Peter Max (60's psychedelic artist) used an Amiga on Missing Persons' "Surrender Your Heart" video, which at the time I thought was pretty darn cool. Plus, you know, Dale Bozzio...
A lot of these are from later models, with 24 bit support and higher resolutions. The original Amiga supported only a 64 colour palette from a total 4096 colours, and an additional feature where you could modify the palette part way through scanning to get smooth gradients, but techniques for exploiting this would not have been refined at the time of launch of the Amiga 1000.
Demos that used the Ham modes only did it for static pictures, all the moving parts (which was usually why you watched demos, other then to listen to the music) was done in the normal Amiga modes. So that was usually 32 (OCS) colors to 256 (AGA).
While there can be exceptions, that is generally how the Amiga Demo's are. They were also about pushing the hardware past it's limitations, so if you know of any demos that do higher then 256 colors, let me know so I can check them out.
Imagine for a minute, an associate of Alan Turing escaping Bletchely Park in 1944 with files recording the facility's activity — and with details of its capability to decrypt Enigma traffic.
He is outraged about the government's attempts — often successful — to intercept other people messages (some intercepts leading to deaths of hundreds) and is smart enough to envision the future, where such ungentlemanly conduct will become common place. And so he goes public with the materials he took with him, holding a press-conference somewhere — say, in Switzerland.
Because none of the UK allies will have him, and he fears the Allies' long hand in neutral Switzerland, he takes refuge in Germany, where he is promptly drained of all the information he carries (in files and head)? Germans modify their encryption practices and Bletchley Park is no longer able to decode the communications.
Should the man's life not be hell after that? Or should he simply be hung for treason?
Save "What if" for Marvel Comics. What you described didn't happen, it's not remotely like anything that has happened today and has no bearing on any arguments.
This is what would happen. They changed it to Militia's could have guns, then suddenly "Militia" are considered terrorist organizations. And the only people allowed to have guns would be the police, the government & the army. We the people would be fucked.
People move on with their lives, maybe you should? The bills from the Obama administration will dwarf the minor fraction of debt that was from the Iraq war.
You're right. We should let everyone out of jail because they are no longer the person that did the bad stuff and have moved on with their life.
Is the NVideo GTX TITAN Black or Radeon R9 295X2 going to be enough GPU for the game? Will I have to 3-way SLI or CrossFire them? It seems all the last Civ games have really pushed the graphics envelope which never made much sense to me since I find them to be almost spreadsheet games. I love Civ (particularly 2 & 4), but the video requirements seem excessive. I remember buying a GTX 8800 for Civ 4, and GTX 580 for Civ 5.
I thought you were joking, but I think you are serious.
Civ doesn't push the graphics boundaries at all. You seriously thought you needed a GTX 580 for Civ 5? Runs great on my Nividia 285 from like 5 years ago. Currently I have a 460 in my main gaming machine and it has no problem pumping out high graphics at 1080p on modern games. I'm probably going to need to upgrade in a year or so when the next gen titles start coming out, maybe. But in the last 5 or so years, games have not taken advantage of the power of the graphic cards, except for a few exceptions.
This is the level of brain-dead scheme that the CIA has pulled many times in the past, but it's just as likely that they're just getting overwhelmed by one incompetent spammer with a fat pipe...
-jcr
Not sure how fat of a pipe you need to send roughly 17 text messages a second. But 300k text messages over 5 hours isn't really that much, unless they are going to a small amount of numbers. Must be running some old systems in Cuba.
I find it funny that MS has stated they want to be a dominate player in the living room entertainment and are once again no showing at the beginning of the fight for living room dominance. This is where the battle will be fought, not at the gaming console level I would think. While I would have to put money aside to get a Xbox One, PS4 or even a WiiU, a $40 TV on a stick I would consider picking up. $100 pricing isn't out of range, but wouldn't be as much as an impulse buy.
... The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car..../p>
Well, I hope they add speakers inside the car, makes listening to music easier. As for putting speakers next to the engine and exhaust, why would they do that? Does the engine & exhaust need to hear the music also?
I think think they would put a microphone next to the engine and exhaust and hook that to the speakers inside the car, or maybe give it special speakers. But I don't know, maybe your on to something....
Is it sad that I used to love my calculator watch? It probably is. But I can't even imagine wearing any watch anymore, much less something like the calculator watches I used to love...
Perhaps smart watches actually will do well because things are cyclical, and the time for super-bulky tech watches has come again. But since I already rode that wave, I'm sitting this one out.
I didn't need a calculator watch, but I still got one. Sort of like a tablet. I don't need one, but I wanted one and got one. And it has a calculator also! =)
If you are a sysadmin, and you have a Facebook page, LinkedIn account, social-media-whatever thingmagajig or Slashdot account, the NSA may well come after you.
Remember: this is written in plain sight and the NSA created fake Slashdot account to get into Belgacom.
I am a sysadmin. I have a Slashdot account. Maybe it is time for me to say so long, and thanks for all the fish. What Beta was not able to do, the NSA did.
Ya, and admitting your a sysadmin probably doesn't help either.
YA RLY And the corporations selling this stuff cannot care less about it, all they care about is that we transition to patented and sterile seeds so we perpetually depend on them.
... if there was even the *slightest* risk of killing 7 billion people *why would you even contemplate it*?
Chuckle. Anyone who has been playing PC games ( and console games for that matter ) knows that within a month of launch, you can expect one or more patches to fix the product they rushed out the door to meet some deadline. Guaranteed.
I'm pretty much done with jumping through all the hoops for this. If you want to make it a pain in the ass just to play it, then I just won't play it. Pretty simple really.
Not that they care as they have legions of folks who are willing to put up with the BS to play at any cost, but in time they too will become jaded with the system and become ex-gamers as well.
Steam seems to have finally got it right in my opinion. I have zero issues with that platform now and the majority of my games come from there.
Then download the crack for it and don't use Origin. I never use Origin on any games that require it, because there is always a crack that will fix that.
Pirate groups do a lot of necessary cleanup already. For example, they made it possible to play the latest Sim City at release day, something that was not possible when you bought the game instead of copying it.
No piracy made the latest Sim City game playable at launch. Sad part is at least 4 idiots modded you up on false info.
Sim City was pirated a bit after launch, first I think by someone who figured out you didn't need to be connected to play, but still had no way to locally save files.
Not sure where it is at now, don't care really, but it was NOT pirated the day it was lauched, in fact, very few games are pirated the day they are launch, usually takes a few days.
>>(35GB of uncompressed audio) > It was so that lower spec PCs can run it. OMG have you thought your answer through? that would be effective only for a PC which is powerful enough to manage the graphics and engine and does not spare the cycles for audio.
Given that a 166mhz pc from twenty years ago effortlessly decoded mp3s in realtime, that in the meantime people have improved decoders, encoders, formats that audio playing is parallelizable, that uncompressed audio requires uncompressed IO, I think "aliens wanted that" is a better explanation. The best of course being that a 45gb game is less piratable than a 10gb one.
Except the pirates will compress the audio for quicker downloads.
Slashdot Mirror
When you wear the presidential hat, nothing you do is ever illegal.
Yeah, but Abraham Lincoln did that and it didn't turn out too well.
If you recall, Lincoln was shot a theater and it's normal to remove your hats while attending theaters.
May 5th, 9pm EST, I will be praying to God to deliver justice upon her and people like her. Let Him decide her fate.
God doesn't exist, so praying to it doesn't do any good.
Maybe they need to change it's name to something more exciting. Top World Analytical Tool. That would work better.
Peter Max (60's psychedelic artist) used an Amiga on Missing Persons' "Surrender Your Heart" video, which at the time I thought was pretty darn cool. Plus, you know, Dale Bozzio...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
A lot of these are from later models, with 24 bit support and higher resolutions. The original Amiga supported only a 64 colour palette from a total 4096 colours, and an additional feature where you could modify the palette part way through scanning to get smooth gradients, but techniques for exploiting this would not have been refined at the time of launch of the Amiga 1000.
Demos that used the Ham modes only did it for static pictures, all the moving parts (which was usually why you watched demos, other then to listen to the music) was done in the normal Amiga modes. So that was usually 32 (OCS) colors to 256 (AGA).
While there can be exceptions, that is generally how the Amiga Demo's are. They were also about pushing the hardware past it's limitations, so if you know of any demos that do higher then 256 colors, let me know so I can check them out.
Imagine for a minute, an associate of Alan Turing escaping Bletchely Park in 1944 with files recording the facility's activity — and with details of its capability to decrypt Enigma traffic.
He is outraged about the government's attempts — often successful — to intercept other people messages (some intercepts leading to deaths of hundreds) and is smart enough to envision the future, where such ungentlemanly conduct will become common place. And so he goes public with the materials he took with him, holding a press-conference somewhere — say, in Switzerland.
Because none of the UK allies will have him, and he fears the Allies' long hand in neutral Switzerland, he takes refuge in Germany, where he is promptly drained of all the information he carries (in files and head)? Germans modify their encryption practices and Bletchley Park is no longer able to decode the communications.
Should the man's life not be hell after that? Or should he simply be hung for treason?
Save "What if" for Marvel Comics. What you described didn't happen, it's not remotely like anything that has happened today and has no bearing on any arguments.
People were afraid of being treated like numbers rather than human beings. It was a very different era.
Ya, now we are treated like metadata.
I have an idea. Just hire the laughing man to hack an overlay on top of your face into their glasses in realtime.
Come on, who got that reference? :-P
I did but you gave a very easy hint to it in your title.
This is what would happen. They changed it to Militia's could have guns, then suddenly "Militia" are considered terrorist organizations. And the only people allowed to have guns would be the police, the government & the army. We the people would be fucked.
People move on with their lives, maybe you should? The bills from the Obama administration will dwarf the minor fraction of debt that was from the Iraq war.
You're right. We should let everyone out of jail because they are no longer the person that did the bad stuff and have moved on with their life.
The world is far better off with Saddam's regime being replaced by a democratic government.
Next?
Actually no it's not. See Saddam kept the terrorists out of Iraq. What happened when we got rid of him? Suddenly Iraq was terrorist training central.
Explain to me how that was better for the world?
Is the NVideo GTX TITAN Black or Radeon R9 295X2 going to be enough GPU for the game? Will I have to 3-way SLI or CrossFire them? It seems all the last Civ games have really pushed the graphics envelope which never made much sense to me since I find them to be almost spreadsheet games. I love Civ (particularly 2 & 4), but the video requirements seem excessive. I remember buying a GTX 8800 for Civ 4, and GTX 580 for Civ 5.
I thought you were joking, but I think you are serious.
Civ doesn't push the graphics boundaries at all. You seriously thought you needed a GTX 580 for Civ 5? Runs great on my Nividia 285 from like 5 years ago. Currently I have a 460 in my main gaming machine and it has no problem pumping out high graphics at 1080p on modern games. I'm probably going to need to upgrade in a year or so when the next gen titles start coming out, maybe. But in the last 5 or so years, games have not taken advantage of the power of the graphic cards, except for a few exceptions.
zero doesnt equal one — no matter how much fancy math you got to prove it. :-p
What I gather from it is when you divide by 0 you get a new universe.
This is the level of brain-dead scheme that the CIA has pulled many times in the past, but it's just as likely that they're just getting overwhelmed by one incompetent spammer with a fat pipe...
-jcr
Not sure how fat of a pipe you need to send roughly 17 text messages a second. But 300k text messages over 5 hours isn't really that much, unless they are going to a small amount of numbers. Must be running some old systems in Cuba.
I find it funny that MS has stated they want to be a dominate player in the living room entertainment and are once again no showing at the beginning of the fight for living room dominance. This is where the battle will be fought, not at the gaming console level I would think. While I would have to put money aside to get a Xbox One, PS4 or even a WiiU, a $40 TV on a stick I would consider picking up. $100 pricing isn't out of range, but wouldn't be as much as an impulse buy.
Oh, wait, windows 8. NM, stay out of the party.
https://www.google.com/#q=yout...
Lots of choices.
... .../p>
The solution? Manufacturers actually add speakers next to the engine, exhaust and inside the car.
Well, I hope they add speakers inside the car, makes listening to music easier. As for putting speakers next to the engine and exhaust, why would they do that? Does the engine & exhaust need to hear the music also?
I think think they would put a microphone next to the engine and exhaust and hook that to the speakers inside the car, or maybe give it special speakers. But I don't know, maybe your on to something....
... They have a gene that makes their hairs gray much sooner than usual, so they turn white after several years.
....
sounds like my facial hair
Is it sad that I used to love my calculator watch? It probably is. But I can't even imagine wearing any watch anymore, much less something like the calculator watches I used to love...
Perhaps smart watches actually will do well because things are cyclical, and the time for super-bulky tech watches has come again. But since I already rode that wave, I'm sitting this one out.
I didn't need a calculator watch, but I still got one. Sort of like a tablet. I don't need one, but I wanted one and got one. And it has a calculator also! =)
My favorite was the pacman watch I had, able to play pacman on the go. http://www.digital-watch.com/D...
If you are a sysadmin, and you have a Facebook page, LinkedIn account, social-media-whatever thingmagajig or Slashdot account, the NSA may well come after you.
Remember: this is written in plain sight and the NSA created fake Slashdot account to get into Belgacom.
I am a sysadmin. I have a Slashdot account. Maybe it is time for me to say so long, and thanks for all the fish. What Beta was not able to do, the NSA did.
Ya, and admitting your a sysadmin probably doesn't help either.
YA RLY
And the corporations selling this stuff cannot care less about it, all they care about is that we transition to patented and sterile seeds so we perpetually depend on them.
... if there was even the *slightest* risk of killing 7 billion people *why would you even contemplate it*?
Profit of course.
Go ahead. Fry your brain. It's not like you're using it or anything. :(
I prefer to bake my brain. Apparently baking is better then frying.
Chuckle. Anyone who has been playing PC games ( and console games for that matter ) knows that within a month of launch, you can expect one or more patches to fix the product they rushed out the door to meet some deadline. Guaranteed.
I'm pretty much done with jumping through all the hoops for this. If you want to make it a pain in the ass just to play it, then I just won't play it. Pretty simple really.
Not that they care as they have legions of folks who are willing to put up with the BS to play at any cost, but in time they too will become jaded with the system and become ex-gamers as well.
Steam seems to have finally got it right in my opinion. I have zero issues with that platform now and the majority of my games come from there.
Then download the crack for it and don't use Origin. I never use Origin on any games that require it, because there is always a crack that will fix that.
Pirate groups do a lot of necessary cleanup already. For example, they made it possible to play the latest Sim City at release day, something that was not possible when you bought the game instead of copying it.
No piracy made the latest Sim City game playable at launch. Sad part is at least 4 idiots modded you up on false info.
Sim City was pirated a bit after launch, first I think by someone who figured out you didn't need to be connected to play, but still had no way to locally save files.
Not sure where it is at now, don't care really, but it was NOT pirated the day it was lauched, in fact, very few games are pirated the day they are launch, usually takes a few days.
>>(35GB of uncompressed audio)
> It was so that lower spec PCs can run it.
OMG have you thought your answer through? that would be effective only for a PC which is powerful enough to manage the graphics and engine and does not spare the cycles for audio.
Given that a 166mhz pc from twenty years ago effortlessly decoded mp3s in realtime, that in the meantime people have improved decoders, encoders, formats that audio playing is parallelizable, that uncompressed audio requires uncompressed IO, I think "aliens wanted that" is a better explanation. The best of course being that a 45gb game is less piratable than a 10gb one.
Except the pirates will compress the audio for quicker downloads.