I wouldn't worry too much, even if your friend did accomplish this, keeping it a secret from the NSA would be difficult;), I'm sure they'd be very keen on getting their hands on such knowledge, and I imagine they can be pretty persuasive.
yes.
as the proof will go..
proving that one NP-complete problem can be solved in P time, then ANY NP complete problem can be solved in P time
also
Proving that ANY NP-complete problem CANT be solved in P time, then NO NP-Complete problem can be solved in P time.
a proof of either one would be all that is needed to end the debate.
A lot more focus is centered around trying to prove P = NP ( its more exciting ), but most of the people within the field believe that P != NP
[joke] what having 300 Links in the killing fields of Hyrule grinding for heart pieces and rupees doesn't appeal to you? or trading for the small subset of items zelda games had ( or ever really needed ) [/joke]
I agree.. Multiplayer is something that must be done for a purpose, and I'd like to think that Game Devs know better. This is coming from a person who spends much of his free time learning and developing a multiplayer backend for a single player game:P
Though... playing Morrowind as an MMO would be pretty cool, one of the few games (including GTA) that I think would benefit from a multiplayer component.
According to your logic, it would be impossible to ever disprove the existence of God via any scientific method. It amounts to the same kind of thinking which says the earth really is 7k yrs old -- God put the dino bones there to test our faith. The same kind of thinking allows a person of faith to believe anything they want (for example, that there is a multitude of virgins waiting in heaven for him if he slaughters thousands of civilians).
It is impossible to prove or disprove any theory without empiricle evidence. To that end, there may never be resolution. But for me it seems illogical to be so certain that God isn't real.
Imagine every physics law, every piece of history, and everything that will one day happen is represented on a sheet of paper. If a person were to try to color in a ratio of our knowledge of life the universe and everything, he/she wouldn't even be able to see a visible mark. How can one say there isn't a God knowing how little we do know?
Granted there is a much bigger leap to make from acknowledging that we dont know if there is a god or not, to believeing in a Christian God, or any other religion for that matter.
Sadly, this is something that will never be settled on slashdot, there were many smarter minds than myself, that believed in the Christian God, and many people smarter than myself who believed in a Muslim or even Hindu god.
nearly all of your points have NOTHING to do with improving the gameplay experience.
I dont want a home theatre, I dont necessarily care what my friends are doing online.. Sound is good and graphics are good, but Im ready for something else..
I want my games to revive that feeling I used to have when I first piked up a joystick.. and normal mapping and 5.1 surround sound isn't where that is.
but that's the point - I don't want it like that in the first place - it should be turned OFF by default. I don't want to spend time turning all this crap off. It shouldn't be there in the first place. if you want it, then fine, it should be up to you to turn it on.
The time it takes to disable that stuff in windows is still MUCH less than the time it takes to properly config a linux box. Apparently there is a (at least slight) majority of people who prefer it the other way, thus theirs is the default setup, you can't blame MS on that one:P
Kent
There are a lot of posts saying, if you don't like it don't play it. And getting bothered about the uproar around this game, however I doubt many would have a similar response to Ethnic Cleansing
True, noone would play it ( I wont ), but it'd be much more difficult to find someone to defend titles like this.
I'm still baffled into how you can efficiently break up a game into 8 threads.
ok controller input on one..
graphics on another..
physics on a third.... woops problem...need critical sections for this to operate with the graphics thread.
networking on a fourth.... woops problem, need ritical sections for this to operate with the physics thread..
sound... ok no problems here, thats 5.
See, even dividing it up into 5 threads causes problems, you need to make sure that you are allowed to do something on one processor and if not you must wait on another processor to finish. critical sections are something that can ultimately cause your code to run slower than if it was not multithreaded in the first place.
More info on critical sections, and other issues involved with programming multithreaded apps can be found here
IIRC the retina has nothing to do with focusing the light. The muscles involved with your iris are responsible for that. The retina is just a backdrop for focused light to be casted onto, and fed along a nerve for your brain.
There will be always more clever people out there then those employed in various corporations...
That is a bit misleading. It takes a lot more work to design something hard to break, and to be sure that it is hard to break, than to actually break something.
security is always a losing battle because the ammount of work put in to make something 'unbreakable' is often exponentially larger than the ammount of time taken to find a small mistake.
there are utilities built into many of the high end modellers (3ds max's optimizer utility) that will do alot of that..
regarding specific details, a good modeller often considers that when designing the high poly model, but you definitely aren't rebuilding anything from scratch there.
Read some tutorials about modelling online, even mod developers use this approach nowadays.
It has always been a practice for most game development houses, (in the modern era, and those who have the financial ability to design this way) to design games exactly like this. To use high res textures, with movie quality poly counts, then scale down for system requirements. This is nothing new, to me, the whole goal for getting on HD is just not at the time period where we should be focusing on it. I know very few people who have an HD screen, and even less willing to upgrade their TV just to get the latest games to play well on it. I think MS and Sony are trying to hit this market about 3 years too early. But, perhaps I'm wrong.
I often wonder why this mindset has never carried over to MMO games. Alot of people's frustrations with these games are due to the lack of new content being pushed out the door; And to be honest, its quite a load for a developer to take on.
I know there are some games like Second Life that have taken this approach, but its never been done in a meaningful, storyline driven sort of way.
With the recent post about bioware's contest ( too lazy to dig up a link ), it seems like this company definitely has the right idea. Imagine if Blizzard had given the community the ability to integrate their ideas in promoting storyline for level 60+ characters in WoW.
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I wouldn't worry too much, even if your friend did accomplish this, keeping it a secret from the NSA would be difficult ;), I'm sure they'd be very keen on getting their hands on such knowledge, and I imagine they can be pretty persuasive.
yes. as the proof will go.. proving that one NP-complete problem can be solved in P time, then ANY NP complete problem can be solved in P time also Proving that ANY NP-complete problem CANT be solved in P time, then NO NP-Complete problem can be solved in P time. a proof of either one would be all that is needed to end the debate. A lot more focus is centered around trying to prove P = NP ( its more exciting ), but most of the people within the field believe that P != NP
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nah, you make hats with boonskins.. I think davie crocket had one...
What would also be interesting is the cottage industries that arise
:-|
I read that as cottage cheese industries
I was trying to figure out the relationship to no avail.
[joke]
:P
what having 300 Links in the killing fields of Hyrule grinding for heart pieces and rupees doesn't appeal to you? or trading for the small subset of items zelda games had ( or ever really needed )
[/joke]
I agree.. Multiplayer is something that must be done for a purpose, and I'd like to think that Game Devs know better. This is coming from a person who spends much of his free time learning and developing a multiplayer backend for a single player game
Though... playing Morrowind as an MMO would be pretty cool, one of the few games (including GTA) that I think would benefit from a multiplayer component.
The real money is in the dice. I buy those things like crack and I can't stop :(
According to your logic, it would be impossible to ever disprove the existence of God via any scientific method. It amounts to the same kind of thinking which says the earth really is 7k yrs old -- God put the dino bones there to test our faith. The same kind of thinking allows a person of faith to believe anything they want (for example, that there is a multitude of virgins waiting in heaven for him if he slaughters thousands of civilians).
It is impossible to prove or disprove any theory without empiricle evidence. To that end, there may never be resolution. But for me it seems illogical to be so certain that God isn't real.
Imagine every physics law, every piece of history, and everything that will one day happen is represented on a sheet of paper. If a person were to try to color in a ratio of our knowledge of life the universe and everything, he/she wouldn't even be able to see a visible mark. How can one say there isn't a God knowing how little we do know?
Granted there is a much bigger leap to make from acknowledging that we dont know if there is a god or not, to believeing in a Christian God, or any other religion for that matter.
Sadly, this is something that will never be settled on slashdot, there were many smarter minds than myself, that believed in the Christian God, and many people smarter than myself who believed in a Muslim or even Hindu god.
And more black people commit crimes...
Do you want to try to make a generalization based on that?
You'd think a tech literate person would know better, or maybe you were just trying to incite a flame war.
nearly all of your points have NOTHING to do with improving the gameplay experience. I dont want a home theatre, I dont necessarily care what my friends are doing online.. Sound is good and graphics are good, but Im ready for something else.. I want my games to revive that feeling I used to have when I first piked up a joystick.. and normal mapping and 5.1 surround sound isn't where that is.
but that's the point - I don't want it like that in the first place - it should be turned OFF by default. I don't want to spend time turning all this crap off. It shouldn't be there in the first place. if you want it, then fine, it should be up to you to turn it on. The time it takes to disable that stuff in windows is still MUCH less than the time it takes to properly config a linux box. Apparently there is a (at least slight) majority of people who prefer it the other way, thus theirs is the default setup, you can't blame MS on that one :P
Kent
is the butt of constan...t
If it was a poke at atheists...
pun intended?
There are a lot of posts saying, if you don't like it don't play it. And getting bothered about the uproar around this game, however I doubt many would have a similar response to Ethnic Cleansing True, noone would play it ( I wont ), but it'd be much more difficult to find someone to defend titles like this.
I'm still baffled into how you can efficiently break up a game into 8 threads.
.... woops problem...need critical sections for this to operate with the graphics thread.
.... woops problem, need ritical sections for this to operate with the physics thread..
ok controller input on one..
graphics on another..
physics on a third
networking on a fourth
sound... ok no problems here, thats 5.
See, even dividing it up into 5 threads causes problems, you need to make sure that you are allowed to do something on one processor and if not you must wait on another processor to finish. critical sections are something that can ultimately cause your code to run slower than if it was not multithreaded in the first place.
More info on critical sections, and other issues involved with programming multithreaded apps can be found here
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
literally bleeding?
yeah you're right, thanks... regardless the aforementioned issues aren't associated with the retina at all...
IIRC the retina has nothing to do with focusing the light. The muscles involved with your iris are responsible for that. The retina is just a backdrop for focused light to be casted onto, and fed along a nerve for your brain.
There will be always more clever people out there then those employed in various corporations...
That is a bit misleading. It takes a lot more work to design something hard to break, and to be sure that it is hard to break, than to actually break something.
security is always a losing battle because the ammount of work put in to make something 'unbreakable' is often exponentially larger than the ammount of time taken to find a small mistake.
i remember reading that doom3 did the same thing. but im too lazy to find a link
there are utilities built into many of the high end modellers (3ds max's optimizer utility) that will do alot of that.. regarding specific details, a good modeller often considers that when designing the high poly model, but you definitely aren't rebuilding anything from scratch there. Read some tutorials about modelling online, even mod developers use this approach nowadays.
These new 'cars' propel themselves on flat surfaces by taking advantage of gravity.
*looking for cars that have wheels which don't depend on gravity*
With these
It has always been a practice for most game development houses, (in the modern era, and those who have the financial ability to design this way) to design games exactly like this. To use high res textures, with movie quality poly counts, then scale down for system requirements. This is nothing new, to me, the whole goal for getting on HD is just not at the time period where we should be focusing on it. I know very few people who have an HD screen, and even less willing to upgrade their TV just to get the latest games to play well on it. I think MS and Sony are trying to hit this market about 3 years too early. But, perhaps I'm wrong.
but they must defend their trademark or risk losing it.
pun intended?
I often wonder why this mindset has never carried over to MMO games. Alot of people's frustrations with these games are due to the lack of new content being pushed out the door; And to be honest, its quite a load for a developer to take on.
I know there are some games like Second Life that have taken this approach, but its never been done in a meaningful, storyline driven sort of way.
With the recent post about bioware's contest ( too lazy to dig up a link ), it seems like this company definitely has the right idea. Imagine if Blizzard had given the community the ability to integrate their ideas in promoting storyline for level 60+ characters in WoW.