And why should a flat 4 corner square object have troubles with simulating physics?
No offense, but how was this modded informative? The task you sent was simple enough, let me know when your boxes turn into spheres that start off rolling down a bumpy hill, that each have their own weight values and fall into a simulated cloth that tears only when given a certain amount of kinetic energy.
Yes, I briefly touched the PhysX SDK, and the things it can do is far more than just box simulation. 6 degrees of freedom, simulated cloth, breaking points on joints, simulation of non square/non standard objects (ie ragdoll physics) As noted in other slashdot articles, it may not be actual physics, but its damn near close enough to fool me if used properly.
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I feel bad, but at least they bring to light the type of calls they deal with. Although some of these sound legit, like the call with wasps filling her bedroom, or a pigeon dieing. I'm sure some people didn't know who else to call off hand and felt calling 999 was the best/easiest/quickest way to find out.
IANA3DGFXE (I Am Not A 3D Graphics Expert) but I believe AA (anti-aliasing) is after processing to a scene, as well as 2560x1920 (resolution). Seeing how it smooths edges of objects, or paints extra objects to the extra pixel space. I don't know what AF is though.
But you are right, this is MEMORY, more models/animations = more memory requirements = bigger maps. So yes this is needed (eventually), add to the fact that physics is now being implemented in GPUs (I have only briefly touched the code, which doesn't seem to take much additional memory though).
I think the biggest gain in 2gb memory is the map sizes for games. Polygon count can also be increased in models as well, as well as higher definition texture levels (I still have yet to understand the difference between "low" "medium" "high" texture, as if there's actually a standard that one has "x" extra resolution/colors.) Maybe someday we will get to the extra super high def texture level where you can zoom in and see the "atoms" or skin cells when you look at characters...as if that will be necessary?
$3.45 per gigabyte and spinning disk costs about $0.38 per gig
Newegg is showing me anywhere from $12-25 per gigabyte.
Someone want to check my math? Are we talking US dollars? If you find a place that sells for $3.45/g then a 128GB for $441.60 definitely sounds affordable.
These are not the cards you are looking for...
It can't be programmed to never lose, part of poker is LUCK, if you keep getting dealt bad hands, you still have to pay the blinds/ante.
Funny, I wasn't banned back in the 90s (I was 13 as well funny enough) and I was using IM punters, phishing schemes (yes, actually logging into other peoples accounts), and a few other very bad things. Yet, I was not banned even though they knew all of this, had the account locked for a good whole day, said I was sorry while I got a lecture from their tech support (now I think back and laugh a little about it). What type of "proggie" were you using exactly?
Let's say "theoretically" it doesn't cure everything, like remove newly adapted things. So let's just say theoretically I grow extra length on *ahem* something, and lets say that this thing happens to keep growing and I never die (which I know it keeps growing, either that or I'm apparently still going through puberty long after it supposedly stopped). What I wonder is, will I hit a point, at like 500 years of age, where it gets too long that I need a wheelbarrow or would it become commonplace to have *appendage* reductions (seeing how I have never heard of this)?
And a followup question is, will I be proud of getting this operation done?
At first that sounds scarily true, but weigh the opposite: You could live 2 lives for 1 horrible death. You could experience another 60-80 years and all you have to do is give your final 5-30 minutes of life to agony. Sure, to some that sounds bad, but if Jesus* can do it, I can do it too!
Oh I don't know, maybe cause its NEW technology? Where attaching anything to your retina is still considered a dark art unheard of? Sure we can manipulate the lens, but actually attaching a device and sending signals through is very ground breaking IMO.
who were each caught with $800,000 in cash stashed in boxes and shopping bags in their home Now that is the most clever thing ever when dealing with theft of this magnitude, almost as good as the "under the mattress" trick.
Making it hard for people to graduate
Leads to people complaining that there aren't enough educated people
This debate will go back and forth for a long time. Either dumb down the courses so more people can get into the "more smarter jobs for america" or make them harder so we have truely intelligent people but "not enough smart people in america".
Either way lazy people are going to cash in, but let's face it, it's becoming human nature to be lazy.
At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.
So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do. Are we sure this is coming from Bill FREAKING Gates? I'm pretty sure one doesn't need guidance when downloading something whether they want to just open or save something.
I believe it's because it was posted by timothy on Tuesday, and timothy would like to make it a known holiday by making every Timothy Tuesday a bad day. First its spelling, then it's grammar, and last its summaries abbreviated into 30 letter summaries.
AC is right to an extent, and I can see why he's upset. Most of the time when I am done playing a game and quit, an ad will pop up for a "new" game they are offering on steam. It can get quite annoying sometimes when you are in and out of different games.
All in all, I still like steam mostly because the games are very affordable, but the ads that pop into a new window are definitely annoying.
How is this news? Can't anyone be a "Blogger"? So starting a blog and posting information on it automatically makes it news? Especially when starting a blog and pushing your own agenda makes it more newsworthy?
Hmm.. time to start a blog asking for free money...
Only that they've already been going obsolete recently, DVD-RW's are backwards compatible regardless so you shouldn't have a problem as long as you have the player. Since the connectors for them haven't changed in a while, power/EIDE. As long as you keep your DVD-RW (or HD/BLU-RW whatever) drive you should be fine. In 10-20 years when they do become obsolete you will be able to shrink them at 1/100th the storage space and most likely cost as well. So you shouldn't have to worry either way.
If you truly want to keep them for a lifetime, keep the drive with the DVDs (in case you are making some sort of time capsule thing where you bury it and dig up in the future) Otherwise it shouldn't be that much of a hassle (why should it be if you have a kid that you love) to come back in 20 years and look at the memories while moving them to the newest format.
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And why should a flat 4 corner square object have troubles with simulating physics?
No offense, but how was this modded informative? The task you sent was simple enough, let me know when your boxes turn into spheres that start off rolling down a bumpy hill, that each have their own weight values and fall into a simulated cloth that tears only when given a certain amount of kinetic energy.
Yes, I briefly touched the PhysX SDK, and the things it can do is far more than just box simulation. 6 degrees of freedom, simulated cloth, breaking points on joints, simulation of non square/non standard objects (ie ragdoll physics) As noted in other slashdot articles, it may not be actual physics, but its damn near close enough to fool me if used properly.
If youâ(TM)re going to develop games for Xbox 360 and want to sell your game on Xbox LIVE Community Games, youâ(TM)ll need a Premium membership. Itâ(TM)s just $99 per year or $49 for four months.
I feel bad, but at least they bring to light the type of calls they deal with. Although some of these sound legit, like the call with wasps filling her bedroom, or a pigeon dieing. I'm sure some people didn't know who else to call off hand and felt calling 999 was the best/easiest/quickest way to find out.
A single 8K frame requires 200 MB of data
Ok... but..
. 'This show used over 100 TB of data.'"
I'll forget I read "show" by which they meant movie. 100,000MB / 200MB = just 500 frames for the movie? 8k x 8k
Let's just assume the 100 TB figure is right: 100 * $150 = $15,000 (USD). Don't studios spend millions making movies?
There are plenty of quest guides out there. If anything, this allows people to change the quests and make them more fun.
IANA3DGFXE (I Am Not A 3D Graphics Expert) but I believe AA (anti-aliasing) is after processing to a scene, as well as 2560x1920 (resolution). Seeing how it smooths edges of objects, or paints extra objects to the extra pixel space. I don't know what AF is though.
But you are right, this is MEMORY, more models/animations = more memory requirements = bigger maps. So yes this is needed (eventually), add to the fact that physics is now being implemented in GPUs (I have only briefly touched the code, which doesn't seem to take much additional memory though).
I think the biggest gain in 2gb memory is the map sizes for games. Polygon count can also be increased in models as well, as well as higher definition texture levels (I still have yet to understand the difference between "low" "medium" "high" texture, as if there's actually a standard that one has "x" extra resolution/colors.) Maybe someday we will get to the extra super high def texture level where you can zoom in and see the "atoms" or skin cells when you look at characters...as if that will be necessary?
$3.45 per gigabyte and spinning disk costs about $0.38 per gig
Newegg is showing me anywhere from $12-25 per gigabyte.
Someone want to check my math? Are we talking US dollars? If you find a place that sells for $3.45/g then a 128GB for $441.60 definitely sounds affordable.
These are not the cards you are looking for...
It can't be programmed to never lose, part of poker is LUCK, if you keep getting dealt bad hands, you still have to pay the blinds/ante.
My service wasn't even shut down when I used Napster with AOL...
Funny, I wasn't banned back in the 90s (I was 13 as well funny enough) and I was using IM punters, phishing schemes (yes, actually logging into other peoples accounts), and a few other very bad things. Yet, I was not banned even though they knew all of this, had the account locked for a good whole day, said I was sorry while I got a lecture from their tech support (now I think back and laugh a little about it). What type of "proggie" were you using exactly?
that's one step worse than asking those ./ers without wives/girlfriends to reveal themselves...
I'm guessing there will be no takers on this one.
I have plenty of wives/girlfriends
because it now has an introduced error into the CCR5 gene.'
Hell, even iamlegend (like a story was previously tagged) would do as well.
Okay... what I'm really wondering is...
Let's say "theoretically" it doesn't cure everything, like remove newly adapted things. So let's just say theoretically I grow extra length on *ahem* something, and lets say that this thing happens to keep growing and I never die (which I know it keeps growing, either that or I'm apparently still going through puberty long after it supposedly stopped). What I wonder is, will I hit a point, at like 500 years of age, where it gets too long that I need a wheelbarrow or would it become commonplace to have *appendage* reductions (seeing how I have never heard of this)?
And a followup question is, will I be proud of getting this operation done?
At first that sounds scarily true, but weigh the opposite: You could live 2 lives for 1 horrible death. You could experience another 60-80 years and all you have to do is give your final 5-30 minutes of life to agony. Sure, to some that sounds bad, but if Jesus* can do it, I can do it too!
Yes, I know it wasn't 5-30 minutes for him.
Oh I don't know, maybe cause its NEW technology? Where attaching anything to your retina is still considered a dark art unheard of? Sure we can manipulate the lens, but actually attaching a device and sending signals through is very ground breaking IMO.
You are really only stating the catch 22:
Making it hard for people to graduate
Leads to people complaining that there aren't enough educated people
This debate will go back and forth for a long time. Either dumb down the courses so more people can get into the "more smarter jobs for america" or make them harder so we have truely intelligent people but "not enough smart people in america".
Either way lazy people are going to cash in, but let's face it, it's becoming human nature to be lazy.
So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do. Are we sure this is coming from Bill FREAKING Gates? I'm pretty sure one doesn't need guidance when downloading something whether they want to just open or save something.
Doesn't this deserve the "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" tag?
BTW, who does the tags? Can one with mod points add tags or is it only cowboy editors named Neal?
Yes, and seeing how slashdot decided to try and slashdot them also helps...
I believe it's because it was posted by timothy on Tuesday, and timothy would like to make it a known holiday by making every Timothy Tuesday a bad day. First its spelling, then it's grammar, and last its summaries abbreviated into 30 letter summaries.
AC is right to an extent, and I can see why he's upset. Most of the time when I am done playing a game and quit, an ad will pop up for a "new" game they are offering on steam. It can get quite annoying sometimes when you are in and out of different games.
All in all, I still like steam mostly because the games are very affordable, but the ads that pop into a new window are definitely annoying.
How is this news? Can't anyone be a "Blogger"? So starting a blog and posting information on it automatically makes it news? Especially when starting a blog and pushing your own agenda makes it more newsworthy?
Hmm.. time to start a blog asking for free money...
Only that they've already been going obsolete recently, DVD-RW's are backwards compatible regardless so you shouldn't have a problem as long as you have the player. Since the connectors for them haven't changed in a while, power/EIDE. As long as you keep your DVD-RW (or HD/BLU-RW whatever) drive you should be fine. In 10-20 years when they do become obsolete you will be able to shrink them at 1/100th the storage space and most likely cost as well. So you shouldn't have to worry either way.
If you truly want to keep them for a lifetime, keep the drive with the DVDs (in case you are making some sort of time capsule thing where you bury it and dig up in the future) Otherwise it shouldn't be that much of a hassle (why should it be if you have a kid that you love) to come back in 20 years and look at the memories while moving them to the newest format.