I don't play newest games (all dull), but I agree that a year old high end card will perform better than newest low end (MX) cards. I *still* play games (namely BF1942 with relatively good res and details) with my Asus V7700 Deluxe (It's a Geforce 2 GTS chip), which is very old now (It has been released at the end of 2000), and I *think* it matches a geforce 4 mx. My next card will definately be a high end one, because it is cheaper on the long run. Well, in fact, maybe not because I don't play games like I did before. I might stick with old games forever and never change my vidcard although I'd like to go DVI/LCD. I'm sick and tired of analog CRT.
right on. Same reason here. I came back to SWG recently because I saw that they implemented player cities. I thought these would be great, full or RPers. I was bloodly wrong.
If I heard of a good RP guild which is low level (very important, because I do *not* want, I repeat: I do *not* want to level grind in a MMOG again. I mean, not a single minute of grind. Isn't that a great gaming philosophy? Always perform actions in a game because you actually want to? I was a musician in SWG and when I was *very* lucky, there was 1 or 2 musician who were actually in front of their comp. *sigh*), I would happily try SWG again though...
Or these successful counter-scams (this one and the p-p-p-powerbook thing) sound too funny to be real? The more I think about it, the more I think these counter-scams are just hoax posted by some guys looking for cyber-attention. Well, the p-p-powerbook thing seemd to involve too many people not to be real, but this breast painting thing definately sounds like a hoax to me.
Hum, yeah. However, I based myself on my own library, which has a kind of multi-virtual-fields comparison system. Thus, the virtual DoCompare of the TComparable *is* implemented in my library. Yeah, I shoulda use an interface for the example...
TComparable = class protected function DoCompare(aRef:TComparable):Integer;virtual; end;
TStrComparable = class(TComparable) private FStr:string; protect ed function DoCompare(aRef:TComparable):Integer;override; pub lic property Str:string read FStr write FStr; end;
function TStrComparable.DoCompare(aRef:TComparable):Integer; begin if assigned(aRef) and (aRef is TStrComparable) then Result:= CompareStr(Str,(aRef as TStrComparable).Str) else Result:= 0; end;
Of course, there are a lot of other cool stuff to do with Delphi and oop, but I don't have all day to write this...
That would be a good idea if I wouldn't care running a website full of malicious code, and if I wouldn't mind clearing my cache everytime because I don't want pictures of a penis enlarger in my cache. Oh, and if I wouldn't mind clearing my cookies.
Be that as it may, the way XML "handles" missing data is not an advantage, but a liability for data exchange. In fact, much of the XML being transmitted is tags, not data. And given that tags are actually unnecessary, the inefficiency should be obvious.
I don't think XML has been designed to be efficient. I don't think any business stores all their data in XML files (unless speed/datasize isn't a problem). XML has been designed to be universal, easily "morphable". I think XML/XSLT is an awesome tool to create reports out of SQL results, and I don't see what kind of format would fit the job better. Compare Wix with raw MSI tables. Which one do you think is the better design tool? XML, of course, because the foreign key links (Components, Files, Shortcut, UI stuff) are assumed by the tags. I'm sure that XML fits for a lot of other kind of jobs I'm not aware of. Thus, we can see XML as a pretty good jack-of-all-trade, not a efficiency champion.
A webbug is not a virus. It is (but not limited to IMO) a HTML tag (usually a tag) that hits the server of the bug's maker. This way, you can know the ip of the guy when he opens the e-mail (because the HTML renderer displays the image). Of course, this only works if the recipient don't read their mails in text-only mode.
gobbled up... you mean bought? Why the heck would EA buy Interplay? They would have to assume their debts too. They should (and probably will), wait until Interplay declares bankrupty and buy all virtual assets (licenses etc..) at a ridiculously low price. They'll hire all Interplay programmers, and start Fallout3 and not Fallout MMO, because they know what makes money now. They'll even make "Fallout: Hot date", "Fallout: on vacation", "Fallout: Mutant party" expansions!
There is seriously a problem with the/. moderating system. *everytime* I would reallt want to mod a post, I have no mod point, and *everytime* I get mod points, I frenetically search for comment to mod, but have troubles to find any.
I don't see HOW XBox 2 wouldn't be compatible with XBox 1. Hell, this is a computer using DirectX. I have DirectX 9, and I can play games designed for DirectX 5.
Each time I make the mistake of reinstalling that game, I waste countless hours playing it. This is one of the best games, although a things annoys me a lot, and fixing it would probably make it a perfect game for me:
Technology's going too fast. One of the only way to win when you play at higher difficulties is to have the best techs, so you can have the most powerful units. However, by the time you build an army to attack, your units are already obsolete, and upgrading is quite expensive. Thus, the only time where there is real war is when everybody has the modern tanks and ICMBs and stealth jets. Thus, all the other units are in case you get attacked.
This is of course if you don't annihilate your ennemy at the start of the game. So, that's either at the start, or at the end of the technology tree that things move.
I wonder if there is a mod that makes technologies MUCH more expensive ( I think of something like 3X or 4X more expensive ). I guess it would make the game much more enjoyable, and would make it *necessary* to trade technologies in order to reach the 4th age before 2050, and even if everybody still is at 2nd age at 2050, that would have been a cool game:)
I was about to answer your original comment saying that if you switched from VB to Delphi with minimal effort, it must be because you don't know Delphi. But then I see you wrote about OOP, so I guess I would have been wrong.
VB is a child language. It is the plague of the software world because it makes mediocre programmers think they're good because they can play with a RAD tool.
There should be a notice on the VB box saying: "If you're over 18, please don't use this language, and please, PLEASE don't use this language for production projects! And if you're thinking about using this, and Access DB for a mission critical project, you're a fool."
I must admit that using Paradox (the sgbd shipped with Delphi (well, Delphi 5, I think they dropped it in new versions)) is also foolish.
Of course, VB.NET isn't the same stuff. It's only C# with the VB syntax, so it isn't as bad as it used to be. Well, I guess I will have to stop ditching VB someday...
Because FFT is really one of the best games I've played. Ever. I liked shining forces serie, but not as much as FFT. Have anyone tried the Teleport (Time mage job) ability with an archer (Go to hot archer spot instantly) or monk( archer killer:))? that rocks. I heard about disgea a lot, but I don't think I'll buy a PS2 anytime soon.
Back to FFT. The translation is quite mediocre, but if you ignore that fact, the storyline is very interesting (If you can remember all the major characters names, there are a lot...)!.
Exactly. That is why I think that Open Source is not the answer to everything. In this case, I also don't think OSS is the solution at all.
Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
Stupidly long amount of time? RH9 takes longer to boot than XP Pro on the same PC.
I agree with most of the article, except with the bug problems and having to reboot. I find XP fairly stable.
My point is: Right now, CD-Rs cost less than 1$ each. Even if they would cost 2$ each, that wouldn't ruin you or me or anyone performing their daily backups on CD-R, and IMO, that is a fair price to pay for status-quo on music.
The original CDs price should be halved, and the blank CD tax should be doubled or tripled.
What are blank CD used for:
- Data Backups - Program CD backup/piracy - Music backup/mixes/piracy
Most backups are done, I think, only occasionally. I mean, if a big company needs professional backup solution, they will not use CD-R. Thus, doubling the blank CD taxes would have a quite small impact on people using them, because they don't use tons of them daily.
Wouldn't this make everyone happy? - Probably more original CD sales - More revenues to music artists (I guess) - Copying a CD will no longer flag you as a criminal
I didn't read if they defined "paragraph", but if it is a sequence of character beginning with BOF or hard enter and ending with a hard enter or EOF, you can just omit the last character of the paragraph in your hash, and you're clear too.
I don't see what's the point of hashing words: The hash would be larger than the words themselves. It would be better to keep the actual words in your DB.
Goddammit, I will have to write down a list of companies I hate, just to be sure I don't forget one.
Well, he did design UO. I thought he was godlike until I played SWG... He's just not as good as he was. In fact, I think that the only godlike entity on earth is Designer Dragon, not Raph Koster himself:)
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I don't play newest games (all dull), but I agree that a year old high end card will perform better than newest low end (MX) cards. I *still* play games (namely BF1942 with relatively good res and details) with my Asus V7700 Deluxe (It's a Geforce 2 GTS chip), which is very old now (It has been released at the end of 2000), and I *think* it matches a geforce 4 mx. My next card will definately be a high end one, because it is cheaper on the long run. Well, in fact, maybe not because I don't play games like I did before. I might stick with old games forever and never change my vidcard although I'd like to go DVI/LCD. I'm sick and tired of analog CRT.
right on. Same reason here. I came back to SWG recently because I saw that they implemented player cities. I thought these would be great, full or RPers. I was bloodly wrong.
If I heard of a good RP guild which is low level (very important, because I do *not* want, I repeat: I do *not* want to level grind in a MMOG again. I mean, not a single minute of grind. Isn't that a great gaming philosophy? Always perform actions in a game because you actually want to? I was a musician in SWG and when I was *very* lucky, there was 1 or 2 musician who were actually in front of their comp. *sigh*), I would happily try SWG again though...
Or these successful counter-scams (this one and the p-p-p-powerbook thing) sound too funny to be real? The more I think about it, the more I think these counter-scams are just hoax posted by some guys looking for cyber-attention. Well, the p-p-powerbook thing seemd to involve too many people not to be real, but this breast painting thing definately sounds like a hoax to me.
Hum, yeah. However, I based myself on my own library, which has a kind of multi-virtual-fields comparison system. Thus, the virtual DoCompare of the TComparable *is* implemented in my library. Yeah, I shoulda use an interface for the example...
That would be a good idea if I wouldn't care running a website full of malicious code, and if I wouldn't mind clearing my cache everytime because I don't want pictures of a penis enlarger in my cache. Oh, and if I wouldn't mind clearing my cookies.
The problem the author of the article pointed out isn't the loss of time due to spam, it is the unreliability of the system due to anti-spam.
White lists, black lists, strict mail filters. Are you sure you're e-mail went through? The best way to be sure is to call.
I don't think XML has been designed to be efficient. I don't think any business stores all their data in XML files (unless speed/datasize isn't a problem). XML has been designed to be universal, easily "morphable". I think XML/XSLT is an awesome tool to create reports out of SQL results, and I don't see what kind of format would fit the job better. Compare Wix with raw MSI tables. Which one do you think is the better design tool? XML, of course, because the foreign key links (Components, Files, Shortcut, UI stuff) are assumed by the tags. I'm sure that XML fits for a lot of other kind of jobs I'm not aware of. Thus, we can see XML as a pretty good jack-of-all-trade, not a efficiency champion.
A webbug is not a virus. It is (but not limited to IMO) a HTML tag (usually a tag) that hits the server of the bug's maker. This way, you can know the ip of the guy when he opens the e-mail (because the HTML renderer displays the image). Of course, this only works if the recipient don't read their mails in text-only mode.
gobbled up... you mean bought? Why the heck would EA buy Interplay? They would have to assume their debts too. They should (and probably will), wait until Interplay declares bankrupty and buy all virtual assets (licenses etc..) at a ridiculously low price. They'll hire all Interplay programmers, and start Fallout3 and not Fallout MMO, because they know what makes money now. They'll even make "Fallout: Hot date", "Fallout: on vacation", "Fallout: Mutant party" expansions!
There is seriously a problem with the /. moderating system. *everytime* I would reallt want to mod a post, I have no mod point, and *everytime* I get mod points, I frenetically search for comment to mod, but have troubles to find any.
I don't see HOW XBox 2 wouldn't be compatible with XBox 1. Hell, this is a computer using DirectX. I have DirectX 9, and I can play games designed for DirectX 5.
Each time I make the mistake of reinstalling that game, I waste countless hours playing it. This is one of the best games, although a things annoys me a lot, and fixing it would probably make it a perfect game for me:
:)
Technology's going too fast. One of the only way to win when you play at higher difficulties is to have the best techs, so you can have the most powerful units. However, by the time you build an army to attack, your units are already obsolete, and upgrading is quite expensive. Thus, the only time where there is real war is when everybody has the modern tanks and ICMBs and stealth jets. Thus, all the other units are in case you get attacked.
This is of course if you don't annihilate your ennemy at the start of the game. So, that's either at the start, or at the end of the technology tree that things move.
I wonder if there is a mod that makes technologies MUCH more expensive ( I think of something like 3X or 4X more expensive ). I guess it would make the game much more enjoyable, and would make it *necessary* to trade technologies in order to reach the 4th age before 2050, and even if everybody still is at 2nd age at 2050, that would have been a cool game
I was about to answer your original comment saying that if you switched from VB to Delphi with minimal effort, it must be because you don't know Delphi. But then I see you wrote about OOP, so I guess I would have been wrong.
VB is a child language. It is the plague of the software world because it makes mediocre programmers think they're good because they can play with a RAD tool.
There should be a notice on the VB box saying: "If you're over 18, please don't use this language, and please, PLEASE don't use this language for production projects! And if you're thinking about using this, and Access DB for a mission critical project, you're a fool."
I must admit that using Paradox (the sgbd shipped with Delphi (well, Delphi 5, I think they dropped it in new versions)) is also foolish.
Of course, VB.NET isn't the same stuff. It's only C# with the VB syntax, so it isn't as bad as it used to be. Well, I guess I will have to stop ditching VB someday...
Do you prefer to VIEW pr0n or HEAR pr0n?
Gotcha eh? Next article please!
Atlus made Hoshigami. Thus, they are now on my blacklist, cause this was really 50 wasted dollars.
Because FFT is really one of the best games I've played. Ever. I liked shining forces serie, but not as much as FFT. Have anyone tried the Teleport (Time mage job) ability with an archer (Go to hot archer spot instantly) or monk( archer killer :))? that rocks. I heard about disgea a lot, but I don't think I'll buy a PS2 anytime soon.
Back to FFT. The translation is quite mediocre, but if you ignore that fact, the storyline is very interesting (If you can remember all the major characters names, there are a lot...)!.
Absolutely right. The real freedom is to be clear of debts.
Exactly. That is why I think that Open Source is not the answer to everything. In this case, I also don't think OSS is the solution at all. Keep it secret. Keep it safe.
Stupidly long amount of time? RH9 takes longer to boot than XP Pro on the same PC. I agree with most of the article, except with the bug problems and having to reboot. I find XP fairly stable.
Do you use 100 CD-Rs daily? I don't think so.
My point is: Right now, CD-Rs cost less than 1$ each. Even if they would cost 2$ each, that wouldn't ruin you or me or anyone performing their daily backups on CD-R, and IMO, that is a fair price to pay for status-quo on music.
The original CDs price should be halved, and the blank CD tax should be doubled or tripled.
What are blank CD used for:
- Data Backups
- Program CD backup/piracy
- Music backup/mixes/piracy
Most backups are done, I think, only occasionally. I mean, if a big company needs professional backup solution, they will not use CD-R. Thus, doubling the blank CD taxes would have a quite small impact on people using them, because they don't use tons of them daily.
Wouldn't this make everyone happy?
- Probably more original CD sales
- More revenues to music artists (I guess)
- Copying a CD will no longer flag you as a criminal
I didn't read if they defined "paragraph", but if it is a sequence of character beginning with BOF or hard enter and ending with a hard enter or EOF, you can just omit the last character of the paragraph in your hash, and you're clear too.
I don't see what's the point of hashing words: The hash would be larger than the words themselves. It would be better to keep the actual words in your DB.
Goddammit, I will have to write down a list of companies I hate, just to be sure I don't forget one.
Well, he did design UO. I thought he was godlike until I played SWG... He's just not as good as he was. In fact, I think that the only godlike entity on earth is Designer Dragon, not Raph Koster himself :)
oops. Since the original team has left then :)