That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Why did you have to buy a new GeForce card? If you wanted performance equivalent to your 3Dfx, you could have bought any of dozens of different $30 OEM cards.
So supposing you happen to have a drive that IS just random noise with a PGP header. They can demand that you decrypt it. When you can't, they can suggest whatever criminal content they like is on the disk, and instantly convict you of possessing it.
I am utterly baffled by the fact that no one has made a big-budget Giant Robot movie yet. It's such an obvious genre to take advantage of modern CGI. There's a well-established market, not only on the "anime-based" side (Robotech, Battletech, Mechwarrior) but in the primarily domestic audience familiar with Transformers. Hell, the powerloader scene was a favourite in Aliens.
So why on earth hasn't it been done yet? I want my giant robots!
That's the only damn thing I can remember from high school biology.
Bonus mnemonic -- the only thing I remember from high school history: "Divorced, Beheaded, She Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived." (How King Henry VIII's wives ended up)
What part of hard evidence, not mere accusation got stuck on the way into your thick skull?
If I call the police to tell them that I can see my neighbor burying his dismembered wife in his backyard, why is it important that he be able to face me in a courtroom at the murder trial?
It's that the screenplay adaptions of the stories were absolutely horrid and the casting was worse (with a couple notable exceptions).
It wasn't the casting. ALL of the principle actors (with the exception of Jake Lloyd) have done some *very* good work in the past. Hence, for them all to suck as badly as they did, there really isn't any place to lay the blame other than the director.
The imcompetence necessary to ruin the performances of that many good actors so consistently is utterly mind-boggling.
Aren't the diffraction spikes a predictable optical effect based on the star's brightness? Why isn't the effect corrected out of the image in postprocessing?
I suspect that they leave them in because it looks dramatic and romantic for press releases.:)
Modern java editors (in particular the almost magical Intellij IDEA) provide code completion based on valid types in a given context.
One of IDEA's more magical features is that it already *does* this, without explicit support from generics. It can sometimes determine how to cast an object out of a collection by figuring out what you put into it! It's that kind of thing that has me looking over my shoulder to find the cameras that IntelliJ are watching me with...
This is recognizable as a fancy version of good old Cub Car racing. That was a lot of fun as well. I remember agonizing over the aerodynamic design. And the paint scheme.
Digitizing lineararly in realtime is so "1990's", and its amazing that 90% of us in the video industry are still doing it.
I'm not in the industry, but it seems to me that dumping video from a DV camera onto a computer involves no "digitizing". Aren't you just copying an MPEG stream off the tape into a file? You're limited only by the speed of the computer's tape drive. It's still linear, but it should be way faster than realtime.
I just hope it's not too little too late. Nvidia seems to be going the way of Voodoo. Taking the same card and clocking it faster with a bigger fan.
Sadly, they're also walking the Voodoo path with their new "strategic alliances" under which publishers will develop games using Nvidia specific features. It's a pathetic tactic from a company that built their success on strong engineering rather than lame marketing ploys.
...I would have never heard of it if not for counter-strike.
Are you under 16? HL was game of the year long before anyone heard of CS. Hell, most magazines wanted to give it game of the year AGAIN a year later because it was so damn good. It sold very, very well in its original form.
Why do you think "d'oh" is correct? It isn't a contraction, and there is no epiglottal stop after the d. Hence it is correctly spelled according to phonetics: "doh".
Tell me, how comprehensive is the PS2 OpenGL implentation's support for ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program? Because without those, or their equivalents in DX, the DOOM3 engine is crippled.
"Console Exclusive" is the term used in the industry for excluding other consoles from a game. It doesn't include the PC. GTA3 is "console exclusive" on the PS2, and but there is a PC version.
It may well be the technology that dictates where DOOM3 can play, as it's going to be very dependent on hardware pixel and vertex shaders. It could likely only make it to Gamecube and Xbox anyway, unless they cripple the engine just to get it running on PS2.
The impetus on any part of the structure accelerates the whole structure with the same force
Huh? That makes no sense.
unlike in an atmosphere where the various jutting out bits would snap off because of shear forces due to the equality of friction and the inequality of acceleration.
Bollocks. Friction will have no effect. But inertia still holds. The engines (assuming they are "pushing" engines, and not something more exotic like space-folders or whatnot) are applying a force only to one specific part of the craft. The rest has to be strong enough to hold together under that force. A "jutting out bit" with a lot of mass on the end will still snap off if you accelerate the main body too fast.
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No, anyone using PKWare will have problems, when 95% of the people to whom they are sending the new archives are unable to open them in Winzip.
How about a PostScript ray tracer?
That's the dumbest thing I've read in a long time. Why did you have to buy a new GeForce card? If you wanted performance equivalent to your 3Dfx, you could have bought any of dozens of different $30 OEM cards.
So supposing you happen to have a drive that IS just random noise with a PGP header. They can demand that you decrypt it. When you can't, they can suggest whatever criminal content they like is on the disk, and instantly convict you of possessing it.
Don't laugh. I had nightmares about Maximillian from The Black Hole when I was a little kid.
I am utterly baffled by the fact that no one has made a big-budget Giant Robot movie yet. It's such an obvious genre to take advantage of modern CGI. There's a well-established market, not only on the "anime-based" side (Robotech, Battletech, Mechwarrior) but in the primarily domestic audience familiar with Transformers. Hell, the powerloader scene was a favourite in Aliens.
So why on earth hasn't it been done yet? I want my giant robots!
That was the musical notes associated with the ascending "lines" on sheet music. The complement was "FACE" -- the notes between the lines.
Kings Play Chess On Funny Glass Stairs.
(Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)
That's the only damn thing I can remember from high school biology.
Bonus mnemonic -- the only thing I remember from high school history: "Divorced, Beheaded, She Died; Divorced, Beheaded, Survived." (How King Henry VIII's wives ended up)
If I call the police to tell them that I can see my neighbor burying his dismembered wife in his backyard, why is it important that he be able to face me in a courtroom at the murder trial?
It's not just an accusation, it's a pointer to hard evidence. Why does it matter who found the evidence?
In other words, "millitechnology".
The compiler's just gonna optimize that to "true" anyway.
Can't wait to hear their cover of "She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain".
It wasn't the casting. ALL of the principle actors (with the exception of Jake Lloyd) have done some *very* good work in the past. Hence, for them all to suck as badly as they did, there really isn't any place to lay the blame other than the director.
The imcompetence necessary to ruin the performances of that many good actors so consistently is utterly mind-boggling.
I suspect that they leave them in because it looks dramatic and romantic for press releases. :)
One of IDEA's more magical features is that it already *does* this, without explicit support from generics. It can sometimes determine how to cast an object out of a collection by figuring out what you put into it! It's that kind of thing that has me looking over my shoulder to find the cameras that IntelliJ are watching me with...
This is recognizable as a fancy version of good old Cub Car racing. That was a lot of fun as well. I remember agonizing over the aerodynamic design. And the paint scheme.
I'm not in the industry, but it seems to me that dumping video from a DV camera onto a computer involves no "digitizing". Aren't you just copying an MPEG stream off the tape into a file? You're limited only by the speed of the computer's tape drive. It's still linear, but it should be way faster than realtime.
Sadly, they're also walking the Voodoo path with their new "strategic alliances" under which publishers will develop games using Nvidia specific features. It's a pathetic tactic from a company that built their success on strong engineering rather than lame marketing ploys.
They did exactly the same thing last year.
Are you under 16? HL was game of the year long before anyone heard of CS. Hell, most magazines wanted to give it game of the year AGAIN a year later because it was so damn good. It sold very, very well in its original form.
Why do you think "d'oh" is correct? It isn't a contraction, and there is no epiglottal stop after the d. Hence it is correctly spelled according to phonetics: "doh".
Tell me, how comprehensive is the PS2 OpenGL implentation's support for ARB_vertex_program and ARB_fragment_program? Because without those, or their equivalents in DX, the DOOM3 engine is crippled.
It may well be the technology that dictates where DOOM3 can play, as it's going to be very dependent on hardware pixel and vertex shaders. It could likely only make it to Gamecube and Xbox anyway, unless they cripple the engine just to get it running on PS2.
Huh? That makes no sense.
unlike in an atmosphere where the various jutting out bits would snap off because of shear forces due to the equality of friction and the inequality of acceleration.
Bollocks. Friction will have no effect. But inertia still holds. The engines (assuming they are "pushing" engines, and not something more exotic like space-folders or whatnot) are applying a force only to one specific part of the craft. The rest has to be strong enough to hold together under that force. A "jutting out bit" with a lot of mass on the end will still snap off if you accelerate the main body too fast.