The idea is that the only thing you are uploading to the server is input, such as mouse/keyboard/voice information. The game logic and assets all reside on the server itself, and thus don't have to be upload by your machine. It's as if you were playing a game over a VNC connection.
One thing that is really cool about this technology is that it has the potential to eliminate cheating in games such as first person shooters. A lot of the cheating in the past is because the game client running on a user's machine actually knows a lot more information than what is being shown to the user. If a user can get past those artificial barriers to the information with hacked graphics drivers to see through walls, or sound drivers to see the exact location of footsteps, then they have a huge advantage over another user which leaves those artificial "information limiters" in place. It turns out it's very difficult to limit the sending of information from the server to a game client to only exactly what a game client needs at any given time. Theoretically, if the only thing being received from a game server are pre-rendered images, the a user couldn't use that information to cheat with wallhacks or any other current cheats that I know of. The problem is that there would also be no way to do client-side prediction (which is why extra information generally has to be sent in the first place), and mitigate the lag that inevitably exists between nearly all servers and clients to this day.
I've tried to look up other laws in the past, and it's nearly impossible. None of the articles that I read linked to the law in question. I want to see whether the law references text messaging specifically, or just using the cell phone. If I've got directions cued up on my phone, and am checking my phone for the next direction, is that going to fall under this law?
Another law I've tried to look up in the past was the law referencing handicapped parking spaces. It took somewhere between 30min to an hour to find Seattle Municipal Code - Disabled parking. If anyone has a link to the full text of the law, please respond.
Some people get too caught up in their own world. Just because everybody is talking about the Mac Mini on the few Apple fansites that the submitter visits daily doesn't mean that it has reached anybody else's collective conciousness. Aside from a mention on Slashdot, I haven't heard much of anything of the Mac Mini, and I certainly know next to nothing about the Ipod Hi-Fi that the submitter refers to.
The submitter talks about "over-hype", I say what hype?
The benefit with fuel cells is that the charge time is equal to the amount of time it takes to refuel the cell. Recharging my laptop to full takes several hours, filling a fuel cell should take minutes.
I dislike how the author of the article slipped this in.
Although Prof. Bialystok is a strong proponent of bilingual education, she is less enthusiastic about video games. Recent studies have found overexposure to violent video games may desensitize children to violence and that gaming can become addictive enough to distract from other activities.
Its not clear whether Professor Bialystok actually made reference to these "recent studies" or not. If the author is just paraphrasing a conversation she had with the Professor Bialystok as she leads the reader to believe, then perhaps I would be more forgiving. Unfortunately, the ambiguous language leaves open the possibility that the author added in the information about the so called "recent studies" to help balance out her article. If this is the case, then this is deceptive fear mongering. In either case, some more information about these studies would have been much appreciated (as would unambiguous language).
Even encryption won't matter if the person you are chatting with decides to copy/paste your conversation elsewhere. The human side of the equation is always the most troublesome.
I too enjoy using my high-end headphones when I can. I bought a flash-based MP3 player, however, because with it I can easily listen to music while performing physical activity such as jogging. In the case of jogging, the benefits of the larger headphones are outweighed by their cumbersomeness. They move around too easily, are uncomforatably heavy, and most of all they are very hot to wear.
If one can get multiple focal points from just a single exposure, it seems like this technique could speed up systems which take multiple "slices" of an object to build a 3D representation of that object's structure. Brain scans for instance.
Is it worrying that I read "18th Century" as "leighth Century", realizing that made no sense, and then having to reread it again to figure out the true meaning?:/
As far as gaming goes, CRTs are still king. I have gamed on an LCD monitor for about 3 years now, and am the first to admit that CRTs are much crisper due to their pixel response speed than LCDs.
Its funny, because I picture a world where LCDs were invented first, and then comes about the invention of the CRT. I can imagine purchasing a CRT because it gives an advantage in gaming, despite its enormous size and greater power consumption. After all, I jump at almost any other advantage I can get through superior hardware.
I'm curious how an OS with no Superuser can allow someone to assign permissions to other users. Are there Superusers for different parts of the OS, and if I want my access to span across these parts, I have to get access from multiple "superusers?"
Yah, because things like my car, which has extensive embedded systems, have critical electronics systems fail all the time. I remember when it was mechanical failures like flat tires and oil leaks which peopled bitched and moaned about. Nowadays it's the engine computer crash that is the bane of our society. Seems to always happen in the middle of that intersection too:/
If at the same time a company which has put me on hold is playing their "this call may be monitored" etc. etc., I play a message that says "I do not consent to this call being monitored, your acceptance of this fact is noted by you not hanging up" what right do they then have to monitor my call?
Is it fair for them to be able to play a message and assume I heard it, if I don't get the same courtesy? How would the situation of two machines talking to each other get resolved if I were to somehow find out that my conversation was listened in to, and took them to court over the issue?
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I have a 3ghz P4, Radeon 9700 Pro, and 1gb of RAM, and I get about 180FPS constant
Why not bring a flash to a movie theater, set it off before the movie starts. Hopefully noone around you will be annoyed, and maybe you'll burn out those NV Goggles!
A while ago I had horrible latency issues on ATT's cable Internet network. It took months of hammering away at their tech support infrastructure to get things done. During one particularly enlightening phone conversation, I was told that ATT suspected the cause of my latency issues to be a "Rogue Router" of some sort. Needless to say, I laughed at the guy and hung up on the spot. A couple months later and with the help of a knowledgeable *gasp* tech, the latency issues were found to be caused by an overloaded node. Apparently the node had twice the number of subscribers on it than was company policy to allow. Morale of the story is that ISPs are inherently evil.
I saw the same Nasa press conference. They explained how one of the cameras had many visible light filters, and one of the cameras had many lower-wavelength-than-visible-light filters. Of the two filters that are actually in common with each other between the two cameras, they had been using one that is near-infrared for the stereo pictures. They said that they could take pictures with a filter that is close to the red that humans percieve, but that since only one of the cameras had this filter, that it would be bad for stereoscopic vision
The scientist then went on to say that since they knew the spectrum of light on mars, that it is fairly simple to adjust from the near-infra-red pictures to what we humans would percieve the light to be.
This year my mother pulled a fast one on me. She had me "research" DVD burners for one of her geek friends. Imagine how surprised I was when the same player I recommended to her ended up under the tree. That's the way non-geeks should handle christmas all the time:)
Driving is a public activity performed on public roads, therefore there cannot be any expectation of privacy
So then, if I am driving on my private country road, secluded from the public eye, is it still unreasonable to except some privacy?
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Since when has it been perfectly legal to litter my large private estate with policemen?
I know that in the realm of video gaming, its fairly commonplace to build up a map of where players are based on sound alone. Combining information from the sound of footsteps, and items being picked up, with my knowledge of a map allows me to know exactly where multiple people are. This seems to be very similar to what a bat does to track its prey.
If I were flying in a cockpit, and had perhaps a 4 speaker (or maybe more for up/down differentiation) system placed around my head, I'd feel confident in being able to mentally place many airplanes in 3D space. Perhaps different sounds for different types of airplanes, as well as friend or foe would allow even more information to be encoded. This sort of mental placement based on sound is second nature to those of us who have grown up playing firt person shooters (FPS).
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The idea is that the only thing you are uploading to the server is input, such as mouse/keyboard/voice information. The game logic and assets all reside on the server itself, and thus don't have to be upload by your machine. It's as if you were playing a game over a VNC connection.
One thing that is really cool about this technology is that it has the potential to eliminate cheating in games such as first person shooters. A lot of the cheating in the past is because the game client running on a user's machine actually knows a lot more information than what is being shown to the user. If a user can get past those artificial barriers to the information with hacked graphics drivers to see through walls, or sound drivers to see the exact location of footsteps, then they have a huge advantage over another user which leaves those artificial "information limiters" in place. It turns out it's very difficult to limit the sending of information from the server to a game client to only exactly what a game client needs at any given time. Theoretically, if the only thing being received from a game server are pre-rendered images, the a user couldn't use that information to cheat with wallhacks or any other current cheats that I know of. The problem is that there would also be no way to do client-side prediction (which is why extra information generally has to be sent in the first place), and mitigate the lag that inevitably exists between nearly all servers and clients to this day.
I've tried to look up other laws in the past, and it's nearly impossible. None of the articles that I read linked to the law in question. I want to see whether the law references text messaging specifically, or just using the cell phone. If I've got directions cued up on my phone, and am checking my phone for the next direction, is that going to fall under this law?
Another law I've tried to look up in the past was the law referencing handicapped parking spaces. It took somewhere between 30min to an hour to find Seattle Municipal Code - Disabled parking. If anyone has a link to the full text of the law, please respond.
Some people get too caught up in their own world. Just because everybody is talking about the Mac Mini on the few Apple fansites that the submitter visits daily doesn't mean that it has reached anybody else's collective conciousness. Aside from a mention on Slashdot, I haven't heard much of anything of the Mac Mini, and I certainly know next to nothing about the Ipod Hi-Fi that the submitter refers to.
The submitter talks about "over-hype", I say what hype?
The benefit with fuel cells is that the charge time is equal to the amount of time it takes to refuel the cell. Recharging my laptop to full takes several hours, filling a fuel cell should take minutes.
Although Prof. Bialystok is a strong proponent of bilingual education, she is less enthusiastic about video games. Recent studies have found overexposure to violent video games may desensitize children to violence and that gaming can become addictive enough to distract from other activities.
Its not clear whether Professor Bialystok actually made reference to these "recent studies" or not. If the author is just paraphrasing a conversation she had with the Professor Bialystok as she leads the reader to believe, then perhaps I would be more forgiving. Unfortunately, the ambiguous language leaves open the possibility that the author added in the information about the so called "recent studies" to help balance out her article. If this is the case, then this is deceptive fear mongering. In either case, some more information about these studies would have been much appreciated (as would unambiguous language).Even encryption won't matter if the person you are chatting with decides to copy/paste your conversation elsewhere. The human side of the equation is always the most troublesome.
I too enjoy using my high-end headphones when I can. I bought a flash-based MP3 player, however, because with it I can easily listen to music while performing physical activity such as jogging. In the case of jogging, the benefits of the larger headphones are outweighed by their cumbersomeness. They move around too easily, are uncomforatably heavy, and most of all they are very hot to wear.
People marked this as Insightful, but I read it as Funny. I have no high hopes for this game.
If one can get multiple focal points from just a single exposure, it seems like this technique could speed up systems which take multiple "slices" of an object to build a 3D representation of that object's structure. Brain scans for instance.
Is it worrying that I read "18th Century" as "leighth Century", realizing that made no sense, and then having to reread it again to figure out the true meaning? :/
As far as gaming goes, CRTs are still king. I have gamed on an LCD monitor for about 3 years now, and am the first to admit that CRTs are much crisper due to their pixel response speed than LCDs. Its funny, because I picture a world where LCDs were invented first, and then comes about the invention of the CRT. I can imagine purchasing a CRT because it gives an advantage in gaming, despite its enormous size and greater power consumption. After all, I jump at almost any other advantage I can get through superior hardware.
the sandworms on Mars are really lazy
Careful about guessing too well, or you may end up having to reveal your sources!
My guess is that the 8 was about to change to a different number ( Or maybe from a different number to an 8 ) when they took that pic.
I'm curious how an OS with no Superuser can allow someone to assign permissions to other users. Are there Superusers for different parts of the OS, and if I want my access to span across these parts, I have to get access from multiple "superusers?"
Yah, because things like my car, which has extensive embedded systems, have critical electronics systems fail all the time. I remember when it was mechanical failures like flat tires and oil leaks which peopled bitched and moaned about. Nowadays it's the engine computer crash that is the bane of our society. Seems to always happen in the middle of that intersection too :/
If at the same time a company which has put me on hold is playing their "this call may be monitored" etc. etc., I play a message that says "I do not consent to this call being monitored, your acceptance of this fact is noted by you not hanging up" what right do they then have to monitor my call? Is it fair for them to be able to play a message and assume I heard it, if I don't get the same courtesy? How would the situation of two machines talking to each other get resolved if I were to somehow find out that my conversation was listened in to, and took them to court over the issue?
I have a 3ghz P4, Radeon 9700 Pro, and 1gb of RAM, and I get about 180FPS constant
Why not bring a flash to a movie theater, set it off before the movie starts. Hopefully noone around you will be annoyed, and maybe you'll burn out those NV Goggles!
A while ago I had horrible latency issues on ATT's cable Internet network. It took months of hammering away at their tech support infrastructure to get things done. During one particularly enlightening phone conversation, I was told that ATT suspected the cause of my latency issues to be a "Rogue Router" of some sort. Needless to say, I laughed at the guy and hung up on the spot. A couple months later and with the help of a knowledgeable *gasp* tech, the latency issues were found to be caused by an overloaded node. Apparently the node had twice the number of subscribers on it than was company policy to allow. Morale of the story is that ISPs are inherently evil.
I saw the same Nasa press conference. They explained how one of the cameras had many visible light filters, and one of the cameras had many lower-wavelength-than-visible-light filters. Of the two filters that are actually in common with each other between the two cameras, they had been using one that is near-infrared for the stereo pictures. They said that they could take pictures with a filter that is close to the red that humans percieve, but that since only one of the cameras had this filter, that it would be bad for stereoscopic vision
The scientist then went on to say that since they knew the spectrum of light on mars, that it is fairly simple to adjust from the near-infra-red pictures to what we humans would percieve the light to be.
This year my mother pulled a fast one on me. She had me "research" DVD burners for one of her geek friends. Imagine how surprised I was when the same player I recommended to her ended up under the tree. That's the way non-geeks should handle christmas all the time :)
Driving is a public activity performed on public roads, therefore there cannot be any expectation of privacy
So then, if I am driving on my private country road, secluded from the public eye, is it still unreasonable to except some privacy?
Putting event recorders in cars is no different than putting policemen on every street corner, which is perfectly legal now. So making event recorders in car compulsory is therefore legal, and obstructing it's operation shall be deemed the same thing as interfering with the work of police.
Since when has it been perfectly legal to litter my large private estate with policemen?
I know that in the realm of video gaming, its fairly commonplace to build up a map of where players are based on sound alone. Combining information from the sound of footsteps, and items being picked up, with my knowledge of a map allows me to know exactly where multiple people are. This seems to be very similar to what a bat does to track its prey.
If I were flying in a cockpit, and had perhaps a 4 speaker (or maybe more for up/down differentiation) system placed around my head, I'd feel confident in being able to mentally place many airplanes in 3D space. Perhaps different sounds for different types of airplanes, as well as friend or foe would allow even more information to be encoded. This sort of mental placement based on sound is second nature to those of us who have grown up playing firt person shooters (FPS).