Well, you do raise a point... The world in general, not just USA, seem to become more Chinese by the day, while China becomes more western. I guess in the end we'll meet on some icky middle ground.:-( Unfortunately, defending liberties is often no noble cause either, which can make it a scary topic for a democratic party to touch. Who wish to defend freedom of speech, if the speech came from a paedophile? Which European politician wish to raise a debate on outlawing hate speech laws in Europe? These rights have already been eroded in many civilized countries today. They weren't always, but they now is. What part of today's liberties will erode tomorrow?
... These things or that the Olympic Comittee allowed China to host the Olympic games, with all the shittiness in the background. Not just censorship alone, but with their civil rights in general. Money talks as usual...:-(
This SC is not a realistic urban simulation, which I understand, to many, represents the heart of what SC is,
Huh!? Then what is it? I couldn't find anything on that in the story. What genius PR is this -- to have the officials tell what it isn't, and not highlight what greatness it is.
First looks at the game in US Games for Windows mag show a fully 3D world, with a colourful environment and a Theme Park-style fairground bustling in the foreground.
OK, then I get an idea how it might look, but I still don't know what kind of game it is... I checked Wikipedia too and it's supposedly integrating with The Sims, but IIRC, even SC 4 did that, so...?
Interesting -- but viable?
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Will this turn into a viable service (web service or not) anytime soon?
I read this has enormous space requirements *and* computations associated with it.
Sure, it's amazing once all image data has been calculated and matched against each other, but I have a hard time seeing this being available for end users soon, unless they just happen to be sitting on a tasty... Beowulf cluster?:-)
I always thought it was some sort of cooperation behind a range of computers, almost like a botnet... At worst, you could see the most weird tag for an article (not just the common "itsatrap" stuff), so I have to wonder if there was really either an implementation defect that some exploited, or that they've banned whatever GNAA-like network that did that, and they were behind a lot of these tags.
Emacs is a programmers editor. Most programmers don't like to stare at anti-aliased code.
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It's much easier on my eyes, or do you not include "sub pixel rendering for LCD's" in the definition of "antialiasing"?:) I mean, it's not like I even *see* the antialiasing effects, it's more like a lack of jags in the monospaced font.
I mean, "there should be competitive products" -- you're talking of a high-end graphics application that is way ahead of most of the "competition". Sure, Paint Shop Pro is *much* cheaper, and GIMP is even free, but neither are as powerful as Photoshop.
Non-alphanumeric characters tend to be reserved for search logic.
True, but I'd hope that at least using quotation marks to search for phrases would also include special characters.
I mean, there can't be any search logic inside quotes anyway; then that would be part of the phrase. Like "Apples or oranges" won't search for either apples or oranges, but the actualy phrase.
I agree, and even as for noise levels, my stock cooler this time (with the Core 2 Duo E6600 package) was surprisingly quiet, especially with the noise padding I had installed into the case since earlier for an overall reduction.
It's not a gene that senses cold or heat, but there may be a gene that produces the proteins that senses cold or heat. Just separating the concepts here. It may be seen as nitpicking/details, but can quickly become confusing in a biology discussion.;-)
It's probably not related, since the function of TRPM8 has been known since at least a couple of years back and no one has even associated it with that phenomnenon since then. TRPM8 also use to be more local and direct in nature, and solely for sensory reasons, like when you feel something is cold on your tongue. Not the kind of "chill" from that, and I can understand that, because at least to me, I don't associate that shiver with cold at all. My bets are more on something like dopamine, which is listed in your article as a possible contributor.
Wikipedia has had info on TRPM8 and how it affects cold sensations since mid-2005, and I actually contributed with some content on the subject in the basic taste article in late 2005.
Ehh.. They shouldn't be "surprised" if they have "just" 2 people in an age category as opposed to 3, or even if 8 were right with the Apple buds compared to 6 on the higher quality Shure's. The sample size is so small that both cases here could be neglibly different, heck it could even be that with say 100 users, it would turn out the age stuff was a fluke.
Too bad because I've been interested in seeing something like this done, but they really can't just have only 10 participants unless the result will be something like 2:8.
Bah, I prefer to hear their impression of the story rather than a softened, skewed PR-speak version crafted for the "public". If they lied to the public in the way you propose, we would instead have had "they cover it up" comments here on Slashdot. Now we have stupid "they act like a victim and even if they are they shouldn't" stuff.:-p
Huh? You've got to be kidding... The bottleneck in Vista is RAM, not CPU power. Heck, even in games, it's largely GPU and driver related. Maybe that's due to Vista and its DirectX 9 emulation layer in the end, but it sure as hell isn't about the CPU more than in XP. And Aero Glass runs on the GPU too.
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Well, you do raise a point... The world in general, not just USA, seem to become more Chinese by the day, while China becomes more western. I guess in the end we'll meet on some icky middle ground. :-( Unfortunately, defending liberties is often no noble cause either, which can make it a scary topic for a democratic party to touch. Who wish to defend freedom of speech, if the speech came from a paedophile? Which European politician wish to raise a debate on outlawing hate speech laws in Europe? These rights have already been eroded in many civilized countries today. They weren't always, but they now is. What part of today's liberties will erode tomorrow?
... These things or that the Olympic Comittee allowed China to host the Olympic games, with all the shittiness in the background. Not just censorship alone, but with their civil rights in general. Money talks as usual... :-(
Huh!? Then what is it? I couldn't find anything on that in the story.
What genius PR is this -- to have the officials tell what it isn't, and not highlight what greatness it is.
OK, then I get an idea how it might look, but I still don't know what kind of game it is...
I checked Wikipedia too and it's supposedly integrating with The Sims, but IIRC, even SC 4 did that, so...?
Will this turn into a viable service (web service or not) anytime soon?
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I read this has enormous space requirements *and* computations associated with it.
Sure, it's amazing once all image data has been calculated and matched against each other, but I have a hard time seeing this being available for end users soon, unless they just happen to be sitting on a tasty... Beowulf cluster?
That means you can run freeware for all three operating systems, so the Mac actually has more free software available than any other computer
Yeah, but I think he was talking of OS X, not e.g. Windows Vista or Ubuntu.
I always thought it was some sort of cooperation behind a range of computers, almost like a botnet... At worst, you could see the most weird tag for an article (not just the common "itsatrap" stuff), so I have to wonder if there was really either an implementation defect that some exploited, or that they've banned whatever GNAA-like network that did that, and they were behind a lot of these tags.
Emacs is a programmers editor. Most programmers don't like to stare at anti-aliased code.
:) I mean, it's not like I even *see* the antialiasing effects, it's more like a lack of jags in the monospaced font.
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It's much easier on my eyes, or do you not include "sub pixel rendering for LCD's" in the definition of "antialiasing"?
I mean, "there should be competitive products" -- you're talking of a high-end graphics application that is way ahead of most of the "competition". Sure, Paint Shop Pro is *much* cheaper, and GIMP is even free, but neither are as powerful as Photoshop.
I think this would be a case of trying to say "all your base are belong to us"?
True, but I'd hope that at least using quotation marks to search for phrases would also include special characters.
I mean, there can't be any search logic inside quotes anyway; then that would be part of the phrase.
Like "Apples or oranges" won't search for either apples or oranges, but the actualy phrase.
I agree, and even as for noise levels, my stock cooler this time (with the Core 2 Duo E6600 package) was surprisingly quiet, especially with the noise padding I had installed into the case since earlier for an overall reduction.
Par for the course:
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Yep, and just because these have it like that, other newer MMO's should strive to not evolve in the area.
Yeah, because MMO and LOTRO (almost the only ones used) are really abbreviations that boggle my mind in this subject. :-p
You might be correct, but TRPV1 is not a gene, it's a protein.
It's not a gene that senses cold or heat, but there may be a gene that produces the proteins that senses cold or heat. Just separating the concepts here. It may be seen as nitpicking/details, but can quickly become confusing in a biology discussion. ;-)
It's probably not related, since the function of TRPM8 has been known since at least a couple of years back and no one has even associated it with that phenomnenon since then. TRPM8 also use to be more local and direct in nature, and solely for sensory reasons, like when you feel something is cold on your tongue. Not the kind of "chill" from that, and I can understand that, because at least to me, I don't associate that shiver with cold at all. My bets are more on something like dopamine, which is listed in your article as a possible contributor.
Wikipedia has had info on TRPM8 and how it affects cold sensations since mid-2005, and I actually contributed with some content on the subject in the basic taste article in late 2005.
Ehh.. They shouldn't be "surprised" if they have "just" 2 people in an age category as opposed to 3, or even if 8 were right with the Apple buds compared to 6 on the higher quality Shure's. The sample size is so small that both cases here could be neglibly different, heck it could even be that with say 100 users, it would turn out the age stuff was a fluke.
Too bad because I've been interested in seeing something like this done, but they really can't just have only 10 participants unless the result will be something like 2:8.
Maybe id Software in fact bought that intellectual property and is set to do that one. *dun dun dun*
I agree, especially with the people!
Hopefully it's going to be easy enough to write a tool that strips the metadata instead, for a lossless operation.
"Port to Vista"? What exactly would your app do that makes it incompatible with Vista if it was written natively?
Bah, I prefer to hear their impression of the story rather than a softened, skewed PR-speak version crafted for the "public". If they lied to the public in the way you propose, we would instead have had "they cover it up" comments here on Slashdot. Now we have stupid "they act like a victim and even if they are they shouldn't" stuff. :-p
Once the customer base start failing you, make use of your lawyer base.
Huh? You've got to be kidding... The bottleneck in Vista is RAM, not CPU power. Heck, even in games, it's largely GPU and driver related. Maybe that's due to Vista and its DirectX 9 emulation layer in the end, but it sure as hell isn't about the CPU more than in XP. And Aero Glass runs on the GPU too.