No, you are wrong. In both Newtonian and Einstein Gravity, you can use the point mass solution for a spherically symmetric mass as long as you don't extend your coordinates to beneath the surface. Outside the surface they are identical.
Technically, all the big bang requires is for all the matter and energy in the universe to have been compressed together at one point, and subsequently exploded outwards in all directions.
That is a common misconception. More generally, the visible universe is compressed to a point, but not necessarily the entire universe. Big difference.
Heres the complete list of dual layer games on the PS2. All of which are either packed with bonus crap no one really cares about, tons of video, is Everquest (bloated even on consoles), or is Grand Tourismo. Your argument has pretty huge holes in it.
8.02GB PAL Champions of Norrath 7.94GB JAP GRAN TURISMO Concept 7.94GB JAP Xenosaga 7.93GB USA God of War 7.88GB USA Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht 7.74GB USA Champions of Norrath 7.55GB USA The Guy Game 7.20GB JAP Sakura Wars Atsuki Chishiyo Ni 6.47GB USA Madden 2005 Collectors Edition 6.13GB PAL Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance 5.99GB USA MGS2: Substance 5.27GB PAL Gran Turismo 4 4.94GB USA Gran Turismo 4
The Everquest: Champions of Norrath game is a completely different games from EQ1 & EQ2 on the PC. A less ignorant comparisson would have been EQ:OA (which is also a different game but similar to EQ1) which does not appear on your list.
Everquest: Champions of Norrath took up 2 layers for 3 reasons (1) big textures (2) no loading while in big maps that stream off the disk (3) alternate versions of said maps for replay value Not among those reasons is prerendered CG, I don't think the game had any.
Similarly with GT4, it did't have a ton of movies to it. Mostly lots of really big maps and music. It will not be possible to make a GT5 that pushes the limits of the PS3 on a DVD. DVD's are simply too small. This will also be true of many other games in the future as well. HD textures and movies are going to be ~4x as large in memory. If a game filled up 1 single layer DVD on the PS2, then the analagous game will not fit on a dual layer DVD on the PS3. Games on the XBOX 360 that look good at 1080 will either suffer from a monotony of good textures or longer loading and/or development times to fit the disk with good compression and/or proceedurally generated art.
Xenosaga would be a good candidate for no prerendered CG, but's it's a low budget made game. The dev's saved time and money with prerendered movies.
God of War had high quality prerendered movies. Some of the scenes wouldn't even be feasible on the PS3. Same with Metal Gear. If you don't like high quality movies in your games, then good for you. But to call the movies in MG and GoW crap is just petty.
All that in mind, the DVD will be a bottleneck for this generation. Though I don't think it will be as bad as the N64 with it's cartridges. You can stick your fingers in your ears and scream all you want. That won't make your DVD's any larger.
My brother-in-law (a professor who must publish or perish) puts it succinctly - "I can publish in 'free' journals that few read and that grant commitees don't trust, that lack a track record and may disappear tommorow. Or I can publish where distribution is more limited - but it is available to my colleagues and grant committees and has a long and stable track record".
His field must not have a very good preprint archive like physics does (http://arxiv.org/). In physics we only publish in real journals because they are peer reviewed and that acts as an extra filter to weed out the crap.
That one or few instances will stick out in your mind precisely because they are interesting, meanwhile all of the counterevidence will fall through the cracks of your memory precisely because they are not interesting.
The brain was not designed to analyze long time data in a rigorous manner.
their position is so strong because their software is almost universal world-wide. people using alternatives still elicit rolling eyes and sighs from the technologically ignorant when they encounter the odd person or three who require documents in a non-microsoft format. if that number jumped to 30% of the people they deal with on a daily basis, they wouldn't be so ignorant after awhile.
I am technically literate. I roll my eyes when some one sends me something from some 1% market share application like they are making a statement. I have a job to do, wife and kids to see. A life outside of work. Save the idealism for religion and esoteric college courses. To call ppl ignorant because they have something better to do than worry about which format is used is, well, ignorant.
Ignorant != Stupid. Ignorant implies that one is lacking of some knowledge. In this case, ignorance of alternatives. The word is perfectly well used by the OP and the offense you take is probably due to your ignorance of the meaning of the word ignorant. Though I do feel sympathy because the word is often used in a purely negative context.
Now you could debate worth of such knowledge. I am ignorant of Klingon and I intend to stay that way forever. Knowledge of Klingon has no worth to me.
Give me a reason why the Wii with a faster Processor, GPU, more Ram, and component output can not at least match the video output of the weakest current selling system.
There currently are no plans for Nintendo Revolution to support high-definition video output
Perrin Kaplan, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Nintendo of America
It's basically your word over Nintendo's. And you seem to be making stuff up with speculation and rationalization.
Also, both the Xbox and PS2 supported 720p (and even 1080i for the PS2) while the Gambecube supported only 480p. You could have made the same incorrect argument for the GC.
Irrelevant. You have missed the point entirely. 1+1=2 is independent of the existence of any gods.
Had there been no God, there would be no 1 to speak of. The only reason there is anything at all to talk about is because they were made, and the way things are the way they are is that God made them that way. We speak of the way things have to be, they have to be that way because that is how God set things up.
You are arguing from your premise. That's a logical fallacy.
"Sheng Long" doesn't refer to a character. In the old Ryu victory screen where he says "You must defeat sheng long to stand a chance", he was talking about one of his signature moves.
Right. It's the chinese translation of the dragon punch. In Japanese it's the rising dragon (shoryuken), in Chinese it's the spirit dragon (sheng long), in English it's the dragon punch.
Akuma is Akuma, and goes by no other name.
Nope. Gouki is his true name. Akuma is Japanese for demon. Gouki's brother is Gouken (the master of Ryu and Ken) and their master was Goutetsu.
Note: Yes, the Wii CAN do HD 720p or 1080i if it wants to. It'll be more powerful than the first X-box which can do this as well. Nintendo is just sticking to 480p as THEIR standard like they did with the gamecube (Hell the GameBoy Player supports 480p).
You have a source for that? Even Wikipedia says upto 480p. I have never heard this claim.
If you're seeing things like tints on certain inputs then it's the fault of your TV. There's nothing inherently "red" about VGA and nothing inherently "washed out" about component. I run component and VGA into my HDTV and they both look identical, I only use one over the other for convenience. Whilst I agree that there is scope for a digital signal (DVI/HDMI) to look better than an analogue one, there really shouldn't be any difference between the high bandwidth analogue connections (Component/VGA).
I take it you've never used a really long VGA cable.
Not that I know what problems he is having, but your claims of it being the TV isn't necessarily true.
so let me get this straight, you are a technophile, with an hdtv, yet you use a ps2, instead of a dedicated(progressive scan, perhaps upscaling, definately higher quality) dvd player.
My TV does that automatically. But that's still irrelevant because I bought my PS2 way before I bought my plasma. When I bought my PS2 I was still using a gigantic tube TV.
Something doesn't add up. Do you also listen to digital surround sound from the movies through your hdtv's stereo speakers?
Display's this nice don't come with any speakers. They assume you have a good stereo. My HD cable box and my PS2 are connected to my Stereo via digital optical.
Most digital TVs only support 720p natively, not 1080i.
Ahhh??? If you take 720p and interlace it perfectly, you could ideally get something akin to 1480i.
Analog TVs see no benefits in video quality from a digital connection.
Not true at all.
1080p barely exists, and most likely won't be supported by any xbox 360 games (or the xbox 360 itself), ever.
And that's also going to be true over the entire life time of the Xbox360 too huh?
I have PS2 games that are in 1080i over component, and you are telling me that no XBox360 game will ever support 1080p? That would be a sad fact for the 360 if true.
Also, games won't suddenly become lower quality just because a new hardware revision comes out. They'll look as good as they ever did on existing XBox 360s.
That's certainly a positive way to spin it.
And, the difference between a DVI connection and component connection on my DLP TV isn't noticeable at all.
It's noticable on my plasma. I guess I should be happy for you?
The HDMI/HDCP support is mostly a big deal for those of us that want to play HD-DVDs when they begin requiring HDCP. The XBox 360 never claimed it would ever be able to play HD-DVDs. So those that bought an XBox 360 should have known they probably wouldn't be able to play HD-DVDs on their XBox.
Again that's certainly a positive way to spin it. You get what you paid for.
I hate it when people complain about them "screwing over early adopters". Either it was worth $400 for the console or it wasn't. Quit trying to stop them from adding a feature many of us who don't yet have an XBox 360 want. They're not going to have HD-DVD games, they're not going to up the clock speed, they're not going to add more memory. They are just adding a couple of features that in no way change what games you can play and how they look.
But it does change how the games look on a nice 1080i or 1080p TV with DVI/HDMI.
Hopefully when they move to the smaller die the XBox 360's will run a little cooler and the fans won't be so loud. That's not "screwing over early adopters". They're taking advantage of new technology when it comes out. The XBox 360's that people have already bought won't lose features.
DVI was out well before the 360. There was no time excuse for not having DVI even HDMI in the more expensive Xbox360 model.
Meanwhile, I thought it was pretty stupid and asinine that Sony split their market by making you buy an entire new $600 PS3 to upgrade your $500 PS3 to HDMI. I'm gonna consider it pretty stupid and asinine if Microsoft also splits their market by making you buy an entire new $400 XBox to upgrade your older $400 XBox to HDMI.
You can't just buy a HDMI cord for a PS2. To do what you are asking Sony would have had to engineered the PS3 with a removable video card module to go from analogue (component) to digital (hdmi) out. That would have cost a little more R&D money/time and a little more space in the console.
And no different with the Xbox too. However I do feel extra sorry for the people that already bought the expensive Xbox. I would feel shafted if I also had an HDTV.
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No, you are wrong. In both Newtonian and Einstein Gravity, you can use the point mass solution for a spherically symmetric mass as long as you don't extend your coordinates to beneath the surface. Outside the surface they are identical.
And by visible universe I mean how far you can see and not the constituent of the universe that interacts with photons.
That is a common misconception. More generally, the visible universe is compressed to a point, but not necessarily the entire universe. Big difference.
The Everquest: Champions of Norrath game is a completely different games from EQ1 & EQ2 on the PC. A less ignorant comparisson would have been EQ:OA (which is also a different game but similar to EQ1) which does not appear on your list.
Everquest: Champions of Norrath took up 2 layers for 3 reasons
(1) big textures
(2) no loading while in big maps that stream off the disk
(3) alternate versions of said maps for replay value
Not among those reasons is prerendered CG, I don't think the game had any.
Similarly with GT4, it did't have a ton of movies to it. Mostly lots of really big maps and music. It will not be possible to make a GT5 that pushes the limits of the PS3 on a DVD. DVD's are simply too small. This will also be true of many other games in the future as well. HD textures and movies are going to be ~4x as large in memory. If a game filled up 1 single layer DVD on the PS2, then the analagous game will not fit on a dual layer DVD on the PS3. Games on the XBOX 360 that look good at 1080 will either suffer from a monotony of good textures or longer loading and/or development times to fit the disk with good compression and/or proceedurally generated art.
Xenosaga would be a good candidate for no prerendered CG, but's it's a low budget made game. The dev's saved time and money with prerendered movies.
God of War had high quality prerendered movies. Some of the scenes wouldn't even be feasible on the PS3. Same with Metal Gear. If you don't like high quality movies in your games, then good for you. But to call the movies in MG and GoW crap is just petty.
All that in mind, the DVD will be a bottleneck for this generation. Though I don't think it will be as bad as the N64 with it's cartridges. You can stick your fingers in your ears and scream all you want. That won't make your DVD's any larger.
That's funny because all the BluRay players in the market and in production also play DVD's.
Sounds like you are just making stuff up.
HD textures alone take up a ton of space. There were already 2-layer DVD games on the PS2 with little to no prerendered movies.
His field must not have a very good preprint archive like physics does (http://arxiv.org/). In physics we only publish in real journals because they are peer reviewed and that acts as an extra filter to weed out the crap.
Exactly
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_bi
That one or few instances will stick out in your mind precisely because they are interesting, meanwhile all of the counterevidence will fall through the cracks of your memory precisely because they are not interesting.
The brain was not designed to analyze long time data in a rigorous manner.
Instead you buy that he is magic.
Much better.
Ignorant != Stupid. Ignorant implies that one is lacking of some knowledge. In this case, ignorance of alternatives. The word is perfectly well used by the OP and the offense you take is probably due to your ignorance of the meaning of the word ignorant. Though I do feel sympathy because the word is often used in a purely negative context.
Now you could debate worth of such knowledge. I am ignorant of Klingon and I intend to stay that way forever. Knowledge of Klingon has no worth to me.
I hope so.
Though I am correct here regardless. We cannot go around making decisions thinking we have the authority of a god.
There currently are no plans for Nintendo Revolution to support high-definition video output
Perrin Kaplan, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Nintendo of America
It's basically your word over Nintendo's. And you seem to be making stuff up with speculation and rationalization.
Also, both the Xbox and PS2 supported 720p (and even 1080i for the PS2) while the Gambecube supported only 480p. You could have made the same incorrect argument for the GC.
You are arguing from your premise. That's a logical fallacy.
So you don't have a source, only your speculation.
No. A god can no more make it moral to rape and murder a 3 year old girl than it could make 1=0.
Gods cannot define morality. This has been known since ancient Greece.
You are both wrong.
And your responce also reflects things wrong with this world. The 911 terrorists thought as you do now.
Right. It's the chinese translation of the dragon punch. In Japanese it's the rising dragon (shoryuken), in Chinese it's the spirit dragon (sheng long), in English it's the dragon punch.
Nope. Gouki is his true name. Akuma is Japanese for demon. Gouki's brother is Gouken (the master of Ryu and Ken) and their master was Goutetsu.
You have a source for that? Even Wikipedia says upto 480p. I have never heard this claim.
Some of those things are not like the others.
When it appears as though there is dark matter in the universe, what should we call that problem?
There is dark matter the problem, and there is the theory that there actually is matter that is dark. Two different things.
Same with dark energy, and could be fundamental constants that aren't constant.
Not so with extra dimensions though. As I like to say
Extra Dimensions are the Epicycles of Modern Physics.
Extra dimensions are just a neat trick that hasn't worked yet. (Past Kaluza Klein at least, if you call that success.)
I think he is talking about the fact that...
...
Ohm's law is the 2nd order approximation Maxwell's equations in a material where an electric field will cause charge to flow.
More generally there would be higher order terms
I = V/R + V^3/S + V^5/T +
and that's still assuming uniformity.
Ohm's Law is an approximation like the Ideal Gas Law
Oh wait, that's a Law too. Hmm, what was his point? Laws aren't absolute. Well, we should have known that anyhow.
If you're seeing things like tints on certain inputs then it's the fault of your TV. There's nothing inherently "red" about VGA and nothing inherently "washed out" about component. I run component and VGA into my HDTV and they both look identical, I only use one over the other for convenience. Whilst I agree that there is scope for a digital signal (DVI/HDMI) to look better than an analogue one, there really shouldn't be any difference between the high bandwidth analogue connections (Component/VGA).
I take it you've never used a really long VGA cable.
Not that I know what problems he is having, but your claims of it being the TV isn't necessarily true.
so let me get this straight, you are a technophile, with an hdtv, yet you use a ps2, instead of a dedicated(progressive scan, perhaps upscaling, definately higher quality) dvd player.
My TV does that automatically. But that's still irrelevant because I bought my PS2 way before I bought my plasma. When I bought my PS2 I was still using a gigantic tube TV.
Something doesn't add up. Do you also listen to digital surround sound from the movies through your hdtv's stereo speakers?
Display's this nice don't come with any speakers. They assume you have a good stereo. My HD cable box and my PS2 are connected to my Stereo via digital optical.
Most digital TVs only support 720p natively, not 1080i.
Ahhh??? If you take 720p and interlace it perfectly, you could ideally get something akin to 1480i.
Analog TVs see no benefits in video quality from a digital connection.
Not true at all.
1080p barely exists, and most likely won't be supported by any xbox 360 games (or the xbox 360 itself), ever.
And that's also going to be true over the entire life time of the Xbox360 too huh?
I have PS2 games that are in 1080i over component, and you are telling me that no XBox360 game will ever support 1080p? That would be a sad fact for the 360 if true.
Also, games won't suddenly become lower quality just because a new hardware revision comes out. They'll look as good as they ever did on existing XBox 360s.
That's certainly a positive way to spin it.
And, the difference between a DVI connection and component connection on my DLP TV isn't noticeable at all.
It's noticable on my plasma. I guess I should be happy for you?
The HDMI/HDCP support is mostly a big deal for those of us that want to play HD-DVDs when they begin requiring HDCP. The XBox 360 never claimed it would ever be able to play HD-DVDs. So those that bought an XBox 360 should have known they probably wouldn't be able to play HD-DVDs on their XBox.
Again that's certainly a positive way to spin it. You get what you paid for.
I hate it when people complain about them "screwing over early adopters". Either it was worth $400 for the console or it wasn't. Quit trying to stop them from adding a feature many of us who don't yet have an XBox 360 want. They're not going to have HD-DVD games, they're not going to up the clock speed, they're not going to add more memory. They are just adding a couple of features that in no way change what games you can play and how they look.
But it does change how the games look on a nice 1080i or 1080p TV with DVI/HDMI.
Hopefully when they move to the smaller die the XBox 360's will run a little cooler and the fans won't be so loud. That's not "screwing over early adopters". They're taking advantage of new technology when it comes out. The XBox 360's that people have already bought won't lose features.
DVI was out well before the 360. There was no time excuse for not having DVI even HDMI in the more expensive Xbox360 model.
Meanwhile, I thought it was pretty stupid and asinine that Sony split their market by making you buy an entire new $600 PS3 to upgrade your $500 PS3 to HDMI. I'm gonna consider it pretty stupid and asinine if Microsoft also splits their market by making you buy an entire new $400 XBox to upgrade your older $400 XBox to HDMI.
You can't just buy a HDMI cord for a PS2. To do what you are asking Sony would have had to engineered the PS3 with a removable video card module to go from analogue (component) to digital (hdmi) out. That would have cost a little more R&D money/time and a little more space in the console.
And no different with the Xbox too. However I do feel extra sorry for the people that already bought the expensive Xbox. I would feel shafted if I also had an HDTV.