Now, just like the window-peeping scene in The Rescuers and the phallic mushrooms in The Little Mermaid, we have to be on the lookout for some guy named Guido showing everyone his Python in all the forthcoming Disney cartoons -- just what every expectant father wants to hear!
Better than a girl showing her Perls for everyone to C, giving away her Ruby, or using a french TCLer or some character taking PHP I guess. Its all industry Smalltalk anyway and just another Scheme by the MPAA. Drinking Java, getting VB from some Gimp girl giving them uncalled-for Access on the first date and not having to decency to Serverlet her breakfeast in the morning.
Scripting languages have been a big part of production work for a while and for good reason. Lightwave, 3D studio, Maya, Softimage all have some good scripting languages that enanble some nice benefits from the productive side. I read that the many of huge battle scenes in $tar War$ the Phantom Menace were done with Maya scripts. Not some huge AI package that ILM bought or built in-house, but scripts. High end production demands some kind of programming solution but doesn't need it to be as fast as possible, half the development time and half the speed is a very nice trade off. If you wanted to make a program to automate something you are tired of doing manuall, would you do it in C or Perl? If you chose C you are eighther a glutton for punishment or running on a 286 in my opinion. Computers can be bought, but programmers must be rented, so it doesn't really surprise me, but it does intrigue me.
Bomberman? oh yeah! that would make such a fun game to play multiplayer. I don't think I ever had the priveledge more than a few times to play a good bomberman game with more than two people, but it is so sweet. This has so much potential.
I stand corrected by myself. There are actually many Gamboy Advance emulators already out there, in different levels of development, for different platforms, some as hobbies, some by companies, but all I would guess are being used for development right now. This Gamboy Advance Development webpage should definitly be mentioned at this point. I saw someone mention doom and quake, and a reply mention wolfenstein. A Wolfenstein clone already exists actually along with many demos, engines, and development tools. The extra emphasis on multiplayer gaming and the immediate independant developement is making me feel tingly.
that's a neat hack, I always just delt with it in various ways. I am already tired of windows, I have already installed Linux many times. Free Solaris x86? never heard of it, but Solaris sounds yummy
I have never needed to fiddle with registry settings, but you right, I would much much rather install linux mandrake 7.2 / redhat 7 that windows. Ever tried to reinstall windows? That's the worst, you are hit with so much bullshit it is unbelievable. There are so many restrictions, you have to have a certain upgrade, not a full version though, then it won't install. Easy my ass. I hate microsoft.
yeah, food over mail, that doesn't work. I understand the nostalgia value, but I guess my point is that all is not lost. It might be a challenge to find good sites, but nothing is restricting the same small community, high quality, stuff from being there. Actually if you think about, all the commercial shit that is going down in flames will probably help this. The internet will turn into a powerful angle of buisness but not a substitute for quality and evolution.
What's stopping you from starting your own web site 'reminicent of the old days'? I don't think that anyone has stopped other from doing what they want, so don't cry about what people are doing if it doesn't have to affect you. This isn't Microsoft trying to break standards and enforce proprietary protocols, if you don't like what a site is doing, don't go there. If you want something different, but it isn't there, you can bitch about it, or take it as an oppurtunity. You might say 'I don't have the time', but its all a matter of priorities. You can't whine about what others are or aren't doing if they aren't affecting what you or others are capable of.
I just thought that not only does this have potential to emulate games from nintendo because of it's architecture ( as I understand it) but this could be the first new system to actually be emulated right out of the box. People have been saying that it is weak (not a problem for me, give me metroid and I don't care) but that means sweet emulation time. If everyone was on the ball, an emulator could be realese before the actual release of the consol. It would be madness!! try before you buy, oh hell yeah!
that would really fun trying to keep it in your pocket, you might be able to make a screw in one, but you would still have to keep track of it, easy for us, difficult for kids
what I meant was that there are not compiler written to run on PDA's and cell phones. I don't think anyone is compiling java source to java bytecode, using their cell phone yet.
actually, dumbass, java started out as a project called oak in the late 80's ( I think ) and was orginally intended to run on your refrigerator, toaster and whatnot. It was a greawt idea, but didn't really have the viability to make it work. Oak progressed into java, and java progressed into what we have to today. I'm not sure if your problem is that you don't understand the difference between a VM (virtual machine) and a compiler, or you don't understand that Palm's and cell phones do infact have OS's on them. Please clarify the source of your ignorance.
As many astute readers have pointed out, Java's a platform-independent language. It doesn't matter if it's Pentium IV or Amiga. If there's a compiler for it, it will run.
1. Most of their readers are probably not that astute.
2. He probably doesn't know what astute means.
3. Pentium 4 is a processor, Amiga is a company
4. If there is a virtual machine for it, it will run, I doubt there are java compilers written for cell phones and handsprings.
I am allowed to bitch, because I have never said anything false, ever. EVER.
why would they count 000000000000000 (15 bits) as 1? wait, 32768 would be the total number of channels, but the last channel would be 32787, who would devise such a counter intuitive system?
just kidding C, I still love you, don't be mad, I got you a present, I'm going to go feed C# and put him down for a nap.
I think that ethics as used here is more of a social term. There is so little contact between people except for maybe a select few people that someone's meets day to day. All of the other rules are reinforced by different social techniques, even they aren't decided on as a group, they are definitly acted on as a group. Its all about credit. What people really want is not so much money but positive reinforcement. There are lots of projects that I could do, but I don't have the drive to accomplish them because when I tell people my ideas they shrug them off and don't seem very exceited. Money == reiforcement too. If you have money, you must be doing something right, right? I don't think there is some 'code of honor' so much as getting and receiving reiforcement, and having everything else derived from that. I think that if someone was a security expert and they were around a new group of people that thought 'hacking' ie. cracking was cool, and badgered that person to break into something that wouldn't do any damage, that security expert would be pretty tempted to show off instead of saying, "breaking into computers is easy take a look at some of my security tools I have written." I don't think they would be quite as excited.
I don't think that such a loosly bound and large group can have a well defined set of ethics, but I do think that many share the same broad goals which kind of gives the illusion of that. I don't mean that anyone would want to go fork projects or take stuff and try to pass it off as theirs, but I think that if there is something else - that doesn't effect the open source community at all then it won't fall into any catagory of ethics of that group.
Actually this is completely opposite of the truth. Rendering is one of the best applications of clusters because rendering can be so easily split up. If nothing else, different frames can be rendered with different computers. Even a 10Mb/s link is more than enough, all the different computers really need is the all the neccesary information for the scene. Animation files, models, surface information, textures, etc. Once this is sent to a computer it can start rendering whatever frames it is told to. Notice I didn't say anything about a beowulf cluster. Getting all the computers to try to act like one giant multi-procesor computer is horribly inefficient.
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there is usually little difference between cards meant for work and cards meant for play. The cards for play usally have a little less power and cost alot less. $600 is too much for most people but hardcore gamers and artists will be easily willing to pay that much so NVidia isn't just depending on gamers to buy it right off, and I think that was the point of the original post.
It seems everyone is getting mad at possibly the best computer game companie in the world over something that seems to make perfect sense to me. People have come to associate movies and video games with each other. Many movies have been made from video games, and even more video games have been made from movies. If I saw a movie called Diablo, I would automatically associate it with the game and that is what Blizzard is afraid of.
On the other hand, a Blizzard made a game named Diablo and Lamborgini had a car named Diablo and there is no problem. If Blizzard had made Diablo about racing Lamborgini's, then there probably would have been. The movie that New Line is putting out is not about Diablo's storyline so I guess the real test would be whether or not Blizzard had secured rights to the movie name before New Line.
Oh yeah, and there is also a brand of paint balls called diablos that no one had mentioned yet, but that seems kind of irrelevant.
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Now, just like the window-peeping scene in The Rescuers and the phallic mushrooms in The Little Mermaid, we have to be on the lookout for some guy named Guido showing everyone his Python in all the forthcoming Disney cartoons -- just what every expectant father wants to hear!
Better than a girl showing her Perls for everyone to C, giving away her Ruby, or using a french TCLer or some character taking PHP I guess. Its all industry Smalltalk anyway and just another Scheme by the MPAA. Drinking Java, getting VB from some Gimp girl giving them uncalled-for Access on the first date and not having to decency to Serverlet her breakfeast in the morning.
I'll stop now.
Scripting languages have been a big part of production work for a while and for good reason. Lightwave, 3D studio, Maya, Softimage all have some good scripting languages that enanble some nice benefits from the productive side. I read that the many of huge battle scenes in $tar War$ the Phantom Menace were done with Maya scripts. Not some huge AI package that ILM bought or built in-house, but scripts. High end production demands some kind of programming solution but doesn't need it to be as fast as possible, half the development time and half the speed is a very nice trade off. If you wanted to make a program to automate something you are tired of doing manuall, would you do it in C or Perl? If you chose C you are eighther a glutton for punishment or running on a 286 in my opinion. Computers can be bought, but programmers must be rented, so it doesn't really surprise me, but it does intrigue me.
no problem
First of all, this should get you started with development
Bomberman? oh yeah! that would make such a fun game to play multiplayer. I don't think I ever had the priveledge more than a few times to play a good bomberman game with more than two people, but it is so sweet. This has so much potential.
I stand corrected by myself. There are actually many Gamboy Advance emulators already out there, in different levels of development, for different platforms, some as hobbies, some by companies, but all I would guess are being used for development right now. This Gamboy Advance Development webpage should definitly be mentioned at this point. I saw someone mention doom and quake, and a reply mention wolfenstein. A Wolfenstein clone already exists actually along with many demos, engines, and development tools. The extra emphasis on multiplayer gaming and the immediate independant developement is making me feel tingly.
that's a neat hack, I always just delt with it in various ways. I am already tired of windows, I have already installed Linux many times. Free Solaris x86? never heard of it, but Solaris sounds yummy
I have never needed to fiddle with registry settings, but you right, I would much much rather install linux mandrake 7.2 / redhat 7 that windows. Ever tried to reinstall windows? That's the worst, you are hit with so much bullshit it is unbelievable. There are so many restrictions, you have to have a certain upgrade, not a full version though, then it won't install. Easy my ass. I hate microsoft.
yeah, food over mail, that doesn't work. I understand the nostalgia value, but I guess my point is that all is not lost. It might be a challenge to find good sites, but nothing is restricting the same small community, high quality, stuff from being there. Actually if you think about, all the commercial shit that is going down in flames will probably help this. The internet will turn into a powerful angle of buisness but not a substitute for quality and evolution.
What's stopping you from starting your own web site 'reminicent of the old days'? I don't think that anyone has stopped other from doing what they want, so don't cry about what people are doing if it doesn't have to affect you. This isn't Microsoft trying to break standards and enforce proprietary protocols, if you don't like what a site is doing, don't go there. If you want something different, but it isn't there, you can bitch about it, or take it as an oppurtunity. You might say 'I don't have the time', but its all a matter of priorities. You can't whine about what others are or aren't doing if they aren't affecting what you or others are capable of.
I just thought that not only does this have potential to emulate games from nintendo because of it's architecture ( as I understand it) but this could be the first new system to actually be emulated right out of the box. People have been saying that it is weak (not a problem for me, give me metroid and I don't care) but that means sweet emulation time. If everyone was on the ball, an emulator could be realese before the actual release of the consol. It would be madness!! try before you buy, oh hell yeah!
tushe, I stand corrected, but still the article is inacurate.
hell yeah, super doge ball was awsome for nintendo. I played it on emulation and it was just as good as I remember.
that would really fun trying to keep it in your pocket, you might be able to make a screw in one, but you would still have to keep track of it, easy for us, difficult for kids
what I meant was that there are not compiler written to run on PDA's and cell phones. I don't think anyone is compiling java source to java bytecode, using their cell phone yet.
actually, dumbass, java started out as a project called oak in the late 80's ( I think ) and was orginally intended to run on your refrigerator, toaster and whatnot. It was a greawt idea, but didn't really have the viability to make it work. Oak progressed into java, and java progressed into what we have to today. I'm not sure if your problem is that you don't understand the difference between a VM (virtual machine) and a compiler, or you don't understand that Palm's and cell phones do infact have OS's on them. Please clarify the source of your ignorance.
damn your right
Things wrong with just this one sentence:
As many astute readers have pointed out, Java's a platform-independent language. It doesn't matter if it's Pentium IV or Amiga. If there's a compiler for it, it will run.
1. Most of their readers are probably not that astute.
2. He probably doesn't know what astute means.
3. Pentium 4 is a processor, Amiga is a company
4. If there is a virtual machine for it, it will run, I doubt there are java compilers written for cell phones and handsprings.
I am allowed to bitch, because I have never said anything false, ever. EVER.
why would they count 000000000000000 (15 bits) as 1? wait, 32768 would be the total number of channels, but the last channel would be 32787, who would devise such a counter intuitive system?
just kidding C, I still love you, don't be mad, I got you a present, I'm going to go feed C# and put him down for a nap.
I think that ethics as used here is more of a social term. There is so little contact between people except for maybe a select few people that someone's meets day to day. All of the other rules are reinforced by different social techniques, even they aren't decided on as a group, they are definitly acted on as a group. Its all about credit. What people really want is not so much money but positive reinforcement. There are lots of projects that I could do, but I don't have the drive to accomplish them because when I tell people my ideas they shrug them off and don't seem very exceited. Money == reiforcement too. If you have money, you must be doing something right, right? I don't think there is some 'code of honor' so much as getting and receiving reiforcement, and having everything else derived from that. I think that if someone was a security expert and they were around a new group of people that thought 'hacking' ie. cracking was cool, and badgered that person to break into something that wouldn't do any damage, that security expert would be pretty tempted to show off instead of saying, "breaking into computers is easy take a look at some of my security tools I have written." I don't think they would be quite as excited.
I don't think that such a loosly bound and large group can have a well defined set of ethics, but I do think that many share the same broad goals which kind of gives the illusion of that. I don't mean that anyone would want to go fork projects or take stuff and try to pass it off as theirs, but I think that if there is something else - that doesn't effect the open source community at all then it won't fall into any catagory of ethics of that group.
Let alone the diffuculties they could get with syncronizing their M$ Outlook Email and Agenda stuff ?
It wouldn't be any more difficult than with Palm OS and they seem to be doing pretty well, so what's your point?
Actually this is completely opposite of the truth. Rendering is one of the best applications of clusters because rendering can be so easily split up. If nothing else, different frames can be rendered with different computers. Even a 10Mb/s link is more than enough, all the different computers really need is the all the neccesary information for the scene. Animation files, models, surface information, textures, etc. Once this is sent to a computer it can start rendering whatever frames it is told to. Notice I didn't say anything about a beowulf cluster. Getting all the computers to try to act like one giant multi-procesor computer is horribly inefficient.
there is usually little difference between cards meant for work and cards meant for play. The cards for play usally have a little less power and cost alot less. $600 is too much for most people but hardcore gamers and artists will be easily willing to pay that much so NVidia isn't just depending on gamers to buy it right off, and I think that was the point of the original post.
It seems everyone is getting mad at possibly the best computer game companie in the world over something that seems to make perfect sense to me. People have come to associate movies and video games with each other. Many movies have been made from video games, and even more video games have been made from movies. If I saw a movie called Diablo, I would automatically associate it with the game and that is what Blizzard is afraid of.
On the other hand, a Blizzard made a game named Diablo and Lamborgini had a car named Diablo and there is no problem. If Blizzard had made Diablo about racing Lamborgini's, then there probably would have been. The movie that New Line is putting out is not about Diablo's storyline so I guess the real test would be whether or not Blizzard had secured rights to the movie name before New Line.
Oh yeah, and there is also a brand of paint balls called diablos that no one had mentioned yet, but that seems kind of irrelevant.
Nice Cowboy Bebop reference!
Or better yet, a killer game made for linux. What would incourage people to try linux more than a game specifically for it, and f/Free?