Reality server is designed to deliver single frames for visualization not interactive games. The acceleration structures would make it pretty much useless for a video game with lots of deforming meshes. The applications are things like an Ikea website where you can build your living room, place furniture and see a photo realistic rendering of the outcome without waiting a few minutes would be required on a local machine without a render farm.
This isn't even about marriage! This referendum exposes the obvious dishonesty of the anti-gay marriage movements. We keep hearing "They deserve equal rights but marriage is sacred. I'm for equality but not redefining marriage." So the Washington State legislature passes a law which gives civil unions all the same rights as marriage without legalizing gay marriage. But now 'sanctity of marriage' activists are attempting to overturn rights for civil unions too. It's out and out discrimination and if through some trickery they confuse enough people into unvoting this law I hope the WA state supreme court rules it unconstitutional.
Define 'lifetime'. If we can fix the largest impediment to human space travel: human bodies, we might be able to send you on the slow train to every planet in the galaxy, given a sufficiently advanced system suspend function on your quantum brain.
Agreed. I know it's possible because Microsoft always pitches that as a feature that it can recognize what's put on it. Maybe it's not that accurate but an HD camera installed above could solve that problem. Or just let the user type in on an on screen keyboard the roll outcomes.
I've been saying D&D, Warhammer and a host of other tabletop games should be investing in this ever since I saw surface. It's a perfect fit. Let the game handle all the rules just tell the player when to roll dice. Put RFID inside all the units so the board knows what is what. Create rich animated tabletop surfaces. Animate ranged attacks and area effects. It would be the perfect bridge to bring video gamers into the tabletop market.
Maybe. But that's what DMs are for right? To make up rules on the spot. The group I play with really doesn't care at all about rules. We usually make up stuff in whatever we do because we almost always are doing things that no rule maker would ever think was reasonable.:D
I would rather there be a good, simple core set of rules which are easy to get new people up to speed on quickly. It seems like most of the rule reduction occurred inside the player abilities, which is what a new player has to learn. I like battletech but trying to develop a strategy on such a complex rule system is incredibly difficult. Chess has very few rules but offers incredible depth. Or even simpler you have something like Go. Both offer great opportunities for strategy without overwhelming the player with charts and rules. If anything I think D&D is still ever so slightly too heavy on the player side of the rules.
On the other side of the coin: I got into D&D through 4th edition as have many people I know.
Their marketing has dramatically improved, the game seems easier to pick up and I'm seeing D&D expand pretty widely beyond the original core. I imagine that was Hasbro's goal and in that regard they seem to be wildly successful.
US 31 million per million square kms. Finland 15 million per million square kms.
So there are less of them per square km!
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So there goes "We all live in the countryside" and "We're more spread out." Per person it's much easier to wire an American than a Fin.
I'll save the cost argument for someone else but 10x seems unlikely and the facts that were easy to check were exactly the opposite of what you claimed, so I don't have a high degree of confidence in the reliability of any claim you make.
Maybe because the Tax Payers of Australia don't want the tax payers of the United States, China, Singapore, Germany, France etc... to benefit without paying taxes towards the research?
Unfireable has nothing to do with it. If Verizon or Walmart ran it, they would be just as useless. It's not the unfireable part that's critical it's a case of a minimum wage worker not being given the power to legally give away hundreds of dollars. And when you stop to think about it, do you really want a minimum wage worker to have that kind of power? How much abuse and waste would there be if someone came in and wanted an exception and some burger flipper could just immediately make an exception?
A big shot YetAnotherDotCom who has a very confusing self identity.
It looks like he graduated in 2006... which is when I graduated and I'm 23. But then he posts this:
"I love it when twenty-something engineers take such a hard-line position on something they have so little experience with, like hiring. Saying that you wouldn't hire somebody for a programming job because they don't program in their spare time is blissfully naive. Yeah, I remember the days when my greatest responsibility to another human being was making rent on the first of the month."
Wait what? "Remember the days?" Wasn't that like... last year?
That sounds great on paper. But in the real world you often don't have a choice between providers. Even if there isn't an official monopoly the carriers hate laying redundant cabling and won't service an area covered by someone else and would rather invest in areas where they don't have to compete for customers.
If you put down a $20k deposit without reading the description "Sub-Orbital flight of about 10 minutes" expecting a multi-day orbital flight then you deserve whatever comes your way in life.
Uhhh... Virgin Galactic announced their service before they had even really started development on their spaceship. I think people understood pretty well there would be a delay as they develop, build and test a new spacecraft. And considering the virgin galactic trip costs 1% the price of a soyuz trip I would say they're in pretty different markets.
Yeah I disagree with the article's assertion you shouldn't listen to your customers. You should listen to your customers, but do so understanding most requests aren't for what they're asking for, it's for a more fundamental desire. And it's up to the innovator to determine what that is.
"I want a faster horse." "So you want to be able to travel further faster?" "Yes." "Ok how about a cart that travels as fast as a horse and go several hundred miles without stopping to rest, would that satisfy your desires?"
"I want a brighter backlight." "Why do you think you need a brighter backlight?" "Because I can't see the screen in direct sun." "Ok would a screen which reflects light and is readable in all lighting conditions satisfy that need?"
It's always helpful to deconstruct your customer's or client's feedback into outcomes or objectives instead of technical specifications. And if they ask for something specific it's usually a good idea to define whether they really want that in specific thing or there is some specific attribute of that thing that think is unique to it.
People who claim that they drive safely while using a phone probably think they also drive safely with.2% blood alcohol content.
Or, some of us just pay a lot less attention to the person we're talking to on the phone.
Just last week I called 911 on a guy who clearly did have a.2 BAC on the highway. And 911 instructions were "Can you please stay on the line with a state trooper?" Comparing my driving while calling in a drunk driver to a drunk driver I can say with a pretty high degree of confidence that my driving wasn't as bad as his.
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Reality server is designed to deliver single frames for visualization not interactive games. The acceleration structures would make it pretty much useless for a video game with lots of deforming meshes. The applications are things like an Ikea website where you can build your living room, place furniture and see a photo realistic rendering of the outcome without waiting a few minutes would be required on a local machine without a render farm.
Which is one of the other controversies of this referendum. It was a terribly confusing petition "Do you not, not want them to not be denied rights?"
This isn't even about marriage! This referendum exposes the obvious dishonesty of the anti-gay marriage movements.
We keep hearing "They deserve equal rights but marriage is sacred. I'm for equality but not redefining marriage." So the Washington State legislature passes a law which gives civil unions all the same rights as marriage without legalizing gay marriage. But now 'sanctity of marriage' activists are attempting to overturn rights for civil unions too. It's out and out discrimination and if through some trickery they confuse enough people into unvoting this law I hope the WA state supreme court rules it unconstitutional.
What does the brain do in this robot? It sounds like all data processing and decision making is done on silicon with the brain along for the ride.
Headline should be "Rat nerve cells get ride around lab in little cart."
Define 'lifetime'. If we can fix the largest impediment to human space travel: human bodies, we might be able to send you on the slow train to every planet in the galaxy, given a sufficiently advanced system suspend function on your quantum brain.
Agreed. I know it's possible because Microsoft always pitches that as a feature that it can recognize what's put on it. Maybe it's not that accurate but an HD camera installed above could solve that problem. Or just let the user type in on an on screen keyboard the roll outcomes.
I've been saying D&D, Warhammer and a host of other tabletop games should be investing in this ever since I saw surface. It's a perfect fit. Let the game handle all the rules just tell the player when to roll dice. Put RFID inside all the units so the board knows what is what. Create rich animated tabletop surfaces. Animate ranged attacks and area effects. It would be the perfect bridge to bring video gamers into the tabletop market.
They're made from Kevlar and are all foldy. It's like sticking your hand into a desk fan which is to say will be shocking but not really painful.
So what you're saying is. It's safe now because people have stopped making mistakes. That's going to solve a lot of other problems too!
*Poster supports nuclear power.
Maybe. But that's what DMs are for right? To make up rules on the spot. The group I play with really doesn't care at all about rules. We usually make up stuff in whatever we do because we almost always are doing things that no rule maker would ever think was reasonable. :D
I would rather there be a good, simple core set of rules which are easy to get new people up to speed on quickly. It seems like most of the rule reduction occurred inside the player abilities, which is what a new player has to learn. I like battletech but trying to develop a strategy on such a complex rule system is incredibly difficult. Chess has very few rules but offers incredible depth. Or even simpler you have something like Go. Both offer great opportunities for strategy without overwhelming the player with charts and rules. If anything I think D&D is still ever so slightly too heavy on the player side of the rules.
On the other side of the coin: I got into D&D through 4th edition as have many people I know.
Their marketing has dramatically improved, the game seems easier to pick up and I'm seeing D&D expand pretty widely beyond the original core. I imagine that was Hasbro's goal and in that regard they seem to be wildly successful.
Facts please!
Urbanization:
US 82%
Finland 63%
So we're more concentrated in cities.
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People density per million square KMs
US 31 million per million square kms.
Finland 15 million per million square kms.
So there are less of them per square km!
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So there goes "We all live in the countryside" and "We're more spread out." Per person it's much easier to wire an American than a Fin.
I'll save the cost argument for someone else but 10x seems unlikely and the facts that were easy to check were exactly the opposite of what you claimed, so I don't have a high degree of confidence in the reliability of any claim you make.
Maybe because the Tax Payers of Australia don't want the tax payers of the United States, China, Singapore, Germany, France etc... to benefit without paying taxes towards the research?
Unfireable has nothing to do with it. If Verizon or Walmart ran it, they would be just as useless. It's not the unfireable part that's critical it's a case of a minimum wage worker not being given the power to legally give away hundreds of dollars. And when you stop to think about it, do you really want a minimum wage worker to have that kind of power? How much abuse and waste would there be if someone came in and wanted an exception and some burger flipper could just immediately make an exception?
A big shot YetAnotherDotCom who has a very confusing self identity.
It looks like he graduated in 2006... which is when I graduated and I'm 23. But then he posts this:
"I love it when twenty-something engineers take such a hard-line position on something they have so little experience with, like hiring. Saying that you wouldn't hire somebody for a programming job because they don't program in their spare time is blissfully naive. Yeah, I remember the days when my greatest responsibility to another human being was making rent on the first of the month."
Wait what? "Remember the days?" Wasn't that like... last year?
He says as he posts on an ad supported website...
Wow two whole completely random people on the internet who nobody has heard of think it's confusing?! It's a total disaster!
Huge, Slow, Clumsy? Have YOU tried it?
Minimize the Ribbon and rely on the contextual menu that comes up when you highlight text and the interface is as small as notepad.
It takes up almost exactly 300MB of space. Which is comparable or smaller than OpenOffice.
I don't know what part of it you find slow. On every system I've run it on, even my pretty old laptop it seems snappy and responsive.
And if Office10 Home and Student is priced similar to Office 2007 then you'll probably be able to find a copy priced at around $50-$70.
Sure we'll discount you the salary of a soviet officer for the time you're on the flight. $5k.
$30m - $5k = $30m. Check please!
That sounds great on paper. But in the real world you often don't have a choice between providers. Even if there isn't an official monopoly the carriers hate laying redundant cabling and won't service an area covered by someone else and would rather invest in areas where they don't have to compete for customers.
Also Virgin Galactic has no investors, it's personally funded by Richard Branson so they have nobody to please or string along.
If you put down a $20k deposit without reading the description "Sub-Orbital flight of about 10 minutes" expecting a multi-day orbital flight then you deserve whatever comes your way in life.
Uhhh... Virgin Galactic announced their service before they had even really started development on their spaceship. I think people understood pretty well there would be a delay as they develop, build and test a new spacecraft. And considering the virgin galactic trip costs 1% the price of a soyuz trip I would say they're in pretty different markets.
Yeah I disagree with the article's assertion you shouldn't listen to your customers. You should listen to your customers, but do so understanding most requests aren't for what they're asking for, it's for a more fundamental desire. And it's up to the innovator to determine what that is.
"I want a faster horse." "So you want to be able to travel further faster?" "Yes." "Ok how about a cart that travels as fast as a horse and go several hundred miles without stopping to rest, would that satisfy your desires?"
"I want a brighter backlight."
"Why do you think you need a brighter backlight?"
"Because I can't see the screen in direct sun."
"Ok would a screen which reflects light and is readable in all lighting conditions satisfy that need?"
It's always helpful to deconstruct your customer's or client's feedback into outcomes or objectives instead of technical specifications. And if they ask for something specific it's usually a good idea to define whether they really want that in specific thing or there is some specific attribute of that thing that think is unique to it.
Except that Nvidia was pitching CUDA and OpenCL for most of the presentation so as a CUDA board a DVI port isn't really important.
People who claim that they drive safely while using a phone probably think they also drive safely with .2% blood alcohol content.
Or, some of us just pay a lot less attention to the person we're talking to on the phone.
Just last week I called 911 on a guy who clearly did have a .2 BAC on the highway. And 911 instructions were "Can you please stay on the line with a state trooper?" Comparing my driving while calling in a drunk driver to a drunk driver I can say with a pretty high degree of confidence that my driving wasn't as bad as his.