That's exactly what I plan to do. Clip a TrackIR Pro head tracker to this thing, and I have the most balls-to-the-wall home flight sim setup available. I already have a pair of stereoscopic wearable display goggles (Vuzix), but the low resolution makes them practically useless for combat flight sim use because you can't pick out aircraft at long range.
...the best conclusion I could come to is that I would be willing to augment, not replace. JC Denton had nanoaugs that enhanced his biological limbs,organs and tissues without replacing them, unlike Jensen who has permanently lost part of himself to machinery. I think enhancement is a far better approach than irreversible replacement.
That, and I couldn't come to grips with taking out my eyes. My mother gave them to me.
It's not hypothesis. Read up on the Sampson Option. Israel has a longstanding policy that if they are attacked with weapons of mass destruction, they will retaliate massively against pretty much all their enemies in the region, regardless of involvement.
The groups behind Stuxnet were prioritizing the risks of a surgical anti-nuclear proliferation strike as being worth the potential collateral damage. I think that was a prescient and reasonable decision, especially given Iran's irrationality and their hunger for nuclear weapons.
The part about the differences in loyalties of the Symantec researchers was telling, though.
"We don't care if this harms something important our country is doing to stop madmen from getting the Fist of God. We have customers to do business with!"
...looking for a Gravi artifact near these old buildings, see. And the detector keeps pointing me inside, so I go. The roof is gone and the moon is out but I'm staring at the detector instead of looking around.
All of a sudden I bump into this bloodsucker, and he's taking a leak. I look at him and go "hey, buddy, why are you pissing in the middle of the building?" And he looks back at me and goes "what the hell are you doing in my house?"
So I look around and realize we're in the middle of a converter room for a substation of the nuclear power plant. There's got to be 10 million volts on the wires in there.
About then I realize that only in the Zone can you walk right past a bunch of giant warning signs, into a room full of enough electricity to kill you faster than the speed of light, and the only thing out of the ordinary enough to make you notice is a blood sucking mutant taking a whiz."
The game that solidified true 3D realtime graphics as the gold standard for PC games? The game that did it BEFORE Quake? The game that was so widely sold and successful and distributed and had so many specialized SKUs created to work with early 3D accelerator APIs that the original MechWarrior2: 31st Century Combat has at least THIRTY-TWO different documented commercially released versions with multiple others suspected?
I don't think Apple thought this cunning plan all the way through. Somewhere, somebody with spare time and money and a propensity for making statements or grinding axes is going to flex their state's consumer rights laws, specifically the part about warranty service on goods as rendered.
Unless Apple can somehow argue that anti-tampering devices are crucial to the proper and desired function of the phone as a phone, they may be in for some trouble.
Shadowrun from FASA Interactive featured cross-platform play, and required some significant built in handicaps for the Xbox players to have even a fighting chance.
Proximity aim assistance (pointing close enough would trigger auto-targeting, like a lot of current console FPSs), boosted health for Xbox players, network code that was favorable to console players in some ways, and a few other factors.
What it came down to was that in order for PC vs Xbox play to be anything except a horrifically obvious and very cruel joke, they had to literally build in the same kind of 'advantages' that are normally provided with programs which would get you banned by Punkbuster or Valve Anti-Cheat.
Quite a few of the former FASA developers and artists that worked on Shaowrun migrated to ACES Studios where I worked off and on between early 2007 and its closure in Jan 2009, so this is confirmed firsthand from them.
I don't recall specifics about any wider-ranging Microsoft research into cross-platform play, but it does sort of ring a bell from a few remarks I heard. I think Bungie may have been experimenting briefly with it. My guess would be that it was ditched as part of (or possibly contributed to) the decision to not make a PC port of Halo 3.
Refusal to put up with bullshit like Australia and Germany's ratings boards is the only way to bring them down. Tolerance for censorship only breeds familiarity and further tolerance.
I have no idea what they think they're going to do with that license. My understanding is that it doesn't include access to the codebase (which is truly Byzantine code), so it's essentially like licensing somebody the graphics engine they used to make the CGI for the original TRON. Nobody's left anymore who can explain to them how it works or how to use it.
Those of us that were at ACES are just shaking our heads going "...huh?"
...unless the car is using a directed sonar to read the distance between itself and the person receiving the sound, and then modulating the sound it emits to a progressively lower frequency...
Nobody uses it anymore, period. The inherent flaw where it became unstable and bluescreened after 30-something days kind of led to it dying out very fast.
In theory, ESP stood for "Enterprise Simulation Platform". Officially, it was just "ESP", because there was some rule against using acronyms as product names.
Before it was called ESP it was referred to as Montauk.
When X-plane ships 24,000 real-world accurate airports, hi-res DEM and regional terrain textures for the entire globe, 7,000 unique landmark structures and features, full ATC for human and AI traffic, and an SDK that doesn't require the equivalent of native fluency in several extinct languages to use in order to develop commercial-grade dev or art content......let me know. ; )
Flight Sim WAS ESP. When the team behind Flight Sim - and therefore Flight Sim itself - were canned, ESP was part and parcel of those cuts.
The fact that anybody thought ESP still existed as anything more that a couple of my former coworkers sitting at desk and tying up loose contract and licensing ends... well, that's only because Microsoft carefully obfuscated how much overlap ESP and FS had.
ESP is dead and has been since ACES closed on January 23rd, 2009.
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That's exactly what I plan to do. Clip a TrackIR Pro head tracker to this thing, and I have the most balls-to-the-wall home flight sim setup available. I already have a pair of stereoscopic wearable display goggles (Vuzix), but the low resolution makes them practically useless for combat flight sim use because you can't pick out aircraft at long range.
If these are even 720p... we're in business.
...the best conclusion I could come to is that I would be willing to augment, not replace. JC Denton had nanoaugs that enhanced his biological limbs,organs and tissues without replacing them, unlike Jensen who has permanently lost part of himself to machinery. I think enhancement is a far better approach than irreversible replacement.
That, and I couldn't come to grips with taking out my eyes. My mother gave them to me.
Where they didn't have multiplayer done in time, so they released it as a standalone FOR FREE?
Yeah, I miss that too.
It's not hypothesis. Read up on the Sampson Option. Israel has a longstanding policy that if they are attacked with weapons of mass destruction, they will retaliate massively against pretty much all their enemies in the region, regardless of involvement.
It keeps the fools at bay.
Computers can be reformatted and replaced.
Tel Aviv cannot.
The groups behind Stuxnet were prioritizing the risks of a surgical anti-nuclear proliferation strike as being worth the potential collateral damage. I think that was a prescient and reasonable decision, especially given Iran's irrationality and their hunger for nuclear weapons.
The part about the differences in loyalties of the Symantec researchers was telling, though.
"We don't care if this harms something important our country is doing to stop madmen from getting the Fist of God. We have customers to do business with!"
Well... you can sure tell the internet was voting. :\
...looking for a Gravi artifact near these old buildings, see. And the detector keeps pointing me inside, so I go. The roof is gone and the moon is out but I'm staring at the detector instead of looking around.
All of a sudden I bump into this bloodsucker, and he's taking a leak. I look at him and go "hey, buddy, why are you pissing in the middle of the building?" And he looks back at me and goes "what the hell are you doing in my house?"
So I look around and realize we're in the middle of a converter room for a substation of the nuclear power plant. There's got to be 10 million volts on the wires in there.
About then I realize that only in the Zone can you walk right past a bunch of giant warning signs, into a room full of enough electricity to kill you faster than the speed of light, and the only thing out of the ordinary enough to make you notice is a blood sucking mutant taking a whiz."
Now get out of here, STALKER.
The game that solidified true 3D realtime graphics as the gold standard for PC games? The game that did it BEFORE Quake? The game that was so widely sold and successful and distributed and had so many specialized SKUs created to work with early 3D accelerator APIs that the original MechWarrior2: 31st Century Combat has at least THIRTY-TWO different documented commercially released versions with multiple others suspected?
For shame.
Then you can sue them for breach of warranty.
I don't think Apple thought this cunning plan all the way through. Somewhere, somebody with spare time and money and a propensity for making statements or grinding axes is going to flex their state's consumer rights laws, specifically the part about warranty service on goods as rendered.
Unless Apple can somehow argue that anti-tampering devices are crucial to the proper and desired function of the phone as a phone, they may be in for some trouble.
Yes, but they CANNOT fire him for unlawful or false (made-up) reasons. What might or might not be 'unlawful' depends on location.
Lawyer is the best bet.
Shadowrun from FASA Interactive featured cross-platform play, and required some significant built in handicaps for the Xbox players to have even a fighting chance.
Proximity aim assistance (pointing close enough would trigger auto-targeting, like a lot of current console FPSs), boosted health for Xbox players, network code that was favorable to console players in some ways, and a few other factors.
What it came down to was that in order for PC vs Xbox play to be anything except a horrifically obvious and very cruel joke, they had to literally build in the same kind of 'advantages' that are normally provided with programs which would get you banned by Punkbuster or Valve Anti-Cheat.
Quite a few of the former FASA developers and artists that worked on Shaowrun migrated to ACES Studios where I worked off and on between early 2007 and its closure in Jan 2009, so this is confirmed firsthand from them.
I don't recall specifics about any wider-ranging Microsoft research into cross-platform play, but it does sort of ring a bell from a few remarks I heard. I think Bungie may have been experimenting briefly with it. My guess would be that it was ditched as part of (or possibly contributed to) the decision to not make a PC port of Halo 3.
$10 says UbiSoft doesn't learn from this. Again.
At least I can use this in combination with a legitimate copy, to get the best of both worlds.
...it's full of stars.
Gorgeous pics, and nice work giving an orbital observatory a run for its money, partner.
Refusal to put up with bullshit like Australia and Germany's ratings boards is the only way to bring them down. Tolerance for censorship only breeds familiarity and further tolerance.
They *did*. I cleaned my office out January 23rd.
I have no idea what they think they're going to do with that license. My understanding is that it doesn't include access to the codebase (which is truly Byzantine code), so it's essentially like licensing somebody the graphics engine they used to make the CGI for the original TRON. Nobody's left anymore who can explain to them how it works or how to use it.
Those of us that were at ACES are just shaking our heads going "...huh?"
...unless the car is using a directed sonar to read the distance between itself and the person receiving the sound, and then modulating the sound it emits to a progressively lower frequency...
Nobody uses it anymore, period. The inherent flaw where it became unstable and bluescreened after 30-something days kind of led to it dying out very fast.
Oh please, no.
I get outside infrequently enough as it is.
Homeworld did it to me when they burned Kharak.
And don't call him Sirius.
In theory, ESP stood for "Enterprise Simulation Platform". Officially, it was just "ESP", because there was some rule against using acronyms as product names.
Before it was called ESP it was referred to as Montauk.
When X-plane ships 24,000 real-world accurate airports, hi-res DEM and regional terrain textures for the entire globe, 7,000 unique landmark structures and features, full ATC for human and AI traffic, and an SDK that doesn't require the equivalent of native fluency in several extinct languages to use in order to develop commercial-grade dev or art content... ...let me know. ; )
Flight Sim WAS ESP. When the team behind Flight Sim - and therefore Flight Sim itself - were canned, ESP was part and parcel of those cuts.
The fact that anybody thought ESP still existed as anything more that a couple of my former coworkers sitting at desk and tying up loose contract and licensing ends... well, that's only because Microsoft carefully obfuscated how much overlap ESP and FS had.
ESP is dead and has been since ACES closed on January 23rd, 2009.
Yes....