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High Level Assembly
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I think this should be modded as Insightful not Funny....
With modern C compiles in place its all but impossible to write an entire project with faster code then the same program in C. ASM is good to optimize some sections, but even that is questionable nowadays because its probably less expensive to get a faster computer then having a coder with great insight into ASM optimize a section of the code for a week.
Also C code can run on a cluster or super computer if required.
I think you are trying the fix the problem on the wrong level.
There is nothing wrong with autoconf, and there is nothing wrong with new releases of software depending on the latest {autoconf|make|libc|lib|.*} whatsoever.
Take gentoo for example. After installing a minimal OS i can type emerge gnome and it will pull roughly 200 packages and compile them all cleanly. I honestly don't have any idea which of those 200 unrelated projects require which version of autoconf or whatever. Gentoo knows and deals with it by figuring out which is the latest autoconf required and getting this early on. As soon as you have infrastructure which does the dependecy resolution for you the problem evaporates.
That beeing said, my gentoo servers pull a new autoconf version about once a month for some random unrelated update. Thats really a bit excessive.
Well so pick one of the games made for this kind of play available today ! AC1 matches EQ in amount of content and plays like an action game ( you can actually jump over arrows and dodge war magic ! )
AC2 looks leagues better then EQ judging from screenshots. AC2 is great for soloing and grouping and has a fun endgame and the newly released City of Heroes has casual written all over it. ( give that one a try, its a ton of fun )
EQII is a game that will focus most of our content on the individual and smaller groups, while EQ's endgame encourages large raid forces to play the high-level content.
This just means the gfx engine can't handle the amounts of people it requires to create anything what made EQ great.
Jesus, it also looks ghastly.
With the behemoth World of Warcraft looming over the genre I forsee that the only reason this project might not flop would be the well known IP.
Quite the opposit. Rendering 2D desktops is a huge system resource waste considering what kind of GPUs we all have. Ever seen flickering while rezising windows ? yes that means the drawing is cpu bound. A vector based gui will free the cpu considerably and you get a *lot* of features for free. (e.g. dropshadows, transparency).
Now don't dismiss those as eye candy. Our eye is trained to use shadows for z sorting. Have a look at macosX and see how they can get a way with just a white box casting a shadow for dialog boxes. Thats right, no wasted space for a title bar and it still looks fantastic. There is never any confusion about which window is in the foreground.
This game is really great. Ive played about every mmo game which came out since uo and non makes such a good first impression as COH.
If they will play their cards right and give trials versions to everyone and their mom it will be big.
The game is basically a GTA gone online. Everyone is a super hearo ( obviously ) and gets the super power he desires easily. At level 6 you can pick up powers like flying or hulk style super leaping ( they mean it, you will jump over buildings ). When you just walk around in the very busy streets you will see gang wars you can break up or see old ladys beeing robbed of their purse. You pick up missions ( unfortunatly pretty simple ones ) from your different contacts who usually put you up against different villain groups. Fighting is the best part of the game by far, Its amazingly action packet and moving while fighting actually can give you an advantage. It absolutly statisfies my need for action, i don't have to fire up a FPS after a long play session to get my balance back:)
anyways, give it it a try if you can, chances are you will enjoy it. The game will not put you up against rats I promise:)
I want whatever is necissary to make the things possible i want from my computer.
As long as everyone can copy the movies I want to see around as they please I will not be able to see the movies without effort to go through warez channels.
I'm a strong beliver of that people will vote with their money about if conditions are acceptable or not.
If one online music store forbits me to burn my music to CD's and another one allows me to do that then you can take a whild guess where i will get my music from. However the status que is that things like that aren't even possible. DRM is a tool amongst many in the toolbox of the industry. However its current implementation is pathetic. DRM made itunes possible, and I want itunes to stay where it is. There is nothing wrong with itunes, but DRM doesn't work. Fix it. Hardware, software, whatever is necissary.
This is exactly the reason why we need hardware based DRM as soon as possible. Software based DRM just doesn't work and its proven to the pioneers in the industry over and over again.
No DRM means i'll never be able to oneclick download the games i'd like to play, it means that i'll never be able to just watch the movies running in the cinema on my home theature for a couple of bucks and in this case that I can't just get the music iIlike within seconds.
I REALLY don't want to walk to stores anymore for music. Likewise I really don't want to have the CD-ROM in my drive for every game I play.
I think you rather mean that blizzard has a history for developing the hardest to balance games on the market and then managing the impossible.
I don't know if you were in the War3 beta test but it was just stunning to read those patch notes. Every patch someone found a overpowering strategy and "cheesed" it to death, in the next patch there would be a seemingly unrelated change to a random different unit and people would bitch that blizzard didn't address the issue xyz. Yet people noticed that they now have an effective counter vs the cheesed strategy.
Another great example were the NightElf ancients ( their buildings can uproot and and become units) the top players in the community said that Night elfs needed something else becuase this is not really an advantage. Yet a year after the release of the game Night elf players started to use these ancients as their main units so much that blizzard had to actually make them a wee bit weaker in a later patch. I've never seen a company which is a year ahead of its customers best strategys.
Today the games Starcraf ( 3 races ) and Warcraft ( 4 races ) are amazingly balanced. Apart from C&C generals they are also the only RTS gamaes which offer fundamentally different races.
When microsoft declared security as their main goal ie5 was the current browser. ie6 has it fixed so they obviously wen't trough their stuff to fix it.
Its very true that bounds checking errors are very easy to prevent but if you say its sloppy programming to have errors like this in your code you either work in java or.net or you don't programm at all. Its the price you pay for native compiled code and the main reason people are turning their backs on it.
Skype only needs a bootstrapper not a server.
If that bootstrap server is unreachable it tries to bootstrap over ips of people it was once connected to. Every other aspect of the tool is entrily P2P based.
If it can't establish a connection between you and your friend directly in both directions it will route the traffic over other people in the p2p network using encryption
Its an incredibly smart system, credit where credit is due.
www.deepfreezeusa.com offers a program which installs itself at bootup and will intercept hd write calls and direct them in the free hd space behind the actual data. What this does is that the computer boots into the very state the computer was at when you installed deepfreeze.
That means you can even FORMAT THE HARDDRIVE and reboot it without any data loss.
Of cause you can submit the hd changes to the harddrive if you know the right password, this way you can install new games. Its also possible to exclude certain directories so that games can save their config files or autoupdates ( Valve's steam comes to mind ).
We use it successfully in several schools around the area, and it stopped the need for reinstalls alltogether. No nudity background pictures, no filesharing tools, no spyware, no stupid bookmarks...
Indeed if you have the latest drivers for the DirectX series of ATI cards installed ( Catalyst 3.8+ ) you will find a smartshader menu in the display properties.
Smartshaders are applyed in the last pass on the picture before its send to the screen. There are filters for making it look like a classic painting and things like that.
In the settings for OpenGL smartshader there is a option to render the picture as ASCII ( only white/black or green/black though ).
However it way funny to play Call of duty in ascii .
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I think this should be modded as Insightful not Funny....
With modern C compiles in place its all but impossible to write an entire project with faster code then the same program in C.
ASM is good to optimize some sections, but even that is questionable nowadays because its probably less expensive to get a faster computer then having a coder with great insight into ASM optimize a section of the code for a week.
Also C code can run on a cluster or super computer if required.
http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm
"Right now, there are far too few teams and players... that have the [financial or scheduling] ability to follow this series of tournaments around."
Well thanks for sharing this thought.
This is really a huge problem and there is no solution in sight.
Except that there is : I heard the CPL is gonna have cash prices worth 1,000,000$ this year !
Gees what a wired post,
First you accurse every ipod owner of becoming subjective or worse: narrow minded. Then you are suprised that the person you are quoting from is not.
Ipod has a good interface and does what it does well but in 2 years it will look just as odd as a rio64 looks now or *gasp* a walkman.
I think you are trying the fix the problem on the wrong level.
There is nothing wrong with autoconf, and there is nothing wrong with new releases of software depending on the latest {autoconf|make|libc|lib|.*} whatsoever.
Take gentoo for example. After installing a minimal OS i can type emerge gnome and it will pull roughly 200 packages and compile them all cleanly. I honestly don't have any idea which of those 200 unrelated projects require which version of autoconf or whatever. Gentoo knows and deals with it by figuring out which is the latest autoconf required and getting this early on. As soon as you have infrastructure which does the dependecy resolution for you the problem evaporates.
That beeing said, my gentoo servers pull a new autoconf version about once a month for some random unrelated update. Thats really a bit excessive.
updating: emerge -D world
Well so pick one of the games made for this kind of play available today !
AC1 matches EQ in amount of content and plays like an action game ( you can actually jump over arrows and dodge war magic ! )
AC2 looks leagues better then EQ judging from screenshots.
AC2 is great for soloing and grouping and has a fun endgame and the newly released City of Heroes has casual written all over it.
( give that one a try, its a ton of fun )
EQII is a game that will focus most of our content on the individual and smaller groups, while EQ's endgame encourages large raid forces to play the high-level content.
This just means the gfx engine can't handle the amounts of people it requires to create anything what made EQ great.
Jesus, it also looks ghastly.
With the behemoth World of Warcraft looming over the genre I forsee that the only reason this project might not flop would be the well known IP.
This is not funny, thats actually the original thinking behind it. # = two rows of ++
Quite the opposit. Rendering 2D desktops is a huge system resource waste considering what kind of GPUs we all have. Ever seen flickering while rezising windows ? yes that means the drawing is cpu bound. A vector based gui will free the cpu considerably and you get a *lot* of features for free. (e.g. dropshadows, transparency).
Now don't dismiss those as eye candy. Our eye is trained to use shadows for z sorting. Have a look at macosX and see how they can get a way with just a white box casting a shadow for dialog boxes. Thats right, no wasted space for a title bar and it still looks fantastic. There is never any confusion about which window is in the foreground.
This game is really great.
:)
:)
Ive played about every mmo game which came out since uo and non makes such a good first impression as COH.
If they will play their cards right and give trials versions to everyone and their mom it will be big.
The game is basically a GTA gone online. Everyone is a super hearo ( obviously ) and gets the super power he desires easily. At level 6 you can pick up powers like flying or hulk style super leaping ( they mean it, you will jump over buildings ).
When you just walk around in the very busy streets you will see gang wars you can break up or see old ladys beeing robbed of their purse. You pick up missions ( unfortunatly pretty simple ones ) from your different contacts who usually put you up against different villain groups.
Fighting is the best part of the game by far, Its amazingly action packet and moving while fighting actually can give you an advantage. It absolutly statisfies my need for action, i don't have to fire up a FPS after a long play session to get my balance back
anyways, give it it a try if you can, chances are you will enjoy it. The game will not put you up against rats I promise
I want whatever is necissary to make the things possible i want from my computer.
As long as everyone can copy the movies I want to see around as they please I will not be able to see the movies without effort to go through warez channels.
I'm a strong beliver of that people will vote with their money about if conditions are acceptable or not.
If one online music store forbits me to burn my music to CD's and another one allows me to do that then you can take a whild guess where i will get my music from. However the status que is that things like that aren't even possible. DRM is a tool amongst many in the toolbox of the industry. However its current implementation is pathetic. DRM made itunes possible, and I want itunes to stay where it is. There is nothing wrong with itunes, but DRM doesn't work. Fix it. Hardware, software, whatever is necissary.
This is exactly the reason why we need hardware based DRM as soon as possible. Software based DRM just doesn't work and its proven to the pioneers in the industry over and over again.
No DRM means i'll never be able to oneclick download the games i'd like to play, it means that i'll never be able to just watch the movies running in the cinema on my home theature for a couple of bucks and in this case that I can't just get the music iIlike within seconds.
I REALLY don't want to walk to stores anymore for music.
Likewise I really don't want to have the CD-ROM in my drive for every game I play.
I'm sure the millions of people who use Winamp as their main browser will not like this at all.
And since winamp uses IE for web page rendering people are used to so high standards for security.
bummer.
Do i get to pk my better half ?
no i'm talking about wow, im serious !
I think you rather mean that blizzard has a history for developing the hardest to balance games on the market and then managing the impossible.
I don't know if you were in the War3 beta test but it was just stunning to read those patch notes. Every patch someone found a overpowering strategy and "cheesed" it to death, in the next patch there would be a seemingly unrelated change to a random different unit and people would bitch that blizzard didn't address the issue xyz. Yet people noticed that they now have an effective counter vs the cheesed strategy.
Another great example were the NightElf ancients ( their buildings can uproot and and become units) the top players in the community said that Night elfs needed something else becuase this is not really an advantage. Yet a year after the release of the game Night elf players started to use these ancients as their main units so much that blizzard had to actually make them a wee bit weaker in a later patch.
I've never seen a company which is a year ahead of its customers best strategys.
Today the games Starcraf ( 3 races ) and Warcraft ( 4 races ) are amazingly balanced. Apart from C&C generals they are also the only RTS gamaes which offer fundamentally different races.
... i'm not so baad once you get to knoww me.
It also shows that ms does their job.
.net or you don't programm at all. Its the price you pay for native compiled code and the main reason people are turning their backs on it.
When microsoft declared security as their main goal ie5 was the current browser. ie6 has it fixed so they obviously wen't trough their stuff to fix it.
Its very true that bounds checking errors are very easy to prevent but if you say its sloppy programming to have errors like this in your code you either work in java or
It would be twice as much memory as the xbox has ...
yay for progress !
Well, i think they closed doors just in time to avoid the impending "most unfortunate name of the year award"
Skype only needs a bootstrapper not a server.
If that bootstrap server is unreachable it tries to bootstrap over ips of people it was once connected to. Every other aspect of the tool is entrily P2P based.
If it can't establish a connection between you and your friend directly in both directions it will route the traffic over other people in the p2p network using encryption
Its an incredibly smart system, credit where credit is due.
www.deepfreezeusa.com offers a program which installs itself at bootup and will intercept hd write calls and direct them in the free hd space behind the actual data. What this does is that the computer boots into the very state the computer was at when you installed deepfreeze.
...
That means you can even FORMAT THE HARDDRIVE and reboot it without any data loss. Of cause you can submit the hd changes to the harddrive if you know the right password, this way you can install new games. Its also possible to exclude certain directories so that games can save their config files or autoupdates ( Valve's steam comes to mind ).
We use it successfully in several schools around the area, and it stopped the need for reinstalls alltogether. No nudity background pictures, no filesharing tools, no spyware, no stupid bookmarks
Indeed, Those hotkeys are finally a good use for that damn windows key.
You forget how incredibly unattractive a town is where you can't get decent internet for business.
I'm sure this will bump the towns popularity significantly
Indeed if you have the latest drivers for the DirectX series of ATI cards installed ( Catalyst 3.8+ ) you will find a smartshader menu in the display properties. Smartshaders are applyed in the last pass on the picture before its send to the screen. There are filters for making it look like a classic painting and things like that. In the settings for OpenGL smartshader there is a option to render the picture as ASCII ( only white /black or green/black though ).
However it way funny to play Call of duty in ascii .