My (admittedly inflammatory) post currently stands at Flamebait=1, Informative=5, Overrated=2, obviously moderation points are being wasted. But are all of those fair? Surely it wasn't worth 5 Imformative points. So the Overrated is valid. Flaimbait, yes, maybe even a few more of these. But not really a good flame, it is so predictable.
Even better, the response to my post calling me on karma whoring and incomplete Google linkage has even better moderation. Flamebait=1, Insightful=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1 currently. Personally, I'd say the Insightful is the only one it really deserved, the Overrated and Underrated cancel each other out and I'm not interested in responding so it can't be a proper flame, right?
A search on google for sa.windows.com reveals nothing. But notice the line that says: Find web pages that contain the term "sa.windows.com". Click that link and you get plenty of results. Hmm, first search result is to a privacy page on that domain, that provides some clues. Second link is to an archived message from the NTBugTraq list, that might be a great place to find an answer. The eighth result is a link to an article on LockerGnome, a page or two down and you have a nice concise explanation of what sa.windows.com does.
Now should I complete the whoring and post a cut and paste?
Solution 1: Read the press release. Unless Macromedia has gone into the semiconductor business, they are using that vector animation technology you know and love.
Solution 2: Yeah we know, it says so right there where JimCricket submitted it and Hemos posted it.
There is some fringing around the 'captured' butterfly and the hue shift to red made the eye area green, I should have pulled that area out of the selection. The purple underbelly is a little disturbing as well. Maybe I'll revisit this after I've had some sleep.
Mad props to the original poster who owns all copyrights and such.
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... Microsoft will have to be careful about the structural arrangement into Apache, or GPL claims could reach into.NET and hamper a.NET2 shutout.
Perhaps I misunderstand you but the GPL has nothing to do with Apache, they have one of those licenses that permit distribution without sources and other things that make them slightly more agreeable to Microsoft.
Used to live in Reno... used to go camping out at Lahontan, that would be cool driving through there knowing that all the little houses and trailers with antennas are getting a better connection than my cable modem...
You're absolutely right, Valve licensed the Q1 engine, modified it and released HalfLife after Q2 came out. Don't believe me? Take a look at the archived version of id's page from about a year and a half ago. Read the second paragraph under the heading The GPL'd QUAKE Engine, which says in part "Remember this engine is the foundation for what Valve did with Half-Life..."
Thats why all the HalfLife mods look rather simple compared to today's 3d games, the core engine is somewhat limited. As the parent post mentioned, even though it is an old engine, complex geometry can bring even the heftiest modern gaming rig to its knees, it is just the way the game engine is designed, simple stuff screams but get out of hand with your level geometry and you'll slow everyone down.
That is a very interesting article, does anyone have informed opinions to add, other examples of case law or anything that would illustrate how this principle might apply?
For example, if Forgent Networks can show that they had very good reasons not to bring this earlier, they may well be able to defend this patent. On the other hand, given the widespread use of.jpeg technology and presuming their patent obviously covers all the widespread uses, the fact that they've waited far past the 6 years mentioned in that article might show presumption of laches.
As others have mentioned, this patent seems more oriented towards video and many of the current formats have not been in wide use for the above mentioned 6 years. Digital video seems to be a minefield of patents...
Tetrinet is the only multiplayer variation that I've seen that has added something useful and a deeper element of strategy (and luck) to the game. This game ate up hours of time at a previous job, my buddy and I had to finish 'one more game', what felt like two miniutes of gameplay was more like 20. Further development on the Windows client was stopped like 4 or 5 years ago due to the copyright/trademark issues but various compatible clones have popped up, including the tfast variation.
Yeah, its a shame that they didn't go into CS a little more. A mod of a game built around an engine pushing 6 years old commands more online servers than stuff released in the last two years. But it is Popular Science, they approach the Weekly World News for credibility and substance.
FWIW, the Kali server tracker shows 17039 CS servers, 19714 total Half-Life servers (CS, TFC, DOD, DM, etc). That compares to 3612 Q3 servers, 2842 UT servers and 26190 total game servers across all games. Of course, I don't think Kali quite tracks all the new games that have moved to their own server tracking services (or something like Battle.Net). But it still illustrates the power CS has.
People are posting nodes at the discussion site. Peekabooty apparantly needs some kind of gnutella style peer discovery or peer reflectors. Of course, those would then become blocked...
My real introduction to 'electronica' came from MonkeyRadio but sadly, they are down to CARP as well. The stuff they played was more downtempo or triphop but for my job at the time it was perfect, didn't piss anyone off and kept me sane:)
Thanks for the list, its nice to find some streams that fit my moods that aren't subject to CARP.
A couple of years ago I came across a Flash app on someone's page that had a huge breakdown of the different genres and their attempt at tracing the lineage and history between the various genres. Even better, it had little snippits of each type, so you could hear the differences as you were exploring them. One of the better uses of Flash I've seen and it would be a good addition to this thread (and give/.'ers something more to argue about)
Problem is, I've lost it. Anyone know what I'm talking about and where it is?
Too bad we can't sort by comments that generated the most moderation. The utter crap that drops to -1 would only rate a 2 or so, while the carefully crafted trolls would rise to the top. Along the way, you'd get some decent comments in there somewhere.
Maybe they should put that in the 'paid-for' service, that might motivate a few of the trolls to drop some coin on/.
Many games are designed to not care about the dropped packets. Sure, they can be unplayable if packetloss gets too high but the occasional dropped packet doesn't matter.
Some tasty articles from gamasutra (might require a login, you might also find these in Google's cache): "TCP is evil. Don't use TCP for a game. You would rather spend the rest of your life watching Titanic over and over in a theater full of 13 year old girls." article on WON's servers for Half-Life. Dead Reckoning Latency Hiding for Multiplayer Games.
Other software might need the benefits of TCP, but game development is one familiar illustration of where UDP often wins out.
that second paragraph is supposed to read something like "Oh, speaking of that soda machine, it was supposed to contain Pepsi products but since we stocked it, it contained both Pepsi and CocaCola products, with a printout..."
Preview works better when you read the whole post before submitting...
I discovered how to get two for one sodas out of the machine at my old job, that was definately a nice feature. If you chose the bottom button and, about a third to a half second after pressing it, pressed one of the other buttons, you'd get both sodas. Dunno how I discovered it, but I did get a few strange looks from others in the breakroom when a couple of cans would come clunking out.
Oh, speaking of that soda machine, it was supposed to contain Pepsi products but since we stocked it, it contained both, with a printout of the actual contents taped next to the buttons. Joy of Joys when that list was re-created slightly out of order. You'd think that the original partners would have had the buttons memorized but no, they were still going off that list. And I have no idea why someone could get so uptight about recieving the wrong soda...
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"It was good paper..."
Yeah I'm sure it was good paper...
That ad kept me entertained for most of an evening.
any more?
My (admittedly inflammatory) post currently stands at Flamebait=1, Informative=5, Overrated=2, obviously moderation points are being wasted. But are all of those fair? Surely it wasn't worth 5 Imformative points. So the Overrated is valid. Flaimbait, yes, maybe even a few more of these. But not really a good flame, it is so predictable.
Even better, the response to my post calling me on karma whoring and incomplete Google linkage has even better moderation. Flamebait=1, Insightful=1, Overrated=1, Underrated=1 currently. Personally, I'd say the Insightful is the only one it really deserved, the Overrated and Underrated cancel each other out and I'm not interested in responding so it can't be a proper flame, right?
Oh, and this post? -3 Offtopic, definately.
Now should I complete the whoring and post a cut and paste?
naaa....
Solution 2: Yeah we know, it says so right there where JimCricket submitted it and Hemos posted it.
Try http://candlesofthefuture.com/files/red-mozilla-li zard.jpg.
There is some fringing around the 'captured' butterfly and the hue shift to red made the eye area green, I should have pulled that area out of the selection. The purple underbelly is a little disturbing as well. Maybe I'll revisit this after I've had some sleep.
Mad props to the original poster who owns all copyrights and such.
Used to live in Reno... used to go camping out at Lahontan, that would be cool driving through there knowing that all the little houses and trailers with antennas are getting a better connection than my cable modem...
Thats why all the HalfLife mods look rather simple compared to today's 3d games, the core engine is somewhat limited. As the parent post mentioned, even though it is an old engine, complex geometry can bring even the heftiest modern gaming rig to its knees, it is just the way the game engine is designed, simple stuff screams but get out of hand with your level geometry and you'll slow everyone down.
For example, if Forgent Networks can show that they had very good reasons not to bring this earlier, they may well be able to defend this patent. On the other hand, given the widespread use of .jpeg technology and presuming their patent obviously covers all the widespread uses, the fact that they've waited far past the 6 years mentioned in that article might show presumption of laches.
As others have mentioned, this patent seems more oriented towards video and many of the current formats have not been in wide use for the above mentioned 6 years. Digital video seems to be a minefield of patents...
Anyone have more information on this?
Tetrinet is the only multiplayer variation that I've seen that has added something useful and a deeper element of strategy (and luck) to the game. This game ate up hours of time at a previous job, my buddy and I had to finish 'one more game', what felt like two miniutes of gameplay was more like 20. Further development on the Windows client was stopped like 4 or 5 years ago due to the copyright/trademark issues but various compatible clones have popped up, including the tfast variation.
I gotta get my buddy playing again...
FWIW, the Kali server tracker shows 17039 CS servers, 19714 total Half-Life servers (CS, TFC, DOD, DM, etc). That compares to 3612 Q3 servers, 2842 UT servers and 26190 total game servers across all games. Of course, I don't think Kali quite tracks all the new games that have moved to their own server tracking services (or something like Battle.Net). But it still illustrates the power CS has.
I like this picture better.
People are posting nodes at the discussion site. Peekabooty apparantly needs some kind of gnutella style peer discovery or peer reflectors. Of course, those would then become blocked...
Now you can all go check it out and learn what all the sub-sub-genres of electronica.
Thanks for the list, its nice to find some streams that fit my moods that aren't subject to CARP.
Problem is, I've lost it. Anyone know what I'm talking about and where it is?
Maybe they should put that in the 'paid-for' service, that might motivate a few of the trolls to drop some coin on /.
Why not support PostNuke, a fork of PHPNuke that has a much better attitude toward open source development and security.
Some tasty articles from gamasutra (might require a login, you might also find these in Google's cache):
"TCP is evil. Don't use TCP for a game. You would rather spend the rest of your life watching Titanic over and over in a theater full of 13 year old girls."
article on WON's servers for Half-Life.
Dead Reckoning Latency Hiding for Multiplayer Games.
Other software might need the benefits of TCP, but game development is one familiar illustration of where UDP often wins out.
Preview works better when you read the whole post before submitting...
Oh, speaking of that soda machine, it was supposed to contain Pepsi products but since we stocked it, it contained both, with a printout of the actual contents taped next to the buttons. Joy of Joys when that list was re-created slightly out of order. You'd think that the original partners would have had the buttons memorized but no, they were still going off that list. And I have no idea why someone could get so uptight about recieving the wrong soda...