I've been a fan of rag doll physics since I first read about it, and I hope it continues to gather improvements, but when are we going to get controllers for games that are more intuative than a mouse, and less expensive? It's one thing to say you have control of your character's every move, but clearly another to realize such freedom; the controls of video games are what sets them back.
I'm afraid I'll have to strongly disagree with you. Social structures is all we have as human beings; technology can't exist without that. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it fall? I don't think it matters if nobody there witnesses it in any timeline.
> Bullet-Time option will kick in when you've landed the killing blow on your opponen
So, instead of landing a killing blow by slowing time for greater accuracy and armor-penetration, you get a special viewing of bullet time when you kill someone? Sounds like someone hasn't really understood bullet time at all. Bullet time exists as a side effect of speeding the thought process so quickly that everything seems very slow; and speeding this thought process exists because the characters are indeed working hard to defeat an enemy or dodge a bullet.
I can see the meeting now: "Okay we don't want to design gameplay around bullet time."
"Just activate when you want at certain points of the game, in the form of cinematic."
"That just saved us 5 months of dev time! Thanks!"
Impossible to police, impossible to control, and totally against everything the Net was designed to be. Sorry, but no country will govern the net and if one should try to, they will have a huge problem on their hands. What is needed is not more regulation, but more insightful systems design. That's all.
If you get a website, it's yours. What's the conflict? Squatters are just playing on names, misspelling. So you type in google.com wrong or something... and you see a stupid ad for domains. Big deal. Just type it in right next time. I find that too much resource is going towards fighting the natural expansion of the net; look at mikeroesoft... My thoughts are that the whole system does need real scrutiny, but even after all that, exploits to any system always come through. Pynchon always said you couldn't do away with anything more than %50 of waste because waste is always there... it's inherrent in everything. Make more law, you're still fighting a ghost.
I remember my mom used to tell me never to hit bee hives with my hockey stick. SCO never listens to this kind of advice, which comes up every time there's a story here about them; so what's their major malfunction? I just want it to end!
Microsoft eyeing AOL? Sounds like they would make strange bedpartners for a few reasons I can think of; The Microsoft Butterfly seems to market directly to the AOL mentality, which many of you know to be among those who use "The Internet" to find out things, download music and chat ("The Internet" being the AOL homepage!)...
While I may think AOL is too big for Microsoft to acquire and manage properly, that's just my opinion and it's likely incorrect, as Bill Gates is an iron leader of a huge corporate empire, with the Midas touch, and elite backing that gives anyone with that much money a guarantee of acquiring even more. What is more interesting than all the market'spaek, is that Time/Warner wants to dump AOL... and for this I am not surprised, while the article is more along the lines of Microsoft wanting to get their greedy hands on AOL, any objective observation would lead one to ponder if AOL is having trouble, or projected trouble? Whenever I have ever sold a car, it wasn't because I wanted some schmo from the public to get my super amazing car and benefit from it; it was because the car was old and I didn't want it anymore.:-)
"100-ft diameter asteroid"... "that Death Star-sized object"
The Death Star was bigger than 100 ft dia! Maybe the miniature Lucas used was that size?:-)
If LINEAR can pick up 100ft dia objects, anything bigger would be easy. Now I can feel safe until this one veers off due our shoddy ozone, and smacks down on my hometown.
You can simply ignore what's been happening in Canada for the past twenty years. That's your choice. It's a very Canadian thing to do, also. The simple fact is, crisis in Canada is the only motive for change that has ever existed, so when we have slow moving scandals where money is filtered off the top from Liberals and spent on riches for the wives of candidates, the bottom line is that Canada *is* corrupt, and the people of Canada are to blame, not the politicians. We never give the left a chance to stay in for more than a few terms. This is because the right (Libs/Tories) always railroad the NDP whenever they get in. The right always spend their money playing dirty politics too.
I worked the Ontario elections and let me just say, I have never seen dirtier politics than the Lib we ran against. Kicked over our signs, bussed people in from another riding, cheated the election by sending goons to threaten voters at the polls to vote for him. He also pulled one hell of a stunt: this Candidate is in TV, so some of you are going to know who he is right away, but he somehow pulled some strings and really nailed our candidate. This TV station arranges an all-candidate debate for a particular date/time. They phone ahead and "cancel" it, saying that the other candidates couldn't make it. So they say, they have changed it to a phone interview only for all the Candidates. Our candidate gets a call from the station, they do the prep talk with him, and then he's on the air. The announcer is in the station with the other candidates LIVE! They un-invited our candidate! So he's on the phone and they say, "tell us your wonderful platform", and he has no idea what's about to happen. He rattles off the Public Power platform like a real pro, and the announcer goes, "Wow, that's a wonderful platform, but how are you going to pay for all THAT?!" and then the TV station hangs up with our candidate. The announcer acts like it was our candidate who hung up the phone!!! *sigh*
Before this stunt we were leading: we ended up with 12%........
Paul Martin caused the Liberal money scandal. Simple as that. He was the finance minister when $250 Mil simply walked away from the government coffers. It's totally his fault.
This is likely part of the recent Liberal scandal, and therefore it's evident that there is a significant level of corruption in the Liberal party of Canada. For all those of you who are Americans, you should know that the Liberal party is the same as the Republicans, the Progressive Conservative party is also the same as the Republicans, while the New Democratic Party is quite left of the Democrats in the US. Yes, it's true, we have TWO Republican parties in Canada.
My thoughts are that this is definately part of the Liberal scandal, and not to restate this, but it's very important someone cleans up Canadian politics, and IMHO, that is the NDP. The thing is, the NDP would need to remain in power for two or three terms in order to do that, and it may take even longer to clean up the huge mess left from years of PC and Liberal waste/corruption. People would go to jail, people would pay for their crimes. People like Jean Cretien, former prime minister of Canada, who oversaw the entire scandal, and was likely heavily involved. People like the current PM, Paul Martin. Leaders should go to jail if they rob the taxpayers as much as these people have!
Speaking of computers, is anyone a bit uneasy about the magnets in the seats of this car? What if you put your laptop there?? Isn't it going to fry your hard drive?
SCO gets to try on a muzzle... this is happy news. My only question is if this settlement favours Univention or SCO? I guess if you look at it one way, it favours us all because we don't have to listen to SCO whine and complain in Germany. Oh wait a minute... their website can be reached from Germany, so does that count as an offense?
Every new games website should have a bloody good slashdotting! Thief has always warmed my heart, and I'm glad to hear that we're getting another one. Sadly, I'm unable to use their site because of the flash requirement. I long since disabled Flash due to the misuse of it via adverts. You'd think that webbies would learn that you need to provide non-flash content by now!
Anyway to summarize: Thief 3 Good : Thief 3 Website -- can't say, don't know.
Hehe. I'm not a troll, but sometimes it's funny when they take me *this* seriously.
Just to clarify my previous statements; I think it's good news for Chicago that the cops are spending money fighting crime. But my real problem was with the use of Oracle staff with their high billing. $300/hr is not uncommon for them, as another user previously stated. To me, it would be nice for them to try and use smaller firms an coordinate the efforts. Thinking about it, 5 or 7 years ago when this was likely planned, open source was still young and unrecognized by "the man", so maybe that's why they went this route.
But 2000 laptops? Touch screens? I'm in shock of the expense that this must have been. It seems like overkill to me. Maybe an automotive computer would have cost less? like build a desktop into the cruisers. That would be way less because the components are less expensive by about 1/2. And that was my main point.
If other police agencies follow Chicago, I would like to see them use more open source tech, where possible. I'm a firm believer in Open Source, as most of the/.'ers are. It can grow up and take on the big closed source companies, and society is beginning to see that, what with the IBM Super Bowl ad, and everything.
The Chicago cops managed to get a nod from/. for doing what they did, but maybe the future policing could try to come up with some kind of open model of thin-client wireless network management that happens to be open source.
Why?
So that programmers can learn how to handle a situation like law enforcement programming.
So that the system is secure.
Like how long before someone pringles the cops and puts an APB out on people? Or adds to rap sheets? Or worse?
While it took $45 million to achieve the crime rates Chicago has today, as an open source programmer, I have to think that they wasted about $42 million. For the same level of effectiveness, the cops could have enlisted a bunch of programmers to work on their code using open source, instead of Oracle, and they would gain better security in less money and likely a lot less time. They sprang for 2000 touch screen notebooks? What a waste of money. Sure it makes cops more effective to have fast, lightweight systems, but let's face it... notebooks are very expensive for what you get. Used notebooks or PCs, for example, might be a better use of taxpayers' money.
The way I look at it, they spent $45 mil fighting crime, which is mostly caused by citizens failing to make a decent living, sick of the system and just mad at everything. If they took most of that money and invested it into poverty prevension, you would see likely even better results.
If google starts a mail service, is it really to take on Yahoo? I have a pretty good opinion of Google for most of their decisions and I find it hard to beleive that they would go out and try to attack another company.
Maybe I'm naive, but I beleive if Google has decided to go after new business, it would be because they decided to move into a new market, not because they wanted to act in malace against another company.
Slashdot Mirror
Sweet. :) .000002 seconds lost. :)
switches soak up resources but in my small sites, I hardly notice the
SO.... for all ye programmers... // what they must have coded //should read
if($partner) $access = 1;
switch($partner){
case 'google':
$access = 1;
break;
case 'slashdot':
$access = 1;
break;
default:
$access = 0;
break;
}
I've been a fan of rag doll physics since I first read about it, and I hope it continues to gather improvements, but when are we going to get controllers for games that are more intuative than a mouse, and less expensive? It's one thing to say you have control of your character's every move, but clearly another to realize such freedom; the controls of video games are what sets them back.
> If you don't love what you do then get out of it. Any frog that loves froggy jobs never has to work a day in froggy's life. I'm a frog.
I'm afraid I'll have to strongly disagree with you. Social structures is all we have as human beings; technology can't exist without that. If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, does it fall? I don't think it matters if nobody there witnesses it in any timeline.
> Bullet-Time option will kick in when you've landed the killing blow on your opponen
So, instead of landing a killing blow by slowing time for greater accuracy and armor-penetration, you get a special viewing of bullet time when you kill someone? Sounds like someone hasn't really understood bullet time at all. Bullet time exists as a side effect of speeding the thought process so quickly that everything seems very slow; and speeding this thought process exists because the characters are indeed working hard to defeat an enemy or dodge a bullet.
I can see the meeting now: "Okay we don't want to design gameplay around bullet time."
"Just activate when you want at certain points of the game, in the form of cinematic."
"That just saved us 5 months of dev time! Thanks!"
"No problem, Mr. Anderson."
Impossible to police, impossible to control, and totally against everything the Net was designed to be. Sorry, but no country will govern the net and if one should try to, they will have a huge problem on their hands. What is needed is not more regulation, but more insightful systems design. That's all.
If you get a website, it's yours. What's the conflict? Squatters are just playing on names, misspelling. So you type in google.com wrong or something... and you see a stupid ad for domains. Big deal. Just type it in right next time. I find that too much resource is going towards fighting the natural expansion of the net; look at mikeroesoft... My thoughts are that the whole system does need real scrutiny, but even after all that, exploits to any system always come through. Pynchon always said you couldn't do away with anything more than %50 of waste because waste is always there... it's inherrent in everything. Make more law, you're still fighting a ghost.
I remember my mom used to tell me never to hit bee hives with my hockey stick. SCO never listens to this kind of advice, which comes up every time there's a story here about them; so what's their major malfunction? I just want it to end!
Microsoft eyeing AOL? Sounds like they would make strange bedpartners for a few reasons I can think of; The Microsoft Butterfly seems to market directly to the AOL mentality, which many of you know to be among those who use "The Internet" to find out things, download music and chat ("The Internet" being the AOL homepage!)...
:-)
While I may think AOL is too big for Microsoft to acquire and manage properly, that's just my opinion and it's likely incorrect, as Bill Gates is an iron leader of a huge corporate empire, with the Midas touch, and elite backing that gives anyone with that much money a guarantee of acquiring even more. What is more interesting than all the market'spaek, is that Time/Warner wants to dump AOL... and for this I am not surprised, while the article is more along the lines of Microsoft wanting to get their greedy hands on AOL, any objective observation would lead one to ponder if AOL is having trouble, or projected trouble? Whenever I have ever sold a car, it wasn't because I wanted some schmo from the public to get my super amazing car and benefit from it; it was because the car was old and I didn't want it anymore.
"100-ft diameter asteroid" ... "that Death Star-sized object"
:-)
If LINEAR can pick up 100ft dia objects, anything bigger would be easy. Now I can feel safe until this one veers off due our shoddy ozone, and smacks down on my hometown.
The Death Star was bigger than 100 ft dia! Maybe the miniature Lucas used was that size?
Locker rooms everwhere are in jeapordy, complete with automated pr0n-site deployment!
Bootleggers will make money on nostalgia merch if Zilla keeps changing names, anyway. Protecting old/unused trademarks still is required, imho.
You can simply ignore what's been happening in Canada for the past twenty years. That's your choice. It's a very Canadian thing to do, also. The simple fact is, crisis in Canada is the only motive for change that has ever existed, so when we have slow moving scandals where money is filtered off the top from Liberals and spent on riches for the wives of candidates, the bottom line is that Canada *is* corrupt, and the people of Canada are to blame, not the politicians. We never give the left a chance to stay in for more than a few terms. This is because the right (Libs/Tories) always railroad the NDP whenever they get in. The right always spend their money playing dirty politics too.
I worked the Ontario elections and let me just say, I have never seen dirtier politics than the Lib we ran against. Kicked over our signs, bussed people in from another riding, cheated the election by sending goons to threaten voters at the polls to vote for him. He also pulled one hell of a stunt: this Candidate is in TV, so some of you are going to know who he is right away, but he somehow pulled some strings and really nailed our candidate. This TV station arranges an all-candidate debate for a particular date/time. They phone ahead and "cancel" it, saying that the other candidates couldn't make it. So they say, they have changed it to a phone interview only for all the Candidates. Our candidate gets a call from the station, they do the prep talk with him, and then he's on the air. The announcer is in the station with the other candidates LIVE! They un-invited our candidate! So he's on the phone and they say, "tell us your wonderful platform", and he has no idea what's about to happen. He rattles off the Public Power platform like a real pro, and the announcer goes, "Wow, that's a wonderful platform, but how are you going to pay for all THAT?!" and then the TV station hangs up with our candidate. The announcer acts like it was our candidate who hung up the phone!!! *sigh*
Before this stunt we were leading: we ended up with 12%........
Paul Martin caused the Liberal money scandal. Simple as that. He was the finance minister when $250 Mil simply walked away from the government coffers. It's totally his fault.
This is likely part of the recent Liberal scandal, and therefore it's evident that there is a significant level of corruption in the Liberal party of Canada. For all those of you who are Americans, you should know that the Liberal party is the same as the Republicans, the Progressive Conservative party is also the same as the Republicans, while the New Democratic Party is quite left of the Democrats in the US. Yes, it's true, we have TWO Republican parties in Canada.
My thoughts are that this is definately part of the Liberal scandal, and not to restate this, but it's very important someone cleans up Canadian politics, and IMHO, that is the NDP. The thing is, the NDP would need to remain in power for two or three terms in order to do that, and it may take even longer to clean up the huge mess left from years of PC and Liberal waste/corruption. People would go to jail, people would pay for their crimes. People like Jean Cretien, former prime minister of Canada, who oversaw the entire scandal, and was likely heavily involved. People like the current PM, Paul Martin. Leaders should go to jail if they rob the taxpayers as much as these people have!
Speaking of computers, is anyone a bit uneasy about the magnets in the seats of this car? What if you put your laptop there?? Isn't it going to fry your hard drive?
SCO gets to try on a muzzle... this is happy news. My only question is if this settlement favours Univention or SCO? I guess if you look at it one way, it favours us all because we don't have to listen to SCO whine and complain in Germany. Oh wait a minute... their website can be reached from Germany, so does that count as an offense?
The title implies it will be forever before we get it. That's all. See you at Revelations time.
Every new games website should have a bloody good slashdotting! Thief has always warmed my heart, and I'm glad to hear that we're getting another one. Sadly, I'm unable to use their site because of the flash requirement. I long since disabled Flash due to the misuse of it via adverts. You'd think that webbies would learn that you need to provide non-flash content by now!
Anyway to summarize: Thief 3 Good : Thief 3 Website -- can't say, don't know.
DSL strips naked, /. morphs into Fark & boobies hilarity ensues! (geek style)
Hehe. I'm not a troll, but sometimes it's funny when they take me *this* seriously.
/.'ers are. It can grow up and take on the big closed source companies, and society is beginning to see that, what with the IBM Super Bowl ad, and everything.
/. for doing what they did, but maybe the future policing could try to come up with some kind of open model of thin-client wireless network management that happens to be open source.
Just to clarify my previous statements; I think it's good news for Chicago that the cops are spending money fighting crime. But my real problem was with the use of Oracle staff with their high billing. $300/hr is not uncommon for them, as another user previously stated. To me, it would be nice for them to try and use smaller firms an coordinate the efforts. Thinking about it, 5 or 7 years ago when this was likely planned, open source was still young and unrecognized by "the man", so maybe that's why they went this route.
But 2000 laptops? Touch screens? I'm in shock of the expense that this must have been. It seems like overkill to me. Maybe an automotive computer would have cost less? like build a desktop into the cruisers. That would be way less because the components are less expensive by about 1/2. And that was my main point.
If other police agencies follow Chicago, I would like to see them use more open source tech, where possible. I'm a firm believer in Open Source, as most of the
The Chicago cops managed to get a nod from
Why?
So that programmers can learn how to handle a situation like law enforcement programming.
So that the system is secure.
Like how long before someone pringles the cops and puts an APB out on people? Or adds to rap sheets? Or worse?
While it took $45 million to achieve the crime rates Chicago has today, as an open source programmer, I have to think that they wasted about $42 million. For the same level of effectiveness, the cops could have enlisted a bunch of programmers to work on their code using open source, instead of Oracle, and they would gain better security in less money and likely a lot less time. They sprang for 2000 touch screen notebooks? What a waste of money. Sure it makes cops more effective to have fast, lightweight systems, but let's face it... notebooks are very expensive for what you get. Used notebooks or PCs, for example, might be a better use of taxpayers' money.
The way I look at it, they spent $45 mil fighting crime, which is mostly caused by citizens failing to make a decent living, sick of the system and just mad at everything. If they took most of that money and invested it into poverty prevension, you would see likely even better results.
If google starts a mail service, is it really to take on Yahoo? I have a pretty good opinion of Google for most of their decisions and I find it hard to beleive that they would go out and try to attack another company.
Maybe I'm naive, but I beleive if Google has decided to go after new business, it would be because they decided to move into a new market, not because they wanted to act in malace against another company.
hey, it's not an Xbox controller, so I'm not sure what all the fuss is about!