Notepad++ isn't really an IDE but it's probably the best c++ editor I've found for Windows. If you want a full blown IDE then Eclipse is probably your best bet. It's written in Java but with a little fiddling it's not too ugly. As for Dev-C++ it's probably lost support because it's written in Delphi of all things.
Why would Blizzard use compositing? All their movies are full cg with stylistic rendering. They probably have a touch-up crew for the final piece but there wouldn't be any reason to call that person a compositor.
WoW is big but it's not that big. If you wanted to restrict your viewpoint to the US then maybe you could claim the WoW population is bigger than the MMO community. If you include Europe at least though then that's no longer true. If you went and included Asia it'd be a joke to say WoW itself is larger than the entire MMO community.
I'd also much rather hear how they managed the page flipping. Even with a lot of these machines they'd still have to achieve an impressive flipping rate without damaging the page being scanned.
I kind of doubt the patent will stop any competitors. It should be trivial to achieve the same result with dozens of different methods.
I'm kind of surprised they used that method in fact. There should of been several that allowed them to scan the books without even requiring them to fully flip open and lay flat each page. With so many books to scan speed must of been important.
I guess this method worked because the device was so cheap that they could just make a lot of scanners.
Topping RTGs for weight to power ratio in an unattended system is probably unfeasible anytime soon. Saying we can't use something else though is a total failure to look at the big picture. The real problem is launch costs. There are any number of already existing systems to get a heavier fuel source launched into orbit for much cheaper than we do it currently.
The whole reason a lot of games used to push high end graphics was it didn't always mean you were going to increase development costs dramatically. Thus for not too much more money you had a guaranteed way to stand out from the crowd. Most people couldn't afford to enjoy those newer graphics but the engines could easily scale down to cheaper hardware.
That doesn't work for current graphics though. The level of detail has increased costs dramatically. Therefore it's no longer logical for them to cut down on potential customers in order to stand out at heavily increased costs.
It's not like game companies that make french games are suddenly going to stop over laws in a province with a population of 8 million.
The repercussions of this law seem tricky though. It sounds like multilingual versions have to be provided once a french version exists. Someone will have to pay for creating such versions since multilingual versions are uncommon in the industry. Most localization is paid for by local publishers.
It's easy to say the law is silly but at the same time I know I'd give a lot to see game companies be forced to release multilingual japanese/english versions in the US.
The more I hear about this worm the more I'm confused that I'm not seeing it on certain computers I know must of been unpatched.
I've looked for info on how it spreads but the only thing I can ever find is that it uses an RPC exploit and that having print and file sharing on makes you vulnerable.
Is it being blocked by some routers that block file and printer sharing ports perhaps?
Simply feeling leaner isn't enough. The way they achieve that feel is basically just a bunch of usability tricks. Eventually some program you care about will come along and not be able to take advantage of those tricks. Then you'll be back to the same bloaty feeling.
I always find posts like this vaguely disturbing. It's worded as if these people are almost lucky. As if this life threatening disease is somehow a gift so that they will have plenty of incentive to live healthy.
Why not say: "Or better yet, someone will come up with a cheap cure that isn't some tailor made weekly supplement drug designed to make pharma corps money until the patient dies."
A stock that never pays dividends is worth nothing. Why would anyone buy it?
I've never really agreed with the excessive focus on increasing shareholder value in our markets but there are times where it's the right choice to make.
The way stocks gets traded makes it all seem so shady but they really do signify ownership of something with some actual value.
From a non-textbook point of view, he's nothing more than a lifeless machine that just happens to be able to function on a social level; there's not much of a person in there. Can you get up and move to another country and leave no friends or family behind?
That is a seriously self centered way of looking at someone else's life style. Even if he has the small problem you originally describe you jump from that to accusing him of being some sort of lifeless automaton. If you'd examine your words you'd see you are judging his life on nothing but conjecture of how you feel people should enjoy being alive.
The Logitech keyboards work well but it's important to note they ARE NOT hardware programmable keyboards. They use software that runs on the computer to do what they do.
The thing is that there's very little to gain for Blizzard to add new low level quests.
I used to think like this but after restarting I've noticed new quests all over the place. Even in old quest hubs.
It makes me wonder about the numbers on how many new players they are still getting. Either they get quite a lot or there are a lot of people still making new characters.
How about Blizzard just fixes their software not not allow cheating?
They do this all the time, and people are often banned for using cheats.
Patently untrue. Since day 1 blizzard has done nothing to fix speed hacking. Implementing even some joke client/server code would improve the situation greatly but they've never bothered.
Instead they use crap like warden to try and catch the people doing it then give them temp bans.
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even.
Uhh yea but those licenses actually pertain to the profession in question.
I don't know why the summary says "small repair shops". In reality such a requirement will throw a total wrench into any big chain that does computer maitenance. Theres no way the kids who work in Best Buy have PI licenses.
From my reading of the article they didn 't "relinquish" the ip at all. Basically some new groups claimed that they owned the ip address (when they didn't) and the sections of the internet just accepted that claim and started routing data to that IP to those groups.
If you follow the article the actual change of IP address doesn't even matter. The server change merely provided a situation where they weren't paying as much attention to the old DNS.
It sounds like the attack could be pulled off at any time vs a root server though. It would simply be caught quicker.
If you really want to do it as a hobby then probably your best bet is to stop looking at electricity all together. After all electricity is just a transportation mechanism for energy. An air conditioner doesn't even need electricity for instance. The primary component is the air compressor which could be run by anything from a wind turbine to a water wheel.
What's going to be most useful changes based on what you want and your environment though.
1) You write your note on the same kind of pad you'd buy in your local office supplies store (it just happens to sit on top of some sort of pressure scanner) 2) The cheap ass pad of post-it notes has cheap ass RFID's on them so it's a pretty simple step to make the computer know exactly where they are on your wall whenever you want it to.
Where in that whole process did you have to do something you wouldn't of normally done? Do you need to move around your post-it note pad constantly or something?
Of course for you the same thing could be achieved by pointing an appropriate camera at your wall but not everyone uses post-it notes the same.
The RFID thing is obviously brilliant if you've ever lost an important post-it note. The only downfall is the possible security/privacy concerns of digitizing such information(passwords on post it notes for instance).
Nobody uses Microsoft Office with the specific goal of using Office. They word process, or...
...Same with games.... But it's NOT the same with games. People who want to play Starcraft 2 play with the specific goal of playing Starcraft 2. They aren't going to find some other game fills the gap when they want to play some sort of windows exclusive.
This is the whole reason exclusive games are so important to consoles.
Linux will always be a nobody in gaming till they get some exclusives of their own.
What's sad is that 50 years into the space program we still spend however many thousand dollars to get a pound of metal into orbit then for some mind boggling reason we decide it needs to come back down again just so we can say we have a real deal "spaceship".
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Notepad++ isn't really an IDE but it's probably the best c++ editor I've found for Windows. If you want a full blown IDE then Eclipse is probably your best bet. It's written in Java but with a little fiddling it's not too ugly. As for Dev-C++ it's probably lost support because it's written in Delphi of all things.
Why would Blizzard use compositing? All their movies are full cg with stylistic rendering. They probably have a touch-up crew for the final piece but there wouldn't be any reason to call that person a compositor.
WoW is big but it's not that big. If you wanted to restrict your viewpoint to the US then maybe you could claim the WoW population is bigger than the MMO community. If you include Europe at least though then that's no longer true. If you went and included Asia it'd be a joke to say WoW itself is larger than the entire MMO community.
I'd also much rather hear how they managed the page flipping. Even with a lot of these machines they'd still have to achieve an impressive flipping rate without damaging the page being scanned.
I kind of doubt the patent will stop any competitors. It should be trivial to achieve the same result with dozens of different methods.
I'm kind of surprised they used that method in fact. There should of been several that allowed them to scan the books without even requiring them to fully flip open and lay flat each page. With so many books to scan speed must of been important.
I guess this method worked because the device was so cheap that they could just make a lot of scanners.
Topping RTGs for weight to power ratio in an unattended system is probably unfeasible anytime soon. Saying we can't use something else though is a total failure to look at the big picture. The real problem is launch costs. There are any number of already existing systems to get a heavier fuel source launched into orbit for much cheaper than we do it currently.
The whole reason a lot of games used to push high end graphics was it didn't always mean you were going to increase development costs dramatically. Thus for not too much more money you had a guaranteed way to stand out from the crowd. Most people couldn't afford to enjoy those newer graphics but the engines could easily scale down to cheaper hardware.
That doesn't work for current graphics though. The level of detail has increased costs dramatically. Therefore it's no longer logical for them to cut down on potential customers in order to stand out at heavily increased costs.
It's not like game companies that make french games are suddenly going to stop over laws in a province with a population of 8 million.
The repercussions of this law seem tricky though. It sounds like multilingual versions have to be provided once a french version exists. Someone will have to pay for creating such versions since multilingual versions are uncommon in the industry. Most localization is paid for by local publishers.
It's easy to say the law is silly but at the same time I know I'd give a lot to see game companies be forced to release multilingual japanese/english versions in the US.
The more I hear about this worm the more I'm confused that I'm not seeing it on certain computers I know must of been unpatched.
I've looked for info on how it spreads but the only thing I can ever find is that it uses an RPC exploit and that having print and file sharing on makes you vulnerable.
Is it being blocked by some routers that block file and printer sharing ports perhaps?
Simply feeling leaner isn't enough. The way they achieve that feel is basically just a bunch of usability tricks. Eventually some program you care about will come along and not be able to take advantage of those tricks. Then you'll be back to the same bloaty feeling.
I always find posts like this vaguely disturbing. It's worded as if these people are almost lucky. As if this life threatening disease is somehow a gift so that they will have plenty of incentive to live healthy.
Why not say: "Or better yet, someone will come up with a cheap cure that isn't some tailor made weekly supplement drug designed to make pharma corps money until the patient dies."
You're driving in complete darkness and someone tells you there might be a cliff nearby. You're told to err on the side of caution. What do you do?
Turn on the headlights. For fuck's sake do you WANT to get eaten by a grue?!
A stock that never pays dividends is worth nothing. Why would anyone buy it?
I've never really agreed with the excessive focus on increasing shareholder value in our markets but there are times where it's the right choice to make.
The way stocks gets traded makes it all seem so shady but they really do signify ownership of something with some actual value.
From a non-textbook point of view, he's nothing more than a lifeless machine that just happens to be able to function on a social level; there's not much of a person in there. Can you get up and move to another country and leave no friends or family behind?
That is a seriously self centered way of looking at someone else's life style. Even if he has the small problem you originally describe you jump from that to accusing him of being some sort of lifeless automaton. If you'd examine your words you'd see you are judging his life on nothing but conjecture of how you feel people should enjoy being alive.
The Logitech keyboards work well but it's important to note they ARE NOT hardware programmable keyboards. They use software that runs on the computer to do what they do.
The thing is that there's very little to gain for Blizzard to add new low level quests.
I used to think like this but after restarting I've noticed new quests all over the place. Even in old quest hubs.
It makes me wonder about the numbers on how many new players they are still getting. Either they get quite a lot or there are a lot of people still making new characters.
How about Blizzard just fixes their software not not allow cheating?
They do this all the time, and people are often banned for using cheats.
Patently untrue. Since day 1 blizzard has done nothing to fix speed hacking. Implementing even some joke client/server code would improve the situation greatly but they've never bothered.
Instead they use crap like warden to try and catch the people doing it then give them temp bans.
We require licenses of many different professions, doctors, medical professionals, accountants even.
Uhh yea but those licenses actually pertain to the profession in question.
I don't know why the summary says "small repair shops". In reality such a requirement will throw a total wrench into any big chain that does computer maitenance. Theres no way the kids who work in Best Buy have PI licenses.
From my reading of the article they didn 't "relinquish" the ip at all. Basically some new groups claimed that they owned the ip address (when they didn't) and the sections of the internet just accepted that claim and started routing data to that IP to those groups.
If you follow the article the actual change of IP address doesn't even matter. The server change merely provided a situation where they weren't paying as much attention to the old DNS.
It sounds like the attack could be pulled off at any time vs a root server though. It would simply be caught quicker.
If you really want to do it as a hobby then probably your best bet is to stop looking at electricity all together. After all electricity is just a transportation mechanism for energy. An air conditioner doesn't even need electricity for instance. The primary component is the air compressor which could be run by anything from a wind turbine to a water wheel.
What's going to be most useful changes based on what you want and your environment though.
Did you even RTFA?
1) You write your note on the same kind of pad you'd buy in your local office supplies store (it just happens to sit on top of some sort of pressure scanner)
2) The cheap ass pad of post-it notes has cheap ass RFID's on them so it's a pretty simple step to make the computer know exactly where they are on your wall whenever you want it to.
Where in that whole process did you have to do something you wouldn't of normally done? Do you need to move around your post-it note pad constantly or something?
Of course for you the same thing could be achieved by pointing an appropriate camera at your wall but not everyone uses post-it notes the same.
The RFID thing is obviously brilliant if you've ever lost an important post-it note. The only downfall is the possible security/privacy concerns of digitizing such information(passwords on post it notes for instance).
Nobody uses Microsoft Office with the specific goal of using Office. They word process, or
This is the whole reason exclusive games are so important to consoles.
Linux will always be a nobody in gaming till they get some exclusives of their own.
What's sad is that 50 years into the space program we still spend however many thousand dollars to get a pound of metal into orbit then for some mind boggling reason we decide it needs to come back down again just so we can say we have a real deal "spaceship".
People learn a lot through failure and pain. C is clearly the perfect choice when you look at it this way.