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Comment 4k is only good for the Occulus (Score 1) 333

4k is pointless. The human eye just cannot resolve that resolution at that screen size without magnification.

However, what it does mean is that the possibility for getting a mass produced 4k tablet or phone is higher.

Which means the Occulus rift could get a 4k panel for it's VR display. Since it's heavily magnified, this would defintly be an improvement.

So I'm all for 4k displays for everyone, as that means I can get a higher res Occulus.

Comment Sport + Eat Less + Eat Healthy (Score 1) 635

I work as a sit down developer.

To keep fit I play sport twice a week with workmates, one day it's touch rugby, another it's football (soccer). Work has a shower which makes that all possible. The Gym bores me, so I don't bother with that.

I don't eat cake, biscuits, cookies or chocolate (new years resolution). I don't drink soda, pop, or sugar drinks. I take a fistful of nuts (mmm cashews) and about 3-8 pieces of seasonal fruit to work to chow down during the day. I have a light lunch (1 slice of home-made wholemeal bread + peanut butter). I drink 1l of water and numerous cups of no-sugar tea. I get really hungry by dinner time.

Since I stopped eating sugary stuff, I no-longer get the afternoon doze-sugar-lows.

So far I have managed to lose my moobs and can see my stomach muscles again. I don't weigh myself.

Comment Re:Saboteur, hey? (Score 1) 230

Unless your game is a "showpiece" for their hardware, they simply don't care if something doesn't work the way it's supposed to or even has catastrophic errors in it. Case in point, every ATI driver release from April through OCTOBER this year *hemorrhaged* memory if you used VBOs a certain way. 6 months to fix a bug that critical is pretty miserable.

When I was working on graphics drivers, I would normally fix driver bugs as soon as a game was released (or even earlier if the game developer relation guys got hold of betas). However due to the release cycle of the actual driver itself (build, regression testing, management, etc.) the public wouldn't see the fix for up to 3 months after I committed the change. Yup, Frustrating.

Secondly, a-lot of game devs just did stuff the wrong way, and depended on the undefined behaviour of the graphics drivers to get stuff done. Bad coder! No twinky!

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