worried that your discs won't have longevity? easy - go and buy the pirate versions. as they say it won't be impossible to rip the discs, just awkward. this isn't going to stop the commercial pirates from doing their work.
Now lets have a look do i buy the £20 DVD with the fucked up error correction that might not survive when i drop it into my laminate floor and put a slight scratch on it, or a £10 DVD which is a pirate but doesn't have this wonderful protection system that screws me over because im sure as hell they won't be licensing the macrovision technology - and its half the price. Not a difficult choice.
oh and im intrigued - if pc players will have such a problem reading them, will they play in XBox and PS2?
you're going to have to cut and paste man, im too drunk to mess about with html. and oddly they seemed to work in the story preview when i submitted it. perhaps plain old text formatting works better for story submissions
yep you are right. DB and the HTML form stuff from pear covers most of your ass for doing web/db. after writing the 1st page its just cut&paste of the guts from then on
thinking about it my old dear (mother) has impossibly neat handwriting. But it's tiny as well, i wonder if to save money in the 50s they put more lines on a page at school?
whats more hilarious is that she buys me these ridiculus overside cards for xmas/bday and still writes inside "merry xmas love mum" in her tiny and impossibly neat handwriting. not making it big and flamboyant to fill up the massive space in the card, still totally anal.
i blame not enough lashing for my band handwriting:-)
if it was me it would say "homicidal tendencies due to stress wanting to wipe the smug look off of Bumo's face with a cheesegrater"
did you see the clip where TB gave his speech the day before and Bumo was in the audience with a cap on back to front? oh yeah you da man bono! keep it real for da kids!
all this attacking of Gates should stop. Join forces now to stop Bumo's master plan to become the 1st president of the united earth. I mean at least BG didn't release a song that got to number one that sounds just like 'keep me hanging on' by Kim Wilde. And what does KW have to do now? adverts for health food shops!/me physically restrained and dragged away from ranting
it was kind of an annoying form anyway, something somebody has knocked up on word and never tried to use so you get:
First Name:....... [whole page width] Address of Mortgage Provider (1st Applicant).. [2 inches]
but i got the same thing, my handwriting was appalling even when i was at school. i looked at this form after i had completed it and just wanted to cross my name out and write "MUNGO" in large letters across the page. and i had to print in capitals. even i cant read my own joined up writing any more.
Over here in the UK all the big IT projects are outsourced to large consultancies and they are all a distaster for 4 basic reasons:
#1: They don't know what they are doing. Anybody who does know what they are doing and fights passionately to save projects turning to junk is labelled a troublemaker and does not progress. Arselickers and inoffensive people with nice hair abound the management and they haven't got a clue. #2: Lack of bottomless pit of money. When you don't know what you are doing how can you expect to guess corrently at the cost? This is only really a problem for cash strapped places like the govt. When these companies feck up in an investment bank they can just continue to extract cash till the entire project gets cancelled #3: The useless twats that basically caused the disaster aren't fired and publicly humilliated #4: The 'old boy' network. These huge companies continue to get the contracts even after strings of disasters because everybody is in bed together. For example, up until 1997 Arthur Anderson was banned from doing govt work after the DeLorian scandal in the 1980s. But in 1997 when new labour won power this was reversed. Surprisingly one of our cabinet ministers, Patrica Hewitt was Director of Research at Anderson Consulting.
when I was working for a bank on a small internet banking project, a well known consulting company managed to stuff SIX HUNDRED people on it, with plans to raise that to a thousand. I think there were perhaps 25 people who wrote code there. And none of them knew anything, they were straight out of college and went on a week's intensive course on the application platform. and were being billed out at over £1500/day. I as a contractor was not billing out at £1500/day and had to baby sit them.
until we can stop these big consultancies getting the contracts or until they reform themselves into knowing what they are doing or until we can break the old boy network we will continue to chow down on stories of total abject failure safe in the knowledge that the perps have not been thrown out on their ear, they still have their nice house, BMW and golf club membership...
righto thats it. now back to planning my own world dominating business, Knackerator Consulting. I think the time is right for me I don't like coding anymore and couldn't give a flying fuck about delivering a project on time or budget. Anybody with me?
Got made redundant 2 years ago from a job that killed my love of coding that i had since i was 11. Like a 20 year love affair dead in the water.
I mess about with stuff now for 'fun'. Snippets of PHP for websites. But no 'real' code. Started a small java project before xmas and just stopped working on it, I wasn't really enjoying it.
So i've been on my arse for 2 years and I still dont know what to do, so i'm gonna do nothing somewhere else. Selling the house, getting a motorhome (RV to you folks) and gonna tour europe for a few years till either my money runs out or i find something i want to do.
I almost feel bereft, there is nothing that really perks my interest anymore. don't know what im gonna do if the money runs out and I still feel like this.
"The most serious flaw involves a buffer overflow bug in the way Mozilla processes the NNTP (news) protocol. The bug creates a means for hackers inject hostile code into vulnerable systems, providing they trick users into executing maliciously constructed news server links"
Of course half the problem with these kinds of 'update your software now' fixes is that so many people dont, even when its a no brain operation like using windows update.
excellent. should include buttons for
a) read article, then post message
b) read other comments, then post message
c) read nothing then post message
d) auto generate humourous in russia/overlord/insensitive clod/1st post! posts
of course button c would be the default
just to clarify, when i say 'ludicrous' i mean not that the idea of selling space flight is bad, it is the level of involvment that virgin would actually have.
chances are it would just be a licensing deal like virgin cola or virgin mobile. i dont believe they have the money to fund something that big. he would be sent into space grinning like a looney in a chunky jumper (as usual) and the ships would be read. that's really about it.
i don't know what you think of him in the states but really anybody with a bit of nous in the uk believes he is a bit of a publicity seeking.... errr.. person.
its pretty easy to make a press release - that costs no money. virgin is an interesting company having as many bad ideas as good. branson seems to jump on bandwagons and push the 'maximum publicity' button at any oppertunity.
virgin rail was launched in a blaze of media coverage with branman waving from trains etc. promising the earth. years later fares are much higher and the service seems to be much worse from what i read.
a few years ago i believe he had to sell 49% of virgin atlantic, it was the only thing making any money. needed the cash to pay off debts.
so whatever you do please just dont quote this ludicrous plan (and a ludicrous name- galactic? we havent even got there yet!) and give him more bloody free publicity. only mention it when it becomes a reality.
Well, unless you can profile your monitor (an box that attaches to the screen and a piece of s/w that reads colour patches and builds the profile) then you are pretty much out of luck.
and that is nothing compared to making sure you have a correct printer profile and the software to convert images between the two device dependant colour spaces.
heavy maths involved there btw.
as for blurry, flatbeds can be a bit blurry straight from the scanner, you'll need to apply some unsharp mask to punch out the detail. there are probably plenty of websites that deal with the exact settings for the scanner you have.
other than that id say use Vuescan its a great scanner program.
yup you are right. like the final level, just running between very small areas
nothing like say that lab level on DX where you start on the roof - it was huge and you had both inside and outside the building in one place, or the loading dock with the crane and ship...
if only it would work correctly on my laptop id still play it. speedstep gets in the way as apparantly dx just samples the processor speed at installation, so the game speed can be random on laptops.
BUT. its what, 4/5 years old, and it works correctly with my widescreen display giving widescreen resolutions. unlike doom 3. unlike ET. they are all 4:3 resolutions. bastards:)
other thing with the original, there were different ways of approaching the levels depending on your choice of storyline. on DX2 its like you choose whether or not to complete tasks depending on your preference, but nothing really changes.
looked nice though. and at least compared to say doom 3 you can pick up objects and bodies and the like and throw them about. you must be able to interact with the environment. no matter how good it looks
i read some articles and i shall give it a pop, everybody refers to its DX-ness.
gotta be better than doom3 which i've played about 5 levels and stopped. its like some never ending nightmare where no matter where the hell you are everything looks the bloody same. i mean it looks great, the attention to details in the levels is great, but its a tad on the repetative side looks wise. hell even on level 1 on the original doom there were larger areas! and windows!
and spawning behind you is just a cheap trick. with such a linear level design ie 'you walk past this bit and it springs a trap of some kind' its all they could fall back on
now thats the game that all the others have to match up to. multiple ways of approaching problems in huge areas. a kind of 'rpg' system to get certain skills to complete tasks in different ways.
FC was probably closest to DX in its way of allowing you free roam and go where you like but doesnt have the multiple angles of approach of DX.
DX2 (invisible war) is OK, its just severely hampered by the fact that its designed to run on an xbox, so there is a lot of loading small areas within a level. just not as big and airy as DX1
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yeah that wasnt working when i last coded that stuff ~ 2002
java is still overkill for working with web pages though.
oh and the run everything through apache - sounds a bit like early novell:)
especially in an environment where the guy in charge of the jboss deployment couldn't make it run from an exploded WAR file. so every change meant a wait for the compile, zip up into a 1.5meg WAR file, copy it to deployment directory. Jboss then unexpands it and starts deployment.
you then go through the whole login thing only to find out you screwed the configuration file.
java/html/struts single handedly killed my love of coding within a year. coded since i was 11, now 33. hardly touch code now even for fun.
php is much better adapted for the web. php 5 is getting 'closer' to java (integration as well as the language) so if i was to do anything that required a middleware layer now i'd do the front in PHP and use java for the middleware. and get somebody else to do that, screw EJBs:)
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worried that your discs won't have longevity? easy - go and buy the pirate versions. as they say it won't be impossible to rip the discs, just awkward. this isn't going to stop the commercial pirates from doing their work.
Now lets have a look do i buy the £20 DVD with the fucked up error correction that might not survive when i drop it into my laminate floor and put a slight scratch on it, or a £10 DVD which is a pirate but doesn't have this wonderful protection system that screws me over because im sure as hell they won't be licensing the macrovision technology - and its half the price. Not a difficult choice.
oh and im intrigued - if pc players will have such a problem reading them, will they play in XBox and PS2?
if you cant get lokitorrent.com working then i think you NEED a beer lol
you're going to have to cut and paste man, im too drunk to mess about with html. and oddly they seemed to work in the story preview when i submitted it. perhaps plain old text formatting works better for story submissions
http://www.mpaa.org/CurrentReleases/2005_02_10_Bit Torrent_Lokitorrent_FINAL.doc
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get off lokitorrent now if you are on it, the MPAA are tracking you
check out
http://www.lokitorrent.com
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/10/ex
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/10/loki_do
i am serisouly surprised i read this in an IRC channel before
nighty all
yep you are right. DB and the HTML form stuff from pear covers most of your ass for doing web/db. after writing the 1st page its just cut&paste of the guts from then on
All the docs should be scanned/ocrd and mad available for free on the net. To not do so would be highly ironic.
thinking about it my old dear (mother) has impossibly neat handwriting. But it's tiny as well, i wonder if to save money in the 50s they put more lines on a page at school?
:-)
whats more hilarious is that she buys me these ridiculus overside cards for xmas/bday and still writes inside "merry xmas love mum" in her tiny and impossibly neat handwriting. not making it big and flamboyant to fill up the massive space in the card, still totally anal.
i blame not enough lashing for my band handwriting
if it was me it would say "homicidal tendencies due to stress wanting to wipe the smug look off of Bumo's face with a cheesegrater"
/me physically restrained and dragged away from ranting
did you see the clip where TB gave his speech the day before and Bumo was in the audience with a cap on back to front? oh yeah you da man bono! keep it real for da kids!
all this attacking of Gates should stop. Join forces now to stop Bumo's master plan to become the 1st president of the united earth. I mean at least BG didn't release a song that got to number one that sounds just like 'keep me hanging on' by Kim Wilde. And what does KW have to do now? adverts for health food shops!
it was kind of an annoying form anyway, something somebody has knocked up on word and never tried to use so you get:
....... [whole page width] .. [2 inches]
First Name:
Address of Mortgage Provider (1st Applicant)
but i got the same thing, my handwriting was appalling even when i was at school. i looked at this form after i had completed it and just wanted to cross my name out and write "MUNGO" in large letters across the page. and i had to print in capitals. even i cant read my own joined up writing any more.
Over here in the UK all the big IT projects are outsourced to large consultancies and they are all a distaster for 4 basic reasons:
#1: They don't know what they are doing. Anybody who does know what they are doing and fights passionately to save projects turning to junk is labelled a troublemaker and does not progress. Arselickers and inoffensive people with nice hair abound the management and they haven't got a clue.
#2: Lack of bottomless pit of money. When you don't know what you are doing how can you expect to guess corrently at the cost? This is only really a problem for cash strapped places like the govt. When these companies feck up in an investment bank they can just continue to extract cash till the entire project gets cancelled
#3: The useless twats that basically caused the disaster aren't fired and publicly humilliated
#4: The 'old boy' network. These huge companies continue to get the contracts even after strings of disasters because everybody is in bed together. For example, up until 1997 Arthur Anderson was banned from doing govt work after the DeLorian scandal in the 1980s. But in 1997 when new labour won power this was reversed. Surprisingly one of our cabinet ministers, Patrica Hewitt was Director of Research at Anderson Consulting.
when I was working for a bank on a small internet banking project, a well known consulting company managed to stuff SIX HUNDRED people on it, with plans to raise that to a thousand. I think there were perhaps 25 people who wrote code there. And none of them knew anything, they were straight out of college and went on a week's intensive course on the application platform. and were being billed out at over £1500/day. I as a contractor was not billing out at £1500/day and had to baby sit them.
until we can stop these big consultancies getting the contracts or until they reform themselves into knowing what they are doing or until we can break the old boy network we will continue to chow down on stories of total abject failure safe in the knowledge that the perps have not been thrown out on their ear, they still have their nice house, BMW and golf club membership...
righto thats it. now back to planning my own world dominating business, Knackerator Consulting. I think the time is right for me I don't like coding anymore and couldn't give a flying fuck about delivering a project on time or budget. Anybody with me?
Got made redundant 2 years ago from a job that killed my love of coding that i had since i was 11. Like a 20 year love affair dead in the water.
I mess about with stuff now for 'fun'. Snippets of PHP for websites. But no 'real' code. Started a small java project before xmas and just stopped working on it, I wasn't really enjoying it.
So i've been on my arse for 2 years and I still dont know what to do, so i'm gonna do nothing somewhere else. Selling the house, getting a motorhome (RV to you folks) and gonna tour europe for a few years till either my money runs out or i find something i want to do.
I almost feel bereft, there is nothing that really perks my interest anymore. don't know what im gonna do if the money runs out and I still feel like this.
http://www.travelocity.co.uk/ are using "hello world" as their ad slogan.
they are probably going to start suing programming books soon....
Flynn = Jesus
so making a sequel would be a bit like making a sequel to the bible
Mozilla and Firefox flaws exposed
"The most serious flaw involves a buffer overflow bug in the way Mozilla processes the NNTP (news) protocol. The bug creates a means for hackers inject hostile code into vulnerable systems, providing they trick users into executing maliciously constructed news server links"
Of course half the problem with these kinds of 'update your software now' fixes is that so many people dont, even when its a no brain operation like using windows update.
excellent. should include buttons for a) read article, then post message b) read other comments, then post message c) read nothing then post message d) auto generate humourous in russia/overlord/insensitive clod/1st post! posts of course button c would be the default
just to clarify, when i say 'ludicrous' i mean not that the idea of selling space flight is bad, it is the level of involvment that virgin would actually have.
chances are it would just be a licensing deal like virgin cola or virgin mobile. i dont believe they have the money to fund something that big. he would be sent into space grinning like a looney in a chunky jumper (as usual) and the ships would be read. that's really about it.
i don't know what you think of him in the states but really anybody with a bit of nous in the uk believes he is a bit of a publicity seeking.... errr.. person.
its pretty easy to make a press release - that costs no money. virgin is an interesting company having as many bad ideas as good. branson seems to jump on bandwagons and push the 'maximum publicity' button at any oppertunity.
virgin rail was launched in a blaze of media coverage with branman waving from trains etc. promising the earth. years later fares are much higher and the service seems to be much worse from what i read.
a few years ago i believe he had to sell 49% of virgin atlantic, it was the only thing making any money. needed the cash to pay off debts.
so whatever you do please just dont quote this ludicrous plan (and a ludicrous name- galactic? we havent even got there yet!) and give him more bloody free publicity. only mention it when it becomes a reality.
Well, unless you can profile your monitor (an box that attaches to the screen and a piece of s/w that reads colour patches and builds the profile) then you are pretty much out of luck. and that is nothing compared to making sure you have a correct printer profile and the software to convert images between the two device dependant colour spaces. heavy maths involved there btw. as for blurry, flatbeds can be a bit blurry straight from the scanner, you'll need to apply some unsharp mask to punch out the detail. there are probably plenty of websites that deal with the exact settings for the scanner you have. other than that id say use Vuescan its a great scanner program.
oh and i forgot, the music was a million times better in the orignal DX. i could actually listen to that stuff offline.
dx2 music is too anonymous and in the background
yup you are right. like the final level, just running between very small areas
:)
nothing like say that lab level on DX where you start on the roof - it was huge and you had both inside and outside the building in one place, or the loading dock with the crane and ship...
if only it would work correctly on my laptop id still play it. speedstep gets in the way as apparantly dx just samples the processor speed at installation, so the game speed can be random on laptops.
BUT. its what, 4/5 years old, and it works correctly with my widescreen display giving widescreen resolutions. unlike doom 3. unlike ET. they are all 4:3 resolutions. bastards
other thing with the original, there were different ways of approaching the levels depending on your choice of storyline. on DX2 its like you choose whether or not to complete tasks depending on your preference, but nothing really changes.
looked nice though. and at least compared to say doom 3 you can pick up objects and bodies and the like and throw them about. you must be able to interact with the environment. no matter how good it looks
i read some articles and i shall give it a pop, everybody refers to its DX-ness.
gotta be better than doom3 which i've played about 5 levels and stopped. its like some never ending nightmare where no matter where the hell you are everything looks the bloody same. i mean it looks great, the attention to details in the levels is great, but its a tad on the repetative side looks wise. hell even on level 1 on the original doom there were larger areas! and windows!
and spawning behind you is just a cheap trick. with such a linear level design ie 'you walk past this bit and it springs a trap of some kind' its all they could fall back on
now thats the game that all the others have to match up to. multiple ways of approaching problems in huge areas. a kind of 'rpg' system to get certain skills to complete tasks in different ways. FC was probably closest to DX in its way of allowing you free roam and go where you like but doesnt have the multiple angles of approach of DX. DX2 (invisible war) is OK, its just severely hampered by the fact that its designed to run on an xbox, so there is a lot of loading small areas within a level. just not as big and airy as DX1
yeah that wasnt working when i last coded that stuff ~ 2002
:)
java is still overkill for working with web pages though.
oh and the run everything through apache - sounds a bit like early novell
especially in an environment where the guy in charge of the jboss deployment couldn't make it run from an exploded WAR file. so every change meant a wait for the compile, zip up into a 1.5meg WAR file, copy it to deployment directory. Jboss then unexpands it and starts deployment.
:)
you then go through the whole login thing only to find out you screwed the configuration file.
java/html/struts single handedly killed my love of coding within a year. coded since i was 11, now 33. hardly touch code now even for fun.
php is much better adapted for the web. php 5 is getting 'closer' to java (integration as well as the language) so if i was to do anything that required a middleware layer now i'd do the front in PHP and use java for the middleware. and get somebody else to do that, screw EJBs