One again, that "I'm not sure" was to indicate that... I wasn't sure since I'm not an expert in MMO programming.
I am a software engineer though, and I happen to be a good one.
Now, sure your Unix system with 13,000 users may in fact not use objects, good for you.
I do doubt however that when it comes to rendering 3D objects in a 3D environment like a multi-player online game, that objects are not being used. If there are hundreds of avatars running around on my screen I'd bet each one of those is represented by an object which at a minimum is tracking it's location in proximity to my camera. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but please give me some specifics on how it is done.
I thought that the "I'm not sure" was sufficient in my sentence to indicate... are you ready for this?... that "I'm not sure." Hence, I am not an expert on MMO game programming and I'm not willing to make absolute statements. You on the other hand must be an expert judging by your absolute statements. So I defer to your knowledge in that case.
The biggest fault with that article is that the author doesn't take into account who his audience will be. If you are going to write an article on the "breaking news" that the creators of Spore have gone to the future year of 1987 to use Pascal to write a mutliplayer online game, well... chances are the only people who will want to read your article are programmers. So don't bother trying to explain Ryu's fireball to us, we got that back in 1990 when Ryu spit out his first fireball in front of our eyes. Instead give actual details that are worth reading to your potential audience.
What the hell is this article talking about? I can tell that the author either doesn't know how to program, or he doesn't know how to break it down into non-tech speak. Either way, the article doesn't make much sense.
As for procedural programming... I'm not sure how it would be possible to write an interactive multi-player procedural program without using the concept of an object. Especially when there is customization at the level that Spore claims to have. I really think perhaps the author of the article doesn't understand the difference between an object's method, and a non-object procedure/function.
Where is the "Think of the children!" tag for this article?
Maybe I'm crazy, but if you're this concerned about what your children see perhaps you shouldn't allow them access to these devices at all? I know, it's a crazy thought to expect any of my fellow Americans to go a day without a TV.
Oh For God's sake, don't any of you people have lamp shades??!!! Even the whitest light imaginable passing through a yellow lampshade will come out yellow.
Since this is Slashdot think of the shade as a "hack" on the light spectrum maybe that'll motivate you to use your brain to solve this incredibly complex problem of "how do I make white light less white?"
Bush can't possibly smear/fire/silence all of them.
Stalin, McCarthy, Hitler (I don't think this counts as evoking Godwin's law), did it, I'm sure Bush could too. Errr rather, I'm sure Cheney could do it. Let's face it, he's the real puppet master here.
As I recall, it was her comments about sex and masturbation that lost her the job. The same people censoring the current Surgeon General were so shocked and offended that someone would suggest masturbation is a healthy activity for youth that they made such a big deal out of it. So Clinton made a political decision to minimize the damage and have her resign.
Exactly, let's not forget it was the Republicans that threw that Tantrum against Elders that caused her to resign. Just like it's the Republicans now fighting off reality with every last bit of energy they have by forcing a Surgeon General to omit science from the discussion.
Maybe the rest of the world should start opening top rate free schools in the US to educate our children for us. Start with Alabama and Tennessee... too bad the people there would probably refuse to send their children to your schools.
Well, I'd argue they didn't exactly adhere to the "well" part... But that's a whole nother debate, one I'd probably lose simply for lack of an knowledge on the topic.
I think it's a good point though. GMC really didn't do the car making part "well" anymore. They've been catch up with the Japanese and the Europeans in the "Quality" department for decades now. American cars are boring, uncool, have a reputation for not lasting.
The first thing I notice when I sit down in a car is the console. I want a console that LOOKS NICE. I can get a 20k Japanese car with an amazing console that visually is beautiful, I get a stylish speedometer, color matched interior, and a radio that looks intricate and provides a lot of functionality. I can buy a 20k American car and I get a console with a red stick mechanical speedometer, a radio with buttons that are each 2 inches by 1 inch, and knobs that are 2 inches across, with an LCD display that shows NOTHING more than a GIANT display of numbers for the radio station I'm listening to. NONE of the interior bits in American cars are color matched, none of the features wow you with their creativity in solving basic ergonomic and spatial problems.
I have to admit the Chevy Malibu I drove recently was a nice fresh breath of air. I could have sworn it wasn't an American car, it's interior was actually stylish.
I wish the courts had the power to force a man to work a minimum wage job when he is found doing such unethical work. The only way this would work would be if the courts were to take all of the mans other income as a fine as well. I want these people to see the life they are damning the rest of the country to.
I would have to agree that the greatest calculated success of the PS3 is the adoption of Blu-Ray by content providers and content makers like Disney and Blockbuster.
Why do the Japanese seem to always throw the baby out with the bathwater? One failure is not equivalent to becoming incapable of producing more success. I'll just be happy I live in a culture where occasional failure is seen as an opportunity to grow and become better.
but you can be sure that oil had very little to do with it.
Are you trolling?
This war was about oil and nothing else. Saddam Hussein is a bad man, sure, but there are plenty of rulers around the world who are just as bad. The difference is that Saddam's badness gave us the justification for war to acquire oil.
Here are two main reasons why we went to war:
-The Saudi Royal family has become too powerful in the US due to our dependence on their oil. -China is ramping up their industrial economy. They have replaced the US as the number one buyer of resources, which means that the US no longer gets the same place at the bargaining table.
In theory both of those problems can be resolved by the U.S. directly (or indirectly through a puppet government) controlling a major oil producing country.
The Iraq war was meant to give the US that control over middle eastern oil. The problem is that the war was poorly executed by callous men. Huge mistakes were made, stupid mistakes were made, and now our ability to control Iraqi oil is in jeopardy, and so is our national security and prosperity.
I have a PSP. It is the most boring game device I have ever owned. I keep buying games for it, stupidly forgetting that all these games are just PS2 ports. I never enjoyed any PS2 games, why would I enjoy them on the PSP? You gotta hand it to Nintendo for creating a unique device and developing games specifically for that device.
Nintendo clearly understands that if you create a fun form that when develop games that use that form you're going to end up with a fun exclusive that you can't get anywhere else.
They did it with the DS, they did it with the Wii, and you could argue they did it with the analog stick on the N64.
This is just a less-polished version of WoW with different character names.
You don't know what you're talking about. This game is very different. The method of PvP alone is a huge departure. Once you hit level 10 you are able to enter "Monster Play" which allows you to enter the battle ground as a bad guy. You can pop in and out of monster play at will, and resume leveling your "good guy" player character. Once your good guy hits 40 he can enter the battleground. That means that all of the 10-50's can play monsters and 40-50's can play good guys in the BG's resulting in a better balance. That alone is a huge change from WoW.
A secondary change is the LOTR chapters which you play as instances. This means you get REAL story telling in your instance playing.
The deed system is fun and a nice innovation to make grinding more fun when you have to do it to level.
Even the "fed ex" quests are really well done. I can't tell you how much fun I was having running around between hobbits and reading the quest dialog of two idiot hobbits that were trying to court each other. I suppose you actually have to take the time to READ the quests though. This game isn't about getting the latest +10 whatever equipment. It's about providing a good game and story experience. Something that is new to me as a veteran of WoW.
On the BBC a "season" can be as little as a single TV movie, or it can be 6 episodes of a show. They build an amazing amount of quality into shows when there isn't a lot of quantity.
Sorry, I call shenanigan on the "it was a creative decision" bullshit. It's a business.
You're right, it is a buisiness and in SciFi (and most TV for that matter) the single most important factor is finishing a third season. Once you have finished the third season your show is cleared to go into Syndication for the next 20, 30, 100 years. And that's where you get your life long pension of royalty checks rolling into you. No matter what happens from this point on nobody who worked on BSG will have to worry about being homeless. The Royalty checks may not be huge sums of money, but you can bet it's enough to own a ranch-style house in the San Fernando Valley, maybe even Encino, where you can grow old and retire.
Who cares. Star Wars was great back in the day, Lucas ruined the Legacy, get over it. The same is happening to the Terminator, but at least you can't blame Cameron, as he has nothing to do with the ruining. Lucas on the other hand can eat dicks in hell.
As a gay man who is excitedly anticipating his time eating dicks in hell I would like to file an official complaint that I would have to share the dicks to be eaten with that sloth fat ass Lucas. That Porker? would undoubtedly take more than his fair share of cock.
No no no, the router broadcast this packet which my wifi receiver picked up and it changed my computers state from not connected to connected. THAT ROUTER HAS RAPED MY SYSTEM AND I MUST SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE.
That analogy holds right up to the point you send your first packet to their network. After that, you are no longer a passive spectator...you are playing in a completely different ballgame, with completely different rules.
What about the routers first broadcast SSID packet that reached my computer and told my computer it was there waiting to be used? Isn't that implied permission? Wait a minute, that broadcast SSID packed caused a change of states ON MY COMPUTER. The owner of that router is using my computer without MY permission!!!! Where's the cops?! My computer was raped by a broadcast SSID packet!
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One again, that "I'm not sure" was to indicate that... I wasn't sure since I'm not an expert in MMO programming.
I am a software engineer though, and I happen to be a good one.
Now, sure your Unix system with 13,000 users may in fact not use objects, good for you.
I do doubt however that when it comes to rendering 3D objects in a 3D environment like a multi-player online game, that objects are not being used. If there are hundreds of avatars running around on my screen I'd bet each one of those is represented by an object which at a minimum is tracking it's location in proximity to my camera. Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but please give me some specifics on how it is done.
I thought that the "I'm not sure" was sufficient in my sentence to indicate... are you ready for this?... that "I'm not sure." Hence, I am not an expert on MMO game programming and I'm not willing to make absolute statements. You on the other hand must be an expert judging by your absolute statements. So I defer to your knowledge in that case.
The biggest fault with that article is that the author doesn't take into account who his audience will be. If you are going to write an article on the "breaking news" that the creators of Spore have gone to the future year of 1987 to use Pascal to write a mutliplayer online game, well... chances are the only people who will want to read your article are programmers. So don't bother trying to explain Ryu's fireball to us, we got that back in 1990 when Ryu spit out his first fireball in front of our eyes. Instead give actual details that are worth reading to your potential audience.
What the hell is this article talking about? I can tell that the author either doesn't know how to program, or he doesn't know how to break it down into non-tech speak. Either way, the article doesn't make much sense.
As for procedural programming... I'm not sure how it would be possible to write an interactive multi-player procedural program without using the concept of an object. Especially when there is customization at the level that Spore claims to have. I really think perhaps the author of the article doesn't understand the difference between an object's method, and a non-object procedure/function.
Where is the "Think of the children!" tag for this article?
Maybe I'm crazy, but if you're this concerned about what your children see perhaps you shouldn't allow them access to these devices at all? I know, it's a crazy thought to expect any of my fellow Americans to go a day without a TV.
Oh For God's sake, don't any of you people have lamp shades??!!! Even the whitest light imaginable passing through a yellow lampshade will come out yellow.
Since this is Slashdot think of the shade as a "hack" on the light spectrum maybe that'll motivate you to use your brain to solve this incredibly complex problem of "how do I make white light less white?"
Yeesh.
Bush can't possibly smear/fire/silence all of them.
Stalin, McCarthy, Hitler (I don't think this counts as evoking Godwin's law), did it, I'm sure Bush could too. Errr rather, I'm sure Cheney could do it. Let's face it, he's the real puppet master here.
As I recall, it was her comments about sex and masturbation that lost her the job. The same people censoring the current Surgeon General were so shocked and offended that someone would suggest masturbation is a healthy activity for youth that they made such a big deal out of it. So Clinton made a political decision to minimize the damage and have her resign.
Exactly, let's not forget it was the Republicans that threw that Tantrum against Elders that caused her to resign. Just like it's the Republicans now fighting off reality with every last bit of energy they have by forcing a Surgeon General to omit science from the discussion.
Maybe the rest of the world should start opening top rate free schools in the US to educate our children for us. Start with Alabama and Tennessee... too bad the people there would probably refuse to send their children to your schools.
Well, I'd argue they didn't exactly adhere to the "well" part... But that's a whole nother debate, one I'd probably lose simply for lack of an knowledge on the topic.
I think it's a good point though. GMC really didn't do the car making part "well" anymore. They've been catch up with the Japanese and the Europeans in the "Quality" department for decades now. American cars are boring, uncool, have a reputation for not lasting.
The first thing I notice when I sit down in a car is the console. I want a console that LOOKS NICE. I can get a 20k Japanese car with an amazing console that visually is beautiful, I get a stylish speedometer, color matched interior, and a radio that looks intricate and provides a lot of functionality. I can buy a 20k American car and I get a console with a red stick mechanical speedometer, a radio with buttons that are each 2 inches by 1 inch, and knobs that are 2 inches across, with an LCD display that shows NOTHING more than a GIANT display of numbers for the radio station I'm listening to. NONE of the interior bits in American cars are color matched, none of the features wow you with their creativity in solving basic ergonomic and spatial problems.
I have to admit the Chevy Malibu I drove recently was a nice fresh breath of air. I could have sworn it wasn't an American car, it's interior was actually stylish.
I wish the courts had the power to force a man to work a minimum wage job when he is found doing such unethical work. The only way this would work would be if the courts were to take all of the mans other income as a fine as well. I want these people to see the life they are damning the rest of the country to.
I would have to agree that the greatest calculated success of the PS3 is the adoption of Blu-Ray by content providers and content makers like Disney and Blockbuster.
Why do the Japanese seem to always throw the baby out with the bathwater? One failure is not equivalent to becoming incapable of producing more success. I'll just be happy I live in a culture where occasional failure is seen as an opportunity to grow and become better.
100,000,000 people also voted for Bush in the last election. You can find suckers anywhere my friend.
but you can be sure that oil had very little to do with it.
Are you trolling?
This war was about oil and nothing else. Saddam Hussein is a bad man, sure, but there are plenty of rulers around the world who are just as bad. The difference is that Saddam's badness gave us the justification for war to acquire oil.
Here are two main reasons why we went to war:
-The Saudi Royal family has become too powerful in the US due to our dependence on their oil.
-China is ramping up their industrial economy. They have replaced the US as the number one buyer of resources, which means that the US no longer gets the same place at the bargaining table.
In theory both of those problems can be resolved by the U.S. directly (or indirectly through a puppet government) controlling a major oil producing country.
The Iraq war was meant to give the US that control over middle eastern oil. The problem is that the war was poorly executed by callous men. Huge mistakes were made, stupid mistakes were made, and now our ability to control Iraqi oil is in jeopardy, and so is our national security and prosperity.
I have a PSP. It is the most boring game device I have ever owned. I keep buying games for it, stupidly forgetting that all these games are just PS2 ports. I never enjoyed any PS2 games, why would I enjoy them on the PSP? You gotta hand it to Nintendo for creating a unique device and developing games specifically for that device.
Nintendo clearly understands that if you create a fun form that when develop games that use that form you're going to end up with a fun exclusive that you can't get anywhere else.
They did it with the DS, they did it with the Wii, and you could argue they did it with the analog stick on the N64.
Meh, go argue about warp drive specs. The movies were close enough. You can't include everything in a book in a movie, there just isn't the time.
This is just a less-polished version of WoW with different character names.
You don't know what you're talking about. This game is very different. The method of PvP alone is a huge departure. Once you hit level 10 you are able to enter "Monster Play" which allows you to enter the battle ground as a bad guy. You can pop in and out of monster play at will, and resume leveling your "good guy" player character. Once your good guy hits 40 he can enter the battleground. That means that all of the 10-50's can play monsters and 40-50's can play good guys in the BG's resulting in a better balance. That alone is a huge change from WoW.
A secondary change is the LOTR chapters which you play as instances. This means you get REAL story telling in your instance playing.
The deed system is fun and a nice innovation to make grinding more fun when you have to do it to level.
Even the "fed ex" quests are really well done. I can't tell you how much fun I was having running around between hobbits and reading the quest dialog of two idiot hobbits that were trying to court each other. I suppose you actually have to take the time to READ the quests though. This game isn't about getting the latest +10 whatever equipment. It's about providing a good game and story experience. Something that is new to me as a veteran of WoW.
On the BBC a "season" can be as little as a single TV movie, or it can be 6 episodes of a show. They build an amazing amount of quality into shows when there isn't a lot of quantity.
Sorry, I call shenanigan on the "it was a creative decision" bullshit. It's a business.
You're right, it is a buisiness and in SciFi (and most TV for that matter) the single most important factor is finishing a third season. Once you have finished the third season your show is cleared to go into Syndication for the next 20, 30, 100 years. And that's where you get your life long pension of royalty checks rolling into you. No matter what happens from this point on nobody who worked on BSG will have to worry about being homeless. The Royalty checks may not be huge sums of money, but you can bet it's enough to own a ranch-style house in the San Fernando Valley, maybe even Encino, where you can grow old and retire.
As a gay man who is excitedly anticipating his time eating dicks in hell I would like to file an official complaint that I would have to share the dicks to be eaten with that sloth fat ass Lucas. That Porker? would undoubtedly take more than his fair share of cock.
2 good movies out of 6. I want my money back. What's to celebrate?
No no no, the router broadcast this packet which my wifi receiver picked up and it changed my computers state from not connected to connected. THAT ROUTER HAS RAPED MY SYSTEM AND I MUST SEEK LEGAL RECOURSE.
What about the routers first broadcast SSID packet that reached my computer and told my computer it was there waiting to be used? Isn't that implied permission? Wait a minute, that broadcast SSID packed caused a change of states ON MY COMPUTER. The owner of that router is using my computer without MY permission!!!! Where's the cops?! My computer was raped by a broadcast SSID packet!
That's basically one text message every 6 minutes 24 hour a day, in a 30 day month.