As soon as I heard that this will not be a multiplayer game (2 years ago I think?) I pretty much lost interest. Sure The Sims was popular without being multiplayer and this one looks like it's going to be just as "solitaire" strong, but is there a chance the the hype will kill it just as movies have been killed by their own hype?
The ISP being maxed out is not always the problem, in fact personally it is rarely the problem in my case. If I plug my modem directly to to the computer I never have a problem, but after an hour of bt over the router I can no longer even do nslookups. I haven't had time to look into it but I would wager that it's the cpu on the router that cannot handle the amount of connections. I rarely max out my 10/1Mb.
Although I cannot say that your situation is not also a problem, I think that I'd really like to see some easy ways for people to get info about their situation with packet-captures-on-each-side and process-debugging-within-the-router output that they can post so that more informed answers can be given.
Admit it, no matter how much you know, there is too much guesswork about other peoples setup and isp.
Being a very tall person I'm told to watch my back often, and having been the type of person to spend 8hours a day at a computer I've not had the easiest time finding a chair.
The best chair I've found is one that lets me lean back to about 140 degrees and have the bottom part less tilted but tilted none the less for leg support. This goes with a desk that can allow you to slide under as much as possible and have knee room, so no keyboard sliders under the desk.
I have never had a problem with my back, lower back, but or any kind of strain. There's nothing better.
I haven't gone through the changes to 4e yet but I found that in 3.5 we were spending a lot of time searching for modifiers for our rolls. Is there a shift from this to where the role playing will start making a more concrete difference in survival and the adventures or is it still up to the DM to make sure this happens? My last 2 DMs were excellent in this aspect but with more definitive rules and information about this it would make ALL the players role play more.
In the beginning they mention "We're here to tell you that the reports of the 3D web's death are greatly exaggerated." then at the end "Final Thoughts: Wait for...."
although after looking around this looked not so bad http://www.planet-earth.org/ but still feels like something made in the 90s.
"Each tool kit offers advantages and disadvantages that make selecting one more appropriate, given your needs and intended audience."
That should say some are missing features and some have bugs.
I mean give me a break, haven't all the other companies moved on? Sun can't even get a 2D gui control toolkit together and it's 2006. This should have been one of the first things they did.
Did they really want to keep having ugly, weird working scrollbars, no-colour, no style interfaces unless the programmer spends as much time on the gui as the rest of the program? If yes then success is at hand.
Personally I would just raise the bar and consolidate.
Sun, question to you: how long did it take to figure out that you restrict programmers on the use of the if statement? I'm sure you and several 3rd parties could have had a thousand if packages, IMAGINE THE CHOICE!!! You would have ruled my friend!
Stuck in the past, stuck in the past. I don't see other mature companies still wrestling with evolution on 2D gui toolkits. You're still in the playground on that.
"The nice thing about standards is that you get to choose from so many." Should be your motto.
to stop using ports, have only 2 types of packets, QOS and not QOS. And the last part that really answers the question is all connections to be encrypted with whatever the best is at this moment.
I don't see this happening though unless a "ware of the day" like bittorrent pops up.
at 11 the first computer I touched was the zx-81 and fell in love with programming. 2 months later I got an atari400. Subsequently went through the atari 800, 130XE, amiga500, amiga1000 (hacked to bits) took a partying break, then 386dx40 and etc... But most of my programming was at school on an XT with 640K, it was the only one without 320K and it was reserved for me because I was the only one that wrote programs that required the memory. I loved to show off my ataris to C64 people, the graphics would blow themm away, especially when I would program them from scratch in front of them. good times, good times print#6 for the blind:-)
If providers want to make more money, it would be in their best interest to provide real QOS service.
Imagine they would provide the standard 10Mb for whatever price but then also say ok, we can add 1Mb up/down guaranteed QOS delivery on top of that with 25ms (or something) latency within their own network for whatever price. Then start working with other networks to expand the guarantee so that enough providers get together to make it actually useful.
This could create an overlay network that would (finally) have guaranteed delivery. This would of course make it so they get their voip money, but would open the door to real videoconferencing and not to mention gaming would be sooooooo much better.
The new network would end up with some trendy name but the providers would finally have a new source of income.
The providers couldn't really do this without providing a simple tool to users that would let us choose which programs can use the guaranteed bandwidth.
Sure a lot of people will make fun of it, and there will be others that say that this doesn't mean anything for the technology but the truth is that if this makes it into the mainstreal media it will be a big hit to the HD DVD marketing force.
Surely they will try to find something in the BR camp to level things out.
But if there is a browser available in that OS, I've been looking for one now for ages to basically create an OS in Javascript. It really sounds like this is the OS that I should choose to create this... if it has a browser of course;)
and for audio too.
everyone has brought up the "use a picture" but if there were 2 or 3 cameras then a 3d reconstruction of the face could be done and short of plastering someones face it would be better than 2d.
Also for audio, if there were 3 microphones then the position of the voice could be found and we could speak into the phone at 2 feet away and the only thing they would hear is our voice. It would help in crowded places as well, we could just whisper and no matter how loud the rest of the area is our voice would still get through.
because then we can purchase non-lossy compressed 1080p movies that will be too large to download. A second reason to purchase movies other than the "I like to sleep at night" reason.
Ya right, as if the media industry will ever figure out that non-lossy compressed movies is the best way to get most people who download to buy the media.
it's true, thinking that OSS will bring in the dough would probably get you ended up holding a blanky and sucking your thumb... don't think it'll be like... uh, Linus I guess.
yup, it's true. VI IV is different from VIIV. The latter I think will be reserved for the next incarnation: 75 right??
Will we finaly have processors that can do roman numeral math? It's about time!!! Finally new technology and no longer is it all about the gigahertz (they must have learnt their lesson).
Also the pronounciation, is it "Viv"? If so then I wonder if the chip will also have a job in the mornings at the local greacy spoon and finally start paying for some of that electricity bill!!!
One also wonders (not me though) if the "New" Roman numeral system will be used in which 64 would be represented as IIIIIIXXXXXXX which would look a lot cooler on the top of the processor, way better than VI IV but most importantly is also a very curious set of answers to the next ballot in my area. hmmmm,
and 3 games that loaded with a cassette player. I read the entire Basic language book that came with it and learned how to make simple things. I was 11.
It lasted a few months until my dad got an atari 400 and for the next year I wrote tons of tiny little stupid games and graphics (screen savers these days) until there was a modem. That's when the learning went down, I spent more time online and less being productive.
The next 4 years were full of sysoping, a bit of datapack and computer upgrades (amiga and ST) and the only programming was at school. I wrote some really great art software with a friend and a really good game that got pirated one day when I went to the bathroom, it wasn't finished yet so I was pissed that people thought that I wrote broken software.
I took a 4 year break from computers when one night myself and 3 friends were wondering what to do and I had an old atari400 with 5 joysticks from different systems that all plugged into the machine that only had a basic cartridge and no data storage. I took 20 minutes and threw together a 4 player snake game. I kept the machine on for a month until I said goodbye.
Then I took an electronics course, knowing that it was the next step in understanding computers from the inside out. There I wrote drivers, used an oscilloscope on motherboards, designed circuits etc...
Then Linux:D one machine in particular ended up running for 3 years. Just a telnet->serial multiplexer (long story).
Then history would be shown as jobs, marriage, jobs, divorce, no jobs(on purpose), dot bomb, no jobs(not on purpose), jobs.
From that entire experience, this is what I've learned: When it comes to companies looking for computer people, they have no idea what to look for in a person to get the job done because they never really understand what the job entails. Every programmer should spend a couple of days with the person that's going to use the software and just hang out with them. But that's off topic.
Anyways, it's been a nice walk.
Slashdot Mirror
although wikified "and" a slashdot moderation for patches, with karma et all, would be pretty funky.
good point, but I took insightful as meaning that some would like to use their toilet to cook their breakfast.
what makes me laugh is that there are some who modded this insightful instead of funny.
As soon as I heard that this will not be a multiplayer game (2 years ago I think?) I pretty much lost interest. Sure The Sims was popular without being multiplayer and this one looks like it's going to be just as "solitaire" strong, but is there a chance the the hype will kill it just as movies have been killed by their own hype?
You shouldn't say things this funny near an airport.
Although I cannot say that your situation is not also a problem, I think that I'd really like to see some easy ways for people to get info about their situation with packet-captures-on-each-side and process-debugging-within-the-router output that they can post so that more informed answers can be given.
Admit it, no matter how much you know, there is too much guesswork about other peoples setup and isp.
The best chair I've found is one that lets me lean back to about 140 degrees and have the bottom part less tilted but tilted none the less for leg support. This goes with a desk that can allow you to slide under as much as possible and have knee room, so no keyboard sliders under the desk.
I have never had a problem with my back, lower back, but or any kind of strain. There's nothing better.
In Soviet Russia, you are a copy of your copy
I haven't gone through the changes to 4e yet but I found that in 3.5 we were spending a lot of time searching for modifiers for our rolls. Is there a shift from this to where the role playing will start making a more concrete difference in survival and the adventures or is it still up to the DM to make sure this happens? My last 2 DMs were excellent in this aspect but with more definitive rules and information about this it would make ALL the players role play more.
although after looking around this looked not so bad http://www.planet-earth.org/ but still feels like something made in the 90s.
Anyone who wanted to name their game zone-out is screwed.
That should say some are missing features and some have bugs.
I mean give me a break, haven't all the other companies moved on? Sun can't even get a 2D gui control toolkit together and it's 2006. This should have been one of the first things they did.
Did they really want to keep having ugly, weird working scrollbars, no-colour, no style interfaces unless the programmer spends as much time on the gui as the rest of the program? If yes then success is at hand.
Personally I would just raise the bar and consolidate.
Sun, question to you: how long did it take to figure out that you restrict programmers on the use of the if statement? I'm sure you and several 3rd parties could have had a thousand if packages, IMAGINE THE CHOICE!!! You would have ruled my friend!
Stuck in the past, stuck in the past. I don't see other mature companies still wrestling with evolution on 2D gui toolkits. You're still in the playground on that.
"The nice thing about standards is that you get to choose from so many." Should be your motto.
whatever
I don't see this happening though unless a "ware of the day" like bittorrent pops up.
at 11 the first computer I touched was the zx-81 and fell in love with programming. 2 months later I got an atari400. Subsequently went through the atari 800, 130XE, amiga500, amiga1000 (hacked to bits) took a partying break, then 386dx40 and etc... But most of my programming was at school on an XT with 640K, it was the only one without 320K and it was reserved for me because I was the only one that wrote programs that required the memory. I loved to show off my ataris to C64 people, the graphics would blow themm away, especially when I would program them from scratch in front of them. good times, good times print#6 for the blind :-)
Imagine they would provide the standard 10Mb for whatever price but then also say ok, we can add 1Mb up/down guaranteed QOS delivery on top of that with 25ms (or something) latency within their own network for whatever price. Then start working with other networks to expand the guarantee so that enough providers get together to make it actually useful.
This could create an overlay network that would (finally) have guaranteed delivery. This would of course make it so they get their voip money, but would open the door to real videoconferencing and not to mention gaming would be sooooooo much better.
The new network would end up with some trendy name but the providers would finally have a new source of income.
The providers couldn't really do this without providing a simple tool to users that would let us choose which programs can use the guaranteed bandwidth.
I would pay for that.
Surely they will try to find something in the BR camp to level things out.
the subject read my mind
But if there is a browser available in that OS, I've been looking for one now for ages to basically create an OS in Javascript. It really sounds like this is the OS that I should choose to create this... if it has a browser of course ;)
and for audio too. everyone has brought up the "use a picture" but if there were 2 or 3 cameras then a 3d reconstruction of the face could be done and short of plastering someones face it would be better than 2d. Also for audio, if there were 3 microphones then the position of the voice could be found and we could speak into the phone at 2 feet away and the only thing they would hear is our voice. It would help in crowded places as well, we could just whisper and no matter how loud the rest of the area is our voice would still get through.
because then we can purchase non-lossy compressed 1080p movies that will be too large to download. A second reason to purchase movies other than the "I like to sleep at night" reason. Ya right, as if the media industry will ever figure out that non-lossy compressed movies is the best way to get most people who download to buy the media.
it's true, thinking that OSS will bring in the dough would probably get you ended up holding a blanky and sucking your thumb... don't think it'll be like... uh, Linus I guess.
Will we finaly have processors that can do roman numeral math? It's about time!!! Finally new technology and no longer is it all about the gigahertz (they must have learnt their lesson).
Also the pronounciation, is it "Viv"? If so then I wonder if the chip will also have a job in the mornings at the local greacy spoon and finally start paying for some of that electricity bill!!!
One also wonders (not me though) if the "New" Roman numeral system will be used in which 64 would be represented as IIIIIIXXXXXXX which would look a lot cooler on the top of the processor, way better than VI IV but most importantly is also a very curious set of answers to the next ballot in my area. hmmmm,
it's based on a calculator not a telephone.
That's a feature I'd get a new drive for. There's power, noise and reliability to work on as well but it's not really up to me is it?
and 3 games that loaded with a cassette player. I read the entire Basic language book that came with it and learned how to make simple things. I was 11. It lasted a few months until my dad got an atari 400 and for the next year I wrote tons of tiny little stupid games and graphics (screen savers these days) until there was a modem. That's when the learning went down, I spent more time online and less being productive. The next 4 years were full of sysoping, a bit of datapack and computer upgrades (amiga and ST) and the only programming was at school. I wrote some really great art software with a friend and a really good game that got pirated one day when I went to the bathroom, it wasn't finished yet so I was pissed that people thought that I wrote broken software. I took a 4 year break from computers when one night myself and 3 friends were wondering what to do and I had an old atari400 with 5 joysticks from different systems that all plugged into the machine that only had a basic cartridge and no data storage. I took 20 minutes and threw together a 4 player snake game. I kept the machine on for a month until I said goodbye. Then I took an electronics course, knowing that it was the next step in understanding computers from the inside out. There I wrote drivers, used an oscilloscope on motherboards, designed circuits etc... Then Linux :D one machine in particular ended up running for 3 years. Just a telnet->serial multiplexer (long story).
Then history would be shown as jobs, marriage, jobs, divorce, no jobs(on purpose), dot bomb, no jobs(not on purpose), jobs.
From that entire experience, this is what I've learned: When it comes to companies looking for computer people, they have no idea what to look for in a person to get the job done because they never really understand what the job entails. Every programmer should spend a couple of days with the person that's going to use the software and just hang out with them. But that's off topic.
Anyways, it's been a nice walk.