Only problem is that more hops = more delay. There's already a noticable delay in cell phone conversations with the small amount of hops the call has to make. What about when you need to change that 5 hop system into a 35 hop system? Wouldn't the delay be almost intolarable?
Could this be something to beat DirectX? Without actually reading too much about it yet I am wondering if there are wrappers out there to make it compatible. Hmmmmmm...
I'd stay away from the FPS's, they're going to wind up causing trouble with overbearing parents
All I have to say it this: Kids are going to play those FPS's whether they are in school or not. It is the hot game style out right now. It is easy to learn and hard to master. It is all the rave! Come on, everyone's doing it!
But seriously, some parents need to get their heads pulled out of their asses and realise that FPS's are not going to make your kids want to go out and kill everyone. If ANYTHING it is a release. But more often than not... it is just a little fun... a break from real life. Maybe I am 100% wrong here... but I am about 99.99% sure that I am not.
The kids that are going to snap are going to snap sooner or later anyway. A silly game isn't going to create that imbalance. And the lack of that game would at best delay him going crazy. I personally hate delays, get it over with so we can see who the kids who might add something to soceity are.
And yes, I know what some of you are thinking: "What if it is my child who gets shot?" Well, my answer to that is you need to not be selfish. SOMEONE'S kid is going to get shot by this guy, why wish that kind of pain on someone else? /rant
There will be additional costs and you know who will ultimately bear those costs. This does not bother me a bit as movies are far from essential needs for anyone
As weird as this may sound, I am going to have to strongly disagree with that statement. The movies have been a staple of entertainment since they were first created. Before that, plays and such. This kind of medium is absolutely essential for the masses to stay sane. In hard times this becomes all the more important. In the depression people had no money but they were still able to scrape enough together to get into a movie. The air conditioning played a part in that for sure:-) But more so the ability to escape that harsh reality into something that was far better; or worse. Either way you were able to come out either looking forward to things to come or thanking *insert diety name here* for not making YOUR life quite that bad.
Geez, you'd think I was IN the industry with a response like that... alas I am not. But I must say that this style of entertainment is required. It is essential.
to try and relate something i know very little about to something I know a little something about... if you were to accurately render a car to the point that you could zoom into the thing as far as you want and rotate it at ANY angle and have it all done in real time back before polygons well.. it probably would have taken about 512mb of RAM to do. (To make is smooth anyway). Now with polygons they can do the same thing (and probably smoother and more accurate these days) with maybe 10mb or so. (20 at most). So it is all about the mode of thinking someone is in. Who knows? Maybe they've discovered the efficient "polygon engine" of language translation.
Well, I can speak on Arabic and Farsi (since I know both of them) as well as English (obviously since I am typing in it now) and I must say that Farsi is not that complicated of a language. Much easier to work with than English is IMHO. Arabic on the other hand is quite easily the most descriptive language in the world. So I agree that could have some interesting issues there. But only in the translation from Arabic to English. English to Arabic should map fairly easily. (Given a basic cultural breakdown of how phrases are used)
Or I could be 100% wrong and on crack. But who knows?:-)
I think I might be one of those people. Perhaps it is just because I learned to type when I was 3 on the brand new C=64.:-) But really though... I've been typing now for 19 years and I have yet to even have the slightest amount of pain from that.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I started so young? Perhaps if you start typing later in life your hands aren't "molded" to it or something. Just a thought.
Like any young man, he is torn between the duties of being a Jedi and pursing the woman he loves.
Did I miss something? I could have sworn no 19 yr old has had to choose between being a Jedi and boinking Nat Portman.:-P Hell, I don't think anyone has ever had that choice.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see what the big deal is here. If your kid can read.. then they should be able to understand that this bot is not real. If they can't, then they need some serious education. Come on people, with all the other crap to jump all over, why pick this company? They are not doing anything wrong. In fact.. I use "SmarterChild" and it helps me. It will give me my horoscope, movie times for my area, translate stuff for me, etc. It is actually a good service.
It's my birthday, mod me up. (no seriously.. today IS my birthday. hehe)
You know what... statements like that make me mad... i mean come on.. i have enough problems telling reality and fantasy apart... now you're telling me I have to determine DIFFERENT KINDS of fantasy? Son-of-a... ACK! Screw this.. i am keepin it real from here on out.:-P
Oh yeah.. thats a joke... in case you have no sense of humor (or think I don't).
Somehow I doubt that the RIAA is really looking out for the artist here. I mean... how do they get paid from normal radio stations? As far as I understand it, the radio is more or less one long commercial for music. I know when I really like an artist and respect who they are I will certainly buy their stuff and get everyone I can to do the same. But what is to stop anyone from just recording a song off the radio?
My point is that all this crap is pointless. Singles should be played freely. They are only put out to sell the whole album anyway.
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Why are e-mails with attachments taking so much longer to get to me, then e-mails without attachments? Anyone else notice this?
Well, it could be the government snooping in on you and trying to steal all your code so they can use it to kill us all....
-OR-
It could simply be their batch filing is messed up on their servers. MSN/Hotmail have always had problems with this and I wouldn't be suprised to see AT&T a little messed up. There's a million reasons why this could happen.. another one that comes to mind is what if one of their severs went down.. the one which was supposed to send your mail? Then when it comes back up it sends it. i dunno.. pick your reason.
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You know... just to let ya know... yahoo gets more traffic in one hour than slashdot gets in a day. I wouldn't be too concerned about the/. effect on freakin YAHOO!.:-)
This is the third launch of this series of spacecraft, not China's third launch. The "Shenzhou" craft started in 1999, but China first launched a satellite in 1970 and has launched dozens to date.
Yes, but isn't this the first space craft to be able to support humans in it? Or at least the first one to actually work. They only sent a dummy up, but I am assuming they are going to examine it to see what effects it had on it when it lands. (See if it burt up or something.)
But then again, I don't really know what I am talking about here. I am just thinking slashdot had to have a good reason to post it. I mean.. it isn't like they post whenever a US Shuttle takes off or lands. (do they?)
You know what cracks me up though? The fact that he says: "Yeah. umm.. you just have to do it right." hehehe.. well duh! I could do all that crap in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon if I "did it right."
Really though, I hope this is true.. just because I think it'd be cool. Alas... I am not counting on it. So so sad. But to NASA's defence.. if there is ANY possibility in this working... put as much money as you can into it because the potential rewards are nothing short of amazing. Just think of it as a high-risk investment.:-P
Hmmm... I use my thumbs for a lot of things that maybe others would use their index fingers for... but nothing beats a good index finger to shove up your nose. Thumbs just don't work as well, but I could use them... does this make me superhuman?
Unfortunately I have nothing to back that up with. Only the words of a close friend of mine who has been in the industry for a long time. He described it as one of his $1,000,000 stories he could go to ET about.:-)
"We put up the money for your $30,000 recording studio stint. We put up the money for your $10,000 music video. We put up the money for the distribution of your album. You're famous now, go make your money some other way."
Umm, that is not how it works at all actually. The record companies will put up the cash only initially. The artist then has to pay the record company back any money for the production of the album and the music videos. This comes out of their take home earnings of an average of $0.20/album sold. Yes the record companies give them exposure and they even market the hell out of select artists, but in the end the artist is screwed in SO many ways.
Not only that... but get this. Most albums that go platinum on the first day of release... you know who buys all those albums? The record company who produces it. They then sell it back to the stores. This is so that other people will follow on the bandwagon and buy the crap out of that album. Bottom line is the record industry is shady as hell.
They should be fined the equivalent of the profits they made from their illegal activities over the last decade.
Now wait just one second. If they do that then MS might go bankrupt. Wait no... Gates has enough personal money to fund MS for 10 years with them making no profits at all. Damnit. I thought you were on to something there.
It is pretty damn sad for the rest of us when a multi-billion dollar fine will not cripple a company. Pretty damn awesome for the company though... I must admit. Geez.. if I could fork over billions of dollars and not die from it... ahh yes.. what dreams may come.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
You get a cookie!
Feel better now?
Slashdot 20 second rules sucks... so I am typing this to burn time.
Only problem is that more hops = more delay. There's already a noticable delay in cell phone conversations with the small amount of hops the call has to make. What about when you need to change that 5 hop system into a 35 hop system? Wouldn't the delay be almost intolarable?
Dude... I always knew I could get down with the best of 'em!
Before you mod me as off topic, look at my nick. Now you get it... goood good.
sorry for my own ignorance... I misread what the thing was actually supposed to do. :-) Perhaps art would be an issue though.
Seeing as though the GPL types are typically quite left-brained... I am wondering how well this thing will be utilizied.
Could this be something to beat DirectX? Without actually reading too much about it yet I am wondering if there are wrappers out there to make it compatible. Hmmmmmm...
We can always hope!
I'd stay away from the FPS's, they're going to wind up causing trouble with overbearing parents
/rant
All I have to say it this: Kids are going to play those FPS's whether they are in school or not. It is the hot game style out right now. It is easy to learn and hard to master. It is all the rave! Come on, everyone's doing it!
But seriously, some parents need to get their heads pulled out of their asses and realise that FPS's are not going to make your kids want to go out and kill everyone. If ANYTHING it is a release. But more often than not... it is just a little fun... a break from real life. Maybe I am 100% wrong here... but I am about 99.99% sure that I am not.
The kids that are going to snap are going to snap sooner or later anyway. A silly game isn't going to create that imbalance. And the lack of that game would at best delay him going crazy. I personally hate delays, get it over with so we can see who the kids who might add something to soceity are.
And yes, I know what some of you are thinking: "What if it is my child who gets shot?" Well, my answer to that is you need to not be selfish. SOMEONE'S kid is going to get shot by this guy, why wish that kind of pain on someone else?
There will be additional costs and you know who will ultimately bear those costs. This does not bother me a bit as movies are far from essential needs for anyone
:-) But more so the ability to escape that harsh reality into something that was far better; or worse. Either way you were able to come out either looking forward to things to come or thanking *insert diety name here* for not making YOUR life quite that bad.
As weird as this may sound, I am going to have to strongly disagree with that statement. The movies have been a staple of entertainment since they were first created. Before that, plays and such. This kind of medium is absolutely essential for the masses to stay sane. In hard times this becomes all the more important. In the depression people had no money but they were still able to scrape enough together to get into a movie. The air conditioning played a part in that for sure
Geez, you'd think I was IN the industry with a response like that... alas I am not. But I must say that this style of entertainment is required. It is essential.
I didn't even know apple was a company in 1394. :-) Back then FireWire was probably a rope on fire. But alas I digress.
to try and relate something i know very little about to something I know a little something about... if you were to accurately render a car to the point that you could zoom into the thing as far as you want and rotate it at ANY angle and have it all done in real time back before polygons well.. it probably would have taken about 512mb of RAM to do. (To make is smooth anyway). Now with polygons they can do the same thing (and probably smoother and more accurate these days) with maybe 10mb or so. (20 at most). So it is all about the mode of thinking someone is in. Who knows? Maybe they've discovered the efficient "polygon engine" of language translation.
Well, I can speak on Arabic and Farsi (since I know both of them) as well as English (obviously since I am typing in it now) and I must say that Farsi is not that complicated of a language. Much easier to work with than English is IMHO. Arabic on the other hand is quite easily the most descriptive language in the world. So I agree that could have some interesting issues there. But only in the translation from Arabic to English. English to Arabic should map fairly easily. (Given a basic cultural breakdown of how phrases are used)
:-)
Or I could be 100% wrong and on crack. But who knows?
I think I might be one of those people. Perhaps it is just because I learned to type when I was 3 on the brand new C=64. :-) But really though... I've been typing now for 19 years and I have yet to even have the slightest amount of pain from that.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I started so young? Perhaps if you start typing later in life your hands aren't "molded" to it or something. Just a thought.
Like any young man, he is torn between the duties of being a Jedi and pursing the woman he loves.
:-P Hell, I don't think anyone has ever had that choice.
Did I miss something? I could have sworn no 19 yr old has had to choose between being a Jedi and boinking Nat Portman.
Ahh yes, but you have forgotten one thing:
:-P
Spider Man wasn't the name he gave himself. He was originally the Human Spider. So maybe it was that dude at the wrestling match. hmmmmmm...
Maybe _HE_ was the real Mary Jane. or maybe not.
P.S. I love Spidey just as much as the next guy, this is a joke.. so don't throw stones.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see what the big deal is here. If your kid can read.. then they should be able to understand that this bot is not real. If they can't, then they need some serious education. Come on people, with all the other crap to jump all over, why pick this company? They are not doing anything wrong. In fact.. I use "SmarterChild" and it helps me. It will give me my horoscope, movie times for my area, translate stuff for me, etc. It is actually a good service.
It's my birthday, mod me up. (no seriously.. today IS my birthday. hehe)
You know what... statements like that make me mad... i mean come on.. i have enough problems telling reality and fantasy apart... now you're telling me I have to determine DIFFERENT KINDS of fantasy? Son-of-a... ACK! Screw this.. i am keepin it real from here on out. :-P
Oh yeah.. thats a joke... in case you have no sense of humor (or think I don't).
Somehow I doubt that the RIAA is really looking out for the artist here. I mean... how do they get paid from normal radio stations? As far as I understand it, the radio is more or less one long commercial for music. I know when I really like an artist and respect who they are I will certainly buy their stuff and get everyone I can to do the same. But what is to stop anyone from just recording a song off the radio?
My point is that all this crap is pointless. Singles should be played freely. They are only put out to sell the whole album anyway.
Why are e-mails with attachments taking so much longer to get to me, then e-mails without attachments? Anyone else notice this?
Well, it could be the government snooping in on you and trying to steal all your code so they can use it to kill us all....
-OR-
It could simply be their batch filing is messed up on their servers. MSN/Hotmail have always had problems with this and I wouldn't be suprised to see AT&T a little messed up. There's a million reasons why this could happen.. another one that comes to mind is what if one of their severs went down.. the one which was supposed to send your mail? Then when it comes back up it sends it. i dunno.. pick your reason.
You know... just to let ya know... yahoo gets more traffic in one hour than slashdot gets in a day. I wouldn't be too concerned about the /. effect on freakin YAHOO!. :-)
This is the third launch of this series of spacecraft, not China's third launch. The "Shenzhou" craft started in 1999, but China first launched a satellite in 1970 and has launched dozens to date.
Yes, but isn't this the first space craft to be able to support humans in it? Or at least the first one to actually work. They only sent a dummy up, but I am assuming they are going to examine it to see what effects it had on it when it lands. (See if it burt up or something.)
But then again, I don't really know what I am talking about here. I am just thinking slashdot had to have a good reason to post it. I mean.. it isn't like they post whenever a US Shuttle takes off or lands. (do they?)
Does the side of the pod say "China" (like we (americans) have USA) or does it say "Made in China" like everything else in the USA?
This should be great for mass production of space fairing ships. Tourist travel here we come!
You know what cracks me up though? The fact that he says: "Yeah. umm.. you just have to do it right." hehehe.. well duh! I could do all that crap in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon if I "did it right."
:-P
Really though, I hope this is true.. just because I think it'd be cool. Alas... I am not counting on it. So so sad. But to NASA's defence.. if there is ANY possibility in this working... put as much money as you can into it because the potential rewards are nothing short of amazing. Just think of it as a high-risk investment.
Hmmm... I use my thumbs for a lot of things that maybe others would use their index fingers for... but nothing beats a good index finger to shove up your nose. Thumbs just don't work as well, but I could use them... does this make me superhuman?
Things that make ya go.. "hmmmm"
Unfortunately I have nothing to back that up with. Only the words of a close friend of mine who has been in the industry for a long time. He described it as one of his $1,000,000 stories he could go to ET about. :-)
"We put up the money for your $30,000 recording studio stint. We put up the money for your $10,000 music video. We put up the money for the distribution of your album. You're famous now, go make your money some other way."
Umm, that is not how it works at all actually. The record companies will put up the cash only initially. The artist then has to pay the record company back any money for the production of the album and the music videos. This comes out of their take home earnings of an average of $0.20/album sold. Yes the record companies give them exposure and they even market the hell out of select artists, but in the end the artist is screwed in SO many ways.
Not only that... but get this. Most albums that go platinum on the first day of release... you know who buys all those albums? The record company who produces it. They then sell it back to the stores. This is so that other people will follow on the bandwagon and buy the crap out of that album. Bottom line is the record industry is shady as hell.
If ya don't know... now ya know.
They should be fined the equivalent of the profits they made from their illegal activities over the last decade.
:-)
Now wait just one second. If they do that then MS might go bankrupt. Wait no... Gates has enough personal money to fund MS for 10 years with them making no profits at all. Damnit. I thought you were on to something there.
It is pretty damn sad for the rest of us when a multi-billion dollar fine will not cripple a company. Pretty damn awesome for the company though... I must admit. Geez.. if I could fork over billions of dollars and not die from it... ahh yes.. what dreams may come.