My god he's right! The double bacon cheeseburger SAVES lives. Without it, some people would wither away to nothing! There's absolutely nothing in the vast array of all foods that provide an equal but healthier caloric content! The double bacon cheeseburger has special properties caused by the interlocking of bacon and cheese and burger molecules that causes it to form a netting, trapping vital weight in there!
Now the triple bacon cheeseburger on the other hand, well that's just ridiculous, fatty.
Depending on their accounting, "fourth quarter" could mean 4th quarter fiscal 2009, which is Jan-March 2009 at my company. Something to do with taxes and where you make your money during the fiscal year.
The real reason for lockdown is piracy prevention and ensuring publishers have to go through the manufacturer to get their cut of the game. (How do you think they manage that? They make all the discs and charge a lot more than a pressing plant!)
Currently both PS3 and 360 have "manufecturer approved" ways off playing with the console - PS3 has their crippled linux build, and 360 has the less-crippled-but-you-pay-for-it XNA. Not sure if there's less hacking involved because of it, but it does seem like at least an attempt to appease both sides. I haven't played with either on my consoles, but I know the XNA stuff will soon be published to XBL with games that can potentialy crash (thought not crash the system - Microsoft takes care of that part for you!:)
The reason why is that suddenly there's no specific code to write for every material. Right now the graphics artist supplies a description of an object - its shape, its textures, etc. They have "materials" but these are often broken down into very special parameters for a raster based system. If I have a car window in current graphics engine the car window has code associated with it to describe how it reflects the world. In a ray traced system, the car window is described by the artist as "glass", which uses standard fields for a material that reflects how light is rendered. The whole system becomes data driven, and the graphics programmer is left to design a more efficient engine, not extra tricks around making materials render faster.
What's all that mean? It means that better looking game engines are within grasp of smaller and leaner dev teams. Less funding is required to make a game, less time is required to make it, so risk drops and more "out there" games can be made. The reason you see the same game sold every year is that the same game is a safe bet. To maximize return you need to minimize risk, and tech like this helps make it a safer bet to take a risk on a new type of game.
The "magic" for me was learning how to give a good wedgy. I wasn't really sure how, but once someone taught me I got together with a group of my friends cheerfully organized finding the dorks doing extra essay assignments. Boy did we wedgy them good! Of course, my other friend didn't even need to learn how to do a wedgy. Once he figured it out for himself he just started right in on that kid that memorized the card catalog. Boy were the teachers mad. They were all like "You Aren't Supposed To Do That" and "Stop That This Instant".
All games written for the current gen machines (Wii tech is really last gen) use multiple cores and multiple games. Its now a requirement to use multiple threads. You can't ship a title without it these days, sorry. (And its really simple to write nonblocking net code anyways - you don't really need threads because you're typically 60ms behind what's in the net queue and what's being displayed. Polling is fine.)
The 360 has a 120GB harddrive. Lots of room for content update there. Even on the smaller drive (20GB?) you could keep a bunch of patches stored for later use. Expansions could come in extra discs from the store, like big Wow or EQ updates.
For serious! There are like 35 other 3d displays that don't require head tracking and show a true 3d image from multiple angles to multiple people simultaneously. My Fisher Price HoloView 3000 does the exact same thing!
Watch the video. The fact that the camera was moving and changing angles while someone else was interacting with it from their own perspective is what is interesting about this product. Assuming the video isn't faked, its a pretty cool development and I haven't seen much else like it. If you're going to have people sitting around a conference table manipulating some virtual 3d object (think that scene in Iron Man where he's building the suit), then this is the kind of tech you need. Strapping on glasses or ductaping some crap to your head so everything comes from your perspective is not the way to go.
Yeah, that's built into the Tilt as well. (Though its not quite as advanced - there's an installed program called "QuickGPS" that periodiclaly runs - I've heard it refered to on GPS forums as "offline GPS".) True AGPS sounds intersting and I'll definately be keeping track of reviews on the iPhone for this. Of course, until I can use my stereo bluetooth set with it I'm staying put - it boggles the mind they still don't have this!
It all depends on the software. Also the antenna. I have the GPS in my AT&T Tilt (also known as "Kaiser/TyTNII/HTC 8925) and I'd qualify it as "alright". The main difference I see is how long it takes to lock into a signal, and the trouble you get sometimes going around a city or heavily wooded area. There is the option of an external antenna, but that costs $ and "real" GPS devices seem to have beefier antennas built in. You also need to drop $150-$200 on GPS software (or...ahem... find it elsewhere for cheaper). Google maps is NOT GPS navigational software - it just doesn't compare with TomTom because it doesn't have stuff like voice updates, time to destiantion, rerouting, etc. And there's the fact that you're out of 3G zone a lot of time. So if you do that, you've dropped extra bucks on software, and 25% of that 8GB flash is now map data.
Don't get me wrong - having GPS built in is a great thing, and I use it almost every day w/ google maps, but its not a stand in for a dedicated GPS device unless you a) buy the extra software, b) get an external GPS antenna.
It took less time for me to install it and play with it to find out for myself than it did for you to write out that comment. Why not just try it instead of immediately complaining?
DARPA built it to test defending against it? If they hadn't built it, would they still have to test defending against it? And if so, what would they use?
But this is an ad. Lets just call it an ad, or a "sponsored story" and move on. If you guys didn't get paid for this thing then that's even sadder. I don't mind the ads on/., it keeps things going, but please don't try to pass them off as content. There's nothing in this story that at all meets the (admittedly low) editorial bar for submissions here. Its product placement, pure and simple.
Exactly. Of course, most of that seems like the fault of the 5000 other programs that feel they need to run at startup. Antivirus stuff seems like the worst offender, but hey, its Windows so you can't boot without it!
I hit play too quickly while going through the commercials during last week's Battlestar and saw a commercial for EVE where they did it as a faux news cast about some star ship commander ramming a space station. It was a little cheesy but I suspect its the kind of premise they're going for here. The game that's played would have to follow the lines of EVE where the focus is PvP, and the "drama" comes from players attacking each other, coming up with scams, backstabbing, forming alliances, etc. I can't really see some pre-canned dungeon raid content making a good TV show.
It has to be there or else my modpoint farming script won't get keyed to reply with "I wish they would focus on gameplay instead of adding shiny graphics" or "This game would be awesome on the wiimote!" See also my "Does it run on Linux?" and "Where's the source?" scripts for similar results!
Post-scarcity rules do not apply when scarcity exists. Otherwise it's "everyone owns everything except for this which I own because I also own this here gun."
As for digital media, well, there's no scarcity of bits so all bets are off there:)
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My god he's right! The double bacon cheeseburger SAVES lives. Without it, some people would wither away to nothing! There's absolutely nothing in the vast array of all foods that provide an equal but healthier caloric content! The double bacon cheeseburger has special properties caused by the interlocking of bacon and cheese and burger molecules that causes it to form a netting, trapping vital weight in there!
Now the triple bacon cheeseburger on the other hand, well that's just ridiculous, fatty.
Depending on their accounting, "fourth quarter" could mean 4th quarter fiscal 2009, which is Jan-March 2009 at my company. Something to do with taxes and where you make your money during the fiscal year.
How do you know that hasn't been in every version since they included a built in network stack? (Big Hint: You don't!)
The real reason for lockdown is piracy prevention and ensuring publishers have to go through the manufacturer to get their cut of the game. (How do you think they manage that? They make all the discs and charge a lot more than a pressing plant!)
Currently both PS3 and 360 have "manufecturer approved" ways off playing with the console - PS3 has their crippled linux build, and 360 has the less-crippled-but-you-pay-for-it XNA. Not sure if there's less hacking involved because of it, but it does seem like at least an attempt to appease both sides. I haven't played with either on my consoles, but I know the XNA stuff will soon be published to XBL with games that can potentialy crash (thought not crash the system - Microsoft takes care of that part for you! :)
Exactly! First thing that ran through my head was "Uh...the same thing that happens when you hire any sysadmin?"
The reason why is that suddenly there's no specific code to write for every material. Right now the graphics artist supplies a description of an object - its shape, its textures, etc. They have "materials" but these are often broken down into very special parameters for a raster based system. If I have a car window in current graphics engine the car window has code associated with it to describe how it reflects the world. In a ray traced system, the car window is described by the artist as "glass", which uses standard fields for a material that reflects how light is rendered. The whole system becomes data driven, and the graphics programmer is left to design a more efficient engine, not extra tricks around making materials render faster.
What's all that mean? It means that better looking game engines are within grasp of smaller and leaner dev teams. Less funding is required to make a game, less time is required to make it, so risk drops and more "out there" games can be made. The reason you see the same game sold every year is that the same game is a safe bet. To maximize return you need to minimize risk, and tech like this helps make it a safer bet to take a risk on a new type of game.
The "magic" for me was learning how to give a good wedgy. I wasn't really sure how, but once someone taught me I got together with a group of my friends cheerfully organized finding the dorks doing extra essay assignments. Boy did we wedgy them good! Of course, my other friend didn't even need to learn how to do a wedgy. Once he figured it out for himself he just started right in on that kid that memorized the card catalog. Boy were the teachers mad. They were all like "You Aren't Supposed To Do That" and "Stop That This Instant".
Won't kids ever learn?
Dunno, there are some tough fabrics out there. Ever hear of Kevlar? Last time I checked bullets go through car doors but not Kevlar.
All games written for the current gen machines (Wii tech is really last gen) use multiple cores and multiple games. Its now a requirement to use multiple threads. You can't ship a title without it these days, sorry. (And its really simple to write nonblocking net code anyways - you don't really need threads because you're typically 60ms behind what's in the net queue and what's being displayed. Polling is fine.)
The 360 has a 120GB harddrive. Lots of room for content update there. Even on the smaller drive (20GB?) you could keep a bunch of patches stored for later use. Expansions could come in extra discs from the store, like big Wow or EQ updates.
I'd call a car made out of nice fabrics a 'gina too!
For serious! There are like 35 other 3d displays that don't require head tracking and show a true 3d image from multiple angles to multiple people simultaneously. My Fisher Price HoloView 3000 does the exact same thing!
Watch the video. The fact that the camera was moving and changing angles while someone else was interacting with it from their own perspective is what is interesting about this product. Assuming the video isn't faked, its a pretty cool development and I haven't seen much else like it. If you're going to have people sitting around a conference table manipulating some virtual 3d object (think that scene in Iron Man where he's building the suit), then this is the kind of tech you need. Strapping on glasses or ductaping some crap to your head so everything comes from your perspective is not the way to go.
Yeah, that's built into the Tilt as well. (Though its not quite as advanced - there's an installed program called "QuickGPS" that periodiclaly runs - I've heard it refered to on GPS forums as "offline GPS".) True AGPS sounds intersting and I'll definately be keeping track of reviews on the iPhone for this. Of course, until I can use my stereo bluetooth set with it I'm staying put - it boggles the mind they still don't have this!
It all depends on the software. Also the antenna. I have the GPS in my AT&T Tilt (also known as "Kaiser/TyTNII/HTC 8925) and I'd qualify it as "alright". The main difference I see is how long it takes to lock into a signal, and the trouble you get sometimes going around a city or heavily wooded area. There is the option of an external antenna, but that costs $ and "real" GPS devices seem to have beefier antennas built in. You also need to drop $150-$200 on GPS software (or ...ahem... find it elsewhere for cheaper). Google maps is NOT GPS navigational software - it just doesn't compare with TomTom because it doesn't have stuff like voice updates, time to destiantion, rerouting, etc. And there's the fact that you're out of 3G zone a lot of time. So if you do that, you've dropped extra bucks on software, and 25% of that 8GB flash is now map data.
Don't get me wrong - having GPS built in is a great thing, and I use it almost every day w/ google maps, but its not a stand in for a dedicated GPS device unless you a) buy the extra software, b) get an external GPS antenna.
Good enough evidence for me! Microsoft caused a nuclear meltdown! Quickly, to the Blogo-Sphere!
It took less time for me to install it and play with it to find out for myself than it did for you to write out that comment. Why not just try it instead of immediately complaining?
DARPA built it to test defending against it? If they hadn't built it, would they still have to test defending against it? And if so, what would they use?
But this is an ad. Lets just call it an ad, or a "sponsored story" and move on. If you guys didn't get paid for this thing then that's even sadder. I don't mind the ads on /., it keeps things going, but please don't try to pass them off as content. There's nothing in this story that at all meets the (admittedly low) editorial bar for submissions here. Its product placement, pure and simple.
Exactly. Of course, most of that seems like the fault of the 5000 other programs that feel they need to run at startup. Antivirus stuff seems like the worst offender, but hey, its Windows so you can't boot without it!
I hit play too quickly while going through the commercials during last week's Battlestar and saw a commercial for EVE where they did it as a faux news cast about some star ship commander ramming a space station. It was a little cheesy but I suspect its the kind of premise they're going for here. The game that's played would have to follow the lines of EVE where the focus is PvP, and the "drama" comes from players attacking each other, coming up with scams, backstabbing, forming alliances, etc. I can't really see some pre-canned dungeon raid content making a good TV show.
Don't forget the +1 for using an American using a British slang term!
President Bush? Is that you?
I saw FT II at E3 - trust me, you didn't want it to be released. Just pretend they never tried to make it and love the original.
It has to be there or else my modpoint farming script won't get keyed to reply with "I wish they would focus on gameplay instead of adding shiny graphics" or "This game would be awesome on the wiimote!" See also my "Does it run on Linux?" and "Where's the source?" scripts for similar results!
He's built two working data structures and is working on a third (had to read the slides to figure that one out).
Post-scarcity rules do not apply when scarcity exists. Otherwise it's "everyone owns everything except for this which I own because I also own this here gun."
:)
As for digital media, well, there's no scarcity of bits so all bets are off there