They are suing people whose sole purpose in life is to enable the pirating of Blizzard games. Blizzard is not only well within their rights here, I say, More Power To Them. There is no rationale for bnetd other than to enable people with pirated copies to play. Period. Anyone who wants to play can use the official Battle.Net severs if they have a legitimate copy of the game.
I can't wait to get my hands on a (legitimate, paid for) copy of WarCraft III!
It does if you have any friends with any morality at all. I don't understand how stealing and bilking your favorite artist out of compensation for their work became so acceptable.
If I listened to an mp3 a friend downloaded and liked it a lot, I'd go download it myself. Just like I do when I borrow a CD I like from a friend.
Yes, but a legitimate purchase of good music by a band I like at a reasonable price sure beats steasling, copyright violation, and screwing over an artist whose music I like.
>Ever notice that the Empire people are always humans?
How do we know?
Emperor Palpatine is rather racist, coming from Naboo which is a rather racist people (their condescention and oppression of the Gungan being the indicator here, which is what made Padme's bowing down before and begging the Gungans for help all the more significant).
This shows why the Empire is so human centric. And all those storm troopers are clones... which is why Lea asks Luke "Aren't you a little short for a storm-trooper?" when he comes to rescue her on the Death Star.
Actually, he had stated he envisioned nine movies, or a trilogy of trilogies. He's since given up on ever doing the final three movies. He released authors to write books about that part of the saga when he started work on Episode I.
To be finite, the process must end after a predictable number of steps.
I disagree with that definition. Can't something be both finite AND unpredictable? You know it will terminate, but you're not sure exactly when? I'm thinking of algorithms like "Find me the next prime number after X". You can't predict the exact number of steps for that one, at least in the simple implementations of that algorithm.
Not to nitpick but 3) Original Star Wars, A New Hope, and 4) Return of the Jedi. Not sure how you can confuse those into thinking they're both from Empire...
The original Gateway Profile (three years ago? More?) was the best design, imho. They've been getting worse with each generation.
The main point being these things were around LONG before the new iMac. In fact, this particular generation was around before the new iMac. So saying that this is Gateway's "response" to the new iMac is completely ingorant.
I bought my parents the first Gateway Profile PC. It was very inexpensive (three years ago, $799), is reasonably powered, easy to use, and looks great. It's perfect for them. I got one of the last ones before they started pushing the uglier Gateway Profile 2.
Just use the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. It manages your imports for you, optimizing them to be only what you need, and inserting new import statments when you use (or paste) new code that needs them. Never worry about it again.
Java is lightening fast as long as you stay away from the GUI stuff. And more and more of the GUI stuff is fast enough. Check out the IDEA integrated development environment from IntelliJ. It's all Java, and it's damn fast for what it does (at least on my machine).
And the.Net stuff does not use "MFC" at all. MFC is gone. Toast. It's a C++ class library only, and simply doesn't play or have any relevence in the.Net world. They have a brand new class library which is, imho, superior to what has come before. But of course, any app you create in.Net will run ONLY on Windows, on Intel boxes.
The Java world has a more difficult task of trying to run across platforms.
I think the point was that the CLR makes the claim of being "language independent", while the JVM makes no such claim at all. Thus the CLR should conform to a higher standard than the JVM, not be merely equivalent to it.
One of the big things to recommend the JVM over the CLR is very simple: while the CLR tries to run multiple languages (and fails unless the language is simply a syntax-variant of C#), the JVM tries to run on multiple platforms (and does a fairly reasonable job of it if you stay away from GUI apps). I've taken JAR files for large and complicated server-side Java and J2EE programs, and just ftp'd them over to a Solaris box, and they just worked. Try that with CLR. Frankly, I think this aspect of the JVM is simply more important than trying to create a virtual machine where a VB programmer can extend a class written in C#. But that's just me.
And let's not forget that a preliminary version of generics is supported in JDK 1.4 (turned on by an option, but not "officially" part of the 1.4 JDK), and will be released as an official feature of the 1.5 JDK.
Well, for one thing, check out "Windows Scripting Host" on the Microsoft website. Using either VBScript or (much preferably) Jscript, you can do pretty much anything you want, including controlling any application that exposes COM automation interfaces. There are also Perl plug-ins for Windows Scripting Host, and I'm sure some others that I'm not aware of.
It was stated from the beginning that all nine planned movies (The last three will never be made) would feature the robots, and that they were central to the story, the only characters that persisted through all nine films.
Did it ever occur to you that their memories might be erased at some point? Or that R2D2 didn't make the connection between that little boy and Darth Vader, for whatever reason? I do agree it was a mistake to show vader as the creator of C3PO. But hey. As long as his memory gets erased SOMEWHERE along the line, it won't be a glaring continuity problem.
And the pod race was the way that little aniken was able to win his freedom (and the parts for the ship), so it did serve a purpose to the plot. But this is one aspect where the movie should have taken the extra 15 minutes and been more like the book.
The ewoks fucking sucked. I was 18 when I saw it. They were annoying things obviously injected into the plot just to sell toys and to market to kids. The previous poster was right: The first two movies were good movies with a wide demographic and a lack of 'cutsey' crap like ewoks and jar-jar. Lucas sold out with Return of the Jedi, and did double-time with Phantom Menace (and added offensive racial stereotypes on top of it all, instead of inventing new languages and dialects as he had for Yoda and the Huts, etc, in previous movies. What a cop out).
The *point* is, whatever method a given user chooses, should be consistent across the system. The point is NOT that every user needs to use things in exactly the same way. So you're still not getting the point, it seems to me.
A *consistent* system allows you to set the method for something like cut/copy/paste in one place (to your preferences), and all apps "just magically use it".
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It's accurate to refer to him as a great scientist who was also homosexual.
Well, you're certainly not going to be attracting girls with this watch.
That may be true, but it's doubtful you'd be attracting any gay guys either. Hell, I doubt you'd attract anyone but computer geeks... and only the most pathetically stereotypical of THOSE:-)
What does having a watch that takes you five times as long to read have to do with homosexuality? Any respectable gay guy *I* know wouldn't touch a watch like this, so it's definitely NOT "gay"...
AND TRS-80 model 4's. I had a model 4 myself (with 128k of bank-switched memory;-). Z80 was the first assembler language I learned as well.
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"Going grocery shopping on a scooter eh? How will you carry your bags of food home?"
Did you READ the article? It has attachments that allow carrying bags and groceries, and this specific application is mentioned (i.e. going to the store).
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They are suing people whose sole purpose in life is to enable the pirating of Blizzard games. Blizzard is not only well within their rights here, I say, More Power To Them. There is no rationale for bnetd other than to enable people with pirated copies to play. Period. Anyone who wants to play can use the official Battle.Net severs if they have a legitimate copy of the game.
I can't wait to get my hands on a (legitimate, paid for) copy of WarCraft III!
It does if you have any friends with any morality at all. I don't understand how stealing and bilking your favorite artist out of compensation for their work became so acceptable.
If I listened to an mp3 a friend downloaded and liked it a lot, I'd go download it myself. Just like I do when I borrow a CD I like from a friend.
Yes, but a legitimate purchase of good music by a band I like at a reasonable price sure beats steasling, copyright violation, and screwing over an artist whose music I like.
That sure competes well with "free" to me.
No, really, you're an idiot.
C3PO *does* have his memory wiped between Ep2 and Ep4.
Owen is Aniken's STEP brother. By marriage. Aniken's mother is not his mother. Duh.
>Ever notice that the Empire people are always humans?
How do we know?
Emperor Palpatine is rather racist, coming from Naboo which is a rather racist people (their condescention and oppression of the Gungan being the indicator here, which is what made Padme's bowing down before and begging the Gungans for help all the more significant).
This shows why the Empire is so human centric. And all those storm troopers are clones... which is why Lea asks Luke "Aren't you a little short for a storm-trooper?" when he comes to rescue her on the Death Star.
I think you mean a pair of trilogies.
Actually, he had stated he envisioned nine movies, or a trilogy of trilogies. He's since given up on ever doing the final three movies. He released authors to write books about that part of the saga when he started work on Episode I.
To be finite, the process must end after a predictable number of steps.
I disagree with that definition. Can't something be both finite AND unpredictable? You know it will terminate, but you're not sure exactly when? I'm thinking of algorithms like "Find me the next prime number after X". You can't predict the exact number of steps for that one, at least in the simple implementations of that algorithm.
Not to nitpick but 3) Original Star Wars, A New Hope, and 4) Return of the Jedi. Not sure how you can confuse those into thinking they're both from Empire...
By that reasoning, Apple's Mac line is ripping off the All-In-One TRS-80 Model III and Model 4, which predates the Mac by a few years at least.
Gateway didn't do it first, but neither did Apple.
The original Gateway Profile (three years ago? More?) was the best design, imho. They've been getting worse with each generation.
The main point being these things were around LONG before the new iMac. In fact, this particular generation was around before the new iMac. So saying that this is Gateway's "response" to the new iMac is completely ingorant.
I bought my parents the first Gateway Profile PC. It was very inexpensive (three years ago, $799), is reasonably powered, easy to use, and looks great. It's perfect for them. I got one of the last ones before they started pushing the uglier Gateway Profile 2.
Just use the IntelliJ IDEA IDE. It manages your imports for you, optimizing them to be only what you need, and inserting new import statments when you use (or paste) new code that needs them. Never worry about it again.
Java is lightening fast as long as you stay away from the GUI stuff. And more and more of the GUI stuff is fast enough. Check out the IDEA integrated development environment from IntelliJ. It's all Java, and it's damn fast for what it does (at least on my machine).
.Net stuff does not use "MFC" at all. MFC is gone. Toast. It's a C++ class library only, and simply doesn't play or have any relevence in the .Net world. They have a brand new class library which is, imho, superior to what has come before. But of course, any app you create in .Net will run ONLY on Windows, on Intel boxes.
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The Java world has a more difficult task of trying to run across platforms.
I think the point was that the CLR makes the claim of being "language independent", while the JVM makes no such claim at all. Thus the CLR should conform to a higher standard than the JVM, not be merely equivalent to it.
One of the big things to recommend the JVM over the CLR is very simple: while the CLR tries to run multiple languages (and fails unless the language is simply a syntax-variant of C#), the JVM tries to run on multiple platforms (and does a fairly reasonable job of it if you stay away from GUI apps). I've taken JAR files for large and complicated server-side Java and J2EE programs, and just ftp'd them over to a Solaris box, and they just worked. Try that with CLR. Frankly, I think this aspect of the JVM is simply more important than trying to create a virtual machine where a VB programmer can extend a class written in C#. But that's just me.
And let's not forget that a preliminary version of generics is supported in JDK 1.4 (turned on by an option, but not "officially" part of the 1.4 JDK), and will be released as an official feature of the 1.5 JDK.
Well, for one thing, check out "Windows Scripting Host" on the Microsoft website. Using either VBScript or (much preferably) Jscript, you can do pretty much anything you want, including controlling any application that exposes COM automation interfaces. There are also Perl plug-ins for Windows Scripting Host, and I'm sure some others that I'm not aware of.
You should be watching FarScape on Sci-Fi then. Because that chick is a central character in that show.
It was stated from the beginning that all nine planned movies (The last three will never be made) would feature the robots, and that they were central to the story, the only characters that persisted through all nine films.
Did it ever occur to you that their memories might be erased at some point? Or that R2D2 didn't make the connection between that little boy and Darth Vader, for whatever reason? I do agree it was a mistake to show vader as the creator of C3PO. But hey. As long as his memory gets erased SOMEWHERE along the line, it won't be a glaring continuity problem.
And the pod race was the way that little aniken was able to win his freedom (and the parts for the ship), so it did serve a purpose to the plot. But this is one aspect where the movie should have taken the extra 15 minutes and been more like the book.
The ewoks fucking sucked. I was 18 when I saw it. They were annoying things obviously injected into the plot just to sell toys and to market to kids. The previous poster was right: The first two movies were good movies with a wide demographic and a lack of 'cutsey' crap like ewoks and jar-jar. Lucas sold out with Return of the Jedi, and did double-time with Phantom Menace (and added offensive racial stereotypes on top of it all, instead of inventing new languages and dialects as he had for Yoda and the Huts, etc, in previous movies. What a cop out).
At least he didn't use his voice/character from "Prisilla, Queen of the Desert"!! :-)
Again, that's not an INCONSISTENCY.
The *point* is, whatever method a given user chooses, should be consistent across the system. The point is NOT that every user needs to use things in exactly the same way. So you're still not getting the point, it seems to me.
A *consistent* system allows you to set the method for something like cut/copy/paste in one place (to your preferences), and all apps "just magically use it".
It's accurate to refer to him as a great scientist who was also homosexual.
Well, you're certainly not going to be attracting girls with this watch.
:-)
That may be true, but it's doubtful you'd be attracting any gay guys either. Hell, I doubt you'd attract anyone but computer geeks... and only the most pathetically stereotypical of THOSE
What does having a watch that takes you five times as long to read have to do with homosexuality? Any respectable gay guy *I* know wouldn't touch a watch like this, so it's definitely NOT "gay"...
AND TRS-80 model 4's. I had a model 4 myself (with 128k of bank-switched memory ;-). Z80 was the first assembler language I learned as well.
"Going grocery shopping on a scooter eh? How will you carry your bags of food home?"
Did you READ the article? It has attachments that allow carrying bags and groceries, and this specific application is mentioned (i.e. going to the store).