Well, most of the world wasn't Catholic, so they were free to develop science without any interference from the Church... Did they? No.
Well, the first christian Roman emperors (way before the separation of the Church to Catholic and Orthodox, when the roman empire was practically the whole world), closed the University of Athens and suppressed any ideas of that time that would question the beliefs of their religion (and not just in greece but in alexandria too). Just to mention that greek philoshophers and mathematicians had formulated theories about material, earth and space that are very close to todays most accepted theories. Plus that they had developed science of medicine, had compute the perimeter of the earth etc.
The point I was making was that science derives from the Catholic "mode of thinking". So a lack of Catholicism wouldn't have improved the situation.
When Catholism was created, the world was already towards dark ages. The way that the christians were enforcing their beliefs is to take the blame for that. And... oh, yes, it would
So you have a problem with the defense of Christian pilgrims who were being attacked by the Turks?
Read your history books again. The crusaides were made to recapture the holy lands and in the mean time butcher, loot and impose their religion.
First, there wouldn't have been any such (Muslim) Arab doctors if there were no Catholic Church, since Islam is a Christian heresy (based on Arianism and Docetism, if I'm not mistaken).
You are mistaken. Islam is not straightly related to christianity, maybe Mohammed borrowed things from christians or jesus but it didn't have any relation with what christianity had evolved to in Europe
Well, 52% is 52% of the market. This certainly equalizes the sizes in one category which AFAIK is AMD's only one, CPU's. Intel produces CPUs, MBs, VGAs, Patents & etc; and it also markets software, like compilers (C, F9x). I wouldn't expect AMD to catch Intel's annual bagdet.
But this doesn't make AMD the little guy. In fact it is a huge international multimillion dollar coorporation.
->. is, be glad only when either one drops the prices
Well, they don't test it. When they release the product to the market they let the people test it and then (about a year later) the provide the 1st Service Pack.
So, longhorn is to be released at 2006, with at least one year of delay and another one until the first SP, we're talking about 2008. By that time these hardware requirements will propably be obsolete.
What little guy??? 52% desktop CPU sales shows a very big guy.
In fact AMD has stopped being a little guy for quite some time now. I see that most people sympathize AMD because they think of it as a little guy. Intel on the other hand is seen as the big bad company.
At start, I sympathized AMD as well, but from my experience working in an SME (~50 boxes, workstations + servers) as admin/IT for some years, Intel's CPUs were proven to be more stable and durable. I must say that most problems on AMD CPUs where due to bugs/bad support from the MB chipsets (Good MBs had high cost, thus zeroing the profit from the lower CPU cost).
Anyway, I'm glad that the market is more balanced now but I'm never glad for a particular company. Their only cause is to make us spend more money and in IHMO there should be even more CPU manufacturers in the market.
Many people hated Q3A, and many loved it. As far as UT, I played it a lot, it is fun, but I didn't get the same feeling as Q3A. In my opinion Q3A's gameplay was a HECK of a lot better. Come on, you have Q3A in your top 5 overrated, your game collection must be very limited.
Overrated means good previews/reviews so people are expecting something better. In Q3A case (what was my point in my previous post) i) it didn't have good pre/reviews, everybody were refering to the engine and not the game. ii) It sold out, people are still playing it
It's the best graphics engine ever made (that is until doom3 is out) and the main goal of its developers was excactly that. (Some people confuse the graphic theme with the graphics engine and argue that Half-Life or UT had better graphics, duh!)
Uninspired gameplay? idsoftware had announced long before its release that it wouldn't have a storyline and it would be a multiplayer (arena style) game. Noone expected anything else than that. And it's the best way to make a 10 minutes break from work, having fun fraging everything it moves; instead of spending hours looking for a button to open a hidden door
You are confused about the matter of the article, it's about overated games not about games you didn't like. Q3A online servers were full for about a couple of years after its release on the market (you can still find a lot of servers online), and still has a lot of fanatic zealots (like myself, obviously:) )
Carmack only wants to build new and better 3D engines, he doesn't care so much about the game concept, he leaves that to others (Valve - Half Life, Activision - RTCW).
Though he found an excelent FPS recipe for testing his creations (QUAKE1/2/3).
Let's say you want to use only one connexion handler in your database class (so that objects inheriting from it can use shared "insert" and "update" methods).
PHP uses persistent connections for both mysql and postgresql (which i know), so I don't need to use only one connection handler, PHP will automatically use the same db connection anyway
These two examples are ugly, but only because of the language limitations.
Nope, poor design again. And I think that you are still missing the point. The language has limitations, but that doesn't mean you have to completely drop the idea of using its OO features when they are applicapable; well if you really really need OO don't use PHP, but that's a completely different issue.
PHP5 promises great features, but PHP4 still lacks lots of OO concepts.
No private/protected/public
No static class attributes
No abstract classes nor interfaces
No function overloading
Still experimental aggregation/composition
ok PHP hasn't the great OO features that other languages have (like java), but most of the PHP programs are written by one programmer and for producing HTML code which isn't the same thing as developing huge projects in an enterprise logic.
You can do OO-like stuff without the points above but at the expense of no encapsulation and ugly hacks.
OO is all about encapsulating and ugly hacks are made because of ugly designs. There is a tremendous advantage when using the OO features of PHP, for example you can create a class that encapsulates the database connection and all operations to it.
A very good example that demonstrates what you can do with the OO features of PHP is PHPlib, it has everything the original poster asks except it's based on OOP.
In Germany they do that with everything, not only video games, this way they are trying to expose their youth (And the big difference is that they do not blame the game industry for their violence of the youth, rather the way they raise them and the idols that they look up to.
First of all, I'll agree that vim is indeed a great tool. But in the geek world enabling/using all those features comes natural, for the average user though things are a little more complicated.
I 've been trying to convince some of my colleagues to make more use of *vi* (vi family editors) but they oppose some reasonable arguments, some of those are:
Slow learning curve
No user friendly manual
Entirely different philosophy from other very common editors (ex. notepad)
Some of the nice features need to be integrated (ex. cvs plugin)
It takes a long time to create usable custom settings (abbreviations, macros, etc)
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Well, most of the world wasn't Catholic, so they were free to develop science without any interference from the Church... Did they? No.
Well, the first christian Roman emperors (way before the separation of the Church to Catholic and Orthodox, when the roman empire was practically the whole world), closed the University of Athens and suppressed any ideas of that time that would question the beliefs of their religion (and not just in greece but in alexandria too). Just to mention that greek philoshophers and mathematicians had formulated theories about material, earth and space that are very close to todays most accepted theories. Plus that they had developed science of medicine, had compute the perimeter of the earth etc.
The point I was making was that science derives from the Catholic "mode of thinking". So a lack of Catholicism wouldn't have improved the situation.
When Catholism was created, the world was already towards dark ages. The way that the christians were enforcing their beliefs is to take the blame for that. And... oh, yes, it would
So you have a problem with the defense of Christian pilgrims who were being attacked by the Turks?
Read your history books again. The crusaides were made to recapture the holy lands and in the mean time butcher, loot and impose their religion.
First, there wouldn't have been any such (Muslim) Arab doctors if there were no Catholic Church, since Islam is a Christian heresy (based on Arianism and Docetism, if I'm not mistaken).
You are mistaken. Islam is not straightly related to christianity, maybe Mohammed borrowed things from christians or jesus but it didn't have any relation with what christianity had evolved to in Europe
Sounds a lot like Java Web Start with SWT.
Funny, I'm currently working on a project of this kind.
Try these settings in your XF86Config-4
If it works you can then try enabling NvAGP
JHNWell, 52% is 52% of the market. This certainly equalizes the sizes in one category which AFAIK is AMD's only one, CPU's. Intel produces CPUs, MBs, VGAs, Patents & etc; and it also markets software, like compilers (C, F9x). I wouldn't expect AMD to catch Intel's annual bagdet.
But this doesn't make AMD the little guy. In fact it is a huge international multimillion dollar coorporation.
->. is, be glad only when either one drops the prices
Well, they don't test it. When they release the product to the market they let the people test it and then (about a year later) the provide the 1st Service Pack.
So, longhorn is to be released at 2006, with at least one year of delay and another one until the first SP, we're talking about 2008. By that time these hardware requirements will propably be obsolete.
That software will be illegal to integrate with the OS due to antimonopolize laws. The requirements should be calculated by the OS alone.
What little guy??? 52% desktop CPU sales shows a very big guy.
In fact AMD has stopped being a little guy for quite some time now. I see that most people sympathize AMD because they think of it as a little guy. Intel on the other hand is seen as the big bad company.
At start, I sympathized AMD as well, but from my experience working in an SME (~50 boxes, workstations + servers) as admin/IT for some years, Intel's CPUs were proven to be more stable and durable. I must say that most problems on AMD CPUs where due to bugs/bad support from the MB chipsets (Good MBs had high cost, thus zeroing the profit from the lower CPU cost).
Anyway, I'm glad that the market is more balanced now but I'm never glad for a particular company. Their only cause is to make us spend more money and in IHMO there should be even more CPU manufacturers in the market.
JHNMany people hated Q3A, and many loved it. As far as UT, I played it a lot, it is fun, but I didn't get the same feeling as Q3A. In my opinion Q3A's gameplay was a HECK of a lot better. Come on, you have Q3A in your top 5 overrated, your game collection must be very limited.
Overrated means good previews/reviews so people are expecting something better. In Q3A case (what was my point in my previous post) i) it didn't have good pre/reviews, everybody were refering to the engine and not the game. ii) It sold out, people are still playing it
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I agree with most, except for quake3.
It's the best graphics engine ever made (that is until doom3 is out) and the main goal of its developers was excactly that. (Some people confuse the graphic theme with the graphics engine and argue that Half-Life or UT had better graphics, duh!)
Uninspired gameplay? idsoftware had announced long before its release that it wouldn't have a storyline and it would be a multiplayer (arena style) game. Noone expected anything else than that. And it's the best way to make a 10 minutes break from work, having fun fraging everything it moves; instead of spending hours looking for a button to open a hidden door
You are confused about the matter of the article, it's about overated games not about games you didn't like. Q3A online servers were full for about a couple of years after its release on the market (you can still find a lot of servers online), and still has a lot of fanatic zealots (like myself, obviously :) )
Though he found an excelent FPS recipe for testing his creations (QUAKE1/2/3).
Let's say you want to use only one connexion handler in your database class (so that objects inheriting from it can use shared "insert" and "update" methods).
PHP uses persistent connections for both mysql and postgresql (which i know), so I don't need to use only one connection handler, PHP will automatically use the same db connection anyway
These two examples are ugly, but only because of the language limitations.
Nope, poor design again. And I think that you are still missing the point. The language has limitations, but that doesn't mean you have to completely drop the idea of using its OO features when they are applicapable; well if you really really need OO don't use PHP, but that's a completely different issue.
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PHP5 promises great features, but PHP4 still lacks lots of OO concepts.
ok PHP hasn't the great OO features that other languages have (like java), but most of the PHP programs are written by one programmer and for producing HTML code which isn't the same thing as developing huge projects in an enterprise logic.
You can do OO-like stuff without the points above but at the expense of no encapsulation and ugly hacks.
OO is all about encapsulating and ugly hacks are made because of ugly designs. There is a tremendous advantage when using the OO features of PHP, for example you can create a class that encapsulates the database connection and all operations to it.
A very good example that demonstrates what you can do with the OO features of PHP is PHPlib, it has everything the original poster asks except it's based on OOP.
In Germany they do that with everything, not only video games, this way they are trying to expose their youth (And the big difference is that they do not blame the game industry for their violence of the youth, rather the way they raise them and the idols that they look up to.
First of all, I'll agree that vim is indeed a great tool. But in the geek world enabling/using all those features comes natural, for the average user though things are a little more complicated.
I 've been trying to convince some of my colleagues to make more use of *vi* (vi family editors) but they oppose some reasonable arguments, some of those are:
There have been always forces of evil trying to destroy anything good* in this country.
* conservative