Well, if you really wanted you could do cross-dressing. You would sell girls to be sex slaves too. You would kill the goddamn ghost in the hotel and it would be back there again, just the same. With water-breathing potion you could play to be a submarine. You could take up a job of a terrorist, just like being a member of Avalanche. Well, House of Earthly Delights wasn't quite like Golden Saucer, but you could move in there to enjoy just after visiting nearby dark daedric ruins. spellmaking: 100 fire damage in 100 feet radius, on target, looked goddamn similar to shooting the Weapons. Propylon Chambers were damn similar to the reactors:) Ah, and the main badass area was surrounded by energy shield too. You'd get lost in an ash storm instead of a snow storm. No trains, but kickass stilt striders instead:) Goddamn annoying Cliff Racers about as annoying as various random encounters before you get anywhere on land. The bad guy had its converted agents all thorough the world too. And he would visit you in your nightmares as well. You could summon stuff for help.
Well, as for differences... you wouldn't get attacked by an incompetent rude ninja in the woods. (not that there were any woods). The flower girl who wanted to save the world appeared to be a power-hungry bitch who was going to fucking bury Nerevar, she has done it before, and she would do it again. No gun replacements for cut off arm. You started FF7 by commiting a crime. You started Morrowind by getting out of prison.
Don't worry, no more potions of fortify intelligence 1585 for 32684 seconds. You can have only a few potions in effect simultaneously so you can fortify int only so much and make only so kickass potions and no more. Unless they missed something again..:)
...and a wise one. In Morrowind magic-casting characters were vastly underpowered, primarily due to limited magicka. A custom fireball doing about 50 damage, for an average character mid-mainquest would eat up 70% magicka, fizzle some 30% of the time, get reflected/absorbed/resisted by 60% of harder enemies, wouldn't kill anything stronger than a guar, and you'd likely miss hitting the enemy altogether. Potions of regenerating magicka were weak, heavy, expensive and making them required exotic, rare components. Generally all offensive magic sucked a big time - studying "Destruction" was wasting money and time. Of course support magic like mark/recall, chameleon, all the kinds of healing etc was quite decent, and enchanting items and alchemy were the most ultimately ridiculously overpowered domains (potion of restore health 300[per second] for 5000 seconds, from common cheapest components, making you completely invulnerable for hours, or a ring of restore health, constant enchantment - regenerating health faster than enemies can take it), but still taking the strongest magic-caster possible, with all the kickass signs and races made you weaker than a half-assed fighter-thief mix.
Also note the regeneration of health werewolves had was one of the poorest bonuses in the game. You get whacked by the enemy twice and you're down to half the health, you wait half the night to regenerate back, you get whacked twice again and you won't heal until morning. The goddamn first werewolf quest was nearly impossible. Regeneration of magic may still be less than needed to give battlemage characters due power.
In the meantime "alchemy skill" limiting amount of potions in effect should efficiently put an end to boosting parameters to levels like 15000 current out of 100 max.
hehe, even better: You find a bug in the game, that prevents you from progressing further in a quest. You load up the editor, take 5 mins to make a plugin that fixes that bug, then load up the game with the new plugin and play on:) Goddamn assassin boss was getting the dialogue stuck in an endless loop when killed in Tribunal, 5 mins of tweaking, mark new plugin as active, boom, dead, works, gaming on:)
What gives? Mention it and everybody will say they played it, they loved it, it was cool. They will mention the same bugs, the same problems, the same fixes, they will praise the game for detail, and after 5 mins you will see there's nothing to discuss. Neverwinter Nights sucked in so many ways that it's a good subject for an argument. WoW has so many flaws some consider features that you can argue for hours. Morrowind was so close to perfection that you already know almost all that was to be known about it and mostly everyone agrees - and if everyone agrees, there's no discussion. Simple.
"Vista Home Premium includes everything in the Basic version and adds the new graphical interface called Aero."
So what the hell is the advantage of "Starter" and "Home Basic" over XP Home Edition with SP2? Security? MSH not bundled, will likely be runnable on all upon downloading. IE7 available for XP..NET everywhere already. New Media Player, XP. So what's new for home users?
Zelda: Ocarina of Time. A friend shoulder-looking. Just after racing with the undertaker's ghost. I drop into a tiny room deep under ground surface, a small enclosed cube with no exit in any direction, somewhere at the end of an obscure tomb in the cemetery. Badly hurt, no fairies, no potions, generally screwed up. "I don't think it can get any worse" - I say. "Maybe try playing some song, the song of time or something" - says the friend. So I whip out the ocarina and try playing the song of time, from memory. And I play the wrong song. Song of storms. It starts raining.
Cartridges were something more than just piracy counter-measure - just note you can pack the cartridge with more than just read-only memory. (NES Doom cartridge was practically a whole computer with RAM, CPU and so on.)
Look, if the judge sees this thread, they will sentence you for attempted murder and won't care you used a lamp instead of a sword, it's the intent that matters!
just yesterday I finished Majora's Mask. It was waiting the whole time till I get a PC beefy enough to run Project64 at reasonable speed. I finished OOT with the old 700MHZ CPU but at 5FPS it wasn't it. And now I seriously ponder buying a used N64...
I think the equivalent was seam walking. You could walk pretty high above the Hyrule Field walking a 1px wide invisible rope leading diagonally up from somewhere near the Hyrule Town gate.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref8 .html Note that when you append to the innerHTML of a document, you have essentially created a new document. The session history for the browser is incremented, and when you go Back, the document is there in its original, unappended state.
Meaning I could just load a separate page instead. innerHTML looks very promising and could be a really great property, but unfortunately the implementation is so tricky and riddled with caveats that using it as anything else than read-only variable will most likely break everything else.
In your example about the best you could do to avoid the breakage that would occur immediately after applying what you did could be by doing:
var list=document.createChild('ul'); list.type="square"; list.innerHTML="<li><a href=\"#link1\">Page 1</a></li><li><a href=\"#link2\">Page 2</a>(new!)</li>"; document.getElementById('body').appendChild(list);
This way the innerHTML gets parsed before being inserted into 'list' but 'list' is still 'floating in air', doesn't change anything in existing tree yet, doesn't write to any history, doesn't have any content to be overwritten and so on. Probably. So when it's ready you plant a ready piece of the tree into the document, no re-parsing of HTML of the actual document occurs. Likely. It's not guaranted to behave that way though, so it's just your faith in logical behaviour of the browser that keeps it running.
Been there, today. Works with HTML but not SVG so if you want to be consistent thorough your app, you're stuck with line.createAttribute('x1',sx); It's the same DOM, just different tag names. Sure you may contract more stuff into one line. Still 520 bytes of typing vs 105, horrible verbosity and awful syntax. I wish innerHTML wasn't so badly broken in the specs. body.innerHTML += "....."; and viola. Unfortunately life isn't that easy.
Did you read notes on innerHTML in w3c spec? Once the code is in place you want to avoid innerHTML like a famine. And if you're doing anything else than HTML (xml? svg?) you don't have innerHTML.
DOM is hell.
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Well, I don't know who was responsible for inventing DOM but I have some experience in writing using it, and today I had a refresher on how ugly it is. Consider the following piece of HTML:
var list=document.createElement('ul'); list.createAttribute('type','square'); var el1=document.createElement('li'); var el2=document.createElement('li'); var link1=document.createElement('a'); var link2=document.createElement('a'); link1.createAttribute('href','#link1'); link2.createAttribute('href','#link2'); var content1=document.createTextNode('Page 1'); var content2=document.createTextNode('Page 2'); var content3=document.createTextNode('(new!)'); link1.appendChild(content1); link2.appendChild(content1); el1.appendChild(link1); el2.appendChild(link2); el2.appendChild(content3); list.appendChild(el1); list.appendChild(el2); document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChi ld(list);
Of course you will likely pull link URLs from arrays, texts from some resource file, you won't be creating multiple variables to hold similar elements etc, but to create equivalent piece of document you will likely need to use something very similar to the above. (and it's still not the best. link1.remove(); ? No. link1.parentNode.removeChild(link1); link1.replaceWith(link2)? No. link1.parentNode.replaceChild(link1,link2);
Do you already feel about the author of DOM specs the way I feel?
If you want to use the AGP slot, you'll have to 1) design and build your card yourself from scratch, and 2) apparantly it'll be severely limited in the data rate back from the card to the computer. Alternatively take a good 3D-accelerated gfx card off the shelf, never plug anything in the card's outputs and write your own custom software to use the card's GPU. It will be severely limited it data rate back, but that's not a show-stopper. There are tasks where this is pretty useful - hashing algorithms return very little in response to lots, compression of well-compressable data returns way less than accepts on input. Numerical optimization requires a few kilobytes of input, little RAM, heavy teraflops of CPU and as the result after a week of processing produces a few bytes of output - the few RIGHT bytes. Not all of these tasks are suitable for GPU but they all don't care about low downstream.
Do you know of any beefy general-purpose serial processing co-CPUs being sold on PCI cards? There were things like DVD decoders and separate 3D accelerators sold in the past, but these were hardly general-purpose and not by todays' standards beefy anymore.
I personally was thinking on a pretty general-purpose reprogrammable co-CPU based on PCI and FPGA - say, program it with a task at hand and remove the load from the main CPU, say audio/video encoding/decoding, realtime disk encryption/compression, neural network analysis of incoming data etc - a smart resident demon reprograms part of the FPGA to current needs which performs given operations in a flash (and more importantly with near-zero main CPU load). Buy more FPGA chips for the extension board for more/bigger preloaded processing programs to allow snappier response, no waiting for reprogramming the FPGA.
Because this traverses whole HTML file and associates and converts everything external in it to data:
I tried making this in javascript, basing on the old good Hixie's data: URI kitchen rewritten in js, but sorry, stumbled against a hard block - you can't automatically import -contents- of an image or external script or stylesheet into a JS object which you could transform later. Of course you can do var pic=new Image() but then you can do really little with the contents - there is no way to access the raw binary of the image to process it. So in fact you need a HTML, CSS (and possibly JS too) parser that will download all external files, parse them to find any further references (background-image: url(http://.../ in external style sheet?) and recursively replace all with respective data: URIs. In the short half-hour before I gave up on my little converter, I pondered this thoroughly and the idea is way harder to do than it looks. Generally you need a good spider backend for seeking whatever needs to be inlined, then imports it in parseable way, starting from deepest nesting - and that's the hard part - the actual conversion is trivial.
Short list of things to consider: -script src=.. --inside script: object.src=... -link rel= (stylesheet) --inside stylesheet: background-image:url(...); -object, embed, applet --their respective prerequisites?? flash loaded from inside flash? -any element with background="..." -any element with longdesc="..." -img -input type=image -frame -iframe -any HTML, script and style already embedded as data: URI needs to be decoded first to see if it doesn't contain unencapsulated URLs as well.
Quite a few of the above need to be re-parsed for deeper linkage too. Likely there are some more I missed too.
You can't patent the same thing twice. If they passed the patent today, by the time the warp drive is invented it would be expired and nobody would be able to patent the drive then.
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Well, if you really wanted you could do cross-dressing. You would sell girls to be sex slaves too. :) :)
You would kill the goddamn ghost in the hotel and it would be back there again, just the same.
With water-breathing potion you could play to be a submarine.
You could take up a job of a terrorist, just like being a member of Avalanche.
Well, House of Earthly Delights wasn't quite like Golden Saucer, but you could move in there to enjoy just after visiting nearby dark daedric ruins.
spellmaking: 100 fire damage in 100 feet radius, on target, looked goddamn similar to shooting the Weapons.
Propylon Chambers were damn similar to the reactors
Ah, and the main badass area was surrounded by energy shield too.
You'd get lost in an ash storm instead of a snow storm.
No trains, but kickass stilt striders instead
Goddamn annoying Cliff Racers about as annoying as various random encounters before you get anywhere on land.
The bad guy had its converted agents all thorough the world too. And he would visit you in your nightmares as well.
You could summon stuff for help.
Well, as for differences...
you wouldn't get attacked by an incompetent rude ninja in the woods. (not that there were any woods).
The flower girl who wanted to save the world appeared to be a power-hungry bitch who was going to fucking bury Nerevar, she has done it before, and she would do it again.
No gun replacements for cut off arm.
You started FF7 by commiting a crime. You started Morrowind by getting out of prison.
Don't worry, no more potions of fortify intelligence 1585 for 32684 seconds. You can have only a few potions in effect simultaneously so you can fortify int only so much and make only so kickass potions and no more. Unless they missed something again.. :)
...and a wise one.
In Morrowind magic-casting characters were vastly underpowered, primarily due to limited magicka. A custom fireball doing about 50 damage, for an average character mid-mainquest would eat up 70% magicka, fizzle some 30% of the time, get reflected/absorbed/resisted by 60% of harder enemies, wouldn't kill anything stronger than a guar, and you'd likely miss hitting the enemy altogether. Potions of regenerating magicka were weak, heavy, expensive and making them required exotic, rare components. Generally all offensive magic sucked a big time - studying "Destruction" was wasting money and time. Of course support magic like mark/recall, chameleon, all the kinds of healing etc was quite decent, and enchanting items and alchemy were the most ultimately ridiculously overpowered domains (potion of restore health 300[per second] for 5000 seconds, from common cheapest components, making you completely invulnerable for hours, or a ring of restore health, constant enchantment - regenerating health faster than enemies can take it), but still taking the strongest magic-caster possible, with all the kickass signs and races made you weaker than a half-assed fighter-thief mix.
Also note the regeneration of health werewolves had was one of the poorest bonuses in the game. You get whacked by the enemy twice and you're down to half the health, you wait half the night to regenerate back, you get whacked twice again and you won't heal until morning. The goddamn first werewolf quest was nearly impossible. Regeneration of magic may still be less than needed to give battlemage characters due power.
In the meantime "alchemy skill" limiting amount of potions in effect should efficiently put an end to boosting parameters to levels like 15000 current out of 100 max.
hehe, even better: You find a bug in the game, that prevents you from progressing further in a quest. You load up the editor, take 5 mins to make a plugin that fixes that bug, then load up the game with the new plugin and play on :) :)
Goddamn assassin boss was getting the dialogue stuck in an endless loop when killed in Tribunal, 5 mins of tweaking, mark new plugin as active, boom, dead, works, gaming on
What gives? Mention it and everybody will say they played it, they loved it, it was cool. They will mention the same bugs, the same problems, the same fixes, they will praise the game for detail, and after 5 mins you will see there's nothing to discuss. Neverwinter Nights sucked in so many ways that it's a good subject for an argument. WoW has so many flaws some consider features that you can argue for hours. Morrowind was so close to perfection that you already know almost all that was to be known about it and mostly everyone agrees - and if everyone agrees, there's no discussion. Simple.
and I predict that by 2080 earth-orbit-based telescopes will become useless due to amount of space junk and rocket exhaust vapor clouds ;)
Time to think of a solar-orbit telescope?
np
"Vista Home Premium includes everything in the Basic version and adds the new graphical interface called Aero."
.NET everywhere already. New Media Player, XP. So what's new for home users?
So what the hell is the advantage of "Starter" and "Home Basic" over XP Home Edition with SP2? Security?
MSH not bundled, will likely be runnable on all upon downloading. IE7 available for XP.
Nope, a single one, no chance, too weak CPU.
But a beowulf cluster of those...
Nope, they sold it for lots and lots of $$$!
Well, Princess Ruto beat her to it on Fchan.
NSFW.
(Remember the rule: On the Internet you can find porn of EVERYTHING)
Zelda: Ocarina of Time. A friend shoulder-looking. Just after racing with the undertaker's ghost. I drop into a tiny room deep under ground surface, a small enclosed cube with no exit in any direction, somewhere at the end of an obscure tomb in the cemetery. Badly hurt, no fairies, no potions, generally screwed up.
"I don't think it can get any worse" - I say.
"Maybe try playing some song, the song of time or something" - says the friend.
So I whip out the ocarina and try playing the song of time, from memory.
And I play the wrong song. Song of storms.
It starts raining.
Can you play (whistle) "The legend of Wind Fish" by blowing at the cartridge?
Cartridges were something more than just piracy counter-measure - just note you can pack the cartridge with more than just read-only memory. (NES Doom cartridge was practically a whole computer with RAM, CPU and so on.)
Look, if the judge sees this thread, they will sentence you for attempted murder and won't care you used a lamp instead of a sword, it's the intent that matters!
Come on, the only plus of FF7AC was great gfx and cool combat sequences. The plot was pathetic.
just yesterday I finished Majora's Mask. It was waiting the whole time till I get a PC beefy enough to run Project64 at reasonable speed. I finished OOT with the old 700MHZ CPU but at 5FPS it wasn't it.
And now I seriously ponder buying a used N64...
I think the equivalent was seam walking. You could walk pretty high above the Hyrule Field walking a 1px wide invisible rope leading diagonally up from somewhere near the Hyrule Town gate.
Try the above with any living document.
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/r
When the innerHTML property is set, the given string completely replaces the existing content of the object. If the string contains HTML tags, the string is parsed and formatted as it is placed into the document.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref
Note that when you append to the innerHTML of a document, you have essentially created a new document. The session history for the browser is incremented, and when you go Back, the document is there in its original, unappended state.
Meaning I could just load a separate page instead. innerHTML looks very promising and could be a really great property, but unfortunately the implementation is so tricky and riddled with caveats that using it as anything else than read-only variable will most likely break everything else.
In your example about the best you could do to avoid the breakage that would occur immediately after applying what you did could be by doing:
var list=document.createChild('ul');
list.type="square";
list.innerHTML="<li><a href=\"#link1\">Page 1</a></li><li><a
href=\"#link2\">Page 2</a>(new!)</li>";
document.getElementById('body').appendChild(list)
This way the innerHTML gets parsed before being inserted into 'list' but 'list' is still 'floating in air', doesn't change anything in existing tree yet, doesn't write to any history, doesn't have any content to be overwritten and so on. Probably. So when it's ready you plant a ready piece of the tree into the document, no re-parsing of HTML of the actual document occurs. Likely. It's not guaranted to behave that way though, so it's just your faith in logical behaviour of the browser that keeps it running.
> list.type = "square";
Been there, today. Works with HTML but not SVG so if you want to be consistent thorough your app, you're stuck with line.createAttribute('x1',sx);
It's the same DOM, just different tag names.
Sure you may contract more stuff into one line. Still 520 bytes of typing vs 105, horrible verbosity and awful syntax.
I wish innerHTML wasn't so badly broken in the specs.
body.innerHTML += "....."; and viola. Unfortunately life isn't that easy.
Did you read notes on innerHTML in w3c spec?
Once the code is in place you want to avoid innerHTML like a famine. And if you're doing anything else than HTML (xml? svg?) you don't have innerHTML.
Well, I don't know who was responsible for inventing DOM but I have some experience in writing using it, and today I had a refresher on how ugly it is.
i ld(list);
Consider the following piece of HTML:
<ul type="square">
<li><a href="#link1">Page 1</a></li>
<li><a href="#link2">Page 2</a>(new!)</li>
</ul>
Let's rewrite it as DOM:
var list=document.createElement('ul');
list.createAttribute('type','square');
var el1=document.createElement('li');
var el2=document.createElement('li');
var link1=document.createElement('a');
var link2=document.createElement('a');
link1.createAttribute('href','#link1');
link2.createAttribute('href','#link2');
var content1=document.createTextNode('Page 1');
var content2=document.createTextNode('Page 2');
var content3=document.createTextNode('(new!)');
link1.appendChild(content1);
link2.appendChild(content1);
el1.appendChild(link1);
el2.appendChild(link2);
el2.appendChild(content3);
list.appendChild(el1);
list.appendChild(el2);
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendCh
Of course you will likely pull link URLs from arrays, texts from some resource file, you won't be creating multiple variables to hold similar elements etc, but to create equivalent piece of document you will likely need to use something very similar to the above. (and it's still not the best. link1.remove(); ? No. link1.parentNode.removeChild(link1); link1.replaceWith(link2)? No. link1.parentNode.replaceChild(link1,link2);
Do you already feel about the author of DOM specs the way I feel?
If you want to use the AGP slot, you'll have to 1) design and build your card yourself from scratch, and 2) apparantly it'll be severely limited in the data rate back from the card to the computer.
Alternatively take a good 3D-accelerated gfx card off the shelf, never plug anything in the card's outputs and write your own custom software to use the card's GPU. It will be severely limited it data rate back, but that's not a show-stopper. There are tasks where this is pretty useful - hashing algorithms return very little in response to lots, compression of well-compressable data returns way less than accepts on input. Numerical optimization requires a few kilobytes of input, little RAM, heavy teraflops of CPU and as the result after a week of processing produces a few bytes of output - the few RIGHT bytes. Not all of these tasks are suitable for GPU but they all don't care about low downstream.
Do you know of any beefy general-purpose serial processing co-CPUs being sold on PCI cards? There were things like DVD decoders and separate 3D accelerators sold in the past, but these were hardly general-purpose and not by todays' standards beefy anymore.
I personally was thinking on a pretty general-purpose reprogrammable co-CPU based on PCI and FPGA - say, program it with a task at hand and remove the load from the main CPU, say audio/video encoding/decoding, realtime disk encryption/compression, neural network analysis of incoming data etc - a smart resident demon reprograms part of the FPGA to current needs which performs given operations in a flash (and more importantly with near-zero main CPU load). Buy more FPGA chips for the extension board for more/bigger preloaded processing programs to allow snappier response, no waiting for reprogramming the FPGA.
Because this traverses whole HTML file and associates and converts everything external in it to data:
I tried making this in javascript, basing on the old good Hixie's data: URI kitchen rewritten in js, but sorry, stumbled against a hard block - you can't automatically import -contents- of an image or external script or stylesheet into a JS object which you could transform later. Of course you can do var pic=new Image() but then you can do really little with the contents - there is no way to access the raw binary of the image to process it. So in fact you need a HTML, CSS (and possibly JS too) parser that will download all external files, parse them to find any further references (background-image: url(http://.../ in external style sheet?) and recursively replace all with respective data: URIs.
In the short half-hour before I gave up on my little converter, I pondered this thoroughly and the idea is way harder to do than it looks. Generally you need a good spider backend for seeking whatever needs to be inlined, then imports it in parseable way, starting from deepest nesting - and that's the hard part - the actual conversion is trivial.
Short list of things to consider:
-script src=..
--inside script: object.src=...
-link rel= (stylesheet)
--inside stylesheet: background-image:url(...);
-object, embed, applet
--their respective prerequisites?? flash loaded from inside flash?
-any element with background="..."
-any element with longdesc="..."
-img
-input type=image
-frame
-iframe
-any HTML, script and style already embedded as data: URI needs to be decoded first to see if it doesn't contain unencapsulated URLs as well.
Quite a few of the above need to be re-parsed for deeper linkage too. Likely there are some more I missed too.
You can't patent the same thing twice. If they passed the patent today, by the time the warp drive is invented it would be expired and nobody would be able to patent the drive then.