The point is it answers the question that is the title of the article: "If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others?"
If everyone did the same thing as Tesla, there would be so much excess generation in the day much of it would be wasted, and you'd still have the same non-solar requirements at night so you could never offset that with solar. Without storing all of the excess capacity in the day it's never going to be possible for *everyone* to run "neutral".
If this is all about an excited atom causing other atoms around it to move in a chain reaction (which is what we already know eventually causes our ear drums to vibrate, get converted to neurological signals to the brain and perceive "sound") then it pretty much seems like the most ridiculous waste of time and money in an experiment of which everyone knew the outcome I have heard of in a long while. So they built a super-sensitive electronic ear drum - big deal. This is not physics research, it's engineering a cool sensor.
It's a lot more economical when you get a couple billion in grants and tax breaks from the government!
But anyway - net metering is the "creative accounting" of the green energy industry. It lets companies like Tesla pretend they are "100% renewable energy" when in reality they are using electricity from the same non-renewable plants after dark as anyone else.
Now, if they did actually STORE that solar energy produced in the day time to use later that would be impressive, and they should receive proper credit. Since one of the uses of the batteries they produce will be (high end) industrial storage, it's possible they could make this happen... probably way too expensive for them to be profitable, but who knows...
No, it's really not, and neither is the Tesla plant. Self contained != net metering positive. Especially for Germany, which has invested a crapload into solar power that does absolutely nothing for a "net average" of almost 1/2 of the year.
Not saying it's not a good initiative, but it's definitely not 100% renewable energy without very "creative math".
386's were relatively ancient by 1993. I got a 486 in late 1992 to replace the 386 I bought in 1989 and was already jealous of the new Pentiums. Moore's law was in hyperdrive back then and the cutting edge games always relied on that.
UU2 still ran in 1/3 the screen size with slower average frame rate, awful navigation/controls and (intentionally) slower paced gameplay compared to DOOM. Face it, it was a great game but a different game, and it was NOT a fast action FPS by any stretch.
No, sorry, flight sims don't count. Flight sims in 1993 were either one awful ground texture with 1-2 objects on the screen (or in the case of X-Wing no ground textures). Some were good games, but not even remotely similar.
Beyrayal at Krondor used 1/2 the screen, could do maybe 1-2 FPS max in the world with *turn* based combat, and the graphics were awful compared to DOOM (though it was a fun game, just not competitive in gfx).
UU/UUII has been discussed already, they used 1/3 size screen and had single digit frame rates anyway. Felt very claustrophobic, really. But again great games, just not FPS. With FPS it is and always has been about the full screen immersive experience and the frame rate.
And AFAIK 3DO didn't have any decent 3D games in 1993. Later they did, and one of the better ones was - wait for it - DOOM (unfortunately in using real 3D effects it sacrificed one of its biggest strengths over the other games at the time - frame rate...)
I said *superior*, and - graphics wise - none of those came close.
UU was a revolutionary game, but a 3D FPS is was NOT. It rendered in a small window at an awful framerate and minimal action/responsiveness. Obviously 3D was possible using high end hardware, tiny viewports, or single digit frame rates, but none of those are traits of an FPS.
Two totally different games. DOOM's expansive spaces (including large convincing outdoor areas), colored lighting, high res textures, and amazing framerate for what it did was most definitely revolutionary as a "3D FPS".
As a friend of mine at PDI/Dreamworks (who has worked on most of their movies from Antz to Shrek to HTTYD) told me "studios that brag about their time consuming and expensive 3D rendering but with results that don't look at good as those who take shortcuts just don't get movie making". Same is true for game making. If you can trick the viewer's brain to see what you want them to see, the technology doesn't really matter.
DOOM ran at 30FPS with 4 player multiplayer with *lighting*, doorways/windows, huge open spaces, outdoor/sky textures, etc. UU, which was a revolutionary game as well, rendered about 1/3 of the pixels with horrible frame rate and comparably little fast action. It was a revolutionary game, but *certainly* not as a full screen action FPS. High framerate full screen 3D FPS (the point of my comment) were not remotely possible, no.
Wait, the Simpsons has no violence (and adult content)? You must have been watching a different TV show from what I have been watching the last 20+ years...
And I think you are talking about a completely different game genre. Do you actually know what the S in FPS stands for? Pretty sure there isn't a "whole market just waiting for" Nerf Deathmatch.
Bullshit. You were probably 3 years old when it came out. For those of us who were into gaming at the time, it was revolutionary.
It did convincing pseudo-3D before 3D was even remotely possible though some brilliant use of precompiled BSP trees and sectors. And it had stereo audio and a kick ass sound track that were almost as creepy and immersive as the graphics.
And if the mind blowing graphics and audio at the time wasn't enough, it also supported 4 player gaming as well. The version that they released supported 2 player serial or 4 player IPX, but they released the source to the network drivers, which was another early first - game companies releasing source and working with players to add features and content. It wasn't long before a full Internet/UDP networked version was available, making it one of the early real-time multiplayer Internet games.
"Pushing the quality of the video"? Sorry, but HD is no longer cutting edge and 1080p video streaming should not be considered "pushing the quality", it's been mainstream for several years. 4k is pushing the quality. And 3Mbps is definitely not even enough for decent HD - let alone 2 HD streams, which is not out of the ordinary in a household these days. I'm only paying $70 for 50Mbps, which actually lets me stream *3* 1080p streams at the same time, and still have plenty left for web browsing, etc.
Then again, I agree with OP, "broadband" is a just plain AWFUL term to try to describe the speed of your data link. The fact that that is what the argument is about just shows it's all about marketing and not customer satisfaction.
I'm not sure I get your point. I was for the most part defending him and his career. But still, if he hasn't done anything notable in the industry in over a decade, there is good reason to question current relevancy of his opinions.
Though if you want to talk those with higher batting averages - John Carmack is the Babe Ruth of the Game Developer Hall of Fame, but even his recent games have been fairly mediocre. How about Michael Morhaime? Ray Muzyka? Sid Meyer? Tim Schafer? Sam Houser? Jason Jones? Ken Levine? Mostly relevant for 15+ years with consistent hits the whole time.
Romero did make at least one good point in his interview - it's not all about the technology. Good design, writing, understanding the customers/market, and adapting to that new market is just as important, and all of this I listed are still relevant because they focused on all of those things beyond the technology...
He's right, you're wrong. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake. That's a career any developer would be envious of, and yes, those games clearly defined the FPS genre.
Has he done anything lately? Not really. Has he had some big failures? Definitely. But he's still a better game developer than anyone posting on this article will ever be.
That said, I'm not sure I'm going to go to him first as an expert on the future of the gaming industry...
It's even as much not about that, it's the fact that in the US, office space is rented in square feet, so why would an American organization bother trying to convert it to meters for the article? They might as well start quoting the rent in bitcoins.
Seriously. There was so much douchiness in the article I could hardly stand it.
The premise itself (let's treat smart college grads as if they were 19th century factory workers and tell them it's great) was douchiness to the extreme. But then the fact IEEE had to try to translate square feet to square meters when NO ONE in Menlo Park would have a clue what that means earns extra douche points to the square douche degree.
You write sixteen apps and what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt Google don't you hire me cause I can't go I owe my code to the incubator whores.
Russia Today? Really, that's your objective "alternative" source?
The reporters at RT are fleeing in droves to either avoid prosecution from the government or just because they actually want to be reporters and not Kremlin shills.
People are both right and wrong here. Though despite what the CCP wants you to believe "Chinese" is not a language any more than "Swiss".
Gweilo (white ghost, aka foreign devil) is Cantonese, and though some don't consider it all that offensive, that would be about how an Alabama redneck doesn't consider "hey boy" offensive to a black man.
But it's not Mandarin, so the OP's post of "learn some Mandarin you dirty uneducated gwailo" made about as much sense as "learn some American you barmy wanker":)
Stereotypes go both ways. Why would you assume there are not plenty of students who loved to learn and hack while in college? In fact, my "extracurricular" projects were always what intrigued interviewers out of college, and I guess that has carried over to my interviews of potential candidates now.
Honestly, I had *fun* in college, as well. And also double majored, played a sport, made tons of life long connections (friends and networking). I appreciated that I had the opportunity to study and do many other things besides one specific future-job-related-skill. I understand not all college students got as much out of it as I did, but that doesn't mean my experience wasn't valuable in many ways, job-related and otherwise.
Probably one of those programmers who doesn't understand how tabs and spaces work. Honestly, I don't give the first shit whether you prefer tab or spaces: when you edit *existing* code, MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE CONVENTION IN THE FILE!:)
It boggles my mind how some people can't comprehend this, and makes me question their attention to detail in other areas...
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The point is it answers the question that is the title of the article: "If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others?"
If everyone did the same thing as Tesla, there would be so much excess generation in the day much of it would be wasted, and you'd still have the same non-solar requirements at night so you could never offset that with solar. Without storing all of the excess capacity in the day it's never going to be possible for *everyone* to run "neutral".
Yeah, this.
If this is all about an excited atom causing other atoms around it to move in a chain reaction (which is what we already know eventually causes our ear drums to vibrate, get converted to neurological signals to the brain and perceive "sound") then it pretty much seems like the most ridiculous waste of time and money in an experiment of which everyone knew the outcome I have heard of in a long while. So they built a super-sensitive electronic ear drum - big deal. This is not physics research, it's engineering a cool sensor.
It's a lot more economical when you get a couple billion in grants and tax breaks from the government!
But anyway - net metering is the "creative accounting" of the green energy industry. It lets companies like Tesla pretend they are "100% renewable energy" when in reality they are using electricity from the same non-renewable plants after dark as anyone else.
Now, if they did actually STORE that solar energy produced in the day time to use later that would be impressive, and they should receive proper credit. Since one of the uses of the batteries they produce will be (high end) industrial storage, it's possible they could make this happen... probably way too expensive for them to be profitable, but who knows...
No, it's really not, and neither is the Tesla plant. Self contained != net metering positive. Especially for Germany, which has invested a crapload into solar power that does absolutely nothing for a "net average" of almost 1/2 of the year.
Not saying it's not a good initiative, but it's definitely not 100% renewable energy without very "creative math".
386's were relatively ancient by 1993. I got a 486 in late 1992 to replace the 386 I bought in 1989 and was already jealous of the new Pentiums. Moore's law was in hyperdrive back then and the cutting edge games always relied on that.
UU2 still ran in 1/3 the screen size with slower average frame rate, awful navigation/controls and (intentionally) slower paced gameplay compared to DOOM. Face it, it was a great game but a different game, and it was NOT a fast action FPS by any stretch.
No, sorry, flight sims don't count. Flight sims in 1993 were either one awful ground texture with 1-2 objects on the screen (or in the case of X-Wing no ground textures). Some were good games, but not even remotely similar.
Beyrayal at Krondor used 1/2 the screen, could do maybe 1-2 FPS max in the world with *turn* based combat, and the graphics were awful compared to DOOM (though it was a fun game, just not competitive in gfx).
UU/UUII has been discussed already, they used 1/3 size screen and had single digit frame rates anyway. Felt very claustrophobic, really. But again great games, just not FPS. With FPS it is and always has been about the full screen immersive experience and the frame rate.
And AFAIK 3DO didn't have any decent 3D games in 1993. Later they did, and one of the better ones was - wait for it - DOOM (unfortunately in using real 3D effects it sacrificed one of its biggest strengths over the other games at the time - frame rate...)
I said *superior*, and - graphics wise - none of those came close.
Please name all of those other "3D environments" that were superior in 1993?
UU was a revolutionary game, but a 3D FPS is was NOT. It rendered in a small window at an awful framerate and minimal action/responsiveness. Obviously 3D was possible using high end hardware, tiny viewports, or single digit frame rates, but none of those are traits of an FPS.
Two totally different games. DOOM's expansive spaces (including large convincing outdoor areas), colored lighting, high res textures, and amazing framerate for what it did was most definitely revolutionary as a "3D FPS".
And ironically it's prohibited by International law, of war while just plain killing someone is fine...
As a friend of mine at PDI/Dreamworks (who has worked on most of their movies from Antz to Shrek to HTTYD) told me "studios that brag about their time consuming and expensive 3D rendering but with results that don't look at good as those who take shortcuts just don't get movie making". Same is true for game making. If you can trick the viewer's brain to see what you want them to see, the technology doesn't really matter.
DOOM ran at 30FPS with 4 player multiplayer with *lighting*, doorways/windows, huge open spaces, outdoor/sky textures, etc. UU, which was a revolutionary game as well, rendered about 1/3 of the pixels with horrible frame rate and comparably little fast action. It was a revolutionary game, but *certainly* not as a full screen action FPS. High framerate full screen 3D FPS (the point of my comment) were not remotely possible, no.
Wait, the Simpsons has no violence (and adult content)? You must have been watching a different TV show from what I have been watching the last 20+ years...
And I think you are talking about a completely different game genre. Do you actually know what the S in FPS stands for? Pretty sure there isn't a "whole market just waiting for" Nerf Deathmatch.
Bullshit. You were probably 3 years old when it came out. For those of us who were into gaming at the time, it was revolutionary.
It did convincing pseudo-3D before 3D was even remotely possible though some brilliant use of precompiled BSP trees and sectors. And it had stereo audio and a kick ass sound track that were almost as creepy and immersive as the graphics.
And if the mind blowing graphics and audio at the time wasn't enough, it also supported 4 player gaming as well. The version that they released supported 2 player serial or 4 player IPX, but they released the source to the network drivers, which was another early first - game companies releasing source and working with players to add features and content. It wasn't long before a full Internet/UDP networked version was available, making it one of the early real-time multiplayer Internet games.
"Pushing the quality of the video"? Sorry, but HD is no longer cutting edge and 1080p video streaming should not be considered "pushing the quality", it's been mainstream for several years. 4k is pushing the quality. And 3Mbps is definitely not even enough for decent HD - let alone 2 HD streams, which is not out of the ordinary in a household these days. I'm only paying $70 for 50Mbps, which actually lets me stream *3* 1080p streams at the same time, and still have plenty left for web browsing, etc.
Then again, I agree with OP, "broadband" is a just plain AWFUL term to try to describe the speed of your data link. The fact that that is what the argument is about just shows it's all about marketing and not customer satisfaction.
I'm not sure I get your point. I was for the most part defending him and his career. But still, if he hasn't done anything notable in the industry in over a decade, there is good reason to question current relevancy of his opinions.
Though if you want to talk those with higher batting averages - John Carmack is the Babe Ruth of the Game Developer Hall of Fame, but even his recent games have been fairly mediocre. How about Michael Morhaime? Ray Muzyka? Sid Meyer? Tim Schafer? Sam Houser? Jason Jones? Ken Levine? Mostly relevant for 15+ years with consistent hits the whole time.
Romero did make at least one good point in his interview - it's not all about the technology. Good design, writing, understanding the customers/market, and adapting to that new market is just as important, and all of this I listed are still relevant because they focused on all of those things beyond the technology...
He's right, you're wrong. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake. That's a career any developer would be envious of, and yes, those games clearly defined the FPS genre.
Has he done anything lately? Not really. Has he had some big failures? Definitely. But he's still a better game developer than anyone posting on this article will ever be.
That said, I'm not sure I'm going to go to him first as an expert on the future of the gaming industry...
It's even as much not about that, it's the fact that in the US, office space is rented in square feet, so why would an American organization bother trying to convert it to meters for the article? They might as well start quoting the rent in bitcoins.
Seriously. There was so much douchiness in the article I could hardly stand it.
The premise itself (let's treat smart college grads as if they were 19th century factory workers and tell them it's great) was douchiness to the extreme. But then the fact IEEE had to try to translate square feet to square meters when NO ONE in Menlo Park would have a clue what that means earns extra douche points to the square douche degree.
You write sixteen apps and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Google don't you hire me cause I can't go
I owe my code to the incubator whores.
Yeah college, if they pay your rent and take all of your ideas for themselves.
VCs have finally figured out how to treat technology and creativity like a company town from the 1890s.
It was mostly the music. And the fire. The trek itself was trivial compared to summiting Everest but the visuals were just a lot more impressive.
Russia Today? Really, that's your objective "alternative" source?
The reporters at RT are fleeing in droves to either avoid prosecution from the government or just because they actually want to be reporters and not Kremlin shills.
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/gue...
People are both right and wrong here. Though despite what the CCP wants you to believe "Chinese" is not a language any more than "Swiss".
Gweilo (white ghost, aka foreign devil) is Cantonese, and though some don't consider it all that offensive, that would be about how an Alabama redneck doesn't consider "hey boy" offensive to a black man.
But it's not Mandarin, so the OP's post of "learn some Mandarin you dirty uneducated gwailo" made about as much sense as "learn some American you barmy wanker" :)
Stereotypes go both ways. Why would you assume there are not plenty of students who loved to learn and hack while in college? In fact, my "extracurricular" projects were always what intrigued interviewers out of college, and I guess that has carried over to my interviews of potential candidates now.
Honestly, I had *fun* in college, as well. And also double majored, played a sport, made tons of life long connections (friends and networking). I appreciated that I had the opportunity to study and do many other things besides one specific future-job-related-skill. I understand not all college students got as much out of it as I did, but that doesn't mean my experience wasn't valuable in many ways, job-related and otherwise.
Probably one of those programmers who doesn't understand how tabs and spaces work. Honestly, I don't give the first shit whether you prefer tab or spaces: when you edit *existing* code, MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE CONVENTION IN THE FILE! :)
It boggles my mind how some people can't comprehend this, and makes me question their attention to detail in other areas...
They don't. If they did, they'd have already threatened Russia with them to make them stop. That's the point of having nuclear weapons, after all.
I guess you haven't seen Dr. Strangelove ;)