Ive been an swg player for almost a year, all i can say is the combat upgrade brought back the joy i first felt when playing this game all that time ago.
8. Most stuff related to the N64. A few good games is not enough.
But there were many great games, my collection has around 15 or so, and there are plenty i simply didnt buy due to lack of money (i was a teenager when the n64 came out). I, as well as many (but not all) consider The Ocarina of Time to be the best game ever made, on any platform. Just for that and Goldeneye 007 (at the time anyway) made the N64 and awsome console. I recently bought a PS2 just because of "a few good games", namely San andreas, Star Ocean and Burnout 3.
It seems to me that a lot more effort is being put into creating good unit tests to identify and prevent bugs, rather than debugging running applications. With an automated testing framework you can seriously reduce the amount of time spent on manual debugging and fixing as the bugs get identified as early as compile time, rather than run time.
When i was a kid we had a show Gamesmaster, that was bascially a tv program that had people playing against each other to see who was the best gamer (think Wizard with Fred Savage) and little review spots, cheats etc. Basically it was a really good tranistion of a games magazine to tv (in terms of style), in fact the show spawned a magazine (or that might have been the other way round). It was a really good show, and even had Patrick Moore as its narrator.
I have a friend at university who is using it to analyse news stories and make predictions about stock increase/decrease (Masters degree project). It seems to be working well enough that if you followed exactly what was guessed so far you would have made money, however i still wouldnt trust real money (the gains are quite small, and obviously the risk is still high). However, combined with human knowledge this really does look like a potentially very interesting bit of software.
Loop unrolling in most cases i have played with it on the P4 also slows programs down (albiet not hugely) and i had also attributed this to the instuction cache. In fact the only time i have seen it to be beneficial is with a really tight (i.e. one line of code) loop where we new how many times the loop would be executing almost all of the time and used a pragma to advise the compiler (intel c++) of this.
And SDL provides, imo a better api than directx for almost all of these tasks. Directshow is just plain rubbish, direct3d is nowhere near as clean and easy as OpenGL.
People in most countries ive ever been to eat pigeon in one form or another (its not very common though). I used to shoot them for a farmer, and would at least eat some of them (wood pigeon) and you can always get them from most good butchers (in season obviously).
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Should give him pingus to try as well, great game. My friends 3 year old daughter loves tux paint too.
Don't you mean imperial. They actually stem from an arabic measuring system (as does our numbering system of base 10, we were roman until 17th century). Ive never heard of 'English units' and ive lived here practically my whole life.
This printer is absolutely amasing. You dont have to buy a new drum each time the toner runs out (like on hp laserjet) as the toner cartridge and drum a seperate units. Its fast, reliable and is really nice quality. It also has a proper (i.e. not like horrible inkjet) paper feed mechanism so never jams, or gets layers of dust on the top sheet if you dont use to for long. On top of that it has a front and back manual feed (front for envolopes, transparancies and the like, and back for non flexible media) for when you want to do something without removing the paper already in the tray, which is really handy. And mine has been runnging solid for about 2 years (with 3 house moves) without a single problem you cant really go wrong. There are even linux/osx/whatevernix drivers on the cd.
You americans might even get the chance to enjoy the utopia of ad free television we have with the BBC over here in the UK. Instead of being advertising funded we have a yearly TV 'license' system but absolutely no commercial advertising, and the BBC still manage to produce most of the best TV shows available, and lots of hardware for the broadcasting industry (another source of funding they have).
Hmm.. i personally think it is horrific. The game cube and super nes (super famicom in us?) both have the best control pads of their eras, although for some games you just cant beat the arcades. Nothing will ever be as bad as that glove pad for the nes that the kid in wizard has, uggh what a nightmare.
Ive been driven to console systems because the games tend to be simply better (in the fun sense). Look at consoles like the SNES and that still has games that are far better than a lot of the cruft that comes out on pcs nowadays.
Umbrello is great (i just started using it a few days ago), and will be properly integrated into the next kdevelop (possibly next but one) along with valgrind and many other kick arse tools. In the past i have also used argouml (search google) which is written in java and works very well. Any debian users can also apt-get argouml to install the latest version.
I was commisioned to do a small project with JXTA (cant give details sorry) and it found it to be excellent for the task in hand. The peer discovery and firewall piercing aspects, plus the fact that you can have peers that arent really peers, but use a sort of proxy system (think on cell phone / pda) are great. I never used the C bindings so cant comment there, but for our use it was superb. The project originally was using jini, but as you probably know jini is java specific, wheras the jxta protocol can be programmed in anything you want. Now the system uses jxta globally, and jini on local networks, so we had to write a sort of jxta->jini->jxta bridge, but it works very well. On a side note the peer grouping and control features of jxta are unrivaled by anything else i looked at.
The problem is that the fixes for them are extensions, which means that the core protocol ends up essentially dead, and everybody uses something different.
Except the core protocol specifically provides for extension. The X system says here is some basic functionality, anything else you want to do needs an extension, and here is a specific method for implementing extensions.
Most computer hardware is stolen to be sold on as computer hardware. These could be your standard issue thief who is only likely to sell on the hardware itself, without ever knowing he even has the data. Of course it could be someone who has an interest in the data, or someone who just wants to say a big F**** YOU at the guys in charge of these things. If this hardware isnt UV marked or otherwise, so it can be detected later, i would be very dissapointed. At my college we UV mark EVERY piece of hardware, and things like optical mice (i.e not the cheap ones no one wants to steal) are locked to the workstations, so you couldnt steal them without breaking them.
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we might finally see java and other plugins compiled for glibc 2.3? Those have been lacking for quite a while now.
They havent, blackdown has been producing them. Their version (especially java web start) is much better than that produced by Sun. And its based off of the sun sources before you ask.
You dont seem to understand the situation. Mandrakesoft were originally a very profitable company that was doing well. When the wanted to expand, the venture capitalists would only give them money in exchange for letting some "Proffesional" management team in. This team was obsessed with eLearning, and cost the business an absolute fortune. Mandrakesoft still have some really stupid contracts with really large buy outs because of these professional idiots. Even with all this debt brought on to them, they have still pulled back to being almost profitiable.
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An old professor of mine who was a string theory expert (i very much am not) once told me most of the maths he does deals with 11 dimensions.
Awesome.
Ive been an swg player for almost a year, all i can say is the combat upgrade brought back the joy i first felt when playing this game all that time ago.
8. Most stuff related to the N64. A few good games is not enough.
But there were many great games, my collection has around 15 or so, and there are plenty i simply didnt buy due to lack of money (i was a teenager when the n64 came out). I, as well as many (but not all) consider The Ocarina of Time to be the best game ever made, on any platform. Just for that and Goldeneye 007 (at the time anyway) made the N64 and awsome console. I recently bought a PS2 just because of "a few good games", namely San andreas, Star Ocean and Burnout 3.
beacuase thats about an hour and a half?
Well when i was using eclipse over a year ago it could already do this.
It seems to me that a lot more effort is being put into creating good unit tests to identify and prevent bugs, rather than debugging running applications. With an automated testing framework you can seriously reduce the amount of time spent on manual debugging and fixing as the bugs get identified as early as compile time, rather than run time.
When i was a kid we had a show Gamesmaster, that was bascially a tv program that had people playing against each other to see who was the best gamer (think Wizard with Fred Savage) and little review spots, cheats etc. Basically it was a really good tranistion of a games magazine to tv (in terms of style), in fact the show spawned a magazine (or that might have been the other way round). It was a really good show, and even had Patrick Moore as its narrator.
I have a friend at university who is using it to analyse news stories and make predictions about stock increase/decrease (Masters degree project). It seems to be working well enough that if you followed exactly what was guessed so far you would have made money, however i still wouldnt trust real money (the gains are quite small, and obviously the risk is still high). However, combined with human knowledge this really does look like a potentially very interesting bit of software.
Loop unrolling in most cases i have played with it on the P4 also slows programs down (albiet not hugely) and i had also attributed this to the instuction cache. In fact the only time i have seen it to be beneficial is with a really tight (i.e. one line of code) loop where we new how many times the loop would be executing almost all of the time and used a pragma to advise the compiler (intel c++) of this.
And SDL provides, imo a better api than directx for almost all of these tasks. Directshow is just plain rubbish, direct3d is nowhere near as clean and easy as OpenGL.
Why not?
People in most countries ive ever been to eat pigeon in one form or another (its not very common though). I used to shoot them for a farmer, and would at least eat some of them (wood pigeon) and you can always get them from most good butchers (in season obviously).
Should give him pingus to try as well, great game. My friends 3 year old daughter loves tux paint too.
I think your wrong there. That was fixed for me the version prior to this. (Framebuffer console, 2.6 kernel so had to use minion patch)
Don't you mean imperial. They actually stem from an arabic measuring system (as does our numbering system of base 10, we were roman until 17th century). Ive never heard of 'English units' and ive lived here practically my whole life.
This printer is absolutely amasing. You dont have to buy a new drum each time the toner runs out (like on hp laserjet) as the toner cartridge and drum a seperate units. Its fast, reliable and is really nice quality. It also has a proper (i.e. not like horrible inkjet) paper feed mechanism so never jams, or gets layers of dust on the top sheet if you dont use to for long. On top of that it has a front and back manual feed (front for envolopes, transparancies and the like, and back for non flexible media) for when you want to do something without removing the paper already in the tray, which is really handy. And mine has been runnging solid for about 2 years (with 3 house moves) without a single problem you cant really go wrong. There are even linux/osx/whatevernix drivers on the cd.
You americans might even get the chance to enjoy the utopia of ad free television we have with the BBC over here in the UK. Instead of being advertising funded we have a yearly TV 'license' system but absolutely no commercial advertising, and the BBC still manage to produce most of the best TV shows available, and lots of hardware for the broadcasting industry (another source of funding they have).
Hmm .. i personally think it is horrific. The game cube and super nes (super famicom in us?) both have the best control pads of their eras, although for some games you just cant beat the arcades. Nothing will ever be as bad as that glove pad for the nes that the kid in wizard has, uggh what a nightmare.
Ive been driven to console systems because the games tend to be simply better (in the fun sense). Look at consoles like the SNES and that still has games that are far better than a lot of the cruft that comes out on pcs nowadays.
Umbrello is great (i just started using it a few days ago), and will be properly integrated into the next kdevelop (possibly next but one) along with valgrind and many other kick arse tools. In the past i have also used argouml (search google) which is written in java and works very well. Any debian users can also apt-get argouml to install the latest version.
I was commisioned to do a small project with JXTA (cant give details sorry) and it found it to be excellent for the task in hand. The peer discovery and firewall piercing aspects, plus the fact that you can have peers that arent really peers, but use a sort of proxy system (think on cell phone / pda) are great. I never used the C bindings so cant comment there, but for our use it was superb. The project originally was using jini, but as you probably know jini is java specific, wheras the jxta protocol can be programmed in anything you want. Now the system uses jxta globally, and jini on local networks, so we had to write a sort of jxta->jini->jxta bridge, but it works very well. On a side note the peer grouping and control features of jxta are unrivaled by anything else i looked at.
Most computer hardware is stolen to be sold on as computer hardware. These could be your standard issue thief who is only likely to sell on the hardware itself, without ever knowing he even has the data. Of course it could be someone who has an interest in the data, or someone who just wants to say a big F**** YOU at the guys in charge of these things. If this hardware isnt UV marked or otherwise, so it can be detected later, i would be very dissapointed. At my college we UV mark EVERY piece of hardware, and things like optical mice (i.e not the cheap ones no one wants to steal) are locked to the workstations, so you couldnt steal them without breaking them.
we might finally see java and other plugins compiled for glibc 2.3? Those have been lacking for quite a while now. They havent, blackdown has been producing them. Their version (especially java web start) is much better than that produced by Sun. And its based off of the sun sources before you ask.
You dont seem to understand the situation. Mandrakesoft were originally a very profitable company that was doing well. When the wanted to expand, the venture capitalists would only give them money in exchange for letting some "Proffesional" management team in. This team was obsessed with eLearning, and cost the business an absolute fortune. Mandrakesoft still have some really stupid contracts with really large buy outs because of these professional idiots. Even with all this debt brought on to them, they have still pulled back to being almost profitiable.