I know Steve Stone must've felt like doing just that about a million times... but you can't send him to a mental hospital -- who'll sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game?"
When this was an issue so long ago, I jumped on the "Shoulda ousted Saddam" bandwagon... probably just as an excuse to ridicule Bush Sr. However, in that essay his analysis is very lucid, and as it turns out, prophetic.
My humblest appologies to the former president... harshest criticisms to the current.
So they scoop together all this technology so it can push pretty much the same # of polys as the PS2, but with only a quarter of the RAM?! Sure you can draw a bunch of polys, but the model vertex data has to be stored somewhere... along with textures, audio, execution code, animations.
Okay so 'olden days' games were a lot smaller than that, but my question is: Why all the serious 3D hardware without enough RAM to store all the things that go into a 3D game?
The best part is the last paragraph of the patent...
"...the swinging method of the present invention may be referred to by the present inventor and his sister as "Tarzan" swinging. The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell while swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry is not required."
Seriously. What was this? 3rd grade File-A-Patent Day?
I think people will dig tabbed browsing once they try it. However, Mozilla's implementation of it is pretty broken (or inferior, I guess) compared to just hitting Ctrl-N in IE. In IE, the current page is copied to a new browser window along with my browse history ("Back" button drop-down). In Mozilla, Ctl-T brings up a new tab with a blank page... I'm not sure why. And Ctl-N brings up a new window at my home page with a blank history... Again, pretty pointless.
For people like me whose browsing branches frequently, this is pretty frustrating. I'm using Mozilla for now because I dig the 'open-source competitor' thing. But they have some work to do before 2.0.
Thanks to arrangements made by my former employer, there will be no need for me to pay income taxes this year!
Yeah, suck it IRS Sux0r5. AND Turbo Tax. And Dubya. You ain't getting ONE CENT of the money I didn't earn this year. Roll that in your budget and smoke it.
Yeah, but it's always a little off somehow. As if developers are just phrasing that way because they've suddenly decided (realized?) that they're a business so they need to act like a business.
It's like if you heard a musician say "We're working with labels to ensure a de-escalation in infringement of our copyrights, while providing the highest quality musical experience to our listeners."
I mean, yeah sure, that's the way it works. But I know damn well those words didn't originate in the head whose mouth is speaking them.
I've had a theory for the past couple years that some 'rogue' virus might march through my computer some day and wipe out all my mp3s... then there was that orrin hatch babble about making it legal.
Let me just say I'm very happy to have my music backed up.
"Everybody want to know what they were listening to, what movies did they watch?... Whatever happened to Craaazy?! What, you can't be crazy no more?... Fuck the records, fuck the movies, CRAY-ZEE.
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I know Steve Stone must've felt like doing just that about a million times... but you can't send him to a mental hospital -- who'll sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game?"
There's such a fine line between clever and... stupid.
Preliminary numbers show that my high-tech employment declined 100% this year... Still hoping for a break-even by the end of December though.
Yeah, my boss tried that one also. You know, we can hear you coming, right?
"Little joey was last seen at the bus stop, but his Gametrac somehow made it to the basement of St Paul's Church down the street."
You get what you pay for, so the saying goes.
At least the reporter didn't ask about "GNU/Unix"... That little bit of burlesque could last hours.
My humblest appologies to the former president... harshest criticisms to the current.
But even then, it's in an industrial-zoned area, so no big deal anyway.
Okay so 'olden days' games were a lot smaller than that, but my question is: Why all the serious 3D hardware without enough RAM to store all the things that go into a 3D game?
"...the swinging method of the present invention may be referred to by the present inventor and his sister as "Tarzan" swinging. The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell while swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry is not required."
Seriously. What was this? 3rd grade File-A-Patent Day?
For people like me whose browsing branches frequently, this is pretty frustrating. I'm using Mozilla for now because I dig the 'open-source competitor' thing. But they have some work to do before 2.0.
...take one of these???
Yeah, suck it IRS Sux0r5. AND Turbo Tax. And Dubya. You ain't getting ONE CENT of the money I didn't earn this year. Roll that in your budget and smoke it.
can't you just diff the kernel versions and look at the lines that are deleted... or changed to represent the same functionality?
Hope you like 1st gear.
Borland is a leader in C++ development
I'd be all like "Khazam!!! MS can kizziss my kizzass!" People would dig that shit in press releases.
Or... wait.
This is hard.
It's like if you heard a musician say "We're working with labels to ensure a de-escalation in infringement of our copyrights, while providing the highest quality musical experience to our listeners."
I mean, yeah sure, that's the way it works. But I know damn well those words didn't originate in the head whose mouth is speaking them.
But the argument is whether or not you need a warrant to attach the device, not whether or not it should ever be done.
GPS is a simple way to do 24/7 surveillance detail on a suspect if a judge says so. Otherwise, it's an invasion of privacy. Makes sense to me.
It's always been "Oh, that card has all the best features, but you won't see a game that actually uses them for another 18 months."
Also, I wish they would've discussed why the Ti4600 kicked the shit out of Nvidia's newer cards.
Let me just say I'm very happy to have my music backed up.
(-1, American)
"Everybody want to know what they were listening to, what movies did they watch?... Whatever happened to Craaazy?! What, you can't be crazy no more?... Fuck the records, fuck the movies, CRAY-ZEE.
Then again... it's only slightly more dehumanizing than sending the essays off to India to be graded :\