Remove Frames altogether. I honestly can't think of a time where a frame has made anything on the web easier save for Kingdom of Loathing.
Even the Google Image searches - its annoying that I have to click on the image and then click on another one to get linked to the full size image. Why not just make the image go straight to the image link, and put a URL under the image that goes to the page its hosted on. No more frames, and less hassle.
Frames constantly break websites, cause vulnerabilities, and have been a nuisance since the 90's.
Anybody here have anything to say in the defense of frames?
Haven't played Daggerfall but I think its similar to how you described. The area available in the game is supposedly twice the size of Britain, most of which was generated randomly. The Wikipedia article says that it is still the largest amount of explorable terrain in any game to date. (May, 2010). Apparently, its also downloadable and runnable in Dosbox, I'm going to have to check it out. Anyways, the point I was trying to make:
For these kinds of games, you -NEED- a fast travel kind of mechanic. You can't expect your player to get wrapped up in the storyline if he spends an hour playing each day, but it takes him a week to progress the story. Whatever misconception you had that size was limitted by the computing resources available - that's not it. It's about feasable gameplay. At what point is it too much? Daggerfall has been considered too much. Apparently it got that reputation early on and it has stuck throughout time. Bethesda has taken some time to fine tune the size of things - you'll notice Oblivion and Fallout 3 are roughly the same size, and both of them feature real world exploration, and fast travel. You can't fast travel to a place without exploring your way there first. This was an excellent way to balance the need for real-time traveling and fast travelling, which balance both immersion aspects of immersion into the world and immersion into the storyline.
I also haven't played Red Dead Redemption, but if they follow the same philosophy, I think I'll give it a try. If it's closer to GTA or Red Faction, I think I'll enjoy it, but not as much. That kind of travel, where the idea generally boils down to getting from A to B as fast as possible, doesn't do much for me. I always find myself repeating the same steps: Steal a vehicle, drive down highway, pull into the safe house. No matter what I do, be it the story, a side mission, or just exploring, it always ends like that.
Now - question is, has anybody I know played through it enough to lend it to me...
But thats where virtual security is LESS favourable than physical security.
There was a time where SQL injection wasn't even a concieved idea - so how do you protect from that kind of threat?
With Physical security, the amount of things involved are very few. It basically boils down to keeping bullets out or keeping people out. And both of those get a bonus with the more armour you add or the more people you hire.
With virtual security, you can take a million computer scientists and tell them to get cracking but you can't guarantee they'll be prepared for the next big vulnerability.
When Virtual Security mirrors Physical Security - people should expect more from virtual security? How is a Night watchmen not a form of "vulnerability management" and "attack detection"?
All security in general is reactive. You can't proactively solve every problem - this philosophy goes beyond security. The proactive solution is to plan on how to handle the situation when a vulnerability gets exploited, something I think virtual security has managed to handle a lot better than physical security.
I used celcius later on. I got lazy and didn't add em to the first one. Figured those smart enough to read the whole comment could use deductive logic.
Your comment juxtaposes itself. Many people HAVE acknowledged that this was an engineering failure. And yes, mistakes are eventually made. Thats why we hold THAT to the same standard as a car accident. Accidents happen, they are sometimes preventable, but they will always happen.
Its the aftermath we're upset about. It's how BP is trying to fix the problem: They are trying to recover as much of the oil as possible, or try to recover as much of the well as possible. They are not viewing it from the point of ecological concern, they are trying to stave off their losses. That's what pisses most of us off.
You accidentally rear end someone. You can get out, offer to pay it, give them your information, or you can back up, speed off, and do your best never to see them again. The latter is obviously going to be less expensive for you, and thats kind of what BP is doing.
Until the Weather Network can give as good a forecast as our local meteorologist, the local TV will still flourish.
Calgary is a very quirky city. Its weather is the strangest thing ever. We have had snow in July, then +30 the next day, we've had sunny skies to rain to hail to sun again in less than 30 minutes. We have had the temperature expected high/low span of more than 35 degrees celcius, for a single day.
There are a few sayings that roll around Calgary:
"If you don't like the weather, wait a bit"
and
"If you plan on going camping, bring your swim suit and your parka."
If they program a great software for sorting and handling animals in animal shelters, they've effectively made it that anyone who uses the software cannot euthanize animals. Not a bad move, though it could open a whole can of worms.
Visual Studio per se probably isn't innovative, but it's a really stable product and better than anything else on the market. Microsoft also used to publish great and also innovative games (why not anymore?)
You hit VS right on the head - it's not really anything new, but the features that they add to each version are usually pretty rock solid in their implementation. Not a whole other suites were offering LINQ - but they were there. Microsoft just made it easier to use those kinds of features.
As for the games, its a lot like their web content. Most of the games Microsoft has made have been other dev studios being purchased or bought out or simply backed by Microsoft. Microsoft put their name on Halo, even though it was Bungie's work. They also have their name on the Age of Empires, though that was ensemble studios. Perhaps the only one I can think of that was MS was Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
As for innovation, perhaps people shouldn't be expecting it from these large companies. In essence, a lot of the newer technologies today come from some super intelligent geek who has a dream to make it real. So once they get out of MIT or wherever, they start their project, demo it at TED or some festival, than they either get picked up by one of these corporations or their idea gets stolen.
The opening one, in the Jet, you can get lots of frames per second - but watch their lips closesly, either it was put together terribly or what, but their lips jump around like its choppy and laggy, like its not running at anything higher than 20 fps.
Exactly. How many people knew Pacman was 30 years old today? Probably not a lot. How many people know about Pacman? Quite a few. It's a fun gesture to educate people how much things have changed, bringing back the nostalgic feeling of playing the game while showing how far we've come, with web searches and the internet in general. I think it spurs some reflection on the subject matter, but thats just my experience.
Yeah. You won't need more than 1Gig of RAM, and the slowest processor processor you can get with a Windows 7 bundle should be plenty enough for IE, Office, and Adobe Reader, which is pretty much the basics across the board in the Corporate world.
Unless you are using some software that demands more specs, than the benchmarks shouldn't be the primary concern, it should be the price.
Not to slashvertise, but we use the Optiplexes from Dell, and besides the cheap price for decent specs, the best part about them is screw-less maintenance. You will never need a Screwdriver to replace any component on a Dell desktop. I never realized how great it was until my parents wanted me to add RAM to their 5 year old Compaq's and HP's. I'm not sure if other vendors have started doing this yet, I hope so.
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Remove Frames altogether. I honestly can't think of a time where a frame has made anything on the web easier save for Kingdom of Loathing.
Even the Google Image searches - its annoying that I have to click on the image and then click on another one to get linked to the full size image. Why not just make the image go straight to the image link, and put a URL under the image that goes to the page its hosted on. No more frames, and less hassle.
Frames constantly break websites, cause vulnerabilities, and have been a nuisance since the 90's.
Anybody here have anything to say in the defense of frames?
No I pulled up the Wikipedia page on CBS to compare what the majority of their shows are comprised of.
It's a little shocking to see this title, but not totally.
Hey, if you find opening and using a GUI easier than opening and editting a config file, you're in with the wrong crowd.
Didn't South Park already cover this?
Simpson's did it too
It's indecent.
Half of what airs on TV is indecent.
And you are offended by a censored TITLE?
Perhaps if you watched any of the Soap Operas they air on daytime TV, you'd re-consider how decent you thought TV was in the first place.
Haven't played Daggerfall but I think its similar to how you described. The area available in the game is supposedly twice the size of Britain, most of which was generated randomly. The Wikipedia article says that it is still the largest amount of explorable terrain in any game to date. (May, 2010). Apparently, its also downloadable and runnable in Dosbox, I'm going to have to check it out. Anyways, the point I was trying to make:
For these kinds of games, you -NEED- a fast travel kind of mechanic. You can't expect your player to get wrapped up in the storyline if he spends an hour playing each day, but it takes him a week to progress the story. Whatever misconception you had that size was limitted by the computing resources available - that's not it. It's about feasable gameplay. At what point is it too much? Daggerfall has been considered too much. Apparently it got that reputation early on and it has stuck throughout time. Bethesda has taken some time to fine tune the size of things - you'll notice Oblivion and Fallout 3 are roughly the same size, and both of them feature real world exploration, and fast travel. You can't fast travel to a place without exploring your way there first. This was an excellent way to balance the need for real-time traveling and fast travelling, which balance both immersion aspects of immersion into the world and immersion into the storyline.
I also haven't played Red Dead Redemption, but if they follow the same philosophy, I think I'll give it a try. If it's closer to GTA or Red Faction, I think I'll enjoy it, but not as much. That kind of travel, where the idea generally boils down to getting from A to B as fast as possible, doesn't do much for me. I always find myself repeating the same steps: Steal a vehicle, drive down highway, pull into the safe house. No matter what I do, be it the story, a side mission, or just exploring, it always ends like that.
Now - question is, has anybody I know played through it enough to lend it to me...
I most definately do. I also remember clicking on different part of the hand just to see how bloody and scarred I could make it.
Oh, and before I forget, if you think it's good to be Open like a Mac, why did it take you the better part of a decade to port all your games over?
Not that we're complaining, but I had to put up with years of Mac users complaining about it.
Open like a Mac, I get it,
kind of like, Secure like a Windows?
And now my Facebook profile picture ends up on an Anti-Herpes-Drug ad.
With my luck, every female I know will see it.
But thats where virtual security is LESS favourable than physical security.
There was a time where SQL injection wasn't even a concieved idea - so how do you protect from that kind of threat?
With Physical security, the amount of things involved are very few. It basically boils down to keeping bullets out or keeping people out. And both of those get a bonus with the more armour you add or the more people you hire.
With virtual security, you can take a million computer scientists and tell them to get cracking but you can't guarantee they'll be prepared for the next big vulnerability.
When Virtual Security mirrors Physical Security - people should expect more from virtual security? How is a Night watchmen not a form of "vulnerability management" and "attack detection"?
All security in general is reactive. You can't proactively solve every problem - this philosophy goes beyond security. The proactive solution is to plan on how to handle the situation when a vulnerability gets exploited, something I think virtual security has managed to handle a lot better than physical security.
I used celcius later on. I got lazy and didn't add em to the first one. Figured those smart enough to read the whole comment could use deductive logic.
Your comment juxtaposes itself. Many people HAVE acknowledged that this was an engineering failure. And yes, mistakes are eventually made. Thats why we hold THAT to the same standard as a car accident. Accidents happen, they are sometimes preventable, but they will always happen.
Its the aftermath we're upset about. It's how BP is trying to fix the problem: They are trying to recover as much of the oil as possible, or try to recover as much of the well as possible. They are not viewing it from the point of ecological concern, they are trying to stave off their losses. That's what pisses most of us off.
You accidentally rear end someone. You can get out, offer to pay it, give them your information, or you can back up, speed off, and do your best never to see them again. The latter is obviously going to be less expensive for you, and thats kind of what BP is doing.
I have spoken to many a cow regarding this subject matter. The general consensus amongst them was "MmmmmmoooOOOOOOooooo".
Take that as you may, I think we can all agree that PETA is crazy.
Until the Weather Network can give as good a forecast as our local meteorologist, the local TV will still flourish.
Calgary is a very quirky city. Its weather is the strangest thing ever. We have had snow in July, then +30 the next day, we've had sunny skies to rain to hail to sun again in less than 30 minutes. We have had the temperature expected high/low span of more than 35 degrees celcius, for a single day.
There are a few sayings that roll around Calgary:
"If you don't like the weather, wait a bit"
and
"If you plan on going camping, bring your swim suit and your parka."
Because euthanizing animals isn't a crime in most states. But if you break their license, well, that is a crime.
They call it C SHARP for a reason.
If they program a great software for sorting and handling animals in animal shelters, they've effectively made it that anyone who uses the software cannot euthanize animals. Not a bad move, though it could open a whole can of worms.
Visual Studio per se probably isn't innovative, but it's a really stable product and better than anything else on the market. Microsoft also used to publish great and also innovative games (why not anymore?)
You hit VS right on the head - it's not really anything new, but the features that they add to each version are usually pretty rock solid in their implementation. Not a whole other suites were offering LINQ - but they were there. Microsoft just made it easier to use those kinds of features.
As for the games, its a lot like their web content. Most of the games Microsoft has made have been other dev studios being purchased or bought out or simply backed by Microsoft. Microsoft put their name on Halo, even though it was Bungie's work. They also have their name on the Age of Empires, though that was ensemble studios. Perhaps the only one I can think of that was MS was Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
As for innovation, perhaps people shouldn't be expecting it from these large companies. In essence, a lot of the newer technologies today come from some super intelligent geek who has a dream to make it real. So once they get out of MIT or wherever, they start their project, demo it at TED or some festival, than they either get picked up by one of these corporations or their idea gets stolen.
My work doesn't let us have speakers, you insensative clod!
The opening one, in the Jet, you can get lots of frames per second - but watch their lips closesly, either it was put together terribly or what, but their lips jump around like its choppy and laggy, like its not running at anything higher than 20 fps.
Exactly. How many people knew Pacman was 30 years old today? Probably not a lot. How many people know about Pacman? Quite a few. It's a fun gesture to educate people how much things have changed, bringing back the nostalgic feeling of playing the game while showing how far we've come, with web searches and the internet in general. I think it spurs some reflection on the subject matter, but thats just my experience.
And in 7 years, you still won't be able to get more than 24 FPS out of the cinematics.
Yeah. You won't need more than 1Gig of RAM, and the slowest processor processor you can get with a Windows 7 bundle should be plenty enough for IE, Office, and Adobe Reader, which is pretty much the basics across the board in the Corporate world.
Unless you are using some software that demands more specs, than the benchmarks shouldn't be the primary concern, it should be the price.
Not to slashvertise, but we use the Optiplexes from Dell, and besides the cheap price for decent specs, the best part about them is screw-less maintenance. You will never need a Screwdriver to replace any component on a Dell desktop. I never realized how great it was until my parents wanted me to add RAM to their 5 year old Compaq's and HP's. I'm not sure if other vendors have started doing this yet, I hope so.