Comment Re:It's plastic ! (Score 1) 439
no, you dolt, it's not the plastic that's explosive; its what they dope it with.
DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games 200
arcticstoat writes "Forget Farmville, Flash puzzlers and 8-bit home computer emulators. The next generation of browser games will be able to take advantage of DirectX 11 effects, not to mention multi-core processing and both Havok and PhysX physics effects. A new browser plug-in called WebVision will be available for Trinergy's new game engine, Vision Engine 8. This will enable game developers to port all the advanced effects from the game engine over to all the common browsers. Of course, any budding 3D-browser-game dev will face the problem that not every PC has a decent graphics card that can handle advanced graphics effects. Not only that, but limited bandwidth will also limit what effects a developer can realistically implement into a browser game. Nevertheless, this is an interesting development that could result in some tight 3D programming, as well as some much more interesting browser games."
PlayStation Network Expanding To Involve Other Devices 63
At CES, Sony's Kaz Hirai confirmed that the company will build out its PlayStation Network for use with other devices, such as televisions, Blu-ray players, and PCs. Quoting:
"... the expansion starts next month with the availability of the PSN video store on these other devices, and Hirai explained they are constructing a mechanism to create a single user ID across the entire network (if you have a PSN account, it's good to go on any other applicable Sony device, and if you create one on another device, it'll work on PSN). And finally, Hirai also announced the formation of a new Sony division — called Sony Network Entertainment, Inc. — to drive this expansion of the PSN service into a Sony-wide network."
Comment WTF? (Score 1) 736
Accountants are the ones that "disdain ambiguity"
An Engineer thrives in ambiguity as it allows him/her more freedom to design a solution to the problem.
Comment Re:CD Behind radiator (Score 1) 174
I guess it depends on jurisdiction.
Here in Canada is not that bad.
Comment Re:CD Behind radiator (Score 1) 174
for some statistics from where I work: (unofficial)
- about 30% child sexual abuse
- 30% organized crime - gangs
- 20% counterfeit/extortion
the rest is murder and others.
At least where I work, the police know better than trying to go after someone with a few borderline pics. We would be after the guys that trade in pics that are obviously of a child (+/-10yrs old and younger). So, yes, serious crimes; and no, here we don't try to ruin peoples lives - we try to prevent the ruining of peoples lives by those sick bastards that produce this stuff and the ones that create a market for it - as well as by other crimes.
cheers
AMD's OpenCL Allows GPU Code To Run On X86 CPUs 176
eldavojohn writes "Two blog posts from AMD are causing a stir in the GPU community. AMD has created and released the industry's first OpenCL which allows developers to code against AMD's graphics API (normally only used for their GPUs) and run it on any x86 CPU. Now, as a developer, you can divide the workload between the two as you see fit instead of having to commit to either GPU or CPU. Ars has more details."
Comment Re:So who was it ?? (Score 1) 405
good thing I kept reading... I first thought that you were talking about Sado-Masochist Peons since you did not have any Next Of Kin left to give...
Comment Missing link (Score 5, Funny) 864
Heh, there's lots of missing links here in canada - calling each other hosers and swilling cheap beer, eh.
