He said "properly balanced". The Redeemer is suicide to use at close-to-mid range, and you only get *one* rocket before you have to pick it up again. And it's slow.
As for the BFG, it used up tons of ammo and was slow to fire, and a sufficiently smart player knew how to avoid it: You got out of the directional cone originating from the firing player. He fires north, you run south as fast as you fucking can. Both were properly balanced weapons.
The powerful weapons in DK are the same way. You'll only get 2 shots with them, and ammo is nowhere to be found. They are avoidable by a sufficiently skilled player who would run out of view of a player who had them. They have a long delay before firing. They are also suicide if there is no one else to kill. So they have the added benifit that if the person misses, they'll be dead or close to it. I have to wonder how much some of these people have actually played with the weapons.
They are both pretty shoddy, but people have different expiriences with both systems.
This is simply because they were not designed to be extended in this way. They are both built upon ugly extentions to make them support modern features. If anyone disagrees that they are not crap, then I would ask you why both Apple and Microsoft are switching away from their current kernels. Apple is moving to MacOS X while Microsoft is going to migrate people to NT.
The main problem is the systems were not very well engineered. MacOS was origianly good for getting a GUI to boot off a floppy while Windows was a GUI shell on top of DOS. I would bet that the original programmers never planned on having either of these systems do as much as they have been stretched to run today. So I say they both need to be dumped.
They include the L2 cache on some chips, but not others and don't bother to mention size if the cache. Just look at the three different 200MHz PPros that each consume vayring amounts of power since they have 256KB, 512KB, and 1MB caches. This would be a good graph if your main concern is raw power consumption of a normal processor purchase (I'm sure that you could get cacheless Athlons if you buy enough).
Then someone would find a way for the AI to not hit the target. The targets would then have to be ligit players. The only way to try and catch this would be to randomly send the client that a player has appeared infront of it, but this could be curcumvented by putting a delay on how soon the bot would shoot and if the fake player exists for too long it might get annoying to the human players.
I wasn't talking about new versions. I was mentioning the creative 3rd party changes to the gameplay that usually require maps, textures, models, and client code additions.
Playstation games tend to be more stable because they only have one platform to run on and they have only one shot since they can't issue updates. Not all playstation games work perfectly. Bushido Blade had a problem with the broadsword hitting the corpse. The bugs are harder to uncover, but they are there.
Quite honestly, that is what you want. The problem with a console though is you don't have the same amount of play with them. The 3D renderer cannot be changed, the CD-ROM speed can't be upgraded, and it's usually hard to put unusual hardware in them because they don't have the same connectors as PCs. Then there is what Carmack agrees is the most important ability of games to last, modifications. You'd either have to buy multiple CDs all with q3 and the modification (CTF, TF, etc.) and reboot just to switch, install them on a hard drive (defeating the purpose of a bootable CD), or just not play them. It would also get hard to play maps that did not come on the CD. Downloading the map and keeping it in memory would get to be a pain on slow connections.
If the Athlon motherboards catch on, maybe they could add a special port that will allow full access to main memory at 200 MHz and at least 64 bits. This would still require memory on the GPU card for speed, but would be faster and more scaleable than AGP.
Ug, I'm probably making little sense since I'm sleepy. Sorry.
The main reason that water is thought of as a necessity for life is the attraction the molecules have to each other. This ability makes them retain heat very well. This is thought of as important for life because it will keep temperatures constant. There are planets without water, these planets tend to have a hot side fasing the sun and a cold side that dissapates heat into space quickly. There are other polar molecules such as H3N, HF, and other complex molecules. The more complex ones are not as easy to make, so unless an abundance of them are created or delivered to a localized place they would not be used in creating life. The other two simple molecules are probably thought as toxic and unsafe for most life here on Earth. The usual thought that if it is bad for us, then it bad for everyone is wrong. They have discovered bacteria that uses sulfur to live, something they would not have thought possible. Life is thought to be carbon based because of the ability to bond to itself and the number of bonds it can make. Another atom that can do this is silicon, but this is a more complex atom and would take more time to develop an adbundence to support life.
The big probelm here is we can only speculate on life on other planets. It would be incredebly useful to actually travel to other planets and systems and actually see other ways that life developed.
The company who makes the chipset does release drivers that the card maker can modify to support features they may add to the TNT2 chipset. I would guess that most people are running the nVidia drivers instead of the card manufacture's becuase there have been speed increases in the driver and the card makers are slow to use the new reference drivers to upgrade thier own.
I don't see why this post got tagged with "Flaimbait" because it is a valid point. If each card vendor had to write thier own driver for the one chipset, what would be the point of nVidia releasing specs on the TNT cards to make X and Mesa dricers if they don't work with any of the consumer cards?
I think the most interesting way to use a 3d card for the desktop would be to make things like the pseudo-transparency in Eterm non-pseudo. The desktop would appear 2d. The problem with this is the memory usage (have enough windows open) and that everything i've seen in gl has been really blurred (satify the people who want anti-aliased fonts).
There is a different story that's linked on geeknews that instead has 60 billion per year, which would amount to about 8 per person per year (but not all of the world uses batteries).
Your original number could make sense with the US and how wasteful everyone here is. 8)
You'll have some 500-600 MHz Alphas, then you could put one of these cooling systems on it and possibly break the 1 GHz barrier before any consumer product is available.
Sounds like they're talking about cloning. They need to tell the difference between taking a company and splitting the produts apart (break-up the comapny) vs. giving each company the same code, and telling them to go on thier ways (clone).
I would think that the requirements to begin the class would be "point and click," but by the end of the class the expectations would hopefully have rised and includeed being about to use a Windows computer and the Office suite. I would suppose that the only way to prove this would to use grades, that if in the first weeks of the class there were good grades, but the grades were falling while the class progressed, this would show they weren't trying to learn anything. I'm soure an expectation of any course if to have a student who will learn.
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He said "properly balanced". The Redeemer is suicide to use at close-to-mid range, and you only get *one* rocket before you have to pick it up again. And it's slow.
As for the BFG, it used up tons of ammo and was slow to fire, and a sufficiently smart player knew how to avoid it: You got out of the directional cone originating from the firing player. He fires north, you run south as fast as you fucking can. Both were properly balanced weapons.
The powerful weapons in DK are the same way. You'll only get 2 shots with them, and ammo is nowhere to be found. They are avoidable by a sufficiently skilled player who would run out of view of a player who had them. They have a long delay before firing. They are also suicide if there is no one else to kill. So they have the added benifit that if the person misses, they'll be dead or close to it.
I have to wonder how much some of these people have actually played with the weapons.
Because this goes against the Conservation of Angular Momentum.
Which, according to the fourth edition of Fundamentals of Physics is true.
They are both pretty shoddy, but people have different expiriences with both systems.
This is simply because they were not designed to be extended in this way. They are both built upon ugly extentions to make them support modern features.
If anyone disagrees that they are not crap, then I would ask you why both Apple and Microsoft are switching away from their current kernels. Apple is moving to MacOS X while Microsoft is going to migrate people to NT.
The main problem is the systems were not very well engineered. MacOS was origianly good for getting a GUI to boot off a floppy while Windows was a GUI shell on top of DOS. I would bet that the original programmers never planned on having either of these systems do as much as they have been stretched to run today.
So I say they both need to be dumped.
They include the L2 cache on some chips, but not others and don't bother to mention size if the cache. Just look at the three different 200MHz PPros that each consume vayring amounts of power since they have 256KB, 512KB, and 1MB caches.
This would be a good graph if your main concern is raw power consumption of a normal processor purchase (I'm sure that you could get cacheless Athlons if you buy enough).
Then someone would find a way for the AI to not hit the target. The targets would then have to be ligit players. The only way to try and catch this would be to randomly send the client that a player has appeared infront of it, but this could be curcumvented by putting a delay on how soon the bot would shoot and if the fake player exists for too long it might get annoying to the human players.
I wasn't talking about new versions. I was mentioning the creative 3rd party changes to the gameplay that usually require maps, textures, models, and client code additions.
Playstation games tend to be more stable because they only have one platform to run on and they have only one shot since they can't issue updates.
Not all playstation games work perfectly. Bushido Blade had a problem with the broadsword hitting the corpse. The bugs are harder to uncover, but they are there.
Quite honestly, that is what you want. The problem with a console though is you don't have the same amount of play with them. The 3D renderer cannot be changed, the CD-ROM speed can't be upgraded, and it's usually hard to put unusual hardware in them because they don't have the same connectors as PCs. Then there is what Carmack agrees is the most important ability of games to last, modifications. You'd either have to buy multiple CDs all with q3 and the modification (CTF, TF, etc.) and reboot just to switch, install them on a hard drive (defeating the purpose of a bootable CD), or just not play them. It would also get hard to play maps that did not come on the CD. Downloading the map and keeping it in memory would get to be a pain on slow connections.
He didn't say all minors will break the licence or that they cannot understand it.
He was merely pointing out the fear a company would have about minors getting thier software unlicenced.
AGP is ugly.
If the Athlon motherboards catch on, maybe they could add a special port that will allow full access to main memory at 200 MHz and at least 64 bits. This would still require memory on the GPU card for speed, but would be faster and more scaleable than AGP.
Ug, I'm probably making little sense since I'm sleepy. Sorry.
Since all of the the programs required to make Linux do it are OSS. Just need to recompile and possible make some kernel specific modifications.
The main reason that water is thought of as a necessity for life is the attraction the molecules have to each other. This ability makes them retain heat very well. This is thought of as important for life because it will keep temperatures constant. There are planets without water, these planets tend to have a hot side fasing the sun and a cold side that dissapates heat into space quickly.
There are other polar molecules such as H3N, HF, and other complex molecules. The more complex ones are not as easy to make, so unless an abundance of them are created or delivered to a localized place they would not be used in creating life. The other two simple molecules are probably thought as toxic and unsafe for most life here on Earth. The usual thought that if it is bad for us, then it bad for everyone is wrong. They have discovered bacteria that uses sulfur to live, something they would not have thought possible.
Life is thought to be carbon based because of the ability to bond to itself and the number of bonds it can make. Another atom that can do this is silicon, but this is a more complex atom and would take more time to develop an adbundence to support life.
The big probelm here is we can only speculate on life on other planets. It would be incredebly useful to actually travel to other planets and systems and actually see other ways that life developed.
it would be "Ma-tsu-shi-ta"
Will it be cheaper than ordinary RAM?
It would be neat to use flash memory as a fast swap space at some point and actually be worth it. Right now it would be cheaper just to buy more RAM.
The 8% is with equivilently clocked chips.
You also have it reversed, it takes a PIII 600 to match a K7 550, the amount to take that 8% away.
The company who makes the chipset does release drivers that the card maker can modify to support features they may add to the TNT2 chipset. I would guess that most people are running the nVidia drivers instead of the card manufacture's becuase there have been speed increases in the driver and the card makers are slow to use the new reference drivers to upgrade thier own.
I don't see why this post got tagged with "Flaimbait" because it is a valid point. If each card vendor had to write thier own driver for the one chipset, what would be the point of nVidia releasing specs on the TNT cards to make X and Mesa dricers if they don't work with any of the consumer cards?
I think the most interesting way to use a 3d card for the desktop would be to make things like the pseudo-transparency in Eterm non-pseudo. The desktop would appear 2d. The problem with this is the memory usage (have enough windows open) and that everything i've seen in gl has been really blurred (satify the people who want anti-aliased fonts).
I have a new logitech trackball for my NT4 system and whenever you use the wheel, it makes the system sluggish and soon unresponsive.
There is a different story that's linked on geeknews that instead has 60 billion per year, which would amount to about 8 per person per year (but not all of the world uses batteries).
Your original number could make sense with the US and how wasteful everyone here is. 8)
You'll have some 500-600 MHz Alphas, then you could put one of these cooling systems on it and possibly break the 1 GHz barrier before any consumer product is available.
Sounds like they're talking about cloning.
They need to tell the difference between taking a company and splitting the produts apart (break-up the comapny) vs. giving each company the same code, and telling them to go on thier ways (clone).
I would think that the requirements to begin the class would be "point and click," but by the end of the class the expectations would hopefully have rised and includeed being about to use a Windows computer and the Office suite. I would suppose that the only way to prove this would to use grades, that if in the first weeks of the class there were good grades, but the grades were falling while the class progressed, this would show they weren't trying to learn anything. I'm soure an expectation of any course if to have a student who will learn.