How do you do any of this in a regular office? You can't. The experience you are trying to recreate is two people working on a document, one at the terminal, one standing behind him, commenting on what he is doing and giving suggestions. This can be easily accomplished using VNC in view only mode and a voice chat solution.
Seriously, work on your comments from now until then if this is an issue you really care about. And then make sure to snailmail your comments. It is much mnore effective no matter what they say.
"for the $500 the top end video cards go for"... "I'm there for the game play not the sparklies." I can't reconcile these two statements. It seems to me your problems (except for the shitty copy protection issues prevalent in pc games.. on the other hand, try and run that debugger on the xbox without resorting to dealing with copy protection =P) might be solved if you just buy a reasonably priced video card.
"I would say that making a business doesn't have to be measured by market share - instead focusing on profitability. Nintendo profits. That's a good business."
That is very true. Unfortunately Nintendo's profits don't mean shit to a 3rd party. 3rd party developers for both PS2 and XBox make fine profits--perhaps at Sony and Microsoft's expense. As long as there are giant companies that do so much more than games willing to take a loss on games for some long term goal you can't blame third parties for prefering them over Nintendo. It sucks for Nintendo, but it's the way it is.
Polymorphism isn't too hard to understand in terms of the generated assembly. In C++, when calling a "virtual" function it just means you go to a predetermined offset in the VTable to find that function. I can see how much of this is hidden in Java and many other OO languages, but C++ lays everything pretty bare.
"Also, the lack of incremental compile, even if it were just a low priority background thread that ran as you saved, is non existent." The lack of incremental compile is nonexistent? Watch the double negatives.
Programmers use these editors almost every day of the year. On some days their very existance is manifested in the context of the editor for the entire day. To say that a shallow learning curve is the most important features a programming editor can have is flat out insane.
Troll? Troll means I'm posting something that I don't agree with just to intentionally get responses that take me serious. I certainly agree with what I said, though I admit it was a bit inflammatory (perhaps flamebait would be more appropriate, though it would still be harsh). The fact is we all know that the reason Taco made his post was that he secretly believes Blizzard will read it and let him have his name back.
More likely someone with a grudge reported his name. The GMs don't typically sit around and scan through x million names looking for anomolies. His name was against the rules as he admitted himself so after it was reported the GMs had to change it. Otherwise they are telling the guy who reported it, "rules? what are these "rules"?"
Can my x religion church fire the minister if he has a blog on the side promoting y religion? Yes. Even if he leaves these beliefs at the door when he comes to preach in my church and does as a good a job promoting our beliefs as possible once there. It isn't a free-speech issue whatsoever.
A more interesting line of thought along the haircut lines is this (though it has nothing to do with free speech): could a school kick out a student who gets cancer and loses their hair if they have a particular haircut policy?
Confirm/Deny: You wrote this article with the intention of having Blizzard read it, feel sorry, and give you your name back. Why don't you go check if CmdrTaco is a registered name on LiveJournal. If it isn't taken you can delete this crap and repost it where it belongs. Otherwise just delete it.
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How do you do any of this in a regular office? You can't. The experience you are trying to recreate is two people working on a document, one at the terminal, one standing behind him, commenting on what he is doing and giving suggestions. This can be easily accomplished using VNC in view only mode and a voice chat solution.
Last time I checked most modern translations of the bible are copyrighted as well.
Couldn't be much more from the heart.
Seriously, work on your comments from now until then if this is an issue you really care about. And then make sure to snailmail your comments. It is much mnore effective no matter what they say.
"for the $500 the top end video cards go for" ... "I'm there for the game play not the sparklies." I can't reconcile these two statements. It seems to me your problems (except for the shitty copy protection issues prevalent in pc games.. on the other hand, try and run that debugger on the xbox without resorting to dealing with copy protection =P) might be solved if you just buy a reasonably priced video card.
-1 comments don't get archived when the page stops accepting comments. So everything isn't quite so peachy.
Very true. Soul Calibur 1 for Dreamcast looked better than Tekken Tag for PS2.
"I would say that making a business doesn't have to be measured by market share - instead focusing on profitability. Nintendo profits. That's a good business."
That is very true. Unfortunately Nintendo's profits don't mean shit to a 3rd party. 3rd party developers for both PS2 and XBox make fine profits--perhaps at Sony and Microsoft's expense. As long as there are giant companies that do so much more than games willing to take a loss on games for some long term goal you can't blame third parties for prefering them over Nintendo. It sucks for Nintendo, but it's the way it is.
A long time ago. Someone already posted this link, but here you go: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000 07.html
Polymorphism isn't too hard to understand in terms of the generated assembly. In C++, when calling a "virtual" function it just means you go to a predetermined offset in the VTable to find that function. I can see how much of this is hidden in Java and many other OO languages, but C++ lays everything pretty bare.
"Also, the lack of incremental compile, even if it were just a low priority background thread that ran as you saved, is non existent." The lack of incremental compile is nonexistent? Watch the double negatives.
Programmers use these editors almost every day of the year. On some days their very existance is manifested in the context of the editor for the entire day. To say that a shallow learning curve is the most important features a programming editor can have is flat out insane.
Troll? Troll means I'm posting something that I don't agree with just to intentionally get responses that take me serious. I certainly agree with what I said, though I admit it was a bit inflammatory (perhaps flamebait would be more appropriate, though it would still be harsh). The fact is we all know that the reason Taco made his post was that he secretly believes Blizzard will read it and let him have his name back.
Yes, his railing on emacs certainly was better than his praise of the superiority vim.
My sig won't change until I get a verifiable answer to the question it poses.
"ganked by some anal-renentive twit"
More likely someone with a grudge reported his name. The GMs don't typically sit around and scan through x million names looking for anomolies. His name was against the rules as he admitted himself so after it was reported the GMs had to change it. Otherwise they are telling the guy who reported it, "rules? what are these "rules"?"
Google has a limiter. A single account or IP can only get x snippets from a book.
Suck it up and rewrite it or don't post at all. There is no excuse for rewriting the damn submission.
Can you please provide a link detailing this serparate issue? I can't find anything on it.
Great, kill more people tomorrow to save a smaller amount today. I didn't realize human death collected interest.
Can my x religion church fire the minister if he has a blog on the side promoting y religion? Yes. Even if he leaves these beliefs at the door when he comes to preach in my church and does as a good a job promoting our beliefs as possible once there. It isn't a free-speech issue whatsoever.
A more interesting line of thought along the haircut lines is this (though it has nothing to do with free speech): could a school kick out a student who gets cancer and loses their hair if they have a particular haircut policy?
Of course. He was playing WoW that entire time. Sadly, I'm dead serious.
Confirm/Deny: You wrote this article with the intention of having Blizzard read it, feel sorry, and give you your name back. Why don't you go check if CmdrTaco is a registered name on LiveJournal. If it isn't taken you can delete this crap and repost it where it belongs. Otherwise just delete it.
Still that just proves further--it is a contract issue, not a free speech issue.
Not really. I can have a restaraunt where anyone who is known to have cussed in their life is not allowed and the same stuff applies.