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There are tools out there that let you monitor the RSS or HTML results of your games. No matter what Bungie does with the stats, you can keep your progress stored on your computer.
I've authored one that I'm quite pleased with (stores everything in a relational database, includes over 30 reports, including a clan management report and personal stats report, archives the original HTML, comes with command-line scraping utility for scheduling, and more), but there are lots of them out there that provide varying levels of granularity.
"General - Focus - allows you to stop applications stealing focus ie. taking over your screen. You can set it so the tab flashes indefinitely or a finite number of times. "
Windows-M minimizes all windows; this cannot be undone without restoring windows one-by-one. Windows-D shows the Desktop. Doing it again resets all windows to their prior position.
It will contain songs in the form of programs which can change every time they're played. One idea is to create a real-time life remixer, which takes input from a microphone, and plays it back in 'some mangled form'. So, you're walking down the street with your headphones on. The box is taking in the noises of cars going past and people talking, and it's spitting some kind of remixed interpretation of the sounds into your ears. from Engadget
In the video, it is a bit unsturdy, I hope the guy piloting it doesn't get sea/car/motion/robot sickness easily. Looks like it uses wheels in the feet to move around (interesting that it can pivot without having to reposition the feet). That design decision reduces the types of terrain available to traversing, though.
Reminds me a lot of the Mini Cooper "robot". I'd be suprised if the Land Walker were fake, though... it's just too imperfect.:)
Disclaimer: I do work for Microsoft, though I don't agree with everything they do. I'm not a game developer, though I aspire to be one, and have been following XNA closely.
XNA Studio will speed development time and decrease development costs by delivering an advanced build framework and a suite on integrated tools to solve common production challenges. Sounds fine to me. XNA has a toolset that allows you to configure/optimize projects, with tools thrown in tha address problems that frequently come up in production environments.
...and allows programmers to leverage the skills... Developers used to Visual Studio can get started faster. Ever try to switch from Paint Shop Pro to Photoshop to Gimp? 3D Studio Max to Maya to Lightwave? This is not a toothless problem.
Our focus with XNA studio is to deliver the incredible productivity and collaboration services......integrated pipeline to streamline data and content Again, why is this bad? The whole point is that different groups aren't working together quickly enough.
I honestly don't see what was wrong with these sound bites. Remember... managers are the ones that make the purchasing decisions... I don't blame him for using a bit of management lingo (especially when the words concisely convey the intent of XNA).
How about some other sound bites?
...We didn't invent all the ideas going into XNA studio; we talked to the community...
...We only succeed if we solve game development problems and make developers more productive...
...XNA Studio is for all members of the game production team from artists to designers to programmers to producers to QA...
...One of the main pieces of work we are doing is making the collaborative services available in a form that is natural to these other roles and it could take many forms: small stand alone clients, direct integration with the major DCC tools etc...
Well, I am a writer by trade. Glad it evoked emotion.:)
I'm running a Promise array, which doesn't have a sterling record on the web. That, coupled with the fact that the drivers were upgraded (so no software disks in the event of a failure)... I treat it very gently until I do get around to backing it up. No spontanious shutdowns for me (and it is very heavily UPSed).
Oh, I forgot to mention... after the work hard-drive failure, they went out and bought a very expensive tape backup drive. They went out of business a year later. I still have some of the 5lb full-height SCSI drives.
The asbestos gloves always made my arms itch when cleaning the vats... so I used ordinary kitchen gloves. Yes, after the vat was emptied. They didn't last long (they streeeetched under the latent heat), and my upper arms were occasionally burned. But they were definitely more comfertable and more dexterous.
Then, one week there were going to have an inspection. The manager actually showed up to do a pre-inspection, and just about had a fit about liability. And that was the end of the kitchen gloves.
1995 -- Anguish: In order to deal with a backdoor-exploiting hacker (I eventually closed them all but one, and honeypotted it), I hid the real forum databases in a system'd directory. When it came time to backup everything and move to a new drive, I ziped it all up and fdisked the old drive.... only to discover that pkzip didn't see the system'd directory. I was very upset at the loss of many high school conversations, and many logs. In addition, I lost many conversations my ailing mother had taken part of (when she was housbound, the BBS became her outlet to the world).
1996 -- Satisfaction: I started working for a low-cost retail software company that bought out a shareware reseller company (3rd largest in the world!) from Medford. I frequently lamented that we needed a backup (all shareware images were stored on a single Novell server). Finally, the server died, and all images had to be recreated by hand (hundreds, if not thousands, of 3.5" disks, one at a time). The server "clean" room had it's ventilation intake in an office... used by a chain-smoking accountant. The manager smoked in the Rimage disk-duplication clean room, tapping cigarrettes onto the floor. Those were some of the dirtiest machines.
2001 -- Anger, then Resignation: My mother had recentl passed away, and I took posetion of her hard drive. She was quite a prolific writer, and was very insightful, but never had much published. Towards the end she started self-publishing. As I hooked up her hard drive to back up all of her work over the past decade, my machine sparked to life with the drive partially plugged in, shorting out something on the controller board. All of her work, minutes away from safety, lost. Not much you can do. I still have the drive, for when I have the spare money to send it in for recovery.
Future -- Dispair: I have a.5TB RAID-5 for storing all of my photographs. It has never been backed up (that's, what, 20 DVDs?). If I loose that, I loose many long hours of enjoyment, and a significant chunk of our family's history.
Or what about the Mother of the Matrix, who will be recovering damages from both the Matrix series and the Terminator series? It's got copyright infringement, racketeering, FBI investigations that discovered "more than 30 minutes had been edited from the original film to avoid copyright penalties," and more.
We're talking gross receipts of over 2.5billion dollars.
I don't know... the 40 hour work week was created as the maximum you could push a worker before defects started cropping up. I think this 20% thing would put Google more in line with the rest of the world, with the added benefit that the workers or their "spare" day are actually contributing to Google's bottom line and having increased morale.
I really hope that the game includes the computer game that Ender experiences. The evolving simulation that explores his psyche, and constantly improves itself to challenge him more.
I'd provide quotes, but I haven't been able to track it down on the net (and the books are at home). Very innovative stuff, that I'd love to see come to market.
I can pick of the horizontal frequency of almost any television from more than 10 feet away. I can tell when the TV is on before I even enter the room... but everyone else in my family doesn't seem to pick up that frequency (15750hz?).
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There are tools out there that let you monitor the RSS or HTML results of your games. No matter what Bungie does with the stats, you can keep your progress stored on your computer.
I've authored one that I'm quite pleased with (stores everything in a relational database, includes over 30 reports, including a clan management report and personal stats report, archives the original HTML, comes with command-line scraping utility for scheduling, and more), but there are lots of them out there that provide varying levels of granularity.
And now there's Microsoft One Note.
As others have mentioned, Tweak UI to the rescue.
"General - Focus - allows you to stop applications stealing focus ie. taking over your screen. You can set it so the tab flashes indefinitely or a finite number of times. "
Windows-M minimizes all windows; this cannot be undone without restoring windows one-by-one.
Windows-D shows the Desktop. Doing it again resets all windows to their prior position.
Indeed, how would you overclock an optical computer?
The true end of Moore's law... get rid of the transistor.
Check this tool out.
It will contain songs in the form of programs which can change every time they're played. One idea is to create a real-time life remixer, which takes input from a microphone, and plays it back in 'some mangled form'. So, you're walking down the street with your headphones on. The box is taking in the noises of cars going past and people talking, and it's spitting some kind of remixed interpretation of the sounds into your ears. from Engadget
They seemed to handle it fine for the most part... and I'm sure they could use the ad revenue.
The lasers are visible at distances up to 10 nm during the day and 25 nm at night. Each turret is connected to a command center.
That's, uh, not very good distance.
Wow... Imagine a beowulf of those. Probably turn out something like this...
Obligatory Penny-Arcade Comic.
Looks like the engine had a core breach! [502 Denied]
In the video, it is a bit unsturdy, I hope the guy piloting it doesn't get sea/car/motion/robot sickness easily.
:)
Looks like it uses wheels in the feet to move around (interesting that it can pivot without having to reposition the feet). That design decision reduces the types of terrain available to traversing, though.
Reminds me a lot of the Mini Cooper "robot". I'd be suprised if the Land Walker were fake, though... it's just too imperfect.
I love the progress of science. I want a real Steel Battalion vertical tank! (awesome game, btw)
Disclaimer: I do work for Microsoft, though I don't agree with everything they do. I'm not a game developer, though I aspire to be one, and have been following XNA closely.
...and allows programmers to leverage the skills...
...development processes and will ship with process support for Agile Software Development. :)
...integrated pipeline to streamline data and content
...We didn't invent all the ideas going into XNA studio; we talked to the community...
...We only succeed if we solve game development problems and make developers more productive...
...XNA Studio is for all members of the game production team from artists to designers to programmers to producers to QA...
...One of the main pieces of work we are doing is making the collaborative services available in a form that is natural to these other roles and it could take many forms: small stand alone clients, direct integration with the major DCC tools etc...
XNA Studio will speed development time and decrease development costs by delivering an advanced build framework and a suite on integrated tools to solve common production challenges.
Sounds fine to me. XNA has a toolset that allows you to configure/optimize projects, with tools thrown in tha address problems that frequently come up in production environments.
Developers used to Visual Studio can get started faster. Ever try to switch from Paint Shop Pro to Photoshop to Gimp? 3D Studio Max to Maya to Lightwave? This is not a toothless problem.
So the tools support the Agile Software Development process. Why, specifically, is Test-Driven-Design, eXtreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, and other tenants bad? Besides their names.
Our focus with XNA studio is to deliver the incredible productivity and collaboration services...
Again, why is this bad? The whole point is that different groups aren't working together quickly enough.
I honestly don't see what was wrong with these sound bites. Remember... managers are the ones that make the purchasing decisions... I don't blame him for using a bit of management lingo (especially when the words concisely convey the intent of XNA).
How about some other sound bites?
Of course, once off, you'd be up a creek in Peru without a Panasonic!
On further research, I can't point to any hard evidence. It may actually be an Urban Legend that I've inadvertently reseeded. Sorry!
Well, I am a writer by trade. Glad it evoked emotion. :)
I'm running a Promise array, which doesn't have a sterling record on the web. That, coupled with the fact that the drivers were upgraded (so no software disks in the event of a failure)... I treat it very gently until I do get around to backing it up. No spontanious shutdowns for me (and it is very heavily UPSed).
Oh, I forgot to mention... after the work hard-drive failure, they went out and bought a very expensive tape backup drive. They went out of business a year later. I still have some of the 5lb full-height SCSI drives.
The asbestos gloves always made my arms itch when cleaning the vats... so I used ordinary kitchen gloves. Yes, after the vat was emptied. They didn't last long (they streeeetched under the latent heat), and my upper arms were occasionally burned. But they were definitely more comfertable and more dexterous.
Then, one week there were going to have an inspection. The manager actually showed up to do a pre-inspection, and just about had a fit about liability. And that was the end of the kitchen gloves.
1995 -- Anguish: In order to deal with a backdoor-exploiting hacker (I eventually closed them all but one, and honeypotted it), I hid the real forum databases in a system'd directory. When it came time to backup everything and move to a new drive, I ziped it all up and fdisked the old drive.... only to discover that pkzip didn't see the system'd directory. I was very upset at the loss of many high school conversations, and many logs. In addition, I lost many conversations my ailing mother had taken part of (when she was housbound, the BBS became her outlet to the world).
.5TB RAID-5 for storing all of my photographs. It has never been backed up (that's, what, 20 DVDs?). If I loose that, I loose many long hours of enjoyment, and a significant chunk of our family's history.
1996 -- Satisfaction: I started working for a low-cost retail software company that bought out a shareware reseller company (3rd largest in the world!) from Medford. I frequently lamented that we needed a backup (all shareware images were stored on a single Novell server). Finally, the server died, and all images had to be recreated by hand (hundreds, if not thousands, of 3.5" disks, one at a time). The server "clean" room had it's ventilation intake in an office... used by a chain-smoking accountant. The manager smoked in the Rimage disk-duplication clean room, tapping cigarrettes onto the floor. Those were some of the dirtiest machines.
2001 -- Anger, then Resignation: My mother had recentl passed away, and I took posetion of her hard drive. She was quite a prolific writer, and was very insightful, but never had much published. Towards the end she started self-publishing. As I hooked up her hard drive to back up all of her work over the past decade, my machine sparked to life with the drive partially plugged in, shorting out something on the controller board. All of her work, minutes away from safety, lost. Not much you can do. I still have the drive, for when I have the spare money to send it in for recovery.
Future -- Dispair: I have a
You left off "Step 8, Profit!!!" :)
Or what about the Mother of the Matrix, who will be recovering damages from both the Matrix series and the Terminator series? It's got copyright infringement, racketeering, FBI investigations that discovered "more than 30 minutes had been edited from the original film to avoid copyright penalties," and more.
We're talking gross receipts of over 2.5billion dollars.
I don't know... the 40 hour work week was created as the maximum you could push a worker before defects started cropping up. I think this 20% thing would put Google more in line with the rest of the world, with the added benefit that the workers or their "spare" day are actually contributing to Google's bottom line and having increased morale.
No, see... that's how they manage their costs. They only have a dialup connection for outgoing packets, and an OC3 for uploads. ;-)
I really hope that the game includes the computer game that Ender experiences. The evolving simulation that explores his psyche, and constantly improves itself to challenge him more.
I'd provide quotes, but I haven't been able to track it down on the net (and the books are at home). Very innovative stuff, that I'd love to see come to market.
They are on it!
(Note that the last references OPC, apparently a sensor standard)
I can pick of the horizontal frequency of almost any television from more than 10 feet away. I can tell when the TV is on before I even enter the room... but everyone else in my family doesn't seem to pick up that frequency (15750hz?).