i played UT 99 a LOT (even on the dreamcast when i didnt have a PC in my room yet), when 2k3 came out i had my own PC with a GF4 and i enjoyed the hell out of it, 2k4 made it even better, it is still one of the games that i bother installing if i want to play a pc-game, also ran it on linux several times.
Then ut 3 came out, and it was rather unimpressive, i did buy it from steam at one point, but i hardly played it
within my company there are some internal vacancies for COBOL programmers, they need about 10 of them. Compared to my current job the work actually seemed interesting, so i asked an older colleague if i should look into it further, his suggestion? "start updating your resume"
The company i am starting with next year also has a COBOL group, they gave it the most brilliant euphemism for a name "proven technologies"
So there still is work, but upon closer examination, i would have to be mental to go down that road
COmmon Business Oriented Language -- do I get a cookie?
no mister Stoddart, but if you play nice at the bingo table and dont start throwing the cards around again you can have an extra cup of apple-sauce with your evening-meds.
Now hurry to the TV area, matlock starts in ten minutes!
i wont argue that Iran having nukes would be a good thing, but honestly.. is anyone in the western world (or russia/china etc..) seriously worried that Iran would attack someone once they got a few nukes?
No matter how many nukes Iran has, the spectre of MAD will always hang over nuclear warfare. the only way Iran would do any significant amount of damage (nuking 1 city on world-scale isnt THAT big) before getting completely glassed by every other country with nukes is with a MASSIVE first strike. And even then, who-ever would launch that strike would know they would be dead within the hour.
Here in Holland one politician argued for attacking Iran to stop them from becomming a serious threat, well, i say that no matter how many nukes they have, they are never a serious threat. If anything, them having nukes opens them up to being nuked (no-one likes the idea of assymetrical use of nukes, it is always tit for tat).
name them by clockspeed, no, doesnt work either, see pentium 4 vs athlon XP, and dont get me started on shadernumbers etc..
name them by shadercount/buswidth, once again, doesnt work, an ATI shaders != nvidia shader
name them by the number of 3dmarks they score, doesnt work, 3dmark isnt representative of most games and might be biased towards some type of hardware
So the same applies here as it does when buying anything, do some research before you buy, car analogy time, would you buy a mazda 323 (ok, the current model is called the 3, but meh) over a BMW 320 because it is 3 better?
You seem to forget about PC Gaming. Porting to *nix would suck. I love *nix and all, but lets face it, with how many distros are out there, the QA departments of game companies would have to be beefed up like crazy.
they could start just supporting Ubuntu, it is easy to set up, even some extremely comp-illeterate people could install it with a few pointers these days. All the cool kids running fedora/slackware/roll-your-ownix can easily set up a seperate ubuntu install for games, should the games in question not run on their system, in a quarter of the time it would take to set up a dual boot windows install for games, never mind the financial cost
Debian and ubuntu derivates would also be pretty easy to support, if perhaps not officially
When all the software is free, the only cost to setting up another distro to run your newly bought game is 30 minutes, i would galdly do that if it means no more windows-requirement for pc games
There's no way in the world to fit the LotR books in their entirety in a trilogy, so many parts had to get cut.
agreed, but they made some pretty damn awefull cutting decisions, in RotK, Sarumans role is completely cut, and his name is mentioned once or so when gandalf happens to pass by isengard, a whole 20 seconds of Saruman related stuff. His entire coup of the shire at the end is cut, and replaced by: happy hobbit homecomming *fade out* happy hobbit party *fade out* happy hobbit wedding *fade out* happy hobbit baby shower *fade out ad nauseam*. I remember sitting in the theatre almost getting up everytime it faded out again, only to once again be confronted by yet another happy ending scene.
the fellowship took me some getting used to (my own imagination had filled in things differently), two towers was OK, RotK was a slap in the face when it comes to how the plot was handled
yeah, the last thing that comes to mind when thinking of the LOTR movies is "respect for the original plot". I understand that a movie can only be so long before your audience falls asleep, but hand waving saruman away with a one-liner and instead tacking on 10 minutes of happy ending, fade out, happy ending, fade out was a slap in the face to anyone who read the actual books
The LOTR movies might be enjoyable in their own right, but they dont do justice to the original work by Tolkien
i think his point is that by not being able to reproduce, they serve no evolutionary purpose (no direct one anyway, there might be second order effects not so easily predicted), and if homosexuality were a genetic condition, it would always result in a dead end, because those genes wouldnt be passed on.
I dont agree that any of this would justify calling it wrong though, i have gay friends and i couldnt care less about who they choose to have sex with, to each his/her own, i say
and meanwhile here in holland i end up settling for 16 mbit ADSL, because i just moved into a region where due to the regional cable monopolies i have to pay out the nose for 32 mbit (or 16 mbit for twice the price of the same ADSL), whereas at my old adres, i had 80 mbit for less...
i think it all comes down to scale. even if we do in-orbit assembly (which would make sense for some stuff), we would need in-orbit fuel depots. It might well be more efficient to send up one ultra-heavy carrying 100 tons of fuel rather then three heavies each carrying 30 tons.
plus it would enable single launch moonshots and such. Doing in orbit assembly/staging with space stations and such might be slightly more versatile and economical, but it requires more infrastructure to be up there, most of which we dont have now (and the ISS, what we have, isnt exactly the utopia planetia shipyard either)
A solution to the "who shot first" debate. Replace Ford with Christopher Walken and greedo will be to terrified to even point a blaster at solo! no shooting required on his side required either, Walken could just squint and greedo's head would explode in blue/green gibs!
Also, replace carie fisher with angelina jolie (with tomb raider style CGI boobs) for added hotness for the slave-outfit scenes!
Oh, and replace the guy playing the various Fetts/clones with Jason statham or vinnie jones
Off course, none of these people are dead yet, but robot lucas (no relation to robot nixon by the way) should be able to buy the rights from their estates just in time for the year 3000 special ulta-unobtanium edition on brain-ray 5D megadisc (subtitled: the way i really intended star wars to be, really, i mean it this time)
i can see it now, call up fedex for a ultra-fast delivery, and within 15 minutes a fedex branded ICBM launcher shows up in front of your office, the parcel is loaded into the nosecone and launched on the spot
a usb webcam, an airsoft/nerf gun and some construction material/servos will do just fine for that (i suggest lego mindstorms for the construction/movement)
the three laws protect humans, the simple sollution is to (as has been done since ancient times) dehumanize the enemy.
In this case it is a case of "if (enemy) {human = false;}" rather then huge amounts of propaganda of enemy soldiers drinking blood and raping women and just standing around very menacingly in front of a black background.... but the principle holds
which would be very much non-optimal use of these things.
They are long range turrets, an urban environment would provide enough cover for guerilla's to get close and take these things out with a molotov or a handgrenade (or hell, if you manage to sneak up to it, a pair of wire cutters?). Sure you can armor them up, make them able to evade attack, but then you might as well para-drop a tank into the streets.
If you want urban devastation, dropping a bomb (or a cluster/frag bomb, for a more devastating effect on soft targets) would be much more efficient (and cheaper!) then dropping an automated turret, which can be easily disabled by semi-organized militia
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Pretty much yeah
i played UT 99 a LOT (even on the dreamcast when i didnt have a PC in my room yet), when 2k3 came out i had my own PC with a GF4 and i enjoyed the hell out of it, 2k4 made it even better, it is still one of the games that i bother installing if i want to play a pc-game, also ran it on linux several times.
Then ut 3 came out, and it was rather unimpressive, i did buy it from steam at one point, but i hardly played it
i so wish that was true.
Compared to working with lotus notes, outlook seems like a heavenly savior, the guy responsible for notes should be shot
within my company there are some internal vacancies for COBOL programmers, they need about 10 of them. Compared to my current job the work actually seemed interesting, so i asked an older colleague if i should look into it further, his suggestion? "start updating your resume"
The company i am starting with next year also has a COBOL group, they gave it the most brilliant euphemism for a name "proven technologies"
So there still is work, but upon closer examination, i would have to be mental to go down that road
COmmon Business Oriented Language -- do I get a cookie?
no mister Stoddart, but if you play nice at the bingo table and dont start throwing the cards around again you can have an extra cup of apple-sauce with your evening-meds.
Now hurry to the TV area, matlock starts in ten minutes!
i wont argue that Iran having nukes would be a good thing, but honestly.. is anyone in the western world (or russia/china etc..) seriously worried that Iran would attack someone once they got a few nukes?
No matter how many nukes Iran has, the spectre of MAD will always hang over nuclear warfare. the only way Iran would do any significant amount of damage (nuking 1 city on world-scale isnt THAT big) before getting completely glassed by every other country with nukes is with a MASSIVE first strike. And even then, who-ever would launch that strike would know they would be dead within the hour.
Here in Holland one politician argued for attacking Iran to stop them from becomming a serious threat, well, i say that no matter how many nukes they have, they are never a serious threat. If anything, them having nukes opens them up to being nuked (no-one likes the idea of assymetrical use of nukes, it is always tit for tat).
Then in 2025, everyone's cubicles will be two square feet!
That is just enough space for a grown person to stand in, plug in the neural computer interface, and they can work!
You can laugh all you want, i'll talk to you in fifteen years when we are all standing inches apart in our office, jacked into the corporate matrix
there is no silver bullet here.
name them by clockspeed, no, doesnt work either, see pentium 4 vs athlon XP, and dont get me started on shadernumbers etc..
name them by shadercount/buswidth, once again, doesnt work, an ATI shaders != nvidia shader
name them by the number of 3dmarks they score, doesnt work, 3dmark isnt representative of most games and might be biased towards some type of hardware
So the same applies here as it does when buying anything, do some research before you buy, car analogy time, would you buy a mazda 323 (ok, the current model is called the 3, but meh) over a BMW 320 because it is 3 better?
You seem to forget about PC Gaming. Porting to *nix would suck. I love *nix and all, but lets face it, with how many distros are out there, the QA departments of game companies would have to be beefed up like crazy.
they could start just supporting Ubuntu, it is easy to set up, even some extremely comp-illeterate people could install it with a few pointers these days. All the cool kids running fedora/slackware/roll-your-ownix can easily set up a seperate ubuntu install for games, should the games in question not run on their system, in a quarter of the time it would take to set up a dual boot windows install for games, never mind the financial cost
Debian and ubuntu derivates would also be pretty easy to support, if perhaps not officially
When all the software is free, the only cost to setting up another distro to run your newly bought game is 30 minutes, i would galdly do that if it means no more windows-requirement for pc games
*you are eaten by a grue*
There's no way in the world to fit the LotR books in their entirety in a trilogy, so many parts had to get cut.
agreed, but they made some pretty damn awefull cutting decisions, in RotK, Sarumans role is completely cut, and his name is mentioned once or so when gandalf happens to pass by isengard, a whole 20 seconds of Saruman related stuff. His entire coup of the shire at the end is cut, and replaced by: happy hobbit homecomming *fade out* happy hobbit party *fade out* happy hobbit wedding *fade out* happy hobbit baby shower *fade out ad nauseam*. I remember sitting in the theatre almost getting up everytime it faded out again, only to once again be confronted by yet another happy ending scene.
the fellowship took me some getting used to (my own imagination had filled in things differently), two towers was OK, RotK was a slap in the face when it comes to how the plot was handled
They managed to make Doom into a movie, so solitaite should be a walk in the park
yeah, the last thing that comes to mind when thinking of the LOTR movies is "respect for the original plot". I understand that a movie can only be so long before your audience falls asleep, but hand waving saruman away with a one-liner and instead tacking on 10 minutes of happy ending, fade out, happy ending, fade out was a slap in the face to anyone who read the actual books
The LOTR movies might be enjoyable in their own right, but they dont do justice to the original work by Tolkien
i think his point is that by not being able to reproduce, they serve no evolutionary purpose (no direct one anyway, there might be second order effects not so easily predicted), and if homosexuality were a genetic condition, it would always result in a dead end, because those genes wouldnt be passed on.
I dont agree that any of this would justify calling it wrong though, i have gay friends and i couldnt care less about who they choose to have sex with, to each his/her own, i say
bah
and meanwhile here in holland i end up settling for 16 mbit ADSL, because i just moved into a region where due to the regional cable monopolies i have to pay out the nose for 32 mbit (or 16 mbit for twice the price of the same ADSL), whereas at my old adres, i had 80 mbit for less...
well, i guess that's ok, i wasnt using it anyway, and it isnt required for the new rebooted movies anyway i guess..
(by the by, you didnt catch my initial spelling error, it is "utopia planitia", so better get studying for your yearly trek recertification)
i think it all comes down to scale. even if we do in-orbit assembly (which would make sense for some stuff), we would need in-orbit fuel depots. It might well be more efficient to send up one ultra-heavy carrying 100 tons of fuel rather then three heavies each carrying 30 tons.
plus it would enable single launch moonshots and such. Doing in orbit assembly/staging with space stations and such might be slightly more versatile and economical, but it requires more infrastructure to be up there, most of which we dont have now (and the ISS, what we have, isnt exactly the utopia planetia shipyard either)
i totally agree with your general sentiment, removing delete would be stupid.
But the file deletion thing comes acros as a "you dirty mouse clicking simpleton" sneer, to which i can only reply with "with rm"
(sorry, couldnt help myself, no flame intended)
but wasnt this already reported in the launch thread? it only did two orbits, so the total flight time was a few hours.
Two days news turn-around is something one would expect from a news-paper in the good old telex days, not a website in 2010
Back on topic, awesome achievement! kudos to the SpaceX guys
A solution to the "who shot first" debate. Replace Ford with Christopher Walken and greedo will be to terrified to even point a blaster at solo! no shooting required on his side required either, Walken could just squint and greedo's head would explode in blue/green gibs!
Also, replace carie fisher with angelina jolie (with tomb raider style CGI boobs) for added hotness for the slave-outfit scenes!
Oh, and replace the guy playing the various Fetts/clones with Jason statham or vinnie jones
Off course, none of these people are dead yet, but robot lucas (no relation to robot nixon by the way) should be able to buy the rights from their estates just in time for the year 3000 special ulta-unobtanium edition on brain-ray 5D megadisc (subtitled: the way i really intended star wars to be, really, i mean it this time)
but it was still easily spotted as CG, which is a problem for some people (to some extent me too)
impressive would have been watching the movie and end up wondering why ah'nuld wasnt in the credits
i can see it now, call up fedex for a ultra-fast delivery, and within 15 minutes a fedex branded ICBM launcher shows up in front of your office, the parcel is loaded into the nosecone and launched on the spot
i cant remember ever running into software which was case-sensitive when it comes to license keys..
but yeah, it isnt all that usefull of a key.. but taking it away to "improve the quality of comments" is just stupid
a usb webcam, an airsoft/nerf gun and some construction material/servos will do just fine for that (i suggest lego mindstorms for the construction/movement)
the three laws protect humans, the simple sollution is to (as has been done since ancient times) dehumanize the enemy.
In this case it is a case of "if (enemy) {human = false;}" rather then huge amounts of propaganda of enemy soldiers drinking blood and raping women and just standing around very menacingly in front of a black background.... but the principle holds
which would be very much non-optimal use of these things.
They are long range turrets, an urban environment would provide enough cover for guerilla's to get close and take these things out with a molotov or a handgrenade (or hell, if you manage to sneak up to it, a pair of wire cutters?). Sure you can armor them up, make them able to evade attack, but then you might as well para-drop a tank into the streets.
If you want urban devastation, dropping a bomb (or a cluster/frag bomb, for a more devastating effect on soft targets) would be much more efficient (and cheaper!) then dropping an automated turret, which can be easily disabled by semi-organized militia