NURBS are not great. They are a pain in the ass. Try making a character out of nurbs one day. Getting continuity on edges, seams, cracking, adding local detail (here's a hint - you can't. You have to add iso lines across the entire surface). Adding details after a texturing pass will make you want to kill yourself.
Subdivs - maybe.

  But the premise of this entire post sure comes across as somebody with no idea what he's talking about.

A bunch of kids downvoting a video to be trolls is not a 'civil war'. This is firmly "things that don't matter to anybody".

A dose of perspective would be healthy.

"Incredible GPU" (I'll just leave for a moment this is a chip just to be maybe 'unveiled', while the the latest iOS chip which you can buy for 6 months is already way ahead as usual...)

Unless they've fired their entire OpenGL/Vulkan driver engineering department and started over, I can't get excited. It'll just be *another* big bag of pain and busted features.

As God as my witness, I wish somebody would make the investment to give Qualcomm some actual competition, cause they are a nightmare.

Signed : Mobile Games Graphics Engineer.

"profits are sinking faster than a boat without a hull".

Today must be Opposite Day. Nice fact checking SD. MSFT is doing just fine.

They you should totally continue to complain on the internet that nobody is meeting your exact needs for free. The rest of us will get some work done.

If you want NDK debugging, use the nVidia Tegra Android development pack + Visual Studio. It's the least terrible option out there.

Really? A single entendre is the best you could do?

>>Guys like you should be dressed in a pair of speedos and forced to parade for an hour in a gay bar.
>>Then we'd hear no more nonsense about "political correctness".

FUck off. What makes you think us gays want to be punished with that asshole too?

Easily: No. There is nothing inherent in 'hacker culture' to cause this.

To explain:

Large groups of men together tend towards asshole behavior. And do stupid shit they wouldn't in typical circumstances.

Especially if alcohol is involved.

The PS3 has 512MB of memory. 256 system memory, 256 video memory.

>>You understand that you as a developer can just pick one to use and not worry about the others, don't you? More is better.

Yeah. I also understand pragmatism.

I also understand that most things in the world are finite. Especially development resources.

Worring about 4 different ways 3rd parties can get code on the platform is a nightmare for RIM. Thats a huge amount of wasted focus, effort, and resources.

And as an outside developer, I *know* it's untenable. Something will have to get cut loose at some point. And the question is, do I feel confident enough on the gamble that the API I pick isn't the one that gets the shaft?

You may not agree with it, but I guarantee thats the calculus a lot of folks are doing.

>>The question becomes how they are going to handle sideloading and competing markets.

If you read the story, you'd know why it's not an issue.

YOu can't use the android market.

Apps have to be repackaged for BB.

If by 'great' you mean terrible.

So to recap, they want you do to app development with :

-Adobe Air.
-Oh yeah, or BB java apps.
-And have a runtime for some Android stuff at some unspecified point in the future (and if you didn't bother reading, apps have to be repackaged for BB).
-Also have the "WebWorks SDK for Tablet OS".
-Oh yeah, and they're bringing out a native C/C++ API.

The phrase"'rudderless ship" comes to mind. 4 completely different API's to get on the thing.

Clusterfuck. No third party is going to take them seriously until they can get their story straight... and the thing hasn't even shipped yet.

No wonder their shares fell 10% today. If i owned any I'd be looking for the exits.