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Interestingly, Mandelbrot Sets are related to both neural nets and imaginary numbers, though each for entirely different reasons (complex systems vs complex arguments).

Assuming that's 80ms between 'updates', I dunno... 60hz (a typical monitor update rate) is 60 refreshes per second. That's why over 60fps on is meaningless. That's 1 update every 17ms. So I think you'd want to get it down to below 30ms -- 15ms ideally. I mean 80ms in an MP game is pretty damn nice. But in that case your graphics update at a rate of like 0ms (instantly) so only the computations from other players are slightly delayed. In this case it'd be everything delayed. I think it would be more jittery than the same latency in an MP game.

From other thread: Hello cloud gaming! http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C28...343703%2C00.asp Epic article. It's already pretty much started with things like Quake Live, but the fact that they have working models of this service is really cool to me (computer science geek that I am). Really now, they're only limited by the world's Internet connections. And Scotland and South Korea just upgraded like, everyone, to something like 100mb or 1gb per second connections I don't see bandwidth being an issue for much longer (if it even is now). I guess there's not much point in me pushing for games to be ported to Linux and Mac anymore as this will make such efforts obsolete. The in-built uniformity and security a service like this would provide must make game developers cream their pants.

Anyway, as DX showed, even if the combat isn't great, if the rest of the game is good, mediocre combat can be tolerated. Speak for yourself. A lot of people I've spoken to enjoyed DX1's combat.

Hello cloud gaming! http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0%2C28...343703%2C00.asp Epic article. It's already pretty much started with things like Quake Live, but the fact that they have working models of this service is really cool to me (computer science geek that I am). Really now, they're only limited by the world's Internet connections. And Scotland and South Korea just upgraded like, everyone, to something like 100mb or 1gb per second connections I don't see bandwidth being an issue for much longer (if it even is now). I guess there's not much point in me pushing for games to be ported to Linux and Mac anymore as this will make such efforts obsolete. The in-built uniformity and security a service like this would provide must make game developers cream their pants.

Id est: People used to think the square roots of negative numbers didn't exist. And thus, when it turned out you could do some useful things if you supposed they did, there was a dilemma. You see, if you were to propose the square roots of negative numbers did exist, people would look at you funny or possibly execute you for heresy, so instead they pretended they existed, as "imaginary" numbers and all was well!

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Your mum is imaginary. For real. I was just interested because we seem to have so many eductaed people on teh board. Maths is something I've come to late in life, but with a convert's enthusiasm. Don't give it a second thought. Imaginary (or rather, complex) numbers are basically an easy notation for a type of vector. If there's anything especially deeper to them then I've spent the past 6 years in the dark! Although note e^(i*@) = -1 when @ = pi+2kpi where k is an integer. Specifically e^(i*pi)+1=0. If you'd like to know some nifty ways of dealing with complex numbers, look up De Moivre's formula. You can do a lot with that, as it relates complex numbers, sin, cos, exponentials, arguments, and powers. We primarily used it for things like roots of unity and finding identities for integration.

Will this game be like Deus Ex 1?

Your mum is imaginary.

I think he'd definitely fit a few clinical definitions of insanity, but whatever you want to call it, he's not mentally stable. You're not really making sense. The skinjobs were pissed off with humans in the first place because 'their people' had been enslaved and they wanted revenge. They may be fickle but they're not moronic.

Cavil may be insane, but the others are not. It doesn't fit at all well. "During Sam's ramblings while he's getting prepped for surgery, he says 'Back on Earth, the warning signs that we got? It looked different to each one of us. I saw a woman; Tory you saw a man. Funny, no-one - no-one else could see them. Galen, you thought you had a chip in your head-'." Maybe the writers are going to visit the virtual beings/angels after all.

If Caville wanted revenge on humans for what they did to his people, then why did he proceed to lobotomise his own people (raiders, toasters) and kill the rest? You could put if down to him being a mad man, but the other Cylons seemed quite happy to go along with it for a good while. I mean the only reason he was created was because 'his people' agreed to it in exchange for a ceasefire. He then goes and lobotomises them? This show is so frakking full of plot holes.

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Wrong forum. You should post this thread again here if you think it's important.

Re Kara: interesting speculation.

That's the worst thing about working late like that. You always need a few hours to unwind before bed which basically rules out sleep before midnight.

Oh, and on a lighter note, girl managed to save her puppy:

A lot of the pictures coming out of the Victorian bushfires last weekend were absolutely amazing. Firestorms the size of 5 storey buildings, cars that had been melted into the ground with their tyre axles dribbling out from the car like wax on a candle, blood-red suns, landscapes that look like what you'd see during a full moon at night because all colour had been burnt to white-grey ash leaving only tree skeleteons. Here's an amazing NASA image of the surface temperature deviation of Australia on February the 7th 2009, based on the average temperature for this period in the years 2000 to 2008. While Victoria (the south) was hit with a 45+ Celsius inferno-fueling heatwave, about 80% of Queensland (the north) was suffering from flash floods triggered cyclones. A car: The army is called in for logistics support: Some building. You can see the silver ling coming from the car. That's melted metal. Looks like a pine plantation: Some flattened houses: Some of these firestorms travelled between 100 to 200 km/h, meaning many people died in their cars trying to escape, and that towns like Marysville (which no longer exists) didn't even get an evacuation warning. And they had a 'lethal radius' (zone where no oxygen exists, nevermind the heat) of 200meters, which is 4 times normal. The sun in the middle of the day: Farmland (NOT black and white): It was about 40 degrees here on the day (a week ago). Now it's 10 degrees and we've been receiving flood warnings. Apparently the amount of energy released on Saturday was roughly equivalent to about 500 Hiroshima nukes.

Whoa, thanks guys! I wasn't quite expecting this response. I can hardly reply to every post, but know that I did read them all. But some points: - I've been adjusting my sleep patterns over the course of the week and I am now getting up before 10am each day and going to bed before 2am. I think it's started helping. - I switched ADHD medications (from dexamphetamine to Ritalin) as an experiment and it's horrible so I'll go back to my doctor to switch back soon, and when I do I'll discuss my underlying 'emotional discomfort' with him if it persists. - I start O-week (and move on campus) in 1 day. Already this proximity is starting to cheer me up, as I start focusing on packing, etc. - I think all the people telling me I'll feel better when I get into study again, mix with people, etc are spot on. I can't wait to be back, and yes I'm a little nervous about the fact that I'm 'old' (as much as 20 can be considered old), and a little concerned I still won't be able to concentrate on study. - Hurlshot: I used to do cross-country running and orienteering at my old uni, but I stopped when I left. Exercise would probably be a really good idea and I plan to start again when I move in. - I'm eating slightly more healthily. Recently my diet has consisted mainly of fat and protein and I think the lack of carbs has been hitting me in the form of mild hypoglycemia throughout the day (i.e. basically low energy levels). Thankfully I'll be moving into a catered residence. - Thanks for your replies Calax and slug. It is helpful to hear other people empathise through their own situations. - Re volunteering: I'd love to but I don't know where to start. At my old uni I was a maths tutor and that was a wonderful feeling - helping kids understand maths and such. I wanted to go to East Timor this year to do aid work, but the charities require a uni degree and I can't fund myself there. Obviously something closer to home is necessary now. Hopefully I can find something on club day (a day in O week were societies and stuff strut their stuff). And my final point is: after writing up this big thread, it was like lifting a weight off my shoulders and I basically began to feel better afterwards. It's funny how the mind works. Again, thanks for all the advice guys. P.S. Although I was more than a little saddened to see Gearbox and Obsidian are on the rocks.

I don't want AvP3 (well I do, but), I want the Aliens RPG and FPS! God damn frakking frak frak frak.

Hmmm: "On December 5th 2008 Sigourney Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Ridley Scott are working on an Alien spinoff film which will focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than the Aliens."

I do consider 3 games released within a year of each other all based on (basically) the same IP to be betting the house! Not that I'm against it. At least 2 of these 3 games (and probably all 3) will succeed wildly, each proping up the other, and no doubt all benefiting from the upcoming movie (because you don't do something like this without a movie far behind). I know I plan to buy all 3 simply because each one is appealing by itself.

How would that NOT be awesome? Inthe magical land of copyright infringement. I am pretty sure Gears of War doesn't (and can't) hold a copyright on the concept of a chainsaw bayonet.

How many special abilities did weapons in Deus Ex have? I wouldn't judge a game only by the number of spells/abilities et.c. Hint: Deus Ex had about 4 times as many weapons and 4 times as many abilities (augs). So I think that in this case (only 4 weapons, each quite specialised), I think there's ample reason to judge based on the number of abilities. WILL is right. Even if it were just 2 per weapon that'd be infinitely better (and less boring and more replayable) than 1 per weapon.