Okay guys, no matter how much you want it, there is no "January Fools." What the hell, you even got the date wrong! Try again in 4 months and maybe it'll be funny.
It took them a long time to get Half-Life 2 right (er, it continues to take them a long time.) Imagine how much faster, though, if an open-source gaming engine were started? sure, it wouldn't have the Half-Life storyline, but who cares? If you play an FPS for the story, you have problems.
They did have some VR shooters in one corner (although they could have expanded upon it SO much more...) But it DEFINITELY was a geek user group presentation. They should have raised one or two marketing people to help out in organization a bit...
I was there too. I really had a good time, but IMO it was a little badly arranged. They had the FIRST robotics team right next to one of the, umm, lecture halls, and we couldn't understand a word of what the Pragmatic Programming dude had to say.
But overall it was pretty cool, definitely expensive though. If they work on the organization a bit and it comes back through here again, I'll probably go again.
Oh, ps, the Asian girl they had "introducing" people to the place was hot. Keep her around and I'll definitely come back:-P
Now that OSX, a BSD-based OS has been released, more geeks are willing to use the Mac.
The only reason I always hated them was because they had an OS that was actually more full of eye-candy and dumbed-down than Windows, and it was just irritating. The only good part about them was the graphics capabilities... I'm a programmer, not an artist, so why should I care?
Now that the OS has jumped from lower than Windows to right up there with the Linuxes, (I must say congrats to the Mac people), more geeks are willing to use Macs, and they in turn are teaching the non-geeks how to do "cool stuff" on them.
So why get a Mac and not a Debian box or a RedHat box? Some people have always had a secret desire to own a mac, but no good reason to actually do it. Others are enticed by that display at CompUSA with the G4 Mac and that huge flat-screen cinema display... *drools*
Wow, I can see some real promise for something like Unreal Tournament. Have the UT hour, where players can sign up to play for an hour, and its commented on like those crazy sports commentator people, and with spectate mode, it would be so easy to set up various "cameras" here and there to keep an eye on the game and all..
I truly don't understand why people think Java is so incredibly slow. "A little slow-ish" IS just about right. If you are referring to applets in Netscape, that is a VERY bad example of Java. Have you not experienced an application written in Java in the last 2 years? Speed has significantly improved since Java 2 first came out...
Why? Its so incredibly clean, so much more so than any language I have seen (C++, etc). Its a little slow-ish, but Java 1.4 has significantly improved this, and they are getting better about it all the time. You can do practically anything with it, and it runs on almost any platform you can think of. And don't get me started on how much of PHP's ass that Java's JSPs and servlets kick...
Actually, I use Together for the entire process of writing Servlets: First, I model the design in the handy design editor. Then, I add actual programming statements to the basic source code that it generates, and finish it off by running it through Together's handy-dandy built-in Tomcat server. (Its not as configurable as a Tomcat server that you might have on your local machine, but I can get the job done with Ctrl+F5 in Together a lot faster than moving files around for Tomcat...) Then just run the documentation generator (even includes your diagrams in the documentation) and shove whatever I wrote up to the web site.
Together can be used for JSPs as well. It syntax-highlights code in Java blocks and nice stuff like that. No biggies on functionality here, basically for JSPs it is just an editor.
Anyone used Active Worlds? When Circle of Fire Studios bought it, apparantly they were obsessed with Snow Crash. (and it IS a great book!) They made an attempt to make an RPG out of it in the COFMeta world (lovingly known as Metatropolis) but it never really happened. Now Meta is just a rotton chunk of hard drive that about 1 person a day visits (if that much)
Actually the big history of Metatropolis is a lob more involved than that, but this would require being off topic or something...
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Okay guys, no matter how much you want it, there is no "January Fools." What the hell, you even got the date wrong! Try again in 4 months and maybe it'll be funny.
I can: It works great. I play internet games all the time under Linux!
Back when I was a Windows guy, I was excited about Kylix because I was starting to be interested in Linux, and now it finally had a popular IDE.
After I got into Linux and used GCC some, I vowed never to touch an IDE again. It's just easier to work without the clunkiness of a gui.
It took them a long time to get Half-Life 2 right (er, it continues to take them a long time.) Imagine how much faster, though, if an open-source gaming engine were started? sure, it wouldn't have the Half-Life storyline, but who cares? If you play an FPS for the story, you have problems.
A bad StrongARM Linux Poem written on the spot...
Familiar is my newest best friend
Opie makes things look good for me
Pocket PC's come not to an end
For Linux on a PDA is FREE!
Here I go once again with the E-Mail.
Every week I hope it is from a female.
Awww man!! Not from a female.
-SBmail58, Trogdor
They did have some VR shooters in one corner (although they could have expanded upon it SO much more...) But it DEFINITELY was a geek user group presentation. They should have raised one or two marketing people to help out in organization a bit...
I was there too. I really had a good time, but IMO it was a little badly arranged. They had the FIRST robotics team right next to one of the, umm, lecture halls, and we couldn't understand a word of what the Pragmatic Programming dude had to say.
:-P
But overall it was pretty cool, definitely expensive though. If they work on the organization a bit and it comes back through here again, I'll probably go again.
Oh, ps, the Asian girl they had "introducing" people to the place was hot. Keep her around and I'll definitely come back
Now that OSX, a BSD-based OS has been released, more geeks are willing to use the Mac.
The only reason I always hated them was because they had an OS that was actually more full of eye-candy and dumbed-down than Windows, and it was just irritating. The only good part about them was the graphics capabilities... I'm a programmer, not an artist, so why should I care?
Now that the OS has jumped from lower than Windows to right up there with the Linuxes, (I must say congrats to the Mac people), more geeks are willing to use Macs, and they in turn are teaching the non-geeks how to do "cool stuff" on them.
So why get a Mac and not a Debian box or a RedHat box? Some people have always had a secret desire to own a mac, but no good reason to actually do it. Others are enticed by that display at CompUSA with the G4 Mac and that huge flat-screen cinema display... *drools*
Now all we need is for Palm to get their act together and make those expansion slots support hard drives :-)
-J
Wow, I can see some real promise for something like Unreal Tournament. Have the UT hour, where players can sign up to play for an hour, and its commented on like those crazy sports commentator people, and with spectate mode, it would be so easy to set up various "cameras" here and there to keep an eye on the game and all..
;-)
it would be cool
-J
I truly don't understand why people think Java is so incredibly slow. "A little slow-ish" IS just about right. If you are referring to applets in Netscape, that is a VERY bad example of Java. Have you not experienced an application written in Java in the last 2 years? Speed has significantly improved since Java 2 first came out...
-J
Just compile natively. No more slowness, no more bloatedness.
Why? Its so incredibly clean, so much more so than any language I have seen (C++, etc). Its a little slow-ish, but Java 1.4 has significantly improved this, and they are getting better about it all the time. You can do practically anything with it, and it runs on almost any platform you can think of. And don't get me started on how much of PHP's ass that Java's JSPs and servlets kick...
Actually, I use Together for the entire process of writing Servlets: First, I model the design in the handy design editor. Then, I add actual programming statements to the basic source code that it generates, and finish it off by running it through Together's handy-dandy built-in Tomcat server. (Its not as configurable as a Tomcat server that you might have on your local machine, but I can get the job done with Ctrl+F5 in Together a lot faster than moving files around for Tomcat...) Then just run the documentation generator (even includes your diagrams in the documentation) and shove whatever I wrote up to the web site.
Together can be used for JSPs as well. It syntax-highlights code in Java blocks and nice stuff like that. No biggies on functionality here, basically for JSPs it is just an editor.
Anyone used Active Worlds? When Circle of Fire Studios bought it, apparantly they were obsessed with Snow Crash. (and it IS a great book!) They made an attempt to make an RPG out of it in the COFMeta world (lovingly known as Metatropolis) but it never really happened. Now Meta is just a rotton chunk of hard drive that about 1 person a day visits (if that much)
Actually the big history of Metatropolis is a lob more involved than that, but this would require being off topic or something...
-J
Can someone send me the contents of this article? Perhaps I am wierd, but I don't subscribe to NYT.
-Jeffrey
ticklejw@jtsoft.net