...p2p is a terrorist tool! I thought there was even a US secretary general or something who warned of the evil of p2p? Wasn't this the tool of the devil which helped distribute child porn and mp3's? WHAT IS THE GOV'T THINKING!!!???
Too true. What I can't understand is why fractal programs haven't been incorporated in hardware long ago due to their applicability in clouds, terrain, dirtmaps, foilage, haze, smoke, fire and so forth.
But then again, I also wonder why nvidia dropped hardware support of complex surfaces (NURBS) since the TNT...
Sorry, but games are scalable...they have to be, becuase in contrast to what you post/most gamers do not have high end systems/! Only the hardcore gamer (who makes up a small part of the total gameplaying public) has a highend cpu, lotsa ram and a spanking vidcard.
So to sell lotsa copies and earn lotsa money, games have to be, and are, scalable. Why do you think you can turn off all those gfx options, set lower resolutions, use smaller textures etc etc etc?
I doubt it; it's software that sells hardware, not the other way 'round.
Look at UT2004: it runs on most anything, from crummy laptops to high-end pc's and mac's. Only difference being the eye-candy. Fact is, most games already try to cater to the low end aswell as the high end; the only games targeted specifically at the highend are limiting their sales...and publishers know it, so they'll come down hard on most any develloper that only targets the high end (id being the notable exception).
Wouldn't a draftdodger now be classified as a terrorist/non-military combatant, therefore allowing Bushy to reach for a big stick to force Canada to comply?
It's because you have skills...laywers don't have any beyond recall of precedent...something a computer can do in about a few years time. And don't tell me 'they interpret the law too!'...that's what judges are for:)
You know what? What if the country actually went back and made possible the way of life it was built on? Every so often, it IS about what your country can do for you: if it doesn't deliver on it's promises, it's time for change. And I'd say that it's time for America to do something about educating it's people, providing jobs to it's inhabitants and living in peace. 'Cos we all know that the US gov't has only been waging war, and has done NOTHING to 'attack' the root causes of terrorism...like reduce poverty, not meddling with souvereign state's affairs or even picking the right targets [remember, 15 of the 911 terrorists where saudi...and many more people are killed by smoking, fattening foods, guns etc etc etc, singly or combined, than terrorism].
Nah...I'd say application use. A PDA (personal digital assistant) is primarily used for appointments, phonebooks, notetaking and reading. A handheld is (primarily or exclusively) used for games.
Sure, there is crossover, just like you can install linux on an xbox and use it for developping spreadsheet apps, but that's not the point.
"You can't just do mocap and IK and get it right, it takes an artist to make it look convincing"
Is that so? I always thought that mocap was convincing enough on it's own and that the only thing you need the artist for was cleanup (removing jitter and solving occlussion of marker data and the like). And doesn't IK have little to do with mocap? I thought IK was used for in-game positioning or when you don't have mocap (remembering IK!=bones, but that IK can be/applied/ to bones).
Well, duh; first off, we're dealing with digital photography. There is no 'real/true colour', it's all composites anyway. Secondly, if you where to see only the visible light spectrum, there wouldn't be much to see.
I'm guessing that those acronyms are also mental reminders; the whole history of the patient might not jump out of memory when you read/hear a name, but when you see RUK, all kinds of info will come up.
Anyway, RUK is just descriptive to painfully true, not neccessarily mocking.
"Is out society better/safer than it was 30 years ago? 60 years ago? 90 years ago? Yes, yes, and yes.
No matter what Jon Katz and Michael Moore would like you to believe, your chance of getting brutally killed in or around an American school is far lower today than any of those three periods you just mentioned."
I'm sorry, but it's no, no and no. It's basically kind of the same, if not worse. And it's not mr' Katz telling me this, or mr Moore; it's biographies of people who lived in those times, and history books, and statistics which have been kept for quite a while now. The paper trail, archeology and plain oral tradition tell us that wherever there are humans, there's the same chance of said humans being bastards/criminal/indifferent/good to you.
They might say that, but the Matrix misses most, if not very nearly all, of Lain's themes, yet does nick some of GitS' themes. As for art direction and cinematography, that's all from GitS...no Lain in sight...unless you count the matrix's computers looking just a tiny bit like Lain's overgrown navi (the one she 'case modded':)).
So it's basicly a case of money over equality? Not so smart in the long run, even if the girls weren't up for it in the beginning, if you ask me......but then again, you didn't:)
...to put the females in a seperate competition? What a dumbass, sexist thing to do.
Even appart from the fact that in video games, chess, bridge or any other sport/game which doesn't rely on physical prowess the difference between male and female doesn't come into play; it's just a dumb thing to do. I for one would love to compete (or rather: be in the same room...I don't think I'm at their level of play) with Louise and the other girls.
The US is spending more than half it's budget on defense and related moneysinks. This includes homeland defense, CIA/FBI/NSA etc spending.
More than half. Of all it's money. Whilst it's economy is down the drain, education is producing people who actually graduate from highschool whilst not being able to read, write or even calculate normaly (without the use of a calculator) and there is a large number of people living below the poverty line.
More than half. And you tell me that the current US government has a sound fiscal policy?
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...p2p is a terrorist tool! I thought there was even a US secretary general or something who warned of the evil of p2p? Wasn't this the tool of the devil which helped distribute child porn and mp3's? WHAT IS THE GOV'T THINKING!!!???
Now that is humour :) Thanks for making me grin out loud :)
Too true. What I can't understand is why fractal programs haven't been incorporated in hardware long ago due to their applicability in clouds, terrain, dirtmaps, foilage, haze, smoke, fire and so forth.
But then again, I also wonder why nvidia dropped hardware support of complex surfaces (NURBS) since the TNT...
Sorry, but games are scalable...they have to be, becuase in contrast to what you post /most gamers do not have high end systems/! Only the hardcore gamer (who makes up a small part of the total gameplaying public) has a highend cpu, lotsa ram and a spanking vidcard.
So to sell lotsa copies and earn lotsa money, games have to be, and are, scalable. Why do you think you can turn off all those gfx options, set lower resolutions, use smaller textures etc etc etc?
Morrowwind, scalable? Oh, you mean 'ran like crap on any system due to lack of occlusion culling'!
I doubt it; it's software that sells hardware, not the other way 'round.
Look at UT2004: it runs on most anything, from crummy laptops to high-end pc's and mac's. Only difference being the eye-candy.
Fact is, most games already try to cater to the low end aswell as the high end; the only games targeted specifically at the highend are limiting their sales...and publishers know it, so they'll come down hard on most any develloper that only targets the high end (id being the notable exception).
Wouldn't a draftdodger now be classified as a terrorist/non-military combatant, therefore allowing Bushy to reach for a big stick to force Canada to comply?
It's because you have skills...laywers don't have any beyond recall of precedent...something a computer can do in about a few years time. And don't tell me 'they interpret the law too!'...that's what judges are for :)
Shit...anyone here seen Starship Troopers?
You know what? What if the country actually went back and made possible the way of life it was built on?
Every so often, it IS about what your country can do for you: if it doesn't deliver on it's promises, it's time for change.
And I'd say that it's time for America to do something about educating it's people, providing jobs to it's inhabitants and living in peace. 'Cos we all know that the US gov't has only been waging war, and has done NOTHING to 'attack' the root causes of terrorism...like reduce poverty, not meddling with souvereign state's affairs or even picking the right targets [remember, 15 of the 911 terrorists where saudi...and many more people are killed by smoking, fattening foods, guns etc etc etc, singly or combined, than terrorism].
Oh, if I only had mod points...+1 whatever.
Nah...I'd say application use. A PDA (personal digital assistant) is primarily used for appointments, phonebooks, notetaking and reading. A handheld is (primarily or exclusively) used for games.
Sure, there is crossover, just like you can install linux on an xbox and use it for developping spreadsheet apps, but that's not the point.
"You can't just do mocap and IK and get it right, it takes an artist to make it look convincing"
/applied/ to bones).
Is that so? I always thought that mocap was convincing enough on it's own and that the only thing you need the artist for was cleanup (removing jitter and solving occlussion of marker data and the like). And doesn't IK have little to do with mocap? I thought IK was used for in-game positioning or when you don't have mocap (remembering IK!=bones, but that IK can be
This is so true. Fact is that no console/handheld manufacturor makes money off the hardware: all revenue comes in through sales of games.
PS: this does not apply to Palmpilot/PocketPC...but then, they're not handhelds, but PDA's.
Slashdot serendipity...priceless :)
What about that floating array thing; the space telescope made of something like eight widely spaced mirrors kept in formation?
Well, duh; first off, we're dealing with digital photography. There is no 'real/true colour', it's all composites anyway. Secondly, if you where to see only the visible light spectrum, there wouldn't be much to see.
Easy...I just type in the name of whatever dish I feel like and don't know how to cook yet into google, press enter and viola.
I'm guessing that those acronyms are also mental reminders; the whole history of the patient might not jump out of memory when you read/hear a name, but when you see RUK, all kinds of info will come up.
Anyway, RUK is just descriptive to painfully true, not neccessarily mocking.
"Is out society better/safer than it was 30 years ago? 60 years ago? 90 years ago?
Yes, yes, and yes.
No matter what Jon Katz and Michael Moore would like you to believe, your chance of getting brutally killed in or around an American school is far lower today than any of those three periods you just mentioned."
I'm sorry, but it's no, no and no. It's basically kind of the same, if not worse. And it's not mr' Katz telling me this, or mr Moore; it's biographies of people who lived in those times, and history books, and statistics which have been kept for quite a while now. The paper trail, archeology and plain oral tradition tell us that wherever there are humans, there's the same chance of said humans being bastards/criminal/indifferent/good to you.
They might say that, but the Matrix misses most, if not very nearly all, of Lain's themes, yet does nick some of GitS' themes. As for art direction and cinematography, that's all from GitS...no Lain in sight...unless you count the matrix's computers looking just a tiny bit like Lain's overgrown navi (the one she 'case modded' :)).
Try the Robotech game :) You will have to get a console to play it, though :(
So it's basicly a case of money over equality? Not so smart in the long run, even if the girls weren't up for it in the beginning, if you ask me... ...but then again, you didn't :)
...to put the females in a seperate competition? What a dumbass, sexist thing to do.
Even appart from the fact that in video games, chess, bridge or any other sport/game which doesn't rely on physical prowess the difference between male and female doesn't come into play; it's just a dumb thing to do.
I for one would love to compete (or rather: be in the same room...I don't think I'm at their level of play) with Louise and the other girls.
The US is spending more than half it's budget on defense and related moneysinks. This includes homeland defense, CIA/FBI/NSA etc spending.
More than half. Of all it's money. Whilst it's economy is down the drain, education is producing people who actually graduate from highschool whilst not being able to read, write or even calculate normaly (without the use of a calculator) and there is a large number of people living below the poverty line.
More than half. And you tell me that the current US government has a sound fiscal policy?