making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does.
And if that doesn't convince you they'll win the World Cup, perhaps you need a demonstration of the man-killing laser beams that shoot out of their eyes, meatbag.
You're insane if you think IBM's push into Open Source is being done for any idealistic reasons of Good vs Evil. IBM just wants to make software a free complimentary commodity so they can make tons of cash on hardware and service/support. Basic economics.
The fact that this causes them to do something that you consider "good" is coincidental.
Will the little Dutch boy be executed for sticking his finger in the dike?
As long as the dyke consented, I don't see the problem.
Ohh... dike...
Re:Star Wars should be higher.
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Except it's NOT reference quality. AOTC is a MUCH better DVD. Want proof? Listen to the pod racers warming up on disc one, and then switch to disc two and listen to the same sequence in the deleted scenes. Disc two presents it with reference quality sound; disc one sounds anemic in comparison. Meesa dissappointed.
Whatchu talkin' about Willis? You're quoting the review for the Phantom Menace DVD.
I was talking about the Original Trilogy collection.
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Ok, I guess I'm a fan coming out of the woodwork, but really... I know it is fashionable to be anti-Star Wars these days, but the original trilogy still kicks all kinds of ass, and the transfer, sound and extras on the original trilogy collection are all top notch.
I'm not saying it should be #1, but seriously, it should NOT be behind Dawn of the Dead, Men in Black or Ghostbusters. Some of the others are debatable, but I don't think those are. I like all of those movies, and own 2 of the 3 on DVD, but cmon.
The 802.11n standard will be completed in approximately November 2006.
If the standard won't be completed until November 2006, standards-compliance doesn't even become a factor for me.
I'm already pretty happy with my 802.11g gear, but if I were to go buy new stuff, I'd buy pre-N gear known to work together for my current systems. I can't really be bothered to worry about if the gear will be compatible with the "real stuff" almost 2 freakin' years from now... If the standard were right around the corner.. maybe.
Of course, YMMV, obviously I'm looking at this as a consumer and it doesn't apply for big 100+ computer enterprise networks, where you do have to worry about long term compatibility.
One of the most annoying things about OSS advocates is when they ask "Why would you ever want to do that?" about something no OSS package does well and yet hundreds of thousands of people really do want to "do that" as is evidenced by the continual high sales of Dreamweaver.
Wake up! We're not special.. the construction industry has been doing huge projects of equal complexity for centuries. Get past your intellectual snobbery and start working together..
You're right, we're not special. Real-world construction jobs are also (still, after all those centuries!) often mismanaged, over-budget and not done in the time-frame originally estimated. There is no silver bullet. Not in software, not in anything that is complex.
Like the first one, this one seems made-up. A lot of the quotes, while funny, seem too canned (and too backhandedly insightful in some cases) to have really been made by young children.
This may be the first console that Blizzard could release a successful game for
No, that would be the SNES. Blizzard made console games (including some very successful ones like Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll Racing and Blackthorne) before they ever made PC games.
What about a Log-in system. Wouldn't this solve it? If users had to log into Google, then google can filter out multiple clicks from unique logged in users..
So I'm going to have to log into google to view google ads on third party sites? And the benefit to me is what, exactly? Not to mention the fact that adding a login system to google would be ridiculously resource-expensive (doable, sure, but it wouldn't come cheap in terms of engineering or cpu/network resource costs).
I'm not sure who to support here....because Sun really sucks these days (and this is coming from someone who was a huge fan back in the olden days of SunOS), but ESR is a huge twat as well...
I unlocked the game at 8am 16/11/2004 (GMT), and was playing 15 minutes later. Not had a single crash.
I had a similar experience. Installed via Steam and it worked fine right away. However... there are known, verified problems with the standard installer for people who got the game the old fashioned way, so neither your nor my experience here makes a bit of difference if this guy ran into those installer bugs.
Wow! you must be racing through the game very quickly and missing lots of the gameplay if you find it loading content every five minutes.
I've been going through the game at a leisurely pace and there are quite a few stretches of game where the loading comes even quicker than every five minutes. It is somewhat inconsistent though.. Sometimes you'll go 10-20 minutes without a reload, then sometimes you seem to be reloading every 3-6 minutes. It does seem a bit excessive, IMO.. but not a deal breaker.
Not seen that at all on the Ravenholm level. I'm quite surprised you say that, as the map boundaries always seem to be far away from the next/last monster. I've not played the entire game yet, but I certainly didn't see it on the map you talk of.
I know exactly what he is talking about. On the part of Ravenholm where you need to position the platform so you can jump across to the roofs.. and there is a little courtyard with one of those spinning metal things you can control with the gravity gun. There is a door portal in that area that triggers a level load and if you happen to not go exactly the right way the first time, you'll walk around in a circle that causes the level to load again, and then if you back up a bit? Loads again... Annoying little spot. FWIW, that's the only one like that I've seen in the game so far (I'm currently pretty deep into the antlions part).
In any case, Half-Life 2 is absolutely an amazing game and I suggest it as a must buy for any PC gamer, but the original poster's problems are all pretty valid. I disagree that they are bad enough to merit waiting 5 years to play the game.. but then I got lucky and wasn't hit by the annoying installer bugs either...
When I first started hearing about all of these election problems, I assumed it was just tinfoil hat stuff. The thing that makes me worry that there might be more to it is that every one of the errors I've heard about has gone in Bush's favor. This could possibly be because (for obvious reasons) the Kerry supporters are more upset about the outcome and more likely to bolster errors favoring the other guy...
So, to ease my state of mind over this, can someone point to significant errors in Kerry's favor? Surely if these are random and unrelated occurances, the distribution of who is being favored should be about equal, right?
As a professional programmer going on about 10 years of experience, yeah I do expect what boils down to a simple set of accumulators tied to a dead simple user interface and running on fixed hardware to be bug free. Why the hell wouldn't they be?
What tax loophole is this exactly? I know that the companies avoid certain expenses just due to lower wages offshore, but taxes too?
Lower wages equates directly into lower taxes. You may not have noticed but the government taxes your wages. The less an employer pays for an employee the less taxes the government gets. Not to mention the secondary issues, such as the fact that overseas workers won't be paying US sales tax on bought goods.
So, like the first guy said, $500 to beta test. No thank you. Why people fall for this I will never understand-if you want to invest in the company, buy stock.
You seem to be missing the point -- but then, so do most of the people posting here, so maybe it is the fault of the misleading, biased copy in the Slashdot writeup.
This program is for DEVELOPERS. You know, people who write software that will run on Apple's OSes. Getting early access to developer tools and upcoming OS releases is *easily worth* $500. I pay about three times more to Microsoft for MSDN for the same purpose -- to get a first look at the operating systems and tools. Not because I want to be first on my block for bragging rights, but because I may want to be first to market with an application that makes use of services in the new OS.
Do you really want grandma scooting around at around 20mph among pedestrians?
Chances are that "grandma" spends some of her time driving around at 65mph* on the freeway, which is much more dangerous, but we let her do that anyway.
I know that if I shelled out big bucks for a giant game collection, the furthest thing from my mind would be to give them out to everyone for free. I guess I'm selfish like that.
They were very likely taking the IP address reported from your incoming packets and doing a RARP trace on it to get your MAC address. This doesn't work in a whole lot of common situations (eg. many potential users all behind the same NAT), so it isn't a good solution for a real web application or site.
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making its own decisions based on information that it perceives with its 360 degree vision, and is able to recognise the football, approach it and deliver a hefty kick. It is also able to identify an opponent and shield the ball in much the same way as a human player does.
And if that doesn't convince you they'll win the World Cup, perhaps you need a demonstration of the man-killing laser beams that shoot out of their eyes, meatbag.
You're insane if you think IBM's push into Open Source is being done for any idealistic reasons of Good vs Evil. IBM just wants to make software a free complimentary commodity so they can make tons of cash on hardware and service/support. Basic economics.
The fact that this causes them to do something that you consider "good" is coincidental.
Will the little Dutch boy be executed for sticking his finger in the dike?
As long as the dyke consented, I don't see the problem.
Ohh... dike...
From the site:
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Except it's NOT reference quality. AOTC is a MUCH better DVD. Want proof? Listen to the pod racers warming up on disc one, and then switch to disc two and listen to the same sequence in the deleted scenes. Disc two presents it with reference quality sound; disc one sounds anemic in comparison. Meesa dissappointed.
Whatchu talkin' about Willis? You're quoting the review for the Phantom Menace DVD.
I was talking about the Original Trilogy collection.
Ok, I guess I'm a fan coming out of the woodwork, but really... I know it is fashionable to be anti-Star Wars these days, but the original trilogy still kicks all kinds of ass, and the transfer, sound and extras on the original trilogy collection are all top notch.
I'm not saying it should be #1, but seriously, it should NOT be behind Dawn of the Dead, Men in Black or Ghostbusters. Some of the others are debatable, but I don't think those are. I like all of those movies, and own 2 of the 3 on DVD, but cmon.
The 802.11n standard will be completed in approximately November 2006.
If the standard won't be completed until November 2006, standards-compliance doesn't even become a factor for me.
I'm already pretty happy with my 802.11g gear, but if I were to go buy new stuff, I'd buy pre-N gear known to work together for my current systems. I can't really be bothered to worry about if the gear will be compatible with the "real stuff" almost 2 freakin' years from now... If the standard were right around the corner.. maybe.
Of course, YMMV, obviously I'm looking at this as a consumer and it doesn't apply for big 100+ computer enterprise networks, where you do have to worry about long term compatibility.
One of the most annoying things about OSS advocates is when they ask "Why would you ever want to do that?" about something no OSS package does well and yet hundreds of thousands of people really do want to "do that" as is evidenced by the continual high sales of Dreamweaver.
So many games over the past several years to come from their halls.
A few the poster didn't mention:
Alone in the dark series,
Fallout,
Luckily, Interplay is just a publisher and the developers (Bioware, Planet Moon, Shiny, etc) of most of those games are still doing just fine.
Wake up! We're not special.. the construction industry has been doing huge projects of equal complexity for centuries. Get past your intellectual snobbery and start working together..
You're right, we're not special. Real-world construction jobs are also (still, after all those centuries!) often mismanaged, over-budget and not done in the time-frame originally estimated. There is no silver bullet. Not in software, not in anything that is complex.
Like the first one, this one seems made-up. A lot of the quotes, while funny, seem too canned (and too backhandedly insightful in some cases) to have really been made by young children.
Another legal use is World of Warcraft's update system, which is BitTorrent based.
I hope Blizzard has a plan B for next year, when all the major ISPs (in the US anyway) are forced to block BitTorrent traffic.
The other two are also heavily based on other games. bzflag - Battlezone (natch) and Tux Racer - Pen Pen Tri-Icelon.
But, as they say, all games are Pong.
This may be the first console that Blizzard could release a successful game for
No, that would be the SNES. Blizzard made console games (including some very successful ones like Lost Vikings, Rock & Roll Racing and Blackthorne) before they ever made PC games.
What about a Log-in system. Wouldn't this solve it? If users had to log into Google, then google can filter out multiple clicks from unique logged in users..
So I'm going to have to log into google to view google ads on third party sites? And the benefit to me is what, exactly? Not to mention the fact that adding a login system to google would be ridiculously resource-expensive (doable, sure, but it wouldn't come cheap in terms of engineering or cpu/network resource costs).
More likely, assuming he wasn't trolling, he confused Eric Raymond with Eric Allman. So hard to keep the Erics straight these days...
I'm not sure who to support here....because Sun really sucks these days (and this is coming from someone who was a huge fan back in the olden days of SunOS), but ESR is a huge twat as well...
Ah well, screw both of them.
I unlocked the game at 8am 16/11/2004 (GMT), and was playing 15 minutes later. Not had a single crash.
I had a similar experience. Installed via Steam and it worked fine right away. However... there are known, verified problems with the standard installer for people who got the game the old fashioned way, so neither your nor my experience here makes a bit of difference if this guy ran into those installer bugs.
Wow! you must be racing through the game very quickly and missing lots of the gameplay if you find it loading content every five minutes.
I've been going through the game at a leisurely pace and there are quite a few stretches of game where the loading comes even quicker than every five minutes. It is somewhat inconsistent though.. Sometimes you'll go 10-20 minutes without a reload, then sometimes you seem to be reloading every 3-6 minutes. It does seem a bit excessive, IMO.. but not a deal breaker.
Not seen that at all on the Ravenholm level. I'm quite surprised you say that, as the map boundaries always seem to be far away from the next/last monster. I've not played the entire game yet, but I certainly didn't see it on the map you talk of.
I know exactly what he is talking about. On the part of Ravenholm where you need to position the platform so you can jump across to the roofs.. and there is a little courtyard with one of those spinning metal things you can control with the gravity gun. There is a door portal in that area that triggers a level load and if you happen to not go exactly the right way the first time, you'll walk around in a circle that causes the level to load again, and then if you back up a bit? Loads again... Annoying little spot. FWIW, that's the only one like that I've seen in the game so far (I'm currently pretty deep into the antlions part).
In any case, Half-Life 2 is absolutely an amazing game and I suggest it as a must buy for any PC gamer, but the original poster's problems are all pretty valid. I disagree that they are bad enough to merit waiting 5 years to play the game.. but then I got lucky and wasn't hit by the annoying installer bugs either...
So, to ease my state of mind over this, can someone point to significant errors in Kerry's favor? Surely if these are random and unrelated occurances, the distribution of who is being favored should be about equal, right?
As a professional programmer going on about 10 years of experience, yeah I do expect what boils down to a simple set of accumulators tied to a dead simple user interface and running on fixed hardware to be bug free. Why the hell wouldn't they be?
Lower wages equates directly into lower taxes. You may not have noticed but the government taxes your wages. The less an employer pays for an employee the less taxes the government gets. Not to mention the secondary issues, such as the fact that overseas workers won't be paying US sales tax on bought goods.
So, like the first guy said, $500 to beta test. No thank you. Why people fall for this I will never understand-if you want to invest in the company, buy stock.
You seem to be missing the point -- but then, so do most of the people posting here, so maybe it is the fault of the misleading, biased copy in the Slashdot writeup.
This program is for DEVELOPERS. You know, people who write software that will run on Apple's OSes. Getting early access to developer tools and upcoming OS releases is *easily worth* $500. I pay about three times more to Microsoft for MSDN for the same purpose -- to get a first look at the operating systems and tools. Not because I want to be first on my block for bragging rights, but because I may want to be first to market with an application that makes use of services in the new OS.
Do you really want grandma scooting around at around 20mph among pedestrians?
Chances are that "grandma" spends some of her time driving around at 65mph* on the freeway, which is much more dangerous, but we let her do that anyway.
(* Ok.. maybe 45...)
I'll take that bet.
I know that if I shelled out big bucks for a giant game collection, the furthest thing from my mind would be to give them out to everyone for free. I guess I'm selfish like that.
They were very likely taking the IP address reported from your incoming packets and doing a RARP trace on it to get your MAC address. This doesn't work in a whole lot of common situations (eg. many potential users all behind the same NAT), so it isn't a good solution for a real web application or site.
I was looking forward to the free tacos.
Maybe next time.