I don't like the "social" bs. For me, it's a turn-off. I prefer my friends in RL, thank you very much. I game alone. When I'm not busy with more interesting things, that is.
I was planning to visit Norway again and maybe move to Norway one day, and maybe become a troll after my imperial days are over... But now... Darn...:(
... I would immediately order the full and complete release of any and all "IP" pertaining to human genome into the public domain. On the threat of capital punishment for failure to comply.
I wonder how many of those "mysterious" crashes have to do with Vista's built-in virtual memory randomizer. Such a thing exists also in OpenBSD and if I remember right, *A LOT* of old bugs were exposed in various packages... And since we all know the coding standards of a computer game...
Laws with bugs. You shouldn't fix the bugs, because, you see, someone might be relying on the broken behavior already. If they need the bugfixes, let them just buy... uhm... I mean wait till the next version.
Maybe if businesses stopped using the SSN as some kind of a secret password that only you should know, and actually required a driver's license or a state id card, there would not be so many id thefts here, and nobody would need a national id system with who knows what remotely readable things in it that anyone passing by can grab. Just a thought...
That's true, for instance Ammeraal's book (the first site for the book I got from a competitor's search engine) describes a tail-recursion optimized Quick-Sort, which I still use (or used to use, since I can't do projects on my own while serFing here). It's unbeatable... Also, I managed to get comparable results with dynamic memory management when I implemented a prototype in C++ that used memory pools whose blocks' size was powers of two - using a version of Intel's compiler... Anyway, at my website there's a Tetris version that draws its shiny background in software and it's near impossible to get anything like a similar performance from Java.
Good point. But as I said in another post, that's not Java's strength, and it has never been. Sun marketing droids made the stupid mistake of marketing Java for the browser and lost. If you compare the startup time of a large desktop project, like OOorg or MS Office, Java GUI's startup time on a modern machine is almost the same. Sure, Eclipse takes ages to load, and Tomcat is not a fast starter either, but that's another story.
Here's a challenge if Java's so slow. See if you can write the SQEMA algorithm in any way you prefer in any language you want, and make it faster than my Java implementation. http://dimiter.dyndns.org/ . Mind you that's not only a server-side app. You can download the Swing version too, source code and all.
... where another one will end. Seriously, Java's greatest strength is server-side dev. Have you looked around recently in popular commercial sites? See those URLs ending with.jsp or.do? Hint: that's Java.
You can't sell something that's free to a marketing type (i.e. the music industry). They care only about 1) Money. And they believe that money comes from looking shiny, and MP3 looks shiny to them. Noone in their circles has ever heard of OGG Vorbis, and I doubt most portable players support that (I remember my I-Pod didn't use to when I tried).
I'd like someone to read my own intentions and try to explain them to me, please. Because I have no idea how to go on with my life:). I guess I'll have to improvise, like always...
Looks like they're distilling something from garbage and then burning everything in a diesel engine or something. What about the toxic fumes you get when you burn plastic?
1. Broodwar, the last Zerg campaign mission. Never defeated more than Mengsk. 2. Medal of Honor, the D-Day mission. Never reached the shore.
That said, Sub-Niggurat (Quake 1 final boss, excuse my spelling) was almost a dealbreaker for me, but someone told me I have to think in Doom terms, and I managed to complete it then...
Warcraft 1, human mission 7. There was a bug that sent out all the orcs when I freed the first peasant. There's a patch that fixes that though. Nice for dosbox-ing thease days...
Warcraft 2's last alliance mission was real hard, and so were (in Warcraft 3) the last missions of the first and second undead campaigns, and the night elves first last mission...
The previous post was about MIDI Maze. Someone said somewhere that ROTT used some lines of code from Doom's engine - someone from the ROTT team called Carmack and asked for help, and Carmack went ahead and actually sent them a few lines from the innermost loops of Doom's renderer...
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I don't like the "social" bs. For me, it's a turn-off. I prefer my friends in RL, thank you very much. I game alone. When I'm not busy with more interesting things, that is.
I was planning to visit Norway again and maybe move to Norway one day, and maybe become a troll after my imperial days are over... But now... Darn... :(
... I would immediately order the full and complete release of any and all "IP" pertaining to human genome into the public domain. On the threat of capital punishment for failure to comply.
I wonder how many of those "mysterious" crashes have to do with Vista's built-in virtual memory randomizer. Such a thing exists also in OpenBSD and if I remember right, *A LOT* of old bugs were exposed in various packages... And since we all know the coding standards of a computer game...
I thought everyone was using PuTTy & WinSCP...
What's wrong with WinSCP?
... Internet Exploder... Click that link and you and your entire fraking town are history.
Laws with bugs. You shouldn't fix the bugs, because, you see, someone might be relying on the broken behavior already. If they need the bugfixes, let them just buy... uhm... I mean wait till the next version.
If memory serves right, you need the constant 1 and xor to for a Boolean base with xor.
Even Star Trek ships have HPs... Hull integrity %, Shield strength %, etc...
Maybe if businesses stopped using the SSN as some kind of a secret password that only you should know, and actually required a driver's license or a state id card, there would not be so many id thefts here, and nobody would need a national id system with who knows what remotely readable things in it that anyone passing by can grab. Just a thought...
That's true, for instance Ammeraal's book (the first site for the book I got from a competitor's search engine) describes a tail-recursion optimized Quick-Sort, which I still use (or used to use, since I can't do projects on my own while serFing here). It's unbeatable... Also, I managed to get comparable results with dynamic memory management when I implemented a prototype in C++ that used memory pools whose blocks' size was powers of two - using a version of Intel's compiler... Anyway, at my website there's a Tetris version that draws its shiny background in software and it's near impossible to get anything like a similar performance from Java.
Good point. But as I said in another post, that's not Java's strength, and it has never been. Sun marketing droids made the stupid mistake of marketing Java for the browser and lost. If you compare the startup time of a large desktop project, like OOorg or MS Office, Java GUI's startup time on a modern machine is almost the same. Sure, Eclipse takes ages to load, and Tomcat is not a fast starter either, but that's another story.
Here's a challenge if Java's so slow. See if you can write the SQEMA algorithm in any way you prefer in any language you want, and make it faster than my Java implementation. http://dimiter.dyndns.org/ . Mind you that's not only a server-side app. You can download the Swing version too, source code and all.
... where another one will end. Seriously, Java's greatest strength is server-side dev. Have you looked around recently in popular commercial sites? See those URLs ending with .jsp or .do? Hint: that's Java.
You can't sell something that's free to a marketing type (i.e. the music industry). They care only about 1) Money. And they believe that money comes from looking shiny, and MP3 looks shiny to them. Noone in their circles has ever heard of OGG Vorbis, and I doubt most portable players support that (I remember my I-Pod didn't use to when I tried).
I'd like someone to read my own intentions and try to explain them to me, please. Because I have no idea how to go on with my life :). I guess I'll have to improvise, like always...
Good job! Nice to hear of such groundbreaking discoveries! This made my day!
You need to buy the expensive version if (you want to be legal and) you want to run inside a VM. You can dual-boot any version of any OS you'd like.
Ever heard of NoScript, SafeCookie, Adblock Plus, Adblock Filterset.G Updater?
Looks like they're distilling something from garbage and then burning everything in a diesel engine or something. What about the toxic fumes you get when you burn plastic?
1. Broodwar, the last Zerg campaign mission. Never defeated more than Mengsk.
2. Medal of Honor, the D-Day mission. Never reached the shore.
That said, Sub-Niggurat (Quake 1 final boss, excuse my spelling) was almost a dealbreaker for me, but someone told me I have to think in Doom terms, and I managed to complete it then...
Warcraft 1, human mission 7. There was a bug that sent out all the orcs when I freed the first peasant. There's a patch that fixes that though. Nice for dosbox-ing thease days...
Warcraft 2's last alliance mission was real hard, and so were (in Warcraft 3) the last missions of the first and second undead campaigns, and the night elves first last mission...
What do we do when people are not buying sh*t? Raise the price and expect them to flock! Hurrah! We're brilliant!
The previous post was about MIDI Maze. Someone said somewhere that ROTT used some lines of code from Doom's engine - someone from the ROTT team called Carmack and asked for help, and Carmack went ahead and actually sent them a few lines from the innermost loops of Doom's renderer...
Nice, had no idea :)