As it is now, I am whining, but about their BS deus ex 'bundling' with Gamestop.
The GameStop Deus Ex fiasco involved Square-Enix and OnLive. Valve/Steam had nothing to do with it.
Also, in case you missed it, GameStop owns one of Steam's competitors, Impulse, which was why this whole fiasco between them and OnLive happened in the first place.
Mono in the C# world is no different to OpenJDK or GCJ in the java world - they will always be second class citizens and as you put it have an uphill battle.
OpenJDK is the base for the Oracle-branded Java JDK, not a second-class citizen like you imply. On the other hand, GCJ and Kaffe have an uphill battle.
Because the tools for packaging, dependency management and building are better than anything else around.
Have to disagree here. To be fair, I haven't actually built Java packages myself, but trying to get a Java library installed (with all dependencies) is much more annoying than installing a Ruby gem.
Apache Maven was built to solve this exact problem, and it does so extremely well... even if I do hate designing projects for it.
By the time Microsoft was ready to deal with IPv4, next-generation technologies were already being developed because the sustained demand was too great. IPv6 stacks were actually being released for Windows before Microsoft's IPv4 stack was integrated - and that's even after Microsoft took most of their network code from the BSD tapes.
I'm going to have to say you're wrong.
Windows 95, released in August 1995, integrated an IPv4 stack. The first IPv6 RFC, RFC1883, was posted in December 1995. It was replaced in December 1998 with RFC2460.
I remember some problems in the past, maybe at the time of FF 3.x but which addons are breaking now because of updates? I'm using (from config:addons) Adblock Plus + Element Hiding Helper, Aviary, Better Privacy, Firebug + Firecookie, Grease Monkey, Live HTTP Headers, No Script, Remote XUL Manager, Stylish, Web Developer. They survived the update from FF4 to FF5 and to FF6. Maybe I'm just lucky, I'm using mainstream and well managed addons.
My what a short memory you have.
Firebug broke when Firefox 4 was released. And even , addons require unnecessary updates for no reason other than to update the max version number every time a new Firefox is announced, even if the plugin's functionality is unchanged.
What do you mean by endpoint? The Tor exit node is between the source and destination of the traffic. source -> routers -> exit node -> routers -> tor node ->... -> destination
The Tor exit node is a general purpose computer first (i.e. an endpoint), Tor node second. They're seized due to them being general purpose computers.
Everyone I know who has tried Linux in the past few years hasn't gone back to Windows, and were all amazed that the computer 'Just Worked'.
Hi, I'm R. Bemrose. Pleased to meet you.
I've tried several times to switch my desktop PC to Linux, and every time (across, what, 4 distros now? Redhat 9, Debian Sarge, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 10.04) there's been some issue that caused me to move back to the platform that really does "just work" even if it does require me to use the CD/DVDs given to me by the hardware manufacturers for my computer's parts.
It hasn't been the same reason every time either. As I recall, one wouldn't start XWindows at all if I had any resolution larger than 640x480, one didn't properly support my network card, one didn't support my sound device, one decided to hose Wine on me (which I was going to use to run certain games) in addition to having weirdness with the sound device (it would randomly stop working).
Having said that, I've used Debian for servers for years, and recently set up a Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit server.
I don't know if my coworkers are a bunch of liars or not, but they claim to have felt an Earthquake around 1:50pm.
Personally, I didn't feel a thing.
However, our company sent an email to all employees in our building stating that there were reports of slight building movements throughout the entire complex, likely due to this Earthquake.
Why can't I suspend an entire app, TCP stack state, files, and all? Why can't I, in that state, dump it, then restore it? Why can't I migrate said dump, including the IP address (that I would have bound to the app instead of the machine), to another server? Then unsuspend it. Why can't I do that seamlessly?
Because networking is bound by factors external to the app, not the least of which that IPs are machine bound, not app bound. Or did you forget that a router somewhere needs to know where that IP is routed so it can route packets to you?
I would expect most big game producers stay away from C# because that would mean they can't use their code on a console. I'm pretty sure not even the xbox runs.net code
Actually, it does. That is rather the point of XNA.
Want a file or a network connection closed? You have to wrap it in a try...finally block and close it manually. Every single time, no way to automate it.
Then there's Java's brain-dead inheritance model. Get ready to do multiple inheritance manually by copying/pasting code from all the base classes. Cross your fingers that the interface never changes and you have to go and hunt down every last copy of it.
That was an intentional language decision. From what I've heard it's because Sun thought the majority of programmers who tried to use multiple inheritance in C++ used it wrong. Instead, Java and C# only allow multiple inheritance of completely abstract classes (dubbed interfaces) plus one non-completely abstract class.
If you want to speed these two games up, avoid scanning things and skip most of the optional powerups.
The Metroid Prime games are much longer than their 2D counterparts. This is in part because the game worlds are considerably larger than their 2D counterparts.
At least you can load up an old game and the game will literally tell you what you need to do next. You can also check the Logbook and see which items are assigned to which buttons.
Metroid Prime 2 also adopted the "central hub": design first introduced in the (2D) Metroid Fusion. While not as convenient as Fusion's, you can still reach every other area from Temple Grounds.
Now, being a Metroid game, it sometimes does make you backtrack. This is a staple of the 2D Metroids, and the 3D ones are no different.
For example, in Metroid Prime 2, just yesterday, I was in Torvus Bog, and didn't realize that I had to backtrack to Temple Grounds after getting the Boost Ball powerup before I could continue through the area below the Torvus Bog temple. Thankfully, the game eventually decided to remind me of this after a while.
I recall people saying it pales in comparison to any modern game engine, and in fact doesn't even hold up against Source, which is now 7 years old.
Source is iteratively updated. There have been at least 8 major versions of Source, although I'm not going to list the changes to each one.
Original. Launched with HL2. No longer in use by any Valve games. Client is Windows only.
Episode 1. Launched with HL2: Episode 1. Currently used by Half-Life: Source and Half-Life: Source Deathmatch. Client is Windows only. Server is Windows and Linux.
Orange Box. Launched with HL2: Episode 2. Currently used by Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Portal. Client is Windows and Mac.
Orange Box 2009. A fork of Orange Box for multiplayer games. Currently used by Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Team Fortress 2. Client is Windows and Mac. Server is Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Left 4 Dead. Currently used by Left 4 Dead. Client is Windows and Mac. Server is Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Left 4 Dead 2. Currently used by Left 4 Dead 2. Client is Windows and Mac. Server is Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Alien Swam. Currently used by Alien Swarm. Client is Windows. Server is Windows.
Portal 2. Currently used by Portal 2. Client is Windows and Mac. No standalone server.
This is a Tech Demo for the engine. Just like DOOM3 was. Id does not really make amazing games. They make amazing engines and decent games as tech demos for the engines.
Sadly, that could cause them problems.
Likely, even now, the most widely used game engine developed by someone other than the developers of the game in question is the Unreal Tournament 3 engine from 2007.
Team fortress 2 does a good job of making each class have something unique to contribute, without making one so overpowered that it is the only one you see in play. Blizzard could learn a lot from Valve.
And yet, the pro teams are almost always: 2x Scout 2x Soldier 1x Demoman 1x Medic
The way it's been colored in the Apple photo has been darkened. They made two mistakes while darkening it
The Camera is missing. Even under poor lighting conditions, it should be at least somewhat visible if hard to see.
The Samsung logo is missing.
Fabricated screen contents to look like an iPad instead of the standard Android OS?
You mean organized icons similar to the iPad for the point of comparison?
Yes, because the look of the OS was one of Apple's claims against it:
Die Gesamterscheinung der zwei oben gezeigten Produkte ist fast identisch, weil das GalaxyTab 10.1 alle unterscheidungskrÃftigen Elemente der Ausstattung des iPad 2 kopiert:... (vi) wenn das Produkt eingeschaltet ist, farbige Icons innerhalb des Displays
Google Translate tells me that phrase means this:
The overall appearance of the two shown above products is almost identical, because the GalaxyTab 10.1 All the distinctive elements of equipment to copy iPad 2:... (vi) if the product is switched on, colored icons within the display
If you tweak things to intentionally make them look the same just so you can claim that they look the same, that would tampering.
Unfortunately, the translation loses something... I don't know how literal this is supposed to be. It could mean any icons, or it could be saying that the icons are laid out almost identically.
They were referring to about:troubleshooting in the mozilla.dev.usability discussion linked in the article summary. I think it is the "Help > Troubleshooting Information" page (about:support in Firefox 5). Either they have plans to rename about:support to about:troubleshooting or add a new about:troubleshooting in the future... or they misspoke in the conversation.
Yes, which just goes to show that Asa Dotzler is unfamiliar with his own product and/or too lazy to check, because said link goes to about:support.
Mozilla should remember the words of the great Asa Dotzler: "Respect your users or you will lose them. With Firefox, the user is no longer just a spectator, he's a participant. Play nice or face extinction. Seriously."
The irony is that Asa Dotzlet is the person who filed the Bugzilla report for removing the version number. And is now arguing against everyone else participating in the discussion, both on Bugzilla and on the newsgroup he tried to (unsuccessfully) shunt the conversation to.
currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1
max-version was 7.0a1 a few weeks ago, and 6.0a1 a few week before that.
A moving target for max-version is a bad thing. It's amusing to see web developers encouraged by browser developers (including Mozilla) to do feature detection instead of version detection, and then Mozilla's own extension system requires version detection.
From Ars, "In Lion, the sandbox security model has been greatly enhanced, and Apple is finally promoting it for use by third-party applications. A sandboxed application must now include a list of "entitlements" describing exactly what resources it needs in order to do its job."
Then there's privilege separation, which breaks up a complex application into individual processes, each of which requires only the few entitlements necessary to perform a specific subset of the application's total capabilities. Video decoding, PDF decoding, and HTML decoding are already handled this way in Lion. (Not to mention sandboxing Flash into it's own tiny little world.)
Windows doesn't have such fine-grained security controls (as least not to my knowledge), but there is a public API that a process can use to lower its privileges. IE is actually one of the programs that uses it.
The problem is, most programs (including things like Firefox) don't use this lower privilege mode.
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As it is now, I am whining, but about their BS deus ex 'bundling' with Gamestop.
The GameStop Deus Ex fiasco involved Square-Enix and OnLive. Valve/Steam had nothing to do with it.
Also, in case you missed it, GameStop owns one of Steam's competitors, Impulse, which was why this whole fiasco between them and OnLive happened in the first place.
If you've never heard of Breakout, you might have heard of its more well-known clone, Arkanoid.
Mono in the C# world is no different to OpenJDK or GCJ in the java world - they will always be second class citizens and as you put it have an uphill battle.
OpenJDK is the base for the Oracle-branded Java JDK, not a second-class citizen like you imply. On the other hand, GCJ and Kaffe have an uphill battle.
Because the tools for packaging, dependency management and building are better than anything else around.
Have to disagree here. To be fair, I haven't actually built Java packages myself, but trying to get a Java library installed (with all dependencies) is much more annoying than installing a Ruby gem.
Apache Maven was built to solve this exact problem, and it does so extremely well... even if I do hate designing projects for it.
Maybe you've heard of the IBM ThinkPad?
Did you know that the original ThinkPad (700T) was a stylus-based system... that came out in 1992, a year before the Newton?
Oh, right, it was too large to be a PDA, so that would make it a tablet...
By the time Microsoft was ready to deal with IPv4, next-generation technologies were already being developed because the sustained demand was too great. IPv6 stacks were actually being released for Windows before Microsoft's IPv4 stack was integrated - and that's even after Microsoft took most of their network code from the BSD tapes.
I'm going to have to say you're wrong.
Windows 95, released in August 1995, integrated an IPv4 stack. The first IPv6 RFC, RFC1883, was posted in December 1995. It was replaced in December 1998 with RFC2460.
Or even the SNES controller and the PSX controller
And for even more irony, compare the PlayStation Dual Shock (original, 2, or 3; it doesn't matter) to the Nintendo Wii Classic Controller Pro.
Turns out copying works in both directions.
IDEs add a lot as soon as you start working with a large number of libraries. This applies to any language, from C on up.
IDEs also help catch simple mistakes before compilation.
Oh, and those aren't even touching upon more advanced IDE features, such as refactoring.
I remember some problems in the past, maybe at the time of FF 3.x but which addons are breaking now because of updates? I'm using (from config:addons) Adblock Plus + Element Hiding Helper, Aviary, Better Privacy, Firebug + Firecookie, Grease Monkey, Live HTTP Headers, No Script, Remote XUL Manager, Stylish, Web Developer. They survived the update from FF4 to FF5 and to FF6. Maybe I'm just lucky, I'm using mainstream and well managed addons.
My what a short memory you have.
Firebug broke when Firefox 4 was released. And even , addons require unnecessary updates for no reason other than to update the max version number every time a new Firefox is announced, even if the plugin's functionality is unchanged.
What do you mean by endpoint? The Tor exit node is between the source and destination of the traffic. ... -> destination
source -> routers -> exit node -> routers -> tor node ->
The Tor exit node is a general purpose computer first (i.e. an endpoint), Tor node second. They're seized due to them being general purpose computers.
Everyone I know who has tried Linux in the past few years hasn't gone back to Windows, and were all amazed that the computer 'Just Worked'.
Hi, I'm R. Bemrose. Pleased to meet you.
I've tried several times to switch my desktop PC to Linux, and every time (across, what, 4 distros now? Redhat 9, Debian Sarge, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 10.04) there's been some issue that caused me to move back to the platform that really does "just work" even if it does require me to use the CD/DVDs given to me by the hardware manufacturers for my computer's parts.
It hasn't been the same reason every time either. As I recall, one wouldn't start XWindows at all if I had any resolution larger than 640x480, one didn't properly support my network card, one didn't support my sound device, one decided to hose Wine on me (which I was going to use to run certain games) in addition to having weirdness with the sound device (it would randomly stop working).
Having said that, I've used Debian for servers for years, and recently set up a Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit server.
I don't know if my coworkers are a bunch of liars or not, but they claim to have felt an Earthquake around 1:50pm.
Personally, I didn't feel a thing.
However, our company sent an email to all employees in our building stating that there were reports of slight building movements throughout the entire complex, likely due to this Earthquake.
If rights aren't automatically restored when the problem is fixed, GNU could have a problem of its own due to Emacs.
Why can't I suspend an entire app, TCP stack state, files, and all?
Why can't I, in that state, dump it, then restore it?
Why can't I migrate said dump, including the IP address (that I would have bound to the app instead of the machine), to another server? Then unsuspend it.
Why can't I do that seamlessly?
Because networking is bound by factors external to the app, not the least of which that IPs are machine bound, not app bound. Or did you forget that a router somewhere needs to know where that IP is routed so it can route packets to you?
I would expect most big game producers stay away from C# because that would mean they can't use their code on a console. I'm pretty sure not even the xbox runs .net code
Actually, it does. That is rather the point of XNA.
Want a file or a network connection closed? You have to wrap it in a try...finally block and close it manually. Every single time, no way to automate it.
Not anymore. It does require you to get the resource in a special block, just like C#.
Then there's Java's brain-dead inheritance model. Get ready to do multiple inheritance manually by copying/pasting code from all the base classes. Cross your fingers that the interface never changes and you have to go and hunt down every last copy of it.
That was an intentional language decision. From what I've heard it's because Sun thought the majority of programmers who tried to use multiple inheritance in C++ used it wrong. Instead, Java and C# only allow multiple inheritance of completely abstract classes (dubbed interfaces) plus one non-completely abstract class.
Metroid: Prime
Metroid: Prime 2
If you want to speed these two games up, avoid scanning things and skip most of the optional powerups.
The Metroid Prime games are much longer than their 2D counterparts. This is in part because the game worlds are considerably larger than their 2D counterparts.
At least you can load up an old game and the game will literally tell you what you need to do next. You can also check the Logbook and see which items are assigned to which buttons.
Metroid Prime 2 also adopted the "central hub": design first introduced in the (2D) Metroid Fusion. While not as convenient as Fusion's, you can still reach every other area from Temple Grounds.
Now, being a Metroid game, it sometimes does make you backtrack. This is a staple of the 2D Metroids, and the 3D ones are no different.
For example, in Metroid Prime 2, just yesterday, I was in Torvus Bog, and didn't realize that I had to backtrack to Temple Grounds after getting the Boost Ball powerup before I could continue through the area below the Torvus Bog temple. Thankfully, the game eventually decided to remind me of this after a while.
I recall people saying it pales in comparison to any modern game engine, and in fact doesn't even hold up against Source, which is now 7 years old.
Source is iteratively updated. There have been at least 8 major versions of Source, although I'm not going to list the changes to each one.
This is a Tech Demo for the engine. Just like DOOM3 was. Id does not really make amazing games. They make amazing engines and decent games as tech demos for the engines.
Sadly, that could cause them problems.
Likely, even now, the most widely used game engine developed by someone other than the developers of the game in question is the Unreal Tournament 3 engine from 2007.
Team fortress 2 does a good job of making each class have something unique to contribute, without making one so overpowered that it is the only one you see in play. Blizzard could learn a lot from Valve.
And yet, the pro teams are almost always:
2x Scout
2x Soldier
1x Demoman
1x Medic
Changed the colo(u)r?
It's black. Blackety black black.
The way it's been colored in the Apple photo has been darkened. They made two mistakes while darkening it
Fabricated screen contents to look like an iPad instead of the standard Android OS?
You mean organized icons similar to the iPad for the point of comparison?
Yes, because the look of the OS was one of Apple's claims against it:
Die Gesamterscheinung der zwei oben gezeigten Produkte ist fast identisch, weil das GalaxyTab 10.1 alle unterscheidungskrÃftigen Elemente der Ausstattung des iPad 2 kopiert: ... (vi) wenn das Produkt eingeschaltet ist, farbige Icons innerhalb des Displays
Google Translate tells me that phrase means this:
The overall appearance of the two shown above products is almost identical, because the GalaxyTab 10.1 All the distinctive elements of equipment to copy iPad 2: ... (vi) if the product is switched on, colored icons within the display
If you tweak things to intentionally make them look the same just so you can claim that they look the same, that would tampering.
Unfortunately, the translation loses something... I don't know how literal this is supposed to be. It could mean any icons, or it could be saying that the icons are laid out almost identically.
They were referring to about:troubleshooting in the mozilla.dev.usability discussion linked in the article summary. I think it is the "Help > Troubleshooting Information" page (about:support in Firefox 5). Either they have plans to rename about:support to about:troubleshooting or add a new about:troubleshooting in the future ... or they misspoke in the conversation.
Yes, which just goes to show that Asa Dotzler is unfamiliar with his own product and/or too lazy to check, because said link goes to about:support.
Mozilla should remember the words of the great Asa Dotzler: "Respect your users or you will lose them. With Firefox, the user is no longer just a spectator, he's a participant. Play nice or face extinction. Seriously."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Dotzler
The irony is that Asa Dotzlet is the person who filed the Bugzilla report for removing the version number. And is now arguing against everyone else participating in the discussion, both on Bugzilla and on the newsgroup he tried to (unsuccessfully) shunt the conversation to.
currently, the Mozilla add-on website permits max-version all the way up to 8.0a1
max-version was 7.0a1 a few weeks ago, and 6.0a1 a few week before that.
A moving target for max-version is a bad thing. It's amusing to see web developers encouraged by browser developers (including Mozilla) to do feature detection instead of version detection, and then Mozilla's own extension system requires version detection.
From Ars, "In Lion, the sandbox security model has been greatly enhanced, and Apple is finally promoting it for use by third-party applications. A sandboxed application must now include a list of "entitlements" describing exactly what resources it needs in order to do its job."
Then there's privilege separation, which breaks up a complex application into individual processes, each of which requires only the few entitlements necessary to perform a specific subset of the application's total capabilities. Video decoding, PDF decoding, and HTML decoding are already handled this way in Lion. (Not to mention sandboxing Flash into it's own tiny little world.)
Windows doesn't have such fine-grained security controls (as least not to my knowledge), but there is a public API that a process can use to lower its privileges. IE is actually one of the programs that uses it.
The problem is, most programs (including things like Firefox) don't use this lower privilege mode.