Sentences with phrase «of draw calls»

Games make thousands of draw calls per frame, but each one creates performance - limiting overhead for the CPU.

With this in mind, it clearly shows that the PS4 hardware will have a huge win over MS's x1 hardware being that the API they're using right now isn't so demanding on high number of draw calls.

Kim explains: «I've been making a series of drawings called «Moonassi» since 2008.

At its heart is a series of drawings called A Concordance of Fifty American Clouds, in which she uses techniques such as chalk on a blackboard to portray the lofty cloud formations she observed recently while living in Los Angeles.

Not exact matches

One of a number of reasons I stayed out of my business offices and worked at home as much as possible was because when I went to the office, I was «drawn» to listen in on, interfere with or critique every phone call, look at every fax, poke my nose all the way into everything — to the extent that I ruined everybody else's productivity as well as my own.

One section of the book, drawn up in 1992, reads: «The documents of the cabinet and ministerial committees are issued primarily to the sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and ministers... The need for secrecy calls for special care in circulation and handling.

- Though Hunter was their entire case, prosecutors were sufficiently wary of her (or perhaps of drawing additional attention to her precise role in the matter) that they did not call her to the witness stand.

Rather than charging 2 % of the fund's total capital commitment, Sequoia has told investors the management fee will be 1 % based only on the smaller stages of «called capital» drawn from the investors, one of the people said.

An ISIS e-book published in the early days of the Islamic State encouraged readers to check out anti-Israel protests with non-Muslims calling for «the fall of Zionism,» if not to draw recruits from this demographic then relying on their rhetoric to hammer away at the «financial elite.»

In 2008, a similar campaign was underway in Philadelphia called «Drive CarePhilly» that used 3 - D drawings of road spikes designed to work as virtual speed bumps.

Kopke's criticism of Dragons» Den as a show that minimizes entrepreneurial autonomy drew a somewhat negative response on Twitter from Dragons» cast member Arlene Dickinson, while former «dragon» W. Brett Wilson sang Kopke's praises, calling his article both «brilliant» and «accurate.»

A couple of months ago, an ad for a Woodside, California, group house called Startup Castle drew ridicule for demanding that applicants for its coveted spaces work out at least 15 hours a week, wear makeup no more than twice a week, have no more than one tattoo, and only rarely listen to songs with explicit lyrics.

That's a concept called cloud computing, named because, once upon a time, diagram - drawing tools used a picture of a «cloud» as the icon to represent the internet.

Tesla replaces gas - burning vehicles with electric ones; SolarCity provides clean power drawn from a source Musk is fond of calling a giant fusion reactor in the sky, the sun; and SpaceX ensures that we will become a «multiplanetary» species.

The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

Much of the annual draw for fans of the «Call of Duty» franchise is the endlessly replayable multiplayer modes.

According to the research, landing pages that draw a person's attention to one main call - to - action (in other words, a link) have a conversion rate of 13.5 percent, while landing pages with five or more call - to - actions or links have an average conversion rate of 10.5 percent.

Chuck Piola — top seller at NCO Financial Systems, a $ 3.9 - million collection agency in Blue Bell, Pa. (see «48 Hours with the King of Cold Calls,» June 1991), drew inspiration from the pages of How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling.

The no - holds - barred piece draws on recent research published in Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as older reviews of the scientific literature on so - called digital natives, to review whether the recent mania for tech in education has solid scientific foundations.

At du, we use a concept called «Customer First» in order to address the specific needs of the SMB market; this puts the customer at the heart of everything we design, drawing on insight and inputs directly from the customer.

Drawing from Gutstein's experience as COO of a cable network called Ovation, Machinima is now planning a portion of its programming in advance, in order to make it easier for brands to plan ad campaigns.

Drawing on these findings and working with a number of youth - issues experts and groups, we issued a report calling for corporations to find tangible ways to support startups, such as opening up office space and providing mentors for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Trump has called for building a wall on the U.S. - Mexico border and forcing the Mexicans to pay for it, comments that have drawn the ire of people across the continent.

Address these stressors, then, by setting company - wide standards for communication and encouraging brief, face - to - face meetings and phone calls instead of drawn - out email discussions.

To serve that market, however, the firm drew upon the presence of large numbers of Japanese students in the Vancouver area, offering them jobs in its West Coast call centre.

In her first few months on the job as CEO of Chico's, the women's apparel company, Shelley Broader drew up what she likes to call her «Why Are We So Delicious?»

The Barangaroo project has been a drawn - out planning and approval process for Crown, which has contributed to a delay of about 18 months to the development Mr Packer has called his biggest priority and one he hopes will improve the performance of its Australian business as part of a unique three - way split of Crown designed to drive stronger shareholder returns.

It refers to the practice of creating valuable content, such as articles or podcasts, that draws customers to you directly (as opposed to spending a lot of time on cold calls or paying for advertising to lure them in).

So if you drew a horizontal line and call that fair value like Ben Graham said, and then you draw a wavy line around that horizontal line and call that stock prices, the market is pitching us opportunities all the time between stocks that are way below fair value and way above fair value, the reason investors don't beat the market has nothing to do with the market is not throwing us pitches in that it's not still emotional, they are behavioral problem, there's agency problems, there is a lot of other issues going on but it's not because we're not getting really great pictures all the time.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

Additionally, the process of booking demos was drawn - out and inefficient, with the SDR acting as a go - between from client to AE, making introductions and trying to book and confirm appointments after the call ended, and enthusiasm waned.

The release goes to some length in questioning studies that call the benefits of proxy access into doubt — critiquing the authors» methodologies, noting that the studies» results are open to interpretation, and cautioning against drawing «sharp inferences» from the data.

These calls will update us on the planning progress, what ideas will be implemented from the children's drawings and serve as motivation to drum up the volunteers needed to make all of this happen.

Sometimes prospects took an action to trigger a sales call, like filling out a magazine card or entering a drawing at an event — but usually, it was a cold call in the truest sense: The sales person did not know the prospect — and they certainly didn't know their level of interest.

To defend itself, the IMF is proposing to act as a «central bank» creating what was called «paper gold» in the late 1960s — artificial credit in the form of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).

An emotionally charged school security forum Wednesday evening in Plantation drew hundreds of people who complained about what they called an ineffective response before and after February's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Designed by Brad Ellis of Tall West, the new mark represents Stratechery's emphasis on writing, the focus on technology, and, of course, my drawings.3 The Archer type - face is a call - back to Stratechery's original Courier, and the feeling of a type - writer.

WASHINGTON — Revelations that a political data firm may have gained access to the personal information of as many as 50 million Facebook users drew new bipartisan calls on Capitol Hill Monday for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the heads of other social media companies to answer questions from Congress.

«Element Group founder Stan Miroshnik, whose investment bank is focused on digital token crowd sales and ICOs, calls it the somewhat inevitable bifurcation between «tier one issuers and everybody else,» wherein the «big, quality offerings are drawing the majority of capital.»

Much is being made of plans by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to add the renminbi to its basket of strategic reserve currencies called Special Drawing Rights (SDR).

The report draws heavily on several economic studies that find results similar to Mr. Hassett's, including that the so - called incidence of corporate taxation falls mainly on workers, meaning they have much to gain if such rates are cut.

After Fannie Mae announced today that its fourth quarter earnings plummeted by two - thirds and CEO Tim Mayopoulos said that a lack of a capital cushion could trigger a future draw from the U.S. Treasury, NAHB Chairman Tom Woods issued the following statement calling on Congress to swiftly act on comprehensive housing finance reform:

A year later, with oil down to $ 40 a barrel, not only is no one calling for sympathy for oil companies, plenty of people are drawing a connection between oil's fortunes and the recent faltering of the Canadian economy.

Thiel has portrayed Gawker as a force for evil, but Feinberg's article — which drew potential connections between Trump and the work of a $ 60,000 - a-pop hair - extension company called Ivari International — still went over rather well, drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

It had five employees, two hotel guests, no cook and a pesky Lihue Sugar Plantation train that drew constant complaints because of its 3 a.m. wake - up call, when it made its way past the hotel from the plantation to the mill with an overflowing load of sugarcane.

The religious NUTS wants everyone to believe God is a Task master who draws a line in the sand called THE 10 Commandments and if you step on that line and break one of those 10 he pulls out his whip and pounds on you!

He draw's his strength from your hinduism, absurdity called religion, hinduism, fabrication of hindu Jew's, filthy secular s to hind humanity.

Although some people are genuinely hungry for ideas and find encouragement in sharply drawn postings, I sometimes think of the general trend of punditry toward denunciation and harsh judgments as what I call political pornography — an excitement of the will, a stimulation of commitment, a thrilling feeling of entering the fray.

Even then, I think, I and others recognized the importance of what Burke called the «little platoons» and others later called «mediating institutions,» though the only terms we had for such things were drawn from anarchism.