In other news, one-click shopping reveals the location of Osama bin Laden and brings Al Qaeda to a standstill. Coming up next, how the opening of DNA sequencing technology patents will thwart Saddam Hussein's evil machinations.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
1) You imply that the Warcrafts are clones of Starcraft. This is erroneous. Starcraft came after WC2, and was clearly a very similar game. The similarities are even more apparent when you look at screenshots of beta versions on Blizzard's history site.
2) You bring your console on long flights? You must carry around a big battery pack and an lcd screen of some sort. That's awful hardcore of you.
And the time before that, they liked the "other group of developers" so much that they became "Blizzard North". One sample point does not indicate a trend.
irony/'I-r&-nE/. noun. 1: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result 2: an event or result marked by such incongruity 3: a comment on Slashdot about the inefficiency and futility of comment moderation that is moderated to (Score: 4, Funny)
What is it about space travel that makes it necessary to get federal approval? WalMart, for example, does not need government approval for shipping a box from the warehouse to the store.
Why does the US government have to license trips to the moon? The satellite is taking off from Russia, and neither space nor the moon are US territories. The article didn't clear this up, can anyone else?
"Most of the people I know have a love-hate relationship with Kip Irvine's Assembly Language for Intel-based Computers. Ask any student who used this textbook and you will either get a cheerful 'I've used it, it's great, I learned Assembly, and it has lots of useful examples' or resentful 'The book is horrible, hard to follow and full of code that is irrelevant to the contents of a specific chapter.'"
That's not a love/hate relationship. A love/hate relationship would be "I used it, it was hard to follow, but I learned Assembly once I finished wading through it. I'm glad I read it, but if I have to do it again, I'm going to commit Hari-Kari"
Your post is either 1) a troll, or 2) misdirected anger. I have the utmost respect for the real-time lighting and shadowing that Id is working on for Doom3. That, in fact, is why I was so surprised that Joe thought the (decade-old) idea of separating game logic and engine was the most interesting part of the interview.
I actually thought that the interview was pretty lax on details, and I think Tim probably typed up those responses in five minutes in response to a single email.
"[M]ost of the game logic is outside the main executable, this gives us great flexibility in changing basic game parameters between single and multiplayer."
Yeah this is so cutting-edge. Never before has a game put its game logic outside the main executable. I foresee this design paradigm spawning multiple "modifications" using the Doom 3 game engine. Many of them will be free and I imagine some may even use OSS licenses. This is truly a revolution for PC gaming!
1) [...] A nice Hoo-ha to anyone who says there are no practical applications of lisp based languages. (except haskell...which personally, i think sucks! [...])
You ridicule people who dismiss the usefulness of your personal "favorite" language, and then you dismiss the usefulness of one particular language that you happen to dislike? That's a bit hypocritical.
3) [...] what happens when a few smart spammers get their hands on this analysis[?]
Paul covers this. First, he suggests that each user's filters should be personalized, so that any spammer would not be able to circumvent everyone's filters. Second, the filters would be continually learning, possibly dumping older words from the corpus in favor of newer ones. And third, even if a spammer put at the end of his spam "describe describe describe describe", this still wouldn't work; the basic premise of the filter is that the spammer HAS to tell you what he's selling, and in the process of doing that, gives himself away as a spammer.
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The real improvements in the Doom3 engine can't be seen in a static image like this. You won't realize what a difference completely dynamic lights and shadows will make until you SEE it.
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I got into a good habit at my first SysAdminning job that prevents this kinda problem. Make a directory in/usr/local/package/. Make a subdirectory dist, and untar the source there. configure --prefix=/usr/local/package/. make and make install, and then when you have all your/usr/local/package/bin/ and lib directories, make sym links.
"Uninstalling" and "upgrading" becomes as easy as "for F in `ls -l/usr/local/* | grep '->/usr/local/package/'`; do rm $F; done".
At the aforementioned job, the directory I installed to was actually/usr/local/package/version/architecture/, but I consider that overkill on my home machine.
RTFA. The rest of the world is currently using 13-digit UPCs, and this change is more to satisfy manufacturer complaints than opening up more address space, IMO.
14-digit codes like the RSS code are currently being used on shipping crates and so forth, and the article says that some companies are actually going to use those 14-digit codes in order to consolidate their databases. A good idea.
I would mod you up if I could. Because of their large feature set, giant RDBMS's like Oracle often end up doing things that belong in the middle tier. I'm glad someone with so much real knowledge was able to speak up in favor of MySQL.
Actually, this isn't a new plant opening up. It's just a new assembly line in the existing East Fishkill plant. My mom works for the Microelectronics division there, and she points out that the line is referred to as the "300mm line", not the "0.1 micron line".
From the parent: "Well, it wasn't a government authority, it was a capitalist one. Which I suppose says more about his convictions than we'd like to know." (Implying that Bruce is only concerned with Money)
From the article: "HP funds Perens to pursue a variety of free software projects." (Explaining the Bruce was concerned with his ability to continue working on your free software)
In fact, the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere oscillates regularly between December 21 and 22. This page has a table of the soltices up to 2009.
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Ernest "Fritz" Hollings was last re-elected to the US Senate in 1998. With the six-year term in the Senate, that means that he will be running again for office (presumably) in 2004.
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It looks to me like the first article was posted 33 years ago!
Or the real oldest article in the database from New Year's Eve 1998.
We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions.
Wow, a 3% acceptance rate. Considering the signal to noise ratio in the discussion, that's pretty good!
Yup
In other news, one-click shopping reveals the location of Osama bin Laden and brings Al Qaeda to a standstill.
Coming up next, how the opening of DNA sequencing technology patents will thwart Saddam Hussein's evil machinations.
Does this remind anyone else of 'Connections'?
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
--Robert Frost
1) You imply that the Warcrafts are clones of Starcraft. This is erroneous. Starcraft came after WC2, and was clearly a very similar game. The similarities are even more apparent when you look at screenshots of beta versions on Blizzard's history site.
2) You bring your console on long flights? You must carry around a big battery pack and an lcd screen of some sort. That's awful hardcore of you.
And the time before that, they liked the "other group of developers" so much that they became "Blizzard North". One sample point does not indicate a trend.
irony /'I-r&-nE/. noun.
1: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result
2: an event or result marked by such incongruity
3: a comment on Slashdot about the inefficiency and futility of comment moderation that is moderated to (Score: 4, Funny)
Hey, at least it isn't TWO FULL YEARS late.
What is it about space travel that makes it necessary to get federal approval? WalMart, for example, does not need government approval for shipping a box from the warehouse to the store.
Why does the US government have to license trips to the moon? The satellite is taking off from Russia, and neither space nor the moon are US territories. The article didn't clear this up, can anyone else?
"Most of the people I know have a love-hate relationship with Kip Irvine's Assembly Language for Intel-based Computers. Ask any student who used this textbook and you will either get a cheerful 'I've used it, it's great, I learned Assembly, and it has lots of useful examples' or resentful 'The book is horrible, hard to follow and full of code that is irrelevant to the contents of a specific chapter.'"
That's not a love/hate relationship. A love/hate relationship would be "I used it, it was hard to follow, but I learned Assembly once I finished wading through it. I'm glad I read it, but if I have to do it again, I'm going to commit Hari-Kari"
Your post is either 1) a troll, or 2) misdirected anger. I have the utmost respect for the real-time lighting and shadowing that Id is working on for Doom3. That, in fact, is why I was so surprised that Joe thought the (decade-old) idea of separating game logic and engine was the most interesting part of the interview.
I actually thought that the interview was pretty lax on details, and I think Tim probably typed up those responses in five minutes in response to a single email.
"[M]ost of the game logic is outside the main executable, this gives us great flexibility in changing basic game parameters between single and multiplayer."
Yeah this is so cutting-edge. Never before has a game put its game logic outside the main executable. I foresee this design paradigm spawning multiple "modifications" using the Doom 3 game engine. Many of them will be free and I imagine some may even use OSS licenses. This is truly a revolution for PC gaming!
1) [...] A nice Hoo-ha to anyone who says there are no practical applications of lisp based languages. (except haskell...which personally, i think sucks! [...])
You ridicule people who dismiss the usefulness of your personal "favorite" language, and then you dismiss the usefulness of one particular language that you happen to dislike? That's a bit hypocritical.
3) [...] what happens when a few smart spammers get their hands on this analysis[?]
Paul covers this. First, he suggests that each user's filters should be personalized, so that any spammer would not be able to circumvent everyone's filters. Second, the filters would be continually learning, possibly dumping older words from the corpus in favor of newer ones. And third, even if a spammer put at the end of his spam "describe describe describe describe", this still wouldn't work; the basic premise of the filter is that the spammer HAS to tell you what he's selling, and in the process of doing that, gives himself away as a spammer.
The real improvements in the Doom3 engine can't be seen in a static image like this. You won't realize what a difference completely dynamic lights and shadows will make until you SEE it.
I got into a good habit at my first SysAdminning job that prevents this kinda problem. Make a directory in /usr/local/package/. Make a subdirectory dist, and untar the source there. configure --prefix=/usr/local/package/. make and make install, and then when you have all your /usr/local/package/bin/ and lib directories, make sym links.
/usr/local/* | grep '-> /usr/local/package/'`; do rm $F; done".
/usr/local/package/version/architecture/, but I consider that overkill on my home machine.
"Uninstalling" and "upgrading" becomes as easy as "for F in `ls -l
At the aforementioned job, the directory I installed to was actually
RTFA. The rest of the world is currently using 13-digit UPCs, and this change is more to satisfy manufacturer complaints than opening up more address space, IMO.
14-digit codes like the RSS code are currently being used on shipping crates and so forth, and the article says that some companies are actually going to use those 14-digit codes in order to consolidate their databases. A good idea.
Hear, hear!
I would mod you up if I could. Because of their large feature set, giant RDBMS's like Oracle often end up doing things that belong in the middle tier. I'm glad someone with so much real knowledge was able to speak up in favor of MySQL.
'Bout time IBM got back into upstate NY.
Actually, this isn't a new plant opening up. It's just a new assembly line in the existing East Fishkill plant. My mom works for the Microelectronics division there, and she points out that the line is referred to as the "300mm line", not the "0.1 micron line".
From the parent: "Well, it wasn't a government authority, it was a capitalist one. Which I suppose says more about his convictions than we'd like to know."
(Implying that Bruce is only concerned with Money)
From the article: "HP funds Perens to pursue a variety of free software projects."
(Explaining the Bruce was concerned with his ability to continue working on your free software)
Actually, the Challenger mission was actually mission "51-L". STS-51 came 7 years later, and involved a four-times-aborted launch of the Discovery.
In fact, the shortest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere oscillates regularly between December 21 and 22. This page has a table of the soltices up to 2009.
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings was last re-elected to the US Senate in 1998. With the six-year term in the Senate, that means that he will be running again for office (presumably) in 2004.
I've got CPAN 1.61. Which is coincidentally the most recent version.