Back in the day, we all learned about this because a compiler construction course was required for a comp sci degree
Hah, yeah. Last week in a public toilet in London, someone drew an arrow pointing to the toilet roll, and it said "Computer degrees - please take one".
Most USB ports are able to power laptop (1.8") hard drives without a problem. I have 5 different makes of 1.8" enclosure, all of which work flawlessly. They fit in your pocket, need only 1 small cable, and they hardly even get warm. This has been my solution for portable storage for almost 2 years now, and with 80Gb and 100Gb 1.8" drives coming down in price it's a really effective solution.
I've been paying between £10 and £15 for these handy things.
Look at the rating on the right side of the screen. That's the amount of stars you are awarded. Awesome is 4 stars. To get a higher rating, you need to be aggressive (eg, check lots of traffic, pull off HUGE drifts, get lots of air and takedowns).
If you finish first, or beat the score target, you get gold, which adds one more star for a "Perfect".
When just ticking over on some torrents in the background, Azureus seems to be fairly well behaved - if I'm watching a movie encoded with a particularly demanding codec, though, I have to set Azureus's process priority to Below Normal to avoid stuttering / sync loss. But when it hits the end of a torrent, and does "seeding + checking", I can't even switch browser tabs while it's busy!
GMail: Similar to the maps service in that they're doing things with JavaScript that nobody's ever attempted on that scale before. As far as webmail interfaces go, it's the best I've ever seen by a long way. 1Gb didn't stretch as far as some people would think, so the current 2475Mb has certainly come in handy for some.
Most of the offenses of EA that we care about are to their employees.
And anyone who works in the industry will confirm that it's the exception to the rule to find a game development company that *doesn't* squeeze as many hours out of their employees as humanly possible at crunch time.
EA is certainly a great place to work. Their employee perks are the best in the industry. The ruckus of last year was confined mainly to *one* of EA's many studios.
Disclaimer: I work in the games industry and I have friends at various EA studios, and I'm reflecting their sentiments.
There are more "digital actors" now than ever before. Think about any mass battle scene in any of the recent blockbusters (the Matrix sequels, Troy, the Star Wars prequels, etc), or any of the tons of CG animated movies around these days. However, they all rely on actors' voices to give them human character.
The point of the developments in voice sythensis as linked above is that if you have enough controlled samples of anybody's voice, you can reproduce how they talk almost indistinguishably. The article says that it's actually *too* real, and they have to dumb it down so that people are still aware they're talking to a can.
Being a game developer myself, I'm looking forward to being able to use technology like this. Unless you've been there, you can't understand the f*cking pain in the neck it is to have to know *exactly* everything that needs to be said throughout a big game. Anytime you want to change something you have to get your voice actors in, and pity your development budget if they're actually famous.
Think how much easier this would become! It's just a matter of a few hours of sampling to record someone's voice-print and accent, and you're back to using good old easily modifiable, maintainable and internationalisable text. This option is too attractive to be fobbed off or ignored.
12-Stepping (a la Alcoholics Anonymous) or, in this case, 8-stepping, are totally Bullshit! anyway.
Hmm, strange to remember that some people actually have to check their email. All my accounts notify me. If it takes the average person 1 minutes to check their email, then you could say I check mine 960 times a day.
That doesn't make me an addict - that makes me normal:)
Now they can sue Lucasfilm for influencing our children in such terrible, rotten ways. I mean, surely the link here is more tangible than with those idiotic lawsuits against companies which create violent games, right?
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I think you mean "eunuchs"
He spelled the name of the website wrong anyway.
Back in the day, we all learned about this because a compiler construction course was required for a comp sci degree
;-)
Hah, yeah. Last week in a public toilet in London, someone drew an arrow pointing to the toilet roll, and it said "Computer degrees - please take one".
Guess that about sums it up
Yeah, 3.5" drives need both 12V and 5V lines, whereas USB supplies only 5V.
Er, my bad, I meant 2.5" not 1.8"! Long live metric!
Most USB ports are able to power laptop (1.8") hard drives without a problem. I have 5 different makes of 1.8" enclosure, all of which work flawlessly. They fit in your pocket, need only 1 small cable, and they hardly even get warm. This has been my solution for portable storage for almost 2 years now, and with 80Gb and 100Gb 1.8" drives coming down in price it's a really effective solution.
I've been paying between £10 and £15 for these handy things.
If I spent a good 10 to 20 years of my life, I could put a good online game out the door currently
:)
You're making Duke Nukem Forever?
Look at the rating on the right side of the screen. That's the amount of stars you are awarded. Awesome is 4 stars. To get a higher rating, you need to be aggressive (eg, check lots of traffic, pull off HUGE drifts, get lots of air and takedowns).
If you finish first, or beat the score target, you get gold, which adds one more star for a "Perfect".
Those symptoms would probably be due to over-exposure to methane :)
... then stick it inside a closed box?
When just ticking over on some torrents in the background, Azureus seems to be fairly well behaved - if I'm watching a movie encoded with a particularly demanding codec, though, I have to set Azureus's process priority to Below Normal to avoid stuttering / sync loss. But when it hits the end of a torrent, and does "seeding + checking", I can't even switch browser tabs while it's busy!
The Java one (Azureus) has great bandwidth management but rapes your CPU and RAM like an elephant with 8 spikey prehensile cocks.
GMail: Similar to the maps service in that they're doing things with JavaScript that nobody's ever attempted on that scale before. As far as webmail interfaces go, it's the best I've ever seen by a long way. 1Gb didn't stretch as far as some people would think, so the current 2475Mb has certainly come in handy for some.
Or 3.54 billion Zimbabwe Dollars!
Most of the offenses of EA that we care about are to their employees.
And anyone who works in the industry will confirm that it's the exception to the rule to find a game development company that *doesn't* squeeze as many hours out of their employees as humanly possible at crunch time.
EA is certainly a great place to work. Their employee perks are the best in the industry. The ruckus of last year was confined mainly to *one* of EA's many studios.
Disclaimer: I work in the games industry and I have friends at various EA studios, and I'm reflecting their sentiments.
There are more "digital actors" now than ever before. Think about any mass battle scene in any of the recent blockbusters (the Matrix sequels, Troy, the Star Wars prequels, etc), or any of the tons of CG animated movies around these days. However, they all rely on actors' voices to give them human character.
The point of the developments in voice sythensis as linked above is that if you have enough controlled samples of anybody's voice, you can reproduce how they talk almost indistinguishably. The article says that it's actually *too* real, and they have to dumb it down so that people are still aware they're talking to a can.
Being a game developer myself, I'm looking forward to being able to use technology like this. Unless you've been there, you can't understand the f*cking pain in the neck it is to have to know *exactly* everything that needs to be said throughout a big game. Anytime you want to change something you have to get your voice actors in, and pity your development budget if they're actually famous.
Think how much easier this would become! It's just a matter of a few hours of sampling to record someone's voice-print and accent, and you're back to using good old easily modifiable, maintainable and internationalisable text. This option is too attractive to be fobbed off or ignored.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000EEC0 A-7032-1E6E-A98A809EC5880105
Their future doesn't look too bright.
12-Stepping (a la Alcoholics Anonymous) or, in this case, 8-stepping, are totally Bullshit! anyway.
:)
Hmm, strange to remember that some people actually have to check their email. All my accounts notify me. If it takes the average person 1 minutes to check their email, then you could say I check mine 960 times a day.
That doesn't make me an addict - that makes me normal
Heh, it's as if they're trying to *encourage* people to download music instead of buying CDs.
lol
Tricky wording in the article, but I believe they're saying you can't copy the copy; you can only make verbatim copies of the original.
Still stupid though! Repeat after me, Sony:
If you can play it, you can copy it.
It's spelled "pedantism". Besides, I think you mean "pedantry".
Now they can sue Lucasfilm for influencing our children in such terrible, rotten ways. I mean, surely the link here is more tangible than with those idiotic lawsuits against companies which create violent games, right?
Similarly, you cannot send a function to a parameter. Hamburger does not eat you for dinner. Etc etc
You're obviously not from Soviet Russia.
How is this a troll? The AC is right...