Read again. It was packed for 7 hours - that doesn't mean the same people were there for the entire 7 hours. That's how long the floor was open, and it was packed the entire time.
This would especially work well if the MMPOG included it in their application. What I mean by this, is:
If you have the available bandwidth, you help out with the seed - while you're playing the game. With a large MMPOG this means that several thousand people are helping out other people that are downloading it.
Hopefully someone will get in there and buy the remaining licenses they have with any sort of value.
What would happen if nobody did? What would happen to Interplay's IP - Descent, Fallout mainly - if they went under? Does it default to the origional designers, or get dumped into public domain?
This is what happens when a publisher publishes bad games and scraps good games for even worse games. Case in point: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. If they had not tried to convert to a console-only publisher, and focused on what they did well: fund good games (Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Descent, Planescape) instead of crap games (Brotherhood of Steel, Hunter: The Reckoning...) they might not be in the ditch they are today.
Let it be a lesson to the other publishers.. when you publish crap, you go to crap.
And, here's the one I really want to know about, will the open source community make their own sleek, efficient and free MMORPG that runs efficiently on a 286?
Several of the players reviewed (Frontier Labs, BenQ) I have not even heard of before. The Neuros has more functionality than many of the players reviewed, including upgradable storage space and now USB2.0 (admittedly late). Their client software is open-source, and has a large following in linux. It supports OGG. It supports recording directly TO mp3. It supports identification of songs from line-in or radio. It has really long battery life if you do not interact with the player, because it queues songs in memory. Why was a Neuros not reviewed, is what I am wondering?
No, a lot of old games (Ultima Underworld especially) will not run in a win95/win98 environment. Any game that has special DOS memory requirements will not run in a win95/win98 environment, and as such this solution should be shunned.
Many older albums (Pink Floyd, especially) are meant to be listened to as albums, not singular songs. Dream Theater, a relatively recent band in comparison, actually wrote an album that follows a dramatic story arc. It has a definite beginning, middle, and end, with a climax. It has every element of being an opera, except fat ladies and harsh vibrato voices and (for the most part) classical instruments. Similarly, many of the more artistic albums that strike out from the crowd (listen to Hybrid's "Wide Angle" - it flows like a movie sound track) are meant to be listened to as a whole.
Even though for the most part, songs on an album have little to do with each other besides the artist that recorded them, there are a plethora of albums that contain songs that, while awesome to listen to alone, only come into their own when played in the context of the album they were released in.
What I mean is, their engines do not represent objects in 3D space. They are simply 2 dimensional representations of a 3 dimensional representation of a 2 dimensional map.
True as to slashdot or lj, however to curb the downloading of tv shows, etc, I run with a fairly low power notebook:) a 6.5gb hdd can only hold so much.. and with no external cdrom.. ho hum:) It's thin and light and gets 3hrs on the battery though, so I'm very happy with it.
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom I & II are not applicable comparisons. The only thing moderately "3D" that they did was raycasting, which really isn't actually 3D - it only looks that way.
If you want to look at older actual 3D games, look at the Ultima Underworld series. It was released before Wolfenstein 3D, and was true 3D (you could walk under bridges, several objects like ankhs and benches were polygonal, while people were sprites due to processor limitations). Many people needed to run tweaked sys.cfg and autoexec.bat files for this game, because it had special memory requirements.
I was afraid I would succumb to the same temptations, so I keep myself in terminal mode (out of X) while in class. I take my notes in nano. If we had wireless access, I think I'd pop into a special school desktop with office products and mozilla firebird at easy access, so I could do a little research during class and back up notes with anecdotal urls.
has had this functionality since it comes out. You can press a button on it, and it will record a 30 second clip from the radio, line in, or mic. The next time you sync with your organization utility on your PC, it copies the 30 second clip over and uses a technology like this to identify the clip. It works pretty well, too.
You don't even want to know what goes into the concessions at my (20 screen) theater... *shudder* and in actuality, from what I've seen, we break about even on ticket sales. Hell, selling tickets on a saturday night, I pull in probably 3,500 dollars. That's enough to pay the wages for all the workers for the week. In 6 hours. Considering we have 4 people usually selling tickets, that's 14,000 dollars in 6 hours. Multiply that by 4 (evening friday, saturday afternoon, saturday evening, sunday afternoon), and that's 56,000 on average per weekend. 224,000 per month. I'm not sure of the specifics on electricity costs for the theater, or air conditioning for that matter. However, I do know that a 50lb bag of unpopped corn costs approximately 30 dollars, and makes approximately 63 tubs of popcorn ($5.75 each). 362 dollars income for 30 dollars spent? Not too shabby.
And nobody who works at the theater sees any of this dough. Workers get paid 6.50 an hour, 10 cent raise after a year - if you're lucky. Managers get paid around 9 dollars an hour. Projectionists about 8. The only full time staff member we have is the General Manager - so nobody gets benefits. Given that our HR manager drives a fifteen year old toyota, and our GM drives a Porche 911, I can imagine where the money goes.
Film reels are hardly petty larceny. Movie theaters rent them from the distribution agency. If the theater has to replace a film due to damage (usually from projectionist incompetency), it costs them several thousand dollars.
Maybe leet hackerz insist on calling them virii instead of viruses, but so does anyone who actually knows where the word comes from. And as far as I know, hacking and cracking are two totally different terms, not interchangable.
My managers don't agree and bust my ass when they find out I've let someone in with a bag from Bear Rock Cafe or Wendy's in. I tell 'em, "Hey, do we sell deli quality sandwiches, or spicy chicken sandwiches and chili?"
I figure we have two options: make them eat it outside the theater, or let them eat it inside the theater.
Upside to the first one is that if they want something in the theater, they've got to buy it there. Downside is, they're likely pissed off and won't buy anything anyways. In fact, they're likely to not even come back to the same theater.
If we let 'em eat it inside, upside is they might want some popcorn to supplument it, or some candy or something. Upside is, they won't get upset. Upside is, we get a repeat customer. Downside is we have to clean up their shit if they leave it behind.
And then there's Lineage and Lineage 2, probably two of the most hardcore PvP games out there. One of which has more subscribers than Everquest (last I knew), and the other of which is looking to end out just as busy. Yeah, vocal minority.
Unlike the United States, most countries list the month number before the day number, making it March 11 and 12.
Of course, "sometime between" november 3 and december 3 is kind of silly, and if you switch the 3 and 11/12 around it makes much more sense (especially because he included the time).
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Read again. It was packed for 7 hours - that doesn't mean the same people were there for the entire 7 hours. That's how long the floor was open, and it was packed the entire time.
This would especially work well if the MMPOG included it in their application. What I mean by this, is: If you have the available bandwidth, you help out with the seed - while you're playing the game. With a large MMPOG this means that several thousand people are helping out other people that are downloading it.
This is what happens when a publisher publishes bad games and scraps good games for even worse games. Case in point: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel. If they had not tried to convert to a console-only publisher, and focused on what they did well: fund good games (Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Descent, Planescape) instead of crap games (Brotherhood of Steel, Hunter: The Reckoning...) they might not be in the ditch they are today.
Let it be a lesson to the other publishers.. when you publish crap, you go to crap.
But I'm a sucker for shmups. And I'm lovin' Tumiki Fighters :x
Several of the players reviewed (Frontier Labs, BenQ) I have not even heard of before. The Neuros has more functionality than many of the players reviewed, including upgradable storage space and now USB2.0 (admittedly late). Their client software is open-source, and has a large following in linux. It supports OGG. It supports recording directly TO mp3. It supports identification of songs from line-in or radio. It has really long battery life if you do not interact with the player, because it queues songs in memory. Why was a Neuros not reviewed, is what I am wondering?
No, a lot of old games (Ultima Underworld especially) will not run in a win95/win98 environment. Any game that has special DOS memory requirements will not run in a win95/win98 environment, and as such this solution should be shunned.
Many older albums (Pink Floyd, especially) are meant to be listened to as albums, not singular songs. Dream Theater, a relatively recent band in comparison, actually wrote an album that follows a dramatic story arc. It has a definite beginning, middle, and end, with a climax. It has every element of being an opera, except fat ladies and harsh vibrato voices and (for the most part) classical instruments. Similarly, many of the more artistic albums that strike out from the crowd (listen to Hybrid's "Wide Angle" - it flows like a movie sound track) are meant to be listened to as a whole.
Even though for the most part, songs on an album have little to do with each other besides the artist that recorded them, there are a plethora of albums that contain songs that, while awesome to listen to alone, only come into their own when played in the context of the album they were released in.
What I mean is, their engines do not represent objects in 3D space. They are simply 2 dimensional representations of a 3 dimensional representation of a 2 dimensional map.
It was a conservative guestimate, as I have no idea how much corn actually costs. :P
True as to slashdot or lj, however to curb the downloading of tv shows, etc, I run with a fairly low power notebook :) a 6.5gb hdd can only hold so much.. and with no external cdrom.. ho hum :) It's thin and light and gets 3hrs on the battery though, so I'm very happy with it.
Wolfenstein 3D and Doom I & II are not applicable comparisons. The only thing moderately "3D" that they did was raycasting, which really isn't actually 3D - it only looks that way.
If you want to look at older actual 3D games, look at the Ultima Underworld series. It was released before Wolfenstein 3D, and was true 3D (you could walk under bridges, several objects like ankhs and benches were polygonal, while people were sprites due to processor limitations). Many people needed to run tweaked sys.cfg and autoexec.bat files for this game, because it had special memory requirements.
I was afraid I would succumb to the same temptations, so I keep myself in terminal mode (out of X) while in class. I take my notes in nano. If we had wireless access, I think I'd pop into a special school desktop with office products and mozilla firebird at easy access, so I could do a little research during class and back up notes with anecdotal urls.
has had this functionality since it comes out. You can press a button on it, and it will record a 30 second clip from the radio, line in, or mic. The next time you sync with your organization utility on your PC, it copies the 30 second clip over and uses a technology like this to identify the clip. It works pretty well, too.
You don't even want to know what goes into the concessions at my (20 screen) theater... *shudder* and in actuality, from what I've seen, we break about even on ticket sales. Hell, selling tickets on a saturday night, I pull in probably 3,500 dollars. That's enough to pay the wages for all the workers for the week. In 6 hours. Considering we have 4 people usually selling tickets, that's 14,000 dollars in 6 hours. Multiply that by 4 (evening friday, saturday afternoon, saturday evening, sunday afternoon), and that's 56,000 on average per weekend. 224,000 per month. I'm not sure of the specifics on electricity costs for the theater, or air conditioning for that matter. However, I do know that a 50lb bag of unpopped corn costs approximately 30 dollars, and makes approximately 63 tubs of popcorn ($5.75 each). 362 dollars income for 30 dollars spent? Not too shabby.
And nobody who works at the theater sees any of this dough. Workers get paid 6.50 an hour, 10 cent raise after a year - if you're lucky. Managers get paid around 9 dollars an hour. Projectionists about 8. The only full time staff member we have is the General Manager - so nobody gets benefits. Given that our HR manager drives a fifteen year old toyota, and our GM drives a Porche 911, I can imagine where the money goes.
Film reels are hardly petty larceny. Movie theaters rent them from the distribution agency. If the theater has to replace a film due to damage (usually from projectionist incompetency), it costs them several thousand dollars.
Maybe leet hackerz insist on calling them virii instead of viruses, but so does anyone who actually knows where the word comes from. And as far as I know, hacking and cracking are two totally different terms, not interchangable.
Agreed. Hell, I work at a theater and I agree.
My managers don't agree and bust my ass when they find out I've let someone in with a bag from Bear Rock Cafe or Wendy's in. I tell 'em, "Hey, do we sell deli quality sandwiches, or spicy chicken sandwiches and chili?"
I figure we have two options: make them eat it outside the theater, or let them eat it inside the theater.
Upside to the first one is that if they want something in the theater, they've got to buy it there. Downside is, they're likely pissed off and won't buy anything anyways. In fact, they're likely to not even come back to the same theater.
If we let 'em eat it inside, upside is they might want some popcorn to supplument it, or some candy or something. Upside is, they won't get upset. Upside is, we get a repeat customer. Downside is we have to clean up their shit if they leave it behind.
And then there's Lineage and Lineage 2, probably two of the most hardcore PvP games out there. One of which has more subscribers than Everquest (last I knew), and the other of which is looking to end out just as busy. Yeah, vocal minority.
If it's not broken, don't fix it? FORTRAN is an excellent language in which to calculate complex scientific models.
Or FORTRAN. FORTRAN is more traditionally used in scientific computing anyways.
I would think if you had your turn signal on it would let you change lanes.
It just makes sense.
Yes, but RTFA. It's from Japan. Not NA.
Unlike the United States, most countries list the month number before the day number, making it March 11 and 12.
Of course, "sometime between" november 3 and december 3 is kind of silly, and if you switch the 3 and 11/12 around it makes much more sense (especially because he included the time).