If you prefer the slang version it's "GODDAMMIT" or "GODDAMNIT", there's no entry for your "GODDAMIT" in urban dictionary. Or if you wish to be proper, there's always "God damn it". Get used to it:).
But from a student's standpoint it makes little or no difference what the university pays for that volume license. I can't imagine it having any significant impact on my tuition (it at all).
I know at the university I attend we get e-mails about once a year offering free microsoft products for educational use, and that includes non-developer tools.
I never really cared about it, and I will continue to do so.
I just got it for Christmas and have been enthralled with it.
That's actually a dead-on seconded from me.
Only because of slashdot, can I feel slightly less ashamed:)
I thought I had read earlier that it was pretty certain that one of their songs from their new self-titled album was going to be on that list with "It Doesn't Seem To Matter" as a prime candidate. This was back a few months after the release of their new album.
So what happened?
With Army of Anyone, there was a disappointing amount of sales, and now there's rumors of a break-up as Richard Patrick is going to work on his new Filter album. So does album sales drive what goes into the game and what doesn't?
The album rocks. The songs rock. So what gives?
Army of Anyone has the Deleo brothers from STP + Richard Patrick from Filter FYI.
Personally I'd love to see them develop a non-Halo title. Bungee makes great games, it'd be nice to see their creative talents leaned in a different direction. Enough with the sequels.
And I can imagine if I was a game developer working with the same series for years on end (since 1999?), I'd probably want a change too.
If they develop a non-Halo title, for PC, I'd be one of the first to try it.
Personally, I would love to see Bungie (finally) create a non-Halo title. They make good games, it'd be nice to see a good game that isn't a moderate evolution of a previous one. Enough with the sequels.
And If I was a game developer working on the same title for years on end - I'd probably want a change too.
You may think that's supposed to be a joke, but CD lasers are really dangerous. They're labeled safe (Class I ?) on the CD drive because they're inside a closed space. If you remove it from its enclosure it suddenly becomes a very unsafe device to use, especially when you expose the laser.
CD lasers are IR, which means your eyes will not blink, and save you, from your eye focusing a collimated beam on the back of your retina. You would quickly go blind. And all this would take place in a fraction of a second.
I once hacked open a old CD drive to take a look at the laser and inner workings inside. I'm no optics expert, but what I found was that the laser portion of the device was essentially a tiny interferometer as far as I could tell (surprise surprise).
Since you can use interferometry to measure such things as differences in wavelength within fractions of a nanometer - couldn't this technique be applied to biochemical applications as well?
You'd think with the success of casual games, and less "technically advanced" games for platforms like Wii and the web, game developers would see huge market of gamers who are simply looking for games to be more fun again. Who cares if it has the latest AI or better cloth physics?
Leave the better cloth and fire effects to the SIGGRAPH people:).
By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain significant amounts of open source code
If these predictions are correct (which they probably aren't) how do these products stay "commercial"? If at least half of that Open Source software is GPL covered, then %40 of that commercial software will have to be open as well.
If Microsoft or Apple were more open with regards to their kernel development, I'm pretty sure issues like this would be posted here on slashdot - regardless of a favored OS.
As a student I attended an information session for a game development company. They were looking for new undergrads to join their game development team so I thought I'd check it out. What I found out is that they were developing their title game exclusively for the PS3. And was slated (IIRC) to be released close to the launch of the PS3 itself. They stated that they had problems with the hardware/drivers and the tools. And even now it's still in development last I heard.
The Wii at this point wasn't out yet, but during the question session I had to ask - why not develop for the Wii (or PC - since the developers admitted they played a lot of games on their PC)? They didn't give a clear answer or even express a direct interest, and I don't think they had one. It seems as though they just simply didn't see the merit in developing for something different and possibly "gimmicky". IIRC they said that they wouldn't rule it out, but now that they're stuck on the PS3 until they get the game shipped.
Of course they're going to be "late" to the Wii. I'm sure there are tons of companies who devoted themselves to either the XBox360 or PS3 betting on their market dominance. But instead found themselves struggling to develop for the platforms they chose (e.g. Silicon Knights). Saying that, I have no idea if the Wii development platform is any better.
To their credit, they were developing a DS game that apparently was coming along much better along with their PS3 title.
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If you prefer the slang version it's "GODDAMMIT" or "GODDAMNIT", there's no entry for your "GODDAMIT" in urban dictionary. Or if you wish to be proper, there's always "God damn it". Get used to it :).
Caffeine anyone?
Will it have Sting?
Actually I got my orders of magnitude screwed up and I replied to my own post to correct it
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The difference in terms of ratio is actually 2^70 / 10^21 = 1.18 ish. Which may not seem too significant, but on that scale, that's a LOT of bytes.
Since we're talking very large orders of magnitude it would help to know what definition of zetabyte they're using.
2^50 bytes or 10^15 bytes?
The former is astronomically larger.
I'd wadger they're using devices like a Diffraction Grating or a Fabry-Perot Etalon
Only a little more complicated than a prism :)
Still it's a different finger and a different row
And yes, I'm typing using that layout, and I still think it would be a difficult typo to hit.
But from a student's standpoint it makes little or no difference what the university pays for that volume license. I can't imagine it having any significant impact on my tuition (it at all).
It's just as "free" as it is now as it was then
I know at the university I attend we get e-mails about once a year offering free microsoft products for educational use, and that includes non-developer tools.
I never really cared about it, and I will continue to do so.
Are you talking about the radeonhd driver?
Currently there's only 2d support, but a handful of developers from Novell seem to be consistently working on it.
As for specs, they just released another batch back in early january.
That's actually a dead-on seconded from me.
Only because of slashdot, can I feel slightly less ashamed
Why would you put it back under your Christmas tree?
One letter:
:).
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Free, flash, but you play offline on your own computer.
Of course for the online competitive people you can still submit scores online.
500 levels of amazing platforming goodness
I thought I had read earlier that it was pretty certain that one of their songs from their new self-titled album was going to be on that list with "It Doesn't Seem To Matter" as a prime candidate. This was back a few months after the release of their new album. So what happened? With Army of Anyone, there was a disappointing amount of sales, and now there's rumors of a break-up as Richard Patrick is going to work on his new Filter album. So does album sales drive what goes into the game and what doesn't? The album rocks. The songs rock. So what gives? Army of Anyone has the Deleo brothers from STP + Richard Patrick from Filter FYI.
Personally I'd love to see them develop a non-Halo title. Bungee makes great games, it'd be nice to see their creative talents leaned in a different direction. Enough with the sequels. And I can imagine if I was a game developer working with the same series for years on end (since 1999?), I'd probably want a change too. If they develop a non-Halo title, for PC, I'd be one of the first to try it.
Personally, I would love to see Bungie (finally) create a non-Halo title. They make good games, it'd be nice to see a good game that isn't a moderate evolution of a previous one. Enough with the sequels.
And If I was a game developer working on the same title for years on end - I'd probably want a change too.
You may think that's supposed to be a joke, but CD lasers are really dangerous. They're labeled safe (Class I ?) on the CD drive because they're inside a closed space. If you remove it from its enclosure it suddenly becomes a very unsafe device to use, especially when you expose the laser. CD lasers are IR, which means your eyes will not blink, and save you, from your eye focusing a collimated beam on the back of your retina. You would quickly go blind. And all this would take place in a fraction of a second.
I once hacked open a old CD drive to take a look at the laser and inner workings inside. I'm no optics expert, but what I found was that the laser portion of the device was essentially a tiny interferometer as far as I could tell (surprise surprise). Since you can use interferometry to measure such things as differences in wavelength within fractions of a nanometer - couldn't this technique be applied to biochemical applications as well?
That fast square root function was NOT written by John Carmack. Beyond3D has a whole article dedicated to the history of that line of code.
You'd think with the success of casual games, and less "technically advanced" games for platforms like Wii and the web, game developers would see huge market of gamers who are simply looking for games to be more fun again. Who cares if it has the latest AI or better cloth physics? Leave the better cloth and fire effects to the SIGGRAPH people :).
If Microsoft or Apple were more open with regards to their kernel development, I'm pretty sure issues like this would be posted here on slashdot - regardless of a favored OS.
As a student I attended an information session for a game development company. They were looking for new undergrads to join their game development team so I thought I'd check it out.
What I found out is that they were developing their title game exclusively for the PS3. And was slated (IIRC) to be released close to the launch of the PS3 itself. They stated that they had problems with the hardware/drivers and the tools. And even now it's still in development last I heard.
The Wii at this point wasn't out yet, but during the question session I had to ask - why not develop for the Wii (or PC - since the developers admitted they played a lot of games on their PC)? They didn't give a clear answer or even express a direct interest, and I don't think they had one. It seems as though they just simply didn't see the merit in developing for something different and possibly "gimmicky". IIRC they said that they wouldn't rule it out, but now that they're stuck on the PS3 until they get the game shipped.
Of course they're going to be "late" to the Wii. I'm sure there are tons of companies who devoted themselves to either the XBox360 or PS3 betting on their market dominance. But instead found themselves struggling to develop for the platforms they chose (e.g. Silicon Knights). Saying that, I have no idea if the Wii development platform is any better.
To their credit, they were developing a DS game that apparently was coming along much better along with their PS3 title.
Bill Nye, The Science Guy.