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

by JodiJodiJodi (#45769141) Attached to: Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display

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

by JodiJodiJodi (#43176293) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work?

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

by JodiJodiJodi (#30380200) Attached to: <em>Saboteur</em> Launch Plagued By Problems With ATI Cards

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!
Graphics

Software Converts 2D Images To 3D 152

Posted by CmdrTaco from the still-waiting-for-the-avi-to-3ds-converter dept.
eldavojohn writes "Dr. David McKinnon from Queensland University of Technology, has recently launched a site that turns your sets of 2D images into 3D bump maps by way of 8 years of his research. The catch is that you need to have between five and fifteen photos of your object and they must overlap at least 80 to 90 percent. So with a video of an object, one might be able to extract every nth frame and use this site to generate a 3D model. Doctor McKinnon said, 'The full version of this software would be great for realistic learning simulators and training software, where you want everything to look like the real thing. This technology could also be great for museums wishing to turn their display objects into 3D images that can be viewed online. We are even looking into making 3D models of cows to save farmers spending thousands of dollars transporting their cattle vast distances to auction sites, allowing for an eBay style auction website for cattle. Films, animations and computer games could also benefit, since 3D film making is taking over from the traditional 2D method of filmmaking. Another application is allowing people to create 3D models of their own face to use on their avatar in computer games or 3D social networking sites such as Second Life or Sony's Home.' Physorg has more details."
The Media

UK "Creative Industries" Call For File-Sharers Ban 211

Posted by timothy from the smoking-an-unprecedented-joint dept.
siloko writes "An alliance of so-called 'Creative Industries,' including the UK Film Council, have signed a joint statement asking the UK government to force ISPs into banning users caught sharing illegally. In an 'unprecedented joint statement,' the alliance predicted a 'lawless free-for-all' unless the government ensured the 'safe and secure delivery of legal content.' The previous tactic of pursuing individual file-sharers in the courts appear to have been abandoned. 'Instead, [the government] should provide enabling legislation, for the specific measures to be identified and implemented in an Industry Code of Practice,' it recommends. One wonders how they remain 'creative' in their vocation when they keep on trotting out the same old story backed up by imaginary statistics (they claim 50% of net traffic in the UK is illegal content but provide no evidence for this figure). The BBC also has a blog entry dissecting their statement."
Microsoft

Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language 297

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the secret-agent-man dept.
zokier writes "Microsoft has released a new programming language called Axum, previously known as Maestro and based on the actor model. It's meant to ease development of concurrent applications and thus making better use of multi-core processors. Axum does not have capabilities to define classes, but as it runs on the .NET platform, Axum can use classes made with C#. Microsoft has not committed to shipping Axum since it is still in an incubation phase of development so feedback from developers is certainly welcome."

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