FFXII was a damned fine RPG, a refreshing outing from Square and, while rehashing old stuff can be tiresome, more FFXII is better than many of the alternatives, like more FFVIII, even more FFVII, or worse yet, FF Versus XIII, in which Square has slipped into the depths of self-parody. Have you seen the trailers? We have all the essential elements: black leather, self-cutting angst, girly men, and lots of huge swords. I think Square ought to just cut to the chase and make their next installment FF:BB, or Final Fantasy: Bankable Bishies. Make it an action RPG where your party consists of Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Tidus, Vaan, and for the purists, Cecil and they fight the multidimensional menace Kefkujaroth. Just get the visual kei fetish out of their system so they can concentrate on making wonderfully approachable fantasy RPGs like the old days. Of course, if the Kingdom Hearts franchise is any indication FF:BB is likely to spawn the inevitable sequel, threequel, fourquel, etc. so maybe that's not a good idea after all...
Java generics are kept back-compatible with the old VM spec by way of type erasure: parametric information is "erased" from the type when it is compiled. So List and List and List all compile down to the same type: List.
Among other hiccups this makes it impossible to overload methods whose argument types differ only in the parametric information included with them.
By contrast, C++ templates and C# generics create a type disjoint from all other types in the same type class for each set of parameters in the type declaration.
His reviews, while comically over-the-top, put the lie to the notion that the 8-bit era constituted a mythic golden age or edenic period at the dawn of the videogame industry, largely populated by auteur game designers who produced output in line with the bohemian values of truth, beauty, and good gameplay.
A considerable number of the NES era titles, even those published by major companies like Konami, were utter shite, and would not make it past the comparatively rigorous QA standards of even cynical, moneygrubbing behemoths like Shit-A. Even titles beloved of kids at the time, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first NES game, not the arcade game), contained level-design gaffes approaching Daikatana levels of awful, like "that is so stupid, no freakin' way you'd expect a little kid to figure that out".
So no, the videogames were not better by any meaningful objective standard way back then. There were the standouts like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and later Mario and Zelda, and then there was the long tail of crud. Crud that even managed to earn the Nintendo Seal of Quality by being minimally non-shitty. We just think it's better for the same reason some people think Men Without Hats were better than Nirvana: it's what we grew up with.
... it seems that Congress is in Big Media's back pocket (see: Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act), so any onerous copyright provision implemented by the judiciary would have been backed up by Congressional legislation anyway.
When the functional programming revolution hits the mainstream -- and it will very soon now as the current, C++ or Java way of developing software does not scale complexity-wise without requiring ever-increasing armies of Indians or Chinese to grind out the code -- Microsoft will be ahead of just about everybody else because they've retained the likes of Simon Payton-Jones and Erik Meijer to work in their research department. In fact, LINQ may just be the best thing to ever happen to functional programming because now that Microsoft is doing it, it becomes a legitimate enterprise programming activity.
Microsoft is an 800-pound gorilla, but do NOT knock their research arm. Whatever it may have been in the past, these days there are definitely people doing interesting stuff at the very cutting edge of computing
how bad-ass would it be to see your on-screen character swinging around a lightsaber, matching every one of your real movements.
Sorry, but LucasArts has to protect the integrity of their intellectual property, and it simply would not do for their Jedi characters to show all the lightsaber prowess of the Star Wars Kid.
MSN, a subsidiary of Microsoft, has a vested interest in seeing third-world kids using not an OLPC laptop, but the new Microsoft Xbox Live Learning Edition, with a 6-omegahurtz quad-core CPU, 64 dedicated DirectX fragment shaders, Windows Embedded and DirectX,.NET framework, and Media Center and Zune connectivity.
...the scientists placed upgrades for the power suit: morph ball, missiles, ice beam, screw attack, etc. Those nurses have a lot of exploring cut out for them!
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FFXII was a damned fine RPG, a refreshing outing from Square and, while rehashing old stuff can be tiresome, more FFXII is better than many of the alternatives, like more FFVIII, even more FFVII, or worse yet, FF Versus XIII, in which Square has slipped into the depths of self-parody. Have you seen the trailers? We have all the essential elements: black leather, self-cutting angst, girly men, and lots of huge swords. I think Square ought to just cut to the chase and make their next installment FF:BB, or Final Fantasy: Bankable Bishies. Make it an action RPG where your party consists of Cloud, Squall, Zidane, Tidus, Vaan, and for the purists, Cecil and they fight the multidimensional menace Kefkujaroth. Just get the visual kei fetish out of their system so they can concentrate on making wonderfully approachable fantasy RPGs like the old days. Of course, if the Kingdom Hearts franchise is any indication FF:BB is likely to spawn the inevitable sequel, threequel, fourquel, etc. so maybe that's not a good idea after all...
Sentence in the above post should have read as follows:
So List<String> and List<java.math.BigInteger> and List<javax.swing.JComponent> all compile down to the same type: List.
Java generics are kept back-compatible with the old VM spec by way of type erasure: parametric information is "erased" from the type when it is compiled. So List and List and List all compile down to the same type: List.
Among other hiccups this makes it impossible to overload methods whose argument types differ only in the parametric information included with them.
By contrast, C++ templates and C# generics create a type disjoint from all other types in the same type class for each set of parameters in the type declaration.
Yet another sterling example of Java lossage.
http://www.angrynesnerd.com/
His reviews, while comically over-the-top, put the lie to the notion that the 8-bit era constituted a mythic golden age or edenic period at the dawn of the videogame industry, largely populated by auteur game designers who produced output in line with the bohemian values of truth, beauty, and good gameplay.
A considerable number of the NES era titles, even those published by major companies like Konami, were utter shite, and would not make it past the comparatively rigorous QA standards of even cynical, moneygrubbing behemoths like Shit-A. Even titles beloved of kids at the time, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first NES game, not the arcade game), contained level-design gaffes approaching Daikatana levels of awful, like "that is so stupid, no freakin' way you'd expect a little kid to figure that out".
So no, the videogames were not better by any meaningful objective standard way back then. There were the standouts like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and later Mario and Zelda, and then there was the long tail of crud. Crud that even managed to earn the Nintendo Seal of Quality by being minimally non-shitty. We just think it's better for the same reason some people think Men Without Hats were better than Nirvana: it's what we grew up with.
but if he is a total git I bet he's got nothing on Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD projet lead). OpenBSD itself is a tank, however.
... it seems that Congress is in Big Media's back pocket (see: Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act), so any onerous copyright provision implemented by the judiciary would have been backed up by Congressional legislation anyway.
"Sephiroth is my BISHIEEEEE!!!"
Metric spaces are the perfect accompaniment to a nice healthy number two.
I don't think TBL would be so buzzwordy. Tim O'Reilly on the other hand...
Or so the Germans would have us believe...!
"...the four most commonly used passwords are 'Love', 'Sex', 'Secret', and... 'God'. So would Her Holiness mind changing her password?"
Any geek worth his salt will find Hackers entertaining as hell, cheeseball plot and dialog notwithstanding. It's the epitome of geek-kitsch.
"RISC architecture is gonna change everything."
"Yeah, RISC is good."
When the functional programming revolution hits the mainstream -- and it will very soon now as the current, C++ or Java way of developing software does not scale complexity-wise without requiring ever-increasing armies of Indians or Chinese to grind out the code -- Microsoft will be ahead of just about everybody else because they've retained the likes of Simon Payton-Jones and Erik Meijer to work in their research department. In fact, LINQ may just be the best thing to ever happen to functional programming because now that Microsoft is doing it, it becomes a legitimate enterprise programming activity.
Microsoft is an 800-pound gorilla, but do NOT knock their research arm. Whatever it may have been in the past, these days there are definitely people doing interesting stuff at the very cutting edge of computing
Sorry, but LucasArts has to protect the integrity of their intellectual property, and it simply would not do for their Jedi characters to show all the lightsaber prowess of the Star Wars Kid.
Jen: "Come on, Denholm's called a general."
Roy: "Another one?!"
Moss: "I bet he declares war on something. He's always declaring war."
MSN, a subsidiary of Microsoft, has a vested interest in seeing third-world kids using not an OLPC laptop, but the new Microsoft Xbox Live Learning Edition, with a 6-omegahurtz quad-core CPU, 64 dedicated DirectX fragment shaders, Windows Embedded and DirectX, .NET framework, and Media Center and Zune connectivity.
Don't laugh -- it could happen.
It's just a stupid fast food joint, and a giant Mario head made up of throngs of NES players chanting "Mario! Mario!"
I still remember the days when Mortal Kombat was all about likenesses of real people.
Man, Elizabeth Malecki was hot...
She said she's never coming back.
He's got to be hardcore and stick it to the man, like his hero Hugo Chavez.
I'm bracing myself for the gaming PCs based on this CPU setup, and sold under the name "Quad Damage"...
1. Rez
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
3. Gunstar (Super) Heroes
4. New Super Mario Bros.
5. Lumines
I think I'm more interested in what Coach Z has to say:
"I use Ajarx to clean my terlet! It does a pretty good jaerb!"
...the scientists placed upgrades for the power suit: morph ball, missiles, ice beam, screw attack, etc. Those nurses have a lot of exploring cut out for them!
The MacPro is trying to overwhelm you with GERMAN INDUSTRIAL MIGHT.