...Is a very good thing. Here, Cox is the premier ISP - crappiest service ever. More often than not, the service is out during peak hours, and the customer service line is always busy. On top of that, the reps will flat-out LIE to you and say that you're the cause of the outage. (I was once told that my "illegal router" brought down the Norman service area.)
Increased loads will cause Cox to at least build a better network, but I'm sure the service will stay pretty bad.
950 may not seem like a lot, but that's 949 other people who will likely compete with you for new jobs in the same career field and local area. Not to mention all of the other unemployed in the area.
I must give AOL credit for at least giving them benefits/severence - I got no such thing after working at "Innotech". I just wish them luck - most of them will need it.
This is hardly feasable. However, it *is* possible to construct your TxRx that can lock your equipment to the area. But if you're that serious about locking something down, why not just use a mainframe and some dumb terminals?
This could only possibly work with other layers of security - GPS data isn't what I'd choose unless you can afford to launch some slightly more "useful" satellites of your own. Those sattelites would have to encode a sort of "encrypted timestamp" into the their data, so that that you can be *sure* your position is accurate, and not injected into the system.
Of course, this is also fakable, but at much more expense and pain. I'm sure even more elaboration could possibly yield something. Maybe adding a tuner that looks for TV/radio local station carriers, blah-blah-blah
At the zero level, I'd like to give lua a resounding "no". Learn a "mid-low level" language such as c++ or even java.
Lua is a scripting language that's *embedded* in your c/c++ application - that is, it's originally meant to allow you to easily use for configuration and stuff - not for writing standalone apps. It's use in game development (homeworld 2 used it, I know) is superb because you can do your AI programming and stuff outside of your game engine using easily edited files.
I've got them all too, but I must point out that "quite a long time" is actually just a couple of months. It's amazing how fast people move on.
HL1 lived quite a long time, but I don't know that 2 will last as long, especially with the way it acts with nvidia cards in dx9. It's kinda sad. Multiplayer is an afterthought in alot of these games, and I've yet to see any real efforts to put together "structured" cooperative games. (I'd love to play through HL2 with a friend.)
You mean I can watch my SG1 without Tivo AND without paying for cable?!?
Oh nose!
No commercials too!?!?!?
Oh nose!
And I don't have to pay for a $80 set of dvds with just one season?!?!?
Oh nose!
You mean I can find any show on irc?!?!
Oh nose!
I can watch shows that haven't even aired in my timezone yet!?!?
Oh yes!
...but weren't new rules for overtime pay implemented under Bush's first term? - I specifically remember something about programmers/IT workers no longer *qualifying* for overtime pay ("overtime exempt")
But if EA pays by the hour, they are in trouble. Salary jobs may have a difficult time.
As an indie game developer, my hours are similar. But since I can basically do what I want/enjoy - so it isn't quite so bad - I'm not in it for the money. (I may change tunes if I ever start a family or something.)
What he is implying, I think, is that the data isn't *completely* overridden. With specialized equipment (as that is likely an electron microscope) it is possible to uncover the overwritten data. That data will by no means be complete enough to pass a CRC check - but with time & effort, it's remotely possible to find something interestingly old.
I have it on good authority that the single player/co-op mode has one of the WORST endings - possibly one of the worst in gaming history (that, or it will rank way up there).
Games I expected to have a bad ending generally don't - Doom3 had quite the stylish ending despite my worst fears. But now that I think about it - I doubt there will be a great ending to Halo 2 (Maybe a bonus for beating it in legendary mode - the assgrab scene was pretty damn funny.)
...It can compete with the latest GeRadeon TiFX 9 million.
OpenGL 2.0 would be a must, D3D acceleration also. Audio would NOT be a bad idea - I'm sick of Creative.
But seriously - a while back a company tried to produce a video card that was more of a daughterboard that supported new stuff....
How about a card where you can change out/upgrade it's "core", add your own ddr2/3 memory, and maybe even expansion stuffs like VIVO/tuning? A truely generic GPU'd card that's a standard could become it's own long-lived fad.
Getting marketshare is something else.
You'd have to hit it BIG with the gamer community. And the card itself has to (somewhat) mirror the abilities of the FireGL/Quadro for more consideration. Open drivers are just a boon. This needs to be a sub $250 card, preferably obtainable for under $150 to really strike gold.
I think sports MMO on it's own would fail outside of a (much) larger environment. An mmo with lots of other things going on (ala second life) would make it possible, however. This is especially true of single-player and small-team games (boxing, 2v2 basketball, tennis, etc.) Allow spectators, ladders, championship tournaments, betting, hustling, even regulations. That would all be necessary to produce a truely rich MMO around a sport. (An original sport would help too.)
...The NEW Cadillac Escalade Flyin' SUV! With motorized "spinner" rims that spin even when you're flyin!
Gimme a friggin break! The X Prize was cool and all, but that's not quite effective for everything, only encouraging lower costs. If you wanna help the world by offering a prize, try these:
1. Energy Efficient homes. The car is a good start, but the american home could stand to be improved. How about homes that produce more energy than they consume?
2. Space Resource gathering/production. This is what the X prize should work toward IMO. The nearest asteroid is worth (I think) ~3 trillion. Now that's smart resources!
3. Energy production. Solar energy "farms", in space!
4. Energy transport. Friendly/safe synthetic fuels or batteries are a must.
For most of these 10M may not cut it. But I'd like to see some kinda push.
The service pack will install WMP 9 anyway...none of this matters a single bit in the end. The only way to "stop" MS is to really go after them, jihad-style.
This is bad news, I've come to associate with edonkey as having zillions of files - but no one sharing them. That's why it's slower than pondwater, even on dialup. Now that word is spreading, this terrible quality will only deteriorate.
...Sci-fi's that use arbitrary plot fixes on photos that lack the resolution they need by using a computer to "zoom in and enhance" the image. Sometimes it's so ridiculous that I wanna belch. The only way this could truely be accurate is if the TV signal carries more data (for example, zooming on a 1080i HD signal). But HD has yet to approach critical mass...ugh.
Out of curiousity...just how much do moderately popular sites make off of google adwords? I know it varies with the site, but how does this fare for supporting "free" software authors?
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...Is a very good thing. Here, Cox is the premier ISP - crappiest service ever. More often than not, the service is out during peak hours, and the customer service line is always busy. On top of that, the reps will flat-out LIE to you and say that you're the cause of the outage. (I was once told that my "illegal router" brought down the Norman service area.)
Increased loads will cause Cox to at least build a better network, but I'm sure the service will stay pretty bad.
950 may not seem like a lot, but that's 949 other people who will likely compete with you for new jobs in the same career field and local area. Not to mention all of the other unemployed in the area.
I must give AOL credit for at least giving them benefits/severence - I got no such thing after working at "Innotech". I just wish them luck - most of them will need it.
...Old people use the internet.
This is hardly feasable. However, it *is* possible to construct your TxRx that can lock your equipment to the area. But if you're that serious about locking something down, why not just use a mainframe and some dumb terminals?
This could only possibly work with other layers of security - GPS data isn't what I'd choose unless you can afford to launch some slightly more "useful" satellites of your own. Those sattelites would have to encode a sort of "encrypted timestamp" into the their data, so that that you can be *sure* your position is accurate, and not injected into the system.
Of course, this is also fakable, but at much more expense and pain. I'm sure even more elaboration could possibly yield something. Maybe adding a tuner that looks for TV/radio local station carriers, blah-blah-blah
At the zero level, I'd like to give lua a resounding "no". Learn a "mid-low level" language such as c++ or even java. Lua is a scripting language that's *embedded* in your c/c++ application - that is, it's originally meant to allow you to easily use for configuration and stuff - not for writing standalone apps. It's use in game development (homeworld 2 used it, I know) is superb because you can do your AI programming and stuff outside of your game engine using easily edited files.
I've got them all too, but I must point out that "quite a long time" is actually just a couple of months. It's amazing how fast people move on.
HL1 lived quite a long time, but I don't know that 2 will last as long, especially with the way it acts with nvidia cards in dx9. It's kinda sad. Multiplayer is an afterthought in alot of these games, and I've yet to see any real efforts to put together "structured" cooperative games. (I'd love to play through HL2 with a friend.)
Sigh
Unreal Tourneyment 2004 beat it and Doom3 out the door, so when it comes to multiplayer:
who cares?
You mean I can watch my SG1 without Tivo AND without paying for cable?!? Oh nose! No commercials too!?!?!? Oh nose! And I don't have to pay for a $80 set of dvds with just one season?!?!? Oh nose! You mean I can find any show on irc?!?! Oh nose! I can watch shows that haven't even aired in my timezone yet!?!? Oh yes!
...to owning my very own orbital ion cannon. Anyone interesting in focusing that beautiful red stream of death out the bottom of that thing?
I take it you live somewhere in the middle east. Asia maybe?
...but weren't new rules for overtime pay implemented under Bush's first term? - I specifically remember something about programmers/IT workers no longer *qualifying* for overtime pay ("overtime exempt")
Googling for it turned up this link
But if EA pays by the hour, they are in trouble. Salary jobs may have a difficult time.
As an indie game developer, my hours are similar. But since I can basically do what I want/enjoy - so it isn't quite so bad - I'm not in it for the money. (I may change tunes if I ever start a family or something.)
What he is implying, I think, is that the data isn't *completely* overridden. With specialized equipment (as that is likely an electron microscope) it is possible to uncover the overwritten data. That data will by no means be complete enough to pass a CRC check - but with time & effort, it's remotely possible to find something interestingly old.
I have it on good authority that the single player/co-op mode has one of the WORST endings - possibly one of the worst in gaming history (that, or it will rank way up there).
Games I expected to have a bad ending generally don't - Doom3 had quite the stylish ending despite my worst fears. But now that I think about it - I doubt there will be a great ending to Halo 2 (Maybe a bonus for beating it in legendary mode - the assgrab scene was pretty damn funny.)
...It can compete with the latest GeRadeon TiFX 9 million.
OpenGL 2.0 would be a must, D3D acceleration also. Audio would NOT be a bad idea - I'm sick of Creative.
But seriously - a while back a company tried to produce a video card that was more of a daughterboard that supported new stuff....
How about a card where you can change out/upgrade it's "core", add your own ddr2/3 memory, and maybe even expansion stuffs like VIVO/tuning? A truely generic GPU'd card that's a standard could become it's own long-lived fad.
Getting marketshare is something else.
You'd have to hit it BIG with the gamer community. And the card itself has to (somewhat) mirror the abilities of the FireGL/Quadro for more consideration. Open drivers are just a boon. This needs to be a sub $250 card, preferably obtainable for under $150 to really strike gold.
Google is good.
I think I've said this before, but the nearest asteroid to earth is worth something over 3 trillion in materials.
I think sports MMO on it's own would fail outside of a (much) larger environment. An mmo with lots of other things going on (ala second life) would make it possible, however. This is especially true of single-player and small-team games (boxing, 2v2 basketball, tennis, etc.) Allow spectators, ladders, championship tournaments, betting, hustling, even regulations. That would all be necessary to produce a truely rich MMO around a sport. (An original sport would help too.)
...how many MORE months until that OSx86 build?
...The NEW Cadillac Escalade Flyin' SUV! With motorized "spinner" rims that spin even when you're flyin!
Gimme a friggin break! The X Prize was cool and all, but that's not quite effective for everything, only encouraging lower costs. If you wanna help the world by offering a prize, try these:
1. Energy Efficient homes. The car is a good start, but the american home could stand to be improved. How about homes that produce more energy than they consume?
2. Space Resource gathering/production. This is what the X prize should work toward IMO. The nearest asteroid is worth (I think) ~3 trillion. Now that's smart resources!
3. Energy production. Solar energy "farms", in space!
4. Energy transport. Friendly/safe synthetic fuels or batteries are a must.
For most of these 10M may not cut it. But I'd like to see some kinda push.
The service pack will install WMP 9 anyway...none of this matters a single bit in the end. The only way to "stop" MS is to really go after them, jihad-style.
This is bad news, I've come to associate with edonkey as having zillions of files - but no one sharing them. That's why it's slower than pondwater, even on dialup. Now that word is spreading, this terrible quality will only deteriorate.
ed2k won't be #1 for long.
But you have to admit, Daikatana IS legendary. (heh)
...Sci-fi's that use arbitrary plot fixes on photos that lack the resolution they need by using a computer to "zoom in and enhance" the image. Sometimes it's so ridiculous that I wanna belch. The only way this could truely be accurate is if the TV signal carries more data (for example, zooming on a 1080i HD signal). But HD has yet to approach critical mass...ugh.
"Mega-Damage" is already trademarked.
Out of curiousity...just how much do moderately popular sites make off of google adwords? I know it varies with the site, but how does this fare for supporting "free" software authors?