The difference between CS breaking away from EE and game development possibly breaking away from CS is huge. CS is an much different field than EE. Game development is just a subset of CS. There is nothing that is so unique to game development such that a well grounded CS major wouldn't be able to pick things up quickly.
I doubt a Bachelor in game development will ever mean anything. Any company with half-decent hiring practices would rather have a solid CS major who is able to adapt to new programming environments than a game development major whose skillset is limited in scope.
When you see "&spell=1" at the end of a google URL, it means they mispelled the terms at first. Google then offers you a URL saying "Did you mean: linux dmx control" or whatever they believe is the proper spelling of what you were searching for. Google for "linix dmx control" if you want to see for yourself.
If you don't like it, don't watch it. However, your opinions aside, the actors, actresses, directors, etc. entertain people. Some of them do a fabulous job at it. Shockingly, people like to be entertained. It makes them happy. Not surprisingly, people pay more attention to those who entertain them.
I guess it's your right to be bitter at life, but don't begrudge other people for indulging a little.
And Security. Dropping someones' closed drivers in your kernel means you cannot do an effective audit. You can *never* be certain you've not bee backdoored.
So I take it you have read and audited all the code for the OS and all the apps on your system.
Please, what are some of these sites? I use Safari and Camino regularly on my Mac, and I can't remember the last time a site shot me down for not being IE. This includes banking, getting my grades, buying from sites like Amazon, etc.
FYI, it's useless FUD like this that hurts the adoption of Linux.
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Tweaking the engine does not affect the performance of you brakes or the handling of the car. If you remove the speed limiter you can go above 155mph, but your tires won't be rated for that speed. If you are lucky you will just wear them out fast, if you are unlucky you will get tread separation. There is a reason why tires for supercars cost $2000+ each.
Sure, the brakes don't get any better, but if you are capable to handle driving your car at 155 mph, odds are you can handle it at whatever speeds above it that it can hit. As for the tires, as long as you have properly rated tires you should be fine. Besides, nicer tires don't cost $2000+ each. You can get 4 Y-rated tires for around $1500 easily.
We were happy with the new 2400 baud modem pool and ignored the 1200 baud pool. Inside the campus ISN (predates ISDN) was the communication method preferred (with WIRES).
Be honest, who else just asked themselves what WIRES was an acronym for?
Bah, I hope I'm not the only moron who has been up till 5 AM coding all week.
You know, for the 95% of us who don't play games 10 hours a day and actually use our computers for other purposes, there are plenty of games for the Mac. Sure you don't have Half-Life, but if you can get burned out on Raven Shield, Warcraft 3, UT2k3/UT2k4, Jedi Academy, etc., I think you need to take a breather every once in a while.
That's one of the best ways to gauge marketshare, so I guess that's as close as you anyone is going to come to "proving" it. With 66% of the people being on NT/2000/XP, even if there is a large margin of error they still are the most prevalent by a landslide.
A similar situation occured with Blaster and Welchia. As a network tech who had to deal with the mess, I must say that Welchia made matters much worse. It added to network traffic even more, thus slowing down an already congested network. Additionally, it makes diagnosing the virus harder. Instead of being able to see someone spamming port 135 and knowing it's Blaster, now you have to look for Blaster and Welchia.
While it's a somewhat noble idea, in the real world it is just another pain in the ass.
Mac people pirating games are harming the future of games on their platform. Windows is the dominant PC gaming operating system, its been like that for years. Windows warez junkies are all over the place, but software houses can still make money due to sheer market penetration and online gaming.
Bottom line, if you love your Mac and want to see it grow as a gaming platform. Support it or watch it die.
I don't think you should view this as typical of the Mac gaming community. There are a multitude of factors that make Halo perhaps the most likely Mac game in recent history to be pirated. First, many Mac users are still miffed about how Halo went from a Mac debut to being the flagship product for Redmond's console. I'm not justifying it. I'm not saying this is right, I'm just saying that the feeling exists. Second, many reviews have been coming back about this being an atrocious port of Halo. Poor graphics performance, laggy multiplayer games, the whole nine yards. The Mac community has seen its share of shitty ports, so I think many people were leery of shelling out the $50 for the game before giving it a try. Not offering a demo was a huge mistake on Macsoft's part in my opinion. Third, it's an old game. I've played the XBox version a couple times, and it never struck me as anything special. It just seems like any other FPS. For an FPS to succeed in the smaller Mac gaming community, it has to have something new to offer.
This isn't to say that Halo is the only game for Mac that gets pirated. As someone who buys all their games, it pisses me off to see people pirating games that I like as it discourages developers from making further ports and encourages them to put inconvenient copy protection on their games.
I have a 17" iMac G4/800 with 1GB of ram- this system will not upgrade "officially" much beyond this configuration. This system is 14 months old. It will not run any of the FPS PC ports from the past 2 years with an acceptible frame rate (including Wolfenstien, Jedi Knight II, and No One Lives For Ever.). I am not complaining about the inevitable obsolecence- it's the price curv between x86 hardware and Apple's.
I call bull. While I upgraded last fall to a Dual 2 GHz G5 with a Radeon 9800, before that I gamed constantly on my 450 MHz G4 Cube with a Rage 128. One of the games I played the most was Jedi Knight II, and my Cube handled it easily. I also played Ghost Recon extensively, and rarely would I run into having too low frame rates. Sure you won't be able to play them with graphics settings at the highest, but a year+ old iMac is not meant to be an awesome gaming machine.
I second this. I think that if you are truly set on network engineering, go get a combined computer engineering/computer science degree for your bachelors. This will give you all the requisite skills for network engineering. Beyond that, if you go for a masters or PhD, then you should specialize in networking.
This comes from a computer engineering/computer science major who still has no clue what he wants to do ultimately. I like both the hardware and software sides, but with my degree I'll have the option to do either if I so choose. Flexibility is quite nice you realize this is what you will be doing for your long-term career.
Congrats on the purchase of the G5. For starters, check out GameRanger. GameRanger (aka GR) is the hub for most all Mac gaming outside of Bnet and MMORPGs. You can check the game list on the GR website, but you can find basically all the popular FPS and RTS games there. For the more popular games, finding a good host won't be a problem, but for older or lesser known titles it can be tough. That's just one of the downsides of the smaller Mac gaming community. However, being small can also be an advantage as you can get to know a large portion of the people you play with on a regular basis.
As for the actually games, I would recommend Raven Shield (aka Rainbow Six 3) for an FPS. It will look awesome on your G5, and the gameplay is quite addicting. Everyone I know who has tried Halo hasn't liked it. Ghost Recon isn't bad, but it feels much slower paced than Raven Shield. There are also the old standbys like MoH and Quake 3, and you can probably pick those up cheap if you shop around.
I'm not an RPG guy, so I can't really comment there. I know some guys who are enjoying NWN, but that's about it. However, one game I think you should definitely check out is Jedi Academy. It has both great single player and multiplayer action. Another highly recommend game is EV Nova. The Escape Velocity series has been a classic on the Mac for a long time now, and EV Nova does not disappoint. You should also take a look around Ambrosia's site. They are generally regarded as the makers of the finest shareware games for the Mac.
Hmm - my download started off fine at 500kbs. Dropped down to 250kbs, then 130kbs, and now 75kbs. I just wonder how many Slashdot readers are downloading this ISO right now?
Now that you mention the bandwidth crippling we might be putting on them, count at least one more. I just can't wait until they see Safari in their IIS logs.;)
PS - It really pays to hit the preview button. I almost just posted "Apache" instead of "IIS."
I know, people probably expect to see lots of crazy acrobatics so that they can get their action fix rather than having a lightsabre duel be an actual plot device, used in the context of telling a great story.
I'm not going to get into how it's ridiculous to compare the fighting styles of saber-wielding, force-using Jedi to normal men using metal swords, but how in the hell would the style of the fighting change the context of the duel with regards to the plot? As long as the general flow of the fight stays the same, that is all that matters for the plot. In the meantime, why not have the Jedi and Sith doing some bitchin' acrobatics and saber work to please the 99.9% of us who realize that it's not real, it's a movie.
Unfortunately, the Cube did not have any PCI slots. However, you can swap out the video card in the AGP slot with only a slit bit more work than normal.
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I have ESPN.com as my start page. In a way, it is to sports fans what Slashdot is to geeks.
The difference between CS breaking away from EE and game development possibly breaking away from CS is huge. CS is an much different field than EE. Game development is just a subset of CS. There is nothing that is so unique to game development such that a well grounded CS major wouldn't be able to pick things up quickly.
I doubt a Bachelor in game development will ever mean anything. Any company with half-decent hiring practices would rather have a solid CS major who is able to adapt to new programming environments than a game development major whose skillset is limited in scope.
When you see "&spell=1" at the end of a google URL, it means they mispelled the terms at first. Google then offers you a URL saying "Did you mean: linux dmx control" or whatever they believe is the proper spelling of what you were searching for. Google for "linix dmx control" if you want to see for yourself.
So, the guys at Redhat, Ximian, etc... don't make money?
Not nearly as much as the guys at Microsoft and Apple.
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If you don't like it, don't watch it. However, your opinions aside, the actors, actresses, directors, etc. entertain people. Some of them do a fabulous job at it. Shockingly, people like to be entertained. It makes them happy. Not surprisingly, people pay more attention to those who entertain them.
I guess it's your right to be bitter at life, but don't begrudge other people for indulging a little.
If you are going to rip on someone for failing to notice the obvious, you ought to learn how to spell "linux," "dmx," and "control" properly.
If you are going to karma whore, at least try to get your acronym definitions right.
And Security. Dropping someones' closed drivers in your kernel means you cannot do an effective audit. You can *never* be certain you've not bee backdoored.
So I take it you have read and audited all the code for the OS and all the apps on your system.
After a compile all the way down to the processor, the computer still only cares about two words: ZERO and ONE.
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Actually, most computers care about 65536 words:
0000
0001
0002
FFFD
FFFE
FFFF
Please, what are some of these sites? I use Safari and Camino regularly on my Mac, and I can't remember the last time a site shot me down for not being IE. This includes banking, getting my grades, buying from sites like Amazon, etc.
FYI, it's useless FUD like this that hurts the adoption of Linux.
Tweaking the engine does not affect the performance of you brakes or the handling of the car. If you remove the speed limiter you can go above 155mph, but your tires won't be rated for that speed. If you are lucky you will just wear them out fast, if you are unlucky you will get tread separation. There is a reason why tires for supercars cost $2000+ each.
Sure, the brakes don't get any better, but if you are capable to handle driving your car at 155 mph, odds are you can handle it at whatever speeds above it that it can hit. As for the tires, as long as you have properly rated tires you should be fine. Besides, nicer tires don't cost $2000+ each. You can get 4 Y-rated tires for around $1500 easily.
We were happy with the new 2400 baud modem pool and ignored the 1200 baud pool. Inside the campus ISN (predates ISDN) was the communication method preferred (with WIRES).
Be honest, who else just asked themselves what WIRES was an acronym for?
Bah, I hope I'm not the only moron who has been up till 5 AM coding all week.
You know, for the 95% of us who don't play games 10 hours a day and actually use our computers for other purposes, there are plenty of games for the Mac. Sure you don't have Half-Life, but if you can get burned out on Raven Shield, Warcraft 3, UT2k3/UT2k4, Jedi Academy, etc., I think you need to take a breather every once in a while.
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That's one of the best ways to gauge marketshare, so I guess that's as close as you anyone is going to come to "proving" it. With 66% of the people being on NT/2000/XP, even if there is a large margin of error they still are the most prevalent by a landslide.
A similar situation occured with Blaster and Welchia. As a network tech who had to deal with the mess, I must say that Welchia made matters much worse. It added to network traffic even more, thus slowing down an already congested network. Additionally, it makes diagnosing the virus harder. Instead of being able to see someone spamming port 135 and knowing it's Blaster, now you have to look for Blaster and Welchia.
While it's a somewhat noble idea, in the real world it is just another pain in the ass.
Are there any real applications that use port 3127, or can we safely block that port at our firewalls?
If you have to ask, it should at the very least be blocked inbound already.
Mac people pirating games are harming the future of games on their platform. Windows is the dominant PC gaming operating system, its been like that for years. Windows warez junkies are all over the place, but software houses can still make money due to sheer market penetration and online gaming.
Bottom line, if you love your Mac and want to see it grow as a gaming platform. Support it or watch it die.
I don't think you should view this as typical of the Mac gaming community. There are a multitude of factors that make Halo perhaps the most likely Mac game in recent history to be pirated. First, many Mac users are still miffed about how Halo went from a Mac debut to being the flagship product for Redmond's console. I'm not justifying it. I'm not saying this is right, I'm just saying that the feeling exists. Second, many reviews have been coming back about this being an atrocious port of Halo. Poor graphics performance, laggy multiplayer games, the whole nine yards. The Mac community has seen its share of shitty ports, so I think many people were leery of shelling out the $50 for the game before giving it a try. Not offering a demo was a huge mistake on Macsoft's part in my opinion. Third, it's an old game. I've played the XBox version a couple times, and it never struck me as anything special. It just seems like any other FPS. For an FPS to succeed in the smaller Mac gaming community, it has to have something new to offer.
This isn't to say that Halo is the only game for Mac that gets pirated. As someone who buys all their games, it pisses me off to see people pirating games that I like as it discourages developers from making further ports and encourages them to put inconvenient copy protection on their games.
I have a 17" iMac G4/800 with 1GB of ram- this system will not upgrade "officially" much beyond this configuration. This system is 14 months old. It will not run any of the FPS PC ports from the past 2 years with an acceptible frame rate (including Wolfenstien, Jedi Knight II, and No One Lives For Ever.). I am not complaining about the inevitable obsolecence- it's the price curv between x86 hardware and Apple's.
I call bull. While I upgraded last fall to a Dual 2 GHz G5 with a Radeon 9800, before that I gamed constantly on my 450 MHz G4 Cube with a Rage 128. One of the games I played the most was Jedi Knight II, and my Cube handled it easily. I also played Ghost Recon extensively, and rarely would I run into having too low frame rates. Sure you won't be able to play them with graphics settings at the highest, but a year+ old iMac is not meant to be an awesome gaming machine.
I second this. I think that if you are truly set on network engineering, go get a combined computer engineering/computer science degree for your bachelors. This will give you all the requisite skills for network engineering. Beyond that, if you go for a masters or PhD, then you should specialize in networking.
This comes from a computer engineering/computer science major who still has no clue what he wants to do ultimately. I like both the hardware and software sides, but with my degree I'll have the option to do either if I so choose. Flexibility is quite nice you realize this is what you will be doing for your long-term career.
I never thought these words would be spoken on slashdot, but get a real job man.
You must be new here.
Congrats on the purchase of the G5. For starters, check out GameRanger. GameRanger (aka GR) is the hub for most all Mac gaming outside of Bnet and MMORPGs. You can check the game list on the GR website, but you can find basically all the popular FPS and RTS games there. For the more popular games, finding a good host won't be a problem, but for older or lesser known titles it can be tough. That's just one of the downsides of the smaller Mac gaming community. However, being small can also be an advantage as you can get to know a large portion of the people you play with on a regular basis.
As for the actually games, I would recommend Raven Shield (aka Rainbow Six 3) for an FPS. It will look awesome on your G5, and the gameplay is quite addicting. Everyone I know who has tried Halo hasn't liked it. Ghost Recon isn't bad, but it feels much slower paced than Raven Shield. There are also the old standbys like MoH and Quake 3, and you can probably pick those up cheap if you shop around.
I'm not an RPG guy, so I can't really comment there. I know some guys who are enjoying NWN, but that's about it. However, one game I think you should definitely check out is Jedi Academy. It has both great single player and multiplayer action. Another highly recommend game is EV Nova. The Escape Velocity series has been a classic on the Mac for a long time now, and EV Nova does not disappoint. You should also take a look around Ambrosia's site. They are generally regarded as the makers of the finest shareware games for the Mac.
Hmm - my download started off fine at 500kbs. Dropped down to 250kbs, then 130kbs, and now 75kbs. I just wonder how many Slashdot readers are downloading this ISO right now?
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Now that you mention the bandwidth crippling we might be putting on them, count at least one more. I just can't wait until they see Safari in their IIS logs.
PS - It really pays to hit the preview button. I almost just posted "Apache" instead of "IIS."
from the let-the-flamewar-commence dept.
I know, people probably expect to see lots of crazy acrobatics so that they can get their action fix rather than having a lightsabre duel be an actual plot device, used in the context of telling a great story.
I'm not going to get into how it's ridiculous to compare the fighting styles of saber-wielding, force-using Jedi to normal men using metal swords, but how in the hell would the style of the fighting change the context of the duel with regards to the plot? As long as the general flow of the fight stays the same, that is all that matters for the plot. In the meantime, why not have the Jedi and Sith doing some bitchin' acrobatics and saber work to please the 99.9% of us who realize that it's not real, it's a movie.
Unfortunately, the Cube did not have any PCI slots. However, you can swap out the video card in the AGP slot with only a slit bit more work than normal.