The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential.
Fairly static? What is that even supposed to mean?
They take the same amount of graphical processing as any other part of the game.
The summary makes it sound like the guy may have been intruding in on a conversation between a cop and someone else, or some such. Hardly wiretapping, but could potentially aggravate the cop into arresting him.
The video makes it clear that wasn't the case though. Not only was it first-person, it was also being recorded for a completely different purpose and just happened to catch the cop.
I hope they're not trying to suggest that it's illegal to video tape anything in public ever because a cop might show up.
The use of realid is optional. There was a brief period during the beta where they removed unique identifiers, forcing people to share email addresses, but it's no more.
But what exactly is accomplished by reviewing the safe exposure limit? Apparently it's unavoidable and is already consumed in orders of magnitude higher levels than is recommended.
Failed because of piracy? There number of factors that contribute to the overall success or failure of a creative work are vast, and affect each other in an endless variety of ways.
At no point can you say that something failed because of piracy.
Maybe it didn't sell well because it was crap, or too expensive, or poorly marketed, or whatever. Maybe that increases the significance of piracy... or does it decrease it? It's impossible to know, but even if you did it's still just one factor in a sea of other factors.
... and tells them that Microsoft has detected a virus on their PC
Believing that Microsoft knows or cares if your machine has a virus is flat out ignorant. Being okay with the idea that Microsoft could monitor you is even worse. Never mind shelling out hundreds to an stranger for doing nothing -- how many people are really so dense?
I think it has potential uses, but its usefulness is wildly exaggerated in the article:
Such information could help prosecutors place a suspect at the scene of a crime, or prove the innocence of the accused.
Evidence that places someone in the general area of a city/region does not place them at the scene of a crime. Also, given the ease at which it can be manipulated, it certainly doesn't prove anything either.
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Nobody knows. It's why they're doing this research.
Barring any silly technical glitches, I don't see any particular reason it should be very dangerous.
The technology in ghost in the shell is quite a bit more advanced.
Full body prosthesis > arms that turn into guns.
The real performance boost comes from higher capacity drives. If you want fast, just get two.
Oh wait..
The between-mission scenes onboard Jim Raynor's ship aren't framerate capped. These are fairly static scenes, and don't take much work for the graphics card to display them. Because of this, the card renders the scene as quickly as possible, which then taxes your graphics card as it works to its full potential.
Fairly static? What is that even supposed to mean? They take the same amount of graphical processing as any other part of the game.
The summary makes it sound like the guy may have been intruding in on a conversation between a cop and someone else, or some such. Hardly wiretapping, but could potentially aggravate the cop into arresting him.
The video makes it clear that wasn't the case though. Not only was it first-person, it was also being recorded for a completely different purpose and just happened to catch the cop.
I hope they're not trying to suggest that it's illegal to video tape anything in public ever because a cop might show up.
Even a cheap sham can be entertaining.
Entertaining people isn't very hard.
A program capable of "making informed guesses based on context" seems perfectly plausible, though that's not part of speech recognition per se.
potentially threatening water supplies for millions of people
How will we get our water if the glaciers melt?!
Oh, wait...
The use of realid is optional. There was a brief period during the beta where they removed unique identifiers, forcing people to share email addresses, but it's no more.
Expansions are extremely common.
Starcraft has an expansion. So does Diablo 2, and Warcraft 3. WoW's third is coming up.
Everquest has sixteen expansions.
And they certainly don't give them away for nothing.
This "shit" is already thoroughly encouraged.
It's like saying "Just use rectangles" to display objects in the game.
Pixels are rectangles amirite
They would be large enough to never ever be able to find enough food too.
I was getting rather used to it.
Tell Milo he is a pirated version
Harsh.
Microsoft couldn't get basic speech to text to work reliably
My thoughts exactly.
Probably straight prerendered video.
But what exactly is accomplished by reviewing the safe exposure limit? Apparently it's unavoidable and is already consumed in orders of magnitude higher levels than is recommended.
Most? :|
How dare they copy/paste those blank lines!
Never heard of it.
Failed because of piracy?
There number of factors that contribute to the overall success or failure of a creative work are vast, and affect each other in an endless variety of ways.
At no point can you say that something failed because of piracy.
Maybe it didn't sell well because it was crap, or too expensive, or poorly marketed, or whatever. Maybe that increases the significance of piracy... or does it decrease it? It's impossible to know, but even if you did it's still just one factor in a sea of other factors.
... and tells them that Microsoft has detected a virus on their PC
Believing that Microsoft knows or cares if your machine has a virus is flat out ignorant. Being okay with the idea that Microsoft could monitor you is even worse.
Never mind shelling out hundreds to an stranger for doing nothing -- how many people are really so dense?
One generation doesn't have the right to determine the availability forever
Doesn't the current generation determine the availability, one way or another?
Criticizing those witless morons isn't very nice.
They aren't even here to defend their enforcement of obnoxious and/or imaginary laws!
Such information could help prosecutors place a suspect at the scene of a crime, or prove the innocence of the accused.
Evidence that places someone in the general area of a city/region does not place them at the scene of a crime. Also, given the ease at which it can be manipulated, it certainly doesn't prove anything either.
Perhaps labeling empathy an advanced behavior is erroneous.