for(int x = 0; x y; x++)
{
blah blah
}
doesn't take up more room than
for(int x=0; x 7; x++){
blah blah
}
doesn't take up more room than
for(int x=0; x 7; x++){blah blah}
You're changing the rules of what space means according to what's conveinant for your argument. You are either wrong in saying that using no line breaks and leaving all the code on one line wouldn't make the code "smaller" or your wrong in thinking that extra newlines increase the size of the code.
Stick to one line of reasoning, either include the white space added from newlines into your "algorithm" for figuring "code size" or don't.
My screen is rectangular and I'm right.
Since your being so pedantic I might as well be too. It doesn't take up less space. It takes up just as much space, but in your case certain lines happen to be wider. I guess ultimate readability then would be where you write 80(or whatever the width of your terminal is) characters of code and then start the next line?
Sure why don't you just write all your code on one line? Saves space? right.
Seriously, what does the saved "space" (er new line character(s)) gain you? Huge text files clogging your hard drive? You really think the space is going to be translated into bytecode or assembly? and take up more space in the compiled file?
Just as long as you're consistent in your coding (and its readable) who cares?
Me personally I like it when the opening brace is in the same column as the closing brace, its more readable for me. I'm sure I could get used to the other convention...
I would love to seea Call of Cthulhu mmorpg with perma-death(or perma-insanity). I think it would be rather fitting. There are ways to mitigate the "losses" of perma-death. In a Call of Cthulhu game I could imagine having multiple characters per player, one of which would/could be your professor-type that never adventures but keeps a trove of artifacts/cash/weapons for his/her assistants(other characters), granted this character could die still, but would/could be kept safe if you wanted to play that way. Another possibility for mitigating losses would be to allow someone that leveled a character to 10 and died, to start a new character at lvl 5 (or whatever is deemed appropriate).
Or say you work for a software house and you just finished a project for a hospital (or whatever) you give them the application and the source (for a price).
Why would this hospital want to give the source(or the app) away to competition (or any company).
What about using gpl code extending it and not distributing it? I mean I don't think a government would be too keen on distributing their software anyhow. I didn't think goverments were into selling software anyhow. You're not required to hand out your code if your not handing out your software.
It's skating more than it is walking. Even if its not a hoax, its not really walking there have to be wheels under the feet for it to turn the way it does.
Sorry WSU isn't in Dayton its in Fairborn (closer to wpafb). I highly doubt you could use the wifi access and would wonder why you would want to when the University's net access is going to be a lot better (in all likelyhood).
I've bought several items online (TigerDirect) and at office depot and office max that had rebates, often multiple rebates on one item.
I've always filled out the rebate form, and have always gotten my rebate. In the case of tigerdirect it took almost a year but I did get them.
I think most people are just to lazy/forgetful.
You may laugh, but I have wanted to make multiplayer online versions of older games (with twists). Pacman, where each player setsup a home board (where they control ghosts) and the other players connect and run out to everyone elses boards. Or an online version of combat(atari 2600) where people code simple/primitive ai's to control their tanks instead of doing it manually... etc etc.
I've always thought a PC would make the best gaming console the only thing holding it back is the OS. Your standard desktop pc has more HP than most consoles, is easily upgradeable. The problem is (no suprise to most/. readers) the OS (windows) is way to bloated. If the games booted up their own streamlined OS and the pc makes it move closer to the high definition tv, why bother with a PS3 or xbox2? Really any controller you want to use should be usb pluggable.
Really this is the answer to http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141803&t hreshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=211&mode=thread&cid=1 1883536 made in an earlier thread/article.
I may get modded down for this, but you do realize you just described a PC? (well 90% of what you asked for is available in a PC -and more).
Eventually the PC will be just what it is your wanting (should I say media center?).
So yeah... what if its really some incredibly huge race of beings, discovering fission(or fusion) on some huge level? or what if its Us? What if the universe is cyclic upon itself? what if our atoms are really stars, or our galaxy is a quark inside of an atom somewhere on earth? Really were just witnessing the effects locally and galactically.
Ok, really need to keep the psychedelics away from hte scifi nerds away from the physics people.
The above seems like a truly obvious trolling attempt. But I can't help but agree. Your looking for free tools? Why don't use languages that are free (and In the experience of many much better).
I've done a fair amount of work in JSP and truly enjoy it, I'm tempted to look at php or something simpler, but why ASP?
How difficult would it be to mark some servers as "approved for IGE economy 'enhancements'" and some servers where such activity will get you banned.
The MMOG company can take IGE up on its offer to share a portion of the proceeds, and sign a contract that heavily penalizes IGE (or any other group) that violates server agreements.
And if no one wants to play on the servers offering the "enhancements" well then scrap it and tell IGE to get lost. But the people who don't like it don't have to play with it and the people who do will have a "safe haven" to do it in./crazy I know give everyone what they want.
Anyone see the cost for the IP? several thousand dollars, (granted not a large amount considering the costs of building houses). Still I get the feeling the project is supposed to be helping out the poor/disenfranchised (or maybe I'm just reading hippy-vibes that aren't there and who knows maybe they do give it away to poor people in third world countries who could never afford it).
Still anyone know any um "Open Source" architecture that is similiar this? I've heard of people attempting to do open-source bio-tech, why not architecture?
I'm sorry but your saying that just b/c something is complicated that there is no way two different people would stumble upon the same method is just wrong. I think its highly likely that two different people tackling the same problem might very well use the same methods.... newton and some other fellow and calculus comes to mind (maybe not as complicated by todays standards but still...). Problems tend to have solutions most solutions (come to by humans) to the same problem are going to have similarities.
If your very expensive micro/nano surveilance device was defeated by chick-a-dees? (or any other small avian).
Really what would keep songbirds from trying to eat these? or raptors from taking down the bigger ones by mistake?
Slashdot Mirror
bah... slashdot removed all my hard returns.
for(int x = 0; x y; x++) { blah blah } doesn't take up more room than for(int x=0; x 7; x++){ blah blah } doesn't take up more room than for(int x=0; x 7; x++){blah blah}
You're changing the rules of what space means according to what's conveinant for your argument. You are either wrong in saying that using no line breaks and leaving all the code on one line wouldn't make the code "smaller" or your wrong in thinking that extra newlines increase the size of the code. Stick to one line of reasoning, either include the white space added from newlines into your "algorithm" for figuring "code size" or don't. My screen is rectangular and I'm right.
Since your being so pedantic I might as well be too.
It doesn't take up less space. It takes up just as much space, but in your case certain lines happen to be wider. I guess ultimate readability then would be where you write 80(or whatever the width of your terminal is) characters of code and then start the next line?
Sure why don't you just write all your code on one line? Saves space? right.
Seriously, what does the saved "space" (er new line character(s)) gain you? Huge text files clogging your hard drive? You really think the space is going to be translated into bytecode or assembly? and take up more space in the compiled file?
Just as long as you're consistent in your coding (and its readable) who cares?
Me personally I like it when the opening brace is in the same column as the closing brace, its more readable for me. I'm sure I could get used to the other convention...
bah this is all offtopic.
I would love to seea Call of Cthulhu mmorpg with perma-death(or perma-insanity). I think it would be rather fitting. There are ways to mitigate the "losses" of perma-death. In a Call of Cthulhu game I could imagine having multiple characters per player, one of which would/could be your professor-type that never adventures but keeps a trove of artifacts/cash/weapons for his/her assistants(other characters), granted this character could die still, but would/could be kept safe if you wanted to play that way. Another possibility for mitigating losses would be to allow someone that leveled a character to 10 and died, to start a new character at lvl 5 (or whatever is deemed appropriate).
I think perma-death could add a lot to a game.
Or say you work for a software house and you just finished a project for a hospital (or whatever) you give them the application and the source (for a price). Why would this hospital want to give the source(or the app) away to competition (or any company).
What about using gpl code extending it and not distributing it? I mean I don't think a government would be too keen on distributing their software anyhow. I didn't think goverments were into selling software anyhow. You're not required to hand out your code if your not handing out your software.
It's skating more than it is walking. Even if its not a hoax, its not really walking there have to be wheels under the feet for it to turn the way it does.
Sorry WSU isn't in Dayton its in Fairborn (closer to wpafb). I highly doubt you could use the wifi access and would wonder why you would want to when the University's net access is going to be a lot better (in all likelyhood).
I've bought several items online (TigerDirect) and at office depot and office max that had rebates, often multiple rebates on one item. I've always filled out the rebate form, and have always gotten my rebate. In the case of tigerdirect it took almost a year but I did get them. I think most people are just to lazy/forgetful.
I think I recall reading somewhere that both games will be based on a lot of the same code (running on the same "engine").
If they offer some sort of access pass like sony does, I may have to make another foray into mmorpg.
If only that were true. I have to deal with far too much sgml (particularly really poorly written DTD's). =/
You may laugh, but I have wanted to make multiplayer online versions of older games (with twists). Pacman, where each player setsup a home board (where they control ghosts) and the other players connect and run out to everyone elses boards. Or an online version of combat(atari 2600) where people code simple/primitive ai's to control their tanks instead of doing it manually... etc etc.
I've always thought a PC would make the best gaming console the only thing holding it back is the OS. Your standard desktop pc has more HP than most consoles, is easily upgradeable. The problem is (no suprise to most /. readers) the OS (windows) is way to bloated. If the games booted up their own streamlined OS and the pc makes it move closer to the high definition tv, why bother with a PS3 or xbox2? Really any controller you want to use should be usb pluggable.
t hreshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=211&mode=thread&cid=1 1883536
Really this is the answer to http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141803&
made in an earlier thread/article.
I may get modded down for this, but you do realize you just described a PC? (well 90% of what you asked for is available in a PC -and more). Eventually the PC will be just what it is your wanting (should I say media center?).
So yeah... what if its really some incredibly huge race of beings, discovering fission(or fusion) on some huge level? or what if its Us? What if the universe is cyclic upon itself? what if our atoms are really stars, or our galaxy is a quark inside of an atom somewhere on earth? Really were just witnessing the effects locally and galactically. Ok, really need to keep the psychedelics away from hte scifi nerds away from the physics people.
Nice troll, Didn't Europe peak and decline about 80 years ago?
The above seems like a truly obvious trolling attempt. But I can't help but agree. Your looking for free tools? Why don't use languages that are free (and In the experience of many much better). I've done a fair amount of work in JSP and truly enjoy it, I'm tempted to look at php or something simpler, but why ASP?
How difficult would it be to mark some servers as "approved for IGE economy 'enhancements'" and some servers where such activity will get you banned. The MMOG company can take IGE up on its offer to share a portion of the proceeds, and sign a contract that heavily penalizes IGE (or any other group) that violates server agreements. And if no one wants to play on the servers offering the "enhancements" well then scrap it and tell IGE to get lost. But the people who don't like it don't have to play with it and the people who do will have a "safe haven" to do it in. /crazy I know give everyone what they want.
Anyone see the cost for the IP? several thousand dollars, (granted not a large amount considering the costs of building houses). Still I get the feeling the project is supposed to be helping out the poor/disenfranchised (or maybe I'm just reading hippy-vibes that aren't there and who knows maybe they do give it away to poor people in third world countries who could never afford it). Still anyone know any um "Open Source" architecture that is similiar this? I've heard of people attempting to do open-source bio-tech, why not architecture?
I'm sorry but your saying that just b/c something is complicated that there is no way two different people would stumble upon the same method is just wrong. I think its highly likely that two different people tackling the same problem might very well use the same methods.... newton and some other fellow and calculus comes to mind (maybe not as complicated by todays standards but still...). Problems tend to have solutions most solutions (come to by humans) to the same problem are going to have similarities.
If your very expensive micro/nano surveilance device was defeated by chick-a-dees? (or any other small avian). Really what would keep songbirds from trying to eat these? or raptors from taking down the bigger ones by mistake?
Except for the 2 million dollars to start with and the hordes of groupies and the nights of debauchery. Sure you can get that at 7-11 too.