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Comment Re:What's really sad here... (Score 1) 734

Malice? He did over-represent how much money he paid to the licensing board, but in order to be listened to more carefully for what he perceived to be the public good.

That's not a malicious lie. Maybe nefarious. But more likely a falsehood made out of ignorance and not even a lie. Luckily, Oregon has abolished the death penalty!

Comment Re:I'm still waiting for a breakthrough in (Score 1) 106

Digitization of small objects doesn't really seem all that problematic. I think taking multiple pictures with different colors and intensities of light could help correct for many surface types.

On the other hand, 2026 seems optimistic for capturing the real world. So much of the human brain is focused on figuring out what we're seeing that I don't think we'll be able to reduce it to a few clever algorithms.

Comment Re:Another example of why Java sucks (Score 1) 115

new and delete don't generally make system calls. The system call is brk(), and it's only needed to resize the heap. The C and C++ runtimes also allocate a large heap at startup, and will only resize it when it approaches exhaustion.

Basically, the entire point of your post is lost because it is based on a misunderstanding.

Comment Re:What if you move your eyes (Score 1) 25

It's being rendered at around that rate as well.

The VR software includes some ability to shift an already rendered frame because of head tracking, the same approach could probably be used to compensate for eye motion. I'm not sure how much an eye really moves in 1/60th of a second. It also has a micro-stutter that is probably fairly unpredictable. Gross motor movement takes a while to start and stop, so the viewport of the next frame can generally be calculated with reasonable accuracy.

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