The worst part is a transition from smooth to rough surfaces; I was once skating down a nice, smooth road, going quite fast.
The road surface suddenly transitioned to very rough... ouch.
Thing is, your wheels lose forward speed really fast but your upper body is still going at quite a pace and catching up can involve your upper body suddenly descending to the road surface...
Which is, convieniently enough, a very rough surface.
I just meant to point out that programming for the gaming industry has it's downsides. Most projects end with a massive bughunt rather than a systems rewrite, and this usually burns especially hard on the programmers. You really have to love programming for programming's sake during those times, or you're going to dread coming in for the 60 - 80 hour weeks.
Have we really gotten so far removed from the concepts laid forth in the constitution that there is no route to rights except through financial transactions? That seems to be the direction we've been going since the labor wars of the 19th century, but have we gotten there already? Is the concept of rights now inexorably tied to money?
That's a bit ironic, especially if you follow the original curve of Madden. In 1990 it was an amazing first outing, and by 1992 it was the must-have best football series of all time (I believe that was the year where the amulance would run players over on the field). And then they kept that engine. And massaged it. And pushed it. And let it get crufty. And didn't bother to greenlight a badly needed 3d version until their old engine was hurting sales. Their first 3D outing was terribly late, and was pretty crappy. Their second 3D outing likewise wasn't great, and wasn't that impressive either. But they kept massaging it and pushing it, and now the engine is pretty decent.
And now that EA has exclusive rights for the next 5 years, you can pretty much guarentee that Madden is once again in a decline phase. Too bad, really, as the 2k lineup of football games are pretty good, and deserve a level playingfield.
It's amazing what you can find when you look online. There are sites that say that each and every frame of a movie is copied to the television set before playback. And if your TV is attached to a VCR, that gets a copy too. And if that copy finds it's way to the streets of New York, it's not my damned fault they killed all of the legitimate uses leaving only illegal ones.
Don't forget the disk cache, the copy of the soundtrack on the sound card, and the copy that was just put on Kazaa because if the F*$&ers aren't going to respect their customers then their customers aren't going to respect them.
I'd much rather our Republic has been destroyed through malice and evil than the incompetence of the electorate, which is what evidence currently points to. Evidence of gross violation of the electoral process would restore people's faith in the concept of general election, as the obvious stupidity it has wrought would no longer be the fault of the process, but the fault of manipulations.
You don't need carpentry skill. Just get a desk with a locking drawer, or a locking wood file cabinet. Drill one outgoing hole for the wires, add a few extra fans (and air-holes to the cabinet), and you're set. Operating a drill is a lot easier than operating a television.
Highly effective. Why, millions of dollars have already been diverted away from valuable programs like our pathetically underfunded education system, so it must be working. Otherwise why waste the money, right? I mean, with all of the students turning to drugs and violence because they're the intellectual inferior of an H1-B immigrant from Calcutta who barely speaks english, then the war on drugs and terror must be tremendously effective to have any sort of net gain.
Trust your government: they're here to help....someone....we think.
By loading all textures on level load, they remove the attempted optimization, and solve the problem.
And probably introduced the problem of much slower loading times. This screams of "stopgap" to me, and I wouldn't be surprised to see dynamic loading reintroduced at a future date without the associated, relatively minor problem.
Not only is it a crappy way to suck up all of the power in a system, it also adds unnecessarily to to cost and hardly ever does what it's supposed to. Besides, with phones' built-in browsers, Flash is becoming standard anyway.
Seriously though, the one good thing I can think of about all this ridiculous IP litigation is that it actually can drive a good 'lone coder' to really innovate as opposed to create the same old mouse trap in a different way.
Lol. That's a good one. When they're handing out patents for clicking buttons, you're not safe anywhere.
That having been said, you're probably not worth going after, so do a little dilligence, but just do it.
When the user doesn't know what to do, your design has failed. Generally, when the user doesn't know what to do, it is because you've presented them with far too many options and they don't know where to begin. Like I mentioned, the option they're looking for could be in the quicklaunch bar, it could be in the running apps area, it could be in the start menu, it could be in the program menu in the start menu, it could be in the icons at the top of their open folder, it could be in the sidebar of their open folder, it could be in the menus of their open folder, it could be in the control pannels, it could be in the help text, and it could be somewhere else entirely. In Linux it could be in the Kbar, it could be in the Kmenus, it could be on the desktop, it could be in the icons at the tops of the folders, it could be in the menus at the tops of folders, it could be in the distro-specific config control panel, it could be in the KDE / Gnome specific control pannel, it could be in a generalized Linux control pannel, it could exist in a command-line config application, it could live as nothing more than a config file, or it could be something else entirely.
Of course, a lot of this boils down to the architectures of the machines, and how the obstensibly main interface to them (the file system) is not at all tailored to the end-user experience, but rather for the benefit of the programmers. The whole start menu / programs folder / broken shortcuts / desktop clutter problem comes from trying (and failing) to bolt a more natural interface onto the side of these assorted messes.
Find out how users heirarchically structure their thoughts, and arrange a computer interface similarly. Or give them the power to do so themselves, and to re-arrange at will. Otherwise the user will never understand the interface, as the interface won't be adapted to their understanding.
One of the things that has killed both usability and security of modern computers is feature creep. The ability to run Visual Basic scripts as part of your file browser. Javascript interpretations of file names.
Most people forget that computers should only have one button. It should be marked "do exactly what the user want me to do," and it should do exactly that. Unfortunately, many systems are not designed from the viewpoint of a new user, but rather the professional user who created the system. There are five or six areas where a command can be found in the windows Explorer interface, and a given command can be in one, two, or all of them. Very occasionally, a command will only be available in the help file. sKill is far more usable than Kill -3.14159265, yet is no less secure. If end-users couldn't see what they couldn't access, they would have a much less cluttered interface and less obvious routes of attack.
Bittorrent is actually, quite unlike the other file networks out there, eminently tracable. The person who put up the torrent is well known, all of the people who download from that torrent is tracked... if there were any protocol that were "asking for it," it's bittorrent.
Does anyone know how HL2 is handling people who own / use multiple computers? I'd like to have a copy at home, but will probably play LAN multiplayer at work. If I download over Steam I'm probably SOL, but what if I have CD's? Do I have to buy twice to authenticate on two machines, even if they're non-concurrent?
You rip the box, and return it. The store eats the cost.
However, that doesn't happen, as Vivendi has to take the returned merchandise back, so aside from the loss of manpower Vivendi eats the costs.
However, that doesn't happen, as Valve has some of their percentage (after Vivendi recoups) held for covering returns. Valve will therefore eat somewhere between 25 and 100% of the cost of returns, usually towards the 100% side.
If you really want to punish Vivendi, buy the game over Steam and cut into the cardboard-box retail model that has never served gaming very well anyway.
Unions are easier to form where you have stable employment and a local employment pool. In the gaming industry it is more difficult, as A: employment lasts somewhere between 8 months and 2 years, and B: people travel all across the country for work. It's far more difficult to consider yourself a union town if you're about to pop off to Frisco for a Stint with a new company.
That having been said, the union movement is gaining momentum, and I would gladly sign up for one.
I do have to ask, will the recount be done upon the same voting machines? Obviously the concept of recounting a voting machine that has no paper trail is just silly, but for the ones that do would the recount be done by having human tabulators look for colored holes, or by feeding it into the same machines that gave the results the first time?
You won't see game fans reporting file sharers either. We're talking about people actually selling and profiting from these games. I'm sure music fans get upset by people selling illegal copies of Red Hot Chili Peppers albums too.
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The worst part is a transition from smooth to rough surfaces; I was once skating down a nice, smooth road, going quite fast.
The road surface suddenly transitioned to very rough... ouch.
Thing is, your wheels lose forward speed really fast but your upper body is still going at quite a pace and catching up can involve your upper body suddenly descending to the road surface...
Which is, convieniently enough, a very rough surface.
I just meant to point out that programming for the gaming industry has it's downsides. Most projects end with a massive bughunt rather than a systems rewrite, and this usually burns especially hard on the programmers. You really have to love programming for programming's sake during those times, or you're going to dread coming in for the 60 - 80 hour weeks.
"The work I had been doing at Id for the last half of Doom 3 development was basically pretty damn boring."
Have we really gotten so far removed from the concepts laid forth in the constitution that there is no route to rights except through financial transactions? That seems to be the direction we've been going since the labor wars of the 19th century, but have we gotten there already? Is the concept of rights now inexorably tied to money?
That's a bit ironic, especially if you follow the original curve of Madden. In 1990 it was an amazing first outing, and by 1992 it was the must-have best football series of all time (I believe that was the year where the amulance would run players over on the field). And then they kept that engine. And massaged it. And pushed it. And let it get crufty. And didn't bother to greenlight a badly needed 3d version until their old engine was hurting sales. Their first 3D outing was terribly late, and was pretty crappy. Their second 3D outing likewise wasn't great, and wasn't that impressive either. But they kept massaging it and pushing it, and now the engine is pretty decent.
And now that EA has exclusive rights for the next 5 years, you can pretty much guarentee that Madden is once again in a decline phase. Too bad, really, as the 2k lineup of football games are pretty good, and deserve a level playingfield.
It's amazing what you can find when you look online. There are sites that say that each and every frame of a movie is copied to the television set before playback. And if your TV is attached to a VCR, that gets a copy too. And if that copy finds it's way to the streets of New York, it's not my damned fault they killed all of the legitimate uses leaving only illegal ones.
Don't forget the disk cache, the copy of the soundtrack on the sound card, and the copy that was just put on Kazaa because if the F*$&ers aren't going to respect their customers then their customers aren't going to respect them.
I'd much rather our Republic has been destroyed through malice and evil than the incompetence of the electorate, which is what evidence currently points to. Evidence of gross violation of the electoral process would restore people's faith in the concept of general election, as the obvious stupidity it has wrought would no longer be the fault of the process, but the fault of manipulations.
You don't need carpentry skill. Just get a desk with a locking drawer, or a locking wood file cabinet. Drill one outgoing hole for the wires, add a few extra fans (and air-holes to the cabinet), and you're set. Operating a drill is a lot easier than operating a television.
"At the same time, the new format offers complete backward compatibility to any existing mp3 software and hardware devices."
So yes. According to the article at least, this should intermingle freely in the MP3 world. Extremely cool, that.
Highly effective. Why, millions of dollars have already been diverted away from valuable programs like our pathetically underfunded education system, so it must be working. Otherwise why waste the money, right? I mean, with all of the students turning to drugs and violence because they're the intellectual inferior of an H1-B immigrant from Calcutta who barely speaks english, then the war on drugs and terror must be tremendously effective to have any sort of net gain.
...someone. ...we think.
Trust your government: they're here to help.
It could be extra bad if, say, Google decided to remove Perfect 10 and all related sites from their search engine.
Not that do it Google do it would do do it such a thing do it.
By loading all textures on level load, they remove the attempted optimization, and solve the problem.
And probably introduced the problem of much slower loading times. This screams of "stopgap" to me, and I wouldn't be surprised to see dynamic loading reintroduced at a future date without the associated, relatively minor problem.
Not only is it a crappy way to suck up all of the power in a system, it also adds unnecessarily to to cost and hardly ever does what it's supposed to. Besides, with phones' built-in browsers, Flash is becoming standard anyway.
Oh, you meant the other kind of Flash. Nevermind.
Shack up with another high-roller.
Can you say iFilms? Makes you wonder why the iPod got a color screen, doesn't it?
Seriously though, the one good thing I can think of about all this ridiculous IP litigation is that it actually can drive a good 'lone coder' to really innovate as opposed to create the same old mouse trap in a different way.
Lol. That's a good one. When they're handing out patents for clicking buttons, you're not safe anywhere.
That having been said, you're probably not worth going after, so do a little dilligence, but just do it.
When the user doesn't know what to do, your design has failed. Generally, when the user doesn't know what to do, it is because you've presented them with far too many options and they don't know where to begin. Like I mentioned, the option they're looking for could be in the quicklaunch bar, it could be in the running apps area, it could be in the start menu, it could be in the program menu in the start menu, it could be in the icons at the top of their open folder, it could be in the sidebar of their open folder, it could be in the menus of their open folder, it could be in the control pannels, it could be in the help text, and it could be somewhere else entirely. In Linux it could be in the Kbar, it could be in the Kmenus, it could be on the desktop, it could be in the icons at the tops of the folders, it could be in the menus at the tops of folders, it could be in the distro-specific config control panel, it could be in the KDE / Gnome specific control pannel, it could be in a generalized Linux control pannel, it could exist in a command-line config application, it could live as nothing more than a config file, or it could be something else entirely.
Of course, a lot of this boils down to the architectures of the machines, and how the obstensibly main interface to them (the file system) is not at all tailored to the end-user experience, but rather for the benefit of the programmers. The whole start menu / programs folder / broken shortcuts / desktop clutter problem comes from trying (and failing) to bolt a more natural interface onto the side of these assorted messes.
Find out how users heirarchically structure their thoughts, and arrange a computer interface similarly. Or give them the power to do so themselves, and to re-arrange at will. Otherwise the user will never understand the interface, as the interface won't be adapted to their understanding.
One of the things that has killed both usability and security of modern computers is feature creep. The ability to run Visual Basic scripts as part of your file browser. Javascript interpretations of file names.
Most people forget that computers should only have one button. It should be marked "do exactly what the user want me to do," and it should do exactly that. Unfortunately, many systems are not designed from the viewpoint of a new user, but rather the professional user who created the system. There are five or six areas where a command can be found in the windows Explorer interface, and a given command can be in one, two, or all of them. Very occasionally, a command will only be available in the help file. sKill is far more usable than Kill -3.14159265, yet is no less secure. If end-users couldn't see what they couldn't access, they would have a much less cluttered interface and less obvious routes of attack.
Bittorrent is actually, quite unlike the other file networks out there, eminently tracable. The person who put up the torrent is well known, all of the people who download from that torrent is tracked... if there were any protocol that were "asking for it," it's bittorrent.
Does anyone know how HL2 is handling people who own / use multiple computers? I'd like to have a copy at home, but will probably play LAN multiplayer at work. If I download over Steam I'm probably SOL, but what if I have CD's? Do I have to buy twice to authenticate on two machines, even if they're non-concurrent?
Microsoft doesn't need to "start" their photocopiers.... they have been running for years!
I'm kind of surprised that Microsoft hasn't bought Xerox yet.
Vivendi and the shops would lose a fortune.
You rip the box, and return it. The store eats the cost.
However, that doesn't happen, as Vivendi has to take the returned merchandise back, so aside from the loss of manpower Vivendi eats the costs.
However, that doesn't happen, as Valve has some of their percentage (after Vivendi recoups) held for covering returns. Valve will therefore eat somewhere between 25 and 100% of the cost of returns, usually towards the 100% side.
If you really want to punish Vivendi, buy the game over Steam and cut into the cardboard-box retail model that has never served gaming very well anyway.
I wonder if that's just a side effect of running a Warezed XP?
Unions are easier to form where you have stable employment and a local employment pool. In the gaming industry it is more difficult, as A: employment lasts somewhere between 8 months and 2 years, and B: people travel all across the country for work. It's far more difficult to consider yourself a union town if you're about to pop off to Frisco for a Stint with a new company.
That having been said, the union movement is gaining momentum, and I would gladly sign up for one.
I do have to ask, will the recount be done upon the same voting machines? Obviously the concept of recounting a voting machine that has no paper trail is just silly, but for the ones that do would the recount be done by having human tabulators look for colored holes, or by feeding it into the same machines that gave the results the first time?
You won't see game fans reporting file sharers either. We're talking about people actually selling and profiting from these games. I'm sure music fans get upset by people selling illegal copies of Red Hot Chili Peppers albums too.