Hmmm.. Interesting to hear from a comparative linguistics student.. Only one tiny little question: What the HELL does this have to do with a kernel-space webserver, or an interview with its author!?
Yeah.. Well, you're witnessing the MUD community equivalent of Computer Programming 101 when you look at most of these mudlibs. =)
Nowadays, when I do MUD-specific stuff, I do it in ColdC or MUF. (I don't like TinyMUCK any more, now that I've found some nasty race conditions, but I'm the only maintainer available for a community that's MUCK-specific.)
Roxen is actually Pike-derivative, which is a high-level interpreted language. I also have more than a little mud coding in my past, and I remember LPC less than fondly. Frankly, I find the more general purpose languages like Python to be as facile for MUD design as LPC, given the correct modules, and a lot better in the performance department.
I wasn't very impressed with this guy's whining and ranting as documentation of what C# or.NET has to offer, or what its motivations are. I'd probably find an account of Steve Ballmer stubbing his toe on the way to work more interesting than this idiot.
Have you read the Cluetrain manifesto, lately? What is good for the consumer eventually winds up being good for the manufacturer. They scratch our backs, and many more of us scratch theirs.
This whole Us against Them mentality really has got to go.
This sort of crap from Activision, along with publishing non-functioning games (Heavy Gear2, Battlezone 2) and then abandoning them to the wolves because they don't sell well, has caused me to vote with my feet, and not buy their stuff.
Anyone remember the old Borland software licenses? They were worded along the lines of, 'So long as only the same person will use it, make as many copies as you like.' Now/that/ was an enlightened age.
I have a similar problem, with an ex-girlfriend scampering off with all my Fugazi and Ned's Atomic Dustbin CDs. I had to bite the bullet, and buy new ones, because my productivity dropped 50% without them. =)
It most certainly does not work with Quake 3! Q3 maintains a CD Key which is registered with a central server. If a second client tries to play on the internet with the same key as the first, it is declined.
There are ways around this, of course, the chief being playing behind a firewall that denies connectivity to the central servers, i.e. a LAN party. Carmack et al. couldn't give a damn about your version of fair use, he's too worried about the 2% of game players who want to pirate Quake.
I believe the author isn't going overboard with his assertions about the X-Men being a good allegory for the discrimination that <insert-minority-here> faces in the world today. He states, rather clearly, that he is looking at this from a gay perspective, and also states that it also works as a statement for all sorts of violence and hate aimed at those that are different.
I do take a little umbrage at the "Open Secret of Batman and Robin" crack, though.. Bruce Wayne had plenty of girlfriends.. He just never slept with.. Erm.. Hm.. There are some things you just wish you could unhear.. Now I can't help but think 'Bruce Wayne, pedophile'.
There's an interesting, parallel syndrome that has started affecting a small subsection of modern geeks: BeOS Persecution Complex.
Interestingly enough, the Inquisition doesn't appear to be the Microsoft users, who have traditionally been the most vicious in their ignorance, but some of the more rabid Linux devotees, now using many of the same attacks and barbs that Microsoft fans used to attack Linux: No Apps, No Hardware, Weird APIs, I don't like the Browser.
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If God had meant us, to spend our lives, in slavery to ignorance, he would have left us with minds as simple and uncomprehending as the beasts that surround us. We are not a mockery of the Creator, but a reflection of him; it is natural for humanity to wish to create, and affect the world around him, it is a desire we inherited from our Father.
Fear the man who wishes to make decisions for you, for he considers himself to be your master.--Nietzsche, horribly paraphrased and translated.
Turn your flame thrower off, and RTFFAQ. Mozilla supports just about every JVM out there, they just don't bundle it into their milestones, because JVMs are generally hefty downloads, and they aren't developing a new JVM. They're too busy reinventing the/other/ wheels.
Well.. I believe that most if not all line-soldiers in the intelligence war believe this to some degree.. Even their middle managers. But do not underestimate the lunatic fanatacism that occupies our government to the highest levels. Modern American government sees regulation of the world as its/new/ Manifest Destiny, a way to unify and pacify its own people by saying 'See? See what good we're doing?'
It's not that I think any/one/ man in the US Government, or many other governments, is evil.. I think, when you put them all in a room together, and with them all competing for public accolades and corporate sponsorship, the output is evil.
I, too, was outraged by our young hacker's actions, until I sat down and thought about it. Let's take each one of these things in sequence:
1) The Times acquires a document outlining the dirty particulars of a covert US operation. Parts of this document include name, places, and even possibly addresses, all of which could be harmful, to say the least.
2) The Times throws the digital equivalent of little bits of electrical tape over enough of the details to protect the individuals, leaving just enough to scandalize the reader and condemn the gov't for being bad, bad men. (Insert Fox Mulder and Whistling Theme Music.)
3) Our friend, the hacker, removes the pieces of tape, and posts it on his website, detailing how the act was done, and why the Times needs to be more careful when handling sensitive gov't documents.
First of all, the party/least/ guilty is our hacker. His crime? Announcing that it is possible to remove those little pieces of tape to see the words beneath. The other two parties are responsible for/anything/ that happens beyond that; the gov't for letting such information fall into unscrupulous hands (Are you reading, Los Alamos?) and the Times, for handling such a dangerous secret with such disrespect.
Posting the complete document on his website, was just nudging the last sheep out the door. Any foreign intelligence agency worth its dark sunglasses is likely capable of having done this, for themselves, if they really wanted the info. More than likely, they already have it. 1953 was a long time ago, in Intelligence years.
Actually, the standard in the legal fields is usually Plain Old ASCII Text, WordPerfect, and PDF in that order. I have/never/ seen a legal brief written in DOC format during my stint of sysadmin'ing for the courts.
C# probably doesn't support template classes and functions like C++, and some of the other C++ tricks that really benefit the header-and-implementation model that is so prevalent today. They're also using GC, instead of new and delete operators, which is drastically different from C++ out of the box.
It might also only be singly inheritant. (It's still got inheritance like C++, but less of it.;) )
Simple, the marketing rep who wrote the press release was confused.
If Microsoft was serious about cross-platform portability, they might have taken a page out of the Pascal, Java and Python playbooks, by compiling C# down to a binary for use by a virtual machine. It's language independant, because/other/ language compilers can compile to the same bytecode.
There is a Python dialect that does this, called JPython, that uses Python for the programming language, but compiles to Java bytecodes. There's no reason we couldn't have a Python#, as well, aside from that awful feeling in my stomach when I think about it.
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Hmmm.. Interesting to hear from a comparative linguistics student.. Only one tiny little question: What the HELL does this have to do with a kernel-space webserver, or an interview with its author!?
Yeah.. Well, you're witnessing the MUD community equivalent of Computer Programming 101 when you look at most of these mudlibs. =)
Nowadays, when I do MUD-specific stuff, I do it in ColdC or MUF. (I don't like TinyMUCK any more, now that I've found some nasty race conditions, but I'm the only maintainer available for a community that's MUCK-specific.)
Actually.. Yes. That by-default anti- zealotry is really quite ridiculous.
I don't see Microsoft exactly starving because GM or Compaq louses up a license or two.
Roxen is actually Pike-derivative, which is a high-level interpreted language. I also have more than a little mud coding in my past, and I remember LPC less than fondly. Frankly, I find the more general purpose languages like Python to be as facile for MUD design as LPC, given the correct modules, and a lot better in the performance department.
I wasn't very impressed with this guy's whining and ranting as documentation of what C# or .NET has to offer, or what its motivations are. I'd probably find an account of Steve Ballmer stubbing his toe on the way to work more interesting than this idiot.
Have you read the Cluetrain manifesto, lately? What is good for the consumer eventually winds up being good for the manufacturer. They scratch our backs, and many more of us scratch theirs.
This whole Us against Them mentality really has got to go.
FreePascal's compiler is written in Pascal. Does that count as a large project? ;)
This sort of crap from Activision, along with publishing non-functioning games (Heavy Gear2, Battlezone 2) and then abandoning them to the wolves because they don't sell well, has caused me to vote with my feet, and not buy their stuff.
Anyone remember the old Borland software licenses? They were worded along the lines of, 'So long as only the same person will use it, make as many copies as you like.' Now /that/ was an enlightened age.
Heyheyhey.. You're locking horns with my childhood, here. And for the record, I don't do Star Trek, even /I/ have my principles. ;)
As for kissing girls, that's none of your damn business, AC.. Why? Fishing for a date?
I have a similar problem, with an ex-girlfriend scampering off with all my Fugazi and Ned's Atomic Dustbin CDs. I had to bite the bullet, and buy new ones, because my productivity dropped 50% without them. =)
It most certainly does not work with Quake 3! Q3 maintains a CD Key which is registered with a central server. If a second client tries to play on the internet with the same key as the first, it is declined.
There are ways around this, of course, the chief being playing behind a firewall that denies connectivity to the central servers, i.e. a LAN party. Carmack et al. couldn't give a damn about your version of fair use, he's too worried about the 2% of game players who want to pirate Quake.
..that merit rebooting to Windows for. And yes, that trailer is one if them, if you haven't seen it sixteen times at the theater.
Did you read the article, or just scan it?
I believe the author isn't going overboard with his assertions about the X-Men being a good allegory for the discrimination that <insert-minority-here> faces in the world today. He states, rather clearly, that he is looking at this from a gay perspective, and also states that it also works as a statement for all sorts of violence and hate aimed at those that are different.
I do take a little umbrage at the "Open Secret of Batman and Robin" crack, though.. Bruce Wayne had plenty of girlfriends.. He just never slept with.. Erm.. Hm.. There are some things you just wish you could unhear.. Now I can't help but think 'Bruce Wayne, pedophile'.
the more they stay the same.
And you thought it was hard wiping every last trace off your HD!
There's an interesting, parallel syndrome that has started affecting a small subsection of modern geeks: BeOS Persecution Complex.
Interestingly enough, the Inquisition doesn't appear to be the Microsoft users, who have traditionally been the most vicious in their ignorance, but some of the more rabid Linux devotees, now using many of the same attacks and barbs that Microsoft fans used to attack Linux: No Apps, No Hardware, Weird APIs, I don't like the Browser.
If God had meant us, to spend our lives, in slavery to ignorance, he would have left us with minds as simple and uncomprehending as the beasts that surround us. We are not a mockery of the Creator, but a reflection of him; it is natural for humanity to wish to create, and affect the world around him, it is a desire we inherited from our Father.
Fear the man who wishes to make decisions for you, for he considers himself to be your master.--Nietzsche, horribly paraphrased and translated.
Turn your flame thrower off, and RTFFAQ. Mozilla supports just about every JVM out there, they just don't bundle it into their milestones, because JVMs are generally hefty downloads, and they aren't developing a new JVM. They're too busy reinventing the /other/ wheels.
Well.. I believe that most if not all line-soldiers in the intelligence war believe this to some degree.. Even their middle managers. But do not underestimate the lunatic fanatacism that occupies our government to the highest levels. Modern American government sees regulation of the world as its /new/ Manifest Destiny, a way to unify and pacify its own people by saying 'See? See what good we're doing?'
It's not that I think any /one/ man in the US Government, or many other governments, is evil.. I think, when you put them all in a room together, and with them all competing for public accolades and corporate sponsorship, the output is evil.
I, too, was outraged by our young hacker's actions, until I sat down and thought about it. Let's take each one of these things in sequence:
/least/ guilty is our hacker. His crime? Announcing that it is possible to remove those little pieces of tape to see the words beneath. The other two parties are responsible for /anything/ that happens beyond that; the gov't for letting such information fall into unscrupulous hands (Are you reading, Los Alamos?) and the Times, for handling such a dangerous secret with such disrespect.
1) The Times acquires a document outlining the dirty particulars of a covert US operation. Parts of this document include name, places, and even possibly addresses, all of which could be harmful, to say the least.
2) The Times throws the digital equivalent of little bits of electrical tape over enough of the details to protect the individuals, leaving just enough to scandalize the reader and condemn the gov't for being bad, bad men. (Insert Fox Mulder and Whistling Theme Music.)
3) Our friend, the hacker, removes the pieces of tape, and posts it on his website, detailing how the act was done, and why the Times needs to be more careful when handling sensitive gov't documents.
First of all, the party
Posting the complete document on his website, was just nudging the last sheep out the door. Any foreign intelligence agency worth its dark sunglasses is likely capable of having done this, for themselves, if they really wanted the info. More than likely, they already have it. 1953 was a long time ago, in Intelligence years.
Actually, the standard in the legal fields is usually Plain Old ASCII Text, WordPerfect, and PDF in that order. I have /never/ seen a legal brief written in DOC format during my stint of sysadmin'ing for the courts.
Maybe the lawyers know something we don't?
I kept wondering why this wasn't filed under 'It's funny, laugh!'
For those of you, thinking Bob has left our miserable lives, remember he is looking out for us, from his new avatar, the Microsoft Office Paperclip.
Bob be with you.
C# probably doesn't support template classes and functions like C++, and some of the other C++ tricks that really benefit the header-and-implementation model that is so prevalent today. They're also using GC, instead of new and delete operators, which is drastically different from C++ out of the box.
It might also only be singly inheritant. (It's still got inheritance like C++, but less of it. ;) )
Simple, the marketing rep who wrote the press release was confused.
If Microsoft was serious about cross-platform portability, they might have taken a page out of the Pascal, Java and Python playbooks, by compiling C# down to a binary for use by a virtual machine. It's language independant, because /other/ language compilers can compile to the same bytecode.
There is a Python dialect that does this, called JPython, that uses Python for the programming language, but compiles to Java bytecodes. There's no reason we couldn't have a Python#, as well, aside from that awful feeling in my stomach when I think about it.