Very well said !
Exactly what I felt.
And there are actually some things in FarCry which were done better. For example, the way the hanging tubelights move and their light looks in the smoke. Water in Farcry looks excellent. Havent seen water in Doom3 yet.
Then the vehicles. Including very realistic water craft. Not to mention the hang glider. There are also a number of guns/cannon you can take control of.
A very interesting sniper rifle. And many weapons.
You dont have to change your gun to throw grenades ! How simple is that ?!
Enemy in Farcry is definitely smarter than Doom3. In doom, only the soldiers seem to hide or take cover. The others simply rush you.
The "scare" factor in Doom is no longer scary, but simply tedious.
Basically, a number of things were done well by Crytek. Only thing they screwed up BigTime in was having no quick save. The 1.2 patch was supposed to fix this but that was since recalled. But they did release their SDK to make mods etc.
You can find Farcry for 35$. Definitely worth it. Cant say the same for Doom3.
if you are one of these obsessed gamers with no other life who has to have the greatest fucking video card on some overclocked "riced out" box (preferably with a lucite window and lots of neon), then this is what you will need.
How is this Insightfool ?
A 1.5 Ghz P4 is two years old. A 8500 or a GF3 is also two years old. (Or more). The people with the latest and the greatest are far ahead of this.
Considering the fact that MS can make great software (Visual Studio for one), I would say that the best people in MS are working on IE....but they are only waiting...and watching and learning Mozilla/Firefox.
When the time is right MS will release an IE 7... with a number of "innovative" features that/.'ters will immediately recognize.
Are you complaining about the dialog boxes thaw show up saying "Connection Refused" etc? Displaying an error web page instead of Dialog boxes is one of the biggest issues to be resolved in Mozilla/Firefox.
If you're a developer/tester and have time, please help fix this.
If you want to reload a page every now and then there is an Extension for it. Reload Every.
I would bet anything that the MS IE team is learning and planning to incorporate all the innovative features of Mozilla/Firefox.
When they feel the time is right, the world will see an "innovative" product from MS called IE 7 and people will go back to ga-ga-ing over it.
India has as much of the caste system influence in it's work culture as racism does in the US -- very little to none.
There is a lot of racism evident to me where I am in the US (Philly).
And I have seen the casteism in India as well.. its far from over. Google "caste crimes in India".
Which part of "90% of people will marry in their own caste" do you not understand ? This goes for even rich and/or educated people and urban areas.
I will go so far as to say that its very likely that you or your sibling will marry in your own caste.
For the second part what I meant is that its OK to brag about your culture if it has acheived something... but not if it has acheived very little yet and there is still a long way yo go as it is for India.
The caste system that you addressed no longer exists. It is dead.
No its not. In a country where 45% people are officially illiterate (who knows the real number?), you expect that people have forgotten their traditions which are as old as the language they speak. So many people in the US are racists...despite having "education" and resources. Do you expect it to be better than that in India?
In the year 2000 alone an estimated 25,000 crimes against lower castes took place. This is only the tip of the iceberg as the police/Govt being under control of upper castes, ignores such crimes. It is estimated that 80+% of lower castes are illiterate.
Why dont you google for "caste crimes in India" and see what you find ? I'm sure most readers know about arranged marriages in India. If the caste system is dead, can anyone explain why more than 90% of people (even rich "educated" people) will marry their children among their own caste ? And why the minority who chooses their own partners face so much friction (an euphemism) ?
It seems there are two Indias. One India where people like the parent poster have leap frogged so ahead of the rest of the country, they think that the evils of caste have been eradicated simply because they don't see it as much among their peers. And there are many such people.. maybe 300 million of them.. called the "middle class" and above. And these are the people a foreigner is likely to meet... further distorting everyones view.
Then there is another India..where things are quite different.. and simply saying that its problems are gone won't make them go away.
When you say we think our culture is the best culture, which one do you refer to? You're kidding right ?
Many Hindus will say his religion(localized version of Hinduism) is the best. Many Jain will say that too. In fact Jains and Buddhists being minorities, will be the most obnoxious about it. Ask me! My family is buddhist.
Then regionally... havent you heard how Bengalis think how cool they are ? How punjabis think they are stronger than all ? How marathis think nothings better than bombay ? How people in the south dislike northerners so much, they even refuse to speak hindi ?
Every sub-culture thinks they are the coolest. Which is true even in the US/Europe (but there is more friction in India).Sure not everyones like that, but most are.
You mean to say @50% of the US chooses the democratic party because they want hand outs ?
I thought the US was the most richest nation on earth with "only" 12% below the US poverty line and even the poor being very well off compared to the poor in europe/etc...
You dont seriously believe what you say, do you?
I could also say that many Repubs are opposed to social programs as they are targeted towards the poor... and the poor more often that not happen to be Black. I've heard Repubs say this.
In the meantime, Al Qaeda expanded its base (no pun intended) twentyfold without doing anything.
The invasion of Iraq has been a $80 billion recruitment drive for Al queda.
Terrorists kill 3000 innocent US civilians and that gave the US the license to attack terrorist bases.
US attacks Iraq and 10000 innocent civilians die. How many people have taken those deaths as a mandate to attack the US ? Ok, so Saddam killed many of his own people...but can you use that argument against 16-30 yr olds whose mom was blown up by an unseen enemy ?
What are these young men going to do ? Join Al queda. And therefore the US will spend more money and resources for "anti-terrorism".
But with the major sponsers of terrorism, that is Al queda and Iraq have their backs broken according to Bush, shouldnt the money spent be going down ? And shouldnt terrorist attacks be going down ? Good job bush.
Parent probably trolling. Quotes from article that he linked to:
"The request came to me, and I refused to approve it," Clarke testified. "I suggested that it be routed to the FBI and that the FBI look at the names of the individuals who were going to be on the passenger manifest and that they approve it or not. I spoke with the -- at the time -- No. 2 person in the FBI, Dale Watson, and asked him to deal with this issue. The FBI then approved... the flight."
"That's a little different than saying, 'I claim sole responsibility for it now,'" Roemer said yesterday.
Any one else have another decent source ?
And please RTFA.
No, those honors belonged to Rational Corporation (a company whose products were so unstable that it made Windows 95 look good)
So true...
I'm doing a course on the Rational Unified Process. RUP does look very promising and usefull.
But people in my class have asked several times:do these guys actually practice what they preach ?
Rational software is not just buggy(crashes so much!), it also has a very obfuscated user interface. My experienced professor has to go on expeditions to find some hidden stuff sometimes.
People !
You must order the MS vs Linux evaluation kit from here!
It must cost them 10$ atleast... if enough slashdotters order it enough number of times, M$ will be bankrupt! Gentlemen, Victory is close !!.
Or maybe not...but you'll get a cool folder to keep your important papers.
Rediffmail isnt all that great. But Rediff is a verypopular site among Indians (= potential 1 billion viewers). Being based in India, Rediffmail servers are faster than Hotmail in India so people like it.
I first heard of Rediff along the same time I got an Inernet connection (96-97). They've done pretty good, considering so many other Indian sites folded up since then. I doubt they wil go bust so soon.
But yea... Gmail is cool. I have a few invites...If anyone still hasnt seen Gmail, mail me.
It's fast, it's stable, and I don't have any problems viewing any pages out there.
The only time I use IE is when MSN Messenger insists on opening IE to check Hotmail.
IE crashes 50% of the time I do this. While browsing Hotmail.
Also, what has several years of ActiveX and other MS "component" technology brought for the general web surfing public ? Nothing but useless toolbars, browser hijackers and similar malware. Does MS run a site like the follwing ? Extensions. Or this Themes Or this.Mycroft.
Dont even want to talk about the other IE "wrappers" like Avant, CrazyBrowser and MyIE... can they even hold a candle against Mozilla/Firefox.
NOD32 seems to work perfectly with T'Bird...and annoyingly marks all incoming messages with a "This message has been scanned by NOD32" foot note.
I dont know what would happen if I get a virus.I never get any as my college sysadmins take care of most of them.(I saw 2-3 viruses this year but I had opened those messages through the webmail interface)
And dont forget that by being the overwhelmingly dominant species, we are destroying any small chance for any other species to become more intelligent. Given the proper numbers, chances and time, maybe some primates might move to higher levels of intelligence in 100K years? (If we witness this, it would destroy, imho, all notions of a "soul", if not a god.. but I digress...)
I have 1GB of RAM and I've turned off the XP pagefile completely. I see the following improvements:
1)Copying large files (CD/DVD images) used to put current apps in pagefile and PC would be sluggish after copying was over. This has stopped.
2)Leaving Firefox open overnight, with other apps like emule also open would "hang" Firefox for over a minute or more in the morning. Same thing used to happen with Xnews. Turning off page file has cured this
3)In fact dont you hate it when a app (like a OO document) which you havent touched for hours "dies" for a minute or so for no apparent reason.(Reason being the app has been paged). This too has stopped.
Try it.
Just because we kill people including innocent women and children with "precision" weapons and "surgical" strikes from 20000 feet, those killings are supposed to be better than beheadings?
IT has in fact made millions of workers filthy rich.
Filthy rich ? Definitely not. Comfortable or better than before ? Sure. And millions ? Last time I check the Indian IT industry dosent even directly employ a million people.
I have a great deal of faith in individual initiative to improve one's lot.
Did I mention I'm totally unlike a typical person my culture produces ? But I really cant say I have the same faith you have, looking at individuals around me.
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Very well said !
Exactly what I felt.
And there are actually some things in FarCry which were done better. For example, the way the hanging tubelights move and their light looks in the smoke.
Water in Farcry looks excellent. Havent seen water in Doom3 yet.
Then the vehicles. Including very realistic water craft. Not to mention the hang glider. There are also a number of guns/cannon you can take control of.
A very interesting sniper rifle. And many weapons.
You dont have to change your gun to throw grenades ! How simple is that ?!
Enemy in Farcry is definitely smarter than Doom3. In doom, only the soldiers seem to hide or take cover. The others simply rush you. The "scare" factor in Doom is no longer scary, but simply tedious.
Basically, a number of things were done well by Crytek. Only thing they screwed up BigTime in was having no quick save. The 1.2 patch was supposed to fix this but that was since recalled. But they did release their SDK to make mods etc.
You can find Farcry for 35$. Definitely worth it. Cant say the same for Doom3.
if you are one of these obsessed gamers with no other life who has to have the greatest fucking video card on some overclocked "riced out" box (preferably with a lucite window and lots of neon), then this is what you will need.
How is this Insightfool ?
A 1.5 Ghz P4 is two years old. A 8500 or a GF3 is also two years old. (Or more). The people with the latest and the greatest are far ahead of this.
Considering the fact that MS can make great software (Visual Studio for one), I would say that the best people in MS are working on IE....but they are only waiting ...and watching and learning Mozilla/Firefox. ... with a number of "innovative" features that /.'ters will immediately recognize.
When the time is right MS will release an IE 7
Are you complaining about the dialog boxes thaw show up saying "Connection Refused" etc? Displaying an error web page instead of Dialog boxes is one of the biggest issues to be resolved in Mozilla/Firefox.
If you're a developer/tester and have time, please help fix this.
If you want to reload a page every now and then there is an Extension for it. Reload Every.
I would bet anything that the MS IE team is learning and planning to incorporate all the innovative features of Mozilla/Firefox.
When they feel the time is right, the world will see an "innovative" product from MS called IE 7 and people will go back to ga-ga-ing over it.
India has as much of the caste system influence in it's work culture as racism does in the US -- very little to none.
There is a lot of racism evident to me where I am in the US (Philly).
And I have seen the casteism in India as well.. its far from over. Google "caste crimes in India".
Which part of "90% of people will marry in their own caste" do you not understand ? This goes for even rich and/or educated people and urban areas.
I will go so far as to say that its very likely that you or your sibling will marry in your own caste.
For the second part what I meant is that its OK to brag about your culture if it has acheived something... but not if it has acheived very little yet and there is still a long way yo go as it is for India.
The caste system that you addressed no longer exists. It is dead.
No its not. In a country where 45% people are officially illiterate (who knows the real number?), you expect that people have forgotten their traditions which are as old as the language they speak. So many people in the US are racists...despite having "education" and resources. Do you expect it to be better than that in India?
In the year 2000 alone an estimated 25,000 crimes against lower castes took place. This is only the tip of the iceberg as the police/Govt being under control of upper castes, ignores such crimes. It is estimated that 80+% of lower castes are illiterate.
Why dont you google for "caste crimes in India" and see what you find ? I'm sure most readers know about arranged marriages in India. If the caste system is dead, can anyone explain why more than 90% of people (even rich "educated" people) will marry their children among their own caste ? And why the minority who chooses their own partners face so much friction (an euphemism) ?
It seems there are two Indias. One India where people like the parent poster have leap frogged so ahead of the rest of the country, they think that the evils of caste have been eradicated simply because they don't see it as much among their peers.
And there are many such people.. maybe 300 million of them.. called the "middle class" and above. And these are the people a foreigner is likely to meet... further distorting everyones view.
Then there is another India..where things are quite different.. and simply saying that its problems are gone won't make them go away.
When you say we think our culture is the best culture, which one do you refer to?
You're kidding right ? Many Hindus will say his religion(localized version of Hinduism) is the best. Many Jain will say that too. In fact Jains and Buddhists being minorities, will be the most obnoxious about it. Ask me! My family is buddhist.
Then regionally... havent you heard how Bengalis think how cool they are ? How punjabis think they are stronger than all ? How marathis think nothings better than bombay ? How people in the south dislike northerners so much, they even refuse to speak hindi ?
Every sub-culture thinks they are the coolest. Which is true even in the US/Europe (but there is more friction in India).Sure not everyones like that, but most are.
You mean to say @50% of the US chooses the democratic party because they want hand outs ?
I thought the US was the most richest nation on earth with "only" 12% below the US poverty line and even the poor being very well off compared to the poor in europe/etc...
You dont seriously believe what you say, do you?
I could also say that many Repubs are opposed to social programs as they are targeted towards the poor... and the poor more often that not happen to be Black. I've heard Repubs say this.
In the meantime, Al Qaeda expanded its base (no pun intended) twentyfold without doing anything.
The invasion of Iraq has been a $80 billion recruitment drive for Al queda.
Terrorists kill 3000 innocent US civilians and that gave the US the license to attack terrorist bases.
US attacks Iraq and 10000 innocent civilians die. How many people have taken those deaths as a mandate to attack the US ? Ok, so Saddam killed many of his own people...but can you use that argument against 16-30 yr olds whose mom was blown up by an unseen enemy ?
What are these young men going to do ? Join Al queda. And therefore the US will spend more money and resources for "anti-terrorism".
But with the major sponsers of terrorism, that is Al queda and Iraq have their backs broken according to Bush, shouldnt the money spent be going down ?
And shouldnt terrorist attacks be going down ?
Good job bush.
Parent probably trolling. Quotes from article that he linked to: ... the flight."
"That's a little different than saying, 'I claim sole responsibility for it now,'" Roemer said yesterday.
"The request came to me, and I refused to approve it," Clarke testified. "I suggested that it be routed to the FBI and that the FBI look at the names of the individuals who were going to be on the passenger manifest and that they approve it or not. I spoke with the -- at the time -- No. 2 person in the FBI, Dale Watson, and asked him to deal with this issue. The FBI then approved
Any one else have another decent source ? And please RTFA.
No, those honors belonged to Rational Corporation (a company whose products were so unstable that it made Windows 95 look good) ...
So true
I'm doing a course on the Rational Unified Process. RUP does look very promising and usefull.
But people in my class have asked several times:do these guys actually practice what they preach ?
Rational software is not just buggy(crashes so much!), it also has a very obfuscated user interface. My experienced professor has to go on expeditions to find some hidden stuff sometimes.
People !
You must order the MS vs Linux evaluation kit from here! It must cost them 10$ atleast... if enough slashdotters order it enough number of times, M$ will be bankrupt! Gentlemen, Victory is close !!.
Or maybe not...but you'll get a cool folder to keep your important papers.
Rediffmail isnt all that great. But Rediff is a verypopular site among Indians (= potential 1 billion viewers). Being based in India, Rediffmail servers are faster than Hotmail in India so people like it.
I first heard of Rediff along the same time I got an Inernet connection (96-97). They've done pretty good, considering so many other Indian sites folded up since then. I doubt they wil go bust so soon.
But yea... Gmail is cool. I have a few invites...If anyone still hasnt seen Gmail, mail me.
ashay.humane(AT)gmail
Couldn't an ultra tiny machine do this?
You're right. The ultra tiny machine is running his web server.
It's fast, it's stable, and I don't have any problems viewing any pages out there.
The only time I use IE is when MSN Messenger insists on opening IE to check Hotmail.
IE crashes 50% of the time I do this. While browsing Hotmail.
Also, what has several years of ActiveX and other MS "component" technology brought for the general web surfing public ? Nothing but useless toolbars, browser hijackers and similar malware.
Does MS run a site like the follwing ?
Extensions.
Or this Themes
Or this.Mycroft.
Dont even want to talk about the other IE "wrappers" like Avant, CrazyBrowser and MyIE... can they even hold a candle against Mozilla/Firefox.
NOD32 seems to work perfectly with T'Bird...and annoyingly marks all incoming messages with a "This message has been scanned by NOD32" foot note.
I dont know what would happen if I get a virus.I never get any as my college sysadmins take care of most of them.(I saw 2-3 viruses this year but I had opened those messages through the webmail interface)
And dont forget that by being the overwhelmingly dominant species, we are destroying any small chance for any other species to become more intelligent.
Given the proper numbers, chances and time, maybe some primates might move to higher levels of intelligence in 100K years?
(If we witness this, it would destroy, imho, all notions of a "soul", if not a god.. but I digress...)
4) After playing a game, apps do not reload from page file and are instantly available.
I have 1GB of RAM and I've turned off the XP pagefile completely. I see the following improvements:
1)Copying large files (CD/DVD images) used to put current apps in pagefile and PC would be sluggish after copying was over. This has stopped.
2)Leaving Firefox open overnight, with other apps like emule also open would "hang" Firefox for over a minute or more in the morning. Same thing used to happen with Xnews. Turning off page file has cured this
3)In fact dont you hate it when a app (like a OO document) which you havent touched for hours "dies" for a minute or so for no apparent reason.(Reason being the app has been paged). This too has stopped.
Try it.
This is not funny... you forgot NO CARRIER .
at least we don't resort to live decapitations
Just because we kill people including innocent women and children with "precision" weapons and "surgical" strikes from 20000 feet, those killings are supposed to be better than beheadings?
IT has in fact made millions of workers filthy rich.
Filthy rich ? Definitely not. Comfortable or better than before ? Sure.
And millions ? Last time I check the Indian IT industry dosent even directly employ a million people.
As another Indian I testify that parent post is perfect.
Mod up.
I have a great deal of faith in individual initiative to improve one's lot.
Did I mention I'm totally unlike a typical person my culture produces ? But I really cant say I have the same faith you have, looking at individuals around me.