The nonsense that the article talks about, recent price hikes, electronic "bullets", etc., are just more examples of what corporations do to protect their cashflow. Who cares about individual rights if the bottom line is looking rosy?
The cable company that provided service for my dorm last semester ran these ads that encouraged other people to rat out people who were getting free cable. Does anyone else find this really humorous? I mean, if I know someone getting free cable, I'm going to ask them to hook me up, not turn 'em in for some Cable Industry Good Consumer Award.
Yeah, but wouldn't it be cool to perform some sort of sexual act while sitting in Captain Kirk's chair? I mean... the very thought of it is almost too insane to consider.
They haven't dumbed the game down, really. What they have done is broken the game down into three "levels." There's Starter, which is more or less dumbed-down Magic. Then There's the Basic Sets (Equivalent to 4th Edition, 5th Edition, Revised, etc.) They've simplified the Basic Sets, too, but not to the extent of Starter. Then they have the Expert Level expansions. This is where the new cards come in, and the card interactions are just as complex (maybe a little more, if you ask some people) than older sets.
Interrupts are obsolete. They restructured the rules so that distinguishing interrupts and instants is unnecessary.
Actually, the rules restructuring of Magic has been excellent for the game. The rules aren't just kludged together, there's a unified system for spell resolution, which puts the focus on the card interactions where its supposed to be.
WotC seems to have a refreshingly player-centric attitude lately. From a player-designed D&D campaign setting to player-designed cards and player input on the next edition of Magic: the Gathering, it really is good to see a gaming company actually realize that players like to get involved in the games they play. Kudos to them.
That gets a big, fat PFFT from me. I didn't know George Dubya logged onto Slashdot as tps12.
Come on, man. The government does *not* need to be compiling a database worth of material on me. I haven't done anything. I'm not a terrorist. So why am I being investigated? That's just not cool.
This really is just another step in the road to Big Brotherhood. We've seen it before, and it just keeps getting worse.
But really... wouldn't a free big-screen high-definition plasma television in exchange for allowing the goverment to plant a camera behind the screen be great?! I want my Phillips Telescreen!
The stuff that would have been representative of Orbital's work wouldn't really have gone well with the style of music on the soundtrack. "Halcyon + On + On" really doesn't sound like Autechre's "Kalpol Intro" now does it?
So much great stuff on that soundtrack. Clint Mansell's stuff is great, but nothing compared with his work for the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack (also a Darren Aronofsky film). Mmm.
>> just Maro popping up...
I'll ignore the unintentional Magic: the Gathering reference and mention how humorous Bill Gates in a red-and-blue plumber's uniform would be.:)
"Linux" can't dig it's own grave. No matter how many people you have hacking away with their GUI toolkits and installation wizards, there are always going to be kernel hackers making the Linux internals better and better.
That's be beauty of Linux. Developers can do whatever kind of idiot stuff they want, but that doesn't mean the rest of the community has to suffer for it. And that's why Linux, or atleast open source in general, won't be digging itself any graves.
I agree totally. He just seemed to be disregarding the whole concept just because it isn't very well developed at the present time. Perhaps I misinterpreted him. Oh well.
Being totally blind to platform-specific issues is bad. That's obvious. And clearly automated memory management needs work. The problem is that you're disregarding a potentially useful tool because it doesn't work very well *now*. Obviously your mission critical stuff needs to be well-tuned, and down-and-dirty C++ is the way to go. In an instance like that, programmer productivity is less important than excellent stability and performance.
In many cases, being concerned with a lot of low-level stuff is just a waste of time. And the number of cases in which this is true is only going to increase as automated memory management and other such technologies get better. A truly knowledgeable developer will still be aware of what's going on behind the scenes, but programmer productivity won't suffer for it.
Despite the fact that I'm younger than you and do not have nearly as much C++ experience as you, I'm still keenly aware that programmer productivity suffers when good projects get bogged down by having to track down piddly memory leaks. We use APIs to draw our GUI's, so why not let the computer handle the complexity of memory management, too. Or do you reimplement your windowing routines for every project too?:)
Dear god I am out of what aol own. Don't know which is worse owning stuff or owning it breaking it.
Fascinating... could the above post actually be written by an AOL user? Jeez. Proofread, people. If you read your writing out loud and it sounds like English isn't your native language, don't bother hitting the submit button.
I always thought Java was very interesting with it's cross-platform compatibility and whatnot. But as everyone has noted, it's painfully slow. I always wondered why people hadn't implemented a native-code compiler for it. Sure, with bounds-checking and garbage collection, natively compiled Java will still be slower than natively compiled C++.
The point is, Java is really just another programming language. What's wrong with allowing developers the opportunity to write their natively compiled software in a solid, object-oriented language that doesn't have all the backwards-compatability issues that C/C++ has?
Whether this will be useful, I dunno. But it opens up options, and that's always a good thing.
Actually, I was thinking of a 22" Apple Monitor attached to the pr0n bot. Come on, we all know $2500 for the display and $150 for the lego set would be well worth it for slightly-mobile automated pr0n anywhere in your house!:)
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Pretty icons... but where's the PNG? Ugh. If they're so supportive of Open Source, why do they make it so difficult to use these icons in Linux? Pfft.
Several years ago, Amtrak was pretty notorious for lots of bad derailments. That's the source of his comment. It was just a joke. :)
The nonsense that the article talks about, recent price hikes, electronic "bullets", etc., are just more examples of what corporations do to protect their cashflow. Who cares about individual rights if the bottom line is looking rosy?
The cable company that provided service for my dorm last semester ran these ads that encouraged other people to rat out people who were getting free cable. Does anyone else find this really humorous? I mean, if I know someone getting free cable, I'm going to ask them to hook me up, not turn 'em in for some Cable Industry Good Consumer Award.
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Interrupts are obsolete. They restructured the rules so that distinguishing interrupts and instants is unnecessary.
Actually, the rules restructuring of Magic has been excellent for the game. The rules aren't just kludged together, there's a unified system for spell resolution, which puts the focus on the card interactions where its supposed to be.
That gets a big, fat PFFT from me. I didn't know George Dubya logged onto Slashdot as tps12.
Come on, man. The government does *not* need to be compiling a database worth of material on me. I haven't done anything. I'm not a terrorist. So why am I being investigated? That's just not cool.
But really... wouldn't a free big-screen high-definition plasma television in exchange for allowing the goverment to plant a camera behind the screen be great?! I want my Phillips Telescreen!
A *scooter*???? Ugh. :)
So much great stuff on that soundtrack. Clint Mansell's stuff is great, but nothing compared with his work for the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack (also a Darren Aronofsky film). Mmm.
It's an EP. $8 bucks max. Good stuff though!
>> just Maro popping up... I'll ignore the unintentional Magic: the Gathering reference and mention how humorous Bill Gates in a red-and-blue plumber's uniform would be. :)
Slashdot hits home. It's scary.
"Linux" can't dig it's own grave. No matter how many people you have hacking away with their GUI toolkits and installation wizards, there are always going to be kernel hackers making the Linux internals better and better.
That's be beauty of Linux. Developers can do whatever kind of idiot stuff they want, but that doesn't mean the rest of the community has to suffer for it. And that's why Linux, or atleast open source in general, won't be digging itself any graves.
I agree totally. He just seemed to be disregarding the whole concept just because it isn't very well developed at the present time. Perhaps I misinterpreted him. Oh well.
Being totally blind to platform-specific issues is bad. That's obvious. And clearly automated memory management needs work. The problem is that you're disregarding a potentially useful tool because it doesn't work very well *now*. Obviously your mission critical stuff needs to be well-tuned, and down-and-dirty C++ is the way to go. In an instance like that, programmer productivity is less important than excellent stability and performance.
In many cases, being concerned with a lot of low-level stuff is just a waste of time. And the number of cases in which this is true is only going to increase as automated memory management and other such technologies get better. A truly knowledgeable developer will still be aware of what's going on behind the scenes, but programmer productivity won't suffer for it.
Despite the fact that I'm younger than you and do not have nearly as much C++ experience as you, I'm still keenly aware that programmer productivity suffers when good projects get bogged down by having to track down piddly memory leaks. We use APIs to draw our GUI's, so why not let the computer handle the complexity of memory management, too. Or do you reimplement your windowing routines for every project too? :)
Dear god I am out of what aol own. Don't know which is worse owning stuff or owning it breaking it.
Fascinating... could the above post actually be written by an AOL user? Jeez. Proofread, people. If you read your writing out loud and it sounds like English isn't your native language, don't bother hitting the submit button.
I always thought Java was very interesting with it's cross-platform compatibility and whatnot. But as everyone has noted, it's painfully slow. I always wondered why people hadn't implemented a native-code compiler for it. Sure, with bounds-checking and garbage collection, natively compiled Java will still be slower than natively compiled C++.
The point is, Java is really just another programming language. What's wrong with allowing developers the opportunity to write their natively compiled software in a solid, object-oriented language that doesn't have all the backwards-compatability issues that C/C++ has?
Whether this will be useful, I dunno. But it opens up options, and that's always a good thing.
Ooh, aah. :)
Actually, I was thinking of a 22" Apple Monitor attached to the pr0n bot. Come on, we all know $2500 for the display and $150 for the lego set would be well worth it for slightly-mobile automated pr0n anywhere in your house! :)