I don't even know why I buy new pc games any more (but I still do) because I always go back to this game. Great multiplayer, and even greater multiplayer custom maps www.getdota.com
Steam works a lot better now, you should give it a second chance. I have never had a problem with it (including half life 2 *shrug*) and offline mode works just fine.
When users don't know what a term means they can find out and create a link in the wiki to the explanation page. It works where I work (when people remember to use it)
I went to a liberal arts college for 2 years and than transferred to a 4 year university with a good CS program. I graduate in 6 days and if I could do it all over again, I would do the exact same thing. I'll only have a 4 year degree, but the 2 years spent in liberal arts was more than worth it. (Plus the girls are hotter and more plentiful at liberal arts school than they ever will be in any science/engineering program at a university)
In Utah I can get 50Mbps U/D for $50/month (with a 500GB cap) I wonder how Comcast will try to charge for this service when they roll it out here.
I should probably note that 50Mbps is only available in cities that bothered to roll out fiber over the last 4 years which excludes Salt Lake City, but includes plenty of areas south and west of it.
Amen to that, I'm writing a game using DirectX for my senior project (never done any graphics programming before.) Believe the guy when he says their is no magical "Awesome Graphics" api. Just getting a rotating polygon on screen without lighting effects is a few hundred lines of code. DirectX/opengl makes life slightly easier, but nothing is free. Complex games are difficult to make, and making them is not for lazy people.
I agree with this and have only been reading slashdot for ~2 years. It's been like this the entire time, has it ever been different? Either way, I take all comments with a grain of salt. Especially those in microsoft threads...
There is a guy here in Utah that makes a pretty cool Christmas display with lights timed to music and all that, here are some pics http://www.christmasutah.com/2007_lights.html If you are in the area, it is definitely worth seeing.
(Google ads on the bottom, I am not the owner of the website)
Without radio, who would the RIAA (or any other recording label) have to promote their music for them for free? The RIAA is basically trying to get a bill passed to help cut off their own (free) distribution. Awesome.
I never said it was science, no matter how pointless it is in an actual discussion, it is fun to bring up around people who have never heard it just to get their reaction. I didn't expect people to take my post meant as a joke so seriously.
Isn't it sufficient enough for these science types to believe in god because it is a "safe bet?"
Seriously though, pascal's wager almost always leads to some interesting conversation with Christians and atheists alike. Try supporting it around these types of people if you haven't yet.
At this point I would hardly call MTV a source of music, but I realize that there are other television stations that offer what MTV once did. However, showing off a new artist in this way is much more risky than it is to just have a radio station PAY you to do the promotions and playtesting for you. Radio stations pay a very high percentage of their GROSS (somewhere around 6%) to the record companies in order to continue playing the music. Try to get that same type of better-than-free promotion that not only pays you, but handles all of the risk on a television network. It doesn't exist. If a music single flops on the radio you have the option to not produce an entire album, however if it flops on MTV you already spent thousands of dollars creating a video for the song, and even more money buying a slot on the air. This type of risk is not in radio, and yet the record companies are still trying to kill their best resource.
Hasn't the music industry realized yet that without radio (in any form) they would have zero distribution for new music and fall flat on their faces? If anything, these radio stations should be paid by the record labels for playing their songs for free and getting them much needed exposure, especially when it comes to the next big pop artist. Unbelievable.
Agreed. Who does that? I've made forms that submit when drop down menu items are changed, but those will work fine on the iPhone. Who submits their forms when an arbitrary item loses mouse focus?
Doesn't it than make more sense to call it what it really is and just say "XMLHttpRequest?" Anything beyond that is just fluff. At any rate, looks like it's time to get a new edition of the design patterns book. Thanks for the thorough explanation of the term, it's the first I've seen.
God I hate this word. It took me ~6 months to figure out what people meant when they said that they were programming "in AJAX" until I realized that they had no idea what AJAX meant either. As far as I can tell, it's an acronym that describes a mashup (pardon me, I couldn't resist) of various programming techniques into one programming style. The thing people particularly care about is the asynchronous part, why not just call it A instead of creating another meaningless and widely misunderstood buzzword?
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What?! This beta software doesn't work properly?! UNPOSSIBLE!
I don't even know why I buy new pc games any more (but I still do) because I always go back to this game. Great multiplayer, and even greater multiplayer custom maps www.getdota.com
Steam works a lot better now, you should give it a second chance. I have never had a problem with it (including half life 2 *shrug*) and offline mode works just fine.
A game should just be fun, who cares about unique? If a game is fun, it's worth playing unique or not.
When users don't know what a term means they can find out and create a link in the wiki to the explanation page. It works where I work (when people remember to use it)
I ran the google v8 test 3 times and took the high on my Ubuntu machine, the results: Firefox linux: 68 Firefox wine: 104
Software pirates are assholes.
I went to a liberal arts college for 2 years and than transferred to a 4 year university with a good CS program. I graduate in 6 days and if I could do it all over again, I would do the exact same thing. I'll only have a 4 year degree, but the 2 years spent in liberal arts was more than worth it. (Plus the girls are hotter and more plentiful at liberal arts school than they ever will be in any science/engineering program at a university)
In Utah I can get 50Mbps U/D for $50/month (with a 500GB cap) I wonder how Comcast will try to charge for this service when they roll it out here.
I should probably note that 50Mbps is only available in cities that bothered to roll out fiber over the last 4 years which excludes Salt Lake City, but includes plenty of areas south and west of it.
Amen to that, I'm writing a game using DirectX for my senior project (never done any graphics programming before.) Believe the guy when he says their is no magical "Awesome Graphics" api. Just getting a rotating polygon on screen without lighting effects is a few hundred lines of code. DirectX/opengl makes life slightly easier, but nothing is free. Complex games are difficult to make, and making them is not for lazy people.
I agree with this and have only been reading slashdot for ~2 years. It's been like this the entire time, has it ever been different? Either way, I take all comments with a grain of salt. Especially those in microsoft threads...
There is a guy here in Utah that makes a pretty cool Christmas display with lights timed to music and all that, here are some pics http://www.christmasutah.com/2007_lights.html If you are in the area, it is definitely worth seeing. (Google ads on the bottom, I am not the owner of the website)
Without radio, who would the RIAA (or any other recording label) have to promote their music for them for free? The RIAA is basically trying to get a bill passed to help cut off their own (free) distribution. Awesome.
I never said it was science, no matter how pointless it is in an actual discussion, it is fun to bring up around people who have never heard it just to get their reaction. I didn't expect people to take my post meant as a joke so seriously.
Isn't it sufficient enough for these science types to believe in god because it is a "safe bet?"
Seriously though, pascal's wager almost always leads to some interesting conversation with Christians and atheists alike. Try supporting it around these types of people if you haven't yet.
At this point I would hardly call MTV a source of music, but I realize that there are other television stations that offer what MTV once did. However, showing off a new artist in this way is much more risky than it is to just have a radio station PAY you to do the promotions and playtesting for you. Radio stations pay a very high percentage of their GROSS (somewhere around 6%) to the record companies in order to continue playing the music. Try to get that same type of better-than-free promotion that not only pays you, but handles all of the risk on a television network. It doesn't exist. If a music single flops on the radio you have the option to not produce an entire album, however if it flops on MTV you already spent thousands of dollars creating a video for the song, and even more money buying a slot on the air. This type of risk is not in radio, and yet the record companies are still trying to kill their best resource.
Hasn't the music industry realized yet that without radio (in any form) they would have zero distribution for new music and fall flat on their faces? If anything, these radio stations should be paid by the record labels for playing their songs for free and getting them much needed exposure, especially when it comes to the next big pop artist. Unbelievable.
Ah, ok, thanks for the explanation!
Agreed. Who does that? I've made forms that submit when drop down menu items are changed, but those will work fine on the iPhone. Who submits their forms when an arbitrary item loses mouse focus?
Care to offer an explanation?
Doesn't it than make more sense to call it what it really is and just say "XMLHttpRequest?" Anything beyond that is just fluff. At any rate, looks like it's time to get a new edition of the design patterns book. Thanks for the thorough explanation of the term, it's the first I've seen.
God I hate this word. It took me ~6 months to figure out what people meant when they said that they were programming "in AJAX" until I realized that they had no idea what AJAX meant either. As far as I can tell, it's an acronym that describes a mashup (pardon me, I couldn't resist) of various programming techniques into one programming style. The thing people particularly care about is the asynchronous part, why not just call it A instead of creating another meaningless and widely misunderstood buzzword?