To address just one part of your post, it's not violence. No-one gets hurt. Remember Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"? It's not real, it is a depiction of violence. Games have long used ideas from films, but films have done darker stuff than any game to date. The explanation for the violence has to come from elsewhere, I'm afraid. Do yourself a favour and watch a Tom & Jerry cartoon some time. Then repeat after me, "Cartoon violence is not real." What worries me are the people who cannot seem to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Senator Lieberman appears to fall into that camp.
... and sometimes dem virtual hoes need bitchslappin' to the floor. This is bullshit. You can ice guys in GTA too, so it's an equal opportunity slap-em-up.
The problem is that you don't know when the camera is going to suddenly move. So however l33t you reckon you are, there is going to be a delay before you have adjusted for it. It's the "Mario effect", from Mario 64 where you were legging it along a thin platform, doing fine, only for the bleeding camera to suddenly move, making you fall off. This type of control system also makes it almost impossible to face in a desired direction without moving (not to mention the fact that it looks so shit, the character suddenly flipping 180 degrees). I played AoD for about an hour before I threw down the controller with disgust. Sure, you probably get used to it, like I would maybe get used to being reamed in the arse with a broken bottle.
But (at least on the AMD implementation)
* 64 bit GPRs are available
* Most stuff defaults to 32 bit, auto extended to 64 bit
* You can do 64 bit stuff but you need a prefix byte on the instruction. This is also needed for fancy addressing modes and extra regs (8..15)
* MOV and PUSH support 64 bit immediate values which will obviously cause bloat.
So, "Wrong!", back to you with knobs on;-) Agreed, though, that the most pressing need is for more address bits; however, the new addressing modes and registers are nice.
"Octopus" is Greek, not Latin, so the plural is technically "octopodes". However, in English we often take just the root word and add our own plural suffix. "Viri" is already a word, it's the nominative plural of "vir" (man) so it means "men". It can also be the genitive singular of "virus", but we need a plural. "Viruses" is the accepted word in the non-hackish tradition.
Well, they are wrong. In Latin, "virus" doesn't have a distinct plural form (it's already a mass noun). In English the accepted plural form (resulting from treating "virus" as "an individual virus") is "viruses". By the way, I think you need "of" rather than "or" as the fifth word of your sig.
I so hope that attitude comes back to haunt you. You know, one day, when everything has gone wrong and you have no food. You're complaining about how hungry you are and then I arrive... "Mr Mackenzie?" <weak from lack of food> "yes..?" "Mr Andrew Mackenzie?" "yes..." <I present a laminated printout of the above post> "Ha. Ha, ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Would you like some cake? Well you can't have any. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." I'm looking forward to it.
"The Office" is very good, won many awards, but it's probably a bit of an acquired taste... Very cringeworthy at times and I'm not sure how well it will work with USians. "Coupling" is one of my favourites, very funny and features the gorgeous Gina Bellman. Don't bother watching "3 Non-Blondes" though, it's the unfunniest piece of shit I have seen in a long time. Inspector Morse is usually worth a watch.
No, the Flare stuff ended up as the Konix Multisystem. The Jaguar was designed by the same people, but was a completely different design. For a start, it was 68000 based, rather than Z80.
The ZX81's screen didn't go blank while saving, it had loads of lines on it. This is because the tape output was actually connected to the display. The ZX81 wibbled the display and that went to the tape. Also when loading the input was reflected on the display. That wasn't technically necessary but the processor didn't have enough time to keep the display updated properly, and hey, nice squiggly lines.
No doubt in a couple of days time a new Amiga will be announced... Twice as fast as the G5, with integrated hardware um stuff, and all that. Then we can really start the fan wars. The Mac zealot replies to this guy's site were pretty funny, but Amiga worshippers are in a different league...
I went to sign up for the free trial, but they wanted me to choose a payment schedule and enter my credit card details. Er, no. Fuck them. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
Sigh... Not unless your ten year old girl decides to start running off at the mouth and spreading lies about Mattel. And anyway she's a minor so it's irrelevant.
"linearly independent" isn't the same as "at right angles to each other" (perpendicular). It's more like "not parallel". As long as two vectors are not parallel, you have a vector basis.
I've only driven through Newcastle but I went out on the town in South Shields, and I know what you mean. It's pretty much "Fancy a fuck?" "Oh go on then".
But you weren't even at the original performance. How do you know how close it is?
If there are "many reasons (based in science and logic) why vinyl is superior to CD", then you could at least have offered one of them. I'm particularly intrigued to know what logic has to tell us about audio fidelity.
While Nyquist gives us 22.05kHz for the highest sampleable frequency, this is not the frequency response of a CD player. The problem is with aliasing. I haven't got time to go into the details, which get a bit mathematical (and to be honest it's a while since I've thought about it). Basically, though, a frequency f above the Nyquist limit Fs will get sampled as if it has frequency Fs-f. This is bad, mmkay, so it's necessary to filter out all of those high frequencies before sampling. What you want is for anything above Fs to be filtered, and everything below it to be unchanged. Unfortunately that's not possible to do with real filters so they start at about 20kHz. There are all sorts of phase problems too.
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To address just one part of your post, it's not violence. No-one gets hurt. Remember Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe"? It's not real, it is a depiction of violence.
Games have long used ideas from films, but films have done darker stuff than any game to date.
The explanation for the violence has to come from elsewhere, I'm afraid.
Do yourself a favour and watch a Tom & Jerry cartoon some time. Then repeat after me, "Cartoon violence is not real."
What worries me are the people who cannot seem to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Senator Lieberman appears to fall into that camp.
... and sometimes dem virtual hoes need bitchslappin' to the floor.
This is bullshit. You can ice guys in GTA too, so it's an equal opportunity slap-em-up.
Oops, I meant 2^68 bits. Even worse. Throw your 64 bit processor away!
I make it just over 2^56 bits at 16 bits per square foot. I pity the foo' who has to update that in near real time.
The problem is that you don't know when the camera is going to suddenly move. So however l33t you reckon you are, there is going to be a delay before you have adjusted for it. It's the "Mario effect", from Mario 64 where you were legging it along a thin platform, doing fine, only for the bleeding camera to suddenly move, making you fall off.
This type of control system also makes it almost impossible to face in a desired direction without moving (not to mention the fact that it looks so shit, the character suddenly flipping 180 degrees).
I played AoD for about an hour before I threw down the controller with disgust. Sure, you probably get used to it, like I would maybe get used to being reamed in the arse with a broken bottle.
But (at least on the AMD implementation)
;-)
* 64 bit GPRs are available
* Most stuff defaults to 32 bit, auto extended to 64 bit
* You can do 64 bit stuff but you need a prefix byte on the instruction. This is also needed for fancy addressing modes and extra regs (8..15)
* MOV and PUSH support 64 bit immediate values which will obviously cause bloat.
So, "Wrong!", back to you with knobs on
Agreed, though, that the most pressing need is for more address bits; however, the new addressing modes and registers are nice.
"Octopus" is Greek, not Latin, so the plural is technically "octopodes". However, in English we often take just the root word and add our own plural suffix.
"Viri" is already a word, it's the nominative plural of "vir" (man) so it means "men". It can also be the genitive singular of "virus", but we need a plural.
"Viruses" is the accepted word in the non-hackish tradition.
Well, they are wrong. In Latin, "virus" doesn't have a distinct plural form (it's already a mass noun). In English the accepted plural form (resulting from treating "virus" as "an individual virus") is "viruses".
By the way, I think you need "of" rather than "or" as the fifth word of your sig.
I so hope that attitude comes back to haunt you. You know, one day, when everything has gone wrong and you have no food. You're complaining about how hungry you are and then I arrive...
"Mr Mackenzie?"
<weak from lack of food> "yes..?"
"Mr Andrew Mackenzie?"
"yes..."
<I present a laminated printout of the above post>
"Ha. Ha, ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Would you like some cake? Well you can't have any. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."
I'm looking forward to it.
I thought it was in the Hardy Boys...
You're probably right. I read it a long time ago, anyway.
"The Office" is very good, won many awards, but it's probably a bit of an acquired taste... Very cringeworthy at times and I'm not sure how well it will work with USians.
"Coupling" is one of my favourites, very funny and features the gorgeous Gina Bellman.
Don't bother watching "3 Non-Blondes" though, it's the unfunniest piece of shit I have seen in a long time.
Inspector Morse is usually worth a watch.
No, the Flare stuff ended up as the Konix Multisystem.
The Jaguar was designed by the same people, but was a completely different design. For a start, it was 68000 based, rather than Z80.
The ZX81's screen didn't go blank while saving, it had loads of lines on it. This is because the tape output was actually connected to the display. The ZX81 wibbled the display and that went to the tape. Also when loading the input was reflected on the display. That wasn't technically necessary but the processor didn't have enough time to keep the display updated properly, and hey, nice squiggly lines.
Even the article gets it wrong now.
Sklyarov!
No doubt in a couple of days time a new Amiga will be announced... Twice as fast as the G5, with integrated hardware um stuff, and all that.
Then we can really start the fan wars.
The Mac zealot replies to this guy's site were pretty funny, but Amiga worshippers are in a different league...
Yes but your OS probably reserves some of it. I know Windows does, couldn't care less about what Linux does, but it probably does.
I went to sign up for the free trial, but they wanted me to choose a payment schedule and enter my credit card details. Er, no.
Fuck them. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
Well, William of Ockham wasn't born until 1285, so his razor didn't apply back then.
Sigh... Not unless your ten year old girl decides to start running off at the mouth and spreading lies about Mattel. And anyway she's a minor so it's irrelevant.
That red dust is paprika, and the Hungarians have already baggsied it.
"linearly independent" isn't the same as "at right angles to each other" (perpendicular). It's more like "not parallel". As long as two vectors are not parallel, you have a vector basis.
I've only driven through Newcastle but I went out on the town in South Shields, and I know what you mean.
It's pretty much "Fancy a fuck?" "Oh go on then".
My hoes don't need no fancy technology, or potatoes. I use the "carrot and stick" method. Well, not literally carrots.
But you weren't even at the original performance. How do you know how close it is?
If there are "many reasons (based in science and logic) why vinyl is superior to CD", then you could at least have offered one of them. I'm particularly intrigued to know what logic has to tell us about audio fidelity.
Nyquist dissagrees with you, i believe.
While Nyquist gives us 22.05kHz for the highest sampleable frequency, this is not the frequency response of a CD player. The problem is with aliasing. I haven't got time to go into the details, which get a bit mathematical (and to be honest it's a while since I've thought about it). Basically, though, a frequency f above the Nyquist limit Fs will get sampled as if it has frequency Fs-f. This is bad, mmkay, so it's necessary to filter out all of those high frequencies before sampling. What you want is for anything above Fs to be filtered, and everything below it to be unchanged. Unfortunately that's not possible to do with real filters so they start at about 20kHz.
There are all sorts of phase problems too.