Or instead of gender, classify by weight and power (I guess how much force someone can extert with their arms or legs).
That way in the 100m dash, we can have the Featherweight class, the Welterweight class, the Heavyweight class and the Usain Bolt class (which only has Usain Bolt in it).
Nebraska has moved it's monthly tornado siren tests from the first Saturday of a month to the first Wednesday so that places can actually drill during a work day.
You just cut out the back, Jack Put it in a pan , Stan You make it into alloy, Roy Just format your C: Use the degauss, Gus You don't need to discuss much Just lose the private key, Lee And get yourself free
Except Xbox/Playstation games are more censored than GameCube/Wii games. GameCube had the only uncensored version of BMX XXX for example, and Conker's Bad Fur Day was 10x more censored on the Xbox re-release than on the N64 original.
The reason the version number is reported as 6.1 is to not break stupid programs that check the major version number (or else they'd have a "MY PROGRAM IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 7" fiasco, only due to stupid developers and their version checks). For all intents and purposes it is 7.0 for Microsoft.
So they should continue to support an OS that hasn't seen mainline support since 1990 or so? DOSBOX is what you want, anyway, because you can make virtual disks and such. People were already moving onto DOSBOX even with XP.
Forcing.NET on everyone. Bad move.
That'd be like saying Apple made a bad move with XCode, or MS made a bad move by 'forcing' DLLs on everyone. For end users, they don't care what the program is running on, really. By including.NET standard you can count on less people having to install it over slow connections.
API's multiplying exponentially. Bad move.
New technology = more APIs. Are you seriously expecting an API to stay static between every version of any OS forever? Once again, users don't care.
Braindead userland security. Bad move.
They have to make the security simple or else people won't use it. Since most developers have figured out how to stop making Vista and 7 throw up UAC warnings everywhere, you should hardly ever see a UAC prompt since more and more Windows programs won't need admin access to do everything.
The PSX D-pad has never been good. It's seperated, and the pointy ends of the buttons face inward,s o it tears up your thumb.
The last good dpad was the the on the N64 controller, which isn't saying much because that was the SNES dpad on there.. the Wii's is usable, but you don't have to use it much.
When you join a militia and keep your guns for that, you'll have a point.
The government has done its best for decades to convince the people that militias are full of homicidal maniacs. And no, the National Guard is not a militia. It is a standing army under the control of the FEDERAL government-- and it has to be, because states are forbidden from having standing armies in the Constitution.
The government has done nothing to do such, the militias do a good job of that themselves. Look up your local state militias, most of them have 1997 web design and are anti-immigrant and such, and others take it further and stop a step short of declaring themselves KKK members.
In short, most sane people just join their state's national guard.
What needs to happen is 'normal' people need to get together and organize a militia to try and counteract the crazy ones. Unfortunately it's just easier to join the National Guard.
It's ignored because most people had already gotten tired of the Bush jokes, and it results in people of either party switching the channel.
I had a personal rule that a late night comedian is allowed 1 president joke with a limit of another one that builds upon the previous joke. Unsuprisingly, I changed the channel a lot more on Leno than I did Letterman, although Conan and Craig I never changed the channel on for that rule yet.
It's not a matter of my personal opinion of the president, more of a "stop using filler jokes to pad your monologue".
Already persuing a streaming service right after making a big announcement that we'll be able to listen to last.fm from our Xbox 360s?
This is like all their music stores/PlaysForSure that have come before, where they announce one thing, and then drop it because some exec in another department wants to do a similiar project.
It'd be awesome if Nebraska would buy some of them off him, but it seems the state isn't too interested at this point.. although Iowa constantly bragging about all of it's wind power is helping people consider it here:)
You do realize that due to XP not reserving RAM and releasing it to programs that need it, it has to page to and from disk a lot more and therefore your HDD bottlenecks the system?
WinVista and 7 due reserve more RAM but they give it up when programs need it, unlike XP which pages the programs to disk as soon as they've been minimized for more than 3 seconds:/
The problem is school districts think they are god and above the law. They get even more power hungry than the most power hungry cop, and much less accountable.
For instance, a year or two back, a girl claimed she was sexually assaulted in the stairway of a school.
What did the school do?
Call the cops?
No.
Call the parents?
No.
They sent a teacher to go 'investigate' the stairway. Instead of you know, calling the cops, who are trained in questioning and scene investigation, they send a portly tenured person down to go contaminate the scene because they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
This is just a lighter one of their instances of pulling that shit. They always like to try and bury things before they get outside the school or to the press, and often tried to intimidate kids into not talking about something.
Well, I'm hoping to have a startup company here in Omaha a few years, so I'll just bookmark this comment and send you an email once we get going:)
There ARE startups around here, but you really have to go digging around for them. They love to stick themselves in the middle of residential areas or in a strip mall, we really don't have a 'tech' area of the city.
The reason Omaha has trouble hanging onto tech companies is party because they get go public, get bought by a bigger company, then that bigger company moves them away.
It would be nice if some tech support companies would start up here, though. It's like call-center central here.
They had a bunch of romance novels. Yeah, they're smut, but they're also donated in droves and worth about 50 cents. We didn't even bother to catalog them - they just got the 'romance' sticker. If I remember correctly they didn't even get security tags put on them.
When people checked them out, we just tallied the amount on a piece of paper, they didn't even go onto that person's record in any way, shape, or form. Ultimately, we didn't even care if the books came back, although we didn't tell patrons this. If they got damaged beyond 'taping the cover back together' they just got thrown out.
However having them there DID get people into the library, which increased the gate count, which increased money to the library. They only took up a small area of less than 5'x5' (They were on those spinning book holders). And a lot of times people coming to get them would see a new book and check that out.
Yep, I've made plenty of PC maps. I've also made maps on consoles, with a thumbstick. Timesplitters 2 and 3, Far Cry for OXbox, Far Cry 2 for 360.. all have great map editors that don't require a mouse and keyboard (in fact, Far Cry 2 for 360 and PC have basically the same map editor, except the PC can get away with more objects/fidelity due to more available RAM).
Technically Halo 3 has a map editor, although you cannot edit geometry, just objects. But you can also use the objects to make actual levels on Foundry and Sandbox.
As long as the tools are made correctly, the input device should not matter. It's not my problem that Valve still has a clunky, unweildy method for map editing and tweaking, even when using it with a mouse and keyboard. They need to come up with something better for their next engine, but they will probably never go away from the HL1 methods because they're too comfortable now.
Unreal 2K4's engine was ported to the Xbox. The Wii has more RAM and processing power than the Xbox by leaps and bounds. UT2K4 could be easily ported to Wii.
That being said, I thought Unreal Championship 2 for Xbox was a better game than UT2K4.. I wish they could bring that back.
It's just sad that a game like Starfox Adventures, a game that only came out a year after GC's release, had:
*Full self shadowing and real time lighting on EVERYTHING *Fur shading (they even used it for grass, it just wasn't a bit here and there on Fox's model) *widescreen and surround sound support *basically zero load times
Now developers with more than 2x the RAM, 2x the processing power, and so on and so forth can't match SFA... it's laziness. Most developers and publishers just port the PS2 version of a game to the Wii. Guess what, the PS2 doesn't support bump mapping or universal real time lighting, or all the next shaders that the Xbox/GC/Wii can do so they don't have a reason and/or don't bother spiffing up the Wii version with those effects.
The sad thing is, the PS2 held back the GameCube because 3rd parties just ported the PS2 version up to the Cube instead of reworking the Xbox version. The PS2 is holding back the Wii because it's easier to port the PS2 version than it is to rework your 360/PS3 version.
Ubi's developers could have easily dropped detail - the Wii version doesn't need to run in 720p. They could have reworked the AI to be less memory intensive. Rockstar pulled off San Andreas with only 24MB of RAM. 24MB! and you're telling me that they can't make an open world game with 88MB?
When I worked at a call center, we had to take OSHA training for a day.
the most we ever did was sit in front of a computer with a headset on.
But since the call center and cafeteria were connected via the warehouse, they probably considered it just better, safer, and less liable to train people on key in/out/lock/etc systems even though we would never handle them since we were walking through the warehouse. Took only like 5 seconds walk between the areas, too.
Patches are updates to actual code, and Live automatically updates them. They -can- contain new data such as textures.
DLC is content that sits in the game folder and can be deleted at any time. For example, Bungie patched a couple bugs in Halo 3 using the patch function, but maps are released as DLC since they're 150MB each minimum.
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Or instead of gender, classify by weight and power (I guess how much force someone can extert with their arms or legs).
That way in the 100m dash, we can have the Featherweight class, the Welterweight class, the Heavyweight class and the Usain Bolt class (which only has Usain Bolt in it).
Nebraska has moved it's monthly tornado siren tests from the first Saturday of a month to the first Wednesday so that places can actually drill during a work day.
You just cut out the back, Jack
Put it in a pan , Stan
You make it into alloy, Roy
Just format your C:
Use the degauss, Gus
You don't need to discuss much
Just lose the private key, Lee
And get yourself free
Except Xbox/Playstation games are more censored than GameCube/Wii games. GameCube had the only uncensored version of BMX XXX for example, and Conker's Bad Fur Day was 10x more censored on the Xbox re-release than on the N64 original.
You can't use the graphics card/chip/whatever you want to call it in the Linux sandbox mode.
The reason the version number is reported as 6.1 is to not break stupid programs that check the major version number (or else they'd have a "MY PROGRAM IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 7" fiasco, only due to stupid developers and their version checks). For all intents and purposes it is 7.0 for Microsoft.
Poor DOS support for games. Bad move.
So they should continue to support an OS that hasn't seen mainline support since 1990 or so? DOSBOX is what you want, anyway, because you can make virtual disks and such. People were already moving onto DOSBOX even with XP.
Forcing .NET on everyone. Bad move.
That'd be like saying Apple made a bad move with XCode, or MS made a bad move by 'forcing' DLLs on everyone. For end users, they don't care what the program is running on, really. By including .NET standard you can count on less people having to install it over slow connections.
API's multiplying exponentially. Bad move.
New technology = more APIs. Are you seriously expecting an API to stay static between every version of any OS forever? Once again, users don't care.
Braindead userland security. Bad move.
They have to make the security simple or else people won't use it. Since most developers have figured out how to stop making Vista and 7 throw up UAC warnings everywhere, you should hardly ever see a UAC prompt since more and more Windows programs won't need admin access to do everything.
The PSX D-pad has never been good. It's seperated, and the pointy ends of the buttons face inward,s o it tears up your thumb. The last good dpad was the the on the N64 controller, which isn't saying much because that was the SNES dpad on there.. the Wii's is usable, but you don't have to use it much.
When you join a militia and keep your guns for that, you'll have a point.
The government has done its best for decades to convince the people that militias are full of homicidal maniacs. And no, the National Guard is not a militia. It is a standing army under the control of the FEDERAL government-- and it has to be, because states are forbidden from having standing armies in the Constitution.
The government has done nothing to do such, the militias do a good job of that themselves. Look up your local state militias, most of them have 1997 web design and are anti-immigrant and such, and others take it further and stop a step short of declaring themselves KKK members.
In short, most sane people just join their state's national guard.
What needs to happen is 'normal' people need to get together and organize a militia to try and counteract the crazy ones. Unfortunately it's just easier to join the National Guard.
It's ignored because most people had already gotten tired of the Bush jokes, and it results in people of either party switching the channel.
I had a personal rule that a late night comedian is allowed 1 president joke with a limit of another one that builds upon the previous joke. Unsuprisingly, I changed the channel a lot more on Leno than I did Letterman, although Conan and Craig I never changed the channel on for that rule yet.
It's not a matter of my personal opinion of the president, more of a "stop using filler jokes to pad your monologue".
Jupiter's PR firm was quoted that day as saying, quote, "whoops.jpg"
Already persuing a streaming service right after making a big announcement that we'll be able to listen to last.fm from our Xbox 360s?
This is like all their music stores/PlaysForSure that have come before, where they announce one thing, and then drop it because some exec in another department wants to do a similiar project.
Heh. My mom has a stupid dog, and a smart dog.
And a stupid cat, and a smart cat.
I like to think that happened so that they cancel each other out.
It'd be awesome if Nebraska would buy some of them off him, but it seems the state isn't too interested at this point.. although Iowa constantly bragging about all of it's wind power is helping people consider it here :)
Just like the PC has wii support so you could, as a dev, make a game that uses a wiimote on the pc.
Not without using an API made by a person who has a 'cannot be used in Israel' line in his EULA.
You do realize that due to XP not reserving RAM and releasing it to programs that need it, it has to page to and from disk a lot more and therefore your HDD bottlenecks the system? WinVista and 7 due reserve more RAM but they give it up when programs need it, unlike XP which pages the programs to disk as soon as they've been minimized for more than 3 seconds :/
XP SP2 was an exception for service packs in how much it changed and updated. XP SP3 was like a normal service pack again.
The problem is school districts think they are god and above the law. They get even more power hungry than the most power hungry cop, and much less accountable.
For instance, a year or two back, a girl claimed she was sexually assaulted in the stairway of a school.
What did the school do?
Call the cops?
No.
Call the parents?
No.
They sent a teacher to go 'investigate' the stairway. Instead of you know, calling the cops, who are trained in questioning and scene investigation, they send a portly tenured person down to go contaminate the scene because they didn't know what the hell they were doing.
This is just a lighter one of their instances of pulling that shit. They always like to try and bury things before they get outside the school or to the press, and often tried to intimidate kids into not talking about something.
Well, I'm hoping to have a startup company here in Omaha a few years, so I'll just bookmark this comment and send you an email once we get going :)
There ARE startups around here, but you really have to go digging around for them. They love to stick themselves in the middle of residential areas or in a strip mall, we really don't have a 'tech' area of the city.
The reason Omaha has trouble hanging onto tech companies is party because they get go public, get bought by a bigger company, then that bigger company moves them away.
It would be nice if some tech support companies would start up here, though. It's like call-center central here.
I worked at the library.
They had a bunch of romance novels. Yeah, they're smut, but they're also donated in droves and worth about 50 cents. We didn't even bother to catalog them - they just got the 'romance' sticker. If I remember correctly they didn't even get security tags put on them.
When people checked them out, we just tallied the amount on a piece of paper, they didn't even go onto that person's record in any way, shape, or form. Ultimately, we didn't even care if the books came back, although we didn't tell patrons this. If they got damaged beyond 'taping the cover back together' they just got thrown out.
However having them there DID get people into the library, which increased the gate count, which increased money to the library. They only took up a small area of less than 5'x5' (They were on those spinning book holders). And a lot of times people coming to get them would see a new book and check that out.
Yep, I've made plenty of PC maps. I've also made maps on consoles, with a thumbstick. Timesplitters 2 and 3, Far Cry for OXbox, Far Cry 2 for 360.. all have great map editors that don't require a mouse and keyboard (in fact, Far Cry 2 for 360 and PC have basically the same map editor, except the PC can get away with more objects/fidelity due to more available RAM).
Technically Halo 3 has a map editor, although you cannot edit geometry, just objects. But you can also use the objects to make actual levels on Foundry and Sandbox.
As long as the tools are made correctly, the input device should not matter. It's not my problem that Valve still has a clunky, unweildy method for map editing and tweaking, even when using it with a mouse and keyboard. They need to come up with something better for their next engine, but they will probably never go away from the HL1 methods because they're too comfortable now.
Unreal 2K4's engine was ported to the Xbox. The Wii has more RAM and processing power than the Xbox by leaps and bounds. UT2K4 could be easily ported to Wii.
That being said, I thought Unreal Championship 2 for Xbox was a better game than UT2K4.. I wish they could bring that back.
It's just sad that a game like Starfox Adventures, a game that only came out a year after GC's release, had:
*Full self shadowing and real time lighting on EVERYTHING
*Fur shading (they even used it for grass, it just wasn't a bit here and there on Fox's model)
*widescreen and surround sound support
*basically zero load times
Now developers with more than 2x the RAM, 2x the processing power, and so on and so forth can't match SFA... it's laziness. Most developers and publishers just port the PS2 version of a game to the Wii. Guess what, the PS2 doesn't support bump mapping or universal real time lighting, or all the next shaders that the Xbox/GC/Wii can do so they don't have a reason and/or don't bother spiffing up the Wii version with those effects.
The sad thing is, the PS2 held back the GameCube because 3rd parties just ported the PS2 version up to the Cube instead of reworking the Xbox version. The PS2 is holding back the Wii because it's easier to port the PS2 version than it is to rework your 360/PS3 version.
Ubi's developers could have easily dropped detail - the Wii version doesn't need to run in 720p. They could have reworked the AI to be less memory intensive. Rockstar pulled off San Andreas with only 24MB of RAM. 24MB! and you're telling me that they can't make an open world game with 88MB?
When I worked at a call center, we had to take OSHA training for a day.
the most we ever did was sit in front of a computer with a headset on.
But since the call center and cafeteria were connected via the warehouse, they probably considered it just better, safer, and less liable to train people on key in/out/lock/etc systems even though we would never handle them since we were walking through the warehouse. Took only like 5 seconds walk between the areas, too.
Patches are updates to actual code, and Live automatically updates them. They -can- contain new data such as textures.
DLC is content that sits in the game folder and can be deleted at any time. For example, Bungie patched a couple bugs in Halo 3 using the patch function, but maps are released as DLC since they're 150MB each minimum.
Basically, data is DLC.
New functionality and code is added via patches.