As for as "video game sports" go, I think it would be far more interesting to watch a team based scenario like capture the flag. Multiple perspectives, good use of the spectator cam (keep one camera on each flag at all times), good commentary, good production, etc...
For a more movie like clip, deathmatch would work, as long as it was first person from the best player's perspective owning everyone... set to a good musical background... and no longer than 5 minutes.
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I like the original The Hobbit better. It was more cheerful. The ring didn't have nearly the evilness that it did in LotR. Riddles are fun and good. Dark badness gripping at your soul is bad.
Well there is some instancing to the outdoor missions. Sometimes when you take a hunt down # badguys and the game will spawn a few to attack you... especially noticable when you exit a building or somesuch... you know its just for you because the enemy levels will be different than the normal zone enemy levels plus they will come straight for you instead of waiting for you to attack them. However, the numbers usually aren't enough to finish the mission and you still have to find more.
3) I understand that this is a patch, not Windows itself. (Although is this distribution within the rights of the EULA? I certainly hope they've made sure it is.)
It might be in MicroSoft's best interests to limit the redistribution because some unlucky person is going to download a malware version from a non-MS site that some a-hole put out on the net. And then that person would sue MS.
So, the solution is to not have coporate income tax. That way they wouldn't have to avoid anything. It's not quite as bad as it sounds. People forget that all corporations are ultimately owned by people. People pay income tax.
How many of you are planning to vote in your primary elections? Your vote won't be so diluted there and you might actually make some kind of difference (assuming there is more than one canidate trying for the same position).
some dotcoms could have read those points and not spent the money that would have kept the company running for YEARS in just a few months in something stupid(like new cars, outrageous salaries and shit like that).
I think you misunderstand the intent of some of the dot coms. The founders started them not to make money for investors but rather to make money from investors. The new cars, outrageous salaries, etc... made perfect sense for these guys.
I really wish authors could either delete or mod down their own posts without losing karma. I completely forgot to format the above post... so I reposted with formatting further down. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It seems like a "post for free" electronic only system would be good for research distribution and collaboration. The authors could post (and edit with change logs) their works without having to pay anything. All of the posters/researchers should be verifiably registered of course to prevent random people from screwing with scientific research.
The "weeding out" part could be done by researchers who are interested in the latest reports... and if they find the paper is bunk, they can report it, and if they find it is true, they can say that too. And obviously the reviewers should be able to easily contact the author for minor details that are wrong so they can be corrected.
The more casual readers could perhaps filter out anything that hasn't been reviewed yet. The funding could come from users on a pennies per paper basis for reviewed papers or free if they haven't been independantly reviewed yet to encourage reviewing and account for the lesser value of unreviewed papers.
It seems like a "post for free" electronic only system would be good for research distribution and collaboration. The authors could post (and edit with change logs) their works without having to pay anything. All of the posters/researchers should be verifiably registered of course to prevent random people from screwing with scientific research.
The "weeding out" part could be done by researchers who are interested in the latest reports... and if they find the paper is bunk, they can report it, and if they find it is true, they can say that too. And obviously the reviewers should be able to easily contact the author for minor details that are wrong so they can be corrected.
The more casual readers could perhaps filter out anything that hasn't been reviewed yet. The funding could come from users on a pennies per paper basis for reviewed papers or free if they haven't been independantly reviewed yet to encourage reviewing and account for the lesser value of unreviewed papers.
Anyway, those are my 2 cents.
Just load any modern FPS. Its got all the PvP you want without the annoying monthly fee. And they are usually balanced... how many PvP MM0RPGs can you say that about?
The above post shouldn't be +5 Informative... it should be -1 Flamebait.
Wal-Mart has good products at low prices. My copy of Railroad Tycoon 3 that I bought at Wal-Mart was produced by 13 cents/hours child labor while your copy of Railroad Tycoon 3 purchased at EB was produced by good 'ol put up the stars and stripes shoot off the fire works American programmers.
dude...
There are plenty of music services that are not iTunes. If her mp3 player plays windows media format, there's MusicMatch. If her mp3 player plays neither Apple or Microsoft format then... well, at least you know what to get her for Christmas.
You just killed the unkillable. What loot could possibly compare with the experience itself?
Also, your weapons and armor are obviously in no need of upgrade if you killed the toughest creature in the game world. What do you want, a hat with a feather in it?
For most texts ASCII or Unicode work just fine and are fairly efficient and easy to compress for archive purposes. Although, I'm not really sure what format to put graphics or pictures in.
Well, musicmatch is very similar to iTunes, but replace Apple DRM file format with MSFT DRM file format... both can burn to CD. One benefit is musicmatch uses a higher bit rate for their songs.
Personally I wish the only DRM protection on anything was an embedded url you could click to pay the rights holders if you haven't already. Also it'd be nice if all formats played on all devices.
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Ada is a strongly typed language. It's used for jet airplanes. It should be good enough for other things too. If only there were more support for it. Here's an additional link for our faithful viewers: www.adapower.com
If you want the degree for purely academic interests, look at several universities and go to the one that has the faculty and program that focuses on what you want to research, whether that be in the US, EU, or anywhere else you know the language.
However, if you want a job in America, go to an American university. There are many quality CS degree programs here. You can probably find one that matches your interests wothout going overseas. More importantly, US companies focus their recruiting on American campuses. If you already have several years working experience, then this might not matter too much... but if you have no work experience and need a "First Real Job in the Software Industry" then it makes a huge difference.
If you like battlefield 1942 you might want to check out the Galactic Conquest mod. The only map is Hoth, and you're not in space, but you can fly tie fighters, the millenium falcon, take out storm troopers, or be one yourself.
It's not really the technology that keeps comercial games away from Linux (although, hardware support is better in Windows), it's the business case that keeps (most) games off Linux.
First of all, the "Linux only" gamer customer base is small compared to the Windows gamer customer base.
Second, Windows users actually accept the idea of paying real money for software. For every Linux user that says "I use Linux because its awesome and I'd gladly spend extra money for software that ran on it", there are 10 users who say "I use Linux because it's free" (as in beer).
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As for as "video game sports" go, I think it would be far more interesting to watch a team based scenario like capture the flag. Multiple perspectives, good use of the spectator cam (keep one camera on each flag at all times), good commentary, good production, etc... For a more movie like clip, deathmatch would work, as long as it was first person from the best player's perspective owning everyone ... set to a good musical background... and no longer than 5 minutes.
I like the original The Hobbit better. It was more cheerful. The ring didn't have nearly the evilness that it did in LotR. Riddles are fun and good. Dark badness gripping at your soul is bad.
Well there is some instancing to the outdoor missions. Sometimes when you take a hunt down # badguys and the game will spawn a few to attack you ... especially noticable when you exit a building or somesuch ... you know its just for you because the enemy levels will be different than the normal zone enemy levels plus they will come straight for you instead of waiting for you to attack them. However, the numbers usually aren't enough to finish the mission and you still have to find more.
It might be in MicroSoft's best interests to limit the redistribution because some unlucky person is going to download a malware version from a non-MS site that some a-hole put out on the net. And then that person would sue MS.
So, the solution is to not have coporate income tax. That way they wouldn't have to avoid anything. It's not quite as bad as it sounds. People forget that all corporations are ultimately owned by people. People pay income tax.
How many of you are planning to vote in your primary elections? Your vote won't be so diluted there and you might actually make some kind of difference (assuming there is more than one canidate trying for the same position).
And, if I recall correctly, ColecoVision could play the Atari 2600 games but the Atari couldn't play Coleco's games.
I think you misunderstand the intent of some of the dot coms. The founders started them not to make money for investors but rather to make money from investors. The new cars, outrageous salaries, etc... made perfect sense for these guys.
I really wish authors could either delete or mod down their own posts without losing karma. I completely forgot to format the above post... so I reposted with formatting further down. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It seems like a "post for free" electronic only system would be good for research distribution and collaboration. The authors could post (and edit with change logs) their works without having to pay anything. All of the posters/researchers should be verifiably registered of course to prevent random people from screwing with scientific research.
The "weeding out" part could be done by researchers who are interested in the latest reports... and if they find the paper is bunk, they can report it, and if they find it is true, they can say that too. And obviously the reviewers should be able to easily contact the author for minor details that are wrong so they can be corrected.
The more casual readers could perhaps filter out anything that hasn't been reviewed yet. The funding could come from users on a pennies per paper basis for reviewed papers or free if they haven't been independantly reviewed yet to encourage reviewing and account for the lesser value of unreviewed papers.
Anyway, those are my 2 cents.
It seems like a "post for free" electronic only system would be good for research distribution and collaboration. The authors could post (and edit with change logs) their works without having to pay anything. All of the posters/researchers should be verifiably registered of course to prevent random people from screwing with scientific research. The "weeding out" part could be done by researchers who are interested in the latest reports... and if they find the paper is bunk, they can report it, and if they find it is true, they can say that too. And obviously the reviewers should be able to easily contact the author for minor details that are wrong so they can be corrected. The more casual readers could perhaps filter out anything that hasn't been reviewed yet. The funding could come from users on a pennies per paper basis for reviewed papers or free if they haven't been independantly reviewed yet to encourage reviewing and account for the lesser value of unreviewed papers. Anyway, those are my 2 cents.
Just load any modern FPS. Its got all the PvP you want without the annoying monthly fee. And they are usually balanced ... how many PvP MM0RPGs can you say that about?
The above post shouldn't be +5 Informative... it should be -1 Flamebait. Wal-Mart has good products at low prices. My copy of Railroad Tycoon 3 that I bought at Wal-Mart was produced by 13 cents/hours child labor while your copy of Railroad Tycoon 3 purchased at EB was produced by good 'ol put up the stars and stripes shoot off the fire works American programmers.
dude... There are plenty of music services that are not iTunes. If her mp3 player plays windows media format, there's MusicMatch. If her mp3 player plays neither Apple or Microsoft format then... well, at least you know what to get her for Christmas.
I think all commercial and bulk email should by law be only sent from some new top level domain, ".bulk" for instance.
All mass emails coming from this domain are perfectly legal.
But...
Anyone who sends mass emails or soliciting emails from anywhere else can be sued for one million dollars per email.
That should be enough incentive for lawyers to gather evidence against real spammers, protect free speech, and give the users a real way to opt out.
Also, your weapons and armor are obviously in no need of upgrade if you killed the toughest creature in the game world. What do you want, a hat with a feather in it?
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For most texts ASCII or Unicode work just fine and are fairly efficient and easy to compress for archive purposes. Although, I'm not really sure what format to put graphics or pictures in.
Well, musicmatch is very similar to iTunes, but replace Apple DRM file format with MSFT DRM file format... both can burn to CD. One benefit is musicmatch uses a higher bit rate for their songs. Personally I wish the only DRM protection on anything was an embedded url you could click to pay the rights holders if you haven't already. Also it'd be nice if all formats played on all devices.
Ada is a strongly typed language. It's used for jet airplanes. It should be good enough for other things too. If only there were more support for it. Here's an additional link for our faithful viewers: www.adapower.com
However, if you want a job in America, go to an American university. There are many quality CS degree programs here. You can probably find one that matches your interests wothout going overseas. More importantly, US companies focus their recruiting on American campuses. If you already have several years working experience, then this might not matter too much... but if you have no work experience and need a "First Real Job in the Software Industry" then it makes a huge difference.
If you like battlefield 1942 you might want to check out the Galactic Conquest mod. The only map is Hoth, and you're not in space, but you can fly tie fighters, the millenium falcon, take out storm troopers, or be one yourself.
First of all, the "Linux only" gamer customer base is small compared to the Windows gamer customer base.
Second, Windows users actually accept the idea of paying real money for software. For every Linux user that says "I use Linux because its awesome and I'd gladly spend extra money for software that ran on it", there are 10 users who say "I use Linux because it's free" (as in beer).
There is a business model for these types of games. In fact it's been around for a long time.
It's called shareware.
It's called Kemet and it is already live.