Sarcasm aside, I do think you have a somewhat valid point. Most videos probably aren't worth the effort it would take to save them. I think it's silly to build huge libraries of preserved home movies to cling to the past. I really don't care to save the wife's old VHS copy of Ace Ventura.
Still, I would like to preserve a couple of these older movies for "someday." At least so I have something to show my kids of the grandfather they never got to meet.
When you try to play your DVD-RWs.
No, seriously. I've got a Hauppauge PVR150 in my desktop (Salvaged from the sad remains of the first Mythbok that died...) and I've been using it rip my parents old home movies recorded to VHS. These tapes are 20 years old and play great.
The question is, what the heck can I burn it to so it might survive 30 more years?
Hmmm, after a bit more searching apparently that name isn't quite as universal as I thought. In Minnesota, it's a program where high school students can enroll in college course in lieu of attending high school. The state pays for tuition and books. There are usually a limited number of students that can take each year, so there's typically a required placement test.
Why so negative? It's interesting because it's a pretty egregious oversight on Microsoft's part and it's a pretty funny workaround. The joy of computers is finding intersting and clever hacks. Exactly how many articles have you posted on/.? How many Vista (A supposedly secure system) loopholes have you discovered?
It's legal because there's no magical system saying things have to cost a certain price. Nintendo could charge $1,000 for their system if they wanted too, or they could charge $10 and give away the system essentially. Economics 101, you charge what the market is likely to bear while still giving you a profit.
I use Linux, I keep my stuff patched/firewalled/well passworded (is that even a word?).
You feel secure for a while, then you get duped into clicking on a goatse/rotten.com type link. *shudder*
Really, that's what bothers me more than anything else. The occasional "Find sexy singles in your area ads" don't really bother nor register to me anymore. However the occasional gore (The disgusting kind, not the ex-vp kind) that lurks on the Internet really gets to me.
Not exactly. Gaming grade video cards tend to be very fast at special types of pixel shaders and excel at polishing the image to look better. Where they tend to be inaccurate is how they clamp the textures and even then it's fuzzy estimates that only are ever issues at extreme angles. This is only in the way it displays data and wouldn't cause a COD program to "fall over."
Workstation cards are primarily high polygon crunchers. Games are rendered entirely in Triangles, whereas rendering programs use Triangles, Quadrangles and honest to goodness polygons (5+ sides).
The gameboy is tough and all, but it's chump change compared to the Pentex K1000 (depending on the originating factory of course.) Those have literally been through wars and back. I don't mean a single bomb exploded near it, I mean shrapnel, dropping, being crushed, and they still work like a champ. Many a modern photographer cut their teeth on that durable monster.
The parent's point is still valid. The game boy color hit the market in 1998 and modern video game emulation was just starting to take off about then. When the developers were working on the Zelda DX they weren't concerned with emulation. Their code has gone unnoticed for 9 years now. Emulation has been around for decades. The emulation "craze" is far more recent.
...especially when the alternative is suffering the look from Wife 2.0 (I upgraded to the model with the nicer case) when, Cthulhu forbid, she can't watch Dancing with the Stars because of some HDMI BS.
Completely off-topic, but I think using phrases suchs as "Wife 2.0" and "I upgraded to the model with the nicer case" are the real reasons you get that look in the first place.
I think the parent was more looking for quest choices rather than morale issues per se.
Think of some of the quest choices from Ultima, Deus Ex or Oblivion. This person wants me to go to kill this bad guy in the next town. But then I get over there and discover he's not actually a bad guy. Do I continue my quest anyway? Or go back and kill the original person?
" In fact, virtually every concept presented in the article has been done before. "
I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but virtually all of the content in WoW has been done before in MMOs, rpgs, and even muds.
What makes Blizzard such a great gaming company is the fact that they took established concepts and create games based off of them with tons of polish and care for the material. Just look back at Blackthorne. It was essentially Prince of Persia/Out Of this World/Flashback with a shotgun, but it was a great game nonetheless.
"LightWave downside's is an old and slow splitted interface and a bit confuse menu / parameters."
Just because you dont understand the setup, doesnt mean its broken. Not everyone works on one monitor these days. Lightwaves split between modeler and renderer is a great setup to keep your scenes properly separated from your models. If you're working on a single static scene, yeah, it's kind of clunky. But if you're working on multiple scenes with dozens of different models, the setup is perfect.
I've always been partial to LW's insanely customizable interface and overall very clean look. It makes for a somewhat steep learning curve, at first, but Maya's interface always looked kind of toyish to me (And yes, I am fully aware that Maya is a much better character modeling system than LW.)
(Wow, I fired up/. For something to read while I was waiting for my lightwave test render to finish, and heres an article on/. About modeling programs. What are the odds?)
Out of curiosity, when did fluid simulation == dynamic generation of water movement in games?
Ok, fair enough. I blundered on that issue as I read it incorrectly. It was imprudent of me to fire off a comment in the midst of trying to dash out the door for the weekend.
For some inexplicable reason, Popular Science started sending us their magazine without us actually subscribing to it. I read through the article and it bothers me how it's less about science, scientific advancement, as it is a fluff piece written from the press sheets handed out at a games trade show. I'm guessing PopSci sprang for sending a reporter to the recent one in Leipzig.
Seeing the article linked on/. just disgusted me.
A terrible description of a lousy buzzword
Ah yes, a relatively new term used to describe something is automatically a buzzword? And a lousy one at that? Perhaps you have a different, better description in 50 words or less?
It's fine that you do not like the author's writing (for the record, I wasn't very fond of the piece either), but how about some substantial criticism?
The term uncanny valley is hardly new; the usage goes back decades and the concept goes back even further. Isaac Asimov, Alan Turing, and to a lesser extent Phillip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke, all postulated on the issue. It's usage as applied to video games is indeed more recent. My real problem with the term is the media's newfound fondness for it as an oversimplification of arguably design aesthetics as well as artistic and technical merits. A good example of it's usage might apply to the criticism of the two movies Final Fantasy: Spirits Within versus Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Spirits is prime example of the issue due to it's coupling of mostly photo-realistic models with overly wooden movements. The results were jarring and distracting primarily because the quality of animation didn't match the realism of the models. With Advent Children, the models were exaggerated and simplified achieving more of a cartoon quality. While the animation was improved nominally, it was far more appropriate for the models and sets they were working with. Publications that have previously never concerned themselves with the scope of artistic quality beyond just "Halo 3 features fantastic improved graphics" and "bump-mapping will really bring about amazing shadows and highlights," are suddenly gushing with usage and speculation of a game's Uncanny Valley levels.
Uncanny valley is an interesting trait in human behavior and certainly valid as a concept, however your average press writer treats it as some sort quantifiable value that leads to an invisible pitfall. "Be careful Frank, the eyes on your hero character give it +20 accuracy and that'll put you in uncanny valley. Maybe give him -10 on his nose and -5 on both ears." Were the articles slightly more analytical, critical or even personable I would take significantly less umbrage to the usage.
Did anyone actually read this article before greenlighting it? This isn't news, science, well researched or even well written. It's crap.
Less than a year ago, there wasnt enough processing power to dynamically generate the movement of water in games, says Lee Bamber, a programmer for 20 years and founder of The Game Creators, Ltd.
Wow, fluid simulations started less than a year ago? Damn. Simulate it on the molecular level real time, maybe no. But still.
If a characters face is too close to human, players will reject it, a psychological phenomenon known as the uncanny valley: Objects more familiar to the human eye are inspected with greater scrutiny, leading to a drop-off in acceptance as the simulated object nears the point of being lifelike.
A terrible description of a lousy buzzword.
"Like cramming the sum of all automotive engineering knowledge into a joystick"
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I, personally, find Dvorak a lot more comfortable.
But try this app out: http://colemak.com/Compare
It's a java app that let's you enter text and compare how far your fingers are traveling each time and other fun stats.
You're right, why would anyone want to see a 90 year video old?
Or a movie that's 60 years old.
Sarcasm aside, I do think you have a somewhat valid point. Most videos probably aren't worth the effort it would take to save them. I think it's silly to build huge libraries of preserved home movies to cling to the past. I really don't care to save the wife's old VHS copy of Ace Ventura.
Still, I would like to preserve a couple of these older movies for "someday." At least so I have something to show my kids of the grandfather they never got to meet.
When you try to play your DVD-RWs. No, seriously. I've got a Hauppauge PVR150 in my desktop (Salvaged from the sad remains of the first Mythbok that died...) and I've been using it rip my parents old home movies recorded to VHS. These tapes are 20 years old and play great. The question is, what the heck can I burn it to so it might survive 30 more years?
Sorry, the "Manji predates the *NAZI* Swastika by hundreds if not thousands of years..."
The Manji predates the Swastika by hundreds if not thousands of years.
/.
But you'll see whatever you want to see
Hmmm, after a bit more searching apparently that name isn't quite as universal as I thought. In Minnesota, it's a program where high school students can enroll in college course in lieu of attending high school. The state pays for tuition and books. There are usually a limited number of students that can take each year, so there's typically a required placement test.
Looks like the name is more correctly referred to as Post-Secondary Enrollment Options.
It's called postsecondary education. Two years of college on the government's dime *AND* you get out of high school two years sooner.
I still spent 7 years paying off my student loans, but it could have been a lot longer.
Best education decision I ever made.
That's really neat. Thanks for posting the link. Good excuse to fire up lightwave for the evening.
Why so negative? It's interesting because it's a pretty egregious oversight on Microsoft's part and it's a pretty funny workaround. The joy of computers is finding intersting and clever hacks. Exactly how many articles have you posted on /.? How many Vista (A supposedly secure system) loopholes have you discovered?
It's legal because there's no magical system saying things have to cost a certain price. Nintendo could charge $1,000 for their system if they wanted too, or they could charge $10 and give away the system essentially. Economics 101, you charge what the market is likely to bear while still giving you a profit.
It's on steam. No CD fuss, no muss.
I use Linux, I keep my stuff patched/firewalled/well passworded (is that even a word?).
You feel secure for a while, then you get duped into clicking on a goatse/rotten.com type link. *shudder*
Really, that's what bothers me more than anything else. The occasional "Find sexy singles in your area ads" don't really bother nor register to me anymore. However the occasional gore (The disgusting kind, not the ex-vp kind) that lurks on the Internet really gets to me.
The goggles - they do nothing!
Not exactly.
Gaming grade video cards tend to be very fast at special types of pixel shaders and excel at polishing the image to look better. Where they tend to be inaccurate is how they clamp the textures and even then it's fuzzy estimates that only are ever issues at extreme angles.
This is only in the way it displays data and wouldn't cause a COD program to "fall over."
Workstation cards are primarily high polygon crunchers. Games are rendered entirely in Triangles, whereas rendering programs use Triangles, Quadrangles and honest to goodness polygons (5+ sides).
The gameboy is tough and all, but it's chump change compared to the Pentex K1000 (depending on the originating factory of course.) Those have literally been through wars and back. I don't mean a single bomb exploded near it, I mean shrapnel, dropping, being crushed, and they still work like a champ. Many a modern photographer cut their teeth on that durable monster.
A woman with large breasts is all it takes to be memorable? Didn't realize /. had been purchased by fark.com.
The parent's point is still valid.
The game boy color hit the market in 1998 and modern video game emulation was just starting to take off about then.
When the developers were working on the Zelda DX they weren't concerned with emulation. Their code has gone unnoticed for 9 years now. Emulation has been around for decades. The emulation "craze" is far more recent.
must be drunk.
How... how does "You've got to be fucking kidding me." get modded "informative"
...especially when the alternative is suffering the look from Wife 2.0 (I upgraded to the model with the nicer case) when, Cthulhu forbid, she can't watch Dancing with the Stars because of some HDMI BS.Completely off-topic, but I think using phrases suchs as "Wife 2.0" and "I upgraded to the model with the nicer case" are the real reasons you get that look in the first place.
ORGRIMMAR blah blah blah.... DIRE MAUL blah blah blah.... ELVES blah blah blah.... DIRE MAUL blah blah blah.... BLADEFIST BAY blah blah blah.... CROCOLISK blah blah blah.... ORGRIMMAR blah blah blah.... [Not so subtle reference to the arean] blah blah blah....
*yawns* Riveting stuff indeed.
I think the parent was more looking for quest choices rather than morale issues per se. Think of some of the quest choices from Ultima, Deus Ex or Oblivion. This person wants me to go to kill this bad guy in the next town. But then I get over there and discover he's not actually a bad guy. Do I continue my quest anyway? Or go back and kill the original person?
" In fact, virtually every concept presented in the article has been done before. " I don't know if you've noticed this yet, but virtually all of the content in WoW has been done before in MMOs, rpgs, and even muds. What makes Blizzard such a great gaming company is the fact that they took established concepts and create games based off of them with tons of polish and care for the material. Just look back at Blackthorne. It was essentially Prince of Persia/Out Of this World/Flashback with a shotgun, but it was a great game nonetheless.
"LightWave downside's is an old and slow splitted interface and a bit confuse menu / parameters."
/. For something to read while I was waiting for my lightwave test render to finish, and heres an article on /. About modeling programs. What are the odds?)
Just because you dont understand the setup, doesnt mean its broken. Not everyone works on one monitor these days. Lightwaves split between modeler and renderer is a great setup to keep your scenes properly separated from your models. If you're working on a single static scene, yeah, it's kind of clunky. But if you're working on multiple scenes with dozens of different models, the setup is perfect.
I've always been partial to LW's insanely customizable interface and overall very clean look. It makes for a somewhat steep learning curve, at first, but Maya's interface always looked kind of toyish to me (And yes, I am fully aware that Maya is a much better character modeling system than LW.)
(Wow, I fired up
Ok, fair enough. I blundered on that issue as I read it incorrectly. It was imprudent of me to fire off a comment in the midst of trying to dash out the door for the weekend. For some inexplicable reason, Popular Science started sending us their magazine without us actually subscribing to it. I read through the article and it bothers me how it's less about science, scientific advancement, as it is a fluff piece written from the press sheets handed out at a games trade show. I'm guessing PopSci sprang for sending a reporter to the recent one in Leipzig.
Seeing the article linked on
The term uncanny valley is hardly new; the usage goes back decades and the concept goes back even further. Isaac Asimov, Alan Turing, and to a lesser extent Phillip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke, all postulated on the issue. It's usage as applied to video games is indeed more recent. My real problem with the term is the media's newfound fondness for it as an oversimplification of arguably design aesthetics as well as artistic and technical merits. A good example of it's usage might apply to the criticism of the two movies Final Fantasy: Spirits Within versus Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Spirits is prime example of the issue due to it's coupling of mostly photo-realistic models with overly wooden movements. The results were jarring and distracting primarily because the quality of animation didn't match the realism of the models. With Advent Children, the models were exaggerated and simplified achieving more of a cartoon quality. While the animation was improved nominally, it was far more appropriate for the models and sets they were working with. Publications that have previously never concerned themselves with the scope of artistic quality beyond just "Halo 3 features fantastic improved graphics" and "bump-mapping will really bring about amazing shadows and highlights," are suddenly gushing with usage and speculation of a game's Uncanny Valley levels.
Uncanny valley is an interesting trait in human behavior and certainly valid as a concept, however your average press writer treats it as some sort quantifiable value that leads to an invisible pitfall. "Be careful Frank, the eyes on your hero character give it +20 accuracy and that'll put you in uncanny valley. Maybe give him -10 on his nose and -5 on both ears." Were the articles slightly more analytical, critical or even personable I would take significantly less umbrage to the usage.
Did anyone actually read this article before greenlighting it? This isn't news, science, well researched or even well written. It's crap.
Less than a year ago, there wasnt enough processing power to dynamically generate the movement of water in games, says Lee Bamber, a programmer for 20 years and founder of The Game Creators, Ltd.
Wow, fluid simulations started less than a year ago? Damn.
Simulate it on the molecular level real time, maybe no. But still.
If a characters face is too close to human, players will reject it, a psychological phenomenon known as the uncanny valley: Objects more familiar to the human eye are inspected with greater scrutiny, leading to a drop-off in acceptance as the simulated object nears the point of being lifelike.
A terrible description of a lousy buzzword.
"Like cramming the sum of all automotive engineering knowledge into a joystick"
Please.... please stop writing.
Use a glide wrapper - http://www.zophar.net/utilities/glidewrapper.html
Works pretty damn well actually.