I have, over the course of time, changed email providers several times. In at least one case, I have forgotten the password to a frequently used site (a re-install cleared my firefox password cache), and the password was emailed to an email address on a service I no longer use.
My wife changed her email address to reflect her new surname when we got married. Many online email providers (such as we use) have policies in place that delete unused accounts.
You know, in a rational world, I would vote for the representative that had demonstrated that their opinions most closely mirrored mine - thus avoiding complicated doublethink.
Dude. I hate to point this out, But you had to go out onto the net to download the HotCoffee mod too.
By which, you assertion that "If being able to "go out on the internet and download porno into the game" is sufficient grounds for calling something mature.. that's a wee bit ridiculous.", yes, rating GTA mature *was* a bit ridiculous.
It *IS* a story driven game you buffoon. If you turn on quick quest text and ignore the story thats your problem.
Its as much story driven as Lord of the Rings. No matter how many times I read chapter 23, Frodo still does the same thing.
WoW is an interactive novel that plays out with *you* as the lead protagonist. It doesn't matter that thousands of others have killed the scarlet commander mograine. Thousands of other people have also read LOTR.
A lot of the system slowdown on Windows boxes can be traced to explorer. Explorer is a single threaded application, and when used on a network, over time it tends to collect many network relative paths to resources like icons. Later the network shares dissapear or are moved. The result is, every time explorer tries to generate lists of icons to display for files it pauses - using 0% CPU - waiting for non existant network hosts to respond.
Hell. The only reason I ahve a cellphone is so I can SMS and call people. As such, if the independent software market for cellphones is killed off in its entireity, boo hoo.
Now that I have 5 WoW characters in their 40-50's...
When, when is Blizzard going to release World of Diablo II, so I can cancel my WoW account and play the *real* MMO I always wanted to play?
Its actually because drag and drop, under MS Windows isn't managed by the window manager, but by the object linking and embedding sub-system (OLE). For - what are probably security related issues, OLE doesn nor provide a way to query a window handle for its drag drop handler. Because MS sem to ahve decided in this one case to NOT abuse undocumented functions, the shell's taskbar has no extra access that other application programs can't get - It simply cannot proxy the drag and drop even if it wanted to.
I got a copy of Glapogos bundled with one of the Wing Commander games. It sucked. I cant belive anyone had the patience to try and train that fucking spider. It walked off things, fell off edges. It got fried by laser beams. It was a fucking stupid AI bot in a fucking stupid game. The only "training" that game does is teaching humans to go into some sort of switched off must-click-mouse-button over and over trance state.
Then I got Black and White, and discovered that machine learning AIs in games could get even worse.
I've seen it argued that its safer to not try too hard. If you try to deploy any system to prevent piracy, you then run the risk of becomming liable for piracy that occours if the system fails.
"If a comet the size of earth were to come in from deep space, loop just inside the orbit of mercury, then zip back out into space not to return for thousands of years, I don't think there'd be any argument. Despite it's size, it has the orbit of a comet, so it's a comet."
What? Of course there would be argument. At least from me. Orbits change. Mass does not. Its a planet because, despite its odd orbit, its as big as a planet. And round. And might even have an atmosphere and stuff.
Unless it was a ball of ice in which case Id say it was a big ****ing comet.
"Today's rasterizers can do almost all that too: hard shadows (stencil shadows), and "good enough" reflections and refractions (using environment maps and shaders)."
Yep - thats why the mirror reflections in Doom III didnt look like such a cheap trick. NOT.
If you think environment mapping allows for compelling reflections - Ha!
Huh? Kill competition? Why is competition here a "good thing". You feel its somehow better to pay for something you could get for free?
Either the municipal service is good (And free) and eopel use it, or its not. In which case competition is alive an well as people can pay to use a higher quality service.
Now that I think about it, I dont know how I perfer it. Two basic ways come to mind:
1. Setup the site with raw images. This means the default context menu works - Save As, Open in Tab, Open In New Window.
2. Sites with an image browser. Once a thumbnail is clicked, then you can use next and prev to step between images. In which case I tend to open the image browser in a tab.
Point being that a site that opens in a new window tends to break my tabbed browsing, and also breaks the context menu functionality.
To add to the other excellent replies: Because software patents are too easy.
Unfortunately I have lost the link, but there was an interview with an ex MSFT who has setup a company with the express purpose of dealing, and profiting only from leasing out a large stable of patents. Yes he intended to hire software engineers, but they were never to actually produce anything tangible - other than a stream of patents.
Their method of 'work' was to, perhaps once a week or month, throw the engineers into a room, to eat snacks and brainstorm while being recorded. Lawyers would then go over the recordings to extract any worthwhile 'ideas' and patent them.
Now, im sorry, but when it comes to 'novel' and 'unobvious' as pre-requsites for a patent, I imagine someone like Thomas Edison, slaving away in his workshop for years and finally producing the lightbulb and associated patent applications.
Not a bunch of dorks sitting in a room basically going 'won't it be neat when X could be done in software'.
In an event based model, events - being button clicks by the player, or the results of combat rolls on the server, are transmitted accross the wire. If nothing happens, no data is transmitted. Packet loss implies that events are lost.
In a state based model, the server (and client) would continuously spam each other with updates regarding the state of mobs. Lost packets means that a mob's state isnt updated for a frame, but generally another state update will be along soon that will be fresh anyway, so asking for a resend would be redundant anyway.
Most games, WoW included, transmit events rather than poll status and thus (would) benefit from TCP.
I dont know what you are smoking, but VoIP without in-order sequenced packets is pretty damned unintelligable.
Likewise, MP games also need sequenced packets or the game physics goes really weired. And dropped packets means mobs just go missing / commands are ignored. Unless you implement re-send logic at which point youve bloody re-invented TCP. But badly.
Please actually THINK about the rammifications of what you are spouting next time.
In most kind of, as you say, "streaming" situations a streaming protocol is preferable. TCP.
Clearly, you are clueless. When comparin gUDP to TCP, UDP is *always* the wrong solution.
Why? Because writing code that actually CAN tolerate packetloss is a very hard problem. So hard in fact that no one does it. The first thing every MMO that uses UDP does is implement a re-transmit on suspected dropped packet logic. Which means they would have been better off just using TCP.
Depending on your realtime requirements you can disable tcp naggle and perhaps some other options.
I'd rather, frankly, have packets that are late than no packets at all.
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My wife changed her email address to reflect her new surname when we got married. Many online email providers (such as we use) have policies in place that delete unused accounts.
You know, in a rational world, I would vote for the representative that had demonstrated that their opinions most closely mirrored mine - thus avoiding complicated doublethink.
Dude. I hate to point this out, But you had to go out onto the net to download the HotCoffee mod too.
By which, you assertion that "If being able to "go out on the internet and download porno into the game" is sufficient grounds for calling something mature.. that's a wee bit ridiculous.", yes, rating GTA mature *was* a bit ridiculous.
It *IS* a story driven game you buffoon. If you turn on quick quest text and ignore the story thats your problem.
Its as much story driven as Lord of the Rings. No matter how many times I read chapter 23, Frodo still does the same thing.
WoW is an interactive novel that plays out with *you* as the lead protagonist. It doesn't matter that thousands of others have killed the scarlet commander mograine. Thousands of other people have also read LOTR.
A lot of the system slowdown on Windows boxes can be traced to explorer. Explorer is a single threaded application, and when used on a network, over time it tends to collect many network relative paths to resources like icons. Later the network shares dissapear or are moved. The result is, every time explorer tries to generate lists of icons to display for files it pauses - using 0% CPU - waiting for non existant network hosts to respond.
Hell. The only reason I ahve a cellphone is so I can SMS and call people. As such, if the independent software market for cellphones is killed off in its entireity, boo hoo.
Now that I have 5 WoW characters in their 40-50's... When, when is Blizzard going to release World of Diablo II, so I can cancel my WoW account and play the *real* MMO I always wanted to play?
Its actually because drag and drop, under MS Windows isn't managed by the window manager, but by the object linking and embedding sub-system (OLE). For - what are probably security related issues, OLE doesn nor provide a way to query a window handle for its drag drop handler. Because MS sem to ahve decided in this one case to NOT abuse undocumented functions, the shell's taskbar has no extra access that other application programs can't get - It simply cannot proxy the drag and drop even if it wanted to.
Then I got Black and White, and discovered that machine learning AIs in games could get even worse.
um, thats why the original article totally failed to specify crunch mode in IT.
I've seen it argued that its safer to not try too hard. If you try to deploy any system to prevent piracy, you then run the risk of becomming liable for piracy that occours if the system fails.
As the internet grows, millions of people that currently do not pay for software, will continue to not pay for software.
Pay up.
"If a comet the size of earth were to come in from deep space, loop just inside the orbit of mercury, then zip back out into space not to return for thousands of years, I don't think there'd be any argument. Despite it's size, it has the orbit of a comet, so it's a comet." What? Of course there would be argument. At least from me. Orbits change. Mass does not. Its a planet because, despite its odd orbit, its as big as a planet. And round. And might even have an atmosphere and stuff. Unless it was a ball of ice in which case Id say it was a big ****ing comet.
Yep - thats why the mirror reflections in Doom III didnt look like such a cheap trick. NOT.
If you think environment mapping allows for compelling reflections - Ha!
Either the municipal service is good (And free) and eopel use it, or its not. In which case competition is alive an well as people can pay to use a higher quality service.
Either way the consumer wins.
I favor the "if(!bob)" style because I find it more readable.
Actually thats too strong a word.
Now that I think about it, I dont know how I perfer it. Two basic ways come to mind:
1. Setup the site with raw images. This means the default context menu works - Save As, Open in Tab, Open In New Window.
2. Sites with an image browser. Once a thumbnail is clicked, then you can use next and prev to step between images. In which case I tend to open the image browser in a tab.
Point being that a site that opens in a new window tends to break my tabbed browsing, and also breaks the context menu functionality.
Maybe it should be called Woodhenge then.
The problem is too many people too many people don't "get" a good metaphore.
Well then. My life is a lie. And not even the people I belive should have patents deserve them.
patents must die!
To add to the other excellent replies: Because software patents are too easy.
Unfortunately I have lost the link, but there was an interview with an ex MSFT who has setup a company with the express purpose of dealing, and profiting only from leasing out a large stable of patents. Yes he intended to hire software engineers, but they were never to actually produce anything tangible - other than a stream of patents.
Their method of 'work' was to, perhaps once a week or month, throw the engineers into a room, to eat snacks and brainstorm while being recorded. Lawyers would then go over the recordings to extract any worthwhile 'ideas' and patent them.
Now, im sorry, but when it comes to 'novel' and 'unobvious' as pre-requsites for a patent, I imagine someone like Thomas Edison, slaving away in his workshop for years and finally producing the lightbulb and associated patent applications.
Not a bunch of dorks sitting in a room basically going 'won't it be neat when X could be done in software'.
There are two possible ways to model a game.
In an event based model, events - being button clicks by the player, or the results of combat rolls on the server, are transmitted accross the wire. If nothing happens, no data is transmitted. Packet loss implies that events are lost.
In a state based model, the server (and client) would continuously spam each other with updates regarding the state of mobs. Lost packets means that a mob's state isnt updated for a frame, but generally another state update will be along soon that will be fresh anyway, so asking for a resend would be redundant anyway.
Most games, WoW included, transmit events rather than poll status and thus (would) benefit from TCP.
I dont know what you are smoking, but VoIP without in-order sequenced packets is pretty damned unintelligable.
Likewise, MP games also need sequenced packets or the game physics goes really weired. And dropped packets means mobs just go missing / commands are ignored. Unless you implement re-send logic at which point youve bloody re-invented TCP. But badly.
Please actually THINK about the rammifications of what you are spouting next time.
In most kind of, as you say, "streaming" situations a streaming protocol is preferable. TCP.
Clearly, you are clueless. When comparin gUDP to TCP, UDP is *always* the wrong solution.
Why? Because writing code that actually CAN tolerate packetloss is a very hard problem. So hard in fact that no one does it. The first thing every MMO that uses UDP does is implement a re-transmit on suspected dropped packet logic. Which means they would have been better off just using TCP.
Depending on your realtime requirements you can disable tcp naggle and perhaps some other options.
I'd rather, frankly, have packets that are late than no packets at all.