Homesite comprises the text editing part of Dreamweaver, and it had code collapsing, so it should be there hidden somewhere. Haven't found it yet, though.
Maybe, but it may be a similar case to Vanilla Ice taking the bass from Queen's "Under Pressure" and making "Ice Ice baby". There were some intellectual property interests involved there. He took a lot of flak from that didn't he?
Well, it seems this will finally be not-offtopic, so I'd like to plug my own geeky webcomic, Overcaffeinated. Take a look, hope you like it -- (btw, I made this same post a long while ago, but I think it's buried in the second or third page of this story's comments due to the DB problems, so sorry for replying to your comment) =)
I can't believe there was actually a way to beat the final stage without cheating. The one with the creepy severed head on the other side of a moth in a huge room with hundreds of re-spawning enemies (was that Doom or Doom II?). At one time or another, I went through the whole game without cheating, but that part just seemed ludicrous.
Minor nitpick, but it's Padilla. In spanish, the way you're spelling it means, loosely translated, small fart. Not that I'm against your point, but it is a distracting detail.
Exactly. And I imagine MIT gets a kick out of these things. Think about it: It's in their best interest that cool, showy, if not always useful, projects like these get made by their students. It all adds to the MIT's perceived spirit. The rest of the world sees them as the cool tech types that delve into all sorts of weird stuff, and therefore think MIT must be an incredible place (which maybe it is).
A friend of mine went to study there and worked in the Math labs. He told me most of the really useful investigation took place in the lesser known labs of the university, yet the Media Lab is exactly that, a Media darling, so they get the spotlight. This is not a bad thing. It is a neccessity, and MIT benefits from seemingly frivolous projects like this one.
There is nothing simple or terse in your explaination (about zero's)...
So, could you enlighten us with your Riemann explanation that is easier to understand for the rest of us? or are you just going to keep foaming at the mouth?
Shit. I didn't even realize that was supposed to sound like jabberwocky until the end of your comment. Too much time working with fellow geeks I guess:-)
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Have you guys ever seen one of those things? There's this form you have to fill when you request a VISA for travelling into the US. I think it's the same for most foreign countries. In Mexico, at least, it has about 10 checkboxes that look something like this:
- I am a member of a violent terrorist organization yes / no
- I am trafficking drugs/weapons/any sort of illegal substances into the US yes / no
- I am an active member of a hate/racist group involved in violent attacks of minorities yes / no
- I engage in satanic rituals.... etc. etc.
I'm not kidding you. This is the sort of things the form actually asks. I guess there may be a legal precedent as to the need for these questions, but it's funny as hell anyway. Or maybe it actually works for stopping extremely stupid hatemongers / drug dealers from travelling into the country.
If you want to try out a full featured game engine library, you should give Crystal Space a test drive. It's really nice and there are currently some games being developed with it, including the very cool Planeshift project.
Oh, you're right! (Although you got it backwards too, he asked about the habitats and I answered about the avatars) damn, I need more coffee =). Thanks for pointing it out. Your reasoning is on the mark, too.
weren't the habitats in Snow Crash rendered on the host machine, rather than the clients connected to it, so what you wanted to represent was only limited by the power of your hosting box?
No, they were not. The client rendered the avatar. That was evident because the people who connected from the cheap public terminals looked grainy, pixelated and black & white, whereas the rest of the people could have a much better looking avatar. Bandwidth wasn't much of a problem either, unless you were on a wireless connection.
One of the coolest places in the metaverse, The black Sun owed much of its appeal to the fact that normal restrictions didn't apply there, so an avatar could have a luminous hairdo that extended to the roof, for instance.
For a good personal account of game testing and the medium, check out this entry at Penny Arcade. It's a good description of the ups and downs of being a game tester. --
Pitchfork has interesting stuff about indie/alternative music. They also have sample songs of alternative bands. You can also listen to radioIO. Somewhat pretentious, but they do have good music and they have a "who's playing" applet, which lets you locate music you like. There is also digitally imported which has streams of trance/house/eurodance/classic music, and also sports a playing list for each stream. --
It's a simple matter of the rule of least effort. One method works for IE4 to 6, no Mozilla/Netscape. The other method works for IE5+/Mozilla/Netscape6+. The latter is more compatible and in the end will make you have less headaches when you have to update the code. The extra verbosity doesn't seem to be so expensive at this point, I think.
I hear you. I still use table based layouts, since the table behaviour has been pretty much standardized (there are a few quirks, but not as many as css). It will be a while before CSS based layouts render consistently. Especially those involving complex arrangements of boxes w/without borders, you know, the kind that are most easily obtained by using tables with 1px wide columns with black backgrounds. Currently, I use CSS mostly to define background colors, text properties and some divs. Not ready yet to use them for layout exclusively. --
there's nothing wrong with proprietary extensions to an API
In this particular case, I think there is, since the extension (which at the moment it was implemented may have been necessary due to lack of a standard) is overriden by a more consistent and well documented standards compliant extension (document.getElementById). Then, that extension should be dropped. As another poster pointed out, IE 5+ does implement the correct (DOM) way to do this. Microsoft itself seems to be moving away from document.all and favoring the DOM way (as evidenced by code samples in later tutorials from their site, IIRC). --
And using document.all is unnecessarily wrong. This was a proprietary extension introduced by Microsoft. It does not comply with the standard way of referencing elements used in the Document Object Model (DOM) and should not be used except when programming backwards compatible code for Internet Explorer 4 (I think 5+ supports the correct DOM references). This is bad practice, and I think it's a good think that the mozilla developers decided to leave it out, or else it would promote breaking the correct hierarchical structure. --
I wonder how many of those moves are due to arm-twisting by VA lawyers trying to get blood from a stone?
How about none? Slash is open source. People are encouraged to use it. If they find a better alternative they can switch whenever they want to. No one forces them one way or the other. CmdrTaco or VA can't charge them for use of slash, Scoop is not written in C, it's perl, just as slash, and you're a well known troll who, incredibly, gets moderated up rather frequently. --
The Marty who became a loser is one who did not travel in time
That's right. The future was rewritten and Marty didn't get fired, or maybe even got a different job eventually (As evidenced by the vanishing ink of the "YOU'RE FIRED!!" fax he received, which his gf kept. --
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I just thought I'd drop this by: I made a series of 4 Tron cartoons in my webcomic, Overcaffeinated. These are the links:
Strip 1
Strip 2
Strip 3
Strip 4
I've been expecting this game for a while now. =)
Homesite comprises the text editing part of Dreamweaver, and it had code collapsing, so it should be there hidden somewhere. Haven't found it yet, though.
Maybe, but it may be a similar case to Vanilla Ice taking the bass from Queen's "Under Pressure" and making "Ice Ice baby". There were some intellectual property interests involved there. He took a lot of flak from that didn't he?
Well, it seems this will finally be not-offtopic, so I'd like to plug my own geeky webcomic, Overcaffeinated. Take a look, hope you like it -- (btw, I made this same post a long while ago, but I think it's buried in the second or third page of this story's comments due to the DB problems, so sorry for replying to your comment) =)
Finally it's not offtopic for me to plug my webcomic! check it out at:
Overcaffeinated. Thanks =)
I can't believe there was actually a way to beat the final stage without cheating. The one with the creepy severed head on the other side of a moth in a huge room with hundreds of re-spawning enemies (was that Doom or Doom II?). At one time or another, I went through the whole game without cheating, but that part just seemed ludicrous.
Minor nitpick, but it's Padilla. In spanish, the way you're spelling it means, loosely translated, small fart. Not that I'm against your point, but it is a distracting detail.
Exactly. And I imagine MIT gets a kick out of these things. Think about it: It's in their best interest that cool, showy, if not always useful, projects like these get made by their students. It all adds to the MIT's perceived spirit. The rest of the world sees them as the cool tech types that delve into all sorts of weird stuff, and therefore think MIT must be an incredible place (which maybe it is).
A friend of mine went to study there and worked in the Math labs. He told me most of the really useful investigation took place in the lesser known labs of the university, yet the Media Lab is exactly that, a Media darling, so they get the spotlight. This is not a bad thing. It is a neccessity, and MIT benefits from seemingly frivolous projects like this one.
So, could you enlighten us with your Riemann explanation that is easier to understand for the rest of us? or are you just going to keep foaming at the mouth?
Somewhat stupid joke, though, isn't it?
Yeah, I thought that may be the motivation behind it. Still looks funny, though.
Shit. I didn't even realize that was supposed to sound like jabberwocky until the end of your comment. Too much time working with fellow geeks I guess :-)
Have you guys ever seen one of those things? There's this form you have to fill when you request a VISA for travelling into the US. I think it's the same for most foreign countries. In Mexico, at least, it has about 10 checkboxes that look something like this:
- I am a member of a violent terrorist organization yes / no
- I am trafficking drugs/weapons/any sort of illegal substances into the US yes / no
- I am an active member of a hate/racist group involved in violent attacks of minorities yes / no
- I engage in satanic rituals.... etc. etc.
I'm not kidding you. This is the sort of things the form actually asks. I guess there may be a legal precedent as to the need for these questions, but it's funny as hell anyway. Or maybe it actually works for stopping extremely stupid hatemongers / drug dealers from travelling into the country.
Ahhh... a kindred spirit. See What I think of the 17" powerbook (I do like the other models, though.
If you want to try out a full featured game engine library, you should give Crystal Space a test drive. It's really nice and there are currently some games being developed with it, including the very cool Planeshift project.
Oh, you're right! (Although you got it backwards too, he asked about the habitats and I answered about the avatars) damn, I need more coffee =). Thanks for pointing it out. Your reasoning is on the mark, too.
No, they were not. The client rendered the avatar. That was evident because the people who connected from the cheap public terminals looked grainy, pixelated and black & white, whereas the rest of the people could have a much better looking avatar. Bandwidth wasn't much of a problem either, unless you were on a wireless connection.
One of the coolest places in the metaverse, The black Sun owed much of its appeal to the fact that normal restrictions didn't apply there, so an avatar could have a luminous hairdo that extended to the roof, for instance.
For a good personal account of game testing and the medium, check out this entry at Penny Arcade. It's a good description of the ups and downs of being a game tester.
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Pitchfork has interesting stuff about indie/alternative music. They also have sample songs of alternative bands. You can also listen to radioIO. Somewhat pretentious, but they do have good music and they have a "who's playing" applet, which lets you locate music you like. There is also digitally imported which has streams of trance/house/eurodance/classic music, and also sports a playing list for each stream.
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It's a simple matter of the rule of least effort. One method works for IE4 to 6, no Mozilla/Netscape. The other method works for IE5+/Mozilla/Netscape6+. The latter is more compatible and in the end will make you have less headaches when you have to update the code. The extra verbosity doesn't seem to be so expensive at this point, I think.
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I hear you. I still use table based layouts, since the table behaviour has been pretty much standardized (there are a few quirks, but not as many as css). It will be a while before CSS based layouts render consistently. Especially those involving complex arrangements of boxes w/without borders, you know, the kind that are most easily obtained by using tables with 1px wide columns with black backgrounds. Currently, I use CSS mostly to define background colors, text properties and some divs. Not ready yet to use them for layout exclusively.
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there's nothing wrong with proprietary extensions to an API
In this particular case, I think there is, since the extension (which at the moment it was implemented may have been necessary due to lack of a standard) is overriden by a more consistent and well documented standards compliant extension (document.getElementById). Then, that extension should be dropped. As another poster pointed out, IE 5+ does implement the correct (DOM) way to do this. Microsoft itself seems to be moving away from document.all and favoring the DOM way (as evidenced by code samples in later tutorials from their site, IIRC).
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And using document.all is unnecessarily wrong. This was a proprietary extension introduced by Microsoft. It does not comply with the standard way of referencing elements used in the Document Object Model (DOM) and should not be used except when programming backwards compatible code for Internet Explorer 4 (I think 5+ supports the correct DOM references). This is bad practice, and I think it's a good think that the mozilla developers decided to leave it out, or else it would promote breaking the correct hierarchical structure.
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How about none? Slash is open source. People are encouraged to use it. If they find a better alternative they can switch whenever they want to. No one forces them one way or the other. CmdrTaco or VA can't charge them for use of slash, Scoop is not written in C, it's perl, just as slash, and you're a well known troll who, incredibly, gets moderated up rather frequently.
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That's right. The future was rewritten and Marty didn't get fired, or maybe even got a different job eventually (As evidenced by the vanishing ink of the "YOU'RE FIRED!!" fax he received, which his gf kept.
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