OrbWeaver
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I'm guessing "fy" means "my", "myfi" means "myself", "Mam" means "Mum", "Ffrind" means "friend", "Llys Nan" is the grandmother, not sure what "Mrawd" means though, possibly a sibling of some sort.
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Hah... what do you mean by that?
I mean it must be nice to work with women who have a redeeming feature or two.
And skill in 3D computer graphics is one HELL of a redeeming feature in my book.
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There must be a way to use 3DS Max in a Doom 3 workflow. If there is, I can provide any support on how to use it. Even if I don't know the answer, the girls at work are sure to.
You work with girls who do 3D modelling? Is your company recruiting?
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Radiosity (also known as interdiffuse reflection) is the phenomenon where light bounces off multiple surfaces to illuminate areas that are not in direct line-of-sight with a light source. This is why it is not pitch black under a table, for instance, as the light takes an indirect path via surrounding objects and surfaces.
Simulated radiosity is extraordinarily performance-intensive to compute, therefore it is not yet used in games, although various tricks can be used such as ambient lighting in Doom 3, and presumably more complex techniques in Offset and other next-generation projects.
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There is a GIMP DDS plugin at:
http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/
It should open them fine, but I have had problems attempting to save them with this plugin.
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Will the penis sizes have an effect on gameplay?
For example, a generously-endowed Englishman (such as myself) should be able to wreak havoc on opposing forces by ripping of his cybersuit and lashing the aggressors around the head with his voluminous manhood. Obviously this option should not be available for the diminutive Scot.
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If you want to waste as little cash as possible then I suggest you get the 6800 GS and overclock it - they have great overclocking potential and if you need I can guide you through the overclocking. My card is a 6600 GT and I overclocked it by about 20%. I get about as much 3D marks as a 6800 default.
That's not bad, given that the 6600 Series has only a 128-bit memory interface against the 6800's 256-bit.
That said, "default" version of graphics cards are generally pretty lame, most people go for something with letters after it.
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Did you ever get a chance to read "The Case of the Female Orgasm?" by Elisabeth Lloyd? It presents a pretty compelling case that some traits that get passed along are not selected for but rather are carried along generation to generation for a variety of reasons.
Is it intelligent, or just ridiculous feminist twaddle?
I think if females didn't have orgasms they would be even more unwilling to engage in sexual activity than they already are, with obvious consequences for the survival of the species.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit!
Yeah, sure it is.
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But as it is, I don't really see this happeneing anyway, because if ever another species would evolve to such level that we currently have, I think either we wouldn't really understand it, or would take it to the zoo for public display before it could evolve to more refinment.
The big question in human evolution is what drove the development of our big brains and high-functioning consciousness, when it is apparent from looking at the animal kingdom that such traits are certainly not necessary for survival.
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I agree that it is better to focus on the level surroundings than the detail in the monsters. Perhaps not in Thief where you spend a lot of time looking at the AI, but in fast-paced shooter games like Quake the detail on the enemies is lost when they are charging at you in a darkened room.
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You're crazy spending that much on a graphcis card, just so you can crank antialiasing up to 16x.
They are on special offer from Ebuyer:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...duct_uid=105306
Pretty good deal considering that is less expensive than the average X800 XL which was what I was originally intending to get.
I only use 2x antialiasing and 4x AF, but now I can play in 1280x1024 at full framerate which I couldn't before with my 9800XT.
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Northbridge cooler fans and GPU fans are usually the worst culprits when it comes to noise (small fans with shittty bearings),
No shit - my nice new X850 XT has a dedicated vent port for the fan (standard 2-slot job) and it sounds like a vacuum cleaner when it starts up.
Fortunately the fan never seems to go above 13 percent, even when playing games, so the noise isn't too much of a problem.
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I see what you mean. And a good analogy too.
I didnt think there was a literal barrier, just some reason why q events dont manifest themselves at the atomic and higher levels, at least in a direct way so that we see the effects on our behaviour.The only reason quantum effects are even mentioned is because some people are absolutely desperate to believe that there is something "beyond scientific explanation" about their conscious mind, whether or not they have religious beliefs.
The funny thing is that I myself have never felt this way - it is totally natural to me to consider my own brain merely as a container for numerous competing and interacting "thoughts", which occasionally bubble to the surface and result in an action. In fact I don't see why the whole concept of "me" can't be just another thought pattern that happens to crop up more often than others (and have quite a lot of influence on the other developing patterns).
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There definitely seems to be a sort of plateau or barrier so to speak that separates quantum activity from atomic activity in the sense that what happens at the q level doesnt directly effect the higher levels of order.
It's not so much a barrier as part of the laws of probability. The chance of massive amounts of quantum effects simultaneously occurring in such a way as to have a specific effect on a decision made by the brain is similar to the chance of cosmic rays introducing an effect on your PC's motherboard that turns your game of Doom into Quake.
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I've suggested to the Doom3world.org community that we team up to improve GtkRadiant generally, to which all would benefit. As in, rather than individuals contribute to the codebase, have a central website (or wiki) where we can identify improvements and keep track of what we as an editing community think needs doing.
Basically that's what I do anyway - if there is something we need that I think might be of interest to GtkRadiant in general, I suggest it to Spog. This not only benefits the community as a whole but also makes my life easier since he knows the code well and can implement things in a fraction of the time.
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I've been using DarkRadiant, as it fits in with GtkRadiant and D3Radiant.
Also spaces in pathnames are to be avoided so it makes sense to have the actual name space-free as well.
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That's interesting, I've never seen anything like that. Can you post the map somewhere?
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There are some problems with this. For one, a quantum events causal chain is every bit as deterministic as a non-quantum event, its just not predictable. Secondly, why would you consider a random event as freedom producing? If you are willing to run out of a burning house but at the last second a quantum event zigs your will and you sit down to die, is that freedom producing?
The major problem was that the theory made absolutely no attempt to explain HOW these mysterious quantum effects could affect consciousness. It was just replacing one mystery (free will) with another (quantum effects), without postulating any scientific link between the two.
The problem is that there is not a shred of scientific evidence that points to the existence of genuine free will, in most cases it appears that the brain is just a complex machine that processes inputs and generates outputs. Although very little is known about the detailed mechanisms involved, there is little to suggest a lack of determinism other than "OMG OF C0URS3 I CAN CONTRL MY 0WN BRA!N!!!LOL".
Another thing where I could see quantum effects having an influence could be in that Dennetts proposal. In his book "Consciousness explained" that favoured an idea that your mind is a kind of constantly fluctuating mass. All possible options are represented. Now when some options become more realistic then others, they are kind of growing (like a mathematical function that has several maximas). The quantum effect could be that tiny seed that is needed to create such a option in the first place and if you have several maximas and you need to make a decision the quantum effect could decide which one is really taken in the end.I find Dennett's theories to very well-thought out and reasonable. He doesn't make any assumptions based on the way things seem to be (like there is someone in control at the top of the brain with ultimate authority over everything else). The problem with relying on quantum effects is that they are absolutely tiny when compared to the (very deterministic) behaviour of neurons - they are no more likely to have an effect at the brain level than individual molecules in a gas could override the pressure equations.
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Wasn't Penrose the puveyor of some ridiculous theory about quantum affects in certain cellular structures ("nanotubules" IIRC) being responsible for "free will"?
Basically the theory was "free will is a bit weird and mysterious, and so is quantum theory, therefore perhaps they are related, who knows?".
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I remember being impressed by the graphics on one of the original Tomb Raiders, unfortunately though I absolutely LOATHE 3rd person games (not because of any ideological elitism, I just can't stand not seeing what the character sees and all that lurching camera action gives me motion sickness).
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It's Macsen Day!
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It's fairly obvious where "Mam", "Mum", "Mom" comes from if you consider the shape of the lips when making that sound.
It would be interesting to see whether such words are the same in languages that have no common root with English, such as African dialects.