I pulled out Monkey Island 3 the other night, while not as FUN as the original, I realized how GOOD 2d graphics could be. It'll be back, even if the Japanese are the only ones doing 2d animation anymore.
Or people who think they are too smart for the modern science and education systems.
Granted, some of these people may be indeed very bright, but in their arrogance, they missed a lot of the very important things about critical thinking.
Critical thinking IS a learnt skill, it took a long time for civilization to cultivate it and the basic scientific method. So many people just don't get science. I don't mean they don't understand math or biology. I mean they just don't get that it's about an approach, a way to do things that eliminates variables in order to trace down the root of things. Replicateable experiments, control, the things that make an experiment more then just observing cause and effect.
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My friends who introduced me to D&D were the sons of a Christian minister... he was the one that taught his sons how to play. And no.. this was not some recruitment thing (I'm as agnostic as they come, and he never really said anything to us). Though, I have heard of Christian youth groups who game regularly.
No, it would indeed be RGB unless it somehow used transparent pixels.
CMY or CMYK is used when you can subtract colors, but when you are talking about pixels that are next to each other and reflect the light, they do not subtract from each other. The reflected light adds together. If you used CMY reflectively, you'd never get Red Blue or Green because CMY each reflect two of those colors, so you could never isolate just one. So if you had C and M reflecting, you'd be reflecting Green and Blue from one, and Blue and Red from the other. Meaning you'd have a very dirty shade of blue, but never blue.
What he is saying about gray is, that because you have the surface divided up into thirds, each reflecting only a third of the spectrum. Think about it this way. If you could chose between a 3'x1' uncolored mirror, or mirror or three 1'x'1 mirrors all tinted with R G and B each, which would you chose if you wanted the most light? Obviously uncolored one, because each of the colored ones don't stop absorbing their part spectrum magically just because they are placed next to each other. Each one is still absorbing (roughly) 1/3 of the available light, just in different parts of the spectrum apiece.
Now, this isn't to say that some highly reflective surface might be plenty adequate for readability in normal light, so 1/3 the light could be probably be fine.
It works like that here in San Diego, CA, too. If you do not press the button, the light just assumes that there is not a pedestrian, and so the 'don't walk' sign remains on. The lights that just 'assume' there will be pedestrians are the ones down town, where there is heavy foot traffic, and they simply don't have a button at all. I find it odd, the comments that the button is there to make people feel better or something. I think in fact it makes it worse because they get frustrated with it 'not working'. On the other hand, without a button, you just wait until your turn comes around without even giving it a thought. There is hardly any jaywalking.
Back in the late 18th century. Concert band music, with a mix of 'classical' and modern music, were pretty well the hight of popular entertainment. It was nothing like it was today, productions were huge and expensive, and made music accessible to people. The bands and symphonies played selections of music, Susa, Beethoven, generally selections from, the popular movements people enjoyed the most. Then, in a move to make music the art it was in Europe, they stoped doing the huge productions, ended the large selections of music in favor of single symphonies.
This was pretty well the end of the symphony. People stoped coming to performances, bands and orchestras dried up, and became the continuously poor, and only supported by philanthropy organizations they are today, fighting every year just to keep from going bankrupt.
I have no problem with music as an art, I think it's great. I'm a big fan of classical, but was it really the best choice to make it an all our nothing change? Where would the city orchestras be today if going to the symphony was still at the least still part of habit at the beginning of the 20th century?
I think there is no reason why artists, people who create works to make people think, should be ashamed of also creating crafts to entertain people. It pays the bills, and keeps your art from falling into obscurity. Sometimes people latch onto things that were not your 'vision' as an artiest, but this is just part of the public eye. Rather then forcing your public to meet with your views, why not just keep yourself connected with people well enough so that they will understand it to begin with?
This is actually a very good point. Though it isn't so much applicable at smaller venues, it is something to be concerned about. Especially at certain convention centers and things. There is no way your going to be able to run the whole event on just what ever wall sockets are around.
Also, big trailer towed entertainment generators are really not as expensive as you might think. Far from free, but if you find a big place that's lacking on power, it's not a bad deal. For instance, a 48kw entertainment generators from GE is just $225 for a week. There is added cost of towing, fuel, and don't forget power distro, but this could in the end save you money by allowing you to hold it at a less equipped facility. ( http://www.gepower.com/dhtml/energyrentals/en_us/i ndex.jsp/ )
There are a lot of places you can look for power distro too. A lighting rental company can be a good place to look. Perhaps even offer them some seats at your party for a discount.
I'm sure you can figure out the math for power requirements, Remember to always overestimate. I'd say at the very least %30. More never hurts.
Exactly. Though rather broken now, it recent history Iraq had the highest literacy rate in the world. Higher then Germany, Japan, and much higher the the US. These are not stupid or ignorant people.
I was going to write and say the same thing. But then realized, that it was not *intended* as a hoax. It was intended to be a new, interesting way to tell a story. People just took it too seriously, and overreacted.
Hey, maybe this is built with the same principal as America's Army. See, next they'll start a TV series with Hulk Hulgen driving the thing around and stoping international bad guys. Then, they'll introduce a whole line of toys, with 'modulus' you can buy to add on to it. But of course, the very coolest accessory, only seems to be available at your local army recruiter! Bring your dad in to the recruiters office and get the Ultimate Battle Pack for only $59.95! I wonder if the Crusader comes with a submarine option, or a copter option?
A anime network is a great idea, but how many people would actually have access to it? With my cable company you have to have a digital box to get all those more obscure channels, and they only let you have two in a household. Given the choice between all reruns, and a mix of reruns and new programming (most anime is new to American audiences), I'd always choose the second. It's not always going to be great, but adds to what's out there to watch. I love Loony Tunes, it outclasses any of the new stuff, but I think sacrificing the creation of new stuff in favor of repeats is a poor plan, and deprives a lot of people of a lot of different stuff. Diversity is a good thing.
On the same topic, I think as storage technology becomes increasingly cheaper, what I'd really like to see, is this old programming available to be streamed to ether digital set-top boxes, or over the internet. Perhaps with a library of current commercials it can put in the breaks. Most likely, it whouldn't be available until a few years after syndication, but think of all the great programming that just dosn't have a place otherwise. Just my 2 cents.
I strongly suggest you read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Marten Luther King Jr. A quick google turns up: http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
This is a non-violent way of protest of someone who cares little of any kind of morals. I'm sorry, but "A business is not supposed to be moral" dosn't stand up beyond a certain point in my book, and many others.
If you truly believe that profit always takes precedence over morals, I am deeply sorry for you.
Ah yes, one of my favorite pieces of "documentation"
"Please contact your network administrator on how to open up the proper ports."
*I'm* the network administrator at my home, thank you. Even if I did have a professional administrator, say, at work, I'm sure he'd not have time to figure out what the hell ports I need to open up so I can play my game on his network.
I think things are starting to get better, but you still come across this kind of helpful advice once in a while.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and San Diego County High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network I am fairly certain operate of the University California San Diego, which sits on a cliff right over the water. Once your past the trees and smaller buildings around the campus, you'd be well past that 90 feet already, so in this case, it wouldn't require much of a tower, at least on the mainland side of things.
> Do you ohh and ahh over the fact you can hook up "almost anything" to a serial port?
Yes!
The idea of a fully transparent, versatile interface that is easy to program for for beginners and with a wide verity of redly available tools to debug and use it make it something very cool for someone to start trying new applications while they learn.
Mouse Systems also used to make an optical mouse. This was many years ago, my mother had a mac Quadra. It was a three button mouse, that required a special metal mouse pad with a grid on it. So I assume sense it was a name brand mouse, it was around for PCs, too.
The only problem is, the grid eventualy wore off the mouse pad, and so it lost a lot of accuracy.
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I pulled out Monkey Island 3 the other night, while not as FUN as the original, I realized how GOOD 2d graphics could be. It'll be back, even if the Japanese are the only ones doing 2d animation anymore.
Or people who think they are too smart for the modern science and education systems.
Granted, some of these people may be indeed very bright, but in their arrogance, they missed a lot of the very important things about critical thinking.
Critical thinking IS a learnt skill, it took a long time for civilization to cultivate it and the basic scientific method. So many people just don't get science. I don't mean they don't understand math or biology. I mean they just don't get that it's about an approach, a way to do things that eliminates variables in order to trace down the root of things. Replicateable experiments, control, the things that make an experiment more then just observing cause and effect.
My friends who introduced me to D&D were the sons of a Christian minister... he was the one that taught his sons how to play. And no.. this was not some recruitment thing (I'm as agnostic as they come, and he never really said anything to us). Though, I have heard of Christian youth groups who game regularly.
No, it would indeed be RGB unless it somehow used transparent pixels.
CMY or CMYK is used when you can subtract colors, but when you are talking about pixels that are next to each other and reflect the light, they do not subtract from each other. The reflected light adds together. If you used CMY reflectively, you'd never get Red Blue or Green because CMY each reflect two of those colors, so you could never isolate just one. So if you had C and M reflecting, you'd be reflecting Green and Blue from one, and Blue and Red from the other. Meaning you'd have a very dirty shade of blue, but never blue.
What he is saying about gray is, that because you have the surface divided up into thirds, each reflecting only a third of the spectrum. Think about it this way. If you could chose between a 3'x1' uncolored mirror, or mirror or three 1'x'1 mirrors all tinted with R G and B each, which would you chose if you wanted the most light? Obviously uncolored one, because each of the colored ones don't stop absorbing their part spectrum magically just because they are placed next to each other. Each one is still absorbing (roughly) 1/3 of the available light, just in different parts of the spectrum apiece.
Now, this isn't to say that some highly reflective surface might be plenty adequate for readability in normal light, so 1/3 the light could be probably be fine.
Yes, but it'll require 25 cents an hour (Canadian) to run.
Greed.
There isn't much of it, so everyone wants it.
It works like that here in San Diego, CA, too. If you do not press the button, the light just assumes that there is not a pedestrian, and so the 'don't walk' sign remains on. The lights that just 'assume' there will be pedestrians are the ones down town, where there is heavy foot traffic, and they simply don't have a button at all. I find it odd, the comments that the button is there to make people feel better or something. I think in fact it makes it worse because they get frustrated with it 'not working'. On the other hand, without a button, you just wait until your turn comes around without even giving it a thought. There is hardly any jaywalking.
You have just described the principal duty of a citizen of a Republic to the T.
I don't know how many teachers you know, but I think right now they are just as concerned about what they can do while the students are away.
Back in the late 18th century. Concert band music, with a mix of 'classical' and modern music, were pretty well the hight of popular entertainment. It was nothing like it was today, productions were huge and expensive, and made music accessible to people. The bands and symphonies played selections of music, Susa, Beethoven, generally selections from, the popular movements people enjoyed the most. Then, in a move to make music the art it was in Europe, they stoped doing the huge productions, ended the large selections of music in favor of single symphonies.
This was pretty well the end of the symphony. People stoped coming to performances, bands and orchestras dried up, and became the continuously poor, and only supported by philanthropy organizations they are today, fighting every year just to keep from going bankrupt.
I have no problem with music as an art, I think it's great. I'm a big fan of classical, but was it really the best choice to make it an all our nothing change? Where would the city orchestras be today if going to the symphony was still at the least still part of habit at the beginning of the 20th century?
I think there is no reason why artists, people who create works to make people think, should be ashamed of also creating crafts to entertain people. It pays the bills, and keeps your art from falling into obscurity. Sometimes people latch onto things that were not your 'vision' as an artiest, but this is just part of the public eye. Rather then forcing your public to meet with your views, why not just keep yourself connected with people well enough so that they will understand it to begin with?
.. I read that "The European law sets the right benchmark rather than the LOSER U.S. system" ... I guess both fit.
This is actually a very good point. Though it isn't so much applicable at smaller venues, it is something to be concerned about. Especially at certain convention centers and things. There is no way your going to be able to run the whole event on just what ever wall sockets are around.
i ndex.jsp/ )
Also, big trailer towed entertainment generators are really not as expensive as you might think. Far from free, but if you find a big place that's lacking on power, it's not a bad deal. For instance, a 48kw entertainment generators from GE is just $225 for a week. There is added cost of towing, fuel, and don't forget power distro, but this could in the end save you money by allowing you to hold it at a less equipped facility. ( http://www.gepower.com/dhtml/energyrentals/en_us/
There are a lot of places you can look for power distro too. A lighting rental company can be a good place to look. Perhaps even offer them some seats at your party for a discount.
I'm sure you can figure out the math for power requirements, Remember to always overestimate. I'd say at the very least %30. More never hurts.
Exactly. Though rather broken now, it recent history Iraq had the highest literacy rate in the world. Higher then Germany, Japan, and much higher the the US. These are not stupid or ignorant people.
Finally! Lucas will have a character that bring his writing to it's fullest potential!
I was going to write and say the same thing. But then realized, that it was not *intended* as a hoax. It was intended to be a new, interesting way to tell a story. People just took it too seriously, and overreacted.
Hey, maybe this is built with the same principal as America's Army. See, next they'll start a TV series with Hulk Hulgen driving the thing around and stoping international bad guys. Then, they'll introduce a whole line of toys, with 'modulus' you can buy to add on to it.
But of course, the very coolest accessory, only seems to be available at your local army recruiter! Bring your dad in to the recruiters office and get the Ultimate Battle Pack for only $59.95!
I wonder if the Crusader comes with a submarine option, or a copter option?
- Tristan
Thank Good for Photoshop. You can't have professional graphics without a lens flare!
A anime network is a great idea, but how many people would actually have access to it? With my cable company you have to have a digital box to get all those more obscure channels, and they only let you have two in a household. Given the choice between all reruns, and a mix of reruns and new programming (most anime is new to American audiences), I'd always choose the second. It's not always going to be great, but adds to what's out there to watch. I love Loony Tunes, it outclasses any of the new stuff, but I think sacrificing the creation of new stuff in favor of repeats is a poor plan, and deprives a lot of people of a lot of different stuff. Diversity is a good thing.
On the same topic, I think as storage technology becomes increasingly cheaper, what I'd really like to see, is this old programming available to be streamed to ether digital set-top boxes, or over the internet. Perhaps with a library of current commercials it can put in the breaks. Most likely, it whouldn't be available until a few years after syndication, but think of all the great programming that just dosn't have a place otherwise. Just my 2 cents.
- Tristan
I strongly suggest you read "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Marten Luther King Jr. A quick google turns up: http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
This is a non-violent way of protest of someone who cares little of any kind of morals. I'm sorry, but "A business is not supposed to be moral" dosn't stand up beyond a certain point in my book, and many others.
If you truly believe that profit always takes precedence over morals, I am deeply sorry for you.
- Tristan
Ah yes, one of my favorite pieces of "documentation"
"Please contact your network administrator on how to open up the proper ports."
*I'm* the network administrator at my home, thank you. Even if I did have a professional administrator, say, at work, I'm sure he'd not have time to figure out what the hell ports I need to open up so I can play my game on his network.
I think things are starting to get better, but you still come across this kind of helpful advice once in a while.
The San Diego Supercomputer Center and San Diego County High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network I am fairly certain operate of the University California San Diego, which sits on a cliff right over the water. Once your past the trees and smaller buildings around the campus, you'd be well past that 90 feet already, so in this case, it wouldn't require much of a tower, at least on the mainland side of things.
> Do you ohh and ahh over the fact you can hook up "almost anything" to a serial port?
Yes!
The idea of a fully transparent, versatile interface that is easy to program for for beginners and with a wide verity of redly available tools to debug and use it make it something very cool for someone to start trying new applications while they learn.
The BASIC of interfaces, perhaps?
- Tristan
Mouse Systems also used to make an optical mouse. This was many years ago, my mother had a mac Quadra. It was a three button mouse, that required a special metal mouse pad with a grid on it. So I assume sense it was a name brand mouse, it was around for PCs, too.
The only problem is, the grid eventualy wore off the mouse pad, and so it lost a lot of accuracy.
Is it just me, or does this look more like Audio equipment? Or perhaps something else?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/media/920.jpg