Ok, it's time to spill the beans...I'm too busy to do this anymore.
Trade goods (Linen, Wool, Silk, Iron Bars, etc...) will consistently sell at the AH if you set a decent buyout price. For example, on my server, you can sell stacks (x20) at these prices:
and so on and so on. My guild would buy everything we could below that price and resell it. We'd get it from other players, from low buyouts at the AH, poorly priced auctions, wherever...At one point, as a level ~20 mage, I was spending maybe 2 hours a week doing this and making ~80 gold for my efforts. It was huge.
Then I leveled up to the point where 80 gold a week isn't that special.
Assertions (usually) are a preversion of the failfast principle, because they can be turned off. For the same reason you can't fit a 120v plug in a 240v outlet, error checking in software should be a permanent and reliable function of the design of the system.
Either your software is broken, or it isn't. If it is, you (and the users) need to know about it as soon as possible to prevent little errors from causing big errors.
Now, if you want to have an assertion that cannot be disabled, and is basically just syntax sugar for if(condition) throw new SomeException();, that could be useful. But exceptions that can be disabled only lead to a false sense of security.
The Java platform that runs on most cell phones is J2ME, which is a completely different animal than J2SE, the one that's used on PCs.
The differences are substantial. For example, some J2ME VM's don't garbage collect. Ever. That's because in some cases, it's not required.
To say that the J2SE (or J2EE) plaforms suck because a particular J2ME implementation is slow is like saying that internal combustion engines suck because your go-kart can only go 15 mph.
The company's founder, a Harvard dropout named Bill Gates, was selling Unix, a universal software on which the Internet would be based, and he wanted Gilmore to find a way to make Unix work on the computers of a prospective customer based at Stanford University.
John Gilmore is a cool guy, but Dennis Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a figgin moron. I think I'll get my facts somewhere more...factual, thanks.
At my company, most of our products are built daily (at a minimum) and the metrics are published to an internal website. Things like ugly code, unit test failures, bad JavaDoc, poor test coverage, and findbugs problems are visible to everyone in the company.
This makes it a lot easier for developers to do the right thing (and fix these problems). Nothing like a big red bar to motivate you!
When I see the.NET version of Microsoft Office (or any other Microsoft bread and butter product), running just as well in Linux as it does in Windows, then I'll consider Mono to be ready for prime time. Until then, Mono will always be the bastard stepchild of the.NET universe, with solutions that "kind of work, most of the time".
But the inspection in closed and tightly controlled Iraq worked just fine, as we have learned after the invation
Iraq was not a closed society (not closed to weapons inspectors anyway...). Remember that the U.S. had already invaded Iraq in the early 90's and that those inspectors were there by threat of military force...not by the permission of the Iraqi government. The situation in N. Korea is much different.
In short, the Clinton deal engaged North Korea and would have worked to stop or slow their weapons programs. Bush stopped the Clinton deal's funding and changed to a hard-line approach, and now we see ourselves in the present situation
You make it sound like the North Koreans built nuclear weapons by accident. Like, "Well shoot, we can't build light water ractors to generate power anymore...we might as well start a nuclear weapons program!"
Giving them light water reactors would have resulted in them having both light and heavy water reactors, and more technology that could be turned around and used against us. In a society as closed and tighly controlled as North Korea, it's foolish to think that we can 'inspect' anything, and that means we'd just have to take thier word for it that they're not producing nuclear weapons.
Why is originality worth fighting for? A game that is new or different is no more likely to be good than a game that is centuries old.
I think the primary desire for new games comes from the confusion betweens games and stories. Stories are definitely better when they're original. If you're just using a video game as a medium to tell a story, then having it be original will make it a better story...but it still might be a crappy game.
Games should be challenging and interesting. The players should be able to play the game in a different way every time and still have fun. That's what makes a game good. Whether the idea is a new one or not doesn't really matter.
The reaction would probably be a lot more heated, considering that Microsoft is an illegal monopoly, that was found (by a court of law) to have engaged in anti-competitive practices. Google, on the other hand, has not. That isn't Microsoft bashing, it's a legal fact.
Google and Microsoft are different companies, with different management teams that have different views of how thier companies should be run. It is right and proper that we should treat them differently.
Linksys sells a VPN router that uses the IPSec standard, for around $100. I've been using it for the last year or so and I love it. You can connect to it using the IPSec tunnel built into Windows, or connect under Linux using FreeS/Wan
Oh man, did you see that thing on Fox the other day about the car chase though downtown American Cities? The A.C.P.D. were chasing a couple of guys who stole a car in Urban Ghetto, and they were driving all over the place. They cut through this guy's backyard in Suburban Housing Development, and were tearing all around Industrial Area knocking over big vats of chemicals and pipes with steam coming out. It was awesome! Violence Rocks!
Unfortunately, these are the steps that are not necessary to prevent government from completely overstepping it's bounds. Government run businesses are (at best) a necessary evil, and when they're not necessary, they're just plain evil.
I don't want my local city (or state or national) government both participating in, and regulating the activites of, commerce and trade. To do both would be a conflict of interest...and since once of the rights that governments get to enjoy exclusively is the right to regulate, I choose option number 2.
So I know all the dot.communists out there see this as a tragic blow for the free people of the world, but I agree with Verizon...I don't want the government selling me anything, because if they rip me off, who am I going to complain to?
4 cabinet members, including the Secretary of State, resigned after Clinton was re-elected in 1996. A shakeup in the cabinet is standard operating procedure after an election. The world has changed (a lot) in four years. To think that the same exact people are the best ones for the job doesn't make sense.
Of course, the same thing could have been said about Bush, but we won't go there....
We need a Homestead Act for Mars. It would probably have to be an international treaty (although with the current White House that's not a strict requirement). Carve out a section of Mars and say: If you live here for X number of years, you own it.
If you REALLY want to colonize Mars, allow corporations to do this as well as individuals. That's probably the fastest way. Whether or not it's the best way is up for debate...
When you're dealing with multinational corps for services, socialism lets you get maximum buying power and save money.
Lets who get maximum buying power?
Even if it is true true that socalist enconomies are more efficent when dealing with monopolistic corporations (and I would dispute that), the fact that their muiltinational has nothing to do with the effectiveness of socialism vs. capitalism. In a free market, a U.S. company can price gouge you just as easily as one from China. But of course that's a good thing, because it also means that the Chineese company can undercut the U.S. company if it's prices start to get out of line.
Or were you just using the term 'multinational' as a cheap way to appeal to the hard-core lefties in the audience?
Either way, history has already shown the inherient flaw in socialism: Whenever economic decision making is centralized in the name of "efficiency" the decisions that are made eventually wind up benefiting those in power the most. Find out who's getting the contract to wire the city and I'm sure you'll find it holds true in this case. Power corrupts...be that power economic or military the result is the same.
You'd think that natively compiled and optimized code would be faster than an interpreter.
Code run in modern Java VM's is not interpreted...it's compiled on the fly with whatever performance optimizations are appropriate for the particular machine at that particular point in the execution path.
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The price for a dial-up account in Argentina just jumped to $3.99 for the first minute, and $1.99 for each additional minute.
Ok, it's time to spill the beans...I'm too busy to do this anymore.
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Trade goods (Linen, Wool, Silk, Iron Bars, etc...) will consistently sell at the AH if you set a decent buyout price. For example, on my server, you can sell stacks (x20) at these prices:
Linen: 25 silver
Wool: 40 silver
Silk: 45 silver (which sucks!)
Mageweave: 1.2 gold
Runecloth 3 gold
Copper Bars 45 silver
and so on and so on. My guild would buy everything we could below that price and resell it. We'd get it from other players, from low buyouts at the AH, poorly priced auctions, wherever...At one point, as a level ~20 mage, I was spending maybe 2 hours a week doing this and making ~80 gold for my efforts. It was huge.
Then I leveled up to the point where 80 gold a week isn't that special.
Assertions (usually) are a preversion of the failfast principle, because they can be turned off. For the same reason you can't fit a 120v plug in a 240v outlet, error checking in software should be a permanent and reliable function of the design of the system.
Either your software is broken, or it isn't. If it is, you (and the users) need to know about it as soon as possible to prevent little errors from causing big errors.
Now, if you want to have an assertion that cannot be disabled, and is basically just syntax sugar for if(condition) throw new SomeException();, that could be useful. But exceptions that can be disabled only lead to a false sense of security.
The Java platform that runs on most cell phones is J2ME, which is a completely different animal than J2SE, the one that's used on PCs.
The differences are substantial. For example, some J2ME VM's don't garbage collect. Ever. That's because in some cases, it's not required.
To say that the J2SE (or J2EE) plaforms suck because a particular J2ME implementation is slow is like saying that internal combustion engines suck because your go-kart can only go 15 mph.
I say we all go on strike until these demands are met. Gamers of the world, UNITE!
Terrorists.
Or maybe drug dealers. I forget who I'm supposed to hate now.
Bill Gates did! (evidently)
From the article...
The company's founder, a Harvard dropout named Bill Gates, was selling Unix, a universal software on which the Internet would be based, and he wanted Gilmore to find a way to make Unix work on the computers of a prospective customer based at Stanford University.
John Gilmore is a cool guy, but Dennis Roddy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a figgin moron. I think I'll get my facts somewhere more...factual, thanks.
At my company, most of our products are built daily (at a minimum) and the metrics are published to an internal website. Things like ugly code, unit test failures, bad JavaDoc, poor test coverage, and findbugs problems are visible to everyone in the company.
This makes it a lot easier for developers to do the right thing (and fix these problems). Nothing like a big red bar to motivate you!
I mean, it isn't even a topic of debate outside the US.
Maybe it should be. Problems tend to get solved when you discuss them.
At my company we call this phenomena "AR Redundancy", where AR stands for Acronym Redundancy.
We're all quite silly here.
When I see the .NET version of Microsoft Office (or any other Microsoft bread and butter product), running just as well in Linux as it does in Windows, then I'll consider Mono to be ready for prime time. Until then, Mono will always be the bastard stepchild of the .NET universe, with solutions that "kind of work, most of the time".
But the inspection in closed and tightly controlled Iraq worked just fine, as we have learned after the invation
Iraq was not a closed society (not closed to weapons inspectors anyway...). Remember that the U.S. had already invaded Iraq in the early 90's and that those inspectors were there by threat of military force...not by the permission of the Iraqi government. The situation in N. Korea is much different.
In short, the Clinton deal engaged North Korea and would have worked to stop or slow their weapons programs. Bush stopped the Clinton deal's funding and changed to a hard-line approach, and now we see ourselves in the present situation
You make it sound like the North Koreans built nuclear weapons by accident. Like, "Well shoot, we can't build light water ractors to generate power anymore...we might as well start a nuclear weapons program!"
Giving them light water reactors would have resulted in them having both light and heavy water reactors, and more technology that could be turned around and used against us. In a society as closed and tighly controlled as North Korea, it's foolish to think that we can 'inspect' anything, and that means we'd just have to take thier word for it that they're not producing nuclear weapons.
Why is originality worth fighting for? A game that is new or different is no more likely to be good than a game that is centuries old.
I think the primary desire for new games comes from the confusion betweens games and stories. Stories are definitely better when they're original. If you're just using a video game as a medium to tell a story, then having it be original will make it a better story...but it still might be a crappy game.
Games should be challenging and interesting. The players should be able to play the game in a different way every time and still have fun. That's what makes a game good. Whether the idea is a new one or not doesn't really matter.
The reaction would probably be a lot more heated, considering that Microsoft is an illegal monopoly, that was found (by a court of law) to have engaged in anti-competitive practices. Google, on the other hand, has not. That isn't Microsoft bashing, it's a legal fact.
Google and Microsoft are different companies, with different management teams that have different views of how thier companies should be run. It is right and proper that we should treat them differently.
Linksys sells a VPN router that uses the IPSec standard, for around $100. I've been using it for the last year or so and I love it. You can connect to it using the IPSec tunnel built into Windows, or connect under Linux using FreeS/Wan
Maybe the next version should seek and destroy bad grammar and spelling.
Oh man, did you see that thing on Fox the other day about the car chase though downtown American Cities? The A.C.P.D. were chasing a couple of guys who stole a car in Urban Ghetto, and they were driving all over the place. They cut through this guy's backyard in Suburban Housing Development, and were tearing all around Industrial Area knocking over big vats of chemicals and pipes with steam coming out. It was awesome! Violence Rocks!
...these are the steps that are necessary...
dammit!
Unfortunately, these are the steps that are not necessary to prevent government from completely overstepping it's bounds. Government run businesses are (at best) a necessary evil, and when they're not necessary, they're just plain evil.
I don't want my local city (or state or national) government both participating in, and regulating the activites of, commerce and trade. To do both would be a conflict of interest...and since once of the rights that governments get to enjoy exclusively is the right to regulate, I choose option number 2.
So I know all the dot.communists out there see this as a tragic blow for the free people of the world, but I agree with Verizon...I don't want the government selling me anything, because if they rip me off, who am I going to complain to?
4 cabinet members, including the Secretary of State, resigned after Clinton was re-elected in 1996. A shakeup in the cabinet is standard operating procedure after an election. The world has changed (a lot) in four years. To think that the same exact people are the best ones for the job doesn't make sense.
Of course, the same thing could have been said about Bush, but we won't go there....
Microsoft executives defended Internet Explorer, saying it is no less secure than any other browser and doesn't lack any important features.
I only hope that the mangement at Microsoft continues to believe this statement for the forseeable future. Nothing could help Firefox more.
We need a Homestead Act for Mars. It would probably have to be an international treaty (although with the current White House that's not a strict requirement). Carve out a section of Mars and say: If you live here for X number of years, you own it.
If you REALLY want to colonize Mars, allow corporations to do this as well as individuals. That's probably the fastest way. Whether or not it's the best way is up for debate...
When you're dealing with multinational corps for services, socialism lets you get maximum buying power and save money.
Lets who get maximum buying power?
Even if it is true true that socalist enconomies are more efficent when dealing with monopolistic corporations (and I would dispute that), the fact that their muiltinational has nothing to do with the effectiveness of socialism vs. capitalism. In a free market, a U.S. company can price gouge you just as easily as one from China. But of course that's a good thing, because it also means that the Chineese company can undercut the U.S. company if it's prices start to get out of line.
Or were you just using the term 'multinational' as a cheap way to appeal to the hard-core lefties in the audience?
Either way, history has already shown the inherient flaw in socialism: Whenever economic decision making is centralized in the name of "efficiency" the decisions that are made eventually wind up benefiting those in power the most. Find out who's getting the contract to wire the city and I'm sure you'll find it holds true in this case. Power corrupts...be that power economic or military the result is the same.
You'd think that natively compiled and optimized code would be faster than an interpreter.
Code run in modern Java VM's is not interpreted...it's compiled on the fly with whatever performance optimizations are appropriate for the particular machine at that particular point in the execution path.