Besides they make viruses?
What do they care about infringing on a trademark?!
Z3r0C001: Hey what do you think about the name "I Be Malicious" for the name of our new virus?
|<rash0v3rr|d3: Hmm, the initials of that spell I.B.M., we could be in for a lengthy legal battle.
Z3r0C001: You're right, legalities aside, it would at least be unethical to use a name that shortens to another companies name, especially seeing as both of our products are in the computing realm.
|<rash0v3rr|d3: Indeed, lets forget the virus and forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry icecream.
Mose buttons for forward and backward and keybaord for firing?
Thats crazy, and I've played a fair bit of counterstrike. Still, some things work for some and not for others... I still can't believe that non-inverted mouselook has become the default these days.... stupid heathens pushing the mouse up to look up and down to look down... I actually feel a bit sorry for them...
If you've never seen sms abbr'd text or morse code which would be easier to read?
Hello McFly?! One is a CODE...
You may aswell ask if it's easier to understand someone talking the same language as you in a very thick foriegn accent, or an alien talking a language composed entirely of sounds like those made when you run your finger around the top of various sized/shaped wine glasses.
I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was a rhetorical question, but I really wanted to use that Hello McFly!? line.
More ACCURATE.
Actually, millions is less precise than thousands.
Accuracy is a measure of how close to the real value the stated value is.
Precision is a measure of the range the stated value covers and has nothing to do with how close it is to the actual, real value.
Blame their smoking friends whose second hand smoke they breathe?
Seriously though, do many people actually get lung cancer without any exposure to cigarette smoke? (Or worse things in some specific professions) Maybe a very small number of people would, but people exposed to smoke are like multiple orders of magnitude more likely to get lung or throat cancer right?
Thats a shame. I guess they need to hurry up if they want many cameos.
Also, in regard to defeating with cunning rather than brawn:
As far as I remember the tough guys generally get killed by themselves, while beating the crap out of Indiana.
In Raiders he gets chopped by a airplane propeller, in Temple he gets squished by a stone crushing machine.
I can't remember offhand the big guy in Crusade or how he died...
Maybe it's:
Indiana Jones and the Ghost of Marcus Brody
And at the end they pull off the mask, and it's just nazi's playing a trick.
Also, out of interest in regards to:
- A big nasty strong guy whom Indy defeats with cunning rather than brawn.
The big tough guys in the 3 films are all played by the same actor. Pat Roach I think. They should try to get him back aswell.
And NO new versions of the original trilogy!!
Harrison Ford can do it.
I hope they don't do a 'passing the legacy' thing down to another actor/character.
Also, they should have to watch that southpark episode about the raiders of the lost ark remake once every night during production.
A skilled jedi could block an arbitary number of simultaneous shots. He can hit them at different times, at different distances from his body.
Suppose 4 shots from all around him, front, back, left and right. All he needs to do here is point his lightsabre outward and spin. Hitting the first bolt with the tip of the blade, the second and third bolts (sequentially) with the middle of the blade, and the last bolt with a point on his blade that is near to the handle.
Ok trolly.
AAC's can be LOSSLESS. Downloading a lossless AAC that was sourced from a CD and then burning to a CD and then ripping and then encoding back to AAC should give you (except for some id tags etc) THE EXACT SAME AUDIO DATA AS YOU ORIGINALLY DOWNLOADED.
CDs are a digital format with error correction and HAVE NO GENERATION LOSS!
You can rip and burn and rip and burn 100 generations and still end up with no generation loss because CDs are digital.
You don't expect to get generation loss on your porn collection that you've copied all over the place over cd 10 times do you?
You are pretty much describing evolution.
It's not a case of a particular bug deciding it needs spines.
When a bug is born it might *randomly* have a genetic mutation making it ugly. It doesn't get eaten, so it can produce offspring that are likely to have inherited the ugly gene and so they also look ugly. Meanwhile the pretty, tasty bugs are being eaten left and right so the ugly bugs take over and their new DNA becomes the norm. The bugs have evolved, adapted.
Also, there would have been odd genetic mutations like bugs that have a weird bend in their antennae or something and those bugs didn't fare particularly well so that genetic mutation doesn't get 'kept'.
The problem with simulating the rays of light is how on earth do you know which rays will ever make it to the camera? You'd have to calculate each ray and then throw out all the calculations that never make it to the camera, and how long are you going to trace them to find out if they ever do?. I have no real idea but I imagine for a fps only a small % of the total light would be useful
You can't reliably guess because the light could scatter, reflect, refract back to the camera after many interactions.
With tracing from the camera you are only rendering exactly what you need.
Although, I'm not a mathematician, could be wrong.
You get a much broader range of contrast when it's filmed on B&W film than a color image which has been desaturated.
A colour image is desaturated compared to a B&W image? Hello McFly?
Please look up saturation in regard to colour.
Hint: Try raising the saturation of a colour image in photoshop or gimp (ctrl-u in photoshop). Observe. Then try using the "Desaturate" function and see what you get.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps by living in part of the world where they get "sanitized" versions of Anime from Japan?
you mean n! combinations. But still that is completely ridiculous if it's really how they do the sort.
Do you have any idea what a MMORPG is?
Reminds me of all the Blizz fans who went mental on forums when they heard that "the next warcraft game" would have a monthly subscription fee.
I mean "company's"!
No! Please! Have mercy apostrophy police!
Im too young to die. Oops!
*BLAM*
Besides they make viruses?
What do they care about infringing on a trademark?!
Z3r0C001: Hey what do you think about the name "I Be Malicious" for the name of our new virus?
|<rash0v3rr|d3: Hmm, the initials of that spell I.B.M., we could be in for a lengthy legal battle.
Z3r0C001: You're right, legalities aside, it would at least be unethical to use a name that shortens to another companies name, especially seeing as both of our products are in the computing realm.
|<rash0v3rr|d3: Indeed, lets forget the virus and forget our troubles with a big bowl of strawberry icecream.
Z3r0C001: w00t
Mose buttons for forward and backward and keybaord for firing?
Thats crazy, and I've played a fair bit of counterstrike. Still, some things work for some and not for others... I still can't believe that non-inverted mouselook has become the default these days.... stupid heathens pushing the mouse up to look up and down to look down... I actually feel a bit sorry for them...
What kind of question is this?
If you've never seen sms abbr'd text or morse code which would be easier to read?
Hello McFly?! One is a CODE...
You may aswell ask if it's easier to understand someone talking the same language as you in a very thick foriegn accent, or an alien talking a language composed entirely of sounds like those made when you run your finger around the top of various sized/shaped wine glasses.
I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was a rhetorical question, but I really wanted to use that Hello McFly!? line.
More ACCURATE.
Actually, millions is less precise than thousands.
Accuracy is a measure of how close to the real value the stated value is.
Precision is a measure of the range the stated value covers and has nothing to do with how close it is to the actual, real value.
Blame their smoking friends whose second hand smoke they breathe? Seriously though, do many people actually get lung cancer without any exposure to cigarette smoke? (Or worse things in some specific professions) Maybe a very small number of people would, but people exposed to smoke are like multiple orders of magnitude more likely to get lung or throat cancer right?
Another bad one:
:P
"Good Riddin's"
vs
"Good Riddance"
Seems very amateurish the more I read.
Pretty sure it's pretty fake. But it's something to do at work
Thats a shame. I guess they need to hurry up if they want many cameos.
Also, in regard to defeating with cunning rather than brawn:
As far as I remember the tough guys generally get killed by themselves, while beating the crap out of Indiana.
In Raiders he gets chopped by a airplane propeller, in Temple he gets squished by a stone crushing machine.
I can't remember offhand the big guy in Crusade or how he died...
Started reading it, seems cool. I just thought I'd mention a typo/spelling mistake I saw though:
"the sight" refering to "the site" seems unlikely the person who wrote 1,2 and 3 would spell site wrong...
I guess it could be an early draft without much of any editing/checking though.
Well he does shoot a guy who is brandishing a couple simitars 10 metres away. That's a pretty non cuddly thing to do don't you reckon?
/shudder
I'm sure they could justify it to themselves to make that guy throw a sword or 2 before Indy shoots.
Maybe it's:
Indiana Jones and the Ghost of Marcus Brody
And at the end they pull off the mask, and it's just nazi's playing a trick.
Also, out of interest in regards to:
- A big nasty strong guy whom Indy defeats with cunning rather than brawn.
The big tough guys in the 3 films are all played by the same actor. Pat Roach I think. They should try to get him back aswell.
And NO new versions of the original trilogy!! Harrison Ford can do it. I hope they don't do a 'passing the legacy' thing down to another actor/character. Also, they should have to watch that southpark episode about the raiders of the lost ark remake once every night during production.
no text at all
This reminds me of our old mac plus. We had an external HDD. It was called a "Quark" I think and it was about as big as a decent sized VCR.
It's was 10 megabytes if I remember correctly. And you could boot off of it! (If you used the Quark Loader boot disk).
Then we got a 386 with a 40meg hard drive INSIDE IT (wow).
A skilled jedi could block an arbitary number of simultaneous shots. He can hit them at different times, at different distances from his body.
Suppose 4 shots from all around him, front, back, left and right. All he needs to do here is point his lightsabre outward and spin. Hitting the first bolt with the tip of the blade, the second and third bolts (sequentially) with the middle of the blade, and the last bolt with a point on his blade that is near to the handle.
All too easy...
Ok trolly. AAC's can be LOSSLESS. Downloading a lossless AAC that was sourced from a CD and then burning to a CD and then ripping and then encoding back to AAC should give you (except for some id tags etc) THE EXACT SAME AUDIO DATA AS YOU ORIGINALLY DOWNLOADED. CDs are a digital format with error correction and HAVE NO GENERATION LOSS! You can rip and burn and rip and burn 100 generations and still end up with no generation loss because CDs are digital. You don't expect to get generation loss on your porn collection that you've copied all over the place over cd 10 times do you?
double-j? WTH? There are 3 J's!
You are pretty much describing evolution. It's not a case of a particular bug deciding it needs spines.
When a bug is born it might *randomly* have a genetic mutation making it ugly. It doesn't get eaten, so it can produce offspring that are likely to have inherited the ugly gene and so they also look ugly. Meanwhile the pretty, tasty bugs are being eaten left and right so the ugly bugs take over and their new DNA becomes the norm. The bugs have evolved, adapted.
Also, there would have been odd genetic mutations like bugs that have a weird bend in their antennae or something and those bugs didn't fare particularly well so that genetic mutation doesn't get 'kept'.
Do you even know what rhetorical means? Do I know what rhetorical means?!
I think he was refering to lawsuits that might arise if the tech is used (as suggested) in future video games sold to the public.
The problem with simulating the rays of light is how on earth do you know which rays will ever make it to the camera? You'd have to calculate each ray and then throw out all the calculations that never make it to the camera, and how long are you going to trace them to find out if they ever do?. I have no real idea but I imagine for a fps only a small % of the total light would be useful
You can't reliably guess because the light could scatter, reflect, refract back to the camera after many interactions.
With tracing from the camera you are only rendering exactly what you need.
Although, I'm not a mathematician, could be wrong.
A colour image is desaturated compared to a B&W image? Hello McFly?
Please look up saturation in regard to colour.
Hint: Try raising the saturation of a colour image in photoshop or gimp (ctrl-u in photoshop). Observe. Then try using the "Desaturate" function and see what you get.