Well fair enough, to each his own:) By "Played" meant "I played", which is my opinion. I haven't tried the full game yet (hope they've improved the engine's speed a bit tho), but the demo had this odd thing about "seen this before" about it (apart from the obvious Far Cry). I think my main problem with it was the fact that apart from the suit, the rest of the game didn't seem, _in the demo_, to bring anything all that new before, not even in evolutionary terms, as I described CoD4.
In any case, I hope to be proved wrong with the full game. Another great game can't hurt, of course:)
Demo didn't seem to run as fast as the full game, but it might have been psychological effect. Also check the settings manually, perhaps it's leaving some performance-hitting stuff on. I went with only 2xAA and Medium level of corpses (less geometry = good) and by my Eye-O-Meter, it only ever goes under 50FPS during the most intense stuff.
I've got a good rig sure (8800GTX), but I can tell you that CoD4 runs comparatively a LOT better than most recent games (and many old ones too). For instance, between: Bioshock, Crysis, CoD4, and UT3, I'd rate them in speed vs. graphics terms as so: CoD4 / UT3 / Bioshock / Crysis. Oh, and the engine actually supports AA out of the box. Take THAT and smoke it, Epic!
Also, take attention that Nvidia's been on a "beta" drivers spree lately, might want to update those.
PS- Crysis doesn't run *that* bad, really, after all, pretty stuff is demanding, but I'm sure they could/should have optimized their engine better.
Despite agreeing with the general statement, I'll have to say:
"In this case, not correct".
What the review has totally failed to mention is the sheer intensity of the combat in this iteration. I've played CoD1 and 2, and 3 was god-awful. Now *that* was totally no innovation, same game as before, with shaded and bump-mapped graphics.
In Call of Duty 4, the best rough description I can give for the combat is that "there's shit flying EVERYWHERE". From the smoke to the flames heat effect, HDR (eye brightness adjustment) exploding cars, tracer bullets, laser beams (w/ Night Vision), the debris, all the bullet marks, a copious number of corpses left around, the really neat depth-of-field as you aim down the ironsights, etc... All of this contributes so that despite that, intrinsically, nothing here is *revolutionary*, it is a culmination of all the good stuff from before, which only happens because Infinity Ward built such a great (and fast!) graphics engine. It's very *evolutionary*, and has a good amount of little touches. The story, all the character voicings, the immediate briefing-to-mission fades, the "mini-missions" (one of the coolest things EVER is the mission where you're shooting shit below from an AC-130 plane), and so on. The combat system has some minor changes. Now you usually have 2 or 3 paths to pick to get to your target, and many larger locations present additional strategic challenges. There are also some new weapons, like Claymores and C4 for snipers (the sniping mission in Prypiat is one of the coolest).
Oh, did I mention the engine is FAST? Probably one of the fastest engines ever written, in terms of "prettiness/speed ratio". It's just "another FPS", sure, that's a fact, but it's also by far one of the best. Played Crysis, next to this it's just "pretty, but meh".
Hope they have fixed it recently. About 6 months ago I tried it, and on the first PDF that I opened:
- Some fonts looked different from the original. "Different" as in "the same font but were slightly thinner/bolder". Not an AA issue, the actual drawing of the polygons seemed slightly off. - Redrawing a vector part was slow even though everything else was blindingly fast. - Hitting "Print" caused it to crash. Every time.
Kudos to FoxIt for tring, but with much sadness I immediately uninstalled it. At least Reader actually works, and version 8 is a lot lighter than the other ones.
From the programmer's point of view, yes, you're totally correct (and I'm a coder myself), and I'll grant you the point fully.
From the user's point of view, he/she (in this case, me) couldn't care less:)
Of course, the software being small could mean that it's buggy, but thankfully that's not the case, it's pretty much rock-solid. And what is most surprising is that it's fairly new too.
Because the word for what you described is, indeed, "hacker". However, due to the incessant distortion of the word "hacker" by conotating it with one or more of: [ virus-writer / cracker / script-kiddie /... ], the word "Ethical" was added so that it clears up the meaning for the hoi polloi.
Sad, but true. You can blame this one on the media.
Welcome to the 1990's and the VESA support in just about every graphics card in existance that never got used until around 2000, and only now at the mid-to-end of the decade we get a VESA safe mode.
Yeah, I'm sure those 512MB of RAM will really get you anywhere when working on some images program for any purposes other than maybe adjusting brightness and contrast. I'm sure they're also going to be very useful when you have a web browser open with a dozen tabs, your e-mail client, a word processor, a spreadsheet, your IM program, maybe some MP3 fun, your antivirus program in the background, etc etc. and some other stuff. Oh I'm sure it can have those open, but it's loads of fun when you do a heavier operation or something similar and the disk starts thrashing up, down, and sideways.
I'm sure those 512MB will be even more useful when you're using Photoshop/GIMP/whatever-image-program-you-use-here and work up some real images. I'm sure they'll be just GREAT when you start editing sound files, maybe doing a couple of mixes. And I'm sure they'll be FABULOUS when you get into 3D stuff with all those hundred-megabyte modules with a couple gigabytes of textures.
Oh, by the way, some people actually (shock! awe!) play GAMES on their computers. I'm sure 512MB are downright delightful for basically anything from two years now on. And those Intel integrated graphics, man! Look at those super-high resolutions and the great textures! Actually, I hear they're using that kind of hardware on the latest-generation consoles! Oh wait...
Just because 512MB and integrated graphics are more than good enough for *you*, doesn't mean that the most of the world doesn't need better hardware for most purposes.
I didn't say those hosts had SPF records, what I was saying is that what the parent is doing is basically a simple form of SPF.
And yes, they should have those records. There are naysayers about SPF's effectiveness with valid arguments, but I think the "big fish" on the Internet should have records on their hosts.
Yup, an alternative driver exists that is of excellent interest to musicians and general use, but totally useless for gamers, as it has basically no EAX support, which is the only reason a gamer will get a Creative card anyway.
Not knocking on the kX project itself here, I think it's fantastic, but let's not mix apples and oranges.
Well you are right indeed and I totally understand, but my main beef is calling this ".safe", because it gives the Average Joe the thought that if his bank's URL ends in ".safe", then he is totally and completely, well, safe:)
Maybe picking ".reg" or something like it might be more realistic, so to say.
... I don't think it will work, at least not how they think.
Many worms change your HOSTS file and there's also the good ol' DNS poisoning, so this ".safe" thing can't be 100% trusted. And if it can't be 100% trusted, we might as well stick to what we (don't) have.
If register_globals refers to the PHP configuration directive, then yes, I'm pretty much glad that it's deprecated (and I hate Debian myself).
For years now it's been practially deprecated in PHP code and it's already disabled in many other default installations, it's only good (and regular procedure) that Debian followed suit.
I can see many sad, sad couch potatoes when realizing that this is an April's Fool and not an item that does allow you to play the Wii without moving your arms:)
It's smaller than a Razr (which it replaced, Motorola's software is slow and unintuitive), but has a bigger keyboard. The outside screen is actually a mini-screen and some LED-driven indicators on the top that show you a clock, network reception, battery life, and the presence of an SMS message
It has Bluetooth connectivity, and supports contact groups (no idea about iCal connectivity though). The contact info lets you specificy a ton of info like e-mail, 3 phones number. Not sure about address but there's a "notes" field for text so one could use that. No extendable antenna but I have yet to have a single reception problem with it.
Oh and by the way, even though I hated cameraphones myself, this one's camera is surprisingly good, quite comparable in quality to a good pocket cam.
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Well fair enough, to each his own :) By "Played" meant "I played", which is my opinion. I haven't tried the full game yet (hope they've improved the engine's speed a bit tho), but the demo had this odd thing about "seen this before" about it (apart from the obvious Far Cry). I think my main problem with it was the fact that apart from the suit, the rest of the game didn't seem, _in the demo_, to bring anything all that new before, not even in evolutionary terms, as I described CoD4.
:)
In any case, I hope to be proved wrong with the full game. Another great game can't hurt, of course
Demo didn't seem to run as fast as the full game, but it might have been psychological effect. Also check the settings manually, perhaps it's leaving some performance-hitting stuff on. I went with only 2xAA and Medium level of corpses (less geometry = good) and by my Eye-O-Meter, it only ever goes under 50FPS during the most intense stuff.
I've got a good rig sure (8800GTX), but I can tell you that CoD4 runs comparatively a LOT better than most recent games (and many old ones too). For instance, between: Bioshock, Crysis, CoD4, and UT3, I'd rate them in speed vs. graphics terms as so: CoD4 / UT3 / Bioshock / Crysis. Oh, and the engine actually supports AA out of the box. Take THAT and smoke it, Epic!
Also, take attention that Nvidia's been on a "beta" drivers spree lately, might want to update those.
PS- Crysis doesn't run *that* bad, really, after all, pretty stuff is demanding, but I'm sure they could/should have optimized their engine better.
Despite agreeing with the general statement, I'll have to say:
"In this case, not correct".
What the review has totally failed to mention is the sheer intensity of the combat in this iteration. I've played CoD1 and 2, and 3 was god-awful. Now *that* was totally no innovation, same game as before, with shaded and bump-mapped graphics.
In Call of Duty 4, the best rough description I can give for the combat is that "there's shit flying EVERYWHERE". From the smoke to the flames heat effect, HDR (eye brightness adjustment) exploding cars, tracer bullets, laser beams (w/ Night Vision), the debris, all the bullet marks, a copious number of corpses left around, the really neat depth-of-field as you aim down the ironsights, etc... All of this contributes so that despite that, intrinsically, nothing here is *revolutionary*, it is a culmination of all the good stuff from before, which only happens because Infinity Ward built such a great (and fast!) graphics engine. It's very *evolutionary*, and has a good amount of little touches. The story, all the character voicings, the immediate briefing-to-mission fades, the "mini-missions" (one of the coolest things EVER is the mission where you're shooting shit below from an AC-130 plane), and so on. The combat system has some minor changes. Now you usually have 2 or 3 paths to pick to get to your target, and many larger locations present additional strategic challenges. There are also some new weapons, like Claymores and C4 for snipers (the sniping mission in Prypiat is one of the coolest).
Oh, did I mention the engine is FAST? Probably one of the fastest engines ever written, in terms of "prettiness/speed ratio". It's just "another FPS", sure, that's a fact, but it's also by far one of the best. Played Crysis, next to this it's just "pretty, but meh".
I have this really cool one. It's called "Desk". I think IKEA has them.
... then why not just sit at a proper desk? (and maybe with a proper keyboard and full-size screen)
Seriously, if someone has:
a) a laptop
b) a lap-desk
Hope they have fixed it recently. About 6 months ago I tried it, and on the first PDF that I opened:
- Some fonts looked different from the original. "Different" as in "the same font but were slightly thinner/bolder". Not an AA issue, the actual drawing of the polygons seemed slightly off.
- Redrawing a vector part was slow even though everything else was blindingly fast.
- Hitting "Print" caused it to crash. Every time.
Kudos to FoxIt for tring, but with much sadness I immediately uninstalled it. At least Reader actually works, and version 8 is a lot lighter than the other ones.
Pidgin feels pretty darn close to native on Windows.
:)
It does? Someone's calling, I think Pidgin's file transfer window and file picker dialog box (and a few others) want to talk to you
Don't get me wrong, I use Pidgin regularly and the UI improvements made this year have been massive and great, but it still has quite some way to go.
From the programmer's point of view, yes, you're totally correct (and I'm a coder myself), and I'll grant you the point fully.
:)
From the user's point of view, he/she (in this case, me) couldn't care less
Of course, the software being small could mean that it's buggy, but thankfully that's not the case, it's pretty much rock-solid. And what is most surprising is that it's fairly new too.
uTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com), hands down.
219kb for an incredibly fast, RAM-efficient, full-blown, full-featured GUI Torrent client, with Web administration, scheduling, and all the stuff.
Now if the whole world could only code as well as uTorrent's author...
Because the word for what you described is, indeed, "hacker". However, due to the incessant distortion of the word "hacker" by conotating it with one or more of: [ virus-writer / cracker / script-kiddie / ... ], the word "Ethical" was added so that it clears up the meaning for the hoi polloi.
Sad, but true. You can blame this one on the media.
Welcome to the 1990's and the VESA support in just about every graphics card in existance that never got used until around 2000, and only now at the mid-to-end of the decade we get a VESA safe mode.
Yeah, I'm sure those 512MB of RAM will really get you anywhere when working on some images program for any purposes other than maybe adjusting brightness and contrast. I'm sure they're also going to be very useful when you have a web browser open with a dozen tabs, your e-mail client, a word processor, a spreadsheet, your IM program, maybe some MP3 fun, your antivirus program in the background, etc etc. and some other stuff. Oh I'm sure it can have those open, but it's loads of fun when you do a heavier operation or something similar and the disk starts thrashing up, down, and sideways.
e and work up some real images. I'm sure they'll be just GREAT when you start editing sound files, maybe doing a couple of mixes. And I'm sure they'll be FABULOUS when you get into 3D stuff with all those hundred-megabyte modules with a couple gigabytes of textures.
I'm sure those 512MB will be even more useful when you're using Photoshop/GIMP/whatever-image-program-you-use-her
Oh, by the way, some people actually (shock! awe!) play GAMES on their computers. I'm sure 512MB are downright delightful for basically anything from two years now on. And those Intel integrated graphics, man! Look at those super-high resolutions and the great textures! Actually, I hear they're using that kind of hardware on the latest-generation consoles! Oh wait...
Just because 512MB and integrated graphics are more than good enough for *you*, doesn't mean that the most of the world doesn't need better hardware for most purposes.
I didn't say those hosts had SPF records, what I was saying is that what the parent is doing is basically a simple form of SPF.
And yes, they should have those records. There are naysayers about SPF's effectiveness with valid arguments, but I think the "big fish" on the Internet should have records on their hosts.
Basically, what the parent is talking about is SPF - Sender Policy Framework
Maybe better, but this looks like a copycat of Knujon. Not that another anti-spam establishment is a bad idea :)
Yup, an alternative driver exists that is of excellent interest to musicians and general use, but totally useless for gamers, as it has basically no EAX support, which is the only reason a gamer will get a Creative card anyway.
Not knocking on the kX project itself here, I think it's fantastic, but let's not mix apples and oranges.
For the unitiated, that's a reference to Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
Videogaming was new and fresh back in the day. Now we're used to it. Next question!
Well you are right indeed and I totally understand, but my main beef is calling this ".safe", because it gives the Average Joe the thought that if his bank's URL ends in ".safe", then he is totally and completely, well, safe :)
Maybe picking ".reg" or something like it might be more realistic, so to say.
... I don't think it will work, at least not how they think.
Many worms change your HOSTS file and there's also the good ol' DNS poisoning, so this ".safe" thing can't be 100% trusted. And if it can't be 100% trusted, we might as well stick to what we (don't) have.
If register_globals refers to the PHP configuration directive, then yes, I'm pretty much glad that it's deprecated (and I hate Debian myself).
For years now it's been practially deprecated in PHP code and it's already disabled in many other default installations, it's only good (and regular procedure) that Debian followed suit.
I can see many sad, sad couch potatoes when realizing that this is an April's Fool and not an item that does allow you to play the Wii without moving your arms :)
My Samsung SGH-E780 does quite a few of those.
It's smaller than a Razr (which it replaced, Motorola's software is slow and unintuitive), but has a bigger keyboard. The outside screen is actually a mini-screen and some LED-driven indicators on the top that show you a clock, network reception, battery life, and the presence of an SMS message
It has Bluetooth connectivity, and supports contact groups (no idea about iCal connectivity though). The contact info lets you specificy a ton of info like e-mail, 3 phones number. Not sure about address but there's a "notes" field for text so one could use that. No extendable antenna but I have yet to have a single reception problem with it.
Oh and by the way, even though I hated cameraphones myself, this one's camera is surprisingly good, quite comparable in quality to a good pocket cam.
Compulsory licensing (of the patent) is another option, but it ruffles feathers.
:)
That was quite the pun there sir, my hat's off to you
Neh, just for domains, I have my own webhosting.