I acutally know guys who program and do all the art for thier games. http://www.wolfire.com is run by a friend of mine and it has an amazing quality of games now adays. lugaru is top quality fighting and design. 6 months of programing by 1 guy produced that in his spare time at the highschool level.
The formation of diamonds is actually suppose to be a spontanious action however the reason we need the large amount of heat and pressure is to get over a chemical hump called the Ea, Activation energy. Essentially the Ea servers to create an intermediat compound before reaching your final product. I cant remeber the values off the top of my head while drunk but if it wasnt for Ea and those sturdy pi bonds diamonds have, coal would be turning into diamonds which would be turning into graphite.
Personally I feel that Video games can tap into many emotions present in a gamer as long as there is no goal that is just there to add 100 more hours to the game or in a completly linear story line.
I disliked FFX because they seemed to water the story down from there usual depth. It was way to linear and extreamly predictable. I was 3/4 into the game and remeber someone trying to spoil the ending for me. Auron isnt alive! *sigh* i said I allready know they used a technique called forshadowing which they had a pyrefly go out of him when yuna needed to speak with the dead elders. she continued trying to spoil the ending but 90% of it was allready revealed info. Kinda sad that they sold out an emotional high at the very end by putting way to many hints in the game. And please dont get me started with how Tidus talked in 3rd person throughout most of the FMVs. "I think we all changed that night" BLAH horrible storywriting right there
FF7 on the other hand handled killing off a charecter extreamly well. She is there you think you won then boom out of nowhere a sword is through her belly and she is gone. It took me a good 30 minuets to come to terms with the fact that they killed one of the main charecters and that now i was screwed since she was the strongest.
FF3 however stands out as one of the most enjoyable of them all and alot of emotions coarsing through you as you played. All the charecters had personal flaws which you could relate too. The heartless ninja did care, the honorable knight lied for years to continue someone elses hope. Also any feeling the charecters would supposadly have you shared in it. The excitment of the chace as the Fargo Castle submerges and you run off or the mistrust you have when a truce is called.
Overall what ruins emotional bond in games I have realized is that they try to keep you playing with extra gimics. Get 100% complete and see this new ending that you really want! the Game really isnt over because you need to play it on ultra hard in order to see this minuet change in gameplay! What you want to have a story and not crawl through 5 hours of puzzles to reach a boss that you have no real reason to fight besides some village elder told you he was a meany for stealing the ball in 2nd grade.
These gimics to add hours really sickens me and breaks the illusion of the world.
It is encouraging because you dont have to write while working. Writing a novel takes upwards of 2 years and truthfully not having to worry about the bills does help while crafting another novel. Also please name a good novelest who was in the buissness of crafting pros for the money. Most people write because they have a story to tell or idea and are willing to invest time in getting their message out.
While I am really glad that this is actually getting some hopefully serious attention and wont be a cobbled together movie I am seriously worried about how they are going to portray Shinji.
The reason I love evangelion is that Shinji neither wants to be a hero nor has the qualities of one. That single characteristic is what makes the series incredible because you see the emotional development of Shinji in a situation he doesn't want to be in. The only reason he stays put is not out of valor or a sense of justice but by the deep feeling of loneliness which he supplements by trying to please the people around him. ie an extremely normal person this day in age.
The thing that I am worried about however is that they might portray him as a hero and not the messed up person that he is (Anyone remember in the first few shots in Evangelion the movie where he wanks off to Asuka comatose in a hospital bed?)
Well I have been waiting for this news for a while now. I know Adrian much more as a person then a hacker. It saddens me to see him plead guilty and possibly go to jail but I knew he wouldnt fight if they charged him with actions that he did do.
One thing though that is hard to convay exspecially in text is his increadible sence of moral ethics. When we look at a name attached to the word hacker we have a certain mindset an image of all the hacker refrences we have at our disposal and apply that to Adrian. In this case that image is way off base. While I could list why I think he is an activly good person instead of the passive good/passive neutral people that make up the bulk of our society it still would not do him justice.
If you ever have the chance to talk to him for a good 20 minutes take the oppertunity, sit down and buy him a drink. By the end of the conversation you will walk away feeling that in his case he really shouldnt get the maximum sentance.
I do computer consulting ranging from repairing and setting up linux boxes on telecommunications companies to installing printer drivers for the technological inept.
While I agree with him that we spend an inordinate amount of time fixing computers I have come to the conclusion that it is 70% of the time a users misbelife of what a computer is that is the problem. Not the computer itself. Most users belive in the hype spewed by corperatoins or they have little of no concept of what are the limitations of computers.
I remeber a call once where I was installing a network and setting up a couple of boxes for a home buissness and afterwards he asked me to take a look at his laptop because word would allways freeze/slow to a crawl 10 minuets into the day. To make a long story short after 1 hour when the problem wouldnt replicate itself on the computer I was about 3 minuets away from wiping it because everything else tested ok. I then realized he probably wasnt going through his routine when he starts the computer. I asked him to do everything exsactly how he usually does and he then procedes to open 90 word documents in a folder each containing about 200+ pages of stock research and then it proceded to crash. He was a firm beliver that his computer could multi-task and had unlimited resources.
Anyhoo stuff like this happens to me alot actually where fixing the computer doesnt allways revolve around me working with silicon but also with the wetware of the person. I have some great stories I wish I could post but the NDA stop me =( but all I can say is imagine an administrator allways running as root because he doesnt want a normal user account for a large Fortune 500 company.
For me personally I enjoy having each function in a seprate box over an all in one combination. I have a multitude of devices that are totally redundant such as:
Ps2 with DVD controler DVD player 2 PC's with dvd-rom drive
But overall I find I use my small $50 dvd player over the other two choices because there is no boot time and it does its job well. The problem I have with all in one devices is that it takes a realitivly long time to accsess the things you want and it is more combersome then other single focus devices. where on a PC I would have to go through 4 commands to change my anime from english to japanese with english subs my dvd player has 1 physical button that does it. It may sound extreamly lazy but for me I am a well paid sys admin and I know the value of cron jobs and perl scripts =)
I think there is no more room on the net for "personal" websites. How many people here have run a blog or any other storehouse of personal info and at one point in time has it been used against you? For me it was about 6 times. Three with my school/university and 3 due to friends reading something and assuming it was them.
I think the net is great for writing about your intrests and perhaps form a community around it such as CG, Legos or Evil Dead movie series. However having personal info on the web is usually extreamly dangerous and can at times be annoying. I remeber how I at one time had a collection of 50 poems on my site but took it down after a peer decided that half of it was about her and started to complain to me about how she though I was a dick for bitching at her indirectly.
Now adays my old personal website is technicly amazing but I post no content on it. I guess live and learn.
Actually it probably wouldnt be Fox suing itself but one division sueing another. I remeber talking to the head Lawyer of Sony Media devision and how she mentioned that she cant count the times she took legal action against another devision of Sony. While these lumbering corperations seem like one entity there is usually alot of fighting using lawyers between devisions of a Megacorp.
I think a list like this would be nice to have however next to each game put on the list there should be a reason for it. Some are easy to see if you played the game, such as Deux Ex for amazing storyline... when I say Amazing I mean better then most novels out there. However if I never played them I wouldnt know why it was on the list. Even after you played them some are really hard to see what is innovative in the game.
Ugh this is actually pretty easy to calculate, for the rsa key in order to find the approximate number of keys possible you use the simple equation 2^k / (ln 2^k) this gives you an 'approximation' for all possible primes you can have in k-bits.
As for the ECC system I cant remeber the exsact computation off the top of my head to calculate key space but it has a much higher key concentration per bit added to key. not as high as a symetric cryptographic system with a 2^k keyspace but pretty high up there.
As for your reduction useing a ratio it wont work out since they both use diffrent keyspaces.
I was and continue to enjoy PvP in MMORPG's however after UO made changes to make it almost impossible to PVP I droped the game.
Why? Well for me when I pvped it wasnt ooo I have the most spells. Or wow I can hit harder then you. Nope for me it was all tactics. I trained an anusual skill set and had some intresting ways to fight people. I was a Grand master hider/magician which allowed me to do some very intresting things.
One way I would pvp people is throw a bomb into a group of 5-6 people and open up a portal to my favrote dungen with a wyrm and 2 dragons by the gate. Walk through it the other people will follow, I hit hide and let the dragons do the work for me.
Also I was known for my unique use of spells. casting paralize and invisable on beasts and monsters. Nothing is worse then walking into a dungen and finding a demon just appear out of no where right next to you. Also I enjoyed doing a monty python motif by polymorphing myself into a creature and walking around aimlessly untill someone attacked me. Kinda scary when a bunny cast summon deamon and attacks you.
However for me I never pvped usually unless the odds were greater then 3 vs 1 against me, since I knew I could not beat them with brute strenght alone.
While I am amazed at the initial price vs preformance that this cluster of macs have obtained I am worried about the eventual cost all the electricity and cooling will be for the cluster. I remeber reading in some random article that the electricity used to cool and power the computer was extimated around 3,000 midrange homes. Just from a quick calculation of homes x $100 x 12 months we get the horrible figure of 3.6mil. So over a 10 year lifespan of the cluster it will cost 36mil more the the current price.
While it is still cheaper then the original cost of Intell or IBM super computers I personaly would rather spend more and waste alot less electricity, since if I remeber correctly the cost of engery for comparable super computers was in the range of 0.5 mil-1 mil. Although they are stationed in other countries so the cost of electricity could be dramaticly less in japan then in america but I doubt it. Someone should really get the kW per hour used by the top 5 super computers and then calculate the price per year based on that.
Personaly I agree that beer should be labed a food product. Besides the variouse listed reasons the article gives, most of the by products from the brewing process, such as left over yeast is made into world renowned food substances like Vegimite.
oh well, I know many people who make a quick buck in my area from modding dvds to paly all reigions. while I would be happy for it to go it my friends would be curseing from the lack of extra cash.
Right now I am sitting in the press room typeing this and all I can say is LinuxWorld has evolved in many ways. At first glance most of my friends were somewhat dissapointed and the considerable drop of booths and people attending. But big buissness that have in the last past few years showed up in full force even the 3v1l Micro$haft. This signifys the continueing trend of how Linux and LinuxWorld Expo has turned from a kinda Comic Book convention atmosphere where you know everyone into a serious suit affair.
The highlights from linux world for me? Getting a pic of 17 Microsoft Employes all holding up a bumpersticker that said "You shouldnt Buy software from ex convicts". Besides that the allways insperational Linux Bowl/ or by its proper name the Golden Penguin Bowl when my Friend Arthur Ulfelt(? last name allways screws me up) got picked to be on the sides. And unfortunatly again one of my friends were on the looseing team since last year I got my friend Jesse Crocker to go up on one of the sides he lost forgetting that Trinity was in room 303 and he missed the 20 people makeing signs that said it with there fingers. Oh well. Arthurs shigning moment was when he said as the answer "Food" to the questoin is C6H1206 food or poisen =)
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All I can say is thank god for rescue disks. it was pretty evil when the login function got rm.
I got a Voodoo5 300mhz P3 and it runs fine on my comp. sure you dont have the settings right?
I acutally know guys who program and do all the art for thier games. http://www.wolfire.com is run by a friend of mine and it has an amazing quality of games now adays. lugaru is top quality fighting and design. 6 months of programing by 1 guy produced that in his spare time at the highschool level.
that when I was young our stone tablet punchcards had bugs and man were they huge
The formation of diamonds is actually suppose to be a spontanious action however the reason we need the large amount of heat and pressure is to get over a chemical hump called the Ea, Activation energy. Essentially the Ea servers to create an intermediat compound before reaching your final product. I cant remeber the values off the top of my head while drunk but if it wasnt for Ea and those sturdy pi bonds diamonds have, coal would be turning into diamonds which would be turning into graphite.
Personally I feel that Video games can tap into many emotions present in a gamer as long as there is no goal that is just there to add 100 more hours to the game or in a completly linear story line.
I disliked FFX because they seemed to water the story down from there usual depth. It was way to linear and extreamly predictable. I was 3/4 into the game and remeber someone trying to spoil the ending for me. Auron isnt alive! *sigh* i said I allready know they used a technique called forshadowing which they had a pyrefly go out of him when yuna needed to speak with the dead elders. she continued trying to spoil the ending but 90% of it was allready revealed info. Kinda sad that they sold out an emotional high at the very end by putting way to many hints in the game. And please dont get me started with how Tidus talked in 3rd person throughout most of the FMVs. "I think we all changed that night" BLAH horrible storywriting right there
FF7 on the other hand handled killing off a charecter extreamly well. She is there you think you won then boom out of nowhere a sword is through her belly and she is gone. It took me a good 30 minuets to come to terms with the fact that they killed one of the main charecters and that now i was screwed since she was the strongest.
FF3 however stands out as one of the most enjoyable of them all and alot of emotions coarsing through you as you played. All the charecters had personal flaws which you could relate too. The heartless ninja did care, the honorable knight lied for years to continue someone elses hope. Also any feeling the charecters would supposadly have you shared in it. The excitment of the chace as the Fargo Castle submerges and you run off or the mistrust you have when a truce is called.
Overall what ruins emotional bond in games I have realized is that they try to keep you playing with extra gimics. Get 100% complete and see this new ending that you really want! the Game really isnt over because you need to play it on ultra hard in order to see this minuet change in gameplay! What you want to have a story and not crawl through 5 hours of puzzles to reach a boss that you have no real reason to fight besides some village elder told you he was a meany for stealing the ball in 2nd grade.
These gimics to add hours really sickens me and breaks the illusion of the world.
It is encouraging because you dont have to write while working. Writing a novel takes upwards of 2 years and truthfully not having to worry about the bills does help while crafting another novel. Also please name a good novelest who was in the buissness of crafting pros for the money. Most people write because they have a story to tell or idea and are willing to invest time in getting their message out.
While I am really glad that this is actually getting some hopefully serious attention and wont be a cobbled together movie I am seriously worried about how they are going to portray Shinji.
The reason I love evangelion is that Shinji neither wants to be a hero nor has the qualities of one. That single characteristic is what makes the series incredible because you see the emotional development of Shinji in a situation he doesn't want to be in. The only reason he stays put is not out of valor or a sense of justice but by the deep feeling of loneliness which he supplements by trying to please the people around him. ie an extremely normal person this day in age.
The thing that I am worried about however is that they might portray him as a hero and not the messed up person that he is (Anyone remember in the first few shots in Evangelion the movie where he wanks off to Asuka comatose in a hospital bed?)
Well I have been waiting for this news for a while now. I know Adrian much more as a person then a hacker. It saddens me to see him plead guilty and possibly go to jail but I knew he wouldnt fight if they charged him with actions that he did do.
One thing though that is hard to convay exspecially in text is his increadible sence of moral ethics. When we look at a name attached to the word hacker we have a certain mindset an image of all the hacker refrences we have at our disposal and apply that to Adrian. In this case that image is way off base. While I could list why I think he is an activly good person instead of the passive good/passive neutral people that make up the bulk of our society it still would not do him justice.
If you ever have the chance to talk to him for a good 20 minutes take the oppertunity, sit down and buy him a drink. By the end of the conversation you will walk away feeling that in his case he really shouldnt get the maximum sentance.
I do computer consulting ranging from repairing and setting up linux boxes on telecommunications companies to installing printer drivers for the technological inept.
While I agree with him that we spend an inordinate amount of time fixing computers I have come to the conclusion that it is 70% of the time a users misbelife of what a computer is that is the problem. Not the computer itself. Most users belive in the hype spewed by corperatoins or they have little of no concept of what are the limitations of computers.
I remeber a call once where I was installing a network and setting up a couple of boxes for a home buissness and afterwards he asked me to take a look at his laptop because word would allways freeze/slow to a crawl 10 minuets into the day. To make a long story short after 1 hour when the problem wouldnt replicate itself on the computer I was about 3 minuets away from wiping it because everything else tested ok. I then realized he probably wasnt going through his routine when he starts the computer. I asked him to do everything exsactly how he usually does and he then procedes to open 90 word documents in a folder each containing about 200+ pages of stock research and then it proceded to crash. He was a firm beliver that his computer could multi-task and had unlimited resources.
Anyhoo stuff like this happens to me alot actually where fixing the computer doesnt allways revolve around me working with silicon but also with the wetware of the person. I have some great stories I wish I could post but the NDA stop me =( but all I can say is imagine an administrator allways running as root because he doesnt want a normal user account for a large Fortune 500 company.
For me personally I enjoy having each function in a seprate box over an all in one combination. I have a multitude of devices that are totally redundant such as:
Ps2 with DVD controler
DVD player
2 PC's with dvd-rom drive
But overall I find I use my small $50 dvd player over the other two choices because there is no boot time and it does its job well. The problem I have with all in one devices is that it takes a realitivly long time to accsess the things you want and it is more combersome then other single focus devices. where on a PC I would have to go through 4 commands to change my anime from english to japanese with english subs my dvd player has 1 physical button that does it. It may sound extreamly lazy but for me I am a well paid sys admin and I know the value of cron jobs and perl scripts =)
I think there is no more room on the net for "personal" websites. How many people here have run a blog or any other storehouse of personal info and at one point in time has it been used against you? For me it was about 6 times. Three with my school/university and 3 due to friends reading something and assuming it was them.
I think the net is great for writing about your intrests and perhaps form a community around it such as CG, Legos or Evil Dead movie series. However having personal info on the web is usually extreamly dangerous and can at times be annoying. I remeber how I at one time had a collection of 50 poems on my site but took it down after a peer decided that half of it was about her and started to complain to me about how she though I was a dick for bitching at her indirectly.
Now adays my old personal website is technicly amazing but I post no content on it. I guess live and learn.
Actually it probably wouldnt be Fox suing itself but one division sueing another. I remeber talking to the head Lawyer of Sony Media devision and how she mentioned that she cant count the times she took legal action against another devision of Sony. While these lumbering corperations seem like one entity there is usually alot of fighting using lawyers between devisions of a Megacorp.
I think a list like this would be nice to have however next to each game put on the list there should be a reason for it. Some are easy to see if you played the game, such as Deux Ex for amazing storyline... when I say Amazing I mean better then most novels out there. However if I never played them I wouldnt know why it was on the list. Even after you played them some are really hard to see what is innovative in the game.
Ugh this is actually pretty easy to calculate,
for the rsa key in order to find the approximate number of keys possible you use the simple equation 2^k / (ln 2^k) this gives you an 'approximation' for all possible primes you can have in k-bits.
As for the ECC system I cant remeber the exsact computation off the top of my head to calculate key space but it has a much higher key concentration per bit added to key. not as high as a symetric cryptographic system with a 2^k keyspace but pretty high up there.
As for your reduction useing a ratio it wont work out since they both use diffrent keyspaces.
I was and continue to enjoy PvP in MMORPG's however after UO made changes to make it almost impossible to PVP I droped the game.
Why? Well for me when I pvped it wasnt ooo I have the most spells. Or wow I can hit harder then you. Nope for me it was all tactics. I trained an anusual skill set and had some intresting ways to fight people. I was a Grand master hider/magician which allowed me to do some very intresting things.
One way I would pvp people is throw a bomb into a group of 5-6 people and open up a portal to my favrote dungen with a wyrm and 2 dragons by the gate. Walk through it the other people will follow, I hit hide and let the dragons do the work for me.
Also I was known for my unique use of spells. casting paralize and invisable on beasts and monsters. Nothing is worse then walking into a dungen and finding a demon just appear out of no where right next to you. Also I enjoyed doing a monty python motif by polymorphing myself into a creature and walking around aimlessly untill someone attacked me. Kinda scary when a bunny cast summon deamon and attacks you.
However for me I never pvped usually unless the odds were greater then 3 vs 1 against me, since I knew I could not beat them with brute strenght alone.
While I am amazed at the initial price vs preformance that this cluster of macs have obtained I am worried about the eventual cost all the electricity and cooling will be for the cluster. I remeber reading in some random article that the electricity used to cool and power the computer was extimated around 3,000 midrange homes. Just from a quick calculation of homes x $100 x 12 months we get the horrible figure of 3.6mil. So over a 10 year lifespan of the cluster it will cost 36mil more the the current price.
While it is still cheaper then the original cost of Intell or IBM super computers I personaly would rather spend more and waste alot less electricity, since if I remeber correctly the cost of engery for comparable super computers was in the range of 0.5 mil-1 mil. Although they are stationed in other countries so the cost of electricity could be dramaticly less in japan then in america but I doubt it. Someone should really get the kW per hour used by the top 5 super computers and then calculate the price per year based on that.
Personaly I agree that beer should be labed a food product. Besides the variouse listed reasons the article gives, most of the by products from the brewing process, such as left over yeast is made into world renowned food substances like Vegimite.
oh well, I know many people who make a quick buck in my area from modding dvds to paly all reigions. while I would be happy for it to go it my friends would be curseing from the lack of extra cash.
When I am drunk absalutly not =)
Wow finally some new pics to get off on. Guess it is time to tame the one eyed snake
Right now I am sitting in the press room typeing this and all I can say is LinuxWorld has evolved in many ways. At first glance most of my friends were somewhat dissapointed and the considerable drop of booths and people attending. But big buissness that have in the last past few years showed up in full force even the 3v1l Micro$haft. This signifys the continueing trend of how Linux and LinuxWorld Expo has turned from a kinda Comic Book convention atmosphere where you know everyone into a serious suit affair.
The highlights from linux world for me? Getting a pic of 17 Microsoft Employes all holding up a bumpersticker that said "You shouldnt Buy software from ex convicts". Besides that the allways insperational Linux Bowl/ or by its proper name the Golden Penguin Bowl when my Friend Arthur Ulfelt(? last name allways screws me up) got picked to be on the sides. And unfortunatly again one of my friends were on the looseing team since last year I got my friend Jesse Crocker to go up on one of the sides he lost forgetting that Trinity was in room 303 and he missed the 20 people makeing signs that said it with there fingers. Oh well. Arthurs shigning moment was when he said as the answer "Food" to the questoin is C6H1206 food or poisen =)