intelligent rants n raves and 2 sextillion cents worth of opinions on games/hardware/incompetent and competent devs and software tools and the occasional Milwaukee Tool talk
Milwaukee Tool in the last few months brought out 2 new super sawzall recip saws
the 6523-21 Super Sawzall (with a 360 degree rotating handle) &
the 6536-21 Orbital Super Sawzall
Though I doubt you'll see any char running around an MMO wielding one of them , they just dont have the same 'impact' as a chain saw [pardon the pun] .... that and you'd need some really long in-game cords ...
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get 10x as much useful coverage out of joystiq or other mmo sites blogs and news articles
a little less boring material about flights, food, and blah blah blah - a little more INFORMATION would be nice
it's like a snooooooooooozefest reading those blogs
is this why people go listen/watch the 'Yahtzee' rants? i really only read very very few blogs - i like getting something out of my reading - pleasure reading is more like ..fantasy tales not someones blog about "this morning i had 2 cups of coffee instead of 1; work; lunch; came home fed my lizard to my cat .... now i'm going drinking yaaaaay" useless boring info
who is using Sony's phyre engine in any upcoming MMOs? what is Blizz secret MMO about? what MMO is microsoft going to come out or what big gaming company are they going to buy??? [they just bought caligari last month so they are boning up on entertainment, graphics, and other related companies]
put some meat on the soup bone or don't labor over the stove ....
on that note - bit the bullet and ordered adobe cs3 web premium today - so i can finally get around to my side projects of some new algs and photoshop plugins & filters ...that and dreamweaver will save me some time on crafting decent wikis and documentation - user & internal facing docsites in xml or maybe the new html 5 when adobe puts out an update (adobe needs to get homer simpson to do a commercial for them a DOH be)
could really care less about flash - for the most part i hate it on sites - even on broadband it slows things down and doesnt add a lot of benefit - cost-benefit analysis says pffffffffffft to flash
hmm maybe i'll create some adaptive plugins that adapt to user tastes ? maybe some evolutionary algorithms and it can run over night tweaking millions of passes through an image and delivering up categorized samples to the user so he/she can settle on a set of algs+params that suite his taste and priorities - *shrug* who knows , that one is a wayssssssssss off - way too much to do that's easier first
C++ya,
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at least for the new lap wireless card
neither one is set for it - ..... would have to drop in new ndis wrappers & manually config
seriously networking is the one and only aspect of IS/Compsci that bores the besheesus outta me - it's nitpick after nitpick after nitpick - flip this switch or register set this param ... nothing difficult just pain in the rump and non-standard as all heck
guess i'll go sans for a few weeks until i have the time to get the wireless manually working on either of them [for now fedora 9 ... maybe if hardy heron pulls ahead in drivers i'll drop that ontop of it]
well back to gcc,
peace,
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Do you put your pc to use when you're not actively playing your games? ya should if u have it on sucking juice - do something useful with it
BOINC has a lot of projects; if you can find a new huge mersenne prime you could get a piece of a million dollars running gimp [the prime finding prog not the free art prog]
I guess I probably wont get both spellborn and war - whichever one makes it to market first - i just dont have enough time to waste on both; heck i really shouldnt even waste time on them or any game - but i like to spend a few hours every month on GW - and i liked what they did to lotro (havent played in over a week though - too busy way way too busy)
later,
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Ha I need to pay attention to some of the auto-pays on my CC sometimes - I've been paying for LOTRO at the founders rate since I stopped playing in month 1 - silly me , my bachelors in applied math is good for something .... wall art :)
so i played a few mins the other day and i ahve to tell you it is a lot better than during final beta and the first 2 weeks - it's really fun, easy to play with enough challenge starting to come on that i wont be bored anytime soon. i need to log more time to see where it shines and where it falls short though ... .so the jury will remain out for a few weeks on a summary.
8-16 inches OOOOO Aahhh of snow starting any minute... what in hades - need MORE global warming MORE i tell ye!
actually they keep revising it upward - i've been out spending my state tax refund today so who knows what the expected snowfall total is now [picked up a new prescription+pair of specs so my eyes are happy with me anyhow; picked up seasons 2 & 3 of sponge bob for Cass - she can sponge bob to her hearts content when she gets back from her mothers (friday night we make the kiddle swap), picked up a new kitchen garbage can (cass breaks things .... not on purpose mind you .. .she's just rambunctious and strong very strong) and some other odds n ends]
Politics for $500,000,000,000,000,000 Alex please ...... THIS IS JEOPARDY - well super tuesday, close enough!
The candidates? meh lacking all around in every party
I can tell you this much though if Barrack Hussein Obama is the dem candidate I will vote for the GOP candidate - not a matter of racism there either, i have Afr Am nephews that i love , i would vote for Colin Powell if he were running [solid military leader, solid family man - no drugs etc, man of stature, honesty and integrity not lies lies lies]
most of the political candidates lie *but*
OBama was too chicken to vote up or down on a lot of issues - he fence sat to protect his image???? afraid of making a mistake that would cost his image down the road ...... chicken LIVER; i want a prez with balls - hillary or mccain both have more balls than obama
Obama talks a good game but he's got as many shady real estate friend issues as the clintons did
Obama was a major druggy - sorry i'll pass on having a flashback prez
Putin, Chinese leaders, N Korea, and a few other nations would pull a lot of crap on Obama that they wouldnt dream of pulling on Mccain or Clinton knowing they would send troops to meet force with force
I don't want a pansy in the white house even though i would like to see more done for the poor and disenfranchised
it's a bad idea to give drivers licenses to illegal aliens - we need more legal immigration but encouraging more illegal immigration is not the answer. Enough grrr can't believe so many imbeciles are voting for obama in primaries. [do some people really think americans would vote for a man with muslim heritage(evident in his name and his fathers relatives; even if he "denies" being of similar faith) with 9-11 only being 7 years prior???]
of course if Mitt "flip flop, lie and i'm right you're wrong cause i'm a major *slick* arse" Romney is the GOP candidate i'll have to vote against him too - one day he is pro abortion the next anti, one day tax this the next day lower all taxes .... oh yeah i'd love that ..except who the hell would pay the military or day to day govt operations etc .. nasa is nice ...etc our govt isnt such a bad size - stll needs to be more efficient but romney and paul have some serious issues
i'd have to vote independent if it becomes an obama vs romney election - ewwwww that might mean ralph nader .... someone get Bill Gates or Schmidt to run!
freaking politics - can't wait until it's over
Seriously better candidates would have been JD Rocks descendants on the Dem side or Evan Bayh or ... Edward James Olmos (is he even democratic? lol); on the GOP side they should have gotten Colin Powell or Bill Gates or Schmidt (Google CEO) or Chuck Norris to run
<< goes back to game programming gems 6
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Stealth - seems to be a mostly loved or hated attribute in MMOs; sure there are those of us in the middle that could really care less either way. Maybe it's only the hardcore 1000+ hours a year in a particular MMO issue. *shrug* I read the supposed pro/con points; most individuals don't really apply a logical analysis and argument in support of their position. So should I then care or buy into it? Oh HELL NO. If you can't make a good argument you're wasting time. Maybe the developers feel the same way? or ... .maybe they just don't care as some gamers seem to forget "it's just a G-A-M-E"
Speaking of just don't care - Heath Ledgers family and/or friends don't want his dirty lil secrets aired
BAH - wtf, people who are sitting pretty on 'career success', monetary success and they can't find excitement or challenge or de-stress? pansies, vile, wimps, idiots & imbeciles - try being a single parent without an overflowing bank account if they want stress - my only addictions are a few hours a week in a game or maybe viewing a few movies a month ...or hugging and kissing my daughter each night and watching her grow ... she's the ultimate de-stresser :)
it's really irritating to see people look up to hollywood stars, singing stars, athletes when 50% of those individuals haven't worked hard in years and seem to have forgotten that the 'body is a temple' they treat it like a dump - dumping booze, pills, fattening food (and then getting lipo or $100 an hour trainers and weight loss drugs ... and Lord knows what else to take the pounds off), shooting up or snorting nose candy
and yet politicians and evangelicals [hey i'm christian but evangelicals beat paths to the wrong doors ] completely miss the boat in passing legislation and attempting to regulate fairly healthy addictions such as sex, games, and vitamins (fda meh)
they need to knock the carp out of steroid abusing athletes, drug using starlets and singers - nail em to the proverbial wall - they do the crime make em do the time
heads will roll if anyone ever approaches my kid when she is a teen and tries to entice her to ciggs, booze or drugs
instead of a war in iraq done wrong [ pull the troops out and warn them that you'll blow em off the face of the planet if they don't change their evil ways - if they don't then follow through, if they do then no worries - problem solved] do a war on drugs right
make love in life, make grief in games :)
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