There are 2 main reasons you want properly inflated tires: 1) Safety (mentioned in the article) 2) Fuel economy. Proper tire pressure can result in a 5-10% increase in MPG.
I didn't play it, but Planetside apparently had a system like this. They limited numbers to 200 of each side or something. I expect that CCP could certainly do something similar.
I guess another reasonable suggestion is to make locking times exponentially scale based on the number of ships near you. More than 50 ships within 100km means you locking times would increase to 30 seconds or so. 100 ships and you are taking minutes to lock. There is even a reasonable in game reason for this (sensor interference) or some such thing.
It has become clear in the recent LV-Goon war that the servers are not capable of handling more than 300-400 players per system. What is CCP planning to do about this? No matter how many optimizations the server team makes, the users will always be able to gather enough people to overwhelm the server.
It has been a while since I had a 128K mac, but the battery was for preserving the system time and whatnot, just like the little button batteries in modern motherboards. I think the Mac battery was always in use or some such goofy thing, becuase it used to run down every year or so and we would have to go to strange camera stores to get the crazy non standard battery Apple used.
I also have a MINI, and I believe you are incorrect. The power steering pump on the MINI is electric, not run off a belt like in most cars.
The throttle is drive by wire, but the brakes are not. The MINI does have an option (which I have on my car) which is capable of engaging the brakes on individual wheels to correct skids.
One of (any maybe the only) car with any form of by-wire braking is one of the high end Mercedes, which still has emergency mechanical linkages to the front brakes, in case of computer failure.
Actually, you are both wrong. I know someone at iRobot (makers of Roomba), and she mentioned to me that it only stores 8 bytes or something like that in RAM. If you actually watch it work for a while, you will see that it isn't doing smart things like figuring out the size and shape of your room, it is just doing a very well designed random walk. It just switches between a few different patterns of movement when it hits a wall.
Why was over half the interview all questions about minimum specs for games? Do people actually read them? I can't think of the last time I looked at a min spec.
I know in my real job we basically just make up min specs. They bear some relation to reality, but it isn't like we sit around and test on slower machines to figure out what is acceptable.
Did you even read your own link? There were thousands of people at that protest and there was no particular link between Kerry and Fonda. She hadn't even gone to Vietnam at the time that pic was taken!
I'm shocked that logic like that makes sense to you.
Do you go to movies in the theater? Do you see ads before the movie? Do you get in free?
Do you ever go to professional sporting events? Do you see ads everywhere in the stadium? Are tickets free?
Do you have a credit card? Do they send you ads with your monthly bill? Do you also pay them an annual fee (or maybe you don't)? Do you pay when you are late with a payment? Do they charge you interest?
Lots of companies cannot survive on just one revenue stream. If you didn't want them to collect the data, you can call them and opt out of the data collection.
Huh? There is nothing odd about working with 3 CPUs, as long as you have your software properly threaded. In a game, you might have 1 graphics thread, one AI and one physics, for example.
That is total nonsense. Thousands of companies, both large and small have been founded becuase of Apple. Big companies like Adobe wouldn't be around if not for Apple. There are also hundreds of small Desktop Publishing companies that woudln't be around. Tons of Mac only software companies. The list goes on and on.
Hardware like the iPod is certainly innovative, or else why would it be selling so well. It is quite a bit more expensive than many of the other products out there, but it still is outselling them. Why do you think people are buying them?
I have been playing with TINI from Dallas Semiconductor. It runs java code, and supports a pretty good subset of the full Java 1.4 spec. It costs around $100 to get started with it.
Did anyone else think it was strange that after a few pages complaining about how terrible these inventions are, you get 3 pages of information on how much they all cost?
Microsoft took a proven, working technology from a product that would be used by perhaps a hundred thousand people and put it into a product that is used by billions. I'm unsure what your definition of "freedom" is, but mine sure does include freedom from crashing...
A mini-itx setup should be signifigantly cheaper than a P4 laptop. It also is somewhat upgradable, though that depends on the exact MB you get. I would look into the VIA Epia/Edens, as they are extremely enegery efficent and produce very little heat.
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Or is that a credit-card only feature?
Artisan's Asylum in Somerville, MA is 40,000 square feet (this place is 14,000)
Huh? What are you doing there that cannot be done with .NET generics?
There are 2 main reasons you want properly inflated tires:
1) Safety (mentioned in the article)
2) Fuel economy. Proper tire pressure can result in a 5-10% increase in MPG.
I didn't play it, but Planetside apparently had a system like this. They limited numbers to 200 of each side or something. I expect that CCP could certainly do something similar.
I guess another reasonable suggestion is to make locking times exponentially scale based on the number of ships near you. More than 50 ships within 100km means you locking times would increase to 30 seconds or so. 100 ships and you are taking minutes to lock. There is even a reasonable in game reason for this (sensor interference) or some such thing.
It has become clear in the recent LV-Goon war that the servers are not capable of handling more than 300-400 players per system. What is CCP planning to do about this? No matter how many optimizations the server team makes, the users will always be able to gather enough people to overwhelm the server.
Mac games are nto emulating a PC and running PC code. Developers are just making sure that the network packet format is the same (same endianess).
It has been a while since I had a 128K mac, but the battery was for preserving the system time and whatnot, just like the little button batteries in modern motherboards. I think the Mac battery was always in use or some such goofy thing, becuase it used to run down every year or so and we would have to go to strange camera stores to get the crazy non standard battery Apple used.
Does anyone know who they sold it to? Firaxis? Another publisher?
I also have a MINI, and I believe you are incorrect. The power steering pump on the MINI is electric, not run off a belt like in most cars.
The throttle is drive by wire, but the brakes are not. The MINI does have an option (which I have on my car) which is capable of engaging the brakes on individual wheels to correct skids.
One of (any maybe the only) car with any form of by-wire braking is one of the high end Mercedes, which still has emergency mechanical linkages to the front brakes, in case of computer failure.
Saving 0.5% of out national energy use sounds pretty darn good to me. How about if the government mailed everyone 5 CF light bulbs?
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Actually, you are both wrong. I know someone at iRobot (makers of Roomba), and she mentioned to me that it only stores 8 bytes or something like that in RAM. If you actually watch it work for a while, you will see that it isn't doing smart things like figuring out the size and shape of your room, it is just doing a very well designed random walk. It just switches between a few different patterns of movement when it hits a wall.
Why was over half the interview all questions about minimum specs for games? Do people actually read them? I can't think of the last time I looked at a min spec.
I know in my real job we basically just make up min specs. They bear some relation to reality, but it isn't like we sit around and test on slower machines to figure out what is acceptable.
Did you even read your own link? There were thousands of people at that protest and there was no particular link between Kerry and Fonda. She hadn't even gone to Vietnam at the time that pic was taken!
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If you do this, you will have problems in 2100. It should be:
if ((year % 4 == 0) && ((year % 100 != 0) || (year % 400 == 0))
LeapYear()
else
NotLeapYear()
I'm shocked that logic like that makes sense to you.
Do you go to movies in the theater? Do you see ads before the movie? Do you get in free?
Do you ever go to professional sporting events? Do you see ads everywhere in the stadium? Are tickets free?
Do you have a credit card? Do they send you ads with your monthly bill? Do you also pay them an annual fee (or maybe you don't)? Do you pay when you are late with a payment? Do they charge you interest?
Lots of companies cannot survive on just one revenue stream. If you didn't want them to collect the data, you can call them and opt out of the data collection.
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Huh? There is nothing odd about working with 3 CPUs, as long as you have your software properly threaded. In a game, you might have 1 graphics thread, one AI and one physics, for example.
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That is total nonsense. Thousands of companies, both large and small have been founded becuase of Apple. Big companies like Adobe wouldn't be around if not for Apple. There are also hundreds of small Desktop Publishing companies that woudln't be around. Tons of Mac only software companies. The list goes on and on.
Hardware like the iPod is certainly innovative, or else why would it be selling so well. It is quite a bit more expensive than many of the other products out there, but it still is outselling them. Why do you think people are buying them?
Reading is fundamental.
Depending upon the particular song
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I have been playing with TINI from Dallas Semiconductor. It runs java code, and supports a pretty good subset of the full Java 1.4 spec. It costs around $100 to get started with it.
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Did anyone else think it was strange that after a few pages complaining about how terrible these inventions are, you get 3 pages of information on how much they all cost?
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Microsoft took a proven, working technology from a product that would be used by perhaps a hundred thousand people and put it into a product that is used by billions. I'm unsure what your definition of "freedom" is, but mine sure does include freedom from crashing...
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A mini-itx setup should be signifigantly cheaper than a P4 laptop. It also is somewhat upgradable, though that depends on the exact MB you get. I would look into the VIA Epia/Edens, as they are extremely enegery efficent and produce very little heat.
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I'm pretty sure it outputs an image to try to prevent email address harvesting.
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Try using reverse proxying through apache. I am unsure where the docs were on how to set it up, but it was pretty easy.
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