Full agreed.
My favourite examples of fairly recent games with decent multiplayer coop:
Trine (3 players, jump'n' run)
Lara Croft and the guardian of light (2 players, isometric view)
The Undergarden (2 players, trippy, relaxing)
IIRC the technique described by the GP is being used by Dolby3D and has been developed a while ago in some Daimler research lab. Apparently it is very competitive to the RealD stuff. The filters for the glasses may be a bit more expensive to produce as they'd have to be very accurate.
[...] In major cities, like New York and London, the fees cover most of the cost of transportation. [...]
I believe that's not entirely true for London. I've read somewhere (can't remember the source) that actual travel fares cover less than 20% of running costs. I assume the rest is done by advertising and possibly subsidies.
There definitely is a certain need for ID cards. There are several situations where you are supposed to identify yourself. The way this is 'solved' currently, is to show a recent UTILITY BILL. Yes, a bill from your supplier of gas/electricity/water. No, I don't think this is funny.
So let's take an example: You are moving to the UK (from the 'continent', so easy to do within the EU). You want to rent a flat. To proof you are able to pay for that, get a 'bank statement' (piece of paper from your bank which essentially says you can afford that), and of course a bank account to set up a standing order mandate. But you don't have a british bank account yet and want to open one. Guess what you need to provide there? Yes, a utility bill, with your name and address on it. You don't have one because you don't live in a flat already? Hmm, your problem then. One way to get out of this 'funny' circle is to find a bank employee that doesn't take the rules too seriously. Another way would be to get your name on someone else's bill (as second person living somewhere).
Another example would be renting a car. Needs an utility bill as well.
This could certainly need replacement with an ID card. Just something that is recognised by banks and such. And something that is more difficult to forge than a bill on simple white A4 paper.
Essentially, in the UK, the responsibility for someone to verify your identity is passed on to the utility companies. They however don't do any checks! Did you know, you can call up such a company, tell them you moved into a specific address and want to use their service? Shortly afterwards you will get a letter to given address with your name on it, from this utility company. I am not advocating doing that, just pointing out that I recently took over our neighbours account because British Gas f***ed up and didn't get the address right...
Please note that I definitely oppose saving lots of data on that card (fingerprints), making that readable via rfid, or combining all data into one nice big database (that is surely prone to abuse). But, please don't overlook proper use cases for a simple and privacy-friendly implementation!
To stay a bit on topic: the leaked document is an interesting read, especially with all those comments from NO2ID. They are a bit over the top at times, but point out several stupid assumptions of the original authors.
Ogre3D is a 3D-Engine that has nice design as a main goal.
I didn't have a look at the code myself, but the project matured for a while now and the statements on their website are fairly self-confident:
[...]OGRE is different. OGRE is design-led rather than feature-led. Every feature that goes into OGRE is considered throughly and slotted into the overall design as elegantly as possible and is always fully documented, meaning that the features which are there always feel part of a cohesive whole. Quality is favoured over quantity, because quantity can come later - quality can never be added in retrospect. OGRE uses sound design principles learned, tried and tested many times in commercial-grade software - the object-orientation mentioned in it's moniker is just one of those approaches - frequent use of design patterns is another[...] ogre3d.org
Just RTFA!
[...]as Real D uses "a specially polarized type of eyewear called circular polarized lens, which is very different from traditional 3-D in that it allows you to tip your head without losing the 3-D effect[...] I've actually seen two different films in Real D 3D and found it to be very good. If you turn your head the 3d effect gets smaller, but it certainly doesn't break suddenly. You forget those glasses after a little while and get into it fairly well.
i'll just second that. Tools like thesauri and classification (see http://www.wipo.int/classifications/fulltext/new_i pc/ipc7/eindex.htm ) are working and possibly the only way to work on this huge number of documents. It all comes down to being able to use the existing (expensive) databases...
All my traffic has been eaten up (about 140 GBytes only for this file), that's why i took the file down. It will be back in about 6 hours (midnight in europe, new month==new traffic).
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As far as i know, ambisonics is quite similar to wavefield synthesis (=IOSONO), if you use a _very_ high order of ambisonics (like 100th or something), which also involves lots of speakers.
Well, in fact you could use Ogg Vorbis for this - if you also deliver the sound position of those channels in realtime and in relation to your virtual room (which is the recreated through the iosono system).
Iosono then renders these positioned sound sources for your listening environment in real time.
One should mention, there already is one cinema using this technology! This one is located in Ilmenau, a small german university city, also home town of the mentioned Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (lead by mp3 inventor Brandenburg).
They show one trailer which has 'real' iosono sound (that means, object orientated and rendered live for the showroom, rather than mixed down on five channels and spacially blurred by the crap speaker placement in a common cinema).
The films itself are currently shown in a compatible 5.1 mode, which places virtual speakers in a distance larger than the room dimensions, which creates a bigger sweet spot than currently possible.
And another nice detail: As far as i know, there already are people using this technology - in a real life environment! So watch out - this stuff is coming.
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MailRedirect may do that for Thunderbird: http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/mail-redirect/ though comments sound like it doesn't work with the recent Thunderbird build.
Full agreed. My favourite examples of fairly recent games with decent multiplayer coop: Trine (3 players, jump'n' run) Lara Croft and the guardian of light (2 players, isometric view) The Undergarden (2 players, trippy, relaxing)
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IIRC the technique described by the GP is being used by Dolby3D and has been developed a while ago in some Daimler research lab. Apparently it is very competitive to the RealD stuff. The filters for the glasses may be a bit more expensive to produce as they'd have to be very accurate.
[...] In major cities, like New York and London, the fees cover most of the cost of transportation. [...]
I believe that's not entirely true for London. I've read somewhere (can't remember the source) that actual travel fares cover less than 20% of running costs. I assume the rest is done by advertising and possibly subsidies.
There definitely is a certain need for ID cards. There are several situations where you are supposed to identify yourself. The way this is 'solved' currently, is to show a recent UTILITY BILL. Yes, a bill from your supplier of gas/electricity/water. No, I don't think this is funny.
So let's take an example:
You are moving to the UK (from the 'continent', so easy to do within the EU).
You want to rent a flat. To proof you are able to pay for that, get a 'bank statement' (piece of paper from your bank which essentially says you can afford that), and of course a bank account to set up a standing order mandate. But you don't have a british bank account yet and want to open one. Guess what you need to provide there? Yes, a utility bill, with your name and address on it. You don't have one because you don't live in a flat already? Hmm, your problem then. One way to get out of this 'funny' circle is to find a bank employee that doesn't take the rules too seriously. Another way would be to get your name on someone else's bill (as second person living somewhere).
Another example would be renting a car. Needs an utility bill as well.
This could certainly need replacement with an ID card. Just something that is recognised by banks and such. And something that is more difficult to forge than a bill on simple white A4 paper.
Essentially, in the UK, the responsibility for someone to verify your identity is passed on to the utility companies. They however don't do any checks! Did you know, you can call up such a company, tell them you moved into a specific address and want to use their service? Shortly afterwards you will get a letter to given address with your name on it, from this utility company. I am not advocating doing that, just pointing out that I recently took over our neighbours account because British Gas f***ed up and didn't get the address right...
Please note that I definitely oppose saving lots of data on that card (fingerprints), making that readable via rfid, or combining all data into one nice big database (that is surely prone to abuse). But, please don't overlook proper use cases for a simple and privacy-friendly implementation!
To stay a bit on topic: the leaked document is an interesting read, especially with all those comments from NO2ID. They are a bit over the top at times, but point out several stupid assumptions of the original authors.
I didn't have a look at the code myself, but the project matured for a while now and the statements on their website are fairly self-confident: [...]OGRE is different. OGRE is design-led rather than feature-led. Every feature that goes into OGRE is considered throughly and slotted into the overall design as elegantly as possible and is always fully documented, meaning that the features which are there always feel part of a cohesive whole. Quality is favoured over quantity, because quantity can come later - quality can never be added in retrospect. OGRE uses sound design principles learned, tried and tested many times in commercial-grade software - the object-orientation mentioned in it's moniker is just one of those approaches - frequent use of design patterns is another[...] ogre3d.org
i can imagine, anagama doesn't really want this modded 'Funny', you bastards...
ok, so what's wrong with svn?
your comparison is not exactly obvious.
if it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
Read UltraCade's comment on this matter:
http://www.ultracade.com/mame.pdf
http://www.ultracade.com/openoffer.pdf
They seem to be friendly, just trying to prevent other companies from abusing MAME and reselling that stuff.
i'll just second that.i pc/ipc7/eindex.htm ) are working and possibly the only way to work on this huge number of documents.
Tools like thesauri and classification (see http://www.wipo.int/classifications/fulltext/new_
It all comes down to being able to use the existing (expensive) databases...
The video on their website is crap. Don't try it...
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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It will be back in about 6 hours (midnight in europe, new month==new traffic).
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use the direct link which is mentioned on the blender.org page.
if this doesn't work, try my very own mirror (which hopefully doesn't die within the next seconds...)
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another try for the quicktime link.
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all links directly to files or streams with 500kbps...
.mov or real .rpm or windows media .asx
quicktime
enjoy
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As far as i know, ambisonics is quite similar to wavefield synthesis (=IOSONO), if you use a _very_ high order of ambisonics (like 100th or something), which also involves lots of speakers.
(but i may be wrong, not exactly sure)
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Well, in fact you could use Ogg Vorbis for this - if you also deliver the sound position of those channels in realtime and in relation to your virtual room (which is the recreated through the iosono system).
Iosono then renders these positioned sound sources for your listening environment in real time.
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One should mention, there already is one cinema using this technology!
This one is located in Ilmenau, a small german university city, also home town of the mentioned Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (lead by mp3 inventor Brandenburg).
They show one trailer which has 'real' iosono sound (that means, object orientated and rendered live for the showroom, rather than mixed down on five channels and spacially blurred by the crap speaker placement in a common cinema).
The films itself are currently shown in a compatible 5.1 mode, which places virtual speakers in a distance larger than the room dimensions, which creates a bigger sweet spot than currently possible.
And another nice detail: As far as i know, there already are people using this technology - in a real life environment! So watch out - this stuff is coming.
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