Or maybe you're just reading Asimov - that's a cheer-up guy.
* in fact, I was never confortable with the prospect of human race becoming a huge hive-mind being. It seems to be a laitmotif in classic sci-fi (Foundation, 2001, Dune).
It's easier to extend the second solution, though. Depending on how the class is instantiated inside the factory (i.e., something like reflection), you doesn't even need to change the original code, but add another library to the path.
I think what you're calling not hardcoded it's what I call configurable
It's interesting that they're using 62+2 speakers and we have just 2 audio inputs - left and right ear.
Shouldn't two speakers be enough to reproduce any audible sensation?
As a matter of fact, I really enjoyed how controllers were used in Mario Galaxy - it used the nunchuk+wiimote setup, and feels like a regular controller, except that you sometimes point at the screen or shake the wiimote.
My point is, Mario Galaxy didn't overused the wii controllers - instead, it used a traditional setup with some of the new features. And it was a good choice, in my opinion. By the way, holding the nunchuk and the wiimote feels much more confortable than a sixaxis - of course, you don't have six axis, but it gets the job done for nintendo games.
Since 2008, they doesn't seem to know how to use wii controls properly. I haven't seen games really taking advantage of wiimote. Maybe it's a case of an awesome tech that nobody knows what to do with it.
and my also still working TK-90X (the shamelessly ripped brazilian clone of the Spectrum).
I wouldn't use the word shamelessly; AFAIK both the TK90x board and its ROM was different from the Spectrum. The board relied heavily on a custom chip that comprised the ULA and other functions as well; the ROM contained BASIC messages in portuguese (and in some models, spanish) and three different character sets (or Used Defined Graphics UDG): the standard (UDG-0), the "latin" (with á, ã, ç among other letters) (UDG-1) and the "really" user defined set, UDG-2. A new basic command, called UDG, provided a tool for editing this characters!
And many other differences which required that most games from the original speccy needed some tinkering to get to work on the TK90x.
I remember just coding the whole evening and using the cassete recorder to play some music while not loading/saving anything. Oh, how many of my stepfather tapes I ruined by saving programs in it by mistake!
Personally I think the keycodes was kind of elegant. It meant less syntax errors, simplified parsing and meant the program occupied less space in memory.
What I really liked about it is that all BASIC programming commands are available on the machine itself; so I just kept wondering what PUT# and GET# commands would do, as the manual for the Brazilian TK-90X won't give details and we never got the microdrive here.
And I think it was kind of cool to have that keyboard with so many stuff written in it, for me as a kid.
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"Informative"... that's funny. How do I mod a moderation?
Is the distribution curve simmetric?
Or maybe you're just reading Asimov - that's a cheer-up guy.
* in fact, I was never confortable with the prospect of human race becoming a huge hive-mind being. It seems to be a laitmotif in classic sci-fi (Foundation, 2001, Dune).
*4000 years
It's easier to extend the second solution, though. Depending on how the class is instantiated inside the factory (i.e., something like reflection), you doesn't even need to change the original code, but add another library to the path.
I think what you're calling not hardcoded it's what I call configurable
It's a great pixel we can see over there.
For instance of a "hardcoded" rule, thinking of web software, I would mention evaluating taxes in the middle of your controller like this
Tax evaluation is probably something that is going to be used in several places in a software, so the example above ensures doom in the future.
The non-hardcoding solution here, as I see, is something like
$TaxFactory = new TaxFactory( $country ); $taxes = $TaxFactory->evaluate( $total, ... );
Unless the referred files are stored in the network (NFS home, or remote profile).
From the FA:
At home, only having to run one cable to the wall might be nice, and being able to grab some juice from any friend
That would made you lose some friends, and make others quickly.
ITS A TRAP!
It's interesting that they're using 62+2 speakers and we have just 2 audio inputs - left and right ear.
Shouldn't two speakers be enough to reproduce any audible sensation?
Nobody's evil until they got really rich.
As a matter of fact, I really enjoyed how controllers were used in Mario Galaxy - it used the nunchuk+wiimote setup, and feels like a regular controller, except that you sometimes point at the screen or shake the wiimote.
My point is, Mario Galaxy didn't overused the wii controllers - instead, it used a traditional setup with some of the new features. And it was a good choice, in my opinion. By the way, holding the nunchuk and the wiimote feels much more confortable than a sixaxis - of course, you don't have six axis, but it gets the job done for nintendo games.
Since 2008, they doesn't seem to know how to use wii controls properly. I haven't seen games really taking advantage of wiimote. Maybe it's a case of an awesome tech that nobody knows what to do with it.
At some point the fact that the earth is round was considered false and heretic by the church. Let's about that again talk in 400 years.
I predict that, sometime in the future, some of your storage device will fail.
When I was a kid, my stepfather was concerned that I spent too much time with my speccy48 clone, so I was limited to use it for one hour per day.
What I did? I started to write my programs on paper, and enjoy the most of my "timeshare". That raised my coding level a lot.
But still I won't thank him.
Can it turn Mc Hammer into a touch surface?
What you mean, chocolate rations were never so big before!
An accounting and liar CEO - that's gonna work.
Not a single mod point was given.
"my job here is done"
14 billionth of seconds? Sure it wasn't 15? or 50?
I don't have access to the FA, but I wonder what is the uncertainty of this measure.
and my also still working TK-90X (the shamelessly ripped brazilian clone of the Spectrum).
I wouldn't use the word shamelessly; AFAIK both the TK90x board and its ROM was different from the Spectrum. The board relied heavily on a custom chip that comprised the ULA and other functions as well; the ROM contained BASIC messages in portuguese (and in some models, spanish) and three different character sets (or Used Defined Graphics UDG): the standard (UDG-0), the "latin" (with á, ã, ç among other letters) (UDG-1) and the "really" user defined set, UDG-2. A new basic command, called UDG, provided a tool for editing this characters!
And many other differences which required that most games from the original speccy needed some tinkering to get to work on the TK90x.
I remember just coding the whole evening and using the cassete recorder to play some music while not loading/saving anything. Oh, how many of my stepfather tapes I ruined by saving programs in it by mistake!
Personally I think the keycodes was kind of elegant. It meant less syntax errors, simplified parsing and meant the program occupied less space in memory.
What I really liked about it is that all BASIC programming commands are available on the machine itself; so I just kept wondering what PUT# and GET# commands would do, as the manual for the Brazilian TK-90X won't give details and we never got the microdrive here.
And I think it was kind of cool to have that keyboard with so many stuff written in it, for me as a kid.
*harakiri