It said recommended version was 700 MHz P3 and 32 meg video. On my 1ghz celery and GF2-GTS, it runs a bit chunky at 10x7x16 with view distance cranked out to max.
I bought the PC version yesterday. I hadn't had a chance to try int on PS2 but I have played the first two games on PC. So far I'm enyoying the hell out of it. One thing I noticed that doesn't seem to be getting around is that you can make new skins for the main character model trivially. The new dismemberment isn't anything to write home about, the model just clean breaks some of itself off, and the detach body parts don't seem to stick around. Still better than nothing though. Driving is a bit tricky with the keybord, I think my biggest problem is using the handbrake and footbrake together effectivly. It's not horrible though, so some more practice and maybe some key re-mapping will surely solve that. Overall, it looks to be worth my $52. Now if only SOF2 wasn't being released TODAY...
I think that this is partially true. Miscreants probibally spend most of thier time working on exploits for MS based stuff. But I suspect that they did spent more time on open source tools, they wouldn't be able to find as many things in them as in MS programs (just more than they do now).
The fact is, the NSA and others DO have more advanced, classified mathmatical stuff than us. But just saying they're (for example) ten years ahead doesn't really mean anything. If Joe Civie Mathguy finds a specificneet new algorithm, who's to say if Suzie Spook Mathchick found it before or not?
The fun stuff is application. Since according to the official line none of this is being used against US citizens (except "terrorists" and other enemies). And if they do use it against you, and find out you're not a terrorist after all but you happen to be the East Coast's biggest Disney DVD pirate, then in theory they're supposed to ignore you.
But is that how it happens? How "controlled" are these agencies? How much control do they have over themselves (will my high school buddy Agent Smith crack my GF's email as a personal favor to me)?
Answer: I have no idea. Don't worry to much or you'll have a stroke.
But was it a natural stroke, or did "they" slip you a pill????
One time last semester, I was slumming around the math building, waiting for my ride, and I read an article someone tacked to one of the boards. It was about how the US Government was by far the #1 employer of US citizens that finished advanced degrees in mathmatics. It included some quotes from some NSA math recruiter guy, essentially noting that a classified NSA paper is usually distributed to more mathmatitians than one published in a journal.
Guilty as charged. I ran my server box without a gui for years, but when I obtained a spare 19" monitor, I figgured I better do SOMETHING with it, so I re-did the box with RH7.2. I installed both Gnome and KDE, but I've never booted it up in Gnome mode. It's an old P5, and I heard somewhere that KDE is a bit leaner, so I got used to it even though in retrospect I have no idea if that's even true.
This year, they replaced all the HP/CDE boxen in the lab at school with Dell's running RH/Gnome. I don't do a lot of work over there, but when I do, most of the time I catch myself just opening an termenal and doing everything on the command line.
Ms. Murray says she and her family have found evidence on Mr. Richardson's computer that her husband was gambling over the Internet. She says she thinks that he may have had gambling debts.
If that's true, then this guy probibally had no intention to pull a scam like this when he started out. The whole thing seems to me like the act of someone who's desprate, not patient.
I got a letter about adding "lawyer insurance" from my agent a couple weeks back. It pisses me off. Not that I got the letter, but that it's actually a good freakin idea. What kind of world is it where it's a good idea to get lawyer insurance? It also made me think about what I would do if I got hit up with an absurd lawsuit. I guess I would either have to deal with it or ignore it or leave the country...
The way I remember it, he needed to add skelital animation to get the memory footprint down, but he loathed it because, among other things, the modeling gang would almost have to start from scratch on the models. Then he figgured out a way to save a couple megs a model and could afford to not do S.A. until doom time.
Now that I think about it some more though, with some tracing one could figgure out how Aqua talkes to Darwin to run this check, and modify Darwin to lie about it. You'd need a real Mac to do that though (or you'd be chicken and egg'd), and you may have to do it every rev.
I'm currently finishing a CS degree after 4 years as an Air Force programmer. If I remember my debrief right, my TS expires after 2 years of inactivity. Turns out that's 3 days after Graduation! And I donno if I want to go back into that or not...
So far, programming has gotten easier in a hours-per-module sense, but it's been made up for tenfold in the total of modules needed by conumers of programs. Theoreticly, this won't continue forever, but I give it more than 15 years.
As far as the US outsourcing to other markets, you're reasoning is interesting, but you didn't take into account that as India and China and others start cutting into US development, the dev shops will change to meet the threat. That could mean that programmers won't be making as much money as now, and it could mean that they'd be making a LOT less.
I don't care. I'm a programmer because It's what I'm good at, what I was born to do, and because I love it. If down the road I'm making the same as a burger slinger, I'm cool with that.
Good point. These kinds of things would also be issues for the design in the article, but something like a electric and/or magnetic rod under the road would be optimal.
But if we get a little freaky, what if the painted lines carried a current, or maybe the paint had lots of little radios in it, with a 20 cm range? Or was radioactive? No obvious solutions, but I bet some smart engineers could come up with something.
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Grr. Ratbastard wasn't saying that Sony is bad because they're selling Linux, he was saying they're bad DISPITE selling it.
That was totally an April Fool's joke! The confession's on his site somewhere.
Anything that drives down the price of my future Prism is A-OK in my book!
It said recommended version was 700 MHz P3 and 32 meg video. On my 1ghz celery and GF2-GTS, it runs a bit chunky at 10x7x16 with view distance cranked out to max.
I bought the PC version yesterday. I hadn't had a chance to try int on PS2 but I have played the first two games on PC. So far I'm enyoying the hell out of it. One thing I noticed that doesn't seem to be getting around is that you can make new skins for the main character model trivially. The new dismemberment isn't anything to write home about, the model just clean breaks some of itself off, and the detach body parts don't seem to stick around. Still better than nothing though. Driving is a bit tricky with the keybord, I think my biggest problem is using the handbrake and footbrake together effectivly. It's not horrible though, so some more practice and maybe some key re-mapping will surely solve that.
Overall, it looks to be worth my $52. Now if only SOF2 wasn't being released TODAY...
I think that this is partially true. Miscreants probibally spend most of thier time working on exploits for MS based stuff. But I suspect that they did spent more time on open source tools, they wouldn't be able to find as many things in them as in MS programs (just more than they do now).
The fun stuff is application. Since according to the official line none of this is being used against US citizens (except "terrorists" and other enemies). And if they do use it against you, and find out you're not a terrorist after all but you happen to be the East Coast's biggest Disney DVD pirate, then in theory they're supposed to ignore you.
But is that how it happens? How "controlled" are these agencies? How much control do they have over themselves (will my high school buddy Agent Smith crack my GF's email as a personal favor to me)?
Answer: I have no idea. Don't worry to much or you'll have a stroke.
But was it a natural stroke, or did "they" slip you a pill????
One time last semester, I was slumming around the math building, waiting for my ride, and I read an article someone tacked to one of the boards. It was about how the US Government was by far the #1 employer of US citizens that finished advanced degrees in mathmatics. It included some quotes from some NSA math recruiter guy, essentially noting that a classified NSA paper is usually distributed to more mathmatitians than one published in a journal.
This year, they replaced all the HP/CDE boxen in the lab at school with Dell's running RH/Gnome. I don't do a lot of work over there, but when I do, most of the time I catch myself just opening an termenal and doing everything on the command line.
Ms. Murray says she and her family have found evidence on Mr. Richardson's computer that her husband was gambling over the Internet. She says she thinks that he may have had gambling debts.
If that's true, then this guy probibally had no intention to pull a scam like this when he started out. The whole thing seems to me like the act of someone who's desprate, not patient.
Oh yeah?
I disaggee with the parent's parent. I think that if we release sterile flys into the ecosystem, they will give birth to two headed fish.
Take that!
I can't believe no one else has said it, but how would that be different from a legal Windows install?
I got a letter about adding "lawyer insurance" from my agent a couple weeks back. It pisses me off. Not that I got the letter, but that it's actually a good freakin idea. What kind of world is it where it's a good idea to get lawyer insurance? It also made me think about what I would do if I got hit up with an absurd lawsuit. I guess I would either have to deal with it or ignore it or leave the country...
hehe, when in truth the PO is on crack for totally different reasons!
That's including the usual costs of early adoption too.
This is the first pro-UT arguement I've ever read that actually made any sense.
The way I remember it, he needed to add skelital animation to get the memory footprint down, but he loathed it because, among other things, the modeling gang would almost have to start from scratch on the models. Then he figgured out a way to save a couple megs a model and could afford to not do S.A. until doom time.
That's good enough.
Now that I think about it some more though, with some tracing one could figgure out how Aqua talkes to Darwin to run this check, and modify Darwin to lie about it. You'd need a real Mac to do that though (or you'd be chicken and egg'd), and you may have to do it every rev.
That is, unless there's some code in Aqua designed to stop people from doing this. Assuming there's no such code, will Apple add it in the next rev?
Geez, they don't have to be so hard on themselves...
Sorry man, I've already been out for over a year and a half. :)
I'm currently finishing a CS degree after 4 years as an Air Force programmer. If I remember my debrief right, my TS expires after 2 years of inactivity. Turns out that's 3 days after Graduation! And I donno if I want to go back into that or not...
As far as the US outsourcing to other markets, you're reasoning is interesting, but you didn't take into account that as India and China and others start cutting into US development, the dev shops will change to meet the threat. That could mean that programmers won't be making as much money as now, and it could mean that they'd be making a LOT less.
I don't care. I'm a programmer because It's what I'm good at, what I was born to do, and because I love it. If down the road I'm making the same as a burger slinger, I'm cool with that.
Good point. These kinds of things would also be issues for the design in the article, but something like a electric and/or magnetic rod under the road would be optimal.
But if we get a little freaky, what if the painted lines carried a current, or maybe the paint had lots of little radios in it, with a 20 cm range? Or was radioactive? No obvious solutions, but I bet some smart engineers could come up with something.