Too bad every self-professed Libertarian I've ever met has been of the "I don't want to pay taxes" variety rather than the "the gov't doesn't really need to regulate that" sort.
What's this about Eve Online doing an engine upgrade being an innovation? Dark Ages of Camelot & Ultima Online have done it already. As for giving hope that a game can go on for decades, Everquest has been going for 8 years and just released an expansion last month.
It's not that the word is becoming overused out of some sort of buzzword-itis, it's that companies are putting out too many things that will actually brick a machine.
The bit about overclocking is significant because there was a big stink recently about how the Phenom CPUs were going to be launching at fairly low clock speeds. If the overclocking is well supported, it really changes what shipping at low clock speeds means.
They may allow you back in or to retake the test in simple self defense. You will likely be seeing some hardball. The accusations on your site can be enough to keep an elected official out of office or get a superintendent fired. Again consult the lawyer first, but pointing out that it will get into the local news may cause a really amazing effect.
We're talking about a bad website written by an angry teenager. The only reason this would have an effect on any rational adult's vote is that the whole issue points out that school officials are wasting their time reading random websites written by angry teenagers.
The thing is, actual gameplay is influenced by your graphics card. Loading between levels might be annoying with an old HDD, but most games don't do much disk access during active gameplay.
Most of time when you see a game that can't be played on maximum settings with current hardware there's a good reason for it.
In many cases, such as Quake 3 and, more recently, Crysis, it's because the game engine is designed as a licensable asset that will be reused by other game studios for a number of years & they want it to remain relevant. Game engines are expensive to produce so once you've written a good one, there's few reasons not to license it out. If you plan on licensing the system & you want it to be relevant in 2-3 years, you not only need to be able to support todays top-of-the-line hardware but also be able to produce respectable results in two years when derivative titles are being released.
The other case is when you anticipate games to be played for long periods of time. A great example of this is Everquest 2 - SOE knew that they could expect the game to be actively played for 5 years or more. Given an anticipated lifespan like this you face 2 options - produce an engine with room to grow or plan on rewriting the engine so that 3 years in you can continue to meet player expectations.
Does Italy have some sort of registration/licensing of journalists or periodicals? Are their already laws in place that force professional, mainstream journalists to be "responsible"?
It might go against my USian belief in free speech, but I'd have a hard time arguing against this law if its merely placing blogs & websites under the same scrutiny as other publications. OTOH, I see enforcement of the law as a colossal failure waiting to happen.
Unix and F/OSS can, understandably have zealous supporters - the various incarnations of the Unix and Free Software social & design philosophies have some weight to them. You can't really say the same about Windows and Microsoft - it's really hard to get emotionally involved with a megacorporation making megabucks selling a mediocre mainstream OS (unless you're a shareholder).
If you don't want to put any more work into it, it's effectively dead. OSS isn't just about giving away the source, it's also about allowing other people to contribute - simply posting it on SF.net and walking away does nothing if you're not willing to review submissions, process bug reports and/or bring people into the project.
Back when I was in HS, the valedictorian of the class that graduated ahead of me didn't even meet the course requirements for acceptance to the state universities.
I think it has something to do with the phrase "Researchers at UC Davis and the University of New Mexico have performed experiments on the Great Firewall" and the mathematical modeling they used to evaluate the results.
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There's a big gap between paying for doctors to do their jobs & paying for shareholders to make money.
Too bad every self-professed Libertarian I've ever met has been of the "I don't want to pay taxes" variety rather than the "the gov't doesn't really need to regulate that" sort.
I was expecting something to do with these...
What's this about Eve Online doing an engine upgrade being an innovation? Dark Ages of Camelot & Ultima Online have done it already. As for giving hope that a game can go on for decades, Everquest has been going for 8 years and just released an expansion last month.
It's not that the word is becoming overused out of some sort of buzzword-itis, it's that companies are putting out too many things that will actually brick a machine.
Obviously they don't care - they have no problem with recruiting a 17 year old kid and warping him into a finely honed killing machine.
The bit about overclocking is significant because there was a big stink recently about how the Phenom CPUs were going to be launching at fairly low clock speeds. If the overclocking is well supported, it really changes what shipping at low clock speeds means.
Your 'real Republicans' died out when the Boomers came of age - we've had spend-happy corporate whores running the country for the last 20+ years.
It's nice that you remember.
They may allow you back in or to retake the test in simple self defense. You will likely be seeing some hardball. The accusations on your site can be enough to keep an elected official out of office or get a superintendent fired. Again consult the lawyer first, but pointing out that it will get into the local news may cause a really amazing effect.
We're talking about a bad website written by an angry teenager. The only reason this would have an effect on any rational adult's vote is that the whole issue points out that school officials are wasting their time reading random websites written by angry teenagers.
The thing is, actual gameplay is influenced by your graphics card. Loading between levels might be annoying with an old HDD, but most games don't do much disk access during active gameplay.
Most of time when you see a game that can't be played on maximum settings with current hardware there's a good reason for it.
In many cases, such as Quake 3 and, more recently, Crysis, it's because the game engine is designed as a licensable asset that will be reused by other game studios for a number of years & they want it to remain relevant. Game engines are expensive to produce so once you've written a good one, there's few reasons not to license it out. If you plan on licensing the system & you want it to be relevant in 2-3 years, you not only need to be able to support todays top-of-the-line hardware but also be able to produce respectable results in two years when derivative titles are being released.
The other case is when you anticipate games to be played for long periods of time. A great example of this is Everquest 2 - SOE knew that they could expect the game to be actively played for 5 years or more. Given an anticipated lifespan like this you face 2 options - produce an engine with room to grow or plan on rewriting the engine so that 3 years in you can continue to meet player expectations.
Actually, I think you could.
Does Italy have some sort of registration/licensing of journalists or periodicals? Are their already laws in place that force professional, mainstream journalists to be "responsible"?
It might go against my USian belief in free speech, but I'd have a hard time arguing against this law if its merely placing blogs & websites under the same scrutiny as other publications. OTOH, I see enforcement of the law as a colossal failure waiting to happen.
It's there - if you go through the commentary, they talk about it by name at one point.
Orbital mind-control lasers.
Unix and F/OSS can, understandably have zealous supporters - the various incarnations of the Unix and Free Software social & design philosophies have some weight to them. You can't really say the same about Windows and Microsoft - it's really hard to get emotionally involved with a megacorporation making megabucks selling a mediocre mainstream OS (unless you're a shareholder).
If you don't want to put any more work into it, it's effectively dead. OSS isn't just about giving away the source, it's also about allowing other people to contribute - simply posting it on SF.net and walking away does nothing if you're not willing to review submissions, process bug reports and/or bring people into the project.
The "new Zero" is nowhere sexy enough of a name. I propose that it gets called the "Zig".
It's entirely possible that they don't -have- specs written in a way that's suitable for public consumption.
A degree in nuclear engineering is pretty much a guaranteed in with the US Navy.
Back when I was in HS, the valedictorian of the class that graduated ahead of me didn't even meet the course requirements for acceptance to the state universities.
I've been waiting for code-wheels to make a comeback.
I think it has something to do with the phrase "Researchers at UC Davis and the University of New Mexico have performed experiments on the Great Firewall" and the mathematical modeling they used to evaluate the results.
...perhaps because the cost of movie production involves orders of magnitude more people and money that of an album?