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Have you been under a rock since 1949?:)
They're part of China sort of (but not exactly) the way the South was part of the U.S. between 1861 and 1865, except the war to resolve the issue hasn't happened yet. Pray that it doesn't...
Developing multithreaded is infact difficult, and any tool claiming to make it easier is worth looking at. If it works, these guys have done us all a favor. If it doesn't, at least they've made an attempt, and it may inspire others to do improve on it. Better tools are always welcome.
Al Capone was not allowed, by law, to sell bootleg liquor. He was, however, legally required to pay taxes on the income. He failed to do so, and went to prison for tax evasion...
Thus raising the whole to 'art'? That is, if I played paintball in a beautiful stadium, it would elevate the combination (bunch of yahoos running around in a pretty setting, splattering each other and the architecturally pleasing stadium with fluorescent lime-green paint) to the status of 'art'?
... Ebert has a point. If FPSs are 'art', then so is paintball, or playing army when you're 10, or playing army when you're 40 (ever see a "Civil War re-enactment"?) . FPSs are closer to sport, IMHO, especially multiplayer. Single player, welllll.... RtCW did have a bit of a plot and a wicked sense of humor, but "Dune" or LotR it was not.
And, let's face it, from the first Pong console, we all called it "playing a game", not "watching a (interactive) movie". We all used the word "playing" 'cause that's exactly what we knew were doing.
I'm not going to claim that Return To Castle Wolfenstein was the equal of War and Peace or Citizen Kane, but it certainly proved to me that an interesting, creepy, and rather fun plot could be sustained through an entire game. What kept it back was that the technology was not up to providing a smoother, freer, less disney-ride-on-a-track feel.
So, can the game developers make it all the way to "great literature"? Well, let's let the tools mature a bit before we decide. AFAIK, "Oblivion" may have already shown the way, at least technically. Alas, my current rig can't run it!:)
Uh, this is/. We've all taken a vow of poverty. We conceive, design, code, debug and distribute all our work for free, as Saint Stallman has decreed we should. At night we stab our tender parts 100 times with those cheap ballpoint pens given out at every Linuxworld, and chant "Down with the evil money-grubbing Microserf infidels!"
...the key to routers and switches is the purpose-built hardware (the "switching fabric"). Sure, you can route using just SW and a 4-port ethernet card, but you'll be several orders of magnitude slower than a Cisco or Juniper box crammed full of ASICs.
Could someone briefly explain why liquid kerosene and liquid oxygen are one of the preferred fuels for orbital rockets, at least for the first stage? I know the F-1 engine on the Saturn V used kerosene, but I never understood why; the J-2 engines on the second stage of the Saturn V used liquid hydrogen and LOX -- why the mix?
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They're part of China sort of (but not exactly) the way the South was part of the U.S. between 1861 and 1865, except the war to resolve the issue hasn't happened yet. Pray that it doesn't...
You must be new here.
Hell, you must be new to the human race :).
Developing multithreaded is infact difficult, and any tool claiming to make it easier is worth looking at. If it works, these guys have done us all a favor. If it doesn't, at least they've made an attempt, and it may inspire others to do improve on it. Better tools are always welcome.
Al Capone was not allowed, by law, to sell bootleg liquor. He was, however, legally required to pay taxes on the income. He failed to do so, and went to prison for tax evasion...
LOL! Touché!
Uh.... nooo, dontinkzo... :)
And, let's face it, from the first Pong console, we all called it "playing a game", not "watching a (interactive) movie". We all used the word "playing" 'cause that's exactly what we knew were doing.
Where's the controversy here??
Tom Cruise, is that you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri here ya go. 4.22 LY...
So, can the game developers make it all the way to "great literature"? Well, let's let the tools mature a bit before we decide. AFAIK, "Oblivion" may have already shown the way, at least technically. Alas, my current rig can't run it! :)
Uh, this is /. We've all taken a vow of poverty. We conceive, design, code, debug and distribute all our work for free, as Saint Stallman has decreed we should. At night we stab our tender parts 100 times with those cheap ballpoint pens given out at every Linuxworld, and chant "Down with the evil money-grubbing Microserf infidels!"
Thank you, thank you, I'll not be here all week.
I had a gas attack once that reached 15 million Melvin.
(I'm assuming, of course, that they're using the Intel IXA family of network processors -- I don't see how, then, they get a 5x cost reduction...)
... Signed,
Alas, certain political figures are overtly wierd and decidedly scary! Especially when carring shotguns... :)
Ah, but what is your religion?