^^^ Until the above is done we lose out
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Also I would like to add..
Until the above is done, no MOD maker can claim to have "real weapon physics." The engine must implement real physics first (as stated previously). Creating a server switch that enables or disables the option to account for side forces on projectiles would give MOD makers true freedom!!!! Right now, the physics are silly.
What all 3D games are really missing
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is simple physics. FOR GOD SAKES If you are strafeing sideways and fire a ballistic weapon at a distant entryway, the "projectile" should propel not just forward but sideways, and end up MISSING the door.
And if I'm riding the Half-Life train and jump up, the train SHOULD NEVER slide from under me. I should instead plop STRAIGHT back down in my seat (unless I bump into the ceiling or the train's speed changes.) How high I jumped doesn't matter. It's simple physics like this that would allow for NEW strategies and skills.
This would be TRUE advancement because ALL games are missing this! (Even 360 games like the Descent(R) series) But yes, EVERY SINGLE GAMER would have to retrain their skills but why not! It'd be added realism that could be turned off with a real_weapon_physics switch for any multiplayer game...
And Yes--one could still have "homing" missiles that fly to the exact spot your cursor was pointing at the time you pulled the trigger. (But even here, they wouldn't fly straight but at an ARC. The front of the projectile would try to point the opposite way of the sideway force, whipping the tail end back, etc.)
Lesson In Law ============== You made a great point, don't let these people's cluelessness get to you.
Judge : Law as Compiler : Computer Program
is INCORRECT.
There are two types of judges. One type follows the legal code EXACTLY. Example: "The police department did not reply to the Public Information Request within 10 days according state law. I find the defendant NOT RESPONSIBLE for the speeding ticket."
Then there's the other type that adds his or her "judgement" (stuff like his beliefs, past experiences, if he thinks people like you lie, if he thinks you deserve a speeding ticket because a cop wouldn't have stopped you for no reason, etc. Stuff not part of the legal code.) Example: "Some of your defense has legal value but I find you responsible." (i.e. I feel you did it regardless of the cop insulting you, not monitoring your speed for the required time by state law, not replying to the PIR in a month let alone ten days...)
So some judges go by law exactly. Some feel like they are god and judge by their "common sense", feeling their "common sense" is above the law, regardless of separate law sections saying otherwise.
But with the case of image files versus audio files, I feel that EITHER type of judge will find you guilty of distributing music by ruling it's the content that defined the files, not the 3 letter extention.
Not 1 out of 6. The only time I heard that was about Volleyball.
What with Indoor Volleyball (high school, college, club, olympics, word cups, state tournaments, corporate-sponsored leagues, intramurals, chinese (nine player), etc.) and Outdoor Volleyball (beach, club, back yard, picnic) and all, that statistic by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) sounds right. But about cricket, nuh uh.
I'm surprised nobody has seen many jeopardy skits... I think there have been about 11 (every half a year they seemed to have one.)
There's people that don't get this reference (including the salon writer) but thank you for clearing it up for those lucky enough to get slashdot on their internet.
Find a good short FAQ about automatic watches Here
The first hand watch was invented in the 1741. Then self-winding watches came about when Rolex invented the mechanism in 1931. On howstuffworks.com there might be an image of a transparent backside of an "automatic" or self-winding watch showing the mechanism. It's basically a half of a disk at the bottom of the watch that slides back and forth whenever the wearer does anything to move the watch (walk, write, etc.) This keeps them recharged for as much as 48 hours when you stop wearing them!
Apparently self-winding watches are coming back into style because they're so sweet and lose their accuracy at a rate of only a couple of seconds each month.
Sorry to bore you, but I did this research a few weeks earlier because I was interested in getting a watch of this type.:) (No Signature file found.)
I have a question. I use Charter Cable TV and Pipeline (their cable internet service.) If I buy the set top box, I assume I would need to get Digital Cable from them. BUT say that I do do that.
Will I have to pay ANOTHER montly fee to view e-mail and surf from my TV if I have their computer cable internet subscription? I hope not, but you never know...
First post on slashdot that made me laugh out loud.
It'S B/C Day Of Defeat 3 is out!
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DOD 3 is out!
DOD 3 came out three days ago and the characters all are upgraded and it looks sweeter. I'm still downloading it but DOD 1 didnt work and then when DOD 2 came out it did and it's fairly good.
DOD went from 200 players to I think theres many thousands!
CS is old news.
What will they do about parody sites? I mean, just how much does Congress want to diverge from "physical" copyright protection of standard pen-and-ink non-tangibles?
Apparently, no more BillPoint (why the heck they bought BillPoint anyway?)
Date: 07/08/2002 Time: 04:51:19 PDT
***eBay Agrees to Acquire PayPal***
A couple of weeks ago at eBay Live, I promised you that I would continue to listen to your input as we grow the eBay marketplace. So today, I am excited to announce our plans to acquire PayPal, Inc., the most popular online payment service.
Since many of our members offer PayPal's services, this acquisition makes a tremendous amount of sense. Integrating PayPal's services into our platform is something that many of our members have asked us to do. We believe it will enhance our members' experience by allowing buyers and sellers to trade with greater ease, speed and safety.
We expect the acquisition to be finalized around year-end 2002. Until then, PayPal and eBay Payments (Billpoint) services will continue to function as independent providers of online payment services. When the acquisition is finalized, we plan to phase out eBay Payments (Billpoint) as we integrate the PayPal service. We will provide more detailed information about the eventual integration of PayPal in the weeks and months ahead.
We look forward to working with eBay Payments (Billpoint) users to ensure a seamless transition to PayPal, and with PayPal's users as we integrate PayPal into our site.
For more details, please see the press release and our Frequently Asked Questions page. Look for the webcast of our conference call at http://www.shareholder.com/ebay/.
Regards, Meg
Investors and security holders are urged to read the proxy statement/prospectus regarding the business combination transactions referenced in this presentation, when they become available, because they will contain important information. The proxy statement/prospectus will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by eBay. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus, when available, and other documents filed by eBay and PayPal with the Commission at the Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and eBay's other filings with the Commission may also be obtained by directing a request to eBay at investorrelations@ebay.com. Free copies of PayPal's filings may be obtained by directing a request to PayPal at investorrelations@PayPal.com.
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You have to believe you're smarter than the designers to accomplish stuff with computers.
The day you believe programs are easy to use and made by smart people is the day you will feel stupid and ask for help. That's because you would feel YOU were at fault for not catching on.
NOBODY can beat the deal you get with a community college. Heck, your taxes subsidize it--so use it or lose it!
Community colleges have small classrooms (not halls) of 30 students or less, and the atmosphere is more loose. Each classroom comes with a LIVE professor to teach you, test you, motivate you, help you learn and answer questions! That's all part of the standard package! So real you can see/touch him or her! (Don't.)
And it's all for a couple hundred bucks! And the credits are accepted at universities and employers will take them, too.
There is a drawback to community colleges. Most administrators don't want to talk about it. 1) Because many "elitist" people disrespect community colleges as weak, a student could feel he shouldn't have to do the same difficulty work as students in universities. 2) And because you pay $40,000/year less than your friends for the same education, you could become very lazy. Because of these two things, one might feel less motivation to do well than a university student would have. And if one wants to transfer to a university afterwards with these grades,...well you see the dillema.:)
NO BULL! I took University Physics I last semester at my community college. Everyone was very lazy. I personally did no work for some reason, and the class was not impossible. Ultimately, 25 out of 30 students had to withdraw. Some think the class was hard because the professor was a very smart MIT grad, but we like to think it's because of the effect I just described.;)
[Another plus: CC's have very lax withdrawal deadlines--we could withdraw up to two weeks before the final exam, I believe].
Seriously however, he said my community college was equivalent to MIT. But we all know that with little respect for CC's, it's hard to feel motivated to work as hard as MIT students do!!
So do be careful--even if you do great in good math class at a CC but end up with a hard-to-earn C grade, idiots might snicker at you.
DISCLAIMER: (I/my friend/my neighbor/my dog) (am/is/used to be/will be) the student body (trustee/president/vice president) of a CC located in (New England/New York/New Jersey.)
Not only do I agree with you, but I also happened to use Nick, your company's computer guy in my reply, too! And I've never seen him referenced anywhere except in my post and now yours!
Except that two-year schools are decent, too--I've been programming since early high school (learning through books and writing LOTS LOTS of programs--barely seeing any other source code until internet access years later, thus TRUE learning from experience and practice), so I have to say a lot has to do with the person him/herself, not just his or her college.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=34241&cid=37 06 376 is mine
Students always want to know how professors will grade things. It's like that's what matters. In reality, if it's a pile of SHIT, you will get a bad grade. if it's GREAT, you will get a good grade. When a professor asks you to code in writing (or write a short story) on the SPOT, he will see if there's thought put into it, if the events are logical, if there's good function/character development, great design/setting, planning, correct/interesting output/conclusion (for program/story). Do that, and demonstrate understanding of what you're doing (putting braces/commas where they should be), that's what professors are looking for. You're only asked to do well nothing more than what's expected to earn a great grade. Nobody expects you to write ground-breaking code in a short time, just sensible code.
RULE OF THUMB: If your creation takes A LOT of fixing/editing to be good (if it's code, replace 'good' with 'perfect'), your grade will suffer. (And If Nick, Your Company's Computer Guy(tm), needs to say MOVE!, and redo everything you've done to get the problem solved/requirements met, you will get a REALLY REALLY bad grade.)
Have your work make the professor feel really warm-and-fuzzy inside when they grade it, is what I guess I'm trying to say. Make it sensible and entertaining (think/* */)Entertain them, comment your programs, etc. I've received an A on a late story about a floor-covering because the English prof. loved it.
ALternative INFO b/c it's/.:
Here, I read about Steel Batallion (the mech game for XBox) a few days ago at gamespy.com. I can't find the article now but here are some screen shots:
Screen Shots
From what I can remember, the game has "graphics so good you won't find them amazing because the game looks so real." (or something.)
OKAY HERE I FOUND IT: The article is here: ARTIVIEW ARTICLE!! The actual comment was ""the graphics really don't seem that impressive, because they look so real."
"Steel Battalion will ship with 20 missions on 12 different levels, and although the final price has yet to be determined, you can probably expect to pay about $150 to $300 for this awesome-looking game/controller combo.
Oh, and it WON'T be playable online using XBox-Live:/
Slashdot Mirror
Also I would like to add..
Until the above is done, no MOD maker can claim to have "real weapon physics." The engine must implement real physics first (as stated previously). Creating a server switch that enables or disables the option to account for side forces on projectiles would give MOD makers true freedom!!!! Right now, the physics are silly.
is simple physics. FOR GOD SAKES If you are strafeing sideways and fire a ballistic weapon at a distant entryway, the "projectile" should propel not just forward but sideways, and end up MISSING the door.
And if I'm riding the Half-Life train and jump up, the train SHOULD NEVER slide from under me. I should instead plop STRAIGHT back down in my seat (unless I bump into the ceiling or the train's speed changes.) How high I jumped doesn't matter. It's simple physics like this that would allow for NEW strategies and skills.
This would be TRUE advancement because ALL games are missing this! (Even 360 games like the Descent(R) series) But yes, EVERY SINGLE GAMER would have to retrain their skills but why not! It'd be added realism that could be turned off with a real_weapon_physics switch for any multiplayer game...
And Yes--one could still have "homing" missiles that fly to the exact spot your cursor was pointing at the time you pulled the trigger. (But even here, they wouldn't fly straight but at an ARC. The front of the projectile would try to point the opposite way of the sideway force, whipping the tail end back, etc.)
Do you "double-dip"?
...Also, you can WinToiletPaper.Com
Are you a "perfectionist" or an "inspector"?
Take the Bathroom Habits Study here
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Lesson In Law
==============
You made a great point, don't let these people's cluelessness get to you.
Judge : Law as
Compiler : Computer Program
is INCORRECT.
There are two types of judges. One type follows the legal code EXACTLY. Example: "The police department did not reply to the Public Information Request within 10 days according state law. I find the defendant NOT RESPONSIBLE for the speeding ticket."
Then there's the other type that adds his or her "judgement" (stuff like his beliefs, past experiences, if he thinks people like you lie, if he thinks you deserve a speeding ticket because a cop wouldn't have stopped you for no reason, etc. Stuff not part of the legal code.)
Example: "Some of your defense has legal value but I find you responsible." (i.e. I feel you did it regardless of the cop insulting you, not monitoring your speed for the required time by state law, not replying to the PIR in a month let alone ten days...)
So some judges go by law exactly. Some feel like they are god and judge by their "common sense", feeling their "common sense" is above the law, regardless of separate law sections saying otherwise.
But with the case of image files versus audio files, I feel that EITHER type of judge will find you guilty of distributing music by ruling it's the content that defined the files, not the 3 letter extention.
Not 1 out of 6. The only time I heard that was about Volleyball.
What with Indoor Volleyball (high school, college, club, olympics, word cups, state tournaments, corporate-sponsored leagues, intramurals, chinese (nine player), etc.)
and Outdoor Volleyball (beach, club, back yard, picnic) and all, that statistic by the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) sounds right. But about cricket, nuh uh.
I'm surprised nobody has seen many jeopardy skits... I think there have been about 11 (every half a year they seemed to have one.)
There's people that don't get this reference (including the salon writer) but thank you for clearing it up for those lucky enough to get slashdot on their internet.
I made a post with a link to watch the ad you mentioned and others here (link)
LOL that's not the first watch ever! Mechanical watches were around centuries earlier.
:)
Ever heard of self-winding watches? Then learn How does a Self-Winding Watch Work?
Find a good short FAQ about automatic watches Here
The first hand watch was invented in the 1741. Then self-winding watches came about when Rolex invented the mechanism in 1931. On howstuffworks.com there might be an image of a transparent backside of an "automatic" or self-winding watch showing the mechanism. It's basically a half of a disk at the bottom of the watch that slides back and forth whenever the wearer does anything to move the watch (walk, write, etc.) This keeps them recharged for as much as 48 hours when you stop wearing them!
Apparently self-winding watches are coming back into style because they're so sweet and lose their accuracy at a rate of only a couple of seconds each month.
Sorry to bore you, but I did this research a few weeks earlier because I was interested in getting a watch of this type.
(No Signature file found.)
Well I knew it existed...
Watch the original Bullova Watch TV Commercial!
The AJAX commercial is good, too!
And here is Wendy's commercial making fun of Communism
Funny out of towner
E*Trade Monkey
Where's the Beef?
And a little nudity...
Last one
Cleo Magazine
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I think you mean global positioning satellites do that.
Dude, Stop talking in NLP. (ERROR: No signature file was found.)
It's NOT redundant. That post was *NOT* 5, FUNNY it was 1, Nothing when I saw it!
YOU'RE redundant. I saw it was funny first!
Bad Moderators. Bad.
I have a question. I use Charter Cable TV and Pipeline (their cable internet service.) If I buy the set top box, I assume I would need to get Digital Cable from them. BUT say that I do do that.
Will I have to pay ANOTHER montly fee to view e-mail and surf from my TV if I have their computer cable internet subscription? I hope not, but you never know...
I noticed and was about to post this same thing. Charter is owned by Allen. However I wouldn't have received 5 points like you.
First post on slashdot that made me laugh out loud.
DOD 3 is out! DOD 3 came out three days ago and the characters all are upgraded and it looks sweeter. I'm still downloading it but DOD 1 didnt work and then when DOD 2 came out it did and it's fairly good. DOD went from 200 players to I think theres many thousands! CS is old news.
What will they do about parody sites? I mean, just how much does Congress want to diverge from "physical" copyright protection of standard pen-and-ink non-tangibles?
Apparently, no more BillPoint (why the heck they bought BillPoint anyway?)
. html
Date: 07/08/2002
Time: 04:51:19 PDT
***eBay Agrees to Acquire PayPal***
A couple of weeks ago at eBay Live, I promised you that I would continue to listen to your input as we grow the eBay marketplace. So today, I am excited to announce our plans to acquire PayPal, Inc., the most popular online payment service.
Since many of our members offer PayPal's services, this acquisition makes a tremendous amount of sense. Integrating PayPal's services into our platform is something that many of our members have asked us to do. We believe it will enhance our members' experience by allowing buyers and sellers to trade with greater ease, speed and safety.
We expect the acquisition to be finalized around year-end 2002. Until then, PayPal and eBay Payments (Billpoint) services will continue to function as independent providers of online payment services. When the acquisition is finalized, we plan to phase out eBay Payments (Billpoint) as we integrate the PayPal service. We will provide more detailed information about the eventual integration of PayPal in the weeks and months ahead.
We look forward to working with eBay Payments (Billpoint) users to ensure a seamless transition to PayPal, and with PayPal's users as we integrate PayPal into our site.
For more details, please see the press release and our Frequently Asked Questions page. Look for the webcast of our conference call at http://www.shareholder.com/ebay/.
Regards,
Meg
Investors and security holders are urged to read the proxy statement/prospectus regarding the business combination transactions referenced in this presentation, when they become available, because they will contain important information. The proxy statement/prospectus will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by eBay. Investors and security holders may obtain a free copy of the proxy statement/prospectus, when available, and other documents filed by eBay and PayPal with the Commission at the Commission's web site at http://www.sec.gov. Free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and eBay's other filings with the Commission may also be obtained by directing a request to eBay at investorrelations@ebay.com. Free copies of PayPal's filings may be obtained by directing a request to PayPal at investorrelations@PayPal.com.
FAQ is also available at:
http://pages.ebay.com/community/news/acquire
No, the person is always at fault.
:)
Not ARROGANT enough.
You have to believe you're smarter than the designers to accomplish stuff with computers.
The day you believe programs are easy to use and made by smart people is the day you will feel stupid and ask for help. That's because you would feel YOU were at fault for not catching on.
That's the truth.
NEXT!
NOBODY can beat the deal you get with a community college. Heck, your taxes subsidize it--so use it or lose it!
...well you see the dillema. :)
;)
:)
Community colleges have small classrooms (not halls) of 30 students or less, and the atmosphere is more loose. Each classroom comes with a LIVE professor to teach you, test you, motivate you, help you learn and answer questions! That's all part of the standard package! So real you can see/touch him or her! (Don't.)
And it's all for a couple hundred bucks! And the credits are accepted at universities and employers will take them, too.
There is a drawback to community colleges. Most administrators don't want to talk about it. 1) Because many "elitist" people disrespect community colleges as weak, a student could feel he shouldn't have to do the same difficulty work as students in universities. 2) And because you pay $40,000/year less than your friends for the same education, you could become very lazy. Because of these two things, one might feel less motivation to do well than a university student would have. And if one wants to transfer to a university afterwards with these grades,
NO BULL! I took University Physics I last semester at my community college. Everyone was very lazy. I personally did no work for some reason, and the class was not impossible. Ultimately, 25 out of 30 students had to withdraw. Some think the class was hard because the professor was a very smart MIT grad, but we like to think it's because of the effect I just described.
[Another plus: CC's have very lax withdrawal deadlines--we could withdraw up to two weeks before the final exam, I believe].
Seriously however, he said my community college was equivalent to MIT. But we all know that with little respect for CC's, it's hard to feel motivated to work as hard as MIT students do!!
So do be careful--even if you do great in good math class at a CC but end up with a hard-to-earn C grade, idiots might snicker at you.
DISCLAIMER: (I/my friend/my neighbor/my dog) (am/is/used to be/will be) the student body (trustee/president/vice president) of a CC located in (New England/New York/New Jersey.)
So I might be partly biased
Also, 58 percent of community college students are women.
Apparently, even TAYLOR & WASHINGTON went to a community college!
The problems all mention aren't tests. It's most obviously attitude.
Not only do I agree with you, but I also happened to use Nick, your company's computer guy in my reply, too! And I've never seen him referenced anywhere except in my post and now yours!
7 06 376 is mine
Except that two-year schools are decent, too--I've been programming since early high school (learning through books and writing LOTS LOTS of programs--barely seeing any other source code until internet access years later, thus TRUE learning from experience and practice), so I have to say a lot has to do with the person him/herself, not just his or her college.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=34241&cid=3
Heres one people need to read.
/* */)Entertain them, comment your programs, etc. I've received an A on a late story about a floor-covering because the English prof. loved it.
Students always want to know how professors will grade things. It's like that's what matters. In reality, if it's a pile of SHIT, you will get a bad grade. if it's GREAT, you will get a good grade. When a professor asks you to code in writing (or write a short story) on the SPOT, he will see if there's thought put into it, if the events are logical, if there's good function/character development, great design/setting, planning, correct/interesting output/conclusion (for program/story). Do that, and demonstrate understanding of what you're doing (putting braces/commas where they should be), that's what professors are looking for. You're only asked to do well nothing more than what's expected to earn a great grade. Nobody expects you to write ground-breaking code in a short time, just sensible code.
RULE OF THUMB: If your creation takes A LOT of fixing/editing to be good (if it's code, replace 'good' with 'perfect'), your grade will suffer. (And If Nick, Your Company's Computer Guy(tm), needs to say MOVE!, and redo everything you've done to get the problem solved/requirements met, you will get a REALLY REALLY bad grade.)
Have your work make the professor feel really warm-and-fuzzy inside when they grade it, is what I guess I'm trying to say. Make it sensible and entertaining (think
I found that site by typing in "answers" into AOL Search (back when Google had a press-release on the front page about their partnership with them.)
I wanted to try AOL Search out. Of course, Google was genius because I was instantly redirected back to a Google site....
ALternative INFO b/c it's /.:
:/
Here, I read about Steel Batallion (the mech game for XBox) a few days ago at gamespy.com. I can't find the article now but here are some screen shots: Screen Shots
From what I can remember, the game has "graphics so good you won't find them amazing because the game looks so real." (or something.)
OKAY HERE I FOUND IT: The article is here: ARTIVIEW ARTICLE!! The actual comment was ""the graphics really don't seem that impressive, because they look so real."
"Steel Battalion will ship with 20 missions on 12 different levels, and although the final price has yet to be determined, you can probably expect to pay about $150 to $300 for this awesome-looking game/controller combo.
Oh, and it WON'T be playable online using XBox-Live