One port is more "professional" than another? What kind of asinine comment is that? What is the % of visitors to a website that says "Well I was just about to finalize my order when I noticed a number after a colon I'd never seen before, and even though I knew it was a legitimate business and the SSL cert details are correct, the number 8420 is just not professional, so I cancelled my order.".
You'll be interested to know that Everquest II was designed completely shittily (is shittily a word?). It uses nothing higher than Pixel Shader 1.0, and uses the GPU on your card for almost nothing.
EQ2 is almost entirely bottlenecked by the CPU of the machine. This has been proven by shader dumps, performance comparisons between card and CPUs and the fact that if you watch your GPU temp will remain idle when playing EQ2 but max out on Doom3 for example. SOE can't code a game for shit, and the fact they have the NVidia logo plastered on everything including the splash screen yet at least 1,235 posts worth of people including me get god awful frame rates at stuttering at any performance setting, proves this. Just a reminder, don't buy a new video card thinking it will help with EQ2's graphics performance. The fps difference between a Ti4200, ATI 9800, and GeForce 6800 Ultra is very small. Get a faster CPU, or better yet, spend your money on a game written by programmers who don't have "C++ for Dummies" sitting on their desk next to them as they write game engine code.
Whats taxing your system on Extreme Quality setting is all CPU related, your GFX card is still sitting idle mostly.
... there's one geek on Slashdot that won't buy his "third" X10 product due to pop-ups for every 5,000 average Joes who don't like them but still falls for the increased name recognition and impulse buy caused by a pop-up.
First of all, I hate to tell you this but if you're looking to bash Microsoft-copying, you might as well just quit using OSS entirely. MONO is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that's been ripped off from Microsoft and OSX and everyone else.
Secondly, if you want people to move to and embrace Linux and OSS you will be rejoice when people work on bridge technologies like MONO. It's pure fantasy to think there's a lot of shops and managers out there willing to just chuck their MS investment cold turkey for some unique OSS technology. Providing things like MS Office MS-XML readers and Mono let them (and me) move things over carefully and confidentally.
Having some segments of the OSS community working on bridging software like MONO while others (you?) work on new, unique, OSS only ideas is better for OSS in the long run.
What "damages" did this guy sustain?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/01/coffee.model.ap/ index.html
He won 15 million for Taster's Choice using his photo without permission. ie. He won mad cash because "it's mine and they took it without my permission".
ICQ was like that (I dont know if it still is, I haven't used it for years.). They'd just be in permanent beta. What a cop out. Grow a set and put a "release" stamp on it, bugs and all. Works for Microsoft.
The employee at the other end is usually forgiving of slight alterations in the sentence that don't change its meaning. (Unless you happen to call when a power-hungry security type assh0le is at the desk, of course.)
ie. A security professional who takes their job seriously, earning the money for which they are paid , slowing YOU down because you were too dumb to remember the right passphrase. Yeah, what an assh0le.
Belive it or not, some of us don't want that much complexety in a game. When a MMO becomes "work" like real life work then it isn't fun. Part of the fun (and addictive quality) of MMO's is easy advancement. Sure, it might take awhile, but the path is simple. Kill shit/craft shit/cast shit.
And this point of view is exactly why new MMORPGs are bigger than ever, yet less inviting than ever. The market is at a wierd size. Not enough people interested in MMORPGs to niche-ify, yet enough people to require a large amount of content.
The end result is WoW and EQ2. Flashy graphics, tired themes, mundane quests, major time sinks of repetitive and brainless tasks.
The allure is there, but satisfying the teaming masses is making some seriously watered down crap. Every decision SOE made initially that would have made the game more niche and satisfying to the intellects, from breakable Heroic Opportunities to a completely non-combatant Tradeskill only class was or is being reversed in favor of the generally stupid and attention-deficit-disorder-plagued average Joe.
No one has the balls to say "We're making a new MMORPG, and its going to take lightning reflexes combined with deep thinking and strategy to advance." because that cuts out about 95% of their potential audience.
Yeah really. Saddam's only killed 6x10^5 civillians, that's nothing, a speedbump, sheesh.
Educate yourself, killing that many civillians is all in a days work for any competent respectable leader, disagreeing is just buying into the propaganda.
Unless you're trying to win a contest, I'd take that code over some obfuscated line that the kid in the Babylon-5 T-shirt wrote and no one can decipher in about 99% of circumstances.
I give up, how is compiling it yourself a valid measure of security? Or do you honestly pour through every line of code following all logic and scrutinizing every letter for possible undesirable consequences, bugs, backdoors, etc?
Riiiiight.
Basically software monitors internet traffic on your local LAN, and if an employee goes for more than an hour without looking at porn, there's a very good chance that it's an intruder.
If it comes with X-Eyes preinstalled, 50 virtual desks, a dozen ways to monitor your CPU useage and at least four dozen apps with names of 3 or less letters (K usually being the first one), its a good distro.
Oh wait, that's all of them.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help:[
I watched a half hour of Ep II downloaded from the internet, and promptly deleted the file (posted anonymously for obvious reasons).
Because the MPAA has teams of robots that scour Slashdot posts for mention of copyright infringment, then file for search and seizure warrants against Slashdot to obtain your IP, then your cable company to obtain your real name, then kick down your door and take all your stuff and hope the files you deleted can still be pulled off of erased sectors so they can FINE YOU!
Thats the best part. You know how easy it is to bring up VM's on a different machine? If a "server" goes down you can have your backup copies of your virtual servers up and running in literally moments on any machine, regardless of base hardware configuration.
Add on VMotion and you can have 2+ VM Servers that can load balance, and if one dies the other pickup all VMs. VMware is just so beautiful it makes me want to cry:`)
www.vmware.com
1 box.
Lots of VMs.
Accessible from anywhere over IP no matter what OS each VM is running and no matter what state the "machine" is in, be it hung on boot, crashed, or fiddling with BIOS. All doable from a remote location.
"because his data was in "My Documents", which apparently windows will only read if it is the copy of windows it was created with.
So, can't get to his data, now what?"
Well, now you learn how to use NFTS file permissions and click that really complicated couple of tabs and buttons that take ownership of all the files, giving you full access to them.
Re:RTFM? Who does that.
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Then you woke up and your sheets and the Knoppix CD you fell asleep with in your hand were covered in dried semen.
Im not sure I can follow your ramblings too well, so I dont know if Im agreeing or disagreeing with you... but to be clear,
Atheism is a belief system as much as Christianity. It is an unwavering belief that there is NO God.
Agnostic is less of a belief system. It's more like vague avoidance of the topic all together. To be agnostic is to assume a question such as God is unknowable by human mind, so is irrelevant. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, dont know, dont care.
Very strictly speaking they're both "beliefs" (so is anything anytime you use the word "is"), but I think it's safe to say atheism is more of a belief "system" than agnostic.
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Bzzzt. Thanks for playing.
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I want my next server to be IBM and the sticker on it to say "Powered by Power".
Drop some more acid.
EQ2 is almost entirely bottlenecked by the CPU of the machine. This has been proven by shader dumps, performance comparisons between card and CPUs and the fact that if you watch your GPU temp will remain idle when playing EQ2 but max out on Doom3 for example. SOE can't code a game for shit, and the fact they have the NVidia logo plastered on everything including the splash screen yet at least 1,235 posts worth of people including me get god awful frame rates at stuttering at any performance setting, proves this. Just a reminder, don't buy a new video card thinking it will help with EQ2's graphics performance. The fps difference between a Ti4200, ATI 9800, and GeForce 6800 Ultra is very small. Get a faster CPU, or better yet, spend your money on a game written by programmers who don't have "C++ for Dummies" sitting on their desk next to them as they write game engine code.
Whats taxing your system on Extreme Quality setting is all CPU related, your GFX card is still sitting idle mostly.
... someone help me tie my shoes.
First of all, I hate to tell you this but if you're looking to bash Microsoft-copying, you might as well just quit using OSS entirely. MONO is a drop in the bucket compared to everything else that's been ripped off from Microsoft and OSX and everyone else.
Secondly, if you want people to move to and embrace Linux and OSS you will be rejoice when people work on bridge technologies like MONO. It's pure fantasy to think there's a lot of shops and managers out there willing to just chuck their MS investment cold turkey for some unique OSS technology. Providing things like MS Office MS-XML readers and Mono let them (and me) move things over carefully and confidentally.
Having some segments of the OSS community working on bridging software like MONO while others (you?) work on new, unique, OSS only ideas is better for OSS in the long run.
What "damages" did this guy sustain? http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/02/01/coffee.model.ap/ index.html
He won 15 million for Taster's Choice using his photo without permission. ie. He won mad cash because "it's mine and they took it without my permission".
ICQ was like that (I dont know if it still is, I haven't used it for years.). They'd just be in permanent beta. What a cop out. Grow a set and put a "release" stamp on it, bugs and all. Works for Microsoft.
ie. A security professional who takes their job seriously, earning the money for which they are paid , slowing YOU down because you were too dumb to remember the right passphrase. Yeah, what an assh0le.
95% of them will be "ayebeeceeonetwothree"
And this point of view is exactly why new MMORPGs are bigger than ever, yet less inviting than ever. The market is at a wierd size. Not enough people interested in MMORPGs to niche-ify, yet enough people to require a large amount of content.
The end result is WoW and EQ2. Flashy graphics, tired themes, mundane quests, major time sinks of repetitive and brainless tasks.
The allure is there, but satisfying the teaming masses is making some seriously watered down crap. Every decision SOE made initially that would have made the game more niche and satisfying to the intellects, from breakable Heroic Opportunities to a completely non-combatant Tradeskill only class was or is being reversed in favor of the generally stupid and attention-deficit-disorder-plagued average Joe.
No one has the balls to say "We're making a new MMORPG, and its going to take lightning reflexes combined with deep thinking and strategy to advance." because that cuts out about 95% of their potential audience.
Yeah really. Saddam's only killed 6x10^5 civillians, that's nothing, a speedbump, sheesh. Educate yourself, killing that many civillians is all in a days work for any competent respectable leader, disagreeing is just buying into the propaganda.
Unless you're trying to win a contest, I'd take that code over some obfuscated line that the kid in the Babylon-5 T-shirt wrote and no one can decipher in about 99% of circumstances.
I give up, how is compiling it yourself a valid measure of security? Or do you honestly pour through every line of code following all logic and scrutinizing every letter for possible undesirable consequences, bugs, backdoors, etc? Riiiiight.
I store all my data in FBI digital case files. The government will obviously never have a system in place that can read them, so I'm safe.
Basically software monitors internet traffic on your local LAN, and if an employee goes for more than an hour without looking at porn, there's a very good chance that it's an intruder.
"A 36-year-old teacher has been charged with a misdemeanor for rigging a studentstroke-device onto a student's..."
If it comes with X-Eyes preinstalled, 50 virtual desks, a dozen ways to monitor your CPU useage and at least four dozen apps with names of 3 or less letters (K usually being the first one), its a good distro. Oh wait, that's all of them. Sorry I couldn't be of more help :[
I watched a half hour of Ep II downloaded from the internet, and promptly deleted the file (posted anonymously for obvious reasons). Because the MPAA has teams of robots that scour Slashdot posts for mention of copyright infringment, then file for search and seizure warrants against Slashdot to obtain your IP, then your cable company to obtain your real name, then kick down your door and take all your stuff and hope the files you deleted can still be pulled off of erased sectors so they can FINE YOU!
Add on VMotion and you can have 2+ VM Servers that can load balance, and if one dies the other pickup all VMs. VMware is just so beautiful it makes me want to cry :`)
www.vmware.com
1 box.
Lots of VMs.
Accessible from anywhere over IP no matter what OS each VM is running and no matter what state the "machine" is in, be it hung on boot, crashed, or fiddling with BIOS. All doable from a remote location.
"because his data was in "My Documents", which apparently windows will only read if it is the copy of windows it was created with.
So, can't get to his data, now what?" Well, now you learn how to use NFTS file permissions and click that really complicated couple of tabs and buttons that take ownership of all the files, giving you full access to them.
Then you woke up and your sheets and the Knoppix CD you fell asleep with in your hand were covered in dried semen.
Atheism is a belief system as much as Christianity. It is an unwavering belief that there is NO God.
Agnostic is less of a belief system. It's more like vague avoidance of the topic all together. To be agnostic is to assume a question such as God is unknowable by human mind, so is irrelevant. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't, dont know, dont care. Very strictly speaking they're both "beliefs" (so is anything anytime you use the word "is"), but I think it's safe to say atheism is more of a belief "system" than agnostic.