Well said. Although linear storylines can still give you an emotional response like that. The end of Bioshock and Bioshock 2 brought a tear to my eye, for example.
Yes... but it kind-of seemed obvious you'd need the upgrades at some point. Also bought a pet Hamster, which literally brought me seconds of amusement.
I lost Kain at the end on my first play-through, but then on second play-through I just didn't send him through the vents and all survived. But I think you're talking about the fact you didn't upgrade your ship before entering the jump gate, which is where a lot of players fail first time out.
The thing is, there aren't any irreversible choices in games these days; most of them have check-points or a save facility, which a lot of players use constantly. With judicious loading and saving, you can effectively move your character along an optimal path (well ok, a little like A*, rather than actually optimal!). The only problem is if you're forced to make such choices early on in the game and then have to retrace your steps all the way back there.
Is this actual fraud, or the kind of confirmation bias that goes on in science all the time? In other words, did this guy actually really believe his own results and invest accordingly, or did he fabricate his results in order to profit from the fabrication knowing it was a fabrication? There's a subtle but important difference.
Are you saying I should be able to cancel the contract without paying a charge (apart from call and text fee for the month) and keep the iPhone? An offer like that would be too good to pass up.....
Wine will give you 1/2 to 3/4 the performance of native D3D, along with all of the bugs not present in the original. It also doesn't support D3D 10/11 (at the moment).
Again, I don't know why you have to be such a cock about it.
When I decided to buy an iPhone, I had the choice of 1Gb per month with Vodaphone, or 3Gb per month with T-Mobile, for approximately the same price. I chose the latter entirely on that basis. If they've now changed the terms, what can I do to get out of my contract? The problem is that it's a 2 year contract where I'm paying for the phone alongside it; I didn't buy the phone outright.
Oh really? I work in graphics programming (notably OpenGL-based) and have done so for about 15 years now
So, having not worked with D3D, you find yourself qualified to comment?
Don't dare tell me that the DirectX "consumer" crowd isn't just kids playing their Xbox and watchig HD pr0ns and hollywood blockbusters on their Windows Media Center ?
Yes, that's exactly what they're doing with their NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards. What exactly are you arguing here?
Yeah I am sure their technical requirements must just beyond imagination and only DirectX can pull it off!
Before GL 4.1, that was the case, yes. DX10/11 and to an extent 9, made new features available. Drivers for OpenGL are generally more buggy than those of D3D (apart from NVIDIA based cards), because D3D is where the market is at the moment. Not the 1% doing CAD, the 99% playing games.
I don't think so, no. Game development is driving consumer graphics technology, not medical imaging or engineering.
In future I expect GL to take the lead again because of its use in mobile devices. If I had to choose, I'd choose core GL (without all the extraneous crap that bloats it out) over D3D, because of its cross-platform possibilities, but at the moment I'm developing with D3D, because there's just a whole lot more in terms of libraries and tool chains that use it.
Now we have "core" OpenGL and deprecation procedures, I expect it will get easier for them. But in recent years both Intel and ATI have spent far more on their D3D code than they have on their GL code, which is why both are buggy, with Intel standing out in terms of crapness.
I read that Intel's drivers are notoriously shite for OpenGL. Indeed, my own experimentation showed them to be shite at D3D as well. The device I was using claimed to support PS 3.0 (in its caps), but point-blank refused to run some of my shaders (they ran ok with ATI and NVIDIA cards). I won't be supporting Intel Graphics, that's for sure.
Of course it does, but most people's taste buds were trained on Turkey Twizzlers and Big Macs (the latter I happen to think taste absolutely wonderful), so the difference will probably not be detectable.
Unfortunately most politicians seems to be ignorant or misinformed as well, so having representatives instead of direct democracy appears to be flawed as well
Is anyone not ignorant or misinformed? Scientists? Politicians? The People? The whole point of Democracy is not that it provides the "correct" result (that remains undefined, because it's entirely a value judgement), it's that the society you live in broadly reflects the interests and concerns of its citizens.
We vote for leaders based on how they are disposed to handle various issues.
it would in fact be a bad idea to let the general public best decide on issues like this.
Presumably you're having a laugh, because I think in this instance the general public are way ahead of the politicians.
Thinking that Democracy is the ideal solution in all situations is rather foolish.
I have never in all my years read such unmitigated Fascist bollocks. Should we replace democracy with rule by activist-scientist? What a load of unmitigated crap.
It's worse than that. They are even starting to agitate against Democracy, obviously because "the people" aren't behaving themselves and doing what they're told. We need to fight these people, not increase their funding.
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But temperatures aren't, which pretty much blows your attempt at showing something unusual is going on right out of the window.
Someone who wants a job?
It's called suspension of disbelief. The important word there is disbelief.
Well said. Although linear storylines can still give you an emotional response like that. The end of Bioshock and Bioshock 2 brought a tear to my eye, for example.
Anyway, the real question is whether you virtually boned Jack or Miranda...
Yes... but it kind-of seemed obvious you'd need the upgrades at some point. Also bought a pet Hamster, which literally brought me seconds of amusement.
I lost Kain at the end on my first play-through, but then on second play-through I just didn't send him through the vents and all survived. But I think you're talking about the fact you didn't upgrade your ship before entering the jump gate, which is where a lot of players fail first time out. The thing is, there aren't any irreversible choices in games these days; most of them have check-points or a save facility, which a lot of players use constantly. With judicious loading and saving, you can effectively move your character along an optimal path (well ok, a little like A*, rather than actually optimal!). The only problem is if you're forced to make such choices early on in the game and then have to retrace your steps all the way back there.
It's called Publication Bias. Null results are rarely published. They're just not that interesting (to many).
Oh well, I guess that confirms it.
Is this actual fraud, or the kind of confirmation bias that goes on in science all the time? In other words, did this guy actually really believe his own results and invest accordingly, or did he fabricate his results in order to profit from the fabrication knowing it was a fabrication? There's a subtle but important difference.
Are you saying I should be able to cancel the contract without paying a charge (apart from call and text fee for the month) and keep the iPhone? An offer like that would be too good to pass up.....
Wine will give you 1/2 to 3/4 the performance of native D3D, along with all of the bugs not present in the original. It also doesn't support D3D 10/11 (at the moment). Again, I don't know why you have to be such a cock about it.
When I decided to buy an iPhone, I had the choice of 1Gb per month with Vodaphone, or 3Gb per month with T-Mobile, for approximately the same price. I chose the latter entirely on that basis. If they've now changed the terms, what can I do to get out of my contract? The problem is that it's a 2 year contract where I'm paying for the phone alongside it; I didn't buy the phone outright.
Oh I see, you're a Linux troll. The reason you prefer OpenGL is because you can't use anything else.
I'm not sure why you have to be such a cock about it though.
So, having not worked with D3D, you find yourself qualified to comment?
Yes, that's exactly what they're doing with their NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards. What exactly are you arguing here?
Before GL 4.1, that was the case, yes. DX10/11 and to an extent 9, made new features available. Drivers for OpenGL are generally more buggy than those of D3D (apart from NVIDIA based cards), because D3D is where the market is at the moment. Not the 1% doing CAD, the 99% playing games.
What's your point?
That's not what it's about at all, no. Please refrain from having an opinion on things you obviously know little about.
I don't think so, no. Game development is driving consumer graphics technology, not medical imaging or engineering.
In future I expect GL to take the lead again because of its use in mobile devices. If I had to choose, I'd choose core GL (without all the extraneous crap that bloats it out) over D3D, because of its cross-platform possibilities, but at the moment I'm developing with D3D, because there's just a whole lot more in terms of libraries and tool chains that use it.
Now we have "core" OpenGL and deprecation procedures, I expect it will get easier for them. But in recent years both Intel and ATI have spent far more on their D3D code than they have on their GL code, which is why both are buggy, with Intel standing out in terms of crapness.
Given that DX is driving innovation in graphics cards at the moment and that GL is playing catch-up, the answer has to be "yes".
I read that Intel's drivers are notoriously shite for OpenGL. Indeed, my own experimentation showed them to be shite at D3D as well. The device I was using claimed to support PS 3.0 (in its caps), but point-blank refused to run some of my shaders (they ran ok with ATI and NVIDIA cards). I won't be supporting Intel Graphics, that's for sure.
Of course it does, but most people's taste buds were trained on Turkey Twizzlers and Big Macs (the latter I happen to think taste absolutely wonderful), so the difference will probably not be detectable.
I will try not to in future. But it is frightening to hear such things in mainstream Environmentalist discourse.
Is anyone not ignorant or misinformed? Scientists? Politicians? The People? The whole point of Democracy is not that it provides the "correct" result (that remains undefined, because it's entirely a value judgement), it's that the society you live in broadly reflects the interests and concerns of its citizens.
We vote for leaders based on how they are disposed to handle various issues.
Presumably you're having a laugh, because I think in this instance the general public are way ahead of the politicians.
I have never in all my years read such unmitigated Fascist bollocks. Should we replace democracy with rule by activist-scientist? What a load of unmitigated crap.
It's worse than that. They are even starting to agitate against Democracy, obviously because "the people" aren't behaving themselves and doing what they're told. We need to fight these people, not increase their funding.