Thanks for the heads up TVE
+1. Displacement mapping still bogs down rendering times on a number of commercial renderers so to see it happening in realtime is quite something. Theoretically you could start to see detail on characters in games that look very similar to the original zbrush sculpt (instead of using a normal map on low poly geometry)- so the future is kinda already here and it's bright.
That's why it was such a strange riot. Most riots tend to be against things. This was just an affirmation of the predominance of materialist values. As crashgate says above, you need to establish why this happened. I think you can make a fairly confident argument that it happened because these people have no imagination whatsoever.
I'm confused about the problem of policing for gun and knife crime in these areas and what's to be done about that. Listening to some of the people in these communities speak over the last few days, it seems that there's a real pressing need for more support in cracking down on violent crime (some feeling that nothing is being done and putting the blame on politicians) but on the other hand there is of course an enormous resentment towards these stop and search programs. So I'm getting a schizophrenic picture about that. Anyone want to dive in here?
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Free trainers for all! 
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:monkey::chair::banana_raHeh. Yeah.
Btw I have plenty of personal anecdotal evidence in support of those studies. I used to collect for charities on highways, and it was always the poorer folks who gave money. You could be certain that the Porsche that was coming up the road would not even look at you.
Becky, those studies certainly ring hollow when you read stuff like this... (or maybe it was a rich guy at the wheel. Who knows)
http://www.theage.com.au/world ... gland-20110810-1imt5.html
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This is like anti anti-consumerism. It wasn't that long ago kids were ready to burn their Nikes in service of a saner world. These kids want Nikes. They're doing exactly what they've been told to do and it's their fault.
Yeah you have a grand theory- stretching all the way back to the governments of the 60s. Surprised you didn't include a reference to the fall from paradise. Fact is, you're making excuses for these kids. If they were being used as chimney sweeps, I would have excused this.
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The games made me do it theory...
I would say it's mostly an just another opportunity for people to right/left bash away. Dudes lift a bunch of televisions and the answer is of course well of course this was gunna happen, you didn't vote for our guy. duh..!!!.
I've got a better theory... Teenage DNA. Happens every generation. Too bad these kids can't figure out anything better to do with themselves than riot for new pair of trainers. ****ing disappointing tbh.
Compared to Bill Gates, my bank account is pretty shitty. Think I'll take up an iron pipe and go wander the streets for a bit.
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Well they're running around with more processing power than a Cray supercomputer in their back pockets. I'll save my definition of 'disenfranchised' for another group.
An aged reader in the Guardian comments section writes:
"How can these poverty stricken disenfranchised 'children' actually afford these smart phones ?"
"How can these poverty stricken disenfranchised 'children' actually afford these smart phones ?"
Having the tent in there among that lot is surreal.
Saw Magnolia for the first time on TV last night. I kept ducking out and doing other things but the movie was kind of intriguing. But there was a weird thing happening with the sound every now and again, like it was horribly compressed or something. With a lot of background noise, there would be this vocoder like effect that was kind of annoying. Then... the scene with raining frogs happened, and it was just a perfect moment with that vocoder sound. I almost think the movie must have been designed that way so there would be this awesome sound effect for the frogs in the last scene. It was brilliant! 
Well this reframes things. Tbh, I assumed that the few posts calling for a crackdown with rubber bullets and tear gas were a bit of a put on, so I didn't take them seriously. I guess my beef is more about the thing that Intrepid bought up in post #17- that people are gonna use this episode to as a means of reinforcement of thier own hard line political opinions, instead of seeing it as a bunch of kids being knobs (whatever the original justification was, it's gone past that). I'll bet money that there are serious people scribbling away right now about how this is the 'face of multiculturalism' or something, and we've already witnessed the counterarguments from the left. Just smells like (adult) demagoguery to me. Sorry.
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