You are right, even though its graphics and structure are much more primitive, I actually enjoyed playing the Marathon series of games more than, say, Half-Life 2. (FYI, Marathon, originally a Mac game, can now be played through the open source Aleph One project, and can be downloaded for free at Bungie's site.) Marathon had a storyline which was a few factors more complex than HL2's, but it was woven inobtrusively into the gameplay through interactive terminals. The story was so interesting that the gamer's imagination enhanced the perception of the otherwise rather primitively texture-mapped polygons. It's a bit like with a good horror movie, where the 'evil' is not shown explicitly, only hints to it. The viewer's imagination turns the evil into something more horrid than anything that can be shown by CGI, as is often tried in modern movies. Here, imagination turned the game into something more thrilling than can ever be shown by the most realistic graphics.
Yes, HL2 also had hints to a story, but actually nothing more than hints. After I finished the game, I still had no idea what the heck 'combine soldiers' were and where those aliens came from and how/why this guy teamed up with them.
Of course, playing a straightforward shooter like UT2k4 can also be fun. People just don't always have days to spend to get immersed in the complex world of a game. But I bet playing onslaught would be just as much fun if everything were still rendered using Quake I graphics.
There's quite a difference in the design and capabilities of the space shuttle, and say the Apollo type lunar landers. The latter were packed in a single rocket during launch, were very 'ballistics'-oriented, and parts were just detached when not needed anymore (e.g. the lunar landers, or what remains of them, are still standing on the moon now). The only part that returned to earth was a relatively simple space capsule with a heatshield which was neatly packed inside the rocket during take-off, and probably also protected by the other modules until they were detached just before re-entry.
The space shuttle is a different thing, it has to come back the same way it went up, and its heatshields are exposed to danger from the launch on. It suffices that a piece of ice cracks one of the ceramic tiles, to make the entire shuttle turn into a comet during re-entry. And there are quite a lot of those tiles on a shuttle.
In a non-vacuum the 'speed of light' may be lower than the known c = 299.792.458 m/s, but it's still the 'speed of light' in that medium, being c/n with n = index of refraction of the medium.
Well, if it's happening it'll probably not be happening for long. He'd better have a helicopter flying along since he'll need it. Swimming from Sweden to the US is downward impossible, unless this guy is some amphibious mutant...
Personally, I prefer GCC to be standards compliant.
Me too, but I prefer smooth transitions to sudden hard compliance. Even though I sigh every time I read the word 'deprecated', I still prefer it to code suddenly producing hundreds of hard errors while in the previous version it compiled without any warning even with -Wall.
Now it would be really scary if, on the day when Google has reached its goal of 'internet information domination', Microsoft announces that Google was actually a MS subsidiary, made to look like an opponent. Then suddenly Google becomes 'MS Google' and an evil laugh emanates from Redmond...:)
I visited an experimental fab here (at IMEC) a while ago and there also was a great deal of yellow light in some places. As far as I can remember, it has something to do with the processing. Some methods involve 'developing' photoresist layers on wafers, like developing a photographic film, and this process is insensitive to yellow light -- just like good ol' black & white photographs were insensitive to the typical red light in dark rooms.
However, I recently visited a new cleanroom in the same fab, made for experimenting with 30mm wafers. Next to the fact that all the tiny rooms from the older fab were replaced by one large 'ballroom', all the light was simply white. I guess the new process is insensitive to visible wavelengths.
So maybe they just colored the photograph to evoke the typical cleanroom-look of a decade ago. Or the photograph is simply from an old fab.
There is faster stuff, but you said it correctly: there isn't anything that seems faster. We seem to have reached the point where most users are unable to find use for the extra processing power. Let's wait for our favorite software companies to upgrade their products to use those poor redundant CPU cycles, indeed...
As far as I understand from the text and the 'translation', the antenna on his head serves as a WLAN antenna. Which is of course a less embarassing solution than having to plug a network cable into his shiny metal ass.
Well, sorry to spoil the fun but you will still be promising flying cars to your children, and they to theirs. It won't happen anytime soon due to all the problems involved, just read some of the "Insightful" posts here for a few examples.
It's always amusing to read those picture books from the fifties which my parents stored in the attic, which claim that everyone is now flying around in choppers, commercial airliners are powered by nuclear reactors, and of course nobody still works nowadays because robots do all the work.
Think about it... if they charge you a "copyright tax" of 40 Euros per computer, then you can download stuff via p2p to your heart's content... I'd willingly pay a one off levy on purchase to tell the minions of the **AA to P off... and gladly make sure my receipt for this levy was kept very, very safe...
I don't think so... This tax is just intended to "compensate for the costs incurred by illegal downloading", not to make downloading legal. It will still be illegal, even though you have 'paid' for it. Those 40 Euros are just a guesstimate of the amount of missed revenues caused by the average downloader.
Many people will follow the same train of thought as you, though, so actually this tax will encourage illegal downloading. In the end, it's indeed just a scam, as Netsensei says it.
Nope.
!= is an op that compares values. It _can be used_ to do what the patent covers, but it
is not an operator that _just does that_
Watch out, considering the fact that 'it' and 'an operator that...' are pointers to something else, you're using the isNot operator, so you might get sued!:P
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Errr... if those are the front wheels, then what made those tracks the rover is following?
Yes, HL2 also had hints to a story, but actually nothing more than hints. After I finished the game, I still had no idea what the heck 'combine soldiers' were and where those aliens came from and how/why this guy teamed up with them.
Of course, playing a straightforward shooter like UT2k4 can also be fun. People just don't always have days to spend to get immersed in the complex world of a game. But I bet playing onslaught would be just as much fun if everything were still rendered using Quake I graphics.
There's quite a difference in the design and capabilities of the space shuttle, and say the Apollo type lunar landers. The latter were packed in a single rocket during launch, were very 'ballistics'-oriented, and parts were just detached when not needed anymore (e.g. the lunar landers, or what remains of them, are still standing on the moon now). The only part that returned to earth was a relatively simple space capsule with a heatshield which was neatly packed inside the rocket during take-off, and probably also protected by the other modules until they were detached just before re-entry.
The space shuttle is a different thing, it has to come back the same way it went up, and its heatshields are exposed to danger from the launch on. It suffices that a piece of ice cracks one of the ceramic tiles, to make the entire shuttle turn into a comet during re-entry. And there are quite a lot of those tiles on a shuttle.
In a non-vacuum the 'speed of light' may be lower than the known c = 299.792.458 m/s, but it's still the 'speed of light' in that medium, being c/n with n = index of refraction of the medium.
/me bangs his head against his keyboard
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Well, if it's happening it'll probably not be happening for long. He'd better have a helicopter flying along since he'll need it. Swimming from Sweden to the US is downward impossible, unless this guy is some amphibious mutant...
Now it would be really scary if, on the day when Google has reached its goal of 'internet information domination', Microsoft announces that Google was actually a MS subsidiary, made to look like an opponent. Then suddenly Google becomes 'MS Google' and an evil laugh emanates from Redmond... :)
The ironical thing about this software is that it only works on *n*x systems, while the OS that probably could benefit most from it is Windows...
I visited an experimental fab here (at IMEC) a while ago and there also was a great deal of yellow light in some places. As far as I can remember, it has something to do with the processing. Some methods involve 'developing' photoresist layers on wafers, like developing a photographic film, and this process is insensitive to yellow light -- just like good ol' black & white photographs were insensitive to the typical red light in dark rooms.
However, I recently visited a new cleanroom in the same fab, made for experimenting with 30mm wafers. Next to the fact that all the tiny rooms from the older fab were replaced by one large 'ballroom', all the light was simply white. I guess the new process is insensitive to visible wavelengths.
So maybe they just colored the photograph to evoke the typical cleanroom-look of a decade ago. Or the photograph is simply from an old fab.
There is faster stuff, but you said it correctly: there isn't anything that seems faster. We seem to have reached the point where most users are unable to find use for the extra processing power. Let's wait for our favorite software companies to upgrade their products to use those poor redundant CPU cycles, indeed...
Story>Writing>Acting>Direction>Cinematography>Effe cts/costume.
Funny how most of the movies made today are best described with the above line, but only after replacing the '>' by '<'.
As far as I understand from the text and the 'translation', the antenna on his head serves as a WLAN antenna. Which is of course a less embarassing solution than having to plug a network cable into his shiny metal ass.
Putting ad1.hardware.no in your favorite ad-blocker's list will do the trick.
Only 5 comments and the site has already been slashdotted to death!
Well, sorry to spoil the fun but you will still be promising flying cars to your children, and they to theirs. It won't happen anytime soon due to all the problems involved, just read some of the "Insightful" posts here for a few examples.
It's always amusing to read those picture books from the fifties which my parents stored in the attic, which claim that everyone is now flying around in choppers, commercial airliners are powered by nuclear reactors, and of course nobody still works nowadays because robots do all the work.
Many people will follow the same train of thought as you, though, so actually this tax will encourage illegal downloading. In the end, it's indeed just a scam, as Netsensei says it.
You're right! Britney being torn into 3 billion pieces is a great idea.
Something like an 'iPotter' must be a hole in the market then...
If you make that bunch large enough, that'll certainly work. Just look at the #1 in the "Top Public Figures"...
But as I don't have root access on this machine, I can't edit
Do you have a link to a version in a playable format too, perhaps?