And if it couldn't run ActiveX or other extensions, you'd have users pissing and moaning about how the XBox suxx because they can't use it on Newgrounds.
Python uses duck-typing - that is, all the member lookups are hashtable checks. So imagine every object as a dictionary, and when you say "foo.bar" you're really doing a heavily optimised foo["bar"]. Whatever object "bar" returns is what you get back.
Basically, it means no compile-time type safety. The workaround is that you make lots and lots of checks and exceptions.
Really, it's at least better than Java2 and.NET11, which have all the cruft of static typing, but you have to cast back-and-forth to "Object" all the time, making all that static typing useless for safety anyways.
No static language is complete without generics. Thank god they've finally got those.
Score 5 interesting? Should be score 5 funny. Java is, from a language design standpoint, a joke. It was designed by cutting chunks off of it's predecessors and not supplying any viable substitutes.
People always brag about their million-line.net1.1 and Java2 projects, claiming that such million-line monstrocities are proof the language is maintainable. What they don't tell you is that 900 000 of those million lines are spent on simple get/set wrappers, typecasting containers, re-implementing containers missing from the library, and recoding functions for different datatypes, giant class-based switch statements, and various other workarounds to avoid the languages' limitations.
Java is a nice VM and a solid, mindbogglingly featureful library - but a mediocre language.
Speaking of which, have they ever released their sandbox publicly? A big problem with any use of Python is that there is no restricted execution system. Zope has such a system, but it's buried within Zope and I haven't found any info on using it as a seperate project.
After all, the core of what an application server is is simply a place to put sandboxed server apps. How do I do that locally, without the rest of the Zope framework?
They're appealing to people who're easily frightened. Scared of terrorists = invade Iraq (yes, I know). Scared of kids going bad = ban videogames. And so on.
I imagine these were just features that were slated to go in 2.0 but didn't quite make the cut for testing reasons, and are just getting squeezed out now.
Rumour has it that the gameplay in UT2k7 will be pretty good too. They're keeping a lot of the UT2k4 vehicles and weapons but makign some nice changes - for example, the unpopular and useless Scorpion is getting it's weapon replaced with a rocket launcher and a kamekaze attack. Also, the biorifle, grenade launcher, and mine launcher are being rolled into a single variable-load launcher weapon.
There have been some comments about the game being "easier" and action being "more in-your-face like old UT" that suggest that the game will be returning to the slower, more manageable pace of UT99.
So all in all, I expect it to kick ass in every way. I find it odd though that they're releasing actual UT on the console, rather than the consolified fighting-game style Unreal Championship titles (which are supposedly really good, but completely different from the PC counterparts).
Microsoft has been repeatedly proven to be an antitrust violator, in numerous jurisdictions. Once you're found to be abusing a monopoly position, you're pretty well fscked. Just because the USA wussed out of actually punishing them after the conviction doesn't mean that other countries have to.
Basically, the statement was "you won't avoid abusing your position yourself, so now we have to tell you how".
So when do they force car makers to open up their onboard computers?
Frames? Whoa, my university webmail system doesn't use frames. Honestly, I've never looked into whatever webapp they're using - all I know is that it's normal table-based HTML. No frames, ajax, etc. The only problems I have with it are (a) no wysiwyg mail editing, and (b) poor address book management - which is what AJAX should bring to the table.
nVidia's drivers are good enough to be worth trying, then be crushed at how bad they are. ATIs drivers aren't even worth trying, where they exist, so OSS nerds just avoid the ATI platform altogether.
No, they all bug me for one feature - my fave webmail systems are the simple university ones. Why? They use the most nude HTML. While AJAX is lovely for making little HTML forms, spell-checkers, and nice integration with favourites lists, it's a horrid PITA when it comes to links. I hate how I can't middle-click on mail info in Hotmail or Gmail.
There is a time and place for full-out scripting, and a time and a place for a simple <a href...>. As soon as an action could be described as a "navigation" I want it to be a normal link. That saves the back button and allows "open in new window" and other right-click functionality.
Nonsense. Freedom of speech means freedom from government persecution concerning your speech. Enforcing a civil judgement is a government action. The government makes the civil laws that are applied in these direct-action lawsuits.
Now, it is disputable whether "freedom of speech" applies to libel/slander. However, to say that the constitution doesn't protect you from the consequences of your actions is preposterous - if I shoot everyone who associates with people I don't like, that's hardly freedom of association, now is it?
Civil actions are based on laws, which are passed by congress. "Shall Make No Law" applies to everything that happens in a court room, not just ones where the government is the prosecutor.
Idunno, when I hear the word "leverage" in business speak, I imagine a shoehorn. A shoehorn is pretty much a good example of a lever. From there, I imagine how a shoehorn is being used with the subject at hand. For example, we're going to leverage company "X"s solution in our next project. My translation is "we're going to shoehorn company "X's" product into our solution to solve problem Y that our product doesn't currently solve".
Well, if you have to do maintenance work on the resulting machine code, then yes, it does alarm me. Otherwise, not so much. Likewise, any code gen environment where you're maintaining the generated code instead of working on the generator should worry people.
Actually, the advantage of those (hangman, tic-tac-toe) is that they're multiplayer even with a small space. Playing a multiplayer game in the car requires multiple matching consoles unless it's a good turn-based game.
For that, I recommend Super Monkey Ball on the GBA. The game is utterly painfully hard... although it includes a Minigolf mode that is excellent fun, and since it's a turn-based game you just hand the GBA to the next player to let them take their turn. Plus, the game is dead-simple so it's easy to pick up. Any other turn-based portable console games that people can recommend for similar uses? Advanced Wars probably has a hotseat mode, but I doubt that game is as conducive to beginners as a minigolf game.
Forget that. I don't need a key for "for" - if I wanted a single-key for looping constructs and conditionals, I'd just use a language where those are single-character constructs.
For programming, different adjustments would be more useful. For example, get the () keys more accessible. Get A-F keys (and x) added to the numerical keypad. That sort of thing.
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And if it couldn't run ActiveX or other extensions, you'd have users pissing and moaning about how the XBox suxx because they can't use it on Newgrounds.
I guess I'm lucky and dodged that bullet - I was in highschool playing with VB at the time Java came out. Didn't learn C/C++ & Java until university.
Because you'd still have state fairtax and national fairtax, and still have 50 different forms to handled depending on which state fairtax applies.
Python uses duck-typing - that is, all the member lookups are hashtable checks. So imagine every object as a dictionary, and when you say "foo.bar" you're really doing a heavily optimised foo["bar"]. Whatever object "bar" returns is what you get back.
.NET11, which have all the cruft of static typing, but you have to cast back-and-forth to "Object" all the time, making all that static typing useless for safety anyways.
Basically, it means no compile-time type safety. The workaround is that you make lots and lots of checks and exceptions.
Really, it's at least better than Java2 and
No static language is complete without generics. Thank god they've finally got those.
Score 5 interesting? Should be score 5 funny. Java is, from a language design standpoint, a joke. It was designed by cutting chunks off of it's predecessors and not supplying any viable substitutes.
.net1.1 and Java2 projects, claiming that such million-line monstrocities are proof the language is maintainable. What they don't tell you is that 900 000 of those million lines are spent on simple get/set wrappers, typecasting containers, re-implementing containers missing from the library, and recoding functions for different datatypes, giant class-based switch statements, and various other workarounds to avoid the languages' limitations.
People always brag about their million-line
Java is a nice VM and a solid, mindbogglingly featureful library - but a mediocre language.
Speaking of which, have they ever released their sandbox publicly? A big problem with any use of Python is that there is no restricted execution system. Zope has such a system, but it's buried within Zope and I haven't found any info on using it as a seperate project.
After all, the core of what an application server is is simply a place to put sandboxed server apps. How do I do that locally, without the rest of the Zope framework?
3. Python has "batteries included".
Oh. Can someone explain to me why they refer to the old NES as a "Toaster"? Because of the push-down action?
They're appealing to people who're easily frightened. Scared of terrorists = invade Iraq (yes, I know). Scared of kids going bad = ban videogames. And so on.
I imagine these were just features that were slated to go in 2.0 but didn't quite make the cut for testing reasons, and are just getting squeezed out now.
Rumour has it that the gameplay in UT2k7 will be pretty good too. They're keeping a lot of the UT2k4 vehicles and weapons but makign some nice changes - for example, the unpopular and useless Scorpion is getting it's weapon replaced with a rocket launcher and a kamekaze attack. Also, the biorifle, grenade launcher, and mine launcher are being rolled into a single variable-load launcher weapon.
There have been some comments about the game being "easier" and action being "more in-your-face like old UT" that suggest that the game will be returning to the slower, more manageable pace of UT99.
So all in all, I expect it to kick ass in every way. I find it odd though that they're releasing actual UT on the console, rather than the consolified fighting-game style Unreal Championship titles (which are supposedly really good, but completely different from the PC counterparts).
Microsoft has been repeatedly proven to be an antitrust violator, in numerous jurisdictions. Once you're found to be abusing a monopoly position, you're pretty well fscked. Just because the USA wussed out of actually punishing them after the conviction doesn't mean that other countries have to.
Basically, the statement was "you won't avoid abusing your position yourself, so now we have to tell you how".
So when do they force car makers to open up their onboard computers?
I was thinking a similarly nostalgic thought about BallBlazer, from back when it was Lucasfilm Games. Why does nobody remember BallBlazer?
Or I just take a cab to commit my nefarious schemes. Or the bus.
Frames? Whoa, my university webmail system doesn't use frames. Honestly, I've never looked into whatever webapp they're using - all I know is that it's normal table-based HTML. No frames, ajax, etc. The only problems I have with it are (a) no wysiwyg mail editing, and (b) poor address book management - which is what AJAX should bring to the table.
Umm, far behind in what way? I mean, in terms of being able to remote-log-on to a computer and get the GUI? Windows Remote Desktop runs quite well.
nVidia's drivers are good enough to be worth trying, then be crushed at how bad they are. ATIs drivers aren't even worth trying, where they exist, so OSS nerds just avoid the ATI platform altogether.
iirc VB does the same thing. I was actually shocked and apalled to find it non-functional in C and Python.
No, they all bug me for one feature - my fave webmail systems are the simple university ones. Why? They use the most nude HTML. While AJAX is lovely for making little HTML forms, spell-checkers, and nice integration with favourites lists, it's a horrid PITA when it comes to links. I hate how I can't middle-click on mail info in Hotmail or Gmail.
There is a time and place for full-out scripting, and a time and a place for a simple <a href...>. As soon as an action could be described as a "navigation" I want it to be a normal link. That saves the back button and allows "open in new window" and other right-click functionality.
Never ever interfere with my tabbed browsing.
Nonsense. Freedom of speech means freedom from government persecution concerning your speech. Enforcing a civil judgement is a government action. The government makes the civil laws that are applied in these direct-action lawsuits.
Now, it is disputable whether "freedom of speech" applies to libel/slander. However, to say that the constitution doesn't protect you from the consequences of your actions is preposterous - if I shoot everyone who associates with people I don't like, that's hardly freedom of association, now is it?
Civil actions are based on laws, which are passed by congress. "Shall Make No Law" applies to everything that happens in a court room, not just ones where the government is the prosecutor.
Fsck, even I know this shit, and I'm a Canuck.
Idunno, when I hear the word "leverage" in business speak, I imagine a shoehorn. A shoehorn is pretty much a good example of a lever. From there, I imagine how a shoehorn is being used with the subject at hand. For example, we're going to leverage company "X"s solution in our next project. My translation is "we're going to shoehorn company "X's" product into our solution to solve problem Y that our product doesn't currently solve".
Well, if you have to do maintenance work on the resulting machine code, then yes, it does alarm me. Otherwise, not so much. Likewise, any code gen environment where you're maintaining the generated code instead of working on the generator should worry people.
Actually, the advantage of those (hangman, tic-tac-toe) is that they're multiplayer even with a small space. Playing a multiplayer game in the car requires multiple matching consoles unless it's a good turn-based game.
For that, I recommend Super Monkey Ball on the GBA. The game is utterly painfully hard... although it includes a Minigolf mode that is excellent fun, and since it's a turn-based game you just hand the GBA to the next player to let them take their turn. Plus, the game is dead-simple so it's easy to pick up. Any other turn-based portable console games that people can recommend for similar uses? Advanced Wars probably has a hotseat mode, but I doubt that game is as conducive to beginners as a minigolf game.
mods often use insightful instead of funny 'cause funny is karmaless.
Forget that. I don't need a key for "for" - if I wanted a single-key for looping constructs and conditionals, I'd just use a language where those are single-character constructs.
For programming, different adjustments would be more useful. For example, get the () keys more accessible. Get A-F keys (and x) added to the numerical keypad. That sort of thing.