My average download speed was about 1.5KB/s. That's 90KB/m. I'm feeling generous (or lazy, 2^10 is now only 1000 too), so let's say 100. I was being charged 1p a minute for calls. So I work that out as about 10p a Meg. So about £100 a Gig. And although I can't be arsed to check the exchange rates is weighing in at over 150 USD.
And that's not including the fact that you get cut off every twenty minutes or so. Needless to say download managers were a big hit in Southampton Uni halls of residence tha year . . .
We were forced to deal with these clowns in halls at uni because no other ISP dialup numbers would go through the phone system they installed. A really sweet deal from their point of view, and probably for the uni as well, but it sucked for everyone who had to use it.
NTL are the only ISP I know of that had their own hate site in the form of NTHell. Which they then bought out, employed it's creator and turned it into a customer services forum thing.
It can handle the original WAD files? Wow, maybe I should put my old level designs back on my website again ; )
Is there any word about multiplayer (sorry if this is on the site - I'm in a hurry)? Now *that* would rock. I mean, it's a communication device for crying out loud, and fragging has been one of the expressive of languages since Man first started hitting each other with sticks . . .
"This company had $350 million to build a fucking website and market it a little. I mean, if they spent $1 million a year, they could have been around for hundred of years without a single sale."
I'm surprised that manage to make them as long as two pages with bogosity like that. I mean, I'd have made them a decent site for $100 million . . .
Do we have any reason to believe that this has a lower bullshit quotient than that daft '100x compression of random data' story doing the rounds last year (can't find the/. link, here The Register's one)?
Sure, you can leave stuff out (images, JavaScript, Flash), but "at least quadruple"? If the page is simple enough then you can't just ditch a chunk of it.
Ooh, AND "[at] least quadruple surfing speeds" and "they found it boosted surfing speeds by between 100 and 500". Even the article isn't making any sense . ..
Of course, if this turns out to be true than I will be the first to eat my cat (and the first to download it), but I'm sure this isn't even possible, right?
Just my 2 cents (actually, that was more like 5) . . .
Also Beginning Unix by Mike Joy is in a similar vein and well worth investigating. I managed to get a free HTML version because we have a deal going between our university and Warwick - where Joy works - but I can't find an online version for you guys. Sorry . . .
Well the way I see it, they're either film zealots or book zealots. If they're film zealots, then they must have loved the film, which is kinda the point of the review, surely?
And if they're book zealots then even better - no one is likely to be harsher on these films than a true die hard book fan.
I come across top quality stuff on the Net every day. Innovation is not dead. I mean have a look at this. That is just scary/funny/amazing.
The main reason people come out with this 'Internet sucks' stuff is simply because the novelty is wears off. Looks like it's taken Taco longer than most, though ; )
Most of the people I know who aren't heavily into their computers only want to use use Word. They buy a computer with an XP Home license and Office on it already from a high street retailer who is ripping them off already.
If I were to ask most of them they wouldn't have a clue how much they were paying for their OS/App bundles.
Besides, there is no way I am going to get my Gran into a completely GPL environment 'cos is took me two months to teach her how to log in to her Windows machine . . .
I agree 100% that this type of product placement is a sad sign
I used to. Then I played Syndicate Wars (with it's Ghost in the Shell video and Manga billboards) and I wasn't so sure.
Still, that was fairly unobtrusive and not quite to blatantly profit-motivated. McDonald's good for you? Yeah, and I suppose sitting in front of a computer all . ..
Our eventual solution was to take a number of separate shots, zooming in on distinct parts of the model, and glue them together as a mosaic panorama. The image above was constructed in this way from 16 images. The final Escher transformation was implemented in a custom C program that I hacked together.
Actually, Alec Guinness did the same with Star Wars in 1977.
He asked for a percentage instead of flat rate, and everyone thought it would bomb (George Lucas included - he was out of the country for the launch because he thought it would flop) so they agreed. The crafty old devil made an absolute mint.
According to my Accounting lecturer (don't look at me like that - it's compulsive for my ComSci Masters course) this isn't that uncommon. He pointed us to this from the Guardian . ..
"Robert Carlyle, star of the internationally popular film The Full Monty, was puzzled because he had not received any of his share of the profits from the film. 'Surely a film that cost £5 million and has taken hundreds of millions must be showing some in profits?' he asked the film's distributers. 'No', they replied 'in Hollywood no film ever makes a profit. It's all in the overheads.'"
Remember kids, "tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication . .."
I'm pretty much a complete novice and I've been using Cinema 4D for about five months on and off - mainly because I got it free from the front of a magasine ; )
It is pretty simple (of course, I only have the simple version) and is easy to get to grips with. And it's a helluva lot cheaper than most of your other options. But . ..
No particle stuff or NURBS, which kinda sucks, and the lighting can be a little soggy, but I'm entirely self taught so that may just be me. And you're right about the renderer - I haven't got photorealistic out of it yet. Then again, I do abstracts, so I'm not likely to either . . .
What percentage of the Slashdot readership do you think is American?
OK.
And what percentage of these comments do you think will cane this idea?
Right.
It's not just xenophobia/jealously/yadda yadda yaddda. Those who haven't contracted patriotism to a blinding degree can appreciate how daft this idea is.
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I want to know what the voting system is doing with my vote
I don't.
'Anyone who wants my vote is instantly disqualified from receiving it." [paraphrasing]
I am too pissed to remember the exact quote or quotee.
Anyone who can get's a virtual lollypop.
Amen.
There needs to be more humour in situations like this. When things get as daft as this you've got two options - a) laugh, or b) cry.
Besides, if these two companies started suing each other, wanna hazard a guess who's the bitter death would be?
Because they'd have to knock down large parts of London to do it. In the centre it's one of the most densely packed cities I know of.
Besides, displacing people would be difficult. Displacing Harrods? Not a hope in hell - however much you pay them.
You know the really annoying thing? UT2003 has the bots talking like this (at least they do in the demo - I may be talking shit for the full version).
/me shudders
Who in the hell thought that it would be good idea to take the most annoying facet of the playing online and then turn it into a game feature?
I nearly cried when the bots started shouting "Ownage!" at each other. You can almost here the numerics in every word.
OK. Let's do numbers.
My average download speed was about 1.5KB/s. That's 90KB/m. I'm feeling generous (or lazy, 2^10 is now only 1000 too), so let's say 100. I was being charged 1p a minute for calls. So I work that out as about 10p a Meg. So about £100 a Gig. And although I can't be arsed to check the exchange rates is weighing in at over 150 USD.
And that's not including the fact that you get cut off every twenty minutes or so. Needless to say download managers were a big hit in Southampton Uni halls of residence tha year . . .
We were forced to deal with these clowns in halls at uni because no other ISP dialup numbers would go through the phone system they installed. A really sweet deal from their point of view, and probably for the uni as well, but it sucked for everyone who had to use it.
NTL are the only ISP I know of that had their own hate site in the form of NTHell. Which they then bought out, employed it's creator and turned it into a customer services forum thing.
Cute, huh?
Oooh. Self loathing.
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I thought that was an exercise exclusive to us Brits . .
[Note to self - no more pist posts]
It can handle the original WAD files? Wow, maybe I should put my old level designs back on my website again ; )
Is there any word about multiplayer (sorry if this is on the site - I'm in a hurry)? Now *that* would rock. I mean, it's a communication device for crying out loud, and fragging has been one of the expressive of languages since Man first started hitting each other with sticks . . .
"This company had $350 million to build a fucking website and market it a little. I mean, if they spent $1 million a year, they could have been around for hundred of years without a single sale."
I'm surprised that manage to make them as long as two pages with bogosity like that. I mean, I'd have made them a decent site for $100 million . . .
Typo?
Do we have any reason to believe that this has a lower bullshit quotient than that daft '100x compression of random data' story doing the rounds last year (can't find the /. link, here The Register's one)?
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Sure, you can leave stuff out (images, JavaScript, Flash), but "at least quadruple"? If the page is simple enough then you can't just ditch a chunk of it.
Ooh, AND "[at] least quadruple surfing speeds" and "they found it boosted surfing speeds by between 100 and 500". Even the article isn't making any sense . .
Of course, if this turns out to be true than I will be the first to eat my cat (and the first to download it), but I'm sure this isn't even possible, right?
Just my 2 cents (actually, that was more like 5) . . .
"What is your favourite dip?"
Oh, Nagios !
Sorry, I was reading that wrong . . .
Good God, man!
A link of that quality deserves A tags!
Also Beginning Unix by Mike Joy is in a similar vein and well worth investigating. I managed to get a free HTML version because we have a deal going between our university and Warwick - where Joy works - but I can't find an online version for you guys. Sorry . . .
Well the way I see it, they're either film zealots or book zealots. If they're film zealots, then they must have loved the film, which is kinda the point of the review, surely?
And if they're book zealots then even better - no one is likely to be harsher on these films than a true die hard book fan.
But I agree with you on the spoilers . . .
I agree.
I come across top quality stuff on the Net every day. Innovation is not dead. I mean have a look at this. That is just scary/funny/amazing.
The main reason people come out with this 'Internet sucks' stuff is simply because the novelty is wears off. Looks like it's taken Taco longer than most, though ; )
But non-nerds (Muggles? ; ) don't give a shit.
Most of the people I know who aren't heavily into their computers only want to use use Word. They buy a computer with an XP Home license and Office on it already from a high street retailer who is ripping them off already.
If I were to ask most of them they wouldn't have a clue how much they were paying for their OS/App bundles.
Besides, there is no way I am going to get my Gran into a completely GPL environment 'cos is took me two months to teach her how to log in to her Windows machine . . .
I agree 100% that this type of product placement is a sad sign
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I used to. Then I played Syndicate Wars (with it's Ghost in the Shell video and Manga billboards) and I wasn't so sure.
Still, that was fairly unobtrusive and not quite to blatantly profit-motivated. McDonald's good for you? Yeah, and I suppose sitting in front of a computer all . .
Ah. Whoops.
Our eventual solution was to take a number of separate shots, zooming in on distinct parts of the model, and glue them together as a mosaic panorama. The image above was constructed in this way from 16 images. The final Escher transformation was implemented in a custom C program that I hacked together.
For the love of God! Implemented in C?!
Someone get this man a copy of Photoshop, stat!
Yeah - I can't stand the White Stripes, but I loved that video.
When I get my MEng, that's the job I want.
Actually, Alec Guinness did the same with Star Wars in 1977.
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He asked for a percentage instead of flat rate, and everyone thought it would bomb (George Lucas included - he was out of the country for the launch because he thought it would flop) so they agreed. The crafty old devil made an absolute mint.
I think all that's right . .
According to my Accounting lecturer (don't look at me like that - it's compulsive for my ComSci Masters course) this isn't that uncommon. He pointed us to this from the Guardian . . .
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"Robert Carlyle, star of the internationally popular film The Full Monty, was puzzled because he had not received any of his share of the profits from the film. 'Surely a film that cost £5 million and has taken hundreds of millions must be showing some in profits?' he asked the film's distributers. 'No', they replied 'in Hollywood no film ever makes a profit. It's all in the overheads.'"
Remember kids, "tidal waves couldn't save the world from Californication . .
Actually, I'm writing Pacman New Generation for my ComSci OpenGL coursework along with the 150 other people doing the module.
There was even talk of putting all of the finished projects on the Net in a kind of Phong shaded ghost chasing Pacman orgy . . .
I'm pretty much a complete novice and I've been using Cinema 4D for about five months on and off - mainly because I got it free from the front of a magasine ; )
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It is pretty simple (of course, I only have the simple version) and is easy to get to grips with. And it's a helluva lot cheaper than most of your other options. But . .
No particle stuff or NURBS, which kinda sucks, and the lighting can be a little soggy, but I'm entirely self taught so that may just be me. And you're right about the renderer - I haven't got photorealistic out of it yet. Then again, I do abstracts, so I'm not likely to either . . .
What percentage of the Slashdot readership do you think is American?
OK.
And what percentage of these comments do you think will cane this idea?
Right.
It's not just xenophobia/jealously/yadda yadda yaddda. Those who haven't contracted patriotism to a blinding degree can appreciate how daft this idea is.
I'm willing to bet that the above is not the official party line, but it certainly gets the point across doesn't it?
MS learnt recently that having a shitty attitude doesn't necessarily do you any favours, and if they can learnt then anyone can . . .