but unless the game is developed right initially, it could cost more than that to port it.
It isn't costing Icculus a couple of hundred grand to port Duke3d, Quake, Doom, UT, Serious Sam, America's Army, ROTT, Hexen, or AvP. Hell, as long as you don't use DirectX in your game, or at least have an OpenGL mode, there's not much code yo have to change.
G*d, I'm sick of whiners who cannot read opposing viewpoints without feeling that those viewpoints are being 'forced' upon them.
Me too. You'd think that presumably intelligent adults would be able to understand someone else's viewpoints and deal with differing opinions accordingly.
For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website where he talks about how to "deal with" Christians during Christmas. He seems to think that anyone wishing him a Merry Christmas is akin to him being buttraped by a 500lb black dude that calls himself "Candy". For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable. I've had Jewish people wish me a happy Hannukah, I've had Satanists wish me a good trip to hell in a handbasket, and I've had Buddhists tell me they hope I have a happy 15 lifetimes. I can honestly say that I haven't ever been offended, and I can't understand why anyone would be unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.
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Amen. I would be WAY more than willing to shell out $20 a month to have AG running the way it used to. The fact that it was "set and forget" was the best thing going for it. I never liked Napster either, but AG did it right. Too bad the record companies are too stupid to see a VIABLE SOURCE OF INCOME when they see one. Dipshits.
Some more good points. I think the main thrust of my annoyance with these devices is the fact that they're still marketed as PHONES. At some point a gadget with a bunch of extra stuff taped onto it becomes another gadget entirely.
Yet another good point. Deaf dudes! Something else they might want to throw in is the ability to translate the other parties voice into text. Instant portably teletype.
Now THAT is an explanation. I never thought about places where local calls cost money (could this be why text messaging has caught on in England so well?).
Am I the only one that doesn't care if I can play games and take pictures with a PHONE? These things bug the hell out of me. They REALLY need to come up with a better word than PHONE to use for something where the communicative abilities have obviously taken a back seat to solitaire.
ALSO, is there anything more COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID than TEXT MESSAGING someone from a PHONE, where you could type less and ACTUALLY CALL THEM? GRRRRRRR......
And that's where the good stuff comes in. Python can easily be called from C programs to handle things that would be tricky to implement in C (such as dictionaries and lists). Take all the low level stuff and redo it in C, then leave the higher level stuff for Python. Best of both worlds, and probably with a major speed increase.
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I don't know if I'd throw it into the "learning language" category. After all, that's throwing it into the same bin as BASIC and Pascal. Python's core language is just as good as any other. The problem with Python is the modules. Like you said, the documentation for these is HORRIBLE. For those that don't know, the documentation consists of whatever the programmer decided to put into triple quotes in the source. You can then run another program to go in and retrieve these, and format them appropriately. This sucks. I like Python, but the documentation definitely needs a kick in the ass.
I like it when companies finally realise they're capable of actually working FOR their customers. And tell me, who here would prefer 500 spam mails a day over 3 AOL discs a week? Nobody? Exactly what I think. AOL's discs provide me with free CD cases and coasters. What is there to complain about? When you're sick of having a half billion coasters you simply give them to your local recreation center to be used as frisbees, or to a nice gun club for skeet shooting practice. Spread the love.
Part of these fees would be remitted to the record labels, while some would be paid directly to the artists (who today frequently are victims of unfair contracts and crooked royalty accounting).
This dude apparently knows nothing about the recording industry. Artists are TODAY frequently screwed? Bullshit. Artists have been fucked over by the record industry since it was four guys with a vinyl lathe in their mom's garage. Record labels are NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN about artist development. They're about the fuckstick label owner making money, end of story.
What really pisses me off about the RIAA's bullshit is that fact that they hide behind the artists when trying to convince people that they're losing money. "Oh, our poor artists can't afford to eat!" Well, dipshits, they might be able to if you didn't take 80% of THEIR profits.
I have a better idea than the one presented here. Instead of giving money to the record labels at all, let's give the money directly to the artists. If the record labels are as commited as they say they are to protecting the rights of their artists, they will JUMP at that chance. But they're no, so they won't. Makes me sad I'm a musician, really.
But, as we all know, Quantum is a bit different, isn't it?;) Quantum mechanics is like visiting a foreign city for the first time. They do things ALMOST the same, so it sort of makes sense. But they do everything on the wrong side of the road, in a funny language, and upside down. While wearing funny hats. And not bathing. That's pretty much what quantum is, only a lot less nonsensical than quantum actually is.
No. Security through not making a big deal about everything. When you put yourself in a position to be well-known, you put yourself at risk. I think the original point was that as long as you don't try to pull rabbits out of your ass in Times Square on a Saturday, you'll have fewer attacks against your software.
No, it sounds more like sense. "Bloat" is an overused term. Bloat isn't a question of programming language, it's a question of skill with said language and having the minimum number of features in a program. One man can code something in assembler that takes ten times as long as something similar programmed in Python. It all comes down to skill.
That does, in fact, suck. I didn't really like the first Spidey movie, but I thought he was pretty good in it. I really hope this doesn't turn into a Batman type situation where the actor changes every movie.
And? The whole point of the article had NOT A FUCKING THING TO DO WITH DEVELOPMENT. It was a criticism of THE DESIGN OF THE DESKTOP ENVIROMENT AS IT COMES STANDARD. Not what CAN be done with it (although this was covered), but how it functions AT THE DEFAULT LEVEL. The author never mentioned "trolling" the KDE mailing lists. He states: I have outlined my problems with KDE more detailed here, which was later discussed in the kde-usability list. I'll try to explain that to you. What it means is that he wrote an article, then some people on the mailing list discussed it. Check your English parser, I think it has a bug.
And, since you didn't bother to read the article on the KDE UI that was linked to: I served as a User Interface designer while I was working in a knowledge system project in UK... This article is a very thorough and fair look at KDE.
Where did I say Flash was invented by MS? Hey, nowhere! I know who developed Flash, I was making a point that web developers use technology just because they can, without thinking of the consequences for the end user. I know Netscape was one of the first with the proprietary tags but again, that wasn't the point.
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Easiest thing to do is actually buy one of the books from him. You have evidence, plus you get at the very least a business address.
I'd buy them just so I could kick that slimy dweeb that was interviewed in the ass.
but unless the game is developed right initially, it could cost more than that to port it.
It isn't costing Icculus a couple of hundred grand to port Duke3d, Quake, Doom, UT, Serious Sam, America's Army, ROTT, Hexen, or AvP. Hell, as long as you don't use DirectX in your game, or at least have an OpenGL mode, there's not much code yo have to change.
Who gives a fuck? Oh shit, we can't have several things happen on the same day! :P
"Confess! Confess!" "I CONFESS! I CONFESS!" "Not you, HER!"
And this stupid "Don't use so many caps" thing is fucking annoying. They're yelling in the script, dipshit!
Me too. You'd think that presumably intelligent adults would be able to understand someone else's viewpoints and deal with differing opinions accordingly.
For some reason I'm remined of Richard Stallman's website where he talks about how to "deal with" Christians during Christmas. He seems to think that anyone wishing him a Merry Christmas is akin to him being buttraped by a 500lb black dude that calls himself "Candy". For such a presumably intelligent person to get so upset over something like that is completely laughable. I've had Jewish people wish me a happy Hannukah, I've had Satanists wish me a good trip to hell in a handbasket, and I've had Buddhists tell me they hope I have a happy 15 lifetimes. I can honestly say that I haven't ever been offended, and I can't understand why anyone would be unless they were nothing but reactionary assholes in the first place.
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They win.
My cats are banished from my room forever. I have lost too many guitar cords to the little bastards. I don't get it, they're not all that tasty.
Amen. I would be WAY more than willing to shell out $20 a month to have AG running the way it used to. The fact that it was "set and forget" was the best thing going for it. I never liked Napster either, but AG did it right. Too bad the record companies are too stupid to see a VIABLE SOURCE OF INCOME when they see one. Dipshits.
Some more good points. I think the main thrust of my annoyance with these devices is the fact that they're still marketed as PHONES. At some point a gadget with a bunch of extra stuff taped onto it becomes another gadget entirely.
Yet another good point. Deaf dudes! Something else they might want to throw in is the ability to translate the other parties voice into text. Instant portably teletype.
Now THAT is an explanation. I never thought about places where local calls cost money (could this be why text messaging has caught on in England so well?).
Am I the only one that doesn't care if I can play games and take pictures with a PHONE? These things bug the hell out of me. They REALLY need to come up with a better word than PHONE to use for something where the communicative abilities have obviously taken a back seat to solitaire.
ALSO, is there anything more COMPLETELY FUCKING STUPID than TEXT MESSAGING someone from a PHONE, where you could type less and ACTUALLY CALL THEM? GRRRRRRR......
And that's where the good stuff comes in. Python can easily be called from C programs to handle things that would be tricky to implement in C (such as dictionaries and lists). Take all the low level stuff and redo it in C, then leave the higher level stuff for Python. Best of both worlds, and probably with a major speed increase.
I don't know if I'd throw it into the "learning language" category. After all, that's throwing it into the same bin as BASIC and Pascal. Python's core language is just as good as any other. The problem with Python is the modules. Like you said, the documentation for these is HORRIBLE. For those that don't know, the documentation consists of whatever the programmer decided to put into triple quotes in the source. You can then run another program to go in and retrieve these, and format them appropriately. This sucks. I like Python, but the documentation definitely needs a kick in the ass.
Haven't any of you realised that NOW they're just posting dupes to piss you off? I didn't think so. ;)
I like it when companies finally realise they're capable of actually working FOR their customers. And tell me, who here would prefer 500 spam mails a day over 3 AOL discs a week? Nobody? Exactly what I think. AOL's discs provide me with free CD cases and coasters. What is there to complain about? When you're sick of having a half billion coasters you simply give them to your local recreation center to be used as frisbees, or to a nice gun club for skeet shooting practice. Spread the love.
This dude apparently knows nothing about the recording industry. Artists are TODAY frequently screwed? Bullshit. Artists have been fucked over by the record industry since it was four guys with a vinyl lathe in their mom's garage. Record labels are NOT and NEVER HAVE BEEN about artist development. They're about the fuckstick label owner making money, end of story.
What really pisses me off about the RIAA's bullshit is that fact that they hide behind the artists when trying to convince people that they're losing money. "Oh, our poor artists can't afford to eat!" Well, dipshits, they might be able to if you didn't take 80% of THEIR profits.
I have a better idea than the one presented here. Instead of giving money to the record labels at all, let's give the money directly to the artists. If the record labels are as commited as they say they are to protecting the rights of their artists, they will JUMP at that chance. But they're no, so they won't. Makes me sad I'm a musician, really.
Here's a better one: print "Hello, World!" Python 0wns.
But, as we all know, Quantum is a bit different, isn't it? ;) Quantum mechanics is like visiting a foreign city for the first time. They do things ALMOST the same, so it sort of makes sense. But they do everything on the wrong side of the road, in a funny language, and upside down. While wearing funny hats. And not bathing. That's pretty much what quantum is, only a lot less nonsensical than quantum actually is.
No. Security through not making a big deal about everything. When you put yourself in a position to be well-known, you put yourself at risk. I think the original point was that as long as you don't try to pull rabbits out of your ass in Times Square on a Saturday, you'll have fewer attacks against your software.
Or something like that. I'm not really sure.
No, it sounds more like sense. "Bloat" is an overused term. Bloat isn't a question of programming language, it's a question of skill with said language and having the minimum number of features in a program. One man can code something in assembler that takes ten times as long as something similar programmed in Python. It all comes down to skill.
That does, in fact, suck. I didn't really like the first Spidey movie, but I thought he was pretty good in it. I really hope this doesn't turn into a Batman type situation where the actor changes every movie.
And? The whole point of the article had NOT A FUCKING THING TO DO WITH DEVELOPMENT. It was a criticism of THE DESIGN OF THE DESKTOP ENVIROMENT AS IT COMES STANDARD. Not what CAN be done with it (although this was covered), but how it functions AT THE DEFAULT LEVEL. The author never mentioned "trolling" the KDE mailing lists. He states: I have outlined my problems with KDE more detailed here, which was later discussed in the kde-usability list. I'll try to explain that to you. What it means is that he wrote an article, then some people on the mailing list discussed it. Check your English parser, I think it has a bug.
And, since you didn't bother to read the article on the KDE UI that was linked to: I served as a User Interface designer while I was working in a knowledge system project in UK... This article is a very thorough and fair look at KDE.
Where did I say Flash was invented by MS? Hey, nowhere! I know who developed Flash, I was making a point that web developers use technology just because they can, without thinking of the consequences for the end user. I know Netscape was one of the first with the proprietary tags but again, that wasn't the point.