I apologize - somehow I am having trouble expressing my idea here it seems. What I did not say was that gamers would *never* want ray traced games. What I did say however was that *until there exists a ray traced system that produces an experience better than the rasterized version* the gamers will not want the raytraced solution just because they can use their CPUs instead of a graphics card.
I think you are missing the point a little here by ignoring one of the points people made before you. It's not like Intel has demonstrated amazing graphics using raytracing. Noone would want graphics like this in their games even today let alone in 4 years. Iff Intel can come up with a demonstration using raytracing that actually looks *better* than the "cheap trick" version then we can start counting down the days for when we will get that capability at home for an affordable price.
Is there a reason why the textures (especially those on the chopper but in general as well) look extremely poor quality? Was this done on purpose to increase the FPS?
Actually it is not even certain you can track the money *inside the US*. A few years back a friend of mine got swindled on EBay - instead of a laptop, he received an empty box. He tried contacting the seller but there was no response. The price was more than a thousand dollars and EBay's guarantee covered only a small part of that. It turns out he also mailed a cashier's check which made the process much harder to deal with. He contacted the local police who in turn contacted FBI. We even managed to track down the guy's bank and got information about the account through some social engineering ourselves but ultimately nothing came out of it. It turns out the "seller" just moves around opening/closing accounts with different names and uses PO Boxes.
I see your up to 28Mb and raise to 100Mb here in Tokyo;)
It is extremely weird though that all of a sudden cable companies "realized" that they cannot (or don't want to) provide everyone with an unthrottled connection. If this is accepted by the customers without a serious uproar I can so see other companies following suit pretty quickly. After all they would make more money from the "clueless consumer" this way.
The scary thing is if someone from MPAA is one of the people behind coming up with this genius of an idea. After all this is one way to convince people to stop downloading big things like movies or sharing torrents...
I think one of the biggest problems that can come out of this is even more soldiers confusing reality with what happens in the game. What may be a slight point penalty in the game can translate to dead by-standers, and ruined families... We already see partipants in combat dissociating from reality and starting to see anyone who is not one of "them" as being non-human. This, if done without extreme caution, will only make matters worse.
I am a big fan of 8bit era games even though the closest I got to them was on the PC since I haven't had a game console until the Sega Dreamcast. I have tried to satisfy my curiosity through emulators on the PC and my modified XBox but it is a completely different feeling to play the games in their original 8 bit glory. Now that I moved to Japan, these games are much easier to find and are dirt cheap. There are stores in Akiba selling games for less than a few dollars each as well as emulators of Famicom (hardware) so you can pick up a used game and play it at home.
Here is the original article, in German, from the German newspaper. It looks like a professor helped him (Professor Spahn from Potsdam University). Bild is semi-infamous in Europe for sensationalizing stories but at least we know that the boy is real if nothing else...
I do not think that there is a significant part of the population who thinks whatever shows up in a.EDU page has to be 100% accurate. The beforementioned prefectly manicured lawns is an example of that as well as the homepage of any college student hosted under the said domain which may contain any falsehoods that student may see fit to put on there. As long as the contents of the page does not violate the Terms of Use by the hosting institution the student is free to post anything he or she wants.
This however does not mean selling space is a good idea without any harm. Even though people who may come across an article on a.edu page knows that the contents may not be "true" there is still an implicit assumption that an institution of education would have -some- control over what is posted. I think this is reflected even in the PageRank ranking.edu pages higher. If the new service has much more lax restrictions on the content then I think this would cause more noticable problems.
May be Boeing does not want to licence it for a reasonable price? If this is the only way of getting the satellite (and it seems to be the case) and Boeing knows this, then Boeing might be asking for an unreasonable amount. In fact this amount might make it cheaper to build one from scratch and relaunch it.
...when common sense does not prevail. The company and Boeing need to come to an agreement of sorts in order to avert the turning of the satellite into space debris. We already have enough stuff out there. The fact that there is no explicit "cost" to the company, of leaving something up there is the main reason for the seeming unwillingness for taking action.
I think this only makes sense. There are so many spam emails geared towards men. How many women would have the same... ahem... incentive... to open an email entitled "See Angelina Jolie nude!"?
Yup, was about to say. Here in Tokyo I have a 100 Mbps/100 Mbps connection for about $60/month (of ocurse uncapped).
Nice to see US is starting to catch up albeit slowly. I remember when I was a student in the US I had to pay almost double of this and get a measly 3 Mbps.
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Is it me or is there an amazingly high correlation between being an "Anonymous Coward" and being mind-numbingly ignorant?
I apologize - somehow I am having trouble expressing my idea here it seems. What I did not say was that gamers would *never* want ray traced games. What I did say however was that *until there exists a ray traced system that produces an experience better than the rasterized version* the gamers will not want the raytraced solution just because they can use their CPUs instead of a graphics card.
I think you are missing the point a little here by ignoring one of the points people made before you. It's not like Intel has demonstrated amazing graphics using raytracing. Noone would want graphics like this in their games even today let alone in 4 years. Iff Intel can come up with a demonstration using raytracing that actually looks *better* than the "cheap trick" version then we can start counting down the days for when we will get that capability at home for an affordable price.
Is there a reason why the textures (especially those on the chopper but in general as well) look extremely poor quality? Was this done on purpose to increase the FPS?
Or the people behind the tubes...
Actually it is not even certain you can track the money *inside the US*. A few years back a friend of mine got swindled on EBay - instead of a laptop, he received an empty box. He tried contacting the seller but there was no response. The price was more than a thousand dollars and EBay's guarantee covered only a small part of that. It turns out he also mailed a cashier's check which made the process much harder to deal with. He contacted the local police who in turn contacted FBI. We even managed to track down the guy's bank and got information about the account through some social engineering ourselves but ultimately nothing came out of it. It turns out the "seller" just moves around opening/closing accounts with different names and uses PO Boxes.
I see your up to 28Mb and raise to 100Mb here in Tokyo ;)
It is extremely weird though that all of a sudden cable companies "realized" that they cannot (or don't want to) provide everyone with an unthrottled connection. If this is accepted by the customers without a serious uproar I can so see other companies following suit pretty quickly. After all they would make more money from the "clueless consumer" this way.
The scary thing is if someone from MPAA is one of the people behind coming up with this genius of an idea. After all this is one way to convince people to stop downloading big things like movies or sharing torrents...
I think one of the biggest problems that can come out of this is even more soldiers confusing reality with what happens in the game. What may be a slight point penalty in the game can translate to dead by-standers, and ruined families... We already see partipants in combat dissociating from reality and starting to see anyone who is not one of "them" as being non-human. This, if done without extreme caution, will only make matters worse.
I am a big fan of 8bit era games even though the closest I got to them was on the PC since I haven't had a game console until the Sega Dreamcast. I have tried to satisfy my curiosity through emulators on the PC and my modified XBox but it is a completely different feeling to play the games in their original 8 bit glory. Now that I moved to Japan, these games are much easier to find and are dirt cheap. There are stores in Akiba selling games for less than a few dollars each as well as emulators of Famicom (hardware) so you can pick up a used game and play it at home.
I think you are considering a rather obtuse view of the term "satellite". They seem to mean any object orbiting the Earth; for example the moon.
Here is the original article, in German, from the German newspaper. It looks like a professor helped him (Professor Spahn from Potsdam University). Bild is semi-infamous in Europe for sensationalizing stories but at least we know that the boy is real if nothing else...
I do not think that there is a significant part of the population who thinks whatever shows up in a .EDU page has to be 100% accurate. The beforementioned prefectly manicured lawns is an example of that as well as the homepage of any college student hosted under the said domain which may contain any falsehoods that student may see fit to put on there. As long as the contents of the page does not violate the Terms of Use by the hosting institution the student is free to post anything he or she wants.
This however does not mean selling space is a good idea without any harm. Even though people who may come across an article on a .edu page knows that the contents may not be "true" there is still an implicit assumption that an institution of education would have -some- control over what is posted. I think this is reflected even in the PageRank ranking .edu pages higher. If the new service has much more lax restrictions on the content then I think this would cause more noticable problems.
May be Boeing does not want to licence it for a reasonable price? If this is the only way of getting the satellite (and it seems to be the case) and Boeing knows this, then Boeing might be asking for an unreasonable amount. In fact this amount might make it cheaper to build one from scratch and relaunch it.
...when common sense does not prevail. The company and Boeing need to come to an agreement of sorts in order to avert the turning of the satellite into space debris. We already have enough stuff out there. The fact that there is no explicit "cost" to the company, of leaving something up there is the main reason for the seeming unwillingness for taking action.
I think this only makes sense. There are so many spam emails geared towards men. How many women would have the same ... ahem... incentive... to open an email entitled "See Angelina Jolie nude!"?
Yup, was about to say. Here in Tokyo I have a 100 Mbps/100 Mbps connection for about $60/month (of ocurse uncapped). Nice to see US is starting to catch up albeit slowly. I remember when I was a student in the US I had to pay almost double of this and get a measly 3 Mbps.
we have this... or... wait... My bad. I guess nothing another organization can do can actually make RIAA look any better.