I think all this stuff is hard for computer geeks like us, but not everyone in this world are that. My brother is very mechanically inclined. He could probably build a sword out of grass if he had to.
I agree, it's an exaggeration of how much traffic has malicious intent. For that matter, even going by those graphs only 2% of internet traffic is bot-related, in my books. Granted, in the phpBB forums I own it's more like 90%, so it is significant. More and more internet traffic is web services related, such as RESTful API--and an increasingly large number of businesses openly offer REST services to provide you with their product and pricing information.&
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LoL tournament screencast today at noon-4pm central US time. http://www.ign.com/ipl . I plan on being there late for the finals, and I'll take some pictures. Really I want to sit in on the Starcraft II tourney, which is just after. Funny thing is, the weather in Austin today SUCKS. Yet I have never seen a turnout like this.
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You know that Gamespot and Gamestop are not the same thing, right? Anyway, if you go over to my thread "Hey, I actually like Civ V", I actually regret NOT listening to Gamespot on that one. It was the exact opposite situation. Critical reviews are definitely not the be-all, end-all, but we at least need something to go by before plunking down our money. About SXSW, holy cow, that is a totally happening place. The video gam
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hey man. i've got good news. it is being webcast. go to ign.com/ipl. right now they're doing some street fighter game, but tomorrow afternoon they should be webcasting their LoL tournament.
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Actually, they're supposed to be up to 20k this year, and that's just for SXSW Interactive. The LoL tournament and the Starcraft II tournament are part of what is called Screenburn, and that is open to the general public. It's dedicated to computer gaming--both for players and professionals. I've been the last several years and I still think it isn't quite singlehandedly travelling all the way to Austin for, if that's all you'
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There is a professional LoL tournament at South by Southwest tomorrow. Interesting.... I haven't played LoL but I'll go watch.
I refuse to download anything except through Steam. Just kidding.
You want to know a cool job...I interviewed with Lockheed back when the F-22 was still under design. They had models of the F-22 before it was a real thing and models of lots of planes you've probably never heard of because they never made it to "mass" production. Besides that, I would have been designing the real thing. In the end, though, I took another job for the better pay. But there was no question this was cool work. All the defense jobs wer
[quote]Too much. No sensitivity?[/quote] If I offended, I apologize. I lump it in the same category as playing WW2 computer games as the Nazis and machinegunning down the hapless Yanks. It's all in good fun.
This is a fun hobby, but hardly unique. I went to a reenactment of an Okinawa assault on a Japanese pillbox, and they had an operational Stuart tank, halftrack, and 60mm mortar. But none of that held a candle to the flamethrower--quite literally. Nothing was nearly as impressive as the guy spraying a can of whoop-a** on the pillbox. Only thing missing were the screaming Japs running out of the pillbox alight--who incidentally the Japs looked strangely an awful lot
Yep, flying is the same right, and always has been. Being able to drive and fly is what liberty is all about. Having to get the government's permission to travel wherever you want, whenver you want is precisely what we have always hated about the Soviets.
I reject this whole "driving is not a right it's a privilege" baloney. Yes, it's a right. The Declaration of Independence America was founded on says that humans are endowed certain inalienable rights by their Creator: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The right to drive is liberty. Making it a privilege the government gives us permission to do goes against the precepts America was founded on.
[quote]We're in the same category of people who worry about the iBooks license agreement or the whether a browser truly supports HTML 5. It's a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the population.[/quote] HTML 5 matters. This is a case of most of the world not caring because it's not layman's stuff--not because it doesn't affect them. It does. It's kind of the like how most people don't care about Washington shutting down over all their
Not to tout the infinite superiority of a certain Operating System over another, but when I update my drivers, I just do a yum update. *cough* *cough*
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[quote]Can it generate positive numbers on green paper and be used to buy stuff. That would be cool.[/quote] Probably but not a lot of merchants accept 7.51 dollar bills.
I picked up Civ IV late and got it for like $3.50 for the 4-pack: vanilla, Warlords, BTS, and Colonization. Colonization is probably good, but really hard to get into because it only makes you want to play BTS or FFH. Very fun. Here's my list of minor issues with Civ V so far: - Bonus resources are underpowered. They each need their own unique little bonus besides just +1 food/production. Bananas you should be able t
MHO, but putting electrolytes in an energy drink is a BAD idea. Excess electrolytes is an excellent way to raise your blood pressure, but without raising your energy level. The point is to give yourself an adrenaline rush, and that raises your blood pressure enough as it is. You want to give your brain a jump start--not a stroke.
It would still be interesting to know the root cause of why the optimized code was so many orders of magnitude faster than debug. Especially if it has to do with DirectX, since I plan on diving into CUDA before too long. Knowing that bottleneck might give clues to other performance problems, particularly if it involves some sort of unnecessary and complex handshake between the CPU and GPU.
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Oooh I have the ultimate random positive thing: srand!!! Its C++ function prototype is: void srand ( unsigned int seed ); Thus it's a random number generator that generates only positive numbers. I win I win!
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If Brad is quiet on this thread, I think it's because this thread appears like one of those where someone's trying to make a name for themselves by tangling with the CEO. It's not unusual, actually--college football players get this problem all the time when they go bar-hopping. Macho guys everywhere trying to pick fights with them. If a football player gets in a bar brawl, sure, he'll win handily--but he's off the team. His hands are tied.</p
I just don't appreciate being tracked every time I boot up a game. It's my game, my business when I play it. But also the online thing, too--I like to be offline altogether unless there's a good reason to be online.
This will probably downgrade me from buying Rebellion when it comes out to buying it when it's on sale for $9.99. I expect I'll be waiting another year and a half.
Yeah in Civ IV I normally wouldn't even go on an offensive war until Industrial because of the movement. And then when I did...railroads, airports, paratroopers, transports, blimps, lots of workers to throw up last-minute railroads..... No obsoleting problem there. I haven't done Civ V much yet but so far it seems even slower, because every city takes a freaking siege of Leningrad before you can take it.
That's true. I'm still a noob, but I'm growing my empire in peace. Built the Great Wall (that Wonder is actually useful now! Yay!), and simply growing my population does plenty in the way of buffing my city's bombard attack. I'm garrisoning one unit per city anyway simply for the happiness (I filled out all the Honor policy tree). Possible invasions are of no concern to me. And the second half of the game, I get all the