> OpenGL (or rather, some variants thereof) is the leading API for use on portable devices.
That is Open GL ES 2.x now 3.x. Even on the -desktop- we have WebGL which is basically OpenGL ES inside a browser.
For the MS fan-boys, let me know when I can write and run shaders in a browser.
I *love* ShaderToy. It is awesome for prototyping.
That would be interesting to get some "real data" on who is informed about the law.
http://www.vocativ.com/underwo...
Babb won't explicitly say he's there for the Silk Road trial. He's cagey because jury nullification activists have a history of being sent to jail for jury tampering. Perhaps the most famous case came in 2011, when an 80-year-old retired chemistry professor named Julien Heicklin was jailed for standing outside a Manhattan court where he distributed jury nullification pamphlets.
Heicklin, whom Babb calls his personal hero, was eventually acquitted, with the judge remarking that it's only jury tampering if someone tries "to influence a juror's decision through a written communication 'made in relation to a specific case pending before that juror.' "
if I wanted Pascal I would just do this in C
#define { BEGIN
#define } END
Fuck that verbosity.
Maybe if MS actually supported *gasp* older OS's with IE11 we might take it seriously.
No one gives a crap about IE11.
Chrome is the performance king, Firefox was the add-on king.
Us guys who have worked on C++ compilers have an old joke
There are only 2 problems with C++.
1. Its design,
2. Its implementation.
Fortunately most C++ compilers use the EDG front-end to handle all the crap of template parsing.
> But that doesn't mean it is a bad language.
It is when programmers blindly use OOP as a Silver Bullet (TM) and then wonder WTF they run into all sorts of performance problems
"Pitfalls of Object Oriented Programming"
* http://research.scee.net/files...
I'm sorry but the C++ committee has their head up their @$$es for *practical* matters:
* Standardized Name Mangling?
* Standardized ABI so compiler A can call code compiled with compiler B
* Standardized error messages
* Standardized pragmas to enable/disable warnings for unused variables
* Standardized forced inline, never inilne
* A consistent grammar between forward declarations and function definitions to make it easier to copy/paste
void foo();
// semi-colon required
void foo();// semi-colon is error
{
}
* Multi-column debugging instead of the archaic line debugging
foo(); bar(); qaz();
// try setting a breakpoint on bar .. most debuggers only support line debugging?!
Gee, who would ever want that!
Yeah, lets ignore real world issues for the past 20 years and keep adding CRAP onto the language
"A Proposal to Add 2D Graphics Rendering and Display to C++"
* http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/s...
For high performance games, most of the C++ features are *ignored*
"CppCon 2014: Nicolas Fleury "C++ in Huge AAA Games"
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gee, why did Feynman call it "Cargo Cult Science"
Or Max Planck say "Science advances one funeral at a time."
I'm not delusional about:
"You can take the People out of Politics,
But you can't take the Politics out of People"
But then you if had read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" you wouldn't have this fallacy that the progress of science is linear.
That's a crap analogy.
The *silent majority* ARE part of the problem.
/Oblg.
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A CUDA core is basically an active hardware thread [pool.]
For example my GTX Titan has 2,688 CUDA Cores.
This number is derived from:
Streaming Multiprocessors: 14
* 192 Cores/SM
====
2,688 Cores
In practice that means you have 2,688 threads doing "real work" at any one time.
See this SO question/answer
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
Thanks for the posting that.
Sadly, Dogma is just as much present in Scientists as it is with Priests.
Exactly.
"One man's music is another man's noise."
Ironically it applies to everything that is not too common:
i.e. Harley Davidson motorcycles, "loud pipes save lives", Heavy Metal, etc.
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
