Here's why it would actually make sense to take the "screenshots" when the game was running at 9fps - notice that the blur looks awful? That's because it's aggregating frames that are.1s apart. So you get ass. But it proves that the "screenshot" is running motion blur. If it were running at an acceptable frame rate, it wouldn't be so noticable - better gameplay, worse "screenshot".
I'm sorry, but this article isn't quite clear on its own concept. Many of these technologies deserved their fate, often for fatal flaws pointed out in the article. It's more of a wishlist of technologies which proved infeasible. Sure, the wax cylinder was a better recording medium, but a full orchestra in your pants would be better still. It's like the author is complaining to god that the laws of physics should have been altered to make these ideas practical.
It's interesting how little someone's intelligence comes up when they're not an asshole, isn't it? Nobody talks about how it's hard it is for Knuth to relate to morons.
"(And I must ask, why are people so cheap, that they only give donations when it provides a partial reduction in their taxes, rather than a real donation? I actually find that pretty fake.)"
I've got an answer for this one! Well, sort of - I don't know why people are cheap. But I do know why people who AREN'T cheap still would prefer to donate to a non-profit organization. First, the constrictions placed on a non-profit organization reassure some people that their donation stands some chance of being used for the purpose they think they're donating it to. Second, if I have $10,000 I don't need, and want to donate it to someone, if I donate it to a charitable organization in the U.S., I can donate $12,000 for the same eventual out-of-pocket as if I donated $10,000 to an organization without charitable tax-exempt status. So the second organization would have to convince me that it will make better use of my money.
Sure, most people don't explicitly view it that way, but when you look at the bottom line, there's not much difference between "if I give $500 to them, I get $100 back. if I give $500 to THEM, I get nothing." and "if I give $400 to them, I could actually give $500. if I give $400 to THEM, I can only give $400."
Uh... Did you see the movie? Have you played the game? I can think of no scene which I enjoyed more because of my experience playing the game, except what little enjoyment I derived from mocking it for failing to make sense in terms of the game. It wasn't over-the-top - Starship Troopers was over-the-top. It was just sad.
Ok, the set design was over the top, and succeeded in a lot of places. The direction and cinematography was confused. Film school is not over-the-top.
Ok, I'm not going to be insulting. But many browsers have an option to warn you before accepting cookies. If you are observing behavior that makes you think "cookies", find that option before making a claim like this.
Can someone please tell me what they HAVE succeeded in finding with TheIndex? I must search for the wrong things.
Failed searches:
flail (no appropriate results in first 50)
user friendly (no results)
sluggy (no results)
comic (3 useless results)
guernica (no results)
pieta (no results)
hieronymous bosch (no results)
germany (1 useless result)
white house (no results)
operation overlord (no results)
fantasy combat (no results)
backstreet boys (no results)
I did find some good results for "poultry" buried in there... Which seems to be in keeping with their philosophy of "most of what we return will be garbage, you need to look for the pearls". I just wish they'd give me more garbage.
Also, it would be nice to be able to initiate a new search from the "Suck it down, bitch" page.
If a program requires that the NEW user refer to the manual constantly, it might be because it is very easy for the experienced user.
The GIMP would need no manual for NEW users if it just brought up a dialogue asking what file they want to apply the whirl filter to, and then took them to the whirl filter with pinch disabled, then saved it as a BMP and a GIF.
Diablo II doesn't need much of a manual, because there is only one goal, and the game knows in advance what the goal is. It is much more difficult to provide "feedback" or an "intuitive interface" for, say, the GIMP. Making it too easy to use would intrude on the experienced user.
Don't believe me? Feel free to implement your changes. I'd love to try them out.
And here I thought I had it bad at Stream. Now I fondly look back at the luxurious 30 minutes of idle I had to spread throughout my day as I wished, and the way I never had to get on the phones when I was on break. (Of course, in an average day, I spent at least 15 minutes in idle researching something for a callback...)
Another thing that I notice that was different at Stream was the fact that virtually all performance was measured over periods of weeks or longer, not on a call-by-call basis. (This is probably because they didn't have enough managers, not because they thought it worked better that way.) For that matter, we were supposed to maintain a 9-minute call average, and they didn't get on our case for a single call until it went over half an hour.
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All I really want in this world is something that fits in my glove box, can establish an ssh connection over a cellphone network to the Internet, and give me an 80x25 text terminal on that connection.
I'm under the impression that this can be done, but after looking for about an hour, a few days ago, I came up emptyhanded for a solution that I was sure would work.
Must just be me. Probably for the best, anyway - no sense spending hundreds of dollars to reaffirm my hatred of people who design text heavy pages which can't be accessed with lynx.
This page: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.ht ml seems to disagree with you on that count. It's buried pretty deep, so here it is: "If you do succeed in finding a previously undiscovered bug in the programs for either TeX or METAFONT, I shall gladly pay you a reward of $327.68." As I recall, this was originally supposed to double every year - I don't recall where it was the last time I saw him make that claim, so I can't say whether it continues to do so.
You know, I intentionally posted that with the +1 bonus AND said "fucking" in the hopes that it would NOT get modded up. I mean, come on - some fucking wanker puts a 13-year-old IOCCC entry on his webpage, UNCREDITED, and it gets put in quickies, UNCREDITED? It's ridiculous. I can't believe you didn't beat me to it, mister fucking wanker.
Come back when you have some moderator points. I post once or twice a week, you should have no trouble finding me.
Go look at the list of games. Are you really going to tell me that with Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Sonic, Bubble Bobble, Ecco the Dolphin, and Alex Kidd, some guy is crapping his pants because he can play California Games and Spy vs. Spy?
Then again, maybe that should actually ease my suspicions - no sane person would attempt to promote this system because it has California Games. And if they had just picked at random, they probably would have been gushing about Cheese Cat-Astrophe and Global Gladiators.
I host with pair.com. Most of the time, I have to point to their ridiculous uptime and huge bandwidth to justify the merely reasonable price I pay. I'm pleased to report that "Half Price Hosting" is a straight-up ripoff compared to pair, although of course they only offer PHP, not ASP.
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Here's why it would actually make sense to take the "screenshots" when the game was running at 9fps - notice that the blur looks awful? That's because it's aggregating frames that are .1s apart. So you get ass. But it proves that the "screenshot" is running motion blur. If it were running at an acceptable frame rate, it wouldn't be so noticable - better gameplay, worse "screenshot".
"BECAUSE FSAA WAS CRANKED TO 4X AND THEY WERE RUNNING 1280x980"
Is that really going to give you only 9fps? I know I've cranked it up above 800x600 with max FSAA and still had something playable.
And from what I recall, motion blur was supposed to be a free calculation if you were already doing FSAA, wasn't it?
I'm sorry, but this article isn't quite clear on its own concept. Many of these technologies deserved their fate, often for fatal flaws pointed out in the article. It's more of a wishlist of technologies which proved infeasible. Sure, the wax cylinder was a better recording medium, but a full orchestra in your pants would be better still. It's like the author is complaining to god that the laws of physics should have been altered to make these ideas practical.
Aside from your intelligent amp, that day arrived about a year ago.
It's for help. No, seriously. The help system will not run without IE4.x+. At least, that's the case with Quicken.
It's interesting how little someone's intelligence comes up when they're not an asshole, isn't it? Nobody talks about how it's hard it is for Knuth to relate to morons.
"(And I must ask, why are people so cheap, that they only give donations when it provides a partial reduction in their taxes, rather than a real donation? I actually find that pretty fake.)"
I've got an answer for this one! Well, sort of - I don't know why people are cheap. But I do know why people who AREN'T cheap still would prefer to donate to a non-profit organization. First, the constrictions placed on a non-profit organization reassure some people that their donation stands some chance of being used for the purpose they think they're donating it to. Second, if I have $10,000 I don't need, and want to donate it to someone, if I donate it to a charitable organization in the U.S., I can donate $12,000 for the same eventual out-of-pocket as if I donated $10,000 to an organization without charitable tax-exempt status. So the second organization would have to convince me that it will make better use of my money.
Sure, most people don't explicitly view it that way, but when you look at the bottom line, there's not much difference between "if I give $500 to them, I get $100 back. if I give $500 to THEM, I get nothing." and "if I give $400 to them, I could actually give $500. if I give $400 to THEM, I can only give $400."
I still dig The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Uh... Did you see the movie? Have you played the game? I can think of no scene which I enjoyed more because of my experience playing the game, except what little enjoyment I derived from mocking it for failing to make sense in terms of the game. It wasn't over-the-top - Starship Troopers was over-the-top. It was just sad.
Ok, the set design was over the top, and succeeded in a lot of places. The direction and cinematography was confused. Film school is not over-the-top.
Yes, I'm sure.
Interestingly, you seem to have fixed the bug responsible for the bad results I was getting. Nice turnaround time, even if you are an asshole.
You know what? I think I may have confused it by using by BACK button, instead of the sanctioned "click here for a new search" button.
If you'll notice - I got a large number of "no result" pages - so I wasn't "refining" a search.
I assumed they just meant they didn't reference Geocities or Angelfire.
Ok, I'm not going to be insulting. But many browsers have an option to warn you before accepting cookies. If you are observing behavior that makes you think "cookies", find that option before making a claim like this.
Can someone please tell me what they HAVE succeeded in finding with TheIndex? I must search for the wrong things.
Failed searches:
flail (no appropriate results in first 50)
user friendly (no results)
sluggy (no results)
comic (3 useless results)
guernica (no results)
pieta (no results)
hieronymous bosch (no results)
germany (1 useless result)
white house (no results)
operation overlord (no results)
fantasy combat (no results)
backstreet boys (no results)
I did find some good results for "poultry" buried in there... Which seems to be in keeping with their philosophy of "most of what we return will be garbage, you need to look for the pearls". I just wish they'd give me more garbage.
Also, it would be nice to be able to initiate a new search from the "Suck it down, bitch" page.
If a program requires that the NEW user refer to the manual constantly, it might be because it is very easy for the experienced user.
The GIMP would need no manual for NEW users if it just brought up a dialogue asking what file they want to apply the whirl filter to, and then took them to the whirl filter with pinch disabled, then saved it as a BMP and a GIF.
Diablo II doesn't need much of a manual, because there is only one goal, and the game knows in advance what the goal is. It is much more difficult to provide "feedback" or an "intuitive interface" for, say, the GIMP. Making it too easy to use would intrude on the experienced user.
Don't believe me? Feel free to implement your changes. I'd love to try them out.
Actually, I think he was trying to remember the old Capcom cheat code.
And here I thought I had it bad at Stream. Now I fondly look back at the luxurious 30 minutes of idle I had to spread throughout my day as I wished, and the way I never had to get on the phones when I was on break. (Of course, in an average day, I spent at least 15 minutes in idle researching something for a callback...)
Another thing that I notice that was different at Stream was the fact that virtually all performance was measured over periods of weeks or longer, not on a call-by-call basis. (This is probably because they didn't have enough managers, not because they thought it worked better that way.) For that matter, we were supposed to maintain a 9-minute call average, and they didn't get on our case for a single call until it went over half an hour.
I can't believe how incredibly lucky I feel.
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All I really want in this world is something that fits in my glove box, can establish an ssh connection over a cellphone network to the Internet, and give me an 80x25 text terminal on that connection.
I'm under the impression that this can be done, but after looking for about an hour, a few days ago, I came up emptyhanded for a solution that I was sure would work.
Must just be me. Probably for the best, anyway - no sense spending hundreds of dollars to reaffirm my hatred of people who design text heavy pages which can't be accessed with lynx.
This page: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/abcde.ht ml seems to disagree with you on that count. It's buried pretty deep, so here it is: "If you do succeed in finding a previously undiscovered bug in the programs for either TeX or METAFONT, I shall gladly pay you a reward of $327.68." As I recall, this was originally supposed to double every year - I don't recall where it was the last time I saw him make that claim, so I can't say whether it continues to do so.
another mirror here.
You know, I intentionally posted that with the +1 bonus AND said "fucking" in the hopes that it would NOT get modded up. I mean, come on - some fucking wanker puts a 13-year-old IOCCC entry on his webpage, UNCREDITED, and it gets put in quickies, UNCREDITED? It's ridiculous. I can't believe you didn't beat me to it, mister fucking wanker.
Come back when you have some moderator points. I post once or twice a week, you should have no trouble finding me.
Idiot.
http://www.ioccc.org/1987/westley.c
Should really be fucking credited to Brian Westley. Pisses me off.
Go look at the list of games. Are you really going to tell me that with Phantasy Star, Shinobi, Sonic, Bubble Bobble, Ecco the Dolphin, and Alex Kidd, some guy is crapping his pants because he can play California Games and Spy vs. Spy?
Then again, maybe that should actually ease my suspicions - no sane person would attempt to promote this system because it has California Games. And if they had just picked at random, they probably would have been gushing about Cheese Cat-Astrophe and Global Gladiators.
I host with pair.com. Most of the time, I have to point to their ridiculous uptime and huge bandwidth to justify the merely reasonable price I pay. I'm pleased to report that "Half Price Hosting" is a straight-up ripoff compared to pair, although of course they only offer PHP, not ASP.