Since in 5 years, the majority of users who use RSS (like the web-browser, media player, etc.) will be using whatever Microsoft decides to plunk down on their desktop, all they have to do is require a few "proprietary" extensions and methods, and you'll see just how fast webmasters will conform to Microsoft's standards rather than the actual ones.
I mean, we are talking about the same Microsoft, right?
Actually, (and I know "it's a dev kit" ya ya ya) but a friend of mine has a friend in Raven, and they had said that the 360 kits were so hot so much as a few sheets of paper over the top would cause the unit to crash...
I know people keep wondering if we are going to have another format war, but from the look of things, Microsoft may be the only company that is putting any weight behind HD-DVD...and since they are delaying the inclusion of HD-DVD drives in the XBox 360, I'd almost say it's dead before it gets out the door.
The problem with this is that Microsoft will put in the css tags so that you think it would work correctly, but the behaviour of those tags is different.
Different box model (making your pages different sizes), different width and height considerations, etc.
So, you have to use hacks to get around the process, and make everything look right. If it was as simple as coding to a standard and watching it degrade, it'd be easy...
No, because then you can install it on your friend's computer (or install his copy on yours) and play to your heart's content. Disc checking on installation is essentially the same as no checking at all.
...which was my point. Most online games these days use license authentication, which if done properly, is what keeps pirating out. For the rest, that cd check can typically be eliminated with about 5 minutes worth of effort as it is, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
As long as information needs to travel from one location to another(ie CD to game), and you are in control of the origination...it can be hacked.
Personally, I find this to be some of the best news to come out of Redmond in a long time, and I can only hope that they will tighten their grip.
I am a Linux advocate, and out of all of the friends that I have, the irony that I am the only person who has legitimate copies of everything that I use on my Windows partition is not lost on me. Hopefully, when the only recourse for those people is to switch to an OS and system that is free rather than costing them nothing, we can finally start to see the uptake of Linux on the desktop.
Or, to keep everyone happy, how about doing the cd check on install?
The marketing heads get to feel warm and fuzzy for "combating piracy" and I don't have to swear at them for making my games take 5 minutes to start up.
Not only that, but believe it or not, most theaters only have an 8.1 setup at max (which is the SDDS standard). Dolby Digital is 7.1 and others run between that and 6.1.
The reason for the number of speakers isn't channels, it's volume. Sure, those wall speakers can pump 250 watts, but they have a _lot_ of space to fill. So they add more, rather than bigger.
I tried plugging in Get paid Indian wages while living in the US, but that seems to invalidade 4...
Oh, I see! This is for large multinational corporations!
This is a sign of what supporters of Open Source have been saying - that real companies are getting real value by using open source. It is cheaper for them to pay for a feature to be added to some open source software than to have proprietary software developed to their specifications. Licenses like GPL make it compulsory for those companies to contribute those changes back to the community, but unless you're in the software business this is really not a disadvantage at all.
I would have to disagree with this in some situations.
I do a lot of custom programming/development work, and most of this work is to get a competitive advantage over other companies. Using something where they have to redistribute those changes annulls that advantage and even creates a disadvantage because while they get it cheap, their competition would get it for free.
What's sad about this is that I own a '99 manual Civic HX and get better gas mileage than you do...
At least when I keep up with my car (runs off for an oil change).
You may think that part of your development efforts are wasted, but most of my favorite games are ones I never finished. I've bought 3 copies of Morrowind (2 PC, 1 Xbox), 3 copies of NWN (1 for me and 2 for friends), GTA3 twice (PS2 and Xbox), etc.
I may not have a lot of time to play, but I'm actually really dissapointed if I get a day of video games and I manage to beat it one sitting. It just feels like I'm playing a demo I paid $50 for.
I'm not sure about you, but the last time I voted in an election, _I_ voted for who I thought might be the best at the job, not against who I hated the most.
Of course, I'm starting to think I'm a minority (not directed at you), and that it's one of the primary problems with our major elections today.
I think some time in a marching band would probably eliminate most of the shake, with the "steadicam" removing the rest...
In marching band, you have to learn how to walk without disturbing your airflow due to steps, and that should translate very well into camera work, with the weighted cam evening out any missteps and normal hand jitters.
Wouldn't a better way of doing this (though probably much more expensive) be to mount a projector in the bottom center of the table with a screen, so that reaching across it doesn't blank out the map?
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One optimization that likely will be introduced in GCC 4.1 is called autovectorization, said Richard Henderson, a Red Hat employee and GCC core programmer. That feature economizes processor operations by finding areas in software in which a single instruction can be applied to multiple data elements--something handy for everything from video games to supercomputing.
Is it just me, or is this the first "we will make it easy to program the Cell" step that Sony and IBM were promising?
Well, from the company I work at, I can say with certainty (at least in my own world) that it won't do any good.
We have a word document that takes an export from another program, formats it, then displays financial info about the export. In order to do this correctly, several things were put into place:
1. We have 5(!) dialog boxes to have people confirm information in the export.
2. If the information doesn't match, the formatting fails.
What we found out is that after a few times of not reading the dialog boxes and slowly clicking the verified buttons, they start not reading the dialog boxes, and click the verified buttons as fast as possible. They then, in both cases, ask me why it didn't work.
What makes this interesting to me, is that running this Word document is actually a sizable portion of their job, and I can tell them what's wrong just on exactly what happened. And the reply is always "I didn't know..."
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Since in 5 years, the majority of users who use RSS (like the web-browser, media player, etc.) will be using whatever Microsoft decides to plunk down on their desktop, all they have to do is require a few "proprietary" extensions and methods, and you'll see just how fast webmasters will conform to Microsoft's standards rather than the actual ones.
I mean, we are talking about the same Microsoft, right?
Actually, (and I know "it's a dev kit" ya ya ya) but a friend of mine has a friend in Raven, and they had said that the 360 kits were so hot so much as a few sheets of paper over the top would cause the unit to crash...
Just my $0.2 here, but...
Why thank you for your generous tip, but around here, ideas go for at most $.02...
You'd think that with with this being a bastion of open-source, you wouldn't have to pay anything at all, but that's capitalism for you...
Maybe that's why they think it's garbage?
Welcome to 2005.
Welcome to 1999...wanna hear a really great joke?
I know people keep wondering if we are going to have another format war, but from the look of things, Microsoft may be the only company that is putting any weight behind HD-DVD...and since they are delaying the inclusion of HD-DVD drives in the XBox 360, I'd almost say it's dead before it gets out the door.
The problem with this is that Microsoft will put in the css tags so that you think it would work correctly, but the behaviour of those tags is different.
Different box model (making your pages different sizes), different width and height considerations, etc.
So, you have to use hacks to get around the process, and make everything look right. If it was as simple as coding to a standard and watching it degrade, it'd be easy...
...which was my point. Most online games these days use license authentication, which if done properly, is what keeps pirating out. For the rest, that cd check can typically be eliminated with about 5 minutes worth of effort as it is, and there is nothing that can be done about it.
As long as information needs to travel from one location to another(ie CD to game), and you are in control of the origination...it can be hacked.
You know, I don't know of a single person, outside of myself, that has ever paid for Windows...
I have to agree with you here.
Personally, I find this to be some of the best news to come out of Redmond in a long time, and I can only hope that they will tighten their grip.
I am a Linux advocate, and out of all of the friends that I have, the irony that I am the only person who has legitimate copies of everything that I use on my Windows partition is not lost on me. Hopefully, when the only recourse for those people is to switch to an OS and system that is free rather than costing them nothing, we can finally start to see the uptake of Linux on the desktop.
Or, to keep everyone happy, how about doing the cd check on install?
The marketing heads get to feel warm and fuzzy for "combating piracy" and I don't have to swear at them for making my games take 5 minutes to start up.
Not only that, but believe it or not, most theaters only have an 8.1 setup at max (which is the SDDS standard). Dolby Digital is 7.1 and others run between that and 6.1.
The reason for the number of speakers isn't channels, it's volume. Sure, those wall speakers can pump 250 watts, but they have a _lot_ of space to fill. So they add more, rather than bigger.
Your typical theater setup will have:
What, like her?
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I tried plugging in Get paid Indian wages while living in the US, but that seems to invalidade 4... Oh, I see! This is for large multinational corporations!
I would have to disagree with this in some situations.
I do a lot of custom programming/development work, and most of this work is to get a competitive advantage over other companies. Using something where they have to redistribute those changes annulls that advantage and even creates a disadvantage because while they get it cheap, their competition would get it for free.What's sad about this is that I own a '99 manual Civic HX and get better gas mileage than you do... At least when I keep up with my car (runs off for an oil change).
You may think that part of your development efforts are wasted, but most of my favorite games are ones I never finished. I've bought 3 copies of Morrowind (2 PC, 1 Xbox), 3 copies of NWN (1 for me and 2 for friends), GTA3 twice (PS2 and Xbox), etc. I may not have a lot of time to play, but I'm actually really dissapointed if I get a day of video games and I manage to beat it one sitting. It just feels like I'm playing a demo I paid $50 for.
I'm not sure about you, but the last time I voted in an election, _I_ voted for who I thought might be the best at the job, not against who I hated the most.
Of course, I'm starting to think I'm a minority (not directed at you), and that it's one of the primary problems with our major elections today.
I know that not being "brand name" as far as components go is a good thing, but if they keep buying Dell, this is nothing more than an empty promise.
I think some time in a marching band would probably eliminate most of the shake, with the "steadicam" removing the rest...
In marching band, you have to learn how to walk without disturbing your airflow due to steps, and that should translate very well into camera work, with the weighted cam evening out any missteps and normal hand jitters.
What we, white man? --As said by Tonto
Wouldn't a better way of doing this (though probably much more expensive) be to mount a projector in the bottom center of the table with a screen, so that reaching across it doesn't blank out the map?
Well, from the company I work at, I can say with certainty (at least in my own world) that it won't do any good.
We have a word document that takes an export from another program, formats it, then displays financial info about the export. In order to do this correctly, several things were put into place:
1. We have 5(!) dialog boxes to have people confirm information in the export.
2. If the information doesn't match, the formatting fails.
What we found out is that after a few times of not reading the dialog boxes and slowly clicking the verified buttons, they start not reading the dialog boxes, and click the verified buttons as fast as possible. They then, in both cases, ask me why it didn't work.
What makes this interesting to me, is that running this Word document is actually a sizable portion of their job, and I can tell them what's wrong just on exactly what happened. And the reply is always "I didn't know..."