What about KQP (killer quake pack) and Aliens (some clever hackers got the aliens to run around on the walls and still have intelligent AI). These were huge in their day... perhaps I was the only one playing them:-(
Compliance is a very very very difficult problem. This is particularly true when you have more than one compliance specification that you must work with, don't have engineering resources from the team that produced the product that is out of compliance, and are working on a short deadline while trying to deliver documentation for other projects. I have posted a longer response to this on my work blog. Feel free to share the pain...
You're missing something very important in your speccing. PC makers (notoriously dell) tend to offer DEEP DEEP discounts on their hardware, even if it's new. For instance, you could apply the coupon code from here [http://dealnews.com/Dell-Home-coupons-Up-to-30-off-Inspiron-desktops-and-laptops/228974.html] and get 30% off on that dell. That would put it at a jaw-dropping $980. These sorts of deals do not exist for Apple products except in the 5-10% range off that you can get through academic discounts and on refurbs.
OK, being able to have a car that helps me drive is good and all, but how long until I can go to the bar and then have the car drive me home instead of paying for a cabbie? Hell, how long until computers are mandated to drive ALL CARS during rush hour to make for perfect traffic optimization.
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I agree, it was a little cold of Apple to bring on the straight disses when they released their dual-boot utility (akin to teenagers saying, lol, winbl0ws is t3h sux0rs!!!111 lol lol lol). Then again, that is pretty much the Apple style of releasing something edgy, come out, show something cool, then talk shit.
I personally believe the snide remarks on the site are there to squelch any hate for Apple because this is honestly one step closer to Apple selling hardware that is preconfigured for Windows -- the wBook.
>I wish Blizzard would make the game funner >for impatient people who can't devote their >life to the game
Haha, you said funner.
That's just it though... Blizzard was trying to make it easy to level your character in WoW. If you compare WoW to Lineage, Everquest, or Asheron's Call, WoW is relatively easy to advance your character in. At around 500 hours, you are looking at a level 60 (less if you are a SKILLED builder).
I have heard, however, that Guild Wars offers easily leveled up characters, and the skill comes from balancing abilities and equipment.
Call a spade a spade. It is cheating. I still don't have a problem with it though. I mean, if you want to take the risk of cheating, and are willing to do it as a shortcut, take the risk. Some people will get caught, some will get away with it. But it really shouldn't be a deal breaker for the people who cheat or those who don't.
Yeah, we have some breaking news from the Sony vaporware dept!
Is it just me, or is this really old news? Sony has been promising this since GT4. Oh yeah, and it will work with the PSP too? *snicker* I'd like to see that. I really would. But I don't think that I will.
>2) get the people that did no console research at all to buy a 360.
There's been a little analysis of this and if you're referring to the hardware of the 360 and the PS3, it's a pretty moot battle at this point. Also, if you're referring to the online service, the only "real" online service right now is XBox live. Finally, if you're referring to games, the 360 has Morrowind, GRAW, and Fight Night in the pipeline for next month.
I'm not sure that the early adopters of the 360 have been shortsighted in purchasing their consoles -- we have great HD games on a system that will be neck and neck with the PS3. And we've gotten it at least 8 months before anyone else will be seeing the competition.
Heh, I switched -- dropped $1000 on an iBook, then $150 on a wifi card, then $100 on "Apple compatible" ram -- , then I realized that OS X is really slow. Really, really, slow. So I sold the machine to drooling fanatics for a price close to what I paid for it, and then bought a PC laptop for half the iBook price that blew the performance of my iBook out of the water.
Take my experience with a grain of salt though, I'm just pointing out that all switchers aren't permanent.
If you want to run Glass (the GUI) you need to make sure you have a compatible video card. I have found in Vista that the biggest perf issues stem from low memory or not having a compatible video card. Here is nvidia's list of supported video cards, note that there are no notebook cards on it right now. Here is ATI's list of supported video cards. If you want the slick UI, just make sure you get a laptop that supports LDDM.
I think that you are thinking in the right direction here, there's even more at work in the equation here too: Jobs is trying to misdirect Microsoft into focusing not on their platform (Urge) but instead focusing on the consumer devices (PMPs). I think that the guise is just petty banter, and I don't anticipate that Microsoft will roll their own PMP.
The thing that most posters don't realize is that the DRM companies (Apple, Microsoft) are primarily creating DRM to tantalyze publishers to use their platforms (more labels = more mindshare). I'm not sure that Microsoft really needs to roll their own media player (and gouge their partners in the process) considering Creative took best of CES for their Zen Vision M...
I ran Be on a pentium-300 laptop and I actually had a rather satisfying experience with it. Be ran surprisingly fast for a Windowing OS. It ran much like QNX runs-- responsive, quick loading, fast task switching and multitasking. The article gets into this a little bitBeOS's strength was always in its relatively lightweight frameworks, and its highly responsive GUI, which were the result of a new, relatively uncluttered code base and an emphasis on multithreading everywhere in the OS. But I really don't think that it hits the nail hard enough on the head. On my laptop be can run a web browser, play mp3s, and run an email client at the same time with little noticable slowdown: again, this is on a [slow] pentium 300 mmx machine. In fact, Be performed most graphical tasks better than the same laptop running on a well tuned Gentoo install with fluxbox as the WM (honest!).
Anyways, this review of Zeta is interesting because it again revisits the platform that could potentially make a great niche for itself in lower-powered situations such as mobile and embeded devices and old [s]crappy laptops like mine. The only thing is that the article really doesn't strongly enough emphasize how dramatic Be's strengths and weakneses are: driver support is EXTREMELY limited, the multitasking and other system performance (espescially sound) is REMARKABLE...
Be is a rather fun OS to play with, and there are tons of excellent free applications for it: check out http://www.bebits.com./ The only real drawback of be is its limited hardware support and the lack of support for many applications that people are used to. Let's hope the Zeta guys stick with it and add support for some more hardware (Wireless baby, wireless.)
This makes me think of the generic DVD remotes for the original Xbox. Non-ms remotes generally sold for around $5 while the MS ones (the only official ones) sold at around $30. I'd believe that MS was trying to recoup some of their losses on the original console by selling the remote...
Anyways, Microsoft is most likely trying to create a further way to recoup potential losses on their console from restricted features or yet-to-be-announced add-ons for their console (Blu-ray DVD / HD-DVD drives) or other "dumb" add-ons that they may be using to recoup some of their losses on the console overhead.
Well, anyways, this is bad news because this could totally discourage some 3rd party manufacturers from releasing their controllers for the 360 [Arcade @ home controller!]. Oh well, whatever measures they take will just get hacked eventually, they're using bluetooth, right?
Since everyone always says, "wow, windows [linux] users finally get features we have in OS X" I'll say, "ho hum, OSX users finally get mice with two buttons, *yawn*"
This technology seems like the perfect killer app that would require Force Feedback. Imagine for a second... the more windows you leaf back, the heavier they become. You could blindly lift off a few windows...
So when mac users wanted 64 bit support, they had to upgrade for $150 to Panther, it's rather nice that Microsoft is giving away the upgrade for many existing customers.
For some reason, I think the comments regarding people having no knowledge of who MC Chris is... should be modded down off topic.
Anyways, considering MC Chris worked at Adult Swim producing and voice acting for some rather influential cartoons, we should be seeing questions more along the lines of,
"How does one break into the business of cartoons oriented at adults and late teens? Or what really do you see happening in the next 10 years regarding comedic animation oriented entertainment..."
Admittedly, I'm not interested in getting into film or video entertainment, I don't really care what happens to Adult Swim in 10 years, I just happen to enjoy MC Chris's music.
The only question I really have for MC Chris is, "Where honestly do you come up with all the content for your songs?"
In such songs as "Yacht Birds" [ENC], you talk about things like,
"scholios chick, one fake tit always bitin her lip, always walkin with a limp always talkin shit, always beggin to kiss cuz you can't resist the lips of an MC Chris"
Did things like this really happen or is it entirely made up?
I remember you breaking down the meanings of one of your songs at the Fan Signing in Seattle, and it seemed that you actually put all the words into the songs for reasons beyond them rhyming... Do you ever make an exception and just put stuff in because it fits?
By going along with this new specification. Network Management, monitoring, and other SNMP-like operations in Java are moving to the JMX or java media extension framework. In Java 5, the VM has JMX hooks built in for monitoring and control. Alas, I have to agree that SNMP is tired and old, but it still is in place in a lot of environments (and in routers, firewalls, and other hardware appliances) and is really easy to interface and use. I doubt this will catch on very quickly...
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What about KQP (killer quake pack) and Aliens (some clever hackers got the aliens to run around on the walls and still have intelligent AI). These were huge in their day... perhaps I was the only one playing them :-(
Compliance is a very very very difficult problem. This is particularly true when you have more than one compliance specification that you must work with, don't have engineering resources from the team that produced the product that is out of compliance, and are working on a short deadline while trying to deliver documentation for other projects. I have posted a longer response to this on my work blog. Feel free to share the pain...
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You're missing something very important in your speccing. PC makers (notoriously dell) tend to offer DEEP DEEP discounts on their hardware, even if it's new. For instance, you could apply the coupon code from here [http://dealnews.com/Dell-Home-coupons-Up-to-30-off-Inspiron-desktops-and-laptops/228974.html] and get 30% off on that dell. That would put it at a jaw-dropping $980. These sorts of deals do not exist for Apple products except in the 5-10% range off that you can get through academic discounts and on refurbs.
OK, being able to have a car that helps me drive is good and all, but how long until I can go to the bar and then have the car drive me home instead of paying for a cabbie? Hell, how long until computers are mandated to drive ALL CARS during rush hour to make for perfect traffic optimization.
I agree, it was a little cold of Apple to bring on the straight disses when they released their dual-boot utility (akin to teenagers saying, lol, winbl0ws is t3h sux0rs!!!111 lol lol lol). Then again, that is pretty much the Apple style of releasing something edgy, come out, show something cool, then talk shit.
I personally believe the snide remarks on the site are there to squelch any hate for Apple because this is honestly one step closer to Apple selling hardware that is preconfigured for Windows -- the wBook.
Have an intervention...
Get him on a 12 step program.
Anybody surprised?
>I wish Blizzard would make the game funner
>for impatient people who can't devote their
>life to the game
Haha, you said funner.
That's just it though... Blizzard was trying to make it easy to level your character in WoW. If you compare WoW to Lineage, Everquest, or Asheron's Call, WoW is relatively easy to advance your character in. At around 500 hours, you are looking at a level 60 (less if you are a SKILLED builder).
I have heard, however, that Guild Wars offers easily leveled up characters, and the skill comes from balancing abilities and equipment.
Call a spade a spade. It is cheating. I still don't have a problem with it though. I mean, if you want to take the risk of cheating, and are willing to do it as a shortcut, take the risk. Some people will get caught, some will get away with it. But it really shouldn't be a deal breaker for the people who cheat or those who don't.
I "switched" in Dec / Jan 2004 -> 2005.
Should stand for "Wicked Awesome!!!!" That would be the biscuit! (Apparently kids no longer say "the bomb"
Yeah, we have some breaking news from the Sony vaporware dept!
Is it just me, or is this really old news? Sony has been promising this since GT4. Oh yeah, and it will work with the PSP too? *snicker* I'd like to see that. I really would. But I don't think that I will.
I hate to sound zealous, but your keynote:
>2) get the people that did no console research at all to buy a 360.
There's been a little analysis of this and if you're referring to the hardware of the 360 and the PS3, it's a pretty moot battle at this point. Also, if you're referring to the online service, the only "real" online service right now is XBox live. Finally, if you're referring to games, the 360 has Morrowind, GRAW, and Fight Night in the pipeline for next month.
I'm not sure that the early adopters of the 360 have been shortsighted in purchasing their consoles -- we have great HD games on a system that will be neck and neck with the PS3. And we've gotten it at least 8 months before anyone else will be seeing the competition.
Heh, I switched -- dropped $1000 on an iBook, then $150 on a wifi card, then $100 on "Apple compatible" ram -- , then I realized that OS X is really slow. Really, really, slow. So I sold the machine to drooling fanatics for a price close to what I paid for it, and then bought a PC laptop for half the iBook price that blew the performance of my iBook out of the water.
Take my experience with a grain of salt though, I'm just pointing out that all switchers aren't permanent.
If you want to run Glass (the GUI) you need to make sure you have a compatible video card. I have found in Vista that the biggest perf issues stem from low memory or not having a compatible video card. Here is nvidia's list of supported video cards, note that there are no notebook cards on it right now. Here is ATI's list of supported video cards. If you want the slick UI, just make sure you get a laptop that supports LDDM.
I think that you are thinking in the right direction here, there's even more at work in the equation here too: Jobs is trying to misdirect Microsoft into focusing not on their platform (Urge) but instead focusing on the consumer devices (PMPs). I think that the guise is just petty banter, and I don't anticipate that Microsoft will roll their own PMP.
The thing that most posters don't realize is that the DRM companies (Apple, Microsoft) are primarily creating DRM to tantalyze publishers to use their platforms (more labels = more mindshare). I'm not sure that Microsoft really needs to roll their own media player (and gouge their partners in the process) considering Creative took best of CES for their Zen Vision M...
I ran Be on a pentium-300 laptop and I actually had a rather satisfying experience with it. Be ran surprisingly fast for a Windowing OS. It ran much like QNX runs-- responsive, quick loading, fast task switching and multitasking. The article gets into this a little bitBeOS's strength was always in its relatively lightweight frameworks, and its highly responsive GUI, which were the result of a new, relatively uncluttered code base and an emphasis on multithreading everywhere in the OS. But I really don't think that it hits the nail hard enough on the head. On my laptop be can run a web browser, play mp3s, and run an email client at the same time with little noticable slowdown: again, this is on a [slow] pentium 300 mmx machine. In fact, Be performed most graphical tasks better than the same laptop running on a well tuned Gentoo install with fluxbox as the WM (honest!).
Anyways, this review of Zeta is interesting because it again revisits the platform that could potentially make a great niche for itself in lower-powered situations such as mobile and embeded devices and old [s]crappy laptops like mine. The only thing is that the article really doesn't strongly enough emphasize how dramatic Be's strengths and weakneses are: driver support is EXTREMELY limited, the multitasking and other system performance (espescially sound) is REMARKABLE...
Be is a rather fun OS to play with, and there are tons of excellent free applications for it: check out http://www.bebits.com./ The only real drawback of be is its limited hardware support and the lack of support for many applications that people are used to. Let's hope the Zeta guys stick with it and add support for some more hardware (Wireless baby, wireless.)
This makes me think of the generic DVD remotes for the original Xbox. Non-ms remotes generally sold for around $5 while the MS ones (the only official ones) sold at around $30. I'd believe that MS was trying to recoup some of their losses on the original console by selling the remote...
Anyways, Microsoft is most likely trying to create a further way to recoup potential losses on their console from restricted features or yet-to-be-announced add-ons for their console (Blu-ray DVD / HD-DVD drives) or other "dumb" add-ons that they may be using to recoup some of their losses on the console overhead.
Well, anyways, this is bad news because this could totally discourage some 3rd party manufacturers from releasing their controllers for the 360 [Arcade @ home controller!]. Oh well, whatever measures they take will just get hacked eventually, they're using bluetooth, right?
Since everyone always says, "wow, windows [linux] users finally get features we have in OS X" I'll say, "ho hum, OSX users finally get mice with two buttons, *yawn*"
This technology seems like the perfect killer app that would require Force Feedback. Imagine for a second... the more windows you leaf back, the heavier they become. You could blindly lift off a few windows...
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So when mac users wanted 64 bit support, they had to upgrade for $150 to Panther, it's rather nice that Microsoft is giving away the upgrade for many existing customers.
This is especially significant when you consider 50% of a software engineer's time is spent debugging software.
They assume that programmers... DEBUG! Hah!
For some reason, I think the comments regarding people having no knowledge of who MC Chris is... should be modded down off topic.
Anyways, considering MC Chris worked at Adult Swim producing and voice acting for some rather influential cartoons, we should be seeing questions more along the lines of,
"How does one break into the business of cartoons oriented at adults and late teens? Or what really do you see happening in the next 10 years regarding comedic animation oriented entertainment..."
Admittedly, I'm not interested in getting into film or video entertainment, I don't really care what happens to Adult Swim in 10 years, I just happen to enjoy MC Chris's music.
The only question I really have for MC Chris is, "Where honestly do you come up with all the content for your songs?"
In such songs as "Yacht Birds" [ENC], you talk about things like,
"scholios chick, one fake tit
always bitin her lip, always walkin with a limp
always talkin shit, always beggin to kiss
cuz you can't resist the lips of an MC Chris"
Did things like this really happen or is it entirely made up?
I remember you breaking down the meanings of one of your songs at the Fan Signing in Seattle, and it seemed that you actually put all the words into the songs for reasons beyond them rhyming... Do you ever make an exception and just put stuff in because it fits?
Btw... hope you like that Xbox.
Where are these people from, Mars? Nope... Utah.
Nobody else seemed to mention this yet so I thought I'd point out that Sun seems to be contradicting their latest monitoring framework:
JMX
By going along with this new specification. Network Management, monitoring, and other SNMP-like operations in Java are moving to the JMX or java media extension framework. In Java 5, the VM has JMX hooks built in for monitoring and control. Alas, I have to agree that SNMP is tired and old, but it still is in place in a lot of environments (and in routers, firewalls, and other hardware appliances) and is really easy to interface and use. I doubt this will catch on very quickly...