With companies like EA forcing insanely short deadlines to get Generic Sports Game 2007 out by the holidays, it pretty much forces their code slaves to reuse mostly everything in its' horrific state. If end product quality matters then "from scratch" programming will have a larger priority.
I installed steam back around this time a year ago when it was the most buggiest peice of crap ever. I recall having several errors along the way, but eventually patches healed up the wounds. I kept this installation for over a year and then Half Life 2 went gold and I made the plunge to buy the Silver package.
At one point I realized that I couldn't preload Half Life 2 since Steam was installed to a low capacity hard drive. I copied out all the game folders and large.gcf data files and uninstalled "Steam." I then reinstalled Steam to a new hard drive and copied all the messy folders and.gcf files back and it reloaded PERFECTLY!
From there I pre-ordered Silver through Steam which came to be a bit of a problem. See, I run Windows 2000 and IE5. The reason why I don't use IE6 is because I use Firefox. Now the Steam program uses IE as a "shell" through Steam to bring you to the purchasing page. It's not fully compatibile with IE5 (At least for me) and does NOT let me scroll down the page to select Silver or Gold (Either that, or it was I could only select Gold but not Silver of Bronze). So I had to crank up my desktop resolution and maximize the height of the purchase window JUST to select the Silver package. I followed on-screen directions and plugged in my info. Steam said they'd bill me and email me the details. I got my email and next time my bank statement came in it clearly said I ordered "Steam Games Wwwstebellevue WA." All that remained was preloading and playing Counter-Strike Source in the meantime.
I waited up until 3am for Valve to unlock the game and unlock they did! The unlocked process wasn't as fast as I imagined. It took about 10-15 minutes to unlock the Half Life 2 part, and then continue preloading Half-Life 1 Source. By about 3:45am (I waited for HL1:Source to finish preloading so memory usage would drop) I was playing Half-Life 2.
As a long time POV-Ray user (Abuser?) I've kinda fallen off watching the development since the official felt like it slowned after the big 3.1 release. It's nice to see a strong, friendly community surrounding POV-Ray even though it pales in comparison to larger 3d programs. Even so, I still feel that learning how to use POV-Ray is a great introduction to 3d and coding.
In celebration of 3.6, I bring you this lovely scene.
...that there is very little to fear in these cases of asteroids destroying the planet. Sure it has happened many times in past earth history, but with movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, we're only reinforcing a fear because of our more recently knowledge of the universe. Decades to hundreds of years ago people were ignorant of how much goes on in outer space, but with modern space technology and understanding we realize just how violent the universe/galaxy is. The fact that remains on top is that we've (life on earth) been here for millions of years and the likelyhood of mankind being wiped out in the next year, or decade, or century is extremely slim.
However, if such a EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT (Hey, I liked the movie Deep Impact! Frodo was in it!) were to occur, we could send up a team of rag-tag meatheads who would undoubtably save us all by blowing it up, but not before sharing a heartfelt moment about family (Arwen was in Armageddon!).
So really, just relax because someway or another a cast member of Lord of the Rings will save us.
Team speak can be used for any game, but you can use it just by yourself to have voice chats over your own running server/client. Quality is great and it's free.
Oh and you have a girlfriend who's into GAMES?! You're not fooling anyone, bub!:-P
Another release of Mozilla is a great thing, but I've been personally more interested in Firebird / Thunderbird. As we all know Mozilla will eventually fully break up into the seperate projects, and my interest is completely oriented on the progress of Firebird / Thunderbird.
Firebird is a great browser about to hit 0.8 and stepping closer towards the great 1.0 release that took Mozilla years to obtain. Thunderbird is still in need of lots of work, but the progress is fantastic and I exclusively use it even in its immature state.
For the Mozilla devs who browse/., thanks for all your hard work in making free software that suits my wants and needs. Keep up the great work!
When I found out I was going to conclude The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings in 2003 all within months of each other, I was jittered with excitement. Both movie series filled in two seperate geek aspects; computers and epic fantasy. Some say The Matrix fell short with the sequels, but I won't get into the argument. I for one enjoyed all three Matrix films, and that's that. The ending of Revolutions left me somewhat satisfied, but not filled with joy knowing and seeing the end. Now just the other night I watched Return of the King and that void of emotion has been completely filled. Not only did The Lord of the Rings movie series end, it gave a full out conclusion. Most people not familiar with the books (That's me until I saw FOTR and then read the books for the first time) would assume that when the ring is destroyed the movie would end. Instead we're returned to the purity of Middle Earth as it once was before the corruption of the ring where the king of men rules once more, and the Hobbits drink, dance and sing joyfull songs. Unlike Matrix Revolutions we just get the idea that the Matrix lives on, but those who want out are freed and the machines no longer go off patrolling and killing humans from Zion (Assuming the humans don't go off killing the machines). That ending is nice and non-conventional, but it leaves an emotional gap. Return of the King fills the void, and even overflows it.
Horray for BT once again! More people on the torrents and the faster we get the files! Slashdot effect averted..... unless you guys keep hammering away at the server hosting the torrent files...
It was her mother that was bullied into paying the $2000. That is the fact that many people are ignoring because it's not as newsworthy as the 12 year old daughter.
When I arrived at my dorm room I found a free copy of McAfee AV software with a big sign saying I must install it before connecting to the network. Since I was patched before all this, I had no reason to. I just connected to the network as before and I watched as my firewall logs were getting multiple hits a second (all being denied) because of blaster.
My friend up at Brown University has the same thing, but parts of the network are so bad they're shutting down a lot of ports and things to stop a lot of what's going on.
This is all temporary of course. Soon the problems will be fixed and then bandwidth will rise again.
I myself just got back into my dorm and seeing this article made me think. Many thousands if not millions of students are going off their dialup/cable/dsl home connections and back to the fat pipes the universities have. As much, I would expect P2P usage to rise again, but how much more with RIAA lawsuits?
Kinad off topic, but I just want to give some props. Bit torrent is such a great thing. This file is 20mb and when you have thousands of people trying to grab it, bandwidth costs rise like mad and end up hurting the person paying for it. Not only that, it hurts the people because they can't get it unless they hammer like everyone else. This news post with the BT link is just fantastic because I'm getting the file at 180k/sec thanks to the group of random people around the internet giving their bandwidth free for a bit.
This will only help xvid and ogg theora, which is a good thing. DivX might be more fine tuned and official, but the majority of people won't want to install something with spyware regardless that programs like Ad-Aware and Spy Bot Search and Destroy can easily remove. Most people don't go around purposely installing Bonzai Buddy just so they have some other program working.
Oh well, XviD is gaining popularity as well as developmental features. Soon more people will be using XviD and Ogg for encoding.
I just got back from a special screening of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and I just want to let you know it stinks! Shelbob there was TOTALLY CG! Not even a real puppet! This movie is going to bomb a the box office, I'd expect 300million ALONE in the US. It's all these stinking people saying movies are bad!
Last night I finally went to go upgrade from Windows Media Player 6.4 to 9.0 so I can test out those high definition WMP9 videos for once. I couldn't figure out why microsoft.com wasn't loading but now I find out it was because of a DOS attack.
Now I'm thinking, was this intervention from a higher force to protect me from installing WMP9 or just odd luck?
Slashdot Mirror
I had literally just woke up and was reading RSS feeds. Oops.
I've been PovRayMan since 1997 or 1998.. I don't think FLOSSMan has the same ring to it..
Great, what about IE now?
With companies like EA forcing insanely short deadlines to get Generic Sports Game 2007 out by the holidays, it pretty much forces their code slaves to reuse mostly everything in its' horrific state. If end product quality matters then "from scratch" programming will have a larger priority.
No, they have not.
APRIL FOOLS!
*sigh*
I installed steam back around this time a year ago when it was the most buggiest peice of crap ever. I recall having several errors along the way, but eventually patches healed up the wounds. I kept this installation for over a year and then Half Life 2 went gold and I made the plunge to buy the Silver package.
.gcf data files and uninstalled "Steam." I then reinstalled Steam to a new hard drive and copied all the messy folders and .gcf files back and it reloaded PERFECTLY!
At one point I realized that I couldn't preload Half Life 2 since Steam was installed to a low capacity hard drive. I copied out all the game folders and large
From there I pre-ordered Silver through Steam which came to be a bit of a problem. See, I run Windows 2000 and IE5. The reason why I don't use IE6 is because I use Firefox. Now the Steam program uses IE as a "shell" through Steam to bring you to the purchasing page. It's not fully compatibile with IE5 (At least for me) and does NOT let me scroll down the page to select Silver or Gold (Either that, or it was I could only select Gold but not Silver of Bronze). So I had to crank up my desktop resolution and maximize the height of the purchase window JUST to select the Silver package. I followed on-screen directions and plugged in my info. Steam said they'd bill me and email me the details. I got my email and next time my bank statement came in it clearly said I ordered "Steam Games Wwwstebellevue WA." All that remained was preloading and playing Counter-Strike Source in the meantime.
I waited up until 3am for Valve to unlock the game and unlock they did! The unlocked process wasn't as fast as I imagined. It took about 10-15 minutes to unlock the Half Life 2 part, and then continue preloading Half-Life 1 Source. By about 3:45am (I waited for HL1:Source to finish preloading so memory usage would drop) I was playing Half-Life 2.
Everything is fine here.
"When it's done"
Part of me wishes this was the industry standard instead of forcing themselves to abide by release dates only to output a buggy product.
However the downside to "when its done" would be our favorite game Duke Nukem Forever.
WHEN WILL YOU BE DONE?!
You should have zero problems copy/pasting my code into POV-Ray and saving as whatever.pov and hitting the render button.
Also, I love doing lego stuff in POV-Ray.
Check out my renders here.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/povrayman/
As a long time POV-Ray user (Abuser?) I've kinda fallen off watching the development since the official felt like it slowned after the big 3.1 release. It's nice to see a strong, friendly community surrounding POV-Ray even though it pales in comparison to larger 3d programs. Even so, I still feel that learning how to use POV-Ray is a great introduction to 3d and coding.
In celebration of 3.6, I bring you this lovely scene.Thank you developers, helpers, users and everyone else within the community. You all help make POV-Ray kick ass to this very day.
Yeah, I'm suprised it's not some april fools joke.
:-)
Too bad I suck so bad at all these reading stuff, but for fun I tried to type "carmack" and "romero" and I got some feedback
I wonder what other little easter eggs are in this game.
Bill Gates said it best...
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981
...that there is very little to fear in these cases of asteroids destroying the planet. Sure it has happened many times in past earth history, but with movies like Armageddon and Deep Impact, we're only reinforcing a fear because of our more recently knowledge of the universe. Decades to hundreds of years ago people were ignorant of how much goes on in outer space, but with modern space technology and understanding we realize just how violent the universe/galaxy is. The fact that remains on top is that we've (life on earth) been here for millions of years and the likelyhood of mankind being wiped out in the next year, or decade, or century is extremely slim.
However, if such a EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT (Hey, I liked the movie Deep Impact! Frodo was in it!) were to occur, we could send up a team of rag-tag meatheads who would undoubtably save us all by blowing it up, but not before sharing a heartfelt moment about family (Arwen was in Armageddon!).
So really, just relax because someway or another a cast member of Lord of the Rings will save us.
http://www.teamspeak.org/
:-P
Team speak can be used for any game, but you can use it just by yourself to have voice chats over your own running server/client. Quality is great and it's free.
Oh and you have a girlfriend who's into GAMES?! You're not fooling anyone, bub!
Personally I don't know the official release date for 0.8, but I was given this url a while ago..
http://pryan.org/firebird/
I'm not sure the details of those builds, but they may have 0.8 branch builds. From what I gather it's mostly optimized builds.
Another release of Mozilla is a great thing, but I've been personally more interested in Firebird / Thunderbird. As we all know Mozilla will eventually fully break up into the seperate projects, and my interest is completely oriented on the progress of Firebird / Thunderbird.
/., thanks for all your hard work in making free software that suits my wants and needs. Keep up the great work!
Firebird is a great browser about to hit 0.8 and stepping closer towards the great 1.0 release that took Mozilla years to obtain. Thunderbird is still in need of lots of work, but the progress is fantastic and I exclusively use it even in its immature state.
For the Mozilla devs who browse
When I found out I was going to conclude The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings in 2003 all within months of each other, I was jittered with excitement. Both movie series filled in two seperate geek aspects; computers and epic fantasy. Some say The Matrix fell short with the sequels, but I won't get into the argument. I for one enjoyed all three Matrix films, and that's that. The ending of Revolutions left me somewhat satisfied, but not filled with joy knowing and seeing the end. Now just the other night I watched Return of the King and that void of emotion has been completely filled. Not only did The Lord of the Rings movie series end, it gave a full out conclusion. Most people not familiar with the books (That's me until I saw FOTR and then read the books for the first time) would assume that when the ring is destroyed the movie would end. Instead we're returned to the purity of Middle Earth as it once was before the corruption of the ring where the king of men rules once more, and the Hobbits drink, dance and sing joyfull songs. Unlike Matrix Revolutions we just get the idea that the Matrix lives on, but those who want out are freed and the machines no longer go off patrolling and killing humans from Zion (Assuming the humans don't go off killing the machines). That ending is nice and non-conventional, but it leaves an emotional gap. Return of the King fills the void, and even overflows it.
:'-(
"You bow to no one..."
Now if only we could have the same for POV-Ray! Oh wait...
Well how about Blender! Oh yeah..
Oh well, woo hoo for Maya!
Horray for BT once again! More people on the torrents and the faster we get the files! Slashdot effect averted..... unless you guys keep hammering away at the server hosting the torrent files...
It was her mother that was bullied into paying the $2000. That is the fact that many people are ignoring because it's not as newsworthy as the 12 year old daughter.
Ah! A very true point.
When I arrived at my dorm room I found a free copy of McAfee AV software with a big sign saying I must install it before connecting to the network. Since I was patched before all this, I had no reason to. I just connected to the network as before and I watched as my firewall logs were getting multiple hits a second (all being denied) because of blaster.
My friend up at Brown University has the same thing, but parts of the network are so bad they're shutting down a lot of ports and things to stop a lot of what's going on.
This is all temporary of course. Soon the problems will be fixed and then bandwidth will rise again.
I myself just got back into my dorm and seeing this article made me think. Many thousands if not millions of students are going off their dialup/cable/dsl home connections and back to the fat pipes the universities have. As much, I would expect P2P usage to rise again, but how much more with RIAA lawsuits?
Kinad off topic, but I just want to give some props. Bit torrent is such a great thing. This file is 20mb and when you have thousands of people trying to grab it, bandwidth costs rise like mad and end up hurting the person paying for it. Not only that, it hurts the people because they can't get it unless they hammer like everyone else. This news post with the BT link is just fantastic because I'm getting the file at 180k/sec thanks to the group of random people around the internet giving their bandwidth free for a bit.
This will only help xvid and ogg theora, which is a good thing. DivX might be more fine tuned and official, but the majority of people won't want to install something with spyware regardless that programs like Ad-Aware and Spy Bot Search and Destroy can easily remove. Most people don't go around purposely installing Bonzai Buddy just so they have some other program working.
Oh well, XviD is gaining popularity as well as developmental features. Soon more people will be using XviD and Ogg for encoding.
I just got back from a special screening of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and I just want to let you know it stinks! Shelbob there was TOTALLY CG! Not even a real puppet! This movie is going to bomb a the box office, I'd expect 300million ALONE in the US. It's all these stinking people saying movies are bad!
Last night I finally went to go upgrade from Windows Media Player 6.4 to 9.0 so I can test out those high definition WMP9 videos for once. I couldn't figure out why microsoft.com wasn't loading but now I find out it was because of a DOS attack.
Now I'm thinking, was this intervention from a higher force to protect me from installing WMP9 or just odd luck?