The level of graphical capability of the HL engine was a major selling feature of the game. The game continues to be a classic in some sense, because it was a deeper experience than that, but it sold because the graphics were incredible compared to its peers.
Will Crysis be a classic because its graphics were great? I doubt it. Far Cry 2 for me was an example of a game that looks pretty good but who's immersion in the AI and other areas was sorely lacking.
Graphics quality is just like audio or film quality in music and movies; they're a big part of the whole package, but they aren't in themselves the package. Does a good movie look better with a higher quality camera and better film? Yes (in many cases). Does the video quality make it implicitly a good movie (unless its a silent doc)? No, of course not. Does a good recording engineer make a song good? No. Does it help? Certainly.
... there was the OS/2 debacle. IBM and MS were jointly building a great (for the time) OS, but MS bailed and then killed OS/2 with its promises of "Cairo". What they actually delivered was Windows 95, which was hugely better than WfW, but still fell far, far short of what OS/2 delivered, much less what Cairo promised. None of which held a candle to NeXTstep, of course.
This shouldn't remind anyone of Vista, or the promises of Windows 7 or the database driven file-system that doesn't exist yet, or what.NET represents. Not at all:-).
Along the way, MS stomped lots of innovative products from other companies. Consider DR-DOS, Quarterdesk, Stacker, etc.. There were dozens of small companies doing interesting things that MS squashed or bought, and then shelved their work.
When people ask me why I dislike Microsoft, the above sums it up -- Microsoft took perfectly good innovations that were designed to work alongside their own products, and quashed them (often illegally or under false pretences). By the time the court system got around to proving this true (such in Caldera's case), it was way too late in this fast-moving industry.
Not being a standards follower of FHS or freedesktop.org doesn't change whether a Linux based OS is a Linux distribution or not.
This is a full OS distribution based on a Linux kernel, that makes it a Linux distro. I can't easily use Ubuntu packages on my Fedora box, but that doesn't make either of them less Linux.
In general though, I probably agree with your thinking in that I hope Google doesn't call this a Linux distro because I don't want to confuse people who think they could go from this to another distribution or vice versa easily.
Exactly. Most people do not carry a cell phone expecting their location to be known by anyone else. Most people would not turn on a 'track me 24/7' feature if their cell phone had one, even if it had a privacy guarantee.
There's nothing stopping you from using geo-information based mirroring or multiple hosts behind proxy servers doing invisible round-robin without low-ttl DNS issues.
Its amazing to me that even after major legal issues being brought up in the news and by Congress, that even after the president has to pardon phone companies and the like to retroactively avoid further legal issues for domestic spying, people like the anonymous moron above still think it requires a tinfoil hat to believe the American government is spying on perfectly innocent people as part of a huge dragnet scam wasting taxpayer money.
Imagine spending all that domestic spy money on the health care reforms you supposedly can't afford.
All boyish giggling aside, body motion physics do take a lot of the plasticity out of characters and make things more fluid. Why doesn't someone's leg deform when kicked in a fighting game though? Why don't people keel over when punched in the stomach (okay, so they do in Drake's Fortune), etc.
The new natural motion engine generates character impacts and animations in real-time for example, taking into account body structure, weight, strength and a neural AI simulation to create animations on the fly based on circumstances for the upcoming Backbreaker (American) Football game.
I always loved manoeuvring in Wing Commander for this -- ships had pretty good thrust and directional behaviours, along with drifting by thrusting then turning and firing. Each ship and missile in the game actually had documented yaw pitch and roll maximum correction speeds in degrees per second too.
Up here in Canada, many ISPs stood up to RIAA style tactics requesting subscriber data at one time. It ended up going to court, the recording industry demanding information on subscribers from the ISPs and the ISPs refusing to cooperate. The courts ruled that the ISPs were in fact right, thus ending the whole mess once and for all (or at least a while).
All it takes is one ISP to ignore such an order and actually take it to court. Unfortunately, that may also turn out to be a secret trial with secret evidence.
This is the democracy you fought and your ancestors died for, now are you going to use it or not?
While you may have understood it that way, and the story's poster may have meant it that way, the grammar doesn't imply what you think it does.
What the statement implies is that under the Bush-era administration, such secrecy was allowed (a well-recognized fact), and that while we expect that to be changing under the new administration, it appears not to be in all cases.
I've seen crap code that doesn't improve much with better hardware. Things like:
for i in blah.length() {
data += blah
f.write(data)
while (f.writing()) sleep(500) }
As another example, I was reading the driver code for a PCI serial device I have and it loops through all 128 ports looking for waiting data then rests and does it again and ignores the hardware interrupts.
My new hard drives are substantially faster than the ones I bought a few years ago. The ones from a few years ago were also substantially faster than those before that.
Buy yourself an SATA2 drive with NCQ and a computer that supports it, make sure its at least 7200RPM with a nice 8MB cache and tell me its not faster than a similar drive from say 3 years ago.
My best guess is that their lawyers could use a lack of monopoly proceedings vs. IBM as a pretext for getting out of their own problems in that regard.
"But IBM's mommy lets him go out and play after dark" type thing.
Entirely general, toward the few people I hear getting all upset because they were called a he instead of a she or vice-versa by some sales clerk who barely looked at them while making change.
And as someone else pointed out, if its drugs or weapons or anything else you have damn good evidence about, stick them in a room and wait till the police and their parents arrive to investigate. Teachers are not police and shouldn't be portending to have the skills required to investigate crimes, nor the training to know when to bother.
I've found the RBL lists that Spamcop hosts to be quite reliable. They also have very good explanations of how and why sites are listed and are very cooperative in all my encounters with them. Their very nice "report your spam" interface is also cool, and useful for keeping their information up to date.
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Have you played Wurm Online?
Now if only the trees would stop swaying so much, I'd be happier.
And the lack of professionalism in gaming journalism is astounding some days, so I doubt they're aware of that phrase :-)
The level of graphical capability of the HL engine was a major selling feature of the game. The game continues to be a classic in some sense, because it was a deeper experience than that, but it sold because the graphics were incredible compared to its peers.
Will Crysis be a classic because its graphics were great? I doubt it. Far Cry 2 for me was an example of a game that looks pretty good but who's immersion in the AI and other areas was sorely lacking.
Graphics quality is just like audio or film quality in music and movies; they're a big part of the whole package, but they aren't in themselves the package. Does a good movie look better with a higher quality camera and better film? Yes (in many cases). Does the video quality make it implicitly a good movie (unless its a silent doc)? No, of course not. Does a good recording engineer make a song good? No. Does it help? Certainly.
This shouldn't remind anyone of Vista, or the promises of Windows 7 or the database driven file-system that doesn't exist yet, or what .NET represents. Not at all :-).
When people ask me why I dislike Microsoft, the above sums it up -- Microsoft took perfectly good innovations that were designed to work alongside their own products, and quashed them (often illegally or under false pretences). By the time the court system got around to proving this true (such in Caldera's case), it was way too late in this fast-moving industry.
A bump map is a height field, not a full 3D map. A bump map just describes heights of various places along the texture map, and never more.
Not being a standards follower of FHS or freedesktop.org doesn't change whether a Linux based OS is a Linux distribution or not.
This is a full OS distribution based on a Linux kernel, that makes it a Linux distro. I can't easily use Ubuntu packages on my Fedora box, but that doesn't make either of them less Linux.
In general though, I probably agree with your thinking in that I hope Google doesn't call this a Linux distro because I don't want to confuse people who think they could go from this to another distribution or vice versa easily.
Exactly. Most people do not carry a cell phone expecting their location to be known by anyone else. Most people would not turn on a 'track me 24/7' feature if their cell phone had one, even if it had a privacy guarantee.
Feeling for a digital touch button to adjust volume instead of a knob in the winter with my mitts on seems a little moronic.
Give me knobs I can feel any day.
There's nothing stopping you from using geo-information based mirroring or multiple hosts behind proxy servers doing invisible round-robin without low-ttl DNS issues.
Maybe they'll have a fly-in, fly-out policy like Area 51? :-)
You mean back when the Cold War and other efforts kept the wool over your eyes?
Tom Lehrer said, when he quit doing comedy in 1973, that "political satire became redundant the day Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Its amazing to me that even after major legal issues being brought up in the news and by Congress, that even after the president has to pardon phone companies and the like to retroactively avoid further legal issues for domestic spying, people like the anonymous moron above still think it requires a tinfoil hat to believe the American government is spying on perfectly innocent people as part of a huge dragnet scam wasting taxpayer money.
Imagine spending all that domestic spy money on the health care reforms you supposedly can't afford.
All boyish giggling aside, body motion physics do take a lot of the plasticity out of characters and make things more fluid. Why doesn't someone's leg deform when kicked in a fighting game though? Why don't people keel over when punched in the stomach (okay, so they do in Drake's Fortune), etc.
The new natural motion engine generates character impacts and animations in real-time for example, taking into account body structure, weight, strength and a neural AI simulation to create animations on the fly based on circumstances for the upcoming Backbreaker (American) Football game.
I always loved manoeuvring in Wing Commander for this -- ships had pretty good thrust and directional behaviours, along with drifting by thrusting then turning and firing. Each ship and missile in the game actually had documented yaw pitch and roll maximum correction speeds in degrees per second too.
Up here in Canada, many ISPs stood up to RIAA style tactics requesting subscriber data at one time. It ended up going to court, the recording industry demanding information on subscribers from the ISPs and the ISPs refusing to cooperate. The courts ruled that the ISPs were in fact right, thus ending the whole mess once and for all (or at least a while).
All it takes is one ISP to ignore such an order and actually take it to court. Unfortunately, that may also turn out to be a secret trial with secret evidence.
This is the democracy you fought and your ancestors died for, now are you going to use it or not?
While you may have understood it that way, and the story's poster may have meant it that way, the grammar doesn't imply what you think it does.
What the statement implies is that under the Bush-era administration, such secrecy was allowed (a well-recognized fact), and that while we expect that to be changing under the new administration, it appears not to be in all cases.
I've seen crap code that doesn't improve much with better hardware. Things like:
for i in blah.length()
{
data += blah
f.write(data)
while (f.writing()) sleep(500)
}
As another example, I was reading the driver code for a PCI serial device I have and it loops through all 128 ports looking for waiting data then rests and does it again and ignores the hardware interrupts.
My new hard drives are substantially faster than the ones I bought a few years ago. The ones from a few years ago were also substantially faster than those before that.
Buy yourself an SATA2 drive with NCQ and a computer that supports it, make sure its at least 7200RPM with a nice 8MB cache and tell me its not faster than a similar drive from say 3 years ago.
... at the cost of the increased DNS traffic both for clients and his servers.
My best guess is that their lawyers could use a lack of monopoly proceedings vs. IBM as a pretext for getting out of their own problems in that regard.
"But IBM's mommy lets him go out and play after dark" type thing.
Entirely general, toward the few people I hear getting all upset because they were called a he instead of a she or vice-versa by some sales clerk who barely looked at them while making change.
lol excuse my lack of coffee ;-) But i'm sure at least a couple people figured out what I was saying.
If you've got at least as many Y's as X's you're male. How's that?
To be fair though, some people do have more Y's than X's.
You don't seem to understand what it is you were doing when performing these tasks and how they differ from true credit attacks.
And as someone else pointed out, if its drugs or weapons or anything else you have damn good evidence about, stick them in a room and wait till the police and their parents arrive to investigate. Teachers are not police and shouldn't be portending to have the skills required to investigate crimes, nor the training to know when to bother.
I've found the RBL lists that Spamcop hosts to be quite reliable. They also have very good explanations of how and why sites are listed and are very cooperative in all my encounters with them. Their very nice "report your spam" interface is also cool, and useful for keeping their information up to date.