The OpenGL is low level stuff, were talking about animating high level controls.
WPF (silverlight is subset of it) applications in windows animate smoothly even tho the programs are written in C# that has similar garbage collector and nobody cares about allocation/deallocation in
The OpenGL is still relevant as the high level library should use it for hardware access just as WPF uses Direct3D.
The animations on android are still not as slick as ipad. Considering how much everyone goes on about "polish" I do not understand why they don't fix this. It sounds like a small thing, but i think it's really important.
It is not an easy thing to fix as they do it wrong at fundamental level. They would need to move to retained graphics model (instead of immediate) and that would mean rewriting ALL the apps. In retained model app describes what's on screen and GPU is responsible for updating the screen - no garbage collector can interrupt that. Currently android developers have said that they wait for faster processors but it's just a demonstration of their ignorance.
IOS and WP7 use retained model and are both slick.
As of topic - I'm in bed and typing this on iPad. Typing on ipad is really hard.
Fundamentally people need to be taught that mindless repetitive tasks are something that the computer can do for them.
Like cleaning rooms, driving cars, brushing teeth or ironing shirts? As soon as you tell people that computers are smart they want to use at tasks it's useless. Have you not seen software project managers with ideas that require both artificial intelligence an a perpetum mobile.
When I first teached my sister (a philologist) of how to use shortcuts in office she mapped ctrl+z, ctrl+x, ctrl+c and crtl+v to heading 1, 2
I was amused
And yet she is really smart - just not into tech.
Now, when fear of losing my gmail data is out of the way, they have 25 million and one subscribers.
Seen this video few years ago - definitely a scam.
As a PhD student I have to release aritcles to these journals. I must release at least 3 articles to journals that are indexed by Thompson Web of Science, by doing that I must give away my copyright and sometimes the institute Is paying to them. My proffessor has to release articles to get funding and to keep his job. Others release articles in hopes to become a professor one day. Really, the system is sick - the goverment funding is divided in our university to institutes based on who publishes more to journals indexed by the databases.
Yesterday I received an invitation of publishing to a journal special issue on my narrow field of research. The journal is free to everybody and I get to keep the copyright tho it does not give me any points torwards PhD. After reading the comment on that torrent I feel obligated to write an article to the journal even if I really don't have any time for it.
But it does; the 4 in "iPhone 4" stands for 4th generation iPhone. So technically it's 4G iPhone, even tho it uses third generation cellular tech.
PS! The stuff that's usually called 4G is not fourth generation tech either. 4G means 1Gbps when stationary and 100Mbps when on the move.
Even when oil "runs out" and they stop exporting it there will always be enough of it to run the desalination plants. While I do agree that Norway should be made as an example of how a country should use the oil money, I do not think the arabs in Dubai are morons.
In developing areas, current generation tech is being installed. Here we're stuck with existing old stuff until it's so crotchety it HAS to be upgraded.
Nope, we had 3G before 3.5G and EDGE and GPRS before that.
4G shoudl get you 1Gbps when stationary and 100Mbps when on the move (in car or bus). Here, in developing Estonia, we get 21Mbps everywhere and in some areas (towns) 42 Mbps from 3.5G networks. It seems unfair, that you pay more to get less.
Is the decompression step of images in web hardware accelerated? I do know that videos made of jpeg frames can be decoded in hardware but do the browsers actually use the hardware? When I first heard about WebP I assumed Google is pushing an unified decoder architecture that would process all videos and images in hardware saving some precious joules while doing so. Never bothered to check it out tho.
Civ5 and Portal 2 are defenetely worth of the price.
You can't sell a steam account, it's pohibited. The reason is credit card frauds.
It might be simpler and operate on different basis. For example - valve gifted their entire catalogue of games to the participants of Portal 2 ARG who managed to get all 36 potatoes. They also cherry picked the 10 community leaders from the ARG and fly them over to Valve HQ and provided them with early access to portal 2. Essentially they created a bunch of torch bearers who will promote Valve in their respective communities. Another example could be a fan who e-mailed for an autograph and got disproportional response.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?
