Additionally, General Grievous just sort of popped into existance.
Lucas seems to have a problem with killing off his good villains *cough* Darth Maul *cough*, then ending up with Darth Viagra, err... Count Dooku.
The main problem with Hayden Christensen is that he plays a whiney, angst-filled teen too well. And it really sucks to find out that Darth Vader, the coolest badass of badasses villains, started out as a whiney, angst-filled teen. Hell, he didn't even pull wings off flies or anything! Talk about a non-traumatic childhood...
Though, to be fair . . . if Natalie Portman dumped me, I'd probably take over the glaxay to avoid thinking about what I lost, too.
Futher, with a few chunks, you can calculate new chunks to send over to others
If you could calculate new chunks from the ones you already have, wouldn't it be faster to omit the calculable chunks and have everyone download the smaller file faster? I mean, isn't that the basic theory behind file compression?
"Japan has successfully tested an engine that can theoretically reach speeds of up to mach 5.5, or more than five times the speed of sound, the ministry said."
How does one successfully test an engine theoretically? "Well, according to my calculations, it won't fail and send 300 passengers to a fiery death . . . oh shit, I forgot to carry the 1 . . . and that decimal is wrong . . . what's the coefficient of kinetic friction again?"
Kinda obvious, but commenting your code WELL is really helpful in this kind of situation.
Maybe ditch some of the if-else statements and go with a few switch statements (yay for C).
not sure what kind of application you're using/building, but instead of letting it run and figure out what to do later, why not set up a bunch of flags while it's doing whatever it's doing. (meaning you run the different conditionals to set the flags earlier) A simple flag is much easier to check later than the conditional itself, but this approach is only useful in certain cases where there is actually a time/reason to set the flags (as if you want to check if a button was pressed earlier or somesuch). If the massive amount of conditionals inevitably happens simultaneous . . . sorry, can't help ya.
Everyone gets weirded out when you mention the idea of "intangible" property, yet few people have any qualms about paying bills online, using credit cards, or otherwise using money that they never see. Few get upset when they buy/download software that is just as intangible as the goods in an online game.
So is it really the intangible property that weirds people out? Or the fact that the general media has no damn clue how online games work?
It wasn't that bad. . . although Link was a cheap rip-off of Han Solo.
But meh, what can you expect from the 80's? At least it's better than the Ewoks cartoon. "We're the e-e-e-ewoks" . . . shudder . . . I still have nightmares, and I never got past the theme song!
I played it . . . but they showed nothing, so some cinema sequences were better. (Saving the Oracle, nudge, nudge;))
Anyway, they don't want to make the sex too real in videogames otherwise the anti-VG crowd will scream about the sex AND the violence and how we're sending society into the shitter. Now, not only will school shootings end up the fault of violent videogames, but teenage pregnancy will be blamed on sexy videogames.
Sex is awesome. So are videogames. But let's keep them separate for a while longer.
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Additionally, General Grievous just sort of popped into existance.
Lucas seems to have a problem with killing off his good villains *cough* Darth Maul *cough*, then ending up with Darth Viagra, err... Count Dooku.
The main problem with Hayden Christensen is that he plays a whiney, angst-filled teen too well. And it really sucks to find out that Darth Vader, the coolest badass of badasses villains, started out as a whiney, angst-filled teen. Hell, he didn't even pull wings off flies or anything! Talk about a non-traumatic childhood...
Though, to be fair . . . if Natalie Portman dumped me, I'd probably take over the glaxay to avoid thinking about what I lost, too.
Yeah, HP tech support is pretty good. The only gripe I have with their automated system is the damn annoying chime when they transfer your call.
A more general gripe is the commercials they play while you're on hold. What marketing exec. greenlighted that?
Futher, with a few chunks, you can calculate new chunks to send over to others
If you could calculate new chunks from the ones you already have, wouldn't it be faster to omit the calculable chunks and have everyone download the smaller file faster? I mean, isn't that the basic theory behind file compression?
But if the RIAA/MPAA sues Microsoft, who do we root for?
"Japan has successfully tested an engine that can theoretically reach speeds of up to mach 5.5, or more than five times the speed of sound, the ministry said."
How does one successfully test an engine theoretically? "Well, according to my calculations, it won't fail and send 300 passengers to a fiery death . . . oh shit, I forgot to carry the 1 . . . and that decimal is wrong . . . what's the coefficient of kinetic friction again?"
Kinda obvious, but commenting your code WELL is really helpful in this kind of situation.
Maybe ditch some of the if-else statements and go with a few switch statements (yay for C).
not sure what kind of application you're using/building, but instead of letting it run and figure out what to do later, why not set up a bunch of flags while it's doing whatever it's doing. (meaning you run the different conditionals to set the flags earlier) A simple flag is much easier to check later than the conditional itself, but this approach is only useful in certain cases where there is actually a time/reason to set the flags (as if you want to check if a button was pressed earlier or somesuch). If the massive amount of conditionals inevitably happens simultaneous . . . sorry, can't help ya.
Emotional knee-jerk reactions aren't that interesting.
...unless you're looking for something to cater to the "videogames are sending society to hell" portion of the ten-o-clock news.
Everyone gets weirded out when you mention the idea of "intangible" property, yet few people have any qualms about paying bills online, using credit cards, or otherwise using money that they never see. Few get upset when they buy/download software that is just as intangible as the goods in an online game.
So is it really the intangible property that weirds people out? Or the fact that the general media has no damn clue how online games work?
Yeah, the catch phrases got really annoying, really fast.
Maybe there should have been a disclaimer: What happens in Hyrule stays in Hyrule.
It wasn't that bad. . . although Link was a cheap rip-off of Han Solo.
But meh, what can you expect from the 80's? At least it's better than the Ewoks cartoon.
"We're the e-e-e-ewoks" . . . shudder . . . I still have nightmares, and I never got past the theme song!
I played it . . . but they showed nothing, so some cinema sequences were better. (Saving the Oracle, nudge, nudge ;))
Anyway, they don't want to make the sex too real in videogames otherwise the anti-VG crowd will scream about the sex AND the violence and how we're sending society into the shitter. Now, not only will school shootings end up the fault of violent videogames, but teenage pregnancy will be blamed on sexy videogames.
Sex is awesome. So are videogames. But let's keep them separate for a while longer.