Comment What about ray tracing? (Score 1) 94
Do they think that's real light?
Do they think that's real light?
If he called it Tech Force 2000
On one hand, you'll now be able to break laws with impunity.
On the other, Trump will destroy all aspects of your life, beyond measure.
Pigs at the trough.
And all Epic/Unreal products should be free, or a few pennies, a nickel at most.
It's only fair.
They better watch their ass.
Dell's hired Trump on retainer.
Software is hard.
Times are tough.
We all have to do our part.
Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics.
# fortune
You attempt things you do not plan because of your extreme stupidity.
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We will all be dead soon, but won't know it's coming.
If it's just plumbing; inventory objects, audio, money, users, and rendering,
shouldn't they have done that a hundred times over by now?
And they have comparatively boundless server and compute to pull it off.
Second Life has had at least 50,000 in-world users, all day and night, for over twenty years.
Figure out why those people stayed and paid, and copy that.
China: oh yeah? Bzzzzzzzt!!!
I had a GRiD 1530 laptop in 1991 that did exactly that.
It was as amazing as it was awful.
Shit, why pay them at all 'if I don't have to'?
That's the end point utopia they are working towards.
Seems they all have in common some weird 'if I was the last man on earth' syndrome.
We're only about 20% there, but they're accelerating with all the effort and focus they can muster.
Steve Jobs famously stated that the computer is like 'a bicycle for the mind'.
But now, we're the bicycle, for their mind.
Funny, that.
Drop a million or so off at the White House, and poof!
No more regulators. No more rulings. No more fines.
Just pure, friction-free Capitalism.
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. -- Alan Perlis