Just like Final Fantasy has become about 90% eye candy and 5% satisfaction with 5% cruft, even the great old franchises suffer under lack of vision and bad team-building. Especially Japanese stuff, where a good game (FF7) that exceeds market expectations suddenly becomes a template for every game that follows, and all we get thereafter is pale but reverent reflections of the original (FF13), while anything that accidentally succeeds despite ignoring the old formula (FF12) is expunged from the corporate ken.
Oh, wait...that's Hollywood.
Seriously, the good stuff is unreal - impossible, almost - and everything else is done by committee because in the absence of vision, that's what big studios do. Like Mafia Music just before the Beatles arrived.
Also, why assume that ganglia are the progenitors of such an unexpected result? In insects, as in shrimps and crabs, those densely packed ommatidia provide a ready made neural net suitable for extraordinary in-flight calculations, such as reaction times 10x greater then human reflexes in hunting dragonflies. Just because they're called "compound eyes" doesn't mean they function ONLY as "eyes."
I think computer algorithms fail to appreciate the cost-benefit of their suboptimal solutions, and need about 70 million years of evolution to get it right. It's probably also true that these vespids had another use for the algorithm before they evolved into co-adapted pollinators, possibly dating back another 100 million years or so. The earliest honeybees in amber, dating to the Cretaceous, are obviously honeybees, which makes their clade and its adaptations immensely old.
well... considering that Miguel de Icaza has been in secret talks with Palpat^WSteve Jobs to make Gnome so hard to customize that people won't see why they should use it instead of just buying a mac, it's just being fair to both sides.
It's not a joke! Marvelous Mudcat has got me thinking about switching back to MacWindows just to run Adobe Illustrator. Bearing in mind that the only bugs us "below average" users ever see are in the GUI, which means GNOME.
As a public figure, the cop in question appears to have no legal standing, just like movie stars and politicians. Since the bubble girl was making a political statement, however mildly expressed, the cop's overreacction looks like either personal unfitness for duty or deliberate oppression. In the case of politicians, SCOTUS held in New York Times vs. Sullivan that, barring actual malice, political discourse was too important to be sullied by public figures who threatened libel. Another, separate, SCOTUS finding the title of which which eludes me at the moment held that criticism of public or notorious figures could not be considered libel, because having wooed the spotlight, they have no grounds to complain of cat calls. It may be a stretch to place the short pants officer in the same playpen with "notorious" figures like John Dillinger or the Cherry Sisters (or Tiny Tim, for that matter), but his continuing lack of restraint certainly seems to be pushing him through the pomposity gate to ridicule, if not professional performance review.
Ok, so Finland has a couple of established churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and the Finnish Orthodox Church. Unless these national congregations are empowered to collect taxes, draft corvee labor or form standing armies, I have to admit I'm completely baffled by the concept of "resigning from the church in Finland."
Don't these lackadaisical secular souls just languish and perish unlamented, the way they do everywhere else?
Or has Finland, which boasts Linus Torvalds as a native son and has an entire women's choir devoted to a lively repertoire of classic kvetching, simply figured out a way to bend our brains and once again make us think unfamiliar thoughts?
Remember in LOTR 1, when Strider camps the fleeing hobbits without comment (at least in the theater version) under Bilbo's stone trolls? Can't wait to see those big dumb guys arguing in 3D about 'ere now 'oo shoved 'oo? Golly Gomer will that be soooo gooooooood!!!!
You could tick off the Calendar Scenes in LOTR123, right? The Shire, The Trolls, Rivendell, The Balrog Versing Gandalf (as my kid would put it), The Argonath, Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, The Stone King's Abloom In A Shaft Of Sunlight, Frodo and Gollum Above the Crack of Doom, and that's only July.
3D scenes in the Hobbit, de rigeur, must include Bag End Interior, Gandalf and The Dwarves, Smog Asleep on the Trove, Smaug (heh) Aloft And Ravaging In Great Swoops, Barrels Out Of Bond Rushing Through White Water At The Audience, Shaft of Sunlight on the Keyhole, and on and on. Splitting Excedrin Headaches Pouring Out Of The Theaters.
Hope Jackson gets those twin-lens cameras cheap, or is it all process these days?
It's like aromatherapy. FF13 finally cracked me up in the Narthex, when I realized I'd spent real money on this unsmiling drivel. Although it was nice to look at, never did find time (or inclination) to jump through 30 hoops just to ride a chocobo.
A pity too. FF12 was great, and the cleared game left a plethora of unbeatable beasties scattered around for the so inclined. But the main attraction was appealing characters and a fate to avoid, in an undirected landscape that felt exactly like a sidequest.
What did Square-Enix do? Fire the FF12 development team, or just burn them out? The reek of smouldering brain cells is all over FF13, and if that extends yet another klick of radius into management's turf, it's no surprise at all that FF14 has turned out like Okefeenokee -- a buggy, stagnant, slow-moving mess.
Goes without saying, of course, that a good programmer implements well, and an experienced C programmer thinks well. Why assume badly written C, just because the bagatelle at hand is trivial? It's still art, in its way. That's like assuming a piece of T'ang celadon (a pot, to you) is junk because it's hand-made and fired in an "inefficient" reducing atmosphere.
Back to real life...
Strict ANSI C with the standard libraries works fine, although C++ may be a bit quicker. However, the narrative requirements of text adventure are so uncomplicated that even MFC adds nothing to the process, and little more than bulk to the final product. Remember that Crowther and Woods crafted their entire original game in FORTRAN, f'cryin' out loud. It takes longer to unpack EBCDIC from an array than it does to emulate an entire subterranean carousel.
Actually, it might be fun to see Amazon implement dunnet on the Kindle:
Dead end
You are at a dead end of a dirt road. The road goes to the east.
In the distance you can see that it will eventually fork off. The
trees here are very tall royal palms, and they are spaced equidistant
from each other.
There is a shovel here.
>
Eh! Anything Inform 7 can do, C can do better in 1/20th the time to program and 1/10000th the time to execute. Inform 7 is vastly overrated. Inform 6 was fun to explore (a little more intuitive), but aside from a few precieaux (like Galatea), nothing of interest has ever been written in it.
Not Zork, surely. The only difficult passage I can remember is a push-block puzzle in the third part. And the IFArchive.org is chockablock with text games, most of them familiar on Mac or Kaypro or Osborne or even (*chak*) (*gag*) MS-Dos. The high water mark was not Zork, but a 770 pt. version of Crowther and Wood's Adventure, still available (and playable on this Dell Inspiron under Ubuntu using Frotz or Gargoyle.)
Infocom's z-machine games, of which Zork is three, were so easily pirated and passed around that the company resorted to "extras" without which the games lost a certain Jenny Sequa -- Leather Goddesses of Phobos had scratch 'n sniff, for example. No way to tuck that on on Kindle!
The only supremely aggravating Infocom game was Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (playable on BBC, and elsewhere online), but that was Adams' tea and no tea kind of humor. My opinion, anyway.
If Amazon seriously intends to reinvent a wheel this chariot-less, Kindle readership must be seriously below expectations.
Polio was "solved" by Salk and Sabin, and not until. Similarly, the third of world agriculture that depends on non-feral honeybee pollination remains at risk until there's a working solution to CCD.
And why are "military scientists" working this problem? Because CCD is a threat to Homeland Security? Back in the old days, the USDA's ARS division in Beltsville, MD would get that job.
Or is it because CCD, like anthrax, is a potential weapon?
And the monkey, of course. Polite. Tips his little red hat. Capuchin. Ah, yes... Nostalgia for those bygone ne'er-do-wells of the Brddish Upper Crusk, bleedin' oddities that they were, and all.
From your description of what you think you're doing, the odds are fairly high that you're not implementing correctly. As a recursive proof, your question suggests doubt (a newbie would be done with the hack by now), your doubt suggests fear, your fear suggests potential wisdom, your potential suggests its own answer, your answer suggests you should listen to yourself.
Yes. Sony, software-only emulation for PS2 on PS3, please. I've beaten Final Fantasy 12 half a dozen times, and still haven't managed to explore all the cleared game residua. So, yes, I traded my PS2 in too soon.
As a possible workaround, maybe somewhere in Final Fantasy 14 one could discover a recursive portal into Pharos? That would let us play both games in the cloud.
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She seems to have the brim of her hat in hand. Occam's Razor would suggest 21st century conspiracy theorists as the mostly likely source of confusion.
Think 1920. She's adjusting a hatpin. As for the talking, to someone out of frame.
You don't know what you don't know -- Donald Rumsfeld
Just like Final Fantasy has become about 90% eye candy and 5% satisfaction with 5% cruft, even the great old franchises suffer under lack of vision and bad team-building. Especially Japanese stuff, where a good game (FF7) that exceeds market expectations suddenly becomes a template for every game that follows, and all we get thereafter is pale but reverent reflections of the original (FF13), while anything that accidentally succeeds despite ignoring the old formula (FF12) is expunged from the corporate ken.
Oh, wait...that's Hollywood.
Seriously, the good stuff is unreal - impossible, almost - and everything else is done by committee because in the absence of vision, that's what big studios do. Like Mafia Music just before the Beatles arrived.
You can have my book-without-advertising when you pry it from my cold dead brains. Fahrenheit 452.
Also, why assume that ganglia are the progenitors of such an unexpected result? In insects, as in shrimps and crabs, those densely packed ommatidia provide a ready made neural net suitable for extraordinary in-flight calculations, such as reaction times 10x greater then human reflexes in hunting dragonflies. Just because they're called "compound eyes" doesn't mean they function ONLY as "eyes."
I think computer algorithms fail to appreciate the cost-benefit of their suboptimal solutions, and need about 70 million years of evolution to get it right. It's probably also true that these vespids had another use for the algorithm before they evolved into co-adapted pollinators, possibly dating back another 100 million years or so. The earliest honeybees in amber, dating to the Cretaceous, are obviously honeybees, which makes their clade and its adaptations immensely old.
well ... considering that Miguel de Icaza has been in secret talks with Palpat^WSteve Jobs to make Gnome so hard to customize that people won't see why they should use it instead of just buying a mac, it's just being fair to both sides.
It's not a joke! Marvelous Mudcat has got me thinking about switching back to MacWindows just to run Adobe Illustrator. Bearing in mind that the only bugs us "below average" users ever see are in the GUI, which means GNOME.
Was this vulnerability fixed in yesterday's massive security update?
Is YouTube in Canada? I didn't know.
As a public figure, the cop in question appears to have no legal standing, just like movie stars and politicians. Since the bubble girl was making a political statement, however mildly expressed, the cop's overreacction looks like either personal unfitness for duty or deliberate oppression. In the case of politicians, SCOTUS held in New York Times vs. Sullivan that, barring actual malice, political discourse was too important to be sullied by public figures who threatened libel. Another, separate, SCOTUS finding the title of which which eludes me at the moment held that criticism of public or notorious figures could not be considered libel, because having wooed the spotlight, they have no grounds to complain of cat calls. It may be a stretch to place the short pants officer in the same playpen with "notorious" figures like John Dillinger or the Cherry Sisters (or Tiny Tim, for that matter), but his continuing lack of restraint certainly seems to be pushing him through the pomposity gate to ridicule, if not professional performance review.
Wow. An unfamiliar thought indeed! Thank you!
Ok, so Finland has a couple of established churches, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and the Finnish Orthodox Church. Unless these national congregations are empowered to collect taxes, draft corvee labor or form standing armies, I have to admit I'm completely baffled by the concept of "resigning from the church in Finland."
Don't these lackadaisical secular souls just languish and perish unlamented, the way they do everywhere else?
Or has Finland, which boasts Linus Torvalds as a native son and has an entire women's choir devoted to a lively repertoire of classic kvetching, simply figured out a way to bend our brains and once again make us think unfamiliar thoughts?
Remember in LOTR 1, when Strider camps the fleeing hobbits without comment (at least in the theater version) under Bilbo's stone trolls? Can't wait to see those big dumb guys arguing in 3D about 'ere now 'oo shoved 'oo? Golly Gomer will that be soooo gooooooood!!!!
You could tick off the Calendar Scenes in LOTR123, right? The Shire, The Trolls, Rivendell, The Balrog Versing Gandalf (as my kid would put it), The Argonath, Aragorn at the Gates of Mordor, The Stone King's Abloom In A Shaft Of Sunlight, Frodo and Gollum Above the Crack of Doom, and that's only July.
3D scenes in the Hobbit, de rigeur, must include Bag End Interior, Gandalf and The Dwarves, Smog Asleep on the Trove, Smaug (heh) Aloft And Ravaging In Great Swoops, Barrels Out Of Bond Rushing Through White Water At The Audience, Shaft of Sunlight on the Keyhole, and on and on. Splitting Excedrin Headaches Pouring Out Of The Theaters.
Hope Jackson gets those twin-lens cameras cheap, or is it all process these days?
It's like aromatherapy. FF13 finally cracked me up in the Narthex, when I realized I'd spent real money on this unsmiling drivel. Although it was nice to look at, never did find time (or inclination) to jump through 30 hoops just to ride a chocobo. A pity too. FF12 was great, and the cleared game left a plethora of unbeatable beasties scattered around for the so inclined. But the main attraction was appealing characters and a fate to avoid, in an undirected landscape that felt exactly like a sidequest. What did Square-Enix do? Fire the FF12 development team, or just burn them out? The reek of smouldering brain cells is all over FF13, and if that extends yet another klick of radius into management's turf, it's no surprise at all that FF14 has turned out like Okefeenokee -- a buggy, stagnant, slow-moving mess.
Goes without saying, of course, that a good programmer implements well, and an experienced C programmer thinks well. Why assume badly written C, just because the bagatelle at hand is trivial? It's still art, in its way. That's like assuming a piece of T'ang celadon (a pot, to you) is junk because it's hand-made and fired in an "inefficient" reducing atmosphere. Back to real life...
Strict ANSI C with the standard libraries works fine, although C++ may be a bit quicker. However, the narrative requirements of text adventure are so uncomplicated that even MFC adds nothing to the process, and little more than bulk to the final product. Remember that Crowther and Woods crafted their entire original game in FORTRAN, f'cryin' out loud. It takes longer to unpack EBCDIC from an array than it does to emulate an entire subterranean carousel.
Actually, it might be fun to see Amazon implement dunnet on the Kindle:
Dead end
You are at a dead end of a dirt road. The road goes to the east.
In the distance you can see that it will eventually fork off. The
trees here are very tall royal palms, and they are spaced equidistant
from each other.
There is a shovel here.
>
Eh! Anything Inform 7 can do, C can do better in 1/20th the time to program and 1/10000th the time to execute. Inform 7 is vastly overrated. Inform 6 was fun to explore (a little more intuitive), but aside from a few precieaux (like Galatea), nothing of interest has ever been written in it.
Not Zork, surely. The only difficult passage I can remember is a push-block puzzle in the third part. And the IFArchive.org is chockablock with text games, most of them familiar on Mac or Kaypro or Osborne or even (*chak*) (*gag*) MS-Dos. The high water mark was not Zork, but a 770 pt. version of Crowther and Wood's Adventure, still available (and playable on this Dell Inspiron under Ubuntu using Frotz or Gargoyle.)
Infocom's z-machine games, of which Zork is three, were so easily pirated and passed around that the company resorted to "extras" without which the games lost a certain Jenny Sequa -- Leather Goddesses of Phobos had scratch 'n sniff, for example. No way to tuck that on on Kindle!
The only supremely aggravating Infocom game was Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (playable on BBC, and elsewhere online), but that was Adams' tea and no tea kind of humor. My opinion, anyway.
If Amazon seriously intends to reinvent a wheel this chariot-less, Kindle readership must be seriously below expectations.
Polio was "solved" by Salk and Sabin, and not until. Similarly, the third of world agriculture that depends on non-feral honeybee pollination remains at risk until there's a working solution to CCD.
And why are "military scientists" working this problem? Because CCD is a threat to Homeland Security? Back in the old days, the USDA's ARS division in Beltsville, MD would get that job.
Or is it because CCD, like anthrax, is a potential weapon?
And the monkey, of course. Polite. Tips his little red hat. Capuchin. Ah, yes... Nostalgia for those bygone ne'er-do-wells of the Brddish Upper Crusk, bleedin' oddities that they were, and all.
...one lash per supercookie instance per laptop or workstation per planet, on the bare ass of the perp.
From your description of what you think you're doing, the odds are fairly high that you're not implementing correctly. As a recursive proof, your question suggests doubt (a newbie would be done with the hack by now), your doubt suggests fear, your fear suggests potential wisdom, your potential suggests its own answer, your answer suggests you should listen to yourself.
Yes. Sony, software-only emulation for PS2 on PS3, please. I've beaten Final Fantasy 12 half a dozen times, and still haven't managed to explore all the cleared game residua. So, yes, I traded my PS2 in too soon. As a possible workaround, maybe somewhere in Final Fantasy 14 one could discover a recursive portal into Pharos? That would let us play both games in the cloud.