Anti-Intellectual Voters

Newsweek has an interesting opinion piece on Sarah Palin and a growing tendency in the U.S. for voters to be against intelligent politicians.

The Return of Software Rendering

Courtesy of Slashdot, the following is an interesting interview with Tim Sweeney (game software developer, co-founder of Epic Games, who produced the Unreal engines) where he discusses the decline of the dedicated, fixed-function GPU and the future of software-based rendering:

Twilight of the GPU

Excerpt:

I expect that in the next generation we’ll write 100 percent of our rendering code in a real programming language—not DirectX, not OpenGL, but a language like C++ or CUDA. A real programming language unconstrained by weird API restrictions. Whether that runs on NVIDIA hardware, Intel hardware or ATI hardware is really an independent question. You could potentially run it on any hardware that’s capable of running general-purpose code efficiently.

Riddoch 2005 Cab Shiraz

From the Coonawarra region and named after the Scottish immigrant and the region’s wine pioneer John Riddoch, this drop tastes of “Deep plum with some purple hues. The nose display mint and berry notes with chocolate and smokey oak aromas. Full flavoured and rounded palate with a pleasingly assertive tannin structure.”

HWR:  4/5

Right-wing punditry double standards

This is some of The Daily Show’s best work:

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VC++ CRT Versions

The following table lists the versions of the Visual C++ 9 CRT DLLs.  This is particularly useful to know when you want to manually deploy the CRT DLLs, and hence need to ensure your application’s EXE and DLL manifests all use the same version of the CRT.

Description	CRT Version
VC++ 9.0 (default Visual Studio 2008 installation)	9.0.21022.8
VC++ 9.0 with Feature Pack	9.0.30411.0
VC++ 9.0 with SP1	9.0.30729.1

FOX News on Gov. Sarah Palin

Steve Doocy of FOX News hilariously describes Gov. Sarah Palin’s foreign affairs qualifications:

Also, check out The Daily Show’s take on it:

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