IE8 gets 12/100 on the Acid 3 test for standards capability.
even IE 7 gets 14/100 (and 8.0 beta2 got 21)
this 8.0 beta/RC/whatever, standards wise, is a major step backwards
If we're going for OS's, then Windows XP would be akin to Catholicism
It's the largest OS in terms of users and in terms of money earned
It's leader lives in an ivory tower and is only brought out to see the masses of followers during Expos
It's built upon hundreds of previous versions, eventually becoming a warped twisted parody of what it originally started as Many people profess to use it, but don't really believe in it. They refuse to switch because they don't believe any other OS will work well with their lifestyle, or for fear their friends will shun them.
I'd say Assembler is more akin to the Amish way of life
"We don't need fancy tools" they'd say
"C is a needless abstraction" they'd shout
"I'll programme my Plough by hand"
The main problem - as far as I can see - with Javascript based programming is that by using a plugin, such as Firebug - one can effectivly go into Debug mode, set breakpoints, changing variables and all sorts of stuff in the client-side Javascript, opening up a whole world of possibilities for hacking, so unless you want to handle changing score, state or whatever server-side (which would require a rather good server to handle that) you're going to be left with a game where you can never be sure that the outcome is a result of the game logic and not someone's poking around.
Think about a high-score table for example, I could easilly modify whatever variable holds my score and then end the game with a massive score.
Javascript games will be a novelty, no more, I don't see it becoming anything mainstream (definitly not rivialing Flash or Java) mainly because anything sensitive will be wide open to hacks and work arounds.
The original GTA is going free on Rockstar's website. It's up to you if you think it's suitable for 14-16 year olds (when it came out it was an 18, but then again, that was a decade ago, attitudes change)
I remember burning a mix CD for listening on a long car journey (Please don't sue me) and it worked fine on my old (and i'm talking early 90's) Stereo system at home, but it refused to work in our brand-new rented Ford Focus' CD Player
I read that article and thought "Hang on... Watts per hour... that's utterly wrong, surely that should be Joules per hour"
Then i had a crisis of identity when all of a sudden I thought I had forgoten my elementary electronics and had MYSELF jumbled the meaning of Watt.
I then looked on wikipedia and it told me what I thought was correct.
I felt even more unsure.
I'm glad someone confirmed my ideas, and even more scary, Wikipedia hadn't been vandalised.
PC games and Console games share two different mind-sets
Console games are generally designed to be friend-friendly. Have your mate or two over to watch/join in/take turns at having a quick blast of Halo/Left 4 Dead/Guitar Hero - and generally feature the same mechanics in single-player as they do in multiplayer.
PC games of late tend to focus on the Single-player OR Multi-player (rarely both) - and Single-player games revolve around building an atmosphere, engrossing the player and telling a good story over a longer play-period than console games.
Similar can be said of the multiplayer on PC's, the yin and yang of Console's "Get friends around and play" to PC's "Get your friends in their homes to play over the net"
Yes, console games do the internet thing, but it's mostly peer-to-peer and decends into lag and frustration more often than not (in my experience atleast)
So: Consoles are fast, fun and watchable wheras PC games are slower, cerebral and just as fun for the person playing it, but boring as sin to anyone watching them
... It would have to be:
1) Small enough to sit on your TV tray/Coffee Table
2) Each unit must have the same hardware (within limits) and cannot be easilly upgradable without trashing the old unit
3) Have Mouse and Keyboard Support
4) Have a General Purpose Office software
5) Play Games
"The idea is based on two very dubious propositions: (a) That uranium (or any heavy element) would naturally go to the center of the Earth. This is almost certainly untrue. It is a misunderstanding of chemistry and statistical physics at a very fundamental level. (b) That there is something about Earth's heat flow or helium that is so wildly discordant with our usual ideas that it requires an outrageous hypothesis to explain it. This is incorrect."
I'm glad you linked that article, as it states further down
"The idea is based on two very dubious propositions: (a) That uranium (or any heavy element) would naturally go to the center of the Earth. This is almost certainly untrue. It is a misunderstanding of chemistry and statistical physics at a very fundamental level. (b) That there is something about Earth's heat flow or helium that is so wildly discordant with our usual ideas that it requires an outrageous hypothesis to explain it. This is incorrect."
(source)
The lack of evidence for fissle material at the core should keep this from being taken too seriously
It may have taken Silicon 40 years to reach that level, but compare Silicon transistors to the thing it replaced - vacuum tubes - they had totally phased them out within a decade
We may never *know* for certain. We can have hypothesis after hypothesis, and although the giant impact fits the data nicely, and is unlikely to be wrong, the only way we'll really challenge that is by having other ideas.
What really throws this theory out for me however (And I admit, I can't view the page, it's been/.ed) was that most of Earth's fissle material is in the crust, not the core. So any 'deep explosion' would have to have been in the crust or mantle, not the center.
Speaking of MMO's, in WoW for a long time there was speculation about the name of the raid leader being the seed for the Random number generator for loot drops, as some guilds found that the same gear kept dropping until they changed their raid leader.
Many random number generator conspiracy theories sprung up in MMO's, I remember one, i think it was everquest, where people would do their crafting in Churches because they thought it gave them a better chance of success, and another involving quest item drop rates in Warcraft, where, for example, an item had a 1 in 3 chance of dropping, and three people were killing enemies for the item, if each person killed the enemies at the same rate, one person would continually recieve the item while the other two wouldn't.
Where people spend so much time around a random number generator they begin to see patterns in the randomness, and even believe they can control it
My first Officially assesed self-written programme was written in Visual Basic for my Advanced Higher computing, I chose VB because we had learned TrueBasic in standard grade and thought "It'll be just the same but with more stuff I can do, like graphics" - Don't believe it, seriously, it's nice as a scripting language for Office but for anything else it's superceeded in ease and function by practically any other language.
I learned more about programming from my TI-83 Graphing Calculator than I did from Visual Basic, and the reults were more fun too.
put your ass in to it...
I spend 6 months being forced to listen to that tripe on the office radio... and I hate you for bringing it up.
i'd +funny if i could:)
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IE8 gets 12/100 on the Acid 3 test for standards capability. even IE 7 gets 14/100 (and 8.0 beta2 got 21) this 8.0 beta/RC/whatever, standards wise, is a major step backwards
The Spaghetti monster is Pastafarianism. and that's been mentioned :)
If we're going for OS's, then Windows XP would be akin to Catholicism
It's the largest OS in terms of users and in terms of money earned
It's leader lives in an ivory tower and is only brought out to see the masses of followers during Expos
It's built upon hundreds of previous versions, eventually becoming a warped twisted parody of what it originally started as
Many people profess to use it, but don't really believe in it. They refuse to switch because they don't believe any other OS will work well with their lifestyle, or for fear their friends will shun them.
I'd say Assembler is more akin to the Amish way of life
"We don't need fancy tools" they'd say
"C is a needless abstraction" they'd shout
"I'll programme my Plough by hand"
The main problem - as far as I can see - with Javascript based programming is that by using a plugin, such as Firebug - one can effectivly go into Debug mode, set breakpoints, changing variables and all sorts of stuff in the client-side Javascript, opening up a whole world of possibilities for hacking, so unless you want to handle changing score, state or whatever server-side (which would require a rather good server to handle that) you're going to be left with a game where you can never be sure that the outcome is a result of the game logic and not someone's poking around.
Think about a high-score table for example, I could easilly modify whatever variable holds my score and then end the game with a massive score.
Javascript games will be a novelty, no more, I don't see it becoming anything mainstream (definitly not rivialing Flash or Java) mainly because anything sensitive will be wide open to hacks and work arounds.
Your car is emitting O2? What make is it! We may have saved the planet!
The original GTA is going free on Rockstar's website. It's up to you if you think it's suitable for 14-16 year olds (when it came out it was an 18, but then again, that was a decade ago, attitudes change)
I remember burning a mix CD for listening on a long car journey (Please don't sue me) and it worked fine on my old (and i'm talking early 90's) Stereo system at home, but it refused to work in our brand-new rented Ford Focus' CD Player
Yeah, but it'd be a great prank for a Stag night.
I use the Daily Mail for all my Racial Opinions*. *May be lies
I wouldn't call Left 4 Dead a horror game. It's more of an Action Survival game (there is very little that will make you jump out of your seat)
Yes, but there are hundreds of different types of laptop out there, and what, 4 mac mini's?
they should turn the next mac mini into a specific developer platform for games, make it Apple's answer to the X-box.
I'd buy it*
*May contain lies
Take into account how much power is wasted browsing and posting on /. and you'll save MILLIONS!
I read that article and thought "Hang on... Watts per hour... that's utterly wrong, surely that should be Joules per hour"
Then i had a crisis of identity when all of a sudden I thought I had forgoten my elementary electronics and had MYSELF jumbled the meaning of Watt.
I then looked on wikipedia and it told me what I thought was correct.
I felt even more unsure.
I'm glad someone confirmed my ideas, and even more scary, Wikipedia hadn't been vandalised.
PC games and Console games share two different mind-sets
Console games are generally designed to be friend-friendly. Have your mate or two over to watch/join in/take turns at having a quick blast of Halo/Left 4 Dead/Guitar Hero - and generally feature the same mechanics in single-player as they do in multiplayer.
PC games of late tend to focus on the Single-player OR Multi-player (rarely both) - and Single-player games revolve around building an atmosphere, engrossing the player and telling a good story over a longer play-period than console games.
Similar can be said of the multiplayer on PC's, the yin and yang of Console's "Get friends around and play" to PC's "Get your friends in their homes to play over the net"
Yes, console games do the internet thing, but it's mostly peer-to-peer and decends into lag and frustration more often than not (in my experience atleast)
So: Consoles are fast, fun and watchable wheras PC games are slower, cerebral and just as fun for the person playing it, but boring as sin to anyone watching them
... It would have to be:
1) Small enough to sit on your TV tray/Coffee Table
2) Each unit must have the same hardware (within limits) and cannot be easilly upgradable without trashing the old unit
3) Have Mouse and Keyboard Support
4) Have a General Purpose Office software
5) Play Games
well, 4/5 itsn't bad for the Mac Mini
Unfortunatly, the windows are unsuited to be used as a firing position
(source)
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The lack of evidence for fissle material at the core should keep this from being taken too seriously
It may have taken Silicon 40 years to reach that level, but compare Silicon transistors to the thing it replaced - vacuum tubes - they had totally phased them out within a decade
We may never *know* for certain. We can have hypothesis after hypothesis, and although the giant impact fits the data nicely, and is unlikely to be wrong, the only way we'll really challenge that is by having other ideas. What really throws this theory out for me however (And I admit, I can't view the page, it's been /.ed) was that most of Earth's fissle material is in the crust, not the core. So any 'deep explosion' would have to have been in the crust or mantle, not the center.
Speaking of MMO's, in WoW for a long time there was speculation about the name of the raid leader being the seed for the Random number generator for loot drops, as some guilds found that the same gear kept dropping until they changed their raid leader.
Many random number generator conspiracy theories sprung up in MMO's, I remember one, i think it was everquest, where people would do their crafting in Churches because they thought it gave them a better chance of success, and another involving quest item drop rates in Warcraft, where, for example, an item had a 1 in 3 chance of dropping, and three people were killing enemies for the item, if each person killed the enemies at the same rate, one person would continually recieve the item while the other two wouldn't.
Where people spend so much time around a random number generator they begin to see patterns in the randomness, and even believe they can control it
My first Officially assesed self-written programme was written in Visual Basic for my Advanced Higher computing, I chose VB because we had learned TrueBasic in standard grade and thought "It'll be just the same but with more stuff I can do, like graphics" - Don't believe it, seriously, it's nice as a scripting language for Office but for anything else it's superceeded in ease and function by practically any other language.
I learned more about programming from my TI-83 Graphing Calculator than I did from Visual Basic, and the reults were more fun too.
put your ass in to it... I spend 6 months being forced to listen to that tripe on the office radio... and I hate you for bringing it up. i'd +funny if i could :)