Ya, because Northrop/Grumman *NEVER* innovated anything - only the FCS for the Apache gunship, AEGIS missile defense system, experimental 747-ABL laser missile defense system, or the B-2 Spirit nuclear bomber. Or what about the Nimitz class carriers?
And that's just the 2 listed on Wikipedia's article on "northrop grumman" - the other 3 are only a few that caught my eye on the first page (A) of _how_many_ products they make or are researching?
IMHO, Rutan entrusted his company to the right people - and if he didn't, well he got massive amounts of corporate funding once, who's to say he wouldn't be able to do it again?
I've got an AMD64 Athlon 3200+, ATI Radeon 200xpress mobile, and 1GB of RAM in my laptop (15.4" screen) - I've run HL2 on it (gets hotter than a bitch and sucks the battery in around 20 minutes if not plugged in). I can say its not an issue of processing power that makes me not want to use it for games, but ergonomics and weight.
I am VERY particular about where my keyboard and mouse are, especially when gaming. That giant space between you and the actual keyboard created by the touchpad? Most uncomfortable thing about the laptop. Want a real mouse to use? Gotta stuff that in a backpack. Want a real keyboard to use? Stuff that in the bag too. Don't feel like having the laptop die 30 minutes after you turn it on? Toss in that 3 lb charger...
My laptop already weighs in around 7 or 8 lbs - even if I'm just going to use it for productivity, I still need to carry the charger. If I'm gonna be at somebody's house who doesn't have a computer for an extended time (or only old 800MHz Celerons), I've gotta take all that extra crap just to bring the comfort level to what I have with my desktop. At that point, I'd rather just take my 20lb desktop, keyboard, monitor, etc. The only 2 benefits of taking the laptop instead is I don't have to carry a 17" LCD monitor and I *could* take it across their house to watch a movie on the couch (but be uncomfortable with it on my lap or a TV tray).
Personally though, all that is just a matter of preference - I simply would rather be comfortable than be able to take my machine around the house when I could walk a 50 feet to wherever I set my desktop up...
Well, since it's already playing a board game, would it perhaps decide to play "global thermonuclear war" when it looses checkers/chess? Talk about a sore looser!
Not YET there isn't - as he said, he's looking *forward* to it. A quick Wikipedia or Google search using "Windows Home Server" will get you your info...
Really though it won't be worth it at all - more than likely I'm thinking it will be retail only (HP, Dell, etc). Also, being Server '03, I'm guessing its gonna take a bit more power to run than what a cli install of Linux or BSD can make do with, meaning less options of older underpowered machines to use which can be found for dirt cheap...
Except for when you're at work and you don't have access rights to install Firefox, and it takes a painfully long amount of time to launch Portable Firefox (it just isn't worth it if you're only going to be on for 2 seconds or skim the/. headlines). Would I much rather browse even just those 2 seconds with Firefox? Hell yes. But with the abominably slow machines many people are stuck on at work, I'd rather have/. in IE than no/. at all...
How about TCP/IP for one? MS used BSD 4.4's TCP/IP stack for Windows. Also, the GCC, Linux and just about any BSD today (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and derivatives of any of them), and the Apache HTTPD web-server software - just to name a few...
So, without open source software development models, you probably wouldn't be able to even access the Internet on your Windows box to pull Slashdot and about 70% of all other websites you view powered by Apache, which is running on either a Linux or BSD operating system, which in turn was largely compiled using GCC or some other OSS compiler.
In short - your computer wouldn't be able to do anything at all without OSS in the process (compared to how it currently is, with OSS in the mix)...
So what you're trying to say is that whereas D&D is a tabletop RPG, Warhammer is a tabletop RTS? I dunno, I'm like a lot of people on here it seems - the most I've seen about Warhammer is a few bad PS2 games...
Alright, I was going to list the tools on the tool pallet, but about a third of the way through listing the tools on the default pallet, I found the "Clone tool" in the "Dialogs" > "Tools" dialog box, and that clicking on it selected the appropriate tool that happened to already be on the pallet - but it sure wasn't labeled "Clone tool" - instead it was "Paint using patterns or Image Regions". If I could at least have "Paint using patterns or Image Regions (Clone)". Why is the dialog box for customizing the tool pallet label it as clone and not the pallet itself? Its a consistency issue that might be minor to some, but it sure confused the hell out of me for quite a while...
One of my favorite Photoshop tools is the clone stamp for making things/people disappear and put the wall back in behind whatever I removed - PS: 1 button, alt-click to specify source, then click on area to duplicate it to.
I guess I'm just not into graphics enough to have any need to familiarize myself with GIMP enough, but for me with GIMP, its not just "Where is the equivalent button at" because in Photoshop I find it such a major tool, its inconceivable to not have it easily accessible. Just how the hell do I get the same effect in GIMP without going through 30 more steps? And I'm not talking about consolidating this into 3 tools I have to use in order - I mean 1 tool, basically how it is in Photoshop, so that I can use it repetitively (like once every 2 seconds repetitive to clone an entire area) - but redefining the source within a quarter inch away of where I started putting the clone in to keep it from developing jagged square tiles every 2 inches...
So if they did change things, all it would really mean is they give a few options the first time you fire up the new version with major changes to the UI (presumably so Photoshop people would be more comfortable) - act like the old GIMP, or the new one.
Well thanks for the news (earlier than I would have found out otherwise at least) - I've got high hopes for the PS3 still, but with dev's like Namco taking my beloved Ace Combat line to the Xbox 360 with no word of a PS3 version, its nice to know Squenix is sticking with the product I happen to be betting on...
The last time I played Castlevania was something like the first few levels of Symphony of the Night - it was fun, but for the skill level I had it was a bit too hard for me to really enjoy at the time...
I agree - in my original post with the list, I said it was a great game (maybe not clearly enough) *because* I liked the button mashing combos (using the guy with the 2 swords, don't know his name). It also had a seemingly decent story somewhat like Onimusha with the demons invading, but not a direct copy of that plot. So I didn't list it just because it overused bloom effects to make the graphics look a bit better...
Yes, I seem to remember there being some articles about the issues surrounding the PS3 on Westinghouse tv's - IIRC the problem was deemed that Westinghouse decided to be cheap, took some shortcuts, and made the timeout on waiting for the DRM signal shorter than it should have been (or at least didn't give any leeway more than the official specs). So supposedly the PS3 sends the DRM signal-bit to question if it's ok to send data and never got the answer back...
At least thats how it went from what I remember, and I don't feel like looking it up right now...
Well, for one, people wanting to develop and use *real* applications won't have to use unsupported hardhacks for gaining shell access (or if it's a boot-loader, access to that) and be able to run applications coded in something like C or C++ - not damned javascript...
One (although somewhat gimmicky) use I can see is to physically shake the phone to for example, randomize a music playlist. Another could be for dice games - shake the phone and when you stop the die gets "tossed"...
Its not a whole lot more number-wise, but heres a few more that are set to be PS3 exclusive, and these are series highly reputed for the game play, not just graphics.
Of the exclusives on this list, I know the following to either be historically good franchises or good games for a new franchise (or at the absolute least have heard a few of them to be good):
Castlevania (not much into it myself, but its a longstanding franchise)
Genji: Days of the blade (I've played the demo, which made me rent it - its a great game with gameplay like the Onimusha series if you've played those)
God of War 3 (never played 1 or 2 myself, but since just about every review site gave great critiques for months on end, it can't be too bad)
Gran Turismo 5 (not a fan of racing games, but I know enough to know its big)
Gradius (the latest in a great line originating with the side-scrolling NES space shooter)
Haze (sounds decently fun, even if it only turns out to be an average FPS)
Hot Shots Golf (if you like playing golf or other casual party games like this)
Killzone 2 (I found the first to be fairly fun as even as a somewhat generic FPS)
MGS4 (as you 2 have listed)
Mobile Suite Gundam: Crossfire (looks like a fun clone of Armored Core with destructable buildings)
Resistance: Fall of man (rented it, is extremely fun and is hard enough to suck you in and make you at least try)
SOCOM (personally only the first was nothing short of spectacular, the second was mediocre, and the 3rd was just horrible - hopefully this will remedy that)
Tekken 6 (not a fan of fighting games, but the only one I know of more popular than Tekken is the Guilty Gear franchise)
Time Crisis 4 (everybody's favorite Peter Piper rail shooter with a guncon, this guncon model is supposed to have analog sticks and allow the player to roam freely the level)
Warhawk (never played the original, but it sounds like there are legions of people waiting to sell their souls when this comes out)
Zone of the Enders 3 (now I thought this series was finished, so the existence of this is news to me, but the first 2 were great fast action with superb mechanical designs on the mecha - this is definitely one to pick up if you like fast action that makes you have to really pay attention to where you are, not to mention where the enemy is)
First off, there is absolutely *no* reason to take their word for it at all. MediaDefender and companies like them do this for a living - set up sting sites where "Hey, naive kid, you can legally download movies here that just came out in theater" statements are common. Their only objective is to be able to say that you illegally download copyrighted content. These companies aren't something new - they've been around at the least since FTP was the common way to pirate things, and anybody with more than a passing interest can Google or use Wikipedia to find who/what they are and the underhanded tactics they use, or check their website which clearly states they setup fake downloads and sting sites.
And for people that really don't understand whats going on here. Why would the **AA's go after little old granny down the street who doesn't even have a computer - but then some rogue employee at a corporation uses corporate bandwidth and servers to host a P2P site, why would that corporation not get *any* legal flak at all?
Much more likely is that this "Rising Tech" AV is a pseudo-av running an extortion scam and is in fact spyware or other malware. While Symantec and a few others are all too well known for false positives ("Windows kernel is a virus! Delete?") there are a higher percentage where you'll have your homepage hijacked or NetBus type symptoms - background suddenly changed to a malware web-page, infinite Windows Services notification or system tray notifications that "Buy our software and your problems will go away!".
IMHO, I'd take that higher percentage of pseudo-av/extortionist and apply it to "Rising Tech". Even better is to not trust either and go with an AV like Avast! Home (free) or AVG Free. If you don't have any reason to be stuck to Windows, don't - go Linux or *nix OS-X for binary incompatibility and security through obscurity (which isn't a good thing to rely on, but it does for the most part work for now).
I agree - this is the kind of thing that at the very least should be sent out with a governmental census in at the least major nations throughout the world. All this is is as you said - a couple of scam artists who got a bunch of lit-study and art students at a few local colleges who are smart enough to know world history and geography but not have the common sense to see a scam like this to pick from a multiple choice list of prechosen items...
Also, this is one more thing to make current generations look like total idiots to their grandkids 50 years from now - like how they recently announced that Pluto is not actually a planet. People all over will be telling their grandkids "Back in my day, Pluto *WAS* a planet, and their were only *7* wonders of the world! AND we liked it that way!" to be responded with "Ya, sure grampa, time for your medication now!"
No - it means they're a **AA dog, and are the type who will post fake downloads on P2P sites so that the **AA's have what they would call evidence that you had the willful intent of pirating content.
This story (and the ones preceding it on the topic of this MediaDefender company) tell of somebody who made an investigation on their sting site with fake downloads, which the site in question stated you had to "download their *special* software to download the full length movies, music, and generally other copyrighted content which they had fake downloads of. The software then scanned the person's hard-drive and reported back to MediaDefender the contents of filenames. Except that *very* soon after the first article surfaced, they disconnected their servers for the sting site and cleared their data from their hosting account with their registrar.
Or at least those are the basic accusations here (to my understanding). Sounds fishy to me that they would wipe their registrar info and whatnot to cover their tracks, along with the "Uh, no, we didn't steal the cookie from the cookie jar!" or "Ermm... No comment..." type of plea - a poorly thought and rushed denial like the ones they're making are seen by most people as a type of confirmation that they are guilty of the accused issues here...
Personally my laptop sucks hard under Linux due to the ATI video chipset and Broadcom based wifi (I didn't really know much about Linux the year and a half ago that I bought the thing) - but the dvd drive however works perfectly fine. Also, I'm sure there are at least a few models of laptops that don't use godforsaken Broadcom wifi and ATI graphics...
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Ya, because Northrop/Grumman *NEVER* innovated anything - only the FCS for the Apache gunship, AEGIS missile defense system, experimental 747-ABL laser missile defense system, or the B-2 Spirit nuclear bomber. Or what about the Nimitz class carriers?
And that's just the 2 listed on Wikipedia's article on "northrop grumman" - the other 3 are only a few that caught my eye on the first page (A) of _how_many_ products they make or are researching?
IMHO, Rutan entrusted his company to the right people - and if he didn't, well he got massive amounts of corporate funding once, who's to say he wouldn't be able to do it again?
I've got an AMD64 Athlon 3200+, ATI Radeon 200xpress mobile, and 1GB of RAM in my laptop (15.4" screen) - I've run HL2 on it (gets hotter than a bitch and sucks the battery in around 20 minutes if not plugged in). I can say its not an issue of processing power that makes me not want to use it for games, but ergonomics and weight.
I am VERY particular about where my keyboard and mouse are, especially when gaming. That giant space between you and the actual keyboard created by the touchpad? Most uncomfortable thing about the laptop. Want a real mouse to use? Gotta stuff that in a backpack. Want a real keyboard to use? Stuff that in the bag too. Don't feel like having the laptop die 30 minutes after you turn it on? Toss in that 3 lb charger...
My laptop already weighs in around 7 or 8 lbs - even if I'm just going to use it for productivity, I still need to carry the charger. If I'm gonna be at somebody's house who doesn't have a computer for an extended time (or only old 800MHz Celerons), I've gotta take all that extra crap just to bring the comfort level to what I have with my desktop. At that point, I'd rather just take my 20lb desktop, keyboard, monitor, etc. The only 2 benefits of taking the laptop instead is I don't have to carry a 17" LCD monitor and I *could* take it across their house to watch a movie on the couch (but be uncomfortable with it on my lap or a TV tray).
Personally though, all that is just a matter of preference - I simply would rather be comfortable than be able to take my machine around the house when I could walk a 50 feet to wherever I set my desktop up...
Well, since it's already playing a board game, would it perhaps decide to play "global thermonuclear war" when it looses checkers/chess? Talk about a sore looser!
I guess robots don't count all of a sudden because they already have an OS? Prejudice!
Not YET there isn't - as he said, he's looking *forward* to it. A quick Wikipedia or Google search using "Windows Home Server" will get you your info...
Really though it won't be worth it at all - more than likely I'm thinking it will be retail only (HP, Dell, etc). Also, being Server '03, I'm guessing its gonna take a bit more power to run than what a cli install of Linux or BSD can make do with, meaning less options of older underpowered machines to use which can be found for dirt cheap...
Except for when you're at work and you don't have access rights to install Firefox, and it takes a painfully long amount of time to launch Portable Firefox (it just isn't worth it if you're only going to be on for 2 seconds or skim the /. headlines). Would I much rather browse even just those 2 seconds with Firefox? Hell yes. But with the abominably slow machines many people are stuck on at work, I'd rather have /. in IE than no /. at all...
So in other words, this extra slot isn't meant so much for video cards as it is for the few people willing to buy Ageia PhysX cards?
How about TCP/IP for one? MS used BSD 4.4's TCP/IP stack for Windows. Also, the GCC, Linux and just about any BSD today (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and derivatives of any of them), and the Apache HTTPD web-server software - just to name a few...
So, without open source software development models, you probably wouldn't be able to even access the Internet on your Windows box to pull Slashdot and about 70% of all other websites you view powered by Apache, which is running on either a Linux or BSD operating system, which in turn was largely compiled using GCC or some other OSS compiler.
In short - your computer wouldn't be able to do anything at all without OSS in the process (compared to how it currently is, with OSS in the mix)...
So what you're trying to say is that whereas D&D is a tabletop RPG, Warhammer is a tabletop RTS? I dunno, I'm like a lot of people on here it seems - the most I've seen about Warhammer is a few bad PS2 games...
Alright, I was going to list the tools on the tool pallet, but about a third of the way through listing the tools on the default pallet, I found the "Clone tool" in the "Dialogs" > "Tools" dialog box, and that clicking on it selected the appropriate tool that happened to already be on the pallet - but it sure wasn't labeled "Clone tool" - instead it was "Paint using patterns or Image Regions". If I could at least have "Paint using patterns or Image Regions (Clone)". Why is the dialog box for customizing the tool pallet label it as clone and not the pallet itself? Its a consistency issue that might be minor to some, but it sure confused the hell out of me for quite a while...
One of my favorite Photoshop tools is the clone stamp for making things/people disappear and put the wall back in behind whatever I removed - PS: 1 button, alt-click to specify source, then click on area to duplicate it to.
I guess I'm just not into graphics enough to have any need to familiarize myself with GIMP enough, but for me with GIMP, its not just "Where is the equivalent button at" because in Photoshop I find it such a major tool, its inconceivable to not have it easily accessible. Just how the hell do I get the same effect in GIMP without going through 30 more steps? And I'm not talking about consolidating this into 3 tools I have to use in order - I mean 1 tool, basically how it is in Photoshop, so that I can use it repetitively (like once every 2 seconds repetitive to clone an entire area) - but redefining the source within a quarter inch away of where I started putting the clone in to keep it from developing jagged square tiles every 2 inches...
So if they did change things, all it would really mean is they give a few options the first time you fire up the new version with major changes to the UI (presumably so Photoshop people would be more comfortable) - act like the old GIMP, or the new one.
Well thanks for the news (earlier than I would have found out otherwise at least) - I've got high hopes for the PS3 still, but with dev's like Namco taking my beloved Ace Combat line to the Xbox 360 with no word of a PS3 version, its nice to know Squenix is sticking with the product I happen to be betting on...
The last time I played Castlevania was something like the first few levels of Symphony of the Night - it was fun, but for the skill level I had it was a bit too hard for me to really enjoy at the time...
I agree - in my original post with the list, I said it was a great game (maybe not clearly enough) *because* I liked the button mashing combos (using the guy with the 2 swords, don't know his name). It also had a seemingly decent story somewhat like Onimusha with the demons invading, but not a direct copy of that plot. So I didn't list it just because it overused bloom effects to make the graphics look a bit better...
Last I knew Squenix was making the next for xbox 360 also, though I haven't looked at them in a while, so I'm not sure...
Yes, I seem to remember there being some articles about the issues surrounding the PS3 on Westinghouse tv's - IIRC the problem was deemed that Westinghouse decided to be cheap, took some shortcuts, and made the timeout on waiting for the DRM signal shorter than it should have been (or at least didn't give any leeway more than the official specs). So supposedly the PS3 sends the DRM signal-bit to question if it's ok to send data and never got the answer back...
At least thats how it went from what I remember, and I don't feel like looking it up right now...
Well, for one, people wanting to develop and use *real* applications won't have to use unsupported hardhacks for gaining shell access (or if it's a boot-loader, access to that) and be able to run applications coded in something like C or C++ - not damned javascript...
One (although somewhat gimmicky) use I can see is to physically shake the phone to for example, randomize a music playlist. Another could be for dice games - shake the phone and when you stop the die gets "tossed"...
Of the exclusives on this list, I know the following to either be historically good franchises or good games for a new franchise (or at the absolute least have heard a few of them to be good):
First off, there is absolutely *no* reason to take their word for it at all. MediaDefender and companies like them do this for a living - set up sting sites where "Hey, naive kid, you can legally download movies here that just came out in theater" statements are common. Their only objective is to be able to say that you illegally download copyrighted content. These companies aren't something new - they've been around at the least since FTP was the common way to pirate things, and anybody with more than a passing interest can Google or use Wikipedia to find who/what they are and the underhanded tactics they use, or check their website which clearly states they setup fake downloads and sting sites.
And for people that really don't understand whats going on here. Why would the **AA's go after little old granny down the street who doesn't even have a computer - but then some rogue employee at a corporation uses corporate bandwidth and servers to host a P2P site, why would that corporation not get *any* legal flak at all?
Much more likely is that this "Rising Tech" AV is a pseudo-av running an extortion scam and is in fact spyware or other malware. While Symantec and a few others are all too well known for false positives ("Windows kernel is a virus! Delete?") there are a higher percentage where you'll have your homepage hijacked or NetBus type symptoms - background suddenly changed to a malware web-page, infinite Windows Services notification or system tray notifications that "Buy our software and your problems will go away!".
IMHO, I'd take that higher percentage of pseudo-av/extortionist and apply it to "Rising Tech". Even better is to not trust either and go with an AV like Avast! Home (free) or AVG Free. If you don't have any reason to be stuck to Windows, don't - go Linux or *nix OS-X for binary incompatibility and security through obscurity (which isn't a good thing to rely on, but it does for the most part work for now).
I agree - this is the kind of thing that at the very least should be sent out with a governmental census in at the least major nations throughout the world. All this is is as you said - a couple of scam artists who got a bunch of lit-study and art students at a few local colleges who are smart enough to know world history and geography but not have the common sense to see a scam like this to pick from a multiple choice list of prechosen items...
Also, this is one more thing to make current generations look like total idiots to their grandkids 50 years from now - like how they recently announced that Pluto is not actually a planet. People all over will be telling their grandkids "Back in my day, Pluto *WAS* a planet, and their were only *7* wonders of the world! AND we liked it that way!" to be responded with "Ya, sure grampa, time for your medication now!"
No - it means they're a **AA dog, and are the type who will post fake downloads on P2P sites so that the **AA's have what they would call evidence that you had the willful intent of pirating content.
This story (and the ones preceding it on the topic of this MediaDefender company) tell of somebody who made an investigation on their sting site with fake downloads, which the site in question stated you had to "download their *special* software to download the full length movies, music, and generally other copyrighted content which they had fake downloads of. The software then scanned the person's hard-drive and reported back to MediaDefender the contents of filenames. Except that *very* soon after the first article surfaced, they disconnected their servers for the sting site and cleared their data from their hosting account with their registrar.
Or at least those are the basic accusations here (to my understanding). Sounds fishy to me that they would wipe their registrar info and whatnot to cover their tracks, along with the "Uh, no, we didn't steal the cookie from the cookie jar!" or "Ermm... No comment..." type of plea - a poorly thought and rushed denial like the ones they're making are seen by most people as a type of confirmation that they are guilty of the accused issues here...
Personally my laptop sucks hard under Linux due to the ATI video chipset and Broadcom based wifi (I didn't really know much about Linux the year and a half ago that I bought the thing) - but the dvd drive however works perfectly fine. Also, I'm sure there are at least a few models of laptops that don't use godforsaken Broadcom wifi and ATI graphics...