Mario 64 - hardly a platformer? Excuse me? Did we play the same Mario 64?
Anyways, some of my favorite 3D platformers were the Jak and Daxter series and the Ratchet and Clank series, both a lot of fun - one of my favorites being Jak II, which was set in an immersive city with fun platforming levels and other challenges.
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Agreed, there are drawbacks, but he said he already has 9 gigs, so once you already have it, the drawbacks are now irrelevant. What I was arguing is that it's not bad behavior for a program to use more RAM if you have more. I'm not saying that is what Firefox is doing, but if you have 9 GB's, hell, Firefox can use a Gig if it will cause performance enhancements. The problem comes with you have a gig and a half and firefox is using a gig.
Additionally, 9 GB of RAM and keeping more things in RAM does not use more power than paging things to/from disk. Accessing memory from RAM is much cheaper (power and CPU wise) than getting it from disk, nullifying that argument.
I am calling bullshit on this. I love firefox but it's definitely a memory hog.7 tabs open and it's at 400mb. Granted I have 9GB of RAM but still.
Then who cares about 400 MB, when you have that kind of RAM to spare. The more data you have stored in RAM => the less you have to page to/from disk => better performance.
Modded Offtopic on accident, posting to undo, tried to scroll down while the drop down had focus - good post.
It's based on the WiFi network you are connected to. There are companies like Skyhook which create maps of WAPs, and uses that to find your location. Much more accurate than cell towers, much less than GPS.
I was thinking of some joke a little more limp-wristed, which is what I always thought when I saw some kid talking about "Rouge Squadron". They fly the pink X-Wings, right?
Pink 5 standing by... And FABULOUS
Be sure not to have all the weddings on the same day in 4 different castles to women who have different numbers of eyes.
It doesn't end well.
Would be a field that uses clear/transparent turf. and all colors on the field are defined by lights under it. The white in the 10/20/30... could be done dynamically, the end zones could be designed dynamically and relit, heck, you could switch from a green field to Boise State's blue.
This could be used to make the same field a football field, soccer field, lacrosse, field hockey... all without the the clutter of all the lines on one field.
This might be tricky with turf technology currently, but I feel like a first technology to do this might be a basketball court (lights for basketball, volleyball, etc)...
It probably isn't feasible, but would be interesting.
Yeah, didn't see anyone else had posted it, and for good reason.
And it's in the article. Yay me.
The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe. -- Chester Gould/Dick Tracy
