Depends on how you look at it. Each end of the bulb flashes alternately with each cycle of AC, one end on the positive peak and the other end on the negative peak. Each end of the bulb flashes at 60Hz but added together it's 120Hz. Kinda like having two strobe lights both set at 60Hz. You're either seeing two 60Hz flashes or one 120Hz flash, depending on how you look at it. Some people can see the flicker because it actually is two 60Hz strobes.
The eyes limit is around 60Hz, which is why some people can see florescent lights flicker while others can't. (Where you have 60Hz power) That's also why they can give you a headache. You're sitting with a strobe light that's at the same frequency you see at.
With games it's a little different. If you play a game at 60fps then your eyes and the game are 1:1 with frames. 30fps gives your eyes two cycles to see one frame of the game. You won't necessarily notice jumpiness but it's obvious that it's not "real" even though it looks pretty smooth. Less than 30fps and it looks more and more jumpy. I think 10fps is the low limit on what's playable. (Remember TFC on dialup? I was pretty good at 10fps and 56k):)
90fps gives your eyes more than one game frame to view at a time which is more like reality. If someone throws a ball at you, the ball doesn't have an fps, unless you count infinity. The higher the framerate, the more real it looks.
Wanting to know if an election actually showed the votes people cast is not babyish. If Kerry had won then the other half of the population would be saying the same things. It's important to know if voting even works and there is no way to know if it works or not unless you analyze the votes using a scientific method.
But what if this is true? What if an error in the voting machines gave Bush more votes than he actually got from the people? If this is true, which it could be, then Bush did not beat Kerry by a "decent margin" and the basis of your argument is an assumption.
I could care less who won, but it's really tiring to hear people base their opinions and arguments on the assumption that every vote was counted correctly.
It's also tiring to hear people accuse Bush of cheating. We don't know if he cheated. All we know is that votes weren't counted right for SOME reason and it's extremely important to find the reason and fix it. For all we know the Democrats fixed the election so they could make Bush look bad. The whole point of these studies is to find out WHY so Republicans can stop the childish name calling and Democrats can stop accusing Bush of cheating. Both are very unpatriotic.
I'm the opposite. I can't stand console games. It's those controllers. You might be able to play a game in less than a minute, but plan on spending a week learning how to aim with a 4 directional button. There aren't nearly enough buttons on a controller so your quick functions are limited, where I can bind every letter on my keyboard if I wish.
I didn't understand the part about driver patches being a problem. I install the new directx once, maybe twice a year. I installed my video drivers when I installed XP and haven't touched them since. If someone is constantly upgrading their drivers, then that's purely self-inflicted suffering because it's not necessary. Install times on a pc might be long, but switches between game modes and levels is much faster on a pc because the data is on the hard drive instead of a dvd or cd. I'd rather wait one time during install than wait every time the game changed. Very few games have online activation as well so that's not an issue either, and if there is online activation it's a one time deal as well.
User interfaces most of the time aren't any more complex than with console games, and if they are it's because the pc game can handle many more options and functions than a console can, simply because you have a mouse and keyboard.
Consoles still have to be played on TV screens where the visual quality is nowhere near a game played on a 17" at 1024x768.
I can chat with my friends while I play or in between rounds with a regular keyboard. Some consoles have keyboards but it's extra $$.
and best of all...
I can alt-tab to Firefox and see if there are any new posts on slashdot while waiting to respawn.:)
I'm not saying console games suck, but there are a ton of things they can't do that my pc can, and there are a lot of people who can aim just fine with a mouse but can't aim for crap with a controller. My kids love both consoles and the pc so I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just impossible for a console to replace the pc since the pc handles things so differently. Can't exactly replace apples with oranges.
There is one thing consoles are really good for. I can play my kids on their XBox or Game Cube and they can whoop my ass for a change.:)
We also can make a lot of mistakes in our tagging. "After looking at the angle of that corner up there, I calculate that I can take it in my Ferrari at 82 mph without losing control." "I can jump over that fire hydrant without smashing my nuts." "This gun isn't loaded so it can't hurt me."
The difference is that Quake and Unreal have a single universe, so to speak. The walls, objects, and enemy characters are all part of the same engine and rendered at the same time. Walls, boxes, and monsters were all part of the same code and were handled the same way with the same engine physics.
Halo 2 creates 3 separate entities. Instead of the enemies being part of the world and rendered at the same time with it, they are now a separate part of the game and don't share any code with the landscape, walls, etc. The game first creates the world, then it creates the AI totally separately and puts them into the world. Basically you have one engine that controls the world and another totally different AI engine that has to interact with the world engine.
Of course, http://img120.exs.cx/img120/4149/hl2receipt.jpg is a Best Buy receipt. I always screw up the usage of the word "irony." If I used it now would I be screwing it up again?:)
I saw that show also. In the video you can see the ship burning while still staying in the air. If the hydrogen is what initially burned then it would have dropped like a rock. The hydrogen didn't burn until some time after the fire started.
I noticed on Howard's site he has a countdown clock for how long he has until his contract is up. It says 46277 months 29 days 9 hours 21 minutes and 19 seconds. So his contract will be up in the year 5860? Kinda hard to get numbers from a site that says he has over 3000 years to go...
You can't request information that doesn't exist. They couldn't request voting machine records until after the vote. The purpose of the request is to do an audit of the vote. How can you do that before the elections?
A keyboard has been emulated for the Game Cube by a couple of kids who are obsessed with Mortal Kombat. Being that this project was named Game Kube they felt it must be worthy since the second word of each title starts with "K". They took all the combination and fatality moves from "Mortal Kombat, Deadly Alliance" and coded them to translate to letters. So if you wanted to say "Hi There" you would actually grab a controller and do the following: "crush kick" "neck stretch" "belly flop" "spine rip" "crush kick" "laser slice" "iron bash" "laser slice"
They are working on punctuation now but may have to wait for the release of the next Mortal Kombat game to get enough finishing moves.
http://www.techdot.com/doc/00223.html 75% of americans are connected to the internet. Is Valve really making it so that 25% of the population cannot play HL2? There's got to be more to the story. I wonder if they'll have a way for people to telephone in activation somehow.
but what are the long term sales going to look like? There are a few companies that actually plan for the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if in 3 years Pikmin has far out-sold Fable. When you own a business, it's nice to sell a whole crapload of product the first month it's out, but your business is going to be around for much longer than a month. If you can successfully manage a product now that still has successful sales 3 years from now, you will never have a problem with profits. I don't know enough about Pikmin to know if it will still be successfully selling in a few years but if it's as good as you say then I wouldn't be surprised.
Excel password protection is not designed to keep people from seeing your data. It is not designed to secure your informatio from other's eyes. It is designed to keep people from modifying your spreadsheets and changing your data.
Slightly off topic, but relevant. At work we're required to use windows because of the proprietary software we use. Not much choice there. I have vnc on all the machines so I can hop to any from my office. I installed ultravnc on my computer and the server and an older version of realvnc on all the clients. I set ultra to require user and pass to connect and the older version of realvnc can't handle user and pass, just pass. This way I can vnc from my computer or the server out to the network but nobody can connect from their machine to mine or the server. Just in case someone gets the password it won't matter because the vnc client on their computer can't connect to the server, only accept connections. They still can connect to another user though, but I don't really care about that. Everyone has only user access so they can't do much. Of course this means I can vnc the boss' computer but he can't vnc me.:)
This is actually perfectly normal behavior and not a bug. What you did was kinda the same as holding two mirrors up to each other and created the infinity effect. Changes on the screen at home changed the screen at work which changed the screen at home which changed the screen at work...and so on. You made an infinite loop.
It's an issue of civil liberties. Terrorists do not have the same protections under the law as the rest of us do. They don't get a lawyer and they can be held without bail or a phone call.
This is why calling the columbine kids or anyone else who isn't a terrorist is so dangerous. What's the difference between the 9/11 terrorists, the columbine kids, dahmer, or a drunk driver that plows through a market killing 25 people? The difference is the label they are given and how they are treated by the law. The columbine kids, dahmer, drunk drivers, people who bomb planned parenthood, and even McVeigh were all *criminals* but they still had the rights guaranteed to criminals. They were not terrorists. Terrorists are foreigners who wage war against the US and they are treated like military combantants.
Calling criminals "terrorists" is a frightening concept because of how far our liberties and rights have been eroded already. Anyone who has been wrongly accused of a crime will know how frightening it would be if being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get you labeled as a military combatant. Calling criminals "terrorists" is the first step to going there and it's really looking like a number of you have already taken that first step. Kind of surprising considering this is slashdot where we love to bitch about the patriot act and people's servers being taken away without explanation.
All I remember before it came out, was hearing about how pretty the graphics were and how it was like "an interactive horror movie." Nobody watches horror movies for the intricate storylines, and if all you hear is talk about the physics engine, graphic quality, and impressive sound, you should know better than to expect a great storyline.:)
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Depends on how you look at it. Each end of the bulb flashes alternately with each cycle of AC, one end on the positive peak and the other end on the negative peak. Each end of the bulb flashes at 60Hz but added together it's 120Hz.
Kinda like having two strobe lights both set at 60Hz. You're either seeing two 60Hz flashes or one 120Hz flash, depending on how you look at it. Some people can see the flicker because it actually is two 60Hz strobes.
The eyes limit is around 60Hz, which is why some people can see florescent lights flicker while others can't. (Where you have 60Hz power)
:)
That's also why they can give you a headache. You're sitting with a strobe light that's at the same frequency you see at.
With games it's a little different. If you play a game at 60fps then your eyes and the game are 1:1 with frames. 30fps gives your eyes two cycles to see one frame of the game. You won't necessarily notice jumpiness but it's obvious that it's not "real" even though it looks pretty smooth. Less than 30fps and it looks more and more jumpy. I think 10fps is the low limit on what's playable. (Remember TFC on dialup? I was pretty good at 10fps and 56k)
90fps gives your eyes more than one game frame to view at a time which is more like reality. If someone throws a ball at you, the ball doesn't have an fps, unless you count infinity. The higher the framerate, the more real it looks.
Anyone who can "incessantly" play Doom3 needs serious help. :)
Wanting to know if an election actually showed the votes people cast is not babyish. If Kerry had won then the other half of the population would be saying the same things. It's important to know if voting even works and there is no way to know if it works or not unless you analyze the votes using a scientific method.
But what if this is true? What if an error in the voting machines gave Bush more votes than he actually got from the people? If this is true, which it could be, then Bush did not beat Kerry by a "decent margin" and the basis of your argument is an assumption.
I could care less who won, but it's really tiring to hear people base their opinions and arguments on the assumption that every vote was counted correctly.
It's also tiring to hear people accuse Bush of cheating. We don't know if he cheated. All we know is that votes weren't counted right for SOME reason and it's extremely important to find the reason and fix it. For all we know the Democrats fixed the election so they could make Bush look bad. The whole point of these studies is to find out WHY so Republicans can stop the childish name calling and Democrats can stop accusing Bush of cheating. Both are very unpatriotic.
I'm the opposite. I can't stand console games. It's those controllers. You might be able to play a game in less than a minute, but plan on spending a week learning how to aim with a 4 directional button. There aren't nearly enough buttons on a controller so your quick functions are limited, where I can bind every letter on my keyboard if I wish.
:)
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I didn't understand the part about driver patches being a problem. I install the new directx once, maybe twice a year. I installed my video drivers when I installed XP and haven't touched them since. If someone is constantly upgrading their drivers, then that's purely self-inflicted suffering because it's not necessary. Install times on a pc might be long, but switches between game modes and levels is much faster on a pc because the data is on the hard drive instead of a dvd or cd. I'd rather wait one time during install than wait every time the game changed. Very few games have online activation as well so that's not an issue either, and if there is online activation it's a one time deal as well.
User interfaces most of the time aren't any more complex than with console games, and if they are it's because the pc game can handle many more options and functions than a console can, simply because you have a mouse and keyboard.
Consoles still have to be played on TV screens where the visual quality is nowhere near a game played on a 17" at 1024x768.
I can chat with my friends while I play or in between rounds with a regular keyboard. Some consoles have keyboards but it's extra $$.
and best of all...
I can alt-tab to Firefox and see if there are any new posts on slashdot while waiting to respawn.
I'm not saying console games suck, but there are a ton of things they can't do that my pc can, and there are a lot of people who can aim just fine with a mouse but can't aim for crap with a controller. My kids love both consoles and the pc so I'm not saying one is better than the other, it's just impossible for a console to replace the pc since the pc handles things so differently. Can't exactly replace apples with oranges.
There is one thing consoles are really good for. I can play my kids on their XBox or Game Cube and they can whoop my ass for a change.
Pages 7 and 8 are 404 because there are no 7 and 8. The article stops at page 6. They just forgot to remove the "next" arrow links at the bottom of 6.
We also can make a lot of mistakes in our tagging.
"After looking at the angle of that corner up there, I calculate that I can take it in my Ferrari at 82 mph without losing control."
"I can jump over that fire hydrant without smashing my nuts."
"This gun isn't loaded so it can't hurt me."
The difference is that Quake and Unreal have a single universe, so to speak. The walls, objects, and enemy characters are all part of the same engine and rendered at the same time. Walls, boxes, and monsters were all part of the same code and were handled the same way with the same engine physics.
Halo 2 creates 3 separate entities. Instead of the enemies being part of the world and rendered at the same time with it, they are now a separate part of the game and don't share any code with the landscape, walls, etc. The game first creates the world, then it creates the AI totally separately and puts them into the world. Basically you have one engine that controls the world and another totally different AI engine that has to interact with the world engine.
Of course, http://img120.exs.cx/img120/4149/hl2receipt.jpg is a Best Buy receipt. :)
I always screw up the usage of the word "irony." If I used it now would I be screwing it up again?
I saw that show also. In the video you can see the ship burning while still staying in the air. If the hydrogen is what initially burned then it would have dropped like a rock. The hydrogen didn't burn until some time after the fire started.
Using firefox too, ver 1.0 preview release...now it says 46277 months 29 days 7 hours 25 minutes and 25 seconds :)
I noticed on Howard's site he has a countdown clock for how long he has until his contract is up.
It says 46277 months 29 days 9 hours 21 minutes and 19 seconds.
So his contract will be up in the year 5860? Kinda hard to get numbers from a site that says he has over 3000 years to go...
You can't request information that doesn't exist. They couldn't request voting machine records until after the vote. The purpose of the request is to do an audit of the vote. How can you do that before the elections?
A keyboard has been emulated for the Game Cube by a couple of kids who are obsessed with Mortal Kombat. Being that this project was named Game Kube they felt it must be worthy since the second word of each title starts with "K".
They took all the combination and fatality moves from "Mortal Kombat, Deadly Alliance" and coded them to translate to letters.
So if you wanted to say "Hi There" you would actually grab a controller and do the following:
"crush kick" "neck stretch" "belly flop" "spine rip" "crush kick" "laser slice" "iron bash" "laser slice"
They are working on punctuation now but may have to wait for the release of the next Mortal Kombat game to get enough finishing moves.
http://www.techdot.com/doc/00223.html
75% of americans are connected to the internet. Is Valve really making it so that 25% of the population cannot play HL2? There's got to be more to the story. I wonder if they'll have a way for people to telephone in activation somehow.
but what are the long term sales going to look like? There are a few companies that actually plan for the long run. I wouldn't be surprised if in 3 years Pikmin has far out-sold Fable.
When you own a business, it's nice to sell a whole crapload of product the first month it's out, but your business is going to be around for much longer than a month. If you can successfully manage a product now that still has successful sales 3 years from now, you will never have a problem with profits.
I don't know enough about Pikmin to know if it will still be successfully selling in a few years but if it's as good as you say then I wouldn't be surprised.
Excel password protection is not designed to keep people from seeing your data. It is not designed to secure your informatio from other's eyes.
It is designed to keep people from modifying your spreadsheets and changing your data.
If I had mod points left I'd give you one.
;)
I totally agree with your post, except for one thing...
knitting?
Slightly off topic, but relevant. :)
At work we're required to use windows because of the proprietary software we use. Not much choice there. I have vnc on all the machines so I can hop to any from my office. I installed ultravnc on my computer and the server and an older version of realvnc on all the clients. I set ultra to require user and pass to connect and the older version of realvnc can't handle user and pass, just pass.
This way I can vnc from my computer or the server out to the network but nobody can connect from their machine to mine or the server. Just in case someone gets the password it won't matter because the vnc client on their computer can't connect to the server, only accept connections. They still can connect to another user though, but I don't really care about that. Everyone has only user access so they can't do much.
Of course this means I can vnc the boss' computer but he can't vnc me.
This is actually perfectly normal behavior and not a bug. What you did was kinda the same as holding two mirrors up to each other and created the infinity effect. Changes on the screen at home changed the screen at work which changed the screen at home which changed the screen at work...and so on. You made an infinite loop.
Thank you! It works.
You don't happen to remember the url for the website that hosts files from sites that get slashdotted do you?
Looks like their servers have been slashdotted. Anyone have a mirror or torrent of the movie?
It's an issue of civil liberties. Terrorists do not have the same protections under the law as the rest of us do. They don't get a lawyer and they can be held without bail or a phone call.
This is why calling the columbine kids or anyone else who isn't a terrorist is so dangerous. What's the difference between the 9/11 terrorists, the columbine kids, dahmer, or a drunk driver that plows through a market killing 25 people? The difference is the label they are given and how they are treated by the law. The columbine kids, dahmer, drunk drivers, people who bomb planned parenthood, and even McVeigh were all *criminals* but they still had the rights guaranteed to criminals. They were not terrorists. Terrorists are foreigners who wage war against the US and they are treated like military combantants.
Calling criminals "terrorists" is a frightening concept because of how far our liberties and rights have been eroded already. Anyone who has been wrongly accused of a crime will know how frightening it would be if being in the wrong place at the wrong time could get you labeled as a military combatant. Calling criminals "terrorists" is the first step to going there and it's really looking like a number of you have already taken that first step.
Kind of surprising considering this is slashdot where we love to bitch about the patriot act and people's servers being taken away without explanation.
All I remember before it came out, was hearing about how pretty the graphics were and how it was like "an interactive horror movie." :)
Nobody watches horror movies for the intricate storylines, and if all you hear is talk about the physics engine, graphic quality, and impressive sound, you should know better than to expect a great storyline.