Quite a few films could make good games, and it doesn't really matter if the film was good or not, as long as it contained that one good idea.
Pitch Black could make a great survival horror type game, and I would have loved to have seen a point'n'click adventure like Dark City, or maybe any Jackie Chan film being made into an update of the classic scrolling beat'em'up (ala Double Dragon)
In one of the interviews they said they would be releasing the tools early to the CS team so that it would be available as soon as possible, possibly before xmas
200MHz is only slow when running Windows CE. The Tungsten is regarded as pretty much the quickest PDA (from the users point of view) yet only has a 177MHz processor.
Its not how many Hz you got, its what you do with them!
Unfortunately all I have to do is disable Javascripts within my browser settings and I can copy/paste to my hearts content. Even if that didn't work I could just save the page, remove the javascript manually and play with the source HTML to my hearts content.
Why do you think MS has never got more than a slap on the wrist from the US Government? MS controls the world's computers, therefore the US controls the world's computers.
The day Bill Gates buys a sizable island and forms The Republic of Microsoftia is the day the DOJ will realise that maybe that should have done more than slap Bill's wrist;o)
Actually I think exactly the opposite is true. A large company with hundreds (or thousands) of staff can say "that's our Word guy and that's our Excel guy". Having worked for and ran my own small company I know that you can't afford single speciality people in a small group, everybody has to much in a do a bit of everything, therefore the wider their knowledge base the better.
I'd go as far as to say that if I was employing somebody to work in my 10 person company and they said they only had experience of a very small number of specific programs the interview would be over there and then.
This true in all industries, for example take a carpenters. If you have a hundred staff you can have one carpenter who specialised in door frames. If you have 5 carpenters you need them to be able to do more than the one specific task (unless of course your company only makes door frames!)
Have to agree, I remember when I was a nipper and had my speccy. Your Sinclair (and every other mainstream spectrum magazine) had a regular programming column that contains fun (and often useless) bits of code, the point? so you did something with your machine other than stick in a tape and hit play. You got a sense of achievement and seeing how easy it was gave you knew possibilities.
The only PC mags that have programming sections are the weightier, more serious tomes and the programs while sometimes cool (but only to geeks) lack the wide ranging appeal of those early days.
We need to return to the days where kids could really play with their machines and learn something other than how to use Windows Update.
Simple answer, buy elsewhere, for instance you can pre-order Half Life 2 for £25 ($42, EUR 36) from Amazon.
Personally I think that is about the right price point, at £25 a game most people wouldn't see the incentive to pay to have their box modded and find a source of pirated games, and hope that the games work.
I've just got an xbox and don't intend to buy any full price games unless I'm particularly flushed that month, far cheaper to trade in the games I've completed / don't like, for other second hand games at the local games exchange shop
Guy in my office used to work for BA and confirms that they do effect systems, but as he said, even if they didn't all you need is that annoying "biddly biddly" sounds (you know, comes out of nearby speakers just before a call or a text arrives) at the wrong time and boom.
"flight 9478 please alter course immediately to biddly biddly bidlly, over"
Which is why iPAQ (and all top end PDA) sales are falling and the only area of growth is the sub-$150 dollar, cheap and simple end of the market.
I've got a Clie SL10, not very powerful (to say the least) but it does pretty much everything I need (store contacts and appointments, make the odd note, play the odd game to speed the commute home). The only advantage the iPAQ I have at work has is that it can play MP3 and WMA, but the battery doesn't last long so I'd still end up using my MP3 player anyway.
To a certain extent this protocol is probably far more important than winamp will ever be.
We keep hearing predictions of how IM is the next big thing in business, however no buiness is going to touch current IM technologies for two main reasons, security and accessibility (if I have MSN installed I will spend more time chatting to my mates than collaborating with my colleagues).
WASTE solves those two problems and therefore enables businesses to seriously look at using IM type technologies in the work place.
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How does this work? Ideally it would the CD would have the following:
- A micro kernal with just the services needed by games (LAN, video, sound, disk management, not much else). This would install itself on your HD for future use, auto-update if the one on the CD is newer.
- Smart driver finder (searches the disto currently installed on your machine for the necessary drivers)
- Game files (obviously)
This would have a number of advantages, from console like loading (stick the CD in, turn PC on, quick boot and run). To optimizing the operating environment (no unnecesary services running, should be easier to agree to standards for a micro-kernal like this). Could also be run in UML so you don't have to reboot.
Hopefully this would give games developers at common target to aim at whilst also making the games easy to install and run (would only really use HD space if needed, shouldn't be a problem at all)
Quick, I'd better patent all that;o)
From what they say in the wired article I can see DRM being extremely dangerous. If you can sign an email, making it only viewable by the intended recipient and stopping them from print/forwarding/saving, then you could very easily mount a campaign of e-stalking, sendingv vulgar and/or threatening emails and the person receiving them unable to remove them or forward them to anybody who can help.
A great number of users aren't in America, and I doubt if the RIAA were stupid enough to do this attack they would be clever enough to restrict to US users.
If for instance they got a UK users there are a number of UK laws that would be applicable includding the data protection act. In short the RIAA would be guilty of illegal activity for mearly trying to get details of the contents of my HD without a court order. Downloading that knowledge and altering files on my PC would be seen as a serious infringement of a number of laws and I could reasonably expect to win very large damages in a UK court, irrespective of whether there was illegal material on the PC or not.
I'm assuming that US law is the same as UK law in that illegal methods cannot be used in order to obtain evidence and any case based on that evidence would have to find not guilty?
The arguments for telemarketing are very weak. In the UK we get very little telemarketing (just the odd double glazing company, easiest is to tell them you have just had yours done or that you rent the property) and it doesn't seemed to have stopped everybody having a couple of credit cards, etc.
Retail companies would be far better off using targetted advertising than simply ringing everybody in the country.
Obviously not now, but I imagine that some SF writer in the 80s (or earlier) proposed computers talking to each other and other devices wirelessly, a vision that has now become reality.
I have 3 personal account ranging from 3 to 6 years old and I get around 50 spams per day. Can't really switch as I still get around 10-20 legitimate mails per week from those accounts.
All I want is a bit of software that does the following:
1. When a mail arrives it compare its header to known sources of spam and takes appropriate action
2. adds a button to the tool bar in outlook (and preferably outlook express and evolution for when I'm at home) that allows me to submit the header from the current mail to the global known spam list
If someone wrote that they would undoubtably make a packet! I feel a delphi/kylix project coming on;o)
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Quite a few films could make good games, and it doesn't really matter if the film was good or not, as long as it contained that one good idea.
Pitch Black could make a great survival horror type game, and I would have loved to have seen a point'n'click adventure like Dark City, or maybe any Jackie Chan film being made into an update of the classic scrolling beat'em'up (ala Double Dragon)
In one of the interviews they said they would be releasing the tools early to the CS team so that it would be available as soon as possible, possibly before xmas
Just toss them on the bonfire
21st what was that boy!?!?
200MHz is only slow when running Windows CE. The Tungsten is regarded as pretty much the quickest PDA (from the users point of view) yet only has a 177MHz processor.
Its not how many Hz you got, its what you do with them!
Unfortunately all I have to do is disable Javascripts within my browser settings and I can copy/paste to my hearts content. Even if that didn't work I could just save the page, remove the javascript manually and play with the source HTML to my hearts content.
Which government would that be? The US government has been bending and breaking the constitution at the slightest (corporate sponsored) whim
Why do you think MS has never got more than a slap on the wrist from the US Government? MS controls the world's computers, therefore the US controls the world's computers.
;o)
The day Bill Gates buys a sizable island and forms The Republic of Microsoftia is the day the DOJ will realise that maybe that should have done more than slap Bill's wrist
Actually I think exactly the opposite is true. A large company with hundreds (or thousands) of staff can say "that's our Word guy and that's our Excel guy". Having worked for and ran my own small company I know that you can't afford single speciality people in a small group, everybody has to much in a do a bit of everything, therefore the wider their knowledge base the better.
I'd go as far as to say that if I was employing somebody to work in my 10 person company and they said they only had experience of a very small number of specific programs the interview would be over there and then.
This true in all industries, for example take a carpenters. If you have a hundred staff you can have one carpenter who specialised in door frames. If you have 5 carpenters you need them to be able to do more than the one specific task (unless of course your company only makes door frames!)
Have to agree, I remember when I was a nipper and had my speccy. Your Sinclair (and every other mainstream spectrum magazine) had a regular programming column that contains fun (and often useless) bits of code, the point? so you did something with your machine other than stick in a tape and hit play. You got a sense of achievement and seeing how easy it was gave you knew possibilities.
The only PC mags that have programming sections are the weightier, more serious tomes and the programs while sometimes cool (but only to geeks) lack the wide ranging appeal of those early days.
We need to return to the days where kids could really play with their machines and learn something other than how to use Windows Update.
Simple answer, buy elsewhere, for instance you can pre-order Half Life 2 for £25 ($42, EUR 36) from Amazon.
Personally I think that is about the right price point, at £25 a game most people wouldn't see the incentive to pay to have their box modded and find a source of pirated games, and hope that the games work.
I've just got an xbox and don't intend to buy any full price games unless I'm particularly flushed that month, far cheaper to trade in the games I've completed / don't like, for other second hand games at the local games exchange shop
Guy in my office used to work for BA and confirms that they do effect systems, but as he said, even if they didn't all you need is that annoying "biddly biddly" sounds (you know, comes out of nearby speakers just before a call or a text arrives) at the wrong time and boom.
"flight 9478 please alter course immediately to biddly biddly bidlly, over"
Which is why iPAQ (and all top end PDA) sales are falling and the only area of growth is the sub-$150 dollar, cheap and simple end of the market.
I've got a Clie SL10, not very powerful (to say the least) but it does pretty much everything I need (store contacts and appointments, make the odd note, play the odd game to speed the commute home). The only advantage the iPAQ I have at work has is that it can play MP3 and WMA, but the battery doesn't last long so I'd still end up using my MP3 player anyway.
To a certain extent this protocol is probably far more important than winamp will ever be. We keep hearing predictions of how IM is the next big thing in business, however no buiness is going to touch current IM technologies for two main reasons, security and accessibility (if I have MSN installed I will spend more time chatting to my mates than collaborating with my colleagues). WASTE solves those two problems and therefore enables businesses to seriously look at using IM type technologies in the work place.
How does this work? Ideally it would the CD would have the following: - A micro kernal with just the services needed by games (LAN, video, sound, disk management, not much else). This would install itself on your HD for future use, auto-update if the one on the CD is newer. - Smart driver finder (searches the disto currently installed on your machine for the necessary drivers) - Game files (obviously) This would have a number of advantages, from console like loading (stick the CD in, turn PC on, quick boot and run). To optimizing the operating environment (no unnecesary services running, should be easier to agree to standards for a micro-kernal like this). Could also be run in UML so you don't have to reboot. Hopefully this would give games developers at common target to aim at whilst also making the games easy to install and run (would only really use HD space if needed, shouldn't be a problem at all) Quick, I'd better patent all that ;o)
From what they say in the wired article I can see DRM being extremely dangerous. If you can sign an email, making it only viewable by the intended recipient and stopping them from print/forwarding/saving, then you could very easily mount a campaign of e-stalking, sendingv vulgar and/or threatening emails and the person receiving them unable to remove them or forward them to anybody who can help.
A great number of users aren't in America, and I doubt if the RIAA were stupid enough to do this attack they would be clever enough to restrict to US users.
If for instance they got a UK users there are a number of UK laws that would be applicable includding the data protection act. In short the RIAA would be guilty of illegal activity for mearly trying to get details of the contents of my HD without a court order. Downloading that knowledge and altering files on my PC would be seen as a serious infringement of a number of laws and I could reasonably expect to win very large damages in a UK court, irrespective of whether there was illegal material on the PC or not.
I'm assuming that US law is the same as UK law in that illegal methods cannot be used in order to obtain evidence and any case based on that evidence would have to find not guilty?
The arguments for telemarketing are very weak. In the UK we get very little telemarketing (just the odd double glazing company, easiest is to tell them you have just had yours done or that you rent the property) and it doesn't seemed to have stopped everybody having a couple of credit cards, etc.
Retail companies would be far better off using targetted advertising than simply ringing everybody in the country.
Obviously not now, but I imagine that some SF writer in the 80s (or earlier) proposed computers talking to each other and other devices wirelessly, a vision that has now become reality.
I have 3 personal account ranging from 3 to 6 years old and I get around 50 spams per day. Can't really switch as I still get around 10-20 legitimate mails per week from those accounts. All I want is a bit of software that does the following: 1. When a mail arrives it compare its header to known sources of spam and takes appropriate action 2. adds a button to the tool bar in outlook (and preferably outlook express and evolution for when I'm at home) that allows me to submit the header from the current mail to the global known spam list If someone wrote that they would undoubtably make a packet! I feel a delphi/kylix project coming on ;o)