Comment I love finding things... (Score 1) 139
Like the same two bladers getting pictured 5 times:
Like the same two bladers getting pictured 5 times:
And then there's hackers like this one:
http://logand.com/sw/wps/index.html
Rendering that Tiger isn't quick right now, but for a demonstration of what Javascript can do right now I find that quite impressive.
I should think, combined with HTML5 to provide sound and audio, in about 5 years a lot of games, and even applications, should be in plain Javascript either right online from the Web or even for download.
Nice effort, honest.
Still, that hurt a bit
Here's one that was awesome instead of painful: Mistabishi: Printer Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-HVxmUELQ
You've got to love how the very first comment on that page helpfully suggests using an air can, and how the rest of the comments mostkeep going for helpful ideas...
"Why couldn't you... ?"
With the answer right in the article above.
Quoted from the "incredibly detailed account" linked in the OP:
Reactors always need inputs, right, guys? Right. Let's save cycles here and just not evaluate this reactor! I mean, it'll never get evaluated and thus never come online, right?
Oops.
So, presume you've run a few cycles of your POS. Your reactor is humming along nicely. It has produced stuff this cycle. It has produced stuff last cycle. The Control Tower is running all of your stuff in the right order. Everything is fine. Until something unexpected happens.
The user cuts off all the links to the reactor.
The Control Tower, crazed by its optimization logic, careens through the production code. Wide-eyed, it reaches your reactor first. In its addled eyes, it sees only that the poor reactor has no links.
The Control Tower speaks.
"We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
Onward the Control Tower drives, speeding towards the silo at the far end of the reactor's link.
The reactor has not been evaluated. It does not know that another cycle has passed. It still remembers, fondly, grazing on inputs during its previous, un-bugged production cycle. Without this information, the silo goes ahead and adds another cycle's worth of goods to its stack.
Free stuff has entered the system.
... only space bound, or at least so Ridley Scott himself suggests in the DVD commentary.
Too bad Hollywood so loves respinning the old yarn instead of doing another bold movie altogether.
I read that and it's rubbish. Wouldn't touch it again. You'll beg for it to end.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.