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To me, it's pretty simple. This is a must 2 points. They managed to blow the Chicago and San Jose games, both of which should have been wins. A win tonight and we'll have managed to get 4 out of 8 points on this trip. All things considering, a .500 road trip is not horrible. Still, it is rather disappointing in the fact that we should already have 4 points and looking for more.
I think that Worrell is healthy,and he always plays big against us. To me, if he starts to run every Ranger in site against, Simon has to step up. Otherwise, this has to be a completely defensive gameplan with Labarbera in goal. Hopefull Kovalev can continue his good play.
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Thanks to a number of very sincere and convincing requests from posters here who both agree and disagree with me vehemently, I've decided to rescind my previous flounce. I shall attempt to ignore Disturbed's whining at me for being too hard on the stupid and evil posters here, and instead consider the entertainment I bring to both friend and foe alike. I went and saw Avengers today, and it reminded me that I have a duty to put up with bullshit for the sake of you people, even those of you who hate me. So brush your teeth, hippies. The Comedian is back.
I don't have a problem with you. Ya raspy bastard.
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establishment of the Co-operative Wholesale Society,
which does an enormous business with co-operative
stores throughout the country. In America there has
not been anything like the conspicuous success in such
co-operation as there has in the European countries,
for reasons which will be mentioned later.
One of the great difficulties which these co-operative
stores have had to solve is that of efficient management.
It does not pay to assume that any one can keep a store.
Yet at the beginning of the co-operative movement that
was the general assumption. In the Rochdale society
each of the twenty-eight members took turns in " mind-
ing the shop " and in keeping the simple accounts of the
store. As the movement developed, case after case of
failure was seen to be due to this amateur management,
and in Europe, at any rate, co-operators have realized
that management of a retail store calls for qualities
and knowledge which are not common property.
Hence the modern, well-organized co-operative store
is managed by expert retailers. As, however, paid
salesmen and managers have to be obtained, the diffi-
culty arose as to the status of these men in the co-
operative scheme. In some cases, the co-operators
have not recognized their employees as being in any
way partners in the organization, but have hired them
in exactly the same way as a commercial corporation.
In others the employees have been shareholders and
therefore had a right to a vote in the management.
Co-operative consumption has not met with much
success in the United States. The reasons for this are
various. In the first place co-operation, to be successful,
demands a certain amount of loyalty to the society
a sinking of the individual in the common organization.
This is not easy to obtain in America. The American
is almost aggressively individualistic. He is accus-
tomed to rely upon himself, and if for a while he
sees that it would pay him to co-operate, it is only
for a while, and very little is necessary to make him
give up the organization. Again there has been very
little community of action between the co-operative
societies when started. There has been no state
organization, much less national organization, so that
co-operative societies in one part of the country could
know of and appreciate the work done by others.
With this lack of co-ordination in the system the in-
dividual societies have been almost entirely at the
mercy of the wholesale dealers, whose largest revenue
came from the privately owned establishments. Hence
discrimination against co-operators became easy, and
was difficult to combat.
Co-operative Production As we have said, co-opera-
tive consumption is only one side of the matter. If
co-operation is to be really successful and to become
an important element in our economic organization, it
must not be confined to consumption. Production,
also, must be attempted. It is in the realm of co-
operative production that the most dismal failures have
been seen. Occasionally we see a success in this line,
but, as a rule, the result is more or less qualified failure.
Capital has almost always been too small to permit
of the introduction of the best methods. We have
seen in an earlier chapter that in the establishment of
productive businesses (using the word productive in
its ordinary colloquial meaning) the tendency is
strongly toward the increase of the amount of fixed
capital required. Usually this means a certain period
of waiting before results may be obtained which may
be regarded as profits. The average co-operator,
especially in America, is strongly inclined to be im-
patient. Hence there is no chance of the industry
being successful. Returns cannot be gained imme-
diately. If the machinery is not of the best and latest
models, the products are obtained at a disadvantage
which means that even when profits are made, they
are smaller than those of industries working under more
favorable conditions. The co-operative producing or-
ganization tends to exist near the margin of operation.
A little fall in the returns, and the profit line is over-
Competition from the better organized factories, then,
can easily force the co-operator below the profit line
and then the end is not far off.
No space can be spared to give instances of co-
operative management, but a word or two as to the
relation between co-operation and the competitive
system will be of value. Co-operation, as it has been
practiced, accepts the competitive system. It fixes
its prices on the same basis that they are fixed in
ordinary commercial life, i.e., where there is a possi-
bility of gaining a monopoly price, that price is charged,
but where the price is fixed by the more or less free
interplay of the laws of supply and demand, the co-
operators accept that price. Experience has taught
them that under present conditions this has been the
best method to pursue. At times the experiment of
selling at cost (cost to include expense of management)
has been tried. Almost invariably, however, it has
been seen that where it was possible to charge thus,
the purchasers were not so pleased as when they paid
the ordinary price and received a dividend. In most
cases, however, it was impossible to charge thus. For
instance, under careful calculation the cost of a pound
of butter might amount to thirty-seven and one half
cents. The selling price, therefore, had to be at least
(on individual pounds) thirty-eight cents, or there
was a loss. Exaggerate this by applying it to all
the commodities stocked, and consider the difficulty
of estimating the exact share of overhead expense
and expense of selling of one commodity and another,
and the very great difficulty of instituting a cost price
becomes obvious.
Experience has also taught co-operative consumers'
associations that the purchasers were very interested
in dividends (" divvy-hunters " is a common expres-
sion among English co-operators) and did not object
even to an increase over the ordinary commercial
price, provided good dividends were paid. If attention
is paid to the dividend alone, the system merely becomes
one of compulsory saving, and ceases to have any of
the real benefits assumed to arise out of co-operation.
As there seems to be no possibility of the co-operative
system obtaining a strong hold on America, or indeed,
on the European countries, it is not worth while to
examine the result to be expected should the system be
extended to cover all industry and to eliminate all
competition. Co-operation is not a scheme for a re-
organization of the commercial system. It is a pallia-
tive of some of the evils of competition. As such it has
its uses, but it is in no way to be regarded as a solution
of the difficulty.
Equality of Taxation The third criticism which is
leveled at the existing distribution of wealth is to the
effect that the contributions paid toward the expenses
of government are not properly shared. The science of
taxation is very complicated, and we are compelled by
reasons of space to restrict our consideration of this
subject to the smallest compass.
We assume that government must exist. There is no
possibility of a great mass of people existing together
unless they agree upon rules of conduct, and provide
means for enforcing those rules. There are some forms
of economic activity which are essential to the well-
being of all, but which are not usually carried on by
private individuals. Questions of police, of sanitation,
of justice, of the safekeeping of the roads and of the
seas are all of great importance, but no one would
expect a private individual, acting under the com-
petitive system, to erect a lighthouse at his own expense,
without the privilege of collecting a toll from passing
ships. Nor would we expect him to pay a judge to
administer justice, unless, indeed, he expected that
judge to see the law from the point of view of the
interest of his employer. Without, at present, going
into the functions of government, it is sufficient to
assume its necessity. The question then arises of the
payment of the expenses of government. Under what
basis should they be distributed?
Should landowners only be taxed, and if so, how
much? Should corporations pay a share, and if so,
should it be based upon their capitalization or upon
their profits? Should the incomes of all be used as a
basis of taxation ? These and many other questions
must be solved. We cannot go into all of these
questions, but some of the principles which underlie
their solution can be discussed.
In the first place we must distinguish two points of
view. The secretary of the treasury or chancellor of
the exchequer, or whatever name may be given to the
individual responsible for the proposal of taxation,
has one distinct point of view. He must decide how he
can get the largest amount of tax revenue and how he
can obtain this with the least opposition. The tax-
payer, on the other hand, is interested in having his
own individual share reduced as low as possible, or at
least, if he is a little more altruistic than the ordinary
person, he wants the taxes to be distributed so that
the burden falls upon the back best able to bear it.
It is generally assumed, nowadays, that the burden
should be placed where it can most easily be borne,
rather than equally. Equality of sacrifice is sought,
rather than equality of amount in taxation. This is
extremely important in deciding on the imposition of
direct taxes, such as, for instance, the income tax.
Suppose a straight tax of five per cent were made upon
all incomes. From the arithmetical point of view that
would be a fair method. But it is not so from the more
human point of view, which takes into account the
sacrifice involved. Five per cent of a wage amounting
to $1000 per annum means a payment of $50. Five
per cent of a salary of $50,000 per annum is
The sacrifice of $2500 by the man with the large income
is hardly felt. One cannot think that he will give up
anything of importance through the diminution of his
income. On the other hand the man who pays 50 dollars
out of an income of 1000 dollars feels very keenly the
loss of the money. His sacrifice is very much greater
than that of the wealthier man.
The same thing is true of taxes levied not directly,
but on commodities. The man whose income is only
sufficient to supply him with the bare requisites of life
is bound to feel very severely anything which tends
to increase the cost of those requisites, while the
wealthier man feels them very slightly if at all.
It is sometimes argued, too, that taxes are the pay-
ment made for a definite service rendered by govern-
ment services like the securing of liberty, the pre-
vention of theft, the provision of sanitary cities, the
care of the sick in public hospitals, the protection of the
country against enemies. As all are supposed to be
equally benefited by these services, the payment from
each should be equal. Against this, however, it is
urged that the services are not the same to each. To
the poor, whose property is nothing, the protection
against theft is of slight importance, while it is of
great importance to the man of property. Hence
as the service is greater to the latter, he should pay
Again, some of the services are distinctly personal.
For example, the machinery which safeguards patent
rights for inventors affects only the inventors. They
should be required to pay for those services much as the
person who rides in a municipal street car is made to
pay for the service rendered.
In actual practice a compromise is effected by the
tax makers. In some cases a specific charge is made
for the services rendered by the state. This class of
tax is usually referred to as a fee, and comes under
the same category as a fee charged by a doctor or
lawyer. In others, the tax is laid directly upon the
commodity, like the tax on tobacco, for example. In
this case each pays in proportion to the amount of the
commodity he uses.
As a matter of reform in the distribution of wealth,
it is doubtful whether improvement in tax methods
can be of any great service. It is, of course, true that a
great deal of injustice can be effected by changes in
the method of obtaining government revenue, but their
proportional effect upon distribution can be very much
overestimated. In exceptional times, of course, there
is opportunity for the government to obtain a greater
share from certain individuals than in normal times.
In the case of war time, for example, we have an
unusual situation where men in certain businesses have
reaped very great profits through the sudden increase
in demand for the commodities they manufacture.
Steel manufacturers, munitions makers, clothing con-
tractors, and each of the thousand and one different
trades which are affected by war requirements, have
been able to make enormous profits. As these profits
are directly a charge on the general community, a
charge due to the fact that the manufacturers concerned
have taken direct advantage of the government's
needs to increase their prices, the government is
certainly entitled to take, if not all the additional profit
above normal rates, at any rate the greater proportion.
Hence we see the institution of the excess profits tax,
which levies toll upon these abnormal profits. Heavy
as has been the taxation on this basis, it cannot be said
to have been too heavy and no one has worried much
about the opposition of certain interests to the im-
position or increase of such taxation.
Under the present system of economic organization,
where distribution is obviously unequal and inequitable,
there can be no doubt that the basis of equality of
sacrifice is the best upon which to work in securing
the funds necessary for the support of government.
Equality of sacrifice in taxation necessitates what may
be called progressive taxation. Taxation is pro-
portional when the rate levied varies arithmetically
with the amount to be taxed. That is, when the same
percentage is charged no matter how high the amount
be, the taxation is proportional. But we have already
seen that merely proportional taxation is not satis-
factory in securing equality of sacrifice. Hence in
direct taxation, particularly in regard to income taxes,
the best method is to increase the percentage paid as
the amount of income increases. It is impossible to
estimate mathematically how the taxation should be
graded, for each man's income has special considerations
which require to be regarded. Some men gain great
incomes by their own exertions successful lawyers,
doctors, actors, manufacturers,. for instance. Others
sit still and do nothing but draw dividends. In the
latter case, seeing that no duties are performed by the
individuals in question, it is right that they be called
upon to pay pretty heavily for their support in idleness.
In regard to the others, they are at least supplying some
demand directly, and in so far they are deserving of
encouragement by the community. This leads us to
the distinction between earned and unearned incomes,
the latter being taxed at a heavier rate.
As has been said, however, the distribution of wealth
will hardly be materially affected by reforms of taxation
while the taxation is levied with the pure aim of
securing sufficient and only sufficient revenue to run
the government of the country. A much more im-
portant suggestion is a revolution of the ideas as to the
economic functions of government. As a great many
of the schemes of economic reorganization are based
upon such a fundamental revision of our ideas on
these functions, it will be well to leave their con-
sideration to the next chapter.
Most of the theories upon which are based the pro-
grams for redistribution of wealth have their origin
in the belief that the economic system under which we
live at present is wrongly founded. The suggestions
which have been discussed in the previous chapter are
considered as mere tinkering with the organization,
when what is required is a thorough rebuilding upon a
new foundation.
In nearly every case the suggestions for the new
foundation of economic society include a very con-
siderable increase in the economic functions of govern-
ment. It will be well, therefore, before we can deal
properly with the schemes of social and economic re-
construction which are of such enormous importance
at the present time, to analyze carefully the economic
functions of government as they now exist. We may
divide them into three classes, the protective func-
tions, the regulative functions, and the operative
Protective Functions Even the strongest believer
in the theory of laissez faire will be quite willing to
admit that government has certain duties to perform
which are of an economic nature. Free competition,
which is essential to the laissez faire system, cannot
exist unless the law of contract is made effective.
All our trade depends to a large extent upon the fact
that individuals on the whole are ready to fulfill their
obligations when and as they arise, but some compul-
sion must be exerted upon those who refuse to live up
to these obligations. The law must step in to protect
the individual against those who receive the benefit
of one part of the contract and refuse to perform the
per contra.
Again it is recognized that some parties to contracts
are not in a position to protect themselves against
exploitation by others. This is particularly the case
in labor contracts. Children are certainly not able to
secure just treatment themselves. If their parents
force them to work before they are really strong enough
to earn their own living, there is nothing, except
government action, which can prevent their exploitation
successfully. Child labor laws are essential to any well-
ordered state. But child labor laws only represent
the beginning of the government's protective work in
regard to labor. Women's labor must also be pro-
tected, and indeed men's labor as well. There was a
time when it was common to work for sixteen or more
hours per day. This is not the case now. Govern-
ment has stepped in, time after time, to restrict the
hours of labor. Government has also interfered, and
wisely so, in the manner in which workshops and
factories are conducted. Sanitary laws have been
passed, as also have laws against the use of unfenced
machinery, unsafe scaffoldings, and so forth.
The general security of the country against foreign
invasion is part of the function of government. This
is comparable, although it is on a larger scale, with
the police protection afforded the individual in our
Our ocean trade and coast trade are protected by
proper mapping of the harbors and sea passages.
Lighthouses are maintained at government expense.
It is obviously impossible to expect that private in-
terest will erect and maintain lighthouses, yet they are
necessary to safe trading.
Regulative Functions The history of government
economic activity since the industrial revolution is full
of examples of increase in the regulative functions of
government. It was pointed out in an earlier chapter
that a distinct change has taken place in the nature of
government regulation, however, and it is worth while
now to consider the change in some detail. The theories
of economic organization to which the name of laissez
faire has been attached, were very largely due to a
reaction against the old-fashioned method of govern-
ment regulation of trade and industry. Such regulation,
consisting as it did in laying down rules for the conduct
of industry, rules which were to guide the manu-
facturers in the methods to be used in industry and the
products to be manufactured, was felt to be interference
rather than regulation. With the advent of the new
machine production the irritating interferences of
government were bitterly resented.
As is quite often the case, it was not seen at the time
that a change in the nature of government regulation of
industry was required. The manufacturers demanded
the entire and complete abolition of all regulation.
Industry was best when it was left most alone ; govern-
ment which did the least governing was the best form
these were the cries.
Experience soon taught, however, that government
could not let industry alone. That selfishness which
was supposed to be the foundation of successful
economic organization showed, in practice, that it had
lost little of its ancient evil. While it did secure a
wonderful addition to the total wealth of the country,
it succeeded also in changing the relative distribution
to an enormous extent. The strong prospered and the
weak were driven to the wall. Modern feelings of
humanity prevent us from considering that the weak
are better killed off. We realize, and should realize
even more strongly than we do, that if the weak were
driven off and society consisted only of the strong, the
loss would be to society. This is especially so when
we consider economic strength. The ability to make
money is not the only ability of which society stands
in need. This is obvious if one considers for a moment
what life would be like if every one of us devoted his or
her attention solely to the purpose of gaining as much
wealth as possible. Our music would degenerate into
rag-time, our artists into poster painters, and our
actors into " movie artists." We are not decrying
any of these forms of self-expression, of course, but it
must be admitted that much of the best of life would
be lost if money were the only consideration.
In order to prevent a crude conception of economic
organization from ruining the world, government had to
step in to regulate the working of the system. It has
been shown in the previous pages that the tendency of
economic development is towards the elimination of
competition. But while that tendency exists to a very
strong degree there exists at the same time a strong
tendency for the control of the larger units which have
superseded the small competitive units, to pass into
the hands of a comparative few whose main idea is not
the service of the public, but the gaining of profit.
Large-scale production undoubtedly secures economy
of effort in production, but that economy is of no real
benefit to society unless society as a whole shares
in the profits. The dangers of powerful monopolies,
controlled by individuals whose concern is merely
profit making, are obvious and there is no need to labor
the point. Government must step in to see that the
monopolies or quasi-monopolies are so conducted that
benefit and not loss results to society.
It is for this reason that we have our railroad com-
missions and interstate commerce commissions our
anti-trust laws and bank acts. A point is reached,
however, when there is little real distinction between
control and ownership, except in operation. If the
trusts are so controlled that they cannot manipulate
prices to suit themselves, much of their value to those
who have organized them is lost. The public, however,
is benefited by the economies of production, provided,
of course, that the trusts have been organized on a
sound productive basis. But if the government does
so control the trusts, and profits to the owners sink to
the level of commercial interest, the trust owners
become practically shareholders in a government
Again, in the case of railroad regulation and control,
the control may be exercised so stringently that the
railroad owners are also in the position of government
The difficulty has been to decide where to stop.
It is not our intention to give details of control as
exercised by our government. It must be pointed out,
however, that there are certain industries which are of
the nature of monopolies. They cannot be successfully
operated unless they are worked on a very large scale.
These are the so-called " public utilities." Every one
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Section 149 for Anna supporters, media silent!
The Mumbai unit of India Against Corruption held another successful protest rally today at Azad Maidan. Although everything went on smoothly, we the supporters were in for a shock when we were told that Section 149 has been imposed. Due to this, once we were out of the Azad Maidan, we were neither allowed to wear Anna caps and, more shockingly, nor allowed to hold India's tricolor in the vicinity! That's all we were told. Someone knowing more about this, please enlighten me! But due to the act of the authorities, one is forced to ask the question whether we are still living under the British? Imagine, not allowed to hold India's flag in India! And what harm does Anna caps do?As expected, the media is silent about this!
The webcast from Jantar Mantar in Delhi was received with a thunderous applause when Arvind Kejriwal's doctors proved government doctor's wrong. According to the doctors at Jantar Mantar, Kejriwal and his comrades are doing quite fine and they don't need to be hospitalized. Reacting to funny man Digvijay Singh's statement that they will have to force feed team Anna, Kejriwal firmly said he will pluck out needles and won't chew food if he is forcefully given food after dragging him to the hospital.
Since we have been receiving weird statements from the government, it looks like the fast protest is making an impact. Talking about funny statements, Salman Khurshid, while reacting to team Anna's fasts, said even he is fasting for the month of Ramazan. Now, even a primary student would know there can't be any comparison between a Roza fast and a fast unto death. This is another example of how we are been governed by dumb-headed folks.
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I guess today due to the Pune blast, the State Government was under tremendous pressure, which may have lead to Sec 149…But not allowing flags is weird !!
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Brett is a NCAA Division III National SAAC member, former cross country/track and field student-athlete at California Lutheran University and current assistant cross country coach at Chapman University)
While Division III is generally known for not providing athletic scholarships and not playing on national TV, it is so much more about what it is, than what it isn't.
Division III is in fact the largest division in the NCAA, both in number of institutions and number of student-athletes, representing 40% of all NCAA student-athletes. Also, Division III is built on an opportunity for your education to be multi-faceted – to compete at a high level, obtain an excellent education and be fully-integrated into campus. But being Division III has meant so much more to me.
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Thanks go to Mike at Mike Hardisty Photography for the suggestion of a program that quickly and easily applies interesting effects to photographs. The program is called FotoSketcher. I downloaded it, fed it the Hibiscus photo from my previous post (Fairly Simple 'Photo to Sketch' Instructions), and let it work some magic.
The magic is produced by something called algorithms. You might remember these tricky little math wizards from when you were in school. In the computer world, an algorithm is a set of instructions that takes your data and switches it around. In the case of a photo, the algorithm will transform your photo in some manner. I tried out three of the many effects available in the program's menu.
For this photo, I used the effect called Cartoon1.
In this photo I used the effect called Emergence.
In the last photo, I used the effect called Pixelation.
The program has many more effects. It is an easy program to use, though you do need a bit of patience as you wait for it to create the drawing. Good art takes time, though, doesn't it!
While I am on algorithms, I thought you might be interested in this TED Talk. The speaker, Kevin Slavin, explains some of the ways algorithms are used in the world we live in – espionage, stock prices, movie scripts and architecture are just a few topics he discusses. He also explains the dangers he sees in the development of this artificial intelligence.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has integrated its communications work with its program activities to a degree unusual in philanthropy. In this chapter, Susan B. Garland, who was an award-winning correspondent for Business Week and is now a freelance writer, examines a major Foundation-funded communications campaign that supported its Covering Kids ® program.
In 1997, Congress passed the State Children's Health Initiative Program, or SCHIP, and allocated to the states a total of $48 billion over 10 years to expand health insurance coverage for children in poor and near-poor families. To help ensure that the programs would be implemented effectively in all 50 states, the Foundation made one of its largest sets of investment ever. Through the Covering Kids program, a total of $47 million was allocated initially to coalitions in all 50 states to help them enroll children in the SCHIP and Medicaid programs. In 2000, the Foundation authorized an additional $26 million for an ambitious communications campaign to publicize the availability of health insurance for children.
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I won't re-introduce the team, you can go to our "we're in" post for that. Basically there were 3 of us and we're pretty awesome!
So what happened?
Well, we made a time-bending tower-defence game called "10 Second Onslaught". It's about an onslaught you see, and the onslaught in question lasts 10 seconds:
The game wasn't really "finished" after 72 hours even though it's completely playable. I'm actually glad we were over-ambitious though: it's a good beginning and something I'm still working on (in a separate branch of course )
What went well?
The art pipline was probably the one thing that went particularly well. Thomas is really a 3D artist, so soon reverted back from pixel art to making models and rendering them to bitmaps. To speed things up I wrote a couple of little ImageMagick scripts to mirror and then stick these images together into sheets. Then it was just a matter of using the haxelib spritesheet to have animated characters in the game
What went badly?
For various reasons, mostly the technology (OpenFL) being something only I had ever used before, I ended up writing a majority of the code, which is just stupid. Next time we're going to have to organise ourselves better.
Read on for a rather long discussion of OpenFL, including comparisons to Unity 3D and Löve 2D…
Shut Up, Good Enough, It's Playable: The Mass Splitter Post-Mortem
A week has passed since LD48 and it's a good time to take a deep breath and reflect. Rub our sore muscles. Think about what's next. Weep uncontrollably. Whatever you need. In my case, Mass Splitter went out the door without a hitch! Well, rather, it was well under the maximum number of allowed hitches. It was within hitch tolerance. In truth, there were three hitches: I didn't get in a main menu, I didn't get in a tutorial or at least an instruction page, and there was only one level. But all these hitches pretty much have the same cause, that of running out of time, so how comes I haz runs out?
What Went Wrong
Architect hat mostly unworn
I spent a bunch of time trying to get some view components working with HaxePunk. HaxePunk handles origin a little differently than I would think it should work, so I spent a few hours on my View class, getting the Scale, Origin, and Position components to all work together. Great, they now work together.
I did this because my game has orbs in it, and the active orb has a tube spinning around the outside edge of it. You hold the spacebar to shrink the active orb and start growing a new orb on the other side of the tube. After I got the tube spinning at the right radius around the correct center point I then went to add the new orb. This new orb also needs to be placed at spinning radius from the center, so how do I get the true position of the edge of the tube?
Well I can't. The tube's actual position is derived inside the view class, so it doesn't exist at the component level. So now I'd have to either hack into the View objects to get this information (which horrifies my MVC sensibilities), or just calculate the orbital position myself, which I did. Well gosh, that was easy. And now that I've done that I can position and rotate the tube using the same logic, so the tube stops scaling along with the size of the active orb, which is a better look I like anyway.
In essence, I looked at just one next thing to do, rather than the broader landscape. Without putting on the architect hat, I spent a few hours going down a rabbit hole I didn't need or want. On the other hand, I've got a cooler View class now.
Failed to take the time to split up complicated classes
I didn't universally fail this, but I could probably attribute a few hours of wasted energy because of failing to do this early or at all. In particular my firing system is doing several things rather than breaking it up into different systems. See Ash Entity System / What Went Right.
Not putting more of my personality into my game
Friends often tell me I'm funny. Even fine, up-standing strangers — if not calling me that — have in the least called me irreverent. I try not to listen to other categories of people whose job is to be offended by everything. Anyhow – you wouldn't know these things about me from playing Mass Splitter. Sure, I don't have to make humor a central aspect of all my games, but a) it's clearly desirable in a competition where there's a category for it, b) there are many kinds of humor besides pratfalls and puns that can serve a dramatic cause. Heard of irony? Sarcasm? Deprecation? Pathos? Impudent contempt? Not that Mass Splitter is a deep example of erudition (it's not), but it's better for one's self esteem to believe your personality is a strength. And if it's not … well, you should work on your personality. Are you trying to tell me I should work on my personality? Stop staring at me like that.
What Went Right
Ash Entity Framework
Richard Lord's Ash Entity Framework is really good. It's an entity component system. I used the Haxe port maintained by Dan Korostelev. It was really fun to learn how to use an entity system and put it into practice. For those who don't know, apparently those folks at AAA game houses have been using these things for years. The idea is to eschew traditional static object hierarchies for a data-driven composition approach. Richard has some great articles about it on his website.
Everyone seems to approach an entity system differently; in Ash the entity is a fairly generic object. You create a new Entity instance, optionally give it a name, add components to it, and add it to the engine. Usually it's the job of a factory to create the entities with the components you need, but that's up to you. Components are simply data-holders that you create, with little if no logic in them. Ash components do not need to derive from any base class, any object could be a component. All the behavior for your game goes into the systems you write, derived from the System class and added to the engine instance driving your game. When you call engine.update(time), all your systems execute in the appropriate sequence. Although Ash provides a signaling capability, Richard recommends you use boolean flags or components as markers to indicate when events happen, so that a component event (such as "this changed") is only responded to by a system when it executes. Using engine.getNodeList(MyNode) a system fetches a list of entities from the engine that are relevant to it. Nodes are classes that contain one or more components; only those entities holding the components you specify will be returned.
I enjoyed using Ash quite a bit and encourage you to look at my source on Github if you're interested in seeing one possible way of using the library.
Think smaller
Last compo I thought I picked a small idea but apparently it wasn't small enough because I couldn't get it done in time. This one was doable — juuuust barely. I tried to get a playable prototype as soon as possible; I would have liked to go to bed on Saturday night with it playable. Now, that didn't work. Pthbth. The prototype wasn't playable until Sunday afternoon, but imagine if I wasn't striving for earlier! Suck-sess.
Toolkit practice
I've had previous practice with HaxePunk, and I started messing with Ash in a previous game I attempted to complete for the 7-day Roguelike. Even though THAT attempt was a failure, it gave me crucial practice that made this submission possible, and also gave me base code to pick at for Mass Splitter. Of course, more practice would be better, so I shouldn't wait four months for my next game…
This audio tool is available in several forms; the one I used is BFXR. Sooooo convenient. Sure, all your sounds do tend to sound video gamey retro screechy crunchy if you don't post-process them, but a lot of people go for that, and damn if it isn't quick to pump out some placeholders. (… that wind up being the final sounds when you run out of time)
Shut up, good enough, it's playable
Shut up, I say! It's good enough. It's playable. I'm just happy I got out a game. Would I have liked to get those extra things I conceived of? Of course. Over time, with practice, I'll be able to meet the goals I think I should be capable of. (I'm a damn perfectionist. I'd be faster if I wasn't always trying some different way of doing things.)
I finished something playable in time that some people actually liked. Next time I'll do even better.
Once more into the breach
I'm in for the compo. Too bad about the potato theme, though…
Editor: Sublime Text 2
Language: Haxe/NME
Framework: HaxePunk, HaxePunk-AI, Ash-Haxe
Visuals: Photoshop, FilterForge
Audio: Audacity, VLC, Bfxr, Autotracker-py
Version Control: Git
I'll be using the Ash entity system. I've written some components, systems, and views in a prior game that I may want to pilfer leverage for the compo. You can find that base code on GitHub. Dead Grinder is not really a game at this moment, so much as it's a pile of code that could theoretically be reassembled into something resembling a game given additional effort.
Good luck everyone!
Oh yeah, I'm in!
Monday, April 22nd, 2013 9:08 pmWith all the potato craziness, I forgot to announce this fact!
I'm in for my 6th(!) Ludum Dare. I plan to use Haxe + NME + HaxePunk to make a game for web and mobile devices. I'll use GraphicsGale or GIMP for art, bfxr and audacity and maybe something else for sound, and caffeine to keep me awake.
Have fun everyone! Remember: #NoPotato #YesMeat
Squeezed another one out the door for Feb One-Game-A-Month
Thanks Ludum Dare and 1GAM, for encouraging me to put out more games … even if they are shamefully dull and unplayable. I had been working on a game about operating an underwater base but it was taking me too long to figure out what the game is actually about. I mean, okay, yes, it's about an underwater base, but the game I want to make which is part economic sim and part micromanaging the staff was again reaching beyond my February grasp. Instead I cranked out a quick idea I had about manipulating Conway's Game of Life. The game, Death to Conway, is a turn-based simulation of the Game of Life, and you're given an opportunity to kill an extra cell in between generations. Excitement? Thrills? Who needs em! We've got cells, lots of terrible cells, and they must all be killed!
Play Now (in browser)
This was another HaxePunk joint. HaxePunk is sort of in flux now as the developer is making some additional changes to better support hardware acceleration on native targets, so I rolled back to HaxePunk 1.72a to build this one.
I don't know why I have to code everything twice. I think it's a failure to personally commit to my own requirements. I knew I wanted to have the ability to run the simulation separate from the display, but since I didn't commit to it at the start, I tightly coupled the simulation with the rendering system. Then of course I get the game working and realize no one is going to have an idea if they did well or not. The game showed you how many turns you took, but this doesn't factor in how hard the level is. So then I decoupled the simulation from the rendering. Now I can quietly put it through 50 generations or so to determine how long it runs before it becomes stable, and then use this number of steps and number of remaining live cells to come up with some estimated "par" value for the player to play against. If I had simply committed to adding this feature in at the start, I could have saved myself some rework.
Come at me bros!
This will be my first Ludum Dare, but no worries. I'll be using HaxePunk with Haxe NME so I can port my game effortlessly, and it will be quickly prototyped. This should be fun, however I will only have around 18 hours of game-making time. I'll be tweeting as I make it at @tophattedcoder.
- Language: Haxe
- Framework/Libraries: HaxePunk and Haxe NME
- IDE: MonoDevelop
- Graphics: GNU Image Manipulation Program, Inkscape and mtPaint
- Audio: Sfxr (isn't WINE the greatest?)
- Experience.
- Something to show off about.
- Make revised version of game, sell it on major game marketplaces.
Game Console Story (Day 2 – First Half-Day)
Sunday, August 26th, 2012 5:47 amGame Console Story (Day 1 – Second Half-Day)
Saturday, August 25th, 2012 6:03 pmGame Console Story (Day 1 – First Half-Day)
Saturday, August 25th, 2012 6:57 amHere is the progress of my game : Game Console Story.
As this name implies, the game will talk about the evolution of the game consoles.
It is a "grow game" : you start with the Atari 2600 then you do grow this console using technological advances on it. The goal is to achieve the best console ever.
I made the organization chart, a bit of code and 2 little assets :
Tiny Crash Landing – Postmortem
Here's my brief Postmortem for my game Tiny Crash Landing.
Play the game Here:
This is my first game I've made for Ludum Dare! I had to be part of the 10th anniversary.
What went well:
Art – I spent around 5 hours the first day doing the main tiles and character art+animation. I used Photoshop for doing animation for the first time, it's not that well suited to it, but I didn't want to download and mess around with any new software. I'm quite pleased with the character and animation, especially since I did it in a few hours.
Music – I think I spent about an hour making the music and sounds. I'm glad I made the music before I began programming, otherwise I would not have had time for it at the end. I mostly randomised some notes and played around with SynPlant and added some filters and stuff until it sounded ok!
Sound Effects - I mostly used sound effects in place of proper presentation, since adding a sound effect is a lot easier than adding a proper intro/outro screens. The only difference between what happens when the player wins or dies is the sound effect!
Programming – I liked my decision to use Haxe/NME I haven't been using it more than a couple few weeks but I think it's very easy to pick up for ActionScript users. I got a lot of code written, but most of it wasn't gameplay code.
What did not go well:
Programming - I completely ran out of time regarding the code! I probably spent around 3/4 of the time doing code, but didn't really get enough done to make a complete game. I think the biggest problem was I was coding everything from scratch, so I spent most of my time writing a blitting renderer, collision code and a scrolling camera etc and not enough time on actual gameplay.
Missing Features – I had no time to add an options menu with a mute option, or reconfigure keys. I had planned on having enemies, that is why the guy can shoot, but has nothing to shoot at! I also planned on having procedurally generated maps that wrapped around, I also planned on having a minimap that revealed as you explored. Story was also a main part, but I will save that for the post Ludum Dare version.
I haven't had a lot of feedback yet, but all of the feedback I've received so far has be very positive and constructive over all. I'm very pleased that people have complimented my art and audio!
What I would do differently next time:
Use a game framework, or make my own! I should have used a framework like Flixel or Flashpunk so I could focus on writing game code instead. My goal before next Ludum Dare, is to get familiar with Flixel/Flashpunk so I could use them in a 2 day jam.
Until next time:
I would like to work on a post Ludum Dare version of my game, with story, extra characters, proper procedurally generated maps, enemies etc.
Thanks for reading, now I'm off to play and rate other people's games!
Haxe Planets: Android version
Hi all,
For LD23 I decided to use Haxe + NME to develop a multiplatform game.. so my game it's a one button multiplatform platform game
I had two issues regarding Android version: scale and sounds.. the scale issue was solved by reading the documentation, and the sound issue was an incorrect asset type declaration.
This is my entry running in a Samsung Galaxy Tab:
You can download the Android version or try the flash and cpp version here
Good luck to all!!!!
Compiled, Compiled, Compiled and Submited
Wow, NME works great thanks all people working on NME/haXe.
So I have submited my game and it is working on:
- Android (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/dist/astronautics-android.apk)
- Linux (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/dist/astronautics-linux-x86.tar.gz)
- Windows (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/dist/astronautics-windows.zip)
- HTML5 (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/)
- Flash (but the stars on the background) (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/dist/astronautics-flash.swf)
Not tested but compiled:
Not able to compile but probably working (Thanks Apple)
- iOS
What went well:
haXe + NME, the cross platform compiler + its graphical friend. I never thought I would be able to deliver so much version of my game without having to change anything in the code (except for a -1 to 999999 for the HTML5 version). During this two days I was compiling to random targets and if something didn't work on a version I didn't have to check a very long script. And a few times it saved me from code that wasn't correct. On some platforms it did work, but on one platform it got some problems so I knew something wasn't right.
Inkscape, I didn't know that I could draw planets so nice. I impressed myself this weekend (thanks LD).
What went wrong:
I think the game has still some memory leaks. But I'm not able to fix that in time, IF i'm even able to fix it. It is possible that it is a bug in NME. And second, my code is a mess. Long time no scripting didn't make it better.
But I really like the product I have made this weekend.
If someone one a mac knows how to use haXe + NME. Could you please download the source (http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/release/dist/astronautics-source.tar.gz) and compile it for iOS/OSX?
My entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=4506
Haxe Planets submitted
Hi all,
I submitted my entry: Haxe Planets.
It's a one button platformer made in Haxe + NME.
Obligatory screenshot of final release:
You can play it here
You can rate it here
Things that I couldn't finish: better graphics, better music, more enemies, O2 tanks, time restriction… a second mission Having no time to improve the music is the worst part
I chose Haxe+NME to release the game in diffent platforms. I tested the game in Flash, HTML5, Android and Windows native and it works very well, except for the music, that only works as expected in Flash. I will try to correct this issue and let you know.
Best luck to all!!!!
It is done !
Finished the bug hunting plus minor tweaking ( like volume control)
You can check my game in the list :
There is a secret level to be found ! Don't hesitate to comment if you find it but don't say how you get there so everyone can search for themselves.
The quality of the background vary from levels. I admit I am really not good at graphics
I finaly have a playable version of the game Now I only have to fix some bugs and than I can add additional stuff.
You can play the HTML5 version here: http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/6/html5/bin/
Used so far:
- haXe
- Inkscape
What works:
- Planet are being spawned
- My rockets flies and attaches hisself to the planets
- Gameover screen
What I want to add:
- Fuel
- ?
Planets are falling from the air.
Little set back
I decided to make a small plaftorm game using snow globes
I have my platform engine running and created a small editor to make the levels. But it seems my system is flawed and I got some collision problem. I should have gone for a classic grid collisions instead.
demo is up here (contains collision bug right now :/) : http://ttermeer.com/ld23/
Well back to fixing my collision problem before making the next levels
Multiplatform Working :D
First part of the game is done. A multiplatform intro screen. It doesnt do much than only show the logo and some stars. But it does work and I like that .
You can view HTML5 version over here: http://games.corne.info/LD/LD23/html5/bin/
A photo of Android, Linux and HTML5 version:
To get this result I used haXe (http://haxe.org/) and NME (http://www.haxenme.org/). If I finish the game I will try to build a version for:
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Flash
- WebOS (maybe)
And if someone else will compile it for me:
- iOS
I am in !
First time for me. Curious to see what I can come up with, even if my graphic skills are just terrible
Here is what I plan to use :
Language : haXe
Engine : haXe NME
Targeted plaftorm : Web (Flash, maybe HTML 5 is NME output requires no tweak), Windows.
I only used haXe twice so far so my knowdlege ain't very strong however it is fairly simple to use as it is based on AS3. It will allow me to target any platform I want in the future ( even mobiles, mac and linux).
NME is a flash like API. Same structure with Stage, sprites and so on but with a much faster rendering (at least on the mobile test I did)
I will posting my progress on my G+ profile, you can follow me on :


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DynamicsWorld Publishes "Microsoft Dynamics Most Influential People Top 100″
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 5:27 amBy Marketing
UK-based DynamicsWorld.com recently published its annual list of "The Most Influential People in Microsoft Dynamics for 2012." To secure a spot on the list, nominees must meet a number of criteria and then wait for the 20,000+ unique voters to cast their votes.
Criteria for nominees includes: number of nominations received, number of Microsoft Dynamics employees employed, number of clients the ISV/VAR has, as an end user how many user licenses taken, Social Media followers (bloggers/Twitter/ Linkedin), number of years experience with Microsoft Dynamics, MVP recipients, developers of add-ons and new verticals, speakers and writers about Microsoft Dynamics, and more
Congratulations to all of those named to the list, including Data Masons' Jon Rivers! While the list is only 100 names strong, it could easily extend beyond that number to incorporate all of the Microsoft Dynamics professionals making an impact on the community.
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GTA January Housing
By Elli Davis, February 9, 2011
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January housing statistics have been published! Considering the record high sales in January 2010, they are not bad at all! In the city of Toronto the number of transactions through the Multiple Listing Service declined from 1,973 recorded in January 2010 to 1,718 last month. However the prices went up over the year from $428,151 to $447,644.
The trend was basically the same throughout the Greater Toronto Area. Exactly 4,337 home sales were reported by Greater Toronto Realtors this past month. In comparison with January 2010 that is a 13 percent decline. There was also an increase in prices in the GTA. The average selling price last month was $427,037, up 4 percent from $409,058 seen in January 2010.
It should be pointed out that in spite of the decline in sales; the numbers are not really negative. In the words of Bill Johnson, the president of Toronto Real Estate Board, "the GTA resale market has started the year on a solid footing." Sales were simply extremely high in January of 2010.