I watched the video and I found in very interesting. As someone who's sitting in front of a 24" monitor and I've ~30 windows open, I totally get the clutter thing.
Of course. 1920x1200 is pitifully few pixels to work with. Go multi-monitor. This also raises the question of how something like this would work with a multi-monitor setup, especially with vertically stacked displays.
For me, the problem isn't clutter at all (although I have a bazillion things open at once all the time); it's the ability to see many things at once without always having to shuffle or bring-to-front windows all the time. This UI doesn't solve the interface density issue at all, especially as any sort of finger-control yields giant buttons and controls consuming vast quantities of valuable screen real estate.
We've had multi-monitor systems for decades now, available to the average Joe desktop user to plunk onto his bog-standard machine. However, no game that I can think of actually supports multiple independent displays from one card, each at different viewing angles.
This 6 monitor trick still does the very crappy "one giant rectangular display" mode, and the game developers still just support a single viewport. Driving games and FPSes would double in immersion if you could actually look around to see your surroundings, and have movement off to the sides catch your peripheral view, while still moving in a different direction.
Motivation? Free will? Sentience? STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING. We will eventually build MACHINES that use intelligence to do what their operators tell it to, know a ton of info, can think in abstract semantics and communicate in natural language.
IIRC, our solar system was not original part of the Milky Way, but was from some smaller dwarf galaxy that got absorbed into it. There could have been a parallel here which might be easier to explain it.
Being an American, I agree. I think that there should be much more attention put into driver training & testing. I believe the safety benefits would be a tremendous improvement compared to any defensive crash safety mandates that bog down our vehicles nowadays.
Because all American cars need to be giant armored tubs with 18 airbags and foot-thick doors nowadays, because they have to share the road with SUVs and pickups whose bumpers are at exactly the level of the head of a driver in a normal passenger car.
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They've said they're going to open-source the server so others can host their own waves. Until then, since I'd want to use this for collaborative development, and possibly for hosting my own sites, I'd rather not they own my content.
Funny that a few years ago, 2048x1536 was standard for ~$300 19"-21" CRT monitors. LCDs still haven't caught up with price per pixel, and pixel density (at least on the desk. The 800x480 handhelds have great density). 1920x1200 is a giant step down in certain desktop operations requiring vertical space.
I think you might have that a bit backwards. If.eu says that Microsoft isn't playing by their rules, and the prices go all askew, competitors will eat MS's market in that region. There's already been many stories about various European governmental entities using various Linux distros as a Windows replacement. It'd be great to have alternatives to Windows become the standard operating platform across an entire 1st world country.
However, at this stage piracy will still keep Windows in the dominant user position.
I just re-read TFA twice, and it mentioned nothing of vacuum. I don't have a subscription to Nature magazine to read the original report, nor do I see a link to the report from TFA, yet everybody's saying "Duh, RTFA!" Can you quote where it says it was actually performed in a vacuum? I'm curious why I missed it.
As sand falls, it would push air molecules around, causing minor pockets of slightly higher & lower air pressure. I have no clue what sort of contribution that would be, and expect to be schooled by people much more informed in this matter than myself in the subsequent replies.
They're on the block, and produce incredibly power-efficient, inexpensive (complete systems for ~$200/core to the end user) machines. Their sales were continually gaining momentum, but their investors hit troubled times and had to pull out.
I've owned the Jornada 720 and the N800 handhelds, and got to use of Palm's units (though those had plain AA or AAA batteries) for work, and always got equal or greater time out of them than the "expected" battery life per charge.
And that touches on the major problem I had with 12: The focus of the game was on all the side-questy stuff which didn't expand the plot, characters, or settings at all. It felt like a single-player MMO, with a bunch of stuff to do for its own sake, but pointless overall in the scope of the world as it had little to no effect on what's going on.
The main plotline started off like it was going to be amazing and intricate, but after all the setup you simply went in and killed the main bad guy and The End. If they had integrated all that other content into the main plot line, it would have been a MUCH more satisfying game.
Come on, this is the depth of comprehension that the author has about what tessellation is?
One of the technologies in DirectX 11 is something called tessellator.
Tessellator allows for more smoother, less blocky, and more organic looking objects in games. Anti-aliasing shouldn't be confused with this, as AA does a descent job at smoothing out sharp edges but tessellator actually makes it look more fluid and frankly much more realistic. Tessellator makes things look more "rounded" instead of chunky and blocky. Instead of having to trade off quality for performance, like in the past, developers can now have the most realistic scenes without a performance hit.
Tech Fragments is an appropriate name for the site, I guess, seeing as they can't even get the tense of the word right.
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This allows the government to interact with the population online, without anybody having an excuse of no net access.
I watched the video and I found in very interesting. As someone who's sitting in front of a 24" monitor and I've ~30 windows open, I totally get the clutter thing.
Of course. 1920x1200 is pitifully few pixels to work with. Go multi-monitor. This also raises the question of how something like this would work with a multi-monitor setup, especially with vertically stacked displays.
For me, the problem isn't clutter at all (although I have a bazillion things open at once all the time); it's the ability to see many things at once without always having to shuffle or bring-to-front windows all the time. This UI doesn't solve the interface density issue at all, especially as any sort of finger-control yields giant buttons and controls consuming vast quantities of valuable screen real estate.
And civil war over health care? Are you honestly that insane?
Health care is literally a life-and-death issue. Yes, people will get up in arms if there is political lock-in to unworkable policies.
Probably it's for canceling the plans for the ABM (missiles/radar) in Europe, which he did last month.
Seeing as the prize nominations ended in February, that's probably unlikely.
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We've had multi-monitor systems for decades now, available to the average Joe desktop user to plunk onto his bog-standard machine. However, no game that I can think of actually supports multiple independent displays from one card, each at different viewing angles.
This 6 monitor trick still does the very crappy "one giant rectangular display" mode, and the game developers still just support a single viewport. Driving games and FPSes would double in immersion if you could actually look around to see your surroundings, and have movement off to the sides catch your peripheral view, while still moving in a different direction.
Motivation? Free will? Sentience? STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING. We will eventually build MACHINES that use intelligence to do what their operators tell it to, know a ton of info, can think in abstract semantics and communicate in natural language.
I carry around my N800 in my pocket all the time, no problem. This appears to be a bit smaller than the 800.
IIRC, our solar system was not original part of the Milky Way, but was from some smaller dwarf galaxy that got absorbed into it. There could have been a parallel here which might be easier to explain it.
Being an American, I agree. I think that there should be much more attention put into driver training & testing. I believe the safety benefits would be a tremendous improvement compared to any defensive crash safety mandates that bog down our vehicles nowadays.
Because all American cars need to be giant armored tubs with 18 airbags and foot-thick doors nowadays, because they have to share the road with SUVs and pickups whose bumpers are at exactly the level of the head of a driver in a normal passenger car.
They've said they're going to open-source the server so others can host their own waves. Until then, since I'd want to use this for collaborative development, and possibly for hosting my own sites, I'd rather not they own my content.
Funny that a few years ago, 2048x1536 was standard for ~$300 19"-21" CRT monitors. LCDs still haven't caught up with price per pixel, and pixel density (at least on the desk. The 800x480 handhelds have great density). 1920x1200 is a giant step down in certain desktop operations requiring vertical space.
They could just check the odometer during emissions checking.
Plus, if they go through with something like this, then they'd better eliminate the fuel taxes. (fat chance, I know)
So if this is supposed to be so wrong (from the eyes of the original seller), why aren't car manufacturers trying to clamp down on used car sales?
I think you might have that a bit backwards. If .eu says that Microsoft isn't playing by their rules, and the prices go all askew, competitors will eat MS's market in that region. There's already been many stories about various European governmental entities using various Linux distros as a Windows replacement. It'd be great to have alternatives to Windows become the standard operating platform across an entire 1st world country.
However, at this stage piracy will still keep Windows in the dominant user position.
I just re-read TFA twice, and it mentioned nothing of vacuum. I don't have a subscription to Nature magazine to read the original report, nor do I see a link to the report from TFA, yet everybody's saying "Duh, RTFA!" Can you quote where it says it was actually performed in a vacuum? I'm curious why I missed it.
As sand falls, it would push air molecules around, causing minor pockets of slightly higher & lower air pressure. I have no clue what sort of contribution that would be, and expect to be schooled by people much more informed in this matter than myself in the subsequent replies.
They're on the block, and produce incredibly power-efficient, inexpensive (complete systems for ~$200/core to the end user) machines. Their sales were continually gaining momentum, but their investors hit troubled times and had to pull out.
So how many human civilizations' worth of CO2 and other emissions did that just kick out? ;-)
No, sewers take sewage away from you, the intertubes bring it right into your living room! ;-)
I've owned the Jornada 720 and the N800 handhelds, and got to use of Palm's units (though those had plain AA or AAA batteries) for work, and always got equal or greater time out of them than the "expected" battery life per charge.
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And that touches on the major problem I had with 12: The focus of the game was on all the side-questy stuff which didn't expand the plot, characters, or settings at all. It felt like a single-player MMO, with a bunch of stuff to do for its own sake, but pointless overall in the scope of the world as it had little to no effect on what's going on.
The main plotline started off like it was going to be amazing and intricate, but after all the setup you simply went in and killed the main bad guy and The End. If they had integrated all that other content into the main plot line, it would have been a MUCH more satisfying game.
Come on, this is the depth of comprehension that the author has about what tessellation is?
One of the technologies in DirectX 11 is something called tessellator.
Tessellator allows for more smoother, less blocky, and more organic looking objects in games. Anti-aliasing shouldn't be confused with this, as AA does a descent job at smoothing out sharp edges but tessellator actually makes it look more fluid and frankly much more realistic. Tessellator makes things look more "rounded" instead of chunky and blocky. Instead of having to trade off quality for performance, like in the past, developers can now have the most realistic scenes without a performance hit.
Tech Fragments is an appropriate name for the site, I guess, seeing as they can't even get the tense of the word right.