I've seen a preview movie. It certainly was an early look, etc., but it wasn't so great.
You shoot a gun at a wall and it's completely obscured by smoke/dust/whatever, when the dust clears, there's a jagged, unrealistic hole there. Yay.
I've always yearned for a "game" with real physics. I want a world to explore. I don't care much for killing things. I'd just like to run around and see things... Mountains, caves, buildings, trees, cool stuff like that. And if I could interact with it, that would be great. And no, I'm not just asking for Myst...:-P
I was excited when that Jurassic Park game came out with a "complete physics model" where you could supposedly affect everything in your environment. Never played it, heard it sucked. I should have known it was too good (too early) to be true... But someday, of course.
And someone said they don't want realistic stuff, because they're trying to *escape* reality. Well, yeah, I'm trying to escape reality, but that doesn't mean my escape shouldn't be realistic. I do, however, agree with the sentiment that flash, glitz, glamour, and large guns do not good gameplay make. I want a fun, engaging game.
Motion blur would simply add a fade to the mouse-trails feature. So do you really just want mouse-trails?
I'm not sure how a motion blur would affect the "jumpyness" of the cursor.
Are you actually asking for sub-pixel accuracy? That would make more sense in terms of jumpyness. I mean, right now, I can see the cursor "jump" from one pixel to the next, but I find this useful, I often select things by pixel (in graphics editing, etc.).
So, if you want a true motion blur, you basically want mouse trails. Maybe you are asking for one thing (sub-pixel accuracy) and calling it something else.
In any case, I can't see how this would be anything more than another cutesy feature like animated windows and menus. I personally hate these things, and always turn them off. I don't want to wait for my menu to pop out or my window to minimize. It's a waste of my time. I feel lie this would be as well. Even if it's only taking a tiny bit of my resources, I don't want it.
Analog and Digital Electronics... I'm bored in lab one day, I look over to my partner, holding up a nice green wire, "Let's see what happens if we plug this in... here, and this one..." *BANG* A transistor explodes. A much bigger explosion than one might believe could come out of a transistor, as well... My teacher was on the other side of the lab having a meeting, he just looks up, makes sure no one is dead, and keeps on with the meeting...
Yeah... I thought forks occurred when a project wanted to go to different places... This one just seems to be that they want to take a different route to the same place, and perhaps go at a different speed...
Is classic Samba wholly opposed to supporting printing and w2k or something? Why can't these things be part of classic Samba?
Hm... Now let's try to think of a single device that does all of these things... Yeah, I think I'd rather have one of those. It's easier to press the buttons at the very least.
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Y'know, if something like Jurassic Park happened, it wouldn't be so bad. I mean, honestly, it was only bad because we were looking at it from the POV of the very *few* people on the island. In Real Life, that would just be a minor setback. Who really cares that a few people died? People die all the time...
Just go back to the island on a day when the weather's a little nicer and it wouldn't be too hard to bring things back to order.
Oh, and if they don't have scary music playing, it wouldn't be *nearly* as bad!
One I know of is the Fujitsu S Series. It does one better than an integrated CD-ROM drive, though. It has a modular bay that can house anything from a DVD-ROM drive to a digital camera! It's pretty impressive.
I'm pretty sure there are other ultralights that have internal cd-roms now, too...
You can get advanced Japanese laptops in the US, though. Check out Dynamism.com, even if only to drool a little.
And, going back to the original topic, a friend of mine has a discman (not sony, though) that she said is one of the low-end models, which was amazingly small (I mean, there's only so small something can get and still hold a CD), had one of those cool remotes on the headphone cord, and even had optical digital-audio output! So if that's low-end in Japan, well...
"No, goddamit! I'm not going to upgrade! #@*&!"
... after a few thousand repeats of that situation, I finally gave in and "upgraded" in my own special way...
Well, just yesterday (The day before? They all get blurred...) they repeated the Sony Airboard post so quickly, they both showed up on the front page together!
I think they're getting old... I mean, c'mon, how can you expect anyone over twenty-five to stay sharp? Why do you think there are so many script-kiddies, but no script-adulties, huh?
Sorry, but I'm gonna go with white-hat, still. "Immature self-promoting"??? Yeah, like most people, to different degrees. White-hat doesn't mean "I'm holier than Mother Theresa" because that's not realistic. Real people have failings. I choose to respect people, even if they have a few...
I went to a computer day-camp once... Geeze, I don't even remeber what I did there!!! But I remember seeing *Wolfenstien* running on a *386*!!! Man, was I impressed...
I had to work really hard to get some guy there to give me Scorch on a floppy... and it *was* worth it...:-)
"... because they never envisioned someone having more than 1024x768 graphics viewing the site."
Hm. I'd have to say that once you get above 1024x768, it's a little silly to be running most standard applications fullscreen. First of all there is the fact that I don't know of any websites that will look even the slightest bit better with more screen real estate than that 1024x768 gives you. And secondly, having windows is nice because you can have them all floating around each other, and you can see two (or more!) applications at once.
At the very least, you should leave some room to have random eye-candy (play mp3s w/ visualization - mute them if you don't care for the noise;-) in the corners...
"It just dosen't make sense for me (or, I think, for your average computer user) to compress image files, given the currently available hardware."
You are compressing (or at least decompressing) images. JPEG and GIF and PNG and others are all compressed image formats. If they weren't, you would be downloading something more than ten times as much data to view every webpage.
Example: The Slashdot logo, top left on every page. It's a 3,473 byte GIF. Uncompressed, it's 59,848 bytes.
Even with today's technology, data compression is a BIG DEAL, for images or anything else.
I think that the licensing issue *might* be what killed it, or at least stunted its growth. Would we be using GIFs so much had Unisys been a tyrant about it's little patent back when GIFs were catching on? (I sure hope Unisys wasn't a tyrant back then, because otherwise my argument is dead...)
They say, "Unless you work entirely in black and white, approximately half your general audience won't properly see the colors you select for your site."
Ahem. Let's rephrase that: "No one but you will properly see the colors you select for your site." If they think that slight color shifts are a problem, they need to standardize everyone else's: browsers, OSs, graphics cards, monitors, viewing conditions, and eyes. Enjoy.
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I've seen a preview movie. It certainly was an early look, etc., but it wasn't so great.
:-P
:-P
You shoot a gun at a wall and it's completely obscured by smoke/dust/whatever, when the dust clears, there's a jagged, unrealistic hole there. Yay.
I've always yearned for a "game" with real physics. I want a world to explore. I don't care much for killing things. I'd just like to run around and see things... Mountains, caves, buildings, trees, cool stuff like that. And if I could interact with it, that would be great. And no, I'm not just asking for Myst...
I was excited when that Jurassic Park game came out with a "complete physics model" where you could supposedly affect everything in your environment. Never played it, heard it sucked. I should have known it was too good (too early) to be true... But someday, of course.
And someone said they don't want realistic stuff, because they're trying to *escape* reality. Well, yeah, I'm trying to escape reality, but that doesn't mean my escape shouldn't be realistic. I do, however, agree with the sentiment that flash, glitz, glamour, and large guns do not good gameplay make. I want a fun, engaging game.
...
Dammit!
Well, I got that conception before 3dfx existed, so there! :P
I agree, it's not *true* motion blur, it's just how motion blur has generally been done in games, etc.
Motion blur would simply add a fade to the mouse-trails feature. So do you really just want mouse-trails?
I'm not sure how a motion blur would affect the "jumpyness" of the cursor.
Are you actually asking for sub-pixel accuracy? That would make more sense in terms of jumpyness. I mean, right now, I can see the cursor "jump" from one pixel to the next, but I find this useful, I often select things by pixel (in graphics editing, etc.).
So, if you want a true motion blur, you basically want mouse trails. Maybe you are asking for one thing (sub-pixel accuracy) and calling it something else.
In any case, I can't see how this would be anything more than another cutesy feature like animated windows and menus. I personally hate these things, and always turn them off. I don't want to wait for my menu to pop out or my window to minimize. It's a waste of my time. I feel lie this would be as well. Even if it's only taking a tiny bit of my resources, I don't want it.
Heheh...
... here, and this one..." *BANG* A transistor explodes. A much bigger explosion than one might believe could come out of a transistor, as well... My teacher was on the other side of the lab having a meeting, he just looks up, makes sure no one is dead, and keeps on with the meeting...
Analog and Digital Electronics... I'm bored in lab one day, I look over to my partner, holding up a nice green wire, "Let's see what happens if we plug this in
Lots of fun that class was...
Well, I'm not sure Bush understands the concept of "robots," so we should be safe with him...
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but are you not saying that you think it's a bad thing that we don't have exactly the president you want?
That's what it sounds like you are saying, and you know as well as I do the problems with that...
Yeah... I thought forks occurred when a project wanted to go to different places... This one just seems to be that they want to take a different route to the same place, and perhaps go at a different speed...
Is classic Samba wholly opposed to supporting printing and w2k or something? Why can't these things be part of classic Samba?
Oh, and... TNG? I dunno, kids...
Personally, I don't want all this stuff on my wrist. Normal watches are too clunky for my tastes, as is...
...
Can't we make things that hang from belts or something? I dunno...
And what if you want the MS Outlook - linked watch, the mp3-watch, the camera-watch, the gps-watch (which is quite a beast), the TV/Cable-remote-watch, and the audio-recording-watch all at once? You'll look pretty damn silly, that's what! Oh, and you won't be able to lift your arms to *use* them
Geeze... It all seems pretty gimicky to me...
Hm... Now let's try to think of a single device that does all of these things... Yeah, I think I'd rather have one of those. It's easier to press the buttons at the very least.
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And your network topology is already layed out by the plumbing! How convenient...
... huh.
... A beowulf cluster of toilets
> Most mail programs let you cancel a message.
Heheh...
Me: *Cancel*
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Y'know, if something like Jurassic Park happened, it wouldn't be so bad. I mean, honestly, it was only bad because we were looking at it from the POV of the very *few* people on the island. In Real Life, that would just be a minor setback. Who really cares that a few people died? People die all the time...
Just go back to the island on a day when the weather's a little nicer and it wouldn't be too hard to bring things back to order.
Oh, and if they don't have scary music playing, it wouldn't be *nearly* as bad!
Yes, you *can* get them in the US.
One I know of is the Fujitsu S Series. It does one better than an integrated CD-ROM drive, though. It has a modular bay that can house anything from a DVD-ROM drive to a digital camera! It's pretty impressive.
I'm pretty sure there are other ultralights that have internal cd-roms now, too...
You can get advanced Japanese laptops in the US, though. Check out Dynamism.com, even if only to drool a little.
And, going back to the original topic, a friend of mine has a discman (not sony, though) that she said is one of the low-end models, which was amazingly small (I mean, there's only so small something can get and still hold a CD), had one of those cool remotes on the headphone cord, and even had optical digital-audio output! So if that's low-end in Japan, well...
Amen to the pirating...
"No, goddamit! I'm not going to upgrade! #@*&!"
... after a few thousand repeats of that situation, I finally gave in and "upgraded" in my own special way...
Well, just yesterday (The day before? They all get blurred...) they repeated the Sony Airboard post so quickly, they both showed up on the front page together!
I think they're getting old... I mean, c'mon, how can you expect anyone over twenty-five to stay sharp? Why do you think there are so many script-kiddies, but no script-adulties, huh?
Sorry, but I'm gonna go with white-hat, still. "Immature self-promoting"??? Yeah, like most people, to different degrees. White-hat doesn't mean "I'm holier than Mother Theresa" because that's not realistic. Real people have failings. I choose to respect people, even if they have a few...
The entire point of this story is that this guy has a sweet box? Or is there something akin to "news" in here?
Help me out here...
Bravo...
Well said. I admire you.
I can imagine myself though... "Um... uh, someone stole my pag- OH GOD I CAN'T LIE! I'M AN IMMORAL BASTARD! PLEASE! FIRE ME NOW!!!"
Mmmm.... nostalgia...
:-)
I went to a computer day-camp once... Geeze, I don't even remeber what I did there!!! But I remember seeing *Wolfenstien* running on a *386*!!! Man, was I impressed...
I had to work really hard to get some guy there to give me Scorch on a floppy... and it *was* worth it...
...
// Guys, this call is taking a long time...
// Is there any way can we speed it up somehow???
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You'd better believe they do a lot of FP! Do you know how floating-point intensive 3D shooters are?!
"... because they never envisioned someone having more than 1024x768 graphics viewing the site."
;-) in the corners...
Hm. I'd have to say that once you get above 1024x768, it's a little silly to be running most standard applications fullscreen. First of all there is the fact that I don't know of any websites that will look even the slightest bit better with more screen real estate than that 1024x768 gives you. And secondly, having windows is nice because you can have them all floating around each other, and you can see two (or more!) applications at once.
At the very least, you should leave some room to have random eye-candy (play mp3s w/ visualization - mute them if you don't care for the noise
Yeah. You're right. I got "caught up in the moment."
I'm sorry.
Beautiful...
"AtSchool PickMeUp"
I love it...
"It just dosen't make sense for me (or, I think, for your average computer user) to compress image files, given the currently available hardware."
You are compressing (or at least decompressing) images. JPEG and GIF and PNG and others are all compressed image formats. If they weren't, you would be downloading something more than ten times as much data to view every webpage.
Example: The Slashdot logo, top left on every page. It's a 3,473 byte GIF. Uncompressed, it's 59,848 bytes.
Even with today's technology, data compression is a BIG DEAL, for images or anything else.
I think that the licensing issue *might* be what killed it, or at least stunted its growth. Would we be using GIFs so much had Unisys been a tyrant about it's little patent back when GIFs were catching on? (I sure hope Unisys wasn't a tyrant back then, because otherwise my argument is dead...)
They say, "Unless you work entirely in black and white, approximately half your general audience won't properly see the colors you select for your site."
Ahem. Let's rephrase that: "No one but you will properly see the colors you select for your site." If they think that slight color shifts are a problem, they need to standardize everyone else's: browsers, OSs, graphics cards, monitors, viewing conditions, and eyes. Enjoy.