PLAYED: Undoubtedly. How do you plan on using your new-found fame? BEN S: It's been nice, now that more people know who I am. I'm starting to look around the gaming industry for possible employment opportunities.
"And people say 'Jesus isn't Jewish'. Of course he is! 30 years old, single, living at home with his parents? Come on! Working on his father buisness, his mother though he was God's gift? He's Jewish! Give it up!"
That DVD was probably the funniest shit i've seen in recent years.
Great idea; but good luck trying to find record companies willing to let you distribute DRM-less media of artists they signed... they even cripple audio CDs, for God's sake.
You might find independent artists willing to let you distribute their work in such a fashion, but even then, you'd be hard pressed to break even.
Well, a service is not transferable IIRC. You can't own a piece of land on a Second Life server, since it doesn't really exists.
If the hosting company goes belly up, you get your data and move on to a different provider. If the Second Life server goes belly up, you're basically screwed.
- Apple goes x86,
- Debian releases new stable,
- Deep Throat reveals himself,
- Robbins works for Microsoft.
Seriously, what's next? Stallman stating "Meh, GCC takes forever; i'll just buy some software at Walmart"? Duke Nukem Forever going gold? The Bitboys compiting with nVidia? Microsoft releasing the source for Internet Explorer?
Cut this shit already. Please. It's not funny anymore!
And now... an argentinian stooding up for the brazilians!
Well, it called for it. I thought you guys were still down from that last 3-1;) J/K, the "rivality" between Arg/Brazil doesn't go beyond soccer as far as i'm concerned.
Anyway, yes, Brazil is a great place. Crime rates are high, but sadly comparable to other Latin America countries and even parts of the US aswell.
BTW, prices for computers are pretty much the same here (the dollar-real ratio is pretty close to the dollar-peso); with that in mind you can buy a "beige box" computer with comparable prices (in dollars) as those on the US. Stuff like Dell, IBM, HP and such are quite more expensive indeed; i never understood why.
See, that's what bothers me. When you buy DRMed content, you're leasing. Not buying. Why leasing? Because you loose control of what you can or can't do with your purchase, insidelegal boundaries.
If i buy a book, i want to read it whenever i feel like. I buy music, i want to be able to listen it in my device of choice. Hell, i want to be able to sell it if i need it, or feel like doing so. Try that with iTunes.
Remember the Steam issue with HL2? Another example. Why do i need to validate online my hard copy purchase of the game in order to play it? Why if Valve dissapears tomorrow and they never provide a way arround it? Suddenly your purchase is worthless; effectively locking you out.
What blows my mind about this line of thinking, is not that companies try to push it, but consumers are gradually accepting it. DIVX failed before, but less restrictive types of DRM are working comercially. The only thought that comforts me is that, eventually, all forms of DRM are cracked in one way or another (CSS, anyone?), and the ones that are too restrictive fail commercialy. The USA has the DMCA, but the rest of the world is safe for now...
The woman like Americans because Brazilian men are notoriously unfaithful, cruel and not around much. One town I was in the ratio of women to men was 8:1!
You've got to be shitting me. THIS is modded insightful?!
I'm Argentinian - that's right, we're Brazils' next door neighbours. Been there myself a lot of times. How the fuck can you tell that Brazilians are "cruel and unfaitfhul" to their women? How many couples have you met? Because i've meet a lot, and they were quite happy. Where were you visiting anyway? If anything, they're mostly great people, which is more than i can say of other countries i've visited. And yes, Brazilian women are usually fun and sexy. Not bimbos.
These bullshit generalizations drive me mad. So, all Americans treat their women like shit, dress like fucking idiots and shoot each other? Because they surely seem to do in those nifty rap videos!
And yes, electronics are expensive (not insanely expensive though), mainly because of the dollar-real ratio and import taxes. Deal with it. And you can have a decent salary as well - just stop thinking in dollars for two seconds.
And you say it's possible to pick one and declare that it's correct?
Nope, never did. Like you said, most convolutions are not biyective (that's it, there will be overlapping results), hence deconvolution will never be able to give the original result, 100% correct.
Again, for a number of practical purposes, deconvolution can enhance a picture enough so it becomes useable. Within its limitations.
Not really. If you know exactly how the camera's flawed, then you can correct them on the returned data and get a perfect image, as if wasn't broken. Thing is, we don't, and deconvoluting uses an approximate model - which works good, but it's not as good as the real thing. In that sense, you're right, but information gathered with this process is still useable.
Actually, it doesn't work that way... what makes deconvolution work is that the anomaly is predictable - you can model it. Then, you can reverse the process so you can get a reasonable ammount of information out of the original image.
Think of it this way; i send you a set of blurry pictures. You think they're no good; but now i tell you i only applied a Photoshop blur filter with a value of "4" to them and then a messed with the colors in a certain way. With that, you could reverse the process fairly well.
In a nutshell (i'm no good at math), convoluting data means transforming it with a function; deconvoluting is the reverse process. If you know how a faulty lens, f.ex., messes with the image captured by a camera, you can create a mathematical model for it and then reverse the process.
... witty scientists have found out math can also be used to design stuff, balance your checkbook, convert inches to meters and other everyday problems unsolvable without its magic!
PS: As others pointed out, deconvolution (which is the process used here) is not a new concept. Far from it, in fact.
I thought exactly the same. "Sheeze, now these two will come with even more whacky stories just because they happened to hit a big one". Just what we all needed.
Anyway, don't hold your breath on an Apple/Intel merge. They will cuddle in bed, tops, and that's it.
System Shock is, to this day, the most inmersive and well-thought-out FPS ever made. It sucks you in. And, after all these years, it's still fun to play. The Thief series were excellent as well.
I mourned the loss of Looking Glass like it was a close relative.
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PLAYED: Undoubtedly. How do you plan on using your new-found fame?
BEN S: It's been nice, now that more people know who I am. I'm starting to look around the gaming industry for possible employment opportunities.
Yep. That'll work out just fine.
Ditto. What's that clip about?
Zing!
So now you not only can buy items for a MMORPG, you can rent characters? For little as $300 deposit and $150 / month? Sheeze. Get a new hobby.
Quoting Robin Willams...
"And people say 'Jesus isn't Jewish'. Of course he is! 30 years old, single, living at home with his parents? Come on! Working on his father buisness, his mother though he was God's gift? He's Jewish! Give it up!"
That DVD was probably the funniest shit i've seen in recent years.
Great idea; but good luck trying to find record companies willing to let you distribute DRM-less media of artists they signed... they even cripple audio CDs, for God's sake.
You might find independent artists willing to let you distribute their work in such a fashion, but even then, you'd be hard pressed to break even.
Just what i always wanted, animated advertising so cheap that it can be plastered anywhere. Something tells me it might not be a good idea though...
"something" like what? highly trained attack crows? i don't get this.
Maybe the fact that time travel is, indeed, impossible? I'm not stating that, just asking.
All sides did terrible things during WWII - yes, Americans, Japanese and Germans. Everyone hands are dirty.
I think people should spend more time learning for past mistakes instead of playing an apologist for them, but that's just me.
Well, a service is not transferable IIRC. You can't own a piece of land on a Second Life server, since it doesn't really exists.
If the hosting company goes belly up, you get your data and move on to a different provider. If the Second Life server goes belly up, you're basically screwed.
Nope -- you're owner of the contents of the site; the webhost just provides you the service of placing them online.
So, lemme see...
- Apple goes x86,
- Debian releases new stable,
- Deep Throat reveals himself,
- Robbins works for Microsoft.
Seriously, what's next? Stallman stating "Meh, GCC takes forever; i'll just buy some software at Walmart"? Duke Nukem Forever going gold? The Bitboys compiting with nVidia? Microsoft releasing the source for Internet Explorer?
Cut this shit already. Please. It's not funny anymore!
And now... an argentinian stooding up for the brazilians!
;) J/K, the "rivality" between Arg/Brazil doesn't go beyond soccer as far as i'm concerned.
Well, it called for it. I thought you guys were still down from that last 3-1
Anyway, yes, Brazil is a great place. Crime rates are high, but sadly comparable to other Latin America countries and even parts of the US aswell.
BTW, prices for computers are pretty much the same here (the dollar-real ratio is pretty close to the dollar-peso); with that in mind you can buy a "beige box" computer with comparable prices (in dollars) as those on the US. Stuff like Dell, IBM, HP and such are quite more expensive indeed; i never understood why.
You may not realize it, but you've just responded to a true White-Bread Citizen of the American Bubble.
Oh, i know i did. Either that or a perfect troll. But for Gods' sake, five persons modded that retard up. It's borderline racism and they cheer it.
See, that's what bothers me. When you buy DRMed content, you're leasing. Not buying. Why leasing? Because you loose control of what you can or can't do with your purchase, insidelegal boundaries.
If i buy a book, i want to read it whenever i feel like. I buy music, i want to be able to listen it in my device of choice. Hell, i want to be able to sell it if i need it, or feel like doing so. Try that with iTunes.
Remember the Steam issue with HL2? Another example. Why do i need to validate online my hard copy purchase of the game in order to play it? Why if Valve dissapears tomorrow and they never provide a way arround it? Suddenly your purchase is worthless; effectively locking you out.
What blows my mind about this line of thinking, is not that companies try to push it, but consumers are gradually accepting it. DIVX failed before, but less restrictive types of DRM are working comercially. The only thought that comforts me is that, eventually, all forms of DRM are cracked in one way or another (CSS, anyone?), and the ones that are too restrictive fail commercialy. The USA has the DMCA, but the rest of the world is safe for now...
The woman like Americans because Brazilian men are notoriously unfaithful, cruel and not around much. One town I was in the ratio of women to men was 8:1!
You've got to be shitting me. THIS is modded insightful?!
I'm Argentinian - that's right, we're Brazils' next door neighbours. Been there myself a lot of times. How the fuck can you tell that Brazilians are "cruel and unfaitfhul" to their women? How many couples have you met? Because i've meet a lot, and they were quite happy. Where were you visiting anyway? If anything, they're mostly great people, which is more than i can say of other countries i've visited. And yes, Brazilian women are usually fun and sexy. Not bimbos.
These bullshit generalizations drive me mad. So, all Americans treat their women like shit, dress like fucking idiots and shoot each other? Because they surely seem to do in those nifty rap videos!
And yes, electronics are expensive (not insanely expensive though), mainly because of the dollar-real ratio and import taxes. Deal with it. And you can have a decent salary as well - just stop thinking in dollars for two seconds.
Completely OT, but what's that cute "Mushferatu" pet seen in Nevrax's galleries?. Have any idea?
And you say it's possible to pick one and declare that it's correct?
Nope, never did. Like you said, most convolutions are not biyective (that's it, there will be overlapping results), hence deconvolution will never be able to give the original result, 100% correct.
Again, for a number of practical purposes, deconvolution can enhance a picture enough so it becomes useable. Within its limitations.
Not really. If you know exactly how the camera's flawed, then you can correct them on the returned data and get a perfect image, as if wasn't broken. Thing is, we don't, and deconvoluting uses an approximate model - which works good, but it's not as good as the real thing. In that sense, you're right, but information gathered with this process is still useable.
Actually, it doesn't work that way... what makes deconvolution work is that the anomaly is predictable - you can model it. Then, you can reverse the process so you can get a reasonable ammount of information out of the original image.
Think of it this way; i send you a set of blurry pictures. You think they're no good; but now i tell you i only applied a Photoshop blur filter with a value of "4" to them and then a messed with the colors in a certain way. With that, you could reverse the process fairly well.
In a nutshell (i'm no good at math), convoluting data means transforming it with a function; deconvoluting is the reverse process. If you know how a faulty lens, f.ex., messes with the image captured by a camera, you can create a mathematical model for it and then reverse the process.
PS: As others pointed out, deconvolution (which is the process used here) is not a new concept. Far from it, in fact.
With a BitBoys GPU!
I thought exactly the same. "Sheeze, now these two will come with even more whacky stories just because they happened to hit a big one". Just what we all needed.
Anyway, don't hold your breath on an Apple/Intel merge. They will cuddle in bed, tops, and that's it.
That would be System Shock 2, sorry. The first one was good, but lacked the finesse of the second one.
System Shock is, to this day, the most inmersive and well-thought-out FPS ever made. It sucks you in. And, after all these years, it's still fun to play. The Thief series were excellent as well.
I mourned the loss of Looking Glass like it was a close relative.