The same issues as polygons - they break, leaving gaps when performing complex operations (or even not complex, if you don't do it just so).
It can be made to work, with a lot of effort and experience, but this is a new way that doesn't have those limitations. Not to say it doesn't have others, of course - mostly it's rather slow, compared to surface modelling.
Disclaimer: I work for Uformia, the company running the Kickstarter.
Fiber for stock trading is considered good by all the government departments that had to OK this. But according to (one half of) our government, fiber is a total waste for everyone else in the country, and we should never need more then the mobile (cell phone) networks can provide...
Duplicity uses librsync to generate the changeset that rsync would use, then stores the change set. If you stored the change set to the USB drive, this could then be "restored" to the destination drive, perhaps? I don't know if there's any way to do this out of the box, or with a bit of scripting, or if this would need to be a whole new toolchain.
Not only games but also movies. There's some argument for making sure the person is looking at the thing you want them to, but if you need to make everything else blurry to do so, makes you wonder.
It's one of the reasons 3D films don't work in general - they include depth of field. The only 3D film I've seen that really worked was Avatar - which has no depth of field. At all. I enjoy the movie more for this technical reason alone - I can look where I want!
This is my experience too. I think there actually is legal precedent that specifically says a fax transmitted signature/document is equivalent. Until there's precedent saying the same thing for scanned&emailed documents, it's not going to change.
A previous employer had me fax my time-sheets to them. The timesheet was supplied as a PDF form, the office "fax machine" was a network printer/scanner, which emailed toe document as an attached PDF to a server, which had a modem and would fax it out. The system on the other end was pretty much the same - the fax to the local city number would result in an emailed copy sent to the outsourced accounting department. I found this out one day when the timesheet was lost.
The main reason these are notable is these are not mods. There is no programming code involved. This is all done within the games mechanics. And those mechanics are limited to little more then wires and some simple logic gates.
Yes, I came into this to suggest Zimbra - I'm not sure how open it is (although I know they repackage open software) but it does work. There are technical issues still (such as domain aliases not working when set through the web UI and/or needing a full restart to apply some changes ), but once it's set up, it is quite user friendly and does most of what you expect.
Oddly enough, I'm working for a company that's working on a modelling tool for "infinite detail", with a aim for 3d fabrication. But it's not voxels, like the engine here shows.
Converting the 5% to 4.7m people is an excellent point. 5% seems reasonable, but when there are 4.7 m "excessive users", that's a LOT of people who won't be getting what they paid for. 4.7m isn't a statistical blip or rare case.
You're overlooking that an IPv4 only host can't RESPOND to an IPv6 address. Instead you get IP6to4 NAT, which has to be a service provided by someone, that connects the IPv6 network to the IPv4 network, so the IPv4 destination sees the request originating from an IPv4 address.
Thats another thing I find "amusing" about all this - many of the games that would have gone under a R18+ classification (based on doing so everywhere else) instead were released UNCHANGED as M15+.
One of the criticisms made against the publicized "tell us if you want this" survey was that the results were swayed by an interested party (gamers). Gee, really, you ask people if people want something, and the people who want it are the ones who answer? And they got a LOT of answers, meaning there are a LOT of interested gamers. But the results were effectively thrown out, on claims of bias. Bias towards the answer the people running the survey didn't want, I say.
I was going to post this. My daughter (6) loves nothing more then to play Minecraft with me - which means telling me what to do constantly. Her favorite activity seems to be kiting creepers.
She hasn't got the coordination/experience to manage to play herself - she much prefers to tell me what to do. It must be a girl thing.
This is the technology the Australian Coalition party is suggesting is equivalent/good enough compared to FTTH. If this is the first live deployment of it, I would want to know distances involved to get these speeds, and how many bonded pairs are required - and if these pairs are installed in Australian DOCSIS setups.
Also, no-one seems to feel that a symmetrical connection is valuable, focus is on download speed and upload speed a footnote. As a business operator with off-site backups, as well as transferring raw video content to be processed in other offices, upload speed is critical to me.
I don't think so. There were only something like 5 games refused rating, requiring a resubmit. Thats part of the argument used to say there's no need for a R18.
The thing that is most foolish about this no-R18+ stance is it causes games to be rated M15 that are rated higher everywhere else.
In the summary, they list AvP as one, but this is an example. I can't find the article now, but apparently there have been 50 games in the last 3 years or so that are released M15 here and are R18+ (or R17, depending on country) elsewhere.
No R18+ rating puts MORE violence in the hands of children (specifically teens) under the guise of being M15.
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The same issues as polygons - they break, leaving gaps when performing complex operations (or even not complex, if you don't do it just so).
It can be made to work, with a lot of effort and experience, but this is a new way that doesn't have those limitations. Not to say it doesn't have others, of course - mostly it's rather slow, compared to surface modelling.
Disclaimer: I work for Uformia, the company running the Kickstarter.
Indeed, Normal is much too easy if you've played a game like this before.
Veteran is still fairly easy in the first area (act?) but it does ramp up later on.
Fiber for stock trading is considered good by all the government departments that had to OK this. But according to (one half of) our government, fiber is a total waste for everyone else in the country, and we should never need more then the mobile (cell phone) networks can provide...
The dichotomy is impressive.
Duplicity uses librsync to generate the changeset that rsync would use, then stores the change set. If you stored the change set to the USB drive, this could then be "restored" to the destination drive, perhaps? I don't know if there's any way to do this out of the box, or with a bit of scripting, or if this would need to be a whole new toolchain.
Brilliant.
Not only games but also movies. There's some argument for making sure the person is looking at the thing you want them to, but if you need to make everything else blurry to do so, makes you wonder.
It's one of the reasons 3D films don't work in general - they include depth of field. The only 3D film I've seen that really worked was Avatar - which has no depth of field. At all. I enjoy the movie more for this technical reason alone - I can look where I want!
This is my experience too. I think there actually is legal precedent that specifically says a fax transmitted signature/document is equivalent. Until there's precedent saying the same thing for scanned&emailed documents, it's not going to change.
A previous employer had me fax my time-sheets to them. The timesheet was supplied as a PDF form, the office "fax machine" was a network printer/scanner, which emailed toe document as an attached PDF to a server, which had a modem and would fax it out. The system on the other end was pretty much the same - the fax to the local city number would result in an emailed copy sent to the outsourced accounting department. I found this out one day when the timesheet was lost.
The main reason these are notable is these are not mods. There is no programming code involved. This is all done within the games mechanics. And those mechanics are limited to little more then wires and some simple logic gates.
Yes, I came into this to suggest Zimbra - I'm not sure how open it is (although I know they repackage open software) but it does work. There are technical issues still (such as domain aliases not working when set through the web UI and/or needing a full restart to apply some changes ), but once it's set up, it is quite user friendly and does most of what you expect.
That is also what I read!
I too am interested in hearing more about this.
Oddly enough, I'm working for a company that's working on a modelling tool for "infinite detail", with a aim for 3d fabrication. But it's not voxels, like the engine here shows.
I think the more important news here is - Linus uses Google+ for announcements now?
Facebook really is in trouble now.
Sued by Comcast and Verizon for "unfair competition" in 3, 2, 1...
Converting the 5% to 4.7m people is an excellent point. 5% seems reasonable, but when there are 4.7 m "excessive users", that's a LOT of people who won't be getting what they paid for. 4.7m isn't a statistical blip or rare case.
This is the same government that wants to be able to blacklist any URL secretly.
The EFA AU said it best: http://www.efa.org.au/2011/02/03/conroy-not-fooling-anyone/
This is what I see happening - IPv4 addresses will start being traded "privately".
You're overlooking that an IPv4 only host can't RESPOND to an IPv6 address. Instead you get IP6to4 NAT, which has to be a service provided by someone, that connects the IPv6 network to the IPv4 network, so the IPv4 destination sees the request originating from an IPv4 address.
Thats another thing I find "amusing" about all this - many of the games that would have gone under a R18+ classification (based on doing so everywhere else) instead were released UNCHANGED as M15+.
One of the criticisms made against the publicized "tell us if you want this" survey was that the results were swayed by an interested party (gamers). Gee, really, you ask people if people want something, and the people who want it are the ones who answer? And they got a LOT of answers, meaning there are a LOT of interested gamers. But the results were effectively thrown out, on claims of bias. Bias towards the answer the people running the survey didn't want, I say.
I was going to post this. My daughter (6) loves nothing more then to play Minecraft with me - which means telling me what to do constantly. Her favorite activity seems to be kiting creepers.
She hasn't got the coordination/experience to manage to play herself - she much prefers to tell me what to do. It must be a girl thing.
This is the technology the Australian Coalition party is suggesting is equivalent/good enough compared to FTTH. If this is the first live deployment of it, I would want to know distances involved to get these speeds, and how many bonded pairs are required - and if these pairs are installed in Australian DOCSIS setups.
Also, no-one seems to feel that a symmetrical connection is valuable, focus is on download speed and upload speed a footnote. As a business operator with off-site backups, as well as transferring raw video content to be processed in other offices, upload speed is critical to me.
Came here for this, leaving satisfied. Thank you.
Ah, the same play book as being used in Australia.
I don't think so. There were only something like 5 games refused rating, requiring a resubmit. Thats part of the argument used to say there's no need for a R18.
Wish I could find the article!
The thing that is most foolish about this no-R18+ stance is it causes games to be rated M15 that are rated higher everywhere else.
In the summary, they list AvP as one, but this is an example. I can't find the article now, but apparently there have been 50 games in the last 3 years or so that are released M15 here and are R18+ (or R17, depending on country) elsewhere.
No R18+ rating puts MORE violence in the hands of children (specifically teens) under the guise of being M15.