I play poker, but I'm not using my own money. I bankrolled money from a freeroll. Now I am freerolling my way up the stakes ladder. If they ban online gambling, I'll have to get a Swiss Bank account or something.
Speaking of hidden costs, M$ likes to keep breaking edge code for itself. I believe Quick Basic was written after the internet was out, but had no internet interface functions at all! I wrote my MMORPG almost to completion in 1994, but I stopped once I realized you can't be MMO without any internet functions. At that time, M$ wanted to monopolize the internet so they didn't have any internet friendly winsock code for any of their languages. It wasn't until the late 90's that internet aps could be made by the average joe coder. And Quick Basic will always be infinately cooler than Visual Basic. If you think you can't write an RPG in Quick Basic because of the memory limit, think again. You can use the harddrive to be like a virtual drive, while your code is actually a whole new language that runs off the harddrive.
My quote library un quote was a video game map maker who's complexity would dwarf any other known mapmaker, but it runs on a 286 compiler that doesn't let you surpass 64k memory, so I made several of the programs to handle similar, but different tasks in making maps. Then I had one piece of code that pasted all the different files that stored the code into one big.bin file and an index file to reference it.
My library was all sorts of little functions piled into one big file that made my programming life easier. For example, my boldest code move was that I made an AWT(Abstract Windows ToolKit), so I could overlay my 2d bitmap game with windows so you could see your inventory, equipment, kills, etc etc. I actually manually ported this windowing toolkit over to Crystal Space 3d and it worked for Linux, but wouldn't run on my windows computer because Direct Draw wouldn't compile for some reason.
My application was a MMORPG that is vastly different than MMORPGS you see today, worse in some respects, but better in others. And in retrospect, imbalanced as all get out. If I even went back and coded it now, most computers couldn't run it because they can't run DOS. I haven't considered the option of updating all my code to run in XP, because I haven't been able to get DJGPP to run in windows(for most people its not hard, but for me its really hard:see takes me several days if it would happen at all). I have MingW, but I'm not sure how nice it would handle my loads and loads of old code. I guess I just haven't tried it because I know it'd take me weeks just to get to the starting line again.
The game is cool though in the way its 2d fake renders 3d. If the you are standing to the left of a wall, it renders right. If you are standing lower left from a wall it renders upper right. Everything renders away from you, so you never run into the mistake of old 2d isometric games where you could run behind a building and not see your avatar. If I did it up today, I'd probably just use real 3d and a top down viewing system. The game was based on a RPG that I created for my friends to play, it sorta played like if you could imagine SpaceBalls the RPG. It was serious enough that people wanted to upgrade their character, equipment, and vehicles, but had a flair of comedy.
For example of comedy:there were two mice who were trying to take over the universe, they were smart, but physically handicapped from the accident that gave them their intelligence. This was exactly one year before Pinky and The Brain came on television. There were tons of cool things in the game, like being a Bounty Hunter for the main thing, or you could become a criminal too. Another cool thing in the game was BladeSkate, hockey degenerated, It was the first side to KO the other side, and the puck was replaced with a plasma ball. Many a fan were critically injured from the plasma ball flying into the stands.
Oh there were a lot of good things in the game, but for me to release it as a current gen MMORPG would require me to rebalance the skills(like Wasteland), for the 4 armed Quadlek, with ambidexterity skill, and sword skill, would dominate just about any other form of fighting, they get 4 hits to the opponents one. I'm ashamed that I directly ripped off the Dune shield, slow objects can get through like melee, but AK47 fire bounced off the shield, YET Extereme high velocity fire of lasers got through. Now lasers did less damage than AK47, and less damage than melee, but they were ranged fire. So your choices were either ranged and light damage, or close up and heavy damage, and then there were the illegal weapons, but you had to find the secret store and they were expensive.
I'm just going on and on now. I could type a novel about this RPG, and it was very fun. But it'd need a re-write such that the game was balanced, and didn't fall for the same flaws that original MMORPGS fell for(other players camping quests and such). It'd require probably about 5 good years of work.
Windows 98 fixed problems with Win95, and was the last version to support DOS. Seeing as I built a massive DOS library in C/C++, I'm ticked I can't keep coding in my DOS mode. If I switch to coding under WINXP, will they obfuscate that too, so my code library will be lost again. I'm just at a loss because I have problems running DOS emulators too.
If someone is stupid enough to buy a ps3 for $599, and a game at 80$, they have more money than brains, and will probably buy all the tracks and cars too.
No, thats part of the game. It's called bandwith flow. See its using a series of tubes to flow your information to you like water. Posting a mirror would open more flows and be like cheating.
So anyway, I pwned some warez, but new games are teh sux. I used emule to rip some complete albums for a friend, and while I was at it: I grabbed some gameboy advanced roms. And I did it all at Panera's Bread so the RIAA can't trace me.
Hire a developer who's also a designer. There's a boat load of them around. And don't say that they sacrificed one to be better at the other, you can be a master at both.
My friend at my last job wrote his own VOIP software and he told me it wasn't very hard. If I had my own voip system, all I'd be doing would be making calls to my friends from the White House, Pentagon, or other famous places for fun.
I bet either someone is going to have 100% votes for Fred Flintstone, or someone is going to have a 60% write in for some person. Both of which could never happen and would do nothing except expose the voting machines as tamperable. I doubt someone is going to be smart enough to make the election look close, but vote for someone on the ballot. The only way a good ol conspiracy vote could happen is if the hacker got a load of money from a candidate. Well I guess that could happen.
I mistrust something even more basic: Grocery stores. If gas prices get too high, then food is going to cost more. People on low income will have trouble buying food, or getting gas to work for their money. An all out fall out of society can occur if inflation starts to barrel out of control. Now there is not a whole lot of worry now, but with the national debt rising, its something that can happen in the next 30 years. Google, I can live without, but food I need.
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I play poker, but I'm not using my own money. I bankrolled money from a freeroll. Now I am freerolling my way up the stakes ladder. If they ban online gambling, I'll have to get a Swiss Bank account or something.
A messaging service called VaporStream
Oh, I thought it said VaporSteam, the gaming service that would allow you to play Duke Nukem Forever.
They just have to prove they were the ones searching the terms. I'm not sure anyone would fess up to browsing unscrupulous websites.
Have 2 Capacitors. One in your car, and one you swap in from home that's on the charger.
Speaking of hidden costs, M$ likes to keep breaking edge code for itself. I believe Quick Basic was written after the internet was out, but had no internet interface functions at all! I wrote my MMORPG almost to completion in 1994, but I stopped once I realized you can't be MMO without any internet functions. At that time, M$ wanted to monopolize the internet so they didn't have any internet friendly winsock code for any of their languages. It wasn't until the late 90's that internet aps could be made by the average joe coder. And Quick Basic will always be infinately cooler than Visual Basic. If you think you can't write an RPG in Quick Basic because of the memory limit, think again. You can use the harddrive to be like a virtual drive, while your code is actually a whole new language that runs off the harddrive.
My quote library un quote was a video game map maker who's complexity would dwarf any other known mapmaker, but it runs on a 286 compiler that doesn't let you surpass 64k memory, so I made several of the programs to handle similar, but different tasks in making maps. Then I had one piece of code that pasted all the different files that stored the code into one big .bin file and an index file to reference it.
My library was all sorts of little functions piled into one big file that made my programming life easier. For example, my boldest code move was that I made an AWT(Abstract Windows ToolKit), so I could overlay my 2d bitmap game with windows so you could see your inventory, equipment, kills, etc etc. I actually manually ported this windowing toolkit over to Crystal Space 3d and it worked for Linux, but wouldn't run on my windows computer because Direct Draw wouldn't compile for some reason.
My application was a MMORPG that is vastly different than MMORPGS you see today, worse in some respects, but better in others. And in retrospect, imbalanced as all get out. If I even went back and coded it now, most computers couldn't run it because they can't run DOS. I haven't considered the option of updating all my code to run in XP, because I haven't been able to get DJGPP to run in windows(for most people its not hard, but for me its really hard:see takes me several days if it would happen at all). I have MingW, but I'm not sure how nice it would handle my loads and loads of old code. I guess I just haven't tried it because I know it'd take me weeks just to get to the starting line again.
The game is cool though in the way its 2d fake renders 3d. If the you are standing to the left of a wall, it renders right. If you are standing lower left from a wall it renders upper right. Everything renders away from you, so you never run into the mistake of old 2d isometric games where you could run behind a building and not see your avatar. If I did it up today, I'd probably just use real 3d and a top down viewing system. The game was based on a RPG that I created for my friends to play, it sorta played like if you could imagine SpaceBalls the RPG. It was serious enough that people wanted to upgrade their character, equipment, and vehicles, but had a flair of comedy.
For example of comedy:there were two mice who were trying to take over the universe, they were smart, but physically handicapped from the accident that gave them their intelligence. This was exactly one year before Pinky and The Brain came on television. There were tons of cool things in the game, like being a Bounty Hunter for the main thing, or you could become a criminal too. Another cool thing in the game was BladeSkate, hockey degenerated, It was the first side to KO the other side, and the puck was replaced with a plasma ball. Many a fan were critically injured from the plasma ball flying into the stands.
Oh there were a lot of good things in the game, but for me to release it as a current gen MMORPG would require me to rebalance the skills(like Wasteland), for the 4 armed Quadlek, with ambidexterity skill, and sword skill, would dominate just about any other form of fighting, they get 4 hits to the opponents one. I'm ashamed that I directly ripped off the Dune shield, slow objects can get through like melee, but AK47 fire bounced off the shield, YET Extereme high velocity fire of lasers got through. Now lasers did less damage than AK47, and less damage than melee, but they were ranged fire. So your choices were either ranged and light damage, or close up and heavy damage, and then there were the illegal weapons, but you had to find the secret store and they were expensive.
I'm just going on and on now. I could type a novel about this RPG, and it was very fun. But it'd need a re-write such that the game was balanced, and didn't fall for the same flaws that original MMORPGS fell for(other players camping quests and such). It'd require probably about 5 good years of work.
Windows 98 fixed problems with Win95, and was the last version to support DOS. Seeing as I built a massive DOS library in C/C++, I'm ticked I can't keep coding in my DOS mode. If I switch to coding under WINXP, will they obfuscate that too, so my code library will be lost again. I'm just at a loss because I have problems running DOS emulators too.
No need to apologize. You saved me from posting the same inane garbage. And yes I own a ferret Captain, and an exferret Cats. My exgf named them.
Hank Hill can get into the Zepplin buisness now.
If someone is stupid enough to buy a ps3 for $599, and a game at 80$, they have more money than brains, and will probably buy all the tracks and cars too.
No, thats part of the game. It's called bandwith flow. See its using a series of tubes to flow your information to you like water. Posting a mirror would open more flows and be like cheating.
Because I Ted Ts'o. Appologies in retreat.
How cool would it be to drive across the world in a Ferrari. It better have inside the car driving modes.
I have no choice but to choose something.
I was psyched to see what sort of wacked Japanese Game Show that Microsoft could make up.
So anyway, I pwned some warez, but new games are teh sux. I used emule to rip some complete albums for a friend, and while I was at it: I grabbed some gameboy advanced roms. And I did it all at Panera's Bread so the RIAA can't trace me.
'it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.', slurred the engineer with the scortched tounge.
Hire a developer who's also a designer. There's a boat load of them around. And don't say that they sacrificed one to be better at the other, you can be a master at both.
My friend at my last job wrote his own VOIP software and he told me it wasn't very hard. If I had my own voip system, all I'd be doing would be making calls to my friends from the White House, Pentagon, or other famous places for fun.
As much as America funds other governments, I don't think Uncle Sam should pay for Ireland's banking debts. Maybe the banks in the FDIC...
I programmed on some sort of Atari computer years before C64 came onto marketplace shelves.
I bet either someone is going to have 100% votes for Fred Flintstone, or someone is going to have a 60% write in for some person. Both of which could never happen and would do nothing except expose the voting machines as tamperable. I doubt someone is going to be smart enough to make the election look close, but vote for someone on the ballot. The only way a good ol conspiracy vote could happen is if the hacker got a load of money from a candidate. Well I guess that could happen.
The computer is your friend.
I mistrust something even more basic: Grocery stores. If gas prices get too high, then food is going to cost more. People on low income will have trouble buying food, or getting gas to work for their money. An all out fall out of society can occur if inflation starts to barrel out of control. Now there is not a whole lot of worry now, but with the national debt rising, its something that can happen in the next 30 years. Google, I can live without, but food I need.
I like the Wii mote, its so bad.