Mafia. It's unfortunate that the game got mis-branded as "GTA in 1930's Chicago". Yes it has a free-roaming mode and cars, but the similarities end there. The story is engaging, the characters are believable, and the backdrop to the entire thing is just drop-dead gorgeous.
Why not gather up a team that can use shadow maps/volumes, reflection maps, LODs, and lighting effectively to create high-quality scenes without having to rely on ray-tracing? Sucking up time on the renderer for something as horribly expensive as ray-tracing shows that there is a problem somewhere else in the work-chain. More than likely that problem is the skill & knowledge of the creative people.
Using a pirated commercial installer creator on Windows is assinine. Using a commercial installer creator on Windows is assinine when NSIS is completely free and free to use.
Don't forget that she ticked off the GNOME developers just last week by twisting the discussion on the mailing list to fit her misguided goal. Then she came here (and to her backwater web pet project, OSNews) and falsely claimed that a new window manager had been picked for 2.10.
You can use the SDK without requiring the board. If no board is present Novodex will fall back to doing the physics calculations on the CPU, just like all other current physics middleware.
I had a meeting with the Aegia guys at last year's E3. The tech is pretty sweet. I don't doubt that they will get the chip/board to market.
Finding a suite of capable digital content creation apps on SourceForge that are functionally equal to their Windows counterparts, can export easily to commercial middleware, and are widespread enough to allow you to hire artistic talent that can produce from day one instead of wasting company time learning an obscure tool - Sourforge wha?
Neither of the two Thermalright coolers you (brokenly) linked to are peltiers. They're just massive surface area heat-sinks with heatpipes and fan mounts.
Thermaltake makes a peltier cooler. I tried it when I first built my P4 system about 18 months ago. It was abysmal. The controller would let the CPU run up to almost the published thermal limit (65C+) and then kick into high-gear. The fans ramped up to an unacceptable noise level and the peltier started making this loud click-click-click sound.
Granted, the temps went down to about 36C amazingly fast. At that point, though, the cooling system went back into it's quiet state and the temps would start creeping back up again.
I switched it out for a much simpler, quieter, and far less expensive Zalman 7000. My CPU temp runs consistantly within a range of 38-40C now. Maybe a bit higher under heavy gaming load, but not 20-25C higher. The Zalman cooler costs 1/4 the price of the peltier and provides consistant cooling equal to the best the peltier could do.
WindowBlinds 4.5 is, at a minimum, skinning the title-bar, window border, scrollbars, and buttons.
I didn't have a lot of time to check, so I don't know if it is skinning anything else (tabs, drops downs, menus, etc...). But, at first glance OO.o 2.0b does appear to be WindowBlinds friendly.
Apple. They pioneered the personal computer industry
They did? Funny, I (and most anyone else with a bit of computer history knowledge) always thought it was Ed Roberts.
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I have held off from getting TiVo or the equivalant as I had figured that this would happen.
You've missed out on having a really useful appliance for over five years. I understand being pragmatic, but that's like saying "I didn't get a computer, console, etc..) because I knew the successor would be out about a half decade later."
As to the question, did I do exactly what Apple is accusing me of doing? I did share the file. So in that regard yes. But there was no malicious intent.
He needs to look up the definition of malicious. He came into posession of a piece of copyrighted software and then made the conscious decision to seed it to others. He was pirating and he was trafficing stolen goods.
The "pay for the show" fantasy is the biggest uneducated pipe-dream group-think that's ever occured, imho. Their "$13/person = we get our crappy show back" idea only works if UPN is a charity. It doesn't work when UPN is a for-profit business.
Unless the geniuses behind this idea can come up with ((($13 * 3MilViewers) + n) * 22) where 'n' is an obscene amount of money equal to the maximum amount UPN can expect to make in advertising for the time slot then there's no chance whatsoever that UPN would re-up the show. Of course, if the fans did come up with the per-show costs + advertising revenue for a full 22 episode season then they'd want a full 60 minutes of show per week (since they paid for the advertising slots). That ups the per show costs and then their lump sum falls short.
Enterprise got cancelled because it can't draw advertising revenue due to its low viewer numbers. UPN can slot something else on Friday nights with a much higher profit margin owed to advertising.
Can someone explain to me why I have to use seatbelts to compensate for flaws inherent in a car's design? Am I missing something here?
You know, there didn't used to be a big "goverment law requiring seatbelts" mentality for automobiles...it's a shame that inferior products have convinced people that they need extra layers of frivolous security just to do that the car ought to do on it's own.
Oh yeah, now I remember...as cars became more mainstream the potential for hazard was increased and new devices to keep them as secure as possible were invented and put into use.
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Right, yes. Let's see, mobygames.com lists Fallout 1 and 2 coming out in 1997 and 1998, respectively. I bought and played/finished them both at release.
But woe is me for not devoting part of my long-term memory to storing the nitty-gritty particulars about the rule set of the game so I could match it against an acronym in a/. article 7-8 years later. Really, would it have been that hard for the submitter to write, "...they plan to use SPECIAL, the skill & rules system from Fallouts 1 & 2, in Fallout 3"?
In all honesty it's not even something I should blame the submitter for. The linked article did nothing to explain what the acronym meant. Instead assuming that anyone who is interested in Fallout has had nothing better to do since the late '90s.
"If you're not a fan of the series, then why do you care about this story?"
Ah, ok, now I see. Unless I am the Fallout version of the Comic Book guy on The Simpsons then I shouldn't be interested in anything to do with Fallout. I am obviously a heretic because I enjoy RPGs without devoting my live to their design ideals and eccentricities.
"You know what else is wrong with the AP 'review'? He keeps calling (it) the "Malicious Software Removal Tool" (hilarious name, think about it)..."
You know what is wrong with your quote? You don't know what the author is refering to. He's not reviewing MS AntiSpyware. He's reviewing the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool just like he says.
It's a web based tool that removes the 5-6 most nasty worms. Do a bit of research before you take the high road next time.
There are no editting capabilities in CinePaint. It has not been used to edit a movie.
CinePaint is a paint program with a time component, that's it. You can read in a sequence of frames and work on them in pixel coordinate space and time.
The Amiga had true pre-emptive multitasking in 1987. Back when the Mac had cooperative and Windows was still at 2.x.
I still remember in college, in the early '90s, showing my Mac/Windows using friends that *yes*, you could format a floppy disk and do something else at the same time.
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Mafia. It's unfortunate that the game got mis-branded as "GTA in 1930's Chicago". Yes it has a free-roaming mode and cars, but the similarities end there. The story is engaging, the characters are believable, and the backdrop to the entire thing is just drop-dead gorgeous.
Name three manufacturers of laptop motherboards sporting AGP, PCI, and DIMM slots.
Why not gather up a team that can use shadow maps/volumes, reflection maps, LODs, and lighting effectively to create high-quality scenes without having to rely on ray-tracing? Sucking up time on the renderer for something as horribly expensive as ray-tracing shows that there is a problem somewhere else in the work-chain. More than likely that problem is the skill & knowledge of the creative people.
Using a pirated commercial installer creator on Windows is assinine. Using a commercial installer creator on Windows is assinine when NSIS is completely free and free to use.
Don't forget that she ticked off the GNOME developers just last week by twisting the discussion on the mailing list to fit her misguided goal. Then she came here (and to her backwater web pet project, OSNews) and falsely claimed that a new window manager had been picked for 2.10.
I had a meeting with the Aegia guys at last year's E3. The tech is pretty sweet. I don't doubt that they will get the chip/board to market.
Finding a suite of capable digital content creation apps on SourceForge that are functionally equal to their Windows counterparts, can export easily to commercial middleware, and are widespread enough to allow you to hire artistic talent that can produce from day one instead of wasting company time learning an obscure tool - Sourforge wha?
Thermaltake makes a peltier cooler. I tried it when I first built my P4 system about 18 months ago. It was abysmal. The controller would let the CPU run up to almost the published thermal limit (65C+) and then kick into high-gear. The fans ramped up to an unacceptable noise level and the peltier started making this loud click-click-click sound.
Granted, the temps went down to about 36C amazingly fast. At that point, though, the cooling system went back into it's quiet state and the temps would start creeping back up again.
I switched it out for a much simpler, quieter, and far less expensive Zalman 7000. My CPU temp runs consistantly within a range of 38-40C now. Maybe a bit higher under heavy gaming load, but not 20-25C higher. The Zalman cooler costs 1/4 the price of the peltier and provides consistant cooling equal to the best the peltier could do.
Go check your Add/Remove Programs control panel. Your 15MB Java 2 runtime installer explodes to 107MBs for the actual runtime code.
That's interesting. I've had an Audigy 2 card in an XP box for close to 18 months and I've never had it screech or BSOD.
Yeah, because they've augmented BSODs with C4 explosives now. Glad you caught that. Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
Yeah, this is new. Nevermind radios, TVs, arcades, game consoles, computers, the internet, Slashdot, etc....
How will shipping them via FedEx to the Los Angeles International Airport help?
I didn't have a lot of time to check, so I don't know if it is skinning anything else (tabs, drops downs, menus, etc...). But, at first glance OO.o 2.0b does appear to be WindowBlinds friendly.
We did. That's why Paramount cancelled the show.
They did? Funny, I (and most anyone else with a bit of computer history knowledge) always thought it was Ed Roberts.
You've missed out on having a really useful appliance for over five years. I understand being pragmatic, but that's like saying "I didn't get a computer, console, etc..) because I knew the successor would be out about a half decade later."
He needs to look up the definition of malicious. He came into posession of a piece of copyrighted software and then made the conscious decision to seed it to others. He was pirating and he was trafficing stolen goods.
Apple has every right to go after him.
Unless the geniuses behind this idea can come up with ((($13 * 3MilViewers) + n) * 22) where 'n' is an obscene amount of money equal to the maximum amount UPN can expect to make in advertising for the time slot then there's no chance whatsoever that UPN would re-up the show. Of course, if the fans did come up with the per-show costs + advertising revenue for a full 22 episode season then they'd want a full 60 minutes of show per week (since they paid for the advertising slots). That ups the per show costs and then their lump sum falls short.
Enterprise got cancelled because it can't draw advertising revenue due to its low viewer numbers. UPN can slot something else on Friday nights with a much higher profit margin owed to advertising.
Can someone explain to me why I have to use seatbelts to compensate for flaws inherent in a car's design? Am I missing something here? You know, there didn't used to be a big "goverment law requiring seatbelts" mentality for automobiles...it's a shame that inferior products have convinced people that they need extra layers of frivolous security just to do that the car ought to do on it's own. Oh yeah, now I remember...as cars became more mainstream the potential for hazard was increased and new devices to keep them as secure as possible were invented and put into use.
But woe is me for not devoting part of my long-term memory to storing the nitty-gritty particulars about the rule set of the game so I could match it against an acronym in a /. article 7-8 years later. Really, would it have been that hard for the submitter to write, "...they plan to use SPECIAL, the skill & rules system from Fallouts 1 & 2, in Fallout 3"?
In all honesty it's not even something I should blame the submitter for. The linked article did nothing to explain what the acronym meant. Instead assuming that anyone who is interested in Fallout has had nothing better to do since the late '90s.
"If you're not a fan of the series, then why do you care about this story?" Ah, ok, now I see. Unless I am the Fallout version of the Comic Book guy on The Simpsons then I shouldn't be interested in anything to do with Fallout. I am obviously a heretic because I enjoy RPGs without devoting my live to their design ideals and eccentricities.
Could you be any more self-centered than to think that we're all Bethesda fanbois who know what "SPECIAL" is?
You know what is wrong with your quote? You don't know what the author is refering to. He's not reviewing MS AntiSpyware. He's reviewing the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool just like he says.
It's a web based tool that removes the 5-6 most nasty worms. Do a bit of research before you take the high road next time.
There are no editting capabilities in CinePaint. It has not been used to edit a movie.
CinePaint is a paint program with a time component, that's it. You can read in a sequence of frames and work on them in pixel coordinate space and time.
Cloanto also offers a data transfer service if you don't want to buy a new piece of hardware for a limited data transfer job.
I still remember in college, in the early '90s, showing my Mac/Windows using friends that *yes*, you could format a floppy disk and do something else at the same time.