3d Algorithim == math. As we all know, you aren't allowed to patent math. But what would I know, I'm only an amature 3d programmer.
The patent should be summarily tossed out, and rabid weasles attached to the crotches of all involved. This isn't even close to being a legitimate patent in my book. Software not being math is a silly stand to take, and that looks like a lucid argument compaired to this.
A president of the United States must be 35 years old and a native US citicizen. So, who is with me?
INTERNET for PRESIDENT, 2004!
It is a pretty good choice. Internet is socially liberal, and fiscially conservative, very accepting of others, and it is willing to let you look at it's massive pr0n collection for free.
Now, all it needs is a phone switch for VP, and it's the ultimate ticket.
Please. I find that such distrust in the machinations of Nature itself shows us how narrow minded these "scientists" are. "I can't understand it, so God must have done it," essentially. This does not open the door to further research and understanding. On the contrary it closes the door because there is nothing more to be understood beyond "God did it".
Amen Brotha! But the way you trip up these idiots is with the follow up question: 'Ok, god did it. Now just how> did he do it?
If religion was really interested in God (they aren't), mabey they should try to study his handy work, say, like a scientist does...
And when the IT department works out that you're intentionally circumventing their monitoring and blocking of sites that frequently carry spyware and trojans, they're going to be _really_ pissed off with you.
If I were working in an IT department, and I found out someone set up a SSH proxie forwarding service, I would make a wild leap of logic and assume that the person was smart enough to keep their own machine spyware and trojan free. Most people don't even know what a port is, let alone how they work...
The GTA series is great because of the stories, which a game simply *must* have if it isn't going to go follow the multiplayer/online model.
However, the non-linear nature of the game lends itself beautifully to a multi-player environment. Unlike many game designs, I think that GTA would scale nicely without changing much of anything. Pleayers could form competing gangs, fight over properlties, and create havok as much as they wanted. Simply drop the NPC gang AI's and let the player fill the space. The missions and story elements are nicely modular, so they would fit well into an online world.
If the idea hasn't already been considered there, pass it on. (Personally, I would kill for a chance to code on a project like that...)
BTW, Great work! Now hurry up and port that @#$$#%er to PC, I have $50 burning a hole in my pocket...
GTA3 is comparable to The Sopranos and Vice City is like Miami Vice or Scarface, then San Andreas is like the LA gangsta scene and that wasn't fictional.
Woah, and you think that the Sopranos was based on some totally fictional Itallian crime family? The Mafia was very real. The only reason you probably identify with south central, is I am guessing that you grew up sometime around the 90s. During the 1960 and 1970s, the FBI mounted a massive effort to break up organized crime in the US. During the 1980s, Regan's 'Drug War' tried to stem the flow of drugs from central and south america. You don't think that these were nice people, do you? I'd be willing to bet that the the Mafia and the south American drug cartells have killed a LOT more people than the LA gangs.
How many other 'stars' do you see that have an IQ above 79? Most people in Hollywood come off to me as shallow, self absorbed idiots. Do you really think that Paris Hilton could keep up with even 10% of the conversations on/.?
I think that Wil is respected here, because he is an intelligent person who is famous, and hasn't let it go to his head. He is a 'home town nerd, that made good'.
Of course, Hitler himself could post to/., and if he admitted to using *NIX, he would probably get modded up....
I love the GTA series, and I keep thinking that it could be the next 'doom' if rockstar would open up the.exe source code for modders. Even if it was something older like GTA3, there is no end to what could be done with a game like this by the mod community.
You read those comments by the Europeans in the article! Inflamitory! They are suggestiong that, we Americans, are irate little hot heads that would litigate for trifiling nusances. I won't stand for it, I'm going to sue them for slander!
I suspect that riot police will start deploying jammers as standard practice on the premise that they're preventing rioters from calling in support, etc.
...and activists can start employing jammers to prevent co-ordination by the police. Since the police rely heavily on radio communication, I don't think it would be very wise on the part of the police to start a 'jammer' arms race.
No it isn't, but it wouldn't be ironic humor if I used a proper verb. Similarly, the word, 'slashdotted' is also an example of a noun that is being turned into a verb for humorous...oh never mind. *sigh*
My first five computers (Radio Shack MC10 CoCo, Timex-Sinclair 2000, Atari XL, Apple II, Commodore 64) had no seperate operating system requiring seperate purchase. The idea that I'm going to pay the richest man in the world $100 for something that was deliberately left of the computer is absurd and insane.
What do those computers you mention have in common? There were 'no seperate operating system(s)' to purchase. You got them with the computer (and paid for them in the purchase price, even if you were not aware of it) because you had no choice. If I recall correctly, Bill made money by creating an option.
1987. I am programming away on my parent's Apple 2e, and my dad brings home a copy of something called 'MS-DOS'. I couldn't figure out what it was for, until I realized that I could use it instead of Apple DOS. (Ironically, I thought it sucked. Guess I was ahead of the times...)
Don't pay $100 to Bill for an OS if you don't want to. But, to call it insane that you actually have the option to use a non-propritary OS on your computer is...well, insane.
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I mean, damn, what am I going to pirate now? I'm running out of things that people aren't filing lawsuits over. *sigh*
Well, if anyone needs 'cracked' copys of homosexual furry fiction, I'll have a torrent up shortly...
3d Algorithim == math. As we all know, you aren't allowed to patent math. But what would I know, I'm only an amature 3d programmer.
The patent should be summarily tossed out, and rabid weasles attached to the crotches of all involved. This isn't even close to being a legitimate patent in my book. Software not being math is a silly stand to take, and that looks like a lucid argument compaired to this.
I wonder if I can get an AC version of that? Also, would they be marketed as 100 110s?
It has been sucked down to the land of the Lowest Common Denominator.
I painted my mouse blue! All my AOL friends say I am teh 7eet, but I'm not sure what that means. LOL!LOL!
A president of the United States must be 35 years old and a native US citicizen. So, who is with me?
INTERNET for PRESIDENT, 2004!
It is a pretty good choice. Internet is socially liberal, and fiscially conservative, very accepting of others, and it is willing to let you look at it's massive pr0n collection for free.
Now, all it needs is a phone switch for VP, and it's the ultimate ticket.
Please. I find that such distrust in the machinations of Nature itself shows us how narrow minded these "scientists" are. "I can't understand it, so God must have done it," essentially. This does not open the door to further research and understanding. On the contrary it closes the door because there is nothing more to be understood beyond "God did it".
Amen Brotha! But the way you trip up these idiots is with the follow up question: 'Ok, god did it. Now just how> did he do it?
If religion was really interested in God (they aren't), mabey they should try to study his handy work, say, like a scientist does...
And when the IT department works out that you're intentionally circumventing their monitoring and blocking of sites that frequently carry spyware and trojans, they're going to be _really_ pissed off with you.
If I were working in an IT department, and I found out someone set up a SSH proxie forwarding service, I would make a wild leap of logic and assume that the person was smart enough to keep their own machine spyware and trojan free. Most people don't even know what a port is, let alone how they work...
Thanks for the link.
The GTA series is great because of the stories, which a game simply *must* have if it isn't going to go follow the multiplayer/online model.
However, the non-linear nature of the game lends itself beautifully to a multi-player environment. Unlike many game designs, I think that GTA would scale nicely without changing much of anything. Pleayers could form competing gangs, fight over properlties, and create havok as much as they wanted. Simply drop the NPC gang AI's and let the player fill the space. The missions and story elements are nicely modular, so they would fit well into an online world.
If the idea hasn't already been considered there, pass it on. (Personally, I would kill for a chance to code on a project like that...)
BTW, Great work! Now hurry up and port that @#$$#%er to PC, I have $50 burning a hole in my pocket...
Speed and uninterrupted use of the service are not guaranteed
Yeah, parent post makes a good point. Sometimes congestion on the Internet can slow light down quite a bit...
Aliens are the least of NASA's worries. If the scientologist lawyers hear about the probe, expect a lawsuit...
GTA3 is comparable to The Sopranos and Vice City is like Miami Vice or Scarface, then San Andreas is like the LA gangsta scene and that wasn't fictional.
Woah, and you think that the Sopranos was based on some totally fictional Itallian crime family? The Mafia was very real. The only reason you probably identify with south central, is I am guessing that you grew up sometime around the 90s. During the 1960 and 1970s, the FBI mounted a massive effort to break up organized crime in the US. During the 1980s, Regan's 'Drug War' tried to stem the flow of drugs from central and south america. You don't think that these were nice people, do you? I'd be willing to bet that the the Mafia and the south American drug cartells have killed a LOT more people than the LA gangs.
...until I can get a hyper allogenic BONSAI KITTEN!
Of course, I don't understand why you care if your cat is alergic to stuff...
I'm a little fuzzy on this. If I commit copyright infringment on the high seas, with a comission from a sovern nation, am I cool or what?
How many other 'stars' do you see that have an IQ above 79? Most people in Hollywood come off to me as shallow, self absorbed idiots. Do you really think that Paris Hilton could keep up with even 10% of the conversations on /.?
/., and if he admitted to using *NIX, he would probably get modded up....
I think that Wil is respected here, because he is an intelligent person who is famous, and hasn't let it go to his head. He is a 'home town nerd, that made good'.
Of course, Hitler himself could post to
I love the GTA series, and I keep thinking that it could be the next 'doom' if rockstar would open up the .exe source code for modders. Even if it was something older like GTA3, there is no end to what could be done with a game like this by the mod community.
You read those comments by the Europeans in the article! Inflamitory! They are suggestiong that, we Americans, are irate little hot heads that would litigate for trifiling nusances. I won't stand for it, I'm going to sue them for slander!
...uh..never mind....
I suspect that riot police will start deploying jammers as standard practice on the premise that they're preventing rioters from calling in support, etc.
...and activists can start employing jammers to prevent co-ordination by the police. Since the police rely heavily on radio communication, I don't think it would be very wise on the part of the police to start a 'jammer' arms race.
No it isn't, but it wouldn't be ironic humor if I used a proper verb. Similarly, the word, 'slashdotted' is also an example of a noun that is being turned into a verb for humorous...oh never mind. *sigh*
It's still likely that at one point the hydrogen you are going to burn was part of a water molecule in a brontasuaraus colon.
Whitespace! Pure luxury! Why when I was a young programmer, we hadn't even invented 1's, we only had zeros.
AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!
Sure, he verbed the word. You don't have to grammernazi him over the fact.
The site is probably slow because it's being slashdotted...
Was political corectness ever IN control?
...because I just moved my 80+ GB collection to a bigger drive and cleaned off the old one.
Gotta have room for all the new quality music comming out of the music industry, you know.
People will pay a small fortune to keep the kids quiet in the back seats...
Hmm, I can't figure out why. Ball gags and hand cuffs are quite inexpensive...
My first five computers (Radio Shack MC10 CoCo, Timex-Sinclair 2000, Atari XL, Apple II, Commodore 64) had no seperate operating system requiring seperate purchase. The idea that I'm going to pay the richest man in the world $100 for something that was deliberately left of the computer is absurd and insane.
What do those computers you mention have in common? There were 'no seperate operating system(s)' to purchase. You got them with the computer (and paid for them in the purchase price, even if you were not aware of it) because you had no choice. If I recall correctly, Bill made money by creating an option.
1987. I am programming away on my parent's Apple 2e, and my dad brings home a copy of something called 'MS-DOS'. I couldn't figure out what it was for, until I realized that I could use it instead of Apple DOS. (Ironically, I thought it sucked. Guess I was ahead of the times...)
Don't pay $100 to Bill for an OS if you don't want to. But, to call it insane that you actually have the option to use a non-propritary OS on your computer is...well, insane.