The proper thing to do, from Gamefaqs' point of view, is to link to the game page itself and inform people they want the "Game Script" under in-depth faqs.
2) A lot of software I like as a programming hobbiest is not easily available with a simple command like apt-get install
Name 1 (ONE) programming language or software that you can run on Linux that can NOT be run on Windows XP....
It's not about whether or not you can get them, it's how easy it is. After having used linux for a few years now, finding software in windows is becoming one of my biggest gripes. When I do a reinstall, I need to hunt down every little utility I want, whereas on linux I just hit the package manager and say I want foo, bar, and baz. A similar package manager for windows would be absurdly useful, but inconvenient to do at this stage.
Laptop: Firefox with 6 tabs, jEdit, terminal, Gaim in systray, Quod Libet (music) in systray, and yakuake (a command shell) hidden most of the time.
Office: Firefox with 7 tabs, Eclipse, Evolution, Gaim in systray, yakuake.
And to think, my office box has 2 monitors:P
Most people have their Halloween parties on the Friday or Saturday night, rather than stay up late and come up with an excuse on why they didn't show up to (work|school) next Wed morning.
Do as the TDD folks do - you write a test that fails, your partner makes it pass. They write a test, and you make it pass. Whenever either of you feels like it, after you've made your test pass, take an opportunity to refactor something (or make your partner refactor it) to improve on the design.
The lesser-skilled one will learn from many things:
how you approach difficult problems
how to write tests that effectively target behaviour
how and when to refactor effectively
and plus you get to give feedback on his code directly - as long as you're constructive with it, it'll be a good experience.
Plus, you both will get about equal keyboard-time.
Most fighting games have a handicap system that essentially alters the damage dealt. Turn your damage way down, and hers way up, and then tweak them as she learns the system. I can particularly recommend Super Smash Brothers Melee for this, as it even has an auto-handicap system.
you have to install StarDock in order to unpack the game data files.
I might be talking out of my ass here (I bought it over the internet) but I believe if you buy GalCiv2 boxed you don't need to install Stardock at the same time. You do still need to both install stardock and enter your CD key to get patches though, as well as package the game up to send to another computer, and unpack it again.
lack of respect for backwards compatibility in their version upgrades -- I had gotten halfway through a small a project and then they changed the API drastically!
This is an unfortunate side-effect of working in a pre-1.0 environment, regardless of what it was. I believe the current plan is to not break any APIs until 2.0 hits (and maintain the 1.x branch for security updates once 2.0 hits)
As for the methods they create behind your back, let's just call it what it is: Self Modifying Code. How the heck am I supposed to debug code that doesn't exist at design time?!?
Firstly, it's not self modifying code, it's metaprogramming. Self-modifying code changes during runtime. Metaprogramming (and all the class-method shortcuts you have available for ActiveRecord and ActionController subclasses) writes code for you, just like C preprocessor macros, but once it's loaded it's done. As far as debugging, I've been working in rails since July last year, and haven't needed a debugger once. Break your methods into small bitesize chunks, and write a decent test suite alongside - If something's wrong, small methods make it easier to isolate, and your tests will tell you exactly what the problem is.
But I feel that Rails' implementation of MVC is simplistic and naive. Also, despite all the hype, they haven't solved any NEW problems in web app development.
That's entirely true. Rails doesn't solve any new problems. It's just an MVC. What's special about it is that it gets out of your way with a minimum of fuss, allowing you to spend more time solving your problems, rather than getting the framework to do what you want.
For example, when is somebody going to tackle:
1. standardized, cross-app, cross language/framework logins
4. built in support for session sharing across multiple servers (with the session data kept in the DB, not in memory
Point 1 is being worked on as a plugin to rails, but I'm not sure I'm entirely sold on the idea. Point 4 is already done in rails, you can set one config variable (commented out in environment.rb in a default rails install) and use either your existing app database or an instance of memcached on another server.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with 3 (I would assume that should be the job of a load-balancer or the database itself), and I'm not sure I want to see 2 at all...
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It's based on mozilla's XULRunner platform, allowing it to be cross-platform.
I assume that the problem is that as Dignsys releases updated firmware to (hopefully) fix bugs, they are not updating the sources they posted at the beginning of Dec.
I think the intention is to allow more dynamic desktop environments by putting multiple layers in your view. For example, Desktop Background -> water effect -> Widgets -> Desktop Icons -> App windows.
Figure out if your editor-of-choice supports a block comment toggle keybinding. In jEdit and Eclipse, it's CTRL+/ - highlight code, toggle comment, save. refresh page. Back to editor, untoggle comment, save.
I think Macs get away with just using the (apple icon) menu. Anyone else could really substitude the File menu with an Application menu that had slightly wordier items in it. File->Save would be Application->Save Document, File->Exit would be Application->Exit, etc.
As an added benefit of making that change, one could move the "standard" Tools->Options into Application->Options (or Preferences) and stick it next to the typical Print, Printer Setup, Page Setup menu items.
One possible exception to this could be the adoption of Morse code. However, this is a rather remote possibility for it is highly improbable that two randomly chosen participants both know enough Morse code to use it in a reliable manner. Moreover, should the unlikely event occur, the pair would be dropped from the study. (Incidentally, this way of proceeding is preferable to explicitly telling players that they should not use the Morse code, for such a prescription may actually suggest to players a possible way to use the channel: producing lines and dots.)
They were the first portable player to support ogg vorbis.
Blame that one on my lack of experience (don't have a current neuros, just waiting for the N3) - example still stands though, that the ability to write your own audio decoder is a 'feature' of the device.
This mostly applies to the Neuros 3 (their next-gen MP3 player) than the 442 (video player).
The plan from what I know as someone waiting for the Neuros3 to come out so I can purchase it, is that they're doing in-house development on it to a fully functional point and open-sourcing it and any libraries/middleware they can contractually release.
The "community" effort they're relying on to drive further adoption is for the extensions. It doesn't ship with Ogg or FLAC support natively, but someone out there is going to add it because they know how, and then it will become a selling feature. The developers who add this kind of thing will gravitate to it because it means they *can* get a portable Ogg player if they put the effort into it.
And yet, after all of this, Neuros (the company) isn't doing anything explicit for Ogg support or whatever. They're just creating a shell and letting people tinker with it. They do apply to your first criteria (Write it themselves, and open-source it.) for the basics, and then let the community push it and see how far they want to take the hardware.
FYI, Neuros is working directly with Rockbox on the Neuros 3, which is supposed to be launching sometime after the 442. N3 is a dedicated audio player, whereas the 442 is more meant to be a full-on multimedia device for videos etc.
AI, Music, player input, networking, "worldkeeping"... hell, even rendering is parallelizable.
Exactly... Hell, for a 3-core Xbox360 chip, I'd say the smartest thing to do would be have two cores pretend they're doing SLI stuff. Core one does coordination and all the world bookkeeping, the other two cores are focused on rendering half the scene.
Epic has done excellent with every UT release even though they have no irritating protection measures.
Not exactly true. Every version of UT that I've owned (UT, 2k3, 2k4) has had copy protection out of the box. The difference is that Epic and Atari (the publisher) have come to a consensus that the majority of sales happen in the first few weeks/months, and a few patches down the line the copy protection is removed. I believe that for 2k4 it was removed in the 2nd patch.
OTOH, they also have online play as a major component, and use serial numbers to cover validation for that.
I do think that any game, online or not, should be removing the CD protection check after 4 months or so just so it pisses off the gamers less.
I would like to see something different. I want all names to be vetted by a GM, on creation. None of this waiting for someone to report it as a violation and then checking up on it, put all new char names in a queue and have someone say "Good" or "Violates Rules" sometime within the first few levels. Then if you cache the answers somewhere all the servers can look up, the load lessens over time, and you don't have this issue of renaming characters after someone has put >200 hours into it.
As Taco said, your name in an MMO is your reputation, it's everything. And while I believe that yes, the name 'CmdrTaco' should be changed as it voilates the rules (even when rendered 'Cmdrtaco') it should have been done before lv10, not at 45.
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The proper thing to do, from Gamefaqs' point of view, is to link to the game page itself and inform people they want the "Game Script" under in-depth faqs.
2) A lot of software I like as a programming hobbiest is not easily available with a simple command like apt-get install ...
It's not about whether or not you can get them, it's how easy it is. After having used linux for a few years now, finding software in windows is becoming one of my biggest gripes. When I do a reinstall, I need to hunt down every little utility I want, whereas on linux I just hit the package manager and say I want foo, bar, and baz. A similar package manager for windows would be absurdly useful, but inconvenient to do at this stage.
Name 1 (ONE) programming language or software that you can run on Linux that can NOT be run on Windows XP.
Opera's M2 mail client (a part of their browser) was doing that years ago - every contact in your address book was given a saved search folder.
Laptop: Firefox with 6 tabs, jEdit, terminal, Gaim in systray, Quod Libet (music) in systray, and yakuake (a command shell) hidden most of the time. Office: Firefox with 7 tabs, Eclipse, Evolution, Gaim in systray, yakuake. And to think, my office box has 2 monitors :P
Most people have their Halloween parties on the Friday or Saturday night, rather than stay up late and come up with an excuse on why they didn't show up to (work|school) next Wed morning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_Projection I believe that's all that needs to be said.
Try out the Wild Arms series for the Playstation (and 2)
The lesser-skilled one will learn from many things:
- how you approach difficult problems
- how to write tests that effectively target behaviour
- how and when to refactor effectively
- and plus you get to give feedback on his code directly - as long as you're constructive with it, it'll be a good experience.
Plus, you both will get about equal keyboard-time.Most fighting games have a handicap system that essentially alters the damage dealt. Turn your damage way down, and hers way up, and then tweak them as she learns the system. I can particularly recommend Super Smash Brothers Melee for this, as it even has an auto-handicap system.
I might be talking out of my ass here (I bought it over the internet) but I believe if you buy GalCiv2 boxed you don't need to install Stardock at the same time. You do still need to both install stardock and enter your CD key to get patches though, as well as package the game up to send to another computer, and unpack it again.
This is an unfortunate side-effect of working in a pre-1.0 environment, regardless of what it was. I believe the current plan is to not break any APIs until 2.0 hits (and maintain the 1.x branch for security updates once 2.0 hits)
As for the methods they create behind your back, let's just call it what it is: Self Modifying Code. How the heck am I supposed to debug code that doesn't exist at design time?!?
Firstly, it's not self modifying code, it's metaprogramming. Self-modifying code changes during runtime. Metaprogramming (and all the class-method shortcuts you have available for ActiveRecord and ActionController subclasses) writes code for you, just like C preprocessor macros, but once it's loaded it's done. As far as debugging, I've been working in rails since July last year, and haven't needed a debugger once. Break your methods into small bitesize chunks, and write a decent test suite alongside - If something's wrong, small methods make it easier to isolate, and your tests will tell you exactly what the problem is.
But I feel that Rails' implementation of MVC is simplistic and naive. Also, despite all the hype, they haven't solved any NEW problems in web app development.
That's entirely true. Rails doesn't solve any new problems. It's just an MVC. What's special about it is that it gets out of your way with a minimum of fuss, allowing you to spend more time solving your problems, rather than getting the framework to do what you want.
For example, when is somebody going to tackle:
1. standardized, cross-app, cross language/framework logins
4. built in support for session sharing across multiple servers (with the session data kept in the DB, not in memory
Point 1 is being worked on as a plugin to rails, but I'm not sure I'm entirely sold on the idea. Point 4 is already done in rails, you can set one config variable (commented out in environment.rb in a default rails install) and use either your existing app database or an instance of memcached on another server.
I'm not sure what you're getting at with 3 (I would assume that should be the job of a load-balancer or the database itself), and I'm not sure I want to see 2 at all...
It's based on mozilla's XULRunner platform, allowing it to be cross-platform.
I assume that the problem is that as Dignsys releases updated firmware to (hopefully) fix bugs, they are not updating the sources they posted at the beginning of Dec.
I think the intention is to allow more dynamic desktop environments by putting multiple layers in your view. For example, Desktop Background -> water effect -> Widgets -> Desktop Icons -> App windows.
Dividing by zero, on the other hand...
Figure out if your editor-of-choice supports a block comment toggle keybinding. In jEdit and Eclipse, it's CTRL+/ - highlight code, toggle comment, save. refresh page. Back to editor, untoggle comment, save.
As an added benefit of making that change, one could move the "standard" Tools->Options into Application->Options (or Preferences) and stick it next to the typical Print, Printer Setup, Page Setup menu items.
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One possible exception to this could be the adoption of Morse code. However, this is a rather remote possibility for it is highly improbable that two randomly chosen participants both know enough Morse code to use it in a reliable manner. Moreover, should the unlikely event occur, the pair would be dropped from the study. (Incidentally, this way of proceeding is preferable to explicitly telling players that they should not use the Morse code, for such a prescription may actually suggest to players a possible way to use the channel: producing lines and dots.)
Blame that one on my lack of experience (don't have a current neuros, just waiting for the N3) - example still stands though, that the ability to write your own audio decoder is a 'feature' of the device.
The plan from what I know as someone waiting for the Neuros3 to come out so I can purchase it, is that they're doing in-house development on it to a fully functional point and open-sourcing it and any libraries/middleware they can contractually release.
The "community" effort they're relying on to drive further adoption is for the extensions. It doesn't ship with Ogg or FLAC support natively, but someone out there is going to add it because they know how, and then it will become a selling feature. The developers who add this kind of thing will gravitate to it because it means they *can* get a portable Ogg player if they put the effort into it.
And yet, after all of this, Neuros (the company) isn't doing anything explicit for Ogg support or whatever. They're just creating a shell and letting people tinker with it. They do apply to your first criteria (Write it themselves, and open-source it.) for the basics, and then let the community push it and see how far they want to take the hardware.
FYI, Neuros is working directly with Rockbox on the Neuros 3, which is supposed to be launching sometime after the 442. N3 is a dedicated audio player, whereas the 442 is more meant to be a full-on multimedia device for videos etc.
Exactly... Hell, for a 3-core Xbox360 chip, I'd say the smartest thing to do would be have two cores pretend they're doing SLI stuff. Core one does coordination and all the world bookkeeping, the other two cores are focused on rendering half the scene.
Not exactly true. Every version of UT that I've owned (UT, 2k3, 2k4) has had copy protection out of the box. The difference is that Epic and Atari (the publisher) have come to a consensus that the majority of sales happen in the first few weeks/months, and a few patches down the line the copy protection is removed. I believe that for 2k4 it was removed in the 2nd patch.
OTOH, they also have online play as a major component, and use serial numbers to cover validation for that.
I do think that any game, online or not, should be removing the CD protection check after 4 months or so just so it pisses off the gamers less.
As Taco said, your name in an MMO is your reputation, it's everything. And while I believe that yes, the name 'CmdrTaco' should be changed as it voilates the rules (even when rendered 'Cmdrtaco') it should have been done before lv10, not at 45.