Reinventing is merely another form of rote. That isn't learning, that is merely the act of repetition.
Only the physical result is the repetition. The work in reinventing is entirely original within the mind(s) of those undertaking it. It is not even vaguely related to rote-learning.
In order to save maybe $20 off the cost of this game, you're willing to give every other FPS fanatic a >six-month headstart in playing Doom III? You must love to be everyone's easy frag on deathmatch servers!
1) I tend to play most such games in their single-player campaign only. I hate being pestered to join friggin' clans all the time.
2) Fraggin' is fraggin'. It's the same old crap with different weapons and better graphics.
I think that it is largely due to games 'pushing the envelope' that I have the wicked and affordable hardware in my screamin' box right now. Thanks to companies trying to push beyond what we have, people go out and buy better stuff. What does that mean? Better stuff available for all, eventually at nice prices. If iD and other companies hadn't pushed the envelope, us slobs in the home-consumer market would still only have P1s or something equally lame. We have Microsoft to thank for some of this as well, I hate to say it but it's true.
Here's a good article on the technology behind Doom 3.
The author of that article must not have played Thief: Deadly Shadows, or he would not be so excited about some of the things mentioned. Like your character shadow being cast where it ought to be, based on the lighting in the room; along the floor and up the wall, stretching or shrinking as appropriate, etc. Enemies are also aware of your shadow, not just your character, and will respond if you are not paying proper attention to the lighting. And near the end of that article, a big hurrah for 'fan shadows' which also already work fine in Thief.
All that said, I'm still looking forward to Doom III, but I'll get it next year when the price is down.
Way to go, kids, you re-invented the fucking wheel!!!
And good for them. You are saying that everything done by one generation is -- done -- and nobody in the future should try it also? Besides, reinventing the (insert interesting invention here) is very educational.
And why shouldn't they? The less mental energy you need to expend to simply make your computer work, the more you have to actually accomplish useful things with it.
Granted. But a lazy man's tool is still that: a tool for a lazy man.
Turns out as a whole, everyone writes at about a 5th grade level.
That's actually a guideline of writing for public consumption. Your meaning will be lost on a large segment of your audience if you stretch this rule too far.
..and I can't say I've noticed Mac users to be any different from average PC users. In many cases they don't know their machine very well, and are still stuck on the old saw that Macs are somehow graphically superior to PCs, and that they *can't* get viruses. Trying to point out that nobody's really interested in writing a virus for a low-usage platform falls on deaf ears. If anything, a user of a more user-friendly OS is less likely to be brighter, not the other way around. Their tool requires less thinking on their part, and they like it that way.
Besides, what could terrorists do with the knowledge that cell overage was out?
Working cellphones allowed the passengers of a certain flight on 9/11/2001 to realize that their hijackers intended to kill them, they fought back, and the mission of that particular plane failed.
when why isn't more software using this technique to make piracy more difficult, and/or hacking network games harder?
Microsoft games have a tendancy to detect a debugger. Last one I bothered to try was AoE II, which politely informed me that I needed to close the debugger that was running, and try again. So I went with a disassembler instead.
If I understand correctly, a debugger utilizes the system in such a way that only 1 instance of a debugger (any brand, not relevant) can be running on a machine at a given time. So it's apparently a huge red flag, easily seen.
How about a virus that randomly changes == to = in files:)
That's not going to do much on the typical windows box. If it did manage to get into a developer's environment and do that, it would be readily noticable that something was wrong, as soon as you tried to compile something.
Those must be some pretty unimpressive processors to last a week on a single AA...
I figured they already revealed the unimpressiveness of the processors by mentioning that to optimize this thing they had to use 7 (!) in parallel. To run a glorified calculator.
The question is really how many people can pay to go to space and what will they do there?
I can't afford it, but if I could, what would I do there? Have an absolutely incredible experience, that's what. Keep the laser-light show as well, I don't need that, just let me get *up there*!!
Actually my Amiga 500 once survived an entire litre of grape kool-aid that I dumped on it. I powered it down, wiped up as much of the kool-aid as I could from the keys and their sides, but being very lazy decided I wasn't opening it unless I really had to. Fired it up and it worked fine, though eventually, months later, I opened it up to do some other work and had quite a sticky mess to deal with.
Back in my Amiga days I had an A500, with a Fat Agnus chip, 1/2 meg of 'Fast' RAM (expansion card), and 1/2 meg of 'Chip' RAM (onboard). There was a hack you could do where the 'Fast' ram in the expansion bay could be recognized as 'Chip' ram (the kind that's directly tied to the custom chips as opposed to 'Fast' ram which is directly to the CPU.) This gives you a total of 1 meg of 'Chip' ram if you have the right variety of Agnus chip ('Fat' or 'Fatter'). This allows more graphics/sound data to be loaded. I did this after I got an external HD that came with an expandable memory bus, adding 2 megs of 'Fast' ram to the system, so I could afford to convert the 1/2 meg in the underside slot. So anyhow, you had to desolder a couple of traces on the expansion card, and short something; and open something and short something else on the motherboard. To do the expansion card I had to remove it, so that part wound up being done safely and sanely. I popped that back in, and turned on the machine, just to see what would happen with the hack only half-done. Memory error, well duh. Ok, well I was curious, gimme a break. Further curiosity killed my Amiga. I decided (no accident, I *decided*) to see what it would look like if I did the motherboard hack with the system still running. I was working very close to the CPU, and managed to bump it with my flux tool, shorting at least 2 pins, and *bzzzzzzt*! My monitor went from its warm yellow 'memory error' screen colour to a disconcerting black. I still don't know what possessed me to try that, but I have not repeated that experiment on any other machine since.:)
(after replacing the CPU, the hack worked fine btw)
It sounds like a horrible multiplayer situation. The poor machine would have to run 4 copies of the game at once, and I can't see that working very well. I'd rather have the network latency, thanks.
Why does the government feel that it needs to know the "ID" of my vehicle?
Because people steal cars. A lot. Remember that the government is made of people, and is *for* people. Some of the things they try to protect us from are just stupid, and other things, like vehicle registries, help us out. I don't see a VIN as a privacy issue at all. A unique ID in my CPU on the other hand, that's entirely different.
If you *do* want email from a certain company, and you signed up for it, then you should add that domain/email to your white list. Simple as that.
Ok, so if I sign up at say, gamespot.com and they are going to email me a confirmation message to activate my account (so, NOT spam), I can simply assume that adding '@gamespot.com' to my whitelist will let it through? Maybe, and maybe not. I won't know the email address they are sending this message from until I get it. That's why whitelists are not such a great solution.
Soldiers away from home should have access to email at all! That they do is a sad commentary on the state of the military.
I'm assuming you meant to say should not have access. It's interesting because just two days ago I was talking with a former soldier, who is disgusted with today's military. His opinion is that a soldier is Government Property, and that soldiers shouldn't have rights. Otherwise they are not as effective as they could be. It sounds cold, but has a huge ring of good sense.
Hasn't anyone with a hotmail address noticed that sometimes you just don't get messages? It happens with them, that's why I don't rely on hotmail, it's just a spam-catcher that I use when I need to put an email address in a public or semi-public location. A friend of mine recently switched to Yahoo because she thought that hotmail was censoring messages of a pagan nature. I figured that was hogwash, but the fact was she hadn't been getting messages she'd been expecting. That's just hotmail sucking, IMHO, no conspiracy needed, just incompetance.
In the linked PDF file, the judge notes that the plaintiffs DID read the privacy policy and their complaint is that it says their info will not be shared.
So wtf is with all the comments (including the editor comments) about EULAs being invalid if you don't read them?
Re-quoting my own post here because it got modded as troll for some reason. Come get me, I've got karma to burn..
In the linked PDF file, the judge notes that the plaintiffs DID read the privacy policy and their complaint is that it says their info will not be shared.
So wtf is with all the comments (including the editor comments) about EULAs being invalid if you don't read them?
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Reinventing is merely another form of rote. That isn't learning, that is merely the act of repetition.
Only the physical result is the repetition. The work in reinventing is entirely original within the mind(s) of those undertaking it. It is not even vaguely related to rote-learning.
In order to save maybe $20 off the cost of this game, you're willing to give every other FPS fanatic a >six-month headstart in playing Doom III? You must love to be everyone's easy frag on deathmatch servers!
1) I tend to play most such games in their single-player campaign only. I hate being pestered to join friggin' clans all the time.
2) Fraggin' is fraggin'. It's the same old crap with different weapons and better graphics.
I think that it is largely due to games 'pushing the envelope' that I have the wicked and affordable hardware in my screamin' box right now. Thanks to companies trying to push beyond what we have, people go out and buy better stuff. What does that mean? Better stuff available for all, eventually at nice prices. If iD and other companies hadn't pushed the envelope, us slobs in the home-consumer market would still only have P1s or something equally lame. We have Microsoft to thank for some of this as well, I hate to say it but it's true.
Here's a good article on the technology behind Doom 3.
The author of that article must not have played Thief: Deadly Shadows, or he would not be so excited about some of the things mentioned. Like your character shadow being cast where it ought to be, based on the lighting in the room; along the floor and up the wall, stretching or shrinking as appropriate, etc. Enemies are also aware of your shadow, not just your character, and will respond if you are not paying proper attention to the lighting. And near the end of that article, a big hurrah for 'fan shadows' which also already work fine in Thief.
All that said, I'm still looking forward to Doom III, but I'll get it next year when the price is down.
Way to go, kids, you re-invented the fucking wheel!!!
And good for them. You are saying that everything done by one generation is -- done -- and nobody in the future should try it also? Besides, reinventing the (insert interesting invention here) is very educational.
And why shouldn't they? The less mental energy you need to expend to simply make your computer work, the more you have to actually accomplish useful things with it.
Granted. But a lazy man's tool is still that: a tool for a lazy man.
Turns out as a whole, everyone writes at about a 5th grade level.
That's actually a guideline of writing for public consumption. Your meaning will be lost on a large segment of your audience if you stretch this rule too far.
..and I can't say I've noticed Mac users to be any different from average PC users. In many cases they don't know their machine very well, and are still stuck on the old saw that Macs are somehow graphically superior to PCs, and that they *can't* get viruses. Trying to point out that nobody's really interested in writing a virus for a low-usage platform falls on deaf ears. If anything, a user of a more user-friendly OS is less likely to be brighter, not the other way around. Their tool requires less thinking on their part, and they like it that way.
Besides, what could terrorists do with the knowledge that cell overage was out?
Working cellphones allowed the passengers of a certain flight on 9/11/2001 to realize that their hijackers intended to kill them, they fought back, and the mission of that particular plane failed.
when why isn't more software using this technique to make piracy more difficult, and/or hacking network games harder?
Microsoft games have a tendancy to detect a debugger. Last one I bothered to try was AoE II, which politely informed me that I needed to close the debugger that was running, and try again. So I went with a disassembler instead.
If I understand correctly, a debugger utilizes the system in such a way that only 1 instance of a debugger (any brand, not relevant) can be running on a machine at a given time. So it's apparently a huge red flag, easily seen.
How about a virus that randomly changes == to = in files :)
That's not going to do much on the typical windows box. If it did manage to get into a developer's environment and do that, it would be readily noticable that something was wrong, as soon as you tried to compile something.
Those must be some pretty unimpressive processors to last a week on a single AA...
I figured they already revealed the unimpressiveness of the processors by mentioning that to optimize this thing they had to use 7 (!) in parallel. To run a glorified calculator.
The question is really how many people can pay to go to space and what will they do there?
I can't afford it, but if I could, what would I do there? Have an absolutely incredible experience, that's what. Keep the laser-light show as well, I don't need that, just let me get *up there*!!
Actually my Amiga 500 once survived an entire litre of grape kool-aid that I dumped on it. I powered it down, wiped up as much of the kool-aid as I could from the keys and their sides, but being very lazy decided I wasn't opening it unless I really had to. Fired it up and it worked fine, though eventually, months later, I opened it up to do some other work and had quite a sticky mess to deal with.
Back in my Amiga days I had an A500, with a Fat Agnus chip, 1/2 meg of 'Fast' RAM (expansion card), and 1/2 meg of 'Chip' RAM (onboard). There was a hack you could do where the 'Fast' ram in the expansion bay could be recognized as 'Chip' ram (the kind that's directly tied to the custom chips as opposed to 'Fast' ram which is directly to the CPU.) This gives you a total of 1 meg of 'Chip' ram if you have the right variety of Agnus chip ('Fat' or 'Fatter'). This allows more graphics/sound data to be loaded. I did this after I got an external HD that came with an expandable memory bus, adding 2 megs of 'Fast' ram to the system, so I could afford to convert the 1/2 meg in the underside slot. So anyhow, you had to desolder a couple of traces on the expansion card, and short something; and open something and short something else on the motherboard. To do the expansion card I had to remove it, so that part wound up being done safely and sanely. I popped that back in, and turned on the machine, just to see what would happen with the hack only half-done. Memory error, well duh. Ok, well I was curious, gimme a break. Further curiosity killed my Amiga. I decided (no accident, I *decided*) to see what it would look like if I did the motherboard hack with the system still running. I was working very close to the CPU, and managed to bump it with my flux tool, shorting at least 2 pins, and *bzzzzzzt*! My monitor went from its warm yellow 'memory error' screen colour to a disconcerting black. I still don't know what possessed me to try that, but I have not repeated that experiment on any other machine since. :)
(after replacing the CPU, the hack worked fine btw)
What's Google, where do I download it?
(just kidding)
It sounds like a horrible multiplayer situation. The poor machine would have to run 4 copies of the game at once, and I can't see that working very well. I'd rather have the network latency, thanks.
Why does the government feel that it needs to know the "ID" of my vehicle?
Because people steal cars. A lot. Remember that the government is made of people, and is *for* people. Some of the things they try to protect us from are just stupid, and other things, like vehicle registries, help us out. I don't see a VIN as a privacy issue at all. A unique ID in my CPU on the other hand, that's entirely different.
If you *do* want email from a certain company, and you signed up for it, then you should add that domain/email to your white list. Simple as that.
Ok, so if I sign up at say, gamespot.com and they are going to email me a confirmation message to activate my account (so, NOT spam), I can simply assume that adding '@gamespot.com' to my whitelist will let it through? Maybe, and maybe not. I won't know the email address they are sending this message from until I get it. That's why whitelists are not such a great solution.
Soldiers away from home should have access to email at all! That they do is a sad commentary on the state of the military.
I'm assuming you meant to say should not have access. It's interesting because just two days ago I was talking with a former soldier, who is disgusted with today's military. His opinion is that a soldier is Government Property, and that soldiers shouldn't have rights. Otherwise they are not as effective as they could be. It sounds cold, but has a huge ring of good sense.
Hasn't anyone with a hotmail address noticed that sometimes you just don't get messages? It happens with them, that's why I don't rely on hotmail, it's just a spam-catcher that I use when I need to put an email address in a public or semi-public location. A friend of mine recently switched to Yahoo because she thought that hotmail was censoring messages of a pagan nature. I figured that was hogwash, but the fact was she hadn't been getting messages she'd been expecting. That's just hotmail sucking, IMHO, no conspiracy needed, just incompetance.
In the linked PDF file, the judge notes that the plaintiffs DID read the privacy policy and their complaint is that it says their info will not be shared.
So wtf is with all the comments (including the editor comments) about EULAs being invalid if you don't read them?
Re-quoting my own post here because it got modded as troll for some reason. Come get me, I've got karma to burn..
In the linked PDF file, the judge notes that the plaintiffs DID read the privacy policy and their complaint is that it says their info will not be shared.
So wtf is with all the comments (including the editor comments) about EULAs being invalid if you don't read them?
Regardless, the way has been paved. It is not now like it was then, and if it *has* to be external it can still become popularly accepted.