This was the same rot that happened in the quake community. Quake & QW went through its glory days but slowly faded from favor, along came quake 2 and then quake 3, each fragmenting the community a bit resulting in the original quake/QW community demise. Ultimately it did not matter that much as by this stage other bigger and better games came along (CS) that drew in the crowds with a few stragglers left filling the excess of servers.
The only difference in the CS community is that it seems to have come on much more suddenly, this is quite probably due to the absence of any CS2 & CS3 which would have fragmented it and shifted players and popularity away subtly rather than people jumping ship entirely. And to compound the situation, with the lack of 'the next big thing' it seems that there is nothing captivating enough to for the majority to move too.
As for the future, Doom III does not seem to fill that void, and nor does HL2 even though this has a better chance. One of the problems is a surplus of games, none of which are stellar. Remember Quake was the first, and CS was a fluke, a mod with just the right ingredients. I do hope something will develop that will become 'the game' to play but until then...
As for me, I'm going to stick with my nice intimate RA3 community. No Lama's here:).
Try:// Use OS L&F
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAn dFeelClassName());
} catch (Exception e) {
if (DEBUG) {
System.err.println("Unable to set Look & Feel");
}
}
I mean its still as ugly as hell but now it looks more like the native OS, just don't expect it too like the version your using, more probably a few revisions back:/
Honestly, the guy has no clue what he is doing, the numbers are completely meaningless. I mean here is my review with just as much scientific integrity:
Test Results ------------ Java: 30 GigaQuads C++: 3000000000000000000 GigaQuads
Sumary ------- Java: sux balls C++: is god
I digress, back to reality now.
None of the tests used any form of GUI testing, this is what the end user will mosty be dealing with so here it is, Swing is crap, its slow, ugly, and just a bad hack job. Eclips (the main opensource IDE) uses SWT instead of Swing to avoid these problems, for the uniformed, SWT simply does C calls to the OS to display the os's GUI library (this of course is at the expense of cross platform compatability).
When it comes down to it a JIT compilere has the advantage of being able to optimize for memory size and what not, but then again JET compilers can spend all the time they want getting the code tweaked just right so its neither here nor there, even though experience has shown that the later tends to be faster as the system specs are generaly too similar nowdays (Umm try running java on a 16Mb machine:). And anyway, commonly used code is converted to native code if they are called often enough so other parts are mute aswell.
In summary, JIT will always be a bit slowere because of the initial overheard, as for Swing, well thanks Sun you can have that pile of steaming shit back.
On my home systems I have over 200,000 files, now I know thats a lot but how exactly am I meant to be able to keep this in a shallow structure and still keep it usable?
If you want to encorage shallow stuctures maybe you should start by making large listings at least usable!
This sort of shit is why I refuse to go back to Gnome.
Did the author consider that the only way to win such a game would be to not play at all?
How about a diplomicy option and a moral meter?
Remeber that the rest of the world was against this invasion which was based on personal motivs (name me another one that makes sense). No one forced it.
Or they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the wrong things done to them. Hell even the media and US citizens got fucked over (Routers & Nick Berg).
There is a reason for those rules, and that is so EVERYONE can live with themselves as best as they can afterwards.
Think of it this way, would you want your [future] kids being looked after by someone who tortured people to death?
After having listened to the entire thing all I wanted to ask was this:
"You have shown an inane inability to grasp the technology and the key issues involved. Given your position, what other abilities & skills can you call on to aid in understanding the issues and how do you envisage resolving the key issues given your limited understanding of the issues at stake?"
He is a very good speaker and to the uninformed would present a quite swaying argument. To the informed he sounds like a great speaker talking about something he has no understanding of and pardon the obscenity, talking out of his ass.
He on more than one occasion used false information to validate his claims on topics he should be well versed in.
To summaries he came across as an ignorant oaf with a great mouth.
Be glad he is being replaced, just hope its someone younger and more in touch with the realities of this day in age.
Everybody talk about the analog loop hole, what about the 'Digital out' that most of the better sound cards have? if you feed that back in you have a digital copy and unless you have stupid DRM on everything i dont really see how you can bypass that.
When they come to you with a fucked PC get them to save everything they want to keep onto a flash drive (documents and the sorts), for apps if they don't have the CD tough, most non-PC ppl can deal with that.
Idealy just blow the drive away and install Linux, if there is a 'political' issue do the folowing.
Partition the drive into partitions: OS (5Gb Max) Docs & Stuff (whats left) And depending on they type of ghost setup a hidden FAT32 partition for ghost images (if your ghost recovery CD cant read NTFS). (3Gb should be plenty)
Install Winblows & all the other crap they want. Create an account with only user priviliges. Thats the one they use. Tell them to save everything on the Docs & Stuff drive and let them know that anything saved to the OS drive is at rish of being deleted if the PC plays up.
Once set up save the image.
Next time it fuckes up just reghost. They may lose setting and such what but thats the price to pay.
I'd wish they would stop trying to beat the dead mule and just release the updates every 3-6 months via traditional means.
Stream sucks, and we all know it.
And for those of you who dont care, ever wondered how they will release HL2? *snigger*
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Brombing run in UT2k3 does this well, we have a ball, set a camera to track it and some clever camera work you could have quite an entertaning show.
Of course there is still the problems of walls... hmmm. Jet pack like in tribes on rolling hills.
Fun to watch but lame to play, age old dilema.
It's just a game people, well seriously it is.
:).
This was the same rot that happened in the quake community. Quake & QW went through its glory days but slowly faded from favor, along came quake 2 and then quake 3, each fragmenting the community a bit resulting in the original quake/QW community demise. Ultimately it did not matter that much as by this stage other bigger and better games came along (CS) that drew in the crowds with a few stragglers left filling the excess of servers.
The only difference in the CS community is that it seems to have come on much more suddenly, this is quite probably due to the absence of any CS2 & CS3 which would have fragmented it and shifted players and popularity away subtly rather than people jumping ship entirely. And to compound the situation, with the lack of 'the next big thing' it seems that there is nothing captivating enough to for the majority to move too.
As for the future, Doom III does not seem to fill that void, and nor does HL2 even though this has a better chance. One of the problems is a surplus of games, none of which are stellar. Remember Quake was the first, and CS was a fluke, a mod with just the right ingredients. I do hope something will develop that will become 'the game' to play but until then...
As for me, I'm going to stick with my nice intimate RA3 community. No Lama's here
Old Skool
If you provide the venture capital, sure.
Given all this development it would be nice if they could actually spend some time making renewable energy source powered cars.
I mean honestly, how hard is it to just rip out the power system of an existing design and replace it with an electric type design.
No one asked you to redesign the car into something so but ugly that no one would consider buying it.
But then again making electric cars would probably have a negative effect on most of the CEO's muti-billion-dollar portfolios.
Try: // Use OS L&Fn dFeelClassName());
:/
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookA
} catch (Exception e) {
if (DEBUG) {
System.err.println("Unable to set Look & Feel");
}
}
I mean its still as ugly as hell but now it looks more like the native OS, just don't expect it too like the version your using, more probably a few revisions back
Honestly, the guy has no clue what he is doing, the numbers are completely meaningless. I mean here is my review with just as much scientific integrity:
:). And anyway, commonly used code is converted to native code if they are called often enough so other parts are mute aswell.
Test Results
------------
Java: 30 GigaQuads
C++: 3000000000000000000 GigaQuads
Sumary
-------
Java: sux balls
C++: is god
I digress, back to reality now.
None of the tests used any form of GUI testing, this is what the end user will mosty be dealing with so here it is, Swing is crap, its slow, ugly, and just a bad hack job. Eclips (the main opensource IDE) uses SWT instead of Swing to avoid these problems, for the uniformed, SWT simply does C calls to the OS to display the os's GUI library (this of course is at the expense of cross platform compatability).
When it comes down to it a JIT compilere has the advantage of being able to optimize for memory size and what not, but then again JET compilers can spend all the time they want getting the code tweaked just right so its neither here nor there, even though experience has shown that the later tends to be faster as the system specs are generaly too similar nowdays (Umm try running java on a 16Mb machine
In summary, JIT will always be a bit slowere because of the initial overheard, as for Swing, well thanks Sun you can have that pile of steaming shit back.
On my home systems I have over 200,000 files, now I know thats a lot but how exactly am I meant to be able to keep this in a shallow structure and still keep it usable?
If you want to encorage shallow stuctures maybe you should start by making large listings at least usable!
This sort of shit is why I refuse to go back to Gnome.
I dont know whats worse, the comment or the mod...
Thats why you dont to metal works near sea water!
Thats what my girlfreind gave me for fixing her pc, does that count?
:)
Now if only her twin sister had the same problem
That server is so gone, if you know anything anout NZ IT inferstructure you'll know that. Hell our back bone is probably browning out right now.
I always told em, 'Copper wire! NOT No.8 wire! you fools!'
Now lets try and fill that with a 2Mb attachment limit :P
Did the author consider that the only way to win such a game would be to not play at all?
How about a diplomicy option and a moral meter?
Remeber that the rest of the world was against this invasion which was based on personal motivs (name me another one that makes sense). No one forced it.
Or they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the wrong things done to them. Hell even the media and US citizens got fucked over (Routers & Nick Berg).
There is a reason for those rules, and that is so EVERYONE can live with themselves as best as they can afterwards.
Think of it this way, would you want your [future] kids being looked after by someone who tortured people to death?
Improved? Like IE?!
After having listened to the entire thing all I wanted to ask was this:
"You have shown an inane inability to grasp the technology and the key issues involved. Given your position, what other abilities & skills can you call on to aid in understanding the issues and how do you envisage resolving the key issues given your limited understanding of the issues at stake?"
He is a very good speaker and to the uninformed would present a quite swaying argument. To the informed he sounds like a great speaker talking about something he has no understanding of and pardon the obscenity, talking out of his ass.
He on more than one occasion used false information to validate his claims on topics he should be well versed in.
To summaries he came across as an ignorant oaf with a great mouth.
Be glad he is being replaced, just hope its someone younger and more in touch with the realities of this day in age.
Everybody talk about the analog loop hole, what about the 'Digital out' that most of the better sound cards have? if you feed that back in you have a digital copy and unless you have stupid DRM on everything i dont really see how you can bypass that.
Anybody have a mirror that actually works? No pretty pictures for me >
A sequel? After the first one?!
And they blame P2P for drop in sales? Have any of the execs acually endured any of the movies they release?
On the nz version the change was implimented over a week ago. You guys are so last year ;P
Ghost, its your best freind.
When they come to you with a fucked PC get them to save everything they want to keep onto a flash drive (documents and the sorts), for apps if they don't have the CD tough, most non-PC ppl can deal with that.
Idealy just blow the drive away and install Linux, if there is a 'political' issue do the folowing.
Partition the drive into partitions:
OS (5Gb Max)
Docs & Stuff (whats left)
And depending on they type of ghost setup a hidden FAT32 partition for ghost images (if your ghost recovery CD cant read NTFS). (3Gb should be plenty)
Install Winblows & all the other crap they want. Create an account with only user priviliges. Thats the one they use. Tell them to save everything on the Docs & Stuff drive and let them know that anything saved to the OS drive is at rish of being deleted if the PC plays up.
Once set up save the image.
Next time it fuckes up just reghost. They may lose setting and such what but thats the price to pay.
Rally the troops AMD, time to kick some intel ass
AuthenticAMD 50.02 %
GenuineIntel 49.97 %
I'd wish they would stop trying to beat the dead mule and just release the updates every 3-6 months via traditional means. Stream sucks, and we all know it. And for those of you who dont care, ever wondered how they will release HL2? *snigger*
... when she complains that the sex is boring, "stop asking where all the good times went", it's part of growing up.
Of course your 'wife' might just be that stack of sticky playboys under the bed, or have you grown out of them too?
Nice of them to give a good explanation :). All they need to do now is note that on the pics on their site.