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Political Opinions / The UK, new government good or bad
« on: July 30, 2010, 07:47:39 PM »
Just want to see what you guys think, you may or may not know that the recent general election resulted in the Conservative party being in power. For the benefit of the americans on here this is a bit like the republicans (High taxes, keeping the rich rich and the poor poor, slight racist undertones ect.). The first thing this new government did was raise the vat rate (which is sales tax) to 20% from 17.5%. As a buisness owner this will cripple my finances and discourage people from parting with their cash, the flip side is that my country is in a lot of debt and their saying its nessisery for a brighter future.

I would really like your oppinions on this as I'm torn for my next vote.

Somthing else you might find amusing, I'm doing some reasearch on just how currupt my local council is. Already my findings are beyond belief but I will post full details when im done.

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New Geeks on the Block / Hello, I'm Nick from Coventry
« on: July 30, 2010, 07:56:36 AM »
Hi, I'm new to the forum and I want to introduce myself. I'm nick and I live in the UK in a town called Coventry. I am interested in all kinds of hardware and softwear projects along with anything that is cool and interesting, for example plasma speakers :D

I been experimenting with ray tracing recently and I have seen a lot of people linking ps3's together to try and achieve real time ray taceing, they have had varying levels of success but I have yet to see a 60 frame per second game running on ray tracing.

For those of you who know a little about the subject will know that the calculations involved are not trivial and to render a scene using ray tracing with all the bells and whistles can take hours for a single frame.

I was thinking last night, why not use a single PIC micro controler for each ray processing the whole scene in parallele. I agree it will take a lot of pics for example in a 300X200 image you would need 60000 single PICS and shared memory may be a problem (although you could use some clever bus techniques).

I would be interested to know what everyone thinks, am I on to somthing or am I talking crap lol

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