I'm sorry, I assumed he was referring to the x86 platform, which obviates many of your points. Then, I was referring to the initial creation of the language. If Java doesn't exist, you can't make it in itself. The first Java compiler was written in C most likely. I didn't know about gcj, so my fault there. And your last comment and subject line make you a cock. If you ever said that to my face you would be eating your own endtrails in a sort of "comically macabe" way
Uh, you can't run bytecode on a raw machine. C and Assembler are what make the computer world run. You can't make Java in Java. C turns directly into executable binary (or object files then linked into executables). Java cannot. I suppose that if you were insane enough, you could make a bytecode to opcode converter, but then you lose 100% of the point of the langauge, probably a lot of the efficiency, and at that point you may as well use C.
I hated MVS. I hated COBOL. I hated ASSIST. I most DEFINITELY hated JCL. All due to the restrictions from those damn virtual punch cards. Column 8 my ass.
Have you performed any sort of actual audited test on your theory? I think you're just some knee-jerker who, since it isn't verified one way or the other, must believe it's not true. Perhaps it isn't, but what if it is? Then you're feeding me bullshit based off of what you believe, because you cannot and won't ever know. Good application of scientific theory there. Perhaps the inaccuracies you mention are due to people who try to use it to make money and don't know what the fuck they are talking about. If I believed everything people say then I'd be dumb, like you seem to be. Why exactly are you so harsh in your post anyhow? Did I hurt your feelings somehow? How useless are you anyhow?
I realize this was in jest, but it's not like it obviates any of that, it just introduces a new variable. The way astrology works is by finding out which "house" each major intra-solar celestial body was in during the exact time of your birth, and using that data to compile a birth chart. Using this chart, by which each house has rules for each planet, you can see what forces are supposedly controlling you and your future. Now, of course that seems like hogwash, and maybe it is, but it is pretty accurate, and it is a lot more complex than "What's your sign?" I haven't done the math but there's probably over a thousand different outcomes. This just adds a few more I suppose, and the rules that this new "planet" governs will probably have to be figured out.
You don't understand the point of it. The whole point is so that Americans have more disposible income to buy shit. Then the companies that get the money from the populace are able to hire more workers, and manufacture more goods, hence selling more goods, then hire more workers. The more employed Americans, the better. Now, morons that banked that money right away sort of undid the whole good idea it was. Then they make fun of Bush. Smart people.
Really, they need a good solid story before they ever start initial development. If it won't make a good book, it probably won't make a good game. People like intrigue, complex webs of characters, simple interfaces, robust rules, and above all, envelopment... If your game can't suck people in, you failed. FF8... sucked, didn't ever come close to getting my attention. Too complex and the story seemed sloppy. FF6... hell yeah. That game was amazing.
This obviously is glossing over the Quake/Doom style shooters. However, how many people play Quake 3, and how many people play Halflife? Quake 3, fun, innovative technologically, and simple... with no story. It ran out of steam, you could complete it in an hour if you are good and then discard it. Maybe enjoy multiplayer until you notice all the people just use the rail gun. Halflife, fun, innovative technologically, simple with a great story. Takes the better part of 3 days to complete if you don't sleep. Then you can play multiplayer as well, so for the same price, you can have a good single player experience, and a good multiplayer experience. There is something to be said for high speed PvP FPS games, but if they have a good story to back them up, they are usually more revered.
Another type I'm not talking about are simple games like arkanoid. Awesome game, arkanoid, I still play it from time to time, but it's not something that takes a dedicated team of developers to create. If any one developer can't make that game in a trivial amount of time, they shouldn't be developing anyways. So, they don't count.
And you are most likely right about MM games becoming the "holy grail" of computer gaming. But they still need good stories, good rules and simple interfaces.
Yeah, technology has it's bad purposes, and is sometimes invented specifically for bad purposes, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't press on. As technology advances, perhaps we will re-discover our own sort of modern techno-Darwinism, where the selfish and cruel will die off because no matter how they try, technology will always defeat them.
And I, personally, am so mind-bendingly awe inspired by that image, it's too bad I don't have the resources to get my ass up there. I really hope that I get an oppportunity to witness a sight like that with my own two eyes. Seeing earth from over 50 million kilometers away... amazing.
What they used to do is put custom DSP chips in the ROM cartridges, which was possibly not meant to stop piracy, but that seemed to be a side-effect. It basically forced the emulator makers to emulate the on ROM DSP. I think that was the problem for a while with certain Capcom games in MAME, although don't quote me on that.
when you can have like 10,000 little ass robot ants make you a modular carbon-nanotube house in a day, using swarm AI. I look forward to the practical applications of it. Should be the end of a lot of building problems (and probably the beginning of some new ones, but as long as Microsoft doesn't design the ants I think civilization willl be fine;) )
Flamebait my ass, he has a great point! Obviously, the rich are trying to hang onto their obselete methods to keep themselves rich while performing the least amount of work possible. This form of invention would keep the money flowing freely instead of stockpiling it to the guy who came up with the best patent first.
Now I'm no EE or Physics major, but couldn't they do some fancy trick where the rover statically charges the surface particles on the panels one way (arbitrarily, we can say negative, so the panel would have a positive charge) then reverse polarity (from positive to negative) to repel them right off?
The only problem with that is the sheer amount of waste created. If I bought a new printer every time it ran out of ink, I'd have thrown away 40-50 printers. That's a lot of landfill space. I'd rather pay $300-$500 for a nice sturdy printer with reasonably priced cartridges that will last a decade than $100 for a cheap disposable one that won't ever see 4 seasons. Not only will I have to go to the store less, but I know that in some small way, I'm helping produce less garbage.
There is/was a computer science professor at UIUC who decided to figure out how they encoded the student's SSN into their College ID. Then he open sourced the tool;).
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You can remagnetize a carelessly discarded card. ALWAYS cut your discarded credit cards. Use it at a shop that is lax on security (why do you think some clerks ask for photo ID and are supposed to type in the last 4 digits of the CC #?). However, this wouldn't even need that. It comes with a "chameleon" card that can change its number. Use that and you're set.
Wow, I have a working AMD 386/40. Yet I have a score of dead Intel 286/386/486's. I just evened out your "statistics". Not to mention the 5th gen and above x86 class processors I have.
I bought a book back in the day (DOS 6.22 was still very big but Win95 had just come out), on C++ Games Programming by Al Stevens and Stan Trujillo (from Dr Dobbs). It came with a CD containing various game creation tools. It was supposed to contain POVRay as a rendering tool, but according to the text, they had to drop POVRay from the CD because of a distribution deal with a different publishing house, I believe. Maybe the same problem here? Or maybe even POVRay doesn't want problems like that any longer so they don't allow distribution except through their methods? I haven't seen the website in a while, and I usually have little concern for the legal mumbo jumbo that adorns licensing agreements, so I may be wrong there.
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I'm sorry, I assumed he was referring to the x86 platform, which obviates many of your points. Then, I was referring to the initial creation of the language. If Java doesn't exist, you can't make it in itself. The first Java compiler was written in C most likely. I didn't know about gcj, so my fault there. And your last comment and subject line make you a cock. If you ever said that to my face you would be eating your own endtrails in a sort of "comically macabe" way
Uh, you can't run bytecode on a raw machine. C and Assembler are what make the computer world run. You can't make Java in Java. C turns directly into executable binary (or object files then linked into executables). Java cannot. I suppose that if you were insane enough, you could make a bytecode to opcode converter, but then you lose 100% of the point of the langauge, probably a lot of the efficiency, and at that point you may as well use C.
I hated MVS. I hated COBOL. I hated ASSIST. I most DEFINITELY hated JCL. All due to the restrictions from those damn virtual punch cards. Column 8 my ass.
Have you performed any sort of actual audited test on your theory? I think you're just some knee-jerker who, since it isn't verified one way or the other, must believe it's not true.
Perhaps it isn't, but what if it is? Then you're feeding me bullshit based off of what you believe, because you cannot and won't ever know. Good application of scientific theory there. Perhaps the inaccuracies you mention are due to people who try to use it to make money and don't know what the fuck they are talking about. If I believed everything people say then I'd be dumb, like you seem to be. Why exactly are you so harsh in your post anyhow? Did I hurt your feelings somehow? How useless are you anyhow?
Gotcha. Yeah, I don't buy into the tree of life matching with planets. Doesn't make sense.
I realize this was in jest, but it's not like it obviates any of that, it just introduces a new variable. The way astrology works is by finding out which "house" each major intra-solar celestial body was in during the exact time of your birth, and using that data to compile a birth chart. Using this chart, by which each house has rules for each planet, you can see what forces are supposedly controlling you and your future. Now, of course that seems like hogwash, and maybe it is, but it is pretty accurate, and it is a lot more complex than "What's your sign?" I haven't done the math but there's probably over a thousand different outcomes. This just adds a few more I suppose, and the rules that this new "planet" governs will probably have to be figured out.
You are correct... That was sorta my round about point. People just didn't spend it and the plan disintegrated.
Where'd the 10K go then? Did you upgrade your machinery? Did you increase your productivity or did you bank it?
You don't understand the point of it. The whole point is so that Americans have more disposible income to buy shit. Then the companies that get the money from the populace are able to hire more workers, and manufacture more goods, hence selling more goods, then hire more workers. The more employed Americans, the better. Now, morons that banked that money right away sort of undid the whole good idea it was. Then they make fun of Bush. Smart people.
Really, they need a good solid story before they ever start initial development. If it won't make a good book, it probably won't make a good game. People like intrigue, complex webs of characters, simple interfaces, robust rules, and above all, envelopment... If your game can't suck people in, you failed. FF8... sucked, didn't ever come close to getting my attention. Too complex and the story seemed sloppy. FF6... hell yeah. That game was amazing.
This obviously is glossing over the Quake/Doom style shooters. However, how many people play Quake 3, and how many people play Halflife? Quake 3, fun, innovative technologically, and simple... with no story. It ran out of steam, you could complete it in an hour if you are good and then discard it. Maybe enjoy multiplayer until you notice all the people just use the rail gun. Halflife, fun, innovative technologically, simple with a great story. Takes the better part of 3 days to complete if you don't sleep. Then you can play multiplayer as well, so for the same price, you can have a good single player experience, and a good multiplayer experience. There is something to be said for high speed PvP FPS games, but if they have a good story to back them up, they are usually more revered.
Another type I'm not talking about are simple games like arkanoid. Awesome game, arkanoid, I still play it from time to time, but it's not something that takes a dedicated team of developers to create. If any one developer can't make that game in a trivial amount of time, they shouldn't be developing anyways. So, they don't count.
And you are most likely right about MM games becoming the "holy grail" of computer gaming. But they still need good stories, good rules and simple interfaces.
Yeah, technology has it's bad purposes, and is sometimes invented specifically for bad purposes, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't press on. As technology advances, perhaps we will re-discover our own sort of modern techno-Darwinism, where the selfish and cruel will die off because no matter how they try, technology will always defeat them.
And I, personally, am so mind-bendingly awe inspired by that image, it's too bad I don't have the resources to get my ass up there. I really hope that I get an oppportunity to witness a sight like that with my own two eyes. Seeing earth from over 50 million kilometers away... amazing.
What they used to do is put custom DSP chips in the ROM cartridges, which was possibly not meant to stop piracy, but that seemed to be a side-effect. It basically forced the emulator makers to emulate the on ROM DSP. I think that was the problem for a while with certain Capcom games in MAME, although don't quote me on that.
when you can have like 10,000 little ass robot ants make you a modular carbon-nanotube house in a day, using swarm AI. I look forward to the practical applications of it. Should be the end of a lot of building problems (and probably the beginning of some new ones, but as long as Microsoft doesn't design the ants I think civilization willl be fine ;) )
Wow, angry much?
Every day, I say to myself in a fit of rage, "I'm glad I didn't pay for Windows"...
Flamebait my ass, he has a great point! Obviously, the rich are trying to hang onto their obselete methods to keep themselves rich while performing the least amount of work possible. This form of invention would keep the money flowing freely instead of stockpiling it to the guy who came up with the best patent first.
Now I'm no EE or Physics major, but couldn't they do some fancy trick where the rover statically charges the surface particles on the panels one way (arbitrarily, we can say negative, so the panel would have a positive charge) then reverse polarity (from positive to negative) to repel them right off?
The only problem with that is the sheer amount of waste created. If I bought a new printer every time it ran out of ink, I'd have thrown away 40-50 printers. That's a lot of landfill space. I'd rather pay $300-$500 for a nice sturdy printer with reasonably priced cartridges that will last a decade than $100 for a cheap disposable one that won't ever see 4 seasons. Not only will I have to go to the store less, but I know that in some small way, I'm helping produce less garbage.
There is/was a computer science professor at UIUC who decided to figure out how they encoded the student's SSN into their College ID. Then he open sourced the tool ;).
You can remagnetize a carelessly discarded card. ALWAYS cut your discarded credit cards. Use it at a shop that is lax on security (why do you think some clerks ask for photo ID and are supposed to type in the last 4 digits of the CC #?). However, this wouldn't even need that. It comes with a "chameleon" card that can change its number. Use that and you're set.
Everytime an engineer masturbates, a home mechanic dies.
...is my reason for looking into gravedigging. Seriously.
Wow, I have a working AMD 386/40. Yet I have a score of dead Intel 286/386/486's. I just evened out your "statistics". Not to mention the 5th gen and above x86 class processors I have.
I bought a book back in the day (DOS 6.22 was still very big but Win95 had just come out), on C++ Games Programming by Al Stevens and Stan Trujillo (from Dr Dobbs). It came with a CD containing various game creation tools. It was supposed to contain POVRay as a rendering tool, but according to the text, they had to drop POVRay from the CD because of a distribution deal with a different publishing house, I believe. Maybe the same problem here? Or maybe even POVRay doesn't want problems like that any longer so they don't allow distribution except through their methods? I haven't seen the website in a while, and I usually have little concern for the legal mumbo jumbo that adorns licensing agreements, so I may be wrong there.