Posts by twiz

resize all I see is a blurry asian blob

yes, I cleaned my mirror. Just for you, Pampers :derp:

I hereby turn in my resignation as a member of beard.core

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What it means is that there is only one seller to choose from for a given product or service.

How is this any different from XBox360 or PS3's online marketplaces?

I agree that monopoly's are bad, mmkay. But the way to break up a monopoly is with legitimate, innovative competitors offering a product with advantages over Steam - not government intervention to lessen the quality or value of a product until the competitor's product starts looking like a good value too. And certainly not with intentional, blatant collusion to try to bully some market share from Valve.

I do see an issue with requiring Steam to be installed just to handle DRM shit. If there were a Steamworks standalone that could handle the DRM and nothing else, that would be ideal.

So they're trying to use their muscle to force a competitor out of the way?

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In competition law, a group boycott is a type of secondary boycott in which two or more competitors in a relevant market refuse to conduct business with a firm unless the firm agrees to cease doing business with an actual or potential competitor of the firms conducting the boycott.[1] It is a form of refusal to deal, and can be a method of shutting a competitor out of a market, or preventing entry of a new firm into a market.In the United States, such conduct can be held to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. Depending upon the nature of the boycott, the courts may either apply the rule of reason, or hold that the boycott is illegal per se. It may also be considered a form of civil conspiracy.

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Sources of monopoly power...

Deliberate Actions: A firm wanting to monopolise a market may engage in various types of deliberate action to exclude competitors or eliminate competition. Such actions include collusion, lobbying governmental authorities, and force.

Lols @ irony.

So, after 7 years of Valve working out all the issues with digital distribution while everyone else sat around with their thumb up their ass, they have the nerve to go cry monopoly on them? Yeah, cry me a river.

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Carniverous Musicalus batik by Emek.. needs to be ironed

What about doing the burners as two planes intersecting in an X, then using transparent textures.. sorry its been a while since I've modeled and I'm not up on the nomenclature.. Basically like how you'd do trees back in the day. That'd only consume 4 tris per burner, plus whatever for the center part. It would also allow you to use fewer polys on the burner surface, since you could just have one big flat plane there instead of broken up.

Forgive me if this is all a completely stupid idea, like I said, its been a long time

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thinks twiz should clean his mirror

You should see the rest of my house....

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in my defense, I'm an engineering major, not an english major

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learn, twiz :derp: A middleschool is where you go to learn words like "learn" to use in sentences like "A college is where you go to learn words like "colleague"

haha I originally had something else written and edited it, guess I forgot a word

colleague, HP :derp: A college is where you go to learn words like "colleague"

This gets the nerdy-engineer side of me all hot 'n bothered.

It'd be interesting to mount this on a rotating scanner with good lighting(lights mounted on the side of the kinect?), so you could place an object inside and have it generate a fully textured 3d model. If you made the lighting rotate separately, it could be possible to general accurate normal maps too. Compare the image with the light hitting at, say, 60* to straight on, should give a good idea of where the high and low spots are, and how high/low they are. It would take some programming knowledge(which I do not possess), but it would certainly be really cool. Spec maps would be possible too by the same process.

Hmm, maybe when I can get my hands on one of them when they're more like $100 I'll play around with this.

That looks fabulous.

maybe put it in here? viewtopic.php?f=58&t=15334

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Still looks like the alyx model.

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Dr.Strangelove

qft

I think everyone on here has hit on most of my favorites already... But I'd like to also add Cinema Paradiso. Doubt anyone on here has seen it, but you all should.

Oh and also, a bunch of stuff by Studio Ghibli - My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Grave of the Fireflies. All great.