I fail to see why id would need a publisher at this point. Aren't they big enough to handle their own marketing and distribution ? That would leave them with more money in the bank to afford resources for their next project (and supporting their existing ones). How hard can it be to get those boxes out to the big warehouses when you're already a market leader ? Publishing houses are great for small-time developers like myself, but the revenue split it a serious thorn in the side.
Yes, and then you'd watch your CPU usage go through the roof every time you move the mouse. Having Windows poll the mouse 200 times per second sure makes the pointer run smooth, but those serial port accesses tend to lock the bus while waiting for the results for the few milliseconds they need, which totally kills multitasking. USB mice cause the same problem but the bus contention is much alleviated by the increased speed of the USB itself, which is why USB mice have a greater default refresh rate (in the drivers of course). They can afford it without killing the host's performance.
I still to this day pull out my Quake1 disc and fire it up (in GL though). When Q2 came out, it 'felt' so drastically different I didn't really like it at first. Even to this day I lack better words to describe it, but the first Quake was 'juicier'.
Shoot a guy with a rocket launcher, he turns into a pound of ground beef on the floor. Do the same in Q1, you've got 40 pounds of chunked steak flying around and a gallon of blood dripping from the airborne viscera, all happening just a tad slower than you'd expect it to. The game had a slightly slow-motion thing to it, while Q2 was pure mouse-twitching turbo. The slowness (say, 75% of reality) is what gave the game attitude. Realism wasn't a factor, it was all about attitude. What's real about fighting zombies in hell anyway ? Screw reality, been there and done that. I want something different!
And then Quake 3 came out, and I bought a Geforce2 the week it came out just to get that little edge in the game. It had rediscovered some of the juicy bouncy feel of Quake 1, though I was disappointed at the lack of a single player mission. Shooting CPU opponents was fun but didn't come close to the enjoyment a well scripted monster-bash would have provided. I still play Q3 to this day, two years later. I still like it more than UT or HalfLife. I've been waiting for Doom 3 since the first time I heard about it. I hope it'll be faithful to the mood of its predecessors, because that's what Doom means to me : pure mood!
Up here in the National Capital Region (aka Ottawa/Hull), we had those cameras on traffic lights for a few months two years ago. Turns out they caused too much trouble because of the lack of a human witness. At first some poor fools just cleched their fist and paid up, but more and more people started fighting the photo tickets.
I remember a big issue was when the car was being driven by someone other than the owner, thus rendering the photo evidence useless and groundless. They'd send the ticket to the car owner's address, when in a normal situation the fault would reside on whomever was driving at the time.
Anyways, it only made things worse. After the 6 or 8 month trial, more and more people were just flooring through red lights, since they had gotten used to fighting the tickets without resistance. Today, if you just barely wing it as it changes to red, you're almost guaranteed to have 2-3 idiots right up your ass just begging for a nice juicy fender-bender. Traffic laws are effectively making things worse these days, especially with the police's awful reputation.
Funny, I thought tabbed palettes were yet another basic element of the Windows API ?! Adobe doesn't own the widget, they just used it.
Heck, I'll go patent the ugly VB Bitmap Buttons because I can prove I made the ugliest back in '92, before all the school-taught idiot "programmers" jumped onto the VB bandwagon.
Indeed, which explains why Intel cpus are 6 times more costly than the equivalent AMD chip. Still it would be nice to have some AMD-borne expertise working on GCC's code generator.
Great Googly Moogly! I'll buy ten of those f30 cards. They're retailing for 229$ CDN, about 150$US here, which is about three times what you say they're worth up in your nick of the woods.
Now now.. I didn't mean anything by that post.. just trolling for some +1 Funnies:) I guess living long distance from my girlfriend would probably improve our relationship too, but that's completely different and offtopic!
I fail to see the necessity of such a bastardized network. If one of the hotel occupants needs his internet connection badly enough to pay the hotel 20$ for one night, then I'll assume he already knows how to use DHCP. If not, then someone in the hotel will be available to set up his laptop accordingly for another 20$. If they're doing something that requires broadband access, then it's safe to assume they're doing something fairly technical and/or important that justifies the expense or at least basic training on how to configure the network connection. If they're a CEO checking their email in-between suit conventions, let them dial up through a phone line and wait a few more milliseconds.
The very sucky part about this thing is that fonts aren't exactly the kind of thing you see in warez groups. The people who do use Embed (and I have) are the ones who really need it for their work, in my case it's creating electronic documents (PDF or Corel Envoy) to send off to whomever needs this or that report within the organisation.
If the font doesn't follow the document, you can sure bet that important CEO-type dude will see a bunch of disproportioned junk because the tech people haven't touched his workstation since 1995. "Ooh look! I'm an evil font-embedding whore!"
The big piss about this case is that the only people who understand the issue, aren't going to be the ones making the legal decisions (as usual).
I can hear my parents calling me from their apartment a mile away.
"Bill! Our VCR's going crazy again"
They probably won't figure it's just a tv show about Pong. They might not remember Pong at all, even though I still have an old radio shack TV Pong that I occasionally bring to parties (Drunk Pong! Colors!). Sad.
The Geforce4 line is only overpriced because they're going to milk the hardware freaks (such as myself). I paid 450$ (cdn, thus 300$ US) for a Geforce2 exactly two years ago, and that was a going-out-of-business sale at a local store. I ate kraft dinner for a week until my next paycheck came around, but I've been enjoying stellar 3d performance ever since. I'd much rather blow another 450$ for 2 years of multi-textured bliss than buy a cheaper video card every 6 months.
Right now my video card is selling for less than half the price, because the other manufacturers have caught up in terms of performance and compatibility. I've been playing Q3 at 1024x768 32bit full quality for two years now, while my buddies are just discovering the groovyness of railing some guy from 400ft away that previously appeared as a single faded pixel on their old TNT2.
I have nothing but praise for NVidia. They market excellent products and price them reasonably. We already have dozens of 99$ video cards, someone needs to appeal to the freaks and Nvidia does that perfectly.
Great. Let's praise this spam promoter since they're going to try to squash the DMCA cockroach with a feather-duster. 321Studios have been flooding inboxes for over a year hyping this product that can "Copy your movies without an expensive DVD burner!". I say fuck em. If you have a movie on DVD, you don't need to rip it to VCD since you'll still need to play it in a DVD player anyways. This isn't the same as dubbing a CD to tape to play in your uncle's '86 Chevy.
Our lawmakers aren't less likely to be bought. They're just have more important cows to milk right now. Besides, I find our MP's have always sustained a more passive stance than their US counterparts. I guess their thinking goes along the lines of "If we just sit around and try not break anything, the citizens won't hate us so much" compared to the states' mentality of "Legislate now! We'll fix things later if enough people get killed over this."
It seems like the US Government runs the place like a cutthroat business, which would explain the financial superiority. Of course in any business where the common practice is to screw the customer, your reputation and service quality are nil. Sometimes it's better to spend an extra buck and invest an extra hour to keep the people happy.
Let's harass AMD to give us an Athlon-optimized compiler for linux, eh ? These Intel tweaks don't do squat for my T-Bird. Or at least they could pitch in on GCC development.
It's more that the kernel code has been extensively tweaked for GCC, which does a few things the Intel compiler doesn't, and vice versa. Something as complex as the linux kernel usually relies on sensitive features in the compiler, or makes up for them with add-on scripts that massage the resulting binary into compliance.
What?! You called your 'girlfriend' while in college ? Dude, you're missing the point here. You not only blew a kilobuck on voice, but you also missed a bazillion opportunities to meet women ten times prettier and dirtier than your hometown shag.
They should teach "Partying 101" in these colleges.
Just get a bunch of cheap old 2-4mb vga cards and throw them in just to shut it up. Consider yourself lucky the BIOS even lets you boot without a vga, most of them will just sit there and beep in panic.
The most fascinating part about NVNews is that they're such whores, practically begging shops left and right for free toys in exchange for a very unskilled and unprofessional review that feels like it was written by a 15 year old. Never underestimate the damaging potential of a bunch of imbeciles with money.
Hardly. Sourceforge has source control like any other half-decent rig. Amateurs will butcher it only if someone foolishly lets them in the door. There will still be a project administrator (or many), so there will always be some sort of quality assurance.
You know what ? I share the same opinion. I tried to push PHP here at my workplace. I actually had my own little box running PHP over IIS (yucky, but better than nothing). Eventually the webmaster (a good friend of mine) decided to convert everything to ASP. Why ? Because I'm the only competent PHP coder within a 50km radius.
ASP coders are a dime a dozen. They generally worth only a dime, but that's a different problem. PHP coders are few and far between, because they're either already working for some OSS-related shop, or just building personal blogs on their linux router at home. PHP doesn't have that large of a corporate presence at this time.
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I fail to see why id would need a publisher at this point. Aren't they big enough to handle their own marketing and distribution ? That would leave them with more money in the bank to afford resources for their next project (and supporting their existing ones). How hard can it be to get those boxes out to the big warehouses when you're already a market leader ? Publishing houses are great for small-time developers like myself, but the revenue split it a serious thorn in the side.
Yes, and then you'd watch your CPU usage go through the roof every time you move the mouse. Having Windows poll the mouse 200 times per second sure makes the pointer run smooth, but those serial port accesses tend to lock the bus while waiting for the results for the few milliseconds they need, which totally kills multitasking. USB mice cause the same problem but the bus contention is much alleviated by the increased speed of the USB itself, which is why USB mice have a greater default refresh rate (in the drivers of course). They can afford it without killing the host's performance.
Oh lordy! Finally I learn I'm not alone.
I still to this day pull out my Quake1 disc and fire it up (in GL though). When Q2 came out, it 'felt' so drastically different I didn't really like it at first. Even to this day I lack better words to describe it, but the first Quake was 'juicier'.
Shoot a guy with a rocket launcher, he turns into a pound of ground beef on the floor. Do the same in Q1, you've got 40 pounds of chunked steak flying around and a gallon of blood dripping from the airborne viscera, all happening just a tad slower than you'd expect it to. The game had a slightly slow-motion thing to it, while Q2 was pure mouse-twitching turbo. The slowness (say, 75% of reality) is what gave the game attitude. Realism wasn't a factor, it was all about attitude. What's real about fighting zombies in hell anyway ? Screw reality, been there and done that. I want something different!
And then Quake 3 came out, and I bought a Geforce2 the week it came out just to get that little edge in the game. It had rediscovered some of the juicy bouncy feel of Quake 1, though I was disappointed at the lack of a single player mission. Shooting CPU opponents was fun but didn't come close to the enjoyment a well scripted monster-bash would have provided. I still play Q3 to this day, two years later. I still like it more than UT or HalfLife. I've been waiting for Doom 3 since the first time I heard about it. I hope it'll be faithful to the mood of its predecessors, because that's what Doom means to me : pure mood!
Up here in the National Capital Region (aka Ottawa/Hull), we had those cameras on traffic lights for a few months two years ago. Turns out they caused too much trouble because of the lack of a human witness. At first some poor fools just cleched their fist and paid up, but more and more people started fighting the photo tickets.
I remember a big issue was when the car was being driven by someone other than the owner, thus rendering the photo evidence useless and groundless. They'd send the ticket to the car owner's address, when in a normal situation the fault would reside on whomever was driving at the time.
Anyways, it only made things worse. After the 6 or 8 month trial, more and more people were just flooring through red lights, since they had gotten used to fighting the tickets without resistance. Today, if you just barely wing it as it changes to red, you're almost guaranteed to have 2-3 idiots right up your ass just begging for a nice juicy fender-bender. Traffic laws are effectively making things worse these days, especially with the police's awful reputation.
Funny, I thought tabbed palettes were yet another basic element of the Windows API ?! Adobe doesn't own the widget, they just used it.
Heck, I'll go patent the ugly VB Bitmap Buttons because I can prove I made the ugliest back in '92, before all the school-taught idiot "programmers" jumped onto the VB bandwagon.
Indeed, which explains why Intel cpus are 6 times more costly than the equivalent AMD chip. Still it would be nice to have some AMD-borne expertise working on GCC's code generator.
Great Googly Moogly! I'll buy ten of those f30 cards. They're retailing for 229$ CDN, about 150$US here, which is about three times what you say they're worth up in your nick of the woods.
Now now.. I didn't mean anything by that post.. just trolling for some +1 Funnies :) I guess living long distance from my girlfriend would probably improve our relationship too, but that's completely different and offtopic!
I fail to see the necessity of such a bastardized network. If one of the hotel occupants needs his internet connection badly enough to pay the hotel 20$ for one night, then I'll assume he already knows how to use DHCP. If not, then someone in the hotel will be available to set up his laptop accordingly for another 20$. If they're doing something that requires broadband access, then it's safe to assume they're doing something fairly technical and/or important that justifies the expense or at least basic training on how to configure the network connection. If they're a CEO checking their email in-between suit conventions, let them dial up through a phone line and wait a few more milliseconds.
Bah.. my tech support guy just hit level 60 last week. Damn Everquest caps!
Dude.. you know the quickest way to get anything is through cunnilingus!
(rimshot!)
The very sucky part about this thing is that fonts aren't exactly the kind of thing you see in warez groups. The people who do use Embed (and I have) are the ones who really need it for their work, in my case it's creating electronic documents (PDF or Corel Envoy) to send off to whomever needs this or that report within the organisation.
If the font doesn't follow the document, you can sure bet that important CEO-type dude will see a bunch of disproportioned junk because the tech people haven't touched his workstation since 1995. "Ooh look! I'm an evil font-embedding whore!"
The big piss about this case is that the only people who understand the issue, aren't going to be the ones making the legal decisions (as usual).
I can hear my parents calling me from their apartment a mile away.
"Bill! Our VCR's going crazy again"
They probably won't figure it's just a tv show about Pong. They might not remember Pong at all, even though I still have an old radio shack TV Pong that I occasionally bring to parties (Drunk Pong! Colors!). Sad.
The Geforce4 line is only overpriced because they're going to milk the hardware freaks (such as myself). I paid 450$ (cdn, thus 300$ US) for a Geforce2 exactly two years ago, and that was a going-out-of-business sale at a local store. I ate kraft dinner for a week until my next paycheck came around, but I've been enjoying stellar 3d performance ever since. I'd much rather blow another 450$ for 2 years of multi-textured bliss than buy a cheaper video card every 6 months.
Right now my video card is selling for less than half the price, because the other manufacturers have caught up in terms of performance and compatibility. I've been playing Q3 at 1024x768 32bit full quality for two years now, while my buddies are just discovering the groovyness of railing some guy from 400ft away that previously appeared as a single faded pixel on their old TNT2.
I have nothing but praise for NVidia. They market excellent products and price them reasonably. We already have dozens of 99$ video cards, someone needs to appeal to the freaks and Nvidia does that perfectly.
Great. Let's praise this spam promoter since they're going to try to squash the DMCA cockroach with a feather-duster. 321Studios have been flooding inboxes for over a year hyping this product that can "Copy your movies without an expensive DVD burner!". I say fuck em. If you have a movie on DVD, you don't need to rip it to VCD since you'll still need to play it in a DVD player anyways. This isn't the same as dubbing a CD to tape to play in your uncle's '86 Chevy.
Our lawmakers aren't less likely to be bought. They're just have more important cows to milk right now. Besides, I find our MP's have always sustained a more passive stance than their US counterparts. I guess their thinking goes along the lines of "If we just sit around and try not break anything, the citizens won't hate us so much" compared to the states' mentality of "Legislate now! We'll fix things later if enough people get killed over this."
It seems like the US Government runs the place like a cutthroat business, which would explain the financial superiority. Of course in any business where the common practice is to screw the customer, your reputation and service quality are nil. Sometimes it's better to spend an extra buck and invest an extra hour to keep the people happy.
Let's harass AMD to give us an Athlon-optimized compiler for linux, eh ? These Intel tweaks don't do squat for my T-Bird. Or at least they could pitch in on GCC development.
It's more that the kernel code has been extensively tweaked for GCC, which does a few things the Intel compiler doesn't, and vice versa. Something as complex as the linux kernel usually relies on sensitive features in the compiler, or makes up for them with add-on scripts that massage the resulting binary into compliance.
Bah.. I'd rather keep harassing Deals until they stock that friggin' IRMan. I guess NVNews doesn't suck nearly as much as MaxReboot though :)
What?! You called your 'girlfriend' while in college ? Dude, you're missing the point here. You not only blew a kilobuck on voice, but you also missed a bazillion opportunities to meet women ten times prettier and dirtier than your hometown shag.
They should teach "Partying 101" in these colleges.
Just get a bunch of cheap old 2-4mb vga cards and throw them in just to shut it up. Consider yourself lucky the BIOS even lets you boot without a vga, most of them will just sit there and beep in panic.
The most fascinating part about NVNews is that they're such whores, practically begging shops left and right for free toys in exchange for a very unskilled and unprofessional review that feels like it was written by a 15 year old. Never underestimate the damaging potential of a bunch of imbeciles with money.
Format C:, the diskspace reaper!
Hardly. Sourceforge has source control like any other half-decent rig. Amateurs will butcher it only if someone foolishly lets them in the door. There will still be a project administrator (or many), so there will always be some sort of quality assurance.
You know what ? I share the same opinion. I tried to push PHP here at my workplace. I actually had my own little box running PHP over IIS (yucky, but better than nothing). Eventually the webmaster (a good friend of mine) decided to convert everything to ASP. Why ? Because I'm the only competent PHP coder within a 50km radius.
ASP coders are a dime a dozen. They generally worth only a dime, but that's a different problem. PHP coders are few and far between, because they're either already working for some OSS-related shop, or just building personal blogs on their linux router at home. PHP doesn't have that large of a corporate presence at this time.