Mr_V

"Inspired by" Microsoft Flight Simulator? Not very reassuring, especially given that Microsoft closed long-standing MSFS developer ACES Game Studio in January 2009…

Using the USK's site to find censored games (or, for that matter, using it to determine whether a game has the original English soundtrack) can be a little hit-and-miss.

A better resource is the fan-maintained Online Games-Datenbank at http://ogdb.de/ Since it's maintained by its users, its info is not canonical… yet I find it a very accurate and useful resource indeed. In fact, it's a nice database of game SKUs in general; it's almost a pity the front-end is only in German.

And another resource for finding censored games and films in Germany: http://schnittberichte.com/

No, on principle. No matter how "cool" the plugin is. If I had known from the start that I was donating my services to a free beta testing programme, it may have been a different story.

Doing without it requires but a few extra clicks, so there's definitely not enough incentive for me to write a replacement. Though maybe, in time, somebody else with more time to spare will do that. Till then, a few extra clicks it is.

The Mac community really needs more of an infusion of a proper open source mentality. And I really need to learn to check whether the things I download are open source or merely "freeware".

Seen the German version on the shelves over the weekend (indicated as having the game complete in 5 languages, but with a German-only cover and therefore probably manual) and it said explicitly on the box that the Rumble Pak is "sold separately". So I guess that means that we're not getting lucky here in Europe.

Of course, I couldn't open the damn thing, so I'll only know for sure when I get my copy (from the UK).

Err... I'd love a reference for the HTTP-over-UDP bit. If you read RFC2068, you'll note that, though HTTP/1.1 is explicitly defined in such a way that it does not assume very much about the underlying protocol, it *does* presume a reliable transport. (Secion 1.4) This puts UDP right out of the picture.

Unless - there's always an "unless" - some sort of layer sits between UDP and HTTP to provide that reliability - effectively some sort of tunneling protocol. Such as iproxy. And if that *is* the case, it would be very interesting to know why.

Basically, I'm calling "probably BS" on that particular nugget.

It's interesting to see that the PSPFanboy post about this post (http://playstation.joystiq.com/2006/02/05/could-ds-fanboy-be-right/) have a heap of comments that, err, mostly agree with the comments here.

Eh? On whose planet? :-)

Firstly, Python was derived from ABC in 1990. (In fact, it's older than most people give it credit for.)

Secondly, Python usage shows continual long-term growth on the TIOBE index (and any other widely accepted similar classification, I'm willing to bet).

Moving from the objective to the subjective, there's definitely a growing sense that the dynamically (late) bound, "agile" languages are the wave of the future. This particular hornet's nest was recently thoroughly poked when O'Reilly published a book entitled "Beyond Java". It caused quite a few waves on the blogosphere - go have a look.

I'm not saying that the agile languages *are* going to be a Big Thing. They might yet disappear and become an historical footnote. But their battle for popularity still lies ahead; they are by no means yet mainstream (though they're certainly moving in that direction). This is the first time I've seen anyone indicate that their time may be past - are you sure you're not confusing Python with something else? Perl, maybe?

Err... there's nothing "of yore" about Python. It's one of the current crop of agile, dynamic programming languages (along with Ruby and a few others) which are seen by many to be the Next Big Thing in the big, bad world of IT.

That said, I don't quite see the point of a dynamic language on a device with only 16K of stack space, apart from a "look, it can be done" demo.