Disgruntled Professor in said subject goes insane (but his inherent humanity remains for later purposes in the script, naturally) and writes a virus that will 'bring down the planets computing power'. Former student and star of the class is brought in (obviously from somewhere and time at which they for some reason cannot face computers (possibilities: severe RSI, Epilepsy set off miraculously by 65-85Hz screens, Blindness...) to defeat the mad professor, before the final showdown with badly executed profundities.
And all the computer scenes have to use a bizarre and unique 3D styled UI, that looks wholly unusable, and slightly, if not completely frustrating.
Geee, I can't wait *lays on the fake exuberance*. These things always happen when something becomes more mainstream.
Since upon reading the article it even states that nVidia don't have access to the version of 3dmark2003 (not on the beta team) so they can have errors between the drivers and the code for 3dmark and not know. This is the kind of thing that can happen, and will take a driver update to fix, but does not necessarily mean they are doing anything wrong.
As someone who has always been impressed by nVidia's driver updates and the benefits they can give each time, I am going to wait to see if it really is something bad they are doing deliberately before changing my opinion of them.
There is, at the moment, no real evidence in anyones favour.
"Excuse me, but 'proactive' and 'paradigm'. Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. I'm fired aren't I?"
"Oh yes."
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Exactly. Anyone can overproduce a piece of music, regardless of what was used to record it/master it.
The fact that one of the most notable users of Pro Tools is Trent Reznor, does however show what can be done with it in the right hands.
If used correctly, it is possible that the only thing anyone could complain about is the digital routes of it all. Recording every line, in real time, straight in, tracking it in Pro Tools (or Reason or something if you don't run a suitable OS (damnit!)) and then mastering it at console like you would normally.
Well, the modding side of GTA3 has been going fairly strong since it's release. In fact since before, since the original versions could also be modded to some extent (adding missions etc.).
People have been making new cars and missions for ages, as well as semi-conversions. I looked at it to use as an engine for a TC I wanted to make, but given the tools for it it just wasn't going to happen.
People in the mod community have known about the leftover MP code in it since about a month after it's release, I remember seeing the article on one of the sites, and I figure it's about time someone used it. I don't think Rockstar would have any problems with this, they seem like pretty cool guys (at least Rockstar North do, not sure about the rest of the company, except from press sources, like the guys at PCZone saying they're alright).
That this is like Sony making GTA PS2 exclusive. It means X-Box will be the only console it is sold on, but come on, the x-Box just doesn't have the gfx card for it. This is bullshit. If it does make it out on X-Box then it's going to look pretty nasty.
"Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Later to be re-released: Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with evil looking walkie-talkies, and Sauron coughs and moves to a farm house in the country.
I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine where he said IP's should hold Long/Lat/Alt data in them.
I couldn't help but think, OK yes, a mildly interesting idea, but not exactly safe. I mean it would completely alter Dilbert's rule of flamemails for one!
And well, it would rule out P2P piracy as well.
I think it was all one of this Hippy/Geek idealisms.
lol nah I have actually, I just really don't like him. If i want superb guitar I go for Antonio Forcione, Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa. And some others...
Yea you can make it look like 2k, but well it doesn't. It still looks odd. Still ahs a plasticy feel to it. And it doesn't really add anything to 2k that I want, that doesn't slow the whole thing down.
If you read what, because of the statement of first, is a dupe post. Was it Sony or one of the 'P' companies released their statement on this a few weeks back, which hit/.
I like (well ok find so hypocritical it's painful) the fact that all the papers over here are talking about the ambush of british troops as "shocking and murderous" and how offensive it is of Iraq. I mean they include the showing the bodies on Aljazeera, but they are saying that the killing them is terrible. And yet we drop 3000 bombs on their troops, and civilians. And we try to say we're righteous... yeeeeeeeeess
Dark City (Alex Proyas) is pretty cool. Great design and such, and has Jennifer Connelly in it (mmmmmmm)
Tron, since it's just so class. I am terrified of the new one, since the graphics in the original were perfect. I really liked that, and if they had made it now it would have been overdone. Though maybe the original will tone down the new one somewhat.
Mallrats, since while the others are very appreciated, Mallrats isn't. It has a fanbase, but most people really underrate it. Brodie is Smith's finest character, and it is a genuinely funny teen movie, focusing on the geek/stoner lifestyle, which fits perfectly for me.
Barton Fink (Coen Brothers). An earlier one, cult maybe, but not enough people appreciate it. I think it's a truly superb piece of cinema.
I'm sure I could come up with many more, but unconsciosness prevails.
My only worry with that is that unless they do, like someone else said, offer two versions, then if anything else happened that wasn't due to overclocking that blew the fuse, then you'd be fucked.
That's what I'd say is my biggest reason for not going near Macs. Aside the speed problems I have noticed on evry Mac I've used (and yea, maybe I'm running a fairly fast PC, and can get it to run cleanly (I had a celeron 300 oc'd to 400Mhz for a few years that ran as well as most of my friends Ghz machines, it was only with games as recent as GTA3 that I had no choice but to upgrade if I wanted to play)) but the UI for all the Mac programs seriously puts me off. Programs like BBEdit, just do not compare to Textpad which has all the options I want, and listen to most of the options it's users would like. It's front end is simple, and clean, and nice, whereas the UI for every Mac program I have ever used, just feels clunky, slow and nasty. Almost plasticy, just like XP (though OK, not nearly as painful).
I agree that in OSX is by far the best Mac OS yet, but I still feel, personally, that the Mac has too many letdowns for me to use seriously. I have approached using a G4 for music purposes, or graphic design, but at every turn I have found a way to use a PC to do the same, faster and better, and that allows me to stick with a system that runs faster and more like the way I want.
well that was part of my point about hating Creative and their support!
Unless KXproject have done any linux work for the emu10kx's. But as i say, I've had no need to check up on it for a while.
I certainly agree on that much, kinda...
I have never liked Creative, they're as M$ sa sound hardware can be. But on the other hand I have been quite impressed by the Audigy I picked up. I wanted to get a MontegoII, but couldn't get one across here (UK), so in the end I caved and picked up the Audigy instead (I needed a replacement second soundcard since my 128 with the Yamaha GX daughterboard died, for mixing and music purposes) and the sound quality is the best I've heard yet. Given I'm pumping my soundcards (Live and Audigy) through a mixing desk and good quality 100watt amp, quality all the way through is fairly important, especially when recording the output to get a mix. So on that front I think i'll probably get round to replacing the Live with an Audigy 2, since the Live is noticably worse than the Audigy, and is now essentially my bottleneck. Also, the EAX advanced is quite nice in gaming. The games it works with (Mafia, SOFII among others) sound beautiful. Mafia it makes souns remarkably like you are driving through a town, helped by the superb sound work that went into said game. The acclusion programming gives it a great help (nice smooth transitions between say outdoors and driving into a warehouse with echos that sound right, also noticable in GTA3), and SOFII it gives similarly great effects to. It just adds that bit extra to a good game. Playing it with e volume up really high you really do notice it. A friend of mine who came over to play SOFII, he'd played it on his machine with a Live, was blown away by the sound quality and effects. Also it can finally support Aureal A3D, which I have to use in iL2Sturmovik, since for some reason it doesn't like using EAXAdvanced (although I will retry it since I've just reinstalled with the latest drivers, and patched iL2 to it's latest version).
All in all, if your machine can get on with it, it's a great card, but Creative and their support suck so bad that it's a bit of a minefield whether it'll work. I am aware that there's a team who made a third party driver for the Audigy, the kxproject. Whether it can now support EAX however I'm not sure of since I ended up not having to use it. But it's worth taking a look at.
I reckon it's a bit presumptious to say, well if there's water there's life, and if there's no water there's no life. I mean who knows!? Just because it's not possible, so far, to find life without water here, doesn't mean it necessarily will always be the norm.
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Sorry, overly cruel!
Disgruntled Professor in said subject goes insane (but his inherent humanity remains for later purposes in the script, naturally) and writes a virus that will 'bring down the planets computing power'. Former student and star of the class is brought in (obviously from somewhere and time at which they for some reason cannot face computers (possibilities: severe RSI, Epilepsy set off miraculously by 65-85Hz screens, Blindness...) to defeat the mad professor, before the final showdown with badly executed profundities.
And all the computer scenes have to use a bizarre and unique 3D styled UI, that looks wholly unusable, and slightly, if not completely frustrating.
Geee, I can't wait *lays on the fake exuberance*. These things always happen when something becomes more mainstream.
Since upon reading the article it even states that nVidia don't have access to the version of 3dmark2003 (not on the beta team) so they can have errors between the drivers and the code for 3dmark and not know. This is the kind of thing that can happen, and will take a driver update to fix, but does not necessarily mean they are doing anything wrong.
As someone who has always been impressed by nVidia's driver updates and the benefits they can give each time, I am going to wait to see if it really is something bad they are doing deliberately before changing my opinion of them.
There is, at the moment, no real evidence in anyones favour.
Most certainly illegal in recent European law. Hence all the stuff still going on quietly with Europe and the M$ antitrust case.
"Excuse me, but 'proactive' and 'paradigm'. Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important? Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that. I'm fired aren't I?"
"Oh yes."
Exactly. Anyone can overproduce a piece of music, regardless of what was used to record it/master it.
The fact that one of the most notable users of Pro Tools is Trent Reznor, does however show what can be done with it in the right hands.
If used correctly, it is possible that the only thing anyone could complain about is the digital routes of it all. Recording every line, in real time, straight in, tracking it in Pro Tools (or Reason or something if you don't run a suitable OS (damnit!)) and then mastering it at console like you would normally.
People have been making new cars and missions for ages, as well as semi-conversions. I looked at it to use as an engine for a TC I wanted to make, but given the tools for it it just wasn't going to happen.
People in the mod community have known about the leftover MP code in it since about a month after it's release, I remember seeing the article on one of the sites, and I figure it's about time someone used it. I don't think Rockstar would have any problems with this, they seem like pretty cool guys (at least Rockstar North do, not sure about the rest of the company, except from press sources, like the guys at PCZone saying they're alright).
That this is like Sony making GTA PS2 exclusive. It means X-Box will be the only console it is sold on, but come on, the x-Box just doesn't have the gfx card for it. This is bullshit. If it does make it out on X-Box then it's going to look pretty nasty.
"Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with AR-15's and has Sauron choke on a piece of pretzel. I can't wait to get rid of this stuff and start working on King Kong."
Later to be re-released: Gandalf casts a spell arming the elves with evil looking walkie-talkies, and Sauron coughs and moves to a farm house in the country.
I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine where he said IP's should hold Long/Lat/Alt data in them.
I couldn't help but think, OK yes, a mildly interesting idea, but not exactly safe. I mean it would completely alter Dilbert's rule of flamemails for one!
And well, it would rule out P2P piracy as well.
I think it was all one of this Hippy/Geek idealisms.
You get the foil, I'll go get the dental pliers!
Just the kind of opportunity for torture I been waiting for!
lol nah I have actually, I just really don't like him. If i want superb guitar I go for Antonio Forcione, Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa. And some others...
At least it's still nothing important/listenable to yet
Yea you can make it look like 2k, but well it doesn't. It still looks odd. Still ahs a plasticy feel to it. And it doesn't really add anything to 2k that I want, that doesn't slow the whole thing down.
If you read what, because of the statement of first, is a dupe post. Was it Sony or one of the 'P' companies released their statement on this a few weeks back, which hit /.
I like (well ok find so hypocritical it's painful) the fact that all the papers over here are talking about the ambush of british troops as "shocking and murderous" and how offensive it is of Iraq. I mean they include the showing the bodies on Aljazeera, but they are saying that the killing them is terrible. And yet we drop 3000 bombs on their troops, and civilians. And we try to say we're righteous... yeeeeeeeeess
Dark City (Alex Proyas) is pretty cool. Great design and such, and has Jennifer Connelly in it (mmmmmmm)
Tron, since it's just so class. I am terrified of the new one, since the graphics in the original were perfect. I really liked that, and if they had made it now it would have been overdone. Though maybe the original will tone down the new one somewhat.
Mallrats, since while the others are very appreciated, Mallrats isn't. It has a fanbase, but most people really underrate it. Brodie is Smith's finest character, and it is a genuinely funny teen movie, focusing on the geek/stoner lifestyle, which fits perfectly for me.
Barton Fink (Coen Brothers). An earlier one, cult maybe, but not enough people appreciate it. I think it's a truly superb piece of cinema.
I'm sure I could come up with many more, but unconsciosness prevails.
My only worry with that is that unless they do, like someone else said, offer two versions, then if anything else happened that wasn't due to overclocking that blew the fuse, then you'd be fucked.
That's what I'd say is my biggest reason for not going near Macs.
Aside the speed problems I have noticed on evry Mac I've used (and yea, maybe I'm running a fairly fast PC, and can get it to run cleanly (I had a celeron 300 oc'd to 400Mhz for a few years that ran as well as most of my friends Ghz machines, it was only with games as recent as GTA3 that I had no choice but to upgrade if I wanted to play)) but the UI for all the Mac programs seriously puts me off.
Programs like BBEdit, just do not compare to Textpad which has all the options I want, and listen to most of the options it's users would like. It's front end is simple, and clean, and nice, whereas the UI for every Mac program I have ever used, just feels clunky, slow and nasty. Almost plasticy, just like XP (though OK, not nearly as painful).
I agree that in OSX is by far the best Mac OS yet, but I still feel, personally, that the Mac has too many letdowns for me to use seriously.
I have approached using a G4 for music purposes, or graphic design, but at every turn I have found a way to use a PC to do the same, faster and better, and that allows me to stick with a system that runs faster and more like the way I want.
*starts hacking out a virus.. GRIN*
just finished re-reading that yesterday!
Now onto China Mieville
Then make sure you play Grim Fandango!
well that was part of my point about hating Creative and their support!
Unless KXproject have done any linux work for the emu10kx's.
But as i say, I've had no need to check up on it for a while.
I certainly agree on that much, kinda...
I have never liked Creative, they're as M$ sa sound hardware can be. But on the other hand I have been quite impressed by the Audigy I picked up. I wanted to get a MontegoII, but couldn't get one across here (UK), so in the end I caved and picked up the Audigy instead (I needed a replacement second soundcard since my 128 with the Yamaha GX daughterboard died, for mixing and music purposes) and the sound quality is the best I've heard yet. Given I'm pumping my soundcards (Live and Audigy) through a mixing desk and good quality 100watt amp, quality all the way through is fairly important, especially when recording the output to get a mix. So on that front I think i'll probably get round to replacing the Live with an Audigy 2, since the Live is noticably worse than the Audigy, and is now essentially my bottleneck.
Also, the EAX advanced is quite nice in gaming. The games it works with (Mafia, SOFII among others) sound beautiful. Mafia it makes souns remarkably like you are driving through a town, helped by the superb sound work that went into said game. The acclusion programming gives it a great help (nice smooth transitions between say outdoors and driving into a warehouse with echos that sound right, also noticable in GTA3), and SOFII it gives similarly great effects to. It just adds that bit extra to a good game. Playing it with e volume up really high you really do notice it. A friend of mine who came over to play SOFII, he'd played it on his machine with a Live, was blown away by the sound quality and effects.
Also it can finally support Aureal A3D, which I have to use in iL2Sturmovik, since for some reason it doesn't like using EAXAdvanced (although I will retry it since I've just reinstalled with the latest drivers, and patched iL2 to it's latest version).
All in all, if your machine can get on with it, it's a great card, but Creative and their support suck so bad that it's a bit of a minefield whether it'll work.
I am aware that there's a team who made a third party driver for the Audigy, the kxproject. Whether it can now support EAX however I'm not sure of since I ended up not having to use it. But it's worth taking a look at.
Is it perchance called Rinpoche?
OK, if you not read redRobe get your ass to IBList and check out Jon Courtenay Grimwood. And then I'll get round to adding reRobe when I get up tomorrow. Since I'm tired from doing the Arabesks!
Long story short though, AI gun, who's sarcastic and difficult. And a great character.
I reckon it's a bit presumptious to say, well if there's water there's life, and if there's no water there's no life. I mean who knows!? Just because it's not possible, so far, to find life without water here, doesn't mean it necessarily will always be the norm.