the sprites for the aimer are drawn in 2d over the screen and have no depth
laser sites are needed with q3 has for some weapons.
It takes some getting used to but when you turn the sights off it adds 'realism' *cough* to the game. Shame your opponents can line up pixel perfect so it give you a disadvantage against 2d opponents.
It makes the games more fun though. Often I'll just stand and watch 'cos it looks so cool and exploring the maps is great too. And jumping off high buildings and falling to the floor gives you a bit of a falling rush. Great fun.
stay away fromthe goggle but you're dead wrong if you think that's the be all and end all of home 3d.
try the 3D Revelator mentioned in the article. Same effect from $40 wireless glasses - a bit bigger than a pair of shades and comfortable over glasses (mine anyway).
"due to the fact that no game out there is actually tweaked to work properly with stereoscopic images, ghosting is still predominant in many cases. Most of these cases happen when light and dark graphics are combined.... Outdoor levels looked really good and worked fantastically on the display, while dark indoor levels produced major levels of ghosting. But yet again, this can, and will be fixed as soon as developers start adapting games for stereoscopic viewing."
I'm not sure that this is as self obvious as the reviewer thinks. From my experience with LCD shutter glasses (Revelator on Elsa - the ones mentioned in the article) it has little to do with the game but everything to do with the hardware. From my perception ghosting was caused by the closed shutter not being dark enough and the bright sections of the screen showing through. How it is still present when the shutter is a lens and not an opaque lcd crystal I'm not sure. An explanation of how it is manifested on the unit I'm curious to know. And how software developers are supposed to influence would also be an interesting explanation. Currently the system draws the scenes based on Direct3d or OpenGL scene data (even in windowed mode so you can see 3d images on web pages -.jps - jpeg stereo). The only influence I can see is for games to not have high contrast graphics. By example though Need for Speed 3 suffers. The white line down the center of the road ghosts even on the light coloured roads.
The only solution I can see is one of improved hardware. The results are impressive even with LCD shutter glasses. This monitor is one I am now lusting over. If I had the $ in the bank I'd go and buy one today. If you are lucky enough to be rich enough to be an early adopter please do because I want to be in the second wave. .oO0Oo.
ok troll i'll bite for fun gpl isn't about redistribution of wealth it's about redistribution of thought If you want to solve a problem there's a chance that a gpl project will either have fully or partially solved it. In return you contribute your efforts back to the pool. The pool gets deeper and opportunity gets wider. For those of us supported by non-productive day jobs (in terms of research and innovation to give back) we also get to program "becasue it's there". Through this we push the boundaries of our knowledge and learn from others the good and bad way of doing things.
round these parts many new shop bought systems bundle Office as part of the VAR package.
It's a very attractive method.
People who use MS Office at work want MS Office at home and if it's bundles with your overpriced PC (like the one's they sell in my local Sainsbury's food supermarket) then it's smoke and mirrors for the casual purchaser.
This is it's power.
oh and it kicks the crap out of StarOffice time after time. .oO0Oo.
it's not fun it's not good it makes me very sad leave it alone it's real use is to make bigger so called food animals which is a despicable activity already.
If animals are so good for testing on because the resemble the human body so much then how come you can say they are not in any way concious or appreciate their environment. Put yourself in the hooves of a bovine for two minutes as your offspring are taken away and you never see them again. Every year. For the duration of your life.
Put your eyes inside a pigs head as it gets pushed down the ramp of the lorry on it's way to slaughter. It can smell, it can feel the impending doom in the air.
Animals are not autonoma.
You are an animal not something separate and special.
My imperfect human ears cannot distinguish the difference between an MP3 that was sourced from a digital CD, versus an MP3 that was sourced from an FM station or a digital sampling of the analog output of a stereo.
Holding a microphone near the speaker wouldn't be an acceptable option as it would degrade the sound quality too much
Sorry but the degredation would not be too much for people to listen too.
When I was a kid we used to make tapes from putting one deck with a condenser mike next to the another tape/amp/speaker unit. The highest quality setting being the "closed bedroom door - no shouting" setting.
I've watched planety of VCD's that are done by some guy in a Hong Kong cinema with a camcorder. And then ftp'd or mailed around the world on CD.
PLus that's how plenty or recrods are recorded in the first place. Something makes a sound and a microphone records it.
Even slightly sophisticated usic prirates would spend a few quid on some decent recording equipment and with analogue technology the way it is now you could make near perfect recordings of ANY encoded music with a aspeaker and microphone combination.
Any pathogen that crosses a species barrier is potentially lethal to it's new host. If that is true from avians to mammals (see the flu epeidemic in the post war years that claimed more lives than the war! which came from asian birds) then contamination from humans could, at most, wipe out the entire ecology. Maybe when the meteor crashed in to the earth during dinosaur times it was a pathogen that killed them all and not nuclear winter. .oO0Oo.
I always thought it was funny that ya had to pay for the Ms veraion. After all the developers had to buy the OS to dev it on. Frankly it was always cheaper (time & money) to install FreeBSD and pop MySQL on it too and have a dedicated server. Heck you can even do ODBC this way.
1. Shift right click on a field and select Open With... choose the application to open it with and make sure "Always use this application" is ticked this works sometimes:-)
2. run regedit search for.png delete the key double click on a.png select the application you want to associate with the file
PNG Alpha is something I'm sure we've all been waiting for. Thos that know what it is have anyway;-)
Well My build is from the M17 line : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000626
looking at the test page : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html
Neither IE or M17 display the page properly M17 doesn't even render the Tux one properly - the yellow background is still present IE5 copes with that one
the three toucans : Neither browser renders them with the correct transparency
The other four pics M17 only displays them at all but the transparency is foobard the bigger version display better.
Summary : M17 better than IE for PNG M17 on Win32 still doesn't do it correctly
Sorry my friend but I think that IE for Linux might just get a bit more attention than the cover disk of "maximum linux magazine" I've not seen that mag here in da UK but the title suggests form over content.
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being such an expert on experts i suppose yuo must be wrong to say experts are dead
.oO0Oo.
the fit will survive
evolution takes a long time
relying on such mechanisms can prove troublesome
.oO0Oo.
turn one port in to hub mode and see everything
and you happily operate as though everything is tickety boo as you telnet and su your way around your network
one rogue employee and it's asta la vista I believe
it's called plan9
.oO0Oo.
in fps game aiming can be tricky
.oO0Oo.
the sprites for the aimer are drawn in 2d over the screen and have no depth
laser sites are needed with q3 has for some weapons.
It takes some getting used to but when you turn the sights off it adds 'realism' *cough* to the game. Shame your opponents can line up pixel perfect so it give you a disadvantage against 2d opponents.
It makes the games more fun though. Often I'll just stand and watch 'cos it looks so cool and exploring the maps is great too. And jumping off high buildings and falling to the floor gives you a bit of a falling rush. Great fun.
stay away fromthe goggle but you're dead wrong if you think that's the be all and end all of home 3d.
.oO0Oo.
try the 3D Revelator mentioned in the article. Same effect from $40 wireless glasses - a bit bigger than a pair of shades and comfortable over glasses (mine anyway).
you need a 120hz vertical refresh monitor too
"due to the fact that no game out there is actually tweaked to work properly with stereoscopic images, ghosting is still predominant in many cases. Most of these cases happen when light and dark graphics are combined. ... Outdoor levels looked really good and worked fantastically on the display, while dark indoor levels produced major levels of ghosting. But yet again, this can, and will be fixed as soon as developers start adapting games for stereoscopic viewing."
I'm not sure that this is as self obvious as the reviewer thinks. From my experience with LCD shutter glasses (Revelator on Elsa - the ones mentioned in the article) it has little to do with the game but everything to do with the hardware. From my perception ghosting was caused by the closed shutter not being dark enough and the bright sections of the screen showing through. How it is still present when the shutter is a lens and not an opaque lcd crystal I'm not sure. An explanation of how it is manifested on the unit I'm curious to know. And how software developers are supposed to influence would also be an interesting explanation. Currently the system draws the scenes based on Direct3d or OpenGL scene data (even in windowed mode so you can see 3d images on web pages - .jps - jpeg stereo). The only influence I can see is for games to not have high contrast graphics. By example though Need for Speed 3 suffers. The white line down the center of the road ghosts even on the light coloured roads.
.oO0Oo.
The only solution I can see is one of improved hardware. The results are impressive even with LCD shutter glasses. This monitor is one I am now lusting over. If I had the $ in the bank I'd go and buy one today. If you are lucky enough to be rich enough to be an early adopter please do because I want to be in the second wave.
how?
.oO0Oo.
OT - bye bye karma
.oO0Oo.
ok troll i'll bite for fun
gpl isn't about redistribution of wealth
it's about redistribution of thought
If you want to solve a problem there's a chance that a gpl project will either have fully or partially solved it.
In return you contribute your efforts back to the pool. The pool gets deeper and opportunity gets wider.
For those of us supported by non-productive day jobs (in terms of research and innovation to give back) we also get to program "becasue it's there". Through this we push the boundaries of our knowledge and learn from others the good and bad way of doing things.
ntl nottingham got shut down by ILOVEYOU
.oO0Oo.
they us NT for their networking
:_)
round these parts many new shop bought systems bundle Office as part of the VAR package.
.oO0Oo.
It's a very attractive method.
People who use MS Office at work want MS Office at home and if it's bundles with your overpriced PC (like the one's they sell in my local Sainsbury's food supermarket) then it's smoke and mirrors for the casual purchaser.
This is it's power.
oh and it kicks the crap out of StarOffice time after time.
1. mountain
.oO0Oo.
2. you'll be able to pick 'em up for $30 soon enough
3. you need inspiration
some animals blah blah blah so fucking what
.oO0Oo.
bovines don't eat their young
they are visibly and demonstratably distressed when their young are removed and not for 5 minutes but for weeks
I am not imagining it I used my senses to watch it with my own eyes on a dairy farm.
We are mammals how come you think our genes are so magic that anything with a different number of chromozones can't possibly be in any way concious.
yes we are special, we can pay for sex and we have the guns
oh ha ha. you fucking twat
the desktop is almost useless
.oO0Oo.
side toolbars are the way to go
I only use the desktop as a quick storage folder these days but i've got 3 popup toolbars attached to the side of my screen
works a treat
the mousewheel eliminates scroll buttons entirely
.oO0Oo.
this is the single greatest improvement i have seen in 5 years
force feedback mouse next
it's not fun
.oO0Oo.
it's not good
it makes me very sad
leave it alone
it's real use is to make bigger so called food animals which is a despicable activity already.
If animals are so good for testing on because the resemble the human body so much then how come you can say they are not in any way concious or appreciate their environment. Put yourself in the hooves of a bovine for two minutes as your offspring are taken away and you never see them again. Every year. For the duration of your life.
Put your eyes inside a pigs head as it gets pushed down the ramp of the lorry on it's way to slaughter. It can smell, it can feel the impending doom in the air.
Animals are not autonoma.
You are an animal not something separate and special.
Use the conciousness you have to see with.
Wake up!!
My imperfect human ears cannot distinguish the difference between an MP3 that was sourced from a digital CD, versus an MP3 that was sourced from an FM station or a digital sampling of the analog output of a stereo.
.oO0Oo.
mine can
Holding a microphone near the speaker wouldn't be an acceptable option as it would degrade the sound quality too much
.oO0Oo.
Sorry but the degredation would not be too much for people to listen too.
When I was a kid we used to make tapes from putting one deck with a condenser mike next to the another tape/amp/speaker unit. The highest quality setting being the "closed bedroom door - no shouting" setting.
I've watched planety of VCD's that are done by some guy in a Hong Kong cinema with a camcorder.
And then ftp'd or mailed around the world on CD.
PLus that's how plenty or recrods are recorded in the first place. Something makes a sound and a microphone records it.
Even slightly sophisticated usic prirates would spend a few quid on some decent recording equipment and with analogue technology the way it is now you could make near perfect recordings of ANY encoded music with a aspeaker and microphone combination.
buckyball shells?
.oO0Oo.
er, they just did
maybe the blast was too cold for 'em
who knows
it's an frivolous example
Any pathogen that crosses a species barrier is potentially lethal to it's new host. If that is true from avians to mammals (see the flu epeidemic in the post war years that claimed more lives than the war! which came from asian birds) then contamination from humans could, at most, wipe out the entire ecology. Maybe when the meteor crashed in to the earth during dinosaur times it was a pathogen that killed them all and not nuclear winter.
.oO0Oo.
it's pointing out that the capacity that the network CAN carry has been doubling every nine months.
.oO0Oo.
I always thought it was funny that ya had to pay for the Ms veraion. After all the developers had to buy the OS to dev it on.
.oO0Oo.
Frankly it was always cheaper (time & money) to install FreeBSD and pop MySQL on it too and have a dedicated server.
Heck you can even do ODBC this way.
some ways :
:-)
.png .png
.oO0Oo.
1. Shift right click on a field and select
Open With...
choose the application to open it with and
make sure "Always use this application" is ticked
this works sometimes
2. run regedit
search for
delete the key
double click on a
select the application you want to associate with the file
3. uninstall quicktime
reinstall IE
I d/l the nightly after reading this.
;-)
;-)
.oO0Oo.
PNG Alpha is something I'm sure we've all been waiting for. Thos that know what it is have anyway
Well My build is from the M17 line :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000626
looking at the test page : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html
Neither IE or M17 display the page properly
M17 doesn't even render the Tux one properly - the yellow background is still present IE5 copes with that one
the three toucans :
Neither browser renders them with the correct transparency
The other four pics
M17 only displays them at all but the transparency is foobard
the bigger version display better.
Summary : M17 better than IE for PNG
M17 on Win32 still doesn't do it correctly
I'll be pleased when it does.
But by then IE6 will be on my system too
stupid is as stupid does
.oO0Oo.
Sorry my friend but I think that IE for Linux might just get a bit more attention than the cover disk of "maximum linux magazine"
I've not seen that mag here in da UK but the title suggests form over content.