I visited a friend of mine, who is a big DV enthusiast. He was working on a cheesy rap video to pass the time and was trying to make it appear as though his car had flown into its parking spot.
That one minute clip took about an hour of work, and we spent at least 15 minutes just waiting for Premiere to render the effects he was applying (basically, move and rotate a Photoshop image acress the screen). Mind you, this is a 1.33 GHz Athlon, fresh out of the local hardware agora, with half a GB of RAM.
If a "killer app" to justify further upgrades is needed, I'd have to say one of them digital video. Is it any coincidence that Apple and Microsoft are putting said functionality in their latest OSes? -- There is no K5 cabal.
and doesn't that make you wonder why drug crimes are often considered much more serious than rape?
This is delving a bit deep into the psyche, but the fact that so few people have an idea of what the rapist's mind goes through is a sufficient indicator of how troubled a rapist is. Such a small portion of society understands what it is about, while many people have tried or continue to use illegal drugs and think no ill of it, if not in public, at least in private. -- There is no K5 cabal.
This is surely scored favorably as "funny", not "interesting". Why not make a laptop case out of said material, instead of a tent? For that matter, why not settle on a DC standard that could power Walkmans and GPS units out of backpacks, suitcases, and purses? You don't have to wash any of those very often, and you could easily lug around the same one of those every day... -- There is no K5 cabal.
I'd say that just about everything is an RPG -- self-preservation, search, destroy, develop. What is Wolfenstein but nethack with guns? I don't think many people would put the two in the same category, though. So given what passes for game standards, I'd say that Tribes is definitely not an FPS; in fact, it's almost cool!
Personally, I'm still happy with Warcraft II. Five years down the line with it, I still haven't found another game that is quite as good. -- There is no K5 cabal.
Chinese officials are good about looking the other way when it comes to IP, especially if it is to the benefit of China. In any other country, whether this idea ultimately ends up being on the level or not, there would be a restraining order against the manufacture of these devices so fast that a small flotilla of Navy ships would have the shipment stopped in the middle of the Pacific. -- There is no K5 cabal.
These personal firewall systems are really starting to piss me off. Now millions of instant "security experts" can shriek every fucking time they get a ping. At home, you'll know you've been r00ted when mysterious traffic starts showing up on your modem or router. Sure, you've noticed someone scanned you, but WTF do you do after that? Send a complaint to the netblock maintainer? Hah, like they care what someone from their thousands of systems ran a portscan on someone in 24.x.x.x!
At work, your firewall *should* be good enough. Reporting abuses of your network to the maintainer of that netblock may actually produce some results. You *should* have some qualification (read: you know what you're talking about), be able to speak that person's lingo, and *should* have some well documented log excerpts to show a clear pattern of abuse, not some untraceable and/or forgivable indiscretions.
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Once the cost of sending and receiving video is reasonable, it will be useful, any time the question of "well, what does it LOOK like?" arises, i.e.:
"Honey, did you want _this_ one?"
"How do I get there from here? I'm in a strange part of town, and I don't know where I am."
"When your system locked up, did you get a screen like (picture) this, or (picture) this?"
I visited a friend of mine, who is a big DV enthusiast. He was working on a cheesy rap video to pass the time and was trying to make it appear as though his car had flown into its parking spot.
That one minute clip took about an hour of work, and we spent at least 15 minutes just waiting for Premiere to render the effects he was applying (basically, move and rotate a Photoshop image acress the screen). Mind you, this is a 1.33 GHz Athlon, fresh out of the local hardware agora, with half a GB of RAM.
If a "killer app" to justify further upgrades is needed, I'd have to say one of them digital video. Is it any coincidence that Apple and Microsoft are putting said functionality in their latest OSes?
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There is no K5 cabal.
I'm not going to dredge up the link, but surely you recall the "potato powered computer"? Anything is possible.
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This is delving a bit deep into the psyche, but the fact that so few people have an idea of what the rapist's mind goes through is a sufficient indicator of how troubled a rapist is. Such a small portion of society understands what it is about, while many people have tried or continue to use illegal drugs and think no ill of it, if not in public, at least in private.
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There is no K5 cabal.
This is surely scored favorably as "funny", not "interesting". Why not make a laptop case out of said material, instead of a tent? For that matter, why not settle on a DC standard that could power Walkmans and GPS units out of backpacks, suitcases, and purses? You don't have to wash any of those very often, and you could easily lug around the same one of those every day...
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I'd say that just about everything is an RPG -- self-preservation, search, destroy, develop. What is Wolfenstein but nethack with guns? I don't think many people would put the two in the same category, though. So given what passes for game standards, I'd say that Tribes is definitely not an FPS; in fact, it's almost cool!
Personally, I'm still happy with Warcraft II. Five years down the line with it, I still haven't found another game that is quite as good.
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Or Mortal Kombat XI Neodymium with the same 12 characters from the last five games...
Well, there's always Wolfen^H^H^H^H^H^H Quake 12...
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P.S.: I am not the real Rusty (who claims the same). I guess nobody notices the irony...
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The articles are in *cough* English...
use the fish, or maybe if can't read English anyway...
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Chinese officials are good about looking the other way when it comes to IP, especially if it is to the benefit of China. In any other country, whether this idea ultimately ends up being on the level or not, there would be a restraining order against the manufacture of these devices so fast that a small flotilla of Navy ships would have the shipment stopped in the middle of the Pacific.
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There is no K5 cabal.
These personal firewall systems are really starting to piss me off. Now millions of instant "security experts" can shriek every fucking time they get a ping. At home, you'll know you've been r00ted when mysterious traffic starts showing up on your modem or router. Sure, you've noticed someone scanned you, but WTF do you do after that? Send a complaint to the netblock maintainer? Hah, like they care what someone from their thousands of systems ran a portscan on someone in 24.x.x.x!
At work, your firewall *should* be good enough. Reporting abuses of your network to the maintainer of that netblock may actually produce some results. You *should* have some qualification (read: you know what you're talking about), be able to speak that person's lingo, and *should* have some well documented log excerpts to show a clear pattern of abuse, not some untraceable and/or forgivable indiscretions.
That's my $0.02.
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Yay! 575 is back!!!
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I have just one link for you: this.
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Programmers have also been writing code with abstraction layers for a long, long time, too.
Not everything requires that you get down to the bare metal and work with OS-specific libraries.
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