The question I have...how hard would it be to develop some kind of basic programming language for these type of games? In StarCraft, Reavers cause an enormous amount of damage. I would want my characters to attack them first, overriding any previous attack orders. Or, for Zerg troops, if their health dips below a certain point, automatically burrow.
It shouldn't be that hard. In Linux, anyway, many shell scripting languages come with C or C++ interfaces, and you can pass back and forth variables, and have the ai determination put into scripts. I can't imagine something like that in Windows would be too hard to find...
Will there be a new Karma Cap? I've been beating my head against 50 for the last few months and I NEED IT BABY! GIMME MORE ROOM FOR KARMA NOW DAMMITARRRGGHGHH!!!!
...and realized that in the wake of all the press about.Net and C#, that it's time to remind the world who brought this sort of computing to the internet in the first place.
Used to be "the Far Side" wall back when I was at university, but times-a-changing.
You'll be surrounding yourself with good humour and also giving people reasons to stop by and linger. Good for the psyche, that.
1) I must be missing the point. The way the nay-sayers talk, you'd think Apache hasn't been used an e-com solution at all. Hello? 63% of the web servers out there aren't all showing pictures of the family dog and cousin Shirley's wedding.
2) I also don't see why ASP is so highly touted here. It's slow, and it gets slower when you need to add functionality that PHP has built in. Granted, it'd be nice if satellite was no longer an experimental module and we could usher in a boatload of CORBA fun, but there are always other solutions, aren't there? Like, write your component to the CORBA spec, and access it using C-based CGI?
Seems like that would be the most important question. Recommending Kylix to a group of people who know nothing about Pascal doesn't seem like such a hot idea, nor does recommending KDevelop to Visual Basic developers...
If you like C++, go with KDevelop.
If you prefer C and can do XML, go with a combination of a good editor, gcc and Glade.
If you like Pascal, go with Kylix.
If you like Java, there's Forte (don't know anything about it).
If you like Visual Basic, get ready to buckle down and learn a new language...
Also, consider giving Emacs a whirl. It's scary as all git, but it does just about everything short of fixing you a sandwhich.
Apparently a high concentration of caffeine isn't allowed in some sports, and when I got this news from a tv report they said that the testing would include checking participants for caffeine. This might piss off chess players who aren't morning people.
Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?
Why do dogs lick their own balls?
A: Because they can.
Please stop bragging about apache...
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Crackers are fueled by the challenge and payoff of getting into what was once considered the uncrackable site. The higher the profile, the better, that's one of the reasons MS software is such a target. Start talking trash about how IIS sucks compared to apache and methinks you'll end up with more security hole notices about apache than you'd like, courtesy some guy who enjoys dealing with hubris.
Brilliant lead writing...
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AOL Time Warner released the first final upgrade...
If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
Okay, Linux Today is primarily a press-release site, right? It doesn't exactly claim to be a real news site, does it? As such, the expectations of partiality and journalistic integrity that you'd normally want of an editor don't really apply here, do they?
Maybe it sounds like I'm oversimplifying a bit, I don't know. But I've never really gone to Linux Today hoping to find straight news, and it seemed like the editor was less an editor than a page maintainer. I guess what I'm saying is, in theory, I don't think there's anything wrong with the guy faking an alias and posting stuff to get a reaction. It's not like I give a damn who any of the other aliases are because they're all unverifiable anyway (or, I guess, considering this case, mostly unverifiable;) -- if they post something debate-worthy, I'll fight it or support it on merit.
I wonder if the imminent product launch of XP might bring this entire issue to a head faster than anything? MS probably doesn't want to have any news stories that have the lead: "Microsoft launched XP amidst worries about a strengthened monopoly."
Ximian's afflicted with mono, which might have something to do with why they can't make up their mind about whether they want their next Gnome to be bonobo-based or not.
...timothy and cmdr Taco both showed up to work today wearing matching golf shirts and Dockers pants. Upon further inspection, it was determined that they also had the exact same type of socks, shoes, and belts (they stopped short of comparing underoos). At some point, Hemos was quoted as saying, "You know, I think you two should talk to each other before coming in to work."
There are many protestors out there who actually feed off the potential for danger. At my old university, the student politicians who were trying to make names for themselves for upcoming elections often went overboard with the activism. Anything they could do for a photo opportunity is fair game -- the same guy who was smashing televisions as a statement against pop culture one year was signing deals with Pepsi for exclusive distribution in the Student Union Building the next. I swear to god I'm not kidding.
When we had some protests over here that got ugly with tear gas, the student politicians were hot on the student press pushing them to go crazy and put the Liberal government went through the ringer, which was just fine with the student gov't, most of whom were getting themselves ready for a future with a rival poltical party.
Robots making graffiti will only steal the thunder from a potential PR fiasco, which is exactly what many of the protestors are going to want.
It's easy to figure out why demand would be down -- you have to figure that the average Linux enthusiast is more than capable of building their own computer. If you can successfully recompile a kernel, you're probably going to laugh at the idea of 3-year warranties that you'll never need on machines that are twice as expensive as a hot rod you can build for yourself.
There's a lot of crap out there right now, and the best books to get would be ones that actually stick to some sort of standard, like hardcore SQL or C references. It's probably the only way to guarantee that you won't be getting into something that's a fad, because any programming language community that commits to bringing about a standards base isn't in it for the short haul.
This rule, of course, excludes yet-to-be-proven-potential-vapourware like C#.
So the bottom line is, we sell software, Ximian currently sells nothing other than trinkets like t-shirts and stuffed monkeys, but I doubt they make money on it.
You know, I thought the rest of the article was a good read, but this sort of nonsense is totally unnecessary. These sorts of passive-aggressive digs at the competition really do nothing for the linux advocacy cause as a whole.
That's not even to say I disagree with him that Ximian's got to do more than just promote themselves as an entity. Still, if Ximian and theKompany don't even compete, why make fun of them? All you do is get to tally one next to your name on the flamage score sheet, all the while alienating the fans of Gnome who might otherwise have wanted products from theKompany that Ximian itself doesn't provide. It almost makes me want to stick it out with Gnome out of spite -- despite the fact that I'm undecided about commiting to it as a desktop in the future. Where will this condescending attitude go next? Gnumeric and GIMP? GTK+? C coders in general? Anyone who doesn't want KDE?
Attaboy, Gordon. You really presented yourself and theKompany well there.
Annoying celebrities are. Seriously. I'm employed in the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa and this is a dirty little secret that nobody's got the balls to tell the press about. Pakistan's already got a plan in the works to clone Celine Dion and have her come down to your country in droves. Russia's funding a similar assault involving Bryan Adams and Alan Thicke.
Don't ignore this very real threat, my friends, before it's too late.
Re:Let this be a lesson to you...
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We're not talking about dealing with the audience and customer in a sales sense, or even a general PR sense. We're talking about with a specific legal issue that's gone wrong. The folks at mySQL AB obviously wanted to get a point across -- unfortunately, by doing it themselves they're allowing the company to get dragged down into what is, in essence, a flame war.
Much better to just say, "Oh that, well, our lawyers are dealing with that." Then, when the issue gets wrapped up, the company can broadcast a press release summing up their stance in the issue and the result.
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It shouldn't be that hard. In Linux, anyway, many shell scripting languages come with C or C++ interfaces, and you can pass back and forth variables, and have the ai determination put into scripts. I can't imagine something like that in Windows would be too hard to find...
Will there be a new Karma Cap? I've been beating my head against 50 for the last few months and I NEED IT BABY! GIMME MORE ROOM FOR KARMA NOW DAMMITARRRGGHGHH!!!!
...and realized that in the wake of all the press about .Net and C#, that it's time to remind the world who brought this sort of computing to the internet in the first place.
Used to be "the Far Side" wall back when I was at university, but times-a-changing. You'll be surrounding yourself with good humour and also giving people reasons to stop by and linger. Good for the psyche, that.
1) I must be missing the point. The way the nay-sayers talk, you'd think Apache hasn't been used an e-com solution at all. Hello? 63% of the web servers out there aren't all showing pictures of the family dog and cousin Shirley's wedding.
2) I also don't see why ASP is so highly touted here. It's slow, and it gets slower when you need to add functionality that PHP has built in. Granted, it'd be nice if satellite was no longer an experimental module and we could usher in a boatload of CORBA fun, but there are always other solutions, aren't there? Like, write your component to the CORBA spec, and access it using C-based CGI?
If you like C++, go with KDevelop.
If you prefer C and can do XML, go with a combination of a good editor, gcc and Glade.
If you like Pascal, go with Kylix.
If you like Java, there's Forte (don't know anything about it).
If you like Visual Basic, get ready to buckle down and learn a new language...
Also, consider giving Emacs a whirl. It's scary as all git, but it does just about everything short of fixing you a sandwhich.
Easy for you to say. Some of us still get the intellectual equivalent of a slurpee brain freeze trying to get all the way through Abrash's Black Book.
Jeez, who does this guy think he is? John Romero or something?
Apparently a high concentration of caffeine isn't allowed in some sports, and when I got this news from a tv report they said that the testing would include checking participants for caffeine. This might piss off chess players who aren't morning people.
Why do dogs lick their own balls?
A: Because they can.
If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
I'm so confused.
Didn't know this was going on at the same time as censorship of other posts. I see it now.
Maybe it sounds like I'm oversimplifying a bit, I don't know. But I've never really gone to Linux Today hoping to find straight news, and it seemed like the editor was less an editor than a page maintainer. I guess what I'm saying is, in theory, I don't think there's anything wrong with the guy faking an alias and posting stuff to get a reaction. It's not like I give a damn who any of the other aliases are because they're all unverifiable anyway (or, I guess, considering this case, mostly unverifiable ;) -- if they post something debate-worthy, I'll fight it or support it on merit.
I wonder if the imminent product launch of XP might bring this entire issue to a head faster than anything? MS probably doesn't want to have any news stories that have the lead: "Microsoft launched XP amidst worries about a strengthened monopoly."
All my karma are belong to your -1 Trolls!
...timothy and cmdr Taco both showed up to work today wearing matching golf shirts and Dockers pants. Upon further inspection, it was determined that they also had the exact same type of socks, shoes, and belts (they stopped short of comparing underoos). At some point, Hemos was quoted as saying, "You know, I think you two should talk to each other before coming in to work."
When we had some protests over here that got ugly with tear gas, the student politicians were hot on the student press pushing them to go crazy and put the Liberal government went through the ringer, which was just fine with the student gov't, most of whom were getting themselves ready for a future with a rival poltical party.
Robots making graffiti will only steal the thunder from a potential PR fiasco, which is exactly what many of the protestors are going to want.
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There's a lot of crap out there right now, and the best books to get would be ones that actually stick to some sort of standard, like hardcore SQL or C references. It's probably the only way to guarantee that you won't be getting into something that's a fad, because any programming language community that commits to bringing about a standards base isn't in it for the short haul. This rule, of course, excludes yet-to-be-proven-potential-vapourware like C#.
They replace the mumbler with the yoddler.
Rebuttal.
You know, I thought the rest of the article was a good read, but this sort of nonsense is totally unnecessary. These sorts of passive-aggressive digs at the competition really do nothing for the linux advocacy cause as a whole.
That's not even to say I disagree with him that Ximian's got to do more than just promote themselves as an entity. Still, if Ximian and theKompany don't even compete, why make fun of them? All you do is get to tally one next to your name on the flamage score sheet, all the while alienating the fans of Gnome who might otherwise have wanted products from theKompany that Ximian itself doesn't provide. It almost makes me want to stick it out with Gnome out of spite -- despite the fact that I'm undecided about commiting to it as a desktop in the future. Where will this condescending attitude go next? Gnumeric and GIMP? GTK+? C coders in general? Anyone who doesn't want KDE?
Attaboy, Gordon. You really presented yourself and theKompany well there.
Don't ignore this very real threat, my friends, before it's too late.
Much better to just say, "Oh that, well, our lawyers are dealing with that." Then, when the issue gets wrapped up, the company can broadcast a press release summing up their stance in the issue and the result.