I'm constantly amazed at how Apple is really not considered evil because they happen to sell an OS based on Unix. Duh. They're a company that sells stuff and makes money just like any other.
This is a shame. I remember when Bungie used to make fantastic mac only games. I remember when Rare use to make fantastic Nintendo only games. Sometimes as a studio, you just need the cash and stability sometimes that can come from a buyout, but it's just kind of sad to see the real gems sell out to none other than Microsoft.
So is Tron 2 going to live up to the original, by sucking badly, and not make any sense to anyone except computer geeks? And then in 20 years we will all like it.
Seriously, I remember not too long ago hearing Steven Lisberger talking about how Tron "wasn't very good." It seems the new public's opinion and Disney's have somehow swayed his own.
Many of the greats of LucasArts that made that company such a gem have moved on. Could the trademark humour, wit, story, and organic puzzelry of those classic adventure games (in particular of course, sam and max) ever be the same again? Yes, Steve Purcell will (hopefully) be working closely on this new edition, but I have this feeling it just might not be the same, just as the new star wars games could never hope to live up to the clasic x-wing, rebel assualt or dark forces. Hopefully, they can turn things around.
Despite over 70,000 respondents (.37% of the population) replying "Jedi" to an optional faith question on Australia's census, it will not become a recognized religion According to CNN. This comes after blood samples from subjects surveyed displayed non-sufficient midi-chlorian counts.
In a very fiew years, we will begin to see more of these completely CGI movies
No we wont. No studio is going to risk making another photorealistic cgi movie like FF. I personally hope it stays that way. You want photorealistic actors? Hire some.
If this is anything like previous attempts to detect human ambition (lie detectors, truth serum ect.) then there will always be a way to beat the system. In the instance of lie detectors, any individual trained extensively to beat it has an extremely good chance of doing so. This is a much more advanced technique, but who says it can't be beaten.
Either way, I think it's a horrible intrusion of privacy.
I was looking into getting one of the Husqvarna robotic-lawn mowers. The convinience and the cool factor (well, if you have lawn obsessed neighbors like mine it's cool) made it seem pretty inticing, but further research indicated that there were a few problems.
What this mower does is basically mow your lawn at it's discresion. This is usually done in random zig-zag patterns. If you're a lawn fanatic (Sad but true) or just like having a decent looking lawn that runs straight with smooth, opposing lines, this wont give you the results you want. It basically mows where ever the hell it wants - no asthetics involved. I believe this mower likely uses the same method, and until they get a little more intellegent, I'll stick with the John Deere.
Are you referring to nVidia's demonstration with the car reflecting the texture map wrapped around it? When I saw that and many other gpu technologies there, I was quite impressed, and I will agree with you that the new gpu technologies at siggraph could potentially revolutionize the role of the gpu. But I believe these are still baby steps to what will need to be acheived to realize true raytracing, true radiosity, ect. Many of these techonolgies are still in the tricks and hacks stage that has created almost every real time effect we've seen so far. No doubt it is still very exciting to see the improvemnts, but to achieve the same quality as pre-rendered? - I'm not quite sure yet if I'm going to jump in that pool.
I get sick of hearing this crap. "When will my graphics card be able to do rendering?!", "When will my graphics card be able to display pixar-quality rendering?!", "When will my graphics card be able to put out graphic realism?" ect, ect, ect.
This is a bunch of crap. By the time your playstation 6 or ge-force 7 or whatever the hell it's going to be gets to a point where it can run enough cycles to achieve toy-story quality pictures in real time (which is still years off) the bar will be raised again for cgi.
Just as moores law doubles technology, the technolgy of rendered cgi doubles. Think back when cray supercomputers rendered frames and took about an hour a frame for untextured geometry with little of the properties that are avaliable today. Today, the images still take 1 hour a frame, even though the technology is billions times faster. Why is that? Because cgi artists will continually pump in as much as they can per frame. If it took 20 minutes last year, it's going to take 20 minutes this year because studio x is going to add some new thing that improves quality but still retains their time margin.
Do you honestly think that gpu's are going to be able to achieve real-time radiosity in next couple years? Real time raytracing like renderes have now? Hundreds of thousands of blades of grass with no tricks? Individual hairs? Do you think that will happen anytime soon? Perhaps sometime - but when it does pre rendered images will feature something new that real-time can't match. Face it - real time graphics will never replace the quality of pre-rendered.
No one's asking if you can afford it. The question is what format will become dominant in the market for the future. Prices will go down. I bet you couldn't afford some of the first cd-rom's either?
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All the G5's are locked up securely in the Team Fortress.;)
In this matter, I'm glad fcc is in regulation. Although fcc keeps pushing back technology deadlines, it'd be a cold day in hell before broadcasters would voluntarily establish hdtv technologies. It's almost never seen as a fiscal investment. Without enthusists seeking to improve quality, we'd still be watching black and white as far as broadcasters would be concerned. Remember - hdtv was around decades ago, and is only seeing the light now. If it takes the fcc to force it down their throats, then so be it - its all the better for the consumer.
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This is why I always ship FedEx.
I'm constantly amazed at how Apple is really not considered evil because they happen to sell an OS based on Unix. Duh. They're a company that sells stuff and makes money just like any other.
A company that sells stuff to make money?!
Evil indeed!
Damned communist.
Sennheiser's and Grado's are the best bet for superb audio quality, however I would never go out in public with a pair of Their design team is still stuck in the cold war design era. But damn, they sound good. Your typical Senn's wont be as high of sound quality, but near close, and the exterior design is generally very sleek.
I don't know about you, but I always daisy chain my macs with adb printer cables when I want reliable connectivity!
This is a shame. I remember when Bungie used to make fantastic mac only games. I remember when Rare use to make fantastic Nintendo only games. Sometimes as a studio, you just need the cash and stability sometimes that can come from a buyout, but it's just kind of sad to see the real gems sell out to none other than Microsoft.
It's nice to not have to listen to John Kats for a change.
For $80 I can buy a subwoofer.
Pepsi has always been better than Coke. Didn't you ever hear of the Pepsi Challenge? Sammy Sosa scientifically proved it.
So is Tron 2 going to live up to the original, by sucking badly, and not make any sense to anyone except computer geeks? And then in 20 years we will all like it.
Seriously, I remember not too long ago hearing Steven Lisberger talking about how Tron "wasn't very good." It seems the new public's opinion and Disney's have somehow swayed his own.
Mod me down for being a skeptic.
Many of the greats of LucasArts that made that company such a gem have moved on. Could the trademark humour, wit, story, and organic puzzelry of those classic adventure games (in particular of course, sam and max) ever be the same again? Yes, Steve Purcell will (hopefully) be working closely on this new edition, but I have this feeling it just might not be the same, just as the new star wars games could never hope to live up to the clasic x-wing, rebel assualt or dark forces. Hopefully, they can turn things around.
Despite over 70,000 respondents (.37% of the population) replying "Jedi" to an optional faith question on Australia's census, it will not become a recognized religion According to CNN. This comes after blood samples from subjects surveyed displayed non-sufficient midi-chlorian counts.
No we wont. No studio is going to risk making another photorealistic cgi movie like FF. I personally hope it stays that way. You want photorealistic actors? Hire some.
does a peice of scotch tape patch this one up too?
I think we overclocked overclockersclub
Either way, I think it's a horrible intrusion of privacy.
I was looking into getting one of the Husqvarna robotic-lawn mowers. The convinience and the cool factor (well, if you have lawn obsessed neighbors like mine it's cool) made it seem pretty inticing, but further research indicated that there were a few problems.
What this mower does is basically mow your lawn at it's discresion. This is usually done in random zig-zag patterns. If you're a lawn fanatic (Sad but true) or just like having a decent looking lawn that runs straight with smooth, opposing lines, this wont give you the results you want. It basically mows where ever the hell it wants - no asthetics involved. I believe this mower likely uses the same method, and until they get a little more intellegent, I'll stick with the John Deere.
"iD" No.......
It's "id" dammit. id Sofware. Jeez...get it right.
Excellent. I can finally make use of my generator, y2k shelter, and 20 years worth of dried and canned goods.
Are you referring to nVidia's demonstration with the car reflecting the texture map wrapped around it? When I saw that and many other gpu technologies there, I was quite impressed, and I will agree with you that the new gpu technologies at siggraph could potentially revolutionize the role of the gpu. But I believe these are still baby steps to what will need to be acheived to realize true raytracing, true radiosity, ect. Many of these techonolgies are still in the tricks and hacks stage that has created almost every real time effect we've seen so far. No doubt it is still very exciting to see the improvemnts, but to achieve the same quality as pre-rendered? - I'm not quite sure yet if I'm going to jump in that pool.
I get sick of hearing this crap. "When will my graphics card be able to do rendering?!", "When will my graphics card be able to display pixar-quality rendering?!", "When will my graphics card be able to put out graphic realism?" ect, ect, ect.
This is a bunch of crap. By the time your playstation 6 or ge-force 7 or whatever the hell it's going to be gets to a point where it can run enough cycles to achieve toy-story quality pictures in real time (which is still years off) the bar will be raised again for cgi.
Just as moores law doubles technology, the technolgy of rendered cgi doubles. Think back when cray supercomputers rendered frames and took about an hour a frame for untextured geometry with little of the properties that are avaliable today. Today, the images still take 1 hour a frame, even though the technology is billions times faster. Why is that? Because cgi artists will continually pump in as much as they can per frame. If it took 20 minutes last year, it's going to take 20 minutes this year because studio x is going to add some new thing that improves quality but still retains their time margin.
Do you honestly think that gpu's are going to be able to achieve real-time radiosity in next couple years? Real time raytracing like renderes have now? Hundreds of thousands of blades of grass with no tricks? Individual hairs? Do you think that will happen anytime soon? Perhaps sometime - but when it does pre rendered images will feature something new that real-time can't match. Face it - real time graphics will never replace the quality of pre-rendered.
Okay! Let's all go back to radio drama!
CmdrTaco just thought that the joke about the segway was so hilarious he had to post this story again.
No one's asking if you can afford it. The question is what format will become dominant in the market for the future. Prices will go down. I bet you couldn't afford some of the first cd-rom's either?
All the G5's are locked up securely in the Team Fortress. ;)
In this matter, I'm glad fcc is in regulation. Although fcc keeps pushing back technology deadlines, it'd be a cold day in hell before broadcasters would voluntarily establish hdtv technologies. It's almost never seen as a fiscal investment. Without enthusists seeking to improve quality, we'd still be watching black and white as far as broadcasters would be concerned. Remember - hdtv was around decades ago, and is only seeing the light now. If it takes the fcc to force it down their throats, then so be it - its all the better for the consumer.