Maybe this time around we can get an inventory screen that actually works.
Sorts by Name. Groups identical items. Allows easy comparison of items. Generally makes it possible to open your inventory and not feel like dieing.
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I love sequels. If it's a game I like I want 100 more of them. Another fallout game? Yes please. Another star trek movie? Hell yes.
Down with sequels! Down with adaptations! George Lucas should have stopped at a new hope! Peter Jackson should never have made LOTR! Hamlet should never be performed again! It was good enough in 1590 why make another production of it!? Why oh why did valve ever make Team Fortress 2!
And as Gene Rodenberry once said: Anyone can write an award winning hour long episode if it runs 2 hours and costs 4x the budget of any show.
I understand both side's frustration with the rewrites. The producers needed to produce an episode that actually was profitable and affordable. Ellison wanted to create great art without any compromise.
The fact he couldn't adapthis screenplay to be both true to his original spirit and also simultaneously affordable simply reflects badly on him. Not badly as in "He's not a great writer" just badly in that he isn't the greatest screenwriter. I've seen lots of these screenplays before. Brilliant on paper but completely unfilmable. In retrospect if Paramount though could have seen how much money this single episode could have made them over the years I think doubling their budget would have been a sound investment.
No what we need are large parking lots which are open to the public to safely do whatever the hell they want.
I learned to control a car well by driving incredibly wrecklessly around empty streets covered in snow. Spending all that time doing power slides and generally having a huge blast has helped my driving over the years enormously.
The only two times I've ever been really really really afraid of crashing was on ice so slick it didn't matter if there was a driver or not, or how fast you were going. Both times occured at less than 5mph.
But since getting my license I've had a tire blow out at 80mph. I've had to dodge cars losing control around me. And being able to drive on snowy slick roads directly translates into any sort of hazardous condition. In the netherlands kids have to pass tests on wet pads. It's all about control of the vehicle.
That being said. A guy was arrested outside my office today for driving his jeep into a parked vehicle and screaming off. He was so drunk. He came back to work after driving around town at 100mph and parked right next to the car he hit. Got out just about collapsed onto the ground he was so drunk. Then went and laughed with his passenger/friend and practically waited for the cops to come and arrest him. It doesn't matter what kind of safety systems you put in a car. You can't make that guy a safe driver. And knowing he's out there in droves makes me want as many safety features around me as humanely possible.
Yeah until you get rear-ended by some other idiot who is certain his spike isn't going to impale him. Or the deer that jumps in front of your car. Or car in front of you which suddenly stops to avoid killing a child.
Here's the thing about the no seat belt/spike theory. You crash at 10mph and I promise you, you'll hit the spike. You crash at 5mph and I almost guarantee you'll bleed to death from the spike. You crash at 1mph and I'll give you a fighting chance with the spike.
I've been in enough lowspeed accidents on vehicles without seatbelts and the only thing that happens even at moderate to slow speeds is you fly off the vehicle.
Your arms aren't fast enough to bench press your mass at 3mph without preparation. A lowspeed accident without a seatbelt can easily be a lethal accident. So once you realize that you'll die at any speed. You'll throw caution to the wind and drive 100. "If I'm going to die in an accident I might as well get there faster."
If the writers didn't need to go to paramount to get RIGHTS to write said book there would be no profits to paramount for him to go after.
The author wouldn't need to share any profits with Paramount and by extension there would be nothing to share with the original author.
In this case the original writer wouldn't be bound to any kind of compensation for his episode. He wouldn't be getting screwed by Paramount.
Furthermore broadcast rights wouldn't exist so paramount wouldn't be able to pick up re-run royalties. So all of those would ALSO no longer be payed to him.
The only time the author would get payed would be once by Paramount when he originally wrote the episode. Since Paramount wouldn't own any rights to merchandising that also means there is no reason for any of the toy companies or anyone else to pay Paramount for the rights to use Star Trek since none of them signed any contracts either.
That means Paramount can only make money from donations and 'first hand' DVD sales. (Which doesn't really mean anything because I could be competing with my free bit torrents legally. So why bother with Paramount?)
So Paramount makes no money from merchandising (They aren't a merchandise company.) They make no money from advertisers (NBC just broadcasts it for free. Everyone else downloads it for free.) And by extension the writers go unpaid.
Simply put. No intellectual property COMPLETELY FUCKS THE AUTHOR. Unless he begs and pleads for fucking charity. Yes. This is the world that most slashdotters believe in. One in which authors go back to their "Rightful place" of begging on fucking street corners for their dinner if you play them a song. But writers don't even get the dignity of being able to perform on a street corner. The moment their work is recognized as marginally worth selling a giant publisher will swoop in and sell a billion copies giving the author not a single pretty penny. The only source of income for authors in an IP free world is direct sales(They're authors not publishers! Let them do what they do... WRITE!) is to depend upon donations and charity.
Also no screenwriters will EVER SHOW ANYBODY THEIR WORK. Why would you shop around a screenplay if the first person who likes it and has 100 million dollars just goes ahead and makes it?
There's a bit of a bell curve around 3.5 GPA. Once you drop below 3.0 GPA I've found that it doesn't matter how smart you are, you're unemployable. You don't meet deadlines. You have trouble integrating with a team and you generally are a hindrance to a project even if your work is phenomenal.
Similarly many 4.0 GPA students start to approach the rote memorization paradigm.
There is one exception to this rule: Art schools. This is one case where GPA actually tends to reflect competence and employability. Lots and lots and lots of art students are there because "Art is easy right!". They failed high school and feel misunderstood so they think they must by process of elimination be artists.
This generates a boat load of graduates with 2-3.0 GPAs who never do any of the assignments. Generally don't work on their projects and don't pay attention in class. The higher GPA students tend to be the students who are dedicated to improving their abilities. They'll also be better at working to either get employed or take the initiative in getting their work shown after school. Meanwhile bottom of the bell curve sits around at home wondering why nobody has hired them yet or exhibited their brilliance.
It's even worse. Microsoft has a shell organization in Nevada. So all of Microsoft's products are developed and created in Seattle and then they 'sell' Windows through Nevada so that they don't have to pay Washington State for any of their income tax.
Meanwhile we have a bridge (520) which is unable to keep up with Microsoft commuters every morning that needs a multi billion dollar investment to reduce traffic.
All in all I would say Microsoft is a net force of good in the local economy and they probably give more than they take, but it would certainly be a little less repulsive if Microsoft actually had to pay a little of their way like the rest of us. Once again: if you're rich you get a free pass while the small businesses have to pick up the slack.
On the other hand. If the money is being passed out evenly across the country. And this community thinks this is what is best for their community then by all means go for it. Microsoft Employees probably do pay their fair share in taxes since most make above the median income and probably are in a higher tax bracket. If your entire town is based around a Microsoft Economy, it would be silly to repair the bridge to home depot.
I've found most local guys are more dastardly than the big ones. Have you ever had rural broadband before? I've gone through 4 small fish ISPs so far in my various apartments and houses over the years. The best? Comcast without comparison.
I agree with this assessment. I'm in a similarly competitive field. And you know what? It's not worth it when you think about it.
I think guys (at least in our culture) are uniquely obsessed with success even if it's not enjoyable.
There are always exceptions to rules but by and large I've found Men to be more massochistic when it comes to competitive goals such as numbers of papers published, films produced, books written, world records held etc etc.
The question is. Do women have a problem with the status quo? Or are they living happier more fulfilled lives by not working 80 weeks for 10 years straight with little promise of success?
But Linux and Gnome wouldn't be as good as they are today if they didn't outright copy/paste a majority of WIndows' look and feel. You've got yourself a chicken/egg scenario. Without Microsoft to copy where would Gnome be today?
Because nobody joins a server with 3 people in it.
It's really a tough social engineering situation.
If the server is empty nobody joins. If nobody joins then nobody else joins. If you've never played on the server before you don't know if ayone will be coming in soon so you think the server is abandoned.
As a result lots of new servers advertise that the server is active and a full of people. The idea is that enough people do join to 'seed' the server and hit critical mass to become self sustaining. The problem is most people join... see nobody is playing and immediately disconnect.
IF only you crash once. Then the 25 other people playing in 45 seconds completely undo any damage you might have done.
If lots of people crash all the time. (We found a server yesterday which crashed everybody's copy of TF2 every time you tried joining a team.) then you deserve to be low ranked.
This isn't a renderer. This is a render accellerator.
The idea is that Brazil, Mental Ray, Vray and FR can use this to accellerate the existing renderers without any sacrifice of quality or features.
Think of it like SSE3. It's a new instruction set you can use to accellerate your software. It's not a hardware renderer. It's a hardware ray tracer. The distinction is subtle but in important in this case.
It should also be noted that Splutterfish (the makers of Brazil. One of the top 4 raytracers on the planet and argueably the fastest.) has been aquired by Caustic. http://splutterfish.com/
We will never catch up. Why? Well one reasons is that we include special ed in our numbers.
Up to highchool graduation we've decided that everybody from the super genius to the kid who just drools all day are students of our public education system. Test time rolls around and Mr Vegetable is handed a pen and expected to represent good ol' America.
Meanwhile around the world if you don't appear to be higher education material you get shunted off into an alternative program that's not officially 'school'.
You're missing one person on the long list. You. There is no prohibition on you choosing what data you want encrypted. It's not limited to movie companies.
It is possible to create content of your own you know. It's not you vs the world. You're a part of the world.
Here is just one example. (Beside the obvious case where you encrypt a movie file.)
This technology can be used for privacy adovcates as well. Want to make sure that no unauthorized applications are secretly recording your activities? This denies access to the frame buffer from remote viewing.
Maybe something was written well the first time and just needs refinement and patching.
Everyone is always "Ohhh if they didn't rewrite XYZ from scratch it's not an upgrade.
That's true of game engines but when you're developing a massive architecture that suppports thousands of APIs I would say the less often you rewrite the better.
Most new features don't need a rewrite if your foundation is sound. Apple DOES need to rewrite OSX as a 64 bit OS but Microsoft has already done that... twice. Just because both companies are building on existing architectures and APIs doesn't mean they aren't adding new features. I would rather they spend time adding to what's already there instead of redoing work that was good already just to say it's new.
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Maybe this time around we can get an inventory screen that actually works.
Sorts by Name.
Groups identical items.
Allows easy comparison of items.
Generally makes it possible to open your inventory and not feel like dieing.
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I love sequels. If it's a game I like I want 100 more of them. Another fallout game? Yes please. Another star trek movie? Hell yes.
Down with sequels! Down with adaptations! George Lucas should have stopped at a new hope! Peter Jackson should never have made LOTR! Hamlet should never be performed again! It was good enough in 1590 why make another production of it!? Why oh why did valve ever make Team Fortress 2!
And I was hoping my 3dsmax -> nuke data converter would be done in 30 minutes. 30 hours later...
The task is to take 50 state governments. Hundreds of departments and have them all convert their existing working practices in 3 weeks.
Good luck.
Also can we get a space elevator this month already? I was really hoping to vacation in space this summer.
Their Silverlight 2 support's in alpha now, targeting beta in May and final in September
Just in time for September Madness!
And as Gene Rodenberry once said: Anyone can write an award winning hour long episode if it runs 2 hours and costs 4x the budget of any show.
I understand both side's frustration with the rewrites. The producers needed to produce an episode that actually was profitable and affordable. Ellison wanted to create great art without any compromise.
The fact he couldn't adapthis screenplay to be both true to his original spirit and also simultaneously affordable simply reflects badly on him. Not badly as in "He's not a great writer" just badly in that he isn't the greatest screenwriter. I've seen lots of these screenplays before. Brilliant on paper but completely unfilmable. In retrospect if Paramount though could have seen how much money this single episode could have made them over the years I think doubling their budget would have been a sound investment.
No what we need are large parking lots which are open to the public to safely do whatever the hell they want.
I learned to control a car well by driving incredibly wrecklessly around empty streets covered in snow. Spending all that time doing power slides and generally having a huge blast has helped my driving over the years enormously.
The only two times I've ever been really really really afraid of crashing was on ice so slick it didn't matter if there was a driver or not, or how fast you were going. Both times occured at less than 5mph.
But since getting my license I've had a tire blow out at 80mph. I've had to dodge cars losing control around me. And being able to drive on snowy slick roads directly translates into any sort of hazardous condition. In the netherlands kids have to pass tests on wet pads. It's all about control of the vehicle.
That being said. A guy was arrested outside my office today for driving his jeep into a parked vehicle and screaming off. He was so drunk. He came back to work after driving around town at 100mph and parked right next to the car he hit. Got out just about collapsed onto the ground he was so drunk. Then went and laughed with his passenger/friend and practically waited for the cops to come and arrest him. It doesn't matter what kind of safety systems you put in a car. You can't make that guy a safe driver. And knowing he's out there in droves makes me want as many safety features around me as humanely possible.
Yeah until you get rear-ended by some other idiot who is certain his spike isn't going to impale him. Or the deer that jumps in front of your car. Or car in front of you which suddenly stops to avoid killing a child.
Here's the thing about the no seat belt/spike theory. You crash at 10mph and I promise you, you'll hit the spike. You crash at 5mph and I almost guarantee you'll bleed to death from the spike. You crash at 1mph and I'll give you a fighting chance with the spike.
I've been in enough lowspeed accidents on vehicles without seatbelts and the only thing that happens even at moderate to slow speeds is you fly off the vehicle.
Your arms aren't fast enough to bench press your mass at 3mph without preparation. A lowspeed accident without a seatbelt can easily be a lethal accident. So once you realize that you'll die at any speed. You'll throw caution to the wind and drive 100. "If I'm going to die in an accident I might as well get there faster."
No. Go one step further.
If the writers didn't need to go to paramount to get RIGHTS to write said book there would be no profits to paramount for him to go after.
The author wouldn't need to share any profits with Paramount and by extension there would be nothing to share with the original author.
In this case the original writer wouldn't be bound to any kind of compensation for his episode. He wouldn't be getting screwed by Paramount.
Furthermore broadcast rights wouldn't exist so paramount wouldn't be able to pick up re-run royalties. So all of those would ALSO no longer be payed to him.
The only time the author would get payed would be once by Paramount when he originally wrote the episode. Since Paramount wouldn't own any rights to merchandising that also means there is no reason for any of the toy companies or anyone else to pay Paramount for the rights to use Star Trek since none of them signed any contracts either.
That means Paramount can only make money from donations and 'first hand' DVD sales. (Which doesn't really mean anything because I could be competing with my free bit torrents legally. So why bother with Paramount?)
So Paramount makes no money from merchandising (They aren't a merchandise company.) They make no money from advertisers (NBC just broadcasts it for free. Everyone else downloads it for free.) And by extension the writers go unpaid.
Simply put. No intellectual property COMPLETELY FUCKS THE AUTHOR. Unless he begs and pleads for fucking charity. Yes. This is the world that most slashdotters believe in. One in which authors go back to their "Rightful place" of begging on fucking street corners for their dinner if you play them a song. But writers don't even get the dignity of being able to perform on a street corner. The moment their work is recognized as marginally worth selling a giant publisher will swoop in and sell a billion copies giving the author not a single pretty penny. The only source of income for authors in an IP free world is direct sales(They're authors not publishers! Let them do what they do... WRITE!) is to depend upon donations and charity.
Also no screenwriters will EVER SHOW ANYBODY THEIR WORK. Why would you shop around a screenplay if the first person who likes it and has 100 million dollars just goes ahead and makes it?
DOWN WITH IMAGINARY PROPERTY! DOWN WITH ARTISTS!
Yeah but PowerPC sucked.
And Apple users are a delusional bunch who seem to have no problem losing all backwards compatibility with their software every 4 years.
There's a bit of a bell curve around 3.5 GPA. Once you drop below 3.0 GPA I've found that it doesn't matter how smart you are, you're unemployable. You don't meet deadlines. You have trouble integrating with a team and you generally are a hindrance to a project even if your work is phenomenal.
Similarly many 4.0 GPA students start to approach the rote memorization paradigm.
There is one exception to this rule: Art schools. This is one case where GPA actually tends to reflect competence and employability. Lots and lots and lots of art students are there because "Art is easy right!". They failed high school and feel misunderstood so they think they must by process of elimination be artists.
This generates a boat load of graduates with 2-3.0 GPAs who never do any of the assignments. Generally don't work on their projects and don't pay attention in class. The higher GPA students tend to be the students who are dedicated to improving their abilities. They'll also be better at working to either get employed or take the initiative in getting their work shown after school. Meanwhile bottom of the bell curve sits around at home wondering why nobody has hired them yet or exhibited their brilliance.
It's even worse. Microsoft has a shell organization in Nevada. So all of Microsoft's products are developed and created in Seattle and then they 'sell' Windows through Nevada so that they don't have to pay Washington State for any of their income tax.
Meanwhile we have a bridge (520) which is unable to keep up with Microsoft commuters every morning that needs a multi billion dollar investment to reduce traffic.
All in all I would say Microsoft is a net force of good in the local economy and they probably give more than they take, but it would certainly be a little less repulsive if Microsoft actually had to pay a little of their way like the rest of us. Once again: if you're rich you get a free pass while the small businesses have to pick up the slack.
On the other hand. If the money is being passed out evenly across the country. And this community thinks this is what is best for their community then by all means go for it. Microsoft Employees probably do pay their fair share in taxes since most make above the median income and probably are in a higher tax bracket. If your entire town is based around a Microsoft Economy, it would be silly to repair the bridge to home depot.
I've found most local guys are more dastardly than the big ones. Have you ever had rural broadband before? I've gone through 4 small fish ISPs so far in my various apartments and houses over the years. The best? Comcast without comparison.
I agree with this assessment. I'm in a similarly competitive field. And you know what? It's not worth it when you think about it.
I think guys (at least in our culture) are uniquely obsessed with success even if it's not enjoyable.
There are always exceptions to rules but by and large I've found Men to be more massochistic when it comes to competitive goals such as numbers of papers published, films produced, books written, world records held etc etc.
The question is. Do women have a problem with the status quo? Or are they living happier more fulfilled lives by not working 80 weeks for 10 years straight with little promise of success?
But Linux and Gnome wouldn't be as good as they are today if they didn't outright copy/paste a majority of WIndows' look and feel. You've got yourself a chicken/egg scenario. Without Microsoft to copy where would Gnome be today?
I personally know some of the guys involved (splutterfish). If they say that's the real card. That's the real card.
The people behind this thing are relatively well known and respected names in the cg industry. They wouldn't be making these claims if it was a scam.
Because nobody joins a server with 3 people in it.
It's really a tough social engineering situation.
If the server is empty nobody joins. If nobody joins then nobody else joins. If you've never played on the server before you don't know if ayone will be coming in soon so you think the server is abandoned.
As a result lots of new servers advertise that the server is active and a full of people. The idea is that enough people do join to 'seed' the server and hit critical mass to become self sustaining. The problem is most people join... see nobody is playing and immediately disconnect.
Actually this isn't a problem.
IF only you crash once. Then the 25 other people playing in 45 seconds completely undo any damage you might have done.
If lots of people crash all the time. (We found a server yesterday which crashed everybody's copy of TF2 every time you tried joining a team.) then you deserve to be low ranked.
If I get a sudden urge to watch a particular film It's usually on VOD or XBox Live Marketplace.
Even sudden urges are going the way of the dodo.
To most people the word "caustic" means only "capable of burning, corroding, or dissolving".
And most people aren't their target audience.
They're selling to people who do know what caustics are. And in their minds caustics means "Too slow to use in an animation."
20x 16fps = 320fps, not 35.
20x performance + 16fps - 1 frame == 35 fps?
Maybe?
You're asking a couple of incorrect questions.
This isn't a renderer. This is a render accellerator.
The idea is that Brazil, Mental Ray, Vray and FR can use this to accellerate the existing renderers without any sacrifice of quality or features.
Think of it like SSE3. It's a new instruction set you can use to accellerate your software. It's not a hardware renderer. It's a hardware ray tracer. The distinction is subtle but in important in this case.
It should also be noted that Splutterfish (the makers of Brazil. One of the top 4 raytracers on the planet and argueably the fastest.) has been aquired by Caustic. http://splutterfish.com/
Uhhh... I've got 8 cores chugging along quite happily here.
Some of us actually use software that uses multiple cores quite nicely thank you.
We will never catch up. Why? Well one reasons is that we include special ed in our numbers.
Up to highchool graduation we've decided that everybody from the super genius to the kid who just drools all day are students of our public education system. Test time rolls around and Mr Vegetable is handed a pen and expected to represent good ol' America.
Meanwhile around the world if you don't appear to be higher education material you get shunted off into an alternative program that's not officially 'school'.
The US doesn't cream their results.
You're missing one person on the long list. You. There is no prohibition on you choosing what data you want encrypted. It's not limited to movie companies.
It is possible to create content of your own you know. It's not you vs the world. You're a part of the world.
Here is just one example. (Beside the obvious case where you encrypt a movie file.)
This technology can be used for privacy adovcates as well. Want to make sure that no unauthorized applications are secretly recording your activities? This denies access to the frame buffer from remote viewing.
What's with people so excited about rewrites?
Maybe something was written well the first time and just needs refinement and patching.
Everyone is always "Ohhh if they didn't rewrite XYZ from scratch it's not an upgrade.
That's true of game engines but when you're developing a massive architecture that suppports thousands of APIs I would say the less often you rewrite the better.
Most new features don't need a rewrite if your foundation is sound. Apple DOES need to rewrite OSX as a 64 bit OS but Microsoft has already done that... twice. Just because both companies are building on existing architectures and APIs doesn't mean they aren't adding new features. I would rather they spend time adding to what's already there instead of redoing work that was good already just to say it's new.
Hmm. The use of quarks are like saying what is the use of an child.
Coincidentally in this case the answer is the same: Nothing.