A delightfully absentminded professor who is working on Kepler actually likened it standing in Los Angeles and seeing a mosquito in front of a streelight in New York City. Two miles is nothing. Space is big.
I'm really glad to hear this.
DDE, I mean, COM, I mean, I mean, OLE, I mean, DCOM, oh no wait, ActiveX, er, COM+, uh, LOL, um, Indigo! will be really great.
Considering the wild back-and-forth direction that the Final Fantasy series has taken after the completely insane success of FF VII (PS1), from 'back to the roots' in FFIX, to the confusing X2, to the online experiments, I think there may have been too much attempted intervention by the upper management at Square. I think Sakaguchi definitely needs more room, and less fan outcry when he tries something new with a brand that they think can't be touched, and I think that is probably why he started the new development company.
Microsoft's Xbox division seems a lot more intelligently managed than the rest of their company is, and I hope to hell that they treat him right and he can come up with some good stuff there. I think it's definitely possible, and he certainly sounds positive about the whole thing. Here's to hope.
And, yeah, I'll be buying the successor to the Xbox.
It's like the razor-and-blade thing, except the blades are useful on with any razor, and none of the razors actually need blades, and neither of them are being sold at a loss, and the replacement cycle of the blades is almost the same as the replacement cycle of the razors, and.. they aren't razors or blades.
Asian is pretty good, but, if you'd like, refer to a country. Or even a direction. Southeast Asia. East Asia. "Oriental" is just silly-sounding at this point though.
Well, they don't have all those bells and whistles, but Matrox has been concentrating on solid 2D performance for years now, and for everyday 2D applications they (at least, last time I checked) consistently outperform the massively expensive 3D cards.
I have always considered digital picture frames to be the most colossal waste of time, money, and hardware that has ever been conceived by the technology industry.
Hey, look, a beautiful high-resolution large LCD monitor. Let's tack it to a wall and use it for displaying still images, despite the fact that still images display perfectly well on paper and have infinitely better contrast that way. Not to mention colour gamut issues that are generally solved quite well with photo-printing inks relative to how they are solved on LCDs.
I have an idea. If you have an urge to buy one of these, give me five hundred dollars instead, and give you a frame, and whenever you want a picture call me, and I will print the fucking thing for you and manually (yes, I know, scary word) put it into the physical frame.
A German company, Glamus GmbH, together with the Weimar Bauhaus University and the traffic research department of DaimlerChrysler, created a game called 'Mobility', which does the simcity thing but really focuses on, well, mobility.
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You could also just click on the story link, and look to the right of the story, where there is a 1:53 video in both Quicktime and RealVideo formats, and a 2:22 RealAudio clip.
There's also the synchrotron website linked on the right side.
I can accept that GT isn't close to the real thing, but the specific things the poster mentioned just didn't seem to make sense to me. The things you're talking about are a lot more logically connected to 'this is not real', to me.
Either way, it isn't real driving, no question there.
1. Weight shift is very well simulated in the physics model. RWD and FWD cars handle completely differently. 2. Surfaces do affect your car control. Rain affects it. Obstacles do exist. 3. The playstation and playstation 2 both have analog controls. On the playstation 2 controller, even the 'on/off' buttons are analog (pressure-sensitive).
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I, for one, welcome our new tai bang le han cong ming zhong guo ren lao ban.
Of course, Einstein didn't use caps, and he spelled properly, and he didn't even say that bit in caps if you want to be really picky, but you know.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Of course what this also means is that C# is so state-of-the-art awesome that writing a calculator is Serious Business.
A delightfully absentminded professor who is working on Kepler actually likened it standing in Los Angeles and seeing a mosquito in front of a streelight in New York City. Two miles is nothing. Space is big.
My god.
Thank you. I think.
Apparently it was too hard to actually link it in the post? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/play.html ?pg=4
I'm really glad to hear this. DDE, I mean, COM, I mean, I mean, OLE, I mean, DCOM, oh no wait, ActiveX, er, COM+, uh, LOL, um, Indigo! will be really great.
Take the One Tonne Challenge.
Considering the wild back-and-forth direction that the Final Fantasy series has taken after the completely insane success of FF VII (PS1), from 'back to the roots' in FFIX, to the confusing X2, to the online experiments, I think there may have been too much attempted intervention by the upper management at Square. I think Sakaguchi definitely needs more room, and less fan outcry when he tries something new with a brand that they think can't be touched, and I think that is probably why he started the new development company.
Microsoft's Xbox division seems a lot more intelligently managed than the rest of their company is, and I hope to hell that they treat him right and he can come up with some good stuff there. I think it's definitely possible, and he certainly sounds positive about the whole thing. Here's to hope.
And, yeah, I'll be buying the successor to the Xbox.
In other news tonight, Slashdot falls behind in the Search For Interesting News competition.
Can we just go two days without talking about how google is going to own your mind in 2017 or whatever?
It's like the razor-and-blade thing, except the blades are useful on with any razor, and none of the razors actually need blades, and neither of them are being sold at a loss, and the replacement cycle of the blades is almost the same as the replacement cycle of the razors, and .. they aren't razors or blades.
Okay, thanks!
I remember that! EA is such a pile of shit now. Sigh.
Asian is pretty good, but, if you'd like, refer to a country.
Or even a direction. Southeast Asia. East Asia.
"Oriental" is just silly-sounding at this point though.
This isn't 1985. Use 'Asian' if you have to. But ideally, be more specific.
What a complete waste of everyone's time.
Both the disassembly and the construction.
"Yes, it's an iPod that does even less! I love it!"
I love apple.
It's not an "issue", but, you know, it takes a little load off of the processor.
Well, they don't have all those bells and whistles, but Matrox has been concentrating on solid 2D performance for years now, and for everyday 2D applications they (at least, last time I checked) consistently outperform the massively expensive 3D cards.
I have always considered digital picture frames to be the most colossal waste of time, money, and hardware that has ever been conceived by the technology industry.
Hey, look, a beautiful high-resolution large LCD monitor. Let's tack it to a wall and use it for displaying still images, despite the fact that still images display perfectly well on paper and have infinitely better contrast that way. Not to mention colour gamut issues that are generally solved quite well with photo-printing inks relative to how they are solved on LCDs.
I have an idea. If you have an urge to buy one of these, give me five hundred dollars instead, and give you a frame, and whenever you want a picture call me, and I will print the fucking thing for you and manually (yes, I know, scary word) put it into the physical frame.
A German company, Glamus GmbH, together with the Weimar Bauhaus University and the traffic research department of DaimlerChrysler, created a game called 'Mobility', which does the simcity thing but really focuses on, well, mobility. English website
Oh. Well, that wasn't specified in the parent.
You could also just click on the story link, and look to the right of the story, where there is a 1:53 video in both Quicktime and RealVideo formats, and a 2:22 RealAudio clip. There's also the synchrotron website linked on the right side.
perl -e 'use MIME::Base64; print decode_base64("U3RlcCByaWdodCB1cC4gTWFyY2guIFB1c2g u");'
Can you relate these 'casual game' addictions to more often discussed MMO addiction, and if not, how do they differ?
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Gee shucks mr. simon! I dunno, golly, that's a hard one! I'll need some time for that one!
I can accept that GT isn't close to the real thing, but the specific things the poster mentioned just didn't seem to make sense to me. The things you're talking about are a lot more logically connected to 'this is not real', to me.
Either way, it isn't real driving, no question there.
what Gran Turismo were you playing?
1. Weight shift is very well simulated in the physics model. RWD and FWD cars handle completely differently.
2. Surfaces do affect your car control. Rain affects it. Obstacles do exist.
3. The playstation and playstation 2 both have analog controls. On the playstation 2 controller, even the 'on/off' buttons are analog (pressure-sensitive).
Thanks for your informed contribution.