Since it's been over a decade for me, I honestly can't remember - what information did they even collect for Everquest? Yeah, they'd have massively outdated address and phone information, but I consider that already essentially public information. What else, birth date? Certainly not mother's maiden name or SSN or anything along those lines. Does anyone remember?
Mostly because increasing DPI doesn't work universally. While there are only a few apps out there that don't respect DPI, even the majority of them that do don't really scale all that well. The font may increase but the corresponding chrome looks horrible, and I'd say there's about a 60% chance that any icons won't correspondingly scale. Don't get me started on web pages with fixed pixel height fonts rather than points or ems (FF's zoom functionality is getting better, but for a while was just as unreliable as DPI increase).
Where are you seeing these ridiculously huge pixels advertised? I'm actively seeking larger dot pitch LCD monitors since they're easier on my eyes for longer periods of time, and the largest I've ever seen is.3. Most are right in the.27-.25 range, granted not as fine as a CRT but still hardly the double you're claiming.
Samsung T260HD for example (what I'm getting), is.282mm
What does "native resolution" mean for a monitor? Is there some difference between the "native resolution" and all the other supported resolutions?
Native resolution really only applies to LCD monitors and it's generally the highest resolution that monitor will support mapping 1 pixel on the screen to 1 pixel on the hardware itself. The reason you want to run at that vs any other resolution is that if you have, say, a screen with a native resolution of 1024x768 and try and run something at 800x600 then the monitor has to do some weird stretching and scaling of the pixels to get them to display. On "pixel" of the image may take up a 2x2 block while the one next to it is a 1x2 rectangle. You get some really strange artifacts.
This was less a problem on old CRTs since they were analog - you'd hit a rough area of phosphorus with the electron gun and that would make up 1 pixel of the image. How much phosphorus was used scaled pretty well, you didn't have the funny squares next to rectangle problem.
It sounds like what you worked on was more what the parent post was referring to as conventional panorama stitching - where the camera is assumed to be in a fixed space - rather than generating a rough 3D concept based on many photos taken from many different positions. No disrespect to your work but it's not exactly the same thing.
No monopolist is ever going to support a product from a direct competitor...The difference? None of them are monopolies and accustomed to monopolistic control in a market.
That's just a bit of hyperbole there, don't you think? Microsoft was part of the list HD DVD backers - who's members contain more than a few direct competitors (Corel competes as directly as possible with Office). Nothing is quite as cut and dry as you're making it out - after all, sony still makes computers that run windows, don't they?
I'll admit I'd love to see this movie but the thought of another Blaire Witch nauseating experience is enough to turn me off. Heck, I could barely sit through the second two Borne movies without a splitting headache. However, all of these movies got me thinking...
Would it be possible to "De"-shaky cam a movie? Given a high enough source material (HD rip or what have you) and a whole heck of a lot of time I'm wondering if you could take each cut - where the camera is trained on one given thing - and frame a slightly cropped version that kept the main point of focus (someone's eyes or what have you) in a consistent point in the frame. I'm thinking something along the lines of "the phantom edit" only making a movie watchable in terms of cinematography instead of dialog and story.
As I said, I haven't seen Cloverfield yet so it's possible it's just do damn blurry and shaky there's nothing to be done but something like Borne might be rectified.
That or this horrible "jerking the camera around makes the audience feel like there there!!1!" fad in film making could just die a quick death and I'd be happy.
I wonder how much of this Microsoft has any control over. I mean, it's the developer that decides what's worthy of an achievement and how many points it's worth, right? I could see them stepping in if there was a GTA4 achievement for beating 1000 hookers to death or something along those lines but just tasteless advertising I wonder how much say they have in the matter.
If you look at it, they're not modifying kittens, or kitten embryos. They've just discovered a trait that doesn't happen to be visible and bred for it. AKC registered dogs of thousands of different types are essentially raised the same way, they just happen to be selectively bred for pointy ears or flat coats or whatever.
Not counting the obvious "It's Apple, must own!" quality of the nano and the mini - the obsession comes from the fact that eventually form factor wins out over budget. Sure I could take my iPod photo biking with me, or to the gym, or whatever, but it would play hell on the hard drive whereas the shuffle won't notice it at all. At least that's the reason I own both an ipod and a smaller (non shuffle) solid state player.
Oddly enough it didn't work for me. IE 6 on a windows machine, it spawned a small dialog window and then a javascript "prompt" box with what I would assume was unicode characters. But after that it just sat there. not crashing nor using a tremendous amount of resources. I would assume that the exploit doesn't require a user to click buttons since the advisory mentioned "just visiting a webpage". So what "should have" happened?
I was under the impression Kameo was considered the "launch RPG". Granted it's more like Zelda than Morrowind, but I think it's the title that's meant to appeal to those folks until they can get Square to crank out a few titles.
While you may not have been serious (AC and saying this is the first you've heard of the 360) I think what the GP was pointing out was that the first shipment of consoles have all pretty much all been pre-sold. There's no one to convince, save the few people who stumble across a walmart that isn't being camped out at, as to whether or not to buy the system, the first allotment are all effectively sold. Who are they trying to convince then.
I'd love it if sony took a little while longer to work on the PS3 before releaseing it, we (customers) will get a better product.
Another year might not mean launching with drastically better hardware (think the newer slim ps2 vs the original layout) but we'll probably have fewer heat distribution problems, better wireless technology, all of that.
Realistically though, all of the publishers working on games for a mid 2006 launch are unlikely to site on potential profits for a year so sony can have a PR "trouncing", no matter how big sony is.
I'm in the lull of my cyclical cycle with linux so no chance to actually pull up the stats. And I agree that it's great for getting more information than necessary out of. However, way way back in the great anscestry of this thread we were talking about consolidating newbie distros to make starting out easier. My argument was that it would be easier to choose but perhaps another would be consolidated effort on the UI part. Heck, it's even a chance to surpass windows here.
Right now - at least as I remember - Linux gives you a "cannot assign address" error and nothing else. XP, by the same token, says "Limited Connectivity" (yeah, no IP address would be limited). We're talking just via UI here, not the commands you mentioned. Now, if all of the folks dedicated to making a nice newbie linux distro could were working on one perhaps we'd see a screen like "Linux is having problems communciating with your network. Your cable appears to be plugged in but your router (if you have one) or cable modem does not appear to be responding." I'd love to get that helpful amount of information out of a GUI.
Why don't I do it? because I can't code for shit. But I can provide feedback, which I did to the forums when I tried this last time:)
These are all fully supported and have been for a decade.
That's what I had been informed, and why I went with older, more "known" hardware. So way back to the original point of this whole thread. I'd already tried to eliminate one problem vector - more than most new users are likely to do - and the installers never really made much of a gripe, yet still with the grief. So I turned to the boards for advice before trying it all again, and a third time. You can see why I was asking advice for what cereal to eat.
Actually it was normally priced hardware from 5 years ago. NE2000, the most widely supported network chipset on the planet. Soundblaster 16 soundcard, ditto. And a generic GeForce 3 - a 4 year old card video card with no special features. I was unaware that these were new and cutting edge technologies not to be supported by linux distros.
Okay, "shattering the bowl" was probably an overstatement. It's just that of the distributions I have tried - mostly newbie, a few stabs with gentoo - I have invariably had problems with my network card (older NE2000 compat model), sound card (known to cause problems) and on occasion my video card (NVidia GeForce 3).
I consider asking the boards akin to asking my friends and family for recommendations on a car. I know generally what I like and want, but it's handy to know that the FJ-40 land rover only gets 130 miles to the tank or that VWs and Audis are great except that you generally can only buy name brand parts.
I've been asking in forums what brand of cereal to eat. I can never get a clear answer. I think I'm going to stick with steak for now.
That would be a pretty good analogy if:
1) You had never eaten cereal before.
2) It took two days to pour the cereal into the bowl.
3) 60% of the cereal on the market would shatter your bowl on pouring, which ones are not recorded or advertised as such.
If those three were true, then yeah I'd agree with your statement.
I've tried to start using linux a few times and one of the stumbling blocks has been the choice of distributions. Perhaps a halfway approach would be a consoldiation of those distros aimed at the linux newbie. The first time I wanted to start it was RedHat all the way, unless it was Suse. Now it appears to be Mandrake hands down, if I choose not to go with Core or Linspire or Ubanutu. I've asked on boards too and there doesn't seem to be a consistant response nor is there a compelling reason to choose one "newbie" distribution over the other. I wouldn't mind having a choice once I was alredy familiar with the operting system's metaphors (hello gentoo) but I just don't ever seem to be able to get to that point.
I'd say a compelling argument for it would be that it seems to have worked for OSS on the desktop. Want to rip videos? AutoGK. Once you're comfortable with how those types of programs work switch over to something more complex (normal GK) and start twiddling.
You say you use both mac's and PCs but if you haven't decided on what equipment to use in the fields I highly recommend the Panasonic Toughbook. Some are "tougher" than others, water proof vs water resistant for example, but all of them can take a severe beating and keep working. Legacy ports too so it's easy to interface with old Garmin gear.
I have a 72 (replaced by the 73 in recent years) and it's been everywhere with me. They're a little heavy, but you can drop them from a meter onto concrete surfaces and have them work so that's worth the extra weight. There are some solar chargers available too, for times when you're far away from the grid.
If you're strapped for cash and don't mind a slightly slower machine you can usually find good deals on ebay. The P3-800 range - my machine - can be had for about $500, and the lower end PS-300's come as cheap as $200.
They're not raising their own prices, they're raising the price they sell domains to companies like Dotster. When you buy something through them you pay $9 (or whatever) per year, of which $4.25 goes to verisign since they need *some* money to run the physical infrastructure for handling all of the lookups. So for dotster to keep their $5 per domain profit margin they'll have to raise their rates by as much as whatever verisign increases their price by.
Faceplates do have their purpose. I dropped my motorola v440 and cracked off part of the outer housing. The phone still worked but I didn't like exposed innards so I bought a silver "faceplate" off of ebay. presto, non-broken phone.
Now the neon dragon flashing whatever covers, those I'd agree on.
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Since it's been over a decade for me, I honestly can't remember - what information did they even collect for Everquest? Yeah, they'd have massively outdated address and phone information, but I consider that already essentially public information. What else, birth date? Certainly not mother's maiden name or SSN or anything along those lines. Does anyone remember?
Mostly because increasing DPI doesn't work universally. While there are only a few apps out there that don't respect DPI, even the majority of them that do don't really scale all that well. The font may increase but the corresponding chrome looks horrible, and I'd say there's about a 60% chance that any icons won't correspondingly scale. Don't get me started on web pages with fixed pixel height fonts rather than points or ems (FF's zoom functionality is getting better, but for a while was just as unreliable as DPI increase).
LCD dot pitches are in the 0.5-0.6mm range
Where are you seeing these ridiculously huge pixels advertised? I'm actively seeking larger dot pitch LCD monitors since they're easier on my eyes for longer periods of time, and the largest I've ever seen is .3. Most are right in the .27-.25 range, granted not as fine as a CRT but still hardly the double you're claiming.
Samsung T260HD for example (what I'm getting), is .282mm
What does "native resolution" mean for a monitor? Is there some difference between the "native resolution" and all the other supported resolutions?
Native resolution really only applies to LCD monitors and it's generally the highest resolution that monitor will support mapping 1 pixel on the screen to 1 pixel on the hardware itself. The reason you want to run at that vs any other resolution is that if you have, say, a screen with a native resolution of 1024x768 and try and run something at 800x600 then the monitor has to do some weird stretching and scaling of the pixels to get them to display. On "pixel" of the image may take up a 2x2 block while the one next to it is a 1x2 rectangle. You get some really strange artifacts.
This was less a problem on old CRTs since they were analog - you'd hit a rough area of phosphorus with the electron gun and that would make up 1 pixel of the image. How much phosphorus was used scaled pretty well, you didn't have the funny squares next to rectangle problem.
It sounds like what you worked on was more what the parent post was referring to as conventional panorama stitching - where the camera is assumed to be in a fixed space - rather than generating a rough 3D concept based on many photos taken from many different positions. No disrespect to your work but it's not exactly the same thing.
ahh if only I had mod points, nice.
I'll admit I'd love to see this movie but the thought of another Blaire Witch nauseating experience is enough to turn me off. Heck, I could barely sit through the second two Borne movies without a splitting headache. However, all of these movies got me thinking...
Would it be possible to "De"-shaky cam a movie? Given a high enough source material (HD rip or what have you) and a whole heck of a lot of time I'm wondering if you could take each cut - where the camera is trained on one given thing - and frame a slightly cropped version that kept the main point of focus (someone's eyes or what have you) in a consistent point in the frame. I'm thinking something along the lines of "the phantom edit" only making a movie watchable in terms of cinematography instead of dialog and story.
As I said, I haven't seen Cloverfield yet so it's possible it's just do damn blurry and shaky there's nothing to be done but something like Borne might be rectified.
That or this horrible "jerking the camera around makes the audience feel like there there!!1!" fad in film making could just die a quick death and I'd be happy.
I wonder how much of this Microsoft has any control over. I mean, it's the developer that decides what's worthy of an achievement and how many points it's worth, right? I could see them stepping in if there was a GTA4 achievement for beating 1000 hookers to death or something along those lines but just tasteless advertising I wonder how much say they have in the matter.
Man I hate EA though.
If you look at it, they're not modifying kittens, or kitten embryos. They've just discovered a trait that doesn't happen to be visible and bred for it. AKC registered dogs of thousands of different types are essentially raised the same way, they just happen to be selectively bred for pointy ears or flat coats or whatever.
Not counting the obvious "It's Apple, must own!" quality of the nano and the mini - the obsession comes from the fact that eventually form factor wins out over budget. Sure I could take my iPod photo biking with me, or to the gym, or whatever, but it would play hell on the hard drive whereas the shuffle won't notice it at all. At least that's the reason I own both an ipod and a smaller (non shuffle) solid state player.
Oddly enough it didn't work for me. IE 6 on a windows machine, it spawned a small dialog window and then a javascript "prompt" box with what I would assume was unicode characters. But after that it just sat there. not crashing nor using a tremendous amount of resources. I would assume that the exploit doesn't require a user to click buttons since the advisory mentioned "just visiting a webpage". So what "should have" happened?
I was under the impression Kameo was considered the "launch RPG". Granted it's more like Zelda than Morrowind, but I think it's the title that's meant to appeal to those folks until they can get Square to crank out a few titles.
While you may not have been serious (AC and saying this is the first you've heard of the 360) I think what the GP was pointing out was that the first shipment of consoles have all pretty much all been pre-sold. There's no one to convince, save the few people who stumble across a walmart that isn't being camped out at, as to whether or not to buy the system, the first allotment are all effectively sold. Who are they trying to convince then.
"my voice is my passport, verify me" is a line from the movie "sneakers". Average movie so it's debatable whether you missed a joke or not :)
Another year might not mean launching with drastically better hardware (think the newer slim ps2 vs the original layout) but we'll probably have fewer heat distribution problems, better wireless technology, all of that.
Realistically though, all of the publishers working on games for a mid 2006 launch are unlikely to site on potential profits for a year so sony can have a PR "trouncing", no matter how big sony is.
Right now - at least as I remember - Linux gives you a "cannot assign address" error and nothing else. XP, by the same token, says "Limited Connectivity" (yeah, no IP address would be limited). We're talking just via UI here, not the commands you mentioned. Now, if all of the folks dedicated to making a nice newbie linux distro could were working on one perhaps we'd see a screen like "Linux is having problems communciating with your network. Your cable appears to be plugged in but your router (if you have one) or cable modem does not appear to be responding." I'd love to get that helpful amount of information out of a GUI.
Why don't I do it? because I can't code for shit. But I can provide feedback, which I did to the forums when I tried this last time :)
That's what I had been informed, and why I went with older, more "known" hardware. So way back to the original point of this whole thread. I'd already tried to eliminate one problem vector - more than most new users are likely to do - and the installers never really made much of a gripe, yet still with the grief. So I turned to the boards for advice before trying it all again, and a third time. You can see why I was asking advice for what cereal to eat.
Actually it was normally priced hardware from 5 years ago. NE2000, the most widely supported network chipset on the planet. Soundblaster 16 soundcard, ditto. And a generic GeForce 3 - a 4 year old card video card with no special features. I was unaware that these were new and cutting edge technologies not to be supported by linux distros.
I consider asking the boards akin to asking my friends and family for recommendations on a car. I know generally what I like and want, but it's handy to know that the FJ-40 land rover only gets 130 miles to the tank or that VWs and Audis are great except that you generally can only buy name brand parts.
That would be a pretty good analogy if:
1) You had never eaten cereal before.
2) It took two days to pour the cereal into the bowl.
3) 60% of the cereal on the market would shatter your bowl on pouring, which ones are not recorded or advertised as such.
If those three were true, then yeah I'd agree with your statement.
I'd say a compelling argument for it would be that it seems to have worked for OSS on the desktop. Want to rip videos? AutoGK. Once you're comfortable with how those types of programs work switch over to something more complex (normal GK) and start twiddling.
My Math.floor(e) cents.
I have a 72 (replaced by the 73 in recent years) and it's been everywhere with me. They're a little heavy, but you can drop them from a meter onto concrete surfaces and have them work so that's worth the extra weight. There are some solar chargers available too, for times when you're far away from the grid.
If you're strapped for cash and don't mind a slightly slower machine you can usually find good deals on ebay. The P3-800 range - my machine - can be had for about $500, and the lower end PS-300's come as cheap as $200.
They're not raising their own prices, they're raising the price they sell domains to companies like Dotster. When you buy something through them you pay $9 (or whatever) per year, of which $4.25 goes to verisign since they need *some* money to run the physical infrastructure for handling all of the lookups. So for dotster to keep their $5 per domain profit margin they'll have to raise their rates by as much as whatever verisign increases their price by.
Now the neon dragon flashing whatever covers, those I'd agree on.