...there will exist a JVM that isn't broken? The Java Virtual Machines are known for their memory taking and process slugging performance. If they open source this, I can't wait to see what an incredible increase in performance this will mean for Java programs!
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The software Engineering model shows us that the most efficent way to create a large product is to follow this model:
1. Gather Requirements
2. Make a Design Spec
3. Model the project (i.e. UML)
4. Code
5. Test
6. Goto 3
Most programmers, however, learn to program on their own instead of in school. They see this methodology as time consuming and unneeded. If they have it in their head, why spend the time to make a large design doc with requirements gathering? It just wastes time, right?
Wrong (if you are working in a team)... Design specs allow the entire team to strive towards the same goal, and even if you are 'itching a scratch', you might as well create something organized so that others that will use your open source will know what you are trying to do, and how you are trying to do it.
Which leads me to think that design docs should also be open source, because when you change the code, it usually means that you require a slight design change (unless it is a bugfix, or something minor).
Try coding something large with a good design specification first. Put lots of time into it -before- you code, and see how much easier it is to code.... Just try it....
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You said: with an almost infinite number of planets out there, aren't the conditions for life bound to happen? A direct quote from the parent post (my original): Some would say in the infinite galaxy, all
possibilities will happen, due to the nature of infinity.
Which was me trying to say what you said. So, yes, I was thinking that as an arguement against mine. I was just making a point that religion would use this article as an arguement in their cause.
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So molecules doing the precise thing to support life is making life horrible?
Its like an illuminati joke... Molecules conspiring to create life, but making the life miserable for some!!
The creation of life didn't spawn war, or minorities, or anything evil. The human mind did that through years of psycological evolution.
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In the article, the chances of life is compaired to the possibility of
a Boeing 747 aircraft being completely assembled as a result of a tornado
striking a junkyard.
This actually makes a strong point for the religious of the population. Some would say in the infinite galaxy, all possibilities will happen, due to the nature of infinity, but religion could say, "Something *had* to have interfered to actually -help- these number assume such a perfect state to attain life."
Just a little philosophy for you from both sides of the spectrum. Being kinda religious, I'd venture to say it was a good argument that something had to help the environment reach this very rare state.
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Most programmers had one goal in mind, $$$$, when they wrote the game
I completely disagree with that statement.
Most video game programmers are overworked and underpaid. And most of them can get jobs that are easy and make lots of money. Why do they program games?? Cause they love to play games and love making games that everyone will enjoy.
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Honestly... You aren't making money on the copyright of age old games, so why not waive it so people can enjoy it? Games were made for enjoyment, right? The copyright and income are so you can live by making games... Waive those suckers!
Just my opinion...
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I've a pretty serious gamer... my experience with dreaming about a game is this:
I dream about spots I have difficulty completing. And sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night with the solution. I write it down, go back to sleep, then try it the next day and it works!
This was when I was a kid playing "Quest for Glory" and games in the "adventure" genre. Tetris, though? I don't think so...
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My personal opinion is that I think immersion = fun. If I can play systemshock 2, and a zombie sneaks behind me, shouts and hits me, and its scares me enough to jump and get killed, then I'm having fun. If I'm playing halflife and am running for my life from 20 aliens firing at me, I'm having fun. The immersion is why I play video games.
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Think of it this way:
You go to a lecture in school. Its chemistry. What is more interesting? Lab or the Lecture.
By being human, the more we can see the more it is interesting..
So, although Ultima4 was an excellent game, I find that Ultima7 was a better game because it had the same plot, but better graphics, allowing me to be more absorbed in the storyline.
Deus Ex is a great example, too. With the graphics being closer to realistic, its easier to get more into the game and be completely absorbed.
Valve Software made it a point to never show a picture of what the main character looked like, and never made him speak, just so you'd feel more like it was you running away from the aliens, and not some character you were controlling.
We play games to be absorbed in some fantasy. By making better audio/visuals, we are making it easier to be completely absorbed into the games, and therefore, having a more fun, and, generally, better experience with the game.
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... from intel vs. AMD to alpha vs. transmeta??
Would be interesting to see...
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You think driving with a cell phone is bad...
on
Ready-To-Wear PCs
·
· Score: 4
You know how badly people drive when they are distracted because of a cell-phone call....
Now imagine some freak is playing carmagedon on his wearable PC while driving... You know its bound to happen...
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Yeah... you fall the wrong way, or an important cable gets snagged on something, and you are S.O.L. There's your $5000+ wearable computer harddrive broken... unsalvagable data...
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They should take the extra 1/2 hour to dump linux onto the machines. Its free and will only take up a 1/2 hour of time to do it per machine (faster if they make all the machines the same). And it'll keep microsoft off their asses...
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I'm no lawyer... but does this make sense:
I pay my tuition to pay for my prof's salary, and he gives me the service of his lectures. That kinda makes him my 'employee' (in a very general sense). Don't I have a right to everything he said? I did help pay for his salary when he lectured, right?
Is this a valid? Like I said before, I'm no lawyer... far from one...
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If you could race other people over the internet, it would really make the game worth getting...
Nothing like showing up those windows players who can play the better tux...
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How many application have you ever viewed the object model for and it looks like spaghetti?
This would allow you to view all the objects and their relations to one another, and it would be extremely readable...
Complex UML with over 400 objects with tight relations, now becomes a readable document...
It doesn't have to stop there... any type of modelling that is complex is much much easier to view in 3D...
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I had a large argument with a friend on this very topic. Its not a "glorified VCR" as it is a "convienent way to watch TV". What do you hate about TV? The shows you want to watch aren't on when you are ready to watch them. Ever since I got my TiVo, I've never watched live tv. I let it record what I want, and when I'm ready to watch TV, I watch the recordings. Plus the feature that will learn what you like and tape suggestions is great. It really starts doing well after a while...
I personally think this is the bridge between the internet and the TV. It makes the TV convienent (plus you can FF through comercials if you watch live TV... just watch it 15 minutes later).
I'd suggest you try one for a month. If you don't love it, go back to your regular TV.
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What if MiR de-orbits, and the fungus survives, and attackes metals and plastics, and grows and adapts and eventually becomes nympho-vuluptuous naked amazon women?!?!?!
LET MIR DE-ORBIT!!!!
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If you are hacked, and find out how you are hacked, then you can prevent it. So, in theory, the more you are hacked, the more secure you'll eventually be.
I used this theory when starting a MUD a few years back. I opened it solely to hackers, had them break it a million different ways, and fixed it so they couldn't do it... after about a month, the mud was, practically, un-hackable.
Of course, this is a simplified theory (since there are hacks that have no known, practical way to fix, and you don't always know how they hacked you), and it only works in certain circumstances.
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Slashdot Mirror
...there will exist a JVM that isn't broken? The Java Virtual Machines are known for their memory taking and process slugging performance. If they open source this, I can't wait to see what an incredible increase in performance this will mean for Java programs!
.sigs??
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Sounds like M$ is silently funding this, so they don't have to get bugs sent to them. It removes the step of "Ignore/Delete Bug".
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What a timesaver!!
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After the Time Warner Merger, Nullsoft will be back in the news... hehehe... I can't wait!
.sigs??
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The software Engineering model shows us that the most efficent way to create a large product is to follow this model:
.sigs??
1. Gather Requirements
2. Make a Design Spec
3. Model the project (i.e. UML)
4. Code
5. Test
6. Goto 3
Most programmers, however, learn to program on their own instead of in school. They see this methodology as time consuming and unneeded. If they have it in their head, why spend the time to make a large design doc with requirements gathering? It just wastes time, right?
Wrong (if you are working in a team)... Design specs allow the entire team to strive towards the same goal, and even if you are 'itching a scratch', you might as well create something organized so that others that will use your open source will know what you are trying to do, and how you are trying to do it.
Which leads me to think that design docs should also be open source, because when you change the code, it usually means that you require a slight design change (unless it is a bugfix, or something minor).
Try coding something large with a good design specification first. Put lots of time into it -before- you code, and see how much easier it is to code.... Just try it....
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...pron, right? They are always the first to use technology like this. VCR, Internet, DVD... so if you buy one soon, enjoy your pron!
.sigs??
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You said:
.sigs??
with an almost infinite number of planets out there, aren't the conditions for life bound to happen?
A direct quote from the parent post (my original):
Some would say in the infinite galaxy, all possibilities will happen, due to the nature of infinity.
Which was me trying to say what you said. So, yes, I was thinking that as an arguement against mine. I was just making a point that religion would use this article as an arguement in their cause.
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So molecules doing the precise thing to support life is making life horrible?
.sigs??
Its like an illuminati joke... Molecules conspiring to create life, but making the life miserable for some!!
The creation of life didn't spawn war, or minorities, or anything evil. The human mind did that through years of psycological evolution.
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In the article, the chances of life is compaired to the possibility of a Boeing 747 aircraft being completely assembled as a result of a tornado striking a junkyard.
.sigs??
This actually makes a strong point for the religious of the population. Some would say in the infinite galaxy, all possibilities will happen, due to the nature of infinity, but religion could say, "Something *had* to have interfered to actually -help- these number assume such a perfect state to attain life."
Just a little philosophy for you from both sides of the spectrum. Being kinda religious, I'd venture to say it was a good argument that something had to help the environment reach this very rare state.
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Most programmers had one goal in mind, $$$$, when they wrote the game
.sigs??
I completely disagree with that statement.
Most video game programmers are overworked and underpaid. And most of them can get jobs that are easy and make lots of money. Why do they program games?? Cause they love to play games and love making games that everyone will enjoy.
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Honestly... You aren't making money on the copyright of age old games, so why not waive it so people can enjoy it?
.sigs??
Games were made for enjoyment, right? The copyright and income are so you can live by making games... Waive those suckers!
Just my opinion...
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I've a pretty serious gamer... my experience with dreaming about a game is this:
.sigs??
I dream about spots I have difficulty completing. And sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night with the solution. I write it down, go back to sleep, then try it the next day and it works!
This was when I was a kid playing "Quest for Glory" and games in the "adventure" genre. Tetris, though? I don't think so...
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My personal opinion is that I think immersion = fun. If I can play systemshock 2, and a zombie sneaks behind me, shouts and hits me, and its scares me enough to jump and get killed, then I'm having fun. If I'm playing halflife and am running for my life from 20 aliens firing at me, I'm having fun. The immersion is why I play video games.
.sigs??
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Think of it this way:
.sigs??
You go to a lecture in school. Its chemistry. What is more interesting? Lab or the Lecture.
By being human, the more we can see the more it is interesting..
So, although Ultima4 was an excellent game, I find that Ultima7 was a better game because it had the same plot, but better graphics, allowing me to be more absorbed in the storyline.
Deus Ex is a great example, too. With the graphics being closer to realistic, its easier to get more into the game and be completely absorbed.
Valve Software made it a point to never show a picture of what the main character looked like, and never made him speak, just so you'd feel more like it was you running away from the aliens, and not some character you were controlling.
We play games to be absorbed in some fantasy. By making better audio/visuals, we are making it easier to be completely absorbed into the games, and therefore, having a more fun, and, generally, better experience with the game.
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... from intel vs. AMD to alpha vs. transmeta??
.sigs??
Would be interesting to see...
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You know how badly people drive when they are distracted because of a cell-phone call....
.sigs??
Now imagine some freak is playing carmagedon on his wearable PC while driving... You know its bound to happen...
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Yeah... you fall the wrong way, or an important cable gets snagged on something, and you are S.O.L. There's your $5000+ wearable computer harddrive broken... unsalvagable data...
.sigs??
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They should take the extra 1/2 hour to dump linux onto the machines. Its free and will only take up a 1/2 hour of time to do it per machine (faster if they make all the machines the same). And it'll keep microsoft off their asses...
.sigs??
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I'm no lawyer... but does this make sense:
.sigs??
I pay my tuition to pay for my prof's salary, and he gives me the service of his lectures. That kinda makes him my 'employee' (in a very general sense). Don't I have a right to everything he said? I did help pay for his salary when he lectured, right?
Is this a valid? Like I said before, I'm no lawyer... far from one...
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If you could race other people over the internet, it would really make the game worth getting...
.sigs??
Nothing like showing up those windows players who can play the better tux...
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How many application have you ever viewed the object model for and it looks like spaghetti?
.sigs??
This would allow you to view all the objects and their relations to one another, and it would be extremely readable...
Complex UML with over 400 objects with tight relations, now becomes a readable document...
It doesn't have to stop there... any type of modelling that is complex is much much easier to view in 3D...
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A scene of a man eating a steak, and hooking an old dish into his 8088 computer
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An aussie voice with aussie accent: Local area network
A can of fosters smacking the floor...
An aussie voice with aussie accent: Beer... Fosters... Australian for beer.
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I had a large argument with a friend on this very topic. Its not a "glorified VCR" as it is a "convienent way to watch TV". What do you hate about TV? The shows you want to watch aren't on when you are ready to watch them. Ever since I got my TiVo, I've never watched live tv. I let it record what I want, and when I'm ready to watch TV, I watch the recordings. Plus the feature that will learn what you like and tape suggestions is great. It really starts doing well after a while...
.sigs??
I personally think this is the bridge between the internet and the TV. It makes the TV convienent (plus you can FF through comercials if you watch live TV... just watch it 15 minutes later).
I'd suggest you try one for a month. If you don't love it, go back to your regular TV.
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Isn't that the one with the horrible ending. One of the worst ending's I've read... Don't read the next line if you plan on reading it:
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The contagon just mutates and isn't harmful. That's Crichton just stumped and making a deadline...
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What if MiR de-orbits, and the fungus survives, and attackes metals and plastics, and grows and adapts and eventually becomes nympho-vuluptuous naked amazon women?!?!?!
.sigs??
LET MIR DE-ORBIT!!!!
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If you are hacked, and find out how you are hacked, then you can prevent it. So, in theory, the more you are hacked, the more secure you'll eventually be.
.sigs??
I used this theory when starting a MUD a few years back. I opened it solely to hackers, had them break it a million different ways, and fixed it so they couldn't do it... after about a month, the mud was, practically, un-hackable.
Of course, this is a simplified theory (since there are hacks that have no known, practical way to fix, and you don't always know how they hacked you), and it only works in certain circumstances.
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