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Intel Supports OpenGL ES 3.0 On Linux Before Windows 113

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @02:31PM from the hot-to-the-touch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Khronos Group has published the first products that are officially conformant to OpenGL ES 3.0. On that list is the Intel Ivy Bridge processors with integrated graphics, which support OpenGL ES 3.0 on open-source Linux Mesa. This is the best timing yet for Intel's open-source team to support a new OpenGL standard — the standard is just six months old whereas it took years for them to support OpenGL ES 2.0. There's also no OpenGL ES 3.0 Intel Windows driver yet that's conformant. Intel also had a faster turn-around time than NVIDIA and AMD with the only other hardware on the list being Qualcomm and PowerVR hardware. OpenGL ES 3.0 works with Intel Ivy Bridge when using the Linux 3.6 kernel and the soon-to-be-out Mesa 9.1." Phoronix ran a rundown of what OpenGL ES 3.0 brings back in August.

Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk 1025

Posted by samzenpus on Friday August 24, 2012 @08:09AM from the have-some-mumps dept.

New submitter haroldmandel writes in with a story about the increase of certain diseases in school-age children due to parents not having their kids vaccinated. "Parents nervous about the safety of vaccinations for their children may be causing a new problem: the comeback of their grandparents' childhood diseases, reports a new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Despite the successes of childhood immunizations, wrote Penn Nursing researcher Alison M. Buttenheim, PhD, MBA, in the American Journal of Public Health, controversy over their safety has resulted in an increasing number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated and obtaining legally binding personal belief exemptions against vaccinations for their children."

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by mitzman on Monday November 30, 2009 @04:25PM (#30274054) Attached to: Should You Be Paid For Being On Call?

I worked a job where I was on call 24/7. The way it worked is that I would be paid $1 a minute and there was a minimum guarantee of 10 minutes. The client was billed out at $2 a minute with a minimum of 10 minutes. Essentially $60 an hour (taxed of course) went to my pocket. The issue was that it would be Sunday, 7am, and I'd get a call that would take 2 minutes. When I handed the slip to my boss he's like "at least you made a few dollars." My response was "I don't give a shit about $10."

After a point you get tired of it and since there was nobody around to relieve me of on-call duty, I was stuck. I remember one time when we had one other "tech" and I was on-call that week. I had a funeral to attend that weekend and I told the guy that I would be unable to be on the phone for a few hours that day, would he mind taking the phone and when I'm done, I'd take it back. He said "I'm going to a concert" and that was it. No backup from the bosses or anything. I was stuck. So my solution? Leave the phone off. Pretty much that's what I ended up doing a lot of the time when I was fed-up with my job and couldn't get relief.

Also, nobody required any of our clients to have high-speed access so we had to do a lot of remote work via dial-up using VNC or some other solution. Painful doesn't even begin to describe it.

My job now I have a blackberry and we rotate who's on-call between 5 of us. It's not usually bad at all and we all help each other out.

Comment great service but... (Score 1) 178

by mitzman on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @08:11AM (#26900615) Attached to: Map As Metaphor In a Location-Aware Mobile World

the battery life on my blackberry has gone to complete shit. If I exit Google Maps but leave Latitude enabled, my battery barely lasts a day. Understood it's constantly using the GPS to update, but maybe they need to change the frequency of the polling.

Comment Re:No mention of GPSTrack? (Score 0, Offtopic) 80

by mitzman on Friday December 28, 2007 @06:58PM (#21843928) Attached to: CES Scorecard 2007 - What Came True; What Didn't

parent is a myminicity.com url or whatever that gay game is.

Google Launches Free Wireless Broadband 116

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday April 01, 2007 @09:58AM from the cheap-at-twice-the-price dept.

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Ashish Kulkarni writes "Google has just announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)(TM), a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. All the dark fibre that google has supposedly laid out is now fully operational! Check out the description of how it works."

Missing Link Found Between Human Ancestors 664

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 13, 2006 @02:29PM from the we-were-apes dept.

simetra writes "Researchers with a University of California, Berkeley team are now saying they have 'proof' of human evolution. Fossils have been found linking two types of pre-human species." From the article: "The remains of eight individuals found in the northeastern Afar region of Ethiopia belonged to the species Australopithecus anamensis -- part of the Australopithecus genus thought to be a direct ancestor to humans, according to a report due to be published Thursday in Nature magazine. 'The fossils are anatomically intermediate between the earlier species Ardipithecus ramidus and the later species Australopithecus afarensis,' he said."

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