It's not wrong to advocate just because you've had a few bad experiences. You enjoyment in these games is fairly directly related to who you're spending your time with. If you're always joining up with disrespectful punk kids, then you're not going to have a good time and you're going to quit, as you already did. If you're grouping with people with similar maturity levels (regardless of age), interestes, etc, you'll have more fun because you'll look forward to spending time with friends in addition to just playing the game.
Granted some games my have a higher percentage of punks than others, but you can avoid them anywhere. Stay away from them. Tell them she's a guy, unless you're using voice chat (say xbox PSO) where you could just use a voice mask to make her sound like one.
Or, focus on gaming centers (eg igames.org) as the new arcades. Here pc games can be played like arcades, and can be networked.
They can have cabinets for emulatuated arcade games, or cabinets for console versions of games. Instead of pay per play, keep the normal center rate of $x/hour. With cabinets for emulators or consoles, if the game you want to play is full, just play it on another cabinet, they can switch games easily.
Here you can still run arcade type tournaments, pc tournaments, center vs center online tournaments, etc.
If someone put forth the effort I bet the transition could be made and centers would get more popular, maybe grow to the levels of the old arcade scene or higher. It's too bad that almost every center is focused on CS or card games though. Branch out guys:/
X-Box might get a quick jump, but it's only 2 weeks. I don't think there are that many people waiting around going to buy the first one that ships.
Besides, both releases give more than enough time for Christmas shopping. If X-Box releases first and either flops, or has some kind of shortage, all parents/christmas shoppers can get a GameCube shortly after. Releasing after the X-Box could turn out to be a good move.
Some of you may have read Covad Communications' announcement
today regarding its negotiations with bondholders and the
subsequent "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 filing. The release
clearly details Covad's plan to successfully restructure its
business and continue with its long-term goal of providing
premium DSL connectivity and choice in the broadband market
space.
The primary item of note in the release, and that which
concerns many of you, is that the potential Chapter 11 filing
will affect the parent company, Covad Communications Group,
Inc., but will in no way affect any of its operating
companies. Due to this essential distinction, ALL of the
Covad operating companies (which include vendor relationships
and the maintenance of DSL circuits) will continue to operate
without any court-imposed restrictions. Basically, this
announcement will not affect your Speakeasy DSL service in
any way.
We here at Speakeasy are thrilled by this decision and
determined that we will continue our vendor relationship with
Covad in all established service areas. We are in full support
of Covad's efforts to restructure, and believe that this is
exactly what the industry needs. We are all early-adopters of a
technology that is under constant development, and, as many of
you know, residing on the bleeding edge is not without its risks.
Thankfully, this announcement will help ebb the speculation on
the future of the broadband industry and contribute to
revitalized growth.
Certainly we intend to monitor the developments of this
restructure, and will keep our press site
(http://www.speakeasy.net/press) up to date with all breaking
news regarding Covad's reorganization.
Why does a compuer science test have to be confined to a language? Regardless of the arguments that the language could die, or changes too fast, it seems a little restrictive.
I've taken many pseudo code and theoretical tests which in my opinion are much better for testing understanding of the material such as procedural vs object oriented, algorithms and complexity, data structures, etc.
They could have chosen Perl, Python, [insert your favorite language here] and my answer would be the same. Test theory, at least at the AP level.
A great thought but from another article about the same thing...
The designers of e.Volution say it will be
possible to merely plug the vehicle into any
electrical power source to fill it up. That could
take up to four hours.
But the manufacturers
envisage that fleet
owners could install
their own air stations,
where a fill up could
take as little as three
minutes.
Basically plug your car in when you get home, or hit an air station on the road. Not quite as easy to modularize.
Someone met up with Douglas Adams at some sort of party, and asked why 42 of all the numbers or reasons he could have picked. He replied (very paraphrased)
DA: what is the sum of all the numbers on a normal 6 sided die?
Person: 21
DA: How many dice are thrown in a game of craps?
Person: 2
DA: What is 21 x 2?
Person: 42
DA: There you have it. Life, my friend, is a crap shoot.
Nerf Arena Blast, FPS without the violence. I haven't played it so can't comment for sure, but reviews I saw weren't half bad. It uses the unreal engine.
We have our own research group at UDel developing just such a system. It's called EARTH, Efficient Architecture for Running THreads. It's still being developed but is functional as far as I remember, just not necessarily optimized. I don't know wether or not it will be used on the new system, but I'd be willing to bet that one way or another, EARTH will find it's way on to the cluster. The professor running the group has a way of getting things done:)
If you want to check out more, check out http://www.capsl.udel.edu. The information on the web page isn't too organized, and all the info on the EARTH page is bound to be pretty old, but you might be able to get a decent idea.
I admit I'm not too familiar with everything, but I was wondering where the parallelism/load balancing in the programs they run on massive clusters like this comes from?
I work with a research group at my school which develops an architecture and a programming language designed to explicitly tell the program what functions you want run in parallel and where. The language is, for lack of a better description, rather complicated relative to C, which it's based on. We have ports for SMP machines, Beowulf clusters, SP2's etc, but this is the only distributed multithreaded implementation I've been exposed to and since ours is not public, I was wondering what everybody else was using. Pthreads can't be used for a distributed system can they? Thanks for any info.
Don't want to be picky or anything, I'm sure it was a simple typo, but I would make sure to say everything correctly and come across intelligently if I was going to criticize someone for saying something I thought was unintelligent.
My mom came home from work one day extremely excited that she had solved her problem about not being able to send messages to other people at work. She found out that she had to click a button that said "Send":). My mom is very bright, but when it comes to computers she's a clueless as can be. But, given that Linux/Unix wa already installed on the machine she had to use, as long as someone showed her what she would need to do to get her stuff done, I'm sure she could do it fine. I think most computer newbies would be this way, as long as they can figure out or be shown exactly what to do for their tasks, they couldn't care less about what's underneath.
I really don't think we'll ever see MS open it's code. Even if they did, how much would it really benefit people? Would linux developers suddenly try to fix windows code so it was stable and everything they wanted? I doubt it. Or if they did that's a pretty fairweather friendship with Linux. Maybe new developers will help to improve windows, all the better if MS accepts the help, but does that mean that just because MS is open source and actually works we'd stop using Linux? I doubt that too.
Maybe if MS was open source it would level the playing field a little bit so Linux would be a bigger competitor, although MS still has a huge head start in desktop computers.
Then again, just because MS goes open source doesn't mean a single 3rd party or even MS application has to go open source so how much has really changed?
I'm a little new to most of these issues though, so I could be way off base. I appreciate any comments that might help me understand things better.
I'm a little new to all this, I've only used linux a few months (some unix for a few years as a user), and I'm still getting caught up with all the related issues, but what I do know, that if anybody ever has any hopes of Linux bringing mainstream competition to Windows, it has to be a LOT more idiot proof.
I work in a computer lab on campus, so I see the bottom of the barrel when it comes to computer illiterate people. (Someone today kept complaining that 1 page of a 3 page document wasn't printing....it was on the back of the first...). Hardly any of the people that come in there wouldn't have the first clue about where to start with linux. Hell, I know cpeg/cisc majors that wouldn't know where to start. If RedHat gets some major backing, computer illiterates have a big name to fall back on a la Microsoft, and the software is nearly idiot proof, all the better for the popularity of Linux. The mainstream isn't going to want to use something where there are so many choices and they don't know the differences between them, or that at the heart they're all basically the same. Something they here is for geeks and too much trouble to be worth it. They will want one proven choice, a shiny box, pretty gui, easy installation, etc.
We that know what we're doing (at least for the most part), can use other distro's if we want more control, that's the beauty. So what if pre-installs only offer RedHat, isn't it more fun to do it yourself anyway? So what if the mainstream associates RedHat with Linux...better than not knowing/using it at all right? Our community will still use what we want to use and know the true story, what do we care what the masses think?
This is just some un-planned rambling so it's probablly a little incoherent. It's also only my opinion, I'm always interested in others. Like I said I'm still familiarizing myself with everything, so if I'm way off base I would like to know:)
Someone deny that Dead Simple is the greatest multiplayer deathmatch map of all time:)
I never got too into QuakeX, I mainly play shooters only with my roomates and Doom2/Duke are the most fun for us anyway. I like Duke, but I always find myself going back to Doom2, and Dead Simple is one of the main reasons.
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It's not wrong to advocate just because you've had a few bad experiences. You enjoyment in these games is fairly directly related to who you're spending your time with. If you're always joining up with disrespectful punk kids, then you're not going to have a good time and you're going to quit, as you already did. If you're grouping with people with similar maturity levels (regardless of age), interestes, etc, you'll have more fun because you'll look forward to spending time with friends in addition to just playing the game.
Granted some games my have a higher percentage of punks than others, but you can avoid them anywhere. Stay away from them. Tell them she's a guy, unless you're using voice chat (say xbox PSO) where you could just use a voice mask to make her sound like one.
Or, focus on gaming centers (eg igames.org) as the new arcades. Here pc games can be played like arcades, and can be networked.
:/
They can have cabinets for emulatuated arcade games, or cabinets for console versions of games. Instead of pay per play, keep the normal center rate of $x/hour. With cabinets for emulators or consoles, if the game you want to play is full, just play it on another cabinet, they can switch games easily.
Here you can still run arcade type tournaments, pc tournaments, center vs center online tournaments, etc.
If someone put forth the effort I bet the transition could be made and centers would get more popular, maybe grow to the levels of the old arcade scene or higher. It's too bad that almost every center is focused on CS or card games though. Branch out guys
Post your vote/comments to Capcom here
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http://www.snk-capcom.com/forums/showthread.php
X-Box might get a quick jump, but it's only 2 weeks. I don't think there are that many people waiting around going to buy the first one that ships.
Besides, both releases give more than enough time for Christmas shopping. If X-Box releases first and either flops, or has some kind of shortage, all parents/christmas shoppers can get a GameCube shortly after. Releasing after the X-Box could turn out to be a good move.
How Does Covad Spell Relief? Chapter 11
Some of you may have read Covad Communications' announcement today regarding its negotiations with bondholders and the subsequent "pre-packaged" Chapter 11 filing. The release clearly details Covad's plan to successfully restructure its business and continue with its long-term goal of providing premium DSL connectivity and choice in the broadband market space.
The primary item of note in the release, and that which concerns many of you, is that the potential Chapter 11 filing will affect the parent company, Covad Communications Group, Inc., but will in no way affect any of its operating companies. Due to this essential distinction, ALL of the Covad operating companies (which include vendor relationships and the maintenance of DSL circuits) will continue to operate without any court-imposed restrictions. Basically, this announcement will not affect your Speakeasy DSL service in any way.
We here at Speakeasy are thrilled by this decision and determined that we will continue our vendor relationship with Covad in all established service areas. We are in full support of Covad's efforts to restructure, and believe that this is exactly what the industry needs. We are all early-adopters of a technology that is under constant development, and, as many of you know, residing on the bleeding edge is not without its risks. Thankfully, this announcement will help ebb the speculation on the future of the broadband industry and contribute to revitalized growth.
Certainly we intend to monitor the developments of this restructure, and will keep our press site (http://www.speakeasy.net/press) up to date with all breaking news regarding Covad's reorganization.
Now we just need one of those jackets from Back to the Future 2 and we'll always stay dry!
Why does a compuer science test have to be confined to a language? Regardless of the arguments that the language could die, or changes too fast, it seems a little restrictive. I've taken many pseudo code and theoretical tests which in my opinion are much better for testing understanding of the material such as procedural vs object oriented, algorithms and complexity, data structures, etc. They could have chosen Perl, Python, [insert your favorite language here] and my answer would be the same. Test theory, at least at the AP level.
One step closer to the infinite improbability drive!
er, dinner reservations then. hate editing topics and not double checking :)
:)
The designers of e.Volution say it will be possible to merely plug the vehicle into any electrical power source to fill it up. That could take up to four hours.
But the manufacturers envisage that fleet owners could install their own air stations, where a fill up could take as little as three minutes.
Basically plug your car in when you get home, or hit an air station on the road. Not quite as easy to modularize.Someone met up with Douglas Adams at some sort of party, and asked why 42 of all the numbers or reasons he could have picked. He replied (very paraphrased)
DA: what is the sum of all the numbers on a normal 6 sided die?
Person: 21
DA: How many dice are thrown in a game of craps?
Person: 2
DA: What is 21 x 2?
Person: 42
DA: There you have it. Life, my friend, is a crap shoot.
Check out the Review and Demo
If you want to check out more, check out http://www.capsl.udel.edu. The information on the web page isn't too organized, and all the info on the EARTH page is bound to be pretty old, but you might be able to get a decent idea.
I admit I'm not too familiar with everything, but I was wondering where the parallelism/load balancing in the programs they run on massive clusters like this comes from?
I work with a research group at my school which develops an architecture and a programming language designed to explicitly tell the program what functions you want run in parallel and where. The language is, for lack of a better description, rather complicated relative to C, which it's based on. We have ports for SMP machines, Beowulf clusters, SP2's etc, but this is the only distributed multithreaded implementation I've been exposed to and since ours is not public, I was wondering what everybody else was using. Pthreads can't be used for a distributed system can they? Thanks for any info.
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Don't want to be picky or anything, I'm sure it was a simple typo, but I would make sure to say everything correctly and come across intelligently if I was going to criticize someone for saying something I thought was unintelligent.
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Stupid popups.
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My mom came home from work one day extremely excited that she had solved her problem about not being able to send messages to other people at work. She found out that she had to click a button that said "Send" :). My mom is very bright, but when it comes to computers she's a clueless as can be. But, given that Linux/Unix wa already installed on the machine she had to use, as long as someone showed her what she would need to do to get her stuff done, I'm sure she could do it fine. I think most computer newbies would be this way, as long as they can figure out or be shown exactly what to do for their tasks, they couldn't care less about what's underneath.
Kas
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Crystal Light. That stuff is lethal!
:)
Right Nate?
Kas
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Actually, it's
:)
"And 15 minutes ago you *knew* we were alone on this planet"
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I really don't think we'll ever see MS open it's code. Even if they did, how much would it really benefit people? Would linux developers suddenly try to fix windows code so it was stable and everything they wanted? I doubt it. Or if they did that's a pretty fairweather friendship with Linux. Maybe new developers will help to improve windows, all the better if MS accepts the help, but does that mean that just because MS is open source and actually works we'd stop using Linux? I doubt that too.
Maybe if MS was open source it would level the playing field a little bit so Linux would be a bigger competitor, although MS still has a huge head start in desktop computers.
Then again, just because MS goes open source doesn't mean a single 3rd party or even MS application has to go open source so how much has really changed?
I'm a little new to most of these issues though, so I could be way off base. I appreciate any comments that might help me understand things better.
- Kas
--
I'm a little new to all this, I've only used linux a few months (some unix for a few years as a user), and I'm still getting caught up with all the related issues, but what I do know, that if anybody ever has any hopes of Linux bringing mainstream competition to Windows, it has to be a LOT more idiot proof.
:)
I work in a computer lab on campus, so I see the bottom of the barrel when it comes to computer illiterate people. (Someone today kept complaining that 1 page of a 3 page document wasn't printing....it was on the back of the first...). Hardly any of the people that come in there wouldn't have the first clue about where to start with linux. Hell, I know cpeg/cisc majors that wouldn't know where to start. If RedHat gets some major backing, computer illiterates have a big name to fall back on a la Microsoft, and the software is nearly idiot proof, all the better for the popularity of Linux. The mainstream isn't going to want to use something where there are so many choices and they don't know the differences between them, or that at the heart they're all basically the same. Something they here is for geeks and too much trouble to be worth it. They will want one proven choice, a shiny box, pretty gui, easy installation, etc.
We that know what we're doing (at least for the most part), can use other distro's if we want more control, that's the beauty. So what if pre-installs only offer RedHat, isn't it more fun to do it yourself anyway? So what if the mainstream associates RedHat with Linux...better than not knowing/using it at all right? Our community will still use what we want to use and know the true story, what do we care what the masses think?
This is just some un-planned rambling so it's probablly a little incoherent. It's also only my opinion, I'm always interested in others. Like I said I'm still familiarizing myself with everything, so if I'm way off base I would like to know
- Kas
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Someone deny that Dead Simple is the greatest multiplayer deathmatch map of all time :)
I never got too into QuakeX, I mainly play shooters only with my roomates and Doom2/Duke are the most fun for us anyway. I like Duke, but I always find myself going back to Doom2, and Dead Simple is one of the main reasons.
Kas
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