Why not? It certainly meets your criteria, why shift the goalposts? Moreover, the more basic something is, the more important it is that the functionality be better, because you will be using it all the time. You're not only shifting the goalposts, but your logic for doing so is completely backwards.
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Simple, encapsulation of private variable. Java:
class foo {
private int dontTouch;
public void setDontTouch(int newVal) { //Determine if we want to allow newVal
dontTouch = newVal;
}
public int getDontTouch() { return dontTouch; } }
class bar {
public void someMethod() {
foo ourFoo = new foo();
ourFoo.setDontTouch(5);
ourFoo.getDontTouch();
}
}
C#:
class foo {
private int _dontTouch;
public int dontTouch {
get {
return _dontTouch;
}
set { //Decide if we want to allow the value
_dontTouch = value;
}
} }
class bar {
public void someMethod() {
foo ourFoo = new foo();
ourFoo.dontTouch = 5;
int asdf = ourFoo.dontTouch;
} }
The implementation is about the same in both languages, but using it is much nicer and cleaner in C# than in Java.
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Oh goody. Another mindless Microsoft-basher who wants to try to whore up some free karma by saying untrue things like "slightly altered" and "nonstandard" about C#. Oh goody.
It suffices for informal situations, such as this one. If you expect me to look very hard for a citation for common rules of grammar (that you yourself acknowledge), you have lofty expectations indeed.
Programmers spend far too much time in front of a computer and far too little time in the real world, having real relationships and fixing real problems.
So, it's not a "real problem" when someone's life is destroyed by poorly-written software? All right, then.
To be blunt, you're the one not living in the real world if you think that problems involving computing aren't "real problems".
My beef with the game was the overt abundance of silly toilet humor. These guys are very smart, and very funny. They can do much better than that.
Dude, it's Penny Arcade. That is sort of what they do. Not all the time, but enough of the time that if you can't stand that sort of humor, you probably shouldn't be reading PA (or playing the game).
I consider your thesis broken about piracy encouraging more DRM because you have it absolutely backwards.
I absolutely do not. You obviously don't have a clue how these companies behave. DRM -> piracy -> "See? We were right! MORE DRM!!!". I never said it's the way it should be, but it's reality. Deal with it.
BS. Moral considerations aside, because if you're advocating piracy you obviously don't feel there's any moral ground against it, by pirating the game you encourage further repressive copy protection, as the AC said.
I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward.
I disagree. If we have a problem with the units of measurement being disparate, we should reconcile them, not split them into two. Not to mention that the Ki/Mi/etc prefixes sound like baby talk, which makes me want to smack whoever came up with them upside the head.
512 MiB would be an awe-inspiring sight. They look so damn bad-ass in those black suits!
And yeah, MiB is a fucking retarded term for storage capacity. The old way has worked beautifully for forever, and I'm not about to change my habits because some metric purists got upset about it.
Well, it's not my fault if you don't understand how this concept works. A Ferrari, Maserati, or Bugatti is so much more expensive than a normal car that they make the price curve look exponential. Graphics cards, by contrast, tend to have a pretty damned linear price curve. Price comparisons against the most expensive member of the class fail when that member is so expensive it completely fucks up the curve.
It's the high end of cheap. $170 is going to get you a midrange graphics card, which, while not cheap in an absolute sense, is cheap compared to other graphics cards out there.
Cheapness always has to be compared to other objects in its class. Would you say a $170 car is not a cheap car? Of course not, because most cars are far more expensive than that. The idea is the same here.
Not even there, but we also aren't talking about laptops. Apple has somewhat reasonably priced laptops (nor can you just up and build your own), so it's the desktop market we're talking about.
If by "loses" you mean "routinely has the best repair rates and customer satisfaction in the industry", then yes.
My wording may have made it unclear, but I was not saying Apple's hardware is of inferior quality. I'm saying that Apple's hardware is of roughly the same quality, but is far inferior on price (the comparison which is being made).
(You need to include all the specs including weight and dimensions).
Weight, dimensions, noise, prettiness, etc, are in no way "specs", so no, you don't have to count them. All you have to worry about is the quality of the hardware. People have made this comparison time and time again, and Apple loses every time.
Dude, we're talking about normal users here. There are people who won't know that you can download it, even if Microsoft puts a bright red flashing splash screen up when you first start Windows 7. This is a bad idea. Besides, I'm sure that your porn/warez/mp3/whatever collection won't suffer with the 100 MB that you free up by not having this.
Er... I guess you don't see it this way, Microsoft, but I sure as hell always thought that checking your e-mail was basic computer functionality in this day and age. But hey, what do I know?
Microsoft can talk about a "cleaner" OS all they want, but watch them change their tune when people scream about not being able to check their e-mail on a new PC.
Since there are rarely any gamer or critic reviews that even give it lower than an excellent rating, you are completely of your rocker saying it's the most overrated game.
No. This is, in fact, required for a game to be overrated. To be overrated, a game needs to be highly rated, but not deserving of its high rating. Saying that everyone praises the game, thus it isn't overrated, makes you off your rocker.
I suggest you play both games again to see how immensely different the two games are...
I've played both War2 and Starcraft recently (in the past 2 years or so, recent enough that my memory of it isn't unreliable), and they aren't immensely different at all. Starcraft is Warcraft in space. The fact that you don't want to admit it doesn't make it less so.
And for the record:
So which RTS is the best?
Games which are better than Starcraft: War3, War2, Dawn of War, Sins of a Solar Empire, Supreme Commander, C&C 3, C&C Generals, LOTR: Battle for Middle-Earth 1&2. Actually, most of them, in fact. Any one of these games is a far better candidate for "best RTS" than Starcraft. My money personally goes to Dawn of War, but I can see arguments being made for SoaSE, SC, and War3, easily. Whichever way you go, Starcraft is nothing special next to any of these games.
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Why not? It certainly meets your criteria, why shift the goalposts? Moreover, the more basic something is, the more important it is that the functionality be better, because you will be using it all the time. You're not only shifting the goalposts, but your logic for doing so is completely backwards.
Simple, encapsulation of private variable. Java:
C#:
The implementation is about the same in both languages, but using it is much nicer and cleaner in C# than in Java.
Oh goody. Another mindless Microsoft-basher who wants to try to whore up some free karma by saying untrue things like "slightly altered" and "nonstandard" about C#. Oh goody.
I do recognize those.
It suffices for informal situations, such as this one. If you expect me to look very hard for a citation for common rules of grammar (that you yourself acknowledge), you have lofty expectations indeed.
Most proper, but saying "his password" is also acceptable.
Programmers spend far too much time in front of a computer and far too little time in the real world, having real relationships and fixing real problems.
So, it's not a "real problem" when someone's life is destroyed by poorly-written software? All right, then.
To be blunt, you're the one not living in the real world if you think that problems involving computing aren't "real problems".
My beef with the game was the overt abundance of silly toilet humor. These guys are very smart, and very funny. They can do much better than that.
Dude, it's Penny Arcade. That is sort of what they do. Not all the time, but enough of the time that if you can't stand that sort of humor, you probably shouldn't be reading PA (or playing the game).
By playing the Mac port?
I consider your thesis broken about piracy encouraging more DRM because you have it absolutely backwards.
I absolutely do not. You obviously don't have a clue how these companies behave. DRM -> piracy -> "See? We were right! MORE DRM!!!". I never said it's the way it should be, but it's reality. Deal with it.
Crysis didn't require Vista, or DX10 for that matter. Wherever you got that info, don't believe what they say in the future.
Same result.
BS. Moral considerations aside, because if you're advocating piracy you obviously don't feel there's any moral ground against it, by pirating the game you encourage further repressive copy protection, as the AC said.
I find the whole Ki / Mi / etc prefixes to be a rather good move forward.
I disagree. If we have a problem with the units of measurement being disparate, we should reconcile them, not split them into two. Not to mention that the Ki/Mi/etc prefixes sound like baby talk, which makes me want to smack whoever came up with them upside the head.
512 MiB would be an awe-inspiring sight. They look so damn bad-ass in those black suits!
And yeah, MiB is a fucking retarded term for storage capacity. The old way has worked beautifully for forever, and I'm not about to change my habits because some metric purists got upset about it.
Well, it's not my fault if you don't understand how this concept works. A Ferrari, Maserati, or Bugatti is so much more expensive than a normal car that they make the price curve look exponential. Graphics cards, by contrast, tend to have a pretty damned linear price curve. Price comparisons against the most expensive member of the class fail when that member is so expensive it completely fucks up the curve.
It's the high end of cheap. $170 is going to get you a midrange graphics card, which, while not cheap in an absolute sense, is cheap compared to other graphics cards out there.
Cheapness always has to be compared to other objects in its class. Would you say a $170 car is not a cheap car? Of course not, because most cars are far more expensive than that. The idea is the same here.
Hey, I like the ? : construct. You leave it alone!!!
They are in laptops.
Not even there, but we also aren't talking about laptops. Apple has somewhat reasonably priced laptops (nor can you just up and build your own), so it's the desktop market we're talking about.
If by "loses" you mean "routinely has the best repair rates and customer satisfaction in the industry", then yes.
My wording may have made it unclear, but I was not saying Apple's hardware is of inferior quality. I'm saying that Apple's hardware is of roughly the same quality, but is far inferior on price (the comparison which is being made).
(You need to include all the specs including weight and dimensions).
Weight, dimensions, noise, prettiness, etc, are in no way "specs", so no, you don't have to count them. All you have to worry about is the quality of the hardware. People have made this comparison time and time again, and Apple loses every time.
The problem exists. Because you haven't seen it in your "~20 years" of experience doesn't mean the rest of us are suffering.
No one said the problem doesn't exist. He's saying the problem isn't common, a statement which I would have to agree with.
Yes, normal people are just bush whacking morons.
I never said they are. Note my careful choice of words: " There are people..."
Well, no. They terrorize their ISP's tech support instead.
Dude, we're talking about normal users here. There are people who won't know that you can download it, even if Microsoft puts a bright red flashing splash screen up when you first start Windows 7. This is a bad idea. Besides, I'm sure that your porn/warez/mp3/whatever collection won't suffer with the 100 MB that you free up by not having this.
Among the apps for the chop are Windows Mail...
Er... I guess you don't see it this way, Microsoft, but I sure as hell always thought that checking your e-mail was basic computer functionality in this day and age. But hey, what do I know?
Microsoft can talk about a "cleaner" OS all they want, but watch them change their tune when people scream about not being able to check their e-mail on a new PC.
Since there are rarely any gamer or critic reviews that even give it lower than an excellent rating, you are completely of your rocker saying it's the most overrated game.
No. This is, in fact, required for a game to be overrated. To be overrated, a game needs to be highly rated, but not deserving of its high rating. Saying that everyone praises the game, thus it isn't overrated, makes you off your rocker.
I suggest you play both games again to see how immensely different the two games are...
I've played both War2 and Starcraft recently (in the past 2 years or so, recent enough that my memory of it isn't unreliable), and they aren't immensely different at all. Starcraft is Warcraft in space. The fact that you don't want to admit it doesn't make it less so. And for the record:
So which RTS is the best?
Games which are better than Starcraft: War3, War2, Dawn of War, Sins of a Solar Empire, Supreme Commander, C&C 3, C&C Generals, LOTR: Battle for Middle-Earth 1&2. Actually, most of them, in fact. Any one of these games is a far better candidate for "best RTS" than Starcraft. My money personally goes to Dawn of War, but I can see arguments being made for SoaSE, SC, and War3, easily. Whichever way you go, Starcraft is nothing special next to any of these games.