Because I can use one language, one uniform representation of an object from database (mongo) through the app server, web server , session store and client-side. I can have robust coding and debugging tools thanks to advanced IDEs like WebStorm7. I can leverage a common pool of engineers to do both front-end and back-end work - sure, the front-end types need to cross train with the back-ends and vice versa - but its MUCH more feasible when everyone is speaking a common language.
Both Macs and the iPad have an accessibility feature called 'white on black', just inverts the colors and works well to cut down on the light blasting my eyeballs.
You never trust your production servers. So the production server -cant- connect to the backup servers. The obvious design is to have the backup server (or some 3rd system) be the one that connects to the production server. The real question is why was the backup server reachable from the public internet.
A HUGE thanks to you for all your hard work. You've made the game more enjoyable for those of us who partner with friends and family who are less than savvy at following the clues laid down in the quests. I'll be making my donation... now that I've noticed you'd like donations. *ahem*
I can understand why legal would feel the need to protect the users from more malicious addons that consume CPU/Memory/$$ because of obfuscation and the endless arms race that would unravel even the most secured subscription data model. I don't get the blanket restriction on reminding the users that donations power updates though. It'd be nice if there was an in-game browser addons could invoke for help, documentation and more formal support. That would be the ideal way to meet their goal of keeping all requests for donations out of the game itself.
Given your extensive experience in managing and supporting a software product for tens of millions of users, isn't this the most excellent LUA portfolio project around? Like, cover letter worthy for any LUA focused jobs? Surely someone has use for Grand Master LUA skill.:)
*poops on carbonite btw*
Or we're the group of people who watch it in ways very difficult to measure. Torrents, Hulu, DVRs are probably over represented in the Sci-Fi watching crowd. So in effect, its our own damn fault.:(
Don't think about the weather or the storm, think about the AFTERMATH, the state of decay and lawlessness that immediately followed the weather event. That is what is 'Katrina-like'.
Check out Unity 3D, a multi-platform 3D IDE focused on letting you use 1 of 3 languages (Javascript, C# or a Python variant) to do all the scripting of your game objects. It's extremely awesome and fun work and I've seen some great games created with it. It makes it all the better that they can run on Mac and Windows, on the desktop or via the browser. Sad for Linux folks who can't play their games yet though.
http://www.unity3d.com/
MUDs are alive and kicking today just the same as yesterday. Some of us even innovate and incorporate new tech as we go. XML and web services are great gateways for text-based games to do stuff they can only dream of in graphics.
The answer is in the summary: if you've got AT&T, theres an upgrade option in the website. I'm sure on the 11th, the new iphone version will be available. It's currently out of stock, just like apple itself. Just can't order it online from Apple's store.
I downloaded and played the free demo off XBL a few weeks ago and that game is utter crap.:(
Should of known they wouldn't of given out something worthwhile. Oh well.
Sounds like it's corrupting the "disk directory". A $100 copy of DiskWarrior will fix this in about 10 minutes. Find a friend with a copy and boot with it. I've had similar issues in 10.4 and 10.5 and my investment has saved my butt 3 times now.
As a side note, make sure your Macbook Pro is completely off when/if you put your Windows side into hibernate mode. I think I've moved my laptop too soon after putting it into hibernation and corrupted my directory. Nothing worse than watching the your boot loader not find any of the system files its looking for on startup.
You are completely off-base when it comes to antennas for Digital and HD content. Both Circuit City and Best Buy had at least 20 foot of shelf space set aside for 8 or 9 different models of antennas ALL capable of receiving HD. This was just after Christmas 2006. I paid $30 for a small omnidirectional Terk model and get 12 beautiful HD channels and countless digital sub-channels (I love RawNews from KNBC 4.2!).
Now, why on earth would I kick myself later for shelling out $30 ONCE for OTA HD?
I've seen the HD content available on cable and satelite. There are a few more channels (less than 10), but its not ready yet. By the end of the year, yes, then it will be worth it.
BTW, Direct TV doesn't seem to make the subchannels available. Is cable exposing them?
If the industry does nerf OTA (a bit of a paranoid thought IMHO), I'd still have saved a lot of money by not paying for content while I can.
Because time = money.
If an hour of your time is worth X and it would take you Y hours to get to a point in a game where you feel your having fun, then the cost of playing to that point is Y * X. If I can get to that point by spending less than Y * X, I've SAVED the difference and got to the fun part faster.
Its very logical and has worked quite well for me in the MMOs I play. Sure, I'm not popular with those that feel everyone should have to put up with the un-fun part. I'm not playing a game to be popular with people whos time is worth pennies though, I'm not playing a game to be popular with anyone. I'm playing a game to have fun.
I keep seeing this. Already today, you'll walk into the PC row at Circuit City or Best Buy and the darn boxes all look the same.
- They all went to dark colors and blue LEDS
- They all have ports in the same places
- They all have the same onboard video.
- They all have the standard motherboard (no SLI/Crossfire on these PCS...)
I remember when there was a lot of variety in those rows and now with Vista they want them even more similar?
No wonder the Mac is doing so well.
I've found this logitech mouse to address both my FPS and MMO needs. The ability to change the DPI on the fly is AWESOME.
I'm playing Counter-Strike and this round I want to be a sniper. Ok, I increase the DPI to its max and I'm able to twitch from one side of the screen to the other in a split second. I switch to my shotgun in the next round and lower the DPI and I've got the control to take the corners and jump right at the perfect time everytime.
I'm playing Eve: Online and I'm out in a giant space battle zoomed way out to see the whole battlefield. I turn down the DPI and have perfect percision for clicking on the targeting icons and activating my weapons. We loose the battle and start running away, then I turn up the DPI and can twitch around space to find my next destination. I dock and start managing my account and I'm not frustrated by the super high resolution of my mouse making me click the wrong thing as it zooms around the screen.
And don't get me started on the ability to change the weight of my mouse. This mouse is perfect for any need because it doesn't assume it can fill them all at any given moment. Yay for user choice!
Actually, we need to change that term, since the Nature.com site was dead earlier today due to Google News listing it, not/.
So now sites get googled. Or maybe just goo'ed.
Eewww.
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Never attribute to malice what is perfectly explainable by stupidity. He missed a mundane detail.
Because I can use one language, one uniform representation of an object from database (mongo) through the app server, web server , session store and client-side. I can have robust coding and debugging tools thanks to advanced IDEs like WebStorm7. I can leverage a common pool of engineers to do both front-end and back-end work - sure, the front-end types need to cross train with the back-ends and vice versa - but its MUCH more feasible when everyone is speaking a common language.
Life Hacker has a variety of articles covering standing desks. You can find a good collection of their concepts here: Standing Desks on the Cheap
Both Macs and the iPad have an accessibility feature called 'white on black', just inverts the colors and works well to cut down on the light blasting my eyeballs.
Is your google broke? jeez. dime a dozen.
Depends where you live. A lot of utility lines are underground.
You never trust your production servers. So the production server -cant- connect to the backup servers. The obvious design is to have the backup server (or some 3rd system) be the one that connects to the production server. The real question is why was the backup server reachable from the public internet.
A HUGE thanks to you for all your hard work. You've made the game more enjoyable for those of us who partner with friends and family who are less than savvy at following the clues laid down in the quests. I'll be making my donation ... now that I've noticed you'd like donations. *ahem*
I can understand why legal would feel the need to protect the users from more malicious addons that consume CPU/Memory/$$ because of obfuscation and the endless arms race that would unravel even the most secured subscription data model. I don't get the blanket restriction on reminding the users that donations power updates though. It'd be nice if there was an in-game browser addons could invoke for help, documentation and more formal support. That would be the ideal way to meet their goal of keeping all requests for donations out of the game itself.
Given your extensive experience in managing and supporting a software product for tens of millions of users, isn't this the most excellent LUA portfolio project around? Like, cover letter worthy for any LUA focused jobs? Surely someone has use for Grand Master LUA skill. :)
*poops on carbonite btw*
Or we're the group of people who watch it in ways very difficult to measure. Torrents, Hulu, DVRs are probably over represented in the Sci-Fi watching crowd. So in effect, its our own damn fault. :(
Don't think about the weather or the storm, think about the AFTERMATH, the state of decay and lawlessness that immediately followed the weather event. That is what is 'Katrina-like'.
What's Pamela over at GrokLaw have to say about it?
Check out Unity 3D, a multi-platform 3D IDE focused on letting you use 1 of 3 languages (Javascript, C# or a Python variant) to do all the scripting of your game objects. It's extremely awesome and fun work and I've seen some great games created with it. It makes it all the better that they can run on Mac and Windows, on the desktop or via the browser. Sad for Linux folks who can't play their games yet though. http://www.unity3d.com/
MUDs are alive and kicking today just the same as yesterday. Some of us even innovate and incorporate new tech as we go. XML and web services are great gateways for text-based games to do stuff they can only dream of in graphics.
The answer is in the summary: if you've got AT&T, theres an upgrade option in the website. I'm sure on the 11th, the new iphone version will be available. It's currently out of stock, just like apple itself. Just can't order it online from Apple's store.
Get an Axe! I don't want them breaking Blender on OS X. :-D
I mean, come on! He was practically Young MacGyver on TNG and he's about the right age now. I bet he'd love to do it too. Wasn't he a Mac fan too?
I downloaded and played the free demo off XBL a few weeks ago and that game is utter crap. :(
Should of known they wouldn't of given out something worthwhile. Oh well.
Sounds like it's corrupting the "disk directory". A $100 copy of DiskWarrior will fix this in about 10 minutes. Find a friend with a copy and boot with it. I've had similar issues in 10.4 and 10.5 and my investment has saved my butt 3 times now. As a side note, make sure your Macbook Pro is completely off when/if you put your Windows side into hibernate mode. I think I've moved my laptop too soon after putting it into hibernation and corrupted my directory. Nothing worse than watching the your boot loader not find any of the system files its looking for on startup.
You are completely off-base when it comes to antennas for Digital and HD content. Both Circuit City and Best Buy had at least 20 foot of shelf space set aside for 8 or 9 different models of antennas ALL capable of receiving HD. This was just after Christmas 2006. I paid $30 for a small omnidirectional Terk model and get 12 beautiful HD channels and countless digital sub-channels (I love RawNews from KNBC 4.2!).
Now, why on earth would I kick myself later for shelling out $30 ONCE for OTA HD?
I've seen the HD content available on cable and satelite. There are a few more channels (less than 10), but its not ready yet. By the end of the year, yes, then it will be worth it.
BTW, Direct TV doesn't seem to make the subchannels available. Is cable exposing them?
If the industry does nerf OTA (a bit of a paranoid thought IMHO), I'd still have saved a lot of money by not paying for content while I can.
Because time = money. If an hour of your time is worth X and it would take you Y hours to get to a point in a game where you feel your having fun, then the cost of playing to that point is Y * X. If I can get to that point by spending less than Y * X, I've SAVED the difference and got to the fun part faster. Its very logical and has worked quite well for me in the MMOs I play. Sure, I'm not popular with those that feel everyone should have to put up with the un-fun part. I'm not playing a game to be popular with people whos time is worth pennies though, I'm not playing a game to be popular with anyone. I'm playing a game to have fun.
Scary thought: UACV - unmanned aerial commerical vehicle Effective cost cutting at United Airlines ...
I keep seeing this. Already today, you'll walk into the PC row at Circuit City or Best Buy and the darn boxes all look the same. - They all went to dark colors and blue LEDS - They all have ports in the same places - They all have the same onboard video. - They all have the standard motherboard (no SLI/Crossfire on these PCS ...)
I remember when there was a lot of variety in those rows and now with Vista they want them even more similar?
No wonder the Mac is doing so well.
I've found this logitech mouse to address both my FPS and MMO needs. The ability to change the DPI on the fly is AWESOME. I'm playing Counter-Strike and this round I want to be a sniper. Ok, I increase the DPI to its max and I'm able to twitch from one side of the screen to the other in a split second. I switch to my shotgun in the next round and lower the DPI and I've got the control to take the corners and jump right at the perfect time everytime. I'm playing Eve: Online and I'm out in a giant space battle zoomed way out to see the whole battlefield. I turn down the DPI and have perfect percision for clicking on the targeting icons and activating my weapons. We loose the battle and start running away, then I turn up the DPI and can twitch around space to find my next destination. I dock and start managing my account and I'm not frustrated by the super high resolution of my mouse making me click the wrong thing as it zooms around the screen. And don't get me started on the ability to change the weight of my mouse. This mouse is perfect for any need because it doesn't assume it can fill them all at any given moment. Yay for user choice!
How is that article in-depth? Its barely a page long and doesn't cover anything that could be called 'in-depth'.
Actually, we need to change that term, since the Nature.com site was dead earlier today due to Google News listing it, not /.
So now sites get googled. Or maybe just goo'ed.
Eewww.