Re:Impact on the environment (and the ground)
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Going Up?
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One of the most interesting proposals that I've heard is to always launch two payloads at the same time: one going up, and the other going down. That way it would theoretically use no energy. I'm not quite sure about the engineering of such a solution, though.
Exactly. And that's the main reason the EU's creating their own GPS system too. The US has a habit of blocking GPS service to "enemy" fighters, and Europe doesn't want to have that stand in the way of their use of GPS.
Actually, WWI was over a variety of reasons, amongst them: Germany not wanting Austria to collapse and take power away from Prussia, Russia's neverending need to expand in its own version of "manifest destiny", France being pissed off over the piece of land Germany took away from it in the Franco-Prussian war, etc.
And if we're talking about stupidity, France's "brilliant" strategy in early WWII takes the cake.
And if she can't move her hand that much, you can use a variation on the air tube idea where you blow in a tube enough to raise a ball within a vertical tube to block a laser light, at least momentarily.
Sometimes the version that most pleases the masses isn't the best version. For example, Titanic was the most grossing movie ever. Under your logic, it would therefore be the best movie ever. And i'm pretty sure that you don't think so.
It's not illegal, but it's against the spirit of the First Amendment. Half of what people claim is illegal censorship isn't, but nearly all of it is against the wishes of the First Amendment.
It cleans up the signal and incidentally also removes the copy protection. Remember kids, the RIAA says that violating fair use is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.
While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second,
This was obviously from Zdnet's Division of Redundancy Division. It happens to be listed twice on the organizational chart.
It doesn't matter how earth-shattering the NV30 will be. It's complete feature set won't be utilized anytime soon. The GF3/4 cards still has long lives ahead of them.
And that's exactly the reason that Nvidia is pushing Cg, so that these advanced features could be used almost immediately by game designers. Instead of programming in support for those new advanced features from the beginning, you can now just add them in when you compile it. That's a huge difference, especially in games like DNF and Blizzard titles.
So, if all goes as planned by Nvidia, you'll be able to run games great on that old computer, but utilize the advanced features like pixel & vertex shaders on your new computer to get those 100+ fps that everyone wants.
When you play two notes on, for example, the piano, it actually generates three notes: the two played notes, and the difference between the two. By using two ultrasonic sound waves, which are directional, they can make the generating waves un-hearable to the human ear, and put the difference wave nicely within the hearing range of most humans.
Actually, they already have such systems. However, they're a bit on the bulky side and are used to lessen the running noise from things like cars and airplanes.
This would be about as effective as setting a large speaker on high and setting it up against the wall. The range is the only thing that makes it effective. Far better ways of knocking down a wall would be to amplify the natural resonance of an object, like Tesla did a time or two. It creates a nifty little earthquake effect using a device about as big as an alarm clock.
Half-Life is successful because of its great modibility and that Valve just keeps on patching it. Halo, in it's current form, hasn't shown either characteristics because of the limitations of being a console game. Whether Gearbox can just add those great traits into a console-designed game is yet to be seen. But then again, they did make a great THPS 3 port.
f this trend continues, then it logically follows that there will be no more Windows servers at some point in the future.
If this trend continues of eating 2% more market share every time period, then eventually Linux will control more than 100% of the market share.
Re:Doom3 != Good OpenGl 2 Implementation
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Doom3 and OpenGL2.0
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A Doom3-optimized version of OpenGL2 driver is better than no driver than all. Also, many in the industry take the advice of "The Carmack" rather seriously, and this may mean that more games will switch over to OpenGL2 drivers. Finally, Drivers and Implementations have always been a case of the Chicken and the egg. Carmack just gave us a chicken.
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Well, only a few people really want many of the advanced features of NV30, but one of those few just happens to be John Carmack.
I'm sure he could find a way to effectively use that technology.
Spike the pigeon food.
"The end is nigh!" "Nigh means Near!"
One of the most interesting proposals that I've heard is to always launch two payloads at the same time: one going up, and the other going down. That way it would theoretically use no energy. I'm not quite sure about the engineering of such a solution, though.
If any girls show up, expect thousands upon thousands of single geeks to show up.
Exactly. And that's the main reason the EU's creating their own GPS system too. The US has a habit of blocking GPS service to "enemy" fighters, and Europe doesn't want to have that stand in the way of their use of GPS.
Actually, WWI was over a variety of reasons, amongst them: Germany not wanting Austria to collapse and take power away from Prussia, Russia's neverending need to expand in its own version of "manifest destiny", France being pissed off over the piece of land Germany took away from it in the Franco-Prussian war, etc.
And if we're talking about stupidity, France's "brilliant" strategy in early WWII takes the cake.
And if she can't move her hand that much, you can use a variation on the air tube idea where you blow in a tube enough to raise a ball within a vertical tube to block a laser light, at least momentarily.
Sometimes the version that most pleases the masses isn't the best version. For example, Titanic was the most grossing movie ever. Under your logic, it would therefore be the best movie ever. And i'm pretty sure that you don't think so.
It's not illegal, but it's against the spirit of the First Amendment. Half of what people claim is illegal censorship isn't, but nearly all of it is against the wishes of the First Amendment.
It cleans up the signal and incidentally also removes the copy protection. Remember kids, the RIAA says that violating fair use is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse.
For example:
While the processor's design is still under wraps, the companies say Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second,
This was obviously from Zdnet's Division of Redundancy Division. It happens to be listed twice on the organizational chart.
Windows is bloated. It is possible for Linux to run something faster than Windows, it's just hard.
How are we going to learn how to build an open-source battle.net client without buying Warcraft 3 first? :)
It doesn't matter how earth-shattering the NV30 will be. It's complete feature set won't be utilized anytime soon. The GF3/4 cards still has long lives ahead of them.
And that's exactly the reason that Nvidia is pushing Cg, so that these advanced features could be used almost immediately by game designers. Instead of programming in support for those new advanced features from the beginning, you can now just add them in when you compile it. That's a huge difference, especially in games like DNF and Blizzard titles.
So, if all goes as planned by Nvidia, you'll be able to run games great on that old computer, but utilize the advanced features like pixel & vertex shaders on your new computer to get those 100+ fps that everyone wants.
Now if AMD can get the endorsement of "The Carmack", they will really be happy.
What's your most requested pieces of content?
When you play two notes on, for example, the piano, it actually generates three notes: the two played notes, and the difference between the two. By using two ultrasonic sound waves, which are directional, they can make the generating waves un-hearable to the human ear, and put the difference wave nicely within the hearing range of most humans.
Actually, they already have such systems. However, they're a bit on the bulky side and are used to lessen the running noise from things like cars and airplanes.
This would be about as effective as setting a large speaker on high and setting it up against the wall. The range is the only thing that makes it effective. Far better ways of knocking down a wall would be to amplify the natural resonance of an object, like Tesla did a time or two. It creates a nifty little earthquake effect using a device about as big as an alarm clock.
Heh, the programmers are the users, silly.
I agree. Milkshape is the most used program to make models on the HL modding scene, if not the only. Its success speaks for itself.
Half-Life is successful because of its great modibility and that Valve just keeps on patching it. Halo, in it's current form, hasn't shown either characteristics because of the limitations of being a console game. Whether Gearbox can just add those great traits into a console-designed game is yet to be seen. But then again, they did make a great THPS 3 port.
f this trend continues, then it logically follows that there will be no more Windows servers at some point in the future. If this trend continues of eating 2% more market share every time period, then eventually Linux will control more than 100% of the market share.
A Doom3-optimized version of OpenGL2 driver is better than no driver than all. Also, many in the industry take the advice of "The Carmack" rather seriously, and this may mean that more games will switch over to OpenGL2 drivers. Finally, Drivers and Implementations have always been a case of the Chicken and the egg. Carmack just gave us a chicken.