For example, Halo follows the Doom model of needing to know where the weapons are.
In CSS, you buy weapon upgrades.
In CSS Gun Game and Reverse Gun Game, you change weapons when you get kills. Reverse gun game starts you with the best weapons and they get worse as you progress farther.
In TF2, you are restricted to weapons based on your class and have them when the match begins. Knowing the map layout is still important. Depending on your class, knowing the location of ammo boxes is exceedingly important. It's an absolute must for Engineers and Spies equipped with the Invisibility Watch cloaking device, and to a lesser extent, Spies equipped with the Dead Ringer cloaking device.
It's like people who go 45 MPH in the left lane on a 55 MPH road. Yeah, that's definitely what the laws say you can do, but most people don't, and the presence of a vehicle going a different speed from the flow of traffic creates danger and stress that shouldn't be there. Ignoring custom in favor of only the rules in print is antisocial behavior.
and this
In terms of the game, the people who play City of Heroes have decided as a community what kind of behavior is acceptable. You only get to go PVP with people who have consented, and the arena is a place for people on other sides of the Heroes / Villains game split to be able to chat otherwise. It's a like a dance club where someone has decided that just because he's a man and you're a woman that he gets to bump and grind against you even if you're not interested. ("That's what dance clubs are for! Why is everyone ganging up on poor little me?")
are arguing opposite sides. The developers are the ones who set the speed limits/laws, and not surprisingly, entering a Player vs. Player arena is explicitly saying "I want to PvP."
With the recent problems being encountered by Windows users all across the country, people are begin to ask themselves if windows is a virus. In response to the high demand for an answer to that question a study was done and concluded the following.
1. Viruses replicate quickly. Windows does this.
2. Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so. Windows does this.
3. Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk. Windows does this.
4. Viruses are usually carried, unkown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Windows does that too.
5. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Same with Windows, yet again.
Maybe Windows really is a virus.
Nope! There is a difference!
Viruses are well supported by their authors, are frequently updated, and tend to become more sophisticated as they mature. So there! Windows is not a virus.
So, if I Google for sentences in this post, am I going to find that this is copy-pasta? I'm going to make a wild guess and say yes, since it has little to do with the post it replied to.
I've never tried to use an OODB, but from what I've heard... it ends up being a mess, with a custom query language.
Relational databases, on the other hand, are relatively easy to understand, as they just have tuples (or rows) that are related to other tuples through a specific value.
If memory serves, the spawn installs were multiplayer-only. Back then, Blizzard wanted people to play multiplayer for free.
Yes, and you also couldn't serve as a game host on a LAN game.
There's another factor for Blizzard to do this: They've gotten greedy. They've realized that multiplayer is where most of the buyers are, so now they don't want you to be able to play multiplayer without paying them first.
Correction, it's how Warcraft 2 became popular. The original Warcraft only supported 2-player LAN games (I think... maybe it was modem only), whereas Warcraft 2 support 8-player LAN games.
You know, I used to support Blizzard going after bnetd, as it's major use was to avoid Battle.Net's authentication servers.
This has changed my mind. Eliminating LAN play, which was one of the features that made Warcraft 2 popular. 8-player LAN no less!
Fast fotward 20 years, to when high-end laptops can play modern games so that you can do LAN games without having to lug desktops around... and they cut this feature? WTF, Blizzard?! I used to respect you!
I'm lucky. I waited before buying HL2... and ended up getting Orange Box instead. Heck, I haven't even played HL2 yet, despite having had it and its two episodes for over a year!
As opposed to Team Fortress 2, in which I've clocked over 300 hours.
The scary part? The Murach book is easily the better of the two books.
Extra fact: The VB.NET book is actually only half the material the authors wanted to cover. The second book (also costing > $100) is Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 2005.
Mozilla (and Netscape before it) have long implemented things that are not in standards. This isn't what causes problems. What causes problems is not supporting the standard after it is released.
Exactly, it's one of the two things that killed Netscape 4!
The other thing being IE started being bundled with Windows...
Has it not been for Firefox, Google Chrome would probably have been released years earlier and be the number two browser on the web, IE would still have been updated to compete with Chrome, and Opera would still cost money as they wouldn't be getting any money from Google.
P.S. ECMAScript is the standardized version of Javascript. The latest edition is ECMAScript 3, published in 1999.
Since then, Mozilla has released JavaScript 1.6 - 1.8.x. While other browsers may support parts of these, Firefox is the only one that implements the entire thing, seeing as they wrote it. Since it's not part of the standard, each update is a de facto "new incompatible extension" to the language.
Additionally, the DOM is a separate standard maintained by the W3C.
They didn't go out of business... they're still a division of America Online. Unfortunately, AOL failed to capitalize on anything but the netscape.com Internet Portal.
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AWT? AWT?! Has anyone used AWT in the past 10 years?
Seriously, Swing and SWT superseded AWT a looooong time ago.
GWT is newer, but specifically aimed at web apps.
It really does help if you have your 64-bit drivers downloaded in advance.
I know I did.
Then again, my home machine is an HP machine, and it had a 64-bit drivers download page.
FPS: It depends on the FPS.
For example, Halo follows the Doom model of needing to know where the weapons are.
In CSS, you buy weapon upgrades.
In CSS Gun Game and Reverse Gun Game, you change weapons when you get kills. Reverse gun game starts you with the best weapons and they get worse as you progress farther.
In TF2, you are restricted to weapons based on your class and have them when the match begins. Knowing the map layout is still important. Depending on your class, knowing the location of ammo boxes is exceedingly important. It's an absolute must for Engineers and Spies equipped with the Invisibility Watch cloaking device, and to a lesser extent, Spies equipped with the Dead Ringer cloaking device.
In theory, they already do this on the second Tuesday of every month.
However... has there ever been a Microsoft patch Tuesday that hasn't had any patches? I'm going to tentatively say "No"...
This
and this
are arguing opposite sides. The developers are the ones who set the speed limits/laws, and not surprisingly, entering a Player vs. Player arena is explicitly saying "I want to PvP."
Microsoft supports neither, so there's no point in including them. With the addition of Microsoft, you have all the major browsers covered.
Raven Software... and Valve software.
Half-Life's game engine, now known as GoldSrc, was a modified Quake 1 engine.
Of course, Valve has spent the last 10 years since then modifying it in ever newer versions of the engine now known as Source.
With the recent problems being encountered by Windows users all across the country, people are begin to ask themselves if windows is a virus. In response to the high demand for an answer to that question a study was done and concluded the following.
1. Viruses replicate quickly.
Windows does this.
2. Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so.
Windows does this.
3. Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk.
Windows does this.
4. Viruses are usually carried, unkown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems.
Windows does that too.
5. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware.
Same with Windows, yet again.
Maybe Windows really is a virus.
Nope! There is a difference!
Viruses are well supported by their authors, are frequently updated, and tend to become more sophisticated as they mature. So there! Windows is not a virus.
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Yes, and unfortunately, as far as I can tell, this is how support for the two leading hi-def formats is right now:
Chrome 2: Supports both Theora and H.264
Safari 4: Supports H.264
Firefox 3.5: Supports Theora
IE 8: Supports neither.
Congratulations, between the 4 largest browsers we've managed to have all four possibilities you can have with two booleans (2^2)!
So... cue the queue of trolls spewing bullshit about copyright being just fine as it is, blah blah blah?
So, if I Google for sentences in this post, am I going to find that this is copy-pasta? I'm going to make a wild guess and say yes, since it has little to do with the post it replied to.
I've never tried to use an OODB, but from what I've heard... it ends up being a mess, with a custom query language.
Relational databases, on the other hand, are relatively easy to understand, as they just have tuples (or rows) that are related to other tuples through a specific value.
That's because Relational Databases are an abstraction.
Heck, isn't SQLite essentially a library that uses SQL commands to store to and retrieve data from a flat file?
Yes, and you also couldn't serve as a game host on a LAN game.
There's another factor for Blizzard to do this: They've gotten greedy. They've realized that multiplayer is where most of the buyers are, so now they don't want you to be able to play multiplayer without paying them first.
Correction, it's how Warcraft 2 became popular. The original Warcraft only supported 2-player LAN games (I think... maybe it was modem only), whereas Warcraft 2 support 8-player LAN games.
s/Fast fotward 20/Fast forward 15/i
You know, I used to support Blizzard going after bnetd, as it's major use was to avoid Battle.Net's authentication servers.
This has changed my mind. Eliminating LAN play, which was one of the features that made Warcraft 2 popular. 8-player LAN no less!
Fast fotward 20 years, to when high-end laptops can play modern games so that you can do LAN games without having to lug desktops around... and they cut this feature? WTF, Blizzard?! I used to respect you!
Bzzt, sorry, I'm not buying that reasoning. If I'm on a LAN, if they have Starcraft and I don't, I can install a Spawn copy off of their CD.
$50? I thought new Xbox 360 and PS3 games were $60...
They could close all their government offices for... oh, say, 6 days to save money.
I'm lucky. I waited before buying HL2... and ended up getting Orange Box instead. Heck, I haven't even played HL2 yet, despite having had it and its two episodes for over a year!
As opposed to Team Fortress 2, in which I've clocked over 300 hours.
That reminds me of some .NET programming classes I've taken (work related).
The VB.NET book, Programming in Visual Basic.NET 2005 Edition, has an MSRP > $100. The C#.NET book, (Murach's C#), has an MSRP of $50, and everyone, publisher included, sells it for $37.
Both books have 2008 editions now.
The scary part? The Murach book is easily the better of the two books.
Extra fact: The VB.NET book is actually only half the material the authors wanted to cover. The second book (also costing > $100) is Advanced Programming Using Visual Basic 2005.
Exactly, it's one of the two things that killed Netscape 4!
The other thing being IE started being bundled with Windows...
Oh, we're pulling the "make shit up" game?
OK, my turn!
Has it not been for Firefox, Google Chrome would probably have been released years earlier and be the number two browser on the web, IE would still have been updated to compete with Chrome, and Opera would still cost money as they wouldn't be getting any money from Google.
P.S. ECMAScript is the standardized version of Javascript. The latest edition is ECMAScript 3, published in 1999.
Since then, Mozilla has released JavaScript 1.6 - 1.8.x. While other browsers may support parts of these, Firefox is the only one that implements the entire thing, seeing as they wrote it. Since it's not part of the standard, each update is a de facto "new incompatible extension" to the language.
Additionally, the DOM is a separate standard maintained by the W3C.
They didn't go out of business... they're still a division of America Online. Unfortunately, AOL failed to capitalize on anything but the netscape.com Internet Portal.