Exactly. It is only a matter of time when everyone will have access to a cell phone that can stream live video to their blog (or wherever). Information does want to be free and you can't stop the signal. The fact of the matter is that the NCAA/NBA/(insert your favorite sports-industrial complex) has gotten away with charging everyone involved way too much money. They receive money from: corporate sponsors, media licensing, merchandise, high ticket prices. Corporate sponsorship alone can probably fund most of an NCAA season.
Technology, I believe, is the new great equalizer. It is the new way for the common joe to stick it to "the man."
Not many titles have taken advantage of the source engine either. I think it is more of a general decline in the popularity of fps games in recent years than a failure of the engine. The technology is there, but the general gaming public have moved their obsession from unreal tournament and counterstrike to WoW.
If they supported multiplayer in oblivion, they would have to sacrifice some of the functionality that you enjoy in single player.... like mods. Imagine the frustration of having to make sure that each player not only has the same mods, but the same versions of them. This is just one example of why it would be difficult.
Why does every game have to have a multiplayer aspect to it? It seems like every since online play exploded, every game is expected to have any online portion to it. Oblivion is a single player game, and multiplayer has no place in it. If you want to play with friends, other games such as NWN are available.
Remember, the developers have limited resources. If they spend time creating network code and making the game multiplayer, that's less effort making the game world more detailed, or improving some gameplay aspect.
I don't know why this mindset has been set by so many people, but not every game needs to have multiplayer to be good.
All of these are american made rpg's, and they all have excellent stories while being generally non-linear. When you speak of jRPG's one can almost assume you are thinking of final fantasy. I admit that I'm not a huge fan, but it seems like every final fantasy story has very similar story elements, plot characteristics, etc. I don't even consider them to be in the RPG genera, they are more like adventure games.
Open MP basically works like this for C/C++ programs. It uses preprocessor directives to establish the sections of code that should be run in parallel.
However, I think one of the above posters had it right, the main issue with writing parallel programs is synchronization. Despite the tools that are out there, it is very difficult to debug issues such as race conditions and deadlocks within your code.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... lists like this are ridiculously stupid and not thought out. Its like "hey this is old it must be obsolete."
The first two items on the list made me not want to take the author seriously. The financial business is run on COBOL and flat files, and will continue for some time. The language is not pretty, but it was made for a specific purpose and it does it well. In fact, demand for COBOL programmers has risen dramatically as people retire, and it is 7 years after Y2K. I know people who were asked to come out of retirement to work on COBOL again, for very high salaries, because it is not taught to us youngens anymore.
I think it may be a little informal for your needs, but attending local LUG meetings can be a great way to develop your Linux skills. You can interface with other people interested in Linux, and there's usually someone there who can answer any sort of question you have. The only downside is that they have everyone from the hobbyist to professionals, so like I said it may be a little informal.
I also know that a lot of companies are forming their own LUGS, so perhaps it would be a good idea to start one at your company. It can be a cost effective way to increase your employee's skills.
I'd say it's fairly stable now. If you remember, the original NWN had quite a few bugs until a couple of patches came out. I guess all games need time to get over their growing pains after initial release.
Why wouldn't they use NWN2 for the contest? I know obsidian developed it, but the name and franchise is still linked to bioware. They even continue to host the forums. Why would they want to test potential candidates on a 7 year old game engine when they could be showing what they can do on the latest and greatest?
I don't think there would be any legal issues with it either, since modules are considered freeware, and as long as everyone has purchased a copy of the game.
If she's a developer and does have access to highly sensitive financial data, then that is a big Sarbanes-Oxley violation and the company should get ravaged by auditors.
That being said, even if she did put some sort of rogue code in the system, every code change needs to go through a thorough code review and QA process before it hits production. This would kill any attempt at injected malicious code into the production system.
As also noted elsewhere in this discussion, we have provisions for name and social security number changes in the US (as I am sure is also the case in the EU), which detracts from your identity proposal.
And you don't think the government keeps records of when you change your name/ssn, your past names/ssn's, etc? Come on now.
If you drive that company car into a pedestrian or another vehicle, and kill someone, then yes that company is liable and will get sued. Its just like if you were to hit someone with your own personal vehicle. You have insurance, yes, but you can still be sued by the family if you kill or seriously injure someone. Insurance does not cover this.
As an employee, you are a representative of the company and everything you do on company time with company resources is on behalf of said company.
I think the biggest flaw with "Global Warming" is the name. While warming is an effect, the better name for the phenomenon is "Global Climate Change." Warmer temperatures cause ocean currents to change, which in turn affects global wind patterns, weather, temperatures (causing both warmer regions to be colder, and vice versa).
eBay can't be too enthusiastic about this toolbar since it cuts directly into its main sources of revenue: ads and thumbnail fees.
I'm sorry but TFS is just wrong. Paypal is their main source of revenue. Believe me, double dipping by charging both sellers and buyers a fee to use the service is very lucrative.
I kid you not, we had to do a series of projects in my undergrad CS program with this logic simulator language developed by the prof and his grad students. You can use it to simulate the gate structure of things as simple as part of an ALU up to an entire processor. By the end of the course, we had to edit the specs of a MIPS-compatible processor to implement a series of instructions.
We then had to test it by writing a small MIPS assembly program and running it through the simulator..... however, all instructions had to be encoded in 32 bit machine instructions by hand. God the nightmares are coming back....
Well, the baby boomers are the nations largest demographic right now, and they grew up in the 60's and 70's when vinyl were all the craze. These sales of vinyl records are all probably due to collectors, or current teenagers who want vintage zeppelin albums to be "cool."
In 30 years cd sales will probably go up slightly for the same reason.
What was a revolutionary game done by Bungie was Myth. For it's time, the gameplay and graphics were truly unique and extremely addicting. Add to that a great backstory and interesting universe... god I miss that game. I still play Myth 2; the first game won't play under XP.
I think it would be awsome if Bungie would release another Myth rts, or even a nice rpg set in the universe.
-They have a tax exempt status as a religious organization, yet the clearly are acting more like a corporation. Do you ever hear about scientologists doing ANYTHING for the community or society. I'm not supporting christian/islamic/jewish/or any other institution, but at least they do charity work.
-Brainwashing their members
-Not allowing members to leave through threats and intimidation.
-They have exclusive membership basically to those who can afford the high fees they charge. While you usually have to go through rituals in order to join other religions, fees are never required though they usually ask for donations.
Yes, perhaps I am over-generalizing. I would guess that you aren't into sci fi since you don't like either of these shows. However, this same phonomenon is also seen in other genres (although sci fi seems to get hit the hardest, probably due to the amount of expense needed to put on a good show).
The fact remains that the reason that reality tv is still prevalent, the reason that paris hilton is plastered on the news, and why more people vote on american idol than for the president: the general TV viewing population are not the brightest crayons in the box.
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Exactly. It is only a matter of time when everyone will have access to a cell phone that can stream live video to their blog (or wherever). Information does want to be free and you can't stop the signal. The fact of the matter is that the NCAA/NBA/(insert your favorite sports-industrial complex) has gotten away with charging everyone involved way too much money. They receive money from: corporate sponsors, media licensing, merchandise, high ticket prices. Corporate sponsorship alone can probably fund most of an NCAA season.
Technology, I believe, is the new great equalizer. It is the new way for the common joe to stick it to "the man."
Yeah, great idea gov. Where have I seen this before, oh yeah right here. Doesn't anyone learn anything from science fiction anymore??
Not many titles have taken advantage of the source engine either. I think it is more of a general decline in the popularity of fps games in recent years than a failure of the engine. The technology is there, but the general gaming public have moved their obsession from unreal tournament and counterstrike to WoW.
If they supported multiplayer in oblivion, they would have to sacrifice some of the functionality that you enjoy in single player.... like mods. Imagine the frustration of having to make sure that each player not only has the same mods, but the same versions of them. This is just one example of why it would be difficult.
Why does every game have to have a multiplayer aspect to it? It seems like every since online play exploded, every game is expected to have any online portion to it. Oblivion is a single player game, and multiplayer has no place in it. If you want to play with friends, other games such as NWN are available.
Remember, the developers have limited resources. If they spend time creating network code and making the game multiplayer, that's less effort making the game world more detailed, or improving some gameplay aspect.
I don't know why this mindset has been set by so many people, but not every game needs to have multiplayer to be good.
Fallout?
Baldur's Gate?
Ultima series?
All of these are american made rpg's, and they all have excellent stories while being generally non-linear. When you speak of jRPG's one can almost assume you are thinking of final fantasy. I admit that I'm not a huge fan, but it seems like every final fantasy story has very similar story elements, plot characteristics, etc. I don't even consider them to be in the RPG genera, they are more like adventure games.
Open MP basically works like this for C/C++ programs. It uses preprocessor directives to establish the sections of code that should be run in parallel.
However, I think one of the above posters had it right, the main issue with writing parallel programs is synchronization. Despite the tools that are out there, it is very difficult to debug issues such as race conditions and deadlocks within your code.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again... lists like this are ridiculously stupid and not thought out. Its like "hey this is old it must be obsolete."
The first two items on the list made me not want to take the author seriously. The financial business is run on COBOL and flat files, and will continue for some time. The language is not pretty, but it was made for a specific purpose and it does it well. In fact, demand for COBOL programmers has risen dramatically as people retire, and it is 7 years after Y2K. I know people who were asked to come out of retirement to work on COBOL again, for very high salaries, because it is not taught to us youngens anymore.
I wonder if this persons idea is is for the sender or the recipient to pays the tax?
Why not charge both? The cell phone companies have been doing this forever...
I think it may be a little informal for your needs, but attending local LUG meetings can be a great way to develop your Linux skills. You can interface with other people interested in Linux, and there's usually someone there who can answer any sort of question you have. The only downside is that they have everyone from the hobbyist to professionals, so like I said it may be a little informal.
I also know that a lot of companies are forming their own LUGS, so perhaps it would be a good idea to start one at your company. It can be a cost effective way to increase your employee's skills.
I'd say it's fairly stable now. If you remember, the original NWN had quite a few bugs until a couple of patches came out. I guess all games need time to get over their growing pains after initial release.
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Use vi, or gvim if you're using windows. You'll thank me later...
Why wouldn't they use NWN2 for the contest? I know obsidian developed it, but the name and franchise is still linked to bioware. They even continue to host the forums. Why would they want to test potential candidates on a 7 year old game engine when they could be showing what they can do on the latest and greatest?
I don't think there would be any legal issues with it either, since modules are considered freeware, and as long as everyone has purchased a copy of the game.
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Of course there isn't a "standard" operating system. However, there are standards of OS components that make writing software easier (POSIX, etc)
There is no standard web server, but there is a standard http protocol for processing web requests.
You seem to be confusing standards with implementations of standards, or software written as to take advantage of a known standard.
If she's a developer and does have access to highly sensitive financial data, then that is a big Sarbanes-Oxley violation and the company should get ravaged by auditors.
That being said, even if she did put some sort of rogue code in the system, every code change needs to go through a thorough code review and QA process before it hits production. This would kill any attempt at injected malicious code into the production system.
As also noted elsewhere in this discussion, we have provisions for name and social security number changes in the US (as I am sure is also the case in the EU), which detracts from your identity proposal.
And you don't think the government keeps records of when you change your name/ssn, your past names/ssn's, etc? Come on now.
If you drive that company car into a pedestrian or another vehicle, and kill someone, then yes that company is liable and will get sued. Its just like if you were to hit someone with your own personal vehicle. You have insurance, yes, but you can still be sued by the family if you kill or seriously injure someone. Insurance does not cover this.
As an employee, you are a representative of the company and everything you do on company time with company resources is on behalf of said company.
I think the biggest flaw with "Global Warming" is the name. While warming is an effect, the better name for the phenomenon is "Global Climate Change." Warmer temperatures cause ocean currents to change, which in turn affects global wind patterns, weather, temperatures (causing both warmer regions to be colder, and vice versa).
eBay can't be too enthusiastic about this toolbar since it cuts directly into its main sources of revenue: ads and thumbnail fees.
I'm sorry but TFS is just wrong. Paypal is their main source of revenue. Believe me, double dipping by charging both sellers and buyers a fee to use the service is very lucrative.
I kid you not, we had to do a series of projects in my undergrad CS program with this logic simulator language developed by the prof and his grad students. You can use it to simulate the gate structure of things as simple as part of an ALU up to an entire processor. By the end of the course, we had to edit the specs of a MIPS-compatible processor to implement a series of instructions.
We then had to test it by writing a small MIPS assembly program and running it through the simulator..... however, all instructions had to be encoded in 32 bit machine instructions by hand. God the nightmares are coming back....
Well, the baby boomers are the nations largest demographic right now, and they grew up in the 60's and 70's when vinyl were all the craze. These sales of vinyl records are all probably due to collectors, or current teenagers who want vintage zeppelin albums to be "cool."
In 30 years cd sales will probably go up slightly for the same reason.
What was a revolutionary game done by Bungie was Myth. For it's time, the gameplay and graphics were truly unique and extremely addicting. Add to that a great backstory and interesting universe... god I miss that game. I still play Myth 2; the first game won't play under XP.
I think it would be awsome if Bungie would release another Myth rts, or even a nice rpg set in the universe.
Because...
-They have a tax exempt status as a religious organization, yet the clearly are acting more like a corporation. Do you ever hear about scientologists doing ANYTHING for the community or society. I'm not supporting christian/islamic/jewish/or any other institution, but at least they do charity work.
-Brainwashing their members
-Not allowing members to leave through threats and intimidation.
-They have exclusive membership basically to those who can afford the high fees they charge. While you usually have to go through rituals in order to join other religions, fees are never required though they usually ask for donations.
Yes, perhaps I am over-generalizing. I would guess that you aren't into sci fi since you don't like either of these shows. However, this same phonomenon is also seen in other genres (although sci fi seems to get hit the hardest, probably due to the amount of expense needed to put on a good show).
The fact remains that the reason that reality tv is still prevalent, the reason that paris hilton is plastered on the news, and why more people vote on american idol than for the president: the general TV viewing population are not the brightest crayons in the box.