Comment Re:Blizzard did the same BS in Diablo 3 (Score 1) 303
Using (RM/G)AH is your CHOICE. I beat Inferno without AH, as have numerous others.
Using (RM/G)AH is your CHOICE. I beat Inferno without AH, as have numerous others.
Coders work for free? Looks like they've taken a tip from gaming companies, which do Q&A and product testing by outsourcing it to gamers who do it for free - or even pay for the privilege, as has been seen in various betas requiring payment.
As a "serious" amateur photographer I check out GIMP every year or so for three things:
- 16-bit image processing (yes, I know 8-bit is good enough for 99.9% of cases, but that's not good enough for me)
- proper and intuitive color management
- color-managed printing
Until all three are implemented properly, I can't and won't move from PS.16-bit has been promised for literally years, but last time I checked all three above were missing. Is it still the case?
If this is the case, and PS4 does the same, I will go back to PC gaming and keep Ouya and PS3 as my only consoles. Simple as that.
PS3 has always been a better seller in Europe than Xbox 360.
In EU Gmail asks me periodically to verify my account via an SMS. There is a "skip this" text in small font, though, but I bet a lot of people don't notice it.
Don't have google+.
I broke my wrist in a motorcycle accident. After the cast was taken off I started working out with a titanium Powerball. I made 100% recovery in six months, and while it's impossible to say how much the exercise helped, I'm sure it did.
Pathe theaters does this in the Netherlands. For 20 EUR a month you get unlimited viewings (you pay extra extra for 3D and IMAX). Break-even point is two movies a month. It's great for someone like me who watches 3-5 movies a week, at least one of them in the theaters. I see good movies multiple times in the theaters.
It's apparently pretty popular service since they started around three years ago: they've expanded it with a 2nd tier membership to include 3D and IMAX, and keep advertising it more.
1) The client is currently shipped in
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2) The client requires GlibC 2.12 or later. So if by any chance your distribution was released prior to may 2010, you're out of luck (example: my OpenSuse 11.4, released on march 2010
See, above is exactly why Linux is a marginal platform, and will continue to be until UI is fixed. I used Ubuntu exclusively for over a year in the past and I have no idea WTF all that means.
I do realize it's a beta, and things get better.
I've seen The Hobbit in 3D HFR, 3D IMAX HFR, and plain old 2D 24fps, in that order. Note that I don't have stereo vision, so the 3D part doesn't impact my experience, other than the 3D versions are darker (not really an issue in a darkened theater IMO).
I really, really wanted to like HFR. I went in all gung-ho, looking forward to embrace a smoother future. 48fps took a while to get used to. But even after I got used to it, it looked worse. It's like watching BBC's Life documentary with pasted on hobbits and dwarves in costumes. Just like HDTV brings out flaws in make-up, 48fps makes animation flaws much more visible. As there is a LOT of CGI in the movie, such scenes look even more CGI than they do in 24fps. Somehow also the live action scenes look like they're happening on a sound stage more than they do in plain old 24fps. 48fps breaks the fourth wall, and it's never mended. At least it didn't for me in two viewings.
As an aside, Peter Jackson uses extensive frame rate manipulation: many action scenes are shot in slow motion. I actually thought this was my brain playing tricks on me until I saw the 24fps version and confirmed to myself there are slomo sections.
I sincerely hope that 48fps will take over some day, but not in its current incarnation. My layman but movie buff proposal is variable frame rate: use 24fps where it works, but switch to higher fps for panning shots and otherwise difficult shots which don't really work in 24fps.
To close off, I'm going to see The Hobbit at least once more in the theater, in 24fps and perhaps one more in 48fps. It's a stunningly beautiful movie not only visuall, but aurally as well as story-wise, and PJ has (re)created a rich world that I recognize from the books and LotR movies.
As someone who has seen The Hobbit in 3D HFR, 3D IMAX HFR, and regular 2D at 24fps, it's fine - the 24fps version looks like any other 24fps movie.
FWIW 2D was the best experience, as much as I wanted to like 48fps.
Laws are not a solution to this problem.
The Illusion Of Prosperity graph and most such graphs don't take into account the fact that (perception of) prosperity is a moving target. We didn't have iPads or Galaxy S3s or electric cars or Twitter in the 70s. Comparing 70s living to today's isn't a fair comparison. Even more pointed comparison would be a king in the 1800s who certainly earned orders of magnitude more than even a poor person today - but still would have literally killed to have a fridge, car and a TV.
Therefore a graph showing declining income might very well just show that people demand more and more, and/or are less content with what they have..
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan