I've never played UO. What is "UO-like"? What defines it? What do current games lack? Are you sure that they actually lack it?
I can't help but be reminded of people who complain that D&D 3rd-edition focuses too much on moving little figures around a grid, as if it were somehow not the fault of the group playing the game, that they chose to focus on a minuscule subset of the rules.
So, first "piracy" creates the international anime market, then "piracy" continues. The Anime fad rises to a peak, then fades. "Piracy" continues throughout the whole process. Then "piracy" is blamed for the downturn. The sad truth is: it's technically true. If it weren't for "piracy", there indeed would not have been a decrease in sales at this point, there would simply be nothing to decrease.
focusing on one person in a crowded room, being able to hear what one person is saying despite a lot of other talking and background noise I don't care about? I don't have that super-power, where do I sign up?
Oh, so not only do you suggest that moving the mouse doesn't need to be a safe action, but you think instead that in order to work-around your broken system, I perform an even less-safe action, pressing an actual key on the keyboard- in an application which is of the type where every single key is likely bound to a destructive action, no less!
"focus follows mouse" is the most broken UI mistake ever conceived of. Focus follows eye-focus/maybe/, but I have yet to find an application for which "in order to have this window be marked as the one I'm working with, I need to partially-obscure it with a mouse pointer" is a sane idea. Let alone "let's turn the only truly safe "this will not actually do something" action in user interface convention into a "this has the ability to completely change how every input works" action.
Now that the #1 Superficial complaint about gimp has been taken care of, maybe when people continue to not use it, the developers will realize the actual horrible UI decisions they made in the past, and fix those. I suspect the current conversation goes something like this:
[Gimp developer] What UI improvements would you like to see in Gimp? [Average Joe] Well, to start with, I'd love it if it didn't have all these windows everywhere. Different parts of the interface keep covering each-other! I can't work at all! [Gimp developer] Okay, that's actually the Window Manager's fault. What else? [Average Joe] I don't know, I couldn't actually figure out anything because I couldn't see anything half the time.
Now, finally, after years of waiting, the conversation can be upgraded to:
[Gimp developer] What UI improvements would you like to see in Gimp? [Average Joe] (actual problems with gimp go here) [Gimp developer] *dies of old age before Average Joe is finished talking*
If you don't have the ability to move one thing over another, what you have is not a "window", in the commonly-accepted sense. Therefore, tiling window managers do not manage windows- maybe they manage tiles.
I will admit that gnome/kde/compiz/windows/osx all suck horribly, but throwing out the most major feature of a window that actually makes it a "window" cannot be accepted as a way to make a "window manager". If instead of the ability to move things around and partially-obscure one with another, I got rid of the ability to put things side-by-side (perhaps by requiring that each new window always partially obscured another) I assume you would find that unacceptable, might even consider it so far removed from the concept of "windows" that it was not befitting the name.
The same can also be said of "full-screen-only" managers. Would you consider iPhone to have a window manager, for example?
If you don't have the ability to move one thing over another, what you have is not a "window", in the commonly-accepted sense. Therefore, tiling window managers do not manage windows- maybe they manage tiles.
nice business model:
1) Get handed billions of dollars in taxpayer money
2) Use that money to develop expensive technology
3) License that technology to the same taxpayers for yet more money, claiming it as a measure to save taxpayer money
4) Profit
If "The Shareholders" have a say in what Google will do, then "The Shareholders" are part of Google. If "The Shareholders" require Google to do evil, then Google is evil.
That said, having Google in china does more towards freedom than against it.
the average seed ratio is between 0 and 2 uploads per download. 100 is possible, but highly unlikely. 3000 is absolutely absurd, especially for someone who is supposedly only sharing 24 songs.
I am copying what they did as exactly as I can, though because I don't understand what "copyright" means, I think it has nothing to do with this. Meanwhile, I am using their name for the exact reasons that laws exist to prevent such a thing happening, but I don't think that matters either. Finally, I haven't even bothered to contact the people who made the game, because to me it's more important that I "don't get sued" than that I'm, you know, a decent human being or anything.
If they had just rolled from 2009 to 2010, they wouldn't have this problem. The bug would have been apparent immediately and they would have fixed it then.
This is just an "Up yours" to everyone who, after Y2K, decided "But now we won't have to worry about 4 digit years for another hundred years, so let's just use two digit years. What could be the harm?"
Not very many small companies think they need a full time programmer for an endless time. And of course, if "programmer" means "someone who works 9-5, doesn't stay late to solve problems, never makes an effort outside of what he's told to do", they're right.
the shroud is there to prevent mistakenly thinking you have green when the lane going in a different direction has the green. The top/bottom of those is utterly useless, though. The whole thing should be a flat surface aside from the blinders on the side. and yet...
1) that sign is still completely covered and unreadable due to snow
2) No solution is offered for the sign
3) Nobody even mentions the sign. Without the information from the sign, people are expected to just practice safe driving.
They didn't say "£25 per household that need to receive a notice", they said "£25 per household".
That means an extra £4 a month for every household. If you're paying for broadband now because it costs "less than £40 a month", and you get threatened with cutoff whenever you actually use that broadband (BBC iPlayer released for Wii last month, this month I get threats of disconnection), how many lower-income families are going to keep paying more for no reason when it crosses that threshold?
"We didn't have enough time to gather requirements" is always bullshit. Requirements gathering is not something you do prior to any stage of software design. Requirements change continuously, and it is always important to allow your design to change with the requirements. There is never a point at which "just a little more time gathering requirements" would have gotten them all, because some of them will have gone away, and new ones will have sprung up, in that time.
The only correct way to look at software is as an evolving system which is occasionally replaced. People assume that replacing a constantly-evolving system will cost just as much and take just as much time to develop as the original "evolved" system, but those people are ignoring that requirements change over time- not all of the original system will need to be re-made.
Furthermore, the long-term evolution of a system can be looked at as an extension of requirements-gathering for the next iteration of the system. How many times have you thought to yourself "If I knew then what I knew now about how this was going to be used, I would have designed it like this instead."? It is stupid to think that it would have been possible to determine all requirements prior to the system's actual use.
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I've never played UO. What is "UO-like"? What defines it? What do current games lack? Are you sure that they actually lack it?
I can't help but be reminded of people who complain that D&D 3rd-edition focuses too much on moving little figures around a grid, as if it were somehow not the fault of the group playing the game, that they chose to focus on a minuscule subset of the rules.
So, first "piracy" creates the international anime market, then "piracy" continues. The Anime fad rises to a peak, then fades. "Piracy" continues throughout the whole process. Then "piracy" is blamed for the downturn. The sad truth is: it's technically true. If it weren't for "piracy", there indeed would not have been a decrease in sales at this point, there would simply be nothing to decrease.
focusing on one person in a crowded room, being able to hear what one person is saying despite a lot of other talking and background noise I don't care about? I don't have that super-power, where do I sign up?
"You see old friend. I've brought more auditers than you did."
Oh, so not only do you suggest that moving the mouse doesn't need to be a safe action, but you think instead that in order to work-around your broken system, I perform an even less-safe action, pressing an actual key on the keyboard- in an application which is of the type where every single key is likely bound to a destructive action, no less!
Yeah, that helps a lot.
"focus follows mouse" is the most broken UI mistake ever conceived of. Focus follows eye-focus /maybe/, but I have yet to find an application for which "in order to have this window be marked as the one I'm working with, I need to partially-obscure it with a mouse pointer" is a sane idea. Let alone "let's turn the only truly safe "this will not actually do something" action in user interface convention into a "this has the ability to completely change how every input works" action.
Now that the #1 Superficial complaint about gimp has been taken care of, maybe when people continue to not use it, the developers will realize the actual horrible UI decisions they made in the past, and fix those. I suspect the current conversation goes something like this:
[Gimp developer] What UI improvements would you like to see in Gimp?
[Average Joe] Well, to start with, I'd love it if it didn't have all these windows everywhere. Different parts of the interface keep covering each-other! I can't work at all!
[Gimp developer] Okay, that's actually the Window Manager's fault. What else?
[Average Joe] I don't know, I couldn't actually figure out anything because I couldn't see anything half the time.
Now, finally, after years of waiting, the conversation can be upgraded to:
[Gimp developer] What UI improvements would you like to see in Gimp?
[Average Joe] (actual problems with gimp go here)
[Gimp developer] *dies of old age before Average Joe is finished talking*
If you don't have the ability to move one thing over another, what you have is not a "window", in the commonly-accepted sense. Therefore, tiling window managers do not manage windows- maybe they manage tiles.
I will admit that gnome/kde/compiz/windows/osx all suck horribly, but throwing out the most major feature of a window that actually makes it a "window" cannot be accepted as a way to make a "window manager".
If instead of the ability to move things around and partially-obscure one with another, I got rid of the ability to put things side-by-side (perhaps by requiring that each new window always partially obscured another) I assume you would find that unacceptable, might even consider it so far removed from the concept of "windows" that it was not befitting the name.
The same can also be said of "full-screen-only" managers. Would you consider iPhone to have a window manager, for example?
If you don't have the ability to move one thing over another, what you have is not a "window", in the commonly-accepted sense. Therefore, tiling window managers do not manage windows- maybe they manage tiles.
nice business model:
1) Get handed billions of dollars in taxpayer money
2) Use that money to develop expensive technology
3) License that technology to the same taxpayers for yet more money, claiming it as a measure to save taxpayer money
4) Profit
Congratulations, You've solved step 3.
If "The Shareholders" have a say in what Google will do, then "The Shareholders" are part of Google. If "The Shareholders" require Google to do evil, then Google is evil.
That said, having Google in china does more towards freedom than against it.
Tiling window managers do not manage windows. Welcome to 1970.
the average seed ratio is between 0 and 2 uploads per download. 100 is possible, but highly unlikely. 3000 is absolutely absurd, especially for someone who is supposedly only sharing 24 songs.
Asked for comment, the involved parties responded "Wait, you thought that information was private before?"
more than enough time to plot where it will hit and be ready with a baseball bat.
I am copying what they did as exactly as I can, though because I don't understand what "copyright" means, I think it has nothing to do with this. Meanwhile, I am using their name for the exact reasons that laws exist to prevent such a thing happening, but I don't think that matters either. Finally, I haven't even bothered to contact the people who made the game, because to me it's more important that I "don't get sued" than that I'm, you know, a decent human being or anything.
If they had just rolled from 2009 to 2010, they wouldn't have this problem. The bug would have been apparent immediately and they would have fixed it then.
I just did "bind q impulse 255", never needed a god mode.
This is just an "Up yours" to everyone who, after Y2K, decided "But now we won't have to worry about 4 digit years for another hundred years, so let's just use two digit years. What could be the harm?"
Not very many small companies think they need a full time programmer for an endless time.
And of course, if "programmer" means "someone who works 9-5, doesn't stay late to solve problems, never makes an effort outside of what he's told to do", they're right.
That assumes that the label "terrorist" is remotely accurate.
the shroud is there to prevent mistakenly thinking you have green when the lane going in a different direction has the green. The top/bottom of those is utterly useless, though. The whole thing should be a flat surface aside from the blinders on the side.
and yet...
1) that sign is still completely covered and unreadable due to snow
2) No solution is offered for the sign
3) Nobody even mentions the sign. Without the information from the sign, people are expected to just practice safe driving.
They didn't say "£25 per household that need to receive a notice", they said "£25 per household".
That means an extra £4 a month for every household. If you're paying for broadband now because it costs "less than £40 a month", and you get threatened with cutoff whenever you actually use that broadband (BBC iPlayer released for Wii last month, this month I get threats of disconnection), how many lower-income families are going to keep paying more for no reason when it crosses that threshold?
"We didn't have enough time to gather requirements" is always bullshit. Requirements gathering is not something you do prior to any stage of software design. Requirements change continuously, and it is always important to allow your design to change with the requirements. There is never a point at which "just a little more time gathering requirements" would have gotten them all, because some of them will have gone away, and new ones will have sprung up, in that time.
The only correct way to look at software is as an evolving system which is occasionally replaced. People assume that replacing a constantly-evolving system will cost just as much and take just as much time to develop as the original "evolved" system, but those people are ignoring that requirements change over time- not all of the original system will need to be re-made.
Furthermore, the long-term evolution of a system can be looked at as an extension of requirements-gathering for the next iteration of the system. How many times have you thought to yourself "If I knew then what I knew now about how this was going to be used, I would have designed it like this instead."? It is stupid to think that it would have been possible to determine all requirements prior to the system's actual use.
Internet = Porn. Masturbation is the only real cure for overpopulation.