Multiplayer maps are smaller because they are not linear but designed so you can find each other.
In multiplayer maps there are no NPC's, technocally the size of the map (if there were no destroyable objects) would not affect the network at all.
Now if multiplayer means you can't shoot barrels or knock over crates, then fine, don't put them in.
Just my 0.02 of your fav currency as an amateur quake 2 map builder in the day.
I noticed you said what weapns it has selected blah blah. You didn't even make the correct point that it is the ENVIRONMENT doohickys that cause the problem, blowing stuff up.
Again as my other post, I see no show stoppers, and that is as someone who programs network code (although not for real time games).
I am just comparing counterstrike with halo, and saying, bloody fools, they are ripping you off with no multiplayer.
And that they will probably rape some dollars off you in the future for it.
The CPU has plenty of time to be flushing gigabits to the graphics card while waiting for the arthritic network card.
All I am saying is, I played a 64 player amp of quake 2 on a uni lan, with out 40 odd players, yes sometimes everything was like the matrix, which was cool, esp. if you had been smoking too much.
If this was quake 2 days, and I see very very little map state difference that would worry me, why can't they do it now? For broadband?
Now, here is the thing - you know how much it costs to write network code?
You know how much it costs to run the servers? This title will no doubt sell, and sell xboxes (don't know why, IMHO halo sucked) but I see no show stopping technical reasons for a multiplayer version. (I think there is to be NO multiplayer at all right? not just no co-op)
Or a judge who wasn't totally pissed off at spam, and being ineffectual at dealing with it?
These guys are the first dude on the firing line with 10 years of pent up frustration.
Perhaps the Judge is modestly endowed and got suckered up by some enlargment pill spam, WHO KNOWS!
[ok could be a judgess, how sexist]
In German do they use er/inn for the title Judge? hmmmm.
I clicked my first email authentication link [someone had an email using antispam somthingorother] which I thought was a good idea.
UNTIL someone sends these fake authorisation notes [you sent me an email, click here to prove you are real] alongside a simple smtp email checker and link clicker.
If someone was facing felony charges for illegal wiretapping or stealing phones, would the defense be able to contend that only hicks without phones can be in the jury?
If the user only wiretapped fooBell could the defense say fooBell customers cannot be in jury? no I don't think so.
It is stupid, spam is spam is spam, unless it spam spam spam spam spam spam beans and spam, but again , we haven't got beans today.
I hope they give them the CHAIR!!! yes the electric one! and stream it over the internet...
Hang on, I'd bet someone would spam me for tickets to watch it!
No, the chair is too good for them, just bung them in a prison, and let thier asses take the punishment!
If you are a psychopathic re-offender in the same state, with a penchant for man-ass, please watch any newspaper and tv coverage to get a good look at thier faces. {although it might not be thier faces you are interested in).
In 2007 caps with build in heatsink and fans will be all the rage, real geeks will go around with thermal paste on thier close shaved (or bald) scalps.
If you are interviewing a suspect, it is now LEGAL to threaten them with electric shocks in order to get them to talk.
We found that by applying electricity liberally across thier temples and genitals gave us a 100% increase in talkativeness and convictions.
If they loose control of thier bodily functions, it is best to stop, or lower the voltage.
Not really true, but true.
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Yep, system design is harder, but if you have custom hardware and special programming, you can litterally run all these bitches at full steam.
If you need some inter process traps and doohickies, then you have to try and program code which is harder than licking you own tonsils going via your rectum.
Also, you have to realise that each one of these 200 processors have about 512kb of cache in total, and you can write a bloody good program using 100gb of CPU cache, especially if it is massively parrallella..lell...isable....
Now this reasearch may become prevalent as we try and run consumer based parellel processors, with multiple cores, as lithography sucks, and nanotech is going nowhere because of grey goo panic and Dexters Lab, and Smalle Pox.
Coop should play seamlessly, that is why quake 2 was good, a lot of seamless cuts between maps - and halflife was golden for that.
What they have to do it decide what can be delegated to the clients, and what must be synchronised over the network.
Also in coop you can reduce the effectiveness of physics to one interaction at a time. Blam, warthog flys in air.
You forget about it as it does its thing on each client.
Boom it gets hit again, ignore!
It finished its thing - you can now worry if it gets hit again, send this info to the clients, and let them work out the physics, since it is the same code (even send any randomised stuff centrally)
I am not saying it is easy, but since multiplayer gaming is assumed in many games, they could have made an effort. How often does being able to shoot a warthog in mid air effect gameplay?
That is what gets me - they say the state of the game makes the network take too much of a hit...
Much state in these games is down to pointless detail... since when can a game like this not be online - coop?
Sounds really dumb, or more accurately, a way of making you spend more on halo -2- online but with some stupid name that doesn't make it sound like you are paying twice for something.
Mark my words - they will release a pay-for addon for this... it was all in the plan.
Perhaps because I never witnessed one deliberately. The last solar eclipse I wanted to see actually woke me up, the sun dimmed on my bed, I slumbered over to window, saw a freaky sight, then toddled off to bed. I think it was about 11:30am where I was.
I mean, during any visible solar event you can feel the size and presence of the solar bodies (phwoar!) and it makes you feel tiny [I have some spam to cure that] in the whole run of things...
But don't forget it will be the first time it will have, had, erm, have, had, happened on that wednesday evening as well.
And also the first time since I brushed my teeth this morning. [Anyone interested can cmoe and examine my toothbrush to find correlations between the two events]
Does Baseball have anything to do with lunar/planetary/solar alignment?
Or are you just mad on baseball? I am not even from the US of Baseball, so lets call it Cricket and have oranges at half time.
Practicing? Practising to be more dyslexic, less dyslexic or is it you religion? (as in a non-pratising[insert-crazy-religious-type-here[or- sane-one]])
Anyway, to address the issue - dyslexia is based on (or related to) right/left brain conditions accoridng to this research (below) and also hormonal conditions apply according to:
Are boys affected more than girls?
Three times as many boys as girls are affected, and the role of the hormone testosterone during the fetal stage is being investigated as a possible cause of inherited (developmental) dyslexia.
Although that would suggest less dyslexia ammongst geek types is they have more estrogen.
This shows that dyslexic people use thier right brain for left brain tasks. This is the symptom of dyslexia, which is what I said. (formed from - ok misleading, I mean caused by, but not developed because of).
Yes the research is inconclusive, but it does seem that if you seperate it out efficiently:
Possible causes: environmental dampening of left/right brain stimulous ('glue ear?')
Visible Symptoms (net effect): Various
Underlying condition: Right/left brain confusion - brain forces pathways to be created because of the nature of right/left stimulus (visual, touch, aural, dont know about taste/smell - seperate areas of brain? maybe there are people who are taste dyslexic or smell-dyslexic (pardon my terminology))
So if you grew up without right sde stimulus, then you may progress through a type of dyslexia, my guess is, as apparent through researhc, dyslexia is the name given to an observable conidtion exhibited by an individual that stems from a *different* but perhaps not ab-normal (except if you look at a statistic model) organisational setup of the brain, in response to the dichtomous processing of right/left simulii and the environmental conditions that modified them in the subject.
Wow that was more bullshit than a SCO legal document, but yeah, that is my guess.
DISCLAIMER 1: I have no direct experience or reading on dyslexia, but a mild interest in organisational structure in the brain, like the recent rat brain controlling flight sim.
DISCLAIMER 2: I might be wrong.
DISCLAIMER 3: You might be wrong.
So really they have a biological ROM
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or EEPROM or what they call them - reprogrammable?
So this is less exciting, but if you can make these cheaply and insert them into our brains, maybe girls can find out how to park cars properly.
"Can you fly one of those"
"Not yet"
I only wish I had some neaural net that I could slowly train to do things through repetative actions and conditioning...
I commented a while ago regarding the news source definition of/.
Google ran a title from/. that misrepresented the very story they were aggregating. Thus/. dilluted the truth on this occassion to the detriment of the news reading folk.
Now a link in the very same/. that proclaims this stupid story here points out that groklaw put things to right.
However, groklaw v slashdot readship... so while I think this story is a bit redundant in news terms, it does go some way to patch up the and clearly show linuxworld.com to be a bunch of twerps.
I say each sotry categorically states its news source(s) linking to a modded style news source rating (which moves up and down etc)
Then msn.com/msnbc.com can royally go and fsck themselves in -1 universe.
The story google picked up on was the Kodak / Sun claim case. I think google shouldn't link Slashdot stories - as they are not news sources, but commentary on news sources.
Well I do recall reading an article, I must say that my conclusion might be my own - I sometimes think on so many different threads it is hard to remember.
I guess because I read that dyslexia occurs when a conflict of reading the words meaning and understanding the words shape.
Like reading the word 'green' coloured purple, and someone asking you what colour is the word.
Mark my words, if this was physics people would nod and say, sound reasonable, give the man a prize.:-)
I am not dyslexic, but I am sure I read enough about it hwne I heard the gov. gives money for dyslexics to buy a computer:-)
I then brought in the idea of this article that geek types occur because of right/left balance issues, and that there is a suggestion that many geek types are dyslexic.
It is apparent to me that this small problem highlights a fundemantal issue in development today.
Such an application should almost be done with wizards today.
This level of application should become one-click development for every day people...
Rather than empower people with merely writing documents, this guy should be able to take a web-u-like OS package and make some powerful results - perhaps based on JavaServer Faces or.NET or abstract the technology with a webml like (although less utterly devastatingly complex) interface.
On a brighter note I wrote a simple application for my local theatre, simple enough that I could really experiment with interface and FEEL of the program. I coded a javascript home-roll date picker (simpler and nicer than the ones you can d/l) and they can add events, and book tickets.
of course this is designed to be run with the theatre in single user mode - with no logins.
For max 25 people - I would consider using email / phone interfaces from a website.
To Ganymede and Titan, Yes, sir, I've been around, But there ain't no place In the whole of Space, Like that good ol' toddlin' town, Lunar City Seven, You're my idea of heaven Out of ten, you score eleven, You good ol' artificial terra-formed, settlement...
Psychologists at the University of Bath have found that male researchers and programmers tend to have higher levels of estrogen, a hormone which promotes development of the right side of the brain
I guess this is why geek types are less macho. Of course, I am a typical muscle bound macho type, and will spend my nights trying to hack anyone who said otherwise, the only way I get my estrogen s through osmosis via genital contact like any other red blooded male.
o.O
I can imagine spam for testosterone to develop you left side of your brain.
The right side of the brain is commonly reffered to as the arty farty part of the brain, it is thepart that helps you recognise yourself in photos, which is why women take 1hr to get ready, but answer me this, why do geeks take less time to get ready than our estrogen deficient jock counterparts?
Stereotypes aside, dyslexia is formed form dual activity in right and left sides of the brain, intellectual types often have dyslexia and geeks too, whihc may be because of hormonal issues and right/left conflicts.
As far as I saw - he was writing a graphical component to his 'engine' or whatever he was doing. I just pointed to a resource - he can adapt the code or whatever.
I realise his main reason to make the engine is probably interest and self challenging, but push comes to shove, he has a nice example there.
Soooooooooooo aaaaand why do you care about the status of moderation? perhaps someone else would have found it interesting...
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I installed Windows XP* on my 1ghz p3** in just 2.5*** hours!
And they call it a super computer!
* Just kidding, SuSE 9.0
** Kidding again, 2800+
*** I can't remember the install time.
Multiplayer maps are smaller because they are not linear but designed so you can find each other.
In multiplayer maps there are no NPC's, technocally the size of the map (if there were no destroyable objects) would not affect the network at all.
Now if multiplayer means you can't shoot barrels or knock over crates, then fine, don't put them in.
Just my 0.02 of your fav currency as an amateur quake 2 map builder in the day.
I noticed you said what weapns it has selected blah blah. You didn't even make the correct point that it is the ENVIRONMENT doohickys that cause the problem, blowing stuff up.
Again as my other post, I see no show stoppers, and that is as someone who programs network code (although not for real time games).
I am just comparing counterstrike with halo, and saying, bloody fools, they are ripping you off with no multiplayer.
And that they will probably rape some dollars off you in the future for it.
Why reduce poly?
The CPU has plenty of time to be flushing gigabits to the graphics card while waiting for the arthritic network card.
All I am saying is, I played a 64 player amp of quake 2 on a uni lan, with out 40 odd players, yes sometimes everything was like the matrix, which was cool, esp. if you had been smoking too much.
If this was quake 2 days, and I see very very little map state difference that would worry me, why can't they do it now? For broadband?
Now, here is the thing - you know how much it costs to write network code?
You know how much it costs to run the servers? This title will no doubt sell, and sell xboxes (don't know why, IMHO halo sucked) but I see no show stopping technical reasons for a multiplayer version. (I think there is to be NO multiplayer at all right? not just no co-op)
Or a judge who wasn't totally pissed off at spam, and being ineffectual at dealing with it?
These guys are the first dude on the firing line with 10 years of pent up frustration.
Perhaps the Judge is modestly endowed and got suckered up by some enlargment pill spam, WHO KNOWS!
[ok could be a judgess, how sexist]
In German do they use er/inn for the title Judge? hmmmm.
I clicked my first email authentication link [someone had an email using antispam somthingorother] which I thought was a good idea.
UNTIL someone sends these fake authorisation notes [you sent me an email, click here to prove you are real] alongside a simple smtp email checker and link clicker.
The prove link could go anywhere!
If someone was facing felony charges for illegal wiretapping or stealing phones, would the defense be able to contend that only hicks without phones can be in the jury?
If the user only wiretapped fooBell could the defense say fooBell customers cannot be in jury? no I don't think so.
It is stupid, spam is spam is spam, unless it spam spam spam spam spam spam beans and spam, but again , we haven't got beans today.
I hope they give them the CHAIR!!! yes the electric one! and stream it over the internet...
Hang on, I'd bet someone would spam me for tickets to watch it!
No, the chair is too good for them, just bung them in a prison, and let thier asses take the punishment!
If you are a psychopathic re-offender in the same state, with a penchant for man-ass, please watch any newspaper and tv coverage to get a good look at thier faces. {although it might not be thier faces you are interested in).
In 2007 caps with build in heatsink and fans will be all the rage, real geeks will go around with thermal paste on thier close shaved (or bald) scalps.
If you are interviewing a suspect, it is now LEGAL to threaten them with electric shocks in order to get them to talk.
We found that by applying electricity liberally across thier temples and genitals gave us a 100% increase in talkativeness and convictions.
If they loose control of thier bodily functions, it is best to stop, or lower the voltage.
Yep, system design is harder, but if you have custom hardware and special programming, you can litterally run all these bitches at full steam.
If you need some inter process traps and doohickies, then you have to try and program code which is harder than licking you own tonsils going via your rectum.
Also, you have to realise that each one of these 200 processors have about 512kb of cache in total, and you can write a bloody good program using 100gb of CPU cache, especially if it is massively parrallella..lell...isable....
Now this reasearch may become prevalent as we try and run consumer based parellel processors, with multiple cores, as lithography sucks, and nanotech is going nowhere because of grey goo panic and Dexters Lab, and Smalle Pox.
Or so I heard.
Hahah what is funny is that if there is any news about old retro dying stuff, it is bound to be on the front page, except of course *BSD :-)
:-)
It is a conspiracy you know.
In all seriousness - debian sucks the same way as a swedish student doing illicit massage to help get through college - i.e. it is awesome!
If I didn't use SuSE I would use Debian. If I had another PC *it* would use Debian.
If I had a swedish student trying to earn her way through college....
Cutscenes: you don't have them simple.
Coop should play seamlessly, that is why quake 2 was good, a lot of seamless cuts between maps - and halflife was golden for that.
What they have to do it decide what can be delegated to the clients, and what must be synchronised over the network.
Also in coop you can reduce the effectiveness of physics to one interaction at a time. Blam, warthog flys in air.
You forget about it as it does its thing on each client.
Boom it gets hit again, ignore!
It finished its thing - you can now worry if it gets hit again, send this info to the clients, and let them work out the physics, since it is the same code (even send any randomised stuff centrally)
I am not saying it is easy, but since multiplayer gaming is assumed in many games, they could have made an effort. How often does being able to shoot a warthog in mid air effect gameplay?
Sounds like a weak excuse or weak network code.
That is what gets me - they say the state of the game makes the network take too much of a hit...
Much state in these games is down to pointless detail... since when can a game like this not be online - coop?
Sounds really dumb, or more accurately, a way of making you spend more on halo -2- online but with some stupid name that doesn't make it sound like you are paying twice for something.
Mark my words - they will release a pay-for addon for this... it was all in the plan.
Give up on Xbox and Halo. [my 0.02]
Some dates up until 2012 Is it me or are lunar eclipses no very exciting?
Perhaps because I never witnessed one deliberately. The last solar eclipse I wanted to see actually woke me up, the sun dimmed on my bed, I slumbered over to window, saw a freaky sight, then toddled off to bed. I think it was about 11:30am where I was.
I mean, during any visible solar event you can feel the size and presence of the solar bodies (phwoar!) and it makes you feel tiny [I have some spam to cure that] in the whole run of things...
But don't forget it will be the first time it will have, had, erm, have, had, happened on that wednesday evening as well.
And also the first time since I brushed my teeth this morning. [Anyone interested can cmoe and examine my toothbrush to find correlations between the two events]
Does Baseball have anything to do with lunar/planetary/solar alignment?
Or are you just mad on baseball? I am not even from the US of Baseball, so lets call it Cricket and have oranges at half time.
Thank you please.
'belongs' symbol 'E' wasn't accepted - imagine it is there... between us and {...
*sniff*
us {all,your,base}
Of course if sets aren't your thing...
Practicing? Practising to be more dyslexic, less dyslexic or is it you religion? (as in a non-pratising[insert-crazy-religious-type-here[or- sane-one]])
a ys .htm
Anyway, to address the issue - dyslexia is based on (or related to) right/left brain conditions accoridng to this research (below) and also hormonal conditions apply according to:
Are boys affected more than girls?
Three times as many boys as girls are affected, and the role of the hormone testosterone during the fetal stage is being investigated as a possible cause of inherited (developmental) dyslexia.
Although that would suggest less dyslexia ammongst geek types is they have more estrogen.
http://www.dyslexia.com/science/different_pathw
This shows that dyslexic people use thier right brain for left brain tasks. This is the symptom of dyslexia, which is what I said. (formed from - ok misleading, I mean caused by, but not developed because of).
Yes the research is inconclusive, but it does seem that if you seperate it out efficiently:
Possible causes:
environmental dampening of left/right brain stimulous ('glue ear?')
Visible Symptoms (net effect):
Various
Underlying condition:
Right/left brain confusion - brain forces pathways to be created because of the nature of right/left stimulus (visual, touch, aural, dont know about taste/smell - seperate areas of brain? maybe there are people who are taste dyslexic or smell-dyslexic (pardon my terminology))
So if you grew up without right sde stimulus, then you may progress through a type of dyslexia, my guess is, as apparent through researhc, dyslexia is the name given to an observable conidtion exhibited by an individual that stems from a *different* but perhaps not ab-normal (except if you look at a statistic model) organisational setup of the brain, in response to the dichtomous processing of right/left simulii and the environmental conditions that modified them in the subject.
Wow that was more bullshit than a SCO legal document, but yeah, that is my guess.
DISCLAIMER 1: I have no direct experience or reading on dyslexia, but a mild interest in organisational structure in the brain, like the recent rat brain controlling flight sim.
DISCLAIMER 2: I might be wrong.
DISCLAIMER 3: You might be wrong.
or EEPROM or what they call them - reprogrammable?
So this is less exciting, but if you can make these cheaply and insert them into our brains, maybe girls can find out how to park cars properly.
"Can you fly one of those"
"Not yet"
I only wish I had some neaural net that I could slowly train to do things through repetative actions and conditioning...
Hold on a minute.... nah can't be.
I commented a while ago regarding the news source definition of /.
/. that misrepresented the very story they were aggregating. Thus /. dilluted the truth on this occassion to the detriment of the news reading folk.
/. that proclaims this stupid story here points out that groklaw put things to right.
Google ran a title from
Now a link in the very same
However, groklaw v slashdot readship... so while I think this story is a bit redundant in news terms, it does go some way to patch up the and clearly show linuxworld.com to be a bunch of twerps.
I say each sotry categorically states its news source(s) linking to a modded style news source rating (which moves up and down etc)
Then msn.com/msnbc.com can royally go and fsck themselves in -1 universe.
The story google picked up on was the Kodak / Sun claim case. I think google shouldn't link Slashdot stories - as they are not news sources, but commentary on news sources.
Well I do recall reading an article, I must say that my conclusion might be my own - I sometimes think on so many different threads it is hard to remember.
:-)
:-)
I guess because I read that dyslexia occurs when a conflict of reading the words meaning and understanding the words shape.
Like reading the word 'green' coloured purple, and someone asking you what colour is the word.
Mark my words, if this was physics people would nod and say, sound reasonable, give the man a prize.
I am not dyslexic, but I am sure I read enough about it hwne I heard the gov. gives money for dyslexics to buy a computer
I then brought in the idea of this article that geek types occur because of right/left balance issues, and that there is a suggestion that many geek types are dyslexic.
Nothing more...
It is apparent to me that this small problem highlights a fundemantal issue in development today.
.NET or abstract the technology with a webml like (although less utterly devastatingly complex) interface.
Such an application should almost be done with wizards today.
This level of application should become one-click development for every day people...
Rather than empower people with merely writing documents, this guy should be able to take a web-u-like OS package and make some powerful results - perhaps based on JavaServer Faces or
On a brighter note I wrote a simple application for my local theatre, simple enough that I could really experiment with interface and FEEL of the program. I coded a javascript home-roll date picker (simpler and nicer than the ones you can d/l) and they can add events, and book tickets.
of course this is designed to be run with the theatre in single user mode - with no logins.
For max 25 people - I would consider using email / phone interfaces from a website.
To Ganymede and Titan,
Yes, sir, I've been around,
But there ain't no place
In the whole of Space,
Like that good ol' toddlin' town,
Lunar City Seven,
You're my idea of heaven
Out of ten, you score eleven,
You good ol' artificial terra-formed,
settlement...
The End.
Condoms!
Molecule thin!
Get them while they are hot!
2050: Durex extra sensitive using nanotech technology with built into internal wifi nano-webcam and apache-hhtpd. Runs linux.
Psychologists at the University of Bath have found that male researchers and programmers tend to have higher levels of estrogen, a hormone which promotes development of the right side of the brain
I guess this is why geek types are less macho. Of course, I am a typical muscle bound macho type, and will spend my nights trying to hack anyone who said otherwise, the only way I get my estrogen s through osmosis via genital contact like any other red blooded male.
o.O
I can imagine spam for testosterone to develop you left side of your brain.
The right side of the brain is commonly reffered to as the arty farty part of the brain, it is thepart that helps you recognise yourself in photos, which is why women take 1hr to get ready, but answer me this, why do geeks take less time to get ready than our estrogen deficient jock counterparts?
Stereotypes aside, dyslexia is formed form dual activity in right and left sides of the brain, intellectual types often have dyslexia and geeks too, whihc may be because of hormonal issues and right/left conflicts.
Or looking at too much p0rn. One or the other.
As far as I saw - he was writing a graphical component to his 'engine' or whatever he was doing. I just pointed to a resource - he can adapt the code or whatever.
I realise his main reason to make the engine is probably interest and self challenging, but push comes to shove, he has a nice example there.
Soooooooooooo aaaaand why do you care about the status of moderation? perhaps someone else would have found it interesting...
For some reason your use of 'we' and us being 'excited' is not too comforting.
What kind of person posts a comment, slating a news story for not being exciting?
You website even has lots of astronomical looking bits in it - chill out.