The advantage of 3D graphics, even without zooming the camera, is that it means you've gone away from the limits of the sprite sets. Consider how silly top-down flying games like Star Control looked when the ships could only point in eight directions. You fire your gun and the shot passes to the right of the target, turn one click, now it passes to the left. Ridiculous. IF this ship were rendered, you would have a true 360 degrees of rotation without creating an intolerable number of bitmaps.
The things you describe have nothing to do with the "number of dimensions" a graphics engine uses. Asteroids, for example, is 2D and has a rendered ship. If you have been grown in 3D it can be possible that you consider the restricted movement in some 2D games a limitation. On most 2D games the limited movement is just part of the game play. Game play consists of many things. Free movement is not an absolute value that guarantees improved game play.
Why should we care about the number of bitmaps? If the game works, then it works and the number of bitmaps should not be an issue to anyone.
BTW, all the older "full 3D" FPS games pretended to provide free movement but still did not allow the character to do the simplest ordinary things (like climbing on top of things). How ridiculous would that be?
That is incorrect. Modern ATMs do not swallow the whole card. They swallow only that half of the card that contains the micro chip and leave the other end visible so that the user can pull the card out any time he wishes. Because of this the card will never be swallowed permanently by the machine (for example because of errors in the power grid). Only old fashioned ATMs that use the magnetic stripe swallow the whole card.
The votes are first grouped by candidate, then counted twice by separate persons and invalid or ambiguous votes taken aside. If the numbers differ, they're counted again by two separate persons.
snip snip snip
Each party attending the elections have a right to set observators to the counting procedures but at times like these I saw none personally.
Polling stations close at 20:00. Final results are is available around midnight.
If you read the whole discussion following the original patch you notice that some people suggest that while most of the code is dual licensed, parts of it may be licensed as GPL only.
This is THE problem: GPL person takes a BSD+GPL dual licensed code as a gift from a BSD person, extends it and releases the extension as GPL only. BSD person, although he gave the great gift of the original code, is locked out of the extension.
Insurance is a bad analogy. It's purpose is only to compensate for occurred damages. Police would be a better example. Their precense reduces the possibility of crime and if one happens they catch the criminals (with varying success).
System administration works to prevent downtime and when downtime happens they fix it (with varying success).
Switching jobs can be bad, but if you're being offered jobs, basically, don't stress about it. Take the job if you think its better (pay, stability, working environemnt, proximity to home, etc).
Note that I was talking about career. If you can not show that you have been able to hold a job for several years, nobody will give you a job when you have to look for one. Just like the previous IT bubble, this one won't last forever. I had two six month jobs and a one year job during the last bubble. And now every time I was in an interview after them I got asked why I switched so often. Luckily, the one year job ended up in bankruptcy so I could explain them convincingly.
Your future employee prospects will question those four jobs during the 16 months (or will it be 5 jobs in 20 month). Your employee does not want to invest in someone who jumps ship in four months.
Yes! Switching jobs often makes you look like a "job hopper". You can do it once but your resume should have a job that spans several years right after it. That way you can lie about the short job and get away with it.
What a great guy. Going on record saying what he sees as fit instead of actually running the company the way he sees fit.
He does this because Sony does not have an on-line music retail business and therefore he has nothing he could act on. He is simply trying to smear iTunes and music selling mobile operators.
If the monitors were crushed in the trash compacting process the glass may become shatter and/or more powder like. Most land fill companies don't really sort monitors or at least the curbside trash pickup guys mostly don't.
Do you not know that electrical circuits are hazardous waste? Monitors, electric coffee makers, portable mp3 players and energy saving light bulbs do not belong in a landfill. They must be disposed of properly.
You are most incorrect. 40 foot private do not usually have radars.
Also, geekiness of the owner seldom has any correlation to the level of tech equipment onboard. Most people I know go sailing to get away from their day jobs. I would never take a computer onboard a sailing boat.
The initial reaction is that it does not qualify for a Darwin Award. While it is commonly a "fun fact", the average Joe does not know that one can fatally overdose on water. However, because a nurse called an specifically warned the contestants about the dangers of consuming large amounts of water, it may qualify.
If you read the article you will notice that the woman in question already had three children. Therefore her genes are already "in the pool" and thus she is not qualified for a Darwin award.
First of all the word "early" in the good old "release early, release often" mantra really means releasing untested software.
Secondly, pardon my own misleading subject line, the division is not about libre vs. proprietary (open source vs. proprietary). It is between gratis vs. non-gratis software. When people use software they expect to get what they pay for so when the users do not pay in cash they pay in testing time. This time is what non-gratis developers have to pay when they do expensive system testing.
I have been keeping track of the amount of SPAM in my GMail spam box. After the thanksgiving weekend the number of SPAM has increased more than twofold:
Sun has been putting out alot of java releases recently due to.NET and competition is good.
Actually, Sun has always been making a lot of Java releases. The only difference is that now they have to listen to users and implement features that users need. Yes, competition is good.
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What you say about double buffering is incorrect. Double buffering means that the components are first drawn into an off screen graphics context (simply put an "image") that is not displayed. After all components have been drawn off screen the result is displayed on the screen in one fast operation. The effect (and the reason why double buffering is used) is that users never see an incompletely drawn display.
The only performance difference to unbuffered drawing comes from increased memory usage and the displaying of that "image". Double buffering does not require any more steps during component drawing than unbuffered display. The useless clearing you talk about can be resolved by setting component opaqueness to correct value.
In effect, the phone radiates more than necessary and the battery gets drained faster.
The idea is to detect if the phone is listening while a call is not being made. We already know that FBI listens to criminals during the actual phone calls (through the service provider, the old way). And cell phone radiation is a problem only when the phone is next to one's brain. Since the flasher has no function while a call is being made (it flashes anyway) so it can be taken off if radiation is being considered a problem.
And if FBI is really a problem for you, then I think you can afford to recharge your phone just a little bit more often.
The amount of SPAM in my GMail spam folder grew from 4200 to 6200 during the weekend. This means that during th weekend I received 2000 SPAM e-mails more than a month ago. I feat what the christmas shopping season brings...
I get the feeling you are trying to pull our collective legs here. It is hard to imagine a person who knows both Perl+Linux and.NET would have to resort to slashdot for this kind of advice. But anyway, here are my 0.05.
If you are a young person (assuming so, because you are considering joining a small Half-Life-playing Perl-using Web-programming company) go for Perl and Linux. Enjoy it as long as it lasts, because it will be much more fun than white collar work at a.NET corporation.
But if you are an older person like me, who has children and a career to look after, go corporate. Just be patient because corporations are slow and good things come to those who wait.
I don't know where L1 is but I doubt that thing would last a few years without being torn apart by small rocks and space debris.
I don't know who you are, but I doubt that you would be smarter than this professor and the people at NASA together (insert smiley). Anyway (RTFA), this "thing" consists of a large number of small objects just floating around in space. It can not be torn down, since the components are not interconnected. And if a particle hits one of the shades it just creates a small hole. Big deal. That's where the 50 year life span comes from.
And this group has a lot of spare time and energy and has shown they'll fight for something they believe in.
They have also shown that they will work for free for an international multimillion dollar corporation. They are not exactly the smartest people on this planet.
Come on! They worked for free so that a corporation could make profit by selling them mind dumbing entertainment! It would be just as stupid if I worked for free at McDonalds and then went to the other side of the counter and bought the hamburgers I just cooked.
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When BSA selects them for auditing, the IT-manager will get the heat, because software licenses are his responsibility.
He bothers because he is paid for it.
The things you describe have nothing to do with the "number of dimensions" a graphics engine uses. Asteroids, for example, is 2D and has a rendered ship. If you have been grown in 3D it can be possible that you consider the restricted movement in some 2D games a limitation. On most 2D games the limited movement is just part of the game play. Game play consists of many things. Free movement is not an absolute value that guarantees improved game play.
Why should we care about the number of bitmaps? If the game works, then it works and the number of bitmaps should not be an issue to anyone.
BTW, all the older "full 3D" FPS games pretended to provide free movement but still did not allow the character to do the simplest ordinary things (like climbing on top of things). How ridiculous would that be?
That is incorrect. Modern ATMs do not swallow the whole card. They swallow only that half of the card that contains the micro chip and leave the other end visible so that the user can pull the card out any time he wishes. Because of this the card will never be swallowed permanently by the machine (for example because of errors in the power grid). Only old fashioned ATMs that use the magnetic stripe swallow the whole card.
The votes are first grouped by candidate, then counted twice by separate persons and invalid or ambiguous votes taken aside. If the numbers differ, they're counted again by two separate persons. snip snip snip Each party attending the elections have a right to set observators to the counting procedures but at times like these I saw none personally.
Polling stations close at 20:00. Final results are is available around midnight.
Can someone remind me why we need e-voting?
If you read the whole discussion following the original patch you notice that some people suggest that while most of the code is dual licensed, parts of it may be licensed as GPL only.
This is THE problem: GPL person takes a BSD+GPL dual licensed code as a gift from a BSD person, extends it and releases the extension as GPL only. BSD person, although he gave the great gift of the original code, is locked out of the extension.
In my opinion that is unfair.
Insurance is a bad analogy. It's purpose is only to compensate for occurred damages. Police would be a better example. Their precense reduces the possibility of crime and if one happens they catch the criminals (with varying success).
System administration works to prevent downtime and when downtime happens they fix it (with varying success).
I'll have to wait for someone to upload that to YouTube so I can watch it.
Note that I was talking about career. If you can not show that you have been able to hold a job for several years, nobody will give you a job when you have to look for one. Just like the previous IT bubble, this one won't last forever. I had two six month jobs and a one year job during the last bubble. And now every time I was in an interview after them I got asked why I switched so often. Luckily, the one year job ended up in bankruptcy so I could explain them convincingly.
Your future employee prospects will question those four jobs during the 16 months (or will it be 5 jobs in 20 month). Your employee does not want to invest in someone who jumps ship in four months.
Yes! Switching jobs often makes you look like a "job hopper". You can do it once but your resume should have a job that spans several years right after it. That way you can lie about the short job and get away with it.
He does this because Sony does not have an on-line music retail business and therefore he has nothing he could act on. He is simply trying to smear iTunes and music selling mobile operators.
Do you not know that electrical circuits are hazardous waste? Monitors, electric coffee makers, portable mp3 players and energy saving light bulbs do not belong in a landfill. They must be disposed of properly.
I mean 40 foot private yacht! Damn you Freud.
You are most incorrect. 40 foot private do not usually have radars.
Also, geekiness of the owner seldom has any correlation to the level of tech equipment onboard. Most people I know go sailing to get away from their day jobs. I would never take a computer onboard a sailing boat.
The initial reaction is that it does not qualify for a Darwin Award. While it is commonly a "fun fact", the average Joe does not know that one can fatally overdose on water. However, because a nurse called an specifically warned the contestants about the dangers of consuming large amounts of water, it may qualify.
If you read the article you will notice that the woman in question already had three children. Therefore her genes are already "in the pool" and thus she is not qualified for a Darwin award.
I have to call bullshit on that argument.
First of all the word "early" in the good old "release early, release often" mantra really means releasing untested software.
Secondly, pardon my own misleading subject line, the division is not about libre vs. proprietary (open source vs. proprietary). It is between gratis vs. non-gratis software. When people use software they expect to get what they pay for so when the users do not pay in cash they pay in testing time. This time is what non-gratis developers have to pay when they do expensive system testing.
I have been keeping track of the amount of SPAM in my GMail spam box. After the thanksgiving weekend the number of SPAM has increased more than twofold:
2006/11/22 4257
2006/11/29 6668
2006/12/07 8394
2006/12/14 9262
Obviously spammers getting ready for the holidat shopping season too.
Actually, Sun has always been making a lot of Java releases. The only difference is that now they have to listen to users and implement features that users need. Yes, competition is good.
What you say about double buffering is incorrect. Double buffering means that the components are first drawn into an off screen graphics context (simply put an "image") that is not displayed. After all components have been drawn off screen the result is displayed on the screen in one fast operation. The effect (and the reason why double buffering is used) is that users never see an incompletely drawn display.
The only performance difference to unbuffered drawing comes from increased memory usage and the displaying of that "image". Double buffering does not require any more steps during component drawing than unbuffered display. The useless clearing you talk about can be resolved by setting component opaqueness to correct value.
if they create something worthwhile they can pay more to get it full licenced for release
Let me rephrase that for you: "if they create something worthwhile they have to pay more to get it full licenced for release".
Helpful, eh?
I thought you meant the recent PS3 firmware update. I'm still wondering what the heck it means.
In effect, the phone radiates more than necessary and the battery gets drained faster.
The idea is to detect if the phone is listening while a call is not being made. We already know that FBI listens to criminals during the actual phone calls (through the service provider, the old way). And cell phone radiation is a problem only when the phone is next to one's brain. Since the flasher has no function while a call is being made (it flashes anyway) so it can be taken off if radiation is being considered a problem.
And if FBI is really a problem for you, then I think you can afford to recharge your phone just a little bit more often.
The amount of SPAM in my GMail spam folder grew from 4200 to 6200 during the weekend. This means that during th weekend I received 2000 SPAM e-mails more than a month ago. I feat what the christmas shopping season brings...
I get the feeling you are trying to pull our collective legs here. It is hard to imagine a person who knows both Perl+Linux and .NET would have to resort to slashdot for this kind of advice. But anyway, here are my 0.05.
If you are a young person (assuming so, because you are considering joining a small Half-Life-playing Perl-using Web-programming company) go for Perl and Linux. Enjoy it as long as it lasts, because it will be much more fun than white collar work at a .NET corporation.
But if you are an older person like me, who has children and a career to look after, go corporate. Just be patient because corporations are slow and good things come to those who wait.
I don't know where L1 is but I doubt that thing would last a few years without being torn apart by small rocks and space debris.
I don't know who you are, but I doubt that you would be smarter than this professor and the people at NASA together (insert smiley). Anyway (RTFA), this "thing" consists of a large number of small objects just floating around in space. It can not be torn down, since the components are not interconnected. And if a particle hits one of the shades it just creates a small hole. Big deal. That's where the 50 year life span comes from.
And this group has a lot of spare time and energy and has shown they'll fight for something they believe in.
They have also shown that they will work for free for an international multimillion dollar corporation. They are not exactly the smartest people on this planet.
Come on! They worked for free so that a corporation could make profit by selling them mind dumbing entertainment! It would be just as stupid if I worked for free at McDonalds and then went to the other side of the counter and bought the hamburgers I just cooked.