Firstly remember game engines are built around action.
Spraying particles around is great if you want to remake the opening scene of saving private ryan but lacks a certain je ne sais quois when it comes to more intimate moments.
secondly remember that a vast amount of the actors craft is going to be massively expensive (not impossible) to reproduce via cgi.
all the little tics, mannerisms, postures and motions that come naturally would need to be manually reproduced.
Weta could only make Gollum work by motion capturing Serkis, and it sill needed voice acting on top of it.
Machina is going to be great for storyboards, great for some types of movie stories. I can see it being a huge festival circuit.
But i wouldn't be too concerned if I was an actor right now.
it only has to be twice the length if the cable is the same width and density all the way along.
reasons why you wouldn't want to do this are too numerous to mention.
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personally i've been thinking of doing this with an R/C plane.
now wouldn't that be cool?
Here in Canberra you could fly the bugger off one of the hills (black mountain maybe?) that dot the middle of the city and zoom way past the normal visual range.
MS Do a lot of bad things, but compared to much smaller companies with much less to lose they're really very civilised.
They've crushed many competitors but, in an industry where everyone thinks the worst of them, it's a tribute they've never been accused of anything worse.
My understanding is they were making footage in New Zealand and Peter Jackson was in London organising the score, Jackson had to see what they were doing and make suggestions the only fast pipe they had was some distance from where Jackson was working/staying at The Dorchester so they downloaded to ipods and then carried them to Jackson's hotel.
Nearly lost a late cut of the film in a mugging as well if the DVD is to be believed.
you're a pedant trying to pick a fight, but lets move on.
OK, how much storage does a music player need?
It needs enough to last you the duration of your trip.
5MB for a three minute song, 8 hours in the work day, thats 800MB for 160 songs. Very few people (backpackers and truck drivers aside) need more than that.
OK, you don't share the vision of the future, cool. But all the major players seem to think it's coming, and this is nokia's response.
You don't like it, great. Would I buy it? Not on your life.
But it's not like Nokia are the only company that fails miserably on the first rev.
OK, I think you're all misunderstanding this product.
It's not a destination, it's a journey.
The day after tommorrow there won't be phones, mp3 players, games consoles, or even computers as we currently think of them.
As it is why buy and ipod when your phone is going to have a Gb of storage and an mp3 player next year?
Interfaces will vary according to function, so you'll still have a keyboard and montior on your desktop, and a pad and a stylus in your palm, and a TV and huge speakers in your home.
But the storage and processing and comms will all be the one package that you'll carry around everywhere you go.
Nokia want a piece of that, the N-Gage is a step down that path.
Their building expertise and experience and making relationships with crucial content developers.
Microsoft, Intel, and Sony also see themselves as possible players in the space.
who's going to win?
My money's on the guys that embrace open standards and open source, simply because all this stuff is going to have to play together really well.
Anyway Nokia are trying to make the best product they can for now, but even if the next dozen N-Gages are flops have to keep trying to get it right.
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Firstly remember game engines are built around action.
Spraying particles around is great if you want to remake the opening scene of saving private ryan but lacks a certain je ne sais quois when it comes to more intimate moments.
secondly remember that a vast amount of the actors craft is going to be massively expensive (not impossible) to reproduce via cgi.
all the little tics, mannerisms, postures and motions that come naturally would need to be manually reproduced.
Weta could only make Gollum work by motion capturing Serkis, and it sill needed voice acting on top of it.
Machina is going to be great for storyboards, great for some types of movie stories. I can see it being a huge festival circuit.
But i wouldn't be too concerned if I was an actor right now.
that's why i'm betting the future will be methanol fuel cells.
fits in the existing infrastructure.
wrong wrong wrong
it only has to be twice the length if the cable is the same width and density all the way along.
reasons why you wouldn't want to do this are too numerous to mention.
personally i've been thinking of doing this with an R/C plane.
now wouldn't that be cool?
Here in Canberra you could fly the bugger off one of the hills (black mountain maybe?) that dot the middle of the city and zoom way past the normal visual range.
More than you'd think.
But it's a good example because for years in the Soviet Union nothing got published just to be popular, it had to pass the critical community first.
OK, here's a screenshot of my own desktop a moment ago (it's an old version big upgrade in the pipe, it is very heavily locked down and firewalled).
Over in desktop 2 I've got two xandros file managers tiled to give me views of 4 locations on the network.
Two of them are samba mounts, one is local, and one is ftp.
But this way, in use, those network distinctions are transparent.
In windows world I used to have two or three explorers open at any given time plus an ftp client.
moving files around, and putting them in the right place is a big part of my job.
it is so very much easier both to set up and run in xandros than anything else I've tried.
It's not set up for a hard core geek but all the power is there if you need it.
I've got a co-worker on identical hardware running XP pro and trust me I'm a lot more productive.
Xandros has been around a while, and they really iron bugs out and make life simple for the user.
they have a completely free (as in beer) open release which doesn't include things like codeweavers wine gear.
I use vanilla debian on my servers but for the desktop xandros is what gets the job done, for the work I need to do anyway.
(just my 2c)
you'd take it more seriously if he'd managed heavier than air flight before worrying his head with interplanetary travel.
three phase up to 200 amps is allowed without needing to notify the electricity company.
well here in australia we already use 240V for everything.
and then we have three phase for serious stuff...
Oh and 16amp plugs for real servers...
hmmm well it was a nice idea.
Holy Crap dude!
Gravity's Rainbow is the hardest book in modern literature.
It's geeky yes, but it's not geek friendly.
What's nice to see her is that global economic growth is leading us to cleaner technologies.
The oil price is so high because so many growing economies want access to energy.
Fuel scarcity is suddenly making cleaner alternatives economical, and once economies of scale kick in for them we won't be going back.
Demonstrating nicely once again that all the malthusians were (and are) full of crap.
We're not going to run out of things if we have flexible markets.
Did the Master AND the daleks ever appear together??
in WWII they had radar proximity shells for anti-aircraft work,
They have GPS for artillery shells now.
It's not just a big step up, especially as the acceleration is, you know, linear.
MS Do a lot of bad things, but compared to much smaller companies with much less to lose they're really very civilised.
They've crushed many competitors but, in an industry where everyone thinks the worst of them, it's a tribute they've never been accused of anything worse.
Washington Post? London Telegraph?
The world's major papers are shifting to RSS in a big way.
They've got audiences geekdom only dreams of.
People who want a free wire service will be disapointed.
but Moreover provides something pretty close.
And if google news went RSS (or stopped barring others from scraping it) then yes it'd be even closer.
but RSS/Atom is very handy if you've got a lot of sites to monitor.
My understanding is they were making footage in New Zealand and Peter Jackson was in London organising the score, Jackson had to see what they were doing and make suggestions the only fast pipe they had was some distance from where Jackson was working/staying at The Dorchester so they downloaded to ipods and then carried them to Jackson's hotel.
Nearly lost a late cut of the film in a mugging as well if the DVD is to be believed.
it DOES rock the world, for the money involved.
Personally i just put a bar fridge near the TV.
Plus an unfortunate number of women are attracted to money.
So if you have lots of it then you get more love without spending a penny.
Sad but true.
I think you're confusing soyuz, which is a capsule, with launch vehicles.
the shuttle is both (kinda).
you're a pedant trying to pick a fight, but lets move on.
OK, how much storage does a music player need?
It needs enough to last you the duration of your trip.
5MB for a three minute song, 8 hours in the work day, thats 800MB for 160 songs. Very few people (backpackers and truck drivers aside) need more than that.
OK, you don't share the vision of the future, cool. But all the major players seem to think it's coming, and this is nokia's response.
You don't like it, great. Would I buy it? Not on your life.
But it's not like Nokia are the only company that fails miserably on the first rev.
well whoever get it right will make a bloody fortune for their shareholders.
OK, I think you're all misunderstanding this product.
It's not a destination, it's a journey.
The day after tommorrow there won't be phones, mp3 players, games consoles, or even computers as we currently think of them.
As it is why buy and ipod when your phone is going to have a Gb of storage and an mp3 player next year?
Interfaces will vary according to function, so you'll still have a keyboard and montior on your desktop, and a pad and a stylus in your palm, and a TV and huge speakers in your home.
But the storage and processing and comms will all be the one package that you'll carry around everywhere you go.
Nokia want a piece of that, the N-Gage is a step down that path.
Their building expertise and experience and making relationships with crucial content developers.
Microsoft, Intel, and Sony also see themselves as possible players in the space.
who's going to win?
My money's on the guys that embrace open standards and open source, simply because all this stuff is going to have to play together really well.
Anyway Nokia are trying to make the best product they can for now, but even if the next dozen N-Gages are flops have to keep trying to get it right.
Those are Australian Dollars.
Multiply by 0.65 to get the price in USD.