It was my thesis, and it belongs to me and the school - all previous works are in the school library.
I don't have a problem with that, it is fair enough - good trade for a diploma IMO:)
All what happened is that they were insterested in it, then I moved to an other country and somehow talks did not continue.... no biggie..
Actually probably it would have involved correcting stuff, changing some data and neither me neither my tutor just did not push it, He was a busy professor at an other university, I was just about to get sell all my stuff (including apartment), site on a plain and get married....... I think we were just busy enough not to push it too much.....
Besides now it is really outdated, things changed a lot, and it would have a small reader base as it was in Hungarian.
I am actually not sure about the rights so just putting it online might be a problem, however whoever wants it it's in the public library, and it's fine with me really.
ahm OK. tha last big document I worked on was around 200 pages (my thesis a good few years ago)...
by the way it covered Linux and it's applications/usability in different company environments, and just to prove a point I did the whole thing (including docs, graps, charts, network maps) on linux apps, mostly in OO, gimp & dia.... and it just worked without one single crash or problems all thru the months on a really outdated PC.. and it was a complex document that had to look GOOD (haha... they wanted to publish it actually:) but finally it did not happen.. )
50 pages and problems IS A PROBLEM!! I agree with it....
I mean for me a huge document is let's say 500 pages (technically a book for ne), and I worked on 200 pages myself (not too big I admit) and OO just worked fine. It was 4 years ago and compatibility, processing power was limited, and I had several illustrations and others inserted (about 20 pages of images), and 10 pages of tables/graps.
I really wonder what is the limit when you say : uhh that is unbearably sucky/crashes/etc.... also can that improve with hardware, or it just plain sucks?
really I barely edit documents nowadays over 3-4 pages, so I really wonder what you think! I also save everything in native OO formats or RTF (rich text is reich anough for me) and barely print anything... I mean I am a "home office" user of OO but totally satisfied by it
Can't help it, have no bad intention. Do not smuggle drugs or want to "commit a terrorist act". I did not take part in mass murder or ethnical cleansing. And I do not want to be an illegar worker in anyone's country.
However, when on a US airport (and few other places):
there are 10 cameras scanning the whole place they take my photograph they take my fingerprint they look into my luggage (even open unopened factory sealed boxes)
it just makes me plain unconfortable, and however I control myself I feel myself like I was a wanted criminal trying to smuggle drugs, bombs and uranium into the country...
The last time i went to the US, I was phisycally shaking and felt totally discomfort when arriving to the "purpose of your visit, and no we need your pointer finger print" officer...
I mean I understand it, I live with it, no offence, but I am going to fail any detector if it detects nervous people with trembling voice, even if I do not smuggle anything and I am willing to be on the flight back home.... and I am not a nervous person at all, but those checkpoints freek the crap out of me !!! really!
I am the person who would wear a tshirt for 4 years+, and have pants that are kicking 5+ years, however their prices are well over or around your "nice store shirt".
I hate shopping for clothes, because I am extra picky, and when buying (e.g. skateboarder-style cargo pants - my favourite) I can spend 2 hours in a store trying to find something that would not fall apart after a year, and something that would be damn comfortable.... I even think of the afterlife, as my really old clothes end up on the trails hiking, or riding bikes. and playing paintball....
I see that a t-shirt is NOT elegant, but I also throw up on the "manager" in "see-thru" socks and a suit that has the price of my t-shirt : looking at me if I was a homeless or something....
now I am a bit old for that, but as a teenager I actually enjoyed mis-dressing for every single place.... if there was no escape, I put on tennis shoes or a really ugly tie just to mismatch... it is childish, but I had fun:)
I went to a wedding recently, and my wife was freaked out that one women (waaaay older than her) had the same dress as her.... well dunno, I'd like that problem, since I am all sick of being dressed like all the other guys : black suit, nice shoe...
ohh no wait, you can express yourself with a tie and a nice shirt...
When you are programming/setting stuff up in front of a computer you need to be comfortable... When you are in server rooms all day you have to dress warm When you are cabling/installing equipment you need clothes that you can ruin, and can get into strange positions in the cable tunnel, in the rack (between the router and the firewall) When you are on the field (e.g. wireless installation, or climbing on a roof/pole) you need to wear whatever else than suit/formal crap....
Have you guys ever gone to work formally dressend and came back looking like a pig ? Yes, on that day when you had to fix whatever in emergency, on that day when you fixed code 6hours overtime, missed the last bus and waited for taxi at 2am in the rain?
My boss used to say: if you come in here in monkey suit I send you home... of course that did not apply to formal events (e.g. presentations, trade shows. etc), or when visitors were expected to the IT dept.
Of course than there is the IT guy that does not just wear a formal cloth, but the one that does not take showers or change clothes for a week.....
This is gross so beware: I had a colleague who stank from 5 meters, and who left a yellowish ear-wax on phones after every talk.... He did night shifts, so in the morning the cleaning crew was instructed to wash all phones with alcohol... I personally locked my phone in my drawer every night ! He stank so much the girls at the company got him deodorant and soap for Christmas - to no avail...
I mean let's face it, when you spend 24hours in front of the computer you are not in the best fit for a big hug, but showers help.
note: ties are the most stupid invention ever. you feel like crap enough in the suit and the all buttoned up shirt, then you need an other piece of cloth to make you even more miserable....
I personally work in underwear and a pair of headphones
Only a couple of titles are exclusive to Xbox 360 (that is, they can't be played on any other machine). "
A bit off topic, but I would like to see less PS2 only and XBOX only titles.
In fact, I would like to see platform independent online modes (of course on same powered boxes) eg PS3 and 360..
I can understand that sometimes an XBOX map is bigger than a PS2 map, but network-wise I would really appreciate if there would be interoperability thru multiplayer titles.
Even with different single player maps, there should be multiplayer maps that could be played on ps2,ps3,xbox, and 360... link mode, and online mode...
clear that ps3 won't connect to Xbox Live, but manufacturer hosted game servers wold be cool for that, or using XBC or KAI Xlink...
Am I dreaming ? I know they are different architectures, but in multiplayer you send cordinates (persons. bullets. vehicles, objects) , button presses and the same map could be playable with e.g. lower res, less textures on Ps2 and Ps3..... (well a bit over simplyfied)
Someone kick me in the head if that is completely an idiotic idea ! And tell me why that does not exist?
I actually tried to find games that would be playable on my consoles - to no avail...
I wonder how many paid persons from.oO INSERT FAVOURITE LOW_WAGE COUNTRY Oo. will it take to get your spam on the front page then.
I mean I see posts on the front page that have as low as 25 comments and the "who dug this" seems to be a bit bogus showing the same number all the time...
I like their system, I just wonder how long until it is overflown with "how to use viagra and buy it cheap" or "new ways to eliminate your debt" dug by hundresd of "dig it for 5cents a piece LOW_WAGE & STUDENTS".....
I like slashdot because some of the comments actually have valuable information (I see more and more one-liners with a URL as sig though), and there is almost nothing I would consider spam.....
Nowadays I would eliminate Anonymous alltoghether from lots of place or would implement a "must moderate one AC post"....
I mean you can stay anon without an email address even, just have a handle, so you cold be filtered, messaged and so...
It used to work fine in the BBS era, and eliminated lots of assholes just throwing in a line when drunk and alone on a friday night, that technically ruin most online medias....
Force the programmers not just to comment the code, but to write usable docs for classes and functions.
Some programmers do not have to understand what's in, just to call a function... this is pretty much "everyone knows" but pretty much missing from many places...
Technically sometimes you spend days just to figure the mess out until you can even start typing a line, while with decent docs, you can start fast....
Also diagrams, flowcharts and the like might help others to see thru a system faster...
I mostly worked as a sysadmin, but even at relatively large installations I sometimes missed a simple network map..... I remember at least 2 places where my work started manually discovering (mean, room by room, flashlight in hand, cable end to cable end between routers, hubs, firewalls) what the hell was happening at the place.....
The funniest (or most sad) was when I found a firewall at a new place, connected into itself. The "admin genius" kept the owners beleive that they are protected by a firewall, while in fact it was just connected to a hub with all 3 interfaces, default config 10.0.0.1-2-3......
I have also been to a place, where 3 programmers/designers (web project) worked on a project for half a year (no docs, no nada, no software) and all they did was surfing the net and waiting for it to turn out.
This is a bit extreme, but actually no one noticed, as management had no clue how long it took what they did, until we estimated it 4-5 days of work for a team of 2 max. I don't know if I felt sorry for them at the end, but the whole office got fired alltogether 3 days later.
My point is: make them document what they do, that also tells if they do anything at all (in case you have a non tech manager, or you are not in their field).
Interesting how these experts always bring up all that shit over and overjust before the end of the year...
does it have to do something about closing next years budget plans in e.g. US companies of a certain size ?
Windows is superior, Linux sucks... soo tired of it seriously... then 10 more articles appear: no windows sucks, no linux sucks....
Linux took 68 percent longer to implement.... it was more secure, and did not have hours of downtime, and had instant patches, but hey bill send me the check and we don't write about that.. oh we are an application security firm and we want to sell you security software for every powerhouse that sits on every secretary's desk... it is really needed there...
Bored of it.... Probably I will be flamed to hell by various windows admins... and maybe they are right, I am more bored of the subject itself than the always biased "facts in them"... It is like 2 kids in the sandbox fighting over who's dad is stronger.....
The sad thing is that companies actually read these, and then make decisions,
One company I was in contact with was pretty open about it: we sell the solution which costs more and the one we can charge more for service costs..... in fact we try to sell Linux + Windows + some proprietary crap, in case they have an admin for some we have a fair chance of billing them for the other.....
Oooh, I better go back and work, my real point was: are these effecting "end of the year" decisions and does anyone think that is a systematical way to purchase a few more boxed windows cds or servers in the last minute?
Sorry, but anything like Itunes, the 10 different camera file managers and all that freak me out completely..
I prefer a manager with 2 tabs, and shortcuts instead dragging stuff with a mouse...
I know there is jpg or tiff or.mov on a camera, mp3 or wma on my mp3 player, and just don't want to deal with 20 different producst, that are on top of all bad are mostly windows only.
I want to see a filesystem with :/images or/videos/audio/mp3, and maybe/gallery or/playlists...
I even considered getting rid of my ipod, because iTunes gives me the creeps, and would prefer just seeing a filesystem, copying files and then "find songs" or open playlist or similar on the player.... I listen to 2-3 genres of music so the ipod menus are completely whacko for me.....
still in the search of something usable, especially because that crap yesterday forced me to upgrade, then had to wait 35 minutes until it reexported circa 9gigs of "library" over various network drives.....
On the other hand half of the managers force a bunch of dependencies on you, e.g. my nokia manager only runs on a certain bluetooth stack, and as opposed to the one I had it costs like $50 bucks.... could not they just give me one that works? Or use one that works with every single other app on my system ?
I like the way you can communicate with it, I like that it is like an eggdrop and I would not be surprised if it was based on an existing eggdrop bot...
Eggdrops, and this resemble the way of communitacion with a BBS system, which comes back to a command line interface, so what's there not to like in it ?
Ahm the content... I mean maybe in the US it is useful with movie times, but elsewhere it just completely whack... shopping? Dunno, I would prefer if it really gave decent price compares from at least 10 shops/items....
I find it a cool idea (reinventing an eggdrop bot) on an IM, but I question how grandma and grandpa gives up after not understanding hack out of what to type and when....
linux: well i imagine a point and click distro coming out super fast, so it is just like xbc if you wish
xbox-linux: I know, not interested, have linux on my desktop, that is enough to work on it all day:)
pirating: hmm, I am not sure it will help in pirating games, I am also not sure it will have any access to the part of the hardware that handles copy protection....
sounds too simple, but I can imagine, that certain parts of the hardware simply shut down when you boot anything other than the standard OS....
I also imagine an interface to 3rd party systems that would only have access to the drive in a certain way... something like "play,stop," and even offer files thu a network like share...
just speculating:) of course, but I do not think you can just boot linux and copy games out of the box,,,
not, unless you like to shoot pink monsters with purple guns, that throw gree,pink,blue rays and have a sound like "piu-piu-piu"...
There is also a good sense of "emptiness" no fog, dust or any effect that actually mekes you feel it was real...
The top selling point is when playin online, the average person playing it is probably 10 years od, so you can hear lotsa 'cool dude weR 3733tz' stuff...
I happened to play it the first time online a few weeks ago, and I managed to find 1 person hosting a somewhat normal map with vehicles, and capture the flag. I have to admit that I enjoyed myself, until the host changed to the usual 4 teams of 4 on the smallest map, let's kill eachother with ray swords and shotguns...
I mean I really hate that game, and I quickly gave it back to my friend who had it untouched on his shelf for over a few months....
respect the care for the controller, however the images freaked me out.... it is like a mac mouse with one button for me...
I actually would like to see a controller that has 8 "shoulder" buttons, and symmetric joys (as on the ps2) as after an hour of xbox controller with FPS use I feel I dislocated my shoulders:) or just strangely asymmetric:)
the most innovative controller use I saw was adapted form a japanese game 24 hours (i think).. a shooter, that used a camera (so you could actually duck, or look out), right hand gun, left hand joy:)....
it was a bit unplayable, but I found it very innovative.... besides making you actually stand up and move your ass while playing....
"PS3 will have a hard time matching the game quality, not only does the 360 do graphics and sound right, but there is enough processing power left over for an intelligent game and lots of side and ambient action."
At best, this is a little early to say. PS3 hardware looked a lot better when it was announced at E3... I guess sony also has the edge of seeing current trend in buying and can make last minute changes.
I do not think now you have to be spitting on nvidia just because the xbox got an ATI card... for years nvidia powered the original xbox, and that xbox was a faster hardware than the PS3....
And it still powers many desktops, gaming machines, fast ones....
I am not starting a ps3/360 war in any way, but what you say seems to be a bit without any technical data.... "it will be faster, because it is xbox and not because the specs look actually shittier".... it is like the article in xbox magazine, the one that made me cancel my subscription:)
While I agree on it on the single player boredom (except a few titles) it is absolutely not true for multiplayer.
Assuming that you are competitive and enjoy team games (e.g. rainbow six or ghost recon series) it really will add to the experience when you can actually use better camo, or spot someone on a 720i screen except of seeing a few pixels in the distance...
Or hook up 2 lcd monitors to the ps3 and have some nice driving in XL wide screen...
even if it comes to "eye candy" games such as REZ, sure it is noce and hip, and I just love it, however when I watch it on a 6ft wide screen it just makes me throw up....
now isn't it better to see nice quality other than pixels bigger than my head ? Isn't a faster architecture adding to the opportunity to have e.g. better audio quality (when talking to others) thru a better compression on the same connection ?
As I wrote I don't run to buy a 360 just now (as I am waiting for the ps3 to compare), but the faster is the nicer at the end.
Yes game AI sucks, it is just nowhere compared to a real person running on the other side, using all senses and years of real life and game experience to avoid your bullets, sight, goal or whatever..... But again a better processor (with multiple cores) allows that to develop too......
Yes Doom3 Resurrecion entertained me for like 15 minutes too, I am sick of the fragfest agains monsters, but don't forget that the selling point for many is online play, in the case of MS it is Xbox Live.... and people love it...
Agreed, but AS OF TODAY it might be a 10, when the sequel is a 10 there...
on the other hand I do not trust reviews, and tend to only buy what people are really playing online, I even would go to the store and ask the guy who works there so I can run around a level for a few mins.... it should be available in ALL STORES
on the other hand, the reviewer might like HAlo 2 and hate Ghost Recon 2, while I love the latter and hate the other one... we are different, unless you are a sheep, ask for a test ride, and decide.....
Reviews are good to see technical data, and screenshots/videos, but what XY thinks of the game interests me less and less as the terrible shitty games I got for high reviews just take up shelfspace...
With $50 a game I better beleive my own eye other than buying an other PGR version X....
hehe.. one point for ps3, according to the E3 presentation, it will be quite easy to boot linux on it.
As soon as you have the drivers for everything, you can control your sucker from your Bluetooth cellphone, or your pc over ethernet/wireless...
I mean XBMC is nice, but imho it is nicer to have a full blown linux with mplayer/ogle or your preference to control it, or set it up.... with LIRC, with your own preference of control scripts, even maybe thru apache/php with your favourite mp3 organizer with mysql....
yep, It just really gets choppy on higher resolutions, and there is (was) a lack of DVD menus... I am using some older version though that I installed 6months+ ago, so it might have improved....
I also had some issues with subtitles, and as most of the stuff I watch in divx is from asia, I need subs as I do not speak korean, japanese or chinese - mostly horror or anime, that is simply not available here on a DVD....
Honestly I sometimes end up using my laptop for divx, and use a hardware DVD player for movies...
OH... it is nice for internet radio too, and I love the built-in webserver to control music (so mp3s are not running on my PCs, and my xbox is hooked up to decent AMP)
Hmm, interesting observation, on the other hand why would someone implement time consuming stuff into their code (time consuming, when coding, time consuming when you actually handle an extra interrupt, or whatever method they need to take care of that in a game)
when they can just say: hey, it is not compatible, buy the new version, that looks a bit nicer and we can make an extra buck on it...
I did not say bad coding is good, I said it makes sense for them at the end... On the emulation side on the other hand there are workarounds, but then again, I never did 3d or game programming, so I am not competent to discuss this issue...
All I said was this: if you upgrade, some stuff might break, as on a uniform (not upgradeable) platform, these checkings are not necessarily implemented...
If you really want to argue : if your app runs only on one device with a certain acceptable speed, why would you check if that speed doubled and if I should "slow down"? That way I can sell my software upgrade when the same device gets a better proc, and make an other buck.... This is bad practice, but for many I imageine that that makes the money turn around (or some extra)
Hey I am not talking about the Halo 2 channels where 12 year old kids are shouting into your ears... Many people, from all over, and many mentioned that such as myself they have ps2s and dunno what else.
And with some games, there is time to kill when you are "in the dead box", and people talk about consoles, boobs, or food....
I am not getting one either, not now for sure, and I am not an xbox fan at all, right now the xbox suits the kind of gaming I like (mostly FPS) because it is just a more powerful machine (for gaming) than my PS2 or the linux with it's 5 yearold MGA card with it's 16 megs....
I did not see the mod-down tendency, but would not be surprised if there was one "from fan boys"....
In fact, at the video store where I check in (as it was 15 meters from my office) everyone said "NO WAY", and is waiting for the PS2....
But some people I talked to said, that no matter what, they re getting one as soon as it is out...
Some also argued that you did not go close to object... well I ride a dirt bike quite a lot, in helmet and goggles you really restrict peripheric vision, and 70-80km/h trees scratching me and no blurry effects...
If i saw one probably I would suspect that I accidentally ate some magic mushrooms that splashed into my face from the cowpie I just crossed and would sit down to continue hallucinating....
There is no motion blur, however in games there is no peripheric vision (maybe 2-3 monitors will give some) and then we can eliminate the stupid effect...
Motion blur yes or no, in some games they do the job and fun effect.....
Project Gotham is on the list of my "no-no" anyway, it is like Amped or Halo : looks nice, but when you start playing something is just not right, characters/cars move as they were made out of lead.....
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It was my thesis, and it belongs to me and the school - all previous works are in the school library.
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I don't have a problem with that, it is fair enough - good trade for a diploma IMO
All what happened is that they were insterested in it, then I moved to an other country and somehow talks did not continue.... no biggie..
Actually probably it would have involved correcting stuff, changing some data and neither me neither my tutor just did not push it, He was a busy professor at an other university, I was just about to get sell all my stuff (including apartment), site on a plain and get married....... I think we were just busy enough not to push it too much.....
Besides now it is really outdated, things changed a lot, and it would have a small reader base as it was in Hungarian.
I am actually not sure about the rights so just putting it online might be a problem, however whoever wants it it's in the public library, and it's fine with me really.
ahm OK. tha last big document I worked on was around 200 pages (my thesis a good few years ago) ...
.... and it just worked without one single crash or problems all thru the months on a really outdated PC.. and it was a complex document that had to look GOOD (haha... they wanted to publish it actually :) but finally it did not happen.. )
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by the way it covered Linux and it's applications/usability in different company environments, and just to prove a point I did the whole thing (including docs, graps, charts, network maps) on linux apps, mostly in OO, gimp & dia
50 pages and problems IS A PROBLEM!!
I agree with it
Ahm OK, absolutely...
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Well I tend to save in OO format, and with that it is just kickass (besides the smaller size many times)
I still wonder how huge is HUGE
I do not mean ad flamebait i swear:
can you define huge and big document?
I mean for me a huge document is let's say 500 pages (technically a book for ne), and I worked on 200 pages myself (not too big I admit) and OO just worked fine. It was 4 years ago and compatibility, processing power was limited, and I had several illustrations and others inserted (about 20 pages of images), and 10 pages of tables/graps.
I really wonder what is the limit when you say : uhh that is unbearably sucky/crashes/etc.... also can that improve with hardware, or it just plain sucks?
really I barely edit documents nowadays over 3-4 pages, so I really wonder what you think!
I also save everything in native OO formats or RTF (rich text is reich anough for me) and barely print anything... I mean I am a "home office" user of OO but totally satisfied by it
Can't help it, have no bad intention. Do not smuggle drugs or want to "commit a terrorist act".
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.... and I am not a nervous person at all, but those checkpoints freek the crap out of me !!! really!
I did not take part in mass murder or ethnical cleansing. And I do not want to be an illegar worker in anyone's country.
However, when on a US airport (and few other places):
there are 10 cameras scanning the whole place
they take my photograph
they take my fingerprint
they look into my luggage (even open unopened factory sealed boxes)
it just makes me plain unconfortable, and however I control myself I feel myself like I was a wanted criminal trying to smuggle drugs, bombs and uranium into the country
The last time i went to the US, I was phisycally shaking and felt totally discomfort when arriving to the "purpose of your visit, and no we need your pointer finger print" officer...
I mean I understand it, I live with it, no offence, but I am going to fail any detector if it detects nervous people with trembling voice, even if I do not smuggle anything and I am willing to be on the flight back home
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tshirt != cheapy
I am the person who would wear a tshirt for 4 years+, and have pants that are kicking 5+ years, however their prices are well over or around your "nice store shirt".
I hate shopping for clothes, because I am extra picky, and when buying (e.g. skateboarder-style cargo pants - my favourite) I can spend 2 hours in a store trying to find something that would not fall apart after a year, and something that would be damn comfortable.... I even think of the afterlife, as my really old clothes end up on the trails hiking, or riding bikes. and playing paintball
I see that a t-shirt is NOT elegant, but I also throw up on the "manager" in "see-thru" socks and a suit that has the price of my t-shirt : looking at me if I was a homeless or something....
now I am a bit old for that, but as a teenager I actually enjoyed mis-dressing for every single place.... if there was no escape, I put on tennis shoes or a really ugly tie just to mismatch
I went to a wedding recently, and my wife was freaked out that one women (waaaay older than her) had the same dress as her.... well dunno, I'd like that problem, since I am all sick of being dressed like all the other guys : black suit, nice shoe
ohh no wait, you can express yourself with a tie and a nice shirt
screw uniform, screw suits
When you are programming/setting stuff up in front of a computer you need to be comfortable... ....
When you are in server rooms all day you have to dress warm
When you are cabling/installing equipment you need clothes that you can ruin, and can get into strange positions in the cable tunnel, in the rack (between the router and the firewall)
When you are on the field (e.g. wireless installation, or climbing on a roof/pole) you need to wear whatever else than suit/formal crap
Have you guys ever gone to work formally dressend and came back looking like a pig ? Yes, on that day when you had to fix whatever in emergency, on that day when you fixed code 6hours overtime, missed the last bus and waited for taxi at 2am in the rain?
My boss used to say: if you come in here in monkey suit I send you home... of course that did not apply to formal events (e.g. presentations, trade shows. etc), or when visitors were expected to the IT dept.
Of course than there is the IT guy that does not just wear a formal cloth, but the one that does not take showers or change clothes for a week.....
This is gross so beware:
I had a colleague who stank from 5 meters, and who left a yellowish ear-wax on phones after every talk....
He did night shifts, so in the morning the cleaning crew was instructed to wash all phones with alcohol...
I personally locked my phone in my drawer every night !
He stank so much the girls at the company got him deodorant and soap for Christmas - to no avail...
I mean let's face it, when you spend 24hours in front of the computer you are not in the best fit for a big hug, but showers help.
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ties are the most stupid invention ever. you feel like crap enough in the suit and the all buttoned up shirt, then you need an other piece of cloth to make you even more miserable....
I personally work in underwear and a pair of headphones
Only a couple of titles are exclusive to Xbox 360 (that is, they can't be played on any other machine). "
... link mode, and online mode...
A bit off topic, but I would like to see less PS2 only and XBOX only titles.
In fact, I would like to see platform independent online modes (of course on same powered boxes) eg PS3 and 360..
I can understand that sometimes an XBOX map is bigger than a PS2 map, but network-wise I would really appreciate if there would be interoperability thru multiplayer titles.
Even with different single player maps, there should be multiplayer maps that could be played on ps2,ps3,xbox, and 360
clear that ps3 won't connect to Xbox Live, but manufacturer hosted game servers wold be cool for that, or using XBC or KAI Xlink...
Am I dreaming ? I know they are different architectures, but in multiplayer you send cordinates (persons. bullets. vehicles, objects) , button presses and the same map could be playable with e.g. lower res, less textures on Ps2 and Ps3..... (well a bit over simplyfied)
Someone kick me in the head if that is completely an idiotic idea ! And tell me why that does not exist?
I actually tried to find games that would be playable on my consoles - to no avail...
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.oO INSERT FAVOURITE LOW_WAGE COUNTRY Oo. will it take to get your spam on the front page then.
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I wonder how many paid persons from
I mean I see posts on the front page that have as low as 25 comments and the "who dug this" seems to be a bit bogus showing the same number all the time
I like their system, I just wonder how long until it is overflown with "how to use viagra and buy it cheap" or "new ways to eliminate your debt" dug by hundresd of "dig it for 5cents a piece LOW_WAGE & STUDENTS".....
I like slashdot because some of the comments actually have valuable information (I see more and more one-liners with a URL as sig though), and there is almost nothing I would consider spam.....
Nowadays I would eliminate Anonymous alltoghether from lots of place or would implement a "must moderate one AC post"....
I mean you can stay anon without an email address even, just have a handle, so you cold be filtered, messaged and so
It used to work fine in the BBS era, and eliminated lots of assholes just throwing in a line when drunk and alone on a friday night, that technically ruin most online medias
Force the programmers not just to comment the code, but to write usable docs for classes and functions.
... this is pretty much "everyone knows" but pretty much missing from many places ...
Some programmers do not have to understand what's in, just to call a function
Technically sometimes you spend days just to figure the mess out until you can even start typing a line, while with decent docs, you can start fast....
Also diagrams, flowcharts and the like might help others to see thru a system faster...
I mostly worked as a sysadmin, but even at relatively large installations I sometimes missed a simple network map..... I remember at least 2 places where my work started manually discovering (mean, room by room, flashlight in hand, cable end to cable end between routers, hubs, firewalls) what the hell was happening at the place.....
The funniest (or most sad) was when I found a firewall at a new place, connected into itself. The "admin genius" kept the owners beleive that they are protected by a firewall, while in fact it was just connected to a hub with all 3 interfaces, default config 10.0.0.1-2-3......
I have also been to a place, where 3 programmers/designers (web project) worked on a project for half a year (no docs, no nada, no software) and all they did was surfing the net and waiting for it to turn out.
This is a bit extreme, but actually no one noticed, as management had no clue how long it took what they did, until we estimated it 4-5 days of work for a team of 2 max. I don't know if I felt sorry for them at the end, but the whole office got fired alltogether 3 days later.
My point is: make them document what they do, that also tells if they do anything at all (in case you have a non tech manager, or you are not in their field).
Interesting how these experts always bring up all that shit over and overjust before the end of the year ...
... soo tired of it seriously ... then 10 more articles appear: no windows sucks, no linux sucks ....
.. oh we are an application security firm and we want to sell you security software for every powerhouse that sits on every secretary's desk... it is really needed there ...
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does it have to do something about closing next years budget plans in e.g. US companies of a certain size ?
Windows is superior, Linux sucks
Linux took 68 percent longer to implement.... it was more secure, and did not have hours of downtime, and had instant patches, but hey bill send me the check and we don't write about that
Bored of it....
Probably I will be flamed to hell by various windows admins... and maybe they are right, I am more bored of the subject itself than the always biased "facts in them"
It is like 2 kids in the sandbox fighting over who's dad is stronger.....
The sad thing is that companies actually read these, and then make decisions,
One company I was in contact with was pretty open about it: we sell the solution which costs more and the one we can charge more for service costs..... in fact we try to sell Linux + Windows + some proprietary crap, in case they have an admin for some we have a fair chance of billing them for the other
Oooh, I better go back and work, my real point was: are these effecting "end of the year" decisions and does anyone think that is a systematical way to purchase a few more boxed windows cds or servers in the last minute?
Sorry, but anything like Itunes, the 10 different camera file managers and all that freak me out completely..
.mov on a camera, mp3 or wma on my mp3 player, and just don't want to deal with 20 different producst, that are on top of all bad are mostly windows only.
/images or /videos /audio /mp3, and maybe /gallery or /playlists ...
.... I listen to 2-3 genres of music so the ipod menus are completely whacko for me.....
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.... could not they just give me one that works? Or use one that works with every single other app on my system ?
I prefer a manager with 2 tabs, and shortcuts instead dragging stuff with a mouse...
I know there is jpg or tiff or
I want to see a filesystem with :
I even considered getting rid of my ipod, because iTunes gives me the creeps, and would prefer just seeing a filesystem, copying files and then "find songs" or open playlist or similar on the player
still in the search of something usable, especially because that crap yesterday forced me to upgrade, then had to wait 35 minutes until it reexported circa 9gigs of "library" over various network drives
On the other hand half of the managers force a bunch of dependencies on you, e.g. my nokia manager only runs on a certain bluetooth stack, and as opposed to the one I had it costs like $50 bucks
grrr
I like the way you can communicate with it, I like that it is like an eggdrop and I would not be surprised if it was based on an existing eggdrop bot ...
... I mean maybe in the US it is useful with movie times, but elsewhere it just completely whack ... shopping? Dunno, I would prefer if it really gave decent price compares from at least 10 shops/items....
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Eggdrops, and this resemble the way of communitacion with a BBS system, which comes back to a command line interface, so what's there not to like in it ?
Ahm the content
I find it a cool idea (reinventing an eggdrop bot) on an IM, but I question how grandma and grandpa gives up after not understanding hack out of what to type and when
linux: well i imagine a point and click distro coming out super fast, so it is just like xbc if you wish
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:) of course, but I do not think you can just boot linux and copy games out of the box ,,,
xbox-linux: I know, not interested, have linux on my desktop, that is enough to work on it all day
pirating: hmm, I am not sure it will help in pirating games, I am also not sure it will have any access to the part of the hardware that handles copy protection
sounds too simple, but I can imagine, that certain parts of the hardware simply shut down when you boot anything other than the standard OS
I also imagine an interface to 3rd party systems that would only have access to the drive in a certain way
just speculating
not, unless you like to shoot pink monsters with purple guns, that throw gree,pink,blue rays and have a sound like "piu-piu-piu" ...
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There is also a good sense of "emptiness" no fog, dust or any effect that actually mekes you feel it was real
The top selling point is when playin online, the average person playing it is probably 10 years od, so you can hear lotsa 'cool dude weR 3733tz' stuff...
I happened to play it the first time online a few weeks ago, and I managed to find 1 person hosting a somewhat normal map with vehicles, and capture the flag. I have to admit that I enjoyed myself, until the host changed to the usual
4 teams of 4 on the smallest map, let's kill eachother with ray swords and shotguns...
I mean I really hate that game, and I quickly gave it back to my friend who had it untouched on his shelf for over a few months....
respect the care for the controller, however the images freaked me out .... ...
:) or just strangely asymmetric :)
.. a shooter, that used a camera (so you could actually duck, or look out), right hand gun, left hand joy :) ....
.... besides making you actually stand up and move your ass while playing ....
it is like a mac mouse with one button for me
I actually would like to see a controller that has 8 "shoulder" buttons, and symmetric joys (as on the ps2) as after an hour of xbox controller with FPS use I feel I dislocated my shoulders
the most innovative controller use I saw was adapted form a japanese game 24 hours (i think)
it was a bit unplayable, but I found it very innovative
"PS3 will have a hard time matching the game quality, not only does the 360 do graphics and sound right, but there is enough processing power left over for an intelligent game and lots of side and ambient action."
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At best, this is a little early to say. PS3 hardware looked a lot better when it was announced at E3...
I guess sony also has the edge of seeing current trend in buying and can make last minute changes.
I do not think now you have to be spitting on nvidia just because the xbox got an ATI card... for years nvidia powered the original xbox, and that xbox was a faster hardware than the PS3
And it still powers many desktops, gaming machines, fast ones
I am not starting a ps3/360 war in any way, but what you say seems to be a bit without any technical data
"it will be faster, because it is xbox and not because the specs look actually shittier"
While I agree on it on the single player boredom (except a few titles) it is absolutely not true for multiplayer.
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Assuming that you are competitive and enjoy team games (e.g. rainbow six or ghost recon series) it really will add to the experience when you can actually use better camo, or spot someone on a 720i screen except of seeing a few pixels in the distance...
Or hook up 2 lcd monitors to the ps3 and have some nice driving in XL wide screen
even if it comes to "eye candy" games such as REZ, sure it is noce and hip, and I just love it, however when I watch it on a 6ft wide screen it just makes me throw up
now isn't it better to see nice quality other than pixels bigger than my head ? Isn't a faster architecture adding to the opportunity to have e.g. better audio quality (when talking to others) thru a better compression on the same connection ?
As I wrote I don't run to buy a 360 just now (as I am waiting for the ps3 to compare), but the faster is the nicer at the end.
Yes game AI sucks, it is just nowhere compared to a real person running on the other side, using all senses and years of real life and game experience to avoid your bullets, sight, goal or whatever.....
But again a better processor (with multiple cores) allows that to develop too......
Yes Doom3 Resurrecion entertained me for like 15 minutes too, I am sick of the fragfest agains monsters, but don't forget that the selling point for many is online play, in the case of MS it is Xbox Live.... and people love it...
Agreed, but AS OF TODAY it might be a 10, when the sequel is a 10 there ...
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on the other hand I do not trust reviews, and tend to only buy what people are really playing online, I even would go to the store and ask the guy who works there so I can run around a level for a few mins
on the other hand, the reviewer might like HAlo 2 and hate Ghost Recon 2, while I love the latter and hate the other one... we are different, unless you are a sheep, ask for a test ride, and decide.....
Reviews are good to see technical data, and screenshots/videos, but what XY thinks of the game interests me less and less as the terrible shitty games I got for high reviews just take up shelfspace...
With $50 a game I better beleive my own eye other than buying an other PGR version X
hehe.. one point for ps3, according to the E3 presentation, it will be quite easy to boot linux on it.
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As soon as you have the drivers for everything, you can control your sucker from your Bluetooth cellphone, or your pc over ethernet/wireless...
I mean XBMC is nice, but imho it is nicer to have a full blown linux with mplayer/ogle or your preference to control it, or set it up.... with LIRC, with your own preference of control scripts, even maybe thru apache/php with your favourite mp3 organizer with mysql
yep, It just really gets choppy on higher resolutions, and there is (was) a lack of DVD menus... ....
I am using some older version though that I installed 6months+ ago, so it might have improved
I also had some issues with subtitles, and as most of the stuff I watch in divx is from asia, I need subs as I do not speak korean, japanese or chinese - mostly horror or anime, that is simply not available here on a DVD....
Honestly I sometimes end up using my laptop for divx, and use a hardware DVD player for movies...
OH... it is nice for internet radio too, and I love the built-in webserver to control music (so mp3s are not running on my PCs, and my xbox is hooked up to decent AMP)
Hmm, interesting observation, on the other hand why would someone implement time consuming stuff into their code (time consuming, when coding, time consuming when you actually handle an extra interrupt, or whatever method they need to take care of that in a game)
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when they can just say: hey, it is not compatible, buy the new version, that looks a bit nicer and we can make an extra buck on it
I did not say bad coding is good, I said it makes sense for them at the end
On the emulation side on the other hand there are workarounds, but then again, I never did 3d or game programming, so I am not competent to discuss this issue
All I said was this: if you upgrade, some stuff might break, as on a uniform (not upgradeable) platform, these checkings are not necessarily implemented
If you really want to argue : if your app runs only on one device with a certain acceptable speed, why would you check if that speed doubled and if I should "slow down"? That way I can sell my software upgrade when the same device gets a better proc, and make an other buck....
This is bad practice, but for many I imageine that that makes the money turn around (or some extra)
Hey I am not talking about the Halo 2 channels where 12 year old kids are shouting into your ears...
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Many people, from all over, and many mentioned that such as myself they have ps2s and dunno what else.
And with some games, there is time to kill when you are "in the dead box", and people talk about consoles, boobs, or food....
I am not getting one either, not now for sure, and I am not an xbox fan at all, right now the xbox suits the kind of gaming I like (mostly FPS) because it is just a more powerful machine (for gaming) than my PS2 or the linux with it's 5 yearold MGA card with it's 16 megs
I did not see the mod-down tendency, but would not be surprised if there was one "from fan boys"
In fact, at the video store where I check in (as it was 15 meters from my office) everyone said "NO WAY", and is waiting for the PS2....
But some people I talked to said, that no matter what, they re getting one as soon as it is out...
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well I ride a dirt bike quite a lot, in helmet and goggles you really restrict peripheric vision, and 70-80km/h trees scratching me and no blurry effects
If i saw one probably I would suspect that I accidentally ate some magic mushrooms that splashed into my face from the cowpie I just crossed and would sit down to continue hallucinating
There is no motion blur, however in games there is no peripheric vision (maybe 2-3 monitors will give some) and then we can eliminate the stupid effect
Motion blur yes or no, in some games they do the job and fun effect
Project Gotham is on the list of my "no-no" anyway, it is like Amped or Halo : looks nice, but when you start playing something is just not right, characters/cars move as they were made out of lead
read my post: "hearing while in game lobbies" ..., people who own xbox games, and talk about all kind of crap during games, such as the new xbox ....
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i am not reading any biased xbox forums,
In fact I even cancelled my xbox magazine subscription after reading the 360 vs PS3 vs nintendo article