I agree with the parent about C# -- if you're looking for helpful links, one you might be interested in is RealmForge.
They're also on Sourceforge.
It's an open-source development framework for.Net/Mono. Written in C#, uses the open-source Axiom engine, and it's LGPL (can be used for commercial games without open-sourcing everything). 95% of games are written in XML with the built-in editor.
Keep in mind the engine is still in development, and isn't quite ready for prime-time yet, but as a contributor to the project, I can say that I'm anxiously working towards making this tool a reality.
... but the robot that tele-operated the back-hoe was their old version. One of the old-style big-backpack robots, the new version is much more capable. If the poster had RTA, he would have seen that tele-operating a backhoe is "old news".
Like I said, not that many would care, but the robots came a long way from version 1 (backhoe driving) to version 2 (jumping and dancing and flexible torso).
I've assembled and used a Flex Radio -- they really are pretty cool. We actually didn't use it for a Ham radio -- we used it to build a fairly inexpensive, high-quality DRM reciever (not Digital Rights Management, it stands for Digital Radio Mondiale -- pretty cool tech).
FWIW, Wesley and Data were probably my two favorite characters on TNG growing up. I thought Wil's character was done much better than "young Anakin".
My $0.02
Isn't Lionhead Studios where Rag Doll Kung Fu is being developed? (sweet game, if you haven't seen the videos for it yet).
I couldn't see from the article, does anyone know if RDKF is one of the 4 titles "in the pipe", or is it still just being developed independently by one of the Lionhead programmers?
In college, an acquaintance of mine and I worked on this concept, and he implemented it. I think his final version took in.png files and outputted HTML for them. They looked perfect, and it even had a little bit of optimization for colspanning if adjacent pixels were the same color. Suffice it to say, yes, it's been tested. Yes, it works. Yes, you would need more memory.:)
This game looks really cool, but I can't find a place where I might be able to download it / buy it / try it. The manufacturer's website is giving me a 404, and while it has vague allusions to it on a search through the site, there's no hard information on it. It looks like it might have been renamed to "Time Mechanic", but I'm not finding that either. Anyone elae have better luck with this?
A more contemporary example: Explain to me why Harry Potter is evil, but the Chronicles of Narnia are not.
I was wondering the same thing, and read most of the books (up through half of the fifth).
The main distinction between the two was the framework and the underlying worldview which permeated both works.
Both Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia are set in modern-day England, both involve every-day children that the reader can easily identify themselves with, and they both embark on journies which said readers would like to envision themselves.
The main difference to whom one answers. In the Chronicles of Narnia, sorcery is something that is not for mortals, and shouldn't be meddled with (the two main mortals I can think of using magic in CoN are Dr. Cornelius in Prince Caspian, and Diggory's uncle in Magician's Nephew.) All magic is recognized as above one's self, it's not a solution to problems (it doesn't set scrubbers to wash pans automagically, etc).
But as said before, the main difference is the worldview, and what it would instill in a child fantasizing about what they wish they could do. Witchcraft is a real thing. I recognize this, I believe it, and have known people with very personal contact with this (as I'm sure most of us have). Both stories recognize the existence of good magic, and evil magic, but it is a problem when the users of magic are not ultimately answerable to any being higher to themselves. In Harry Potter, if you're strong (whether it be the Ministry of Magic or Voldemort's Death Eaters), you can be the end-all-say-all. Morals are arbitrary, though granted HP & friends do exhibit many noble charictaristics, Harry still has no accountability (unless you count the sparse teachings by Dumbledore) for his lying.
It's all very abstract, and I don't feel qualified to say "Harry Potter is evil, you shouldn't partake of it!". However, for myself, I've read them, though when I found myself enjoying them too much, it sent up a warning flag in my mind, and I decided to stop reading halfway through book 5. If you can read it, and not feel prodding of the Spirit to do otherwise, then I do not speak against you, and I can only support you and try to encourage you in your walk.:)
A similarly tough example in my own mind is why Tolkien is okay and HP is not -- though I follow similar reasoning for all of this. Basically the worldview behind the story, and who is Ultimate in the story: people or Something Else.
I think it's great that you're doing this -- my dad did the same thing with me to write a simple computer game when I was 7 (except it wasn't PHP, it was Turbo C). I really appreciated it, and it gave me a good thing to do on the computer instead of just playing games addictively (though I did a fair bit of that growing up as well)
I realize that the comments here are mostly trolls and bad jokes, but here's a relatively serious comment.
I set up a similar setup for my fiancee so that she could see me at work and get a smile by getting to see my picture. (she lives in another state and we don't get to see each other that often) The utility that I use is a fantastic open source tool called Dorgem.
It has text overlays, transparent graphic overlays, motion detection, automatic capture, ftp upload, and most text fields can use replacements like %dd, %hh, %mm, etc etc etc to insert the date, the time, or various other things. You can even read from a file and have it overlay the title of the current song playing in Winamp.
I didn't notice any features in their screen captures of TinCam that weren't filled in Dorgem.
Keep in mind that GBA's have a reflective LCD screen, while I would imagine that the type of LCD panel necessary for what the article is about is a transparent LCD. Two very different things -- it's basically why shining a light on a laptop screen makes it harder to see, while shining a light on a GBA screen makes it easier to see.
One other possible method.. Isn't there a way to have Windows "run as" a different user (ala +s on UNIX)? So you could have it run as some special Admin-priveleged user, while keeping them in the non-Admin account most of the time.
Another reply to this poster said that it couldn't be done, but as long as the program being run is a shortcut, it seems as though you can do:
Shortcut Icon->Right Click->Properties->Shortcut->Advanced->Ru n this program with a different set of credentials
Then when you click on the shortcut, there's a checkbox where you can limit what this program can do or not.
Really not sure how this works for non-administrator accounts, but it's worth a shot?
Respectfully,
Clint
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They're also on Sourceforge
It's an open-source development framework for .Net/Mono. Written in C#, uses the open-source Axiom engine, and it's LGPL (can be used for commercial games without open-sourcing everything). 95% of games are written in XML with the built-in editor.
Keep in mind the engine is still in development, and isn't quite ready for prime-time yet, but as a contributor to the project, I can say that I'm anxiously working towards making this tool a reality.
--Clint
... but the robot that tele-operated the back-hoe was their old version. One of the old-style big-backpack robots, the new version is much more capable. If the poster had RTA, he would have seen that tele-operating a backhoe is "old news". Like I said, not that many would care, but the robots came a long way from version 1 (backhoe driving) to version 2 (jumping and dancing and flexible torso).
I've assembled and used a Flex Radio -- they really are pretty cool.
We actually didn't use it for a Ham radio -- we used it to build a fairly inexpensive, high-quality DRM reciever (not Digital Rights Management, it stands for Digital Radio Mondiale -- pretty cool tech).
Are you serious about this? I find it hilarious. I would use it, and upload my Kroger courtesy card number into the pool. :)
This isn't the problem in question so much as anti-spyware vendors marking certain spyware companies as "harmless" and ignoring them for pay.
FWIW, Wesley and Data were probably my two favorite characters on TNG growing up. I thought Wil's character was done much better than "young Anakin". My $0.02
I couldn't see from the article, does anyone know if RDKF is one of the 4 titles "in the pipe", or is it still just being developed independently by one of the Lionhead programmers?
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/24/ 0550221&tid=127&tid=159&tid=10
is the last article on RDKF (and how I originally became a lurker-fan)
Given the plethora of comments, it appears that /. readers are incredibly concerned about the PSP. [/sarcasm]
In college, an acquaintance of mine and I worked on this concept, and he implemented it. I think his final version took in .png files and outputted HTML for them. They looked perfect, and it even had a little bit of optimization for colspanning if adjacent pixels were the same color. Suffice it to say, yes, it's been tested. Yes, it works. Yes, you would need more memory. :)
This game looks really cool, but I can't find a place where I might be able to download it / buy it / try it. The manufacturer's website is giving me a 404, and while it has vague allusions to it on a search through the site, there's no hard information on it. It looks like it might have been renamed to "Time Mechanic", but I'm not finding that either. Anyone elae have better luck with this?
I was wondering the same thing, and read most of the books (up through half of the fifth).
The main distinction between the two was the framework and the underlying worldview which permeated both works.
Both Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia are set in modern-day England, both involve every-day children that the reader can easily identify themselves with, and they both embark on journies which said readers would like to envision themselves.
The main difference to whom one answers. In the Chronicles of Narnia, sorcery is something that is not for mortals, and shouldn't be meddled with (the two main mortals I can think of using magic in CoN are Dr. Cornelius in Prince Caspian, and Diggory's uncle in Magician's Nephew.) All magic is recognized as above one's self, it's not a solution to problems (it doesn't set scrubbers to wash pans automagically, etc).
But as said before, the main difference is the worldview, and what it would instill in a child fantasizing about what they wish they could do. Witchcraft is a real thing. I recognize this, I believe it, and have known people with very personal contact with this (as I'm sure most of us have). Both stories recognize the existence of good magic, and evil magic, but it is a problem when the users of magic are not ultimately answerable to any being higher to themselves. In Harry Potter, if you're strong (whether it be the Ministry of Magic or Voldemort's Death Eaters), you can be the end-all-say-all. Morals are arbitrary, though granted HP & friends do exhibit many noble charictaristics, Harry still has no accountability (unless you count the sparse teachings by Dumbledore) for his lying.
It's all very abstract, and I don't feel qualified to say "Harry Potter is evil, you shouldn't partake of it!". However, for myself, I've read them, though when I found myself enjoying them too much, it sent up a warning flag in my mind, and I decided to stop reading halfway through book 5. If you can read it, and not feel prodding of the Spirit to do otherwise, then I do not speak against you, and I can only support you and try to encourage you in your walk. :)
A similarly tough example in my own mind is why Tolkien is okay and HP is not -- though I follow similar reasoning for all of this. Basically the worldview behind the story, and who is Ultimate in the story: people or Something Else.
Respectfully,
clint
All that to say, kudos. :)
--Clint
From a developer's standpoint, this might be at least a bit of a hacking deterrent.
If I want to play at work after hours, I can't go around installing pak files on the machines so that the bootable CD can play from it. Any ideas?
It seems like there would have been a freely available pak file by now.
And your father smelled of elderberries?
I set up a similar setup for my fiancee so that she could see me at work and get a smile by getting to see my picture. (she lives in another state and we don't get to see each other that often) The utility that I use is a fantastic open source tool called Dorgem.
It has text overlays, transparent graphic overlays, motion detection, automatic capture, ftp upload, and most text fields can use replacements like %dd, %hh, %mm, etc etc etc to insert the date, the time, or various other things. You can even read from a file and have it overlay the title of the current song playing in Winamp.
I didn't notice any features in their screen captures of TinCam that weren't filled in Dorgem.
Cheers!
--Clint
Keep in mind that GBA's have a reflective LCD screen, while I would imagine that the type of LCD panel necessary for what the article is about is a transparent LCD. Two very different things -- it's basically why shining a light on a laptop screen makes it harder to see, while shining a light on a GBA screen makes it easier to see.
They tried.
(Dune Quote)
"They tried and failed?"
"They tried and died."
Great looking bags, I've been drooling over a Chrome messenger/laptop bag for quite some time. Here's to hoping you see the above link.
No Informative points from me on this one, although you get an E for effort.
lol. Of all the posts that countered Duncf's comment, this little snippet explained it incredibly well and it couldn't be more succint.
WTG AP for a great explanation, wtg /. for fostering such a community. lol.
Until you observe him, at which point he will have or will not have gotten it. Before then, he both gets the joke and does not get the joke.
lol. If it's any encouragement, the part about the statistician made me laugh out loud. :)
So this baby seal walked into a club...