I agree that whatever clothing you're wearing you're still the same person, but i do think that dressing in different maners can really change the way you behave. I don't hane any figures or studies or whatever to prove my point, but it does change the image you got about yourself when you look into the mirror, thus it changes your general behavior event only very subtlely.
And if you don't agree with that, you can certainly agree that it will change other people behavior towards you.
I've seen many times that simply wearing a jacket (not even a suit or a neck tie) gets people (like clerks) to address me instead of someone that came with me (like say, my older brother) and who's dressed less formaly. And of course i've also seen it happen the other way around.
So do whatever you want, but do it knowingly and live with the consequences (i.e. don't bitch about it:).
Easy, they're going for something simple and small to limit the potential sources of problems. When it works fine, they're ready to go for more challenging products.
And one of the whole point of fuel cells is the time it take to recharge (actually refill). Even if it lasts just as long, being able to refill in seconds is a benefit. Problem is, you now need a reserve of whatever you fill it with:)
Man, i might be wrong, but i don't suppose you would be most of the xbox owners.
It has never crashed.
That's a fact, none of my official games ever crashed. Homebrews can be a bit different though:)
Many people I know own an XBox for XBox Media Center.
I have it installed as well, and so i know what a hassle it is to mod and install all of this. We are definitely talking about a minority of xbox owners here.
I think that what Carmack is trying to do is actually to explore a lot of options in terms of engine design, trying to find out if he can come up with one that is actually symple and efficient.
Of course, there's absolutely no assurance that he'll actually find one, but that's the the risk of any kind of research.
The whole point is to actually move away from the existing methods, so he can't possibly use them.
When you have to take functionality into account, it often kills the artistic side of the creation.
Creating something with functionality in mind is called design.
Programming is part design (algorythm, object structure and such), part craft (writing code that matches the design). This is often reflected in the architect/programmer dichotomy but of course you can't be really efficient if you only know half of the whole problem, even if it is true that those two parts are actually quite distinct.
About art, i'd say that it is a way to communicate an emotion, a feeling or an idea. That said, art can take many forms, and if it hasn't been done already, i'm sure someone will find a way to use code or a program and make it some kind of art. Just don't start calling each and every programmer an artist, please.
running dual video cards and disabling one of them works, but you never really know what's going on. maybe the driver required to disable that onboard card is what goes puff and loses it's magic.
Just to inform you that disabling motherboard components is done at the bios level, not the driver level. If you disable an onboard video adapter, then the OS never knows it's even there.
Also, if one of the parts you're not using is not working or goes wrong, well, you're not using it anyway so i'm not sure where the problem lies.
I'm 22, and want to play whatever the hell I please because I'm an adult that's responsible for his own actions.
...even if I played similar games at that age myself and have never physically harmed another human being.
Come on, was there ANY game like GTA 7 years ago ? Well, ok, technicaly there was the first GTA but i don't think there really were any "similar games" at that time. Some awnser to your post mention Doom, but i don't think that shooting demons and zombies ever compare to shooting people, even if they're criminals.
I've been a gamer myself, but i lost interest. I'm not saying that playing this game will make you a killer, but it's part of a whole. People are citing the news, movies, books, you name it. Well, all of this combined sure does have an effect if you consider parents that don't take time to talk to their children about all this kind of things.
That said, you should always have a systemic approach of such problems. If the emergence of violence, graphical or not, is about everywhere, it is also a consequence of the actual mindset of people all over the place. If children do become violent afterwards, they're just following the lead of the ones who where there before them. It's obviously no use blaming any kind of industry about that, you could just blame the entire world while you're at it.
Considering that, i for one decided to go against this logic. I refuse this kind of violent behavior and will not do anything to encourage it, there are enough people doing it already. Plus, behind all this are most probably a whole world of *real* reasons that would be better looked for and taken into account. I mean, if people were feeling well and happy with their lives, they wouldn't need this kind of game to release their anger, or simply "feel free to do whatever they want to do" because this game is so "open". One thing i actually never understood, is people praising GTA about the freedom you have in the game. The few times i actually tried it, i felt frustrated because of all the things you actually can't do. It's been the same with other games, like deus ex. One thing that just came to my mind if that this kind of game made me feel lonely. Wandering by yourself in a world that pretends to let you free to do what you want has not been a positive experience for me. That said, i'm not really a gamer anymore, am i ? What would i know about all this. I'll leave it there then.
The solution is pretty obvious IMO: when looking up the domain name get some other records such as the company name, contact address, etc and display them in the URL bar, window title, status, or some other place. Perhaps a firefox-style extra panel that appears and gives that info.
Showing information that's completely irrelevant 99% of the time is not the awnser as the natural response from the users will be to completely ignore it 100% of the time.
I'm not sure if there's really an automated solution to this problem, but some kind of domain name black list could be worth something.
I'm not saying that traffic should be blocked, but that at least the browser could give a warning. The problem with that is who's going to maintain the list ?
It's kind of like a family member airing all you dirty laundry. Do they have a right to be upset about your idiosynchrosies? Maybe, probably. Should they be telling the whole world about it? No... I think loyalty should be a driving factor here.
I don't agree with your "you can't do that" policy. I mean, i didn't RTFA but from what i understand, the only problem i would see with all this would be if the guy actually complained about being fired.
It's all about accepting the consequences of your actions actually. Just don't do something if you're not ready to deal with the possible outcomes.
And if loyalty should be a driving factor, then what if it's not ? What loyalty do you have towards someone you don't even respect ?
What i understand here is that people should share your set of values. Well if i can totally respect them (the values), please try not to impose them, will you ?
Come on, the problem is not about finding out some kind of difference. I mean it is a fact that there are differences due to gender, the problem is trying to explain them. Stating that the difference is innate doesn't call for any kind of further explanation. "That's the way it is so you better accept it." and that's what i really can't agree with.
All i see here is some attempt to stick an explanation behind some statistics.
I think the major problem here is about the "innate" difference. I'm ok with any kind of physical difference (and i guess even some of them could be argued over), but as i see it, anything beyond that enters the realm of speculation. I mean, it's never really clear what is a cause and what is a consequence. Are the differences caused by some different brain structure or by some socio-cultural difference in education (that would result in a different brain structure) ? Or maybe a bit of both.
I don't think we know enough details about intellectual & psychological development to make clear cut statements.
Maybe you should try getting a look on the console side. That's for the fixed platform and optimising issue.
PC programmers simply can't do the same since the platform is nothing near fixed. This is strange since you seem to be aware of this issue, i don't understand what you're bitching about.
This Interactive Fiction thing looks interesting (but don't the other video games fit the description Interactive Fiction ?). But what i was pointing out is that i really think that video game is incredibly far from other forms of storytelling. considering the storytelling part of VG of course, i'm not asking for characters in tetris.
I think that's the primary reason for my interest in video games waning as it is.
I never quite understood this whole thing about deus ex being such a good game. Especialy about the plot. I mean ok, maybe there's an intricate story but hell, what i want to see in games is good characters !
In video gammes you will have many stories about worlds ending, invasions, political twists, corporate conspiracies, or maybe no plot at all (except maybe for the 2 lines that make an excuse for one). While this is fine by me, why can't we see anything actualy relating to people ? Are game developers and players so out of touch with themselves and the others ? The only example that comes to my mind of a game that tries something in this area is Planescape: torment, maybe a bit of KOTOR as well.
I find it intriguing that with so many games coming out, there are so few going this way.
Certainly the slashdot crowd will have noticed that this has nothing to do with SLI, but i don't think it's been mentionned here that the technology is actually PGC. Even though i remember it clearly, it didn't seem to get much press at the time. I found a story about it but dear Tom seemed to be a non believer.
Ok, we haven't seen it yet, but with Alienware and nVidia backing it, i'd be surprise if it didn't show up, one way or another.
If you don't remember what it is, just look at the faq.
I feel that this dual card thing will not be as short lived as the old 3dfx SLI. I mean, it wasn't possible to use 2 AGP cards because we lacked the second slot, but with PCI-E, the problem is gone. Remember that all the Voodoo2 had the SLI plug ? I bet that all the next gen cards will have a dual mode plug (it's already the case with the new GeForce).
The next step is to allow this kind of thing with non-identical cards. It would be nice to be able to keep your old card even after you've bought a brand new one. But it seems that synchronization is a bit of a problem.
I don't agree with this "raytracing is compression" stuff. Compression would imply that we start with the uncompressed data, compress it, and at some point decompress it.
I don't really see 3D modelling as a way to manually compress a 3D image.
Plus, the rendered scene is actually 2D.
Technology succeeds because of marketing, not because it's innovative or high quality-witness Betamax
Well, you could have a point, except we're not really talking about some consumer media here. if this thing can work, it'll all come down to the manufacturing cost. just look at it, small (can it get much smaller ?), fast, non volatile and doesn't require new fabs.
if on top of that it can get cheap enough, i don't see why it wouldn't appear in all kind of electronic devices, if not all of them.
well, maybe if someone discovers something even better:)
I fail to see the causality here. How does "excellent programmers know assembly" translates to "teaching assembly to everyone will make everyone an excellent programmer" ?
Does it also means that you can't be an excellent programmer without knowing assembly ? Well that certainly depends on how you define an "excellent programmer" but i think it's quite quick of a conclusion.
That said, if assembly can certainly be harsh for newbies, the lack of abstraction can certainly be helpful in some cases. But appart from that, i'm not sure that it will change much from the current situation (as good or as bad as you want to see it).
Eventually, though, I'm confident they'll work out a way to restrict digital copies well enough that only a very few dedicated people will still be able to produce them, at which point it's not really a problem (from the MPAA/RIAA's standpoint) anymore. This only works when it's easy, after all...
Well, i think it's only partially true.
Look at the current situation. Divx (and equivalents) is the major threat since DVD burners aren't that cheap, and it only takes 1 person making a rip of a movie and sharing it through P2P and everyone can eventually get it. I certainly believe that there will be at least one dedicated enough person in the world for each movie out there (or at least most of them).
Also consider the video game situation. It takes some skill and dedication to crack one, and i don't think many games miss a crack.
Even better, with 9Go recordable DVD around the corner, how long before a good old DVD release of this movie ? That would bypass any next-gen format protection:)
But isn't the point of AGP that it allows you to set an arperture and use some of the system RAM as an extension of the memory on the graphics card? So unless every PCI Express Video card has like 256MB plus video ram on it, wont AGP still be better?
I don't think anyone uses this feature (AGP texturing) so this is a non issue. Plus, texture compression helps to alleviate memory problems so it's even less important.
Given that modern cards do come with a lot of onboard memory anyway, this certainly won't be slowing down PCI express adoption.
If you want a cheap home server build a small, fanless (silent), low power consumption (cheap in the long run) VIA mini-itx (small and quite cheap) box.
It's actualy cheaper to mod the xbox than build a mini-itx pc. Sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Plus, your xbox is already there sitting in the living room so it reduces the device count in the living room.
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I agree that whatever clothing you're wearing you're still the same person, but i do think that dressing in different maners can really change the way you behave. I don't hane any figures or studies or whatever to prove my point, but it does change the image you got about yourself when you look into the mirror, thus it changes your general behavior event only very subtlely.
And if you don't agree with that, you can certainly agree that it will change other people behavior towards you.
I've seen many times that simply wearing a jacket (not even a suit or a neck tie) gets people (like clerks) to address me instead of someone that came with me (like say, my older brother) and who's dressed less formaly. And of course i've also seen it happen the other way around.
So do whatever you want, but do it knowingly and live with the consequences (i.e. don't bitch about it :).
Why are they wasting their time on mp3 players?
Easy, they're going for something simple and small to limit the potential sources of problems. When it works fine, they're ready to go for more challenging products.
And one of the whole point of fuel cells is the time it take to recharge (actually refill). Even if it lasts just as long, being able to refill in seconds is a benefit. Problem is, you now need a reserve of whatever you fill it with :)
I own an XBox, but not either of the Halos.
Man, i might be wrong, but i don't suppose you would be most of the xbox owners.
It has never crashed.
That's a fact, none of my official games ever crashed. Homebrews can be a bit different though :)
Many people I know own an XBox for XBox Media Center.
I have it installed as well, and so i know what a hassle it is to mod and install all of this. We are definitely talking about a minority of xbox owners here.
I think that what Carmack is trying to do is actually to explore a lot of options in terms of engine design, trying to find out if he can come up with one that is actually symple and efficient.
Of course, there's absolutely no assurance that he'll actually find one, but that's the the risk of any kind of research.
The whole point is to actually move away from the existing methods, so he can't possibly use them.
When you have to take functionality into account, it often kills the artistic side of the creation.
Creating something with functionality in mind is called design.
Programming is part design (algorythm, object structure and such), part craft (writing code that matches the design). This is often reflected in the architect/programmer dichotomy but of course you can't be really efficient if you only know half of the whole problem, even if it is true that those two parts are actually quite distinct.
About art, i'd say that it is a way to communicate an emotion, a feeling or an idea. That said, art can take many forms, and if it hasn't been done already, i'm sure someone will find a way to use code or a program and make it some kind of art. Just don't start calling each and every programmer an artist, please.
Unlawful? Yes. Immoral? Maybe, but so is tracking people's reading habits, which is the only reason I can think of for requiring "free" registration.
Another reason I see is to limit traffic. A simple free registration can do wonders about that.
running dual video cards and disabling one of them works, but you never really know what's going on. maybe the driver required to disable that onboard card is what goes puff and loses it's magic.
Just to inform you that disabling motherboard components is done at the bios level, not the driver level. If you disable an onboard video adapter, then the OS never knows it's even there.
Also, if one of the parts you're not using is not working or goes wrong, well, you're not using it anyway so i'm not sure where the problem lies.
I'm 22, and want to play whatever the hell I please because I'm an adult that's responsible for his own actions.
Come on, was there ANY game like GTA 7 years ago ? Well, ok, technicaly there was the first GTA but i don't think there really were any "similar games" at that time. Some awnser to your post mention Doom, but i don't think that shooting demons and zombies ever compare to shooting people, even if they're criminals.
I've been a gamer myself, but i lost interest. I'm not saying that playing this game will make you a killer, but it's part of a whole. People are citing the news, movies, books, you name it. Well, all of this combined sure does have an effect if you consider parents that don't take time to talk to their children about all this kind of things.
That said, you should always have a systemic approach of such problems. If the emergence of violence, graphical or not, is about everywhere, it is also a consequence of the actual mindset of people all over the place. If children do become violent afterwards, they're just following the lead of the ones who where there before them. It's obviously no use blaming any kind of industry about that, you could just blame the entire world while you're at it.
Considering that, i for one decided to go against this logic. I refuse this kind of violent behavior and will not do anything to encourage it, there are enough people doing it already. Plus, behind all this are most probably a whole world of *real* reasons that would be better looked for and taken into account. I mean, if people were feeling well and happy with their lives, they wouldn't need this kind of game to release their anger, or simply "feel free to do whatever they want to do" because this game is so "open". One thing i actually never understood, is people praising GTA about the freedom you have in the game. The few times i actually tried it, i felt frustrated because of all the things you actually can't do. It's been the same with other games, like deus ex. One thing that just came to my mind if that this kind of game made me feel lonely. Wandering by yourself in a world that pretends to let you free to do what you want has not been a positive experience for me. That said, i'm not really a gamer anymore, am i ? What would i know about all this. I'll leave it there then.
The solution is pretty obvious IMO: when looking up the domain name get some other records such as the company name, contact address, etc and display them in the URL bar, window title, status, or some other place. Perhaps a firefox-style extra panel that appears and gives that info.
Showing information that's completely irrelevant 99% of the time is not the awnser as the natural response from the users will be to completely ignore it 100% of the time.
I'm not sure if there's really an automated solution to this problem, but some kind of domain name black list could be worth something. I'm not saying that traffic should be blocked, but that at least the browser could give a warning. The problem with that is who's going to maintain the list ?
It's kind of like a family member airing all you dirty laundry. Do they have a right to be upset about your idiosynchrosies? Maybe, probably. Should they be telling the whole world about it? No... I think loyalty should be a driving factor here.
I don't agree with your "you can't do that" policy. I mean, i didn't RTFA but from what i understand, the only problem i would see with all this would be if the guy actually complained about being fired.
It's all about accepting the consequences of your actions actually. Just don't do something if you're not ready to deal with the possible outcomes.
And if loyalty should be a driving factor, then what if it's not ? What loyalty do you have towards someone you don't even respect ?
What i understand here is that people should share your set of values. Well if i can totally respect them (the values), please try not to impose them, will you ?
Come on, the problem is not about finding out some kind of difference. I mean it is a fact that there are differences due to gender, the problem is trying to explain them. Stating that the difference is innate doesn't call for any kind of further explanation. "That's the way it is so you better accept it." and that's what i really can't agree with.
All i see here is some attempt to stick an explanation behind some statistics.
I think the major problem here is about the "innate" difference. I'm ok with any kind of physical difference (and i guess even some of them could be argued over), but as i see it, anything beyond that enters the realm of speculation. I mean, it's never really clear what is a cause and what is a consequence. Are the differences caused by some different brain structure or by some socio-cultural difference in education (that would result in a different brain structure) ? Or maybe a bit of both.
I don't think we know enough details about intellectual & psychological development to make clear cut statements.
Maybe you should try getting a look on the console side. That's for the fixed platform and optimising issue.
PC programmers simply can't do the same since the platform is nothing near fixed. This is strange since you seem to be aware of this issue, i don't understand what you're bitching about.
This Interactive Fiction thing looks interesting (but don't the other video games fit the description Interactive Fiction ?). But what i was pointing out is that i really think that video game is incredibly far from other forms of storytelling. considering the storytelling part of VG of course, i'm not asking for characters in tetris.
I think that's the primary reason for my interest in video games waning as it is.
I never quite understood this whole thing about deus ex being such a good game. Especialy about the plot. I mean ok, maybe there's an intricate story but hell, what i want to see in games is good characters !
In video gammes you will have many stories about worlds ending, invasions, political twists, corporate conspiracies, or maybe no plot at all (except maybe for the 2 lines that make an excuse for one). While this is fine by me, why can't we see anything actualy relating to people ? Are game developers and players so out of touch with themselves and the others ? The only example that comes to my mind of a game that tries something in this area is Planescape: torment, maybe a bit of KOTOR as well.
I find it intriguing that with so many games coming out, there are so few going this way.
really, video game still has a long way to go.
Certainly the slashdot crowd will have noticed that this has nothing to do with SLI, but i don't think it's been mentionned here that the technology is actually PGC. Even though i remember it clearly, it didn't seem to get much press at the time. I found a story about it but dear Tom seemed to be a non believer.
Ok, we haven't seen it yet, but with Alienware and nVidia backing it, i'd be surprise if it didn't show up, one way or another.
If you don't remember what it is, just look at the faq.
I feel that this dual card thing will not be as short lived as the old 3dfx SLI. I mean, it wasn't possible to use 2 AGP cards because we lacked the second slot, but with PCI-E, the problem is gone. Remember that all the Voodoo2 had the SLI plug ? I bet that all the next gen cards will have a dual mode plug (it's already the case with the new GeForce).
The next step is to allow this kind of thing with non-identical cards. It would be nice to be able to keep your old card even after you've bought a brand new one. But it seems that synchronization is a bit of a problem.
I don't agree with this "raytracing is compression" stuff. Compression would imply that we start with the uncompressed data, compress it, and at some point decompress it.
I don't really see 3D modelling as a way to manually compress a 3D image.
Plus, the rendered scene is actually 2D.
Technology succeeds because of marketing, not because it's innovative or high quality-witness Betamax
:)
Well, you could have a point, except we're not really talking about some consumer media here. if this thing can work, it'll all come down to the manufacturing cost. just look at it, small (can it get much smaller ?), fast, non volatile and doesn't require new fabs.
if on top of that it can get cheap enough, i don't see why it wouldn't appear in all kind of electronic devices, if not all of them.
well, maybe if someone discovers something even better
Well, one the best example of this would be the Seti@home cheaters. You should have a look at this story.
I fail to see the causality here. How does "excellent programmers know assembly" translates to "teaching assembly to everyone will make everyone an excellent programmer" ?
Does it also means that you can't be an excellent programmer without knowing assembly ? Well that certainly depends on how you define an "excellent programmer" but i think it's quite quick of a conclusion.
That said, if assembly can certainly be harsh for newbies, the lack of abstraction can certainly be helpful in some cases. But appart from that, i'm not sure that it will change much from the current situation (as good or as bad as you want to see it).
Eventually, though, I'm confident they'll work out a way to restrict digital copies well enough that only a very few dedicated people will still be able to produce them, at which point it's not really a problem (from the MPAA/RIAA's standpoint) anymore. This only works when it's easy, after all...
:)
Well, i think it's only partially true. Look at the current situation. Divx (and equivalents) is the major threat since DVD burners aren't that cheap, and it only takes 1 person making a rip of a movie and sharing it through P2P and everyone can eventually get it. I certainly believe that there will be at least one dedicated enough person in the world for each movie out there (or at least most of them).
Also consider the video game situation. It takes some skill and dedication to crack one, and i don't think many games miss a crack.
Even better, with 9Go recordable DVD around the corner, how long before a good old DVD release of this movie ? That would bypass any next-gen format protection
why would joe user go buy one? to check their mail?
You're right, it's useless. Any advance in processor technology should be stopped at once, we can already mails after all.
But isn't the point of AGP that it allows you to set an arperture and use some of the system RAM as an extension of the memory on the graphics card? So unless every PCI Express Video card has like 256MB plus video ram on it, wont AGP still be better?
I don't think anyone uses this feature (AGP texturing) so this is a non issue. Plus, texture compression helps to alleviate memory problems so it's even less important.
Given that modern cards do come with a lot of onboard memory anyway, this certainly won't be slowing down PCI express adoption.
If you want a cheap home server build a small, fanless (silent), low power consumption (cheap in the long run) VIA mini-itx (small and quite cheap) box.
It's actualy cheaper to mod the xbox than build a mini-itx pc. Sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Plus, your xbox is already there sitting in the living room so it reduces the device count in the living room.