Dude, if you had actually read the page you linked to, you would see that James McTeigue is directing the film, not the Wachowski brothers (they're producing it).
McTeigue was assistant director on Dark City, the Matrix and EP3... so it should be interesting how he gets on in his directorial debut.
I don't know about anyone else, but as a long time gamer and owner of the current generation of consoles, I find both the PS3 and Xbox360 completely uninteresting.
Its time for someone to challenge our fundamenetal notions of what video games are about. I certainly hope that Nintendo are able to do this with the Revolution.
Graphics aren't really interesting anymore. I want a new gameplay experience. Fast forward the future.
Access times on the gamecube are imperceivable.. you really never have to wait for a loading screen, unlike the ps2.
That was Nintendo's primary motivation for designing small discs.
If so, it's both amusing and accurate - I like the suggestion that Microsoft are going around in circles.
Adding more processing power isn't going to make for a new gaming experience. Nintendo really seem to be the only console developer interested in creating new and innovative ways to interact with games.
Raytraced shadows and the like aren't particularly exciting - novel ideas, and gameplay concepts are.
We're not talking about electricty or the grid, but liquid fuels. Conventional oil isn't typically used to generate electricty. The energy infrastructure I was referring to was - oil refineries, oil distribution, petrol stations. Hypothetically, if we found an effecient way to produce hydrogen, with a positive ERoEI, making the transition would take decades. If peak oil geologists are correct, we do not have decades.
The oil crisis of the 70s, which was the result of an artifical shortage, was caused by a 5% drop in production. One we have reached the point of global decline, production will drop by 3-7% every year. Where will that leave us 5 years after decline?
According to Walter Youngquist, shale oil is a net loser i.e. it takes more energy to produce shale oil than is recovered from the shale oil/kerogen. It's not a question of economics. This is also the case with oil sands.
The IEA has recently shifted its peak forecast date from 2035, to a vague 2015-2024. This is particularly significant, as the IEA's forecasts have traditionally been rather optimistic. There are a number of geologists that are suggesting we have hit global peak production now, or that we will in the very near future i.e. 2005-2007.
If that is the case, we do not have enough time to replace our existing energy infrastructure. We also currently do not have a source of liquid fuel with the ERoEI of petroleum. Rather than being complacent in the hopes that future technologies will replace oil, we should be doing everything possible to reduce our consumption.
We will not be regressing to medieval civilisation, but life as we all know it will change irrevocably.
While this technology has a negative ERoEI, there are others that don't and look very promising. Unfortunately we don't appear to have the wisdom to invest significantly in their development.
Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy in the Poetics recognised spectacle as the least important element of a drama.
Frankly, I'm bored by cg these days, and I'm a professional 3d animator myself. Well... not so much bored by cg in itself, but investment in cg to the exclusion of everything else. You may have beautifully lit scenes using the latest in global illumination and ambient occlusion technologies, or marvellously rigged creatures sporting insanely dense displacement maps and subsurface scattering shaders.. but if your plot is unimaginative and your characters are 2 dimensional, which should anyone care?
I guess I find it all the more distressing, because I have first hand experience of just how hard and laborious computer graphics are. Blood, sweat and tears goes in to making anything like this, but ultimately all of that is irrelevant if your foundations aren't there.
Gmax isn't a learning edition of Max. It's a very simplified version of Max, without the majority of Max's features. The learning editions of Maya and Houdini are fully featured, which is the distinction.
If it's free 3d software (that doesn't suck) you're after, there's a fair bit around these days:
Wings - Utterly wicked sub-d edgeloop modeler, offering better poly tools than the majority of commercial packages (Maya's poly tools are cack, and need to be extended with scipts).
Blender - The UI was designed by mutant space robots on peyote, but other than that minor deficiency, it is a pretty capable package.
Pixie - Free renderman renderer. It isn't prman, but pretty nifty all the same.
Regarding piracy of 3d software.. I think most vendors probably accept that this is going to happen amongst home users / students. Otherwise, no one would be able to learn their products, the price is simply prohibitive. That being said however, both Alias and SideFx are offering free uncrippled (featurewise.. they create watermarks) learning versions of Maya and Houdini respectively. Discreet don't appear to be doing the same.. but honestly I can't understand anything Discreet does these days.
Some people seem to drift through their working life, unconcerned about the work they are doing, and subscribe to the idea that life begins after 5. I personally have always felt a need to be genuinely engaged by my work, and wouldn't consider doing something I found uninteresting unless out of absolute necessity. If other people rely on you of course, i.e. you have a family, then that's a different situation. I made an abrupt decision to quit my job as a.net programmer over a year ago to follow my dream of working as a 3d artist. This has paid off for me.. but it was a big risk!
This sort of narrow minded shit never fails to astound me. Good music, is good regardless of genre. There's some fantastic hip-hop around, but it's probably not what you'd hear on the radio or MTV.
If you'd like to expand your musical horizons a bit, may I recommend: Dizzy Rascal, MF Doom, Madvillain, Roots, Kanye West, Jurrasic 5, Doctor Octagon/Kool Keith, Dj Shadow, Amon Tobin.. all very different artists, but all part of the 'rap' tradition in one way or another.
Incidentally, I can hum Bach's well tempered clavier from start to finish... and that's both books.
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What has happened to the Chuck Palahniuks of the world?
Oh they're around, and then some! Get your mitts on anything by Haruki Murakami, Jeff Noon, and Jim Dodge for a refreshingly unconventional contemporary read. Somewhat older (although that's hardly important), and well worth checking out are, Kobo Abe, Italo Cavino, Borges, Tom Robbins, Alain Robbe-Grillet.. there's some fantastic stuff out there:)
will I ever find true love? drink me? Who's on first? Is Jeeves well hung? how are you? what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? is Jeeves stupid? what is the best search engine? f*** you? why do I never see baby pigeons?
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Dude, if you had actually read the page you linked to, you would see that James McTeigue is directing the film, not the Wachowski brothers (they're producing it).
McTeigue was assistant director on Dark City, the Matrix and EP3... so it should be interesting how he gets on in his directorial debut.
I bet they get awesome television reception!
I don't know about anyone else, but as a long time gamer and owner of the current generation of consoles, I find both the PS3 and Xbox360 completely uninteresting.
Its time for someone to challenge our fundamenetal notions of what video games are about. I certainly hope that Nintendo are able to do this with the Revolution.
Graphics aren't really interesting anymore. I want a new gameplay experience. Fast forward the future.
Access times on the gamecube are imperceivable.. you really never have to wait for a loading screen, unlike the ps2. That was Nintendo's primary motivation for designing small discs.
Is X-Box 360 the official name of this console?
If so, it's both amusing and accurate - I like the suggestion that Microsoft are going around in circles.
Adding more processing power isn't going to make for a new gaming experience. Nintendo really seem to be the only console developer interested in creating new and innovative ways to interact with games.
Raytraced shadows and the like aren't particularly exciting - novel ideas, and gameplay concepts are.
It's the 'Konami code', which typically enabled cheats on NES games like Contra.
that a gameboy emulator will compile on this?
oh.. wait..
We're not talking about electricty or the grid, but liquid fuels. Conventional oil isn't typically used to generate electricty. The energy infrastructure I was referring to was - oil refineries, oil distribution, petrol stations. Hypothetically, if we found an effecient way to produce hydrogen, with a positive ERoEI, making the transition would take decades. If peak oil geologists are correct, we do not have decades.
The oil crisis of the 70s, which was the result of an artifical shortage, was caused by a 5% drop in production. One we have reached the point of global decline, production will drop by 3-7% every year. Where will that leave us 5 years after decline?
According to Walter Youngquist, shale oil is a net loser i.e. it takes more energy to produce shale oil than is recovered from the shale oil/kerogen. It's not a question of economics. This is also the case with oil sands.
The IEA has recently shifted its peak forecast date from 2035, to a vague 2015-2024. This is particularly significant, as the IEA's forecasts have traditionally been rather optimistic. There are a number of geologists that are suggesting we have hit global peak production now, or that we will in the very near future i.e. 2005-2007. If that is the case, we do not have enough time to replace our existing energy infrastructure. We also currently do not have a source of liquid fuel with the ERoEI of petroleum. Rather than being complacent in the hopes that future technologies will replace oil, we should be doing everything possible to reduce our consumption.
We will not be regressing to medieval civilisation, but life as we all know it will change irrevocably.
Get ready for some interesting times.
While this technology has a negative ERoEI, there are others that don't and look very promising. Unfortunately we don't appear to have the wisdom to invest significantly in their development.
Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy in the Poetics recognised spectacle as the least important element of a drama.
Frankly, I'm bored by cg these days, and I'm a professional 3d animator myself. Well... not so much bored by cg in itself, but investment in cg to the exclusion of everything else. You may have beautifully lit scenes using the latest in global illumination and ambient occlusion technologies, or marvellously rigged creatures sporting insanely dense displacement maps and subsurface scattering shaders.. but if your plot is unimaginative and your characters are 2 dimensional, which should anyone care?
I guess I find it all the more distressing, because I have first hand experience of just how hard and laborious computer graphics are. Blood, sweat and tears goes in to making anything like this, but ultimately all of that is irrelevant if your foundations aren't there.
Gmax isn't a learning edition of Max. It's a very simplified version of Max, without the majority of Max's features. The learning editions of Maya and Houdini are fully featured, which is the distinction.
If it's free 3d software (that doesn't suck) you're after, there's a fair bit around these days:
Regarding piracy of 3d software.. I think most vendors probably accept that this is going to happen amongst home users / students. Otherwise, no one would be able to learn their products, the price is simply prohibitive. That being said however, both Alias and SideFx are offering free uncrippled (featurewise.. they create watermarks) learning versions of Maya and Houdini respectively. Discreet don't appear to be doing the same.. but honestly I can't understand anything Discreet does these days.
Don't worry. Computers aren't going to be much of an issue for us in 2038.
Some people seem to drift through their working life, unconcerned about the work they are doing, and subscribe to the idea that life begins after 5. I personally have always felt a need to be genuinely engaged by my work, and wouldn't consider doing something I found uninteresting unless out of absolute necessity. If other people rely on you of course, i.e. you have a family, then that's a different situation. I made an abrupt decision to quit my job as a .net programmer over a year ago to follow my dream of working as a 3d artist. This has paid off for me.. but it was a big risk!
This sort of narrow minded shit never fails to astound me. Good music, is good regardless of genre. There's some fantastic hip-hop around, but it's probably not what you'd hear on the radio or MTV.
If you'd like to expand your musical horizons a bit, may I recommend: Dizzy Rascal, MF Doom, Madvillain, Roots, Kanye West, Jurrasic 5, Doctor Octagon/Kool Keith, Dj Shadow, Amon Tobin.. all very different artists, but all part of the 'rap' tradition in one way or another.
Incidentally, I can hum Bach's well tempered clavier from start to finish... and that's both books.
Hopefully Take2 will continue to develop and challenge EA's near monopoly of the sports genre.
The link you've provided is broken - the item is here.
I've always wondered what goes on in churches.
So would Gateway!
What has happened to the Chuck Palahniuks of the world?
:)
Oh they're around, and then some!
Get your mitts on anything by Haruki Murakami, Jeff Noon, and Jim Dodge for a refreshingly unconventional contemporary read.
Somewhat older (although that's hardly important), and well worth checking out are, Kobo Abe, Italo Cavino, Borges, Tom Robbins, Alain Robbe-Grillet..
there's some fantastic stuff out there
will I ever find true love?
drink me?
Who's on first?
Is Jeeves well hung?
how are you?
what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
is Jeeves stupid?
what is the best search engine?
f*** you?
why do I never see baby pigeons?
find him here.
on what people are asking. ./'ed?
most amusing.
erm, yeah, and Philip K Dick's novels didn't have "over board" titles like
Galactic Pot Healer
Flow my Tears the Policeman said
The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
like the other chap said.. what the fuck are you on about?