TWIT and Revision3 both started their podcasting empire by using torrents... but both moved to traditional downloads when sponsors wanted an accuate count of viewers.
Wouldn't some sort of Flash Cookie allow to keep track of viewers regardless of method of content dissemination?
Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?
That's what you get for running SoundBlaster compatible. Real gamers use AdLib Gold!
Last I had heard DNF had moved to a hefty Engine like Unreal 2.5 before GearBox picked it up. I don't think a mobile platform is going to stand much of a chance running this without some severe cutbacks.
These platforms are a dime a dozen, your better off concentrating on something a bit more generic like Joomla and Drupal and learning how to integrate an eCommerce solution into that instead of pigeon holing yourself in to task specific software platforms.
The 90% piracy rate is quite much the norm with PC games. The sad thing is that PC gamers will destroy their own gaming platform by doing so. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
This also shows that the usual argument that warez versions of games are good to get to know the game before you buy it or that you would rather support indie developers and "small guys" are mostly bullshit. These indie game developers also have a 80-90% piracy rate.
But you know what the next step to prevent piracy will be?
Fully online games. You can already see this with the Ubisoft's DRM, the recent Starcraft 2 and the movement to multiplayer, co-op (left4dead), and mmo games. Personally I actually enjoy playing with other people especially in a good co-op game, but there are those who prefer single player games. I prefer with games like Civilization too. But ultimately this piracy will lead to most serious developers just to publish fully online games like World of Warcraft. While you can play it freely with piracy servers, it's really far from the real experience. Game developers will also look more into console development, because for example you still can't pirate games for PS3.
You completely gloss over the fact that time and time again it's been found that those who pirate the most buy the most.
However this ability to resolve objects that much better means that it could most certainly be effective at searching for planets.
That touches on what I was thinking, even if it's more powerful than Hubble the true beauty of all this is we now have two fantastic devices that can be working concurrently!
If only there was some group that they could hire to fight copyright violations...
Well first start a multi-national conglomerate so you will have the resources then go sniffing around the united states congress, with enough money you can get whatever you want.
Can you imagine what it's like to be a small child, seeing Steve Jobs hold a piece of candy in front of you, to hold it before you and tell you how great its going to be, how it's everything you could possibly want. And then lick his tongue all over it just before giving it to you? This is what it feels like to be someone who reallly wants a nice, tablet form-factor device without a sodding keyboard attached to it, and then find that the only one that is pretty much decent is locked down and made into a device for consuming games and media.
Microsoft are going to make a tablet? About fucking time. I want to take notes on it with a stylus, not wave my fingers over the screen going 'oooo, I can make pictures big'. I want to be able stuff a USB stick in the side of it and put directories of data on it, not sync it to a fucking iTunes program running on an entirely separate computer (because, amongst other things, my Gentoo box really loves running iTunes). The iPad is pricey, pre-licked candy. Until someone else opens a sweetshop and starts selling their own candy, the only way you're getting any is with Steve Job's drool over it. Bring on the rivals, I say.
"In August 1997, the Company and microsoft Corporation (microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock."
Lol if you honestly think that at the end of the day Apple is worth more than Microsoft you need to put down the pipe and stop blindly wallowing in your data that doesn't even make sense.
Imagine a world in which one of those companies just disappeared tomorrow, tell me which one do you think would have the much more drastic effect on the world...
Haven't you heard the news?
Market caps are almost the same.
That'll change really quick in Apples favor if they don't pull their head out of there asses, I mean I'm scratching my head trying to envision who the hell wants one of these things?
I don't know nothing, but then again apparently neither does Balmer. Maybe they should focus on more core aspects of their business such as OS, Gaming APIs/Networks, Office Software and back end kit.
For me, HDMI is basically DVI in a better form factor.
Actually it's a lot closer to DVI then you might think.
A DVI signal is electrically compatible with an HDMI video signal; no signal conversion is required when an adapter or asymmetric cable is used, and consequently no loss in video quality occurs.[3] As such, HDMI is backward-compatible with Digital Visual Interface digital video (DVI-D or DVI-I, but not DVI-A) as used on modern computer monitors and graphics cards.
One of C's great advantages is not only that it is simple and very fast, it is also very close to the hardware -- when you make local variables, structures, assignments, etc... you have a good idea what the compiler needs to do. Likewise control structures, statements and so on.
The reason it is used is -- frankly -- because it kicks the ass of every other language out there (except machine and assembly) when it comes to both size and performance. This is because a C fragment turns into something very efficient and "close to the metal" if the compiler is even half-good, and that in turn is because what C does is very close to what the CPU does. Spend a couple weeks writing a C compiler -- just a C to ASM one for any CPU -- you'll see what I mean.
The only sense in which C is "harder" is that it takes more statements - because they tend to do simple things - than a higher level language to do many things. A little writing, a little building your own library... you'll have a nice resource for lists, memory management, graphics, in whatever area(s) your interest(s) lie(s.) And at that point, it's not harder -- it's easy, and it's fast as hell to write, and it *will* kick the butt of most other languages, as long as the understanding of the problem to be solved by the programmers is reasonably similar.
Also... I'm a huge fan of Python, use it all the time. Great language, totally wiped Perl out of my life (and for that, I am eternally grateful.) And as an interpreted language, it's not all that slow -- especially on a modern machine. But compared to C... no, I'd *never* use Python as a language for anything that required serious computation. You don't even need to go to C++ for some pretty cool OO - it's not only easy to do, it's educational and you'll actually understand what OO is doing, and why. If you need crazy OO, C++ is right there, and can remain efficient if you're really careful. Me, I rarely go there, but YMMV.
That whole too complex thing... what, was he hired by Google as a janitor? Or a janitor's helper? Seriously, too complex? For whom? Is he trying to teach a German Shepherd to program? Twit. If you came to my company for a job, and you told me C was "too complex" or "too hard", I'd just show you the door.
All this talking about the man first name and all, like you people really know him. I'm beginning to think the FOS ego's are really with the users and less so with the devs.
Doesn't mean it's not stupid? Coming from the guy busting out 'English English'.
Is that the form of English spoken in England? What do they think of that in Wales and Scotland? Is it compatible with British English or the Queen's English? Do tell.
In quantities of 1 (one)? I rather fucking doubt it.
Your a fucking idiot. Just because you can't wrap your head around advanced creation doesn't mean others suffer from the same affliction. Also don't confuse the lack of shrink wrap to be any indication of performance or quality as seems to be the case in this thread.
A fine match for their disposable e-mails.
I have to give kudos to Gmail; my personal account has not seen a single unwanted spam message since its inception. Not one. I used to check the Spam folder to see if anything legit got trashed, but now I just mainly ignore it unless I really want to see anonymous scumbags' assessments about my lack of adequate manhood.
Agreed. My spam folder has plenty of spam but what actually has made it to the inbox in all these years was been about 3 messages. And that's after being lambasted on a previous/. post in which I willingly gave out my email milsorgen@gmail.com. I think someone tried to sign me up for like 3 mailing lists, but other than that it was nothing but hubris.
I think the problem has been over exaggerated and we are too eager to cater to users too dumb to avoid being suckered.
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Regardless of bells and whistles technique can still be refined.
TWIT and Revision3 both started their podcasting empire by using torrents... but both moved to traditional downloads when sponsors wanted an accuate count of viewers.
Wouldn't some sort of Flash Cookie allow to keep track of viewers regardless of method of content dissemination?
Hai, I'm in your services stealing your bandwidths?
Seems that if bandwidth is truly a priority you're likely on a capped plan and likely already have the tools or software to see what's using what.
Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?Let me guess, you got a crappy sound card the U3 engine didn't like and you had to drop all the way down to basic sound acceleration?
That's what you get for running SoundBlaster compatible. Real gamers use AdLib Gold!
Last I had heard DNF had moved to a hefty Engine like Unreal 2.5 before GearBox picked it up. I don't think a mobile platform is going to stand much of a chance running this without some severe cutbacks.
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/230990,smartphone-graphics-get-unreal.aspx
Why on earth would you need a bar code when your very DNA will suffice?
Windows is the single worst thing out there.
Or more likely, your simply inept.
Universal health care, cure French girls, good restaurants, great culture (ok ok immigration problems but hey, habla espagnol?)
You forgot the massive amount of intolerance.
These platforms are a dime a dozen, your better off concentrating on something a bit more generic like Joomla and Drupal and learning how to integrate an eCommerce solution into that instead of pigeon holing yourself in to task specific software platforms.
The 90% piracy rate is quite much the norm with PC games. The sad thing is that PC gamers will destroy their own gaming platform by doing so. Good example is Modern Warfare 2 which was heavily "consolised" and you have to admit, not having dedicated servers and everything else sucks.
This also shows that the usual argument that warez versions of games are good to get to know the game before you buy it or that you would rather support indie developers and "small guys" are mostly bullshit. These indie game developers also have a 80-90% piracy rate.
But you know what the next step to prevent piracy will be?
Fully online games. You can already see this with the Ubisoft's DRM, the recent Starcraft 2 and the movement to multiplayer, co-op (left4dead), and mmo games. Personally I actually enjoy playing with other people especially in a good co-op game, but there are those who prefer single player games. I prefer with games like Civilization too. But ultimately this piracy will lead to most serious developers just to publish fully online games like World of Warcraft. While you can play it freely with piracy servers, it's really far from the real experience. Game developers will also look more into console development, because for example you still can't pirate games for PS3.
You completely gloss over the fact that time and time again it's been found that those who pirate the most buy the most.
When it comes to funding - probably pretty much impossible; at least when it comes to "any time soon" / "in my lifetime".
As the AC pointed out,
Isn't that exactly what telescope arrays are for?
However this ability to resolve objects that much better means that it could most certainly be effective at searching for planets.
That touches on what I was thinking, even if it's more powerful than Hubble the true beauty of all this is we now have two fantastic devices that can be working concurrently!
If only there was some group that they could hire to fight copyright violations...
Well first start a multi-national conglomerate so you will have the resources then go sniffing around the united states congress, with enough money you can get whatever you want.
Can you imagine what it's like to be a small child, seeing Steve Jobs hold a piece of candy in front of you, to hold it before you and tell you how great its going to be, how it's everything you could possibly want. And then lick his tongue all over it just before giving it to you? This is what it feels like to be someone who reallly wants a nice, tablet form-factor device without a sodding keyboard attached to it, and then find that the only one that is pretty much decent is locked down and made into a device for consuming games and media. Microsoft are going to make a tablet? About fucking time. I want to take notes on it with a stylus, not wave my fingers over the screen going 'oooo, I can make pictures big'. I want to be able stuff a USB stick in the side of it and put directories of data on it, not sync it to a fucking iTunes program running on an entirely separate computer (because, amongst other things, my Gentoo box really loves running iTunes). The iPad is pricey, pre-licked candy. Until someone else opens a sweetshop and starts selling their own candy, the only way you're getting any is with Steve Job's drool over it. Bring on the rivals, I say.
this
"In August 1997, the Company and microsoft Corporation (microsoft) entered into patent cross license and technology agreements. In addition, microsoft purchased 150,000 shares of apple Series A nonvoting convertible preferred stock ("preferred stock") for $150 million. These shares were convertible by microsoft after August 5, 2000, into shares of the Company's common stock at a conversion price of $8.25 per share. During 2000, 74,250 shares of preferred stock were converted to 9 million shares of the Company's common stock. During 2001, the remaining 75,750 preferred shares were converted into 9.2 million shares of the Company's common stock."
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/7140.htm
Lol if you honestly think that at the end of the day Apple is worth more than Microsoft you need to put down the pipe and stop blindly wallowing in your data that doesn't even make sense.
Imagine a world in which one of those companies just disappeared tomorrow, tell me which one do you think would have the much more drastic effect on the world...
Haven't you heard the news?
Market caps are almost the same.
That'll change really quick in Apples favor if they don't pull their head out of there asses, I mean I'm scratching my head trying to envision who the hell wants one of these things?
I don't know nothing, but then again apparently neither does Balmer. Maybe they should focus on more core aspects of their business such as OS, Gaming APIs/Networks, Office Software and back end kit.
For me, HDMI is basically DVI in a better form factor.
Actually it's a lot closer to DVI then you might think.
A DVI signal is electrically compatible with an HDMI video signal; no signal conversion is required when an adapter or asymmetric cable is used, and consequently no loss in video quality occurs.[3] As such, HDMI is backward-compatible with Digital Visual Interface digital video (DVI-D or DVI-I, but not DVI-A) as used on modern computer monitors and graphics cards.
300 years ago, England sent all their convicts to Australia. America got all their religious nuts. Australia got a better deal.
You're kidding right? They have an Internet Filter for Christ's sake. What do we have: A first amendment. I'd say we got the better deal.
One of C's great advantages is not only that it is simple and very fast, it is also very close to the hardware -- when you make local variables, structures, assignments, etc... you have a good idea what the compiler needs to do. Likewise control structures, statements and so on.
The reason it is used is -- frankly -- because it kicks the ass of every other language out there (except machine and assembly) when it comes to both size and performance. This is because a C fragment turns into something very efficient and "close to the metal" if the compiler is even half-good, and that in turn is because what C does is very close to what the CPU does. Spend a couple weeks writing a C compiler -- just a C to ASM one for any CPU -- you'll see what I mean.
The only sense in which C is "harder" is that it takes more statements - because they tend to do simple things - than a higher level language to do many things. A little writing, a little building your own library... you'll have a nice resource for lists, memory management, graphics, in whatever area(s) your interest(s) lie(s.) And at that point, it's not harder -- it's easy, and it's fast as hell to write, and it *will* kick the butt of most other languages, as long as the understanding of the problem to be solved by the programmers is reasonably similar.
Also... I'm a huge fan of Python, use it all the time. Great language, totally wiped Perl out of my life (and for that, I am eternally grateful.) And as an interpreted language, it's not all that slow -- especially on a modern machine. But compared to C... no, I'd *never* use Python as a language for anything that required serious computation. You don't even need to go to C++ for some pretty cool OO - it's not only easy to do, it's educational and you'll actually understand what OO is doing, and why. If you need crazy OO, C++ is right there, and can remain efficient if you're really careful. Me, I rarely go there, but YMMV.
That whole too complex thing... what, was he hired by Google as a janitor? Or a janitor's helper? Seriously, too complex? For whom? Is he trying to teach a German Shepherd to program? Twit. If you came to my company for a job, and you told me C was "too complex" or "too hard", I'd just show you the door.
Have our standards really dropped that far?
THIS.
All this talking about the man first name and all, like you people really know him. I'm beginning to think the FOS ego's are really with the users and less so with the devs.
Doesn't mean it's not stupid? Coming from the guy busting out 'English English'.
Is that the form of English spoken in England? What do they think of that in Wales and Scotland? Is it compatible with British English or the Queen's English? Do tell.
It's your basic animal fear that your own species has just been made obsolete by some basic gaming software.
Do you even listen to yourself?
In quantities of 1 (one)? I rather fucking doubt it.
Your a fucking idiot. Just because you can't wrap your head around advanced creation doesn't mean others suffer from the same affliction. Also don't confuse the lack of shrink wrap to be any indication of performance or quality as seems to be the case in this thread.
A fine match for their disposable e-mails. I have to give kudos to Gmail; my personal account has not seen a single unwanted spam message since its inception. Not one. I used to check the Spam folder to see if anything legit got trashed, but now I just mainly ignore it unless I really want to see anonymous scumbags' assessments about my lack of adequate manhood.
Agreed. My spam folder has plenty of spam but what actually has made it to the inbox in all these years was been about 3 messages. And that's after being lambasted on a previous /. post in which I willingly gave out my email milsorgen@gmail.com. I think someone tried to sign me up for like 3 mailing lists, but other than that it was nothing but hubris.
I think the problem has been over exaggerated and we are too eager to cater to users too dumb to avoid being suckered.