You'd think that, but let me tell you a little story. I grew up in Herndon, VA, and the sewer/drain tunnels are like what you see in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie... large enough to walk through. They had these spiders (they wove webs, so that is what I classify them as), but they had cricket legs! CRICKET LEGS! And they chirped! To this day, I have found no reference to them, let alone an explanation of how they exist. But to prove to the non believers, I have a few petrified in a jar, complete with a web they spun before dying.
In todays day and age, a file system spec is no longer just about how data is layed out on disk. With your example, NTFS, but several others, such as ZFS, Reiserfs, XFS, the file system is both the layout of the data, and also how hardware is supposed to interact with it. This is what makes NTFS difficult to deal with. It has enough similarities to FAT that anyone that has background in using FAT can read from it. But there are undocumented "data objects" (for lack of a better word), that hold things such as whether data is dirty, if it is replicated offline, etc. So when it comes down to it, sure you can write to an NTFS volume in say linux, but when you fire up a windows installation and use said disk, the extra data hasn't been kept in sync with what data is there... and it is deemed corrupted.
I used to love Knight Rider as a kid... I ended up buying a couple of seasons on DVD. Man, what a waste. Being older and wiser you can see plain as day that the plot structure was basically the same on every show... almost down to the very second the plotline would unfold the same way.
I used to like the show House too... but it suffers the exact same problem, albeit more busy (more going on).
So the only proper anti-cheat lays with the server. But there you hit a problem. You can, for example, prevent some cheats that way. Somebody lobs 2 nades while the server knows he only has 1? Cheating. Somebody moves all over the screen, faster than the player can actually run? Cheating. Wait - or a laggy connection.. or a bug. Tread with caution there. Caution means a margin. A margin means a margin for cheating
It is simpler than that. If guy can only move X distance in Y time, enforce it. The client shouldn't be deciding the movement of your character... it should only be sending the direction of which you wish to move.
Quake 3 was multi-threaded a lot, but in games such as it, I am not so sure that having enemy's and crates and whatever else on their own thread is such a good idea. A primitive, yet effective way to approach such a game can be illustrated with such:
void Gameloop() {<br> ... Tick();//Game engine moves in time one increment
for (Index0 = 0; Index0 < World.Objects.Count; Index+=1) { World.Objects(Index0).React();//Each object reacts to happenings in the previous moment } ... }
To put it simply, the world ticks by one moment at a time, and each object in turn gets to react to the happenings in said moment.
Using this model, multithreading only makes sense in that your music can play on one thread, input on another, and the game engine on another. But the core fundamentally makes more sense illustrated above, to me.
Sure, maybe in the future, all "Blu collar" jobs will be taken over by machines, but ALL of these machines will need to be repaired, maintained, upgraded... and if the world is run by robots, there is a lot of work there
This reminds me of a story passed around my previous employer which I call "The Monkey and Banana story".
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a ladder under it. Before long, one of the monkeys will spot the banana and start to climb the ladder. As soon as he does, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
Replace the banana.
After a while another of the monkeys will probably go for the banana. Again, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. Monkeys are fairly smart, so pretty soon whenever one of the monkeys tries to climb the ladder all the other monkeys will try and prevent him doing it. When this happens, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. Then put another banana at the top of the ladder.
The new monkey will spot the banana and make for the ladder. To his surprise all of the other monkeys attack him. After a couple more attempts result in further beatings the new monkey will not make any attempt to go for the banana.
Remove another of the original monkeys and replace it with another new one. Then replace the banana. Again, the new monkey will make a grab for it. Like his predecessor he will be amazed to find that all the other monkeys attack him. The previous newcomer will take part in his punishment with some enthusiasm.
One at a time, gradually replace all of the original monkeys with new ones. Each of the newcomers will go for the banana. Each one will be attacked by the other four. Most of the new monkeys have absolutely no idea why they were not allowed to climb the ladder, or why they are participating in the assault on the newest monkey.
When all of the original monkeys have been replaced, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless no monkey ever approaches the ladder. Why not? Because as far as they are concerned that's the way it has always been done around here.
Technically in a perfect world, even gas combusts into water vapor. But the world isn't perfect. To quote wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion:
Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames.
In a complete combustion reaction, a compound reacts with an oxidizing element, such as oxygen or fluorine, and the products are compounds of each element in the fuel with the oxidizing element. For example:
A simpler example can be seen in the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen, which is a commonly used reaction in rocket engines:
2H2 + O2 2H2O + heat
The result is simply water vapor.
In the large majority of the real world uses of combustion, the oxygen (O2) oxidant is obtained from the ambient air and the resultant flue gas from the combustion will contain nitrogen:
CH4 + 2O2 + 7.52N2 CO2 + 2H2O + 7.52N2 + heat
As can be seen, when air is the source of the oxygen, nitrogen is by far the largest part of the resultant flue gas.
In reality, combustion processes are never perfect or complete. In flue gases from combustion of carbon (as in coal combustion) or carbon compounds (as in combustion of hydrocarbons, wood etc.) both unburned carbon (as soot) and carbon compounds (CO and others) will be present. Also, when air is the oxidant, some nitrogen will be oxidized to various, mostly harmful, nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Once upon a time, I gave up gadgets. My refrigerator was actually a silo full of freon and a windy mule named jake. We got our news by talking to the birds. Pidgeons mind you, the others are LIARS! Anyway, we were too poor to run a farm and too ugly to hold a real job, so we usually got our food by raiding the local cemetary, or scoping out the 6-lane highway next to the crick. Then one day I got a computer. Now I work in a cube, have 8 different bosses and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS "LOAD LETTER" SHIT?!?!?!?!?
I posted the question "What is the Linux kernel" to Ask a Ninja on YouTube. He told me it was a secret project undertaken by tree squirrels to create a time machine from the kernels of nuts so they could fast forward through winter cos they are fed up being stuck indoors for the winter months.
Bloat? Where's the bloat, holmes? My kid runs it on a PPro 200, running windows 2000. Other than starting up, it's responsive and hell, doesn't even need installed (no COM junk!).
Do you equate skinability with bloat?
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The face of computer business has changed. It is all about patents and copyright now... not providing a good product to the consumer.
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Meh. What else is new. The guys in office are the same ones bought off to create these ridiculous laws in the first place.
You'd think that, but let me tell you a little story. I grew up in Herndon, VA, and the sewer/drain tunnels are like what you see in a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie... large enough to walk through. They had these spiders (they wove webs, so that is what I classify them as), but they had cricket legs! CRICKET LEGS! And they chirped! To this day, I have found no reference to them, let alone an explanation of how they exist. But to prove to the non believers, I have a few petrified in a jar, complete with a web they spun before dying.
In todays day and age, a file system spec is no longer just about how data is layed out on disk. With your example, NTFS, but several others, such as ZFS, Reiserfs, XFS, the file system is both the layout of the data, and also how hardware is supposed to interact with it. This is what makes NTFS difficult to deal with. It has enough similarities to FAT that anyone that has background in using FAT can read from it. But there are undocumented "data objects" (for lack of a better word), that hold things such as whether data is dirty, if it is replicated offline, etc. So when it comes down to it, sure you can write to an NTFS volume in say linux, but when you fire up a windows installation and use said disk, the extra data hasn't been kept in sync with what data is there... and it is deemed corrupted.
No brainer: Create a Starbucks
Maybe his mom got gunned down during a meth lab robbery by the local Knitting Devils gang
I used to love Knight Rider as a kid... I ended up buying a couple of seasons on DVD. Man, what a waste. Being older and wiser you can see plain as day that the plot structure was basically the same on every show... almost down to the very second the plotline would unfold the same way.
I used to like the show House too... but it suffers the exact same problem, albeit more busy (more going on).
Quake may have been short, but Quake 2 was one of the longest games I ever played... aside from Monkey Island 2
So the only proper anti-cheat lays with the server. But there you hit a problem. You can, for example, prevent some cheats that way. Somebody lobs 2 nades while the server knows he only has 1? Cheating. Somebody moves all over the screen, faster than the player can actually run? Cheating. Wait - or a laggy connection.. or a bug. Tread with caution there. Caution means a margin. A margin means a margin for cheating
It is simpler than that. If guy can only move X distance in Y time, enforce it. The client shouldn't be deciding the movement of your character... it should only be sending the direction of which you wish to move.
To put it simply, the world ticks by one moment at a time, and each object in turn gets to react to the happenings in said moment.
Using this model, multithreading only makes sense in that your music can play on one thread, input on another, and the game engine on another. But the core fundamentally makes more sense illustrated above, to me.
Any AGP version? I couldn't tell.
Sure, maybe in the future, all "Blu collar" jobs will be taken over by machines, but ALL of these machines will need to be repaired, maintained, upgraded... and if the world is run by robots, there is a lot of work there
This reminds me of a story passed around my previous employer which I call "The Monkey and Banana story".
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a ladder under it. Before long, one of the monkeys will spot the banana and start to climb the ladder. As soon as he does, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water.
Replace the banana.
After a while another of the monkeys will probably go for the banana. Again, spray all of the other monkeys with cold water. Monkeys are fairly smart, so pretty soon whenever one of the monkeys tries to climb the ladder all the other monkeys will try and prevent him doing it. When this happens, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. Then put another banana at the top of the ladder.
The new monkey will spot the banana and make for the ladder. To his surprise all of the other monkeys attack him. After a couple more attempts result in further beatings the new monkey will not make any attempt to go for the banana.
Remove another of the original monkeys and replace it with another new one. Then replace the banana. Again, the new monkey will make a grab for it. Like his predecessor he will be amazed to find that all the other monkeys attack him. The previous newcomer will take part in his punishment with some enthusiasm.
One at a time, gradually replace all of the original monkeys with new ones. Each of the newcomers will go for the banana. Each one will be attacked by the other four. Most of the new monkeys have absolutely no idea why they were not allowed to climb the ladder, or why they are participating in the assault on the newest monkey.
When all of the original monkeys have been replaced, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless no monkey ever approaches the ladder. Why not? Because as far as they are concerned that's the way it has always been done around here.
Does that mean I can finally play Doom 3 in high quality mode?
I have no idea what you just said.
Right. So they had a var "bool ShowHotCoffee = false;". The ActionReplay overwrote the memory to this var (I assume). Not exactly rocket science
Sure. Where would slashdot be without Roland Piquepaille's blog
From my experience, the ones who aren't billable are the ones who get cut first.
Yeah well, California legalized pot and we saw how that caught on...
Technically in a perfect world, even gas combusts into water vapor. But the world isn't perfect. To quote wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion:
Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames.
In a complete combustion reaction, a compound reacts with an oxidizing element, such as oxygen or fluorine, and the products are compounds of each element in the fuel with the oxidizing element. For example:
CH4 + 2O2 CO2 + 2H2O + heat
CH2S + 6F2 CF4 + 2HF + SF6 + heat
A simpler example can be seen in the combustion of hydrogen and oxygen, which is a commonly used reaction in rocket engines:
2H2 + O2 2H2O + heat
The result is simply water vapor.
In the large majority of the real world uses of combustion, the oxygen (O2) oxidant is obtained from the ambient air and the resultant flue gas from the combustion will contain nitrogen:
CH4 + 2O2 + 7.52N2 CO2 + 2H2O + 7.52N2 + heat
As can be seen, when air is the source of the oxygen, nitrogen is by far the largest part of the resultant flue gas.
In reality, combustion processes are never perfect or complete. In flue gases from combustion of carbon (as in coal combustion) or carbon compounds (as in combustion of hydrocarbons, wood etc.) both unburned carbon (as soot) and carbon compounds (CO and others) will be present. Also, when air is the oxidant, some nitrogen will be oxidized to various, mostly harmful, nitrogen oxides (NOx).
Once upon a time, I gave up gadgets. My refrigerator was actually a silo full of freon and a windy mule named jake. We got our news by talking to the birds. Pidgeons mind you, the others are LIARS! Anyway, we were too poor to run a farm and too ugly to hold a real job, so we usually got our food by raiding the local cemetary, or scoping out the 6-lane highway next to the crick. Then one day I got a computer. Now I work in a cube, have 8 different bosses and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS "LOAD LETTER" SHIT?!?!?!?!?
I posted the question "What is the Linux kernel" to Ask a Ninja on YouTube. He told me it was a secret project undertaken by tree squirrels to create a time machine from the kernels of nuts so they could fast forward through winter cos they are fed up being stuck indoors for the winter months.
As opposed to... say... rock squirrels.
Bloat? Where's the bloat, holmes? My kid runs it on a PPro 200, running windows 2000. Other than starting up, it's responsive and hell, doesn't even need installed (no COM junk!).
Do you equate skinability with bloat?
The face of computer business has changed. It is all about patents and copyright now... not providing a good product to the consumer.
What What (in the butt)!
Hope that clears things up for you.
The list goes on, but my fingers got tired.