Boot time comparison: All generations of iPhone vs Nokia Lumia 800

This video completes the boot time comparison made by iClarified with an additional contender: the Nokia Lumia 800 with Windows Phone 7.5, which beats even the very last iPhone 5 in terms of boot time.   img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('fdc8ba04-4285-4cb4-8a04-b82d837bd989');...

Cine y Series Españolas –un desastre muy evitable-

En este post voy a tratar de explicar por qué no me gustan las series Españolas, salvo contadísimas excepciones. Dejando a un margen las comedias facilonas y absurdas (donde no hace falta esmerarse mucho en ningún aspecto, solo hacer reír), y excepciones como “Cuéntame”, que no lo hace tan mal en muchos...

Properly calculating the diffuse contribution of lights in HLSL Shaders

It’s been many years since Vertex and Pixel Shaders came out, and several years too since the Fixed Pipeline is deprecated, but there are still many questions in the forums out there asking about how to properly calculate the diffuse contribution of Lights. This paper has a great tutorial about the...