I read this book back in August. I've been using OpenGL for almost 10 years now but knew little to nothing about OpenCL.
This book was really good. There were some typos that I found while reading it (other people had already found and reported them). If you get this book make sure you visit the author's addendum & corrections page.
I agree with the review, 9/10. If there were NO typos at all, it would be 10/10 for me.
Web apps will never become the best platform as long as they are built on javascript.
What a piece of shit language. I have used it and I truly hate it.
I'm not the only programmer who feels this way either. Google is trying a few things to reduce or even eliminate programmer usage of JS. Have a look at their Dart language or their Native Client initiative.
If a web browser could be properly sandboxed (like native apps are right now) and the webview widget could run native code instead of JS in the sandbox, then I would love to make webapps (especially with WebGL being developed).
Not too long ago I realized that I missed the games of yesteryear. For some reason the old school 8bit and 16bit games just really captured my interest back then.
Sure you could say its nostalgia, but I've recently been playing 8bit games that I never played before, and I find myself enjoying them far more than current gen games.
Case in point: I'm playing metroid for NES right now. I never played that game 20 years ago when it was 'new'. I bought the cart a few days ago, slapped it in the top loader NES, and can't seem to stop playing it. So is it nostalgia, or is it just a really kick ass game?
What's funny to me is when I have 'gamer' friends over they tend to laugh at me for bashing away on my snes controller like theres no tomorrow. Those squaresoft games on SNES are as good as gaming gets in my opinion. As if PS3 and 360 games are chic or cool, and those old games are just for social outcasts...
Slashdot Mirror
WAAAALLLLLTTTTT!!!
Well at least Slashdot is as pedantic as ever, regardless of the article content :)
...with a slashdot post?
Of course it does. And don't call me Shirley.
*this spot for sale*
"This statement is the best paradox I've ever read."
Read more often.
Just FYI, I am an opengl developer and I know what you mean...
For whatever reason, the PowerVR mobile GPUs are described in number of cores.
Quad core graphics, not quad core CPU...
"What good is a phone call, Mr Anderson, if you are unable to speak?"
MMMM!!!!! mmm!!!! MMMM!!!
Unless there is a bug in the "same basic standards" that the heterogeneous systems use...
Skrillex won a grammy?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
The viewpoint expressed in your post is exactly why I can now bill myself as both an Android developer and also an iOS developer.
I'm not in the market for work right now, but you can be sure that I have two pools of jobs to pick from when it comes to mobile development now...
That RIAA chief has got to be the worst kind of sociopath.
Probably cheats on his wife.....with underage children prostitutes.
Screw that douchebag and whatever backstabbing he had to do to become the RIAA chief...
Especially when they hand out swords....
Nice try, Eric Schmidt.
"Seriously, I will never understand what some people have against GMOs. Don't want them? Go organic"
'GMO' and 'organic' are not two mutually exclusive categories of food.
^^^ Good one. My first thought was "Everybody wants to rule the world" by Tears For Fears.
Then again, Dennis Miller has already raped that song beyond belief.
I read this book back in August. I've been using OpenGL for almost 10 years now but knew little to nothing about OpenCL.
This book was really good. There were some typos that I found while reading it (other people had already found and reported them). If you get this book make sure you visit the author's addendum & corrections page.
I agree with the review, 9/10. If there were NO typos at all, it would be 10/10 for me.
Web apps will never become the best platform as long as they are built on javascript.
What a piece of shit language. I have used it and I truly hate it.
I'm not the only programmer who feels this way either. Google is trying a few things to reduce or even eliminate programmer usage of JS. Have a look at their Dart language or their Native Client initiative.
If a web browser could be properly sandboxed (like native apps are right now) and the webview widget could run native code instead of JS in the sandbox, then I would love to make webapps (especially with WebGL being developed).
Hurray for anti-intellectualism!
Not too long ago I realized that I missed the games of yesteryear. For some reason the old school 8bit and 16bit games just really captured my interest back then.
Sure you could say its nostalgia, but I've recently been playing 8bit games that I never played before, and I find myself enjoying them far more than current gen games.
Case in point: I'm playing metroid for NES right now. I never played that game 20 years ago when it was 'new'. I bought the cart a few days ago, slapped it in the top loader NES, and can't seem to stop playing it. So is it nostalgia, or is it just a really kick ass game?
What's funny to me is when I have 'gamer' friends over they tend to laugh at me for bashing away on my snes controller like theres no tomorrow. Those squaresoft games on SNES are as good as gaming gets in my opinion. As if PS3 and 360 games are chic or cool, and those old games are just for social outcasts...
I for one welcome (the return of) our not-so-new European overlords!
Because all of those things are 'OS source code', right?
If skyrim cost $1 you wouldn't pirate it.
If someone was able to hack Siri so that all commands started with 'computer' then I'd use it.
-Captain Pickard