Why on earth is this marked troll? It seems pretty damned sensible and balanced. Maybe the Christians don't like to receive as well as give negative views?
Google Groups was great when it just included old Usenet posts but when they folded in any other forums they could find, the signal to noise ratio dropped hugely. Yes, if you can cite a specific usenet group in the search, you can get good results but you can't issue a search just for usenet groups only. I can't remember the last time I got anything useful from Google groups. Heck, I can't remember the last time a search even showed any usenet group entries.
The main reason they are pushing 3D so hard is it makes it harder pirating the movies. The fact that we have to pay an extra 25% to see them just adds insult to injury.
Indeed. Computer & Video Games mag in the UK had a PBM Space game back in the early 80's. You sent off your orders and waited a week or two then the results came back.
>My memories of Star Raiders was the anemic turning speed, frustrating controls, and jumpy graphics.
I'm guessing you played the 2600 version then? The 400/800 one was silky smooth.
Anyone remember this? I played it on the Atari but I'm pretty sure it started out on the Apple II. really good strategy game and quite unlike anything I'd played before (or after to be honest). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytron_Masters/
My favourite Microprose game was Kennedy Approach. I loved the digitised speech and the way the game built up to become really frantic with 4 or 5 planes stacked while you tried to bring in another one having an emergency whilst trying to keep the light planes coming and going quick enough to not lose points. An unusual but very addictive game.
A mix of tactics and arcade shooting, graphics way ahead of its time (including proper animated 3D star fields) and a novel level system not directly related to points make this a standout game. In many ways, the Elite for the Atari 8bits inasmuch as people bought Atari 800's to play it. Amazingly, it all fits in an 8K cartridge. Even more amazingly, the guy who wrote it did 60-70% of the code based on the chip specs (he designed one of them) as no complete machines existed. When he finally got an assembler and final hardware, it more or less compiled/ran first time.
As an aside, it's depressing how the Atari 8bits are so often airbrushed out of history. Many games that are always cited as C64 originals were actually inferior ports from the Atari 800 originals although to be fair the inferiority was mainly due to games back then being designed around the hardware's strengths and limitations. C64 games that were ported to the Atari 800 generally sucked pretty badly too as the C64 had better sprite handling.
This was in Essex. It's been widely reported over the years as a technique being used. TBH there's something slightly wierd about being in a train station late at night wondering if some freak's going to jump out and stab you but with a nice soothing background.
>I just manage the storage for one of the LHC detectors (5PB spinning disk, 17PB tape).
Can the OP borrow some of your capacity? just asking, is all...
They've bene using this in the UK for 7 or 8 years at least now. I used to live near a railway station that played classical music in the evenings to deter the drug dealers etc that were hanging around or the kids that trashed it most weeks.
>I'd suggest we are in danger of losing our history. What's odd is how blithe we are about it.
Possibly because we back up stuff we think is important today - news, science etc. However, historians in the future will be far more fascinated by shopping lists, crochet magazines and TV listings.
Yep, I think the 'drop fix' applied to most machines back then because of the socketed chips. Certainly Atari ST's and 8bits all benefited from the occasional drop when all else failed. It was also reasonably common to just pull out and reseat various chips as regular job to ensure reliable running.
Madden would be ideal - no action for a few mins then it all happens real fast then nothing again for a bit. Just get the user to enter the moves/plan, show the end result every couple of minutes, jobs done.
>And that mosaic of filters is a part of the sensor's design, an integrated part of the sensor.
But the point is that what comes out of the sensor isn't a colour image, it's a mono one which is then interpreted afterwards by demosaicing. The RAW file is just a data dump with a bit of header info that then need to be interpreted. The demosaicing isn't a precise process hence different software tools doing a better job than others.
>That has taken a long time to fix.
But on the plus side, you now have some really nice roads. Most of my family are Scottish and I'm half Scottish so I spend a lot of time there. The overall quality of services/facilities etc is far higher North of the Border (todays announcement re Scottish NHS notwithstanding)
>The protesters breaking up the Royal Bank of Scotland building were in London,
Irrelevent. No one was picking on Scottish banks - all banks got hassled.
>It was the fact that petrol cost more
I've never understood that one either.
>the UK capital really ought to find out that civilisation does not end at Watford as you travel north.
I think that's just a perception issue. People from North England often complain about the same. It's very much one sided though. Generally, those down south have no real gripe against North of Watford but those up North do have a problem with the south.
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>I'm not sure any of you fully understand probability.
Probably
Why on earth is this marked troll? It seems pretty damned sensible and balanced. Maybe the Christians don't like to receive as well as give negative views?
Google Groups was great when it just included old Usenet posts but when they folded in any other forums they could find, the signal to noise ratio dropped hugely. Yes, if you can cite a specific usenet group in the search, you can get good results but you can't issue a search just for usenet groups only. I can't remember the last time I got anything useful from Google groups. Heck, I can't remember the last time a search even showed any usenet group entries.
>There is always the 2D version available
Not always - lots of films near me are 3D only.
>> I refuse to take my laptop to bed with me. ;-)
>Boy, are you ever on the wrong website
Says the guy who forgot to add html breaks...
> I refuse to take my laptop to bed with me. Boy, are you ever on the wrong website ;-)
Film that one if you can! Deeply, deeply strange.
Oh, and current 3D systems have 15-20% less colour saturation so the image isn't as good as it could be.
The main reason they are pushing 3D so hard is it makes it harder pirating the movies. The fact that we have to pay an extra 25% to see them just adds insult to injury.
Indeed. Computer & Video Games mag in the UK had a PBM Space game back in the early 80's. You sent off your orders and waited a week or two then the results came back.
>My memories of Star Raiders was the anemic turning speed, frustrating controls, and jumpy graphics.
I'm guessing you played the 2600 version then? The 400/800 one was silky smooth.
Anyone remember this? I played it on the Atari but I'm pretty sure it started out on the Apple II. really good strategy game and quite unlike anything I'd played before (or after to be honest).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytron_Masters/
>M.U.L.E. for the C64 (with cool music besides)
Better on the (original) Atari 800 - 4 player due to the 800's 4 joystick ports.
My favourite Microprose game was Kennedy Approach. I loved the digitised speech and the way the game built up to become really frantic with 4 or 5 planes stacked while you tried to bring in another one having an emergency whilst trying to keep the light planes coming and going quick enough to not lose points. An unusual but very addictive game.
A mix of tactics and arcade shooting, graphics way ahead of its time (including proper animated 3D star fields) and a novel level system not directly related to points make this a standout game. In many ways, the Elite for the Atari 8bits inasmuch as people bought Atari 800's to play it. Amazingly, it all fits in an 8K cartridge. Even more amazingly, the guy who wrote it did 60-70% of the code based on the chip specs (he designed one of them) as no complete machines existed. When he finally got an assembler and final hardware, it more or less compiled/ran first time.
As an aside, it's depressing how the Atari 8bits are so often airbrushed out of history. Many games that are always cited as C64 originals were actually inferior ports from the Atari 800 originals although to be fair the inferiority was mainly due to games back then being designed around the hardware's strengths and limitations. C64 games that were ported to the Atari 800 generally sucked pretty badly too as the C64 had better sprite handling.
This was in Essex. It's been widely reported over the years as a technique being used. TBH there's something slightly wierd about being in a train station late at night wondering if some freak's going to jump out and stab you but with a nice soothing background.
>I just manage the storage for one of the LHC detectors (5PB spinning disk, 17PB tape).
Can the OP borrow some of your capacity? just asking, is all...
They've bene using this in the UK for 7 or 8 years at least now. I used to live near a railway station that played classical music in the evenings to deter the drug dealers etc that were hanging around or the kids that trashed it most weeks.
>Ditch that guy
He's already indicated he's not asking for a contract renewal this year.
There was a radio only license until around 1972.
>I'd suggest we are in danger of losing our history. What's odd is how blithe we are about it.
Possibly because we back up stuff we think is important today - news, science etc. However, historians in the future will be far more fascinated by shopping lists, crochet magazines and TV listings.
Yep, I think the 'drop fix' applied to most machines back then because of the socketed chips. Certainly Atari ST's and 8bits all benefited from the occasional drop when all else failed. It was also reasonably common to just pull out and reseat various chips as regular job to ensure reliable running.
Madden would be ideal - no action for a few mins then it all happens real fast then nothing again for a bit. Just get the user to enter the moves/plan, show the end result every couple of minutes, jobs done.
>And that mosaic of filters is a part of the sensor's design, an integrated part of the sensor.
But the point is that what comes out of the sensor isn't a colour image, it's a mono one which is then interpreted afterwards by demosaicing. The RAW file is just a data dump with a bit of header info that then need to be interpreted. The demosaicing isn't a precise process hence different software tools doing a better job than others.
>That has taken a long time to fix.
But on the plus side, you now have some really nice roads. Most of my family are Scottish and I'm half Scottish so I spend a lot of time there. The overall quality of services/facilities etc is far higher North of the Border (todays announcement re Scottish NHS notwithstanding)
>The protesters breaking up the Royal Bank of Scotland building were in London,
Irrelevent. No one was picking on Scottish banks - all banks got hassled.
>It was the fact that petrol cost more
I've never understood that one either.
>the UK capital really ought to find out that civilisation does not end at Watford as you travel north.
I think that's just a perception issue. People from North England often complain about the same. It's very much one sided though. Generally, those down south have no real gripe against North of Watford but those up North do have a problem with the south.