He doesn't want to open source it, because he wants to keep control of the project. It's HIS game. Also, I believe he said that he doesn't want to get stuck being a manager for all the other people who would be working on DF if he open sourced it, he wants to actually code.
As much as I'd love to help code DF, I understand his position, and play it, have donated, and await each new version eagerly.
CPUs with a "feature size" of about 22nm are currently in development. A silicon atom is 110pm across, with the largest stable atoms being about 200 pm. In other words, CPU features are currently about 100-200 atoms across. Can't increase too many more times before that becomes a problem...
This seems to be true with technology in general. Railway museums are a good example of this; the steam locomotives with their more-or-less blacksmith level technology have a better future as working exhibits than 1930s-era diesels.
In fact, the technology still exists to make one from scratch. Sure, it took 14 years, but from what I understand that's mostly due to acquiring funds.
I find this little snippet to be amusing as hell:
On 21 December 2009, Tornado rescued about 100 people who were stranded by bad weather at London Victoria station. On that day, a number of electric trains, which picked up their power from the third rail, were unable to run because of snow and ice on the line. Tornado was to haul a 'Cathedrals Express' lunchtime special service from Victoria; a number of booked passengers had been unable to get there due to the conditions, and so there were spare seats; the train's operators decided to offer these seats to commuters whose trains had been cancelled. Tornado also had an evening 'Cathedrals Express' dining train, and the same offer was again made.
That's odd, as one of the recent patches uses NAT hole-punching to avoid the need to forward ports yourself. I know I haven't, and don't have upnp enabled, but have still hosted borderlands games.
I rarely play a game without UKRS, AV8 or eGRVTS any more, they're just so much better than the default vehicles. I haven't really tried FISH, I'll have to give it a go.
guest@xkcd:/$ hello Hello. guest@xkcd:/$ finger Mmmmmm... guest@xkcd:/$ more Oh, yes! More! More! guest@xkcd:/$ make love I put on my robe and wizard hat. guest@xkcd:/$ fuck I have a headache.
I may have recreated the windows login screen once.
It didn't actually work, of course. It always error'd when they tried to login, but it caught a fair few people whose usernames and passwords were identical.
Take the game I worked on a little while back: "Vin Diesel: Wheelman". It wasn't a realistic game, it was a game designed like an action driving movie. Driving at impossible speed through a city, impossible jumps, impossible side-swipes, impossible cornering, cars exploding from being shot by a pistol, jumping out of a moving car, into another moving car, the works.
And it gets points deducted in reviews for not being realistic enough. I can understand if they didn't like it, but at least complain about something it was trying to be.
My b&w laser was £40. It's a Samsung, so hardly a no-name brand. Surely that's cheap enough?
Especially as it prints first time every time you try to use it, and prints much faster than an inkjet.
Even colour lasers can be had for under £100, but they're slow, you have to pay much more to get a fast colour laser. They also aren't up to printing photos, so if that's your thing you should be using an inkjet anyway. But I doubt a school printer will be used for that, it'll be 99% b&w text.
You could easily run Server 2003 on that machine, it's many many times more than the minimum requirements. Though I'll admit I am at a loss why server 2008's requirements are so high in comparison to 2003's, especially with the new super-cut-down "core" version. Perhaps it just uses new instruction set extensions, so it doesn't actually require a 1GHz cpu, they just don't make any slower cpus with the necessary instructions.
I'm not saying you should change from Apache, clearly you're used to admining it and Windows Server is not cheap. However, IIS is a lot better than you make out.
IIS is actually pretty damn good. I think there's more to this story than you're letting on here. Was his server a shared host? Or perhaps just even older than yours?
Here's an example benchmark: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Apache-20-Holds-Its-Own-in-Performance-Tests/ Admittedly it's an old test (8 years!), and since then, IIS has improved significantly (and no doubt Apache has too). I don't think that the IIS version in that test even uses IO completion ports (and say what you like about the proprietry-ness of MS, they allow any application, including the Windows version of Apache, to use them too). But even in this old test, they don't struggle with the load you claim IIS struggles with.
Apparently POP3 is from 1988. A 1993 RFC talks about it as a "draft" standard, but also mentions "the optional APOP facility (which is in interoperable, operational use in at least three implementations)" suggesting that despite being a draft standard it was already in wide use.
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He doesn't want to open source it, because he wants to keep control of the project. It's HIS game.
Also, I believe he said that he doesn't want to get stuck being a manager for all the other people who would be working on DF if he open sourced it, he wants to actually code.
As much as I'd love to help code DF, I understand his position, and play it, have donated, and await each new version eagerly.
The CPU pins, motherboard traces to them and the traces from them into the CPU proper are probably all narrower than the PSU wires.
CPUs with a "feature size" of about 22nm are currently in development. A silicon atom is 110pm across, with the largest stable atoms being about 200 pm. In other words, CPU features are currently about 100-200 atoms across. Can't increase too many more times before that becomes a problem...
This seems to be true with technology in general. Railway museums are a good example of this; the steam locomotives with their more-or-less blacksmith level technology have a better future as working exhibits than 1930s-era diesels.
In fact, the technology still exists to make one from scratch. Sure, it took 14 years, but from what I understand that's mostly due to acquiring funds.
I find this little snippet to be amusing as hell:
On 21 December 2009, Tornado rescued about 100 people who were stranded by bad weather at London Victoria station. On that day, a number of electric trains, which picked up their power from the third rail, were unable to run because of snow and ice on the line. Tornado was to haul a 'Cathedrals Express' lunchtime special service from Victoria; a number of booked passengers had been unable to get there due to the conditions, and so there were spare seats; the train's operators decided to offer these seats to commuters whose trains had been cancelled. Tornado also had an evening 'Cathedrals Express' dining train, and the same offer was again made.
You missed the step about smuggling a Desert Eagle into the country.
I still can't host Borderlands multiplayer games.
That's odd, as one of the recent patches uses NAT hole-punching to avoid the need to forward ports yourself. I know I haven't, and don't have upnp enabled, but have still hosted borderlands games.
IIRC they did the same thing with the PS2 via a disk with a version of "BASIC" on it.
I will be interested to see how your comment gets modded.
He's using sensible rules where a higher AC is better, just like every other stat.
You mean this? ABCL/C+
My firefox is using less than 128MB of ram. Several other apps I have open are using under 20MB each.
I'd call that usable.
You can now disable buying exclusive transport rights in the options.
I rarely play a game without UKRS, AV8 or eGRVTS any more, they're just so much better than the default vehicles. I haven't really tried FISH, I'll have to give it a go.
It's mainly a memory cost. The performance cost of A* is less than most other pathfinders.
Good luck writing a heuristic that takes into account your ability to modify the terrain that you are pathfinding over.
But yes, most if not all the replacement AIs use A* in some form.
guest@xkcd:/$ hello
Hello.
guest@xkcd:/$ finger
Mmmmmm...
guest@xkcd:/$ more
Oh, yes! More! More!
guest@xkcd:/$ make love
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
guest@xkcd:/$ fuck
I have a headache.
There are others too, like "go down"
I may have recreated the windows login screen once.
It didn't actually work, of course. It always error'd when they tried to login, but it caught a fair few people whose usernames and passwords were identical.
I don't get people sometimes.
Take the game I worked on a little while back: "Vin Diesel: Wheelman". It wasn't a realistic game, it was a game designed like an action driving movie. Driving at impossible speed through a city, impossible jumps, impossible side-swipes, impossible cornering, cars exploding from being shot by a pistol, jumping out of a moving car, into another moving car, the works.
And it gets points deducted in reviews for not being realistic enough. I can understand if they didn't like it, but at least complain about something it was trying to be.
No, they would switch to EU beef and cattle (which wouldn't be import taxed), and Canada would lose a lot of exports.
Not that I'm saying it would work, that's the GP's point.
My b&w laser was £40. It's a Samsung, so hardly a no-name brand. Surely that's cheap enough?
Especially as it prints first time every time you try to use it, and prints much faster than an inkjet.
Even colour lasers can be had for under £100, but they're slow, you have to pay much more to get a fast colour laser. They also aren't up to printing photos, so if that's your thing you should be using an inkjet anyway. But I doubt a school printer will be used for that, it'll be 99% b&w text.
Or they're using the generic word "ink" meaning "stuff that makes writing on paper".
You know, so the management understand.
You could easily run Server 2003 on that machine, it's many many times more than the minimum requirements. Though I'll admit I am at a loss why server 2008's requirements are so high in comparison to 2003's, especially with the new super-cut-down "core" version. Perhaps it just uses new instruction set extensions, so it doesn't actually require a 1GHz cpu, they just don't make any slower cpus with the necessary instructions.
I'm not saying you should change from Apache, clearly you're used to admining it and Windows Server is not cheap. However, IIS is a lot better than you make out.
I think you mean "Lost Moon". Or you could just watch the Film.
IIS is actually pretty damn good. I think there's more to this story than you're letting on here. Was his server a shared host? Or perhaps just even older than yours?
Here's an example benchmark: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Management/Apache-20-Holds-Its-Own-in-Performance-Tests/
Admittedly it's an old test (8 years!), and since then, IIS has improved significantly (and no doubt Apache has too). I don't think that the IIS version in that test even uses IO completion ports (and say what you like about the proprietry-ness of MS, they allow any application, including the Windows version of Apache, to use them too).
But even in this old test, they don't struggle with the load you claim IIS struggles with.
Apparently POP3 is from 1988. A 1993 RFC talks about it as a "draft" standard, but also mentions "the optional APOP facility (which is in interoperable, operational use in at least three implementations)" suggesting that despite being a draft standard it was already in wide use.
So you should be fine to use pop3.