I want to see Oni II with 1) Non-impossible end-game content, and 2) multiplayer support.
Of course, the Oni franchise was transferred to G.O.D., and has henceforth disappeared off the face of the earth.
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plagued with problems? This doesn't describe my experience, and the numerous happy owners of nano fattys and iPod touches that i know. Maybe its all the classic, I don't know anyone who has one. Either way, youre just being overly alarmist.
Although DVD drive and Firewire were installation requirements on the box, there was no restriction on installing Tiger on a mac that lacked these features as long as you could get the OS on there.
The DVD restriction was entirely because Tiger shipped on a DVD. For a limited time, you could redeem a CD install set of tiger if you purchased the retail boxed OS.
FireWire was likely chosen as a system requirement to exclude beige g3 and most black PPC PowerBooks from support inquiries (since certain things like SCSI drivers weren't entirely supported).
I installed tigeron several macs that had neither FireWire, nor DVD internal. I had to pull the drive and install it throuj a FireWire enclosure, but afterwards, it ran like a champ on my 333mhz grape iMac for years.
I suspect leopard will be much the same. It will probably install on a 500mhz g4, but will run like crap, and apple support doesnt want to deal with "i spent $129 on leopard, and now my mac is slow"
This sounds like the herbal supplements scams where you order free a bottle of "Memory Enhancer" or what have you, then they sign you up for a $300 supplement subscription for the next year and you spend two years trying to get your money back....except they're doing it with tech tutorials? Genius! What I really mean is, this is just bizarre, but at least now I understand their scam.
This depends on the department, but "mathy/sciency" departments tend to have non-honorific/rotating chair positions amongst senior professors.
At my undergraduate school, the math chair rotated in a nonsensical fashion. The physics department chair went to whoever wanted to be involved in school administration, and was more stable as a result.
There may be a perceived stigma to purchasing a 75% functional chip, but really this is no different from any other CPU yield situation. If you buy a 2.4 GHz proc instead of a 3.0 GHz of the same family, you're buying the same chip that doesn't run as well/efficiently.
So in this case, you might be buying a chip where 1 core only ran at 1.8 GHz, and the rest run at 2.4 GHz, so it's a 3x 2.4 GHz because it didn't cut it as a quad core part.
At any rate, it sure beats junking parts that are still very effective processors.
It's interesting to think about how this might turn out in a few years when 64-core and 80-core processors start coming out. Will we see a wider spectrum of # of cores available? Will hardware be able to dynamically manage cores in the case of fault detection (during post, or whatever)?
Back when I was in highschool, the valedictorian, along with me and a couple other kids were running out of courses to take, and had enough AP credits under our belts to skip a year of college.
careful, homeopathy states that for whatever reaction a "healthy" person has with a particular substance, an illl person can be treated by the dillute tincture containing the same. So when you stick your hand in th acid, your result is burning. But you are healthy, so you've only discovered what the HCl will treat.
When we find someone else who is "ill" with burns, the homeopath would treat them with the extremly dillute HCl solution. Actually, its so dillute hat there is no HCl in solution at all. Since pure water is neutral to beneficial for most kinds of burns, you've likely stumbled upon one of the only cases for which homeopathic tenets will actually work!
I thought the tariff on CDs and iPods was some sort of remuneration, like te government actually just assumed that every device that could steal music would be used to steal music. There's some kin of legal downloading up on Canada? What kind of crazy copyright laws are you people living under?
reminds me of one day I had at work when I used to do video game qa. I had dual 20" monitors at my desk which both supported dual inputs and split screens. I was testing some levels so I had my main display showing the IDE and the level file on an editor. Then the second monitor had split screen, one half displayed editor pallets and the other half was the level in game from the t10k (ps2). So i could grab and build levels, check them in the editor, load them to the dev kit, and look at them without changing any video setings, or moving a single window. People kept walking by and would coment on how much stuff i had going on. I'd say "yeah, its great! It looks like i'm doing all this stuff! People will think that I'm really busy!"
Then some producer asked me if i wanted to do more level checks for him, and i realized all this faux productivity had to stop.
youre still stuck on this comparing evolution with a belief. Substitute gravity for evolution ten repeat tha argument. Gravity is established scientific fact, but thwreare still aspects of that we still don't understand. I would question the reasoning of any politition who tried to deny the existence of gravity because there's nomention of it in the bible.
AppleWorks is good for opening old, old files. The kind where you see te file type, and you have no idea what app even created it. It was such a Swiss army knife on my Mac SE. I'd write papers in it, make drawing, mudd and BBS from the terminal emulator, make databases of baseball cards and game related information.
I've tested several audiophiles on their equipment, using wav files, and 192 kb aac audio snippets of the same song, and so far no one has been able to tell which file was which, one or two people have said that hey could tell a difference, although they could not pick the original from the compressed file even won music they were familiar with. Not scientific by a y means, but the point is that you can get very good results from encoded audio files.
Another interesting experiment would be to see if good quality mp3s made from master trAcks stood up against the original cd any better. Going from cd to mp3, there's little doubt in my mind that the mp3 would be audibly inferior.
This should, under all circumstances, be unnecessary to say:
When you publish information, you should endeavor to make it understandable and digestible. Thus, when demonstrating a relationship by using units of measure, it behooves you to use the same units for both quantities. We can all convert inches to mm, or cm to mm, or rod perch to furlongs if we really have to (ok, google will do that last one). The point is, we shouldn't have to, because the article writer should be humane and considerate.
This would likely be a requirement, much like the iPhone will allow you to make an emergency call to 911 without having activated it at all.
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There was a rather larger issue to betamax which limited its adoption. From wikipedia (but cited in a bunch of places prior to wikipedia):
Betamax held an early lead in the format war, offering some technical advantages. By 1980, VHS was gaining marketshare due to its longer tape time (3 hours maximum, compared to just 1 hour for Betamax in USA) and JVC's less strict licensing program. The longer tape time is sometimes cited as the defining factor in the format war, allowing consumers to record entire programs unattended
Ever seen a musical? It's got lighting, singing, dancing, acting, scenery, costumes... all art by themselves, and they combine into.... wait for it.... art!
There's all sorts of art projects and installations that involve technology and mixed media. There's interactive art that is experienced in different ways, and that experience/interpretation is considered an important element of that art. Games are no different. Ebert is just using an arbitrarily narrow definition of art that would necessarily exclude a lot of things that are already established as art.
This is exactly the same as music critics who argued that jazz wasn't music. Today, that notion is considered absurd. It will take time, probably enough for dinosaurs like Ebert to die off, but eventually games will attain the recognition they've deserved for quite some time.
Your example involving Romeo is basically any RPG without multiple endings (and about a hundred other things). It doesn't really matter how you choose to play Diablo II, at the end, you've destroyed world stone and opened the gates to hell. Or something like that. The point is, a game doesn't have to have a malleable outcome.
What would be really nice would be to listen to a debate between Will Wright and this Ebert fellow.
But what about the aspects of communication that texting social sites are awful at that are necessary for business communication? Mailing lists, thread management, powerful search. These are things that messaging are piss poor at, and the need for them isn't going anywhere. Email is still more robust and secure.
IM'ing doesn't really have a way to replace email until it can do all this functionality its lacking. At that point, it's just email anyway.
What's really quite compelling is google's implementation of jabber with gmail, which allows you to have an IM conversation, which is archived as email and searchable by google. This has the advantage of maintaining the information with the continuity and flexibility of email. Get that on a mobile device, and we may have a winner.
After I read the article and the document, a chilling thought occurred: If the RIAA knows that certain people have the means to turn and fight, will they then concentrate their efforts on those people without the means? That would be students, children, the elderly, people just starting their careers, people working at lower-paying jobs. What the bejeezus are you talking about? For the past 3 years or so, the RIAA has been targetting children, students, and the elderly!!!! All those lawsuits they've been sending out by the thousands to universities? They're not suing the faculty... Where the hell have you been?
(calms down)
Ok, suffice it to say, the RIAA is a good ten steps ahead of you. But now that you're on to their ploy, it's time to stop them. To the bat cave!
At the very best, Apple is introducing what is *potentially* a superior browser on Windows. It's entirely premature to claim that Windows Safari is any good yet. Safari 3 for Mac will probably win me back from Firefox, but I think Safari has an uphill battle, what with foisting a lot of Mac-like UI constructs on PC users.
An x360 without a harddrive is a big mistake. Your forgetting, as Penny-arcade said, "the core system does not exist " Wii + x360 is $50 more than a PS3.. but having ample experience with all three systems, I can say that extra $50 is well worth it for two great systems compared to a ps3.
I concur. A retail store manager has no relationship to a tech worker in terms of required skills. Even if you work at a really high tech retail store, chances are more likely that you came from Pottery Barn than a CS background (and you'd want the manager from Pottery Barn over the CS grad anyhoo).
Collision detection for large mobs can also be a problem with AoE effects or targeted AoEs. For instance, City of Heroes has collision detection for mobs and players. There was a time when if you were a debuff class character with an area effect that targetted a mob, it almost always acted badly around large mobs.
The effect sizes assumed normal sized mobs with normal sized hit boxes. If the hitbox was too large, it consumed the entire effect. If the effect size scaled, it may make the actual effect area too large (= too powerful). I don't know if/how they fixed this issue.
I don't really know the right answer to that one...
The other annoying thing about large mobs (whether you have collision or not), is that melee characters spend the entire battle hitting its foot.
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I want to see Oni II with 1) Non-impossible end-game content, and 2) multiplayer support.
Of course, the Oni franchise was transferred to G.O.D., and has henceforth disappeared off the face of the earth.
plagued with problems? This doesn't describe my experience, and the numerous happy owners of nano fattys and iPod touches that i know. Maybe its all the classic, I don't know anyone who has one. Either way, youre just being overly alarmist.
Although DVD drive and Firewire were installation requirements on the box, there was no restriction on installing Tiger on a mac that lacked these features as long as you could get the OS on there.
The DVD restriction was entirely because Tiger shipped on a DVD. For a limited time, you could redeem a CD install set of tiger if you purchased the retail boxed OS.
FireWire was likely chosen as a system requirement to exclude beige g3 and most black PPC PowerBooks from support inquiries (since certain things like SCSI drivers weren't entirely supported).
I installed tigeron several macs that had neither FireWire, nor DVD internal. I had to pull the drive and install it throuj a FireWire enclosure, but afterwards, it ran like a champ on my 333mhz grape iMac for years.
I suspect leopard will be much the same. It will probably install on a 500mhz g4, but will run like crap, and apple support doesnt want to deal with "i spent $129 on leopard, and now my mac is slow"
This sounds like the herbal supplements scams where you order free a bottle of "Memory Enhancer" or what have you, then they sign you up for a $300 supplement subscription for the next year and you spend two years trying to get your money back. ...except they're doing it with tech tutorials? Genius! What I really mean is, this is just bizarre, but at least now I understand their scam.
This depends on the department, but "mathy/sciency" departments tend to have non-honorific/rotating chair positions amongst senior professors.
At my undergraduate school, the math chair rotated in a nonsensical fashion. The physics department chair went to whoever wanted to be involved in school administration, and was more stable as a result.
Well how about this: My college's coop bookstore was bought by B & N, so they could manage the local books sales.
There may be a perceived stigma to purchasing a 75% functional chip, but really this is no different from any other CPU yield situation. If you buy a 2.4 GHz proc instead of a 3.0 GHz of the same family, you're buying the same chip that doesn't run as well/efficiently.
So in this case, you might be buying a chip where 1 core only ran at 1.8 GHz, and the rest run at 2.4 GHz, so it's a 3x 2.4 GHz because it didn't cut it as a quad core part.
At any rate, it sure beats junking parts that are still very effective processors.
It's interesting to think about how this might turn out in a few years when 64-core and 80-core processors start coming out. Will we see a wider spectrum of # of cores available? Will hardware be able to dynamically manage cores in the case of fault detection (during post, or whatever)?
Back when I was in highschool, the valedictorian, along with me and a couple other kids were running out of courses to take, and had enough AP credits under our belts to skip a year of college.
Does valedictorian mean nothing today?
careful, homeopathy states that for whatever reaction a "healthy" person has with a particular substance, an illl person can be treated by the dillute tincture containing the same. So when you stick your hand in th acid, your result is burning. But you are healthy, so you've only discovered what the HCl will treat.
When we find someone else who is "ill" with burns, the homeopath would treat them with the extremly dillute HCl solution. Actually, its so dillute hat there is no HCl in solution at all. Since pure water is neutral to beneficial for most kinds of burns, you've likely stumbled upon one of the only cases for which homeopathic tenets will actually work!
I thought the tariff on CDs and iPods was some sort of remuneration, like te government actually just assumed that every device that could steal music would be used to steal music. There's some kin of legal downloading up on Canada? What kind of crazy copyright laws are you people living under?
reminds me of one day I had at work when I used to do video game qa. I had dual 20" monitors at my desk which both supported dual inputs and split screens. I was testing some levels so I had my main display showing the IDE and the level file on an editor. Then the second monitor had split screen, one half displayed editor pallets and the other half was the level in game from the t10k (ps2). So i could grab and build levels, check them in the editor, load them to the dev kit, and look at them without changing any video setings, or moving a single window. People kept walking by and would coment on how much stuff i had going on. I'd say "yeah, its great! It looks like i'm doing all this stuff! People will think that I'm really busy!"
Then some producer asked me if i wanted to do more level checks for him, and i realized all this faux productivity had to stop.
youre still stuck on this comparing evolution with a belief. Substitute gravity for evolution ten repeat tha argument. Gravity is established scientific fact, but thwreare still aspects of that we still don't understand. I would question the reasoning of any politition who tried to deny the existence of gravity because there's nomention of it in the bible.
AppleWorks is good for opening old, old files. The kind where you see te file type, and you have no idea what app even created it. It was such a Swiss army knife on my Mac SE. I'd write papers in it, make drawing, mudd and BBS from the terminal emulator, make databases of baseball cards and game related information.
I've tested several audiophiles on their equipment, using wav files, and 192 kb aac audio snippets of the same song, and so far no one has been able to tell which file was which, one or two people have said that hey could tell a difference, although they could not pick the original from the compressed file even won music they were familiar with. Not scientific by a y means, but the point is that you can get very good results from encoded audio files.
Another interesting experiment would be to see if good quality mp3s made from master trAcks stood up against the original cd any better. Going from cd to mp3, there's little doubt in my mind that the mp3 would be audibly inferior.
This should, under all circumstances, be unnecessary to say:
When you publish information, you should endeavor to make it understandable and digestible. Thus, when demonstrating a relationship by using units of measure, it behooves you to use the same units for both quantities. We can all convert inches to mm, or cm to mm, or rod perch to furlongs if we really have to (ok, google will do that last one). The point is, we shouldn't have to, because the article writer should be humane and considerate.
This would likely be a requirement, much like the iPhone will allow you to make an emergency call to 911 without having activated it at all.
Mixed media? That can still be art.
.. wait for it.... art!
Ever seen a musical? It's got lighting, singing, dancing, acting, scenery, costumes... all art by themselves, and they combine into..
There's all sorts of art projects and installations that involve technology and mixed media. There's interactive art that is experienced in different ways, and that experience/interpretation is considered an important element of that art. Games are no different. Ebert is just using an arbitrarily narrow definition of art that would necessarily exclude a lot of things that are already established as art.
This is exactly the same as music critics who argued that jazz wasn't music. Today, that notion is considered absurd. It will take time, probably enough for dinosaurs like Ebert to die off, but eventually games will attain the recognition they've deserved for quite some time.
Your example involving Romeo is basically any RPG without multiple endings (and about a hundred other things). It doesn't really matter how you choose to play Diablo II, at the end, you've destroyed world stone and opened the gates to hell. Or something like that. The point is, a game doesn't have to have a malleable outcome.
What would be really nice would be to listen to a debate between Will Wright and this Ebert fellow.
But what about the aspects of communication that texting social sites are awful at that are necessary for business communication? Mailing lists, thread management, powerful search. These are things that messaging are piss poor at, and the need for them isn't going anywhere. Email is still more robust and secure.
IM'ing doesn't really have a way to replace email until it can do all this functionality its lacking. At that point, it's just email anyway.
What's really quite compelling is google's implementation of jabber with gmail, which allows you to have an IM conversation, which is archived as email and searchable by google. This has the advantage of maintaining the information with the continuity and flexibility of email. Get that on a mobile device, and we may have a winner.
(calms down)
Ok, suffice it to say, the RIAA is a good ten steps ahead of you. But now that you're on to their ploy, it's time to stop them. To the bat cave!
At the very best, Apple is introducing what is *potentially* a superior browser on Windows. It's entirely premature to claim that Windows Safari is any good yet. Safari 3 for Mac will probably win me back from Firefox, but I think Safari has an uphill battle, what with foisting a lot of Mac-like UI constructs on PC users.
An x360 without a harddrive is a big mistake. Your forgetting, as Penny-arcade said, "the core system does not exist " Wii + x360 is $50 more than a PS3.. but having ample experience with all three systems, I can say that extra $50 is well worth it for two great systems compared to a ps3.
I concur. A retail store manager has no relationship to a tech worker in terms of required skills. Even if you work at a really high tech retail store, chances are more likely that you came from Pottery Barn than a CS background (and you'd want the manager from Pottery Barn over the CS grad anyhoo).
Collision detection for large mobs can also be a problem with AoE effects or targeted AoEs. For instance, City of Heroes has collision detection for mobs and players. There was a time when if you were a debuff class character with an area effect that targetted a mob, it almost always acted badly around large mobs.
The effect sizes assumed normal sized mobs with normal sized hit boxes. If the hitbox was too large, it consumed the entire effect. If the effect size scaled, it may make the actual effect area too large (= too powerful). I don't know if/how they fixed this issue.
I don't really know the right answer to that one...
The other annoying thing about large mobs (whether you have collision or not), is that melee characters spend the entire battle hitting its foot.