I know. If it hasn't improved much since AvP2, it sucks. OK it wasn't totally horrible, but I've run AvP2, RtCW, JKII on my hardware and AvP2 sucks in comparison. That said, Halo seems even slower for some reason.
The doom3 engine sounds like it'll be well suited for an AvP game. With some imagination and talent, you'd have something that'll keep hundreds of thousands up at night...
Y'know it may take a few seconds after the tail is chomped before the sauropod's rear brain actually realizes the tail is bitten and begins preparing it for supersonic speeds:). May be time enough to get clean away.
If there are plenty of obstacles around (trees, big plants, rocks) then tail swinging isn't going to work well.
Would the smaller/younger sauropods be faster than a T Rex? What's worse if they are moving through uncleared terrain. The T Rex behind just has to follow the "trail" the prey makes/clears.
I wonder if the sauropods actually move much - the heads probably do most of the moving as they munch. The legs are probably to move them to the new spot for the day and to hold them in position. Wonder how they manage to mate...
Sure the T Rex probably doesn't run that fast. But how fast can one of those huge sauropods run anyway?
Not saying that T Rexs don't scavenge. But why do so many people claim it's a scavenger just coz it can't move that fast? It only needs to move faster on _average_ than the prey. Even if the prey is faster at first, if the prey gets tired first and stops running, it's munch time.
Heck it only needs to bite off a 50kg bit of a sauropod tail every day or so and you should do the 2kg weight gain/day pretty easy, and the sauropod will probably just grow it back - 50kg out of 50 tons is like a 70kg human losing 70g of flesh+blood.
A sauropod could probably seriously injure a smaller predator dinosaur, but it should be harder to keep away a T Rex.
How are you going to give the cancelling wave higher velocity and still have it able to cancel or significantly reduce the amplitude of the first one?
With a circular pattern you'd still have even bigger waves elsewhere other than the cancelled parts. If you could create a soliton then that wouldn't be as much of an issue, but you still have the first problem.
Yeah, but once the waves pass each other they'll keep going on and now you have two huge waves causing trouble elsewhere at the not-so-precise locations...
The energy in each wave isn't going to vanish so conveniently.
In that particular case you either manually update the system catalogs, or you treat it like a major revision upgrade. I'd prefer to do the latter, looking at the steps required - coz I'm going to be dumping the DB to back it up anyway...
Hey if you're The Boss, that's a big difference. You should check if your underlings are tempted to.
It's pretty obvious actually. There are actually smart people who do that. They are not paying for consultancy, service, support or for the million or so features. They are spending Company Money so they can blame someone else later and save their own jobs. They are actually capable of doing everything themselves (probably better than the consultants), but why should they do it and risk their pension, jobs, bonuses etc?
There are many people who would gladly spend company/gov money to increase the chances that the company/gov keeps paying them, even if it is not best for the company overall. After all many companies (and bosses) don't give a damn about the employees anyway, so they're just returning the favour.
The challenge for The Boss is to create a culture that makes that behaviour rare.
Yeah. But while a slow decay rate means that the screen stays lit up even if the refresh rate is low (so your eyes don't notice), it usually also means a lot of smearing when the picture changes.
Coz most people are not very observant EVEN if the stuff they don't observe affects them- the exercise just helps makes it more obvious.
Plus when I look at the center of a screen that's set at 60Hz, the edges of the screen flicker a lot more annoyingly.
I just tried it with the lights off. There's a big diff between 60Hz and 85Hz. The flicker with 60Hz is definitely perceptible - really icky.
As for your 30Hz LED exercise, maybe the circuitry didn't cause the LED to stop producing light fast enough. So if the on times start to overlap, it is less likely that you'd detect any flicker. Was a 50% on, 50% off light ratio guaranteed for that test? Also what colour LED did you use? Eyes have different sensitivity. Green would probably be a better choice than red.
Perhaps a better test would be to use sunlight, and to use a mechanical shutter that alternates between passing the light and blocking it at the frequencies you want. Then you get reasonably low flicker full spectrum light.
"The reason our eyes don't have a problem with 24 fps film"
Speak for yourself. When I watched LOTR, whenever they do scenery pans the "screen updates" were damn obvious and jerky - could see the new frames "ripple down".
The fps of film sucks, but the resolution is pretty good.
60Hz isn't enough. 85Hz is just about OK for me (not great but a monitor which does better isn't within my budget). Just use your peripheral vision to look at your monitor (look away from the monitor and see if it flickers at the off-center/edge of your vision) - if you can detect a flicker or unsteadiness then the refresh rate isn't high enough to fool your eyes.
I bet most people can tell the difference between a monitor refreshing at 75Hz and 85Hz. 60Hz for sure. Whether they mind it or not is something else.
Backup data and use encryption e.g. pgpdisk, drivecrypt.
To prevent nontargeted theft, make your PC very distinctive. This reduces the "fencing" price significantly. If they obviously can't sell it to a fence they won't even bother touching it. Get/Pay an artist to make it permanently distinctive AND look nice at the same time.
But if you really want to teach the thief a lesson, try semtex and a pager. You may wish to make sure it only blows up on a particular pager message and not because of a wrong number;). Note that this makes it risky to take your computer with you to certain places esp aircraft/airports.
As you mention with RAID0 the head seek distance is in practice halved for a particular dataset for the same number of drives. But don't forget with RAID1, the head seek distance for reads can also be effectively halved because there are two heads serving the same data. So I don't see a clear win for RAID0 here (if a win at all).
Also the rest of the factors remain e.g. rotational latency, and here RAID1 can be better.
Unfortunately dumb RAID controllers with respect to RAID1 appear to be very common and popular (cheap). Making a really smart RAID1 system for general/popular cases doesn't seem like such a simple problem - optimizing for read latency can affect sequential transfers and vice versa.
Why reinvent the wheel or the wall for that matter? In the absence of artificial scarcities (like copyright, software patents), people should be spending less time rebuilding walls and more time on the stuff that's new.
But, as my brother says, I've been going downhill. I did like lego and did a fair bit of machine code programming when I was a kid (didn't have access to an assembler).
Now I prefer prefab - I use cpan and perl (in that order;) ). Reusing your own code is nice and all that, but being able to reuse other people's code, now that's what I call _real_ code reuse.
I must point out that Java programmers are actually quite hardworking. IMO Java is a 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration[1] programming language (that's probably why it outsources well to the sweatshops;) ).
[1] Note: If Edison was smarter he'd have perspired a lot less. But he was smart _enough_ in the right areas. So go figure...
The reason why movies like Shrek are good is because their filmmakers are interested in making what most people want.
And why they make money: if you reduce the violence and sex, the whole families can go - filling out even more seats.
It appears to me that making money isn't Hollywood's main agenda. Something else is. I'm not sure what it is, but judging from the movies they make it sure isn't in our best interests. How else can you explain the tons of really strange things they have done?
Look at Bollywood (Indian film industry), the film makers know what their audience wants (hero, heroine, singing and dancing amongst trees/nice landscapes/stages), and so they keep giving it to them. Even if the film makers are personally sick of that stuff, they still give their audiences what they want.
IF you have a decent RAID controller, RAID1 is faster than RAID0 for reads (not writes), this is because with RAID1 the data isn't striped - the same data is on all the drives, so the system can read from the most convenient drive (lower latency), and then do read interleaving after that. Whereas with RAID0, the system has to wait for the drive holding the stripe with the desired data.
So RAID 0 is OK if you are sequentially reading/writing large blocks (large relative to the stripe size). But it's not so good for small random reads or writes - which could be the case in some desktop situations.
For decent performance and reliability go RAID1+0, instead of RAID5 (which seems popular amongst many of the obviously ignorant here). RAID5 sucks for writes. RAID5 is only if you want _lots_ more capacity with some redundancy and write performance isn't important.
As far as I see, disk speed is a bigger issue than disk capacity. Capacity has increased faster than drive speeds have.
"Let's play the adding game. Which can add faster, a calculator or a woman or a man?"
That depends on who gets to start first;).
Seriously though if the questions come from a human it may be faster if the human comes up with the answers immediately rather than output them slowly (and possibly erroneously) to a machine and then get the answers.
So a human with a wearable computer+cam that automatically totals numbers "in a blink of an eye" could be faster than a calculator. e.g. look at top left of area containing numbers, look at bottom right, think your personal "Add" thought macro and voila numbers added and displayed.
1) usually no, coz you need DNS and most people just click OK anyway in response to bad certs.
Once you are getting the "wrong" IPs for every DNS request you're pretty screwed.
This can happen on wired networks too. On april fool's day this year I made the DNS entries of tons of ad sites to be a local webserver. So plenty of banner ads were showing the corporate logo instead of ads.
You could show locally relevant ads if you want: e.g. a company could have company related ads (meetings etc). Starbucks could replace ads with their ads.
I've mentioned this years back (on slashdot even), doesn't seem to have caught on though.
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It's not so much to do with metabolism.
A species "natural" lifespan appears to be more linked to how likely a creature is to die of reasons other than old age.
It is unlikely you'd evolve a body that'll last 200 years when you're likely to be eaten by the time you're 5 years old, or have a fatal accident.
That's the current theory why rats don't live for very long whereas bats do (up to 30 years for some bats).
Compare the lifespan of tortoises vs snakes. And compare the types of snakes too.
The creatures likely to be eaten or stomped to death at an early age aren't likely to live that long even if you keep them in optimal conditions.
I know. If it hasn't improved much since AvP2, it sucks. OK it wasn't totally horrible, but I've run AvP2, RtCW, JKII on my hardware and AvP2 sucks in comparison. That said, Halo seems even slower for some reason.
The doom3 engine sounds like it'll be well suited for an AvP game. With some imagination and talent, you'd have something that'll keep hundreds of thousands up at night...
I'm definitely no expert but I suppose that's what happens when God decides to make creatures in his own image.
You get some destructive interference, and you get some constructive interference. And that's even though you know exactly how it'll turn out.
If you get nothing, then you probably didn't succeed in making something in your image.
Was hoping that the next AvP game be done on a better game engine. The engine AVP2 used sucked - it was pretty slow for the quality of graphics.
Also if it's on something like the Quake 3, DOOM3 engine or Unreal engines, it'll probably be easier to mod and there'll be more fun mods.
AvP is a great franchise. Though it's not quite Star Wars, there's plenty of potential.
Y'know it may take a few seconds after the tail is chomped before the sauropod's rear brain actually realizes the tail is bitten and begins preparing it for supersonic speeds :). May be time enough to get clean away.
If there are plenty of obstacles around (trees, big plants, rocks) then tail swinging isn't going to work well.
Would the smaller/younger sauropods be faster than a T Rex? What's worse if they are moving through uncleared terrain. The T Rex behind just has to follow the "trail" the prey makes/clears.
I wonder if the sauropods actually move much - the heads probably do most of the moving as they munch. The legs are probably to move them to the new spot for the day and to hold them in position. Wonder how they manage to mate...
Sure the T Rex probably doesn't run that fast. But how fast can one of those huge sauropods run anyway?
Not saying that T Rexs don't scavenge. But why do so many people claim it's a scavenger just coz it can't move that fast? It only needs to move faster on _average_ than the prey. Even if the prey is faster at first, if the prey gets tired first and stops running, it's munch time.
Heck it only needs to bite off a 50kg bit of a sauropod tail every day or so and you should do the 2kg weight gain/day pretty easy, and the sauropod will probably just grow it back - 50kg out of 50 tons is like a 70kg human losing 70g of flesh+blood.
A sauropod could probably seriously injure a smaller predator dinosaur, but it should be harder to keep away a T Rex.
How are you going to give the cancelling wave higher velocity and still have it able to cancel or significantly reduce the amplitude of the first one?
With a circular pattern you'd still have even bigger waves elsewhere other than the cancelled parts. If you could create a soliton then that wouldn't be as much of an issue, but you still have the first problem.
Yeah, but once the waves pass each other they'll keep going on and now you have two huge waves causing trouble elsewhere at the not-so-precise locations...
The energy in each wave isn't going to vanish so conveniently.
That said you should always read the release notes.
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In that particular case you either manually update the system catalogs, or you treat it like a major revision upgrade. I'd prefer to do the latter, looking at the steps required - coz I'm going to be dumping the DB to back it up anyway...
Hey if you're The Boss, that's a big difference. You should check if your underlings are tempted to.
It's pretty obvious actually. There are actually smart people who do that. They are not paying for consultancy, service, support or for the million or so features. They are spending Company Money so they can blame someone else later and save their own jobs. They are actually capable of doing everything themselves (probably better than the consultants), but why should they do it and risk their pension, jobs, bonuses etc?
There are many people who would gladly spend company/gov money to increase the chances that the company/gov keeps paying them, even if it is not best for the company overall. After all many companies (and bosses) don't give a damn about the employees anyway, so they're just returning the favour.
The challenge for The Boss is to create a culture that makes that behaviour rare.
Yeah. But while a slow decay rate means that the screen stays lit up even if the refresh rate is low (so your eyes don't notice), it usually also means a lot of smearing when the picture changes.
"What, exactly is the point of this exercise"
Coz most people are not very observant EVEN if the stuff they don't observe affects them- the exercise just helps makes it more obvious.
Plus when I look at the center of a screen that's set at 60Hz, the edges of the screen flicker a lot more annoyingly.
I just tried it with the lights off. There's a big diff between 60Hz and 85Hz. The flicker with 60Hz is definitely perceptible - really icky.
As for your 30Hz LED exercise, maybe the circuitry didn't cause the LED to stop producing light fast enough. So if the on times start to overlap, it is less likely that you'd detect any flicker. Was a 50% on, 50% off light ratio guaranteed for that test? Also what colour LED did you use? Eyes have different sensitivity. Green would probably be a better choice than red.
Perhaps a better test would be to use sunlight, and to use a mechanical shutter that alternates between passing the light and blocking it at the frequencies you want. Then you get reasonably low flicker full spectrum light.
"The reason our eyes don't have a problem with 24 fps film"
Speak for yourself. When I watched LOTR, whenever they do scenery pans the "screen updates" were damn obvious and jerky - could see the new frames "ripple down".
The fps of film sucks, but the resolution is pretty good.
60Hz isn't enough. 85Hz is just about OK for me (not great but a monitor which does better isn't within my budget). Just use your peripheral vision to look at your monitor (look away from the monitor and see if it flickers at the off-center/edge of your vision) - if you can detect a flicker or unsteadiness then the refresh rate isn't high enough to fool your eyes.
I bet most people can tell the difference between a monitor refreshing at 75Hz and 85Hz. 60Hz for sure. Whether they mind it or not is something else.
Backup data and use encryption e.g. pgpdisk, drivecrypt.
;). Note that this makes it risky to take your computer with you to certain places esp aircraft/airports.
To prevent nontargeted theft, make your PC very distinctive. This reduces the "fencing" price significantly. If they obviously can't sell it to a fence they won't even bother touching it. Get/Pay an artist to make it permanently distinctive AND look nice at the same time.
But if you really want to teach the thief a lesson, try semtex and a pager. You may wish to make sure it only blows up on a particular pager message and not because of a wrong number
As you mention with RAID0 the head seek distance is in practice halved for a particular dataset for the same number of drives. But don't forget with RAID1, the head seek distance for reads can also be effectively halved because there are two heads serving the same data. So I don't see a clear win for RAID0 here (if a win at all).
Also the rest of the factors remain e.g. rotational latency, and here RAID1 can be better.
Unfortunately dumb RAID controllers with respect to RAID1 appear to be very common and popular (cheap). Making a really smart RAID1 system for general/popular cases doesn't seem like such a simple problem - optimizing for read latency can affect sequential transfers and vice versa.
Why reinvent the wheel or the wall for that matter? In the absence of artificial scarcities (like copyright, software patents), people should be spending less time rebuilding walls and more time on the stuff that's new.
;) ). Reusing your own code is nice and all that, but being able to reuse other people's code, now that's what I call _real_ code reuse.
;) ).
But, as my brother says, I've been going downhill. I did like lego and did a fair bit of machine code programming when I was a kid (didn't have access to an assembler).
Now I prefer prefab - I use cpan and perl (in that order
I must point out that Java programmers are actually quite hardworking. IMO Java is a 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration[1] programming language (that's probably why it outsources well to the sweatshops
[1] Note: If Edison was smarter he'd have perspired a lot less. But he was smart _enough_ in the right areas. So go figure...
Yeah, maybe it'll be useful in my day to day life for me to hear background music.
;).
:).
e.g. ominous sounding music when something bad could be about to happen. Mugger in ally close by.
Romantic music to help tell Mr Clueless Me that the girl is indeed interested
Maybe there should be a super hero/heroine with this ability
The reason why movies like Shrek are good is because their filmmakers are interested in making what most people want.
And why they make money: if you reduce the violence and sex, the whole families can go - filling out even more seats.
It appears to me that making money isn't Hollywood's main agenda. Something else is. I'm not sure what it is, but judging from the movies they make it sure isn't in our best interests. How else can you explain the tons of really strange things they have done?
Look at Bollywood (Indian film industry), the film makers know what their audience wants (hero, heroine, singing and dancing amongst trees/nice landscapes/stages), and so they keep giving it to them. Even if the film makers are personally sick of that stuff, they still give their audiences what they want.
George Lucas needs more people to tell him he's wrong about some things and he needs to listen to at least some of them. Needs more collaboration.
The current batch of Star Wars movies are great examples of the movie just being his own vision.
If he had things his way, one of the more famous scenes in Star Wars would have been this:
Leia to Solo: "I love you".
Solo:"I love you too"
That's BORING!!! That's very like the newer Star Wars stuff.
But instead of that - Harrison Ford said: "I know"
Fortunately for all of us, Lucas kept that line after the director's insistence.
IF you have a decent RAID controller, RAID1 is faster than RAID0 for reads (not writes), this is because with RAID1 the data isn't striped - the same data is on all the drives, so the system can read from the most convenient drive (lower latency), and then do read interleaving after that. Whereas with RAID0, the system has to wait for the drive holding the stripe with the desired data.
So RAID 0 is OK if you are sequentially reading/writing large blocks (large relative to the stripe size). But it's not so good for small random reads or writes - which could be the case in some desktop situations.
For decent performance and reliability go RAID1+0, instead of RAID5 (which seems popular amongst many of the obviously ignorant here). RAID5 sucks for writes. RAID5 is only if you want _lots_ more capacity with some redundancy and write performance isn't important.
As far as I see, disk speed is a bigger issue than disk capacity. Capacity has increased faster than drive speeds have.
"Let's play the adding game. Which can add faster, a calculator or a woman or a man?"
;).
That depends on who gets to start first
Seriously though if the questions come from a human it may be faster if the human comes up with the answers immediately rather than output them slowly (and possibly erroneously) to a machine and then get the answers.
So a human with a wearable computer+cam that automatically totals numbers "in a blink of an eye" could be faster than a calculator. e.g. look at top left of area containing numbers, look at bottom right, think your personal "Add" thought macro and voila numbers added and displayed.
Use code or extrans for "real plain text"? & test
1) usually no, coz you need DNS and most people just click OK anyway in response to bad certs.
Once you are getting the "wrong" IPs for every DNS request you're pretty screwed.
This can happen on wired networks too. On april fool's day this year I made the DNS entries of tons of ad sites to be a local webserver. So plenty of banner ads were showing the corporate logo instead of ads.
You could show locally relevant ads if you want: e.g. a company could have company related ads (meetings etc). Starbucks could replace ads with their ads.
I've mentioned this years back (on slashdot even), doesn't seem to have caught on though.
Most bricklayers don't make their own bricks. Nor should they need to know how to.
Leave the brick making to the brick makers. Fewer problems that way.
But slashcode isn't your friend.
It's a bug when Plain Old Text isn't Plain Old Text.