Comment Re:Rather late (Score 1) 313
4-5 generations?
Our computers still support ASCII from 1960. I'm sure that mp3 support won't go away in my lifetime. And copyright terms will expire before even your 2nd generation of lossy recoding happens.
4-5 generations?
Our computers still support ASCII from 1960. I'm sure that mp3 support won't go away in my lifetime. And copyright terms will expire before even your 2nd generation of lossy recoding happens.
The ads are replaced with a small message thanking them for being a contributor. The space where the advert would have been is filled with a pixelated pattern, instead of being removed entirely
Maybe we'll get to see pop-ups with pixelated messages of thanks!
At 17 years of age, you do not have enough life experience to say anything of real importance about anything involving the greater issues facing society. Incidentally, What Adults Can Learn From Kids ~ {null}, which is why society would function much more smoothly if the voting age were raised back to 25.
Wow! That's mean. As a 40 year old myself, I've learnt a lot from my and other kids. I wonder whether you, Anonymous Coward, have enough life experience to back up your claims?
I have yet to be convinced that any of these vendors can provide as much uptime and reliability as a decent IT department
A good place to start would be getting the numbers. Do you know any numbers about uptime of web-servers maintained by IT departments?
If it is truly single player why would you need a network connection? If the changes are made centrally then there is no need for an always-on connection: just provide optional updates from time to time.
It sounded to me as if (1) yes they are providing updates from time to time, and that "time to time" is every time you do a commercial transaction. (2) why do they need the network connection? I assume because it was lower-risk for them and their schedule to use the same economy engine than to develop two separate economy engines.
Maybe they discovered that their economic engine felt a bit lackluster unless there are huge numbers of participants (reminds me of Ultima Online) and they wanted to force there to be a higher number of participants, both single-player and multi-player. So they're forcing everyone to contribute to make the economy engine feel more realistic.
Gosh, $500 is a lot. What kind of things did you keep paying for?
Does Frontier even have a choise but do refund? Single player was part of contract that backer bought, you can go back later and change contract to your liking.
To be clear: THEY STILL HAVE single-player. The only thing is that single-player requires an online connection, and is done in a galaxy that evolves.
Call me anti-social but I don't like playing with others
??? They said the game would have single-player. Presumably that means "not playing with others". The only thing is that the single-player game will require an online connection and the galaxy will gradually evolve.
Now you are going to be sharing the galaxy with immature, adolescent school kids and any unusual features you will ascribe to a human moderator putting them there. It's going to have more similarity to Eve Online than Elite.
Why do you say that? They clearly state that they will have single- and multi-player. And they say that single-player requires an online connection so it gets a gradually evolving galaxy. That sounds more like automatically-downloaded DLC, entirely different from "sharing the galaxy".
It took a while for me to decode all that marketing speak to figure out that they were canning single player.
How did you get that? What I understood was that single-player still exists, but it requires an internet connection and is in a galaxy that steadily evolves. Here's what they actually said:
it does mean the single player has to connect to the server from time to time, but this has the added advantage that everyone can participate in the activities that can happen in the galaxy
So: their statement is that single player exists, and it's in an evolving galaxy, sort of like implicit/automatic DLC.
Honestly, your complaints seem totally ridiculous.
I'm in the same boat as you. I paid an initial kickstarter fee. I enjoy seeing screenshots and videos. And when the game comes out then I'll get a copy of it at no extra cost. That's what kickstarter is.
If you're "fatigued" by their requests for more backing? If you're upset that you don't get access to the beta without paying for more money? First world problems, a.k.a. "whining".
I love that one! Wife and I have a few squares after dinner each night. Delicious.
I thought
JIT has to be done very quickly. Therefore it's purely local (method-by-method) rather than cross-method. Also even within a method it only has time to do simple easy optimizations. NGEN is a way to do JIT ahead of time. But it still only uses the same JIT algorithm, i.e. doesn't do heavy-duty optimization.
Also,
.NET applications still need read about 1GB of libraries from the disk (only portions are kept in memory). This is why
.NET Native speeds up startup times considerably. The way it works is it compiles your
disclaimer: I'm on the
In concept making the
Yes exactly that. Imagine you wanted to change System.Xml.dll. You'd do that, and distribute your modified version of the binary alongside your app. (You won't be installing the binary framework system-wide; you'll only be distributing your updates to it locally).
disclaimer: I'm on the VB/C# language team.
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. -- R.S. Barton
