Pixar is still doing an average of six to eight hours, but they say that at some points they have had to do ninety hour frames. Eight hours has always been their comfort point for fitting the work it takes to animate and the tiem it takes to render into the schedule.
At least one major category is people just never have connected with new games. They "grew out" of gaming in the mid-80s and have never had the time to get back into the modern scene because of work and children. There are, after all, rather too many games today to easily comprehend without study. If all you know about today's games is that Vice City is too violent for you, then you still know you like Tetris, Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Subhunt.
It's immature to keep your GBA in your pocket. It spoils the lines on your Dockers(TM). I suggest a case made of rich, Corinthian vinyloid, with a sturdy snap.
Pretty much everything involved in treating cancer is "bad for you." Chemotherapy is the introduction of poisons into the system, sometimes at the site of a tumor and sometimes just of a toxin that tends to kill tumors more than it kills you. Radiation therapy is about killing cancer cells with the kind of radiation that comes off off radioactive metals or with X-rays, both of which can kill you or cause cancer. Of course trying to just cut a tumor out usually involves getting a lot of healthy tissue.
Porphyrin phototherapy is the injection of toxins that are activated by light, called porpyhrins, into a tumor. Porpyhrins are extraordinarily "bad for you" in many circumstances, and when the light hits these particular porphyrins they destroy all the tissue in which they are present. The nice thing is that then they're gone, unlike the toxins in chemotherapy, which often wander off and poison the wrong thing. Thing is, though, a porphyrin combined with iron is called a heme, with which one builds hemoglobin, which is on the whole "very good for you," in the sense that air is very good for you. But then oxygen can eat through glass. It's all too complex for a scorecard approach.
No, really, I think it's deliberate. We do this in english too, with equally nonsensical text.
If you make a block of text in many word-processing applications, it's filled in with "lorem ipsum dolorum...," which is a long string of basically nonsensical text in pseudo Latin. It's actually garbled Cicero that can no longer be translated. These programs fill in these text blocks to show the user what the page layout will look like, even before the copy is available. The layout guy may not get the copy from the writer until the last minute, so he has to have somethign to work with.
In many cases, though, no copy is actually necessary. The document will just be a newspaper held up by some fella in an ad, and it's just supposed to look some way. You don't care what it says, so you leave the lorem ipsum in.
We don't do this because we don't care to learn what Roman characters signify. We know what they signify. We do it because other things matter more, because it isn't practical to always be calling up a writer before making a design change where the text content doesn't matter. It certainly isn't a cultural snub against ourselves. It's about saving money.
And moreover, when that little group discovers something like the hatchet, they suddenly outcompete everything that eats the same food as them, but isn't in the tribe and isn't told the secret. Time and again, one tribe wipes out all the tribes nearby with a new weapon or other new technology, thinning the gene pool.
In the 1300s, there certainly weren't a billion people of European descent. There were more like 50 million. That's barely thirty generations ago. This sort of thing happened in pre-history as well.
I believe that's what they're talking about. The total polygon count for that city is huge, and you can just keep zooming out from where you see fence-posts, windowpanes, and doors with inset panels to where you see row-housing stretching out to the horizon. It's not about a high poly-count when you're looking at a single person, like in an FPS set in industrial tunnels, but about the entire world.
I must point out that the people have individual fingers, so the close-up poly-count doesn't stink either. It's just not a shiny colorful UT2K3 game. It's a detailed city in post-Soviet Europe, a god game where you can go and see your subjects' fingers. The SimCity people have only been dreaming about doing this.
It's a DIY because they sell blank black cubes and have all sorts of sticker sets, like flags, coloured happy faces, and whatever. That way they don't have to deal with manufacturing each model, stocking inventory for each, end-of-line sales for unpopular ones... they just pack in the sticker set.
The Dreamcast modem was also included for free, the browser was included for free, and it connected to your ordinary dial-up service for free, so that unlockable was really just an incentive to go see the ads on their site. This makes the Sonic Adventure unlockables quite reasonable.
This unlockable is a sneaky trick that claims to be possible only because of the expensive X-Box Live technology, which isn't even available to people in areas without broadband unless they fake it using a network sharing a dial-up connection. Very much different. There's a lie, and it involves spending more money.
I'm quite sure distributing pictures of woman having sex with horses to children is a felony without crossing state lines. There's no reason it would be any less serious online.
For the longest time the software was written by hand from the metal up. You can't afford to have one bug in space code. It could cost half a billion dollars. Every routine was coded three different ways, and three systems ran separately. If they ever disagreed you knew you had a problem. So while you have an OS of sorts, it's the Shuttle OS, and nothing else.
After all, there are a thousand assumptions that OS developers make that a space programmer has to choose him or herself. In Linux, the coder is always saying "this amount of precision is ok," but for a rocket the amount of precision needed is very well known, and incredibly demanding at all levels. For a hobbyist group, linux is one thing, but if you want to put something in geosynchronous orbit indefinitely...
If your prose is so bland that only your penmanship can lend it a cherished style then it's lucky you're good with your hands. At least you can tickle her fancy.
Yes, and thank you, but this is Slashdot. You should never handle liquid nitrogen, build a microwave gun, arc-weld, or do any number of other things unless you know what you're doing.
Now that we have the internet, we just find out what the hell we're doing. Even for those of us almost too eager to put on our goggles, finding a website doesn't strain patience. For example:
-Make a rainproof jacket.
-Line the inside with thick insulation.
-Carefully slide a flexible display in between the layers.
Excellent from the point of view of principles first, but a bit ticklish. Rather like trying to work the shoelace back through the the waistband of one's swimming trunks.
Yeah, you'll be very happy when you, careful consumer who has microwaved his tags, can't get help because the salesclerks are chasing John Dough, who hasn't fried his tags, and is wearing $1000 worth of clothing.
See, right now when people walk into a store a salesclerk can tell John Dough is richer and jump over to him for the higher commission, but it's a personal decision, it requires a good sense of the value of things, it's line of sight...
In the future, John Dough will walk through the door and pop up on the computer as a major target. The whole system will adjust to ignore the guy without marked valuables.
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Pixar is still doing an average of six to eight hours, but they say that at some points they have had to do ninety hour frames. Eight hours has always been their comfort point for fitting the work it takes to animate and the tiem it takes to render into the schedule.
At least one major category is people just never have connected with new games. They "grew out" of gaming in the mid-80s and have never had the time to get back into the modern scene because of work and children. There are, after all, rather too many games today to easily comprehend without study. If all you know about today's games is that Vice City is too violent for you, then you still know you like Tetris, Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Subhunt.
WARNING: Not a sincere recommendation.
Porphyrin phototherapy is the injection of toxins that are activated by light, called porpyhrins, into a tumor. Porpyhrins are extraordinarily "bad for you" in many circumstances, and when the light hits these particular porphyrins they destroy all the tissue in which they are present. The nice thing is that then they're gone, unlike the toxins in chemotherapy, which often wander off and poison the wrong thing. Thing is, though, a porphyrin combined with iron is called a heme, with which one builds hemoglobin, which is on the whole "very good for you," in the sense that air is very good for you. But then oxygen can eat through glass. It's all too complex for a scorecard approach.
We, however, are tricksy. We probably convinced neanderthals to sign a license agreement on fire.
If you make a block of text in many word-processing applications, it's filled in with "lorem ipsum dolorum...," which is a long string of basically nonsensical text in pseudo Latin. It's actually garbled Cicero that can no longer be translated. These programs fill in these text blocks to show the user what the page layout will look like, even before the copy is available. The layout guy may not get the copy from the writer until the last minute, so he has to have somethign to work with.
In many cases, though, no copy is actually necessary. The document will just be a newspaper held up by some fella in an ad, and it's just supposed to look some way. You don't care what it says, so you leave the lorem ipsum in.
We don't do this because we don't care to learn what Roman characters signify. We know what they signify. We do it because other things matter more, because it isn't practical to always be calling up a writer before making a design change where the text content doesn't matter. It certainly isn't a cultural snub against ourselves. It's about saving money.
Maybe you need to check your ping.
In the 1300s, there certainly weren't a billion people of European descent. There were more like 50 million. That's barely thirty generations ago. This sort of thing happened in pre-history as well.
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/republictherev olution/screens.html?page=11
Look at how the draw-in distance is so further out than where houses are spots:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/republictherev olution/screens.html?page=9
I believe that's what they're talking about. The total polygon count for that city is huge, and you can just keep zooming out from where you see fence-posts, windowpanes, and doors with inset panels to where you see row-housing stretching out to the horizon. It's not about a high poly-count when you're looking at a single person, like in an FPS set in industrial tunnels, but about the entire world.
I must point out that the people have individual fingers, so the close-up poly-count doesn't stink either. It's just not a shiny colorful UT2K3 game. It's a detailed city in post-Soviet Europe, a god game where you can go and see your subjects' fingers. The SimCity people have only been dreaming about doing this.
Rubik's sells cube lube. "If the only lube you've ever purchased is cube lube, you might be a geek."
It's a DIY because they sell blank black cubes and have all sorts of sticker sets, like flags, coloured happy faces, and whatever. That way they don't have to deal with manufacturing each model, stocking inventory for each, end-of-line sales for unpopular ones... they just pack in the sticker set.
The Dreamcast modem was also included for free, the browser was included for free, and it connected to your ordinary dial-up service for free, so that unlockable was really just an incentive to go see the ads on their site. This makes the Sonic Adventure unlockables quite reasonable. This unlockable is a sneaky trick that claims to be possible only because of the expensive X-Box Live technology, which isn't even available to people in areas without broadband unless they fake it using a network sharing a dial-up connection. Very much different. There's a lie, and it involves spending more money.
I'm quite sure distributing pictures of woman having sex with horses to children is a felony without crossing state lines. There's no reason it would be any less serious online.
For the longest time the software was written by hand from the metal up. You can't afford to have one bug in space code. It could cost half a billion dollars. Every routine was coded three different ways, and three systems ran separately. If they ever disagreed you knew you had a problem. So while you have an OS of sorts, it's the Shuttle OS, and nothing else. After all, there are a thousand assumptions that OS developers make that a space programmer has to choose him or herself. In Linux, the coder is always saying "this amount of precision is ok," but for a rocket the amount of precision needed is very well known, and incredibly demanding at all levels. For a hobbyist group, linux is one thing, but if you want to put something in geosynchronous orbit indefinitely...
If your prose is so bland that only your penmanship can lend it a cherished style then it's lucky you're good with your hands. At least you can tickle her fancy.
"Cursive was so character-defining when I was in school," says Amy Greene... And now those characters are defined in Arial 12pt.
And we'll wear them on rings called signature rings, which we'll shorten to signat rings and pronounce 'signit'.
ICUR gone. I went 2 the store. BRB. :)
Now that we have the internet, we just find out what the hell we're doing. Even for those of us almost too eager to put on our goggles, finding a website doesn't strain patience. For example:
http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/F_captest.html
-Make a rainproof jacket. -Line the inside with thick insulation. -Carefully slide a flexible display in between the layers. Excellent from the point of view of principles first, but a bit ticklish. Rather like trying to work the shoelace back through the the waistband of one's swimming trunks.
Yeah, you'll be very happy when you, careful consumer who has microwaved his tags, can't get help because the salesclerks are chasing John Dough, who hasn't fried his tags, and is wearing $1000 worth of clothing. See, right now when people walk into a store a salesclerk can tell John Dough is richer and jump over to him for the higher commission, but it's a personal decision, it requires a good sense of the value of things, it's line of sight... In the future, John Dough will walk through the door and pop up on the computer as a major target. The whole system will adjust to ignore the guy without marked valuables.