The method could be overridden in a subclass. That would make it useful.
Or perhaps the.getThis() method was specificed by an interface as a way of retrieving some functionality, but the functionality was implemented by the class itself. This design is used in table cell renderers in Java for example.
I have been playing Rome Total War, and it's a turn-based game until you come to the battles, which you don't have to play if you don't want to. I think it's a nice mix of turn-based and realtime. As for other turn-based games, I haven't played it myself, but I've heard a lot off good things about Europa Universalis.
I have the Nokia e61 which answers yes to all your questions.
Here's a review for it. You can run whatever you want on it. You can write your own programs in C++, Java or probably other languages too. At least my unit has no stupid lockings. I can install whatever mp3 songs I want as ringtones or for listening. And there's even a third-party internet radio player that you can install.
I know, and I wanted to point out that regardless of whether or not you find other innovations by Apple or MS to be "innovative", a versioned file system is nothing of the sort.
I wonder if OS X 10.5 was going to have such a feature and it leaked out. This is actually a quasi-innovative idea from Microsoft. Maybe they stole it from Apple via corporate spying.
SCO used to have this feature back in the 90's. Also, the VMS filesystem has had versioning since several decades back, and according to the Wikipedia article the feature was first found in TENEX which was created in 1969.
Converted from swedish currency and metric units, 95 octane petrol costs 6.47 USD per gallon. 98 octane would run you a whopping 6.62 USD. And note that the prices have dropped recently.
I would recommend the person to try some of the solutions from Naturalpoint. I'm using the TrackIR myself in flight simulators to control the view, but the product was originally designed as a mouse replacement. It works very well and completely eliminates the need to use the hands to control the pointer.
You might find that the D programming language is right up your alley. It seems to match most of your requirements.
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In that case, the game is poorly designed. I'm sure you could create a crappy design using either game style. In your particular example, why have the boss at all? Boss monsters is a classic workaround for a problem that my original suggestion solves: no need to throw more and more massive monsters at you in order to counter your growing arsenal.
Also, to answer your other question: How to deal with the situation where you have to knife 40 zombies? Again, that's part of the tactics. Why do you have to kill every single enemy in the first place? Why not avoid them? Or find some other way of killing them?
I can't be the only one who is severely bored with games that force me to kill every single enemy, and only focuses on using my guns to kill said enemies.
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When playing through one of those mindless FPS games where you start with a small hand gun and end up with massive rocket launchers, I was thinking that current games has it all backwards.
Compare to the movies where the hero usually has all the good stuff in the beginning and then ends up in more and more difficult situations, usually with less and less weapons.
How about creating a game where you get all the weapons in the end, but extra ammo is so rare that have less and less weapons as you progress through the game. This would add another dimension to the game since you will have to conserve your ammo.
It would also help out with some other problems that these games suffer from:
In most games today, the player gets better and better at playing the game throughout the game since he's getting more practice. He's also gettin gbetter and better weapons which means that the game designers have to come up with ridiculously powerful enemies at the end of the game. Often that is no enough but they also have to add ridiculous numbers of these enemies. As someone who would prefer a little realism in his games, this is something I really don't like.
Now, imagine if instead the difficulty only went up slightly but your means of defeating these ememies were reduced more and more as you rpogressed through the game. Not only would you be able to play with all the cool weapons right from the start, but you would also have more challenging game play.
I hope there are some games designers that would pick up on this idea, since I feel that it solves not only the problem of locked weapons, but also makes the games more realistic and prevents the need to add too powerful enemies.
I mostly play simulations. Flight, and racing. Here, there are usually no such thing as unlockables but still the games have tremendous replay-value. Falcon 4.0 was released in 1999 and the latest patch came out just a few days ago. Mind you there is one flyable aircraft, there has been hardly any weapons upgrades and a single map upgrade in all this time. That's reply value.
I recently bought rFactor. It's a nice racing game but as a sim fan, I was shocked to see that the cars were locked. I already know how to drive cars in realistic racing games. I always set everything on full realism and I don't need to sit through the driving lesson. The first thing I did was to find an unlock code to give me ulimited amounts of money. The game, however, is good enough that it doesn't need locked cars. It's a good sim, and as such provides just as much replay value as the good flight simulations.
My point is, that if a game or sim is good and provides a great experience then there is no need for lockable stuff. Mostly, it's used as a tool to hide the fact that the game sucks.
You can set the L&F yourself. You didn't use to be able to, but their attitudes have changed.
Anyhow, all you have to do is to set the system propery swing.defaultlaf to the L&F manager that you want to use. If you want to force the Windows L&F for example, use the following:
It's faster on Windows too. An interesting comparison is IntelliJ IDEA versus Eclipse. IDEA is significantly faster than Eclipse, even though IDEA uses Swing.
IDEA is also a lot better than Eclipse functionality-wise but that's not really releveant for this comparison.
It's improved a lot in every release, SWT or not. Today it's pretty damn good on Windows. The situation is worse on Unix though, I can agree with that. On the other hand, SWT sucks on anything but Windows anyway.
That's wrong. Just download the latest JDK. 1.5 or the 1.6 beta. Then double-click on SwingSet2.jar and try the demo. It's way faster than GNOME on the Linux machines I tried it on. And at least as fast if not faster than the Windows native widget set on at least some machines. Try it yourself. It really has come a long way since the early versions which were horribly slow.
Easy, here it is. Direct link to the source is here. However, it's only been this easyly accessible since the Mustang project. And a few years back it was near impossible.
The situation is pretty good now, but it certainly hasn't always been like that.
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Or perhaps the .getThis() method was specificed by an interface as a way of retrieving some functionality, but the functionality was implemented by the class itself. This design is used in table cell renderers in Java for example.
Fortunately, remapping is easy. Even for Windows.
The "backup" could easily be a snapshot, which is what ZFS does best.
I have been playing Rome Total War, and it's a turn-based game until you come to the battles, which you don't have to play if you don't want to. I think it's a nice mix of turn-based and realtime. As for other turn-based games, I haven't played it myself, but I've heard a lot off good things about Europa Universalis.
Here's a review for it. You can run whatever you want on it. You can write your own programs in C++, Java or probably other languages too. At least my unit has no stupid lockings. I can install whatever mp3 songs I want as ringtones or for listening. And there's even a third-party internet radio player that you can install.
I know, and I wanted to point out that regardless of whether or not you find other innovations by Apple or MS to be "innovative", a versioned file system is nothing of the sort.
Not at all. It's a very good choice. I wouldn't call it "innovative" though.
SCO used to have this feature back in the 90's. Also, the VMS filesystem has had versioning since several decades back, and according to the Wikipedia article the feature was first found in TENEX which was created in 1969.
Thank you for that link! Installed beautifully as a ringtone on my phone.
Converted from swedish currency and metric units, 95 octane petrol costs 6.47 USD per gallon. 98 octane would run you a whopping 6.62 USD. And note that the prices have dropped recently.
So, it's possible. You just have to work at it.
(not representing the company, just a happy customer)
I would recommend the person to try some of the solutions from Naturalpoint. I'm using the TrackIR myself in flight simulators to control the view, but the product was originally designed as a mouse replacement. It works very well and completely eliminates the need to use the hands to control the pointer.
You could do it entirely in the compiler
Some better examples of fast Java apps would be: IntelliJ IDEA or Aqua Data Studio.
You might find that the D programming language is right up your alley. It seems to match most of your requirements.
Also, to answer your other question: How to deal with the situation where you have to knife 40 zombies? Again, that's part of the tactics. Why do you have to kill every single enemy in the first place? Why not avoid them? Or find some other way of killing them?
I can't be the only one who is severely bored with games that force me to kill every single enemy, and only focuses on using my guns to kill said enemies.
Compare to the movies where the hero usually has all the good stuff in the beginning and then ends up in more and more difficult situations, usually with less and less weapons.
How about creating a game where you get all the weapons in the end, but extra ammo is so rare that have less and less weapons as you progress through the game. This would add another dimension to the game since you will have to conserve your ammo.
It would also help out with some other problems that these games suffer from:
In most games today, the player gets better and better at playing the game throughout the game since he's getting more practice. He's also gettin gbetter and better weapons which means that the game designers have to come up with ridiculously powerful enemies at the end of the game. Often that is no enough but they also have to add ridiculous numbers of these enemies. As someone who would prefer a little realism in his games, this is something I really don't like.
Now, imagine if instead the difficulty only went up slightly but your means of defeating these ememies were reduced more and more as you rpogressed through the game. Not only would you be able to play with all the cool weapons right from the start, but you would also have more challenging game play.
I hope there are some games designers that would pick up on this idea, since I feel that it solves not only the problem of locked weapons, but also makes the games more realistic and prevents the need to add too powerful enemies.
I recently bought rFactor. It's a nice racing game but as a sim fan, I was shocked to see that the cars were locked. I already know how to drive cars in realistic racing games. I always set everything on full realism and I don't need to sit through the driving lesson. The first thing I did was to find an unlock code to give me ulimited amounts of money. The game, however, is good enough that it doesn't need locked cars. It's a good sim, and as such provides just as much replay value as the good flight simulations.
My point is, that if a game or sim is good and provides a great experience then there is no need for lockable stuff. Mostly, it's used as a tool to hide the fact that the game sucks.
Anyhow, all you have to do is to set the system propery swing.defaultlaf to the L&F manager that you want to use. If you want to force the Windows L&F for example, use the following:
(ignore the stupid space that is added to the above line)You can read all the details, along with the class names to use for other look and feels at the Java tutorial page.
IDEA is also a lot better than Eclipse functionality-wise but that's not really releveant for this comparison.
It's improved a lot in every release, SWT or not. Today it's pretty damn good on Windows. The situation is worse on Unix though, I can agree with that. On the other hand, SWT sucks on anything but Windows anyway.
That's wrong. Just download the latest JDK. 1.5 or the 1.6 beta. Then double-click on SwingSet2.jar and try the demo. It's way faster than GNOME on the Linux machines I tried it on. And at least as fast if not faster than the Windows native widget set on at least some machines. Try it yourself. It really has come a long way since the early versions which were horribly slow.
The situation is pretty good now, but it certainly hasn't always been like that.