Have you actually used the service? I tried it out (I'm a founding member whoop-dee-doo). And it's exactly the opposite of what you state about World-of-Goo. I found UT3 perfectly playable, with very little noticeable lag. In fact on my second Team death match, I ranked at the top of the list for kills. It's about the same sort of lag I'd expect from using the average bluetooth mouse.
World of Goo (and other 2d games) on the other hand was unplayable, the mouse lags so much that it's almost unplayable. So yeah...I'd say your general statement was false. Yes, Latency is an issue, and yes, the video quality is bad. But the heavy 3d games run waaaay better than the lighter 2d games.
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There's been talks about that, but one of the big issues is that the language then becomes non-standardized. So if you give me a script, I'll have to install whatever language binding you used, plus any libraries and modules for that language as well. That doesn't sound fun.
Well the real reason Titan Quest failed, was it had some major flaws IMO. Inventory management was worthless, the system requirements (at the time) were rather steep, and every review of it I saw gave it about 7.5 out of 10. So yeah, it sounds like the developers were looking for excuses.
One of my favorite classes is the Mesmer from Guild Wars... practically useless on their own, they have an awesome array of spells for invalidating the other side's strengths. For instance, their skills can cause a target to take damage whenever it attacks. They can move debuffs from friendlies and place them on enemies. And one of my favorite spells removes a hex from a target and allows you to re-cast that hex onto any other opponent.
This is what we need more of in RPGs...highly specialized classes that open up new tactics in combat.
I have to agree with the parent. I got this game about two weeks ago. So far, my wife and I have hit lvl16 (out of 40 lvls) and we've only been playing for a hour a day. Very casual oriented. I have a level 64 pally in WoW, and the leveling rate is so insanely slow we just gave up.
You can't do PvP or even run raids in WoW until you hit 80 these days since getting 25 people in the lvl 64 range is next to impossible. In War, the RvR battles are everywhere, and you can actually help out as a lvl 16.
I will be playing war for a long time....
I think it's important not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I come from a vegan family (health reasons) and I have to say, chiropractors, and alternative medicine does work. Sure some of it is just a crock, but not all of it.
Two examples: my mother was told by the doctors that her thyroid deficiency was untreatable and that she would need supplements for the rest of her life. A local alternative medicine doctor claimed otherwise, he explained that back in the 60's chickens were fed with chemicals that were not safe for humans. Humans ate these chickens and that was what had caused her thyroid to start malfunctioning. He treated her, and she hasn't needed the supplements for several years now.
More recently, I have had serious eye/head pain. The eye doctors didn't know what it was. Out of a whim I visited a chiropractor, and a day later I was totally fine. And that was after living off of pain killers for an entire week.
So yes, this stuff works. Nothing is a cure all, and there's just as much snake oil as there ever was. But I have been cured more times by alternative medicine than I ever have been by doctors.
I had a character at 34 before starting back at 1 with my wife via recruit-a-friend. It really doesn't change allot of the gameplay. You don't have to quest as much...that's about it. Infact you level so much that most of the time you're flat broke just from the cost of skills/armor.
But it all goes away at lvl 60, so you still have 20 levels at the normal pace to go.
It seems that you are mistaking the gentile's law of the new testament with the Livitical law of the Jews in the Old testament. Most of the OT laws were to keep the Jews separate from their gentile neighbors. Things like eating laws, circumcision, and such were to keep the Israelite nation healthy (see washing laws) and trusting in God.
However, for us gentiles, things are a bit different. We see this in the book of Acts where the church got together and hashed out what laws were required for Gentiles to keep. Besides the obvious like do not murder, the other laws were to abstain from food offered to idols, from blood and from fornication. But Jesus summed it up best when he said that the greatest commandment was to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the second is like it, to love you neighbor as your self. On these hang all the law and the prophets."
So yeah, most modern Christians don't follow OT laws, because they don't have to. Those laws were for a different place and a different time. As scripture itself will tell you.
That's probably true. However the point of CAS style "locks" (for they really aren't locks) still stands in that with this new method of doing Hash tables, it is possible to only lock that portion of the data structure for 1 instruction. In addition, correct me if I'm wrong, this should also keep a kernel call from happening. Java threads are kernel threads right? So this could cut down on the overhead dramatically.
I would encourage everyone to watch the Google Talk by the author of the article. It's deep stuff, but incredibly interesting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862&q=hash+tables&ei=9JI8SMLhA5m05AKXgqXfAw
I used to think this too until I saw the video by the article's author. By lock free we mean that if the thread that has the "lock" were to die, it would not stall out the entire program. With CAS updates, a crashing thread would simply die and cause no ill effects to the data structure. With Mutex style locks, if the locking thread crashes (or otherwise forgets to unlock the mutex) then the entire program grinds to a halt as other threads start waiting on the lock. The maximum time a CAS "lock" can exists is 1 CPU cycle.
There's always the Russian way, 'cause you know in that country the titanium holds the grinding wheel to you!
Although you may find the US/EU way less painful.
>>You may well be trolling, but assuming you're serious: >> he inspired people to write it over a period of 2000 years. >>What, this omnipotent god of yours had to work through a bunch of balding monkeys, rather that just saying "Zotz! Biblios appearus!" or something? >>I can walk into the library and find dozens, if not hundreds, of books that claim to be inspired by gods or other supernatural entities, from the Upanishads to the latest New Age bestseller >>from someone channeling telepathic transmissions from Sirius. The Bible just ain't special. >> including prophecies that are fulfilled hundreds (if not thousands) of years after they are written True, but how many of them can claim to be written over such a period of time, and yet line up with history. The Mormons claim to know about the history of South America, but their view falls flat on its face when we look at history.
>>What, prophecies like Jesus's that the world would end during the lifetime of some of his followers (Luke 9:27: "But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of >>death, till they see the kingdom of God.", and 21:32: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.":) That's not a foretelling of the end of the world, but of the fulfilment of Jesus's prophecy that Jerusalem would be destroyed (AD 70 only ~40 years after it was prophicied). His disciples asked just before this "what would be the sign of these things [jerusalem's destruction], and of the end of the age". And indeed we did see (and are seeing) the power of God's kingdom. After Jesus accended the Christian movement swept through the world even in spite of Nero's persecution.
>>Let me write and edit a book in which I get to report both the prophecy and the outcomes, and I could make all sorts of prophecies come true. But Biblical authors and editors couldn't even do >>that. Sure, if you do it in hindsight. Try writing a book about the future >> with no contradictions in the book. >>I'm afraid you're again in error. >>Look, if you find churchgoing a rewarding expereince, great. Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. >>But if you believe that the Bible is any guide to history, cosmology, metaphysics, or pretty much any aspect of objective consensus reality, you're sadly mistaken.
And why is that?
Well folks this little OT discussion has been fun, but I need to get back to work. So e-mail me at tbaldridge at gmail dot com and I will reply after hours.
It's simple. Ever read a preface? You'll notice that Genesis describes the creation account several times. First it starts with a one verse overview, then a day by day account, and finally a generic overview of what he did when he created the earth. We do this all the time. Imagine I was writing a manual on how to build a computer. I could say:
Here I will show you how you can build a computer.
1) find a case. 2) put the motherboard in the case. 3) add a video card.....
So now you see how to build a computer. The video comes from a card that is inserted into the motherboard. etc...
There is no contradiction in what I just wrote. It's simply several ways of saying the same thing.
>>a) it was written by many people with little to no knowledge of how we know the world works And modern science is any better? Really how can you say that ^^ considering that the views of scientists today changing every few years. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
>>b) its distribution is so good because the early christians used alot of elements of paganism including their festivals and all christians target children who aren't able to think critically. Sounds like modern evolution indoctrination to me.
>>Its fulfilled many vague prophecies (see astrology for how to do that) and lets not forget jesus coming back in the lifetime of his disciples being an important one. See my other comments to this post if you want to debate this
>>Lots and LOTS of contradictions and interpretations due to it being written by handfuls of people with totally different ideas about the world that were merged together without any editing. look at the 2 beggat lists, they don't even list Joseph's father with the same name, nice one god, you think you'd know that. That's because one lists his heritage on his Mother's side, and the other from his Father's
>>Not to mention the power to cause more wars, torture, killing and suffering than anything else in the world, definitely changed alot of peoples lives in that respect. What wars? What torture? The Holocaust? That was done by sadistic man. The Crusades? That was done by a evil Pope in charge of an group of people whom most God fearing christians don't even call Christian. The Inquisition, the same.
>> Blimey. I wonder if you're for real. Regardless, lets go step by step here:
> A) he inspired people to write it over a period of 2000 years >> So are we, like, talking Jesus now, or what? Jesus is God? I'm confused. The two are one in the same. Jesus is God.
> B) An the reason it's distribution is so good is because it's the truth. >> Go on... As people listen and read it, it changes their lives, after these changes they in turn want to share what happened to them with others. Hence the distribution.
> I mean common, 20+ people writing a book over 2000 years, including prophecies that are fulfilled hundreds (if not thousands) of years after they are written, >> Like a nursery rhyme? Hardly, for instance, the destruction of Tyre was foretold years before it happened. And it was prophesied at a time when it was rediculous to even think of the city being destoried. Years later, Nebucadnezzer started the job, and it was finished by Alexander the Great. The Bible even foretold that when it was destroyed the army that razed it would sow salt upon their fields. And guess what, that's what the Babylonians did. Read the book of Daniel. It's full of prophecies of what would happen 100-500 years after the life of the writer.
> with no contradictions in the book. >> Like Harry Potter
Maybe, but HP was written by one person in less than 50 years. Try claiming that for a book written by 20+ people over 1000 years. The only way that can be explained is if one being (God) inspired all the writers.
> No wonder it's so popular. >> Like Harry Potter Hardly, the Bible is the most printed book in the world. HP doesn't even come close.
> Not to mention that it has the power to change lives >> Like Harry Potter When was the last time you heard of someone giving up drinking, beating their wife, doing drugs, cheating on their husband because of HP?
> (bring about world peace, etc.). >> Yeah, let me know when that happens. It's happening, slowly.
>> Anyway, I'm off to walk on some water... Have a nice swim!
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Have you actually used the service? I tried it out (I'm a founding member whoop-dee-doo). And it's exactly the opposite of what you state about World-of-Goo. I found UT3 perfectly playable, with very little noticeable lag. In fact on my second Team death match, I ranked at the top of the list for kills. It's about the same sort of lag I'd expect from using the average bluetooth mouse. World of Goo (and other 2d games) on the other hand was unplayable, the mouse lags so much that it's almost unplayable. So yeah...I'd say your general statement was false. Yes, Latency is an issue, and yes, the video quality is bad. But the heavy 3d games run waaaay better than the lighter 2d games.
There's been talks about that, but one of the big issues is that the language then becomes non-standardized. So if you give me a script, I'll have to install whatever language binding you used, plus any libraries and modules for that language as well. That doesn't sound fun.
"wrote us an email to brag about its puzzle-solving might"
That's what she said!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-wf2pP7T0Y)
...the photos/specs are already on the web. They can't stop the signal, Mal.
+1 I'd mod it up if I had points
Well the real reason Titan Quest failed, was it had some major flaws IMO. Inventory management was worthless, the system requirements (at the time) were rather steep, and every review of it I saw gave it about 7.5 out of 10. So yeah, it sounds like the developers were looking for excuses.
I'm an emotional demographic you insensitive clod!
One of my favorite classes is the Mesmer from Guild Wars... practically useless on their own, they have an awesome array of spells for invalidating the other side's strengths. For instance, their skills can cause a target to take damage whenever it attacks. They can move debuffs from friendlies and place them on enemies. And one of my favorite spells removes a hex from a target and allows you to re-cast that hex onto any other opponent. This is what we need more of in RPGs...highly specialized classes that open up new tactics in combat.
See that's your problem, you wanted to join a guild...you really want to join a Corp in EVE. Seriously though, EVE is a PVP game...nothing else
I have to agree with the parent. I got this game about two weeks ago. So far, my wife and I have hit lvl16 (out of 40 lvls) and we've only been playing for a hour a day. Very casual oriented. I have a level 64 pally in WoW, and the leveling rate is so insanely slow we just gave up. You can't do PvP or even run raids in WoW until you hit 80 these days since getting 25 people in the lvl 64 range is next to impossible. In War, the RvR battles are everywhere, and you can actually help out as a lvl 16. I will be playing war for a long time....
I think it's important not to throw the baby out with the bath water. I come from a vegan family (health reasons) and I have to say, chiropractors, and alternative medicine does work. Sure some of it is just a crock, but not all of it.
Two examples: my mother was told by the doctors that her thyroid deficiency was untreatable and that she would need supplements for the rest of her life. A local alternative medicine doctor claimed otherwise, he explained that back in the 60's chickens were fed with chemicals that were not safe for humans. Humans ate these chickens and that was what had caused her thyroid to start malfunctioning. He treated her, and she hasn't needed the supplements for several years now.
More recently, I have had serious eye/head pain. The eye doctors didn't know what it was. Out of a whim I visited a chiropractor, and a day later I was totally fine. And that was after living off of pain killers for an entire week.
So yes, this stuff works. Nothing is a cure all, and there's just as much snake oil as there ever was. But I have been cured more times by alternative medicine than I ever have been by doctors.
I had a character at 34 before starting back at 1 with my wife via recruit-a-friend. It really doesn't change allot of the gameplay. You don't have to quest as much...that's about it. Infact you level so much that most of the time you're flat broke just from the cost of skills/armor. But it all goes away at lvl 60, so you still have 20 levels at the normal pace to go.
+1 for NOD32 it rocks
It seems that you are mistaking the gentile's law of the new testament with the Livitical law of the Jews in the Old testament. Most of the OT laws were to keep the Jews separate from their gentile neighbors. Things like eating laws, circumcision, and such were to keep the Israelite nation healthy (see washing laws) and trusting in God. However, for us gentiles, things are a bit different. We see this in the book of Acts where the church got together and hashed out what laws were required for Gentiles to keep. Besides the obvious like do not murder, the other laws were to abstain from food offered to idols, from blood and from fornication. But Jesus summed it up best when he said that the greatest commandment was to "love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and the second is like it, to love you neighbor as your self. On these hang all the law and the prophets." So yeah, most modern Christians don't follow OT laws, because they don't have to. Those laws were for a different place and a different time. As scripture itself will tell you.
That's probably true. However the point of CAS style "locks" (for they really aren't locks) still stands in that with this new method of doing Hash tables, it is possible to only lock that portion of the data structure for 1 instruction. In addition, correct me if I'm wrong, this should also keep a kernel call from happening. Java threads are kernel threads right? So this could cut down on the overhead dramatically. I would encourage everyone to watch the Google Talk by the author of the article. It's deep stuff, but incredibly interesting: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2139967204534450862&q=hash+tables&ei=9JI8SMLhA5m05AKXgqXfAw
I used to think this too until I saw the video by the article's author. By lock free we mean that if the thread that has the "lock" were to die, it would not stall out the entire program. With CAS updates, a crashing thread would simply die and cause no ill effects to the data structure. With Mutex style locks, if the locking thread crashes (or otherwise forgets to unlock the mutex) then the entire program grinds to a halt as other threads start waiting on the lock. The maximum time a CAS "lock" can exists is 1 CPU cycle.
Hey! I was bit by a mutant spider you insensitive clod!
LOL, if I had points I'd mod the parent up
They are copying data from mp3 players? Call in the RIAA!! The Feds are running a darknet!
There's always the Russian way, 'cause you know in that country the titanium holds the grinding wheel to you! Although you may find the US/EU way less painful.
The brownies are a lie!
>>You may well be trolling, but assuming you're serious:
>> he inspired people to write it over a period of 2000 years.
>>What, this omnipotent god of yours had to work through a bunch of balding monkeys, rather that just saying "Zotz! Biblios appearus!" or something?
>>I can walk into the library and find dozens, if not hundreds, of books that claim to be inspired by gods or other supernatural entities, from the Upanishads to the latest New Age bestseller >>from someone channeling telepathic transmissions from Sirius. The Bible just ain't special.
>> including prophecies that are fulfilled hundreds (if not thousands) of years after they are written
True, but how many of them can claim to be written over such a period of time, and yet line up with history. The Mormons claim to know about the history of South America, but their view falls flat on its face when we look at history.
>>What, prophecies like Jesus's that the world would end during the lifetime of some of his followers (Luke 9:27: "But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of >>death, till they see the kingdom of God.", and 21:32: "Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.":)
That's not a foretelling of the end of the world, but of the fulfilment of Jesus's prophecy that Jerusalem would be destroyed (AD 70 only ~40 years after it was prophicied). His disciples asked just before this "what would be the sign of these things [jerusalem's destruction], and of the end of the age". And indeed we did see (and are seeing) the power of God's kingdom. After Jesus accended the Christian movement swept through the world even in spite of Nero's persecution.
>>Let me write and edit a book in which I get to report both the prophecy and the outcomes, and I could make all sorts of prophecies come true. But Biblical authors and editors couldn't even do >>that.
Sure, if you do it in hindsight. Try writing a book about the future
>> with no contradictions in the book.
>>I'm afraid you're again in error.
>>Look, if you find churchgoing a rewarding expereince, great. Live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
>>But if you believe that the Bible is any guide to history, cosmology, metaphysics, or pretty much any aspect of objective consensus reality, you're sadly mistaken.
And why is that?
Well folks this little OT discussion has been fun, but I need to get back to work. So e-mail me at tbaldridge at gmail dot com and I will reply after hours.
It's simple. Ever read a preface? You'll notice that Genesis describes the creation account several times. First it starts with a one verse overview, then a day by day account, and finally a generic overview of what he did when he created the earth. We do this all the time. Imagine I was writing a manual on how to build a computer. I could say:
Here I will show you how you can build a computer.
1) find a case. 2) put the motherboard in the case. 3) add a video card.....
So now you see how to build a computer. The video comes from a card that is inserted into the motherboard. etc...
There is no contradiction in what I just wrote. It's simply several ways of saying the same thing.
>>a) it was written by many people with little to no knowledge of how we know the world works
And modern science is any better? Really how can you say that ^^ considering that the views of scientists today changing every few years. Sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
>>b) its distribution is so good because the early christians used alot of elements of paganism including their festivals and all christians target children who aren't able to think critically.
Sounds like modern evolution indoctrination to me.
>>Its fulfilled many vague prophecies (see astrology for how to do that) and lets not forget jesus coming back in the lifetime of his disciples being an important one.
See my other comments to this post if you want to debate this
>>Lots and LOTS of contradictions and interpretations due to it being written by handfuls of people with totally different ideas about the world that were merged together without any editing. look at the 2 beggat lists, they don't even list Joseph's father with the same name, nice one god, you think you'd know that.
That's because one lists his heritage on his Mother's side, and the other from his Father's
>>Not to mention the power to cause more wars, torture, killing and suffering than anything else in the world, definitely changed alot of peoples lives in that respect.
What wars? What torture? The Holocaust? That was done by sadistic man. The Crusades? That was done by a evil Pope in charge of an group of people whom most God fearing christians don't even call Christian. The Inquisition, the same.
>> Blimey. I wonder if you're for real. Regardless, lets go step by step here:
> A) he inspired people to write it over a period of 2000 years
>> So are we, like, talking Jesus now, or what? Jesus is God? I'm confused.
The two are one in the same. Jesus is God.
> B) An the reason it's distribution is so good is because it's the truth.
>> Go on...
As people listen and read it, it changes their lives, after these changes they in turn want to share what happened to them with others. Hence the distribution.
> I mean common, 20+ people writing a book over 2000 years, including prophecies that are fulfilled hundreds (if not thousands) of years after they are written,
>> Like a nursery rhyme?
Hardly, for instance, the destruction of Tyre was foretold years before it happened. And it was prophesied at a time when it was rediculous to even think of the city being destoried. Years later, Nebucadnezzer started the job, and it was finished by Alexander the Great. The Bible even foretold that when it was destroyed the army that razed it would sow salt upon their fields. And guess what, that's what the Babylonians did. Read the book of Daniel. It's full of prophecies of what would happen 100-500 years after the life of the writer.
> with no contradictions in the book.
>> Like Harry Potter
Maybe, but HP was written by one person in less than 50 years. Try claiming that for a book written by 20+ people over 1000 years. The only way that can be explained is if one being (God) inspired all the writers.
> No wonder it's so popular.
>> Like Harry Potter
Hardly, the Bible is the most printed book in the world. HP doesn't even come close.
> Not to mention that it has the power to change lives
>> Like Harry Potter
When was the last time you heard of someone giving up drinking, beating their wife, doing drugs, cheating on their husband because of HP?
> (bring about world peace, etc.).
>> Yeah, let me know when that happens.
It's happening, slowly.
>> Anyway, I'm off to walk on some water...
Have a nice swim!