I tried to create some simple 3D video footage a while ago using webcams and a toy video projector projecting De Bruijn sequenced colored bands. It occurred to me that things would be a lot easier if everything in the world were a uniform dusty-white. I'm thrilled that they've discovered a way to make the universal dream of a uniform dusty-white world a reality.
Shininess also wrecked the joint up when I tried to play with it. A series of book spines, a wonderful map to have for all occasions, looked alright on older fabric books, but anything with metallic lettering or made of slightly shiny synthetic material produced terrible distortions.
I'm half-a-retard, so take this with a grain of retard: This drug, after identifying infected cells, uses their own apoptosis (cellular suicide) mechisms against them. I think apoptosis is usually broken in cancer cells, which is part of what makes them cancerous. So they would be identified, but not killed.
This would have been nice when my radiator exploded on the freeway, and when my throttle got stuck wide open in neutral, while driving uphill. Nothing that goes horribly wrong with my car ever produces any kind of warning until I'm about to die...
Why in god's name would anyone be willing to go to that with electronics? For god's sake, just take a pad and pencil! Even if you manage not to become part of a hilarious proof-of-concept hack to startle the audience into realizing how easy it is to X and Y someone's Z by forging an A with a malformed B, and avoid being targeted by some Russian mobster who's thrown out a dragnet for data on -other- people's new techniques ( and sure, credit card numbers and personal info, as long as were in there already, the place is still probably surrounded by black vans full of studious FBI, NSA, DHS, and CIA ( east AND west ) agents, all trying to hack, monitor, and watchlist you on completely separate orders and agendas. It's got to be just... a shitstorm. Am I wrong?
I've got a Wi-Fi only model, which lacks true GPS. I bought RoqyBT to let it receive coordinates from the external receiver I've got.
I've also got an iPod touch. In my work at a small game publisher, I recently had to capture video of an iPhone game that may be ported to the DS. Even with native Apple cables, the touch was incapable out outputting live game footage until it was jailbroken, and had one of the DisplayOut hacks installed.
More usable keyboards, improved iPhone app scaling, AdBlock, music player controls that don't require the device to be turned on and unlocked, increased caching of Google Maps data for faster loading and offline use, user agent faking for sites that try to feed you mobile versions...
The title I submitted under was "MtGox.com Bitcoin trading site compromised", which I felt was reasonably accurate, and I was careful to describe the drop in price as being "on the site", and not a universal drop, or a crash. The breach, release of data, and temporary crippling of the largest Bitcoin market were what I thought merited a submission.
Someone else submitted around the same time with "Bitcoin Price Crashes", and my submission seems to have eaten that poster's title during the Slashdot editing process. I squinted disapprovingly when I saw it.
I never thought OnLive would work, but it kinda, sorta does. Over my office connection.
Not my home connection, that's too slow. Or my friend's connection, which is fast enough, but suffers from occasional hiccups that break the stream... but at work, it works great, so this should work anywhere that a mobile device can receive and sustain a 5Mbps stream of data without going over their data cap in a month.
The Wii and DS sold well, true... but there's so much shovelware out there that it's difficult to turn a profit on anything unless you're Nintendo. You can make a fantastic, innovative shooter and get it into stores, but it winds up on the shelf next to a knock off shooter, a pet sim, a boxing game, and a sport compilation, each at one fifth the price.
Testify! Also, people don't seem to have much imagination when it comes to computing power. Minecraft proves that people are interested in deep, different game mechanics, but aspects of it are severely Iimited by processing power (water, in particular, stands out). As proceesing power continues to march along, physics libraries advance and settle, and companies invest in exploring the possibilities they provide, we won't just see destructible walls that scatter a few physics objects. We'll see games in which planned destruction of a building aids you in your goal, and different components of the building (beams, wood, plaster) break at arbitrary points determined by the physics of the situation.
Realistic liquids, gasses, and complex objects provide amazing opportunities for gameplay that's simple and intuitive to humans, but ridiculously fun.
Extra storage, memory, and cycles can also allow something like a GTA whose thousands of citizens survive when they're beyond rendering distance, with goals and connections, who can be helped or exploited, with relatime ripple effects. An L.A. Noir in which witnesses occur naturally, and pass on physically determined information. A Black and White where thousands of subjects can be told to actively deform the terrain...
Once you have throw-away quantities of power, the possibilities for fun balloon.
What are you talking about? My 3Ghz Core2 Duo machine pulls a solid 17-18 fps with shadows, reflections, vehicle density, view distance, and detail distance at their lowest possible settings ( without being turned off )... and only hiccups every 8 frames or so, and I can get into 1 out of 10 multplayer games without being arbitrarily kicked ALL THE WAY BACK INTO IN-GAME SINGLE PLAYER.
Notes:
11:45 am - Upon administration, injection site immediately burst into flames. Combustion of patients blood followed, with progressive explosive rupturing of all blood vessels in a pattern emanating from injection site. End-stage release of parasitic alien spores ( from eyeballs ) noted in earlier formulations has been reduced to a degree exceeding expectations. Recommend further human trials to determine ( presence of? ) risk factors for blood combustion.
If we all payed for our media, there would be no deficit. Revenue would increase as the big labels create new jobs. The millions of unemployed in the US would be hired to stand in studios, sticking their arms and legs out to act as human anacoustic paneling. Those of us with exceptional talent can try our hand at realtime vocal active noise cancellation. Hint: work on your latency...
It's too bad spanned games always get distorted until they look like trash. I'd really love a 180 degree view in some games, but it's literally impossible to achieve, currently.
And the government "must have" the "individual mandate" to make the health care overhaul work. That doesn't make it legal. I "must have" my neighbor's wallet to buy a new GPU. That doesn't mean I can go take it. If you ask us nicely, maybe some of us will agree to give you comprehensive, anonymised location data.
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I tried to create some simple 3D video footage a while ago using webcams and a toy video projector projecting De Bruijn sequenced colored bands. It occurred to me that things would be a lot easier if everything in the world were a uniform dusty-white. I'm thrilled that they've discovered a way to make the universal dream of a uniform dusty-white world a reality.
Shininess also wrecked the joint up when I tried to play with it. A series of book spines, a wonderful map to have for all occasions, looked alright on older fabric books, but anything with metallic lettering or made of slightly shiny synthetic material produced terrible distortions.
I'm half-a-retard, so take this with a grain of retard: This drug, after identifying infected cells, uses their own apoptosis (cellular suicide) mechisms against them. I think apoptosis is usually broken in cancer cells, which is part of what makes them cancerous. So they would be identified, but not killed.
"Fuck! Shit! Turn it off! Pull over!"
This would have been nice when my radiator exploded on the freeway, and when my throttle got stuck wide open in neutral, while driving uphill. Nothing that goes horribly wrong with my car ever produces any kind of warning until I'm about to die...
Why in god's name would anyone be willing to go to that with electronics? For god's sake, just take a pad and pencil! Even if you manage not to become part of a hilarious proof-of-concept hack to startle the audience into realizing how easy it is to X and Y someone's Z by forging an A with a malformed B, and avoid being targeted by some Russian mobster who's thrown out a dragnet for data on -other- people's new techniques ( and sure, credit card numbers and personal info, as long as were in there already, the place is still probably surrounded by black vans full of studious FBI, NSA, DHS, and CIA ( east AND west ) agents, all trying to hack, monitor, and watchlist you on completely separate orders and agendas. It's got to be just... a shitstorm. Am I wrong?
I've got a Wi-Fi only model, which lacks true GPS. I bought RoqyBT to let it receive coordinates from the external receiver I've got.
I've also got an iPod touch. In my work at a small game publisher, I recently had to capture video of an iPhone game that may be ported to the DS. Even with native Apple cables, the touch was incapable out outputting live game footage until it was jailbroken, and had one of the DisplayOut hacks installed.
More usable keyboards, improved iPhone app scaling, AdBlock, music player controls that don't require the device to be turned on and unlocked, increased caching of Google Maps data for faster loading and offline use, user agent faking for sites that try to feed you mobile versions...
The title I submitted under was "MtGox.com Bitcoin trading site compromised", which I felt was reasonably accurate, and I was careful to describe the drop in price as being "on the site", and not a universal drop, or a crash. The breach, release of data, and temporary crippling of the largest Bitcoin market were what I thought merited a submission.
Someone else submitted around the same time with "Bitcoin Price Crashes", and my submission seems to have eaten that poster's title during the Slashdot editing process. I squinted disapprovingly when I saw it.
Don't you mean waffles?
They'll deliver Mexican Coke...
My house is full of totes :(
I've been playing Uplink all weekend... Can I join?
Isn't it just one server with a 32-core chip?
I never thought OnLive would work, but it kinda, sorta does. Over my office connection.
Not my home connection, that's too slow. Or my friend's connection, which is fast enough, but suffers from occasional hiccups that break the stream... but at work, it works great, so this should work anywhere that a mobile device can receive and sustain a 5Mbps stream of data without going over their data cap in a month.
Ray-cast to begin with. But I think Voxelstein 3D was raytraced before Intel got around to doing it.
or gtfo
Holy shit, 8? What's happening to this place...
You crazy seven digiters...
I just lost the game.
The Wii and DS sold well, true... but there's so much shovelware out there that it's difficult to turn a profit on anything unless you're Nintendo. You can make a fantastic, innovative shooter and get it into stores, but it winds up on the shelf next to a knock off shooter, a pet sim, a boxing game, and a sport compilation, each at one fifth the price.
Peoe in the Wii space are hurting.
Testify! Also, people don't seem to have much imagination when it comes to computing power. Minecraft proves that people are interested in deep, different game mechanics, but aspects of it are severely Iimited by processing power (water, in particular, stands out). As proceesing power continues to march along, physics libraries advance and settle, and companies invest in exploring the possibilities they provide, we won't just see destructible walls that scatter a few physics objects. We'll see games in which planned destruction of a building aids you in your goal, and different components of the building (beams, wood, plaster) break at arbitrary points determined by the physics of the situation.
Realistic liquids, gasses, and complex objects provide amazing opportunities for gameplay that's simple and intuitive to humans, but ridiculously fun.
Extra storage, memory, and cycles can also allow something like a GTA whose thousands of citizens survive when they're beyond rendering distance, with goals and connections, who can be helped or exploited, with relatime ripple effects. An L.A. Noir in which witnesses occur naturally, and pass on physically determined information. A Black and White where thousands of subjects can be told to actively deform the terrain...
Once you have throw-away quantities of power, the possibilities for fun balloon.
Agreed, new accounts all around. I thought movies and downloadable games would be attached to accounts as well, though...
What are you talking about? My 3Ghz Core2 Duo machine pulls a solid 17-18 fps with shadows, reflections, vehicle density, view distance, and detail distance at their lowest possible settings ( without being turned off )... and only hiccups every 8 frames or so, and I can get into 1 out of 10 multplayer games without being arbitrarily kicked ALL THE WAY BACK INTO IN-GAME SINGLE PLAYER.
Notes:
11:45 am - Upon administration, injection site immediately burst into flames. Combustion of patients blood followed, with progressive explosive rupturing of all blood vessels in a pattern emanating from injection site. End-stage release of parasitic alien spores ( from eyeballs ) noted in earlier formulations has been reduced to a degree exceeding expectations. Recommend further human trials to determine ( presence of? ) risk factors for blood combustion.
If we all payed for our media, there would be no deficit. Revenue would increase as the big labels create new jobs. The millions of unemployed in the US would be hired to stand in studios, sticking their arms and legs out to act as human anacoustic paneling. Those of us with exceptional talent can try our hand at realtime vocal active noise cancellation. Hint: work on your latency...
It's too bad spanned games always get distorted until they look like trash. I'd really love a 180 degree view in some games, but it's literally impossible to achieve, currently.
And the government "must have" the "individual mandate" to make the health care overhaul work. That doesn't make it legal. I "must have" my neighbor's wallet to buy a new GPU. That doesn't mean I can go take it. If you ask us nicely, maybe some of us will agree to give you comprehensive, anonymised location data.