Ada doesn't allow direct memory register manipulation ergo it's high level, even though it's compiled. Likewise for languages such as Haskell or Common Lisp (even though they can also be interpreted)
Haskell also does very well, and Digital Mars' impressive D is consistently in the top spots (one wonders why the hell Soustrup is still trying to improve C++ when he could just switch to D and build from there)
So the question is, how important is the keyboard to RTS games?
Pretty fucking important I say, if only for the regular click modifiers (create waypoints, select all of a kind or all of a screen of units, queue units by 1/5/20/100, queue constructions,...)
And I'm not even talking about the requirements such as the ability to create unit groups that can be reselected/jumped to in a split second.
You could create a simple turn-based RTS (see Advance Wars), but definitely not a full blown TA-like RTS.
People don't tend to get genuinely enthusiastic about such thing unless there's a good reason
Oh yeah? Last time I checked there were still people genuinely enthusiastic about Java, and there won't be any reason to be enthusiastic about Java until Sun officially announce that they're deprecating it. Or that they're implementing C#3.0 leve functionalities (minus the stupid XML and SQL shintegration).
Oh wait, there is already a JVM language with some of that stuff, it's called Nice, how about just replacing java with Nice?
Well, that can be understood, Turbogears for example is mostly "just another python framework" and a Rails ported to Python. If you want Rails, just use Rails (Ruby isn't hard to graps if you know Python... hell, it's even easy, just as switching from Ruby to Python is easy, once you overcome the minor differences)
Django on the other hand offers a slightly different approach of the notion of web frameworks, and has the killer "Hey let's just give you complete administrator interfaces in like 2 lines" which is a true life saver (and the "default" admin interfaces look quite nice too, much nicer than anything i'd be able to code without a designer anyway)
People have struggled with RTS console games, due to the controllers. But couldn't the Wiimote work similar to a laser pointer? If so, wouldn't that open up some better control mechanisms for RTS console games?
mmm...
How about no?
A pointer isn't enough for an RTS by a long shot, it'd be barely enough to play Warcraft III, and Warcraft III isn't the most complex RTS out there by a long shot.
(between parens are existing equivalents to the request, mostly firefox extensions with the exception of the Mouseover DOM Inspector and the JS Shell -- bookmarklets -- and Webkit's DOM.I)
These are all tools that'd make the Opera Experience much more interresting from a dev standpoint. Just provide an alternate "dev" version of Opera with all these goodies included so that they don't bloat the "customer" version, but provide these, they make creating complex sites so much easier.
It's more like flash is often annoying (never stopping animations, sound,...), sometimes extremely impractical (bizarre navigation) and too misused, therefore a damn fucking pain.
And the web DOES feel better without flash (e.g., with Flashblock installed).
Just go back and look at the discussion about Google's Picasa here at Slashdot. No sensible person is satisfied with it, all it achieves is showing Google's incompetence to produce real Linux applications. Releasing a Wine solution just shows that Google capitulated from being able to build ordinary Linux applications.
It's more like they don't care that much about linux for these kinds of applications.
If they were utterly unable to produce "real" linux applications, they wouldn't have released Google Earth 4 on Linux, and it wouldn't run better than in Windows.
Uh? The Macbook is v1, the inner components may be the same as the ones in the MBP or the Mac Mini, but the issues are with the outer shell, the packaging (except for the thermal paste one, which hasn't been fixed on any platform anyway). MB's shell is v1 therefore MB is v1, that's all there is to it.
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This has been existing for dozens of years, see Lisp Machines such as MIT's CADR Lisp Machine
It's 1 OR 2, not 1 and 2...
Ada doesn't allow direct memory register manipulation ergo it's high level, even though it's compiled. Likewise for languages such as Haskell or Common Lisp (even though they can also be interpreted)
You can't, you're not french and we've patented surrendering in the US!
Haskell also does very well, and Digital Mars' impressive D is consistently in the top spots (one wonders why the hell Soustrup is still trying to improve C++ when he could just switch to D and build from there)
No they're not, they're statically typed but many languages exist with much stronger type systems (Ada, Modula2, Haskell).
Pretty fucking important I say, if only for the regular click modifiers (create waypoints, select all of a kind or all of a screen of units, queue units by 1/5/20/100, queue constructions, ...)
And I'm not even talking about the requirements such as the ability to create unit groups that can be reselected/jumped to in a split second.
You could create a simple turn-based RTS (see Advance Wars), but definitely not a full blown TA-like RTS.
Crabs have actual predators in their original ecosystem.
Look up "Caulerpa Taxifolia"
Oh yeah? Last time I checked there were still people genuinely enthusiastic about Java, and there won't be any reason to be enthusiastic about Java until Sun officially announce that they're deprecating it. Or that they're implementing C#3.0 leve functionalities (minus the stupid XML and SQL shintegration).
Oh wait, there is already a JVM language with some of that stuff, it's called Nice, how about just replacing java with Nice?
Well, that can be understood, Turbogears for example is mostly "just another python framework" and a Rails ported to Python. If you want Rails, just use Rails (Ruby isn't hard to graps if you know Python... hell, it's even easy, just as switching from Ruby to Python is easy, once you overcome the minor differences)
Django on the other hand offers a slightly different approach of the notion of web frameworks, and has the killer "Hey let's just give you complete administrator interfaces in like 2 lines" which is a true life saver (and the "default" admin interfaces look quite nice too, much nicer than anything i'd be able to code without a designer anyway)
mmm...
How about no?
A pointer isn't enough for an RTS by a long shot, it'd be barely enough to play Warcraft III, and Warcraft III isn't the most complex RTS out there by a long shot.
Console's low res would also mightily blow.
EA didn't actually port any game to the DreamCast... so no.
Not that this was a bad thing for the DC though.
(between parens are existing equivalents to the request, mostly firefox extensions with the exception of the Mouseover DOM Inspector and the JS Shell -- bookmarklets -- and Webkit's DOM.I)
These are all tools that'd make the Opera Experience much more interresting from a dev standpoint. Just provide an alternate "dev" version of Opera with all these goodies included so that they don't bloat the "customer" version, but provide these, they make creating complex sites so much easier.
Don't use it then, no one gives a fuck.
Fiddler is not a javascript debugger, try Firefox + Firebug sometime.
It's more like flash is often annoying (never stopping animations, sound, ...), sometimes extremely impractical (bizarre navigation) and too misused, therefore a damn fucking pain.
And the web DOES feel better without flash (e.g., with Flashblock installed).
I don't know which EFF you're talking about, but geeks usually use EFF to refer to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
From what you're talking about, I guess you were referring to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation republican think tank.
The rest of the world isn't trying to pass laws against neutrality (at least not yet). The issue is with local ISPs, therefore restricted to the US.
Dude, even Ubuntu has mpg123 and mpg321.
CLI players? sure, but the still flawlessly play mp3 files.
Wrong, Mark Pilgrim uses a brand new Lenovo ThinkCentre M52
Which is completely useless when the XML files silently gets corrupted before the main file gets corrupted
mp3s not playing out of the box?
What the hell's the distro you're using, Slackware 2.0?
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
It's more like they don't care that much about linux for these kinds of applications.
If they were utterly unable to produce "real" linux applications, they wouldn't have released Google Earth 4 on Linux, and it wouldn't run better than in Windows.
Uh? The Macbook is v1, the inner components may be the same as the ones in the MBP or the Mac Mini, but the issues are with the outer shell, the packaging (except for the thermal paste one, which hasn't been fixed on any platform anyway). MB's shell is v1 therefore MB is v1, that's all there is to it.