Defending in court would seem rather foolish considering these guys know how to play the system extremely well. However, surely it should be possible to make a complaint to the bar organisation or something. these guys have clearly acted in a somewhat unscrupulous way. The professional body should be told.
What is it with this belief that second hand sales causes a significant cost to the bottom line of the console manufacturers? And they seem to be the only ones who care. The developers certainly don't. We all know that the bulk of our income is from sales in the first few weeks.
Nobody has done any studies on this. There's no evidence that those who buy used games would or would not have bought a full priced game had the used game not been available. No evidence that console sales are or are not influenced by the availability of second hand games. No evidence of anything.
And why is it only meant to be the games industry that suffers? Why does the motor industry not complain about the harm the second hand car industry is doing to their business? Because they know it does them no harm. In fact, they know they benefit from it.
I suspect that this will run on quite a low power CPU. Despite everyone's best efforts, OS tasks don't require that much number crunching power. I've noticed the main cause of slowdown in almost every system that's had a problem is lack of RAM. The suggested spec is probably just the lowest spec PC they botheres to test it on. You can't really get a PC with that low a processor speed any more. Entry level is about twice that.
The point is, that you're not going to do a per pixel operation for every pixel on the screen for physics.
Also, you don't even need to do the graphics calculation at all. The pixel operation to perform is determined by a low detail map for that area. The physics to perform is decided by a low detail map for that area. You just read from the map.
If you really really want to do a completely procedural landscape, then you only need to consider the small areas that are being used for physics. Any area that's being shot at, any area occupied by a player or a movable object. That's a very small number of areas to calculate compared with the million or so on screen.
The purpose of the demo is to show what the improvement will be like with Blu-Ray.
You can do that with a DVD! You only need a couple of minutes and can easily store that on a DVD. You use exactly the same codec as the Blu-Ray version, get the higher resolution, and allow people to compare. The Blu-Ray version will look better. Perhaps they are using a DVD for various reason. It's only a demonstration!
Why are all you so naive!? They do this sort of thing all the time. Advertising dog food - The dog doesn't like it. They use another brand. Showing a photo of the company founder? It may well be an stand-in. A celebrity endorsing a product? They may not even have tried the product. Advetising is like that. Why pick on Sony?
Yes, notonly that, but the air at Google is cleaner and purer and free of pollutants, and they also offer free elixir of life as well as coffee and Mountain Dew. And they have free massages, and there is no crime or disease there, and evryone is always happy.
And you still use texture for the materials! Nobody would plan to apply a single procedural texture to the entire game. You just need to use a lower resolution material map to determine which procedural texture is used where and what the materials are made from.
Indeed. I'll disagree with every single reply so far, and say procedural textures can look very good, especially when used in combination with bitmaps. Perlin noise can be used to make all sorts of textures, such as the usual marble, or more interestingly, granite, woven fabric, fur, rust, wood. Anything rough and irregular. Modern graphics hardware can do a lot of work on a per pixel basis, although at the moment, perlin noise generation is a bit slow. These things really need to have decent noise generation built in. The other bonus is that you get a third dimension thrown in for free.
Well, yeah. You can't do that. You have to make a more generic game with original IP after the puzzle game, and then ask to do Madden. A lot of small games make a loss, so a studios need to make their next project bigger and better, and consider the small game to be essentially a loss leader to get publisher attention.
Okay - there's 7 people suffering similar symptoms. Perhaps it is the tower to blame. Or perhaps not. There's no conclusive evidence yet that mobile phones do cause cancer. It seems odd that they'd only cause brain tumours as opposed to any other, and that this particular mast is the only one that seems to be having such an extreme effect when all the thousands of others in the world seem relatively harmless. It's worth investigating, but it's also worth checking everything else.
Maybe that's just the arbitrary criterion. E.g. there's a 1 in a million chance of object X hitting the station, but this probability will increase of decrease as the object gets closer. They ignore it for the time being and move when they have better information.
There were a lot of mistakes. Mistakes that would have been made more expensive had they decided on a more expensive version of the ISS. Sure, this wasn't he point, but at least knowing what might go wrong will come in useful if they ever decide to do it properly.
The problem seems to be the judicial system. Did congress really mean that sending an email withoutpermission should count as unauthorised access to a network? Does it include downloading something onto your employer's computer from the web? It seems unlikely, but courts seem to consider it to be.
Wean him off. Don't fix it for him. Give him information about how to fix it. Q: "My computer keeps getting these annoying popups". A: "Install ad-aware and/or firefox". Q: "Wheredo I get that from?" A: "Try googling for it". and so on. Eventually they may learn something and fix a few of their own problems. Or even better - "Have you searched for the symptoms on Google?". Eventually he'll realise he's actually fixing his own issues.
That's the problem with being a doormat though. It's not as though people decide to be exploited by their good nature. They just lack the social skills to say "no" without feeling awful about it.
Turbo-electric might be a solution. Trouble here is that you waste a lot of energy through the conversion process. Maybe a hybrid, but I suspect the issue is that the weight benefit is never sufficient to cover the loss of efficiency.
Slashdot Mirror
Because unlike you, we know how to leverage our leading-edge efforts into a new paradigm.
That's the point of a jury - statistically, you'd hope the other eleven would have a bit more sense.
I wonder if there's a birthday paradox type issue here - Where the probability of a totally stupid jury in at least one case is unusually high...
Well, yes... there are some ways in which this would be similar. What's the point of your analogy? Doesn't seem to clarify anything.
Defending in court would seem rather foolish considering these guys know how to play the system extremely well. However, surely it should be possible to make a complaint to the bar organisation or something. these guys have clearly acted in a somewhat unscrupulous way. The professional body should be told.
What is it with this belief that second hand sales causes a significant cost to the bottom line of the console manufacturers? And they seem to be the only ones who care. The developers certainly don't. We all know that the bulk of our income is from sales in the first few weeks.
Nobody has done any studies on this. There's no evidence that those who buy used games would or would not have bought a full priced game had the used game not been available. No evidence that console sales are or are not influenced by the availability of second hand games. No evidence of anything.
And why is it only meant to be the games industry that suffers? Why does the motor industry not complain about the harm the second hand car industry is doing to their business? Because they know it does them no harm. In fact, they know they benefit from it.
I suspect that this will run on quite a low power CPU. Despite everyone's best efforts, OS tasks don't require that much number crunching power. I've noticed the main cause of slowdown in almost every system that's had a problem is lack of RAM. The suggested spec is probably just the lowest spec PC they botheres to test it on. You can't really get a PC with that low a processor speed any more. Entry level is about twice that.
The point is, that you're not going to do a per pixel operation for every pixel on the screen for physics.
Also, you don't even need to do the graphics calculation at all. The pixel operation to perform is determined by a low detail map for that area. The physics to perform is decided by a low detail map for that area. You just read from the map.
If you really really want to do a completely procedural landscape, then you only need to consider the small areas that are being used for physics. Any area that's being shot at, any area occupied by a player or a movable object. That's a very small number of areas to calculate compared with the million or so on screen.
Even if you do it that way, you only need an acurate calculation for the bit of ground that the player is interacting with.
The purpose of the demo is to show what the improvement will be like with Blu-Ray.
You can do that with a DVD! You only need a couple of minutes and can easily store that on a DVD. You use exactly the same codec as the Blu-Ray version, get the higher resolution, and allow people to compare. The Blu-Ray version will look better. Perhaps they are using a DVD for various reason. It's only a demonstration!
Why are all you so naive!? They do this sort of thing all the time. Advertising dog food - The dog doesn't like it. They use another brand. Showing a photo of the company founder? It may well be an stand-in. A celebrity endorsing a product? They may not even have tried the product. Advetising is like that. Why pick on Sony?
Yes, notonly that, but the air at Google is cleaner and purer and free of pollutants, and they also offer free elixir of life as well as coffee and Mountain Dew. And they have free massages, and there is no crime or disease there, and evryone is always happy.
And you still use texture for the materials! Nobody would plan to apply a single procedural texture to the entire game. You just need to use a lower resolution material map to determine which procedural texture is used where and what the materials are made from.
Indeed. I'll disagree with every single reply so far, and say procedural textures can look very good, especially when used in combination with bitmaps. Perlin noise can be used to make all sorts of textures, such as the usual marble, or more interestingly, granite, woven fabric, fur, rust, wood. Anything rough and irregular. Modern graphics hardware can do a lot of work on a per pixel basis, although at the moment, perlin noise generation is a bit slow. These things really need to have decent noise generation built in. The other bonus is that you get a third dimension thrown in for free.
Well, yeah. You can't do that. You have to make a more generic game with original IP after the puzzle game, and then ask to do Madden. A lot of small games make a loss, so a studios need to make their next project bigger and better, and consider the small game to be essentially a loss leader to get publisher attention.
Okay - there's 7 people suffering similar symptoms. Perhaps it is the tower to blame. Or perhaps not. There's no conclusive evidence yet that mobile phones do cause cancer. It seems odd that they'd only cause brain tumours as opposed to any other, and that this particular mast is the only one that seems to be having such an extreme effect when all the thousands of others in the world seem relatively harmless. It's worth investigating, but it's also worth checking everything else.
Maybe that's just the arbitrary criterion. E.g. there's a 1 in a million chance of object X hitting the station, but this probability will increase of decrease as the object gets closer. They ignore it for the time being and move when they have better information.
There were a lot of mistakes. Mistakes that would have been made more expensive had they decided on a more expensive version of the ISS. Sure, this wasn't he point, but at least knowing what might go wrong will come in useful if they ever decide to do it properly.
Why are they adding a third character? Sam and Max work well together without breaking the dynamic. And what sort of a name is Uru?
The problem seems to be the judicial system. Did congress really mean that sending an email withoutpermission should count as unauthorised access to a network? Does it include downloading something onto your employer's computer from the web? It seems unlikely, but courts seem to consider it to be.
Wean him off. Don't fix it for him. Give him information about how to fix it. Q: "My computer keeps getting these annoying popups". A: "Install ad-aware and/or firefox". Q: "Wheredo I get that from?" A: "Try googling for it". and so on. Eventually they may learn something and fix a few of their own problems. Or even better - "Have you searched for the symptoms on Google?". Eventually he'll realise he's actually fixing his own issues.
That's the problem with being a doormat though. It's not as though people decide to be exploited by their good nature. They just lack the social skills to say "no" without feeling awful about it.
and too stupid to figure out how to turn on a computer.
I thought that was most mac users.
Turbo-electric might be a solution. Trouble here is that you waste a lot of energy through the conversion process. Maybe a hybrid, but I suspect the issue is that the weight benefit is never sufficient to cover the loss of efficiency.
It's legal. You can write about antics that you would be jailed for depicting visually.
Well, that takes the fun out of it.
Yes... But first they'll have to do that for the other three films.
I think he said that the special editions weren't going to be made available on video as well.