Pardon me. But Canadian taxes pay for the bloody CBC and all their programming. Therefore in the broad sense the bloody shows belong to Canadian tax payers. I mean, I don't particularly take pride in claiming ownership of DNTO or Little Mosque on the Prarie... But still.
You forgot that the United States owes China a LOT of money. It's like one of those old sitcoms where one of the characters owes another character a debt they can't repay so they just make them into their slave. Then they have them do silly things like give them foot massages, or paint their house, or look the other way on blatant human rights violations. Stuff like that.
You make a good point. I remember they tabled the DRM bill here in Canada but then later retracted it due to people vocalizing their upsetness over it.
But at the same time I'm not sure governments particularly care about the opinions of the people that voted them in to office when they really want to pass a law. They'll just go ahead and do it. A good example is the amalgamation of Toronto. The people of the city held a referendum before hand and voted against it. But the government said it didn't matter how the citizens voted in the referendum, they were going to amalgamate regardless. Mind YOU the Toronto city council is the largest group of assfuck half-dicked corn pone morons in the entire universe. I mean bar none. They held a big convention last year to determine this, and they won by 10 000 points (it only requires 10 points to win)
I guess it's worth noting that the law was just proposed, not actually passed. You could fill up a million pages on slashdot just with all the stupid bills governments all over the world table every day. So this is just playing on our guilty pleasure of ragging on any possibility of a law that would infringe on our rights, however unlikely they'll ever get passed.
Jeez. I completely forgot the lynch pin to this argument. If all the Japanese people stop making more Japanese people there will be NO MORE ANIME!!
But seriously.
You have to consider that Japan can build an endless army of robot nursing home care workers, but if they don't make more people then there will effectively be no more Japan. I don't see how you people are opposed to the concept of perpetuating the human race by the means of reproduction.
Hey coward, I guess you're worried that I may make some sort of reply that would make your slippery slope argument look stupid. So here it is.
I didn't say Japan should import health care workers. I said they should make more humans. I.e. Have sex with one another for the purpose of procreation, thus raising the population and filling the empty jobs. That's completely different from the idiocy you're pissing about.
I may be a bit cynical but I think the main reason robots haven't caught on in a lot of places outside of Japan is because our birth rates are still good. I've seen the videos of the robot nurse, and the robotic home care worker. It's extremely off putting. These are jobs in every other country humans are doing. And there's a thousand reasons why humans should always do jobs like that. Same goes for any other job that humans normally do. If they don't have people to replace the existing work force they should consider why there aren't any people and perhaps try to remedy that. I mean it's not like making more humans is any sort of chore.
War has certainly changed, back in the day soldiers didn't have the convenience of hiding by the enemies mailbox and blowing them up when they came out to get their phone bill.
Who are these people that write this philosophical crap about gaming? Every so often on/. they have these bloody articles
'what are the social implications of the start button?' or 'what is the meaning of jumping in games?'
To save the idiots who're working on this paper some time I'll refer them to this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R7ublMEYWx0
Don't you know that Islam has every right to oppress women and practice medieval style law enforcement?! If we question their beliefs we're being insensitive to their religion, regardless of how evil and backwards it is.
So here's my theory. During the annual Microsoft company picnic an airplane carrying a load of bricks exploded in mid air right over the picnic. Hundreds of bricks rained down on the entire Microsoft staff bashing them all in the heads giving them all amnesia. The next day they all went back into work and began working on Vista, unfortunately all their knowledge of how to make a working OS had been lost during that fateful picnic.
I predict if they get Photoshop running properly on Linux, Linux users will abandon the OS in favor of something even more obscure and difficult to use. Then they'll tote that operating system as superior to Windows and piss about how nobody adopts it.
Hey! Hold on! Hold on! Lay off the Chinese! I thought they were our friends I mean they ARE hosting the Olympics. Nobody who hosted the Olympics ever turned out to be bad. Am I right folks? Am I right? So what if they can see all the satellites the Yanks ever launched? It's not like they'd be developing some means to shoot them down. It's pretty obvious they're working on a weather control machine at the moment.
I knew as soon as I posed that somebody was going to hit me with some statistics.
ATI isn't in the throes of death. One assumes that if Nvidia holds 50% of the market some other video card manufacturer probably holds that other 50%. My guess is it would be ATI. Who I'm guessing would make every effort to push back against Nvidia. Nvidia still needs to convince more of the bigger studios like id and Valve to use their technology exclusively. Which probably won't happen. Because if they start building engines locked down to one specific card their licensing potential goes way down after that. You basically have to own a specific Nvvida card in order to play the game, as opposed to whatever card you happen to have in your system.
One might think reluctance to adopt PhysX would be knowing that a large number of your customers don't use NVIDIA cards and therefore wouldn't be able to take advantage of the technology. It's almost the same reason why game companies aren't making their games Vista only.
On top of that what would happen if an ISP wrongfully disconnect an entire company from the internet? Are they going to be immune to the wrath of a company that loses $10 000 a day from being offline?
True enough. One would think that if Microsoft actually wanted to do some damage to digital media on the web they would buy up Adobe. Then they could call themselves Microbe-Soft
I'm not particularly sure how far Microsoft going to get with their attempts to compete with Flash. Considering how widely used it is everywhere. It's even used outside of web applications. An ungodly number of cartoons on TV are animated using Flash. It's even beating out similar products in that field as well. Toonboom studio which is supposed to be a more animator friendly vector based animation program isn't even touching Flash. So I'm not sure what the hell Microsoft intends to do here. I think they should have released their Flash knockoff maybe 10 years ago, instead of now when they have absolutely zero chance of success.
Real time physics only really appeals to folks who for some reason think that everything done in real time is the way to go because it's real or some nonsense like that. I haven't read any gaming magazines in a while so I'm not sure what the lingo is.
Gamers need to believe they're getting some real time bloody experience so the thought of real time chunks of debris falling gently on the real time terrain is appealing to them. It's very good marketing since gamers fall for that sort of horse shit. I mean if I had it my way I'd rather see bloody raytracing implemented into games, not that I'd want that, but it'd be a shade more useful than real time junk that's handled perfectly well on the processor.
Take your great barrel scenario for example. It's quite simple to model a dented barrel and change the visibility or put some driven keys on a barrel to make it dent when it gets knocked down. You don't need to apply real time physics to it, in order to make that happen.
You apparently have no idea what handles the processing of physics simulations. The video card would only be responsible for processing the polygons which make up the falling blocks. In a case like that you need a faster video card. A physics card in a case like that isn't gonna make much difference.
As for your anecdote about UT3, you can do the same thing in other games without physics cards. Once again you have absolutely no idea what physics cards do, why are you arguing for them?
And I agree with you the ideal situation would be Nvidia putting the physics processing on their stupid cards, just to avoid people having to go out and buy two seperate cards. At the same time ATI doesn't have the technology so what does that mean for them? I would assume Nvidia will be pressing game developers to implement their physics technology just so they could force more people to buy their cards. I doubt ATI would have any of that.
That's a bad example. You don't want collision detection in a game like Warcraft. There are so many people running around it'd turn the game into an ordeal just getting to the auction house in Ironforge.
I don't think you actually understand what would fall under the physics category. Grass can be deformed with driven keys, no need for fancy physics cards there. Players crashing into each other would be controlled by animation. I don't know where people get the notion animation can happen on its own without people sitting down and keying in everything beforehand. As for the racing game. Pick up a copy of Dirt and then try shooting your mouth off about non realistic crashes.
Overall it looks to me like you stopped playing games maybe four years ago. We have breakable tables and damagable rooms in games now. It's all very interesting and it doesn't need a physics card to do.
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Pardon me. But Canadian taxes pay for the bloody CBC and all their programming. Therefore in the broad sense the bloody shows belong to Canadian tax payers. I mean, I don't particularly take pride in claiming ownership of DNTO or Little Mosque on the Prarie... But still.
You forgot that the United States owes China a LOT of money. It's like one of those old sitcoms where one of the characters owes another character a debt they can't repay so they just make them into their slave. Then they have them do silly things like give them foot massages, or paint their house, or look the other way on blatant human rights violations. Stuff like that.
You make a good point. I remember they tabled the DRM bill here in Canada but then later retracted it due to people vocalizing their upsetness over it.
But at the same time I'm not sure governments particularly care about the opinions of the people that voted them in to office when they really want to pass a law. They'll just go ahead and do it. A good example is the amalgamation of Toronto. The people of the city held a referendum before hand and voted against it. But the government said it didn't matter how the citizens voted in the referendum, they were going to amalgamate regardless. Mind YOU the Toronto city council is the largest group of assfuck half-dicked corn pone morons in the entire universe. I mean bar none. They held a big convention last year to determine this, and they won by 10 000 points (it only requires 10 points to win)
I guess it's worth noting that the law was just proposed, not actually passed. You could fill up a million pages on slashdot just with all the stupid bills governments all over the world table every day. So this is just playing on our guilty pleasure of ragging on any possibility of a law that would infringe on our rights, however unlikely they'll ever get passed.
Jeez. I completely forgot the lynch pin to this argument.
If all the Japanese people stop making more Japanese people there will be NO MORE ANIME!!
But seriously.
You have to consider that Japan can build an endless army of robot nursing home care workers, but if they don't make more people then there will effectively be no more Japan. I don't see how you people are opposed to the concept of perpetuating the human race by the means of reproduction.
Hey coward, I guess you're worried that I may make some sort of reply that would make your slippery slope argument look stupid.
So here it is.
I didn't say Japan should import health care workers. I said they should make more humans. I.e. Have sex with one another for the purpose of procreation, thus raising the population and filling the empty jobs. That's completely different from the idiocy you're pissing about.
I may be a bit cynical but I think the main reason robots haven't caught on in a lot of places outside of Japan is because our birth rates are still good. I've seen the videos of the robot nurse, and the robotic home care worker. It's extremely off putting. These are jobs in every other country humans are doing. And there's a thousand reasons why humans should always do jobs like that. Same goes for any other job that humans normally do. If they don't have people to replace the existing work force they should consider why there aren't any people and perhaps try to remedy that. I mean it's not like making more humans is any sort of chore.
I for one am quite pleased to see Utah fighting outsourcing like this. We no longer need to go to China to get this sort of thing.
War has certainly changed, back in the day soldiers didn't have the convenience of hiding by the enemies mailbox and blowing them up when they came out to get their phone bill.
Who are these people that write this philosophical crap about gaming? Every so often on /. they have these bloody articles
'what are the social implications of the start button?' or 'what is the meaning of jumping in games?'
To save the idiots who're working on this paper some time I'll refer them to this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=R7ublMEYWx0
Somebody needs to apply for a patent on being a patent troll. Whoever does that would be a multigazillionare over night.
Don't you know that Islam has every right to oppress women and practice medieval style law enforcement?! If we question their beliefs we're being insensitive to their religion, regardless of how evil and backwards it is.
So here's my theory. During the annual Microsoft company picnic an airplane carrying a load of bricks exploded in mid air right over the picnic. Hundreds of bricks rained down on the entire Microsoft staff bashing them all in the heads giving them all amnesia. The next day they all went back into work and began working on Vista, unfortunately all their knowledge of how to make a working OS had been lost during that fateful picnic.
I predict if they get Photoshop running properly on Linux, Linux users will abandon the OS in favor of something even more obscure and difficult to use. Then they'll tote that operating system as superior to Windows and piss about how nobody adopts it.
Hey! Hold on! Hold on! Lay off the Chinese! I thought they were our friends I mean they ARE hosting the Olympics. Nobody who hosted the Olympics ever turned out to be bad. Am I right folks? Am I right?
So what if they can see all the satellites the Yanks ever launched? It's not like they'd be developing some means to shoot them down. It's pretty obvious they're working on a weather control machine at the moment.
Yes China, go ahead and haul Freddy away and shoot him. He'll just attack you in your dreams.
I knew as soon as I posed that somebody was going to hit me with some statistics.
ATI isn't in the throes of death. One assumes that if Nvidia holds 50% of the market some other video card manufacturer probably holds that other 50%. My guess is it would be ATI. Who I'm guessing would make every effort to push back against Nvidia.
Nvidia still needs to convince more of the bigger studios like id and Valve to use their technology exclusively. Which probably won't happen. Because if they start building engines locked down to one specific card their licensing potential goes way down after that. You basically have to own a specific Nvvida card in order to play the game, as opposed to whatever card you happen to have in your system.
One might think reluctance to adopt PhysX would be knowing that a large number of your customers don't use NVIDIA cards and therefore wouldn't be able to take advantage of the technology.
It's almost the same reason why game companies aren't making their games Vista only.
On top of that what would happen if an ISP wrongfully disconnect an entire company from the internet? Are they going to be immune to the wrath of a company that loses $10 000 a day from being offline?
True enough.
One would think that if Microsoft actually wanted to do some damage to digital media on the web they would buy up Adobe.
Then they could call themselves Microbe-Soft
I'm not particularly sure how far Microsoft going to get with their attempts to compete with Flash. Considering how widely used it is everywhere. It's even used outside of web applications. An ungodly number of cartoons on TV are animated using Flash. It's even beating out similar products in that field as well. Toonboom studio which is supposed to be a more animator friendly vector based animation program isn't even touching Flash. So I'm not sure what the hell Microsoft intends to do here. I think they should have released their Flash knockoff maybe 10 years ago, instead of now when they have absolutely zero chance of success.
Thanks for the heads up idiot.
Real time physics only really appeals to folks who for some reason think that everything done in real time is the way to go because it's real or some nonsense like that. I haven't read any gaming magazines in a while so I'm not sure what the lingo is.
Gamers need to believe they're getting some real time bloody experience so the thought of real time chunks of debris falling gently on the real time terrain is appealing to them. It's very good marketing since gamers fall for that sort of horse shit. I mean if I had it my way I'd rather see bloody raytracing implemented into games, not that I'd want that, but it'd be a shade more useful than real time junk that's handled perfectly well on the processor.
Take your great barrel scenario for example. It's quite simple to model a dented barrel and change the visibility or put some driven keys on a barrel to make it dent when it gets knocked down. You don't need to apply real time physics to it, in order to make that happen.
You apparently have no idea what handles the processing of physics simulations. The video card would only be responsible for processing the polygons which make up the falling blocks. In a case like that you need a faster video card. A physics card in a case like that isn't gonna make much difference.
As for your anecdote about UT3, you can do the same thing in other games without physics cards. Once again you have absolutely no idea what physics cards do, why are you arguing for them?
And I agree with you the ideal situation would be Nvidia putting the physics processing on their stupid cards, just to avoid people having to go out and buy two seperate cards. At the same time ATI doesn't have the technology so what does that mean for them?
I would assume Nvidia will be pressing game developers to implement their physics technology just so they could force more people to buy their cards. I doubt ATI would have any of that.
That's a bad example. You don't want collision detection in a game like Warcraft. There are so many people running around it'd turn the game into an ordeal just getting to the auction house in Ironforge.
I don't think you actually understand what would fall under the physics category. Grass can be deformed with driven keys, no need for fancy physics cards there. Players crashing into each other would be controlled by animation. I don't know where people get the notion animation can happen on its own without people sitting down and keying in everything beforehand.
As for the racing game. Pick up a copy of Dirt and then try shooting your mouth off about non realistic crashes.
Overall it looks to me like you stopped playing games maybe four years ago. We have breakable tables and damagable rooms in games now. It's all very interesting and it doesn't need a physics card to do.