronos claimed that it didn't want to piss of the CAD community, which is heavily GL based. They basically chose to please the CAD community instead of the gaming community.
That move totally killed GL for me.
Um, the mobility 5870 has 800 Stream Processing Units and utilizes 1.04 billion 40nm transistors.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/graphics/ati-mobility-hd-5800/Pages/hd-5870-specs.aspx
My vaccine for both tobacco addiction and alcoholism was marijuana. True story.
"I would really enjoy if another search engine would join this field that was as innovative as Google, or had the resources of Microsoft, then a real good fight could happen, and the winner would be the end user."
You mean like Yahoo? Thanks everyone, I'll be here all week!
I've been writing GL code for 6 years now. My original post was more of a frustration with the ARB/Khronos' sluggish adoption of the extensions. Yes, I know its always been that way. But still...
Almost the end of 2009 and no geometry shaders in this book?
I'll pass...
Sony should sue him back for his refusal to buy a bigger TV.
Well, at least I know you are ok with a tooth brush. Beyond that....
Those intel drives will TRIM down your wallet too.
I can't wait for the price to drop, those 160GB intels were supposed to be $450....Newegg has them for around $650 :\
Have you never heard of Australia?
Yeah and look where those two buttons got them...
^^^ They certainly have a monopoly on the memory card market now...
Maybe I'm just an evil bastard, but I can see this being used to coordinate crimes better...
Like the tech guy in Ocean's 11.
"It's a wallet not a phallic symbol."
Tell that to my ex wife.
This is competition taken to unhealthy levels.
"Sure, maybe it's your body and life and you want to kill yourself using weed... but I don't particularly want to get killed by people, say, on LSD that think they're traveling through a wormhole when in fact they are actually driving a tractor through my house."
That can happen regardless of the legality of LSD. Outlawing drugs does nothing to prevent their usage. We are 40 years and a trillion dollars in the red over this war on drugs, and drugs are more available and used than ever before.