Torque engine took quite awhile to get it working, the first year was like pulling teeth on hardware support.
Not sure if the engine and license is worth it, there are more open licenses and engines out there. Garage games does help you sell the game thou, might be a good trade off.
OF course its only 100K USD for Unreal2003 license.
Thin clients also need lots of bandwidth, if you have any 10meg hubs, better start upgrading to 100/1000 switches, also more expensive on the upgrade process.
IMHO, thin clients are good for call centers, where you want to keep the application locked down, and ease of administration. There is no reason to replace everyone's PC just for thin clients, in fact all those older PC's make great thin client machines. Then you just have to upgrade the power users machines, and they can still use thin client software if needed.
Love when consultants give cookie cutter solutions, without looking at the entire scope of inventory (network/hardware/apps) and just recommend "Convert everyone" strategies. You think someone would have learned during the.com bust, you don't need to have the cutting edge to do business, and you don't have to spend millions to get a thousand dollar job done.
This is the same thing as consultants recommending "Migrate jobs to India" when the costs are actually higher in 1/2 the cases.
Outrun tunes from the arcade and sega mastersystem. Mario Brothers, Castlevania for snes. Ultima, Rambo, Yie are Kung fu, Giana Sisters for C64. Super Frog, Zool, Turrican for the Amiga. Duke Nukem 3D, Doom for PC.
Too many hours wasted, in fact, i like to listen to http://www.scenemusic.net/ to remember some of the older games.
BTW, the first game with great music that really got me, was a platformer on the C64 called Trolls and Tribulations by Creative Software, in fact the company is no longer around. You can find it at Trolls and Tribulations
Commerce, the ease of buying and selling using instant transactions on the Internet has provided jobs and spin off companies that support it. The largest and most profitable companies have ties into Internet, shipping, manufacturing, communications, research and development, billing, etc.
Do we need it? Yes, and with almost all government information going online and accessible to the public, this truly is the Information Age.
The article should really be called "Do we need Broadband". If you call anything over a modem speed "broadband", then yes we do. Right now 128K is fast enought for surfing and listening to radio quality streams. But if you want to really enjoy the net, and have fast access, 384K is about the sweet spot. Anything faster is just ease of use, grabbing linux distros, software updates, even microsoft service packs can take awhile. YMMV, IMHO....
I like the microsoft natural series, but I had to buy a few of the older generic Multimedia Elites that had the true inverted T, and a real Insert/Delete, and included the usb ports in back. (Handy to have usb there, and can plug the mouse in there also.) Had to buy online to get the older keyboards with real keys. And the believe it or not, the OSX drivers from microsoft works great for both intellimouse/ms keyboards.
Microsoft took a great keyboard, with real keys, then ruined the Inverted T arrow keys, then ruined the 6 key insert/delete to 1 large delete key.
At least the intellimouse is still nice, hope they dont fuck that up. I keep looking for something better, and not wireless, but everything i see at compusa doesnt look better.
"The irony is, for most of the consoles to compete with the PC [in MMO titles] they must become more like the PC."
Xbox is doing this with updates via the live network, and allowing people to use keyboards and mice. Dreamcast had a mouse/keyboard, so does the PS/2. I dont see any reason that you cant ship a mouse and keyboard with a console unit. Most have either a modem/network card or now even wifi.
Really Quake 3 on the dreamcast looks awesome, but just cant compare with a mouse+keyboard controller. And for MMPOG, chat makes the game, which requires a keyboard. Same reason blackberry/ipaq/pocketpc have little keyboards on them, Instant messaging, email, etc needs a good character input. Look at those tmobile sidekicks, flip the screen and you have little keyboard, very easy to use.
Instead of everyone using thier own phones, they all use pagers and use the same phone on the floor. How is this better? Just need to clean your cellphone just like you do your watch and glasses when your a health care worker.
My work schedule depends on whos my boss this week. Ive been at the same company for almost 5 years, with a new boss each year. Working in operations, its always been core hours, because we work maintenance windows, 9-3 is core hours for meetings, etc.. And you worked all the time, so nobody said a word about the night hours for upgrades, etc..
Now the last couple of managers its been 7-5 and 9-6 with maintenance at night. Hours are like the east coast, 9 hours including lunch, we use to be westcoast hours, 8 hours with lunch.. They also shit-canned telecommuting for our groups. They also axed OT, made everyone salary. Increased the work hours to 55+ also. Hired 1 night time guy, but he cant ever do all the work, so someone has to come in and help. Then the oncall pay went away, comp time went away.
Basically, depends on what your manager will fight for your group. I look around at other groups, and see they still have core hours, etc. But ours wont. Each manager can run his department the way he wants, wink wink nod nod.
As an old unix sys-admin, used to be noon to night, get out of my face. Now im in at 7:10 (late on purpose) and skirting a PIP, just for the hell of it. I tell you thou, when its quitting time, im gone. The "You need to stay late to get this project done" times are getting old when your a paid slave. I hear it only takes 9 to bring the telco union in. Humm, they specialize in IT/IS groups now...
Steam makes the static cache file, but doesnt display the percentage of the download. So you look at your HD you have a 360 meg file, but its just a container.
At least now you can download a complete cache file, which should include all the basic levels... (Bitch when you join a server and you dont have that level, and you have to wait for the download.)
Its not our fault our software has bugs, it the users for clicking on attachments, or surfing on the Internet with our software. Pass the buck, blame the user.
Lucky it will never happen, nice puff piece. But with all information moving online, you cant require a license to access the information, or read a newspaper.
God I hope thats true, the beta said no skins, due to people using bright red and bright blue skins. Maybe they changed thier mind. Also wonder what about custom sprays...
Hehe, would really suck if you had a bandwidth cap, and you download the game with all your available cap. Doh! I could see some people get VERY mad. (Doesnt BT have a 2gig bandwidth cap?)
First time I buy a game, and I cant play without an activation code, is the day I reverse the charges on my Creditcard, and and tell the store politely that defrauded me.
As for CD checks, I use no-cd hacks. I paid for the game, I have the right to alter the code (for now...) NO-CD hacks make the games load faster, and I dont have to swap or bring all my games to the lan parties. All I need is my legal serial that I paid for.
I act the Internet, I just route around the problem.
One of the things that kept Counterstrike fun was replacing the skin models with higher resolution skins. Real nice deagle, and CT/T skins. With valve enforcing the butt ugly generic, 7 year old skins, i really will just start playing HL2 mods, or even work on a CS clone for HL2. (CS2 is using an 4 year old engine, ick...)
I wonder whats going to happen to sites with valve killing special addons, and replacement skins. Favorite places like CSNation, CSCentral, Games Fusion, Skinshack...
I've had to burn all add'ons/modifications to cds, as sites go up and down. Now theres no reason to keep them up with Valve killing over half of the modification market. Wondering what the people over at Fusion are going to do, as they make money off selling complete conversion kits, rather nice ones too.
The steam interface is better, just evil about the way they kill off so many sites that supported valve/sierra. Use to be one of the most mod friendly bunch around...
In the meantime, should Thompson ever discover hentai games, he will find that all his deepest worries about sex and violence have already come true--with tentacles.
Someone please email him this URL:)
Sure glad there are dickwad's like Thompson trying to protect me, I might do something stupid and like, turn the station if I dont like something.
Ok, everyone raise your hand if your pissed at the RIAA? Yup, that many. Wheres the non-riaa alternatives? Going to concerts and virtual tip jars are not the solution.
I have emusic and itunes, but they still have riaa fingers in the cookie jar. We need some alternatives, even if it takes DRM to put member companies of the RIAA out of business.
BTW, I just listen to streaming radio station, some really good stuff out there, Indy stations and what hot. Just wish the RIAA didnt get a cut of that money.
Actually violent crime is actually going down, same with the murder rate. If videos games had been the cause of an increase, some stats should be available.
A third of those with ADHD preferred fighting-type video games while 59% preferred cartoons.
Even the article states that 2/3rd of the kids with ADHD perfer cartoons. Go Ren and Stimpy!
You say that it is for your home. What kinds of security issues did you have to deal with? What kinds of expertise did you have [computer science degree?]? How long did it take you?
I'd say if you can recompile a kernel and read the man pages, cyrus imap is easy enough. For security, its a linux box behind a firewall, with tcpwrappers, ssh and tripwire. About as much security as I'm doing for a home box. Mandrake comes with most stuff installed by default, so you can have it up in about an hour. Fetchmail is a 5 minute google howto search.
My expertise might be a little overkill for this, started a couple ISPs, and I run the GPRS/UTMS core for a telco.
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Compusa has it listed as Sept 30th.
I'm still waiting for Duke Nukem Forever!
Torque engine took quite awhile to get it working, the first year was like pulling teeth on hardware support.
Not sure if the engine and license is worth it, there are more open licenses and engines out there. Garage games does help you sell the game thou, might be a good trade off.
OF course its only 100K USD for Unreal2003 license.
Thin clients also need lots of bandwidth, if you have any 10meg hubs, better start upgrading to 100/1000 switches, also more expensive on the upgrade process.
.com bust, you don't need to have the cutting edge to do business, and you don't have to spend millions to get a thousand dollar job done.
IMHO, thin clients are good for call centers, where you want to keep the application locked down, and ease of administration. There is no reason to replace everyone's PC just for thin clients, in fact all those older PC's make great thin client machines. Then you just have to upgrade the power users machines, and they can still use thin client software if needed.
Love when consultants give cookie cutter solutions, without looking at the entire scope of inventory (network/hardware/apps) and just recommend "Convert everyone" strategies. You think someone would have learned during the
This is the same thing as consultants recommending "Migrate jobs to India" when the costs are actually higher in 1/2 the cases.
Hammer, the only tool you will ever need.
Outrun tunes from the arcade and sega mastersystem.
Mario Brothers, Castlevania for snes.
Ultima, Rambo, Yie are Kung fu, Giana Sisters for C64.
Super Frog, Zool, Turrican for the Amiga.
Duke Nukem 3D, Doom for PC.
Too many hours wasted, in fact, i like to listen to http://www.scenemusic.net/ to remember some of the older games.
BTW, the first game with great music that really got me, was a platformer on the C64 called Trolls and Tribulations by Creative Software, in fact the company is no longer around. You can find it at Trolls and Tribulations
Commerce, the ease of buying and selling using instant transactions on the Internet has provided jobs and spin off companies that support it. The largest and most profitable companies have ties into Internet, shipping, manufacturing, communications, research and development, billing, etc.
Do we need it? Yes, and with almost all government information going online and accessible to the public, this truly is the Information Age.
The article should really be called "Do we need Broadband". If you call anything over a modem speed "broadband", then yes we do. Right now 128K is fast enought for surfing and listening to radio quality streams. But if you want to really enjoy the net, and have fast access, 384K is about the sweet spot. Anything faster is just ease of use, grabbing linux distros, software updates, even microsoft service packs can take awhile. YMMV, IMHO....
I like the microsoft natural series, but I had to buy a few of the older generic Multimedia Elites that had the true inverted T, and a real Insert/Delete, and included the usb ports in back. (Handy to have usb there, and can plug the mouse in there also.) Had to buy online to get the older keyboards with real keys. And the believe it or not, the OSX drivers from microsoft works great for both intellimouse/ms keyboards.
Microsoft took a great keyboard, with real keys, then ruined the Inverted T arrow keys, then ruined the 6 key insert/delete to 1 large delete key.
At least the intellimouse is still nice, hope they dont fuck that up. I keep looking for something better, and not wireless, but everything i see at compusa doesnt look better.
"The irony is, for most of the consoles to compete with the PC [in MMO titles] they must become more like the PC."
Xbox is doing this with updates via the live network, and allowing people to use keyboards and mice. Dreamcast had a mouse/keyboard, so does the PS/2. I dont see any reason that you cant ship a mouse and keyboard with a console unit. Most have either a modem/network card or now even wifi.
Really Quake 3 on the dreamcast looks awesome, but just cant compare with a mouse+keyboard controller. And for MMPOG, chat makes the game, which requires a keyboard. Same reason blackberry/ipaq/pocketpc have little keyboards on them, Instant messaging, email, etc needs a good character input. Look at those tmobile sidekicks, flip the screen and you have little keyboard, very easy to use.
Instead of everyone using thier own phones, they all use pagers and use the same phone on the floor. How is this better? Just need to clean your cellphone just like you do your watch and glasses when your a health care worker.
Right.
How about I trade you that 1 minute late time, for the 5+ hours I stay late, the lunch I skip and the weekends I work?
Respect goes both ways.
My work schedule depends on whos my boss this week. Ive been at the same company for almost 5 years, with a new boss each year. Working in operations, its always been core hours, because we work maintenance windows, 9-3 is core hours for meetings, etc.. And you worked all the time, so nobody said a word about the night hours for upgrades, etc..
Now the last couple of managers its been 7-5 and 9-6 with maintenance at night. Hours are like the east coast, 9 hours including lunch, we use to be westcoast hours, 8 hours with lunch.. They also shit-canned telecommuting for our groups. They also axed OT, made everyone salary. Increased the work hours to 55+ also. Hired 1 night time guy, but he cant ever do all the work, so someone has to come in and help. Then the oncall pay went away, comp time went away.
Basically, depends on what your manager will fight for your group. I look around at other groups, and see they still have core hours, etc. But ours wont. Each manager can run his department the way he wants, wink wink nod nod.
As an old unix sys-admin, used to be noon to night, get out of my face. Now im in at 7:10 (late on purpose) and skirting a PIP, just for the hell of it. I tell you thou, when its quitting time, im gone. The "You need to stay late to get this project done" times are getting old when your a paid slave. I hear it only takes 9 to bring the telco union in. Humm, they specialize in IT/IS groups now...
YMMV, IMHO, and all that jazz.
Steam makes the static cache file, but doesnt display the percentage of the download. So you look at your HD you have a 360 meg file, but its just a container.
At least now you can download a complete cache file, which should include all the basic levels... (Bitch when you join a server and you dont have that level, and you have to wait for the download.)
Nice thing, those 9700 pros overclock nicely to bring the scores up, and still doesnt overheat.
Yup. Paid by MS I bet.
Its not our fault our software has bugs, it the users for clicking on attachments, or surfing on the Internet with our software. Pass the buck, blame the user.
Lucky it will never happen, nice puff piece. But with all information moving online, you cant require a license to access the information, or read a newspaper.
Looks like they mean the skin of the steam launcher itself. Not the models... DAmn it.
Full Skin support in Steam.
God I hope thats true, the beta said no skins, due to people using bright red and bright blue skins. Maybe they changed thier mind. Also wonder what about custom sprays...
Hehe, would really suck if you had a bandwidth cap, and you download the game with all your available cap. Doh! I could see some people get VERY mad. (Doesnt BT have a 2gig bandwidth cap?)
First time I buy a game, and I cant play without an activation code, is the day I reverse the charges on my Creditcard, and and tell the store politely that defrauded me.
As for CD checks, I use no-cd hacks. I paid for the game, I have the right to alter the code (for now...) NO-CD hacks make the games load faster, and I dont have to swap or bring all my games to the lan parties. All I need is my legal serial that I paid for.
I act the Internet, I just route around the problem.
One of the things that kept Counterstrike fun was replacing the skin models with higher resolution skins. Real nice deagle, and CT/T skins. With valve enforcing the butt ugly generic, 7 year old skins, i really will just start playing HL2 mods, or even work on a CS clone for HL2. (CS2 is using an 4 year old engine, ick...)
I wonder whats going to happen to sites with valve killing special addons, and replacement skins. Favorite places like CSNation, CSCentral, Games Fusion, Skinshack...
I've had to burn all add'ons/modifications to cds, as sites go up and down. Now theres no reason to keep them up with Valve killing over half of the modification market. Wondering what the people over at Fusion are going to do, as they make money off selling complete conversion kits, rather nice ones too.
The steam interface is better, just evil about the way they kill off so many sites that supported valve/sierra. Use to be one of the most mod friendly bunch around...
About 40 posts so far, and not one person has understood the problem.
Being denied a work visa and being denied work because of being an American are 2 different things.
Last time I checked, America is still employing H1B visa workers... Maybe America should cancel all those H1B/A work visas. Seems only fair.
In the meantime, should Thompson ever discover hentai games, he will find that all his deepest worries about sex and violence have already come true--with tentacles.
:)
Someone please email him this URL
Sure glad there are dickwad's like Thompson trying to protect me, I might do something stupid and like, turn the station if I dont like something.
You can't even download all the KDE packages in 15 minutes.
You can if you download all the languages.
KDE might be nice, but try compiling Mozilla with all options, email/irc/etc... Thats what I'd like to see as a benchmark test.
Ok, everyone raise your hand if your pissed at the RIAA? Yup, that many. Wheres the non-riaa alternatives? Going to concerts and virtual tip jars are not the solution.
I have emusic and itunes, but they still have riaa fingers in the cookie jar. We need some alternatives, even if it takes DRM to put member companies of the RIAA out of business.
BTW, I just listen to streaming radio station, some really good stuff out there, Indy stations and what hot. Just wish the RIAA didnt get a cut of that money.
Actually violent crime is actually going down, same with the murder rate. If videos games had been the cause of an increase, some stats should be available.
A third of those with ADHD preferred fighting-type video games while 59% preferred cartoons.
Even the article states that 2/3rd of the kids with ADHD perfer cartoons. Go Ren and Stimpy!
You say that it is for your home.
What kinds of security issues did you have to deal with?
What kinds of expertise did you have [computer science degree?]?
How long did it take you?
I'd say if you can recompile a kernel and read the man pages, cyrus imap is easy enough. For security, its a linux box behind a firewall, with tcpwrappers, ssh and tripwire. About as much security as I'm doing for a home box. Mandrake comes with most stuff installed by default, so you can have it up in about an hour. Fetchmail is a 5 minute google howto search.
My expertise might be a little overkill for this, started a couple ISPs, and I run the GPRS/UTMS core for a telco.