my last job before this one was at a web/intranet firm with 5 employees. The guy had started it up in the mid 90s and managed to cheaply get an entire...255 subnet range just before someone did the math and realised exactly how rare they were. So whilst the physical size of the operation was much smaller than MIT the scale was probably comparable. Once you subtracted the handful of servers i had almost 50 IP addresses all to myself... handy for running VNC/SSH from home at the weekends but never did get around to installing a web cam in the cafe downstairs*, mind
*where a bunch of young polish student waitresses worked
That is, lanes that are designed to be negotiated by robot-cars. In the UK we have cats-eyes already that miark lanes for normal drivers to follow. I dont see it being much of a stretch to have digital markers, that not only show "visually" to the onboard computer where they're supposed to be "now" but can also, like road signs to humans, give clues that "in 100m there is a Stop sign" for example, maybe all markers could be placed 100m before they actually happen as a standard. so to summarise, instead of trying to teach robot-cars to follow human road-navigation cues install, in parallel robot-road-navigation-cues that are standard. (though one can imagine the standardisation would be the longest, hardest part, by which time the tech will be rock solid)
i usually turn off the front mounted (due to modding) mains power switch with my toe. Of course it's win 98SE (also patched and modded) and scandisk is disabled via tweakUI, but it never complains when i reboot. and still boots up plenty fast*
*though some might say that sticking a stripped down install of Win98 on a 2.8GHz P4 is a waste of clock cycles, considering it runs ok on something one tenth the speed
What i find interesting is that a lot of games attempt to take place in real environments, take a racing game, such as the MSR/PGR series. there must be a lot of money spent on, for example, sending a bunch of people to New york to accuratley map the area around central park and take a gerzillion GPS readings and photos in the process before physical in-game modelling exists. throw in Nurburgring, germany. Edinburgh, scotland. Sydney, australia and you can see where the money is going.
Now, not every game can use the PGR style environ in the same way, take a skating game for example, whilst others may need more free roaming aspects, such as the Driver series. But i can imagine that there's money to be made licensing (possibly exclusively, forcing you to start over from scratch with each new licensee) slices of real-world-modelled ctyscapes/sports-venues at a MAX_POLYCOUNT of the client's choosing.
Unlike modelling a ferrari enzo i doubt you'd need to pass on these fees to another body, unless places start cottoning on, wasnt the whole reason a bunch of 80s films were filmed in montreal instead of NYC because it looked kinda the same but cost $$$ less?
"These days, many people don't really know why you'd use a map versus a hash_map, or a vector versus a deque. And, for the most part, they don't really need to."
Which is IMVHO a Good Thing. I believe that programmers should continue to hold absolute power over every bit and register their code handles, and beginners should spend a long while getting stuff done in standard C before they are allowed near C++'s "class" keyword.
However in terms of collections, hash tables and the ilk i think that something like the D language is the way to go, which has them built in and optimised at compile time for you. Getting Stuff Done is not helped by having to rewrite the same bit of code over and over for every mudane task like creating a lookup table in every new project you write. And low level C compilers shouldnt need to be stuffed full of heuristics to try to guess that they need to optimise your own personal hash lookup function in a particular way. It's self defeating, like building escalators either side of a wall instead of just sticking a door through it.
which, along with the next post down, leads into a newish theory of mine: maybe god DID create the human race, and in his own image to boot. but maybe it was a few million years ago and god is actually a small, furry mammal
Personally i think the whole PDA/palmtop scene died off when Psion gave it up, and is yet to be ressurected. I still have a Revo but alas as i no longer take the train to/from work i've little excuse to use it nowadays. Mono screen, insanely usefull-but-simple office suite (with auto convert to MS office formats), small but not too small qwerty keyboard AND a touch screen.
Someone out there should take a long hard look at what made the revo good (and the nokia communcator bad (clunky, bad tiny keyboard keys)) throw in more ram, wifi and a headphone socket (but leave out the bloody camera, phone and kettle) and i'd buy one tomorrow.
the answer via your own criteria is also probably no, due the the 800 different mp4/divx implimentations each of which causes divide by zero errors on each other's players and codecs and generally creates a total nightmare for someone like me, who missed an episode of Lost and just wants to watch that one without having to spend 6 hours hunting through download pages and message boards just to get the entire house of cards perfectly balanced on my PC long enough to watch the damnded thing.
(unless there's a nice 2mb mp4 player+codec download out there that does them all very nicely and i just happened to have missed it, in which case post me a link and i'll shut up)
what i find both infuriating and amusing is that time and time again the same question about the lines comes up : "what are they for?"... why is it so hard to believe that they're either:
1. big enough for $Deity to see from upon high 2. art
Begun deliberating this a while back, and I've since got Halo for the PC so instead of an Xbox me thinks I'll get myself a Dreamcast for christmas, and track down Shenmue, Metropolis Street Racer and probably some of the others on this list
Another thing to add to the factors you mention is that when humans' offspring are not quite, shall we say, perfect. We do our damndest to save them, be it an emergency cesarean to save mother and baby both or via ongoing operations and treatments afterwards. The reason that so many seemingly health animals are seen hopping around Chernobyl could well be down to survival-of-the-fittest, radio-mutant embryos having been quickly aborted and another mating attempt made.
The timeline with (limited) crossover between TNG, DS9 and VOY was great and as a set of series they lasted throughout my teen geek years. But for a franchise to be both Trek and New they need to at least do another TNG and add 70+ years to the "current" stardate again, worked like a charm last time around.
I think a general move away from Movies to TV Series's is a Good Thing. Don't get me wrong, I still think some stories will always work well when told over ~2 hours but think about The Lord of The Rings, for example. Could that have worked better as 13 1 hour episodes (on dvd, sans adverts!) or even 24 1 hour episodes? giving the viewer the opportunity to skip the (Two Towers Extended Edition equivalent) Faramir ep entirely if they like, allowing the director and producers the chance to span the three books better and such like. I probably think so, note I'm not talking traditional TV Series here, there would never ever be a LOTR season 2, for example, but so long as the production values (and therefore costs) were suitably high i see no reason why The Hobbit couldnt come out, not as a 3 hour film, but as a 6 part miniseries... so long as the "marathon" option is available on the $NextGen DVD release for the nutters amongst us (myself included)
i sign my code changes in projects with "// cyc" or "// ric".. so naturally i tried those (and came up with sod all, naturally)... but the latter will also return
"// a long bit of text written by eric smith "
searching for
"//.ric"
on the other hand gets closer matches to what i intended
and i did just fine, but we WERE allowed to use the ole' Atari ST and Amiga 500 for non-game-playing, hence i spent a lot of time learning to code... and now I'm grown up I do that for a living. Thanks, Dad!
>1.5 The public desides to give up certain rights to the created cartoon and grant a time limited copyright to the creator!
are you serious? that must be a joke. You're saying if i write a novel (with the intent to publish) it instantly becomes public property and i only have a time-limited-license to profit from my own creation?
That's like saying that if i bake a rhubarb crumble with the intention of selling it for profit but instead leave it in the freezer longer than a predetermined length of time it would suddenly become free food for anyone who fancies a slice.
Ok, so the wikipedia article said it can be hacked but if i have a MAC based IPv6 address hostinga website and then upgrade the server does that mean a mass DNS routing update or a simple change of a setting on the new server?
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my last job before this one was at a web/intranet firm with 5 employees. The guy had started it up in the mid 90s and managed to cheaply get an entire ...255 subnet range just before someone did the math and realised exactly how rare they were. So whilst the physical size of the operation was much smaller than MIT the scale was probably comparable. Once you subtracted the handful of servers i had almost 50 IP addresses all to myself ... handy for running VNC/SSH from home at the weekends but never did get around to installing a web cam in the cafe downstairs*, mind
*where a bunch of young polish student waitresses worked
That is, lanes that are designed to be negotiated by robot-cars. In the UK we have cats-eyes already that miark lanes for normal drivers to follow. I dont see it being much of a stretch to have digital markers, that not only show "visually" to the onboard computer where they're supposed to be "now" but can also, like road signs to humans, give clues that "in 100m there is a Stop sign" for example, maybe all markers could be placed 100m before they actually happen as a standard. so to summarise, instead of trying to teach robot-cars to follow human road-navigation cues install, in parallel robot-road-navigation-cues that are standard. (though one can imagine the standardisation would be the longest, hardest part, by which time the tech will be rock solid)
i usually turn off the front mounted (due to modding) mains power switch with my toe. Of course it's win 98SE (also patched and modded) and scandisk is disabled via tweakUI, but it never complains when i reboot. and still boots up plenty fast*
*though some might say that sticking a stripped down install of Win98 on a 2.8GHz P4 is a waste of clock cycles, considering it runs ok on something one tenth the speed
Surely "Deja VR" ...
i'll get my coat
here in europe that's 0.568 litres, you insensitive clod.
What i find interesting is that a lot of games attempt to take place in real environments, take a racing game, such as the MSR/PGR series. there must be a lot of money spent on, for example, sending a bunch of people to New york to accuratley map the area around central park and take a gerzillion GPS readings and photos in the process before physical in-game modelling exists. throw in Nurburgring, germany. Edinburgh, scotland. Sydney, australia and you can see where the money is going.
Now, not every game can use the PGR style environ in the same way, take a skating game for example, whilst others may need more free roaming aspects, such as the Driver series. But i can imagine that there's money to be made licensing (possibly exclusively, forcing you to start over from scratch with each new licensee) slices of real-world-modelled ctyscapes/sports-venues at a MAX_POLYCOUNT of the client's choosing.
Unlike modelling a ferrari enzo i doubt you'd need to pass on these fees to another body, unless places start cottoning on, wasnt the whole reason a bunch of 80s films were filmed in montreal instead of NYC because it looked kinda the same but cost $$$ less?
"These days, many people don't really know why you'd use a map versus a hash_map, or a vector versus a deque. And, for the most part, they don't really need to."
Which is IMVHO a Good Thing. I believe that programmers should continue to hold absolute power over every bit and register their code handles, and beginners should spend a long while getting stuff done in standard C before they are allowed near C++'s "class" keyword.
However in terms of collections, hash tables and the ilk i think that something like the D language is the way to go, which has them built in and optimised at compile time for you. Getting Stuff Done is not helped by having to rewrite the same bit of code over and over for every mudane task like creating a lookup table in every new project you write. And low level C compilers shouldnt need to be stuffed full of heuristics to try to guess that they need to optimise your own personal hash lookup function in a particular way. It's self defeating, like building escalators either side of a wall instead of just sticking a door through it.
small, efficient and responsive? see AROS : http://aros.sourceforge.net/
which, along with the next post down, leads into a newish theory of mine: maybe god DID create the human race, and in his own image to boot. but maybe it was a few million years ago and god is actually a small, furry mammal
Personally i think the whole PDA/palmtop scene died off when Psion gave it up, and is yet to be ressurected. I still have a Revo but alas as i no longer take the train to/from work i've little excuse to use it nowadays. Mono screen, insanely usefull-but-simple office suite (with auto convert to MS office formats), small but not too small qwerty keyboard AND a touch screen.
Someone out there should take a long hard look at what made the revo good (and the nokia communcator bad (clunky, bad tiny keyboard keys)) throw in more ram, wifi and a headphone socket (but leave out the bloody camera, phone and kettle) and i'd buy one tomorrow.
oooh, that looks like it'll do the trick hurrah! thanks
question: can you already play BT movies?
the answer via your own criteria is also probably no, due the the 800 different mp4/divx implimentations each of which causes divide by zero errors on each other's players and codecs and generally creates a total nightmare for someone like me, who missed an episode of Lost and just wants to watch that one without having to spend 6 hours hunting through download pages and message boards just to get the entire house of cards perfectly balanced on my PC long enough to watch the damnded thing.
(unless there's a nice 2mb mp4 player+codec download out there that does them all very nicely and i just happened to have missed it, in which case post me a link and i'll shut up)
what i find both infuriating and amusing is that time and time again the same question about the lines comes up : "what are they for?" ... why is it so hard to believe that they're either:
1. big enough for $Deity to see from upon high
2. art
i prefer the latter explanation
Begun deliberating this a while back, and I've since got Halo for the PC so instead of an Xbox me thinks I'll get myself a Dreamcast for christmas, and track down Shenmue, Metropolis Street Racer and probably some of the others on this list
Another thing to add to the factors you mention is that when humans' offspring are not quite, shall we say, perfect. We do our damndest to save them, be it an emergency cesarean to save mother and baby both or via ongoing operations and treatments afterwards. The reason that so many seemingly health animals are seen hopping around Chernobyl could well be down to survival-of-the-fittest, radio-mutant embryos having been quickly aborted and another mating attempt made.
returns about 32,800 apparently
i s+a+hack%22&btnG=Search
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22this+
The timeline with (limited) crossover between TNG, DS9 and VOY was great and as a set of series they lasted throughout my teen geek years. But for a franchise to be both Trek and New they need to at least do another TNG and add 70+ years to the "current" stardate again, worked like a charm last time around.
I think a general move away from Movies to TV Series's is a Good Thing. Don't get me wrong, I still think some stories will always work well when told over ~2 hours but think about The Lord of The Rings, for example. Could that have worked better as 13 1 hour episodes (on dvd, sans adverts!) or even 24 1 hour episodes? giving the viewer the opportunity to skip the (Two Towers Extended Edition equivalent) Faramir ep entirely if they like, allowing the director and producers the chance to span the three books better and such like. I probably think so, note I'm not talking traditional TV Series here, there would never ever be a LOTR season 2, for example, but so long as the production values (and therefore costs) were suitably high i see no reason why The Hobbit couldnt come out, not as a 3 hour film, but as a 6 part miniseries ... so long as the "marathon" option is available on the $NextGen DVD release for the nutters amongst us (myself included)
i sign my code changes in projects with "// cyc" or "// ric".. so naturally i tried those (and came up with sod all, naturally)... but the latter will also return
"// a long bit of text written by eric smith "
searching for
"//.ric"
on the other hand gets closer matches to what i intended
and i did just fine, but we WERE allowed to use the ole' Atari ST and Amiga 500 for non-game-playing, hence i spent a lot of time learning to code ... and now I'm grown up I do that for a living. Thanks, Dad!
Thanks for that you explained it rather well, apart from the maths, which just confused me, but i get the point
Darn it, forgot about shenmue, now i'm torn between buying myself an Xbox or a Dreamcast for xmas ... the ps1 is starting to get a bit worn out
Reminds me of a good quote from House MD:
"You have any idea how many elecrical devices are radioactive?"
"Yeah, all of them."
>1.5 The public desides to give up certain rights to the created cartoon and grant a time limited copyright to the creator!
are you serious? that must be a joke. You're saying if i write a novel (with the intent to publish) it instantly becomes public property and i only have a time-limited-license to profit from my own creation?
That's like saying that if i bake a rhubarb crumble with the intention of selling it for profit but instead leave it in the freezer longer than a predetermined length of time it would suddenly become free food for anyone who fancies a slice.
Ok, so the wikipedia article said it can be hacked but if i have a MAC based IPv6 address hostinga website and then upgrade the server does that mean a mass DNS routing update or a simple change of a setting on the new server?