I think any ISP here in Finland would be more than happy to remove all the users using high bandwidth from their userbase. The more they use the connection they paid for, the more they cost to the ISP.
If goverment makes this possible, it will happen. I think they don't even have to ask ISPs to ban most active users.
While these codecs that are proposed are FREE, they are not widely supported.
Firstly, Nokia wants complete ecosystem, where content of the future is available on the web now.
We have YouTube. Do you really think they are going to convert their whole digital library to Ogg just because some company proposed it as their next standard. No. Nokia just wants to leverage the power W3C has to make it promote the file formats it already supports.
AAC is used in iTunes library. Nothing more is needed.
If these formats become accepted, devices can support the technology NOW, and be ready for the future, where more content is coming in these formats.
Secondly, I think Nokia has licensed all this stuff from Apple and other organizations, so they don't have to a) Buy new licenses b) Write new software c) Use any code that can cause potential licensing problems (GPL is a no-no, if you run a propietary solution)
The other options (some really old stuff, where patents have expired) , kinda succested this. Nobody is going to fill the web with stuff done with codecs older than themselves. MP3 being the only exceptio, but if I read correctly, that won't be available free until 2011.
Did anybody ever believed it was child porn in the first place?
It is highly illegal everywhere, so why block it? Why let the site remain online? Just contact authorities of approriate country and have the site taken down. It is even more stupid to block it from potential sexual predators, when you could go undercover and get their names and have them taken into policy custody for having child porn. So why block it?
It is just another goverment control mechanism under disguise of child porn filter. Now they show what it really is, and I am not even suprised.
I just find it sad, that so many people belived the child porn thing in the first place..
I find it quite amusing that 6 bits per channel was the resolution of old VGA monitors. They were only capable of displaying 256 colors at the screen at any given time.
I remember going "Oooh!" when similar technological demonstration was made by Future Crew in 1992. It was so cool then. Might not be as cool down. Here is a link to their ground breaking demo:
We can sent a team of very good drillers to the asteroid. Their mission is to drill 800 ft. into the comet to place a nuclear explosive device. The explosion of the bomb will break the comet in two, and the two pieces will pass earth on both sides.
Just more results, not more content
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I tried searching for more general level stuff.
"Radiosity"
gave me several pages of "Radix Sort".
For inexperienced reader: these are not related at all. One is a general sorting algorithm in computer science and one is lightning algorithm used in computer graphics, and games like Quake.
So in my guess it just does a fuzzy search and yields more results. Getting more results, which are not the ones you want won't help you one bit. Useless for me.
I once had a great Korean device, called GP32. It was way ahead of it's time, and it had open source development enviroment and it was quite developer friendly with active community.
What happened? There was only 1 good commercial game, which I bought: Pinball dreams. There were talks about more, but some Korean company even failed to translate Ashtonia Story (or something like that) because they thought it would not sell. They did however translate it for PSP and it is getting top reviews everywhere and selling pretty good.
So, if you have limited audience, limited quantity gaming platform, how much interrest is that gonna generate from game developers? Next to nothing really.
Then we think about PSP and DS or even GBA. They have nearly unlimited supply of old games, that can be ported to them. PSP has been getting some PS1 titles, DS has atleast Mario 64 and Mario Cart and I am definately going to get FFVI for my GBA. They have.. thousands of games available.
Then let's thinka about gaming in Mac. I have old iBook , and I am not sure should I cry or laugh. There is Myst, Blizzard Games (thank you Blizzard, keep up the wonderful job) and some open source games. That is mostly it. The gaming market on Mac is very, very limited. Can you name some Mac exclusive games? Thought so. And the competitors, they can choose what to port today, and it will most likely sell.
It also seems to lack any 3d capability. Which sucks.
Their best bet would be IMHO to make FULL flash 9 compability and let users play flash games. That is the only way they have large base of games available. Any other option is a sure loss.
"And they asked the credit-card companies to conduct a database search narrowed to three criteria: a specific amount of money, a specific time period and a specific receiver account."
So I just pay up $11.32 instead of $9.99 and I am home free?
Why can't they just monitor the whole account, since it clearly used for distributing child porn? Why do you have to set these limits?
What happened to movies themselves. I honestly couldn't care less if I get video commentary with my HD movie or not. I watch movies for movies sake. Extras are something I watch if I liked the movie and have extra time to see how it was made. They are worth nothing if the movie sucks.
The worst movies in list are lacking in extra HD content. So what? Couldn't care less. The winning movies have all sorts of cool extra content, but it still doesn't make the movie good. I will never buy World Trade Centre, even if had best extras and good transfer.
Video quality and soundtrack are the only things I care about. Please remove the extras and put these in with higher quality.
You don't need legal basis when you flash the word "child porn".
In Finland, they made a stupid legistlation that ISP can be ordered to block content and forced to turn in user records - why? Well the magical words "child porn". If abused correctly, goverment could - in theory - now stop ISPs from giving access to sites with political agenda and see which citizens like to hang out in goverment oppositing sites.
It is just strong emotional image, and I do agree it is a bad thing, but I hate when people use it as an excuse to do other things. Things that might be considered harmful otherwise, but will be "required" to stop these evildoers.
Or, god forbid, buy a copy.
Yeah, right.
I am an avid fan of LucasArts games. I mean that. And I like to play them on my Mac and I am interrested the possibilities of Níntendo DS. So.. do I buy them? Ofcourse I do. I even bought two Broken Sword games because they were supported by ScummVM.
Then the problems kick in. The copy protection system for example for Zak McKracken hurts my eyes and Maniac Mansion - I don't have perfect stereo vision, so reading the copy protection system would require glasses, that I otherwise won't use.
They removed the copy protections on their CD re-releases, and hunting those down from Ebay is a pain in the "#. Somebody always outbids, making it impossible to get them. If there is even a copy for sale. I am currently interrested in Zak256, but I haven't seen it go for reasonable price.
And then the media. People who really played the games, know that they come on 3.5" (or 5.25") discs. Recently, my Zak McKracken disc 2 failed, and I noticed it while making a copy. My current computer doesn't even have floppy drive, and I think time will consume my precious collection.
For NightShift, I managed to lose my 3.5" discs while moving to another city. Now I am stuck with 5.25" and I have nothing to read it with.
Futhermore, my copy protection stuff is getting old too. My Star Control 2 starmap is breaking apart, and I have resorted to black and white copy to preserve the original. Luckily LucasArts re-released Monkey Island so I got rid of that spin wheel.
Anyway, because game companies force us to hunt down some really rare CD-releases, bother us with silly copy protection schemes and don't update releases of old games, I am supporting rom sites and cracked copies. And trust me, games I play, I usually have original right there on the shelf.
And you never left your PS1 roms on top of your PS1 without cover? Well my brother did. Now my FFVII is all scratched. But it still works!
Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
You think that Linux and Mac are safe? Trust me, if Linux becomes the de facto operating system, it will have all the beautiful worms and viruses of the Windows World. Same goes for Mac. There is just no need to make spy/malware for systems only few people use.
Because it costs money to buy PPC architechture. Mac parts are expensive, and support from some hardware vendors is not as not as good as on x86.
The reason I am using dualboot x86 system is the price of hardware. I love macs. I just don't love the price. Yeah, G5 can be faster than modern X86s, but it costs at least twice as much. Apple really has no cheap line (like Sempron/Celeron machines in x86).
This is one of the pioneers in computer graphics for a long time. You should remember him for his radiosity papers:
Cohen, M. F. and Greenberg, D. P., "The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments", Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp 31-40, 1985.
Cohen, M. F., Chen, S. E., Wallace, J. R., and Greenberg, D. P., "A Progressive Refinement Approach to Fast Radiosity Image Generation", Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp 75-84, 1988.
I use my PS2 only for Final Fantasy series. All other games are inferior in graphics to XBOX. Believe, I have FFVII,FFTactics, running on my XBOX, but the gameplay sucks so bad, I really had to go buy PS2. I did love Tekken and GT3, but they are old now. Final Fantasy never gets old.
I also have Gamecube.For Gamecube I buy family and party games. (exception: Zelda WW, and Eternal Darkness). Note that, Gamecube has no previous version, yet the most popular games (Mario Party 5, for example) have Mario and all the other Nintendo Characters. What characters and/or trademark games does XBOX have? I can think of only HALO, and I really think that now (not when HALO came out) there are better games around..
XBOX is by far the best console in the market. Not the XBOX you see on the store, but the XBOX you create yourself. You put in modchip and a bigger hard-drive and you are ready to go. I only have couple of pure XBOX-games, but it plays games from NES, SNES,PLAYSTATION and other consoles. Besides, you can get port of Quake, Doom and stuff if you have the original media.
XBOX world is filled with movies, emulators and old good games, and XBOX-games aren't bad either =) . But this is all something, Microsoft is about to drop in their next-gen console.
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Oh really?
I think any ISP here in Finland would be more than happy to remove all the users using high bandwidth from their userbase. The more they use the connection they paid for, the more they cost to the ISP.
If goverment makes this possible, it will happen. I think they don't even have to ask ISPs to ban most active users.
Klaatu barada nikto!
While these codecs that are proposed are FREE, they are not widely supported.
Firstly, Nokia wants complete ecosystem, where content of the future is available on the web now.
We have YouTube. Do you really think they are going to convert their whole digital library to Ogg just because some company proposed it as their next standard. No. Nokia just wants to leverage the power W3C has to make it promote the file formats it already supports.
AAC is used in iTunes library. Nothing more is needed.
If these formats become accepted, devices can support the technology NOW, and be ready for the future, where more content is coming in these formats.
Secondly, I think Nokia has licensed all this stuff from Apple and other organizations, so they don't have to
a) Buy new licenses
b) Write new software
c) Use any code that can cause potential licensing problems (GPL is a no-no, if you run a propietary solution)
The other options (some really old stuff, where patents have expired) , kinda succested this. Nobody is going to fill the web with stuff done with codecs older than themselves. MP3 being the only exceptio, but if I read correctly, that won't be available free until 2011.
Did anybody ever believed it was child porn in the first place?
It is highly illegal everywhere, so why block it? Why let the site remain online? Just contact authorities of approriate country and have the site taken down. It is even more stupid to block it from potential sexual predators, when you could go undercover and get their names and have them taken into policy custody for having child porn. So why block it?
It is just another goverment control mechanism under disguise of child porn filter. Now they show what it really is, and I am not even suprised.
I just find it sad, that so many people belived the child porn thing in the first place..
I find it quite amusing that 6 bits per channel was the resolution of old VGA monitors. They were only capable of displaying 256 colors at the screen at any given time.
I remember going "Oooh!" when similar technological demonstration was made by Future Crew in 1992. It was so cool then. Might not be as cool down. Here is a link to their ground breaking demo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_(demo)
So, should we have called our graphics adapters capable of displaying 16.7M colors 15 years ago?
Read this review.
9
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=297
And conclusion
"But not this time: The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is an utter waste of money. "
Don't pay $180 extra for something that gives only few percents extra.
There is nothing we can do about it anyway.
We can sent a team of very good drillers to the asteroid. Their mission is to drill 800 ft. into the comet to place a nuclear explosive device. The explosion of the bomb will break the comet in two, and the two pieces will pass earth on both sides.
I hear Harry S. Stamper is a good choice.
Engineering is not usable in Arena.
http://www.nokiausa.com/N800
I tried searching for more general level stuff.
"Radiosity"
gave me several pages of "Radix Sort".
For inexperienced reader: these are not related at all. One is a general sorting algorithm in computer science and one is lightning algorithm used in computer graphics, and games like Quake.
So in my guess it just does a fuzzy search and yields more results. Getting more results, which are not the ones you want won't help you one bit. Useless for me.
I once had a great Korean device, called GP32. It was way ahead of it's time, and it had open source development enviroment and it was quite developer friendly with active community.
.. thousands of games available.
What happened? There was only 1 good commercial game, which I bought: Pinball dreams. There were talks about more, but some Korean company even failed to translate Ashtonia Story (or something like that) because they thought it would not sell. They did however translate it for PSP and it is getting top reviews everywhere and selling pretty good.
So, if you have limited audience, limited quantity gaming platform, how much interrest is that gonna generate from game developers? Next to nothing really.
Then we think about PSP and DS or even GBA. They have nearly unlimited supply of old games, that can be ported to them. PSP has been getting some PS1 titles, DS has atleast Mario 64 and Mario Cart and I am definately going to get FFVI for my GBA. They have
Then let's thinka about gaming in Mac. I have old iBook , and I am not sure should I cry or laugh. There is Myst, Blizzard Games (thank you Blizzard, keep up the wonderful job) and some open source games. That is mostly it. The gaming market on Mac is very, very limited. Can you name some Mac exclusive games? Thought so. And the competitors, they can choose what to port today, and it will most likely sell.
It also seems to lack any 3d capability. Which sucks.
Their best bet would be IMHO to make FULL flash 9 compability and let users play flash games. That is the only way they have large base of games available. Any other option is a sure loss.
"And they asked the credit-card companies to conduct a database search narrowed to three criteria: a specific amount of money, a specific time period and a specific receiver account."
So I just pay up $11.32 instead of $9.99 and I am home free?
Why can't they just monitor the whole account, since it clearly used for distributing child porn? Why do you have to set these limits?
What happened to movies themselves. I honestly couldn't care less if I get video commentary with my HD movie or not. I watch movies for movies sake. Extras are something I watch if I liked the movie and have extra time to see how it was made. They are worth nothing if the movie sucks.
The worst movies in list are lacking in extra HD content. So what? Couldn't care less. The winning movies have all sorts of cool extra content, but it still doesn't make the movie good. I will never buy World Trade Centre, even if had best extras and good transfer.
Video quality and soundtrack are the only things I care about. Please remove the extras and put these in with higher quality.
PS3 Linux is an effort to sell PS3 as a computer. It has only access to framebuffer, without any hardware accelerated 3d support.
:)
XNA is a game development platform working on both Windows and XBOX360.
Which would be better for Game Developers?
You don't need legal basis when you flash the word "child porn".
In Finland, they made a stupid legistlation that ISP can be ordered to block content and forced to turn in user records - why? Well the magical words "child porn". If abused correctly, goverment could - in theory - now stop ISPs from giving access to sites with political agenda and see which citizens like to hang out in goverment oppositing sites.
It is just strong emotional image, and I do agree it is a bad thing, but I hate when people use it as an excuse to do other things. Things that might be considered harmful otherwise, but will be "required" to stop these evildoers.
Or, god forbid, buy a copy. Yeah, right. I am an avid fan of LucasArts games. I mean that. And I like to play them on my Mac and I am interrested the possibilities of Níntendo DS. So .. do I buy them? Ofcourse I do. I even bought two Broken Sword games because they were supported by ScummVM.
Then the problems kick in. The copy protection system for example for Zak McKracken hurts my eyes and Maniac Mansion - I don't have perfect stereo vision, so reading the copy protection system would require glasses, that I otherwise won't use.
They removed the copy protections on their CD re-releases, and hunting those down from Ebay is a pain in the "#. Somebody always outbids, making it impossible to get them. If there is even a copy for sale. I am currently interrested in Zak256, but I haven't seen it go for reasonable price.
And then the media. People who really played the games, know that they come on 3.5" (or 5.25") discs. Recently, my Zak McKracken disc 2 failed, and I noticed it while making a copy. My current computer doesn't even have floppy drive, and I think time will consume my precious collection.
For NightShift, I managed to lose my 3.5" discs while moving to another city. Now I am stuck with 5.25" and I have nothing to read it with.
Futhermore, my copy protection stuff is getting old too. My Star Control 2 starmap is breaking apart, and I have resorted to black and white copy to preserve the original. Luckily LucasArts re-released Monkey Island so I got rid of that spin wheel.
Anyway, because game companies force us to hunt down some really rare CD-releases, bother us with silly copy protection schemes and don't update releases of old games, I am supporting rom sites and cracked copies. And trust me, games I play, I usually have original right there on the shelf.
And you never left your PS1 roms on top of your PS1 without cover? Well my brother did. Now my FFVII is all scratched. But it still works!
Why haven't they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?"
You think that Linux and Mac are safe? Trust me, if Linux becomes the de facto operating system, it will have all the beautiful worms and viruses of the Windows World. Same goes for Mac. There is just no need to make spy/malware for systems only few people use.
I personally would like to see the ending where they attack Shire and do some killing.
That ending was probably removed, so they could have half an hour of that cheesy stuff..
No.
Because it costs money to buy PPC architechture. Mac parts are expensive, and support from some hardware vendors is not as not as good as on x86.
The reason I am using dualboot x86 system is the price of hardware. I love macs. I just don't love the price. Yeah, G5 can be faster than modern X86s, but it costs at least twice as much. Apple really has no cheap line (like Sempron/Celeron machines in x86).
Anybody remember this guy?
This is one of the pioneers in computer graphics for a long time. You should remember him for his radiosity papers:
Cohen, M. F. and Greenberg, D. P., "The Hemi-Cube: A Radiosity Solution for Complex Environments", Computer Graphics, vol. 19, no. 3, pp 31-40, 1985.
Cohen, M. F., Chen, S. E., Wallace, J. R., and Greenberg, D. P., "A Progressive Refinement Approach to Fast Radiosity Image Generation", Computer Graphics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp 75-84, 1988.
And his book.
He even received SIGGRAPH award for his work
Oh, please do tell me version where I can find these features?
Demopaja was released a couple years back, and is really the same thing with older fx. So this has been done before.
I use my PS2 only for Final Fantasy series. All other games are inferior in graphics to XBOX. Believe, I have FFVII,FFTactics, running on my XBOX, but the gameplay sucks so bad, I really had to go buy PS2. I did love Tekken and GT3, but they are old now. Final Fantasy never gets old.
I also have Gamecube.For Gamecube I buy family and party games. (exception: Zelda WW, and Eternal Darkness). Note that, Gamecube has no previous version, yet the most popular games (Mario Party 5, for example) have Mario and all the other Nintendo Characters. What characters and/or trademark games does XBOX have? I can think of only HALO, and I really think that now (not when HALO came out) there are better games around..
XBOX is by far the best console in the market. Not the XBOX you see on the store, but the XBOX you create yourself. You put in modchip and a bigger hard-drive and you are ready to go. I only have couple of pure XBOX-games, but it plays games from NES, SNES,PLAYSTATION and other consoles. Besides, you can get port of Quake, Doom and stuff if you have the original media.
XBOX world is filled with movies, emulators and old good games, and XBOX-games aren't bad either =) . But this is all something, Microsoft is about to drop in their next-gen console.
WineX or if you're talking about old Warcraft DosBox.
In order to get in to these Spam Clubs, you have to prove you are a spammer.
Can you then send spam to thousands of people to get in?
Or even just a little?
Where do we draw the line..