The complete book in gzipped PostScript form (about 2.8 MB). The complete book in gzipped PDF form (about 5 MB). This version has minor format problems with ligatures. If possible, use the PostScript version. The complete sources for rebuilding the book (about 9.5 MB), gzipped tar.
Take Madden 2004, slap on it new textures, make some minor gameplay changes, call it Madden 2005 and release it.
I may be speaking slightly out of place here, but I have a good friend that not only worked foe EA Tiburon, but actually worked on the UI for both madden 2005 and madden 2006.
let me assure you several things:
it's not just as easy as "slapping on prettier textures". yes the code is very old (and crappy), but there's tons of work that has to be done (largely fixing bugs)
they work the ever-loving **** out of thier employees, and thier employees are appropriately compensated. multiply this for the number of people workong on a team, multiple teams, the testers, managers, supervisors, etc.
new (albeit small) features are added every year, which require lots of testing, fixing, adjusting, etc. i remember that the kick menu on madden 2005 wars replaced VERY late in development and shipped buggy
part of the problem is the management mentality at EA. desite a "mature" codebase, the number of bugs that has to be found and fixed each year is increased. how the hell does this make any sense? in effect, testers has to "find" bugs that may not really exist and developers have to "fix" those bugs. basically, bureaucracy is dragging the team down, causing extra work
i'm sure the above is overly simplified, but it gives you a little bit of information on how things REALLY work
i'm currently reading up on patents and one of the many reasons for a patent to be rejected is "obviousness" or the combination of multiple ideas to form another idea where a logical person could deduce a result of said existing technologies.
someone with more experience should help articulate/clarify my commant, but i hope it gets the idea across.
to me it sounds like this person is just trying to cause undue tension. we have a girl claiming to be lesbian, but no one makes a big deal out of it - mostly because she doesn't.
i'm not saying you need to join the ranks of the immature by yelling "fag" or "gay", but you don't have to wave your flag out in front of everyone.
i don't yell "bush sucks" even though that's what i think and make it known to those i meet in real life.
Clearly you haven't been to CSS Zen Garden. The main page isn't that terribly exciting, but if you check out the designs it showcases, you might think differently [about CSS].
It's amazing what just a change in CSS can do (as CZG articulates). Go ahead and test it in different platforms.
you know, if microsoft keeps including features in vista that i love in linux i might just switch......or not... but either way, like that microsoft is actually wising up to convenient things like no reboots. too bad other stuff will suck so bad that you'll need to reboot once a week and format twice a year anyway - of course, this is much better than the days of 95 where daily boots and and quartely formats were the norm. who know, maybe vista will be even better.
okay, i really hate the subject line (and emeril's show) but here goes:
i work in a very small environment... say roughly 25 employees and at least that many desktops with about 20 servers. i've been pushing to move away from being a microsoft shop. luckily, the guy before me was also very pro-Best Solution (note i didn't say pro-linux or anti-microsoft) and set up a number of linux servers.
i have taken hold and attempted ot push the idea of linux desktop solution for people that don't need windows (i.e. sales people). i actually set up a second box for myself before deploying a test box for a sales person. being a ubuntu user for 3 releases now, i choose it for it's polish, shine, and my comfort level. my experiences have been mostly good. anytime anyone needs a package, i just grab it from apt-get (or find a repo first if need be). i can take care of the whole box via ssh and never have to bother the user. it works GREAT except for a few small problems in a windows network:
1. setting up active directory authentication is a PAIN. it's not hard, but time-consuming and requires a lot of manual tweaking (see my request for an automated tool) 2. evolution-exchange connector is horribly in need of work. the basics work, but it's not fast or efficient - or stable. it gets the job done, albeit not eloquently 3. (i belive the following is a problem with nautilus, but idk) when accessing a shared windows folder, authentication gives a prompt for credentials, but it doesn't matter when you put here. the second prompt for credentials is the important one. in fact, you cannot get the first box to go away unless you click cancel 4. sudo & AD groups. for the life of me i can't figure out how to get sudo to recognize %domain\linuxadmins as a valid group. `groups` shows me as being part of it, but it's almost as if sudo doesn't like the slash. i've tried escaping it, and tried it without the domain to no avail. ideally, i'd like to set up a group to allow certain users to perform updates when ubuntu notifies them stuff is in need of updateing.
my gripes aren't HUGE, but they're annoying to me. of course i haven't touched on management needed for a 20,000 pc environment (pushed software & updates), so ymmv
not that i know this (NDA), but microsoft has mentioned in the beta test of office 12, that the new compressed xml formats may change during the beta. given this, it is forseeable that upon recommendation for change by standards bodies, microsoft would actually change something...then again, this is microsoft we're talking about
...will someone tell these people to stop doing drugs and use thier brains a little.
i swear they shoot first (no pun intended) and ask questions later. little things like "what kind of future implications might this bill have" aren't even considered.
what's it gonna take to get someone with half a brain in office?
WoW is a perfect case-in-point example of how beautifully P2P can operate.
The "I download Linux distros" argument was always a bit shaky, but Blizzard is a commercial company using a new technology and proving it's effectiveness each and every patch (every 5-6 weeks or so).
There was a fantastic commentary on the RIAA made by Scott Bradner of Network World about how media organizations (RIAA, MPAA) have always fought new technology to the bitter end, only to find out from hindsight that it actually was beneficial. On the contrary, when they try to usurp the technology, they shoot themselves in the foot.
Where would movies at home (i.e. DVD) be today without the permiation of VCRs and video casettes? I wonder if anyone at the MPAA ever goes "Whoops... Glad we never won that argument!"
Does it count as a bug/exploit if it's fixed before anyone discovers it?
Microsoft has a habit of reactivity, "Oh shit, someone released an exploit, let's fix it".
I'd like to say Mozilla has a habit of proactvity, "Oh shit, there's this bug, let's fix it before someone exploits it".
Also, if you RTFA, you see things like Note that this is not a count of the number of advisories because advisories can contain multiple vulnerabilities. This is a count of the actual number of vulnerabilities. The article is short on substantial evidence or proof (author refuses to provide links). Furthermore, he doesn't even attempt to qualify what he claim.
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Sometime between main page and clicked link, they fixed it. :-\
http://www.lemis.com.nyud.net:8090/grog/Documentat ion/CFBSD/
The complete book in gzipped PostScript form (about 2.8 MB).
The complete book in gzipped PDF form (about 5 MB). This version has minor format problems with ligatures. If possible, use the PostScript version.
The complete sources for rebuilding the book (about 9.5 MB), gzipped tar.
how about a configurable option to not take up 200mb of ram? keep it as-is by default, but let power users toggle it off
I may be speaking slightly out of place here, but I have a good friend that not only worked foe EA Tiburon, but actually worked on the UI for both madden 2005 and madden 2006.
let me assure you several things:
i'm sure the above is overly simplified, but it gives you a little bit of information on how things REALLY work
i'm currently reading up on patents and one of the many reasons for a patent to be rejected is "obviousness" or the combination of multiple ideas to form another idea where a logical person could deduce a result of said existing technologies.
someone with more experience should help articulate/clarify my commant, but i hope it gets the idea across.
to me it sounds like this person is just trying to cause undue tension. we have a girl claiming to be lesbian, but no one makes a big deal out of it - mostly because she doesn't.
i'm not saying you need to join the ranks of the immature by yelling "fag" or "gay", but you don't have to wave your flag out in front of everyone.
i don't yell "bush sucks" even though that's what i think and make it known to those i meet in real life.
...such as Flash and Java support.
These are minor?
when you boss asks where a particular project is, tell him "in the version control system". make life easy -> http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
Clearly you haven't been to CSS Zen Garden. The main page isn't that terribly exciting, but if you check out the designs it showcases, you might think differently [about CSS].
It's amazing what just a change in CSS can do (as CZG articulates). Go ahead and test it in different platforms.
Good page design is about a good designer.
Anyone else find it ironic that they used an unordered list and then stuck letters on each list element instead of using a ordered list?
Okay, I'm just an HTML dork.
select count(*) from sourcecode where comments > 0
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plagerism at its finest
mod -1 lame
you know, if microsoft keeps including features in vista that i love in linux i might just switch... ...or not... but either way, like that microsoft is actually wising up to convenient things like no reboots. too bad other stuff will suck so bad that you'll need to reboot once a week and format twice a year anyway - of course, this is much better than the days of 95 where daily boots and and quartely formats were the norm. who know, maybe vista will be even better.
-1 redundant
+1 insightful
+1 interesting
-1 overrated
still doesn't fix the problem of the users not being able to actually `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade`, but i like the idea anyway
okay, i really hate the subject line (and emeril's show) but here goes:
i work in a very small environment... say roughly 25 employees and at least that many desktops with about 20 servers. i've been pushing to move away from being a microsoft shop. luckily, the guy before me was also very pro-Best Solution (note i didn't say pro-linux or anti-microsoft) and set up a number of linux servers.
i have taken hold and attempted ot push the idea of linux desktop solution for people that don't need windows (i.e. sales people). i actually set up a second box for myself before deploying a test box for a sales person. being a ubuntu user for 3 releases now, i choose it for it's polish, shine, and my comfort level. my experiences have been mostly good. anytime anyone needs a package, i just grab it from apt-get (or find a repo first if need be). i can take care of the whole box via ssh and never have to bother the user. it works GREAT except for a few small problems in a windows network:
1. setting up active directory authentication is a PAIN. it's not hard, but time-consuming and requires a lot of manual tweaking (see my request for an automated tool)
2. evolution-exchange connector is horribly in need of work. the basics work, but it's not fast or efficient - or stable. it gets the job done, albeit not eloquently
3. (i belive the following is a problem with nautilus, but idk) when accessing a shared windows folder, authentication gives a prompt for credentials, but it doesn't matter when you put here. the second prompt for credentials is the important one. in fact, you cannot get the first box to go away unless you click cancel
4. sudo & AD groups. for the life of me i can't figure out how to get sudo to recognize %domain\linuxadmins as a valid group. `groups` shows me as being part of it, but it's almost as if sudo doesn't like the slash. i've tried escaping it, and tried it without the domain to no avail. ideally, i'd like to set up a group to allow certain users to perform updates when ubuntu notifies them stuff is in need of updateing.
my gripes aren't HUGE, but they're annoying to me. of course i haven't touched on management needed for a 20,000 pc environment (pushed software & updates), so ymmv
Is there any myth that you're unwilling to bust?
not that i know this (NDA), but microsoft has mentioned in the beta test of office 12, that the new compressed xml formats may change during the beta. given this, it is forseeable that upon recommendation for change by standards bodies, microsoft would actually change something ...then again, this is microsoft we're talking about
But, is there an alternative to Gmail? What does the /. community use instead?
I say this only to point out the pompous, somewhat arrogant nature of many slashdotters:
pine
mod -1 troll or +1 funny. you're not sure are you?
Just in case...
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http://www.doxpara.com.nyud.net:8090/planetsony_u
...will someone tell these people to stop doing drugs and use thier brains a little.
i swear they shoot first (no pun intended) and ask questions later. little things like "what kind of future implications might this bill have" aren't even considered.
what's it gonna take to get someone with half a brain in office?
WoW is a perfect case-in-point example of how beautifully P2P can operate.
The "I download Linux distros" argument was always a bit shaky, but Blizzard is a commercial company using a new technology and proving it's effectiveness each and every patch (every 5-6 weeks or so).
There was a fantastic commentary on the RIAA made by Scott Bradner of Network World about how media organizations (RIAA, MPAA) have always fought new technology to the bitter end, only to find out from hindsight that it actually was beneficial. On the contrary, when they try to usurp the technology, they shoot themselves in the foot.
Where would movies at home (i.e. DVD) be today without the permiation of VCRs and video casettes? I wonder if anyone at the MPAA ever goes "Whoops... Glad we never won that argument!"
Probably not.
Does it count as a bug/exploit if it's fixed before anyone discovers it?
Microsoft has a habit of reactivity, "Oh shit, someone released an exploit, let's fix it".
I'd like to say Mozilla has a habit of proactvity, "Oh shit, there's this bug, let's fix it before someone exploits it".
Also, if you RTFA, you see things like Note that this is not a count of the number of advisories because advisories can contain multiple vulnerabilities. This is a count of the actual number of vulnerabilities. The article is short on substantial evidence or proof (author refuses to provide links). Furthermore, he doesn't even attempt to qualify what he claim.
Take it with a grain of salt.
I'm glad to see the step in the right direction, but slashcode looks like garbage without a stylesheet; it should degrade gracefully
unless it fixes the (bad) rendering and let's me use firefox plugins, i don't want it!
If you wanted performance, why would you be programming in .NET anyway?
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