I don't know about that. Yes the list with "???, Profit!" certainly originated with South Park, but Slashdot is (one of) the first place(s) where it developed into an internet meme with any sort of list.
I'd say it's both, but more directly a/. reference.
I was counting the customer reviews, which in general I have found to be a more reliable guide than professional reviewers. YMMV.
Regardless, I was stupid to buy this game. I've learned my lesson. I should learn to equate "Heavy DRM" = "Game that sucks, so we try to hide that fact until we've got your money in which case there's sweet FA you can do about it."
Yeah, I like the functional programming paradigm, which I only ever used in LISP, which has also been a nearly unmentionable number of years since I've used. Python has some functional aspects to it, which are also fun to play with.
Icon and SNOBOL. I never worked with either, but boy howdy are those names blasts from the past, too!
Let's be fair, though, the vast majority of those reviews were variants on "DRM sucks"... yeah, no shit, there, Sherlock. But if the DRM gets fixed is there any "there" there? Lost in all the DRM noise was reviews of the actual game.
And yeah, I have Spore, and yeah DRM sucks. However, the game of removing the DRM was more fun then the game EA thought they were shipping. Fuck Spore, and fuck EA. I hope they enjoy greatly the 45 bucks they got for it. I'm done with EA, and as much as I respect Will Wright as a game designer, Spore blows chunks, and the only way I'll buy another one of his games is if he gets free of EA. I'm done with them.
Ditto here. My wife, my son and I play Starcraft here several times a week. We're as much a LAN party as a family. Our network sits behind the firewall on the DSL router and the firewall on the server the DSL router is connected to. I can punch holes through it, but I really need a good reason to go to the trouble.
Having to do so to connect to some J. Random Server on the interwebs just so I can play multiplayer with two other people at a mean distance from me of 2 meters does not qualify as a good reason. Hearing that they're doing this for D3 raises the possibility that they'll do the same for SC2. Even the prospect of that just dumped a gallon of cold water on the hearth containing the roaring fire I had for SC2.
Please don't do it, Starcraft devs! No LAN play means no sales here, I'm afraid.
Okay, I'll admit that I haven't programmed in Prolog for just this side of two decades, but can't the backtracking of inferences be used as a "function-like" thing, though it's not a function in the way a Java, C, or Python programmer would think of it as?
I once took my banjo with me to the bad part of town. I ran into a store for just a minute to buy a soda, leaving the banjo in the car. Wouldn't you know it? When I came back someone smashed my window had put another banjo right next to it.
And there's that atheist/agnostic mind set that believes that says that reason is their own personal tree fort and no slimy gross Christians/Jews/Muslims are allowed.
"Only Christians won't burn in Hell." "Only atheists can be rational." Feh. A pox on both your houses. They're fundamentally equivalent statements, and as such are about equally true. Almost all of us, regardless of religion or lack thereof, aren't rational most of the time.
Imagine that. Old guy scientist claims that old guys should bag young
women. "But, baby, it's scientific!"
I immediately thought of this:
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of
ten
women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of
the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were
concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a
sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add
that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along
these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual
characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating
nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an
astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
If the species was meant to be in space, its fundamental bodily makeup would already be moving toward a form factor befitting a gravity-free, cosmic-ray rich environment, and as we've yet to see such creatures develop, it's plainly evident our species isn't ready for that.
Evolution isn't "meant" to do anything. This is just a fancy way of saying "If man was meant to fly, he would have wings." Evolution is a process that just picks the adequately fit for the environment at the time. Apparently, natural selection in our case has settled for now on a species with brains that can conceive of things like space travel, and perhaps space colonization and terraforming. If you're trying to infer meaning, maybe that's what we're meant to do? No species is an island, perhaps we're just dandelion seeds on a larger scale? For meaning, look to philosophers and religion, not evolution.
Yes, you can attempt to "bootstrap" evolution by fucking and breeding in space, but if the result is different from humans, then they are, defacto, NOT human, n'est ce pas?
Well, if you're just going to define "human" as a certain range of genetic sequences, then, yeah, no shit. If that's all it's about, I say then take a bunch of gene samples, freeze them and launch them on the next deep space fly-by mission, and we're done. But to my way of thinking, "human" is about our culture, from the works of Tacitus in your own signature, to Beethoven's 9th symphony, to Seurat's pontillism, and your also-mentioned Max Stirner and everything in between is what's really important. And culture, like a living thing, will change and adapt over time, and I think that's what's really worth preserving. To that end, I believe in treating our planet right as it is the petri dish that contains our culture, but recognizing that best case scenario, we have about 3 billion years before the autoclave in the center of the solar system sterilizes it. There's probably a couple dozen events between now and then that could have similar effects.
If you want to call that latent Protestantism or Stirner egoism, then, fine, I'm latently Protestant (that's a funny line by the way... do you mind if I use it sometime?) as all holy hell and a Stirner egoist of the first order. And I'm damn proud of it.
While I don't use twisted, I am given to understand that it does most of its asynchronous stuff using callbacks - you may be able to leave most of the concurrency to it and avoid the process all together...
This is doable. I have some demo code I wrote to use twisted with pygame as sort of a proof of concept for a network playable game. It's not a real game, it's just flying a spaceship around a grid, and also provides a server you could telnet to and get updates on the position of ships and shots, but it's got enough code to show how to interface two event-driven systems together.
If anyone is that interested to see it, write me at my username + my user id at gmail and I'll send it to you.
That's a good strategy too, and I like the architecture thing you've got... I have a setup kind of like that at work since I sometimes have support i386 and x86_64 Linux, and Solaris SPARC.
But at home, I do have to have many packages I build available across accounts. I have a "usrlocal" group and/usr/local was set 775, plus a g+s. My primary account is in the usrlocal group, so I can put things there without su or sudo.
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Wow, the government using a logo of a criminal gang. Truth in advertising at long last!
We sincerely appreciate you translating that joke for us. None of us here, I'm certain, would've gotten it if it were not for your blinding insight.
On behalf of the Slashdot community, thank you for sharing your wisdom and erudition with us.
I don't know about that. Yes the list with "???, Profit!" certainly originated with South Park, but Slashdot is (one of) the first place(s) where it developed into an internet meme with any sort of list.
I'd say it's both, but more directly a /. reference.
I was counting the customer reviews, which in general I have found to be a more reliable guide than professional reviewers. YMMV.
Regardless, I was stupid to buy this game. I've learned my lesson. I should learn to equate "Heavy DRM" = "Game that sucks, so we try to hide that fact until we've got your money in which case there's sweet FA you can do about it."
Yeah, I like the functional programming paradigm, which I only ever used in LISP, which has also been a nearly unmentionable number of years since I've used. Python has some functional aspects to it, which are also fun to play with.
Icon and SNOBOL. I never worked with either, but boy howdy are those names blasts from the past, too!
Let's be fair, though, the vast majority of those reviews were variants on "DRM sucks"... yeah, no shit, there, Sherlock. But if the DRM gets fixed is there any "there" there? Lost in all the DRM noise was reviews of the actual game.
And yeah, I have Spore, and yeah DRM sucks. However, the game of removing the DRM was more fun then the game EA thought they were shipping. Fuck Spore, and fuck EA. I hope they enjoy greatly the 45 bucks they got for it. I'm done with EA, and as much as I respect Will Wright as a game designer, Spore blows chunks, and the only way I'll buy another one of his games is if he gets free of EA. I'm done with them.
Ditto here. My wife, my son and I play Starcraft here several times a week. We're as much a LAN party as a family. Our network sits behind the firewall on the DSL router and the firewall on the server the DSL router is connected to. I can punch holes through it, but I really need a good reason to go to the trouble.
Having to do so to connect to some J. Random Server on the interwebs just so I can play multiplayer with two other people at a mean distance from me of 2 meters does not qualify as a good reason. Hearing that they're doing this for D3 raises the possibility that they'll do the same for SC2. Even the prospect of that just dumped a gallon of cold water on the hearth containing the roaring fire I had for SC2.
Please don't do it, Starcraft devs! No LAN play means no sales here, I'm afraid.
Python is strongly-typed. Do you mean dynamic typing?
Okay, I'll admit that I haven't programmed in Prolog for just this side of two decades, but can't the backtracking of inferences be used as a "function-like" thing, though it's not a function in the way a Java, C, or Python programmer would think of it as?
I once took my banjo with me to the bad part of town. I ran into a store for just a minute to buy a soda, leaving the banjo in the car. Wouldn't you know it? When I came back someone smashed my window had put another banjo right next to it.
No, spec_creep is a function and its documentation looks like this:
float spec_creep( void )
Returns a floating point value greater than 0 that is strictly monotonically increasing.
"schlock" is an accetped varient speling.
I guess the humor is lost on you. Killjoy. :-)
Hell, I'm only an elitist because I'm better than most people. :-)
And there's that atheist/agnostic mind set that believes that says that reason is their own personal tree fort and no slimy gross Christians/Jews/Muslims are allowed.
"Only Christians won't burn in Hell." "Only atheists can be rational." Feh. A pox on both your houses. They're fundamentally equivalent statements, and as such are about equally true. Almost all of us, regardless of religion or lack thereof, aren't rational most of the time.
Those jackholes are going to make me shell out 150 to 200 dollars for this game, aren't they?
God, Blizzard is evil!
Samuel Clemens
Benjamin Disraeli, and quite possibly someone else before Disraeli.</pedantic>
Imagine that. Old guy scientist claims that old guys should bag young women. "But, baby, it's scientific!"
I immediately thought of this:
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
If the species was meant to be in space, its fundamental bodily makeup would already be moving toward a form factor befitting a gravity-free, cosmic-ray rich environment, and as we've yet to see such creatures develop, it's plainly evident our species isn't ready for that.
Evolution isn't "meant" to do anything. This is just a fancy way of saying "If man was meant to fly, he would have wings." Evolution is a process that just picks the adequately fit for the environment at the time. Apparently, natural selection in our case has settled for now on a species with brains that can conceive of things like space travel, and perhaps space colonization and terraforming. If you're trying to infer meaning, maybe that's what we're meant to do? No species is an island, perhaps we're just dandelion seeds on a larger scale? For meaning, look to philosophers and religion, not evolution.
Yes, you can attempt to "bootstrap" evolution by fucking and breeding in space, but if the result is different from humans, then they are, defacto, NOT human, n'est ce pas?
Well, if you're just going to define "human" as a certain range of genetic sequences, then, yeah, no shit. If that's all it's about, I say then take a bunch of gene samples, freeze them and launch them on the next deep space fly-by mission, and we're done. But to my way of thinking, "human" is about our culture, from the works of Tacitus in your own signature, to Beethoven's 9th symphony, to Seurat's pontillism, and your also-mentioned Max Stirner and everything in between is what's really important. And culture, like a living thing, will change and adapt over time, and I think that's what's really worth preserving. To that end, I believe in treating our planet right as it is the petri dish that contains our culture, but recognizing that best case scenario, we have about 3 billion years before the autoclave in the center of the solar system sterilizes it. There's probably a couple dozen events between now and then that could have similar effects.
If you want to call that latent Protestantism or Stirner egoism, then, fine, I'm latently Protestant (that's a funny line by the way... do you mind if I use it sometime?) as all holy hell and a Stirner egoist of the first order. And I'm damn proud of it.
While I don't use twisted, I am given to understand that it does most of its asynchronous stuff using callbacks - you may be able to leave most of the concurrency to it and avoid the process all together...
This is doable. I have some demo code I wrote to use twisted with pygame as sort of a proof of concept for a network playable game. It's not a real game, it's just flying a spaceship around a grid, and also provides a server you could telnet to and get updates on the position of ships and shots, but it's got enough code to show how to interface two event-driven systems together.
If anyone is that interested to see it, write me at my username + my user id at gmail and I'll send it to you.
I'm 41, hard-bitten, jaded, and cynical at life's many disappointments, both small and large. A sight such as that would permanently scar me.
Are you kidding? I hate forums. ;-)
Remember, the conjugation/inflection is ATHY, ATHIER, ATHIEST.
"The soup is very athy today!"
"CNN is athier than Fox."
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the athiest of them all?"
Until they offer a 10% discount if you can beat your agent at Starcraft. 20% if your agent is Korean.
That's a good strategy too, and I like the architecture thing you've got... I have a setup kind of like that at work since I sometimes have support i386 and x86_64 Linux, and Solaris SPARC.
But at home, I do have to have many packages I build available across accounts. I have a "usrlocal" group and /usr/local was set 775, plus a g+s. My primary account is in the usrlocal group, so I can put things there without su or sudo.