With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.
ahaha, yeah right. Sounds like CS professors are starting to feel the effects of outsourcing too. Well guys, next time try lobbying harder for the people you're about to send into the (nearly non-existant) job market.
I'll never forget the scene where, after gathering chemicals and other inventory items, you help those two guys with radiation sickness back to health (Metal Maniac and I forget the other's name).
The other guy was 'Mad Dog Fargo' =), presumably named after Brian Fargo, chief programmer and designer of Wasteland and The Bard's Tale series.
My first Everquest character was an Erudite Wizard back in 2000 or so. I had been leveling in...what was that place called...Black Burrow? Yeah, Black Burrow killing gnoles until I reached level 8 or so. I suppose the xp was slowing down so someone suggested in chat that I head east toward freeport.
So I started along my way, zoned east into (western karana?) and was sneaking along down the road when I heard a kind of creaking sound. I turned and saw a 20' treant crossing the road just in front of me. I almost died right there on the spot. It was so creepy because of the way the horizon was designed, very dark red autumn colors with cornfields etc...the scenery, the music, the artistry of the treant...I was truly terrified. Most of the stuff I'd seen until then were beetles, bats, and a few gnoles. That thing almost gave me a heart attack. Luckily the treant wasn't KOS to my faction =). Being a noob I didn't know what faction was though, so I ran for dear life.
yeah it is a bit dull to anyone who has been following dual core or even just SMP.
Cue loads of stupid people saying this technology is crap because most apps aren't multithreaded and the clockspeeds are lower than their current cPU.
Please excuse my ignorance, but I've never really 'got' SMP. How exactly does it work in a typical desktop environment? How do jobs get scheduled across the two seperate cores/CPUs in such a way that it maximizes the available resources? Doesn't there need to be some kind of 'advanced scheduling' to sort through the hundreds of threads in a typical PC desktop?
How does the dual-core know I want core A to handle anti-virus, anti-spyware, temp monitoring programs etc...and that I want core B to assume the 'important' applications like games etc?
Does core A just 'fill up' to capacity and then core B 'takes over' the remaining work? Do different programs and sub-threads have differing priorities? If so, what determines these priorities?
Canada is the one place in the world that you're actually shielded from being sued because you use file sharing software. So this is a scare tactic.
Yes, but I thought Canada was also a place where you didn't have to worry about being subjected to corporate scare tactics(something we're bombarded with daily in the US). I think it's sad day to be Canadian.
Is games.slashdot.org going to report everytime a new patch comes out for a game?
This isn't just any patch, it's been highly anticipated for months now. It's supposed to usher in the first massive-pvp 'battleground' within an MMORPG.
Do we live such pathetic lives that this is really News for Nerds, stuff that matters?
I wish they would just release it already, I'm so bored with my lvl 60 hunter I don't even play anymore. The end-game has very serious hangups. I hope this patch addresses them. If not, I'm probably cancelling.
The real reason why WoW is going to fail is that it is far too easy to reach the top tier playing level, and the endgame has very little meaning.
Lvl 56 Orc Hunter Silvermoon,
I agree completely. Our talent trees are locked and finite, and we feel like one faceless soldier in a very large army of other 'lvl 60' folks.
WoW is the first MMOG to try and blend the successful gameplay of counter-strike and everquest into the same game. Their next patch called 'battlegrounds' is probably more important than the initial game release. If they do it right...the could dramatically revitalize the game, if they do it wrong WoW will likely fade into history as another MMORPG that failed to execute on a good idea.
The end of the game, currently, seems to be a very boring place.
Yeah, again I agree completely. Reaching 60 is very anticlimactic because it means moster xp is now useless. Spending 6 hours in an instance dungeon hoping for a drop isn't enough to keep most people playing.
Things I'd like to see:
1) Vastly more opportunities to develop a character's talent tree post 60. (AA points in everquest offered thousands of different combinations of character development). I know about 5 hunters in my guild and for the most part we are specced out the same with only a few trivial differences. Being limited to only 60 talent points is frustrating.
2) A way to 'uber-up' such that if you spend enough time training your character, you could take on 2 or 3 lvl 60s by yourself based on how elite your talents are. Thus allowing for people to become truly legendary and notorious.
3) Better character avatars, more personalization detail, better looking models, clothing, etc.
I can't put my finger on it, but as an old EQ player there is definately something missing in WoW. The gameplay is a vast improvement over EQ, but it also feels homogenized and bland.
It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field. How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?"
It might be less about threats and more about keeps campus bandwidth under a specific quota. All that juicy connectivity costs $$$, and the university pays for it.
Wonder how much juice you could generate if you were to mount a stirling engine at the end of this sucker. Seems like it'd be a lot cheaper/easier to implement than normal high efficiancy solar cells if you could work out a reasonable and reliable sun tracking system.
The claim was that Archimedes thought up having 1000+ soldiers use their reflective bronze shields to shine sunlight on enemy ships. Thus igniting and incinerating them.
They tried this on MythBusters and it didn't work. But they don't always do a perfect job on that show, and since armies were huge back in the day....I wouldn't be surprized if it worked.
Just 20 years ago there were folks who spent hours engorging fantasy from the source(hint, not a CRT). After playing WoW for 3 weeks I decided to fire up another rogue-like ASCII game...because writing is such a fine art. It's almost as if the greatest part of the old starwars films had nothing to do with visuals at all, or even acting...it had to do with music and writing. The dialogue and screenplay and music were just so masterful and rythmic.
It's strange how things become cheapened with accessability. Maybe it's struggeling that adds to the realism of the experience...being spoonfed fantasy makes it feel so plastic and unreal. Don't get me wrong, I love the new graphics and eye-candy....but the effect of that stuff wears off very quickly. I suppose it's like the love the Linux zealots have for their operating system, it takes a kind of genius to really dig-in and 'know' it. It's not something that can be sold.
Please don't forget 2048X768 so we can have two 1024X768 screens in splitscreen...I.e. a 4X3 tv source and a 4X3 desktop for web/email etc side-by-side in splitscreen. Widescreen gaming and movies is great, but it's only half the potention of widescreen displays.
Most HDTV displays can barely display PC text in splitscreen because everything is horizontally squashed =(. Sadly no manufacturer has addressed this issue yet, and it's one of the mail reasons for wanting a widescreen LC panel.
Yeah, that must be why I play games all day long. Did you try Sid Meier's newest version of Pirates?
I _loved_ the original, like a religion, it was just so masterful...but the new one is ever better. How? They took the original, and enhanced it with better graphics and music...but they wisely left the gameplay alone. The result was one of the best games I've played in years.
There's nothing wrong with improving on old formulas by respecting them.
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With a fall in degree production looming, it is difficult to see how CS can match expected future demand for IT workers without raising women's participation at the undergraduate level.
ahaha, yeah right. Sounds like CS professors are starting to feel the effects of outsourcing too. Well guys, next time try lobbying harder for the people you're about to send into the (nearly non-existant) job market.
I'll never forget the scene where, after gathering chemicals and other inventory items, you help those two guys with radiation sickness back to health (Metal Maniac and I forget the other's name).
The other guy was 'Mad Dog Fargo' =), presumably named after Brian Fargo, chief programmer and designer of Wasteland and The Bard's Tale series.
My first Everquest character was an Erudite Wizard back in 2000 or so. I had been leveling in...what was that place called...Black Burrow? Yeah, Black Burrow killing gnoles until I reached level 8 or so. I suppose the xp was slowing down so someone suggested in chat that I head east toward freeport.
So I started along my way, zoned east into (western karana?) and was sneaking along down the road when I heard a kind of creaking sound. I turned and saw a 20' treant crossing the road just in front of me. I almost died right there on the spot. It was so creepy because of the way the horizon was designed, very dark red autumn colors with cornfields etc...the scenery, the music, the artistry of the treant...I was truly terrified. Most of the stuff I'd seen until then were beetles, bats, and a few gnoles. That thing almost gave me a heart attack. Luckily the treant wasn't KOS to my faction =). Being a noob I didn't know what faction was though, so I ran for dear life.
yeah it is a bit dull to anyone who has been following dual core or even just SMP.
Cue loads of stupid people saying this technology is crap because most apps aren't multithreaded and the clockspeeds are lower than their current cPU.
Please excuse my ignorance, but I've never really 'got' SMP. How exactly does it work in a typical desktop environment? How do jobs get scheduled across the two seperate cores/CPUs in such a way that it maximizes the available resources? Doesn't there need to be some kind of 'advanced scheduling' to sort through the hundreds of threads in a typical PC desktop?
How does the dual-core know I want core A to handle anti-virus, anti-spyware, temp monitoring programs etc...and that I want core B to assume the 'important' applications like games etc?
Does core A just 'fill up' to capacity and then core B 'takes over' the remaining work? Do different programs and sub-threads have differing priorities? If so, what determines these priorities?
*genuinely wants to know*
Canada is the one place in the world that you're actually shielded from being sued because you use file sharing software. So this is a scare tactic.
Yes, but I thought Canada was also a place where you didn't have to worry about being subjected to corporate scare tactics(something we're bombarded with daily in the US). I think it's sad day to be Canadian.
Best...Sword&Sorcery Writer...Ever
Isn't FreeCiv just a free remake of a game created by non-free developers?
So are 95% of the latest commercial releases.
it appears that using GPL-licensed fonts in a document makes your document subject to the GPL
That's probably the stupidest thing I've read in weeks.
If any IP lawyers read slashdot these days, you might give The Tower of Babel. another read.
Is games.slashdot.org going to report everytime a new patch comes out for a game?
This isn't just any patch, it's been highly anticipated for months now. It's supposed to usher in the first massive-pvp 'battleground' within an MMORPG.
Do we live such pathetic lives that this is really News for Nerds, stuff that matters?
Yes.
I wish they would just release it already, I'm so bored with my lvl 60 hunter I don't even play anymore. The end-game has very serious hangups. I hope this patch addresses them. If not, I'm probably cancelling.
The real reason why WoW is going to fail is that it is far too easy to reach the top tier playing level, and the endgame has very little meaning.
Lvl 56 Orc Hunter Silvermoon,
I agree completely. Our talent trees are locked and finite, and we feel like one faceless soldier in a very large army of other 'lvl 60' folks.
WoW is the first MMOG to try and blend the successful gameplay of counter-strike and everquest into the same game. Their next patch called 'battlegrounds' is probably more important than the initial game release. If they do it right...the could dramatically revitalize the game, if they do it wrong WoW will likely fade into history as another MMORPG that failed to execute on a good idea.
The end of the game, currently, seems to be a very boring place.
Yeah, again I agree completely. Reaching 60 is very anticlimactic because it means moster xp is now useless. Spending 6 hours in an instance dungeon hoping for a drop isn't enough to keep most people playing.
Things I'd like to see:
1) Vastly more opportunities to develop a character's talent tree post 60. (AA points in everquest offered thousands of different combinations of character development). I know about 5 hunters in my guild and for the most part we are specced out the same with only a few trivial differences. Being limited to only 60 talent points is frustrating.
2) A way to 'uber-up' such that if you spend enough time training your character, you could take on 2 or 3 lvl 60s by yourself based on how elite your talents are. Thus allowing for people to become truly legendary and notorious.
3) Better character avatars, more personalization detail, better looking models, clothing, etc.
I can't put my finger on it, but as an old EQ player there is definately something missing in WoW. The gameplay is a vast improvement over EQ, but it also feels homogenized and bland.
ok, thanks for clarifying. Can anyone go into more detail?
I thought longhorn was XP + 64-bit.
Ok so this is the much anticipated 'longhorn' 64-bit windows right?
Anyone know any recent games that take advantage of 64-bit addressing?
Yeah, but he might very well have a point.
Have any of the previous doctors managed to move past their Dr. Who image to do bigger and better things?
At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of Civilization.
I think it might be more accurate to say:
"At this point I think it's safe to say that SOE is going to be the cause of the downfall of SOE."
It seems such misunderstandings are common, but it is particularly frustrating when coming from people in the IT field. How can a student respond to such an accusation in order to defend the validity of BitTorrent and continue to benefit from its legitimate uses?"
It might be less about threats and more about keeps campus bandwidth under a specific quota. All that juicy connectivity costs $$$, and the university pays for it.
Wonder how much juice you could generate if you were to mount a stirling engine at the end of this sucker. Seems like it'd be a lot cheaper/easier to implement than normal high efficiancy solar cells if you could work out a reasonable and reliable sun tracking system.
Here you go.
Yes.
The claim was that Archimedes thought up having 1000+ soldiers use their reflective bronze shields to shine sunlight on enemy ships. Thus igniting and incinerating them.
They tried this on MythBusters and it didn't work. But they don't always do a perfect job on that show, and since armies were huge back in the day....I wouldn't be surprized if it worked.
(I'm certain hilarity will ensue, and I could use a good laugh this morning.)
All righty:
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Does Texas produce anything besides asshats?
Indeed, where has the mind gone?
Just 20 years ago there were folks who spent hours engorging fantasy from the source(hint, not a CRT). After playing WoW for 3 weeks I decided to fire up another rogue-like ASCII game...because writing is such a fine art. It's almost as if the greatest part of the old starwars films had nothing to do with visuals at all, or even acting...it had to do with music and writing. The dialogue and screenplay and music were just so masterful and rythmic.
It's strange how things become cheapened with accessability. Maybe it's struggeling that adds to the realism of the experience...being spoonfed fantasy makes it feel so plastic and unreal. Don't get me wrong, I love the new graphics and eye-candy....but the effect of that stuff wears off very quickly. I suppose it's like the love the Linux zealots have for their operating system, it takes a kind of genius to really dig-in and 'know' it. It's not something that can be sold.
Uhhh, Orrin Hatch is NOT the govenor of Utah. He did not put this bill into law.
Yeah, but he's still an asshole.
Things I'd like to see:
Please don't forget 2048X768 so we can have two 1024X768 screens in splitscreen...I.e. a 4X3 tv source and a 4X3 desktop for web/email etc side-by-side in splitscreen. Widescreen gaming and movies is great, but it's only half the potention of widescreen displays.
Most HDTV displays can barely display PC text in splitscreen because everything is horizontally squashed =(. Sadly no manufacturer has addressed this issue yet, and it's one of the mail reasons for wanting a widescreen LC panel.
There is no real value in most gaming nowadays.
Yeah, that must be why I play games all day long. Did you try Sid Meier's newest version of Pirates?
I _loved_ the original, like a religion, it was just so masterful...but the new one is ever better. How? They took the original, and enhanced it with better graphics and music...but they wisely left the gameplay alone. The result was one of the best games I've played in years.
There's nothing wrong with improving on old formulas by respecting them.
Conspiracy? Maybe. Big-Oil Crisis? Definitely.