Thing is, the closest you can get to make an online FPS game attractive for beginners is a good skill matching system. Quake Live does this part wonderfully, and i bet it's one of the reasons it's so popular, besides the carrying Quake trademark.
If what you say is true then why does Microsoft and all of their paid mouthpieces in the press have their knickers in a bunch over the damned thing? Methinks they doth protest too much.
Because it's Google. Microsoft execs have been paranoid at everything Google has been putting out since day one, and with good reason - the Google paradigm is to have everthing web-centric, including stuff like Google Docs. When you give users for free what Microsoft sold for years (Office, which is their main cash cow), they do well to panic.
Now, those kind of developements stroke directly into the heart of Microsofts' businesses. Chrome OS is a whole different deal, and i have to agree with the parent poster, i still don't get what all the fuzz is about. It's basically the Chrome browser running as a standalone app. Also, Microsoft has its own answer to the whole "cloud computer" thing: Azure.
This is a common misconception. 0.9999... is EXACTLY the same as 1, they're two representations for the same number. This can be proved in a lot of ways, the most basic being that if 1/3 = 0.33333..., then 3 * 1/3 = 1 = 0.999... Another way is, if these two numbers are not equal, what's the distance (difference) between them? Can you find it?
The upshot is that this is huge for Linux in certain business areas (and other RT OSes are currently quite pricey), but totally useless for your desktop or home server.
I don't think so. If this means we'll get a pluggable scheduler architecture in Linux, i'm all for it.
I thought it was all hogwash until i tried Ken Colivas' BFS patch. The difference it makes on a desktop system is notable, and it clearly demonstrates that having a single scheduling solution for a kernel oriented for everything from embedded systems to desktops to 4096-CPUs servers is insane.
A switch would do perfectly fine (besides the extra variable), but in this context, the goto structure is just as readable and clean. In fact, that's basically what the switch statement does:)
I completely agree though, goto's are a tool that their place and uses. This is one of them.
No not really. If I tried to run a modern word processor on an Atari or Commodore computer, it wouldn't even fit. And by the time you stripped-out enough code to make it fit, you'd have a plainjane processor with fixed fonts that are bitmapped and not scalable (i.e. no postscript encapsulation). You'd have pixelated printouts not clean professional documents like today's machines produce.
GeoPublish supported Postcript, and this is on a C64. The whole GEOS suit was amazing for the time - it had a "modern" WYSIWYG word processor, spreadsheet, presentation & drawing software, fax support, the works. You'd be surprised of what you could do on one of those.
I think you've got the analogy backwards. It actually shows how powerful and capable those early micros were. Kind of embarrassing when your multi-gigahertz PC can barely run a word processor, or stalls when trying to display a photo, huh?
It has been said before, but spaceflight (specially to the moon and back) is a rather simple problem computationally.
Now, i don't mean to diminish the incredible work that went into the design of the flight computer and the Apollo 11 program in general, nor defend the incompetence of programmers nowadays:) Those kind of microprocessors are still in use (specially in embeeded systems) and are extremely useful, but claiming that they're "powerful" just because they helped landing on the moon is rather inaccurate.
...for programming, but for everyday tasks (which include pouring down code), i keep coming back to the Microsoft basic optical mouse. Very cheap, rugged, accurate and damn comfortable.
I know bashing Microsoft is sort of a recreational activity here, but they sure sell some nice hardware.
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Preach on, brother. Coffee is the REAL vitamin C!
1024x600 is the standard "widescreen" resolution for 10" netbook displays.
Isn't Brazil doing this already?
I use the day as my "birthday" on public websites in tribute.
Wow. He is hardcore!
Thing is, the closest you can get to make an online FPS game attractive for beginners is a good skill matching system. Quake Live does this part wonderfully, and i bet it's one of the reasons it's so popular, besides the carrying Quake trademark.
If what you say is true then why does Microsoft and all of their paid mouthpieces in the press have their knickers in a bunch over the damned thing? Methinks they doth protest too much.
Because it's Google. Microsoft execs have been paranoid at everything Google has been putting out since day one, and with good reason - the Google paradigm is to have everthing web-centric, including stuff like Google Docs. When you give users for free what Microsoft sold for years (Office, which is their main cash cow), they do well to panic.
Now, those kind of developements stroke directly into the heart of Microsofts' businesses. Chrome OS is a whole different deal, and i have to agree with the parent poster, i still don't get what all the fuzz is about. It's basically the Chrome browser running as a standalone app. Also, Microsoft has its own answer to the whole "cloud computer" thing: Azure.
This is a common misconception. 0.9999... is EXACTLY the same as 1, they're two representations for the same number. This can be proved in a lot of ways, the most basic being that if 1/3 = 0.33333..., then 3 * 1/3 = 1 = 0.999... Another way is, if these two numbers are not equal, what's the distance (difference) between them? Can you find it?
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You can't do this without outlawing combustion...
Also keep in mind that ETFE releases hydrofluoric acid when burnt. Really nast stuff.
The upshot is that this is huge for Linux in certain business areas (and other RT OSes are currently quite pricey), but totally useless for your desktop or home server.
I don't think so. If this means we'll get a pluggable scheduler architecture in Linux, i'm all for it.
I thought it was all hogwash until i tried Ken Colivas' BFS patch. The difference it makes on a desktop system is notable, and it clearly demonstrates that having a single scheduling solution for a kernel oriented for everything from embedded systems to desktops to 4096-CPUs servers is insane.
You're forgetting about the massive amount of smug they haul around all the time.
Amen. The fact that Mac Stores don't collapse into a black hole is something science cannot explain.
Fuck. That sounds like a pretty interesting game!
Fantastic post!
Either that, or consensual sex.
A piezoelectric device would work much better, IMHO. Plus, the power source could be contained completely in the eyelid.
A switch would do perfectly fine (besides the extra variable), but in this context, the goto structure is just as readable and clean. In fact, that's basically what the switch statement does :)
I completely agree though, goto's are a tool that their place and uses. This is one of them.
Heh, maybe I'll enter. How hard can it be?
Very. As in "really fucking hard".
Preach on, bro.
Yes. The "idiotic excuses" remark was just finesse...
...about the details of this argument? I know Linus might not be the easiest person to work with, but he seems to make some sense here.
I thought the real world embraced the metric system!
No not really. If I tried to run a modern word processor on an Atari or Commodore computer, it wouldn't even fit. And by the time you stripped-out enough code to make it fit, you'd have a plainjane processor with fixed fonts that are bitmapped and not scalable (i.e. no postscript encapsulation). You'd have pixelated printouts not clean professional documents like today's machines produce.
GeoPublish supported Postcript, and this is on a C64. The whole GEOS suit was amazing for the time - it had a "modern" WYSIWYG word processor, spreadsheet, presentation & drawing software, fax support, the works. You'd be surprised of what you could do on one of those.
I think you've got the analogy backwards. It actually shows how powerful and capable those early micros were. Kind of embarrassing when your multi-gigahertz PC can barely run a word processor, or stalls when trying to display a photo, huh?
It has been said before, but spaceflight (specially to the moon and back) is a rather simple problem computationally.
Now, i don't mean to diminish the incredible work that went into the design of the flight computer and the Apollo 11 program in general, nor defend the incompetence of programmers nowadays :) Those kind of microprocessors are still in use (specially in embeeded systems) and are extremely useful, but claiming that they're "powerful" just because they helped landing on the moon is rather inaccurate.
Ups! Sorry, that would be the Wheel Mouse instead. Specially nice in white!
...for programming, but for everyday tasks (which include pouring down code), i keep coming back to the Microsoft basic optical mouse. Very cheap, rugged, accurate and damn comfortable.
I know bashing Microsoft is sort of a recreational activity here, but they sure sell some nice hardware.
just because of a more pleasing spectrum?
If anything, i'd get them just for this alone. Don't dismiss the effect of poor light quality on your everyday life.