That's a very small percentage of games actively played today. The article's point is still valid. Oh, sure, some games dented the male-dominant world - I know, my mom plays those Popcap games all the time. But what about serious games for serious gamers, other than those dime-a-dozen Flash/Java "clones", maybe even where we'll interact with each other? Women like games, definitely. But (thankfully) they aren't pumped up on testosterone, thus having the need to fight and kill and maim, so they purchase a small fraction of the games we do. MMOs have come a long way but there's another problem: Claiming to be female will get you free gifts from almost every passer-by... or sexual harassment from the little punks who think that it's funny and ok because they're anonymous. Need references for either of those? I'll post 'em if you need 'em. Also, the clothes female characters have to wear: All the good gear is skimpy and revealing. Sigh. See, it's a tough thing to figure out, which is why nobody has fixed it, and articles like this still freakin appear periodically.
Seriously, how many CS/UT/other team or deathmatch or ctf servers are still active (lots), what's the logged-in user stats on Battle.net (lots) and how many people actually play Civ/Sims anymore (few)?
The still-beating-the-dead-horse point is that women barely represent themselves in the gaming market, because they don't even like the games that are marketed specifically to them.
You can't have a monopoly when you have 1/3 of your customers' mind share. You have to be the only one. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo. None of them have a monopoly on gaming systems, because they share with the other two competitors. All three have deep pockets, so dumping wouldn't affect the other companies.
You must go NOW and seek the Oracle with My directions. Be not fooled by any clueless saps claiming to be the TRUE server of our knowledge. Report your Progres every hour.
Query the Oracle, USING proper syntax, and retrieve from it the stored procedure which you must execute in ORDER to ALTER the WINDOW of your mind, and receive the true VIEW. Only the SELECT will learn the correct answer, the rest will be INSERTed headfirst to the DUMP.
Now back up on your two-wheel tape drive, exit the door, turn around, and go.
That's very entertaining, but I believe you missed my point.
"Art" and "Cool" can and often do overlap. See the lighting and color keying in movies like The Bourne Supremacy, for example. You can make art on commission and still be recognized. Things like the Statue of Liberty (gift to USA) or the Mona Lisa (done on commission) is known around the world, and is art.
If you're going to sell something and call it art, it better BE art, not something without any artistic value that you made on which you plastered the label "art".
However "cool" some of you may think this piece is (and I really don't but cool is subjective) there is no artistic composition. It's exactly this: A piece slapped together to look cool to geeks who don't see a lot of art, with some shinies and moving parts (ooh!) to brag about. Sure, it takes a while to paint something and put pieces together. But it's not art. It's had the label "art" plastered on it for the sake of getting some poor sucker to notice it and buy it. It even had Slashdot coverage - so undoubtedly, it will be purchased by someone. I can think of people I knew in my teenage years who would have loved something like this, then thrown it away a year later because it's dumb.
It's cool, maybe, but it's definitely not art.
Art critique is just basically intelligent discussion, folks.
Seriously, something you painted to fit a "cool someone will buy this" theme plus computer parts does not make an art piece. I don't care how much of a geek you are. Was there ANY thought about composition?
If you want to be an artist, you need to think about making art, not making something "cool" that someone will want to buy. Don't sell out like that.
Looks like you can't trust Seagate or IBM, either. I've had both of those die very quickly off the shelf as well. And don't forget about floppies, because drop them a half inch, take them into another room, or look at them crosseyed and poof! Then there's CDs that rot away all the time. Don't even mention DVDs. Oops.
That's why I now use an automated system involving monks and papyrus scrolls for all my data.
I can, because they do all the time, and the rest of them wholly support their friends. It's important to have a few people left behind to gather more support, but that is not their focus. Some members the College Republicans also don't support the war, so watch what you say.
Signing up at the recruiter is not the only way to join the armed forces. You can go to college for something they need, then join them and help with more than just shooting at people.
By the way, I'm not a member of any of these groups, but I've met and spoken with members of all of them and I have to say I am impressed with how much they support the war by signing up either with ROTC, recruiters, or trading service for scholarships.
When was the last time you took your head out of the clouds and looked at what actually goes on with these groups? Your arguments on this appears to be just hearsay and random wild accusations based on assumptions, and you've never actually talked to these people.
Somehow I missed that one. Probably because I had so much WORK to do this spring in my ACTUAL REAL LIFE... Well, I guess you're right. Still, it's a fairly new game in the MMORPG world, and Square would be foolish to destroy it.
At least call me out with a name attached to your post. Some people have no dignity, I swear.
Maybe the fines they get for polluting the rivers and lakes around here got to be too much, huh? Good old Genesee River, with its mutant life and undrinkable water... acid rain... unusable beaches on the lake... yeah.
Those tables were figured out by linear regressions based on experimentally obtained data. There is no physical model of film that explains why this happens, it "just does." No explanation has ever been found for reciprocity failure in photography.
The camera is not a factor here, except that it controls duration and intensity of light - which can be done without a camera. EG, test strips, or just exposing the film to light. The film receives a certain intensity of light over a time interval, and reacts one way, but when it receives the same intensity of light over a different time interval, the results are not what you would expect.
If you think you can explain why it happens, go for it. You'll be the first one and probably be a world-reknowned man for discovering the solution to our age-old problem.
That's when your exposure SHOULD be one thing by mathematics, but it doesn't come out right - so you have to change it to something else that SHOULD be wrong instead. There are tables of that data everywhere.
I'd really like to see some smart chemist or mathematician try to figure that one out!
No!!! You're just eliminating image information that way. The proper way to compress the dynamic range is to reduce it before it hits the lens. Use reflectors, white paper, fill flash, whatever you can to lighten your subject. If you're using digital, there's really no excuse to not try this - you can take as many test shots as you want.
If you can't do that because your subject is someone sitting in front of a tree and you want lots of shadow details AND cloud hilight details, maybe your subject should occupy more of the frame so people can figure out what that subject is. That sort of thing is really difficult to do with basic film and paper - but see a paragraph later on for more info on the easy way. The background is not as important as the subject, ever. If the background is the subject, emphasize that. If an object or person is the subject, expose for that.
Now I know you probably want clouds in your pictures, and that's why you invented this process. That can be done... just mask in the darkroom, and use one of your under-exposed brackets. It's really not that hard.
Or, you could find a paper that has a greater exposure range than the usual stuff in the store. It does exist, and can be made with liquid emulsion. Your paper's exposure range is the limiting factor here. Film has way more exposure latitude than paper or digital anything today.
Learning a little about the development process will help you go from blind luck to predictable results. For example, learn the different grades of paper - you can use them to take an image having a 10-stop range and print it on normal paper.
No, they apparently had pictures and live webcam video. Read the article... reading doesn't hurt as much as you think it does.
I will quote it here just for you:
"Inside the chat rooms, not only were men trying to meet children or even take them away from home to run away, the station found countless adult men using Web cameras to send children in the room lewd pictures or display live nude images of themselves."
No, they aren't going to replace FFXI yet for several very good reasons.
FFXI is less than 3 years old on the Japanese market, less than 2 years old here in North America, and less than 1 year old in Europe. There are very few Japanese players who have seen everything in the game, and even less North Americans. Ask any Rank 10 player how long they played to get there. Nobody wants the game to end, because you can only see so much in a day and there is a huge library of content in the game.
They just announced FFXI for the upcoming XBOX 360. Making it obsolete before it is released would be a very unwise idea. SE doesn't like shooting themselves in the foot - notice how they killed Square Pictures after one bad movie, and are also making games for Nintendo systems again. Also, if they release FFXI on the 360, we can expect another few expansion packs for it after that - and sticking to the one expansion per year trend, it's got some life in it yet.
The player base is still trending upward very rapidly, so you can believe they are still making new content.
Some people claim FFXI is dead and they're quitting because they can't have fun. I claim that their play experience was ruined by the multiplayer aspect, when they really wanted a single player game. Yes, folks, the game forces you to interact with other people in order to move through the storyline. Get used to it, that's what the second M in MMORPG stands for - Multiplayer. The famous nerfs, like DRG Penta? Those are for our own good... I don't like when someone can exploit a bug in the AI or game mechanics to gain an advantage.
FFXI is a great game without bringing my computer to its knees. I really don't care if I am way over-equipped to run it, I just want to enjoy the game - and I can.
If you actually enter a Staples store, you'll see a certain kind of surge suppressor with individual switches on the plugs. Also, they are on the website. Tell me which store you went to so I can pass this along to their management?
On the http://www.staples.com/ website, look under: Technology / Power Protection / Surge Protectors - Monitor
Here at RIT, we have a College of Computing and Information Sciences ( http://www.rit.edu/~gccis/ ) and that's where CS lives. It's separate from our College of Engineering. Computer Scientist might be considered more proper here.
Exactly. My single-CPU (unless you count hyperthreading) 3GHz Pentium 4 takes less than 8 hours to get from booting and selecting Stage 1 to a fully working 2.6 kernel, with KDE, Firefox, Apache, and MySQL.
Try throwing a 7200+ RPM hard drive and 1GB of good quality RAM in that slow AMD64 box and see what happens. Corsair XMS is good. Lots of other RAM is good. PNY is bad, K-Byte is worse. Anything with "value" in the name is BAD. Get a matched pair of low-latency 512MB PC3200 or maybe even PC3500 sticks. And remember, all PC3200 is not created equal.
Also please remember: Just because you have 200GB hard drive space and a fat pipe to the 'net, does NOT mean you need to install all the packages.
Considering that large quantities of matrix math (which is exactly what 3D processors do) are otherwise extremely time consuming on general purpose "proper CPUs", using a massive network of PS3s for their matrix math handling would probably be very cost-efficient.
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Will this be sued into oblivion too??
Didn't we see this already with the Nintendo Gamecube? What was that DVD player that would let you play GC games?
Anyways... nobody bought it last time 'round, so what makes anyone believe someone is going to this time?
Maybe they are trying to make up for the lackluster sales performance of Windows XP Media Edition.
That's a very small percentage of games actively played today. The article's point is still valid. Oh, sure, some games dented the male-dominant world - I know, my mom plays those Popcap games all the time. But what about serious games for serious gamers, other than those dime-a-dozen Flash/Java "clones", maybe even where we'll interact with each other? Women like games, definitely. But (thankfully) they aren't pumped up on testosterone, thus having the need to fight and kill and maim, so they purchase a small fraction of the games we do. MMOs have come a long way but there's another problem: Claiming to be female will get you free gifts from almost every passer-by... or sexual harassment from the little punks who think that it's funny and ok because they're anonymous. Need references for either of those? I'll post 'em if you need 'em. Also, the clothes female characters have to wear: All the good gear is skimpy and revealing. Sigh. See, it's a tough thing to figure out, which is why nobody has fixed it, and articles like this still freakin appear periodically.
Seriously, how many CS/UT/other team or deathmatch or ctf servers are still active (lots), what's the logged-in user stats on Battle.net (lots) and how many people actually play Civ/Sims anymore (few)?
The still-beating-the-dead-horse point is that women barely represent themselves in the gaming market, because they don't even like the games that are marketed specifically to them.
You can't have a monopoly when you have 1/3 of your customers' mind share. You have to be the only one. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo. None of them have a monopoly on gaming systems, because they share with the other two competitors. All three have deep pockets, so dumping wouldn't affect the other companies.
You must go NOW and seek the Oracle with My directions. Be not fooled by any clueless saps claiming to be the TRUE server of our knowledge. Report your Progres every hour.
Query the Oracle, USING proper syntax, and retrieve from it the stored procedure which you must execute in ORDER to ALTER the WINDOW of your mind, and receive the true VIEW. Only the SELECT will learn the correct answer, the rest will be INSERTed headfirst to the DUMP.
Now back up on your two-wheel tape drive, exit the door, turn around, and go.
That's very entertaining, but I believe you missed my point.
"Art" and "Cool" can and often do overlap. See the lighting and color keying in movies like The Bourne Supremacy, for example. You can make art on commission and still be recognized. Things like the Statue of Liberty (gift to USA) or the Mona Lisa (done on commission) is known around the world, and is art.
If you're going to sell something and call it art, it better BE art, not something without any artistic value that you made on which you plastered the label "art".
However "cool" some of you may think this piece is (and I really don't but cool is subjective) there is no artistic composition. It's exactly this: A piece slapped together to look cool to geeks who don't see a lot of art, with some shinies and moving parts (ooh!) to brag about. Sure, it takes a while to paint something and put pieces together. But it's not art. It's had the label "art" plastered on it for the sake of getting some poor sucker to notice it and buy it. It even had Slashdot coverage - so undoubtedly, it will be purchased by someone. I can think of people I knew in my teenage years who would have loved something like this, then thrown it away a year later because it's dumb.
It's cool, maybe, but it's definitely not art.
Art critique is just basically intelligent discussion, folks.
That's just ugly.
I wouldn't hang it on my wall.
Seriously, something you painted to fit a "cool someone will buy this" theme plus computer parts does not make an art piece. I don't care how much of a geek you are. Was there ANY thought about composition?
If you want to be an artist, you need to think about making art, not making something "cool" that someone will want to buy. Don't sell out like that.
- From an artist to you.
In MAngband, you lose 1/2 of your total EXP, thus de-leveling three levels. It's a fun one :)
Looks like you can't trust Seagate or IBM, either. I've had both of those die very quickly off the shelf as well. And don't forget about floppies, because drop them a half inch, take them into another room, or look at them crosseyed and poof! Then there's CDs that rot away all the time. Don't even mention DVDs. Oops.
That's why I now use an automated system involving monks and papyrus scrolls for all my data.
Those famous dead sea scrolls lasted how long?
I'll bite this one, but I'll do it only once.
I can, because they do all the time, and the rest of them wholly support their friends. It's important to have a few people left behind to gather more support, but that is not their focus. Some members the College Republicans also don't support the war, so watch what you say.
Signing up at the recruiter is not the only way to join the armed forces. You can go to college for something they need, then join them and help with more than just shooting at people.
By the way, I'm not a member of any of these groups, but I've met and spoken with members of all of them and I have to say I am impressed with how much they support the war by signing up either with ROTC, recruiters, or trading service for scholarships.
When was the last time you took your head out of the clouds and looked at what actually goes on with these groups? Your arguments on this appears to be just hearsay and random wild accusations based on assumptions, and you've never actually talked to these people.
Ah, the wheels have been a-turnin in the ugly rumor mill round these parts. Thanks.
Somehow I missed that one. Probably because I had so much WORK to do this spring in my ACTUAL REAL LIFE... Well, I guess you're right. Still, it's a fairly new game in the MMORPG world, and Square would be foolish to destroy it.
At least call me out with a name attached to your post. Some people have no dignity, I swear.
Maybe the fines they get for polluting the rivers and lakes around here got to be too much, huh? Good old Genesee River, with its mutant life and undrinkable water... acid rain... unusable beaches on the lake... yeah.
I have all of those tables, and then some.
Those tables were figured out by linear regressions based on experimentally obtained data. There is no physical model of film that explains why this happens, it "just does." No explanation has ever been found for reciprocity failure in photography.
The camera is not a factor here, except that it controls duration and intensity of light - which can be done without a camera. EG, test strips, or just exposing the film to light. The film receives a certain intensity of light over a time interval, and reacts one way, but when it receives the same intensity of light over a different time interval, the results are not what you would expect.
If you think you can explain why it happens, go for it. You'll be the first one and probably be a world-reknowned man for discovering the solution to our age-old problem.
Alas, we are on separate servers. I play on Siren.
For example...
Reciprocity failure.
That's when your exposure SHOULD be one thing by mathematics, but it doesn't come out right - so you have to change it to something else that SHOULD be wrong instead. There are tables of that data everywhere.
I'd really like to see some smart chemist or mathematician try to figure that one out!
No!!! You're just eliminating image information that way. The proper way to compress the dynamic range is to reduce it before it hits the lens. Use reflectors, white paper, fill flash, whatever you can to lighten your subject. If you're using digital, there's really no excuse to not try this - you can take as many test shots as you want.
If you can't do that because your subject is someone sitting in front of a tree and you want lots of shadow details AND cloud hilight details, maybe your subject should occupy more of the frame so people can figure out what that subject is. That sort of thing is really difficult to do with basic film and paper - but see a paragraph later on for more info on the easy way. The background is not as important as the subject, ever. If the background is the subject, emphasize that. If an object or person is the subject, expose for that.
Now I know you probably want clouds in your pictures, and that's why you invented this process. That can be done... just mask in the darkroom, and use one of your under-exposed brackets. It's really not that hard.
Or, you could find a paper that has a greater exposure range than the usual stuff in the store. It does exist, and can be made with liquid emulsion. Your paper's exposure range is the limiting factor here. Film has way more exposure latitude than paper or digital anything today.
Learning a little about the development process will help you go from blind luck to predictable results. For example, learn the different grades of paper - you can use them to take an image having a 10-stop range and print it on normal paper.
No, they apparently had pictures and live webcam video. Read the article... reading doesn't hurt as much as you think it does.
I will quote it here just for you:
"Inside the chat rooms, not only were men trying to meet children or even take them away from home to run away, the station found countless adult men using Web cameras to send children in the room lewd pictures or display live nude images of themselves."
Oh. Well then, I'm sorry for trying to help.
I've seen these monitor ones mounted under a desk for non-computer-related purposes, so I thought I could suggest them.
No, they aren't going to replace FFXI yet for several very good reasons.
FFXI is less than 3 years old on the Japanese market, less than 2 years old here in North America, and less than 1 year old in Europe. There are very few Japanese players who have seen everything in the game, and even less North Americans. Ask any Rank 10 player how long they played to get there. Nobody wants the game to end, because you can only see so much in a day and there is a huge library of content in the game.
They just announced FFXI for the upcoming XBOX 360. Making it obsolete before it is released would be a very unwise idea. SE doesn't like shooting themselves in the foot - notice how they killed Square Pictures after one bad movie, and are also making games for Nintendo systems again. Also, if they release FFXI on the 360, we can expect another few expansion packs for it after that - and sticking to the one expansion per year trend, it's got some life in it yet.
The player base is still trending upward very rapidly, so you can believe they are still making new content.
Some people claim FFXI is dead and they're quitting because they can't have fun. I claim that their play experience was ruined by the multiplayer aspect, when they really wanted a single player game. Yes, folks, the game forces you to interact with other people in order to move through the storyline. Get used to it, that's what the second M in MMORPG stands for - Multiplayer. The famous nerfs, like DRG Penta? Those are for our own good... I don't like when someone can exploit a bug in the AI or game mechanics to gain an advantage.
FFXI is a great game without bringing my computer to its knees. I really don't care if I am way over-equipped to run it, I just want to enjoy the game - and I can.
If you actually enter a Staples store, you'll see a certain kind of surge suppressor with individual switches on the plugs. Also, they are on the website. Tell me which store you went to so I can pass this along to their management?
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On the http://www.staples.com/ website, look under: Technology / Power Protection / Surge Protectors - Monitor
I don't know if this will work, but: http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/class.asp?P
I do know that at least one of those is actively stocked in every US location.
Here at RIT, we have a College of Computing and Information Sciences ( http://www.rit.edu/~gccis/ ) and that's where CS lives. It's separate from our College of Engineering. Computer Scientist might be considered more proper here.
You'd need a Beowulf cluster of power plants.
Exactly. My single-CPU (unless you count hyperthreading) 3GHz Pentium 4 takes less than 8 hours to get from booting and selecting Stage 1 to a fully working 2.6 kernel, with KDE, Firefox, Apache, and MySQL.
Try throwing a 7200+ RPM hard drive and 1GB of good quality RAM in that slow AMD64 box and see what happens. Corsair XMS is good. Lots of other RAM is good. PNY is bad, K-Byte is worse. Anything with "value" in the name is BAD. Get a matched pair of low-latency 512MB PC3200 or maybe even PC3500 sticks. And remember, all PC3200 is not created equal.
Also please remember: Just because you have 200GB hard drive space and a fat pipe to the 'net, does NOT mean you need to install all the packages.
Considering that large quantities of matrix math (which is exactly what 3D processors do) are otherwise extremely time consuming on general purpose "proper CPUs", using a massive network of PS3s for their matrix math handling would probably be very cost-efficient.