If Fox News operates over there the way they do in the US, they should be able to copyright many of their articles. They are always very creative in how they don't use facts.
River Raid, the old Atari 2600 game from Activision, uses a pseudo random number generator to produce the game levels. It was a great way to avoid putting the levels in the game's limited ROM (2K?).
On the old Atari 2600, the game has to be written around rendering fields (half frames) of video. On NTSC, that is 59.94 fields per second, or a little under 16.7ms. Input is usually read during vertical blanking between fields. That makes for not much more than 33.3ms latency in the worst case of input change just after vertical blanking.
Yes, Full Sail does retain the right to use student projects for advertising, but they explicitly do not take ownership of the student projects. I used to work for them as a lab instructor in the Game Development program. Students could not be prevented from making their project into a commercial game under these terms, although few are that good. It's OK, though. The point of the project is going through the process, which the students do even if their game isn't all that fun.
I've used VNC for this sort of thing before, but on a LAN and everyone was pretty close by. Even so, it let us all look at the same document, and edit it and see the changes live. It may take some tweaking to get good performance over the internet, but I think it's doable.
After this, the document is saved on the system with the VNC server. Then it can be put into a revision control system.
I went to some MS conference years ago for a previous employer. The MS speaker who went over SOAP actually made it out to be a direct competitor to Java, which has never made any sense to me. But a lot of stuff from MS doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me.
This work was done at the University Of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), not the University Of Alabama (UA) like the main post says. UAH did start as a satellite campus of UA, but became a separate university a few decades ago. I guess some news travels slow.
Before someone walks past an advertisement display, the display reads the RFID tags the person is carying, figures out things & brands the person might be interested in, and displays a targeted ad.
Mark this post. With RFID tags, this will happen. Just not right away, admittedly.
I avoid trouble by occasionally opening up the computer and power supply and cleaning out all the accumulated dust. It may not be the most convenient option, but it's probably the most effective.
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The real question now is can some other independent group prove such UFO-ish artifacts can be created like the SOHO group claims. After all, it was once said that the moon was too bright for Hubble to image, but color tests were acknowleged to be done using clouds over Earth. Now we finally have publicly avaialble low-res moon images from Hubble.
I have had a Pioneer DVD-RW drive for over a year. I have used various brands of DVD-R's to test compatibility. What I have found is that even the cheapest media is compatible with DVD-ROM drives.
The troubles on www.vcdhelp.com are all about compatibilty issues with DVD players. So, if you want to put a movie on a DVD, or want to restore your backup through your DVD player, then you have compatibility problems to worry about. If you want to restore the backup with a DVD-ROM drive, then you just need to make sure the data was written properly. Unless you get some crap US made disks (http://store.yahoo.com/cd-recordable-dot-com/), there is seldom a problem.
I have a 75GB hard drive I have connected to my Linux video editing machine and a DVD-RW drive that I switch between the same Linux machine and a Windows machine. The drives work fine and I have used some benchmarch to show over 16MB/s to the hard drive, but that was with the 2.4.7 kernel.
The problems I have seen are that I cannot use my camcorder and a drive on IEEE 1394 simultaneously, and there are cases, possibly related to the first problem, where I have to reboot before I can use a drive again. It doesn't happen often, though, so I haven't even tried to fix it.
In case you are interested, Fire wire direct sells boxes that take multiple drives and gives them a IEEE 1394 connection. FYI: I'm using one of their interface cards and single drive enclosures, but I don't work for them.
I'll bet the not-so-great economy has something to do with it. There are computer geeks like me who haven't been getting enough income lately to consider buying computer hardware, high-end or not.
The DVD consortium, the bunch that came up with the DVD standards (DVD video, audio, RAM) also came up with DVD-R and RW. Sony, HP, et all, came up with DVD+R and RW.
The resolution isn't forced upon you; you can divide each dimension's resolution by 2 and have 800x600 with the display doing any scaling and while using the entire display. I do this with my SGI 1600SW, although its reduced resolution is 800x512. Stil works fine.
If I need to heat popcorn for my battlion, can I use it to get the job done fast? All the popcorn ar once, of course. After all, what good is the laser if it can't?
Just a suggestion: after the Xbox is hacked and people have Linux running on it, buy all the Xboxes you want, just don't get any games. You'll get the hardware at a price subsidized by Microsoft. Not so bad if you don't like MS. For spite, play Linux games on it:-)
Vector units, not really T&L coprocessors. The difference is that vector units have no specific purpose other than to do lots of floating point math. On the PS2, each VU has 4 FMACs and 1 FDIV (one VU has one more of each), each operating on 4 pairs of 32-bit floating point values stored in 2 128-bit registers, and each capable of operating independently and simultaneously.
In addition to what was mentioned in the article, anitmatter also can be applied to create radioactive isotopes for use in hospitals that lack expensive equipment to produce the isotopes. The idea is that not all hospitals can afford or place the equipment to make isotopes that may have half lives of only a few minutes, but hospitals that can't can still afford the scanning equipment to track the isotope's trip through the body, and may already have the equipment for other uses. Antimatter could be transported to such hospitals and used on site to make the short lived isotopes.
I saw a presentation about this use of antimatter at Dragon Con in 2000. I wish I had a URL to go with it.
Did you think the PS2 would just know what to do with the Firewire drive? That a silly excpectation. Since the PS2 supports Firewire, it will support a firewire harddrive, but the software has to know what to do with the drive.
Furthermore, as with all video game consoles, how to boot the system is proprietary information. Its secrecy ensures that anyone making games for the system has to pay for a licenes to do so.
So, to use a Firewire drive, you'll need the PS2 Linux kit DVD to boot the system, and a custom kernel stored on a memory card with IEEE 1394 support. I imagine an inital RAM disk could be used to load the IEEE 1394 modules to access the Firewire drive without needing the Linux kit hardware (besides the boot DVD).
The 300MHz Emotion Engine CPU is optimized for multimedia and possesses a great deal of floating point performance. Take MMX, make it do floating point work, make it operate on twice as much data per instruction in fewer clock cycles, make it generally more robust, and give it 10 FMACs and 4 FDIVs instead of one each, and you have most of an Emotion Engine.
Give the PS2 a Linux kit (includes HD and 100Mb ethernet), add a DV codec optimized for the Emotion Engine, and DV editing should work just fine.
I was thinking about using multiple PS2s to encode MPEG-2 video in a distributed fashion. Use a PC server to coordinate and store the data, and use each vector unit in the Emotion Engine to independently process an MPEG GOP (Group of Pictures, the set of frames starting at an independent frame and ending just before the next independent frame). I think one PS2 may be able to keep up with my 1.33GHz Athlon, but the idea here is to use at least 4 PS2s effectively.
The 300MHz CPU has 3 times the floating point performance of a 500MHz Pentium 3 -- a 1.4GHz Pentium 4 may be able to keep up.
RAID isn't needed. I do video editing on a Linux box using single 7200RPM IDE drives with no problems. They provide about 10 times the performance needed by DV.
A USB drive won't be fast enough, but a Firewire drive could be, and an internal drive probably will be. An internal drive will come with the US version of the Linux kit for the PS2.
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If Fox News operates over there the way they do in the US, they should be able to copyright many of their articles. They are always very creative in how they don't use facts.
River Raid, the old Atari 2600 game from Activision, uses a pseudo random number generator to produce the game levels. It was a great way to avoid putting the levels in the game's limited ROM (2K?).
Old but good ideas just keep coming back.
On the old Atari 2600, the game has to be written around rendering fields (half frames) of video. On NTSC, that is 59.94 fields per second, or a little under 16.7ms. Input is usually read during vertical blanking between fields. That makes for not much more than 33.3ms latency in the worst case of input change just after vertical blanking.
Maybe new isn't really better.
Yes, Full Sail does retain the right to use student projects for advertising, but they explicitly do not take ownership of the student projects. I used to work for them as a lab instructor in the Game Development program. Students could not be prevented from making their project into a commercial game under these terms, although few are that good. It's OK, though. The point of the project is going through the process, which the students do even if their game isn't all that fun.
I've used VNC for this sort of thing before, but on a LAN and everyone was pretty close by. Even so, it let us all look at the same document, and edit it and see the changes live. It may take some tweaking to get good performance over the internet, but I think it's doable.
After this, the document is saved on the system with the VNC server. Then it can be put into a revision control system.
I went to some MS conference years ago for a previous employer. The MS speaker who went over SOAP actually made it out to be a direct competitor to Java, which has never made any sense to me. But a lot of stuff from MS doesn't make a huge amount of sense to me.
This work was done at the University Of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), not the University Of Alabama (UA) like the main post says. UAH did start as a satellite campus of UA, but became a separate university a few decades ago. I guess some news travels slow.
The shaking feautre could even be integrated into the game: "See this bad guy? Strangle him!"
Before someone walks past an advertisement display, the display reads the RFID tags the person is carying, figures out things & brands the person might be interested in, and displays a targeted ad.
Mark this post. With RFID tags, this will happen. Just not right away, admittedly.
I avoid trouble by occasionally opening up the computer and power supply and cleaning out all the accumulated dust. It may not be the most convenient option, but it's probably the most effective.
The real question now is can some other independent group prove such UFO-ish artifacts can be created like the SOHO group claims. After all, it was once said that the moon was too bright for Hubble to image, but color tests were acknowleged to be done using clouds over Earth. Now we finally have publicly avaialble low-res moon images from Hubble.
I have had a Pioneer DVD-RW drive for over a year. I have used various brands of DVD-R's to test compatibility. What I have found is that even the cheapest media is compatible with DVD-ROM drives.
The troubles on www.vcdhelp.com are all about compatibilty issues with DVD players. So, if you want to put a movie on a DVD, or want to restore your backup through your DVD player, then you have compatibility problems to worry about. If you want to restore the backup with a DVD-ROM drive, then you just need to make sure the data was written properly. Unless you get some crap US made disks (http://store.yahoo.com/cd-recordable-dot-com/), there is seldom a problem.
And when the studios die, we'll finally get films with interesting and innovative plots and meaningful content. I can't wait!
The problems I have seen are that I cannot use my camcorder and a drive on IEEE 1394 simultaneously, and there are cases, possibly related to the first problem, where I have to reboot before I can use a drive again. It doesn't happen often, though, so I haven't even tried to fix it.
In case you are interested, Fire wire direct sells boxes that take multiple drives and gives them a IEEE 1394 connection. FYI: I'm using one of their interface cards and single drive enclosures, but I don't work for them.
I'll bet the not-so-great economy has something to do with it. There are computer geeks like me who haven't been getting enough income lately to consider buying computer hardware, high-end or not.
The DVD consortium, the bunch that came up with the DVD standards (DVD video, audio, RAM) also came up with DVD-R and RW. Sony, HP, et all, came up with DVD+R and RW.
Qapla' batlh je!
If I need to heat popcorn for my battlion, can I use it to get the job done fast? All the popcorn ar once, of course. After all, what good is the laser if it can't?
Just a suggestion: after the Xbox is hacked and people have Linux running on it, buy all the Xboxes you want, just don't get any games. You'll get the hardware at a price subsidized by Microsoft. Not so bad if you don't like MS. For spite, play Linux games on it :-)
Vector units, not really T&L coprocessors. The difference is that vector units have no specific purpose other than to do lots of floating point math. On the PS2, each VU has 4 FMACs and 1 FDIV (one VU has one more of each), each operating on 4 pairs of 32-bit floating point values stored in 2 128-bit registers, and each capable of operating independently and simultaneously.
MMX and its successors pale in comparison.
I saw a presentation about this use of antimatter at Dragon Con in 2000. I wish I had a URL to go with it.
Did you think the PS2 would just know what to do with the Firewire drive? That a silly excpectation. Since the PS2 supports Firewire, it will support a firewire harddrive, but the software has to know what to do with the drive.
Furthermore, as with all video game consoles, how to boot the system is proprietary information. Its secrecy ensures that anyone making games for the system has to pay for a licenes to do so.
So, to use a Firewire drive, you'll need the PS2 Linux kit DVD to boot the system, and a custom kernel stored on a memory card with IEEE 1394 support. I imagine an inital RAM disk could be used to load the IEEE 1394 modules to access the Firewire drive without needing the Linux kit hardware (besides the boot DVD).
The 300MHz Emotion Engine CPU is optimized for multimedia and possesses a great deal of floating point performance. Take MMX, make it do floating point work, make it operate on twice as much data per instruction in fewer clock cycles, make it generally more robust, and give it 10 FMACs and 4 FDIVs instead of one each, and you have most of an Emotion Engine.
Give the PS2 a Linux kit (includes HD and 100Mb ethernet), add a DV codec optimized for the Emotion Engine, and DV editing should work just fine.
I was thinking about using multiple PS2s to encode MPEG-2 video in a distributed fashion. Use a PC server to coordinate and store the data, and use each vector unit in the Emotion Engine to independently process an MPEG GOP (Group of Pictures, the set of frames starting at an independent frame and ending just before the next independent frame). I think one PS2 may be able to keep up with my 1.33GHz Athlon, but the idea here is to use at least 4 PS2s effectively.