Alegis - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hardware demands match? (Score 1) 785

by Alegis on Monday January 12, 2009 @10:33PM (#26426805) Attached to: In-Depth With the Windows 7 Public Beta

"the vista betas worked really well too.

Actually, the public vista beta was a big mess. The private builds after it were better - but Windows 7 beta right now is tons better than both XP and vista betas were. Very stable, compatibility is fine, better performance (than vista).

I like this build.

Comment Re:naw...it's brilliant! (Score 1) 236

by Alegis on Friday January 02, 2009 @06:45PM (#26305421) Attached to: Windows 7 Leaked To Pirates By Microsoft?

IIRC they plan to release a public beta like they did with Vista later this month.

Why leak it? I don't think they're happy to remind people leaked versions of their OS can be found as torrents on the internets.

Comment Re:Inaccurate Summary (Score 1) 261

by Alegis on Sunday May 18, 2008 @10:10PM (#23457810) Attached to: Why Windows Solitaire Eats So Much Time

If you play FreeCell, there's a interesting paragraph about its inventor.

Inaccurate! The interesting paragraph about the inventor of FreeCell is present in my copy of the article, despite the fact that I do not play FreeCell. /badjoke

There's nothing wrong about the statement, semantics would say. It does not exclude the possibility that the paragraph is there if you do not play FreeCell. ;)

Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3

Submitted by

Vigile

on Thursday January 17, 2008 @03:26AM

Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."

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