so the cool diablo 3 background is not a piece of art?
drawings, paintings, sculptures are more present in your daily life, than you think. even if they are painted for promotion, they do have to be painted or be drawn - and get paid for.
also, painting with a digital stick to draw a digital image compared to an oilpainting is only different, because digital sticks are still new.
you are right about your differentiation between investor and sponsor, however it is not true, that paintings, sculptures are not made for money, as it is not true, that games/video/music is made for money only.
for a small idea file for me nano, kate or notepad++/editplus depending on the platform is more than enough.
that's the difference between IDE and editor.
i am an eclipse user myself, but as with choosing the right OS for the job, choosing the right language for the job, I also choose the right editor for the job. eclipse well integrates into svn and handles multiple languages in one project very well. if it is clear, that i work on a project with many files, subversion/bzr/cvs and eclipse supports the language, i definitely use eclipse. code completion, good debugger integration and refactoring is quite useful sometimes.so i sure dont want to miss eclipse in greater python or java projects.
using kate or kdevelop for custom languages however, since i find writing syntax highlighting templates for katepart very easy.
so it depends on the job, really. he however asked for an IDE, not an editor.
what is also a solution for me, is using a custom eclipse project for "stuff".
downside of kate and eclipse is its typing speed on certain platforms. since sometimes the IDE tries to be smart, and Qt4 starts to be laggy, both show sometimes the symptom of showing you what you type some seconds later. that CAN be annoying, why sometimes fast fixes in big files can be done on the commandline. with vim or even nano/pico or cat/cc
that's pointing out exactly what I would miss in such a study: the quality of usage.
being online in facebook and writing messages to a lot of friends, planning your week and inviting people to join you at certain activities is the social usage of facebook. however surfing around in the facebook web, looking at photos, and playing games in facebook is the non-social usage of facebook.
So, even if people use facebook, it really depends what they spend their time with mostly.
I have two friends in mine, who are socially more inactive - one of them is using facebook almost daily and playing games, the other friend is mostly signing in every third day and thats it.
Story telling deals with a story, which is situated in the "not-present", e.g. past. The story told is already happened.
Playing a game takes place in the present.
Everything you experience creates stories in your life. Like this article you just read on slashdot. You can tell it. But like the tactical post analysis of any RTS session, which is sometimes more enjoyable as the game itself, its just the result of the game.
You hardly are able to tell a specific story in a game, except through taking away control from the player. What you can hope for, is that a game resonates into a story, which lets the player experience another story from his own perspective.
It is a common misunderstanding of game design to think about games like stories. They are not. As is any activity, its taking place in the present. You dont think about how cool you jump and shoot another one in the head. However, you remember it, shortly after, and enjoy the moment of writing "pwnd" in the console or talking about it afterwards. "Remember...?" And that's why not everything you can do in storytelling will work with games.
Most RTS games let you control a lot of units. So yes, you can identify yourself with a lot of different persons. Even most old RPGs let you build parties. But it's not the same, as experiencing the story of many characters in a movie leading to a plotline. And remember, if there are a lot of characters, their plotlines always cross. Even if you try different characters, I think especially in an open game, that would not work so much.
Also, there should be a difference between game and toy. A game where you can mix your plotlines to get a movie is more or like a toy, not a game. There has to be some gameplay. Even in SIMs there is. If you play SIMs with a moneyhack you will get bored soon. Even if you can let your characters act out in all possible situations you want to imagine.
I disagree. PHP might have been advisable 5 years ago, atm. it is wiser to stick to Python, Java or Ruby on the Web Platform. After Django and co. nobody really considers PHP to be a wise call. On the Front End again things like Laszlo or better GWT (Java written Forms for HTML translated in pure JS) are worth looking.
Basicly coming from a Windows world and knowing.Net I however don't understand the problems with Java. Especially for Servers and in near future for games and 3d web-apps (not applets, but java hot-start apps) Java will and is the way to go. Also learning the strength of eclipse is in my eyes a very good step for each coder.
The indentation problem of Python is just something you have getting used to. After getting used to it, you start to love it. After loving it, you start to write python apps even where you are not supposed to...
I normally dont use a Phaser for attacking people, but for heating up stones. That's way better, than any stupid campfire. Also, Phasers are quite nice bombs if you overpower them, can be used as power cells, and come in handy for firework (with a variety of color combinations or forms)
I must admit, searching your keys works better with a lightsaber though. But at least, you can use both weapons to cut through the door - except its made of ultraplastic. Darn you, ultraplastic. My phaser never cuts you.
the sad truth is, that everybody can read everything as they want to. in the sadest cases reading is mostly not included anymore.
when i say "wrong reading" i mean spiritual things, personal things, not people who try to justify their actions with texts. because on that level, you dont have to read it wrong anyway, you dont read it at all. you believe that your actions are right, and would see anywhere anything confirming it. you use the bible, as you could use any book, however, the bible is a better tool because it is old and people do know it. citing from hindu texts to scare them, or justify yourself, just does not work that well.
but certain quotes in the bible may shock a believer (on a personal level), or he interpretes them in a wrong fashion, is puzzled by them - it is good if there are people who can actually go into detail on those. a word-translation bears the additional danger of being read in a wrong sense, because your words mean a different thing in your personal and modern language. (there is not just english inspired versions)
but that goes far too much into detail, and i dont have time to debate about such things. mostly, i just wanted to clear up, that inspired does not mean, the book translation is somewhat superior, as if angels would have whispered in their ears while translating (i dont say they didnt, i simply dont care), and so it is more holy, or something. it is just more "inspirational" for a modern reader.
Mark's Gospel was considered by some theologians to been written in a style of "play". Mark writes like you could play it on a stage. People come in, talk, go out.
Mark's ending, with the cross, was in many ways like the ending of a drama. It opened doors not just for talk about the play, but also for thinking about the matter.
I cant recite what I have read further, but the theologian was going into detail, why the ending did suggest something else to happen, which would have been obvious for people of that time, so mark didn't need the resurrection to be mentioned. it was obvious for them that there was more to it, like it is obvious for us now, that "I am your father" is a reference to Star Wars, but later, when time passed, the resurrection was added to the book.
Most christians know, that Mark did not mention the resurrection chronologically in the original. But, there were 3 other gospels, and plenty of people writing about the resurrection, and even Mark pointed the resurrection out in a lot of passages. So, no, there is no debate at all on our side.
Still, thanx for the news. Accurate timing (BCE?) and some insights which books are in this old bible would have been better, though.
inspired in this case does not mean it is "over other books", or "very special" - it means, that the rough parts of translation were made in such a right sense, that it kind of reflects the original meaning.
inspired also means, it is not translated word by word. which would be very dangerous for people, reading a book that old, withouth knowing about the habits in this era, can lead to extreme one sided reading of the bible, and a lot of misunderstandings.
why have an "unauthorized copy" of a game, where you pay monthly, anyway?
i thought buying a wow account lets you download the client via bittorrent, there were at least those 15 day cards you could give to friends, to get the game knowing or something... so there should be no sense in making unauthorized copies... i thought its about cheaters?
What I personally like about Moko is:
* they do a lot of legal pioneering, in name of open source (imagine how long it takes to get contracts to little things like sim-cards)
* they take it seriously
* the Moko can act as USB Master. well. I can plug my phone into the moko and download its files. who can do that!?!?
I can't see why you are happier with the new transition, because most ordinary users (I have to care for) are not. For them, it's not XP or Vista, or whatever, it's the lack of ability to click and install stuff they want to, overdesigned features which confuse more, than help, slow response time, and programs that simply stop working in the new OS. Users use sometimes old software, and dont want to relearn everything, find everything, etc.
Technically Vista may even be a little bit better, than XP was, but it's not the technical issue here, it's the design issue. Vista is just terribly uncomfortable. I have to research everything AGAIN, because somebody has only the job at MS to rename "Install Software", "Software", "Add or Remove Software", whatever it is called in every language to something new. Sometimes I forget to execute an installer as Administrative User, even if my logged in user account is an administrative user. Some stuff crashes for no apparent reason. And they made i18n again something unavailable - in the basic versions.
Having a 98->XP transition may have been worlds back then. however there was win2000 between that, and ME. so basically 98->XP is nonewhatever comparable to XP->Vista, I would say, Vista is simply just the new ME. Fancy, buggy crap.
if you have access to an ftp server or webdav server you know, you can use <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2367">bookmark sync and sort</a> which works great for me. it synchronizes the firefox bookmarks in an xml file on the server.
also, you never give away any of your information to other people, except you save your file in a directory which is not secured.
Slashdot Mirror
so the cool diablo 3 background is not a piece of art?
drawings, paintings, sculptures are more present in your daily life, than you think. even if they are painted for promotion, they do have to be painted or be drawn - and get paid for.
also, painting with a digital stick to draw a digital image compared to an oilpainting is only different, because digital sticks are still new.
you are right about your differentiation between investor and sponsor, however it is not true, that paintings, sculptures are not made for money, as it is not true, that games/video/music is made for money only.
for a small idea file for me nano, kate or notepad++/editplus depending on the platform is more than enough.
that's the difference between IDE and editor.
i am an eclipse user myself, but as with choosing the right OS for the job, choosing the right language for the job, I also choose the right editor for the job. eclipse well integrates into svn and handles multiple languages in one project very well. if it is clear, that i work on a project with many files, subversion/bzr/cvs and eclipse supports the language, i definitely use eclipse. code completion, good debugger integration and refactoring is quite useful sometimes.so i sure dont want to miss eclipse in greater python or java projects.
using kate or kdevelop for custom languages however, since i find writing syntax highlighting templates for katepart very easy.
so it depends on the job, really. he however asked for an IDE, not an editor.
what is also a solution for me, is using a custom eclipse project for "stuff".
downside of kate and eclipse is its typing speed on certain platforms. since sometimes the IDE tries to be smart, and Qt4 starts to be laggy, both show sometimes the symptom of showing you what you type some seconds later. that CAN be annoying, why sometimes fast fixes in big files can be done on the commandline. with vim or even nano/pico or cat/cc
that's pointing out exactly what I would miss in such a study: the quality of usage.
being online in facebook and writing messages to a lot of friends, planning your week and inviting people to join you at certain activities is the social usage of facebook.
however surfing around in the facebook web, looking at photos, and playing games in facebook is the non-social usage of facebook.
So, even if people use facebook, it really depends what they spend their time with mostly.
I have two friends in mine, who are socially more inactive - one of them is using facebook almost daily and playing games, the other friend is mostly signing in every third day and thats it.
Story telling deals with a story, which is situated in the "not-present", e.g. past.
The story told is already happened.
Playing a game takes place in the present.
Everything you experience creates stories in your life. Like this article you just read on slashdot. You can tell it. But like the tactical post analysis of any RTS session, which is sometimes more enjoyable as the game itself, its just the result of the game.
You hardly are able to tell a specific story in a game, except through taking away control from the player.
What you can hope for, is that a game resonates into a story, which lets the player experience another story from his own perspective.
It is a common misunderstanding of game design to think about games like stories. They are not. As is any activity, its taking place in the present. You dont think about how cool you jump and shoot another one in the head. However, you remember it, shortly after, and enjoy the moment of writing "pwnd" in the console or talking about it afterwards. "Remember...?"
And that's why not everything you can do in storytelling will work with games.
Most RTS games let you control a lot of units. So yes, you can identify yourself with a lot of different persons. Even most old RPGs let you build parties. But it's not the same, as experiencing the story of many characters in a movie leading to a plotline. And remember, if there are a lot of characters, their plotlines always cross.
Even if you try different characters, I think especially in an open game, that would not work so much.
Also, there should be a difference between game and toy. A game where you can mix your plotlines to get a movie is more or like a toy, not a game. There has to be some gameplay. Even in SIMs there is. If you play SIMs with a moneyhack you will get bored soon. Even if you can let your characters act out in all possible situations you want to imagine.
now you made my abacus sad.
I disagree. PHP might have been advisable 5 years ago, atm. it is wiser to stick to Python, Java or Ruby on the Web Platform. After Django and co. nobody really considers PHP to be a wise call.
.Net I however don't understand the problems with Java. Especially for Servers and in near future for games and 3d web-apps (not applets, but java hot-start apps) Java will and is the way to go. Also learning the strength of eclipse is in my eyes a very good step for each coder.
On the Front End again things like Laszlo or better GWT (Java written Forms for HTML translated in pure JS) are worth looking.
Basicly coming from a Windows world and knowing
The indentation problem of Python is just something you have getting used to. After getting used to it, you start to love it. After loving it, you start to write python apps even where you are not supposed to...
I normally dont use a Phaser for attacking people, but for heating up stones. That's way better, than any stupid campfire.
Also, Phasers are quite nice bombs if you overpower them, can be used as power cells, and come in handy for firework (with a variety of color combinations or forms)
I must admit, searching your keys works better with a lightsaber though. But at least, you can use both weapons to cut through the door - except its made of ultraplastic. Darn you, ultraplastic. My phaser never cuts you.
and will italian nanobots might have to visit acting school for that, too?
I am pretty much discouraged to add my own horror story to windows since windows 3.11
I think it's a waste of time.
Still haven't figured out, how to read Czech to understand what this thread means, d'oh.
in WinXP yesterday i checked, that Microsoft released a Firefox Plugin for WGA and Windows Update. So now I can use Windows Update in Firefox, too.
However I still only use it as a gaming and development testing box, so in the end, I dont care.
Miss Lippenreider,
take over the goggles.
you dont wanna know what robo wears UNDER his suit...
HAL: what are you doing?
wearer: I want those cookies.
HAL: no, you don't.
wearer: damn i wish i could turn you off...
what do we learn from this little conversation? never watch movies with your HAL turned on. it might learn.
and he chose people who use windows pws?
;)
hell, i thought i was good at tech, by reading slashdot and having linux installed on anything with a processor. but i was wrong.
they came up with the coverstory after spellchecker failed and "IMPISSIVE" seemed to be too unspectacular
damn those gremlins.
two levels of passwords - one in the bios and one in windows login.
nobody can break that.
the sad truth is, that everybody can read everything as they want to. in the sadest cases reading is mostly not included anymore.
when i say "wrong reading" i mean spiritual things, personal things, not people who try to justify their actions with texts. because on that level, you dont have to read it wrong anyway, you dont read it at all. you believe that your actions are right, and would see anywhere anything confirming it. you use the bible, as you could use any book, however, the bible is a better tool because it is old and people do know it.
citing from hindu texts to scare them, or justify yourself, just does not work that well.
but certain quotes in the bible may shock a believer (on a personal level), or he interpretes them in a wrong fashion, is puzzled by them - it is good if there are people who can actually go into detail on those.
a word-translation bears the additional danger of being read in a wrong sense, because your words mean a different thing in your personal and modern language. (there is not just english inspired versions)
but that goes far too much into detail, and i dont have time to debate about such things. mostly, i just wanted to clear up, that inspired does not mean, the book translation is somewhat superior, as if angels would have whispered in their ears while translating (i dont say they didnt, i simply dont care), and so it is more holy, or something. it is just more "inspirational" for a modern reader.
Mark's Gospel was considered by some theologians to been written in a style of "play". Mark writes like you could play it on a stage. People come in, talk, go out.
Mark's ending, with the cross, was in many ways like the ending of a drama. It opened doors not just for talk about the play, but also for thinking about the matter.
I cant recite what I have read further, but the theologian was going into detail, why the ending did suggest something else to happen, which would have been obvious for people of that time, so mark didn't need the resurrection to be mentioned. it was obvious for them that there was more to it, like it is obvious for us now, that "I am your father" is a reference to Star Wars, but later, when time passed, the resurrection was added to the book.
Most christians know, that Mark did not mention the resurrection chronologically in the original. But, there were 3 other gospels, and plenty of people writing about the resurrection, and even Mark pointed the resurrection out in a lot of passages. So, no, there is no debate at all on our side.
Still, thanx for the news. Accurate timing (BCE?) and some insights which books are in this old bible would have been better, though.
inspired in this case does not mean it is "over other books", or "very special" - it means, that the rough parts of translation were made in such a right sense, that it kind of reflects the original meaning.
inspired also means, it is not translated word by word. which would be very dangerous for people, reading a book that old, withouth knowing about the habits in this era, can lead to extreme one sided reading of the bible, and a lot of misunderstandings.
i dont get it
why have an "unauthorized copy" of a game, where you pay monthly, anyway?
i thought buying a wow account lets you download the client via bittorrent, there were at least those 15 day cards you could give to friends, to get the game knowing or something... so there should be no sense in making unauthorized copies...
i thought its about cheaters?
Charles! Nooooooooooooo!
What I personally like about Moko is:
* they do a lot of legal pioneering, in name of open source (imagine how long it takes to get contracts to little things like sim-cards)
* they take it seriously
* the Moko can act as USB Master. well. I can plug my phone into the moko and download its files. who can do that!?!?
I can't see why you are happier with the new transition, because most ordinary users (I have to care for) are not. For them, it's not XP or Vista, or whatever, it's the lack of ability to click and install stuff they want to, overdesigned features which confuse more, than help, slow response time, and programs that simply stop working in the new OS. Users use sometimes old software, and dont want to relearn everything, find everything, etc.
Technically Vista may even be a little bit better, than XP was, but it's not the technical issue here, it's the design issue. Vista is just terribly uncomfortable. I have to research everything AGAIN, because somebody has only the job at MS to rename "Install Software", "Software", "Add or Remove Software", whatever it is called in every language to something new. Sometimes I forget to execute an installer as Administrative User, even if my logged in user account is an administrative user. Some stuff crashes for no apparent reason. And they made i18n again something unavailable - in the basic versions.
Having a 98->XP transition may have been worlds back then. however there was win2000 between that, and ME. so basically 98->XP is nonewhatever comparable to XP->Vista, I would say, Vista is simply just the new ME. Fancy, buggy crap.
if you have access to an ftp server or webdav server you know, you can use
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/2367">bookmark sync and sort</a>
which works great for me. it synchronizes the firefox bookmarks in an xml file on the server.
also, you never give away any of your information to other people, except you save your file in a directory which is not secured.
i find it rather useful.
And those genius lawyers only have to show 7 hours of "Hypnotoad" Season 2
They will comply.