by Joseph Forbes | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, INTERNET, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
There are a lot of reasons to start a podcast, you may want to connect to your existing audience in a more personal way. You may not have an audience but would like to build one. Podcasting is a great way to build a new audience. You may want to become a recognized...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog Entry, Cloud Apps, INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
There are so many reasons to start a podcast. Podcasting is a medium that allows you to connect with your audience using your real voice. It’s a convenient medium that goes where your listeners go while they are going about their daily tasks. It’s also easy to get...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 7, 2016 | ENTERTIANMENT, HARDWARE, NERD NEWS
The Coming of General Purpose GPUs Until the advent of DirectX 10, there was no point in adding undue complexity by enlarging the die area, which increased vertex shader functionality in addition to boosting the floating point precision of pixel shaders from 24-bit to...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE
The Fall of 3Dfx and The Rise of Two Giants With the turn of the century the graphics industry bore witness to further consolidation. The pro market saw iXMICRO leave graphics entirely, while NEC and Hewlett-Packard both produced their last products, the TE5 and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jul 5, 2016 | Blog Entry
3Dfx Voodoo: The Game-changer Launched on November 1996, 3Dfx’s Voodoo graphics consisted of a 3D-only card that required a VGA cable pass-through from a separate 2D card to the Voodoo, which then connected to the display. The cards were sold by a large number...
