People forget the power 'we' have, espesically when it can bring about the closure of an 168 year old newspaper with close to 3million readers. It has impacted him already, and will continue to do so, for longer than just a year.....
Nope. It's the just the British public doing the kicking this time. If it hadn't of been for public pressure (getting the advertisers to pull out of the notw), notw wouldn't have closed. If it hadn't of been for public anger (wrt, Milly Dowler), the MP's wouldn't have the balls to stand up to murdoch. Murdoch has angered *us*, the British public, and now *we* are getting our own back. If there is one thing us Brits love - it's kicking someone when they are down - especially when that someone answers to the name of Murdoch...
A pixel in object space is a frustum. Performing anti-aliasing at this level not only can be done, but is frequently done within the VFX world. Remember that VFX shaders tend to be a single unified shader - instead of multi-stage vertex/geom/pixel - so calculations can be performed in any space you want. For a procedural-shader heavy scene, the ideal would be to get the shaders to perform the anti-aliasing for you, in object space, rather than resorting to super-sampling....
In fact if they made a 21" macbook pro artists and video editing people would be all over it.
If, and only if, they drive to work (or they are out of work, and at home all day). All the pro artists and video editing people I know, commute into the center of London everyday. I'm not sure if you've actually tried lugging a heavy bag on the tube in the middle of summer, but I can assure you it is not fun in the slightest! I used to lug a 15" XPS around, but even that is simply too big use on a busy rush hour tube train. Resting a 21" laptop on the commuters either side of you, whilst you are dripping in sweat from carrying it down the stairs, just isn't practical in the slightest.
I'm no physicist, but I think AC is right.
The protons are an important component of the matter that the flywheel and the magnets are made of....
I'd assume that the electrons aren't involved much until the (matter making up the) flywheel starts rotating through a magnetic field, thus converting the kinetic motion back into an electrical current.... ?
IINAE, but no. KERS recovers energy from the braking of the cars, and then lets you re-use that energy to gain an extra 80bhp for sections of the lap. In the 2009 season, Williams tried to use a flywheel system (whereas others, notably ferrari, mclaren etc) made use of batteries for storage. In 2010 The teams agreed not to use KERS, and Williams then sold their flywheel system to Porsche for use in one of their road cars (GT3 I think?). This year, no team in F1 is using a flywheel system - they are all battery based. In effect, you can think of a flywheel as nothing more than a battery of sorts (except it stores electrical energy as kinetic motion). KERS is more than a battery - it is the energy recovery system (located in the braking system), the battery (or flywheel, although no one is using one this year), and the electric motor used to deliver the extra 80bhp.
From the article:
Beacon Power's spinning flywheels, which are made of carbon fiber and levitated in a vacuum by magnets, absorb energy from the grid and discharge 1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes
Most probably because the circuits inside the robots weren't designed to stand a bombardment of radiation. A few flipped bits here and there, could potentially have catastrophic consequences.....
When the official motto of one of the worlds worst Co2 offenders is 'In god we trust', I'm more inclined to agree with wjousts than you to be honest. 'In god we trust' implies:
a) god will fix the problem, or
b) god will destroy the world.
Either way, it's no longer the individuals responsibility to sort out the problem. The only people I've ever met who deny that global warming is a problem, are those of religious leaning; idiots; or both.
To throw some anecdotal evidence into the fray... I ventured to the burning man festival a couple of years ago, and was fairly surprised to see someone had erected a massive sign proclaiming 'Burning Man - The only carbon neutral festival in the world!'. Now, I'm not going to say all American's are idiots, because that's obviously false, but coming from a group of people who are supposedly a bit more environmentally aware than the average US citizen, it did somewhat surprise me. As a European, i made a beeline straight to the camp that had erected it, and had to ask 'WTF?'. The response I got was "We take all the rubbish home, so it's carbon neutral!". I spent about an hour explaining what carbon neutral actually meant, and ended up getting nowhere. So I doubt religion is entirely to blame, a lack of education is a massive problem too imho. It would however seem to me that where you find religion, a lack of education isn't too far behind....
It was on a university network, so anyone with a valid ID could login to the terminal. I never left my PC logged in for fear of students accessing grades!
I once arrived at work super early, and caught a cleaner whacking off to a porn site in my office. I don't think it's possible to feel as dirty as staring down at your keyboard/mouse realising that you've been using that for weeks. Ugh. Obviously they went straight in the bin.... (and the cleaner was sacked on the spot)
You are failing to understand the economics of the situation. 4 developers working for 4 months to make an iPhone title, vs 50-150 developers working for 3 to 5 years for a console title. For a studio to start developing a new console title requires a bank balance of at least 3 to 5 million before you can even begin (and even that is no where near enough for the marketing budget). Where is that money going to come from?
If you are an investor with say, £6million in the bank. Are you going to invest that in developing a single console title (which might break even), or are you going to invest that in 100 iPhone titles all of which are more likely to turn bigger pound-for-pound profit?
Over the last 2 years or so there have been numerous established, high quality studios, that have had to close their doors simply because, they have been unable to raise the capital needed to develop ther next title. I'm aware of quite a few more that will be facing that prospect very soon. The whole industry is turning it's attention to the iPhone simply because it's risk adverse, easy to raise the capital, has a very good chance of making a profit, and is the only way for some studios to keep their doors open.
My personal fear is that the gaming community will tire of yet another forza, yet another GTA, yet another portal, and may start to see console games as over-priced and unoriginal. Dont forget that as the capabilities of consoles increases linearly, the development cost/complexity rises exponetially. If the sales figures for the next generation of consoles is just 80% of the current generation, and the development costs rise by 20%, I can't see how the console market will be able to sustain itself.
Simply put, if Wii 2 isn't at least a generation ahead of the PS3 and Xbox360, it will not be able to compete. The expectations of gamers now are photorealistic PC quality 3d graphics. The majority of console owners own PCs too, it's just a different world now.
Absolute tosh. The *VAST* majority of game development, and an ever increasing amount of sales is now done on the iPhone. You might demand PC quality graphics for gaming, but there are millions and millions of other people who are more than happy with angry birds. Apple has won the console wars, and the landscape of game development has changed radically as a result. As a game developer, the only thing I ask is that the next round of consoles appreciate that it's the iPhone they are up against, and not each other. If they get it wrong this time around, I predict the death knell of games consoles within 5 years.
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People forget the power 'we' have, espesically when it can bring about the closure of an 168 year old newspaper with close to 3million readers. It has impacted him already, and will continue to do so, for longer than just a year.....
Nope. It's the just the British public doing the kicking this time. If it hadn't of been for public pressure (getting the advertisers to pull out of the notw), notw wouldn't have closed. If it hadn't of been for public anger (wrt, Milly Dowler), the MP's wouldn't have the balls to stand up to murdoch. Murdoch has angered *us*, the British public, and now *we* are getting our own back. If there is one thing us Brits love - it's kicking someone when they are down - especially when that someone answers to the name of Murdoch...
There are no pixels in object space.
A pixel in object space is a frustum. Performing anti-aliasing at this level not only can be done, but is frequently done within the VFX world. Remember that VFX shaders tend to be a single unified shader - instead of multi-stage vertex/geom/pixel - so calculations can be performed in any space you want. For a procedural-shader heavy scene, the ideal would be to get the shaders to perform the anti-aliasing for you, in object space, rather than resorting to super-sampling....
In fact if they made a 21" macbook pro artists and video editing people would be all over it.
If, and only if, they drive to work (or they are out of work, and at home all day). All the pro artists and video editing people I know, commute into the center of London everyday. I'm not sure if you've actually tried lugging a heavy bag on the tube in the middle of summer, but I can assure you it is not fun in the slightest! I used to lug a 15" XPS around, but even that is simply too big use on a busy rush hour tube train. Resting a 21" laptop on the commuters either side of you, whilst you are dripping in sweat from carrying it down the stairs, just isn't practical in the slightest.
.. .providing a nice free service for their customers? heck, I even use the free unsecured internet access on the bus these days!
That's ok, I'm behind 7 transactions....
That game map in the review is indeed damning...
Not if you had Hulk Hogan at the controls....
I'm no physicist, but I think AC is right.
The protons are an important component of the matter that the flywheel and the magnets are made of....
I'd assume that the electrons aren't involved much until the (matter making up the) flywheel starts rotating through a magnetic field, thus converting the kinetic motion back into an electrical current.... ?
Although having just said all of that, I guess the answer is they are actually very similar in principle yes ;)
IINAE, but no. KERS recovers energy from the braking of the cars, and then lets you re-use that energy to gain an extra 80bhp for sections of the lap. In the 2009 season, Williams tried to use a flywheel system (whereas others, notably ferrari, mclaren etc) made use of batteries for storage. In 2010 The teams agreed not to use KERS, and Williams then sold their flywheel system to Porsche for use in one of their road cars (GT3 I think?). This year, no team in F1 is using a flywheel system - they are all battery based. In effect, you can think of a flywheel as nothing more than a battery of sorts (except it stores electrical energy as kinetic motion). KERS is more than a battery - it is the energy recovery system (located in the braking system), the battery (or flywheel, although no one is using one this year), and the electric motor used to deliver the extra 80bhp.
From the article: Beacon Power's spinning flywheels, which are made of carbon fiber and levitated in a vacuum by magnets, absorb energy from the grid and discharge 1 megawatt for as much as 15 minutes
Most probably because the circuits inside the robots weren't designed to stand a bombardment of radiation. A few flipped bits here and there, could potentially have catastrophic consequences.....
When the official motto of one of the worlds worst Co2 offenders is 'In god we trust', I'm more inclined to agree with wjousts than you to be honest. 'In god we trust' implies:
a) god will fix the problem, or
b) god will destroy the world.
Either way, it's no longer the individuals responsibility to sort out the problem. The only people I've ever met who deny that global warming is a problem, are those of religious leaning; idiots; or both.
To throw some anecdotal evidence into the fray... I ventured to the burning man festival a couple of years ago, and was fairly surprised to see someone had erected a massive sign proclaiming 'Burning Man - The only carbon neutral festival in the world!'. Now, I'm not going to say all American's are idiots, because that's obviously false, but coming from a group of people who are supposedly a bit more environmentally aware than the average US citizen, it did somewhat surprise me. As a European, i made a beeline straight to the camp that had erected it, and had to ask 'WTF?'. The response I got was "We take all the rubbish home, so it's carbon neutral!". I spent about an hour explaining what carbon neutral actually meant, and ended up getting nowhere. So I doubt religion is entirely to blame, a lack of education is a massive problem too imho. It would however seem to me that where you find religion, a lack of education isn't too far behind....
Awesome! I can't wait to see the history of the 21st century according to Charlie Sheen!
"So far, Einstein is correct, as usual."
Looks like a case of attack of the touchpad to me....
We just need to build the mother of all starter motors that's all....
More like "I don't remember typing in my credit card details to buy apps from the app store?"
Not true. There are about 500 people living in and around Chernobyl.
It was on a university network, so anyone with a valid ID could login to the terminal. I never left my PC logged in for fear of students accessing grades!
I once arrived at work super early, and caught a cleaner whacking off to a porn site in my office. I don't think it's possible to feel as dirty as staring down at your keyboard/mouse realising that you've been using that for weeks. Ugh. Obviously they went straight in the bin.... (and the cleaner was sacked on the spot)
You are failing to understand the economics of the situation. 4 developers working for 4 months to make an iPhone title, vs 50-150 developers working for 3 to 5 years for a console title. For a studio to start developing a new console title requires a bank balance of at least 3 to 5 million before you can even begin (and even that is no where near enough for the marketing budget). Where is that money going to come from?
If you are an investor with say, £6million in the bank. Are you going to invest that in developing a single console title (which might break even), or are you going to invest that in 100 iPhone titles all of which are more likely to turn bigger pound-for-pound profit?
Over the last 2 years or so there have been numerous established, high quality studios, that have had to close their doors simply because, they have been unable to raise the capital needed to develop ther next title. I'm aware of quite a few more that will be facing that prospect very soon. The whole industry is turning it's attention to the iPhone simply because it's risk adverse, easy to raise the capital, has a very good chance of making a profit, and is the only way for some studios to keep their doors open.
My personal fear is that the gaming community will tire of yet another forza, yet another GTA, yet another portal, and may start to see console games as over-priced and unoriginal. Dont forget that as the capabilities of consoles increases linearly, the development cost/complexity rises exponetially. If the sales figures for the next generation of consoles is just 80% of the current generation, and the development costs rise by 20%, I can't see how the console market will be able to sustain itself.
I believe that the ps3 (god knows why!) is the current top seller in the console world.
Compare the sales figures for the ps3 with the iPhone.
Simply put, if Wii 2 isn't at least a generation ahead of the PS3 and Xbox360, it will not be able to compete. The expectations of gamers now are photorealistic PC quality 3d graphics. The majority of console owners own PCs too, it's just a different world now.
Absolute tosh. The *VAST* majority of game development, and an ever increasing amount of sales is now done on the iPhone. You might demand PC quality graphics for gaming, but there are millions and millions of other people who are more than happy with angry birds. Apple has won the console wars, and the landscape of game development has changed radically as a result. As a game developer, the only thing I ask is that the next round of consoles appreciate that it's the iPhone they are up against, and not each other. If they get it wrong this time around, I predict the death knell of games consoles within 5 years.
next to impossible != impossible