More likely they'll simply write their own books. Not only do they then get full control and use of material, but they can enjoy the large monetary benefits from their students as well.
I thought I just heard about a new sonic mega collection being offered for gamecube soon. I hear it will have every sonic on it but Sonic CD (for obvious reasons). And I suspect it will be as unaltered as the super mario advance games, that is to say, better graphics but otherwise unaltered game levels and mechanics.
I don't see why it wouldn't be picked up by Cartoon Network provided CN thinks they can get it approved for Adult Swim. They're hurting for new content as it stands.
Stuff like that would easily be made server side, or concurrent with the client. It probably allready is. The hard things to verify in online games are the actions people take. After all the bugs and exploits have been secured it amounts to information and information theory, in my experience. Any data you send the user should be suspect. And thats where more popular games like Counter-Strike are living.
So far I've only heard of two good solutions: dummy terminals and ratings networks. But simply feeding the screen to the user is bandwidth intensive, high latency, and a poor use of existing hardware.
Your other option is to use a rating network to pair up people of similar skill. The idea is that to a poor player cheating is indistunguishable from a good player's actions, and that the best game is the one in which decisions always matter (i.e. losing 11 straight matches in a best of 20 off the bat isnt as exciting as a 10 to nine match. Theoretically cheaters would be matches up with experts who can perform similarly (consider the cheat a secret handicap) increasing the number of people who can compete with experts, and saving less skilled players the humiliation of utter defeat and cries of cheaters. Of course, this isn't a cure all; in addition to the hacks still being present and slow reaction time of any rating system, abuses to the ratings itself would also appear. Cheaters with a taste for game spoiling may choose to do poorly to lord over everyone on occasion. Even the best players may be bested by a lesser player using cheats, furthering the use of cheats.
The bottom line is that a computer makes a poor referee. A computer might be able to tell you exactly where to place the ball on the football field, but it can't make a call on something like offensive pass intereference. Either human policing or less twitch oriented games would be the most beneficial to the players.
Is a somewhat popular practice. Usually its something as mundane as replacing Mario with a giant walking penis, but occasionally you'll see someone with a clue, or maybe someone who knows more japanese than you. Supposedly there's going to be a large announcement on the first site on the 23rd of july. Maybe they'll announce something cool like a Crystalis Improvement.
can do plenty of damage to some of the more political operations. The white house and Congress both would be easy targets without the no fly zone. While you probably can't get them to collapse under their own weight, with a bit of investigation it wouldn't be too hard to pin down a point in time where you expect dignataries like the President, meeting of the Senate, etc. Fortunately things like the Federal Reserve and the Pentagon are a little more modern about these things, and could probably handle something that light.
What I don't get it why herbal is "better." Wouldn't a chemical identified from an herbal source be a far more efficient and reliable cure than some plant that may or may not interact with other drugs you've been prescribed?
Yea, the Gnutella TTL is a distinct TTL. Essentially you're dealing with a network (gnutella) within a network (TCP/IP). This is important because otherwise searches would never end. Each search would go and new ones would add futher velocity to the system.
I live in Kansas City. And I haven't heard word boo about this Alexis Patterson child. But I have seen the horrendous story of the abduction of Elizabeth Smart on national news networks. That is what this whole Katz Rant is about.
Its a disservice to shareholders, which lately is an offense punishable by firing. Clear channel is in a bind; if they refuse pay for play they stand to lose a significant sum of money. If they continue, then their survival is in the hands of the labels. Which is actually better for them than it sounds. Dropping the indies has been tried. It didn't work terribly well. It would be a huge risk to attempt to fund a viable artist without airplay, which is what dropping indies amounts to.
Basically, as long as its legal, the Top 40 will be bought and sold. Not that the abolishment of the practice will get good artists like Liquid Tension Experiment on the chart; the radio demands a certain format to pay for itself.
Actually, a certain famous composer whose name I've forgotton actually kept writing good music after he went deaf. Not much reason to use a piano after that. I suspect that your need to write code at a computer is psychological; you've always written code on a computer and now its highly associated with your ability to write code. Its like my little brother: when he got a TV in his room, for the first 6 months or so, he used to fall asleep without turning off the television. Now he can't sleep without it on. There's a psychological term for this sort of association, but I've forgotten it as well.
Actually, 128 megs of ram might be plenty. PS2 developers complained early on that there wasn't enough RAM for things like textures. Presumably you'll be moving a lot of data through the RAM in a similar manner to the ps2.
Just like the article in the submission, your link has bias. These people are recruiters. They get paid to find people to hire, not to con your employer out of more money. So of course they don't think counter-offers are a good deal, they lose out on money.
Putting obvious copyright issues aside, I don't want to see another port of an old SNES title to an newer platform. Don't get me wrong, SoM is a great game, but it should be a source of inspiration, not perspiration. Give me a new game that addresses the issues of the old or takes me in different directions than before!
"I liked the chapter differentiating generative recursion from structural recursion. That's a really insightful distinction in terms of the mechanics of grasping a problem and a good solution for the problem."
What a curious term for that stuff. It makes sense but I thought for a second I had missed something really cool. Instead its just iterative versus recursive code. I suppose it could be useful for first time learners but then again you could use the term inductive algorithm as well, since generative recursion is just like inductive logic.
While I personally hated it, BlueJ does a nice method of presenting novice programmers with a decent class diagram. This is the IDE used at Kansas State University's introductory CIS class, in combination with a book written by an excellent professor. It emphasises the "MVC" architecture made popular in part by SmallTalk. Of course our course is rough on true novices who haven't had a high enough dosage of procedural programming to take the step forward to OOP, which is why they're starting to push a class below that level. I doubt it will ever be required, simply because as it stands there's just not enough semesters in a 4 year stay.
Personally I'm a poor programmer, for question you asked. I tend not to use flowcharts because I find it easier to express what I would write down in code anyways. If I use any conceptual model its typically just a class diagram for large projects, or maybe a memory map for smaller architectures. Rational Rose seems to be about the only real standard out there for conceptual stuff, unless you count hand waving Design Patterns.
But I feel sorry for any intiate who takes on such advanced topics like "programs are made of..." because not all programs can be seen as a knowledge base, or a system of sending messages. I would focus more on the math behind the scenes, because thats where things are heading. Things like assertions and domains are finally being promoted in Software Engineering and it takes a solid foundation to appreciate and understand it. Computers operate on a mathematical level. The smallest component of a program is an instruction. If you want to model that using parse trees thats an interesting approach but mostly useless. Reguardless of the content, for an entry level class the best thing you can do to get more of the class to understand things is lots of bite sized homework. Its a pain on the graders and the students might complain, but doing things several times using similar solutions helps you generalize concepts better.
Local monopolies are slowly being eroded by competing companies. Unfortunately, they also charge by usage. You can get different speeds of cable modem from them at different costs, which after checking/. recently, is the sum of all evils. I guess we'll have to look elsewhere for their cheap high speed bandwidth. Maybe packet radio is the solution, or stationwagons full of CDs.
But honestly, I look forward to everest getting off their ass to provide service to me. I read that everest was granted a cable liscence in my area, but they won't offer service until they get the liscences to offer a full suite of services like phone, cable and long distance.
Well, when the FTC forced open the long distance hardware to competitiors, people like Sprint and MCI jumped at the chance. Now the market is very nice for consumers. The same thing applies to wireless. On the other hand, the vast majority of people are stuck with maybe one, occasionally two options: cable and DSL. But most municipalities are in exclusive utility mode. And the Bells certainly don't want DSL cutting into their T1 line margins do they? Basically, two providers may not be a monopoly, but it certainly provides a ripe oppertunity for coincidental collusion.
There is, of course, multiple answers. Long distance is a competitive market. On the other hand, I2 has zero competition, and was funded by tax dollars to build for research. I'm still not exactly what kind of research this might be; they'be been pimping teleconferenceing with it for the last five or so years.
Things used to be that way. I really liked LAZER's (a station close to KU) radio format , which was basically looking for the vanguard of modern rock, or what have you. And the late hours were all trance, or whatever you like to call techno. But the group that actually owns the station decided that ad revenues weren't enough and they decided to do a market research over the summer. Well being students, a large chunk of their former listening audience was missing and the report said that top40 was the most promising. So here in Kansas City, we went to having 4 different rock stations down to 1.
However, I think a larger factor is that the demographics for these kind of stations don't have much discresionary cash. Combine the resulting decline in demand for advertising with the competition between 4 stations and you wind up with dying radio. Believe it or not, its called Pop Music for a reason. If people dodn't enjoy it they change the station.
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More likely they'll simply write their own books. Not only do they then get full control and use of material, but they can enjoy the large monetary benefits from their students as well.
I thought I just heard about a new sonic mega collection being offered for gamecube soon. I hear it will have every sonic on it but Sonic CD (for obvious reasons). And I suspect it will be as unaltered as the super mario advance games, that is to say, better graphics but otherwise unaltered game levels and mechanics.
Thats what? 100 ms? Maybe the games I play have systems to counteract this, but I rarely notice how bad things are until around 250ms pingtimes.
I don't see why it wouldn't be picked up by Cartoon Network provided CN thinks they can get it approved for Adult Swim. They're hurting for new content as it stands.
Stuff like that would easily be made server side, or concurrent with the client. It probably allready is. The hard things to verify in online games are the actions people take. After all the bugs and exploits have been secured it amounts to information and information theory, in my experience. Any data you send the user should be suspect. And thats where more popular games like Counter-Strike are living.
So far I've only heard of two good solutions: dummy terminals and ratings networks. But simply feeding the screen to the user is bandwidth intensive, high latency, and a poor use of existing hardware.
Your other option is to use a rating network to pair up people of similar skill. The idea is that to a poor player cheating is indistunguishable from a good player's actions, and that the best game is the one in which decisions always matter (i.e. losing 11 straight matches in a best of 20 off the bat isnt as exciting as a 10 to nine match. Theoretically cheaters would be matches up with experts who can perform similarly (consider the cheat a secret handicap) increasing the number of people who can compete with experts, and saving less skilled players the humiliation of utter defeat and cries of cheaters. Of course, this isn't a cure all; in addition to the hacks still being present and slow reaction time of any rating system, abuses to the ratings itself would also appear. Cheaters with a taste for game spoiling may choose to do poorly to lord over everyone on occasion. Even the best players may be bested by a lesser player using cheats, furthering the use of cheats.
The bottom line is that a computer makes a poor referee. A computer might be able to tell you exactly where to place the ball on the football field, but it can't make a call on something like offensive pass intereference. Either human policing or less twitch oriented games would be the most beneficial to the players.
Is a somewhat popular practice. Usually its something as mundane as replacing Mario with a giant walking penis, but occasionally you'll see someone with a clue, or maybe someone who knows more japanese than you. Supposedly there's going to be a large announcement on the first site on the 23rd of july. Maybe they'll announce something cool like a Crystalis Improvement.
How do you cheat in a racing "game?" Cornering-bot? Race scripting?
can do plenty of damage to some of the more political operations. The white house and Congress both would be easy targets without the no fly zone. While you probably can't get them to collapse under their own weight, with a bit of investigation it wouldn't be too hard to pin down a point in time where you expect dignataries like the President, meeting of the Senate, etc. Fortunately things like the Federal Reserve and the Pentagon are a little more modern about these things, and could probably handle something that light.
What I don't get it why herbal is "better." Wouldn't a chemical identified from an herbal source be a far more efficient and reliable cure than some plant that may or may not interact with other drugs you've been prescribed?
I mean the more searches the more bits are shuffled about per second.
Yea, the Gnutella TTL is a distinct TTL. Essentially you're dealing with a network (gnutella) within a network (TCP/IP). This is important because otherwise searches would never end. Each search would go and new ones would add futher velocity to the system.
I live in Kansas City. And I haven't heard word boo about this Alexis Patterson child. But I have seen the horrendous story of the abduction of Elizabeth Smart on national news networks. That is what this whole Katz Rant is about.
Come on now, thats just funny. It caters so well to the /. audience as well.
Basically, as long as its legal, the Top 40 will be bought and sold. Not that the abolishment of the practice will get good artists like Liquid Tension Experiment on the chart; the radio demands a certain format to pay for itself.
Actually, a certain famous composer whose name I've forgotton actually kept writing good music after he went deaf. Not much reason to use a piano after that. I suspect that your need to write code at a computer is psychological; you've always written code on a computer and now its highly associated with your ability to write code. Its like my little brother: when he got a TV in his room, for the first 6 months or so, he used to fall asleep without turning off the television. Now he can't sleep without it on. There's a psychological term for this sort of association, but I've forgotten it as well.
I would have just thought it was a simple felony to provide such insecure access to people's health care records.
Actually, 128 megs of ram might be plenty. PS2 developers complained early on that there wasn't enough RAM for things like textures. Presumably you'll be moving a lot of data through the RAM in a similar manner to the ps2.
Just like the article in the submission, your link has bias. These people are recruiters. They get paid to find people to hire, not to con your employer out of more money. So of course they don't think counter-offers are a good deal, they lose out on money.
Putting obvious copyright issues aside, I don't want to see another port of an old SNES title to an newer platform. Don't get me wrong, SoM is a great game, but it should be a source of inspiration, not perspiration. Give me a new game that addresses the issues of the old or takes me in different directions than before!
"I liked the chapter differentiating generative recursion from structural recursion. That's a really insightful distinction in terms of the mechanics of grasping a problem and a good solution for the problem."
What a curious term for that stuff. It makes sense but I thought for a second I had missed something really cool. Instead its just iterative versus recursive code. I suppose it could be useful for first time learners but then again you could use the term inductive algorithm as well, since generative recursion is just like inductive logic.
Plus, nobody ever asks to use your computer more than once. I find trackballs have the same effect.
Personally I'm a poor programmer, for question you asked. I tend not to use flowcharts because I find it easier to express what I would write down in code anyways. If I use any conceptual model its typically just a class diagram for large projects, or maybe a memory map for smaller architectures. Rational Rose seems to be about the only real standard out there for conceptual stuff, unless you count hand waving Design Patterns.
But I feel sorry for any intiate who takes on such advanced topics like "programs are made of..." because not all programs can be seen as a knowledge base, or a system of sending messages. I would focus more on the math behind the scenes, because thats where things are heading. Things like assertions and domains are finally being promoted in Software Engineering and it takes a solid foundation to appreciate and understand it. Computers operate on a mathematical level. The smallest component of a program is an instruction. If you want to model that using parse trees thats an interesting approach but mostly useless. Reguardless of the content, for an entry level class the best thing you can do to get more of the class to understand things is lots of bite sized homework. Its a pain on the graders and the students might complain, but doing things several times using similar solutions helps you generalize concepts better.
But honestly, I look forward to everest getting off their ass to provide service to me. I read that everest was granted a cable liscence in my area, but they won't offer service until they get the liscences to offer a full suite of services like phone, cable and long distance.
Well, when the FTC forced open the long distance hardware to competitiors, people like Sprint and MCI jumped at the chance. Now the market is very nice for consumers. The same thing applies to wireless. On the other hand, the vast majority of people are stuck with maybe one, occasionally two options: cable and DSL. But most municipalities are in exclusive utility mode. And the Bells certainly don't want DSL cutting into their T1 line margins do they? Basically, two providers may not be a monopoly, but it certainly provides a ripe oppertunity for coincidental collusion.
There is, of course, multiple answers. Long distance is a competitive market. On the other hand, I2 has zero competition, and was funded by tax dollars to build for research. I'm still not exactly what kind of research this might be; they'be been pimping teleconferenceing with it for the last five or so years.
Things used to be that way. I really liked LAZER's (a station close to KU) radio format , which was basically looking for the vanguard of modern rock, or what have you. And the late hours were all trance, or whatever you like to call techno. But the group that actually owns the station decided that ad revenues weren't enough and they decided to do a market research over the summer. Well being students, a large chunk of their former listening audience was missing and the report said that top40 was the most promising. So here in Kansas City, we went to having 4 different rock stations down to 1.
However, I think a larger factor is that the demographics for these kind of stations don't have much discresionary cash. Combine the resulting decline in demand for advertising with the competition between 4 stations and you wind up with dying radio. Believe it or not, its called Pop Music for a reason. If people dodn't enjoy it they change the station.