It seems they could have tweaked the design a little by rotating the buttons by about 20 degrees (and called the bizarre angle "ergonomics"). We're looking at about a half button width. much less than a centimetre.
But this is corporate butt covering. You can not claim there's a design flaw. That would be a public admission, and they might have to refund anyone who wanted a refund. So they have to claim that it was inteded to work that way, no matter how implausible the claim.
Well, this story has certainly been thouroughly checked using all the journalisitic resources available. As the original article says "From a mailing list". Now, we all know that mailing lists are totally reliable. I mean, only the other day I was warned about a virus. And the money from the Nigerian chap will arrive any day now.
So, I take it that never attempting to make things better for yourself or others is part of your personal belief system?
He can make things better for himself by not going to China. As for other people - Well, he's not doing anything for them, but even if he wanted to, in this case, its up to other people to make it better for themselves rather than have some foreigner telling them how to do things. While it's far from a free country, most people in China are fairly happy with the way things are run.
Americans like these things to be big. In Europe and Japan, people only care about size if it actually matters. Big TVs perhaps, but rarely big cars, and certainly not big lumps of hardware. Small is sexy.
This is why the personal stereo was invented in Japan. Americans can't think small.
ok, the kid is a dumb ass for posting the news. would it kill him to wait for 2 minutes after Steve jobs shows it? lack of self restraint does not mean he is right.
He found out about something that was newsworthy. He reported it. This is freedom of speech at its finest. Doesn't that make him right?
Also the link to your other post ezplains nothing. Are you saying the cell is powerful enough to render spiderman quality graphics in real time?
Actually, it will do this, while finding a cure for cancer, finding an end to war, and turning lead into gold. Plus it will allow any device its connected to to defy gravity and exceed the speed of light.
These days, the results would be: the helicopter takes the hit, which blows it up, and the dead husk falls to the ground, maybe with some forward velocity retained. The building would likely be unharmed.
This still shouldn't take a lot of processing power. The helicopter can be considered to be a point mass with a fairly simple aerodynamic drag model. This only requires a handful of calculations.
Ragdoll these days tend to look like dolls made of rubber. GOOD calculations are very CPU expensive, and multiple iterations are as well, so as few iterations of very fast low resolution calculations are used in physics these days to leave CPU time for other things, such as AI logic.
Ragdoll is a little more complex, but I suspect part of the problem is simply that the algorithms aren't that great. AI in most games is really quite simple, relying on a set of rules and very limited prediction.
The real time consuming part of realsitic physics is development time. There's a lot to it, and a lot of trial and error.
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My video card cost about a quarter of the amount of a PS2, and I've had it for a year. It's still a competent card suitable for just about anything except Half Life 2 and Doom 3. Sure, I can't play all games at maximum detail, but I get much better quality than a console.
It seems every generation is going to give us "Latest Pixar flick" quality graphics. Curious thta pixar haven't caught onto this trend. I mean, Luxo Jr. took about 3 hours to render each frame. With all of the improvements in graphics technology, they're still rendering at the same rate. But perhaps Sony have a revolutionary graphics technology that's 40000 times faster than whatever Pixar use.
For the rest of DirectX, there's DirectX. The control and sound parts of a game are such a small portion that they should be easy to replace for other systems.
This $750 million is on top of his existing annual charity donations which already total a commitment of about twice that. Plus a considerable amount of his wealth (in terms of MS stock) belongs to his foundation.
But really, if you're going to troll, you need to be a little more creative. I mean, really a suggesion that anti-microsoft comments get modded down, and the 10 year out of date micro~1 "joke" really isn't trying.
Not exactly one of Ridley's greatest pieces of work though was it, and lets face it, he's done some pretty hokey stuff.
I mean the most recent major travesty was the 2000 film Galdiator. A long winded ego-fest with the historical accuracy of disney cartoon. Then before that, there was the atrocious "Blade runner2. A movie so terrible that even the studio stepping in couldn't save it. Years later, he released a directors cut. This just showed us how bad it would have been.
This ad captured the tedium of Alien in a piece that was a 120th of the length.
Although wouldn't it be a antastic revolution if we could download from people who had already dowloaded it, thus allowing us all to share bandwidth. The data would arrive at such a high speed that one might consider it a torrent. A bittorrent, one might say. If only such a technology existed...
I believe IP licencing is a major part of Xerox's business, so it would probably have been easy for Apple to get a licence.
Apple made a number of enhancements to the UI. They didn't have a working implementation to base their GUI on, and the Xerox system was far from a complete UI. Nearly every type of widget was an Apple invention.
Well, I'm not so sure about that one. Reverse engineering a piece of software is about the same level of difficulty as disassembling a microchip (or possibly easier). And even then, disassembling a physical product tells you nothing about the manufacturing process.
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How they'd have got found out I don't know, but still...
Double purpose perhaps. Much like a milled edge, the absense of the motto means that someone has filed the coin.
It seems they could have tweaked the design a little by rotating the buttons by about 20 degrees (and called the bizarre angle "ergonomics"). We're looking at about a half button width. much less than a centimetre.
But this is corporate butt covering. You can not claim there's a design flaw. That would be a public admission, and they might have to refund anyone who wanted a refund. So they have to claim that it was inteded to work that way, no matter how implausible the claim.
Well, this story has certainly been thouroughly checked using all the journalisitic resources available. As the original article says "From a mailing list". Now, we all know that mailing lists are totally reliable. I mean, only the other day I was warned about a virus. And the money from the Nigerian chap will arrive any day now.
So, I take it that never attempting to make things better for yourself or others is part of your personal belief system?
He can make things better for himself by not going to China. As for other people - Well, he's not doing anything for them, but even if he wanted to, in this case, its up to other people to make it better for themselves rather than have some foreigner telling them how to do things. While it's far from a free country, most people in China are fairly happy with the way things are run.
Americans like these things to be big. In Europe and Japan, people only care about size if it actually matters. Big TVs perhaps, but rarely big cars, and certainly not big lumps of hardware. Small is sexy.
This is why the personal stereo was invented in Japan. Americans can't think small.
Right, but a scripting language could be represented in XML.
Yup. And a hammer could be used as a screwdriver;)
ok, the kid is a dumb ass for posting the news. would it kill him to wait for 2 minutes after Steve jobs shows it? lack of self restraint does not mean he is right.
He found out about something that was newsworthy. He reported it. This is freedom of speech at its finest. Doesn't that make him right?
For every one that can successully integrate back into society as a productive member, 99 will go back on a crime spree when they get out
Actually, the statisitics put that 99 figure a little closer to 2.
Yup. You're the only one.
Personal opinions are not permitted here. Please report for reprogramming.
Yes, but I hear that Pixar have bought a couple of other computers to help speed things along.
Also the link to your other post ezplains nothing. Are you saying the cell is powerful enough to render spiderman quality graphics in real time?
Actually, it will do this, while finding a cure for cancer, finding an end to war, and turning lead into gold. Plus it will allow any device its connected to to defy gravity and exceed the speed of light.
Please keep up with the Sony press releases.
These days, the results would be: the helicopter takes the hit, which blows it up, and the dead husk falls to the ground, maybe with some forward velocity retained. The building would likely be unharmed.
This still shouldn't take a lot of processing power. The helicopter can be considered to be a point mass with a fairly simple aerodynamic drag model. This only requires a handful of calculations. Ragdoll these days tend to look like dolls made of rubber. GOOD calculations are very CPU expensive, and multiple iterations are as well, so as few iterations of very fast low resolution calculations are used in physics these days to leave CPU time for other things, such as AI logic.
Ragdoll is a little more complex, but I suspect part of the problem is simply that the algorithms aren't that great. AI in most games is really quite simple, relying on a set of rules and very limited prediction.
The real time consuming part of realsitic physics is development time. There's a lot to it, and a lot of trial and error.
My video card cost about a quarter of the amount of a PS2, and I've had it for a year. It's still a competent card suitable for just about anything except Half Life 2 and Doom 3. Sure, I can't play all games at maximum detail, but I get much better quality than a console.
It seems every generation is going to give us "Latest Pixar flick" quality graphics. Curious thta pixar haven't caught onto this trend. I mean, Luxo Jr. took about 3 hours to render each frame. With all of the improvements in graphics technology, they're still rendering at the same rate. But perhaps Sony have a revolutionary graphics technology that's 40000 times faster than whatever Pixar use.
For the rest of DirectX, there's DirectX. The control and sound parts of a game are such a small portion that they should be easy to replace for other systems.
Really? Which part of the Quran says that?
So?
No ISP has a right not to be heavily criticised for making arbitrary and possibly unethical decisions.
If you act in a way contrary to common decency, even if perfectly legal, you can expect criticism.
This $750 million is on top of his existing annual charity donations which already total a commitment of about twice that. Plus a considerable amount of his wealth (in terms of MS stock) belongs to his foundation.
Compare this with other multi millionaires.
The word is "fanboy".
But really, if you're going to troll, you need to be a little more creative. I mean, really a suggesion that anti-microsoft comments get modded down, and the 10 year out of date micro~1 "joke" really isn't trying.
If you want to annoy people, I suggest picking at something geeks hold dear. For example, the talents ofRidley Scott, or the pure unadulterated perfection of Google
Not exactly one of Ridley's greatest pieces of work though was it, and lets face it, he's done some pretty hokey stuff.
I mean the most recent major travesty was the 2000 film Galdiator. A long winded ego-fest with the historical accuracy of disney cartoon. Then before that, there was the atrocious "Blade runner2. A movie so terrible that even the studio stepping in couldn't save it. Years later, he released a directors cut. This just showed us how bad it would have been.
This ad captured the tedium of Alien in a piece that was a 120th of the length.
Although wouldn't it be a antastic revolution if we could download from people who had already dowloaded it, thus allowing us all to share bandwidth. The data would arrive at such a high speed that one might consider it a torrent. A bittorrent, one might say. If only such a technology existed...
I believe IP licencing is a major part of Xerox's business, so it would probably have been easy for Apple to get a licence.
Apple made a number of enhancements to the UI. They didn't have a working implementation to base their GUI on, and the Xerox system was far from a complete UI. Nearly every type of widget was an Apple invention.
Well, I'm not so sure about that one. Reverse engineering a piece of software is about the same level of difficulty as disassembling a microchip (or possibly easier). And even then, disassembling a physical product tells you nothing about the manufacturing process.
Surely that's potentially a good thing. It means that people are coming here to learn.
The downside is that it means people are coming here to learn.
I was being faceitious.
My point being that they're hardly responsible for "most" piracy by any count, unless you're talking about total money made.