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Michael was born in West Sussex and went to school in London. He came to the North East to study at South Shields Marine College. He is an engineer in the merchant navy.
Michael was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 26 January 2006. The interview took place at Sunderland Museum and lasted 25 minutes and 9 seconds.
First voyage and New York
"My first voyage I joined a ship down in, a ship called the Veletia"
My first voyage I joined a ship down in, a ship called the Veletia down in dry dock in Sillicocks down in Falmouth and did a fortnight down there, which I suppose the only highlight I can remember was watching England win the World Cup. I remember sitting in a pub there watching that and we then sailed from there to Venezuela where we loaded crude oil, a heavy crude and took that back to Sweden, and we then returned to Venezuela and then we did a couple of runs up to New York, where I got my first chance to go ashore and see New York in all its glory, because, I mean, we had, we, I mean, for a tanker we had, what, a couple of days to unload the cargo, which was totally unheard of nowadays. You know, so, but New York was quite an interesting place.
Mainly I suppose we just went sight, sight seeing. I mean, I remember going up the Empire State Building, which was a, you know, tremendous experience. But it was just the sheer enormity of it, really. Ive been used to London and big cities, big buildings, but to see New York, especially when you come into the Stapleton Anchorage and youre gradually moving in, and then you see these lights on the horizon, it was evening time, and it was absolutely tremendous. It just got bigger and bigger.
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I have a few questions about promised milestones to investors.
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I have never seen term sheets which contain specific milestones like this, but if they did, they would have to also specify the specific consequences of failing to meet them. A term sheet is just an abbreviated version of what will become a contract, intended to help both sides negotiate the terms of a complicated contract in a concise and simplified form. It would be nonsensical for a contract to specify a milestone without stating what the consequences are of failing to meet it. | |||
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demetri_j wrote:Hi, can anyone recommend a quality usb soundcard for ripping vinyl that can do at least 24bit rips?
demetri_j wrote: was a little disappointed by the following but I don't really understand the reasoning: ...
As for the 24-bit claim, the resolution is 24-bit, BUT signal/noise ratio is slightly over 100dB, effectively limiting the dynamic range to the equivalent of 17-bit. "
dynamic range to the equivalent of 17-bit. Due to dither, the psychoacoustic dynamic range will approach 19 bits.
demetri_j wrote:I found this as well which correspondes to what you say http://www.earlevel.com/main/1996/10/20/what-is-dither/
demetri_j wrote:ok, so basically then this card is no more inferior than others as far th bit level. If I'm ripping vinyl , isnt that a source high enough/better resolution as you say?
demetri_j wrote:Finally, I read also to select 32bit float when recording. I take it that isnt something that is a feature of the soundcard, but more the recording software, right? Thanks
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Think of it this way: RBN isn't primarily an outlet for musicians to post their own music. Think of it as an alternate way Harmonix can earn money; musicians happily chart their own songs and upload them to RBN, Harmonix gets a good chunk of the sales, musicians become a bit more famous and earn some money, everyone's happy. If songs are free, this would prove to be of absolutely no benefit to Harmonix.
But $1 isn't much. Don't buy what you don't like is all.


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Sorry if this has been asked or covered, but is it really only for the xbox and will songs only be downloadable to the xbox?
If so... no disrespect Harmonix but seriously that's bullcrap
Sorry if this has been asked or covered, but is it really only for the xbox and will songs only be downloadable to the xbox?
If so... no disrespect Harmonix but seriously that's bullcrap
PSN: LordDeath50 DLC 700+
Band: BloodCry
Songs will be uploaded via xbox.
In addition, all songs that are uploaded and pass the review process will be downloadable via xbox.
Select songs will be transferred to the PS3 and Wii systems. However, it is believed that all songs will be made available to the Wii and PS3 unless the artists/record labels make it Xbox exclusive.
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PSN ID: guitarheromasta
Thanks for the quick reply and good information.
So now my question is why is it all ways Xbox? I'm happy with my PS3 and everything and don't have the money to get an Xbox (even if I wanted to) but is there some deal with Microsoft or something? It's seriously sometimes upsetting to see all this Xbox only stuff
PSN: LordDeath50 DLC 700+
Band: BloodCry
The reason Xbox is chosen is because of its capabilities.
Xbox is the only game console right now that has the abilities to do such a thing as RBN. PS3 nor Wii has the program(s) required to upload songs and put them up for review, testing, etc.
I would love to be involved in the peer review process as well, but I can't (PS3 user also). It's unfortunate that PS3 and the Wii don't have to program capabilities the the Xbox 360 does.
Own all dlc
PSN ID: guitarheromasta
I myself don't really believe that (don't want to anyway). I think it was some sort of paid deal... smells to fishy to me, I can see it being that was the case for the Wii (already has enough problems with DLC) but the PS3 really? I just don't buy it... I think the bottem line was a pay off
PSN: LordDeath50 DLC 700+
Band: BloodCry
There's a user program called XNA on xbox that allows people such as ourselves to create and distribute our own home made games that people can vote on, play, and buy(if they are good enough).
THAT(XNA), is what allows Rock Band Network to exist on 360.
PS3 and Wii have no such tools on their systems(yet), which is why the creation, voting, and community aspects of Rock Band Network aren't possible for them.
HMX said they are working closely with them (most noteably Sony, as I'm not too sure how they could get this going on the Wii), to get a similar structure up and running on the other systems, but it will be a while(if at all).
As stated they will release the most popular songs on the other systems for download, but there will be no creation and uploading aspect of it for the time being for the other two systems.
You have a friend who's being pursued by two reasonably hot members of the anatomical gender/orientation of their choice, one of who is high-maintenance and a bit of a pain to deal with, and the other one who is more open and generous. Even if you found the former more attractive, are you gonna blame your friend for choosing the latter?
DLC on DLCQuickPlay.com. Gamertag is the same as my Forum name. Hit me up if you wanna play!
It doesn't hurt that M$ provides the packaging software either
I can definitely see an XBox in my near future specifically for this capability. I've played in bands for 20 years and between myself and friends we probably have over 100 songs. We've got to find 1 or 2 good ones in there somewhere to produce...
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans - John Lennon


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The Nov. 1 panel on "Economic Disobedience" provided a stimulating springboard into our weekend discussions on the theme of "Retooling for the Work Ahead." Click here for a page of photos from the weekend and a bit more about the discussions and activities. Thanks so much to everyone who attended, helped with meals, housing, and planning, and made the weekend a success! More reports will be online soon.
Our own Jason Rawn was on the front page of Maine papers, leading the Maine Peace Drone Walk, which began October 10 in Limestone, in Aroostook County, and ends October 19 in Bath. Fellow war tax resister Frank Donnelly was on the march also, which was organized by Bruce Gagnon of Veterans for Peace and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. "…some politicians in this state would like to put a weaponized drone test center in Aroostook County and that's one of the reasons for doing this walk," Gagnon said. The Bangor Daily News featured the walk also.
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Which United States president will go down in history as the greatest humanitarian to have served in the office? The Republican Herbert Hoover is often known as the "Great Humanitatarian" for his work administering famine relief in post-World War I Europe (and Bolshevik Russia) in the 1920s -- but he did all that before he actually became president. Others might make the case for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Democrat who succeeded Hoover in the White House, whose New Deal initiatives relieved poverty and sickness on a grand scale within the United States.
But I'd suggest that there's one president whose contribution dwarfs all the others. Unlike Hoover, he launched his program while he was in office, and unlike FDR, he received virtually no votes in return, since most of the people who have benefited aren't U.S. citizens. In fact, there are very few Americans around who even associate him with his achievement. Who's this great humanitarian? The name might surprise you: it's George W. Bush.
I should say, right up front, that I do not belong to the former president's political camp. I strongly disapproved of many of his policies. At the same time, I think it's a tragedy that the foreign policy shortcomings of the Bush administration have conspired to obscure his most positive legacy -- not least because it saved so many lives, but because there's so much that Americans and the rest of the world can learn from it. Both his detractors and supporters tend to view his time in office through the lens of the "war on terror" and the policies that grew out of it. By contrast, only a few Americans have ever heard of PEPFAR, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which President Bush announced in his State of the Union address in 2003.
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Fast forward a decade later, and in his own State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama only briefly mentioned the goal of "realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation" -- an allusion to the long-term aim of PEPFAR. Yet President Obama's most recent budget proposals actually propose to cut spending on the program. That's a pity. This might have been a good moment to celebrate ten years of an unprecedented American success in fighting one of the world's most pernicious and destructive diseases.
In his 2003 speech, President Bush called upon Congress to sponsor an ambitious program to supply antiretroviral drugs and other treatments to HIV sufferers in Africa. Since then, the U.S. government has spent some $44 billion on the project (a figure that includes $7 billion contributed to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, a multilateral organization). By way of comparison, America's most recent aircraft carrier -- which will join the 10 we currently have in service -- is set to cost $26.8 billion. One medical expert calls PEPFAR the "largest financial commitment of any country to global health and to treatment of any specific disease worldwide."
It's impossible to tell exactly how many lives the program has saved, though Secretary of State John Kerry recently claimed that 5 million people are alive today because of it. That's probably as good an estimate as any.


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Record numbers of people have attended this year's London Film Festival as organisers today revealed audience figures are up by 12 per cent.
The rise from 133,000 attendances last year to 149,000 has come despite compressing a programme of nearly 230 fiction and documentary films from a 16-day event into 12 days.
Another 80,000 people shared the experience through live cinecasts nationwide from the red carpet of both the opening night film, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie, and the Rolling Stones 50th anniversary documentary, Crossfire Hurricane, which the band attended.
The premiere of the new adaptation of Great Expectations, starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, closed the festival last night.
Miss Bonham Carter revealed that she initially thought she was too young to play the jilted madwoman Miss Havisham.
But she added: "At the point when I was offered it I felt a bit young, and then Mike (director Mike Newell) said, 'No, no, if you look at the book she is actually your age.' And I said 'Oh great! Okay!"
Clare Stewart, the festival's new director, said changes to the festival's organisation had "absolutely proved themselves" and resulted in "exceptionally good" box office takings. The programme expanded from central London cinemas to new venues including the Hackney Picturehouse, Rich Mix in the East End, Everyman Screen on the Green in Islington and the Renoir at Kings Cross.
It also presented movies in themes such as love, thrill and journeys to help fans find what they wanted to see.
Ms Stewart said: "I think condensing from 16 to 12 days and having multiple galas, multiple events, really created more energy."
The programme included star appearances from actors such as Bill Murray and Samuel West for Hyde Park On Hudson, Chris O'Dowd for The Sapphires and Maggie Smith and Dustin Hoffman for Quartet, with talks including Salman Rushdie on the film adaptation of his novel Midnight's Children.
In addition to increasing London audiences, the festival aimed for a higher international profile with an awards ceremony at the Banqueting House on Saturday.
Rust And Bone by Jacques Audiard starring Marion Cotillard won best film. A closing night party at Battersea Power Station was attended by the Great Expectations cast, which also includes Jeremy Irvine and Holliday Grainger.
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Season two of the WB network's popular Smallville upheld its excellent ratings by adhering religiously to the same mixture as before: combining tantalizing elements of the Superman legend with the sort of "teen angst" indigenous to such series as Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek, all the while effectively weaving a mythos of its own. The first episode of the new season resolved the cliffhanger left over from season one, with teenager Clark Kent (Tom Welling) -- who 13 years earlier had crash-landed in a spaceship in the tiny Kansas farming community of Smallville -- rescuing local high school homecoming queen Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) from a devastating tornado. At the same time, local playboy and aspiring business mogul Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), heir apparent to the billion-dollar LutherCorp firm, forgot his differences with his ruthless CEO father, Lionel Luthor (John Glover, graduating from "recurring" to "regular" status), long enough to rescue his dad from a certain-death situation. Also returning to the series were John Schneider and Annette O'Toole as farming couple Jonathan and Martha Kent, adoptive parents to Clark; Allison Mack as budding journalist and teenaged paranormal specialist Chloe Sullivan, who by now had resigned herself to being merely Clark's friend rather than his sweetheart; and Sam Jones III as Clark's best bud, Pete Ross, who a few episodes into season two became the only person other than Jonathan and Martha to be apprised that Clark was actually a "visitor" from the planet Krypton. Gone were Eric Johnson as Whitney Fordham, Clark's rival for the hand and heart of Lana Lang; and Tom O'Brien as unscrupulous reporter Roger Nixon, who was conveniently killed off just as he was poised to reveal Clark's true identity to the world.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Twenty Ethiopians, including a prominent blogger, journalists and opposition figures were jailed for between eight years to life on Friday on charges of conspiring with rebels to topple the government.
The European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said she was "seriously concerned" by the severity of the sentences, which were also condemned by Amnesty International and other rights groups.
The Horn of Africa nation, a major recipient of Western aid, is fighting separatist rebel movements and armed groups it says are backed by arch-foe Eritrea.
But rights groups say Ethiopia, sandwiched between volatile Somalia and Sudan, regularly uses security concerns as an excuse to crack down on dissent and media freedoms.
The Addis Ababa government, a key ally in Washington's campaign against Islamist militants in Somalia, denies the charge. No one was immediately available to comment on Friday.
Blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega, who was arrested last year and accused of trying to incite violence with a series of online articles, was jailed for 18 years.
Five other exiled journalists were sentenced in absentia to between 15 years to life.
Andualem Arage, from the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, was jailed for life. Two other prominent opposition figures, Berhanu Nega and Andargachew Tsige, both out of the country, also received life sentences.
"The court has given due considerations to the charges and the sentences are appropriate," Judge Endeshaw Adane said in court.
The 20 were charged last year, most of them in absentia, with counts including conspiracy to dismantle the constitutional order, recruitment and training for terror acts and aiding Eritrea and a rebel group to disrupt security.
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One of the most anticipated cameras of 2011, the Sony NEX 5N is pitched as being both a great camera for compact camera upgraders as well as DSLR shooters' ideal second camera. First and foremost, this is not meant to be an technical review of the NEX 5N nor the Leica or Zeiss lenses, there are enough great reviewers out there on the internet like Steve Huff, whose opinion I've drawn upon greatly in the buildup to my decision to purchase the Sony NEX 5N, and dpreview, who do the most extensive techy reviews on any new piece of camera kit. This is just meant to be a sharing of my thoughts of using the NEX 5N and FDA-EV1S Electronic Viewfinder in real life situations and on location, as well as using the camera with the M mount Leica 50mm Summicron and Zeiss ZM 35 Biogon, as well as the 2 kit lenses that come with the camera, the Sony SEL1855 18-55mm and Sony SEL16F28 16mm f2.8.
I 'normally' shoot with my Canon 5DmkII and a range of Canon L lenses, both as a hobby and semi-professionally. Whilst I'm very happy with the results and image quality of the 5DmkII, the one thing that bothered me was the bulk and the weight of the resulting kit. I don't have an issue with it when I'm making money from the shoot but if I'm travelling, shooting for fun and have to lug around my Domke full of camera kit, it does take its toll on my shoulders.
Since a few years ago, I've been looking for a suitable lightweight alternative 'B Camera' to take the place of my DSLR gear on non mission critical shoots. The primary criterias being – Great image quality (equal or at least close to my DSLR), lighter and smaller (obviously), sufficient manual controls so that my shooting is not dictated by the decisions of the camera. The Sigma DP1 was the first camera that caught my attention but it wasn't ready for primetime yet, so through the years, I've followed the development of these prosumer cameras, Sigma DP2, Ricoh GRD I/II/III, etc, and it wasn't till the Panasonic GF1 that I felt the technology was matured enough to start considering seriously. Somehow the the small Micro 4/3 sensor didn't appeal to me.
When the Sony NEX 5N was announced, I looked through the specs and was very impressed indeed. 16.1MP (enough for me), EVF that was good enough quality to 'replace' an OVF, great low light performance (something while I loved about the 5DmkII), ability (with adaptors) to use superior lenses, manual controls, and most of all, the large APS-C sensor (I would have loved a full frame sensor but you can't have everything eh?). Reading up other people's thoughts on the camera further convinced me that now was the time to bite the bullet. I bought the NEX 5N, along with the EVF (FDA-EV1S), the 2 kit lenses (18-55mm and 16mm f2.8 pancake) and the highly regarded Zeiss ZM 35mm f2 Biogon (as my 50mm equivalent). I relieved my Leica M7 of its 50mm Summicron and I had a kit.
I come from a SLR background (both film and digital Canons), having bought the M7 a number of years prior on impulse and having put less than 50 rolls of film though it. Somehow I never really got used to the rangefinder way of working and more often than not, when I needed to grab a camera, I would grab my DSLR.
Having manual focus lenses on my NEX 5N meant a different style of working. I have to be honest and say that there's a learning curve involved, especially if you're used to AF lenses, the peaking and focus magnification feature on the NEX 5N is great but still slower than a fast AF system, and requires more user input! I didn't nail focus on roughly 20% of my shots, and the other 80% was quite hard work. I hope to get better and faster with time though. Another issue which I didn't find out earlier about with pairing NEX cameras and legacy lenses is the most rangefinder lenses have quite long minimum focussing distances (MFD), 70cm for both my Zeiss and Leica, which is a pain and quite a limitation, quite often I found myself thinking, if only I can take another half step forward, that would be great, but by then, the lens would not focus. I have since found out about Hawk Peng's helicoid adaptor that can reduce the MFD by acting as a mini bellows between the lens and the sensor, allowing the lens to focus closer. It's a real hot selling item and always out of stock, but hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one to try it out for myself. Check out Hawk's Factory on eBay, if the adaptors are out of stock, just email Hawk Peng and he will inform you when they're in stock, which is exactly what I did.
Its not all bad news though, far from that, apart from the manual focussing (my own fault for not using Sony's AF lenses E mount lenses) and the MFD (brought on by the previous decision), the camera is great. I probably use the EVF about roughly 50% of the time and relying on the LCD screen the rest of the time. Its such a godsend that the screen and EVF tilt, allowing you to shoot from the hip (or lap, if you're sitting down) and you find your compositions different as a result of that. Also, the Sweep Panorama feature, which Sony describes as allowing you to "create wide-angle, panoramic photos at the touch of a button" is surprisingly useful and super easy to execute. Set the mode to 'Panorama' and then sweep the camera in the direction of the arrow smoothly, whilst holding down the shutter button. It fires off a series of shots (sounding somewhat like a paparazzi photographer) and stitches the pictures together in a matter of seconds. You can also do vertical panoramas.
One other limitation of the camera is is the lack of physical buttons and controls due to the small size of the body, which means that many of the functions are buried in the menu system. There were times I couldn't find the item I was looking for, having to search each section of the menu and still not finding it, only to have it show up later when I wasn't looking. This is one of the primary drawbacks of the camera in my opinion but a necessary compromise considering the size of the camera itself. If you are intending to buy the NEX 5N, I suggest you head down to a store and have a play with it first to see if you can live with the somewhat archaic menu system.
The image quality is really really sweet for a camera of this size, I would venture to say that its probably about 85% of the 5DmkII image quality, and depending on the kind of subjects you are shooting, you might not even notice the difference in a blind test. Disclaimer: I am not a pixel peeping kind of photographer, I do not take pictures of charts and walls and scrutinise corners at 100% magnification and compare MTF charts. In fact, I normally shoot wide open (probably 90% of the time), which means that I'm usually shooting at the 'softest' apertures and shallowest depth of field, which makes focus, even on accurate AF systems, somewhat hit and miss at times. Back to the NEX 5N files, the RAW files have good latitude to recover some highlights and shadow details should your exposure be a bit off, or if the scene is a bit too high contrast, and the colours are vibrant and true to life.
Carrying about the camera all day did not tire me out, or cause sore shoulders, and I actually found myself shooting more because of that, and because the camera is so small and compact, it tends not to intimidate your subjects in the way that a big black chunky DSLR can.
The 6 million dollar questions is: Can it replace my Canon 5DmkII and EF lenses?
The answer for me would be: Yes and No. Yes, when you have the luxury of time and are shooting for leisure or travelling, the images you will end up with, especially with good lenses, are extraordinary, and what you lack in ergonomics, you make up for in weight reduction. I think its a fair trade off. No, I would not bring this kit to a paying job, its still does not have the sheer performance and quick handling abilities of a DSLR, and the ability to change settings very quickly and without having to dive into menus, as well as the much wider variety of good glass to go with the camera.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the purchase and look forward to bringing it on more trips abroad, as well as it being small and compact enough to be a good camera for social events where the 5DmkII might be overkill.
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Siliconarts Inc., a Korean tech startup, developed RayCore, the real-time ray tracing graphics processor (GPU) for the first time in graphics hardware history. RayCore is the next-generation GPU that is used in rendering high-quality 3D graphics whose graphics performance surpasses that of rasterization GPU approach. Mostly utilized in Hollywood studios in creating huge contents such as "Toy Story" and "Avatar," realistic effects are the key to differentiating the features of ray tracing technology compared to a rasterization approach. However, ray tracing was only implemented using software due to the limitations to process exponential calculations, to equip with highly expensive series of rendering gears and to process and the wait for significantly longer rendering times. In addition, it was not even implemented on a real-time basis. RayCore, developed by Siliconarts, is a hardware that has overcome the limitations of the existing ray tracing approach, applying all of the benefits of ray tracing to its product that can render cinema-quality 3D graphics effects on real-time basis. Particularly, RayCore is designed to consume the industry's lowest power level in order to implement both User Interface and User Experience on mobile platforms such as smartphones; it is expected that a significant impact is inevitable to the mobile game space. In other words, UI/UX as well as mobile games created based on these high-quality 3D effects will be made possible. A senior official of Siliconarts mentioned that ray tracing technology-enabled smartphones will be introduced soon, as the company already completed its license agreement with Company A to supply RayCore GPU IP. "The key feature of this product is that ray tracing, which was considered impossible to implement using hardware, is now available not only on PCs and servers, but also in diverse devices such as smartphones and smart TVs. None of the global GPU companies have successfully implemented ray tracing on a real-time basis and their technology level is still trivial. It is almost impossible to implement," said Hyung Min Yoon, the CEO of Siliconarts. You can witness the powerful implementation of exquisite 3D graphics using RayCore as the company will be demonstrating its products at i-SEDEX2012 from October 9 - October 11 at #2570, Hall 2, KINTEX, Goyang-si, Gyunggi-do, Korea.
Skeptic here. Faster than rasterization with lower power consumption? I want to believe... Also I'm not sure I want my games back to hard shadows again (looking at the pictures). Ray-tracing without area lights pretty much sucks in this day and age.
And GPU accelerated voxels and octrees arrived years ago to rescue you. (but the picture sucks hard, I agree. No caustics, no radiosity, etc,...nothing)
We need more info about this. Obviously, the pictures above look like a 3D Studio render back in the '90s
I highly agree. If this is a small GPGPU which might be used on any PCB as some kind of a coprocessor, or if the silicon could be used in current CPUs and GPUs, than this could be quite a big success.
As is the norm, this company lack the R&D to translate their research to a product. There is probably a catch somewhere.
I've been investigatig a bit about it and found this: https://sites.google.com/a/siliconarts.co.kr/siliconarts-inc/newsroom Here's the catch and not very impressive apparently. From http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/i3dkdtree/gpu-kd-i3d.pdf: And here http://bouliiii.blogspot.com.es/2008/08/real-time-ray-tracing-with-cuda-100.html 2.4 Opteron - 8.7 million rays/s X1900 XTX - 15.2 million rays/s Cell - 57.2 million rays/s 8800 GT - 12-40 million rays/s GTX 280 - 100 million rays/s Current gen GPU?? - 2-4x GTX280? More? GTX 480 was 8x faster than GTX285 in Design Garage demo. So what 200-800 million rays/s for a current GPU?? RayCore - 14-24 million ray/s per core. (Yeah, I might be comparing apples to oranges, but I think that it gives a general idea and it's not like the examples given by Siliconarts look much more advanced than previous realtime ray-tracers) If 1 RayCore is aimed at mobile chips (that's what I understand), how many cores would fit in a die size equal to a high-end GPU? 10 (240 million rays/s)? 20 (480 million rays/s)? After investigating a lot I only have more questions lol. But I do believe a little more on the posibility of real-time ray-tracing being absolutely posible right now and definitely by 2013-2014. As to being faster than rasterization tho, NO WAY.
Still looks promising with the figures you are posting, they are about 5 years behind, easily fixed with boatloads of money thrown their way.
RayCore, judging by their per core performance. 14-24 million rays/s would have been average to good performance 5 years ago compared to standard raster.
Well considering it's on a mobile size I'd consider them as not being su much behind. In fact I'm not sure they are behind at all. But we are comparing a commercial product against research studies which were mostly looking for feasibility and not for maximum optimized performance and using CUDA/OpenGL/OpenCL wrappers. In future releases Nvidia/AMd could certainly implement certain "semi-fixed" function capabilities and match or even vastly outperform them though, but who knows. Right now I can only assume that on this side of the equation RayCore is ahead by a couple years. On the other hand I don't think that more funding is going to help them much, looking at the link of the website I posted it seems that they got some nice funding from Korean government. More investment would definitely be needed for a grand scale manufacturing plan, but I don't think it's going to help R&D all that much. So summarizing, I don't consider them behind (nethier ahead as PR says), but I don't think funding would improve their tech much (talking abut generational jumps) either. It woud be nice to have them as competitors to AMD and Nvidia on the GPU side, but they don't offer equivalent tech so I doubt game developers will be interested unless AMD/Nvidia offer the same tech and most probably an API standard would need to be created before they move a finger in that direction. For professional market this is good, no doubt and here they can certainly compete, since being a platform on their own is not a problem, tho I hear that Nvidia's Optix has already a substantial market and there's free GPU renderers such as Cycles, Luxrender which are very popular too. Competition is good any day of the week tho.
I'm not here to defend RayCore (don't know anything about them anyway), but you are indeed comparing apples and oranges. There are still a lots of technical difficulties with currently availabe GPU based raytracing methods, and some clever hardware invention could speed things up quite a bit. It's about the relation and the interaction of the secondary rays (shadow, reflection, refraction), the transparency of the traced "point", the speedy and proper handling of curved surfaces with their adaptive tessellation,etc.. those are just a few from many things which are slowing down HW based ray-tracing a lot. Being skeptical is all right, but let's just not bash something new before we know enough about it ps.: fixed the link for ya
It was not my intention to bash it. I just read the PR and thought "this are some outstanding claims" and of course outstanding claims require outstanding demonstrations. I investigated and the claims don't seem to match what the reality is atm. Like I said I know it's kind of apples to oranges, but there's absolutely no way to tell if RayCore offers anything over existing GPU ray-tracers or if it's actually the other way around (i.e rayCore using "optimizations", compromises). Pictures provided by Siliconarts definitely DON'T show anything new or outstanding, so why should we assume there tracer is more advanced? PS: Thanks for the link. I fixed it. For some reason a colon "magically appeared" at the end for no reason.
It might have some special instruction or micro-code hard-wired into the silicon, specially designed to help some certain ray-tracing algorithms, but that's just a wild guess Btw - as I already said it above - I agree about the picture, it makes the whole PR attempt to look like a really bad joke, and it would be better to leave it out
He, I was suggesting that when I said: But I can understand that my made up jargon wasn't understood properly. But back to the discussion, I'm not completely sure that advantage (which is probably just temporal should ray-tracing become an standard) is even enough now, considering that GPU makers are probably way ahead on manufacturing and probably on raw performance. I've not seen comparable numbers for current cards. Nebulous in my memory I think I remember reading that Design Garage shoots over 1 billion rays/s, but that's at 3 fps on a Fermi, so certainly not real-time and not comparable and to make matters worse it was at a higher 1080p resolution. Hard to make comparisons. Only that on that particular ray-tracing demo GTX480 was 8x faster than GTX 285, but that's probably in large part, Nvidia optimizing for Fermi (not that Fermi >>>> Tesla for those kind of tasks). So all in all, I agree, it's too early to draw conclusions. I'm just trying to cover all angles and understand all things implicated, for which discussing it is really advantageous. Nothing like seing others' pov to cover all angles.
^ I don't know, seems too specific a solution for them. As the Phi becomes more powerful I believe Intel will start to expand its market beyond HPC. It could happen as early as the next generation of Phi. AMD/nVidia could adopt quickly thanks the increasing attention to GPGPU over the years and several devs have expressed an interest, but yeah, someone will need to come forward with a plan as to how to go forward with it.
probably the most interesting thing that could happen with this tech at the minute would be this, how are they claiming anything more then mobile use with those resolutions( they mention server and pc's)960xweva is not good enough ,simples. i dont see this as even slightly evolutionary either ,imagination technologies bought caustic tec a few years ago and have been threatening to release an arm Soc with powerVr/caustic tech capable of raytraced gfx's, is it possible this is linked to that(ala patent troll tech) , regardless they are far from the first with this but hey ho.
I suppose they can use multiple processors (6 seem to be required) to form a full HD picture. Since ray-tracing works "backwards" (from camera > to objects > to light sources) tiling is no problem at all.
Your creating false realities there, what you supose they can do is not what they just announced , and in reality they announced very little concrete info at all so why spread fud who is this Company A and what phones are going to have them , what Oem's are going to be shipping them, premature pr Bs Imho, and anyway crysis isnt going to run on it so it must be crap
Eh?? Do you know how ray-tracing (or rasterizing for that matter) works? Btw I didn't see it supports 960x640, so with 4 of them 1920x1280 would be posible. No need for 6 (was thinkikng max res was 960x480)
This isn't entirely new (to some extend) because IMG Tech (through their Caustic Graphics acquisition) is also going to have ray-tracing hardware soon. They've already had two generations of FPGA based products. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi...oduce_Standalone_Ray_Tracing_Accelerator.html


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