We would locate the sniper after we got killed while we were in freelook waiting to respawn. Then we'd charge them, no matter how many lives it took to get them.
I live in BFE, MS and like the poster have no choice for broadband. Today, I had a couple guys come out and install a WildBlue satellite, they just finished about a half hour ago. It seems pretty nice, I get about 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream says some random bandwidth tester. The latency is pretty painful, I got ~650ms pinging google. The 'Pro' version of this provider is 1.5Mbps/256Kbps for $79 a month, 22GB/6GB fair access policy. My initial opinion is that it rocks when your only choice is nothing or dialup, *if* you can live with the latency. I went a month or two without a connection after moving from Memphis with a cable connection, it's kind of tough. So this is a pretty sizable improvement over nothing. I hope by this time next year to start seeing some WiMax deployments, but I don't expect to see any before then.:(
Firstly, you're shooting a short, it sounds like your first venture, don't spend the money buying outright... If you're in or near a sizable metropolitan area you shouldn't have any trouble finding a rental house, check around, get some rates... You're going to want more than a camera anyway, you'll want lights, stands, c clamps, gobos, scrims, gels, reflectors, a decent tripod (but don't get married to it, stay fluid), gaffers tape, lenses, etc. I'd try to find a weekend rate package on a decent HD camera, offline it to DV for editing, and then online it somewhere where you can do it in native HD. This isn't cheap of course, but I suspect you can find a rate on a decent rental package for about the same as you'd pick up a mid-level DV cam retail. Again, poke around a metropolitan area, snag yourself some film students (they also tend to work on the cheap, for free, or for beer), they also would likely be familiar with the rental houses or may have some interesting equipment themselves. I don't think an outright retail purchase is the way to go in your case... though, I'd be *really* careful about the water, most rental houses won't take kindly to you dunking their camera in the bathtub for that ECU of your leading lady's assests.
As per they article they outsourced the maids to China.
"The abundance of cheap labor in countries such as China have contributed toward increased pressure on U.S. manufacturers to outsource their unskilled labor overseas, and evolve toward higher-skilled areas, to maintain profitability. Unfortunately, the unskilled Maids haven't managed an increase in price for their services in many years," he added.
However, it's unclear whether they actually outsourced the jobs to China or perhaps they found a few illegals at the local massage parlor...
How can they not mention a giant display-oriented map of your region/country/world on the wall!? Minimally this display should:
Be in color.
Be at least 12'x6'.
Numerous people wearing headsets must be employed to stare at it with a sick fascination for the entire day.
It should be able to animate interesting events, e.g. incoming ICBMs, lightning strikes, or Godzilla attacks with appropriate context-sensitive graphics.
Bonus points if you can surf porn or play tic-tac-toe on it.
Heh, well they're actually still kicking, oh well, it would've been so apropos.
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The source is available from the Khronos Group, though like I mentioned in another post the SDK is alpha and you have to sign an NDA to get it. It apparently uses 3 licenses, SGI Flavor of GNU Lesser GPL, SGI Free Software License B, and SGI Flavor of GNU General Public License GPL. Whew. I haven't looked over it very closely yet, so I can't judge the quality or functionality at this time.
This is good news, but I should point out the OpenGL 1.5 spec is not at this moment available yet, it's only been announced. Hopefully it will be available with some headers and implementations Real Soon Now (tm). I know the past few ATI Catalyst drivers have had experimental glslang extensions in them... Of course, it'd be nice if Microsoft would update their implementation such that OpenGL on Windows could make use of this without going through extensions, but I'm not holding my breath, nor is it really a huge issue.
The OpenML SDK is an alpha release and the final spec for it won't be out until about this time next year.
However, the Khronos Group also released the OpenGL ES spec and there's actually a couple implementations already available. OpenGL ES is for embedded systems and mobile devices, it's essentially just a subset of OpenGL. Seems like it might be pretty nifty...
It's all fun and games until little Billy and his pals are playing Children of the Corn and get chopped up by a combine or somesuch. A human should probably be left in the loop...
As an aside, Vertigo Software just released Quake 2 ported to managed C++. It's a fairly straightforward conversion from C to managed C++ for the.Net platform. It runs fairly well, they're showing it's 15% or so slower, but at the 300 FPS range it doesn't really bother me... You can find it here.
Poker has had quite a resurgence as of late, both due to online play and media coverage. Chris Moneymaker was on Letterman one night and the World Poker Tour can be caught on the Travel Channel and sometimes older ones on ESPN or ESPN2. It's actually fairly enjoyable to watch. Nothing like seeing a guy go all in with for 800 grand on a stone cold bluff whilst his opponent has a pair (you see the hole cards on the tv broadcasts, at least on the Travel Channel). Some talk smack, some wear sunglasses, some play conservative, though most are fairly aggressive. I've learned quite a bit by watching them play. As others have mentioned and as the article alludes to, the game is more mathematical than reading your opponents, but that's not really what I've seen from watching the pros on the WPT. It's all about the people, the chips, the cards, and the math all seem secondary to your read on your opponent and your style and reputation. It's all very interesting, I suggest you catch a broadcast.
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Toonces is a known Al Qaeda supporter.
Yes, but 30 mintues are "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ........ n!"
We would locate the sniper after we got killed while we were in freelook waiting to respawn. Then we'd charge them, no matter how many lives it took to get them.
I live in BFE, MS and like the poster have no choice for broadband. Today, I had a couple guys come out and install a WildBlue satellite, they just finished about a half hour ago. It seems pretty nice, I get about 1.5Mbps downstream and 256Kbps upstream says some random bandwidth tester. The latency is pretty painful, I got ~650ms pinging google. The 'Pro' version of this provider is 1.5Mbps/256Kbps for $79 a month, 22GB/6GB fair access policy. My initial opinion is that it rocks when your only choice is nothing or dialup, *if* you can live with the latency. I went a month or two without a connection after moving from Memphis with a cable connection, it's kind of tough. So this is a pretty sizable improvement over nothing. I hope by this time next year to start seeing some WiMax deployments, but I don't expect to see any before then. :(
The hackers used the Zerg rush.
Microsoft had a go live license for Visual Studio 2002 as well.
Firstly, you're shooting a short, it sounds like your first venture, don't spend the money buying outright... If you're in or near a sizable metropolitan area you shouldn't have any trouble finding a rental house, check around, get some rates... You're going to want more than a camera anyway, you'll want lights, stands, c clamps, gobos, scrims, gels, reflectors, a decent tripod (but don't get married to it, stay fluid), gaffers tape, lenses, etc. I'd try to find a weekend rate package on a decent HD camera, offline it to DV for editing, and then online it somewhere where you can do it in native HD. This isn't cheap of course, but I suspect you can find a rate on a decent rental package for about the same as you'd pick up a mid-level DV cam retail. Again, poke around a metropolitan area, snag yourself some film students (they also tend to work on the cheap, for free, or for beer), they also would likely be familiar with the rental houses or may have some interesting equipment themselves. I don't think an outright retail purchase is the way to go in your case... though, I'd be *really* careful about the water, most rental houses won't take kindly to you dunking their camera in the bathtub for that ECU of your leading lady's assests.
"my gf is of Ukrainian extraction"...
:)
Is that like a Russian mail order bride?
However, it's unclear whether they actually outsourced the jobs to China or perhaps they found a few illegals at the local massage parlor...
Billy the Kid is buried under my stairs, everyone knows this. Though, he prefers to be called William the Childlike. I'm not sure what that's about.
Funeral homes to recap:
1. We're all going to die
2. Put remains in box, it'll all be OK
3. Profit!
On Symantec's website under their Norton SystemWorks 2004 Pro feature list it mentions this:
"NEW! Includes product activation procedure to ensure authenticity."
Just what I've always wanted -- huzzah! This by the way makes it to spot 2 on their feature list. Less marketoid bullshit please... Thanks.
If you're being sued by the RIAA, it's 'music'.
"Nah. A result is a result no matter what methods were used to produce it. No cheating."
I spy an Nvidia engineer!
http://www.waveworks.net/mac.html
Third time's a char... DOH!
Heh, well they're actually still kicking, oh well, it would've been so apropos.
The source is available from the Khronos Group, though like I mentioned in another post the SDK is alpha and you have to sign an NDA to get it. It apparently uses 3 licenses, SGI Flavor of GNU Lesser GPL, SGI Free Software License B, and SGI Flavor of GNU General Public License GPL. Whew. I haven't looked over it very closely yet, so I can't judge the quality or functionality at this time.
This is good news, but I should point out the OpenGL 1.5 spec is not at this moment available yet, it's only been announced. Hopefully it will be available with some headers and implementations Real Soon Now (tm). I know the past few ATI Catalyst drivers have had experimental glslang extensions in them... Of course, it'd be nice if Microsoft would update their implementation such that OpenGL on Windows could make use of this without going through extensions, but I'm not holding my breath, nor is it really a huge issue.
The OpenML SDK is an alpha release and the final spec for it won't be out until about this time next year.
However, the Khronos Group also released the OpenGL ES spec and there's actually a couple implementations already available. OpenGL ES is for embedded systems and mobile devices, it's essentially just a subset of OpenGL. Seems like it might be pretty nifty...
It's all fun and games until little Billy and his pals are playing Children of the Corn and get chopped up by a combine or somesuch. A human should probably be left in the loop...
As an aside, Vertigo Software just released Quake 2 ported to managed C++. It's a fairly straightforward conversion from C to managed C++ for the .Net platform. It runs fairly well, they're showing it's 15% or so slower, but at the 300 FPS range it doesn't really bother me... You can find it here.
Poker has had quite a resurgence as of late, both due to online play and media coverage. Chris Moneymaker was on Letterman one night and the World Poker Tour can be caught on the Travel Channel and sometimes older ones on ESPN or ESPN2. It's actually fairly enjoyable to watch. Nothing like seeing a guy go all in with for 800 grand on a stone cold bluff whilst his opponent has a pair (you see the hole cards on the tv broadcasts, at least on the Travel Channel). Some talk smack, some wear sunglasses, some play conservative, though most are fairly aggressive. I've learned quite a bit by watching them play. As others have mentioned and as the article alludes to, the game is more mathematical than reading your opponents, but that's not really what I've seen from watching the pros on the WPT. It's all about the people, the chips, the cards, and the math all seem secondary to your read on your opponent and your style and reputation. It's all very interesting, I suggest you catch a broadcast.
"...and Artie Lange as the family's 300-pound pet creature."
Poor Artie.
Damn, those Pentium 4 Xeons are slow!
I suspect he'll be 'detained for questioning' any day now by the feds.