Yeah, I can just see it: "We'd like to tell you about this new, fast-spreading malicious windows exploit does but our computers are experiencing a slight technical problem at the moment..."
"who have never put out a truly episodic game in their lives, "
Arguable. SR2 was fairly episodic, with the different time periods forming the framework for the episodes. My concern with handing the franchise to CD is that they seem to spend a lot of time building cutscenes to tell a story at the expense of gameplay - SR2 in particular is reduced to a game that can be played in hours if you skip the cutscenes*. If they can combine decent, deep stories with varied and interesting gameplay, then TR may have a chance of revival. But I'm waiting for Defiance before I hold my breath on that...
* yes, I know that the whole point is not to skip them, and the story is unusually intricate for a PC game (let alone a console one) but once you've seen them once you don't need to see them again.
"It seems nobody picked up OpenAL"
Creative are the main supporters now. OpenAL is used in UT2003 and quite a few Linux games. The website is badly out of date - you pretty much need to be on the developer list to get the latest information.
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If they demand phone numbers, they should expect people to enter fake numbers. What're they going to do, phone you up about it?
Next time you go and vote (you do do that right?) take a good long look at your ballot paper. In the UK at least when you go to a polling station you have to hand over your polling card, they tick you off on the sheet, tear a numbered ballot paper off a pad with counterfoils and record which number ballot paper you have been given.
Obviously the reason for numbering ballot papers is ostensibly to prevent duplicate ballots and so on. But you can bet the numbers are recorded - there's certainly nothing secret about who you vote for.
Hah, who needs to send robots to Mars to look for life when we have an obvious martian in out midst (or at the very least someone who has lived on Mars for the past four years).
Unfortunately too true. My guess, if replicator technology is ever achieved, is that we should expect a situation like that in System Shock 2, not Star Trek - money is as important as ever and corporations create artifical scarcities by controlling the replicators..
When we have desktop universal constructors, then I expect the manufacturing world will kick up a stink, but unless I misunderstand the article the printers it describes can only make certain sorts of devices - mainly those containing plastics and certain types of electronics and specific sorts of movement in them. Sure, this is going to cut into the manufacturing market for some things, but nothing like a real UC could do...
Yeah, but you have to ask how many of the sort of people who pay any attention to the drivel Gartner comes out with will ask Gates that sort of question.
Which assumes that a civilisation would be mind-numbingly dumb enough to explicitly advertise their location. You can be fairly certain that if you do pick up a signal from such a civilisation, there probably won't be much left of said civilisation now except desolate planets covered in ruins. If the planets still exist at all.
Put it this way - if someone dropped you in a darkened room with no idea who or what was in there would your first reaction be to shout at the top of your voice "Anyone in here?!" If so, you are either very trusting, very naive or just plain suicidal. Probably the latter.
Any truly advanced civilisation will work out that the most sensible thing you can do is kill broadcast technologies, switch to tight-band directional communication and hope like hell that nobody notices your noisy past. Fake your disappearance and pretend you never existed - sure, there may be nobody out there likely to wipe you out. but there as equally may be. Perhaps more than likely.
And how much would a bamboo mountain bike of similar strength and durability weigh compared to an aluminium one (ie: could it be a mountain bike or more of an "employ team of Sherpas to help carry the bike" bike?)
"Bandwidth is also a limited resource,"
Is it? Last I heard masses of fiber were just sitting dark - if there is any scarcity then it is a completely artifical one.
All DSL ISPs assume that you will not use your bandwidth. Seriously. Yes, they market it as a 24/7 512Mb or whatever service but they assume that you will never use it at full capacity at anything like that level. Look at the situation not long ago with NTL: that 1Gig a day cap they were proposing works out at less than a fifth of the possible download capability of a 512Kbps line. And NTL were complaining about that 1Gb putting too much of a load on their systems. This is true, to an extent, but the real problem from their point of view is that if users actually use all the bandwidth they are paying for then the IPS's has to pay out more than they'd like. If ISPs actually expected everyone to use their connection at anything near full capacity they would increase the price, probably dramatically.
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Rediculous, look at Java Swing: that has data, model and view separation and that isn't slow.
Oh, sorry, wrong universe again. Forget I said anything...
Yeah, I can just see it: "We'd like to tell you about this new, fast-spreading malicious windows exploit does but our computers are experiencing a slight technical problem at the moment..."
"Why do you think that quite a few Universities have gone to throttling/closing those ports?"
From the machine I'm using at the moment, the speed guide on adslguide.org.uk gives me:
Downstream - 41269 Kbps (5,158.6 KB/sec) 44570 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream - 9660 Kbps (1,207.5 KB/sec) 10432 Kbps (inc. overheads)
that give you some clue as to why universities don't like p2p aps?
"who have never put out a truly episodic game in their lives, "
Arguable. SR2 was fairly episodic, with the different time periods forming the framework for the episodes. My concern with handing the franchise to CD is that they seem to spend a lot of time building cutscenes to tell a story at the expense of gameplay - SR2 in particular is reduced to a game that can be played in hours if you skip the cutscenes*. If they can combine decent, deep stories with varied and interesting gameplay, then TR may have a chance of revival. But I'm waiting for Defiance before I hold my breath on that...
* yes, I know that the whole point is not to skip them, and the story is unusually intricate for a PC game (let alone a console one) but once you've seen them once you don't need to see them again.
"no other country could play them." ... until the hardware manufacturers get wind of the fact that there's huge demand for AVS capable players....
"It seems nobody picked up OpenAL" Creative are the main supporters now. OpenAL is used in UT2003 and quite a few Linux games. The website is badly out of date - you pretty much need to be on the developer list to get the latest information.
If they demand phone numbers, they should expect people to enter fake numbers. What're they going to do, phone you up about it?
Next time you go and vote (you do do that right?) take a good long look at your ballot paper. In the UK at least when you go to a polling station you have to hand over your polling card, they tick you off on the sheet, tear a numbered ballot paper off a pad with counterfoils and record which number ballot paper you have been given.
Obviously the reason for numbering ballot papers is ostensibly to prevent duplicate ballots and so on. But you can bet the numbers are recorded - there's certainly nothing secret about who you vote for.
Hah, who needs to send robots to Mars to look for life when we have an obvious martian in out midst (or at the very least someone who has lived on Mars for the past four years).
And I for one welcome out new Martian masters!
Unfortunately too true. My guess, if replicator technology is ever achieved, is that we should expect a situation like that in System Shock 2, not Star Trek - money is as important as ever and corporations create artifical scarcities by controlling the replicators..
When we have desktop universal constructors, then I expect the manufacturing world will kick up a stink, but unless I misunderstand the article the printers it describes can only make certain sorts of devices - mainly those containing plastics and certain types of electronics and specific sorts of movement in them. Sure, this is going to cut into the manufacturing market for some things, but nothing like a real UC could do...
I wonder if it'll have a beowolf cluster of Oracs this time?
Sorry, it had to be said..
Yeah, but you have to ask how many of the sort of people who pay any attention to the drivel Gartner comes out with will ask Gates that sort of question.
Which assumes that a civilisation would be mind-numbingly dumb enough to explicitly advertise their location. You can be fairly certain that if you do pick up a signal from such a civilisation, there probably won't be much left of said civilisation now except desolate planets covered in ruins. If the planets still exist at all.
Put it this way - if someone dropped you in a darkened room with no idea who or what was in there would your first reaction be to shout at the top of your voice "Anyone in here?!" If so, you are either very trusting, very naive or just plain suicidal. Probably the latter.
Any truly advanced civilisation will work out that the most sensible thing you can do is kill broadcast technologies, switch to tight-band directional communication and hope like hell that nobody notices your noisy past. Fake your disappearance and pretend you never existed - sure, there may be nobody out there likely to wipe you out. but there as equally may be. Perhaps more than likely.
Seti uses a lot of CPU time, CPUs draw more power when under load. I'll leave you to work out the rest.
Ah, but that's what THEY want you to think... ;)
"Society for the Reuse of Aluminum Foil" also known as the AFPB Association of America - "Wear your tinfoil hat with pride!"
And how much would a bamboo mountain bike of similar strength and durability weigh compared to an aluminium one (ie: could it be a mountain bike or more of an "employ team of Sherpas to help carry the bike" bike?)
Simple - install Mandrake.
"Bandwidth is also a limited resource," Is it? Last I heard masses of fiber were just sitting dark - if there is any scarcity then it is a completely artifical one.
All DSL ISPs assume that you will not use your bandwidth. Seriously. Yes, they market it as a 24/7 512Mb or whatever service but they assume that you will never use it at full capacity at anything like that level. Look at the situation not long ago with NTL: that 1Gig a day cap they were proposing works out at less than a fifth of the possible download capability of a 512Kbps line. And NTL were complaining about that 1Gb putting too much of a load on their systems. This is true, to an extent, but the real problem from their point of view is that if users actually use all the bandwidth they are paying for then the IPS's has to pay out more than they'd like. If ISPs actually expected everyone to use their connection at anything near full capacity they would increase the price, probably dramatically.
Biologist. ;)
40% Troll?!? Yeesh, and I thought /. would be less likely to attract the religious fundamentalists..
FWIW, I think you're right.
Oh, and Hail Eris! ->-
I'm never sane or aware the next morning. Sometimes this helps!
I thought everyone knew Echelon runs spamassassin..