Dear Art Popp

You don't have to be rich to afford a 4.4 Android device. I have a contractless 4.4 piece of shit "top 4 brand" on my country's best network for $30. however, i fully expect there to be no updates. ever.

there are a small handful of ways to get a phone that'll be updated once in a while for under $100-200, you just have to nerdily search exhaustively.

not sure what scene that was, but the different was never THAT big that i saw in benchmarks.... citations: 1, 2, 3, 4

128-bit memory buses sadly can't cope with highly modded prettified Skyrim plugins, tho. outside of that, tho, 128-bit can be pretty decent for their price point (7790, and more recently the 750/750Ti). it's like the Ti4200 days!

what driver issues? i have yet to see gaming related drivers issues...

launch day games i've tried with no issues on my 5870 include BF3 (includling "paid beta"), Sup Com 2, Starcraft 2a, Portal 2, Crysis 2 trial, NFS: Shift, Metal Gear Rising, Borderlands 2, Skyrim*, Train Simulator 2014* (* = launch + 1 month)

only issues i've had were a few demoscene nvidia-favoring demos and bitcoin-related OpenCL driver combinations.

i highly doubt it is ACTUALLY 2000 lumens, unless you bought a tens of thousands of dollars, or even a hundred thousand dollar Christie or other high end for a 150-200"+ screen...

300 lumens are fine for an 80" diag image in a dark room. most $1000 projectors hit that when measured in real world setups.

if you're going to sell an app, IMO, you should look at platform marketshare by country, among other things.

last i checked, x265 was not associated with x264 in any way. and development hadn't moved forward in months.

"black market"? i renewed domain names sans cash because of bitcoin.

isn't he referring to standard 3d graphics (momentarily nsfw), not "fixed optical stereo"?

from Pixar-sponsored scene.org, check out (2011) Numb Res by Fairlight (yes, that one) and CNCD; requires DX10 (or check out 2010's Agenda Circling Forth without the GPU-crushing endbit)... Epsilon (2011, 64k) for tasty ray tracying (or google "pouet photon race 2") ... (2010, best effects) FR-063 also has GPU physics. and (2009, 4k) Elevated has an insane amount of content for 4k.

off-scene/pouet, there's Separable Subsurface Scattering (Real Time). semi-raytracingish, there's Rigid Gems

realorfake3d.com (the html source is interesting, too)

SPEAK history of 3d movies

here's an amazing post from the comments: http://wetasphalt.com/content/everything-old-new-again

...however i am not good at summarizing, either.

other than Rage, i haven't come across any game-interrupting issues. and i was even running old-ass drivers most of the time (6-9 months old usually).

i always bring up launch day/early access games i haven't had issues with: the Crysis 2 demo, Starcraft 2, BF3, NFS: Shift, Alan Wake, Supcom 2. sadly, i was a bit late with Skyrim, getting in at v1.2.

this made me wonder if the Pi supports monitors without HDCP (btw, it SEEMS to). for example, the Boxee is notorious for not liking HDCP-less monitors.