It would be "date(s)" because they plan to release SC2 as a series of three separate games, each one containing one species' campaign. They did this because (a) they wanted to tell more story for each species than would fit in 8-10 missions, and (b) that way the mattress made of money that BlizzVendiVision collectively curls up on every night can be three times as thick and comfy.
Even a car with no locks shouldn't be responsible, you bought the car knowing full well there was no locks, if you want cars with locks, pressure those who make cars and take your business to one with locks.
Exactly. At a previous job I was in charge of maintaining a system for tracking clients' assets. By which I mean realtime GPS coordinates and telemetry of big frikkin trucks full of DVD players or plasma screens or whatever. Information which would actually be very dangerous Fast-and-the-Furious style if it were accessible by the wrong people. When I inherited this system I went to my manager and went "this could be cracked in about a hundred different ways simply by changing some numbers in the URL" and they said "why would anyone do that?" Later, the internal client who owned the data asked about security and I just said "it would basically need a rewrite, it has enough trouble not showing users each others' data let alone standing up to a deliberate attack" and so they swept it under the rug. I could probably still log on to one of their accounts today and find out where the truckload of free plasma screens was, if I was a bad person.
Yes, exactly! Generating the image would be challenging unless it was computer generated (in which case adding virtual cameras is easy) - it would probably be done with a setup similar to what the screen itself uses. Doing it per column instead of per pixel is a bit of a hack but is sufficient for our binary optic system as long as viewers keep their heads upright. Doing it with a full variable-directional-emission image per pixel would effectively be making it a realtime hologram, rebuilding an approximation of the light wavefront as it hit the camera.
Actually no - you're adding more 'slices' of the 3D scene, different views each projected at the correct angle. As long as your eyes are each getting a different view and that view is close enough to what it 'should' be, you'll get a 3D view. Once the slices are much thinner than the distance between your eyes, the 3D experience becomes seamless.
Due to our eyes being a fixed distance apart, this approach works best with small screens viewed from close up. If you consider slices an inch thick at 5 feet from the screen, with a 90 degree viewing angle, you'll need 90 slices for a seamless view. You'll even be able to actually move your head and look 'behind' objects on the screen.
Watching movies with any sort of sound going in the room with me gives me the choice between ramping up the volume and making my ears bleed, missing half the dialogue, or having to constantly adjust the volume.
I have exactly the same problem. I used to live in a tiny apartment, and I have a nice surround sound system. Then suddenly every movie that came out had moments of incredibly quiet ambience and pins dropping and whatnot (which I couldn't hear over the road noise from outside anyway) switching suddenly to thunderous explosions and shit. It's great if you're in a cinema but if you just want to watch something at home over some level of background noise without the loud bits demolishing your building (and without constantly fiddling with the volume) it's frakkin horrible.
Honestly I think a lot of it is to do with shiny digital systems that play the movie back exactly as it's recorded. Try watching the same movie on a 68cm CRT tv from 2002 and you'll find that the built-in speakers squash the dynamic range down to something watchable outside a theater.
Actually, 'directional pixels' is exactly what they need, albeit not with eye tracking or whatever. The only way to get "real" 3D is for each pixel to transmit different colours in different directions. If you think about it, our current lenticular sheet 3D screens are a very primitive version of this, with only two directions (and hence only a very small viewable 'sweet spot' where it works). I predict that as tech improves, we'll have a new metric for 3D screens, describing the number of different colours a single pixel can be at the same time depending on viewing angle. Currently we're at 2. In a few decades, we'll be able to do, say, 128 of them, and things will look pretty good wherever you sit. Of course, we'll need 2060s technology to store the massive video files that will result from effectively storing 128 images per frame of the movie.
Yeah, I want one too!:) As for the speed, I'd guess it's because they're using an IR webcam and software tracking, so you'd have 200+ms latency for frame capture and then another 100+ms for processing. You could probably build a much faster FTIR multitouch system from a wiimote (those things are goddamn amazing for the price; they're basically a high rez IR camera with a hardware multipoint tracking system, plus the accelerometer and bluetooth). Check out Johnny Chung Lee's Wii hacks page.
So? Did you see 'good' anywhere in the description? Likewise he does some really good things (saving Jack, doing his best to save Carolyn.) He doesn't adhere to evil as an ideal any more than he adheres to good. As far as I can tell, while the others at the beginning paint a chaotic-evil picture, his actual behaviour is true neutral.
Yes but he's a gnarly ex-con not a fucking wizard.
(If I seem hasrh here... It is by the juice of Grappo that thoughts acquire fluidity, The lips acquire Stains, The Stains become a warning, It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.)
what YOU forget is that it doesn't matter how slight the difference is, if they need what we have less than we need what they have (which is what I presume you meant) then they have our jibblies in a vice.
More to the point, they exclude the certainty that the climate is changing for other reasons, with or without (or despite) AGW.
Here's a reassuring argument that the world's not going to suddenly become a snowball or a fireball:
1) Witness that throughout geological history there have been a wide range of 'catastrophic' events which seriously perturbed the Earth's climate.
2) Witness that the Earth's climate has remained in the habitable range throughout said recorded history.
3) Assume that the mechanisms which control our climate haven't changed in a geologically-significant period of time.
4) Therefore it is likely that whatever as-yet not-fully-understood systems combine to control our climate, they are resilient enough to handle the following:
- Supermassive meteor strikes
- Volcanic release of huge quantities of greenhouse gases
- Complete rearrangement of land masses due to tectonic drift
- Complete glaciation and de-glaciation of the world
5) Therefore it is unlikely that anything we can throw at it on current scales will permanently move the Earth's climate outside the habitable range.
You can't say that~! Next you'll be telling us that species go extinct all on their own and not all extinct species are because Bad Humans weren't In Tune With Nature enough.
I wrote a rant on this topic a little while ago. Admittedly I sacrificed a little rigorousness for impact but the basic figures are, as far as I'm aware, pretty correct.
I think the OP raises a very important question; if both rising AND falling temperatures are taken as signs of global warming / climate change (and thus taken to mean "carbon emissions must stop") then it's not a falsifiable theory and as such, is scientifically pointless.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Yes, this, exactly! Riddick was a True Neutral tough guy in a gritty Aliens-esque universe. There was nothing wrong with that. Why the hell does the sequel have him as a ninja shaman fighting against quasi-zombie vampire religious goons? What made them think it was a good idea to turn him from an extremely capable ex-con into a cliche'd "last living survivor of an ancient and powerful uber-race"? Bleh.
Actually I was quite serious (although still flippant:P ) and just trying to say that no conversation is enriched by a one-track-mind activist who does nothing but beat the drum for their own pet topic.
You should consider climatology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level is not only acceptable but believed as gospel by the world's governments.
You can't say THAT! [insert character assassination as appropriate; don't question the establishment bro!]
Fair enough. I'm the same - it's not that often (usually only when trying to transcribe a conversation as it happens) that I find the bottleneck to be my typing speed. On my 5800, at least, the virtual keyboard is slower than a full-size physical keyboard but faster than the handwriting recognition and definitely faster than T9 input.
On an unrelated note, I'm surprised at the lack of "pen is mightier" = "PENIS MIGHTIER LOL" jokes. Maturity? On Slashdot?:P
I guess it was a mixture of "one side puts a lot into this and the other side gets a lot out, maybe the side getting a lot out is smarter" and "actually intelligence is not always an advantage". Or something like that.
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It would be "date(s)" because they plan to release SC2 as a series of three separate games, each one containing one species' campaign. They did this because (a) they wanted to tell more story for each species than would fit in 8-10 missions, and (b) that way the mattress made of money that BlizzVendiVision collectively curls up on every night can be three times as thick and comfy.
Even a car with no locks shouldn't be responsible, you bought the car knowing full well there was no locks, if you want cars with locks, pressure those who make cars and take your business to one with locks.
Exactly. At a previous job I was in charge of maintaining a system for tracking clients' assets. By which I mean realtime GPS coordinates and telemetry of big frikkin trucks full of DVD players or plasma screens or whatever. Information which would actually be very dangerous Fast-and-the-Furious style if it were accessible by the wrong people. When I inherited this system I went to my manager and went "this could be cracked in about a hundred different ways simply by changing some numbers in the URL" and they said "why would anyone do that?" Later, the internal client who owned the data asked about security and I just said "it would basically need a rewrite, it has enough trouble not showing users each others' data let alone standing up to a deliberate attack" and so they swept it under the rug. I could probably still log on to one of their accounts today and find out where the truckload of free plasma screens was, if I was a bad person.
Yes, exactly! Generating the image would be challenging unless it was computer generated (in which case adding virtual cameras is easy) - it would probably be done with a setup similar to what the screen itself uses. Doing it per column instead of per pixel is a bit of a hack but is sufficient for our binary optic system as long as viewers keep their heads upright. Doing it with a full variable-directional-emission image per pixel would effectively be making it a realtime hologram, rebuilding an approximation of the light wavefront as it hit the camera.
Phased Array Optics are where all this stuff is ultimately headed.
Insurance matter? Isn't it more a criminal matter?
Actually no - you're adding more 'slices' of the 3D scene, different views each projected at the correct angle. As long as your eyes are each getting a different view and that view is close enough to what it 'should' be, you'll get a 3D view. Once the slices are much thinner than the distance between your eyes, the 3D experience becomes seamless.
Due to our eyes being a fixed distance apart, this approach works best with small screens viewed from close up. If you consider slices an inch thick at 5 feet from the screen, with a 90 degree viewing angle, you'll need 90 slices for a seamless view. You'll even be able to actually move your head and look 'behind' objects on the screen.
Watching movies with any sort of sound going in the room with me gives me the choice between ramping up the volume and making my ears bleed, missing half the dialogue, or having to constantly adjust the volume.
I have exactly the same problem. I used to live in a tiny apartment, and I have a nice surround sound system. Then suddenly every movie that came out had moments of incredibly quiet ambience and pins dropping and whatnot (which I couldn't hear over the road noise from outside anyway) switching suddenly to thunderous explosions and shit. It's great if you're in a cinema but if you just want to watch something at home over some level of background noise without the loud bits demolishing your building (and without constantly fiddling with the volume) it's frakkin horrible.
Honestly I think a lot of it is to do with shiny digital systems that play the movie back exactly as it's recorded. Try watching the same movie on a 68cm CRT tv from 2002 and you'll find that the built-in speakers squash the dynamic range down to something watchable outside a theater.
Now, how about something for the 5% of us with Amblyopia?
Here ya go... I call it a 'monocle'.
Actually, 'directional pixels' is exactly what they need, albeit not with eye tracking or whatever. The only way to get "real" 3D is for each pixel to transmit different colours in different directions. If you think about it, our current lenticular sheet 3D screens are a very primitive version of this, with only two directions (and hence only a very small viewable 'sweet spot' where it works). I predict that as tech improves, we'll have a new metric for 3D screens, describing the number of different colours a single pixel can be at the same time depending on viewing angle. Currently we're at 2. In a few decades, we'll be able to do, say, 128 of them, and things will look pretty good wherever you sit. Of course, we'll need 2060s technology to store the massive video files that will result from effectively storing 128 images per frame of the movie.
You mean the fact that Outlook "creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space" is new?
Exactly what I was thinking. "That's no bug... it's the Outlook 2010 installer!"
Yeah, I want one too! :) As for the speed, I'd guess it's because they're using an IR webcam and software tracking, so you'd have 200+ms latency for frame capture and then another 100+ms for processing. You could probably build a much faster FTIR multitouch system from a wiimote (those things are goddamn amazing for the price; they're basically a high rez IR camera with a hardware multipoint tracking system, plus the accelerometer and bluetooth). Check out Johnny Chung Lee's Wii hacks page.
So? Did you see 'good' anywhere in the description? Likewise he does some really good things (saving Jack, doing his best to save Carolyn.) He doesn't adhere to evil as an ideal any more than he adheres to good. As far as I can tell, while the others at the beginning paint a chaotic-evil picture, his actual behaviour is true neutral.
Yes but he's a gnarly ex-con not a fucking wizard.
(If I seem hasrh here... It is by the juice of Grappo that thoughts acquire fluidity, The lips acquire Stains, The Stains become a warning, It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.)
I saw this on hackaday.com a week or so ago. Maybe it's sort of what you're after, if a little bigger?
They're planting the cedes of revolution, and they don't even know it!
what YOU forget is that it doesn't matter how slight the difference is, if they need what we have less than we need what they have (which is what I presume you meant) then they have our jibblies in a vice.
More to the point, they exclude the certainty that the climate is changing for other reasons, with or without (or despite) AGW. Here's a reassuring argument that the world's not going to suddenly become a snowball or a fireball:
1) Witness that throughout geological history there have been a wide range of 'catastrophic' events which seriously perturbed the Earth's climate.
2) Witness that the Earth's climate has remained in the habitable range throughout said recorded history.
3) Assume that the mechanisms which control our climate haven't changed in a geologically-significant period of time.
4) Therefore it is likely that whatever as-yet not-fully-understood systems combine to control our climate, they are resilient enough to handle the following:
- Supermassive meteor strikes
- Volcanic release of huge quantities of greenhouse gases
- Complete rearrangement of land masses due to tectonic drift
- Complete glaciation and de-glaciation of the world
5) Therefore it is unlikely that anything we can throw at it on current scales will permanently move the Earth's climate outside the habitable range.
You can't say that~! Next you'll be telling us that species go extinct all on their own and not all extinct species are because Bad Humans weren't In Tune With Nature enough.
I wrote a rant on this topic a little while ago. Admittedly I sacrificed a little rigorousness for impact but the basic figures are, as far as I'm aware, pretty correct.
I think the OP raises a very important question; if both rising AND falling temperatures are taken as signs of global warming / climate change (and thus taken to mean "carbon emissions must stop") then it's not a falsifiable theory and as such, is scientifically pointless.
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! Yes, this, exactly! Riddick was a True Neutral tough guy in a gritty Aliens-esque universe. There was nothing wrong with that. Why the hell does the sequel have him as a ninja shaman fighting against quasi-zombie vampire religious goons? What made them think it was a good idea to turn him from an extremely capable ex-con into a cliche'd "last living survivor of an ancient and powerful uber-race"? Bleh.
Actually I was quite serious (although still flippant :P ) and just trying to say that no conversation is enriched by a one-track-mind activist who does nothing but beat the drum for their own pet topic.
You should consider climatology. That's the only field I know of where errors at the 10^54 level is not only acceptable but believed as gospel by the world's governments.
You can't say THAT!
[insert character assassination as appropriate; don't question the establishment bro!]
You are correct. Mr Peace Man there is just as relevant and useful as Mr Foss Man above.
Definitely not if there were an additional charge per connection after 8pm. Damn night-time premium rates.
Fair enough. I'm the same - it's not that often (usually only when trying to transcribe a conversation as it happens) that I find the bottleneck to be my typing speed. On my 5800, at least, the virtual keyboard is slower than a full-size physical keyboard but faster than the handwriting recognition and definitely faster than T9 input.
:P
On an unrelated note, I'm surprised at the lack of "pen is mightier" = "PENIS MIGHTIER LOL" jokes. Maturity? On Slashdot?
I guess it was a mixture of "one side puts a lot into this and the other side gets a lot out, maybe the side getting a lot out is smarter" and "actually intelligence is not always an advantage". Or something like that.