On Newgrounds, many of the new flash games posted there have an achievements system, it's like they have to have it these days. And that is a good thing imho, I enjoy getting these too. The game will have more play value for me due to wanting to achieve these things. It's not like we're drones made to play games right? The achievements make it fun, and that's good. Right?
Steel just isn't good enough, something like a fusion reactor needs more Magical metals, for example they could look into using Mythril or Adamantite for getting some super strong metal walls...
Why do they compare a player that can play music from a solid state chip with an iPod? Such music players already existed before the iPod: MP3 players from Creative and many others. Apple just made a similar MP3 player and used its name to make it sell better. They're doing as if the iPod is the only such portable player in existance, which is exactly as ignorant as saying that World Of Warcraft is the MMORPG!
I very often see articles saying the Dark Matter is found. This has been going on for years already. Articles titled "Dark Matter Found". But later another article pops up again saying "Dark Matter Found" and it'll have a totally different explanation, be it some new particle type, some mathematical construct, something that says that in fact it doesn't exist and it's another effect, or again another particle type.
So basically, they just don't know?
Quoting: "Parents who had been paying $1,425 a month for infant care would see their costs rise to nearly $2,500"... WTF? How much do people in the US earn? This amount of money per month, is what is almost the total monthly salary in Europe is for many people! How could you give that for just infant care?? Renting an apartment is like 400 euros per month, much cheaper than this infant care (even the so called cheap $1425 one)! How do you pay for rent, survival costs, and saving, if you have a baby and use that infant care?
Yeah really, why Bible passages, why not texts from *this* day instead of from thousands of years ago, there's so much choice of things from today, such as slashdot articles, QDB quotes,.....
Aaaah! Please forget my question in the parent post! I misread is as "drives (instead of drivers) have to be developed for Windows only" instead of "windows has to be extended with new drivers". Obviously this will also count for other OSes?:)
From the article: "Also, new Mass Storage Device drivers will have to be developed for Windows to take advantage of the spec.". What does being developed for Windows mean? Does it mean it will work ONLY in Windows? Are drivers for USB 3.0 not usable on other platforms?
More importantly, you're assuming this is a good idea
If not for the reasons stated above, then at least for the reason of being able to suddenly convert a lot more games natively for other platforms than Windows more easily.
that we should be working to clone a Microsoft technology, instead of improving on one which has been open from the start (GL).
How about the creation of a fully operational open source, cross platform, DX10 or DX11 implementation, not created by Microsoft but by the community, and fully working natively (not through Wine) and supported by NVidia and ATI drivers? Possible, or impossible?
Well, this is just very disappointing to me, for two reasons. First because I was hoping for something new in Linux graphics development. Secondly, because the behaviour of the ARB here isn't really a positive sign. I hope that there is some light in future OpenGL specifications here. If not, what can I use on Linux to have the ability to use all features of modern graphics cards? What about the future platforms like Larrabee? It seems DirectX is going stronger in all these areas, but it being closed source and Microsoft-platform only is a very big problem imho.
One thing you can at least back up for sure is all your emails from gmail, since you can download it all through POP3. I don't know about the other services.
Realistically speaking: in what areas of use, is it handy to wave your arms around to view translucent photographs, or interact with other kinds of translucent 2D images in front of you that way? Other than a novelty, can it break through? The mouse was a great invention, even though it looks very boring to have a pointer on a screen, it was something extremely useful. But standing and moving your arms around surely isn't something you can keep doing for a long time?
Still cool to see though! Maybe for original demos in an interactive museum?
I've once repaired a Tombraider II CD-ROM this way: rubbing with toothpaste, which rough structure somewhat events the scratches. The scratches were effectively removed - you can see the surface is rough, but to the optical reader it's fine after this treatment. So it's worth a try. Tombraider II worked again after it!
Remember the comic from XKCD about the spork cross breeds? This could apply to Quasy-Quasycrystals too. They could breed hybrids in proportions corresponding to every binary fraction in the whole spectrum between Crystal and Quasy-Crystal. Fear the powerful forces!
There is sometimes also a certain stubborness preventing usability, and I refer here specifically to GTK and The Gimp and their visions about MDI.
Some people just don't like having every toolbar and painting being a separate window that has to be managed separatly on your desktop, and there's nothing they do about it, nor anything in GTK to even be able to fix it.
So Blizzard is trying to hinder the creation of bots in its MMORPG? Bots in MMORPG's suck anyway! It's not really nice as regular player to see bots playing.
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On Newgrounds, many of the new flash games posted there have an achievements system, it's like they have to have it these days. And that is a good thing imho, I enjoy getting these too. The game will have more play value for me due to wanting to achieve these things. It's not like we're drones made to play games right? The achievements make it fun, and that's good. Right?
Steel just isn't good enough, something like a fusion reactor needs more Magical metals, for example they could look into using Mythril or Adamantite for getting some super strong metal walls...
Money doesn't just evaporate, I'm sure it's still somewhere!
Why do they compare a player that can play music from a solid state chip with an iPod? Such music players already existed before the iPod: MP3 players from Creative and many others. Apple just made a similar MP3 player and used its name to make it sell better. They're doing as if the iPod is the only such portable player in existance, which is exactly as ignorant as saying that World Of Warcraft is the MMORPG!
I very often see articles saying the Dark Matter is found. This has been going on for years already. Articles titled "Dark Matter Found". But later another article pops up again saying "Dark Matter Found" and it'll have a totally different explanation, be it some new particle type, some mathematical construct, something that says that in fact it doesn't exist and it's another effect, or again another particle type. So basically, they just don't know?
Quoting: "Parents who had been paying $1,425 a month for infant care would see their costs rise to nearly $2,500"... WTF? How much do people in the US earn? This amount of money per month, is what is almost the total monthly salary in Europe is for many people! How could you give that for just infant care?? Renting an apartment is like 400 euros per month, much cheaper than this infant care (even the so called cheap $1425 one)! How do you pay for rent, survival costs, and saving, if you have a baby and use that infant care?
Yeah really, why Bible passages, why not texts from *this* day instead of from thousands of years ago, there's so much choice of things from today, such as slashdot articles, QDB quotes, .....
Aaaah! Please forget my question in the parent post! I misread is as "drives (instead of drivers) have to be developed for Windows only" instead of "windows has to be extended with new drivers". Obviously this will also count for other OSes? :)
From the article: "Also, new Mass Storage Device drivers will have to be developed for Windows to take advantage of the spec.". What does being developed for Windows mean? Does it mean it will work ONLY in Windows? Are drivers for USB 3.0 not usable on other platforms?
If not for the reasons stated above, then at least for the reason of being able to suddenly convert a lot more games natively for other platforms than Windows more easily.
But, how can we improve on it? Just wait?
How about the creation of a fully operational open source, cross platform, DX10 or DX11 implementation, not created by Microsoft but by the community, and fully working natively (not through Wine) and supported by NVidia and ATI drivers? Possible, or impossible?
I don't get it... Why's this story in "Your rights online"?
Well, this is just very disappointing to me, for two reasons. First because I was hoping for something new in Linux graphics development. Secondly, because the behaviour of the ARB here isn't really a positive sign. I hope that there is some light in future OpenGL specifications here. If not, what can I use on Linux to have the ability to use all features of modern graphics cards? What about the future platforms like Larrabee? It seems DirectX is going stronger in all these areas, but it being closed source and Microsoft-platform only is a very big problem imho.
It's also the country where they made the game Zelda, where Link just enters any house he wants...
One thing you can at least back up for sure is all your emails from gmail, since you can download it all through POP3. I don't know about the other services.
Well, the page still loads fast for me...
Realistically speaking: in what areas of use, is it handy to wave your arms around to view translucent photographs, or interact with other kinds of translucent 2D images in front of you that way? Other than a novelty, can it break through? The mouse was a great invention, even though it looks very boring to have a pointer on a screen, it was something extremely useful. But standing and moving your arms around surely isn't something you can keep doing for a long time? Still cool to see though! Maybe for original demos in an interactive museum?
I've once repaired a Tombraider II CD-ROM this way: rubbing with toothpaste, which rough structure somewhat events the scratches. The scratches were effectively removed - you can see the surface is rough, but to the optical reader it's fine after this treatment. So it's worth a try. Tombraider II worked again after it!
Uh, mi fyngers hyt the wrong kei whyle tipyng!
Remember the comic from XKCD about the spork cross breeds? This could apply to Quasy-Quasycrystals too. They could breed hybrids in proportions corresponding to every binary fraction in the whole spectrum between Crystal and Quasy-Crystal. Fear the powerful forces!
Is it legal, in China, to use such tools, or any other tool to circumvent the Great Firewall?
There is sometimes also a certain stubborness preventing usability, and I refer here specifically to GTK and The Gimp and their visions about MDI. Some people just don't like having every toolbar and painting being a separate window that has to be managed separatly on your desktop, and there's nothing they do about it, nor anything in GTK to even be able to fix it.
I can't help it, but "cloud computing" gives me images of happy people walking on the clouds and dancing, and also doing some computing while at it :)
So Blizzard is trying to hinder the creation of bots in its MMORPG? Bots in MMORPG's suck anyway! It's not really nice as regular player to see bots playing.
If they don't want to appear on aerial photos, they should cover their roof and garden with something like blankets or a large balloon or so.