I have lots of friends that are computer illiterate. Their computers usually get bogged down with viruses and spyware and I'm often obliged to help them fix their problems.
Every time I do this I install Firefox, set it up with my favourite extensions, then show them how to use it (basically how the tabs work and where their download go). I haven't had a single person complain about it, in fact they all rave about how much better it is and often suggest it to their friends.
Just telling people about Firefox is no way to get them to convert, demonstrating its power is.
I'm wondering the same thing, but it isn't so hard to believe. The NS team did go and found Unknown Worlds Entertainment, and their jobs page does not look like your typical MOD. The Half-Life community has spawned games off of MODS before and no MOD is more deserving then NS.
I personally would love to see NS developed on a better engine; I only feel it could enhance gameplay and the NS experiance. I am curious as to why they would consider another engine other than the source engine for the game though. It looks like a marriage made in heaven.
I rewrote it to use the Google Web API (and comply with Google's Terms of Use).
As an upside it now returns more results, but as a downside you need a Google Web API Licence Key to use it (if you already have a GMail account just fill in your login and you'll get one no hassle). See the readme.txt for more info (And how to obtain a key).
The machine that hosts it was compromised a few weeks ago. Its back up now but variables pased through URL addresses seem to have been disabled and I can't contact GameSpy to correct it. Lestat is working on my behalf at the moment but I have no idea when everything will be sorted.
It actually works quite well. Be sure to play with the options, the default timeout is set to one second (because when your searching ~50 links one second takes a long time) and may reject valid torrents.
The program is witten in C# and the binaries and source are included. If you get an error when you run it you need the.NET Framework (link above).
Also, for the love of god, be very gentle. My machine is very old and it's connection very poor.
My approach here was to send search requests to google then parse the results (HTML files) and search for torrent files in them. The program already works quite well and will download the first byte of each torrent to verify that there are no 404 errors and that it is *probably* a valid torrent (the first byte should be 'd').
I'm finalizing the interface now and will upload it and it's source shortly (it is a C# app BTW).
In a similar trend to Alek's Christmas Lights webcam, anonymous internet users will be able to adjust the direction and velocity of each floor with a click of a button.
In other news, researchers intrigued my innovative new earthquake simulation technologies, begun flocking to Curitiba in force.
I think most anyone not familiar with Linux would rather a cracked version of Windows XP then any Linux distribution. It's something they might actually use.
I love how some of those sites claim to be "optimized" for IE. How exactly are they optimized? Do they run faster on IE? Is it because they ignored all those silly standard conventions? Hell, why close a tag when IE will close it for you? It's just extra bandwidth!
These is no excuse for most of these professional sites to have poor coding.
It is kind of a catch 22. If Windows had built in anti-virus software no one would buy 3rd party anti-virus software and Microsoft would gain a monopoly in the market. They would get their asses sued and everyone would complain that they have a monopoly or they have created an unfair environment. We've seen it before. If Windows doesn't have built in anti-virus software everyone complains they don't.
And even if Windows did have built in anti-virus software, can you honestly tell me, given their track record, that you would feel secure with it? If everyone used Windows built in anti-virus software wouldn't it be just that much easier to exploit and cause even more damage.
The latest Half-Life 2 Steam preload was primarily Counter-Strike: Source content as indicated by this news post so it seems pretty certain that Counter-Strike: Source will be part of Half-Life 2
I find this rather disappointing as Counter-Strike is my least favorite Half-Life MOD.
If you are unable to mark a simple X in a circle, are you any more able to work an electronic voting machine? If the paper is to confusing is an electronic voting machine any less confusing?
Consider we are talking about a system most people have used for years (a 90 year old grandmother is likely to have voted before) as opposed to a brand new system no one has ever seen.
Diebold said Harris' claims are without merit and that if anyone did manage to change votes, a series of checks and balances that election officials perform at the end of an election would detect the changes.
Let me guess, if the series of checks and balances show Bush lost, someone cheated, we need a recount.
To further prove your point, the following is taken right out of their documentation:
// load.bsp file and show it using an octtree
scenemgr->addOctTreeSceneNode(scenemgr->getMesh("q uake3map.bsp"));
A BSP is a Binary Space Partition (a binary tree) which is a fairly ingenious way of managing 3D scenes, they have completely thrown away all of these advantages by extracting the geometry and inserting it in an octtree. The reason is obvious (a nice abstract expandable interface) but the result can never be professional grade. It lacks performance.
Yes it is, the first thing I noticed when I installed SP2 was the speed hit, and that is after I disabled the firewall and that silly alert centre. The second thing I noticed is my machine, which hasn't crashed four about seven months, has crashed four times in the past seven days. I might not have minded the speed hit if I knew that the changes actually went to making my system more stable, not the other way around,./p>
The crashing appears completely random. I assume its some bad drivers (probably linksys, they make some half-fast drivers) but it is hard to tell because the blue screen last all of 1.5 seconds before my machine reboots, hardly enough time to read it. I'm to paranoid to uninstall the service pack because I've had nothing but bad experiences with system restore points.
And before you ask, I didn't really notice a performance decrease in games, just standard office applications.
I've had about four blue screens in the past week and ironically it is all my fault. The problem? I installed SP2. I was very weary of SP2, my machine was running great, I had no viruses or adware, in the end I'm not sure why I installed it (I guess I just wanted some of the new features, they weren't worth the hassle).
I may try to remove SP2 soon but I'm concerned it will create even more problems.
When drawing particle effects traditionally you would draw thousands of little square polygons orientated to face the camera from any position. This means you need to send 4 * 3 vertices and 4 * 2 texture coordinates down the pipeline as well as transform the vertices to face the camera on your CPU. This takes up valuable CPU time and bandwidth. With point sprites you only send 1 * 3 vertices down the pipeline and the transformation is done on the GPU.
I just bought a shinny new Athlon 64 Box and what's the first thing I put in it before anything else? A floppy drive.
I couldn't believe XP wouldn't take a CD or anything else for my SATA controller drivers.
That said they still have ample uses as boot disks (where a CD isn't always practical (and can take longer to make)). The day I can boot from a memory stick is the day I'll get rid of my floppy.
What about things users downloaded and didn't buy because they found out they were crap? Do they count?
I usually buy CDs and DVDs of tracks and movies that I download off the internet because (in the case of CDs) I want to support the artists and (in the case of DVDs) the quality is usually better. I don't, however, usually buy CDs from bands the media crams down my throat, I buy CDs from bands I probably never would have discovered in the first place if it wasn't for p2p networks. In this sense, at least from me, p2p networks don't necessarily take money from record companies and artists, they just redistribute the wealth.
What about Blu-Ray or a technology similar. It seems logical to me that if HDTV ever takes off (which it probably will) then people will want a technology that wil allow them to watch movies at the same resolution as their TV.
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I have lots of friends that are computer illiterate. Their computers usually get bogged down with viruses and spyware and I'm often obliged to help them fix their problems.
Every time I do this I install Firefox, set it up with my favourite extensions, then show them how to use it (basically how the tabs work and where their download go). I haven't had a single person complain about it, in fact they all rave about how much better it is and often suggest it to their friends.
Just telling people about Firefox is no way to get them to convert, demonstrating its power is.
I'm wondering the same thing, but it isn't so hard to believe. The NS team did go and found Unknown Worlds Entertainment, and their jobs page does not look like your typical MOD. The Half-Life community has spawned games off of MODS before and no MOD is more deserving then NS.
I personally would love to see NS developed on a better engine; I only feel it could enhance gameplay and the NS experiance. I am curious as to why they would consider another engine other than the source engine for the game though. It looks like a marriage made in heaven.
Like I said, read the readme.txt.
You obtain a Google Web API key, enter it into the program (in the options form), and thats it, you can search.
I rewrote it to use the Google Web API (and comply with Google's Terms of Use).
As an upside it now returns more results, but as a downside you need a Google Web API Licence Key to use it (if you already have a GMail account just fill in your login and you'll get one no hassle). See the readme.txt for more info (And how to obtain a key).
The machine that hosts it was compromised a few weeks ago. Its back up now but variables pased through URL addresses seem to have been disabled and I can't contact GameSpy to correct it. Lestat is working on my behalf at the moment but I have no idea when everything will be sorted.
The files are still all there though:
gcfscape125.exeGTorrent.png
Download:
GTorrent.zip
It actually works quite well. Be sure to play with the options, the default timeout is set to one second (because when your searching ~50 links one second takes a long time) and may reject valid torrents.
The program is witten in C# and the binaries and source are included. If you get an error when you run it you need the .NET Framework (link above).
Also, for the love of god, be very gentle. My machine is very old and it's connection very poor.
I was bored so I thought I'd give it a shot...
My approach here was to send search requests to google then parse the results (HTML files) and search for torrent files in them. The program already works quite well and will download the first byte of each torrent to verify that there are no 404 errors and that it is *probably* a valid torrent (the first byte should be 'd').
I'm finalizing the interface now and will upload it and it's source shortly (it is a C# app BTW).
Unhappy with the current state of ATI's Linux drivers? Add to the ~20,000 signitures already found on this online petition
In a similar trend to Alek's Christmas Lights webcam, anonymous internet users will be able to adjust the direction and velocity of each floor with a click of a button.
In other news, researchers intrigued my innovative new earthquake simulation technologies, begun flocking to Curitiba in force.
Never mind the time it takes to write or say the response to any significant digit.
I think most anyone not familiar with Linux would rather a cracked version of Windows XP then any Linux distribution. It's something they might actually use.
I love how some of those sites claim to be "optimized" for IE. How exactly are they optimized? Do they run faster on IE? Is it because they ignored all those silly standard conventions? Hell, why close a tag when IE will close it for you? It's just extra bandwidth!
These is no excuse for most of these professional sites to have poor coding.
It is kind of a catch 22. If Windows had built in anti-virus software no one would buy 3rd party anti-virus software and Microsoft would gain a monopoly in the market. They would get their asses sued and everyone would complain that they have a monopoly or they have created an unfair environment. We've seen it before. If Windows doesn't have built in anti-virus software everyone complains they don't.
And even if Windows did have built in anti-virus software, can you honestly tell me, given their track record, that you would feel secure with it? If everyone used Windows built in anti-virus software wouldn't it be just that much easier to exploit and cause even more damage.
The only way I can think of to independently verify this is to...
...never mind.
The latest Half-Life 2 Steam preload was primarily Counter-Strike: Source content as indicated by this news post so it seems pretty certain that Counter-Strike: Source will be part of Half-Life 2
I find this rather disappointing as Counter-Strike is my least favorite Half-Life MOD.
If you are unable to mark a simple X in a circle, are you any more able to work an electronic voting machine? If the paper is to confusing is an electronic voting machine any less confusing?
Consider we are talking about a system most people have used for years (a 90 year old grandmother is likely to have voted before) as opposed to a brand new system no one has ever seen.
Diebold said Harris' claims are without merit and that if anyone did manage to change votes, a series of checks and balances that election officials perform at the end of an election would detect the changes.
Let me guess, if the series of checks and balances show Bush lost, someone cheated, we need a recount.
To further prove your point, the following is taken right out of their documentation:
// load .bsp file and show it using an octtree
scenemgr->addOctTreeSceneNode(scenemgr->getMesh("q uake3map.bsp"));
A BSP is a Binary Space Partition (a binary tree) which is a fairly ingenious way of managing 3D scenes, they have completely thrown away all of these advantages by extracting the geometry and inserting it in an octtree. The reason is obvious (a nice abstract expandable interface) but the result can never be professional grade. It lacks performance.
Yes it is, the first thing I noticed when I installed SP2 was the speed hit, and that is after I disabled the firewall and that silly alert centre. The second thing I noticed is my machine, which hasn't crashed four about seven months, has crashed four times in the past seven days. I might not have minded the speed hit if I knew that the changes actually went to making my system more stable, not the other way around,./p>
The crashing appears completely random. I assume its some bad drivers (probably linksys, they make some half-fast drivers) but it is hard to tell because the blue screen last all of 1.5 seconds before my machine reboots, hardly enough time to read it. I'm to paranoid to uninstall the service pack because I've had nothing but bad experiences with system restore points.
And before you ask, I didn't really notice a performance decrease in games, just standard office applications.
I've had about four blue screens in the past week and ironically it is all my fault. The problem? I installed SP2. I was very weary of SP2, my machine was running great, I had no viruses or adware, in the end I'm not sure why I installed it (I guess I just wanted some of the new features, they weren't worth the hassle).
I may try to remove SP2 soon but I'm concerned it will create even more problems.
When drawing particle effects traditionally you would draw thousands of little square polygons orientated to face the camera from any position. This means you need to send 4 * 3 vertices and 4 * 2 texture coordinates down the pipeline as well as transform the vertices to face the camera on your CPU. This takes up valuable CPU time and bandwidth. With point sprites you only send 1 * 3 vertices down the pipeline and the transformation is done on the GPU.
NeHe is one of the best for tutorials. GameDev and FlipCode are also good general sites.
I just bought a shinny new Athlon 64 Box and what's the first thing I put in it before anything else? A floppy drive.
I couldn't believe XP wouldn't take a CD or anything else for my SATA controller drivers.
That said they still have ample uses as boot disks (where a CD isn't always practical (and can take longer to make)). The day I can boot from a memory stick is the day I'll get rid of my floppy.
What about things users downloaded and didn't buy because they found out they were crap? Do they count?
I usually buy CDs and DVDs of tracks and movies that I download off the internet because (in the case of CDs) I want to support the artists and (in the case of DVDs) the quality is usually better. I don't, however, usually buy CDs from bands the media crams down my throat, I buy CDs from bands I probably never would have discovered in the first place if it wasn't for p2p networks. In this sense, at least from me, p2p networks don't necessarily take money from record companies and artists, they just redistribute the wealth.
What about Blu-Ray or a technology similar. It seems logical to me that if HDTV ever takes off (which it probably will) then people will want a technology that wil allow them to watch movies at the same resolution as their TV.