Wow. You've seen one too many bad science fiction movies.
Oh, and if you mean the "war machine" learns from it's enemies, consider this little dictum: "each war is fought with strategies and tactics meant for the previous one". Last one the US fought was in the Gulf...which was "overwhelming force". Well, looks like the military does learn and adapt, don't th....oh, wait...
Problem is, they used sound waves and extremely good microphones to do this. I've seen the same programme...with the cool little target-accisition boxes on the monitor, right? It's been used in Yougoslavia already.
No, the problem was that more than 90% of those Patriot missles didn't hit their target! It was pure spin control that made them seem effective...and the spin was so good that even now so many people think the Patriot missile systems worked. Even after so many documentaries/newsreports/etc. saying they didn't. Problem is of course that those reports weren't made until the very late 90's.
Of course, you're final point still does stand.
You mod the parent Flamebait? When the parent of the parent post talks about US ruling the world, he gets +5 insightfull. When the parent to this post says "Well, be carefull with your checks and balances" using an all too apt analogy using good/bad cops (all too apt seeing the corruption in business and politics around the world) he gets flamebait? Wow.
Actually, this made to CNN...at least, the CNN we get in the Netherlands (I add that because there are significant differences in programming between countries).
"I'm having trouble imagining spontaneous anti-GM sentiment."
Sometimes people do think for themselves (I'm shocked at that, too;) ). Especially farmers who see stories like certain GM crops having been windblown into a farmers field and then having to pay for copyright infringement. It's a grass-roots thing.
Not really that tough: seems that Nintendo had made roughly 450 million with their illegal trade practices. They where fined 145 million. Which means they still made a cool 300 million by illegal means. What a wristslap...
Think about it: if 1 in 10 (maybe a lot less) people get one of these babies, and run a reasonable VoIP software on it...all you need is a wifi PDA and you've got "free" telephone services!
Hmmm, I guess you'd also want IP6 running...but wow! what a thought: technology makes another middleman obsolete!
That's exactly what private use entails; you have to own the original media. Otherwise you are distributing intellectual copyright. If you don't own the cd/lp/digital recording, it's not private use. It's implied (laws do that).
That tax is just nabbed on under the idea "we'll redistribute this money to the artists". We have it in the Netherlands too. But in actual fact it's just a tax which never goes to it's intended recipients. You can even make the claim that it's illegal, as you pay it even if you do nothing else but put your backup documents on the cd's. But it's not a justification for illegal breaking of copyright.
So what cpu are you going to use? AMD and Intel have said they'll be going the palladium route, so they're out. Sure, you can use the newly developed chinese chips, but they're not what you'd call top of the line...hell, they're not even middle of the road yet.
Sure, DRM won't be popular, but when you finally want to upgrade, where's your choice? That's one of the reasons why I've always joked that I want to be able to vote in US elections, even though I live in Europe; what happens in any part of the world affects you, so don't kid yourself.
Oh, and you're not allowed to copy a cd you've borrowed from someone; that violates international copyright law everywhere in the world.
So what cpu are you going to use? AMD and Intel have said they'll be going the palladium route, so they're out. Sure, you can use the newly developed chinese chips, but they're not what you'd call top of the line...hell, they're not even middle of the road yet.
Sure, DRM won't be popular, but when you finally want to upgrade, where's your choice? That's one of the reasons why I've always joked that I want to be able to vote in US elections, even though I live in Europe; what happens in any part of the world affects you, so don't kid yourself.
And that is exactly the reason why iD is pissed at a leak. Alpha software, even beta software, is just that: it's not finished, it's not polished, it's not optimised. It's not even feature rich, let alone feature complete.
Normal people, who have even a passing interest in software, any kind of software, know that. You on the other hand are just a troll who has no clue. You're complaining about low frame rates for a game which hasn't been optimised yet. The guys at iD are just happy to have stuff show up on screen and not crash most of the time at this point (well, they're further than that, but the point stands). It'll get fixed, but that takes time. This is exactly the reason why iD is "upset"; morons like you making a presumption that framerates are low now, so they'll be low when the game comes out (in more than half a years time, which also means a new generation of gfx hardware, btw). You're complaing about gameplay for something which has not half of the features, weapons and AI (which is always tackled last, as it needs to be designed with every feature and more importantly the implementation of those features in mind).
"keep believing that all those pixel shaders and stencil shadows actually make anything besides the models look better"
No, they make the environment around the model look pretty too. You don't even seem to know what those things do...I'm impressed by your overall lack of knowledge, insight and your mastery of stupidity.
For one, look at France; tollbooths do work, period.
Secondly, you contradict yourself: you state that private concerns won't build roadsbecause there's no return on investment, then finish off by saying that road construction is efficient...
All of which doesn't change the fact that personal transit is wastefull, inefficient and poluting. And it literally stinks.
"Since color on a CRT screen is unreliable... it changes if you look at your screen from a different direction"
Don't you mean LCD? If it occurs to you on a CRT, then spend your money on a GOOD CRT. Trinitron or better. Fact is that colour is better on a CRT; if you do any DTP, Photoshopping or anything else where colour matters, CRT is your only choice.
No, NURBS aren't (SubD is...kinda). Non Uniform Rational B-Splines are constructed much like normal splines, with control points to match. They're rendered as such too, with smooth transitions if specified. Polygons are constructed from triangles...meaning you need mucho triangles to create one sphere, but only one spline. Different process altogether.
"plasticky look to organic or "construction" geometry"
This really makes me think you don't know that much about 3d. "construction" geometry? WTF is that? I'm guessing you're just talking about organic shapes vs. "construction" geometry as in lacking straight lines and corners...well, just adjust and specify your controll points and NURBS do that too. So do SubDivision Surfaces. BTW, that plasticky look is usually gained from the textures and other effects you add to the basic geometry:)
One thing I sorely missed here was NURBS. A lot was said about polygons, but that's old tech which shouldn't really be used. Just because MS forced DirectX polygons in the business. Little known fact is that Nvidia had spline support on their first gfx card, but was forced to abbandon it as MS wouldn't incorporate it.
What I also missed was more on user made content, more to the point: user made content which finds itself automatically into the game, instead of evryone who wants to see it having to download it. Broadband territory, sure, but essential for the huge worlds being dreamed up. Cheating is an issue, but I'm sure systems can be defined which limit opacity, size, wireframe and other cheats. Just imagine being able to REALLY create your own house/player character/house which you can use in the MMORPG.
Duh! What do you think made the printing press so widespread...the bible? No, pornographic prints. That also what pushed pricture tech. And photography. Why do you think video recorders did so well? Porn! More to the point, porn at home instead of seedy bookstores/cinema's. And what financed those huge pipes for the internet? Sure, Darpa started it, but the pron biz made it economical. Porn has pushed all forms of communications technology. It's just that society is too prude to admit it most of the time.
BTW, this is a serious post, it's not meant to be funny.
You didn't read the articles, did you; what was said about AI was pretty interesting, and I know for a fact that most of that wasn't widely discussed ten years ago.
Sure, some people might of talked about it, but not mainstream and not speciality computing magazines. Not in this way. Sure, you could extrapolate Turings writing and arrive at the same thing, but that's like saying Hawking is redundant because it all follows from Einsteins work.
That's why I loved Street fighter 2...couters to everything, you actually had to think while you fought. Kind of the same zen-ish feeling Go gives, when you're really in the zone against someone who know his/her stuff. Budokan too. But the FPS/RTS games never give me the same thing...as you say, they look pretty, but that's it. Not much else comes to mind that has that infinite different replay value...
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Peacefull coexistence is lost on you. It doesn't even occur as an option to you, apparently. That's just plain evil.
Man, now I get your sig!
Wow. You've seen one too many bad science fiction movies.
Oh, and if you mean the "war machine" learns from it's enemies, consider this little dictum: "each war is fought with strategies and tactics meant for the previous one". Last one the US fought was in the Gulf...which was "overwhelming force". Well, looks like the military does learn and adapt, don't th....oh, wait...
The Dutch Gatekeeper system does this too (for naval vessels)...only by filling the sky with lead :)
Problem is, they used sound waves and extremely good microphones to do this. I've seen the same programme...with the cool little target-accisition boxes on the monitor, right? It's been used in Yougoslavia already.
"Currently, this thing can hit one artillery shell in flight"
Uhm...the article states the laser was also tested on "swarms" of the older missile...
No, the problem was that more than 90% of those Patriot missles didn't hit their target! It was pure spin control that made them seem effective...and the spin was so good that even now so many people think the Patriot missile systems worked. Even after so many documentaries/newsreports/etc. saying they didn't. Problem is of course that those reports weren't made until the very late 90's. Of course, you're final point still does stand.
You mod the parent Flamebait? When the parent of the parent post talks about US ruling the world, he gets +5 insightfull.
When the parent to this post says "Well, be carefull with your checks and balances" using an all too apt analogy using good/bad cops (all too apt seeing the corruption in business and politics around the world) he gets flamebait? Wow.
What's scary about this comment is that you've already appended the "I" to Gulf War.
Actually, this made to CNN...at least, the CNN we get in the Netherlands (I add that because there are significant differences in programming between countries).
"I'm having trouble imagining spontaneous anti-GM sentiment."
;) ). Especially farmers who see stories like certain GM crops having been windblown into a farmers field and then having to pay for copyright infringement. It's a grass-roots thing.
Sometimes people do think for themselves (I'm shocked at that, too
Not really that tough: seems that Nintendo had made roughly 450 million with their illegal trade practices. They where fined 145 million. Which means they still made a cool 300 million by illegal means. What a wristslap...
Haven't heard that, but your probably right...but the same problem remains, doesn't it?
Think about it: if 1 in 10 (maybe a lot less) people get one of these babies, and run a reasonable VoIP software on it...all you need is a wifi PDA and you've got "free" telephone services!
Hmmm, I guess you'd also want IP6 running...but wow! what a thought: technology makes another middleman obsolete!
That's exactly what private use entails; you have to own the original media. Otherwise you are distributing intellectual copyright. If you don't own the cd/lp/digital recording, it's not private use. It's implied (laws do that).
That tax is just nabbed on under the idea "we'll redistribute this money to the artists". We have it in the Netherlands too. But in actual fact it's just a tax which never goes to it's intended recipients. You can even make the claim that it's illegal, as you pay it even if you do nothing else but put your backup documents on the cd's. But it's not a justification for illegal breaking of copyright.
So what cpu are you going to use? AMD and Intel have said they'll be going the palladium route, so they're out. Sure, you can use the newly developed chinese chips, but they're not what you'd call top of the line...hell, they're not even middle of the road yet.
Sure, DRM won't be popular, but when you finally want to upgrade, where's your choice? That's one of the reasons why I've always joked that I want to be able to vote in US elections, even though I live in Europe; what happens in any part of the world affects you, so don't kid yourself.
Oh, and you're not allowed to copy a cd you've borrowed from someone; that violates international copyright law everywhere in the world.
So what cpu are you going to use? AMD and Intel have said they'll be going the palladium route, so they're out. Sure, you can use the newly developed chinese chips, but they're not what you'd call top of the line...hell, they're not even middle of the road yet.
Sure, DRM won't be popular, but when you finally want to upgrade, where's your choice? That's one of the reasons why I've always joked that I want to be able to vote in US elections, even though I live in Europe; what happens in any part of the world affects you, so don't kid yourself.
And that is exactly the reason why iD is pissed at a leak. Alpha software, even beta software, is just that: it's not finished, it's not polished, it's not optimised. It's not even feature rich, let alone feature complete.
Normal people, who have even a passing interest in software, any kind of software, know that. You on the other hand are just a troll who has no clue. You're complaining about low frame rates for a game which hasn't been optimised yet. The guys at iD are just happy to have stuff show up on screen and not crash most of the time at this point (well, they're further than that, but the point stands). It'll get fixed, but that takes time. This is exactly the reason why iD is "upset"; morons like you making a presumption that framerates are low now, so they'll be low when the game comes out (in more than half a years time, which also means a new generation of gfx hardware, btw).
You're complaing about gameplay for something which has not half of the features, weapons and AI (which is always tackled last, as it needs to be designed with every feature and more importantly the implementation of those features in mind).
"keep believing that all those pixel shaders and stencil shadows actually make anything besides the models look better"
No, they make the environment around the model look pretty too. You don't even seem to know what those things do...I'm impressed by your overall lack of knowledge, insight and your mastery of stupidity.
For one, look at France; tollbooths do work, period.
Secondly, you contradict yourself: you state that private concerns won't build roadsbecause there's no return on investment, then finish off by saying that road construction is efficient...
All of which doesn't change the fact that personal transit is wastefull, inefficient and poluting. And it literally stinks.
"Since color on a CRT screen is unreliable... it changes if you look at your screen from a different direction"
Don't you mean LCD? If it occurs to you on a CRT, then spend your money on a GOOD CRT. Trinitron or better. Fact is that colour is better on a CRT; if you do any DTP, Photoshopping or anything else where colour matters, CRT is your only choice.
No, NURBS aren't (SubD is...kinda). Non Uniform Rational B-Splines are constructed much like normal splines, with control points to match. They're rendered as such too, with smooth transitions if specified. Polygons are constructed from triangles...meaning you need mucho triangles to create one sphere, but only one spline. Different process altogether.
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"plasticky look to organic or "construction" geometry"
This really makes me think you don't know that much about 3d. "construction" geometry? WTF is that? I'm guessing you're just talking about organic shapes vs. "construction" geometry as in lacking straight lines and corners...well, just adjust and specify your controll points and NURBS do that too. So do SubDivision Surfaces.
BTW, that plasticky look is usually gained from the textures and other effects you add to the basic geometry
One thing I sorely missed here was NURBS. A lot was said about polygons, but that's old tech which shouldn't really be used. Just because MS forced DirectX polygons in the business. Little known fact is that Nvidia had spline support on their first gfx card, but was forced to abbandon it as MS wouldn't incorporate it.
What I also missed was more on user made content, more to the point: user made content which finds itself automatically into the game, instead of evryone who wants to see it having to download it. Broadband territory, sure, but essential for the huge worlds being dreamed up. Cheating is an issue, but I'm sure systems can be defined which limit opacity, size, wireframe and other cheats. Just imagine being able to REALLY create your own house/player character/house which you can use in the MMORPG.
Duh! What do you think made the printing press so widespread...the bible? No, pornographic prints. That also what pushed pricture tech. And photography. Why do you think video recorders did so well? Porn! More to the point, porn at home instead of seedy bookstores/cinema's. And what financed those huge pipes for the internet? Sure, Darpa started it, but the pron biz made it economical. Porn has pushed all forms of communications technology. It's just that society is too prude to admit it most of the time.
BTW, this is a serious post, it's not meant to be funny.
You didn't read the articles, did you; what was said about AI was pretty interesting, and I know for a fact that most of that wasn't widely discussed ten years ago.
Sure, some people might of talked about it, but not mainstream and not speciality computing magazines. Not in this way. Sure, you could extrapolate Turings writing and arrive at the same thing, but that's like saying Hawking is redundant because it all follows from Einsteins work.
That's why I loved Street fighter 2...couters to everything, you actually had to think while you fought. Kind of the same zen-ish feeling Go gives, when you're really in the zone against someone who know his/her stuff. Budokan too. But the FPS/RTS games never give me the same thing...as you say, they look pretty, but that's it. Not much else comes to mind that has that infinite different replay value...