sigh... It was a Troll. I was hoping someone would take the bait sooner rather than getting 3 mods up, and a response agreeing with me. I'm just too depressed to carry on:( IHTM, IHL, HAND(I Have Trolled Myself, I Have Lost. Have A Nice Day...)
Spammers are sociopaths. It seems for a lot of them that their disregard for basic decency also includes a disregard for basic adherence to the law. I bet a lot of them are guilty of actual definite crimes. It's just a matter of finding what they are. But we can find out who a lot of them are.
Me too. I was a little deterred by GTA:SA's concept of including food. By all accounts it's still a good game, but it seemed like they were struggling for new ideas. What would have been better would be better people interaction, different personalities to choose from at the start of the game (RPG style - pick the attributes you want). But these are hard. They make it a lot harder to balance the game. Gimmicks are easy.
The gaming industry does have their own oscars: it is called game sales, game profits, and happy consumers.
Sales are one thing, but the movie industry judges commercial success to a fair degree as well. Sales are not a true indicator of quality. Some genuinely innovative ideas that don't get the publicity they deserve. 25 to Life got large sales because of the publicity. And the movie industry isn't the only industry that gives awards to itself. Everything does. Did you know that electrical appliance salesmen have their own annual awards ceremony? A well publicised and well recognised awards ceremony would benefit innovative companies considerably.
I think a large part of what's missing is lack of decent story. Games need to borrow more story telling ideas. Too many games just have a very predictble run round a maze, shoot at things, with a gradual difficulty progression. The original Tomb Raider did things quite well. I was never expecting a Tyrannasaurs Rex after lots of big cats and wolves. Nor did I expect to be dumped in a level with no weapons at all. This was all good. It made the game less predictable. Too many games are simply too repetitive. (And it's always been the case. Side scrolling shoot-em-ups jsut gave way to first person shooters).
Otherwise they would be public domain and guess what - then no one would contribute or even ADMIT that it has taken your code and put into their program.
Some people would. Others would contribute. People often share their changes to free software, even when they aren't obliged to. Some people would make a copy and do what? Sell it? If there's no copyright, I could sell it too.
Who's bitching? I merely make the observation that inefficient filesystems can cause a problem with small files if you have a large number of small files, illustrating it with an example of a typical case. Then you bitched about my code quality, and suggested an alternative that aside from being useless, is in certain cases impossible, and where possible doesn't solve the problem.
This is a quick and dirty hack to check that the generated data is correct. I'm not going to spend weeks designing a data file format, and an API plus conversion tools to export the files to an excel compatible format.just because I've got an inefficient file system.
A new hard drive would be a better investment. Or alternatively just ignore the problem since NTFS seems to hande these adequately.
And sometimes its simply impossible to write a solution that will work like this. Some applications require a large number of discrete files.
Well Linux has had support for it for eleventeen years, and the Linux approach is more streamlined anyway!
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Linux beats Windows for support. Some manufacturers probably used Linux for development, and what with constant delays for Vista, Linux has an edge.
This can be a little inconvenient if you deal with a lot of small files though. Logging for the application I develop generates 2500 files. This is 10Megs of wasted space for each run. Okay, this stil isn't all that significant but there may be people who generate considerably more than that.
Re:Wow, has Sony started to LEARN?
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Yes, but perhaps they've learned that that pleasing customers is more important to their bottom line than preventing piracy.
I don't care if they're only after money. Sony is a company. It's what they do. What I do care about is how much I benefit from this.
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US DVDs work on my TV, and in fact most sets that I've tried it on. PS3 games are going to be designed for HDTV anyway, with PAL and NTSC just being there for compatibility, so apart from frame rate differences (which will probably be switchable) this isn't likely to cause a problem
Good start. Are Sony getting better?
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After the rootkit fiasco, it's starting to sound like Sony is trying to be more consumer friendly. With this, and the no downsampling Blu-Ray analogue output, I might actually consider buying things made by Sony.
set up a standard parking-ticket style fine for downloading pirated stuff and another for making content available to others (38 and 150 euros respectively, about 45 and 180 USD),
This is something I've been suggesting for a long time.
I demand the French government pays me 150 euros for infgringing my copyright:)
The thing is, the House of Lords knows that it only exists because the people allow it to. If they decided not to follow the will of the people, then the House of Lords would be abolished and replaced by someone who did. However, this isn't a problem. Somehow, we seem to have an unelected house that is genuinely concerned about justice, democracy, and human rights, and since they are unelected, are not going to compromise their beliefs to score votes.
Oh, god. Not the "guns will make us free" argument again.
Okay - lets assume that we arm every citizen of the British Isles, and that the government tries to push this bill through. Now what? Do we get a rag tag army together, march up to the gates in front of Downing street and start shooting at people, until they send the tanks in? What will that achieve?
I know AOL UK offers parental filters as part oftheir package. Surely AOL Australia, and various other ISPs offer the same. So if local filtering software is too much hassle, Change ISP, morons!
I was impressed with their arguments in the US. Not that the arghuments made sense but that somehow they were able to convince the court (or maybe it was just the DOJ) not to apply punishments that could harm the company, and largely their punishment was that they were barred from acting illegally.
Marvel have released a number of comics under variations of the title "Superheroes". Haven't actually found anything titled "Superheroes" on ebay, but did find a "Superheroes book", and a "Marvel Superheroes", (as well as countless "Legion of superheroes", but I'd expect that to be a trademark in its own right).
There is the argument that having bought Superheroes comic, one might expect it to be the DC/Marvel brand. Don't know if this argument would hold up, since the term is somewhat generic, but they do at least have some claim to the term as a title.
This not ignorance on my part, it is a health issue, apparently there are places in the UK where you can get beaten to a bloody pulp for even uttering that word
Yeah, but you'll get beaten up there for whatever pretext they can come up with.
I know rugby fans who insist on making the distinction between Association football and Rugby football.
Totally disagree. If they learn using another system (any other system), they'll have a basic understanding of the concepts. They can learn Windows, and how its similar and different, quite easily since they will probably be introduced to Windows at some point if they continue to use computers.
In my experience, people who have always used Windows, Word, and Excel are often completely unable to cope when they encounter anything even slightly different. People who came to Windows after another system are a lot better at understanding what's actually happening. I don't know why this is, but my hypothesis is simply that Windows tries so hard to hide everything. You have documents, tunes, pictures and applications, rather than files. XP seems to be trying to hide "My Computer" even. You have different applications all melded together. This is not a criticism of Windows. This makes sense for a domestic product since it aims to make the computer usable by people who haven't spent time learning, but it does make Windows into a less suitable platform if you do want to learn about what computers can do in a more general way.
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sigh... It was a Troll. I was hoping someone would take the bait sooner rather than getting 3 mods up, and a response agreeing with me. I'm just too depressed to carry on:( IHTM, IHL, HAND(I Have Trolled Myself, I Have Lost. Have A Nice Day...)
Live porn?
Spammers are sociopaths. It seems for a lot of them that their disregard for basic decency also includes a disregard for basic adherence to the law. I bet a lot of them are guilty of actual definite crimes. It's just a matter of finding what they are. But we can find out who a lot of them are.
but I'm thankful that Civ4 doesn't have toilets.
Me too. I was a little deterred by GTA:SA's concept of including food. By all accounts it's still a good game, but it seemed like they were struggling for new ideas. What would have been better would be better people interaction, different personalities to choose from at the start of the game (RPG style - pick the attributes you want). But these are hard. They make it a lot harder to balance the game. Gimmicks are easy.
The gaming industry does have their own oscars: it is called game sales, game profits, and happy consumers.
Sales are one thing, but the movie industry judges commercial success to a fair degree as well. Sales are not a true indicator of quality. Some genuinely innovative ideas that don't get the publicity they deserve. 25 to Life got large sales because of the publicity. And the movie industry isn't the only industry that gives awards to itself. Everything does. Did you know that electrical appliance salesmen have their own annual awards ceremony? A well publicised and well recognised awards ceremony would benefit innovative companies considerably.
I think a large part of what's missing is lack of decent story. Games need to borrow more story telling ideas. Too many games just have a very predictble run round a maze, shoot at things, with a gradual difficulty progression. The original Tomb Raider did things quite well. I was never expecting a Tyrannasaurs Rex after lots of big cats and wolves. Nor did I expect to be dumped in a level with no weapons at all. This was all good. It made the game less predictable. Too many games are simply too repetitive. (And it's always been the case. Side scrolling shoot-em-ups jsut gave way to first person shooters).
Uhm. This is a discussion forum. We're discussing whether the overhead is worth it for the improvements in I/O efficiency.
Otherwise they would be public domain and guess what - then no one would contribute or even ADMIT that it has taken your code and put into their program.
Some people would. Others would contribute. People often share their changes to free software, even when they aren't obliged to. Some people would make a copy and do what? Sell it? If there's no copyright, I could sell it too.
Who's bitching? I merely make the observation that inefficient filesystems can cause a problem with small files if you have a large number of small files, illustrating it with an example of a typical case. Then you bitched about my code quality, and suggested an alternative that aside from being useless, is in certain cases impossible, and where possible doesn't solve the problem.
Uhmm... NO!
This is a quick and dirty hack to check that the generated data is correct. I'm not going to spend weeks designing a data file format, and an API plus conversion tools to export the files to an excel compatible format.just because I've got an inefficient file system.
A new hard drive would be a better investment. Or alternatively just ignore the problem since NTFS seems to hande these adequately.
And sometimes its simply impossible to write a solution that will work like this. Some applications require a large number of discrete files.
What percentage YOUR files are less than 4k?
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66.9274%. Why do you ask?
Well Linux has had support for it for eleventeen years, and the Linux approach is more streamlined anyway!
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Linux beats Windows for support. Some manufacturers probably used Linux for development, and what with constant delays for Vista, Linux has an edge.
This can be a little inconvenient if you deal with a lot of small files though. Logging for the application I develop generates 2500 files. This is 10Megs of wasted space for each run. Okay, this stil isn't all that significant but there may be people who generate considerably more than that.
Yes, but perhaps they've learned that that pleasing customers is more important to their bottom line than preventing piracy.
I don't care if they're only after money. Sony is a company. It's what they do. What I do care about is how much I benefit from this.
US DVDs work on my TV, and in fact most sets that I've tried it on. PS3 games are going to be designed for HDTV anyway, with PAL and NTSC just being there for compatibility, so apart from frame rate differences (which will probably be switchable) this isn't likely to cause a problem
After the rootkit fiasco, it's starting to sound like Sony is trying to be more consumer friendly. With this, and the no downsampling Blu-Ray analogue output, I might actually consider buying things made by Sony.
set up a standard parking-ticket style fine for downloading pirated stuff and another for making content available to others (38 and 150 euros respectively, about 45 and 180 USD),
This is something I've been suggesting for a long time.
I demand the French government pays me 150 euros for infgringing my copyright:)
Because it works.
The thing is, the House of Lords knows that it only exists because the people allow it to. If they decided not to follow the will of the people, then the House of Lords would be abolished and replaced by someone who did. However, this isn't a problem. Somehow, we seem to have an unelected house that is genuinely concerned about justice, democracy, and human rights, and since they are unelected, are not going to compromise their beliefs to score votes.
Oh, god. Not the "guns will make us free" argument again.
Okay - lets assume that we arm every citizen of the British Isles, and that the government tries to push this bill through. Now what? Do we get a rag tag army together, march up to the gates in front of Downing street and start shooting at people, until they send the tanks in? What will that achieve?
I make my living from copy protected commercial software.
And I'd like to see DRM and DMCA gone too.
I know AOL UK offers parental filters as part oftheir package. Surely AOL Australia, and various other ISPs offer the same. So if local filtering software is too much hassle, Change ISP, morons!
Well, Microsoft is as guilty as sin...
I was impressed with their arguments in the US. Not that the arghuments made sense but that somehow they were able to convince the court (or maybe it was just the DOJ) not to apply punishments that could harm the company, and largely their punishment was that they were barred from acting illegally.
Marvel have released a number of comics under variations of the title "Superheroes". Haven't actually found anything titled "Superheroes" on ebay, but did find a "Superheroes book", and a "Marvel Superheroes", (as well as countless "Legion of superheroes", but I'd expect that to be a trademark in its own right).
There is the argument that having bought Superheroes comic, one might expect it to be the DC/Marvel brand. Don't know if this argument would hold up, since the term is somewhat generic, but they do at least have some claim to the term as a title.
the American version of football doesn't really offer much entertainment if the participants don't use their feet to move around the playing field.
Doesn't that argument apply to just about every game with a ball apart from netball, polo, and water polo?
This not ignorance on my part, it is a health issue, apparently there are places in the UK where you can get beaten to a bloody pulp for even uttering that word
Yeah, but you'll get beaten up there for whatever pretext they can come up with.
I know rugby fans who insist on making the distinction between Association football and Rugby football.
They say "no Sweat". It's easy enough to get ethical clothing if you're willing to put the effort into finding it.
Totally disagree. If they learn using another system (any other system), they'll have a basic understanding of the concepts. They can learn Windows, and how its similar and different, quite easily since they will probably be introduced to Windows at some point if they continue to use computers.
In my experience, people who have always used Windows, Word, and Excel are often completely unable to cope when they encounter anything even slightly different. People who came to Windows after another system are a lot better at understanding what's actually happening. I don't know why this is, but my hypothesis is simply that Windows tries so hard to hide everything. You have documents, tunes, pictures and applications, rather than files. XP seems to be trying to hide "My Computer" even. You have different applications all melded together. This is not a criticism of Windows. This makes sense for a domestic product since it aims to make the computer usable by people who haven't spent time learning, but it does make Windows into a less suitable platform if you do want to learn about what computers can do in a more general way.