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So, I'm assuming I'm not getting all the physics simulation quality I can get out of my games? The whole deal with the bridges collapsing in real time and all sorts of junk bouncing around isn't the ultimate physics experience? Is there... Another level of ragdoll I'm not experiencing? Is there some dynamic to a flaming barrel rolling down a hill my computer can't handle?! Or.. Or.. Is it Nvidia making one of its patented cash grabs?!
Considering all the physics simulations in games to date have been done on the processor with no performance hit (Have you played the last level in Half-Life Episode 2?) I'm finding the notion of dedicated physics card fairly stupid.
But that's just me.
You can't really blame them for cutting funding to open source. I mean they just wanked out $44 billion buying Yahoo, they gotta save money somewhere. Everybody knows open source people are a bunch of freeloaders, working together as a community. Really the digital equivalent to Chuds.
Well now I'm gonna go download the complete U2.
Funny how sometimes people get the complete opposite of the intended reaction to the idiotic things they say.
I read up on service pack 3 for XP. Microsoft said they're finally going to address literacy problems by making XP take 14 hours to boot. In theory they said, people should get a lot of reading done within that time frame. When asked why the feature won't be included on Vista, the rep explained Vista was a multimedia OS and therefore people wanted to use it to watch movies and play music not read some crumby book.
Yeah yeah. It's the same old story Microsoft is bad and Linux continues to have applications or games worth running. Microsoft is run by jerks because there are no applications or games worth running on Linux. Frigging Microsoft bleeding customers while Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. People are getting fed up with Microsoft and they'll want to get the most out of their operating system while Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. Microsoft has a naive user base and Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. If Microsoft built cars they'd be awful and Linux still has no applications or games worth running. People are terrified of working their computers and Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running.
It's all Microsoft's fault Linux still has no applications or games worth running!
They don't make Microsoft Office for Linux. Most people don't want to use 'Kabsko Word Maker 2.0.02 build 17 pre-release alpha semi stable version' instead. Then you can say well they could use 'Peters virtual adaptation pre functional build 3 open source mitigator' which would allow 'Kabsko Word Maker 2.0.02 build 17 pre-release alpha semi stable version' to open pre 1999 office files. Once again, considering most people don't know how to work computers beyond clicking icons it's a shade too much to ask to get them to run anything that isn't specifically the program they want to run.
I'd say the only reason people would buy a linux computer would be because they don't know anything about computers. Demonstrated by the fact they're buying a computer from Walmart.
Plus as long as Apple computers continue to be significantly more expensive than Windows based computers Microsoft is still gonna stay in business regardless of how lame Vista may be. I mean you can buy a frigging $400 pc laptop. It'll run your word processor, internet and whatever other work like things non graphics types run. Whereas the starting price of Apple laptops is $1200
AND you can say what you want about Linux, but for the average smuck walking around a best buy with a wad of cash it's not even on their radar.
Given that pretty much absolutely everything else in Australia is poisonous or capable of eating a full grown human being it doesn't surprise me that plants thewould start making things worse for other creatures as well.
The PTC has every right to be upset. An industry they're bullying has decided it's had enough and is fighting back.
Once the gaming industry gets political PTC will have to find somebody else to pick on.
The story was initially on a robot that could only tell the truth. However, the Gizmodo reporter used a tv-b-gone on the robot which caused it to only tell lies from that point on. As a result Gizmodo reporters have been banned from the National Robotics convention.
Uugh. I'd like to say depth map shadows work perfectly well in games, and it'd be nice to stay with it. Raytracing is a lot more intensive on the hardware which to me says that the video card companies will be pushing for game developers to implement it just so they can sell more powerful cards. I guess the next logical step after raytracing would be global illumination, and real time displacement maps. None of which the gaming industry actually needs.
Once again what the gaming industry needs is creativity not video cards with 2gb of on board memory.
Unfortunately with the ludicrous lawsuit the people of New Orleans filed against the federal government (I mean in terms of how much money they want), other lesser lawsuits will surely be ignored just on their lack of ostentatiousness. The only way the class action suit against the RIAA can make any progress is if they sue for One novemdecillion dollars!! Just the name of the number itself inspires awe.
It should be noted that the 1% inaccuracy includes uncommon words that people never use like 'damn' 'this' 'stupid' 'software' 'that's' 'not' 'what' 'I' 'said' 'delete' 'no' 'don't' 'write' 'that'
This is a sure sign things are getting bad in Japan. Back in the day farmers would just have a bunch of children and they'd help out on the farm. So now instead of rutting their wives and getting some help the old fashioned way Farmers have to turn to cyborg technology.
It's all well and good for the current generation but who'll tend the fields when the Cyborg's dead and buried?
In the animation industry animators put together demo reels which show all their best work. I imagine programmers could do sort of the same. They could cut together all their best pieces of code and set it to some techno music.
Institute a nude only polcy at the airport, and no carry on luggage allowed. Your ticket is duct taped to your chest, if you set the metal detector off they tazer you and throw you into a wood chipper.
You should bare in mind the reason autism rates have increased is because the criteria for autism has been expanded since the 1980's. What previously wouldn't be counted as autism now is.
As demonstrated it's not actually going to discourage anti-vaccine scumbags. The figure is something like if 10% of the population isn't vaccinated against an illness the herd immunity breaks down and an outbreak becomes possible. That's a nice thought. Another nice thought is if enough of these jackasses pull the pharmacutical companies to court over vaccines the pharmacutical companies won't see any point in making vaccines (since they get wrongly sued for doing so) so they'll just give up that practice.
I recall sometime back there was an article here about how Apple wanted to go DRM free if it could charge a bit more for the songs, but they'd also be higher quality, and something to the effect that record companies didn't jive with that.
So if my addled memory is correct that would imply that Apple was/is perfectly willing to go DRM free. I suppose with Sony going DRM free Apple could just follow suit and retain its strangle hold on the digital music market. Which when you think about it would be a well deserved kick in the teeth to Sony.
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So, I'm assuming I'm not getting all the physics simulation quality I can get out of my games? The whole deal with the bridges collapsing in real time and all sorts of junk bouncing around isn't the ultimate physics experience? Is there... Another level of ragdoll I'm not experiencing? Is there some dynamic to a flaming barrel rolling down a hill my computer can't handle?! Or.. Or.. Is it Nvidia making one of its patented cash grabs?! Considering all the physics simulations in games to date have been done on the processor with no performance hit (Have you played the last level in Half-Life Episode 2?) I'm finding the notion of dedicated physics card fairly stupid. But that's just me.
You can't really blame them for cutting funding to open source. I mean they just wanked out $44 billion buying Yahoo, they gotta save money somewhere. Everybody knows open source people are a bunch of freeloaders, working together as a community. Really the digital equivalent to Chuds.
It's like it says in Proverbs 12:3 'Tis better to die from cancer than be cured and live a life without dignity'
Yeah I always knew China would be able to control the weather. They'll just haul it away and have it shot.
Well now I'm gonna go download the complete U2. Funny how sometimes people get the complete opposite of the intended reaction to the idiotic things they say.
I read up on service pack 3 for XP.
Microsoft said they're finally going to address literacy problems by making XP take 14 hours to boot. In theory they said, people should get a lot of reading done within that time frame. When asked why the feature won't be included on Vista, the rep explained Vista was a multimedia OS and therefore people wanted to use it to watch movies and play music not read some crumby book.
Yeah yeah. It's the same old story Microsoft is bad and Linux continues to have applications or games worth running. Microsoft is run by jerks because there are no applications or games worth running on Linux. Frigging Microsoft bleeding customers while Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. People are getting fed up with Microsoft and they'll want to get the most out of their operating system while Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. Microsoft has a naive user base and Linux continues to have no applications or games worth running. If Microsoft built cars they'd be awful and Linux still has no applications or games worth running. People are terrified of working their computers and Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running. Linux still has no applications or games worth running.
It's all Microsoft's fault Linux still has no applications or games worth running!
They don't make Microsoft Office for Linux. Most people don't want to use 'Kabsko Word Maker 2.0.02 build 17 pre-release alpha semi stable version' instead.
Then you can say well they could use 'Peters virtual adaptation pre functional build 3 open source mitigator' which would allow 'Kabsko Word Maker 2.0.02 build 17 pre-release alpha semi stable version' to open pre 1999 office files.
Once again, considering most people don't know how to work computers beyond clicking icons it's a shade too much to ask to get them to run anything that isn't specifically the program they want to run.
I'd say the only reason people would buy a linux computer would be because they don't know anything about computers. Demonstrated by the fact they're buying a computer from Walmart.
Plus as long as Apple computers continue to be significantly more expensive than Windows based computers Microsoft is still gonna stay in business regardless of how lame Vista may be.
I mean you can buy a frigging $400 pc laptop. It'll run your word processor, internet and whatever other work like things non graphics types run. Whereas the starting price of Apple laptops is $1200
AND you can say what you want about Linux, but for the average smuck walking around a best buy with a wad of cash it's not even on their radar.
Given that pretty much absolutely everything else in Australia is poisonous or capable of eating a full grown human being it doesn't surprise me that plants thewould start making things worse for other creatures as well.
The PTC has every right to be upset. An industry they're bullying has decided it's had enough and is fighting back. Once the gaming industry gets political PTC will have to find somebody else to pick on.
Unfortunately much to the chagrin of the Gizmodo reporter, tv-b-gone remotes don't seem to have any effect on the new laptop.
Yes. They could call themselves the 'North American Mainstream Bloggers Association' or 'NAMBLA'.
Sounds appropriate I think
The story was initially on a robot that could only tell the truth. However, the Gizmodo reporter used a tv-b-gone on the robot which caused it to only tell lies from that point on. As a result Gizmodo reporters have been banned from the National Robotics convention.
Uugh. I'd like to say depth map shadows work perfectly well in games, and it'd be nice to stay with it.
Raytracing is a lot more intensive on the hardware which to me says that the video card companies will be pushing for game developers to implement it just so they can sell more powerful cards.
I guess the next logical step after raytracing would be global illumination, and real time displacement maps. None of which the gaming industry actually needs.
Once again what the gaming industry needs is creativity not video cards with 2gb of on board memory.
Unfortunately with the ludicrous lawsuit the people of New Orleans filed against the federal government (I mean in terms of how much money they want), other lesser lawsuits will surely be ignored just on their lack of ostentatiousness.
The only way the class action suit against the RIAA can make any progress is if they sue for One novemdecillion dollars!!
Just the name of the number itself inspires awe.
Think about it.
Finally, it looks like NASA is investing serious resources into researching sweet jumps in low gravity.
It should be noted that the 1% inaccuracy includes uncommon words that people never use like 'damn' 'this' 'stupid' 'software' 'that's' 'not' 'what' 'I' 'said' 'delete' 'no' 'don't' 'write' 'that'
This is a sure sign things are getting bad in Japan. Back in the day farmers would just have a bunch of children and they'd help out on the farm. So now instead of rutting their wives and getting some help the old fashioned way Farmers have to turn to cyborg technology.
It's all well and good for the current generation but who'll tend the fields when the Cyborg's dead and buried?
Come on Eileen
In the animation industry animators put together demo reels which show all their best work. I imagine programmers could do sort of the same. They could cut together all their best pieces of code and set it to some techno music.
Institute a nude only polcy at the airport, and no carry on luggage allowed. Your ticket is duct taped to your chest, if you set the metal detector off they tazer you and throw you into a wood chipper.
We already call driverless cars. You can find them in parking lots and in front of buildings everywhere.
Just wonderful.
You should bare in mind the reason autism rates have increased is because the criteria for autism has been expanded since the 1980's. What previously wouldn't be counted as autism now is.
As demonstrated it's not actually going to discourage anti-vaccine scumbags.
The figure is something like if 10% of the population isn't vaccinated against an illness the herd immunity breaks down and an outbreak becomes possible. That's a nice thought.
Another nice thought is if enough of these jackasses pull the pharmacutical companies to court over vaccines the pharmacutical companies won't see any point in making vaccines (since they get wrongly sued for doing so) so they'll just give up that practice.
Now wouldn't that be a lovely situation?
I recall sometime back there was an article here about how Apple wanted to go DRM free if it could charge a bit more for the songs, but they'd also be higher quality, and something to the effect that record companies didn't jive with that. So if my addled memory is correct that would imply that Apple was/is perfectly willing to go DRM free. I suppose with Sony going DRM free Apple could just follow suit and retain its strangle hold on the digital music market. Which when you think about it would be a well deserved kick in the teeth to Sony.