Avoid southern europe? Nothern Africa too? The middle east I can get into...but places like Spain, Italy, Greece, Marrocco, Algeria? Perfectly safe.
Sure, you could argue that ETA ccould get you in Spain, a lost fanatic will get you in Algeria, or the government will get you if you travel with a Gameboy(tm) in Greece, but the odds aren't high. You're probably unsafer in the US than in the countries mentioned...
You must have thunk "so how do you display a game in 3d with such limited screen space?"...I know I did. But here's a way around it...I think.
What you do is map your world space in a sphere (so much is 'duh'). But here's the clever thing: seeing as there must be a limit to the outer edges of your hologram, you start up a logorithmic scale from the centre of the image. So in the centre you see everything as is, but as you go out, you essentially collapse/compress space; up to a flat image on the edge of your hologram-sphere.
Does this make sense to anyone else but me? Think Carmac will do something like this?:)
Where Dataplay does (did?) have a cooler formfactor, it was only 500mb and write once.
Phillips now has a bluelaser system, working prototype, the size of a two euro coin which holds one gig of data:) And it's rewriteable! No DRM either:)
In the same vein (at least, somehow these two are hardwired together in my mind...dunno why), try 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence' by Pirsig. He gets geeky about motorcycles in such a way that you know he groks them. Lots more besides. A damn fine and interesting read.
...after all this complaing, I haven't seen one post about the actual gameplay of the game. Lotsa 'I will/won't buy this', but maybe the game play of this game is the bees knees. In which case, I'm getting it, nekkid poodles and whores aside.
And you really think that, with guns being available evrywhere, those criminals wouldn't have guns themselves?
And what's up with that first sentence? You think that 'the general populace', even armed with whatever assault cannon available, will be able to stand even for a second against an armed and trained military? If you're up against a hugely overwhelming force, you picked the wrong fight. Or at least picked the wrong place/method.
Wow, how US-centric can you get? Thankfully frivolous sueing hasn't spread beyond the US yet...at least, not in the way it's practiced in the US, where you actually can use the term 'ambulance chaser'.
Well, you guys kinda made that situation happen all by yourselves...sueing doctors left and right, just because you tripped in the hospital or the scar is more than a.mm wide.
So of course they're covering their arses...as well as there being a shortage of doctors, because the students don't want to be in such a high-risk-of-being-sued-for-jack-all proffession.
I know it's funny, but I'm sure you agree that the more space travel gets 'degraded', the sooner joe sixpack can finally get his own view from space...I personnally can't wait!
Come on! The only thing that would have prevente 9-11 is to install blastdoors to the cockpit entrance and allow no-one access to the cockpit during flight. This has still yet to be done, all the while all kinds of dictator-like laws are being passed which wouldn't have prevented 9-11 one bit. Wake up and smell the tyrany.
I used to train people in the use of Windows and Office. And you're right: sometimes someone comes along straight out of helpdesk mythology. The one who picks up the mouse and points it at the screen, that kind of thing.
But trust me, thats one in a hundred, or less than that. And usually, it's because these people want extra attention, not innability to comprehend what's going on: it's called willfull ignorance.
Uh, I do a bit of 3d, but only just enought to be intelligently stupid about it...but I don't use Oracle databases for my asset management...I couldn't care less what a database did on my CG box...memory transfers however is exactly what I would want to be fast.
And syncing large numbers of threads/cpu's, well, that is handy when doing a distributed render, but remember here: Irix is NOT Linux...just as linux is not unix:)
Anyway, I'd say they used the correct benchmark...especially for a workstation running a 3d app.
...tha this, and only this, is what I'll buy a new device for:
-PalmOS -integrated mobile phone (fromfactor: any old palm III or V with the speaking/ers part on the back->this means on the other side of the screen so I don't mess up the screen with my stubble) -colour, highres screen -removable storage -wifi or bluetooth
And that's it...I already have a good phone (nokia 7110) and my current PDA (IIIc) suffice for everyday life. Only if my demands are met will I upgrade. I couldn't care less about an integrated mp3 player or removable storage on its own, especially if that means I don't get my phone/pda.
It's actually older than that...spreadsheets were used to figure out the movement of the stars for navigantional purposes in the 16 centurie...god knows when the first use was, though.
"if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause."
Is it just me, or does this mean that if someone publishes under the OSI licence, and violates it themselves, you can't sue them for breaching their own OSI license? Therefore, if you use OSI, you can never sue another OSI licenser, even if they breach their own licensing terms!
First off: you don't use your computer for anything intensive, do you? I use it for 3d modeling and animation, and boy-oh-boy do I need the extra cpu-power, the extra ram, that superduper new gfx card. At least, if I want to move the objects at anything but frame-by-frame on my monitor.
As for the HD...yeah, I photoshop my own textures. You bet that I need that HD-space for something else than divx'.
And all this certainly comes in handy when I have to do some finite-element analysis for school (or any other simulation for that matter).
Added bonus: I can play computer games with realistic graphics on it, too!
Now, secondly; there is more to life than the computer itself. Read the very last line of the article...damn if that's not true, and maybe the most important piece of the whole chebang (sp?). Also, the bottom-up telephone system...that got me thinking bigtime. I like that idea.
Oh, and just to prove I can't count, here's number three; you want new stuff? There's whole area's of the universe not understood yet, where breakthroughs are coming (just you wait). Just a couple are: the nature of time (we still have no clue!), human nature in mind and body (what is the mind?, the soul? and what about huge breakthroughs in understanding becoming possible by biochips?). There's loads more, all only coming within reach because technology is making it possible for us to simulate/look at/describe these systems and phenomena.
Now, had you read the article (always a stickly one, that;) ), you would have read about a rat which could do exactly that (but moving a lever instead of an arm) using just a pattern in it's neurons.
They first trained it to manually press the lever, and moved on (read the article for a more detailed description) to the point where the rat just sat there and [b]thought[/b] of the actions necessary to moving the lever, and it was rewarded.
No closed loop, true, but a 'recording' of the neural patterns of the movements necessary was made.
Uh...so you've restricted burn speed...so what? What deterent is that to people who would want to copy stuff physically? How does it help?
Not to mention that that only covers physical burning (which I don't even really get how that would help/deter...please explain), and doesn't cover data on a HD.
To me, what you're talking about isn't DRM, it's just...pestering *shrug*.
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Avoid southern europe? Nothern Africa too? The middle east I can get into...but places like Spain, Italy, Greece, Marrocco, Algeria? Perfectly safe.
Sure, you could argue that ETA ccould get you in Spain, a lost fanatic will get you in Algeria, or the government will get you if you travel with a Gameboy(tm) in Greece, but the odds aren't high. You're probably unsafer in the US than in the countries mentioned...
You must have thunk "so how do you display a game in 3d with such limited screen space?"...I know I did. But here's a way around it...I think.
What you do is map your world space in a sphere (so much is 'duh'). But here's the clever thing: seeing as there must be a limit to the outer edges of your hologram, you start up a logorithmic scale from the centre of the image. So in the centre you see everything as is, but as you go out, you essentially collapse/compress space; up to a flat image on the edge of your hologram-sphere.
Does this make sense to anyone else but me? Think Carmac will do something like this? :)
Doubleplus untrue...just wait until you've done some CAD/CAM/3d work, and you'll see the use of gesture based command input.
Where Dataplay does (did?) have a cooler formfactor, it was only 500mb and write once.
:) And it's rewriteable! No DRM either :)
Phillips now has a bluelaser system, working prototype, the size of a two euro coin which holds one gig of data
In the same vein (at least, somehow these two are hardwired together in my mind...dunno why), try 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenence' by Pirsig. He gets geeky about motorcycles in such a way that you know he groks them. Lots more besides. A damn fine and interesting read.
...after all this complaing, I haven't seen one post about the actual gameplay of the game. Lotsa 'I will/won't buy this', but maybe the game play of this game is the bees knees. In which case, I'm getting it, nekkid poodles and whores aside.
And you really think that, with guns being available evrywhere, those criminals wouldn't have guns themselves?
And what's up with that first sentence? You think that 'the general populace', even armed with whatever assault cannon available, will be able to stand even for a second against an armed and trained military? If you're up against a hugely overwhelming force, you picked the wrong fight. Or at least picked the wrong place/method.
Because it's there.
...practise :)
Wow, how US-centric can you get? Thankfully frivolous sueing hasn't spread beyond the US yet...at least, not in the way it's practiced in the US, where you actually can use the term 'ambulance chaser'.
The rest of the world isn't at that level...yet.
Well, you guys kinda made that situation happen all by yourselves...sueing doctors left and right, just because you tripped in the hospital or the scar is more than a .mm wide.
So of course they're covering their arses...as well as there being a shortage of doctors, because the students don't want to be in such a high-risk-of-being-sued-for-jack-all proffession.
Now you get to sleep in the bed you made.
I know it's funny, but I'm sure you agree that the more space travel gets 'degraded', the sooner joe sixpack can finally get his own view from space...I personnally can't wait!
...just plain kinky!
Come on! The only thing that would have prevente 9-11 is to install blastdoors to the cockpit entrance and allow no-one access to the cockpit during flight.
This has still yet to be done, all the while all kinds of dictator-like laws are being passed which wouldn't have prevented 9-11 one bit. Wake up and smell the tyrany.
I used to train people in the use of Windows and Office. And you're right: sometimes someone comes along straight out of helpdesk mythology. The one who picks up the mouse and points it at the screen, that kind of thing.
But trust me, thats one in a hundred, or less than that. And usually, it's because these people want extra attention, not innability to comprehend what's going on: it's called willfull ignorance.
Uh, I do a bit of 3d, but only just enought to be intelligently stupid about it...but I don't use Oracle databases for my asset management...I couldn't care less what a database did on my CG box...memory transfers however is exactly what I would want to be fast.
:)
And syncing large numbers of threads/cpu's, well, that is handy when doing a distributed render, but remember here: Irix is NOT Linux...just as linux is not unix
Anyway, I'd say they used the correct benchmark...especially for a workstation running a 3d app.
But as I said, IANA3DExpert...
...tha this, and only this, is what I'll buy a new device for:
-PalmOS
-integrated mobile phone (fromfactor: any old palm III or V with the speaking/ers part on the back->this means on the other side of the screen so I don't mess up the screen with my stubble)
-colour, highres screen
-removable storage
-wifi or bluetooth
And that's it...I already have a good phone (nokia 7110) and my current PDA (IIIc) suffice for everyday life. Only if my demands are met will I upgrade. I couldn't care less about an integrated mp3 player or removable storage on its own, especially if that means I don't get my phone/pda.
I wouldn't care, as I get that halo-ing effect anyway with my contacts in...so what would be the loss?
It's actually older than that...spreadsheets were used to figure out the movement of the stars for navigantional purposes in the 16 centurie...god knows when the first use was, though.
Who else thinks these guys just want to view pr0n, visit chatrooms and play games all day?
Sounds like a research grant I would think up :)
"if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause."
Is it just me, or does this mean that if someone publishes under the OSI licence, and violates it themselves, you can't sue them for breaching their own OSI license? Therefore, if you use OSI, you can never sue another OSI licenser, even if they breach their own licensing terms!
So this is usefull how?
...to his statement. Let's face it, the signal to noise ratio of usefull info on the net has dropped significantly the past years.
But that's changing again, thank [diety-of-choise] and places like MIT putting their content online.
First off: you don't use your computer for anything intensive, do you? I use it for 3d modeling and animation, and boy-oh-boy do I need the extra cpu-power, the extra ram, that superduper new gfx card. At least, if I want to move the objects at anything but frame-by-frame on my monitor.
As for the HD...yeah, I photoshop my own textures. You bet that I need that HD-space for something else than divx'.
And all this certainly comes in handy when I have to do some finite-element analysis for school (or any other simulation for that matter).
Added bonus: I can play computer games with realistic graphics on it, too!
Now, secondly; there is more to life than the computer itself. Read the very last line of the article...damn if that's not true, and maybe the most important piece of the whole chebang (sp?). Also, the bottom-up telephone system...that got me thinking bigtime. I like that idea.
Oh, and just to prove I can't count, here's number three; you want new stuff? There's whole area's of the universe not understood yet, where breakthroughs are coming (just you wait). Just a couple are: the nature of time (we still have no clue!), human nature in mind and body (what is the mind?, the soul? and what about huge breakthroughs in understanding becoming possible by biochips?). There's loads more, all only coming within reach because technology is making it possible for us to simulate/look at/describe these systems and phenomena.
Trust me, we don't know nothing yet.
Now, had you read the article (always a stickly one, that ;) ), you would have read about a rat which could do exactly that (but moving a lever instead of an arm) using just a pattern in it's neurons.
They first trained it to manually press the lever, and moved on (read the article for a more detailed description) to the point where the rat just sat there and [b]thought[/b] of the actions necessary to moving the lever, and it was rewarded.
No closed loop, true, but a 'recording' of the neural patterns of the movements necessary was made.
Uh...so you've restricted burn speed...so what? What deterent is that to people who would want to copy stuff physically? How does it help? Not to mention that that only covers physical burning (which I don't even really get how that would help/deter...please explain), and doesn't cover data on a HD. To me, what you're talking about isn't DRM, it's just...pestering *shrug*.