Yeah, because when they say "bounce off", they obviously mean that it reflects the bullets away perfectly at their original speeds. Hence, they are *doubling* the energy of the impact in the perfectly ideal billiard-ball reaction that happens every time a bullet hits the armour in real life.
Of course, they also have the benefit that whenever someone shoots at the armour, the bullet is bounced directly back down the barrel of their gun, possibly killing them.
The mocap characters aren't 100% virtual either -- don't forget the motion capture actors themselves. This new technology will still require good actors; they just won't have to be good looking any more.
Look no further than Andy Serkis for proof on both counts.
I call BS. Lego has been selling the big brick-shaped boxes of 500-1000 pieces of Lego for years, for around $20. You can't walk through a store without tripping over stacks of them. Basic Lego has never been easier to buy (or cheaper).
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I don't know where you're shopping. Over half my 3 year old's cars are "realistic"; he's actually recognizing more and more of them on the street every day. He got a box of all-realistic Maisto cars (noticeably lower quality than Hot Wheels, but still good) for Christmas, which has some really boring cars (Ford Explorer, Mercedes C-Class) mixed in with the Zondas and Vipers.
On the other hand, I don't see what there is to complain about in the pimped out / spacy realm either. The designers at Hot Wheels are frickin' AMAZING. You'll see more interesting ideas in 5 feet of shelf space at Toys R Us than in the last 30 years from Detroit.
They aren't smarter, they just may have a more advanced technology and|or society.
Putting the debate on the existence of "aliens on UFOs" aside, what makes you say that? Do you think there's some kind of universal brain handicapping going on that would somehow make all sentient beings of roughly the same intelligence?
Alien races might have intelligence measured at orders of magnitude more than our own.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Maxthon CAN use a proxy, just like IE can. Maxthon differs only in that it's much easier to toggle proxy use on and off, and switch between multiple proxies.
These features are important for Chinese users specifically because they have to find and use open proxies in order to circumvent the censors.
But that isn't what the "^H" refers to. It's supposed to show that a backspace character is contained in the message, not that the user pressed a given key.
I think that vastly oversimplifies the complexity of building a real machine.
A "line of code" contains 3-10 operations, each of which require no further elaboration -- they are perfectly discrete, ideal parts that always work exactly the same way, even when used in completely different situations.
For a real machine, on the other hand, each part requires a complete design and build cycle of its own. How many "operations" would it take to describe the shape and material of a single part? Hundreds if not thousands.
Manufacture is also an analogue process, with varying tolerances and margins of error. Even simple things like screws and bolts can be hard to deal with, when you have to worry about their performance at extreme temperatures or under unexpected loads. Also, unlike bits, they age. So you also have to account for their decreased performance and eventual failure modes. Once you start having to machine complex custom parts, these problems increase exponentially.
Comparing the manufacture of a 100,000 part machine with a program of 100,000 lines is laughable.
What he's saying is that there are more than one Halo franchise game in production right now. The one "everyone is expecting" is the direct sequel to Halo 2 -- a single player FPS with online deathmatch.
The ones that won't be released this year include the Halo-world RPG and RTS, the Warthog racing game, the Banshee flight simulator, and one that lets you decorate your Pillar of Autumn quarters and socialize with crewmates.
The PSU fan isn't just about getting heat out of the power supply -- they're also about getting heat out of the case altogether.
What do these silent PSUs do with their excess heat? If they merely radiate it off of the PSU case, they're going to seriously pump up the ambient heat in your case. Transferring it to the chassis would help, but that's still not as effective as dumping it entirely outside the case.
Pay attention, pseudoscientists! THAT is what real science is about. The theory is defined in discrete terms that make it falsifiable, and in fact you are ENCOURAGED to do so if you can, so that we can better inform future theories!
Selective zooming by a small percentage. Selective frame dropping. Partial frame brightening / darkening / desaturating / blurring. Noise addition. Those are off the top of my head; any creative stenographer could come up with a hundred more far more subtle tricks. There is NO WAY to automatically detect these, as there is no way to know that they were not the intended effect.
Even comparison of multiple watermarked copies won't help, because it's easy to add so many permutations to the various copies that you could easily identify a "patched" correction as the product of two specific watermarks.
But there's nothing "unusual" about one 2 second shot being 10% brighter or 5 frames shorter than their baseline version. There's nothing to "detect", unless you have the original to compare it to.
Noise cancelling earphones don't filter out voice very much. They kill off ambient white noise almost completely, but you can still hear "interesting" sounds.
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They've already blamed the platform for the failure to complete this title more than once.
... give up ... Can't give up again!
It's like that old saying: Give up on one platform, shame on the platform.
Give up on 3 platforms
Yeah, because when they say "bounce off", they obviously mean that it reflects the bullets away perfectly at their original speeds. Hence, they are *doubling* the energy of the impact in the perfectly ideal billiard-ball reaction that happens every time a bullet hits the armour in real life.
Of course, they also have the benefit that whenever someone shoots at the armour, the bullet is bounced directly back down the barrel of their gun, possibly killing them.
The mocap characters aren't 100% virtual either -- don't forget the motion capture actors themselves. This new technology will still require good actors; they just won't have to be good looking any more.
Look no further than Andy Serkis for proof on both counts.
I call BS. Lego has been selling the big brick-shaped boxes of 500-1000 pieces of Lego for years, for around $20. You can't walk through a store without tripping over stacks of them. Basic Lego has never been easier to buy (or cheaper).
I don't know where you're shopping. Over half my 3 year old's cars are "realistic"; he's actually recognizing more and more of them on the street every day. He got a box of all-realistic Maisto cars (noticeably lower quality than Hot Wheels, but still good) for Christmas, which has some really boring cars (Ford Explorer, Mercedes C-Class) mixed in with the Zondas and Vipers.
On the other hand, I don't see what there is to complain about in the pimped out / spacy realm either. The designers at Hot Wheels are frickin' AMAZING. You'll see more interesting ideas in 5 feet of shelf space at Toys R Us than in the last 30 years from Detroit.
For the product listing, try http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com instead.
Putting the debate on the existence of "aliens on UFOs" aside, what makes you say that? Do you think there's some kind of universal brain handicapping going on that would somehow make all sentient beings of roughly the same intelligence?
Alien races might have intelligence measured at orders of magnitude more than our own.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Hear, hear. The amount of time and money wasted on teaching people "lightning safety" is mind boggling.
These features are important for Chinese users specifically because they have to find and use open proxies in order to circumvent the censors.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/writing-style.html
Actually, shiny^Wleaked = shinyleaked, doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.
A "line of code" contains 3-10 operations, each of which require no further elaboration -- they are perfectly discrete, ideal parts that always work exactly the same way, even when used in completely different situations.
For a real machine, on the other hand, each part requires a complete design and build cycle of its own. How many "operations" would it take to describe the shape and material of a single part? Hundreds if not thousands.
Manufacture is also an analogue process, with varying tolerances and margins of error. Even simple things like screws and bolts can be hard to deal with, when you have to worry about their performance at extreme temperatures or under unexpected loads. Also, unlike bits, they age. So you also have to account for their decreased performance and eventual failure modes. Once you start having to machine complex custom parts, these problems increase exponentially.
Comparing the manufacture of a 100,000 part machine with a program of 100,000 lines is laughable.
Don't forget to add the cost of maintaining a Ferrari in collector condition for forty years. That's probably a large multiple of the original price.
The ones that won't be released this year include the Halo-world RPG and RTS, the Warthog racing game, the Banshee flight simulator, and one that lets you decorate your Pillar of Autumn quarters and socialize with crewmates.
What do these silent PSUs do with their excess heat? If they merely radiate it off of the PSU case, they're going to seriously pump up the ambient heat in your case. Transferring it to the chassis would help, but that's still not as effective as dumping it entirely outside the case.
It just told me what I knew all the time. I'm a really terrific and great guy.
Pay attention, pseudoscientists! THAT is what real science is about. The theory is defined in discrete terms that make it falsifiable, and in fact you are ENCOURAGED to do so if you can, so that we can better inform future theories!
Given any two of the watermarked copies:
Tell me how to reconstruct the original values. (For bonus marks, tell me how to defeat watermarks with 10,000 or more "bits" of identifiability.)Selective zooming by a small percentage. Selective frame dropping. Partial frame brightening / darkening / desaturating / blurring. Noise addition. Those are off the top of my head; any creative stenographer could come up with a hundred more far more subtle tricks. There is NO WAY to automatically detect these, as there is no way to know that they were not the intended effect.
Even comparison of multiple watermarked copies won't help, because it's easy to add so many permutations to the various copies that you could easily identify a "patched" correction as the product of two specific watermarks.
But there's nothing "unusual" about one 2 second shot being 10% brighter or 5 frames shorter than their baseline version. There's nothing to "detect", unless you have the original to compare it to.
Noise cancelling earphones don't filter out voice very much. They kill off ambient white noise almost completely, but you can still hear "interesting" sounds.
Cogeco traffic shapes Bittorrent, at least in Oakville. Switch to port 1720 to bypass it.
RTFA. It's nowhere near finished.
You should have added a backflip, then you might have been OK.