hm. The added saruman scenes LOOK like they might break the old 1h ending aport, which could actually help with the pacing... Making a film 10 minutes longer can make it feel a hour shorter...
2200MB/600pic=3.66MB/pic*1500=5.5GB. So his camera makes 10% smaller jpegs/raws(didnt rtfa) then yours, which is more then possible given the different compression strategies used.
I agree with the fact that any movie adapton would suck. Per definition.... But the "hard sf" part of nivens books are great... Especially his "perfect machines", like the Lying Bastard, with technology thats NEARLY magic, but still understandable... The slaver desintegrators, the GP hulls that survive everything but antimatter, the statis fields ect are not really unique, but the way they are naturally handled like they simply FIT into the universe is just too cool. The only bad thing about the "known space" universe is that Niven let too many rookie authors who suck at writing create stories in it....
And 160 KByte/s is almost DVD-quality with a good source and a good divx/mpeg4 encoder. Too bad that this thing will probably just use a cif-format and low bitrate mpeg2, thus looking like crap, but theoretically its possible.
For those who will know no humor and have mod-points: If its impossible to write software (and thus text-editors) for unix without vi, where did vi come from? Stone discs given from god?
In 1950, Hiroshi Yamauchi, great-great-grandson of Fusajiro and future president of Nintendo, made a deal with Disney to produce playing cards featuring Disney characters, when Nintendo came to make western-style playing cards as well as hanafuda at that period. Even from its early history it was clear that Nintendo was focused on making entertainment for children. These cards sold millions of packs, and made Nintendo enough money to move into other ventures, particularly toys.
(from wikipedia) Disney.... even worse then yakuza.... brought them to power:)
yeah, As if 350$ voodoo2s or 500$ geforece2 ultras or 400$ matrox millenium cards never existed.... If you pick the most expensive card now, you should pick the most expensive of the corresponding time periode,too.
Well. I guess Venor Vinge would be a giant if he wrote JUST a LITTLE more novels. Orson scott card will be remembered. I guess Dan Simmons, too. And Niven. A bit older, but still after 53...
The problem is that all those people regarded as "giants" have written their books over a very long time. You cant just say that there arent really great rookies around the last few years because they may need another 20 years to build their place in the world of SF
What part of "safe" didnt you read? Watertight safes arent going to melt away like cotton in h2so4 just because there is salt water, end even the ceiling falling on a normal sized safe should produce more shock to the drive than placing it down on the desk. Of course you should prevent it from bouncing around, e.g. by putting it into a padded drawer,ect, but that shoulnd be a problem
GPU were NEVER a threat to cpus. They became only usable for ANYTHING but graphics with the introduction of vertex and pixelshaders, e.g. with the R100 or NV10 chips. Really usable are only chips with ps2, end even those can rarely archive "better then cpu" performance, even with tuned algorithms (main problem is memory access fragmentation breaking the caching strategies and causing pipeline stalls (wasting 100s of cyles) and multipass overhead because many implementations need 1000s of passes). 10 years ago graphic cards had ZERO FLOPS, because they couldnt even do floating point math. The AGP port was invented because PCI WAS TOO FUCKING SLOW. At the time intel was about to enter the VGA buisness (at that time graphic chips werent programmable, so NO GPUs) with the i740 and later the i752 chips, which had (in comparison) exellent AGP support. And no, 66Mhz PCI was NO solution, because other cards would pull down the bus. And pci-x was WAY later, and 64bit pci isnt backward compatible.
The usa is still unbeaten for tapping all major comsats. (echelon anyone?). If you send an international fax or do an call, you can be sure it will be scanned. Yeah. (btw Due to this practice, some american corps filed patends that had the same writing errors as internal documents of european corps, which were only faxed between company locations....)
He made: Populus (sp), which was great He made syndicate, a REVOLUTIONARY game. never seen cyperpunk tactics like that again. He made Magic carpet, which was fun and had a AWESOME engine for its time He made Dungeon Keeper, which was unique and great. He is responsible for the original Pirates, clones till this day... And yes, he did black and white, which wasnt stellar. But neither was your idiotic post.
The same old shit everytime linux & game are in one sentence: Graphics is bad, modern games are for noobs and idiot, ect.... Yeah, i played angband and adom a lot, but in the end its nothing else then the simple most stupid "kill, get xp, kill, get xp, get item, kill..." repeated since 1978. No innovation (oh, wow, you can play a TOURIST class. he has a camera. WOW) and no gameplay appeal for anyone who doesnt have his free time to burn (like a typical geek).
most likely your GPU or the end of the cpu heatpipe is there... No current 2.5" HD needs more than 5W during normal usage, which is WAY lower than many other components...
Well. I dont think it should be as close to the files system as possible. I want to search engine to index my html files, expand.ps.gz files and scan them, using the newest pdf library to index pdf files, read the compressed staroffice format, ect...
Perhaps the same that make TI calculators need 5 seconds to calculate 50!.... No, really. the 4Mhz cpu it emulates does imho only do 4bit arithmetic, so you need an awfull lot of cycles to handle longer arbitrary precission numbers...
Yes. It would have been cool to see it. Also the Trinity test was massivly cool to watch. Same goes to the explosion of of mt.St. Helens. I would give a part of my life to witness the santorini explosion or the Tsungaska event. Or how the Gibraltar Barrier broke and the Mediterrean filled again...
Yes. People died on some of the events. But that doesnt make it any less impressive.
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hm. The added saruman scenes LOOK like they might break the old 1h ending aport, which could actually help with the pacing...
Making a film 10 minutes longer can make it feel a hour shorter...
2200MB/600pic=3.66MB/pic*1500=5.5GB.
So his camera makes 10% smaller jpegs/raws(didnt rtfa) then yours, which is more then possible given the different compression strategies used.
I agree with the fact that any movie adapton would suck. Per definition....
But the "hard sf" part of nivens books are great... Especially his "perfect machines", like the Lying Bastard, with technology thats NEARLY magic, but still understandable...
The slaver desintegrators, the GP hulls that survive everything but antimatter, the statis fields ect are not really unique, but the way they are naturally handled like they simply FIT into the universe is just too cool.
The only bad thing about the "known space" universe is that Niven let too many rookie authors who suck at writing create stories in it....
And 160 KByte/s is almost DVD-quality with a good source and a good divx/mpeg4 encoder. Too bad that this thing will probably just use a cif-format and low bitrate mpeg2, thus looking like crap, but theoretically its possible.
There would be so many possible Sai jokes....
For those who will know no humor and have mod-points: If its impossible to write software (and thus text-editors) for unix without vi, where did vi come from? Stone discs given from god?
Yeah, and without notepad there wouldnt be any windows programs...
nahhh...
Everybody knows that nethack and angband are the only games that need more keys to work then emacs...
In 1950, Hiroshi Yamauchi, great-great-grandson of Fusajiro and future president of Nintendo, made a deal with Disney to produce playing cards featuring Disney characters, when Nintendo came to make western-style playing cards as well as hanafuda at that period. Even from its early history it was clear that Nintendo was focused on making entertainment for children. These cards sold millions of packs, and made Nintendo enough money to move into other ventures, particularly toys.
:)
(from wikipedia)
Disney.... even worse then yakuza.... brought them to power
Well, AFAIK the JVC only supports 720p, not 1080i...
Which is quite a difference
yeah, As if 350$ voodoo2s or 500$ geforece2 ultras or 400$ matrox millenium cards never existed....
If you pick the most expensive card now, you should pick the most expensive of the corresponding time periode,too.
Well. I guess Venor Vinge would be a giant if he wrote JUST a LITTLE more novels.
Orson scott card will be remembered.
I guess Dan Simmons, too.
And Niven. A bit older, but still after 53...
The problem is that all those people regarded as "giants" have written their books over a very long time. You cant just say that there arent really great rookies around the last few years because they may need another 20 years to build their place in the world of SF
I realize if you RTFA, there is the link as well... ;)
And just for a moment i believed i was good at using google
http://www.analogsf.com/0406/cookiemonster.shtml
:)
Yeah. Finally a topic where my sig fits
What part of "safe" didnt you read?
Watertight safes arent going to melt away like cotton in h2so4 just because there is salt water, end even the ceiling falling on a normal sized safe should produce more shock to the drive than placing it down on the desk.
Of course you should prevent it from bouncing around, e.g. by putting it into a padded drawer,ect, but that shoulnd be a problem
GPU were NEVER a threat to cpus. They became only usable for ANYTHING but graphics with the introduction of vertex and pixelshaders, e.g. with the R100 or NV10 chips. Really usable are only chips with ps2, end even those can rarely archive "better then cpu" performance, even with tuned algorithms (main problem is memory access fragmentation breaking the caching strategies and causing pipeline stalls (wasting 100s of cyles) and multipass overhead because many implementations need 1000s of passes).
10 years ago graphic cards had ZERO FLOPS, because they couldnt even do floating point math.
The AGP port was invented because PCI WAS TOO FUCKING SLOW. At the time intel was about to enter the VGA buisness (at that time graphic chips werent programmable, so NO GPUs) with the i740 and later the i752 chips, which had (in comparison) exellent AGP support.
And no, 66Mhz PCI was NO solution, because other cards would pull down the bus. And pci-x was WAY later, and 64bit pci isnt backward compatible.
The usa is still unbeaten for tapping all major comsats. (echelon anyone?).
If you send an international fax or do an call, you can be sure it will be scanned. Yeah.
(btw Due to this practice, some american corps filed patends that had the same writing errors as internal documents of european corps, which were only faxed between company locations....)
He made:
Populus (sp), which was great
He made syndicate, a REVOLUTIONARY game. never seen cyperpunk tactics like that again.
He made Magic carpet, which was fun and had a AWESOME engine for its time
He made Dungeon Keeper, which was unique and great.
He is responsible for the original Pirates, clones till this day...
And yes, he did black and white, which wasnt stellar. But neither was your idiotic post.
The same old shit everytime linux & game are in one sentence: Graphics is bad, modern games are for noobs and idiot, ect....
Yeah, i played angband and adom a lot, but in the end its nothing else then the simple most stupid "kill, get xp, kill, get xp, get item, kill..." repeated since 1978. No innovation (oh, wow, you can play a TOURIST class. he has a camera. WOW) and no gameplay appeal for anyone who doesnt have his free time to burn (like a typical geek).
most likely your GPU or the end of the cpu heatpipe is there...
No current 2.5" HD needs more than 5W during normal usage, which is WAY lower than many other components...
Well. I dont think it should be as close to the files system as possible. .ps.gz files and scan them, using the newest pdf library to index pdf files, read the compressed staroffice format, ect...
I want to search engine to index my html files, expand
Wow. A render of my new spaceship!
Look, it fires its laser right at the screen....
Wasnt this supposed to be combined with the new free electron laser build there? That the electron part of the collider would also feed the FEL?
Perhaps the same that make TI calculators need 5 seconds to calculate 50!....
No, really. the 4Mhz cpu it emulates does imho only do 4bit arithmetic, so you need an awfull lot of cycles to handle longer arbitrary precission numbers...
Yes. It would have been cool to see it.
Also the Trinity test was massivly cool to watch.
Same goes to the explosion of of mt.St. Helens.
I would give a part of my life to witness the santorini explosion or the Tsungaska event.
Or how the Gibraltar Barrier broke and the Mediterrean filled again...
Yes. People died on some of the events. But that doesnt make it any less impressive.