It wasn't a total flop. You just don't know every decent Doom 3 TC.
For instance, now I'm not expert on Doom 3 mods (because, frankly, I monitor open source games) but I still know about the excellent The Dark Mod - a total conversion Thief-inspired game.
I'm sure there's plenty more.
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Note quite Elite 4, but a pretty good fan-made successor is Oolite.
The test versions include support for shaders, bringing more modern looking ships to the game.
The problem is not so much with the pride the submitter takes in his solution - I'm sure he's not as arrogant as your joke implies - but it's in his blinded attitude towards (bordering on worship of) Python:
Python has tremendous advantages... Advantages that have nothing to do with libraries, and can be traced back to the combination of (a) functional programming and (b) the perfect syntax that Python offers. I would truly be amazed to see anyone writing the same sorting logic in C++ in anything less than 3 times the lines of code I wrote for in Python.
Perfect syntax? I mean, come on, besides the fact that perfect means flawless and this being a subjective issue, Python's syntax is far from perfect. It's just better than C/C++.
Each to their own. I tried using Python, and (as somebody who uses Java/JavaScript/XML regularly) it just wasn't fun. The submitter needs to learn to speak in relative terms i.e. "It's perfect for me."
I think it was 7.10 that first included Tracker turned on by default. At this point Tracker was still alpha software, many users reported it taking up all available resources, and complaints were simply brushed aside.
After suffering from my Ubuntu installation constantly freezing due to trackerd, and being unable to disable it without removing it (I disabled it in 3 separate places but it still persisted on restart) I installed Fedora and never looked back. It may not be quite so "polished" but it hasn't sprung any nasty surprises on me.
I'm not condoning the Chinese but all these "freedom" loving countries love to tout freedom when it suits them, but almost all of them support some kind of despot or tyranny when it's in their economic interest. Saddam Hussein and his ilk or creations of the west. The mess in Africa created by our conquests. So we improve a bit and then we get to tell the world what to do? At least the Olympics is forcing China to show some form of improvement and it will have a lasting effect.
Yes, the US has done some nasty things, but come on, to compare it in any way to the vast machinery of propaganda that PRC uses to control the Chinese people with the idiocies and sins of your average US Administration is pathetic.
You're right. It's far harsher to hold the Chinese people to account for the actions of their government. The American people, on the other hand, voted in Bush not once but twice and the country has committed some horrendous acts under his 'control'. The American people are directly accountable for at least the last 4 years following his disastrous first term.
If Bush is not impeached, and his administration jailed for fleecing the American people, a war based on lies, and the atrocities of Guantanamo bay, then America really needs to think twice about throwing stones.
My 2nd hope is for OOo 3 to stop using Java... for anything really. There's no point in having Java handle things behind the scenes on an otherwise compiled application. It just make things slow to load and slow to run.
Stop peddling misconceptions and myths. It erodes the credibility of your other statements.
Java is not inherently slow, especially not for complex applications. Java done badly... yes... slow, but so is C++ done badly, Python done badly, etc. Since the slowness of Java comes down to loading the environment and all the helpful libs, it actually lends itself well to a large application like OOo which makes heavy use of the feature rich environment Java provides - the "Java dependency" only really looks bad in a "Hello World!"-style example.
It's often debated whether mathematics is invented or discovered. I think the question is irrelevant.
Y'know, if this were a software solution, it would be patentable... imagine how set back science would be if mathematics was as patentable as software? Perhaps that's a strong way to position the case against software patents.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I didn't tend to look at the housewife magazine covers. In the few minutes I had to look whenever I was in store with a parent, I looked at the computer game and comic magazines / covers, and the housewife stuff was a distant last behind all the other interesting things (car magazines etc). Magazine cover titles are insignificant next to the problem that, extremely inadvertently, a child can be looking at hardcore porn in a second if they type the wrong keyword into Google.
Haiku is a ground-up rewrite of BeOS. The only thing shared between the two is the general design and the support for BeOS R5 applications. Haiku addresses many of the shortcomings in BeOS R5 (e.g. better POSIX compliance). I'm sure they are considering security as well.
Try following the top links rather than just counting them. The number of times Bush & his cronies talk about success of their wars vs the actual results.
Results 1 - 10 of about 344,000 for iraq chaos. (0.18 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,430,000 for iraq success. (0.16 seconds)
So you're telling me Iraq is... a success?
The problem is that the US government would have you believe they brought democracy to Afghanistan, but in reality what they really introduced was chaos.
There are different circumstances to take into account.
I work on an open source project Vexi. When we chose the name, we registered vexi.org and life was good for 2 years. Towards the end of the 2 years, the person who registered the domain name became difficult to contact and the domain expired. Some cyber squatting scum picked it up automatically and we had no chance to re-register it ourselves. Now the only recourse to get our domain back is to launch some kind of legal challenge, which we have neither the time nor resources to do plus we don't have a presence in the US where the offending squatter is.
In our case, the domain expiring was required, but we were not savvy enough to retain the domain and now it's in misuse.
The article is a complete contradiction.
He starts with:
"There's nothing wrong with Vista," I told him, "but you guys have a big problem on your hands. Perception is reality, and the perception is that Vista is a dud." So, he says Vista is good. Strangely, for something that there has "nothing wrong" with it, he has some surprisingly strong complaints:
I have a quad-core PC at home, with 3GB of RAM and a powerful graphics card, and I still wonder why Vista sometimes seems so slow.
"As I was saying, the UAC. For everything I do, and I mean everything--whether I'm installing an app, a game, or a Microsoft product--the UAC is always jumping in to warn me. It appears with such jarring regularity, and I do mean jarring--what's with that crazy screen shift, Bob?--that I no longer read it. I simply say 'OK' to everything. Is this what Microsoft intended? I ratchet it down in the OS, but then, am I disabling a key portion of Vista's security features? No feature should be so in-your-face that it becomes faceless."
"Do an Apple and start with new code..." Ok... so the OS has "nothing wrong"... and this is a guy that loves Vista.
I bought a laptop 4 months ago with Vista Home installed. First thing I did was visit Windows update. Then I installed Java and downloaded Eclipse (I'm a Java dev). Extracting Eclipse from the zip file was going at
I had done nothing else other than the steps I described. No other software, this is just an hour or 2 after switching it on for the first time.
That's on a par with the peformance of Windows ME - actually it's worse than my Windows ME experiences. Yes, I was just using Vista Home, but if that's the crap they peddle to consumers, who can be surprised when they are miffed that their new PC performs horribly and is unstable?
It would make no sense to support anything other than 8.04 which is going to be a LTS release, especially since this Lotus Notes version is still in beta.
Wow, so, according to you, it's impossible to live without cars and the fuel that powers them. Trains, buses, working remotely, all this must be alien to you.
They could all die and would make 0% difference in my life!
Well, that's why we're fucked; yours is the general attitude. At least you admit to it.
Give me my cheap, locally produced gas
I'm assuming you are American. Unfortunately for you, the cheap gas is no longer local to you and hasn't been for a while.
I like the quote from the one of your founding fathers. Sadly not enough people seem to be familiar with this or the only presidential candidate who seems to stand by them.
I can barely find anything on our "impartial" bbc news pages relating to Ron Paul; I can imagine he gets pretty much blanked in the US media.
You can make good pocket-money from ad-supported revenue, but building it into your application is not the way to go.
What you do is have a web portal for your software - forums, documentation, task/bug tracking, news. You give users reason to return to the portal, through articles, regular updates, good documentation, good tutorials, good support, good community, and (most importantly) a well written application.
Get your software on all the relevant listings - Freshmeat etc - and try and get it on popular news sites (digg,/.) to boost your users and web traffic.
Using this model you can easily get a few 1000 hits a day. I mean, a single contributor could easily rack up 100 hits a day via forum viewings, documentation reading, and forum/support interaction.
As the author of a news website, 1000 hits can roughly translate to $1 a day. So if you can get it up to 5000 hits a day, it's not going to pay the mortgage but it certainly helps.
I don't actually know of any [serious] Rails applications. Does it power anything meaningful? I mean, I looked at the website, and there's all this hype there and on community sites like/., but where's the substance? "Show me the money."
Yup, that ridiculous sentence reflects the overall quality of this artcile. It's complete garbage. Take a few announcements, summarize as predictions, then somehow get posted on/. We already know KDE4 will be here in January, ATI announced specs for it's video drivers months ago, Ubuntu + Fedora + others already have Compiz as the default, OOXML is much publicized, and without further research I'm fairly certain the other 2 mentions issues (DRM + End Software Patent Coalition) are nothing new. And finally make some pathetic assertion that Java is trying to catch.NET and not the other way around.
I know there's plenty of crap on the net but it seems that the crap filters are breaking down because I am finding myself directed to rubbish not-worth-reading articles on a far more regular basis through sites like/. and fsdaily than a few years ago.
To start with, this just isn't true. People loved Windows 98 when it came out (Windows 95 was barely usable in terms of stability) and Windows 2000 had a similar impact again. There were dissenters for XP but they faded away with the arrival of XPsp1 - Vista sp1 doesn't seem to be having a similar effect. I accept that ME was a botched release but it got torn apart by critics and never widely adopted due to the problems with it. It's not implausible - although it's unlikely - that Vista will suffer a similar fate. Since Vista has more commitment from Microsoft than it's ME release did, I suspect that Moore's law will eventually come to the rescue.
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Meh, Ultima Underworld did not look like crap. It also used sprites.
It wasn't a total flop. You just don't know every decent Doom 3 TC. For instance, now I'm not expert on Doom 3 mods (because, frankly, I monitor open source games) but I still know about the excellent The Dark Mod - a total conversion Thief-inspired game. I'm sure there's plenty more.
Note quite Elite 4, but a pretty good fan-made successor is Oolite. The test versions include support for shaders, bringing more modern looking ships to the game.
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Well on the way to being a usable replacement engine, built with modern tools, instead of some 10+ year old codebase.
Perfect syntax? I mean, come on, besides the fact that perfect means flawless and this being a subjective issue, Python's syntax is far from perfect. It's just better than C/C++. Each to their own. I tried using Python, and (as somebody who uses Java/JavaScript/XML regularly) it just wasn't fun. The submitter needs to learn to speak in relative terms i.e. "It's perfect for me."
I think it was 7.10 that first included Tracker turned on by default. At this point Tracker was still alpha software, many users reported it taking up all available resources, and complaints were simply brushed aside. After suffering from my Ubuntu installation constantly freezing due to trackerd, and being unable to disable it without removing it (I disabled it in 3 separate places but it still persisted on restart) I installed Fedora and never looked back. It may not be quite so "polished" but it hasn't sprung any nasty surprises on me.
I'm not condoning the Chinese but all these "freedom" loving countries love to tout freedom when it suits them, but almost all of them support some kind of despot or tyranny when it's in their economic interest. Saddam Hussein and his ilk or creations of the west. The mess in Africa created by our conquests. So we improve a bit and then we get to tell the world what to do? At least the Olympics is forcing China to show some form of improvement and it will have a lasting effect.
You're right. It's far harsher to hold the Chinese people to account for the actions of their government. The American people, on the other hand, voted in Bush not once but twice and the country has committed some horrendous acts under his 'control'. The American people are directly accountable for at least the last 4 years following his disastrous first term.
If Bush is not impeached, and his administration jailed for fleecing the American people, a war based on lies, and the atrocities of Guantanamo bay, then America really needs to think twice about throwing stones.
Mod me down. I expect it.
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid I didn't tend to look at the housewife magazine covers. In the few minutes I had to look whenever I was in store with a parent, I looked at the computer game and comic magazines / covers, and the housewife stuff was a distant last behind all the other interesting things (car magazines etc). Magazine cover titles are insignificant next to the problem that, extremely inadvertently, a child can be looking at hardcore porn in a second if they type the wrong keyword into Google.
Haiku is a ground-up rewrite of BeOS. The only thing shared between the two is the general design and the support for BeOS R5 applications. Haiku addresses many of the shortcomings in BeOS R5 (e.g. better POSIX compliance). I'm sure they are considering security as well.
Try following the top links rather than just counting them. The number of times Bush & his cronies talk about success of their wars vs the actual results. Results 1 - 10 of about 344,000 for iraq chaos. (0.18 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 1,430,000 for iraq success. (0.16 seconds) So you're telling me Iraq is... a success?
The problem is that the US government would have you believe they brought democracy to Afghanistan, but in reality what they really introduced was chaos.
There are different circumstances to take into account.
I work on an open source project Vexi. When we chose the name, we registered vexi.org and life was good for 2 years. Towards the end of the 2 years, the person who registered the domain name became difficult to contact and the domain expired. Some cyber squatting scum picked it up automatically and we had no chance to re-register it ourselves. Now the only recourse to get our domain back is to launch some kind of legal challenge, which we have neither the time nor resources to do plus we don't have a presence in the US where the offending squatter is.
In our case, the domain expiring was required, but we were not savvy enough to retain the domain and now it's in misuse.
I bought a laptop 4 months ago with Vista Home installed. First thing I did was visit Windows update. Then I installed Java and downloaded Eclipse (I'm a Java dev). Extracting Eclipse from the zip file was going at
I had done nothing else other than the steps I described. No other software, this is just an hour or 2 after switching it on for the first time.
That's on a par with the peformance of Windows ME - actually it's worse than my Windows ME experiences. Yes, I was just using Vista Home, but if that's the crap they peddle to consumers, who can be surprised when they are miffed that their new PC performs horribly and is unstable?
It would make no sense to support anything other than 8.04 which is going to be a LTS release, especially since this Lotus Notes version is still in beta.
Wow, so, according to you, it's impossible to live without cars and the fuel that powers them. Trains, buses, working remotely, all this must be alien to you.
They could all die and would make 0% difference in my life!Well, that's why we're fucked; yours is the general attitude. At least you admit to it.
Give me my cheap, locally produced gasI'm assuming you are American. Unfortunately for you, the cheap gas is no longer local to you and hasn't been for a while.
I like the quote from the one of your founding fathers. Sadly not enough people seem to be familiar with this or the only presidential candidate who seems to stand by them. I can barely find anything on our "impartial" bbc news pages relating to Ron Paul; I can imagine he gets pretty much blanked in the US media.
Or perhaps he went to Microsoft to "get the facts"?
You can make good pocket-money from ad-supported revenue, but building it into your application is not the way to go. What you do is have a web portal for your software - forums, documentation, task/bug tracking, news. You give users reason to return to the portal, through articles, regular updates, good documentation, good tutorials, good support, good community, and (most importantly) a well written application. Get your software on all the relevant listings - Freshmeat etc - and try and get it on popular news sites (digg, /.) to boost your users and web traffic.
Using this model you can easily get a few 1000 hits a day. I mean, a single contributor could easily rack up 100 hits a day via forum viewings, documentation reading, and forum/support interaction.
As the author of a news website, 1000 hits can roughly translate to $1 a day. So if you can get it up to 5000 hits a day, it's not going to pay the mortgage but it certainly helps.
I don't actually know of any [serious] Rails applications. Does it power anything meaningful? I mean, I looked at the website, and there's all this hype there and on community sites like /., but where's the substance? "Show me the money."
Yup, that ridiculous sentence reflects the overall quality of this artcile. It's complete garbage. Take a few announcements, summarize as predictions, then somehow get posted on /. We already know KDE4 will be here in January, ATI announced specs for it's video drivers months ago, Ubuntu + Fedora + others already have Compiz as the default, OOXML is much publicized, and without further research I'm fairly certain the other 2 mentions issues (DRM + End Software Patent Coalition) are nothing new. And finally make some pathetic assertion that Java is trying to catch .NET and not the other way around.
/. and fsdaily than a few years ago.
/. standards get even worse.
I know there's plenty of crap on the net but it seems that the crap filters are breaking down because I am finding myself directed to rubbish not-worth-reading articles on a far more regular basis through sites like
My 2008 prediction -
To start with, this just isn't true. People loved Windows 98 when it came out (Windows 95 was barely usable in terms of stability) and Windows 2000 had a similar impact again. There were dissenters for XP but they faded away with the arrival of XPsp1 - Vista sp1 doesn't seem to be having a similar effect. I accept that ME was a botched release but it got torn apart by critics and never widely adopted due to the problems with it. It's not implausible - although it's unlikely - that Vista will suffer a similar fate. Since Vista has more commitment from Microsoft than it's ME release did, I suspect that Moore's law will eventually come to the rescue.