Having been driven to distraction by burgalrized, I did a little research and it turns out that both the words burglar and burglarized are only about 135 years old - before then there was only the word burgled. The first recorded occurrence of the world burgle in writing appeared in 1870 in a London newspaper, burglarized appearing a year later in a New York newspaper. It seems burgle caught on over here in the UK, whereas burlarizer became popular in the USA.
Having grown up with burgle, I had always assumed that burglarized was just down to the American tendency to 'verbize' words - using the word 'leverage' instead of 'lever' for instance.
The first reference I found to it on Usenet is from Steve Job's July 1999 Apple keynote address - I assume they'd shown some footage, so it must have been in production for bit before then.
Halo was released in November 2001, so I'd say they probably spent about 3 years on it (at least)
I seriously doubt that PS2s failing has a big impact on PS2 sales. You may be right about the PStwo though - I'm sure it is causing a spike in sales.
The interesting thing is that I doubt many PStwo owners are keeping their original PS2 around. I bet they're either getting sold off cheap or given to someone else as a gift - which is just increasing Sony's install base.
The above figures support Nintendo, but not, I'm afraid, the Gamecube.
The Playstation 2 is outselling the Gamecube by an order of magnitude. If Xbox wasn't in the Japanese market as a whipping boy with an order of magnitude less sales than the Gamecube, those sales figures would look pretty shit.
Playstation 2 has quite obviously beaten all comers in the 'underneath your TV' console stakes. What will be interesting is to see how a year down the line PSP and DS sales compare.
But yeah - I don't think anyone's doubting that the Xbox has been an almost complete failure in Japan.
I would have thought the percentage of Xboxes sold just to play pirated games or use as media centres is pretty small. At a guess, I'd say less than one percent. The attachment rate on the Xbox is somewhere around 7-8 titles*, which is pretty good, so certainly it doesn't seem that the chippers and mediacentre folks have made a particularly big impact.
Maybe I'm too old and lame to be playing it, but there were a couple of missiong on GTA: VC which were just too hard for me to complete without using the 'slow motion' cheat codes.
I've never understood where this idea that Apple Pie is American comes from. After all, we've had apple trees in England for thousands of years, and have been making apple pies from long before Columbus stumbled across America.
If I understand this correctly, this doesn't affect communication between the bittorrent peers, just the client and the tracker. It still won't work through an HTTP proxy.
Yes, they aren't normally counted seperately, but I have seen it done before. And besides, which do you think is the more likely - some bizarre high resolution you've never heard of before, or 1920 x 1080, which also happens to be the highest HDTV resolution...?
I did read the article - it's obviously aimed at corporate use where they're unlikely to have XP Home, but at the same time my ears pricked up when I read the article summary, only to remember that my plans of doing something similar at home had been dashed by Microsoft removing the domain functionality from XP Home.
I admit it, it's not that apropos to the discussion, but I did fancy having another gripe about it!
It's not "piracy"; it's copying without permission. If you sell copied films, then you're a pirate.
When it was just a case of downloading a file from an ftp server, then it was copying without permission. However, with bittorrent as well as copying the file, you are automatically offering it to others to download from you. You are no longer just a recreational user; you are now a dealer as we;;!
It wouldn't work, because at any one instant in time, several of the cameras are taking a picture at once. This is why in the fan video, the blades are warped - they are moving as the image is being scanned from the sensor.
This means that to get an image from a single moment in time, you need to take strips from all the cameras that are taking a picture at one time and splice them together.
So the difficulty with a rotating mirror system would be splitting the light between several cameras at once. Also, the images would be darker, as you're effectively splitting one camera's light between several.
To be fair to python, you can get a lot of stuff onscreen at excellent framerates, but you do have to be careful how you do it. Extensive use of vertex arrays, or at least display lists is essential, but to be honest that's the kind of thing you'd really want to be doing with C/C++ anyway, it's just that it hurts even more if you don't do it in python.
One of the other replies mentions pysco, but to be honest I think that pyrex would be more useful, as it for most intents and purposes allows you to compile sections of speed-critical python code in C.
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You have to be fucking kidding me.
It's a file editor. With no 'open file' menu option !
How exactly will Skype 'corner the market'?
They know full well that as soon as they started charging for Skype->Skype calls, people would just migrate to other programs.
Actually, I chose lever/leverage for good reason.
'Lever' is both a noun and a verb:
"I used the plank as a lever to open the door."
"I levered open the door."
'Leverage' is the advantage of having a lever - it's not a verb, it's a state.
If someone says "You can leverage your market position", surely they'd be more correct to say "You can lever your market position"...
Having been driven to distraction by burgalrized, I did a little research and it turns out that both the words burglar and burglarized are only about 135 years old - before then there was only the word burgled. The first recorded occurrence of the world burgle in writing appeared in 1870 in a London newspaper, burglarized appearing a year later in a New York newspaper. It seems burgle caught on over here in the UK, whereas burlarizer became popular in the USA.
Having grown up with burgle, I had always assumed that burglarized was just down to the American tendency to 'verbize' words - using the word 'leverage' instead of 'lever' for instance.
(I actually proved this while in CAD class in high school)
It's a shame you never learned to spell 'Italy' in high school as well.
DDD? Is this some kind of a joke?
The first reference I found to it on Usenet is from Steve Job's July 1999 Apple keynote address - I assume they'd shown some footage, so it must have been in production for bit before then.
Halo was released in November 2001, so I'd say they probably spent about 3 years on it (at least)
It *certainly* wasn't completed in six months!
The Shuttle was the first. Think of it as the Comet of space craft.
Well, it might be the Comet - but what if it's actually the Spruce Goose of space craft...?
I seriously doubt that PS2s failing has a big impact on PS2 sales. You may be right about the PStwo though - I'm sure it is causing a spike in sales.
The interesting thing is that I doubt many PStwo owners are keeping their original PS2 around. I bet they're either getting sold off cheap or given to someone else as a gift - which is just increasing Sony's install base.
The above figures support Nintendo, but not, I'm afraid, the Gamecube.
The Playstation 2 is outselling the Gamecube by an order of magnitude. If Xbox wasn't in the Japanese market as a whipping boy with an order of magnitude less sales than the Gamecube, those sales figures would look pretty shit.
Playstation 2 has quite obviously beaten all comers in the 'underneath your TV' console stakes. What will be interesting is to see how a year down the line PSP and DS sales compare.
But yeah - I don't think anyone's doubting that the Xbox has been an almost complete failure in Japan.
And if you were smart, you'd:
a) Have noticed from my user ID that I'm English
&
b) Know that in the UK we spell it 'centre'.
I would have thought the percentage of Xboxes sold just to play pirated games or use as media centres is pretty small. At a guess, I'd say less than one percent. The attachment rate on the Xbox is somewhere around 7-8 titles*, which is pretty good, so certainly it doesn't seem that the chippers and mediacentre folks have made a particularly big impact.
* http://www.silicon-fusion.com/news/2350/
*smirk*
Wallah
Maybe I'm too old and lame to be playing it, but there were a couple of missiong on GTA: VC which were just too hard for me to complete without using the 'slow motion' cheat codes.
I've never understood where this idea that Apple Pie is American comes from. After all, we've had apple trees in England for thousands of years, and have been making apple pies from long before Columbus stumbled across America.
Anybody know where this comes from?
If I understand this correctly, this doesn't affect communication between the bittorrent peers, just the client and the tracker. It still won't work through an HTTP proxy.
Yes, they aren't normally counted seperately, but I have seen it done before. And besides, which do you think is the more likely - some bizarre high resolution you've never heard of before, or 1920 x 1080, which also happens to be the highest HDTV resolution...?
I did read the article - it's obviously aimed at corporate use where they're unlikely to have XP Home, but at the same time my ears pricked up when I read the article summary, only to remember that my plans of doing something similar at home had been dashed by Microsoft removing the domain functionality from XP Home.
I admit it, it's not that apropos to the discussion, but I did fancy having another gripe about it!
It's 1920x1080 - the quoted pixel count is for each red, green and blue element.
The resolution is quoted as being about 6.22 million pixels, which makes the resolution 1920x1080.
I assume the screen is 16x9, and that the quoted pixel count is counteing each red, green and blue element as seperate.
XP Home won't log onto domains. It's bloody annoying for geeks with several computers in the house...
It's not "piracy"; it's copying without permission. If you sell copied films, then you're a pirate.
When it was just a case of downloading a file from an ftp server, then it was copying without permission. However, with bittorrent as well as copying the file, you are automatically offering it to others to download from you. You are no longer just a recreational user; you are now a dealer as we;;!
It wouldn't work, because at any one instant in time, several of the cameras are taking a picture at once. This is why in the fan video, the blades are warped - they are moving as the image is being scanned from the sensor.
This means that to get an image from a single moment in time, you need to take strips from all the cameras that are taking a picture at one time and splice them together.
So the difficulty with a rotating mirror system would be splitting the light between several cameras at once. Also, the images would be darker, as you're effectively splitting one camera's light between several.
It's not spelt 'einstine'...
To be fair to python, you can get a lot of stuff onscreen at excellent framerates, but you do have to be careful how you do it. Extensive use of vertex arrays, or at least display lists is essential, but to be honest that's the kind of thing you'd really want to be doing with C/C++ anyway, it's just that it hurts even more if you don't do it in python.
One of the other replies mentions pysco, but to be honest I think that pyrex would be more useful, as it for most intents and purposes allows you to compile sections of speed-critical python code in C.