I tried out Gnome 3 and while it has potential and good ideas it's lacking the flexibility of "classic" desktop environment like XFCE or even Gnome 2. Looking forward to things from it influencing more conservative DEs though.
This. I don't want any source code for the game (although it would be nice) but not getting anything but the right to play a game on a souped-up terminal server for the full price? No thanks. It's bad enough when companies decide to turn off the multiplayer servers for console titles while people still play the game online. All Onlive does is taking away your power in exchange for slightly better prices, worse image quality, higher latency and the need for a high-speed Internet connection.
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What about not using greek letters in math at all? If a programmer would try to pull off that kind of stuff he'd be fired.
Graphics are fine, we're slowly getting to a point where screaming "OMG LOOK AT TEH PRETTY PICTSHURS" isn't enough to sell a game anymore. Please keep it that way.
Instead they installed grass and waited ~six months for the students/professors to collectively define the necessary paths to and from the building. The University would then install the pavement, routing them to match the paths worn into the grass. This yielded some interesting walkways but they always seemed to make sense.
That is actually pretty cool, as far as sidewalks go. The ants are just being lazy with their sneakernet and so are we:>
Not on my play through, no. My character never said anything like that and openly told some of the racist to shut their traps. Bioware should've made ME more aware of my previous actions or allowed me to explain myself instead of just whacking me over the head with renegade points. It basically went like this:
Council ship: OMG we're getting shot at, protect us while we flee!
Shepard: Nope, we need every ship to defeat Sovereign and I'm not going to sacrifice the life of civilians on the Citadel and soldiers on out ships just so you are guaranteed to get out of here in one piece. Sorry, you're on your own.
Council ship: FUUUUUuuuu*explodes*
At the end of the first game I let the council die. It was for all the right reasons, there was a giant spaceship Cthulu about to destroy all life as we knew it and I didn't want to lose vital military assets and threaten the survival of the Galaxy for some symbolic gesture. Turned out to be the 'wrong decision' in the overall theme of being the good guy and uniting all races in mass Effect 2 but I stuck with it because I would always have made that decision with the knowledge I had to hand and it also made the storyline and reactions to you on the citadel more interesting in the 2nd game
Yeah, it's stupid that not saving the fleeing council but instead focusing on the dreadnought that's ripping apart the citadel where millions of people might die is a "renegade" action. It's a friggin' elected council, those guys aren't "worth" more than any other person. Just elect a new representative and carry on, geez.
I wonder if he lost some of the major NPCs by assigning them the wrong tasks and/or the crew of the ship.
Spoilers ahead!
On my first play through I messed around for a bit before starting the final mission and lost the entire Normandy II crew in a horrible, graphic way. I really didn't expect it and actually felt bad for them. Second time playing only Thane bit the dust because I don't want to see him in ME3:>
It appears you are not familiar with Haskell or [this][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence].
I'm more familiar with Haskell than I'd like to be, thank you. What I meant is that programmers shouldn't use the horrible syntax you use in math for programming, e.G. no "funny" characters, descriptive names and all that.
Haskell supports various unicode characters as operators and it makes me wanna to puke. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/UnicodeInHaskellSource
IMO one of the great things about programming nowadays is that you can use descriptive names without feeling bad. Single character identifiers from different alphabets are something that rub me the wrong way in mathematics. Keep 'em out of my programming languages!
Bullshit from the article:
Unicode has the entire gamut of Greek letters, mathematical and technical symbols, brackets, brockets, sprockets, and weird and wonderful glyphs such as "Dentistry symbol light down and horizontal with wave" (0x23c7). Why do we still have to name variables OmegaZero when our computers now know how to render 0x03a9+0x2080 properly?
OmegaZero is at least something everybody will recognize. And why would you name a variable like that anyway? It's programming, not math, use descriptive names.
But programs are still decisively vertical, to the point of being horizontally challenged. Why can't we pull minor scopes and subroutines out in that right-hand space and thus make them supportive to the understanding of the main body of code?
Because we're not using the same IDE?
And need I remind anybody that you cannot buy a monochrome screen anymore? Syntax-coloring editors are the default. Why not make color part of the syntax? Why not tell the compiler about protected code regions by putting them on a framed light gray background? Or provide hints about likely and unlikely code paths with a green or red background tint?
... what?
For some reason computer people are so conservative that we still find it more uncompromisingly important for our source code to be compatible with a Teletype ASR-33 terminal and its 1963-vintage ASCII table than it is for us to be able to express our intentions clearly.
... WHAT? If you don't express your intentions clearly in a program it won't work!
And, yes, me too: I wrote this in vi(1), which is why the article does not have all the fancy Unicode glyphs in the first place.
vim does Unicode just fine.
And from the Wikipedia entry on the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp):
A post by Poul-Henning is responsible for the widespread use of the term bikeshed colour to describe contentious but otherwise meaningless technical debates over trivialities in open source projects.
Irony? Why does this guy come off as an idiot who got annoyed by VB in this article when he clearly should know better?
Are you serious? Who is "carefree", except maybe for complete morons? His point about loosing control is absolutely valid. I don't like talking to people who aren't themselves either, and if it's someone close to me I worry about them. It's only natural.
Costco sold real sugar Coke from Mexico (Mexicoke) during Passover for the Jews who won't eat corn-syrup.
I almost converted to Judaism because they're on to something...it was awesome. We couldn't stop drinking it, and I'd pay double to get it any time of year over the corn-syrup stuff, which I rarely buy.
Funny, I just checked Wikipedia and found out that here in Europe and in Asia cola is usually sweetened with "normal" table sugar (made from sugar beet/sugarcane). Only Americans seem to get the corn syrup stuff. I feel sorry for you guys, you invented the stuff and get the worst version.
The ones that foolishly are "good kids" and don't fight back because they're told "violence solves nothing" and aren't taught to self defend, and are too slow to realize that the bullies aren't going to be punished by authority figures, who were probably bullies themselves when they were young and "understand" why the bully would want to beat up Little Tommy Nerd.
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Am I bitter over my childhood and the public school systems I went through? What do you think?
Agree. When I was in school I got bullied from first to eleventh grade (German school system) and most of the teachers didn't do much. Sure, they discussed whatever big thing happened with the whole class and two of the assholes (there were three) almost, but only almost, got kicked out of school, but there was not much justice and I didn't fight back because I was fearing for my life. Teachers told me that I need to get more self esteem. Thanks for that, morons...
Let's face it, being a "good kid" is not the way to get through life. I was a "good kid" and the older I get the more I realized life would have been better and more fair had I been a prick willing to get in trouble. Some people need the motherloving shit kicked out of them. Some people deserve their teeth being knocked out and their eyes gouged out. Sounds tough, but there are many people walking this Earth that shouldn't be, and public schools are protecting them, not systematically executing them.
Uh, what? Sure, there have to be more consequences for (repeated) bullying because it's not the victims fault that those dickheads found someone to push around and feel powerful over but you can't honestly believe that it's a good idea to kill misbehaving kids and adults, even if they're assholes. Those people often have issues themselves and need that power trip like others need their crack.
The only thing that needs to happen IMO is the police/the feds raiding "gold base" to free theslaves. After that they should be declared a criminal organization.
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Too bad their carrier literally was an aircraft carrier in space.
THIS kind of attitude is why many of us geeks can't get a date.. change it!
Don't blame the geeks for what the marketing and bigwigs are doing.
I can't imagine Slashdot without you, Anonymous Coward! I'm going to leave too!
I tried out Gnome 3 and while it has potential and good ideas it's lacking the flexibility of "classic" desktop environment like XFCE or even Gnome 2. Looking forward to things from it influencing more conservative DEs though.
This. I don't want any source code for the game (although it would be nice) but not getting anything but the right to play a game on a souped-up terminal server for the full price? No thanks. It's bad enough when companies decide to turn off the multiplayer servers for console titles while people still play the game online. All Onlive does is taking away your power in exchange for slightly better prices, worse image quality, higher latency and the need for a high-speed Internet connection.
What about not using greek letters in math at all? If a programmer would try to pull off that kind of stuff he'd be fired.
Graphics are fine, we're slowly getting to a point where screaming "OMG LOOK AT TEH PRETTY PICTSHURS" isn't enough to sell a game anymore. Please keep it that way.
A DE-Mail costs about 25 Cent.
Yes, the German postal service is in on this.
Instead they installed grass and waited ~six months for the students/professors to collectively define the necessary paths to and from the building. The University would then install the pavement, routing them to match the paths worn into the grass. This yielded some interesting walkways but they always seemed to make sense.
That is actually pretty cool, as far as sidewalks go. The ants are just being lazy with their sneakernet and so are we :>
Yep. But you still get a fair amount of renegade points for choosing the middle option. For some reason.
How is this news?
Not on my play through, no. My character never said anything like that and openly told some of the racist to shut their traps. Bioware should've made ME more aware of my previous actions or allowed me to explain myself instead of just whacking me over the head with renegade points. It basically went like this:
Council ship: OMG we're getting shot at, protect us while we flee!
Shepard: Nope, we need every ship to defeat Sovereign and I'm not going to sacrifice the life of civilians on the Citadel and soldiers on out ships just so you are guaranteed to get out of here in one piece. Sorry, you're on your own.
Council ship: FUUUUUuuuu*explodes*
Yeah, it's stupid that not saving the fleeing council but instead focusing on the dreadnought that's ripping apart the citadel where millions of people might die is a "renegade" action. It's a friggin' elected council, those guys aren't "worth" more than any other person. Just elect a new representative and carry on, geez.
I wonder if he lost some of the major NPCs by assigning them the wrong tasks and/or the crew of the ship.
:>
Spoilers ahead!
On my first play through I messed around for a bit before starting the final mission and lost the entire Normandy II crew in a horrible, graphic way. I really didn't expect it and actually felt bad for them. Second time playing only Thane bit the dust because I don't want to see him in ME3
can it detect cloaked spies carrying sappers?
It doesn't have to, North Korea will just scout rush it until it's out of ammo (or reached its kill limit).
It appears you are not familiar with Haskell or [this][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspondence].
I'm more familiar with Haskell than I'd like to be, thank you. What I meant is that programmers shouldn't use the horrible syntax you use in math for programming, e.G. no "funny" characters, descriptive names and all that.
Bullshit from the article:
OmegaZero is at least something everybody will recognize. And why would you name a variable like that anyway? It's programming, not math, use descriptive names.
Because we're not using the same IDE?
... WHAT? If you don't express your intentions clearly in a program it won't work!
vim does Unicode just fine. And from the Wikipedia entry on the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-Henning_Kamp):
Irony? Why does this guy come off as an idiot who got annoyed by VB in this article when he clearly should know better?
Are you serious? Who is "carefree", except maybe for complete morons? His point about loosing control is absolutely valid. I don't like talking to people who aren't themselves either, and if it's someone close to me I worry about them. It's only natural.
It's not only asking if you're "good", it has to be "very good".
Who the hell usually is greatly disturbed by other peoples misfortunes while feeling very sorry for their problems?
Funny, I just checked Wikipedia and found out that here in Europe and in Asia cola is usually sweetened with "normal" table sugar (made from sugar beet/sugarcane). Only Americans seem to get the corn syrup stuff. I feel sorry for you guys, you invented the stuff and get the worst version.
Agree. When I was in school I got bullied from first to eleventh grade (German school system) and most of the teachers didn't do much. Sure, they discussed whatever big thing happened with the whole class and two of the assholes (there were three) almost, but only almost, got kicked out of school, but there was not much justice and I didn't fight back because I was fearing for my life. Teachers told me that I need to get more self esteem. Thanks for that, morons...
Uh, what? Sure, there have to be more consequences for (repeated) bullying because it's not the victims fault that those dickheads found someone to push around and feel powerful over but you can't honestly believe that it's a good idea to kill misbehaving kids and adults, even if they're assholes. Those people often have issues themselves and need that power trip like others need their crack.
The only thing that needs to happen IMO is the police/the feds raiding "gold base" to free the slaves. After that they should be declared a criminal organization.
Like this?
Don't mod down the cookie monster :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye8mB6VsUHw
... for the Prisoner remake.