Probably so, but still, it would be fun if a gun attachment would be relatively close, requiring sighting through the pistol/rifle, just to make the game a little more immersing. Anyway, the size of the TV, relative position of the user could probably be calculated with the interface and all the sensors. I don't see why it would be impossible to project the pointer through the plane of the TV. Personally, I'd be very attracted to a zombie/tactical shooter that would behave in this way, ala the arcade.
violating the TOS may be actionable as tortious interference
Don't you just hate that?
Mother fuckin' tutles, always in the goddamned way. Apparently they didn't get the memo that said they had to die with the rest of the dinosaurs? The gall!
So, what general hippie-like qualities made you conclude that Justin was a hippie in the first place?
Perhaps it's one or more of these things:
He was alive in the 60's or early 70's
He has an aggressive John Phillips or Ravi Shankar fetish
He's a dirty miscegenator
He lives in a commune
He's fond of going nude.
He drives a VW bug/van.
He's vegetarian
He was caught by himself making love to your mother at Woodstock after traveling back in time on a giant, invisible LSD powered caterpillar.
Ooooh, I know! Maybe it's the facial furr. After all, people with hair on their faces must either be terrorists or hippies--if you're one of those radicals who think it's possible to draw a distinction between the two, that is.
In the version of Counter-Strike I used to play, you didn't get unlimited ammunition or grenades, so that tactic wouldn't have lasted long/been very effective. I didn't realise Valve had changed the game so much.
It's called, "the whole team combined has lots of grenades and bullets", and "cooperating very loosely to accomplish an objective in the cheapest way possible."
Besides, when you shoot, that lets people know where you are.
They already know where you are, due to the fact that most CS maps allow one or two main routes (maybe 3), that's why they're shooting and/or chucking grenades at you. Duh. Some people (admittedly, likely the Einsteins of the CS world) have figured out that they can get an assload of kills if they throw a grenade (or AWP whore) into a hallway 45.6 seconds after the round starts because they can be sure that a bunch of people are going to take that route and try to get there the fastest they can, making CS less First Person Shooter, and more First Person Stopwatch.
I rather think it depends on your local definitions of 'good team' and 'bad team'.
I suppose you rather think 'good team' is best defined as 'best exploits weaknesses in game design'. That's probably a good thing.
You forgot de_dust (or, my personal favorite, aztec)!
I don't like CS, primarily because of the maps. Most maps have one or two critical choke-points, and all one team has to do is keep those areas filled with grenades and bullets, making it possible for a bad team to spam a good team to death.
On the other hand, I think Day of Defeat Source has pretty good maps, in general. Even now, I'm not really board with any of them.
Quoth Windows Defender about a month after Vista's launch: "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
Depends on how you define beat; we beat chickenpox by making sure every child had it so it was rare that it mutated into the worse form later in life.
Well, I look at it this way: some retrovirus one of our ancestors picked up a million years ago, but didn't kill him, could still be causing things like diabetes, arthritis, MS, various cancers, or any number of things, all without secondary infections.
On the other hand, chicken pox sticks around in the body, but it doesn't become part of our genome... And it's thought that chicken pox reactivation (shingles, which still affects a lot of people) is sometimes caused because the immune system 'forgets' the chicken pox virus because there aren't kids with chicken pox trying to infect adults, which means that we still haven't beat chicken pox, in the sense that it's still around haunting millions of us, like all the other herpes viruses, but that we have beat it in the sense that few people die from it nowadays.
That one bit is the only complaint I have at the moment. In the old days, you could just click on that x without moving a pixel to close a bunch of tabs you no longer want. But no! Me no likey!
If they had a little box to check that would make it go to 1.x standards, I'd be mostly pretty darn happy, and I expect that there is probably an extension that will do that, if there isn't one already. I do like the built in spell check, though. Pretty swanky.
For clarification, what do you mean by AMD competing with Intel? Are you referring to units sold to consumers, units sold to OEMs, manufacturing capacity, or design innovations?
It's pretty obvious that in the context of "competing with Intel", he meant in the "outright processor performance" category, as in that AMD has continually used/s lower tech to compete with, if not frequently surpass the performance intel processors demonstrated--and usually at a lower price, as in the only thing normal people pay attention to: price/performance. He didn't mean megaflops/kWh, nor did he mean squirrels per cubic hectare, nor any of the stuff you quoted, which are things only boring old smelly investors would be interested in, anyway.
The Wii is advertised as a family/multiplayer system. As a result, consumers were hoping for either an extra controller or (at least) affordable controllers. Consumers got neither out of Nintendo.
I dunno, what's the Wiimote suppuosed to cost, 40 US smackers, with the nunchuck being priced around $20? I was just thinking the other day that it's pretty damn remarkable they got the price down that low, considering all the stuff that goes into it:
A ~1 megapixel infrared sensor. Some gyros or accelerometers A CPU capable of making all of the above useful A speaker Bluetooth
Back in the day, I (ehm, my family) spent more than $40 on controllers for the Nintendo. What did the SNES light gun go for? $50-60? Third party controller were $20-40, and made life much easier for people with big hands. And how much cooler is the wiimote than any of that? It's infinitely more useful! So the controller is the price of a game, big whoop. I don't see this being a probem for most people who could afford the console and the games, anyway.
You should read up on slipstreaming, it's the only way to go for fresh install.
Also, you know that you don't have to reboot every time a driver asks you to restart, right? Sure, sometimes a driver (or Windows) won't accept anything but a restart, but that's a rare case. The majority of time you can pretty much install every driver you need, then do one reboot, and everything works. I usually install my graphics driver, then do that reboot, because that at least affords you some screen space--some drivers overflow the screen and make installation a bitch. If I had to install, reboot, install, reboot... Well, I'd want to immolate myself on whilst sitting on Steve Ballmer's lap.
Being a lawyer and working with patents all day let me just state that the title of a patent often doesn't spell out what the inventive step is. It's just a general topic and area, and in a crowded area sometimes the titles are pretty generic
Point taken, the patent titles often don't accurately describe something, if indeed they actually try to describe anything at all. We should probably thank you lawyers for that.
A floating point rasterization and frame buffer in a computer system graphics program. The rasterization, fog, lighting, texturing, blending, and antialiasing processes operate on floating point values. In one embodiment, a 16-bit floating point format consisting of one sign bit, ten mantissa bits, and five exponent bits (s10e5), is used to optimize the range and precision afforded by the 16 available bits of information. In other embodiments, the floating point format can be defined in the manner preferred in order to achieve a desired range and precision of the data stored in the frame buffer. The final floating point values corresponding to pixel attributes are stored in a frame buffer and eventually read and drawn for display. The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data.
I'm not a professional engineer of 3D stuffs, or even more than a novice programmer, but it seems fairly obvious that floating point rasterization of fog, lighting, texturing, blending and antialiasing is no less than the obvious way to do it... Defining the size of your floating point operators to optimize the precision you need dosen't sound particularly non-obvious, either. I like SGI, but it really sounds like this is a bogus patent.
The one part that might echo of some innovative thing is the last scentance: The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. But I'd wager that people in the demo scene have been doing that for a long time.
There was a story a while back about some girl getting a speaking aid where whatever she says is "echoed" into her ear, giving the impression that she's talking with someone else, which makes talking a lot easier. Yeah, here it is [bbc.co.uk].
Huh... I'm certain this scenario is physically impossible. You see, it's a fact that a woman who listens to her own incessant blabbering will in fact have her head implode into a superdense singularity, due to some mysterious, invisible force.
You don't even want to know what happens when they respond to themselves with "Oh, that's nice", or "Yes, dear." I've seen it happen, it's not pretty.
The difference is the lack of a US-actionable warranty and funky things like manuals in Turkish and whatnot... but other than that the gear is largely the same (be careful who you buy from anyway!). These things typically go for about 10% less than the 'straight' ones.
Yeah, a grey market camera it's the exact same piece of equipment that you'd get across the world, though sometimes with minor differences, and it dosen't come with the warranty. For example the Canon Digital Rebel was sold in the US with a silver plastic body, and everywhere else it came with a black plastic body. Everything else was the same, I guess.
Besides, they've been doing grey market for a loooooooooooong time, some NY resalers have been doing it since the 60's/70's, some more dubiously than others--they'll attract you with low prices, then try to sell you battery carts and other stuff at a drastic benefit to them. Also, many films can only be obtained via the grey market nowadays, and it's sold as grey market. But the funny thing is that most every lens or body I see being sold as grey market is the exact same price as the one with the US warranty, or the price difference is so small (less than 20 bucks) that it certianly dosen't make up for the absense of a warranty.
Heck, I remember paying 900 US bucks on a CD writer way back when 2x cd recording was blazing fast, and 8x reading was just becoming available... Oh, and discs could scarcely be found for less than $10 each at that time.
I considered it some of the best $900 I ever spent, and I still do. No regrets. In fact, it's still humming along in my Indigo2, which I pulled out of the scrap bin some years later.
$1000 bucks for a system loaded with quad processors won't scare many people off. $1000 for a motherboard might, however.
There's a big difference between saying "no I did not have relations with this woman" while knowing you did, and saying "I swear to uphold the constitution", and then doing something which in your opinion doesn't violate the constitution and then having someone else determine that it does. One is intentional, the other accidental. One is a deliberate lie, the other is an accidental failure to keep a promise.
Hey, you and I an everyone else can be charged with purjery if we mis-represent our income taxes and other government papers, of all things, and this shithead can make an oath on the bible, in front of the courts, and in front of the nation--and it's suddenly a failure to keep a promise?!
He shits all over the constitution, self defined as The Supreme Law of the Land, and it's a failure to keep a promise?!
Holy Mother Fucking Christ! Your mother should have dropped your on your head from a greater height!
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Probably so, but still, it would be fun if a gun attachment would be relatively close, requiring sighting through the pistol/rifle, just to make the game a little more immersing. Anyway, the size of the TV, relative position of the user could probably be calculated with the interface and all the sensors. I don't see why it would be impossible to project the pointer through the plane of the TV. Personally, I'd be very attracted to a zombie/tactical shooter that would behave in this way, ala the arcade.
violating the TOS may be actionable as tortious interference
Don't you just hate that?
Mother fuckin' tutles, always in the goddamned way. Apparently they didn't get the memo that said they had to die with the rest of the dinosaurs? The gall!
Holy moly, I wish someone writing the article could have explained that.
And here I was looking forward to seeing something that some overly-zealous conservative twit thought was immoral or something.
Curse you, write-up writer, curse cauliflower, and curse the Olson twins.
Perhaps it's one or more of these things:
Ooooh, I know! Maybe it's the facial furr. After all, people with hair on their faces must either be terrorists or hippies--if you're one of those radicals who think it's possible to draw a distinction between the two, that is.
If jeans and a shirt make a guy a hippie, I must become an Army Ranger when I wear my camouflage boxer shorts.
Hooah!?
In the version of Counter-Strike I used to play, you didn't get unlimited ammunition or grenades, so that tactic wouldn't have lasted long/been very effective. I didn't realise Valve had changed the game so much.
It's called, "the whole team combined has lots of grenades and bullets", and "cooperating very loosely to accomplish an objective in the cheapest way possible."
Besides, when you shoot, that lets people know where you are.
They already know where you are, due to the fact that most CS maps allow one or two main routes (maybe 3), that's why they're shooting and/or chucking grenades at you. Duh. Some people (admittedly, likely the Einsteins of the CS world) have figured out that they can get an assload of kills if they throw a grenade (or AWP whore) into a hallway 45.6 seconds after the round starts because they can be sure that a bunch of people are going to take that route and try to get there the fastest they can, making CS less First Person Shooter, and more First Person Stopwatch.
I rather think it depends on your local definitions of 'good team' and 'bad team'.
I suppose you rather think 'good team' is best defined as 'best exploits weaknesses in game design'. That's probably a good thing.
You forgot de_dust (or, my personal favorite, aztec)!
I don't like CS, primarily because of the maps. Most maps have one or two critical choke-points, and all one team has to do is keep those areas filled with grenades and bullets, making it possible for a bad team to spam a good team to death.
On the other hand, I think Day of Defeat Source has pretty good maps, in general. Even now, I'm not really board with any of them.
Seriously, I wonder if there could be evidence of organisms tolerant of saltier conditions if all that ice left the remaining water saltier.
Well, there's Paris Hilton...
Quoth Windows Defender about a month after Vista's launch: "I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you."
Depends on how you define beat; we beat chickenpox by making sure every child had it so it was rare that it mutated into the worse form later in life.
Well, I look at it this way: some retrovirus one of our ancestors picked up a million years ago, but didn't kill him, could still be causing things like diabetes, arthritis, MS, various cancers, or any number of things, all without secondary infections.
On the other hand, chicken pox sticks around in the body, but it doesn't become part of our genome... And it's thought that chicken pox reactivation (shingles, which still affects a lot of people) is sometimes caused because the immune system 'forgets' the chicken pox virus because there aren't kids with chicken pox trying to infect adults, which means that we still haven't beat chicken pox, in the sense that it's still around haunting millions of us, like all the other herpes viruses, but that we have beat it in the sense that few people die from it nowadays.
As a side note, tonight I am sleeping on the couch: got busted typoing a Google image search for 'Large Hadron Collider.'
Huh... So, the misses generally has a problem with pulsating tubes shooting hot protons into large Swiss caverns?
Mmm nothing ghastly. I'd say that if they beat it back then we'd own it these days as our immune systems are rather advanced in comparison.
I'd reckon that we didn't beat it back then either, if it's in our DNA.
Woohoo! This works great, and it's no surprise to me that someone had a fix. Thanks a bunch, you've saved my sanity!
That one bit is the only complaint I have at the moment. In the old days, you could just click on that x without moving a pixel to close a bunch of tabs you no longer want. But no! Me no likey!
If they had a little box to check that would make it go to 1.x standards, I'd be mostly pretty darn happy, and I expect that there is probably an extension that will do that, if there isn't one already. I do like the built in spell check, though. Pretty swanky.
Why would you grant government powers so incredibly far-reaching when the solution requires something much narrower?
We, normal, insignificant people, wouldn't, of course. Government on the other hand? Their job is to accumulate power, or so they seem to believe.
For clarification, what do you mean by AMD competing with Intel? Are you referring to units sold to consumers, units sold to OEMs, manufacturing capacity, or design innovations?
It's pretty obvious that in the context of "competing with Intel", he meant in the "outright processor performance" category, as in that AMD has continually used/s lower tech to compete with, if not frequently surpass the performance intel processors demonstrated--and usually at a lower price, as in the only thing normal people pay attention to: price/performance. He didn't mean megaflops/kWh, nor did he mean squirrels per cubic hectare, nor any of the stuff you quoted, which are things only boring old smelly investors would be interested in, anyway.
The Wii is advertised as a family/multiplayer system. As a result, consumers were hoping for either an extra controller or (at least) affordable controllers. Consumers got neither out of Nintendo.
I dunno, what's the Wiimote suppuosed to cost, 40 US smackers, with the nunchuck being priced around $20? I was just thinking the other day that it's pretty damn remarkable they got the price down that low, considering all the stuff that goes into it:
A ~1 megapixel infrared sensor.
Some gyros or accelerometers
A CPU capable of making all of the above useful
A speaker
Bluetooth
Back in the day, I (ehm, my family) spent more than $40 on controllers for the Nintendo. What did the SNES light gun go for? $50-60? Third party controller were $20-40, and made life much easier for people with big hands. And how much cooler is the wiimote than any of that? It's infinitely more useful! So the controller is the price of a game, big whoop. I don't see this being a probem for most people who could afford the console and the games, anyway.
You can even add the drivers to your xp disk
Yep, I've seen that, haven't tried it yet... But I will be trying this soon because my XP install is getting rather bogged down.
You should read up on slipstreaming, it's the only way to go for fresh install.
Also, you know that you don't have to reboot every time a driver asks you to restart, right? Sure, sometimes a driver (or Windows) won't accept anything but a restart, but that's a rare case. The majority of time you can pretty much install every driver you need, then do one reboot, and everything works. I usually install my graphics driver, then do that reboot, because that at least affords you some screen space--some drivers overflow the screen and make installation a bitch. If I had to install, reboot, install, reboot... Well, I'd want to immolate myself on whilst sitting on Steve Ballmer's lap.
Point taken, the patent titles often don't accurately describe something, if indeed they actually try to describe anything at all. We should probably thank you lawyers for that.
I'm not a professional engineer of 3D stuffs, or even more than a novice programmer, but it seems fairly obvious that floating point rasterization of fog, lighting, texturing, blending and antialiasing is no less than the obvious way to do it... Defining the size of your floating point operators to optimize the precision you need dosen't sound particularly non-obvious, either. I like SGI, but it really sounds like this is a bogus patent.
The one part that might echo of some innovative thing is the last scentance: The graphics program can operate directly on the data in the frame buffer without losing any of the desired range and precision of the data. But I'd wager that people in the demo scene have been doing that for a long time.
There was a story a while back about some girl getting a speaking aid where whatever she says is "echoed" into her ear, giving the impression that she's talking with someone else, which makes talking a lot easier. Yeah, here it is [bbc.co.uk].
Huh... I'm certain this scenario is physically impossible. You see, it's a fact that a woman who listens to her own incessant blabbering will in fact have her head implode into a superdense singularity, due to some mysterious, invisible force.
You don't even want to know what happens when they respond to themselves with "Oh, that's nice", or "Yes, dear." I've seen it happen, it's not pretty.
The difference is the lack of a US-actionable warranty and funky things like manuals in Turkish and whatnot... but other than that the gear is largely the same (be careful who you buy from anyway!). These things typically go for about 10% less than the 'straight' ones.
Yeah, a grey market camera it's the exact same piece of equipment that you'd get across the world, though sometimes with minor differences, and it dosen't come with the warranty. For example the Canon Digital Rebel was sold in the US with a silver plastic body, and everywhere else it came with a black plastic body. Everything else was the same, I guess.
Besides, they've been doing grey market for a loooooooooooong time, some NY resalers have been doing it since the 60's/70's, some more dubiously than others--they'll attract you with low prices, then try to sell you battery carts and other stuff at a drastic benefit to them. Also, many films can only be obtained via the grey market nowadays, and it's sold as grey market. But the funny thing is that most every lens or body I see being sold as grey market is the exact same price as the one with the US warranty, or the price difference is so small (less than 20 bucks) that it certianly dosen't make up for the absense of a warranty.
Heck, I remember paying 900 US bucks on a CD writer way back when 2x cd recording was blazing fast, and 8x reading was just becoming available... Oh, and discs could scarcely be found for less than $10 each at that time.
I considered it some of the best $900 I ever spent, and I still do. No regrets. In fact, it's still humming along in my Indigo2, which I pulled out of the scrap bin some years later.
$1000 bucks for a system loaded with quad processors won't scare many people off. $1000 for a motherboard might, however.
There's a big difference between saying "no I did not have relations with this woman" while knowing you did, and saying "I swear to uphold the constitution", and then doing something which in your opinion doesn't violate the constitution and then having someone else determine that it does. One is intentional, the other accidental. One is a deliberate lie, the other is an accidental failure to keep a promise.
Hey, you and I an everyone else can be charged with purjery if we mis-represent our income taxes and other government papers, of all things, and this shithead can make an oath on the bible, in front of the courts, and in front of the nation--and it's suddenly a failure to keep a promise?!
He shits all over the constitution, self defined as The Supreme Law of the Land, and it's a failure to keep a promise?!
Holy Mother Fucking Christ! Your mother should have dropped your on your head from a greater height!
You can steal the boat itself: hull designs are covered by copyright.
Arrr! RIAAHAHAHA!