"or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?"
Well, you've got a single person piloting your children around in a school bus every day without a co-navigator/extra pair of eyes to keep a watch on the possibly present hazards. If you can trust another adult in a huge moving metal cage with the lives of a bunch of children, including your own, then you can probably suck it up and live without a co-pilot.
Trucks get their own road (18 wheelers, etc.,) Slow lane traffic needs to stay to the INSIDE of the roads, faster moving traffic should be on the outside lanes with the merging ramps.
I'd go through the whole thing but then some stupid civil engineer will come by and I'll have to make a fool out of them with deeper in-depth explanations that I just don't have the time to make right now.
"Anyone skilled enough to pass a harder test on a yearly basis should be allowed to travel in the left lanes at a more rapid pace and everyone else should be restricted to the far right."
Yes, let's put all the slow people to the right side WHERE TRAFFIC USUALLY MERGES FROM, and thus cause even more on-ramp off-ramp congestion than we already have because nobody understands that an on-ramp is an ACCELERATION LANE.
"It doesn't help that blue is the color by which your eyes register how bright it is."
Incorrect. The lumen is weighted at 555nm - green light, which is our most sensitive response area. The photopic curve peaks in green and drops drastically towards either end of the spectrum.
1w blue diode vs 1w green diode - green is much brighter by far.
"counting how many times Cameron ripped off his VASTLY superior prior movie, Aliens."
Sigourney Weaver Sigourney Weaver in a skimpy tank top Alien Sigourney Weaver Alien Sigourney Weaver in a skimpy tank top On a planet they have no fucking business being on Looking for OMFGT3HULTIMATE *SOMETHING*
I stopped watching. I grabbed Aliens and did a thorough 5x5 pipeline cleansing of my brain.
"We're in the "blue LED phase" of 3D right now, where everyone is using it just because it's new."
I'd get into why I use blue LEDs but then I'd have about 200 comments just to get everything across.
You must be new. LEDs have plenty of uses, especially the blue ones, which are quite often the base for white diodes. The higher energy potential of blue light makes it easier to pump out more photons of green or red, and you can tune that pretty easily to achieve any color temp of white you desire.
Arguably, 3D is very useful, it's just that not one single person has been able to implement it in a convenient and reliable (and usable) format. nVidia is actually on its SECOND 3D run (I had a wired active-shutter glasses port on my old TNT2) and at least this time it's wireless. Not sure about sync given DAC/ADC/wireless lag.
"but I had to go through quite a bit to get it to play the way a FPS with a mouse and keyboard should."
I never had to do that once. Install, run, and controls were just as simple as could be. My only annoyance is reloading at the same time I'm picking up stuff.
'*No way to turn off voice chat without editing configuration files"
Flip the broadcast switch to on and then off in the settings. This is a bug inherent in the U3 engine.
"*Broken networking. Sometimes we could connect, sometimes we couldn't, sometimes Hamachi worked, sometimes nothing worked even with the machine in the DMZ, or all of the machines on the LAN."
Blame Gamespy for shitting all over the U3 networking stuff.
"Perhaps they (or someone licensed/contracted to do so) could create viable mobile versions"
Last I had heard DNF had moved to a hefty Engine like Unreal 2.5 before GearBox picked it up. I don't think a mobile platform is going to stand much of a chance running this without some severe cutbacks.
And Gearbox used U3 for Borderlands, so odds are this will be PC and heavy consoles only.
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"or is it actually viable to have just a single pilot on passenger planes?"
Well, you've got a single person piloting your children around in a school bus every day without a co-navigator/extra pair of eyes to keep a watch on the possibly present hazards. If you can trust another adult in a huge moving metal cage with the lives of a bunch of children, including your own, then you can probably suck it up and live without a co-pilot.
No, my argument is not that weak. Slashdot won't allow a post that long.
Don't post? Sayeth the anonymous coward that can't be bothered to even reveal himself.
If your fortitude is that weak, you shouldn't even be on the internet.
Trucks get their own road (18 wheelers, etc.,) Slow lane traffic needs to stay to the INSIDE of the roads, faster moving traffic should be on the outside lanes with the merging ramps.
I'd go through the whole thing but then some stupid civil engineer will come by and I'll have to make a fool out of them with deeper in-depth explanations that I just don't have the time to make right now.
"Anyone skilled enough to pass a harder test on a yearly basis should be allowed to travel in the left lanes at a more rapid pace and everyone else should be restricted to the far right."
Yes, let's put all the slow people to the right side WHERE TRAFFIC USUALLY MERGES FROM, and thus cause even more on-ramp off-ramp congestion than we already have because nobody understands that an on-ramp is an ACCELERATION LANE.
bad idea, man.
"It doesn't help that blue is the color by which your eyes register how bright it is."
Incorrect. The lumen is weighted at 555nm - green light, which is our most sensitive response area. The photopic curve peaks in green and drops drastically towards either end of the spectrum.
1w blue diode vs 1w green diode - green is much brighter by far.
And OtherOS.
"counting how many times Cameron ripped off his VASTLY superior prior movie, Aliens."
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver in a skimpy tank top
Alien Sigourney Weaver
Alien Sigourney Weaver in a skimpy tank top
On a planet they have no fucking business being on
Looking for OMFGT3HULTIMATE *SOMETHING*
I stopped watching. I grabbed Aliens and did a thorough 5x5 pipeline cleansing of my brain.
"The problem with PhysX is it ties you to Nvidia cards."
Only because nVidia gimped CPU support.
"We're in the "blue LED phase" of 3D right now, where everyone is using it just because it's new."
I'd get into why I use blue LEDs but then I'd have about 200 comments just to get everything across.
You must be new. LEDs have plenty of uses, especially the blue ones, which are quite often the base for white diodes. The higher energy potential of blue light makes it easier to pump out more photons of green or red, and you can tune that pretty easily to achieve any color temp of white you desire.
Not to mention the horticultural applications - http://imgur.com/gBN02.jpg
Arguably, 3D is very useful, it's just that not one single person has been able to implement it in a convenient and reliable (and usable) format. nVidia is actually on its SECOND 3D run (I had a wired active-shutter glasses port on my old TNT2) and at least this time it's wireless. Not sure about sync given DAC/ADC/wireless lag.
Like a TI-99/4A. That was my first machine that I can remember. Sturdy and near bulletproof.
Real Gamers output the LDS system to PC speaker without needing a sound card.
"but I had to go through quite a bit to get it to play the way a FPS with a mouse and keyboard should."
I never had to do that once. Install, run, and controls were just as simple as could be. My only annoyance is reloading at the same time I'm picking up stuff.
'*No way to turn off voice chat without editing configuration files"
Flip the broadcast switch to on and then off in the settings. This is a bug inherent in the U3 engine.
"*Broken networking. Sometimes we could connect, sometimes we couldn't, sometimes Hamachi worked, sometimes nothing worked even with the machine in the DMZ, or all of the machines on the LAN."
Blame Gamespy for shitting all over the U3 networking stuff.
"obvious that the old adage about 3D involving 'cheating without getting caught' was in full effect"
Yep. Like I said, not powerful enough to work without some cutbacks.
Sometimes it pays to read the article in its entirety.
Go back to /g/, nobody cares about tripfags here.
No, the cooling solutions are robust, the urethane thermal heat pads making the connection between die and heat sink are what suck.
"I'll play a stripper with a shrink ray."
Shake it, baby!
*stripper blasts guy's penis*
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
The original was spelled Duke Nukum.
Shit I still play that in DOSBox.
Duke Nukem 3D had free look. You pressed the U key to turn on mouselook.
The actual need to reload after emptying a 12 round magazine.
The issue lies with the game needing fucking Gamespy.
Set your router to Gamespy's bullshit and your problem should be resolved.
"I remember all of the dumb little hacks I had to do to get Borderlands working as a proper PC games."
And which hacks were those? I haven't had ONE single issue running Borderlands on my HP laptop, not since release date.
Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?
You can't freeze Balls of Steel.
"Perhaps they (or someone licensed/contracted to do so) could create viable mobile versions"
Last I had heard DNF had moved to a hefty Engine like Unreal 2.5 before GearBox picked it up. I don't think a mobile platform is going to stand much of a chance running this without some severe cutbacks.
And Gearbox used U3 for Borderlands, so odds are this will be PC and heavy consoles only.
JTAGICE is an emulator that can interface with other chips, but by itself you only need a computer and USB cord with that software.