I think some of the battery arrays should be able to pulled out of the car and swapped in with a charged battery array. This process could happen in under a minute.
I worked at Best Buy. A lot of laptops come with crapware installed on your computer, and they all need to be removed to optimize performance. Best Buy taught me that Norton is a joke, and should never be installed for any reason as it is worse than the viruses sometimes.
I personally don't run with any anti virus on my home PCs. The trick is just not installing untrusted aps. So I'm sorry you have any antivirus at all.
Geek Squad was a joke of a job though. I took it because I couldn't find any C/C++ or Java programming positions. The world is a strange place where you can be a master at a trade, but Human Resources won't even give you an introductory position.
NASA has a shoestring budget, when you're looking to make big cuts, you could eliminate NASA altogether and it wouldn't even be a noticeable debt reduction plan.
What should be looked into is lowering defense. Ever since the atomic stalemate between US and Russia, no one is going to invade a nuclear armed country because there is threat of nuclear retaliation. I'd think we could even get by with just a little better than shoestring budget on defense in the current world.
You have two roads to take: "Killing people who disagree with you" or "Reduce defense, feed everyone who's hungry on the planet, and have money left over."
It is very easy to argue that feeding everyone on the planet is a better defense mechanism than killing our enemies. Look at how many allies you'd get if you fed everyone hungry on the planet! How many allies do you get when you're killing people?
Remember Atari was encouraged to invest in new hardware to make better games, but the CEO basically went along the lines of,"We have a monopoly, so we'd just be competing with ourselves if we made new hardware." Of course this isn't entirely true, better games mean there are more demand for the games and greater sales. I say thank God for Nintendo, 1985-87 were some of my best years of my life. You saw the greatest advancements in gaming in terms of hardware and software in those two years, than we'll ever see up until we start fighting holographic enemies in a field.
Yah, I thought it was pretty crazy when they went straight from Mach3 to Mach5. My question is,"How do they get 20 blades on a razor? Does it look like a chisel or something?"
Yes, I played the noob dungeons. You can run 5 man PUGs solo and it isn't even challenging. The game was more difficult in 2004 than it is now.
Blizzard made the wrong move doing this and I think I can explain why. Casual WOW players, if they retain their subscription, end up becoming strong in the long run anyway. Hardcore WOW players, simply beat the game with no challenge and leave. If Blizzard really wanted to do things right, they could have made two or three servers. Easy, medium, and Hard. The Hard server could even have special drops that are extremely rare so people who are even too good for Hard, have something to seek.
It was about 5 years ago. I was going to push for more content for a few reasons. First off, many people who quit the game do it out of boredom of nothing new to do. If you have lots of stuff for them, they won't leave, just keep making higher levels, and equipment and boards, and monsters, and quests. Next, if you make a good enough game, that it is a generational coming of age, you'll get a never ending stream of 10 year olds coming in, and they'll play til their 18 because of all that great content you ran up. Your game could be a permanent fixation on the Internet.
What is cool is that I found a company to work with where I am a game designer, and this is our philosophy. Too bad it is a small company though because I also have to do the job of game programmer too. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Imagine a large object with thrusters orbiting with a rope dropped from it. I'm thinking that the top of the rope must be able to hold the tension of the entire rope, thus it is the same thing as the base of an elevator holding up the entire weight, correct? This is just something I wondered about.
We're doing a changing/interactive world for each player, our maps are 100x100 and hold 4 different types of data per square, so thats like 10,000x4x13= 520k per map . There will probably be about 20 maps to start with. 20x500=10 Meg. Then we're doing episodic content to update it every 3 months. If we update for a long time(which is our plan), we could out grow our storage allotment.
Alternatively I could code it so I just store changes from the base map instead of storing all the map data.
Allow us to save the game on your server, no matter how big our game might be.
Allow us to save player data, up to 1 GB per player.
Have Google Wallet built in, so micro transactions can go through it.
Maybe even give developers some high performance servers to run multiplayer games at the same time instead of requiring us to get our own servers.
I'm writing a Facebook game. And as a startup, we don't have the resources to host our own games. We don't have the resources to keep a multiplayer server up all the time to do action oriented games either. Finally Facebook wants about 50% of every transaction with Facebook currency. I think that is a pretty much a rip off. Could Google maybe go lower?
Exactly, things like 'the cloud' and Adobe Flash are good for Linux because as more and more aps get made, it is less likely you need to stick with Windows for legacy applications. When it doesn't matter what OS you're using, the free and secure OS becomes a valid choice.
Actually the software that figures stuff out is remarkably complex. I wonder how long until someone makes a game where you wear VR Goggles and carry a nerf sword, and you're out in a field killing orcs by swinging the nerf sword around.
If you're a guy who wants to develop for the Play Station Phone, maybe your aps will be easily portable to people who use an Android + PS3 controller.
Some Aps just need a real controller feel to them, even if you're missing out on a majority of the market share(people with Android/iPhones and no PS3 controller).
Is this Comcast's doing, or is this the FCC forcing Comcast to do this? It looks like this is a very good thing. So if Comcast was offering this deal to better their PR, it worked on me.
I misunderstood him. I thought he was saying,"Gas is going to be expensive, so less cars will be on the road."
What he is actually saying is,"Cars will run on tracks?" Sure that is reasonable. I've been thinking that for a while. Make new cars able to run on a rail system or guide by wire, and make the HOV lane into this track. If you have a car that runs on it, that is cool, if not, stay in normal lanes. If widespread adoption of a track car catches on, make more lanes dedicated towards it
The problem I have is: "Look, its a herd of deer crossing the road."
That was a nice segment of video. I had the same complaint.
I don't think cars are going to stop running on the road. I think more likely we'll switch to electric cars. I know my car has 110,000 miles on it, and I want to see how far I go before I buy an electric car. Once I get an electric car, I'll buy some land, and a solar array so I'll pay next to nothing to drive.
I wonder if dictators are getting scared with the mass amounts of revolutions everywhere. It is like revolution fever! It is just simply sad about how many people are losing their lives in these. It just goes to show you how corrupt the governments are when people are getting killed for non violent protests.
I knew C/C++ quite well and didn't want to learn a new language. But I learned Flash in under 1 week. Flash is actually easier than C/C++ for a lot of things, so you end up writing code faster. With a garbage collection tool, it is harder to get a memory leak. If you know C/C++, it is extremely worth it to buy Flash Builder 4.5
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I think some of the battery arrays should be able to pulled out of the car and swapped in with a charged battery array. This process could happen in under a minute.
Reinventing the cantenna.
DST is designed to create more jobs in the computer science fields... because we have to keep re-coding legacy systems to deal with it.
I can't wait for them to replace all that unused fiber with more unused fiber.
I worked at Best Buy. A lot of laptops come with crapware installed on your computer, and they all need to be removed to optimize performance. Best Buy taught me that Norton is a joke, and should never be installed for any reason as it is worse than the viruses sometimes.
I personally don't run with any anti virus on my home PCs. The trick is just not installing untrusted aps. So I'm sorry you have any antivirus at all.
Geek Squad was a joke of a job though. I took it because I couldn't find any C/C++ or Java programming positions. The world is a strange place where you can be a master at a trade, but Human Resources won't even give you an introductory position.
NASA has a shoestring budget, when you're looking to make big cuts, you could eliminate NASA altogether and it wouldn't even be a noticeable debt reduction plan.
What should be looked into is lowering defense. Ever since the atomic stalemate between US and Russia, no one is going to invade a nuclear armed country because there is threat of nuclear retaliation. I'd think we could even get by with just a little better than shoestring budget on defense in the current world.
You have two roads to take: "Killing people who disagree with you" or "Reduce defense, feed everyone who's hungry on the planet, and have money left over."
It is very easy to argue that feeding everyone on the planet is a better defense mechanism than killing our enemies. Look at how many allies you'd get if you fed everyone hungry on the planet! How many allies do you get when you're killing people?
It gives people in power more reason to increase GPS accuracy to a finer detail :P
Remember Atari was encouraged to invest in new hardware to make better games, but the CEO basically went along the lines of,"We have a monopoly, so we'd just be competing with ourselves if we made new hardware." Of course this isn't entirely true, better games mean there are more demand for the games and greater sales. I say thank God for Nintendo, 1985-87 were some of my best years of my life. You saw the greatest advancements in gaming in terms of hardware and software in those two years, than we'll ever see up until we start fighting holographic enemies in a field.
Yah, I thought it was pretty crazy when they went straight from Mach3 to Mach5. My question is,"How do they get 20 blades on a razor? Does it look like a chisel or something?"
Yes, I played the noob dungeons. You can run 5 man PUGs solo and it isn't even challenging. The game was more difficult in 2004 than it is now.
Blizzard made the wrong move doing this and I think I can explain why. Casual WOW players, if they retain their subscription, end up becoming strong in the long run anyway. Hardcore WOW players, simply beat the game with no challenge and leave. If Blizzard really wanted to do things right, they could have made two or three servers. Easy, medium, and Hard. The Hard server could even have special drops that are extremely rare so people who are even too good for Hard, have something to seek.
It was about 5 years ago. I was going to push for more content for a few reasons. First off, many people who quit the game do it out of boredom of nothing new to do. If you have lots of stuff for them, they won't leave, just keep making higher levels, and equipment and boards, and monsters, and quests. Next, if you make a good enough game, that it is a generational coming of age, you'll get a never ending stream of 10 year olds coming in, and they'll play til their 18 because of all that great content you ran up. Your game could be a permanent fixation on the Internet.
What is cool is that I found a company to work with where I am a game designer, and this is our philosophy. Too bad it is a small company though because I also have to do the job of game programmer too. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Imagine a large object with thrusters orbiting with a rope dropped from it. I'm thinking that the top of the rope must be able to hold the tension of the entire rope, thus it is the same thing as the base of an elevator holding up the entire weight, correct? This is just something I wondered about.
We're doing a changing/interactive world for each player, our maps are 100x100 and hold 4 different types of data per square, so thats like 10,000x4x13= 520k per map . There will probably be about 20 maps to start with. 20x500=10 Meg. Then we're doing episodic content to update it every 3 months. If we update for a long time(which is our plan), we could out grow our storage allotment.
Alternatively I could code it so I just store changes from the base map instead of storing all the map data.
Allow us to save the game on your server, no matter how big our game might be.
Allow us to save player data, up to 1 GB per player.
Have Google Wallet built in, so micro transactions can go through it.
Maybe even give developers some high performance servers to run multiplayer games at the same time instead of requiring us to get our own servers.
I'm writing a Facebook game. And as a startup, we don't have the resources to host our own games. We don't have the resources to keep a multiplayer server up all the time to do action oriented games either. Finally Facebook wants about 50% of every transaction with Facebook currency. I think that is a pretty much a rip off. Could Google maybe go lower?
Exactly, things like 'the cloud' and Adobe Flash are good for Linux because as more and more aps get made, it is less likely you need to stick with Windows for legacy applications. When it doesn't matter what OS you're using, the free and secure OS becomes a valid choice.
Actually the software that figures stuff out is remarkably complex. I wonder how long until someone makes a game where you wear VR Goggles and carry a nerf sword, and you're out in a field killing orcs by swinging the nerf sword around.
The only use I can think of is if you want to film an Evil Dead fan made movie.
If you're a guy who wants to develop for the Play Station Phone, maybe your aps will be easily portable to people who use an Android + PS3 controller.
Some Aps just need a real controller feel to them, even if you're missing out on a majority of the market share(people with Android/iPhones and no PS3 controller).
I saw it said it was mandated, but I didn't know who mandated it.
Is this Comcast's doing, or is this the FCC forcing Comcast to do this? It looks like this is a very good thing. So if Comcast was offering this deal to better their PR, it worked on me.
I misunderstood him. I thought he was saying,"Gas is going to be expensive, so less cars will be on the road."
What he is actually saying is,"Cars will run on tracks?" Sure that is reasonable. I've been thinking that for a while. Make new cars able to run on a rail system or guide by wire, and make the HOV lane into this track. If you have a car that runs on it, that is cool, if not, stay in normal lanes. If widespread adoption of a track car catches on, make more lanes dedicated towards it
The problem I have is: "Look, its a herd of deer crossing the road."
That was a nice segment of video. I had the same complaint.
I don't think cars are going to stop running on the road. I think more likely we'll switch to electric cars. I know my car has 110,000 miles on it, and I want to see how far I go before I buy an electric car. Once I get an electric car, I'll buy some land, and a solar array so I'll pay next to nothing to drive.
I wonder if dictators are getting scared with the mass amounts of revolutions everywhere. It is like revolution fever! It is just simply sad about how many people are losing their lives in these. It just goes to show you how corrupt the governments are when people are getting killed for non violent protests.
I knew C/C++ quite well and didn't want to learn a new language. But I learned Flash in under 1 week. Flash is actually easier than C/C++ for a lot of things, so you end up writing code faster. With a garbage collection tool, it is harder to get a memory leak. If you know C/C++, it is extremely worth it to buy Flash Builder 4.5
Here is a free to play game I wrote which took me 1 year in Flash. It will remind you of Gauntlet 2.
This is the same reason I don't put all my games on the same email address for Battle.net.
Lets say the arbitrarily ban you. They can ban you for all your games, game over!