As a PC owner with a polarized projector setup, I'm mush more interested in ATI's Catalyst 10.3 coming out in March that will have 3D support in the stereoscopic sense. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/catalyst-eyefinity-radeon,2559-2.html
(Yes, I know it's offtopic. It still makes me giddy and I don't have anyone else to tell.)
My point, which upon re-read was probably too subtle, is that playing games in fun. Who the hell cares if it's virtual? And if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
A few years ago, I started masturbating, well I must admit that I was instantly hooked-up. I spent the next 3 years masturbating hardcore, and became very good at it. Eventually, I managed to become quite skilled and could go for hours at a time. I was very successfull in masturbating... That was until I lost everything, when my -ahem- was blown by a woman and I realized it fely way, way better. In a heartbeat, I lost everything I had, everything I spent time for. I realised that it took only a second to destroy three entire years of efforts. I finally "woke up", stopped masturbating and never touched it again. Peoples need to understand that masturbating is just that - it doesnt result in anything - the only real thing is the time and commitment one can spend on masturbating.
Maybe concentrating on a task that requires hand-eye coordination and lots of thought for more than 2 hours at a time is not healthy.
Um, isn't that what most/. readers do for employment? Except they do it 8 hours a day.
I know I always feel queasy if I've been playing an action game for that amount of time.
Motion sickness when playing 3D games is common; I would hope that you wouldn't suggest that travel by car, ship, or boat is unhealthy because they cause motion sickness.
We can't make the world 100% safe; I don't see why people are so critical of the TSA. They do a decent job at making airports appear secure, which is all that should be expected of them.
Assuming technology exists to accelerate space ships to interplanetarily practical speeds, what's to stop warring planets from accelerating an asteroid in the same way and in the direction of the enemy planet? Or take that acceleration technique and speed up some ball bearings to ridiculous speeds and send them on their way towards something with a predictable position like a space station? Hell, you could use millions of ball bearings like a mine field, because any ship traveling through the bearings will have such a high speed relative to them. I just wonder that if we currently get so butthurt about orbiting space debris, a space war will focus on simple kinetic weapons at huge speeds and from huge distances.
I came in here to say this. What idiots thought that botnets died? Oh, wait, I forgot that MSM sometimes pretends they can report on technology without making fools of themselves.
“It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.”
You could label it as... wait for it... "Artificial Meat"! Apparently I missed the day in school where we were taught not to trust labels on food.
Games already contain situations that resemble real emergencies and commonly contain simulated alerts where some government official type tells you what is happening. There a possibility of the alert being ignored because people think it's just part of the game. But far worse is children getting scared or taking unsafe actions to evade perceived hazards because they really believe there is a nuclear attack in progress or that mom and dad turned into blood-sucking zombies. After all they have been taught that they can be alerted to an emergency through a game.
Spot on. Queue the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. We can only hope that these alerts would also come with SMS and broadcast TV alerts as well.
I fail to see how allowing emergency services to send you in-game messages is an "invasion of privacy". Those channels are mostly filled with 12 year-olds shouting their racist and homophobic opinions anyways. The real question is how the important alert will cut through the chatter, not whether it should be allowed to.
While I understand that there is a psychological influence of the whole "under $100" mark, is it really that much different than the standard price reductions and increasing power of graphics cards over time?
If this surprises you, then I would argue that you haven't been paying attention to the state of science in America. At least China isn't wasting its time arguing over evolution or fretting that the LHC will kill us all.
so I am scratching head as to why apple patented this. If they ever used it they would lose whatcustomers they have.
Apple fans are pretty devout. A bet Apple is betting enough of them will stick around even with obtrusive ads. And another large segment of Apple users are technologically challenged, so the energy of learning to use a blackberry or droid won't be outweighed by the annoying ads.
Personally, I'd be iRate.
Doesn't facebook give the little mobile icon for updates made by phone? Perhaps a criminal could use a smart phone and reconfigure the browser to not call itself mobile, but criminals are self-selecting stupid. I don't see it happening.
Thanks. You're my hero. So we've solved side-to-side yaw and moving forwards and backwards in 3-d space... now if only we could find something in nature we could copy (without fully understanding) that hunted for Sarah Connor.
Great result, but, really, way to go guys! You can't understand a non-linear system's behavior; join the club. I still can't understand why z_n+1 = z_n^2 + c looks so pretty either.
Maybe your mother had a little z_n in her and it's a latent Oedipus complex?
I find it unimaginable that people would attempt to implement a technology that is not fully understood. Doing so will eventually yield unexpected results or at the very least, results that cannot be explained.
Except that occasionally building a working model is a useful step to understanding it. I'm happy that Edward Jenner in 1796 started infecting people with cow pox as a way to prevent small pox even though he didn't fully understand why it worked.
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As a PC owner with a polarized projector setup, I'm mush more interested in ATI's Catalyst 10.3 coming out in March that will have 3D support in the stereoscopic sense. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/catalyst-eyefinity-radeon,2559-2.html (Yes, I know it's offtopic. It still makes me giddy and I don't have anyone else to tell.)
My point, which upon re-read was probably too subtle, is that playing games in fun. Who the hell cares if it's virtual? And if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong.
A few years ago, I started masturbating, well I must admit that I was instantly hooked-up. I spent the next 3 years masturbating hardcore, and became very good at it. Eventually, I managed to become quite skilled and could go for hours at a time. I was very successfull in masturbating... That was until I lost everything, when my -ahem- was blown by a woman and I realized it fely way, way better. In a heartbeat, I lost everything I had, everything I spent time for. I realised that it took only a second to destroy three entire years of efforts. I finally "woke up", stopped masturbating and never touched it again. Peoples need to understand that masturbating is just that - it doesnt result in anything - the only real thing is the time and commitment one can spend on masturbating.
Um, isn't that what most /. readers do for employment? Except they do it 8 hours a day.
Motion sickness when playing 3D games is common; I would hope that you wouldn't suggest that travel by car, ship, or boat is unhealthy because they cause motion sickness.
We can't make the world 100% safe; I don't see why people are so critical of the TSA. They do a decent job at making airports appear secure, which is all that should be expected of them.
Assuming technology exists to accelerate space ships to interplanetarily practical speeds, what's to stop warring planets from accelerating an asteroid in the same way and in the direction of the enemy planet? Or take that acceleration technique and speed up some ball bearings to ridiculous speeds and send them on their way towards something with a predictable position like a space station? Hell, you could use millions of ball bearings like a mine field, because any ship traveling through the bearings will have such a high speed relative to them. I just wonder that if we currently get so butthurt about orbiting space debris, a space war will focus on simple kinetic weapons at huge speeds and from huge distances.
I came in here to say this. What idiots thought that botnets died? Oh, wait, I forgot that MSM sometimes pretends they can report on technology without making fools of themselves.
Wait, why do you have to bring 4chan into this?
“It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.” You could label it as... wait for it... "Artificial Meat"! Apparently I missed the day in school where we were taught not to trust labels on food.
Games already contain situations that resemble real emergencies and commonly contain simulated alerts where some government official type tells you what is happening. There a possibility of the alert being ignored because people think it's just part of the game. But far worse is children getting scared or taking unsafe actions to evade perceived hazards because they really believe there is a nuclear attack in progress or that mom and dad turned into blood-sucking zombies. After all they have been taught that they can be alerted to an emergency through a game.
Spot on. Queue the War of the Worlds radio broadcast. We can only hope that these alerts would also come with SMS and broadcast TV alerts as well.
I fail to see how allowing emergency services to send you in-game messages is an "invasion of privacy". Those channels are mostly filled with 12 year-olds shouting their racist and homophobic opinions anyways. The real question is how the important alert will cut through the chatter, not whether it should be allowed to.
Three words - why waste money?
You can almost get a 4870 for less than that which would be DX11 compatible/significantly faster.
Uh, no. That would be 10.1 on any ATI card that starts with 4. Nice try, though.
It's a little better: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gt-240,2475-8.html
While I understand that there is a psychological influence of the whole "under $100" mark, is it really that much different than the standard price reductions and increasing power of graphics cards over time?
If this surprises you, then I would argue that you haven't been paying attention to the state of science in America. At least China isn't wasting its time arguing over evolution or fretting that the LHC will kill us all.
There's a joke somewhere about your server being so ugly you have to put a bag over it before you go inside, but I can't quite work it. Help?
I apparently missed a necessary developmental cycle in my youth, because I am unable to hear the sarcastic tone of the applause.
so I am scratching head as to why apple patented this. If they ever used it they would lose whatcustomers they have.
Apple fans are pretty devout. A bet Apple is betting enough of them will stick around even with obtrusive ads. And another large segment of Apple users are technologically challenged, so the energy of learning to use a blackberry or droid won't be outweighed by the annoying ads. Personally, I'd be iRate.
Doesn't facebook give the little mobile icon for updates made by phone? Perhaps a criminal could use a smart phone and reconfigure the browser to not call itself mobile, but criminals are self-selecting stupid. I don't see it happening.
I'm torn as to whether a gun mounted on a wheelchair is awesome or pathetic.
Thanks. You're my hero. So we've solved side-to-side yaw and moving forwards and backwards in 3-d space... now if only we could find something in nature we could copy (without fully understanding) that hunted for Sarah Connor.
Great result, but, really, way to go guys! You can't understand a non-linear system's behavior; join the club. I still can't understand why z_n+1 = z_n^2 + c looks so pretty either.
Maybe your mother had a little z_n in her and it's a latent Oedipus complex?
I find it unimaginable that people would attempt to implement a technology that is not fully understood. Doing so will eventually yield unexpected results or at the very least, results that cannot be explained.
Except that occasionally building a working model is a useful step to understanding it. I'm happy that Edward Jenner in 1796 started infecting people with cow pox as a way to prevent small pox even though he didn't fully understand why it worked.
No, this will allow hyper-realistic modeling of fly motion with less processor overhead for the next Modern Warfare game.