Recent content by ebola

Surely we can do both. Bigger monitors / sharper text are needed for productivity.... I've been surprised just how much I like apples' retina displays. So, that hardware is going to be around and people will use it for games. Photorealism is restricted by content& game budgets (how much content...

"just" pretty syntax for unique_ptr ... but with extra compile time safety, and more solid concept of immutability... avoiding the need for restrict. heh. well I guess its going to polarize people. I'm really enjoying it - its' the liberation from C++ that I've been waiting for , i think...

(not sure if this is the right subforum..) So, serious graphics programming centres on C++ (plus shaders obviously); Is anyone here interested in the potential of Rust? Its' shaping up really nicely IMO, although I can see why people have doubts.. C++ is a complex language to master, its...

you dont understand how media influence works. IF you tell people what they want to hear. IF show people what they want to see - THEN they follow you. 'they' dont so much manipulate the masses through the media - 'they' knew how to invent or deliver what you wanted, better than any...

people are forced to want to be cool? This is just herd mentality - a majority decides what is "cool" . Marketing doesn't tell people how to think - it acheives power by resonating with how they naturally think.. Predicting what they want before they realised it themselves. You cant say the...

its a subtle difference. People certainly aren't *forced* to buy phones instead of computers.

people can make short term decisions that aren't in their best interest in the long term. Voluntarily allowing others to centralize control, then they become controlled & superfluous.

The worrying thing about this is software , not hardware if you go back to 1995 and tell me that in 2020, all computers will have 4gb ram and fit in your pocket and have 4 2ghz cores. I'd quite happy with that vision of the future. if i want even more power, i just fill more pockets.. The...

could you canibalize a Virtual Boy ... or one of those Tomytronic 3D games..

looking at it another way, will publishers prefer the closed environment the consoles provide , eg killing used games market ... isnt the reason high end pc owners complain about current consoles holding them back that simply that not enough people buy high end pc games. (its a shame, because...

of course. But what I mean, anyone who wants to start coding or doing 3D art gets access to tools of comparable power. i know engines need reworking for direct APIs, but people write crossplatform engines with d3d,gl,gcm back-ends.. the logic & design of whats going on with the data & shaders...

I'm pleased to see lees innovation, i.e the innovation already happpened in the open platform of PC's. It much better for the world, no need for special dev-kits or workstations to use this level of tech yourself, the tools widely available.

will the arrival of pc-like nextgen consoles harm or help pc gaming. will publishers go back to console exclusive releases... or will the ease of porting keep things open, and real high end pcs get more content that pushes them to their limits

RAM is the number one thing developpers tend to talk about running out of. But you're saying this is unbalanced, no need for so much high speed memory? just a regular heirachy of system ram & faster VRAM + caches, with paging mechanisms going on to manage it? personally I always thought the...

The question sometimes arises: whats better - more resolution, or more anti-aliasing at a lower resolution. Perhaps if you choose that incorrectly then you can be accused of having too much anti-aliasing. but if you have spare processing power and you're at the maximum resolution, i think you...