Re:Micro-Transactions and game balance
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The Future of MMOs
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The purpose of the grind, to a lot of people, is so they can learn how to play their character. If this were to be put in place, we would have a ton of max level characters wanting to group, who had no idea how to play...
Oh wait, this already happens. Now at least the company can get those people to fork over some money in the process:)
Mod this guy down, just another one of the "This already exists" posts that occur on every thread. Try reading the article before posting...
1) This filter's out virus' as well as bacteria, all of those outdoorsman's filters only filter bacteria. Huge difference there.
2) How quickly it does clog up, only takes 4k-6k liters before you have to change the filter...
This is really not anything new to the image industry, just a new application. There is already the CMYK colorspace for printers, which is effectively an RGB + black to get deeper colors. I don't see this as really revolutionary, as much as "Can't believe this hasn't been done yet." Though, at least they admitted this too:)
My biggest hope for this is to reduce per pixel noise by being able to reference the fourth plane, but I doubt they will get there for a while, they still have to work out the color conversions.
So is "Beloved Other Half" British slang, game slang, or this guy just sounding like a whipped puppy who is just happy someone is staying with him? The article really could have done with 'my wife,' or hell, given her a name.
I hate that nowadays, if something exists, it MUST be advertised on. Hell, they even have trucks that drive around just to display ads. Not to mention the oh so smart people who get ads tatoo'd on themselves. I can understand that advertising can generate revenue, but there is a point where it becomes so obtrusive and annoying that it makes me not want to buy the product.
Then again, people do say 'there is no such thing as bad publicity', and I just hope they are wrong. Let me live my life without advertisements everywhere I look, please.
I worked on a sniper location project for two years, and there are a lot of problems with a sound based system. The first has been mentioned already: echo. Now, this isn't a big problem to take care of, but it requires sacrifices. Either cutting off the sound sensor after the first detection of a gunshot for a few seconds to ignore the echo, or detecting the echo as more bullets, giving false readings. Cutting off the sound sensor after the first reading means if there are two shots fired at the same time(another problem for it to detect in the first place), it can't detect the second shooter. As well, because it uses a laser range-finder to track the position of the shooter, it can only track one at a time, making it mostly useless in for more than one combatant. The laser range finder also poses a problem, because unless the sniper is shooting AT the robot, it could give out a false position, say another building that was in the way.
Now, if this was meant to only track snipers, its useless. Modern snipers use suppressors, which used to be called silencers. These are almost impossible to detect with a sound based device, especially ones that only track the initial blast, and not the bullet in fight. The snipers also hide in very small places, making the range finder even more useless, as there will be many objects between the robot and the sniper. If this was meant to help soldiers by telling them the positions of the enemy in combat, its also useless, since it can only track one person at a time, and again, the laser range finder is a terrible way to find the range to a shooter.
This is also not new. Its nice that it has such good range, but there are systems for $10k out there that do a better, and more consistent job of this. There is also a system in the works which is based on tracking the bullets mid-flight, which can triangulate the position of the shooter without need of a muzzle-blast, and will solve the problem of multiple shooters. I really don't see why the military would buy this.
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The purpose of the grind, to a lot of people, is so they can learn how to play their character. If this were to be put in place, we would have a ton of max level characters wanting to group, who had no idea how to play... Oh wait, this already happens. Now at least the company can get those people to fork over some money in the process :)
Mod this guy down, just another one of the "This already exists" posts that occur on every thread. Try reading the article before posting... 1) This filter's out virus' as well as bacteria, all of those outdoorsman's filters only filter bacteria. Huge difference there. 2) How quickly it does clog up, only takes 4k-6k liters before you have to change the filter...
This is really not anything new to the image industry, just a new application. There is already the CMYK colorspace for printers, which is effectively an RGB + black to get deeper colors. I don't see this as really revolutionary, as much as "Can't believe this hasn't been done yet." Though, at least they admitted this too :)
My biggest hope for this is to reduce per pixel noise by being able to reference the fourth plane, but I doubt they will get there for a while, they still have to work out the color conversions.
So is "Beloved Other Half" British slang, game slang, or this guy just sounding like a whipped puppy who is just happy someone is staying with him? The article really could have done with 'my wife,' or hell, given her a name.
I hate that nowadays, if something exists, it MUST be advertised on. Hell, they even have trucks that drive around just to display ads. Not to mention the oh so smart people who get ads tatoo'd on themselves. I can understand that advertising can generate revenue, but there is a point where it becomes so obtrusive and annoying that it makes me not want to buy the product.
Then again, people do say 'there is no such thing as bad publicity', and I just hope they are wrong. Let me live my life without advertisements everywhere I look, please.
So is 'Spam King' the even cheaper version of Burger King?
I worked on a sniper location project for two years, and there are a lot of problems with a sound based system. The first has been mentioned already: echo. Now, this isn't a big problem to take care of, but it requires sacrifices. Either cutting off the sound sensor after the first detection of a gunshot for a few seconds to ignore the echo, or detecting the echo as more bullets, giving false readings. Cutting off the sound sensor after the first reading means if there are two shots fired at the same time(another problem for it to detect in the first place), it can't detect the second shooter. As well, because it uses a laser range-finder to track the position of the shooter, it can only track one at a time, making it mostly useless in for more than one combatant. The laser range finder also poses a problem, because unless the sniper is shooting AT the robot, it could give out a false position, say another building that was in the way. Now, if this was meant to only track snipers, its useless. Modern snipers use suppressors, which used to be called silencers. These are almost impossible to detect with a sound based device, especially ones that only track the initial blast, and not the bullet in fight. The snipers also hide in very small places, making the range finder even more useless, as there will be many objects between the robot and the sniper. If this was meant to help soldiers by telling them the positions of the enemy in combat, its also useless, since it can only track one person at a time, and again, the laser range finder is a terrible way to find the range to a shooter. This is also not new. Its nice that it has such good range, but there are systems for $10k out there that do a better, and more consistent job of this. There is also a system in the works which is based on tracking the bullets mid-flight, which can triangulate the position of the shooter without need of a muzzle-blast, and will solve the problem of multiple shooters. I really don't see why the military would buy this.