As a programmer it scares me genuinely to see your post get rated +5 Informative. GOTOs have no place in man made code. There are so many reasons why not to use GOTOs, and only very few situations that GOTOs make for cleaner code (specifically, the usually implemented break, last and next GOTO surrogates). If one of the people in my team uses GOTOs I tell them off.
As you can tell from that, and many other sides, there are no major pros to using GOTOs, but very major negatives. Many modern languages don't support GOTO, or only include it to support machine generated code (ADA).
Have you counted the number of GOTOs in the linux kernel?
I dare say current interoperability management is nothing compared to how it was in the days of NN3, IE3, NN4 and IE4 with their respective Mac and PC versions, and their own, almost completely separate JavaScript engines.
Actually, because of Open Source, Internet Explorer has improved dramatically. With Google implementing this and canvas, Microsoft will have a much harder time to control web standards. They don't want SVG support, or canvas support, they want people to use SilverLight. But thanks to having a choice of browser, they can't force their changes on everyone anymore, like they did with IE4 to IE6.
Paypal Europe is a bank; they didn't managed to get away with it over here.
How they get away with it in America baffles me. Similarly, eBay is not officially an auction site, and does therefore not have to obey auction site laws.
I actually mentioned the audio tag, but forgot I was in HTML post mode so it didn't show:-"
Could you use the audio tag with javascript and have it be responsive enough to be of use as a sound effect? You'd have to preload all the sounds, and keep an array of audio tags as different channels.
Build a better product and the rest will follow. "Political will" is well, politics.
If only that were true. Building a better product alone is not enough, certain companies will mix with politics and try to push the better product into the ground any way they can.
The only problem with game development is that javascript doesn't support sound. You can use background music with , but the only way games have been using sound in canvas so far is by using an additional flash applet controlled by javascript =\
I think you're right.
But fortunately, the standards only say what the element can do, not how it should be done.
I believe the browsers (at the least the open source ones) will switch to opengl or sdl for rendering canvas at some point, and maybe even support 3D in future.
And before people start posting [Citation Needed], here's a link [www.nrc.nl] to an article talking about Mininova in particular, but also mentions the current law in the Netherlands with regards to downloading music and movies.
Quoted from the article, for those too lazy to read it:
Under Dutch law, downloading games and software is illegal, but sharing copied films and music is not. The Dutch copyright law allows consumers to make a copy of CD's and DVD's they own, and to store those copies as files on their personal computers.
So there you have it.
According to recent court judgements in the Netherlands it is not legal to download music or films, but also not a crime. Our government said it refuses to create new laws against downloading music or films until companies provide DRM free download services that are affordable and as convenient as the piracy model currently is.
You don't read my posts. You make up things that I'm supposed to have said and then question those. Not one of the points you made are things I asserted, not one.
As you could probably already have told, I wasn't very interested to get into a debate from the start, and as you're likely just putting out general frustration rather than being constructive, this is unlikely to go anywhere.
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Show me your code and I'll show you an alternative.
Formatting is useless if you want to be able to keep track of your code, but eventually it's all for the compiler.
> It doesnâ(TM)t matter what the compiler does; source code is for humans.
Source code is for compilers. English is for humans.
As a programmer it scares me genuinely to see your post get rated +5 Informative. GOTOs have no place in man made code. There are so many reasons why not to use GOTOs, and only very few situations that GOTOs make for cleaner code (specifically, the usually implemented break, last and next GOTO surrogates). If one of the people in my team uses GOTOs I tell them off.
A brief study of the pros and cons: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ccgoto.htm
As you can tell from that, and many other sides, there are no major pros to using GOTOs, but very major negatives. Many modern languages don't support GOTO, or only include it to support machine generated code (ADA).
Have you counted the number of GOTOs in the linux kernel?
>Though I don't consider it racism, because the hatred isn't towards race or ethnicity
They are a race: Roma, and they're also an ethnicity.
> they may be anti-semites... but racists?
Seriously?
Actually, UPC is an American company, and they don't have a very good name in Holland for reasons such as this one.
I dare say current interoperability management is nothing compared to how it was in the days of NN3, IE3, NN4 and IE4 with their respective Mac and PC versions, and their own, almost completely separate JavaScript engines.
Actually, because of Open Source, Internet Explorer has improved dramatically. With Google implementing this and canvas, Microsoft will have a much harder time to control web standards. They don't want SVG support, or canvas support, they want people to use SilverLight. But thanks to having a choice of browser, they can't force their changes on everyone anymore, like they did with IE4 to IE6.
This is why monopoly stifles innovation.
As long as there are smart people in US and smart people with ideas and execution to create companies, we're fine.
What if all those smart people move to other countries to execute their ideas, because they can make more profit that way?
A corporation has one goal, by law: make money for the shareholders.
There is no law stating such a thing that I'm aware of.
Paypal Europe is a bank; they didn't managed to get away with it over here. How they get away with it in America baffles me. Similarly, eBay is not officially an auction site, and does therefore not have to obey auction site laws.
I'll second that. For 65 pounds I will pledge to purchase a legal copy of Windows 7.
It's responsive enough.
:-)
Doesn't work in Chrome though: Chrome doesn't seem to support the play() method. Works great in FireFox
http://canvas.xieke.com/paddlewar.html
Thank you kindly
I actually mentioned the audio tag, but forgot I was in HTML post mode so it didn't show :-"
Could you use the audio tag with javascript and have it be responsive enough to be of use as a sound effect? You'd have to preload all the sounds, and keep an array of audio tags as different channels.
It would be great if you could though.
Build a better product and the rest will follow. "Political will" is well, politics.
If only that were true. Building a better product alone is not enough, certain companies will mix with politics and try to push the better product into the ground any way they can.
The only problem with game development is that javascript doesn't support sound. You can use background music with , but the only way games have been using sound in canvas so far is by using an additional flash applet controlled by javascript =\
I think you're right. But fortunately, the standards only say what the element can do, not how it should be done. I believe the browsers (at the least the open source ones) will switch to opengl or sdl for rendering canvas at some point, and maybe even support 3D in future.
According to recent court judgements in the Netherlands it is not legal to download music or films, but also not a crime. Our government said it refuses to create new laws against downloading music or films until companies provide DRM free download services that are affordable and as convenient as the piracy model currently is.
I enjoyed my pirated copy of BG&E so much I bought it. I don't really listen to critics though.
Hey again.
You don't read my posts. You make up things that I'm supposed to have said and then question those. Not one of the points you made are things I asserted, not one.
As you could probably already have told, I wasn't very interested to get into a debate from the start, and as you're likely just putting out general frustration rather than being constructive, this is unlikely to go anywhere.
Heya, I am indeed a Christian.
I never claimed to know the mind of God - is this another one of your guesses? His will He wrote in a book for me, so I could read it and know.
I don't think my guesses were misplaced.
I find that a bit arrogant, and disrespectful. I can also tell you your guesses were incorrect.
Come on, it's Sony! And marketing!
They'll blow it up any way they can.
In fact, I bet if you check the "Do you suffer from schizophrenia or any multiple personality disorder" box, they count you as several people.
Not to mention pregnant women!