But game manufacturers are now putting out software with dependency on a physX dll. The support sites suggest that it is (paraphrased) a bit like DirectX, you just have to install the latest version, and it is completely hardware independent.
If physX is in fact crippled and useless on my ATI based system, why should I have to install it to make a game run? Why are game manufacturers making software that is dependent on a specific hardware manufacturer's drivers? I thought that mentality went away decades ago.
I guess I haven't spent enough time learning to implement AJAX yet, but the first issue I have encountered is, you poke off your server request to do something clever on your page, but the user is still sitting there clicking on shit and trying to get on with using your page. The few instances where an AJAX callback seemed to be useful, the page really needed to be frozen to make the user wait for it to complete anyway. This must just mean that the pages should be designed differently (unfortunately I don't get to design them, I just build them to the spec) but AJAX will never bring a fat-client forms-based solution to the browser.
Personally I find that Half Life and Whisky make a good combination, up to a point, then I start fumbling the weapon reloads, missing the enemy, and eventually fall off my chair.
The NZ Herald and great investigative journalists... hmm... try google, but I don't think you will find those two terms in the same sentence, unless maybe accompanied by 'NOT'.
There usedta be a number of windows tweaking guides online that recommended setting the registry entry DisablePagingExecutive, which "Specifies whether kernel-mode drivers and kernel-mode system code can be paged to disk when not in use"
That at least could reduce some of the paging out, but I haven't researched which O/S versions it applied to or if it is still relevant.
Other recommendations I have seen recently suggest when you have a large amount of RAM, just create a small paging file of around 512mb, to stop certain kernel processes from spitting the dummy.
I'm not sure why they couldn't have the update option for version 2.xx at least offer the option to update to version 3. It just kept telling me there were no new updates available. I wouldn't call it 'single click' at all.
I don't know how often you have witnessed this, but even if true, that is the purchaser at fault, not the company selling the solution.
In 20 years of Health IT development, the majority of hospital deals I have been involved with have been thoroughly planned by the purchasers chosen overseers, who have specified what data storage and sharing standards they desired. Most of our solutions have been implemented in sites that have a number of different systems, a base PMS for instance, which the IT solutions in different departments have always been required to integrate to. This has been the deciding factor in all migrations of data from old to new systems.
A lot of old fashioned GP's actually consider the medical records they have accumulated to be their own property, and they don't see why they should hand over the results of their own hard work to some other health care provider. An astonishing attitude, but one that I have seen expressed on a number of occasions.
The first/last time I tried to purchase an online album from Amazon (just last week) I was informed that the service is only available within the US. So altho Warner may have recognized the "anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe" it seems that the DRM-free zone has distinct limitations.
Ok, plenty of examples of prior art relating to SMTP, but the patent seems to refer broadly to responses to an 'electronic message'. Wasn't the Gopher protocol essentially a mechanism for receiving an 'electronic message' containing a request for specific resources from a repository, which would then be posted back to the requester.
Gopher was implemented around 1991, I remember it was one of the first search facilities I used on the early internet.
You left out the parts that usually alienate new users; - Link it into the menu/desktop system - Also link in help or documentation, or at least a relevant URL
Even somebody who has used Linux for many years and feels comfortable with apt, rpm etc, can still occassionally be annoyed as all hell when an application is installed, then you have to go searching all over the web to find some basic configuration guide, let alone finding how to start the app.
In fact, maybe part of the packaging system could include linking in the wiki that everybody uses to tell others how they made the demmed thing work.
If people can't use the most basic common sense maybe the gene pool won't be losing out too much. How can we seriously expect to start making laws about every little act of stupidity, or simple carelessness, that people could possibly indulge in?
That guys time and money would be better spent in trying to get some basic life skills and common sense hammered into peoples heads at an earlier stage in life.
I'm seconding him. VB.Net was just included so that VB programmers would not feel alienated in the.Net world. There is no benefit in using VB.Net instead of C#, it is more verbose and takes twice as much typing to achieve the same outcome.
If you used VB previously, you have probably been ruined and can't learn anything else, but if you are new to programming you may as well start with something that is similar to a number of other languages, and learn from coding your own stuff, not using a bunch of wizards to assemble templated code.
Also, you can start with a free IDE, SharpDevelop, to learn the language and produce C# programs - they don't have asp.net support yet tho.
I hope that 'Universal's best marketing efforts' were better in other countries, here in New Zealand I saw not one mention of Serenity in any advertising media at all.
If I had not watched the series on DVD and followed the talk about the movie on the web, I would probably not have known it was even being produced.
Sadly on its opening night in my region there were only 12 other people in the theatre... at least it was quiet.
Well I have been in several interviews where I was informed that everybody enjoys friday evenings, company supplied beer, hope you will fit in with that...
Saw a recent job ad in Auckland where they even stated their offices are above a bar and they make good use of it.
It can't hurt to ask about the company's social club events, if you want to be subtle.
It probably also allows the company to determine its viability and upcoming demands on servers, maintenance and support.
These guys have to employ people, and having a fixed monthly subscription must surely be essential to gauging your market position and planning your expected outlay costs.
Sure I agree with the original posters desire for dynamic billing to best suit the smallest possible cost per 'fun unit' consumed, but what is the business model that is supposed to keep a game server operating and profitable on the days in between OP's preferred playing times? It would have to be one seriously popular game for pay-as-you-play support to keep it financially afloat on that basis.
and you haven't even mentioned the pornographic nature of said 'binary code'. I mean, a long rod shaped 1, obviously phallic, grouped with numerous round hole shaped 0's. Its blatant and in-your-face pornography.
Well back in Dec 04, my wife and I had to wait an extremely long time before having drinks delivered and getting to order food, whilst watching new arrivals being seated and served in the mean time. I won't dribble on with details.
The place usedta have great staff and good reliable food, but we were starting to wonder if there had been a change of owners, as the service was poor in relation to previous visits.
I was wondering if a change in ownership may have been related to the lack of drive in maintaining the web site.
Having just experienced the same need, I googled for "windows open source wav record" and instantly had pages of free and/or open source offerings for windows.
The top of the list was http://www.vorbis.com/software.psp, which pointed me towards Audacity, which I had already used under Debian (its nice to see open source projects going cross-platform).
This was less than 5 minutes. Google gives you exactly what you ask for, after all....
Ironic also when you compare the desires of pre-SCO Caldera under CEO Bryan Sparks, in an interview for Linux Journal in 1997...
"Bryan and I talked about ``their'' technologies vs. the standard development paths. Bryan assured me Caldera's intent was to make any necessary changes for POSIX certification and Unix branding available to the Linux community as a whole. He sees Caldera's products as part of the total product mix for the Linux community and wants to make sure Caldera's work continues to be part of the mainstream."
(see Linux Journal, Issue 33: Interview: Caldera's Bryan Sparks)
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But game manufacturers are now putting out software with dependency on a physX dll. The support sites suggest that it is (paraphrased) a bit like DirectX, you just have to install the latest version, and it is completely hardware independent.
If physX is in fact crippled and useless on my ATI based system, why should I have to install it to make a game run? Why are game manufacturers making software that is dependent on a specific hardware manufacturer's drivers? I thought that mentality went away decades ago.
I guess I haven't spent enough time learning to implement AJAX yet, but the first issue I have encountered is, you poke off your server request to do something clever on your page, but the user is still sitting there clicking on shit and trying to get on with using your page. The few instances where an AJAX callback seemed to be useful, the page really needed to be frozen to make the user wait for it to complete anyway. This must just mean that the pages should be designed differently (unfortunately I don't get to design them, I just build them to the spec) but AJAX will never bring a fat-client forms-based solution to the browser.
Personally I find that Half Life and Whisky make a good combination, up to a point, then I start fumbling the weapon reloads, missing the enemy, and eventually fall off my chair.
The NZ Herald and great investigative journalists... hmm... try google, but I don't think you will find those two terms in the same sentence, unless maybe accompanied by 'NOT'.
There usedta be a number of windows tweaking guides online that recommended setting the registry entry DisablePagingExecutive, which
"Specifies whether kernel-mode drivers and kernel-mode system code can be paged to disk when not in use"
That at least could reduce some of the paging out, but I haven't researched which O/S versions it applied to or if it is still relevant.
Other recommendations I have seen recently suggest when you have a large amount of RAM, just create a small paging file of around 512mb, to stop certain kernel processes from spitting the dummy.
Well of course you should all be on the same version of Visual Studio.
What... theres something else?
I'm not sure why they couldn't have the update option for version 2.xx at least offer the option to update to version 3. It just kept telling me there were no new updates available. I wouldn't call it 'single click' at all.
I don't know how often you have witnessed this, but even if true, that is the purchaser at fault, not the company selling the solution.
In 20 years of Health IT development, the majority of hospital deals I have been involved with have been thoroughly planned by the purchasers chosen overseers, who have specified what data storage and sharing standards they desired. Most of our solutions have been implemented in sites that have a number of different systems, a base PMS for instance, which the IT solutions in different departments have always been required to integrate to. This has been the deciding factor in all migrations of data from old to new systems.
Les
Health IT Developer
A lot of old fashioned GP's actually consider the medical records they have accumulated to be their own property, and they don't see why they should hand over the results of their own hard work to some other health care provider. An astonishing attitude, but one that I have seen expressed on a number of occasions.
The first/last time I tried to purchase an online album from Amazon (just last week) I was informed that the service is only available within the US. So altho Warner may have recognized the "anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe" it seems that the DRM-free zone has distinct limitations.
Ok, plenty of examples of prior art relating to SMTP, but the patent seems to refer broadly to responses to an 'electronic message'. Wasn't the Gopher protocol essentially a mechanism for receiving an 'electronic message' containing a request for specific resources from a repository, which would then be posted back to the requester.
Gopher was implemented around 1991, I remember it was one of the first search facilities I used on the early internet.
You left out the parts that usually alienate new users;
- Link it into the menu/desktop system
- Also link in help or documentation, or at least a relevant URL
Even somebody who has used Linux for many years and feels comfortable with apt, rpm etc, can still occassionally be annoyed as all hell when an application is installed, then you have to go searching all over the web to find some basic configuration guide, let alone finding how to start the app.
In fact, maybe part of the packaging system could include linking in the wiki that everybody uses to tell others how they made the demmed thing work.
If people can't use the most basic common sense maybe the gene pool won't be losing out too much.
How can we seriously expect to start making laws about every little act of stupidity, or simple carelessness, that people could possibly indulge in?
That guys time and money would be better spent in trying to get some basic life skills and common sense hammered into peoples heads at an earlier stage in life.
If I may quote from their site, after clicking on the "Play Now" link...
"Sorry, GameTap is only available in the United States."
The rest of us are not important... or are not considered to be as wealthy... or something.
I'm seconding him. VB.Net was just included so that VB programmers would not feel alienated in the .Net world. There is no benefit in using VB.Net instead of C#, it is more verbose and takes twice as much typing to achieve the same outcome.
If you used VB previously, you have probably been ruined and can't learn anything else, but if you are new to programming you may as well start with something that is similar to a number of other languages, and learn from coding your own stuff, not using a bunch of wizards to assemble templated code.
Also, you can start with a free IDE, SharpDevelop, to learn the language and produce C# programs - they don't have asp.net support yet tho.
see http://www.rense.com/general69/microbe.htm
I hope that 'Universal's best marketing efforts' were better in other countries, here in New Zealand I saw not one mention of Serenity in any advertising media at all.
If I had not watched the series on DVD and followed the talk about the movie on the web, I would probably not have known it was even being produced.
Sadly on its opening night in my region there were only 12 other people in the theatre... at least it was quiet.
Well I have been in several interviews where I was informed that everybody enjoys friday evenings, company supplied beer, hope you will fit in with that...
Saw a recent job ad in Auckland where they even stated their offices are above a bar and they make good use of it.
It can't hurt to ask about the company's social club events, if you want to be subtle.
It probably also allows the company to determine its viability and upcoming demands on servers, maintenance and support.
These guys have to employ people, and having a fixed monthly subscription must surely be essential to gauging your market position and planning your expected outlay costs.
Sure I agree with the original posters desire for dynamic billing to best suit the smallest possible cost per 'fun unit' consumed, but what is the business model that is supposed to keep a game server operating and profitable on the days in between OP's preferred playing times? It would have to be one seriously popular game for pay-as-you-play support to keep it financially afloat on that basis.
and you haven't even mentioned the pornographic nature of said 'binary code'. I mean, a long rod shaped 1, obviously phallic, grouped with numerous round hole shaped 0's.
Its blatant and in-your-face pornography.
Well back in Dec 04, my wife and I had to wait an extremely long time before having drinks delivered and getting to order food, whilst watching new arrivals being seated and served in the mean time. I won't dribble on with details.
The place usedta have great staff and good reliable food, but we were starting to wonder if there had been a change of owners, as the service was poor in relation to previous visits.
I was wondering if a change in ownership may have been related to the lack of drive in maintaining the web site.
Actually they have backups, only nobody has the software to access them anymore, its in Word-the-Prequel.
Having just experienced the same need, I googled for "windows open source wav record" and instantly had pages of free and/or open source offerings for windows.
The top of the list was http://www.vorbis.com/software.psp, which pointed me towards Audacity, which I had already used under Debian (its nice to see open source projects going cross-platform).
This was less than 5 minutes. Google gives you exactly what you ask for, after all....
Ironic also when you compare the desires of pre-SCO Caldera under CEO Bryan Sparks, in an interview for Linux Journal in 1997...
"Bryan and I talked about ``their'' technologies vs. the standard development paths. Bryan assured me Caldera's intent was to make any necessary changes for POSIX certification and Unix branding available to the Linux community as a whole. He sees Caldera's products as part of the total product mix for the Linux community and wants to make sure Caldera's work continues to be part of the mainstream."
(see Linux Journal, Issue 33: Interview: Caldera's Bryan Sparks)
If you arent scared of 'scripting' languages,/ twisted
http://www.twistedmatrix.com/products
Haven't used it myself yet, but from the specs it seems to cover everything you could need.