Star Citizen raised over $6 million dollars ($2 million via kickstarter, $4 million via paypal). Since the campaign it has raised nearly $1 million dollars more (total $6.9 million).
The parent post was making fun of its parent... "Because his good" is possessive, just like "Because your good". He was being absurd to make a point; You missed it.
These people need a few more critical thinking skills. If the option for PP was removed, the pointless meetings would still be held. The same 85% of people attending these meetings would continue to feel their time (and money) was being wasted. Removing PP as an option will not save 2.1 billion francs.
While hiring people on a temporary basis sounds like a good idea, it has some serious flaws. Hiring 3 temporary employees with the plan to axe 2 makes for a very stressful/hostile work environment. Only those potential employees with no other job opportunities/offers would even consider it (which is most likely the worst applicants). The list of bad aspects of this idea is longer.
Saying "Cloud is just a fancy way of saying OPS" is along the lines of saying "Oak is just a fancy way of saying tree".
Yup, you are 100% correct, "other people's servers" is a nebulous, non-accurate, gaseous term that doesn't quite hit the nail on the head (just like "clould computing"). On the other hand, it doesn't make me feel like a pointy-haired boss when I use it in conversation with others.
I live in the Seattle area and have attended the last 4 PAX events. PAX won't replace E3. Don't missunderstand, PAX is probably much more fun of an event than E3 ever will be. PAX is for the community of gamers, not for the publishers and developers. Sure, there is some spill-over, but PAX is overwhelmingly a gamer convention.
I stream xvid files from my windows pc via WMP11 just fine to my PS3. Aside from normal codec requirements for playing xvid, I haven't needed to install anything else. I don't see what the fuss is all about.
What about all of those $500 60GB PS3 units still sitting on the shelves. Will they get a price drop? IMHO the 60GB is the most appealing, as it still plays PS1/2 games w/out emulation.
Wow, the mod totally missed the humor in the parent post.... when I replied it was moded -1 offtopic, it should be +5 funny
If you didn't get the joke Ninja Gaiden has been known to cause copious amounts of frustrations, enough to throw your controller. Now imagine your controller is a DS.
There are jobs like that, but I have had 4 different jobs since I graduated with a BS in CS and none of them required such drastic overtime. I work on average 40 hours per week. When there is a special need I will put in casual overtime, but usually very little, a couple of hours perhaps. I prefer to spend my time at home with my family and there are more than enough jobs out there like this. Just don't plan on working for Microsoft or any game making company.
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If you read my comment then you would have noticed I was discussing vertical lines of output and overall quality. Its a non-disputed fact that 720p is a higher quality than 1080i despite 1080i have more total pixels. 1080i has fewer vertical lines, which comes from interlacing and has an awful motion blurring effect.
Why else would all the sport channels, and all other forms of high quality video use progressive scan instead of the interlaced resolutions?
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There are many games that support 720p resolution on the old Xbox, with a few (simple) games supporting 1080i
Thats funny. I would have suspected it was the other way around (many supporting 1080i and fewer 720p).
The scale goes like this (from higest quality to lowest):
1080p (1080 actual lines)
720p (720 actual lines)
1080i (540 actual lines)
480p (480 actual lines)
720i (360 actual lines)
480i (240 actual lines)
How this works... The number is the number of vertical lines in the picture, or the final resolution. However, that number alone can be very misleading. The i or p suffix stand for interlaced or progressive scan. Interlaced images quite literally only pass 1/2 of the total resolution each image. To avoid having a half empty (every other line style) image, they take the opposite lines from the previous image and interlace them.
What most people don't realize is that this gives very poor quality images when there is a large amount of motion (aka video games, sports tv, etc). Progressive scan images on the other hand represent ALL vertical lines of the image for each pass, resulting in MUCH crisper (quite easy to see with your own eyes) images.
Anyway, my point was, it would be much easier to supply a 1080i resolution (540 lines) verses a 720p (720 lines) from a graphics processing standpoint.
How about a new language [instead] of a complex hybrid why not a new language ? Half the opinions about Ajax is that it's not worth all the effort. Too complex.
I think you just missed the whole point of ajax with that single statement....
Webbrowsers support javascript very well, and have done so for quite some time. Javascript has a nifty object that allows you to asynconously make requests without submitting a page, in the background so to speak. This request might fetch an XML document or might be a specially formated response to the developers liking. Javascript parses this. Then you use javascript to manipulate the DOM of the HTML page to reflect whatever new information you recived.
Why do we need to add or create a new language to do this? Javascript already proves it does an excellent job and any replacement language would have to do exactly the same thing that javascript is doing now? So you want to buy a new horse to replace the old horse, but the new horse isn't going to be any different? Just new?
There's a big interest in keeping guys like these around. This one kid "cost" some people millions but also help justified thousands of jobs for people in the security industry, virus protection firms, etc.
This line of thinking is exactly what the "broken window" fallacy describes (follow this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy for a full explanation). Either way, if you read this or not, the logic that he "generated jobs/income" is completely false.
Rewarding deviate behavior isn't always a great idea, usually a horrible one. Locking the kid up forever doesn't seem to be the greatest idea either, but if he is guilty he should be punished according to the laws he broke.
I know very little about graphics programming. Can someone please give me a boiled down explanation of how they are making a computer monitor brighter than normal with HDR? Or is this not a hardware hack at all?
In a nutshell they aren't. Your computer monitor is not any brighter, its just the effects of contrast. You can see this yourself if you take a while square on your monitor (like from an empty browser window) and overlap it into the middle of one of the images. You will notice the white is the same intensity, its just the colors around that make the difference.
Want another example? Projectors throw an image on a white background, so how do you get black?!? The answer again is you dont, the black is nothing more than the unlit portions of the white screen. Everything else is bright enough that it creates a high lvl of contrast, so now your unlit white screen appears white.
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Star Citizen raised over $6 million dollars ($2 million via kickstarter, $4 million via paypal). Since the campaign it has raised nearly $1 million dollars more (total $6.9 million).
The parent post was making fun of its parent... "Because his good" is possessive, just like "Because your good". He was being absurd to make a point; You missed it.
These people need a few more critical thinking skills. If the option for PP was removed, the pointless meetings would still be held. The same 85% of people attending these meetings would continue to feel their time (and money) was being wasted. Removing PP as an option will not save 2.1 billion francs.
While hiring people on a temporary basis sounds like a good idea, it has some serious flaws. Hiring 3 temporary employees with the plan to axe 2 makes for a very stressful/hostile work environment. Only those potential employees with no other job opportunities/offers would even consider it (which is most likely the worst applicants). The list of bad aspects of this idea is longer.
Saying "Cloud is just a fancy way of saying OPS" is along the lines of saying "Oak is just a fancy way of saying tree".
Yup, you are 100% correct, "other people's servers" is a nebulous, non-accurate, gaseous term that doesn't quite hit the nail on the head (just like "clould computing"). On the other hand, it doesn't make me feel like a pointy-haired boss when I use it in conversation with others.
Who wants to play buzz-word bingo?
But that doesn't mean that every datacentre is a cloud, because a cloud has properties that most datacentres do not.
Maybe not, but that is besides the point. The "cloud" is just a fancy way of saying "other peoples servers" (OPS).
Or even just keeping a copy of your own data on your own system.
Thats why I don't call it "cloud computing", I prefer OPS (other peoples servers). Its more self-explanitory.
I'm down with OPS. Yah, you know me.
Storing confidential data in the "cloud" (how I hate that term) is a ...
Lots of users say they hate using the term "the cloud", but they continue to use it anyway. Why not just say "other peoples servers"?
Who says there'll be no app store? There might well be plenty, if MS don't restrict it so that you can only run apps from one store.
This article says there will be a closed app store.. with a few free lame apps, thats as good as *no* app store.
Yeah, I'm sure they send all those profiles to charity, that is if there are any profits left after their $2000 / hr wages.
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I live in the Seattle area and have attended the last 4 PAX events. PAX won't replace E3. Don't missunderstand, PAX is probably much more fun of an event than E3 ever will be. PAX is for the community of gamers, not for the publishers and developers. Sure, there is some spill-over, but PAX is overwhelmingly a gamer convention.
I stream xvid files from my windows pc via WMP11 just fine to my PS3. Aside from normal codec requirements for playing xvid, I haven't needed to install anything else. I don't see what the fuss is all about.
What about all of those $500 60GB PS3 units still sitting on the shelves. Will they get a price drop? IMHO the 60GB is the most appealing, as it still plays PS1/2 games w/out emulation.
It doesn't really matter where 80 characters per line came from, I choose to keep my code at 80 characters / line for other reasons:
1) scanability (is that a word?)
2) facilitates faster code editing
Its mostly just the xbox version (thats why the comment about a $40 xbox controller).
Wow, the mod totally missed the humor in the parent post.... when I replied it was moded -1 offtopic, it should be +5 funny If you didn't get the joke Ninja Gaiden has been known to cause copious amounts of frustrations, enough to throw your controller. Now imagine your controller is a DS.
There are jobs like that, but I have had 4 different jobs since I graduated with a BS in CS and none of them required such drastic overtime. I work on average 40 hours per week. When there is a special need I will put in casual overtime, but usually very little, a couple of hours perhaps. I prefer to spend my time at home with my family and there are more than enough jobs out there like this. Just don't plan on working for Microsoft or any game making company.
If you read my comment then you would have noticed I was discussing vertical lines of output and overall quality. Its a non-disputed fact that 720p is a higher quality than 1080i despite 1080i have more total pixels. 1080i has fewer vertical lines, which comes from interlacing and has an awful motion blurring effect.
Why else would all the sport channels, and all other forms of high quality video use progressive scan instead of the interlaced resolutions?
Thats funny. I would have suspected it was the other way around (many supporting 1080i and fewer 720p).
The scale goes like this (from higest quality to lowest):
How this works... The number is the number of vertical lines in the picture, or the final resolution. However, that number alone can be very misleading. The i or p suffix stand for interlaced or progressive scan. Interlaced images quite literally only pass 1/2 of the total resolution each image. To avoid having a half empty (every other line style) image, they take the opposite lines from the previous image and interlace them.
What most people don't realize is that this gives very poor quality images when there is a large amount of motion (aka video games, sports tv, etc). Progressive scan images on the other hand represent ALL vertical lines of the image for each pass, resulting in MUCH crisper (quite easy to see with your own eyes) images.
Anyway, my point was, it would be much easier to supply a 1080i resolution (540 lines) verses a 720p (720 lines) from a graphics processing standpoint.
Because those libraries are actually not that great, fairly heavy-weight as far as javascript and browsers are concerned, and not necessary.
How about a new language [instead] of a complex hybrid why not a new language ? Half the opinions about Ajax is that it's not worth all the effort. Too complex.
I think you just missed the whole point of ajax with that single statement....
Webbrowsers support javascript very well, and have done so for quite some time. Javascript has a nifty object that allows you to asynconously make requests without submitting a page, in the background so to speak. This request might fetch an XML document or might be a specially formated response to the developers liking. Javascript parses this. Then you use javascript to manipulate the DOM of the HTML page to reflect whatever new information you recived.
Why do we need to add or create a new language to do this? Javascript already proves it does an excellent job and any replacement language would have to do exactly the same thing that javascript is doing now? So you want to buy a new horse to replace the old horse, but the new horse isn't going to be any different? Just new?
This line of thinking is exactly what the "broken window" fallacy describes (follow this url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy for a full explanation). Either way, if you read this or not, the logic that he "generated jobs/income" is completely false.
Rewarding deviate behavior isn't always a great idea, usually a horrible one. Locking the kid up forever doesn't seem to be the greatest idea either, but if he is guilty he should be punished according to the laws he broke.
In a nutshell they aren't. Your computer monitor is not any brighter, its just the effects of contrast. You can see this yourself if you take a while square on your monitor (like from an empty browser window) and overlap it into the middle of one of the images. You will notice the white is the same intensity, its just the colors around that make the difference.
Want another example? Projectors throw an image on a white background, so how do you get black?!? The answer again is you dont, the black is nothing more than the unlit portions of the white screen. Everything else is bright enough that it creates a high lvl of contrast, so now your unlit white screen appears white.