Slashdot has had its ups and downs, but it remains one of the most informative and entertaining sites on the Internet, and the only site I read every (working) day.
That's the first thing I thought of too. I remember using my Thermal Imaging goggles in Splinter Cell to steal door codes after watching someone else use the keypad.
Did the guys at UCSD play Splinter Cell? Did they thank Ubisoft in their paper?;)
Source still used a lot of GoldSrc stuff as its base. The.bsp map format is still, essentially, the same as when id invented it for Quake, it just contains more data lumps now.
Source added a lot of nice features that they needed to make HL2 look decent, including advanced shader support, displacement maps, decals and overlays, full Havok physics integration, a material system, an advanced skeletal and facial animation system with lip-syncing and loads of other improvements, both major and minor (per-surface lightmap scaling, for example).
Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter how much of Source was created from scratch. All that matters is that Source is still being used and it still looks pretty good. Portal 2 was the prettiest Source game so far, and shows that the Source engine still has plenty of life in it. There's no reason that the engine can't support a new generation of Counter-Strike.
1. Believe in evolution.
2. Understand that it applies far beyond the creationism "controversy".
3. Have the guts not to tiptoe around the issue like the rest of them.
She even had a scientific fact with which to back up her argument.
Vermont should be proud of this one. Well, insofar as you should be proud of anything that happens in a beauty pageant.
Sadly, Miss California actually won the pageant overall.
But he didn't get caught installing or running the keyloggers. It was only when naked ladies appeared on his screen that the CEO realized something was amiss.
Maybe just an overworked engineer with a hard deadline. He actually produced a far superior design originally, with greater resilience to all kinds of ailments, but then the beancounters saw the cost-per-unit and told him he had to "streamline" his design.
Being a proud engineer, he argued that such a design had some serious flaws, and that the final product would have a far shorter lifespan than his original design.
Inevitably, he was told to leave product perception issues to the marketing team and just get the damn thing out the door so Heaven could start making some goddamn (hehe) money.
Of course, once the patent protection ran out and there were 3rd party knockoffs all over the market, quality control went right out of the window.
I asked if those black cables that looked like it was from the personal collection of PinHead were going to be used on me and I told his ass right there...
Considering the procedure, this choice of phrasing amused me.
Racing != NASCAR. NASCAR is, to me, about the most boring thing ever. I wasn't just talking about plain circuit racing, which should be fairly obvious if you read my comment.
I agree with some of your post, but this line is ridiculous:
Let's not even get into racing games, which haven't evolved since the very first generation.
Bullshit. There has been as much (or as little, as you seem to think) innovation in that genre as in any other. There are racing sims, rally sims, arcade racers, combat racers, sandbox racers and further sub-genres of each one, with almost every vehicle imaginable represented at some point. Every aspect of racing games has evolved greatly over the history of racing games; the physics, the graphics, the interaction with other cars and the environment, the organization and structure of the events, the realism. Go and read the Wikipedia article on racing games and then tell me there's been no innovation. If you still don't see it, it's because you're choosing not to.
I suspect that you're just not a fan of the genre, and your justification for saying that it hasn't evolved will be along the lines of "but after all this time they're still just driving around a track!", when of course driving around a track is exactly the point of most racing games. What do you expect them to become? On the one hand you complain that there's very little innovation in games and on the other you cite that the simplicity of the id-style FPS is something that appeals to you.
I posted a few months ago, waxing nostalgic for 6DOF games and the Descent series specifically. Nice to know I'm not the only one who still wants them.
There are a few Descent and Descent 2 source ports, the best of which is probably D2X
The Exchange GUI tools have been stripped down further and further to the point that the answer to almost every question in Exchange is Powershell... a CLI.
I own 50% of my company... It's the other half of the problem that drives this people to kill themselves. It's having a life with no purpose other than to serve your capitalist overlords.
Yes, I imagine it's a bit different if you ARE the capitalist overlord.
For that reason, along with the sheer inefficiency of the ribbon design in terms of responsiveness and usage of screen real estate, I keep all Office 2007 usage relegated to a VM which I rarely even need.
I can't speak to the VBA argument, but as for the ribbon taking lots of screen space, have you tried minimizing the ribbon? Right click on it and choose "Minimize the Ribbon". You'll suddenly have more screen real-estate than any previous version of Office.
Need it back? Just click on a header.
With a combination of this, keyboard shortcuts (you know those, right?) and the Quick Access Toolbar, you can assign and access all the functions you need easily and without taking up much screen at all.
Some people love the ribbon, some hate it, but most haven't even given it a chance. I got used to it very quickly, and now I think I may even prefer it.
they seem much more interested in doing things like building world-class dams, trains, and other infrastructure projects than in building world-class fighter jets and aircraft carriers, which is the opposite of the USA where they build the most advanced military hardware and let the infrastructure decay).
China invests in prestige projects that look good to the wealthy members of the populace and the outside world, meanwhile they ignore long-standing environmental and infrastructure problems, not to mention human-rights issues.
Don't get me wrong, there are some very clever and forward-thinking people in Chinese government and industry, but there are also a lot of people who will do anything to look good or make a quick buck.
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Thanks for everything, Rob!
Best of luck for the future.
That's the first thing I thought of too. I remember using my Thermal Imaging goggles in Splinter Cell to steal door codes after watching someone else use the keypad.
Did the guys at UCSD play Splinter Cell? Did they thank Ubisoft in their paper? ;)
Source still used a lot of GoldSrc stuff as its base. The .bsp map format is still, essentially, the same as when id invented it for Quake, it just contains more data lumps now.
Source added a lot of nice features that they needed to make HL2 look decent, including advanced shader support, displacement maps, decals and overlays, full Havok physics integration, a material system, an advanced skeletal and facial animation system with lip-syncing and loads of other improvements, both major and minor (per-surface lightmap scaling, for example).
Ultimately, though, it doesn't matter how much of Source was created from scratch. All that matters is that Source is still being used and it still looks pretty good. Portal 2 was the prettiest Source game so far, and shows that the Source engine still has plenty of life in it. There's no reason that the engine can't support a new generation of Counter-Strike.
Uh... doesn't that seem really low? Assuming equal distribution, that's only one packet every ~2.45 seconds. Hardly a torrent of data.
Being generous and assuming around 1500 bytes per packet, he only sent about 5.2MB of data over 2 and a half hours. Srsly?
How many packets did legitimate users send during that time? Probably a lot more.
I'd say more like 30 new Windows games a month. The rest are (*spit*) DLC.
That's still a lot of games. A lot more than Mac or Linux.
Miss Vermont was the only one who seemed to:
1. Believe in evolution.
2. Understand that it applies far beyond the creationism "controversy".
3. Have the guts not to tiptoe around the issue like the rest of them.
She even had a scientific fact with which to back up her argument.
Vermont should be proud of this one. Well, insofar as you should be proud of anything that happens in a beauty pageant.
Sadly, Miss California actually won the pageant overall.
That's because they're too busy trying to get at the money inside the box.
It's so close.. they can.. almost.... reach.... it....
But he didn't get caught installing or running the keyloggers. It was only when naked ladies appeared on his screen that the CEO realized something was amiss.
Maybe just an overworked engineer with a hard deadline. He actually produced a far superior design originally, with greater resilience to all kinds of ailments, but then the beancounters saw the cost-per-unit and told him he had to "streamline" his design.
Being a proud engineer, he argued that such a design had some serious flaws, and that the final product would have a far shorter lifespan than his original design.
Inevitably, he was told to leave product perception issues to the marketing team and just get the damn thing out the door so Heaven could start making some goddamn (hehe) money.
Of course, once the patent protection ran out and there were 3rd party knockoffs all over the market, quality control went right out of the window.
Well, maybe in the next revision...
I asked if those black cables that looked like it was from the personal collection of PinHead were going to be used on me and I told his ass right there...
Considering the procedure, this choice of phrasing amused me.
Hey Mr. AC, it just so happens that Corporate Allegiance is the fastest growing religion in America.
You know what happens to people who threaten religious freedoms, don't you?
Racing != NASCAR. NASCAR is, to me, about the most boring thing ever. I wasn't just talking about plain circuit racing, which should be fairly obvious if you read my comment.
I agree with some of your post, but this line is ridiculous:
Let's not even get into racing games, which haven't evolved since the very first generation.
Bullshit. There has been as much (or as little, as you seem to think) innovation in that genre as in any other. There are racing sims, rally sims, arcade racers, combat racers, sandbox racers and further sub-genres of each one, with almost every vehicle imaginable represented at some point. Every aspect of racing games has evolved greatly over the history of racing games; the physics, the graphics, the interaction with other cars and the environment, the organization and structure of the events, the realism. Go and read the Wikipedia article on racing games and then tell me there's been no innovation. If you still don't see it, it's because you're choosing not to.
I suspect that you're just not a fan of the genre, and your justification for saying that it hasn't evolved will be along the lines of "but after all this time they're still just driving around a track!", when of course driving around a track is exactly the point of most racing games. What do you expect them to become? On the one hand you complain that there's very little innovation in games and on the other you cite that the simplicity of the id-style FPS is something that appeals to you.
What do you really want?
I posted a few months ago, waxing nostalgic for 6DOF games and the Descent series specifically. Nice to know I'm not the only one who still wants them.
There are a few Descent and Descent 2 source ports, the best of which is probably D2X
.
Here's a thread demonstrating some of the graphical features of the port: http://www.descent2.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1169.
It's still an awesome game.
Indeed, which is why I can do this:
When Giggsy fucked Imogen everyone talked,
And that made Giggsy sad,
But super-injunctions don't work up here,
LOL Giggsy, bro.. U MAD?
By definition, it's not libel if it's proved to be true. If he did, in fact, nail Imogen Thomas, then saying so cannot be libelous.
A superiority complex compensating for an underlying inferiority complex?
You're right, I don't understand.
You know, for someone who seems to hate the CLI so much, you sure like to type a lot.
You tried administering Exchange recently?
The Exchange GUI tools have been stripped down further and further to the point that the answer to almost every question in Exchange is Powershell... a CLI.
I think you presumed wrong. 7-zip file manager has had that feature for a loooooong time.
http://www.7-zip.org/ is the official 7-zip distribution site. If you get it from elsewhere, good luck.
The client is plain, straightforward and easy to set up, and it can decompress many compression formats (including RAR).
Full Windows shell integration built in.
I own 50% of my company... It's the other half of the problem that drives this people to kill themselves. It's having a life with no purpose other than to serve your capitalist overlords.
Yes, I imagine it's a bit different if you ARE the capitalist overlord.
For that reason, along with the sheer inefficiency of the ribbon design in terms of responsiveness and usage of screen real estate, I keep all Office 2007 usage relegated to a VM which I rarely even need.
I can't speak to the VBA argument, but as for the ribbon taking lots of screen space, have you tried minimizing the ribbon? Right click on it and choose "Minimize the Ribbon". You'll suddenly have more screen real-estate than any previous version of Office.
Need it back? Just click on a header.
With a combination of this, keyboard shortcuts (you know those, right?) and the Quick Access Toolbar, you can assign and access all the functions you need easily and without taking up much screen at all.
Some people love the ribbon, some hate it, but most haven't even given it a chance. I got used to it very quickly, and now I think I may even prefer it.
Until the manager shows up at your door with a picture of you taken surreptitiously on your own webcam.
Seriously, how dumb is this company?
*whoosh*
they seem much more interested in doing things like building world-class dams, trains, and other infrastructure projects than in building world-class fighter jets and aircraft carriers, which is the opposite of the USA where they build the most advanced military hardware and let the infrastructure decay).
China invests in prestige projects that look good to the wealthy members of the populace and the outside world, meanwhile they ignore long-standing environmental and infrastructure problems, not to mention human-rights issues.
Don't get me wrong, there are some very clever and forward-thinking people in Chinese government and industry, but there are also a lot of people who will do anything to look good or make a quick buck.
Just like everywhere else, I guess...