I think one of the biggest misconceptions when ID does this is that they are releasing the engine. Why would they do that? ID never would when the engine is still being sold. Would you pay 300,000 for an engine you can get for free? Hardly.
Couldn't you just rewrite the stolen code? If your program has a main API and such, then couldn't you just rewrite the code to match your API or something like that. Unless the code is the majority of your project, I see no reason why it simply couldn't be rewritten.
The two programs it installs are called MDM.exe and is something else that does the same thing. They both run silently in the background, popping up windows and banner ads whenever you visit sites. Its annoying as hell. Of course, you could just use Moz and disable pop-upwindows and then uninstall Morpheus.
"They hate homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, equal treatment of women and especially the permissive society."
I am also one of the few conservatives browsing/., and although you may tell us to read the sentence further, I still think your facts are off.
Sure, some conservatives hate homosexuals, but hating homosexuals is more closely related to relgion than to political preference. I know several extremely liberal relgious people who can not stand homosexuals.
Have you spoken to a Catholic recently? They are some of the most conservative, Republican people out there. Sure, the KKK may hate them, but I know every right minded conservative will tell you that the KKK does not represent all of conservatives.
Tell me some conservatives that openly dislike Jews (legitimate conservatives, such as men and women in a position of responsibility).
They hate blacks? Blacks are some of the most conservative people out there. The majority of blacks vote Republican.
What group of conservatives do you know that does not want to treat women equal?
Permissive society. So, by this I assume you mean rampart sex and drugs. Sure, everything nowadays is based around sex, and this will probably get worse. Are you saying it should be alright for 15 and 16 year olds to have sex (btw, I am 17 and have not had sex yet). Most people can't even handle sex as adults, much less children.
"The people who made the guns used by the Columbine killers had a far more direct connection to the killing than the Video game manufacturers, but they can't be to blame because they are on 'our side'."
How? Because they made the guns? Thats the same as saying that car manufacturers are to blame because of car accidents (not including the ones where the car malfunctions, those are the manufacturers fault). Or what about Bic? They make razors and pens, both deadly weapons. Can be blame them because of all the pen and razor related deaths? The gun companies created the gun for what it was to be used for, and that was not killing.
1. Integrating Flash with PHP and MySQL is now extremely easy. Not to mention, when Macromedia purchased Allaire, Cold Fusion and Flash are going to be tightly integrated. Not to mention Flash's XML capabilities or the use of Generator.
2. Flash sites are not designed for Lynx. The designer has in mind that people will be viewing their site on an up to date web browser on a graphical system.
3. Flash MX fixes this. The paradigm you speak of has been fixed.
-Vic
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This reminds me of the HTML/CSS validators that the W3 (w3.org) set forth since HTML and CSS were concieved. However, since they set for the standards, it seems everyone should follow them. Obviously, this is not true. IE support for CSS2 is almost non-existant, with Mozilla coming in with the most support.
I think that this will become the same way. There will be many databases out there that support some of the standards, but not all of them. Some databases will be far ahead of others in standards support.
I am what you would call a standard zealot for just about any standard. Standards help any programmer (or any person for that matter) when doing anything. Standards (or at least what they _should_ do) set out a group of rules that everyone should follow in order to make portability extremely easy (again, this is from a programmers POV). However, you have different companies who want to create their own standards (and then not even follow them, MS comes to mind:)) and some companies who honestly try to support all of the standards they can (Mozilla).
I hope that DB's start to support the most current standard and fast. That way, writing abstracted DB code in any language will become *extremely* easy.
I remember the first time that I played Warcraft II and blew up a building. The fire that resulted (despite being 30 sprites of some stock flame) was so incredible looking. It was absolutely amazing.
Also, I remember WarII as being the first game I played online. I went by 'PeonMe.' Oh boy, my 6th grade years.
I would love to see a book written by the author of a well known and used 3D engine. I realize that most of the head game programming guru's are extremely busy, but if one of them took 6 months off to write a book with EACH line of their engine documented/explained, and how to implement it, the book would sell millions. I think that if Carmack or Sweeny wrote a book about the QuakeII/UT engine, people would eat it up in a second. I know that the QII engine source is out, but its only documented via comments.
That's the book I would like to see. O'Reilly should publish it, seeing as they have really good luck getting the programmers of the original code to write a book (Larry Wall comes to mind seeing as he is a linguist).
What about all of the new, artsy sites out there on the Internet that are composed primarily of images? I would think you would have to get some pretty complex code (i.e., using jpeg, gif, png, bmp, etc., standards) to "parse" the images and then find out the most and least common colors in them, along with the colors inbetween.
...that they don't allow you to use Perl. Why C++/Java, especially since Perl was made to do text manipulation and stuff like this? Perl, on many occasions is faster than Java, and C++? Assuming that you would be using the STL, it would still be incredibly easy to make a very inefficient text manipulation program.
However, it would be pretty hard to make an efficient text manipulation program in C++. I would assume that any person doing this in C++ would use OOP (Java, obviously, since its 100% OOP).
I guess that since I am a Perl zealot, not a fan of Java, or not 18, I am bitter that I can't enter the contest. Oh well.:)
UT does it for me. Since I'm in a clan, I have to play, but I don't go a day without playing a few hours. Yeah, its probably bad, but oh well, I'm having fun. It's a fun way to waste 30 minutes during a football halftime show.:)
It really depends. Do you want to go for VC++ or for VB? Of course, there always is MSDN that has more information than any volumes of books could ever give.
Say you choose VC++, you have to ask yourself, do you want to use the Win32 API or MFC? The Win32 API sticks to 'normal' C/C++ type code, where as MFC tends to go off on its own tangent of C++. Of course, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) is all object oriented, and thus designed for C++.
Personally, I like using the Win32 API, mainly beacuse the Windows programs I write don't depend on the GUI and interface rather than what they do (mainly small games where the layer connecting program to Windows) doesn't need to use MFC. Plus, I can tie in the Win32 API better with the way I program and streamline the code better.
Why do you need an IDE for PHP development. If you forget a function, www.php.net/manual/ and bam, you have the answer to that function, and the PHP manual is probably more up to date than the IDE anyway.
You want color coding? Use Homesite from Macromedia. I am not sure if it is available for Linux, but its an awesome web development package. Face it, with your PHP development, you will also need to do HTML/CSS/JS so why not use a package that integrates all of them together?
After reading a lot of the book Numerical Recipes in C, I have to say that C/C++ are the best languages to program mathematics in. They are both fast, and with the OOP part of C++, you can really get some cool results.
For example, all serious games out there that use OpenGL or DirectX are all programmed in C/C++. Why? Because its the best language for the job. And since everyone knows that games are very mathematically intensive, and most of their languages are C/C++, you can make the logical postulate.
As an avid UT fan from the beginning, I am extremely excited about getting my hands on the new UT2. I do know that they have stripped the shock rifle out of it because it is too powerful, mainly when using the combo. However, they have replaced it with a plasma shotgun that allows for the same thing, but in moderation, and its not as powerful.
It also looks like epic is going away from the indoors tournament look and feel of UT. There are a few custom outdoor UT maps, but not many, and most of them are not sanctioned by the big ladders.
Like UT did to the gaming industry a few years back, I think that UT2 and U2 will do now. I also think that no games will be able to come close to it (in the same genre) for a few years.
"If you think you're a really good programmer,...read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming....You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing." -- Bill Gates:)
TAOCP has got to be one of the greatest examples of a genius mind at work. Knuth's work should be placed in the same echelon as Shakespear, Chaucer, and Hemingway.
I am currently a high school student in 11th grade. I own a TI-83+ and it is an amazing calculator. Granted, the 89's and 92's are beyond amazing, I don't think that you need much more than that (83+). I've spoken to several people in college calculus and they have all said that they can do just fine in the class with their 83+'s (and they did do well, FYI). I realize that the 89's are symbolic manipulators and such, but do you really need that?
Calculus is possible without a symbolic manipulator, so I want to know, is it really worth investing 130 bucks and buying a 89 or even more money and buying a 92/92+? Another thing that holds me back is that the 92/92+'s are not allowed on standardized tests (the SAT for example) since they have a QWERTY keyboard and need to be plugged into the wall.
This contest has been around for at least a year. They added it when the guys at MySQL changed their website, which was over a year ago. Why is this just being posted on/. now?
The date says 05 December 2001, however, its been there much longer than that.
Slashdot Mirror
Screens
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Weapons
http://www.unrealops.com/ut2-weapons-preview.htm
Hope this makes someone as happy as it did me when I first got it.
-Vic
You can find a mirror at this location.
-Vic
I think one of the biggest misconceptions when ID does this is that they are releasing the engine. Why would they do that? ID never would when the engine is still being sold. Would you pay 300,000 for an engine you can get for free? Hardly.
-Vic
From the Additional Instrumentation Section:
"Flammable Gas Monitor" Just what I need, a gas monitor that catches on fire. Will go along nicely with the F16 Style Joystick.
-Vic
Couldn't you just rewrite the stolen code? If your program has a main API and such, then couldn't you just rewrite the code to match your API or something like that. Unless the code is the majority of your project, I see no reason why it simply couldn't be rewritten.
-Vic
The two programs it installs are called MDM.exe and is something else that does the same thing. They both run silently in the background, popping up windows and banner ads whenever you visit sites. Its annoying as hell. Of course, you could just use Moz and disable pop-upwindows and then uninstall Morpheus.
-Vic
I don't know whats more painful, the actual device or the background color of their webpage.
-Vic
"They hate homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, equal treatment of women and especially the permissive society."
/., and although you may tell us to read the sentence further, I still think your facts are off.
I am also one of the few conservatives browsing
Sure, some conservatives hate homosexuals, but hating homosexuals is more closely related to relgion than to political preference. I know several extremely liberal relgious people who can not stand homosexuals.
Have you spoken to a Catholic recently? They are some of the most conservative, Republican people out there. Sure, the KKK may hate them, but I know every right minded conservative will tell you that the KKK does not represent all of conservatives.
Tell me some conservatives that openly dislike Jews (legitimate conservatives, such as men and women in a position of responsibility).
They hate blacks? Blacks are some of the most conservative people out there. The majority of blacks vote Republican.
What group of conservatives do you know that does not want to treat women equal?
Permissive society. So, by this I assume you mean rampart sex and drugs. Sure, everything nowadays is based around sex, and this will probably get worse. Are you saying it should be alright for 15 and 16 year olds to have sex (btw, I am 17 and have not had sex yet). Most people can't even handle sex as adults, much less children.
"The people who made the guns used by the Columbine killers had a far more direct connection to the killing than the Video game manufacturers, but they can't be to blame because they are on 'our side'."
How? Because they made the guns? Thats the same as saying that car manufacturers are to blame because of car accidents (not including the ones where the car malfunctions, those are the manufacturers fault). Or what about Bic? They make razors and pens, both deadly weapons. Can be blame them because of all the pen and razor related deaths? The gun companies created the gun for what it was to be used for, and that was not killing.
Thank you,
-Vic
You are obviously wrong with these facts:
1. Integrating Flash with PHP and MySQL is now extremely easy. Not to mention, when Macromedia purchased Allaire, Cold Fusion and Flash are going to be tightly integrated. Not to mention Flash's XML capabilities or the use of Generator.
2. Flash sites are not designed for Lynx. The designer has in mind that people will be viewing their site on an up to date web browser on a graphical system.
3. Flash MX fixes this. The paradigm you speak of has been fixed.
-Vic
This reminds me of the HTML/CSS validators that the W3 (w3.org) set forth since HTML and CSS were concieved. However, since they set for the standards, it seems everyone should follow them. Obviously, this is not true. IE support for CSS2 is almost non-existant, with Mozilla coming in with the most support.
:)) and some companies who honestly try to support all of the standards they can (Mozilla).
I think that this will become the same way. There will be many databases out there that support some of the standards, but not all of them. Some databases will be far ahead of others in standards support.
I am what you would call a standard zealot for just about any standard. Standards help any programmer (or any person for that matter) when doing anything. Standards (or at least what they _should_ do) set out a group of rules that everyone should follow in order to make portability extremely easy (again, this is from a programmers POV). However, you have different companies who want to create their own standards (and then not even follow them, MS comes to mind
I hope that DB's start to support the most current standard and fast. That way, writing abstracted DB code in any language will become *extremely* easy.
-Vic
I remember the first time that I played Warcraft II and blew up a building. The fire that resulted (despite being 30 sprites of some stock flame) was so incredible looking. It was absolutely amazing.
Also, I remember WarII as being the first game I played online. I went by 'PeonMe.' Oh boy, my 6th grade years.
-Vic
I would love to see a book written by the author of a well known and used 3D engine. I realize that most of the head game programming guru's are extremely busy, but if one of them took 6 months off to write a book with EACH line of their engine documented/explained, and how to implement it, the book would sell millions. I think that if Carmack or Sweeny wrote a book about the QuakeII/UT engine, people would eat it up in a second. I know that the QII engine source is out, but its only documented via comments.
That's the book I would like to see. O'Reilly should publish it, seeing as they have really good luck getting the programmers of the original code to write a book (Larry Wall comes to mind seeing as he is a linguist).
-Vic
What about all of the new, artsy sites out there on the Internet that are composed primarily of images? I would think you would have to get some pretty complex code (i.e., using jpeg, gif, png, bmp, etc., standards) to "parse" the images and then find out the most and least common colors in them, along with the colors inbetween.
-Vic
...that they don't allow you to use Perl. Why C++/Java, especially since Perl was made to do text manipulation and stuff like this? Perl, on many occasions is faster than Java, and C++? Assuming that you would be using the STL, it would still be incredibly easy to make a very inefficient text manipulation program.
:)
However, it would be pretty hard to make an efficient text manipulation program in C++. I would assume that any person doing this in C++ would use OOP (Java, obviously, since its 100% OOP).
I guess that since I am a Perl zealot, not a fan of Java, or not 18, I am bitter that I can't enter the contest. Oh well.
-Vic
UT does it for me. Since I'm in a clan, I have to play, but I don't go a day without playing a few hours. Yeah, its probably bad, but oh well, I'm having fun. It's a fun way to waste 30 minutes during a football halftime show. :)
-Vic
It really depends. Do you want to go for VC++ or for VB? Of course, there always is MSDN that has more information than any volumes of books could ever give.
Say you choose VC++, you have to ask yourself, do you want to use the Win32 API or MFC? The Win32 API sticks to 'normal' C/C++ type code, where as MFC tends to go off on its own tangent of C++. Of course, MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) is all object oriented, and thus designed for C++.
Personally, I like using the Win32 API, mainly beacuse the Windows programs I write don't depend on the GUI and interface rather than what they do (mainly small games where the layer connecting program to Windows) doesn't need to use MFC. Plus, I can tie in the Win32 API better with the way I program and streamline the code better.
Some books I recommend:
Programming Windows, The Definitive Guide to the Win32 API (Charles Petzold)
Win32 System Programming, Second Edition: A Windows 2000 Application Developer's Guide (Johnson Hart)
Just some ideas to mess around with.
Hope this helps.
-Vic
Why do you need an IDE for PHP development. If you forget a function, www.php.net/manual/ and bam, you have the answer to that function, and the PHP manual is probably more up to date than the IDE anyway.
You want color coding? Use Homesite from Macromedia. I am not sure if it is available for Linux, but its an awesome web development package. Face it, with your PHP development, you will also need to do HTML/CSS/JS so why not use a package that integrates all of them together?
Thanks, -Vic
Nerd 1: "Let's go race our cars!"
Nerd 2: "Cool, I'll get my pimpin' Sparrow."
Nerd 1: "Hold on a sec, lemme finish this kernel compile."
-Vic
After reading a lot of the book Numerical Recipes in C, I have to say that C/C++ are the best languages to program mathematics in. They are both fast, and with the OOP part of C++, you can really get some cool results.
For example, all serious games out there that use OpenGL or DirectX are all programmed in C/C++. Why? Because its the best language for the job. And since everyone knows that games are very mathematically intensive, and most of their languages are C/C++, you can make the logical postulate.
-Vic
From the xbox.vxd file:
say_team:Wolf 1.0.0Three keys down for a button!
Good prank though, got him 50,000 hits on his site in a day.
-Vic
"Hello, this is Happy Dude. If you want eternal happiness, please send $1 to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace."
-Vic
As an avid UT fan from the beginning, I am extremely excited about getting my hands on the new UT2. I do know that they have stripped the shock rifle out of it because it is too powerful, mainly when using the combo. However, they have replaced it with a plasma shotgun that allows for the same thing, but in moderation, and its not as powerful.
It also looks like epic is going away from the indoors tournament look and feel of UT. There are a few custom outdoor UT maps, but not many, and most of them are not sanctioned by the big ladders.
Like UT did to the gaming industry a few years back, I think that UT2 and U2 will do now. I also think that no games will be able to come close to it (in the same genre) for a few years.
-Vic
"If you think you're a really good programmer,...read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming....You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing." -- Bill Gates :)
From amazon.
TAOCP has got to be one of the greatest examples of a genius mind at work. Knuth's work should be placed in the same echelon as Shakespear, Chaucer, and Hemingway.
-Vic
I am currently a high school student in 11th grade. I own a TI-83+ and it is an amazing calculator. Granted, the 89's and 92's are beyond amazing, I don't think that you need much more than that (83+). I've spoken to several people in college calculus and they have all said that they can do just fine in the class with their 83+'s (and they did do well, FYI). I realize that the 89's are symbolic manipulators and such, but do you really need that?
Calculus is possible without a symbolic manipulator, so I want to know, is it really worth investing 130 bucks and buying a 89 or even more money and buying a 92/92+? Another thing that holds me back is that the 92/92+'s are not allowed on standardized tests (the SAT for example) since they have a QWERTY keyboard and need to be plugged into the wall.
-Vic
This contest has been around for at least a year. They added it when the guys at MySQL changed their website, which was over a year ago. Why is this just being posted on /. now?
The date says 05 December 2001, however, its been there much longer than that.
-Vic