"Religion is responsible for the supression of my rights, the mutilation of my body and of millions of other people (males and females alike), the pyschological damaging of millions of people, the death of even more millions, the cause of untold wars, the supression of sceicen and progress."
No... Religion is not responsible for these things. Religion was used as justification for these things. Think of it like the war in Iraq: 9/11 and WMD were used as justification to go to war, even though those things were not the actual reasons we went to war (Not that I'm totally clear on why we DID go to war). The philosophy and theology of a religion have little to do with the mentioned atrocities. In fact, they often would work against such acts. The problem is as it has always been: People with power being corrupt. If you think getting rid of religion would change that, you're mistaken.
I looked at the source... That's goddamn crazy. I'll tell you what though, I'd bet if he ever did go to DIV tags there would still be too many of them, many used inappropriately, and still be horribly convoluted.
For a long time, everyone used tables to format everything for the web. When they came out with CSS, they went for these abstract DIV tags for formatting... Why didn't they just take and modify the table row/column concept that had been working on 95% of the web? The notation worked, people "got it". Why, exactly, did we have to start from scratch?
Um... It's already been done, FYI, and not recently, either.
Here's an easy example: You write a for loop that iterates through an array, performing some action on each item in the array. These actions are independant of one another. Let's say, making a string uppercase. There was a supercomputer (1 master control CPU with 1024 parallel PUs, if I recall correctly) that had a special compiler command to parallelize such an operation. It would take the for loop, and assign one iteration to each processing unit transparently. That way, if the string was less than 1024 bytes long, it would all get capitalized at the same time.
I'd have to go back to my grad school notes to find out what system it was.
The signal/noise ratio is way too low for me to spend my time reading this. It can be a good idea to have humorous bits in a tutorial or guide, to keep the reader engaged. In this case though, the actual information is getting lost in a sea of meaningless chatter.
I was all excited to start learning to do AJAX the Google way (Because I really don't have time to navigate the browser incompatibility minefield). I pulled up a demo in IE7... Blammo, error on page.
I'm excited for this tool, but I can't use it yet. Bummer.
Honestly, with Dibold's documented contempt for the democratic process and the lack of something as simple as a paper trail, I'm half suspicious they delivered these machines, and then told the government how "a hacker might access these systems" and then "untracably alter the vote" (wink wink).
I dunno, it can be tricky. Around here we have a set of "production standards"... Standards that are implemented correctly in the browsers we test. We also have standards-compliant style techniques to avoid. Part of the reason is that CSS2 has a bug or two as well (vertically stacking images comes to mind), so you can create a non-standards compliant page that works correctly in all 3 browsers, or a similar standards compliant version that works in none of them.
I like seeing the comment though. It shows a level of professionalism (testing) that is remarkably rare in this industry. Personally, I would've waited until the design was (more) polished to submit it, instead of tacking on a note.
All that said, I'm quite impressed with the entries so far. Their graphic design skills are better than mine.
I had never thought that a controller added to my gameplay experience... Except when I flipped it around: I certainly have had game controls that detracted from the gameplay experience. Either some buttons were awkward, or the controller itself was poorly laid out, or trying to remember "How do I drop my gun to pick the one on the floor up again?", etc. So, from that perspective, anything that helps keep me focused on "playing the game" instead of "controlling the game" would increase the game's immersiveness.
From what I've read of the E3 demos, some of the publishers understand that, others don't. Ultimately I thin the Wiimote is a tool which could be used to that end, but won't always. It requires that the developers focus on the controller's ability to increase intuitiveness and accuracy to aid suspension of disbelief.
Uh guys? The two of these I saw as live examples did NOT work with IE7 Beta. I'm pretty sure we don't want to pick a winner that will immediately need to be replaced when MS releases their new browser.
Nintendogs isn't an entirely new genre... it's an offshoot of the pet simulation games of the 90s. It's just been a while since we've seen one. Do a search for Catz and Dogz.
I've been threatening to take one of these to my local sports bar (2 dozen TVs, at least) and watch the hilarity ensue. Too bad they got the best wings in town and I don't want to get keel-hauled by the "regulars".
If the windshield is so cluttered with fliers for the local porn shop the car is undrivable, and you're unable to remove them because of the poor design of the windshiled, should you have to pay the manufacturer to take those fliers off?
Ok, you have a gaming machine... Great! You have two drives, one big, and the other bigger. The big drive is faster than the bigger drive. Trust me: put your games on the FASTER disk.
60gb is a lot of room, honestly. Put your OS and your games, both which require a lot of disk I/O on the faster drive. Put your MP3s, browser cache, etc. on the slower drive, since these things require fewer continuous reads from the drive over their use.
This will reduce the time staring at loading screens by a noticable amount.
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"unless they intend to force us to see things their way. Then the gloves come off."
You mean like when they start petitioning schools to inlude their cirriculum and/or remove evolution? Cuz they've been doing that y'know.
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"Religion is responsible for the supression of my rights, the mutilation of my body and of millions of other people (males and females alike), the pyschological damaging of millions of people, the death of even more millions, the cause of untold wars, the supression of sceicen and progress."
No... Religion is not responsible for these things. Religion was used as justification for these things. Think of it like the war in Iraq: 9/11 and WMD were used as justification to go to war, even though those things were not the actual reasons we went to war (Not that I'm totally clear on why we DID go to war). The philosophy and theology of a religion have little to do with the mentioned atrocities. In fact, they often would work against such acts. The problem is as it has always been: People with power being corrupt. If you think getting rid of religion would change that, you're mistaken.
~D
Heck, you don't even have to store it locally... Just pump the excess back on the electrical grid and turn your meter backwards.
~D
The wikipedia entry is really popular because nobody, even the people using the term, really knows what the fuck web 2.0 is.
~D
I looked at the source... That's goddamn crazy. I'll tell you what though, I'd bet if he ever did go to DIV tags there would still be too many of them, many used inappropriately, and still be horribly convoluted.
~D
Here's what I want to know:
For a long time, everyone used tables to format everything for the web. When they came out with CSS, they went for these abstract DIV tags for formatting... Why didn't they just take and modify the table row/column concept that had been working on 95% of the web? The notation worked, people "got it". Why, exactly, did we have to start from scratch?
~D
What makes you think that these are problems with just the web segment of application development?
~D
Um... It's already been done, FYI, and not recently, either.
Here's an easy example: You write a for loop that iterates through an array, performing some action on each item in the array. These actions are independant of one another. Let's say, making a string uppercase. There was a supercomputer (1 master control CPU with 1024 parallel PUs, if I recall correctly) that had a special compiler command to parallelize such an operation. It would take the for loop, and assign one iteration to each processing unit transparently. That way, if the string was less than 1024 bytes long, it would all get capitalized at the same time.
I'd have to go back to my grad school notes to find out what system it was.
~D
The signal/noise ratio is way too low for me to spend my time reading this. It can be a good idea to have humorous bits in a tutorial or guide, to keep the reader engaged. In this case though, the actual information is getting lost in a sea of meaningless chatter.
~D
I was all excited to start learning to do AJAX the Google way (Because I really don't have time to navigate the browser incompatibility minefield). I pulled up a demo in IE7... Blammo, error on page.
I'm excited for this tool, but I can't use it yet. Bummer.
~D
Honestly, with Dibold's documented contempt for the democratic process and the lack of something as simple as a paper trail, I'm half suspicious they delivered these machines, and then told the government how "a hacker might access these systems" and then "untracably alter the vote" (wink wink).
~D
I dunno, it can be tricky. Around here we have a set of "production standards"... Standards that are implemented correctly in the browsers we test. We also have standards-compliant style techniques to avoid. Part of the reason is that CSS2 has a bug or two as well (vertically stacking images comes to mind), so you can create a non-standards compliant page that works correctly in all 3 browsers, or a similar standards compliant version that works in none of them.
I like seeing the comment though. It shows a level of professionalism (testing) that is remarkably rare in this industry. Personally, I would've waited until the design was (more) polished to submit it, instead of tacking on a note.
All that said, I'm quite impressed with the entries so far. Their graphic design skills are better than mine.
~D
(Hangs head in shame) Here's my geek card.
Hey! Wait! I'm a Web developer... I run IE 6 & 7b, Firefox and occasionally Opera for compatibility testing. Give that back!
~D
I had never thought that a controller added to my gameplay experience... Except when I flipped it around: I certainly have had game controls that detracted from the gameplay experience. Either some buttons were awkward, or the controller itself was poorly laid out, or trying to remember "How do I drop my gun to pick the one on the floor up again?", etc. So, from that perspective, anything that helps keep me focused on "playing the game" instead of "controlling the game" would increase the game's immersiveness.
From what I've read of the E3 demos, some of the publishers understand that, others don't. Ultimately I thin the Wiimote is a tool which could be used to that end, but won't always. It requires that the developers focus on the controller's ability to increase intuitiveness and accuracy to aid suspension of disbelief.
~D
Uh guys? The two of these I saw as live examples did NOT work with IE7 Beta. I'm pretty sure we don't want to pick a winner that will immediately need to be replaced when MS releases their new browser.
~D
Looks like homeboy coulda taken a hint from my sig...
~D
Nintendogs isn't an entirely new genre... it's an offshoot of the pet simulation games of the 90s. It's just been a while since we've seen one. Do a search for Catz and Dogz.
~D
An excuse to buy one of these puppies: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/755e/
I've been threatening to take one of these to my local sports bar (2 dozen TVs, at least) and watch the hilarity ensue. Too bad they got the best wings in town and I don't want to get keel-hauled by the "regulars".
Turn off the TVs in the supermarket? Hell yeah.
~D
Thank god, I'm not alone.
Praise be.
~D
If someone epoxies a flier to your windshield, you can remove it yourself, without destroying the rest of the car to boot.
Not always the case with spyware/adware.
For your car...
If the windshield is so cluttered with fliers for the local porn shop the car is undrivable, and you're unable to remove them because of the poor design of the windshiled, should you have to pay the manufacturer to take those fliers off?
~D
Looks like he's about to crank out some phat beats to me. Get the man some turntables and a mic. I can see it now, beat box Rummie. Yeah...
Well, I'm off to gouge out my mind's eye now...
~D
Yes... But how many Library of Congresses will each of these things consume in power, on an hourly basis?
~D
So the code generator should be able to automatically generate any potential output? Hmm... I'm not sure I agree with that.
Ok, you have a gaming machine... Great! You have two drives, one big, and the other bigger. The big drive is faster than the bigger drive. Trust me: put your games on the FASTER disk.
60gb is a lot of room, honestly. Put your OS and your games, both which require a lot of disk I/O on the faster drive. Put your MP3s, browser cache, etc. on the slower drive, since these things require fewer continuous reads from the drive over their use.
This will reduce the time staring at loading screens by a noticable amount.
~D