Now wait a second. It seems to me more that science has typically provided the most EFFICIENT way of getting somewhere fast. Just like your examples, wheels, and jet engines, and ships are great at going in one direction as quickly as possible given the current medium. The modes of transportation that nature provides aren't the most efficient for forward momentum, however that's not to say they're any better or worse than what science has currently developed. For example, generally, legs might be slower than wheels however they provide far more side-to-side manuverability than wheels do, born from years of evolution evading predators, or being predators, however the case may be. Likewise, flapping wings may not provide the agility of a supersonic jet engine, but if you've ever watched a dragonfly or a hummingbird, there's something to be said about maneuverability there too. I can definately see an advantage for the military to have such mobility. Heck, imaging the fun in flying in a remote controlled dragonfly loaded with C4 and landing it on Saddam's dinner table.:o) Likewise for personal transport... I'd imagine it's potentially a lot safer to land something with flapping wings on the deck of an aircraft carrier than a figher jet.
I completely agree. Game productions are turning into just that productions. The coding and 3d engine development are extremely important, but only a fraction of the total technical and artistic work that go into any good new game.
I saw the new HalfLife 2 demo at E3 this year, and it was unbelieveable! However, this introduces two issues. First, just like the film industry, they MUST be fantastic to make serious profit, and get a large audience to throw down their dollars. Second, it takes huge teams of developers and artists years to complete a production such as half life 2. A product that no one or two man development teams have any chance of completing.
I believe that simpler, catchy games can still be developed and sold by smaller teams enough to turn a profit for those smaller teams. Look at the Blair Witch Project.:o) Unfortunately, like the film industry, it's the blockbusters that will be the bread and butter for the majority of the game developers out there.
Good point. I didn't consider that, though WinCE is fairly small for what it consists of. My point was simply that most full distro's are a bit overloaded, when the redundant software can just be downloaded off the net.
hehe I love Linux, but getting 2 web servers, 3 rdbms, 6 text editors, 2 GUI's, 3 mail readers, etc. is a bit unnecessary. Standardize for God's sake... Each distro should have a vote on their site for the best of each app to distribute with their package, and write it, nice and tight into their distro. All the other crap can still be downloaded, so it's still okay. Whatever. Just a thought.
To whomever made the Helm's Deep Doom wad, Great Job!!! I love Lord of the Rings, and had to dust off my old Doom II cd to give it a shot! I'd never seen ZDoom, and the level scriping, and camera angles are killer. I'm glad to see there's been some development on this classic!
The nostalgia even got me to reinstall Doom I, and play the first Episode all the way through again!
Okay, so I don't see it on Philips site: How much, and is it out yet? It looks pretty cool, but I think it'd be much better if it had a small internal hard disk for mp3 storage. Personally, something like this would be much more effective as a component for a home stereo system. Many companies like Denon, and Onkyo have similar MP3 network access built into their top of the line receivers, but offering something like this as a stand-alone component for a cheaper price would be great!
Didn't congress do more than enough with the dmca?! It's gonna take a dozen supreme court cases before it's invalidated, now they're about to start again.
I love the one about banning digital media devices that exclude government-approved copyright protection. Hopefully lobbyists for the personal electronics industry can keep this one off the books.
Microsoft's Application Center Test (ACT) is a freakin kick ass web-script testing tool / environment. It comes with the Enterprise Architect version of Visual Studio.Net, but is language / server / client agnostic. Simply record your actions using a normal web browser, save the scripts and re-run them infinately simulating x-number or connected users. It returns nicely formatted performance, and error reports.
Well couldn't you take it up to the software level and run some sort of MetaFrame, or Terminal Server style service on each of the boxes then use an ICA or Remote Desktop Client to login? The nice part is, just drop a VPN server in front of it, and you can connect from anywhere in the world.:oP
Dude, if it's armor you want, check out Biosteel. It's as thin as a t-shirt, yet stronger than kevlar. The best part is it's made from a genetic blend of a goat and a spider. Pretty damn sweet if you ask me...
http://www.nexiabiotech.com/HTML/technology/bios te el.shtml
Man, how true! I've been working for a non-profit company for the past four years, and it's simply perfect. Decent money, moderate workload, and on overall environment where most people are pretty 'low-key', are rarely uptight.
I've also got a very cool boss, (ex-programmer) who's open to letting the programmers just do-it-however-they-wanna-do-it. Which (usually) turns out for the best. It's just been a great environment to work in!
I've written and maintain a similarly large web application for my company, that was all done in Active Server Pages and SQL Server.
All reusable code, and authentication verification in my web app is in a single 'functions.asp' file in the root of my project. Every single page, page in the project has an include for this file which takes care of the authentication, and provides that ASP code to the rest of the app.
Also in the root, I keep a javascript-functions.asp which works the same way but is included only in pages that have html forms. This file contains common client side functions to validate forms and what-not...
On the same note, I usually use a single CSS file that is also called universally throughout the app to simplify maintenance of the look of the app.
On the database side I'd recommend using stored procedures as absolutely much as possible. Obviously try to make all your transactions atomic and reusable in stored procedures to optimize performance and simplicity.
Does anyone know specifically where to download the Win32 binaries of the UClient for Acorn? The only place I see win32 mentioned, it points to an ftp site, and I don't see em there.
I'm currently downloading the Linux "Min" ISO. Does anyone know if they're contained on this cd? I hella wanna tryout Acorn but I don't currently have a Linux box/partition running.
In this scenario, the USPS would more closely relate to the Internet itself than Napster. You see Napster themselves are not actually moving the mp3's, just connecting users who do the dirty work.
Given that, it's not that Napster facilitates the transmission, it's that they offer an active directory of the lists of (copywritten) songs on others computers. I believe it's this directory which leaves them vulnerable to legal attacks from the RIAA.
This article fails to mention anything about ICQ. Though I don't believe ICQ has ever attempted gateways to AIM or other IM users, it seems to have a stronger following than even IM users. I honestly don't know a single person that uses AIM, yet I have about 20 ICQ on my list. Is there really that many people who use AOL AIM? I mean, if not, then fuck-it. If AOL is working so hard to make open source clients break, then why fight them. Just get everyone to use Jabber, or some other 'friendly' client that plays well with everyone.
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Now wait a second. It seems to me more that science has typically provided the most EFFICIENT way of getting somewhere fast. Just like your examples, wheels, and jet engines, and ships are great at going in one direction as quickly as possible given the current medium. The modes of transportation that nature provides aren't the most efficient for forward momentum, however that's not to say they're any better or worse than what science has currently developed. For example, generally, legs might be slower than wheels however they provide far more side-to-side manuverability than wheels do, born from years of evolution evading predators, or being predators, however the case may be. Likewise, flapping wings may not provide the agility of a supersonic jet engine, but if you've ever watched a dragonfly or a hummingbird, there's something to be said about maneuverability there too. I can definately see an advantage for the military to have such mobility. Heck, imaging the fun in flying in a remote controlled dragonfly loaded with C4 and landing it on Saddam's dinner table. :o) Likewise for personal transport... I'd imagine it's potentially a lot safer to land something with flapping wings on the deck of an aircraft carrier than a figher jet.
I completely agree. Game productions are turning into just that productions. The coding and 3d engine development are extremely important, but only a fraction of the total technical and artistic work that go into any good new game.
:o) Unfortunately, like the film industry, it's the blockbusters that will be the bread and butter for the majority of the game developers out there.
I saw the new HalfLife 2 demo at E3 this year, and it was unbelieveable! However, this introduces two issues. First, just like the film industry, they MUST be fantastic to make serious profit, and get a large audience to throw down their dollars. Second, it takes huge teams of developers and artists years to complete a production such as half life 2. A product that no one or two man development teams have any chance of completing.
I believe that simpler, catchy games can still be developed and sold by smaller teams enough to turn a profit for those smaller teams. Look at the Blair Witch Project.
haha aye! ...at least to the prior. ...though the latter is quite funny too! hehe
...It really makes driving a bitch. :o)
Good point. I didn't consider that, though WinCE is fairly small for what it consists of. My point was simply that most full distro's are a bit overloaded, when the redundant software can just be downloaded off the net.
hehe I love Linux, but getting 2 web servers, 3 rdbms, 6 text editors, 2 GUI's, 3 mail readers, etc. is a bit unnecessary. Standardize for God's sake... Each distro should have a vote on their site for the best of each app to distribute with their package, and write it, nice and tight into their distro. All the other crap can still be downloaded, so it's still okay. Whatever. Just a thought.
Flamebait: At least a full distro of Windows still fits on a single cd-rom unlike some other operating systems.
hehe Me too, but when I ran out of ammo, I quickly remembered Gandalf's words... no, not Mellon... IDDQD IDKDA! heh
To whomever made the Helm's Deep Doom wad, Great Job!!! I love Lord of the Rings, and had to dust off my old Doom II cd to give it a shot! I'd never seen ZDoom, and the level scriping, and camera angles are killer. I'm glad to see there's been some development on this classic!
The nostalgia even got me to reinstall Doom I, and play the first Episode all the way through again!
Okay, so I don't see it on Philips site: How much, and is it out yet? It looks pretty cool, but I think it'd be much better if it had a small internal hard disk for mp3 storage. Personally, something like this would be much more effective as a component for a home stereo system. Many companies like Denon, and Onkyo have similar MP3 network access built into their top of the line receivers, but offering something like this as a stand-alone component for a cheaper price would be great!
Didn't congress do more than enough with the dmca?! It's gonna take a dozen supreme court cases before it's invalidated, now they're about to start again.
:oP
I love the one about banning digital media devices that exclude government-approved copyright protection. Hopefully lobbyists for the personal electronics industry can keep this one off the books.
Damn the man!
CDEx is outstanding. The first and best cd ripping software, hands down.
Microsoft's Application Center Test (ACT) is a freakin kick ass web-script testing tool / environment. It comes with the Enterprise Architect version of Visual Studio .Net, but is language / server / client agnostic. Simply record your actions using a normal web browser, save the scripts and re-run them infinately simulating x-number or connected users. It returns nicely formatted performance, and error reports.
Well couldn't you take it up to the software level and run some sort of MetaFrame, or Terminal Server style service on each of the boxes then use an ICA or Remote Desktop Client to login? The nice part is, just drop a VPN server in front of it, and you can connect from anywhere in the world. :oP
Dude, if it's armor you want, check out Biosteel. It's as thin as a t-shirt, yet stronger than kevlar. The best part is it's made from a genetic blend of a goat and a spider. Pretty damn sweet if you ask me...
s te el.shtml
http://www.nexiabiotech.com/HTML/technology/bio
WTF?! I wanna seeee! Does anyone have this cached, or a mirror up we can link to? It sounds cool for the 5 of us who actually saw it. :o(
Man, how true! I've been working for a non-profit company for the past four years, and it's simply perfect. Decent money, moderate workload, and on overall environment where most people are pretty 'low-key', are rarely uptight.
I've also got a very cool boss, (ex-programmer) who's open to letting the programmers just do-it-however-they-wanna-do-it. Which (usually) turns out for the best. It's just been a great environment to work in!
I've written and maintain a similarly large web application for my company, that was all done in Active Server Pages and SQL Server.
All reusable code, and authentication verification in my web app is in a single 'functions.asp' file in the root of my project. Every single page, page in the project has an include for this file which takes care of the authentication, and provides that ASP code to the rest of the app.
Also in the root, I keep a javascript-functions.asp which works the same way but is included only in pages that have html forms. This file contains common client side functions to validate forms and what-not...
On the same note, I usually use a single CSS file that is also called universally throughout the app to simplify maintenance of the look of the app.
On the database side I'd recommend using stored procedures as absolutely much as possible. Obviously try to make all your transactions atomic and reusable in stored procedures to optimize performance and simplicity.
That's my 2 cents...
Does anyone know specifically where to download the Win32 binaries of the UClient for Acorn? The only place I see win32 mentioned, it points to an ftp site, and I don't see em there.
I'm currently downloading the Linux "Min" ISO. Does anyone know if they're contained on this cd? I hella wanna tryout Acorn but I don't currently have a Linux box/partition running.
There's a big difference.
In this scenario, the USPS would more closely relate to the Internet itself than Napster. You see Napster themselves are not actually moving the mp3's, just connecting users who do the dirty work.
Given that, it's not that Napster facilitates the transmission, it's that they offer an active directory of the lists of (copywritten) songs on others computers. I believe it's this directory which leaves them vulnerable to legal attacks from the RIAA.
This article fails to mention anything about ICQ. Though I don't believe ICQ has ever attempted gateways to AIM or other IM users, it seems to have a stronger following than even IM users. I honestly don't know a single person that uses AIM, yet I have about 20 ICQ on my list. Is there really that many people who use AOL AIM? I mean, if not, then fuck-it. If AOL is working so hard to make open source clients break, then why fight them. Just get everyone to use Jabber, or some other 'friendly' client that plays well with everyone.
I completely, totally agree.
Hitting the del key a few more times is way worth it compared to the rain-of-shit that could come down if this was enforced.
"Needed to send an e-mail"? Hmm.. No.
And it's not the same. If it's a security issue like you suggest, I can understand. Kosmo's message was pure advertising.
haha Hey that's pretty fuckin smart dood. why aren't you an astronaut? it just takes common sense! :o)
They are dood. they're pucked!