Jules: What do they call Thunderbird?
Vincent Vega: Thunderbird's Thunderbird, but they call it "le Thunderbird".
Jules: "Le Thunderbird"! Ha ha ha ha! What do they call Outlook?"
Vincent Vega: I dunno, I didn't use Windows.
If that's the case, then I fail to see the difference between a scripting language and programming language. Care to enlighten me, or at least point me in the right direction?
I know much of Slashdot's audience can't stand Flash, but I've had quite a bit of experience with it over the past five years -- I was a Flash game developer -- and I've got to say, ActionScript has become o very powerful language. Don't be fooled by its name: It's not a scripting language. It's an entirely object-oriented similar to Java and C#. You should feel right at home with it.
The upside is a very rapid development phase: you could bang out a prototype in a couple of hours, depending on complexity. It's also an almost-ubiquitous platform: With the exception of *nix (of which I know very little, and as such refrain from commenting), the player is reportedly installed in 90% of all browsers.
The does-side is that you have little-to-no control over lower-level functions, such as memory-management; no direct disk access outside of 'Flash cookies'; and absolutely no access to a user's video card. It's also quite an expensive application -- it starts at $499.00 USD for the standard version.
Quite a number of amazing games have been developed using Flash, most notably (IMHO) Alien Hominid, which, ironically, has been turned into a full-fledged console game.
I place the blame squarely on you, America. This was a great place to live, to go to school, to pirate music and raise kids until you moved in across the border.
I'd love to play an RPG set in Niven's Ringworld. (I know there is/was a pen & paper version, though I've never played it.)
Even better might be an MMORPG set on the ring. With a surface area of 1.6 x 10^15 square kilometres, and myriad cultures one could play forever and never get bored! (Well, that's probably not quite true.;)
Hell, even just a game set in Known Space, be it a Man-Kzin war RTS or space sim or FPS or what-have-you.
Maybe a strategy (think Civ) or RTS game where the player assumes the role of a Pak Protector...
What, exactly, is a "Genesis-voltron"? I'm familiar with Sega's Genesis and the other systems you mentioned, but that "voltron" bit has me confused a bit!
If if that's a typo, it's the strangest one I've ever seen. =)
I'd like a reader that could also double as a comicbook viewer. There's a substantial amount of CBR/CBZ files floating around, so it would be interesting to find a device, maybe magazine-sized, that had a colour display & support for various ebook formats. A Tablet PC, while close, is still a little too bulky for lying on the couch and reading.
What I'm looking for, ideally, is device with a portrait-oriented (taller than it is wide) screen, supporting at least 600x800 24-bit resolution.
I'm not an engineer, so I don't know if this could work, but what I'm thinking is this: dedicate all the space in the guts of the machine to displaying the picture and reading data from USB memorysticks. So someone make an OS that works with this specific hardware (device drivers and a minimal file-browser) and sticks it on the aforementioned memorystick. Plug it in and boot the machine.
Any external files you'd like to load have to be on a SECOND memorystick plugged into a second USB port.
A touchscreen and a few buttons would make loading and navigating through documents a breeze.
I doubt anyone will ever make such a device, though... Maybe I'll build one myself eventually.
Results: Set C children are prone to jumping on the heads of mushroom-shaped people.;)
But seriously, who HASN'T thrown the stupid controller across the fucking room when playing a game?!?! I don't think it has as much to do with violence in video games as it does with a person's degree of patience.
And did my parents' generation turn violent by playing cowboys and indians? Of course not.
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Jules: What do they call Thunderbird?
Vincent Vega: Thunderbird's Thunderbird, but they call it "le Thunderbird".
Jules: "Le Thunderbird"! Ha ha ha ha! What do they call Outlook?"
Vincent Vega: I dunno, I didn't use Windows.
Awesome! We're already half-way there! =P
This just in! Police have release a photo of the murder weapon!
He was also suffering from Parkinson's Disease.
Donate to the Parkinson's Society.
Fare thee well, Mr. Doohan. And Godspeed.
If that's the case, then I fail to see the difference between a scripting language and programming language. Care to enlighten me, or at least point me in the right direction?
I know much of Slashdot's audience can't stand Flash, but I've had quite a bit of experience with it over the past five years -- I was a Flash game developer -- and I've got to say, ActionScript has become o very powerful language. Don't be fooled by its name: It's not a scripting language. It's an entirely object-oriented similar to Java and C#. You should feel right at home with it.
The upside is a very rapid development phase: you could bang out a prototype in a couple of hours, depending on complexity. It's also an almost-ubiquitous platform: With the exception of *nix (of which I know very little, and as such refrain from commenting), the player is reportedly installed in 90% of all browsers.
The does-side is that you have little-to-no control over lower-level functions, such as memory-management; no direct disk access outside of 'Flash cookies'; and absolutely no access to a user's video card. It's also quite an expensive application -- it starts at $499.00 USD for the standard version.
Quite a number of amazing games have been developed using Flash, most notably (IMHO) Alien Hominid, which, ironically, has been turned into a full-fledged console game.
That's just my two cents, at any rate.
Flamebait? C'mon, man, it was a joke!
That'll teach me to omit the smiley. ;)
I place the blame squarely on you, America. This was a great place to live, to go to school, to pirate music and raise kids until you moved in across the border.
Sincerely,
Canada.
And it's no longer a scimitar; it's a walkie-talkie.
I'd love to play an RPG set in Niven's Ringworld. (I know there is/was a pen & paper version, though I've never played it.)
Even better might be an MMORPG set on the ring. With a surface area of 1.6 x 10^15 square kilometres, and myriad cultures one could play forever and never get bored! (Well, that's probably not quite true. ;)
Hell, even just a game set in Known Space, be it a Man-Kzin war RTS or space sim or FPS or what-have-you.
Maybe a strategy (think Civ) or RTS game where the player assumes the role of a Pak Protector...
You obviously don't read Zola. =)
I'm obviously not the only who thinks so. And here I thought I was being terribly clever. Man, I gotta get me some new material!
That's a lot of porn.
According to one of the Flash dev guys:
What, exactly, is a "Genesis-voltron"? I'm familiar with Sega's Genesis and the other systems you mentioned, but that "voltron" bit has me confused a bit!
If if that's a typo, it's the strangest one I've ever seen. =)
Sounds like someone didn't get nominated!
I'd like a reader that could also double as a comicbook viewer. There's a substantial amount of CBR/CBZ files floating around, so it would be interesting to find a device, maybe magazine-sized, that had a colour display & support for various ebook formats. A Tablet PC, while close, is still a little too bulky for lying on the couch and reading.
What I'm looking for, ideally, is device with a portrait-oriented (taller than it is wide) screen, supporting at least 600x800 24-bit resolution.
I'm not an engineer, so I don't know if this could work, but what I'm thinking is this: dedicate all the space in the guts of the machine to displaying the picture and reading data from USB memorysticks. So someone make an OS that works with this specific hardware (device drivers and a minimal file-browser) and sticks it on the aforementioned memorystick. Plug it in and boot the machine.
Any external files you'd like to load have to be on a SECOND memorystick plugged into a second USB port.
A touchscreen and a few buttons would make loading and navigating through documents a breeze.
I doubt anyone will ever make such a device, though... Maybe I'll build one myself eventually.
According to Wikipedia:
They seemed to have profitted from having the .TV TLD, so it's not all bad.
Set C: Only Super Mario Bros. on the NES
Results: Set C children are prone to jumping on the heads of mushroom-shaped people. ;)
But seriously, who HASN'T thrown the stupid controller across the fucking room when playing a game?!?! I don't think it has as much to do with violence in video games as it does with a person's degree of patience.
And did my parents' generation turn violent by playing cowboys and indians? Of course not.
I decided to be nice and let them know of the potential slashdotting of their server before I submitted this story, so I sent 'em a DartMail.
Too bad my aim was off. ;)
Hahaha, I read the headline incorrectly... I thought the it said:
I dunno, but it will have one hell of an echo.
I think you've got it wrong: it's the beer you rent! =P
Since when is it illegal to use a wall-hack or aimbot? ;)
Seriously, does anyone know the details?