Well there are rules... just that most smart people tend not to follow them >_>
Just manually set your height in someones area above the limit and bham, there you go.
That person in the CNET interview with the flying penises (forgot her name) apparently lets anyone build on her areas. You can also just use a sandbox, even know they are reset every so often, but thats why you group and save things you build!
I'd like to know that too.
I remember the Beagle 2 Mass Spectrometer cost the guys quite alot to miniaturize it as far as they did. Heres hoping they can do it relatively cheaply.
Hmmm, in theory it is possible, but being a computer, its probably got lots of yummy code ready to fix "dizziness" if it ever does happen. And if not, then its probably a good idea if they were to, even know i doubt it would get dizzy from moving too fast, but it could be good research for the future!
Yes, the future, when we are all connected in a big machine, being used as a battery. yay.
BUILD SOMEWHERE ELSE!
Someone please tell this to the New Orleans peoples to save them from yet another disaster, it WILL happen...what idiot decided to build a city under the sea level near the bloody sea at a stormy region?!
...you actually dislike the game because gravity is nearly non-existent?
oh wow... i..i seriously don't know what to say to that.
You actually want the game to have gravity, that would remove most of the fun and freedom from the game. The game was built based on being able to do anything (almost..actually scrap that, anything).
Having gravity would seriously slow down everything and make it boring, enough for most to quit.
You think people would sit and build up the stuff thats in the game if gravity was a factor in the game? HELL NAW, people would get pissed off at it, not to mention how slow the game would run, do you realise how hard it would be to process gravity on most of the things in game for second life?
As i said, sit down, and wait a little while till the Matrix comes out, i will make sure you are a King when it happens, happy?
ITS A FREAKIN GAME!
Its not meant to recreate the laws of physics exactly, if it did, it would never be as popular as it is (becoming).
We wouldn't be able to do all the neat things a "world with no boundaries" should allow if it was the same.
The matrix isn't for a little while yet, just be patient...i'm already taking the necessary steps >_>
But we already have a biological version, no need for robots.
Whats the name of them again... oh i always for..OH YEAH, humans, those nasty buggers are spreading like crazy!
I have to agree with you here.
Inner-space colonisation should come before...WAY before even attempting to go into outer space.
Once you have a sufficient hold on our little solar system, then you can care about other systems and stars.
Start mining other planets, theres a hell of alot of materials required for building the things in the first place!
And going on from that, just imagine what happens when they reach the planetary systems and start building a new colony of humans...
700 years under that kind of life, they'd end up coming out as Vulcans...
And you never went into some other things such as what happens when theres a virus thats deadly.. oop, bye bye Ark.
I guess you could possibly make the computer smart enough to know that if something like this happens, an Ark-wide "cleansing" (killing) happens, then replacements are grown. (and at least keep samples of the virus for research)
Sounds so depressing, but its the only real way i could see of the mission succeeding.
This would also require some basic human-like robots, which i'm sure will be possible by the time this Ark ever got built anyway.
RapidMind has been designed to do what you speak of.
You can write on multicore processors using C and specialised libraries that were designed for multicores.
Its a pretty neat and should make multi-core development easier.
According to some artices i read (hell knows what the links were again), it will be available for PS3, actually running under YDL.
Not sure if it is true, but it will be added to the devkits, it was meant to be added before release, but they decided to spend more time on it (possibly to their disadvantage with some developers being "left on their own"...pfft lazy if you ask me, not true programmers in my eyes! A true programmer would strive to get code working on anything!)
Wait...wasn't their an article quoting Microsoft that they wouldn't want 8 million calls from WoW players because of the ESRB rating system in Vista?
Haha, oh wow.
Just what i was going to bring up there.
Biggest problem is simply not knowing how a persons computer will work at boot
The driver problems will be big as well, i've certainly seen some problems with people getting networking working well with some routers and modems, modems especially, i mean there must be well over a 1000 modems (models included) all around the world.
Drivers are probably one of the biggest problems with this idea. If a GROUP of people were to get together to make pre-formatted images, then that could be good (i've seen this being discussed before with some developers), but theres just been no "push" towards it (who knows, maybe Vista will be that push)
As for liveCDs using alot of RAM, not all of them do, plus we can treat it in the same sense as any game, you install some of it on the drive and/or cache.
Just because we are using Windows, doesn't mean we can't use the drive. Most gamers purchasing indie developed games would be pretty computer literate with things like installing and hard drive management, enough to know what caching is at least (and if not, explain!)
Actually, one other problem would also be distribution. Not alot of indie developers would like that.
A compressed download is usually better than discs in most indie developers eyes, but its kind of a good/bad situation both ways.
Its always best to offer both, if you can afford to.
Eh who knows, we'll see if Vista is a bitch for all us indie developers out there.
"Certainly we want Blizzard's 'World Of Warcraft' [currently the most popular massive multiplayer online game] to work flawlessly on day one of Vista because 8 million tech support calls would be a very bad thing. The casual developers don't sell quite as many.'"
Did he just say that?
Oh wow... new low, thats like a big "SCREW YOU INDIE!" in the face of every indie developer.
Anyway, i'm sure this won't be a problem anyway, unless they HAVE to be rated (and its turned on by default), yeh that'll mean even more than 8 milli..wait, no, vista won't even sell that in a year or 2.. what am i thinking??
Haha, i can't believe they were wearing sandals! You..oh wow what the hell...
Maybe if they recreate this on a bigger scale using those "lightning generators" used to test things. Maybe we will get floaters then! haha..oh damnit.
Anyway, screw this wannabe ball-lightning, i want to know what that flash in the sky was that turned 2.30AM into 11.30AM and killed the power to my town!
And this lasted for like 3 seconds as well! I can't put it into any category of "lightning"...
Eh, i've never seen Fahrenheit being used in that sense before..:|
Also, what the hell does that scale work from exactly?! Celsuis or Kelvin, screw that weird scale! hehe.
But i do agree with the pint thing, not a drinker myself, but its just second nature now
Its almost as if its become like large, medium (regular) and small measurements you see in say McDonalds, people don't "see" the measurement anymore, it just "is".
"But we're too lazy" said the sheep.
Nobody wants simple things anymore, its all shiny and filled with everything!...i feel sick as a developer, sick to the gut.
I agree with you, its one of the main reasons it uses so much memory when running.
If they saved things as they happened instead of caching every single damn thing you do, i'd be that little bit happier.
Even a delayed write so it doesn't interfere with loading the page up (if its a page you are opening at the time)
I hate session programs that require you to end it, bug the hell out of me! And i let the developers know this!
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Well there are rules... just that most smart people tend not to follow them >_>
Just manually set your height in someones area above the limit and bham, there you go.
That person in the CNET interview with the flying penises (forgot her name) apparently lets anyone build on her areas. You can also just use a sandbox, even know they are reset every so often, but thats why you group and save things you build!
I'd like to know that too.
I remember the Beagle 2 Mass Spectrometer cost the guys quite alot to miniaturize it as far as they did. Heres hoping they can do it relatively cheaply.
Dotslash eh? Not sure I've heard of this place before...
Perhaps you have a link to this wonderful place?
Hmmm, in theory it is possible, but being a computer, its probably got lots of yummy code ready to fix "dizziness" if it ever does happen. And if not, then its probably a good idea if they were to, even know i doubt it would get dizzy from moving too fast, but it could be good research for the future!
Yes, the future, when we are all connected in a big machine, being used as a battery. yay.
Oh how i lol'd, and cried.
What actually happened with that anyway? Was it over that guy moving to Google or something? b
Your 9 month old girl can speak those words?
Holy crap they get smarter by the generation!
None of them, he was speaking of Daxflame of course.
Daxflame - last blog ever
*puts hand on head*
At least it will artificially accelerate robot production.. i will be the architect of the matrix, good bye humans!
You have only yourselves to blame!
Someone please tell this to the New Orleans peoples to save them from yet another disaster, it WILL happen...what idiot decided to build a city under the sea level near the bloody sea at a stormy region?!
..you can still build one without land.. just as long as nobody sees you >_>
Sky ftw! (i mean above the sky limit, just set your height manually)
...you actually dislike the game because gravity is nearly non-existent?
oh wow... i..i seriously don't know what to say to that.
You actually want the game to have gravity, that would remove most of the fun and freedom from the game. The game was built based on being able to do anything (almost..actually scrap that, anything).
Having gravity would seriously slow down everything and make it boring, enough for most to quit.
You think people would sit and build up the stuff thats in the game if gravity was a factor in the game? HELL NAW, people would get pissed off at it, not to mention how slow the game would run, do you realise how hard it would be to process gravity on most of the things in game for second life?
As i said, sit down, and wait a little while till the Matrix comes out, i will make sure you are a King when it happens, happy?
ITS A FREAKIN GAME!
Its not meant to recreate the laws of physics exactly, if it did, it would never be as popular as it is (becoming).
We wouldn't be able to do all the neat things a "world with no boundaries" should allow if it was the same.
The matrix isn't for a little while yet, just be patient...i'm already taking the necessary steps >_>
But we already have a biological version, no need for robots.
Whats the name of them again... oh i always for..OH YEAH, humans, those nasty buggers are spreading like crazy!
I have to agree with you here.
Inner-space colonisation should come before...WAY before even attempting to go into outer space.
Once you have a sufficient hold on our little solar system, then you can care about other systems and stars.
Start mining other planets, theres a hell of alot of materials required for building the things in the first place!
Bring on the real Red Dwarf!
And going on from that, just imagine what happens when they reach the planetary systems and start building a new colony of humans...
700 years under that kind of life, they'd end up coming out as Vulcans...
And you never went into some other things such as what happens when theres a virus thats deadly.. oop, bye bye Ark.
I guess you could possibly make the computer smart enough to know that if something like this happens, an Ark-wide "cleansing" (killing) happens, then replacements are grown. (and at least keep samples of the virus for research)
Sounds so depressing, but its the only real way i could see of the mission succeeding. This would also require some basic human-like robots, which i'm sure will be possible by the time this Ark ever got built anyway.
RapidMind has been designed to do what you speak of.
You can write on multicore processors using C and specialised libraries that were designed for multicores.
Its a pretty neat and should make multi-core development easier.
Theres some videos on their website of some pretty interesting things they done using Cell.
http://www.rapidmind.net/samples.php/
(note: these programs were done in as little as 3 weeks)
Some on Spectrum at IEEE http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan07/4837/1
According to some artices i read (hell knows what the links were again), it will be available for PS3, actually running under YDL.
Not sure if it is true, but it will be added to the devkits, it was meant to be added before release, but they decided to spend more time on it (possibly to their disadvantage with some developers being "left on their own"...pfft lazy if you ask me, not true programmers in my eyes! A true programmer would strive to get code working on anything!)
Wait...wasn't their an article quoting Microsoft that they wouldn't want 8 million calls from WoW players because of the ESRB rating system in Vista?
Haha, oh wow.
Just what i was going to bring up there.
Biggest problem is simply not knowing how a persons computer will work at boot
The driver problems will be big as well, i've certainly seen some problems with people getting networking working well with some routers and modems, modems especially, i mean there must be well over a 1000 modems (models included) all around the world.
Drivers are probably one of the biggest problems with this idea. If a GROUP of people were to get together to make pre-formatted images, then that could be good (i've seen this being discussed before with some developers), but theres just been no "push" towards it (who knows, maybe Vista will be that push)
As for liveCDs using alot of RAM, not all of them do, plus we can treat it in the same sense as any game, you install some of it on the drive and/or cache.
Just because we are using Windows, doesn't mean we can't use the drive. Most gamers purchasing indie developed games would be pretty computer literate with things like installing and hard drive management, enough to know what caching is at least (and if not, explain!)
Actually, one other problem would also be distribution. Not alot of indie developers would like that.
A compressed download is usually better than discs in most indie developers eyes, but its kind of a good/bad situation both ways.
Its always best to offer both, if you can afford to.
Eh who knows, we'll see if Vista is a bitch for all us indie developers out there.
"Certainly we want Blizzard's 'World Of Warcraft' [currently the most popular massive multiplayer online game] to work flawlessly on day one of Vista because 8 million tech support calls would be a very bad thing. The casual developers don't sell quite as many.'"
Did he just say that?
Oh wow... new low, thats like a big "SCREW YOU INDIE!" in the face of every indie developer.
Anyway, i'm sure this won't be a problem anyway, unless they HAVE to be rated (and its turned on by default), yeh that'll mean even more than 8 milli..wait, no, vista won't even sell that in a year or 2.. what am i thinking??
What makes you think of that? You crazy person. >_>
Haha, i can't believe they were wearing sandals! You ..oh wow what the hell...
Maybe if they recreate this on a bigger scale using those "lightning generators" used to test things. Maybe we will get floaters then! haha..oh damnit.
Anyway, screw this wannabe ball-lightning, i want to know what that flash in the sky was that turned 2.30AM into 11.30AM and killed the power to my town!
And this lasted for like 3 seconds as well! I can't put it into any category of "lightning"...
Eh, i've never seen Fahrenheit being used in that sense before.. :|
Also, what the hell does that scale work from exactly?! Celsuis or Kelvin, screw that weird scale! hehe.
But i do agree with the pint thing, not a drinker myself, but its just second nature now
Its almost as if its become like large, medium (regular) and small measurements you see in say McDonalds, people don't "see" the measurement anymore, it just "is".
http://www.illwillpress.com/acci.html/ NSFW...hell not safe even out of work at times...
"But we're too lazy" said the sheep. ...i feel sick as a developer, sick to the gut.
Nobody wants simple things anymore, its all shiny and filled with everything!
If they saved things as they happened instead of caching every single damn thing you do, i'd be that little bit happier.
Even a delayed write so it doesn't interfere with loading the page up (if its a page you are opening at the time)
I hate session programs that require you to end it, bug the hell out of me! And i let the developers know this!