why on earth would you need a 5 watt laser? it's being reflected thousands of times across an area, not combining thousands of pizels into one focussed beam and shooting it at you. think before you grab your tin foil hat
technically it IS correct. the sentence can have both meanings. the fact that it is able to translate correctly to "i am a citizen of berlin" does not expressly preclude it from also being translated as "i am a jelly doughnut" if you were to dress up as a giant pastry and run down the streets of, say, Stuttgart, screaming "ich bin ein berliner!" people could look at you and see that yes, this is true. the one translation does not eliminate the correctness of the other.
games have been doing the cutscenes using the engine for quite a while. sacrifice is a good example. i think even JK2 the cutscenes were done by the engine, the character models look the same.
lucas does the same thing. all you just described was a tech demo and a horribly void sex life. people who care can get pixel shaded bump mapping from...well...anything with pixelshaded bump mapping. and last time i was in the weird world of "outside" i saw a lot of stuff casting shadows.
the question is, will id include all of that crap with a game worth playing, or is "the guy from doom" gonna end up wandering around casting a shadow and telling nataly portman "i dont like the sand, its rough and irritating" in dolby digital 5.1 just like another recent heavily hyped tech demo with a few good action scenes.
The top of the line current hardware is the ATI 8500 and the GF4 Ti. Doom3 is being done to take full advantage of those existing hardwares, push them to the limit. IANAIP (i am not an id programmer) but i think its fairly safe to say the game will perform fairly well on a geforce 3, and use every single feature of that as well. Next generation cards are not going to be a requirement for the game, they'll just be able to run it with a little extra breathing room. So you might be able to run with everything cranked on your new GF4 and pull a perfectly acceptable 30fps, the next gen will just give an improvement on that which is probably nothing but geek-penis-length type noise (ie, fps even farther beyond what your eyes can process).
geforce 2's are yesterday's toys. so yeah if you're still pushing a gf2 mx 64 (like me) it probably handles current stuff reasonably well, but everything for that has been done already. I don't see any case of GAMES pushing the DEVELOPMENT of new hardware devices, just the acquisition of current stuff from people who haven't cut themselves on the bleeding edge of hardware development the second it hits the market.
The bill is a really good idea, unfortunately, it HAS to be kept quiet to succeed.
Contact your representatives, yes
Get your friends to contact their representatives, yes.
Shout it from the rooftops, put it in the paper, get it on the nightly news, unfortunately, no.
If the screaming whining masses find out there is a bill being proposed that actually involves spending money on something OTHER than doubling their welfare check, or throw the cash down some other bottemless pit of no-returns for society, all hell will break loose. To ensure the bill passes, make sure that your congressmen and women and vile creatures only hear heaps of praise and support for this.
The internet also evolved out from the government, defense department, and major universities. It's not really a single thing to be fought like an obvious distinct piece of software. It just kinda spread like cancer once it got started
SUN specifically. NT is mostly just for admin shit and paperwork and people too stupid to be of any use so they sit around making power points instead of performing any real national security function.
Or if it has I've never seen it. The article linked on that web page is such utter crap the health department should cite them for releasing sewage.
I was on the Yorktown when this occurred. I had been there since the initial installations and upgrades of all these systems began. And the primary LAN administrator was a friend of mine, he had been reassigned out of our division to support the new networks.
The bug in the software allowing it to crash when it hit that infamous divide by zero error that everyone knows everything about was triggered by the local jackhole putting in some bad information to the system. As I recall, no one was particularly surprised when they found out who it was either.
The computer shutdown forced all the ships engines to be taken offline. ALL of them, not just the 4 gas turbines used for propulsion but the 3 turbines used for electricity as well. This one point is actually a little worse than most articles I have seen make it out to be, during the (brief) period of time while the ship was shutdown, she was shut down cold. Emergency lights and UPS systems and not much else.
However, the ships engineers were able to restart the engines within a fairly short amount of time. I'd say they had the lights back on in well under an hour, getting the main engines online took a bit longer, perhaps as long as 2 hours.
The ship then sailed under her own power to Norfolk Naval station.
The network itself didnt exactly take "days" to restore from this horrible catastrophe. A highly technical and in-depth troubleshooting procedure commonly known as "a re-boot" was performed as soon as the electricity was brought back. A highly overpaid Microsoft technician could probably shed more grim, terrifying details as to the painful nature of this arduous troubleshooting technique.
The ship remained in port about 2 days while tech's went back through the logs to identify who or what screwed up to ensure it was safe to continue using the automated systems. It was an investigation into what happened, not anything remotely like taking "two days of pierside maintenance to fix the problem"
Reading the article again, I think I can safely say that that DiGiorgio fucktard apaprently had a very tenuous grasp on reality, and absolutely no knowledge about the incident whatsoever. Every single statement concerning the Yorktown he made in that article was false, to the degree that I'm not even sure he had ever HEARD of the Yorktown when he was being interviewed for the article.
"The Yorktown has been towed into port after other systems failures, he said." With the exception of harbor tug boats guiding a ship to the pier, used by every ship in every fleet of the world, the only time the Yorktown had a tow cable attached to her was when she was doing the pulling. The specific incident I remember was in the case of a cargo ship that happened to be in the very unfortunate circumstances of 1. dead in the water 2. wanted for cocaine shipping and 3. found by the Navy. I suppose there is a slim chance that the Yorktown MIGHT have been towed back in the early 80's when a russian destroyer rammed her, but I doubt even then.
"If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is immune to the character of the data it processes," seems to me to be a fairly good indication that he has never observed a computer being used by people.
"Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said. I just think that's kinda funny is all. Especially considering that most of the other computer systems were designed in the 70's. They were all, of course, rock solid. There'll never be a problem with anything like that. Besides we only use those for safe, little tasks like SHOOTING MISSILES.
"Installing a control system on a warship and resolving problems as the project progresses is a costly and naive process." This person has apparently never seen how the military approves new technology. Ignoring his idea that "installing a system and testing it so you can get rid of the bugs is costly and naive" the smartship program was designed to force new technology into the fleet as quickly as possible, with the Yorktown being used as a TEST ship, in order to identify what works well and what doesnt. Without programs such as this, getting ANYTHING new actually implemented into the military can take well over 5 years.
I really like the part at the end where he touts himself as the visionary whistle blowing martyr.
One last comment...a previous poster mentioned that "The Yorktown crash was the result of mixing mission-critical and non-mission-critical programs on the same box. Big no-no" I'm not sure what his point is here, the administrative network did use some of the same servers but had nothing to do with, well, anything.
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why on earth would you need a 5 watt laser?
it's being reflected thousands of times across an area, not combining thousands of pizels into one focussed beam and shooting it at you. think before you grab your tin foil hat
technically it IS correct. the sentence can have both meanings. the fact that it is able to translate correctly to "i am a citizen of berlin" does not expressly preclude it from also being translated as "i am a jelly doughnut"
if you were to dress up as a giant pastry and run down the streets of, say, Stuttgart, screaming "ich bin ein berliner!" people could look at you and see that yes, this is true. the one translation does not eliminate the correctness of the other.
will we be going to war with the BSA sometime soon?
fuck that innovation stuff. lets just keep the same old tired 3 year old shit for games. change is scary.
games have been doing the cutscenes using the engine for quite a while. sacrifice is a good example. i think even JK2 the cutscenes were done by the engine, the character models look the same.
lucas does the same thing. all you just described was a tech demo and a horribly void sex life. people who care can get pixel shaded bump mapping from...well...anything with pixelshaded bump mapping. and last time i was in the weird world of "outside" i saw a lot of stuff casting shadows.
the question is, will id include all of that crap with a game worth playing, or is "the guy from doom" gonna end up wandering around casting a shadow and telling nataly portman "i dont like the sand, its rough and irritating" in dolby digital 5.1 just like another recent heavily hyped tech demo with a few good action scenes.
The top of the line current hardware is the ATI 8500 and the GF4 Ti. Doom3 is being done to take full advantage of those existing hardwares, push them to the limit. IANAIP (i am not an id programmer) but i think its fairly safe to say the game will perform fairly well on a geforce 3, and use every single feature of that as well. Next generation cards are not going to be a requirement for the game, they'll just be able to run it with a little extra breathing room. So you might be able to run with everything cranked on your new GF4 and pull a perfectly acceptable 30fps, the next gen will just give an improvement on that which is probably nothing but geek-penis-length type noise (ie, fps even farther beyond what your eyes can process). geforce 2's are yesterday's toys. so yeah if you're still pushing a gf2 mx 64 (like me) it probably handles current stuff reasonably well, but everything for that has been done already. I don't see any case of GAMES pushing the DEVELOPMENT of new hardware devices, just the acquisition of current stuff from people who haven't cut themselves on the bleeding edge of hardware development the second it hits the market.
no they're not complaining about people dumping spam, they're trying to establish that its illegal to tell other people that X company sends spam
it was just osama's pr0n password. he isn't gonna use email anyway, CNN told everyone the government would read osama's mail. come on
The bill is a really good idea, unfortunately, it HAS to be kept quiet to succeed. Contact your representatives, yes Get your friends to contact their representatives, yes. Shout it from the rooftops, put it in the paper, get it on the nightly news, unfortunately, no. If the screaming whining masses find out there is a bill being proposed that actually involves spending money on something OTHER than doubling their welfare check, or throw the cash down some other bottemless pit of no-returns for society, all hell will break loose. To ensure the bill passes, make sure that your congressmen and women and vile creatures only hear heaps of praise and support for this.
The internet also evolved out from the government, defense department, and major universities. It's not really a single thing to be fought like an obvious distinct piece of software. It just kinda spread like cancer once it got started
and charge ALL internet advertisers royalties?
SUN specifically. NT is mostly just for admin shit and paperwork and people too stupid to be of any use so they sit around making power points instead of performing any real national security function.
Or if it has I've never seen it. The article linked on that web page is such utter crap the health department should cite them for releasing sewage.
I was on the Yorktown when this occurred. I had been there since the initial installations and upgrades of all these systems began. And the primary LAN administrator was a friend of mine, he had been reassigned out of our division to support the new networks.
The bug in the software allowing it to crash when it hit that infamous divide by zero error that everyone knows everything about was triggered by the local jackhole putting in some bad information to the system. As I recall, no one was particularly surprised when they found out who it was either.
The computer shutdown forced all the ships engines to be taken offline. ALL of them, not just the 4 gas turbines used for propulsion but the 3 turbines used for electricity as well. This one point is actually a little worse than most articles I have seen make it out to be, during the (brief) period of time while the ship was shutdown, she was shut down cold. Emergency lights and UPS systems and not much else.
However, the ships engineers were able to restart the engines within a fairly short amount of time. I'd say they had the lights back on in well under an hour, getting the main engines online took a bit longer, perhaps as long as 2 hours.
The ship then sailed under her own power to Norfolk Naval station.
The network itself didnt exactly take "days" to restore from this horrible catastrophe. A highly technical and in-depth troubleshooting procedure commonly known as "a re-boot" was performed as soon as the electricity was brought back. A highly overpaid Microsoft technician could probably shed more grim, terrifying details as to the painful nature of this arduous troubleshooting technique.
The ship remained in port about 2 days while tech's went back through the logs to identify who or what screwed up to ensure it was safe to continue using the automated systems. It was an investigation into what happened, not anything remotely like taking "two days of pierside maintenance to fix the problem"
Reading the article again, I think I can safely say that that DiGiorgio fucktard apaprently had a very tenuous grasp on reality, and absolutely no knowledge about the incident whatsoever. Every single statement concerning the Yorktown he made in that article was false, to the degree that I'm not even sure he had ever HEARD of the Yorktown when he was being interviewed for the article.
"The Yorktown has been towed into port after other systems failures, he said."
With the exception of harbor tug boats guiding a ship to the pier, used by every ship in every fleet of the world, the only time the Yorktown had a tow cable attached to her was when she was doing the pulling. The specific incident I remember was in the case of a cargo ship that happened to be in the very unfortunate circumstances of 1. dead in the water 2. wanted for cocaine shipping and 3. found by the Navy.
I suppose there is a slim chance that the Yorktown MIGHT have been towed back in the early 80's when a russian destroyer rammed her, but I doubt even then.
"If you understand computers, you know that a computer normally is immune to the character of the data it processes," seems to me to be a fairly good indication that he has never observed a computer being used by people.
"Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor," DiGiorgio said.
I just think that's kinda funny is all.
Especially considering that most of the other computer systems were designed in the 70's. They were all, of course, rock solid. There'll never be a problem with anything like that. Besides we only use those for safe, little tasks like SHOOTING MISSILES.
"Installing a control system on a warship and resolving problems as the project progresses is a costly and naive process." This person has apparently never seen how the military approves new technology. Ignoring his idea that "installing a system and testing it so you can get rid of the bugs is costly and naive" the smartship program was designed to force new technology into the fleet as quickly as possible, with the Yorktown being used as a TEST ship, in order to identify what works well and what doesnt. Without programs such as this, getting ANYTHING new actually implemented into the military can take well over 5 years.
I really like the part at the end where he touts himself as the visionary whistle blowing martyr.
One last comment...a previous poster mentioned that "The Yorktown crash was the result of mixing mission-critical and non-mission-critical programs on the same box. Big no-no"
I'm not sure what his point is here, the administrative network did use some of the same servers but had nothing to do with, well, anything.