Maybe Java is included because, like PHP vs Tcl, it is a cleaned-up, commercialized, user-friendly version of something that already existed in perfectly usable form.
My own experiences with Java in the classroom suggested to me that Java has reduced programming to mere cutting and pasting of pre-existing code blocks. It's not fun, it's not satisfying, but God damn, Java is the easiest "programming" I've ever seen.
No mention of Magic Carpet? That and Syndicate were his best games. Wikipedia says Magic Carpet lost out to Doom, but I still managed to play through to the end. Flying and shooting, what could be better than that?
Molyneux' biggest failure was probably the idea of the god-sim itself. I played a fair amount, actually a crapload of Populous, DK, and DK2, and one question that always nagged me was, "How am I winning?" Those games were a lazy version of an RTS. You have units, you control them...sort of. They fight battles...sort of. Ultimately you just follow your instincts and pray.
Magic Carpet succeeded because it had intense one-on-one combat, with great controls. And Syndicate had conventional, mission-oriented gameplay with experience and money. If Molyneux stops muddying the waters with fuzzy god-sim games, he could do his career a favor. Back then we didn't care, Populous was a proto-RTS and gamers could see where that was going, even if Molyneux himself didn't see the future of simulations in games.
That's good. I finally got my hands on TA last year, and the lack of an online community similar to battle.net (200,000 users?) meant that I never bothered to play it. I think I found about 100 people playing TA online. After that, I fired up Starcraft real quick.
The OP was right. It all looks the same to the immune system. By way of example, someone asked if there were any varieties of dog that had an immunity to this cancer, and I was tempted to reply, "Yes, all of them."
The OP didn't say it was a protozoan, he said it was an infection, and on that point, he is correct.
Second, if you consider your government to be malvolent, that this patch introduces a better way to eavesdrop on you, that it opens up a spying channel for them
This is the level of paranoia I generally have. However, about a year ago, there was an article in the paper, from some federal agency (NSA?) advising people not to use IE, and simply to use *any other* browser.
It was such a straightforward, no-nonsense article that it was barely noticed. But it was notable for exactly that reason. The government basically came out and said, Avoid Microsoft for your Own Good.
Patching, on the other hand, is a little more sinister than just not using IE.
For those of you just entering this thread, let me present a handy summary:
* Edison was a fraud, Tesla was a badass.
* AC and DC are both dangerous. When approaching a power line, use the back of your hand, in case of electricity-induced muscle clenching.
* DC distribution systems? What??
If there's fifteen different 12V appliances in my bedroom, does it make sense to do this conversion once instead of jamming every outlet with block transformers?
>most of the time, you can buy a generic PS from Radio Shack which delivers 3V, 5V, 7.5V, 9V, & 12V
Yeah, you can. But how about multiple outputs? You know, a "dc distribution center."
Take my UPS for example. I've got 120V AC going into a 12V DC battery, alternated back out into 120V AC, so it can get transformed into 12V DC by my computer power supply.
Some good points in this, but I would say freedoms can come back, in the form of culture. You can fight the government, by getting a life, and then they have to deal with that, as well as your poor old self.
I've been waiting for the internet-based cultural rebound for some time now, and we sort of had one circa 2000, but it was deliberately killed off by pro-quality of life officials, with the tacit support of drug and music fearing citizens. Fight for your culture first. It's the first thing they try to take away.
>But a 1920x1200 resolution often creates legibility problems for some users resulting from the tiny size of the default Windows font.
Wow. This has been my biggest gripe with Windows for years. You raise the font size to compensate, and it wrecks the widgets.
Look at websites too, a majority of them are written to 800x600 and a few are written to 640x480. That might be useful for laptops and portables, but the trend started way before laptops were popular and after 2Mb videocards were the norm.
Vista seriously isn't going to fix this problem? It was one thing when hobbyists were down-rezzing their 15" and 17" monitors, quite another when Joe Sixpack is down-rezzing his $5000 TV. And Joe ain't gonna like DRM when he finds out about it either.
Well that's true, I've never done a tax deduction myself so I didn't realize. However, the current $25k write-off is worth $8000 and it used to be $100,000, which would, if applied in its entirety (I suppose you have to buy a $100k vehicle?), cover gas costs for eight or ten years at current prices ($33k). Gas was only 1/3 the price back when the write-off was $100k though.
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Maybe Java is included because, like PHP vs Tcl, it is a cleaned-up, commercialized, user-friendly version of something that already existed in perfectly usable form.
My own experiences with Java in the classroom suggested to me that Java has reduced programming to mere cutting and pasting of pre-existing code blocks. It's not fun, it's not satisfying, but God damn, Java is the easiest "programming" I've ever seen.
No mention of Magic Carpet? That and Syndicate were his best games. Wikipedia says Magic Carpet lost out to Doom, but I still managed to play through to the end. Flying and shooting, what could be better than that?
Molyneux' biggest failure was probably the idea of the god-sim itself. I played a fair amount, actually a crapload of Populous, DK, and DK2, and one question that always nagged me was, "How am I winning?" Those games were a lazy version of an RTS. You have units, you control them...sort of. They fight battles...sort of. Ultimately you just follow your instincts and pray.
Magic Carpet succeeded because it had intense one-on-one combat, with great controls. And Syndicate had conventional, mission-oriented gameplay with experience and money. If Molyneux stops muddying the waters with fuzzy god-sim games, he could do his career a favor. Back then we didn't care, Populous was a proto-RTS and gamers could see where that was going, even if Molyneux himself didn't see the future of simulations in games.
That's good. I finally got my hands on TA last year, and the lack of an online community similar to battle.net (200,000 users?) meant that I never bothered to play it. I think I found about 100 people playing TA online. After that, I fired up Starcraft real quick.
The OP was right. It all looks the same to the immune system. By way of example, someone asked if there were any varieties of dog that had an immunity to this cancer, and I was tempted to reply, "Yes, all of them."
The OP didn't say it was a protozoan, he said it was an infection, and on that point, he is correct.
>If you think AIDS has stigma
Congratulations, you win an award for bringing up the non-transmissible non-example.
Read Duesberg, Virusmyth, or watch The Other Side of AIDS.
Here's an example. "top" on Linux takes a couple seconds to come up. "top" on BSD comes up instantly. You can tell BSD has been optimized.
Second, if you consider your government to be malvolent, that this patch introduces a better way to eavesdrop on you, that it opens up a spying channel for them
This is the level of paranoia I generally have. However, about a year ago, there was an article in the paper, from some federal agency (NSA?) advising people not to use IE, and simply to use *any other* browser.
It was such a straightforward, no-nonsense article that it was barely noticed. But it was notable for exactly that reason. The government basically came out and said, Avoid Microsoft for your Own Good.
Patching, on the other hand, is a little more sinister than just not using IE.
For those of you just entering this thread, let me present a handy summary:
* Edison was a fraud, Tesla was a badass.
* AC and DC are both dangerous. When approaching a power line, use the back of your hand, in case of electricity-induced muscle clenching.
* DC distribution systems? What??
If there's fifteen different 12V appliances in my bedroom, does it make sense to do this conversion once instead of jamming every outlet with block transformers?
No answer.
>most of the time, you can buy a generic PS from Radio Shack which delivers 3V, 5V, 7.5V, 9V, & 12V
Yeah, you can. But how about multiple outputs? You know, a "dc distribution center."
Take my UPS for example. I've got 120V AC going into a 12V DC battery, alternated back out into 120V AC, so it can get transformed into 12V DC by my computer power supply.
Some good points in this, but I would say freedoms can come back, in the form of culture. You can fight the government, by getting a life, and then they have to deal with that, as well as your poor old self.
I've been waiting for the internet-based cultural rebound for some time now, and we sort of had one circa 2000, but it was deliberately killed off by pro-quality of life officials, with the tacit support of drug and music fearing citizens. Fight for your culture first. It's the first thing they try to take away.
>But a 1920x1200 resolution often creates legibility problems for some users resulting from the tiny size of the default Windows font.
Wow. This has been my biggest gripe with Windows for years. You raise the font size to compensate, and it wrecks the widgets.
Look at websites too, a majority of them are written to 800x600 and a few are written to 640x480. That might be useful for laptops and portables, but the trend started way before laptops were popular and after 2Mb videocards were the norm.
Vista seriously isn't going to fix this problem? It was one thing when hobbyists were down-rezzing their 15" and 17" monitors, quite another when Joe Sixpack is down-rezzing his $5000 TV. And Joe ain't gonna like DRM when he finds out about it either.
Well that's true, I've never done a tax deduction myself so I didn't realize. However, the current $25k write-off is worth $8000 and it used to be $100,000, which would, if applied in its entirety (I suppose you have to buy a $100k vehicle?), cover gas costs for eight or ten years at current prices ($33k). Gas was only 1/3 the price back when the write-off was $100k though.