I always took Independent to mean a game company was not funded by their publisher and hence not subject to that publisher's dictations. I guess that definition is a bit odd, since that would mean Valve itself is an independent developer, but one doesn't really picture them as such. Just because they use Steam to help sell their product doesn't mean they aren't independent; it's about creative control over their products.
I know it sounds like a typo, but yes it is called Subversion. It is a bit mysterious at the moment, but from the procedural content generation demostration video they've shown, it certainly looks neat.
We engineers aren't the most proactive types, we tend to sit next to the flag, banging away on our defenses and designing new weapons in our heads. Oh, and watching out for those dog-gone spies.
Why would this be better than a couple of those big store maps with a you-are-here marker and a store legend? Unless it actually directs you to follow it to your destination like a stormtrooper following a mouse droid down the halls of the Death Star. Then it'd be awesome!
Although I have a hard time arguing in the realm of 3D lighting, I will direct attention to the Beyond3D article, Real-Time Ray Tracing: Holy Grail or Fool's Errand?. Far be it of me to claim that this article applies to all situations of 3D lighting, it may be that Ray Tracing is the best choice for games, but I for one am glad to see an article that atleast looks into the possibility that Ray Tracing is not the best solution; I hate to just assume such things. Indeed, the article concludes that Ray Tracing has its own limitations and that a hybrid with rasterisation techniques would be superior to one or the other.
Yes, but I have heard that a new special version for the skype services will be coming out. This PSP will sport an new shape, roughly that of a half-circle.
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Yo quiero Taco-PSP. *runs*
As if to justify all those people who claim these lists come too early to include all the big events of 2007, 3D Realms had to go and release a Duke Nukem Forever Teaser. I certainly think this qualifies to be on a revised version of the list.
I would think that even the lightest engine powerful enough to generate enough lift for flight would be far too heavy for this. However, perhaps we could see stationary "Jump pads" that generate powerful upward drafts for people with the suit to jump over, spread their suits to maximum surface area and take off high enough to "fly" some distance from the jump point.
What is "what lies outside of the visible universe, lies the unseen," Alex. Or maybe the vast interstellar distances is enough for the missing matter to be spread so thinly across it as to be practically undetectable. Quick! Somebody with math skills, how big is the known universe, how many atoms of missing matter would 40% be, and then from that how many atoms per cubic something-or-other is that?
Obviously if enough individuals survived with cells reproducing its DNA containing the retrovirus for it to become a species-wide "fossil" it was either not very harmful or possibly even beneficial to our ancestors. You might be able to make the case that perhaps we have since lost the ability to combat these retroviruses, but then we must consider the possibility that in some individuals these portions of dormant virus data have been reactivate naturally. If this has occurred and we are indeed now ill equipt to fight it, then it would have been observed as some disease and possibly classified as a genetic disorder. Who knows, by reactivating these, we have discover the cause, and subsequently the cure (as obviously we naturally beat it once) to some terrible genetic malady!
Where's the PC graphs? We may not be the majority of the games out there, but we should not be marginalized! I would suspect a extremly different spread on the PC. Probably a lot more M and EC (early childhood.)
Oops, that was supposed to be a comment about the development costs, not deployment or production of the whole setup. What I was saying is that there was very little actually developed here for this.
Well, for one, its not a new bomb. Its a system that allows us to use a bomb under different conditions. Considering its using an existing bomb, an existing flight platform, and really just an improved version of existing technology; I'd wager it was in the low millions range, and I'm probably grossly over-estimating it. As far as I'm concerned, looking at other things congress would waste the money on, I'd rather have something cool to read about like this than some mule museum in a place I'll never care about. Let the states deal with the US people and the Federal worry about the US. Sadly, the states seem to be floundering in that reguard and we end up looking to the Feds.
Totally off-topic, but you just gave me an odd idea. I wonder if perhaps bunker-buster bombs could be fired into a patch of land at such an angle and to such a depth that the blast propelled the soil up and as low to the ground as possible (to prevent it from blowing aside and forming a hole,) essentially tilling a patch of land all at once for us! Back on topic, now what I just said done in Africa at supersonic speeds!
[arm chair general] It'll be just like the Aurora Supersonic Bomber from Command and Conquer:Generals, except you can drop two and your desperate, last minute airstrikes on Iran's superweapon won't have to be suicide missions! How long until we have the Air Fuel bomb version from the Zero Hour's turtler General? That'll show those Al Quaeda tunnel/stinger-missile sites: lets see you rebuild your hole now! [/arm chair general]
The mechanics definition of a shock is a sudden acceleration/deceleration. It's the sudden stop that kills you in the end of a fall; it's the pressure in the nuclear explosion that bowls over everything. As for termination, I suppose substituting 'Solar wind' would make it a bit clearer. But, termination tends to indicate an end to things, and placed with 'shock' sounds to indicate a boundary of sudden deceleration, where as 'solar wind shock' sounds more ambiguous, in an ironic sort of way.
Thats actually how I ended up finding it. Didn't get it from Slashdot's search on any of the phrases: "HP", "patch", "drugs", "microneedles", "printers", etc.
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I always took Independent to mean a game company was not funded by their publisher and hence not subject to that publisher's dictations. I guess that definition is a bit odd, since that would mean Valve itself is an independent developer, but one doesn't really picture them as such. Just because they use Steam to help sell their product doesn't mean they aren't independent; it's about creative control over their products.
I know it sounds like a typo, but yes it is called Subversion. It is a bit mysterious at the moment, but from the procedural content generation demostration video they've shown, it certainly looks neat.
We engineers aren't the most proactive types, we tend to sit next to the flag, banging away on our defenses and designing new weapons in our heads. Oh, and watching out for those dog-gone spies.
That might be a while; they're too busy trying to perfect the Iron Curtain from C&C: Red Alert.
If you seriously want to pay the price, you might consider the Draganflyer V Ti PRO RC Gyro Stabilized Electric Helicopter With High Res Color Video Camera System
Why would this be better than a couple of those big store maps with a you-are-here marker and a store legend? Unless it actually directs you to follow it to your destination like a stormtrooper following a mouse droid down the halls of the Death Star. Then it'd be awesome!
Although I have a hard time arguing in the realm of 3D lighting, I will direct attention to the Beyond3D article, Real-Time Ray Tracing: Holy Grail or Fool's Errand?. Far be it of me to claim that this article applies to all situations of 3D lighting, it may be that Ray Tracing is the best choice for games, but I for one am glad to see an article that atleast looks into the possibility that Ray Tracing is not the best solution; I hate to just assume such things. Indeed, the article concludes that Ray Tracing has its own limitations and that a hybrid with rasterisation techniques would be superior to one or the other.
Yes, but I have heard that a new special version for the skype services will be coming out. This PSP will sport an new shape, roughly that of a half-circle.
.
..
...
Yo quiero Taco-PSP. *runs*
As if to justify all those people who claim these lists come too early to include all the big events of 2007, 3D Realms had to go and release a Duke Nukem Forever Teaser. I certainly think this qualifies to be on a revised version of the list.
I would think that even the lightest engine powerful enough to generate enough lift for flight would be far too heavy for this. However, perhaps we could see stationary "Jump pads" that generate powerful upward drafts for people with the suit to jump over, spread their suits to maximum surface area and take off high enough to "fly" some distance from the jump point.
What is "what lies outside of the visible universe, lies the unseen," Alex. Or maybe the vast interstellar distances is enough for the missing matter to be spread so thinly across it as to be practically undetectable. Quick! Somebody with math skills, how big is the known universe, how many atoms of missing matter would 40% be, and then from that how many atoms per cubic something-or-other is that?
Obviously if enough individuals survived with cells reproducing its DNA containing the retrovirus for it to become a species-wide "fossil" it was either not very harmful or possibly even beneficial to our ancestors. You might be able to make the case that perhaps we have since lost the ability to combat these retroviruses, but then we must consider the possibility that in some individuals these portions of dormant virus data have been reactivate naturally. If this has occurred and we are indeed now ill equipt to fight it, then it would have been observed as some disease and possibly classified as a genetic disorder. Who knows, by reactivating these, we have discover the cause, and subsequently the cure (as obviously we naturally beat it once) to some terrible genetic malady!
This lends a bit of credence to the rumored NVidia G9 series launch, although I still think February is unlikely.
Where's the PC graphs? We may not be the majority of the games out there, but we should not be marginalized! I would suspect a extremly different spread on the PC. Probably a lot more M and EC (early childhood.)
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The same time they start giving away the Wii as a free prize in every Cracker Jack box. Or when the 8th generation systems comes around...
Oops, that was supposed to be a comment about the development costs, not deployment or production of the whole setup. What I was saying is that there was very little actually developed here for this.
Well, for one, its not a new bomb. Its a system that allows us to use a bomb under different conditions. Considering its using an existing bomb, an existing flight platform, and really just an improved version of existing technology; I'd wager it was in the low millions range, and I'm probably grossly over-estimating it. As far as I'm concerned, looking at other things congress would waste the money on, I'd rather have something cool to read about like this than some mule museum in a place I'll never care about. Let the states deal with the US people and the Federal worry about the US. Sadly, the states seem to be floundering in that reguard and we end up looking to the Feds.
Totally off-topic, but you just gave me an odd idea. I wonder if perhaps bunker-buster bombs could be fired into a patch of land at such an angle and to such a depth that the blast propelled the soil up and as low to the ground as possible (to prevent it from blowing aside and forming a hole,) essentially tilling a patch of land all at once for us! Back on topic, now what I just said done in Africa at supersonic speeds!
[arm chair general] It'll be just like the Aurora Supersonic Bomber from Command and Conquer:Generals, except you can drop two and your desperate, last minute airstrikes on Iran's superweapon won't have to be suicide missions! How long until we have the Air Fuel bomb version from the Zero Hour's turtler General? That'll show those Al Quaeda tunnel/stinger-missile sites: lets see you rebuild your hole now! [/arm chair general]
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The mechanics definition of a shock is a sudden acceleration/deceleration. It's the sudden stop that kills you in the end of a fall; it's the pressure in the nuclear explosion that bowls over everything. As for termination, I suppose substituting 'Solar wind' would make it a bit clearer. But, termination tends to indicate an end to things, and placed with 'shock' sounds to indicate a boundary of sudden deceleration, where as 'solar wind shock' sounds more ambiguous, in an ironic sort of way.
Thats actually how I ended up finding it. Didn't get it from Slashdot's search on any of the phrases: "HP", "patch", "drugs", "microneedles", "printers", etc.
Last we heard this was in the prototype phase. Btw, the search function is terrible.
Ah, so it's more Kindle-ing for the e-book's fire, eh? OW OW OWWW! No hard fruits! *Watermelowned*