i might also add there are some alternatives to the crappy LED "laser tag" things as well. You can get REAL laser tag guns and vests. That would be way better in general anyway because it would be higher quality and have way more options than those. quite frankly though, for the same money you can get some serious paintball quipment and drop the whole idea of laser tag...
it sounds to me like a complete system rebuild. Might as well completely drop the laser challenge equipment other than the physical gun and just build the computational and sensor side of it yourself. Not impossible though... just...not easy.
hmmm... darwin is unix last time i checked... reguardless of being "certified" or not, it's still unix. you can still download source code that runs on unix and compile it under OSX....
it's unix.
lol, the "inventor" of carbon dating himself said it was only accurate on objects that were less than 200 years old. The dating itself proves how innacurate it is. Different labs producing results that are hundreds of millions of years apart? sounds really "reliable" to me...
thought food: http://www.wyattarchaeology.com/noah.htm
ok, i get about 40 messages a day via e-mail (non work accounts)... 35-37 of them are spam. as if we didn't have enough of this garbage to worry about. "Oh! you signed up for the do not call list! We have your e-mail address! We'll spam you then!"
Sorry for the rant, but isnt this the exact kind of thing they're trying to "Get rid of?" troll this if you want, but this is rediculous.
I'll give ya that.:) I just kinda figured that in general that is the "tip" that most people are going to migrate into looking into. I pray for whoever has to manage all the code submissions on this thought;-) i bet the burnout rate for that job is really high at first...
I'd have to disagree. Many Linux distributions are paid for by support donations of people and are non-profit orgs, but their changes still have to be made. We all benefit from nasa's research in the long run, just like you benefit from a distro of linux you use and donate to...
i'm really getting sick of the overzealous fags around here taking trolls on perfectly legitimate posts. This is as rediculous as the patent system... Whoever labeled this a troll obviosly doesn't have a flippin clue about how sad the current patent system is here...
Given the ancient hardware nasa still seems to be using on their machines (still essentially powered by '91 era powerpc's) i doubt that the source will be THAT impressive. Maybe i'm way off base though. Most of what they use is probably still some of the original stuff used on them. However, i'm not bashing on nasa here, i'm thinking that some people with some top of the line embeddable hardware will come up with some pretty slick ways of doing things now... I think this is the first step in a need that Nasa is finally getting a clue about....that is, getting out of the early 80's in their space program...
as i said below to the other guy, i wasnt speaking of bandwidth usage. I was speaking of how the server is keeping track of everything going on. When you have 30 people in a world and everyone in there is getting pings of 2000+ because the server can't keep up....there's a problem.
as far as you being a moron.....if the shoe fits.
netcode isnt all bandwidth moron... the serverside code just plain sucked. The servers couldnt handle the load of everything that was going on in the game with the players...
this is a bunch of bull if you ask me. Ubi didnt kill live because of lack of interest. there was a HUGE interest going on. PC Gamer was highly impressed with it. the real reason it was killed was most likely because the morons who coded the network side of the game couldnt hack it. Having a maximum of 30 people in a city in a MMO game for instance. Anyone who played it new that the netcode was POORLY written. There were tons of people interested in, and playing, this game. Theres a much deeper story to this if you ask me. The live aspect of it was so plagued with issue after issue that they must've decided to just can it... i think going with UBISOFT was the worst thing the dev team ever did. they made them come out with the single player aspect of the game in the first place and that hopelessly complicated the development process that was going on. Had they gone with a different publisher that wasn't so friggin ignorant they would have had a really fine live product here. Everyone deep in the community should know this stuff. just ask Arnium...
there are much better compression algorithyms out there. rar is better and it allows file splitting *and* password protection.... (imagine that)
nuff said.
i have an idea.... get over it. If it bothers you move your lazy middle finger to the scroll wheel on your mouse and scroll it off your screen and stop being a friggin baby. It's not your site and no one on staff really gives a flying flip what a little whiner like you thinks....
I beta tested it and hated every minute of it, mainly for the reasons they seem to have addressed in this patch. i might have to shell out some bucks and buy it now... That list is VERY impressive
I've had many times where i hit a wall in a program or script i was writing and just said "i'll sleep on it" and about 90% of the time i come in to work the next day and figure it out in 5-10 minutes....
lol yall sound like a bunch of conspiracy theorists... *oh no, the earth is going to die* people have been whining about this stuff for decades and the bottom line is that things are only getting better. you whining about the "american companies that won't change" is a bunch of bull. if people would start looking at what *IS* being done and not at what is *NOT* then you might have a drip of optimism in your factless blathering....
great, i get a troll for this? it's a legitmate possibility. it's not the first time in science that someone has lied to make a name for themself. think about all those "breakthroughs" in quantum computing that were pronounced lies because they couldnt be reproduced. and thats definatley not the first time....
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i might also add there are some alternatives to the crappy LED "laser tag" things as well. You can get REAL laser tag guns and vests. That would be way better in general anyway because it would be higher quality and have way more options than those. quite frankly though, for the same money you can get some serious paintball quipment and drop the whole idea of laser tag...
it sounds to me like a complete system rebuild. Might as well completely drop the laser challenge equipment other than the physical gun and just build the computational and sensor side of it yourself. Not impossible though... just...not easy.
hmmm... darwin is unix last time i checked... reguardless of being "certified" or not, it's still unix. you can still download source code that runs on unix and compile it under OSX.... it's unix.
Sounds like a "microsoft publicity stunt" to me... it reminds me of the feeling i get when i think of SCO... grrr
get caller id and spam the number back with solid black sheets of paper. :-)
lol, the "inventor" of carbon dating himself said it was only accurate on objects that were less than 200 years old. The dating itself proves how innacurate it is. Different labs producing results that are hundreds of millions of years apart? sounds really "reliable" to me...
thought food: http://www.wyattarchaeology.com/noah.htm
That much caffiene would likely have some very adverse affects if not kill you... Not something i would personally try...
unfortunatley, the havok engine is now illegally open source due to the HL2 leak...
ok, i get about 40 messages a day via e-mail (non work accounts)... 35-37 of them are spam. as if we didn't have enough of this garbage to worry about. "Oh! you signed up for the do not call list! We have your e-mail address! We'll spam you then!" Sorry for the rant, but isnt this the exact kind of thing they're trying to "Get rid of?" troll this if you want, but this is rediculous.
ah, well said :)
I'll give ya that. :) I just kinda figured that in general that is the "tip" that most people are going to migrate into looking into. I pray for whoever has to manage all the code submissions on this thought ;-) i bet the burnout rate for that job is really high at first...
I'd have to disagree. Many Linux distributions are paid for by support donations of people and are non-profit orgs, but their changes still have to be made. We all benefit from nasa's research in the long run, just like you benefit from a distro of linux you use and donate to...
i'm really getting sick of the overzealous fags around here taking trolls on perfectly legitimate posts. This is as rediculous as the patent system... Whoever labeled this a troll obviosly doesn't have a flippin clue about how sad the current patent system is here...
Given the ancient hardware nasa still seems to be using on their machines (still essentially powered by '91 era powerpc's) i doubt that the source will be THAT impressive. Maybe i'm way off base though. Most of what they use is probably still some of the original stuff used on them. However, i'm not bashing on nasa here, i'm thinking that some people with some top of the line embeddable hardware will come up with some pretty slick ways of doing things now... I think this is the first step in a need that Nasa is finally getting a clue about....that is, getting out of the early 80's in their space program...
This rediculous patent system seriously needs some major reform.... This sueing is getting downright laughable...
as i said below to the other guy, i wasnt speaking of bandwidth usage. I was speaking of how the server is keeping track of everything going on. When you have 30 people in a world and everyone in there is getting pings of 2000+ because the server can't keep up....there's a problem. as far as you being a moron.....if the shoe fits.
the US one raved about it, gave it adv. game of the year and a 91%
netcode isnt all bandwidth moron... the serverside code just plain sucked. The servers couldnt handle the load of everything that was going on in the game with the players...
this is a bunch of bull if you ask me. Ubi didnt kill live because of lack of interest. there was a HUGE interest going on. PC Gamer was highly impressed with it. the real reason it was killed was most likely because the morons who coded the network side of the game couldnt hack it. Having a maximum of 30 people in a city in a MMO game for instance. Anyone who played it new that the netcode was POORLY written. There were tons of people interested in, and playing, this game. Theres a much deeper story to this if you ask me. The live aspect of it was so plagued with issue after issue that they must've decided to just can it... i think going with UBISOFT was the worst thing the dev team ever did. they made them come out with the single player aspect of the game in the first place and that hopelessly complicated the development process that was going on. Had they gone with a different publisher that wasn't so friggin ignorant they would have had a really fine live product here. Everyone deep in the community should know this stuff. just ask Arnium...
there are much better compression algorithyms out there. rar is better and it allows file splitting *and* password protection.... (imagine that) nuff said.
i have an idea.... get over it. If it bothers you move your lazy middle finger to the scroll wheel on your mouse and scroll it off your screen and stop being a friggin baby. It's not your site and no one on staff really gives a flying flip what a little whiner like you thinks....
I beta tested it and hated every minute of it, mainly for the reasons they seem to have addressed in this patch. i might have to shell out some bucks and buy it now... That list is VERY impressive
I've had many times where i hit a wall in a program or script i was writing and just said "i'll sleep on it" and about 90% of the time i come in to work the next day and figure it out in 5-10 minutes....
lol yall sound like a bunch of conspiracy theorists... *oh no, the earth is going to die* people have been whining about this stuff for decades and the bottom line is that things are only getting better. you whining about the "american companies that won't change" is a bunch of bull. if people would start looking at what *IS* being done and not at what is *NOT* then you might have a drip of optimism in your factless blathering....
great, i get a troll for this? it's a legitmate possibility. it's not the first time in science that someone has lied to make a name for themself. think about all those "breakthroughs" in quantum computing that were pronounced lies because they couldnt be reproduced. and thats definatley not the first time....