Intel's gonna do what Intel always does - they're gonna turn that stuff into silicon.
More importantly, they'll get that silicon into the hands of consumers. So we can expect real people to have this in their boxen. Hopefully some one from Xorg will start putting physics into their desktop.
I hope Intel turn physX into the next MMX, even my dad was saying he needed MMX in his next PC. No idea what it was, but Intel marketing had him convinced he needed to upgrad, and upgrade NOW damnit.
Get good astronomical binoculars ($200 - $400) and learn the sky.
This is what I did a couple of months ago. I never expected cloudless nights, but I've had a few since buying the binoc's (I got 9x63). Take the advice, you'll see tons more through them than with your eyes, and you'll get really confused and frustrated when you can't tell what you're looking at. Get a sky map book, mine was 15 quid and has more detail than I can see with my shaky hands.
Just figuring out the constellations and various stars is hard - but rewarding! I can also see the andromeda galaxy and one of the Ms (M42 I think) and Pleiades looks pretty cool.
Now I can look at my map and find the object - which has taken me a while to figure out, I think I may be ready for a telescope. My first one will be a second hand that I can see the planets with. I think this would be most reward for money spent. I want to see Saturn and Jupiter. Oh and Mars.
That's what a comet is. The surface is boiling away, the core is moving at a different speed to the boiled particles, so they appear to be a halo/tail.
Paper Mario was soooo cool. My GF loved Final Fantasy, so she was loving it more than me. That's what sold Nintendo to her:-) she was Playstation all the way.
My friend lives about a mile away from a small wind farm. I is very noisy, it sounds like cars on a freeway, but far too regular. Almost like a loud heart beat. And when the sun catches the blades you get a nice strobe effect which sends you fucking crazy after an hour or so.
My friend is selling up.
I can't wait, we never visit him any more. His house sucks.
Wind farms are ok - so long as they aren't in your back yard. Solar and Nuke is the real future.
monk.e.boy
PS check my.sig for Open Source Flash Charts (bar, line, area and pie)
Especially with a carbon fiber body, carbon fiber will stay round for millions of years. It's virtually indestructible... tsk...
I want my roof tiles to be solar panels, then I could charge my car for free, or charge (haha!) other people to use them.
We should dig up roads and replace them with fields, then string up loads of mono rails and run http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/G1110person al rapid transit monorails on them. How cool would that be?
The media tends to feed on its self, especially online gaming media types.
They constantly reference and quote one another in a fever pitched frenzy.
I guess EA read those and get bought expensive meals my Playstation and 360 sales people, and all the while IN REAL LIFE gamers chat and play each others consoles and choose what they like.
I worked with blind and partially sighted kids who use 5 finger keyboards. They use a 'chord' system, like a guitar or piano.
The chords kinda look like the letter you are spelling, so to create a J you would hold the keys that kinda make that shape, I forget the exact sequence, but it was pretty easy to use.
But, the 5 finger keyboard was used like a regular keyboard, it was placed on a desk. I dunno how this would work if you had to hold it at the same time. Much harder I'd imagine.
Java was great for programmers and rubbish for users. The GUI sucked.
You can always tell a Java program on Windows because it breaks every paradigm that a windows user is used to. The buttons look different, act different. Menus look weird and act weird. Nothing does what you expect.
Then take C# which is a nice programming language and has a normal GUI and you've got a winner.
they should Open Source the player. That would solve most of their problems.
The only bit that is worth anything is the Flash IDE designer thingy.
If it was opensource it'd be a great stop gap between HTML + JS (now) and HTML + SVG + JS (future). It'd also help fight Silverlight, which is gunna take over the world if we aren't careful:-(
Any other ideas for spreading multi-media web without using Java (ugh) Flash (ugh) or Silverlight (hm...)?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, so trolling slashdot is a good idea? No? Fucking numpty.
More importantly, they'll get that silicon into the hands of consumers. So we can expect real people to have this in their boxen. Hopefully some one from Xorg will start putting physics into their desktop.
I hope Intel turn physX into the next MMX, even my dad was saying he needed MMX in his next PC. No idea what it was, but Intel marketing had him convinced he needed to upgrad, and upgrade NOW damnit.
If Microsoft can run code on your box, I'd expect some other people can too.
l33t crackers, the government. What would stop them?
This is what I did a couple of months ago. I never expected cloudless nights, but I've had a few since buying the binoc's (I got 9x63). Take the advice, you'll see tons more through them than with your eyes, and you'll get really confused and frustrated when you can't tell what you're looking at. Get a sky map book, mine was 15 quid and has more detail than I can see with my shaky hands.
Just figuring out the constellations and various stars is hard - but rewarding! I can also see the andromeda galaxy and one of the Ms (M42 I think) and Pleiades looks pretty cool.
Now I can look at my map and find the object - which has taken me a while to figure out, I think I may be ready for a telescope. My first one will be a second hand that I can see the planets with. I think this would be most reward for money spent. I want to see Saturn and Jupiter. Oh and Mars.
It's a good hobby. Fun.
monk.e.boy
It'd be nice to be able to edit out fat ugly people in real time.
Insert your own ethnic minority, xenophobic joke here :-)
That's what a comet is. The surface is boiling away, the core is moving at a different speed to the boiled particles, so they appear to be a halo/tail.
Did anyone understand that comment?
WTF is this guy on? So now 90% of my code will have red squigglies under the variable names?
i=0;
So now the 'i' has a red underline?
That is the most nuts thing I ever heard. The spell checker would need to be sentient to figure out the rules.
Hey, I got a good idea - LEARN TO SPELL.
monk.e.boy
(all spelling mistakes in this post were intentional ;-P )
Paper Mario was soooo cool. My GF loved Final Fantasy, so she was loving it more than me. That's what sold Nintendo to her :-) she was Playstation all the way.
monk.e.boy
I just wish they'd release some games for it.
Even my non-hard-core gamer friends down the pub are complaining about the lack of quality titles.
It's either kiddie games (mario, harry potter), or "lite games" (wii play), we want some easy, quick adult games. Please!
monk.e.boy
Yeah, we've just spent ages figuring out all the quirks of swfobject...
Oh well. I guess we'll still need to use it for all the losers on IE6? Or will they back port the patch?
... but. Really. Who cares? Get Firefox or Opera and get on with your life.
monk.e.boy
Ouch! It's brass tacks. :-)
monk.e.boy
Hey, fed up with [windows|USA] why not try [Linux|UK]?
...and I bet this is never nodded funny by the Americans ;-P
Aaaaah, nothing like using the old racist stereotypes for a laugh!
Well done.
That joke was so bad it made me want to dig my eyes out.
Pron is directly related to moores law.
But who cares about that! I have MOD points and have also finished Harry Potter so I can finally browse at -1 again!
And what is the first thread I read about? Terabytes of pr0n. Why am I not surprised?
forgive me for using an old meme, but: w00t!
monk.e.boy
Bad idea: some people, like myself, have extremely ugly face which are going to break the camera.
"Error: sorry this machine is not configured for baboons" :-(
monk.e.boy
I thought it was PIN Identification Number Number?
(joke)
My friend lives about a mile away from a small wind farm. I is very noisy, it sounds like cars on a freeway, but far too regular. Almost like a loud heart beat. And when the sun catches the blades you get a nice strobe effect which sends you fucking crazy after an hour or so.
My friend is selling up.
I can't wait, we never visit him any more. His house sucks.
Wind farms are ok - so long as they aren't in your back yard. Solar and Nuke is the real future.
monk.e.boy
PS check my .sig for Open Source Flash Charts (bar, line, area and pie)
Especially with a carbon fiber body, carbon fiber will stay round for millions of years. It's virtually indestructible... tsk...
I want my roof tiles to be solar panels, then I could charge my car for free, or charge (haha!) other people to use them.
We should dig up roads and replace them with fields, then string up loads of mono rails and run http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/G1110person al rapid transit monorails on them. How cool would that be?
monk.e.boy
The media tends to feed on its self, especially online gaming media types.
They constantly reference and quote one another in a fever pitched frenzy.
I guess EA read those and get bought expensive meals my Playstation and 360 sales people, and all the while IN REAL LIFE gamers chat and play each others consoles and choose what they like.
Whos going to tag this 'obvious' 'duh' etc...
monk.e.boy
I worked with blind and partially sighted kids who use 5 finger keyboards. They use a 'chord' system, like a guitar or piano.
The chords kinda look like the letter you are spelling, so to create a J you would hold the keys that kinda make that shape, I forget the exact sequence, but it was pretty easy to use.
But, the 5 finger keyboard was used like a regular keyboard, it was placed on a desk. I dunno how this would work if you had to hold it at the same time. Much harder I'd imagine.
monk.e.boy
Tried wxPython which is the python wrapper. It was approx 1,000% slower to create apps with than C# and Visual Studio.
I wanted to love it, I really did, but Visual Studio is sooo nice.
monk.e.boy
Java was great for programmers and rubbish for users. The GUI sucked.
You can always tell a Java program on Windows because it breaks every paradigm that a windows user is used to. The buttons look different, act different. Menus look weird and act weird. Nothing does what you expect.
Then take C# which is a nice programming language and has a normal GUI and you've got a winner.
Sorry, but that's the way it is.monk.e.boy
they should Open Source the player. That would solve most of their problems.
The only bit that is worth anything is the Flash IDE designer thingy.
If it was opensource it'd be a great stop gap between HTML + JS (now) and HTML + SVG + JS (future). It'd also help fight Silverlight, which is gunna take over the world if we aren't careful :-(
Any other ideas for spreading multi-media web without using Java (ugh) Flash (ugh) or Silverlight (hm...)?
monk.e.boy