no way dude, i have a patent on Thinking. since you both thought of the muffler and he thought of the hamster wheel it looks like i both pwn you so pay up or get sued.
why do they HAVE to know what ads people look at and for how long? how does that quantify anything? just because they look at a billboard doesnt mean squat. people are not going to play 2142 to watch billboards , there wont be any time for that. i dont get this wolf like devouring attitude that cable tv, sattelite and now the game industry has.
I have never seen anything like this, to this level. The shove it in your face attitude. Seems to me game studios did just fine without showing you ads before. Now not only is the game taking up resources but additional resources are taken up for this crap.
you can put together GooOffice and GooTube in one application, where you can have a spreadsheet of GooTube music videos both from music stars/groups and home videos. then you can share them with up to 3 people and.. err.. wait a minute..
OOPS--see my post above -- forgot to do some breaks:P
These are the games that are not only my favorite but have withstood the test of time:
#1. Pac-Man - Yes the yellow, 3/4th's of a pie little critter, running from ghosts and speeding through tunnels is simple, almost anyone can play it(how well is relative, i myself am the pac-man king) and it is recognized by all ages, gender and demographic imaginable and overall a great influentual program as well. I was amazed that not only Pac-Man didnt make their top 5 but NOT ONE of them even had it up for consideration. This is a red flag right here as to their possible bias.
#2. Starcraft - someone already mentioned this.. replayability, popularity and the ever popular urge to hop into space and kick but on Blizzard.net has made this one of the best RTS game available. Sure it doesnt have 3-D graphics but its still fun. Jot down a note for all the omg!!11 3D developers out there wanting to make everything look purrrty instead of paying attention to gameplay and fun-ness. I cant believe that i can walk into Best Buy, EB Games or China-mart and its still sitting there on the shelves.
#3. Age of Empires - SEE #2 above, lots of replayability, shifted from the 2D to 3-D graphics with the later releases but still has the attention to detail that hard core players demand and not just pretty graphics pasted onto the screen.
#4. Sims Series - Jot down another note all your "lets make the best graphics guru's". Females want to play computer games so give them what they want. Admittedly i didnt play this very much and some men do play it but this does tend to attract the right-brained people(most girls) with little or no desire to see blood spattering everywhere and people getting killed. It still requires thought, attention to detail and encourages socialization on and off the web as you can play online with people you know or dont know. This has also, like Starcraft stood the test the time, by coming out with different expansion packs that offer new twists to the game to keep people coming back for more.
#5. Tombraider - Ok dont frag me just yet let me explain. I know some of you are up in arms about this pick but, admittedly, it is my favorite and got more than my moneys worth from playing hours upon hours but this was also one of those un-tried influential games that succeeded, even when project managers, license groups and other pessimists afraid of trying anything unoriginal/untried said that a female swinging around, shooting animals and bad guys and exploring deep jungles and caverns would never sell. It was even said that women would protest and people just werent up for this type of game. They were wrong on all counts. In fact i think women became a large portion of buyers of the tombraider series. I will admit however that the last few releases of Tombraider have been abysmal but Tombraider 7 has gave me high hopes for the series continuing under Crystal Dynamics holding the reigns. If they would make the next one longer and less idiot proof they will attract some of the hard core raiders.
These are the games that are not only my favorite but have withstood the test of time:
#1. Pac-Man - Yes the yellow, 3/4th's of a pie little critter, running from ghosts and speeding through tunnels is simple, almost anyone can play it(how well is relative, i myself am the pac-man king) and it is recognized by all ages, gender and demographic imaginable and overall a great influentual program as well. I was amazed that not only Pac-Man didnt make their top 5 but NOT ONE of them even had it up for consideration. This is a red flag right here as to their possible bias.
#2. Starcraft - someone already mentioned this.. replayability, popularity and the ever popular urge to hop into space and kick but on Blizzard.net has made this one of the best RTS game available. Sure it doesnt have 3-D graphics but its still fun. Jot down a note for all the omg!!11 3D developers out there wanting to make everything look purrrty instead of paying attention to gameplay and fun-ness. I cant believe that i can walk into Best Buy, EB Games or China-mart and its still sitting there on the shelves.
#3. Age of Empires - SEE #2 above, lots of replayability, shifted from the 2D to 3-D graphics with the later releases but still has the attention to detail that hard core players demand and not just pretty graphics pasted onto the screen.
#4. Sims Series - Jot down another note all your "lets make the best graphics guru's". Females want to play computer games so give them what they want. Admittedly i didnt play this very much and some men do play it but this does tend to attract the right-brained people(most girls) with little or no desire to see blood spattering everywhere and people getting killed. It still requires thought, attention to detail and encourages socialization on and off the web as you can play online with people you know or dont know. This has also, like Starcraft stood the test the time, by coming out with different expansion packs that offer new twists to the game to keep people coming back for more.
#5. Tombraider - Ok dont frag me just yet let me explain. I know some of you are up in arms about this pick but, admittedly, it is my favorite and got more than my moneys worth from playing hours upon hours but this was also one of those un-tried influential games that succeeded, even when project managers, license groups and other pessimists afraid of trying anything unoriginal/untried said that a female swinging around, shooting animals and bad guys and exploring deep jungles and caverns would never sell. It was even said that women would protest and people just werent up for this type of game. They were wrong on all counts. In fact i think women became a large portion of buyers of the tombraider series. I will admit however that the last few releases of Tombraider have been abysmal but Tombraider 7 has gave me high hopes for the series continuing under Crystal Dynamics holding the reigns. If they would make the next one longer and less idiot proof they will attract some of the hard core raiders.
if you are doing advanced picking such as picking on terrain and you want to retrieve the (x,y,z) you can use gluUnProject which converts screen coordinates to window coordinates. this takes the x,y of the mouse on the screen and sends a "ray" i assume to give you your 3D version of wherever you picked. You have to make sure that you do a glLoadIdentity() though. thats a very quick and dirty answer but really more detailed.
ok then..so whats the 100% way to keep people out or is this unavoidable? and i am assuming it would take someone at least somewhat hacker-knowledglable to be able to do what you just described? more talk about this and we might need to exchange IM's:)
I guess i am confused. if you need a Key + your computer has a MAC address then yeah they can spoof the key all day long but if there computer MAC address isnt allowed in my list in my router settings then how could they get through?
ok then..so whats the 100% way to keep people out or is this unavoidable? and i am assuming it would take someone at least somewhat hacker-knowledglable to be able to do what you just described? more talk about this and we might need to exchange IM's:)
EDIT Grayskull: when i click on WPA Personal it asks for 2 different algorithms. TKIP and AES. then a WPA Shared Key Text box(whats this?) and a time in seconds gor Key Group Renewal. Default is 3600. WAP enterprise asked for Radius server address and Radius port etc but neither offer a passphrase like WEP does.
maybe i should stick with WEP and have a passphrase + 10 digit key + Mac Address Filter?
ok should i choose WPA Personal/Enterprise or WPA2 Personal Enterprise?
Also it does ask for a "Passphrase" but then also allows me to assign 10 digit keys. should i use this in addition to a passphrase? do i need a passphrase? what is MAXIMUM protection? thanks grayskull!
i just looked on my router settings, i have a linksys and WAP-PSK isnt an option. WPA and WPA personal & Enterprise are some of the other options.. i am not sure if this is better than WEP or not. any suggestions?
i have McAfee Personal Firewall and Viruscan for my software firewall. i also have a Linksys hardware firewall so i can have wireless network. The McAfee software firewall and virusscan are set to update automatically and i have the firewall alert me when applications and other software is attempting to access the internet to and from my computer. I have it set up to give me an option as to whether i want to grant access only once or forever and whether i want to limit the access to just inbound or outbound or both.
I have the linksys router that is my hardware firewall that i have set up as secured. that is the person trying to connect to it has to have the 10 digit key but also their MAC address has to be listed in allowable computers to have access to the net. The other night i got a warning that a computer with MAC address "whatever" was trying to access the network and should i allow it. Obviously i clicked "NO" but I dont know if someone somehow got the 10 digit key or i dont know how this works. what would cause this prompt? does someone have to have the key before it checks the MAC address?
Anyway this is my setup so tell me if this is enough? thanks!
probably one of the very best videos ever made, in fact i think it received the nomination for #6 of all time. the video can be found here . Not only was it a breakout video but unknowingly outside the US A-ha in still increasingly popular in the UK and most of europe. you can read more about a-ha here and the technique they used(a HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope> Rotoscoping ) to make the video. wonder how long it would take to generate this on the computer?
It's amazing that back in the MTV days artists were ACTUALLY artists and the talent shows through and through. ever notice how many 80s stations there are on the radio today? IMHO the 80's was the last attempt at real music with real artists..ya know people that write and produce their own stuff? Sadly its all about the money now, just like everything else. Show some skin, sing someone elses lyrics and you are good to go..thats what we have today.
Maybe thats one reason you dont see music videos anymore and one reason music sales started slumpping way before Napster came along..b/c the music for the most part it utter crap. Napster just made folks at the RIAA realize just how bad the music industry had become and continues to be.
This may surprise you but guess how many searches for slashdot or people using slashdot.
Take a look here for the building archive.
Ok fess up.. WHO on here is using slashdot that is an AOL lover. For a long time we have poked jokes at AOLers but it seems they are in our midst.
but if only a small portion of people buy something then that cant be good right?.
i guess the appropriate question is, is what is required for the ratio of buy:looking there is and what is considered good enough to pay someone like AOL to show.
i never buy anything from just ads that i see. if i want to buy something ill search google for it yes but that is not an ad,..thats me searching on my own to go out and find the item that i want. everything else i want to buy i go to local retailers web site and buy it..either that or amazon.com.
As commented before, how does AOL think they will make money by more eyeballs viewing ads? the same question could be asked of television ads but is OT so i wont go there. I mean say is more people do indeed view a lot of AOL ads.. if they dont purchase anything then how are they making money? i mean sure the advertisers they are teamed up with will give them money but if said companies are getting sales off ads then eventually the money has to stop. just curious as its obvious that dont plan on making any money off subscribers. Even people with 'aol for broadband' are leaving in droves.
your supermarkets dont have big tubs of ice cream and big slabs of cheese? what do you have then? what happens when a family of 4 or 5 needs a big something and they have to buy 10 little something to equal what one big something would be and cost less?
It's because people are solidifying their skills and becoming good at they know what they are good at. I sure hope you arent one of those people that place ridiculous job ads looking for a Software Engineer that somehow has the skill set that rivals Superman's..wanting one person to know c++, java, db, unix, html etc etc. With outsourcing going on people are honing in on their best skill and getting good at it. Yes a few people will be good at 2 things, maybe 3 but never as good as the ONE thing that they have the most experience and training with...and the other 2 or 3 things they will only have basic knowledge of.. not mastery skill.
I am sure there are a few wonder boys out there that can do all you ask but they probably already have jobs and if they dont they are running their own gig making a lot more money than you can pay them. If they are looking they are going to cost.
So who would the best buyer be if there was really a price on the table for OpenGL? I have always thought that they should just make GPU's and forget the rest, except maybe for that NASA supercomputer, the beast that it is.
i would think any one of the companies currently on the ARB should be the ones that get to bid. any one of those would be favorable. Nvidia would be a great steal. ATI is in bed with DirectX and MS so i dunno about them. can IBM handle it? Apple would also be a good steal. what do you think?
better yet why dont they use a version of Kerberos ?? seems to be this is more secure.. as it requires a normal password but also you have a pin number that displays a separate password to authenticate the user on the client side.
here where i work you have to used mixed letters/numbers and lowercase/uppercase and is a minumum of 8 characters. password reset is every 90 days but you cannot reuse your LAST 20 passwords. imagine that.. better get out that thinking cap and come up with something that i can remember. this is running windows xp pro too..
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no way dude, i have a patent on Thinking. since you both thought of the muffler and he thought of the hamster wheel it looks like i both pwn you so pay up or get sued.
why do they HAVE to know what ads people look at and for how long? how does that quantify anything? just because they look at a billboard doesnt mean squat. people are not going to play 2142 to watch billboards , there wont be any time for that. i dont get this wolf like devouring attitude that cable tv, sattelite and now the game industry has.
I have never seen anything like this, to this level. The shove it in your face attitude. Seems to me game studios did just fine without showing you ads before. Now not only is the game taking up resources but additional resources are taken up for this crap.
you can put together GooOffice and GooTube in one application, where you can have a spreadsheet of GooTube music videos both from music stars/groups and home videos. then you can share them with up to 3 people and .. err.. wait a minute..
OOPS--see my post above -- forgot to do some breaks :P
These are the games that are not only my favorite but have withstood the test of time:
#1. Pac-Man - Yes the yellow, 3/4th's of a pie little critter, running from ghosts and speeding through tunnels is simple, almost anyone can play it(how well is relative, i myself am the pac-man king) and it is recognized by all ages, gender and demographic imaginable and overall a great influentual program as well. I was amazed that not only Pac-Man didnt make their top 5 but NOT ONE of them even had it up for consideration. This is a red flag right here as to their possible bias.
#2. Starcraft - someone already mentioned this.. replayability, popularity and the ever popular urge to hop into space and kick but on Blizzard.net has made this one of the best RTS game available. Sure it doesnt have 3-D graphics but its still fun. Jot down a note for all the omg!!11 3D developers out there wanting to make everything look purrrty instead of paying attention to gameplay and fun-ness. I cant believe that i can walk into Best Buy, EB Games or China-mart and its still sitting there on the shelves.
#3. Age of Empires - SEE #2 above, lots of replayability, shifted from the 2D to 3-D graphics with the later releases but still has the attention to detail that hard core players demand and not just pretty graphics pasted onto the screen.
#4. Sims Series - Jot down another note all your "lets make the best graphics guru's". Females want to play computer games so give them what they want. Admittedly i didnt play this very much and some men do play it but this does tend to attract the right-brained people(most girls) with little or no desire to see blood spattering everywhere and people getting killed. It still requires thought, attention to detail and encourages socialization on and off the web as you can play online with people you know or dont know. This has also, like Starcraft stood the test the time, by coming out with different expansion packs that offer new twists to the game to keep people coming back for more.
#5. Tombraider - Ok dont frag me just yet let me explain. I know some of you are up in arms about this pick but, admittedly, it is my favorite and got more than my moneys worth from playing hours upon hours but this was also one of those un-tried influential games that succeeded, even when project managers, license groups and other pessimists afraid of trying anything unoriginal/untried said that a female swinging around, shooting animals and bad guys and exploring deep jungles and caverns would never sell. It was even said that women would protest and people just werent up for this type of game. They were wrong on all counts. In fact i think women became a large portion of buyers of the tombraider series. I will admit however that the last few releases of Tombraider have been abysmal but Tombraider 7 has gave me high hopes for the series continuing under Crystal Dynamics holding the reigns. If they would make the next one longer and less idiot proof they will attract some of the hard core raiders.
These are the games that are not only my favorite but have withstood the test of time:
#1. Pac-Man - Yes the yellow, 3/4th's of a pie little critter, running from ghosts and speeding through tunnels is simple, almost anyone can play it(how well is relative, i myself am the pac-man king) and it is recognized by all ages, gender and demographic imaginable and overall a great influentual program as well. I was amazed that not only Pac-Man didnt make their top 5 but NOT ONE of them even had it up for consideration. This is a red flag right here as to their possible bias.
#2. Starcraft - someone already mentioned this.. replayability, popularity and the ever popular urge to hop into space and kick but on Blizzard.net has made this one of the best RTS game available. Sure it doesnt have 3-D graphics but its still fun. Jot down a note for all the omg!!11 3D developers out there wanting to make everything look purrrty instead of paying attention to gameplay and fun-ness. I cant believe that i can walk into Best Buy, EB Games or China-mart and its still sitting there on the shelves.
#3. Age of Empires - SEE #2 above, lots of replayability, shifted from the 2D to 3-D graphics with the later releases but still has the attention to detail that hard core players demand and not just pretty graphics pasted onto the screen. #4. Sims Series - Jot down another note all your "lets make the best graphics guru's". Females want to play computer games so give them what they want. Admittedly i didnt play this very much and some men do play it but this does tend to attract the right-brained people(most girls) with little or no desire to see blood spattering everywhere and people getting killed. It still requires thought, attention to detail and encourages socialization on and off the web as you can play online with people you know or dont know. This has also, like Starcraft stood the test the time, by coming out with different expansion packs that offer new twists to the game to keep people coming back for more.
#5. Tombraider - Ok dont frag me just yet let me explain. I know some of you are up in arms about this pick but, admittedly, it is my favorite and got more than my moneys worth from playing hours upon hours but this was also one of those un-tried influential games that succeeded, even when project managers, license groups and other pessimists afraid of trying anything unoriginal/untried said that a female swinging around, shooting animals and bad guys and exploring deep jungles and caverns would never sell. It was even said that women would protest and people just werent up for this type of game. They were wrong on all counts. In fact i think women became a large portion of buyers of the tombraider series. I will admit however that the last few releases of Tombraider have been abysmal but Tombraider 7 has gave me high hopes for the series continuing under Crystal Dynamics holding the reigns. If they would make the next one longer and less idiot proof they will attract some of the hard core raiders.
if you are doing advanced picking such as picking on terrain and you want to retrieve the (x,y,z) you can use gluUnProject which converts screen coordinates to window coordinates. this takes the x,y of the mouse on the screen and sends a "ray" i assume to give you your 3D version of wherever you picked. You have to make sure that you do a glLoadIdentity() though. thats a very quick and dirty answer but really more detailed.
ok then..so whats the 100% way to keep people out or is this unavoidable? and i am assuming it would take someone at least somewhat hacker-knowledglable to be able to do what you just described? more talk about this and we might need to exchange IM's :)
I guess i am confused. if you need a Key + your computer has a MAC address then yeah they can spoof the key all day long but if there computer MAC address isnt allowed in my list in my router settings then how could they get through?
ok then..so whats the 100% way to keep people out or is this unavoidable? and i am assuming it would take someone at least somewhat hacker-knowledglable to be able to do what you just described? more talk about this and we might need to exchange IM's :)
why *isnt this illegal..oops
why is this illegal? installation of screensavers that come with badware? shouldnt this be illegal?
what do you mean by eavesdropping? no one is allowed to look at any of my folders. that option is unavailable.
EDIT Grayskull: when i click on WPA Personal it asks for 2 different algorithms. TKIP and AES. then a WPA Shared Key Text box(whats this?) and a time in seconds gor Key Group Renewal. Default is 3600. WAP enterprise asked for Radius server address and Radius port etc but neither offer a passphrase like WEP does.
maybe i should stick with WEP and have a passphrase + 10 digit key + Mac Address Filter?
ok should i choose WPA Personal/Enterprise or WPA2 Personal Enterprise?
Also it does ask for a "Passphrase" but then also allows me to assign 10 digit keys. should i use this in addition to a passphrase? do i need a passphrase? what is MAXIMUM protection? thanks grayskull!
i just looked on my router settings, i have a linksys and WAP-PSK isnt an option. WPA and WPA personal & Enterprise are some of the other options.. i am not sure if this is better than WEP or not. any suggestions?
i have McAfee Personal Firewall and Viruscan for my software firewall. i also have a Linksys hardware firewall so i can have wireless network. The McAfee software firewall and virusscan are set to update automatically and i have the firewall alert me when applications and other software is attempting to access the internet to and from my computer. I have it set up to give me an option as to whether i want to grant access only once or forever and whether i want to limit the access to just inbound or outbound or both.
I have the linksys router that is my hardware firewall that i have set up as secured. that is the person trying to connect to it has to have the 10 digit key but also their MAC address has to be listed in allowable computers to have access to the net. The other night i got a warning that a computer with MAC address "whatever" was trying to access the network and should i allow it. Obviously i clicked "NO" but I dont know if someone somehow got the 10 digit key or i dont know how this works. what would cause this prompt? does someone have to have the key before it checks the MAC address?
Anyway this is my setup so tell me if this is enough? thanks!
anyone got any 3dfx cards in their original boxes? ill take them off your hands(of course ill pay). ive got quite a collection of them going now..
probably one of the very best videos ever made, in fact i think it received the nomination for #6 of all time. the video can be found here . Not only was it a breakout video but unknowingly outside the US A-ha in still increasingly popular in the UK and most of europe. you can read more about a-ha here and the technique they used(a HREF=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscope> Rotoscoping ) to make the video. wonder how long it would take to generate this on the computer?
It's amazing that back in the MTV days artists were ACTUALLY artists and the talent shows through and through. ever notice how many 80s stations there are on the radio today? IMHO the 80's was the last attempt at real music with real artists..ya know people that write and produce their own stuff? Sadly its all about the money now, just like everything else. Show some skin, sing someone elses lyrics and you are good to go..thats what we have today.
Maybe thats one reason you dont see music videos anymore and one reason music sales started slumpping way before Napster came along..b/c the music for the most part it utter crap. Napster just made folks at the RIAA realize just how bad the music industry had become and continues to be.
This may surprise you but guess how many searches for slashdot or people using slashdot.
Take a look here for the building archive.
Ok fess up.. WHO on here is using slashdot that is an AOL lover. For a long time we have poked jokes at AOLers but it seems they are in our midst.
but if only a small portion of people buy something then that cant be good right?.
i guess the appropriate question is, is what is required for the ratio of buy:looking there is and what is considered good enough to pay someone like AOL to show.
i never buy anything from just ads that i see. if i want to buy something ill search google for it yes but that is not an ad,..thats me searching on my own to go out and find the item that i want. everything else i want to buy i go to local retailers web site and buy it..either that or amazon.com.
As commented before, how does AOL think they will make money by more eyeballs viewing ads? the same question could be asked of television ads but is OT so i wont go there. I mean say is more people do indeed view a lot of AOL ads.. if they dont purchase anything then how are they making money? i mean sure the advertisers they are teamed up with will give them money but if said companies are getting sales off ads then eventually the money has to stop. just curious as its obvious that dont plan on making any money off subscribers. Even people with 'aol for broadband' are leaving in droves.
your supermarkets dont have big tubs of ice cream and big slabs of cheese? what do you have then? what happens when a family of 4 or 5 needs a big something and they have to buy 10 little something to equal what one big something would be and cost less?
It's because people are solidifying their skills and becoming good at they know what they are good at. I sure hope you arent one of those people that place ridiculous job ads looking for a Software Engineer that somehow has the skill set that rivals Superman's..wanting one person to know c++, java, db, unix, html etc etc. With outsourcing going on people are honing in on their best skill and getting good at it. Yes a few people will be good at 2 things, maybe 3 but never as good as the ONE thing that they have the most experience and training with...and the other 2 or 3 things they will only have basic knowledge of.. not mastery skill.
I am sure there are a few wonder boys out there that can do all you ask but they probably already have jobs and if they dont they are running their own gig making a lot more money than you can pay them. If they are looking they are going to cost.
So who would the best buyer be if there was really a price on the table for OpenGL? I have always thought that they should just make GPU's and forget the rest, except maybe for that NASA supercomputer, the beast that it is.
i would think any one of the companies currently on the ARB should be the ones that get to bid. any one of those would be favorable. Nvidia would be a great steal. ATI is in bed with DirectX and MS so i dunno about them. can IBM handle it? Apple would also be a good steal. what do you think?
better yet why dont they use a version of Kerberos ?? seems to be this is more secure.. as it requires a normal password but also you have a pin number that displays a separate password to authenticate the user on the client side.
here where i work you have to used mixed letters/numbers and lowercase/uppercase and is a minumum of 8 characters. password reset is every 90 days but you cannot reuse your LAST 20 passwords. imagine that.. better get out that thinking cap and come up with something that i can remember. this is running windows xp pro too..