It's interesting. Sometimes it works brilliantly, I can even pause TV. But other times, it completely crashes, plays the wrong audio for a channel.
I've got a VCR hooked up, but it's a pain to have to use two different remotes for audio and video. It's not that I can't watch TV, it just that I need to reboot after a few hours of it. I was just hoping there was something better out there. Plus, I'd rather be able to record on my computer than using a VCR. What's the point in buying the card if you can't actually use it properly!
Their windows drivers have never been very good either. If you are using windows, I suggest you use the omegadrivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/. But even then, you still have to update bi-monthly, which is crazy. And all of your old setting are reset after every update.
I've been playing with the TV software and it has barely changed since about 5 years ago. (And it worked better then...) Anybody out there know of an open source TV tuner software package that works with ATI cards (and Windows)?
ATI's hardware is wonderful, it a shame you can't use it!
Where do you live? If you don't live in a city or a town, then perhaps you wouldn't do this. But if you live in a city, then you must not have played the game for the long hours that most of us have.
Does SimCity produce poor planners? Yes. Most definitely. It uses models from the late 1800's and the early 1900's for its design.
Yes, I know it is just a game, but tell me this, after playing the game for a while, didn't you start to asses your own city/town based on the judgements you would have made if you developed it?
The problem is, good city planning requires diversity, something that SimCity doesn't promote. But, on another hand, it would be very difficult for it to do so.
Even if you don't care about city planning or SimCity, you should still read this book. Want to know why big box stores are bad? Want to know about how to win the war against cars? Want to know how to fix a slum?
Read this book and you will NEVER look at your city/town the same way again.
Does anybody else notice how a lot of the countries at the top of the list were formally communist and fascist. Perhaps having little or no freedoms allows one to apprciate them more fully.
One would have thought that Americans would have raised hell if you tried to take away their rights, but clearly, with enough propaganda, they're quite complacent (at least if it's for national security).
It seems that there are more than a few JADE projects out there.
I used JADE Java Agent DEvelopment Framework to perform agent oriented programming. (And I was really worried by the headline at first!) http://jade.tilab.com/ If anyone is interested in agent oriented programming and design, I suggest you give it a look. It works really well and it is also open-source.
If there are trademark issues with this other JADE, do you think they might have them as well?
They used to. I remember as a kid that every theater had the national anthem played before every movie. Now, we only get a slide show (of comercials), then a bunch of comercials and then a few tailers.
A few years ago, I was up at an army base, and watch a movie there. They still played the national anthem. It was really strange to listen to O'Canada and then watch species.
The only school to name any event after Kipling is Mac. Everybody else has their own little thing but it usually involves the name Iron Ring.
At Waterloo it's called IRS and IRC. Iron Ring Stag and Iron Ring Ceremony. The stag is a massive party.
Most Canadian schools have almost the exact same ceremony, but one of the strangest practices of all is at Western where their calling is open to the public.
And everybody has the post IR exam crunch. I actually had an exam the next day after mine. And I was running the event!
Let's face it. Who else could have released the same movie so many times and still make a huge profit?
Let's see, in home video only, the final version of Starwars, then the new version with new computer effects. He's only doing it again with this DVD contraversy. Most movies are released on both DVD and VHS at the same time, and now even more on DVD before VHS. So what does Lucas do? He releases SW:E1 on VHS ONLY, then waits till everybody has a copy and then releases the DVD with "extra" stuff on it. So every REAL SW fan has to go out and buy the DVD after they already own the VHS. It is a well thought plan out and all designed to take your money without you realizing it.
The random map thing was in Rogue. Actually, if anybody out there knows the algorithm they used, post it here (or a link to it) I'd greatly apreciate it.
But how many games are actually just copies of Rogue.
Features that Diablo had that Rogue didn't: (besides pretty graphics) - Multiuser - Shops (well sort of) - Classes - Big mean last guy - a tiny bit more plot
Feature that Rogue had that Diablo didn't: - Multiplatformed (really, it workes on just about anything!) - Blindness (arg) - Secret doors - 26 monsters! ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ - Fastplay mode - AND MUCH MUCH MORE
Sure it was ascii based, but it had heart! LONG LIVE ROGUE!
Sure, a special collector's edition would be nice, but it would also be great to acctually see a release date on the game. Does anybody know when the most anticipated title of '98, '99 and '00 is expected to actually hit the shelves? If you haven't read it yet, read the Top Ten Features That Have Delayed Diablo II.
The episode was just lacking something. I personally really enjoyed the other AI episode a few seasons ago, but this one was just too silly. And how did the lone gunmen get into business with this company? What were they doing there? There were just too many holes in the plot and nothing was explained at all.
Well, the problem is, there is so much junk on the internet and IE supports almost all of it.
Netscape has got to keep up and try to implement the same features. Personally, I don't use or want most of them as they tend to slow down surfing speeds. But if they don't keep up, they'll lose even more ground to IE.
1 GHrz? It would be nice and all, but that also carries a hefty price tag. How can they only charge $150 for it? Perhaps they are they planning for a release in 10 years? It sounds great... execpt for the windows derived OS. Wouldn't it suck to be right at the end of a game and get a GPF?! Axiom
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Jesse Brown (of the Search Engine Podcast) did a great job talking about this type of thing. http://www.cbc.ca/searchengine/blog/2008/11/podcast_12_is_up.html And this just adds to it.
It's interesting. Sometimes it works brilliantly, I can even pause TV. But other times, it completely crashes, plays the wrong audio for a channel.
I've got a VCR hooked up, but it's a pain to have to use two different remotes for audio and video. It's not that I can't watch TV, it just that I need to reboot after a few hours of it. I was just hoping there was something better out there. Plus, I'd rather be able to record on my computer than using a VCR. What's the point in buying the card if you can't actually use it properly!
Their windows drivers have never been very good either. If you are using windows, I suggest you use the omegadrivers http://www.omegadrivers.net/. But even then, you still have to update bi-monthly, which is crazy. And all of your old setting are reset after every update.
I've been playing with the TV software and it has barely changed since about 5 years ago. (And it worked better then...) Anybody out there know of an open source TV tuner software package that works with ATI cards (and Windows)?
ATI's hardware is wonderful, it a shame you can't use it!
Then clearly, you didn't play the game enough.
Where do you live? If you don't live in a city or a town, then perhaps you wouldn't do this. But if you live in a city, then you must not have played the game for the long hours that most of us have.
Does SimCity produce poor planners? Yes. Most definitely. It uses models from the late 1800's and the early 1900's for its design.
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Yes, I know it is just a game, but tell me this, after playing the game for a while, didn't you start to asses your own city/town based on the judgements you would have made if you developed it?
If you really want to learn all you can about city planning, there is only one book you need to read:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067
The problem is, good city planning requires diversity, something that SimCity doesn't promote. But, on another hand, it would be very difficult for it to do so.
Even if you don't care about city planning or SimCity, you should still read this book.
Want to know why big box stores are bad? Want to know about how to win the war against cars? Want to know how to fix a slum?
Read this book and you will NEVER look at your city/town the same way again.
Does anybody else notice how a lot of the countries at the top of the list were formally communist and fascist. Perhaps having little or no freedoms allows one to apprciate them more fully.
One would have thought that Americans would have raised hell if you tried to take away their rights, but clearly, with enough propaganda, they're quite complacent (at least if it's for national security).
It seems that there are more than a few JADE projects out there.
I used JADE Java Agent DEvelopment Framework to perform agent oriented programming. (And I was really worried by the headline at first!) http://jade.tilab.com/
If anyone is interested in agent oriented programming and design, I suggest you give it a look. It works really well and it is also open-source.
If there are trademark issues with this other JADE, do you think they might have them as well?
My start page is Slashdot of course! My second choice would be google or perhaps blank.
They used to. I remember as a kid that every theater had the national anthem played before every movie. Now, we only get a slide show (of comercials), then a bunch of comercials and then a few tailers.
A few years ago, I was up at an army base, and watch a movie there. They still played the national anthem. It was really strange to listen to O'Canada and then watch species.
Just to sort this all out.
The only school to name any event after Kipling is Mac. Everybody else has their own little thing but it usually involves the name Iron Ring.
At Waterloo it's called IRS and IRC. Iron Ring Stag and Iron Ring Ceremony. The stag is a massive party.
Most Canadian schools have almost the exact same ceremony, but one of the strangest practices of all is at Western where their calling is open to the public.
And everybody has the post IR exam crunch. I actually had an exam the next day after mine. And I was running the event!
Lucas is a marketing genius.
Let's face it. Who else could have released the same movie so many times and still make a huge profit?
Let's see, in home video only, the final version of Starwars, then the new version with new computer effects. He's only doing it again with this DVD contraversy. Most movies are released on both DVD and VHS at the same time, and now even more on DVD before VHS. So what does Lucas do? He releases SW:E1 on VHS ONLY, then waits till everybody has a copy and then releases the DVD with "extra" stuff on it. So every REAL SW fan has to go out and buy the DVD after they already own the VHS. It is a well thought plan out and all designed to take your money without you realizing it.
Axiom
The random map thing was in Rogue. Actually, if anybody out there knows the algorithm they used, post it here (or a link to it) I'd greatly apreciate it.
Axiom
But how many games are actually just copies of Rogue.
Features that Diablo had that Rogue didn't: (besides pretty graphics)
- Multiuser
- Shops (well sort of)
- Classes
- Big mean last guy
- a tiny bit more plot
Feature that Rogue had that Diablo didn't:
- Multiplatformed (really, it workes on just about anything!)
- Blindness (arg)
- Secret doors
- 26 monsters! ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
- Fastplay mode
- AND MUCH MUCH MORE
Sure it was ascii based, but it had heart!
LONG LIVE ROGUE!
Axiom
Sure, a special collector's edition would be nice, but it would also be great to acctually see a release date on the game. Does anybody know when the most anticipated title of '98, '99 and '00 is expected to actually hit the shelves?
If you haven't read it yet, read the Top Ten Features That Have Delayed Diablo II.
Axiom
let me correct that last question:
And do you have any useful tips for programmers who are programming a game now that would make it easier to port in the future?
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When programming a game, what steps can be taken to make it easily ported to other platforms?
For example, is one language better then another? (at least in being able to be easily ported)
Is one method of displaying graphics better then another? (OpenGL, Direct X, etc.)
And do you have any useful tips for programmers to assist in porting?
Thanks,
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The episode was just lacking something. I personally really enjoyed the other AI episode a few seasons ago, but this one was just too silly. And how did the lone gunmen get into business with this company? What were they doing there? There were just too many holes in the plot and nothing was explained at all.
Oh and I loved that program jumping.?!
Axiom
Well, the problem is, there is so much junk on the internet and IE supports almost all of it.
Netscape has got to keep up and try to implement the same features. Personally, I don't use or want most of them as they tend to slow down surfing speeds. But if they don't keep up, they'll lose even more ground to IE.
Axiom
1 GHrz? It would be nice and all, but that also carries a hefty price tag. How can they only charge $150 for it? Perhaps they are they planning for a release in 10 years? It sounds great... execpt for the windows derived OS. Wouldn't it suck to be right at the end of a game and get a GPF?! Axiom