A new constitution? No, I don't think so. I still think that document is pretty much a work of genius. What we need are new laws. Keep the original amendments and then flush everything else down the toilet and start over. No secret laws. No stupid old-fashioned ones. Basically, we need a fresh reinstall of our democracy.
Oh, and I suspect we'd first have to do a complete flush of all the people currently in power, too. Otherwise it'd be like leaving some spyware on the system while reinstalling all the apps--that doesn't do you any good!
It sounds like a cool idea to help independents get a start. Which is probably why it'd never happen. Does any major studio want to encourage independent game developers? This is a billion dollar industry we're talking about. I'm not sure it would be in their best interests. Although it would make for an easy was to do market research of their own fringe ideas. I just doubt indies would get much exposure.
It is like a red version of Apple's old cube design combined with the Nintendo Game Cube. Funky. Although, personally, if I'm looking for power, quiet, and ease of use, I'd just get a dual G5 Mac at this point. (Assuming I had the cash, of course).
This "study" has been showing up all over the net over the past couple days. I don't understand why it keeps getting so much attention. It is basically just a bunch of google searches and pretty graphs which tell you very little. It claims to be a programming language survey and yet has entries like "Windows programming." What language is that? Heck, there isn't even a c++ option and c++ is probably still one of the most popular of all languages.
I don't know much about physics, but could something like this be used as a heat shield of some kind? Like, where the shield is basically considered turned off when it is in the liquid state. Then when it hits a certain overload temperature, it turns to a solid and thus blocks (some of) the heat exchange?
Well that's easy... The Mac community is like a party at the Playboy mansion. There might be a lot of people there, but they are all of a certain higher standard and have a set of "unwritten" rules of behavior that the outsiders don't understand (hence their not being invited). So they can have lots of fun sex-play, but not so much actual sex as Windows - and yet everyone else wants in on the party under the impression that it is SAFE non-stop sex and drugs, when in reality it is non-stop stripping and lap dances while being high on caffeine pills.
Whoa! I had one of those when I was a kid. A hand-me-down from somewhere, I suppose. Forgot all about it. I remember playing with it a lot, but not properly. I think it was broken or something. I mean, it worked. The ball moved back and forth and such, but it never seemed to react correctly.
In any case, I took it apart. Not to fix it, mind you, but just because it had blinky lights and made fun sounds.
I did that to things with blinky lights a lot. Unfortunately I was not always so good and putting them back together again. I suppose that is why I'm presently more into software than hardware.:-)
That may also be why I didn't get a Nintendo until they were being phased out and the Super Nintendo was on the market... My parents probably figured I'd take it apart after they spent $100 on it!
This is sort of what I'm working on with my JiggleScript project. If you're interested, check it out. It is very early in development, of course, but I've been spending a ton of time on it lately rewriting it with a new modular design.
I thought the miniseries was stupid. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems a lot of people liked it, though. I thought it was shallow, cheesy, and a sorry attempt to use sex to sell it half the time. I just couldn't get into it for some reason. In fact, I hardly remember anything about it. To me, that's a decent sign it wasn't very good. But.. maybe I'm just missing something. I didn't watch the original BG growing up, so perhaps that has something to do with it.
Oh dear LORD I loved Lemmings! I spent so many hours when I was younger trying to figure the puzzles that I dare not try to calculate it. Its so simple and hard at the same time. It just has all the right elements. I even worked on my own Lemmings clone for awhile.:-)
Ok.. so I admit.. my computer won't play the darned thing. The resolution is too freaking huge! In fact, none of the computers we tried it on at the office managed to play the file (both windows and mac). So.. Anyone know how to go about converting a wmv to a smaller mpeg? It looks sweet and I get the gist from watching it, but I'd like to see more than 5% of the frames...
Why? Is there something wrong with being slightly more original than just doing what everyone else has already done except with different tokens? I realize that COW isn't much different than BrainFuck, but that wasn't intentional at the time. Actually, it happened rather accidentally since I hadn't really looked much at BrainFuck before doing COW--it just turned out very similarly.
I also don't see how COW is a "giganticly(sp) complex kludge." But... whatever. Your defined COW-variant is cool--but it isn't COW.
In any case, COW is an esoteric language. Being efficient or somehow compatible isn't even remotely the point anyway. Its all about having fun and playing with ideas.
Sounds maybe a bit like SimFarm... My girlfriend was just playing it tonight, too. Fun old game.. old... Gosh.. I remember when it was a modern game! Wow..
I have a sudden desire to play Burger Time again. I wish I still had my C64. It was loaned to some extended family members long ago and I think they sold it or tossed it or something. Very sad.:-(
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My JiggleScript project is a similar idea only using JavaScript as a base. I haven't released in awhile, but I've been working on it the past week or so and am nearing a point where I will be making another release--now with sound via OpenAL!:-)
I get many hundreds of frames per second with my system on pretty moderate hardware (such as my 1Ghz G4 Powerbook). There is one script (not on the site, but a friend wrote it) that has about 200 boxes being rendered at a time (so about 2400 polygons) and my Powerbook still touches the 200fps range.
Give it a shot. I'd love to get some people playing with and testing JiggleScript.
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A new constitution? No, I don't think so. I still think that document is pretty much a work of genius. What we need are new laws. Keep the original amendments and then flush everything else down the toilet and start over. No secret laws. No stupid old-fashioned ones. Basically, we need a fresh reinstall of our democracy.
Oh, and I suspect we'd first have to do a complete flush of all the people currently in power, too. Otherwise it'd be like leaving some spyware on the system while reinstalling all the apps--that doesn't do you any good!
It sounds like a cool idea to help independents get a start. Which is probably why it'd never happen. Does any major studio want to encourage independent game developers? This is a billion dollar industry we're talking about. I'm not sure it would be in their best interests. Although it would make for an easy was to do market research of their own fringe ideas. I just doubt indies would get much exposure.
It is like a red version of Apple's old cube design combined with the Nintendo Game Cube. Funky. Although, personally, if I'm looking for power, quiet, and ease of use, I'd just get a dual G5 Mac at this point. (Assuming I had the cash, of course).
This "study" has been showing up all over the net over the past couple days. I don't understand why it keeps getting so much attention. It is basically just a bunch of google searches and pretty graphs which tell you very little. It claims to be a programming language survey and yet has entries like "Windows programming." What language is that? Heck, there isn't even a c++ option and c++ is probably still one of the most popular of all languages.
I don't know much about physics, but could something like this be used as a heat shield of some kind? Like, where the shield is basically considered turned off when it is in the liquid state. Then when it hits a certain overload temperature, it turns to a solid and thus blocks (some of) the heat exchange?
Well that's easy... The Mac community is like a party at the Playboy mansion. There might be a lot of people there, but they are all of a certain higher standard and have a set of "unwritten" rules of behavior that the outsiders don't understand (hence their not being invited). So they can have lots of fun sex-play, but not so much actual sex as Windows - and yet everyone else wants in on the party under the impression that it is SAFE non-stop sex and drugs, when in reality it is non-stop stripping and lap dances while being high on caffeine pills.
Whoa! I had one of those when I was a kid. A hand-me-down from somewhere, I suppose. Forgot all about it. I remember playing with it a lot, but not properly. I think it was broken or something. I mean, it worked. The ball moved back and forth and such, but it never seemed to react correctly.
:-)
In any case, I took it apart. Not to fix it, mind you, but just because it had blinky lights and made fun sounds.
I did that to things with blinky lights a lot. Unfortunately I was not always so good and putting them back together again. I suppose that is why I'm presently more into software than hardware.
That may also be why I didn't get a Nintendo until they were being phased out and the Super Nintendo was on the market... My parents probably figured I'd take it apart after they spent $100 on it!
This is sort of what I'm working on with my JiggleScript project. If you're interested, check it out. It is very early in development, of course, but I've been spending a ton of time on it lately rewriting it with a new modular design.
"I'm shipping off to college for the first time in a few days."
You know, since you were just there a few days ago, I'd think you'd know what to expect by now.
..this air force will all be swallowed by a small dog.
Of course this sort of thing is going on all the time and we are powerless to stop it.
I thought the miniseries was stupid. Maybe I'm missing something. It seems a lot of people liked it, though. I thought it was shallow, cheesy, and a sorry attempt to use sex to sell it half the time. I just couldn't get into it for some reason. In fact, I hardly remember anything about it. To me, that's a decent sign it wasn't very good. But.. maybe I'm just missing something. I didn't watch the original BG growing up, so perhaps that has something to do with it.
Oh dear LORD I loved Lemmings! I spent so many hours when I was younger trying to figure the puzzles that I dare not try to calculate it. Its so simple and hard at the same time. It just has all the right elements. I even worked on my own Lemmings clone for awhile. :-)
That's the one. :-)
Dude.. spoople.. Cool idea! :-)
Heh. Figures. My dad actually worked for a small local power company which Alliant swallowed a number of years ago.
Your sig says "alliantenergy.com" My dad works for them... What part of the world are you in, anyway? My dad is in Eastern Iowa. Just curious... :-)
Ok.. so I admit.. my computer won't play the darned thing. The resolution is too freaking huge! In fact, none of the computers we tried it on at the office managed to play the file (both windows and mac). So.. Anyone know how to go about converting a wmv to a smaller mpeg? It looks sweet and I get the gist from watching it, but I'd like to see more than 5% of the frames...
Why? Is there something wrong with being slightly more original than just doing what everyone else has already done except with different tokens? I realize that COW isn't much different than BrainFuck, but that wasn't intentional at the time. Actually, it happened rather accidentally since I hadn't really looked much at BrainFuck before doing COW--it just turned out very similarly.
I also don't see how COW is a "giganticly(sp) complex kludge." But... whatever. Your defined COW-variant is cool--but it isn't COW.
In any case, COW is an esoteric language. Being efficient or somehow compatible isn't even remotely the point anyway. Its all about having fun and playing with ideas.
Well this is the perfect application of my COW programming language! It should run like.. umm.. some really fast thing!
Good. Now I can finally spell it. Randevoo? Rond-debvu? Ranzdovouses? So confusing!
But OpenTalk... now THAT's easy! Way more Apple-like.
Sounds maybe a bit like SimFarm... My girlfriend was just playing it tonight, too. Fun old game.. old... Gosh.. I remember when it was a modern game! Wow..
"I wear glasses because I'm short sighted."
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lol! I hope you mean near sighted... Otherwise everyone should be wearing glasses!
I have a sudden desire to play Burger Time again. I wish I still had my C64. It was loaned to some extended family members long ago and I think they sold it or tossed it or something. Very sad. :-(
MacOS X.
My JiggleScript project is a similar idea only using JavaScript as a base. I haven't released in awhile, but I've been working on it the past week or so and am nearing a point where I will be making another release--now with sound via OpenAL! :-)
I get many hundreds of frames per second with my system on pretty moderate hardware (such as my 1Ghz G4 Powerbook). There is one script (not on the site, but a friend wrote it) that has about 200 boxes being rendered at a time (so about 2400 polygons) and my Powerbook still touches the 200fps range.
Give it a shot. I'd love to get some people playing with and testing JiggleScript.