If you're really impatient, or you've seen enough and finally decide that you could do a better job yourself, you should download yourself a driver, [pennmush.org] order DOG:AIG, and try it.
And when you finally do fire up the finished project, lemme know and I'll log in there... for a month.
I guess I am impatient, I work a lot and never have more than 45 minutes of consecutive free time during the week. MORPG's just aren't my thing, I was thinking about getting Star Wars Galaxies due to my love of the Star Wars Universe (ep. I and II def. do not count). I was looking for more than a "shoot some rodents, get some loot" game. Mabey it will change, but until it proves to me that it is worth the subscription fees and whatnot, I am going to stick with my good old fashoned 1 player games that don't require fees and most importantly, have an ending.
As for making a MORPG, screw that, I have minimal programming experience. (red square vs. blue triangle type stuff right now, I don't see myself putting together something bigger than a extremely basic 2 player sailing game (hey, it's my goal) in the next year or two).
well, if you have been playing for a month and the game sucks, the game probably sucks as a whole. If it takes a harcore MORPG player more than a month to get anything worthwile out of a game, it is probably going to take me 6. Definatley not worth my time or subscription fees waiting for something to 'happen'.
Those camel-fuckers in Iraq are out there day and night making a sherade of what we worked so hard to establish on this earth... peace and liberty.
And one wonders why so many people hate Americans.
People like you that blindly follow and support whatever our leadership pushes are killing America. Ie. Lets bomb/liberate Iraq and give their people the right to freedom... while taking away our own rights and freedoms for "our own protection". America is falling.
The world would implode and suck the rest of the universe into the darkness, until god's pager goes off at a weekend golf retreat signaling that his 8 Billion year uptime just went to shit. He runs home, hits 'ctrl+alt+delete' and reboots. It all begins again.
I really need to stop abusing the free pop machine @ work.
Say you need a mapping utility for data translation... the baseline for a single processor license of SuperMapper2003 is $10,000. You have 200 dual proc servers. 2 X 200 X 10,000 = $4,000,000. Now you have an excellent developement staff and 2 developers can make a similar utillity in house, in 2 months. 2 months of developer resources for an app that can be easily tailored for your needs vs. a bloated, expensive, buggy tool that costs more than the whole dev. staff makes a year... Sometimes in house is a much easier route.
IT SUCKS.
Someone needs to shoot the person who made those pieces of crap. First off, they don't have anything to make them visible in the evening hours (reflectors/lights). Combine that with being totally quiet and you have an accident waiting to happen. I almost got run over by one of them on the way to the bar the other day. I went to step out from the sidewalk on to the street and one comes zooming out in front of me. It's large footprint made every car that had to pass it move into the oncoming lane of traffic (totally in the oncoming lane if the segway had to pass a parked car). I understand that it has some cool technology, but they are an annoyance to the drivers and pedestrians that have to deal with them.
building a $200,000 house in the country doesn't mean he had $1,000,000.
anyway, coming from a rural area (in a metro now), I would gladly pay a extra dollar or two to help schools and rural areas get infrastructure/access. I am not sure how it is now, but when I graduated in '98 we were still sharing books as well as a 33.6 modem. (kinda sad when the public school 1/2 hour away, in the city had an aviation program).
Now, for that desktop, I highly recommend a flat panel monitor, because dorm rooms can be pretty tiny. I have a single dorm room, and with my CRT monitor, keyboard, and mouse on my desk, I literally cannot fit a sheet of paper on my desk surface. This summer, I'm gonna get a flat panel to remedy the problem, since they've come down in cost.
If you are like a good portion of students, (ie. broke) get a $50 crt and build a box for $500. If you need, get a slighly outdated laptop (as long as it can run notepad and winamp, you should be fine)for a couple hundred.
Oh, and a cell phone. Every college student needs a cell phone, and you'll be left out if you do't get one.
Screw the cell phone. (free phone in 95% of dorms), unless you are getting it for the 'Bling' factor.
Spend the money saved from not buying the flatpanel, high end system, and cell on friends, women, beer, books... IMO I would rather spend a little more of the scarce $$$ on having fun than a couple extra fps in Metal of Honor. Unless of course you have the extra money, then go nuts. Yeah, a high end system is cool, but you shouldn't need a brand new $3000 system to do your cs projects.
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talking about deploying metal detectors and night-vision goggles to stop people from camcording the movie.
As long as the theater tests the film before showing it to the masses, there are going to be cams of it. Having an aquantance who is a projectionist has allowed me to get personal screenings of most recent major films, usually at least two days before the release. I could have easily brought in a cam, probably even tapped into the soundboard. (I can even throw some beer in my jacket as long as I trash them outside the theater when I am done).
Between my roomie and I, we are on our 3rd PS2. The current one no longer plays dvds I am moving back to Nintendo for the next gen. of game systems for sure.
RIAA and MPA have filed a joint suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that Microsoft provides a means through their conroversial web browser Internet Explorer, to download song lyrics and then play them back using a Windows feature called 'narrator'. RIAA spokesperson David Nuterballs was quoted: 'Not since Napster, have we seen such blatant use of technology to steal from our artists'. The suit, rumored to be in the trillions, pretrial will begin in July.
Hey....gimme an band that plays their own instruments...writes their own songs/music anyday over someone pushing buttons on computers or tape drives in a studio any day of the week....
so what about pushing buttons (er, keys) on a keyboard? or digital guitar effects? A good portion of new music has electronic (triggered) drums, does that count too?
Splicing together a bunch of samples of old music, with a bit of a drum machine loop and muttering some rhymes on top of it, is hardly art or music in my opinion
playing 3 chords, a simple drum beat and singing about love is hardly music also?
After reading through some of the comments and the negativity towards "lixux on a single user PC" idea.. I got an idea. Make your own OS. Make it hard to configure. Make it so nobody without years of experience can use it. Make a manual that spans 23 volumes and 5 Appendicies. Make it so you have a different user for every command. Make the install process a week long venture. Make it so checking your email and visiting your brother's website involves a series of commands that involves taking breaks to rest your hands. Make it so you have to reconfigure the whole system anytime new hardware is added. Make it so you are the only one smart enough to use it. Remember they are trying to make it easier for the non techie to use/run linux.
DSL doesn't seem like the best way, but then again, I have cat5 running throughout my house/duplex, down halls, stairs, under doors, to my room. I had to convince the gf that she just had to 'deal with it'. (she is a neat freak)
How many IT managers and DBAs are going to dump thier reliable, proven system for some open source alpha software? I don't see this making much of an impact, yet.
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If you're really impatient, or you've seen enough and finally decide that you could do a better job yourself, you should download yourself a driver, [pennmush.org] order DOG:AIG, and try it.
And when you finally do fire up the finished project, lemme know and I'll log in there... for a month.
I guess I am impatient, I work a lot and never have more than 45 minutes of consecutive free time during the week. MORPG's just aren't my thing, I was thinking about getting Star Wars Galaxies due to my love of the Star Wars Universe (ep. I and II def. do not count). I was looking for more than a "shoot some rodents, get some loot" game. Mabey it will change, but until it proves to me that it is worth the subscription fees and whatnot, I am going to stick with my good old fashoned 1 player games that don't require fees and most importantly, have an ending.
As for making a MORPG, screw that, I have minimal programming experience. (red square vs. blue triangle type stuff right now, I don't see myself putting together something bigger than a extremely basic 2 player sailing game (hey, it's my goal) in the next year or two).
well, if you have been playing for a month and the game sucks, the game probably sucks as a whole. If it takes a harcore MORPG player more than a month to get anything worthwile out of a game, it is probably going to take me 6. Definatley not worth my time or subscription fees waiting for something to 'happen'.
Those camel-fuckers in Iraq are out there day and night making a sherade of what we worked so hard to establish on this earth... peace and liberty.
And one wonders why so many people hate Americans.
People like you that blindly follow and support whatever our leadership pushes are killing America. Ie. Lets bomb/liberate Iraq and give their people the right to freedom... while taking away our own rights and freedoms for "our own protection". America is falling.
Why not make an Islamic-based Religous RPG? Go through years and find how they de-evolved
Why not pull your head out of your ass. if you don't like it, don't buy it.
The world would implode and suck the rest of the universe into the darkness, until god's pager goes off at a weekend golf retreat signaling that his 8 Billion year uptime just went to shit. He runs home, hits 'ctrl+alt+delete' and reboots. It all begins again.
I really need to stop abusing the free pop machine @ work.
Word and Excel != high end business software.
Say you need a mapping utility for data translation... the baseline for a single processor license of SuperMapper2003 is $10,000. You have 200 dual proc servers. 2 X 200 X 10,000 = $4,000,000. Now you have an excellent developement staff and 2 developers can make a similar utillity in house, in 2 months. 2 months of developer resources for an app that can be easily tailored for your needs vs. a bloated, expensive, buggy tool that costs more than the whole dev. staff makes a year... Sometimes in house is a much easier route.
I guess this lady didn't know how to use them? Anyway, for me they are an annoyance.
IT SUCKS. Someone needs to shoot the person who made those pieces of crap. First off, they don't have anything to make them visible in the evening hours (reflectors/lights). Combine that with being totally quiet and you have an accident waiting to happen. I almost got run over by one of them on the way to the bar the other day. I went to step out from the sidewalk on to the street and one comes zooming out in front of me. It's large footprint made every car that had to pass it move into the oncoming lane of traffic (totally in the oncoming lane if the segway had to pass a parked car). I understand that it has some cool technology, but they are an annoyance to the drivers and pedestrians that have to deal with them.
If your security at work consists of a Linux box running iptables, I would be scared. On the other hand, this could be usefull for the home network.
building a $200,000 house in the country doesn't mean he had $1,000,000.
anyway, coming from a rural area (in a metro now), I would gladly pay a extra dollar or two to help schools and rural areas get infrastructure/access. I am not sure how it is now, but when I graduated in '98 we were still sharing books as well as a 33.6 modem. (kinda sad when the public school 1/2 hour away, in the city had an aviation program).
Now, for that desktop, I highly recommend a flat panel monitor, because dorm rooms can be pretty tiny. I have a single dorm room, and with my CRT monitor, keyboard, and mouse on my desk, I literally cannot fit a sheet of paper on my desk surface. This summer, I'm gonna get a flat panel to remedy the problem, since they've come down in cost.
If you are like a good portion of students, (ie. broke) get a $50 crt and build a box for $500.
If you need, get a slighly outdated laptop (as long as it can run notepad and winamp, you should be fine)for a couple hundred.
Oh, and a cell phone. Every college student needs a cell phone, and you'll be left out if you do't get one.
Screw the cell phone. (free phone in 95% of dorms), unless you are getting it for the 'Bling' factor.
Spend the money saved from not buying the flatpanel, high end system, and cell on friends, women, beer, books... IMO I would rather spend a little more of the scarce $$$ on having fun than a couple extra fps in Metal of Honor. Unless of course you have the extra money, then go nuts. Yeah, a high end system is cool, but you shouldn't need a brand new $3000 system to do your cs projects.
talking about deploying metal detectors and night-vision goggles to stop people from camcording the movie.
As long as the theater tests the film before showing it to the masses, there are going to be cams of it. Having an aquantance who is a projectionist has allowed me to get personal screenings of most recent major films, usually at least two days before the release. I could have easily brought in a cam, probably even tapped into the soundboard. (I can even throw some beer in my jacket as long as I trash them outside the theater when I am done).
Does it run linux? ...huh?
Between my roomie and I, we are on our 3rd PS2. The current one no longer plays dvds I am moving back to Nintendo for the next gen. of game systems for sure.
In other news:
A poor intern known to the online community as ianjk, has filed a patent for a program, that upon execution, displays the text 'Hello World'.
Dammit! Now I have to strike the 'order by' clause out of my SQL arsenal. What's next, 'group by'?
In the news:
RIAA and MPA have filed a joint suit against Microsoft. The suit claims that Microsoft provides a means through their conroversial web browser Internet Explorer, to download song lyrics and then play them back using a Windows feature called 'narrator'. RIAA spokesperson David Nuterballs was quoted: 'Not since Napster, have we seen such blatant use of technology to steal from our artists'. The suit, rumored to be in the trillions, pretrial will begin in July.
That same guy was snooping around one of my servers.
Hey....gimme an band that plays their own instruments...writes their own songs/music anyday over someone pushing buttons on computers or tape drives in a studio any day of the week.... so what about pushing buttons (er, keys) on a keyboard? or digital guitar effects? A good portion of new music has electronic (triggered) drums, does that count too?
Splicing together a bunch of samples of old music, with a bit of a drum machine loop and muttering some rhymes on top of it, is hardly art or music in my opinion
playing 3 chords, a simple drum beat and singing about love is hardly music also?
My god, I hope they use some sort of net filtering... Otherwise that is going to be the nastiest loo ever.
After reading through some of the comments and the negativity towards "lixux on a single user PC" idea.. I got an idea. Make your own OS. Make it hard to configure. Make it so nobody without years of experience can use it. Make a manual that spans 23 volumes and 5 Appendicies. Make it so you have a different user for every command. Make the install process a week long venture. Make it so checking your email and visiting your brother's website involves a series of commands that involves taking breaks to rest your hands. Make it so you have to reconfigure the whole system anytime new hardware is added. Make it so you are the only one smart enough to use it. Remember they are trying to make it easier for the non techie to use/run linux.
Like she would ever do that. She can't even pay her share of the bills..
When Token Ring is the buzz word these days.
DSL doesn't seem like the best way, but then again, I have cat5 running throughout my house/duplex, down halls, stairs, under doors, to my room. I had to convince the gf that she just had to 'deal with it'. (she is a neat freak)
How many IT managers and DBAs are going to dump thier reliable, proven system for some open source alpha software? I don't see this making much of an impact, yet.