The physics of games is, and always will be based on fooling the user through tricks. You don't render a box on the molecular level, you make 6 squares and call it a box. The future holds refinement. Defining the mass of a wall maybe. Say instead of a wall simply blackening when a rocket is fired, a chunk of it is blasted out, based on the type of weapon, and to go even farther, we shoot a nailgun at that, and nails are embedded inside the crater.
Another hurdle to pass is truly lifelike biomechanics, not just in movement, but in reaction. Get shot in the arm? Your arms gets forced backward forcing the rest of your body to do so. Want to run real fast, instantly do a 180 and jump? Maybe with correct modeling the game'll slow you down as you make that turn, and delay the jump.
Modeling the physics of our world is no small task, and I, frankly think Carmack is thinking too much iside the graphical box he built, and not within the new physical frontier.
I don't think that's the article's point. The author argues that programming in low level languages reveals bugs inherently. I'm betting your RH7 box was running a few daemons which got rooted. OpenBSD runs many of the same daemons. And sysadmins could care less from a security standpoint as to whether or not it was open as they don't have time to look at every single line of code they're using.
The pager 'less' of course is a pun on the old pager 'more'. And let's not forgot that the name Unix was chosen to replace an existing OS called MULTICS.
From the web collage source @http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/webcollage:
... use bytes; # Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his ass sideways. # Perl 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible # errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this. ...
The parrot interpreter reminds me so much of the CLR. I know mono has a C# compiler, but do they also have the equivalent of the MS CLR? If not then parrrot could fill that hole (well if it were going to come into existence in the next few years).
He's not following regex rules! If he wanted a regex it'd use parenthesis instead of brackets. He's following the formatting conventions you often see in gnu utils when you execute them with --help. So [H|Cr] is correct.
For instance,part of man --help is
man [-c|-f|-k|-w|-tZT device]..
If it were a regex it'd look like H|(Cr)acker. But we're not doing pattern matching, substitution, or even transliteration; we're defining options.
Did I just spend 2 minutes writing this? I have no life.
ah, just as predicted, shot down for the last statement about being entertained by trolls who ignore the rest of my previous post. Such is the way of/.
You're missing out on the long term. Mars may one day be colonized by humanity, or useful for some other purpose. It has materials on it that could possibly be terraformed creating an earthlike state. Now while these projects are far off in comming, probably far out enough that i'll be dead once they happen, it doesn't mean it's all for nought.
And lastly, "because it's there". I would entertainment in man reaching mars, it's extremely exciting don't you think? (i wonder how many extremely practical people are going to shoot me down for that)
I don't have any high minded philosophical ideals when i praise MDI browsing. I just don't see a need to have multiple browsing windows open. It clutters up the taskbar, mostly, makes reading multiple sites simultaneously harder and I find it, personally, to be cleaner simply.
Consider this, to use the MDI mozilla browser with two pages, when I want to change pages, I only have to click one button on the top. When I use an SDI UI I have to click on some other browser window, which reorders the entire stack of windows i allready have out, and have to relocate my mouse on the new window. PLUS if I want to find the old window, I have to find it burried next to a myriad of other apps. MDI is the future. OC i dunno how this translates to mac, i'm using windows
Their marketing materials are all you have to go on because there are no other sources of info on the topic of the X3. Even if you have generic info on foveon sensors, you do not have specific info on theirs. Unless you've read reviews of it specifically.
and regarding the moire patterns, i said REDUCE not eliminate, the X3 claims to avoid moire patterns where other cameras would normally see them! I don't know why i'm responding, i should just stop now, i think i'm being trolled...
First off, you need not be so rude to others, second the X3 claims to reduce Moire patterns, and it certainly claims to get rid of them in more places than digital cameras, which pick up Moire patterns that the human eye does not pick up. I could in fact point out to you why much of what you said is wrong, but I won't becuase it's only on the X3 website, which you clearly have not read. And by real color, I guess the term 'More Accurate' color should have been used.
Lastly, lighten up. It's disheartening to see stranger's ferociously pounce on someone for such a triffle.
is to donate to your local food bank. Your dollar will go a lot farther since they usually get extra cheap prices on food. I still applaud your efforts, you are an inspiration
Hmmm, that should be a hard one to do, because a <tag style="font-size:20px"> should do nothing more than render the font with that height, but still allow it to be resized, my website http://www.andrewvc.com uses this and using mozilla I can resize all the text perfectly.
Unfortuanatly, I just discovered that Internet Explorer 6 does not do and won't let me change the text size. Of what relevance is text in points to a web developer? As usual I expect all trolls to be bash me and tell me to use the standard. Well I don't care, no old people go to my site.
Photoshop has the most easy to understand and consistant UIs i've ever seen! The gimp decides that people who want to edit / create iamges like a lot of dialog boxes and opening and closing windows, it's annoying as hell. Plus let's not forget that gimp really shouldn't be compared to photoshop as gimp is to photoshop as word pad is to MS word, and that's being convervative. Gimp hasn't even mastered the basic actions yet, let alone all the sugar that photoshop comes with. Plus, due to all the dialog boxes in the Gimp there is physically no way a trained gimp user could work faster than a trained photoshop user.
the avant garde does things with HTML, but with Shockwave too because Shockwave is better at certain things than HTML. For things like Generative art using HTML would be ridiculous. TONS of generative art is done in shockwave and for good reason, it's portable (between mac and PC that's all the designers care about) and has powerful clientside abilities. Java holds the same place with new media artists. Get a clue and then come back. It's not for desing but for Art.
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The physics of games is, and always will be based on fooling the user through tricks. You don't render a box on the molecular level, you make 6 squares and call it a box. The future holds refinement. Defining the mass of a wall maybe. Say instead of a wall simply blackening when a rocket is fired, a chunk of it is blasted out, based on the type of weapon, and to go even farther, we shoot a nailgun at that, and nails are embedded inside the crater.
Another hurdle to pass is truly lifelike biomechanics, not just in movement, but in reaction. Get shot in the arm? Your arms gets forced backward forcing the rest of your body to do so. Want to run real fast, instantly do a 180 and jump? Maybe with correct modeling the game'll slow you down as you make that turn, and delay the jump.
Modeling the physics of our world is no small task, and I, frankly think Carmack is thinking too much iside the graphical box he built, and not within the new physical frontier.
Wasn't the last DOS attack through postal service using anthrax?
would that be the physical incarnation of the "ping of death" attack?
yes, but isn't hte front end amp of the tv tuner just a remnant of the big bang?
I don't think that's the article's point. The author argues that programming in low level languages reveals bugs inherently. I'm betting your RH7 box was running a few daemons which got rooted. OpenBSD runs many of the same daemons. And sysadmins could care less from a security standpoint as to whether or not it was open as they don't have time to look at every single line of code they're using.
if you use unix you probably use this everyday.
The pager 'less' of course is a pun on the old pager 'more'. And let's not forgot that the name Unix was chosen to replace an existing OS called MULTICS.
From the web collage source @http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/webcollage :
...
use bytes; # Larry can take Unicode and shove it up his ass sideways.
# Perl 5.8.0 causes us to start getting incomprehensible
# errors about UTF-8 all over the place without this.
...
that uses XWarpPointer[sic] to move the pointer wherever on boot.
The parrot interpreter reminds me so much of the CLR. I know mono has a C# compiler, but do they also have the equivalent of the MS CLR? If not then parrrot could fill that hole (well if it were going to come into existence in the next few years).
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/complexspira l/glassy.html
that also does not work in my latest patched IE6, and it never has.
He's not following regex rules! If he wanted a regex it'd use parenthesis instead of brackets. He's following the formatting conventions you often see in gnu utils when you execute them with --help.
..
So [H|Cr] is correct.
For instance,part of man --help is
man [-c|-f|-k|-w|-tZT device]
If it were a regex it'd look like H|(Cr)acker. But we're not doing pattern matching, substitution, or even transliteration; we're defining options.
Did I just spend 2 minutes writing this? I have no life.
ah, just as predicted, shot down for the last statement about being entertained by trolls who ignore the rest of my previous post. Such is the way of /.
You're missing out on the long term. Mars may one day be colonized by humanity, or useful for some other purpose. It has materials on it that could possibly be terraformed creating an earthlike state. Now while these projects are far off in comming, probably far out enough that i'll be dead once they happen, it doesn't mean it's all for nought.
And lastly, "because it's there". I would entertainment in man reaching mars, it's extremely exciting don't you think? (i wonder how many extremely practical people are going to shoot me down for that)
I don't have any high minded philosophical ideals when i praise MDI browsing. I just don't see a need to have multiple browsing windows open. It clutters up the taskbar, mostly, makes reading multiple sites simultaneously harder and I find it, personally, to be cleaner simply.
Consider this, to use the MDI mozilla browser with two pages, when I want to change pages, I only have to click one button on the top. When I use an SDI UI I have to click on some other browser window, which reorders the entire stack of windows i allready have out, and have to relocate my mouse on the new window. PLUS if I want to find the old window, I have to find it burried next to a myriad of other apps. MDI is the future. OC i dunno how this translates to mac, i'm using windows
Their marketing materials are all you have to go on because there are no other sources of info on the topic of the X3. Even if you have generic info on foveon sensors, you do not have specific info on theirs. Unless you've read reviews of it specifically.
and regarding the moire patterns, i said REDUCE not eliminate, the X3 claims to avoid moire patterns where other cameras would normally see them! I don't know why i'm responding, i should just stop now, i think i'm being trolled...
First off, you need not be so rude to others, second the X3 claims to reduce Moire patterns, and it certainly claims to get rid of them in more places than digital cameras, which pick up Moire patterns that the human eye does not pick up. I could in fact point out to you why much of what you said is wrong, but I won't becuase it's only on the X3 website, which you clearly have not read. And by real color, I guess the term 'More Accurate' color should have been used.
Lastly, lighten up. It's disheartening to see stranger's ferociously pounce on someone for such a triffle.
That all slashdoters have had the maximum amount of sex in a previous lifetime?
that all crewmembers were required to be from wisconsin or at least speak as such. Decent work at anyrate, and amazing for a bunch of fans.
if you look at his posting history, here is a post in which jaredmartin claims to be a highschool freshman not a year ago! MOD PARENT DOWN
is to donate to your local food bank. Your dollar will go a lot farther since they usually get extra cheap prices on food. I still applaud your efforts, you are an inspiration
that yahoo used to use Inktomi before they bought google.
picasso did tons of abstract art nuthead.
Hmmm, that should be a hard one to do, because a
<tag style="font-size:20px">
should do nothing more than render the font with that height, but still allow it to be resized, my website http://www.andrewvc.com uses this and using mozilla I can resize all the text perfectly.
Unfortuanatly, I just discovered that Internet Explorer 6 does not do and won't let me change the text size. Of what relevance is text in points to a web developer? As usual I expect all trolls to be bash me and tell me to use the standard. Well I don't care, no old people go to my site.
why not just make libs available to do what this language does for perl, python, etc.
Photoshop has the most easy to understand and consistant UIs i've ever seen! The gimp decides that people who want to edit / create iamges like a lot of dialog boxes and opening and closing windows, it's annoying as hell. Plus let's not forget that gimp really shouldn't be compared to photoshop as gimp is to photoshop as word pad is to MS word, and that's being convervative. Gimp hasn't even mastered the basic actions yet, let alone all the sugar that photoshop comes with. Plus, due to all the dialog boxes in the Gimp there is physically no way a trained gimp user could work faster than a trained photoshop user.
the avant garde does things with HTML, but with Shockwave too because Shockwave is better at certain things than HTML. For things like Generative art using HTML would be ridiculous. TONS of generative art is done in shockwave and for good reason, it's portable (between mac and PC that's all the designers care about) and has powerful clientside abilities. Java holds the same place with new media artists. Get a clue and then come back. It's not for desing but for Art.