Surprised nobody mentioned this yet. I use a carabiner attached to my belt loops, which is a great place for all my keys, although it is a bit noisy. When I arrive at work or home I just take the whole carabiner key set off my pants and set it somewhere until I need to go. Carabiners also give you street cred with indie rockers and mountain climbers!
Nobody is going to give you money though unless you have a tangible business plan or documented examples of your ideas. i.e. concept art, playable demo or mod of an existing engine, extensive design documents. Plenty of people can come up with good game ideas, the trick is to mold that into an actual workable idea and that that all down on paper or in a playable state. Having something that people can actually play, even just a simple demo, can go a long way in convincing people you can make a FUN game.
I'm waiting for the day that some hacker puts together their own open-source pacemaker (running Linux of course) that people have installed by back alley surgeons.
The idea kind of reminds me of the eyeball transplants from Minority Report. I'm willing to bet stuff like that will happen someday.
I really feel sorry for the guy. Regardless of whether or not he committed the murder, he was a good programmer and an important member of the open-source community. It is too bad that brilliant people are often plagued by mental instability. I hope that Reiser is really innocent and simply did a lot of weird things that were indicative to murder. I can imagine that if he was innocent, he probably felt that people were out to get him, but simply had to way to articulate a reasonable response to the charges.
I certainly hope that the truth about his wife's whereabouts becomes known, regardless of the innocence of Reiser.
If the music and movie industries figured out how to get out of the stone age and set up a pay per month subscription service where I can download high quality versions of music, TV shows, and movies I would gladly sign up. This proposal being put forth seems like nothing other than an indicator that the entertainment industry is still hanging on by the tips of their fingers to an industry that NEEDS to change to fit the current market and technology of the customers.
Considering that I have seen far more games that use Havok than PhysX, I think Intel is at least somewhat in the better position as far as propagation. However, Nvidia could come up with some cool integrated hardware and really push that API to the developers in order to gain some ground. On the other hand consumers would have to bite, and it doesn't seem many have yet caught the physics fever. I have seen Havoc used in numerous console games as well, but AFAIK that's only an API...will Nvidia try to push their own brand of physics hardware along with an API to that sector too? Looks interesting.
Side note: I wouldn't mind seeing more work being done on AI though, possibly leading to AI accelerators in the future.
I noticed the first woman's quote saying that video games are not imaginative. Well when I was young my parents tried to limit my game playing and a few times even banned me from it when I started "acting out" video game scenarios in my normal play with my friends. I would be jumping down the street like Mario pretending to shoot fireballs, or engaging in simulated Mega Man battles with my buddies. Looking back I can see that I had two distinct creative outlets, playing games and playing outside, its just that the two melded together for me. Creativity from the video games was blending with my play life.
Now that I am a young adult I am still pretty much obsessed with video games, but I am looking to make a career out of it by using my music and audio engineering talents/schooling to contribute to the industry. If anything I think video games became the thing that I was passionate about as well as something I could fuel my other passions into.
Actually, the cinematic nature of Metal Gear Solid is exactly what would lend itself perfectly to a movie. In fact Hideo Kojima has already been shopping around for a studio and a director to create a film based on the first Metal Gear Solid Game.
One time a few years ago in my town some vandals managed to get up on the roof of the local Blockbuster and change the main huge marquee to say Cockbuster. It stayed up for a few weeks until they finally got it reverted back to normal.
Apparently the Optimus Maximus keyboard is now shipping and according to the Art Lebedev Studio site it costs $462.27. They also have another product concept for a single-surface display keyboard where any part of the display can be used to take input or display images. The site says, "Any part of the [Optimus Tactus] surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images."
This was one of those "features" of Vista that I heard about in the earlier days of the hype. There wasn't a clearly defined explanation of how they would indeed tie DRM to your HD monitor but I guess the results are starting to show. Someday maybe all of our hardware will be locked down so that if you don't buy content with appropriate DRM, it simply won't play.
Hurray for freedom!
Personally I don't find it at all surprising that Linux is taking off in the public sector, be it schools, hospitals, government etc. It is a really good thing in fact because it potentially bolsters the security of such organizations that need it most, and at the same time it saves a lot of money.
...no but once at a LAN party in high school, my drunk friend was wildly swinging around some kind of stick, and knocked an open can of Pepsi off the shelf right into the top of my CRT monitor. The monitor immediately turned off, but after waiting a couple hours for it to dry out, it turned right back on with no problems and worked fine ever since then.
Well, if the rumors about greatly increased performance from Service Pack 3 are true, then I see no reason to switch to Vista. Not only is the current Vista performance abysmal on even newer consumer machines, the performance from the much touted DX10 is nothing to write home about either. I am still getting along just fine with XP, especially on older hardware, and I see no pressing need to switch to Vista.
The team have recorded people's movements in completely new locations -- like driving a car -- previously out of reach. Kick ass! Now I can finally create that machinima of Samus and Master Cheif having sex while skydiving!
Dude, get this...I downloaded this game, I think it was called Quake 3...well, I started poking around on their website and found all the source code! Crazy huh?
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Surprised nobody mentioned this yet. I use a carabiner attached to my belt loops, which is a great place for all my keys, although it is a bit noisy. When I arrive at work or home I just take the whole carabiner key set off my pants and set it somewhere until I need to go. Carabiners also give you street cred with indie rockers and mountain climbers!
Nobody is going to give you money though unless you have a tangible business plan or documented examples of your ideas. i.e. concept art, playable demo or mod of an existing engine, extensive design documents. Plenty of people can come up with good game ideas, the trick is to mold that into an actual workable idea and that that all down on paper or in a playable state. Having something that people can actually play, even just a simple demo, can go a long way in convincing people you can make a FUN game.
I'm waiting for the day that some hacker puts together their own open-source pacemaker (running Linux of course) that people have installed by back alley surgeons. The idea kind of reminds me of the eyeball transplants from Minority Report. I'm willing to bet stuff like that will happen someday.
I really feel sorry for the guy. Regardless of whether or not he committed the murder, he was a good programmer and an important member of the open-source community. It is too bad that brilliant people are often plagued by mental instability. I hope that Reiser is really innocent and simply did a lot of weird things that were indicative to murder. I can imagine that if he was innocent, he probably felt that people were out to get him, but simply had to way to articulate a reasonable response to the charges. I certainly hope that the truth about his wife's whereabouts becomes known, regardless of the innocence of Reiser.
...will it blend?!
If the music and movie industries figured out how to get out of the stone age and set up a pay per month subscription service where I can download high quality versions of music, TV shows, and movies I would gladly sign up. This proposal being put forth seems like nothing other than an indicator that the entertainment industry is still hanging on by the tips of their fingers to an industry that NEEDS to change to fit the current market and technology of the customers.
Considering that I have seen far more games that use Havok than PhysX, I think Intel is at least somewhat in the better position as far as propagation. However, Nvidia could come up with some cool integrated hardware and really push that API to the developers in order to gain some ground. On the other hand consumers would have to bite, and it doesn't seem many have yet caught the physics fever. I have seen Havoc used in numerous console games as well, but AFAIK that's only an API...will Nvidia try to push their own brand of physics hardware along with an API to that sector too? Looks interesting.
Side note: I wouldn't mind seeing more work being done on AI though, possibly leading to AI accelerators in the future.
A review of the MBA at Tom's Hardware points out that there is NO Kensington lock point on the notebook.
I noticed the first woman's quote saying that video games are not imaginative. Well when I was young my parents tried to limit my game playing and a few times even banned me from it when I started "acting out" video game scenarios in my normal play with my friends. I would be jumping down the street like Mario pretending to shoot fireballs, or engaging in simulated Mega Man battles with my buddies. Looking back I can see that I had two distinct creative outlets, playing games and playing outside, its just that the two melded together for me. Creativity from the video games was blending with my play life. Now that I am a young adult I am still pretty much obsessed with video games, but I am looking to make a career out of it by using my music and audio engineering talents/schooling to contribute to the industry. If anything I think video games became the thing that I was passionate about as well as something I could fuel my other passions into.
Actually, the cinematic nature of Metal Gear Solid is exactly what would lend itself perfectly to a movie. In fact Hideo Kojima has already been shopping around for a studio and a director to create a film based on the first Metal Gear Solid Game.
There already exists one in preliminary stages, it is called the Nintendo Wii.
One time a few years ago in my town some vandals managed to get up on the roof of the local Blockbuster and change the main huge marquee to say Cockbuster. It stayed up for a few weeks until they finally got it reverted back to normal.
Apparently the Optimus Maximus keyboard is now shipping and according to the Art Lebedev Studio site it costs $462.27. They also have another product concept for a single-surface display keyboard where any part of the display can be used to take input or display images. The site says, "Any part of the [Optimus Tactus] surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images."
Wow, I am really surprised my comment got modded 5 funny. I was intending it to be interesting. Haha oh well.
This was one of those "features" of Vista that I heard about in the earlier days of the hype. There wasn't a clearly defined explanation of how they would indeed tie DRM to your HD monitor but I guess the results are starting to show. Someday maybe all of our hardware will be locked down so that if you don't buy content with appropriate DRM, it simply won't play. Hurray for freedom!
Not to mention he will be laughing all the way to the bank regardless of whether or not it is critically acclaimed.
Why yes, he certainly did say that.
Why don't they instead just say 0.0045 inches?
Expect the FBI, CIA, local police at your door any minute now.
Personally I don't find it at all surprising that Linux is taking off in the public sector, be it schools, hospitals, government etc. It is a really good thing in fact because it potentially bolsters the security of such organizations that need it most, and at the same time it saves a lot of money.
...no but once at a LAN party in high school, my drunk friend was wildly swinging around some kind of stick, and knocked an open can of Pepsi off the shelf right into the top of my CRT monitor. The monitor immediately turned off, but after waiting a couple hours for it to dry out, it turned right back on with no problems and worked fine ever since then.
No, this person is clearly referencing Virginia, Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virgina. Duh. Get your mind out of the gutter!
Well, if the rumors about greatly increased performance from Service Pack 3 are true, then I see no reason to switch to Vista. Not only is the current Vista performance abysmal on even newer consumer machines, the performance from the much touted DX10 is nothing to write home about either. I am still getting along just fine with XP, especially on older hardware, and I see no pressing need to switch to Vista.
Dude, get this...I downloaded this game, I think it was called Quake 3...well, I started poking around on their website and found all the source code! Crazy huh?