I'd hardly agree that the wheel is reinvented terribly often in the gaming industry, at least not by the programmers.
Think of yearly sports titles; generally its little more than an updated roster and higher resolution textures and models as hardware capacity or slight engine optimisations allow.
Or how about FPS games? I mean seriously, how many Quake 3 engine based games were there? In this case it's only the artists and game designers re-inventing the wheel
As a student and resident at Simon Fraser University, I must say that my most surreal experience watching BSG was in the season finale where some generic concrete rubble is strewn about on stairs, I realized that I had walked through the area being shot back in July when they were doing filming, and had been very tempted to grab some styrofoam rubble on my way through.
Seriously though, I would have seen this as bigger news if it would be possible to afford more than one apple on my wages. Anyway, I figure this would be an appropriate thread to rant about my friend. He's always hounding me about how hot the macs are in the studio, and that they use protools on these mac servers and trying to explain to me what "better quality" audio they produce, and how all the studios are using macs now.....
Well, evidently the home user isn't the intended market of high performance computing products such as Xgrid. It makes a lot more sense when you can deploy it across 80 or so pre-existing lab machines and exploit the spare cycles not being used by student web-browsing and report writing. (Which might lead you to find binary sequences with low auto-correlation)
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I'd hardly agree that the wheel is reinvented terribly often in the gaming industry, at least not by the programmers.
Think of yearly sports titles; generally its little more than an updated roster and higher resolution textures and models as hardware capacity or slight engine optimisations allow.
Or how about FPS games? I mean seriously, how many Quake 3 engine based games were there? In this case it's only the artists and game designers re-inventing the wheel
Because there's far less financial risk involved in purchasing a $45 game than a $20 000+ car.
As a student and resident at Simon Fraser University, I must say that my most surreal experience watching BSG was in the season finale where some generic concrete rubble is strewn about on stairs, I realized that I had walked through the area being shot back in July when they were doing filming, and had been very tempted to grab some styrofoam rubble on my way through.
It did indeed, and luckily no snoops managed to discover the cluster agent running accross 6 months of running :)
Seriously though, I would have seen this as bigger news if it would be possible to afford more than one apple on my wages. Anyway, I figure this would be an appropriate thread to rant about my friend. He's always hounding me about how hot the macs are in the studio, and that they use protools on these mac servers and trying to explain to me what "better quality" audio they produce, and how all the studios are using macs now.....
Well, evidently the home user isn't the intended market of high performance computing products such as Xgrid. It makes a lot more sense when you can deploy it across 80 or so pre-existing lab machines and exploit the spare cycles not being used by student web-browsing and report writing. (Which might lead you to find binary sequences with low auto-correlation)
They never made me sign an NDA, there was just the implicit "if Xgrid screenshots start showing up all over the place we'll have a bone to pick".
On the other hand, I never got lunch either...