When I was working at my college's computer 'lab' there weren't enough computers to satisfy the demand at midterms and finals (I live in Mexico and 7 year ago only 2 or 3 students had laptops) so we have to limit the time to 1 1/2 or 2 hours per user per day on those seasons.
A friend and I wrote an app to handle that, users have to take a 'free' machine from the screen in the counter or get into the virtual wait line if there was none. The app did a 'net send' to alert users when their time was up and there was another user waiting, we had to update the messaging services on the win95 machines so they were able to get along the 'brand new' NT 4 machines
The application was enhanced later, by me and others, to handle stadistics and others alerts like annoying library dues and 'not enough sheets in your credit for your print work'. It was still running (although very modified) last time I was there (spring). I think that 'net send' was a very helpful admin tool for windows networks. ( I know unix has it since the down onf times)
Remember that originally the humans in the matrix were used for masive parallel processing, but the studio tougth that was over the head of the averange joe so they change that into the 'maybe combined with some form of fusion'-batery plot (if they have developed fusion what the hell need humans for).
I for once would like better the original argument.
I have the original edition of Half-Life, an out-of-the-box installation has run perfectly ok on a mirriad of cd-roms/dvd roms/writers and SO conbinations for several years so far.
Now, I had an LG DVD-ROM/CDWriter combo and I wasn't able to play UT2K3 with out a nocd crack, and that sucked big because after every patch I was left out of online games until the new nocd crack was out. Anyway, both games ended up not requiring the cd to be on the drive to play. Thank you very much for leting me play with my original game!
The rapid heat exchange between magma and water allows the slow but stedy rock 'generation' process that pushes the tectotic placs apart from each other
Long jumping from a flying rock to a flying manta-thing was extremely frustrating. It was the only part in the original game where I ever considered giving up on beating the game (you don't beat a game if you cheat). The final fight was to damned hard and frustrating with all that jumping and the teletransportation portals the boss shot to you every god damned second. I only finished when I learn read that you can shoot the flying portals and make them teletransport your bullets instead of you
..how many of those 26.42 million PS2's shipped 'to' North America ended up in Latin America's regular and 'grey' markets?
There are millions of ps2's installed at least in Mexico and Brazil despite Sony hasn't officially lunched the ps2 here. Games and consoles are for sale at regular retail game stores, and Wal-marts.
If you are going to use prerendered fmv's to portrait the coolness of your game be sure they look at least as good as the real-time renders of Half-Life 2.
If you intent to build up tension and a sense of danger, it would help that menacing two-headed ogre approaching doesn't look like Shrek.
Don't steal the your "sexy demones" model from a screenshot of the upcoming Ninja Gaiden, or at least use some textures on it.
If you're trying to show the engine prowess, select some scenes that doesn't involve z-fighting.
I know Runes wasn't a MMORPG but it looked prettier and had a cooler melee-action rhythm than this, and it was four years ago!.
"With current multi-sample implementations of anti-aliasing, you may sample texels outside of the polygon boundary..."
This is the key, but you have to understand what a centroid is in the first place. A centroid is a the geometric place the triangle (In 3d graphics "polygon" means "triangle in space") defined by the intersection of the lines that go from every corner to the midpoint of the oposite edge. One of its properties (the most relevant for this particular application) is that is allways inside the triangle. It's a litte harder to calculate it than the gravicenter (intersection of any two heights) but is always inside so if you sample a texsel on that point you get the rigth light map for that triangle.
In another news Microsoft applies for a patent on "circular-shaped-low-friction moving support for vehicles" as an adendum to it's "Microsoft wheel patent".
Fast Fourier Transform is bread and butter for the scientific comunity. This is a good news for sys admins at research centers like me. Maybe I have a chance at getting one or two of these babies for the next year budget.
I don't think that, whenever Everquest 2 is launched, it wouldn't be any different as other MMORPG's lunches. It's gona be full of bugs, half of the servers would be down, the lag would be horrid, etc. I don't think any one would be able to play without serius problems the whole afternoon on day 1.
MMORGPs luches are some kind of masive multipleyer beta testing at "production conditions" in wich you have to pay to participate.
Uh, "the precious mind of the US's children" who would dare? Every body knows the US kids own the most naive and inocent minds of the world. What could happen if the next generation of world policers and pop culture evangelizers is allowed to get in contact with porn or even violence?
HISTORICALLY, Volvo has put safety first and design later, and it's perceived by many people as safety oriented car company. Three point seat belts(patented in 1958), ABS brakes, airbags and crash absorbing structures, just to mention a few, were developed first by Volvo. R&D at Volvo has (or had until mid 90's at least) more car-safety patents (commercially applied) than any other car company.
That doesn't mean Volvo is the safety leader now but Volvo would certainly use its safety reputation in its advertising
Oh, please! Even Nintendo admits its gamecube is a little behind in the grraphics department compared to the other consoles.
Every body knows the x-box has the best overall graphic capabilities, the PS2 port of Splinter Cell shows the real difference between sony's and microsoft's consoles, but PS2vsGAMECUBE? c'mon! For several ligth-intensive or particle-efects games the cube needs FMV's to replace the cut scenes that the X-box or the PS2 can hadle ingame.
In wich way the cube is graphicaly superior to the PS2 or comparable to the x-box?
Slashdot Mirror
..or more probably they are all sons and daugthers on EGM staff member, did you note that there were several brother couples?
Where?!! working virtual boy's are collector pices now, very valuable and hard to get.
A friend and I wrote an app to handle that, users have to take a 'free' machine from the screen in the counter or get into the virtual wait line if there was none. The app did a 'net send' to alert users when their time was up and there was another user waiting, we had to update the messaging services on the win95 machines so they were able to get along the 'brand new' NT 4 machines
The application was enhanced later, by me and others, to handle stadistics and others alerts like annoying library dues and 'not enough sheets in your credit for your print work'. It was still running (although very modified) last time I was there (spring). I think that 'net send' was a very helpful admin tool for windows networks. ( I know unix has it since the down onf times)I for once would like better the original argument.
I have the original edition of Half-Life, an out-of-the-box installation has run perfectly ok on a mirriad of cd-roms/dvd roms/writers and SO conbinations for several years so far.
Now, I had an LG DVD-ROM/CDWriter combo and I wasn't able to play UT2K3 with out a nocd crack, and that sucked big because after every patch I was left out of online games until the new nocd crack was out. Anyway, both games ended up not requiring the cd to be on the drive to play. Thank you very much for leting me play with my original game!
Does really someone ask about Pacman not knowing it's name?
And is not "before" like in "some 2 years before", it was just a couple of weeks before.
The rapid heat exchange between magma and water allows the slow but stedy rock 'generation' process that pushes the tectotic placs apart from each other
I liked the Xen levels in general too, the chase sequence with the big guy is one of my favorites, it was jumping from rock to rock what I did't like.
Long jumping from a flying rock to a flying manta-thing was extremely frustrating. It was the only part in the original game where I ever considered giving up on beating the game (you don't beat a game if you cheat). The final fight was to damned hard and frustrating with all that jumping and the teletransportation portals the boss shot to you every god damned second. I only finished when I learn read that you can shoot the flying portals and make them teletransport your bullets instead of you
I'm glad they are ditching that 'gameplay' out.
..how many of those 26.42 million PS2's shipped 'to' North America ended up in Latin America's regular and 'grey' markets?
There are millions of ps2's installed at least in Mexico and Brazil despite Sony hasn't officially lunched the ps2 here. Games and consoles are for sale at regular retail game stores, and Wal-marts.
Your food bouced? Several times?! What the hell was served in your highschool?
A couple of comments about the video:
If you are going to use prerendered fmv's to portrait the coolness of your game be sure they look at least as good as the real-time renders of Half-Life 2.
If you intent to build up tension and a sense of danger, it would help that menacing two-headed ogre approaching doesn't look like Shrek.
Don't steal the your "sexy demones" model from a screenshot of the upcoming Ninja Gaiden, or at least use some textures on it.
If you're trying to show the engine prowess, select some scenes that doesn't involve z-fighting.
I know Runes wasn't a MMORPG but it looked prettier and had a cooler melee-action rhythm than this, and it was four years ago!.
"With current multi-sample implementations of anti-aliasing, you may sample texels outside of the polygon boundary ..."
This is the key, but you have to understand what a centroid is in the first place. A centroid is a the geometric place the triangle (In 3d graphics "polygon" means "triangle in space") defined by the intersection of the lines that go from every corner to the midpoint of the oposite edge. One of its properties (the most relevant for this particular application) is that is allways inside the triangle. It's a litte harder to calculate it than the gravicenter (intersection of any two heights) but is always inside so if you sample a texsel on that point you get the rigth light map for that triangle.
In another news Microsoft applies for a patent on "circular-shaped-low-friction moving support for vehicles" as an adendum to it's "Microsoft wheel patent".
Officials are not aware of any prior artWould it be this jim?
Jim Rhoades
Vice President of Media Development & Creative Director
Fast Fourier Transform is bread and butter for the scientific comunity. This is a good news for sys admins at research centers like me.
Maybe I have a chance at getting one or two of these babies for the next year budget.
I don't think that, whenever Everquest 2 is launched, it wouldn't be any different as other MMORPG's lunches. It's gona be full of bugs, half of the servers would be down, the lag would be horrid, etc. I don't think any one would be able to play without serius problems the whole afternoon on day 1.
MMORGPs luches are some kind of masive multipleyer beta testing at "production conditions" in wich you have to pay to participate.
yea right, fu''ng Fermat
Uh, "the precious mind of the US's children" who would dare? Every body knows the US kids own the most naive and inocent minds of the world. What could happen if the next generation of world policers and pop culture evangelizers is allowed to get in contact with porn or even violence?
Some people do yoga, some people take prozac... slashdoters flame microsoft.
Diferent people deal with stress in diferent ways.
What was that program that Will Smith uploaded to the alien mothership to put the system on it's knees?
you're right, it was an image of windows 98.
..or more subtle he may say
HISTORICALLY, Volvo has put safety first and design later, and it's perceived by many people as safety oriented car company. Three point seat belts(patented in 1958), ABS brakes, airbags and crash absorbing structures, just to mention a few, were developed first by Volvo. R&D at Volvo has (or had until mid 90's at least) more car-safety patents (commercially applied) than any other car company.
That doesn't mean Volvo is the safety leader now but Volvo would certainly use its safety reputation in its advertising
Oh, please! Even Nintendo admits its gamecube is a little behind in the grraphics department compared to the other consoles.
Every body knows the x-box has the best overall graphic capabilities, the PS2 port of Splinter Cell shows the real difference between sony's and microsoft's consoles, but PS2vsGAMECUBE? c'mon! For several ligth-intensive or particle-efects games the cube needs FMV's to replace the cut scenes that the X-box or the PS2 can hadle ingame.
In wich way the cube is graphicaly superior to the PS2 or comparable to the x-box?