It sounds like they set out to prove that man had an involvment in the extinction. The best research never sets out to prove or dis-prove something, rather, it sets out to find out what happened without any prior opinion. Perhaps man did hunt the animals into extinction, but I wouldn't go by it 100% since it set out to prove that they did.
After Visual Basic you should generally attempt to forget as much as you can. Forget the bad programming practices, forget the awful syntax, and the image that you're an expert programmer because you're real good at Visual Basic. Pick up a cross-platform language. Something that can be applied in both Microsoft's OS's AND Linux and hopefully other OS's too. Languages that come immediately to mind would be C/C++ and Java.
I've been using C/C++ for the past few years (self-taught) and now I've started VB in school. It pales in comparison. The syntax for a start is simply horrible. It doesn't use any curly brackets to indicate where loops or 'if' statements start and end. Instead it uses "then" and "endif". Tedious to type and also horrible to read. It tries error-checking and fixing on its own. No more warnings when you fail to initialize a variable... VB does it for you! All variables default to 0. If that's not encouraging bad programming practices, I don't know what is! VB is pretty much "Programming for dummies". Unfortunately its pretty popular amongst many companies.
How do they know hackers did it and it wasn't a bunch of jocks?!? They haven't seen the suspects responsible so how can they blame a specific group?
This is like a murder occurring and police saying "Well, noone has seen the suspect but we bet it was a black male aged in his 20s".
Stupid script kiddies...
This is like a DOS attack. You buy your DVD... try to play it in your player. But even though you paid money for both of these, you are denied service.
No.
Boycott Advance is simply an attempt at emulating the system. It has not been emulated to the point where it plays commercial games yet. Just some homebrew demos.
I'd argue that the reason why the performance is only marginally better is due to the Linux drivers probably being VERY early drivers.
On Windows (which has the more developed drivers at this point in time, since NVidia would have that ranked as a priority) at 1600 * 1200 the GeForce 3 has a healthy increase over any previous video cards, whereas in this benchmark the performance is actually worse as the resolution increases! (Windows benchmarks of the GeForce 3 are the inverse of this)
Give NVidia some time and then benchmark the GeForce 3 on Linux, the performance increase should be a nice gap.
Also notice the distinct lack of details about the benchmark... the only details given are the system specs, so I would be inclined to question how valid the results really are.
I guess MS see it this way...
Right now, people (I prefer "people" to "consumers") have the option of upgrading from Windows 95 to 98 or ME and Microsoft can't exactly brute-force new evils into them. If things were done with subscriptions, MS could halt renewal of subscriptions for Windows 95 and then force everyone into 98/ME.
They have TOTAL control over their software after it's been released now. Users are at their mercy.
*Signals computer to keep talking*
Neural networks, gesture input, speech recognition... The future looks to be very unsocial indeed. From a certain point of view... You could also argue that you're socialising with your computer but I believe there is an adjective which is often used to describe people who socialise with their computers (dating sims and the like)... "Sad".
Microsoft bribe the press.
Gamecube dies.
Microsoft beat Sony.
Playstation 2 & 3 die.
Microsoft get screwed and sued by the DOJ.
Microsoft dies.
PC is the future of gaming!:)
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The list of 3rd party developers for Gamecube can be found here.
I think you mis-interpreted what I was saying about the GameCube (or I didn't express it well enough). Whilst the GameCube will DEFINATELY have AWESOME games which I and I'm sure many many other people can't wait to play, it will lack a surge of games which is what seemed to put the PS1 ahead of the N64 at the time. Whilst alot of the PS1 games were crap you have to understand that the average gamer is not even hardcore enough to recognise the quality of a game often and therefore choose quantity over quality.
The PS2 is getting a new model with a HD in Japan this week and it will also be sold as an addon at an unspecified later date. My main point was that X-Box would recieve better sales due to the sheer number of developers compared to other consoles, innovative or not.
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I apoligize for my statement on PS2's... it seems that the general opinion is they are still selling in large numbers. I based my original statement on the fact that where I live (Sydney, Australia) there were plenty on the shelves at launch date which people pretty much ignored as well as articles which have been posted on the internet (some, even on Slashdot... perhaps I should have used some salt).
The X-Box titles?? Several have been announced and I would estimate that the number of nameless titles which have been announce would be well into double-digits.
The X-Box actually has been demonstrated in real time by some guys at Bungie. They played Halo on the actual X-Box (controller and everything) for an audience and a long video of this is available on the internet.
X-Box runs a VERY cut down version of the Windows 2000 kernel. It won't have any GUI (or at least not the regular Windows one) or anything... just a base for any DirectX code pretty much.
You pop the disc in and it plays... to the user it shouldn't be very different from any other console unless MS screw up and it crashes.
But really, its a console... a fixed platform, as long as a developer thoroughly tests their game crashes (if any) should be VERY rare.
Consider this:
- PS2 was a big disappointment everywhere in the world... it is not likely to pose a large threat or gain much more ground.
- MS have well over 100 developers developing games for X-Box, theres gonna be a flood of games (like the PS1) and most likely they'll all be of an unprecedented quality as far as console systems go.
- Nintendo have somewhere in the vicinity of 20 developers for GameCube, which pales in comparison to Microsoft's hundereds.
The Playstation 2 doesn't pose a threat to MS... when you look at the difference in graphics quality it is clear the X-Box is almost a full generation ahead of the PS2. What MS do want to be careful about however is the GameCube. Nintendo have been working on the GameCube alot longer than any other console thats due out and Nintendo are usually capable of delivering at least decent launch titles. As long as MS doesn't get the X-Box out too far after GameCube's launch they can really release whenever they like. It would probably even be best for MS to coincide with GameCube's release since the two machines will be side-by-side, and in comparison the X-Box ought to look technically superior.
You can always be miserable in the present or be un-content with what you have in the present. You can always say "next year is gonna be better". But you need to make do with what you have in the present and learn to be content with that.
If something isn't right about 2001... DO SOMETHING about it!!
Just abit of philosophy...;]
- Piracy is on the rise, or at least remaining very high. As internet connections become faster it is also becoming easier to download games off the internet.
- Game advertising does not have to subtract from the game and if used intelligently can add to the game!
- If your income depends solely on advertising, you no longer need a distributer or publisher... no more middle-men.
The big problem with the model of having advertising as part of game content from which you recieve your sole income is that your audience is LIMITED. At first glance it would seem that you'd actually reach a wider audience by giving away your game for free however what people fail to realize is that only the "hardcore" (I use that term loosely in this context) gamers would actually visit the website and download an entire game.
The other problem is that since there is no publisher any advertising for the game is the developer's responsibility.
Ultimately though, when I play a game and I see a billboard, I'd much rather see a Coke ad on it as opposed to a made up Cola.
I have read the license, however my interpretation of it seemed that I have to release my source code?? Am I correct or did I misinterpret it?
I realize Loki haven't released their source code, but I am skeptical about that example since they created the library.:P
Would anyone be able to explain to me exactly what the LGPL requires you to do? More specifically, does it require you to release source code as well as binaries.
As much as I think Open-source is a good thing, I don't like being forced into it especially since it is not ALWAYS the best way to go.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer this question.
Honesty and being nice are the best two things a geek can do to attract females.
Be honest about everything and be yourself (except for the geek talk -- DON'T talk about computers constantly). I guess that kinda depends on who "yourself" is but it usually works best compared to the macho idiots that most non-geeks (and some geeks, sadly) pretend to be.
Don't be afraid to say "I'm a computer geek" but make sure to mention that you're more than that.
Why Pluto?? Because within the next 15 years Pluto will have freezed over and we will not be able to obtain as much information about its surface then. The X-33/34 space plane program however has no "expiration date" and NASA can resume that at any point in time. The Pluto opportunities however are slipping away.
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It sounds like they set out to prove that man had an involvment in the extinction. The best research never sets out to prove or dis-prove something, rather, it sets out to find out what happened without any prior opinion.
Perhaps man did hunt the animals into extinction, but I wouldn't go by it 100% since it set out to prove that they did.
After Visual Basic you should generally attempt to forget as much as you can.
Forget the bad programming practices, forget the awful syntax, and the image that you're an expert programmer because you're real good at Visual Basic.
Pick up a cross-platform language. Something that can be applied in both Microsoft's OS's AND Linux and hopefully other OS's too. Languages that come immediately to mind would be C/C++ and Java.
I've been using C/C++ for the past few years (self-taught) and now I've started VB in school.
It pales in comparison.
The syntax for a start is simply horrible. It doesn't use any curly brackets to indicate where loops or 'if' statements start and end. Instead it uses "then" and "endif". Tedious to type and also horrible to read.
It tries error-checking and fixing on its own. No more warnings when you fail to initialize a variable... VB does it for you! All variables default to 0. If that's not encouraging bad programming practices, I don't know what is!
VB is pretty much "Programming for dummies". Unfortunately its pretty popular amongst many companies.
How do they know hackers did it and it wasn't a bunch of jocks?!? They haven't seen the suspects responsible so how can they blame a specific group? This is like a murder occurring and police saying "Well, noone has seen the suspect but we bet it was a black male aged in his 20s".
Stupid script kiddies... This is like a DOS attack. You buy your DVD... try to play it in your player. But even though you paid money for both of these, you are denied service.
No. Boycott Advance is simply an attempt at emulating the system. It has not been emulated to the point where it plays commercial games yet. Just some homebrew demos.
I'd argue that the reason why the performance is only marginally better is due to the Linux drivers probably being VERY early drivers.
On Windows (which has the more developed drivers at this point in time, since NVidia would have that ranked as a priority) at 1600 * 1200 the GeForce 3 has a healthy increase over any previous video cards, whereas in this benchmark the performance is actually worse as the resolution increases! (Windows benchmarks of the GeForce 3 are the inverse of this)
Give NVidia some time and then benchmark the GeForce 3 on Linux, the performance increase should be a nice gap.
Also notice the distinct lack of details about the benchmark... the only details given are the system specs, so I would be inclined to question how valid the results really are.
I guess MS see it this way...
Right now, people (I prefer "people" to "consumers") have the option of upgrading from Windows 95 to 98 or ME and Microsoft can't exactly brute-force new evils into them. If things were done with subscriptions, MS could halt renewal of subscriptions for Windows 95 and then force everyone into 98/ME.
They have TOTAL control over their software after it's been released now. Users are at their mercy.
I'm gonna buy lots of canned food and then sell it to everyone for a profit. Seriously though, I think we need to look at the moral side of this...
What do you think a fair price would be for a can of soup??
*Signals computer to keep talking* Neural networks, gesture input, speech recognition... The future looks to be very unsocial indeed. From a certain point of view... You could also argue that you're socialising with your computer but I believe there is an adjective which is often used to describe people who socialise with their computers (dating sims and the like)... "Sad".
Microsoft bribe the press. :)
Gamecube dies.
Microsoft beat Sony.
Playstation 2 & 3 die.
Microsoft get screwed and sued by the DOJ.
Microsoft dies.
PC is the future of gaming!
Sure, here is the list of X-Box developers, as you can see there is well over 100.
The list of 3rd party developers for Gamecube can be found here. I think you mis-interpreted what I was saying about the GameCube (or I didn't express it well enough). Whilst the GameCube will DEFINATELY have AWESOME games which I and I'm sure many many other people can't wait to play, it will lack a surge of games which is what seemed to put the PS1 ahead of the N64 at the time. Whilst alot of the PS1 games were crap you have to understand that the average gamer is not even hardcore enough to recognise the quality of a game often and therefore choose quantity over quality.
The PS2 is getting a new model with a HD in Japan this week and it will also be sold as an addon at an unspecified later date.
My main point was that X-Box would recieve better sales due to the sheer number of developers compared to other consoles, innovative or not.
I apoligize for my statement on PS2's... it seems that the general opinion is they are still selling in large numbers. I based my original statement on the fact that where I live (Sydney, Australia) there were plenty on the shelves at launch date which people pretty much ignored as well as articles which have been posted on the internet (some, even on Slashdot... perhaps I should have used some salt). The X-Box titles?? Several have been announced and I would estimate that the number of nameless titles which have been announce would be well into double-digits. The X-Box actually has been demonstrated in real time by some guys at Bungie. They played Halo on the actual X-Box (controller and everything) for an audience and a long video of this is available on the internet.
I'll bet the Chinese are just drooling at the prospect of capturing one of these babies!! ;]
X-Box runs a VERY cut down version of the Windows 2000 kernel. It won't have any GUI (or at least not the regular Windows one) or anything... just a base for any DirectX code pretty much.
You pop the disc in and it plays... to the user it shouldn't be very different from any other console unless MS screw up and it crashes.
But really, its a console... a fixed platform, as long as a developer thoroughly tests their game crashes (if any) should be VERY rare.
Consider this:
- PS2 was a big disappointment everywhere in the world... it is not likely to pose a large threat or gain much more ground.
- MS have well over 100 developers developing games for X-Box, theres gonna be a flood of games (like the PS1) and most likely they'll all be of an unprecedented quality as far as console systems go.
- Nintendo have somewhere in the vicinity of 20 developers for GameCube, which pales in comparison to Microsoft's hundereds.
The Playstation 2 doesn't pose a threat to MS... when you look at the difference in graphics quality it is clear the X-Box is almost a full generation ahead of the PS2. What MS do want to be careful about however is the GameCube. Nintendo have been working on the GameCube alot longer than any other console thats due out and Nintendo are usually capable of delivering at least decent launch titles. As long as MS doesn't get the X-Box out too far after GameCube's launch they can really release whenever they like. It would probably even be best for MS to coincide with GameCube's release since the two machines will be side-by-side, and in comparison the X-Box ought to look technically superior.
Since they already have a section on their website: "How to plan a successful public website".
You can always be miserable in the present or be un-content with what you have in the present. You can always say "next year is gonna be better". But you need to make do with what you have in the present and learn to be content with that. If something isn't right about 2001... DO SOMETHING about it!! Just abit of philosophy... ;]
- Piracy is on the rise, or at least remaining very high. As internet connections become faster it is also becoming easier to download games off the internet.
- Game advertising does not have to subtract from the game and if used intelligently can add to the game!
- If your income depends solely on advertising, you no longer need a distributer or publisher... no more middle-men.
The big problem with the model of having advertising as part of game content from which you recieve your sole income is that your audience is LIMITED. At first glance it would seem that you'd actually reach a wider audience by giving away your game for free however what people fail to realize is that only the "hardcore" (I use that term loosely in this context) gamers would actually visit the website and download an entire game.
The other problem is that since there is no publisher any advertising for the game is the developer's responsibility.
Ultimately though, when I play a game and I see a billboard, I'd much rather see a Coke ad on it as opposed to a made up Cola.
Does SDL rank well as an API? ;]
Are screens good for putting pixels on?
Of course its a G-G-GREAT API
I have read the license, however my interpretation of it seemed that I have to release my source code?? Am I correct or did I misinterpret it? :P
I realize Loki haven't released their source code, but I am skeptical about that example since they created the library.
Would anyone be able to explain to me exactly what the LGPL requires you to do? More specifically, does it require you to release source code as well as binaries.
As much as I think Open-source is a good thing, I don't like being forced into it especially since it is not ALWAYS the best way to go.
Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer this question.
Honesty and being nice are the best two things a geek can do to attract females.
Be honest about everything and be yourself (except for the geek talk -- DON'T talk about computers constantly). I guess that kinda depends on who "yourself" is but it usually works best compared to the macho idiots that most non-geeks (and some geeks, sadly) pretend to be.
Don't be afraid to say "I'm a computer geek" but make sure to mention that you're more than that.
Why Pluto?? Because within the next 15 years Pluto will have freezed over and we will not be able to obtain as much information about its surface then.
The X-33/34 space plane program however has no "expiration date" and NASA can resume that at any point in time. The Pluto opportunities however are slipping away.