Umm...What about Left4Dead? I fail to see how the genre can be 'dying' if it includes a wildly popular new release? I mean, I guess you could argue that Left4Dead isn't similar enough to to qualify as a member of the genre -- but it seems like a perfectly valid (and, frankly, awesome) way to evolve the genre. Oh, two more words:
Dead Space.
Maybe you've just got a really, really narrow definition of what qualifies as 'survival horror'?
Branches are no problem for TRIPS -- in the EDGE architecture, both execution paths resulting from a branch are computed, unlike in classic architectures where the processor blocks (8086), skips ahead a single instruction before blocking (MIPS), or chooses a path using a branch predictor and executing it, possibly only to discard all instructions issued since the branch, if the predictor turns out wrong. EDGE architectures still lag on cache misses (or any memory hit) -- but that's fundamentally a problem with memory, not with the processor.
Don't read the article, read the UT pdf.
By IBM I assume you mean the Eclipse Foundation, of which Borland is a member. In fact, future versions of Borland's IDE will be based on the Eclipse platform; I imagine that Borland was perfectly happy to see widespread adoption for Eclipse, since they'll be cashing in on that adoption soon.
Actually, no -- Most routers, even dinky consumer types, already have the ability to do this sort of selective traffic shaping. All that's needed is for everyone to enable it.
Hmm. Yea, an iPod connector in your car would be pretty nifty. I'd love to have one -- happily, I drive a MINI Cooper, and Mini's offered a glove-compartment iPod connector as an option for years.
Why use the acronyms if you're just going to waste further space by defining them? Either use the acronyms, or don't.
Or, for a change, define them correctly, putting the redundant acronym (RA) after the definition so we can read the summary without those ridiculous stumbling blocks.
I imagine that if this sort of thing were to happen in the U.S., the government would get involved real quick. Not, you know, because some subscribers got hurt, but because all of those precious, precious terrorist communications that were lost forever, dooming the Fort Worth Convention Center to premature destruction at the hands of an angry Palestian truck driver.
Or maybe this can't happen in the U.S. at all. Maybe there's some quiet deal where large ISPs can simply back their data up on blade servers in Langley...
Go ahead, say it. Call me an idiot, an easily distracted consumer. Call me a prole, and feel free to trash talk my complete lack of intellect. But I'll miss E3.
Sure, it was expensive. Sure, it was over-the-top, blatant advertising. But hell, that was the point! E3 didn't exist to promote great development practices, or to help developers meet budgets or release dates. Nominally, I suppose, it was a conference for game journalists -- anything to generate some buzz.
But that's not it, either.
E3 was our focus, our main event, our one-and-only spotlight from the real world. Mainstream news took a break from its busy Iraq schedule to shine some light on what the hell those kids do all day, and, let's face it, we rolled in that spotlight. We reveled in it. Fantastic parties were thrown, drinks were opened, babes were hired (Err...the other kind) -- and we watched, and cared, because at some fundamental level, this was for us. For our benefit, megacorporations were throwing dollars into parties and fanfare, and hey, who else threw parties for gamers?
The spectacle of E3 was for us, and there's no way a conference based on meetings and boardrooms can ever really be ours. *tear*
Am I alone in thinking that this is rather bad news? We're talking about a company with a ludicrously aggressive subscription-acquisition-and-retention policy, remember -- how much worse (i.e., ad-saturated) is the web going to become once AOL becomes a major platform for adversiting?
What is E3? Is it just a convention, a convenient vehicle for putting developers in the same room as producers and distributors? Or is it...a spectacle, a chance to throw out some massive hype and drum up interest in upcoming games?
Please, that's not even a question. E3 may have started out as a business-oriented conference, but the name "E3" is now completely associated with booth babes, demos, drool, web comics, vaporware, and Sony press releases of Epic proportions (Forgive the pun...). E3 is dead, this announcement notwithstanding. It's also a clear example of the Theseus paradox, but that's not really relevant.
Goodbye, ridiculously endearing media event. Hello...business thing.
As a working language, I'd agree with parent -- Java is adequate. But as a teaching language, it's great. I'm all for keeping Java out of the workplace (Why is it there in the first place?!) but keeping it in colleges, where it can do no harm, and encourage millions of aspiring undergrads to write object-oriented code.
Or, they could just learn in Ruby. Yea. Ignore the above.
If you think about it, Apple's laptops really are the top 12%. I've gone through two laptops in twice as many years, and having worked on/with a ridiculous variety of brands & models, I've finally come to realize that all laptops are crap. Not only that, all laptop manufacturers are crap, too.
Except, of course, Apple, and possibly IBM/Lenovo. Apple makes decent machines, only slightly overpriced, and when they break (as practically every laptop I've ever encountered has done within two years of use, some spectacularly so) Apple has a history of going to great lengths to fix their mistakes. Remember the iBooks with faulty motherboards? How many of those did Apple replace with newer models (models with double the RAM and disk space)?
They have their faults, and their mistakes, but by-and-large I'd say Apple is one of the few laptop manufacturers whom I'd trust well enough to buy from.
Oh, and those spectacular failures?
A Sony Vaio that spontaneously burst into smoke during class.
HP Pavilion sold as having 256mb of memory, when it clearly had a mere 128.
A Toshiba that would only charge while upside-down. Seriously.
An Acer Ferrari 3200 that killed two hard drives before going on to melt its power adapter. This one was mine -- that really hurt.
Clearly, the solution is to vote in dogs. Not people who act like dogs, no -- let's band together and elect actual labrador retrievers to send to Washington. I mean, think about it. Dogs and Senators share a surprising number of characteristics: both are cute and loveable while on the street, but begin whining and begging the instant you bring them inside. Both are easily bought -- this is an extra bonus, because we can cut back spending by paying salaries in bacon.
Haven't you ever thought about why we call them congresscritters? It's got to be because someone somewhere understands.
I, for one, welcome our forthcoming canine overlords.
With apologies to Mark Twain
"Numerous other good works"
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I'm sure it will be up to the standards of Mr. Romero's numerous other good works.
What, like Doom, Quake, & Wolfenstein 3D? I don't understand why it's so amazingly popular to bash Romero. Sure, Daikatana wasn't great, but neither was Will Wright's SimHealth -- and no one bashes Will.
It's not like Daikatana was this epic disaster. It was hyped, it had truly terrible advertising ("make you his bitch...," what were they thinking?), and sales were pretty pathetic, but it did make enough to cover the cost of production. So, technically, Daikatana has been more of a hit than, say, the XBox. It's time we all jumped off the "John-Romero-sucks" bandwagon.
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Umm...What about Left4Dead? I fail to see how the genre can be 'dying' if it includes a wildly popular new release? I mean, I guess you could argue that Left4Dead isn't similar enough to to qualify as a member of the genre -- but it seems like a perfectly valid (and, frankly, awesome) way to evolve the genre. Oh, two more words:
Dead Space.
Maybe you've just got a really, really narrow definition of what qualifies as 'survival horror'?
Hey, that can backfire -- I had to endure widespread shame and ridicule after innocently reading 'Empire' on a bookstore couch.
Branches are no problem for TRIPS -- in the EDGE architecture, both execution paths resulting from a branch are computed, unlike in classic architectures where the processor blocks (8086), skips ahead a single instruction before blocking (MIPS), or chooses a path using a branch predictor and executing it, possibly only to discard all instructions issued since the branch, if the predictor turns out wrong. EDGE architectures still lag on cache misses (or any memory hit) -- but that's fundamentally a problem with memory, not with the processor. Don't read the article, read the UT pdf.
By IBM I assume you mean the Eclipse Foundation, of which Borland is a member. In fact, future versions of Borland's IDE will be based on the Eclipse platform; I imagine that Borland was perfectly happy to see widespread adoption for Eclipse, since they'll be cashing in on that adoption soon.
I'm not sure if it quite fits your needs, but it's both fantastic and well-designed: http://www.haveamint.com/
Actually, no -- Most routers, even dinky consumer types, already have the ability to do this sort of selective traffic shaping. All that's needed is for everyone to enable it.
Hmm. Yea, an iPod connector in your car would be pretty nifty. I'd love to have one -- happily, I drive a MINI Cooper, and Mini's offered a glove-compartment iPod connector as an option for years.
Why use the acronyms if you're just going to waste further space by defining them? Either use the acronyms, or don't.
Or, for a change, define them correctly, putting the redundant acronym (RA) after the definition so we can read the summary without those ridiculous stumbling blocks.
...And the CIA's in Langley.
I imagine that if this sort of thing were to happen in the U.S., the government would get involved real quick. Not, you know, because some subscribers got hurt, but because all of those precious, precious terrorist communications that were lost forever, dooming the Fort Worth Convention Center to premature destruction at the hands of an angry Palestian truck driver.
Or maybe this can't happen in the U.S. at all. Maybe there's some quiet deal where large ISPs can simply back their data up on blade servers in Langley...
Far superior, of course, to Ubuntu + Automatix.
Go ahead, say it. Call me an idiot, an easily distracted consumer. Call me a prole, and feel free to trash talk my complete lack of intellect. But I'll miss E3.
Sure, it was expensive. Sure, it was over-the-top, blatant advertising. But hell, that was the point! E3 didn't exist to promote great development practices, or to help developers meet budgets or release dates. Nominally, I suppose, it was a conference for game journalists -- anything to generate some buzz.
But that's not it, either.
E3 was our focus, our main event, our one-and-only spotlight from the real world. Mainstream news took a break from its busy Iraq schedule to shine some light on what the hell those kids do all day, and, let's face it, we rolled in that spotlight. We reveled in it. Fantastic parties were thrown, drinks were opened, babes were hired (Err...the other kind) -- and we watched, and cared, because at some fundamental level, this was for us. For our benefit, megacorporations were throwing dollars into parties and fanfare, and hey, who else threw parties for gamers?
The spectacle of E3 was for us, and there's no way a conference based on meetings and boardrooms can ever really be ours. *tear*
Looks like all those AOL customers have gone AWOL!
*ducks*
Am I alone in thinking that this is rather bad news? We're talking about a company with a ludicrously aggressive subscription-acquisition-and-retention policy, remember -- how much worse (i.e., ad-saturated) is the web going to become once AOL becomes a major platform for adversiting?
What is E3? Is it just a convention, a convenient vehicle for putting developers in the same room as producers and distributors? Or is it...a spectacle, a chance to throw out some massive hype and drum up interest in upcoming games?
Please, that's not even a question. E3 may have started out as a business-oriented conference, but the name "E3" is now completely associated with booth babes, demos, drool, web comics, vaporware, and Sony press releases of Epic proportions (Forgive the pun...). E3 is dead, this announcement notwithstanding. It's also a clear example of the Theseus paradox, but that's not really relevant.
Goodbye, ridiculously endearing media event. Hello...business thing.
Until you can guarantee that I'll end up in the right laboratory, there's no way you'll convince me to step into a Xen-powered teleport.
Oh, wait...
If they're using int for that number, I suspect that games like GTA come in with a rather nice ranking, somewhere around -17%...
Alex? Is that you?
As a working language, I'd agree with parent -- Java is adequate. But as a teaching language, it's great. I'm all for keeping Java out of the workplace (Why is it there in the first place?!) but keeping it in colleges, where it can do no harm, and encourage millions of aspiring undergrads to write object-oriented code.
Or, they could just learn in Ruby. Yea. Ignore the above.
If you think about it, Apple's laptops really are the top 12%. I've gone through two laptops in twice as many years, and having worked on/with a ridiculous variety of brands & models, I've finally come to realize that all laptops are crap. Not only that, all laptop manufacturers are crap, too.
Except, of course, Apple, and possibly IBM/Lenovo. Apple makes decent machines, only slightly overpriced, and when they break (as practically every laptop I've ever encountered has done within two years of use, some spectacularly so) Apple has a history of going to great lengths to fix their mistakes. Remember the iBooks with faulty motherboards? How many of those did Apple replace with newer models (models with double the RAM and disk space)?
They have their faults, and their mistakes, but by-and-large I'd say Apple is one of the few laptop manufacturers whom I'd trust well enough to buy from.
Oh, and those spectacular failures?I can finally realize my life-long dream: operating my own Kentucky Fried Chocobo franchise!
Clearly, the solution is to vote in dogs. Not people who act like dogs, no -- let's band together and elect actual labrador retrievers to send to Washington. I mean, think about it. Dogs and Senators share a surprising number of characteristics: both are cute and loveable while on the street, but begin whining and begging the instant you bring them inside. Both are easily bought -- this is an extra bonus, because we can cut back spending by paying salaries in bacon.
Haven't you ever thought about why we call them congresscritters? It's got to be because someone somewhere understands.
I, for one, welcome our forthcoming canine overlords.
With apologies to Mark Twain
What, like Doom, Quake, & Wolfenstein 3D? I don't understand why it's so amazingly popular to bash Romero. Sure, Daikatana wasn't great, but neither was Will Wright's SimHealth -- and no one bashes Will.
It's not like Daikatana was this epic disaster. It was hyped, it had truly terrible advertising ("make you his bitch...," what were they thinking?), and sales were pretty pathetic, but it did make enough to cover the cost of production. So, technically, Daikatana has been more of a hit than, say, the XBox. It's time we all jumped off the "John-Romero-sucks" bandwagon.
My god, I hope they still give away CDs! I may never finish decorating my dorm now...