IRC log for #bzflag-chat on 20081224

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06:10.41WinnyActually javawizard2539: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism
06:12.41Winnybeing athiest seems to be as absolute as being theist - you can't prove it either way
06:12.47javawizard2539Winny: I was looking at http://kylevanessen.com/about-contact/
06:13.07javawizard2539Which stated you as atheist, and since I had heard of that more than agnosticism, I kind of assumed they were the same
06:13.22javawizard2539But I can see the difference between them now
06:13.35javawizard2539One says that there isn't a God, the other says that we don't know if there is a God or if there isn't
06:13.57WinnyI'm more of the opinon there might be but probably not, hence the athiest link
06:14.11javawizard2539Ok
06:14.15javawizard2539Yeah, that makes sense now
06:14.50javawizard2539Admittedly, I have good answers for most, if not all, of the questions/topics on the religion page, but you probably don't want me to waste your time :)
06:15.31JeffMhow many of them relly on one old book?
06:15.35Winnyhehe
06:15.47javawizard2539Actually, not very many of them
06:16.00JeffMgood, then you guys are learning from the past
06:16.02javawizard2539Well, that depends on what you call "old"
06:16.04JeffMhow very progressive of you
06:16.14javawizard2539You're not religious either?
06:16.34JeffMnot especialy in the way you think of
06:16.41javawizard2539burns JeffM at the stake
06:16.43Winnyyou say it as if it is a bad thing
06:16.47javawizard2539oh wait, theredbaron already did that
06:16.51JeffMas your k ind is wantto do
06:17.01javawizard2539No, I just get a bit surprised when I meet someone who's not
06:17.12javawizard2539I live in salt lake city, where over half the people are Mormon
06:17.16JeffMwhy does that suprise y ou?
06:17.17javawizard2539And very, very few are non-religions
06:17.21JeffMthe world is a big place
06:17.22javawizard2539It doesn't
06:17.37JeffMyou just said it did
06:17.38javawizard2539It just makes it so that I'm not used to people who aren't religions
06:17.38blast007it doesn't? You just said it does
06:17.44javawizard2539doesn't intend that in a perjorative way
06:17.55javawizard2539huh?
06:17.58JeffMblast007, it's ok, they are used to doing that
06:18.05JeffM<javawizard2539> No, I just get a bit surprised when I meet someone who's not
06:18.09javawizard2539Oh wait, I was responding to why does that surprise you, assuming was in response to living in salt lake city
06:18.19javawizard2539yeah, was misinterpreting the conversation
06:18.19JeffMbut that was said first
06:18.22JeffMbefore SLC
06:18.33blast007not from this end
06:18.43JeffMwell interpreting history to fit your current story is also a common MO ;)
06:18.46javawizard2539<javawizard2539>I live in salt lake city, where over half the people are Mormon
06:18.48javawizard2539<JeffM>why does that suprise y ou?
06:18.59JeffM<javawizard2539> No, I just get a bit surprised when I meet someone who's not
06:19.00JeffM<javawizard2539> I live in salt lake city, where over half the people are Mormon
06:19.00JeffM<JeffM> why does that suprise y ou?
06:19.00JeffM<javawizard2539> And very, very few are non-religions
06:19.09blast007lag ftl
06:19.15JeffMthere is no way lag could do that
06:19.16javawizard2539:)
06:19.19JeffMsince it's TCP
06:19.34blast00700:17:12 < javawizard2539> I live in salt lake city, where over half the people are Mormon
06:19.34JeffMyou said it suprised you before SLC, so how could it be a responce to that
06:19.37blast00700:17:16 < JeffM> why does that suprise y ou?
06:19.38javawizard2539I misinterpreted which comment your remark was addressed to
06:19.38blast007:P
06:19.44javawizard2539your response came after SLC in my view
06:20.01JeffMso it does suprise you?
06:20.16javawizard2539Kind of
06:20.24JeffMwhy? it's  a HUGE word
06:20.28javawizard2539again, I'm not intending that pejoratively
06:20.51javawizard2539No, I'm just used to people who share the same belief that I do
06:20.55blast007JeffM: the way IRC works is that you don't receive your own messages, so your messages appear instantly, so a different order can occur from different points of view
06:21.07javawizard2539And used to stuff like discussing things from the Book of Mormon with random groups of people at the store
06:21.13JeffMblast007, yet the 2 in question were from him ;)
06:21.24JeffMjavawizard2539, you have a very small world view
06:21.28javawizard2539I know
06:21.34JeffMit would do you well to know that the internet is a much larger place
06:21.41javawizard2539Living in the Mormon capital will do that to you
06:21.41JeffMand most of it is budist ;)
06:21.46blast007well.. one was from you, and one was from him..
06:21.47javawizard2539Budist?
06:21.51JeffMchina baby
06:21.52JeffMchina
06:22.00javawizard2539Hmm, good point
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06:22.46JeffMthat's one problem I have with most formal religons, they tend to make narrow minded people
06:22.59javawizard2539Which reminds me...
06:23.15javawizard2539(not trying to change the subject btw)
06:23.30javawizard2539I got ~180 methods in my java plugin added
06:23.36JeffMwell narrow minded neess does go right into java ;)
06:23.43javawizard2539:D
06:23.43blast007lol..
06:24.04javawizard2539And C++ isn't.
06:24.27javawizard2539Like, it doesn't force you into doing explicit memory deallocation. No, it would never do an evil thing like that. :)
06:24.38JeffMparts of your java VM are writen i n C++ ;) so n ot really
06:24.45JeffMit gives you controll
06:24.52JeffMyou can write your own GC is you want
06:24.54JeffMlike java did
06:25.02JeffMin java you have no choice
06:25.04javawizard2539Exactly
06:25.06JeffMagain, bigger world
06:25.12JeffMnot everyone wants GC
06:25.25JeffMif you want GC with no work juse manged C++
06:25.33JeffMor some other language
06:25.44JeffMlanguages are tools, they have advantages for tasks
06:25.47JeffMsimple as that
06:25.49javawizard2539concedes that point, although he still think's Java's approach is more simple...
06:26.00JeffMsure if you want a simple task
06:26.12javawizard2539One thing I still don't get is the difference between global variables and static variables
06:26.16JeffMit's also not the only language that handles memory in a simple way
06:26.17javawizard2539Java makes them into the same thing
06:26.24JeffMthey are the same thing
06:26.38javawizard2539There's an excellent example of where C++ is too complex
06:26.47javawizard2539If they are the same thing, then why not only have one of them?
06:26.48JeffMstatics are just only available in there scope
06:27.00JeffMbecuase you may want to scope them
06:27.08javawizard2539Why?
06:27.16javawizard2539Just write your program so that it doesn't modify vars it's not supposed to
06:27.29JeffMbecuase more then one person may work on a program
06:27.37JeffMboth are bad programing practice anway
06:27.42JeffMgod objects suck
06:28.05javawizard2539thinks that a file with a bunch of globals is just like a God object in that respect
06:28.09JeffMthey are tools that may suit a task
06:28.13JeffMyeah it's bad
06:28.17JeffMglobals are bad
06:28.27JeffMstatics can be usefull for some thinggs
06:28.30JeffMnot many but some
06:28.43JeffMsuch as if you have something that you want to only init once, then ruse
06:28.49JeffMbut only ever use it in one function
06:28.57JeffMthen you can define  it as static in that function
06:29.03JeffMand it'll stay there like a global
06:29.11JeffMbut you don't have to put it elsewhere
06:29.16blast007are statics used for singletons too?
06:29.21JeffMthey can be
06:29.34javawizard2539One other point I had against C++
06:29.39javawizard2539Is it's security features
06:29.49JeffMit has none, those are up to you
06:29.51javawizard2539You can't sandbox an application to anywhere near the amount of control that you can in Java
06:30.05JeffMit's about flexablilty
06:30.12javawizard2539So for example, if bzflag were to allow servers to write plugins that put a small amount of code on the client side, that wouldn't be safe at all
06:30.20javawizard2539(assuming that, for some reason, the code neds to be in c++)
06:30.28JeffMthat would not work
06:30.32JeffMbecause it's  not a VM
06:30.34javawizard2539Whereas in java, even if the plugin was a virus, no problem s would occur
06:30.52javawizard2539Right
06:31.01JeffMlike I said,it's a tool
06:31.03javawizard2539Vms do have some advantage in that area
06:31.05JeffMnot a religoun
06:31.07JeffMyes they do
06:31.13JeffMhence lua and other systems
06:31.19javawizard2539and Java
06:31.24javawizard2539Don't forget that :)
06:31.24JeffMlua, python, etc. are much better for  imbeded scripting
06:31.32blast007Java? not really
06:31.35JeffMthe others are simpler  to imbed in to C++
06:31.41JeffMmuch smaller
06:31.44javawizard2539blast007: In terms of security features?
06:31.45JeffMas you have shown
06:31.50blast007in terms of bloat
06:31.52JeffMyeah
06:31.55JeffMjava is prety beffy
06:32.04JeffMstatilcy linking a VM would suck
06:32.19JeffMthe lua scripting system is very small
06:32.19javawizard2539But there again, the core java language isn't all bloat
06:32.25blast007we don't need anywhere near the functionality of Java to warrant adding that much bloat
06:32.25JeffMand only has access to the APIs you give it
06:32.36javawizard2539I do kind of wish that I could get a java version without the whole standard library for the plugin
06:32.39javawizard2539Yeah
06:32.54JeffMbingo!
06:33.03JeffMyes you could make java work
06:33.13javawizard2539Hey, I never said that a huge standard library was good for embedded stuff
06:33.13JeffMheck I could make C work by including a C interperter
06:33.27JeffMthere are many tools that would suit the task
06:34.53JeffMimport antigravity
06:37.28JeffMwill be happy when he can switch some work stuff to a better scripting language
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16:13.13me1hehe- I just got 4 tks at the same time with laser. :E
16:13.50Winnynice
16:14.53blast007hehe..
16:15.00blast007that takes skill
16:15.15blast007sorta like shooting yourself head on while you have narrow
16:26.43spldartMad skillaz
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16:45.00me1I was surprized I wasn't kicked, I had 0 kills, and 7 tks.
16:45.35Winnyyou really suck
16:46.54spldartman
16:48.11WinnyI kid I kid :P
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20:14.50spldartSorbet te vita  et opprimit, deinde peris! ;)
20:15.38WinnyI like turtles.
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