So if I'm starving on a desert island, who's violating my rights? Is it you?
No, you're ignorance. If you know which plants are edible, how to catch fish, how to climb trees and open coconuts (assuming the classical desert island with a palm tree), you won't starve.
It doesn't seem to make any sense. EA just bought out Criterion in the UK (so they don't keep reinventing the wheel) and then fired staff over in LA. Now, they are looking to have more say in the way game development courses are planned?
I would expect a book about application development to concern itself with such matters as how to create a window, draw buttons, respond to keystrokes, draw graphics and well..
Have you ever designed applications using Trolltech's Qt? The entire GUI of an application can be designed using editing tools - everything from pulldown menu's to dialog windows, entire pages of tab controls. Not forgetting that entire dialog windows can be made automatically resizable (Maybe there are other design tools that can do this, but this is much better than Visual Studio).
And if you're designing applications to be cross-platform, you'll want to break everything up into individual shared libraries so that can be rebuilt separately and used for both command line and GUI applications.
Then the only purpose your GUI code serves, is to connect the event handlers to your library functions.
In Scotland the Liberal Democrats (heirs to the Liberal Party of yore) are in coalition with Labour, for example, and the main opposition is the Scottish National Party.
In Scotland, the Conservatives are mainly supported by voters who have good earnings and wish to keep their money (company directors, property owners). Labour are mainly supported by those with poor earnings (the benefits culture located in the inner cities). The Liberal Democrats are supported by professionals (educated to degree and above level, but not on a good salary yet) in the outer suburbs of the main cities. The SNP are supported by the rural population in the North and West of Scotland because they get fed of MP's imposing solutions on the inner-cities on the rest of the country (taxes on gasoline might be good way to reduce pollution in the inner city, but a complete vote loser where the nearest post office is 10 miles away). There are also various Independent MP's, who are distributed all across the country.
Nobody has really forgiven the Conservatives for the Poll Tax, the merging of Scottish regiments to save English votes, and the teachers strike back in the mid 1980's. Not forgetting the way they covered up various disasters (Marchioness and Camelford). This only leaves the Liberal-Democrats to oppose Labour, but since neither would get enough votes for a majority, they have actually formed an alliance. So there is massive voter apathy.
It still amazes me how they can measure that kind of stuff.
That's easy. All you need to is take photographs of the sky over a sequence of time. Anything that moves (asteroids, comets, planets, and now stars) will appear at a slightly different location in each frame. With enough photographs, you can deduce the motion of the object.
The hard part is knowing where and when to aim the telescope.
It will be rediculously difficult to keep the eight DSP units working at capacity in a video game and the cache scheme is a programing nightmare.
With the PS2, just about every game engine grabbed the two vector processors for graphics alone, leaving the AI programmers stuck with the CPU. Developers were asking Sony for a console system that had a performance 1000 times that of the PS2, in order to get good gameplay. This time round, it will be very hard for any game engine developer to justify the appropriation of all eight units for graphics alone.
Get rid of X,Qt,GTK, and the silly ass bloatware DEs that sit on top of that and start again with a proper GUI for Linux and I reckon it will vastly increase it's market share.
You could try, but you would probably end up with exactly what you had before.
At the very least, users would want a windowed system that could support multiply displays across networks. They would also want multiple font styles and the ability to read the mouse, keyboard and other input devices. This of course, would have to support accelerated 2D graphics (X-windows) GUI, along with support for accelerated 3D graphics to run games (GLX)
Application developers would want an easy way to develop applications using design tools (Qt), and users would want to have their preferred desktop environment (bloatware DEs) to run their web applications.
"They found that a gas called octafluoropropane could begin a process of global warming on Mars."
is this a native gas? how would they activate it?
You would get Arnold Schwarzenegger to run along an underground passage, travel up an industrial lift and activate an alien control panel designed for an alien species with only three fingers. This would activate an underground fusion reactor which would heat up the gas which was previously in crystalline form. Of course, you should stay away from this region of the planet while this process is taking place, as the resulting atmospheric shockwave may break windows, shift furniture around and knock household ornaments off the walls.
Removing objects from images is an area of image processing research. Many papers have been written about such software (which has been converted into plugins for Photoshop in many cases).
I guess the barcode-on-the-forehead project didn't go so well.
Unfortunately, customers kept cutting out the barcodes from the merchandise and sticking them on their foreheads just before checking out at the scanner. The shop only caught onto this when a customer tried to purchase a 20" widescreen plasma TV and have the purchase charged to a Budweiser six-pack.
Having unopenable PC units isn't a new idea - several early home computers introduced the idea of "podules" where accessories could be added simply by stacking the base unit onto matching units (and thus automatically joining together two connectors).
Unfortunately, this idea ultimately failed, because each accessory (hard disk drive, floppy disk drives, modem, base unit, TV) required an external transformer and the user ended up requiring to daisy-chain several powerstrips in order to keep all of these accessories powered. Not forgetting the rat-nest of cables this generated (2 power strips + 7 transformers + 7 power lines + 6 data cables).
Having one external accessory for a laptop (in the past, a CD-ROM burner), but in the long-term it is a major hassle if you are travelling (eg. external video capture board, DVD-burner, external hard drive).
In prison, inmates should "pick up skills and abilities that will allow them to go back out into society and be productive citizens," Blunt said. "Playing video games doesn't have anything to do with either of those objectives."
Maybe playing Tetris will help them find a job packing supermarket shelves and shopping bags.
But it's sad to see the person packing your shopping bags wearing an employ badge saying "serving you for over 25 years".
At least if they had some way to check for capability through the API (like Direct3D does) it would have been made easier on developers.
Have you tried 'glGetExtensionString( GL_EXTENSIONS)'? This will return a string listing the extensions supported by the current context. You can also use GL_RENDERER, GL_VERSION and GL_VENDOR to check that hardware acceleration is supported, and to determine the driver version and vendor.
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So if I'm starving on a desert island, who's violating my rights? Is it you?
No, you're ignorance. If you know which plants are edible, how to catch fish, how to climb trees and open coconuts (assuming the classical desert island with a palm tree), you won't starve.
There is the mystery of the "Ryanggang explosion", also documented in Wikipedia.
It doesn't seem to make any sense. EA just bought out Criterion in the UK (so they don't keep reinventing the wheel) and then fired staff over in LA. Now, they are looking to have more say in the way game development courses are planned?
I would expect a book about application development to concern itself with such matters as how to create a window, draw buttons, respond to keystrokes, draw graphics and well..
Have you ever designed applications using Trolltech's Qt? The entire GUI of an application can be designed using editing tools - everything from pulldown menu's to dialog windows, entire pages of tab controls. Not forgetting that entire dialog windows can be made automatically resizable (Maybe there are other design tools that can do this, but this is much better than Visual Studio).
And if you're designing applications to be cross-platform, you'll want to break everything up into individual shared libraries so that can be rebuilt separately and used for both command line and GUI applications.
Then the only purpose your GUI code serves, is to connect the event handlers to your library functions.
what kind of things developers put in comments that would be so bad for the rest of us to see?"
// I don't know what this value is for, but it seems to stop the BSOD from appearing
You've been on the BOFH advanced career survival training course on haven't you?
In Scotland the Liberal Democrats (heirs to the Liberal Party of yore) are in coalition with Labour, for example, and the main opposition is the Scottish National Party.
In Scotland, the Conservatives are mainly supported by voters who have good earnings and wish to keep their money (company directors, property owners). Labour are mainly supported by those with poor earnings (the benefits culture located in the inner cities). The Liberal Democrats are supported by professionals (educated to degree and above level, but not on a good salary yet) in the outer suburbs of the main cities. The SNP are supported by the rural population in the North and West of Scotland because they get fed of MP's imposing solutions on the inner-cities on the rest of the country (taxes on gasoline might be good way to reduce pollution in the inner city, but a complete vote loser where the nearest post office is 10 miles away).
There are also various Independent MP's, who are distributed all across the country.
Nobody has really forgiven the Conservatives for the Poll Tax, the merging of Scottish regiments to save English votes, and the teachers strike back in the mid 1980's. Not forgetting the way they covered up various disasters (Marchioness and Camelford).
This only leaves the Liberal-Democrats to oppose Labour, but since neither would get enough votes for a majority, they have actually formed an alliance. So there is massive voter apathy.
It still amazes me how they can measure that kind of stuff.
That's easy. All you need to is take photographs of the sky over a sequence of time. Anything that moves (asteroids, comets, planets, and now stars) will appear at a slightly different location in each frame. With enough photographs, you can deduce the motion of the object.
The hard part is knowing where and when to aim the telescope.
It will be rediculously difficult to keep the eight DSP units working at capacity in a video game and the cache scheme is a programing nightmare.
With the PS2, just about every game engine grabbed the two vector processors for graphics alone, leaving the AI programmers stuck with the CPU. Developers were asking Sony for a console system that had a performance 1000 times that of the PS2, in order to get good gameplay.
This time round, it will be very hard for any game engine developer to justify the appropriation of all eight units for graphics alone.
Try running 'edit' in a DOS prompt, on a 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 system with a Geforce FX6800.
Compare that to running 'vi' in 'xterm' on a Linux system using the same hardware.
Just how can 'edit' be so slow?
Get rid of X,Qt,GTK, and the silly ass bloatware DEs that sit on top of that and start again with a proper GUI for Linux and I reckon it will vastly increase it's market share.
You could try, but you would probably end up with exactly what you had before.
At the very least, users would want a windowed system that could support multiply displays across networks. They would also want multiple font styles and the ability to read the mouse, keyboard and other input devices. This of course, would have to support accelerated 2D graphics (X-windows) GUI, along with support for accelerated 3D graphics to run games (GLX)
Application developers would want an easy way to develop applications using design tools (Qt), and users would want to have their preferred desktop environment (bloatware DEs) to run their web applications.
"They found that a gas called octafluoropropane could begin a process of global warming on Mars."
is this a native gas? how would they activate it?
You would get Arnold Schwarzenegger to run along an underground passage, travel up an industrial lift and activate an alien control panel designed for an alien species with only three fingers. This would activate an underground fusion reactor which would heat up the gas which was previously in crystalline form. Of course, you should stay away from this region of the planet while this process is taking place, as the resulting atmospheric shockwave may break windows, shift furniture around and knock household ornaments off the walls.
Removing objects from images is an area of image processing research. Many papers have been written about such software (which has been converted into plugins for Photoshop in many cases).
Here's a link to some examples
It would have been more ethical to simply black out the individuals in the picture than to "create" a new background.
Even worse, he might use an nail gun, and put a nail into his brain! Ouch!
In the past, they still used to accidently bury people who were actually in a deep coma.
At least this way, you can download some MP3's, send E-mails, and go onto IRC while waiting to be unburied.
And one light year is just over 65000 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, so that's quite a large explosion.
I've seen parabolic booster aerials for TV reception. Would they boost wireless transmission signal strength?
I guess the barcode-on-the-forehead project didn't go so well.
Unfortunately, customers kept cutting out the barcodes from the merchandise and sticking them on their foreheads just before checking out at the scanner. The shop only caught onto this when a customer tried to purchase a 20" widescreen plasma TV and have the purchase charged to a Budweiser six-pack.
Not forgetting:
1 Offog, which spontaneously disintegrated while in deep space
I'd prefer to use both hands with a super large mouse. That way I could exercise all muscle groups in my arms as well as all my fingers.
Better still, replace the scrollwheel with an exercise bicycle. That way I could lose calories while reading PDF documents.
Finally, I always imagined zaphod's heads side by side, was that wrong?
That's how Zaphod looked in the BBC series
And also by clay sculpture.
Having unopenable PC units isn't a new idea - several early home computers introduced the idea of "podules" where accessories could be added simply by stacking the base unit onto matching units (and thus automatically joining together two connectors).
Unfortunately, this idea ultimately failed, because each accessory (hard disk drive, floppy disk drives, modem, base unit, TV) required an
external transformer and the user ended up requiring to daisy-chain several powerstrips in order to keep all of these accessories powered.
Not forgetting the rat-nest of cables this generated (2 power strips + 7 transformers + 7 power lines + 6 data cables).
Having one external accessory for a laptop (in the past, a CD-ROM burner), but in the long-term it is a major hassle if you are travelling (eg. external video capture board, DVD-burner, external hard drive).
In prison, inmates should "pick up skills and abilities that will allow them to go back out into society and be productive citizens," Blunt said. "Playing video games doesn't have anything to do with either of those objectives."
Maybe playing Tetris will help them find a job packing supermarket shelves and shopping bags.
But it's sad to see the person packing your shopping bags wearing an employ badge saying "serving you for over 25 years".
At least if they had some way to check for capability through the API (like Direct3D does) it would have been made easier on developers.
Have you tried 'glGetExtensionString( GL_EXTENSIONS)'?
This will return a string listing the extensions supported by the current context.
You can also use GL_RENDERER, GL_VERSION and GL_VENDOR to
check that hardware acceleration is supported, and to determine the driver
version and vendor.