has become "this is my idea of how bullet-time should work," this is my idea of how bullet-time should work:
Player's are either moving "normally" or "quickly" at all times.
The bullet-time restriction must be very strict : a difficult to get power-up, or a fairly short total time per level/game (a la 60 seconds per race of extra 50 hp to pass in some open-wheel racing tours)
All players actually move at the same rate (in m/s, or whatever).
Any player moving quickly cannot be hit by any aimed/directed attack such as a bullet or knife (this is why bullet-time needs to be very limited). Area/detonation damage still applies.
Any player moving normally sees a blurred representation of quickly moving players that is delayed from where the quick player actually is. Basically, you can react to where he was a second ago, but because he's "moving faster" than you, you have to lead him. Instead of the computer having to worry about prediction models, you get to! Fun!
When a player transitions from normal to quick, the player's blurred representation increasingly separates from his actual position until it reaches the maximum delay of 1 second (or whatever seems to work best).
When a player transitions from quick to normal, the player pops instantly from the blurred/delayed position to the actual position. This makes the choice of when you return to normal time as important as the choice of when you start bullet-time. It also allows the "I've run up to you and gotten past your defences and now I'm going to blow your head off" moment.
Note that neither transition - in fact no part of bullet-time at all - will necessarily appear different to the player transitioning. All bullet-time does as far as the quickly moving player is concerned is make you dodge all the stuff that's about to kill you (and you don't have to try).
The main disadvantage is, it doesn't have the "wow, cool, everything's moving slow" effect. Oh, well . ...
Every once in a while, I see someone (usually heavily modded troll, insightful, underrated, overrated, the whole deal) who agrees with me. I haven't noticed the "I don't care" platform on this story yet, though there will probably be several instances by the time I'm done typing this.
Anyhow, here goes: I really don't care what OS people use. I'm a linux person (debian, if you ask (sarge on servers and desktops, if you ask again)) who has even helped a few people switch to Linux from Windows. However, if people are happy to use Windows, I let them. I'll help out family/friends with config issues, but if there's a real problem, they're stuck, as I really don't know (Ok, really don't care to know) Windows config information.
You want to use Windows? Fine. Why does it have anything to do with me?
You want me to help you fix your computer? Run linux. Or pay me. Stupid job . ...
I think we would be better served by a drop down menu with choices about deleting the last character, word, sentence, paragraph, etc. Perhaps this could be a new feature developed for Longhorn and backported to XP.
Oh, don't forget lots of "Are you sure?" boxes to click on.
Sorry for the rant, I've spent the last 8 hours supporting crappy MS programs for stupid people.
Expanding the sphere of people you can target with a system is always going to look good on your bottom line. I always used to be amazed how many people had gameboys who weren't typical gamers. It shouldn't have surprised me: most people don't give a crap about the "cool" games, but they love stuff like tetris, tamagotchie, solitaire, minesweeper, etc.
I guess, in the end, it's not the gamers that make the money for the companies but the mainstream non-gamers who buy the system for the simple stuff.
The Starmessanger program is in violation not because they used GPL'd code and don't make source available. They are completely up front that Starmessagner is actually Miranda, but they screwed up and punted the Miranda copyright information. Thus, it appears that this program is copyrighted/developed by someone other than the actual dev's.
Our copyrights have been removed, this is a violation of the GPL as well as copyright law
Kudos to the Miranda folks for explaining all of this really well.
He probably thinks that the reverse is true because he thinks that keeping a "small" network running is not a time-consuming task. People forget that when something goes wrong on their home computer, it can take a lot of time to get it working the right way (doubly so if you lack experience with the problem). Multiply that by 30, and something going wrong can take a lot of time.
I totally agree, an experienced sysadmin is needed.
In other words, he's copying a page from the Darl McBride PR handbook: say it loud enough and often enough and perhaps people will believe you for a while.
Not sure what he'll do when he gets to the next page: people realize you're full of crap and start ignoring you.
The Mars Orbiter Camera can resolve features on the surface of Mars as small as a few meters or yards across from Mars Global Surveyor's orbital altitude of 350 to 405 kilometers (217 to 252 miles). From a distance of 100 kilometers (62 miles), the camera would be able to resolve features substantially smaller than 1 meter or yard across.
My understanding of optics isn't too good. Isn't this the kind of thing where you trade amazing resolution for something else? Does this camera require massive amounts of light? Would it work when photographing something not directly reflecing the light of the sun, such as on the night side of Mars?
I happen to be a Systems/Networking person, and I ended up *not* minoring in CS because the CS track at the school I was attending was 95% programming. I took 1 CS course (C++), learned nothing except syntax (which I learned mostly from online HOWTO's), and never took another.
If there were more courses in focusing on Networking or System Administration, I'd have taken more. So, check what is offered before you leap in!
I think you've got it exactly right: this is the first step towards saying "If your customers can't get in touch with emergency services easily, you can't offer this as a replacement for traditional home phone service."
As long as the VIOP companies understand this, I don't think we need to worry about some solution being found.
At this week's hearing, Dudas said that the patent law should be changed to award a patent to the first person to file a claim. The current rules allow patents to be granted to the first person who devised the invention.
WTF? This is expected to make the current patent problems better?
If That's your reasoning, then why are 21 or 25 year olds allowed to have sex?
I agree! I'm 26, and I'm sure not mentally mature enough to handle sex . . . where's that post anonymously button again? It just doesn't seem to be around today.
Seriously, though, I'm not a hopeless, pathetic twenty-something virgin, I swear. I'm actually married, really. Why don't you believe me?
PS. Don't bother telling me about subversion. If you must, start reading
up on "monotone". That seems to be the most viable alternative, but don't
pester the developers so much that they don't get any work done. They are
already aware of my problems;)
As someone who does internet connectivity tech support for a living, I can verify that this is totally true. People either ask me what to do with every window that pops up, or they just click the first choice in each window. Less than 10% actually read what's in those dialog boxes and warnings. Even if it's the one telling them why their precious email won't work.
Why must every response to "what error message do you get when you can't get your email?" be "An error message? There's a litle window that says 'this program has performed an illegal operation.' Can I get in trouble for that?"
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has become "this is my idea of how bullet-time should work," this is my idea of how bullet-time should work:
Player's are either moving "normally" or "quickly" at all times.
The bullet-time restriction must be very strict : a difficult to get power-up, or a fairly short total time per level/game (a la 60 seconds per race of extra 50 hp to pass in some open-wheel racing tours)
All players actually move at the same rate (in m/s, or whatever).
Any player moving quickly cannot be hit by any aimed/directed attack such as a bullet or knife (this is why bullet-time needs to be very limited). Area/detonation damage still applies.
Any player moving normally sees a blurred representation of quickly moving players that is delayed from where the quick player actually is. Basically, you can react to where he was a second ago, but because he's "moving faster" than you, you have to lead him. Instead of the computer having to worry about prediction models, you get to! Fun!
When a player transitions from normal to quick, the player's blurred representation increasingly separates from his actual position until it reaches the maximum delay of 1 second (or whatever seems to work best).
When a player transitions from quick to normal, the player pops instantly from the blurred/delayed position to the actual position. This makes the choice of when you return to normal time as important as the choice of when you start bullet-time. It also allows the "I've run up to you and gotten past your defences and now I'm going to blow your head off" moment.
Note that neither transition - in fact no part of bullet-time at all - will necessarily appear different to the player transitioning. All bullet-time does as far as the quickly moving player is concerned is make you dodge all the stuff that's about to kill you (and you don't have to try).
The main disadvantage is, it doesn't have the "wow, cool, everything's moving slow" effect. Oh, well . . ..
More prize money, more teams, more interesting
this and things are starting to pick up for fuel cell cars to the public.
Every once in a while, I see someone (usually heavily modded troll, insightful, underrated, overrated, the whole deal) who agrees with me. I haven't noticed the "I don't care" platform on this story yet, though there will probably be several instances by the time I'm done typing this.
Anyhow, here goes: I really don't care what OS people use. I'm a linux person (debian, if you ask (sarge on servers and desktops, if you ask again)) who has even helped a few people switch to Linux from Windows. However, if people are happy to use Windows, I let them. I'll help out family/friends with config issues, but if there's a real problem, they're stuck, as I really don't know (Ok, really don't care to know) Windows config information.
You want to use Windows? Fine. Why does it have anything to do with me?
You want me to help you fix your computer? Run linux. Or pay me. Stupid job . . ..
I think we would be better served by a drop down menu with choices about deleting the last character, word, sentence, paragraph, etc. Perhaps this could be a new feature developed for Longhorn and backported to XP.
Oh, don't forget lots of "Are you sure?" boxes to click on.
Sorry for the rant, I've spent the last 8 hours supporting crappy MS programs for stupid people.
Actually, I've talked to far too many people who have VOIP phones that are not reliable. I'll never get a VOIP phone.
Expanding the sphere of people you can target with a system is always going to look good on your bottom line. I always used to be amazed how many people had gameboys who weren't typical gamers. It shouldn't have surprised me: most people don't give a crap about the "cool" games, but they love stuff like tetris, tamagotchie, solitaire, minesweeper, etc.
I guess, in the end, it's not the gamers that make the money for the companies but the mainstream non-gamers who buy the system for the simple stuff.A fact about Skoda that was not included on Wikipedia, the name itself roughly translates to "pity".
So, add the information to the wiki!
The Starmessanger program is in violation not because they used GPL'd code and don't make source available. They are completely up front that Starmessagner is actually Miranda, but they screwed up and punted the Miranda copyright information. Thus, it appears that this program is copyrighted/developed by someone other than the actual dev's.
Our copyrights have been removed, this is a violation of the GPL as well as copyright law
Kudos to the Miranda folks for explaining all of this really well.
So why does he think the reverse is true?
He probably thinks that the reverse is true because he thinks that keeping a "small" network running is not a time-consuming task. People forget that when something goes wrong on their home computer, it can take a lot of time to get it working the right way (doubly so if you lack experience with the problem). Multiply that by 30, and something going wrong can take a lot of time.
I totally agree, an experienced sysadmin is needed.
You have to be high, or at work . . .
Electric motors have always had loads of torque, but having enough to start the vehicle at one (yes, 1) rpm is really impressive.
In other words, he's copying a page from the Darl McBride PR handbook: say it loud enough and often enough and perhaps people will believe you for a while.
Not sure what he'll do when he gets to the next page: people realize you're full of crap and start ignoring you.
I wouldn't consider myself a fan now, but I'll be sure to see the next one when it comes out too.
Haha, no you wont!
My understanding of optics isn't too good. Isn't this the kind of thing where you trade amazing resolution for something else? Does this camera require massive amounts of light? Would it work when photographing something not directly reflecing the light of the sun, such as on the night side of Mars?
I happen to be a Systems/Networking person, and I ended up *not* minoring in CS because the CS track at the school I was attending was 95% programming. I took 1 CS course (C++), learned nothing except syntax (which I learned mostly from online HOWTO's), and never took another.
If there were more courses in focusing on Networking or System Administration, I'd have taken more. So, check what is offered before you leap in!
I think you've got it exactly right: this is the first step towards saying "If your customers can't get in touch with emergency services easily, you can't offer this as a replacement for traditional home phone service."
As long as the VIOP companies understand this, I don't think we need to worry about some solution being found.
They do get it to some extent. Enterprise ratings did drop because it was competing against other Trek series. Remember the Trek's that didn't suck?
From the article:
WTF? This is expected to make the current patent problems better?
If That's your reasoning, then why are 21 or 25 year olds allowed to have sex?
I agree! I'm 26, and I'm sure not mentally mature enough to handle sex . . . where's that post anonymously button again? It just doesn't seem to be around today.
Seriously, though, I'm not a hopeless, pathetic twenty-something virgin, I swear. I'm actually married, really. Why don't you believe me?
Oh yeah - I'm posting on slashdot.
Dang it! Where's the +1 reference to neal stephenson option?
A good way to use the power of /.
As someone who does internet connectivity tech support for a living, I can verify that this is totally true. People either ask me what to do with every window that pops up, or they just click the first choice in each window. Less than 10% actually read what's in those dialog boxes and warnings. Even if it's the one telling them why their precious email won't work.
Why must every response to "what error message do you get when you can't get your email?" be "An error message? There's a litle window that says 'this program has performed an illegal operation.' Can I get in trouble for that?"
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