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You couldn't make it nowadays - it didn't spoon feed you anything!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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It was a tad unnerving in those days
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The only way to win is not to play.
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Damn straight!!
Also, great movie.
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I'm currently playing Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries and am quite happy with my 75 ton Black Knight. It's armor alone has a few hundred hit points. And it can step on tanks. Why waste good ammo on them?
Still, it's only a matter of time before I scrape a Marauder [^] off the battlefield, even if I have to scrap it myself first. I always had a Marauder, beginning with Mechwarrior 1.
Gerry Schmitz wrote: 1824 I must have misread that. I thought you wrote 3024.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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These types of mechanized exoskeletons have become a lot more believable since Boston Dynamics perfected walking robots.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Not really, at least not the huge versions that can step on tanks. For the same reasons why a flea can jump a few thousand times its size while an elephant can't jump at all. It's the inverse cube law- Double something in size and its mass increases eight times. An elephant sized flea could not jump a few miles.
Without some Unobtanium[^] such devices or movie giant monsters will never exist in this universe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The shows in the real robot genre are at least a bit more plausible, like Patlabor.
Or Fang of the Sun Dougram, where they paid some attention to terrain and tactics. For instance, a 2-legged mech isn't very useful on sand dunes.
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I was going for a construction site pun, but ... I'm still working on it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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A labor of love? Perhaps shift your plans as there's mortar this then it seems?
Is a bovine napper a bulldozer ?
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Well, if you want a good pun you need something solid to build on.
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Man you're in the zone today.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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A potentially riveting thought, keep hammering on it until it becomes more concrete.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Made me think of the constipated accountant who worked it out with a pencil.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Not possible, accountants are always completely full of sh...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Is the corresponding destruction virtually assured? I heard somewhere that was a good thing.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I would take my hat off for that one... but it is too hard
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[praise mode]
The more I deal with Python , the more I appreciate Lua .
Thank you all, Lua creators.
[/praise mode]
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Blizzard games World of Warcraft does most of their client UI code in Lua.
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Just looking at the demos and came across:
function Account:withdraw (v)
if v > self.balance then error("insufficient funds on account "..self.name)
end
self.balance = self.balance - v
end
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I assume you picked that one on purpose.
OOP support is not where Lua really shines, I know.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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No, I was just looking at some samples on the Lua site, and that was the third or fourth one that came up. I just found it confusing compared to all the other languages I have ever worked with. In 'normal' languages, the first end would be an else .
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Quote: In 'normal' languages, the first end would be an else. In Lua it would be an else as well.
However, there is an error call that abruptly interrupts the instruction flow (it never returns, like the exit of the C programming language).
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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