I think you're wrong this time. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the PS2 that comes out significantly later than Spring 2006, with the earlier stated date intended to stop customers buying the xbox. If you'd done any research you'd know that Xbox360 is more or less confirmed for November launch, the PS3 on the other hand wasn't supposed to come out till late in 2006.
maybe some of it has to do with the way business grads are starting out making the big bucks (apparently the market can support massive salaries for people who's deliverables rarely go beyond the powerpoint presentation), and having had plenty of opportunities to interact with these people in college we "know" that we're worth at least as much as them... In fact more.
Re:Here is what all the hype was about.
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Halo 2 Reviews
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not so. I was a hardcore pc fps gamer before Halo came out and I was very impressed with it. I did not think that the single-player game was the best fps ever, but it certainly was up there.
In fact I think that it's the people who have played a lot of fps's who are most able to recognize what makes Halo great. Halo gets the feel right. The story is window dressing, but what makes an fps IMO (especially when taken into the multiplayer realm), is feel. Halo nails this.
Playing Halo multiplayer has been as fun for me as any PC game I've played.
I'm not sure where the chronology of this game fits in, but I remember quite vividly playing a game called Herzog Zwei on the sega around 1990. I've noticed numerous people credit Dune II as really creating RTS's. Herzog Zwei came in way before that and was truly an RTS in my opinion... again I haven't played Utopia so not really sure on that front.
Have you tried IDEA? You might be surprised by how well a JAVA GUI app can perform.
o Java is not supported by all platforms, and is not supported by WinXP by default.
Aye? Java is supported by just about every platform I can think of. As to WinXP, the fact that it doesn't come with a JRE is hardly a knock IMO. WinXP doesn't come with a lot of things.
o All the Java "binaries" I've tried relies on me having installed a local interpreter.
Yes, they're not actual binaries, it's called byte code. The whole portability thing...
o It's object oriented
well you are entitled to your opinion. But you should be weary of being nostalgic for less effective technology. I honestly can't imagine writing enterprise software procedurally. OO is way cool man.
I've been kind of surprised by all the negative opinion of Java here. I was a C++ programmer up until a year or so ago at which point I got a job in the Java world. I was honestly not excited about it when I started but as time has passed I have become more and more impressed with the language. I suspect that most of the nay sayers probably just don't have that much experience with it. Also Java is more than just a language. The massive framework of open source code around it makes it an incredibly rich environment. From a software engineers point of view, I would venture that Java is probably the most interesting and capable language/community out there (I'm thinking of things like Ant, Maven, Junit, ORM techs like Hibernate and OJB, J2EE, etc) Of course I have just about no experience with.NET so I can't really speak authoratively on the matter.
Of course a mass investigation into this implies a mass awareness of the result. That awareness though would immediately change the pattern as they try to act on it.
Better try to figure it out on your lonesome then aye?
You're not wrong about its censorship in Japanese schoolbooks. Although I'll have to disagree with the statement that it's as though it never happened. In fact, in most other school systems it's well documented. I'm surprised that you only just learned of it. Also, most Japanese learn of it sooner or later simply due to the controversy.
Speaking of censored and skewed histories, if the Japanese had won the war they probably would mention Nanking in their history books. As a battle in the deliverance of the promised land from the worthless natives. Much like the US currently documents the systematic invasion and ethnic cleansing of the north american continent.
I imagine you're a sys admin.
The previous post was trying to redress the perceived bias against sys admins. Instead of agreeing with the post you have implied a personal bias towards sys admins (i.e. a good sys admin is worth their weight in gold (a programmer not, presumably.).
Maybe it's more correct and less contentious if we just agree that a good problem solver and dedicated worker is worth their weight in gold (or silver at least), regardless of their choice of specialization.
Well let's see...
They have had the performance lead until the 9700 pro.. So basically they have had one non-performance leading generation (Since the Voodoo2 SLI). It's a little early to say they are out of the game. I'm sure ATI doesn't think so. Also factor in price:
ATI
9800 Pro(256) ~530$
9800 Pro(128) ~380$
9700 Pro(how old is this card again?) still ~300$
9600 ~150$ (I think)
NVIDIA
FX5200 ~65$
FX5600 ~125$
FX5900(128) ~245$
FX5950(256) ~445$
I would say that there are still some competitive options from nVidia this generation. Not to take anything away from ATI's accomplishments, nor to deny that nVidia have dropped the ball recently, however it is far too premature to call this race. It still boggles my mind that people are such brand fanatics when it comes to graphics cards.. I guess it's some human instinct to pick a horse and stick with it. We don't have enough problems with religion, race, and nationality. People have to start distinguishing themselves by hardare preference...bummer.
Grid computing is pretty interesting, if anybody wants to find out more I have compiled a comprehensive list of references on the subject. As well as providing a brief (20 page or so) overview of the available Grid solutions.
www.netinvasions.com/files/GRID/grid-paper.htm
I have no problem with someone preferring a Mac over the Windows platform.. but using Mac vs. Windows on principle makes no sense to me. Linux vs. Windows on principle makes sense. Apple wishes it was Microsoft, they'd be doing the same crap, except they'd monopolize the hardware as well as the software.
It's kinda weird. When I looked around during the boom years it wasn't just the employees that were foreigners... It was the entrepeneurs too. Foreigners aren't a drain on American resources. They are one of the primary factors that make the American economy the strongest economy in the world. Smart people from all over the world come here to start tech businesses and give "Americans" jobs. Throw them out if you like, but you may find they were bringing more to the table than you thought.
I liked the way Slashdot was only tech news.
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Strike on Iraq
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there are enough places to rant and rave about politics...
The core of good independent journalism is exploring both sides of a debate IMO. Balance is the most important thing a news and editorial site can strive for. To bring in other points of view can only be a good thing. If anything it allows Salon readers to better know there enemy.
If it's a stupid ill-conceived article, why the hell is Slashdot linking to it? Are they going to post links to every misguided editorial on the internet? I thought Slashdot was about linking to interesting stories, not bad ones... who knew?
For me at least, this is a pretty clear cut issue. If file sharing programs like Kazaa2 make it impossible to provide a high quality broadband service at a reasonable price, than an ISP can legitimately remove it. Ultimately I believe their customers will thank them for it.
Your choice. You can join an ISP which allows P2P, where you get 10K downloads at 5am. Or you can join an ISP where a customer agreement precludes the use of Kazaa2 and performance meets the monicker of 'broadband'.
Personally I opt for the second option. Ever since Kazaa2 came out my ISP's service has been severely affected. Now that they have started implementing some blocking, I am back up to the 1-3 MBPs Up and down.... much better than the 200K I was getting before. Ultimately, strong control of bandwidth sharing should allow all ISP user's to use whatever internet service they want without unfairly affecting the bandwidth of others. I actually am surprised that there is that much difficulty in accomplishing this now, apriori it seems like a relatively simple task.
right? what is up with all these lunatics judging the man for not saving humanity? Who are they to decide what he is to do in his life? And what exactly are they doing in theirs that is so helpful and valuable to all of us?
The guys has been the single most influential force in pushing the bar in 3D graphics consistently for over a decade. If you don't like that.... go play warcraftIII or something.
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I think you're wrong this time. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the PS2 that comes out significantly later than Spring 2006, with the earlier stated date intended to stop customers buying the xbox. If you'd done any research you'd know that Xbox360 is more or less confirmed for November launch, the PS3 on the other hand wasn't supposed to come out till late in 2006.
maybe some of it has to do with the way business grads are starting out making the big bucks (apparently the market can support massive salaries for people who's deliverables rarely go beyond the powerpoint presentation), and having had plenty of opportunities to interact with these people in college we "know" that we're worth at least as much as them... In fact more.
is that sig sarcastic?
not so. I was a hardcore pc fps gamer before Halo came out and I was very impressed with it. I did not think that the single-player game was the best fps ever, but it certainly was up there. In fact I think that it's the people who have played a lot of fps's who are most able to recognize what makes Halo great. Halo gets the feel right. The story is window dressing, but what makes an fps IMO (especially when taken into the multiplayer realm), is feel. Halo nails this. Playing Halo multiplayer has been as fun for me as any PC game I've played.
I'm not sure where the chronology of this game fits in, but I remember quite vividly playing a game called Herzog Zwei on the sega around 1990. I've noticed numerous people credit Dune II as really creating RTS's. Herzog Zwei came in way before that and was truly an RTS in my opinion... again I haven't played Utopia so not really sure on that front.
Of course a mass investigation into this implies a mass awareness of the result. That awareness though would immediately change the pattern as they try to act on it. Better try to figure it out on your lonesome then aye?
You're not wrong about its censorship in Japanese schoolbooks. Although I'll have to disagree with the statement that it's as though it never happened. In fact, in most other school systems it's well documented. I'm surprised that you only just learned of it. Also, most Japanese learn of it sooner or later simply due to the controversy. Speaking of censored and skewed histories, if the Japanese had won the war they probably would mention Nanking in their history books. As a battle in the deliverance of the promised land from the worthless natives. Much like the US currently documents the systematic invasion and ethnic cleansing of the north american continent.
I imagine you're a sys admin. The previous post was trying to redress the perceived bias against sys admins. Instead of agreeing with the post you have implied a personal bias towards sys admins (i.e. a good sys admin is worth their weight in gold (a programmer not, presumably.). Maybe it's more correct and less contentious if we just agree that a good problem solver and dedicated worker is worth their weight in gold (or silver at least), regardless of their choice of specialization.
Well let's see... They have had the performance lead until the 9700 pro.. So basically they have had one non-performance leading generation (Since the Voodoo2 SLI). It's a little early to say they are out of the game. I'm sure ATI doesn't think so. Also factor in price: ATI 9800 Pro(256) ~530$ 9800 Pro(128) ~380$ 9700 Pro(how old is this card again?) still ~300$ 9600 ~150$ (I think) NVIDIA FX5200 ~65$ FX5600 ~125$ FX5900(128) ~245$ FX5950(256) ~445$ I would say that there are still some competitive options from nVidia this generation. Not to take anything away from ATI's accomplishments, nor to deny that nVidia have dropped the ball recently, however it is far too premature to call this race. It still boggles my mind that people are such brand fanatics when it comes to graphics cards.. I guess it's some human instinct to pick a horse and stick with it. We don't have enough problems with religion, race, and nationality. People have to start distinguishing themselves by hardare preference...bummer.
Grid computing is pretty interesting, if anybody wants to find out more I have compiled a comprehensive list of references on the subject. As well as providing a brief (20 page or so) overview of the available Grid solutions. www.netinvasions.com/files/GRID/grid-paper.htm
yeah.. it was great until the aliens.. then it sucked.. kinda like Thief was great until the zombies... what's up with that?
I have no problem with someone preferring a Mac over the Windows platform.. but using Mac vs. Windows on principle makes no sense to me. Linux vs. Windows on principle makes sense. Apple wishes it was Microsoft, they'd be doing the same crap, except they'd monopolize the hardware as well as the software.
It's kinda weird. When I looked around during the boom years it wasn't just the employees that were foreigners... It was the entrepeneurs too. Foreigners aren't a drain on American resources. They are one of the primary factors that make the American economy the strongest economy in the world. Smart people from all over the world come here to start tech businesses and give "Americans" jobs. Throw them out if you like, but you may find they were bringing more to the table than you thought.
there are enough places to rant and rave about politics...
the US exploits most of the third world, it only seems fair that they should get some of the benefits of the free market as well.
The core of good independent journalism is exploring both sides of a debate IMO. Balance is the most important thing a news and editorial site can strive for. To bring in other points of view can only be a good thing. If anything it allows Salon readers to better know there enemy.
If it's a stupid ill-conceived article, why the hell is Slashdot linking to it? Are they going to post links to every misguided editorial on the internet? I thought Slashdot was about linking to interesting stories, not bad ones... who knew?
I think his point was that you can sit infront of a much nicer PC for 3K than a Mac. At least that's the way I feel.
This is a propietary platform isn't it? How come all of a sudden we love Mac's when we can't even build one? bah. humbug.
I believe you are right. I think this is simply the guy that found a cheap way to produce magnatrons... of course I could be wrong
For me at least, this is a pretty clear cut issue. If file sharing programs like Kazaa2 make it impossible to provide a high quality broadband service at a reasonable price, than an ISP can legitimately remove it. Ultimately I believe their customers will thank them for it. Your choice. You can join an ISP which allows P2P, where you get 10K downloads at 5am. Or you can join an ISP where a customer agreement precludes the use of Kazaa2 and performance meets the monicker of 'broadband'. Personally I opt for the second option. Ever since Kazaa2 came out my ISP's service has been severely affected. Now that they have started implementing some blocking, I am back up to the 1-3 MBPs Up and down.... much better than the 200K I was getting before. Ultimately, strong control of bandwidth sharing should allow all ISP user's to use whatever internet service they want without unfairly affecting the bandwidth of others. I actually am surprised that there is that much difficulty in accomplishing this now, apriori it seems like a relatively simple task.
right? what is up with all these lunatics judging the man for not saving humanity? Who are they to decide what he is to do in his life? And what exactly are they doing in theirs that is so helpful and valuable to all of us? The guys has been the single most influential force in pushing the bar in 3D graphics consistently for over a decade. If you don't like that.... go play warcraftIII or something.