Sorry, but a world in which that is going to get you into trouble, is a sick and disgusting world that I wouldn’t want to live in.
If it would happen in my company, I’d be happy. I’d just tell them that if they have a relationship, and if that relationship is ending, then they can’t work in close proximity anymore. (I’d also leave it to them, what to do with the camera recordings.)
I believe in relationships in a company. How are you going to be a team if you don’t like each other? This coldness and anonymity of large companies is just sickening.
Not going to happen. Since the developers don’t know what it actually “means”. Because it doesn”t “mean” anything. Just see them as sequential numbers with fancy names for purely decorative purposes.
Internally there are x factors. And the are adjusted in a range from a_x to b_x. Then they are balanced out, until the game is fun and everything works as expected. at which point there is no “meaning” behind the values anymore. Only that the hardest level is adjusted for the best possible player to still have fun, and the easiest level is adjusted for the total noob to have fun. In-between it’s most likely mostly still a point on the gradient.
I don’t think it’s still possible to put all those factors into a single number. Let alone assign meaning to it.
Particularly their box model. That's right, I said it. The Microsoft box model is actually better than the w3c's css 2.1 model.
I agree.:) But , as far as I know, you can choose the box model in every major browser since the time where CSS2 is fully supported. Did in in Firefox, years ago.
But I don’t think it’s that bad. It has its uses.
What will definitely make think a lot better, is the support of math equations in CSS3. Like (50%+3px).:)
There are well tested, production ready OpenGL bindings for Java: http://lwjgl.org/
HOW ABOUT NO
Wow, how well though-out properly founded, intelligent and logic arguments... ehrm... How about, you’re a dick!?
Java fits better with OpenGL anyway, being cross platform and open in the same vein as OpenGL.
You owe me a new keyboard. Ok, to be serious now, I can't think of a worse match to OpenGL than Java You need to work with pictures, access to buffers. Also, speed.
I have worked with OpenGL on Java. There is a ridiculously low overhead for the wrapper library. And in case you didn’t know it: For anything other than Swing GUI stuff, Java is nearly on par with C++. Which is impressive, for a language that has all the checks and bounds built in, preventing errors that will fuck up your puny C/C++ game at every chance it can get. Build in those checks, and you will be slower than Java!
But you know which languages are really the best for OpenGL? OCaml and Haskell! C/C++ is a dinosaur. The COBOL of our days. But as nasty / error prone to code, as Visual Basic. It literally feels dirty, to go to C/C++ after having worked in Haskell.
Also, don’t forget, that mobile computers (phones, game consoles, etc) exclusively use OpenGL (ES). So porting games between them is much nicer if you start with OpenGL.
And OpenGL has an interface for pretty much every language known to man. Python, Perl, Object Pascal, Java, OCaml, even Haskell! And for all those languages, nobody wants to implement a DirectX wrapper library. Since you can’t use it on any platform other than Windows anyway. And so it’s an annoying waste of time.
In the long run, DirectX will go the way of Internet Explorer 6.
Only a loser would make his goal to get on par with the competition. Because at the time when he would reach that goal, the competition would already have moved on.
I want them to put DirectX to shame! New! Revolutionary! Impressive! Putting MS in the position to catch up! Because when MS is in that position, they are known to fuck up. (They make the same error of not trying to surpass the competition.) ^^
Design a spec, that is every graphics card designer’s, every game developer’s and every player’s wet dream!
It’s like car racing: If you concentrate on the car in front of you, you will fall back. If you stop caring for him, and concentrate on your own goals and the track in front of you, you’ll suddenly find yourself left of him, passing by.:) (The same is true for concentrating on cars following you.)
You mean: Microsoft’s problem of nobody taking them serious, and everybody doing it anyway, without MS being able to do anything about what they “believe” they have? (Remember: The companies implementing and supporting OpenGL can simply shut off Windows from their cards, end cooperation, and kill MS in the blink of an eye.
Stop buying into every shit and criminal makes up to gain power over you!
Exactly. Just that “protein” is in no way “umami”. There actually are people saying that they found separate protein buds. But it’s not confirmed, as far as I know.
I’ve seen full feature tracking AR libraries back in 2004! And videos of their usage. It’s well-known technology. But unless we have AR glasses that are affordable and can be worn out on the street, it’s not of much use. Or do you want to run around having the phone in front of you all the time?
But at least those libs can be used for navigation that is more exact than what GPS offers (best case: 3m. worst case: 100m! in buildings: fuck you!;). Provided someone scanned the space in advance.
The TV fosters passivity. Cattle mentality. The Internet is more for active people. Not necessarily with the body (apart from porn), but with the brain. It supports active participation. Look at how it already changed government and the media. People stop being cattle because of it.
Also, if you have ever played Q3 CPMA or Richard Burns Rally (on a force feedback wheel) for a couple of hours, you’ll know that you get hot and sweat like a pig from the stress. (The heat is proof for the burning of energy.)
Also a very important thing to note is, that not being fat does not mean being healthy. It can mean you are simply so thing because you’re too lazy to even eat. It’s obvious that that will kill you in the long run, or case bad long-term diseases. Just like bad food. The lack of sports is still much bigger than with e.g. an outdoor sport.
But hey, I’m working on affordable outdoor computer games that require movement right now! Wish me luck!:)
Good luck with that. It’s far from over. Our government (which is NOT the EU) still is very much for a totalitarian surveillance state. And the “terrorists” still are the excuse deus ex machina of law.
If you write, you don’t listen. If you listen, you don’t write. Simple as that.
I HATED “teachers” who gave us the homework of just copying book pages by hand to “learn” them. I couldn’t remember a word of what was written on them.
I specifically avoided taking any notes, as much as possible. And only wrote down formulas, or basic laws. (In a graph, like a mind map, but without the stupid limitations.) If I didn’t understand everything, I pressed pause, and went back a minute.
Oh, did I mention, that the lectures themselves were only half of where the learning took place, and watching it on video a second time at home filled in the blanks that made the whole lecture useful and stick in the first place?
Well I was on BASIC too. GWBASIC to be exact! On a Commodore PC 10 (i8088!) But Pascal was my antidote. Then I learned Java. And...oh horrors... PHP. The BASIC of these days. And Haskell is my definite final antidote right now.
I wish more people would know exactly what happens behind those high level constructs and libraries.
Well, as my physics teacher once said: You can use the calculator, as soon as you know how to do it by hand, and understand why you are doing what you are doing. I instantly realized that you can generalize this to pretty much everything. Especially using computers in general.
And since I love to understand things anyway, that’s what I do.:)
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Sorry, but a world in which that is going to get you into trouble, is a sick and disgusting world that I wouldn’t want to live in.
If it would happen in my company, I’d be happy. I’d just tell them that if they have a relationship, and if that relationship is ending, then they can’t work in close proximity anymore.
(I’d also leave it to them, what to do with the camera recordings.)
I believe in relationships in a company. How are you going to be a team if you don’t like each other?
This coldness and anonymity of large companies is just sickening.
He sits in a wheelchair, you insensitive clod!
...the phone still runs Windows. ;)
If I ever buy such a phone (again), please shoot me. Thanks.
Not going to happen. Since the developers don’t know what it actually “means”. Because it doesn”t “mean” anything. Just see them as sequential numbers with fancy names for purely decorative purposes.
Internally there are x factors. And the are adjusted in a range from a_x to b_x. Then they are balanced out, until the game is fun and everything works as expected. at which point there is no “meaning” behind the values anymore. Only that the hardest level is adjusted for the best possible player to still have fun, and the easiest level is adjusted for the total noob to have fun. In-between it’s most likely mostly still a point on the gradient.
I don’t think it’s still possible to put all those factors into a single number. Let alone assign meaning to it.
Particularly their box model. That's right, I said it. The Microsoft box model is actually better than the w3c's css 2.1 model.
I agree. :) But , as far as I know, you can choose the box model in every major browser since the time where CSS2 is fully supported. Did in in Firefox, years ago.
But I don’t think it’s that bad. It has its uses.
What will definitely make think a lot better, is the support of math equations in CSS3. Like (50%+3px). :)
There are well tested, production ready OpenGL bindings for Java: http://lwjgl.org/
HOW ABOUT NO
Wow, how well though-out properly founded, intelligent and logic arguments... ehrm... How about, you’re a dick!?
Java fits better with OpenGL anyway, being cross platform and open in the same vein as OpenGL.
You owe me a new keyboard.
Ok, to be serious now, I can't think of a worse match to OpenGL than Java
You need to work with pictures, access to buffers. Also, speed.
I have worked with OpenGL on Java. There is a ridiculously low overhead for the wrapper library. And in case you didn’t know it: For anything other than Swing GUI stuff, Java is nearly on par with C++.
Which is impressive, for a language that has all the checks and bounds built in, preventing errors that will fuck up your puny C/C++ game at every chance it can get. Build in those checks, and you will be slower than Java!
But you know which languages are really the best for OpenGL?
OCaml and Haskell!
C/C++ is a dinosaur. The COBOL of our days. But as nasty / error prone to code, as Visual Basic.
It literally feels dirty, to go to C/C++ after having worked in Haskell.
Also, don’t forget, that mobile computers (phones, game consoles, etc) exclusively use OpenGL (ES). So porting games between them is much nicer if you start with OpenGL.
And OpenGL has an interface for pretty much every language known to man. Python, Perl, Object Pascal, Java, OCaml, even Haskell!
And for all those languages, nobody wants to implement a DirectX wrapper library. Since you can’t use it on any platform other than Windows anyway. And so it’s an annoying waste of time.
In the long run, DirectX will go the way of Internet Explorer 6.
Only a loser would make his goal to get on par with the competition. Because at the time when he would reach that goal, the competition would already have moved on.
I want them to put DirectX to shame! New! Revolutionary! Impressive! Putting MS in the position to catch up!
Because when MS is in that position, they are known to fuck up. (They make the same error of not trying to surpass the competition.) ^^
Design a spec, that is every graphics card designer’s, every game developer’s and every player’s wet dream!
It’s like car racing: If you concentrate on the car in front of you, you will fall back. If you stop caring for him, and concentrate on your own goals and the track in front of you, you’ll suddenly find yourself left of him, passing by. :)
(The same is true for concentrating on cars following you.)
You mean: Microsoft’s problem of nobody taking them serious, and everybody doing it anyway, without MS being able to do anything about what they “believe” they have? (Remember: The companies implementing and supporting OpenGL can simply shut off Windows from their cards, end cooperation, and kill MS in the blink of an eye.
Stop buying into every shit and criminal makes up to gain power over you!
Since this is Slashdot...
This is really nostalgic I almost forgot what WOMAN meant!
There, fixed that for ya. ;)
Let me put it on Wikipeda, using this as a citation!
The Alternate Reality Alliance
— “Changing reality, one edit at a time!”
Except that since umami has nothing to do with protein detection, the third sentence has no relationship to the title.
Exactly. Just that “protein” is in no way “umami”.
There actually are people saying that they found separate protein buds. But it’s not confirmed, as far as I know.
What’s with umami? That one’s proven (the receptors are found), and well-known.
Protein is not umami. And protein isn’t even proven yet.
I’ve seen full feature tracking AR libraries back in 2004! And videos of their usage. It’s well-known technology. But unless we have AR glasses that are affordable and can be worn out on the street, it’s not of much use. Or do you want to run around having the phone in front of you all the time?
But at least those libs can be used for navigation that is more exact than what GPS offers (best case: 3m. worst case: 100m! in buildings: fuck you! ;). Provided someone scanned the space in advance.
The TV fosters passivity. Cattle mentality.
The Internet is more for active people. Not necessarily with the body (apart from porn), but with the brain. It supports active participation. Look at how it already changed government and the media. People stop being cattle because of it.
Also, if you have ever played Q3 CPMA or Richard Burns Rally (on a force feedback wheel) for a couple of hours, you’ll know that you get hot and sweat like a pig from the stress. (The heat is proof for the burning of energy.)
Also a very important thing to note is, that not being fat does not mean being healthy. It can mean you are simply so thing because you’re too lazy to even eat. It’s obvious that that will kill you in the long run, or case bad long-term diseases. Just like bad food. The lack of sports is still much bigger than with e.g. an outdoor sport.
But hey, I’m working on affordable outdoor computer games that require movement right now! Wish me luck! :)
Good luck with that. It’s far from over. Our government (which is NOT the EU) still is very much for a totalitarian surveillance state. And the “terrorists” still are the excuse deus ex machina of law.
And: Are they flying, those monkey?
Lol. A Mac user wouldn’t even know what a Riemann zeta function is, if you beat it into him 24 hours a day for 3 years straight.
Try “liberal arts major”.
If you write, you don’t listen. If you listen, you don’t write. Simple as that.
I HATED “teachers” who gave us the homework of just copying book pages by hand to “learn” them. I couldn’t remember a word of what was written on them.
I specifically avoided taking any notes, as much as possible. And only wrote down formulas, or basic laws. (In a graph, like a mind map, but without the stupid limitations.)
If I didn’t understand everything, I pressed pause, and went back a minute.
Oh, did I mention, that the lectures themselves were only half of where the learning took place, and watching it on video a second time at home filled in the blanks that made the whole lecture useful and stick in the first place?
It’s delusional. That’s why it’s called “faith”, and not “knowledge”. :)
Well I was on BASIC too. GWBASIC to be exact! On a Commodore PC 10 (i8088!)
But Pascal was my antidote.
Then I learned Java. And...oh horrors... PHP. The BASIC of these days.
And Haskell is my definite final antidote right now.
That’s a part of the beauty of Haskell. Your low level is called “math”. :)
I wish more people would know exactly what happens behind those high level constructs and libraries.
Well, as my physics teacher once said: You can use the calculator, as soon as you know how to do it by hand, and understand why you are doing what you are doing.
I instantly realized that you can generalize this to pretty much everything. Especially using computers in general.
And since I love to understand things anyway, that’s what I do. :)
xkcd? What’s that?
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