Yeah, at about the same framerate that Doom3 will run on my celeron 433. Hint: it's at the low end of the single digits.
I had virtually the high end 486 (dx4-100, 32mb ram), and I never could get anything remotely close to viewable, let alone playable. I think I maxed it out at 5 fps once, by sitting in a corner.
These photos are absolutely astounding. Looks like a fairly modern city, just abandoned for nearly 20 years. Anyone who has an interest in 'end of the world' type sci-fi, we've all seen 12 Monkeys and the like - THIS is what it really looks like when our modern structures are left completely to nature.
I've never seen anything like it. Awe-inspiring and incredibly sad.
I've never formally measured the frequency, but I'm one of those unlucky people to be really sensitive to the high pitched whine that most every television/monitor I've ever seen emits when turned on. It's even worse when a tube is about to go south, I almost can't stand it. Oddly enough, a lot of people I've talked to have no idea what I mean, they can't hear a thing. But ever since I was in grade school (at least), I've been able to tell if a TV is turned on even with my eyes closed and the volume muted.
I'll tell you, walking into an appliance store is a real challenge, with all the noise the wall of 200 TVs gives out. Now, I've never isolated a plasma screen by itself, but I usually can tell by how close I am to something just what it is that's making the noise - and plasma screens don't do it for me. This is one reason I'm anxiously awaiting the prices to drop - watching television is somewhat of a pain in the head for me.
I'm curious, do you know just how high a frequency a plasma display emits? And are you yourself sensitive to normal CRTs?
For example, why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back.
Almost everyone I know has what strike me as overly clear memories from when they were extremely young.. 2, 3 years of age. Often, I've found that when you talk to their parents or other older relatives, the story you get from them is almost word-for-word what the child 'remembers'. My guess is these are things that the child has heard many, many times in his/her life, and eventually forms a 'memory' around it. Sort of how some people hear a story about something happening and incorporate that into their stock of things they believe happened to them.
What we hear from others influences our own memories highly, it's amazing how many people can recall group events years later, even if some of them weren't actually present for something that occurred. Also, a child's sense of time is really out of whack - remember how long summer seemed to be? Things that happen when you're 5 or 6 can seem to have happened when you were much younger.
Memory is a very tricky, changing thing, even for recent events in fully cognizent adults. I don't find it surprising at all that childhood memories aren't terribly reliable nor consistent.
Strange, we up here in Canada have nuclear reactors, and haven't been named as members of the 'axis of evil'. I can't speak definitively for Europe, but I heard a rumor that many of the countries over there are in a similar position.
Being a responsible Slashdot regular and having not read the article, I don't know where the idea of melting snow to aid in skiing came from. Either you or the article is getting this confused with *skating*. The blade of an ice skate combined with the pressure of your body melts a thin layer of water, providing lubrication. Skis generally have a layer of wax applied to them to provide enough lubrication on the snow - at least cross-country skis, which is all I've ever tried.
How does one skate at colder than -33C? Simple. That pressure heats up the ice underneath you first, and then it can undergo phase transition.
Living in a really cold part of Canada is always good for useless cold-weather trivia, and yes, I've actually skated at colder than -40 (F or C, same difference at that point).
Guess you've never taken a basic physics or astronomy course. The vast majority of what we know about non-terran objects is from indirect observations. We've never SEEN the surface of a star other than the sun, let alone taken samples from it - yet, most scientists agree that they're not simply pinpoints of light. Indirect observation is where virtually all of our astronomical theories come from.
Extra-solar planets (and current detection methods) are almost universally believed in at this point. By your definition, we haven't even confirmed that other stars exist - maybe they're just fireflies and no one has captured one yet.
Then again, some folks think we never landed on the moon.
Anime is just like any other art form out there: some people like it, most people don't. The 'big draw' you refer to is that Anime fans tend to be rather fanatic about it, so you hear a lot more about it than you normally would - and when you do hear about it, you hear it LOUD.
The Anime community here is also composed primarily of two groups of people:
1 - those that got into it in the 80s/early 90s, when very little was available in North America. Here you get the 'I discovered this before anyone else did' superiority complex. A decade ago, Anime was hands down the best animation being produced anywhere in the world - it was certainly a style never seen in the west. Now that it's a lot more recognized over here, these folks have the edge by being on the bandwagon first (a la 'I listened to band X years before they had a top40 hit').
2 - those that got into it more recently, and are on the 'Anime is like cartoons for adults' trip. Because we all know a lot of violence and sex, and vaguely mature themes, make for adults-only entertainment. Again you get a bit of a superiority complex here, as to this group, anyone who doesn't like Anime 'doesn't get it'. A lot of these folks also haven't been exposed to a very broad range of entertainment, so they compare their favourite Anime to Friends and proclaim "everything made by the west sucks! look how shallow it is! in Anime, the characters question their motives.. sometimes!".
Oh, and for the anime-loving mods who just want to mod this as a troll, let me state for the record that I am a proud memeber of group #1:)
I've owned a cell phone for years, and always had the basic model that they give away for free, which everyone gets. I've never programmed any alternate ringtones in (for all I know, I can't on my current model), so it's always been the generic ring that comes with it.
Maybe I'm different, but I can generally tell the difference between something ringing in my pocket and something 6 feet away.
How do people hold coversations in a busy room if they're not capable of locating the source of sound?
Thanks to progress in biology and nanotechnology, the molecular processes needed to convert raw materials into turkey will be understood sufficiently well to make a good artificial turkey for the vegetarians.
I thought a good chunk of vegetarians were that way more because of the health benefits of not eating meat. Creating a perfect artificial turkey would still come with all the side effects of eating real ones.
Guess this could possibly help out the extreme vegans though, who don't want anything that came from processed animal products at all - assuming these 'molecular processes' work on 100% non-animal products.
Oh well, futurists are always amusing.
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I buy a console because of the CONSOLE, not the games.
May be there would be some new technology that leads us into faster/better processing of the tonnes of information?
Yes, it's called a 'computer'. Seriously, not trying to be a troll or anything, but that's precisely what the field of computer science has been working on for decades now. The machine I'm typing this from really is nothing more than a glorified calculator, multiplied by several orders of magnitude.
The basic idea behind a computing device is to speed up data processing - and to handle amounts so vast the human mind can't deal with it all. Remember, before electronics, a 'computer' was actually a reference to a human being.
Rather disturbing, that Universal knows that pretty much all copies of II and III out there are defective (ok, widescreen only), yet just today I saw several hundred being offered for sale in one store alone.
Isn't this the sort of situation that product recalls are for (I mean beyond 'this meat will kill you')? Why would Universal knowingly allow their dealers to sell defective merchandise? Is the Xmas shopping mania just that strong that we couldn't possibly pull a known defective product? Instead, they'd rather everyone go to the time and expense of mailing these 2 discs back and forth in February.
The majority of websites today seem intent on popping up these annoying other windows, which I never requested. Strangely, in Opera I never see this problem.
If having needless application windows showing up all the time is your idea of perfect, you can keep it - I'll take my 'imperfect' browser any day.
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Quake would run on a 486.
Yeah, at about the same framerate that Doom3 will run on my celeron 433. Hint: it's at the low end of the single digits.
I had virtually the high end 486 (dx4-100, 32mb ram), and I never could get anything remotely close to viewable, let alone playable. I think I maxed it out at 5 fps once, by sitting in a corner.
These photos are absolutely astounding. Looks like a fairly modern city, just abandoned for nearly 20 years. Anyone who has an interest in 'end of the world' type sci-fi, we've all seen 12 Monkeys and the like - THIS is what it really looks like when our modern structures are left completely to nature.
I've never seen anything like it. Awe-inspiring and incredibly sad.
Off the top of my head, telnet client, ftp client, ping, finger, commandline winzip (a godsend).
Just because YOU don't see a use doesn't mean there isn't one.
I've never formally measured the frequency, but I'm one of those unlucky people to be really sensitive to the high pitched whine that most every television/monitor I've ever seen emits when turned on. It's even worse when a tube is about to go south, I almost can't stand it. Oddly enough, a lot of people I've talked to have no idea what I mean, they can't hear a thing. But ever since I was in grade school (at least), I've been able to tell if a TV is turned on even with my eyes closed and the volume muted.
I'll tell you, walking into an appliance store is a real challenge, with all the noise the wall of 200 TVs gives out. Now, I've never isolated a plasma screen by itself, but I usually can tell by how close I am to something just what it is that's making the noise - and plasma screens don't do it for me. This is one reason I'm anxiously awaiting the prices to drop - watching television is somewhat of a pain in the head for me.
I'm curious, do you know just how high a frequency a plasma display emits? And are you yourself sensitive to normal CRTs?
For example, why is it that my earliest memory is from about 7 years of age? (I'm mid-30's now) Most people I know remember much further back.
Almost everyone I know has what strike me as overly clear memories from when they were extremely young.. 2, 3 years of age. Often, I've found that when you talk to their parents or other older relatives, the story you get from them is almost word-for-word what the child 'remembers'. My guess is these are things that the child has heard many, many times in his/her life, and eventually forms a 'memory' around it. Sort of how some people hear a story about something happening and incorporate that into their stock of things they believe happened to them.
What we hear from others influences our own memories highly, it's amazing how many people can recall group events years later, even if some of them weren't actually present for something that occurred. Also, a child's sense of time is really out of whack - remember how long summer seemed to be? Things that happen when you're 5 or 6 can seem to have happened when you were much younger.
Memory is a very tricky, changing thing, even for recent events in fully cognizent adults. I don't find it surprising at all that childhood memories aren't terribly reliable nor consistent.
Strange, we up here in Canada have nuclear reactors, and haven't been named as members of the 'axis of evil'. I can't speak definitively for Europe, but I heard a rumor that many of the countries over there are in a similar position.
Being a responsible Slashdot regular and having not read the article, I don't know where the idea of melting snow to aid in skiing came from. Either you or the article is getting this confused with *skating*. The blade of an ice skate combined with the pressure of your body melts a thin layer of water, providing lubrication. Skis generally have a layer of wax applied to them to provide enough lubrication on the snow - at least cross-country skis, which is all I've ever tried.
How does one skate at colder than -33C? Simple. That pressure heats up the ice underneath you first, and then it can undergo phase transition.
Living in a really cold part of Canada is always good for useless cold-weather trivia, and yes, I've actually skated at colder than -40 (F or C, same difference at that point).
Guess you've never taken a basic physics or astronomy course. The vast majority of what we know about non-terran objects is from indirect observations. We've never SEEN the surface of a star other than the sun, let alone taken samples from it - yet, most scientists agree that they're not simply pinpoints of light. Indirect observation is where virtually all of our astronomical theories come from.
Extra-solar planets (and current detection methods) are almost universally believed in at this point. By your definition, we haven't even confirmed that other stars exist - maybe they're just fireflies and no one has captured one yet.
Then again, some folks think we never landed on the moon.
I think the current count of confirmed extra-solar planets (outside our solar system) is in the dozens, if not hundreds.
This has been all over the news in recent years, both tech news and general purpose joe six-pack reporting. Where've you been?
Anime is just like any other art form out there: some people like it, most people don't. The 'big draw' you refer to is that Anime fans tend to be rather fanatic about it, so you hear a lot more about it than you normally would - and when you do hear about it, you hear it LOUD.
:)
The Anime community here is also composed primarily of two groups of people:
1 - those that got into it in the 80s/early 90s, when very little was available in North America. Here you get the 'I discovered this before anyone else did' superiority complex. A decade ago, Anime was hands down the best animation being produced anywhere in the world - it was certainly a style never seen in the west. Now that it's a lot more recognized over here, these folks have the edge by being on the bandwagon first (a la 'I listened to band X years before they had a top40 hit').
2 - those that got into it more recently, and are on the 'Anime is like cartoons for adults' trip. Because we all know a lot of violence and sex, and vaguely mature themes, make for adults-only entertainment. Again you get a bit of a superiority complex here, as to this group, anyone who doesn't like Anime 'doesn't get it'. A lot of these folks also haven't been exposed to a very broad range of entertainment, so they compare their favourite Anime to Friends and proclaim "everything made by the west sucks! look how shallow it is! in Anime, the characters question their motives.. sometimes!".
Oh, and for the anime-loving mods who just want to mod this as a troll, let me state for the record that I am a proud memeber of group #1
If you prefer, we could always dub it in Klingon.
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by Shymon (624690) on Thursday December 26, @07:00AM (#4959986)
err wait...i don't know how many times i can hear "M$ sucks" over and over without cracking.
Well, 4,959,986 times and counting, here.
I guess I must have ears like a dog then:
I've owned a cell phone for years, and always had the basic model that they give away for free, which everyone gets. I've never programmed any alternate ringtones in (for all I know, I can't on my current model), so it's always been the generic ring that comes with it.
Maybe I'm different, but I can generally tell the difference between something ringing in my pocket and something 6 feet away.
How do people hold coversations in a busy room if they're not capable of locating the source of sound?
Aren't there more people in a theatre than in a cab, in general?
Or do you ride around in those clown cabs frequently?
Thanks to progress in biology and nanotechnology, the molecular processes needed to convert raw materials into turkey will be understood sufficiently well to make a good artificial turkey for the vegetarians.
I thought a good chunk of vegetarians were that way more because of the health benefits of not eating meat. Creating a perfect artificial turkey would still come with all the side effects of eating real ones.
Guess this could possibly help out the extreme vegans though, who don't want anything that came from processed animal products at all - assuming these 'molecular processes' work on 100% non-animal products.
Oh well, futurists are always amusing.
I buy a console because of the CONSOLE, not the games.
Guess you're still enjoying your 3d0 then.
.. that all depends on how high up this post gets modded :)
May be there would be some new technology that leads us into faster/better processing of the tonnes of information?
Yes, it's called a 'computer'. Seriously, not trying to be a troll or anything, but that's precisely what the field of computer science has been working on for decades now. The machine I'm typing this from really is nothing more than a glorified calculator, multiplied by several orders of magnitude.
The basic idea behind a computing device is to speed up data processing - and to handle amounts so vast the human mind can't deal with it all. Remember, before electronics, a 'computer' was actually a reference to a human being.
Rather disturbing, that Universal knows that pretty much all copies of II and III out there are defective (ok, widescreen only), yet just today I saw several hundred being offered for sale in one store alone.
Isn't this the sort of situation that product recalls are for (I mean beyond 'this meat will kill you')? Why would Universal knowingly allow their dealers to sell defective merchandise? Is the Xmas shopping mania just that strong that we couldn't possibly pull a known defective product? Instead, they'd rather everyone go to the time and expense of mailing these 2 discs back and forth in February.
Sir, you have no proof whatsoever that the people who control our media are Jewish.
:). But WHO CARES?
I think the bigger point is WHO CARES?
It's a pretty well-established fact that there are more Jewish entertainers, compared to the proportion of Jews in general society. WHO CARES?
A lot of people in charge of studios/media companies have been, and are, Jewish. (Hint: look up MGM sometime
Oh no! Negroes are controlling the NBA and NFL! Whatever shall we do?
However, denying the preponderance of a certain race/ethnicity is equally as silly. Facts are facts. Doesn't mean sweet diddly, though.
post anything else you can find below.
I'm pretty sure you don't want me to post what I found under my bed yesterday when I was cleaning...
How about something from this page? http://www.hellocat78.1hwy.com/.
You can buy Playstation 2's for $50 now? Network ready?
Sign me up!
There's a website that does it now, too!
The majority of websites today seem intent on popping up these annoying other windows, which I never requested. Strangely, in Opera I never see this problem.
If having needless application windows showing up all the time is your idea of perfect, you can keep it - I'll take my 'imperfect' browser any day.