Erm, I'm not quite sure what the issue with this is, really. Here in South Africa credit checks are comulsorey prior to the approval of a cellular contract.
One is not required to provide a SSN, but one does provide banking details that are then checked, along with incomes and debts. There are also a variety
of contracts, aimed from the very poor to the very rich.
This is no big deal.
In fact, it's actually for your own damn protection.
Extending people more credit than they can reliably pay back is part of the current financial crisis.
So don't gripe when someone wants to check you can actually handle X amount of credit before extending it to you rather
than just giving you the keys to a yacht and breaking your knees later.
The Wii isn't powerful enough?
Really?
That's odd.
Because Scribblenauts on the DS was turning heads at E3 and the DS possesses a mere fraction of the power of the DS.
The same is true for all those classic, great games.
Here's a question. What do the following games have in common?
Doom
Star Control 2
NetHack
Baldur's Gate
Diablo
Sam and Max Hit the Road
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Ultimate VII
Die By The Sword
Thief
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
DefCon
and a whole lot more in the same vein...
You guessed it! They're great games that would all run on the hardware the Wii provides.
The real problem is that most game devs these days are just completely full of shit while
at the same time lacking any semblance of the ability to write decent code, something
the previous generation of game devs had no problems with.
I agree. This is a joke. I'm running OpenSuse right now and in the past I've mostly used Mandriva. Some RPMs would go a long way...
The world does not begin and end at.deb
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so you're one of the people responsible for us NOT havng Chrome on Linux yet?
Way to go dude...
Seriously, I was excited by Chrome.
The failure of a linux version to appear this century has made me a lose a lot of faith though.
Simple fact is, other people and companies out there manage to produce cross-platform applications
which don't look like crap.
Why can't you?
I'm guessing your story is a lot like that of MySQL Workbench...
It was.NETified and Windowsified to the hilt and then the developers only discovered late that this did not lead
to a clean porting path hence the interminable delays in a stable linux and mac version.
Once again, the lure of Windows shows its merits...
Well, I've used NetBeans as my main IDE for the last two and a half years or so and can safely state that on moderately decent x86 hardware it takes between 10 and 20 secs to start.
At this point, it's actually a whole lot *LESS* bloated than Eclipse (Which stands true to its name...)
Agreed. Although Thief 3 was not as cool as Thief 1 or 2, The Shalebridge Cradle was possibly one of the best levels I've played in any first-person type game. It was seriously atmospheric and incredibly spooky.
MVC is a design pattern most appropriate for GUI-based Dekstop Applications. I doubt it would apply well to a game. Hell, it doesn't even apply very well to web applications (The current big resevoir of MVC work...)
For about a week I had to work on-site on the premises of an outgoing call centre selling things like insurance and cellphone contracts.
It was possibly the noisiest place I have ever worked and when my time there was done I told my boss that I had functioned at about 0.001% of my normal productivity level.
We no longer work on-site for said client.
Indeed. Java as a language is mostly bollocks. It has a huge support library, but not much else.
Java as a platform is a powerhouse. At this point the JVM can host implementations of a number of major languages (Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Jaskell, JavaScript via Rhino, PHP and more) and these implementations can interconnect.
To me, that is real power. The flexibility to use the best languages for the job without worrying to much about how you're going to tie them all together...
Really?
As much as I dislike Java as a language, I am still forced to admit that it has a huge share of the market when it comes to a lot of development, espcially large-scale corporate development..NET is cute, but is does not have that level of penetration.
I think MVC was a fairly valid pattern for web development prior to the development of AJAX technologies and the advancement of JavaScript as a language.
However, with these developments the pattern applied by rote makes things seem simpler than they are.
From a perspective of working in web dev I tend to see things more as follows:
Model: The database and its DDL statements
Meta-Model: Server-side represenation of the databases stucture and data. The bridge between the actual Model and the Controller
Controller: Sever-side central code that fits into a grey area.
Meta-Model: Server-side reprsentation of the View.
View: What ends up in the browser. A combination of HTML and JS.
From my perspective, The Controller interacts with the Model via the Meta-Model to produce the View via the Meta-View.
The View, for its part, is capable of interacting with the Controller in turn thanks to AJAX and such interactions should be managed by the Meta-View.
This is overall a more complex scheme than basic MVC but is also, I feel, a little more representative of the actuality of things.
True...
However...
It is also extremely true that "Console Games Just Work!"
Not being able to make a back-up is not that big a deal to me. I take good care of my stuff from the get-go.
Not being able to easily use my stuff is more of a concern...
From the review:
"Anathem is set on a fictional planet called Arbre, which is very similar to Earth, in a fairly distant future. Much has happened, as we discover during the course of the story. World wars, revolutions, climate change, etc... During all these tribulations, religious orders have provided a certain amount of continuity, and have pursued theoretical scientific research. They still live like monks and nuns, even though there are occasional glimpses of highly advanced technology (materials, genetics, etc...)."
This sounds a little like Canticle, although not totally.
Still, source of ideas maybe?
Reason 6 is horrendously faulty, given that humans have evolved as omnivores, not carnivores OR herbivores.
As a result out bodies function best when fed a balanced died containing a good mix foodstuffs, meat included.
Something I personally find hilarious is the Raw Vegan movement.
Never have a stupider group of people existed. The simple fact of the matter is that the human dietary system has spent the last 1+ million years adapting to eating cooked food (In particular meat, but also vegetables) and at this point relies on food being cooked to a fair extent.
This is not to say eating raw food does nothing or should be avoided like the plague.
However the simple fact of the matter is that we've evolved to eat cooked food and suddenly deciding that a Raw Food diet is the way forward is not likely to reverse all that time spent evolving to rely on cooked food.
Hmmm, the one my grandparents told me goes thus:
"If the Great JuJu hadn't meant People to eat People, he wouldn't have made them out of meat..."
A favourite;-)
Extensions are mostly a waste of memory.
The only really useful ones are the web dev ones.
The rest of them are pretty silly and can be done without.
Firefox Extension Addicts, Fear Not! There is Hope!
Opening soon in a town near you...
Firefox Extension Addiction Recovery Centre (FEARC)!
Wow, and I thought all the Trekkies were dead...
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Erm, I'm not quite sure what the issue with this is, really. Here in South Africa credit checks are comulsorey prior to the approval of a cellular contract. One is not required to provide a SSN, but one does provide banking details that are then checked, along with incomes and debts. There are also a variety of contracts, aimed from the very poor to the very rich. This is no big deal. In fact, it's actually for your own damn protection. Extending people more credit than they can reliably pay back is part of the current financial crisis. So don't gripe when someone wants to check you can actually handle X amount of credit before extending it to you rather than just giving you the keys to a yacht and breaking your knees later.
And once against SlashDots inability to correctly interpret line breaks makes my posts look stupid. Grrrrrrr...
The Wii isn't powerful enough? Really? That's odd. Because Scribblenauts on the DS was turning heads at E3 and the DS possesses a mere fraction of the power of the DS. The same is true for all those classic, great games. Here's a question. What do the following games have in common? Doom Star Control 2 NetHack Baldur's Gate Diablo Sam and Max Hit the Road Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Ultimate VII Die By The Sword Thief Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space DefCon and a whole lot more in the same vein... You guessed it! They're great games that would all run on the hardware the Wii provides. The real problem is that most game devs these days are just completely full of shit while at the same time lacking any semblance of the ability to write decent code, something the previous generation of game devs had no problems with.
I agree. This is a joke. I'm running OpenSuse right now and in the past I've mostly used Mandriva. Some RPMs would go a long way... The world does not begin and end at .deb
I don't spend much time flailing or standing while playing Wii games ( And I have quite a few of them...)
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so you're one of the people responsible for us NOT havng Chrome on Linux yet? Way to go dude... Seriously, I was excited by Chrome. The failure of a linux version to appear this century has made me a lose a lot of faith though. Simple fact is, other people and companies out there manage to produce cross-platform applications which don't look like crap. Why can't you? I'm guessing your story is a lot like that of MySQL Workbench... It was .NETified and Windowsified to the hilt and then the developers only discovered late that this did not lead
to a clean porting path hence the interminable delays in a stable linux and mac version.
Once again, the lure of Windows shows its merits...
Well, I've used NetBeans as my main IDE for the last two and a half years or so and can safely state that on moderately decent x86 hardware it takes between 10 and 20 secs to start. At this point, it's actually a whole lot *LESS* bloated than Eclipse (Which stands true to its name...)
I actually like the new UI for the most part. It's a whole lot less intrusive than the Firefox UI and about as low profile as the Opera one.
Pretty much. The valid points are drowned amongst the morass of stupid statments.
Agreed. Although Thief 3 was not as cool as Thief 1 or 2, The Shalebridge Cradle was possibly one of the best levels I've played in any first-person type game. It was seriously atmospheric and incredibly spooky.
MVC is a design pattern most appropriate for GUI-based Dekstop Applications. I doubt it would apply well to a game. Hell, it doesn't even apply very well to web applications (The current big resevoir of MVC work...)
For about a week I had to work on-site on the premises of an outgoing call centre selling things like insurance and cellphone contracts. It was possibly the noisiest place I have ever worked and when my time there was done I told my boss that I had functioned at about 0.001% of my normal productivity level. We no longer work on-site for said client.
Indeed. Java as a language is mostly bollocks. It has a huge support library, but not much else. Java as a platform is a powerhouse. At this point the JVM can host implementations of a number of major languages (Jython, JRuby, Scala, Clojure, Jaskell, JavaScript via Rhino, PHP and more) and these implementations can interconnect. To me, that is real power. The flexibility to use the best languages for the job without worrying to much about how you're going to tie them all together...
Quite a bit I'd say. Last time I checked, every Tom, Dick and Jane has a Cellphone (Mostly running on ARM chips). The same can not be said for x86...
That seems to be the case with a lot of Parrot projects...
Really? As much as I dislike Java as a language, I am still forced to admit that it has a huge share of the market when it comes to a lot of development, espcially large-scale corporate development. .NET is cute, but is does not have that level of penetration.
Damn SlashDot editors, why so slow on the posting? Anyways, I'm looking forward to playing with this one...
I think MVC was a fairly valid pattern for web development prior to the development of AJAX technologies and the advancement of JavaScript as a language.
However, with these developments the pattern applied by rote makes things seem simpler than they are.
From a perspective of working in web dev I tend to see things more as follows:
Model: The database and its DDL statements
Meta-Model: Server-side represenation of the databases stucture and data. The bridge between the actual Model and the Controller
Controller: Sever-side central code that fits into a grey area.
Meta-Model: Server-side reprsentation of the View.
View: What ends up in the browser. A combination of HTML and JS.
From my perspective, The Controller interacts with the Model via the Meta-Model to produce the View via the Meta-View.
The View, for its part, is capable of interacting with the Controller in turn thanks to AJAX and such interactions should be managed by the Meta-View.
This is overall a more complex scheme than basic MVC but is also, I feel, a little more representative of the actuality of things.
True... However... It is also extremely true that "Console Games Just Work!" Not being able to make a back-up is not that big a deal to me. I take good care of my stuff from the get-go. Not being able to easily use my stuff is more of a concern...
From the review: "Anathem is set on a fictional planet called Arbre, which is very similar to Earth, in a fairly distant future. Much has happened, as we discover during the course of the story. World wars, revolutions, climate change, etc... During all these tribulations, religious orders have provided a certain amount of continuity, and have pursued theoretical scientific research. They still live like monks and nuns, even though there are occasional glimpses of highly advanced technology (materials, genetics, etc...)." This sounds a little like Canticle, although not totally. Still, source of ideas maybe?
Reason 6 is horrendously faulty, given that humans have evolved as omnivores, not carnivores OR herbivores. As a result out bodies function best when fed a balanced died containing a good mix foodstuffs, meat included. Something I personally find hilarious is the Raw Vegan movement. Never have a stupider group of people existed. The simple fact of the matter is that the human dietary system has spent the last 1+ million years adapting to eating cooked food (In particular meat, but also vegetables) and at this point relies on food being cooked to a fair extent. This is not to say eating raw food does nothing or should be avoided like the plague. However the simple fact of the matter is that we've evolved to eat cooked food and suddenly deciding that a Raw Food diet is the way forward is not likely to reverse all that time spent evolving to rely on cooked food.
Hmmm, the one my grandparents told me goes thus: "If the Great JuJu hadn't meant People to eat People, he wouldn't have made them out of meat..." A favourite ;-)
Extensions are mostly a waste of memory. The only really useful ones are the web dev ones. The rest of them are pretty silly and can be done without. Firefox Extension Addicts, Fear Not! There is Hope! Opening soon in a town near you... Firefox Extension Addiction Recovery Centre (FEARC)!
...but it looks like this story has proved me wrong :-)
Try E17. It's less Gnomeish...