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Unreal has had the ability for games to create patches (new exe and changed/additional content) for some time. Distribution and application is generally the harder part of diff pat…

Next year they should let people apply for the chance to be randomly selected to receive a visa.

Citation?

I would say that when you reach the point of being able to accurately represent final CG in realtime, a huge number of possibilities open up :)

I'm one of the engineers working on this, I even make a semi-appearance in the video. I'm not really going to say much about it because it's a little annoying that it leaked out, a…

All "cyberbullying" does is prevent the bullying from stopping when the kids go home. That's a pretty big 'all'

There's a big difference between "X would like to access your contacts" and "X would like to access your contacts, then store everything on their servers for reasons/duration of th…

It's hard to see this as anything other than someone choosing to go out at the top.

Right, and that lack of bargaining power is because in these days of hefty PCs and standardized software studios can always find other VFX shops, either in the US or abroad, to do …

Uhh, no. The last thing the US VFX industry needs right now is to become more expensive. The problem is not artists being screwed over pay & benefits, the problem is that most VFX …

The article is a little misleading in that it suggests a land-grab. The short links are auto-generated from app names/company names by pruning whitespace, copyright/trademark symbo…

When I installed Windows 8 a few weeks ago, the 64-bit install was about 20GB so where the hell is the other 21GB going? Is the recovery partition literally a mirror image of the d…

I can't speak for this specific case, but when releasing software to others (open sourcing, licensing, etc) it's common to run the codebase through something like Black Duck. Every…

I'm doubtful that a JIT could realistically adapt its output based on runtime performance metrics, but if you have links I'd love to read more.

Well that point is complete nonsense so you should undrive it. Just because a piece of code incurs hardware related performance issues does not mean it's "no longer close to the re…

Aye, they were just some guys blowing out their frustrations. Or not.

Not always true - see Wall St circa 2008.

Pointless, wasteful bureaucracy I think few people would consider border controls to be any of these things. You were flagged somehow and that sucks, but if you don't like the immi…

I think this is a recent-ish thing. I didn't have to go through it when creating a company account > 18 months ago. I'm not sure what problem Apple were trying to fix.

Pixar and ILM sim systems are based on PhysBAM. http://physbam.stanford.edu/