I'd like to see the face beautification software applied to fifty of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood. I'd like to how much more beautiful they get, but also if some of them lose their unique look that makes them attractive to some.
Games generally don't need smaller polygons, they need more objects. Natural areas need denser grass and ground cover to look better. Also more and better rocks instead of flat paths pretending to be gravel and dirt. Man-made areas need objects on the sidewalks or in rooms to look more realistic. Ever more detailed textures will really make the final difference. When asphalt or stone looks as detailed as the real thing, and not a blurred texture, that'll be a huge milestone.
Depends on what you mean. Airliners often survive rapid decompression in the cabin. The materials are in fact strong enough. The Quantas jet with the exploding Oxygen cylinder lost pressure and was basically fine.
Thieves will either have to change the front and rear plates right where the car is, or drive it to a less noticeable location. Either action can attract attention. Also, notice that people use a razor blade to score their registration sticker to prevent it from being taken. Expect plates to be well secured to prevent easy swapping.
I saw the first half of Episode II on film. Then there was a fire alarm and the entire multiplex had to evacuate. When we were let back inside, I instead went to the digitally projected theater showing Episode II at 1280x1024 and saw it there from start to finish. So that was basically back-to-back. I saw the pixels from 1/3rd of the way back from the screen. Yet I think it was almost as detailed as the film version, and because there was no film jitter or grain, about equally clear. Since then I've seen the 2K projectors and they're a superior viewing experience compared to non-IMAX film.
I certainly don't think they should ever take the place of IMAX, that's terrible news. However most people don't see movies in IMAX.
So what really irks me is NOT that we don't have 4K movies yet driving 4K projector uptake. The Red One camera is bringing those out next year. What I actually want are 2K movies at 48fps, the other option offered by the digital distribution standard. 2K movies look better than film on regular large screens. Yet any time there is much motion at all happening, the picture gets blurry. So why have 4K projectors simply providing higher-resoultion blur? What have you heard about directors making movies at 48fps? The last I heard were some people championing Maxivision. Then there's a bunch of folks who insist movies have to stay 24fps or otherwise it'll look like TV. I'm willing to take that risk at least once to see how an action movie looks in 48fps super-clear glory.
That's definitely the strange part. Hopefully they've seen what happens to the competition when a game is launched filled with bugs. Perhaps they're waiting to see if the game takes off and then if it does, they'll invest a pile of money in hiring a bunch of content designers. If it's not as successful, maybe they'll just keep a minimal crew developing it.
That's what I said, except I used X, Y, and Z as examples. So the players will get A and B or X and Y when the expansion is released before it's fully finished. Then C or Z gets finished and added. So the players get the content even faster than they would if Blizzard was releasing the expansion.
This is an MMO. HOW will this attitude change the reality of future content and expansions? New content will be done when it's done. So future content will come out as it's completed. New features will come out when they're done.
The only way their attitude will impact gamers is in the expansions. They'll announce an expansion has X, Y, and Z. Then they'll cut Z so you can get to play X and Y sooner. Then as soon as Z is finished, it'll be added to.
So you'll have gotten to play X and Y sooner than you would have if Blizzard was releasing the expansion. Then you'll get to play Z as soon as it's done. Adjust your mentality and look at it as a good thing, not a bad one.
There are Diablo fans who would love the chance to play a 70% complete version of Diablo 3 six months before it's full roll-out.
So think of the launch as a partial roll-out. It's most of the game for people who will be happy enough just having that to play. Adjust your mentality and you'll have fun.
If Warhammer needs six more months too "cook", then what's stopping you from buying it six months after its release when all the cities and classes have been included?
Agreed. It seems to me that extending optical disc technologies is like Iomega's attempt to keep floppy disk tech alive with Zip disks. Flash memory and the ubiquity of CD and DVD readers eliminated the Zip.
Any new multi-layer blue laser discs only have about five years to live before the market shifts to holographic ones.
Joce640k didn't say upconverting a DVD achieves BluRay quality. You don't need to apply other's comments to Joce. What Joce said was "it's not really as good, it's somewhere in between. But at best HD is only twice as good as DVD so being 50% better is pretty close."
I agree with the first sentence. I disagree with the second sentence. Don't make straw men arguments.
Here's where your wrong if my memory is correct. HD movies are stored on Blu-ray WITH the black bars. They are NOT stored anamorphically. DVDs do that. Therefore a movie like Blade Runner on DVD has 720x480=345600 pixels. On Blu-ray it's stored as 1920x803=1541760 pixels. So that's 4.46 times as many pixels. Not 6x.
What upconverting does for the Blade Runner DVD is show all 345,600 pixels. When not upconverted, the 640x480 picture only shows 640x272=174080 pixels. That is 50% of the data stored.
So upconverting a wide screen DVD displays twice as much detail than the SD output. The Blu-ray version has 4.5x more detail than the upconverted DVD.
Limiting what you eat is like being a foodie luddite. You're denying yourself the riches and pleasures of the foods now available. Instead you should consider compromising. It's OK to have a Prius for a car while you ride your bicycle where you can. It's OK to buy and enjoy avocados even if they come from San Diego, Florida, and Mexico and get shipped to New York.
I've had salt and pepper tofu supposedly done nicely according to my Asian friends. They enjoyed it. I thought it tasted like a salt and pepper waste of space. Better than salt and pepper styrofoam, but I still fail to see a good use for it except as filler. In hot and sour soup it's fine as filler to add texture. But to say I like it would be like declaring I like cabbage because I like cole slaw. Cabbage and tofu just aren't foods worth making a big or small deal of.
Once there were hospitals offering emergency care to people who fucked themselves up, the balance started shifting to the government trying to keep people from fucking themselves up.
How many restaurants and bars voluntarily prohibited smoking before the government stepped in? Few to none. Non-smoking sections weren't enough to stop some of the smell from drifting over. As a result, the choice was between going out to a restaurant or bar, or not going at all.
You still didn't read the fucking article did you? If you had, you'd be thinking about this as a drivable plane. Your crap about drunk driving and drunk flying could happen today in regular planes. Some drunk pilot kills himself and others. What stops him from flying drunk is the same thing that will stop him from driving drunk. Plus I'm betting there are harsher penalties if a pilot crashes and is found to have been drinking.
Maintenance - this is a plane meaning regular maintenance is still expected. Anyone not maintaining this is just about as bad as not maintaining a regular airplane. Since these can only be flown by certified pilots, either they have the proper respect for maintenance or they don't.
Insurance - supposedly it could have about the same insurance costs as a regular small airplane.
Crashing - if you read the article you would know about the safety cage that makes it strong enough to protect people crashing into cars. That same cage actually makes it stronger and more protective than other small planes which are more fragile. Furthermore, if it should start falling out of the sky, it will have a parachute. Some new aircraft have them, while most old ones don't. The parachute will make it extremely survivable if it falls from the sky.
The problem with slashdot isn't strong adversity, it's uninformed or overly simplistic adversity. Too many posters don't read the articles and jump to stupid conclusions. Even when they do RTFA, there's lots of dumb comments from people who don't understand why they're wrong until others explain it to them.
That has its uses as a way of educating others on why the fallacies are wrong, but it sure takes up a lot of time and text.
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I'd like to see the face beautification software applied to fifty of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood. I'd like to how much more beautiful they get, but also if some of them lose their unique look that makes them attractive to some.
Games generally don't need smaller polygons, they need more objects. Natural areas need denser grass and ground cover to look better. Also more and better rocks instead of flat paths pretending to be gravel and dirt. Man-made areas need objects on the sidewalks or in rooms to look more realistic. Ever more detailed textures will really make the final difference. When asphalt or stone looks as detailed as the real thing, and not a blurred texture, that'll be a huge milestone.
So have you found any phrasing that disabuses them of their fallacy?
Thanks for the link to the Cameron interview. Very neat stuff.
Depends on what you mean. Airliners often survive rapid decompression in the cabin. The materials are in fact strong enough. The Quantas jet with the exploding Oxygen cylinder lost pressure and was basically fine.
Thieves will either have to change the front and rear plates right where the car is, or drive it to a less noticeable location. Either action can attract attention. Also, notice that people use a razor blade to score their registration sticker to prevent it from being taken. Expect plates to be well secured to prevent easy swapping.
I saw the first half of Episode II on film. Then there was a fire alarm and the entire multiplex had to evacuate. When we were let back inside, I instead went to the digitally projected theater showing Episode II at 1280x1024 and saw it there from start to finish. So that was basically back-to-back. I saw the pixels from 1/3rd of the way back from the screen. Yet I think it was almost as detailed as the film version, and because there was no film jitter or grain, about equally clear. Since then I've seen the 2K projectors and they're a superior viewing experience compared to non-IMAX film.
I certainly don't think they should ever take the place of IMAX, that's terrible news. However most people don't see movies in IMAX.
So what really irks me is NOT that we don't have 4K movies yet driving 4K projector uptake. The Red One camera is bringing those out next year. What I actually want are 2K movies at 48fps, the other option offered by the digital distribution standard. 2K movies look better than film on regular large screens. Yet any time there is much motion at all happening, the picture gets blurry. So why have 4K projectors simply providing higher-resoultion blur? What have you heard about directors making movies at 48fps? The last I heard were some people championing Maxivision. Then there's a bunch of folks who insist movies have to stay 24fps or otherwise it'll look like TV. I'm willing to take that risk at least once to see how an action movie looks in 48fps super-clear glory.
what if you got hit by a bus? shouldn't an organization have your knowledge distributed in case something happens?
That's definitely the strange part. Hopefully they've seen what happens to the competition when a game is launched filled with bugs. Perhaps they're waiting to see if the game takes off and then if it does, they'll invest a pile of money in hiring a bunch of content designers. If it's not as successful, maybe they'll just keep a minimal crew developing it.
I didn't comprehend all of what you wrote before responding.
So we'll have to see after the release how quickly they include the missing content, or if they wait to charge people for an expansion.
That's what I said, except I used X, Y, and Z as examples. So the players will get A and B or X and Y when the expansion is released before it's fully finished. Then C or Z gets finished and added. So the players get the content even faster than they would if Blizzard was releasing the expansion.
This is an MMO. HOW will this attitude change the reality of future content and expansions? New content will be done when it's done. So future content will come out as it's completed. New features will come out when they're done.
The only way their attitude will impact gamers is in the expansions. They'll announce an expansion has X, Y, and Z. Then they'll cut Z so you can get to play X and Y sooner. Then as soon as Z is finished, it'll be added to.
So you'll have gotten to play X and Y sooner than you would have if Blizzard was releasing the expansion. Then you'll get to play Z as soon as it's done. Adjust your mentality and look at it as a good thing, not a bad one.
There are Diablo fans who would love the chance to play a 70% complete version of Diablo 3 six months before it's full roll-out.
So think of the launch as a partial roll-out. It's most of the game for people who will be happy enough just having that to play. Adjust your mentality and you'll have fun.
If Warhammer needs six more months too "cook", then what's stopping you from buying it six months after its release when all the cities and classes have been included?
Agreed. It seems to me that extending optical disc technologies is like Iomega's attempt to keep floppy disk tech alive with Zip disks. Flash memory and the ubiquity of CD and DVD readers eliminated the Zip.
Any new multi-layer blue laser discs only have about five years to live before the market shifts to holographic ones.
Joce640k didn't say upconverting a DVD achieves BluRay quality. You don't need to apply other's comments to Joce. What Joce said was "it's not really as good, it's somewhere in between. But at best HD is only twice as good as DVD so being 50% better is pretty close."
I agree with the first sentence. I disagree with the second sentence. Don't make straw men arguments.
Here's where your wrong if my memory is correct. HD movies are stored on Blu-ray WITH the black bars. They are NOT stored anamorphically. DVDs do that. Therefore a movie like Blade Runner on DVD has 720x480=345600 pixels. On Blu-ray it's stored as 1920x803=1541760 pixels. So that's 4.46 times as many pixels. Not 6x.
What upconverting does for the Blade Runner DVD is show all 345,600 pixels. When not upconverted, the 640x480 picture only shows 640x272=174080 pixels. That is 50% of the data stored.
So upconverting a wide screen DVD displays twice as much detail than the SD output. The Blu-ray version has 4.5x more detail than the upconverted DVD.
Where have you been? Taco doesn't take part in theses "who has the lowest ID" threads.
Limiting what you eat is like being a foodie luddite. You're denying yourself the riches and pleasures of the foods now available. Instead you should consider compromising. It's OK to have a Prius for a car while you ride your bicycle where you can. It's OK to buy and enjoy avocados even if they come from San Diego, Florida, and Mexico and get shipped to New York.
I've had salt and pepper tofu supposedly done nicely according to my Asian friends. They enjoyed it. I thought it tasted like a salt and pepper waste of space. Better than salt and pepper styrofoam, but I still fail to see a good use for it except as filler. In hot and sour soup it's fine as filler to add texture. But to say I like it would be like declaring I like cabbage because I like cole slaw. Cabbage and tofu just aren't foods worth making a big or small deal of.
Once there were hospitals offering emergency care to people who fucked themselves up, the balance started shifting to the government trying to keep people from fucking themselves up.
How many restaurants and bars voluntarily prohibited smoking before the government stepped in? Few to none. Non-smoking sections weren't enough to stop some of the smell from drifting over. As a result, the choice was between going out to a restaurant or bar, or not going at all.
You still didn't read the fucking article did you? If you had, you'd be thinking about this as a drivable plane. Your crap about drunk driving and drunk flying could happen today in regular planes. Some drunk pilot kills himself and others. What stops him from flying drunk is the same thing that will stop him from driving drunk. Plus I'm betting there are harsher penalties if a pilot crashes and is found to have been drinking.
Maintenance - this is a plane meaning regular maintenance is still expected. Anyone not maintaining this is just about as bad as not maintaining a regular airplane. Since these can only be flown by certified pilots, either they have the proper respect for maintenance or they don't.
Insurance - supposedly it could have about the same insurance costs as a regular small airplane.
Crashing - if you read the article you would know about the safety cage that makes it strong enough to protect people crashing into cars. That same cage actually makes it stronger and more protective than other small planes which are more fragile. Furthermore, if it should start falling out of the sky, it will have a parachute. Some new aircraft have them, while most old ones don't. The parachute will make it extremely survivable if it falls from the sky.
The article clearly talks about a safety cage. My first thought is that it'll be similar to the Smart car cages, just made of lighter materials.
The problem with slashdot isn't strong adversity, it's uninformed or overly simplistic adversity. Too many posters don't read the articles and jump to stupid conclusions. Even when they do RTFA, there's lots of dumb comments from people who don't understand why they're wrong until others explain it to them.
That has its uses as a way of educating others on why the fallacies are wrong, but it sure takes up a lot of time and text.
The Sega-CD was not a failure. It just wasn't as big a success because the 32X got in the way.