For some reason I'm not surprised that a company like Microsoft would lack enough ethical sense to see why someone would not want to sign a contract they didn't intended to follow. Besides which, even if you did sign a contract that wasn't "enforcable" you should still abide by it. It's the honest thing to do. Only a child says "you can't make me" in response to someone asking them to keep their word.
Good presentation. It reminded me of an email I got the other week on my local LUG mailing list. Someone was complaining about how strict XML processing is vs HTML processing. If you miss a tag in HTML, yeah, no problem, the parser will forgive you. Miss a tag in XML, sorry, no rendering today. The result? No-one writes XML by hand (unless they're a masochist) and that means your average Perl, Python, PHP coder will actually have to read some docs or a specification to remember how to output this stuff so they just won't bother. Bosworth says that's why RSS 2.0 beats the pants off RSS 1.0, anyone can create these files and the freely available libraries that handle this stuff are really really fault tolerant. He says a lot of stuff about scalability and other stuff, but you can just listen to the mp3 if you wanna hear what he said.
I don't pretend to speak for developers everywhere (ok, so I do) but if we have to put up with whining cheapskates who want to turn developers into slaves to their every whim I say let em stay on their proprietary platform.
But everyone else's experience is the exact opposite to yours.. are you so far up your own ass that you can't recognise you might be doing something wrong and ask in the correct forum for help?
Character models are needed, sure, but we need mundane things like doors and walls and streets and traffic lights. Seems if programmers want this stuff they have to hire an artist or stumble through Blender tutorials and make it themselves. Where are all the open source minded modellers?
Then you try to do the same with the whiteboard turned around so that no-one can see what the cow-orker is drawing.. turn the whiteboard around and BAM everyone can see how freakin' insane it is to keep your software proprietary.
If you enter into a contract with someone to supply a service and they stop providing that service or inhibit it, you don't just "go somewhere else" you sue the bastards for breach of contract, and/or recommend to others that they don't use that service.
How so? The previous story at least had a link to the summer of code story so people could get the back history. Just a link to the "about Konfabulator" page would have helped.
How are you supposed to figure out if you want to RTFA or not if the summary doesn't contain a description of what the hell it is TFA is talking about. The "editors" are supposed to reject shit summaries like this one.
But that's the whole point! You shouldn't be able to hack into military computers. The military should welcome people who want to try hacking them so they can see how their systems fail to keep out intruders. Clearly every one of us (even people who don't live in the US) are in danger if military computers are so trivial to hack into as this guy has shown.
In MxO all they do is play the animation at half the speed and spin the camera around a bit. Other players see the animation played at full speed. The result is that your character appears to do a fast move and then just stand there for a while before you leave interlock. Seeing as most players just stand there after they leave interlock anyway it really doesn't make any difference to gameplay (except it looks cool). That is, until you get the stuck-in-interlock bug and have to/suicide.
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For some reason I'm not surprised that a company like Microsoft would lack enough ethical sense to see why someone would not want to sign a contract they didn't intended to follow. Besides which, even if you did sign a contract that wasn't "enforcable" you should still abide by it. It's the honest thing to do. Only a child says "you can't make me" in response to someone asking them to keep their word.
If you sign a contract knowing it isn't legal you're just a dishonest SOB who makes false promises cause they know they can get away with welching.
Install bugmenot FFS.
Good presentation. It reminded me of an email I got the other week on my local LUG mailing list. Someone was complaining about how strict XML processing is vs HTML processing. If you miss a tag in HTML, yeah, no problem, the parser will forgive you. Miss a tag in XML, sorry, no rendering today. The result? No-one writes XML by hand (unless they're a masochist) and that means your average Perl, Python, PHP coder will actually have to read some docs or a specification to remember how to output this stuff so they just won't bother. Bosworth says that's why RSS 2.0 beats the pants off RSS 1.0, anyone can create these files and the freely available libraries that handle this stuff are really really fault tolerant. He says a lot of stuff about scalability and other stuff, but you can just listen to the mp3 if you wanna hear what he said.
I don't pretend to speak for developers everywhere (ok, so I do) but if we have to put up with whining cheapskates who want to turn developers into slaves to their every whim I say let em stay on their proprietary platform.
But everyone else's experience is the exact opposite to yours.. are you so far up your own ass that you can't recognise you might be doing something wrong and ask in the correct forum for help?
Screenshots for command line apps tend not to be very revealing. Check out the can do page.
I guess that means he's developing on a real PC, not an emulator.
Using proprietary software.
He's talking about developers dipshit. You know, those hard working people you mooch off and then go on to give shit to.
Character models are needed, sure, but we need mundane things like doors and walls and streets and traffic lights. Seems if programmers want this stuff they have to hire an artist or stumble through Blender tutorials and make it themselves. Where are all the open source minded modellers?
So how about making some low poly models for those of us trying to make open source games?
Then you try to do the same with the whiteboard turned around so that no-one can see what the cow-orker is drawing.. turn the whiteboard around and BAM everyone can see how freakin' insane it is to keep your software proprietary.
it's just a normal PC ffs.
Duh. Purple of course.
Geek chicks dig hackers. They pretend like they're all whitehats but you get em chattin' about hackers and you can tell they are down.
If you enter into a contract with someone to supply a service and they stop providing that service or inhibit it, you don't just "go somewhere else" you sue the bastards for breach of contract, and/or recommend to others that they don't use that service.
How so? The previous story at least had a link to the summer of code story so people could get the back history. Just a link to the "about Konfabulator" page would have helped.
How are you supposed to figure out if you want to RTFA or not if the summary doesn't contain a description of what the hell it is TFA is talking about. The "editors" are supposed to reject shit summaries like this one.
I agree, but it's not like had any say in the matter.
pointless javascript based desktop junk.
But that's the whole point! You shouldn't be able to hack into military computers. The military should welcome people who want to try hacking them so they can see how their systems fail to keep out intruders. Clearly every one of us (even people who don't live in the US) are in danger if military computers are so trivial to hack into as this guy has shown.
Ya gotta laugh don't ya?
Frightening times.
In MxO all they do is play the animation at half the speed and spin the camera around a bit. Other players see the animation played at full speed. The result is that your character appears to do a fast move and then just stand there for a while before you leave interlock. Seeing as most players just stand there after they leave interlock anyway it really doesn't make any difference to gameplay (except it looks cool). That is, until you get the stuck-in-interlock bug and have to /suicide.