As you've mentioned, this is very similiar to what worldforge are trying. It is generic enough that I'm currently taking their MMORPG code and making a RTS game with it, in very little time and effort!
Sorry to be naive, but whats the difference between having a virtual CPU which at some level must turn the virtual cpu instructions to the native cpu instructions and what they are doing? They are both boxes that you feed in one set of instructions in one language and get out another set of instructions in another language.
Is the only difference whether you optimise by converting chunks of asm at a time, and reuse them (Like the java JIT interpreter).
I believe you can check the temperature of the eye/thumb to check that it is still attached to something alive, or check for pupil dilation or something with the eye.
This is no excuse. In fact a company that I will possibly be working for has managed to do this but get the code to run faster than it runs natively! It has to be seen to be believed. (If you are wondering how it can run faster, think of the whole code-morphing thing)
It's all a question of scale. How much better off is society if one person lives another few years instead of dying? How much better is the human race if some small village in south africa doesn't get wiped out due to some disease? And so on.
Surely I could say almost exactly the same thing - ask slashdot should be for useful questions, not "Has anyone written a 10 line long program to do what i want".
well.. the thing is that I had sort of wanted to leave it until I had the gui done up a bit more - knowing how much gui's say. That's always the problem - do you advertise it too early and risk everyone shrugging it off as vapourware, or leave it till later in the project but takes you longer because you don't have any other coders..
For a few other links, since you insisted so nicely:
http://130.88.226.154/practical-starting-guide-for -writing-clients.htmlHOWTO-Atlas.html
hmm that will do for now...:)
Sorry for replying to myself, but just a quick point about the apparent lack of game from the screenshots... The game engine and ai and everything is already done by the freecraft people.
The networking code is the main thrust of this project - the client is a kinda proof-of-concept.
This project is to show that you can make a game client-server, and then allow very rapid development.
I intend to prove the point by linking the 3D game to a game like freeciv, and aim to do that in 2 days flat!
The communications backend is being done using a lot of the worldforge.org libraries.
If anyone is trying or wanting to develop an rts game, have a look at my work to take some serious shortcuts.:)
Hi,
I'm currently working a 3D version of Freecraft, which in turn is a 3D version of Warcraft.
It is comming along quite nicely, and if anyone would like to give a hand with the models or coding or anything, you would be welcome.
See a kinda old screenshot at http://130.88.226.154/snap4.png The game is progressing very quickly - trees are in now, units expected with a week, etc.
Anyway, message me through slashdot or email or anything.
On a sort of related topic, I have a problem that I tend to fall asleep in lectures.. Lecturers are starting to get annoyed, and I can't help it. I'm being serious, despite me sounding like troll.
Even if I've had a good nights sleep I feel really sleepy within 5-10 mins. I don't have the problem on any activities that I have to do something - mentally or physically. (I often code for over 10 hours straight.)
If anyone knows anything about this, I'd be grateful. If I'm just being lazy, then fair enough.
or some such - my java is rusty. perhaps you need to standardise on a function, say, x.biggerthan(y) and ensure it is transitive, reflexive, commutive etc...
some of us have an option of adding 1 to our posts - doing this might count for being allowed to have an overrated moderation. I posted this at score 3 for an example.
I've looked at NT's internals in quite some depth, and I do like a lot of it. However, a lot of the architecture is driven by the need of having the actual code closed-source, and making sure the kernel api's don't change. Linux doesn't have those same goals, and so has come up with its own way of doing things.
A password, built into the driver, the same on all the same type of mice ( I assume), not chosen by the user is a security feature? Think it through a little bit more please.
The guy who posted the default password - is he breaking the DMCA? Both in the case of if he is correct, or incorrect (since I assume attempting to bypass security counts?)
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Actually it reminds me of cars. They have lots of diagnostics built in, and check the engine etc, and then doesn't tell you about the results. Instead you have to go to the garage, where someone will read what the engine is saying, and repeat it back to you...
Which robots do you have? We managed to upgrade almost all our robots to 2.4. Funny enough, it's the main server that is still on 2.2 because it needs propreitry raid drivers..
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As you've mentioned, this is very similiar to what worldforge are trying. It is generic enough that I'm currently taking their MMORPG code and making a RTS game with it, in very little time and effort!
JohnFlux
Can you expand on this?
Sorry to be naive, but whats the difference between having a virtual CPU which at some level must turn the virtual cpu instructions to the native cpu instructions and what they are doing? They are both boxes that you feed in one set of instructions in one language and get out another set of instructions in another language.
Is the only difference whether you optimise by converting chunks of asm at a time, and reuse them (Like the java JIT interpreter).
Sincerely,
JohnFlux
I believe you can check the temperature of the eye/thumb to check that it is still attached to something alive, or check for pupil dilation or something with the eye.
Indeed - I don't believe it yet either :)
http://www.transitive.com
Tell me what you think. They seem very keen on patenting as much as they can.
Just use VB to control word to open the file, and save as. It's not hard - I've done it lots of times.
This is no excuse.
In fact a company that I will possibly be working for has managed to do this but get the code to run faster than it runs natively! It has to be seen to be believed. (If you are wondering how it can run faster, think of the whole code-morphing thing)
I wish I could when some dumbass sight designs it for 600x480 and I'm viewing it on my 1600x1280 screen.
It's all a question of scale.
How much better off is society if one person lives another few years instead of dying? How much better is the human race if some small village in south africa doesn't get wiped out due to some disease? And so on.
Surely I could say almost exactly the same thing - ask slashdot should be for useful questions, not "Has anyone written a 10 line long program to do what i want".
Have we gotten to the stage where regular sysadmins can't code these days?
If you can't do it, go to a secondary school and get someone to write the program for you.
Release early and release often.
After all, what do I care or lose if you are not interested?
well.. the thing is that I had sort of wanted to leave it until I had the gui done up a bit more - knowing how much gui's say. That's always the problem - do you advertise it too early and risk everyone shrugging it off as vapourware, or leave it till later in the project but takes you longer because you don't have any other coders.. For a few other links, since you insisted so nicely: http://130.88.226.154/practical-starting-guide-for -writing-clients.html
HOWTO-Atlas.html
hmm that will do for now... :)
Sorry for replying to myself, but just a quick point about the apparent lack of game from the screenshots... The game engine and ai and everything is already done by the freecraft people.
:)
The networking code is the main thrust of this project - the client is a kinda proof-of-concept.
This project is to show that you can make a game client-server, and then allow very rapid development.
I intend to prove the point by linking the 3D game to a game like freeciv, and aim to do that in 2 days flat!
The communications backend is being done using a lot of the worldforge.org libraries.
If anyone is trying or wanting to develop an rts game, have a look at my work to take some serious shortcuts.
JohnFlux
Hi,
I'm currently working a 3D version of Freecraft, which in turn is a 3D version of Warcraft.
It is comming along quite nicely, and if anyone would like to give a hand with the models or coding or anything, you would be welcome.
See a kinda old screenshot at http://130.88.226.154/snap4.png
The game is progressing very quickly - trees are in now, units expected with a week, etc.
Anyway, message me through slashdot or email or anything.
On a sort of related topic, I have a problem that I tend to fall asleep in lectures.. Lecturers are starting to get annoyed, and I can't help it. I'm being serious, despite me sounding like troll.
Even if I've had a good nights sleep I feel really sleepy within 5-10 mins. I don't have the problem on any activities that I have to do something - mentally or physically. (I often code for over 10 hours straight.)
If anyone knows anything about this, I'd be grateful. If I'm just being lazy, then fair enough.
Thanks
I'm confused - I thought that's why everything inherited from the Object class?
Object Max(Object x, Objecty) {
if(x > y) return x else y;
}
or some such - my java is rusty. perhaps you need to standardise on a function, say, x.biggerthan(y) and ensure it is transitive, reflexive, commutive etc...
some of us have an option of adding 1 to our posts - doing this might count for being allowed to have an overrated moderation.
I posted this at score 3 for an example.
I've looked at NT's internals in quite some depth, and I do like a lot of it. However, a lot of the architecture is driven by the need of having the actual code closed-source, and making sure the kernel api's don't change. Linux doesn't have those same goals, and so has come up with its own way of doing things.
That is useful if you set the password - not if MS hardcodes it in!
Have you actually thought this through?
A password, built into the driver, the same on all the same type of mice ( I assume), not chosen by the user is a security feature? Think it through a little bit more please.
The guy who posted the default password - is he breaking the DMCA? Both in the case of if he is correct, or incorrect (since I assume attempting to bypass security counts?)
Actually it reminds me of cars. They have lots of diagnostics built in, and check the engine etc, and then doesn't tell you about the results. Instead you have to go to the garage, where someone will read what the engine is saying, and repeat it back to you...
You do know that if you have a better computer somewhere else in the house that you could just link them, then export the display?
I currently have 3 old machines running kde3, mozilla, etc by actually running them on the main server, and exporting the display.
See ltsp.org
Which robots do you have? We managed to upgrade almost all our robots to 2.4. Funny enough, it's the main server that is still on 2.2 because it needs propreitry raid drivers..