Fortran is widely used for numerical simulation work in physics. Visual Basic is very good for quickly putting together GUIs and interfacing with scientific hardware.
Assembly is unbeatable for writing fast code for number crunching. Fortran is extremely strong for mathematical modelling. Visual Basic lets you make GUIs quickly and easily in Windows.
All three are extremely useful to a physicist. Fortran especially is in wide use.
"Ray tracing" traditionally means specifically tracing rays from the eye out into the scene. Other methods are usually referred to by different names.
And even so, while tracing either photons or eye rays may be the most feasible method at the moment, it is by no mean the only way to solve the rendering equation, nor any kind of theoretical best.
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Sorry, dude, but "telling two or three stories at the same time" is hardly avant-garde storytelling.
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Actually, it's tests that one, or preferably more than one, of Firefox, Safari, Opera or IE fail.
I assume you will now apologize for calling the people pointing this out "know-it-all assholes" and "a bunch of fucktarded engineers", yes? You are an honest man and will admit that you made a mistake and insulted others without reason?
Because there is a goddamn public API to do this thing, and the article itself mentions it, and the comments mention that the undocumented one, which does the same thing, is a bad idea and dangerous and should not be used.
One more time: Read the goddamn article. There is a public API to do this. Firefox can use that, and the article says they did, and it works just fine. There is also an undocumented private API, which is only useful to embedded components like WebKit, and is also pretty dangerous and a bad idea to use in the first place.
Please at least try to read the linked article. There is a documented way to turn this feature on, which Firefox can easily use, and which the article tells you about.
There is also a hidden API to do this programmatically, which is not of use to anybody except embeddable components which want to override the app settings. Firefox does not need this. WebKit opts to use this, instead of forcing every app developer who uses WebKit to turn on this feature themselves.
In addition to this, as the article itself states, you can turn this feature on by editing your apps metadata. That is what you are supposed to do, and that is entirely documented.
What is not documented is how to turn it on programmatically, which you don't need to do, unless you are an embeddable component like WebKit and want to override the app settings.
Once again, per the article, Firefox just needed to turn this feature on in Info.plist, and it worked just as well as Safari.
The function to turn this on programmatically is undocumented. You're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to set a flag in the app metadata to turn it on. WebKit does it programmatically because it can be embedded in any app.
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Fortran is widely used for numerical simulation work in physics. Visual Basic is very good for quickly putting together GUIs and interfacing with scientific hardware.
Your horizons are narrow.
Assembly is unbeatable for writing fast code for number crunching. Fortran is extremely strong for mathematical modelling. Visual Basic lets you make GUIs quickly and easily in Windows.
All three are extremely useful to a physicist. Fortran especially is in wide use.
"Ray tracing" traditionally means specifically tracing rays from the eye out into the scene. Other methods are usually referred to by different names.
And even so, while tracing either photons or eye rays may be the most feasible method at the moment, it is by no mean the only way to solve the rendering equation, nor any kind of theoretical best.
Sorry, dude, but "telling two or three stories at the same time" is hardly avant-garde storytelling.
Actually, it's tests that one, or preferably more than one, of Firefox, Safari, Opera or IE fail.
None of them do "well". The test is specifically designed to break them all.
Most of the details around the Galileo controversy are mythical, and that phrase most of all. So it would indeed be surreal.
Spin this into something bad! Your honour is on the line!
Ok, now the original designer has admitted that he was entirely wrong about this:
http://pesn.com/2008/02/19/9500471_Gravity_Lamp/#Inventor_Concedes_Error
I assume you will now apologize for calling the people pointing this out "know-it-all assholes" and "a bunch of fucktarded engineers", yes? You are an honest man and will admit that you made a mistake and insulted others without reason?
And then there would also be no relativistic mass effect in our reference frame. That's what "relativity" means.
Well don't leave us hanging here! Were you married to L. Ron Hubbard, or Ikeda Daisuke?
Somehow I'm imagining that if the galaxies were hauling ass across the universe, somebody would actually notice.
Because there is a goddamn public API to do this thing, and the article itself mentions it, and the comments mention that the undocumented one, which does the same thing, is a bad idea and dangerous and should not be used.
One more time: Read the goddamn article. There is a public API to do this. Firefox can use that, and the article says they did, and it works just fine. There is also an undocumented private API, which is only useful to embedded components like WebKit, and is also pretty dangerous and a bad idea to use in the first place.
Please at least try to read the linked article. There is a documented way to turn this feature on, which Firefox can easily use, and which the article tells you about.
There is also a hidden API to do this programmatically, which is not of use to anybody except embeddable components which want to override the app settings. Firefox does not need this. WebKit opts to use this, instead of forcing every app developer who uses WebKit to turn on this feature themselves.
In addition to this, as the article itself states, you can turn this feature on by editing your apps metadata. That is what you are supposed to do, and that is entirely documented.
What is not documented is how to turn it on programmatically, which you don't need to do, unless you are an embeddable component like WebKit and want to override the app settings.
Once again, per the article, Firefox just needed to turn this feature on in Info.plist, and it worked just as well as Safari.
The function to turn this on programmatically is undocumented. You're not supposed to do that, you're supposed to set a flag in the app metadata to turn it on. WebKit does it programmatically because it can be embedded in any app.
This is more of a way to see what people who will register yet another account on some website are really wanting, not people in general.
Does it threaten your fragile sexuality, or what?
Reject the mall!
Yeah, I'm sure they never tested even once if the idea works before they set out.
(PS: Waves aren't the same as ambient heat.)
All right then, Slashdot taggers, do tell us:
What could possibly go wrong?
What possible reason is there to use this crypto-Luddite tag?
Yeah, I'm sure the people who did the measurements have never heard of atmospheric lensing, much less accounted for it!
And?