Having a single thread will kill your GUI performance the moment you do anything complex.
I know that this is a generalization, but users do not like an unresponsive GUI. Yet, if there's only one thread, the same thread that's running the GUI is doing any calculations and other operations that are going on.
Why does there need to be a precedent? The DMCA as written already exempts ISPs as long as they remove content when it is identified by the copyright holder.
See Title 17 Section 512 (c), particularly subsections (1), which outlines when an ISP can not be held liable, and (3), which outlines the steps that a content producer must take to notify the ISP for removal.
At the risk of repeating myself, since when did "Role Playing" come to mean "leveling and stats". Do yourself a favor and play a REAL Role Playing game without levels. RPG only came to mean "level and stats" because making a real RPG is hard and it is a hell of a lot easier to copy a D&D combat and advancement system almost verbatim then develop a RPG.
It came to mean that when the GM became a computer.
OK, the way I read this article, the author wants an MMORPG (Pages 2-4 focus exclusively on MMORPG elements) without the MMO (Page 4, Solution 3 shows this the most) or RPG (Pages 2-5 compare the RPG elements mentioned above primarily with single/limited-player FPS games).
I have a tip for the author: If you don't like that kind of game, don't play them. No, I'm serious. Go play Counterstrike Source, Gears of War, or Diablo 2. You can even play Counterstrike Source or Diablo 2 online with a limited number of players! That seems to be the kind of game you want, as you keep referring back to them.
I can't believe that not one person who has replied has said this yet:
Try playing an MMO that isn't an MMORPG. Not surprisingly, MMORPGs have RPG elements, such as leveling and stats. That's why they're called MMORPGs.
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From what I undersatnd, (gold) miners are a nuisance in WoW. In EVE, mining is just another role. People building ships NEED people to mine ore.
Gold farmers have to do with gold currency, not gold mining. In WoW, mining is just another profession, although certain elements (Silver, Gold, True Silver, etc...) are rarer than others (Copper, Tin, Iron, Mithril, etc...).
Gold farmers (AKA Real Money Traders (RMT)) are people who try to earn a lot of in-game money, usually by auctioning items for more than they are actually worth, then try to sell that money for real money in violation of a game's rules.
Eclipse and NetBeans are both written in Java, albeit with different GUI toolkits. Eclipse uses SWT, while NetBeans uses Swing.
You'd think that Eclipse would be faster due to SWT interfacing with the native widget set, but I guess this shows that GUI speed isn't everything. As a side note, Azureus also uses SWT.
Uninstalling Open Office on Windows requires you to keep the temporary files it creates when you install it. Unfortunately, it puts these files on the installing user (Administrator)'s desktop by default... so of course, being a person who hates a cluttered desktop, I deleted them.
So, I can't use the OO.o uninstaller. Since I can't download OO.o 2.0.x from the official site any more, I now have to find somewhere to download it.
Did I mention that this also prevents me from installing OO.o 2.1.0 because it tries to uninstall the current version before installing the new one, cancelling the installation when the uninstaller fails to uninstall because it can't find the old installation files I've since deleted?
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All around the world, CDs are being inserted into movie players to play the latest movie rentals....
But wait, DDS tapes aren't compatible with DAT players....
But wait, DVD discs aren't compatible with CD players....
Yes, I agree... something as important as this can't be modeled after a protocol in which netsplits are a way of life.
Yes, because IE runs so well on Gentoo Linux.
Now I'm picturing a Duke Fortress mode. :D
Nah, we'll probably see:
Dukeperative
Dukematch
Team Dukematch
Dukeslaught
Dukesault
Capture the Duke
Double Dukination
Last Duke Standing
Dukevasion
(Dukeified from the UT 2K4 games mode list)
Well, I've had the experience of Firefox using > 700MB of RAM doing this without me having changed any settings, so yes, it's a problem.
As a programmer, I'm amused by you using floating point to store whole numbers.
The oddities of floating point math is also why many languages now have a decimal data type or library, emulating decimals using integer math.
IBM has one for C and C++.
You might want to wait until they fix the cache memory leak er... usage feature if they haven't already.
See the third comment down in that thread.
Having a single thread will kill your GUI performance the moment you do anything complex.
I know that this is a generalization, but users do not like an unresponsive GUI. Yet, if there's only one thread, the same thread that's running the GUI is doing any calculations and other operations that are going on.
I'm willing to bet we see a repeat of Eldred vs Ashcroft every time they do.
It's inevitable that the Eldreds of the world win eventually.
To start, IANAL.
Why does there need to be a precedent? The DMCA as written already exempts ISPs as long as they remove content when it is identified by the copyright holder.
See Title 17 Section 512 (c), particularly subsections (1), which outlines when an ISP can not be held liable, and (3), which outlines the steps that a content producer must take to notify the ISP for removal.
Team Fortress 2 still isn't out? I remember seeing an advertisement for it in the original Half-Life's box.
What'd they do, outsource it to 3D Realms?
You must be new here.
(Every day is a slow news day to certain
It came to mean that when the GM became a computer.
OK, the way I read this article, the author wants an MMORPG (Pages 2-4 focus exclusively on MMORPG elements) without the MMO (Page 4, Solution 3 shows this the most) or RPG (Pages 2-5 compare the RPG elements mentioned above primarily with single/limited-player FPS games).
I have a tip for the author: If you don't like that kind of game, don't play them. No, I'm serious. Go play Counterstrike Source, Gears of War, or Diablo 2. You can even play Counterstrike Source or Diablo 2 online with a limited number of players! That seems to be the kind of game you want, as you keep referring back to them.
D'oh, I should have also mentioned A Tale in the Desert, although it's completely monster free... or it was when they were still on version 2.
To a certain extent, you just described Star Wars Galaxies.
Which isn't really doing that hot at the moment.
I can't believe that not one person who has replied has said this yet:
Try playing an MMO that isn't an MMORPG. Not surprisingly, MMORPGs have RPG elements, such as leveling and stats. That's why they're called MMORPGs.
Gold farmers have to do with gold currency, not gold mining. In WoW, mining is just another profession, although certain elements (Silver, Gold, True Silver, etc...) are rarer than others (Copper, Tin, Iron, Mithril, etc...).
Gold farmers (AKA Real Money Traders (RMT)) are people who try to earn a lot of in-game money, usually by auctioning items for more than they are actually worth, then try to sell that money for real money in violation of a game's rules.
I actually realized that after I posted my comment, but since /. doesn't let you delete or edit them once you make them, it was too late then.
/. posts right after waking up from a nap.
Note to self: Don't make
You are aware that Vancouver is in British Columbia, Canada, right?
Not if you impeach Cheney at the same time.
In that case, we get... Nancy Pelosi.
Eclipse and NetBeans are both written in Java, albeit with different GUI toolkits. Eclipse uses SWT, while NetBeans uses Swing.
You'd think that Eclipse would be faster due to SWT interfacing with the native widget set, but I guess this shows that GUI speed isn't everything. As a side note, Azureus also uses SWT.
Uninstalling Open Office on Windows requires you to keep the temporary files it creates when you install it. Unfortunately, it puts these files on the installing user (Administrator)'s desktop by default... so of course, being a person who hates a cluttered desktop, I deleted them.
So, I can't use the OO.o uninstaller. Since I can't download OO.o 2.0.x from the official site any more, I now have to find somewhere to download it.
Did I mention that this also prevents me from installing OO.o 2.1.0 because it tries to uninstall the current version before installing the new one, cancelling the installation when the uninstaller fails to uninstall because it can't find the old installation files I've since deleted?
I know this was a joke, but why would you run the X11 version of ScummVM when there's a native OSX version?
For instance, WPA/WPA2 support would be nice.