Most Games DEVs have already mentioned in various places that they intend to handle the situation at least for now with two render paths, one optomized and used for DX10 and one for DX9.
Remember that Vista doesn't automatically confer DX10 either you need a card that supports DX10 and those are VERY new still the installed base is still mostly DX9 cards reguardless of OS. There are still some users running on DX8 cards as well, which are still well supported in many even new games. The Source engine is even compatible back to DX 7.
You might want to consider calling the maker for technical support. Some SAN devices require defrag at the BOX level and doing it from the Server will adversely affect your data. Others its OK either way.
I left the song name and artist out of the original post because I couldn't remember the exact title and artist, and I was too lazy to google it up...still am...and due to firewall blocks I can't access my home network from work...
Anyway, I think the title is either 'What does it take" or "If I had wings" either way the only place I can find reference to it ever have appeared is on the "One Crazy Summer" sound track.
...The tale is such. Once upon a time I heard a song on the radio. It was a good song, I liked it, it was a summer song, it disappeared after that summer, it was by a one hit wonder, and being "poor" trying to find a job, and then "poor" and "busy" because the job sucked required huge hours and didn't pay well, I never got around to finding out more about the song, or where it came from, or for that matter since it never seemed to get announced by the DJ's on the radio who it was even by.
Well as I said it was a good song catchy, and it got stuck in my head "FOR YEARS" literally. And for a long time I just couldn't figure out how to find or get this song. Then came the magic of the internet and search engines. I could remember a couple lines of the song and from time to time I'd plug the lines I could remember into Google and Yahoo, etc...well a little at a time I started finding the song's information at forst I got a title, but no singer or band, then eventually I got the singer, however it wasn't attributed to any album, and as I said...ONE HIT wonder.
Then the Magic Day, I found out this song only ever appeared on the sound track to a particular movie, from that summer I remembered it from...great go find the sound track. Umm...only ever produced on cassette tape, likelyhood of finding a tape copy of a silly summer movie soundtrack...LOW...VERY LOW...but OK, I'll give it a shot...the search begins.
I checked every obscure/rare music reseller I could think of, and more that people turned me on to...NO LUCK...but you guessed that.
So then along comes various P2P networks, and sites, etc...and yes I looked in iTunes, not there....Then, by pure luck one day on a bittoreent site I remember to try plugging in the song, and there it is...Downloaded!
I want to replace most of my sever infrastructure for supporting my domain, development, SQL, Web, etc at home with VMWare ESX servers, so my dream machine is actually 2 machines, at least for this purpose. Quad Xeon's, 256GB of RAM(I found a board that will do it), EMC Clariion Disk Array, Fiber Channel Adapters, Video doesn't matter since the server is headless once its built.
For a Game machine Dual Fastest Currently available Intel Processor since they are ahead in the processor race right now, Dual 8800GTX's, Fiber Channel Adapters plugged into the Disk array above, SAS Boot Drive 250GB, 30in Wide Screen LCD, Killer NIC, Sound Blaster whatever is the current top of the line.
...ah, Parents be responsible for your kids. Its not the technology thats the problem. Know what the hell your kids are doing, know what the people they hang out with are doing, know what the families of the people they hang out with are doing.
And #1 teach them a sense of values. What video game system they have doesn't matter its what you tell them to do with it, and what you teach them is OK.
When I was young could I get a copy of a playboy sure, but I knew I shouldn't have...
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I think its pretty safe to assume that given the initial info the user is probably doing Windows development. Thats really only going to work on a x86 or x86_64 machine running windows, and windows development tools. Anything else is just fracturing the issue, and not contributing to a solution. Face it Open Source, MAC, Unix, and all the rest are wonderful, but some of us....ALOT of us are stuck in a WinTel world.
The cost of Laptop Ram is probably a limiting factor here, 2GB so-dimms are already obscenely expensive, laptops currently for the most part only accomodate 2 dimms currently so 4 GB requires the 2GB dimms. Larger SO-Dimms would probably have a stratispheric price. The market is probably so limited as to prevent RAM and laptop makers from building platforms to support this yet.
...music currently sucks hard. The reason for falling sales figures is because the stuff the they are foisting on us sucks. Stop trying to create music acts out of thin air with payola and hard sell promotion. The music acts that are worth listening to will emerge on thier own and if they are worth listening to, people will gravitate to them. The music will sell and everyone wins. I stopped listening to the radio since even the stations I like (WAAF in Boston for the most part) don't even play the stuff I like anymore.
Anyone who is a manager there should already be looking for another job, at least when I was a manager there it was a crap job, for crap pay. I left when my current employeer practically tripled (after overtime), and in short order quadrupled my pay.
My district manager response when I told him I was leaving and what I was going to get payed, "I don't blame you"...I'm pretty sure I was about to be out earning him.
1. The machine I am typing this one from the time I built to until it was finally actually stable was nearly a year. During all that time I was waiting for Nvidia to finally release a driver that was stable with an AMD X2 4800+ processor, and their 7800 cards (Single or SLI)...again this took nearly a year, I my previous card had been an ATI I often thought I had made the wrong choice when I built this machine. Its been stable now sincde they released the first 9x.xx drivers but that took nearly a year as I said.
2. I recently upgraded my work laptop (which has a Mobile Quadro chip) to Vista as I am part of the team of people evaluating Vista at the company. My Dual Monitor setup which was rock solid under XP has been a disaster ever since. Its so bad that I hhave it disabled right now and I am desperating waiting for a new truly Vista compatible driver releases. which the 100 series drivers are not yet, as NONE of them even recongnize my video hardware.
Ad Hoc nets are displayed as three little computers in a triangle, accesspointed nets are a single large computer Icon. Futher hoveing over your netowrk connection Icon will tell you exactly what sorts of networks you see and are/can connect to.
The Original Haven CO concept there was good
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However its hard to see it working out long term, otherwise it would actually be a decent way around the cyberspace annoyances. However the problem boils down to you have to get the bandwidth from somewhere. Most likely the UK due to its proximity. If you ISP is someplace with draconian IP laws then you always have the potential to be cut off.
Already sounds lame, I doubt it will have the soild story line and lesson that the first had, and it already sounds like its being made by and with sub par talent.
I am sure that it will focus to much on action sequences (for the most part the first had very few) and Technobabble/Technobuzz, that will confuse the uninitiated and make the rest of us groan. The first movie avoided most of that by not over explaining concepts and just sort of glossing over just letting the viewer assume there is a technology to make such a thing happen, and letting those in the know imagine how it might be possible.
So far sounds I'm seeing direct to video land, as its best hope.
Hopefully now I can be plesantly surprised, but I doubt it.
They used to deal with this in the original movie and in a few episodes in the first season actually. In both cases they show Daniel Jackson working out how to communicate (remember that he is actually an archeologist and language expert) with whatever new aliens they meet. As time progresses in the series they at a few points further explain that most of these human derived cultures speak langauges derived from one or the other of ancient human languages. The implication is that the SG teams are taught and/or learn on the job enough of these languages to get by. Eventually the learning phase can be despensed with for us viewers to concentrate on story.
...The IT person(s) who will be hadling deployment should be involved at all stages of Dev. They should attend all development meetings, and be part of all discussions that will affect deployment.
Having a couple to several months between is just crazy, and doesn't really appeal. I bought HL2:E1 and even SIN:E1, The HL2:E1 was great and I was sorry to see it end so quickly. SIN:E1 I started up watched the openning sequence screwed with it for a couple minutes in game play and then pretty much tucked away as a waste of the cash...eh more of the same.
I like the Idea, I thinl HL2:E2, and E3 are going to be great, but the delays are killing me. I think the problem and solution are paradoxical. HL is a franchise is great because of the great skill and attention to detail of Valve, they don't want to let something out the door until its truely done. However if they were to really push the episode thing to give us more more often it would quickly become tiring, eh more of the same since the innovation would suffer and the attention to detail would suffer.
On the whole several months wait for more content is better than several years it would take for a full HL3 (please tell me they are already working on that). Still perhaps a longer pipeline where 3 is at the beta stage when 2 is at release, and 4 is being fleshed out, with 5 on the drawing board would be nice. (I know they are probably not going that far as 3 is the only confirmed further release).
What we really need is something that can randomly generate new levels and story elements, with the developers tossing in new content elements from time to time in updates. Infinately playablity.
I will deceide my systems power settings, the default ones out of the box are often too much more me. I am all for saving energy, but most of my systems I need completely awake and alive all of the time.
Should have gone to a school with internships and/or work study as part of the course work. We recently hired a college grad here and he was looked on favorably due to the industry expirence that he got while in school. He has proved a valuable addition to the team. I pushed for his hire over another canidate due to his prior work on his work study/internships. He has been very valuable to me as I know only do the work of two people instead of 3! He probably makes 1/3 of what I do, but thats more than the Tech support guys are making most likely.
You were supposed to read it as John Kerry who is unfortunately my senator, is a dickhead! I am positve that he takes bribes of one sort or another from big business. These are taken to encourage him to vote exactly the way that they want him to vote and he doesn't give a crap what the people he is actually representing want. Is the Broadcast flag in the best interest of the American public, NO...John the Asshole Kerry Supports it. Is the DMCA in the interest of the American public, NO...John "son of Satan" Kerry supports it.
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Most Games DEVs have already mentioned in various places that they intend to handle the situation at least for now with two render paths, one optomized and used for DX10 and one for DX9.
Remember that Vista doesn't automatically confer DX10 either you need a card that supports DX10 and those are VERY new still the installed base is still mostly DX9 cards reguardless of OS. There are still some users running on DX8 cards as well, which are still well supported in many even new games. The Source engine is even compatible back to DX 7.
For those not in the know, Typically cabled to the machines via fiber connections.
You might want to consider calling the maker for technical support. Some SAN devices require defrag at the BOX level and doing it from the Server will adversely affect your data. Others its OK either way.
I left the song name and artist out of the original post because I couldn't remember the exact title and artist, and I was too lazy to google it up...still am...and due to firewall blocks I can't access my home network from work...
Anyway, I think the title is either 'What does it take" or "If I had wings" either way the only place I can find reference to it ever have appeared is on the "One Crazy Summer" sound track.
...The tale is such. Once upon a time I heard a song on the radio. It was a good song, I liked it, it was a summer song, it disappeared after that summer, it was by a one hit wonder, and being "poor" trying to find a job, and then "poor" and "busy" because the job sucked required huge hours and didn't pay well, I never got around to finding out more about the song, or where it came from, or for that matter since it never seemed to get announced by the DJ's on the radio who it was even by.
Well as I said it was a good song catchy, and it got stuck in my head "FOR YEARS" literally. And for a long time I just couldn't figure out how to find or get this song. Then came the magic of the internet and search engines. I could remember a couple lines of the song and from time to time I'd plug the lines I could remember into Google and Yahoo, etc...well a little at a time I started finding the song's information at forst I got a title, but no singer or band, then eventually I got the singer, however it wasn't attributed to any album, and as I said...ONE HIT wonder.
Then the Magic Day, I found out this song only ever appeared on the sound track to a particular movie, from that summer I remembered it from...great go find the sound track. Umm...only ever produced on cassette tape, likelyhood of finding a tape copy of a silly summer movie soundtrack...LOW...VERY LOW...but OK, I'll give it a shot...the search begins.
I checked every obscure/rare music reseller I could think of, and more that people turned me on to...NO LUCK...but you guessed that.
So then along comes various P2P networks, and sites, etc...and yes I looked in iTunes, not there....Then, by pure luck one day on a bittoreent site I remember to try plugging in the song, and there it is...Downloaded!
I want to replace most of my sever infrastructure for supporting my domain, development, SQL, Web, etc at home with VMWare ESX servers, so my dream machine is actually 2 machines, at least for this purpose. Quad Xeon's, 256GB of RAM(I found a board that will do it), EMC Clariion Disk Array, Fiber Channel Adapters, Video doesn't matter since the server is headless once its built.
For a Game machine Dual Fastest Currently available Intel Processor since they are ahead in the processor race right now, Dual 8800GTX's, Fiber Channel Adapters plugged into the Disk array above, SAS Boot Drive 250GB, 30in Wide Screen LCD, Killer NIC, Sound Blaster whatever is the current top of the line.
...ah, Parents be responsible for your kids. Its not the technology thats the problem. Know what the hell your kids are doing, know what the people they hang out with are doing, know what the families of the people they hang out with are doing.
And #1 teach them a sense of values. What video game system they have doesn't matter its what you tell them to do with it, and what you teach them is OK.
When I was young could I get a copy of a playboy sure, but I knew I shouldn't have...
I think its pretty safe to assume that given the initial info the user is probably doing Windows development. Thats really only going to work on a x86 or x86_64 machine running windows, and windows development tools. Anything else is just fracturing the issue, and not contributing to a solution. Face it Open Source, MAC, Unix, and all the rest are wonderful, but some of us....ALOT of us are stuck in a WinTel world.
The cost of Laptop Ram is probably a limiting factor here, 2GB so-dimms are already obscenely expensive, laptops currently for the most part only accomodate 2 dimms currently so 4 GB requires the 2GB dimms. Larger SO-Dimms would probably have a stratispheric price. The market is probably so limited as to prevent RAM and laptop makers from building platforms to support this yet.
...music currently sucks hard. The reason for falling sales figures is because the stuff the they are foisting on us sucks. Stop trying to create music acts out of thin air with payola and hard sell promotion. The music acts that are worth listening to will emerge on thier own and if they are worth listening to, people will gravitate to them. The music will sell and everyone wins. I stopped listening to the radio since even the stations I like (WAAF in Boston for the most part) don't even play the stuff I like anymore.
Anyone who is a manager there should already be looking for another job, at least when I was a manager there it was a crap job, for crap pay. I left when my current employeer practically tripled (after overtime), and in short order quadrupled my pay.
My district manager response when I told him I was leaving and what I was going to get payed, "I don't blame you"...I'm pretty sure I was about to be out earning him.
1. The machine I am typing this one from the time I built to until it was finally actually stable was nearly a year. During all that time I was waiting for Nvidia to finally release a driver that was stable with an AMD X2 4800+ processor, and their 7800 cards (Single or SLI)...again this took nearly a year, I my previous card had been an ATI I often thought I had made the wrong choice when I built this machine. Its been stable now sincde they released the first 9x.xx drivers but that took nearly a year as I said.
2. I recently upgraded my work laptop (which has a Mobile Quadro chip) to Vista as I am part of the team of people evaluating Vista at the company. My Dual Monitor setup which was rock solid under XP has been a disaster ever since. Its so bad that I hhave it disabled right now and I am desperating waiting for a new truly Vista compatible driver releases. which the 100 series drivers are not yet, as NONE of them even recongnize my video hardware.
Ad Hoc nets are displayed as three little computers in a triangle, accesspointed nets are a single large computer Icon. Futher hoveing over your netowrk connection Icon will tell you exactly what sorts of networks you see and are/can connect to.
However its hard to see it working out long term, otherwise it would actually be a decent way around the cyberspace annoyances. However the problem boils down to you have to get the bandwidth from somewhere. Most likely the UK due to its proximity. If you ISP is someplace with draconian IP laws then you always have the potential to be cut off.
Already sounds lame, I doubt it will have the soild story line and lesson that the first had, and it already sounds like its being made by and with sub par talent.
I am sure that it will focus to much on action sequences (for the most part the first had very few) and Technobabble/Technobuzz, that will confuse the uninitiated and make the rest of us groan. The first movie avoided most of that by not over explaining concepts and just sort of glossing over just letting the viewer assume there is a technology to make such a thing happen, and letting those in the know imagine how it might be possible.
So far sounds I'm seeing direct to video land, as its best hope.
Hopefully now I can be plesantly surprised, but I doubt it.
They used to deal with this in the original movie and in a few episodes in the first season actually. In both cases they show Daniel Jackson working out how to communicate (remember that he is actually an archeologist and language expert) with whatever new aliens they meet. As time progresses in the series they at a few points further explain that most of these human derived cultures speak langauges derived from one or the other of ancient human languages. The implication is that the SG teams are taught and/or learn on the job enough of these languages to get by. Eventually the learning phase can be despensed with for us viewers to concentrate on story.
...The IT person(s) who will be hadling deployment should be involved at all stages of Dev. They should attend all development meetings, and be part of all discussions that will affect deployment.
Having a couple to several months between is just crazy, and doesn't really appeal. I bought HL2:E1 and even SIN:E1, The HL2:E1 was great and I was sorry to see it end so quickly. SIN:E1 I started up watched the openning sequence screwed with it for a couple minutes in game play and then pretty much tucked away as a waste of the cash...eh more of the same.
I like the Idea, I thinl HL2:E2, and E3 are going to be great, but the delays are killing me. I think the problem and solution are paradoxical. HL is a franchise is great because of the great skill and attention to detail of Valve, they don't want to let something out the door until its truely done. However if they were to really push the episode thing to give us more more often it would quickly become tiring, eh more of the same since the innovation would suffer and the attention to detail would suffer.
On the whole several months wait for more content is better than several years it would take for a full HL3 (please tell me they are already working on that).
Still perhaps a longer pipeline where 3 is at the beta stage when 2 is at release, and 4 is being fleshed out, with 5 on the drawing board would be nice. (I know they are probably not going that far as 3 is the only confirmed further release).
What we really need is something that can randomly generate new levels and story elements, with the developers tossing in new content elements from time to time in updates. Infinately playablity.
My wife loved playing LOTR:Third Age with me, but I have been unable to find a similar RPG (in the FF vein) since.
I will deceide my systems power settings, the default ones out of the box are often too much more me. I am all for saving energy, but most of my systems I need completely awake and alive all of the time.
I don't define what most of the country currently has a Broadband...10/5 and perhaps we can talk, but really we should be closer to Asian speeds.
Should have gone to a school with internships and/or work study as part of the course work. We recently hired a college grad here and he was looked on favorably due to the industry expirence that he got while in school. He has proved a valuable addition to the team. I pushed for his hire over another canidate due to his prior work on his work study/internships. He has been very valuable to me as I know only do the work of two people instead of 3! He probably makes 1/3 of what I do, but thats more than the Tech support guys are making most likely.
This if I remember correctly was the basis of the book. However at least in the book the Cure turned out to be worse.
It is a good book however.
You were supposed to read it as John Kerry who is unfortunately my senator, is a dickhead! I am positve that he takes bribes of one sort or another from big business. These are taken to encourage him to vote exactly the way that they want him to vote and he doesn't give a crap what the people he is actually representing want. Is the Broadcast flag in the best interest of the American public, NO...John the Asshole Kerry Supports it. Is the DMCA in the interest of the American public, NO...John "son of Satan" Kerry supports it.
For me 2fort4 was the gateway level. It got me hooked, after that i just couldn't get enough...