Per-polygon hitboxes are the way to go. This means each surface of the polygon of a character is effectively a surface of a hitbox.
Origionally, hitboxes have always been the same thing, only cubical. Now they have just fine tuned these hitboxes to match exactly the character's polygons. This makes the game more complex (and slower) but with today's processors it isn't a problem.
Those of you who want "per pixel" hitboxes are barking up the wrong tree. This is not only a stupid way of doing it but much much less accurate. Imagine someone running 640x480 resolution in a multiplayer game. And imagine the person standing far enough away where he is represented by about 400 pixels. his arms and legs and head and gun... Now imagine the same exact positions, only someone runing 1600x1200. This same model at the same distance might be represented by about 1000 pixels. Instantly, the person running at the higher resolution has a more accurate shot.
This is because pixels are just a REPRESENTATION of the actual polygons in the game. If you had sufficiently large resolution, there would be nothing left but polygons, and this is what is important. You want to know that the trajectory of your bullet based off your shot angle and distance is actually going to end up touching a polygon, or not. With pixel based hits, your accuracy is sevearly resolution dependant.
not to mention that there is no such use for an End User License Agreement in the laws of US Copyright. You can not control how people use something you wrote. You can only control how people COPY it (and then in only limited circumstance) So no EULA can take away rights which are already granted in standard copyright law, wether you signed the agreement in blood or not. Copyright law gives every US Citizen the right to use and copy a work provided they are within the US Copyright code.
Now, If microsoft encrypts a section of the code, and then lobbies congress into passing a law which says you cannot decrypt code which is encrypted, and then you try to do that, that is another story altogether. But that has nothing to do with EULA's which have never EVER been confirmed in court, and never will be. Simply because they are a tool used by publishers to scare their end users into submission.
Do you develope software at your comapny, or do you sell it? I can assure you that software is developed with a repository that is upgraded and fixed. Not packaged and sold to itself and then developing on top of the package.
A company continues development on their main branch, not the released branch. If you are that confused on how software development works then you really need a reality check. Licenses are for END USERS and THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS. You do not sell licenses to yourself because UNLIKE PHYSICAL INVENTORY, there is no legal, moral, or accounting reason to buy software (from others or yourself) which you already OWN the license to.
You are thinking of physical inventory. In physical inventory, you are right and I will stand behind your comments. However, nobody here is. And a license is not physical inventory nor an asset when you already have the rights to copy without a license.
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Resident Evil Lord of the Rings ET (for atari) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Terminator Matrix Harry Potter
That is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard.
Software isn't in "inventory" like hardware is. Your entire premise is completely false and doesn't affect anything about how strait their books are. Not only that but the 'id engine' is a continuously evolving engine which keeps getting updated with newer games as the frontend to it. They don't just buy the engine they built and start a new one, they keep working on the same one and upgrading it....
Your statements go against everything that is everything in software development in a capitolist economy.
Just like a few things count against the effectiveness of the surveillance being discussed in the article: - Annoying blind spots that blotch up the big picture - 20 percent or more of the croud being in a blind spot at any given time - The terrorists could coordinate using cell phones or send hand signals as everyone else in the stands is moving around too.
Here is a better solution: Set up a camera to watch every 4 seats in the stadium. Have armed guards walking the isles while each person sits in their seats, not moving, with their hands beside their body. Anyone who moves will be digitally recognised and singled out by security forces. Nobody can cheer because it just isn't safe to do it. It might cover up the terrorist threat.
This is just outright false. In fact, dell's lowest end dimension 2400, and next in line 4600, and next in line, 8400 uses a standard ATX power supply. The only catch is that it has a couple extra pins on the power connector so you are forced to buy it from dell.
There is only one reason for this nonsence: that is to sell the 3yr warranty.
Since CF Cards are pin compatible with IDE hard drives, and CF cards are currently the most durable (and cheapest) flash memory (even below USB Memory) I would put a CF card in the hard drive slot of the laptop...
The only problem is that flash memory is no good at writing (very slow) and so turn off swap and try to minimize writes to the disk (ie, don't run too many cron's etc..)
I think it is a waste of time and money to try to boot off floppy, and then load a system off a USB flash drive or CF card, because even with a 1GIG USB drive (or CF card) you will be paying about the same as a low end brand new hard drive for your laptop, and have very very slow performance, no swap, and limited life (600,000 writes per sector or something for flash memory is what i read somewhere)
So your salvage operation as you describe it sounds like it is going to cost you more, and give less performance, than a brand new hard drive with 1yr warranty slapped into there. Pricewatch has some new ones for pretty cheap. Even newegg.com has them for less than 100$ (and the cheapest 1GIG usb memory stick i have found is about 130$)
Your idea sounds good, and similar ideas have been done before in the linux firmware hacked routers.. where there is a very small amount of flash memory onboard but using a USB memory stick to load the rest of the system. But in your case, this isn't practical because its cheaper to go with a hard drive than a flash stick.
Loss of magnetic field is by far the least or the problem with thinning atmosphere. The main problem is the cooling of the core which reduces volcanic activity. You see, all planets with an atmosphere lose mass (in the measurement of air particles/second) over time. This is because near the top of the atmosphere, statistically speaking, there are always some particles which will collide with another and reach escape velocity in the correct trajectory, thus going off into space (and then possibly captured by a low temperature rock out in the asteroid belt or orc cloud) The magnetic fields help reduce this but that is not the point.
The point is that the only replinishment of these lost particles is volcanic activity. Without it (or very much of it) your planet will thin out too much to sustain our lives. No matter how much of a magnetic field you add to mars (even if you figure out how to do it artificially) you will never create the volcanic activity you will need to get atmospheric pressure anywhere near what we will need.
Eventually, in billions of years, Earth will have the same problem.
You should check out Lexar JumpDrive Sport and Sandisk Cruzer Micro...
These both are very good quality USB drives and at the same time work like the MUVO by plugging into a MP3 player device (AAA batteries required for the MP3 companion)
They are very good priced and small profile make them very good buys.. (Better than Muvo usb drives IMO)
This article proves to me that someone actually WAS held accountable. Two fealony convictions if I read the article correctly.
You really have a point if this article said something like "NEC innocent verdict after charges of fraud"
The point I'm making is that there is fraud no matter WHAT you are doing in the government. ALL government money has the potential to be swindled. Look at haliburton. I agree we need to take measures to prevent fraud. They should have been forced to put out a bid. From some posts I have read it was difficult to get these funds so one guy said they didn't bother. It looks like one school got fucked (and probably a few others) and now its all clinton and gore's fault. (when in fact, congress had already fliped around to republican controlled by then)
I agree with the principle you are trying to get across. But in all honesty, you really can't hold the funding accountable for someone who fraudulently took money from the federal government.
BTW, I don't know what kind of high school you went to, or your kids, or whatever, but there REALLY are plenty around the country that can seriously use this money. The money won't come from local people. because there isn't enough money in the local economy to pay for such things. 7 years ago when I was in HS this money worked out quite nicely. We got Netgear switches installed in our lab rooms and white box computers installed. One server with a PII processor and 128MB ram served our mail and web and anything else that needed using. It worked out quite well and I'm sure it didn't cost an arm and a leg.
I guess I'm saying is... there are literally thousands of schools which benefited from this program who otherwise could have never gotten computers. Don't let the bad apples spoil your opinion of the entire bunch.
You don't seem to be for or against Kerry. It looks as you have no point considering you haven't really said anything good or bad about kerry. Just random facts that have next to nothing to do with his running for president (which is your punchline)...
Oh well, I'm sure there are plenty of bush lovers who will eat up your post.
"We can use Babblefish for ourselves, thank you very much."
We can also subscribe to cable and get CNN and MSNBC and FOXNEWS ourselves, but most people don't and that is why major news needs to be posted to the local networks....
It is about informing the masses buddy, not karma whoring. You'd be surprised the number of people who didn't read something because it wasn't translated. Most people don't sit on their computers all hours of the day and night reading slashdot and other various important websites. Most people just don't have time for it.
If posting this translation rewards some sort of bonus, thats even better. Just more incentive for people to post information for the public to easilly read.
If your small business depends solely on how many hits you get from google, you have a failed business model. Period.
Business shouldn't be about getting new customers. It should be about keeping customers loyal. If you are selling products that are one time purchases and you don't have word of mouth advertising and customer loyalty then yes, you might depend on google's output each and every day. If this is the case, it is your own fault and you need to rethink your business model. Maybe you should have never been in business to begin with.
It sickens me to see people bitching about how their small business might go out of business because of some insignificant thing like this. Adapt or lose. Period.
(the same can be said about all the damn conservatives who think government regulation of businesses could put them out of business because then they might have to comply with federal environmental guidelines... OMFG NOOOO!!!! It's the same old story over and over again... "but that would put me out of business!!! OMFG NOOOO!!!!" People with this attitude should seriously rethink their models.)
Per apple's policy, all sales are final on their laptops unless you buy the default config. Even then, you have very few days to return it. If you have opened the box it makes it even worse.
This isn't walmart or dell we are talking about. This is Apple Computer. Their draconian policy is just yet another reason why their business has been failing all these years.
Dude, your an idiot then. the nvidia cards rape the radeon cards in all quake3 games, all unreal games, and in doom3 beta leaks at the same price point. Wether its the 5700 vs. 9600XT, or the 9800 Pro vs. 5900.
If you call bullshit, you are just denying what is true. Just like the ignorant sone of a bitch you are.
For Doom3, you definately do NOT want the radeon 9600XT.
The lower priced nvidia cards beat it in doom3 and any other opengl game in existance. I would recommend to get a Geforce 5900SE (or XT, same diff) If you want a good priced card for DX9 games, then I can see where you are coming from. But if you plan on playing DX9 games on a 9600 be prepared for low resolution and no FSAA.
The links you post list nothing except hardware which appears to work... When looking at the SuSe testing methods, their testing includes installing suse, rebooting, and logging in and seeing if the device appears to work.. nice 1
"Of course if you have hardware that doesn't work with linux or isn't supported by your distro yet, then your in experimental territory, but you should have known that when you bought the part or what are you complaining about"
Hello??? There is no database of supported hardware.. In fact, no distribution supports ANY hardware. You will be hard pressed to find at least one piece of hardware that works in linux flawlessly in every category. Much less, multiple pieces, or ones which display their compatability on the side of the box...
The facts are, nobody has a database of products that will work with linux. Nobody has a database of a list of chipsets that work with linux. And everyone that tries to attempt this project end up having next to nothing on their "supported" list.
most databases of supported linux hardware I find on the internet have most of the hardware listed in the "experimental" column of the table...
Until boxes of hardware come into the retail channel with a linux driver on the CD with instructions to install it (and making specific instructions on every distribution isn't gonna work, it must be universal instructions for all linux distributions [hint: ain't gonna happen]) and a Linux logo on the side of the box, linux won't be ready for normal users.
This is just a fact of life that wea re going to have to live with.... So lets start making that happen.
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Per-polygon hitboxes are the way to go. This means each surface of the polygon of a character is effectively a surface of a hitbox.
Origionally, hitboxes have always been the same thing, only cubical. Now they have just fine tuned these hitboxes to match exactly the character's polygons. This makes the game more complex (and slower) but with today's processors it isn't a problem.
Those of you who want "per pixel" hitboxes are barking up the wrong tree. This is not only a stupid way of doing it but much much less accurate. Imagine someone running 640x480 resolution in a multiplayer game. And imagine the person standing far enough away where he is represented by about 400 pixels. his arms and legs and head and gun... Now imagine the same exact positions, only someone runing 1600x1200. This same model at the same distance might be represented by about 1000 pixels. Instantly, the person running at the higher resolution has a more accurate shot.
This is because pixels are just a REPRESENTATION of the actual polygons in the game. If you had sufficiently large resolution, there would be nothing left but polygons, and this is what is important. You want to know that the trajectory of your bullet based off your shot angle and distance is actually going to end up touching a polygon, or not. With pixel based hits, your accuracy is sevearly resolution dependant.
not to mention that there is no such use for an End User License Agreement in the laws of US Copyright. You can not control how people use something you wrote. You can only control how people COPY it (and then in only limited circumstance) So no EULA can take away rights which are already granted in standard copyright law, wether you signed the agreement in blood or not. Copyright law gives every US Citizen the right to use and copy a work provided they are within the US Copyright code.
Now, If microsoft encrypts a section of the code, and then lobbies congress into passing a law which says you cannot decrypt code which is encrypted, and then you try to do that, that is another story altogether. But that has nothing to do with EULA's which have never EVER been confirmed in court, and never will be. Simply because they are a tool used by publishers to scare their end users into submission.
Dude,
Do you develope software at your comapny, or do you sell it? I can assure you that software is developed with a repository that is upgraded and fixed. Not packaged and sold to itself and then developing on top of the package.
A company continues development on their main branch, not the released branch. If you are that confused on how software development works then you really need a reality check. Licenses are for END USERS and THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS. You do not sell licenses to yourself because UNLIKE PHYSICAL INVENTORY, there is no legal, moral, or accounting reason to buy software (from others or yourself) which you already OWN the license to.
You are thinking of physical inventory. In physical inventory, you are right and I will stand behind your comments. However, nobody here is. And a license is not physical inventory nor an asset when you already have the rights to copy without a license.
Oh please.. Sure it was :) Do you think there is really someone that stupid?
Resident Evil
Lord of the Rings
ET (for atari)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Terminator
Matrix
Harry Potter
the list goes on and on....
That is the most ignorant statement I have ever heard.
Software isn't in "inventory" like hardware is. Your entire premise is completely false and doesn't affect anything about how strait their books are. Not only that but the 'id engine' is a continuously evolving engine which keeps getting updated with newer games as the frontend to it. They don't just buy the engine they built and start a new one, they keep working on the same one and upgrading it....
Your statements go against everything that is everything in software development in a capitolist economy.
Just like a few things count against the effectiveness of the surveillance being discussed in the article:
- Annoying blind spots that blotch up the big picture
- 20 percent or more of the croud being in a blind spot at any given time
- The terrorists could coordinate using cell phones or send hand signals as everyone else in the stands is moving around too.
Here is a better solution: Set up a camera to watch every 4 seats in the stadium. Have armed guards walking the isles while each person sits in their seats, not moving, with their hands beside their body. Anyone who moves will be digitally recognised and singled out by security forces. Nobody can cheer because it just isn't safe to do it. It might cover up the terrorist threat.
This is just outright false. In fact, dell's lowest end dimension 2400, and next in line 4600, and next in line, 8400 uses a standard ATX power supply. The only catch is that it has a couple extra pins on the power connector so you are forced to buy it from dell.
There is only one reason for this nonsence: that is to sell the 3yr warranty.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Yes. Pin compatible.
You just need a straight through adapter and some pins go unused.
Well...
Since CF Cards are pin compatible with IDE hard drives, and CF cards are currently the most durable (and cheapest) flash memory (even below USB Memory) I would put a CF card in the hard drive slot of the laptop...
The only problem is that flash memory is no good at writing (very slow) and so turn off swap and try to minimize writes to the disk (ie, don't run too many cron's etc..)
I think it is a waste of time and money to try to boot off floppy, and then load a system off a USB flash drive or CF card, because even with a 1GIG USB drive (or CF card) you will be paying about the same as a low end brand new hard drive for your laptop, and have very very slow performance, no swap, and limited life (600,000 writes per sector or something for flash memory is what i read somewhere)
So your salvage operation as you describe it sounds like it is going to cost you more, and give less performance, than a brand new hard drive with 1yr warranty slapped into there. Pricewatch has some new ones for pretty cheap. Even newegg.com has them for less than 100$ (and the cheapest 1GIG usb memory stick i have found is about 130$)
Your idea sounds good, and similar ideas have been done before in the linux firmware hacked routers.. where there is a very small amount of flash memory onboard but using a USB memory stick to load the rest of the system. But in your case, this isn't practical because its cheaper to go with a hard drive than a flash stick.
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Actually, that isn't the biggest problem.
Loss of magnetic field is by far the least or the problem with thinning atmosphere. The main problem is the cooling of the core which reduces volcanic activity. You see, all planets with an atmosphere lose mass (in the measurement of air particles/second) over time. This is because near the top of the atmosphere, statistically speaking, there are always some particles which will collide with another and reach escape velocity in the correct trajectory, thus going off into space (and then possibly captured by a low temperature rock out in the asteroid belt or orc cloud) The magnetic fields help reduce this but that is not the point.
The point is that the only replinishment of these lost particles is volcanic activity. Without it (or very much of it) your planet will thin out too much to sustain our lives. No matter how much of a magnetic field you add to mars (even if you figure out how to do it artificially) you will never create the volcanic activity you will need to get atmospheric pressure anywhere near what we will need.
Eventually, in billions of years, Earth will have the same problem.
You bought dell's LOWEST END computer. Completely stripped and barely runs windows. It's primary market is to browse the internet and check email.
Now you are pissed that there is no AGP slot in it?
Give me a break.
You should check out Lexar JumpDrive Sport and Sandisk Cruzer Micro...
These both are very good quality USB drives and at the same time work like the MUVO by plugging into a MP3 player device (AAA batteries required for the MP3 companion)
They are very good priced and small profile make them very good buys.. (Better than Muvo usb drives IMO)
This article proves to me that someone actually WAS held accountable. Two fealony convictions if I read the article correctly.
You really have a point if this article said something like "NEC innocent verdict after charges of fraud"
The point I'm making is that there is fraud no matter WHAT you are doing in the government. ALL government money has the potential to be swindled. Look at haliburton. I agree we need to take measures to prevent fraud. They should have been forced to put out a bid. From some posts I have read it was difficult to get these funds so one guy said they didn't bother. It looks like one school got fucked (and probably a few others) and now its all clinton and gore's fault. (when in fact, congress had already fliped around to republican controlled by then)
I agree with the principle you are trying to get across. But in all honesty, you really can't hold the funding accountable for someone who fraudulently took money from the federal government.
BTW, I don't know what kind of high school you went to, or your kids, or whatever, but there REALLY are plenty around the country that can seriously use this money. The money won't come from local people. because there isn't enough money in the local economy to pay for such things. 7 years ago when I was in HS this money worked out quite nicely. We got Netgear switches installed in our lab rooms and white box computers installed. One server with a PII processor and 128MB ram served our mail and web and anything else that needed using. It worked out quite well and I'm sure it didn't cost an arm and a leg.
I guess I'm saying is... there are literally thousands of schools which benefited from this program who otherwise could have never gotten computers. Don't let the bad apples spoil your opinion of the entire bunch.
So you are going to blame the taxation for something that dishonest politicians and coporate executives did and were convicted for?
Very good argument. You should become a republican when you grow up.
You don't seem to be for or against Kerry. It looks as you have no point considering you haven't really said anything good or bad about kerry. Just random facts that have next to nothing to do with his running for president (which is your punchline)...
Oh well, I'm sure there are plenty of bush lovers who will eat up your post.
"We can use Babblefish for ourselves, thank you very much."
We can also subscribe to cable and get CNN and MSNBC and FOXNEWS ourselves, but most people don't and that is why major news needs to be posted to the local networks....
It is about informing the masses buddy, not karma whoring. You'd be surprised the number of people who didn't read something because it wasn't translated. Most people don't sit on their computers all hours of the day and night reading slashdot and other various important websites. Most people just don't have time for it.
If posting this translation rewards some sort of bonus, thats even better. Just more incentive for people to post information for the public to easilly read.
If your small business depends solely on how many hits you get from google, you have a failed business model. Period.
Business shouldn't be about getting new customers. It should be about keeping customers loyal. If you are selling products that are one time purchases and you don't have word of mouth advertising and customer loyalty then yes, you might depend on google's output each and every day. If this is the case, it is your own fault and you need to rethink your business model. Maybe you should have never been in business to begin with.
It sickens me to see people bitching about how their small business might go out of business because of some insignificant thing like this. Adapt or lose. Period.
(the same can be said about all the damn conservatives who think government regulation of businesses could put them out of business because then they might have to comply with federal environmental guidelines... OMFG NOOOO!!!! It's the same old story over and over again... "but that would put me out of business!!! OMFG NOOOO!!!!" People with this attitude should seriously rethink their models.)
Per apple's policy, all sales are final on their laptops unless you buy the default config. Even then, you have very few days to return it. If you have opened the box it makes it even worse.
This isn't walmart or dell we are talking about. This is Apple Computer. Their draconian policy is just yet another reason why their business has been failing all these years.
Dude, your an idiot then. the nvidia cards rape the radeon cards in all quake3 games, all unreal games, and in doom3 beta leaks at the same price point. Wether its the 5700 vs. 9600XT, or the 9800 Pro vs. 5900.
If you call bullshit, you are just denying what is true. Just like the ignorant sone of a bitch you are.
Actually, in openGL in windows, ATI cards are slower than nVidia's.
You are thinking DX9 where no good games are out for it yet. But in DX8 and OpenGL, nVidia pretty much rules in windows and both linux.
The same will be true for DoomIII's OpenGL code. Even Carmack said that the nVidia cards are going to run it faster and at equal or better quality.
For Doom3, you definately do NOT want the radeon 9600XT.
The lower priced nvidia cards beat it in doom3 and any other opengl game in existance. I would recommend to get a Geforce 5900SE (or XT, same diff) If you want a good priced card for DX9 games, then I can see where you are coming from. But if you plan on playing DX9 games on a 9600 be prepared for low resolution and no FSAA.
Just as I suspected...
The links you post list nothing except hardware which appears to work... When looking at the SuSe testing methods, their testing includes installing suse, rebooting, and logging in and seeing if the device appears to work.. nice 1
"Of course if you have hardware that doesn't work with linux or isn't supported by your distro yet, then your in experimental territory, but you should have known that when you bought the part or what are you complaining about"
Hello??? There is no database of supported hardware.. In fact, no distribution supports ANY hardware. You will be hard pressed to find at least one piece of hardware that works in linux flawlessly in every category. Much less, multiple pieces, or ones which display their compatability on the side of the box...
The facts are, nobody has a database of products that will work with linux. Nobody has a database of a list of chipsets that work with linux. And everyone that tries to attempt this project end up having next to nothing on their "supported" list.
most databases of supported linux hardware I find on the internet have most of the hardware listed in the "experimental" column of the table...
Until boxes of hardware come into the retail channel with a linux driver on the CD with instructions to install it (and making specific instructions on every distribution isn't gonna work, it must be universal instructions for all linux distributions [hint: ain't gonna happen]) and a Linux logo on the side of the box, linux won't be ready for normal users.
This is just a fact of life that wea re going to have to live with.... So lets start making that happen.