People don't seem to be too impressed with the quality of the games. I haven't heard of most of them, so I can't comment on them, except on Traitor's Gate. The Swedish company Daydream did a game called "Safecracker" way back. A very addictive little puzzle game, you had to crack all the safes in a house with a time limit. One or two of the safes were based on real safes, others were logic, mechanical or cypher puzzles. The game wasn't true 3d but used the Quicktime system where you can stand still and look around 360 degrees. When you click to move forward on one of the hotspots it plays a little movie until you reach the next place where you can stand still and look around.
Traitor's Gate seemed to be a bit updated version of it with a bit more action. There were guards, and you had some Thief style non-lethal ways of dealing with them, but if you were spotted it was game over. The few people who noticed it gave it quite decent reviews.
Anyone else notice that the scene with her falling out the window looks completely fake? Her head moves really weird, in time with each uzi firing a round...her head jumps around or something, really wierd- didn't look right at all.
I've looked through that section several times, but I can't see what you are describing I'm afraid. Perhaps because my computer is too slow to play it without jitters...
What I DID notice though, was the agent jumping down on the hood of the car and crushing it. He looks very fake...wrong inertia with the body, the fabric of the suit doesn't move convincingly.
But hey, details! It's the sequel to one of my favourite films ever. The music is great. I'm really looking forward to it. "Here we go" indeed.
What if - when we see the film, the person takes off the motorcykle helmet, and it turns out it's actually Keanu Reeves in that catsuit? Or the Oracle?;-)
I don't know if they are underappreciated, but here are some favourites that I think deserve to be seen:
HORROR/THRILLER Angel heart Candyman Hellraiser Lord of Illusions (no price for guessing I'm a Clive Barker fan:-) The Vanishing (the Belgian original, available on DVD from Criterion, not the terrible Hollywood remake) Sleepy Hollow Brotherhood of the Wolf (the monster SF/X is pretty bad once you get to see the monster. That is a letdown, but once you get over that, very enjoyable, it's better the second time you see it. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in pre-revolution France!) The Name of the Rose The Young Poisoners Handbook Memento The Others The Ring Rear Window
COMEDY Delicatessen Black cat, white cat Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Chicken Run Oh brother where art thou Pleasantville Beetlejuice Young Frankenstein
SCI-FI Gattaca Dark City The Fifth Element
DRAMA Ridicule (French film) Regeneration (British WW1 film, based on the book with the same name. Was given a more action oriented name in the US, even though it is set not on the front, but a hospital for traumatised soldiers.) The War Zone (Most. Depressing. Film. Ever. Not a war film, about incest.)
ACTION L.A. Confidential Seven Samurai
DOCUMENTARY Bowling for Columbine Buena Vista Social Club
You know you can find the old episodes? http://www.dapcentral.org/ Several people from Best Brains have said on chats and so on that they don't mind the swapping, they think it is good someone keeps the legacy alive. eDonkey is terribly slow though.
Cool, I can't recall how much time I wasted on this game as a kid.
A hint when it comes to picking characters - rasing your magic skills are the most difficult, and I believe you get an exponential mana increase for every level, so pick characters with high initial magic skills. I believe it was the big hairy monster, the little blond kid, one of the ladies (a priestess or druidess?) and one more...a shadowninja type? Not the coolest characters, but they will be the most powerful in the end. Ninja skills are increased simply by throwing things, any things. You don't have to hit any monster, at least not in the original. So just dump all your things in a big heap at the end of a long corridor, select one character and start tossing things back and forward until you are bored out of your skull. Warrior skills are increased more quickly when you are hitting a monster. A good area is the 2x2 square room a couple of levels down which spawns an infinite number of those squeaking broccoli things. Open the door and start bashing on them, and pick up their parts when they die. When you need to heal, just close the door again, feed broccoli parts to your characters and start practicing your healing potions.
Yeah, wouldn't it cut down the number of return visitors to your site if you expected the reader to process the SQL query instead of the web server?
"Hi, welcome to my blog! Todays' topics for discussion are: {select c.title, c.date, s.name from current_news as c, submitter as s where c.submitter_id=s.submitter_id order_by c.date)}"
Well, as a European I'm flattered, but was it really necessary to post such an inflammatory post?
For instance, you set up America vs Europe, a classic hot subject on Slashdot whatever the subject discussed. Same with FreeBSD vs Linux. Also "USian" isn't a very respectful term, right?
here is a demand from dog lovers, but scientists so far have been unable to clone a canine. In fact, cc's creation was the result of a dog lover, not a cat
Wow, that's kinky! So Rainbow has a thing for dogs, does she? Wasn't there a South Park episode about this?
Also, I get confused. The chunky cat is the reserved one? For some reason I keep thinking it should be the other way around for some reason. I mean, all fat guys are jolly, right?:-)
For most of us writing software all day, it's nice to see things crafted out of steel and wood. Something real, not made from bits that are on the road to being obsolete and forgotten as soon as it's built.
Damn, you really put your finger on something I have been feeling a lot lately. I finally finished my CS education and started working. My boyfriend is an engineer and spends most his free time tinkering and building things. Cars, engines, boats, electronics, houses... I discovered it feels much more satisfying when you are finished and have something you can touch, something that you can show to others and have the quality of the thing appreciated. It's also more fun to move around and do more physical work instead of just staring at a screen all day.
I have a huge gap in my education here, I'm have spent most my life studying and doing theoretical things, I really have my thumb in the middle of my hand when it comes to handicrafts, but I'm slowly learning...
Unfortunately I have to agree...at least public saunas at gyms and so on. You usually have to pour a bucket of water over them (a little bit at a time) and wait half an hour for the element to reheat to get a decent warmth.
Other things not hot enough in Sweden for me are the summers...and Thai food!
Ah, it actually feels good to read someone who disagrees after the overwhelming praise of the book here on Slashdot (and I was one of the hallelulia choir), especially as its from someone who sounds like he is not just a Java hater.
there are areas of Java, especially around concurrent programming and network and io apis that may surprise even experienced developers.
Do you have any suggestion for a book or online resource where I could learn more about these things?
I mean, yes, I know a little about those areas, and I know where to find books that teach them, but since you seem to have a lot of experience (I mean it, no sarcasm), do you have any tips for a source that cover these important areas you say Boch neglects, just as well as he does the rest?
Thank you, a good review of an excellent book. I have maybe 10 java books, most of them from O'Reilly and none have been as beneficial to my development in Java as this one.
The code and the text are both very clear and concise, and you can read the book cover to cover, coming back later to study each advice more in depth.
I think you can get it from reading between the lines in the review, but just to make it clear to any curious beginner, this is not the first book you should buy if you are just starting to learn java. Use The Java Tutorial instead, and maybe Learning Java.
Check out The Secret Diaries of Cassandra Claire! This stuff is really hilarious!
THE SECRET DIARY OF ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN
Day One:
Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good. Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it. Still not King.
Day Four:
Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying. Not King yet.
Day Six: Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly. Yes! Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back. Still not King.
THE VERY SECRET DIARY OF SAMWISE GAMGEE
Day One:
Frodo stabbed by Morgul blade. Oh no! Pippin cried. Told Pippin it would be all right as Mr. Frodo far too hot to die.
Did I say that out loud?
Day Three:
Have followed Mr. Frodo to Rivendell where Elves will heal him. Gandalf told me to help poor unconscious Mr. Frodo get out of dirty clothes. So took clothes off him and gave him a bath. And another one. Then gave him another bath. Gandalf came and told me six baths was quite enough, Samwise Gamgee.
Poncy old git probably hasn't taken a bath since the Second Age.
Day Four:
Wonder if it is time for Mr. Frodo to have another bath yet.
THE SECRET DIARY OF LEGOLAS SON OF WEENUS
Day One:
Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.
Day Four:
Boromir so irritating. Why must he wear big shield like dinner plate all the time? Climbed up Caradhras but wimpy humans who cannot walk on snow insisted we climb back down.
Am definitely prettiest member of the Fellowship. Go me!
Day Six:
Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle. Orcs so silly. Still the prettiest.
Day Ten:
Gandalf fell into shadow. In other news, I think I am developing a spot on my nose. V. serious situation, as Elven spots likely to last for 500 years or more.
Yes, try reading the FAQ. http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#cv s2 svn.
So far, its "only" a Python script. Very much in beta, the usual warnings apply, but they claim it's working ok. As an example, the whole first
year of Subversion's own history was converted from CVS into a
3000+ revision svn repository. It took about 30 minutes. http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/cvs2 sv n/README
Obvious answer - Nope, don't trust Amazon reviews. I'm quite sure if there are too many negative reviews of an item, they remove them. How many items have you found with an average of less than three stars?
When the "listmania" stuff first came I made a couple of lists one evening when I was bored, one of them was "10 worst films ever", featuring Armageddon, Waterworld, Independence Day and so on. It was quickly removed.
Still, the filters and the reviewers sometime let through stuff, and people can still take the piss out of some products if they are creative... "What really makes David Hasselhoff stand apart from his contemporaries is his magnificent voice. Some critics have compared his resounding tenor to that of Mario Lanza or Johnny Hartman, but I would compare it more to a wounded jackal getting whipped by a screaming pornfilm fluffer.
So enjoy this comprehensive collection of Hasselhoff's greatest. You won't regret a moment of it!"
Check it out, there are 449 reviews in that style...
Try Oracles JDeveloper. The user interface resembles JBuilder a lot, one of them is probably based on the other, but I think JDeveloper is faster. It's free too.
82 watts, that's great! * Higher energy bills! * More energy wasted as the processor idles! * More heat meaning:
-New fans, either expensive or noisy.
-More heat in the room. My own apartment is already hot enough on most summer days, and the server room I administrate at work is also too warm for comfort.
I believe that in the beginning, Godwin's law didn't refer to something as immature as "winning" or "losing" an argument, it just said that when a discussion had reached the point when the participants starts to call each other nazis, there is nothing of value left in the thread so it should be abandoned for a more rational discussion. You commie.;-)
You mean ALL have to agree to it? Or just the majority? When it comes to "majority", you may have underestimated the level of environmental passion among European citizens.
Slashdot Mirror
People don't seem to be too impressed with the quality of the games. I haven't heard of most of them, so I can't comment on them, except on Traitor's Gate. The Swedish company Daydream did a game called "Safecracker" way back. A very addictive little puzzle game, you had to crack all the safes in a house with a time limit. One or two of the safes were based on real safes, others were logic, mechanical or cypher puzzles. The game wasn't true 3d but used the Quicktime system where you can stand still and look around 360 degrees. When you click to move forward on one of the hotspots it plays a little movie until you reach the next place where you can stand still and look around.
Traitor's Gate seemed to be a bit updated version of it with a bit more action. There were guards, and you had some Thief style non-lethal ways of dealing with them, but if you were spotted it was game over. The few people who noticed it gave it quite decent reviews.
Anyone else notice that the scene with her falling out the window looks completely fake? Her head moves really weird, in time with each uzi firing a round...her head jumps around or something, really wierd- didn't look right at all.
I've looked through that section several times, but I can't see what you are describing I'm afraid. Perhaps because my computer is too slow to play it without jitters...
What I DID notice though, was the agent jumping down on the hood of the car and crushing it. He looks very fake...wrong inertia with the body, the fabric of the suit doesn't move convincingly.
But hey, details! It's the sequel to one of my favourite films ever. The music is great. I'm really looking forward to it. "Here we go" indeed.
Carrie-Anne Moss in a tight leather catsuit
;-)
What if - when we see the film, the person takes off the motorcykle helmet, and it turns out it's actually Keanu Reeves in that catsuit? Or the Oracle?
Lol! Ok.... :-)
Trying to teach Jesus the gospel again.
I don't know if they are underappreciated, but here are some favourites that I think deserve to be seen:
:-)
HORROR/THRILLER
Angel heart
Candyman
Hellraiser
Lord of Illusions (no price for guessing I'm a Clive Barker fan
The Vanishing (the Belgian original, available on DVD from Criterion, not the terrible Hollywood remake)
Sleepy Hollow
Brotherhood of the Wolf (the monster SF/X is pretty bad once you get to see the monster. That is a letdown, but once you get over that, very enjoyable, it's better the second time you see it. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in pre-revolution France!)
The Name of the Rose
The Young Poisoners Handbook
Memento
The Others
The Ring
Rear Window
COMEDY
Delicatessen
Black cat, white cat
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Chicken Run
Oh brother where art thou
Pleasantville
Beetlejuice
Young Frankenstein
SCI-FI
Gattaca
Dark City
The Fifth Element
DRAMA
Ridicule (French film)
Regeneration (British WW1 film, based on the book with the same name. Was given a more action oriented name in the US, even though it is set not on the front, but a hospital for traumatised soldiers.)
The War Zone (Most. Depressing. Film. Ever. Not a war film, about incest.)
ACTION
L.A. Confidential
Seven Samurai
DOCUMENTARY
Bowling for Columbine
Buena Vista Social Club
Thank you! Finally someone with taste....
You know you can find the old episodes?
http://www.dapcentral.org/
Several people from Best Brains have said on chats and so on that they don't mind the swapping, they think it is good someone keeps the legacy alive. eDonkey is terribly slow though.
Or as in Futurama....
Computer: You've got mail!
Leela: Yeah yeah...
Computer: It's not spam!
Leela: WHAT?
Cool, I can't recall how much time I wasted on this game as a kid.
A hint when it comes to picking characters - rasing your magic skills are the most difficult, and I believe you get an exponential mana increase for every level, so pick characters with high initial magic skills. I believe it was the big hairy monster, the little blond kid, one of the ladies (a priestess or druidess?) and one more...a shadowninja type? Not the coolest characters, but they will be the most powerful in the end.
Ninja skills are increased simply by throwing things, any things. You don't have to hit any monster, at least not in the original. So just dump all your things in a big heap at the end of a long corridor, select one character and start tossing things back and forward until you are bored out of your skull.
Warrior skills are increased more quickly when you are hitting a monster. A good area is the 2x2 square room a couple of levels down which spawns an infinite number of those squeaking broccoli things. Open the door and start bashing on them, and pick up their parts when they die. When you need to heal, just close the door again, feed broccoli parts to your characters and start practicing your healing potions.
showing the user a query is worse..
;-)
Yeah, wouldn't it cut down the number of return visitors to your site if you expected the reader to process the SQL query instead of the web server?
"Hi, welcome to my blog! Todays' topics for discussion are:
{select c.title, c.date, s.name
from current_news as c, submitter as s
where c.submitter_id=s.submitter_id
order_by c.date)}"
Well, as a European I'm flattered, but was it really necessary to post such an inflammatory post?
For instance, you set up America vs Europe, a classic hot subject on Slashdot whatever the subject discussed. Same with FreeBSD vs Linux. Also "USian" isn't a very respectful term, right?
Cheers,
Lars
here is a demand from dog lovers, but scientists so far have been unable to clone a canine. In fact, cc's creation was the result of a dog lover, not a cat
:-)
Wow, that's kinky! So Rainbow has a thing for dogs, does she? Wasn't there a South Park episode about this?
Also, I get confused. The chunky cat is the reserved one? For some reason I keep thinking it should be the other way around for some reason. I mean, all fat guys are jolly, right?
For most of us writing
software all day, it's nice to see things crafted
out of steel and wood. Something real, not made
from bits that are on the road to being obsolete
and forgotten as soon as it's built.
Damn, you really put your finger on something I have been feeling a lot lately. I finally finished my CS education and started working. My boyfriend is an engineer and spends most his free time tinkering and building things. Cars, engines, boats, electronics, houses... I discovered it feels much more satisfying when you are finished and have something you can touch, something that you can show to others and have the quality of the thing appreciated. It's also more fun to move around and do more physical work instead of just staring at a screen all day.
I have a huge gap in my education here, I'm have spent most my life studying and doing theoretical things, I really have my thumb in the middle of my hand when it comes to handicrafts, but I'm slowly learning...
Actually, swedes don't know much about Sauna.
Unfortunately I have to agree...at least public saunas at gyms and so on. You usually have to pour a bucket of water over them (a little bit at a time) and wait half an hour for the element to reheat to get a decent warmth.
Other things not hot enough in Sweden for me are the summers...and Thai food!
Ah, it actually feels good to read someone who disagrees after the overwhelming praise of the book here on Slashdot (and I was one of the hallelulia choir), especially as its from someone who sounds like he is not just a Java hater.
there are areas of Java, especially around concurrent programming and network and io apis that may surprise even experienced developers.
Do you have any suggestion for a book or online resource where I could learn more about these things?
I mean, yes, I know a little about those areas, and I know where to find books that teach them, but since you seem to have a lot of experience (I mean it, no sarcasm), do you have any tips for a source that cover these important areas you say Boch neglects, just as well as he does the rest?
Thank you, a good review of an excellent book. I have maybe 10 java books, most of them from O'Reilly and none have been as beneficial to my development in Java as this one.
The code and the text are both very clear and concise, and you can read the book cover to cover, coming back later to study each advice more in depth.
I think you can get it from reading between the lines in the review, but just to make it clear to any curious beginner, this is not the first book you should buy if you are just starting to learn java. Use
The Java Tutorial instead, and maybe
Learning Java.
Check out The Secret Diaries of Cassandra Claire! This stuff is really hilarious!
THE SECRET DIARY OF ARAGORN SON OF ARATHORN
Day One:
Ringwraiths killed: 4. V. good.
Met up with Hobbits. Walked forty miles. Skinned a squirrel and ate it. Still not King.
Day Four:
Stuck on mountain with Hobbits. Boromir really annoying. Not King yet.
Day Six:
Orcs killed: none. Disappointing. Stubble update: I look rugged and manly. Yes! Keep wanting to drop-kick Gimli. Holding myself back. Still not King.
THE VERY SECRET DIARY OF SAMWISE GAMGEE
Day One:
Frodo stabbed by Morgul blade. Oh no! Pippin cried. Told Pippin it would be all right as Mr. Frodo far too hot to die.
Did I say that out loud?
Day Three:
Have followed Mr. Frodo to Rivendell where Elves will heal him. Gandalf told me to help poor unconscious Mr. Frodo get out of dirty clothes. So took clothes off him and gave him a bath. And another one. Then gave him another bath. Gandalf came and told me six baths was quite enough, Samwise Gamgee.
Poncy old git probably hasn't taken a bath since the Second Age.
Day Four:
Wonder if it is time for Mr. Frodo to have another bath yet.
THE SECRET DIARY OF LEGOLAS SON OF WEENUS
Day One:
Went to Council of Elrond. Was prettiest person there. Agreed to follow some tiny little man to Mordor to throw ring into volcano. Very important mission - gold ring so tacky.
Day Four:
Boromir so irritating. Why must he wear big shield like dinner plate all the time? Climbed up Caradhras but wimpy humans who cannot walk on snow insisted we climb back down.
Am definitely prettiest member of the Fellowship. Go me!
Day Six:
Far too dark in Mines of Moria to brush hair properly. Am very afraid I am developing a tangle. Orcs so silly. Still the prettiest.
Day Ten:
Gandalf fell into shadow. In other news, I think I am developing a spot on my nose. V. serious situation, as Elven spots likely to last for 500 years or more.
Still prettiest, despite blasted spot.
9) Sun cries fowl.
:-)
Oh, a bird call?
Sorry...couldn't resist.
Yes, try reading the FAQ.
v s2 svn.
2 sv n/README
http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#c
So far, its "only" a Python script. Very much in beta, the usual warnings apply, but they claim it's working ok.
As an example, the whole first
year of Subversion's own history was converted from CVS into a
3000+ revision svn repository. It took about 30 minutes.
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/cvs
Does anyone have any experience with integrating Subversion with, say, NetBeans? Does it work as good as the CVS support in NetBeans?
:-)
I'll probably try it anyway, I'm just lazy.
I have a special fondness for review nr 6, Hot Shot City, which is especially good.
Obvious answer - Nope, don't trust Amazon reviews. I'm quite sure if there are too many negative reviews of an item, they remove them. How many items have you found with an average of less than three stars?
When the "listmania" stuff first came I made a couple of lists one evening when I was bored, one of them was "10 worst films ever", featuring Armageddon, Waterworld, Independence Day and so on. It was quickly removed.
Still, the filters and the reviewers sometime let through stuff, and people can still take the piss out of some products if they
are creative...
"What really makes David Hasselhoff stand apart from his contemporaries is his magnificent voice. Some critics have compared his resounding tenor to that of Mario Lanza or Johnny Hartman, but I would compare it more to a wounded jackal getting whipped by a screaming pornfilm fluffer.
So enjoy this comprehensive collection of Hasselhoff's greatest. You won't regret a moment of it!"
Check it out, there are 449 reviews in that style...
Try Oracles JDeveloper. The user interface resembles JBuilder a lot, one of them is probably based on the other, but I think JDeveloper is faster. It's free too.
82 watts, that's great!
* Higher energy bills!
* More energy wasted as the processor idles!
* More heat meaning:
-New fans, either expensive or noisy.
-More heat in the room. My own apartment is already hot enough on most summer days, and the server room I administrate at work is also too warm for comfort.
I believe that in the beginning, Godwin's law didn't refer to something as immature as "winning" or "losing" an argument, it just said that when a discussion had reached the point when the participants starts to call each other nazis, there is nothing of value left in the thread so it should be abandoned for a more rational discussion. You commie. ;-)
You mean ALL have to agree to it? Or just the majority? When it comes to "majority", you may have underestimated the level of environmental passion among European citizens.