The Iodine pens that is why I spray starch my 1s and 5s it gives them a nice crispy apearance and makes any 20s + tha rub against them give a false positive. hail Eris.
it would be more compelling if I didn't have to plug it into a docking staion. it would be great if I could just set it next to my laptop it updated itslef, or if it could pull images or videos off of my cellphone, or maybe even link up with my bluetooth earbud.
I hate replying to myself, but I got cut off midthought.
My thought is that ms worked closly with the RIAA on this player, put decent amount of force behind it, looking to see it flop. Once it flops the next version they can tell the RIAA to kindly piss off because their ideas don't work. The next model might actauly be a good product (or the third release if they stay true to form.)
The thing is that in the $200+ price range most MP3 players sound pretty good. They hold a decent amount of music. The question becomes what other features do they have and why should I buy one that isn't the ipod. For the thing to be successful it has to be easier to use. If the reviewer had to manualy rig up a dll, it isn't easy to use. Since it came from MS you would expect it to work seamlessly with windows and the media player that windows comes with, it doesn't. It has wifi it should be able to link up with other wifi devices and move data around, it doesn't. The music share feature is so limited as to be useless. The Zune would be disapointing if some third party built it, but coming from ms it is inexcusable.
The reason why The ipod is used instead of the iRiver or the creative is that the gold iPod is the standard by which music players are judged. By now most people have experianced an iPod, but wouldn't know an iRiver if it bit them.
I have done the math, and since you don't need to be 100% accurate in a game you can really trim down the equations. If you set a translating and rotaing reference frame the solid body dynamics and inverse kinimatics arn't even that bad to brute force with a computer. Fluids are uglier, but if model in boundary layers, you can treat is a vector field for currents, and particles for the interface between liquids (or liquids and gas's). Videogames are like movies, things don't have to work the way they work in real life, they just have to have a stong resemblence.
The physics that are going to become important are going to be important are generaly newtonian. basic newtonian physics are covered in the first semester of physics. After all solid body dynamics is just a subset of Newtonian physics and so is fluid dynamics.
I use a program called animation master, that hsa supported procedural textures, (they call them materials). The file size for thee things is generaly around one or two k, and they can be amazing, I did a dirty tile floor using it and it was still less than 2k. The downside is render time. it drove my near realtime render to a 30min crawl. I can't imagine using procedural textures for a video game it would just kill the frame rate.
The core gamer does exist, but in small numbers. These numbers are importat because many core gamers are game developers. They want to make the games they want to play. They need to justify the creation of these games, so they have defined themselves as a core audianc
Sega did cut their own throats, but it started earlier. It started with the Sega CD it fragmented their audiance, but it was good eonough and enough good games came out for it that quite a few hard core bought the 32x when it came out. When only about a dozen (though Wikipedia lists 37) games were ever released for system I was left with a decent system and no games I swore off sega systmes and never bought one again.
When I went to a freinds place that had the Saturn and when I played I knew that I had made the right choice in not buying Sega. And by the time the Dreamcast came out enough people stopped caring that I think it would have died even if it was better than the Xbox360.
there is a shift lock built into windows it is hidden under the accessability menu. I found it when I had writers block and sat there pressing and releasing the shift key trying to figure out what word to use. The computer was so annoyed by my actions it popped up a menu asking if I was disabled.
there comes a time in a debate when you realize that no matter how well you prove your point you have no hope of reaching your target. when you have hit this point you may as well stop arguing. one method of stopping the argument is to dismiss the target. A class of people not worth arguing with are fundamentalists, (any kind) they have little of worth to add to the debate and you have no hope of winning their hearts or mind. they are commonly called fundies. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dipshit I have foud a reference for dipshit dipshit Audio pronunciation of "dipshit" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dpsht) Vulgar Slang n.
A foolish or contemptible person.
adj.
Foolish or contemptible.
failing to acknowlege the advances of science and a blind faith in an old book dispite mountains of evidence to is both foolish and contempible. thus the fundies are as a group also dipshits. it is correct to dismiss them as Dipshit Fundies.
This will only work if they have enough product to sell. recent history has shown that Sony (PS2) and MS (X360) can't have enough product to launch to cover demand for the first six months of product release. (hell xboxes were never easy to find). Can N do it, because my local retailers won't do preorders for it because they were burned so bad by the 360 launch.
And beyond just those the big N has been hiding complete versions of their 8 bit games inside some of the GC games Animal crossing comes to mind but I know there are several others. to call these games abandonware is very premature.
So basicaly his comandments are don't let the bean counters near the talent. don't let the sales vultures near the talent. don't worry about the numbers, the game is good because we have talent.
Its arrogant, and I bet it would be fun to work there, but I can't see this as something that can be sustained in todays culture. The sales vultures and bean counters need to justifie their existance to other dep[artments.
beyond just being a personal friend the guy who got shot was also a very big campaign donor. I think dick would have taken the peppering the donor would apologize, and fox would have spun it to show how tough the VP is.
>On a tangent, what is the point of all of these bans on liquids and whatnot, >considering the expensive explosive sniffer/swabbing >machines that they have at the airports?
The way I understand it the current theory is that the liquids are precurser components and not complete explosives. they need to be mixed on the plane. and because they are not standard explosives the dogs/ sniffers do not pick up on them. also as liquids they can be sealed more effectivly and the container can then be cleaned with very stringant chemicals eliminating all external traces of explosives.
odds are that they worked for a bakery or someplace similar and the sugar that is supposed to get delivered daily didn't make it. they got their five hundred pounds of flour their 50 gallons of milk etc. from the normal supply truck, but on that one day there was no sugar. can't shut down the business so they paid close to double their normal price to buy it from the local grocer. It happens with some frequency in all areas.
I don't like Dick Cheney any more than you, but nobody who did what he did would get charged with manslaughter. First the victim survived, manslaughter is for when someone is killed. second it was a hunting accident. Hunting accidents, even fatal ones are rarely prosicuted, because it is assumed that all parties understood the risk.
If you want to pick an elite skipping out on a crime pick a better eexample, I am sure there are dozens oh yeah my spelling sucks.
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The Iodine pens that is why I spray starch my 1s and 5s it gives them a nice crispy apearance and makes any 20s + tha rub against them give a false positive. hail Eris.
it is not a new trick,it has been around for ages, but I have been at karma cap since it was a number so I could care less about my karma score.
it would be more compelling if I didn't have to plug it into a docking staion. it would be great if I could just set it next to my laptop it updated itslef, or if it could pull images or videos off of my cellphone, or maybe even link up with my bluetooth earbud.
I hate replying to myself, but I got cut off midthought.
My thought is that ms worked closly with the RIAA on this player, put decent amount of force behind it, looking to see it flop. Once it flops the next version they can tell the RIAA to kindly piss off because their ideas don't work. The next model might actauly be a good product (or the third release if they stay true to form.)
The thing is that in the $200+ price range most MP3 players sound pretty good. They hold a decent amount of music. The question becomes what other features do they have and why should I buy one that isn't the ipod. For the thing to be successful it has to be easier to use. If the reviewer had to manualy rig up a dll, it isn't easy to use. Since it came from MS you would expect it to work seamlessly with windows and the media player that windows comes with, it doesn't. It has wifi it should be able to link up with other wifi devices and move data around, it doesn't. The music share feature is so limited as to be useless. The Zune would be disapointing if some third party built it, but coming from ms it is inexcusable.
The reason why The ipod is used instead of the iRiver or the creative is that the gold iPod is the standard by which music players are judged. By now most people have experianced an iPod, but wouldn't know an iRiver if it bit them.
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And the whole thing works see thermocouple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermocouple or more to the point thermopiles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermopile these have been around for ages and heck you could make them at home. this chip is likly an optimisation of these concepts
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Not exact but pretty damn close
I have done the math, and since you don't need to be 100% accurate in a game you can really trim down the equations. If you set a translating and rotaing reference frame the solid body dynamics and inverse kinimatics arn't even that bad to brute force with a computer. Fluids are uglier, but if model in boundary layers, you can treat is a vector field for currents, and particles for the interface between liquids (or liquids and gas's). Videogames are like movies, things don't have to work the way they work in real life, they just have to have a stong resemblence.
The physics that are going to become important are going to be important are generaly newtonian. basic newtonian physics are covered in the first semester of physics.
After all solid body dynamics is just a subset of Newtonian physics and so is fluid dynamics.
I use a program called animation master, that hsa supported procedural textures, (they call them materials). The file size for thee things is generaly around one or two k, and they can be amazing, I did a dirty tile floor using it and it was still less than 2k. The downside is render time. it drove my near realtime render to a 30min crawl. I can't imagine using procedural textures for a video game it would just kill the frame rate.
> The Rock has big boobs, and he was in Doom.
A woman with big boobs is sexy.
A man with big boobs is just a man with big boobs.
(apologies to someone else who said it better and funnier)
The core gamer does exist, but in small numbers. These numbers are importat because many core gamers are game developers. They want to make the games they want to play. They need to justify the creation of these games, so they have defined themselves as a core audianc
Sega did cut their own throats, but it started earlier. It started with the Sega CD it fragmented their audiance, but it was good eonough and enough good games came out for it that quite a few hard core bought the 32x when it came out. When only about a dozen (though Wikipedia lists 37) games were ever released for system I was left with a decent system and no games I swore off sega systmes and never bought one again.
When I went to a freinds place that had the Saturn and when I played I knew that I had made the right choice in not buying Sega.
And by the time the Dreamcast came out enough people stopped caring that I think it would have died even if it was better than the Xbox360.
there is a shift lock built into windows it is hidden under the accessability menu.
I found it when I had writers block and sat there pressing and releasing the shift key trying to figure out what word to use. The computer was so annoyed by my actions it popped up a menu asking if I was disabled.
I use my scroll lock button frequently. it activates my AB switch that moves the monitor keyboard and mouse between computers.
>You must be married.
good call, but I learned this at a slightly earier point.
there comes a time in a debate when you realize that no matter how well you prove your point you have no hope of reaching your target.
when you have hit this point you may as well stop arguing.
one method of stopping the argument is to dismiss the target.
A class of people not worth arguing with are fundamentalists, (any kind) they have little of worth to add to the debate and you have no hope of winning their hearts or mind. they are commonly called fundies.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dipshit
I have foud a reference for dipshit
dipshit Audio pronunciation of "dipshit" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dpsht) Vulgar Slang
n.
A foolish or contemptible person.
adj.
Foolish or contemptible.
failing to acknowlege the advances of science and a blind faith in an old book dispite mountains of evidence to is both foolish and contempible. thus the fundies are as a group also dipshits.
it is correct to dismiss them as Dipshit Fundies.
Although calling them fundies should be enough.
This will only work if they have enough product to sell.
recent history has shown that Sony (PS2) and MS (X360) can't have enough product to launch to cover demand for the first six months of product release. (hell xboxes were never easy to find). Can N do it, because my local retailers won't do preorders for it because they were burned so bad by the 360 launch.
And beyond just those the big N has been hiding complete versions of their 8 bit games inside some of the GC games
Animal crossing comes to mind but I know there are several others. to call these games abandonware is very premature.
So basicaly his comandments are
don't let the bean counters near the talent.
don't let the sales vultures near the talent.
don't worry about the numbers, the game is good because we have talent.
Its arrogant, and I bet it would be fun to work there, but I can't see this as something that can be sustained in todays culture.
The sales vultures and bean counters need to justifie their existance to other dep[artments.
beyond just being a personal friend the guy who got shot was also a very big campaign donor. I think dick would have taken the peppering the donor would apologize, and fox would have spun it to show how tough the VP is.
>On a tangent, what is the point of all of these bans on liquids and whatnot,
>considering the expensive explosive sniffer/swabbing
>machines that they have at the airports?
The way I understand it the current theory is that the liquids are precurser components and not complete explosives. they need to be mixed on the plane. and because they are not standard explosives the dogs/ sniffers do not pick up on them. also as liquids they can be sealed more effectivly and the container can then be cleaned with very stringant chemicals eliminating all external traces of explosives.
odds are that they worked for a bakery or someplace similar and the sugar that is supposed to get delivered daily didn't make it. they got their five hundred pounds of flour their 50 gallons of milk etc. from the normal supply truck, but on that one day there was no sugar. can't shut down the business so they paid close to double their normal price to buy it from the local grocer. It happens with some frequency in all areas.
I don't like Dick Cheney any more than you, but nobody who did what he did would get charged with manslaughter.
First the victim survived, manslaughter is for when someone is killed.
second it was a hunting accident. Hunting accidents, even fatal ones are rarely prosicuted, because it is assumed that all parties understood the risk.
If you want to pick an elite skipping out on a crime pick a better eexample, I am sure there are dozens
oh yeah my spelling sucks.
activated charcol tends to be a little on the floaty side, but if you put it in a teabag with a couple of small rocks you might be on to something.