Comment Re:Man In The Middle? (Score 1) 121
Only if the customer was so naive as to use HTTP in the first place.. Oh, I see what you did, there.
Comment Re:The thing with ASCII (Score 1) 728
And then we'd have "Mr. Moore, Tear Down This Colored Wall" rants on Slashdot. There's no pleasing some people.
Comment Go Cry at the Romans (Score 1) 728
If a character set from the 60's is the only legacy standard we carry forwards in programming, we're doing pretty good. Look at how axle length of Roman chariots has dominated transportation systems -- http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/390903/how_the_romans_influenced_the_space.html
Submission + - Ray tracing for gaming explored (pcper.com) 3
Vigile writes: "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."
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