I'm a bit surprised everyone is going nuts over this. Intel has been doing this almost since the start. The only difference is instead of paying for the difference upfront here you get the chance to "upgrade" if it proves useful later.
The blurb is intentionally misleading here. The govt gave the OK for the book but then upon a later review they were worried about some names released and a 2nd printing has already been agreed upon by both parties. They are just deciding what to do with 10k books that were already printed. Obviously the publisher spent money to already print them so they aren't going to just destroy them.
It's not that anyone hates Lucas for making crap. It's that we hate him for not allowing other people to make decent stuff out of Star Wars since then. Frankly the concept that someone can still retain copyright on heavily derivative works even after making so much profit already is just stupid. Nothing illustrates this fact better than Star Wars.
Sounds like the purpose of the test was to test the actual electrode interface and how complex the hand motions could get with it. The duration the electrodes stayed in his arm is the important part. With this test it seems complex cybernetic limbs are basically a done deal. The question is whether or not they can actually hook them up long term without serious rejection problems.
More to the point you can also play non-pirated games on it. Not all of us want to buy a Wii for the couple games on it that are actually worthwhile. If the emulator can do a decent 720p on 3d games I'll be buying a couple Wii RPG's.
This comment should be modded up. It really points out what the outcome of pushing extreme conservation would possibly be. One group would like us to go Amish and probably another fairly large group would just prefer to kill the first group.
The Chinese population remains both connected to the internet, yet blissfully ignorant of any and all controversial politics in their country.The Chinese population remains both connected to the internet, yet blissfully ignorant of any and all controversial politics in their country.
That's a bold statement and does not match with what I know of the situation. From everything I've heard the situation is well understood by China's middle class. They just don't seem to care like we do.
I get the feeling that the Chinese govt's attitude towards censorship has been changing. In a way you could say they are becoming more skilled with it and choosing to be a lot more subtle here and there. This is actually probably a lot more dangerous. Instead of hiding the truth they are using the censorship along with propaganda to make the people accept the truth and support it.
Probably in the future they'll model their whole system on the way the Western world uses the media to alter public perception. Of course they won't be stupid and hand over the reigns to people like Rupert Murdoch. They'll keep that power for themselves.
It's drive by wire. The whole point of drive by wire is to remove the steering column and all the bits that make up the steering / drive train system. Each wheel gets it's own servo. There's no power steering or any of that. Just electrical motors pushing the wheels this way and that.
I would imagine the chance of you loosing the servos on 3 wheels all at the same time would be extremely unlikely. Though you bring up a good point in that having a total steering system failure would not be impossible. They will have to put a lot of effort into making it safe.
Assuming people have the balls to actually cancel their pre-order and not buy the game.
I share your sentiment towards this sort of thing in general. In this case though you are missing the mark. This isn't some small minor thing that "upsets" people. We're not yelling at the man for keeping us down with DRM here. They've taken out dedicated server support from a game which only sells well due to it's multiplayer. People will have to play crappy peer to peer matchmaking and that will instantly make the game very unfun.
On the PC the FPS market is a very fickle beast. Every once in a while a new game is chosen as a sort of de-facto "winner" and generates huge sales due to critical mass making everyone feel the need to play what everyone else is playing. You see this on the consoles somewhat but it's more pronounced on the PC where the FPS crowd is a bit more hardcore. This change will likely cause MW2 to not reach that critical mass. People may spout nonsense about PC vs Console sales but the FPS market, at least, on PC's is still huge. That means IW is about to lose a whole lot of money.
Yeah, I've gotten to the level know when someone asks me the 'wrong' question I now answer "You're not asking me the right question". I used to answer it.
That's what politicians and senior managers do when asked awkward questions that they can't (or don't want to) answer. I hate that trait, if you can't answer my question don't tell me it's the wrong question tell me that you don't know the answer. If you do that I'll respect you for being honest, if you say "that's not the right question" I'll distrust you for being a slimy git.
I think you just provided a good example of the point being made. The person you responded too was talking about a situation where a person asks a question that doesn't parse properly. I think most good programmers probably know exactly what he's talking about. People are constantly using words incorrectly and making statements that don't reflect what they want to say at all.
To programmers we just feel this natural compulsion to correct people when this happens. It's often misunderstood though or people see it as being prickish in general.
EvE is lauded for it's one-world approach, not for it's technical implementation of said system. They are a very transparent company and it's fairly obvious that even they think their original design was amateur trash that they've been forced to duct tape into something almost passable.
EvE is completely instanced even inside a single zone. You don't run into people randomly unless you specifically look for them or happen to go to a hub (ie instanced server handling the area around a space station).
Really the champions model is the same thing except it handles laggy area's better by actually creating mirror spots. Those complications you speak of are no problem in CO. They've made it very seamless and easy to work with. It's a situation that easily solves the stupidity of having incredibly dead newbie area's too.
Nobody will ever buy a copy of CO and log into a dead zone with no people in it. Nobody will ever be sitting there going "Where are you?" because the interface and server always intelligently direct you to places where your friends/guildmatess are at.
The only problem CO suffers from is the "run into random guy X over and over and become friends". EvE suffers from the exact same problem though.
TV CRT's don't have an actual horizontal resolution like you are thinking. The set is obviously 4:3 but if they had built a widescreen version it would indeed have higher resolution than 720p. There's nothing surprising about this either. The technology for high-def isn't some new fangled thing.
I'm going to have to disagree here. Drastic changes were very much needed. The problem is they tried to do totally new things inside the framework of their existing engine to save money. They basically tried to tack semi FPS gameplay onto a client that very much did not support it. Then on top of that the changes they wanted to make just sucked. If they had spent a bit more money on it and not tried to do stuff that was obviously stupid it would of worked fine.
The wrights brothers called they want you to know about this fabulous thing called the Airfoil. They made a flying vehicle with it apparently. I suggested calling it a flying car but they seemed quite put off by such a tacky name.
I know you're being humorous but that comment gets old. You can buy a flying car right now if you're willing to pay out the wazoo for it. Not to mention you have to get a license and probably convince the government you won't be driving it into any large buildings.
Considering the last point we'll probably see mass produced flying cars when we see flying pigs.
One point of note though is that City of Heroes already has pay for DLC vanity items like he's talking about. Those transactions are actually viewed pretty favorably by the CoH players so Champions is probably counting on their target market already being broken in on that regard. In fact they probably got the idea from watching it work so well for the new group running CoH.
Personally I'm of two minds on the issue. I think the prices companies charge for this sort of stuff are way too high considering the work that goes into them. At the same time though I'd love for them to move to a model where new content is paid for so we stop seeing games that make crap like raids which only a small percentage of the audience is interested in. Imagine if WoW sold raids and heroics. They'd quickly see that they'd make far more profit making the heroics that the casual gamers enjoy instead of the crappy raids which most never get to see. Frankly though I'd expect the subscription costs to go down slightly if they did that.
One telling remark, however â" given that Wave is supposed to run in a browser and not require any kind of desktop support: âoeIâ(TM)m not sure if there are API interfaces into the application but, ironically, itâ(TM)s crying out for a proper desktop client.â
This could be interesting beyond Waves own success/failure. It sounds like we're finally going to face real wide scale usage of a full blown web based javascript app for the first time. Perhaps if it's successful we'll see someone write a stand alone version too.
It's probably a mistake of the submitter. Calling those five "the 5 major" is most likely his own personal bias (ie he's wrong). For the panel it was probably excluded because it's too different than the others.
Embrace and Extend is something they use on other peoples standards. Since it's their standard though they need us to embrace it so they can then extend it to create lock-in. Thus this is part of the embrace stage.
Why don't they just go ahead and fork then? Supposedly they are using C# because it's good. I've never read anything about the "good" parts being patented though. So why not just stop screwing around and write E# and base mono off of that?
The fact that this hasn't happened already says something. It says for some reason people want to use the same standard that Microsoft is using.
I wish I had points to give you. I think this announcement is interesting but I want to see relevant discussion about the actual legal ramifications. Everyone is suddenly acting like they GPL'ed the standards or some crap. I'm no lawyer but I'd sure like to see someone from the EFF explain what this all really means. I have a great interest in C# but not if it's encumbered.
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I'm a bit surprised everyone is going nuts over this. Intel has been doing this almost since the start. The only difference is instead of paying for the difference upfront here you get the chance to "upgrade" if it proves useful later.
The blurb is intentionally misleading here. The govt gave the OK for the book but then upon a later review they were worried about some names released and a 2nd printing has already been agreed upon by both parties. They are just deciding what to do with 10k books that were already printed. Obviously the publisher spent money to already print them so they aren't going to just destroy them.
He's obviously a member of the environmentalist religion.
It's not that anyone hates Lucas for making crap. It's that we hate him for not allowing other people to make decent stuff out of Star Wars since then. Frankly the concept that someone can still retain copyright on heavily derivative works even after making so much profit already is just stupid. Nothing illustrates this fact better than Star Wars.
Sounds like the purpose of the test was to test the actual electrode interface and how complex the hand motions could get with it. The duration the electrodes stayed in his arm is the important part. With this test it seems complex cybernetic limbs are basically a done deal. The question is whether or not they can actually hook them up long term without serious rejection problems.
More to the point you can also play non-pirated games on it. Not all of us want to buy a Wii for the couple games on it that are actually worthwhile. If the emulator can do a decent 720p on 3d games I'll be buying a couple Wii RPG's.
This comment should be modded up. It really points out what the outcome of pushing extreme conservation would possibly be. One group would like us to go Amish and probably another fairly large group would just prefer to kill the first group.
That's a bold statement and does not match with what I know of the situation. From everything I've heard the situation is well understood by China's middle class. They just don't seem to care like we do.
I get the feeling that the Chinese govt's attitude towards censorship has been changing. In a way you could say they are becoming more skilled with it and choosing to be a lot more subtle here and there. This is actually probably a lot more dangerous. Instead of hiding the truth they are using the censorship along with propaganda to make the people accept the truth and support it.
Probably in the future they'll model their whole system on the way the Western world uses the media to alter public perception. Of course they won't be stupid and hand over the reigns to people like Rupert Murdoch. They'll keep that power for themselves.
It's drive by wire. The whole point of drive by wire is to remove the steering column and all the bits that make up the steering / drive train system. Each wheel gets it's own servo. There's no power steering or any of that. Just electrical motors pushing the wheels this way and that.
I would imagine the chance of you loosing the servos on 3 wheels all at the same time would be extremely unlikely. Though you bring up a good point in that having a total steering system failure would not be impossible. They will have to put a lot of effort into making it safe.
I share your sentiment towards this sort of thing in general. In this case though you are missing the mark. This isn't some small minor thing that "upsets" people. We're not yelling at the man for keeping us down with DRM here. They've taken out dedicated server support from a game which only sells well due to it's multiplayer. People will have to play crappy peer to peer matchmaking and that will instantly make the game very unfun.
On the PC the FPS market is a very fickle beast. Every once in a while a new game is chosen as a sort of de-facto "winner" and generates huge sales due to critical mass making everyone feel the need to play what everyone else is playing. You see this on the consoles somewhat but it's more pronounced on the PC where the FPS crowd is a bit more hardcore. This change will likely cause MW2 to not reach that critical mass. People may spout nonsense about PC vs Console sales but the FPS market, at least, on PC's is still huge. That means IW is about to lose a whole lot of money.
How hard is it for you to be a charitable person and not get mad at them for innocently correcting a bad question?
I think you just provided a good example of the point being made. The person you responded too was talking about a situation where a person asks a question that doesn't parse properly. I think most good programmers probably know exactly what he's talking about. People are constantly using words incorrectly and making statements that don't reflect what they want to say at all.
To programmers we just feel this natural compulsion to correct people when this happens. It's often misunderstood though or people see it as being prickish in general.
EvE is lauded for it's one-world approach, not for it's technical implementation of said system. They are a very transparent company and it's fairly obvious that even they think their original design was amateur trash that they've been forced to duct tape into something almost passable.
EvE is completely instanced even inside a single zone. You don't run into people randomly unless you specifically look for them or happen to go to a hub (ie instanced server handling the area around a space station).
Really the champions model is the same thing except it handles laggy area's better by actually creating mirror spots. Those complications you speak of are no problem in CO. They've made it very seamless and easy to work with. It's a situation that easily solves the stupidity of having incredibly dead newbie area's too.
Nobody will ever buy a copy of CO and log into a dead zone with no people in it. Nobody will ever be sitting there going "Where are you?" because the interface and server always intelligently direct you to places where your friends/guildmatess are at.
The only problem CO suffers from is the "run into random guy X over and over and become friends". EvE suffers from the exact same problem though.
TV CRT's don't have an actual horizontal resolution like you are thinking. The set is obviously 4:3 but if they had built a widescreen version it would indeed have higher resolution than 720p. There's nothing surprising about this either. The technology for high-def isn't some new fangled thing.
I'm going to have to disagree here. Drastic changes were very much needed. The problem is they tried to do totally new things inside the framework of their existing engine to save money. They basically tried to tack semi FPS gameplay onto a client that very much did not support it. Then on top of that the changes they wanted to make just sucked. If they had spent a bit more money on it and not tried to do stuff that was obviously stupid it would of worked fine.
The wrights brothers called they want you to know about this fabulous thing called the Airfoil. They made a flying vehicle with it apparently. I suggested calling it a flying car but they seemed quite put off by such a tacky name.
I know you're being humorous but that comment gets old. You can buy a flying car right now if you're willing to pay out the wazoo for it. Not to mention you have to get a license and probably convince the government you won't be driving it into any large buildings.
Considering the last point we'll probably see mass produced flying cars when we see flying pigs.
One point of note though is that City of Heroes already has pay for DLC vanity items like he's talking about. Those transactions are actually viewed pretty favorably by the CoH players so Champions is probably counting on their target market already being broken in on that regard. In fact they probably got the idea from watching it work so well for the new group running CoH.
Personally I'm of two minds on the issue. I think the prices companies charge for this sort of stuff are way too high considering the work that goes into them. At the same time though I'd love for them to move to a model where new content is paid for so we stop seeing games that make crap like raids which only a small percentage of the audience is interested in. Imagine if WoW sold raids and heroics. They'd quickly see that they'd make far more profit making the heroics that the casual gamers enjoy instead of the crappy raids which most never get to see. Frankly though I'd expect the subscription costs to go down slightly if they did that.
This could be interesting beyond Waves own success/failure. It sounds like we're finally going to face real wide scale usage of a full blown web based javascript app for the first time. Perhaps if it's successful we'll see someone write a stand alone version too.
It's probably a mistake of the submitter. Calling those five "the 5 major" is most likely his own personal bias (ie he's wrong). For the panel it was probably excluded because it's too different than the others.
Embrace and Extend is something they use on other peoples standards. Since it's their standard though they need us to embrace it so they can then extend it to create lock-in. Thus this is part of the embrace stage.
Why don't they just go ahead and fork then? Supposedly they are using C# because it's good. I've never read anything about the "good" parts being patented though. So why not just stop screwing around and write E# and base mono off of that?
The fact that this hasn't happened already says something. It says for some reason people want to use the same standard that Microsoft is using.
I wish I had points to give you. I think this announcement is interesting but I want to see relevant discussion about the actual legal ramifications. Everyone is suddenly acting like they GPL'ed the standards or some crap. I'm no lawyer but I'd sure like to see someone from the EFF explain what this all really means. I have a great interest in C# but not if it's encumbered.