For example, fighting games will no longer have to be about special moves and combos when you can simply put one controller in each hand and start punching and blocking like in real life
With our luck, we'll have the kids doing the Mighty Morphin' power rangers coreographic routines to activate the combos..
Now that you mention it, this phrase was used in the SimAnt manual. It said something like: "This isn't a game, but a toy. A game has rules, but you can play with a toy however you like".
It may be worth mentioning that I got bored after playing SimAnt for a while:-/ There were no challenges.
Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.
So, does that make each release 1 grade higher in the Richter scale or something?
His goal was not to progress on human-machine interfaces, but to investigate on what consciousness is, and on the impact of sending electrical signals to the brain.
Someday I'll write a book on who really invented the computer. It wasn't Atanasoff or Von Neumann. We did it.
I really think that J. Presper Eckert (the ENIAC inventor ) and Von Neumann both deserve credit. Eckert said it himself in the interview:
Was ENIAC programmable?
Yes and no. We programmed the machine by plugging wires in from place to place. That's not hard-wired; it's not software; it's not memory. It's pluggable programming. And we had switches to set the functions.
However Von Neumann did a lot of theoretical work on algorithms (he is cited by Knuth on the merge sort algorithm) and cellular automata.
Certainly Von Neumann was ahead of his time, he was already thinking in general-purpose algorithms, while the ENIAC only worked to solve differential equations.
I'm not trying to discredit anybody, but IMHO Eckert should have chose the wrong wording when claiming to be *THE* inventor of the computer.
The point of government-crackable encryption is to prevent competitors from snooping on your data. But if the government wants it, you should cooperate.
The problem of course, is when the government is BOUGHT by the industry *cough* RIAA lobbyists *cough*
So it all ends up in Les-Miserables style of breaking the law. Breaking the law is bad, but so is publishing unfair laws. So we either break the law and become fugitives, or throw ourselves into the river:(
Is it necessary for survival? Only if the environment forces you to it. The current environment is technologically-driven, so you need to stay connected to have a social life, student life, work life, etc.
The real problem is about people whose life is so miserable that to escape from the world, they use the internet. THEN it becomes an addiction, but I'd say that's the least of their problems.
Some teachers, writers, scientists, philosophers (And yes, dedicated F/OSS programmers too!) they have their rewards when they see their jobs finished.
So, cheer up, if you don't care that much about having a girlfriend, it's not because you're a loser, but because you don't actually NEED a girlfriend.
I can still recall many of the rune sequences to cast spells even now, almost 20 years later.
I only played DM very recently... but I did like the runes system. Heh one of the things I remember was making my barbarian learn magic by lending him some MP and making him try to "create water" many times.
Eye of the Beholder 2 (Westwood) - this was my favorite:) - the first-person environment really drew you into the game. Just remembering the intro, the medieval world, the storm approaching and the drop of water falling in a small pond on the street of Waterdeep...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (LucasArts - this one included a copy of Henry Jones' diary:) ) LucasArts' Classic Adventures: Monkey Island, Loom Leyend of Kyrandia (Westwood) Flashback: Quest for Identity (Delphine) Lemmings!:D Out of this world (Delphine) And a bit later, Final Fantasy VI, Lufia 2 (SNES)
I'll always remember these games as part of my teenages. Sigh...
They say that a magnetic insulator would have to be used to shield the chip from external interference.
Cowburn, who is working with MRAM makers on developing the technology, suggests a common magnetic shielding material may have to be built into such chips. Called mu-metal, it is an alloy of nickel, iron, copper and molybdenum. "It's effectively a Faraday Cage for magnetic devices," he explains.
I can relate to that comment, I've been waiting for Mozilla to implement Internet Explorer compatibility (XSLT extensions) and ACID2 compliance for a while. Even with the 10% market share Firefox enjoys, they still don't facilitate the programmers to replace existing IE applications.
I also agree with this:
Creating a neat C++ framework when what the world really needs a non-Microsoft browser is nothing but a deriliction of duty: a piece of vanity code. What we Brits call pointless "willy waving".
I really hated Internet Explorer. When I heard about Mozilla, I tried Milestone 8 (around 1999), and it was slow as a snail on my poor machine. WTF were they thinking? The Netscape code might have been difficult to maintain, but what really needed a revamp was the html renderer.
The reason Firefox did get a huge market share is not because of the XUL framework, but because it was finished. I'm sure all that delay could've been avoided.
I just wonder, if this chip has really low energy consumption, is it possible to make a videocard out of it (i.e. one that doesn't require extra large heatsinks to work)?
You could have the most secure server in the world but if your scripts allow unfiltered user input then you're still screwed. NO amount of server securitty will help that.
While you CAN control whether people can access your website or not, you CANNOT control what number of amateur insecure scripts reside on the same host.
Where I work, we've had a number of problems due to using a shared host for our website. Mass site defacements is one of them.
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For example, fighting games will no longer have to be about special moves and combos when you can simply put one controller in each hand and start punching and blocking like in real life
With our luck, we'll have the kids doing the Mighty Morphin' power rangers coreographic routines to activate the combos..
Huh (move) hah (move) hah (move) hoh!
(eew)
It's called a toy, as opposed to a game.
:-/ There were no challenges.
Now that you mention it, this phrase was used in the SimAnt manual. It said something like: "This isn't a game, but a toy. A game has rules, but you can play with a toy however you like".
It may be worth mentioning that I got bored after playing SimAnt for a while
Boll says the point is that his movies get better as his career progresses - Dungeon Siege is "ten times better" than BloodRayne, which is ten times better than House of the Dead, and so on.
So, does that make each release 1 grade higher in the Richter scale or something?
should have chose the wrong wording -> should NOT have chosen. :-/
His goal was not to progress on human-machine interfaces, but to investigate on what consciousness is, and on the impact of sending electrical signals to the brain.
A waste of time, and dangerous if you ask me.
he will exchange the neural information between this chicken, and this rabbit. Hey, where's the rabbit? NO, DON'T PULL THAT *BZZZZT*
I really think that J. Presper Eckert (the ENIAC inventor ) and Von Neumann both deserve credit. Eckert said it himself in the interview:
However Von Neumann did a lot of theoretical work on algorithms (he is cited by Knuth on the merge sort algorithm) and cellular automata.
Certainly Von Neumann was ahead of his time, he was already thinking in general-purpose algorithms, while the ENIAC only worked to solve differential equations.
I'm not trying to discredit anybody, but IMHO Eckert should have chose the wrong wording when claiming to be *THE* inventor of the computer.
The point of government-crackable encryption is to prevent competitors from snooping on your data. But if the government wants it, you should cooperate.
:(
The problem of course, is when the government is BOUGHT by the industry *cough* RIAA lobbyists *cough*
So it all ends up in Les-Miserables style of breaking the law. Breaking the law is bad, but so is publishing unfair laws. So we either break the law and become fugitives, or throw ourselves into the river
Won't somebody please think of the children!
:P )
Trust me, in Feb 14, that's the LAST THING the couples want to think about! (But just wait 9 months...
Just as TV, radio, or telephone.
Is it necessary for survival? Only if the environment forces you to it. The current environment is technologically-driven, so you need to stay connected to have a social life, student life, work life, etc.
The real problem is about people whose life is so miserable that to escape from the world, they use the internet. THEN it becomes an addiction, but I'd say that's the least of their problems.
yes, it was a joke.
*ahem* Mind telling us who was the programmer who had this "brilliant" idea?
:P
I promise, I won't do ANYTHING bad to him *whistles innocently* really! *Loads gun behind his back*
Some teachers, writers, scientists, philosophers (And yes, dedicated F/OSS programmers too!) they have their rewards when they see their jobs finished.
So, cheer up, if you don't care that much about having a girlfriend, it's not because you're a loser, but because you don't actually NEED a girlfriend.
Of course, this is only MHO.
I can still recall many of the rune sequences to cast spells even now, almost 20 years later.
I only played DM very recently... but I did like the runes system. Heh one of the things I remember was making my barbarian learn magic by lending him some MP and making him try to "create water" many times.
Eye of the Beholder 2 (Westwood) - this was my favorite :) - the first-person environment really drew you into the game. Just remembering the intro, the medieval world, the storm approaching and the drop of water falling in a small pond on the street of Waterdeep...
:) ) :D
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure (LucasArts - this one included a copy of Henry Jones' diary
LucasArts' Classic Adventures: Monkey Island, Loom
Leyend of Kyrandia (Westwood)
Flashback: Quest for Identity (Delphine)
Lemmings!
Out of this world (Delphine)
And a bit later, Final Fantasy VI, Lufia 2 (SNES)
I'll always remember these games as part of my teenages. Sigh...
"Chip"? Is that Ballmer's new nickname? *confused*
Something like this: "Yahoo is committed to obey local laws, ONLY if they don't go against international treaties and human rights."
They say that a magnetic insulator would have to be used to shield the chip from external interference.
if these things are susceptible to external magnetic fields, and why. I know, there are about 20 jokes about it, but no clear answers :(
I also agree with this:
I really hated Internet Explorer. When I heard about Mozilla, I tried Milestone 8 (around 1999), and it was slow as a snail on my poor machine. WTF were they thinking? The Netscape code might have been difficult to maintain, but what really needed a revamp was the html renderer.
The reason Firefox did get a huge market share is not because of the XUL framework, but because it was finished. I'm sure all that delay could've been avoided.
This story is a dupe of the "related story" shown above.
:)
So THAT's why the "related story" feature was invented!
Cool.
Google for it :)
I just wonder, if this chip has really low energy consumption, is it possible to make a videocard out of it (i.e. one that doesn't require extra large heatsinks to work)?
You could have the most secure server in the world but if your scripts allow unfiltered user input then you're still screwed. NO amount of server securitty will help that.
:)
Of course, that's rule #2
WTF? Who modded this down?
While you CAN control whether people can access your website or not, you CANNOT control what number of amateur insecure scripts reside on the same host.
Where I work, we've had a number of problems due to using a shared host for our website. Mass site defacements is one of them.