And those idiots would be right. Show me a car that has a faster 0-60 time than its best 60-0 time.
If you keep the throttle wide open and the car in drive, that's every single car. Your brakes will fail well before stopping the vehicle. They'll heat up and lose all stopping power in a matter of seconds. There's a reason we build runaway truck ramps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Unless you cut the throttle or disengage the engine, the brakes will lose every time.
Not quite. I think it is best seen by the Mermin paradox:
Three particles are brought into a special shared quantum state (termed GHZ state) and then distributed to three parties, who each can then make, on their own choice, one of two measurements on the particles, X or Y. Either measurement can result either in the value 1, or the value -1.
Now it turns out that while the individual results are completely random, whenever any two of them choose the measurement Y and the third one chooses X, the product of all three measures values are 1, every time.
Now, so far there's no problem: This could easily be explained by the original procedure producing not really the same state, but randomly different states which determine all measurement results, and which all fulfil the condition. This would be the analogue to your coin: Every actual state (heads up or tails up in the case of the coin, the set of six potential measurement results in the case of the Mermin paradox) fixes every measurement result, and all states fulfil a certain condition (the opposite sides of the coin having different symbols, the products of XYY-type measurements being 1 for the Mermin paradox), but the states are otherwise chosen by random. Due to the restriction on the states, you can predict one measurement result if you know the other(s) (for the coin, the down-facing symbol if you know the up-facing, for the Mermin paradox the third measured value of an XYY-type measurement if you know the other two).
Assuming this explanation, let's figure out what the product of measurement results should be if all three people measure X. To this end, let's label as x1 the measurement result the first person got from measuring X, y1 the result the first person would have gotten if measuring Y (which, in the above scenario, would be well-defined, just as in the case of the coin the symbol facing up is well defined even if you don't look at it), x2 the second person's result from measuring X, and so on.
Now we already know that y1*y2*x3=1, y1*x2*y3=1 and x1*y2*y3=1. If we multiply those three values together, we get x1*y1^2*x2*y2^2*x3*y3^2=1. But since the measurement results are all either 1 or -1, their squares are always 1, and thus we end up with x1*x2*x3=1. So according the above explanation, when all three people measure X, the product of their measurement results should be 1, every single time.
Now for the specific quantum state quantum mechanics predicts something different (and experiments confirm it, of course only within measurement error): When all three people measure X, the product of their measurement results is -1, every single time.
That's a lot of bullshit for "I don't know what I'm doing.".
The outcome of -1 simply disproves your original "Now it turns out that while the individual results are completely random, whenever any two of them choose the measurement Y and the third one chooses X, the product of all three measures values are 1, every time." statement. y1*y2*x3=1, y1*x2*y3=1 and x1*y2*y3=1 are all false.
Yes, that's what co-location is: Somebody else pays you for physical access to your site for long-term deployment of equipment. So the "physical access" requirement isn't exactly some sort of "evil scheme" netflix invented to screw over Comcast.
This part is nonsensical:
Everything from physical access requirements to the ol' "By the way we may host other, non-Netflix content on these things in the future, and we'll charge people for the privilege, but you'll still have to treat it as Netflix data and not expect any money for carrying it on your network".
1) They already charge people to access their service now, and in a way that apparently harms Comcast/ISPs in general, so we have zero difference from the status quo--the ISPs already have accepted this as "normal" and I don't see how they can ever change that without essentially erasing the entire Internet and starting over.
2) If Netflix hosts other people's data on those systems... so what? It's to Comcast's benefit--the more content that users stream that way (as opposed to over their expensive peering links) the happier their customers will be.
3) Comcast already gets money to carry all of this data--they get it from their subscribers. They're caterwauling for a double-dip opportunity--the right to bill not just for bandwidth to users, but for the same bandwidth again to companies providing content.
You don't get it.
Netflix muscled these agreements and boxes onto ISPs by shouting "THIS ISP DOESN"T SUPPORT SUPER HD!!!!" from the rooftops. "SUPER HD" is just a decent-quality 8 Mbps stream, and it was never about ISPs supporting the stream, it was about Netflix granting them access to it. This required ISPs to agree to one-sided contracts in Netflix's favor. If ISPs didn't capitulate, they were branded as not supporting "SUPER HD" and users were actively encouraged by Netflix to bitch at the ISPs. Then once Netflix felt like they had enough coverage with these agreements and boxes, they opened up "SUPER HD" to (almost) every ISP.
The boxes and agreements are favorable to Netflix, not the ISPs. The ISPs would normally be paid to carry that traffic (or be able to account for it when discussing peering agreements). Now they pay to store, power, and deliver Netflix's content, and it's removed from the table when discussing peering agreements. On top of that Netflix can store non-Netflix content on those boxes, and ISPs would be unable to treat that content and its associated bandwidth/power/space/etc. costs differently than the rest of the content on those boxes.
Netflix weaseled their way into favorable shit and pissed of a lot of PHBs. Netflix did the same thing with their by-mail service. Once faced with impending shipping cost increases, they actively decimated the by-mail service. Once those contracts are up the bandwidth wars will start. They've got nowhere to go this time, so they're going to do all they can to bolster the importance of their content in the 3-5 years (my guess) those contracts are good for, which means diversifying services to users as well as allowing 3rd-party, non-Netflix content to fly under their banner.
Expect Netflix-branded competitors to shit like Youtube, Dropbox, and Twitch by the end of 2016.
Read the report. The explanation is in there. Basically, the acceleration gets stuck on and pressing the brake pedal doesn't send the signals to turn it off. And since the brakes are not strong enough to stop the car, you're hosed.
You're going to get a lot of idiots telling you that the brakes will win out over a floored throttle. Just a heads up.
Netflix has a program where they'll colocate some servers containing a content cache on a segment of the ISPs network so that their peering connections aren't getting beaten to death--why wouldn't these companies get involved in such a program other than as a means to squeeze more money from Netflix, their subscribers, or both.
Because you have to agree to Netflix's terms to host those things. Everything from physical access requirements to the ol' "By the way we may host other, non-Netflix content on these things in the future, and we'll charge people for the privilege, but you'll still have to treat it as Netflix data and not expect any money for carrying it on your network".
Netflix muscled their way into favorable agreements (both with and without those storage boxes at the ISPs) when they trotted out Super HD. Now that they have a lot of those agreements in place, Netflix opened it up so (just about) everyone gets Super HD, and they aren't making any noise over it anymore.
(it'll replace all the bullets in a list with a clock icon, regardless of what font we use).
Irony. I think most of the clocks I've seen were in genuine 100% Microsoft Word.
However, I think I recognize your problem and it has to do (IIRC) with the fact that the font used for the bullet is not controlled by the font specification for the bulleted content itself, and I'm pretty sure that there is actually a difference between Word's handling of this nuance and Open/Libre Office handling of it.
If that was the worst problem I had, I think a fairly simple solution could be achieved, but my definition of "fairly simple" can run up to and including unzipping the ODF and doing a "sed" replace, so your definition may vary.
You're right that Word 2010 uses a different font for the list symbols than it does for the content, but changing the font for the symbols doesn't reliably fix the problem. I've defined new default list styles and injected normal bullets that OO is usually happy to deal with, and sometimes it works, sometimes it barfs. It's bizarre, and if it were the only issue I had with OO I might try to work around it by procedurally futzing with the doc before it's fed to OO (like the way you suggested), but it's really just the top of the iceberg.
Not quite. Entangled particles 21 Kilometers apart seem to communicate faster than the time light would take to cross the distance. Also, electrons in a semi-conductor often appear on the other side of the barrier before they have left the first side. As Bohr said "If you are not disturbed by quantum mechanics, than you don't really understand it."
Wrong. Take known coin of two sides, heads and tails. Flip the coin. Look at the coin. See that the coin landed heads-up. INSTANTLY know that the coin landed tails-down. The information of the coin landing tails down did not travel to you at a speed faster than c, it was simply derived from the known relation of heads and tails.
Entanglement is the same thing. Knowing one doesn't cause information to transfer to you form the origin of the other. The information was already with the observer, the entangled particles separated at speeds = c, and then the information was looked at.
They're not looking for quasars with no shared quantum state, they're looking for quasars with no shared history. As in, outside of eachother's past light cone. The goal is to prove that there's no classical explanation for the observed excess in violation of Bell's inequality.
All light cones lead to the big bang, if you believe in that sort of thing.
I call bullshit. OpenOffice or LibreOffice can be configured to store files in.doc and.xls and.ppt formats - problem solved! It annoys me there are still people and govts. buying the rubbish arguments spouted by Microsoft and their ilk...
People who say OpenOffice read and writes MS Office files fine can not have used this themselves on an ongoing basis for more than the simplest of files. It regularly messes up the documents, and macros. Not saying OpenOffice is at fault for this, it is just a fact, that shouldn't be falsely presented to potential users.
Just today I had to tell someone to save to PDF before uploading because Open Office's automatic conversion (which we call on the back end) fucks shit up half the time. We could update to a later version of Open Office, but it'll just fuck things up differently (it'll replace all the bullets in a list with a clock icon, regardless of what font we use).
The mechanism to receive firmware patches doesn't need to be particularly fast nor does it need to bidirectional.
So you expect manufacturers to broadcast every single firmware update at all times and for cars to always be listening? And with no bidirectional communication a car can't verify the source of the transmission.
I found the lighting to be perfect and the duct tape mod to make the game far worse.
It was repetitive, just like every single FPS.
The story was Doom. This is not a con.
HL2 didn't revolutionize shit. HL did. HL2 was hyped to no end, but it was a generic, boring shooter. The "story telling" revolved around watching other characters do things while you stood around. It wasn't new or special, nor was the story worth a damn.
They made it really dark to deal with the fact that the engine wasn't powerful enough to render everything if you could see well.
Outright lie. Darkness wasn't used to hasten rendering. To the contrary, the flashlight and muzzle flashes were dynamic light sources that lit up the environment and models. It was very taxing. Even modern games such as L4D2 (released a full FIVE years later) don't do it to the degree that Doom 3 did. In L4D2 you can only see your own flashlight and whether your teammates' flashlights are on or off. The only dynamic light source is your own flash light (and it's not very dynamic).
It would have been far easier for Doom 3 to use global illumination and drop the flashlight and not have muzzle flashes be light sources.
that was completely intentional.. the goal was to build mood and suspense through the lack of visibility.. they accomplished this. things like the 'duct-tape' mod kind of ruined the atmosphere:(
If that is the case, then why did they made the "duct tape" permanent in the BFG Edition?. I think there are better ways to create suspense.
Because modern gamers are whiny little shits, especially console gamers (remember - the BFG edition was a console-focused rerelease and anthology). Choosing between a flashlight or gun was great design. It was intentional and it really shaped the game (as well as showed off the lighting engine).
Being so new, I don't know that it's been studied specifically. From experience with similar groups, I suspect that the parent is correct. You'll also find plenty of research on male athletic subculture which supports his assertion.
Or you could just continue to stick your head in the sand and ignore reality because it conflicts with your groundless anti-feminist beliefs. That's a popular pastime here.
So you don't know, you have no way to find out, and you're going to continue to malign a gender because of your prejudices? That's textbook bigotry and sexism.
Seems like we have only about 5000 to 50000 years to work this out. Better get busy then:)
Just put the hose extension of a Dyson on every rooftop and wash the filter daily. Atmosphere will be dust free in a matter of years. You can power the Dysons via solar in a matter of months.
Why is it so very hard for people to accept that increases in CO2 in the atmosphere, whatever their source, is not a good thing for a lot of species?
Higher CO2 concentrations and higher temperatures were the staple of the greatest periods of growth in biomass and biodiversity our planet has ever seen. I'm actively working to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere to accelerate this process. Existing species are boring. Lets get some new ones. Don't you liberals like evolution? Why would you actively work against it?
even better than switching shower heads, is to get one of those OSH or Home Depot buckets and put it in the shower. It will capture a lot of water that will go down the drain anyway, and you can use this to water plants.
And my filth/soap/shampoo/shaving cream/cum/piss/shit/blood/oil/pus/etc. will end up in that bucket too. Do plants crave those things? I'm unsure as to the amount of electrolytes in each.
Well, according to the "equality of outcome" school of thinking that dominates progressive thinking and policies, this amounts to racism. Therefore, the government must intervene in order to restore the preferred state, namely a statistically representative distribution of all genders and races.
Sadly, this is the same reasoning Blizzard uses to "balance" SCII. I've got a preview of the next balance patch for you guys: Nerf terran, buff zerg, buff protoss but only against terran.
Actually, I said a majority (I used the word "largely") of the males involved in e-sports (a very tiny niche minority of all men) behave that way. Not sure how pointing out an observable statistic of a subset means I hate an entire set of people, or how such strawmen can be considered "insightful".
He pointed out your sexist bullshit.
Please show me your research that says males involved in "e-sports" are "largely toxic, vulgar, immature, misogynist, and unwelcoming, and say shit like "OMFG A WOMAN IS HERE!" and tell women what they should do or say or feel about the men who act that way.". Be sure to define "toxic", "vulgar", "immature", "misogynistic", and "unwelcoming".
I'm no nVidiot, but 5-10% improvement at a substantial power savings in the same price bracket is indeed an impressive feat.
Substantial power savings, but certainly not the same price bracket. It is a $149 card so most reviews don't pit it against the much cheaper $119 R7 260X. In fact newegg right now sells an XFX OC edition of 260X for $119 and a Sapphire for $114 after rebate. Let's not mention that the Maxwell card gets trounced even by the cheaper 260X at many OpenCL tests - and reduced FP64 to 1/32 (vs the previous gen 1/24), so compute is also out. You have to pay dearly for the efficiency, nVidia as usual demands a price premium. Basically thank god for AMD being able to keep up, otherwise nVidia would be selling their cards 2X and 3X the price!
Nobody buys AMD for compute except Bitcoin miners. The market is priced for gaming. nVidia's 750 is priced exactly where it needs to be for gaming.
I brought up the 290X only in reference to AMD's inability to properly fill the channel months after launch, and the market's inflated prices due to the lack of competition. And you're missing the point entirely as well.
You too are trotting out a pointless comparison. The 7790 is a high-midrange part, the 750 is low end. The only comparison nVidia is using for pricing is gaming performance (where they consistently win) and feature set (3D, shadow play, gsync, etc.). nVidia doesn't price these cards out based on compute or when their AMD's cards were launched. Regardless of performance, nVidia wins 9/10 times if you're basing a purchase decision on compute because CUDA is much more widely-supported by media applications. Only very niche workloads such as Bitcoin mining benefit from AMD cards and their performance per watt and raw double precision performance.
The 750 represents a new architecture and it's significance is evident when you compare it to their old one. The gains will translate to the higher end Maxwell parts.
"Continued efforts" means Al Gore continues to take your money.
That's the essence of the problem. People like Al Gore act like they are the "experts" and there are similar loonies on the other side of the question. Can't we just do unbiased scientific work and rely on that?
Of course not. It's a political issue, not a scientific one. All the rhetoric, research funding, international conferences, projections, plans, and reporting are politics first, science last.
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And those idiots would be right. Show me a car that has a faster 0-60 time than its best 60-0 time.
If you keep the throttle wide open and the car in drive, that's every single car. Your brakes will fail well before stopping the vehicle. They'll heat up and lose all stopping power in a matter of seconds. There's a reason we build runaway truck ramps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Unless you cut the throttle or disengage the engine, the brakes will lose every time.
Not quite. I think it is best seen by the Mermin paradox:
Three particles are brought into a special shared quantum state (termed GHZ state) and then distributed to three parties, who each can then make, on their own choice, one of two measurements on the particles, X or Y. Either measurement can result either in the value 1, or the value -1.
Now it turns out that while the individual results are completely random, whenever any two of them choose the measurement Y and the third one chooses X, the product of all three measures values are 1, every time.
Now, so far there's no problem: This could easily be explained by the original procedure producing not really the same state, but randomly different states which determine all measurement results, and which all fulfil the condition. This would be the analogue to your coin: Every actual state (heads up or tails up in the case of the coin, the set of six potential measurement results in the case of the Mermin paradox) fixes every measurement result, and all states fulfil a certain condition (the opposite sides of the coin having different symbols, the products of XYY-type measurements being 1 for the Mermin paradox), but the states are otherwise chosen by random. Due to the restriction on the states, you can predict one measurement result if you know the other(s) (for the coin, the down-facing symbol if you know the up-facing, for the Mermin paradox the third measured value of an XYY-type measurement if you know the other two).
Assuming this explanation, let's figure out what the product of measurement results should be if all three people measure X. To this end, let's label as x1 the measurement result the first person got from measuring X, y1 the result the first person would have gotten if measuring Y (which, in the above scenario, would be well-defined, just as in the case of the coin the symbol facing up is well defined even if you don't look at it), x2 the second person's result from measuring X, and so on.
Now we already know that y1*y2*x3=1, y1*x2*y3=1 and x1*y2*y3=1. If we multiply those three values together, we get x1*y1^2*x2*y2^2*x3*y3^2=1. But since the measurement results are all either 1 or -1, their squares are always 1, and thus we end up with x1*x2*x3=1. So according the above explanation, when all three people measure X, the product of their measurement results should be 1, every single time.
Now for the specific quantum state quantum mechanics predicts something different (and experiments confirm it, of course only within measurement error): When all three people measure X, the product of their measurement results is -1, every single time.
That's a lot of bullshit for "I don't know what I'm doing.".
The outcome of -1 simply disproves your original "Now it turns out that while the individual results are completely random, whenever any two of them choose the measurement Y and the third one chooses X, the product of all three measures values are 1, every time." statement. y1*y2*x3=1, y1*x2*y3=1 and x1*y2*y3=1 are all false.
Yes, that's what co-location is: Somebody else pays you for physical access to your site for long-term deployment of equipment. So the "physical access" requirement isn't exactly some sort of "evil scheme" netflix invented to screw over Comcast.
This part is nonsensical:
1) They already charge people to access their service now, and in a way that apparently harms Comcast/ISPs in general, so we have zero difference from the status quo--the ISPs already have accepted this as "normal" and I don't see how they can ever change that without essentially erasing the entire Internet and starting over.
2) If Netflix hosts other people's data on those systems... so what? It's to Comcast's benefit--the more content that users stream that way (as opposed to over their expensive peering links) the happier their customers will be.
3) Comcast already gets money to carry all of this data--they get it from their subscribers. They're caterwauling for a double-dip opportunity--the right to bill not just for bandwidth to users, but for the same bandwidth again to companies providing content.
You don't get it.
Netflix muscled these agreements and boxes onto ISPs by shouting "THIS ISP DOESN"T SUPPORT SUPER HD!!!!" from the rooftops. "SUPER HD" is just a decent-quality 8 Mbps stream, and it was never about ISPs supporting the stream, it was about Netflix granting them access to it. This required ISPs to agree to one-sided contracts in Netflix's favor. If ISPs didn't capitulate, they were branded as not supporting "SUPER HD" and users were actively encouraged by Netflix to bitch at the ISPs. Then once Netflix felt like they had enough coverage with these agreements and boxes, they opened up "SUPER HD" to (almost) every ISP.
The boxes and agreements are favorable to Netflix, not the ISPs. The ISPs would normally be paid to carry that traffic (or be able to account for it when discussing peering agreements). Now they pay to store, power, and deliver Netflix's content, and it's removed from the table when discussing peering agreements. On top of that Netflix can store non-Netflix content on those boxes, and ISPs would be unable to treat that content and its associated bandwidth/power/space/etc. costs differently than the rest of the content on those boxes.
Netflix weaseled their way into favorable shit and pissed of a lot of PHBs. Netflix did the same thing with their by-mail service. Once faced with impending shipping cost increases, they actively decimated the by-mail service.
Once those contracts are up the bandwidth wars will start. They've got nowhere to go this time, so they're going to do all they can to bolster the importance of their content in the 3-5 years (my guess) those contracts are good for, which means diversifying services to users as well as allowing 3rd-party, non-Netflix content to fly under their banner.
Expect Netflix-branded competitors to shit like Youtube, Dropbox, and Twitch by the end of 2016.
Read the report. The explanation is in there. Basically, the acceleration gets stuck on and pressing the brake pedal doesn't send the signals to turn it off. And since the brakes are not strong enough to stop the car, you're hosed.
You're going to get a lot of idiots telling you that the brakes will win out over a floored throttle. Just a heads up.
Netflix has a program where they'll colocate some servers containing a content cache on a segment of the ISPs network so that their peering connections aren't getting beaten to death--why wouldn't these companies get involved in such a program other than as a means to squeeze more money from Netflix, their subscribers, or both.
Because you have to agree to Netflix's terms to host those things.
Everything from physical access requirements to the ol' "By the way we may host other, non-Netflix content on these things in the future, and we'll charge people for the privilege, but you'll still have to treat it as Netflix data and not expect any money for carrying it on your network".
Netflix muscled their way into favorable agreements (both with and without those storage boxes at the ISPs) when they trotted out Super HD. Now that they have a lot of those agreements in place, Netflix opened it up so (just about) everyone gets Super HD, and they aren't making any noise over it anymore.
(it'll replace all the bullets in a list with a clock icon, regardless of what font we use).
Irony. I think most of the clocks I've seen were in genuine 100% Microsoft Word.
However, I think I recognize your problem and it has to do (IIRC) with the fact that the font used for the bullet is not controlled by the font specification for the bulleted content itself, and I'm pretty sure that there is actually a difference between Word's handling of this nuance and Open/Libre Office handling of it.
If that was the worst problem I had, I think a fairly simple solution could be achieved, but my definition of "fairly simple" can run up to and including unzipping the ODF and doing a "sed" replace, so your definition may vary.
You're right that Word 2010 uses a different font for the list symbols than it does for the content, but changing the font for the symbols doesn't reliably fix the problem. I've defined new default list styles and injected normal bullets that OO is usually happy to deal with, and sometimes it works, sometimes it barfs. It's bizarre, and if it were the only issue I had with OO I might try to work around it by procedurally futzing with the doc before it's fed to OO (like the way you suggested), but it's really just the top of the iceberg.
Not quite. Entangled particles 21 Kilometers apart seem to communicate faster than the time light would take to cross the distance. Also, electrons in a semi-conductor often appear on the other side of the barrier before they have left the first side. As Bohr said "If you are not disturbed by quantum mechanics, than you don't really understand it."
Wrong.
Take known coin of two sides, heads and tails.
Flip the coin.
Look at the coin.
See that the coin landed heads-up.
INSTANTLY know that the coin landed tails-down.
The information of the coin landing tails down did not travel to you at a speed faster than c, it was simply derived from the known relation of heads and tails.
Entanglement is the same thing. Knowing one doesn't cause information to transfer to you form the origin of the other. The information was already with the observer, the entangled particles separated at speeds = c, and then the information was looked at.
They're not looking for quasars with no shared quantum state, they're looking for quasars with no shared history. As in, outside of eachother's past light cone. The goal is to prove that there's no classical explanation for the observed excess in violation of Bell's inequality.
All light cones lead to the big bang, if you believe in that sort of thing.
I call bullshit. OpenOffice or LibreOffice can be configured to store files in .doc and .xls and .ppt formats - problem solved! It annoys me there are still people and govts. buying the rubbish arguments spouted by Microsoft and their ilk...
People who say OpenOffice read and writes MS Office files fine can not have used this themselves on an ongoing basis for more than the simplest of files. It regularly messes up the documents, and macros. Not saying OpenOffice is at fault for this, it is just a fact, that shouldn't be falsely presented to potential users.
Just today I had to tell someone to save to PDF before uploading because Open Office's automatic conversion (which we call on the back end) fucks shit up half the time.
We could update to a later version of Open Office, but it'll just fuck things up differently (it'll replace all the bullets in a list with a clock icon, regardless of what font we use).
The mechanism to receive firmware patches doesn't need to be particularly fast nor does it need to bidirectional.
So you expect manufacturers to broadcast every single firmware update at all times and for cars to always be listening?
And with no bidirectional communication a car can't verify the source of the transmission.
Why not flash your BIOS through 192.168.1.255?
/rant I wish people realize that they are fucking up searching for your product when they rename the sequel back at 1.
Xbox .. no it's not one .. its the third generation / version.
Xbox 360
Xbone One
iPad ... no, it's the 3rd or 4th generation ... does "iPad" refer to the latest version or the "iPad" original ??
iPad 2
iPad
* I can understand the iPad Air because there wasn't a previous version, though technically it is the iPad 5.
HTC has a new flagship phone - the HTC One 2.
I swear I'm not trolling you. I love to fucking troll, but HTC beat me to it.
I found the lighting to be perfect and the duct tape mod to make the game far worse.
It was repetitive, just like every single FPS.
The story was Doom. This is not a con.
HL2 didn't revolutionize shit. HL did. HL2 was hyped to no end, but it was a generic, boring shooter. The "story telling" revolved around watching other characters do things while you stood around. It wasn't new or special, nor was the story worth a damn.
They made it really dark to deal with the fact that the engine wasn't powerful enough to render everything if you could see well.
Outright lie. Darkness wasn't used to hasten rendering. To the contrary, the flashlight and muzzle flashes were dynamic light sources that lit up the environment and models. It was very taxing. Even modern games such as L4D2 (released a full FIVE years later) don't do it to the degree that Doom 3 did. In L4D2 you can only see your own flashlight and whether your teammates' flashlights are on or off. The only dynamic light source is your own flash light (and it's not very dynamic).
It would have been far easier for Doom 3 to use global illumination and drop the flashlight and not have muzzle flashes be light sources.
that was completely intentional.. the goal was to build mood and suspense through the lack of visibility.. they accomplished this. things like the 'duct-tape' mod kind of ruined the atmosphere :(
If that is the case, then why did they made the "duct tape" permanent in the BFG Edition?. I think there are better ways to create suspense.
Because modern gamers are whiny little shits, especially console gamers (remember - the BFG edition was a console-focused rerelease and anthology).
Choosing between a flashlight or gun was great design. It was intentional and it really shaped the game (as well as showed off the lighting engine).
Being so new, I don't know that it's been studied specifically. From experience with similar groups, I suspect that the parent is correct. You'll also find plenty of research on male athletic subculture which supports his assertion.
Or you could just continue to stick your head in the sand and ignore reality because it conflicts with your groundless anti-feminist beliefs. That's a popular pastime here.
So you don't know, you have no way to find out, and you're going to continue to malign a gender because of your prejudices? That's textbook bigotry and sexism.
When the earth gets too hot, the extreme plant growth leads to the rise of giant animals like dinosaurs. We don't want to be eaten by dinosaurs.
Speak for yourself. Dinolingus and dinolatio are the best.
Seems like we have only about 5000 to 50000 years to work this out. Better get busy then :)
Just put the hose extension of a Dyson on every rooftop and wash the filter daily. Atmosphere will be dust free in a matter of years. You can power the Dysons via solar in a matter of months.
Why is it so very hard for people to accept that increases in CO2 in the atmosphere, whatever their source, is not a good thing for a lot of species?
Higher CO2 concentrations and higher temperatures were the staple of the greatest periods of growth in biomass and biodiversity our planet has ever seen. I'm actively working to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere to accelerate this process. Existing species are boring. Lets get some new ones. Don't you liberals like evolution? Why would you actively work against it?
even better than switching shower heads, is to get one of those OSH or Home Depot buckets and put it in the shower. It will capture a lot of water that will go down the drain anyway, and you can use this to water plants.
And my filth/soap/shampoo/shaving cream/cum/piss/shit/blood/oil/pus/etc. will end up in that bucket too. Do plants crave those things? I'm unsure as to the amount of electrolytes in each.
Well, according to the "equality of outcome" school of thinking that dominates progressive thinking and policies, this amounts to racism. Therefore, the government must intervene in order to restore the preferred state, namely a statistically representative distribution of all genders and races.
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Sadly, this is the same reasoning Blizzard uses to "balance" SCII.
I've got a preview of the next balance patch for you guys: Nerf terran, buff zerg, buff protoss but only against terran.
Actually, I said a majority (I used the word "largely") of the males involved in e-sports (a very tiny niche minority of all men) behave that way. Not sure how pointing out an observable statistic of a subset means I hate an entire set of people, or how such strawmen can be considered "insightful".
He pointed out your sexist bullshit.
Please show me your research that says males involved in "e-sports" are "largely toxic, vulgar, immature, misogynist, and unwelcoming, and say shit like "OMFG A WOMAN IS HERE!" and tell women what they should do or say or feel about the men who act that way.".
Be sure to define "toxic", "vulgar", "immature", "misogynistic", and "unwelcoming".
Oh, you don't have any such research?
I'm no nVidiot, but 5-10% improvement at a substantial power savings in the same price bracket is indeed an impressive feat.
Substantial power savings, but certainly not the same price bracket. It is a $149 card so most reviews don't pit it against the much cheaper $119 R7 260X. In fact newegg right now sells an XFX OC edition of 260X for $119 and a Sapphire for $114 after rebate. Let's not mention that the Maxwell card gets trounced even by the cheaper 260X at many OpenCL tests - and reduced FP64 to 1/32 (vs the previous gen 1/24), so compute is also out.
You have to pay dearly for the efficiency, nVidia as usual demands a price premium. Basically thank god for AMD being able to keep up, otherwise nVidia would be selling their cards 2X and 3X the price!
Nobody buys AMD for compute except Bitcoin miners. The market is priced for gaming. nVidia's 750 is priced exactly where it needs to be for gaming.
I brought up the 290X only in reference to AMD's inability to properly fill the channel months after launch, and the market's inflated prices due to the lack of competition. And you're missing the point entirely as well.
You too are trotting out a pointless comparison. The 7790 is a high-midrange part, the 750 is low end.
The only comparison nVidia is using for pricing is gaming performance (where they consistently win) and feature set (3D, shadow play, gsync, etc.). nVidia doesn't price these cards out based on compute or when their AMD's cards were launched. Regardless of performance, nVidia wins 9/10 times if you're basing a purchase decision on compute because CUDA is much more widely-supported by media applications. Only very niche workloads such as Bitcoin mining benefit from AMD cards and their performance per watt and raw double precision performance.
The 750 represents a new architecture and it's significance is evident when you compare it to their old one. The gains will translate to the higher end Maxwell parts.
"Continued efforts" means Al Gore continues to take your money.
That's the essence of the problem. People like Al Gore act like they are the "experts" and there are similar loonies on the other side of the question. Can't we just do unbiased scientific work and rely on that?
Of course not. It's a political issue, not a scientific one. All the rhetoric, research funding, international conferences, projections, plans, and reporting are politics first, science last.
Funny how people like you never take one for the planet and start depopulating yourselves.
I'd rather take a billion for the planet than just one. Beyond that, I will die, so I'm guaranteed to "take one".