Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is out? Or can I have a snowball fight with Satan?
Really though, I have been using KDE 3.1 since beta2, watching it move through its different stages to what is is now has been a great joy. The new control panel is much more intuative, keramic is purdy, and all the little toots and whistles you will find will make it enjoyable. KDE is the main reason I don't go back to windows.
... Damn, I was really looking forward to playing Star Craft:Ghost on my gamecube. With Rare bought and now maybe Blizzard, The XBox is beginning to look like a good choice for games, too bad the way MS made it that was by buring the competition in piles of money.
Thankfully many stations (like showtime) are putting their more popular series out on DVD after each season (Queer as Folk season one has been out a year and season two is set to come out in a month or so just in time for season three to start up). This is competition to the cable industry, and it is only going to increase. DVD's are cheap to stamp, mpeg-2 is cheap to make (esp since 99% of all editing now is done digitally on nonllinear systems, mpeg-2 is just an option!). And the internet means that it is cheap to ship, sell only 10,000? Stamp 10k, ship and then forget about it. The only thing that I think would be better would be if I could download everything (say pay 50 for a season and download eps after they are aired). But the cable paradigm is beginning to fade in the wake of new and more diverse, more specific techs.
There was no Vietnam war. It was an armed conflict between the US and the Communist influences in the area. And since the US policy was containment AND there was no new expansion into South Vietnam, you could say we succeeded (though not won).
Of course that doesn't discount the fact there were still many idiot things done.
I had a k6-2 500 with 64 megs of ram and a 16 MB swap partition, ran like a charm. I used KDE 1.4 then KDE 2.2, and I had absolutly no speed problems at all. Only when I had VMware running did I have lag at all.
Moral of the story: small swap + older (and smaller) proggies = fast PC.
I think what would have really put Episode 2 over the top would have been if Count Dookoo was fighting the Dark Side. If he had seen the Sith's rise and the Jedi's incompetence, he should have moved to build an army and defeat the Sith before it took over the Senate, or at least gather enought power to form a decent resistence. Then everything mostly could have worked in the plot. Why kill Obi-wan? Because obi-wan knew where they were. Why fight the Jedi? The Jedi were being used as pawns of the Sith and had to be stopped before they caused too much damage.
Of course this is just one CS majors ramblings, but I would have liked to see that.
I am currently on the lookout for a good developent on the go PDA. (Mostly for a hobby) Has anyone here had any experience using the Zarius or similar PDA for mobile work? I am mostly thinking about wiriting Java apps. Thanks guys.
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MS has the right to block any one form its networks. However, if they pursue the X-box owner (most likely by lawsuit) this is a different story. While X-box live is their network, the X-box is the consumer's personal possession. With that said, the person who owns it has the right to do anything he wants to it, modding included.
Java is not just applets (which are very useful and fast and stable if you use JApplet and not awt.Applet) it is a collection of technologies allowing for rapid and reasonable cross platform porting. My sevlets run excellent on most servers, plus they were easy to write and debugg. The networking built into java is nice, multithreading equally so. Java is what.NET could be, just noone realizes it.
It is about time some one comes up with an unhackable security standard. I am tired of having to make back up copies of all my games and apps (esp VS. NET academic, 7 fucking cd's). Now with this technology deployed I can simply ask for a replacement disk when one of mine fail.
Wait, companies don't offer that protection even if my media fails? You mean I will have to pony up another 50-300 dollars for a piece of software?
Damn damn damn, I hope it gets cracked faster than IIS on a bad day.
MS markets its programs to developers and business. Their claim to fame is that they are cheap, easier, and their stuff works well together. And most of use would agree, Microsoft products play well with other microsoft products (develope and deploy using Visual Studio. NET and IIS for example). And this is what they want to show at the show.
What they should be showing at the show, however, is an easy implementation of.NET services on Linux and other GNU systems. And it owuldn't be bad for them to open up their file formats, or better yet start a discussion for a new type of open document format.
In conclusion, Linux is now a real business solution, and MS wants to be able to capitalize on it.
One of my friends built a coil last year at Middle Georgia. (MGC is a small 2 year school in COchran GA. Very small place). One of the more interesting things was that it was mostly made from pieces laying around the dorm. Wood, pie plantes, copper tubing, 12 guage wire, beer bottles (yes, they were filled with salt water and made a fairly nice capcitor array). Forshows he would zap AOL cd's and hand them out.
Even mor einteresting was his friend who lived in Cochran was also building them. He had two in his garage, a "small" and a large. The large one had industrial capcitors and a 12kV pole transformor from Euorpe acting as they power supply. Plus it knocked out phone and DSL in his house if anyone happened to be oinline when one fired.
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Game companies are realising that story telling has a lot of potential that has not been tapped yet.
No Shit, Sherlock!
That is why WC3 and NWN sell so well, not only do they have a good story, but people can actually make up new storylines and then redistribute them.
Does this mean Duke Nukem Forever is out? Or can I have a snowball fight with Satan?
Really though, I have been using KDE 3.1 since beta2, watching it move through its different stages to what is is now has been a great joy. The new control panel is much more intuative, keramic is purdy, and all the little toots and whistles you will find will make it enjoyable. KDE is the main reason I don't go back to windows.
... Damn, I was really looking forward to playing Star Craft:Ghost on my gamecube. With Rare bought and now maybe Blizzard, The XBox is beginning to look like a good choice for games, too bad the way MS made it that was by buring the competition in piles of money.
Which will come first, Duke Nukem Forever or KDE 3.1?
... is that the Hammer is being mass produced and is actually going to ship!
With a little more power you can get 11Mb/s AND cook your chicken.
... who would ride a roller coaster with brakes on the uphill side?
Thankfully many stations (like showtime) are putting their more popular series out on DVD after each season (Queer as Folk season one has been out a year and season two is set to come out in a month or so just in time for season three to start up). This is competition to the cable industry, and it is only going to increase. DVD's are cheap to stamp, mpeg-2 is cheap to make (esp since 99% of all editing now is done digitally on nonllinear systems, mpeg-2 is just an option!). And the internet means that it is cheap to ship, sell only 10,000? Stamp 10k, ship and then forget about it. The only thing that I think would be better would be if I could download everything (say pay 50 for a season and download eps after they are aired). But the cable paradigm is beginning to fade in the wake of new and more diverse, more specific techs.
Secondsun
There was no Vietnam war. It was an armed conflict between the US and the Communist influences in the area. And since the US policy was containment AND there was no new expansion into South Vietnam, you could say we succeeded (though not won).
Of course that doesn't discount the fact there were still many idiot things done.
Secondsun
I had a k6-2 500 with 64 megs of ram and a 16 MB swap partition, ran like a charm. I used KDE 1.4 then KDE 2.2, and I had absolutly no speed problems at all. Only when I had VMware running did I have lag at all.
Moral of the story: small swap + older (and smaller) proggies = fast PC.
Your scrambled ToC is no match for my superior patch cable and audio in!
Dude! You killing a Dell!
I thought all satellites had radios since sputnik.
Oh wait, you mean satellite RADIO... thats out?
Does thermal weapon mean ANYTHING to you?
With the move to central servers and MS moves like Liscensing 6.0 who will need or want Microsoft in five years?
I think what would have really put Episode 2 over the top would have been if Count Dookoo was fighting the Dark Side. If he had seen the Sith's rise and the Jedi's incompetence, he should have moved to build an army and defeat the Sith before it took over the Senate, or at least gather enought power to form a decent resistence. Then everything mostly could have worked in the plot. Why kill Obi-wan? Because obi-wan knew where they were. Why fight the Jedi? The Jedi were being used as pawns of the Sith and had to be stopped before they caused too much damage.
Of course this is just one CS majors ramblings, but I would have liked to see that.
No. The jaguar featured 2 32 bit processors on board. That was where the 64 came from.
I am currently on the lookout for a good developent on the go PDA. (Mostly for a hobby) Has anyone here had any experience using the Zarius or similar PDA for mobile work? I am mostly thinking about wiriting Java apps. Thanks guys.
AMD has already agreed to support paladium.
MS has the right to block any one form its networks. However, if they pursue the X-box owner (most likely by lawsuit) this is a different story. While X-box live is their network, the X-box is the consumer's personal possession. With that said, the person who owns it has the right to do anything he wants to it, modding included.
Java is not just applets (which are very useful and fast and stable if you use JApplet and not awt.Applet) it is a collection of technologies allowing for rapid and reasonable cross platform porting. My sevlets run excellent on most servers, plus they were easy to write and debugg. The networking built into java is nice, multithreading equally so. Java is what .NET could be, just noone realizes it.
It is about time some one comes up with an unhackable security standard. I am tired of having to make back up copies of all my games and apps (esp VS. NET academic, 7 fucking cd's). Now with this technology deployed I can simply ask for a replacement disk when one of mine fail.
Wait, companies don't offer that protection even if my media fails? You mean I will have to pony up another 50-300 dollars for a piece of software?
Damn damn damn, I hope it gets cracked faster than IIS on a bad day.
"Umm sir, you readings are very strange, I am afraid you will have to be detained."
"ON what charges?"
"This says here, illegal parking, jay walking, homosexuality, drug use, stealing candy from a baby, stealing candy as a baby."
"Anything else?"
"No."
"Check again."
"OH MY LOVING GOD! YOU ARE GOING TO STICK THIS MACHINE WHERE?!?!?!"
Then you are allowed on the flight with no further problems.
MS markets its programs to developers and business. Their claim to fame is that they are cheap, easier, and their stuff works well together. And most of use would agree, Microsoft products play well with other microsoft products (develope and deploy using Visual Studio. NET and IIS for example). And this is what they want to show at the show.
.NET services on Linux and other GNU systems. And it owuldn't be bad for them to open up their file formats, or better yet start a discussion for a new type of open document format.
What they should be showing at the show, however, is an easy implementation of
In conclusion, Linux is now a real business solution, and MS wants to be able to capitalize on it.
One of my friends built a coil last year at Middle Georgia. (MGC is a small 2 year school in COchran GA. Very small place). One of the more interesting things was that it was mostly made from pieces laying around the dorm. Wood, pie plantes, copper tubing, 12 guage wire, beer bottles (yes, they were filled with salt water and made a fairly nice capcitor array). Forshows he would zap AOL cd's and hand them out.
Even mor einteresting was his friend who lived in Cochran was also building them. He had two in his garage, a "small" and a large. The large one had industrial capcitors and a 12kV pole transformor from Euorpe acting as they power supply. Plus it knocked out phone and DSL in his house if anyone happened to be oinline when one fired.