Well, I know quite a few people who stopped playing it, including me, out of their own accord. I'm all against indexing and usually find it rather ridiculous to censor games.
But in the case of C&C:Generals I can somehow understand it. The storyline was actually annoying and embarrassing to me. Nuking the Three Gorges Dam just to level a terrorist camp? Bomb a convention center to get them out? WTF?
And don't even get me started on the GLA campaign were you have to slaughter civilians to further your score. Last time I checked terrorist weren't killing their own people like some crazed suicide commando out of Monty Phytons Flying Circus.
It's the politically correct Westeners (actually the US) vs. the stinking abstract terrorists. Oh, there's China too which attacks only in numbers and doesn't care about civilian casualties. I mean hey, isn't that an exact portrayal of the world right now? *ugh* Not.
This is not solely about strategy anymore, it's oversimplification bordering to propaganda. Not that I say this was intented this way, which I cannot know, but that's the impression I got.
Prohibitivly expensive since you have to get the waste out of Earth's gravity well. We are talking thousands of dollars per lb here for just NEO, and that's notwithstanding the fact that you probably don't want to spray your ultra-toxic waste all over the landscape when one of the boosters blows up.
ever drove a latest generation bmw oder mercedes? the controls on the steering-wheel are mind boogling. (probably for other highend technoladen cars too)
use cars of friends frequently? never twisted the various knobs in utter frustration just so find out what actually stops the damn windshield-cleaner again? or crawled all over the dashboard to discover how to turn on the lights, which is depressingly different for almost all cars?
i think you are basically right in your arguments, but the rest of life isn't as simple as drawn in those analogies when criticizing software.
I use IDEA as my IDE, but use ant tasks exclusively for the whole cycle from setting up the environment, compiling, testing and deploying. It also builds schemas from DTDs and feeds them to generator packages that automatically produce Java objects to work with.
And thats just a pretty meager example, there are tasks for virtually everything (it's the way to extend ants functionality). If there's one lacking that does what you want, roll your own, it's easy to extend.
When I'm done testing locally I finally use ant to deploy it to the target clusters.
Couple of colleagues use JBuilder or Forte, but use the same ant build file, and it works like a charm.
look it up at ant.apache.org, you won't regret it.
Which would make them quite illegal in the face of the Geneva Convention. When the speed of the bullet exceeds about 1000 km/h the ensueing cell shock is going to kill you even if it's just a grazing shot.
Maybe he was doing it for fun or as some kind of research project. Maybe not.
I already thought I read some kind of resentment in the article that the originator wasn't punished more severely.
I'm almost tempted to say that Americans would seem to love seeing him on death row, the damn criminal, no wait, terrorist! Kill him!
Sorry for the polemic, but the whole article just rings wrong in my ears. Making the public sensitive to cyberterrorists to pave the way to lock further people away that may or may not get irritating to officials?
While this may be a arguably nice toy for people who have to search for every key, it seems to be quite a drawback for those who can type "properly".
I need the minuscle feedback when moving over the keys to have body memory kick so I can find the keys instinctively. When I type, I don't have to think where the key is, all done autonomously.
Try it with a piece of paper with a printed keyboard on it. Not a chance to type blindly (which I do all of the time), and you won't get up to any decent speed even with looking at the keys.
But thats exactly what I'd require from a "next generation" keyboard for PDAs and the like, if I want to enter text at a slow pace there are already a lot of viable alternatives.
trying not to wreak havoc on earth would be too simple, huh? you are so damn right, screw kyoto, seeing humankind as nothing more than locusts is really a sexy thought.
very unlikely. the flash lasted for 8 to 10 seconds (http://iota.jhuapl.edu/stuart.jpg), and I'd say that a dust cloud of this magnitude would take a little bit longer to settle than this. and you can expect half a megaton of TNT to produce a hefty flash:)
I'm a big VIM fan myself, and fanatically resisted any IDEs for quite a few years.
If you are into Java, however, you might give IDEA from Intellij a try. Refactoring support, for one thing, and quite a few nifty little things that make programming indeed a whole lot easier.
Nope, don't work for them, just really really like the product.
"You might say that Lawrence of Arabia was innovative, but the story of Lawrence of Arabia was nothing more than an adaptation of a centuries old theme portayed on film."
well, almost. thomas edward lawrence lived from 1888 to 1935. the film was done 1962 and tries to tell his story, if somewhat idealized. hardly "centuries old". anyway, this guy has been one hell of an character.
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Well, I know quite a few people who stopped playing it, including me, out of their own accord. I'm all against indexing and usually find it rather ridiculous to censor games.
But in the case of C&C:Generals I can somehow understand it. The storyline was actually annoying and embarrassing to me. Nuking the Three Gorges Dam just to level a terrorist camp? Bomb a convention center to get them out? WTF?
And don't even get me started on the GLA campaign were you have to slaughter civilians to further your score. Last time I checked terrorist weren't killing their own people like some crazed suicide commando out of Monty Phytons Flying Circus.
It's the politically correct Westeners (actually the US) vs. the stinking abstract terrorists. Oh, there's China too which attacks only in numbers and doesn't care about civilian casualties. I mean hey, isn't that an exact portrayal of the world right now? *ugh* Not.
This is not solely about strategy anymore, it's oversimplification bordering to propaganda. Not that I say this was intented this way, which I cannot know, but that's the impression I got.
indeed they do, that's the exact reason why those "cowards" are opposing war at all costs.
Prohibitivly expensive since you have to get the waste out of Earth's gravity well. We are talking thousands of dollars per lb here for just NEO, and that's notwithstanding the fact that you probably don't want to spray your ultra-toxic waste all over the landscape when one of the boosters blows up.
no, you won't, this is germany after all.
ever drove a latest generation bmw oder mercedes? the controls on the steering-wheel are mind boogling. (probably for other highend technoladen cars too)
use cars of friends frequently? never twisted the various knobs in utter frustration just so find out what actually stops the damn windshield-cleaner again? or crawled all over the dashboard to discover how to turn on the lights, which is depressingly different for almost all cars?
i think you are basically right in your arguments, but the rest of life isn't as simple as drawn in those analogies when criticizing software.
Troll? come on.
It's hardly news that those companies would like to see linux on the desktop.
When I read the headline I thought it was about, *uhm* AT&T, GM and such companies trying to back linux on the desktop.
It would have been news if this group of companies would speak out *against* linux on a desktop.
so a bunch of linux distros want to promote linux on the desktop. ah, and theres a conference on it.
:)
well then, goodbye windows, thats going to do it...
most definitely.
I use IDEA as my IDE, but use ant tasks exclusively for the whole cycle from setting up the environment, compiling, testing and deploying. It also builds schemas from DTDs and feeds them to generator packages that automatically produce Java objects to work with.
And thats just a pretty meager example, there are tasks for virtually everything (it's the way to extend ants functionality). If there's one lacking that does what you want, roll your own, it's easy to extend.
When I'm done testing locally I finally use ant to deploy it to the target clusters.
Couple of colleagues use JBuilder or Forte, but use the same ant build file, and it works like a charm.
look it up at ant.apache.org, you won't regret it.
sorry, but screw that singular voice, because it's only too predictable whose voice that's gonna be.
there are already enough places where you can't speak your mind and are flooded with regulations bordering the ridiculous.
Oh, _that_ kind of portable. Thought it was meant as a personal rifle-like thing like in Quake. What's it's size? A building?
cool link. :)
to quote the article linked:
"This weapon had a maximum range of 1.24 miles (120 millimeter) to 2.49 miles (155 millimeter)."
Almost enough not to hit your toe.
Which would make them quite illegal in the face of the Geneva Convention. When the speed of the bullet exceeds about 1000 km/h the ensueing cell shock is going to kill you even if it's just a grazing shot.
... surf with "oldest first", how can the first post (I'm browsing at level 1) be redundant?
So what?
Maybe he was doing it for fun or as some kind of research project. Maybe not.
I already thought I read some kind of resentment in the article that the originator wasn't punished more severely.
I'm almost tempted to say that Americans would seem to love seeing him on death row, the damn criminal, no wait, terrorist! Kill him!
Sorry for the polemic, but the whole article just rings wrong in my ears. Making the public sensitive to cyberterrorists to pave the way to lock further people away that may or may not get irritating to officials?
While this may be a arguably nice toy for people who have to search for every key, it seems to be quite a drawback for those who can type "properly".
I need the minuscle feedback when moving over the keys to have body memory kick so I can find the keys instinctively. When I type, I don't have to think where the key is, all done autonomously.
Try it with a piece of paper with a printed keyboard on it. Not a chance to type blindly (which I do all of the time), and you won't get up to any decent speed even with looking at the keys.
But thats exactly what I'd require from a "next generation" keyboard for PDAs and the like, if I want to enter text at a slow pace there are already a lot of viable alternatives.
nice joke, but I don't think it's ok that sucks /. posts it under science.
"...using two space-based satellites...". yeah, as opposed to my two garage based ones. *sighs*
trying not to wreak havoc on earth would be too simple, huh? you are so damn right, screw kyoto, seeing humankind as nothing more than locusts is really a sexy thought.
... are german ones. Personally I'd go for the fuel cell powered version of the BMW 7 series. Kicks seriously ass.
(bmw)
very unlikely. the flash lasted for 8 to 10 seconds :)
(http://iota.jhuapl.edu/stuart.jpg), and I'd say that a dust cloud of this magnitude would take a little bit longer to settle than this. and you can expect half a megaton of TNT to produce a hefty flash
as you have seen "waitresses and truckdrivers" can vote too.
fawlty. basil fawlty, as the main character of the show. friggin' brilliant, too.
yes. and it means "static". not exactly funny, but there you go.
that's the Chinese way of doing things - money money money
are you american? if yes, this should be most definitely moderated as "funny".
I'm a big VIM fan myself, and fanatically resisted any IDEs for quite a few years.
If you are into Java, however, you might give IDEA from Intellij a try. Refactoring support, for one thing, and quite a few nifty little things that make programming indeed a whole lot easier.
Nope, don't work for them, just really really like the product.
"You might say that Lawrence of Arabia was innovative, but the story of Lawrence of Arabia was nothing more than an adaptation of a centuries old theme portayed on film."
well, almost. thomas edward lawrence lived from 1888 to 1935. the film was done 1962 and tries to tell his story, if somewhat idealized. hardly "centuries old". anyway, this guy has been one hell of an character.