Messages posted by: Trooper

its % based. .5 per level. if you have level 1 and only max adren of 100, its giving you .5 adren per tick... which rounds down to 0. if you had max 200 adren, you'd get 1 per tick. on a general you need at least level 2 to be useful to nearly everyone

ok so far I only read the abstract. basicly what its saying is this:

the light coming out of a screen of that type is polarized. this means the waves in the light are only in one orientation. picture a normal "beam" of light to be like a *. the wave has a vertical, horizontal, and multiple diagonal components, theoretically infinite. thats pure, unpolarized light. Polarized light is the same "beam" filtered so only one orientation comes out. making a * of light into - or | or \ or / is polarization.

the part about changing the direction of polarized light... I'm unsure which they mean by the abstract. one interpretation is that they move it to the side, offsetting the image. I think they mean turning the polarized light around its axis (ie making | into - by twisting it). So half the image would come out like - and the other half like |.

polarized glasses are common and cheep. the idea there being that it filters out most of reflected light. when light bounces off a surface (water for example) it polarizes in the direction of the bounce. light bouncing off a smooth pond would come off like - while light bouncing sideways off a window would be | do to the orientation of the surface. think about throwing a piece of paper at a set of window blinds (assuming you could make it fly straight). only the pieces of paper oriented in the same direction can get through. even slight angles are blocked. this reduces the glare by minimizing reflected light.

what they propose to do is have the screen show a image, bend some of the image polarization so half if | and half is -, then see it through glasses where one eye is - and one is |, thus splitting the image so only one eye sees it. problem with this idea (without reading the entire article) is that you need to be looking at it perfectly straight. even a slight angle of your head relative to the screen and the entire image will grow dark and/or overlap

does it actually give depth accurate to the world? or just make some stuff stand out just because

easiest way is this: bind each mouse button to say what it is. example: "Mouse1 = "say Mouse1" enter a game and hit each button in turn. that will tell you which is which

an idea about that just poped into my head. it only occurs with class's that can summon. Might it have something to do with dropping some but not all artifacts when you die? then again junkies dont do that and they have artifacts that they cant drop... but then again junkies dying dont drop artifacts... only when they leave the server... could that have something to do with it?

this is new to me... didnt happen till the server went down yesterday.... or since its after midnight, 2 days ago

it seems joining the server through x-fire causes you to stay in spectator mode till you reconnect. this seems to be new because it never did it to me before

actually I was busy all day at work with a 10 hour day so pffftttttt

I plead the 5th

there is very little ANYONE can do to a server to make the ping significantly better for people that far away. assuming the server is not being run on a box that is downloading a movie...

happy kill-the-natives day!

that happens every so often, usually due to lag if I am not mistaken. it will stay with you till the server goes to a new map or you disconnect (for the purposes of the client, you did disconnect when it goes to a new map) same for if you cant see your own shots, enemies, constructions, etc. a couple days ago I was the last one left and was unable to see the monsters... I didnt last long

thats why I play. its the best stress relief there is. that titan I just killed... thats my boss I'm pissed at. that scaarj that I just telefraged? thats the guy who cut me off on the road

dom60 wrote:

(DC)DEMONSLAYER wrote:

Hmmm, Dom. At least he knows he has weapons, do you?

My face is a weapon Demon!

"I dunno, Sarge... I know you're tough and all, but I find it hard to believe you can beat thousands of armour piercing bullets using only your face." Donut from Red Vs Blue

all I got is these fleshtone lumps at the end of my arms...