How many highgrade professional games are written in
Java currently?
None. But that is largly because of javas lingering performance issues.
Everything running on a VM has to have some extra overhead compared to native code, but.NET, unlike Java has the luxury of not having to be platform independent, and should have less of a problem in this departement.
(In fact, not being platform independent is a plus for MS. They will need something to prop up their OS business in an age of increasingly commoditized* operating systems.)
I think.NET may have the potential to become suitable for games programming.
These parts of.NET will of course be hopelessly tangeled with the windows operating system (moreso than the winforms parts), ie. hard to port and utterly unusable on other operating systems.
They're writing a copyright law for a country that needs clean water and food? give us a break.
Besides, as somebody else mentioned here, Iraq already has copyright laws. They are not cavemen you know. ...they just don't have copyright with a life + 75 year span. (They have life + 25 up to a maximum of 50 years) They also don't have 97.000.000.000$ fines for copyright violation.
<rant-mode> One could reasonably argue that when it came to copyright, if nothing else, Iraq actually had more sane laws than both the US and the EU. I'm, sure that will change real soon now though. </rant-mode>
Be that as it may, but...
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...at least *nix is God's OS-of-choice. And the manuscript you mentioned was surely edited in Emacs.
As to the story - sounds strange that a trojan would do that unless someone was using his machine as a proxy and in that case why would the images be cached on his system?
The story doesn't seem entirely unlikely though.
A company I know had a server compromised some time ago and had a rootkit installed. They were then used as a warez ftp server.
Why would the cracker do that?
Maybe he was just after some disk space and a fat pipe?
But maybe, just maybe it was warez the cracker absolutely positively didn't want laying around on his own box? Something they thought he could get into serious trouble over?
I'll never know, I didn't check what it was before the disk was reformatted, but whatever it was there were several GB of it...
The jackass who runs PennyArcade is a complete moron, and the little comic strips they do look like utter SHIT. My fucking 9 year-old cousin can do better. It would be no great loss if the whole worthless fucking site went under.
Sure, but he plays videogames and draws cartoons for a living, while you whine about him doing it on slashdot.
Seems one of you is a luser...
I'll let you figure out wich one.
For example, I'm certain George Boole didn't have computers in mind when he set about developing Boolean Algebra back in 1854.
I was going to bring up that example myself, but Boolean algebra had practical applications at that time. ...in philosophy, and rethorics for example.
But, yes I'm sure ol' George would have been amazed at exactly how useful his little contribution to math turned out to be in entirely different fields less than a century later. And there were no way to predict that at the time.
Silly people... this is TOPOLOGY! It's not meant for people to USE it! It's just for mathematicians to RUMINATE UPON! Has Fermat's Last Theorem actually been used in practical applications? I don't think so...
If everyone thought like you we'd still be living in caves.
Just because practical applications aren't totally obvious for a layman (or even a matematician) doesn't mean this will never be of practical use. Even if no practical applications are ever found, this proof (if it survives peer review) may well pave the way for something else that is immensly useful.
There's just no way to tell right now.
If they don't have Net access, they will continue to get their news from the likes of al-jazeera and Baghdad Bob.
Both the Pentagon and the Baath party hated Al-Jazeera. They must have been doing something right.
Never trust a news source that one of the partys in a conflict actually likes (CNN, Iraqi national TV etc.) that's a friggin' guarantee of severe bias. Not saying that you can trust Al-Jazeera, but them pissing off both sides is definitly a good sign.
Don't you know, foo? Slashdot and grammar don't mix!
On a sidenote, Taco is a perl coder, right? And he is kind of dyslectic. This also seems to be the case with just about everyone I know that cites perl as their prefered language.
Why is it that perl coders are always the worst spellers?
Is Larry Wall the nemesis of all grammar nazis?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Spammers should have the same privacy protection as everyone else. Rights apply equally to scumbags too.
But that won't stop me from giggeling with glee of course. How do you like them unsolicited calls, dead trees, emails and sms messages now mr Spammer sir?
But it didn't just happen by itself or some "invisible hand". The telcos with large market share liked the lock-in effect of not being able to keep your old number when switching providers. Competitors (one of them Orange btw.) and customers hated it. The government finally settled the matter in the name of free competition. It seems to have lowered prices somewhat too.
And it's nice to be able to just take your number and leave if your provider is being an ass. For instance, my provider at work occasionaly spams me with sms, so I don't use them anymore for my private phone, can't do anything about the one at work though...
If you want to look down one something, at least try and know what you're talking about.
What? And break the good old slashdot tradition of screaming bloody murder without actually knowing what I'm talking about?
Seriously, I don't matter much to me if a country have uniformly applied standards of censorship or not. The whole idea of not letting a publisher advertise for a blody game seems a little too authoritarian for my taste.
Tobacco or alcohol, for example I could understand since you could make a solid case that they are harmful, but a game? Code is speech. period. As for looking down on people, I would think that the ";-)" following immediately after that statment would imply that it was sort of thounge in cheek, but apparently that didn't come across for all readers...
And here I were beeing smug over the whole "freedom fries/toast" thingy. ...but along comes the friggin Ministry Of Trivial Stupidity and proves that laughable selective stupidity is indeed global, and yes it affects us in the EU too.
Last time I checked something like 90% of all games was insanely violent, but... hey lets single one random game out ond pick on it. I'm sure it will save our children real soon now.
Shape up Germany, you are seriously hampering my ability to look down my nose at USians;-)
And of course, the current death rate is calculated across a sample who are (mstly) getting ICU care in well-equipped hospitals.
Also, to calculate an accurate death rate, even under intensive care, you should only count the dead and patients that made a full recovery, the majority of the poor bastards that has been infected are probably not in either camp yet... In other words, the current "death toll" would be an absolute minimum.
That guy is. from what I have heard, a domain squatter.
Ahh... that puts him on a real high moral ground when he accuses people who don't view his popups of theft.
He poses as someone else and distributes their hard work (the de-nastyfication of kazaa) for his personal profit, and yet he is so full of selfrightiousness... What a creep.
If you feel constrained by something as dumb as anti-leech, we need to work on your geek skillz =)
It's not that it's hard to get around, it's just the utter stupidity of deploying that lousy crapware. "Anti-leech" must be the lamest stunt yet, when I discovered them a while ago I couldn't actually believe people was paying them money to use the crap. ...but obviously, one is born every minute.
You cannot learn VB well by knowing C++, because you're so apalled at the language, you just want to hack it in place and leave the code alone..
I don't code C++ and I feel the same way about any BASIC dialect anyway.
The only distinguishing feature of VB that makes me hate it more than any other BASIC is the fact that I am sometimes expected to actually use it... Let's face it. BASIC more or less sucks across the board.
It was ok for my C64, but those days are long gone now...
The only thing I have to fear is if we go to war, but what, I ask you, are the odds of that happening these days?
Famous last words... No, seriously, you don't have any idea about the chances of that truly are. Things change, and nobody knows what the next few decades have in stock. I hope you're right though, and I guess you probably are.
And one big problem with using encryption out where everyone can SEE that you're using encryption, is that it's like waving a red flag and yelling "I'M UP TO SOMETHING!"
And the only solution to this (except workarounds like stenganography) is to make the use of encryption as widespread as possible.
I will probably start encrypting all my personal email soon (yes I'm slow, I know...) even though I don't have much to hide, and I encourage everyone else to do this.
As for business mail, when you think about it, wouldn't you rather have your business email encrypted and signed if you ever go to court over some contract dispute? Makes it a lot easier to prove who said what when you submit the email archive as evidence. Not to mention not having your business conversations easily intercepted. You wouldn't send your companies bid for a contract or internal memo on a postcard would you? But unencrypted email is fine? Why?
Their new guildline for variable-naming in.NET is to not use variable type notation.
Doing otherwise would be braindead, dotNET is all about OOP if I'm not mistaken. So, as soon as you cast or convert a hungarian-notation-compliant reference it would be lying about it's objekt. Hello confusion! Imagine the horror of maintaining that code.
Anyway, I am sure a lot of prople coming from VB backgrounds and not groking OOP will make this very mistake. I pity the one that has to maintain the crud they will produce...
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How many highgrade professional games are written in Java currently?
.NET, unlike Java has the luxury of not having to be platform independent, and should have less of a problem in this departement.
.NET may have the potential to become suitable for games programming. .NET will of course be hopelessly tangeled with the windows operating system (moreso than the winforms parts), ie. hard to port and utterly unusable on other operating systems.
None.
But that is largly because of javas lingering performance issues.
Everything running on a VM has to have some extra overhead compared to native code, but
(In fact, not being platform independent is a plus for MS. They will need something to prop up their OS business in an age of increasingly commoditized* operating systems.)
I think
These parts of
Or, I may be talking out of my ass here.
*) Read: GNU-Linux and friends...
They're writing a copyright law for a country that needs clean water and food? give us a break.
Besides, as somebody else mentioned here, Iraq already has copyright laws.
They are not cavemen you know.
...they just don't have copyright with a life + 75 year span. (They have life + 25 up to a maximum of 50 years) They also don't have 97.000.000.000$ fines for copyright violation.
<rant-mode>
One could reasonably argue that when it came to copyright, if nothing else, Iraq actually had more sane laws than both the US and the EU.
I'm, sure that will change real soon now though.
</rant-mode>
...at least *nix is God's OS-of-choice.
And the manuscript you mentioned was surely edited in Emacs.
"Voila! Apples are different from Oranges" said American Agricultural Research magazine today.
More like apples and turds, in this case...
As to the story - sounds strange that a trojan would do that unless someone was using his machine as a proxy and in that case why would the images be cached on his system?
The story doesn't seem entirely unlikely though.
A company I know had a server compromised some time ago and had a rootkit installed. They were then used as a warez ftp server.
Why would the cracker do that?
Maybe he was just after some disk space and a fat pipe?
But maybe, just maybe it was warez the cracker absolutely positively didn't want laying around on his own box? Something they thought he could get into serious trouble over?
I'll never know, I didn't check what it was before the disk was reformatted, but whatever it was there were several GB of it...
The jackass who runs PennyArcade is a complete moron, and the little comic strips they do look like utter SHIT. My fucking 9 year-old cousin can do better. It would be no great loss if the whole worthless fucking site went under.
Sure, but he plays videogames and draws cartoons for a living, while you whine about him doing it on slashdot.
Seems one of you is a luser...
I'll let you figure out wich one.
For example, I'm certain George Boole didn't have computers in mind when he set about developing Boolean Algebra back in 1854.
I was going to bring up that example myself, but Boolean algebra had practical applications at that time.
...in philosophy, and rethorics for example.
But, yes I'm sure ol' George would have been amazed at exactly how useful his little contribution to math turned out to be in entirely different fields less than a century later. And there were no way to predict that at the time.
Silly people... this is TOPOLOGY! It's not meant for people to USE it! It's just for mathematicians to RUMINATE UPON!
Has Fermat's Last Theorem actually been used in practical applications? I don't think so...
If everyone thought like you we'd still be living in caves.
Just because practical applications aren't totally obvious for a layman (or even a matematician) doesn't mean this will never be of practical use.
Even if no practical applications are ever found, this proof (if it survives peer review) may well pave the way for something else that is immensly useful.
There's just no way to tell right now.
If they don't have Net access, they will continue to get their news from the likes of al-jazeera and Baghdad Bob.
Both the Pentagon and the Baath party hated Al-Jazeera.
They must have been doing something right.
Never trust a news source that one of the partys in a conflict actually likes (CNN, Iraqi national TV etc.) that's a friggin' guarantee of severe bias.
Not saying that you can trust Al-Jazeera, but them pissing off both sides is definitly a good sign.
Don't you know, foo? Slashdot and grammar don't mix!
On a sidenote, Taco is a perl coder, right? And he is kind of dyslectic.
This also seems to be the case with just about everyone I know that cites perl as their prefered language.
Why is it that perl coders are always the worst spellers?
Is Larry Wall the nemesis of all grammar nazis?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Spammers should have the same privacy protection as everyone else.
Rights apply equally to scumbags too.
But that won't stop me from giggeling with glee of course.
How do you like them unsolicited calls, dead trees, emails and sms messages now mr Spammer sir?
The situation is the same in Sweden nowadays.
But it didn't just happen by itself or some "invisible hand". The telcos with large market share liked the lock-in effect of not being able to keep your old number when switching providers. Competitors (one of them Orange btw.) and customers hated it.
The government finally settled the matter in the name of free competition.
It seems to have lowered prices somewhat too.
And it's nice to be able to just take your number and leave if your provider is being an ass.
For instance, my provider at work occasionaly spams me with sms, so I don't use them anymore for my private phone, can't do anything about the one at work though...
English is not my 1st language, so cut me some slack.
If you want to look down one something, at least try and know what you're talking about.
What? And break the good old slashdot tradition of screaming bloody murder without actually knowing what I'm talking about?
Seriously, I don't matter much to me if a country have uniformly applied standards of censorship or not.
The whole idea of not letting a publisher advertise for a blody game seems a little too authoritarian for my taste.
Tobacco or alcohol, for example I could understand since you could make a solid case that they are harmful, but a game?
Code is speech. period.
As for looking down on people, I would think that the ";-)" following immediately after that statment would imply that it was sort of thounge in cheek, but apparently that didn't come across for all readers...
And here I were beeing smug over the whole "freedom fries/toast" thingy.
;-)
...but along comes the friggin Ministry Of Trivial Stupidity and proves that laughable selective stupidity is indeed global, and yes it affects us in the EU too.
Last time I checked something like 90% of all games was insanely violent, but... hey lets single one random game out ond pick on it.
I'm sure it will save our children real soon now.
Shape up Germany, you are seriously hampering my ability to look down my nose at USians
And of course, the current death rate is calculated across a sample who are (mstly) getting ICU care in well-equipped hospitals.
Also, to calculate an accurate death rate, even under intensive care, you should only count the dead and patients that made a full recovery, the majority of the poor bastards that has been infected are probably not in either camp yet...
In other words, the current "death toll" would be an absolute minimum.
This has the potential to be extremly serious.
That guy is. from what I have heard, a domain squatter.
Ahh... that puts him on a real high moral ground when he accuses people who don't view his popups of theft.
He poses as someone else and distributes their hard work (the de-nastyfication of kazaa) for his personal profit, and yet he is so full of selfrightiousness...
What a creep.
If you feel constrained by something as dumb as anti-leech, we need to work on your geek skillz =)
It's not that it's hard to get around, it's just the utter stupidity of deploying that lousy crapware.
"Anti-leech" must be the lamest stunt yet, when I discovered them a while ago I couldn't actually believe people was paying them money to use the crap.
...but obviously, one is born every minute.
Unfortunatly there are about 40 000 000 000 reasons not to count them out, if you catch my drift...
They won't completely go away anytime soon.
You cannot learn VB well by knowing C++, because you're so apalled at the language, you just want to hack it in place and leave the code alone..
I don't code C++ and I feel the same way about any BASIC dialect anyway.
The only distinguishing feature of VB that makes me hate it more than any other BASIC is the fact that I am sometimes expected to actually use it...
Let's face it. BASIC more or less sucks across the board.
It was ok for my C64, but those days are long gone now...
The only thing I have to fear is if we go to war, but what, I ask you, are the odds of that happening these days?
Famous last words...
No, seriously, you don't have any idea about the chances of that truly are. Things change, and nobody knows what the next few decades have in stock.
I hope you're right though, and I guess you probably are.
Is this Mitchell a man or a woman? It's hard to keep them straight these days
Well, he has a beard, for what it's worth...
And one big problem with using encryption out where everyone can SEE that you're using encryption, is that it's like waving a red flag and yelling "I'M UP TO SOMETHING!"
And the only solution to this (except workarounds like stenganography) is to make the use of encryption as widespread as possible.
I will probably start encrypting all my personal email soon (yes I'm slow, I know...) even though I don't have much to hide, and I encourage everyone else to do this.
As for business mail, when you think about it, wouldn't you rather have your business email encrypted and signed if you ever go to court over some contract dispute?
Makes it a lot easier to prove who said what when you submit the email archive as evidence.
Not to mention not having your business conversations easily intercepted.
You wouldn't send your companies bid for a contract or internal memo on a postcard would you? But unencrypted email is fine? Why?
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Their new guildline for variable-naming in .NET is to not use variable type notation.
Doing otherwise would be braindead, dotNET is all about OOP if I'm not mistaken.
So, as soon as you cast or convert a hungarian-notation-compliant reference it would be lying about it's objekt.
Hello confusion!
Imagine the horror of maintaining that code.
Anyway, I am sure a lot of prople coming from VB backgrounds and not groking OOP will make this very mistake.
I pity the one that has to maintain the crud they will produce...