the technical discipline that tells us that nine women can make a baby in one month. ... yet still misses the requirement of at least one man on the project.
One solution would be to break the connection of a character to a single world. Let the player pick a character to play, then pick a world to play on for this gaming session. Of course, this creates issues with the auction hHouse, mail system and such, but not impossible to solve problems. You could even move the friends list out the login page, and see which of your friends are online, and what server they are currently playing on.
There used to be a time when I believed that all techies had agreed that Java was slow and bloated, but once I stopped reading Slashdot comments so religiously I began to see some truth. It isn't slow, it isn't bloated, and it isn't something I expect the Slashdot crowd (that I'm a founding member of) to understand anytime soon.
I'm beginning to see the usefullness of Java on the server. However...
How many Java applications can I run on my desktop machine at once? How many C/C++ applications can I run on my desktop machine at once?
"Slow" and "bloated" need a basis for comparison. If the basis is Java 1.0, sure. If the basis is desktop applications in C/C++, well...
A buddy of mine recently reviewed the Arkham Horror boardgame on his new podcast at Pulp Gamer. It's a podcast focused on paper gaming, both discussions and reviews. Overall, they gave it a pretty positive review.
I've had a similar, but certainly more integrated technology for nearly a year, in my Toshiba Portege M205 Tablet PC. It has built in accelerometers to determine the orientation of the screen and can automagically rotate the screen in the proper direction if you change the "up" direction for the screen. There is also an included utility that can turn the "tilt" from the accelerometers into key presses. One of the "TabletPC" demos I show my friends is a shareware marble maze game and I can play by simply tilting the screen.
Where did you pull that number from? Just in the US, there are around 100 game worlds, usually mistakenly called "servers". Each game world is serviced by a cluster of actual server machines. Additionally, several game worlds share access to one of several database servers. I would estimate the actual number of server machines in the 1000+ range.
FFXI was flawless (as much as one could expect) during it's NA PS2 launch.
But that's an apples and oranges comparison to WoW. FFXI was already about a year old at the time of the NA launch. WoW wasn't. (Wasn't even the PC FFXI launch months before the PS2 launch?)
Not quite. Trolltech does not offer a "Free Edition" for the Windows platform. You must pay for a commercial license to use Qt for Windows development.
Although it will not be possible to scale up the system, the group says that many of the ideas and techniques they have developed could be useful in other approaches to quantum computing based on the optical control of electron-spin qubits in quantum dots.
So... maybe this is useful... maybe not. Not even the researchers know. Don't read too much into this "discovery".:)
But most people DO NOT have a solid understanding of copyright and how it will affect their life. And the truth is, if it doesn't raise their taxes and put them in danger, they won't care.
Probably true. However, I would speculate that most Slashdot readers *do* have an above average understanding of copyright law, yet *still* steal intellectual property from musicians, and justify it by pointing at the "bad ole RIAA".
But then, as someone who has their intellectual property (used to earn a living) stolen by P2P users, I have a different perspective I suppose.
You might continue to try posting to 3d graphics sites. I've seen several such posts on the website that my wife and I run, PoserPros. She is a 3d artist and I am a typical Slashdot reader. It's made a great combination for building out website, geared toward professional developers for the Poser market, and other markets as well. We've got almost 10,000 members and have been around for about a year and a half. Sign up is free, just enter your fake email address.;)
OK, maybe I'm a little biased. I was a happy TiVo owner for almost a year -- until the modem broked. TiVo only offered a 60 or 90 day warranty, so I would have had to send them the box, wait a few weeks, and pay them at least $99 to repair it.
My modem broke after about a year. I used it as a dumb digital VCR for a while, until I got around to installing a $70 (that's what I paid a friend for his spare, retail may be slightly higher) TivoNet card. Now all is well and downloads are quite snappy.;)
A very secure form since you know whether a message was intercepted, rather hard to tamper with;).
I'm not sure how knowing if a message has been intercepted makes it more secure. I can yell to a friend across a crowded room, and when people turn their heads at the sound of my voice, I know my message has been intercepted. Does that make it more secure?
Ok, everyone who has a domain registered through VeriSign, please rasie you hand... for shame... you are all sentenced to 100 MetaModerations a day for a month. Now get to it!
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But see, that's the trouble with tribbles, it's hard to tell the nice ones from the bad ones.
... Microsoft cannot be allowed to extend its monopoly ...
... that just reinforces Google's dominance, without credible competition.
So, um, how do you have dominance over a monopoly?
One solution would be to break the connection of a character to a single world. Let the player pick a character to play, then pick a world to play on for this gaming session. Of course, this creates issues with the auction hHouse, mail system and such, but not impossible to solve problems. You could even move the friends list out the login page, and see which of your friends are online, and what server they are currently playing on.
Just a thought.
If it was patented ... it would be public information.
http://www.uspto.gov/
There used to be a time when I believed that all techies had agreed that Java was slow and bloated, but once I stopped reading Slashdot comments so religiously I began to see some truth. It isn't slow, it isn't bloated, and it isn't something I expect the Slashdot crowd (that I'm a founding member of) to understand anytime soon.
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I'm beginning to see the usefullness of Java on the server. However
How many Java applications can I run on my desktop machine at once? How many C/C++ applications can I run on my desktop machine at once?
"Slow" and "bloated" need a basis for comparison. If the basis is Java 1.0, sure. If the basis is desktop applications in C/C++, well
You obviously do not understand MMO client applications.
1. Constant updates from the server, of game content and program executables.
2. Gigabytes of local storage needed for world/item geometry, graphics and audio files.
3. "user profile, items etc." are stored on the server, not on the client.
A buddy of mine recently reviewed the Arkham Horror boardgame on his new podcast at Pulp Gamer. It's a podcast focused on paper gaming, both discussions and reviews. Overall, they gave it a pretty positive review.
I've had a similar, but certainly more integrated technology for nearly a year, in my Toshiba Portege M205 Tablet PC. It has built in accelerometers to determine the orientation of the screen and can automagically rotate the screen in the proper direction if you change the "up" direction for the screen. There is also an included utility that can turn the "tilt" from the accelerometers into key presses. One of the "TabletPC" demos I show my friends is a shareware marble maze game and I can play by simply tilting the screen.
They have probably around 200 servers.
Where did you pull that number from? Just in the US, there are around 100 game worlds, usually mistakenly called "servers". Each game world is serviced by a cluster of actual server machines. Additionally, several game worlds share access to one of several database servers. I would estimate the actual number of server machines in the 1000+ range.
FFXI was flawless (as much as one could expect) during it's NA PS2 launch.
But that's an apples and oranges comparison to WoW. FFXI was already about a year old at the time of the NA launch. WoW wasn't. (Wasn't even the PC FFXI launch months before the PS2 launch?)
Not quite. Trolltech does not offer a "Free Edition" for the Windows platform. You must pay for a commercial license to use Qt for Windows development.
I have bills to pay too, thus my project is commercial. If a "free" tool can meet the needs of the project, it means I can pay *more* of my bills. :)
Take a look at wxGlade. It's a GUI GUI builder for wxWindows written in Python. It can write out Python, C++ or XRC (XML-like resource code) code.
Despite what one may think, pirates are not criminals.
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How about another FACT
"Pirate" == copyright infringer == thief == criminal
I'm not sure how you can justify otherwise.
Although it will not be possible to scale up the system, the group says that many of the ideas and techniques they have developed could be useful in other approaches to quantum computing based on the optical control of electron-spin qubits in quantum dots.
... maybe this is useful ... maybe not. Not even the researchers know. Don't read too much into this "discovery". :)
So
Probably true. However, I would speculate that most Slashdot readers *do* have an above average understanding of copyright law, yet *still* steal intellectual property from musicians, and justify it by pointing at the "bad ole RIAA".
But then, as someone who has their intellectual property (used to earn a living) stolen by P2P users, I have a different perspective I suppose.
You might continue to try posting to 3d graphics sites. I've seen several such posts on the website that my wife and I run, PoserPros. She is a 3d artist and I am a typical Slashdot reader. It's made a great combination for building out website, geared toward professional developers for the Poser market, and other markets as well. We've got almost 10,000 members and have been around for about a year and a half. Sign up is free, just enter your fake email address. ;)
OK, maybe I'm a little biased. I was a happy TiVo owner for almost a year -- until the modem broked. TiVo only offered a 60 or 90 day warranty, so I would have had to send them the box, wait a few weeks, and pay them at least $99 to repair it.
;)
My modem broke after about a year. I used it as a dumb digital VCR for a while, until I got around to installing a $70 (that's what I paid a friend for his spare, retail may be slightly higher) TivoNet card. Now all is well and downloads are quite snappy.
A very secure form since you know whether a message was intercepted, rather hard to tamper with ;).
I'm not sure how knowing if a message has been intercepted makes it more secure. I can yell to a friend across a crowded room, and when people turn their heads at the sound of my voice, I know my message has been intercepted. Does that make it more secure?
It might be that they will find a way to run arbitrary code through this exploit, but so far they were only able to crash the system.
;)
Maybe the short-term fix would be to run in Safe Mode. Then we're ok, right?
"... and results should be known within about two weeks."
The articles says two months.
Ok, everyone who has a domain registered through VeriSign, please rasie you hand ... for shame ... you are all sentenced to 100 MetaModerations a day for a month. Now get to it!
"I know this is going to bring up glass comparisons, so we'll head those off: glass is not a fluid."
:) From the article:
.... sheesh. ;)
Did the editor not read his link?
Conclusion
There is no clear answer to the question "Is glass solid or liquid?".
And folks complain about us posters not reading articles
He's absolutely right. Neither one of them have yet been hacked. ;)