I saw these last night, and this is about the biggest spoiler you can possibly see for the movie. Almost every scene is pictured, along with a description of each scene.
Ghosting is when you get a faint duplicate of the entire on-screen image, slightly offset from what it should be. I don't think this can even occur on LCDs, I think it is a CRT-only problem, but if you use crappy analogue VGA cables, then who knows?
Motion blur is what you thing ghosting is. It is caused by poor refresh times, more specifically it is caused the amount of time it takes for a pixel to become unlit, or "switch off". So LCD screens that have a poor response time often show a trail after a moving object that looks like a ghost of the object.
Well since just about anyone who uses these, sells them, or just talks about them refers to the effect as "ghosting," I think it's pretty safe to say that it's the right term. Languages adapt to the way people use them. See Homer Simpsons 'doh' in the dictionary as a great example.
The simple answer is yes, they are and have been ready for gaming.
I play on a 25ms response time Samsung SyncMaster 191t and I see no ghosting at all. It's just like playing in front of a CRT only your eyes don't hurt when you have a somewhat long gaming session. If you are really worried about it, get a 16ms response time CRT and you'll be fine.
Gateway didn't succeed because you went to their store to configure and order a machine. You then waited several weeks or longer for it to arrive. When they had these in my area they did zilch. People could go to any number of stores and walk out with a computer and when people are ready to buy, most didn't want to drive to a store just to place an order. I think that towards the end they started keeping a few preconfigured machines in stock but not many. They also had an awful compensation plan for their sales people.
Emphasis mine, but to show a point. That was one of the biggest mistakes that they made. The commission plan that Gateway had in effect made the sales people prettymuch force the "extras" down peoples throat. I worked at Gateway Country stores for almost 3 years and I routinely was forced to rip off anyone that walked in the store. You only make 0.5% off the actual hardware that was sold, which ended up being only a few dollars per month. The way that we all made money was on the 100% profit items for Gateway: training, software, and warranties. ESPECIALLY training. In the end I left the store and didn't even bother calling in to quit because I was so disgusted with making elderly couples purchase a $500 system with $2000 of training and warranties on it.
At least at the other places the sales people are hourly rate only, little to no commission, so if you say you don't want something they will mostly say ok and continue on. At Gateway stores, the salesmen would still find a way to tack that training onto the quote and hide it somewhere in the final price.
This caused many people buying from Gateway Country stores to get upset since they would always find systems either on gateways website or from another company for 1/2 or 1/3 the price they just paid. Pissing off almost every customer that walks into your store when there is both a CompUSA and Best Buy directly across the street is not the way to run a business.
If library computers are not being locked down and letting random users install programs, then the Google Toolbar is the least of their worries. If someone is trying to harvest some passwords or just see what people are doing, a simple keylogger or any of the other hundreds of "hacking" tools out on the internet could be installed instead.
Will it be again a huge money-loosing system, or are they expecting to start turning a profit now that they have made a (arguably) name for themselves among gamers.
Also to wonder is, will the XBox 2 be as mod-able as the original? I know many many people that only purchased it because it could be used for so many more purposes than originally intended. But that doesn't exactly benefit MS, since they don't get only loose money on the system sale.
Every company tries to make their systems less modable whenever they can. That's part of the reason the original Playstation had 5 or 6 different models out (I remember having to go to funcoland and asking to see every used PSX there before picking up a couple of the earliest models I could find). Mod chips = lost business for the most part (Yes I know about imports and "backups" and if that's all you did then more power to you... 95% of the people installed mod chips to pirate games)
If it is modable, it will help them though. An Xbox sold is one that potentially will be buying games. Microsoft can show that they have 10,000,000 sold Xboxes and try to get developers to make the game Xbox only, even if 9,000,000 of them only use them as a media center PC. It made me laugh when the linux zealots were all crying that everyone should buy 5 and cause them to lose money when the Xbox first came out. I think I only saw a few comments of people pointing out that this increases marketshare for MS.
Also, about the console being a money losing system: Yes, most likely. But so were the PS2 and most other consoles when they came out. I think the GC just barely made a profit when it was first released. That's not the point though, since that is prettymuch par for the course. They make money back on software and licensing rights.
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Without looking at other companies to see if they have something similar, I can remember selling sleek all-in-ones when I worked at Gateway 4 or 5 years ago. They were called the Profile, and are still on sale now.
I usually hate replying to myself, but I forgot to put this in my original post:
If you are looking for a suggestion for a MUD, try out Gemstone IV (http://www.play.net/gs4/). It is by far the most fun MUD I've ever played, and it always has new content coming out. It has a monthly cost, but if you enjoy MUD's it is more than worth the monthly charge.
With a modem only connection, try games that are designed with the modem in mind. As geeky as it sounds, if you've got a modem you can always introduce them to a MUD. I have yet to meet the modem user that can't play one of those.
It's geeky, yes. It will stimulate your childrens minds though.
If they are in an enviornment that makes them think they absolutely need CS or any FPS then a cable modem/DSL are always available.
Gmail is still in it's beta form. The company is still working out all the kinks in it. That's why you have to go through the process of getting invited before you can set up an account. Spam is going to fall through the cracks for a while until they finish fine-tuning the filter.
As long as it still says beta at the top of the screen when you log in, you should expect things like that. Click report spam and do your part to help the filter get finished.
I downloaded the video, and it's absolute shite. I can see a dark blob running around on a slightly darker screen, and hear some sound in the background. Lets hear it for correct lighting so we can even see what's going on
Cybercafe's were made back when computers were $3000 and many people just wanted email. Now that you can get an emachine for $300 and internet access for $10/month (or free in many places), the whole idea is rather absurd. The internet by definition is not a social meduim (in person. over the actual net is a different story)
I still download music without paying for it. I probably download more now than ever. The funny thing is I still buy the music that I think is good enough to hear more than once or twice.
Do I use Kazaa? hell no! I have to download 10 versions of a song just to get the "real" version of it... the one without some weird sound effects or just being the first 10 seconds repeated for the 4 minutes that the song should really be.
Welcome to bittorrent land. I'll not post the URL from the server I use regularly for obvious reasons, but rest assured I can get more there than I could with Kazaa anyday. Now I download whole albums at a time instead of just 1 or 2 songs in order to determine if a record is worth buying.
The great thing about bittorrent is that if people find that a song or album is fake they just stop sharing it. All of a sudden that album that should have 2000 people sharing it because it's so good only has 2 people sharing it (and they'll stop as soon as they unzip it and listen). That tells me to pass and find the real version.
I hope the RIAA realizes that instead of ending the problem they just made it burrow deeper. This time there is no centralized network that they can shut down in order to maximize profits from the unsuspecting consumer. If they kill one, 5 more will show up in it's place. I hope they are happy with what they have caused to be created.
Right now, the networks are small. Remember how small Napster or Kazaa began as? What happened a few months to a year later? Exactly... Expect 2004 or 2005 to be the year of bittorrent (or another decentralized network)
Dear lord, I hope you were drunk when you posted this...
By the same logic, I could say that I should not go to my job tomorrow or ever again, as going to it makes profit for my managers who then spend the money at stores where the sales reps make commission and then spend the resulting profit on groceries at the store. The profit from that then funds the owner of the grocery store to buy a diamond ring for his girlfriend when he proposes to her, which then funds the DeBeers diamond blood-monopoly.
In essence: me going to my job everyday makes thousands of people die in the diamond trade every week./me rolls his eyes.
(I'm assuming I'm being trolled when I post this, but I still wanted to respond in the small hope that you really were just an idiot)
Wow... I'm sure there will be very few people reding this, but... wow.
Gemstone III was/is the only text-based game I played online; I've been hooked since waaaaaaay back in the AOL only days w/multiple characters. I quit a few months ago and have been wanting to come back. Hearing (and checking) this new bit of information has hastened my return to the lands.
It may not be much from the perspective of 1 former player, but seeing that the forums are now open to non-subscribers, and I spent a while browsing and piquing my interest again, you'll be seeing my character updating his billing information and rejoining the lands again as of next week (payday)
Wow... I wonder if Ralagar still remembers that I have his 160k longsword in my locker...
Duke Nukem Forever still a possibility of coming out before the next glacier slides across continental US soil
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1. Make pretty GUIs and lovely gadgets 2. ??? 3. Profit!!! Actually, it's a pretty damn good business plan.
How bout: 2. Lots of people buy it
I think we have a winner.
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Just so you know, StarBand was disowned by DishNetwork a while ago. The current customers are getting access, but they're not accepting anyone anymore. It's a dying technology. The sucessor to it is in the works though... Expect it to be HUGE (big bandwidth anywhere in the US since it's sattelite delivered, 2 way, so you'll get a huge upload speed too). I won't say much more since I don't want to jeopardize my job... but look for it in 2-3 years
Actually... now that I think about it, I could possibly see a spam company getting with a large corporation, setting up a false break in, and sending the email to everyone in the company with their product (which was required by law to be sent) with the security breach message at the bottom.
"Just trying to save you some time by combining these 2 emails into 1"
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I saw these last night, and this is about the biggest spoiler you can possibly see for the movie. Almost every scene is pictured, along with a description of each scene.
CES is a show to hype up and coming products...
The site mentioned is talking about Logitech's MX1000.
I'm typing this reply from a computer that has a MX 1000 attached to it.
That I bought months ago...
From Best Buy.
Ghosting is when you get a faint duplicate of the entire on-screen image, slightly offset from what it should be. I don't think this can even occur on LCDs, I think it is a CRT-only problem, but if you use crappy analogue VGA cables, then who knows?
Motion blur is what you thing ghosting is. It is caused by poor refresh times, more specifically it is caused the amount of time it takes for a pixel to become unlit, or "switch off". So LCD screens that have a poor response time often show a trail after a moving object that looks like a ghost of the object.
Well since just about anyone who uses these, sells them, or just talks about them refers to the effect as "ghosting," I think it's pretty safe to say that it's the right term. Languages adapt to the way people use them. See Homer Simpsons 'doh' in the dictionary as a great example.
This question is about a year too late.
The simple answer is yes, they are and have been ready for gaming.
I play on a 25ms response time Samsung SyncMaster 191t and I see no ghosting at all. It's just like playing in front of a CRT only your eyes don't hurt when you have a somewhat long gaming session. If you are really worried about it, get a 16ms response time CRT and you'll be fine.
What really gets me to this day, is that you can still buy new Aeris weapons and gear at locations you could have never gotten to with her.
In the Japanese version you can save Aeris, hence the need for better weapons for her later in the game.
Gateway didn't succeed because you went to their store to configure and order a machine. You then waited several weeks or longer for it to arrive. When they had these in my area they did zilch. People could go to any number of stores and walk out with a computer and when people are ready to buy, most didn't want to drive to a store just to place an order. I think that towards the end they started keeping a few preconfigured machines in stock but not many. They also had an awful compensation plan for their sales people.
Emphasis mine, but to show a point. That was one of the biggest mistakes that they made. The commission plan that Gateway had in effect made the sales people prettymuch force the "extras" down peoples throat. I worked at Gateway Country stores for almost 3 years and I routinely was forced to rip off anyone that walked in the store. You only make 0.5% off the actual hardware that was sold, which ended up being only a few dollars per month. The way that we all made money was on the 100% profit items for Gateway: training, software, and warranties. ESPECIALLY training. In the end I left the store and didn't even bother calling in to quit because I was so disgusted with making elderly couples purchase a $500 system with $2000 of training and warranties on it.
At least at the other places the sales people are hourly rate only, little to no commission, so if you say you don't want something they will mostly say ok and continue on. At Gateway stores, the salesmen would still find a way to tack that training onto the quote and hide it somewhere in the final price.
This caused many people buying from Gateway Country stores to get upset since they would always find systems either on gateways website or from another company for 1/2 or 1/3 the price they just paid. Pissing off almost every customer that walks into your store when there is both a CompUSA and Best Buy directly across the street is not the way to run a business.
If library computers are not being locked down and letting random users install programs, then the Google Toolbar is the least of their worries. If someone is trying to harvest some passwords or just see what people are doing, a simple keylogger or any of the other hundreds of "hacking" tools out on the internet could be installed instead.
Will it be again a huge money-loosing system, or are they expecting to start turning a profit now that they have made a (arguably) name for themselves among gamers.
Also to wonder is, will the XBox 2 be as mod-able as the original? I know many many people that only purchased it because it could be used for so many more purposes than originally intended. But that doesn't exactly benefit MS, since they don't get only loose money on the system sale.
Every company tries to make their systems less modable whenever they can. That's part of the reason the original Playstation had 5 or 6 different models out (I remember having to go to funcoland and asking to see every used PSX there before picking up a couple of the earliest models I could find). Mod chips = lost business for the most part (Yes I know about imports and "backups" and if that's all you did then more power to you... 95% of the people installed mod chips to pirate games)
If it is modable, it will help them though. An Xbox sold is one that potentially will be buying games. Microsoft can show that they have 10,000,000 sold Xboxes and try to get developers to make the game Xbox only, even if 9,000,000 of them only use them as a media center PC. It made me laugh when the linux zealots were all crying that everyone should buy 5 and cause them to lose money when the Xbox first came out. I think I only saw a few comments of people pointing out that this increases marketshare for MS.
Also, about the console being a money losing system: Yes, most likely. But so were the PS2 and most other consoles when they came out. I think the GC just barely made a profit when it was first released. That's not the point though, since that is prettymuch par for the course. They make money back on software and licensing rights.
Without looking at other companies to see if they have something similar, I can remember selling sleek all-in-ones when I worked at Gateway 4 or 5 years ago. They were called the Profile, and are still on sale now.
I usually hate replying to myself, but I forgot to put this in my original post:
If you are looking for a suggestion for a MUD, try out Gemstone IV (http://www.play.net/gs4/). It is by far the most fun MUD I've ever played, and it always has new content coming out. It has a monthly cost, but if you enjoy MUD's it is more than worth the monthly charge.
With a modem only connection, try games that are designed with the modem in mind. As geeky as it sounds, if you've got a modem you can always introduce them to a MUD. I have yet to meet the modem user that can't play one of those.
It's geeky, yes.
It will stimulate your childrens minds though.
If they are in an enviornment that makes them think they absolutely need CS or any FPS then a cable modem/DSL are always available.
Gmail is still in it's beta form. The company is still working out all the kinks in it. That's why you have to go through the process of getting invited before you can set up an account. Spam is going to fall through the cracks for a while until they finish fine-tuning the filter.
As long as it still says beta at the top of the screen when you log in, you should expect things like that. Click report spam and do your part to help the filter get finished.
I downloaded the video, and it's absolute shite. I can see a dark blob running around on a slightly darker screen, and hear some sound in the background. Lets hear it for correct lighting so we can even see what's going on
Cybercafe's were made back when computers were $3000 and many people just wanted email. Now that you can get an emachine for $300 and internet access for $10/month (or free in many places), the whole idea is rather absurd. The internet by definition is not a social meduim (in person. over the actual net is a different story)
In my experience, the majority of people that have all these devices aside from the ludicrously wealthy are also sadly single.
I still download music without paying for it. I probably download more now than ever. The funny thing is I still buy the music that I think is good enough to hear more than once or twice.
Do I use Kazaa? hell no! I have to download 10 versions of a song just to get the "real" version of it... the one without some weird sound effects or just being the first 10 seconds repeated for the 4 minutes that the song should really be.
Welcome to bittorrent land. I'll not post the URL from the server I use regularly for obvious reasons, but rest assured I can get more there than I could with Kazaa anyday. Now I download whole albums at a time instead of just 1 or 2 songs in order to determine if a record is worth buying.
The great thing about bittorrent is that if people find that a song or album is fake they just stop sharing it. All of a sudden that album that should have 2000 people sharing it because it's so good only has 2 people sharing it (and they'll stop as soon as they unzip it and listen). That tells me to pass and find the real version.
I hope the RIAA realizes that instead of ending the problem they just made it burrow deeper. This time there is no centralized network that they can shut down in order to maximize profits from the unsuspecting consumer. If they kill one, 5 more will show up in it's place. I hope they are happy with what they have caused to be created.
Right now, the networks are small. Remember how small Napster or Kazaa began as? What happened a few months to a year later? Exactly... Expect 2004 or 2005 to be the year of bittorrent (or another decentralized network)
Dear lord, I hope you were drunk when you posted this...
/me rolls his eyes.
By the same logic, I could say that I should not go to my job tomorrow or ever again, as going to it makes profit for my managers who then spend the money at stores where the sales reps make commission and then spend the resulting profit on groceries at the store. The profit from that then funds the owner of the grocery store to buy a diamond ring for his girlfriend when he proposes to her, which then funds the DeBeers diamond blood-monopoly.
In essence: me going to my job everyday makes thousands of people die in the diamond trade every week.
(I'm assuming I'm being trolled when I post this, but I still wanted to respond in the small hope that you really were just an idiot)
Wow... I'm sure there will be very few people reding this, but... wow.
Gemstone III was/is the only text-based game I played online; I've been hooked since waaaaaaay back in the AOL only days w/multiple characters. I quit a few months ago and have been wanting to come back. Hearing (and checking) this new bit of information has hastened my return to the lands.
It may not be much from the perspective of 1 former player, but seeing that the forums are now open to non-subscribers, and I spent a while browsing and piquing my interest again, you'll be seeing my character updating his billing information and rejoining the lands again as of next week (payday)
Wow... I wonder if Ralagar still remembers that I have his 160k longsword in my locker...
512K RAM
640K WAS enough!
...minus a small (20%) "processing" fee.
Gotta keep those profits going higher, eh?
You forgot:
11. Profit!!!
Duke Nukem Forever still a possibility of coming out before the next glacier slides across continental US soil
1. Make pretty GUIs and lovely gadgets 2. ??? 3. Profit!!! Actually, it's a pretty damn good business plan.
How bout: 2. Lots of people buy it
I think we have a winner.
Just so you know, StarBand was disowned by DishNetwork a while ago. The current customers are getting access, but they're not accepting anyone anymore. It's a dying technology. The sucessor to it is in the works though... Expect it to be HUGE (big bandwidth anywhere in the US since it's sattelite delivered, 2 way, so you'll get a huge upload speed too). I won't say much more since I don't want to jeopardize my job... but look for it in 2-3 years
Actually... now that I think about it, I could possibly see a spam company getting with a large corporation, setting up a false break in, and sending the email to everyone in the company with their product (which was required by law to be sent) with the security breach message at the bottom.
"Just trying to save you some time by combining these 2 emails into 1"