To tell you the truth, I beat Microsoft Fury III using only my keyboard as a control.
To effectively control a airplane (spaceships are a little bit different, but for an airplane) you need 4 "range of motion" controls, and a whole bunch of buttons. The best joystick I ever used only provided 3 "Range" controls and 4 buttons. (The range controls you need are Up-down left-right faster-slower and leftspin-rightspin) you just can't control an airplane well with only a joystick (even in an actual fighter jet, you have up, down, left, right, in, out, and two petals).
For a large spaceship, things are significantly more complex, because you have to control (most likely) hundreds of different jets to control what's happening to the ship, and you just plain can't make 180 degree turns quickly. For a small "figher class" spaceship, the problems are similar, although you don't have as many jets. In space, any movement has to take into account a large number of variables, and exactly what is to be done must eithor be painfully calculated out by hand, or left to a computer to do. Especially in a difficult situation, you better just let the computer handle it. I don't even see how you could configure a joystick to control something as complex as a Soverign class starship...
If this explaination is correct, then I like it. Doing it this way would make it so that the metamoderator doesn't have to screw around with going to *find* moderated posts, and it would also tend to get more instances of moderation policed.
OT: How does Python compare to Perl - if you had a fairly simple task, and knew both, when would you choose one over the other? I'm a Perl zealot, but I think that Perl is a better Second language than first. If you teach someone Perl before they have any knowledge, and they realize how amazingly simple things can be in Perl, they may not be able to handle a more traditional language when they have to learn it. People should learn that things like Auto-typing, and regexps are *special* so that they don't expect them when they try to code in C.
Two problems with basic vs. Python. 1.) Line Numbers, no other current language does that. 2.) Usefullness. Someone might actualy use Python to wright a "Real" program, basic... nah.
More Lamitude to not include: Not nessisarily just from StarTrek eithor.
Controlling a Galaxy class starship with a joystick.
Screwing up realy neat plotlines with crap. (This happens so damn frequently in SciFi, I hate it. Example: The "Leader Female" of the Borg; Example: Star Wars, The Phantom Menace; Example: That extention of the Foundation series by someone other than Issac Asimov.)
Screwing up an alien invasion by infecting their computer with a virus. (Most well known: "Independance Day")
Obvious misunderstanding of current scientific theory.
Soap Operas. These should be obviously marked as such so I don't watch them by mistake.
How is it exactly that a GUI can be more powerful than a CLI? What kind of things are you trying to get done? Truthfully I can only think of three things that are easier with a GUI: 1.)Reading Slashdot; 2.) Viewing Porn; 3.)Doing Graphics Design;
You just can't do things like find / -name "pattern" | sed search/replace_regexp | less or cat directory/* | grep pattern | perl-script-that-does-absolutely-anything or even simple stuff like bzip2 -dc file | tar xvf -
On a Mac, you can't even get direct access to your devices. How are you supposed to troubleshoot a dead PPP connection if you can't go cat/dev/modem &; cat >/dev/modem Well, how?
GUIs are great if you just want to waste time clicking pretty widgets, or surf the web, or even do graphics stuff, but a GUI just doesn't have the power of a CLI.
Dude, even anarchy would be better than the current system in the USA.
-- Insert big rant here about how the Legal system sucks because a normal citizen has no chance to understand the laws because there are too many of them and they're in legalese and that the only solution is to simplify the entire legal system to the smallest possible system --
Realy though, it's easier to just ignore a lame law than to try to deal with it.
Blizz has released multi-platform games before. However cool Loki may be I don't want them to get a monopoly on Linux games.
I fully trust that blizz eithor has or can get the capacity to port War III or any other game to Linux or any other platform. It's just a question of convincing them it's worth doing.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Blizzard has never released a game that didn't truely kick ass. Diablo came close to only "Realy being cool", but that is excusable because Blizzard North had just joined up at that time.
War III will rule specifically because it's from Blizzard, and Blizzard won't release a game unless it kicks ass. They had one game that was going to suck, so they ditched it. We can expect them to act similarly in the future.
With StarCraft, I realized that Blizzard has their own concept of time. I was one of the ones who was actively waiting for the game in '96 when Blizzard first said they'd release it. Sure glad they waited though...
Being issued points more frequently would be a good thing. (Thereby increasing the total avalible number of points).
I can see multiple good reasons to have points expire after 3 days, mabie bumping it up to four or 5 days wouldn't hurt, but imagine if one malicious moderator got 15 or 20 points built up. Eeek! Especially if that person decided to abuse one of the "As Someone Questions" articles. (That'd be 3 4-5 rated questions, asking things like "What's your favorite porn site?")
Giving a user more than 5-8 points per shot poses the same difficulties as letting points accumulate.
But, that single person must be willing to expend an aful lot of effort on fighting the law, if you just want to get work done, you want to expend effort on work, not fighting.
Why don't you start a movement to fight stupid crypto laws?
And the mother says to the Canadian committe "Blame Southpark, Blame Southpark, Before Somebody thinks of blaming me!"
Southpark: BLU has got to be the most clued in movie this summer. They have managed to picture the precice mental additude of some parents.
As sang by the parents of the town of South Park:
Times have changed our kids are getting worse they won't obey their parents they just want to fart and curse should we blame the government? or blame society? or should we blame the images on tv? No! Blame Canada, Blame Canada! With all their beady little eyes flapping heads so full of lies Blame Canada, Blame Canada! We need to form a full..,
Don't blame me, for my son Stan, He saw the darn cartoon and now he's off to join the klan My boy Eric once had my picture on his shelf, and now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself! Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong since canada came along Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
They're not even a real country anyway
My son could have been a doctor or a lawyer it is true, instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbacue should we blame the matches? should we blame the fire? or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Heck no! Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
With all their hocky halibloo! Blame Canada, Blame Canada! ... Shame on canada! ... We've got to put the blame somewhere else, Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
The show is so humorous because it makes fun of things that need making fun of.
If all you see in the show is "Toilet humor and gimmiky animation" then you have to watch it more closely, and go see the movie (and watch that closely). Hopefully then you'll understand.
The reason that Southpark upsets so many people is because it makes fun of things that need to be maken fun of, and some people can't deal with *their* holly cow being made fun of.
I know of no move that I personally could possibly make to change US fedral anti-crypto-export laws.
I do know that if I was connected to a non-us box thorough a well-incrypted connection, the fact that exporting crypto is illegal would become irrelevent.
Trying to change a law is nice, but the USA has 260+ *million* residents, the most I can do is try to suggest civil disobediance when it makes sense, and suggest lobbying government groups when that makes sense.
Resistance takes time and effort. When you just want to get work done, ignoring useless laws works better. If you ever get started organizing a group of people for the purpoise of actively protesting that set of laws, e-mail me, I'll probably want to join in -- but myself alone trying civil disobediance would be pretty much stupid (can you say getting tagged as a malicious "Hacker" and getting my PC taken away?). Attempting to lobby against the laws myself would be like banging my head against a stone wall, (Painful, time consuming, and not worth doing)
Apple has only been techincally "Ahead" of the x86 twice. Once, before the x86 was popular (existed?) with the Apple II, and once, when Windows 2.x was the only avalible x86 GUI, with the Mac. The hardware for x86 has always been at least two of better/faster/cheaper than it's mac counterpart since that point in time.
I mean, even when Apple was babbling on about "The G3 is faster than the pentium II" they were talking about a specific benchmark, and the Pentium II averaged about the same speed, or even faster, in other tests, it was obviously cheaper, and well, MacOS sucked.
Also, how can anyone stand MacOS? Whenever I sit down in front of a Mac, I think "What usefull things can I possibly do without a CLI?" more recently I've also been looking for the full power of Perl, which, well, isn't there without a CLI (Aka. $HOME=env{'HOME'}; @dir = split "\n", `ls $HOME`;)
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To tell you the truth, I beat Microsoft Fury III using only my keyboard as a control.
To effectively control a airplane (spaceships are a little bit different, but for an airplane) you need 4 "range of motion" controls, and a whole bunch of buttons. The best joystick I ever used only provided 3 "Range" controls and 4 buttons. (The range controls you need are Up-down left-right faster-slower and leftspin-rightspin) you just can't control an airplane well with only a joystick (even in an actual fighter jet, you have up, down, left, right, in, out, and two petals).
For a large spaceship, things are significantly more complex, because you have to control (most likely) hundreds of different jets to control what's happening to the ship, and you just plain can't make 180 degree turns quickly. For a small "figher class" spaceship, the problems are similar, although you don't have as many jets. In space, any movement has to take into account a large number of variables, and exactly what is to be done must eithor be painfully calculated out by hand, or left to a computer to do. Especially in a difficult situation, you better just let the computer handle it. I don't even see how you could configure a joystick to control something as complex as a Soverign class starship...
If this explaination is correct, then I like it. Doing it this way would make it so that the metamoderator doesn't have to screw around with going to *find* moderated posts, and it would also tend to get more instances of moderation policed.
So, if this is true, Good Job Rob!
Having to learn both BASIC and Pascal, and then going directly to C++ seems silly. Why learn Pascal at all?
Wouldn't it make more sense to go BASIC->C->C++ or even Pascal->C->C++
I personally would think that going Python->C->Perl would make the most sense, but...
OT: How does Python compare to Perl - if you had a fairly simple task, and knew both, when would you choose one over the other? I'm a Perl zealot, but I think that Perl is a better Second language than first. If you teach someone Perl before they have any knowledge, and they realize how amazingly simple things can be in Perl, they may not be able to handle a more traditional language when they have to learn it. People should learn that things like Auto-typing, and regexps are *special* so that they don't expect them when they try to code in C.
Two problems with basic vs. Python. 1.) Line Numbers, no other current language does that. 2.) Usefullness. Someone might actualy use Python to wright a "Real" program, basic... nah.
That is outside of the realm of schools, that should be tought by parents, and if not by parents, then by television.
More Lamitude to not include:
Not nessisarily just from StarTrek eithor.
How is it exactly that a GUI can be more powerful than a CLI? What kind of things are you trying to get done? Truthfully I can only think of three things that are easier with a GUI: 1.)Reading Slashdot; 2.) Viewing Porn; 3.)Doing Graphics Design;
You just can't do things like
find / -name "pattern" | sed search/replace_regexp | less
or
cat directory/* | grep pattern | perl-script-that-does-absolutely-anything
or even simple stuff like
bzip2 -dc file | tar xvf -
On a Mac, you can't even get direct access to your devices. How are you supposed to troubleshoot a dead PPP connection if you can't go /dev/modem &; cat > /dev/modem
cat
Well, how?
GUIs are great if you just want to waste time clicking pretty widgets, or surf the web, or even do graphics stuff, but a GUI just doesn't have the power of a CLI.
Dude, even anarchy would be better than the current system in the USA.
-- Insert big rant here about how the Legal system sucks because a normal citizen has no chance to understand the laws because there are too many of them and they're in legalese and that the only solution is to simplify the entire legal system to the smallest possible system --
Realy though, it's easier to just ignore a lame law than to try to deal with it.
Blizz has released multi-platform games before. However cool Loki may be I don't want them to get a monopoly on Linux games.
I fully trust that blizz eithor has or can get the capacity to port War III or any other game to Linux or any other platform. It's just a question of convincing them it's worth doing.
One thing you can do is make it crystal clear to Blizzard that your running a Linux-only box and want a Linux port.
Try the Suggestion forums on Battle.net to begin with. If we don't let them know there's a market, they won't have any reason to do the port.
If we all get together and post to the suggestion forums on Battle.net then mabie we can get Blizz to do the port themselves.
Not to insult Loki or anything, but could a Loki port realy be up to the standard of quality that is a Blizzard Game?
If Blizzard wanted to make a First Person Shooter, they would. Blizzard instead wants to make a Kick Ass Game, and that's what they're gonna do.
No, no, no. You don't understand. Blizzard has never released a game that didn't truely kick ass. Diablo came close to only "Realy being cool", but that is excusable because Blizzard North had just joined up at that time.
War III will rule specifically because it's from Blizzard, and Blizzard won't release a game unless it kicks ass. They had one game that was going to suck, so they ditched it. We can expect them to act similarly in the future.
With StarCraft, I realized that Blizzard has their own concept of time. I was one of the ones who was actively waiting for the game in '96 when Blizzard first said they'd release it. Sure glad they waited though...
Uhh.... Now what exaclty are you trying to express... you seem to be confused and have two or three contradictory opinions.
Are you by any change practicing "Doublethink"?
"Freedom is Slavery"
"Two Plus Two is Five"
Everyone should always be able to express their opinion, or *legit opinions* will be able to be labeled as "Trolls", and banned from the system.
Then you should have to be averaging a 3 to get a default score of 2...
Being issued points more frequently would be a good thing. (Thereby increasing the total avalible number of points).
I can see multiple good reasons to have points expire after 3 days, mabie bumping it up to four or 5 days wouldn't hurt, but imagine if one malicious moderator got 15 or 20 points built up. Eeek! Especially if that person decided to abuse one of the "As Someone Questions" articles. (That'd be 3 4-5 rated questions, asking things like "What's your favorite porn site?")
Giving a user more than 5-8 points per shot poses the same difficulties as letting points accumulate.
Both true.
But, that single person must be willing to expend an aful lot of effort on fighting the law, if you just want to get work done, you want to expend effort on work, not fighting.
Why don't you start a movement to fight stupid crypto laws?
Solaris supposedly does 128 processors cleanly (If it doesn't do that, then it isn't good for *anything* =P )
And the mother says to the Canadian committe "Blame Southpark, Blame Southpark, Before Somebody thinks of blaming me!"
Southpark: BLU has got to be the most clued in movie this summer. They have managed to picture the precice mental additude of some parents.
As sang by the parents of the town of South Park:
Times have changed
our kids are getting worse
they won't obey their parents
they just want to fart and curse
should we blame the government?
or blame society?
or should we blame the images on tv?
No!
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
With all their beady little eyes
flapping heads so full of lies
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
We need to form a full..,
Don't blame me, for my son Stan,
He saw the darn cartoon and now he's off to join the klan
My boy Eric once had my picture on his shelf,
and now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong since canada came along
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
They're not even a real country anyway
My son could have been a doctor or a lawyer it is true,
instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbacue
should we blame the matches?
should we blame the fire?
or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Heck no!
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
With all their hocky halibloo!
Blame Canada, Blame Canada!
...
Shame on canada!
...
We've got to put the blame somewhere else,
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
The show is so humorous because it makes fun of things that need making fun of.
If all you see in the show is "Toilet humor and gimmiky animation" then you have to watch it more closely, and go see the movie (and watch that closely). Hopefully then you'll understand.
The reason that Southpark upsets so many people is because it makes fun of things that need to be maken fun of, and some people can't deal with *their* holly cow being made fun of.
The Debian or SuSE installs could be evil for a clueless newbie, but all the other distros are brainlessly simple to install.
I know of no move that I personally could possibly make to change US fedral anti-crypto-export laws.
I do know that if I was connected to a non-us box thorough a well-incrypted connection, the fact that exporting crypto is illegal would become irrelevent.
Trying to change a law is nice, but the USA has 260+ *million* residents, the most I can do is try to suggest civil disobediance when it makes sense, and suggest lobbying government groups when that makes sense.
Resistance takes time and effort. When you just want to get work done, ignoring useless laws works better. If you ever get started organizing a group of people for the purpoise of actively protesting that set of laws, e-mail me, I'll probably want to join in -- but myself alone trying civil disobediance would be pretty much stupid (can you say getting tagged as a malicious "Hacker" and getting my PC taken away?). Attempting to lobby against the laws myself would be like banging my head against a stone wall, (Painful, time consuming, and not worth doing)
Apple has only been techincally "Ahead" of the x86 twice. Once, before the x86 was popular (existed?) with the Apple II, and once, when Windows 2.x was the only avalible x86 GUI, with the Mac. The hardware for x86 has always been at least two of better/faster/cheaper than it's mac counterpart since that point in time.
I mean, even when Apple was babbling on about "The G3 is faster than the pentium II" they were talking about a specific benchmark, and the Pentium II averaged about the same speed, or even faster, in other tests, it was obviously cheaper, and well, MacOS sucked.
Also, how can anyone stand MacOS? Whenever I sit down in front of a Mac, I think "What usefull things can I possibly do without a CLI?" more recently I've also been looking for the full power of Perl, which, well, isn't there without a CLI (Aka. $HOME=env{'HOME'}; @dir = split "\n", `ls $HOME`;)