I have donbe that many times.
However I started out as a software tester you ever try to test a database driven tax application for 9 hours a day for 4 weeks. Now thats painful
Ahh more Microsoft FUD. Typical from slashdots users. Anyword whether true or totally false gets posted here and teh comments begin. This shouldn't even be posted if its not verified. I really got to Wonder my MS supports Slashdots through adds. When all anyone here does is take potshots at Microsoft.
I will say some thigns Microsoft does I do nto agree with. However I have a bigger problem with Companies like IBM. three times the power of Microsfot has way more capital. They will do anythign for money. Search for IBM and Nazi Germany on Google and see what I mean. These are the good guys remember.
I think to the poster of this article I have to say you have a responsibility to not post crap like this unless it is validated. If it is validated then let the pot shots begin. Until then however this is a Null point. In fact it means nothing and appears to me to be Fraudulent.
Microsoft is an American company. So lets take the American Judicial example here and "Innocent until Proven Guilty". Or Maybe we shoudl get Microsoft to Sue Slashdot for Libel. That would be amusing.
I am a Windows user myself but I recently installed Debian and have been doing alright with it. I have tried Mandrake it worked alright. And I tried older versions fo Redhat so far I have to say that Debain is by far my favorite.
You know I used to play all the fighting games constantly it cost me a huge amoutn of money and a whole lot of class cutting to get good but I did get really good. in fact I used to rule the local comic book store where everyone played. I was so proud of myself. but then I got bored with it. until the day I played the North American Street Fighter Champion and he rocked me out of $20 dollars in game sI beat him one round. Humbling experience butmade me realize no matter how good you are there is always someone better.
So fast forward a few year I am playing a fighting game at a pizza parlor with my wife I don't remember the game But I do know the three basic control types so I figure out the controls pretty quick along with the special moves. Then comes this little wanabe gangsta kid puts his quarter down and my fiance lets me win and lets the kid play me.
So here I am playign this kid who could have been 13 or 14 years old and he had his group of friends with him. so he takes me down first round with some super combo I had never seen before. teh next round I killed him by pure couter attackign then I did it again round after round. I kept on that spot makign the kid plop quarters in and listening to him talk smack teh whole time. it was a rather bad experience but when he finally beat me. he sat there thinkign he was king crap. what he didn't seem to realize though in almost 40 minutes of playign I didn't spend a dime said not one word but congratulations. yet i was forced to suffer from this smelly little teenager insulting me and his friends breathing down my neck. Yet the kid still thinks he won and it had nothing to do with the fact that my pizza was getting cold.
Anyways I have rambled long enough I ahve to Say Arcades have been filled with drug dealers wanabe thugs and stinky geeks for far too long playign at home is much more fun. and best be the King of your friends then suffer the insults of some little punk or stinky prpubecent geek.
What I don't understand is why this is such big news considering xD cards by Fuji and Olympus are already at 512 and at the size of a Quarter. The capacity they are saying will be maxed out at 8 Gigs. now to me that's a bit more impressive. Then a stamp size ROM at 1 gig.
I am still using Redhat 5. have custom software written by people who are no longer here and when it was upgraded to 7.3 it broke so I am still running 5.0 until we have the resorces to fix teh software.
having writtign the same application in both java and C#. albeit its nothign fancy but I did notice a few things. Basically the java version is slower took longer to develop. While the C# version runs faster and took less time to develope. yes I know one coudl say that portign code is easier except when you take into account I did the C# version first.
Anyway I think C# is a lot better then Java. And I applaud the efforts of Mono and donGNU. Beign able to write in C# over Java is a preference of mine.
You have the typical attitude of an average FPS player by the way.
I dunno if this was meant as an insult or not.
Regardless though when I was younger yeah I used to get upset about players and those I actually knew used bots.
Then I realised I couldn't do anythign about it. So I jsut played when a bot would show up. I would watch him from sidelines and point out why he was a bto by having everyone on the sideline chasecam him and point out the things he would do. Or I would go to another server. Eventually these players get such bads names they just gave up.
There are really only two reasons to use a bot.
One is to make up for your lack of endowment. in trying to make a name for yourself. Which eventually you will be foudn out and everyone will get bored of you and go play elsewhere
Or the Other your screwing around. which is usually at the point where the player realizes they suck so badly that they will never be any good. But now with there bot they can beat teh people that they coudl never compete with. This adds extra challenge to the good players so it si a good thing
When the game first comes out you get it. Good for you you may be a decent player. I dunno I will assume you are cause you say you are.
I myself am a good player I will not get the game when it first comes out after a time I might by the game if I do and I show up in a short while I will beat most peopel who think they are good. Do I cheat no. I just happen to be very good at FPS games. While I really suck at RTS games go figure.
The Simple fact here is the better players don't immediatly get the new game but when they do they will be better then you in a ver short time.
Yes there are people who use bots but they are easy to spot unless the players set the zone of which to aut fire from to be very small and if thats the case you can still beat them. just don't enter their field of Vision shoot them in the back.
I have been playing FPS online for roughly 6 years now and I have heard people complain and whine about bots since day one. At first I believed them then I met a few of these so-called bot players in person and saw them actually play. They were jsut flat out better. so I strived for that. and eventually after playign 40+ hours a week for over a year I got to that point. now I rarely play at all but I can still keep up with most players. All you need to do is practice hard for a whil eand you will get really good stick with one game master it then start playign other games. Or stop Whinnign cause your LLAMA arse can't hang with the 1337 players.
Bots will exist no matter what the game its part of it like it or not. I don't see what the freaking big deal is. I used to play Quake2 for a very long time I dealt with many a bot user. If you think the person is using a bot then leave the server for another server.
The sad fact is most players call every good player a bot. I used to play team games me vs 8 or more people and win its not that I was a bot its that I had been playing the game for over 3 yeatrs and was very good at it.
The simple fact of the matter is either your good or your not. If your worried about bots don't play on-line. If you want to go into a game and think you can immediatly compete with people who have been playign for a while think again. Even a brand new game you will still experience getting your butt-kicked left and right. Why because thats the nature of the beast all FPS share similar characteristics. aim shooting and movement. once you get these down, it just becomes a matter of timing and weapon choice.
I can play just about any FPS game and be competitive for the simple reason I have played so many different FPS'es and I have good timing and aiming ability. So my advice to you is to sit down and learn the games well. Or don't play online. Don't whine don't complain ask intelligent questions and you will find players like myself who will help you learn to play games better.
Interesting Idea howwever you forgot one thing. Uppercase was chosen for a reason. Not because it was distiguishable but because it was linear. if you don't understand what I mean look at the letters "g" "p" these two letters hang down below a line. So in the case of a liscence plate you would have to shirink the size of the letter to accomidate this change. Shrinking the font will make the liscence plater harder to read. But I do Understand what you are saying the "D" "0" and "O" do look very similar.
Yes Apache is a very successful Open Source project. However I seriously would like you to name a very succesful project for all a businesses needs.
Seriously if you can do this I might consider switching to Linux as it stands now I only use linux for DNS and Apache. No Other programs do I seriously trust.
I enjoyed this article most of his points are and have been my concerns for a long time.
I liked how you mentioned websphere you know iot would cost me less to buy an MS server and run ASP.NET. Then it would cost me to run Websphere and in all Honesty ASP.Net is as powerful if not more, and easier to use.
Just because people in business really are more concerned with have continued support so they don't end up goign down a technology path that may end doe not mean Microsoft is paying him.
I have to agree I have used the following databases on enterprise applications mySQL,MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Postgre.
I have to say that I strongly Prefer Postgre over mySQL but I can work with both. On windows environment however you will see me using MS SQL 2000(with ADO.Net the applications are incredibly fast much faster then Oracle using a JDBC driver). I personally Hate Oracle I think its a waste of money and a Overpriced piece of bloated crap. Much like most people think about Windows.
MySQL is a great product it just does not give me much insentive to use the product other then the price. Ease of use is just not there. Postgre is much easier for me to use. I can accomplish my goals with either database but I usually have a very limited time constraint to design an east to maintane database.
I recommend to Anyone I know if they are building on a Linux Platform Postgre and Windows Platform I recomend MS SQL 2000.
Ok I will give you WMV is not great but the player itself is what is in question here. I get an offtopic for discussing the player. Which if I am not mistaken is what the article is about.
Omega being the last Character of the Greek Alphabet. Can be used as a "be all end all" so depending how you intepret it. However I believ eyou are correct however since. Linus is a leader then Alpha would apply better. Omega woudl apply that there is no Bigger and there is no better and the evolution has reached its pinacle. Cause I certainly hope not Linux has a long way to go and I believe Linus may not be the leader to bring Linux to the masses. I t may be someone else.
OK, I am sorry but this is a ridiculous story and ridiculous laws. Tellign a company what they can and cannot include into there product is crap. if someone doesn't like it don't buy it.
Why not tell Mac that they cannot include Quicktime with Mac OSX. What kind of crap is that if you make software and someone buys your software you can include whatever the hell you want into it. If they don't like it they can return it. Or just never buy your products again.
Seriously I know its big scary Microsoft they are trying to stick it to so everyone here seems to get excited about it. I am goign to try to get laws to stop all browsers from beign put into OS systems then stop ISP from distributing them. makes sense right. If I don't want Media Player (which I do use for all Video formats it supports) I hate it for Audio) I would uninstall it.
Anyone ever see The South Park movie. Slashdot Readers shoudl change the Song "Blame Canada" to "Blame Microsoft". I mean in all Honesty I see blanket support for IBM here and I dont' care how you slice it Microsoft is a kitten compared to IBM. How do you think IBM got on top it wasn't pretty folks. Ask the Jews in Germany abotu how a Very Efficient system of Tracking them for extermination came about. oh thats right it was IBM who created that. Enough said.
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I have donbe that many times. However I started out as a software tester you ever try to test a database driven tax application for 9 hours a day for 4 weeks. Now thats painful
What Jeremiah was cancelled? ah crap I didn't knwo that I just got into that show.
Ahh more Microsoft FUD. Typical from slashdots users. Anyword whether true or totally false gets posted here and teh comments begin. This shouldn't even be posted if its not verified. I really got to Wonder my MS supports Slashdots through adds. When all anyone here does is take potshots at Microsoft.
I will say some thigns Microsoft does I do nto agree with. However I have a bigger problem with Companies like IBM. three times the power of Microsfot has way more capital. They will do anythign for money. Search for IBM and Nazi Germany on Google and see what I mean. These are the good guys remember.
I think to the poster of this article I have to say you have a responsibility to not post crap like this unless it is validated. If it is validated then let the pot shots begin. Until then however this is a Null point. In fact it means nothing and appears to me to be Fraudulent.
Microsoft is an American company. So lets take the American Judicial example here and "Innocent until Proven Guilty". Or Maybe we shoudl get Microsoft to Sue Slashdot for Libel. That would be amusing.
Of Course IBM made the machiens that were used to track the Jews for extermination in Germany. Of course they are the good guys right?
One thing to note if it is true that IBM did help them do this. That would be a huge boon in SCO's lawsuit with IBM.
I am a Windows user myself but I recently installed Debian and have been doing alright with it. I have tried Mandrake it worked alright. And I tried older versions fo Redhat so far I have to say that Debain is by far my favorite.
Yeah what the hell is Kernal Panic anyway that freaks me out. Makes me Panic.
hey I use Nano cause I am a freaking moron. and need help when using non-gui editors.
You know I used to play all the fighting games constantly it cost me a huge amoutn of money and a whole lot of class cutting to get good but I did get really good. in fact I used to rule the local comic book store where everyone played. I was so proud of myself. but then I got bored with it. until the day I played the North American Street Fighter Champion and he rocked me out of $20 dollars in game sI beat him one round. Humbling experience butmade me realize no matter how good you are there is always someone better.
So fast forward a few year I am playing a fighting game at a pizza parlor with my wife I don't remember the game But I do know the three basic control types so I figure out the controls pretty quick along with the special moves. Then comes this little wanabe gangsta kid puts his quarter down and my fiance lets me win and lets the kid play me.
So here I am playign this kid who could have been 13 or 14 years old and he had his group of friends with him. so he takes me down first round with some super combo I had never seen before. teh next round I killed him by pure couter attackign then I did it again round after round. I kept on that spot makign the kid plop quarters in and listening to him talk smack teh whole time. it was a rather bad experience but when he finally beat me. he sat there thinkign he was king crap. what he didn't seem to realize though in almost 40 minutes of playign I didn't spend a dime said not one word but congratulations. yet i was forced to suffer from this smelly little teenager insulting me and his friends breathing down my neck. Yet the kid still thinks he won and it had nothing to do with the fact that my pizza was getting cold.
Anyways I have rambled long enough I ahve to Say Arcades have been filled with drug dealers wanabe thugs and stinky geeks for far too long playign at home is much more fun. and best be the King of your friends then suffer the insults of some little punk or stinky prpubecent geek.
What I don't understand is why this is such big news considering xD cards by Fuji and Olympus are already at 512 and at the size of a Quarter. The capacity they are saying will be maxed out at 8 Gigs. now to me that's a bit more impressive. Then a stamp size ROM at 1 gig.
I am still using Redhat 5. have custom software written by people who are no longer here and when it was upgraded to 7.3 it broke so I am still running 5.0 until we have the resorces to fix teh software.
Actually btoh Applications were written in Programmers Notepad. And yes I have horrible spelling and even worse grammar. So go figure.
having writtign the same application in both java and C#. albeit its nothign fancy but I did notice a few things. Basically the java version is slower took longer to develop. While the C# version runs faster and took less time to develope. yes I know one coudl say that portign code is easier except when you take into account I did the C# version first.
Anyway I think C# is a lot better then Java. And I applaud the efforts of Mono and donGNU. Beign able to write in C# over Java is a preference of mine.
As I remember here this not to long ago.
Your right I did go a bit off topic however.
You have the typical attitude of an average FPS player by the way.
I dunno if this was meant as an insult or not.
Regardless though when I was younger yeah I used to get upset about players and those I actually knew used bots.
Then I realised I couldn't do anythign about it. So I jsut played when a bot would show up. I would watch him from sidelines and point out why he was a bto by having everyone on the sideline chasecam him and point out the things he would do. Or I would go to another server. Eventually these players get such bads names they just gave up.
There are really only two reasons to use a bot.
One is to make up for your lack of endowment. in trying to make a name for yourself.
Which eventually you will be foudn out and everyone will get bored of you and go play elsewhere
Or the Other your screwing around.
which is usually at the point where the player realizes they suck so badly that they will never be any good. But now with there bot they can beat teh people that they coudl never compete with. This adds extra challenge to the good players so it si a good thing
OK I can explain this for you
When the game first comes out you get it. Good for you you may be a decent player. I dunno I will assume you are cause you say you are.
I myself am a good player I will not get the game when it first comes out after a time I might by the game if I do and I show up in a short while I will beat most peopel who think they are good. Do I cheat no. I just happen to be very good at FPS games. While I really suck at RTS games go figure.
The Simple fact here is the better players don't immediatly get the new game but when they do they will be better then you in a ver short time.
Yes there are people who use bots but they are easy to spot unless the players set the zone of which to aut fire from to be very small and if thats the case you can still beat them. just don't enter their field of Vision shoot them in the back. I have been playing FPS online for roughly 6 years now and I have heard people complain and whine about bots since day one. At first I believed them then I met a few of these so-called bot players in person and saw them actually play. They were jsut flat out better. so I strived for that. and eventually after playign 40+ hours a week for over a year I got to that point. now I rarely play at all but I can still keep up with most players. All you need to do is practice hard for a whil eand you will get really good stick with one game master it then start playign other games. Or stop Whinnign cause your LLAMA arse can't hang with the 1337 players.
damn I gotta remember to use line breaks
Bots will exist no matter what the game its part of it like it or not. I don't see what the freaking big deal is. I used to play Quake2 for a very long time I dealt with many a bot user. If you think the person is using a bot then leave the server for another server. The sad fact is most players call every good player a bot. I used to play team games me vs 8 or more people and win its not that I was a bot its that I had been playing the game for over 3 yeatrs and was very good at it. The simple fact of the matter is either your good or your not. If your worried about bots don't play on-line. If you want to go into a game and think you can immediatly compete with people who have been playign for a while think again. Even a brand new game you will still experience getting your butt-kicked left and right. Why because thats the nature of the beast all FPS share similar characteristics. aim shooting and movement. once you get these down, it just becomes a matter of timing and weapon choice. I can play just about any FPS game and be competitive for the simple reason I have played so many different FPS'es and I have good timing and aiming ability. So my advice to you is to sit down and learn the games well. Or don't play online. Don't whine don't complain ask intelligent questions and you will find players like myself who will help you learn to play games better.
Interesting Idea howwever you forgot one thing. Uppercase was chosen for a reason. Not because it was distiguishable but because it was linear. if you don't understand what I mean look at the letters "g" "p" these two letters hang down below a line. So in the case of a liscence plate you would have to shirink the size of the letter to accomidate this change. Shrinking the font will make the liscence plater harder to read. But I do Understand what you are saying the "D" "0" and "O" do look very similar.
The last version of that was released over 2.5 years ago thats archaic.
Yes Apache is a very successful Open Source project. However I seriously would like you to name a very succesful project for all a businesses needs.
Seriously if you can do this I might consider switching to Linux as it stands now I only use linux for DNS and Apache. No Other programs do I seriously trust.
I enjoyed this article most of his points are and have been my concerns for a long time.
I liked how you mentioned websphere you know iot would cost me less to buy an MS server and run ASP.NET. Then it would cost me to run Websphere and in all Honesty ASP.Net is as powerful if not more, and easier to use.
Just because people in business really are more concerned with have continued support so they don't end up goign down a technology path that may end doe not mean Microsoft is paying him.
I have to agree I have used the following databases on enterprise applications mySQL,MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Postgre.
I have to say that I strongly Prefer Postgre over mySQL but I can work with both. On windows environment however you will see me using MS SQL 2000(with ADO.Net the applications are incredibly fast much faster then Oracle using a JDBC driver). I personally Hate Oracle I think its a waste of money and a Overpriced piece of bloated crap. Much like most people think about Windows.
MySQL is a great product it just does not give me much insentive to use the product other then the price. Ease of use is just not there. Postgre is much easier for me to use. I can accomplish my goals with either database but I usually have a very limited time constraint to design an east to maintane database.
I recommend to Anyone I know if they are building on a Linux Platform Postgre and Windows Platform I recomend MS SQL 2000.
Ok I will give you WMV is not great but the player itself is what is in question here. I get an offtopic for discussing the player. Which if I am not mistaken is what the article is about.
I love moderators.
Omega being the last Character of the Greek Alphabet. Can be used as a "be all end all" so depending how you intepret it. However I believ eyou are correct however since. Linus is a leader then Alpha would apply better. Omega woudl apply that there is no Bigger and there is no better and the evolution has reached its pinacle. Cause I certainly hope not Linux has a long way to go and I believe Linus may not be the leader to bring Linux to the masses. I t may be someone else.
OK, I am sorry but this is a ridiculous story and ridiculous laws. Tellign a company what they can and cannot include into there product is crap. if someone doesn't like it don't buy it.
Why not tell Mac that they cannot include Quicktime with Mac OSX. What kind of crap is that if you make software and someone buys your software you can include whatever the hell you want into it. If they don't like it they can return it. Or just never buy your products again.
Seriously I know its big scary Microsoft they are trying to stick it to so everyone here seems to get excited about it. I am goign to try to get laws to stop all browsers from beign put into OS systems then stop ISP from distributing them. makes sense right. If I don't want Media Player (which I do use for all Video formats it supports) I hate it for Audio) I would uninstall it.
Anyone ever see The South Park movie. Slashdot Readers shoudl change the Song "Blame Canada" to "Blame Microsoft". I mean in all Honesty I see blanket support for IBM here and I dont' care how you slice it Microsoft is a kitten compared to IBM. How do you think IBM got on top it wasn't pretty folks. Ask the Jews in Germany abotu how a Very Efficient system of Tracking them for extermination came about. oh thats right it was IBM who created that. Enough said.