My understanding is it's C++, so a complete rewrite from the PC version. There's no way in hell it's Java, and I doubt they'd bother with XNA/C# if they had access to the real developer environment.

Some commas might make it a little better...

"The Interecept reports that contrary to lurid claims made by U.S. officials, a new independent analysis of Edward Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance that examined the frequency of releases and updates of encryption software by jihadi groups, has found no correlation, in either measure, to Snowden's leaks about the NSA's surveillance techniques."

It is one hell of a long sentence though, definitely longer than the modern reader is used to.

You know, when you have a really nice, new, shiny weather vane. That warm and tingly sense of well being is Vane Satisfaction.

Vein Satisfaction is probably something from Dwarf Fortress. "Urist McHappyPants has been quite satisfied lately. He passed a beautiful vein of gold recently."

Sounds like it's preparing students to enter the workforce just fine then.

Ctrl-C in any alert type box copies the content to the clipboard. Well, it copies much more than that, which is weird, but it does copy the important bits. Can't find an example right now, but the format is hideous. You've got to paste it in a text editor first, but it's better than nothing.

My personal most hated feature of windows is that god awful "Choose a Folder" dialog that gives you a shitty, small tree list that you can't resize to stumble through your file system with. It's one of the absolute worst dialogs in computing history, and we've been stuck using it since at least Windows 95. The worst part is that it's possible to use the regular Open dialog for directories, but lazy ass devs use the simplest (for them) method of calling that fucking mess of shit.

Which is so much better than the good old, "We should do the opposite of what the guys with captive markets do, because they're doing it" argument.

Pointless replying to an AC, I know, but I think you mean Latin there, smart guy.

Not by a long shot! Simpering imbeciles everywhere love nano! You can frequently hear their mewling cries when confronted with a real editor: "Oh dear, how do I quit this thing?" or "Where is all the on-screen help?" or "I made a dookie!!"

Sad, really.

(mostly joking, I'm sure you don't simper! ;)

The distinction is determined solely by the prejudices of whomever is bothering to make it. Scripting is a domain in which a programming language is used, not some basic attribute of it. You could use C to write your system automation tools, but it would be a waste of time when a simple Bash script would get the job done quicker and in a far more concise manner. Likewise, you could write your virtualization software in Ruby but its going to be dog slow, and probably full of weird hacks to make shit work.

Programming languages are for solving problems, and depending on the problem you may need the higher level of abstraction provided by a so-called scripting language. Others are better served by getting as close to the metal as possible. Not every problem requires getting bogged down in the minute details of memory allocation, hardware IRQs, or chipset specific instructions. It might make it fast as hell, but you could easily get lost in the weeds and never end up solving the real problem at hand.

That's a distinction without a difference. All "scripting languages" are programming languages, quibbling over whether the particular domain a language is used in makes it a "real" language or not is fodder for arrogant asses who need to make others seem smaller to boost their own pathetic egos.

Obviously, different languages have different strengths and weaknesses. You wouldn't write an OS kernel in JavaScript, and you wouldn't write system administration automation in C++. Sneering at the domain of one language or another is just useless posturing.

Way to shit all over their hand wringing circle jerk, you insensitive clod!

No, they run on Linux, and the GCC bug screwed up the timing so now they're late. Should have used FreeBSD.

No kidding. We just witnessed the complete and utter flop that was Microsoft's "innovative Modern UI", complete with "Tablet on the Desktop" but"no Desktop on the Tablet". That went over real well, didn't it? Vista was bad, but mostly a PR disaster. Windows 8 is, in the minds of even the lamest of lusers, even worse than that. Hell, it's not even all that bad, as Microsoft OS's go. Windows 95 was a festering pile of blue-screening shit, but people liked that!

It only ever happens to me on mobile, so no no-script there. What happens is you can see the link to use classic, and then it disappears behind some other div. To top it off, the stupid fucking website is "responsive," so it squishes itself down into a useless wad of mobile-site and fuck you if you'd rather it stayed a normal full page. So far as I know there's no way to disable CSS Media Queries without browser plugins so the design weenies have finally managed to get us good and stuck in their sweaty ass-crack of "modern web design."

I get the feeling that EA forced Will Wright to make all sorts of stupid changes to make it something "anyone can play." There are videos (link) from early versions that show a much more "realistic" look and feel. No cartoonish dancing, googly eyes, or happy singing penis creatures in evidence.

At some point during development some upper management types meddled the game into the pitiful thing that was released. If you look at the information about the development of the game, there are all kinds of cool prototypes that went on to become the game, you can really tell they were trying to do something revolutionary.

EA does NOT do revolutionary.