That is true. The basic gameplay concept remains, but yeah, it is sad to see the fun idea exchanged for a more palatable... series of cement walled rooms. With turrets.
Bright White LEDs... for one thing, they may look white, but they don't have the full spectrum of good ol' blackbody radiating incandescent bulbs. Also, without good regulated power (look at a string of LED christmas lights), they flicker. They also cost a lot on their own, let alone with a transformer, rectifier, and power regulator. The stuff is getting cheaper, but still. Until it is easy to produce a full spectrum cheaply with LEDs, I doubt they will have much use.
Where I am now I am taking physics. I take standard math math courses in the program. We are allowed a specified calculator in most courses. This is a fairly major university, probably the second largest in my sub-country division. Back at my old college, I could take my 83+ into most tests, and I managed to bring an 89 into a first year calculus exam (just for the interface, I didn't do derivatives or anything on it).
Actually, there is already a term for that kind of thing. Criminal negligence. It doesn't take much to influence people, ever heard of the Milgram Experiment? Or, for that matter, the Stanford prison experiment? It does, however, take a lot of work to get a factory of people together to build robots, and to supply the raw materials. I don't think robots are necessary.
As in pumping gas? Selling clothing? Washing dishes? Yeah, those take a lot more intelligence than breaking into a house, stealing stuff, and selling it, all the while not getting caught.
Good point. Also, if your Wii has a camera attached, hackers could watch your camera, and trigger your Wii controller to vibrate at precisely the right time to frighten your dog into leaping into your grandmother, killing her.
The best way to correct this flaw is to have no grandmothers. I have nothing to worry about.
The whole thing is getting very annoying, I admit. also stupid is when people mention it as SERIOUS ADVICE to someone reading slashdot. Oh well, next time Duke Nukem Forever is mentioned, I have a way to freshen that joke...
Perhaps only having DX10 on Vista is a bad move for Microsoft. OpenGL seems to move at a snail's pace, but perhaps this could be the year that OpenGL/SDL/whatnot takes off in the video game market, for game makers looking for compatibility with XP, and new features (if the aforementioned groups speed up a bit). Any game maker working with the PS3 will be used to it in the form of OpenGL ES (of course, anyone working with the 360 will have a really easy time porting to windows, it appears), and if apple computers gain more popularity, DX could lose a lot of ground.
Of course, I know nothing, and am not a programmer.
To a degree. Can you do collision detection, procedural textures, and everything else on a GPU? A GPU is still fairly specialized. Math operations are still useful outside of it.
I have heard of an ASIC before. I was going a bit over the top, but I wanted to get the post out... pre-emptively. This is no ASIC. That's like calling a 747 a glider. I do not know much of the field, but anyway...
Why I think the Cell is a good idea: 1. Standard PPC core. With the wealth of PPC code out there, compilers shouldn't have a problem with that. 2. Parallel vector processors. How cool is that? Each one like a math coprocessor, only with more awesome included (sorry for the non technical terms there). Perfect for grinding out mathematical operations, that so often pop up in graphics, 3d-2d conversion, and I would imagine AI programs. So, we have a processor that fits the bill. Anyway, I am tired, and I should get to sleep now. I was going to say something else, but I forgot what.
I am going to assume there will be a lot of complaining about the PS3 being included. It does two things that are pretty novel: A chip tailored for the application and high performance computing (sorry for the buzzword) when off the shelf components are becoming more and more commonplace. Come on, you want a Cell, don't you? Imagine running a differential equation solver in real time for sound synthesis on one of those, say. Also, I think it is a tool to market Blu-ray, which is a rather interesting strategy. Blu-Ray will probably pay off as games get bigger with the screens, and should generate a lot of revenue for Sony, if it defeats HD-DVD in the home movie market.
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Yes, defectivebydesign is good. windows and bug are also good. But still, where's the slownewsday?
That is true. The basic gameplay concept remains, but yeah, it is sad to see the fun idea exchanged for a more palatable... series of cement walled rooms. With turrets.
Like Narbacular Drop? Or however you spell that?
Bright White LEDs... for one thing, they may look white, but they don't have the full spectrum of good ol' blackbody radiating incandescent bulbs. Also, without good regulated power (look at a string of LED christmas lights), they flicker. They also cost a lot on their own, let alone with a transformer, rectifier, and power regulator. The stuff is getting cheaper, but still. Until it is easy to produce a full spectrum cheaply with LEDs, I doubt they will have much use.
That's one nice thing about Vista. It will show us all that windows XP wasn't that bad.
Don't worry, all Vista compatible flash drives will be able to do encryption in hardware, so they can cache the protected content you are watching.
Where I am now I am taking physics. I take standard math math courses in the program. We are allowed a specified calculator in most courses. This is a fairly major university, probably the second largest in my sub-country division. Back at my old college, I could take my 83+ into most tests, and I managed to bring an 89 into a first year calculus exam (just for the interface, I didn't do derivatives or anything on it).
Actually, it probably won't be allowed on tests. Here in Canada, I had to use my 83+ for all tests, even into college now.
So... even if I hack the Gibson, I will still be a powerless virgin in my dorm room? My life is shattered.
Actually, there is already a term for that kind of thing. Criminal negligence. It doesn't take much to influence people, ever heard of the Milgram Experiment? Or, for that matter, the Stanford prison experiment? It does, however, take a lot of work to get a factory of people together to build robots, and to supply the raw materials. I don't think robots are necessary.
Maybe in Unreal Tournament 2020, rather than MONSTER KILL, you will hear DISTRIBUTED DENIAL OF SERVICE
As in pumping gas? Selling clothing? Washing dishes? Yeah, those take a lot more intelligence than breaking into a house, stealing stuff, and selling it, all the while not getting caught.
Out of curiosity, why would that be? Why not, say, a blackberry? Or a Treo with Wi-Fi? Probably cheaper too. Not as glossy, I'll admit.
John Carmack, thankfully, is not John Romero.
Good point. Also, if your Wii has a camera attached, hackers could watch your camera, and trigger your Wii controller to vibrate at precisely the right time to frighten your dog into leaping into your grandmother, killing her.
The best way to correct this flaw is to have no grandmothers. I have nothing to worry about.
The whole thing is getting very annoying, I admit. also stupid is when people mention it as SERIOUS ADVICE to someone reading slashdot. Oh well, next time Duke Nukem Forever is mentioned, I have a way to freshen that joke...
The poster is posting on slashdot. He/she knows about linux. Probably XP and mac too.
It would seem to me like he was making a sharp jab of SATIRE and WIT at people who post AC.
Perhaps only having DX10 on Vista is a bad move for Microsoft. OpenGL seems to move at a snail's pace, but perhaps this could be the year that OpenGL/SDL/whatnot takes off in the video game market, for game makers looking for compatibility with XP, and new features (if the aforementioned groups speed up a bit). Any game maker working with the PS3 will be used to it in the form of OpenGL ES (of course, anyone working with the 360 will have a really easy time porting to windows, it appears), and if apple computers gain more popularity, DX could lose a lot of ground.
Of course, I know nothing, and am not a programmer.
But... he totally slandered Linux 7.0!
No, but so far they aren't. If Microsoft allowed games to be played off of HD-DVD, then maybe the 360 would be as interesting as the PS3.
To a degree. Can you do collision detection, procedural textures, and everything else on a GPU? A GPU is still fairly specialized. Math operations are still useful outside of it.
I have heard of an ASIC before. I was going a bit over the top, but I wanted to get the post out... pre-emptively. This is no ASIC. That's like calling a 747 a glider. I do not know much of the field, but anyway...
Why I think the Cell is a good idea:
1. Standard PPC core. With the wealth of PPC code out there, compilers shouldn't have a problem with that.
2. Parallel vector processors. How cool is that? Each one like a math coprocessor, only with more awesome included (sorry for the non technical terms there). Perfect for grinding out mathematical operations, that so often pop up in graphics, 3d-2d conversion, and I would imagine AI programs.
So, we have a processor that fits the bill. Anyway, I am tired, and I should get to sleep now. I was going to say something else, but I forgot what.
Maybe if it was only Microsoft getting HD-DVD royalties, they would have done a good job with the 360 addon.
I am going to assume there will be a lot of complaining about the PS3 being included. It does two things that are pretty novel: A chip tailored for the application and high performance computing (sorry for the buzzword) when off the shelf components are becoming more and more commonplace. Come on, you want a Cell, don't you? Imagine running a differential equation solver in real time for sound synthesis on one of those, say. Also, I think it is a tool to market Blu-ray, which is a rather interesting strategy. Blu-Ray will probably pay off as games get bigger with the screens, and should generate a lot of revenue for Sony, if it defeats HD-DVD in the home movie market.