I disagree. There is a massive difference. In GH3, Counterstrike or Geometry Wars you aren't grinding. Huge difference between practice and grinding. In one my skills, level of commitment and speed of improvement dictate how long it will take for me to reach a goal. In the other an arbitrary number is what dictates when I reach my goal. Gather 80000 copper ore to continue vs actually get good enough to beat this level.
One is highly repetetive with no surprising developments. The other is dynamic. You can make leaps and bounds in advancement of skills.
They are not even close to the same thing. It is plain ignorance to say so IMO.
You lost be about the time your spelling and grammar degenerated to the 3rd grade level.
believe, lose, keeping, site, jack, site (again...pointing out it isn't just a typo)
These are just simple misspellings and wrong word usages. To point all the poor grammar I would need a new box of red pens. Learn the language you're attempting to argue in and people might take you more seriously. To your credit you didn't use you for u etc.
Yes, I have actually programmed a bunch in VB-DOS for a company.
Its and amazing language. Well if you like total and utter crap that is.
They wanted me to read pulses from an interrupt line. Getting it to read it in VB-DOS was a pain but I finally got it working. It could read a maximum of 4 pulses per second (running on a 186 but still) and it had so much overhead the rest of the app would stall. So I did what any sensible person would do. I wrote a library in C and compiled it in. It can now read over 30000 pulses per second without any stalls.
sadly the company got bought out and I'm still trying to collect from the bastards
Apple specifically says you can't do it in it's software liscense when you buy the product. That is what makes it illegal.
Yeah and they've found these agreements to not be worth anything in the court of law...I agree that some people here are a little over zealous but this is ridiculous
You're using a bad analogy. It's more along the lines of, "So should a teacher flunk a students term paper because he ripped two chapters out of the illiad and called it his own. This is completely different than how you're viewing it.
No his was a lot closer...the editor doesnt rip stuff directly from apple...it can just be used to
Pilots navigate in three space, keep the greasy side down, listen and respond to the radio, listen to other people's conversations (and determine if they are affected -- "where is that Learjet who just called in?", for example), and visualize other traffic and topology. They manage to do all these tasks safely and quickly.
Thats ridiculous. Of course pilots can do all of this. The space to the next plane is generally not a fraction of a second. There is much more time to react. The main obstacles are the ground and the other planes. On larger planes where the pilot is more taxed they have sophisticated devices to aid him. There are very few sharp corners in a flight. To compare the two is foolish.
I never really was looking for a girlfriend online. I've never really had problems finding dates. Sure I flirted but I never really thought of it as that. Just playing around. Then one day I realised this girl who I had been talking to online for several months (and on the phone everynight for several months) had me. I was stuck. She lives 550 miles away from me and for the past 6 months one of us has either flown or driven to the other persons place. This summer I'm moving within a half hour of where she lives... =) I'm happy...never thought I'd meet someone like her.
well don't forget about commercials....if we can record it we can skip commercials...set our TVs to start recording then start watching everything 15 minutes later (ala tivo) since a major part of the industry is commercials they want it
I play quake3arena as triangleman so this question is important to me. All through the song particle man, triangle man beats people up. But when you talk about universe man he doens't try...did he just not try yet and could we assume he could beat universe man if such an epic battle arose or no?
I woulda had a full half point better on my high school GPA
full half point huh? 100% of 50%? why not "almost all of half of the portion equaling approximately 90% of the whole of the whatever it is we're talking about?" time for some caffeine
If the framerates are less that doesn't effect the speed of the game. This is because the game is framerate independant. They do this by calculating everything according to realtime. Lets say you have a car moving at 3 game units per second. To find the cars position you take the last position and using the velocity and time since the last calculation you can calculate the new position. This has its own problems if the framerate is too low or high. It is the same thing as aliasing. If you take few samples then the resulting model (projectile path, object movement etc.) will be inacurate. Example: if you throw a ball up and sample it 3 times in midair the maximum height achieved probably won't be one of the samples so in a game you wouldn't be able to jump as high. I hope this answered your question...wish I was better at explaining things sorry.
One problem with your key being stored on a removable media is the box that reads it and encrypts the contract with your private key. You must completely trust that box. Perhaps a better method would be removable media with a small processor. Your D-signature card would read in the contract and output the encrypted version. The card could be completely self contained. No batteries necessary because it could use power from the reader.
Usually when there are people out there (such as myself) who chose your software because of the features your software had (in this case strafe jumping, shooting through thin floors) you wouldn't take these features out in a future upgrade that will be required to use your product. (new servers wont accept 117 clients) Now the strafe jumping and shooting through thin floors aren't the only reason I chose the game over all the others....they are just a part of the unique feel that the game has...and they are an important part. I believe Id has really alienated a lot of gamers here and I wouldn't be surprised if they (myself included) abandoned their game for a different game that they seem to want to be identical too (read: unreal tournament) I'm very dissappointed with Id.
I've always thought of gnutella as more of a demonstration than a finished product. While it may not be the best implimentation it shows that distributed file sharing can work well with no central server...its an important step...this version of gnutella may have reached its limit...but there will be more...just some thoughts
Well, what if I told you that two years ago 3dfx sued NVidia over a patent the held on multitexturing?
Yes, and when they did that I boo-ed them too. I look down on all anti-competetive practices. Its always dissappointing to see a company that thinks it can get ahead by cheap tactics. We shouldn't say "well turn about is fair play" we should decide exactly what is fair play and make the companies follow those rules.
I currently own a Voodoo3 and a GeForce 256 SDR. I am pleased with both products but not with both companies. I think I'll buy a Radeon AIW =)
sorry for my ignorance but I have a few questions and/. is a good place to get answers =)
Isn't Divx not a real standard format? or is it? if it isn't then we're happy about support for a non-standard format? Isn't Mpeg4 not officially released yet? Don't get me wrong Divx is awesome (never thought I'd say that hehe) and I'm very happy to see it go to Linux. Although they do have the codec functioning now on linux (thats good) hmmm well I would really appreciate some answers =) thanks
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I disagree. There is a massive difference. In GH3, Counterstrike or Geometry Wars you aren't grinding. Huge difference between practice and grinding. In one my skills, level of commitment and speed of improvement dictate how long it will take for me to reach a goal. In the other an arbitrary number is what dictates when I reach my goal. Gather 80000 copper ore to continue vs actually get good enough to beat this level.
One is highly repetetive with no surprising developments. The other is dynamic. You can make leaps and bounds in advancement of skills.
They are not even close to the same thing. It is plain ignorance to say so IMO.
The PS3 will allow a mouse and keyboard.
It's like trying to patent a bar tab.
Why wait? I'll put sugar in your hummer right now. Just tell me where its parked!
He was spelling it like he was mick dundee. Genius.
You lost be about the time your spelling and grammar degenerated to the 3rd grade level.
believe, lose, keeping, site, jack, site (again...pointing out it isn't just a typo)
These are just simple misspellings and wrong word usages. To point all the poor grammar I would need a new box of red pens.
Learn the language you're attempting to argue in and people might take you more seriously. To your credit you didn't use you for u etc.
I know much less about this stuff than I once thought I did
Yes, I have actually programmed a bunch in VB-DOS for a company.
Its and amazing language. Well if you like total and utter crap that is.
They wanted me to read pulses from an interrupt line. Getting it to read it in VB-DOS was a pain but I finally got it working. It could read a maximum of 4 pulses per second (running on a 186 but still) and it had so much overhead the rest of the app would stall. So I did what any sensible person would do. I wrote a library in C and compiled it in. It can now read over 30000 pulses per second without any stalls.
sadly the company got bought out and I'm still trying to collect from the bastards
Apple specifically says you can't do it in it's software liscense when you buy the product. That is what makes it illegal.
Yeah and they've found these agreements to not be worth anything in the court of law...I agree that some people here are a little over zealous but this is ridiculous
You're using a bad analogy. It's more along the lines of, "So should a teacher flunk a students term paper because he ripped two chapters out of the illiad and called it his own. This is completely different than how you're viewing it.
No his was a lot closer...the editor doesnt rip stuff directly from apple...it can just be used to
Pilots navigate in three space, keep the greasy side down, listen and respond to the radio, listen to other people's conversations (and determine if they are affected -- "where is that Learjet who just called in?", for example), and visualize other traffic and topology. They manage to do all these tasks safely and quickly.
Thats ridiculous. Of course pilots can do all of this. The space to the next plane is generally not a fraction of a second. There is much more time to react. The main obstacles are the ground and the other planes. On larger planes where the pilot is more taxed they have sophisticated devices to aid him. There are very few sharp corners in a flight. To compare the two is foolish.
recompressing your MP3s would lead to less quality as both MP3s and Vorbis are both lossy
Maybe they just patented it to cover their ass? Make sure some other retarded company didn't come along and patent it then try to charge them for it?
what a shame it was when the whole porn industry died with the creation of jpegs!
then: creative impetus, p'shaw!
So pr0n is the result of creative impetus? Heh.
I never really was looking for a girlfriend online. I've never really had problems finding dates. Sure I flirted but I never really thought of it as that. Just playing around. Then one day I realised this girl who I had been talking to online for several months (and on the phone everynight for several months) had me. I was stuck. She lives 550 miles away from me and for the past 6 months one of us has either flown or driven to the other persons place. This summer I'm moving within a half hour of where she lives... =) I'm happy...never thought I'd meet someone like her.
well don't forget about commercials....if we can record it we can skip commercials...set our TVs to start recording then start watching everything 15 minutes later (ala tivo) since a major part of the industry is commercials they want it
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I play quake3arena as triangleman so this question is important to me. All through the song particle man, triangle man beats people up. But when you talk about universe man he doens't try...did he just not try yet and could we assume he could beat universe man if such an epic battle arose or no?
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I woulda had a full half point better on my high school GPA
full half point huh? 100% of 50%? why not "almost all of half of the portion equaling approximately 90% of the whole of the whatever it is we're talking about?" time for some caffeine
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This is OT I know but I have to respond.
If the framerates are less that doesn't effect the speed of the game. This is because the game is framerate independant. They do this by calculating everything according to realtime. Lets say you have a car moving at 3 game units per second. To find the cars position you take the last position and using the velocity and time since the last calculation you can calculate the new position. This has its own problems if the framerate is too low or high. It is the same thing as aliasing. If you take few samples then the resulting model (projectile path, object movement etc.) will be inacurate. Example: if you throw a ball up and sample it 3 times in midair the maximum height achieved probably won't be one of the samples so in a game you wouldn't be able to jump as high. I hope this answered your question...wish I was better at explaining things sorry.
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journaling file system
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One problem with your key being stored on a removable media is the box that reads it and encrypts the contract with your private key. You must completely trust that box. Perhaps a better method would be removable media with a small processor. Your D-signature card would read in the contract and output the encrypted version. The card could be completely self contained. No batteries necessary because it could use power from the reader.
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Usually when there are people out there (such as myself) who chose your software because of the features your software had (in this case strafe jumping, shooting through thin floors) you wouldn't take these features out in a future upgrade that will be required to use your product. (new servers wont accept 117 clients) Now the strafe jumping and shooting through thin floors aren't the only reason I chose the game over all the others....they are just a part of the unique feel that the game has...and they are an important part. I believe Id has really alienated a lot of gamers here and I wouldn't be surprised if they (myself included) abandoned their game for a different game that they seem to want to be identical too (read: unreal tournament) I'm very dissappointed with Id.
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Perhaps the geeks of the world need to create some more news, to keep slashdot fed and healthy......
Quick someone rob a bank or something
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I've always thought of gnutella as more of a demonstration than a finished product. While it may not be the best implimentation it shows that distributed file sharing can work well with no central server...its an important step...this version of gnutella may have reached its limit...but there will be more...just some thoughts
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Well, what if I told you that two years ago 3dfx sued NVidia over a patent the held on multitexturing?
Yes, and when they did that I boo-ed them too. I look down on all anti-competetive practices. Its always dissappointing to see a company that thinks it can get ahead by cheap tactics. We shouldn't say "well turn about is fair play" we should decide exactly what is fair play and make the companies follow those rules.
I currently own a Voodoo3 and a GeForce 256 SDR. I am pleased with both products but not with both companies. I think I'll buy a Radeon AIW =)
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sorry for my ignorance but I have a few questions and /. is a good place to get answers =)
Isn't Divx not a real standard format? or is it? if it isn't then we're happy about support for a non-standard format? Isn't Mpeg4 not officially released yet? Don't get me wrong Divx is awesome (never thought I'd say that hehe) and I'm very happy to see it go to Linux. Although they do have the codec functioning now on linux (thats good) hmmm well I would really appreciate some answers =) thanks
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