Nyarlathotep

Tell me you managed to move, man. Nobody should have to suffer through that sort of shit.

I like ebony. Ebony is good. It makes sense as a material for a wizard's staff.

Generally, garbage collection involves implicit, lazy deallocation of memory, whereas shared pointers involve implicit but strict deallocation (you know it will happen when the last reference is deallocated). With shared pointers, you're explicitly deallocating the references, and you know that when you get rid of the last pointer it will deallocate then, not the next time the garbage collect algorithm decides to run.

I guess the main thing for me that the damn thing is all metal, and likely steel, at that. It'd very heavy, and likely very unwieldy at that. At least a mostly wooden staff would be plausibly lightweight.

Don't know how many of y'all are Stargate geeks, but my first thought on seeing his face was, "Hallowed are the Ori."

I just noticed this myself. I would positively love this. Half the time, I feel like I can't be helpful as a programmer because I don't feel I have a sufficient grasp of how Doom 3 works as a whole. Knowing how to hack in new code is fine and all, but it's impossible to be particularly helpful if you don't where you need to look for the relevant code to hack.

That's why you'd set it to be a static, too.

What is this "Rugby" you speak of?

Very interesting...

I'm all tingly with anticipation! Good luck/break a leg/et al!

Yes, but simply because they are being entirely ignored by a trace. I remember this being suggested before, but I seem to recall that it was stated that it would adversely affect performance, particularly if there are many collisions (think hiding in a tree). Perhaps even then it is not significant enough to warrant such a concern? How much of a performance impact is stopping and restarting the trace?

As do I. I have doubts that it can even reasonably be done (i.e., without rewriting the entire trace algorithm from scratch), without D3 being first GPL'd. I seem to recall that the trace is performed in the precompiled, unreachable part of the SDK. (Somebody, please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Ssh! I'm waiting for Vadrosaul to come to the conclusion that a somewhat gimmicky control scheme being the single biggest selling point of MP3 does not preclude it from the masses declaring it "teh bestest gaim evar!"

Then would you care to explain all the hype about Halo? The only thing that separated it from the average/slightly above average PC game is the control scheme (and the fact that it was on a console).

The shadow mesh is missing. The head and hands, as separate meshes, still show up, but the entire body is gone.

I think the AFs are built up from multiple convex bodies.

2KGames has lost a sale with me. This is simply too much.

Could use a little tweaking, particularly around the handle part, but it still looks awesome!

That happened to me with my ex about a year ago. She finally convinced by arguing that my hallmates would create a fake account with my name (and by far, a less flattering one) if I didn't. Also, I joined the group. Think blue when you're looking for my picture.

@Maximus: I wish I could simply say that you're exaggerating, if I didn't believe it so poignantly. More and more, the only way I see to stem the tide is to elect someone who I can trust--who the people can trust. I want it to be Obama; I want it to be Clinton; I want it to be Edwards, Biden, Clark or Gore. I just don't know if I can trust them to protect the people's interest over corporations; I don't know if they have the balls to do what it takes and damn the torpedoes. I don't trust them, not yet. They didn't so much get sick of his whining as they simply pulled a "put your money where your mouth is." Actually, he bitched to his lawyer friends, not to a semi-anonymous forum that didn't exist at the time.

Strictly speaking, this is not true. You can have nested classes, private classes, protected classes, local/member classes, anonymous classes, even interfaces all within the same .java file. You can only have one public class, however.

Congratulations, Maximus!

He didn't have these forums, but he certainly did bitch about it--a lot. In fact, it was from people's responses about what he was saying that he finally got around to doing something about it.

I've never bothered with Iterators in Java. It's just simpler to generally rely on the commands built into the class itself, and I've never felt a need to use polymorphism with data structures that I didn't write myself.

We're all extremely proud of what Greebo and Ishtvan accomplished.