What a bitch. Just take the punishment - no matter how sober you think you are, those things are damn near never wrong. If it's above.08, just pony up for the fines already...
I agree with you. The only reason I'd even consider buying a PS3 is for MGS4. But, considering the (still) outrageous prices of the different PS3 versions, I'd rather spend my hard-earned cash on a 360 (for the record, the last gaming system I bought besides my computer was a PS2). Considering the the 360 is going to be getting both Halo 3 AND GTAIV (and I think we can also assume it will get some iteration of MGS4 eventually, just like Substance and Subsistence before it) it just makes more sense to splurge on that instead of a PS3.
And, as far as the story goes, I for one am glad that Rockstar has the guts to say they need more time to make the game perfect. That's the way it should be. As the original poster of the story, I just thought the possible business ramifications were interesting.
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A Truck? C'mon, we all know the Internet is a series of tubes. Noobs.
I haven't seen any other info on this new iteration of Team Fortress 2, but the original was supposed to take the game away from the cartoony action style of TF and make it a realistic, class-based shooter. That was the appeal that hooked me back in the late 90s. I guess we'll see how it turns out, but I'm kinda bummed that they decided to do away with that model.
If I'm looking at third-party code (instead of my own), I like to use Krugle. It's still in beta and I was lucky enough to get a beta invite, but it's an extremely powerful tool for searching through repositories and documentation.
You'd think the telecos would have more pressing things to be worried about. Perhaps the perception the public has of them no longer matters to the machine.
First, while I'm a huge Open-Source advocate myself, our advisor's a huge security nut and didn't want to use something like Drupal where Security flaws are found often.
Additionally, we have some fairly intense webapps running on the site (File Manager, Course Documents, Course Calendar - all run off LDAP) - we didn't want to spend a lot of time mucking around with a CMS to get those features to work.
In the end, I'm very happy with the way the site's turned out. I have no regrets using Struts whatsoever.
ActionForm's been deprecated - the problem's been fixed with DynaValidationForm. However, I do concede that Struts has its fair share of problems (just like any other development framework).
To be honest, we considered RoR for about five seconds before discounting it. No one on the team new any Ruby, while all of us were well-versed in Java. We didn't want to spend three or four months learning the quirks of the language and then another six developing the sucker. Struts offered minimal bullshit - we figured out how all the classes interact and were on our way.
RoR may have been a better choice, but, to be honest, I don't know enough about it to make a judgement. In the end, it came down to practicality.
I'm part of a student-run group at my high school that is in charge of developing and maintaining our school's website, servers, and other infrastructure. This past fall, we began redoing our school's site which, up until that point, was a mish-mash of ASP and HTML. The code was ridiculous - in fact, if we ever get bored, we like to look at the old code for a good laugh. However, we put a lot of thought into different techs that could be used to redo the site. We considered PHP, ASP, Ruby-on-Rails, Python, and different Java solutions. In the end, we chose Apache Struts - it offers an incredible level of abstraction, but it works wonders for development.
Struts works by seperating business logic, actions, and markup. If, in the future, we decide we want to ditch Struts, we can keep the BL and the markup and throw out the actions for whatever we choose to replace it with.
More importantly, however, this allows us to keep code and markup seperate, allowing the backend team to tweak the code as they see fit and the layout team to likewise play with the JSPs.
In my personal practices, I generally do my damndest to keep code and markup seperate. If I'm using PHP, for instance, I'll write a simple template class that I can use to feed data into HTML without fusing the two together. It keeps things organized and (most of the time) headache-free.
I hope I've offered some useful insight - best of luck to you.
Politicians have expressed astonishment at what they see as a rising identity fraud problem
You don't say. It took them long enough. Apparently MySpace is a bigger threat to consumers these days - after all, identity theft has been around longer than SNSs. Give me a break.
Google Video isn't the end-all, be-all of online video content. YouTube clearly has the upper hand when it comes to quality.
Also take into account that, while Google Video is still in beta, GV is not as feature-rich as YouTube. In all honestly, Google Video seems like a rushed product - rushed to market to claim at least some market share from YouTube. And it shows.
Anyway, I really think that YouTube has the upper hand - it shouldn't worry about Google Video (not for the moment, at least).
Hard to fathom. How, exactly, can a 3D Web be useful in any way? What benefits will it offer that we don't have currently? Sounds like more hype regarding a useless technology (read: VR).
Interesting metaphor - I can honestly say that I had never looked at it that way.
It poses an interesting question - is censorship of the World Wide Web in countries like China or Iran the modern-day equivalent of the Berlin Wall? I'm gonna go ponder on it for a while, but you, sir, have proposed an interesting idea.
What exactly is wrong with Microsoft setting the default search engine in THEIR browser to THEIR engine? It's not like they're restricting the use of different search engines. I'm generally pro-Google, but I think it's fairly unrealistic of Google to expect Microsoft to let users choose their default search engine (considering the majority of users would probably choose Google:-p).
The new service allows users to listen to any song for free up to five times - and it's streamed over Napster's site; you're not downloading anything. I think it's a great marketing move and it works perfectly, but Napster's not returning to the Glory Days, boys.
I was too young to participate in the competition last year, but I've been hoping against hope that the SOC would happen again this year.
Count me in, in other words.
I really think it's great that Google's taken this step to advocating Open Source among the future of software development (ie, students). It's exciting and a ton of great Open Source groups benefit from the fruits of these kids' labors.
I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of bringing back Tomb Raider, but Eidos has to deliver. They spun a similar web before the release of the last Tomb Raider game - one that sucked horribly. I would hope that Eidos would have learned from that mistake, but I'm going to remain skeptical.
Additionally, I don't necissarily agree with their idea regarding canning huge franchises. Sometimes you just have to know when to put Ol' Yeller down - I would hope that Eidos realizes when that time comes for Tomb Raider and not just continue to spurn out crap games.
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Flash memory (like that used in the iPhone) and SSDs are two different beasts.
What a bitch. Just take the punishment - no matter how sober you think you are, those things are damn near never wrong. If it's above .08, just pony up for the fines already...
I agree with you. The only reason I'd even consider buying a PS3 is for MGS4. But, considering the (still) outrageous prices of the different PS3 versions, I'd rather spend my hard-earned cash on a 360 (for the record, the last gaming system I bought besides my computer was a PS2). Considering the the 360 is going to be getting both Halo 3 AND GTAIV (and I think we can also assume it will get some iteration of MGS4 eventually, just like Substance and Subsistence before it) it just makes more sense to splurge on that instead of a PS3.
And, as far as the story goes, I for one am glad that Rockstar has the guts to say they need more time to make the game perfect. That's the way it should be. As the original poster of the story, I just thought the possible business ramifications were interesting.
A Truck? C'mon, we all know the Internet is a series of tubes. Noobs.
This was posted about an hour and a half ago. I suppose Google'll wanna pre-emptively combat any negative press on this issue.
I haven't seen any other info on this new iteration of Team Fortress 2, but the original was supposed to take the game away from the cartoony action style of TF and make it a realistic, class-based shooter. That was the appeal that hooked me back in the late 90s. I guess we'll see how it turns out, but I'm kinda bummed that they decided to do away with that model.
If I'm looking at third-party code (instead of my own), I like to use Krugle. It's still in beta and I was lucky enough to get a beta invite, but it's an extremely powerful tool for searching through repositories and documentation.
You'd think the telecos would have more pressing things to be worried about. Perhaps the perception the public has of them no longer matters to the machine.
I was shocked that I didn't see Metal Gear Solid 4 on that list. I haven't been this excited about any game ever.
Oh, and I'm also shocked that Assassin's Creed was on there - the trailer was neat, but no one knows anything else about it.
...And Open-Source the program. Think of the possibilities.
First, while I'm a huge Open-Source advocate myself, our advisor's a huge security nut and didn't want to use something like Drupal where Security flaws are found often. Additionally, we have some fairly intense webapps running on the site (File Manager, Course Documents, Course Calendar - all run off LDAP) - we didn't want to spend a lot of time mucking around with a CMS to get those features to work. In the end, I'm very happy with the way the site's turned out. I have no regrets using Struts whatsoever.
Spring's what we're looking to migrate to within the next 12 months or so.
ActionForm's been deprecated - the problem's been fixed with DynaValidationForm. However, I do concede that Struts has its fair share of problems (just like any other development framework).
To be honest, we considered RoR for about five seconds before discounting it. No one on the team new any Ruby, while all of us were well-versed in Java. We didn't want to spend three or four months learning the quirks of the language and then another six developing the sucker. Struts offered minimal bullshit - we figured out how all the classes interact and were on our way.
RoR may have been a better choice, but, to be honest, I don't know enough about it to make a judgement. In the end, it came down to practicality.
Thanks - we'll check it out. Stripes looks fairly interesting.
Fortunately, we're scriptlet-free. We're pretty disciplined about keeping Java out of the presentation.
I'm part of a student-run group at my high school that is in charge of developing and maintaining our school's website, servers, and other infrastructure. This past fall, we began redoing our school's site which, up until that point, was a mish-mash of ASP and HTML. The code was ridiculous - in fact, if we ever get bored, we like to look at the old code for a good laugh. However, we put a lot of thought into different techs that could be used to redo the site. We considered PHP, ASP, Ruby-on-Rails, Python, and different Java solutions. In the end, we chose Apache Struts - it offers an incredible level of abstraction, but it works wonders for development.
Struts works by seperating business logic, actions, and markup. If, in the future, we decide we want to ditch Struts, we can keep the BL and the markup and throw out the actions for whatever we choose to replace it with.
More importantly, however, this allows us to keep code and markup seperate, allowing the backend team to tweak the code as they see fit and the layout team to likewise play with the JSPs.
In my personal practices, I generally do my damndest to keep code and markup seperate. If I'm using PHP, for instance, I'll write a simple template class that I can use to feed data into HTML without fusing the two together. It keeps things organized and (most of the time) headache-free.
I hope I've offered some useful insight - best of luck to you.
-WeAz
Politicians have expressed astonishment at what they see as a rising identity fraud problem
You don't say. It took them long enough. Apparently MySpace is a bigger threat to consumers these days - after all, identity theft has been around longer than SNSs. Give me a break.
Google Video isn't the end-all, be-all of online video content. YouTube clearly has the upper hand when it comes to quality.
Also take into account that, while Google Video is still in beta, GV is not as feature-rich as YouTube. In all honestly, Google Video seems like a rushed product - rushed to market to claim at least some market share from YouTube. And it shows.
Anyway, I really think that YouTube has the upper hand - it shouldn't worry about Google Video (not for the moment, at least).
-WeAz
Hard to fathom. How, exactly, can a 3D Web be useful in any way? What benefits will it offer that we don't have currently? Sounds like more hype regarding a useless technology (read: VR).
Interesting metaphor - I can honestly say that I had never looked at it that way.
It poses an interesting question - is censorship of the World Wide Web in countries like China or Iran the modern-day equivalent of the Berlin Wall? I'm gonna go ponder on it for a while, but you, sir, have proposed an interesting idea.
What exactly is wrong with Microsoft setting the default search engine in THEIR browser to THEIR engine? It's not like they're restricting the use of different search engines. I'm generally pro-Google, but I think it's fairly unrealistic of Google to expect Microsoft to let users choose their default search engine (considering the majority of users would probably choose Google :-p).
The new service allows users to listen to any song for free up to five times - and it's streamed over Napster's site; you're not downloading anything. I think it's a great marketing move and it works perfectly, but Napster's not returning to the Glory Days, boys.
I was too young to participate in the competition last year, but I've been hoping against hope that the SOC would happen again this year.
Count me in, in other words.
I really think it's great that Google's taken this step to advocating Open Source among the future of software development (ie, students). It's exciting and a ton of great Open Source groups benefit from the fruits of these kids' labors.
Kudos to you, Google.
I wouldn't be opposed to the idea of bringing back Tomb Raider, but Eidos has to deliver. They spun a similar web before the release of the last Tomb Raider game - one that sucked horribly. I would hope that Eidos would have learned from that mistake, but I'm going to remain skeptical.
Additionally, I don't necissarily agree with their idea regarding canning huge franchises. Sometimes you just have to know when to put Ol' Yeller down - I would hope that Eidos realizes when that time comes for Tomb Raider and not just continue to spurn out crap games.
-WeAz
The article didn't say that it was the fastest in the world, but merely the fastest to yet be built by the Japanese.
Yes, Blue Gene/L still reigns supreme.
-WeAz