Recently, Ive thought the same thing. I think it ultimately has to do with how they get thier models. A lot of people dont actually realize that these charactors arent just made up from scratch, throwing together millions of polygons, but rather, they take the subject and put them in a precision 3d scanning device which constructs the model for them. At that point, the facial expressions are largely left up to the development team to take care of, and thats where it all falls apart.
This might seem a bit bizaar, but disney's anamatronics, while always looked fake, had UNCANNY mouth movements and facial expressions. They were so on par, to this day I am still amazed... and wonder why no one else can get that close.
Um, the game PLAYS FINE. You people need to quit thinking you can sue over every mistake that is made. If you are a developer, I ALREADY KNOW you have gotten a product to a client that has had a bug or two. The nature of this one is pretty obscure. Im sure it wasnt "lack of professionalism" that missed it.
I am sure Hitler cooked everyone when he did, just so he could get as many done as he could. Let's be realistic here... I doubt Hitler expected to even get as far as he did... he WANTED to, but cmon... Germany... the rest of the world... no matter how full of yourself you are, "Trying to take over the world" is not a goal I think anyone feels they can accomplish.
Why doesn't anyone ever give ME a mac? I mean, I have STACKS of PC's, but I can never score a mac... someone either throws it out, or gives it to a place like a church.
Im not greedy... something that will run OS X, so I can do some development on it.
Solaris may end up open source, but you are going to find it work very much like Java.... if you want to make your own implementation, you have to follow VERY VERY strict guidelines as to maintain PERFECT compatibility.
I am sorry, but I dont want another linux mess, where there is a "Debian Solaris" and a "SESolaris", etc. I am happy with a single one... maybe two... for workstation and server.
The real trick is to make games with replayability. Without that, no one wants to hang onto their games.
I remember back in the days of my Atari, before used game stores, you looked in the paper, and people were always selling used games in the classifieds. If it isnt in a store, people would still go about it this way.
Um... You KNOW you cant do this with glibc, dont you? Says so right in the documentation. If you try it, depending on the order of things, you'll murder your system.
While I agree with you for THE MOST PART, it really CAN NOT always be that way.
Remember the 80's when credit card companies would give anyone a credit card at like 50% interest, compounded minutely? Some people were just stupid... some mislead... but either way, it had to stop, because even though there was a mutual agreement, more times then not, people signed away their soul because of other dire situations.
This IS good. It keeps commercial entities from offering a service, and requiring your soul as payment. As rediculous as some corperations would be, there would always be someone that will sign their life away.
Ive only ever used solaris on my sparcstaion 5's all running at 80mhz. When solaris 8 was on them, the cpu was at a constant 75% utilization at idle. This was from the JVM. I dont know WHAT it could be doing but it was doing it... slowing down my already slow machine.
Then with much skeptism, I installed solaris 9. Boy did that JVM get a WHOLE lot better. The apps were much more snappy, no more unnecessary CPU usage. It was great. So SOMETHING was fixed.
You intentionally steer clear of the MAIN POINT... its that these people KNOW the repurcussions of their actions, but care nothing of it. It would be like throwing rocks at the back of a VW bug, to make it blow up... the house burns down, peoples lives are ruined. WHile it may be the faulty manufacturing of the car that made it capable of blowing up, the person that made it do so, did it BECAUSE they knew they could and BECAUSE they didnt care who or how it hurt.
But thats my POINT. Killing someone for spam DOES NOT really solve anything. Spam is a neusence, but it doesnt really hurt anyones livelyhood. Identity theft on the other hand COMPLETELY destroys someones ability to function economically, and eventually socially. They do this KNOWING that they will break this person forever and ever, with no remorse... just a means to an end.... JUST LIKE A RAPEST. Neither deserve to live, because while they physically arent taking a life... they ARE in fact taking one.
But I have mixed feelings on this. If it was 3.5-7 for spamming, I would certainly say that is appropriate, but for identity theft? This is something that RUINS peoples lives. In a lot of cases, the vitims propogate their anguish to loved ones etc... and some even go as far as committing suicide. Actually, it stinks of the same horror as rape... you come out the other side ruined and broken... and 7 years isnt sufficient.
I personally believe we need to get things back in perspective. If you destroy someones life, whether physically, or otherwise, you should lose yours. You arent fit for our society. BURN.
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Id start picking out the spyware from your machine then pal, because I run 2k on a 266mhz PII, and other then the disk thrashing, everything runs great... even VB.
"Many of us"... You DO realize thtat people use computers for things OTHER then viewing porn and playing games don't you? A good majority of the US government contracts I have gotten, the department I worked with still used pre-pentium computers with Windows 3.11. They don't change because they don't HAVE to. It works EXACTALLY how it is supposed to. I think there is ageneral misconception that a computer user means "Home gaming geek"
I agree, that it is probably due to velocity... so increase the heads, or devise a new means to read off of the media. I mean it HAS BEEN something like 30 years since their creation. Im sure there is better technology now.
On a side note, I HAVE been seeing 2x and 4x USB floppy drives. While these dont suit my personal need, it goes to prove that its possible to increase the speed somehow.
Floppy drives $20? Maybe at your local rob-you-blind computer store. And $1 a floppy? Are you still in 4th grade in the 80's? Hell, EVEN RETAIL they only cost 22 cents a piece. And this is the EXCESSIVELY PRICED example. I KNOW I can find them for a cent a floppy.
Why must the computer I use be modern? A lot of my work involves working on old machines... where a floppy is my #1 tool in booting and diagnosing these things.
And they ARE useful for making boot disks... that right there justifies them. But what about those obscure softwares that HAVE to be installed FROM the floppy drive. How are you getting around that one?
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Recently, Ive thought the same thing. I think it ultimately has to do with how they get thier models. A lot of people dont actually realize that these charactors arent just made up from scratch, throwing together millions of polygons, but rather, they take the subject and put them in a precision 3d scanning device which constructs the model for them. At that point, the facial expressions are largely left up to the development team to take care of, and thats where it all falls apart.
This might seem a bit bizaar, but disney's anamatronics, while always looked fake, had UNCANNY mouth movements and facial expressions. They were so on par, to this day I am still amazed... and wonder why no one else can get that close.
I disagree. The intelligence of the AI isnt something that is explicitly visible. You could wrongly assume you are just doing good, or the likes.
Um, the game PLAYS FINE. You people need to quit thinking you can sue over every mistake that is made. If you are a developer, I ALREADY KNOW you have gotten a product to a client that has had a bug or two. The nature of this one is pretty obscure. Im sure it wasnt "lack of professionalism" that missed it.
Yeah, because a consistant platform is EVIL!!!!!!
You missed the short bus again this morning, didn't you?
Hind-sight is ALWAYS 20/20.
I am sure Hitler cooked everyone when he did, just so he could get as many done as he could. Let's be realistic here... I doubt Hitler expected to even get as far as he did... he WANTED to, but cmon... Germany... the rest of the world... no matter how full of yourself you are, "Trying to take over the world" is not a goal I think anyone feels they can accomplish.
dd always worked fine
Why doesn't anyone ever give ME a mac? I mean, I have STACKS of PC's, but I can never score a mac... someone either throws it out, or gives it to a place like a church.
Im not greedy... something that will run OS X, so I can do some development on it.
If this were true, which is more likely:
A) Manufacturer of the hardware will reveal its inabilities
B) Competitor of hardware manufacturer will point it out
Right... that's what I thought.
Bad Drivers? The ATI Mach 64 wsa the SoundBlaster 16 of video cards.
Solaris may end up open source, but you are going to find it work very much like Java.... if you want to make your own implementation, you have to follow VERY VERY strict guidelines as to maintain PERFECT compatibility.
I am sorry, but I dont want another linux mess, where there is a "Debian Solaris" and a "SESolaris", etc. I am happy with a single one... maybe two... for workstation and server.
The real trick is to make games with replayability. Without that, no one wants to hang onto their games.
I remember back in the days of my Atari, before used game stores, you looked in the paper, and people were always selling used games in the classifieds. If it isnt in a store, people would still go about it this way.
Um... You KNOW you cant do this with glibc, dont you? Says so right in the documentation. If you try it, depending on the order of things, you'll murder your system.
While I agree with you for THE MOST PART, it really CAN NOT always be that way.
Remember the 80's when credit card companies would give anyone a credit card at like 50% interest, compounded minutely? Some people were just stupid... some mislead... but either way, it had to stop, because even though there was a mutual agreement, more times then not, people signed away their soul because of other dire situations.
This IS good. It keeps commercial entities from offering a service, and requiring your soul as payment. As rediculous as some corperations would be, there would always be someone that will sign their life away.
But google is all I need. If I cant find it there, it isnt worth finding. Google seems to feel that way too, hence their Google Answers service.
Ive only ever used solaris on my sparcstaion 5's all running at 80mhz. When solaris 8 was on them, the cpu was at a constant 75% utilization at idle. This was from the JVM. I dont know WHAT it could be doing but it was doing it... slowing down my already slow machine.
Then with much skeptism, I installed solaris 9. Boy did that JVM get a WHOLE lot better. The apps were much more snappy, no more unnecessary CPU usage. It was great. So SOMETHING was fixed.
Duh.
You intentionally steer clear of the MAIN POINT... its that these people KNOW the repurcussions of their actions, but care nothing of it. It would be like throwing rocks at the back of a VW bug, to make it blow up... the house burns down, peoples lives are ruined. WHile it may be the faulty manufacturing of the car that made it capable of blowing up, the person that made it do so, did it BECAUSE they knew they could and BECAUSE they didnt care who or how it hurt.
But thats my POINT. Killing someone for spam DOES NOT really solve anything. Spam is a neusence, but it doesnt really hurt anyones livelyhood. Identity theft on the other hand COMPLETELY destroys someones ability to function economically, and eventually socially. They do this KNOWING that they will break this person forever and ever, with no remorse... just a means to an end.... JUST LIKE A RAPEST. Neither deserve to live, because while they physically arent taking a life... they ARE in fact taking one.
Burn the jerk.
But I have mixed feelings on this. If it was 3.5-7 for spamming, I would certainly say that is appropriate, but for identity theft? This is something that RUINS peoples lives. In a lot of cases, the vitims propogate their anguish to loved ones etc... and some even go as far as committing suicide. Actually, it stinks of the same horror as rape... you come out the other side ruined and broken... and 7 years isnt sufficient.
I personally believe we need to get things back in perspective. If you destroy someones life, whether physically, or otherwise, you should lose yours. You arent fit for our society. BURN.
Id start picking out the spyware from your machine then pal, because I run 2k on a 266mhz PII, and other then the disk thrashing, everything runs great... even VB.
Who uses number lines? Plus, you need a print statement for that first line to do anything:
JumpHere:
Print "Real Men Code everything in BASIC."
goto JumpHere
"Many of us"... You DO realize thtat people use computers for things OTHER then viewing porn and playing games don't you? A good majority of the US government contracts I have gotten, the department I worked with still used pre-pentium computers with Windows 3.11. They don't change because they don't HAVE to. It works EXACTALLY how it is supposed to. I think there is ageneral misconception that a computer user means "Home gaming geek"
I agree, that it is probably due to velocity... so increase the heads, or devise a new means to read off of the media. I mean it HAS BEEN something like 30 years since their creation. Im sure there is better technology now.
On a side note, I HAVE been seeing 2x and 4x USB floppy drives. While these dont suit my personal need, it goes to prove that its possible to increase the speed somehow.
Floppy drives $20? Maybe at your local rob-you-blind computer store. And $1 a floppy? Are you still in 4th grade in the 80's? Hell, EVEN RETAIL they only cost 22 cents a piece. And this is the EXCESSIVELY PRICED example. I KNOW I can find them for a cent a floppy.
Why must the computer I use be modern? A lot of my work involves working on old machines... where a floppy is my #1 tool in booting and diagnosing these things.
And they ARE useful for making boot disks... that right there justifies them. But what about those obscure softwares that HAVE to be installed FROM the floppy drive. How are you getting around that one?