How intensive is the physics in a game like Half-Life 2. My machine bogs significantly when, say, a dozen barrels explode at once. Would it make sense to offload your physics and maybe AI onto it's own piece of silicon? Maybe just another small chip on a video card?
Let's see. I've just filled 2 200 gig drives. What do I do? Photography, image editing, and video editing.
I just started getting into the video editing and that really does kick the crap out of a harddrive. 20 minutes of uncompressed video straight of a miniDV tape weighs in at about 2 gigs. Multiple that by 3 or 4 for the various levels of transcoding and editing and I've just eaten up 10 gigs of hard drive space.
Then lets add in the pictures that my new Canon 20D takes. Even just shooting in high quality jpeg each image takes up 3 megs. Or 8 megs each if I want to go RAW. That adds up really quick even at 50 or 60 pictures a day. It's a pain in the ass archiving those on DVDs because it takes a while to find what a want, so those files tend to stay on hard drives for a quite a while.
How about Photoshop? An 8x10 print quality image (300 dpi) with decent complexity clocks in at 25 megs. I've got folders upon folders of images that I'm currently working on.
So, it's really not one thing in particular but a thousand of these kinds of things add up really quick.
Qwest dropped Qwest.net for MSN in 2001 or so for all none business services. But, fortunately for the rest of us, MSN sucks something fierce. Qwest is in the process of dropping MSN right now because they have had such horrible problems with them. Microsoft is going to have to step up with some decent service if they want to make this work.
I've been alot more insightful since I started smoking weed, even when I'm not high.
Your blog says otherwise...
I am God! I see it perfectly clearly. Consider the laws of physics. Everything in the universe holds to them. I certainly do. BUT! What defines the laws of physics? It is clearly what I do that defines them. It is what everything does but me included. So then I am God! So is everyone else of course but really its ME!
That is real insight for me. I decree that we shall all smoke weed. Then everyone can be as insightful as this fine gentleman.
It must be degrading for Microsoft to always get the sloppy seconds. I can't remember one story in the last few months that they have gotten the first crack at something new.
Perhaps there will be a bigger gap between the 2 groups of people. Some people will continue to learn for hundreds of years and will become exponentially smarter than those who choose not to.
I would love to have 1000 years to learn. Think of all the things you could learn and do in that much time. There are so many things right now that I don't have time for because I feel the need to focus on the things I like best.
I also think a lot of people focus on surviving. But, what happens when that doesn't become an issue any more? We saw huge technological leaps and bounds when we didn't have to slave all day on the farm just to grow enough food to sustain ourselves. I think we will see a similar shift if something like this comes to pass.
I will say that email is still used for "official" stuff: official sales responses, bids, inquiries, and for formal appointment arranging.
I find it interesting that email used to be the "instant messaging" of communication. You still send all your bids, quotes, appointments, etc. via the Postal Service.
Why doesn't it suprise me that this story takes place in Texas.
But it's ok. Soon all Texan schoolchildren will have RFID tags implanted so there is no chance a crazy redneck will accidently shoot them instead of a ninja deer.
A friend just sent me an email with an image of his new girlfriend taken with his camera phone. It was incredibly small and had horrible resolution. I think she was hot. I am also fairly certain she was a girl, but from that wondeful camera phone photo, there was just no telling.
If I want to take a picture, I'm going to go buy a camera. I can get a ultra low end $50 digital camera that will make me look like Ansel Adams compared to the crap those phones turn out.
Did you purchase the download option? Obviously you did. The game is well over 1 gb in size, so I don't know what you expect. It took me about 8 hours total to download it. Of course, I have been using Steam for months now and it has slowly been downloading different parts of the game for the last few weeks. As soon as I get home tonight, it'll be ready for me to go.
Moral of the story is don't blame Steam for your impatience.
Read this story. It's called Autonomy. It describes a world where this exact situation has occurred. It takes place about 50 years in the future and everything has a patent. All scientific and technological progress has stopped because it's too bloody expensive to legally acquire the rights to anything. But, fortunately, the underground have come up with solutions.
You should watch the movie Casshern. http://www.casshern.com/. That's exactly what happens. Then they get pissed off and build robots and beat the shit out of the humans.
Advertising in a game can definately add to it's appeal, but most people will go overboard to the point of distraction.
The one game where I think this would be appropriate is the SimCity series. I wish I could throw up a McDonalds and a Taco Bell and then drive down to Walmart for some white trash viewing. That would definately add to the realism of the game.
However, if I pick up Halflife 2 and Gordon has to stop by the 7-11 for a Big Gulp to boost his health, I'm going to be pissed.
I need a camera, I don't need games, I don't need websites, I don't need an mp3 player, I don't need a bowie knife, I don't need scissors, and I don't need a bottle opener.
I just want a phone that I can talk on. Oh and maybe something with a battery that lasted more than an hour.
If I wanted all those other things I would go buy them, and for less money combined than one of those things (they aren't phones anymore). Why would anyone in their right mind buy a $400 phone with a shitty 1 megapixel camera in it that can only take 1 picture at a time, when they can buy a decent 3 megapixel camera for $150. Hell you can even get a better camera in a box of Cheerios.
A unique process in which user receives sex from target member of the opposite sex after the target has consumed only one alcoholic beverage. Typically it takes several alcoholics beverages to get the target person in a mood for having sex. The method uses strong suggestive language to woo the target into a state in which the person requires sex.
Yeah, um, I'm bored....
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How intensive is the physics in a game like Half-Life 2. My machine bogs significantly when, say, a dozen barrels explode at once. Would it make sense to offload your physics and maybe AI onto it's own piece of silicon? Maybe just another small chip on a video card?
Let's see. I've just filled 2 200 gig drives. What do I do? Photography, image editing, and video editing.
I just started getting into the video editing and that really does kick the crap out of a harddrive. 20 minutes of uncompressed video straight of a miniDV tape weighs in at about 2 gigs. Multiple that by 3 or 4 for the various levels of transcoding and editing and I've just eaten up 10 gigs of hard drive space.
Then lets add in the pictures that my new Canon 20D takes. Even just shooting in high quality jpeg each image takes up 3 megs. Or 8 megs each if I want to go RAW. That adds up really quick even at 50 or 60 pictures a day. It's a pain in the ass archiving those on DVDs because it takes a while to find what a want, so those files tend to stay on hard drives for a quite a while.
How about Photoshop? An 8x10 print quality image (300 dpi) with decent complexity clocks in at 25 megs. I've got folders upon folders of images that I'm currently working on.
So, it's really not one thing in particular but a thousand of these kinds of things add up really quick.
Don't copy that floppy is right. I remeber when I first saw this. Even then it was a huge joke.
http://www.archive.org/download/dontcopythatflopp
2. They're signing ISPs to deliver MSN
Qwest dropped Qwest.net for MSN in 2001 or so for all none business services. But, fortunately for the rest of us, MSN sucks something fierce. Qwest is in the process of dropping MSN right now because they have had such horrible problems with them. Microsoft is going to have to step up with some decent service if they want to make this work.
In Korea the normal internet is for old people.
I've been alot more insightful since I started smoking weed, even when I'm not high.
Your blog says otherwise...
I am God!
I see it perfectly clearly. Consider the laws of physics. Everything in the universe holds to them. I certainly do. BUT! What defines the laws of physics? It is clearly what I do that defines them. It is what everything does but me included. So then I am God! So is everyone else of course but really its ME!
That is real insight for me. I decree that we shall all smoke weed. Then everyone can be as insightful as this fine gentleman.
blow.jobs should be fun though.
It must be degrading for Microsoft to always get the sloppy seconds. I can't remember one story in the last few months that they have gotten the first crack at something new.
But, then again, what's new?
Perhaps there will be a bigger gap between the 2 groups of people. Some people will continue to learn for hundreds of years and will become exponentially smarter than those who choose not to.
I would love to have 1000 years to learn. Think of all the things you could learn and do in that much time. There are so many things right now that I don't have time for because I feel the need to focus on the things I like best.
I also think a lot of people focus on surviving. But, what happens when that doesn't become an issue any more? We saw huge technological leaps and bounds when we didn't have to slave all day on the farm just to grow enough food to sustain ourselves. I think we will see a similar shift if something like this comes to pass.
In Korea, cellphones are for old people.
I will say that email is still used for "official" stuff: official sales responses, bids, inquiries, and for formal appointment arranging.
I find it interesting that email used to be the "instant messaging" of communication. You still send all your bids, quotes, appointments, etc. via the Postal Service.
But alas, email is for old people.
Scan Line Interleave. Each card renders half of the screen for a given frame.
An enterprising Texan, John Underwood
Why doesn't it suprise me that this story takes place in Texas.
But it's ok. Soon all Texan schoolchildren will have RFID tags implanted so there is no chance a crazy redneck will accidently shoot them instead of a ninja deer.
A friend just sent me an email with an image of his new girlfriend taken with his camera phone. It was incredibly small and had horrible resolution. I think she was hot. I am also fairly certain she was a girl, but from that wondeful camera phone photo, there was just no telling.
If I want to take a picture, I'm going to go buy a camera. I can get a ultra low end $50 digital camera that will make me look like Ansel Adams compared to the crap those phones turn out.
Perhaps I am missing the big pictures. Ha Ha.
Did you purchase the download option? Obviously you did. The game is well over 1 gb in size, so I don't know what you expect. It took me about 8 hours total to download it. Of course, I have been using Steam for months now and it has slowly been downloading different parts of the game for the last few weeks. As soon as I get home tonight, it'll be ready for me to go.
Moral of the story is don't blame Steam for your impatience.
Why the fuck would you want to watch TV on your god damned cell phone? That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
I see absolutely no redeeming feature here.
Read this story. It's called Autonomy. It describes a world where this exact situation has occurred. It takes place about 50 years in the future and everything has a patent. All scientific and technological progress has stopped because it's too bloody expensive to legally acquire the rights to anything. But, fortunately, the underground have come up with solutions.
/ Draft-03/Autonomy-Freedom-of-Thought-Draft-3-CC.ht ml
https://jean.nu/Projects/Autonomy/Episode-01/Book
It's just you.
Perhaps you don't watch the Daily Show then do you?
You should watch the movie Casshern. http://www.casshern.com/. That's exactly what happens. Then they get pissed off and build robots and beat the shit out of the humans.
It's a pretty good movie actually.
Advertising in a game can definately add to it's appeal, but most people will go overboard to the point of distraction.
The one game where I think this would be appropriate is the SimCity series. I wish I could throw up a McDonalds and a Taco Bell and then drive down to Walmart for some white trash viewing. That would definately add to the realism of the game.
However, if I pick up Halflife 2 and Gordon has to stop by the 7-11 for a Big Gulp to boost his health, I'm going to be pissed.
I need a camera, I don't need games, I don't need websites, I don't need an mp3 player, I don't need a bowie knife, I don't need scissors, and I don't need a bottle opener.
I just want a phone that I can talk on. Oh and maybe something with a battery that lasted more than an hour.
If I wanted all those other things I would go buy them, and for less money combined than one of those things (they aren't phones anymore). Why would anyone in their right mind buy a $400 phone with a shitty 1 megapixel camera in it that can only take 1 picture at a time, when they can buy a decent 3 megapixel camera for $150. Hell you can even get a better camera in a box of Cheerios.
Who's idea was this anyway?
A unique process in which user receives sex from target member of the opposite sex after the target has consumed only one alcoholic beverage. Typically it takes several alcoholics beverages to get the target person in a mood for having sex. The method uses strong suggestive language to woo the target into a state in which the person requires sex. Yeah, um, I'm bored....