You might miss those days, but the vast majority of gamers don't seem to miss it. Hell, some probably don't remember it. You're not the market. They are.
This has to be, without a doubt, the worst decision I have ever heard a court involving the internet. It shows a blatant disregard for how internet works.
It's garbage to include these kinds of tools in a game that is primarily played as multiplayer? Gaming has become a very social activity over the past few years, in case you haven't noticed. Adding social networking to Battle.net is a pretty obvious choice when you see the success of Xbox Live! and PSN as gaming platforms. They do so well because people have the ability to create groups. You can keep in touch with all the people you enjoy playing with instead of just playing endless games against people you don't know. A multiplayer platform without social networking abilities is pretty much an oxymoron today.
Payments aren't required. This will provide the perfect mechanism to allow full game replacement mods as those usually involve a small team of developers and real monetary investment. There is nothing wrong with giving mod developers the option to be paid for their work.
Because now Willie has to get a job doing something else, working many hours a week on another task that ISN'T this one. So he's left doing this work as a side-project, which I imagine doesn't leave a lot of room for serious work.
Or not. Many states are At-Will Employment. The employer can let you go at any time for any reason (aside from illegal discrimination) and in exchange you can leave at any time without repercussions (other than a loss of a positive reference.). IT Guys lawyer would tell him to find a new job instead of paying for legal advice on such a stupid subject.
I can see the logic in that. I always was under the assumption that EA killed Westwood (and Earth and Beyond, by proxy.) but I haven't heard of any interviews with Westwood employees that brings up this issue. Earth and Beyond was a game that I believe could have lasted many years if EA had given Westwood the opportunity. I really enjoyed the gameplay, the lore was actually pretty good, and it had extreme potential for expansion (A trait that is often overlooked when people talk about new MMOs.) in many directions.
I guess I should go check on the status of the EnB server emulator...
This really is the opposite end of the bandwidth-latency spectrum from the prominent players in net neutrality. Most MMORPGs will use about 5KB/s downstream and about 1KB/s upstream, even during particularly high activity events. That is not the kind of traffic that net neutrality discussions usually bring up. But even with that small amount of traffic, a player's game experience can be extremely hindered by latency. Different games will have different red lines, but I've found 500ms to be around the point most players will notice a negative affect on gameplay.
And this is definitely not a PC issue alone. I don't imagine Microsoft would be happy with a major ISP putting Xbox Live traffic at the bottom of the their priorities, or worse, charging customers additional fees to keep their Live latency at a reasonable level.
Earth and Beyond was the last game for Westwood. I loved Legend of Kyrandia and Nox was incredibly fun. I even had a subscription for Earth and Beyond for a while. That was a great example of what happens to an MMO that doesn't receive content updates. Three classes were missing from the game, which actually prevented a significant portion of content to be accessible and the in-game events never went anywhere. They would happen, then would kind of repeat on their last stage until the game was cancelled. I'm not sure if that was a case where Westwood didn't know what they were doing, or just another name to add to the list of companies that EA bled dry.
They're pushing DLC instead of patches it seems. Mass Effect for the PC still has a major MAJOR bug in the way weapons Overheat and stay that way until you reload a save. Unless you want to blame the company that did the port, Demiurge.
I am very interested in seeing an example of an American calling a European national 'African American.' I am not doubting you or anything, I'd just like an example to show others.
You already have the technology in your box. The difference is, in the past couple of years, GPUs that were once used exclusively to speed up rendering have become more and more generalized on the hardware and instruction set level to the point where they are a very attractive method of speeding up things other than rendering. Physics simulations, such as fluid dynamics, are much faster on a GPU than a CPU. I currently run the GPU client of Folding@Home and it outperforms the CPU client by orders of magnitude.
The hardware has been around for quite some time, but now we're realizing all the things a GPU can do besides run pretty games faster.
A super computing cluster is already used for highly parallelized problems. Using hardware that handles those kinds of problems at a far greater speed than a typical CPU is a no-brainer. I think the part of the story that would be real interesting to the/. crowd is what exactly are the kinds of problems they're using this cluster to speed up. GPUs aren't too keen on problems involving data that is hard to cache and as far as I know, the instruction set is somewhat limited to doing lots of little, parallel calculations, but have a hard time with large, solid problems.
I am very interested in seeing what kinds of research this will help the most with and what areas will still be more efficient to run on Xeons/Opterons.
I fail to see how this raises any questions. The teachers put effort into developing a lesson plan and deserve to do whatever they wish with that lesson plan. I work at a coffee shop and from what I've seen and talked about with the teachers that regularly spend time there, they don't do lesson plans on the clock. It's something they do mostly outside of school.
Plus, teachers don't make a whole lot as it is. If they want to sell their expertise at putting together effective lesson plans, more power to them. In fact, I prefer this system over the traditional "do as the book provides" because it seems to the major text book publishers care more about milking schools for money than actually teaching anything. With a system like this, at least the money helps other teachers.
I'm in Michigan, but every few visits to Google from my phone ends up in Spanish. Couldn't I at least get French? And what the hell is my carrier (Sprint) doing with their routers to make Google think I'm in Mexico, or worse, across the Atlantic in Spain?
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You might miss those days, but the vast majority of gamers don't seem to miss it. Hell, some probably don't remember it. You're not the market. They are.
The ballsy kind.
I meant to say "heard a court make" but I'm just so angry, I couldn't get the right words out!
This has to be, without a doubt, the worst decision I have ever heard a court involving the internet. It shows a blatant disregard for how internet works.
It's garbage to include these kinds of tools in a game that is primarily played as multiplayer? Gaming has become a very social activity over the past few years, in case you haven't noticed. Adding social networking to Battle.net is a pretty obvious choice when you see the success of Xbox Live! and PSN as gaming platforms. They do so well because people have the ability to create groups. You can keep in touch with all the people you enjoy playing with instead of just playing endless games against people you don't know. A multiplayer platform without social networking abilities is pretty much an oxymoron today.
Payments aren't required. This will provide the perfect mechanism to allow full game replacement mods as those usually involve a small team of developers and real monetary investment. There is nothing wrong with giving mod developers the option to be paid for their work.
Because now Willie has to get a job doing something else, working many hours a week on another task that ISN'T this one. So he's left doing this work as a side-project, which I imagine doesn't leave a lot of room for serious work.
CD checks may still need to be cracked, although depending on the CD check method and the image provided, even that might not be necessary.
Or not. Many states are At-Will Employment. The employer can let you go at any time for any reason (aside from illegal discrimination) and in exchange you can leave at any time without repercussions (other than a loss of a positive reference.). IT Guys lawyer would tell him to find a new job instead of paying for legal advice on such a stupid subject.
And I'll just flag ALL my traffic as high priority...
I can see the logic in that. I always was under the assumption that EA killed Westwood (and Earth and Beyond, by proxy.) but I haven't heard of any interviews with Westwood employees that brings up this issue. Earth and Beyond was a game that I believe could have lasted many years if EA had given Westwood the opportunity. I really enjoyed the gameplay, the lore was actually pretty good, and it had extreme potential for expansion (A trait that is often overlooked when people talk about new MMOs.) in many directions.
I guess I should go check on the status of the EnB server emulator...
This really is the opposite end of the bandwidth-latency spectrum from the prominent players in net neutrality. Most MMORPGs will use about 5KB/s downstream and about 1KB/s upstream, even during particularly high activity events. That is not the kind of traffic that net neutrality discussions usually bring up. But even with that small amount of traffic, a player's game experience can be extremely hindered by latency. Different games will have different red lines, but I've found 500ms to be around the point most players will notice a negative affect on gameplay.
And this is definitely not a PC issue alone. I don't imagine Microsoft would be happy with a major ISP putting Xbox Live traffic at the bottom of the their priorities, or worse, charging customers additional fees to keep their Live latency at a reasonable level.
Earth and Beyond was the last game for Westwood. I loved Legend of Kyrandia and Nox was incredibly fun. I even had a subscription for Earth and Beyond for a while. That was a great example of what happens to an MMO that doesn't receive content updates. Three classes were missing from the game, which actually prevented a significant portion of content to be accessible and the in-game events never went anywhere. They would happen, then would kind of repeat on their last stage until the game was cancelled. I'm not sure if that was a case where Westwood didn't know what they were doing, or just another name to add to the list of companies that EA bled dry.
They're pushing DLC instead of patches it seems. Mass Effect for the PC still has a major MAJOR bug in the way weapons Overheat and stay that way until you reload a save. Unless you want to blame the company that did the port, Demiurge.
Except the phone runs Android 2.1, so according to your rule-of-thumb, it should be safe.
I am very interested in seeing an example of an American calling a European national 'African American.' I am not doubting you or anything, I'd just like an example to show others.
Quantum foam makes me roam...
You already have the technology in your box. The difference is, in the past couple of years, GPUs that were once used exclusively to speed up rendering have become more and more generalized on the hardware and instruction set level to the point where they are a very attractive method of speeding up things other than rendering. Physics simulations, such as fluid dynamics, are much faster on a GPU than a CPU. I currently run the GPU client of Folding@Home and it outperforms the CPU client by orders of magnitude.
The hardware has been around for quite some time, but now we're realizing all the things a GPU can do besides run pretty games faster.
A super computing cluster is already used for highly parallelized problems. Using hardware that handles those kinds of problems at a far greater speed than a typical CPU is a no-brainer. I think the part of the story that would be real interesting to the /. crowd is what exactly are the kinds of problems they're using this cluster to speed up. GPUs aren't too keen on problems involving data that is hard to cache and as far as I know, the instruction set is somewhat limited to doing lots of little, parallel calculations, but have a hard time with large, solid problems.
I am very interested in seeing what kinds of research this will help the most with and what areas will still be more efficient to run on Xeons/Opterons.
I wish I were old enough to even have failed to achieve a Masters...
I fail to see how this raises any questions. The teachers put effort into developing a lesson plan and deserve to do whatever they wish with that lesson plan. I work at a coffee shop and from what I've seen and talked about with the teachers that regularly spend time there, they don't do lesson plans on the clock. It's something they do mostly outside of school.
Plus, teachers don't make a whole lot as it is. If they want to sell their expertise at putting together effective lesson plans, more power to them. In fact, I prefer this system over the traditional "do as the book provides" because it seems to the major text book publishers care more about milking schools for money than actually teaching anything. With a system like this, at least the money helps other teachers.
I'm in Michigan, but every few visits to Google from my phone ends up in Spanish. Couldn't I at least get French? And what the hell is my carrier (Sprint) doing with their routers to make Google think I'm in Mexico, or worse, across the Atlantic in Spain?
If the account has lots of titles and no applications or lots of tiny do nothing, similar sized programs, purge and ban.
Whoa there. A solution like that would remove over 90% of the App Store.
Hitler was consistent in his principles, too.
Every additional qubit doubles the computing power, so these quantum computers could outperform any existing classical computer, the researchers say.
But only for probabilistic algorithms. It's not going to be faster at everything.