The FBI/Ashcroft would be beating down our door, seizing anything that plugs into a wall outlet, and charging us with domestic terrorism....even if we had done it simply for the challenge of it.
Why is it that when the Republicans do it, for _nefarious_ reasons, it's largely ignored/shrugged off? Where are the charges? Where the zealosy?
Double standards are great, especially when they cost people their lives to our Judicial system, while the true criminals get kickbacks and screw their constituencies.
"Best Windows App Ever" proclaims their front page...could they be a bit more egotistical?
The program doesn't seem to use multithreading, so when I plug in my iPod the whole thing freezes completely for about 2-3 minutes (no message loop reads, so the window white's out if you alt-tab). I've gotten really screwed up visual artifacts in it where it was obvious they're custom drawing their own interface, though not very well (they drew 2 different playlists on top of each other, really screwed up). Oh and the thing crashes a lot. Great Windows app indeed! Best ever!
I'm sorry, but this guy isn't being paid for his project, made all of his source open, and worked his ass off on something the community uses.
He doesn't "owe" anyone anything, and we should all be thankful that (and this is the main advantage with open source) a project isn't dead just because it's creator is tired of maintaining it.
Instead of complaining about it, branch the code! Make it better! Or at least make it into whatever you want. You see, that's the beauty of open source, instead of "shit, or get off the pot" it's "code or STFU".
When I was 14, I asked my parents for an HP48sx calculator for my birthday...and got it. I spent the next couple of months buried in the wonderful techinical manuals (spiral bound!) that came with it. I learned basic calculus at 15 because of that calculator. The drive to learn how to use all the amazing features of that thing drove me to learn more math. I used to win bets from other kids by betting them they couldn't add two numbers on my calculator (1 enter 1 +). Using an RPN calculator helped a ton later in life when doing postfix/infix conversions (it's frickin' natural as breathing when you've used an HP).
I have such fond memories of that calculator (and later my HP 48 gx) it's not even funny. I waited years and years for the next big calculator from HP, hoping for a color one with a bit better programming language...but the HP48 gx was the last of a breed, *cry*.
World of Warcraft is, in the words of babylon 5, the last, best hope for MMORPGs.
SW:G overpromised, underdelivered. AC2 was crap. Shadowsbane was buggy trash. WoW sounds and looks great and I have yet to read a bad slant on it from anyone's whos played it.
MMORPG Game developers are allowed to release complete shit and promise that it'll be fixed on the backs of the monthly fees people are forced to pay to fund the game to a fun/playable state if it ever gets there.
I hope and pray that WoW can be the game that all of us old school players have been waiting for since this drought of lousy 2nd generation games. I want WoW to be the game I can point to and say "See, that's the way you do it" and blizzard is the one company I know of that has never failed to deliver a great, fun game.
I know Roper was a lead on the management of WoW. I hope he's not leaving because of an imminent M$ buyout or something along those lines that might totally corrupt Blizzard.
I've bought maybe 3 CDs in the past few years and only directly from the artists (usually independantly made) here in Austin. I download music I'm interested in off of Kazaa/eMule and refuse to ever buy the CD if it's an RIAA company.
That said, we _are_ guilty of copyright infringement, and the sharing networks could pretty easily lock out that material. As a software engineer I very much dislike seeing software pirated online and it'd be pretty hypocritical of me to support downloading music but wanting to punish/prevent software piracy.
The point is, we're commiting a federal crime, which falls under FBI jurasdiction, it's pretty hard to contest this. Contest the laws, fine, but give me a good reason this doesn't fall under the FBI's umbrella.
Does anyone know whether or not a segwey can be "hotwired" so to speak? Do you _really_ need the magical keys (there's 2 I believe, they determine the maximum speed) to use one?
Above all, I wouldn't want to be using that thing when the police put out the APB.
I personally found that the game playing helped the day along and provided a good break to long coding sessions (though I vastly prefered my former employers multiple foosball tables), especially when being blocked on waiting for another resource/bit of code/database stuff to be wrapped up by a teammate.
Unfortunately, management didn't see it that way and put a big kabosh on the whole thing. So now I just troll slashdot instead!
We're a gaming company (gambling) too, you'd think they'd be more forgiving...oh well.
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C/C++ is a high level language. It's intended for writing code for the more macro level (moving objects around a scene, setting lighting sources, texturing, etc).
Cg on the other hand is used for writing what are known as procedural shaders. Shaders determine what an object/particle will look like, _procedural_ shaders can change what a polygon will look like based on any number of criteria (not the lease of which is time).
So if I'm going to texture a wall with wood, it makes sense to proceduraly generate the wood. If I'm making a flickering fire, a procedural fire texture will look a zillion times better. To do these sorts of things you need to operate VERY quickly, and very exactly, a great example of a fire shader is a perlin noise in 4-d fire from the CgShaders site: http://www.cgshaders.org/shaders/show.php?id=39
The above will blow you away.
Excellent - Now just give me a nice DX9/HLSL Book
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A copy of 3ds Max 5, and a team of artists, and I can start coding graphics stuff for fun again!
Uh oh, this is/. and I said DX9, hello Troll demod!
MSNBC has an interesting article about this attack being used on an Army machine. What's good to note is that the attackers discovered the flaw, NOT security researchers which is the norm.
I use it with a clavinova digital piano.
Specs:
P4 2.8
1 gig of ram
Cubase VST with Halion (1 gig synth of steinway B)
Windows XP
Using the creative driver I get horrible sounds, cracks and pops, the works. With the halion driver I get crappy latency but the sounds DO play.
Tom's Hardware Review
I own one and the problem I have with it is its ASIO access (for low latency with midi devices) isn't very fast, which makes it worthless as a synth.
I'm a software engineer (in gaming actually, casino slotmachine stuff in real live casinos, but direct x gaming nonetheless) and know much more about the software side then the content side, but code alone won't do a whole hell of a lot without art/sound/music/content/animation/yadda/yadda
...is that the people who are generally writing the code, WANT to be writing it, not that they're being paid to do so.
Since this is a free project, why would you want to limit yourself to such a small group? When people are donating their time (and if they're any good they likely have "real" jobs for 70% of their day) for free there's no good reason to impose limits on group size. If you get 1 hour a day from everyone, EVERY DAY, then you will have gotten 7 hours a week from the group...that's less then 1 day of real-life work, and certainly much less then the 12 hour days many game devs put in.
Why not do something more like this (Using a traditional CRPG as an example)?
2-3 Producers, with a shared vision, who together could overlap enough to hopefully catch issues that'll derail/delay the project and help coordinate the dev teams.
2+ developers for every part of the system, a standard breakdown would be like:
3+ devs for the graphics engine
2+ for the scripting engine
1-2 for the asset management system (definitely needed when artists/sound/level/content makers get involved)
As many people as you can for the various editing tools that'll be released to the content guys.
8 people given 5 years at 1 hour a day may produce pong, or maybe even zork, but I wouldn't expect anything anyone would ever buy. Why limit yourself?
There's an old joke that the true tests of a software engineer are whether he can quote Python, owns a cat, and finds Dave Barry funny. The rest of his qualifications are just semantics, since the above all show a general love of problem solving which is what engineering is all about. Have you ever considered (or do you even have any) devoting some free time to learning an engineering discipline for fun?...he may use a 9-iron for this shot, or an 8, or...and this makes gets me so excited I feel almost like talking in a normal voice...a 7!
Slashdot Mirror
Infinite! n / 0 -> Inifinity Woohoo, I'll be rich!
The FBI/Ashcroft would be beating down our door, seizing anything that plugs into a wall outlet, and charging us with domestic terrorism. ...even if we had done it simply for the challenge of it.
Why is it that when the Republicans do it, for _nefarious_ reasons, it's largely ignored/shrugged off? Where are the charges? Where the zealosy?
Double standards are great, especially when they cost people their lives to our Judicial system, while the true criminals get kickbacks and screw their constituencies.
"Best Windows App Ever" proclaims their front page...could they be a bit more egotistical?
The program doesn't seem to use multithreading, so when I plug in my iPod the whole thing freezes completely for about 2-3 minutes (no message loop reads, so the window white's out if you alt-tab). I've gotten really screwed up visual artifacts in it where it was obvious they're custom drawing their own interface, though not very well (they drew 2 different playlists on top of each other, really screwed up). Oh and the thing crashes a lot. Great Windows app indeed! Best ever!
I'm sorry, but this guy isn't being paid for his project, made all of his source open, and worked his ass off on something the community uses.
He doesn't "owe" anyone anything, and we should all be thankful that (and this is the main advantage with open source) a project isn't dead just because it's creator is tired of maintaining it.
Instead of complaining about it, branch the code! Make it better! Or at least make it into whatever you want. You see, that's the beauty of open source, instead of "shit, or get off the pot" it's "code or STFU".
They're in unary, you insensitive clod!
When I was 14, I asked my parents for an HP48sx calculator for my birthday...and got it. I spent the next couple of months buried in the wonderful techinical manuals (spiral bound!) that came with it. I learned basic calculus at 15 because of that calculator. The drive to learn how to use all the amazing features of that thing drove me to learn more math. I used to win bets from other kids by betting them they couldn't add two numbers on my calculator (1 enter 1 +). Using an RPN calculator helped a ton later in life when doing postfix/infix conversions (it's frickin' natural as breathing when you've used an HP).
I have such fond memories of that calculator (and later my HP 48 gx) it's not even funny. I waited years and years for the next big calculator from HP, hoping for a color one with a bit better programming language...but the HP48 gx was the last of a breed, *cry*.
Black Knight: I'm invincible! Arther: You're a Loony...
World of Warcraft is, in the words of babylon 5, the last, best hope for MMORPGs.
SW:G overpromised, underdelivered. AC2 was crap. Shadowsbane was buggy trash. WoW sounds and looks great and I have yet to read a bad slant on it from anyone's whos played it.
MMORPG Game developers are allowed to release complete shit and promise that it'll be fixed on the backs of the monthly fees people are forced to pay to fund the game to a fun/playable state if it ever gets there.
I hope and pray that WoW can be the game that all of us old school players have been waiting for since this drought of lousy 2nd generation games. I want WoW to be the game I can point to and say "See, that's the way you do it" and blizzard is the one company I know of that has never failed to deliver a great, fun game.
I know Roper was a lead on the management of WoW. I hope he's not leaving because of an imminent M$ buyout or something along those lines that might totally corrupt Blizzard.
Here's hoping.
I've bought maybe 3 CDs in the past few years and only directly from the artists (usually independantly made) here in Austin. I download music I'm interested in off of Kazaa/eMule and refuse to ever buy the CD if it's an RIAA company.
That said, we _are_ guilty of copyright infringement, and the sharing networks could pretty easily lock out that material. As a software engineer I very much dislike seeing software pirated online and it'd be pretty hypocritical of me to support downloading music but wanting to punish/prevent software piracy.
The point is, we're commiting a federal crime, which falls under FBI jurasdiction, it's pretty hard to contest this. Contest the laws, fine, but give me a good reason this doesn't fall under the FBI's umbrella.
ICANNABELIEVEIT!
Does anyone know whether or not a segwey can be "hotwired" so to speak? Do you _really_ need the magical keys (there's 2 I believe, they determine the maximum speed) to use one?
Above all, I wouldn't want to be using that thing when the police put out the APB.
"He's slowly getting away, sir!"
I personally found that the game playing helped the day along and provided a good break to long coding sessions (though I vastly prefered my former employers multiple foosball tables), especially when being blocked on waiting for another resource/bit of code/database stuff to be wrapped up by a teammate.
Unfortunately, management didn't see it that way and put a big kabosh on the whole thing. So now I just troll slashdot instead!
We're a gaming company (gambling) too, you'd think they'd be more forgiving...oh well.
C/C++ is a high level language. It's intended for writing code for the more macro level (moving objects around a scene, setting lighting sources, texturing, etc).
Cg on the other hand is used for writing what are known as procedural shaders. Shaders determine what an object/particle will look like, _procedural_ shaders can change what a polygon will look like based on any number of criteria (not the lease of which is time).
So if I'm going to texture a wall with wood, it makes sense to proceduraly generate the wood. If I'm making a flickering fire, a procedural fire texture will look a zillion times better. To do these sorts of things you need to operate VERY quickly, and very exactly, a great example of a fire shader is a perlin noise in 4-d fire from the CgShaders site: http://www.cgshaders.org/shaders/show.php?id=39
The above will blow you away.
A copy of 3ds Max 5, and a team of artists, and I can start coding graphics stuff for fun again! Uh oh, this is /. and I said DX9, hello Troll demod!
That was so much better then porn.
Just wow...
As reported here.
Sorry, here's the link
MSNBC has an interesting article about this attack being used on an Army machine. What's good to note is that the attackers discovered the flaw, NOT security researchers which is the norm.
P4 2.8
1 Gig of RAM
Windows XP
Halion/Cubase
I get consistant clicking and popping under the creative driver. It works under the VST default ASIO driver, but the latency is horrible.
I use it with a clavinova digital piano. Specs: P4 2.8 1 gig of ram Cubase VST with Halion (1 gig synth of steinway B) Windows XP Using the creative driver I get horrible sounds, cracks and pops, the works. With the halion driver I get crappy latency but the sounds DO play.
Tom's Hardware Review I own one and the problem I have with it is its ASIO access (for low latency with midi devices) isn't very fast, which makes it worthless as a synth.
"It tastes like burning!" -Ralph
I'm a software engineer (in gaming actually, casino slotmachine stuff in real live casinos, but direct x gaming nonetheless) and know much more about the software side then the content side, but code alone won't do a whole hell of a lot without art/sound/music/content/animation/yadda/yadda
...is that the people who are generally writing the code, WANT to be writing it, not that they're being paid to do so.
Since this is a free project, why would you want to limit yourself to such a small group? When people are donating their time (and if they're any good they likely have "real" jobs for 70% of their day) for free there's no good reason to impose limits on group size. If you get 1 hour a day from everyone, EVERY DAY, then you will have gotten 7 hours a week from the group...that's less then 1 day of real-life work, and certainly much less then the 12 hour days many game devs put in.
Why not do something more like this (Using a traditional CRPG as an example)?
2-3 Producers, with a shared vision, who together could overlap enough to hopefully catch issues that'll derail/delay the project and help coordinate the dev teams.
2+ developers for every part of the system, a standard breakdown would be like:
3+ devs for the graphics engine
2+ for the scripting engine
1-2 for the asset management system (definitely needed when artists/sound/level/content makers get involved)
As many people as you can for the various editing tools that'll be released to the content guys.
8 people given 5 years at 1 hour a day may produce pong, or maybe even zork, but I wouldn't expect anything anyone would ever buy. Why limit yourself?
There's an old joke that the true tests of a software engineer are whether he can quote Python, owns a cat, and finds Dave Barry funny. The rest of his qualifications are just semantics, since the above all show a general love of problem solving which is what engineering is all about. Have you ever considered (or do you even have any) devoting some free time to learning an engineering discipline for fun? ...he may use a 9-iron for this shot, or an 8, or...and this makes gets me so excited I feel almost like talking in a normal voice...a 7!