The sigils that mark instance and class variables always stick out visually in an otherwise clean language.
Er, the use of @foo to define an object attribute is great; it means there's no need to type self. all the time, makes attributes obvious, and means you don't need to use lame prefixes like m_ObjectAttribute.
A much better hate would have been the awful Perl/sh-era pseudo globals ($_ $@ $! $| $" $' $1 - what were you thinking matz!?); we all hate those;)
The PC Zone preview stated on no uncertain terms that they're taking modding very seriously. Artists are the ones who are going to have to worry; they'll have much higher standards to live up to. Aside from that, though, they seem pretty confident that it's going to be easier than modding the original - especially for level designers.
* Charset is set in the Content-Type header, so you'll need to make the validator grab it itself rather than upload using a form or so (so no Ctrl-Alt-V for you Opera users). Zoze comes from the domain name I first saw this on (zoze.co.uk).
Because Unreal II sucked, that's why. It had a plot that's barely thicker than a human hair, uninspiring level design, unsatisfying weapons, unskipable cutscenes you really don't want to see again, very little atmosphere, cringeworthy dialogue, and barely existant AI which makes it just another shoot-and-drool exercise.
PC Zone said "This is no three hour no-brainer" when they reviewed it (and gave it an insane 94%). And, you know what? They're right: it's a four hour no-brainer.
Never mind. Half-Life II and Deus Ex II this year should help us to forget this and other disapointments. Oh, and hopefully the yummy looking S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Breed, Homeworld 2, Söldner, Ground Control 2, Judge Dredd, X2, Doom 3... <wanders off to drool for a bit>
Will we one day look back with amusement on big power supplies, power hungry cpus and disks, and large volume cases with amusement?
The way things are going, we'll look back and laugh at the problems we thought *we* had, before trying to find the leak on our Liquid O2 cooling system to soak up the 10MW of heat coming from our desktops, while handling our Palmtops with oven gloves.
Over what period? If that's over anything less than five years, I'd perhaps be looking towards the conditions the drives are in; are they well ventilated, or near any hot components? Keeping a drive cool can reduce failure rate by ~30% (based on a study IBM did on their SCSI drives); keeping them too hot can drastically increase it. Don't underestimate the effects a bit of active cooling on a drive could have on reducing early failures too.
After that, I'd look at maybe trying some different manufacturers. Seagate, for instance, have a very good reputation for low failure rates.
18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes ought to be enough for everybody!
A Culture Mind has somewhere in the region of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (about 1,000,000YB) of memory. 128 bits are enough to reference the memory of about 340 million such Minds; 64bits would run out before you'd got past the first 0.00000000001% of the first Mind. No prizes for guessing which filesystem such godlike AI's will be using;)
paying for an interstellar trip by hauling some cattle around
Interplanetary. Perhaps even between two moons of the same planet; Firefly is set in a single terraformable-body rich system, with no suggestion of FTL. Plus there's no suggestion of flight costs or anything, plus it's fairly clear that decent medical facilities such as cloning are somewhat rarer than servicable spacecraft.
Frankly, I think it takes a hell of a lot less suspension of disbelief than Star Trek, or B5, and especially crap like Andromeda.
anti-banner.css, and I don't assume you're using Mozilla. I'd be interested to hear if it works in other browsers (other than Opera/Mozilla/IE, that is), and in receiving instructions on how to use it in them.
Too much wasted screen real estate. Those of us that only have 1024*768 screen resolutions hate that wasted junk at the top.
It's pretty trivial to drag bits of it around and remove elements you don't need. For example, this Opera setup uses the same amount of space as IE, but has more functionality (I don't use this, it's just an example). You can remove more if you want to use the (fully configurable) keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures instead.
Fonts are ugly as hell. Konqueror / Nautilus / Mozilla all look much better. Even on/.
They look fine here. Maybe you should set it up properly (Preferences -> Fonts and Colors).
Come back when I can download at least two other implementations which aren't owned by Microsoft, and at least one of which is open source. Like, say, MPEG-4. No? Too bad.
Stuff like this should be like W3C recommendations; at least two independent and interoperable implementations should be available before it's even concidered for acceptance.
A £50 R9000 is perfectly adequate to get a reasonable 3D Marks score, not to mention play any game you fancy, although perhaps not at 1600*1200 with 8xFSAA, 32x ansio and full detail;)
Failing that, well, you'll struggle to pay more than £350 for a graphics card, that's almost half the cost of a 3GHz Athlon/P4;)
REST is not mutually exclusive from PUTing or POSTing a complex XML document when necessary. SOAP, however, does make simple GET operations stupidly overcomplex and hard to cache.
Why would you use nukes when you have antimatter and energy storage tech that can cope with the requirements of large scale matter <-> energy conversion the scale of which should be sufficient to make a very big hole in your average star should you release it by accident?
Oh, yeah, that's right; real physics are too energetic for Star Trek;)
The future isn't just a scaled up America; everyone speaks (well, curses in) Chinese.
The "good guys", uh, aren't. And they're not afraid to, say, kill the odd horse if it gives them an advantage.
Horse? Revolvers? I thought you said it was a sci-fi.
Whores. Lots of whores. In fact, they stopped showing it just before the (completed) episode where they defend a brothel. And did I mention one of the main characters is a whore? Well, ok, *Companion*; the most respectable member of the crew:)
Kicking a helpless merc into an engine *giggle*.
When was the last time Star Trek had a masturbation joke?
Wait, that looks like a story arc. Quick! Kill it!
"Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller." "Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles."
"'Course you couldn't buy an invite with a diamond the size of a testicle, but I got my hands on a couple."
Wait, that sounds like.. dialogue! That's it, no more episodes for you!
I quite liked it at first, but it really started going downhill after the first couple of series. After seeing what series 4 has turned into, I'm now really quite glad there's not going to be any more.
On the other hand, one of the (well, really the *only*) series I was really looking forward to seeing develop was Firefly -- it had an interestingly offbeat universe, great characters and plenty of potential, and it was canned before it even finished it's first series, which was show horrendously out of order in a crummy timeslot. At least Farscape got a good innings.
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You mean VorbixExt?
Took me ages to find that, sigh
Uhm, XP has cmd.exe, just like 2k.
Er, the use of @foo to define an object attribute is great; it means there's no need to type self. all the time, makes attributes obvious, and means you don't need to use lame prefixes like m_ObjectAttribute.
A much better hate would have been the awful Perl/sh-era pseudo globals ($_ $@ $! $| $" $' $1 - what were you thinking matz!?); we all hate those
We use Boa, which is a little faster (apparantly).
That is if it doesn't randomly decide to fall over, destroy your indexes, or corrupt your data.
*grumble*
The PC Zone preview stated on no uncertain terms that they're taking modding very seriously. Artists are the ones who are going to have to worry; they'll have much higher standards to live up to. Aside from that, though, they seem pretty confident that it's going to be easier than modding the original - especially for level designers.
As -//Zoze//DTD CrashIE 6.0//EN*, no less ;)
* Charset is set in the Content-Type header, so you'll need to make the validator grab it itself rather than upload using a form or so (so no Ctrl-Alt-V for you Opera users). Zoze comes from the domain name I first saw this on (zoze.co.uk).
Because Unreal II sucked, that's why. It had a plot that's barely thicker than a human hair, uninspiring level design, unsatisfying weapons, unskipable cutscenes you really don't want to see again, very little atmosphere, cringeworthy dialogue, and barely existant AI which makes it just another shoot-and-drool exercise.
PC Zone said "This is no three hour no-brainer" when they reviewed it (and gave it an insane 94%). And, you know what? They're right: it's a four hour no-brainer.
Never mind. Half-Life II and Deus Ex II this year should help us to forget this and other disapointments. Oh, and hopefully the yummy looking S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Breed, Homeworld 2, Söldner, Ground Control 2, Judge Dredd, X2, Doom 3... <wanders off to drool for a bit>
Unlikely; words, even as many as two, are very cheap.
Sorry, that was bad. <mods self down>
The way things are going, we'll look back and laugh at the problems we thought *we* had, before trying to find the leak on our Liquid O2 cooling system to soak up the 10MW of heat coming from our desktops, while handling our Palmtops with oven gloves.
Over what period? If that's over anything less than five years, I'd perhaps be looking towards the conditions the drives are in; are they well ventilated, or near any hot components? Keeping a drive cool can reduce failure rate by ~30% (based on a study IBM did on their SCSI drives); keeping them too hot can drastically increase it. Don't underestimate the effects a bit of active cooling on a drive could have on reducing early failures too.
After that, I'd look at maybe trying some different manufacturers. Seagate, for instance, have a very good reputation for low failure rates.
A Culture Mind has somewhere in the region of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes (about 1,000,000YB) of memory. 128 bits are enough to reference the memory of about 340 million such Minds; 64bits would run out before you'd got past the first 0.00000000001% of the first Mind. No prizes for guessing which filesystem such godlike AI's will be using
Interplanetary. Perhaps even between two moons of the same planet; Firefly is set in a single terraformable-body rich system, with no suggestion of FTL. Plus there's no suggestion of flight costs or anything, plus it's fairly clear that decent medical facilities such as cloning are somewhat rarer than servicable spacecraft.
Frankly, I think it takes a hell of a lot less suspension of disbelief than Star Trek, or B5, and especially crap like Andromeda.
anti-banner.css, and I don't assume you're using Mozilla. I'd be interested to hear if it works in other browsers (other than Opera/Mozilla/IE, that is), and in receiving instructions on how to use it in them.
It's pretty trivial to drag bits of it around and remove elements you don't need. For example, this Opera setup uses the same amount of space as IE, but has more functionality (I don't use this, it's just an example). You can remove more if you want to use the (fully configurable) keyboard shortcuts or mouse gestures instead.
They look fine here. Maybe you should set it up properly (Preferences -> Fonts and Colors).
Come back when I can download at least two other implementations which aren't owned by Microsoft, and at least one of which is open source. Like, say, MPEG-4. No? Too bad.
Stuff like this should be like W3C recommendations; at least two independent and interoperable implementations should be available before it's even concidered for acceptance.
A £50 R9000 is perfectly adequate to get a reasonable 3D Marks score, not to mention play any game you fancy, although perhaps not at 1600*1200 with 8xFSAA, 32x ansio and full detail ;)
;)
Failing that, well, you'll struggle to pay more than £350 for a graphics card, that's almost half the cost of a 3GHz Athlon/P4
REST is not mutually exclusive from PUTing or POSTing a complex XML document when necessary. SOAP, however, does make simple GET operations stupidly overcomplex and hard to cache.
Why you 2 when 1 will do?
bin: 1001
base 1: 111 111 111
bin: 0101 0111
base 1: 001 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111 111
You could make a language aimed at Mac mice
How about a nice game of chess?
;P
Oh, come on, don't tell me you weren't thinking it too
Huh? I thought that's what alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.ms-beta was for. Isn't it official?!?
<looks shocked>
Why would you use nukes when you have antimatter and energy storage tech that can cope with the requirements of large scale matter <-> energy conversion the scale of which should be sufficient to make a very big hole in your average star should you release it by accident?
;)
Oh, yeah, that's right; real physics are too energetic for Star Trek
I quite liked it at first, but it really started going downhill after the first couple of series. After seeing what series 4 has turned into, I'm now really quite glad there's not going to be any more.
On the other hand, one of the (well, really the *only*) series I was really looking forward to seeing develop was Firefly -- it had an interestingly offbeat universe, great characters and plenty of potential, and it was canned before it even finished it's first series, which was show horrendously out of order in a crummy timeslot. At least Farscape got a good innings.
*sulk*
It only needs the ratio 1:4:9, so it can be far more bloated than that. Monoliths came in all different sizes; only the ratio was the same :)
:)
Oh, and don't forget the higher dimensions