Yep, even a 100W standard bulb in a small room is much too dark compared to outdoors. I'd love to have more powerful lighting tech available, but not at reduced output -- at the same output or better.
Where this will really make a difference though, is in mountain bikes --- it currently costs around £350 for a reasonably high-end lightsource for bikes, and even then, the high-end well-reviewed stuff just sucks for any serious riding in the dark. Riding in the dark isn't just necessary in winter -- it's also an interesting potential sport. But until the lights are more powerful, cheaper, lighter, and last longer, it's not happening as much as it could.
Fascinating. Just 2,000 years ago, rain was a torture method. And just 1,000 years later, it seems to have developed into some the much-mentioned but never seen "rest and relaxation". So much of our past is yet to be discovered.
Well, we can compare with CDROMs that were rated to last for 50 years and to have excellent new-fangled error correction properties. Experience shows that an average pristine CDROM, when taken out of its lovely packaging, is, within say, around 5 minutes, royally fucked by virtue of a single hairline scrape.
So, concluding the obvious --- that a long 50-year rating is actually hazardous to the lifetime of a medium --- we can clearly see that a 1,000-year medium will, in fact, be a powerful tool. With it, we can erase from history events that have already happened.
Oh come on, ain't first rule of game design to throw away "realistic" rubbish and make game comfortable to play?
Generally speaking, you're quite right, so long as you bear in mind that sometimes the physical stuff -- timing your jump and hitting the button at just the right time for instance --- is where the challenge comes from.
BUT, in a horror game, it may be quite different. Horror is usually about making people uncomfortable -- ESPECIALLY about things like how fast they should open a door, whether they should rethink the action halfway through, whether they've already made a noise and should therefore get out of the room they're currently in ASAP, etc.
the player to survive in a mine in Greenland which has been taken over by a monstrous infection/demon/cthulhu-esque thing...and the player can grab and throw pretty much anything in the environment.
Being an old, rusty and totally worthless looking vehicle it never got stolen, and he never left anything in it worth stealing either. It wasn't a problem until the cops came along and locked him out of it.
Somebody will troll and it'll get marked insightful or something stupid. And that last sentence guaranteed I won't get nothing but a -1 troll either, but oh well.
Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you were already modded down way before that sentence.
And if they want to exclude those people from reading their web pages, why should they not be able to?
I'm not sure if you're advocating this or just advocating letting uncaring people reap their own whirlwinds. But my answer would be the same either way: if that is allowed, then people will suffer. Yes, eventually the market will work against them, but in the mean time, disabled and other minority groups would be at a disadvantage.
She'll then hire the FagBusters from Kansas, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, arm them with unlicensed nuclear accelerators, to come up with a solution.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If the solution works, then it validates her argument. And as far as I'm concerned unlicensed nuclear accelerators are the solution to *everything*, simply by virtue of their coolness.
Wasn't this already possible years ago? I seem to remember seeing LOTS about it back in 2001 or so, including way too complex issues like how to encode the data, and how many glyphs could be included due to licensing restrictions. It was my understanding that people simply ignored it because it was a crap (and overcomplicated) idea.
Yes, we do need more fonts, but we need semantic ones. This is the entirely wrong way to go about it.
As anyone who's looked at their (good) browser's settings knows, the web supports standard "semantic" or functional font specifications, like sans, sans-serif, and cursive. You can assign these to things like Arial, Times, and Isabella or whatever cursive font you want.
The web page in the example really has no place specifying the exact font which should be used, as people with visual impairments, people with low-res portable devices, or people whose native language isn't based on a latin script, might have extreme difficulty reading it. However, if you specify that the title is to be in a cursive font, then browsers could simply ship with nice cursive font settings by default. This would allow pages to look good in the device in question, but also be fully configurable --- including for those art-nuts who care to pay to have the very best of fonts and displays.
However, the idea has not been taken far enough. Besides sans, sans-serif, and cursive, we could use lots of extra "semantic" font names like fantasy, futuristic, etc.
Yeah, it swims around looking for enemy nuclear subs, then latches on and cuts through the hull with lasers, sucking the precious life-energies from the nukular power sources within. Mainly the humans.
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That's why we need reflective display technology, like most of the electronic paper solutions.
That's probably a fair point. Much fairer than the RIAA etc. trying to get a cut of a "business model" they did everything in their power to destroy.
Yep, even a 100W standard bulb in a small room is much too dark compared to outdoors. I'd love to have more powerful lighting tech available, but not at reduced output -- at the same output or better.
Where this will really make a difference though, is in mountain bikes --- it currently costs around £350 for a reasonably high-end lightsource for bikes, and even then, the high-end well-reviewed stuff just sucks for any serious riding in the dark. Riding in the dark isn't just necessary in winter -- it's also an interesting potential sport. But until the lights are more powerful, cheaper, lighter, and last longer, it's not happening as much as it could.
What do you expect, after hammering it into the ground like that?
Rain?
For rests?
Fascinating. Just 2,000 years ago, rain was a torture method. And just 1,000 years later, it seems to have developed into some the much-mentioned but never seen "rest and relaxation". So much of our past is yet to be discovered.
They also offer a cryostasis program.
Just kidding around ;)
Well, we can compare with CDROMs that were rated to last for 50 years and to have excellent new-fangled error correction properties. Experience shows that an average pristine CDROM, when taken out of its lovely packaging, is, within say, around 5 minutes, royally fucked by virtue of a single hairline scrape.
So, concluding the obvious --- that a long 50-year rating is actually hazardous to the lifetime of a medium --- we can clearly see that a 1,000-year medium will, in fact, be a powerful tool. With it, we can erase from history events that have already happened.
Yeah, I'm female. Sorry about my aim. How's that bruise now?
Generally speaking, you're quite right, so long as you bear in mind that sometimes the physical stuff -- timing your jump and hitting the button at just the right time for instance --- is where the challenge comes from.
BUT, in a horror game, it may be quite different. Horror is usually about making people uncomfortable -- ESPECIALLY about things like how fast they should open a door, whether they should rethink the action halfway through, whether they've already made a noise and should therefore get out of the room they're currently in ASAP, etc.
It helps if you stop punching the monitor.
Great, now where was that handbag?
So... he says "New Release: 5.7!!", and everyone looks around to see who knows what he's talking about?
OK, great. Now where can I find a donkey?
I'll give a million dollars to anyone who can prove he's splitting hairs ;)
p.s.: Photographic evidence would be good.
I never said that he did. I said the idea was to establish the truth. I don't for one second think that our legal system actually works.
And they cannot be honestly arrived at without knowing the truth.
Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you were already modded down way before that sentence.
It's obviously some dark, nefarious plot to undermine our entire society using robotic tunnelling equipment.
I'm not sure if you're advocating this or just advocating letting uncaring people reap their own whirlwinds. But my answer would be the same either way: if that is allowed, then people will suffer. Yes, eventually the market will work against them, but in the mean time, disabled and other minority groups would be at a disadvantage.
Most of your point is good, but I suspect that, no matter what language you're using, ONE of these will give you a syntax error ;)
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If the solution works, then it validates her argument. And as far as I'm concerned unlicensed nuclear accelerators are the solution to *everything*, simply by virtue of their coolness.
Wasn't this already possible years ago? I seem to remember seeing LOTS about it back in 2001 or so, including way too complex issues like how to encode the data, and how many glyphs could be included due to licensing restrictions. It was my understanding that people simply ignored it because it was a crap (and overcomplicated) idea.
Yes, we do need more fonts, but we need semantic ones. This is the entirely wrong way to go about it.
As anyone who's looked at their (good) browser's settings knows, the web supports standard "semantic" or functional font specifications, like sans, sans-serif, and cursive. You can assign these to things like Arial, Times, and Isabella or whatever cursive font you want.
The web page in the example really has no place specifying the exact font which should be used, as people with visual impairments, people with low-res portable devices, or people whose native language isn't based on a latin script, might have extreme difficulty reading it. However, if you specify that the title is to be in a cursive font, then browsers could simply ship with nice cursive font settings by default. This would allow pages to look good in the device in question, but also be fully configurable --- including for those art-nuts who care to pay to have the very best of fonts and displays.
However, the idea has not been taken far enough. Besides sans, sans-serif, and cursive, we could use lots of extra "semantic" font names like fantasy, futuristic, etc.
Yeah, it swims around looking for enemy nuclear subs, then latches on and cuts through the hull with lasers, sucking the precious life-energies from the nukular power sources within. Mainly the humans.