The document you reference has no explanation about why the function call model is evil, misleading, or broken. All you do is put forward a short argument that it more tightly couples endpoints than exchanging XML documents and that it is lower performance than dumping raw memory.
That is hardly reason for calling it evil.
To call it misleading you would need to provide an argument for why the function call paradigm makes sense when both program components are on the local machine but not when they are distributed. Why should that make a difference? Why should I care where the other end of my transaction be located?
It seems your arguments have more to do with current implementations than any morality inherent in the function call paradigm. I notice that your own alternative is written in C++, which uses the function call paradigm rather than the obviously more efficient, correct, and aesthetically pleasing message passing paradigm.
And what would be the point of keeping a low profile? So the other civilizations that are 200,000 light years away don't send you a mean message and make you cry?
Exactly. And how do I know what the page is before I pay my one cent? Take a look at Tom's Hardware and notice how skimpy most pages are compared to, say, one page of slashdot in flat mode.
Especially with search engines in the state they are, I might hit two dozens pages trying to find what I'm really searching for. I have no problem paying for the information I want, but I'd be annoyed at paying for content I don't want simply because they haven't indexed it properly.
Yet at only a penny a page I can't imagine it would be worth their effort to properly index their content.
I think you answered your own question....
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Try playing PowerStone 2 on your PC. You can't because:
1. The game will never be available for the PC.
2. Virtually no PC game allows head-to-head play without everyone owning their own PC and then networking them together.
3. Even if all of the above were satisfied you can't crowd 6 people around a 17" monitor.
4. Even if you could, most people don't have couches and tables around their computer for spectators to watch them game.
The PC may have more titles but consoles have different titles. When are you going to see Gran Turismo 3 on a PC? How about Shen Mue? Crazy Taxi? Dead or Alive 3? Devil May Cry? Metal Gear Solid 2? Mario Party 3?
Most of those games don't have any comparable counterpart on the PC platform.
You buy a console because you want to play the kinds of games that come out for consoles. Just like I don't buy a console because I want to play a good RPG...those are usually only available on a PC.
All they did was take small, firewire hard drive technology that someone else developed and then add a little layer of glitz to it. It seems to me that virtually all of the "marvelous engineering" was done by the hard drive manufacturer...not by Apple. They just added a layer of candy coating.
How is software different from the vast majority of residential leases which say I can't sublet the property? It seems like it is pretty much the same deal here.
And we wonder why the media is full of so much horrible shit. When a train wreck like Bebop is "one of the best show ever made" -- a show which features less character development in two dozen episodes than your average daytime soap has between commercial breaks (while having about the same number of completely predictable stereotypes) -- can we really sit around and question why the MPAA and RIAA turn out crap over and over and over again?
Nothing is permanent in America. Even the Constitution can be amended. None of the actions being talked about are any more permanent than the Alien and Sedition Acts were.
Then we lost America a long time ago. Maybe it was back when they interned American citizens of Japanese decent. Or maybe it was when Lincoln suspended habeus corpus. Or maybe it was when Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
You might want to rework your central thesis a little bit. Did we lose America back in 1798? If so, then what is it you are defending with your rhetoric. If America was not lost back in 1798 then perhaps you can delineate which liberties we are able to lose and maintain "America" and which we are not able to lose.
And the US harbors a number of people who would be called War Criminals if they were from any other country. Just a few days ago a new lawsuit was lodged against Henry Kissinger for the war crimes he is responsible for in Argentina. We refuse to turn him over. Does this make the US pro-terrorist, that we harbor a man who orders and directs assassinations? Does that mean the citizens of the US must simply suck it up if Argentina decided to bomb the US?
It may have been estimated but the US Chiefs of Staff didn't believe that estimate. They estimated 20,000-40,000 US casualties from an invasion of mainland Japan.
Try reading "A Postwar Myth: 500,000 U.S. Lives Saved" by Barton Bernstein before you continue to spread your sadly dated misinformation.
No, it's not even close to what a tactical nuke would have done. A 5-kiloton yield warhead would kill 98% of the people within one square kilometer instantly just from the pressure (~12psi). Out to about 3 square km you have 50% fatalies from pressure (~5psi). The thermal effects would be fatal (6.7 cal/cm^2) to a radius of about 1.3km and there would be significant injuries out to about 1.8km radius. Immediate radiation would be lethal to 90% of those within 1.2 km of this "low-yield" "clean" burst.
Also thanks to the radiation, clean up and rescue proceeds at a snail's pace.
And that's the low end of sub-strategic yields. The B-61 is lower, at about 1 kiloton, but you also have tactical nukes like those on the Trident that would cause an estimated 200,000 fatalities in an urban area with density similar to Moscow.
Only for a loose definition of "approach" does this tragedy begin to approach the amount of destruction nuclear weapons are capable of even in their tactical form.
"Legal tender" only applies to "payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal law mandating that a person or organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."
There are lots of dancing/music type games. And fighting, driving games, and shooting games only end quickly if you suck at them. Just like all the other games he mentioned.
I guess you forget the part where they all explode. If that counts as "no-violence" you should have very little problem finding games.
Or you could try any of the many puzzle games out there: Tetris, Bust-A-Move, etc. There are plenty of adventure games that don't feature violence, as well.
I think the original poster was using game in a more widely used sense of the word than you are. He meant "match", but I think only chess and tennis call them that and apply "game" to a different unit of play.
And all the children in my father's age group who are intelligent, thoughtful, and creative grew up with wooden railroad kits.
Why not buy a child one of those?
Maybe, just maybe, fifteen years from now someone will talk about how every intelligent, thoughtful, and creative person they know played god games like The Sims and SimCity growing up.
NASCAR gets to 3g pretty frequently on some flat turns. NASCAR's top speed is about the same as Formula One, so I don't think slow is the appropriate appellation.
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The document you reference has no explanation about why the function call model is evil, misleading, or broken. All you do is put forward a short argument that it more tightly couples endpoints than exchanging XML documents and that it is lower performance than dumping raw memory.
That is hardly reason for calling it evil.
To call it misleading you would need to provide an argument for why the function call paradigm makes sense when both program components are on the local machine but not when they are distributed. Why should that make a difference? Why should I care where the other end of my transaction be located?
It seems your arguments have more to do with current implementations than any morality inherent in the function call paradigm. I notice that your own alternative is written in C++, which uses the function call paradigm rather than the obviously more efficient, correct, and aesthetically pleasing message passing paradigm.
Among them many belonging to /. readers (This is not a complete sentence; there is no verb!).
"belong" is a verb. I bet the intransitive thing through you for a loop, though.
"He belongs in prison."
"That car belongs to me."
"That book belongs to the library."
And what would be the point of keeping a low profile? So the other civilizations that are 200,000 light years away don't send you a mean message and make you cry?
Exactly. And how do I know what the page is before I pay my one cent? Take a look at Tom's Hardware and notice how skimpy most pages are compared to, say, one page of slashdot in flat mode.
Especially with search engines in the state they are, I might hit two dozens pages trying to find what I'm really searching for. I have no problem paying for the information I want, but I'd be annoyed at paying for content I don't want simply because they haven't indexed it properly.
Yet at only a penny a page I can't imagine it would be worth their effort to properly index their content.
Try playing PowerStone 2 on your PC. You can't because:
1. The game will never be available for the PC.
2. Virtually no PC game allows head-to-head play without everyone owning their own PC and then networking them together.
3. Even if all of the above were satisfied you can't crowd 6 people around a 17" monitor.
4. Even if you could, most people don't have couches and tables around their computer for spectators to watch them game.
The PC may have more titles but consoles have different titles. When are you going to see Gran Turismo 3 on a PC? How about Shen Mue? Crazy Taxi? Dead or Alive 3? Devil May Cry? Metal Gear Solid 2? Mario Party 3?
Most of those games don't have any comparable counterpart on the PC platform.
You buy a console because you want to play the kinds of games that come out for consoles. Just like I don't buy a console because I want to play a good RPG...those are usually only available on a PC.
All they did was take small, firewire hard drive technology that someone else developed and then add a little layer of glitz to it. It seems to me that virtually all of the "marvelous engineering" was done by the hard drive manufacturer...not by Apple. They just added a layer of candy coating.
Why not just use Berkeley db?
How is software different from the vast majority of residential leases which say I can't sublet the property? It seems like it is pretty much the same deal here.
The linux kernel is GPLed. GPL and BSD can't mix.
And we wonder why the media is full of so much horrible shit. When a train wreck like Bebop is "one of the best show ever made" -- a show which features less character development in two dozen episodes than your average daytime soap has between commercial breaks (while having about the same number of completely predictable stereotypes) -- can we really sit around and question why the MPAA and RIAA turn out crap over and over and over again?
The US Army in Vietnam was almost 75% volunteer. The US Army during WW2 had a much higher conscription ratio.
But basically I agree with you that we have learned from the Soviets and British.
Nothing is permanent in America. Even the Constitution can be amended. None of the actions being talked about are any more permanent than the Alien and Sedition Acts were.
Then we lost America a long time ago. Maybe it was back when they interned American citizens of Japanese decent. Or maybe it was when Lincoln suspended habeus corpus. Or maybe it was when Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
You might want to rework your central thesis a little bit. Did we lose America back in 1798? If so, then what is it you are defending with your rhetoric. If America was not lost back in 1798 then perhaps you can delineate which liberties we are able to lose and maintain "America" and which we are not able to lose.
Forked Pythons?
You don't consider the stackless Python a fork?
And the US harbors a number of people who would be called War Criminals if they were from any other country. Just a few days ago a new lawsuit was lodged against Henry Kissinger for the war crimes he is responsible for in Argentina. We refuse to turn him over. Does this make the US pro-terrorist, that we harbor a man who orders and directs assassinations? Does that mean the citizens of the US must simply suck it up if Argentina decided to bomb the US?
No, I've never herd that one.
It may have been estimated but the US Chiefs of Staff didn't believe that estimate. They estimated 20,000-40,000 US casualties from an invasion of mainland Japan.
Try reading "A Postwar Myth: 500,000 U.S. Lives Saved" by Barton Bernstein before you continue to spread your sadly dated misinformation.
No, it's not even close to what a tactical nuke would have done. A 5-kiloton yield warhead would kill 98% of the people within one square kilometer instantly just from the pressure (~12psi). Out to about 3 square km you have 50% fatalies from pressure (~5psi). The thermal effects would be fatal (6.7 cal/cm^2) to a radius of about 1.3km and there would be significant injuries out to about 1.8km radius. Immediate radiation would be lethal to 90% of those within 1.2 km of this "low-yield" "clean" burst.
Also thanks to the radiation, clean up and rescue proceeds at a snail's pace.
And that's the low end of sub-strategic yields. The B-61 is lower, at about 1 kiloton, but you also have tactical nukes like those on the Trident that would cause an estimated 200,000 fatalities in an urban area with density similar to Moscow.
Only for a loose definition of "approach" does this tragedy begin to approach the amount of destruction nuclear weapons are capable of even in their tactical form.
"Legal tender" only applies to "payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal law mandating that a person or organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services."
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There are lots of dancing/music type games. And fighting, driving games, and shooting games only end quickly if you suck at them. Just like all the other games he mentioned.
I guess you forget the part where they all explode. If that counts as "no-violence" you should have very little problem finding games.
Or you could try any of the many puzzle games out there: Tetris, Bust-A-Move, etc. There are plenty of adventure games that don't feature violence, as well.
I think the original poster was using game in a more widely used sense of the word than you are. He meant "match", but I think only chess and tennis call them that and apply "game" to a different unit of play.
1) 3D fighting games, 2) 3D racing games, 3) 3D shooting games.
You seem to have left out 2D fighting games. And games like Dance Dance Revolution. And sports games. And Gauntlet Legends.
Why would someone go to an arcade to play Toki or Hammerin' Harry when they could play them in the comfort and privacy of their home?
And all the children in my father's age group who are intelligent, thoughtful, and creative grew up with wooden railroad kits.
Why not buy a child one of those?
Maybe, just maybe, fifteen years from now someone will talk about how every intelligent, thoughtful, and creative person they know played god games like The Sims and SimCity growing up.
NASCAR gets to 3g pretty frequently on some flat turns. NASCAR's top speed is about the same as Formula One, so I don't think slow is the appropriate appellation.