But, with GPGPU techniques, read-back from the screenbuffer is becoming an increasingly popular way of doing fast computation using the massive parallelism that GPU's offer.
thats exactly my point.. you don't need to have the latest nvidia 6800 running on your cellphone. All you need to do is to transfer images rendered elsewhere to your phone and just display them. If you have fast enough encoding/decoding and a decent bandwidth, it can be almost realtime.
I wonder what is the bottleneck in playing games real-time on mobile devices.. Is it the bandwidth available on phones? the speed of the encoding process? Why can't you have Halo running on a fast server and just transmit realtime encoded frames to your cellphone.
Just to clarify, DX isn't supported in Linux and OGL isn't really supported completely on Windows. Porting normal OGL/DX functions is not much of a problem, but as soon as you get in the domain of extensions and functions using vertex/fragment shaders, it is really painful. In fact, DX support for stuff like fragment shaders, rendering to textures, etc is much better than OGL. Being a Linux/OGL user, it is almost a pain to use OGL if you're say writing some messy shader. Darn you game developers for using Windows..
A link to the paper can be found at the authors'homepage. Complex phyics models are already a part of Physics engines in most graphics rendering systems. Insect and Bird flight is a well studied problem in character animation.
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I have been keeping my libido going with Natural herbs that ignite the fire of desire. I have also sprinkled some of it on my wife's cereal in the morning (when she is not looking). With all that fire of desire, I have been spending some quality time on-line checking out 500 CUTE GIRLS and Wild dorm room webcams. If my wife leaves me as she has threatened to do a lot lately, I will consult my newest reference manual: The Ultimate Guide to Meeting Women!
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Iraq Internet presence in Limbo Legal war continues
WHILE THE AMERICANS might be turning over rulership to an interim government in Iraq, it will be some time before the country gets its domain name back.
This time it is not because of any attempts at US control, the.iq owners are facing a criminal indictment and can't pass the Internet suffix on.
According to a report from AP, the problem started in 1997, when Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was blocking access to the Internet.
An ICANN body granted responsibility for the ".iq" domain to InfoCom a Texas-based company and purveyor of computers and Web services in the Middle East.
In 2002, a grand jury indicted InfoCom, and its owners on charges that they exported computer equipment to Libya and Syria and funneled money to a member of the Islamic extremist group Hamas. Meanwhile the new government, national institutions or regular Iraqis are having to register themselves as ".com," ".org" or ".net".
One of the treasure houses of Iraqi culture, the Baghdad Museum, has registered the.iraq.museum simply because unlike most other countries it cannot use the national domain.
Many international companies wanting to set up in Iraq cannot even use their own name in their Internet address unless and until the.iq domain is reactivated.
The U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, and the head of Iraq's new National Communications and Media Commission, Siyamend Ziad Othman, have both urged ICANN to free up ".iq" as soon as possible, partly so government ministries can standardise their Web addresses. ICANN is apparently investigating.
well, for starters you need to buy the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux which can be nowwww bought online at a special discount price of $49.00 only for desktop users. So hurry..while SCO^H^H the offer lasts...
0. A robot may not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Of course, now, the first law has a "except where suck orders would conflict with the Zeroth Law". This makes sense, since it allows it to make a decisive choice when stuck with having to sacrifice some humans to protect a larger number, where previously, it would not have the power to make any decision. Of course, all this is science fiction and still not fathomable with current technology and AI.
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But, with GPGPU techniques, read-back from the screenbuffer is becoming an increasingly popular way of doing fast computation using the massive parallelism that GPU's offer.
Here's the google cache, in case the site get's slashdotted.
errors in transcription... I didn't know Microsoft made Speech Recognition software..
thats exactly my point.. you don't need to have the latest nvidia 6800 running on your cellphone. All you need to do is to transfer images rendered elsewhere to your phone and just display them. If you have fast enough encoding/decoding and a decent bandwidth, it can be almost realtime.
I wonder what is the bottleneck in playing games real-time on mobile devices.. Is it the bandwidth available on phones? the speed of the encoding process? Why can't you have Halo running on a fast server and just transmit realtime encoded frames to your cellphone.
/dev/null of course.
Just to clarify, DX isn't supported in Linux and OGL isn't really supported completely on Windows. Porting normal OGL/DX functions is not much of a problem, but as soon as you get in the domain of extensions and functions using vertex/fragment shaders, it is really painful. In fact, DX support for stuff like fragment shaders, rendering to textures, etc is much better than OGL. Being a Linux/OGL user, it is almost a pain to use OGL if you're say writing some messy shader. Darn you game developers for using Windows..
Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on Computer Science was the greatest.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
of course, this is /.
A link to the paper can be found at the authors'homepage. Complex phyics models are already a part of Physics engines in most graphics rendering systems. Insect and Bird flight is a well studied problem in character animation.
I use a 10 node beowulf cluster, you insensitive clod..
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Everyone is trying to get rid of Spam. Why? I love the stuff. I can't get enough. I am a junk-mail junkie, and proud of it.
For the last year, I have put my email address on any site that I can find. Life has never been better. Let me count the ways.
At first I received a spam mail that said: You Qualify for a Gold Card. Right after that, another asked me: How many Credit Cards can you get? The wheels started spinning. As it turns out, I can get a lot of Credit Cards!!! I have replied to every one of these spams, so now my combined credit limit from the 100 or so cards is now $500,000! This is a lot of credit, and I'm not so good at repaying it, so it is good that the fine people who sent this mortgage refinance offer, Refinance without perfect credit, do not check my credit. These generous lenders have allowed me to refinance my house so many times that the banks now pay me money every month!
When I was asked Are you paying too much for Auto Insurance?, I assumed I was, and I now pay nothing for auto insurance. I hope that company is still in business.
I am a big fan of learning, so when I got many emails touting U N I V E R S I T Y D I P L O M A S , I started working on my first PhD. It wasn't my last PhD, though. I now have 12 PhDs in every subject imaginable, and I have more brains than the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz". I am truly a doctor of thinkology.
Along with my newfound brains I have money rolling like never before as I Make a Fortune on eBay! selling all the junk in my house!!! I am now starting to sell my neighbors junk, too.
Now that I can Get Your 2 FREE Air Tickets, 2 FREE Hotel Nights, $100 FREE Cash, I have become a world traveler. I go from city to city, and as long as the spam keeps rolling in, I may never return, sort of like a Johnny on the MTA. I am snapping pictures like crazy now that I replied to Claim Your Complimentary Digital Camera. I haven't joined the "mile high" club yet. That spam mail hasn't arrived yet.
Because I print out every spam message that I receive, I use a lot in inkjet cartridges. But, not to worry, I get 50-75% OFF your Printer Ink- Ink Blowout Sale!...
Now for my personal life. I have had my teeth whitened so much with Get Your Teeth Whitened In 2003 that the local Lighthouse commission wants to use my mouth as a backup to the Cape Cod lighthouse. Santa Clause may use me to lead his sleigh team this Christmas if Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer doesn't want to.
I have received so many penis enlargement spams that have promised to Increase your Penis Size in just weeks! that I may have to take some of my eBay fortune and hire a full time assistant to assist me in getting around town.
But, this may not be necessary. I have a lifetime supply of Viagra & much more which keeps my private part constantly "firm", so, combined with my increased penis size, I may not be able to ever leave the house. But that is OK, because I now Earn $6,000.00 per month, working from home!
I have been keeping my libido going with Natural herbs that ignite the fire of desire. I have also sprinkled some of it on my wife's cereal in the morning (when she is not looking). With all that fire of desire, I have been spending some quality time on-line checking out 500 CUTE GIRLS and Wild dorm room webcams. If my wife leaves me as she has threatened to do a lot lately, I will consult my newest reference manual: The Ultimate Guide to Meeting Women!
The best news is that I am a $2,000,000 Instant Winner. And even better, I sent every penny that I made to a corrupt government official in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation who will be sending me millions of dollars soon! The check is in the mail.
What my wife likes best is that I now can Lose 30 lbs. in 30 days! She is encouraging me to continue on that diet for a whole year. She figures that at the rate of 30 pounds per month, in one year she'll be rid of me and my spam for good!!!
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shamelessly copied^H^H^Hborrowed from somewhere
Try searching for failure on google.
Poincare's Conjceture solves you..
show your tits, Show your tits, Show your.....oh wait :p
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The reader wishes to remain anonymous, but you can send spam^H^H mail.. to: i_love_spam@gmail.com
So much for Quantum Computing... its time for tachyon computing !!
Curiosity may have killed a whole cat, but Schrodinger only killed half...
for all non-mathematicians... you mean the majority of people here at ./
Ok... now can someone please put up those sensors on eBay already..?
Here are some more pictures of the robot in action and surviving a 3 floor fall.
those Dutch can talk to their neighbours in winters when they're frozen under..
You forgot an oft forgotten one .. The Zeroth Law
0. A robot may not harm humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Of course, now, the first law has a "except where suck orders would conflict with the Zeroth Law". This makes sense, since it allows it to make a decisive choice when stuck with having to sacrifice some humans to protect a larger number, where previously, it would not have the power to make any decision. Of course, all this is science fiction and still not fathomable with current technology and AI.