Yeah you can kinda feel it and mould it and stuff but if I'm not mistaken, the point seems to be to end up with a 2D graphical product. So...why not just use Maya and rotate that camera and work on one side then rotate it back and see how it looks. Or just do the 4 angles view. In fact, can you even rotate it with this technology or are you blindly working on one side and "feeling" around the back and sides to shape it? You can't feel it but you can see it so it should turn out the same.
but you still have to be able to afford the monthly bill. Oops I guess Apple forgot that part! Isn't that the #1 thing people shop for and just cross their fingers and hope the phone's either free or cheap? You don't have to be a cell phone expert to know that
I'm from Wisconsin so naturally I noticed the fact that they apparently focused heavily on UW schools! That's the worst kind of discrimination...the kind against us! Then again it's not much of an "us" since I went to a technical college lol. Take that, universities and your programming theory instead of practical skills;)
This affects every single person that connects to the internet. If there's more high tier bandwidth available, hosting costs and ISP costs go down and speeds go up. Yeah SBC and those crappier ISPs need to upgrade their local routers and switches and they never will but for people with real connections like businesses and stuff that need and get a lot of bandwidth, now they'll probably have to pay less for it so everyone wins. Like say the largest food packager whose name escapes me at the moment has to connect to all their overseas suppliers for inventory purposes and stuff. They're currently crammed on an overpriced because it's overcrowded satellite or other undersea connection. Well now they have 2 an additional choice of how to run it so naturally the price goes down and their expenses go down so they can cut costs and our food gets cheaper. And A LOT of businesses use fast intercontinental connections so hopefully all of our stuff will get a tiny bit cheaper.
That and I hope they run the cable right by my house so I can get like a 100 Gb/sec connection lol. Unlikely though since I live in Wisconsin
Is this some kind of joke? They vaguely say it could be a good underground habitat? FOR WHAT?! Martian cave rats? Everyone agrees nothing large enough to see with the naked eye lives on Mars, let alone a living "habitat" of bacteria, which I also don't think is the correct use of the word. Or maybe they mean for us to live in? Yeah we'll get to Mars using super advanced technology and then live in a cave? More like a metal tent thing, I mean come on, watch some movies lol. I suppose you could build the tent in the cave though but still they say "habitat" like astronauts will just be sitting on logs around a campfire and fishing inside the cave. This is complete made up speculation by people who don't know what they're talking about. As if we'd go all the way there and rely on having to find a cave to withstand the wind storms otherwise they all die and the mission fails. That's like 100000x the risk Nasa would ever take. Not to mention the apparent risk of martian cave rats of course.
Intel can do whatever they want and it won't have even remotely close to the same effect as if Microsoft simply made the default windows power setting for PCs to go to sleep mode after 30 minutes of real, actual no use (as in not turn off while video endcoding or running p2p programs or virus scanning etc). You know how many people don't do anything to their computer overnight or when they're not home or whatever? Yeah it would piss people off a little but half their features do anyway. I think if they did that it would save like 5% of all US power.
I've never seen so many misuses of italics, parenthesis, and pretty much everything else in the article. Apparently the game is SO bad that it affects your ability to write a review. But that's okay because it sounds about that bad in the review. In my experience, being difficult to steer while flying and lock on being difficult to use are some of the absolute most annoying problems a game maker can possibly put in a game.
you think I couldn't build a bomb on a breadboard and put a pretty cover on it? Cuz I could which means terrorists probably could. And OMG to the idiots saying "but she's not foreign looking enough to be a bomb carrying terrorist." So we can't search Arabs but we can't hold people at gunpoint when they have a possible bomb on their chest in an airport unless their Arabic? That's like the grand canyon of double standards.
It won't just not make games better but it will slow down the development time. I read the code on the wikipedia page and looked at the examples and stuff and thought OMG! Now they have to choose a texture for each object, make it dynamic with light and shadows, AND set its light reflectability ratio? That's insane. They have to run real world simulations on each object they add in game to make it look reall good. Isn't texturing and skinning the longest, most expensive process in game making already?
lol now that you mention it, some of the PCs we swapped as part of the 3 year cycle at the hospital where I work had 2000 and they were doing just fine. Ironically there was an office with 3 computers, 2 were XP Pro and one was 2000 and they all did the exact same tasks for the exact same job on the exact same hardware. The only difference was that the 2000 one ran faster rofl.
Btw I gotta add, did anyone notice that Microsoft is saying "Well we never intended to make a bunch of money on Vista so that means it was sucessful." Nothing turns a complete and utter failure into a victory like changing your original intentions after you've already stated them. Anyone can figure out that a new OS means they're expecting huge amounts of money from everyone upgrading.
and you also get a 300 page bill here if you have an iphone but I'm guessing not over there. You'd think the lack of massive printing fees would make them lower it some more but hey lol
that's your biggest worry? What ever happened to "we'll never make a nuclear powered anything to go into space because if it blows up after it launches it will spread nuclear material through the atmosphere and cause a mild nuclear winter and radioactive rain" thing I learned in school? It can crash into Mars all it wants as long as it clears out atmosphere without killing us all
Well they've obviously become complacent about the name because it has "random adjective and animal generator" written all over it. Maybe they'll give it some actual effort next time when it comes up with Aroused Aardvark
lol I guess those "wash your hands before returning to work" signs will have to go up in terrorist places of employment all over the place now! Anyway I had to comment cuz going with what you said, maybe I'm mistaken but that chemical rings a bell as something you can sweat if you eat certain things. It's been a while since chemistry class but it still sounds familiar. Plus then there's like firework manufacturers and who knows what else that deal with that on a daily basis
lol well DDR worked didn't it? hehehehe. Anyway, did you read the dialogue too? I thought for sure that's where your reading skills failed you cuz that's barely english lol. I thought the next line for sure would be "are all your base belong to us?"
I'm 5'11", a US citizen, have a degree in PC and web programming and another in web deisng (hey they need some IT staff up there, come on), my vision is perfect, and I'll show up to the tryouts in a diaper and carrying a knife. They'll have to hire me!
I believe imeem.com has a similar deal with tons of music sellers and I hear they make A LOT of money from it. Check it out. Look up any song and you'll see "Buy this on itunes" and "buy this" on something else that I can't remember but there's 6 retailers listed." Sellers are willing to pay more for commissions because they know exactly what their profit margin and ad expense will be in relation to sales. Not so with clicks and they don't want to be paying a lot for clicks if nobody buys anything so they offer way way way less money per click just in case. Of course if their product takes off because of you, you don't see any of the money and they make a giant profit. That's not fair. And if businesses and ad displayers like it then let's switch to it on a major scale!
they didn't arrest him for taking too long. Here's what really happened. He forced his way to the front of the line after causing all sorts of trouble trying to get in and stuff which is why the police were already there. Then when he took too long they were trying to simply force him to leave because he was being disruptive before he got there and he continued to be disruptive and wasting everyone's time and ruining the forum. If he cut in line to be a dick like that and I was in line, I'd have done worse than tased him. But anyway, they didn't tase him until he had been physically resisting police for minutes! That video could be used as a training DVD about when to tase people cuz they didn't do anything wrong.
My web host has a nearly perfect system. If someone clicks on the "hey, buy a package from my hosting company" link a cookie is generated. If he buys a web package from that computer before that cookie expires in 60 days or whatever, I get $100. That's right $100 in cash, not hosting credit, an actual check for $100. Yeah some people have cookies disabled but there's other methods that would work better. So basically that purchase based system removes 100% of false clicks and still leaves in like 99% of valid customers. Seems fair to me and the people who let the ads on their website stand to make a way bigger amount of money if they bring valid customers cuz it's basically a large commission on sales. The only problem is if the ad company keeps serving up crappy ads for products nobody would ever buy you don't make any money but you wouldn't make very much on that type of ad through clicks either.
If they're so concerned about question asking time, they should have tased that stupid senator that went on for 7 and a half minutes without actually asking general Patraes a question lol. I would have tuned in to see that.
hey hey hey, come on, this is actually a good one. It takes balls to down the number of cores in order to beat Intel lol. Anyway, what they say is true. If you want to processes something with multiple cores, you usually want them all to finish at the same time so you use an even number and split the data in two for dual or quads. So you got this fancy new dual core and you start running a multi-core using video editor to encode a video. Well so much for dual core cuz your system's just about locked up and you have to go do something else or risk encoding corruption by doing something else really slowly at the same time which messes with the symetry too of course. Well with 3 it uses 2 and you can go do something more minor on the third core without disrupting the other two. Or just your regular background system junk and assorted software can do its stuff on the third core and leave the other two for just the video encoding. If you jump to four, it may use all 4 and you're back in the same dual core boat with all the same problems.
Of course, it really doesn't seem that hard to me to code a program to also use 3 cores symetrically so it's all gonna do down in flames if it catches on and people will just buy as many cores as they can.
Apparently he didn't realize that some games are purely educational. Yes, they do exist and I bet Gamestop sells them. I remember dozens I played in grade school. You'd think he'd want to sell them to kids with bad grades instead of the other way around
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Yeah you can kinda feel it and mould it and stuff but if I'm not mistaken, the point seems to be to end up with a 2D graphical product. So...why not just use Maya and rotate that camera and work on one side then rotate it back and see how it looks. Or just do the 4 angles view. In fact, can you even rotate it with this technology or are you blindly working on one side and "feeling" around the back and sides to shape it? You can't feel it but you can see it so it should turn out the same.
but didn't you read the story saying like 40-something percent of owner didn't know it played blue ray? Hurray for Sony marketing lol.
but you still have to be able to afford the monthly bill. Oops I guess Apple forgot that part! Isn't that the #1 thing people shop for and just cross their fingers and hope the phone's either free or cheap? You don't have to be a cell phone expert to know that
I'm from Wisconsin so naturally I noticed the fact that they apparently focused heavily on UW schools! That's the worst kind of discrimination...the kind against us! Then again it's not much of an "us" since I went to a technical college lol. Take that, universities and your programming theory instead of practical skills ;)
This affects every single person that connects to the internet. If there's more high tier bandwidth available, hosting costs and ISP costs go down and speeds go up. Yeah SBC and those crappier ISPs need to upgrade their local routers and switches and they never will but for people with real connections like businesses and stuff that need and get a lot of bandwidth, now they'll probably have to pay less for it so everyone wins. Like say the largest food packager whose name escapes me at the moment has to connect to all their overseas suppliers for inventory purposes and stuff. They're currently crammed on an overpriced because it's overcrowded satellite or other undersea connection. Well now they have 2 an additional choice of how to run it so naturally the price goes down and their expenses go down so they can cut costs and our food gets cheaper. And A LOT of businesses use fast intercontinental connections so hopefully all of our stuff will get a tiny bit cheaper.
That and I hope they run the cable right by my house so I can get like a 100 Gb/sec connection lol. Unlikely though since I live in Wisconsin
Is this some kind of joke? They vaguely say it could be a good underground habitat? FOR WHAT?! Martian cave rats? Everyone agrees nothing large enough to see with the naked eye lives on Mars, let alone a living "habitat" of bacteria, which I also don't think is the correct use of the word. Or maybe they mean for us to live in? Yeah we'll get to Mars using super advanced technology and then live in a cave? More like a metal tent thing, I mean come on, watch some movies lol. I suppose you could build the tent in the cave though but still they say "habitat" like astronauts will just be sitting on logs around a campfire and fishing inside the cave. This is complete made up speculation by people who don't know what they're talking about. As if we'd go all the way there and rely on having to find a cave to withstand the wind storms otherwise they all die and the mission fails. That's like 100000x the risk Nasa would ever take. Not to mention the apparent risk of martian cave rats of course.
Intel can do whatever they want and it won't have even remotely close to the same effect as if Microsoft simply made the default windows power setting for PCs to go to sleep mode after 30 minutes of real, actual no use (as in not turn off while video endcoding or running p2p programs or virus scanning etc). You know how many people don't do anything to their computer overnight or when they're not home or whatever? Yeah it would piss people off a little but half their features do anyway. I think if they did that it would save like 5% of all US power.
I've never seen so many misuses of italics, parenthesis, and pretty much everything else in the article. Apparently the game is SO bad that it affects your ability to write a review. But that's okay because it sounds about that bad in the review. In my experience, being difficult to steer while flying and lock on being difficult to use are some of the absolute most annoying problems a game maker can possibly put in a game.
you think I couldn't build a bomb on a breadboard and put a pretty cover on it? Cuz I could which means terrorists probably could. And OMG to the idiots saying "but she's not foreign looking enough to be a bomb carrying terrorist." So we can't search Arabs but we can't hold people at gunpoint when they have a possible bomb on their chest in an airport unless their Arabic? That's like the grand canyon of double standards.
It won't just not make games better but it will slow down the development time. I read the code on the wikipedia page and looked at the examples and stuff and thought OMG! Now they have to choose a texture for each object, make it dynamic with light and shadows, AND set its light reflectability ratio? That's insane. They have to run real world simulations on each object they add in game to make it look reall good. Isn't texturing and skinning the longest, most expensive process in game making already?
lol now that you mention it, some of the PCs we swapped as part of the 3 year cycle at the hospital where I work had 2000 and they were doing just fine. Ironically there was an office with 3 computers, 2 were XP Pro and one was 2000 and they all did the exact same tasks for the exact same job on the exact same hardware. The only difference was that the 2000 one ran faster rofl.
Btw I gotta add, did anyone notice that Microsoft is saying "Well we never intended to make a bunch of money on Vista so that means it was sucessful." Nothing turns a complete and utter failure into a victory like changing your original intentions after you've already stated them. Anyone can figure out that a new OS means they're expecting huge amounts of money from everyone upgrading.
that's funny because it was on a discovery channel show too. They took minutes to explain why nobody has built a nuclear powered rocket
personally I'd prefer a fuel rod airsoft gun. That's be awesome!
and you also get a 300 page bill here if you have an iphone but I'm guessing not over there. You'd think the lack of massive printing fees would make them lower it some more but hey lol
that's your biggest worry? What ever happened to "we'll never make a nuclear powered anything to go into space because if it blows up after it launches it will spread nuclear material through the atmosphere and cause a mild nuclear winter and radioactive rain" thing I learned in school? It can crash into Mars all it wants as long as it clears out atmosphere without killing us all
Well they've obviously become complacent about the name because it has "random adjective and animal generator" written all over it. Maybe they'll give it some actual effort next time when it comes up with Aroused Aardvark
lol I guess those "wash your hands before returning to work" signs will have to go up in terrorist places of employment all over the place now! Anyway I had to comment cuz going with what you said, maybe I'm mistaken but that chemical rings a bell as something you can sweat if you eat certain things. It's been a while since chemistry class but it still sounds familiar. Plus then there's like firework manufacturers and who knows what else that deal with that on a daily basis
lol well DDR worked didn't it? hehehehe. Anyway, did you read the dialogue too? I thought for sure that's where your reading skills failed you cuz that's barely english lol. I thought the next line for sure would be "are all your base belong to us?"
I'm 5'11", a US citizen, have a degree in PC and web programming and another in web deisng (hey they need some IT staff up there, come on), my vision is perfect, and I'll show up to the tryouts in a diaper and carrying a knife. They'll have to hire me!
I believe imeem.com has a similar deal with tons of music sellers and I hear they make A LOT of money from it. Check it out. Look up any song and you'll see "Buy this on itunes" and "buy this" on something else that I can't remember but there's 6 retailers listed." Sellers are willing to pay more for commissions because they know exactly what their profit margin and ad expense will be in relation to sales. Not so with clicks and they don't want to be paying a lot for clicks if nobody buys anything so they offer way way way less money per click just in case. Of course if their product takes off because of you, you don't see any of the money and they make a giant profit. That's not fair. And if businesses and ad displayers like it then let's switch to it on a major scale!
they didn't arrest him for taking too long. Here's what really happened. He forced his way to the front of the line after causing all sorts of trouble trying to get in and stuff which is why the police were already there. Then when he took too long they were trying to simply force him to leave because he was being disruptive before he got there and he continued to be disruptive and wasting everyone's time and ruining the forum. If he cut in line to be a dick like that and I was in line, I'd have done worse than tased him. But anyway, they didn't tase him until he had been physically resisting police for minutes! That video could be used as a training DVD about when to tase people cuz they didn't do anything wrong.
My web host has a nearly perfect system. If someone clicks on the "hey, buy a package from my hosting company" link a cookie is generated. If he buys a web package from that computer before that cookie expires in 60 days or whatever, I get $100. That's right $100 in cash, not hosting credit, an actual check for $100. Yeah some people have cookies disabled but there's other methods that would work better. So basically that purchase based system removes 100% of false clicks and still leaves in like 99% of valid customers. Seems fair to me and the people who let the ads on their website stand to make a way bigger amount of money if they bring valid customers cuz it's basically a large commission on sales. The only problem is if the ad company keeps serving up crappy ads for products nobody would ever buy you don't make any money but you wouldn't make very much on that type of ad through clicks either.
If they're so concerned about question asking time, they should have tased that stupid senator that went on for 7 and a half minutes without actually asking general Patraes a question lol. I would have tuned in to see that.
hey hey hey, come on, this is actually a good one. It takes balls to down the number of cores in order to beat Intel lol. Anyway, what they say is true. If you want to processes something with multiple cores, you usually want them all to finish at the same time so you use an even number and split the data in two for dual or quads. So you got this fancy new dual core and you start running a multi-core using video editor to encode a video. Well so much for dual core cuz your system's just about locked up and you have to go do something else or risk encoding corruption by doing something else really slowly at the same time which messes with the symetry too of course. Well with 3 it uses 2 and you can go do something more minor on the third core without disrupting the other two. Or just your regular background system junk and assorted software can do its stuff on the third core and leave the other two for just the video encoding. If you jump to four, it may use all 4 and you're back in the same dual core boat with all the same problems.
Of course, it really doesn't seem that hard to me to code a program to also use 3 cores symetrically so it's all gonna do down in flames if it catches on and people will just buy as many cores as they can.
Apparently he didn't realize that some games are purely educational. Yes, they do exist and I bet Gamestop sells them. I remember dozens I played in grade school. You'd think he'd want to sell them to kids with bad grades instead of the other way around