Why is this just a competitor to QT? Is there something specific about it that makes it directly competitive with QT? Isn't it a windowing framework, making it competitive with GTK and others as well?
I'd much rather learn from someone who has substantial mastery of the subject material.
So go to a smaller school. Most of my undergraduate courses were taught by professors, and those were certainly the only ones that were any good. I'm a graduate student now, and I sure as hell couldn't teach a class worth a damn. Luckily I have a research assistanceship, so I'm not required to do anything like that.
I think one of the huge advantages of outsourcing to India (over say, China) is that many of the people there do natively speak English. You may remeber that India/Pakistan was a British colony for a great number of years.
Of course they do spell everything in the British fashion (centre, colour, etc.).
I'm surprised no one has come to its defense, but I actually like this color scheme. I think it is much better than that lame standard green slashdot scheme.
I don't really see why this is worth talking about anyway. Who cares what it looks like as long as you can read it?
You technically aren't allowed to do that with NFL games either. That whole "this program can not be distributed or rebroadcast without the written consent of the NFL," or however that blurb goes.
I'm not sure on this, but if I remeber right, one of the selling points of.NET is that it is language independent. Doesn't that mean you can use the framework from C++?
The article mentioned that the C# makes things simple that would be complicated in C/C++ (the example was RegEX). This is kind of a screwy way of looking at things, and not much of a selling point for C# in my book. Something like RegEX is provided to C# through a library (or framework if you prefer), and isn't part of the actual language. If you want such a simple interface to a RegEX, it would be easy to get a similar thing for C or C++.
Overall I thought the article was pretty devoid of any meaningful reason for why we should use mono. It doesn't sound better than Java (not worse either), and it isn't a replacement for C/C++.
it is far more difficult to root an ISP than it is to tap a phone line...
That depends on the ISP. I would guess that in general most local ISPs are much easier to root than it is to tap a phone line. Especially if they are a Windows house.
On a side note, I worked at a local ISP that accepted money to allow a third party to install traffic sniffers on all of the modem pools, and gave them access to our customer database so they could link the web traffic to particular home addresses (apparently it was legal as long as we didn't give them actual names, but I had my doubts). This is an example of why paranoia isn't always unwarranted, but a LiveCD isn't going to do you a bit of good.
I don't know why this has been modded off topic. You are clearly trying to say that making a "gay" game for the sake of it being a "gay" game is "artistic."
In that sense I agree with you. As with anything else, there is no point in creating entertainment featuring a particular segment of society unless it adds to the entertainment value.
My biggest problem with this whole idea is that unless it is handled properly, I would think that any "gay" game would probably turn out to be one big stereotype reenforcing gay joke.
Honestly, it shouldn't matter if a character is gay or not. Just as it usually doesn't matter if they are straight (I would think Duke Nuken would probably have been a very different game if Duke was gay). Most games don't really have that much sexual content in them anyway.
Good point, but I'm not blaming India. I'm just expressing dismay about my withering job prospects. I am about to complete a Masters in Computer Science this winter, and I'm really afraid there wont be any jobs out there when I graduate. Articles like this are just depressing.
I'm certainly not blaming India for the lack of jobs, but it is undeniable that a great deal of jobs that used to be done in the US are now being outsourced there. I don't blame the Indians at all. Everyone has a right to try to make a living.
I realize I was being rather flipant, but that is just the first thing I thought of when I read the post. It looks as though the domestic software industry is colapsing, and that doesn't make me very happy. With so many jobs moving overseas, this kind of article sadens me even more.
Maybe the mergers will lead to more jobs, but my guess is that most mergers will be followed by layoffs (and possibly more overseas outsourcing).
They do this sort of thing in China all the time. I mean it isn't like giving the government the ability to spy on whom ever they want would ever lead to problems.
Honestly what the heck are they thinking down there? Doesn't anyone care about freedom anymore? Communists!
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Why is this just a competitor to QT? Is there something specific about it that makes it directly competitive with QT? Isn't it a windowing framework, making it competitive with GTK and others as well?
I'd much rather learn from someone who has substantial mastery of the subject material.
So go to a smaller school. Most of my undergraduate courses were taught by professors, and those were certainly the only ones that were any good. I'm a graduate student now, and I sure as hell couldn't teach a class worth a damn. Luckily I have a research assistanceship, so I'm not required to do anything like that.
I think one of the huge advantages of outsourcing to India (over say, China) is that many of the people there do natively speak English. You may remeber that India/Pakistan was a British colony for a great number of years.
Of course they do spell everything in the British fashion (centre, colour, etc.).
I'm surprised no one has come to its defense, but I actually like this color scheme. I think it is much better than that lame standard green slashdot scheme.
I don't really see why this is worth talking about anyway. Who cares what it looks like as long as you can read it?
Does anyone know of any other high profile games using Ogg?
You technically aren't allowed to do that with NFL games either. That whole "this program can not be distributed or rebroadcast without the written consent of the NFL," or however that blurb goes.
I'm not sure on this, but if I remeber right, one of the selling points of .NET is that it is language independent. Doesn't that mean you can use the framework from C++?
The article mentioned that the C# makes things simple that would be complicated in C/C++ (the example was RegEX). This is kind of a screwy way of looking at things, and not much of a selling point for C# in my book. Something like RegEX is provided to C# through a library (or framework if you prefer), and isn't part of the actual language. If you want such a simple interface to a RegEX, it would be easy to get a similar thing for C or C++.
Overall I thought the article was pretty devoid of any meaningful reason for why we should use mono. It doesn't sound better than Java (not worse either), and it isn't a replacement for C/C++.
Sounds like a mark and sweep garbage collector algorithm.
i'm to lazy to learn vi or emacs and run with the big dogs.
Being lazy is the reason to learn the shortcuts. The time investment is worth it, believe me.
You don't think it would take a zealot to be using ed?
it is far more difficult to root an ISP than it is to tap a phone line...
That depends on the ISP. I would guess that in general most local ISPs are much easier to root than it is to tap a phone line. Especially if they are a Windows house.
On a side note, I worked at a local ISP that accepted money to allow a third party to install traffic sniffers on all of the modem pools, and gave them access to our customer database so they could link the web traffic to particular home addresses (apparently it was legal as long as we didn't give them actual names, but I had my doubts). This is an example of why paranoia isn't always unwarranted, but a LiveCD isn't going to do you a bit of good.
It's not a hoax.
There are just so many sections where it just doesn't quite make sense what they are saying.
It's French.
I don't know why this has been modded off topic. You are clearly trying to say that making a "gay" game for the sake of it being a "gay" game is "artistic."
In that sense I agree with you. As with anything else, there is no point in creating entertainment featuring a particular segment of society unless it adds to the entertainment value.
My biggest problem with this whole idea is that unless it is handled properly, I would think that any "gay" game would probably turn out to be one big stereotype reenforcing gay joke.
Honestly, it shouldn't matter if a character is gay or not. Just as it usually doesn't matter if they are straight (I would think Duke Nuken would probably have been a very different game if Duke was gay). Most games don't really have that much sexual content in them anyway.
Why would you want to run Linux apps on a less stable, less secure OS?
Well haven't you heard? Open source software kills jobs. At least this way you can run OSS on an OS that keeps people employed, and Bill rich.
Where do I sign up?
Good point, but I'm not blaming India. I'm just expressing dismay about my withering job prospects. I am about to complete a Masters in Computer Science this winter, and I'm really afraid there wont be any jobs out there when I graduate. Articles like this are just depressing.
I'm certainly not blaming India for the lack of jobs, but it is undeniable that a great deal of jobs that used to be done in the US are now being outsourced there. I don't blame the Indians at all. Everyone has a right to try to make a living.
I realize I was being rather flipant, but that is just the first thing I thought of when I read the post. It looks as though the domestic software industry is colapsing, and that doesn't make me very happy. With so many jobs moving overseas, this kind of article sadens me even more.
Maybe the mergers will lead to more jobs, but my guess is that most mergers will be followed by layoffs (and possibly more overseas outsourcing).
Now less companies will be offering software jobs to non-Indians. This is great news.
North Korea doesn't need the Internet. They only have one computer (circa 1950), and they all share it.
Despite the first reply, I remeber X-Com. Good call.
They do this sort of thing in China all the time. I mean it isn't like giving the government the ability to spy on whom ever they want would ever lead to problems.
Honestly what the heck are they thinking down there? Doesn't anyone care about freedom anymore? Communists!
You are right, I had it mixed up.
Actually no, it would only work if the time keeper stayed on earth. Time in the spacecraft would appear to move as normal.
I don't want to be a jerk, but this kind of seems sad to me. I can't imagine playing a game so much that I could beat it so quickly.
On the other hand, if I had a spacecraft capable of traveling near the speed of light, I could easily beat all of these times.
If you don't think the GameCube is a good console, you probably haven't used it.