I've had 2 MacBook Pros (with the brushed finish), and the tingling, electric sensation has happened with both of them when using the unearthed 2-prong adapter.
When plugged in with the longer, 3-prong earthed cable, its not a problem.
This is in Australia (240V as opposed to 110V in the US), so I don't know if that makes it more noticeable or not. I'm guessing not, as the adapter will step the voltage down to the same in both cases.
Why can't Blizzard just implement some bayesian style filtering for the in game whispers. Email spam filtering works pretty well. It's really the same thing.
(Even just limit the number of whispers lvl 1 characters created in the last 5 minutes can send...)
The 80/20 rule messes up the reality of using components (whether it's EJB/SOA/latest cool thing). It takes 20% of the time to do the easy 80% of the work. Then 80% of the time to do the remaining hard 20%. Components give you the easy 80%. Which you could already do pretty quickly anyway, so you're really not gaining much.
Then you're still left with the remaining hard work, which probably got harder and will take longer due to the overhead of your component framework and its mess of configuration.
And that is totally ignoring the fact that it's very hard to find components to reuse anyway.
One of the problems with these kinds of games already, is that public servers tend to get unbalanced quickly. The players on the winning team keep playing, and the players on the losing team quit. New players join, and usually get put on the losing team because they have fewer numbers.
This is bad enough with games that run for 30 minutes - who is going to want to play for 10 hours when it's obvious at hour 2 that you're going to get spanked badly?
Bought a tiny home firewall online. About 15cm x 10cm x 3cm (6in x 4in x 1in for the metrically impaired).
First the firewall was bubble wrapped. OK. Then the bubble wrap had a cardboard support. Fine. Then the OEM box box - this is where it starts to get crazy. That was easily 40cm x 20cm x 10cm. It was shrink wrapped, and then wrapped in another layour of bubble wrap by the reseller, and packed with scrunched up newspaper. It was then put in another box which must have been about 60cm x 40cm x 20cm. All of which was taped up and put inside a courier bag.
Now I'm not keen on damaged mail order goods, but that is just getting silly.
Slow, ugly GUI code can be written with any toolkit, likewise nice, fast code can as well. I've worked on several projects with fast, good looking Swing GUIs, so it is possible. In addition, the flexibility that the framework allows is great.
The problem with Swing isn't the framework itself, but that Sun is terrible at leading by example. There are no "best practices" for developing Swing apps. And the example code that is given usually shows the worst way to do something (Main classes extending JFrame and implementing ActionListener with a several hundred line actionPerformed() containing a mess of if-else code for handling events on various components).
As a result, most developers fumble about in the dark. A few figure out good ways to do things and produce great Swing apps, most don't and produce something average that adds to the whole "Java and Swing are slow and ugly" myth.
I work at a software development firm in Melbourne, Australia. We've had a lot of new work recently and have had to recruit extra developers. It has been very hard to find competant staff. Sure, there are a lot of wannabe grads and deadwood who have drifted through a few years experience, but it's slim pickings in general.
Go down to the staff room/coffee room/whatever and steal the cushions off all the chairs.
Then go back to your cubicle and layer them till you get the desired effect. You could also pile them up by the cubicle entrance and point a toy gun out when ever anyone approaches (especially your boss).
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I've had 2 MacBook Pros (with the brushed finish), and the tingling, electric sensation has happened with both of them when using the unearthed 2-prong adapter.
When plugged in with the longer, 3-prong earthed cable, its not a problem.
This is in Australia (240V as opposed to 110V in the US), so I don't know if that makes it more noticeable or not. I'm guessing not, as the adapter will step the voltage down to the same in both cases.
Why can't Blizzard just implement some bayesian style filtering for the in game whispers. Email spam filtering works pretty well. It's really the same thing.
(Even just limit the number of whispers lvl 1 characters created in the last 5 minutes can send...)
Wouldn't it be more relevant under http://politics.slashdot.org/ ?
The 80/20 rule messes up the reality of using components (whether it's EJB/SOA/latest cool thing). It takes 20% of the time to do the easy 80% of the work. Then 80% of the time to do the remaining hard 20%. Components give you the easy 80%. Which you could already do pretty quickly anyway, so you're really not gaining much.
Then you're still left with the remaining hard work, which probably got harder and will take longer due to the overhead of your component framework and its mess of configuration.
And that is totally ignoring the fact that it's very hard to find components to reuse anyway.
Dormant Gamers - Finally! A vague meaningless stereotype that actually fits me!
One of the problems with these kinds of games already, is that public servers tend to get unbalanced quickly. The players on the winning team keep playing, and the players on the losing team quit. New players join, and usually get put on the losing team because they have fewer numbers.
This is bad enough with games that run for 30 minutes - who is going to want to play for 10 hours when it's obvious at hour 2 that you're going to get spanked badly?
Bought a tiny home firewall online. About 15cm x 10cm x 3cm (6in x 4in x 1in for the metrically impaired).
First the firewall was bubble wrapped. OK. Then the bubble wrap had a cardboard support. Fine. Then the OEM box box - this is where it starts to get crazy. That was easily 40cm x 20cm x 10cm. It was shrink wrapped, and then wrapped in another layour of bubble wrap by the reseller, and packed with scrunched up newspaper. It was then put in another box which must have been about 60cm x 40cm x 20cm. All of which was taped up and put inside a courier bag.
Now I'm not keen on damaged mail order goods, but that is just getting silly.
Slow, ugly GUI code can be written with any toolkit, likewise nice, fast code can as well. I've worked on several projects with fast, good looking Swing GUIs, so it is possible. In addition, the flexibility that the framework allows is great.
The problem with Swing isn't the framework itself, but that Sun is terrible at leading by example. There are no "best practices" for developing Swing apps. And the example code that is given usually shows the worst way to do something (Main classes extending JFrame and implementing ActionListener with a several hundred line actionPerformed() containing a mess of if-else code for handling events on various components).
As a result, most developers fumble about in the dark. A few figure out good ways to do things and produce great Swing apps, most don't and produce something average that adds to the whole "Java and Swing are slow and ugly" myth.
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I work at a software development firm in Melbourne, Australia. We've had a lot of new work recently and have had to recruit extra developers. It has been very hard to find competant staff. Sure, there are a lot of wannabe grads and deadwood who have drifted through a few years experience, but it's slim pickings in general.
REPULSORLIFTS!!
Finally, I can bullseye womp rats in beggar's canyon.
Ahh yes. Heading into another NZ summer. Expect 10 minute sun burn times and ever increasing skin cancer.
Thanks to my pasty white Irish ancestry and the wonderful pollution from US & Europe.
Go down to the staff room/coffee room/whatever and steal the cushions off all the chairs.
Then go back to your cubicle and layer them till you get the desired effect. You could also pile them up by the cubicle entrance and point a toy gun out when ever anyone approaches (especially your boss).
; )
How long before all that "anti-criminal" email snooping turns into just another way that the NZ government serves its overseas masters.
Can anyone say Echelon?
Even if this wasn't the case, it's not as if the New Zealand police are really interested in anything remotely democratic.
"Ohh those students are having a peaceful protest at parliament. Lets arrest 71 of them and then abuse their statutory rights some more."