why do you think all the fairly complicated protocols for routing and packet delivery were built into the infrastructure of the network _when_it_was_created_
This reminds me of something which is relatively off-topic. Why do Americans take credit for the Internet? The only reason it was started over there was because the guy who came up with the technology (packet switching) couldn't get funding in his home country (Britain) to set up a WAN.
That probably explains the whole bit about the Duck billed platypus at the start of the movie, which is very similar to some comments at the begining of The Last Continent....
Last year, I gave a lil' presentation on game development, prepared some funky lil' demos and so on. I arrived to the presentation on time, plug my laptop into the projector, and what happens? X decides to crash on start up.
Reboot, make a few changes to the config, and try again. Second crash. To make things worse, the crash happened during a sync, causing the X config to completed fuck itself up:/
No laptop for rest of presentation, which isn't a good thing when the presentation is on graphics-related stuff.
...and they are rapidly acquiring a monopoly on the online gaming industry...
Um, since when does MS have a monopoly on the online game industry? Only 1 MS games has been succesful as an online experience (Asherons Call), everything else has pretty much flopped.
Xbox doesn't have online support yet, and there are plenty of competitors trying to get that market. GameSpy has contol of the lobby market, Sony has a pretty firm grip on the "persistant world" scene, with EA coming up behind (in the west).
Claiming MS has a monopoly on anything game related is pure BS.
Could also be due to the fact that emergancy lighting is red, so if you have a red light on the front of your box, and everyone is fleeing in a panic, they won't notice that the 10,000V router is still on, trip over the mains cable and fry everyone who comes near them.
I've also had a breif exchange with ESR about this, and you're right, he is aware that games don't really fit the standard OpenSource model because of all the "non-code assets" (games industry speak) involved.
I've had an at length discussion about this matter with RMS, and his stances is that either the developers write free (using his definition) games (of a lower quality) while working at jobs who pay them to write free applications, or they don't write games at all.
Email me (me@thisisnurgle.org.uk), and I'll forward you the emails if you don't believe me...
10 developers @ $100 + server + bandwidth + support = $1000 + (x)
10 develoeprs @ $100 +.NET My Services ($1000) = $2000
This is not a cost for the development tools, it a subscription for usage of a Microsoft owned server, which would be supported on-site by Microsoft-payed technicians.
I'm suprised some of the newer NIN songs weren't listed...
Big Man With A Gun
Eraser
The Day The World Went Away
Into The Void (made for a film which featured a *shudder* plane crash)
Heresy
Mr Self Destruct
Please
Starfuckers Inc (lot sof reference to false gods and shit)
Slashdot Mirror
Arianne have nothing on these guys when it comes to launch locations close to the equator.
they've converted an old oil rig into a launch platform and tow it out to the launch site...
why do you think all the fairly complicated protocols for routing and packet delivery were built into the infrastructure of the network _when_it_was_created_
This reminds me of something which is relatively off-topic. Why do Americans take credit for the Internet? The only reason it was started over there was because the guy who came up with the technology (packet switching) couldn't get funding in his home country (Britain) to set up a WAN.
Do a google search on Donald Davis.
That probably explains the whole bit about the Duck billed platypus at the start of the movie, which is very similar to some comments at the begining of The Last Continent....
I can confirm the parent postrs advice.
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Last year, I gave a lil' presentation on game development, prepared some funky lil' demos and so on. I arrived to the presentation on time, plug my laptop into the projector, and what happens? X decides to crash on start up.
Reboot, make a few changes to the config, and try again. Second crash. To make things worse, the crash happened during a sync, causing the X config to completed fuck itself up
No laptop for rest of presentation, which isn't a good thing when the presentation is on graphics-related stuff.
How about the technology that makes the Internet (and modern phone systems) work?
I kid you not, packet switching was invented in the UK, while the US was having trouble implementing that "ARPANet"" thing...
This isn't a case of people attackig Canada, it's a case of people attacking the world leaders gathered at the G8 summit.
Past summits have had considerable violence, and the last one was done over a webcast to prevent a repeat of the incidents....
Tweening is just a specific type of interpolation (in graphics, anyway).
It involings interpolation of vector coordinates, like morphing is interpolcation of bitmaps.
Guess again.
Team Fortress Classis was a Half-Life mod, the original TF was a Quake 1 mod.
I've got one of these boxes with a VIA C3 733 in it, and it runs at 39 degree celsius. (after being on for a pretty much all day running RTCW)
...and they are rapidly acquiring a monopoly on the online gaming industry...
Um, since when does MS have a monopoly on the online game industry? Only 1 MS games has been succesful as an online experience (Asherons Call), everything else has pretty much flopped.
Xbox doesn't have online support yet, and there are plenty of competitors trying to get that market. GameSpy has contol of the lobby market, Sony has a pretty firm grip on the "persistant world" scene, with EA coming up behind (in the west).
Claiming MS has a monopoly on anything game related is pure BS.
Yes, MS does have a competitor in this field, and that competitor is wiping the floor with them (on non-subscription services).
You might have heard of them... GameSpy?
Could also be due to the fact that emergancy lighting is red, so if you have a red light on the front of your box, and everyone is fleeing in a panic, they won't notice that the 10,000V router is still on, trip over the mains cable and fry everyone who comes near them.
Of course, this is purely hypothetical...
Plants still need oxygen, just not as much. Photosynthesis takes place when light is available, how do you thing the plants would survive at night?
Repiration still takes place in plants, exactly (well not exactly) the same way it does in humans.
I've also had a breif exchange with ESR about this, and you're right, he is aware that games don't really fit the standard OpenSource model because of all the "non-code assets" (games industry speak) involved.
No, he doesn't.
I've had an at length discussion about this matter with RMS, and his stances is that either the developers write free (using his definition) games (of a lower quality) while working at jobs who pay them to write free applications, or they don't write games at all.
Email me (me@thisisnurgle.org.uk), and I'll forward you the emails if you don't believe me...
Uh, no.
.NET My Services ($1000) = $2000
With this payment thing, it's like:
10 developers @ $100 + server + bandwidth + support = $1000 + (x)
10 develoeprs @ $100 +
This is not a cost for the development tools, it a subscription for usage of a Microsoft owned server, which would be supported on-site by Microsoft-payed technicians.
Read the freaking article....
Oh no...
It's not as if loads of otehr companies do that (those are two that spring to mind immediately, and that I've dealt with in the past)
had a fridge full of red bull....
And, more to the point, if it was obvious, someone would have applied for the patent before them...
If you got into a major car accident, you'd prolly have bigger things to worry about than getting data off your laptop...
not to mention C compilers and text editors...
Or, more realistically...
Your tax dollars were given to researchers to surf pr0n.
The Cure, depressing?!?!
You havn't recent to any new songs, like Britnet or N'Sync... every time I hear those "artists"I want to hang myself...
I'm suprised some of the newer NIN songs weren't listed...
Big Man With A Gun
Eraser
The Day The World Went Away
Into The Void (made for a film which featured a *shudder* plane crash)
Heresy
Mr Self Destruct
Please
Starfuckers Inc (lot sof reference to false gods and shit)
Also no mention of Metallica's cover of "Tuesday Gone"...